[newbie-it] Xine and DVD
Salve alla ML, ho montato un lettore/masterizzatore combo LG, non riesco a fargli leggere i dvd con xine, ho cambiato nelle impostazioni la directory /dev/dvd con /mnt/cdrom2 , tra l'altro in dev non esiste dvd..., Qualcuno di voi potrebbe darmi una mano? Marvy Ps.: distro Mandrake 9.0, PIII 866mhz, 128mb Ram
Re: [newbie-it] MDK 9 e non ha pi X!!!!!
Alle 02:29, venerdì 13 dicembre 2002, LukenShiro ha scritto: Alle 17:09, giovedì 12 dicembre 2002, Stefano Sebastiani ha scritto: Downloadato xvidtune che però non riesco a configureare [..] checking for c++... no checking for g++... no Ti manca il compilatore c++ (dovresti installarlo, puo' sempre essere utile, fa parte dei pacchetti del gruppo gcc*). Fatto!!! Ma sei sicuro di non avere xvidtune gia' bell'e pronto (AFAIK /usr/X11R6/bin/xvidtune)? dovrebbe essere all'interno del pacchetto di XFree86. OSTREGA!!! Alt F2 xvidtune e voilà c'era già!! Una curiosità: perchè sul portatile vedo i DVD con Xine e sul PC Home nò (e pensare che le due installazioni le ho fatte pressapoco allo stesso modo!) Quando riuscirò a installare bene Mplayer !!!
Re: [newbie-it] Oh no more Latex!
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 21:40:08 +0100 Nicola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 December 2002 19:00, ku68 wrote: nicola wrote: cut Pps Se qualcuno ha metodi alternativi per l'effetto che ho in mente, sono tutti ben accetti. forse non te ne frega nulla ma hai provato ad usare lyx? . Ti ringrazio per la risposta, non conoscevo lyx, ma da una rapida occhiata mi pare che tolga alcune potenzialità del latex, Direi di valutare anche Texmacs http://www.texmacs.org/ ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Oh no more Latex!
Nicola wrote: cut Ti ringrazio per la risposta, non conoscevo lyx, ma da una rapida occhiata mi pare che tolga alcune potenzialità del latex, facilitando al contempo altre operazioni. Di certo so che è basato su latex, che c'è molta documentazione. Da quel che ho capito è un po' come usare latex in modalità grafica (non ho mai usato latex e ho solo visto lyx che non userò mai essendomi + che suff. OOo) Credo che il suo utilizzo sia rivolto a coloro che non pretendono il controllo globale del documento, Non so cosa intendi per controllo globale so solo che ci ha fatto la tesi in ingegneria informatica con grande soddisfazione in quanto le immagini, le note ecc. una volta impostate e inserite rimanevano al loro posto e si adattavano automaticamente ad eventuali variazioni ciao ku68
Re: [newbie-it] Problemi con Kppp
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:02:55 +0100 Tommaso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salve a tutti, ho un problema con kppp. Ieri sera provo a collegarmi al mio solito ISP (Libero) e dopo svariati tentativi di collegamento senza sucesso (il messaggio nel log era BUSY), kppp mi ha marchiato con bel BLACKLISTED. Stamani ho provato a ricollegarmi ma ogni volta che ci provo il modem non tenta neanche la chiamata e kppp continua a ripetere che sono nella lista nera. Ho provato a spulciare nelle varie directory riguardanti il kppp ma non ho trovato nulla; così pure per la documentazione KDE. Adesso ho dovuto cambiare ISP per potermi collegare. Vorrei sapere dove si trova quella maledetta BLACKLIST per poterla controllare e configurare. Qualcuno può aiutarmi? Grazie e ciao. Rapida ricerca su san Google, mai sufficientemente invocato : http://www.guylj.fsnet.co.uk/Comp/Linux/kpppFreeserve/kpppFreeserve.htm At certain times the Freeserve Anytime system is heavily used and you may notice that automatic repeated attempts to dial in are logging BUSY in the log window. Eventually the connect limit may be reached and then manual action to reconnect is required. If this sequence is repeated several times then you may see BLACKLISTED in the log window. This is an action taken internally by the modem (not Freeserve getting annoyed because you are trying too hard to log in!) which will automatically clear after a time period - the intention being to limit the load on the telephone network. It may be possible to send an AT data sequence to the modem to display and/or clear the blacklist. Adesso cerca tu di scoprire quale è il comando AT da dare al modem. :-) ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] MDK 9 e non ha pi X!!!!!
Sigh usare xvidtune non è semplice! non hai un riscontro visivo immediato dei cambiamenti che apporti, il taasto test sembra non fgunzionare neppure!!!
Re: R: [newbie-it] NEW LINUXER!!
Aggiungo solo che il numero 28 di LinuxC aveva diversi articoli dedicati a RAID sotto Linux. Era il numero con allegato Mndk-9.0. Io, ovviamente, non li ho letti :-( Poi su www.pluto.linux.it/ildp (o indirizzi simili, questo adesso non mi risponde) c'è sicuramente un howto su raid. ciao, andrea
R: R: [newbie-it] NEW LINUXER!!
no, ho un disco solo. Ecco perchè non hai avuto nessun problema!! questo è l'aspetto software del disco. In Linux/Unix tutto è un file, anche i dischi fissi. I 4 possibili dispositivi eide (dischi, cdrom, ...) sono visti nei file /dev/hda,...,/dev/hdd. Questo, avendo una e finale è considerato diverso. Di più non so e, da un punto di vista software, adesso lo maltratto come gli altri :-) L'unico problema è stato il primo giorno: tentavo disperatamente di montare una partizione di /dev/hda :-(( ok grazie per queste prime informazioni, per me preziose, su Linux! E siccome ho anche io più di una partizione sui dischi andrò a vedere cosa mi succederà! Salve Rocco
R: [newbie-it] NEW LINUXER!!
Ciao, premetto che anche io non ne so un granche ne di hardware,ne di software.. Se non sbaglio gia da alcune versioni MDK supporta il RAID a livello di architetture di fs.quindi sicuramente il controller RAID sara' ben accetto dalla MDK!(questo non lo prendere come verita!) Ora non vorrei dire una caòç@#,(rinchiudetemi nella torre se sbaglio :) ma se ho capito bene, sia che tu abbia il controller sia che tu non lo abbia...con linux puoi emulare il RAID facendo gestire al kernel le diverse partizioni dei dischi con RAID da 0 al quasi scomparso RAID 6. Comunque il modo migliore per imparare ad usare linux e scoprire se zunfia,è quello di fare danni sul la propria scatola metallica :-) ..quindi se hai gia fatto un backup dei tuoi dati.e ti puoi permettere di poter rimanere qualche giorno senza pc (nella peggiore delle ipotesi).non ti rimane altro che provare ad installare la MDK :) Ciao , Tom Ciao e grazie Tom, soprattutto per l'ultimo consiglio credo proprio, dopo le info che ho preso qua e là, sono proprio nelle condizioni di vedere se il mio pc ZUNFIERA' ;-)). Per il RAID non ci sono dubbi che Linux riconosca una configurazione raid, è un sistema operativo nato per server!! Il problema è sperare che lui abbia i driver per il controller che usa la mia Sk madre! Perchè se i driver non sono i suoi ci sarà poco da fare Ciao Rocco
Re: [newbie-it] Problemi con Kppp
Ti posto quello che ho letto in giro per ripulire la black list. Impartire uno dei seguenti comandi AT a secondo del tipo di chip del modem: -Rockwell : %TCB -USR/3COm: S40=2 oppure S40=7 -Lucent : %t21,18,0 Cirrus: *NC9 Non assicuro che siano esatti. Ciao. On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:10:51 +0100 Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:02:55 +0100 Tommaso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salve a tutti, ho un problema con kppp. Ieri sera provo a collegarmi al mio solito ISP (Libero) e dopo svariati tentativi di collegamento senza sucesso (il messaggio nel log era BUSY), kppp mi ha marchiato con bel BLACKLISTED. Stamani ho provato a ricollegarmi ma ogni volta che ci provo il modem non tenta neanche la chiamata e kppp continua a ripetere che sono nella lista nera. Ho provato a spulciare nelle varie directory riguardanti il kppp ma non ho trovato nulla; così pure per la documentazione KDE. Adesso ho dovuto cambiare ISP per potermi collegare. Vorrei sapere dove si trova quella maledetta BLACKLIST per poterla controllare e configurare. Qualcuno può aiutarmi? Grazie e ciao. Rapida ricerca su san Google, mai sufficientemente invocato : http://www.guylj.fsnet.co.uk/Comp/Linux/kpppFreeserve/kpppFreeserve.htm At certain times the Freeserve Anytime system is heavily used and you may notice that automatic repeated attempts to dial in are logging BUSY in the log window. Eventually the connect limit may be reached and then manual action to reconnect is required. If this sequence is repeated several times then you may see BLACKLISTED in the log window. This is an action taken internally by the modem (not Freeserve getting annoyed because you are trying too hard to log in!) which will automatically clear after a time period - the intention being to limit the load on the telephone network. It may be possible to send an AT data sequence to the modem to display and/or clear the blacklist. Adesso cerca tu di scoprire quale è il comando AT da dare al modem. :-) ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Xine and DVD
Alle 09:26, venerdì 13 dicembre 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Salve alla ML, ho montato un lettore/masterizzatore combo LG, non riesco a fargli leggere i dvd con xine, ti spedisco una parte di email di Paolo Brusasco che per me è stata utile per far funzionare Xine... Per far funzionare xine devi installare alcune librerie per decriptare il dvd; le librerie le trovi su http://plf.zarb.org/ un howto semplice lo trovi su http://www.trylinuxsd.com/dvd/ premesso che sono grato a chi ha fatto xine, plf e trylinux, nel mio caso, facendo come dice lì, cioè installando tutto, non funziona. per farlo funzionare devo installare SOLO libdvdnav-ecc libdvdread-ecc xine-d4d-plugin-ecc e così posso vedere, per ora, i dvd criptati, aprendoli pigiando NON il bottone dvd ma il bottone d4d che ti comparirà sul pannello di xine. xine-dvdnav e lib-dvdnav non funziona ma se ne può fare a meno. se invece installo altri plugin come xine-d5d va in palla tutto: l'audio diventa unrumore oscillante e il video si muove a scatti e NON riesco a ripristinare la situazione precedente nè disinstallando nè reinstallando. ciao.
Re: [newbie-it] pranzo ML varie
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 19:53:10 +0100 miKe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: salve a tutti per il giorno 15 dicembre, con la ML di inter.net (in origine) stiamo organizzando un pranzo, per conoscerci 'fisicamente' dopo anni di convivenza virtuale in lista.. ... organizzando si e' spostato, per evitare OT clamorosi su un'altra lista che si chiama [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ho provato ad iscrivermi questa mattina, ammetto il ritardo notevole, però non mi è tornata indietro neanche la mia lettera. :-( È ancora possibile inserirsi? Sempre più in ritardo. Per quelli interessati ad un pranzo a Padova, segnalo l'iniziativa del Pluto: -- Il PLUTO Free Software Users Group è stato il primo Linux Users Group italiano ed è stato fondato a Padova nel 1992 da un gruppo di studenti e docenti del Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica dell'Università. Quest'anno, a dieci anni dalla fondazione, vorremmo ricordare l'evento con una cena, sui colli vicino a Padova, il 14 dicembre 2002. L'invito, naturalmente, è esteso a tutti i soci e i simpatizzanti del PLUTO e della Comunità del Software Libero. Per maggiori dettagli e per futuri aggiornamenti consigliamo di visitare periodicamente http://www.pluto.linux.it/meeting/ Arrivederci a Padova! - ciao, Andrea
R: R: [newbie-it] NEW LINUXER!!
Aggiungo solo che il numero 28 di LinuxC aveva diversi articoli dedicati a RAID sotto Linux. Era il numero con allegato Mndk-9.0. Io, ovviamente, non li ho letti :-( Poi su www.pluto.linux.it/ildp (o indirizzi simili, questo adesso non mi risponde) c'è sicuramente un howto su raid. ciao, andrea Grazie Andrea, cos'è LinuxC? Deduco una rivista dedicata a linux? Se si di che mese è?! Ciao Rocco
Re: R: R: [newbie-it] NEW LINUXER!!
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:58:17 +0100 Rocco Geol. Gibilras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aggiungo solo che il numero 28 di LinuxC aveva diversi articoli dedicati a RAID sotto Linux. Era il numero con allegato Mndk-9.0. Io, ovviamente, non li ho letti :-( Poi su www.pluto.linux.it/ildp (o indirizzi simili, questo adesso non mi risponde) c'è sicuramente un howto su raid. ciao, andrea Grazie Andrea, cos'è LinuxC? Deduco una rivista dedicata a linux? si Se si di che mese è?! dovrebbe essere l'ultimo numero, anche se temo che sia esaurito. http://www.oltrelinux.com/home.php?num_riv=28 ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] man-it
Thursday, December 12, 2002 5:45 PM Andrea Celli scrive: Dovrebbe andare bene l'RPM di una qualsiasi release successiva, che scarichi da un qualunque mirror, ad es.: http://bo.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/Mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/man-pages-i t-0.3.0-18mdk.noarch.rpm poi lo installi col clessico rpm -i man-pages-it-0.3.0-18mdk.noarch.rpm. ciao, Andrea ho fatto esattamente come hai detto ma dopo aver lanciato: rpm -i man-pages-it-0.3.0-18mdk.noarch.rpm ricevo un: man=1.5j-8mdk is nedded by man-pages-it-0.3.0-18mdk in inglese l'ho pure capito cosa dice ma praticamente no, sono ancora un neofita di linux, che devo fare? ciao e grazie ancora
R: [newbie-it] pranzo ML varie
Il PLUTO Free Software Users Group è stato il primo Linux Users Group italiano ed è stato fondato a Padova nel 1992 da un gruppo di studenti e docenti del Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica dell'Università. Quest'anno, a dieci anni dalla fondazione, vorremmo ricordare l'evento con una cena, sui colli vicino a Padova, il 14 dicembre 2002. L'invito, naturalmente, è esteso a tutti i soci e i simpatizzanti del PLUTO e della Comunità del Software Libero. Per maggiori dettagli e per futuri aggiornamenti consigliamo di visitare periodicamente http://www.pluto.linux.it/meeting/ Ciao Andrea, vivo in Sicilia e non ti nascondo che mi farebbe un immenso piacere partecipare ad un meeting di appassionati di linux a Padova, soprattutto dopo aver letto che quello è stato il primo LUG italiano. Forse in piccolo farò qualcosa con il neo nato LUG RAGUSA! Devi però aituarmi a capire perchè non riesco ad entrare le sito da te suggerito: PLUTO? E' forse sbagliato l'indirizzo? Rocco
Re: [newbie-it] man-it
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:35:08 +0100 Gaetano Del Vecchio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ho fatto esattamente come hai detto ma dopo aver lanciato: rpm -i man-pages-it-0.3.0-18mdk.noarch.rpm ricevo un: man=1.5j-8mdk is nedded by man-pages-it-0.3.0-18mdk in inglese l'ho pure capito cosa dice ma praticamente no, sono ancora un neofita di linux, che devo fare? ciao e grazie ancora Azz.. ci vuole una versione più aggiornata del programma man. Puoi provare a prendere dallo stesso sito anche l'rpm di man. Quasi sicuramente ti chiederà anche l'aggiornamento di groff e groff-for-man (il programma che visualizza le pagine man), Se si ferma lì va bene. Se vuol farti aggiornare tutta la distro, vedi tu. Altrimenti, non hai più i CD della tua versione? Se li hai, installa l'analogo pacchetto vecchio. Poi, con mc o ark apri il nuovo rpm e ne estrai le nuove man in una directory, rispettando la struttura di suddivisione in sottodirectory. Poi, fai un diff tra la directory /usr/man e quella nuova. A questo punto, metti al loro posto i manuali nuovi o aggiornati. ciao, Andrea
[newbie-it] nuovo utente
Salve lista, un quesito semplice semplice. voglio creare un nuovo utente per un altra distro,e mettergli in comune la mia home,ma qualcuno mi aveva anticipato che gli avrei dovuto indicare anche l' ID...perfetto!!! ma come si fa? questo è il modo per creare un utente normalmente con ID assegnato dal' OS, e per decidere io l' ID? #useradd nuovoutente #passwd nuovoutente (per creare la password) #chown nuovoutente /home/nuovoutente (gli assegno la directory) a naso avrei scritto: #useradd nuovoutente: 501 mi date qualche dritta? altra domanda..le pass par gli utenti delle due distro devono essere uguali? Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] nuovo utente
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 16:59:05 +0100 tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . questo è il modo per creare un utente normalmente con ID assegnato dal' OS, e per decidere io l' ID? #useradd nuovoutente #passwd nuovoutente (per creare la password) #chown nuovoutente /home/nuovoutente (gli assegno la directory) a naso avrei scritto: #useradd nuovoutente: 501 mi date qualche dritta? man useradd ovvio :-) SYNOPSIS useradd [-c comment] [-d home_dir] [-e expire_date] [-f inactive_time] [-g initial_group] [-G group[,...]] [-m [-k skeleton_dir] | -M] [-p passwd] [-s shell] [-u uid [ -o]] [-n] [-r] login ...^^^ Oppure, brutalmente, lo crei e poi vai a cambiare il numerello in /etc/passwd. Almeno, un tempo bastava fare così. Adesso, con la sicurezza aumentata, non sono sicuro. altra domanda..le pass par gli utenti delle due distro devono essere uguali? no ciao, Andrea
[newbie-it] INSTALLAZIONE SU PARTIZIONI GIA' ESISTANTI!
Saluti a tutta la ML, dopo aver letto nella guida in rete di MANDRAKE al Capitolo 1. Installazione con DRAKX, la Classe di Installazione dice che: Installazione Cancella completamente il vecchio sistema. A seconda di come strutturato il sistema preesistente, tuttavia, possibile mantenere inalterate alcune delle vecchie partizioni (Linux e altre)., invece Aggiornamento dice che: Aggiornamento Questo tipo di installazione vi permette di effettuare un semplice aggiornamento dei pacchetti installati sul vostro sistema Mandrake Linux. Conserva tutte le partizioni attuali del disco rigido, come pure le configurazioni individuali degli utenti. Tutti gli altri passi relativi alla configurazione restano disponibili, come per una installazione da zero. A questo punto io che dovr installare Mandrake 9.0 su un disco con tre partizioni, dove nella prima c' il win2k (FAT NTFS), la seconda dedicata ai dati (FAT 32) e la terza destinata a linux, corro il rischio di veder cancellato tutte le partizioni, nel caso scegliessi la prima classe di installazione? Ringrazio in anticipo chiunque avesse la bont di rispondere! Rocco P.S. Sk madre: gigabyte CPU: AMD 2000+ Hard disk: maxtor diamond 40 Gb
Re: [newbie-it] INSTALLAZIONE SU PARTIZIONI GIA' ESISTANTI!
Rocco Geol. Gibilras wrote: Saluti a tutta la ML, dopo aver letto nella guida in rete di MANDRAKE al Capitolo 1. Installazione con DRAKX, la ** *Classe di Installazione *dice che: Installazione Cancella completamente il vecchio sistema. A seconda di come e` strutturato il sistema preesistente, tuttavia, e` possibile mantenere inalterate alcune delle vecchie partizioni (Linux e altre)., invece *Aggiornamento* dice che: Aggiornamento Questo tipo di installazione vi permette di effettuare un semplice aggiornamento dei pacchetti installati sul vostro sistema /Mandrake Linux/. Conserva tutte le partizioni attuali del disco rigido, come pure le configurazioni individuali degli utenti. Tutti gli altri passi relativi alla configurazione restano disponibili, come per una installazione da zero. A questo punto io che dovro` installare Mandrake 9.0 su un disco con tre partizioni, dove nella prima c'e` il win2k (FAT NTFS), la seconda e` dedicata ai dati (FAT 32) e la terza e` destinata a linux, corro il rischio di veder cancellato tutte le partizioni, nel caso scegliessi la prima classe di installazione? Ringrazio in anticipo chiunque avesse la bonta` di rispondere! Rocco P.S. Sk madre: *gigabyte* CPU: *AMD* *2000*+ Hard disk: maxtor diamond 40 Gb no vai tranquillo linux ha rispetto delle partizioni win... peccato non avvenga il contrario ciao francesco
Re: [newbie-it] nuovo utente
Il 16:59, venerdì 13 dicembre 2002, tom hai scritto: Salve lista, un quesito semplice semplice. voglio creare un nuovo utente per un altra distro,e mettergli in comune la mia home,ma qualcuno mi aveva anticipato che gli avrei dovuto indicare anche l' ID...perfetto!!! ma come si fa? questo è il modo per creare un utente normalmente con ID assegnato dal' OS, e per decidere io l' ID? #useradd nuovoutente #passwd nuovoutente (per creare la password) #chown nuovoutente /home/nuovoutente (gli assegno la directory) a naso avrei scritto: #useradd nuovoutente: 501 mi date qualche dritta? useradd -u ID (comunque sempre man comando da usare altra domanda..le pass par gli utenti delle due distro devono essere uguali? Non capisco che vuoi dire con creare un nuovo utente per un altra distro, potresti essere un pò più preciso? Ciao , Tom Ciao, Germano
Re: [newbie-it] INSTALLAZIONE SU PARTIZIONI GIA' ESISTANTI!
Il 17:05, venerdì 13 dicembre 2002, Rocco Geol. Gibilras hai scritto: Saluti a tutta la ML, dopo aver letto nella guida in rete di MANDRAKE al Capitolo 1. Installazione con DRAKX, la Classe di Installazione dice che: Installazione Cancella completamente il vecchio sistema. A seconda di come è strutturato il sistema preesistente, tuttavia, è possibile mantenere inalterate alcune delle vecchie partizioni (Linux e altre)., invece Aggiornamento dice che: Aggiornamento Questo tipo di installazione vi permette di effettuare un semplice aggiornamento dei pacchetti installati sul vostro sistema Mandrake Linux. Conserva tutte le partizioni attuali del disco rigido, come pure le configurazioni individuali degli utenti. Tutti gli altri passi relativi alla configurazione restano disponibili, come per una installazione da zero. A questo punto io che dovrò installare Mandrake 9.0 su un disco con tre partizioni, dove nella prima c'è il win2k (FAT NTFS), la seconda è dedicata ai dati (FAT 32) e la terza è destinata a linux, corro il rischio di veder cancellato tutte le partizioni, nel caso scegliessi la prima classe di installazione? Ringrazio in anticipo chiunque avesse la bontà di rispondere! Rocco Dipende solo da dove tu gli dici di andarsi ad installare. Ciao
Re: [newbie-it] pranzo ML varie
* Andrea Celli wrote: On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 19:53:10 +0100 miKe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: salve a tutti per il giorno 15 dicembre, con la ML di inter.net (in origine) stiamo organizzando un pranzo, per conoscerci 'fisicamente' dopo anni di convivenza virtuale in lista.. ... organizzando si e' spostato, per evitare OT clamorosi su un'altra lista che si chiama [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ho provato ad iscrivermi questa mattina, ammetto il ritardo notevole, però non mi è tornata indietro neanche la mia lettera. :-( È ancora possibile inserirsi? Io e' da 10 giorni che ci provo e nel subject, dopo i primi tentativi canonici, ci ho messo di tutto. Mi sono arreso e per domenica ho preso un altro appuntamento.. vabbe' pace, sara' per la prossima. -- syd - LU 285930 * LM 167646 msg10125/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie-it] /etc/modules
Ave lista, volevo chiedervi.il file modules è comune a tutte le distro? modules viene richiamato da /etc/rc.d/rc.modules in fase di avvio, e qui (in modules)dovrei inserirci i moduli da far caricareora,in questa nuova distro che sto cercando di far funzionare,non lo trovo! e se lo agiungessi a manina? funzierebbe? grazie gia da ora per le risposte. Ciao , Tom
[newbie] Network Printer
Hi I got WinXP with HP815C that I shared In the network I have mandrake 9.0. How can I print from the Linux through the net sharing. Thanks Gil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome menu's gone West... help:-( SOLVED
Thanks for everbodies help - the only solution was to use GnoRPM to first verify all gnome graphical desktop packages and then re-install all that had errors by upgrading with the allow replacement of packages option enabled in the preferences. This process seemed possible only with GnoRPM and not Mandrake software manager rpmdrake. Thanks and by, Morgan. You might be able to undisable them with menudrake (either as root to configure system menu, or as a user to configure your individual menu) Do you have the problem in all users? If not you can simply create a new account for yourself. derek On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 23:35:12 +1200 Morgan Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your help, but Civileme's script seems to report every menu entry: ...has been disabled check your menus any ideas about undiableing them? Morgan If you are lucky simply running updates-menus might fix it for you. (try it as a user, then as root) Also try removing that .desktop icon you tried inserting in the menu. I do not know about Gnome, but I know that with KDE a corrupted menu entry will cause the entire menu to crap out. If you search through the archives (http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/ ) Civileme once wrote a script to check menus for corrupted entries. derek derek On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 6:44 am, Morgan Read wrote: I installed a programme recently, and noticed that the GnoRPM tool asked me where to put a .desktop icon that turned out to put an icon in the main menu. Frustrated at the clumsyness of the menu editors and intrigued that their might be a process as straight forward as (and similar in simplicity to) the mac's apple menu buried somewhere in the system, I went to investigate... So, I logged in as root and went sniffing around in usr/share/gnome/distribution-menus and usr/share/gnome/programs... And, now the main menu has disappeared! No surprise to some I guess? The only thing I changed was the Gnome Color Selector that I opened in gedit: changed the comment [en_GB] and name [en_GB] to Gnome Colour Selector (fair enough, I thought...). I opened some other files with gedit just for a look, but closed them without saving. First, as I was browsing with nautilus in the Programs directory (I may also have been browsing with gedit's file open dialogue) I noticed that all the Mandrake menu's had gone (yup, I looked in usr/share/gnome/distribution-menus before I looked in usr/share/gnome/programs). Then, after I closed nautilus and gedit and logged out of root and back into my account - holding my breath the whole time - I found the whole main menu had gone. I got an error message that the main menu couldn't be found... Any help with my investigation and putting the main menu back would be really appreciated. Thanks, Morgan. -- Morgan Read mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Morgan Read mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] noarc scr mdk rpms
If you want to compile your own applications, rebuilding a .src.rpm is the safest way to do it. The packager will have selected the optimal compilation options, and you will get menu entries etc. Even more importantly, it is easier to *uninstall* an application you compiled from a .src.rpm than it is to uninstall one compiled by hand. To compile a src RPM rpm --rebuild rpm_name.src.rpm Note : you will need all the compilation tools and libraries the application needs or else the rebuild will fail. When it is finished you will find it has built an RPM file located in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586 You then install this RPM in the normal way. A .noarch.rpm is simply one which is not compiled code. It is either text files, or else it is perl scripts or something similar. It can be installed in the normal way. NOTE A word of caution about RPMS you find on RPMfind.net. You will find RPMs there which come either from the Mandrake CD's, or from the 'Contribs' folder on Mandrake mirrors, or from 'Mandrake Cooker' Be VERY cautious about attempting to install 'Cooker' RPMs. These are from the development thread of Mandrake. Not only is there the risk they may be buggy, but installing one could require a LOT of dependencies. Installing Cooker RPMs is a good way to get to 'dependency hell' For a similar reason RedHat RPMs should only be used with caution. BTW: There is nothing you will find on rpmfind.net you could not get through urpmi. By simply setting up a few data sources you could get anything on rpmfind plus more. You would search using Mandrake Software Manager or the urpmi command line. The big advantage is that all your dependency issues will be sorted out for you. http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg108964.html HTH derek On Friday 13 Dec 2002 2:45 am, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, On the website rpmfind.net there are RPMs which are *.noarc.mdk or *src.mdk. How are these different from other mandrake RPMs? And also - can I install Red Hat RPMs (non mdk.rpms) safely or not? Thanks, Andrei _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] just a comment
There is nothing unique about this community. Just about any special interest group acts the same way. If I join an owners club for my car, install some customisation and take it to rallys, I would find exactly the same sort of community. But if I break down one day and expect someone to help me just because they have the same model of car, it just isn't going to happen. The person I stop isn't a member of my community just because they have the same sort of car. Community membership involves a willingness to learn and put the work in. I suppose it feels good to help someone improve themselves, so people will do it. It feels crap to slave away for someone who doesn't know what you are doing and cares less, so people will not do it. Also, in a community like this, you can assume that the person asking for the help today is willing to be giving it tomorrow. There is a totally different feel in an interchange of information that grows the community, from a tech-support situation that leaches off it. Other similar communities I have known: Amateur Radio Model-making Computer clubs in the early 80's OTThere are many models of how this works. Universal egosim is one of them, probably not a very useful one. But this is not the place to discuss it. Feel free to mail me directly./OT -- Richard Urwin, Private Confirmed as a crazy system administrator (NAG p348) This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] syslogd
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:07, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 07:28, George Baker wrote: Last night a process called syslogd -m started and my hard drive went mad for over 7 hours until I killed the process. What is it doing and how often - will it always carry on for so long or was it just a once off due to me moving MDK to a new drive?? Please advise George That almost sounds as though a syslog ain't been run on yer system before - ya oughta let it run once - at least... Open a terminal window and type man syslogd. You need it. I suspect it was 4 in the morning when it started churning away? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rm and the -i option
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:33, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 16:47, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I think all you need to do is rm -f filename. Be carefull though - that warning is there for a reason - its very easy to rm something you really don't want removed... BTW, you can make this permanent by editing .bashrc or .bashprofile in your /home/user directory BUT I don't recommend it. HTH's. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Ron is right. rm is a very deadly command and needs to be treated with kid gloves, like a 45 calibre handgun that's been chambered. If you do make changes to the -i qualifier in the profiles, I suggest you make it temporary; better yet, just kill the aliases for that particular shell session and don't bother the profiles. It is easy to wipe an entire filesystem with an accidental rm -rf. L8r, LX These are preset for you in a script file somewhere by the helpful Mandrake people (the default is to have the -i flag disabled), but for the life of me i cant remember which script file. You could find / grep on alias rm. I am assuming you are used to the normal default behaviour of the command. It is not just rm, several have it turned on. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [riu] Re: [newbie] just a comment [WAY OT now]
A somewhat topical quote of a misquote: Do not meddle in the affairs of primates; for they are subtle and quick to anger. -- Richard Urwin, Private Confirmed as a crazy system administrator (NAG p348) This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] noarc scr mdk rpms
On Friday 13 December 2002 04:45, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, On the website rpmfind.net there are RPMs which are *.noarc.mdk or *src.mdk. How are these different from other mandrake RPMs? noarch means that the package contains no binaries and will therefore be equally useful on an x86 machine, a ppc (apple) box, a SUN computer etc etc. It is normally used to package help files, graphics and so on. src means source. Strictly for experts And also - can I install Red Hat RPMs (non mdk.rpms) safely or not? Often. But not always. I've found that most simple end-user apps can be installed, if you use rpm with the --test option first. Don't do this for libraries or anything fundamental. In fact, as a general rule, keep non-Mandrake rpms as far from your kernel as possible and you should be ok. If you try to install Redhat's version of X11, for example, you're on your own. g Thing is, redhat and other non-mdk rpms will sometimes install into /opt or /usr/local rather than /usr. Then, when you find a proper mdk upgrade rpm later on, it won't overwrite the old one and you end up with two versions floating around, symlinks pointing the wrong way ... it can get messsy. Try a little harder to find mdk rpms before you introduce these aliens. rpmfind.net is your friend, so is google. -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all is One, all violence is masochism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XCDroast primary read device.
g wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: append=quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi is just fine maybe, or almost, as to argument, append=quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi should it not read, append= quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi ^ should a ^ 'space' not be present to make 'append=' pass an argument to 'label=Mandrake'. would not a 'no space' pass a label of 'Mandrakequiet' with a argument of 'devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi' wereas, a space passes a label of 'Mandrake' with an argument of 'quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi' [unless there has been a rewrite of lilo] peace out. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email... text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. I stand corrected, well spotted. Though this is good proctice , and I for one recommend it, for some reason, it does not always apply, do not know why. But yes the spaces are important and ought to be there. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XCDroast primary read device.
g wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: append=quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi is just fine maybe, or almost, as to argument, append=quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi should it not read, append= quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi ^ should a ^ 'space' not be present to make 'append=' pass an argument to 'label=Mandrake'. would not a 'no space' pass a label of 'Mandrakequiet' with a argument of 'devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi' wereas, a space passes a label of 'Mandrake' with an argument of 'quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi' [unless there has been a rewrite of lilo] peace out. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email... text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. I stand corrected, well spotted. Though this is good proctice , and I for one recommend it, for some reason, it does not always apply, do not know why. But yes the spaces are important and ought to be there. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Write to windows partition?
On Monday 09 Dec 2002 4:49 am, Michael Adams wrote: On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:21, Erik Farnsworth wrote: Spence, Thanks! Unless I totally hose my mdk system, I probably won't need this program because I boot XP only to use PageMaker (until I learn to use Lyx better) and to update the anti-virus .dat files. [I did d/l explore2fs, just in case :) ] However, I have a friend who could probably use it...so I'm passing on the info. On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 18:41, Spencer wrote: On December 8, 2002 04:24 pm, Erik Farnsworth wrote: If you have a need to read or write data from Winduz, there is a program called - explore2fs - that I use successfully on my W2K Pro install. I don't know if it can be used with a NTFS partition but it works well from FAT32. Spence Most recent Linux versions would default partition using one of the more modern Journaling File Systems. In this case anything 2fs may not work. On the other hand if the journaling system is 3fs? (is that the right abbreviation) it may work. As I understand it, ext3 is simply ext2 + a journal, so I would think that would work. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Right's problem - second try
On Wednesday 11 Dec 2002 2:08 pm, Roland Hughes wrote: Yes, I gave it a root password and can log in as root with red screen and all. What I can not do is install packages and change config files without getting a message to the effect that I do not have the rights to do it. OK - totally dumb suggestion. From time to time I run into this problem, when normally everything's OK. Logging out and back in seems to sort it. I guess something's getting its knickers in a twist. It may have no connection with your problem, but heck it can't hurt to try it g Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mplayer and software manager
I used the script in the club pages to set up urpmi for updates, commercial apps, contributions and PLF files.I now want to install mplayer and when using the software manager it tells me that everything is already installed - it certainly isn't, I've checked thoroughly. So, I tried text mode in a terminal - urpmi mplayer and I get a list of files to be installed, is that OK? I hit Y and the installation aborts, saying that a number of files aren't found. I'm also getting an error saying unable to take medium 'Update for Mandrake Linux 9.0 (ftpiu)' into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.0 (ftpiu)]exists. This is a reinstall of LM 9.0 and I didn't have these problems before - I can't think that I've done anything different, so any suggestions would be gratefully received! Thanks David -- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Write to windows partition?
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:08:15 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 09 Dec 2002 4:49 am, Michael Adams wrote: On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:21, Erik Farnsworth wrote: Spence, Thanks! Unless I totally hose my mdk system, I probably won't need this program because I boot XP only to use PageMaker (until I learn to use Lyx better) and to update the anti-virus .dat files. [I did d/l explore2fs, just in case :) ] However, I have a friend who could probably use it...so I'm passing on the info. On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 18:41, Spencer wrote: On December 8, 2002 04:24 pm, Erik Farnsworth wrote: If you have a need to read or write data from Winduz, there is a program called - explore2fs - that I use successfully on my W2K Pro install. I don't know if it can be used with a NTFS partition but it works well from FAT32. Spence Most recent Linux versions would default partition using one of the more modern Journaling File Systems. In this case anything 2fs may not work. On the other hand if the journaling system is 3fs? (is that the right abbreviation) it may work. As I understand it, ext3 is simply ext2 + a journal, so I would think that would work. Anne It works very well with ext3 Spence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation hangs
I have a set of 9.0 CDs that I am shure are good because I have used them to install 9.0 on 2 other machines. Last night I went to install mandrake on a friends machine , things seemed to be going well for the first minite or 2 and then it hung while on hard drive detection part of the installation. I tried to repeat the installation several times useing the reccomended and then the expert mode. I even tried to use Partition Magic to repartiton the hard drive first still no luck. This machine allready has windoze 98se installed on a 60 GB western digital hard drive, Athlon 1.7XP processor and 256 MB ram I was useing a cd drive installed on IDE channel 2 and operating as a slave. Could this be the problem ? I have never tried to install off a cd that was a slave before however it seems to me that It should be ok. Any one have any Ideas where this installation is going wrong? Thanks in advance Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Simple (???) email question
Stephen Kuhn writes: On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 09:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two linux boxes connected to an Ethernet hub. In the /etc/hosts file on each computer I have the IP address, fully qualified name (for the local domain) and alias of the other machine. I can ping and FTP the other box without a problem. But if I try to email the other box, the email sits in the queue and eventually I get an error message saying the domain couldn't be found and the message is undeliverable. I thought that by having an entry in /etc/hosts the mail program would query the other computer to see if there was an account on that host to receive the email. Do I really need to set up one of the computers as the server on such a simple network? You have to make sure that POP3 is running as a service. pop3??? my understanding of pop3 was that the emails were held on a remote server until you retrieved them. I wanted to send an email directly from box A to box B. I didn't want client B to have to retrieve email being held on server A. As well, you're going to have to double check your POSTFIX configurations as well. I actually left the postfix configurations at the default, since the comments within the config file said it would get my hostname and domain through system variables ($HOSTNAME and $HOSTDOMAIN or something like that) I guess I could fiddle with the postfix settings too... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Right's problem - second try
Thanks for the reply Anne. I have logged in and out, re-booted and everything else I can think of. I am beginning to come to the conclusion that I am dealing with a hardware problem and will need to try to resolve that. Thanks again. Roly On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 04:41, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 11 Dec 2002 2:08 pm, Roland Hughes wrote: Yes, I gave it a root password and can log in as root with red screen and all. What I can not do is install packages and change config files without getting a message to the effect that I do not have the rights to do it. OK - totally dumb suggestion. From time to time I run into this problem, when normally everything's OK. Logging out and back in seems to sort it. I guess something's getting its knickers in a twist. It may have no connection with your problem, but heck it can't hurt to try it g Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- The box said to install windows 2000 or better! So I installed Linux!! Linux Counter #241069 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Have you got your LM90 preorders?
On Friday 13 December 2002 01:38 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Is there anybody on this list that has NOT recieved their LM90 preorders? Besides me? I ordered three sets of technical manuals in October and I have not seen them yet. Anybody else going thru this? --LX Hey Lyvim! Don't feel bad - I've not gotten mine either. The check has been cashed for quite some time though. I ordered the DVD with manuals, and the sad thing is that I don't know if its even gonna do me any good or not. V9.0 has been very problematic here. It installed perfectly on my sons 3 year old machine. It installed perfectly on my main computer - then absolutely refused to boot up. Dennis suggested passing the linux noapic line to it, and that seemed to work - I can boot up now - and can't shutdown at all. I've tried various combinations of halt, powerdown, and shutdown with -h now etc, etc,... but nothing works. It starts shutting down, gets to: sending all processes the term signal OK sending all processes the kill signalOK and thats it. Nothing more, to paraphrase a certain raven from a classic Edgar Allen Poe poem... grin and it won't even reboot as well. It stops at the same place. Needless to say, after having to use a hardware reset or poweroff, its not too happy when it restarts. :-( I'm hoping for an answer on this list... See ya! -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation hangs
I had have the same problem HELP US greetings wouter pos --- Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a set of 9.0 CDs that I am shure are good because I have used them to install 9.0 on 2 other machines. Last night I went to install mandrake on a friends machine , things seemed to be going well for the first minite or 2 and then it hung while on hard drive detection part of the installation. I tried to repeat the installation several times useing the reccomended and then the expert mode. I even tried to use Partition Magic to repartiton the hard drive first still no luck. This machine allready has windoze 98se installed on a 60 GB western digital hard drive, Athlon 1.7XP processor and 256 MB ram I was useing a cd drive installed on IDE channel 2 and operating as a slave. Could this be the problem ? I have never tried to install off a cd that was a slave before however it seems to me that It should be ok. Any one have any Ideas where this installation is going wrong? Thanks in advance Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com = Visit http://www.xs4all.nl/~wpos For dj exalted online !! __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake - request for support! (v9.0)
Hardware - Shuttle motherboard 384 megs ram AMD Athlon 900 cpu Nvidia Geforce 2/64 megs ram SoundBlaster Xgamer Live sound card Adaptec 2930 SCSI card WinTV tuner card Linksys network card Toshiba DVD (scsi) Plextor CDRW (scsi) Iomega Zip internal/IDE This hardware configuration ran very well (small issues - easily resolved) with versions 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2 of Mandrake Version 9.0 - installed cleanly (apparently) then refused to bootup, always hanging at checking module dependencies. Dennis suggested passing linux noapic - did that - apparently worked - was finally able to get to a desktop. Added noapic to /etc/lilo.conf. Ran /sbin/lilo. Rebooted - worked -next reboot did not work - finally worked by picking the non-fb option. I say rebooted. When I say rebooted, I mean manually reaching over and pressing the reset button or power switch because it will not shutdown or reboot otherwise. As root or normal user, if I try any combination of: shutdown -r now shutdown -h now halt ditto powerdown ditto It starts to shutdown, gets as far as: sending all processes the TERM signal OK sending all processes the KILL signal... Never get an okay there, and thats where it hangs. Forever. Needless to say, when I manually restart - the OS is not happy. Please offer suggestions - v8.2 worked great here - didn't have near this much trouble. I'm using the 3 CD download set, purchased from LinuxCentral. I don't believe its the disks - same disks installled fautlessly on my sons computer which is 3 years old (mine is only about a year - go figure!). Thanks in advance. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake - request for support! (v9.0)
I have the same problem using 8.2. I asked a similar question a few weeks back and the consensus seems to be a motherboard issue. I am using the Tyan S1598 Trinity MB. Fortunately mine will reboot. So I reboot into Win98 and shutdown that way. M9.0 will not load. Gary On Friday 13 December 2002 10:49 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hardware - Shuttle motherboard 384 megs ram AMD Athlon 900 cpu Nvidia Geforce 2/64 megs ram SoundBlaster Xgamer Live sound card Adaptec 2930 SCSI card WinTV tuner card Linksys network card Toshiba DVD (scsi) Plextor CDRW (scsi) Iomega Zip internal/IDE This hardware configuration ran very well (small issues - easily resolved) with versions 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2 of Mandrake Version 9.0 - installed cleanly (apparently) then refused to bootup, always hanging at checking module dependencies. Dennis suggested passing linux noapic - did that - apparently worked - was finally able to get to a desktop. Added noapic to /etc/lilo.conf. Ran /sbin/lilo. Rebooted - worked -next reboot did not work - finally worked by picking the non-fb option. I say rebooted. When I say rebooted, I mean manually reaching over and pressing the reset button or power switch because it will not shutdown or reboot otherwise. As root or normal user, if I try any combination of: shutdown -r now shutdown -h now halt ditto powerdown ditto It starts to shutdown, gets as far as: sending all processes the TERM signal OK sending all processes the KILL signal... Never get an okay there, and thats where it hangs. Forever. Needless to say, when I manually restart - the OS is not happy. Please offer suggestions - v8.2 worked great here - didn't have near this much trouble. I'm using the 3 CD download set, purchased from LinuxCentral. I don't believe its the disks - same disks installled fautlessly on my sons computer which is 3 years old (mine is only about a year - go figure!). Thanks in advance. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Have you got your LM90 preorders?
On 13 Dec 2002, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Is there anybody on this list that has NOT recieved their LM90 preorders? Besides me? I ordered three sets of technical manuals in October and I have not seen them yet. Anybody else going thru this? --LX I got an email a few days ago saying my order was being shipped. Haven't yet received it. They gave me a URL and a tracking number. However, when I clicked on the URL the site I reached was all in French, so I haven't been able to track it. Dale Huckeby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Have you got your LM90 preorders?
geez i dutifully paid my money for 8.1 and 8.2 and was considering doing so for 9.0 ... but is it just me, or does Mandrake WANT me to change to a different distro? some of the user-hostile things they've done lately makes me wonder my two cents, kenn --- Dale Huckeby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13 Dec 2002, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Is there anybody on this list that has NOT recieved their LM90 preorders? Besides me? I ordered three sets of technical manuals in October and I have not seen them yet. Anybody else going thru this? --LX I got an email a few days ago saying my order was being shipped. Haven't yet received it. They gave me a URL and a tracking number. However, when I clicked on the URL the site I reached was all in French, so I haven't been able to track it. Dale Huckeby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: Free-Form Linux Database
I would like some feedback from anyone who has found and is using any free-form database program in Linux. Something similar in nature to askSam. I wish to migrate all of thousands (literally) emails, tech notes and other minutia to an easily accessible and usable program that allows advanced search, sorting, formatting and printing capabilitities (not command line). Free-form, not structures, is the key! My search on the Web has given me only two possibilities so far: 1) Use command lines Linux utilities (like 'grep', etc.) and text files; or 2) A program like TreePad, which is available for both Windows and Linux platforms. Importing capabilities are crucial. I also do not want to tie this database to any email program. Anyone tried/using TreePad? How is it from a data managability standpoint? Does it seem to work well in Mandrake Linux? Any other possibilities? TIA, T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ver. 9 virus protection
I have bumbled my way through installation. Now I'm concerned about virus protection and a firewall. Any help or suggestions for a fellow with a very log fog index would be appreciated. Owen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ver. 9 virus protection
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 04:02, Owen Berio wrote: I have bumbled my way through installation. Now I'm concerned about virus protection and a firewall. Any help or suggestions for a fellow with a very log fog index would be appreciated. Owen For a quick, yet powerful firewall, I'd suggest Firestarter. http://firestarter.sourceforge.net Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake - request for support! (v9.0)
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 11:28, Gary Montalbine wrote: I have the same problem using 8.2. I asked a similar question a few weeks back and the consensus seems to be a motherboard issue. I am using the Tyan S1598 Trinity MB. Fortunately mine will reboot. So I reboot into Win98 and shutdown that way. M9.0 will not load. Gary In Ron's case it is not a motherboard issue. He's a veteran Mandrake enthusiast and has run versions 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2 on the hardware in question with no major difficulties. If Ron is sending a support request, that throws up flags. --LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network Printer
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 19:17, Gil Katz wrote: Hi I got WinXP with HP815C that I shared In the network I have mandrake 9.0. How can I print from the Linux through the net sharing. Thanks Gil You should be able to run kaddprinterwizard and just follow through the steps to setup a Windows Network printer - rather easily... -- Fri Dec 13 20:34:59 EST 2002 8:35pm up 2 days, 12:57, 6 users, load average: 0.51, 0.46, 0.34 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn character density, n.: The number of very weird people in the office. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Three random GNOME questions
I have three unrelated GNOME questions. 1. How do I enable/disable the AA fonts? When I boot up, I get logged into GNOME with AA off. If I logout and log back on, AA is on. 2. Why do applications like Galeon and Gnumeric use different font sizes than those set in the GNOME desktop and how can I change this? I have all my fonts set at the 10 size in the GNOME but Galeon and Gnumeric and anything that's not an intergral part of GNOME seems to use the 12 size font. 3. I would like to use the GDM as my logon program. Right now the KDE logon manager is what I see when I logout of GNOME and I would like it to be the GDM. Thanks alot -Noah Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Have you got your LM90 preorders?
On Friday 13 December 2002 11:51 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: D@mn, Ron...you are really worrying me now. I guess I need to look at examining this distro really close before I migrate. What in the heck is going on? Where's Civileme when you need him? :) l8r, LX grin Well, Todd has been awful supportive so I'm hoping he'll jump in here adn be able to give me a fix. I checked the errata page as well as searching the list, but nothing has helped so far... See ya! PS I'm just waiting for some cough person to tell me that the answer is simple - just don't ever turn it off, Linux was meant to run 24/7 anyways! lol -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Freeze after install
Hi,I just install Mandrake 9.0 in a toshiba satellite 1110/1115 with celeron processor and 256 in RAM. When the system comes up I got the following message,PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available bacause of resource of collisionsAfter this messages it starts to boot, but hangs up in the following lineStarting pcmcia: [OK]And nothing happends after that.Someone have any idea about it ?Thank in advanceErik Miranda,Join Excite! - http://www.excite.comThe most personalized portal on the Web!
Re: [newbie] ver. 9 virus protection
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:02:45 + User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 On Friday 13 Dec 2002 9:02 am, Owen Berio wrote: I have bumbled my way through installation. Now I'm concerned about virus protection and a firewall. Any help or suggestions for a fellow with a very log fog index would be appreciated. Owen You already have the best defence against viruses. You are not using Outlook Express :) Seriously. You would have to try very hard to catch a Linux virus. The Linux anti virus products you see are to detect *Windows* viruses to avoid passing them on in a mail server. As for firewall. Just press the firewall button in Mandrake Control CentreSecurity Then go to http://scan.sygatetech.com/ and test it. derek PS: Could you blank out the Reply to field in your K Mail settings please. It is not necessary, and in a list like this replies end up going to you alone and not the list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] noarc scr mdk rpms
Yes and no The commands urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto-select Would update your entire system with the latest and greatest of every package installed on your system from every source defined. urpmi.update -a urpmi --update --autoselect would update only from the Mandrake updates server while urpmi.update urpmi package_name will install the latest version of that package. (The urpmi.update -a command simply makes the list of available packages up to date. You do not need it if updating from 'fixed' sources) If you look at the mail I referenced, only one of those sources is restricted to Mandrake Club members. These are the commercial packages off the powerpack CDs. RPMS made by club members are in the 'unsupported folder' on the mirrors and are available by urpmi by anyone. None of those packages would be found on rpnfind.net derek On Friday 13 Dec 2002 6:33 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi Derek, Thanks for the info. I was under the impression that urpmi would update my ENTIRE system, and not let me pick and choose which package I want to get/update, is this wrong? And also - is the number of packages available to non-mandrake-club-members (such as, alas, myself, I am living on a hyper-tight budget right now, with not ONE extra penny left) smaller than what one can find on rpmfind.net? Kind regards, Andrei BTW: There is nothing you will find on rpmfind.net you could not get through urpmi. By simply setting up a few data sources you could get anything on rpmfind plus more. You would search using Mandrake Software Manager or the urpmi command line. The big advantage is that all your dependency issues will be sorted out for you. http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg108964.html HTH derek O _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live 5.1
Thanks to Stephen Kuhn and Bryan Tyson. The EMUL10K1 driver was already loaded and the hint from Stephen and Bryan Tyson on checking the mixers fixed the problem. Once I knew what I was looking for, I found the back ground speakers were turned completely down. -- Everything works fine now. Thanks again David On Thursday 12 December 2002 11:26 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 13:54, David Williams wrote: I noticed that my sound card (Sound Blaster Live 5.1) wasn't playing background to the back speakers and sub-woofer when I installed Mandrake 9.0. As near as I can figure, I need to install the EMUL10K1 driver. However, it appears that I need to recompile, etc. etc. etc. Before I did all of this, I wanted to see ifanyone knew if I was doing the right thing or if I was hunting through the weeds in the wrong direction. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] just a comment [WAY OT now]
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 19:13, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: how bored are we... im loving this though, keep going. Since you insist... :) Isn't it funny the amount of attention OT gets? I don't know about others, but I know why I reply to this. I'm such a total ignoramus of all things Linux, but hooked to the list and learning, that when I see a theme I actually have an opinion on, I go for it. Someone asked what makes this sort of list tick, and even I can have an opinion on such matters. This being also the first mailing list I've ever been on, and from not very long at that, I had no previous experience of what they meant by flame. Holy shit. So after reading some replies directed at me, and then re-reading the pretty innocent (honestly) posts that triggered them, I have decided to never again post OT, ever (this is an exeption, hehe, never believe my hyperboles). I take a hint, and if I feel philosophical I'll just go to an appropriate place, or shut up. Just one concrete answer to one concrete question: no, english is not my mother tongue. You can tell by the tortured syntax, I guess, though it disappoints me that it should be so apparent. Oh well. Meliton. P.S. Has anybody heard of Godwin's Law? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] just a comment [WAY OT now]
Meliton wrote: Someone asked what makes this sort of list tick, and even I can have an opinion on such matters. This being also the first mailing list I've ever been on, and from not very long at that, I had no previous experience of what they meant by flame. Holy shit. As flames go, the stuff you see on this list is nothing - this is actually a pretty friendly and polite list, which is one reason I'm still subscribed to it. Real classic flaming is stuff like BWAHAHAHAHAHAH U sux donkey balls U use winbloze so u obvouisly don't kno shit. GET OFFF THIS LIST YOU MORON!! Sir Robin -- Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it. - Linus Torvalds Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] just a comment [WAY OT now]
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 07:40, Robin Turner wrote: As flames go, the stuff you see on this list is nothing - this is actually a pretty friendly and polite list, which is one reason I'm still subscribed to it. Real classic flaming is stuff like BWAHAHAHAHAHAH U sux donkey balls U use winbloze so u obvouisly don't kno shit. GET OFFF THIS LIST YOU MORON!! Sir Robin I dunno mate...that's subtle flaming...REAL flaming comes with tact, intellect, witty yet patronizing barbs - as well as outside attacks...not that I pursue such, but it does come into play when politics and religion are concerned...especially with my overly defensive culturally myopic ex-countrymen... -- Sat Dec 14 08:40:00 EST 2002 8:40am up 3 days, 1:02, 5 users, load average: 0.24, 0.12, 0.11 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Free-Form Linux Database
Thanks for the referral, Spence. I took a look at the site. It looks pretty powerful and capable. It also looks a little initmidating for me a this point. Learning curve is an issue; I haven't delved in XML as yet. I've bookmarked the site and will seriously look into it when I get some free time. T - Original Message - From: Spencer Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 12:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: Free-Form Linux Database Check out eXist at exist.sourceforge.net. It's supposed to be a free-form java based database for text documents. I haven't had time to really looked at it but it may help you. If you get it up and running, let us know on the list. Spence On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:52:02 -0500 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like some feedback from anyone who has found and is using any free-form database program in Linux. Something similar in nature to askSam. I wish to migrate all of thousands (literally) emails, tech notes and other minutia to an easily accessible and usable program that allows advanced search, sorting, formatting and printing capabilitities (not command line). Free-form, not structures, is the key! My search on the Web has given me only two possibilities so far: 1) Use command lines Linux utilities (like 'grep', etc.) and text files; or 2) A program like TreePad, which is available for both Windows and Linux platforms. Importing capabilities are crucial. I also do not want to tie this database to any email program. Anyone tried/using TreePad? How is it from a data managability standpoint? Does it seem to work well in Mandrake Linux? Any other possibilities? TIA, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linux installation Router Advice
All I'm asking is there any special things I need to know when installing linux behind a router? I bought one recently, works great with the windows installs... Took some fiddling but its all good now. So any special caveats, instructions, advice? warnings? Thx - FemmeFatale 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
Re: [newbie] Have you got your LM90 preorders?
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Is there anybody on this list that has NOT recieved their LM90 preorders? Besides me? Yes. I received an email from Mandrakestore with apology saying the batch of mis-directed orders would be shipped starting Monday December 2. It has now been more than two weeks since that email. What really gets me is that they have been on the shelves in the local Best Buy store for weeks. I should have waited and bought it locally. Bob -- Bob Read // Registered Linux user #287118 http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/e/bestill.htm Soli Deo Gloria-Solus Christus-Sola Gratia-Sola Fide-Sola Scriptura The Church of The Master [Baptist] Providence, Rhode Island http://users.ids.net/~bobread/cotm.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:18:11 -0700, you wrote: All I'm asking is there any special things I need to know when installing linux behind a router? I bought one recently, works great with the windows installs... Took some fiddling but its all good now. So any special caveats, instructions, advice? warnings? Mandrake-linux, for me, is actually easier to get going when behind a router. I don't think you should have any problems. Thx - FemmeFatale 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 peace, Rog The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Have you got your LM90 preorders?
I got my email saying that also about two weeks ago and I got mine yesterday Greg Bob Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Is there anybody on this list that has NOT recieved their LM90 preorders? Besides me? Yes. I received an email from Mandrakestore with apology saying the batch of mis-directed orders would be shipped starting Monday December 2. It has now been more than two weeks since that email. What really gets me is that they have been on the shelves in the local Best Buy store for weeks. I should have waited and bought it locally. Bob -- Bob Read // Registered Linux user #287118 http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/e/bestill.htm Soli Deo Gloria-Solus Christus-Sola Gratia-Sola Fide-Sola Scriptura The Church of The Master [Baptist] Providence, Rhode Island http://users.ids.net/~bobread/cotm.htm -- Linux The Number one Os __ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 09:18, FemmeFatale wrote: All I'm asking is there any special things I need to know when installing linux behind a router? I bought one recently, works great with the windows installs... Took some fiddling but its all good now. So any special caveats, instructions, advice? warnings? Thx - FemmeFatale Shouldn't be...unless you're accessing your linbox from the outside world... -- Sat Dec 14 10:15:01 EST 2002 10:15am up 3 days, 2:37, 5 users, load average: 1.79, 0.67, 0.39 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn What happened last night can happen again. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] just a comment [WAY OT now]
At 10:06 PM 12/13/2002 +0100, you wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 19:13, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: how bored are we... im loving this though, keep going. Since you insist... :) Someone asked what makes this sort of list tick, and even I can have an opinion on such matters. This being also the first mailing list I've ever been on, and from not very long at that, I had no previous experience of what they meant by flame. Holy shit. If I get flamed for saying this, so be it. I'm used to it. Meliton, jsut ignore the ppl who flame ya. They're just ppl who have their sphincters in a knot. Hell with em. Its a list, yes. Its public yes. But sometimes we need threads like this just to lighten up a little for a while. And who wants to be bored silly by just tech questions answers all the time? *shrugs* not me thats for sure. Altho I must say too to keep in mind ppl who are metered on their service. Please cut snip posts to a reasonable size for those ppl. (This last bit is info for those new to the list only, as it has been addressed before.) - FemmeFatale 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
Re: [newbie] PHP Editor
On Thursday 12 December 2002 10:14 pm, Warren Post wrote: El jue, 12-12-2002 a las 04:55, Mr. VLE79E escribió: Anyway knows a good PHP Code Editor that support indentation and text highlighting Bluefish. It's on your installation disks. Quanta+ is pretty nice, I use it frequently. Straightforward and functional. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] just a comment [WAY OT now]
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 00:39, FemmeFatale wrote: Meliton, jsut ignore the ppl who flame ya. They're just ppl who have their sphincters in a knot. Hell with em. Its a list, yes. Its public yes. But sometimes we need threads like this just to lighten up a little for a while. And who wants to be bored silly by just tech questions answers all the time? *shrugs* not me thats for sure. Thanks. Yeah, I had a bad moment there when I saw the reactions. It was totally unexpected, that's all. Feeling more relaxed now. I know I said I wouldn't do this any more but, to paraphrase Larkin, I misjudged myself. Or lied. Meliton. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Simple (???) email question
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 01:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Kuhn writes: On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 09:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two linux boxes connected to an Ethernet hub. In the /etc/hosts file on each computer I have the IP address, fully qualified name (for the local domain) and alias of the other machine. I can ping and FTP the other box without a problem. But if I try to email the other box, the email sits in the queue and eventually I get an error message saying the domain couldn't be found and the message is undeliverable. I thought that by having an entry in /etc/hosts the mail program would query the other computer to see if there was an account on that host to receive the email. Do I really need to set up one of the computers as the server on such a simple network? You have to make sure that POP3 is running as a service. pop3??? my understanding of pop3 was that the emails were held on a remote server until you retrieved them. I wanted to send an email directly from box A to box B. I didn't want client B to have to retrieve email being held on server A. As well, you're going to have to double check your POSTFIX configurations as well. I actually left the postfix configurations at the default, since the comments within the config file said it would get my hostname and domain through system variables ($HOSTNAME and $HOSTDOMAIN or something like that) I guess I could fiddle with the postfix settings too... You don't need pop3, this will work between the postfix daemons of the two boxes... however, for reasons I haven't yet bothered to investigate, postfix now maintains its own hosts file and resolv.conf. You need to make sure that your /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf are the same as /var/spool/postfix/etc/hosts and /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf. That should fix it. You should really only have to mail user@alias (/etc/hosts) to successfully send mail between the boxes. But without a valid resolv.conf, you won't be able to send mail outside either. 'postfix check' will let you know if these files are out of sync. Hope that helps, Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] just a comment [WAY OT now]
On Friday 13 December 2002 03:40 pm, Robin Turner wrote: As flames go, the stuff you see on this list is nothing - this is actually a pretty friendly and polite list, which is one reason I'm still subscribed to it. Real classic flaming is stuff like BWAHAHAHAHAHAH U sux donkey balls U use winbloze so u obvouisly don't kno shit. GET OFFF THIS LIST YOU MORON!! Sir Robin Sir Robin: May I have your permission to use the above as a signature? (I've heard about Turkish prisons; not a good venue to be the defendant in an IP lawsuit.) -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] just a comment [WAY OT now]
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 13 December 2002 03:40 pm, Robin Turner wrote: As flames go, the stuff you see on this list is nothing - this is actually a pretty friendly and polite list, which is one reason I'm still subscribed to it. Real classic flaming is stuff like BWAHAHAHAHAHAH U sux donkey balls U use winbloze so u obvouisly don't kno shit. GET OFFF THIS LIST YOU MORON!! Sir Robin Sir Robin: May I have your permission to use the above as a signature? (I've heard about Turkish prisons; not a good venue to be the defendant in an IP lawsuit.) -- cmg You want to use that as a sig??! Go ahead. BTW, Turkish prisons are generally quite comfortable. Overcrowded and lacking in facilities, but nothing like Midnight Express at all. Sir Robin -- Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it. - Linus Torvalds Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rm and the -i option
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 05:21, Michael Adams wrote: These are preset for you in a script file somewhere by the helpful Mandrake people (the default is to have the -i flag disabled), but for the life of me i cant remember which script file. You could find / grep on alias rm. I am assuming you are used to the normal default behaviour of the command. It is not just rm, several have it turned on. -- Michael If you really want to find out where some relevant script files are, a good place to start is /etc and then do rgrep -rl rm - * | less Which searches the contents of the files for the string. LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Two Boxes (Linux and Win)
El jue, 12-12-2002 a las 11:48, Mr. VLE79E escribió: I am planning to run two boxes. A Linux box to be my http server and a win box for developing web sites... I'm not answering your question, but if you don't mind my jumping in may I suggest you rethink your idea to use a Windows box for website development. I do websites and use Windows only at gunpoint. The apps available in Linux are so far beyond what Windows has to offer that there is no comparison. Code editors? Bluefish and Quanta beat their Windows brethren. Preprocessors? What few there are for Windows are mostly ports or ripoffs from *nix. WYSIWYG? I recommend hand coding, but IBM's Websphere stands up well to Dreamweaver. M$ Runt Page is too unworthy for comparison. Image editors? Gimp compares very well to Photoshop. Granted, if you have a favorite tool that you just can't live without, you might be stuck with Windows if it won't run in Wine. I still need a Windows box around to test my sites in M$IE. And if you do ASP, you may well want your web server to be IIS on Windows. But in general, I think you'll find Linux far superior to Windows for website development. YMMV, as always. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9 firewall question
Hi, When I launch my firewall configurator in the Mandrake Control Center, I get the following message: make sure you have configured your Network/Internet access with drakconnet before going any further Well, I have not. I installed Mandrake 9 on a laptop with a modem, so I could not configure any connection during the inital installation since my laptop came with a so-called Winmodem. I had to hack it with with a Linmodem RPM to get any internet access at all. Now all works fine. I connect to my ISP with a dial-up (slow: 28) using kppp. At no stage did drakconnect ever get involved. Does this mean that I cannot install the firewall offered by Mandrake 9 or that I need at all costs to use the Mandrake connection utility rather than KDE kppp? From my (very limited) understanding of firewalls all that the Mandrake firewall does is block certain ports (such as telnet or ftp) and if this is so - why this warning message? Who cares how my connection was configured as long as the right ports are closed? Thanks for any help with this! Cheers, Andrei _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9 firewall question
You can install the firewall but if you are using ppp to access the net you will have to make a change or two so the the firewall recognises that you are accessing via a modem 1.install the firewall and it will ask some configuration questions check the appropriate boxesfor the services you need. 2.copy all of the files from /usr/share/doc/shorewall-doc-1.3.7c/samples-1.3.7/one-interface to /etc/shorewall 3.edit /etc/shorewall/interfaces file and change 'eth0' at the bottom of the file to 'ppp0' snip #Example 3:You have a simple dial-in system with no ethernet #connections and you want to ignore ping requests. # #netppp0-noping ## #ZONE INTERFACEBROADCASTOPTIONS netppp0-noping #LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES BEFORE THIS ONE -- DO NOT REMOVE snip Works great for me HTH Graham Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, When I launch my firewall configurator in the Mandrake Control Center, I get the following message: make sure you have configured your Network/Internet access with drakconnet before going any further Well, I have not. I installed Mandrake 9 on a laptop with a modem, so I could not configure any connection during the inital installation since my laptop came with a so-called Winmodem. I had to hack it with with a Linmodem RPM to get any internet access at all. Now all works fine. I connect to my ISP with a dial-up (slow: 28) using kppp. At no stage did drakconnect ever get involved. Does this mean that I cannot install the firewall offered by Mandrake 9 or that I need at all costs to use the Mandrake connection utility rather than KDE kppp? From my (very limited) understanding of firewalls all that the Mandrake firewall does is block certain ports (such as telnet or ftp) and if this is so - why this warning message? Who cares how my connection was configured as long as the right ports are closed? Thanks for any help with this! Cheers, Andrei _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Antivirus for Linux
Hi everyone, I read on magazine that the first virus was created is Elk Cloner. It is a virus for Unix. I am a little bit worried about virus threat in Linux. Because, I am just an end-user. I have downloaded F-Prot and Antivir for Linux for non-commercial use. Which one is the best ?. Thank you for your opinion. I am sorry if my English is bad. I am still learning English. Rifza Adriansyah Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Have you got your LM90 preorders?
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Greg wrote: I got my email saying that also about two weeks ago and I got mine yesterday Greg Bob Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got mine today. Dale Huckeby Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Is there anybody on this list that has NOT recieved their LM90 preorders? Besides me? Yes. I received an email from Mandrakestore with apology saying the batch of mis-directed orders would be shipped starting Monday December 2. It has now been more than two weeks since that email. What really gets me is that they have been on the shelves in the local Best Buy store for weeks. I should have waited and bought it locally. Bob -- Bob Read // Registered Linux user #287118 http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/e/bestill.htm Soli Deo Gloria-Solus Christus-Sola Gratia-Sola Fide-Sola Scriptura The Church of The Master [Baptist] Providence, Rhode Island http://users.ids.net/~bobread/cotm.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Have you got your LM90 preorders?
On Friday 13 December 2002 10:05 pm, Dale Huckeby wrote: Got mine today. Dale Huckeby I've never even gotten an e-mail concerning anything about my order. :-( -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Samba
OK, I give up. I have a four computer network at home. I am running Linux on mine and Win98 on the other three. I have been using Samba so I can copy files and etc and to share a printer on my computer with the others. Everything has been working fine and now my computer and printer can't be seen on the net. (I have very recently changed the monitor settings from 800X600 to 1024X768 and got my background sound to work.) That is the only thing that I have done. Under SWAT smb is running and nmb is not if I try to start nmb I get the errors below logged to the log.nmbd file. I have no idea what is failing or how to fix it or where to look to find out how to fix it. David [2002/12/13 20:22:16, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(794) Netbios nameserver version 2.2.6pre2 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1994-2002 [2002/12/13 20:22:16, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:create_subnets(239) create_subnets: No local interfaces ! [2002/12/13 20:22:16, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(872) ERROR: Failed when creating subnet lists. Exiting. [2002/12/13 20:22:28, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(794) Netbios nameserver version 2.2.6pre2 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1994-2002 [2002/12/13 20:22:28, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:create_subnets(239) create_subnets: No local interfaces ! [2002/12/13 20:22:28, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(872) ERROR: Failed when creating subnet lists. Exiting. [2002/12/13 20:39:35, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(794) Netbios nameserver version 2.2.6pre2 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1994-2002 [2002/12/13 20:39:35, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:create_subnets(239) create_subnets: No local interfaces ! [2002/12/13 20:39:35, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(872) ERROR: Failed when creating subnet lists. Exiting. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Webcam won't connect to remote host.
Hello again, and thanks go out to Nikunj for the help yesterday. So, I got the whole thing installed now, and now I get all new fun. I'm trying to get webcam to connect to a remote host via SSH and I believe I have the config set up right, but it gives me a broken pipe error every time I try to connect. Here's what I get when I flag the config for debug mode: excess crap deleted ssh config [ftp]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@namegoeshere.com:/directory/stuff what.jpg = image.jpg webcam 2002-12-13 23:27:20 ssh: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Name or service not known Broken pipe For even more fun, I decided to try this in FTP mode, here are my results: [ftp] ftp [ftp] pass [ftp] pass [ftp] Passive mode off. [ftp] ftp [ftp] close [ftp] close [ftp] Not connected. ftp: lost connection [ftp] ftp [ftp] open ftp.namegoeshere.com [ftp] open ftp.namegoeshere.com [ftp] Connected to ftp.namegoeshere.com [ftp] 220 ProFTPD FTP Server ready [ftp] 500 AUTH not understood. [ftp] 500 AUTH not understood. [ftp] KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type [ftp] ftp ftp: connect failed, sleeping 5 sec Basically just scrolls that. with increments of sleep time going up each time. When I try to connect via SSH or FTP from the command line I don't have any problems. What did I screw up this time? TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] GNOME questions
I would like to know the answers to a couple of questions regarding GNOME that have been bugging me for a while. Thanks to anyone to feels like answering the less-than-critical queries. 1. How do I set up my computer to use the GNOME desktop manager for my logging in/out? Presently, the I see a KDE screen whenever I logout. 2. How do I get anti aliasing to be either on or off? Right now whenever I boot up I get logged into GNOME with AA off automatically. If I log back on AA is on. I have no idea how to turn it on or off. I would like to be in control of what it's doing. 3. How can I adjust the size of program fonts in programs like Galeon and Gnumeric. It is easy to change the sizes of fonts in GNOME and I presently have all my fonts set to the 10 size. Galeon and Gnumeric however, use the 12 size which is too large for a 800x600 laptop display. thanks alot -Noah Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] setting default browser for kmail
I want that if i click on a url in a message the url should open in netscape.How that can be set. thx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Unexpected Installation Failure
I have a K62-500 system on which I have installed several different Linux distros in the past (versions of SuSE and Mandrake). I had Mandrake 8.2 in the house and decided to put it on this system. The installer behaved very oddly when it reached package selection, and ultimately it did not work. I decided, OK, let's try SuSE 8.1. Same thing. Once it hit package selection, it failed. A little web searching seemed to indicate these later versions don't even work with K62. Mandrake had a patch on their site, but I could not get it to work even with the patch. Reading the SuSE box, I found in the hardware requirements, for AMD it only lists Duron, Athlon, Athlon XP and Athlon MP. The Mandrake site also said it would not work with Pentium I. In this case I installed Mandrake 8.1, and it worked great. I guess a K62 500 MHz is not very modern, but I would hardly consider it obsolete. It has plenty of pep for use in the office. Linux used to have an advantage for working with older hardware. It looks like that advantage is being lost. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Webcam won't connect to remote host.
On Friday 13 December 2002 23:41, Brian Trainor wrote: ftp: connect failed, sleeping 5 sec Basically just scrolls that. with increments of sleep time going up each time. When I try to connect via SSH or FTP from the command line I don't have any problem I don't know how this fits into the picture, but I had a similar experience with webcam. There was a time when it would ftp with no problem. Then for no apparent reason it began doing what you describe above. Ultimately what I did was have webcam save the images to a local file, and I had cron run a script that would upload the file using ncftp. Why this was necessary I never figured out, but it worked quite well. Nowadays I use camstream to capture and upload my webcam shots, and I am very happy with it. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] v9.0 -out, v8.2 -back in... :-(
Okay, i give up. After about 3 days of fighting with v9.0 (3 CD download edition) I'm calling it quits and reinstalling v8.2. I tried noapic, I tried noacpi, etc, etc... Occasionally, I could actually boot up, after doing rescue (all installations go just fine - its that first reboot - forget it - locks up hard). Even then, it usually would not boot up 2 times in a row without locking up. Also, 1 time I got it to shutdown or reboot using shutdown -r or -h now. Every other attempt would up with a: sending all processes the TERM signal OK sending all processes the KILL signal... and nothing - locks up there. Whats so frustrating is that this same 3 CD set installed perfectly on a much older computer here with far less specs. This one, my main computer is only about a year old. Go figure. Now, some may say bad memory, bad HD, etc,etc,...okay maybe - altough like I said its all brand name and less than 1 year old. Besides that, it was perfectly stable with v8.2, and I'm back with 8.2 right now and its as stable as a rock. (booting up fine, shutting down fine). I asked for support from Mandrake - Zero replies so far. (still got my fingers crossed there). I've got the 9.0 DVD/manuals ordered (and they have already cashed my check). I sure hope that it does better than the download edition! In the past, I've noticed that problems I encountered with download editions tended to disappear with the Powerpacks. I'm hoping the same is true, otherwise, I'll be stuck with a useless DVD. If anyone else can shed light on this, please...put me out of my misery. :-) When I actually had it installed/running (as long as I didn't shutdown/reboot!), v9.0 looks really great. I like it - I hope I actually get to use it here... Catch everyone later... -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Two Boxes (Linux and Win)
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 13:22, Warren Post wrote: El jue, 12-12-2002 a las 11:48, Mr. VLE79E escribió: I am planning to run two boxes. A Linux box to be my http server and a win box for developing web sites... I'm not answering your question, but if you don't mind my jumping in may I suggest you rethink your idea to use a Windows box for website development. I do websites and use Windows only at gunpoint. The apps available in Linux are so far beyond what Windows has to offer that there is no comparison. Code editors? Bluefish and Quanta beat their Windows brethren. Preprocessors? What few there are for Windows are mostly ports or ripoffs from *nix. WYSIWYG? I recommend hand coding, but IBM's Websphere stands up well to Dreamweaver. M$ Runt Page is too unworthy for comparison. Image editors? Gimp compares very well to Photoshop. Granted, if you have a favorite tool that you just can't live without, you might be stuck with Windows if it won't run in Wine. I still need a Windows box around to test my sites in M$IE. And if you do ASP, you may well want your web server to be IIS on Windows. But in general, I think you'll find Linux far superior to Windows for website development. YMMV, as always. For my situation, I just run WinXP Pro in a VMWare window - do everything without ever leaving linux...and yeah, hand coding is better - at least you're IN CONTROL of what code yer throwing on the web... I've also tweaked out my WINE so that I can run some apps under linux - like Fractal Painter 5.0 - currently working on CorelDraw10...just a few more dll's to trace out... In our home network, the linux box is the mail server, internet router/firewall, dns server internally, dhcp server, web server, ftp server, samba server (PDC), newsgroup server (only a few) - the other boxes that ARE Windows are generally for either the wife to check eBay, do mail and play solitaire, or for testing...but all in all, the one linux box is doing the job of two Windows machines - and more... Where else can you run Win98SE, WinXP Pro and OS/2 all at the same time without ever leaving your home environment or having more than one computer? -- Sat Dec 14 18:25:00 EST 2002 6:25pm up 3 days, 10:47, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.12 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn What this country needs is a good five cent microcomputer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Antivirus for Linux
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 13:41, Rifza Adriansyah wrote: Hi everyone, I read on magazine that the first virus was created is Elk Cloner. It is a virus for Unix. I am a little bit worried about virus threat in Linux. Because, I am just an end-user. I have downloaded F-Prot and Antivir for Linux for non-commercial use. Which one is the best ?. Thank you for your opinion. I am sorry if my English is bad. I am still learning English. Rifza Adriansyah You're doing just fine. It's very rare for a linux system to get a bug. Really. Consider that most bugs out there are written by young people that live in Windows. They can't write bugs for linux because they're not familiar with the OS; and it's significantly harder to write a program or a script to harm a linux (or other unix) machine - best way to hurt a linux box is directly attacking the ports with DoD/DoS and other port jamming strategies...IF they work... So, all in all, you don't have much to worry about. Enjoy linux. -- Sat Dec 14 18:30:01 EST 2002 6:30pm up 3 days, 10:52, 5 users, load average: 0.02, 0.05, 0.09 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Many people feel that if you won't let them make you happy, they'll make you suffer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XCDroast primary read device.
John Richard Smith wrote: I stand corrected, well spotted. Though this is good proctice , and I for one recommend it, for some reason, it does not always apply, do not know why. But yes the spaces are important and ought to be there. omitting a leading space in an 'append=' is a common error that is often made. as you state, 'it does not always apply', but in lilo it has, and lilo is a very common place for error to occur. but then again... just for sake of knowledge, i decided to rewrite lilo.conf with a new label and remove leading space in 'append='. surprise, surprise. md8.1 booted with out errors. looks like 'they' may have rewritten lilo to remove need for leading space. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email... text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Have you got your LM90 preorders?
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 14:40, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 13 December 2002 10:05 pm, Dale Huckeby wrote: Got mine today. Dale Huckeby I've never even gotten an e-mail concerning anything about my order. :-( It's stuck at the Knott County line... -- Sat Dec 14 18:35:00 EST 2002 6:35pm up 3 days, 10:57, 5 users, load average: 0.10, 0.09, 0.09 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Standing room only on the bus. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
