Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 beta startup command
On 18 Feb 2002 18:31:58 +0900
Charles Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me:
I've installed the StarOffice 6.0 beta, but am unable to locate the
startup command. Does anyone know this?
Chuck
add the {OO.O PATH}/program to your path. then you could invoke the following
swriter
simpress
scalc
there are others but you could also invoke soffice and it will launch the swriter
program.
hth.
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Re: [newbie] @ *
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:48:24 +1300
Walter Logeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me:
Hi,
What do the * and the @ denote after a file - as in the
following listing:
998 walter@psybernet:/sbin (04:45:25)
$ ls
agetty*ether-wake* ifup* killall5*
mkfs.msdos@
this is the result when you pass the switch -F to ls (see for yourself by typing alias
| grep ls ). the -F option presents this explanation from 'man ls':
-F, --classify
append indicator (one of */=@|) to entries
the asterisk means that the file is an executable (its execute bit is set to on ).
the slash means that the file is a directory
the at sign ('@') means that it is a link
the pipe means its a, well, pipe (either named or unnamed).
i dont know about the equals sign but i think it pertains to special files that you
wont meet frequently (check your /dev as there are some files there that have this
indicator.)
ciao!
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Re: [newbie] File Sharing
On 16 Feb 2002 17:52:48 -0500 Paul Kraus [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Are there any good linux file sharing apps? Something along the lines of morpheus. Lime wire is hard to use because it searches by file name. I want something that will search descriptions. Thanks. PK kazaa has a linux version with an antiquated interface. i heard that some experienced faster downloads than the windows version but, for the life of me, i cant even connect to conduct a simple search! its one of the reasons why i still have windows at home (aside from the gaming). ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CHanging WindowManager
its really amazing that few people know about the small package Xtart. it allows you to choose your WM from the commandline. i like it better than booting to runlevel 5 (GUI) to select my WM. its in the installation CDs or you could just search it from rpmfind as it is a little file. I just installed fluxbox and it was automatically added to the list of WMs. ciao! On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 13:56:39 -0700 JSheble [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Thank you, this did what I needed... So what do I need to do to get Blackbox running as my defauly WindowManager so I can check it out, then switch back to Gnome when I want to??? If you're using the 'startx' approach instead of gdm/kdm, I don't think you can change WMs on the fly (although there is something in the Mandrake menus, under configuration, which may allow this. To run your favorite WM from startx, edit your .xinitrc file like so: #!/bin/sh exec fvwm # or blackbox, or xfce or enlightenment, etc... - Chris -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] par for linux?
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:22:08 -0500 daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:38:46 -0500 Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Sunday 17 February 2002 11:21 am, Jon Doe wrote: does anyone know where I can find the parchiver utility? I had it before but I can't find it now. It rebuilds rar files that are missing. Just curious. What are rar files? hey yeah! what the heck are they? its a type of compressed files, like zip, lha, arj, etc. they are common in windows (better compression?) and the WinRar application is better than the Winzip app, IMO. I think there is a rar package in the LM8.1 installation CDs but have not installed it as there is no pressing need for it in linux. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Set Backup
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:31:09 - Barran, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Speaking as a newbie... I thought scripts had to end with a .sh? Or is that just a convention? Also, when I want to run a script I've written myself, I just change to the directory the script is kept in, and type the script name. I don't prefix it with a ./ Am I missing something here? Thanks, Richard .sh is just a convention so users can see what interpreter is to be used with the script ( .csh, .ksh, .py are some of the other endings but the list does not end there). you could make it end in '.nonsense' and it will be executed by the interpreter specified by its first line (i.e #!/bin/bash), or if it is still missing, the current interpreter (which is your shell). echo your PATH environment ( $ echo $PATH ) and see if there is a lone dot in the resulting list of colon-delimited directories. i assume you have it which is considered by many to be a security risk. the default setting is to exclude the current directory from the PATH variable to limit the potential of running a malicious executable placed in a directory which is named after a common utility. here is a scenario. assuming your PATH variable looks like this .:/bin/:/usr/local/bin:... and an intruder with 'maliscious intent' ( a hacker or a friend trying to put a trick on you) got an access to your account and created a script containing the following code: #!/bin/bash rm -rf ~ echo Hi, you just toasted you home directory! Have a nice day. and saved it on your home directory with the filename 'ls' with matching execute permissions. then you log-in, was put in your home directory. you issued ls to get a directory listing. since bash will be looking first for a ls executable in the current directory (look at the PATH variable), you could just guess how big the intruder's smile would be after that moment. *grin* ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] kernel sources
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:42:48 +0100 Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Hi, I found Kernel-source on the 8.1 CD that I had downloaded. It's on CD#2..I believe it's called kernel-source-2.4.8-26mdk.i586.rpm Terry the package for kernel sources is kernel-source it should be on the second installation CD. Alaa Thank you very much. BTW: How come the package is not mentioned anywhere in rpmdrake? Thanks again Roman hmmnn. i remember somebody (civileme?) mentioned that the rpmdrake does not show all the packages as it hides some so as not to overwhelm the new user. but its in the other tab (the list view). ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mount as a regular user
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:28:34 + rsch77 [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Hello all ! My problem is I don't manage to mount my cdrom and floppy as a regular user, neither through the command line, nor through the KDE desktop icons. I've changed the permissions of /bin/mount, /mnt/cdrom, /mnt/floppy in order to give me execution/write permissions. Also I've checked fstab and it has the option user. The message error I get is you must be superuser to mount. Does it have anything to do with the groups I belong to/the security level ? I checked these items as well and I only belong to my own group and my security level is medium. If someone knows what is wrong, please help me. Thanks in advance, Rodrigo check the inside of the fstab file, make sure that for the cdrom and floppy entries have the word 'user' in the options. if they are missing, (as root) add them and run mount -a to have the changes reflected immediately. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re(4): [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:30:17 -0600 Mike Settle [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: I thought this was supposed to be a Mandrake forum - For the last three days, all I've seen is Mac OS related !!! Why don't you guys find a chatroom, or something. no disrespect meant, but the thread (while long and numerous) was very informational. No,this is not a Mandrake forum , it is a newbie-list (pun intended. ;-). The original question was _i think_ valid since it was looking for sources on comparison between Mac OSX and Linux. For somebody who have never touched a Mac, this exchange brought me a lot of info and insights. i also understand that this may be take a little time to some subscribers which some have none to spare. I also find myself on that boat quite frequently, so may I introduce my two trusty mail companions: filters and delete. ;-) sorry if some of my comments may seem smart-alecky but they were done in good humor. have a good day! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] [OT] saw this one in Sridhar's sig
snip -- Sridhar Dhanapalan After you install Windows XP, you have the option to create user accounts. If you create user accounts, by default, they will have an account type of Administrator with no password. -- Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q293834 hey, is this for real? if it is then i think it's funny because the way i understood it is that the only one limited by the password is the Admin... i dont know if i really understood it correctly but is it like to a man holding the only key to his frontdoor while others are entering the house from the backdoor which is wide open? *grin* ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing a Downloaded File
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 18:56:45 +0800 Tonton [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Anyone, how can I install a downloaded file? Here are the filenames I download: gtk-splitter-0.9a.tar HID_fsbench.rar j2sdk-1_3_1_02-linux-i386.bin kmemmon-0.2.tgz All of this files, when I view this in Linux, all their extension names are all ended with asterisk (*) eg. gtk-splitter-0.9a.tar*. hello 'tsong, most of the files are 'compressed' files. gtk-splitter-0.9a.tar --- tar file. unpack using tar xf [filename] HID_fsbench.rar --- rar file. i dont have a decompressor for rar files in linux but there is a rar package in the installation CDs. use that and read the man page. j2sdk-1_3_1_02-linux-i386.bin --- binary file. execute by typing ./j2sdk-1_3_1_02-linux-i386.bin kmemmon-0.2.tgz --- gzipped tar file. unpack using tar zxf [filename] packed files (tar) are like zipped filed but without comperssion. basically its a group of file joined together. the common contents of tar files are the source codes. you may find a configure script, a makefile, and some readme files inside thought not all or maybe nothing at all may be present depending upon the package. be sure to read the the readme files first. then run the configure script (prepend ./ to the filename) to create the makefile. then the last steps will be to compile the source codes using make and, if the make install option is present, install using make install. in the absence of a make install, you may have to place it in your system manually. the asterisks when you do a ls command means that they are executables. you can invoke them using ./[filename]. [for tonton only] kung me di ka pa maintindihan, pwede mo akong i-email offlist at tingnan natin kung magagawan natin ng solusyon. or hintayin mo na lang yung mga ibang sagot dito, depending on the speed of the list. [/end] welcome aboard. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel sources
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:14:27 +0100 Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Hi everyone, I am trying to install the alsa-driver, but I don't have the kernel sources. Can someone please tell me where to get them from? My kernel version is 2.4.8-26mdk. Mark recommended ftp.kernel.org but I think it'd be better to get the sources for *exactly* the kernel I have. I'd appreciate any ideas or links. (BTW: They are not on the installation CDs. And I tried kernel-2.4.8-26mdk.src.rpm but I guess that's not what I am looking for). TIA Roman try kernel-source-[version].rpm. its in there somewhere. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Set Backup
On 15 Feb 2002 14:42:50 +0900 Charles Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: I have been going through some Linux books, and I get the general idea, but I am not sure exactly how to go about this. I have a backup that I want to run daily, that goes something like this $ tar cvzf /mnt/win_d/docs/e-mail/evolution/evol.tar.gz /home/chuck/evolution I would like to save this in a file that I can run as a command, like a BAT file in DOS. I assume then, that I would save this script in a text file. Then, what else should I do, in terms of naming, or other preparation, to have it available as a command? Thanks, Chuck if you want an incremental backup (meaning the previous day's mail is saved), try this instead tar zcvf /mnt/win_d/docs/e-mail/evolution/evol-`date +%Y%m%d`.tgz /home/chuck/evolution and put it in the cron jobs to be executed daily(search the archives on how to submit a job to cron). this way your backups have the date on their filename. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update locks up
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 20:47:43 -0600 Aaron Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Everytime I try to run Mandrake Update, I start it and it builds the list from CD 1, 2, 3 and when it get to the online security/updates from redbox.mandrake.. it gets to 21% then locks and I have to use Xkill to get out of it. I have let it sit there all night before and it was still locked in the morning. How can I get it to quit checking at redbox. so I can select another server? Or something so I can use it again. I am tired of updating everything manualy. I am running MDK 8.1 on an Intel PIII 500 system with 256MB of RAM. Thanks, assuming that the reference to the redbox.mandrake is named 'redbox' issue this on a commandline as root urmpi.removemedia redbox or maybe you could go to the /etc/urpmi.cfg file and do away with removing the entries related to the redbox media. i prefer the first one. if you dont know what name it is referenced then go to the cfg file and find out. hth. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] proftpd question
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:40:18 -0800 Eric Estes -=RCN Mail=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: I have set up proftpd to allow a user by the name anonymous to login and download files. They seem to be able to browse my other directories and download from them. Is there a way to make the user anonymous only able to view their home directory and download from that alone? Thanks, Mithrilhall edit your /etc/proftpd.conf and add the following lines at the bottom (or uncomment this one if you have it) # Default root can be used to put users in a chroot environment. # As an example if you have a user foo and you want to put foo in /home/foo # chroot environment you would do this: # #DefaultRoot /home/foo foo DefaultRoot ~ ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] standard compressed archive format ?
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:00:26 -0500 Alaa The Great [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:10:52 +0100 Nicolas VERITE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ! Is there any multi-platform standard in compressed archive formats ? WinZip is the defacto standard for the Windows platform. Does WinZip produce .zip files that can be manipulated by Linux OpenSource software ? there is a package called unzip but I don't know about a tool to make zip files, anyway winzip will open tar.gz files. well if there is a package unzip then there certainly is a package named zip which you can use to creata zip files. ;-) ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Frontpage like application for Linux
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:25:49 -0600 David Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: snip Thank you! I used to use UltraEdit and was quite satisfied with the way it works. I agree that Quanta has equivalent or better functionality, though, plus it runs on Linux. If that's the SOLE reason you're keeping Windows,kill it! snip hi, if its of any interest, i have run ultra-edit in linux using the transgaming winex (well i was just testing what applications i could run ;-). it's usable so you could try installing it using winex to your all-linux platform but YMMV. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Disk Space in LM 8.1
On Thu, 07 Feb 2002 17:51:35 +0900 Charles Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: I just got a warning about insufficient disk space in Ximian Desktop, but I can find any place in the controls to give disk space information. Where can I find this? Chuck on the commandline, issue the command df -k (or df-kh for more user-friendly display). ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Mandrake RPM-howto (was Re: [newbie] XMMS CDs_
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:10:34 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: snip Unfortunately, there are no RPM's for xmms-cdread... derek hi, does anybody know where i can get a downloadable version of the howto on building rpms, especially mandrake ones? there are references to the book MaximumRPM but i dont think its available here. im trying to learn how to build rpm packages but since internet connection is still at a premium, a downloadable version would be very nice. i have also considered using httrack but since the resulting _mirrored_ pages take on the form of http:/address/to/the/page/for/every/slash/delimination/index.htm, its a little bit ugly. thanks! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fw: [newbie] making a file from a man doc
cool! i was finding a solution to this one a couple of months ago. btw, you could omit the last pipe as it is a little bit redundant. thanks! On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 09:32:27 +0800 hinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: try man XXX|col -b|XXX.txt - Original Message - From: Walter Logeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 5:58 AM Subject: [newbie] making a file from a man doc I am trying to make a file from a man doc that I can then print or view in an editor. 848 walter@psybernet:~ (10:51:52) $ man urpmi manurpmi this creates the file however it has strange formatting: O OP PT TI IO ON NS S - -- -h he el lp p print an help message and exit. - -- -u up pd da at te e use only update media. What is a more effectiveway of doing this? Walter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Mandrake RPM-howto (was Re: [newbie] XMMS CDs_
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 19:14:58 -0700 Darwin Gottfried [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: On Friday 08 February 2002 06:18, Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:10:34 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: snip Unfortunately, there are no RPM's for xmms-cdread... derek hi, does anybody know where i can get a downloadable version of the howto on building rpms, especially mandrake ones? there are references to the book MaximumRPM but i dont think its available here. im trying to learn how to build rpm packages but since internet connection is still at a premium, a downloadable version would be very nice. i have also considered using httrack but since the resulting _mirrored_ pages take on the form of http:/address/to/the/page/for/every/slash/delimination/index.htm, its a little bit ugly. thanks! http://www.linux-mandrake.com/howtos/mdk-rpm/ Also, checkout: http://www.redhat.com/docs/books/max-rpm/ for a downloadable version of maximum rpm cheers deg thanks, ill try the maximumrpm link. is there a downloadable version of the mdk-rpm howto? ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] window managers run command
hi, i was giving a other window managers a second look (as i am using Xtart its easy to switch WM's) especially blackbox, ICEwm and fluxbox. the only thing that im missing is the 'Run' command. i always try to run apps (especially GUI ones) from the run dialog so they dont get closed when i terminate the terminal that they sprung from. another question is where do i configure these WMs? i have to set the mouse accelration and threshold for each one and one mouse setting in one seem to differ with settings from other WMs. i hope to give them their due but since upgrading to the xfce cooker rpm, xfce has been sweeter to handle and with no gtk corruptions. if i can only reduce the size of the title bar so i can reclaim a little bit more of my precious desktop real estate (that and the fact that my menus lost their default icons) ... ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing files
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 12:59:09 +1300 Walter Logeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: i use rpmdrake once in a while but mainly use the commandline rpm. read the manpage to learn more but here is the short end of it Thanks for this - i am preferring the command line already for this... if for no other reason than I can copy out the messages from it! I am getting pretty much the same results as before. I am still trying to upgrade xmms - first i did rpm -iv xmms-1.2.6-1.i386.rpm but realised that i might need to do an upgrade and then did the following: # rpm -Uv xmms-1.2.6-1.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: xmms = 1.2.5-4mdk is needed by xmms-esd-1.2.5-4mdk xmms = 1.2.5-4mdk is needed by xmms-gnome-1.2.5-4mdk xmms = 1.2.5-4mdk is needed by xmms-mikmod-1.2.5-4mdk 426 root@psybernet:/home/walter/wldownloads/xmms (12:25:22) # This leaves me confused as to what it is telling me and what to do now. It seems the old xmms is needed by some of the files that support it??? Walter well you are using a cooker rpm so it is not uncommon to meet those kind of dependency checks. if you are really sure you want to install that ( like if you think the other apps would not mind seeing a newer version, or you would like to see what would happen *evil grin*) _experimental_ package then you could do rpm -Fv xmms-1.2.6-1.i386.rpm --nodeps which means there will be no dependency checks when upgrading or installing a package. this is where the fun begins as you will see if everything will run fine or you will have to re-install the old package. i think the command will be something like (im expecting the more experienced users out there will correct me on this one as i dont use it often enough and basing this on the manpage) rpm -Fv [old but working xmms package] [--force | --allfiles ] ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[OT] application/ms-tnef? (was :Re: Re(2): [newbie] Building a PC.)
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 06:52:48 +0800 Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet Service. To view the original message content, open the attached message. If the text doesn't display correctly, save the attachment to disk, and then open it using a viewer that can display the original character set. hey, what's your mailer (im guessing outlook) and what is ms-tnef anyway? html mails are better than taht one as i can view those with a browser. ;-) ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Architecture
you could try the linux kernel documents at linuxdoc.org. i think its a good starting point. ciao! On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 02:31:52 + (GMT) shanon loveridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Hello all, I am looking to understand the underlying linux architecture and I was wondering if anyone could reccommend some sites / books. I am mainly interested in how everything sits and communicates together and how the main processes work. Thanks Shanon __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to change property: default user login without password
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 19:08:50 -0500 Ravi Malghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: My linux installation logs in with a specific user without prompting for a password. How do I change this so that it will ask for a username password? Thanks Ravi fire up mandrake control center ( drakconf or mcc from a terminal would do) and go to boot-boot config. notice the box on the bottom? check the no for autolog-in. in there you could also change the way you boot ( bootloader settings, if system goes directly to X, etc.) hth. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Bastille
while on the topic of Bastille, are there any documentation that i can read on before plunging on to the configuration of Bastille? i have been to the page and i have not found any manual, in any form, which can provide some information on what to expect before configuring the firewall. gshield may be good but since i am trying install MandrakeSNF, there are no GUIs. i dont know if the distro includes the libraries needed to run gShield. thanks! On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 19:35:09 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: yes, a terminal means an xterm, which if you open a GUI and go into the menu, you'll see a menu item called Terminals there are lots of choices, I like Gnome Terminal, which you may or may not have installed.. but any of them will suffice. As for running as root, you can either log in as root.. (not recomended) or SU to root. so open a terminal, then type: su - (don't forget the - at the end, it will set roots paths for you, which are different to a users.) enter the root password, and you are now logged into a terminal as root. Then run BastilleChooser. personally, I wouldn't touch bastille if I were you, gShield works better for me,, and its much simplier and less can go wrong. Bastille does other things to your system as well, which can cause all manner of problems if you don't understand them properly, like being unable to su, and other stuff. rgds Frank PS, if you are insterested in tryin gShield, then go to google and search for it.. it has a GUI available if you need it, but editing the conf file is easier and much faster, and neater to, you just answer yes or no or forward to the questions and off you go. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome
On 05 Feb 2002 18:15:02 -0600 Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: snip Am I the only one on the list who uses Gnome? It looks like everyone responding to this thread is running KDE. Personally, I have found that Gnome (with the Sawfish WM) is far more configurable, performs better, and looks better than KDE. Evolution is my mail client, and Nautilus my GUI file manager (on the rare occasion I want one). Dave -- Beware the wrath of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. no, i use xfce but since the original poster prohibited the expression of reasons for preferring other desktop/window Managers i just watch this thread from the sidelines. *grin* ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to edit .login?
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 19:09:32 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: If I want to run fortune when a user logs in, how do I edit the .login file? I searched in my home directory, and cannot find this file. Todd if only for a certain user, add it to his ~/.bash_profile so it will only be loaded when he logs in. or place it in the ~/.bashrc so it will fired up everytime the user opens a terminal. or put in the /etc/profile so all users get a dose when they fire up a terminal. or put it in the /etc/motd (`/usr/games/fortune`), though i am not sure if this wont be called everytime bash is invoked. ;-) just experiment, it wont hurt (unless you create a script that deletes things without confirmation, hehehehe). ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
common acronyms (was Re: [newbie] su)
IIRC - If I Remember/Recall Correctly YMMV - Your Mileage Migh Vary RTFM - Read the F**k*ng Manual STFW - Surf the F**k*ng Web DAYOR - Do At Your Own Risk what else? hmmnnn. On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:11:58 -0500 Geoff Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: I did. Found a fix, by editing the /etc/security/limits.conf by adding two zero's to the limit. Not sure what IIRC is. Thanks. Geoff Thomas - Original Message - From: Fr Kipling Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 3:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] su * Geoff Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [03 Feb 02 14:51]: I've been using su to change to root for admin. tasks. Suddenly it won't work and it says file limit is exceeded. What gives? Did you perchance suddenly install Bastille-linux (firewall?) it defaults to shutting off su's IIRC Kipling Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[OT] SASA ( was Re: [newbie] Is mail to the list for some, or all, people moderated ?)
On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 10:34:40 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Chris Keelan wrote: Oops. The dangers of plain text humour. There is no metric setting for TCP/IP packet sizes. I was kidding. Back in the day SmartAss SysAdmins used to blame slow performance on fat electrons which tend to get stuck in the curves and bends of printed circuit boards. Sunspots was another good pseudo explanation you'd offer to particularly stupid users. e.g.: snip - Chris Oops, the yolks on me wiping face... smile Guess my rather recent switch (2-3 years ago) to Linux shows. Reminds me of a friend who had just started working for a local Telecomms. company - a senior tech had told him to always make sure that the lines ran *down* into each house, because the current wouldn't flow uphill. ;-) Later... wow! at least im younger as my linux age is only 7 months old *slides to the background so nobody will notice the flimsy alibi being woven* ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is mail to the list for some, or all, people moderated ?
you are lucky. mine sometimes pop-in my inbox after two days. its the mail-time-electron-flux (replace that with your favorite name for the lag-monster as it wont mind being called names ;-) ciao! On Sat, 02 Feb 2002 02:55:27 GMT marvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: I`m curious as my posts take can take up to Four hours to appear. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is mail to the list for some, or all, people moderated ?
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 22:02:01 -0500 Chris Keelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 21:55:39 -0500: In attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] transmitted: Actually, do you have your /etc/packetsize.conf to 'useMetric = yes ' ? (Mandrake does this by default, being a French distro) If you are sending metric TCP/IP packets, they're larger than American packets and will therefore, travel much more slowly. Especially over thin wires. Just in case mine was set like that, I looked. I couldn't find a file named packetsize.conf in /etc... I tried locate and whereis as well... Perhaps its another file? Or somewhere else? Oops. The dangers of plain text humour. There is no metric setting for TCP/IP packet sizes. I was kidding. Back in the day SmartAss SysAdmins used to blame slow performance on fat electrons which tend to get stuck in the curves and bends of printed circuit boards. Sunspots was another good pseudo explanation you'd offer to particularly stupid users. e.g.: Luser: I can't find my data files! S.A.S.A: Did you look in your /home directory? Luser: Oh, there they are. I swear they weren't there a minute ago! S.A.S.A.: Well, sunspots, you know. Cause all sorts of fluctuation in the magnetic encodings of harddrives. Luser: Wow! I never knew that! So metric TCP/IP packetsizes are a joking way to dismiss the lag that Anuerin G. Diaz has been experiencing with delivery from this list. I figured that, since he signs his mails as a Design Engineer, he'd get the joke. Hey, give yourself some credit. You at least knew how to check /etc/ to see what your settings were! - Chris got me there. *lol*. and here i am starting to construct a packetsize configuration file, j/k. yeah, my title is Design Engineer but that's what they call company programmers so clients will be awestruck by the initial effect. hehehehe... ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is mail to the list for some, or all, people moderated ?
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 20:56:58 -0500 Chris Keelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 09:46:39 -0500: In attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, Anuerin G. Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] transmitted: you are lucky. mine sometimes pop-in my inbox after two days. its the mail-time-electron-flux (replace that with your favorite name for the lag-monster as it wont mind being called names ;-) Actually, do you have your /etc/packetsize.conf to 'useMetric = yes ' ? (Mandrake does this by default, being a French distro) If you are sending metric TCP/IP packets, they're larger than American packets and will therefore, travel much more slowly. Especially over thin wires. ;o) i have no such file in my system. any supporting document on what that file is for? ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network Resources
On 31 Jan 2002 10:14:25 -0600 Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 07:57, Paul Kraus wrote: How do I access network resources in a windows workgroup? How do I share a folder? Paul, To integrate Linux networking with Windows, you need the Samba suite of applications for Linux. These generally include 3 packages (rpm's) called samba-common, samba-server, and samba-client. Mandrake 8.1 includes all of these, at version 2.2.2 if I remember correctly. You only need samba-common and samba-client to access shares on other computers. If you want to create shares that others can access from Windows (or Linux), then you also need samba-server. Once Samba is installed, there is ample documentation included to help you get started. Dave -- Beware of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. to have gui for mounting network shares im using komba2 (somebody suggested linneighborhood but i dont know that app). to share directories, you have to modify your samba.conf. the mandrake installation contains the samba-doc package which contains an excellent e-book in starting with samba. or you could try the SWAT approach (http://localhost:901), if you have it installed, to create shares. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Perl script is not able to execute
the directory containing perl was in your PATH variable while the current directory is not (its a security measure). the '#!' on the first line simply means that the file contains commands to be interpreted by the interpreter following these symbols (i think they are called magic numbers or something). whenever executing a script/executable in the current directory, make sure of the following * check the permissions, you should have read _and_ execute permissions. * if the current directory is not included in the PATH (type echo $PATH to check), prepend ./ to the script/executable name (e.g. ./test.pl) hth. On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 03:28:24 -0500 Daniel Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Hi, I am using Mandrake 8.1 with bash shell. Today is my first time using perl script. I read from the book said if I add #!/usr/bin/perl to the first line of my perl script, I can execute the script by just typing the name of the script into the command line. I have set the permission of this test.pl to 777 However, when I did that, the shell gave me a error message said bash: test.pl: command not found If I type perl test.pl or /usr/bin/perl test.pl then the perl script will work perfectly Please help me! Daniel -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another One: Workspaces
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:22:47 -0800 (PST) Pauljames Dimitriu [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Thanks to all for the answer to my floppy problem. Here's another (I hope) simple one. I accidentally deleted my workspaces menu from my desktop. How do I get it back? Also, how do I make it so each workspace can have a different wallpaper. I know these are easy questions, but believe it or not, I'm actually learning this stuff. Thanks to all, Paul if you are using KDE, your answers lie on the KDE control center (its one of those default icons on the taskbar). go to the Look'N'Feel Section and customize your desktop. im not using KDE much so anybody can jump in to provide more details. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sed or awk or ?
*why didn't i see this one before?* or maybe you could use the KRename project which could be searched for in freshmeat.net ciao! On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:23:08 +0200 Moshe Kaminsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Hi, I think you will have to supply some more details for a meaningful answer (like where do you find the names of these files) but if, for instance, you have all the file names in a file, you could run sed/awk on that file (to change, e.g., the line processed21c45.wav to mv processed21c45.wav adi21c45.wav) and then run the file that you get (source filename). If all your files are in one directory, you could get that file using ls -1 dir | filename (or do it all in one line, as in ls -1 dir | sed ... | filename ) Moshe * Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020126 06:54]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have hundreds of files to be renamed! for example processed21c45.wav to adi21c45.wav I've found how to use sed to change 'names' inside files, but no the file name itself. TIA Ricardo Castanho - -- delivery NOT reliable = [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user == -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hda5 critically full
hi, i have inserted wherever appropriate what i have learned as a 7 month newbie. please take it only as points to do some more research on as i am not entirely sure in their validity (but for me they are the truth unless stated otherwise by more experienced users *grin*) On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 04:16:04 +1300 Walter Logeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: HI, snip Thanks for the info received on what to do. I immediatly found that i had been keeping copies of the CDs I'd been burning, and fixed that, which took care of the immediate problem. Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: seems like the allocated space for the / partition was too small. this happened to me when i allocated just 100MB to that partition and /tmp was heavily used. I think it may be big enough if i maintain it well. And am using this oportunbity to learn do this. Question: Coming from a Windows env. I am familiar with easily knowing which file is on which storage device. I understand that it is nice to have a virtual environment - to hell with knowing what devices run it, however as the administrator i need to be able to know what is on each device. How can i check that? check the mountpoints. if you have the tree package installed, use it to generate a somewhat ASCII-graphical breakdown of your partitions (tree / , tree /home, tree /usr, etc). type mount (no additional parameters) and all directories under root ( those with names coming after /) which are neither mounted by the fstab (/tmp for example) nor links to other subdirectories (/bin) are probably under the root partition. if you dont have the tree command, du -ah will do as well. remember to output the contents of du and tree to a file so you could peruse it on your whim. last option is to go to konqueror (or any file manager with tree view capabilities). first thing to do is to make sure that no unnecessary files are hogging the space in /tmp. I have posted of the contents tof /temp below, using $ ls -al what might I need to explore further there? there are tools out there but i have no experience using them. the route i always take is to re-install Mandrake, use expert install (its really easy if you pay attention and read what's in there), and pay extra attention when it comes to the part that you partition your hard disk. Hmm, this does seem complex as I did not set up my own machine. I am tempted to give it a go For learning on another machine, not this one which I work on! its easy. my first try was pretty good. i only re-installed because i didnt know that /usr should be large enough since its the windows equivalent of the Program Files directory (installations go here). ~~~ On Monday 28 January 2002 12:18 pm, Erylon wrote: snip Thanks for that. will do some pruning. I will also explore the /etc/logrotate.conf I can see that as the user i have authority to delete some files but not others. I can go into root and do it all but is that wise? Some of the files have permission for an admin group? Should I as root give myself admin authority? This is getting a bit off topic but I d be interested in a discussion on how to work with the root / user potential of Linux. Perhaps there is a good article on it somewhere? snip rule of thumb. root user is for administration only and for doing things when you are sure you know absolutely what you are doing. if the file has other permissions, then you should not be mucking with it unless you need to. root is too powerful to be used daily. i think there was a chapter on the Mandrake Manual and in the mandrakeuser.org/docs about this. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Redirecting OpenOffice.org old files
amen to that... *grin* anybody know when 641D will come out? if its within 2 months time then i will have to put off downloading 641C. thanks! On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:54:31 +0100 (CET) Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: But I have no other tmp files in my home directory Maybe it's to do with the 641C version, I can't remember. Yes I aggree, why these files are there in the first place baffels me. If they were to be put in the local OpenOffice install directory I could understand.. Oh well, maybe 641D won't have this, we can only hope ;-) Ralph On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: yeah, i have one with deletes it together with all the *tmp files that it leaves scattered in the home directory. but this approach is like stemming the effect without curing the cause. ciao! On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:07:03 +0100 (CET) Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: I am using 641C and it leaves the annoying viewdbg.txt each time I close OpenOffice in the ~/ I would suggest to make some script to delete this file. I have no idea what the purpose it of it... Greetings Ralph On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: hi, whenever i finish using openoffice.org i get small tmp files, a viewdbg.txt, and a wc file in my home directory. is there a way for me to redirect OO.O to use the /tmp for its temporary files? or is this fixed in latest release? btw, im using the 641B snapshot. thanks! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Copying Files to Floppy
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:06:17 -0800 (PST) Pauljames Dimitriu [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: I'm sure this is a very easy question to answer and I'm being very brain deaded about it How do you copy a file to a floppy drive via terminal? Is it cp filename /mnt/floppy? Everytime I try this and I do an ls in the /mnt/floppy directory, it shows up. However when I bring it to a Winblows machine, I can't see the file. Help??? you have to mount the floppy first ( something like mounting a CD). mounting places the 'mounted space' over the 'mounting point'. Whatever files in the 'mount point' is hidden until the 'mounted space' is unmounted. as of linux kernel 2.4.x, IIRC, you can use a mount point multiple times. to illustrate the point, assuming that you have test.txt on the directory /mnt/bogus and you will mount the windows partition (drive c:) on that directory. here is the sample output [root@Ronin bogus]# pwd /mnt/bogus [root@Ronin bogus]# ls test.txt [root@Ronin bogus]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/bogus [root@Ronin bogus]# ls test.txt [root@Ronin bogus]# cd .. [root@Ronin mnt]# cd bogus [root@Ronin bogus]# ls autoexec.001* command.com* msdos.---* scandisk.log* videorom.bin* autoexec.bat* config.sys* msdos.sys* setuplog.old* windows/ AUTOEXEC.BAT.bak* detlog.txt* My Documents/ setuplog.txt* autoexec.nai* dosime.sys* netlog.txt* setupxlg.txt* bootlog.prv* Downloads/Program Files/ suhdlog.dat* bootlog.txt* io.sys* recycled/ system.1st* [root@Ronin bogus]# umount /dev/hda1 umount: /mnt/bogus: device is busy [root@Ronin bogus]# cd .. [root@Ronin mnt]# umount /dev/hda1 [root@Ronin mnt]# cd bogus [root@Ronin bogus]# ls test.txt notice that when i mounted the drive c to the current directory, i was still able to list the contents of the /mnt/bogus. but when i moved to the parent directory and changed back, the listing shows the contents of my drive c. test.txt is still on the /mnt/bogus under the windows drive and was again visible when i unmounted my drive c. am i talking sense? ;-) ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running a shell script at boot
On 28 Jan 2002 18:54:50 +1100 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have written a shell script I would like to run as root at boot time. Where do I put the command to run it? thanks Brian not sure but i think on the line just before the last in /etc/rc.local. lets wait for confirmation. ;-) ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] auto start
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 22:09:46 -0800 Jesse Angell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to get things like this to start when the server boots up for example user redbaron starts /home/redbaron/palaceserver/bin/start-palace and so on.. how do i do this so when the server boots up these start automaticly? And where do i set a telnet logon message? Jesse Angell i am not entirely sure about setting things at boot-up so i give way to more experienced users. the log-on message is at /etc/motd (IIRC). i also remember another file of similar name that is used for other types of log-on but its eluding me. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: VB on Linux???
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:53:51 -0300 ngn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks!!! I'm a programmer [not a senior programmer but not a newbie at all] and I have the question if Linux has the need of VB or any Visual Language which runs on Windows to be ported to Linux. If exists any Visual language that runs on linux, I'd like to know it!!! Thanks in advance Nicolás Gómez Montevideo, URUGUAY ICQ # 45144976 a visual language will be nice but please not VB ported to Linux. haven't heard of it being described as the worst thing that happened to a programmer? i have done my time programming in VB (and other sorts of languages in Windows) and preferred Visual C and Delphi when im on windows. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] problem with changing root password
hi, i would like to ask how many valid characters does a password compose of? my password is something like 'blacks00t' (note the two zeroes in the last word). my colleague has also access to it and has the nasty habit of logging in and killing my browser for the heck of it. i tried changing the password to 'blacks00t17' and all tokens were reported to have been updated successfully. the only problem is that when i su to root and try giving 'blacks00t' as the password, the su works and i am given a root shell. is this a bug? or am i missing a known issue here? i know the thing is to change the password to something different but i am curious about this point. ciao! P.S. pardon to civileme if i CC him instead of waiting for him in the list but i think this is really important to garner his attention. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WINE: The Open Source Way to Run Windows Applications
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:16:44 -0700 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So is Transgaming's version a -full- substitute for Wine, or is it only good for gaming? its not a full substitute but for some it offers the same functionality as the official wine project. WineX is based on the wine source with DirectX support included. Some of the code is later offered back into the main branch for testing and incorporation. well that was from the transgaming site somewhere. if the application you are planning to run requires DirectX, you are better off with the transgaming source. if not, either the codeweavers (kinda old as they dont update much) or the winehq version might be your cup of tea. i heard that the winex got a new set of source... ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Doubts with compiling an Ethernet pcmcia driver.
if the readme is not a bit long maybe you could post it here to give an idea on where the problem lies. or just hope that civileme or somebody who have the same card is reading your post and can provide some tips. ciao! Marcos Nobre wrote: My MDK8.1 have informed me that may ehternet card (pcmcia) is an Asix AX88190 Fast Ehternet card. After going to Asix Corp web site I got the linux driver for it. The package consists on 2 scripts, readme.txt, pcnet_cs.c (C source file) and other crazy file. The readme.txt is very strange to a Linux newbie, and (in realy) I don't know what to do with these files. I suppose that after compiling something, something should apear at DrakNet combobox (at ehternet kernel module) and the only thing to do is select it, but the things don't happen like this. Can any one help me with this ? I realy apreciate some clue. Thanks in advance. Marcos. -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." ===== Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] java again
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 09:29:41 -0500 Eric McClure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 January 2002 11:06, you wrote: I uninstalled kaffe and now it works. I didn't have to do this before. I thought there might be a way of setting a hard pointer to a directory or symlink but as they say, you can't have two java versions running on the same computer. The major and minor version errors are now fixed. Just like I said, written with sdk1.4.0 and using kaffe's appletviewer caused this error. But I swear I didn't uninstall kaffe last time and everything worked! ? Eric L. McClure p.s. I love this stuff! I must be insane! its probably just in the ordering of your java directories in your path and the java from kaffe was the first java executable that was found. im using 3 versions of java sdk and they coexist together as long as i remember to run the script that i made for reordering the value of the PATH variable. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ouch - I cannot install the C/C++/Make packages...
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 01:16:12 -0600 Chris Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the install I decided I would not need the C/C++ dev system (DOH!). Now I am trying to get gcc and make onto my system. ALL installs to GCC and/or make are failing with dependencies to either themselves or binutils. Now I cannot install them (I am actually using urpmi, but have tried rpmdrake). I tried the GUI tools for packages and they always give an error stating that the files (make, gcc) are either bad, unreadable or not found packages. Other than a complete re-install and try from scratch, any ideas??? long shot and may sound dumb but are the CDs mounted? check if you could see the contents of your CDS. have this happen on me a couple of times. *grin* ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shell Script
On Sun, 06 Jan 2002 14:22:29 -0500 Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.1 and a couple of the applications that I've downloaded and intalled (using RPMs) have installed as shell scripts, rather than binary executables. Is there a way to convert the script to an executable that can be launched using an icon from the desktop? Rich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] hi rich, the script is an _executable_. just create an icon in your desktop and point it to the script of your choice. make sure that you have the proper permissions though as some scripts are for administration (root and its equivalent) use only. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
tester wrote: Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: snip durn! and i switched my boot partition into reiserFS. just read the magic page at mandrakesecure and i think i will encounter trouble when updating the kernel. *should have stuck with ext3, sheesh* ;-) Well you do have XFS and JFS available as well. JFS might be slightly questionable on 8.1 but should be good from that point on, and it is fast, though somewhat more wasteful of space and sometimes requirinng defragging. XFS is primo material, in the same order of magnitusde for speed and storage use with ext2 and reiserfs, and good to postfix, nfs and samba including the ACLs you have for NT servers. It is quite rapid for most operations except massive file deletions, where it is very slow. The other functions make up for that one deficiency rather well. ext3 has as its advantage that you can shift from it to ext2 and back on the fly. Its major disadvantage is that the benchmarks I did, emulating everyday activity and mailserver activity suggest it is a pig on speed, running at about 2/3 ext2. Of course if you make your /boot partition anything other than ext2, you may have some difficulties keeping several linices on the same machine and multi-booting. Naturally, initrds are very important in mounting /. Civileme and now he tells me... ;-) well i thought i made a sound decision to convert my boot partition to reiserfs (i was just trying journalling file systems and my knowledge about them was next to nil) because i heard that reiserfs has problems with some servers. well it was a good exercise on my part and maybe ill hold on upgrading to the new kernel and wait for 8.2 and put my boot partition back to ext2 or maybe ext3 if it is that easy to switch back on to ext2. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Delays
maybe, im in manila and the internet connection here in the office is something like T3 (its also used for trasferring deliverables to our japanese counterparts). not all mails are delayed, or maybe i just dont notice them earlier. i only started to notice when i got my posts from the day before. ciao! On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 22:16:21 -0600 Julian Opificius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting blazing speeds - almost conversational , but I'm in the US. Where are you, the Philippines? Most likely a problem with your ISP. julian. === At 09:31 AM 1/4/02 -0500, you wrote: hi, am i the only one experiencing delay? i began noticing yesterday that the answers i post to some questions only gets delivered to me the day after. if that is the case, pardon for those who may be irritated by these seemingly 'late' answers. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Copy Paste
if you are using vim then you can make use of the middle button to paste highlighted text into vi. now if you want to do it the old-fashioned way (pure keyboard) then here are some tips... - vi makes use of buffers (specifically the unnamed-buffer) to store deleted and copied text. think of it as the clipboard. - everytime you delete an entry using x, d, or dd, the entry in the unnamed-buffer is overwritten. - to copy text the command is y (short for yank). like any ordinary vi command, you can precede it with a marker or a number to amplify its effect (10y to yank 10 characters, 10wy to yank 10 words). to copy whole lines, use the yy command. precede it with a number to denote the number of lines to be yanked (the direction is usually downwards but my memory is rusty and i cant remeber how to yank lines of text upward. ;-) - to paste the contents of the unnamed-buffer, press p to paste it after the cursor (or line? i cant remember correctly as i am in windows right now) and P to paste it before. - delete/yank is more powerful when used with markers. that is another topic and i still have work to do. ;-) NOTE: it is understood that before executing the command shortcuts that you are out of the editing-mode. press the escape key twice to make sure. ;-) ciao! SKLIM wrote: Hi!I need help to know the key how to copy and paste in vi command ?Can someone help me on this issue -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." ===== Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Delays
yes but repeating answers already spoken (a few days ago) may be considered by some to be a waste of their time. just making sure that all bases are covered. ;-) ciao! Grant Fraser wrote: I'm in Canada and I notice the same thing. Sometimes my posts just float out in cyberspace for a few days until they bounce back undeliverable. Sometimes they had already been delivered before being bounced. My mail client checks every 10 minutes. Some people who post have all 5 of their replys to different topics arrive at once even though they are supposed to be spaced hours appart. I have learned to be patient and wait for the best answer, not necessarily the first one. Grant snip -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] hotmail
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:36:23 +0100 (CET) Jody Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK Does hotmail really support pop3 ? Accessible tru kmail etc If OK so what is the POP3 adress ? ... OK Sure does. I forget what the POP3 is, but is on the site. I have never really tried it in Kmail. So i will not make any promises. But I do know I have alot of users on my network that do it through Outlook. i still have no experience with it as i dumped hotmail a long time ago in favor of softhome.net. the keyword there is 'Outlook'. from what i heard is that hotmail uses pseudo-POP3 protocol which makes it accessible only from outlook. if this is wrong then i will stand corrected. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how can I connect Linux-Mandrake 8.1 to a Windows/Netware LAN?
i followed the sparse instructions included with LISa but still no luck. komba2 works just fine as you can mount whatever shares you want. not much of a solution to what you want but it works nonetheless so it might be of some use to you. ciao! On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 11:48:50 -0800 Matthew James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hicnew to Linux (and UNIX) so please forgive ignorance. I have configured the network parameters on Netconf, and when I try to open the local network tree I get an error ecould not connect to host localhostf. I read this: You need to set up the lisa / reslisa daemon in order to be able to browse the network. on some linux distros (e.g. suse 7.2) you can use the system configuration tools to start lisa automatically, otherwise setup the reslisa daemon in kcontrol. Konqueror connects to that daemon (on localhost) to browse the local network. After starting reslisa you should be able to browse the network using the url rlan:/ So I autoconfigured the lisa and reslisa daemons as root, rebooted, but still the same error. Any help please? Are there other steps I need to take? Thanks, Matthew -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is This (browser type/function) Available in Linux?
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:01:39 -0500 Wes Gregg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just remembered that I saw a program once that allowed you to type a website address (ie, http://gnttype.org for instance) and tell it how many levels deep you wanted it to go and it would start downloading complete pages to your hard drive for offline browsing. It would allow the option of specifing what type of files to get (html, graphics sound, etc.) or not as the case would be and if you wanted links followed how deep to go in them as well. snip Thanks much, Wes Gregg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User # 252649 i think you are referring to httrack. if i remember it correctly their homepage is at httrack.com but if that fails, do a search at freshmeat.net. be warned that the linux version does not have a gui but the manual written by fred (?) cohen is more than enough to get you started. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bash scripting for beginners
the best bash scripting guide that you can have is the one from linuxdoc.org or better known as the linux documentation project. the BASH-HowTo is often revised for errors and currently equivalent to a 400page book. its more than what you bargained for and a rather obsolete version is included with the help packages in your installation. do yourself a favor and surf to the linuxdoc site and you can find the pdf and html formats there. HTH. On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 22:02:14 +0100 Andrei Raevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am looking for a good bash scripting tutorial/manual for BEGINNERS who are new Bash, Linux and scripting. Ideally - a book in PDF format or something in HTML. Please let me know if you know were I could find such an item. Thanks! Andrei _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:51:08 -0900 tester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug Lerner wrote: Is there something analagous to the Japanese Language Toolkit in MacOS that I can install so that I can read and write Japanese? Thanks, Doug Lerner, Tokyo well since you have one partition open where win2k was, try searching on Two Mandrake at www.mandrakeforum.com and set up a second mandrake system and choose to _install_ in Japanese. Also, the install usually permits additional languages--there is no specific kit, just additional languages that may be chosen. Civileme [this is where i get teary-eyed] what about me? [end melodramatics] i am working for a japanese-owned company and am the only one using mandrake here. it is one of the reasons why i cannot make my officemates try linux here in the office. Japanese language support is pretty much a black art to me right now. i can receive email with alias sy='export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucJP sylpheed;sylpheed ' but aside from that i cant do anything in nihongo. im using an english QWERTY keyboard so it would be beneficial if there would be a mandrake how-to to enable me to work in english or japanese like in Windows (the reason why i dual-boot here in the office). Wine is out of the question. i found somebody in the sylpheed mailinglist that can write in mandarin while still maintaining an english linux installation. he said the principles were the same but he was using some chinese-centric applications. as far as using japanese while maintaining an english installation (aside from the TWO Mandrakes solution)... HELP! ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 22:40:34 +1100 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes but turbolinux has not been updating frequently and is not as robust as mandrake. i prefer sticking with mandrake and weather the storm. i know there is a solution out there but when it will be available to the rest of us, that i will have to wait for ;-) ciao! snip as far as using japanese while maintaining an english installation (aside from the TWO Mandrakes solution)... HELP! ciao! This obviously isn't the best solution, but I hear that Turbolinux basically specialises in Japanese support (it has a bigger following in Japan than it does in the US). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan But hey, thats just my 31,000 Turkish Lira. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to open/view .vcf file
try any text editor. vcf are just text ( except if it contains non-binary data ). if you are interested, try to read rfc 2425 and 2426 as they pertain to the vCard specification. you can also do a search for vCard specification on google and try to visit versit.com. ciao! On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 19:25:32 +0800 Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All People, How to open/view .vcf file, which software to be used ? B.R. Stephen Liu -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] clock on dual boot system
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 13:08:22 -0800 (PST) Kenn Murrah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okay, i know this is a trivial issue but it's driving me nuts ... i've created a dual boot (windows ME and linux) in which the clock is 6 hours different between the two ... if i correct the clock in one operating system, when i reboot, it's wrong in the other ... what am i doing wrong here, gang ? thanks, kenn you are in luck, i still have the reply from the semi-legendary Tom Brinkman himself about the same problem [PASTE] hwclock --hctosys Set the System Time from the Hardware Clock. hwclock --systohc Set the Hardware Clock to the current System Time. (see man hwclock) I use this alias in bashrc to set both hardware and software clocks to a time server (U of Houston) alias tdate=rdate -p -s tick.uh.edu hwclock --systohc You'll probly need to install rdate, it's on your CD's. You'll also need to find a public time server in your time zone (Google). [/PASTE] but i havent even tried it yet because of the public time server thing which is not always accessible to me (i may not be understanding it correctly but charge it to my personal stupidity ;-). i made do with not selecting any timezone in linux. i now have the same time in the two OS in my box. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Limewire and java-VM
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:47:24 +0100 Michael Dannhorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I try to install 'Limewire' on my LM 8.1. There I get this message: # sh LimeWireLinux.bin Preparing to install... Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive... Configuring the installer for this system's environment... No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH environment variable. You must install a VM prior to running this program. I downloaded jre1.3.1 from sun and installed it with rpm -i . Who could me help to set up 'jre' in a correct way? snip im using the java sdk but the principle is the same so this might work but your mileage might vary. issue rpm -ql on the jre package to get a list of all files installed in your system. take note of the directories named /usr/../bin and /usr/../lib. now add the path of the bin to your PATH. i usually add it to the $HOME/.bashrc but i always get 'corrected' that the correct place to put it is in the $HOME/.bash_profile so i have this in my .bash_profile export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.3.1/ export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/lib PATH=$OLDPATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin export PATH you can substitute the jre directory as the value contained in JAVA_HOME. there are some instances (especially with older jre and sdk) when you have to specify in the classpath the zipped class file. if that is the case just look into the lib directory for classes.zip (version 1.1.x)or tools.jar (1.2.x or greater) and add it to the classpath. export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/lib/classes.zip #replace with tools.jar if it is what you have. give the list a holler if things are still not going right for you. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Question about directory and file permissions
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 15:04:29 -0800 E Estes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of setting up a ftp server for anonymous users but they have the ability to delete files and/or directories. You can see how this would be bad if a malicious user logged on to it. I looked around in the User Manager, Userconf, and Userdrake and didn't see anything pertaining to what I need to do. I know it will be a simple thing to do (I would rather learn how to do it in shell) but I am stumped. Thanks in advance if you can help, Mithrilhall =Mithrilhall= Linux - Mandrake 8.1 AMD K-2 / 350 Mhz File Server FTP Server Web Server = hi, do the users have to share a common space like a public directory for storing files? or are they restricted to their own home directories? im asking this because i run a proftpd server here in the local office network and there is an option in the proftpd configuration named DefaultRoot which limits the users to a certain directory. there are a slew of options in the readme that comes with proftpd so it is a recommended read. and i assume you will get all the notes that say ftp is bad because is transmits 'clear-text' passwords which is easily caught by spoofers so try the ssh variety instead. in my case im running a personal server in a secure environment so ftp works enough for my needs. HTH -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Question about directory and file permissions
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 09:20:30 -0500 Anuerin G. Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 15:04:29 -0800 E Estes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of setting up a ftp server for anonymous users but they have the ability to delete files and/or directories. You can see how this would be bad if a malicious user logged on to it. I looked around in the User Manager, Userconf, and Userdrake and didn't see anything pertaining to what I need to do. I know it will be a simple thing to do (I would rather learn how to do it in shell) but I am stumped. Thanks in advance if you can help, Mithrilhall hi, do the users have to share a common space like a public directory for storing files? or are they restricted to their own home directories? im asking this because i run a proftpd server here in the local office network and there is an option in the proftpd configuration named DefaultRoot which limits the users to a certain directory. there are a slew of options in the readme that comes with proftpd so it is a recommended read. and i assume you will get all the notes that say ftp is bad because is transmits 'clear-text' passwords which is easily caught by spoofers so try the ssh variety instead. in my case im running a personal server in a secure environment so ftp works enough for my needs. HTH -- forgot to mention that if you are not allowing anonymous log-in then quota could be useful to you to limit the space allowed per user. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hotmail
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 04:06:39 + Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, i use this account from linux just fine, however, i did not create this account from linux. BTW, i'm pretty sure there is some anti-linux stuff in here. the only way i can delete a complete page of message ( by pressing select all ) just selects the first one, and i have to select manually the remaining 49... i figure Billy thinks that Java is not right the way it is and is thinking about making his own super-exclusive-proprietary version ;oP when this started to happen, i immediately started looking some other mail account, somewhere else.. i only use this one for this mailing list now.. so i delete few emails.. ( someday i'll take the time and subscribe to this list from somewhere else.. ) ( HINT! . WHY hotmail?? ;oP ) see ya! i would suggest softhome.net. i use it for my home accounts. their smtp has some trouble recently but you could just use your isp's mail server as that would be quicker and more efficient. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:01:18 +0900 Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there something analagous to the Japanese Language Toolkit in MacOS that I can install so that I can read and write Japanese? Thanks, Doug Lerner, Tokyo yes there is, its called FreeWNN and i think its somewhere in the 2nd or 3rd CD (the japanese locales is in the 3rd CD). how to make it work, i still do not know. there is no accompanying docu for the rpm and the website is in japanese. im still trying to figure it out as my nihongo is not that good ( i just took JLPT level 4 and i dont know if ill pass ;-). you will also need a terminal that is unicode-aware and the installation CD has kterm but it sucks. there was an article in the mandrakeforum.com related to this but i havent really read it yet. if you have made any success ill be grateful if you could give me some pointers even if privately. domo arigato gozaimasu. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 18:04:47 -0800 (PST) Jesse Angell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i personally think that x windows is a complete ram hog.. As a 166mhz 32ram cannot run it... what version of Mandrake are you using? it is stated somewhere in the mandrake site that the recommended minimum for 8.1 is 64MB. if you have older CPUs then it would also be logical to use lightweight window managers like blackbox, xfce or anything like it and stay away from desktop managers like KDE and GNOME as these are the really cpu intensive apps. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] segmentation faults 8.1-gamimg edition
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 08:59:22 -0500 lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Just what is a segmentation fault ? And why would it tell me seems like memory is missing Lee plainly said , a segmentation fault occurs when a program accesses a memory space which it is not supposed to. this is usually due to the programming wherein the programmer has not anticipated a circumstances and hasnt safeguarded his code correctly for this kind of thing. this can also be caused by the hardware (not so quite often) but i cannot give you any concrete examples so i pass that privilege to those more knowledgeable than me. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows won't start - any suggestions?
hi, just curious, did you do something special with the way you partitioned your harddisk? your linux boot image points out to hda5 which is the first logical partition but your windows entry points out to hda2. i know that this is normal on some circumstances especially if the disk is a product of Ghost or something similar but here in the office 9 windows pc broke down due to some problem with Ghost. as i have said, this is just to satisfy my curiosity and no help is included ;-) ciao! Doug Lerner wrote: This is my lilo.conf. I am not familiar with lilo. Does anybody see anything I might try before trying the more radical idea of starting over with both Windows and Linux? boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/jp106.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 append= devfs=mount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda5 append= devfs=mount failsafe read-only other=/dev/hda2 label=windows table=/dev/hda Thanks, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001): On Tuesday 25 December 2001 04:07 am, you wrote: I would actually like to figure out how make Windows *bootable* again. It doesn't seem to boot even if I choose the Windows option from the startup screen. Maybe, post your lilo.conf Also explain which drine/partition windows is on. We might see something, else its difficult to help Gerald 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 -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Avenue cor. Poveda St. Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows won't start - any suggestions?
hmmnn... i remember that somebody already mentioned that windows stops checking for partitions on the first non-recognized partition and in your case that will be the first partition occupied by linux. but in my meager understanding, lilo was supposed to point to the bootable partition so windows should identify the second partition as the 'first partition' relatively. I know windows 'need' to be on one of the primary partitions of the first drive so that's another dead end. this is the part when i shut up and let others with experience come in. ;-) ciao! Doug Lerner wrote: Hi, No - I didn't do anything special. I started out with two partitions on my hard drive. The first one contained Windows 98 and the second contained Windows 2000. I decided to keep the Win 2000 partition so I clicked on the first partition, deleted it and then pressed auto- allocate. When I did that the Mandrake installer allocated Linux partitions to the area left by the first partition. If the Installer had said something like Warning: if you want to keep Windows make sure to keep it in the first partition I would have kept the Windows 98 and deleted the Windows 2000 partition. doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wednesday, December 26, 2001): hi, just curious, did you do something special with the way you partitioned your harddisk? your linux boot image points out to hda5 which is the first logical partition but your windows entry points out to hda2. i know that this is normal on some circumstances especially if the disk is a product of Ghost or something similar but here in the office 9 windows pc broke down due to some problem with Ghost. as i have said, this is just to satisfy my curiosity and no help is included ;-) ciao! Doug Lerner wrote: This is my lilo.conf. I am not familiar with lilo. Does anybody see anything I might try before trying the more radical idea of starting over with both Windows and Linux? boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/jp106.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 append= devfs=mount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda5 append= devfs=mount failsafe read-only other=/dev/hda2 label=windows table=/dev/hda Thanks, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001): On Tuesday 25 December 2001 04:07 am, you wrote: I would actually like to figure out how make Windows *bootable* again. It doesn't seem to boot even if I choose the Windows option from the startup screen. Maybe, post your lilo.conf Also explain which drine/partition windows is on. We might see something, else its difficult to help Gerald 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 -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Avenue cor. Poveda St. Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = 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 -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Avenue cor. Poveda St. Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 21:53:22 -0600 Ricky Parks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am new to this mail listing, I dont realy think this mail listing is going to help me but I though I would try any ways. I have been having some troble getting my sound card and my network browsing to work. I am writting this from windows since I can get my e-mail working ether. I wanted to ask a question too. I heard of this program called wine. Can it realy let me play games like star craft on linux? Well I hope this listing helps me make the big step from windows to linux! Thanks all :) what makes you think this list wont help you? this can help in more ways than one ;-) to play games for windows, you are better-off with WineX which is wine with DirectX support. I have been able to run counterstrike in it and starcraft to some degree. for a better howto go to the mandrakeuser.org board as there is a never-dying thread about compiling winex... here is the link: http://mandrakeuser.org/mub/viewtopic.php?topic=3005forum=8106 and check out the board also as it holds a great deal of information from users. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 20:15:02 -0800 Grant Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the vote of confidence. snip There are many people on this list who can help you help yourself. Most questions can be answered with a Google search. I.e. mandrake 8.1 brand of sound card There are lots of instructions on networking as well. It would help to know what you consider a network. Just like if I were to help you bake cookies I would need to know what kind of cookies you were looking for. As for wine, Transgaming is best but you have to pay. Everything else works with varying degrees of success. Search the message archives. snip only the pre-built binaries have fees. you can download the source and compile your own. i have and it works. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[Fwd: Re: [newbie] X]
here is my answer to roy which i have accidentally sent to roy. so civileme was the somebody grin. but i am using 4.1.0 and the probo tip is the only one that enabled me to use 8.1 at home. i am also using a dial-up connection at home so choosing a 100Kb driver sure beats downloading the updated Xfree86 packages. ;-) but as long as it works for you, then it must be good! ciao! Original Message Subject: Re: [newbie] X Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:40:39 +0800 From: Anuerin G. Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roy Barton wrote: Ok. Here is the deal. I am working on computer for my friend. Here are the specs: Athlon 1Ghz CUP Via Motherboard 512 MB RAM S3 Savage 4 video (on board) ESS modem (winmodem) I have installed Mandrake 8.1 so many times I can count them all. His pc kit (including cpu, mb, case) came with Red Hat 7.1, so we tried that. Guess what?! The second CD is BLANK! No go on that one. So some one told me about the 'setuptool' command. I installed MDK 8.1 again and used the 'setuptool' option. No go on that one. The Red Hat booklet stressed the fact to use the generic SVGA drivers. So I used the generic drivers under 8.1. No go. Just a flashing screen on boot. I have to get it working. Any ideas Thanks Roy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ok so maybe somebody posted about upgrading the Xfree86 packages but i havent and i can still use my mandrake 8.1 at home even if i have an onboard ProSavage chip. The quickest way is to download the updated driver found at www.probo.com/timr/ im not 100% sure at that site but do a search at the mandrakeuser.org/mub site and you will find it there as this has been tackled there over and over again. the instructions are also there so it would be pretty useless to reiterate it here. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Avenue cor. Poveda St. Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPM Problems
rpm is not a viewer. its a utility. if you want a viewer then you have to find a front-end. the only one i know of is rpmdrake aka Software Manager. you are getting errors because you are trying to install while as a normal user and cannot update the dependency database. log-in to root and try again. take care to test first the rpm before testing by adding the '--test' option to rpm. if there is no problem then take it out so the rpm can do its thing. post if you encounter any more problems. ciao! Pauljames Dimitriu wrote: Hello All, I posted this question before, but I don't think it made it to the message board. I just downloaded a new driver for my Lexmark Z35 printer and it's in RPM format. Unfortunately when I double click on it, I get an error saying that Nautilus (I use Gnome) does not have a viewer for this. I do a which rpm and it says it exists. Now when I do rpm from the command line, I get an error saying something about an improper database (something about db3.) When I go to download a new version of RPM, I see that all old versions are in RPM format. Does anyone have any ideas? Also, where is the inetd.conf file located for Linux Mandrake? I need to start up Samba. Thank you very much. Paul __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Avenue cor. Poveda St. Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Diamond Supra 56e PRO
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:40:58 - Gon$BmB(Blo Cordeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone... i've recently bought an external modem (Diamond Supra 56e PRO) to work on linux, but towards my efforts, i cannot put it to work! i can "speak" to it, by querying him, but i can't connect, i always get the NO DIALTONE message, and if i disable the option to wait for this dialtone, i can't connect anyway! I bellieve this is because of the voicemail, but i do not know what commands to give to the modem so he can understand that! my initialization string, is the default ( ATZ ). can anyone help me out? thanks Gon$Bga(Blo Cordeiro Markdata i have the same modem with no problem. LM 8.0 and 8.1 was able to detect and use it without a hitch. it must be the phone connection or something. ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." =========== Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 15:46:00 -0900 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Ummm, Can you install windows on a linux machine using the windows installer? Seriously, there are safeguards all over the place, even in recommended mode. You have to say Yes, use the entire disk to get the installer to wipe things unless you have the misfortune to own a drive that does not comply with ATA standards and it happens to be one that invokes a disagreement between the kernel and the BIOS about the CHS numbers. It may be inappropriate to flame a user who has had a learning experience to read the messages from the installer, but I think saying that it is bad programming may be a bit of a stretch. Of course we learn something with each new distro and try to close as many holes as we can. For example, many folks are mentioning trouble finding the Update button because they expect it to be a Cancel and don't even read it, so something may be changed on that screen next time. Ergonomics isn't an exact science and Redmond doesn't have a monopoly on the right way to do things. At the moment we are having more bad results from veteran installers than 12-year-olds who have never seen an installer before. So we are learning that there is a definite expectation induced by prior experience that may distort perceptions of users into assuming they see things they do not. Civileme hmmnn, darn you civileme, is that your real name or just a nick? anyway the name fits and the time has yet to come where i see you answer without much 'civility'. anyway, nice to have someone like you around. for lee, this is a newbie list. being newbie-ish is a matter of taste. sure someone calls someone a troll and a little heated emails come but in my opinion that is life. not everybody has the same temper nor the same view on things. everybody can be irritated for only so long that something 'flame'-like erupts from them. all in all i still find this list informative, and most of the time entertaining. im not afraid to ask something even i can get flamed. if somebody flames me wrongly then its their problem and not mine. if everybody flames me then i think thats the time to contemplate leaving the list or just changing the email and name (im desperate for knowledge, ;-). i hope you wont leave as a newbie out there may need your help in the future. you dont have to put up with the 'arrogance' of this list (or any other). the delete key (alt+d in sylpheed) is in your fingertips. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] x
hi, XFree86 is at fault. ProSavage chips need to have the appropriate driver. go to the mandrakeuser.org/mub and search for 'probo'. i think the correct link is www.probo.com/timr but my memory is faulty. ciao! On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 13:44:46 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roy, since X isn't working you can do this from the command line by typing as root setuptool. From the menu list that comes up you then choose display configuration. If that doesn't work then you may want to rerun the install process but this time instead of formatting and installing all the packages again just choose to not format any partitions and select no packages to install. this will take you to the installation and setup of the display. instead of choosing to directly support the monitor by brand and model try choosing something like Generic Multi-sync refresh rate 74hz that can do 1024 x 768. Use the XFree86-4.1.0 3D Accelerator package when it asks you which version of X you want to install. that should get you running. Frankly, if you're having as much trouble as you're describing the last method i've outlined here is probably your best bet. good luck, -- Mark -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] vi - ?
this may be a little late but you can set commands used in the colon mode to be there upon startup by placing them in your $HOME/.exrc file. my .exrc file contains two entries set number set nobackup i placed nobackup there as i get irritated with all the redundant filename~ files which i delete immediately anyway. HTH On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 09:32:26 +0800 SKLIM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! What is the vi command for view the files with no. of line .. Best Regards, SKLIM -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Excellent idea.
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:06:48 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 07:07:39 -0800 shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed frantically in their message: third :) I'll fourth it. this sounds like a wonderful idea. I had sent a reply to this earlier in the day, but i think it got lost. -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 3:05pm up 22:00, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.11, 0.09 hey, im all for it... but here are some things bugging me.. if we would do these 'special privileges' then others should also have the same. sure none is as consistent as civileme [applause at the mention of the name ;-) ] but they share with the community on a more or less consistent basis. anyway most people here have jobs and it is not in their job description to help the rest but they do. i propose that these 'beer privileges' be awarded quarterly so everybody helpful gets their shot at having a beer belly. ;-) next is how to collect the 'beer allowance'? sure paypal could come in handy but not all countries have paypal services (philippines is not included in the serviceable countries, dont know why. ;-) and most dont have the means to contribute. im all into contributing but provide a way and im with you, heck ill even mail it to you but it will be in philippine peso and you have to exchange it. ;-) ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrading .tgz package
five ways: the thoughtful packager way (such as WineX, a very good bunch ;-): from the old source directory, do make uninstall. these should remove the old package and then proceed with installing the new one. be wary that dependent applications on this package may go berserk. the patient installer way: check the makefile of the old package and hunt down the files put by 'make install'. install the the new package after. the impatient installer way: since you have specified the directory, just remove it and hope that the application did not put any other files on other directories. hey you should have tried the patient installer instead of this one. the damn-be-damned way: just install the new package hoping that it would overwrite the previous package. the rpm way: find an rpm for the package. if there is no available rpm then try to learn how to make one (im putting this one off until i have the time ;-). take your pick! ciao! On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 18:15:37 -0800 Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello my fellow Mandrake Users! =) How will I upgrade the installed package in .tgz format? For example, I installed a package-1.0.tgz in a certain directory and I want to upgrade what I installed with package-1.4.tgz. How will go about it? I am using Mandrake 8.1. Thanks in advance! Advance Merry Christmas to all of you! =) __ www.edsamail.com -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] test message
yeah, that hit me after a few days. thank i dont filter it to /dev/null but to the trash folder. it fills up but at least i dont get to see the message as i can just throw the buggers out with all the trashmails. the only reason im suggesting it is that some still access through dial-ups and that thrash is still causing some money on the poor slob (including me!) if only my free popmail account supports filtering at the server then all is set... ciao! On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 19:58:24 -0500 Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: considering the nature of the internet, the fact that i would rather do it myself (please mom), the great deal of cash we expend to be on this list, I would suggest that control is almost always better if _I_ control it, so for those reasons I would suggest a local filter would be a better choice. in almost 9 years on-line, my /dev/null has never filled up. On Wednesday 19 December 2001 08:49, you wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 08:02:40 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:10:07 +1100 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: I just got a message bounced from [EMAIL PROTECTED], but then it also showed up in the newbie list as intended. What gives? ...and this message from you Mark, was received twice as have lots of others. Looks like we have a mailer with the hiccups somewhere. Brian I've been getting them too. Any one have any ideas? maybe the list administrator can filter out the bounced and undelivered mail, delete it and marking the bouncy address for removal in the list. whenever i post i get tons of undelivered notices expecially from the dude with an address at mandrax.org. just a thought. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Classes.zip for Java?
hi, i think i remember that classes.zip used to hold all the sun classes but was replaced by tools.jar in jdk1.2.x and up. try installing jdk/jre 1.1.x or maybe the bundled kaffe java interpreter will suffice. ciao! On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 17:22:02 +0100 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get the Java ICQ client to work. It keeps dying on that it can't find a file called classes.zip. I got several SDK's and JRE's from java.sun.com but none of them contain that file. Does anyone have a clue what I should do/install to get that going? Thanks Paul -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] test message
hey mark, maybe something is wrong with your mail connection. i have just returned from a 3 day vacation and i got around 400 emails in my mailbox. got it all processed out by deleting all the samba, nvidia, and whos gary threads. with that number of emails, i figured they got it sorted out somewhat. ;-) ciao! On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:27:08 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello? is this thing on??? no message at home for a while and posts from both home and office not showing up although a small trickle coming in to the office. Mark -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is the list broken again?
i dont think so. i think the list just experienced its slow days. ciao! On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:06:35 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: evening all...i was just wondering if the newbie list was down or something cause there hasn't been anything in for a while. I've been working on Postfix regex filters most of the day and would hate to think that I've actually made things too tight and now all the list mail is getting dumped. -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 10:05pm up 3 days, 0 min, 2 users, load average: 0.56, 0.72, 0.63 -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] automatically mounting windows shares on boot
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:47:34 +0600 Mark D'voo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I mount a networked windows share on boot? I know using LinNeighborhood is easy enough, but I'm sure I can add some line to some file to have them automatically mounted mark -- 2:46pm up 3:30, 3 users, load average: 1.07, 1.11, 1.00 try adding them in your fstab as smbfs. you have to configure samba though to map your linux username with your windows username. these can also mean additional trouble for you when shutting down your pc as the share may be unaccessible. i use komba2 as it is easier. one problem though is that i even if there is a single authenticating server here at work i had to supply my username and password form time to time. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] x
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 08:35:40 -0600 Roy Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey any one here can tell me how to reconfigure X if it did not properly install on the initial install. My friend has a computer with a Savage4 video card, and the Xconfiguration installer automatically installs the card and it does not work. The book that come with is kit says to install the Generic SVGA drivers, but the install does not allow it to work. Any ideas? PLEASE HELP I've reinstalled 8.1 6 times trying to get it to work. Thanks Roy hi, XFree86 has not completely ported the drivers for the ProSavage chips. There is an open-source patch that im using at home. if i remember it right the website is located at www.probo.com/timr/ but head on to the MUO messageboard site and search for probo. i think somebody already made a tip thread in the tips and trick section so you may want to check it out too. HTH -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help: Usage of chmod
do this in a script. i always do these things using recursive scripts. check the archives for my template and and modify it accordingly. if not email me and ill try to help you in my own little ways. ciao! On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:46:29 +0100 Jun Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all, I would like to 'chmod -R 0755' of all directories underneath, and 'chmod -R 0644' of all files in all sub-directories underneath. How to accomplish this? Thanks for any suggestions, :) /Jun -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] internet dialer logging option
hi, how do i turn on the logging option of the internet dialer? im using a dial-up connection at home to different prepaid servers and it would help a lot if i could keep track of the total time (per second if i can) that i spent with which ISP. i cant figure out how to use the log dialog that comes with the dialer so any tips and hints will be greatly appreciated. thanks! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mulitple desktop managers
Suspend Off; RGB/Color Display (II) I810(0): redX: 0.636 redY: 0.334 greenX: 0.280 greenY: 0.601 (II) I810(0): blueX: 0.145 blueY: 0.061 whiteX: 0.283 whiteY: 0.297 (II) I810(0): Supported VESA Video Modes: (II) I810(0): 720x400@70Hz (II) I810(0): 640x480@60Hz (II) I810(0): 640x480@72Hz (II) I810(0): 640x480@75Hz (II) I810(0): 800x600@60Hz (II) I810(0): 800x600@72Hz (II) I810(0): 800x600@75Hz (II) I810(0): 832x624@75Hz (II) I810(0): 1024x768@60Hz (II) I810(0): 1024x768@70Hz (II) I810(0): 1024x768@75Hz (II) I810(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0 (II) I810(0): Supported Future Video Modes: (II) I810(0): #0: hsize: 640 vsize 480 refresh: 85 vid: 22833 (II) I810(0): #1: hsize: 800 vsize 600 refresh: 85 vid: 22853 (II) I810(0): #2: hsize: 1024 vsize 768 refresh: 85 vid: 22881 (II) I810(0): #3: hsize: 1280 vsize 1024 refresh: 60 vid: 32897 (II) I810(0): #4: hsize: 640 vsize 480 refresh: 100 vid: 26673 (II) I810(0): #5: hsize: 800 vsize 600 refresh: 99 vid: 26437 (II) I810(0): #6: hsize: 1280 vsize 960 refresh: 60 vid: 16513 (II) I810(0): #7: hsize: 1152 vsize 864 refresh: 75 vid: 20337 (II) I810(0): Supported additional Video Mode: (II) I810(0): clock: 25.2 MHz Image Size: 306 x 230 mm (II) I810(0): h_active: 640 h_sync: 656 h_sync_end 752 h_blank_end 800 h_border: 0 (II) I810(0): v_active: 350 v_sync: 387 v_sync_end 389 v_blanking: 449 v_border: 0 (II) I810(0): Serial No: BZ 140626 (II) I810(0): Monitor name: PHILIPS 107S (II) I810(0): Ranges: V min: 50 V max: 160 Hz, H min: 30 H max: 70 kHz, PixClock max 110 MHz (--) I810(0): Chipset: i815 (--) I810(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xF800 (--) I810(0): IO registers at addr 0xF700 (WW) AGPIOC_ACQUIRE failed (Device or resource busy) (EE) GARTInit: AGPIOC_INFO failed (Invalid argument) (**) I810(0): Will alloc AGP framebuffer: 16384 kByte (==) I810(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (II) I810(0): monitor1: Using hsync range of 30.00-70.00 kHz (II) I810(0): monitor1: Using vrefresh range of 50.00-160.00 Hz (II) I810(0): Clock range: 12.00 to 163.00 MHz (II) I810(0): Not using default mode 1024x768 (unknown reason) (II) I810(0): Not using default mode 1280x960 (hsync out of range) (II) I810(0): Not using default mode 1280x1024 (hsync out of range) (II) I810(0): Not using default mode 1280x1024 (hsync out of range) (II) I810(0): Not using default mode 1600x1200 (hsync out of range) (II) I810(0): Not using default mode 1600x1200 (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) I810(0): Not using default mode 1600x1200 (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) I810(0): Not using default mode 1600x1200 (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) I810(0): Not using default mode 1600x1200 (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) I810(0): Not using default mode 1792x1344 (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) I810(0): Not using default mode 1792x1344 (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) I810(0): Not using default mode 1856x1392 (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) I810(0): Not using default mode 1856x1392 (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) I810(0): Not using default mode 1920x1440 (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) I810(0): Not using default mode 1920x1440 (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) I810(0): Not using default mode 1400x1050 (hsync out of range) (--) I810(0): Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024) (**) I810(0): Default mode 1024x768: 94.5 MHz, 68.7 kHz, 85.0 Hz (**) I810(0): Default mode 800x600: 56.3 MHz, 53.7 kHz, 85.1 Hz (**) I810(0): Default mode 640x480: 36.0 MHz, 43.3 kHz, 85.0 Hz (--) I810(0): Display dimensions: (31, 23) cm (--) I810(0): DPI set to (83, 84) (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libfb.a (II) Module fb: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libxaa.a (II) Module xaa: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libramdac.a (II) Module ramdac: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 0.1.0 (II) I810(0): [drm] drmSetBusid failed (6, PCI:0:2:0) (EE) I810(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. (==) I810(0): Write-combining range (0xf800,0x400) (II) I810(0): Setting dot clock to 94.5 MHz [ 0x3d 0xe 0x20 ] [ 63 16 2 ] (II) I810(0): chose watermark 0x2221: (tab.freq 94.5) Fatal server error: AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 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/XFree86.1.log. Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :1.0 after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City
Re: [newbie] Error compiling NVIDIA kernel...
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 05:22:42 -0800, joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 24 November 2001 08:27, you wrote: On Saturday 24 November 2001 16:50, you wrote: Install the kernel-headers and kernel-source packages first. They aren't by default . Then you'll be upaway:) Thanks, That's _EXACTLY_ the problem. When I went to install kernel-source using the software manager the package didn't show up under installable so I assumed it was. I actually had to go look for the source rpm on the mandrake install CDs...so something else is going wrong there ??? snip hi, somebody said that the tree view in rpmdrake does not show all packages as not to overwhelm the new user. some packages are 'hidden' and only the more 'useful' files are shown in the treelist. i think this was implemented in 8.1 and there was a couple of post in the mandrakeforum about it. you can always try the other tab so all rpms are viewable (or try the search..) just my 2 cents. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Clock Synchronization
thanks big and bitter tom. ;-) ill get around it when i do my reinstall today (or tomorrow, depending on the schedule) ciao! On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 07:23:20 -0500, Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 27 November 2001 09:44 am, Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: hi to all, this is one problem that I shelved that i remembered just now... how do I synchonize the linux clock with the BIOS clock? The timezone here is GMT+8. If I select 'Manila' in the timezone, the BIOS clock gets out of whack. Setting the clock to GMT or not does not help. I found a workaround by not selecting any timezone but Im hoping to find a proper way wherein all my pc clocks (especially when Im changing OSes) are synchronized and I still am in the right timezone. thanks! hwclock --hctosys Set the System Time from the Hardware Clock. hwclock --systohc Set the Hardware Clock to the current System Time. (see man hwclock) I use this alias in bashrc to set both hardware and software clocks to a time server (U of Houston) alias tdate="rdate -p -s tick.uh.edu hwclock --systohc" You'll probly need to install rdate, it's on your CD's. You'll also need to find a public time server in your time zone (Google). -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." =========== Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers (SUCCESS)
On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 19:46:29 -0600, Mr. E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Only slight problem.. when I finished a race in Tux Racer, the system locked and wouldn't respond (tried Ctrl-Alt-F1, etc but no good).. Ctrl-Alt-Delete didn't work either. I had to press Reset button. snip hi, someone posted about the 2nd-to-the-last resort of rebooting a system (reset is the last). its something like alt+prntscreen+R alt+prntscreen+E alt+prntscreen+S alt+prntscreen+B or something like that (please correct me if im wrong). they said it would write the necessary data from memory to harddisk and perform a reboot (or was it a shutdown?). i have never found any docs about this but it works (if i hit the right combination of course ;-) ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] empty messages anyone?
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001 08:37:02 +0800, Anke Max [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gidday Ricardo Yes, Everything I get from Dave Sherman I think the name was, is blank but has an attachment. As I don't open any attachments I don't ever read these. rgrds max Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas's words, written Thu, 22 Nov 2001 It's been a while that I'm receiveing blank messages, just the headers! Anyone else with the same trouble? hi, i just received one from parthysomething with the body saying No Message Collected the rest has its message attached. i dont see a reason why text attachment should not be viewed. but maybe its just a matter of personal preference. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] booting in console mode and seeing booting logs to diagnose problem
Anguo wrote: Hi all! I have been looking in the archives for the answer to the first question below, but so far, I haven't found the solution. I am sure that the answer is simple. Do you know it? I dual boot win98 + Mandrake 8.1 Questions: 1- How can I use the boot disk to boot into the console mode rather than the graphical login? 2- Where can I then see the logs of the booting sequences. hi, i vaguely remember that its in a file named dmesg (somewhere in /var) and that you can display it by invoking dmesg. does this mean that you can now enter your system? as for the chinese stuff, somebody (look for iain if im not mistaken) in the sylpheed [sylpheed.good-day.net] mailing list (he works in hongkong or somewhere near) who has written an informative guide (albeit a work in progress) about how he did configure his linux system to display chinese characters. I was hoping that I could apply it to display japanese characters but nothing so far. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Avenue cor. Poveda St. Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] booting in console mode
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:31:13 +0800, "Anguo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - $B1H%s*L(B: Anuerin G. Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip does this mean that you can now enter your system? precisely not. I can't. the graphical login is a hindrance right now because it won't start any window manager and it won't allow me to reboot under console mode (there was such an option with 8.0 but apparently, it's gone under 8.1) If I can't find a way to boot into linux, the only other solution will be for me to reinstall. I could do that. It'll take only time. But I'd rather use the opportunity to learn new skills. i think there are a couple of posts in the mandrakeuser.org/mub/ about booting to console mode (or I think it was more of a rescue) using the installation discs and then typing rescue and... just browse through the board. ;-) snip Chinese is 80% ok... Last time I could boot Linux, it displayed chinese quite properly (even though the font is hard to read). Chinese support has actually improved between 8.0 and 8.1. The xcin chinese input program seems at last to work properly... but it's the 20% missing that prevent me from doing any job in chinese under Linux... like when I input chinese in Kmail, it displays trash... that's why I still use Outlook Express! :-( snip try sylpheed. its i18n-aware because it is authored by people using non-latin based charsets (specifically from japan but users needing i18n-aware mailers are happy with it). i have this script so that I can make sylpheed display kanji characters correctly (can do with alias but I read somewhere that having too many alias is not good) #/bin/bash export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucJP sylpheed sylpheed works beautifully. ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." =========== Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Question about installing PHP 4.0
E Estes wrote:
I downloaded
a file "php-4.0.6.tar.gz" and I opened it with Archiver and extracted
it to a directory "PHP". I tried doing the ./configure and I got errors.
Here is what happened:[root@192
PHP]# ./configure
snip>
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}...
no
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake...
missing
checking for working autoheader...
missing
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific
portions of Makefiles... no
snip>
checking for bison... no
checking for byacc... no
configure: warning: You will
need bison if you want to regenerate the PHP parsers.
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc...no
configure: error: no acceptable cc
found in $PATH
snip>
If I try doing the make
or make export I get nothing but:bash:
make: command not found
snip>
hi,
you dont have any compilers and development packages installed.
try installing some of the packages in the Development branch of the Software
Manager (rpmdrake).Its probably in the first LM installation discs.
or if you have gcc (and others) then you dont have them in your
PATH variable.
try one of the following commands
1) rpm -qa | grep gcc
there should be some entries
referring to the gcc packages if you have them installed.
2) find /usr -name gcc*
same as above but this is on the offchance that gcc
was installed from a tarball.
if both yield nothing then its time to bring out your installation discs.
ciao!
--
"Programming, an artform that fights back."
=====
Anuerin G. Diaz
Design Engineer
Millennium Software, Incorporated
25/F Equitable-PCI Tower
ADB Avenue cor. Poveda St.
Ortigas Center, Pasig City
Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72
Fax# 638-3079
=
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[newbie] ftp server jail settings
hi to all, this is for neil but I figure that the list may want it to. I am using proftd so those using other servers may need to read the manual that their ftp server provides. To prevent ftp users from roaming around the filesystem just add this line at the end of /etc/proftd.conf (actually just modify the last commented line 8-) DefaultRoot ~ this will effectively prevent users from changing to a directory higher than their home directories. You can also change ~ to a directory that you want to be a repository for uploads. there are other options to be used in the configuration but since i dont have the time and the need then i recommend interested users to read the Configuration.html. Mine is located at /usr/share/doc/proftpd-1.2.2. HTH -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] office 2000 shares
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 19:54:42 -0700, Frank McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Has anyone attempted to share Microsoft Office 2000 Pro from a share on a Mandrake 8.0 using Samba. What would I have to do to set this up Thanks in advance, Frank McKenna hi, are you trying to share the files or the applications themselves? if you are sharing the applications then i think wine would be more proper for this one. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Desktop Icon
on the desktop, just create a link to the opera application. or use menudrake and use it to create an entry but first try to locate the opera icon files (find opera*xpm or opera*png at /usr) and place it on either /usr/share/icons (or in any directories inside it) or /usr/share/pixmaps. that step is so you can have an opera icon in the list presented by menudrake. ciao! D. Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi All I have Opera installed and can use it from console. How do I add an Opera icon to my desktop? TIA Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Avenue cor. Poveda St. Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
