[newbie] Re: mp3s to wav/cd burning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What do people use for making music cds from mp3s? if you like the cli, make wavs with this script, You do need sox and mpg123. from there burn the wavs as usual [EMAIL PROTECTED] mp3_lisa]$ cat /home/bnl/music/tools/mp32wav #!/bin/bash # mp32wav BASENAME=${1%%.mp3} mpg123 -b 1 -s $BASENAME.mp3 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - $BASENAME.wav # And the use is: # # mp32wav file.mp3 -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: A little light in the EU darkness
Anders Lind wrote: I am perhaps treading in on MandrakeOT-domains here but I do get the feeling that the dane doesn't like EU ;o) And still they joined in '73 I think. However the most EU hostile (within EU) country in most polls are Sweden, which should ring a bell to Anders, I guess :) /Anders -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Setting Environment Variable
IT Guy wrote: Hello guys i am trying to set an environment variable in mandrake but setenv does not work. setenv sounds like c-shell. Are you using c-shell? If you are using bash, which is default in mdk, the use export MyVar=Myvalue check with 'set' or 'env' Any ideas? -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Xlib: extension 'GLX' missing on display ':0.0'.
Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: I'm running mdk 10.0. Will I encounter the same problem I could experience with 10.1? No, or at least I run the nvidia package on 10.0, with no problems -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Where are the compilers etc.?
Simon Roberts wrote: Many thanks for input received, I've moved forward some. (I had entirely missed the urpmi tool; very useful.) I've now installed gcc-c++, kernel sources of the correct version, gtk+2, and all the dependent things that urpmi added to the list. When I say: urpmi glib or urpmi glib2 I'm told that everything is already installed. However, I still have no glib*.h anywhere, and ./configure still complains that GTK+ and GLIB are not installed (or are installed incorrectly). There's a config.log file that might tell more about it. If anyone's willing to take a look I'd be happy to send that on. Can anyone offer any more suggestions? Did you install the header rpms ie libgtk+2.0_0-devel? try urpmi --fuzzy gtk 21 | grep devel for other packages. Or if you know what the missing file is called: urpmf missing_file which gives you the package example, I'm looking for the package containing 'libgnat.a' [EMAIL PROTECTED] bnl]# urpmf libgnat.a gcc-gnat:/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.3.2/adalib/libgnat.a that is, I can find it in 'gcc-gnat' -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: login sounds
Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, Where can I adjust/change the login theme sound? I use KDE on LM10. tia, Bill W. k-meny|system|configuration|configure your desktop in there LookNFeel|system notifications Dropdown list at top: Choose Kde's system?? (Don't know the English name) In the list, look for Kde shutdown + kde startup -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Shutdown strangeness
brian wrote: I've just upgraded to Mandrake 10.1 (downloaded via FTP) and while everything seemed to go OK on the installation, I notice something strange when shutting down. If I use logout | turn off computer, then the PC powers down within 5 seconds, and the next time I boot up, I get messages that the system appears to have been shiut down uncleanly, and I need to check the drives. If I open a terminal window and run a shutdown -h as superuser, then everything happens as I was used to under 9.2, i.e. the whole process takes about 30-45 seconds, and going this route, I don't get any complaints on next boot up. I have the same symptons, using kde 3.2.3 or 3.3 on a Dell latitude laptop. I figured Mandrake broke something in kde in mdk 10.0 but I tried Gentoo, with kde 3.3 and got the same scenario. I haven't solved it yet, but work around it by booting into runlevel 3, and manually starting X. doing halt after kde stopped works ok. (I suspect one of the unclean shutdown also killed my battery, but I'm not sure) -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Converting MP3 to wav
JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:33:00 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: mp32wav i think ...are you thinking of mp32ogg? Unless I'm missing something way back here on 9.2 ;-) No I think he's thinking of a script, I think found somewhere in Debian -land. #!/bin/bash # mp32wav BASENAME=${1%%.mp3} mpg123 -b 1 -s $BASENAME.mp3 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - $BASENAME.wav # And the use is: # # mp32wav file.mp3 (the line beginning with mpg123 ends with $BASENAME.wav, ie one line) -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Re: Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
Will this same command work in 10.1 community? And what is thacs repository? And should the last command read urpme hickup-packAge? (The A capitalized so that you would notice it.) - Jack First, the answer to your reply - Part1 is within the help offered. GO TOhttp://rpm.nyvalls.se/ Correct, I was perhaps not clear enough Second, hickup-package or hickup-packge is to be replaced by the actual package name. Also correct, supposed to be 'hickup-package', ie the package urpmi complained about, and called 'hickup-package' because I don't remember the actual name of it. If this works on 10.1, I don't know, but thacs has rpms for 10.1 as well. I only run 10.0 -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
Jack wrote: Okay, I've spent a couple of months playing with Mandrake Linux (10.1 community) and here are my (unsolicited) impressions: 3 - Couldn't upgrade to KDE 3.3, despite having the CD for it and despite help from experts like Randall. I spent *weeks* on this. Nothing I tried worked, nor did any suggestions work. I missed that thread. I run mdk 10.0 download edition, and a urpmi.update -a -f --wget urpmi --wget --auto --auto-select --no-verify-rpm with thacs repository added did upgrade to 3.3. I think I had one hickup, but urpme hickup-packge solved it (go to http://rpm.nyvalls.se/ and look for instructions on how to add it as urpmi-source) -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: DSL modem/firewall/router vs. Firewall vs. ???
Fred Fraley wrote: I'd rather not run a dedicated machine for a firewall. I'm not planning on doing anything fancy and am not all that inclined to devote a lot of time to it, though I do have a couple of older boxes with NICs laying around. Opinions? I have a couple of machines, some Linux, some Windows, and they all run through a dedicated firewall running ipcop (http://www.ipcop.org) It used to be a Pentium 90, but I upgraded to a Pentium II. I don't think I've ever seen an easier install, 15 minutes from start to connected. It now runs a an dhcp sever, web server and firewall -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Problem playing encrypted DVD using libdvdcss and Totem
Thomas Ewender wrote: The only problem now is that I can watch the intros of my movies (for about 5 secs) until a message shows up saying An error occured The movie 'Error reading from DVD.' could not be read.. Right now I'm installing Xine and give it a go using that instead of Totem. Maybe it makes a difference. I'va had some good experiences with ogle urpmi ogle http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: User Agent
Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 01 November 2004 17:08, Marc wrote: On Monday 01 November 2004 10:58 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 01 November 2004 16:53, Marc wrote: Does anyone here know how to modify the user agent ID in any of the popular browsers, Mozilla, Opera, Firefox or Konqueror to make things appear that I am using a Windoze machine running IE . I know that in most Linux browsere there is a quick easy way to change it in preferances but that seems to still leave some tell tale evidance at the end of the user agent string. I need to change things to appear EXACTLY as a windoze machine would. Thanks In advance Marc Opera - Hit F12 Firefox/Mozilla - Install the extension -User Agent Switcher Konqueror - SetupBrowser Identification derek Thanks Derek but that still leaves tell tale evidence that I am using a linux machine trying to pass it self off as a windoze machine at the end of the user agent string. I need to actually find the user agent and edit it to appear exactly as a windoze machine running IE. Marc The User Agent Switcher in Firefox allows you to define your own string. Doesn't that do what you need? Also I'm pretty sure you can customise konqueror's user agent strings. I'm kust not sure where that data is kept. derek logs from my webserver before and after chang user-agent in konq, as described by derek, to tell the server that I'm an IE 5.5 on w2k [1.11.2004/18:19:12] 200 [GET /x/index.html] Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux) (KHTML, like Gecko) lundin.homelinux.net192.168.0.13 [1.11.2004/18:21:07] 200 [GET /x/index.html] Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) lundin.homelinux.net 192.168.0.13 -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Sound Level Settings Keeps Going Back to Mute
Sevatio wrote: For some reason, Mdk10.1ce's audio level settings keep going back to mute everytime I log back into KDE. How do you make it remember your settings? Thanks, Sevatio On my 10.0, it Kmix that muted the sound at each Kde start. -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Command deleting one of two equal lines in a file
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands) that looks into a file and delete one line if there are two equal? Thanks, Rodolfo If you don't mind having your original file sorted, then cat input_file | sort | uniq result_file would give you what you want (in result_file). then you could add rm -f input_file mv result_file input_file to make the switch as in cat input_file | sort | uniq result_file rm -f input_file mv result_file input_file (the rm might be unnecessary) -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: eth0 won't initialize on startup
David Johnson wrote: I'm having an issue with a machine that I just built using ml10.0 where eth0 shows as having [Failed] the initialization at boot time, but if I su to root after boot and do an 'ifup eth0' it comes up with no problem. Can anyone explain why this might be happening and how to fix it? Thanks I seem to remeber James talking about this but I can't find the thread. It was something you put in /etc/sysconfig/network, something like MII-???=Yes/no, but I can't remember, and google does not help. Does this ring a bell for someone? -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Re: playing DVDs
Aron Smith wrote: On Sunday 17 October 2004 04:41 am, Björn Lundin wrote: ogle /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd tried that but no joy i get message [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]# ln -s /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd /dev/dvd ln: creating symbolic link ` /dev/dvd' to `/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd': No such file or directory That message states that it is of no use going on... Perhaps you have your dvd on another ide-location such as /dev/ide/host1/bus1/target0/lun0/cd ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] bnl]$ ls -la /dev/hdc lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 30 okt 18 17:01 /dev/hdc - ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd [EMAIL PROTECTED] bnl]$ your is perhaps /dev/hdd ? -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: playing DVDs
Aron Smith wrote: I keep getting the message Couldn't open DVD device /dev/dvd so obovously I am doing something wrong a bit of enlightenment please TIA smitty You do have a file called /dev/dvd? If not try creating one. (or actually a symlink) [EMAIL PROTECTED] bnl]$ ls -la /dev/dvd lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 30 okt 17 12:22 /dev/dvd - ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd I created the one above, I think as root. ln -s /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd /dev/dvd then run ogle again. To check that noting else is wrong run ogle with path to dvd as in ogle /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd or if you have ripped a film to disc ogle path/to7dvd/VIDEO_TS -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Re: qcad library. How to?
Michel Leunen wrote: What is the slocate database and what is its purpose? slocate is secure locate. (more secure than locate, but I don't know why) )It's just an index over the files in your filesystem. Try slocate alsamixer for example. It will put out all files with alsamixer in it's name or path [EMAIL PROTECTED] bnl]$ slocate alsamixer warning: slocate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days old /usr/bin/alsamixer /usr/share/man/man1/alsamixer.1.bz2 /usr/share/apps/kappfinder/apps/Multimedia/alsamixergui.desktop -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Installing USB flash drive
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have just bought a USB flash drive. Could somebody here please give me some directions how to install it? The documentation of the drive is all for MS Windows. Thanks in advance, Paul Just plug it in... You should find it under /mnt/removable at least if you are using mdk 10.0 -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Re: Installing USB flash drive
Paul Smith wrote: On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 22:52:11 +0200, Björn Lundin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just plug it in... You should find it under /mnt/removable at least if you are using mdk 10.0 Thanks. Is there some way of safely disconnect the flash drive? I know that I can just unplug it, but I fear that it may hurt the drive. Paul unmount it. I'm not sure, but sometimes, when I have written to it, it looks like the actual writing takes place when I unmount it. At least the green activity light on it suggests that. Either right-click on the device then Action | unmount or just unmount in konsole -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Databases
SME Server Admin wrote: Hiya Folks I'm after a basic database program for Mandrake 10. It only needs about 5-10 fields but records wise could stretch on to several thousand records, and needs to allow imports from CSV files? Only for personal use... I've got Cross Office running MS Office 97 for access but it's slow and I'd like a proper Linux version! Suggestions please? TIA Elwyn I'd use postgreSQL, but perhaps a bit overkill. However, easy to setup and use. Look at the copy command for import I'd install it by urpmi postgresql postgresql-server If you need more do an urpmi --fuzzy postgre I like knoda as frontend (urpmi knoda) Read in the installation to setup, but it's usually a matter of Install, Create superuser (su to root then su - postgres, run createuser, and give your ordinary login-name as user, and yes to create dbs and other users) create database (as the created user above; createdb Run psql after that, or knoda, but you need to read on pg_hba.conf and postgresql.conf first you need a row like this in pg_hba.conf hostall all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust and tcpip_socket = true in postgresql.conf located in /var/lib/pgsql/data postgresql.conf is call somthing like postgresql.conf.sample, rename it and restart service postgresql restart as root -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: data cd's
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 26 September 2004 10:17, john wrote: Hello I will be using cdrw media in upcoming work to transfer files between work and home and also use for backup. In winblows, it was a matter of save as and indicate cd. I have not used win for about a year now and don't intend to. Would appreciate some advice on which application would be simplest to setup and use or point me in the right direction for info. I have tried k3b, eroaster, and nautilus without much success. My lack of experience in setup is probably the real issue. Thanks in advance. John John what exactly are your problems? I myself used Nautilus on a laptop and K3B on my desktop. Both are no-brainers to install as one uses urpmi to do that correctly. Neither of them require any special setup as they probe for CD drives themselves. If your drive isn't found, there might some other problem with your hardware. Nautilus offers the option burn to CD when right-clicking an a file and K3B supports drag drop very well IMO. I think he's after UDF writing. I'm not sure if that's supported at in Linux. Some googling only gives dead projects, but no valuable info. I'd go with a usb-stick instead, if moving data between machines is the primary reason, and burning to an cd-r/dvd with k3b for backup /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Re: data cd's
Hoyt Bailey wrote: I use k3b and drag drop any file to the cd-dvd with no problem, therefore I dont understand your why you are having difficulties. Hoyt, are you doing that to the same cd over and over again? I never got it to work. -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: OT. C/C++/Java Pitfalls Ada Benefits.
Ayoub890 wrote: Hi, The analysis Programming in the Small: C/C++/Java Pitfalls Ada Benefits in the following link scared me. http://libre.act-europe.fr/Software_Matters/ Ayoub What is scary? These issues should be known by anybody using c/c++/Java Use Ada instead :) urpmi gnat and you get the gcc-version or download the stable one from ACT /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Re: OT. C/C++/Java Pitfalls Ada Benefits.
Ayoub890 wrote: I will look at those. The matter is not that simple though. The matter is not up to me. In the industry where I work everything is C or C++. Even if I do not make mistakes in C or C++ somebody else might. It will not alleviate the situation if I alone would use Ada, even if I could. Ayoub Well, hmmm, I guess I'm one of the few who actually works with Ada on a daily basis. Sometimes I get carried away, but just today, I told one of my collegues (we are in for a new version of the system we are developing, with many changes) that we are lucky that the system is written in Ada. And she replied, Imaging doing this, if we were using C/C++. We would not be able to do it with maintained stability (The system is a warehouse control/management system, and got around 30 rows of Ada code (~2000 files), and 500 rows written in c in 3 files, which I try to get rid of...) Pragma Import will be your friend if you want to reuse your c-code. c++ is not that easy though. /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] RE: Re: Sending AT commands programmatically
Jamie Kerwick wrote: Thanks this works a treat !! Much appreciated. Now if only I could get a regular user to be able to access the com port ;) chmod the tty or, preferably, make that user a member of the tty group /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Specific software to write FAQs
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some specific software to write FAQs? Thanks in advance, Paul I think docbook has a questions and answers set /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Screenshots
Vincent Voois wrote: But once software developers like Pinnacle and Adobe really start to create DTP software for Xwindows, i would love to step over.br Currently i've *donated* a bit too much cash for those packages to abandon them right now. (as there might be good alternatives in XWindows, tips are always welcome)br Scribus is the one I know of, but I haven't used it. Its in contrib I think /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Connecting to web server locally.
Dan Gordon wrote: How would one go about connecting to a apache server on a local network? I can connect from the local computer using http://localhost but not from any other computer. I have tryed http://localhost http://localhost:80 this gives access to this port is disabled for security reasons http://localhost:8080 http://netbiosname the rest just say could not connect to remote server TIA Regards, Dan Gordon localhost is the computer you are typing to. if you don't have DNS on the network nor an entry in /etc/hosts for the computer you wan't to reach, try the ip-address ie http://192.168.0.4 if that is the ip of the computer having the web-server /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Re: Connecting to web server locally.
Dan Gordon wrote: On Tuesday 17 August 2004 01:57 pm, Björn Lundin wrote: localhost is the computer you are typing to. if you don't have DNS on the network nor an entry in /etc/hosts for the computer you wan't to reach, try the ip-address ie http://192.168.0.4 if that is the ip of the computer having the web-server So to add it to the hosts file i would add the netbios name for example computera 127.0.0.1 and the same for all computers on the network? I take it, the ip-addressing worked? if so then yes ,but the other way around, like this (ip first then name) [EMAIL PROTECTED] bnl]$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost della 192.168.0.13della2 192.168.0.10debora 192.168.0.12doris /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: DHCP Server
Stephen Kühn wrote: I know it's running; already been through that with the IRC guys; yeah, it's running, restarted heaps of times already. The issue is that the client machine (a customer's machine) doesn't seem to want to pick up the IP; I can set it up with static and it's right to go, but when I set it to DHCP it doesn't suck and IP from the pool...banging head now. If the client get a 169.xx.xx.xx address, then it can't connect to a dhcp server on the network, which would suggest a) server's not running b) server's unreachable c) ghost in the machine Since you say a is ok, and c is not likely, then I'd check shorewall for ports 67 and 68? both tcp and udp? A 169.xx.xx.xx is the address it takes when tried to get from dhcp with no result (usually a timeout of a minute when starting network), AND pinged with no response. In the clients /var/log/message, grep for 'claim' /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: firefox and Java
Trevor Rhodes wrote: Hello All, I'm getting this from my bank: This page contains information of a type (application/x-java-vm) that can only be viewed with the appropriate plugin. It wants me to download the Java Run Time Environment (JRE) v1.3 Plug-in with Java 2 support. I click the Linux version and Install Now. It seems to install, but everytime I go back to the page it wants me to dowload it again. I'm never going to get my bills paid at this rate. Any ideas why it either isn't being installed properly or Firefox isn't seeing the installation properly. I tried it as well, with depressing results. What I did was to download the j2sdk from sun. It comes as a .bin file, which you make executable (chmod +x the_file.bin) when you run it, it will extract an rpm after you agreed to some license stuff. Then urpmi 'the_unpacked_rpm' which would give you something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] c]# rpm -qa | grep j2 j2sdk-1.4.2_05-fcs In order to set JAVA_HOME I use this script, in /etc/profile.d [EMAIL PROTECTED] c]# cat /etc/profile.d/java.sh #!/bin/bash # /etc/profile.d/java.sh - Sets Java Environment if [ -z $JAVA_HOME ]; then if [ -e /etc/javaversion ]; then javaver=`cat /etc/javaversion | head -1` fi if [ -z $javaver ]; then jdkpath=`ls -1 /usr/java/ | grep $javaver | head -1` if [ X$jdkpath == X ]; then jdkpath=`ls -1 /usr/java/ | head -1` fi else jdkpath=`ls -1 /usr/java/ | head -1` fi export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/$jdkpath export PATH=${PATH}:${JAVA_HOME}/bin fi it is executable of course Now you got java properly installed. try by executing [EMAIL PROTECTED] c]$ java -version java version 1.4.2_05 Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_05-b04) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_05-b04, mixed mode) Firefox needs a symlink to load the plugin [EMAIL PROTECTED] plugins]# pwd /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-0.8/plugins [EMAIL PROTECTED] plugins]# ls -la total 2079 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 192 Jul 24 21:16 ./ drwxr-xr-x 10 root root1240 Jun 29 23:02 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 856 Jun 30 09:28 flashplayer.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2096844 Jun 30 09:28 libflashplayer.so* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 72 Jul 24 21:16 libjavaplugin_oji.so - /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_05/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20944 Mar 1 08:15 libnullplugin.so* [EMAIL PROTECTED] plugins]# so you need to do something like ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_05/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-0.8/plugins/ Then you are all set. Don't forget to enable java in Firefox. you migth need to logut/login to make JAVA_HOME visible to your session /etc/profile.d/java.sh is only run at login I think /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Dropped DSL for Cable, now I need a firewall/router
Thinker wrote: I have a spare machine just sitting around doing nothing and I have plenty of spare network cards, etc. I would like a good comprehensive, explain this to me like I am 4, step-by-step instruction on how to create this and make it as secure as possible. I need the cable modem to go into the box and have the box handle the fire-walling and handing out of IP's to my two other machines as well as my wireless access point. I run a pentuim 90 as a firewall,dhcp-server,dyn-dns updater and a small webserver, connected with adsl using ipcop. It's extremly simple to setup, hopefully good security, lots of features. (Ok i put the webserver there myself) http://www.ipcop.org I run 1.3.0 with all nine patches, but 1.4 is on its way out. (patching is a matter of upload the patch via a browser interface) good mailinglists, and well just easy to maintain. /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Updating
SME Server Admin wrote: Hi Folks Right, I'm on MDK10 and have found out that I have the basic version of KDE / Kontact so I'm looking to upgrade. ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/kdeftp/stable/3.2.3/ is the place I've found to get the updates from. What program to I used to update? Or do I do it through the shell with urpmi? Ta Elwyn Search for a thread James Sparenberg wrote ~ a month ago, where he describes in detail how to maek it work through urpmi. I think using wget url/* was involved + generating a hdlist + adding the download directory as an urpmi source. But look in the archives... I did it, and had some minor glitches, that I solved, but others have had total success. /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: ADSL connection configuration not saved.
Anguo wrote: Hello all, I have a silly problem: for some unknown reasons, mandrake 10 will not remember my internet connection configuration. When I boot and login as user, I have to launch MCC, configure a new internet connection with the wizard, then quit MCC, and su in a console, do adsl-start, before I can get connected. I tick the box for the connection to start at boot. However, each time I power down, I have to reconfigure all again the next time I boot. It's easy to do, just annoying to have to su to root and do it once or twice a day... Where does this info get stored? I'd like to check the config file. Any idea? thanks, Anguo I had it before, with a beta mdk 10. I resolved it by launching the wizard, and then check the commandline it used, with (I think) ps -ef | grep perl then I ran it manually as root from Konsole, and found out it didn't find some config file. I just did a touch on that file (into it's correct location) and ran the wizard again. It was happy after that. /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: How does one print man pages.
Hoyt Bailey wrote: There has to be a better way to print man pages than to use copy/paste. Please give me a clue? try ex #df in konqueror Then file | print /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Re: How does one print man pages.
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 29 July 2004 13:35, Björn Lundin wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: There has to be a better way to print man pages than to use copy/paste. Please give me a clue? try ex #df in konqueror Then file | print /Björn Sorry I don't understand. to view the man page of command 'df' fire up konqueror, write a hashmark (#) followed by df in the url location box, and hit enter when you see the contents, click menu 'file' and choose print /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: How does one print man pages.
Hoyt Bailey wrote: I want to print the man page 'man sensors' entering sensors into the url line takes me to google. Otherwise printing from konqueror works fine. put a hash mark (#) in front of sensors as in #sensors /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Problem with konqueror.
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 10:22, SME Server Admin wrote: Press F5 when you put a new disc in? Elwyn Thanks that works. What does F5 do I never had to do that before? reload... /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: carte memoire SD Camera
jacques wrote: j'ai un appareil photo avec carte externe SD 128mBytes sur l'USB je récupère les images de la memoire interne sur /mnt/camera : OK , mais impossible de récuperer les images de la memoire externe SD (MDK 10 Community) Cela fonctionne bien sous Windows. Tests faits : Quand je branche la camera avec la SD , il m'apparait encat /proc/partitions un sda de 124160 blocs mais ensuite si je consulte /mnt , le PC se plante J'ai essayé les LUN multiples ( echo scsi add-single-device 1 0 0 1 /proc/scsi/scsi ) , peu de résultat . comment faire ?? merci d'avance Koppla in kameran till pc, och lägg upp en ikon på skrivbordet (om du kör KDE). I fliken enhet väljer du den som pekar på /mnt/removable. Hos mig är det /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 om du gör cat /etc/fstab borde du se något typ none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 sen är det bara att klicka på ikonen så startar konq, och du kan hämta dina bilder som om det vore en del av disken /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Themes
EE wrote: Where can I find KDE themes that resembles other operating systems such MacOS, BeOS, WinXP, etc? Mac http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1id=11410file1=11410-1.pngfile2=file3=name=Baghira+Windeco+Mandrake+10.0+RPM Looks great /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] konq services mp3
Hello! In KDE 3.1 and before, I could rip a cd by clicking services in Konqueror, and then drag the virtual files in the Mp3 directory shown, to another directory, watching the music being ripped. In 3.2 I can only see this for Wav and Ogg files, not Mp3. Also I remember there was a setting in KDE control Center where one could adjust the ripping parameters. I can't find it for Mp3, and actually not for ogg either? Can anyone shed some light to a blind(?) man? /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] RE: Database Recommendations?
Tango Echo wrote: I believe Kexi is another db? John, even if the OP isn't interstested - I'd like to know what the database scene on Linux is like =) I would say Oracle Postgres Mimer My sql Oracle being the 'heaviest' downto My Sql in flyweigth class /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Good Mandrake Linux Book
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 18:49, OOzy wrote: Anybody can recommend a good Mandrake Linux Book or at least a good general Linux book? Yes. Very illuminating :) /Björn stephen kuhn - proprietor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Re: writing sms
Thujan wrote: Björn Lundin kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai, 10. toukokuuta 2004 20:14): Thujan wrote: Hi, Is there a program to write sms to gsm phone? Phone is old ericsson t-65 with serial cable to serial port. It would be easier to write those with decent keyboard rather than phone itself. I have used this same phone as gprs-modem with pppd and it works fine. But writing sms needs some program to do it. Thank you advance google for gsmlib /Björn Thank you, this seems to work, I send few messages allready :-) And list of supported phones are impressive too. Little bit cryptic to use but must read documentation. We use it at work, but on a nt box. but once you've compiled it, there are a 'testsendsms' program that works fine' /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: writing sms
Thujan wrote: Hi, Is there a program to write sms to gsm phone? Phone is old ericsson t-65 with serial cable to serial port. It would be easier to write those with decent keyboard rather than phone itself. I have used this same phone as gprs-modem with pppd and it works fine. But writing sms needs some program to do it. Thank you advance google for gsmlib /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: 10.0...shut down problems
Laura Callier wrote: Hi, OK, I'm going to reveal what a total computer novice I am...I don't know what a you/etc/lilo.config file is or how to access it. I understand completely if you don't want to take the time to explain it to me...I'll find out what that file is and how to check the content and get back to you. Stephen wanted you to post the output of the command: cat /etc/lilo.conf lilo.conf is a name of a file, and it resides in a directory called /etc cat will print the file on the screen. You will first have to start a console shell, and then issue the above command, and then cut and paste the output in your mail /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Decent Audio Track Ripper?
Marc Resnick wrote: Does anyone know of a decent track ripper/encoder for ripping tracks off CDs? Konqueror, from the service meny, choose from, wav, ogg or mp3; individual seetings somewhere in kde's servicepanel. (But this is kde 3.1 on 9.1, don't know kde 3.2) /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Mandrake 7.0 Error
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 08:32 pm, Tomy Alarie wrote: Hi, i just want to know on mandrake 7, why when i try to make a boot disk or install lilo it tells me : couldn't find kernel file ? thanks Well, there is probably about 20 reasons, including your lilo.conf entries are pointing to the wrong place or your /boot partition is not mounted, so more info is necessary. The $100,000 question everyone wants answered though is why on earth are you still using 7.0? Proberbly because it still works. I upgraded to 9.1 on a fileserver at work 2 months ago, from 7.2. (Yes, it had scsi disks so it was ok to work with) The only reason for the upgrade was, I found newer hardware, and the old Pentium I was replaced with a Pentium II (Wow :) The new one was ok to run KDE on, so I got rid of Blackbox, which was the only windowmanager the old pc could run, and still be usefull. /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: is there an easy way to samba ?
Anne Wilson wrote: Derek - I've no experience with doing this on W2K or XP, but Win98 doesn't allow you to log in as such, in my experience. It just attempts to connect with the existing username and password. Win95, 98 and ME will do as you've experienced; log in with existing username and password. Win NT, 2000 and XP lets you specify username and password, if you want to, when connecting to the share. This has lead to some trouble, since win NT below service pack 3 would send password in palin text, whilst servicepack 3 inroduced password encryption. can be changed with a registryhack bundled with samba. (Of course, the registry key is diffrent on NT compared to 2000, and again different on XP, i think) /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Bounce when mailing to newbie list?
Hello! Why do I get a reply like this when posting to the list? The post did show up (This was my reply to Anne in the 'is there an easy way to Samba'-thread /Björn This is the Postfix program at host smtp1.mandrax.org. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program [EMAIL PROTECTED]: mail forwarding loop for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: MP3 - audio CD
But from the tenor of your email it would seem you're stuck on the mp3-wav conversion. Sir Robin As usuall, there are always many way of doing the same thing. I found something similar to this from a debian site i think [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail]$ cat /usr/bin/mp32wav #!/bin/bash # mp32wav BASENAME=${1%%.mp3} mpg123 -b 1 -s $BASENAME.mp3 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - $BASENAME.wav # And the use is: # # mp32wav file.mp3 It make a .wav from a .mp3, which would be easily burnt with k3b or whatever /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Kmail again; unable to send
Chuck Mattsen wrote: [sorry, I know I broke threading here in bouncing back and forth between the two clients] I really don't understand this; but then, I've been sick for a couple of days so my brain's probably fried. Maybe I should just put this aside for awhile? Thanks. I've had some problems with mail due to my ISP wants a login first. The way they want it is to check for mail before sending. If I just send, I'll get refused, but after I've checked, it's ok to send within say 3 minutes, then a new check is required. It way not be your problem, but it could, providing that evolution first checks for new mail, and then sends your mails /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Re: compile asm in C
Chungwei Hsiung wrote: Thanks for the reply. I really appreciate it. My story is a little bit different.. I just copy the codes you modified to a file and I compile it. I have the following error message that I had before. Any other thoughts?? $cat asmExit.c void main() { __asm__( mov $0x0, %ebx mov $0x1, %eax int$0x80 ); } $ gcc -c asmExit.c asmExit.c:2:9: missing terminating character asmExit.c: In function `main': asmExit.c:3: error: syntax error before mov asmExit.c:6:1: missing terminating character asmExit.c:1: warning: return type of `main' is not `int' best regards, Chungwei It might have something to do with the compiler version. I run mdk 9.1. Have a look at the first warning my compiler gives. In your compiler version it migth be more than deprecated, it might have been removd. Try having it all on one line? Perhaps not practical in a real world situation, but there is perhaps som new switch to gcc? /Björn [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk) Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ gcc asm_test.c asm_test.c:2:9: warning: multi-line string literals are deprecated asm_test.c: In function `main': asm_test.c:1: warning: return type of `main' is not `int' [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ cat as asm_test.c asm_test.o [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ cat asm_test.c void main() { __asm__( mov $0x0, %ebx mov $0x1, %eax int$0x80 ); } [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Copying Files from CDROM
Anne Wilson wrote: Can anyone give him the url for the kernel sources, so that he can use his windows box to download? wouldn't 'urpmi kernel-source' do? /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Re: Copying Files from CDROM
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 10 March 2004 17:11, Björn Lundin wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Can anyone give him the url for the kernel sources, so that he can use his windows box to download? wouldn't 'urpmi kernel-source' do? /Björn No - he can't get his modem installed without the source file, so he's having to use windows. Anne, what I meant was, the kernel source rpm's should be found on the distribution cd. Isn't that kernel source good for the purpose? A download location is http://www.kernel.org/ but i think its 40 Mb+ to download /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: moving files over the network using CLI
Thinker wrote: Hello All, I need to transfer some files that I downloaded on my Mandrake Box to my Mac. I am running samba on both machines, so they can see each other on the network. The problem I am having is, when I open nautilus on my mandrake box and browse to the share on my mac, the program stalls out. I was wondering if there was a way to transfer files over my local network from one machine to the next using the trusty command line. Thanks, -=Thinker ftp? /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: compile asm in C
Chungwei Hsiung wrote: Hello guys I have a question. I've seen things like that being done on some articles, but somehow it doesn't work on my machine. If you know how to solve this problem, please let me know. I really appreciate it. I would like to know how to compile a C file when there are assembly code in it like the following: void main() { __asm__( move $0x0, %ebx move $0x1, %eax int$0x80 ); } I tried to compile it, and it doesn't work. Do I miss any library or what can I do to resolve this problem??? btw, mine is MDK9.2 best regards, Chungwei Well I got [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ cc -c asm_test.c asm_test.c:2:9: warning: multi-line string literals are deprecated asm_test.c: In function `main': asm_test.c:1: warning: return type of `main' is not `int' /tmp/ccZR2pQa.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/ccZR2pQa.s:14: Error: no such instruction: `move $0x0,%ebx' /tmp/ccZR2pQa.s:15: Error: no such instruction: `move $0x1,%eax' so changing 'move' to mov got rid of the assembler warnings void main() { __asm__( mov $0x0, %ebx mov $0x1, %eax int$0x80 ); } /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: j2sdk installation
Henrique Oliveira Santos wrote: Hi all, this is my first questions here, but many of discussions here solved many of mine problems. I've download and installed j2sdk rpm from sun. It installed succesfully. Even in mozilla 1.6 i can run applets with the symlink. Instead of symlinks you could create a file like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] source]$ cat /etc/profile.d/java.sh #!/bin/bash export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/jre export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin export JDK=$JAVA_HOME export PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin But im trying to run .jar java applications. I've done these to set PATH and CLASSPATH in Konsole for j2sdk: PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin CLASSPATH=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/lib When I try to run any .jar like: java Application.jar As I remember it you should put the jar _file_ in the classpath and execute like this CLASSPATH=path/to/Application.jar java -jar Application.jar /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: CD problem FIXED!
Adam Halesworth wrote: Ok, so heres the basics. I have an HP 8100+ CD-RW drive and basically, every time I tried to access it, the desktop would crash (For around 15 minutes, and then come back) and basically the entire operating system was sluggish and sometimes programs failed to start. Today I bought a bog standard Samsung 52x CD-ROM drive for as cheap as dirt and not only does Mandrake run smoother and faster, I can actually access CD's! Im guessing Mandrake just didnt like the HP CD-RW drive, because right now everything's fine! Hi Adam! I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the old trademark 'It works for me' is appropiate here. I've been using that drive since mdk 7.0, and it has always worked (I'm with mdk 9.1 now, but a test install with mdk 10 beta2 was made with that drive too) You did use scsi-emulation? /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Mounting Removable drive
Job Evers wrote: I have a laptop that came with a flash card reader. Mandrake (9.2) seems very inconsistent about mounting the drive. Sometimes /mnt/removable shows up when I start up and sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't show up on boot I don't know how to get it mounted. I had the same problem with an usb-stick. I resolved it by making a device-icon on the desktop, pointing to /dev/sda1 and, mounting it via the icon when I need it. By unmouting it before I pull the stick out, I think I can be sure of data written to it is commited to the stick. There's no entry for it in /etc/fstab /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Adding cdrom2 as an update source
Marc Resnick wrote: During installation I couldn't find cdrom2...but now I have and I need to install the software on it. What info do I enter to add the source? as root in a Konsole and cdrom 2 in the drive: urpmi.addmedia CD2 removable:///mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS2 with hdlist.cd2.cz I'm not sure if you need to start with cd 1, but I don't think so. /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Setup of ADSL modem/router (ethernet)
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Could somebody here please explain me how to setup a ADSL modem/router (ethernet)? I have just bought one and I have been able of setting it up under MS Windows, but not with Mandrake. Thank you a lot in advance! Paul su to root service network stop urpmi rp-pppoe adsl-setup (asks a few questions) chkconfig --add adsl (to have it startup on boot) service adsl start chkconfig --del network (removes the startup of network from /etc/init.d/rc[3-5].d ) /björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: dead daemon but pid exists
N. B. Day wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aurelius]# samba status smbd dead but pid file exists nmbd (pid 6366) is running... Samba does indeed appear to be dead. I've tried killing it (but it's already dead). Smbd doesn't show up in top. Restarting the computer doesn't clear the problem. Where would the pid file be? look in /etc/init.d/smb, (or samba) in the case statment 'status'. It's there 'samba status' determines that a pid-file exists, so you should be able to figure out where it is. (I don't have it installed so I can't check it) /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: dead daemon but pid exists
Björn Lundin wrote: Forgot to mention that a good guess would be somewhere in /var/lock /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Samsung says: CD Writers don't work under Linux.
Paul wrote: My response to Samsung: I understand from your site that my CD writer does not work under Linux. However it works perfectly, usually I use the software package K3b, which I find as good as Ahead Nero for Windows. How can I stop it from recording? Paul M I took the liberty to translate your answer to Swedish, since I was redirect to Samsung's swedish site. /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Web server on 7.2 useing a p166
JJ Greive wrote: I am a novice linux user, and I am running Mandrake 7.2 as an Internet firewall and DHCP server. It is an old Pentium 166. Does anyone out there know if I can also use this machine as a web server? Anyone have a recommendation as to what software I should be use? thanks for your tips in advance. JJ Greive email [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ urpmi httpd ? Apache comes with that distro, I use it myself on a p200, 128mb Ram! That machine is also a file-server, and basically a playground for me. I've successfully run a java-servlet connecting to postgres, also running on that machine. It works, but don't be in a hurry :) It wont be fast, but usable for not to heavy applications with light traffic /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: problems installing proftpd
hugenots wrote: Haiz newbie, I download proftpd souce and follow installation procedure: copy proftpd-1.2.9.tar.gz into /usr/local/src tar xvfz proftpd-1.2.9.tar.gz ... everything gose fine ./configure ... so far so fine make ... is done perfectly make install ... also is done perfectly but when I try to log onto ftp server I get this error: ftp: connect: Connection refused where I have done something wrong or have missed something? proftpd could also be installed with 'urpmi proftpd' Did you start the service ? 'service proftpd start' as root, given ther's a startup script in /etc/init.d called proftpd? /Björn force, my friend, is violence! hugenots [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Re: Lack of sound in KDE
Doug Roberts wrote: What does 'lsmod | grep sound' say? (As root) Output is: sound706441[opl3 sd_lib uart401] soundcore 62760[sd_lib sound] as for KMixer, I can't find it. It is not listed in the usual places I can see... Sorry, I meant KMix. K|Multimedia|Sound|KMix Aumix is ok too. I find it odd that you have soundmodules loaded, when no soundcard is found. Are there any entries for sound in /etc/modules.conf? Are there any soundcard-like listings when you issue 'lspci' (as root) Is there a sound entry in 'cat /proc/devices' Do you have a /dev/sound directory ? Did you install the updates for 9.1? There are loads of them Many questions, but since you get sound from CD's, I still think your mixer has muted pcm. /Björn Doug Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User No: 160487 - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Re: Re: Lack of sound in KDE
Doug wrote: Copied from my /etc/modules.conf probeall usb-interface usb-uhci alias sound-slot-0 sb options sound dmabuf=1 alias synth0 opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0 Are there any soundcard-like listings when you issue 'lspci' (as root) None Is there a sound entry in 'cat /proc/devices' # cat /proc/devices 14 sound Do you have a /dev/sound directory ? Yes Did you install the updates for 9.1? There are loads of them I used both Mandrake Control Center and urpmi to update this machine each week, or when MDK issues an update email. Many questions, but since you get sound from CD's, I still think your mixer has muted pcm. Could be...so where does one fined and fix the ' muted pcm' problem, if that is the problem? Well, all your tests above suggets that you DO have a soundcard :) No output from lspci indicates, to me, that you have an ISA-cards, or at least not a pci-card. I think you can bypass KDE and mixer-setting by using 'play' if its installed.Try 'play --device=/dev/sound/dsp a_sound_file_in_wav_format.wav' If you get a 'device busy' message, wait a minute and try again Now, if you _do_ get sound then, your physical setting are ok. (which they are since you could play cd's) Then check KMix again. Right-click the icon in the taskbar, show mixer and check the 3rd item from left, wich should be pcm. There's a tooltip at the little icon above each slider. Volume up, and not muted. If it doesn't work, then I have to leave it to some expert, since I'm out of ideas good luck /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Lack of sound in KDE
Doug Roberts wrote: Thanks for your help Bjorn.. I really do appreciate it. But nothing seems to work at the moment. I did the 'play --device=/dev/sound/dsp a_sound_file_in_wav_format.wav' command as you suggested and the .wav file played nicely. I checked the KMix settings and Pcm is at the same level as my CD and general Volume settings. I open XMMS and try to play a .wav fils...it looks to be runing yet no sound issues from the speakers. I open Kaboodle to try another sound program and the same happensthe .wav files looks to be playing, yet no sound issues from speakers. This is maddening... Any other ideas? Anyone? Last try. cat /etc/.aumixrc vol:61:61:P synth:0:0:P pcm:35:35:P speaker:0:0:P line:32:32:P mic:1:1:R cd:43:47:P mix:53:53:P igain:0:0:P This is my settings. Try set yours something like that (perhaps make a copy first) /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: CD Player
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 25 November 2003 19:19, Adam wrote: Does Mandrake have a CD player? Do birds fly? Well, not pinguins :) How did you install /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Fw: Re: Mandrake installed! (sort of)
Dick Gevers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oh, Melissa, sorry, I should have said how to normally reboot: Not with [ Ctrl + Alt + Del ], of course, but if you have no graphical reboot option you should use the command shutdown -r now or reboot (for rebooting), or shutdown -h now for halting the system. or halt I find those commands easier to remember :) /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Postgresql things
Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I'm completely new with postgres. I want to change the password of the psql root, but I can't find any command for it. I've searched the FAQ, Admin Guide, and also the mailing list, but it seems that they all assume that we're already know to do it. Is there any equivalent command like in mysql's: mysqladmin -u root password password? Thanks from psql: bnl=# \h alter user Command: ALTER USER Description: change a database user account Syntax: ALTER USER username [ [ WITH ] option [ ... ] ] where option can be: [ ENCRYPTED | UNENCRYPTED ] PASSWORD 'password' | CREATEDB | NOCREATEDB | CREATEUSER | NOCREATEUSER | VALID UNTIL 'abstime' ALTER USER username SET variable { TO | = } { value | DEFAULT } ALTER USER username RESET variable /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: tv tunning
Anarky wrote: how's mandrake on tv tuning? I'm considering buying a tv tuner .. so I'm wondering if there is hardware support for stuff like this ... how well spread is it .. any chance of having a cheapest I can find tvtuner work? Any way to check on particular models? Is there software to go with tv tuners in mandrake? How good is it? Is it just tv tuning .. or does it suport recording at certain hours or something like that ? greets thanks, I bougth a Hauppauge WinTv Express for ~60? last week plugged it into a ML 9.1, urpmi:d xawtv and put modprobe bttv and tuner in a startupscript (I think, not this box) and it just worked. Ran scantv, for finding channels, and it just worked. I bougth it actually for decoding cabletv, but my provdider codes it digitally, but I'm moving next month to a place with analouge cable tv so I'll see what i can do then. I just looked at tvtuning for now, and I don't know about recording /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: ICS, Shorewall stops rest of network
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has taken me several months to work out that the reason I can't access the SAMBA server I have set up is because of the Shorewall settings configured by invoking MDK9.x ICS. At least that is my reading of it. Essentially, everything else on my network seems to work - ICS, and the Linux box can read and write to the shared folders on the WinXP boxes. However, although I can see the Samba Server connection on the WinXP box, attempting to open it results in Network Path not found. I cannot ping 192.168.1.1 However, when I disable Shorewall, I can ping 192.168.1.1 and I can access Samba. But now ICS is disabled :( I have tried to make of sense of the instructions and solutions out there on the internet. Frankly, my head is spinning. The Quickstart guide at Shorewall.net left me even more confused. Is anyone able to give me a simple, plain english explanation on how to configure Shorewall ICS so the other computers on my local workgroup network can access SAMBA? Many thanks in advance... A guess is MCC (Mandrake Control Center) | Security | Advanced button I think you should open some (or all) of ports 137,138,139 for samba. I don't know which sort (TCP or UDP) but /etc/services lists both. About 'ping' I don't know This configures Shorewall, I think, ICS I don't actually know what it is... /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Spamassassin Configuration
Erylon Hines wrote: Anyone have some tips on this? http://www.softwaredesign.co.uk/Information.SpamFilters.html I followed it, rpm:ed spammassassin and running it as a daemon, Quick to set up, and runs well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] bnl]# rpm -qa | grep -i spam spamassassin-tools-2.55-2mdk perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-2.55-2mdk spamassassin-2.55-2mdk /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Re: Modem help for a M$ refugee
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Thanks Björn, I didn't know that about winmodems. He has tried ttyS0 and ttyS1, and ttyS1 at least gives some reaction on the modem lights, whereas ttyS0 doesn't. That's why I figured it was occupied by a winmodem. The IRQ's seems to be OK. So does the BIOS. And the symlink is OK, but doesn't work either. Is it futile/doable to physically remove the winmodem ? And will it help ? Well, in my case, it was just to remove it, since it was a PCI card. But I don't know if there are variants build in to the M/B. If it is PCI, just remove it. Or maybe the whole thing is impossible, what with this Rockwell chipset ? I'd have a go with minicom, and send some AT commands to it. Or try some AT commands to the device from bash, like echo AT /dev/modem echo ATDTMy_Owm_Phone_Number /dev/modem which should make it dial itself (I think), and give a busy tone I don't remember any more AT-commands but there should be plenty via google I remember have to fiddle a bit with the setting 'Wait for dial tone' in kppp. And having a look a kppp now, I see there's a terminal window for trouble shooting it in setup | modem | Terminal But first : my concern is not to loose a M$ refugee only because he can't get a modem up ! Good luck, but if it doesn't work out, try another modem, eventhough I've never heard of a external modem that wasn't Haynes compatible /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Modem help for a M$ refugee
OK Ed, his modem is a serial one, external. It is connected to ttsy1. - (I guess ttys0 is occupied by his original winmodem) The winmodems i used, occupied com4 and above, ie no physical device. Make sure the /dev/modem symlink points to the correct tty ttyS0 for Com1 Many dial up programs, like kppp uses /dev/modem instead of a tty (Well i saw in my 9. there's now a list of devices, but it _used_ to be like that a while ago) /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1
Lance Cummings wrote: Hi Derek, Sunday, September 21, 2003, 9:33:47 PM, you wrote: trimmed DJ You have masses of space for your Linux partitions. It does not DJ really matter how you partition it up. Just make sure you have a DJ separate /home partition. That is where your user data goes. So DJ if you ever reinstall you can preserve it. The Mandrake installer DJ will suggest partiton sizes for you. You might as well just stick DJ with that. I do have masses of space (I didn't even mention the scsi subsystem g), but a lot of it is currently spoken for. If I understand the install docs correctly, the Mandrake installer will only suggest partition sizes if I let it take over the whole drive. Is that correct? If so, I'll need to define my partition sizes myself, 'cause I can't just let 'er rip and overwrite. I think so, but I'm not sure. I'd use 'Expert mode' in setting the disk up. Expert is actually just more options in the dialogs. I'd proberbly set it up something like / ~ 4-6 GB /swap ~ 150 - 200 Mb (You've got lot's of RAM) /usr ~ 10 Gb /home ~ The rest ( ~ 20 Gb) When you get the taste for it, You can look at LVM, Logical Volume Groups, to assign more or less space to your partitions, but leave it until you've got used to the concept behind it. DJ The default file system is Ext3 other choices are Reiserfs, XFS, DJ and JFS, but to be honest as a newbie you will not notice the DJ difference between any of them so leave as default. I guess the question I should have asked there is, Are any of these file systems better in terms of reliability -- as regards data integrity? cut They are all good. I always use ReiserFS for all my partitions, but that's just a matter of taste. DJ It is actually quite safe to let Linux overwrite your MBR You DJ would get a nice graphical screen to select which OS you want to DJ run. Most of us here do that. But if you would rather boot from DJ floppy thats your choice. It all works ;-) I agree. The key for me would be the ease or difficulty of getting the MBR back to its original state if I decide to flee back into the smothering embrace of Redmond. g Seriously though, I just need to make very sure I can get into XP when I need to. Until such time as I might decide to make a complete migration, I'd have real need to get into XP on demand. DJ Have fun. You migth want to have a look at fdisk in XP. MS used to have a /MBR option to fdisk, to erase anything in the MBR, but I have not ever needed it. Thanks. One more question comes to mind. I'm on 100 MB/second glass, and my wife and I share the connection through a router. The install routine will figure out how to get me connected? Yes (I think) Thanks again. Lance /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: problem installing mplayer
Terence J. Golightly wrote: List members, cut real-codecs-1.1-1plf.i586.rpm instead it has the file: real-codecs-1.2-1plf.i586.rpm cut If you are using urpmi, and it says something about 'you should update...' then proberbly, the ftp site has a newer version than your local repository has. Do an ' urpmi.update -a' and try again. (it will force an update of your local repository) /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: USB memory stick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I saw the thread about USB mass storage devices, but I'm not sure if what I'm talking about is the same thing, so I apologize if it is. Did you check the thread 'USB key drives and linux' on the exper list? /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: xine-dvd
Remo Liechti wrote: hi i installed the dvd plugin for xine, but only three dvds of my entire collection is compatible with this player... if i'd like to watch the other dvds, they just don't start. the xine logo isnt showing on the windown anymmore, but it is still black. nothing happens. i press the play button, the play sign in the left top corner is showing, but after a half second, the stop sign is deisplayed. xine is unable to play most of my dvds. any other player supporting dvd? or is this only cause xine doesn't have a dvd license? remo There is Ogle, which worked (almost) like a charm for me. All dvds play but I had some trouble with subtitles on 'Lord of the rings', but it played anyway. Ogle is available as rpms at plf I think [EMAIL PROTECTED] bnl]# urpmi ogl The following packages contain ogl: ogle libogle1-devel libogle1 libogle_gui1 ogle_gui [EMAIL PROTECTED] bnl]# /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Ice cube
Richard Urwin wrote: Hi people, OK I downloaded cube, and I've got about 0.3fps (it says 9, but it's lying.) I must admit that I haven't looked around too much, I don't really know where to look, but as a first try how's this for a video card, and a X setup? Section Device Identifier Card0 VendorName NVidia BoardName GeForce2 Ti Driver nv ^ You should get the drivers from nVidias website. /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: NNTP Clients?
Tango Echo wrote: I like kNode /Björn Hi all, Could any of you recommend a good NNTP client for MDK? I just realized Mozilla has one, but would like to know what my options are. I use Evolution and Kmail, but neither seem to have that type of support. Thanks! __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Comp won't shut down completely
Heather/Femme wrote: I know this has been covered before..but i'm a bit stumped. B/f's comp won't shut down... just hangs at Power Off sitting on the screen. Dunno why... it worked fine for the first 24-48 hours he had linux on it... Its MDK 9.1 btw... an Intel system too. I can't figure out whats wrong either. Ideas? Link to archives if need be (not the ones on the mandrake pages the other ones with the name marc in them pls...). thx! I had the same experience, then I found an 'append' entry in /etc/lilo.conf which looked someting like atci=on, I think. I removed it, and the machine now shuts down cleanly. /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Kde-Kate, selector - big icons
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 03:05, Björn Lundin wrote: Hello! Every time I start Kate, the docked selector (which shows the open files) is displayed with big icons. I right-click and choose View | small icons. OK, but how do I get Kate to remember this setting at next startup? I'm getting a bit anoyyed by it now, since I change it everytime I start Kate. /Björn After you've made your changes, click SETTINGS, then CONFIGURE KATE, and in the first dialogue that comes up, you'll see a checkbox to check for restoring the view when you restart KATE. I tried that, but no luck :-( Kate 2.1 using KDE 3.1.2 I can't find anything apropiate in ~./kde/share/config/kate*rc either. /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kde-Kate, selector - big icons
Hello! Every time I start Kate, the docked selector (which shows the open files) is displayed with big icons. I right-click and choose View | small icons. OK, but how do I get Kate to remember this setting at next startup? I'm getting a bit anoyyed by it now, since I change it everytime I start Kate. /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Telnet and FTP
Ciprian Trofin wrote: Hello, I (sort of) administer a Linux box. Please, look at the following scenario: 1. I logon to Linux box 2. in the telnet console I initialize a ftp session, from the Linux box, to another machine (machine 2) 3. I initialize a download from machine 2 to the Linux box 4. I put the ftp process in the background 5. logout from the Linux box In this moment, I expect the download to continue, but it doesn't. I if use the same scenario but I use wget instead of ftp, the download works in background even after I logout the Linux box. Question: it is normal that the ftp download stops after I logout or am I missing something? man nohup ? nohup wget something /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com