Re: [newbie-it] Linux Pratico
sapete qual'e l'ultimo numero uscito di Linux Pratico? Il numero 9. mi sai dire qual'e' il numero dell'ufficio abbonamenti? mi sono abbonato a dicembre scorso e non ho ancora ricevuto un numero della rivista = Luigi Beltramini [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://digilander.iol.it/citazioni
Re: [newbie-it] Script per init 6 con aggiunte
Alle 18:02, sabato 25 gennaio 2003, Stefano Sebastiani ha scritto: Non c'è nessuno che mi possa aiutare a fare i due script di cui sopra? mah.. io di solito per fare quello che vuoi tu uso il comando: #rebootin windows dove 'windows' è la relativa voce di LILO... E' chiaramente possibile usarne un'altra! ciao -- IRON Marco Faenzi Vallés ICQ#: 92399781
Re: [newbie-it] Linux Pratico
mi sai dire qual'e' il numero dell'ufficio abbonamenti? mi sono abbonato a dicembre scorso e non ho ancora ricevuto un numero della rivista Strano... Boh, magari ti arriva nei prossimi giorni (il numero 9 deve essere uscito da poco)... Comunque ecco i dati dell'ufficio abbonamenti e arretrati: tel. 06/3200105 fax 06/3200143 dalle ore 9,30 alle 16,30, lunedì-venerdì Ciao, Chiara
Re: [newbie-it] Linux Pratico
Il dom, 2003-02-09 alle 15:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: mi sai dire qual'e' il numero dell'ufficio abbonamenti? mi sono abbonato a dicembre scorso e non ho ancora ricevuto un numero della rivista Strano... Boh, magari ti arriva nei prossimi giorni (il numero 9 deve essere uscito da poco)... Comunque ecco i dati dell'ufficio abbonamenti e arretrati: Oddio, così strano non mi sembra, sinceramente... in una sola occasione capitò di vedermi arrivare il primo numero di una rivista (mensile) dopo solo un mese e mezzo dall'invio della richiesta... Il n.9 (mi pare sia il primo utile dopo la richiesta di abbonamento) è uscito da pochi giorni, e purtroppo la norma vuole che una rivista in abbonamento arrivi *almeno* (e parlo di un grosso editore come Mondadori) una settimana dopo l'uscita in edicola... Ma il rpobela è delle poste. Corrado
Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake 9.0 Problemi con lettore cdrom
At 19.44 08/02/2003 +0100, you wrote: Come si fa??? ;-) Ad invertire? Apri il Pc, scambi i cavi IDE di masterizzatore e lettore ed ovviamente cambi anche i settaggi dei jumper. I settaggi giusti li trovi sui manuali (perchè tu li hai ancora, vero?) oppure potresti averli stampati anche sul retro dei due apparecchi (nel mio caso avevo sia i manuali che le impostazioni stampate) Scusa ma io sono un po' digiuno... A chi lo dici :) Se puoi aiutarmi sarò un Pinguino felice, se poi non ci riesco mando alle ortiche tutto per l'ennesima volta e continuo con Windazzo, anche se é contro la mia genia Non è facile migrare da Wina Linux, dato che sono due mondi diversi (ed il secondo è più complesso, forse per le sue origini Unix...) Ma credo che valga la pena di passare ai Pinguini! :) Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Suggerimenti: installazione e pacchetti
At 17.00 08/02/2003 +0100, you wrote: Dove trovo una classifica che mi indici quali sono i window-manager più leggeri e quelli più pesanti per una determinata macchina? Ciao Prova a http://www.plig.org/xwinman/index.html è un ottimo sito. Cmq, da quel poco che ci capisco in 'sto nuovo mondo di Pinguini, il più leggero dovrebbe essere IceWM Al limte prova a vedere le minidistribuzioni di Linux: se cerchi nell'archivio della lista trovi un paio di link interessanti. Un'altra alternativa è Knoppix: nel senso che ti puoi fare la distribuzione come vuoi tu... Ah. io ti dico tutto questo in teoria Nel senso che mi sto interessando delle varie cose, ma non è che sia un esperto :) Buona domenica Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake 9.0 Problemi con lettore cdrom
Alle 19:02, sabato 8 febbraio 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Allegato: Allegato Appunto...Gli allegati... 'ndo stanno?? Mi raccomando, mandali in formato .txt; pesano di meno. Vale. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake Update - skip automatico
Alle 03:22, domenica 9 febbraio 2003, Di Fresco Marco ha scritto: Non ho mai utilizzato il Mandrake Update,da quanto si sente in lista,non funziona/funzionava molto benel'unico consiglio che ti posso dare,è di scaricarti i paketti in ftp o http (http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/updates.php?dis=9.0 questo è un esempio) da un qualunque mirror.lo lasci scaricare tutta la notte, e il giorno dopo cambi l'urll del Mandrake Update dandogli il paht in cui hai scaricato gli rpm. Credo che cosi possa andare senza intoppi... Ok, stanotte provo. Grazie del consiglio. Aspè...Non hai bisogno di _tutti_ i pacchetti di aggiornamento. La prima volta limitati a scaricare la lista. _Poi_, di volta in volta, a seconda delle tue necessità, provvederai a scaricare quanto ti è necessario. Per quanto riguarda Mandrake Update, posso confermare, per prove effettuate, che funziona bene. Vale. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake 9.0 Problemi con lettore cdrom
Quali allegati? Ho ascritto solo il messaggio, non ho mandato allegati? Comunque ti rimando il messaggio. Fabio... mi sono accorto che neppure il floppy viene letto, infatti guarda un po' cosa c'è nel fstab!!! /dev/hda7 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=iso9660,--,user,iocharset=iso9660,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_c2 vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0 e lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map vga=normal default=windows keytable=/boot/it-latin1.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe devfs=nomount hdd=ide-scsi read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe Tu mi hai chiesto anche: (cose c'è su IDE0 e IDE1). e che é? Io ho il lettore cdrom e il masterizzatore, sò solo dirti che sotto Windazzo funzionano. Se mi dici dove devo guardare ti saprò dire di più!!! dottore mi dica é grave Guarirò Saluti e sempre grazie per la tua pazienza Walter
Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake Update - skip automatico
Il dom, 2003-02-09 alle 14:18, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: Per quanto riguarda Mandrake Update, posso confermare, per prove effettuate, che funziona bene. Idem, almeno dalla 8.2... I problemi possono tuttavia verificarsi a seconda del mirror scelto per il download; io scarico sempre da server austriaci, tedeschi o francesi, di norma, perchè, a parte che spesso sono a me più vicni geograficamente di quelli italiani, Edisontel di Firenze, per esempio, mi ha *sempre* creato problemi... :-/ Corrado
RE: [newbie-it] Mandrake Update - skip automatico
Per quanto riguarda Mandrake Update, posso confermare, per prove effettuate, che funziona bene. Idem, almeno dalla 8.2... I problemi possono tuttavia verificarsi a seconda del mirror scelto per il download; io scarico sempre da server austriaci, tedeschi o francesi, di norma, perchè, a parte che spesso sono a me più vicni geograficamente di quelli italiani, Edisontel di Firenze, per esempio, mi ha *sempre* creato problemi... :-/ Infatti il messaggio di errore faceva intuire che il problema era legato al mirror. Il problema e' che ora non so come, eventualmente, cambiare il server. La schermata che mi si presenta, mi da solo la possibilita' di selezionare i pacchetti e di scaricarli. Di Fresco Marco ICQ #51985192 |--| | Spock (Court Martial - TOS): If I let go a hammer on a planet having a | | positive gravity, I need not see it fall to know that it has, in fact, | | fallen. || |--|
Re: [newbie-it] saned, parzialmente risolto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 02:27, martedì 4 febbraio 2003, carmine de pasquale ha scritto: grazie, ma comunque niente da fare. dopo il settaggio il file è diventato root root rw-rw-rw-, ma all'avvio di xscan da locale, user group rw-rw allora, mi sono informato devi agira a livello di configurazione di devfs apri un attimo devfs.conf e modules.devfs (io non lo uso quindi vado a memoria) hai delle linee con chiamate di tipo REGISTER ecco, vedi se il tuo dispositivo è riportato e modifica i permessi, altrimenti copia una linea e modificala per le tue esigenze mi dispiace di non poter essere più chiero ma è una cosa che non ho mai usato bye miKe - -- Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.20 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+RrXvF/9fksDJ4y0RAoj7AKCDIRo+ZmsFcv3YY7oGCHFCjiZBVACdErWi zXnHCVHhB7KckuwYq7ROnKc= =XwCZ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] come conf. samba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 08:54, martedì 4 febbraio 2003, Enrico Piccinini ha scritto: - Aprendo HardDrake, dovrei vedere tra le periferiche la mia scheda di rete? Se sì, come mai che non vedo niente? (A proposito di questo, se devo installare una nuova scheda di rete, come si fa?). lasciamo perdere per un attimo harddrake lancia da shell # lspci -v vedi qualcosa del tipo ethernet controller ? se si, dovresti avere anche il tipo, mandalo in lista - Una volta configurati l'IP e la Subnet mask, il campo nomecomputer.dominio, è importante per samba? assolutamente no Se sì il dominio è quello che di default windows chiama Workgroup? no, quello per win$ è il gruppo di lavoro o il dominio visto da WINS (quindi reti soloo M$ basate su smb e nmdb), che non ha nulla a che vedere con il DN inteso dai DNS per samba, se vuoi mettere un samba server, il dominio dovrai inserirlo in smb.conf (in /etc/ o in /etc/samba/) se il tuo pc è un client, dovrai solo accedere alle risorse esportate dal server M$ montandole con smbmount (da shell) o mount -t smbfs (in fstab) - Qual'è il tool più semplice per configurare la rete? Ho provato ad usare linuxconf, ma ci sono un sacco di parametri di cui non so niente (interfaccia di rete, modulo da usare, .) credo che mandrake abbia qualcosa simile a netconfig e in drakxconf dovresti avere una linea relativa alla rete altrimenti, (solo per vedere se la tua scheda funzia) iniziamo col riconoscerla (usando lspci come detto prima) immaginiamo che sia basata su chip rtl 8139 (il più comune) daremo un #modprobe 8139too per caricare il modulo quindi #ifconfig eth0 192.168.10.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up a questo punto la tua scheda dovrebbe aver ricevuto un indirizzo IP e potrai verificarlo col comando #ifconfig senza parametri (apparirà la tua scheda con l'IP appena dato) ora, potrai controllare se il link è attivo lanciando un ping verso un Pc del quale conosci l'indirizzo , es. #ping 192.168.10.2 se il ping non dovesse darti risposta, le cause potrebbero essere: 1. rotta non settata. lo verifichi col comando #route senza parametri la tua eth0 dovrà essere riportata come default gateway per la rete locale 192.168.10.0 in caso contrario #route add default gw eth0 192.168.10.0 2. firewall settato male lo verifichi con # ifconfig -nLv nel caso di catene chilometriche, per ora ti limiterai ad azzerarle con #iptables -F #iptables -X come creare un firewall per accettare connessioni lo vedremo dopo per ora, ti consiglio la lettura di un ethernet-howto e cerca in rete anche qualcosa su samba e iptables Grazie infinitamene a tutti. Buona giornata Enrico bye miKe - -- Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.20 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+RrmaF/9fksDJ4y0RAlMiAKCAtJoisT4qMce0M/3rbb730+R5PwCgozT0 wKUKoF93n0eCjYT8i3xMYCg= =oG2j -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Problemi scheda audio
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 12:02, venerdì 7 febbraio 2003, Eraser Head ha scritto: via82cxxx_audio18144 1 uart401 6336 0 [via82cxxx_audio] ac97_codec 9568 0 [via82cxxx_audio] sound 57292 0 [via82cxxx_audio uart401] soundcore 4068 4 [via82cxxx_audio sound] accidenti, li hai caricati tutti quindi problemi non ci sono! Evviva! ...peccato però che i problemi invece ci sono, sigh... hai una scheda audio che prende strane iniziative... se leggi dmesg o fai un less /var/log/messages less /var/log/syslog ti appaiono messaggi ambigui sul settaggio dei tuoi moduli? tipo richieste esplicite di irq/dma? insomma se carica i moduli deve andare... 2. no other programs is blocking the soundcard #fuser /dev/dsp Che dovrebbe fare? Se do questo comando non fa niente... dovrebbe dirti chi occupa il dispositivo... in kde c'è un servizio che gira come demone, aRTsd che occupa i dispositivi audio , se qualche applicazione cerca di accedere a questi in modo esclusivo, non ci riesce.. tutto qui Dunque, /dev/dsp è di root.root, ma è un link a /dev/sound/dsp che è di spirite.audio. Lo stesso per /dev/sequencer, mentre /dev/midi non ce l'ho. quanto odio devfs... in passato ricordo un problema simile risolto alzando i volumi col mixer di gkrellm (che hai al 99% nei cd ) il mixer del dsp non aveva effetto.. Però visto che i cd li sento benissimo non dovrebbe essere questo il problema, giusto? O mi consigli di provare comunque a installare gkrellm? a questo punto oltre una macumba potrei consigliarti tutto... Grazie mille per l'aiuto! se ti avessi aiutato... Chiara bye miKe - -- Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.20 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+RrrJF/9fksDJ4y0RAk+BAJ9FVsSH5GqLL4RFh281eDaiNeGBrwCbBY6S AoFFhh32GkG01Va74Gk2CGI= =n9rY -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie] Connecting through wireless router to....
My question is being posted on three different groups. Linux-Mandrake, Mac, and XP. Can I connect from one machine to another through the wireless router? If so how do I go about it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HTML e-mail client
FemmeFatale wrote: At 09:04 PM 2/8/2003 -0500, you wrote: snip You must have some artistic/creative/designer-type friends, because all of the HTML mail eye candy I get is spam. And from all the spam, most is not eye candy but really poorly designed (I know from seeing the wife's spam in Mozilla). But I do get HTML mail from some friends, and it is just plain--they don't spend hours designing a mail template, or spend any time doing anything remotely interesting with the mail. In fact, most don't have any idea they're sending HTML mail because they use Outhouse or something and they just go with the default settings. For that reason, I think HTML is a waste. I mean, if you're going to waste the bandwidth, at least spend some time designing a nice stylesheet or something! And, no tables--if you can't design columns using a stylesheet, you shouldn't be allowed to send HTML mail! But it is indeed wonderful for spam. Todd Shrugs my sister sends me these JPG's all the time sometimes some poetry written with HTML. Spam..well... nothing I can say there. FWIW you're right ... 90% of all my HTML mail is spam. But for some ppl as I said, its nice to use it in their mail. More power to them. I've used it on a couple of occasions in the last few years. Sometimes I need to use non-ascii characters, and can't rely on the receiver having the ability to decode any other way. Once I had to circulate a document that wanted very clear subtitles and colour - I _could_ have done it in ASCII, but it wouldn't have been as clear. Normally, though, I'd just use this wanderful thing they have with e-mail called an attachment. HTML mail is so popular with spammers because they knowmostpeople won't bother to open attachments (though the success of e-mail worms implies that there are still some who will!). Me, I'm wating for e-mail in LaTeX. Sir Robin -- Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and picke quarrells. - G. Pettie Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ooopps lost X!!!
Hi there, I don't know if this is something I've done or just md9 going screwy on me. Anyway I was in gnome as a user and to shutdown I gave the command shutdown -h now in the command line utility on the task bar. Now although in run level 5 whenever I reboot I get the console as if in rl3 and though I type startx nothing happens exept my X server crashing. This happens in all accounts including root. How can I get my X server back??? Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HTML e-mail client
On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:18 am, robin wrote: snip I've used it on a couple of occasions in the last few years. Sometimes I need to use non-ascii characters, and can't rely on the receiver having the ability to decode any other way. Once I had to circulate a document that wanted very clear subtitles and colour - I _could_ have done it in ASCII, but it wouldn't have been as clear. Normally, though, I'd just use this wanderful thing they have with e-mail called an attachment. HTML mail is so popular with spammers because they knowmostpeople won't bother to open attachments (though the success of e-mail worms implies that there are still some who will!). Me, I'm wating for e-mail in LaTeX. Sir Robin I've sent html e-mail occasionally myself. Personal greetings for special occasions such as birthdays or anniversaries, or for somber occasions where condolences would be more fitting. Personalized one off cards I mean. Everything has it's place and trying to deny people the free use of any form of self expression or technology because of abuse by a few rotten apples seems mildly retarded (technologically speaking) in my opinion. I prefer plain text personally, but there are times Besides; I vaguely recall reading that in some few of the most recent mass mailer worms infection didn't actually require the recipient to open any attachments. All that was required was an un-patched Lookout and default settings. As well as no anti-virus scanner for that broken piece of Microsoft effluvium. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 http://counter.li.org Absolute: Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. Not many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by limited monarchies, where the sovereign's power for evil (and for good) is greatly curtailed, and by republics, which are governed by chance. -- Ambrose Bierce Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] eDonkey??????
Firstly a big HELLO to you all. This is my first post on the list and I hope that I can be of some assistance to you all, I said, I hope. I have a few problems my self and the first is: Does anyone know anything about this program?? I have installed it on my Mandrake 9.0 distro but seem to be having a few MINOR difficulties with it. I don't want to bother you with the details unless someone has installed this program or knows anything about it. Thanking you in advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Problem Installing Mandrake 9.0 on Asus A7V Motherboard
Troubleshoot, troubleshoot, troubleshoot. For starters, try taking out your scsi card and tape drive and 2nd HDget down to BARE MINIMUM. If it gets past the install then start adding parts till you find the piece it doesnt like. Also try updating your MB, i have same MB...A7V333. If that doesnt help then try another video card...what kind of video card do you have anyway? Mine is fine with ATI AIW 7500 and Diamond v770. Also check what is enabled in the bios, might disable everything you dont need...serial, parrallel, etc. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Passaniti Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 10:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Problem Installing Mandrake 9.0 on Asus A7V Motherboard Thanks for the reply, but it didn't help. As I wrote in my original message, I tried using the alternate boot images on floppies, but your suggestion of using the alt1 and alt2 images directly from the CD-ROM appears to be functionally equivalent. Both of these images result in largely the same thing-- the only difference being that instead of identifying the Promise controller (PDC20265), the boot messages give it a different name (presumably a more generic IDE controller). And yes, I forgot to mention it, but I do have the BIOS set to not assume a plug-and-play operating system. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Marc Oestreicher Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 11:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem Installing Mandrake 9.0 on Asus A7V Motherboard On Saturday 08 February 2003 21:22, John Passaniti wrote: I am trying to install Mandrake 9.0 and I can't get very far. I can boot from the CD-ROM and get the graphical screen telling me to press F1 or Return. I press Return to start the graphical installation, and as Linux is booting, the system hangs. My system's configuration: Asus A7V motherboard, 900 MHz Athlon, 256M of RAM Two hard drives on primary IDE (not Promise controller) One CD-ROM drive on secondary IDE (again, not Promise controller) Adaptec AHA-2930 controller with HP T20 tape backup unit Here are the messages I see prior to Linux hanging (I'm retyping these from the screen, excuse any minor typos): - - - PDC20265: chipset version 2 PDC20265: not 100% native mode, will probe iqrs later - - - The system hangs at that point. Rarely, I see it add three more messages before it hangs: - - - PDC20265: (U)DMA burst bit DISABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode ide2: BM-DMA at 0x8000-0x8007, BIOS settings hde:pio, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0x800e-0x800F, BIOS settings hdg:pio, hdh:DMA - - - The problem appears to be with the Promise controller on the motherboard. I have *nothing* connected to it (and I don't intend to use it at all). I have flashed the motherboard with the latest BIOS, and I have disabled the Promise controller-- well, at disabled it as far as the BIOS goes. There doesn't seem to be any way to truly disable it. The kernel version of Linux that is shown on the screen as it boots is: Linux 2.4.19-16mdkBOOT I have also tried creating a boot floppy using the two alternate images provided for CD-ROM installation, and both also fail in the same way. I could probably install Mandrake Linux 9.0 without problems if I could somehow tell Linux to ignore the Promise controller entirely. Are there any command-line flags that I could provide the kernel that would make it ignore this device? Any help or suggestions people can provide will be much appreciated. I had a similar problem with a install of 9.0 a couple of months ago. You may want to try this . right after starting the machine with the CD in the cup holder press and hold F1 this should bring up a screen where you can choose to install 1 of 3 alternate kernals labeled OLT 0, OLT 1 and OLT2 they should say ALT in stead of OLT but the folks at mandrake made a typo, Try each of the alternate kernals one at a time and see if things go better. Also make shure your BIOS is set for a non PNP OS. Hope this helps Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] new to list////gamming on linux
On Saturday 08 February 2003 08:46 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Nothing is wrong with wineX, I just don't use it. I stay away from the Evil Empire by not running anything that needs it. Rob Hey Rob. There has been a lot of debate for/against WineX. Its been a real Godsend for me and my boys here. We love Jedi Knight 2, Diablo 2: LOD, Starcraft, Soldier of Fortune 2, Warcraft 3, etc, etc... All great games - especially multiplayer (well - except for SOF2 - can't get that one to work across the LAN). If it wasn't for WineX - which does NOT require that you have Windows installed anywhere, then I'd have to dual-boot if I wanted to play these games. I loathe Windows, so WineX is perfect. Don't get me wrong - you'll never see me buy a Windows game if there is a Linux port for it! Until all game makers wake up and port their games to Linux - WineX is a good interim solution. :-) PS Personally, I'm eagerly awaiting Doom 3 and Neverwinter Nights for Linux! :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????
Mldonkey runs fine and uses the eDonkey servers. You can download it from Penguin Liberation Front. Remember, if you have a firewall enabled you must open the tcp ports from 4660 to 4666 God luch! El Domingo, 9 de Febrero de 2003 09:33, Philip escribió: Firstly a big HELLO to you all. This is my first post on the list and I hope that I can be of some assistance to you all, I said, I hope. I have a few problems my self and the first is: Does anyone know anything about this program?? I have installed it on my Mandrake 9.0 distro but seem to be having a few MINOR difficulties with it. I don't want to bother you with the details unless someone has installed this program or knows anything about it. Thanking you in advance -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spamassassin Mail to a folder
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:12 am, Dennis Myers wrote:
I want spamassassin to log or put mail that it thinks is spam in a folder
in my kmail setup. I have given the command spamassassin
--log-to-mbox=Spam in a console but it doesn't seem to be doing the job.
Should I have used the -l switch first or just how does one get it to
filter and send to a particular folder? TIA for any help or suggestions.
The way I do it is to use a procmail recipe like this :-
JUNKMAIL=/home/derek/Maildir/.junkmail/
#Run SpamAssasin
:0fw
| spamassassin -a -P
:0e
{
EXITCODE=$?
}
:0: $LOCKFILE
* ^Subject:.*\*\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\*\*
$JUNKMAIL
This recipe will pipe a mail through spamassassin. Any positive mails will
have their 'Subject' line modified, and the recipe then puts all mails with
modified subject into a spam mailbox.
Alternatively if you use Kmail, you can configure filters to run spamassassin
for you. This is explained in the spamassassin installation notes. You may
find it at /usr/share/doc/spamassassin-2.41/INSTALL
derek
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Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:22:59 +0100 Francisco Alcaraz Ariza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mldonkey runs fine and uses the eDonkey servers. You can download it from Penguin Liberation Front. Remember, if you have a firewall enabled you must open the tcp ports from 4660 to 4666 God luch! And also remember that you will be hated by hub owners of other networks like Direct Connect, who will probably ban your IP the second you try connect (scripted), as MLdonkey is a very unpopular client due to it's greedyness. I haven't actually tried it myself, but from what I know it's kind-of like a web-crawler logging into several different networks and so on, finding your files, and it's simply due to this data-traffic generated by just one client that it's become the Nazi of file-sharing programs. I'm not trying to start yet another long chain of bunny-bashing yes-no-maybe e-mails, just informing you ;-) If you first use Mldonkey, and then switch to, let's say DCGui (Direct Connect Client), chances are you won't get into any of the popular servers due to your IP ban. Your IP is normally published directly into the main chat to make matters more interesting, telling everyone that you are using Mldonkey, leaving you to a peril of the kiddie-hackers. I haven't experienced this myself, so I'm not talking from experience, but I do have a lot of contact of Direct Connect hub-owners, who all use these kind of scripts. I would too, if only I could get my bloody script to work ;-) Greetings Ralph -- http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ Linux is not The Answer. Yes is the answer. Linux is The Question Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Making software raid filesystems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 08:23 am, Brian Parish wrote: Is this a feature to stop me doing something stupid, or am I missing something? Yes ;-) There should be a button on the gui to put yourself in expert mode, which should give you back the options. You may want to read the software RIAD howto's for your illumination. I found the boot on RAID howto to be the most well written for understanding how to set up any RAID partition. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Rl0QwDpHP6GALAARAlUKAJ9lXuLIijFNRPiOe9ixSQFTKN3M7wCePnUN BUixsKKgPQpqXR2/laGFtCE= =BBLc -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SBC Yahoo DSL Problem
On Saturday February 8 2003 05:47 pm, MRE wrote: Has anyone on this list been successful getting Mandrake 9.0 or RH8.0 to work on SBC Yahoo DSL? I had been using DirectvInternet DSL for over a year on my AMD 500 system so I know there is no hardware problem. If you had luck using SBC DSL, pleae let me know what you did to get it to work... I've tried auto and manual approaches, but so far have not had any luck. I have the primary and secondary DNS nos. and IP address, but manually configuring does not seem to work... Thanks, Mick I've seen the other replies. I've got sbc dsl, dynamic. As was already suggested, I use rp-pppoe. I don't enter any IP or DNS numbers, as dns is provided by sbc's server. All I enter in 'adsl-setup' (actually with 9.1 you don't even need to do this step if you set it up during installation) is provider/username/passsword, and for dns, enter 'server'. Also as somebody already said, if you're setting it up after installation of 9.0, use 'tkpppoe' as root. The only little glitches I ran into when I first got the service was sbc's server wont accept just my user name, it insists on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also for the first several days I had service, it was neccesary two or three times, to completely power off (unplug) the modem, leave it off for a minute, then power back on and wait a few moments for it to re-sync. I got that suggestion from the dsl-howto's trouble shooting section. It worked each time, I haven't had to do it again since. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ooopps lost X!!!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 08:51 am, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: When you get to the command line and type startx, what is the error message It mentions having problems reading /etc/X11/XF86Config. Talks of Data Missing from this file Andrew Post the contents of that file so we can take a look at it. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Rl10wDpHP6GALAARAt3+AJ0RXS27cGiEj5uOG71bP92sQd8nxwCbBkWL t9EjrOH3Sxx96e7qzbfCzsM= =iGmj -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba and XP - Is there a way around it?
Brian; In order to get Samba and XP playing nice together, there are several considerations to take into account. 1) What name does the XP box have? Not the username, the host name of the XP box? 2) Are the XP box and the Samba box in the same domain? ie; xp.localdomain or xp.briansdomain.com and samba.localdomain or samba.briansdomain.com ? 3) Are the XP box and the Samba box in the same workgroup? If not, is the XP box's workgroup also a workgroup on the samba box, as a LINUX workgroup? 4) What is the version of Samba you're running on the box? 5) Did you re-enter the XP box user's password in webmin, as a new password? Did you also UNcheck the No Password Required box in the Edit Samba users section of Webmin/Samba for the XP user? Let's start with these questions first. Get back to me on or off-list. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2/10/2003 at 12:13 AM Brian Parish wrote: OK, I know that XP manages to make life as difficult as possible for Samba, but does anyone have a way to make a workable solution preserving at least minimal security? All I want to do is to have one totally open, public share available to all W$ machines and one share that is secured by a password. W98 can be made to behave enough to have this work I believe, but the secure share needs to be accessed by a XP machine. I can make the XP machine see and use the open share by setting Samba to allow guest access, but for any security, I need to pass a username and password from XP and no matter what I do it arrives as a guest. Usernames and password are identical on the Samba machine and the XP machine and Samba is set to allow encrypted passwords. I believe that M$ have broken XP sufficiently to make this intentionally difficult. They seem to have screwed up W$ to W$ networking fairly convincingly in the process, but that's another story. Any clues gratefully received. TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Dan LaBine President Maximum Lans [EMAIL PROTECTED] (514) 489-7825 6915 Fielding Ave. Suite # 228 Montreal, Quebec, H4V 1P4 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HTML e-mail client
On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 10:58:30 +0200, Gil Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any HTML e-mail client like outlook express? There are several. If you're familiar with Outlook Express you'll feel right at home with Evolution. It does everything Outlook does except propagate viruses. -- 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] how to cron?
I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using streamer. I'm using v4lctrl setstation channel number to set the correct channel. and then streamer... options follow.blah blah to do the capturing. These commands have been put in a script but I'm not sure where this script should be stored. I was thinking it would be in /home/bin/my_script.sh ? Next, how do I set up crontab to call this script? Cheers for any pointers if you can help :) -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HTML e-mail client
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 09:14:36AM +0200, Gil Katz wrote: Ok i didn??? express myself ouite clear enough i got several accounts in hotmail and the easiest way to handel them is by outlook express so that what i need. Gil I'm not sure I understand what you want to do. Do you want to access your various Hotmail accounts using a mail client like Outlook or any other client that can read multiple accounts? I set my wife up with hotwayd, which lets your computer act like a pop3 server to interface with Hotmail. She can access her Hotmail account without going to that dreadful website. You can get hotwayd here: http://people.freenet.de/courierdave/ Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????
On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:25, Philip wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 12:03 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: Thanks for the advice. See the only problem I have with eDonkey is that I am having a problem trying to get the GUI to be able to connect to the core. I can load load both manually but can't seem to get both to talk. I am pulling my hair out. Have you made sure you started the commandline client with the -! parameter? as in: ./donkey -! this tells the command line client that there is a GUI controller expected. If you miss out this parameter, it will not accept any connections. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to cron?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 09:59 am, magnet wrote: I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using streamer. I'm using v4lctrl setstation channel number to set the correct channel. and then streamer... options follow.blah blah to do the capturing. These commands have been put in a script but I'm not sure where this script should be stored. I was thinking it would be in /home/bin/my_script.sh ? Next, how do I set up crontab to call this script? Cheers for any pointers if you can help :) There is a setup tool for cron jobs in the Mandrake Control Center. You can also use webmin, which I personally like better. The third option (which I add only for edification and illuminiation) is to hand edit the file /var/spool/cron/user replacing user with the username that you want the job run under. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Rm7qwDpHP6GALAARAoHDAJ9gpf2j9opcKtRqjJyH7aNy2dQHqwCcDRw1 8bw+rnnCfbG+yRdxtEsPr/o= =lI7q -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:00 am, civileme wrote: It is being rejected because reverse lookup doesn't work. His ISP has the dns misconfigured. Search results for: 64.72.132.17 OrgName:One Call Communications OrgID: OCCI Address:801 Congressional Blvd City: Carmel StateProv: IN PostalCode: 46032 Country:US NetRange: 64.72.128.0 - 64.72.143.255 CIDR: 64.72.128.0/20 NetName:OCC-2-NET NetHandle: NET-64-72-128-0-1 Parent: NET-64-0-0-0-0 NetType:Direct Allocation NameServer: NS1.ONECALL.NET NameServer: NS2.ONECALL.NET Comment:ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE RegDate:2002-01-30 Updated:2002-10-16 NOCHandle: TECHN2-ARIN NOCName: Technical Contact NOCPhone: +1-888-223-8633 NOCEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SInce they are direct allocation addresses, he may need to set up his own reverse dns zone on his own machine to respond. [tester@ibm333 tester]$ host -a 64.72.132.17 Trying 17.132.72.64.in-addr.arpa ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19162 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;17.132.72.64.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR ;; ANSWER SECTION: 17.132.72.64.in-addr.arpa. 172800 INPTR Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: 132.72.64.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS NS1.ONECALL.NET. 132.72.64.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS NS2.ONECALL.NET. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: NS1.ONECALL.NET.42844 IN A 216.37.1.19 NS2.ONECALL.NET.42844 IN A 206.223.22.1 Received 193 bytes from 209.193.4.7#53 in 698 ms [tester@ibm333 tester]$ But it looks OK from here so most likely someone has a badly set subnet mask. Thanks for jumping in here Civileme. Your detailed knowledge of Mandrake's systems always adds a level of understanding that can't be reproduced without your presence. It's good to see you back around. Anyway, backed to the discussion at hand. I have already checked this out with the ISP and they have told me the problem relates to the fact that I am on a virtual host. Since so many domains point to the ip address, the reverse lookup is actually the machine name doing the virtual hosting, in this case Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com. My domain, gkmweb.com, points to the numeric ip address that you looked up (64.72.132.17), which on a reverse lookup points to Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com. Perhaps you can tell me if they are all wet and this can be fixed with changes to the DNS entries. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RnEAwDpHP6GALAARAon7AJ9MeKI5qMMCqSaTX1vj4YWTaOOfNgCePeM8 5bT9BiCtYxbdf6iGN5n0dAo= =2XSh -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 13:03:21 +0100, Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:22:59 +0100 Francisco Alcaraz Ariza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mldonkey runs fine and uses the eDonkey servers. You can download it from Penguin Liberation Front. Remember, if you have a firewall enabled you must open the tcp ports from 4660 to 4666 God luch! And also remember that you will be hated by hub owners of other networks like Direct Connect, who will probably ban your IP the second you try connect (scripted), as MLdonkey is a very unpopular client due to it's greedyness. I haven't actually tried it myself, but from what I know it's kind-of like a web-crawler logging into several different networks and so on, finding your files, and it's simply due to this data-traffic generated by just one client that it's become the Nazi of file-sharing programs. I'm not trying to start yet another long chain of bunny-bashing yes-no-maybe e-mails, just informing you;-) If you first use Mldonkey, and then switch to, let's say DCGui (Direct Connect Client), chances are you won't get into any of the popular servers due to your IP ban. Your IP is normally published directly into the main chat to make matters more interesting, telling everyone that you are using Mldonkey, leaving you to a peril of the kiddie-hackers. I haven't experienced this myself, so I'm not talking from experience, but I do have a lot of contact of Direct Connect hub-owners, who all use these kind of scripts. I would too, if only I could get my bloody script to work ;-) According to the MLDonkey FAQ (http://www.nongnu.org/mldonkey/faq.html), only the eDonkey and Overnet networks are supported in the official release. To connect to other networks, you need to be using a CVS build. MLDonkey has full client (and some server) support of the eDonkey network. Unfortunately, on Overnet it can only download, which the MLDonkey developers blame on a lack of cooperation on the part of the Overnet developers. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] It is particularly easy to cut down the load on the [UNIX] system so that only the minimum number of services is running. This reduced complexity aids stability and transparency. -- Microsoft, 'Converting a UNIX .COM Site to Windows', 2000-22-08 msg118841/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????
Are both the client and GUI set to use the same port? IIRC, the default port is 4001. If the GUI is running on another system, might there be a firewall blocking communication? If they are both on the same system, do you have loopback networking running? To check, type '/sbin/ifconfig lo' in a root console and see if it says something like UP LOOPBACK RUNNING. On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:25:29 +, Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 12:03 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: Thanks for the advice. See the only problem I have with eDonkey is that I am having a problem trying to get the GUI to be able to connect to the core. I can load load both manually but can't seem to get both to talk. I am pulling my hair out. On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:22:59 +0100 Francisco Alcaraz Ariza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mldonkey runs fine and uses the eDonkey servers. You can download it from Penguin Liberation Front. Remember, if you have a firewall enabled you must open the tcp ports from 4660 to 4666 God luch! And also remember that you will be hated by hub owners of other networks like Direct Connect, who will probably ban your IP the second you try connect (scripted), as MLdonkey is a very unpopular client due to it's greedyness. I haven't actually tried it myself, but from what I know it's kind-of like a web-crawler logging into several different networks and so on, finding your files, and it's simply due to this data-traffic generated by just one client that it's become the Nazi of file-sharing programs. I'm not trying to start yet another long chain of bunny-bashing yes-no-maybe e-mails, just informing you ;-) If you first use Mldonkey, and then switch to, let's say DCGui (Direct Connect Client), chances are you won't get into any of the popular servers due to your IP ban. Your IP is normally published directly into the main chat to make matters more interesting, telling everyone that you are using Mldonkey, leaving you to a peril of the kiddie-hackers. I haven't experienced this myself, so I'm not talking from experience, but I do have a lot of contact of Direct Connect hub-owners, who all use these kind of scripts. I would too, if only I could get my bloody script to work ;-) Greetings Ralph -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others. -- Linus Torvalds msg118842/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] how to cron?
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:10 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 2:59 pm, magnet wrote: I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using streamer. I'm using v4lctrl setstation channel number to set the correct channel. and then streamer... options follow.blah blah to do the capturing. These commands have been put in a script but I'm not sure where this script should be stored. I was thinking it would be in /home/bin/my_script.sh ? Next, how do I set up crontab to call this script? Cheers for any pointers if you can help :) The script can go wherever you please As for cron The easy way to set it up is with webmin. Install webmin RPM and then point your browser to https://localhost:1 You will find cron setup under the 'System' Tab HTH derek Hi Derek, Ok, that's a good start. Means I can keep all the vcr scripts in one place. I have/use webmin all the time for various other stuff across all 6 machines but am a little confused with the setup boxs so a little more help would be appreciated. In webmin I have clicked on Create Cron Job... Execute cron job as magnet-- username Command... I'm assuming this is the full path to my script? Input to command... Is this where you can pass params to your script if needed? When to execute seems fairly straightforward :) -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to cron?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:28 am, magnet wrote: Hi Derek, Ok, that's a good start. Means I can keep all the vcr scripts in one place. I have/use webmin all the time for various other stuff across all 6 machines but am a little confused with the setup boxs so a little more help would be appreciated. In webmin I have clicked on Create Cron Job... Execute cron job as magnet-- username Command... I'm assuming this is the full path to my script? Yes Input to command... Is this where you can pass params to your script if needed? Yes When to execute seems fairly straightforward :) Yes - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RngHwDpHP6GALAARAs+MAJsH2B8nppB4iTGXgN/HGPfaymDoWgCgiS7r CCPwZNvWLHA2+L/csEjszuk= =CFX+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spamassassin Mail to a folder
On Sunday 09 February 2003 05:39 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:12 am, Dennis Myers wrote:
I want spamassassin to log or put mail that it thinks is spam in a folder
in my kmail setup. I have given the command spamassassin
--log-to-mbox=Spam in a console but it doesn't seem to be doing the job.
Should I have used the -l switch first or just how does one get it to
filter and send to a particular folder? TIA for any help or suggestions.
The way I do it is to use a procmail recipe like this :-
JUNKMAIL=/home/derek/Maildir/.junkmail/
#Run SpamAssasin
:0fw
:
| spamassassin -a -P
|
:0e
{
EXITCODE=$?
}
:0: $LOCKFILE
* ^Subject:.*\*\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\*\*
$JUNKMAIL
This recipe will pipe a mail through spamassassin. Any positive mails will
have their 'Subject' line modified, and the recipe then puts all mails with
modified subject into a spam mailbox.
Alternatively if you use Kmail, you can configure filters to run
spamassassin for you. This is explained in the spamassassin installation
notes. You may find it at /usr/share/doc/spamassassin-2.41/INSTALL
derek
This would be fine except I have no idea what or which regular expression to
use. I have little to no programming experience. Is your next to last line
in script above the regular expression you use for filter? Thanks for your
patience
--
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[newbie] Sound problem
I have downloaded and installed a program from the internet, which needs to access the soundcard. When I try to run it, I get the error message: Cannot open Audio Device /dev/sound/dsp: Device or resource busy. I have checked permissions and they are correct. Any ideas to overcome this error, please? -- Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Trouble with Hardware
Hello, i'm hannes and i have got some trouble running mandrake 9.0 on my system. after the installation and starting kde i tried to run several programs like kwrite, some games, etc. but everything program took a long time loading. so i was checking the hardware on the mandrake control center and what i found was the mandrake could not find certain modules for my chipset and for usb. i already read the support on the intel website but nothing i tried applied. can you help me? is it my processor? or my motherboard or even my harddrive? here are the information about my current system: P4 2,53GHz; Epox 4G4A with Intel i845G chipset; Radeon 8500; Seagate Barracuda 80GB (2x) thx for helping me regards Hannes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing Java...
OK... now I've got 9.0 working, time to do something with it! I need Java on here, so I've downloaded the .bin distribution from Sun. Since I'm still a Clueless Newbie at this stage, I want advice on the best place to install it... On a Windows machine I'd just install it any-dam-where and add the directory to the path. Is this the recommended way on Linux, or should the Java folder tree live somewhere in particular? Thanks! julian Templeman Consulting Ltd. London and North Wales Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] security update corrupted package
Hello, when security updating on ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS/ I keep getting the message: package samba-client-2.2.7-2.1mdk.i568.rpm is corrupted. I tried serveral other mirrors, same message. cannot install any security updates thanx _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to cron?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 11:12 am, magnet wrote: Hmm, so why isn't it working??? I've chmod the script to 755 just to confirm there were not exec restrictions in force. Here is my shell output [magnet@linux1 magnet]$ ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh bash: ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh: No such file or directory Any clues what Ive done wrong? Your path looks weird. Where exactly is your script located? I use a scripts directory in my home, which I would write like this: ~/scripts/script_in_question.sh or /home/greg/scripts/script_in_question.sh What is the ./ at the beginning of your path for? - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RoJrwDpHP6GALAARAhBUAJ99Aau4Nk0KCW3aknzBD+AM81lE8wCffw8t iVhQt93iT0OjxOpo89hN9Qo= =rUUi -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound problem
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:49 pm, Keith Powell wrote: I have downloaded and installed a program from the internet, which needs to access the soundcard. When I try to run it, I get the error message: Cannot open Audio Device /dev/sound/dsp: Device or resource busy. I have checked permissions and they are correct. Any ideas to overcome this error, please? You could try setting it to use /dev/dsp or /dev/dsp1 If there is no configuration option available try creating a symlink ln -s /dev/dsp /dev/sound/dsp derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to cron?
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 05:12, magnet wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:47 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:28 am, magnet wrote: Hi Derek, Ok, that's a good start. Means I can keep all the vcr scripts in one place. I have/use webmin all the time for various other stuff across all 6 machines but am a little confused with the setup boxs so a little more help would be appreciated. In webmin I have clicked on Create Cron Job... Execute cron job as magnet-- username Command... I'm assuming this is the full path to my script? Yes Input to command... Is this where you can pass params to your script if needed? Yes When to execute seems fairly straightforward :) Yes - -- Greg Hmm, so why isn't it working??? I've chmod the script to 755 just to confirm there were not exec restrictions in force. Here is my shell output [magnet@linux1 magnet]$ ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh bash: ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh: No such file or directory Any clues what Ive done wrong? Putting ./ infront of a file means in this directory. If drive1 is in root, and if the cd is /drive1/magnet, then ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh means /drive1/magnet/drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh and test.sh wont be found. Try /drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh wothout the dot in front. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to cron?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 11:39 am, magnet wrote: The script is located here: /drive1/magnet/vcrtest.sh Than eliminate that the . in front. ./ is the directory entry for the current directory, which is why you have to use it when you are running a script from the directory you are in. If you are using the full path, you don't need the dot. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Roe+wDpHP6GALAARAhbxAJ4pR6QpsI3uoi0dh+AaICUM9iCGigCfag9w BqUlK9z05WX/wP0Q0HGeaSw= =jexM -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to cron?
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 4:57 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Hmm, so why isn't it working??? I've chmod the script to 755 just to confirm there were not exec restrictions in force. Here is my shell output [magnet@linux1 magnet]$ ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh bash: ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh: No such file or directory Any clues what Ive done wrong? Putting ./ infront of a file means in this directory. If drive1 is in root, and if the cd is /drive1/magnet, then ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh means /drive1/magnet/drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh and test.sh wont be found. Try /drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh wothout the dot in front. ok, slight typo in last posting by me... here is latest attempt: [magnet@linux1 magnet]$ /drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh : bad interpreter: No such file or directory I have started my script with #!/bin/bash so Im not sure what this error means. -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 12:52, Greg Meyer wrote: The same exact problem that adelphia has. Thank you very much for clarifying, I now have the info that I need to speak with the ISP again. - -- Greg Greg, could you send me an email directly to my account? Just out of curiosity and to get more information with the delivery path. Using your problematic account, of course -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //cel: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager: www.tun-tun.com (# 609-6213) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to cron?
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:28 pm, magnet wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:10 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 2:59 pm, magnet wrote: I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using streamer. I'm using v4lctrl setstation channel number to set the correct channel. and then streamer... options follow.blah blah to do the capturing. These commands have been put in a script but I'm not sure where this script should be stored. I was thinking it would be in /home/bin/my_script.sh ? Next, how do I set up crontab to call this script? Cheers for any pointers if you can help :) The script can go wherever you please As for cron The easy way to set it up is with webmin. Install webmin RPM and then point your browser to https://localhost:1 You will find cron setup under the 'System' Tab HTH derek Hi Derek, Ok, that's a good start. Means I can keep all the vcr scripts in one place. I have/use webmin all the time for various other stuff across all 6 machines but am a little confused with the setup boxs so a little more help would be appreciated. In webmin I have clicked on Create Cron Job... Execute cron job as magnet-- username Command... I'm assuming this is the full path to my script? Input to command... Is this where you can pass params to your script if needed? Dunno, I always put the entire command including options in the 'Command' box derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xserver??
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:33 pm, Aaron wrote: I need to know how to upgrade my xserver. I am using MDK 9.0 Thanks To what? for what purpose? - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RofnwDpHP6GALAARArfrAJ9tRtRsorLG3ECOWX/D7ZMITGKlqQCfbzM3 yW2xMAcegKsBQXOpeTZq+F4= =yhig -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder
Hi All, I am trying to save different wallpaper images in a folder that everyone can get to so I do not want it in my home folders. I tried creating a folder called more in /usr/share/wallpapers/ but I cannot save any images there. Anyone wish to shed some light on the hoops I have to jump through to get this done? Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to cron?
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 04:08, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 09:59 am, magnet wrote: I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using streamer. I'm using v4lctrl setstation channel number to set the correct channel. and then streamer... options follow.blah blah to do the capturing. These commands have been put in a script but I'm not sure where this script should be stored. I was thinking it would be in /home/bin/my_script.sh ? Next, how do I set up crontab to call this script? Cheers for any pointers if you can help :) There is a setup tool for cron jobs in the Mandrake Control Center. You can also use webmin, which I personally like better. The third option (which I add only for edification and illuminiation) is to hand edit the file /var/spool/cron/user replacing user with the username that you want the job run under. For the hand edit option the official methed is crontab -e. Try man crontab first. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to cron? - working now
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:14 pm, Michael Adams wrote: On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 04:08, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 09:59 am, magnet wrote: I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using streamer. I'm using v4lctrl setstation channel number to set the correct channel. and then streamer... options follow.blah blah to do the capturing. These commands have been put in a script but I'm not sure where this script should be stored. I was thinking it would be in /home/bin/my_script.sh ? Next, how do I set up crontab to call this script? Cheers for any pointers if you can help :) There is a setup tool for cron jobs in the Mandrake Control Center. You can also use webmin, which I personally like better. The third option (which I add only for edification and illuminiation) is to hand edit the file /var/spool/cron/user replacing user with the username that you want the job run under. For the hand edit option the official methed is crontab -e. Try man crontab first. Right. Update for anyone following this thread. Found a typo within the script. Not sure if this had a follow-on effect for everything after but it all seems to be working fine now. Thanks very much for the pointers/hints/advice as usual with this problem. -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spamassassin Mail to a folder
On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:58 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:59 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
On Sunday 09 February 2003 05:39 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:12 am, Dennis Myers wrote:
I want spamassassin to log or put mail that it thinks is spam in a
folder in my kmail setup. I have given the command spamassassin
--log-to-mbox=Spam in a console but it doesn't seem to be doing the
job. Should I have used the -l switch first or just how does one get
it to filter and send to a particular folder? TIA for any help or
suggestions.
The way I do it is to use a procmail recipe like this :-
JUNKMAIL=/home/derek/Maildir/.junkmail/
#Run SpamAssasin
:0fw
:
| spamassassin -a -P
|
:0e
{
EXITCODE=$?
}
:0: $LOCKFILE
* ^Subject:.*\*\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\*\*
$JUNKMAIL
This recipe will pipe a mail through spamassassin. Any positive mails
will have their 'Subject' line modified, and the recipe then puts all
mails with modified subject into a spam mailbox.
Alternatively if you use Kmail, you can configure filters to run
spamassassin for you. This is explained in the spamassassin
installation notes. You may find it at
/usr/share/doc/spamassassin-2.41/INSTALL
derek
This would be fine except I have no idea what or which regular expression
to use. I have little to no programming experience. Is your next to last
line in script above the regular expression you use for filter? Thanks
for your patience
Dennis. I see from your Email header you are using Kmail. So the simple way
to get Spamassassin going is :-
1/ SettingsConfigureFilters
2/ Click on 'New Filter' button (bottom left above 'Help') Highlight the
new filter and use the 'Up' button to move it to the top of the list.
3/ Select 'Match all' , In the first row of drop down options select 'any
header', 'matches regular expression', and in the right hand box just
put '.' (without the quotes) (All mails will match this regex, so
everything gets piped through spamassassin)
4/ Set Filter Actions 'pipe through' 'spamassassin -Pa' (without quotes)
5/ Create another filter below the last one. Set
'Subject', 'contains', '***SPAM***' (without quotes)
Filter Action 'Move to Folder', 'Junkmail' where Junkmail is a mail folder
you previously created.
derek
Thanks Derek, that was exactly what I needed. Who knew that . was a regular
expression? I don't seem to get much spam from any source, maybe once a
month, but I know that sooner or later it will come. Your help is
appreciated. So much to learn, so little time. : )
--
Dennis M. linux user # 180842
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Re: [newbie] xserver??
Well I was having system problem and some one said to try using an older version of X 3.xx. But it made no difference and I pretty much narrowed my problem down to hardware. I now want to upgrade to 4.01 to take advantage of wineX. Aaron On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 18:55, Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:33 pm, Aaron wrote: I need to know how to upgrade my xserver. I am using MDK 9.0 Thanks To what? for what purpose? - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RofnwDpHP6GALAARArfrAJ9tRtRsorLG3ECOWX/D7ZMITGKlqQCfbzM3 yW2xMAcegKsBQXOpeTZq+F4= =yhig -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake9.1bwta3
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good to see people testing. On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:10 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: 1) Diskdrake failed to colour classify correctly one ext2 partition /dev/hda10 which it insisted was NTFS and it therefore colour coded it blue in accordance with diskdrake colour menu, but the partition was in fact an ext2 partition and any attemt to rectify the file system clasification threatened elimination of all data, which I certainly did not want it to do. I chose to leave it as it was. I recall a couple of bug reports coming across and this may have been fixed already. I cannot confirm though. 2) Once again it insisted on installing lilo,which I would of prefered it did not, since I have a dualboot M9.0/M9.1beta3 setup and if anything goes wrong with this beta install it messes up my M9.0 boot, and indeed this is precisely what it did as will become apparent. This has been fixed in the latest Cooker. You can now choose whether to install lilo to floppy or root partition as wel as mbr. 3) No printer configuration at all, error message: foomatic rpm not found . This has been fixed in the latest Cooker 4) The whole install programme finally came to a complete halt at any attempt to install monitor configuration,and video card drivers etc. There was no xwindows at all, as the install completely hung right at the beginning .I had to crash to get out of it. Not sure about this as it went okay here. You may want to have a look at bugzilla to se if there are any workarounds for this. I will have another attempt tonight at a fresh install, but I do wish the installer gave us an option not to install lilo at all, it makes beta testing, a likely high risk failure rate process, far less trying. Make a boot floppy for your 9.0 install and test it before you try again. Hopefully it goes smotther next time. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RpFTwDpHP6GALAARAoS9AJ4zawVvDCys38+/wFGF5h4ADwwOcwCgmc23 JAxIbTd89NcLELeIdgKJDsY= =iqFK -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder
On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:04 pm, Russ wrote: Hi All, I am trying to save different wallpaper images in a folder that everyone can get to so I do not want it in my home folders. I tried creating a folder called more in /usr/share/wallpapers/ but I cannot save any images there. Anyone wish to shed some light on the hoops I have to jump through to get this done? Thanks Russ be root to write the files to /usr/share/anyfolder, or change folder permissions. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:04 pm, Russ wrote: Hi All, I am trying to save different wallpaper images in a folder that everyone can get to so I do not want it in my home folders. I tried creating a folder called more in /usr/share/wallpapers/ but I cannot save any images there. Anyone wish to shed some light on the hoops I have to jump through to get this done? that directory probably has write access for root only. You could copy everything you want to put there into a folder in your home, and then load File Manager as root and make the move that way. K Menu = Applications = File Tools = File Manager - Super User Mode Or assuming you have all the wallpapers in a folder, change to that directory at a command line and as root type cp ./* /usr/share/wallpapers/ assuming everything is now copied where you want it, you can delete the items in your home, or leave them there as a backup for when you reinstall and they get wiped out. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RpOOwDpHP6GALAARAmyTAJ9s9NneMM4sBICaJ+3x+aZXDpU5RACdHrac AIlvOq+wlvHkQjhnCljrF8s= =Gakw -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble with Hardware
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 11:01 am, Yaakov wrote: Hello, i'm hannes and i have got some trouble running mandrake 9.0 on my system. after the installation and starting kde i tried to run several programs like kwrite, some games, etc. but everything program took a long time loading. so i was checking the hardware on the mandrake control center and what i found was the mandrake could not find certain modules for my chipset and for usb. i already read the support on the intel website but nothing i tried applied. can you help me? is it my processor? or my motherboard or even my harddrive? here are the information about my current system: P4 2,53GHz; Epox 4G4A with Intel i845G chipset; Radeon 8500; Seagate Barracuda 80GB (2x) thx for helping me It is the harddrive. The new kernel update for 9.0 (2.4.19-24mdk) patches the kernel to allow udma access with your chipset (i845). You should install it. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RpQIwDpHP6GALAARAlh6AKCRXw3vSX073g26r7iQBQo49JVIrACgmaSE Hbs/THDCQIJ3D9DSSLwes4Y= =s0t+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:49 am, Keith Powell wrote: I have downloaded and installed a program from the internet, which needs to access the soundcard. When I try to run it, I get the error message: Cannot open Audio Device /dev/sound/dsp: Device or resource busy. I have checked permissions and they are correct. Any ideas to overcome this error, please? Are you running KDE. It sounds like the kde sound server (arts) not releasing the dsp to arts unaware software. Try killing the sound server in the KDE COntrol Center and seeif that changes it. If it does, you can try setting the idle suspend to a shorter time, or leave it off completely. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RpR5wDpHP6GALAARAu/5AJ9ZFVbeWTrPkD3wQ42Da9fDloO/1ACePYCh 1CqGHLCpBOZe5mQc5h5DOyc= =sIcs -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xserver??
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 02:25 pm, Aaron wrote: Well I was having system problem and some one said to try using an older version of X 3.xx. But it made no difference and I pretty much narrowed my problem down to hardware. I now want to upgrade to 4.01 to take advantage of wineX. Aaron You really should be using 4.2.1 to take advantage of the latest hardware drivers. What is your hardware setup? - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RpUOwDpHP6GALAARAp/6AKCZrFD94iDfUe7m1q2ir0GW6UlApwCfXFym wfMSoXlWBDL3odpcFI9M4cU= =I0Zm -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.
the answer is that Adolfo uses his ISP mail serrver to route his outbound mail thru, and Greg is tring to have his mail server send it right out to the internet On Sunday 09 February 2003 11:24 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 11:17, Greg Meyer wrote: Thanks for jumping in here Civileme. Your detailed knowledge of Mandrake's systems always adds a level of understanding that can't be reproduced without your presence. It's good to see you back around. Anyway, backed to the discussion at hand. I have already checked this out with the ISP and they have told me the problem relates to the fact that I am on a virtual host. Since so many domains point to the ip address, the reverse lookup is actually the machine name doing the virtual hosting, in this case Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com. My domain, gkmweb.com, points to the numeric ip address that you looked up (64.72.132.17), which on a reverse lookup points to Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com. Sorry to jump into this thread. My domain name (bisapi.com) is hosted as a virtual domain by the server server653.gisol.com. adolfobello # host bisapi.com bisapi.com has address 64.246.18.79 adolfobello # host 64.246.18.79 79.18.246.64.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer server653.gisol.com. Mandrake list does not check that the name/ip match because it if would then my mails were rejected and they are not. As those from any other virtual domain. I think that Mandrake list checks the servername/ip no matter the domain from which the mail is sent. Something like this: 1.- [EMAIL PROTECTED] sends (smtp) to bisapi.com(64.246.18.79) impersonated by server653.gisol.com 2.- server653.gisol.com (64.246.18.79) tries to deliver mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is served by smtp.mandrake.com 3.- smtp.mandrake.com makes a reverse lookup on 64.246.18.79, gets server653.gisol.com and receives the mail form [EMAIL PROTECTED] If at point 3, the reverse lookup don't yield the name of the server that is trying to send the mail, then it rejects it. Mu question would be: is Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com (64.72.132.17) the server name trying to deliver the mail? A lookup of the server results in a no host found response. adolfobello # host Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com Host Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) In any case, these people have a problem with their DNS setup. A name in the arpa zone with no CNAME or A register associated in the direct zone. Perhaps you can tell me if they are all wet and this can be fixed with changes to the DNS entries. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RnEAwDpHP6GALAARAon7AJ9MeKI5qMMCqSaTX1vj4YWTaOOfNgCePeM8 5bT9BiCtYxbdf6iGN5n0dAo= =2XSh -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:51 pm, et wrote: the answer is that Adolfo uses his ISP mail serrver to route his outbound mail thru, and Greg is tring to have his mail server send it right out to the internet Could you clarify what you mean? - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RpdqwDpHP6GALAARAujNAJ9fr21rZxaaQwIF7agAXOMC20AOagCfbhHq MYtiu6hpJgmPx4yE/a+B7KA= =Usuw -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 13:51, et wrote: the answer is that Adolfo uses his ISP mail serrver to route his outbound mail thru, and Greg is tring to have his mail server send it right out to the internet No, it is not that way. They are sending their mails through their hosting service smtp server. The hosting service has a DNS misconfiguration. SMTP helo command is given by the right server but reverse lookup returns a non DNS qualified machine. I had the problem that you mentioned trying to use sendmail, but now I route my mails through my hosting service SMTP server. -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //cel: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager: www.tun-tun.com (# 609-6213) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spamassassin Mail to a folder
SNIP Thanks Derek, that was exactly what I needed. Who knew that . was a regular expression? I don't seem to get much spam from any source, maybe once a month, but I know that sooner or later it will come. Your help is appreciated. So much to learn, so little time. : ) 1 a month! I get about 50 a day! I have obviously been too careless with my email address :-( With spamassassin in place that comes down to about 1 spam every 2 weeks, and zero false positives. BTW: Spamassin can be tuned to add more tests, (some tests are disabled by default because they are chargable for non personal use), to set the spam points threshold, or to tune the points of individual tests. This is what I use as my ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs required_hits 6 #default is 5 whitelist_from *.mandrakeclub.com blacklist_from *.amazingwebspecials.com #these guys make their spam #look innocent score RCVD_IN_RBL 10 score RCVD_IN_RSS 1 score RCVD_IN_DUL 1 score RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET4 score FROM_AND_TO_SAME_1 5 If spamassassin was installed from the Mandrake RPM from Contrib, then the default scoring is rather strange. (For example mails sent with Kmail are considered as 'spammish' ) I always replace the /usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf file with the one from the spamassassin tarball at http://www.spamassassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.41.tar.gz Have fun derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xserver??
I have a dual processor pentium III 550MHz with 128 meg ram, A Matrox G400 dual head. I have had lots of problems so far with system lock ups this has been connected with pro audio applications. I was told that it could be my mother board and when I I searched for info on system lockups and my Tyan thunderbolt I saw there were problems. I would like to speed up my system (and do some audio work) and let my kids play a few games Aaron On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 19:51, Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 02:25 pm, Aaron wrote: Well I was having system problem and some one said to try using an older version of X 3.xx. But it made no difference and I pretty much narrowed my problem down to hardware. I now want to upgrade to 4.01 to take advantage of wineX. Aaron You really should be using 4.2.1 to take advantage of the latest hardware drivers. What is your hardware setup? - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RpUOwDpHP6GALAARAp/6AKCZrFD94iDfUe7m1q2ir0GW6UlApwCfXFym wfMSoXlWBDL3odpcFI9M4cU= =I0Zm -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kmail 1.5
On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:20 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: I upgraded to kde3.1 and have found one minor, but annoying glitch. In kmail, the folder list is visible, but the folder names are not. The number of unread messages in each folder is legibe (in bold black text, or a - if there are no unread messages, both on a white background. The folder names might as well be white text on a white background. The list of messages is normal as are the message bodies, just the folder list is affected. I haven't found any other kde3.1 text that is white on white (or black on black for that matter). Does anyone know what the problem is or how to fix? TIA I have not had that problem at all. My Kmail upgrade left me with screwed up folders, and a new (an in my mind useless) window. You can fix the fonts in Settings/configure/appearance/fonts/use custom fonts/folder list. I assume that you may have a system setting for white text that is being imported and used by kmail, so I would turn on custom text and change the features on Folder List. The useless window can be shut off at settings/configure/appearance/layout, and check show mime tree never. The extra folder column on total can be shut off by right clicking on the folder header, and unselecting total column. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Making software raid filesystems
On Sunday 09 February 2003 04:23 am, Brian Parish wrote: Hmmm. When diskdrake runs during an install, I can create partitions of type linux raid (I think that was it) and then add them to a raid set. Now on a working 9.0 system, when I run diskdrake I only get a small subset of the options offered during install. Linux raid ain't one of 'em. Is this a feature to stop me doing something stupid, or am I missing something? TIA Brian Well, if you have two disks and space on each and you TOGGLE TO EXPERT MODE, your options should appear. http://www.geocities.com/civileme/raiddoc.html The screenshots there were made with DiskDrake Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SBC Yahoo DSL Problem
- Original Message - From: Scott Thayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 8:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] SBC Yahoo DSL Problem I have been running SBC DSL on Mandrake for a couple of years, although I can't speak to what effect the recent upgrade to yahoo-DSL may have. (For once I'm planning not to fix something that isn't broken.) I have had very good luck w/ Roaring Penguin's RP-PPPoE with and without the gui. The rpms are on the distro. The distro uses rp-pppoe to install adsl pppoe networking, but I have always had better luck explicitly installing it. Once installed, execute tkpppoe (or adsl-setup from CLI) as root and it will walk you through setting up your ADSL connection. Since you're installing from the mdk rpms, it will even show up on the Mandrake 9.0 menu under Networking Remote Acess. HTH, Scott Thanks Scott, Robert, and Tom, You guys are the greatest! I managed to get SBC DSL running because of the info you provided. I realized that I made a mistake during the Mandrake install. It recommended using Ethernet for the DSL setup, which worked on my previous DSL provider, but the ADSL was the one to choose. It automatically set up the PPOE software and now I am connected! Thanks a million! Mick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.
On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:01 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:51 pm, et wrote: the answer is that Adolfo uses his ISP mail serrver to route his outbound mail thru, and Greg is tring to have his mail server send it right out to the internet Could you clarify what you mean? I think Adolfo corrected me, I was under the impression you had a miss-configured sendmail or whatever MTA. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RpdqwDpHP6GALAARAujNAJ9fr21rZxaaQwIF7agAXOMC20AOagCfbhHq MYtiu6hpJgmPx4yE/a+B7KA= =Usuw -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How long to download 9.0
I get about 500 to 550 MB's/hour from decent sites with a 1.5Megabit adsl line (~150K/sec). DSL connections also vary quite a bit, from half my speed to almost twice as fast. The mirror you use, My DSL is 384k-1.5 megabyte variable, nat fixed. All that's guaranteed is the 384k and I don't think I've ever seen the line drop below that, but as you say, the speed is highly variable. I've had good results from Netherlands mirrors, of all places (nluug.nl) and it's my primary source for cooker stuff. olf's site in CA (the penguin liberation front) though is very slow - a couple of K per second. By comparison, nluug is roughly 150k or more per second. Last time I downloaded 9.0 CD images I think it took maybe 3-4 hours or so per CD. BTW, I don't have a burner - I botched my first install of 9.0, so someone was kind enough to burn a 0.0 CD. However you need disk 2 and 3, so I got them as ISOs and have them loopback mounted for file access. As far as the spped of various hosts go, I suppose one can write a script that does the comparisons, and then picks the fastest mirror. I got a script that's designed for CVS mirrors, specifically for KDE, but it could I suppose be tailored for cooker and/or Mandrake mirrors. I recently d/l weren't on the mirror yet, so I had to get 'em one at a time as they appeared. Worst way is to use a browser to d/l. I do nearly all my downloading via ncftp. I've also used cvs and rsync in the past. Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound problem
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 4:46 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:49 pm, Keith Powell wrote: I have downloaded and installed a program from the internet, which needs to access the soundcard. When I try to run it, I get the error message: Cannot open Audio Device /dev/sound/dsp: Device or resource busy. I have checked permissions and they are correct. Any ideas to overcome this error, please? You could try setting it to use /dev/dsp or /dev/dsp1 If there is no configuration option available try creating a symlink ln -s /dev/dsp /dev/sound/dsp derek Hello Derek. Thank you for the suggestions, but unfortunately none of them work. In fact, things have got more complicated. There is no config file for the program. The configuration is set up from the program when it is running. The error box which shows the device (/dev/sound/dsp), appears to have the facility to change the device by typing in a different one. I have altered it to /dev/dsp, but pressing the OK button still gives the same error. However, on restarting the program, the original device is shown again. There is no dsp1, only /dev/dsp and /dev/sound/dsp. Should there be a dsp1? When I create the symlink, it says that the file /dev/sound/dsp already exists. So, I uninstalled the program and reinstalled it. Now, I get the error message: inexact sampling rate: request for 8000 resulted in 48000Cannot open audio device /dev/sound/dsp: Invalid argument BUT! I have just installed the program into SuSE (which I rarely use these days, preferring Mandrake). It runs perfectly, with no error messages about not opening /dev/sound/dsp or the sampling rate. The plot thickens! Sorry your suggestions did not work. -- Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Making software raid filesystems
Oops. This was meant to go to the list. On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 06:44, civileme wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 04:23 am, Brian Parish wrote: Hmmm. When diskdrake runs during an install, I can create partitions of type linux raid (I think that was it) and then add them to a raid set. Now on a working 9.0 system, when I run diskdrake I only get a small subset of the options offered during install. Linux raid ain't one of 'em. Is this a feature to stop me doing something stupid, or am I missing something? TIA Brian Well, if you have two disks and space on each and you TOGGLE TO EXPERT MODE, your options should appear. http://www.geocities.com/civileme/raiddoc.html The screenshots there were made with DiskDrake Civileme Thanks Civileme, Robert and Greg, I must have clicked that button a hundred times, but not for this instance. I note in Civileme's how-to: If the reader is wondering why no screenshots of the setting of mount points and file types, DiskDrake as part of Mandrake Control Center on a running system balks at this point, bringing down X and making the system go into a huddle that can be met only with Alt-sysrq-r, alt-sysrq-s, alt-sysrq-b. RAID must really be defined at install time. Just to clarify: I have a running system, but with two disks in addition to that holding /, /usr, /home, /var and /tmp. These can be completely repartitioned when setting up raid - in this case just a RAID1 mirror of the complete disks. Is diskdrake going to choke in this circumstance? That machine is on another site, so I can't play with it for the moment. If it's going to screw up, then I better start reading about how to do it with the CLI. thanks again Brian -- Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder
be root to write the files to /usr/share/anyfolder, or change folder=20 permissions. A possibly better way would be to symbolically link a directory to /home/whereever/wallpapers. That way the other users can read (but not alter, presumably) the contents of your wallpaper directory. However, if /usr or /usr/lpcal/ is on another partition, you're probably screwed, as symbolic links can't be created across partitions, and apparently hard links for directories can't be created. So you're basically screwed, I guess. A pity, because ideally one would give other people accessibility to the common area without having to dig into your personal home directory, without having to keep updating the public directory with private contents. (private in the sense that they're in a private directory, i.e., your home directory.) I suggest /usr/local/share/wallpapers though - slight nitpick, as /usr/share is part of the distribution, and you don't want your stuff lost when you do an upgrade. Of course, with a symlink, removing a link doesn't remove the data, only a path to it. And of course, you could always keep the wallpaper in the public directory - that's probably the fail-safe position. In other words, punt. :) And it need not be root-owned - the permissions could be set up like /tmp (i.e, anywone can write there but one user can't delete the other user's files). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound problem
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:48 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:49 am, Keith Powell wrote: I have downloaded and installed a program from the internet, which needs to access the soundcard. When I try to run it, I get the error message: Cannot open Audio Device /dev/sound/dsp: Device or resource busy. I have checked permissions and they are correct. Any ideas to overcome this error, please? Are you running KDE. It sounds like the kde sound server (arts) not releasing the dsp to arts unaware software. Try killing the sound server in the KDE Control Center and see if that changes it. If it does, you can try setting the idle suspend to a shorter time, or leave it off completely. - -- Greg Thanks for the suggestions, Greg. Sorry, but they don't work. I deselected arts, rebooted and tried starting the program in KDE, Gnome, IceWM and Failsafe. Always the same error messages. In my reply to Derek, I mentioned that the program ran in SuSE. I was running KDE with arts active. I have just got rid of the sampling rate error, by reselecting arts and setting the use custom sampling rate to 4800 in the soundserver section of the KDE Control Center. It's just the dsp device now to crack. I wonder if I should set use custom device to /dev/sound/dsp or /dev/dsp? I'll try it tomorrow. -- Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 8.1 update wrecked my system.
Recently, my monitor died and the process of finding a suitable replacement led to a series of new problems. Someone at Mandrake told me that I really needed to update my 8.1 system (which had been working just fine), and the process of installing the updates royally messed everything up. Now, when I try to boot up with Linux or Win4Lin, after the system goes through all the usual start-up processes, a shell login appears on the screen for less than second and then the screen goes black and there is nothing I can do except hit reset on the box. If I boot up with either Linux-nonfb or failsafe, the computer starts up fine and everything works fine, except I cannot start up Win4Lin. I have been trying for more than two weeks to solve this problem, without any progress. I am willing to pay a reasonable fee for a satisfactory solution, but feel that the Mandrake 8.1 updates are responsible for my problems and it irks me to have to pay for a solution that Mandrake caused. My system worked just fine before doing the Mandrake updates. Since I am not currently subscribed to receive all the newbie mailing list mail, please respond directly to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Joe Lowder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mesa, Arizona Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 05:18 pm, David E. Fox wrote: as symbolic links can't be created across partitions, Minor correction. symlinks can be made across partitions, hardlinks cannot. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RtYuwDpHP6GALAARAvtbAJ99iXsw6Z194gmb/vwjpF/KLtu38ACfQE3u 0LC1rxl4mNGID6PFLZ3pzN4= =uTYk -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ADSL Modem/Router
I have a customer that has a Dynalink ALE070 ADSL USB modem; has ANYONE either experienced this animal - either in getting it to work or not? (Feels nice to ask y'all a question for a change, ya reckon?) -- Mon, 10 Feb 2003 09:40:00 +1100 9:40am up 3 days, 1:58, 4 users, load average: 0.10, 0.12, 0.17 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle. -- G.K. Chesterton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Java...
On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:59 pm, wrnash wrote: For mandrake 9.0 you can do the following After install of the bin you will need to link it to the java bin ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin/java /usr/bin/java Change j2re1.4.1_01 to what java you have installed. You can also just move the files over to the /usr/bin/java directory, as they are installed in a block, in what ever directory they get put. Or you can just add the new java directory to your path. -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Java...
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 10:20, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:59 pm, wrnash wrote: For mandrake 9.0 you can do the following After install of the bin you will need to link it to the java bin ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin/java /usr/bin/java Change j2re1.4.1_01 to what java you have installed. You can also just move the files over to the /usr/bin/java directory, as they are installed in a block, in what ever directory they get put. Or you can just add the new java directory to your path. Or you could do it the way it is done by default in 9.0, with the /etc/alternatives system... As root do: update-alternatives --display java you should get something like the following output: java - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/lib/kaffe/bin/java /usr/lib/kaffe/bin/java - priority 30 to add the new java to the alternatives system do (as root): update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin/java 40 The above is one line. Then 'update-alternatives --display java' should give the following output: java - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin/java /usr/lib/kaffe/bin/java - priority 30 /usr/lib/j2re1.4.1_01/bin/java - priority 40 man update-alternative will give you the inside scoop. Hope this helps Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xserver??
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Aaron wrote: I have a dual processor pentium III 550MHz with 128 meg ram, A Matrox G400 dual head. I have had lots of problems so far with system lock ups this has been connected with pro audio applications. I was told that it could be my mother board and when I I searched for info on system lockups and my Tyan thunderbolt I saw there were problems. I would like to speed up my system (and do some audio work) and let my kids play a few games Aaron Aaron, All that should be necessary for you to upgrade from XFree86 3.3.x to 4.x.x is to open MCC and redefine your monitor, screens, color depth and so on as you did when you first installed Mandrake. That should take care of things. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder
Okay, I created this folder in my directory file:/home/russ/wallpaper. Now how to I create a symbolic link to it from say file:/usr/share/wallpapers which is where all the others are. Thanks Russ On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 14:18, David E. Fox wrote: A possibly better way would be to symbolically link a directory to /home/whereever/wallpapers. That way the other users can read (but not alter, presumably) the contents of your wallpaper directory. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Boot disk (floppy)
Where do I go to make a boot disk for this configuration in case something goes haywire? Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot disk (floppy)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 08:35 pm, Russ wrote: Where do I go to make a boot disk for this configuration in case something goes haywire? Mandrake Control Center = boot = bootdisk - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RwNnwDpHP6GALAARAnM6AJ9c+H4LZr5m/CdgpK4bQuCIHEdxSwCgibV5 qaiLlRxN+whY9KbienOdiyo= =ebiB -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 08:29 pm, Russ wrote: Okay, I created this folder in my directory file:/home/russ/wallpaper. Now how to I create a symbolic link to it from say file:/usr/share/wallpapers which is where all the others are. use ln -s target linkname so by example, if your wallpapers are in /home/russ/wallpaper and you want a link to that directory in /usr/share/wallpapers called russpaper ln -s /home/russ/wallpaper /usr/share/wallpapers/russpaper You'll get an entry called russpaper in /usr/share/wallpapers/ that if you click on it in your file manager, or cd to it from the command line, you will be magically transported to /home/russ/wallpaper. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RwRTwDpHP6GALAARAkoRAJ9quT7Se4wZ0qXzmmOF3HQcB3wKzwCeP3Na 2zrUKfCQIP1ttv+8zdcCpmY= =PcMU -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kmail 1.5
On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:48 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:20 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: I upgraded to kde3.1 and have found one minor, but annoying glitch. In kmail, the folder list is visible, but the folder names are not. The number of unread messages in each folder is legibe (in bold black text, or a - if there are no unread messages, both on a white background. The folder names might as well be white text on a white background. The list of messages is normal as are the message bodies, just the folder list is affected. I haven't found any other kde3.1 text that is white on white (or black on black for that matter). Does anyone know what the problem is or how to fix? TIA I have not had that problem at all. My Kmail upgrade left me with screwed up folders, and a new (an in my mind useless) window. You can fix the fonts in Settings/configure/appearance/fonts/use custom fonts/folder list. I assume that you may have a system setting for white text that is being imported and used by kmail, so I would turn on custom text and change the features on Folder List. The useless window can be shut off at settings/configure/appearance/layout, and check show mime tree never. The extra folder column on total can be shut off by right clicking on the folder header, and unselecting total column. Rob Have you made sure that the name column is wide enough? I had to stretch mine out a bit to see the folder names, they were offset to the right more than in the old Kmail. So I clicked and held the left click button down with the mouse arrow on the divider and stretched it to the right and the folder names came out from hiding. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kmail 1.5
Batta bing! Just as your e-mail came through I noticed the same thing and fixed the problem. Paul On Monday 10 February 2003 02:18 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:48 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:20 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: I upgraded to kde3.1 and have found one minor, but annoying glitch. In kmail, the folder list is visible, but the folder names are not. The number of unread messages in each folder is legibe (in bold black text, or a - if there are no unread messages, both on a white background. The folder names might as well be white text on a white background. The list of messages is normal as are the message bodies, just the folder list is affected. I haven't found any other kde3.1 text that is white on white (or black on black for that matter). Does anyone know what the problem is or how to fix? TIA I have not had that problem at all. My Kmail upgrade left me with screwed up folders, and a new (an in my mind useless) window. You can fix the fonts in Settings/configure/appearance/fonts/use custom fonts/folder list. I assume that you may have a system setting for white text that is being imported and used by kmail, so I would turn on custom text and change the features on Folder List. The useless window can be shut off at settings/configure/appearance/layout, and check show mime tree never. The extra folder column on total can be shut off by right clicking on the folder header, and unselecting total column. Rob Have you made sure that the name column is wide enough? I had to stretch mine out a bit to see the folder names, they were offset to the right more than in the old Kmail. So I clicked and held the left click button down with the mouse arrow on the divider and stretched it to the right and the folder names came out from hiding. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot disk (floppy)
On Sunday 09 February 2003 05:41 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 08:35 pm, Russ wrote: Where do I go to make a boot disk for this configuration in case something goes haywire? Mandrake Control Center = boot = bootdisk I have to say that I did not get a bootable bootdisk from there. I was lucky however to have the other boot levels in LILO. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder
Hi Greg, Did it and it worked great (after I logged into the console as su). Isn't there a way to do this in KDE or Gnome? Thanks Russ On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 17:45, Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 08:29 pm, Russ wrote: Okay, I created this folder in my directory file:/home/russ/wallpaper. Now how to I create a symbolic link to it from say file:/usr/share/wallpapers which is where all the others are. use ln -s target linkname so by example, if your wallpapers are in /home/russ/wallpaper and you want a link to that directory in /usr/share/wallpapers called russpaper ln -s /home/russ/wallpaper /usr/share/wallpapers/russpaper You'll get an entry called russpaper in /usr/share/wallpapers/ that if you click on it in your file manager, or cd to it from the command line, you will be magically transported to /home/russ/wallpaper. - -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 on Intel Hardware
Actually, I think it would run on this toaster just fine: http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/toasterpc/ ;-) R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marc Oestreicher Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 on Intel Hardware -snip- anything with 64 MB or more of ram and a large enough hard drive for all the options that you want to install. Well anything with in reason don't try to run it on a toaster or can opener. Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Some SAMBA Questions
Hi, I've kind of got Samba working and I've got a couple of questions before I go further. My network is 3 computers: - Windows ME with my HP DeskJet 694C printer - Windows XP on a laptop - Mandrake Linux 9.0 The two Windows machines see each other fine, sharing hard drives and the one printer. The two Windows machines can see the Linux box as a Windows machine with Samba running. The Windows XP machine is capable of logging and mapping a drive to a share based on username. When I connect from the XP machine I get a username/password prompt. When I attempt to connect from the WinME machine, I get a different prompt - no username field. It just says \\servername\IPC$ and a password box. Isn't there someplace where I can set the default user or something, within Samba? If not, how do I get the WinME machine to login to the Linux box, in other words, what username is it requesting? Once I get this working, I'm assuming I'll need to setup CUPS on the Linux machine so it can print back to the Windows ME machine, correct? Thanks in advance! Regards, Marlo Montanaro CNE Registered Linux User 303184 There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] File Management
Hi All, I have been trying to learn how Linux's file system works and what goes where. I am gaining ground. Here is my pet peeve though. When navigating the various files and folders, you do not know which actual partition it is on. In windows explorer it separates the drives and shows you what is on each. I hate to say it (especially here) but I like how windows explorer works. The left column gives you a list of all drives, floppies, CD's and what not. Makes it easy to navigate your file system. Is there a file manager for Linux that does this as well? This would help me keep all these things straight. Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] File Management
You are too used to Winblowz. Stay on Linux/UNIX for another year and you will totally disagree with your current self. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Russ Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 9:56 PM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] File Management Hi All, I have been trying to learn how Linux's file system works and what goes where. I am gaining ground. Here is my pet peeve though. When navigating the various files and folders, you do not know which actual partition it is on. In windows explorer it separates the drives and shows you what is on each. I hate to say it (especially here) but I like how windows explorer works. The left column gives you a list of all drives, floppies, CD's and what not. Makes it easy to navigate your file system. Is there a file manager for Linux that does this as well? This would help me keep all these things straight. Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File Management
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 14:56, Russ wrote: Hi All, I have been trying to learn how Linux's file system works and what goes where. I am gaining ground. Here is my pet peeve though. When navigating the various files and folders, you do not know which actual partition it is on. In windows explorer it separates the drives and shows you what is on each. I hate to say it (especially here) but I like how windows explorer works. The left column gives you a list of all drives, floppies, CD's and what not. Makes it easy to navigate your file system. Is there a file manager for Linux that does this as well? This would help me keep all these things straight. Thanks Russ This is the nature of the *nix file system structure. Every partition and/or drive is mounted as part of the file system. This allows you to have many drives, but a single file structure. To my knowledge, there are heaps and heaps of different file managers, but nothing that will ever show anything like a drive. If you've done a default installation side-by-side with a Windows installation, you will find your Windows partition under /mnt/ The true beauty of the file system was designed from the beginning (more than 30 years ago) to be able to have a single file system. If you open up a console window, you can type: sfdisk --list ...to get a listing of the partitions You can type: mount ...to view the drive mountings. If you're in KDE, you can type kwikdisk ...to show how drives are mounted and allow you to mount/unmount from your system tray. Remember that you're going to have to rethink/relearn how the file system works. In the reality of it, the MSDOS manner of drive labelling is actually more clunky and less logical...only 26 drives? H...strange...(grin) Peace! -- Mon, 10 Feb 2003 14:55:00 +1100 2:55pm up 3 days, 7:13, 5 users, load average: 0.02, 0.15, 0.21 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Nothing I do is my fault. -- Calvin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot disk (floppy)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:11 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I have to say that I did not get a bootable bootdisk from there. I was lucky however to have the other boot levels in LILO. Anytime I created a boot floppy here it was because the floppy disk turned out to be defective, not because the utility was defective. Anyway, it is always a good idea to test it before you rely on it. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RyrawDpHP6GALAARAsLDAJ99TzloFq/e5ZHlPdIlbH71KQAC9wCeKYFt xxaz5GzTi5YMqgZXSz0SdAU= =vpl2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:46 pm, Russ wrote: Isn't there a way to do this in KDE or Gnome? I think when you drag a file to a new location in Konqueror and release, it will ask you if you want to move, copy or create a link in the new location. The problem is you have to load Konq as root user to do what you wanted to do in the directory you wanted to do it in. There is a menu entry in the KDE menu to load the file manager in super user mode to be able to do this. I think it is Kmenu = applications = file tools = file manager SU mode. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Ryw7wDpHP6GALAARAvHAAJ0U1NJSm5QPR0ibPqK6wK9gs+FlYwCePzAB KsRKz6UBZxSo13+7iCyWUh8= =Q05k -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File Management
Hi All, I have been trying to learn how Linux's file system works and what goes where. I am gaining ground. Here is my pet peeve though. When navigating the various files and folders, you do not know which actual partition it is on. In windows explorer it separates the drives and shows you what is on each. I hate to say it (especially here) but I like how windows explorer works. The left column gives you a list of all drives, floppies, CD's and what not. Makes it easy to navigate your file system. Is there a file manager for Linux that does this as well? This would help me keep all these things straight. Thanks Russ If you open up a terminal (like konsole or xterm) and type df you will see each partition, with information about it's free space and where is it mounted on. I felt a bit lost too at first, but as you gain more experience, you'll notice that Linux's way of handling devices and partitions is much more logical and flexible than Windows'. The reason you cannot see each drive separately is because Linux does not build it's structure on drives or partitions. It has one tree. One structure. And you can add partitions to any branch of it, giving you a whole lot of control of where stuff goes. If you REALLY need to manage your files in a partition-oriented way, you can open up konqueror. You'll have the tree view of all the directories, and on the right side, the main pane with the view of the current dir. Now, between the tree view and the right pane (depending on you konqueror version, you can have it at the left of the treeview too) you will see a small column of buttons. click on the one at the bottom. The treeview will dissapear and a new one with device-oriented structure will appear, much like explorer's. But, i must say this: You will not regret it once you get familiar with Linux and the way it does things. On the other hand, you might regret it if you try to make Linux behave like Windows as you will find that Linux is not a better Windows than Windows. It is different. HTH Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Complete newbie, trouble trying to install mandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4
Dan, I ordered the disks from cheapbytes and they work fine on my iMac. As I recall, you need a mac boot partition to begin with (I made mine as small as possible) and then you start the install program from your MacOS (8.2 in my case). I didn't keep ML 8.2 on my iMac, however, because I never got the nvida(sp?) driver problem solved. I may try to make the iMac a web server but that project can wait for another day. R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kaj Haulrich Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 11:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Complete newbie, trouble trying to install mandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4 On Saturday 08 February 2003 05:28 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Dan, I think it will be cheaper for you to order from here http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/index.php?PAGE=2 although it's giving up on burning. All my coasters are excellent for my daughters rifle-practice at 300 meters. Kaj Haulrich. Sorry, Dan. I see you live in Canada, try here : http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart/0070010812.html HTH Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File Management
On 09 Feb 2003 19:56:05 -0800 Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have been trying to learn how Linux's file system works and what goes where. I am gaining ground. Here is my pet peeve though. When navigating the various files and folders, you do not know which actual partition it is on. In windows explorer it separates the drives and shows you what is on each. I hate to say it (especially here) but I like how windows explorer works. The left column gives you a list of all drives, floppies, CD's and what not. Makes it easy to navigate your file system. Is there a file manager for Linux that does this as well? This would help me keep all these things straight. Thanks Russ For normal operation, why do you need to know what partition stuff is on? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
