Re: [newbie] can't eject cd after burning
How about if you type the following at the command line? eject /mnt/cdrom or if that doesn't work how about umount /mnt/cdrom eject /mnt/cdrom I tried that and still no go. After burning it seems it's not mounted. I tried mounting it and couldn't--unknown filesystem and none specified. It's known as cdrom2. Todd Can you take a look at the processes running while your're burning and afterward? Does some process still have control of the device? -- Anthony Abby http://www.comicsnsuch | Comic Community News http://www.aplusdata.com | System Consultation Web Development Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: (Funny) US Military website hacked (they run MS? - THAT'S funny!)
Stephen Kuhn said: Had to, HAD to pass this on - you'd reckon that the US government agencies would have THOUGHT enough after the Slapper hit the SQL servers world-wide...and since most agencies are migrating their webservers to either unix or linux...gads - how dumb... http://www.msnbc.com/news/886524.asp?0si=-cp1=1 Personall I didn't think this was very funny at all. And on the contrary most federal agencies are not migrating to Linux or Unix. While some agencies have received waivers to migrate from Windows to Linux or Unix in specific situations, the vast majority of governmental systems continue and will remain on Windows. But then those agencies with waivers are still running Windows on the desktop, the waivers are for things like web and mail servers. The US Navy is in the midst of spending $6 billion dollars on migrating the entire shore-based enterprise to Windows 2000 for instance (I'm involved in that process unfortunately). But I agree that MS security really sucks. While I have to use Windows here at work (Military), I don't use it at home. I'm all Linux (Mandrake as a matter of fact) and my four servers run Mandrake linux as well. Part of the problem is that security of the enterprises (each branch has there own) is handled in a hap hazard approach because they were designed piece-meal. The military, and the rest of the federal government, as a whole is working toward correcting that problem but it's certainly not going to happen over night. But this type of hacking is not funny, particularly now when our forces are getting ready to head into harms way. The server(s) that were hacked have not been identified as far as I've been able to tell, but one can only hope it or they, weren't any really important system. -- Anthony Abby http://www.comicsnsuch | Comic Community News http://www.aplusdata.com | System Consultation Web Development Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cd after burning
Todd Slater said: Using cdrdao, with the --eject flag, sometimes after burning the green light on the cd burner flashes, but I am unable to eject it. But sometimes it does eject. This is annoying because right now the only way I know to get the CD out is to reboot :(. The burner is an HP CD-Writer Plus. Todd How about if you type the following at the command line? eject /mnt/cdrom or if that doesn't work how about umount /mnt/cdrom eject /mnt/cdrom -- Anthony Abby http://www.comicsnsuch | Comic Community News http://www.aplusdata.com | System Consultation Web Development Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] konqueror web browser
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 15:55, John Michael Drouhard wrote: Just a quick question - in Konqueror, why are buttons incorrectly displayed? They look just like a white box with a black line around them. The text is not there. I would just like to know how to make Konqueror display buttons correctly. Thanks! John Drouhard You're running KDE 3.1 over Mandrake 9.1RC1? I'm having the same problem, or actually I was having the same problem (KDE 3.1 over Mandrake 9.1RC1) but I ended up adding a Cooker repository in urpmi and did all the updates. Problem has gone away. -- Anthony Abby http://www.comicsnsuch.com | http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News | Web Programming Inventory Control, Auction, Management | Cold Fusion | PHP ASP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] What happened to APMI Support?
I loaded up 9.1RC1 over the weekend and noticed that APMI support seems to have dissapeared. I've loaded 9.1RC on my laptop, so now when I poweroff my laptop no longer powers off. I had 2.4.20-2mdk loaded under 9.0 previously and APMI worked just fine under that Cooker kernel. Now I just upgraded my kernel to 2.4.21pre4-10mdk from the 9.1RC 2.4.21pre4-6mdk kernel. Still no APMI support. Anyone know where it went?? :) -- Anthony Abby http://www.comicsnsuch.com | http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News | Web Programming Inventory Control, Auction, Management | Cold Fusion | PHP ASP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.1RC1/Options
Where was the option for one click opening, and the option to set the default browser moved to in 9.1RC1? They're not in the place they were at in 9.0 and I can't find either. Oh, and also, the option to kill pop up windows? Can't find that either. Thanks! -- Anthony Abby http://www.comicsnsuch.com | http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News | Web Programming Inventory Control, Auction, Management | Cold Fusion | PHP ASP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Exchange email replacement?
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 15:13, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 23:50, T E wrote: Hi all, I am wondering what any of you recommend for a Microsoft Exchange Server replacement from the Linux world. I was orginally considering the Bynari product, but I hear postfix with fetchmail will also work as well? The replacement will need to work with a an Exchange 5.5 box AND support all the groupware features such as public calendering and public contact lists...probably accross subnets... Any ideas? Courier-IMAP is part of the entire Courier project - that would suffice - although, it's a tough one to configure and get going - but once you do, you're right as rain! UW-IMAP and Postfix are easy to set up though. -- Anthony Abby - http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News | Web Programming Inventory Control, Auction, Management | Cold Fusion PHP ASP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] crontab in 9.0
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 12:18, Miark wrote: Have their been any issues with crontab in 9.0? I can't get it to do anything as a user or as root. I use cron all the time. I run it for backups nightly. No issues here. -- Anthony Abby - http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News | Web Programming Inventory Control, Auction, Management | Cold Fusion PHP ASP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ssl sites and non-ssl sites on same server?
Jody Cleveland said: Hello, I'm fairly new to both linux and apache. So far, I've only used my server for hosting squirrelmail, which I have running using ssl. Well, now I have one of our libraries that wants to move their web pages off the win2k box, and onto the linux box. So, I added their entry into httpd.conf and it breaks the ssl site. Any ideas? You don't really provide enough detail to venture much of a guess here. how about providing your configs and the exact error you're seeing... that would be a good start. -- Anthony Abby - http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News| Web Programming Inventory and Management System | Cold Fusion PHP ASP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] webmin
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 14:02, Robert Wideman wrote: No - I don't use Apache. Then you cant run webmin. Unless you use another webserver Rob wrong. Then i am still learning Linux. Then again i never use webmin. We've all been there. For webmin to run, you only need to install it, then ensure shorewall lets your system listen on port 1. Ensure webmin is running though ;) -- Anthony Abby - http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News | Web Programming Inventory Control, Auction, Management | Cold Fusion PHP ASP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Lovin' KDE 3.1
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 14:56, Robert Wideman wrote: libarts == 1.1.0-1tex is needed by arts-1.1.0-1tex kdelibs == 3.1-3tex is needed by kdelibs-devel-3.1-3tex libarts == 1.1.0-1tex is needed by libarts-devel-1.1.0-1tex go to rpmfind.net and find them, install them, then retry the kde install Rob That's probably not his/her problem. If you downloaded all the rpms from texstar, you already have them. Read the README.TXT and install things in the order he says to. Then, install everything else you want using --force --nodeps. -- Anthony Abby - http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News | Web Programming Inventory Control, Auction, Management | Cold Fusion PHP ASP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Lovin' KDE 3.1
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 19:08, Robert Wideman wrote: Whoever sent that wget commandI have never tried using wget for just getting multiple files like that. I mean i have seen it all over but never used it knowingly. I tried it and i LOVE IT. I got to learn all of its features now Rob I sent it.. and you're welcome :) wget is pretty cool... -- Anthony Abby - http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News | Web Programming Inventory Control, Auction, Management | Cold Fusion PHP ASP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ISO Downloads
Craig Deline Jr said: I just downloaded Mandrake 9 ISO's from mirror.aca.oakland.edu The first image, Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso, after I burn it to a CD (Using Nero 5.5), does not boot, and I cannot see any files on it in windows as I can on the other two (Disc's 23). I am using Nero 5.5 with a Philips 8x4x32 CDRW Drive (CD4800 I think). I tried booting on my laptop's CD-ROM drive (QSR SDR-081 DVD ROM) and my desktop's (Creative DVD-ROM DVD1241E) to no avail. My computers are set in the BIOS to boot from CD-ROM first. Any suggestions? Besides downloading from another server? Thanx You did burn the iso as an image correct? In other words, you didn't burn the .iso itself on the cd right? -- Anthony Abby - http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News| Web Programming Inventory and Management System | Cold Fusion PHP ASP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 on Intel Hardware
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 16:35, Brian Smith wrote: Hello, I would like to put Mandrake 9.0 on a 'white box' that I have at home. Will Mandrake 9.0 run on Intel hardware? Would this be the i586 designation, or is there another distribution that I should be downloading? Yup, it sure will, and yes your designation would be i586. -- Anthony Abby - http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News | Web Programming Inventory Control, Auction, Management | Cold Fusion PHP ASP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ANNOUCEMENT: KDE 3.1 IS OUT
Stephen Kuhn said: Just though y'all would like to know that. Now we can sit back and watch the complete and utter chaos. There aren't any Mandrake rpms yet anyway are there? -- Anthony Abby - http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News| Web Programming Inventory and Management System | Cold Fusion PHP ASP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Packaging systems [was: ANNOUCEMENT: KDE 3.1 IS OUT]
No it isn't and frankly compared to ports rpm sucks ;o), don't get me wrong rpm is good enough for everyday use, but what I do like with ports is that it compiles, of course it takes longer, but it gets adapted for your own system. Takes a little while is right.. on my PII, upgrading KDE via ports takes about 14-18 hours! Of course, that's upgrading XFree86 also. compiling takes a very long time -- Anthony Abby - http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News| Web Programming Inventory and Management System | Cold Fusion PHP ASP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix
Check out the pop-before-smtp module. Linked to from the postfix website. Anthony gcobb said: I have recently done an install of 8.2. I selected the Postfix package. I've done very little with Postfix in the way of changing the configuration. I created a few accounts on the server and from a system that is on the same internal network I can send/receive properly. Here's how it goes: From this computer on the same hub, I can use an email account I created on that computer and send mail through it to someone else at any random email address. If I go to a computer off this internet anywhere I can try the same thing and it tells me I can't relay. Restricting relaying is fine, I just don't know what to do in order to get authorized accounts to be able to use their email account as they would any other. Any help would be appreciated Greg -- Anthony Abby - http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News| Web Programming Inventory and Management System | Cold Fusion PHP ASP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MandrakeSoft Bankruptcy Plan Gets Court Approval
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-28-015-26-NW-BZ-MD -- Anthony Abby - http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News| Web Programming Inventory and Management System | Cold Fusion PHP ASP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet security Mandrake 9.0
Ed said: I installed Mandrake 9.0 on my PC, that is connected to my internet provider via an ADSL USB modem. I don't have a network, just a simple PC. The security level was put to 'high' during installation, but I don't know at all to what extend I am protected against what. But I am online during many hours a day and I guess hat this makes security more and more important. I delved through many internet pages dealing with firewall and security information but they very often deal with setting up a firewall for computer on a network. Does anyone know where to find information about configuring security on a single PC? Setting msec to high is a good first step, but you need to make sure shorewall is on also. You'll find it under Security in the Mandrake Control Center. For more info on security check out MandrakeUser (http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/index.html). -- Anthony Abby - http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News| Web Programming Inventory and Management System | Cold Fusion PHP ASP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Compiling Kernels
Jordan Elver said: Hi, Just a quick question regarding compiling Kernels. I am right in thinking that I can compile additional kernels, which I specifically select to use to boot? Can I safely compile a new kernel without mucking up my current system? If anyone has a good newbie website that they know of that would be good as well. Thanks for any info, Jord Sure, you can have any number of kernels in your system... you're only going to use one at a time, so no worries. For more info, check out http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/index.html#ku -- Anthony Abby - http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News| Web Programming Inventory and Management System | Cold Fusion PHP ASP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PHP-Nuke..... check this out!
Just in case no one had happen to notice this http://phpnuke.org/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=5325mode=order=0thold=0 Am I wrong here? Didn't Mandrake support Burzi from the beginning of his project? -- Anthony Abby - http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News | Web Programming Inventory Control, Auction, Management | Cold Fusion PHP ASP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PHP-Nuke..... check this out!
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 13:37, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 6:37 pm, Charlie wrote: On Sunday 19 January 2003 11:11 am, Anthony Abby wrote: Just in case no one had happen to notice this http://phpnuke.org/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=5325mode=orde r= 0thold=0 Am I wrong here? Didn't Mandrake support Burzi from the beginning of his project? You aren't wrong. Mandrake supported a lot of projects that will (possibly) run for the hills since the bankruptcy protection application. It's all about who writes (can write) the checks. Show me the money in other words. I can't really blame him or anyone else with a project under development. Developers have to eat too. I can. Not for moving, but for despicable slights on Mandrake when they have supported him. Yes he did make some unsupported claims about Redhat/Mandrake, which is pretty weird in and of itself. But I wasn't aware he was a paid employee of Mandrake. Can anyone substantiate that? Everything I'd read about PHP-Nuke prior to adopting it as the basis for my website a few weeks ago, simply stated Mandrake provided un-named support since the inception of the project. Can anyone shed some light on exactly what support Mandrake provided him? I'd certainly like to know more. -- Anthony Abby - http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News | Web Programming Inventory Control, Auction, Management | Cold Fusion PHP ASP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Connecting to an NT network?
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 15:23, Paul Kaplan wrote: Does anyone know if it is possible to logon to an NT network using a Linux client? How would I do this? What is the Linux syntax for accessing NT network drives, i.e., what is the equivalent of \\abcd\dir1\dir2\ ? I'm sick of all of the administrative software our IT department loads on my box to monitor the health of my W2K client and slow it to a crawl. Sure you can log on to an NT network from a linux client. There are several ways of doing it.. openldap, samba via winbind to access \\abcd\dir1 etc, you can mount it via smbfs or use smbmount... read up on samba... you'll love the flexability it gives you. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DSL Configuration - How?
Jody Cleveland said: Hello all, Well, I took the plunge and installed Mandrake 9. So far, I'm very impressed with it. I like it quite a bit better than Redhat 8. Any way, I'm trying to setup my DSL connection. No matter what I do, it says it's unable to connect, and to check my configuration. I dual boot with Mandrake 9 and Windows XP. I tried to match up everything exactly as it is in Windows, but it just won't connect. Is there a setting that needs to be set within the network setup? Setup: Mandrake 9 Linksys network card Belkin Router Dual-boot with XP -Jody Cleveland Jody, does your system even see your network card? Can you ping the loopback address, or manually assign it an ip and ping it? I'm not familiar with the belkin, but if it's like the Linksys firewall router I use at home, can you ping the default gateway address on it? Need a little more information to determine what exactly is happening here. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DSL Configuration - How?
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 14:16, Jody Cleveland wrote: Hello, Are you using your Belkin as a DHCP server? I don't know... That's irrelevant right now... you need to get your network card working first. If you can't pint 127.0.0.1 then you're immediate problem is linux isn't seeing your network card. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DSL Configuration - How?
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 14:16, Jody Cleveland wrote: Hello, Are you using your Belkin as a DHCP server? I don't know... Well in Windows... do you have windows set up to pick up an IP from a DHCP? Or is it static? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DSL Configuration - How?
Well, if I type ping localhost, it says the network is unavailable. But, if I go into connection settings for network, it lists eth0 as having an ip address. The weird thing is, the driver listed for the network card is tulip. Does that make any sense? Should I try to download a new driver for my card? What type of network card do you have? Is it on the hcl? Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Writing on NTFS partitions
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 19:08, Smiley wrote: On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 23:18:50 - Aurélio Diniz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't if anyone posted this question before: Is there anyway that i can put my linux box to write on my win2k (NTFS) partitions? Till now, i'm using a small fat partition to put my linux files that i want to open in windows but the process is quite boring.. Since I have a problem related to your, the reply is: last time I heard, the feature was in development, it seems $MS$ is not so happy 'bout that and tried to stop the work... Smiley You can write to NTFS with smbfs. I use mount -t smbfs to write my nightly backup on my laptop and my servers to my XP desktop. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Writing on NTFS partitions
Tis a very, very bad idea to write to your NTFS partition from Linux. It WILL hose your NTFS system. So, if you enable RW access to your Win2K partition be prepared to reload your system. NTFS access from Linux should me RO (read only). I've done it for a very long time without any problem what so ever. And I've never had to reload either my Windows 2000 system, or my Windows XP system, that I do this with. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake control center
When I want to start the Mandrake control center the root password is asked but the program itself will not start. What is wrong ? Freddy You enter root's correct password, click ok and MCC still doesn't open? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Generic Security Levels
I'm delving into the realm of security and trying to understand the best process for securing my linux machines, not only for Internet access, but also in a LAN environment. I've looked for information regarding the generic security levels but can't find anything. What I'd like to know, is exactly what are the differences between Standard, High, Higher, and Paranoid? What different settings are set for High, Higher and Paranoid? Is there any in-depth documentation which details what each generic setting changes on the system? Thanks for any info. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Generic Security Levels
Anthony, please take a look at : http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/secure/smsec.html where you will find an in-depth explanation of msec. Thanks very much! Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lindows
Richard Babcock said: Greetings, I was just surfing the Wal-Mart site and found them hawking an OS called Lindows. Anyone know anything about this? It seems they are working hard to convince neophytes that Windows is good but not that good. I just don't like the approach and am disappointed in Wal-Mart for taking it. R Lindows has been around for a while in fact you've probably heard of them before but might not remember. They had a working relationship with codeweavers to help with wine on lindows, until a licensing disagreement concerning the codeweavers work, ended up causing them both to go their seperate ways. A couple years back lindows claim to fame was that they were stating all windows applications would run under lindows. This of course was a grand over statement on their part, but it almost entirely relied on the work code weavers was doing for them. Once the licensing issues started to pop up and code weavers left, they had to dramatically scale back there assertions. Lindows is okay, but the thing I don't like about it, is you run under root all the time. You log in, you're root! It's as much Windows98 as you could possibly get in linux I think, but with one big exception... under windows98 you can't delete active system files while they're in use.. you can under linux. Not good for run of the mill home users. Oiyh! Anyway, Walmart also sells Mandrake and one other OS with their base-bottom prices systems.. forget which one though. If you're lookign for a starter linux disto, I'd recommend Lycoris instead. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Transferring users from LM8.1 to LM9
Copy of all homes directories yes Copy of smb.conf yes Copy of smbpasswd yes Copy of passwd yes Is there anything else. yes /etc/crontab (if you added anything to it) /etc/group /etc/gshadow /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.allow (if you used it) /etc/shadow Also, things like /etc/postfix/, /etc/shorewall/, etc... what file are the groups held in ? /etc/group As regards the home directories, i was going to tar them and then untar on the other machine with the -P option, keep permissions. But do i first have to set-up the users and groups first. nope... tar will work just fine. Will i have to append the group, passwd and smbpasswd entries to the new passwd, smbpasswd and group files or just replace them ? over-write them will work just fine. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital
At the risk of offending some, I will give my thoughts, which will probably be unpopular (dons flame-retardant suit). Yes what you had to say will probably offend some, but honestly a free-flow of ideas, expressed in a thoughtful manner such as you presented your ideas, should never offend. 1. This whole situation leaves me with an unsettled feeling. I am not comfortable with begging as a business strategy and this is the second time this year. From other comments I have seen, this is already starting to get old for many. I don't necessarily like begging either, but what makes me even more uneasy is the though that Mandrake might fold in the not too distant future, or than Mandrake 9.1 might be held up for lack of money. That is to say that a release should never go gold for purely monetary reasons, but rather when it's genuinely ready. I was strictly a Redhat user until a few months ago, when I converted to Mandrake. I absolutely hated Mandrake 8.2, but really liked 9. And now because I didn't like the path Redhat was taking I have converted my laptop and two servers to Mandrake linux and would seriously hate to see their services impacted in any way! 2. Mandrake is one of the most popular distros. See http://www.distrowatch.com/ Of all the distros listed, why does Mandrake keep begging for cash? It looks to me like they are still suffering from some _very bad_ business decisions, mostly unrelated to Linux (the repositioning as an e-learning company fiasco). Are current Mandrake users supposed to bail out the company for the sins of the previous managment? Perhapsif Mandrake is to prosper (which is different from survival). Well unfortunately we all don't seem to have much of a choice. They are in the position and it's either sink or swim, and philosophy has nothing to do with it truly. 3. It appears that current management is under tremendous pressure from their venture capital investors to become profitable so their investments will pay off. I am not sure that it is my responsibility to contribute to this. It would probably help us all to understand this a bit better to know exactly what is drawing down revenue still. Contracts? Would just be nice to know. 4. I use Mandrake, like it, and have purchased boxed sets. I wish them well and hope they develop a viable business plan, but frankly, begging is an embarrassment to the entire community. M$ must laughing its ass off. Well I also purchased, or rather ordered a boxed set of Mandrake 9 months ago, but never received it and despite many contacts, both by phone and via email I never found out what happened to my order, until I received an email from one of their marketing people. I vented on her and my email quickly got passed to someone up their marketing chain who promised to cancel my order and refund my credit card... which still hasn't been done after quite some time. Recent emails to the person who personally promised me they would refund my credit card have gone unanswered and I finally wrote a letter to my credit card issuer refuting the charges. They're now looking into it and can handle this for me. Despite Mandrake's money problems, they blew this whole roll out in a major fashion. I think too few people are talking about their problems getting the software they purchased and it's that experience, in my mind which causes me to now be a little more careful about how I give them my money. I'll wait from now on until the boxed sets are on store shelves before I purchase. At least that way I can guarantee I get what I paid for! 5. If Mandrake dies the torch will be picked up by others and the Linux community will survive. Those who support Mandrake now will move to another distro and help it become stronger. The future of Linux is bright, but there will be shakeouts along the way. Remember, that which does not kill us makes us stronger. Will Mandrake still be standing at the end of the day? I don't know, but the Linux community will be stronger. Honestly I think that's terrible, and reeks too much of scavenging. Mandrake has produced a great product but got itself in a bind by bad business decisions, unrelated to their product. For them to fail based on unrelated business matters would be a terrible waste of time and effort. The object should be to make this thrive and succeed. We should help where we can, but we should also insist that Mandrake divest itself of whatever is holding it down. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using Internet
Gil Katz said: Hi I got mandrake 9.0 and when I connect to the internet I can do nothing I mean I cant surf I can't send and receive mail I cant even ping. Does anyone got an idea? Gil Gil, really need a bit more detail to figure out what your problem might be... can you ping your own interface... localhost... default gateway? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] encrypted DVDs with Xine or others?
On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 12:41, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, I got my first computer with a DVD driver. I ran to the local library to rent a movie to test in, lauched Xine and got a message than Xine cannot run encrypted DVDs How can a commercial DVD be encrypted? Does this have something to do with the fact that I heared that US DVDs cannot be played in Europe or Asia? Is this some regional problem? My Mandrake 9 was purchased in France, my computer and DVD driver are US, but built in Japan... Is there a software out there which will run encrypted DVDs (whatever this means)? you need to load up the dvd css libraries found on the plf website. http://plf.zarb.org/ Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Weird Cron job problem
I've got a problem with a cron job that just seems so weird to me. It has to do with fnews, which I loaded up yesterday... if I run '/usr/local/bin/fnews -f /root/news/fnewsgroups' from the terminal everything runs just fine fnews pulls my injects and passes them to my mailing list. But if I try to run this all from cron I get the following error: -Forwarded Message- From: Cron Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron root@mail sh /root/news/cronrun Date: 14 Dec 2002 14:30:01 -0500 Connecting to news.cavtel.net at port 119: .. done. fnews: //news/rec.arts.comics.dc.universe: cache create error: No such file or directory Disconnecting from news.cavtel.net: done. /etc/crontab 01 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/fnews -f /root/news/fnewsgroups I also tried this 01 * * * * root sh /root/news/cronrun /root/news/cronrun /usr/local/bin/fnews -f /root/news/fnewsgroups Any idea why this works from the terminal, but not in cron?? Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ver. 9 virus protection
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 04:02, Owen Berio wrote: I have bumbled my way through installation. Now I'm concerned about virus protection and a firewall. Any help or suggestions for a fellow with a very log fog index would be appreciated. Owen For a quick, yet powerful firewall, I'd suggest Firestarter. http://firestarter.sourceforge.net Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Auto login
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 06:49, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: Dear Friends, My Linux run KDE 3.0 automatically when I turn my PC on. What I have to do to make it start with the login screen ? Open MCC Boot Boot Config click No, I don't want autologin. You could also just run drakboot and click No, I don't want autologin. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Migration from OUTLOOK to EVOLUTION
I and a couple other people just answered this question last week, on this list. The short answer is yes it is possible. You can't import .pst files directly from outlook to Evolution, but if you export your .pst files to mbox format first, you can then import them into Evolution. HTH Anthony we decided to change company desktops from PC to LINUX. Selected email client is EVOLUTION. Is it possible to keep existing OUTLOOK / OUTLOOK EXPRESS mails and to move them to EVOLUTION? Bela Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Migration from OUTLOOK to EVOLUTION
Oh wow, that is pretty cool then... thanks for letting us know. Save myself (and others) one step. Anthony : - yes you can! Check out the following... Dave Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Libpst v0.3.4 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to play DVDs in Mandrake?
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 10:47, Jim Snyder wrote: Hello I have Mandrake 9.0 Linux on my Toshiba laptop (model 1805-S204) that has DVD player. Is there a set up how-to for playing DVDs somewhere? I just tried Xine (sp?) and it crashed KDE to where I could not even reboot (or restart KDE) without disconnecting the battery. Many thanks for the help in advance!! Jim If you need to play commercial DVD (movies) you need to load up the PLF dvd libraries. Go to http://plf.zarb.org/ and download the updated RPMs. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0.5
Thanks I'll check it out. I understand that 3.1 is supposed to be released on Thursday so this might be OBE now anyway... I'm not sure about from official Mandrake RPMs, but you get use Texstar's. Go to www.pclinuxonline.com and on the left side of the page should be some links to Texstar's rpms. They work great (you might get an error about an invalid signature when trying to install them, you can ignore the error message - Texstar's stuff is valid). Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: SV: [newbie] updating the kernel
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 05:23, Anders Lind wrote: Or you could just download the latest kernel rpm and simnply rpm -Uvh kernelname.rpm Yes that would be possible also, but then he misses the chance to configure it to his own liking Well I suppose he could download the .src rpm and configure it if he chooses, then build it to rpm, then install it. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: SV: [newbie] updating the kernel
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 08:27, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 01 Dec 2002 08:07:04 -0500 Anthony Abby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I suppose he could download the .src rpm and configure it if he chooses, then build it to rpm, then install it. The operative and VERY IMPORTANT word here is INSTALL the new kernel. NEVER UPGRADE or use Uvh with a kernel. Why would that be? I've done it many times without problem. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: SV: [newbie] updating the kernel
If there is a problem with your new kernel and it will not boot then you are screwed since you have no other kernel with which you can boot. If on the other hand you have installed your new kernel using -ivh then your old kernel still exist and is still bootable. Using -ivh for all kernel installs is standard practice. You have been lucky thus far but luck is fickle and has a bad habit of changing, mine usually from bad to worse. (-: Ahh, got it, but I usually keep a boot disk around also. Never had to use it though. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0.5
No, never did Gary. I don't see the RPMs anywhere... checked several mirrors and all that's available seems to be source. Redhat even has updated RPMs, which is really funny because they're usually the last to update KDE! I'll get with you off line if you remember where you got your rpms. Thx Anthony On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 10:14, Gary Montalbine wrote: Hi Anthony, Did you ever get an answer to this question? I have updated to 3.0.5 and I only use rpm's. I asked about updating kde on the TWUUG list and got an answer. It might be in the archives. IIRC I downloaded all the applicable rpms into a directory and updated from there. It worked. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] updating the kernel
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 17:30, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 09:10, walt wrote: Can anyone point me to documentation on how to install a newer version of the linux kernel? Thanks Walt Or you could just download the latest kernel rpm and simnply rpm -Uvh kernelname.rpm Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE 3.0.5
Does anyone know why there are no 3.0.5 rpms available for download from either the KDE or Mandrake ftp servers? Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Has anyone had trouble
Finding out the status of their order for a boxed set of Mandrake 9.0? I have tried contacting them four times via email now, and even placed a phone call yesterday and left a message. Never received a response, nor have I received my boxed set even though they charged my credit card several weeks ago. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ATI support
On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 12:49, Ralph M. Los wrote: Has anyone on the list tried using the Radeon All-in-Wonder 7500R? The fact that I don't see support for it is the ONLY thing keeping me in WinXP right now. I would absolutely LOVE to see a Radeon AiW 7500r card supported!!! Remote, tv-input, dvd play, and all. Feedback is requested. Well it's not perfect, but you could use the generic VESA drivers. Thats what I use on my Compaq Prsario 2710US laptop (ati rage mobility LY). When I got the laptop it had Windows XP HE installed, but I wasted little time in loading Linux on it. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATI support
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 23:06, Dennis Myers wrote: Has anyone had a chance to test the new ATI drivers shown on the following URL? http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.112102/223252168ticker=ATYTticker=ATY.TO I am looking for a new vid card and am hesitant to go ATI. Let me know what luck yall have had. Thanks, -- I was actually excited about this article, until I read that it doesn't pertain to any of the ati mobility chipsets! I'm running Mandrake 9 on a Compaq Presario 2710US (ati Rage Mobility LY). I have to use the generic VESA drivers for x. Sucks! Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 pre-orders
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 21:22, Chris wrote: Have quite few of those who pre-ordered the 9.0 Power Pack in the states received them yet? I'm just wondering since I'm still waiting for mine. I'm still waiting for mine as well, and wrote customer service inquiring about it. Have yet to receive a reply. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 12:32, Technoslick wrote: I cannot log in as root on my new installation of RH 8.0! I am sure that it was caused by my fat fingered typing during installation. Is there a way to recover or change an erroneous password for root? Or am I going to have to reinstall again? From scratch, or will an update work? Sorry for the OT, but in a sense, knowing helps with MDK, too. No of course you don't. Just log in under 'linux single' in grub then change the root password. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure
[snip] Now, here's one for you If booting into Level 1 is this 'easy', I would think that you would want to eliminate this possibility in a network environment (for Grub or LILO) to keep intruders from bypassing the need for a password and getting root access. Would you password Grub or LILO? Thanks again for the help. Saved me a few more hours of aggrevation. BTW, Red Hat 8.0 may be a big improvement over 7.x, but it sucks with older video cards! It comes with XFree86 4.2.0-17, and every Diamond and Tident card in my place won't work right with it. I even struggled to get my ATi 3D Rage Pro to work! Outside of that? Not bad...but, it ain't Mandrake! Well first of all I absolutely loved Redhat... until 8.0. Hated what they did with KDE, since KDE is my preferred gui. It's what caused me to switch from Redhat to Mandrake. And I have to say I'm pretty happy that I did. (.0 is really nice! As far as security goes, yes absolutely, you should password protect Grub, as well as place put a bios password on your system and disable booting from floppy and cd-rom. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Finding Dependencies
Hi All, When trying to install something I am asked for a particular file or shared object. How can I find out which package contains that file? I know of rpmfind and I use urpmi. man rpm to double check me, but I think it's 'rpm -f file_name' Sorry I don't have my Linux laptop to look it up right now... Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE
Dear ALL, I have LM 9 with the KDE3 and would like to upgrade to 3.04. I have not done this before, so how does one do this in Mandrake? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, It's really simple. One way is to download all the rpms that you want to upgrade (minus the *-devel-* stuff, unless you WANT to load those) and place them in a directory somewhere. Then from the command line, run the following command in the directory you stored the rpms in. rpm -Fvh --nodeps *.rpm That's it. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing 9.0
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 20:40, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: shouldn't that cd be bootable itself? Yes, generally unless his hardware doesn't support it, or unless he actually burned the .iso file to the cd itself. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] wondering about 9.0 pre-orders
Shame really that Mandrake has not got a grip on the commercial side of things. I want them to succeed, yet the delay between 9.0's release and its availability on CD is not impressive. I know *I'm* getting frustrated *reading* about 9.0 day after day on this list! :-) Why wait? Download the iso's and burn them. Voila, you're running Mandrake 9. Then you can wait on your boxed version. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] wondering about 9.0 pre-orders
Well I can't agree with your or indeed should ever be part, but gotta agree that there are some people who haven't been converted to high speed access yet :). Once you go high speed you never go back lol. Anyway, if no high speed access then simply order the disk sets from Cheapbytes.com Mandrake sells for $6.99 and ships in 8-24 hours after your order. http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart/0070010856.html?id=knUPnhXv And you can still order the official box set and still wait on it after you already have your disks from cheapbytes. Win-win. Anthony Not everyone has (or wants) a broadband connection. In fact, I feel quite safe in saying that only a *small minority* of PCs worldwide are connected in that way :-) or indeed should ever be; for sending emails and occasional browsing a 56k connection is plenty enough! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.0
You bet and I tried a few. I had just deleted debian (too much bother at this stage in my life) they worked fine then. In mandrake 8 all was fine. I am seeing a picture of a lock on the icons and also on the contents on the inserted cd of the one drive that doesn't have the lock I have the same problem, but turning off supermount clears it up for me. su, then supermount disable should enable you to manually mount the disks and get to the content. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE 3.1/Mandrake 9?
Will the Mandrake 8.2 rpm's for KDE 3.1 work without problem on Mandrake 9? Just loaded up Mandrake 9 on a test system yesterday and upgraded to KDE 3.0.4, but I want to take a look see at KDE 3.1. Thx Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] X Problem on Compaq Presario 2710US
I forgot to mention the video card is an ATI Radeon Mobility LY (AGP). I've tried the generic Radeon driver, the Radeon Mobility driver, and the Radeon Mobility what_ever_it_is driver. I've run a search in google for Mandrake and radeon mobility ly and came up with only one hit that was close to my problem, but it was in regards to Mandrake 8.2 with an older kernel. There suggestion was to upgrade the kernel, well this is a newer kernel, similiar problem. I wish there was a search engine on the list archives but I have been looking through the past few months of posts... I just don't see anything else close to my problem. Hope someone out there can point me in the right direction. Thanks Anthony -- Original Message -- From: Anthony Abby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 18:32:13 -0400 I'm having a problem getting X to start up properly on my Compaq Presario 2710US laptop. X actually starts but the colors are all off. If I log in as root the background is a hideous shade of light blue. The colors are almost washed out. The KDE splash screen is actually gold! I've run XFdrake several times and tried different combinations... such as generic flatscreen - 1024 x 768 and also generic 1024 x 768 screen. I have color depth set to 24-bit but also tried 16-bit. Both result in the same color depth problem. In either case though, if I TEST the settings before restarting X, the color bars look just fine. It's only when I 'startx' that this color problem occurs. Has anyone heard of this problem or know what I might do to fix it? I already checked out http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/xwin/xtroub.html. Thanks for any help. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
