[newbie] Any XyMTeX users out there?
Hi, all the listers. I wish to use the XyMTeX package to type chemical structures, but am having difficulties. 1) The source file has the extension .lzh, which I've never seen. How do I unpack and install it? 2) I'm a plain TeX user, whereas XyMTeX is said to be called within LaTeX files. Is it possible (maybe with slight modifications) to use xymtex also within files written in plain TeX format? On the XyMTeX official website I couldn't find any help, neither a mailing list or email address where to ask for help. Is there any XyMTeX user out there who can possibly provide a hint? Thanks, Rodolfo Navighi a 2 MEGA e i primi 3 mesi sono GRATIS. Scegli Libero Adsl Flat senza limiti su http://www.libero.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to save a selected part of a picture
Am Samstag, den 26.03.2005, 10:03 +1100 schrieb John Layt: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 07:09, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a (simple) program to save a selected part of a picture. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Paul There's always the Gimp, but for something easier try KolourPaint. John. einfaches Textdokument-Anlage (message.footer) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Gimp usage is not very inuitive, therefore some hints: Use the cut tool, either by selecting it in the main window (the knife icon) or by just typing Sift-C. Arrange the selected area as you need. Then click within the selected area to do the cut. Save the image, or better save as Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problem with openssl installation
Hi, listers: in order to install w3m in my system (Mandrake 10.1 Community) I'm trying to install the package openssl-0.9.7e.tar.gz, with: $ ./config $ make $ make test $ make install as suggested in the install file, but during the '$ make' step the following message went on appearing: `-mcpu=' is deprecated. Use `-mtune=' or '-march=' instead. What is it? Can anyone suggest how to fix that? Thanks, Rodolfo 6X velocizzare la tua navigazione a 56k? 6X Web Accelerator di Libero! Scaricalo su INTERNET GRATIS 6X http://www.libero.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to install Xaw3d?
Rodolfo Medina wrote: From: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/Xaw3d/R6.3/ I downloaded the package Xaw3d-1.5.tar.gz but have problems with its installation (I have Mandrake 10.1 Community). Can anyone provide help? In the README.XAW3D file contained in the distribution the following steps are prescribed: $ gunzip -c Xaw3d-1.5.tar.gz | tar xpf - $ cd xc/lib/Xaw3d $ ../../config/imake/imake -I../../config/cf -DTOPDIR=../.. -DCURRENTDIR=lib/Xaw3d $ make includes $ make depend $ make # make install . But when I do $ ../../config/imake/imake -I../../config/cf -DTOPDIR=../.. -DCURRENTDIR=lib/Xaw3d I get the error message: bash: ../../config/imake/imake: No such file or directory . Any suggestion? Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I would run urpmi libXaw3d7 and use the pre-build Mandrake package. But if you realy want to compile it yourself, start by installing the libxorg-x11-devel package. It contains imake, along with other things you will need. Then you will need to see what other development packages you need to build the Xaw3d libraries... Rodolfo: Mandrake answers me: `Everything already installed' in both cases, i.e. when I say `# urpmi libXaw3d7' and also whan I say `# urpmilibxorg-x11-devel'. But the trouble is, that when I build Emacs CVS it doesn't detect the presence of Xaw3d in my system (that's why I tried to install it manually): in fact, when I run `$ ./configure' from Emacs CVS source dir, the following output appears: Does Emacs use -lXaw3d? no Does Emacs use -lXpm? yes Does Emacs use -ljpeg? yes Does Emacs use -ltiff? yes Does Emacs use -lungif? yes Does Emacs use -lpng? yes Does Emacs use X toolkit scroll bars? no . I had to install manually also jpeg, tiff, gif and png in order to get those 'yes'. Any other suggestion? Mikkel: Run urpmi libXaw3d7-devel, urpmi libtiff3-devel, and so forth for all the packages you need. The libraries are probably already installed, but you need the development packages that go with them if you want to compile your own programs that use them. Unfortunately: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rodolfo]# urpmi libXaw3d7-devel no package named libXaw3d7-devel Mikkel: If you realy want to compile it yourself, you can probable run imake -I../../config/cf -DTOPDIR=../.. -DCURRENTDIR=lib/Xaw3d instead of ../../config/imake/imake -I../../config/cf -DTOPDIR=../.. -DCURRENTDIR=lib/Xaw3d Unfortunately: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Xaw3d]$ imake -I../../config/cf -DTOPDIR=../.. -DCURRENTDIR=lib/Xaw3d Imakefile.c:35: Imake.tmpl: No such file or directory imake: Exit code 1. Stop. . In the README.XAW3D file contained in the Xaw3d-1.5.tar.gz package, it is written: Notes on Building Xaw3d Outside an X Source Tree: The source is intended to be built inside an R6.[134] source tree. You can use an X Consortium source tree (R6.1, R6.3), an X Project Team source tree (R6.4), or any XFree86 source tree that corresponds to one of the X Consortium or X Project Team source trees. You might be able to build it outside the source tree, but if you try, (pay attention here) YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN. Don't send me email about it. Don't send me email telling me you ...know you're on your own, but... It's hard enough to find time to put out these releases, I don't have time for handholding if you choose to disregard this advice. If you don't have a source tree, for whatever reason, plan on using binaries built by someone else. I'm sorry, that's just the way it has to be. Some people have written to me and told me that if you add the following line to the Imakefile: EXTRA_INCLUDES=-I. then you can build it anywhere you want, i.e. outside the R6 source tree. If this works for you, great. If not, see above. To simplify things a bit I've already added this line to the Imakefile. Just uncomment it (by deleting the '#' at the beginning of the line. [...] Building: Untar the distribution from the base of your X Consortium or XFree86 source tree with the command: `gunzip -c Xaw3d-1.5.tar.gz | tar xpf -` or (if your system's tar supports the 'z' option) `tar xzpf Xaw3d-1.5.tar.gz` (PAY ATTENTION HERE: If you don't know where the base of your source tree is, don't send me email asking -- I don't know where you put it. If you don't know, my guess is that you don't have one.) This will create the directory .../xc/lib/Xaw3d. 'cd' there and enter the following commands: `../../config/imake/imake -I../../config/cf -DTOPDIR=../.. -DCURRENTDIR=lib/Xaw3d` `make includes; make depend; make; make install` . I'm no linux expert and don't know what the author Kaleb S. KEITHLEY means
Re: [newbie] How to install Xaw3d?
Rodolfo Medina wrote: From: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/Xaw3d/R6.3/ I downloaded the package Xaw3d-1.5.tar.gz but have problems with its installation (I have Mandrake 10.1 Community). Can anyone provide help? when I build Emacs CVS it doesn't detect the presence of Xaw3d in my system: in fact, when I run `$ ./configure' from Emacs CVS source dir, the following output appears: Does Emacs use -lXaw3d? no Does Emacs use -lXpm? yes Does Emacs use -ljpeg? yes Does Emacs use -ltiff? yes Does Emacs use -lungif? yes Does Emacs use -lpng? yes Does Emacs use X toolkit scroll bars? no Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rodolfo, You should realy find the development package for the Xaw3d library. To compile the package yourself, you will need to install a LOT more source. Basicly, you need the X source. You also need more help then I can give you to do it that way. While it would be a good learning experence, it probably isn't one you are ready for yet. (I am not sure I am ready for it, and I have a fair amount of experence building from source.) O.k., Mikkel, you convinced me (however I don't dislike learning to compile packages from source, in fact in future I'm thinking of getting into Linux From Scratch). From http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/10.1/i586/media/main/libXaw3d7-devel-1.5-13mdk.i586.html I downloaded libXaw3d7-devel-1.5-13mdk.i586.rpm, copied into ~/tmp and there did: # rpm -i libXaw3d7-devel-1.5-13mdk.i586.rpm . Now, when I run `$ ./configure' from Emacs CVS source dir, there are all `yes': Does Emacs use -lXaw3d? yes Does Emacs use -lXpm? yes Does Emacs use -ljpeg? yes Does Emacs use -ltiff? yes Does Emacs use -lungif? yes Does Emacs use -lpng? yes Does Emacs use X toolkit scroll bars? yes . Your help was important as usual. Thanks. Rodolfo P.S.: What do you think about Linux from Scratch? Navighi a 2 MEGA e i primi 3 mesi sono GRATIS. Scegli Libero Adsl Flat senza limiti su http://www.libero.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] How to install Xaw3d?
Hi, all the listers. From: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/Xaw3d/R6.3/ I downloaded the package Xaw3d-1.5.tar.gz but have problems with its installation (I have Mandrake 10.1 Community). Can anyone provide help? In the README.XAW3D file contained in the distribution the following steps are prescribed: $ gunzip -c Xaw3d-1.5.tar.gz | tar xpf - $ cd xc/lib/Xaw3d $ ../../config/imake/imake -I../../config/cf -DTOPDIR=../.. -DCURRENTDIR=lib/Xaw3d $ make includes $ make depend $ make $ make install . But when I do $ ../../config/imake/imake -I../../config/cf -DTOPDIR=../.. -DCURRENTDIR=lib/Xaw3d I get the error message: bash: ../../config/imake/imake: No such file or directory . Any suggestion? Thanks, Rodolfo 6X velocizzare la tua navigazione a 56k? 6X Web Accelerator di Libero! Scaricalo su INTERNET GRATIS 6X http://www.libero.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to install Xaw3d?
Rodolfo Medina wrote: From: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/Xaw3d/R6.3/ I downloaded the package Xaw3d-1.5.tar.gz but have problems with its installation (I have Mandrake 10.1 Community). Can anyone provide help? In the README.XAW3D file contained in the distribution the following steps are prescribed: $ gunzip -c Xaw3d-1.5.tar.gz | tar xpf - $ cd xc/lib/Xaw3d $ ../../config/imake/imake -I../../config/cf -DTOPDIR=../.. -DCURRENTDIR=lib/Xaw3d $ make includes $ make depend $ make $ make install . But when I do $ ../../config/imake/imake -I../../config/cf -DTOPDIR=../.. -DCURRENTDIR=lib/Xaw3d I get the error message: bash: ../../config/imake/imake: No such file or directory . Any suggestion? Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I would run urpmi libXaw3d7 and use the pre-build Mandrake package. But if you realy want to compile it yourself, start by installing the libxorg-x11-devel package. It contains imake, along with other things you will need. Then you will need to see what other development packages you need to build the Xaw3d libraries... Thanks. Mandrake answers me: `Everything already installed' in both cases, i.e. when I say `# urpmi libXaw3d7' and also whan I say `# urpmilibxorg-x11-devel'. But the trouble is, that when I build Emacs CVS it doesn't detect the presence of Xaw3d in my system (that's why I tried to install it manually): in fact, when I run `$ ./configure' from Emacs CVS source dir, the following output appears: Does Emacs use -lXaw3d? no Does Emacs use -lXpm? yes Does Emacs use -ljpeg? yes Does Emacs use -ltiff? yes Does Emacs use -lungif? yes Does Emacs use -lpng? yes Does Emacs use X toolkit scroll bars? no . I had to install manually also jpeg, tiff, gif and png in order to get those 'yes'. Any other suggestion? Rodolfo 6X velocizzare la tua navigazione a 56k? 6X Web Accelerator di Libero! Scaricalo su INTERNET GRATIS 6X http://www.libero.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] unlocking files?
I mounted the macos disk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda112.9G 2.3G 430M 85% / /dev/hda108.2G 7.9G 266M 97% /mnt/macos is -la /mnt/macos produced the info below. nb - Notice the date Jan 1904! I checked both Mac and Mandrake clocks and thay are set to the right date and time. The other linux distro I used was quite old and various features,for example the firewire drive access, were 'experimental' and tended to crash the computer from time to time,setting all clocks back: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 277082 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root92 Jan 1 1904 ./ drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 11:20 ../ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jan 1 1904 1/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Jan 1 1904 Acrobat Reader 4.0/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 759 Jan 10 2003 Acrobat Reader 4.0 Install Log drwxr-xr-x 1 root root11 Jan 1 1904 Adaptec Toast 4.1.2/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root16 Jan 1 1904 Apple Extras/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root534528 Oct 5 2003 AppleShare PDS drwxr-xr-x 1 root root16 Jan 1 1904 Applications/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Assistants/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Jan 1 1904 BBEditLite Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2 Jan 1 1904 Cleanup At Startup/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root26 Jan 1 1904 compression:expansion / -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1069056 Feb 6 11:16 Desktop DB -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3696794 Dec 18 18:58 Desktop DF drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 152 Jan 1 1904 Desktop Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root10 Jan 1 1904 Desktop Resetter 2.8 Ä/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 Documents/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4819 Oct 9 2000 download\WritePDF_MAC.PDF -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5203 Aug 18 2002 DummyDB.cwk -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5262 Aug 18 2002 DummySS.cwk -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3608 Aug 18 2002 DummyWP.cwk drwxr-xr-x 1 root root11 Jan 1 1904 Eudora Application Folder/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 256 Oct 1 2003 Ext Devices FDG -r--r--r-- 1 root root39 Dec 25 2002 FinaleNotePad-serialNumber -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3483 Apr 19 2002 Installation Log -r--r--r-- 1 root root 26238 Jun 27 2004 Installer Log File drwxr-xr-x 1 root root14 Jan 1 1904 Installer Logs/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root10 Jan 1 1904 MacGSView/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 13957 Jan 8 2003 MacGSView Installer Log File -r--r--r-- 1 root root 46080 Aug 18 2002 MacLink Export Translators -r--r--r-- 1 root root 46080 Aug 18 2002 MacLink Import Translators -r--r--r-- 1 root root207279 Feb 1 2003 Ma(r)xTutorials drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 361 Jun 17 1978 Max:MSP/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root17 Jan 1 1904 MidiShare/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 179 Jun 12 2002 _nautilus-metafile.xml drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Jan 1 1904 Opcode/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 27 2000 OpenFolderListDF? drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Silverlining Pro Folder/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1209 Oct 4 2003 Snapz Pro 2 Installer Log drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 SoundAppPPC 2.7.3/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root55 Jul 24 1972 System Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 267 Jan 1 1904 Temporary Items/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Jan 1 1904 TheFindByContentFolder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jan 1 1904 TheVolumeSettingsFolder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Trash/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5621 Apr 25 2002 TypeChanger drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 Utilities/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 274726912 Feb 7 20:54 VM Storage [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# I hope this is more illuminating ;-) cheers, Nev On Tuesday 08 February 2005 01:02 am, David G Stevenson wrote: RickSisler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Could you post the output of: # ls -la /mnt/macos It gave this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 8 dr--r-x--x 2 root users 4096 Jan 8 18:03 ./ drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 11:20 ../ What you see there is /mnt/macos is empty. All it contains is the special files . and .. This means that the macos directory had dr--r-x--x and is owned by root but is in the users group. /mnt has drwxrwxrwx which means anyone on the machine can create files/directories here. I assume that the macos disk is not actually mounted at present. Running: % df -h will show if this is the case or not. As for the macos directory, it would be proper for the permisions to be: drwxr-xr-x so, % chmod 755 /mnt/macos would suffice. If you wanted users in the 'user' group to be able to write to the macos directory, then: % chmod 775 /mnt/macos would do. Usually, I would not allow write access to the macos directory, but create a directory in the macos dir which has more
Re: [newbie] unlocking files?
I'd forgotten to edit my email 'to' in the header. Hope this is now corrected. As regards the permissions problem - What is really needed is a command that tells all my macos files to forget _all_ their file permissions. Then perhaps I can start again...? Reverting or resetting doesn't seem to work. n. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] unlocking files?
I tried chmod +wx * ( you did mean * =/mnt/macos?) It didn't unlock any files,I'm afraid... n. On Tuesday 08 February 2005 09:52 am, David G Stevenson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mounted the macos disk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda112.9G 2.3G 430M 85% / /dev/hda108.2G 7.9G 266M 97% /mnt/macos is -la /mnt/macos produced the info below. nb - Notice the date Jan 1904! I checked both Mac and Mandrake clocks and thay are set to the right date and time. The other linux distro I used was quite old and various features,for example the firewire drive access, were 'experimental' and tended to crash the computer from time to time,setting all clocks back: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 277082 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root92 Jan 1 1904 ./ drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 11:20 ../ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jan 1 1904 1/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Jan 1 1904 Acrobat Reader 4.0/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 759 Jan 10 2003 Acrobat Reader 4.0 Install Log drwxr-xr-x 1 root root11 Jan 1 1904 Adaptec Toast 4.1.2/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root16 Jan 1 1904 Apple Extras/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root534528 Oct 5 2003 AppleShare PDS drwxr-xr-x 1 root root16 Jan 1 1904 Applications/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Assistants/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Jan 1 1904 BBEditLite Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2 Jan 1 1904 Cleanup At Startup/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root26 Jan 1 1904 compression:expansion / -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1069056 Feb 6 11:16 Desktop DB -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3696794 Dec 18 18:58 Desktop DF drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 152 Jan 1 1904 Desktop Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root10 Jan 1 1904 Desktop Resetter 2.8 Ä/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 Documents/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4819 Oct 9 2000 download\WritePDF_MAC.PDF -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5203 Aug 18 2002 DummyDB.cwk -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5262 Aug 18 2002 DummySS.cwk -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3608 Aug 18 2002 DummyWP.cwk drwxr-xr-x 1 root root11 Jan 1 1904 Eudora Application Folder/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 256 Oct 1 2003 Ext Devices FDG -r--r--r-- 1 root root39 Dec 25 2002 FinaleNotePad-serialNumber -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3483 Apr 19 2002 Installation Log -r--r--r-- 1 root root 26238 Jun 27 2004 Installer Log File drwxr-xr-x 1 root root14 Jan 1 1904 Installer Logs/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root10 Jan 1 1904 MacGSView/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 13957 Jan 8 2003 MacGSView Installer Log File -r--r--r-- 1 root root 46080 Aug 18 2002 MacLink Export Translators -r--r--r-- 1 root root 46080 Aug 18 2002 MacLink Import Translators -r--r--r-- 1 root root207279 Feb 1 2003 Ma(r)xTutorials drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 361 Jun 17 1978 Max:MSP/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root17 Jan 1 1904 MidiShare/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 179 Jun 12 2002 _nautilus-metafile.xml drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Jan 1 1904 Opcode/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 27 2000 OpenFolderListDF? drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Silverlining Pro Folder/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1209 Oct 4 2003 Snapz Pro 2 Installer Log drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 SoundAppPPC 2.7.3/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root55 Jul 24 1972 System Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 267 Jan 1 1904 Temporary Items/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Jan 1 1904 TheFindByContentFolder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jan 1 1904 TheVolumeSettingsFolder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Trash/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5621 Apr 25 2002 TypeChanger drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 Utilities/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 274726912 Feb 7 20:54 VM Storage [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# I hope this is more illuminating ;-) cheers, Nev Looks like it is just the files that were locked.. cd /mnt/macos chmod +wx * That should get the files in order. HTH On Tuesday 08 February 2005 01:02 am, David G Stevenson wrote: RickSisler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Could you post the output of: # ls -la /mnt/macos It gave this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 8 dr--r-x--x 2 root users 4096 Jan 8 18:03 ./ drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 11:20 ../ What you see there is /mnt/macos is empty. All it contains is the special files . and .. This means that the macos directory had dr--r-x--x and is owned by root but is in the users group. /mnt has drwxrwxrwx which means anyone on the machine can create files/directories here. I assume that the macos disk is not actually mounted
Re: [newbie] unlocking files?
I can't think of a 'Linux' solution to the problem. I'll try to find a mac applescript that batch unlocks files. I did downloaded a 'drag and drop' file program but unless I can unlock (by hand I suppose) part of the mac OS it won't work. hmm... On Tuesday 08 February 2005 10:47 am, David G Stevenson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried chmod +wx * ( you did mean * =/mnt/macos?) It didn't unlock any files,I'm afraid... n. su cd /mnt/macos chmod +rx * locked = not writable (or executable) permisions ? Just checking we have the correct terminology :-) On Tuesday 08 February 2005 09:52 am, David G Stevenson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mounted the macos disk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda112.9G 2.3G 430M 85% / /dev/hda108.2G 7.9G 266M 97% /mnt/macos is -la /mnt/macos produced the info below. nb - Notice the date Jan 1904! I checked both Mac and Mandrake clocks and thay are set to the right date and time. The other linux distro I used was quite old and various features,for example the firewire drive access, were 'experimental' and tended to crash the computer from time to time,setting all clocks back: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 277082 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root92 Jan 1 1904 ./ drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 11:20 ../ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jan 1 1904 1/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Jan 1 1904 Acrobat Reader 4.0/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 759 Jan 10 2003 Acrobat Reader 4.0 Install Log drwxr-xr-x 1 root root11 Jan 1 1904 Adaptec Toast 4.1.2/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root16 Jan 1 1904 Apple Extras/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root534528 Oct 5 2003 AppleShare PDS drwxr-xr-x 1 root root16 Jan 1 1904 Applications/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Assistants/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Jan 1 1904 BBEditLite Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2 Jan 1 1904 Cleanup At Startup/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root26 Jan 1 1904 compression:expansion / -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1069056 Feb 6 11:16 Desktop DB -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3696794 Dec 18 18:58 Desktop DF drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 152 Jan 1 1904 Desktop Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root10 Jan 1 1904 Desktop Resetter 2.8 Ä/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 Documents/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4819 Oct 9 2000 download\WritePDF_MAC.PDF -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5203 Aug 18 2002 DummyDB.cwk -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5262 Aug 18 2002 DummySS.cwk -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3608 Aug 18 2002 DummyWP.cwk drwxr-xr-x 1 root root11 Jan 1 1904 Eudora Application Folder/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 256 Oct 1 2003 Ext Devices FDG -r--r--r-- 1 root root39 Dec 25 2002 FinaleNotePad-serialNumber -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3483 Apr 19 2002 Installation Log -r--r--r-- 1 root root 26238 Jun 27 2004 Installer Log File drwxr-xr-x 1 root root14 Jan 1 1904 Installer Logs/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root10 Jan 1 1904 MacGSView/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 13957 Jan 8 2003 MacGSView Installer Log File -r--r--r-- 1 root root 46080 Aug 18 2002 MacLink Export Translators -r--r--r-- 1 root root 46080 Aug 18 2002 MacLink Import Translators -r--r--r-- 1 root root207279 Feb 1 2003 Ma(r)xTutorials drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 361 Jun 17 1978 Max:MSP/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root17 Jan 1 1904 MidiShare/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 179 Jun 12 2002 _nautilus-metafile.xml drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Jan 1 1904 Opcode/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 27 2000 OpenFolderListDF? drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Silverlining Pro Folder/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1209 Oct 4 2003 Snapz Pro 2 Installer Log drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 SoundAppPPC 2.7.3/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root55 Jul 24 1972 System Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 267 Jan 1 1904 Temporary Items/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Jan 1 1904 TheFindByContentFolder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jan 1 1904 TheVolumeSettingsFolder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Trash/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5621 Apr 25 2002 TypeChanger drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 Utilities/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 274726912 Feb 7 20:54 VM Storage [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# I hope this is more illuminating ;-) cheers, Nev Looks like it is just the files that were locked.. cd /mnt/macos chmod +wx * That should get the files in order. HTH On Tuesday 08 February 2005 01:02 am, David G Stevenson wrote: RickSisler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Could you post the output of: # ls -la /mnt/macos It gave this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 8 dr--r-x--x
[newbie] unlocking files?
I was trying to change the permissions of my macintosh OS 9 partition and I inadvertently locked all the mac files. I've unlocked the majority of files again,by hand,but I was wondering if there was a mandrake konsole command that would unlock every file on that partition,just incase I've missed some? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] unlocking files?
I think chmod (and chown) got me into this problem to begin with ;-) I wish I could remember exactly what I did. chmod -R -w dirname Would this make the mac files readable and 'executionable' (ie unlocked) on the mac partition if I were to boot up (not from Mandrake) the Mac OS ? Or,would it only give the mac files - in Mandrake's case - root privileges to +w every file,so that if I entered the mac OS they would still be 'locked' to a mac user who is not,of course,'root' ? Perhaps I _should_ just try it... On Monday 07 February 2005 03:42 pm, David G Stevenson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to change the permissions of my macintosh OS 9 partition and I inadvertently locked all the mac files. I've unlocked the majority of files again,by hand,but I was wondering if there was a mandrake konsole command that would unlock every file on that partition,just incase I've missed some? Do you mean you have made all the files read-only? If so, chmod is your friend, '-R' is a recursive feature so 'chmod -R' will apply your permission mask to the directory/mount and all files/dirs within. To add user write access you could use: % chmod -R +w dirname Have a play with the option on a dummy directory so see the effect. Remember, some files need to be executable and readonly for a reason! HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] unlocking files?
I checked my .bash_history and I did two things: 1)chmod 4755 /mnt/macos 2)chmod 666 /mnt/macos I tried chown but didn't get it to work. On Monday 07 February 2005 05:03 pm, RickSisler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I think chmod (and chown) got me into this problem to begin with ;-) I wish I could remember exactly what I did. IIUC, you were root when you did this ? Check root's /root/.bash_history to see it is still in there, it may not be, but it's worth a look 8) HTH and you find what you did .. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] unlocking files?
Could you post the output of: # ls -la /mnt/macos It gave this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 8 dr--r-x--x 2 root users 4096 Jan 8 18:03 ./ drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 11:20 ../ btw.. if you didn't know.. you could take a look at the info pages for chmod in konqueror. put this in the address bar.. Thanks. I was reading 'Linux in a Nutshell' which doesn't give as much information. On Monday 07 February 2005 07:37 pm, RickSisler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I checked my .bash_history and I did two things: 1)chmod 4755 /mnt/macos 2)chmod 666 /mnt/macos Why did you use 4 ?? This is the setuid bit, I don't think you want to do this do you ? I tried chown but didn't get it to work. Could you post the output of: # ls -la /mnt/macos Thx btw.. if you didn't know.. you could take a look at the info pages for chmod in konqueror. put this in the address bar.. info:/coreutils/File permissions Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] RealPlayer
Does anyone know how to record realaudio streams? I tried using mplayer but either set it up incorrectly,or,because I use'tkpppoe' and an external modem, which uses ethernet, I wasn't able to connect. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer
At last! For longer than I care to admit I've wanted to be able to record a stream. Truthfully, I'd given up trying to use vsound. Too many failures in the past methinks. But this is brilliant.Thanks for making me try vsound again. On Saturday 05 February 2005 11:02 am, Nigel Wilkinson wrote: --On Saturday, February 05, 2005 10:50:10 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to record realaudio streams? I tried using mplayer but either set it up incorrectly,or,because I use'tkpppoe' and an external modem, which uses ethernet, I wasn't able to connect. Try vsound, its in the contrib directory of your friendly mirror Also have a look at http://www.xenoclast.org/vsound/ Cheers Nigel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux commands...???
I'll try thiis fix tonight! -thanks so much. On Thursday 03 February 2005 11:44 pm, Eric Huff wrote: I get the eth0 internet connection failure thing.It works OK though.It just annoying... A couple solutions: - Thanks to several tips I found my problem. Turning off 'Network Hotplugging' in MCC networking fixed it. One poster mentioned you could get the same effect by setting MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. - - Here was the fix from Derek: From Mandrake Control Centre NetworkManageConnectionsOptions Uncheck Network Hotplugging then restart networking from Mandrake Control CentreSystemServices If that does not help. Open a terminal enter 'su' to become root user then 'ifconfig' You will see a page showing the state of your link. If you see anything in the'collisions' counter, then your connection is trying to work half duplex. In that case come back with details of the ethernet card and driver you are using, and I will show you how to force half or full duplex. HTH derek - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KwikDisk
It's not all user (dis) functionality though. ;-) Kwikdisk only docks into a panel if I had logged on as a user but not as root. I'm not able to change the permissions either. I think my confusion stems from having used a different ppc distro before Mandrake and expecting programs to work in a similar way. Having said that, I'm now working with some programs I could never have got working with the old distro. On Friday 04 February 2005 02:03 am, SnapafunFrank wrote: Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: [newbie] KwikDisk Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:30:04 -0800 I've never been able to start KwikDisk. It tries to start and then just hangs. Is there a patch that fixes it,or is it just me? I suppose PPC users have a lot more bugs...? *** When I start KwikDisk, it just shows an icon in the taskbar, and needs to be right clicked and run from there. Could you have overlooked the icon in the taskbar? I'm not familiar with the PPC version of Mdk though, so hopefully someone who is can help you further. Best regards to you. :-) --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Laptop, Powered by Mandrake 10.1~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** I second you Angus. It defaults to the task bar. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux commands...???
I get the eth0 internet connection failure thing.It works OK though.It just annoying... On Thursday 03 February 2005 01:02 pm, Graham Watkins wrote: Dunno what it means but I get it all the time. In my case eth0 refers to my internet connection which works perfectly once the computer is up and running. If your internet or other network connection works OK, I suggest you don't worry about it. Cheers, Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] KwikDisk
I've never been able to start KwikDisk. It tries to start and then just hangs. Is there a patch that fixes it,or is it just me? I suppose PPC users have a lot more bugs...? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] no memory left can't get to kde
I was able to get in as root at the command prompt. Then ls'd the root directory and rm'd loads of files. Thankfully it worked after I had rm'd about 30 files! Serves me right playing around with ardour.It can create large snd files. I had to rm file by file and the permissions wouldn't allow me to rm folders although I was root. How can I change permissions for root? I tried logrotate but didn't know what command to use. From the command how do you get in using failsafe mode? One last question: where can I find out about the Live CDs? That seems to be the safest bet. Thanks very much everyone, Nev Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 'muse' on ppc 10.1 official
I installed muse and when I try to start it I get: xfatal error: open /dev/rtc failed: No such device or address I ran mknod and created an rtc device like this: mknod /dev/rtc b 11 0 chgrp root /dev/rtc chmod 666 /dev/rtc I started muse again and got the same error message. I'm trying to use 'muse-0.7.0-1mdk.ppc.rpm'. Is there a newer file for ppc? Is anyone here running Muse on a ppc? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xscreensavers not working from within KDE control Center
I like to update my xscreensaver as well. Where can it be found? Should I use easy Urmp to configurei? On Wednesday 12 January 2005 09:40 am, frengoGorgia wrote: Il mer, 2005-01-12 alle 04:28, Mikkel L. Ellertson ha scritto: Troy Wolfe wrote: All, I am haveing a problem getting the screensavers from xscreensaver that are included in the kcontrol module to work properly. twolfe An update was just released to fix this. It should be in the mirrors in a day or so. Mikkel YES , THAT'S RIGHT , HERE IS THE ADVISE __ Mandrakelinux Update Advisory __ Package name: xscreensaver Advisory ID:MDKA-2005:002 Date: January 10th, 2005 Affected versions: 10.1 __ Problem Description: A bug in xscreensaver existed when running under KDE. When selecting a screensaver, it can be tested and seen properly, but when it actually is supposed to start, only a black screen would come up. This update corrects the problem. __ Updated Packages: Mandrakelinux 10.1: 821aa38b70563a575506bf50474496c6 10.1/RPMS/xscreensaver-4.18-2.1.101mdk.i586.rpm 4478f7d6f4e825e18e52f592d57b6e1e 10.1/RPMS/xscreensaver-extrusion-4.18-2.1.101mdk.i586.rpm 8e094fcec8d7fef5b037265918b3f603 10.1/RPMS/xscreensaver-gl-4.18-2.1.101mdk.i586.rpm 624bee3a69c430f79a3a0410daf53dc9 10.1/SRPMS/xscreensaver-4.18-2.1.101mdk.src.rpm Mandrakelinux 10.1/X86_64: 5fbd6e22998b172009bca668d5fc72dc x86_64/10.1/RPMS/xscreensaver-4.18-2.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm 7897bc6062987e4a49d74afb08f0a3a8 x86_64/10.1/RPMS/xscreensaver-extrusion-4.18-2.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm 912d8b3df742d63320a79936c1feea46 x86_64/10.1/RPMS/xscreensaver-gl-4.18-2.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm 624bee3a69c430f79a3a0410daf53dc9 x86_64/10.1/SRPMS/xscreensaver-4.18-2.1.101mdk.src.rpm ___ To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you. All packages are signed by Mandrakesoft for security. You can obtain the GPG public key of the Mandrakelinux Security Team by executing: gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98 You can view other update advisories for Mandrakelinux at: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact security_linux-mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 'i18n' directory
Hi, all. My system (Mdk 9.1, but also Mdk 10.1 Community) lacks of the subdir 'i18n' within the dir '/usr/share'. Does anybody know how to install it? It contains the two subsubdirs 'charmaps' and 'locales'. Thanks for any help, Rodolfo Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis e navighi a 1.2 Mega. E poi hai l'Adsl senza limiti a meno di 1 euro al giorno. Abbonati subito senza costi di attivazione su http://www.libero.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with ./configure (2)
Rodolfo Medina wrote: I understand that giving as root a command like urpmi.addmedia thac http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ with ./hdlist.cz , an urpmi repository will be set up in my system, and after that the urpmf command will hopefully be able to find, e.g., that the gconf-2.0.pc subpackage belongs to the libGConf2_4-devel superpackage. Is that right? Now, instead of using this 'urpmi.addmedia' command, is maybe there a web site with a search field where I can type 'gconf-2.0.pc' and get 'libGConf2_4-devel' as search result? I couldn't perform such a search neither at http://urpmi-addmedia.org nor at www.eslrahc.com , and not even simply using google. SnapafunFrank replied: You usually find these things on the like of www.rpmfind.net or www.rpm.pbone.net that also have their own search tools. I just did a search on www.rpm.pbone.net for gconf-2.0.pc and the very first item of three pages was in fact libGConf2_4-devel Thanks indeed, Snapafun, that's the sort of thing I was meaning. The right address is: 'http://rpm.pbone.net'. Please, if you have or will find out any other similar web site, let me know straight away, will you? Thanks, and cheers, Rodolfo Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis e navighi a 1.2 Mega. E poi hai l'Adsl senza limiti a meno di 1 euro al giorno. Abbonati subito senza costi di attivazione su http://www.libero.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install Question
Thanks, I certainly appreciate everyone's comments on this thread. I now have a further question. How can I prevent the install of Mandrake Linux from writing a boot record on the Primary drive? Therte is already an XP boot record which permits me to boot from any attached device. Is it feasable to remove the XP drive, attach the FAT32 drive to the Primary Interface, Install Mandrake Linux and then move the drive back to the secondary Interface to permit Windows XP boot record to control where I boot from? Cy Halbach -- Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 January 2005 09:23 pm, Yes, but be very, very certain that the Mandrake installer understands that you want Mandrake installed on your slave disk (hdb) and not the primary disk (hda). Note that Mandrake will overwrite the FAT32 formatting on hdb and replace it with a native Linux format; the default is ext3, but other options are available. As part of the installation process, Mandrake will alter the MBR (master boot record) on your primary drive so that you can choose between Mandrake and XP each time that you boot your system. Will it install without messing with the NTFS drives on the first IDE Interface? Yes. But bear in mind that while Linux can read files on NTFS partitions, writing to them is not supported. However, Linux has no problems accessing FAT32 partitions, so if you want to be able to have the freedom of reading and writing data that can be accessed from either OS, the standard workaround is to shrink the existing XP partition using Partition Magic or similar, and then create a FAT32 partion in the vacant space. Next, move your Windows data to the new partition and fiddle with your Windows applications so that they know where the data lives. Kinda cool for stuff like music and video, and also useful for correspondence, spreadsheets, yada yada... -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake Linux 10.1 will not install.
I have Mandrake Linux 10.1 on CD and I also downloded the DVD ISO. On either I boot from teh CD and start the Install. It starts the process, then reboots and the XP Boot Menu comes up, the CDROM (Or DVD) reboots and the process starts all over again. I have removed all drives and installed just one FAT32 formatted drive as the primary but the routine is the same. I do not know where the BOOT Menu resides but it is obviously not on the Drive in this case but it still comes up. System is a Hewlett-Packard a708n 512 MB RAM Any suggestions?? Thanks Cy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install Question
Thanks Mikkel, I will try subscribing to the expert list and see if someone can help. Cy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't remember if the standard install offers the option, or if you need to pick expert, but there is an option to have lilo install to the boot partition. I believe there is also an option to install to the MBR of the second hard drive, but that is probably only an expert option. Ether would work in your case, but installing to the MBR of the second hard drive is probably the better option. Then you can just have XP boot of the second drive, and lilo will take it from there. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Install Question
I have a new Mandrake CD 10.1 Linux and I have XP already on my system. I installed a FAT32 Hard Drive on the Second IDE interface as a Slave since the CDROM is primary. Can I install Linux on that drive and expect it to BOOT up since Windows XP seems to provide a BOOT from any device? Will it install without messing with the NTFS drives on the first IDE Interface? Cy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 1)booting failsafe kernel? 2)Openmotif for 10.1 ppc?
I've installed 10.1 ppc on a Mac G3 pismo. Everything kinda works but I've two questions. I'm having to boot the failsafe kernel. How can I have the failsafe load automatically so I can stop typing '2681-122' each time? Is there an openMotif mdk.ppc.rpm and where can I download it? The 'tar.gz' file wouldn't compile on my system; I want to run snd-7 and it needs openmotif or motif. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
Hi. Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to make it work? I've had problems with it, and the help I got from the wine-users mailing list didn't manage to solve them. I installed Wine in order to run MS Word with it, since *unfortunately* in job applications it is usually requested and used the .doc format and neither kword nor Open Office kwriter nor even abiword manage to properly read and edit MS Word documents. The installation seems to have been successful, but I don't manage to run WinWord nor do I really know how to run it. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Rodolfo Regala e regalati Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis e navighi veloce. 1.2 Mega di musica, film, video e sport. Abbonati subito senza costi di attivazione su http://www.libero.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: The effect of 'chgrp' is not permanent?
Thanks to all who replied. I'm resuming what I wanted to achieve: 'rodolfo' is a normal user, but Rodolfo (me) is also the superuser, whereas say, 'alberto' is only a normal user. Then I wish to adopt for alberto a security level 4, i.e. alberto should not be able to see the '/' directory nor its subdirs (although he should be able to see and use the /mnt dir), and for rodolfo a security level 2, i.e. he should be able to see (but *not* to modify) the '/' dir and its subdirs. Now, the command 'chmod' as far as I know cannot diversify different permissions to different users: if I do, e.g., 'chmod -r /', this will prevent *all* users (not only alberto) to read the '/' directory. Even if I do 'chmod u-r /' or 'chmod g-r /' or 'chmod o-r /' the problem remains. That's what I tried to do to work the problem out: Security level: 2 (standard). I made the user rodolfo a member of the 'root' group in addition to 'rodolfo' group, just with: # usermod -g rodolfo -G root rodolfo ; then I adjusted the permissions of the '/' dir and its subdirs trying to keep level 2 philosophy: so that the user rodolfo (now a member of the root group) could read but not write those directories except for the /mnt dir, and that the other users could not even read those directories (except for /mnt, again). I obtained the following output of 'ls -l /' [EMAIL PROTECTED] rodolfo]$ ls -l / total 52 drwxr-x--x 2 root root 4096 Dec 17 16:05 bin/ drwxr-x--x 3 root root 4096 Dec 20 11:41 boot/ drwxr-x--x 17 root root 3800 Dec 20 11:41 dev/ drwxr-x--x 71 root root 4096 Dec 20 11:40 etc/ drwxr-x--x 4 root root 4096 Dec 18 18:53 home/ drwxr-x--x 2 root root 4096 Dec 17 16:31 initrd/ drwxr-x--x 11 root root 4096 Dec 17 16:13 lib/ drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Dec 18 11:48 mnt/ drwxr-x--x 2 root root 4096 Jan 5 2004 opt/ dr-xr-x--x 77 root root0 Dec 20 11:40 proc/ drwx-- 11 root root 4096 Dec 19 20:16 root/ drwxr-x--x 2 root root 4096 Dec 17 15:59 sbin/ drwxr-x--x 9 root root0 Dec 20 11:40 sys/ drwxrwxrwt 11 root root 4096 Dec 20 11:41 tmp/ drwxr-x--x 12 root root 4096 Dec 17 16:07 usr/ drwxr-x--x 17 root root 4096 Dec 17 15:59 var/ . It seems to me (but I might be wrong) that such a solution would be quite secure: as we see from the above output, the user rodolfo as a member of the root group has no more privileges than he normally has with a sec level 2, in the sense that he cannot see the /root directory and he can only read the other '/' subdirs; the other users cannot even see the '/' subdirs, just as I wanted (/tmp though must be accessible to start kde). There's only one problem: these changes are not permanent: in fact, after rebooting the system I get a different output to 'ls-l /': [EMAIL PROTECTED] rodolfo]$ ls -l / total 52 drwxr-x--x 2 root root 4096 Dec 17 16:05 bin/ drwxr-x--x 3 root root 4096 Dec 20 11:57 boot/ drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 3800 Dec 20 11:57 dev/ drwxr-x--x 71 root root 4096 Dec 20 11:57 etc/ drwxr-x--x 4 root root 4096 Dec 18 18:53 home/ drwxr-x--x 2 root root 4096 Dec 17 16:31 initrd/ drwxr-x--x 11 root root 4096 Dec 17 16:13 lib/ drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Dec 18 11:48 mnt/ drwxr-x--x 2 root root 4096 Jan 5 2004 opt/ dr-xr-xr-x 78 root root0 Dec 20 11:56 proc/ drwx-- 11 root root 4096 Dec 19 20:16 root/ drwxr-x--x 2 root root 4096 Dec 17 15:59 sbin/ drwxr-xr-x 9 root root0 Dec 20 11:56 sys/ drwxrwxrwt 11 root root 4096 Dec 20 11:58 tmp/ drwxr-x--x 12 root root 4096 Dec 17 16:07 usr/ drwxr-x--x 17 root root 4096 Dec 17 15:59 var/ . The /dev, /proc and /sys dirs have turned back to be readable by other users, what I don't want. Any other hints will be appreciated. Thanks, Rodolfo Regala e regalati Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis e navighi veloce. 1.2 Mega di musica, film, video e sport. Abbonati subito senza costi di attivazione su http://www.libero.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: The effect of
. The /dev, /proc and /sys dirs have turned back to be readable by other
users, what I don't want.
Any other hints will be appreciated.
The system will not work with those set unreadable to other than root.
{^_^}
I just checked and indeed, even with a sec level=4 and even 5,
some subdirs of '/' remains readable to normal users: /initrd, /opt, /sys
and /var (not /dev nor /proc though).
Thanks,
Rodolfo
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[newbie] How to make changes to the current security level?
Hi. I set a security level 4, with # msec 4 . After that, a normal user can't reboot the system any more with '$ reboot', and I wanted to restore this possibility. In 'man msec' it is said: If you want to make changes to the current level, use [...] /etc/security/msec/level.local to override the rules (see mseclib(3) for details [...]). Then I edited the file /etc/security/msec/level.local (that was empty) and added the line: allow_reboot yes , using the same syntax as /usr/share/msec/level.4, but it didn't work; I also tried to modify the file /usr/share/msec/level.4 itself putting yes instead of no after allow_reboot, but nothing. Any thought? Thanks, Rodolfo Regala e regalati Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis, navighi veloce e scarichi a 1.2 Mega. Abbonati subito senza costi di attivazione su http://www.libero.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] The effect of 'chgrp' is not pemanent?
Hi. I've noticed that, strangely, the effect of the command 'chgrp' is not permanent: I did # chgrp rodolfo /* and then # ls -l / and got the following output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rodolfo]# ls -l / total 52 drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:05 bin/ drwxr-x--x 3 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:19 boot/ drwxr-xr-x 17 root rodolfo 3800 Dec 19 15:19 dev/ drwxr-x--x 71 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:19 etc/ drwxr-x--x 4 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 18 18:53 home/ drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:31 initrd/ drwxr-x--x 11 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:13 lib/ drwxr-xr-x 7 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 18 11:48 mnt/ drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Jan 5 2004 opt/ dr-xr-xr-x 78 root rodolfo0 Dec 19 15:19 proc/ drwx-- 11 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:08 root/ drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 15:59 sbin/ drwxr-xr-x 9 root rodolfo0 Dec 19 15:19 sys/ drwxrwx-wt 11 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:20 tmp/ drwxr-x--x 12 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:07 usr/ drwxr-x--x 17 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 15:59 var/ ; then I rebooted the system, did '# ls -l /' again and this time the output was changed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rodolfo]# ls -l / total 52 drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:05 bin/ drwxr-x--x 3 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:19 boot/ drwxr-xr-x 17 root root3800 Dec 19 15:19 dev/ drwxr-x--x 71 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:19 etc/ drwxr-x--x 4 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 18 18:53 home/ drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:31 initrd/ drwxr-x--x 11 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:13 lib/ drwxr-xr-x 7 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 18 11:48 mnt/ drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Jan 5 2004 opt/ dr-xr-xr-x 79 root root 0 Dec 19 15:19 proc/ drwx-- 11 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:08 root/ drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 15:59 sbin/ drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 Dec 19 15:19 sys/ drwxrwx-wt 11 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:20 tmp/ drwxr-x--x 12 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:07 usr/ drwxr-x--x 17 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 15:59 var/ , and even other changes occured later. How come? And how to make chgrp's effect not change until I want to? Thanks, Rodolfo Regala e regalati Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis, navighi veloce e scarichi a 1.2 Mega. Abbonati subito senza costi di attivazione su http://www.libero.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: The effect of 'chgrp' is not permanent?
Thanks Todd, thanks Richard: Todd wrote: I really question the need to have your entire system group owned by a simple user. Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. Better to su when you need to, or learn how to set up sudo. Richard wrote: Are you sure you know what you're doing? To me this is highly dangerous from the point of view of system security and stability. What are you trying to achieve? There has to be a better way. Todd, Richard: if I only allow the group 'rodolfo' to read those directories and not to modify them in any way, then I don't see the danger. Anyhow, if the system tries so hard to oppose to what I'm doing it's quite clear that I'm trying to achieve what I want the wrong way. What I wish to do though is quite simple. 'rodolfo' is a normal user, but Rodolfo (me) is also the superuser, whereas say, 'alberto' is only a normal user. Then I wish to adopt for alberto a security level 4, i.e. alberto should not be able to see the '/' nor the '/home' directory (although he should be able to see and use the /mnt directory) and for rodolfo a level security 2, i.e. he should be able to see (but not to modify) the '/' dir and its subdirs. Now, the command 'chmod' as far as I know cannot diversify different permissions to different users: if I do, e.g., 'chmod -r /', this will prevent *all* users (not only alberto) to read the '/' directory. Even if I do 'chmod u-r /' or 'chmod g-r /' or 'chmod o-r /' the problem remains unless I don't first change the ownership of the dirs whose readability I want to attribute to rodolfo and not to alberto. That's why I did, under a security level 2: # chgrp rodolfo / # chgrp rodolfo /* # chmod o-r / # chmod o-r /* # chmod o+rwx /mnt # chmod g+rwx /mnt ; but, as we saw, the first two operations were not permanent. Maybe you could suggest a better way to achieve this purpose? Sorry if I was a little confusing, but the matter is not immediate to explain. Thanks, Rodolfo Regala e regalati Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis, navighi veloce e scarichi a 1.2 Mega. Abbonati subito senza costi di attivazione su http://www.libero.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: The effect of 'chgrp' is not permanent?
...Maybe a simple solution would be to add rodolfo to group 'root' in addition to group 'rodolfo'? I'm looking for the proper linux command to do so. Rodolfo Regala e regalati Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis, navighi veloce e scarichi a 1.2 Mega. Abbonati subito senza costi di attivazione su http://www.libero.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: The effect of 'chgrp' is not permanent?
Thanks, Derek. You say: [...] you are completely ruining security by trying to give a user access to root files. [...] So you mean that security level 2, which gives a user access to *read* all the files of the '/' dir and its subdirs except for the /root dir, completely ruins security? Why then is it the standard security level, the one suggested by default during the system's installation? You (Rodolfo) may be the administrator, but you should still not give user rodolfo special access. In fact I don't want to give user rodolfo any special access, I just want for him a security level 2, that's what I exactly wrote in my message. As for limiting what user 'alberto' is allowed to see, one way to achieve that is remove read permissions for public users to those directories. You can create custom rules in drakperm to do that. [...] Wouldn't this way the limitations work also for rodolfo, for whom instead I wish a 'freedom level' n.2? Cheers, Rodolfo Regala e regalati Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis, navighi veloce e scarichi a 1.2 Mega. Abbonati subito senza costi di attivazione su http://www.libero.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: The effect of
Removing read permission from directories would indeed limit user rodolfo as well as user alberto, but that is where sudoers can help you. sudoers would give rodolfo permission to perform certain commands as if he were root user. Yes, the problem with sudoers is that (as far as I know) one can only use them from command line, not in graphical mode (is that right?). But it's comfortable to navigate through files and directories with Konqueror. That's why I didn't consider this solution. Rodolfo Regala e regalati Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis, navighi veloce e scarichi a 1.2 Mega. Abbonati subito senza costi di attivazione su http://www.libero.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] How to give different permissions to different users?
In the 'man chmod' page I couldn't find an answer to this question: how can the administrator give permissions of a certain file or directory say, to user Paul but not to user Peter? E.g., suppose I'm the superuser and want to give Paul but not Peter the permission to read the directory '/'. With simply '# chmod -r /' I will prevent *both* Paul and Peter to access that directory. How can I instead specify my choice? Thanks for any help, Rodolfo Regala e regalati Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis, navighi veloce e scarichi a 1.2 Mega. Abbonati subito senza costi di attivazione su http://www.libero.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Output of 'ls -l ...'
When I do ,e.g., $ ls -l / , I get: total 52 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 18 13:44 bin/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 18 21:32 boot/ drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 3800 Dec 18 21:32 dev/ drwxr-xr-x 71 root root 4096 Dec 18 21:32 etc/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 18 13:45 home/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 18 15:18 initrd/ drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Dec 18 14:38 lib/ drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 5 2004 mnt/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 5 2004 opt/ dr-xr-xr-x 78 root root0 Dec 18 21:32 proc/ drwx-- 9 root root 4096 Dec 18 15:24 root/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 18 13:38 sbin/ drwxr-xr-x 9 root root0 Dec 18 21:32 sys/ drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 4096 Dec 18 21:33 tmp/ drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Dec 18 13:46 usr/ drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Dec 18 13:38 var/ . Now, the first column says it's a directory and shows the permissions; the third and the fourth columns should tell respectively who are the user and the group that own the file or directory, whereas the sixth coulmns shows the date when the file or directory was created; but what about the numbers that appears in the second and in the fifth column? What's their meaning? Bare with my ignorance, thanks, Rodolfo Regala e regalati Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis, navighi veloce e scarichi a 1.2 Mega. Abbonati subito senza costi di attivazione su http://www.libero.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: How to give different permissions to different users?
Rodolfo wrote: In the 'man chmod' page I couldn't find an answer to this question: how can the administrator give permission of a certain file or directory say, to user Paul but not to user Peter? E.g., suppose I'm the superuser and want to give Paul but not Peter the permission to read the directory '/'. With simply '# chmod -r /' I will prevent *both* Paul and Peter to access that directory. How can I instead specify my choice? Paul wrote: You can create a user-group with permissions to the extent you want Thanks, Paul: but how? Anne wrote: you can set any directory to be readable and/or writable by one of those specific groups. Thanks to you too, Anne: again, how? Rodolfo Regala e regalati Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis, navighi veloce e scarichi a 1.2 Mega. Abbonati subito senza costi di attivazione su http://www.libero.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] More about file permissions
By clicking onto a file's icon with the mouse's right button and entering 'Properties', it is possible to change at pleasure and in detail all the possible options about permissions: wether the owner, group and others can read, read and write or neither that file or directory. is it possible to do so only in graphic mode or also, and how?, from command line? Thanks, Rodolfo Regala e regalati Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis, navighi veloce e scarichi a 1.2 Mega. Abbonati subito senza costi di attivazione su http://www.libero.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] PPTP with 10.1
Anyone able to give me help in getting PPTP working with 10.1? Issue seems to be MPPE support Gary Hunter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mdk 10.1 Community unable to install kernel-source?
Hi. In my Mdk 10.1 Community, when I tried to install the kernel-source with the command '# urpmi kernel-source', first I got the message unable to read rpm file [/mnt/cdrom/media/main2/kernel-source-2.6-2.6.8.1-10mdk. i586.rpm] from medium Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2) , and then in the end the message: Installation failed, some files are missing: /mnt/cdrom/media/main2/kernel-source-2.6-2.6.8.1-10mdk.i586.rpm You may want to update your urpmi database . What's that? What to do? Thanks, Rodolfo Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis e navighi a 1.2 Mega, senza costi di attivazione. Abbonati subito su http://www.libero.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mdk 10.1 Community unable to install kernel-source?
Rodolfo Medina wrote: In my Mdk 10.1 Community, when I tried to install the kernel-source with the command '# urpmi kernel-source', first I got the message unable to read rpm file [/mnt/cdrom/media/main2/kernel-source-2.6-2.6.8.1-10mdk. i586.rpm] from medium Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2) , and then in the end the message: Installation failed, some files are missing: /mnt/cdrom/media/main2/kernel-source-2.6-2.6.8.1-10mdk.i586.rpm You may want to update your urpmi database . What's that? What to do? Wojciech Podgórni replied: First thing that comes to my mind is that somehow urpmi was unable to read your CD. Please check if you are able to read content of this CD (with Midnight Commander, for example - mc command - or ordinary ls /mnt/cdrom). If you are able to and still somehow have problems with urpmi, you can use rpm -ivh kernel-source-2.6-2.6.8.1-10mdk when you are in RPM directory of your CD. That way you should be able to install this particular package. Thanks. I followed your suggestions: first I made sure I was able to read the content of the CD, just with 'ls /mnt/cdrom'; then from the directory /mnt/cdrom/install/stage2/live/usr/lib/rpm I did # rpm -ivh kernel-source-2.6-2.6.8.1-10mdk , but got the following message: error: open of kernel-source-2.6-2.6.8.1-10mdk failed: No such file or directory . Any other hint? Thanks again, Rodolfo Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis e navighi a 1.2 Mega, senza costi di attivazione. Abbonati subito su http://www.libero.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] billing system
hi, Can any one help me to get the billing system on Linux, I am running an Internet cafe with sixteen computers and eight phones. I am trying to get billing system that could help me. i am running mandrake 10 on the computers. Regards Solly Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] bandwidth management tool.
hi, Can you help me to get simple network management tool i have tried MRTG but is complicated to set it up. Regards Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake on portable hd
Hi all, I'm new for linux. I would like to know if is it possible to install linux on a hd portable usb 2. Without lilo. My notebook have the boot from usb. I want to know how it is possible. Now I have two partition FAT32 on the hd portable. Thanks Nico Cerchi un laboratorio fotografico aperto 24 ore su 24? Stampa le tue foto digitali su Kataweb e le ricevi a domicilio in 48 ore. http://www.kataweb.it/foto Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake on portable hd
I think is very expensive! I spent 100 euros for an hd of 120MB! Da: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 13:36:49 +0100 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: [newbie] Mandrake on portable hd On Thursday 07 October 2004 12:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm new for linux. I would like to know if is it possible to install linux on a hd portable usb 2. Without lilo. My notebook have the boot from usb. I want to know how it is possible. Now I have two partition FAT32 on the hd portable. Thanks Nico If you are interested MandrakeSoft sell a USB drive with Linux preinstalled. The Globetrotter. http://store.mandrakesoft.com/product_info.php?products_id=119osCsid=38bc747d4a2b4e6f3f2722f5589809f6 derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Cerchi un laboratorio fotografico aperto 24 ore su 24? Stampa le tue foto digitali su Kataweb e le ricevi a domicilio in 48 ore. http://www.kataweb.it/foto Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Keyboard Problem
Hi,
I have a Notebook on which is installed Linux Mandrake, now i have a problem using the
keyboard.
I can't type these 2 digits '{' and '}', so i think i have problems with the keypad, i
tryed to set the keyboard using the KDE configuaration tool and even by the
shelldoes any anyone can help me ?
thanks in advance
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Re: [newbie] Keyboard Problem
The system recognized the keyboard automaticallyi also tried to change the keyboard layout from italian to english but it doesn't work! I'm using a Notebookand i think the problem is thank the (FN key, function key to use the keypad) is not recognozed by the systemis there a general driver for notebook keyboards ? sorry 4 my bad english. Tanks -- Initial Header --- From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : Date : Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:41:13 +0100 Subject : Re: [newbie] Keyboard Problem During installation you should have to choose the keyboard configuration. Can you go to MCC to check whether it's correct or not (what kind of keyboard do you have, Italian?)? I set English over a Portuguese keyboard. It works quite well. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Keyboard Problem
mine too...the layout is ITif this can help you when i try this sequence under the shell FN+ALT+(keypad nums to make ascii signs) the shell tell me all linux commands ! thanks -- Initial Header --- From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : Date : Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:50:08 +0100 Subject : Re: [newbie] Keyboard Problem I also use a laptop (Compaq Presario 2815). What do you get in the section InputDevice of your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4? Do you have there pc104 or pc105 keyboard? Mine is pc105. HTH. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Samba server not working
Hello.. First time writing I think that is a matter of resolving the localhost the box you got and not a matter of permissions. Have you tried? name of the box , IP of the box e.t.c Check the checklist form samba documentation. since pretty new in Samba but I did had the same problem using SWAT...so I assume the problem is how to resolve your host.. -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: , 26 2004 4:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba server not working On Wednesday 26 May 2004 13:00, Video 4Linux wrote: I'm trying to set up a Samba server on my Linux Mandrake 10 machine. I've copied the smb.conf settings from the Samba Howto and look like this: [global] workgroup = Thuis netbios name = Linux printcap name = cups disable spoolss = Yes show add printer wizard = No printing = cups [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S read only = No browseable = No [public] comment = Data path = /share force user = bas force group = users guest ok = Yes [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba printer admin = root, bas create mask = 0600 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes use client driver = Yes browseable = No I started the smb and nmb services which repsond both with [OK]. But when I run the command smbclient -L localhost I get: session request to LOCALHOST failed (Call returned zero bytes (EOF)) session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Call returned zero bytes (EOF)) Note that because I want to share a certain partition with a windows XP machine /share is mounted at a FAT32 partition. No idea if that has something to do with my problems. I also cannot chown the /share folder (operation not permitted). It is now owned by root. Help is very welcome. Bas Did you try with the default smb.conf file? Samba works out of the box in mandrake. The only line you have to change is workgroup = There is a copy of the default file at usr/share/samba The reason /share is owned by root is because it is FAT32 and has no perm bits. It will have the permissions defined in /etc/fstab and will default to whoever mounted it (root) You need to set the uid=value and gid=value options in the fstab line. You might also like to set the umask= option as well See 'man mount' Mounting the FAT32 partition at /share may not be a good idea. The msec security system expects everything under / to be owned by root and will try to alter the perms. Being FAT32 it will not be able to, but all the same a better location would be /mnt/share. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ### This message has been scanned by F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MDK / 366 Celeron, 64 megs / DNS server ?
I have a spare 366 Celeron with 64 megs of ram and about a 5 gig hd. I am connected through a broadband router. I was wondering if it might be possible to have the Celeron comp be a domain name server for my main computer, my mdk 9.2 box. I have been asked -- what kind of DNS server ? well, i would like to register a domain so as to replace the earthlink.net domain that my isp assigns me. I would hope to be able to retain all functions on my main mandrake box. Also, i'm not an advanced linux user. The easiest free route would be best. Other than that i dont know what the 366 Celeron would be good for. I know its really low on ram. Please advise me to my best course of action ? thanks on another note, its a hp pavillion and for some reason it hates my kvm. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] i am looking for a multiserver multipriroity binary usenet reader for gnome
i am looking for a multiserver multipriroity binary usenet reader for gnome can anyone recommend one ? does it exist ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] nforce Chipset and Mandrake 9.2
Hi all, Is anyone using or had experience getting the nforce chipset to work under 9.2? I downloaded the nVidia driver (NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.tar.gz) but I haven't been able to compile it. I got a bunch of compile errors. I upgraded from 9.1 and my soung and ethernet both were working just fine. Any suggestions? Travis Crook Visions Beyond _ Message sent using www.AlternativeMail.com - the easiest way to check your mail! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie-it] Sony Vaio PCG-GRT815E
hai verificato se il portatile usa un acpi nella blacklist del sito http://acpi.sourceforge.net Controllerò. consiglio una letta a http://www.cpqlinux.com/acpi-howto.html spiega un pò di cose su acpi Va bene insomma... il portatile potrebbe affidarsi ad esso perl'enumerazione delle periferiche una ricompilata al kernel, con patch acpi aggiornata e supporto apposito per sony vaio potrebbe risolverti tutti i problemi Ci proverò, anche se finora con la ricompilazione del kernel, fatta sulla mandrake, ho sempre toppato: i risultati sono stati deludenti. non conosco la college.. ma ha un kernel vecchietto.. molto del mancato supporto alle tue periferiche dipende da questo, il 2.4.22 ha in se molti backport della serie 2.6 e da solo potrebbe risolvere alcune cosette.. Infatti, avevo provato con la slack 9.1, ma a causa della scheda audio, non riuscivo a far partire kde, che si bloccava all'inizializzazione delle periferiche. 3. la scheda grafica (nvida fx go 5600 64 Mb) viene riconosciuta sì e no, anche se X funziona bene (niente accelerazione 3D); come tutte le nvidia con i drivers proprietari, migliora.. l'importante è che verifichi il caricamento di agpgart Purtroppo con la College agpgart non c'è tra i moduli caricati (allego l'output di demesg e lsmod) con questo funzionano assieme: Ora provo a modificare XF86Config per il touchpad, poi ti farò sapere manca il dma al lettore? verific con # hdparm /dev/hdx Sì è la prima cosa che ho fatto: bash-2.05a# hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: setting using_dma to 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on) bash-2.05a# non masterizzi al volo... scrivi prima la iso poi la bruci.. nessun problema Sì, il problema c'è: se inserisco la stringa in lilo.conf, poi non riesco a montare il cdrom, dovrei modificare i link simbolici ai device, ma mi crea confusione il fatto che masterizzatore e lettore cdrom siano lo stesso dispositivo. ?? ip fisso? #ifconfig #route che ci dicono? Ecco l'output: bash-2.05a# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:46:B3:62:E8 inet addr:192.168.2.2 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1190 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1073 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:715924 (699.1 Kb) TX bytes:213506 (208.5 Kb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0x2000 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1196 (1.1 Kb) TX bytes:1196 (1.1 Kb) bash-2.05a# route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface localnet* 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 loopback* 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo default 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 default 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG1 00 eth0 Infatti ora sono connessa con il portatile, ripeto, se avvio prima questo e poi il pc che fa da gateway, tutto bene, ma se faccio il contrario mi salta la rete, cosa che con un altro pc (un desk) invece non succede. Cmq, se spengo il portatile, la connessione sul gateway non salta. Grazie per l'aiuto Anna output_dmesg Description: Binary data
[newbie-it] xine
ciao a tutti chi è che ha la slackware 9.1 e riesce a vedere i dvd con xine? se c'è qualcuno, mi saprebbe dire come cavolo fa, visto che ci sto uscendo matto? grazie a tutti gianluca
[newbie-it] pppd
provo a collegarmi ad internet con kppp su una slackware 9.1, e dopo aver composto il numero, ho un messaggio di errore che dice che pppd è terminato in modo inaspettato con exit status 1. ho dato un'occhiata al man, ma non è esplicativo più di tanto riguardo al codice di errore. premendo sui dettagli del'errore, mi scrive ciò: Nov 19 23:22:07 gianluca pppd[1003]: By default the remote system is required to authenticate itself Nov 19 23:22:07 gianluca pppd[1003]: (because this system has a default route to the internet) Nov 19 23:22:07 gianluca pppd[1003]: but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. Nov 19 23:22:07 gianluca pppd[1003]: (None of the available passwords would let it use an IP address.) prima, con la mandrake 9.0 riuscivo a collegarmi tranquillamente... la versione di pppd è la 2.4.1 sapete aiutarmi? grazie a tutti gianluca
[newbie-it] Sony Vaio PCG-GRT815E
Ho acquistato un Sony Vaio PCG-GRT815E, poichè il modello compatibile con Linux, illustrato da un utente in Linux-on-laptop.com non è più in commercio. Le uniche distribuzioni che sono riuscita ad installare sono: Mandrake 8.2 e Slackware 9.0, tutte le altre si bloccavano, durante l'installazione, al loading program in memory. Speravo tanto sulla Mandrake 9.2, ma figuriamoci, l'installazione si blocca dopo la prima schermata. Alla fine ho scelto la College Linux con kernel 2.4.20, ma: 1. la scheda audio (sis 7012), benchè riconosciuta, se viene attivata, blocca irremediabilmente il sistema; 2. il power management ovvviamente non funziona (per ora ne posso fare a meno) 3. la scheda grafica (nvida fx go 5600 64 Mb) viene riconosciuta sì e no, anche se X funziona bene (niente accelerazione 3D); 4. il touchpad nisba, ma il mouse usb funziona; 5.Il lettore dvd rom funziona, ma i dvd vanno lenti ed a scatti, senza il supporto 3D; 6. il masterizzatore/lettore cd rom (dispositivo unico hdc) glielo dovrei far vedere io, ma dopo aver modificato lilo.conf con append=hdc=ide-scsi, come dovrei procedere visto che il dispositivo è unico sia per il lettore cd rom che per il masterizzatore? 7. la scheda di rete sis 900 invece va benissimo e, collegato in rete, il pc naviga alla grande, anche se devo prima accendere il portatile e poi il gateway, altrimenti la rete salta. Qualcuno ha dei suggerimenti? Saluti Anna
[newbie-it] internet connessione e stato
Ciao a tutti, Uso Linux Mandrake 9.2 da 2gg con gnome sono un principiante assoluto, scusate per cui la banalita' dei miei problemi: ho una connessione con modem funzionante a 56kbit che attivo e disattivo con una procedura che mi sembra piuttosto contorta: centro di controllo | psw di root | gestione reti | connetti invece mi piacerebbe avere sul pannello un'icona che mi dica se la connessione e' attivata o no, e che permetta di disattivarla VELOCEMENTE e vedere il traffico di rete. e inoltre come faccio a scegliere quale connessione remota utilizzare? Grazie Christian
[newbie-it] Desktop virtuali, multisessioni contemporanee, startX
Ciao, Scusate, lo so che esistono i manuali e li leggero' ma ci vuole tempo, potete dirmi voi come creo un nuovo utente? come chiudo l'interfaccia grafica una volta effettuata la login grafica? come faccio a dire al S.O. se partire con l'interfaccia grafica o meno? come faccio a passare da un desktop virtuale all'altro? posso avere piu' sessioni grafiche e/o terminale aperte contemporaneamente da utenti diversi? e come mi muovo da una all'altra? Per esempio vorrei loggarmi graficamente sia come root che come utente normale si puo'?come?e per passare da una sessione all'altra come faccio? Grazie Christian
Re: [newbie-it] Desktop virtuali, multisessioni contemporanee, startX
Grazie a tutti, per i suggerimenti... c'e' un modo per vedere i comandi che vengono inviati alla shell quando si fa un click col mouse? il Tuesday 18 November 2003 12:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto riguardo a [newbie-it] Desktop virtuali, multisessioni contemporanee, startX Ciao, Scusate, lo so che esistono i manuali e li leggero' ma ci vuole tempo, potete dirmi voi come creo un nuovo utente? Grafico: userdrake linea di comando: useradd come chiudo l'interfaccia grafica una volta effettuata la login grafica? Cioè?! se sono loggato come utente1 graficamente e decido di loggarmi come utente2 senza uscire da utente1 come faccio? probabilmente esiste un comando per loggarmi come utente2 su una console terminale, qual'e'? come mi hai detto, con un solo schermo non posso avere 2 sessioni grafiche aperte, contemporaneamente, per cui se a questo punto volessi usare l'interfaccia grafica su utente2 teoricamente potrei uccidere il processo X di utente1 e lanciare startX o che altro in utente2 ... no? come faccio a dire al S.O. se partire con l'interfaccia grafica o meno? Grafico: Mandrake Control Center, System-DrakXService disabiliti dm al boot linea di comando: chkconfig --level 5 dm off Grafico: Mandrake Control Center, Boot- DrakBoot e levi la spunta sull'avvio del server grafico. linea di comando: editi /etc/inittab e metti initdefault a 3 invece di 5 Forse il terzo è la cosa migliore è + pulita come faccio a passare da un desktop virtuale all'altro? Desktop virtuale o console virtuale? Nel primo caso quale WM usi? Gnome ma posso usare anche kde se e' piu' flessibile tu cosa mi consigli? posso avere piu' sessioni grafiche e/o terminale aperte contemporaneamente Sì alla prima solo se su monitor diversi, si incondizionato alla seconda. da utenti diversi? e come mi muovo da una all'altra? Dipende dove le hai aperte per come ho capito io: se le ho aperte all'interno di una unica possibile login grafica tramite n finestra terminali, mi ci muovo come normali finestre (alt+tab o col mouse) se invece mi sono loggato senza grafica dovrei vedere a tutto schermo la shell dei comandi dove do' il comando per nuova login (qual'e'?) e poi per muovermi dalla prima alla seconda ctrl + alt + fn? Per esempio vorrei loggarmi graficamente sia come root che come utente Vedi sopra, cmq non è mai una buona idea loggarsi graficamente come root ma ti puoi aprire quante console di root vuoi quando sei loggato graficamente come utente normale normale si puo'?come?e per passare da una sessione all'altra come faccio? Grazie Christian Ciao, Germano Ciao grazie, Christian
Re: [newbie-it] driver modem
On Monday 17 November 2003 15:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok tom, mandameli. ok,te li mando ora. ho visto che hai la slackware 9.1. hai provato a installare dei paccheti rpm? a me scrive sempre Segmentation fault... rpm?? per la Slack?? i pachetti precompilati per la slack in genere sono .tgz che installi con #installpkg ... non ho mai trovato rpm per slack ... (magari sbaglio,ma tt è possibile) che io sappia gli rpm per slack te li crei tu con checkinstall (anche se poco pratico) non è che hai provato ad installare gli rpm per la MDK su Slack? perche in quel caso il Segmentatio fault è plausibile! p.s. installa anche i sorgenti del kernel per installare il driveraltrimenti nisba. -- Ciao , Tom infatti è quello il motivo: avevo provato ad installare pacchetti rpm per la Mandrake comunque ti ringrazio moltissimo ho visto che sono beta: li hai provati? funzionano bene? grazie ancora gianluca
Re: [newbie-it] driver modem
On Sunday 16 November 2003 22:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: se li avete, potreste gentilmente mandarmeli? quelli generici, si intende... se non li hai gia ricevuti fammi sapereio ho questi. |11:40 [EMAIL PROTECTED]~|$ ls documenti/trgz-dload/*hsf* documenti/trgz-dload/hsflinmodem-5.03.27mbsibeta02122600.tar.gz* -- Ciao , Tom ok tom, mandameli. ho visto che hai la slackware 9.1. hai provato a installare dei paccheti rpm? a me scrive sempre Segmentation fault... grazie mille gianluca
[newbie-it] driver modem
che avete per caso i driver per i modem con chipset conexant HSF in formato .tar.gz COMPLETI? sul sito www.linuxant.com quelli completi si pagano, io ho quelli completi per la mandrake però avendo installato la slackware quelli che ho non vanno bene... :((( se li avete, potreste gentilmente mandarmeli? quelli generici, si intende... grazie a tutti!! gianluca
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 PowerPack confusion/worries
Hi, If I install LM9.2, will the last install step of automatic update take care of updating everything installed including the kernel itself? Or is there something peculiar to LM9.2 that is not so automatic? Is there something else I would need to do? Will the kernel be updated automatically too? If the people paying have so many problems, God help those who do not. Linux keeps shooting itself in the foot. It is its own killer. Thanks, Ayoub Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 12:51 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 02:33 am, Melissa Reese wrote: 1) Why would the PowerPack ship with so many things missing, while the download site would have the more complete package? 2) Why was this issue not presented to those of us who decided to go to the MandrakeStore and purchase our packages directly? Any of the missing packages should be available for free download from the ditribution mirrors. INstall from the cd's you received and then set up your urpmi sources to point at an ftp mirror and then install anything missing. To set up sources, go to http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie-it] plugin xine
ho provato a vedere un DVD (il signore degli anelli: le due torri) con xine su mdk 9.0 ma mi dice che non trova i plugin adatti. mi sapreste consigliare un URL da dove si scaricano? grazie a tutti Gianluca
Re:[newbie-it] x session su netboot
Nel dubbio che il mio problema risieda nel file XF86Config, ho rinominato il suddetto file ed ho provato a far testare a xfree il mio hw: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:root]$ XFree86 -probeonly XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.18-24.8.0smp i686 [ELF] Build Date: 06 March 2003 Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Wed Nov 5 18:57:46 2003 (EE) Unable to locate/open config file (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile() Fatal server error: no screens found When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log. Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Che significa no screens found? Che non riesce a riconoscere il monitor? Quindi il fatto che mi da' schermo nero quando lancio startx e' dovuto a questo? Ma perche', se il file di configurazione e' quello del server, che ha lo stesso monitor? Sigh, aiutatemi per favore... Bye, Chiara
Re:[newbie-it] Sempre Open Office
Utilizzando il foglio di calcolo di Open Office 1.1 ... Dato che la tabella creata è abbastanza lunga come posso fare per tenere la 1 riga, ovvero l'intestazione, fissa, in modo tale che quando scorro i dati con la scrollbar ho sempre l'intestazione della tabella di riferimento bloccata in alto, altrimenti mi perdo... Grazie ciao ciao Davide Dalla Guida OOo: «Fissa righe o colonne come intestazione Se avete righe o colonne di dati piuttosto lunghe, che si estendono oltre l'area visualizzabile del foglio elettronico, potete fissarle in modo che siano sempre visibili mentre scorrete la parte restante dei dati. 1.Selezionate la riga sottostante o la colonna a destra della riga o della colonna da includere nella regione fissa. Tutte le righe soprastanti o tutte le colonne a sinistra della selezione rimarranno fisse. Per fissare le righe e colonne sia orizzontalmente che verticalmente, selezionate la cella sotto la riga e a destra della colonna che volete rendere fissa. 2.Attivate il comando Finestra - Fissa. Per disattivare, scegliete nuovamente Finestra - Fissa.» Ciao. Daniele
Re: [newbie] Redhat = traitors???
Ronald J. Hall wrote: Read the excerpt, follow the link for the complete story: Spot on! My 2 cents worth- the greatest impediments to broad acceptance of Linux are *)a lack of readable instruction material, *)problematic configuration issues, especially in relation to networking and graphic cards, *)poor customer service from the paid for support distributors (notably Mandrake in my experience), *) and a (generally) in-hospitable user group network that will not tolerate our cannot communicate with those just beginning to put their toes into the Linux waters (present company excepted, of course :-) ) But there's hope: Longtime Microsoft foe Novell signs an agreement to acquire SuSE Linux for $210 million in cash, while IBM will make a $50 million investment in Novell. Tue Nov 04 08:14:00 PST 2003 http://ct.com.com/click?q=f6-QkfIQMwckz6~PAtX69bwFsTpfx~v I think the influence of these two giants will bring positive change, especially to the Linux Desktop, although I'd expect the cost of distros to rise significantly. On the last point, I don't mind paying. I have always bought the MDK Powerpaks since version 8.x - what I hate is that I pay for upadtes that generally ruin my previous install (I coulda done that for free) and then the paid for support doesn't respond to my incidents. Sorry, I'm off again... Byeee. -- Pierre Final Filer Software http://www.finalfiler.com Worrigee, NSW, Australia 2540 -- Life's like a roll of toilet paper- The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware diagnostics (old Dell)
Björn Olsson wrote: Any suggestions welcomed DOes it appear to be booting? Has the system been set correctly for the graphics card? Have you tried a mainboard reset- MB's will have an onboard jumper where you can force a reset. Watching for your posts... -- Pierre Final Filer Software http://www.finalfiler.com Worrigee, NSW, Australia 2540 -- Life's like a roll of toilet paper- The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] reason to upgrade to 9.2?
I ran 8. SPent months getting it going. I upgraded to 9.0 - absolute disaster. In despair did a clean install. Great. Everything worked. I upgraded to 9.1 - disaster. Network kaput. Dial up to ISP broken. SAMBA zilched. Two month later, seems OK. Except writing to SAMBA from a Win box is incredibly slow. Moved file sharing back to a WinXP PC. Current reading of problem suggests no cure that I can effect. So, why would I want to take a chance on 9.2 - but maybe I wouldn't coz I have an LG DVD/CD-RW? -- Pierre Final Filer Software http://www.finalfiler.com Worrigee, NSW, Australia 2540 -- Life's like a roll of toilet paper- The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Why is it..
... that BEFORE you get Linux, those who speak in favour of it say things like oh, get Linux coz it is far less demanding on hardware or you have much more control configuring hardware or you are in control Then when you do install Linux and the gee whizz GFX card won't work or the CD-ROM can't be mounted or the poor network performance is the fault of that low end NIC (all which work very well on another OS :-)), the experts all respond in unison - for Linux you need the very BEST hardware. Get rid of that crappy junk. Buy new. Buy the best :-) Feeling mischievous -- Pierre Final Filer Software http://www.finalfiler.com Worrigee, NSW, Australia 2540 -- Life's like a roll of toilet paper- The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re:[newbie-it] WM e orologi
Ancora su WindowMaker... c'e' un modo per far comparire un orologio, tipo quello della barra di kde, sul desktop? Certo. Probabilmente ci sarà già una dock app per l'orologio (prova scrivendo in una shell wm e dando doppio tab per vedere tutte le applet che già ci sono installate). In ogni caso un'ottima risorsa per le dock app è: http://www.bensinclair.com/dockapp/ Ci trovi veramente di tutto (anche il timer per la lavatrice)! =) Ciao ciao! Chiara
Re:[newbie-it] MW, mutt, terminali e CARATTERI
Buongiorno ;-) Ho deciso di passare a un uso intensivo di windowmaker, e il primo impatto problematico e' quello visivo: come posso regolare la dimensione delle finestre della shell Bè, tutte le finestre le puoi ridimensionare trascinando l'angolo in basso a destra. Oppure puoi clikkare col tasto destro sulla barra in alto e scegliere maximize (o qualcosa del genere). Inoltre puoi ovviamente passare la geometry della finestra quando lanci l'applicazione. e, soprattutto, quelle dei caratteri? Per quanto riguarda i caratteri credo dipenda dal tipo di terminale che usi (xterm, konsole, etc.)... Ciao, Chiara
Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **
Carroll Grigsby wrote: A suggestion: How about a topic-of-the-week? -- cmg ... or an 'award' for the most obfuscated, geekie response? This could be determined by the number of newbies left bewildered with heads spinning by the answer to their question. :-) I'm kidding. I think. :-) -- Pierre Final Filer Software http://www.finalfiler.com Worrigee, NSW, Australia 2540 -- Life's like a roll of toilet paper- The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution or no?
I really like Evolution. Honestly though, I've never used anything but Evolution. So far it does everything I need it to do. -A On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 15:51, Grant wrote: I'm slowly migrating from Windows software to Linux software with the help of Win4Lin. It's time to ditch Outlook, and Evolution looks like the natural alternative. Would anyone recommend something else instead? I need email, tasks, contacts, and a calendar. My goal is to have everything I use accessible through the Internet, but I plan to use VNC so I could just access Evolution that way. - Grant __ 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] ** Welcome to Newbie **
Carroll Grigsby wrote: upon the amount and nature of various chemical substances consumed by the contestant within the previous 24 hours. Only those producing mind altering states, I hope. :-D -- Pierre Final Filer Software http://www.finalfiler.com Worrigee, NSW, Australia 2540 -- Life's like a roll of toilet paper- The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re:[newbie-it] strano kde 3.1.3
ciao a tutti ho fatto l'aggiornamento a mandrake 9.2. tutto ok se non che mi sono sparite le icone dei dispositivi sul desktop. ho provato dal menu configura desktop ma mi fa vedere solo le icone dei filesystem montati. ho provato a ricrearle, ma se monto un filesystem ad es. da terminale, mi non mi segna con l'icona che è montato. qualcuno ne sa qualcosa Sì, io per esempio...alla fine non ne sono venuta a capo, anche se il fattaccio mi è successo sulla mdk 9.1, ma la versione di kde era proprio quella, la 3.1.3 che avevo aggiornato dalla 3.1.0 e non c'è stato verso di ricreare le icone dei dispositivi, malgrado poi fossero cmq accessibili tramite file manager. Quello che è successo dopo, nel tentativo di ripristinare la vecchia versione di kde, è meglio che non lo racconto... :) Ciao Anna
Re: [newbie] ICS, Shorewall stops rest of network
Hi Derek, Your wrote: Shorewall is a very effective firewall, but there are a couple of things you should know. Many thanks for that - it is the clearest explanation I have yet read about this issue. Great! More importantly, following your steps suggestions EVERYTHING is working as I want. Mate, the next shout's on me, as we say down here! -- Pierre Final Filer Software http://www.finalfiler.com Worrigee, NSW, Australia 2540 -- Life's like a roll of toilet paper- The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ICS, Shorewall stops rest of network
It has taken me several months to work out that the reason I can't access the SAMBA server I have set up is because of the Shorewall settings configured by invoking MDK9.x ICS. At least that is my reading of it. Essentially, everything else on my network seems to work - ICS, and the Linux box can read and write to the shared folders on the WinXP boxes. However, although I can see the Samba Server connection on the WinXP box, attempting to open it results in Network Path not found. I cannot ping 192.168.1.1 However, when I disable Shorewall, I can ping 192.168.1.1 and I can access Samba. But now ICS is disabled :( I have tried to make of sense of the instructions and solutions out there on the internet. Frankly, my head is spinning. The Quickstart guide at Shorewall.net left me even more confused. Is anyone able to give me a simple, plain english explanation on how to configure Shorewall ICS so the other computers on my local workgroup network can access SAMBA? Many thanks in advance... -- Pierre Final Filer Software http://www.finalfiler.com Worrigee, NSW, Australia 2540 -- Life's like a roll of toilet paper- The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] hmmm, odd
Just joined this list, but when I sent a post I got: Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: linux-mandrake newbie,emc (The name was not found at the remote site. Check that the name has been entered correctly.) However, I received my post via the list address, [EMAIL PROTECTED], so I assume all is well. Or is it? TIA -- Pierre Final Filer Software http://www.finalfiler.com Worrigee, NSW, Australia 2540 -- Life's like a roll of toilet paper- The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ICS, Shorewall stops rest of network
Hi everyone, especially those who responded to my thread. You've given me a fair bit to go on with. Many thanks -- Pierre Final Filer Software http://www.finalfiler.com Worrigee, NSW, Australia 2540 -- Life's like a roll of toilet paper- The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hmmm, odd
Margot wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This message came to the list, but you have your Reply-to set to Thanks. Done! -- Pierre Final Filer Software http://www.finalfiler.com Worrigee, NSW, Australia 2540 -- Life's like a roll of toilet paper- The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie-it] unallocated area sull
Alle 19:53, mercoledì 22 ottobre 2003, Pierluigi Peggiani ha scritto: Sull'hard disk (visualizzato con partition magic) ho una area definita UNaLLOCATED. Può essere un problema durante l'installazione di mandrake 9.2? Lo spazio non allocato non ti creerà nessun problema. Puoi inglobarlo nella partizione che creerai per Linux. Spesso i sistemi Windows, vai a sapere perchè, lasciano uno spazio non allocato in coda, in genere di circa 8 MB. La suddetta versione riconosce i modem winmodem conexant? Non ho un modem di quel tipo, ma da quel che ne so i driver per Linux esistono. Solo che sono prodotti da una azienda, la Linuxant (che fantasia), che li vende se non sbaglio per una cifra che si aggira sui 15 dollari. Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] 9.2: dove sono i sorgenti?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 01:47, martedì 21 ottobre 2003, Antonluigi ha scritto: Io a mandrake ci sono affezionato, mi sono iscritto al club per supportarli, ma quando fanno così mi farebbero venire voglia di mandarli a quel paese. Possibile che su tre cd non ci sia stata la possibilità di levare qualche ca e mettere i sorgenti?? Scusate lo sfogo, ma mi piacerebbe sapere che ne pensate. Quasi quasi scrivo a ziobudda... Ho installato la nuova 9.2 da un paio di giorni, ma ho avuto poco tempo per darle un'occhiata. Quindi non mi ero ancora accorto dell'assenza dei sorgenti. Hai già scritto un post di protesta nel forum del Club? Daniele
Re: [newbie] MSN Messenger + Linux clients
Why is it that after I start aMSN via the terminal the terminal session that I used to start aMSN is dead. Meaning, I can't do anything with that terminal session unless I close out aMSN. Is there a way to launch aMSN through the GUI so I don't have a term window just sitting around useless? -A On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 10:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded aMSN and got it working okay. It crashed about 30 seconds after I logged in for the first time. Had to kill -9 the process. We'll see how it goes. It was easy to install.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MSN Messenger + Linux clients
Thanks Derek. I launched MenuDrake in order to do what you suggested. I have listed System Menu and User Menu. I selected my user in the drop-down and then clicked configure but nothing happened. How do I go about adding this menu item to only my account's menu? Thanks! -A On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 16:34, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 21 Oct 2003 10:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it that after I start aMSN via the terminal the terminal session that I used to start aMSN is dead. Meaning, I can't do anything with that terminal session unless I close out aMSN. Is there a way to launch aMSN through the GUI so I don't have a term window just sitting around useless? You are running it in foreground. Start it with ./amsn it will then run in background. You could also use menudrake to create a menu entry. Use /path/to/directory/amsn as the command to start it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re:R: [newbie-it] OT attenzione utenti Libero :(
SE Qualcuno solo ora si accorge che Wind è ladra come gli altri gestori, deve essere vissuto davvero nelle favole del nostro presidente dl consiglio operaio sino a oggi, mi pare. QUESTO è UN PAESE DI LADRI E MAFIOSI IN TUTTE LE ATTIVITA' PROFESSIONALI E LAVORATIVE, PERCHE' DOVREBBE FARE ECCEZIONE LA TELEFONIA, PERCHE'? W ITALIA W LIBERISMO E TUTTE QUELLE CAZZATE LI' PER I GONZI. Saluti a tutti Cos'è, cerchi di vincere il premio per la email qualunquista più OT dell'anno? Se è così, hai buone probabilità (e il mio voto). Se non è così, vicino a casa tua dovresti trovare un ufficio postale. Se entri, forse troverai una fila (se non è un ufficio che funziona bene, e se non hanno installato la macchinetta elimina-code): prendi posto ed inizia a dire queste cose a voce alta (senza scordarti di lamentarti anche un po' perchè non ci sono più le mezze stagioni e perchè, in fin dei conti, si stava meglio quando si stava peggio)... vedrai che qualcuno con cui proseguire il discorso lo troverai, senza irrompere così brutalmente nelle nostre malcapitate caselle di posta elettronica. Ciao. Daniele
[newbie] i586 vs i686
All the things I read when doing research on getting Linux running mentioned i586 as the designator for modern PC-type chipsets. Looking around in KDE's start menu, I saw the KDE Control Center. I have been using the Mandrake Control Center so I decided to see what the KDE one looked like. Under the Index tab (with no tree options selected) I see i686 listed as my machine type. So what is the difference between these two? -- | aaron west | www.trajiklyhip.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] i586 vs i686
Ok, thanks. So while I downloaded the i586 distro's and installed them, the control center is just recognizing my machine architecture as i686. So I'm really running the non-optimized i586? On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 10:40, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday October 18 2003 10:11 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All the things I read when doing research on getting Linux running mentioned i586 as the designator for modern PC-type chipsets. Looking around in KDE's start menu, I saw the KDE Control Center. I have been using the Mandrake Control Center so I decided to see what the KDE one looked like. Under the Index tab (with no tree options selected) I see i686 listed as my machine type. So what is the difference between these two? There's improvements to the i586 architecture in i686. Most improvements would be added instructions such as CMOV. i586 is safer for all the various hardware Mandrake is installed on. Compiling for i686 rarely adds any optimization, and sometimes makes the programs run slower. So most of the distro is compiled for i586. An exception is the libs in /lib/i686/ which are installed and used if Mandrake detects an i686 cpu. Type 'arch' in a terminal to see. 'Course the whole deal is much more complex than that. If ya want more, start Googling. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] i586 vs i686
Greg, thanks for the link to your article. I read the first 2 pages and most of it made sense to me. I'm still a raging newbie, so I don't understand most things. However it looks like a really good article that I'll be able to finish later since I dl'd it. Gotta get off the computer for a while.. imagine that. On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 10:52, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 18 October 2003 11:44 am, Joeb wrote: Now on a fast machine, with lots of memory and a fast harddrive, the i686 optimizations might get your Mozilla browser to load in six seconds instead of eight. If that's worth recompiling everything to you, then go for it, but for most people probably won't see enought of a difference to justify the effort. I wrote about this if your interested http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/mandrake_a_la_gentoo-9.2.pdf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Permissions solution
Good point. I do have a portable mp3 player. And space isn't an issue as the /mp3s partition is 25GB. ;-p -a On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 15:57, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:55:57AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm now copying over all my backed up mp3s from CDs to /mp3s. Regards, If you don't have a portable player and space is an issue, you might look at ogg instead of mp3 to get more quality in less space. cheers, Todd __ 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: R: [newbie-it] mandrake 9.2 pre order
il bonifico internazionale costa almeno una dozzina di euro. guarda se puoi pagare con un assegno circolare. costa molto meno Leggi qui: http://www.europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gtdoc=IP/02/941|0|RAPIDlg=ITdisplay= Tra l'altro, c'è scritto che: «Prelievi di contante e pagamenti con carta In base al regolamento sui pagamenti transfrontalieri, dal 1° luglio 2002 le commissioni per i prelievi in euro dai sportelli automatici devono essere le stesse sia che il bancomat sia ubicato nel paese in cui il cliente detiene il conto bancario sia che sia ubicato altrove. (...) Sempre a partire dal 1° luglio 2002, le commissioni per l'uso di carte di credito e di pagamento (per i pagamenti in euro fino a 12.500) debbono essere le stesse sia che i pagamenti vengano fatti nel paese in cui è emessa la carta sia che vengano fatti in un altro Stato membro. Di conseguenza sarà meno caro acquistare beni e servizi durante un viaggio in altri Stati membri. Sarà inoltre meno costoso acquistare beni e servizi da altri Stati membri via Internet, telefono o posta. (...) Bonifici transfrontalieri Tra un anno circa (1° luglio 2003) lo stesso principio di parità delle spese per le transazioni nazionali e transfrontaliere in euro (fino a 12.500) si applicherà ai bonifici tra conti bancari.» Quindi non si tratta di bonifico internazionale (MandrakeSoft è a Parigi, in una traversa di Rue de Montmartre). Chiedi in banca, ma sicuramente i costi non sono di 12 (e se lo sono, protesta pure: le norme europee sono state emanate per regolamento, quindi sono già vigenti!). Ciao... Daniele
[newbie-it] about mozilla firebird
ho provato mozilla firebird 1.6.1... è veramente velocissimo... ma... se voglio aprire due finestre di mozilla non lo posso fare, cioè... lancio la prima ed è ok. poi quando lancio la seconda mi compare il profile manager: se scelgo il profilo che sto usando con la prima finestra mi dice che il profilo è in uso e quindi non se ne fa niente... quindi devo crearmi un nuovo profilo... ma allora se devo aprire 20 finestre di mozilla devo creare 20 profili diversi? l'unica cosa è andare su file-nuovo-finestra di navigator... ed è tutto ok continuo a fare così o c'è qualcuno che sa consigliarmi qualcosa per aprire tanti mozillini semplicemente con un click sul pannello? grazie gianluca
[newbie-it] about gdm
ho dei problemi con il display manager di gnome: gdm. quando uso gdm ed entro con gnome, a volte succede che se provo a riavviare o a spegnere il computer, il controllo ritorna sulla finestra di login di gdm. poi quando clicco su sistema-shutdown o reboot, una volta iniziata la procedura di spegnimento, scrive: Arresto dm..[FALLITO] invece con kdm è tutto ok, solo che kdm è brutto ed è terribilmente lento... che posso fare pr usare al meglio gdm? grazie gianluca
[newbie-it] kernel
sapete se esiste qualche tool che esamina l'hardware e genera automaticamente il file .config da usare per ricompilare il kernel? scusate se sono sfaticato :)) grazie gianluca
