Re: [newbie] no memory left can't get to kde
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:55 am, njcross wrote: I've been working with little HD space and I've run out and didn't check before I closed down the computer.Now I can't reach kde so I can delete some files.How do I do this outside kde? Nev At the lilo boot screen, press the Escape or Esc key. It will display some options for you to choose. Assuming that your normal choice is linux, type: linux init 3 That will get you to a command prompt and allow you to do some cleaning up. Log in as root and start by looking in /tmp. Anything there can be safely deleted unless you have purposely saved something there. Type: df to see which file system(s) are full. The following command may also be useful in tracking down larger files: du -s * This will show you the disk usage of the directories under your current directory. e.g. cd /home du -s * HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Error message when any KDE app starts
On January 11, 2005 11:41 am, Kenneth Rhodes wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 06:15 -0500, B McKee wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was mucking about with file associations a while ago, now whenever a KDE app starts (like konq, kmail etc) I get #-- # Could not find mime type # application/octet-stream #-- Suggestions on what I did? Brian Brian, I think you did what I did a month or so ago - you mucked up a file association! Try running kcontrol Components File Associations application select add at the bottom of the known types list pick application from the pick menu enter octet-stream leave everything else blank. I believe that is what someone told me when I had the problem. Hope this helps, Nope - didn't seem to 'take' when I tried that. You got me thinking the right way though I think. I found a file /home/me/.kde/share/mimelnk/application/octet-stream.desktop I made a copy, then deleted it. Things seem ok so far - I'll post again if something else appears broken. Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Integritycheck of the disks
On December 7, 2004 01:59 am, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: Sometimes the power goes,and my PC is brutaly shut down. When rebooting I press [esc] to get informative mode when strarting the system. Then I can press [Y] to confirm the system shall start an intergritycheck of my hda* partitions. Can I set this option to start automaticly whenever the PC is killed by powerdown? Regards Vegard Don't worry about it - If it died hard enough it will run the check. If it passes the journalling test than it's not required. Just trust the guys that wrote it knew what they were doing. This assumes your partition(s) are the default ext3... Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Shutdown strangeness
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. Going via the menus on 9.2 used to work as expected. Did something break at 10.0 or 10.1? I'm really just curious, now I know the problem shutting down through a terminal session is an acceptable workround, although it would be useful to fix the problem just in case my wife has to close the system down when I'm running Linux. The hardware, should you think it makes a difference, is a Gateway PIII/450 with 256MB of memory, multiple booting 98, XP and Mandrake via GRUB. All three OSes are on separate drives, the disk with 98 on it is the boot drive, Mandrake is on the third hard drive. Not entirely sure what other information might be relevant, so ask away And yes, the problem is reproducible, always the same results for each method of shutting down. BTW, don't overestimate my knowledge of Linux. I know just about enough to navigate round the file system and to run up Kylix amd Kontact. That's why I'm posting to this list. Thanks, Brian. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Multi boot 9.2 10.0
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 08:03 pm, J or M Montgomery wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:24:15 -0600 (CST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Mikkel, One more question please. You can share /home, /boot, and swap between the two, as long as /boot is large enough for all the kernel versions you are using, along with the inital RAM disk inages. (It is handy that 9.2 and 10.0 are running different versions of the kernel.) I assume that I can't share /. How do I get a root partition for the 10.0 version? Well for one thing I would suggest that you not share /home as it provides plenty of possibilities for seeing problems arising from incompatible contents of hidden folders. That won't prevent it running, but it may make you think some apps are flaky when they are really just responding to saved settings from the other version. Your choice of course. You will get a new / partition as a consequence of the install. Remember that /etc/fstab is specific to each version, so one will mount / on hda5 or whatever and the new one will mount root on hda9 or something. No overlap there. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ethernet ADSL modem
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 11:21 am, Scott Manning wrote: Hello again; I am in Australia and thinking of just buying an ethernet adsl modem to save the USB set-up hassels. So in an effort to determine what exact models were supported I ran the wizard in KDE. Now here's the thing... it asks you for your provider and Australia is not even listed! :( So what does that mean? I have to go about it from the command line? Secondly, are there any modems that you can recommend using for MDK 10.1? Thanks Scotty I'm also at your end of the world - Melbourne to be a little more specific. As Lanman said, anything with an ethernet connection will cause you no grief, but perhaps it's a good move to first check what you want to do with it. i.e. If this is just a desktop using the internet, then it would make sense to use a modem/router, so you have a degree of firewall protection built right in and can plug in additional machine directly with a minimum of hassle. If your main purpose is to have the attached machine run as a server, then a straight modem running it's own firewall might be more appropriate. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recording from Satellite Radio
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 07:56 am, Amy wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 14:48:53 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Setting the start time is easy if you at installed. You've lost me here... if I have what installed? He's referring to at - which allows commands to be run at specified times. That's true, but you need something that does the job when the command is run. As I said in the first reply, rezound doesn't appear to answer this requirement as you can start it, but that won't cause it to start recording. sox can be used that way though. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD-burning
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:44 am, Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, I have experienced something strange, after upgrading to 10.0 from 9.1 my CD/DVD-writer has stopped being reckognised as a SCSI-device, cdrecord -scanbus gives me this info: scsidev: 'ATA' devname: 'ATA' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (warly-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.80-mdk '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.80 04/03/08 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) '_NEC' 'DVD+RW ND-1100A ' '1.80' Removable CD-ROM 1,1,0 101) * 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * there are no /dev/sg after what I can see in the treesystem and no /dev/scd0 either, interestingly enough it seems that X-CD-Roast seems to reckognise the burner as a burner but refuses to burn with it. Gnometoaster just give me the errormessage to do the scanbus. I suspect I am missing something somewhere, but I am not sure what...or maybe I do, it seems also that I have a append = hdc=ide-scsi in lilo.conf as well, I am at a loss here /Anders If you are using the default 2.6 kernel, then scsi emulation is no longer required or supported. Remove the ide-scsi stuff from lilo and expect the burner apps to see the drive as hdc (or whatever depending on the number of drives you have). HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] problems adding disk and moving /var data
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:00 pm, Jan RUBBRECHT wrote: Hi, I've installed my proxy server (squid) on a mandrake 9.1 on a VMWare running on a Windows 2000 Server... just to start and learn more about Linux. I have a lot of servers installed, so my 4Gb disk is getting a little bit full. I had 3 partitions, /, /home and swapspace. I tried adding a new (virtual) disk with diskdrake, wanting /var to be mounted on the new filesystem. That folder is most likely to expand the most and the fastest. I got a couple problems with diskdrake so I mounted it on /var2 and thought I can fix that later... Anyway, I later moved all existing data from /var to /var2 after stopping all services, removed /var and wanted to mv /var2 /var didn't work :-/ I changed /etc/fstab so the new disk would mount on /var next time but no such luck. Instead a new /var folder was created and /var2 was emtpy (after rebooting and reconfiguring /etc/fstab I found my data again). Could anyone please give me a hint how I can proceed to move /var to the new disk? Tia, Jan PS. I'm using gmail, please make sure you send your reply back to the list, thanks. Can't see a whole lot wrong with what you did, but maybe I am missing something in your explanation. Anyway FWIW, here's how I would do the move: - make a partition on the new disk - init 1 to boot into single user mode - mount the new partition as /newvar - cp -a /var /newvar - cd / - mv var oldvar - mkdir var - change fstab to mount the new partition as /var - reboot Having verified that all is working, you can now safely: rm -rf /oldvar If you prefer to use a GUI editor to change fstab, just create a copy of it with the change in place before booting into level 1, then: mv /etc/fstab /etc/fstab-old mv /etc/fstab-new /etc/fstab in place of the change fstab... step. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Multi boot 9.2 10.0
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:07 pm, J or M Montgomery wrote: Hello folks I have not been able to find an answer to this question but it must be so simple I am looking right through it. I have installed 10.0 (clean install, but keeping /home). This was some time ago and there were problems which caused me to revert to 9.2. I was in a hurry to actually get some things done and didn't have time to troubleshoot. Now I would like to put 10.0 OE on my disk and figure out what is wrong while maintaining 9.2. Can they coexist on the same HDD? How would partitioning be done? Will Lilo pick them both up or will it need tweaking? My current partition table is like so: hda1 /bootext3 hda5 swap hda6 / 10G Reiser hda7 /home 12GBReiser empty about 55GB Any help will be appreciated. John Montgomery Hi John, No problem doing this. Install with whatever partitioning you choose using the empty space. At the end of the install, choose to put the boot manager elsewhere other than the MBR. When you reboot your system will come up with just the old 9.2 system. Mount your newly created 10.0 boot partition somewhere and edit lilo.conf to add a stanza pointing at the new system. If you follow the example of the existing stanzas, it will be fairly obvious what to put in there. Run lilo and if it successfully adds your new system, try booting to it. Stir and repeat as necessary ;-) HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recording from Satellite Radio
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 05:25 pm, Amy wrote: FYI, I'M USING GMAIL, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO CHECK THAT REPLIES ARE GOING TO THE LIST, AND NOT DIRECTLY TO ME. THANKS! Okay guys, here's what I'm trying to do. I have Sirius Satellite radio, and they're airing an interview on Friday night I want to catch. The trouble is, I'll be at work for at least another two hours after the interview starts. I could technically catch the interview at the store by tuning our store demo to the channel, and listening while I work, but that runs the risk of customers, or a coworker, changing the channel on me. I would rather just record the interview and listen to it later. I've got the boom box docking station for my receiver hooked up to my computer via the line in on my sound card, I can play the music through my computer happily, in fact I'm listening to Mellow Yellow by Donovan at the moment, on the 60s Vibrations channel via my computer speakers. So, I suppose, the long and short of it is that I need to figure out what program to use to record, and I need to figure out if there's a way to make the recording start at a specific time. If it helps any, I can make the receiver turn itself on at a specific time, so if having sound start can be used to trigger the recording, then I can work with that. I'm not too picky about the file format, though I want something that'll give me the better sound quality with the least amount of space taken. I would assume that I should be looking at recording to .ogg, but I am open to suggestions for other formats. The biggest thing is, I would like an answer by Thursday night, so that I can experiment and make sure it'll work before I am rushing out the door Friday afternoon. Thanks much in advance for any help you guys might be able to give me! Amy Well apart from the timed start issue I would recommend rezound as being easy to use and setup. (urpmi rezound will do it as long as you have contribs defined as a source). If you have sufficient disk space, then I guess you could just start it recording before leaving home and edit out all the extraneous stuff before saving. It seems that rezound does not include command line switches to start recording and internal timers are limited to specifying the recording duration. Otherwise you can do it with sox. As that's totally comand line driven, there's no problem starting it with cron or running it in a script that sleeps until the desired start time. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10CE Install Problem
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:26 am, J wrote: Hi all, I run 10CE on my machine, for one or two reasons, and recently I suffered a HDD failure, and had to do a complete reinstall onto a new HDD. I had to download a new ISO set, as one of my CD's was damaged, and would no longer be seen by my CD ROM drive. Trouble is, The ISO is corrupt for the 1st install CD, and it has some pretty vital packages missing, such as Perl, Drakxtools Pango to name a few, and KDE is all but inoperative too. I have managed to get the machine onto the net, and can get it to boot into ICEWM, but all my GUI configuration tools are missing (rpmdrake etc). Is there any way I can URPMI stuff whilst working in console? I have managed to urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp. etc etc, so the source is set, but what next? I really want to download every single update, to try and get it up and running again. Is there a way to urpmi every single package in the ftp directory, without having to enter each individual package name?. I tried to urpmi kde* libkde* but nothing happened, I got a no such file error... I'm assuming I am doing something wrong! Can anybody offer some advice? using windows XP is doing my head in, and I want to get back to linux! Many thanks, James First you will want to define an updates source as well as the main so you get the fixed versions. Then just urpmi specific package names such as kdebase-common. This will result in all the dependant packages being selected. You can't use wild cards. urpmi --auto-select might be a good first step. That will get you all the missing and updated packages for what you do have installed. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Boot record
On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:04, Marc wrote: On a ML installation when it gets to the part about where to put the boot record the first sector is one of the options. How would this affect how the machine boots? What would be the reason to use the root partision for the boot instead of the first sector of the MBR or a floppy? __ A floppy is obviously not a convenient option unless this is a test scenario and you want to be able to boot the new system without touching the boot manager currently in use. Putting it on the first sector is useful if you are adding this as a second or third or whatever system and want to use an existing boot manager in the MBR, adding the new one manually. Mostly the MBR is the easiest choice - certainly for the scenario where you have an existing doze system and are setting up the standard dual boot scenario. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File Systems
On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 14:42, Greg wrote: Is there a way to choose which one you want when you do a clean install I am getting ready to replace my old 9.0 so I want to use the best one if posible Just a little note Some people think better after 2 or 3 beers Or was that five or six Greg Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 04:26, Alan Rolfe wrote: Which file system is best to use? Reiser fs or ext3? ReiserFS - and don't listen to LX. -- stephen kuhn Sure, you can choose whatever you like during the diskdrake part of the install when you are setting up the partitions. I would second Stephen's vote for Reiser BTW. I usually create a small (64MB is heaps) /boot partition, making it ext3, then choose Reiser for everything else (except swap of course). Enjoy! Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Broadband modems
On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 22:38, Keith Powell wrote: I'm lost!! I want to go broadband, and the ISP gives me the choice of two modems in their broadband pack: Voyager 105 USB Modem or A220 PCI Modem (internal?) The Mandrake hardware database does not list either. Any advice on either of these, please? Will either work with Mandrake? Would I be better off going to a computer shop and buying a different modem? If so, what would you recommend? I am running Mandrake 10.0 Many thanks Keith Don't know either of these, but I would always suggest going with an ethernet based modem rather than USB. Internal - well it depends on driver support. Again, with an ethernet connection it's just going to work. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Stolen document
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 14:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Virus Warning Message (on uusnwa0n) Found virus WORM_NETSKY.P in file data.rtf .scr (in document342.zip) The file is deleted. - __ I cannot believe that. __ -- Virus Warning Message (on uusnwa0n) document342.zip is removed from here because it contains a virus. Believe what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 official gremlins not seen before - SOLVED
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 01:34, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 21 September 2004 16:34, Brian Parish wrote: Things work nicely overall except... Probably you've got old KDE .rc files (and such of the same for a few other apps). Rename your .kde file in your home directory and logout and in again as the user you are. My bet is most of your crashes and probs will have gone. This will require you to copy settings back from the old .kde like kmail.rc if you want to retain passwords, filters and the such. Just for testing you could create a new user and fire it up to see which crashes will be gone and which won't. Yep - that was it. thanks HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] shorewall samba
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 20:16, Paul Kaplan wrote: Since I installed shorewall, I am unable to get to administer samba through samba-swat (http://localhost:901). The error I get says the browser could not connect to host localhost (port 901). Any ideas? TIA Paul __ In /etc/shorewall/rules you need: ACCEPT loc fw tcp 901 This assumes that the shorewall in question is running on the samba server. Don't forget to: service shorewall restart after making the change. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.0 official gremlins not seen before
Had to rebuild my main desktop box over the weekend due to a little adventure with urpmi --auto-select with experimental sources defined. Fun for all the family! Installed clean, then upgraded to kernel-2.6.3-16 Also did urpmi --auto-select with just the proxad official updates. Things work nicely overall except... 1. Every time I close konqueror, I get a crash message - signal 11 (SIGSEGV) 2. Mozilla won't run at all - clicking on the icon just gets me a starting block for a while. Typing mozilla into a console acts like I had just hit enter on a blank line. 3. Konsole functions normally except that the mouse is invisible when over the area inside its window. 4. Firefox does this and dies: The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadName (named color or font does not exist)'. (Details: serial 1072 error_code 15 request_code 45 minor_code 0) These all seem to point to X, which is why I have posted once rather than four times. Any clues out there? The differences from my previous stable install (pre-urpmi knockout blow) that I can think of are: - kernel was -14 I think, but definitely a little earlier than -16 - xinerama was on as now, but the implementation was different. i.e. I now have two screens that function like one big screen, whereas before I had two screens with individual backgrounds and kicker functional only on one. Again, this points to differences in X and/or KDE between installs. TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] easy urpmi has urPO'd
Did I miss something? Has easy urpmi turned up it's toes? Haven't been able to go there for a few days now - just when I had to rebuild my main box too. Murphy does it again! Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] easy urpmi has urPO'd
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 00:17, Avi Schwartz wrote: Brian Parish wrote: Did I miss something? Has easy urpmi turned up it's toes? Haven't been able to go there for a few days now - just when I had to rebuild my main box too. Murphy does it again! It looks like the URL changed. Try http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Avi Thanks! Should have asked sooner. Google would appear not to have caught up yet. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 mouse lockup
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 09:42, Tom Karen Pino wrote: Hello, I am Tom Pino, a ranchhand in S.E. Montana. I just joined this list as I have been interested in Linux for several years but just don't have the balls. My son on the other hand bought a new computer that is supposed to be Linux friendly. Had no OS installed. Was tested with XP and then formatted. He installed Mandrake 9.1 (from a power pack). Had no trouble using the mouse during setup. When rebooted and the login page came up the mouse froze. Getting through the log in with out the mouse it is still frozen. Will respond in no way or direction. Mouse is Mitsumi Optical Wheel (PS2) Mother Board is Asus A7VSX-X AMD FI XP2400 2gig chip Mandrake 9.1 kernal 2.4.21 I don't know any more about his box than that but can call and get more info. I sent him a HD with 98SE on it hopping that he could get on line and straighten this out and it has been a real circus because the thing is having trouble with the modem and then today with the printer. Typical MS crap. Thanks, Tom Welcome Tom, Can't provide you with exact settings for this mouse, but have him try this: At the boot manager prompt (I assume he's installed with lilo), press Esc to get the boot prompt, then type: linux init 3 That will boot the machine without starting X - i.e. command line only. Login as root and then type: drakconf That will produce a menu including mouse selection - probably under hardware. It's been a while since both 9.1 and using this interface for me, so I'm unable to be more specific. Hopefully that will at least get a start on fixing the problem. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Using a graphical terminal remotely
On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 18:55, Harald T ZIPKO wrote: ... You could try X Forwarding in case it's not already set up. ssh -X destination.pc.com How do I enable 'X Forwarding'? As far as I understand this feature it is possible to get a working X-environment on a remote box although I am working via CLI? So in theory it is possible to open - lets say - a terminal on my local box, the run the command ssh -X nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn to the remote box and the I can use on my own box the GUI? I just tried it but it didn't work at all :-( Or do I have to work on my local box with an active X-Session? Important point - you don't startx, you just ssh to it, then run the X application from the command line. e.g. ssh -l brian remote-box-with-X-installed mozilla Also tried this one without success... -- (o Best regards //\Harald T ZIPKO V_/_ please no html - mails -- You need: 1. To be running X on the local machine 2. To have X installed, but not necessarily running on the remote machine HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Converting Partition from Ext2 to Ext3
On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 12:16, The Other wrote: 09/10/04 Hello All, Just want to check that I did this correctly. I converted a partition that was in Ext2 to Ext3 by going into the Mandrake Control Center, Using DiskDrake to unmount the partion, then change the type to Ext3, and then exited. I didn't format the partition after the change and I forgot to remount it. I did check the fstab file to make certain it was Ext3, and then rebooted. After the reboot, the mtab file shows the partition as Ext3. Just making sure that I didn't need to format the Ext3 partition. I rather doubt that I do because that partition was my Linux From Scratch partition and I'm booted into it right now. Everything seems okay, but I'm concerned about my first crash and if the Ext3 recovery programs will work properly. Am I okay er, let me rephrase that... is my Ext3 partition okay? GRIN The Other' Stephen Stubbs. ext3 is just ext2 plus journalling, so you don't need to reformat to convert. I presume that MCC just did a tune2fs command to add journalling and adjusted your fstab file. man tune2fs will tell you more. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Using a graphical terminal remotely
On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 08:08, Sevatio wrote: You could try X Forwarding in case it's not already set up. ssh -X destination.pc.com Travis Crook wrote: Hi All, I would like to ssh to a machine on my network and then be able to run startx and see X for the other box. How do I do this? Important point - you don't startx, you just ssh to it, then run the X application from the command line. e.g. ssh -l brian remote-box-with-X-installed mozilla HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FTP Server
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 01:45, SME Server Admin wrote: On Monday 23 Aug 2004 06:40, Wally Brown wrote: Anyone know how to configure the FTP server to change which folder it points to? I would like to be able to point my account to my web server folder to allow for remote file updates. Wally Depending on which ftp server software you are using, there will be an associated conf file in /etc. Assuming you are using proftp, just edit /etc/proftpd.conf and add a line like this: DefaultRoot /home/www my-account Other FTP servers will have similar arrangements. This also chroots you so that this directory becomes your root directory when using ftp. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] A little OT - iRiver iHP-140
Has anyone tried one of these hard drive players with Mandrake? The ogg support and capacity makes it look good, but I wouldn't want to have to boot doze to load it! TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Changed conection to internet
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 09:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everybody I changed the Internet connection on my Mandrake 10. Linux box from a proxy server to a router. It was working fine on the proxy server (which is now gone) but I can't get to any websites with the new router setup. In the network card setup I changed the gateway address to the router's ip address (I can ping fine and that setting is okay) and tried with the Mandrake Control Center to change the Internet Setup. But everytime I enter the DNS servers (which I think are probably the problem) it doesn't hold on to the settings. Everytime I go back in to check they are blank. I read the last time I had a similar problem about a non MCC way of inputting these settings, from a teminal window but I can't remember what the command was. Anybody know the command? or where the DNS info is stored? Thanks in advance. Robert DNS servers are registered in /etc/resolv.conf It should look like this: nameserver xxx.yyy.zzz.123 nameserver xxx.yyy.zzz.124 etc...for as many nameservers as you want to define. Two is usually enough. Just edit this file as root. You will see the effect immediately on saving the changes - no need to restart anything. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Enlarging Mandrake's partition
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 23:12, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All My computer has a dual boot (Mandrake 10 and Windows2000) and I would like to enlarge Mandrake's partition at the expense of reducing Windows2000 partition. So, I am here asking for advice about the safest and the fastest way of doing this operation. Thanks in advance, Paul It depends on whether you want to enlarge a specific partition because you are low on space on it, or whether you just want some more storage available on a linux file system. If it's the latter, then you can just use the tools under drakconf to shrink your doze partition, then create a new partition in the free space and mount it as /data or whatever. You can use this approach to, for example, increase the storage available under /home, by just mounting the new partition as /home/new-name. This makes /home physically segmented into two, but allows you to use it logically as a single storage area. It's a little more complicated if you need to really increase the size of an existing partition, so perhaps it would be best if you tell us more specifically what you need to achieve, so we can provide specific directions. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Enlarging Mandrake's partition
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 06:03, Paul Smith wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: Thanks, Brian. The reason for enlarging my Linux partition is the fact that I have installed so many things that I am fearing that I am reaching the limit of my hard disk capacity. (My Linux partition has 8,5 GB.) I use MS Windows very, very, rarely and my MS Windows partition has 11,5 GB, which is a waste... so, I am wanting to enlarge my Linux partition. How can I check how my Linux partition is being used? df -h Thanks, Stephen. Should I take some actions considering the following information? [EMAIL PROTECTED] paulus]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 4,5G 3,5G 816M 82% / /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 2,8G 1,9G 933M 68% /home /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 12G 6,4G 4,9G 57% /mnt/windows [EMAIL PROTECTED] paulus]# Paul Here is something specific you can do which will address the issue without blowing away your doze install. 1. Backup ALL important stuff - this procedure is reliable, but then so am I and you would want your life depending on just me! ;-) 2. Defrag the doze partition 3. Use diskdrake to shrink it leaving enough space to be workable. Looks like you could trim at least 3GB. 4. Create a new partition in the free space and mount it as /new telling diskdrake to save the changes to fstab 5. As root: cp -a /usr /new 6. Edit /etc/fstab and change /new to /usr 7. Reboot - now you have all the /usr files being accessed from your new partition and the /usr within your root partition is an unused copy. 8. As root: cd / mv usr oldusr 9. Reboot again just to make sure you got everything right and it all still works (so far you haven't deleted anything) 10. If everything looks happy, as root: cd / rm -rf oldusr df -h should now present a rosier picture HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Formatting Dual Boot Partitions
On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 23:31, Masha du Toit Brendon Bussy wrote: Hi , Newbie to Linux here. I would like to dual boot Mandrake .10 and XP and have a question about partitioning formating... - I'd like to create the following partitions on a 120gig SATA drive: 10gig XP Os 90gig Storage 8gig Mandrake 2gig Swap 10gig Home directory My question: I would like the 90gig Storage to be visible to XP as well as Mandrake. For this reason I've been recommended that I format using Fat32. Problem is XP only allows Fat32 in volumes smaller than 32gig. Is there any way of using NTFS? cheers brendon Create the FAT32 storage partition using the Mandrake tools when doing the Mandrake install. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] i'm getting bored
On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 15:17, Nurahmadie ^_^ wrote: hi i just want to ask how to get out from this mailing list thanks... same way you got in Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DHCP Server
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 00:31, Stephen Kühn wrote: Ok - now I know I must be doing something wrong here folks; but let's start out from the beginning. I constantly have customer computers in here, and generally, when I slap them on the network, I give them a static IP address along with gateway and the whole nine yards. Today I decided I was exceptionally lazy and wanted to setup the DHCP server via the Mandrake Control Centre. Ok - no worries - accepted all the defaults and the likes. But it ain't seeming to work. Wassup? I have a customer machine here - rebooted even - tried to renew the IP, but getting nothing - NADA - WTF am I doing wrong - or do I need to spend more than five minutes on this? Mind you, I'm not having a whinge because of it, but I thought it should work right away and first off...(and I don't want to reboot) stephen kuhn - proprietor If your /etc/dhcpd.conf file has valid addresses in it and service dhcpd status shows dhcpd as running, that's about it. Unless you have a firewall in between you and the dhcp server or something. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] howdy! solving problems this list,.....
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 19:35, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 09:25, et wrote: On Thursday 18 March 2004 01:36 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 00:09, Glenn wrote: Are you kiddin'? Lafayette, LA loves their Ice Gators g That's a scary thought. Does Miami have a hockey team yet? stephen kuhn - owner had one for a few years... the Florida Panthers I tink da one a trophy 2 I WROTE THAT IN MARCH, matey...where the hec you been? stephen kuhn - proprietor __ Looks to me like he replied in March too, so the question is rather where has IT been? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT gnutella finds loads of .exe files
On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 10:57, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, If you check the size and they are around 20 to 75 kB, they are probably Windows viruses. I learned that the hard way. Ignoring them is the best option. Regards, Bill W. On Saturday 24 July 2004 11:47 pm, Brian Parish wrote: I am using gtk-gnutella and have noticed that in recent times, whatever I enter as search criteria, I get back heaps of whatever-I-typed-in.exe files found. I have always ignored them, but does anyone have a clear idea what these are about? cheers Brian They vary in size up to about 1.4MB. The thing that has me interested is that there are heaps of them and they are an EXACT match for the keywords used for the search. i.e. Search for never take stephen kuhn seriously and you'll get never_take_stephen_kuhn_seriously.exe many times with file sizes ranging from just under 600K to 1.4MB - all showing as limewire files. Sounds damn fishy to me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT gnutella finds loads of .exe files
I am using gtk-gnutella and have noticed that in recent times, whatever I enter as search criteria, I get back heaps of whatever-I-typed-in.exe files found. I have always ignored them, but does anyone have a clear idea what these are about? cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Switching from Postfix to Sendmail
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 22:44, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 22:09, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 03 Jul 2004 10:58, Stephen Kuhn wrote: SNIP Flames I just wanted to know the command line arguments that switched postfix as the default MTA to sendmail...and now I'm getting flamed... NUKE WA! stephen kuhn - proprietor update-alternatives --display mta will display the alternatives currently available. (You will need both sendmail and postfix installed to see any alternatives) update-alternatives --config mta sendmail will (I think) set the default mta to sendmail (Check with man update-alternatives ) Of course urpme postfix will also do the job :-) (Mutter ... must be crazy to prefer sendmail...mutter) derek DEREK! Mah Man! Dudeman, you be da hotz! I think Stephen wins the most replies without getting your question answered award. Trust Derek to spoil a good thing! cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updates for 10.0
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 22:58, Charles A Edwards wrote: Newly updated for Mdk 10.0 gaim-0.79-0.2mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-encrypt-0.79-0.2mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-festival-0.79-0.2mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-perl-0.79-0.2mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-tcl-0.79-0.2mdk.cae.i586.rpm k3b-0.11.12-0.1mdk.i586.rpm k3b-dvd-0.11.12-0.1mdk.i586.rpm libgaim-remote0-0.79-0.2mdk.cae.i586.rpm libgaim-remote0-devel-0.79-0.2mdk.cae.i586.rpm libk3b2-0.11.12-0.1mdk.i586.rpm libk3b2-devel-0.11.12-0.1mdk.i586.rpm Charles Thanks Charles, But: The following packages have bad signatures: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/cdrecord-2.01-0.a31.0.1mdk.i586.rpm: Missing signature (Could not read lead bytes) /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/k3b-0.11.11-0.1mdk.i586.rpm: Missing signature (Could not read lead bytes) /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libk3b2-0.11.11-0.1mdk.i586.rpm: Missing signature (Could not read lead bytes) /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/mkisofs-2.01-0.a31.0.1mdk.i586.rpm: Missing signature (Could not read lead bytes) Cleared the urpmi cache and downoaded again with the same result. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10 won't boot
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 00:22, Mark Ayares wrote: My mdk10 box needed to be reboot yesteday after locking-up. I turned the power switch off and back on; now all I get during boot-up is a screen full of 9s. Any recommendations? Mark Ayares Boot from the 1st install CD, press F1 and type rescue when prompted. Select the Re-install boot loader option. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 10 without creating CDs
On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 21:57, Betti Ann Preston Smith wrote: Is there a way to install mandrake 10 without creating the CDs from the ISO images (which I have downloaded). I presently have Windows 98 and Fedora Core 2 on my system Thanks Preston You can do various flavors of network installs, but all require another machine to provide the files. You can install directly from the internet using FTP servers, but as you have already downloaded the ISOs, I presume you don't want to do that. So, if you mean that you have two O/S's on your only machine and just want to install Mandrake as a third, then no. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange boot options
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 23:58:06 +0100, Derek wrote: On Wednesday 02 Jun 2004 22:37, brian wrote: snip So most of those I understand, but anyone know what the numeric entries represent? Second question - 9.1 ran just fine on this PC (600 MHz PIII, 512 MB of memory) but once I'd installed 10.0 I noticed a lot of disk thrashing going on. I ran up KDE system guard (Im using the version of KDE which came with 10.0, and that's the only desktop I've installed) to find that I'd only got a couple of megs of memory free, which explains the thrashing, Linux uses all unused memory as a disc cache. It is perfectly normal for memory usage to be 100% After all unused memory is 'wasted' memory. Hmm. And a hard disk which is being *constantly* accessed is a hard disk that is likely to have a short lifespan - assuming you're not running server-class drives, which I'm not on my Linux box. I wouldn't have noticed the memory usage had it not been for the disk thrashing. As far as servers that I've installed are concerned, I have MySQL, ProFTP and Apache (that I'm aware of). I've also got Kylix on the PC, but that doesn't have anything sitting in the background until you actually run it. Anyway, what puzzles me is that I've got six copies of httpd2, one with a login of root and five with a login of apache, Perfectly normal. That is how more than 1 person at a time can hit your web site. OK, that's cleared that one up. six copies of mingetty, Hit Ctl+Atl+F1 through to F6 and you will see text consoles. These are the instances of mingetty. You could run fewer, but it would save virtually no resources. Any idle process eventually gets swapped out to swap and consumes insignificant resource. OK. five of saslauthd, Perfectly normal assuming you are actually using SASL (Possibly for email authentication) Not to my knowledge - unless it's by default. and a couple of other programs which show two or three instances. Can anyone tell me whether the footprint of 10.0 with KDE really is this large, or has something gone wrong with the update process? No its all normal. Do not worry about it. I'm worried about any system that shows constant disk access while idle. If there are services you have installed but do not use, then by all means turn them off or uninstall them. The only service I would recommend disabling is tmdns (Tiny DNS server) which is more trouble than it is worth and screws up lots of peoples net connection. The net connection, at least, is working just fine. As above, don't underestimate my ignorance of Linux. I used to write Fortran programs under some variant of Unix 25 years ago, and that's about the extent of my knowledge of Unix/Linux systems. Since then all my PC work has been with Billy G's offerings. At the moment, I know about enough of Mandrake to navigate round the file system and to fire up Kylix. Just enough knowledge to be dangerous ;-) Not really - the dangerous ones are those who know nothing but think they know something. I know the dangers of learning a new operating system from scratch, I've been through it too many times. :-( Some have been Unix-like, e.g. Hewlett-Packard's RTE-6 and RTE-A, but it's all buried by time under a mountain of Windows and VAX/VMS. Someone on this list used to have a good signature :- If your Linux system is not broken, you are not trying hard enough! Have fun No guarantees. ;-) I've really not that much interest in hacking around in the depths of the system, all I'm after is to learn enough to develop the same sort of software under Linux as I currently do under Windows. Had it not been for Borland's Kylix, I'd not even bother looking at Linux. In any case, I just don't like an OS that tries to beat hard drives into an early grave. Thanks for the info, but I'm still not convinced. If this constant disk access really is normal for a Linux system, I'm going to buy shares in some hard drive manufacturers! Brian. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Strange boot options
I upgraded my Mandrake 9.1 system to 10.0 via a net install, and I'm puzzled by some of the after effects. I'm only just starting to play around with Linux, so don't underestimate my ignorance First question. I use GRUB as a boot manager, and this box only runs Linux. After the update, I find the following in the GRBU boot menu linux linux_nonfb floppy old_linux old_linux_nonfb 263-7 2421-013 failsafe So most of those I understand, but anyone know what the numeric entries represent? Second question - 9.1 ran just fine on this PC (600 MHz PIII, 512 MB of memory) but once I'd installed 10.0 I noticed a lot of disk thrashing going on. I ran up KDE system guard (Im using the version of KDE which came with 10.0, and that's the only desktop I've installed) to find that I'd only got a couple of megs of memory free, which explains the thrashing, but what puzzles me is some of the entries in the task list. I seem to have multiple copies of a whole bunch of things running. As far as servers that I've installed are concerned, I have MySQL, ProFTP and Apache (that I'm aware of). I've also got Kylix on the PC, but that doesn't have anything sitting in the background until you actually run it. Anyway, what puzzles me is that I've got six copies of httpd2, one with a login of root and five with a login of apache, six copies of mingetty, five of saslauthd, and a couple of other programs which show two or three instances. Can anyone tell me whether the footprint of 10.0 with KDE really is this large, or has something gone wrong with the update process? As above, don't underestimate my ignorance of Linux. I used to write Fortran programs under some variant of Unix 25 years ago, and that's about the extent of my knowledge of Unix/Linux systems. Since then all my PC work has been with Billy G's offerings. At the moment, I know about enough of Mandrake to navigate round the file system and to fire up Kylix. Thanks, Brian. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] recommended way of installing Firefox/Thunderbird?
Thanks for the explanation! :)Guy Rouillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2004 11:42:37 -0700 (PDT)Brian Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: What do those mean -- GTK, GTK2 + XFT?GTK = GIMP Tool Kit. Gnome is written using GTK, as are apps that runon Gnome.XFT: http://www.xfree86.org/current/fonts1.html#2 XFree86 includes two font systems: the core X11 fonts system, which ispresent in all implementations of X11, and the Xft fonts system, whichis not currently distributed with implementations of X11 that are notbased on XFree86 but will hopefully be included by them in thefuture Xft was designed from the start to provide good support forscalable fonts, and do so efficiently. Unlike the core fonts system, itsupports features such as anti-aliasing and sub-pixel rasterisation.
RE: [newbie] Sylpheed messages not readable in MS Outlook?
FWIW -- I'm still going back and forth between Mandrake and XP myself, and I'm using Outlook 2003. I've not had any problem like this reading any of the messages from this list, although each message has a message.footer attachment containing the following: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I just thought it might be good to clarify that your'e talking about Outlook Express, not Outlook. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Asa Rossoff Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 10:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sylpheed messages not readable in MS Outlook? I often read this list in Outlook Express, since I still spend more time in Windows (haven't gotten Linux to work well with my video card, so until I upgrade...), and noticed that some messages appear blank, but have an attachment that outlook has named ATT00###.py (where ### is a number). . . . Anyway, I thought this might be of interest, since Outlook is such a popular mailer, and it's probably desirable to have messages readable there. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Setting Up Intellimouse Optical on Mandrake 10
Hello, my name is Brian and I am a Linux newbie. ;-) I just installed Mandrake 10 Official via an FTP install on Saturday, which took approximately 4.5 hours to complete. My system is a dual boot with XP Professional. I have an intellimouse optical mouse connected via ps/2 (via kvm switch), and am confused as to how to configure it so the scroll wheel and two side buttons work correctly.I googled and found several different ways to go about setting it up, all of them different and none 100% guaranteed. Can somebody point me in the right direction on how to configure it? It works perfectly under windows (wheel scrolls, two side buttons go back and forward when browsing). Thanks!!! Brian
[newbie] Installing MailScanner on 10.0 official
Has anyone out there done this? I should probably ask this on the MailScanner list, but it doesn't want to know me for some reason right now. The first step is to run a script called Update-MakeMaker.sh This fails when executing the make with: make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/config.h', needed by `Makefile'. Stop. Looking at the makefile probably tells me why if I knew how to read it. Anyone been there done that? TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix fails to open aliases.db - how to build it?
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 13:25, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2004 11:18:39 +0800 frankieh disseminated the following: Hi Brian, try: postalias /etc/postfix/aliases I thought just using: newaliases (sans quotes) did the same thing.. but I know that postalias works fine. I have no idea why its looking in mailman for the alias file though.. check in /etc/postfix/main.cf for alias_maps and/or alias_database and see just where postfix is setup to store its database. ...didn't they fix this yet from 9.2? If you install Postfix, it installs Mailman as well by default, and Postfix is fuxored til you delete the mailman reference in main.cf. One easy way around this (less typing anyway) is: urpme postfix mailman urpmi postfix Thanks Joe and Franki, I took the easy way out ;-) Works fine now. best regards Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DNS questions
/etc/resolv.conf should tell you the story unless you are running your own nameserver on the linux machines. On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 23:51, Frank Bax wrote: I have three Linux machines on the same network with a bunch of windows machines. The ip address of the server hosting corporate email changed last week, but the old ip address was only unplugged yesterday. Two of the linux machines are unable to download email and ping attempts to connect to the old ip address. reboot didn't help. Third linux machine and windows machines are working fine. Looks like a dns issue. What tools do I use to determine which nameserver Linux is using, what ip address that name server is providing for the server we are trying to reach? Frank __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard drive packed up?
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 23:16, Keith Powell wrote: I know this isn't strictly Mandrake, so apologies. My set-up here, is one computer with several hard drives each in its own caddy. Each drive is used for a different purpose. A couple of days ago, one of them (a Maxtor 40GB) stopped working a couple of days ago whilst I was using it,. So I rebooted. It started to boot, then stopped with the error message: Partition Check: hda: 4hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status ==0x21 hda: timeout waiting for DMA hda: timeout waiting for DMA hda: (__ide_dma_test_irq) called while not waiting the hard drive activity light was permanently on. This error message means nothing to me. I have tried installing two different Linux distros, but neither would install. I then found my old Windows98 CD and tried installing that - it wouldn't. I ran the complete Maxtor diagnostic program, but the results were that everything was OK. I have formatted the hard drive, and tried various things with FDISK. The drive still can't be used. Googling brings up nothing of apparent use. Can the hard drive be sorted, or is it only fit to be thrown away? Any ideas will be gratefully received. Many thanks Keith You'll have more potential to diagnose the problem by attempting to mount it from a running system than by trying to install onto it. Can you connect it as a second drive and try diskdrake on it? HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RAID setup
On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 03:36, Cotton wrote: I have 10CE on a smaller 13GB disk, and I'd like to move it over onto 2 80GB disks that I want to mirror... now, the 2 80GB disks are hda and hdb, they show up in diskdrake just great. Right now i have a 6gb / and a 9gb /home, I suppose I'd just like to make those partitions much larger and move the data over. How do I create a mirrored partition? I see RAID in the new partition list, but how do I assign the mount points and such? After I create, is it safe to just copy over the contents of the old disk to the new / and /home? How do I configure the bootloader (grub or lilo, whatever is default) on the new disk? Thanks for the help, Cotton You are covering a lot of territory there, but let's at least cover how you create the RAID partitions. I'll assume that you want mirroring (RAID 1). In diskdrake, select the first disk, toggle to expert mode and create a partition, choosing linux raid as the type. Now do the same using the same size on the other disk. Select the created partition and click on the add to raid button. Choose new and accept the defaults. Select the other disk and add the other partition to the same raid disk. Now you'll have a raid tab. Select that and you'll see md0 has been defined. Select that and decide on a file type and mount point. Repeat until done, or totally confused. Copying home across can be done by a simple: cp -Ra /home /mount-point Then adjust /etc/fstab to mount the raid device at /home. Copying the root file system is more involved and assuming that you don't currently have a separate /boot partition, it is not feasible to move this onto a RAID without re-installing AFAIK. How about leaving / intact and creating new separate RAID partitions for /var and /usr? That means leaving the existing disk in the machine as well, but will avoid the re-install scenario. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: {Spam?} [newbie] Seti
seti provide a cron script. Mine is: 0 * * * * cd ~/setiathome; ./setiathome -nice 19 /dev/null 2 /dev/null Work fine. cheers Brian On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 09:38, David Williams wrote: I have seti setup to start automatically on boot. However, on occasion when it can not send its results to Seti it goes into a wait for a time period. At the end of which if it still cannot connect the process ends. This is per the Seti sight and I have listed it below. Is there an easy way to restart the process without having to logout and log back in? I have tried CRON but it doesn't seem to want to run the script file below. #!/bin/sh # cd /home/david/seti $ while true do ./setiathome -graphics sleep 7200 # give it two hours to clear up done Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 19:21, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 March 2004 22:40, Brian Parish wrote: Yeah - I've found artsd doing that sort of thing, so I have it disabled. Probably the real answer has something to do with the fact that the only output plugin that wants to work is OSS. The native ALSA stuff may do better, but XMMS just makes no sound or complains that something is blocking the output. I'm out of my league here, but in case it helps - I'm sure I read that xmms needs oss, but when alsa is running it happily uses the oss emulation. Anne Well I can select different output plugins - artsd, alsa - even jack if that is installed - so I presume that the OSS emulation is only used if the OSS output is selected. Otherwise I am obviously missing something significant. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 00:10, David E. Fox wrote: On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 01:21:33 +1100 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well this is an AMD XP2800 with 512MB and a decent dual DDR mobo. I don't see any hesitancy and no load when idle, but I get skips galore on That's quite odd, as xmms is usually low latency on such a system. I wonder if there might be something else that's amiss. Case in point, on my AMD 1000 box recently, I experienced lots of skips recently playing from a URL. This is fairly uncommon, even though I was encoding a VCD at the same time. But that wasn't the problem - it was artsd. Darn thing was eating up most of the cpu, and (2.6) kernel was spending a lto of time in system mode. As a result, my system was barely usable, and the encode ended up dropping way too many frames :(. Killing artsd made it all better. Brian Yeah - I've found artsd doing that sort of thing, so I have it disabled. Probably the real answer has something to do with the fact that the only output plugin that wants to work is OSS. The native ALSA stuff may do better, but XMMS just makes no sound or complains that something is blocking the output. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 00:14, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:35:19 +1100 Brian Parish disseminated the following: I don't get skipping in any of my media players, unless I have my CPU maxed out doing something else, and I'm flippin' through desktops like a madman...does Xinerama put a load on your CPU? Well I see X consistently in the top few processes running top and if I wangle a window around, it jumps to 70% of CPU. Well, that's normal, it just means the CPU is actually doing something. But it shouldn't hesitate or respond slowly. I guess that would be load by any definition. Maybe I should be looking into this instead of accepting it as harsh reality. I gather that you don't see this behavior when madly flipping? Not at all. For me, X uses about 16 MB of mem, and very little CPU load (0.3 at idle). When 'madly flipping', I never see any hesitation or slow draws. I wouldn't expect so, running a GF4 Ti. Well this is an AMD XP2800 with 512MB and a decent dual DDR mobo. I don't see any hesitancy and no load when idle, but I get skips galore on the sound when moving windows unless I run XMMS realtime. Wasn't required pre-xinerama, so I guess that's the difference. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 10.0 community 4 cds?
When installing mandrake 10.0 as with any other version I install all packages except for extra language support. The installer prompts me for a fourth cd does any1 know why? also the software managment section of the mandrake control center appears to have issues. The mouse pointer remains a clock instead of an arrow thus not allowing u to click things like menu arrows or check boxes. thanks for the help -Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 15:57, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:05:36 -0500 Charles A Edwards disseminated the following: Now available for mdk 9.2 beep-media-player-0.9.7-0.20040220.2mdk.i586.rpm libbeep-media-player1-0.9.7-0.20040220.2mdk.i586.rpm libbeep-media-player1-devel-0.9.7-0.20040220.2mdk.i586.rpm Just tried this. I can see that it's built on XMMS, but what is the advantage over XMMS? I'm having troule seeing a difference apart from the fact that running XMMS realtime as root gives me very few skips, while running bmp in the same way skips all over the place. (Note: this skipping problem seems to be closely linked to me using xinerama with two video cards.) cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fixes CD
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:44, Ron Joordens wrote: Good Afternoon, I bought the Fixes cdrom along with Mandrake 9.2 but can't figure out how to use it. Anyone? Ron Melbourne Hi Ron, You can use Software Media Manager under Software Management in drakconf to add this as a security updates source. Mandrake Update will then look there for updates rather than going out on the net. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Fixes CD
See below - bottom posting preferred on this list On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 22:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, interesting. Is there a way to specify that Mandrake gets normal software from the web as opposed to the installation CDs, because my installation CDs have ceased to work. Could anyone give me specific details/servers to input if so? Thanks. -Original Message- From: Brian Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 March 2004 10:54 To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Fixes CD On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:44, Ron Joordens wrote: Good Afternoon, I bought the Fixes cdrom along with Mandrake 9.2 but can't figure out how to use it. Anyone? Ron Melbourne Hi Ron, You can use Software Media Manager under Software Management in drakconf to add this as a security updates source. Mandrake Update will then look there for updates rather than going out on the net. HTH Brian Easiest way is to use easy urpmi. Go to: http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php You can select sources for main, contrib etc. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake community
you can download 10.0 rc1 here ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake-iso/i586/ -Brian On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 12:31, Olivier Esser wrote: frankieh wrote: Olivier Esser wrote: Does anyone know when community 10.0 will be available for free? Isn't that a little stupid that it is only available to club memebers? Espicially only using Bittorent? Seaching with google we found vendors who sell the CDs for a few dollars (typically 3 or 4 $). Even if we are member of the club, this would be a much easier way to obtain it than using bittorrent with all the speed problem. Olivier I think that if mandrake gave access to the ISO's online in exchange for a 10 dollar donation.. they would get allot of money.. I am not a club member, the reason is simple, sometimes I have a heap of money, other times I need every cent I have its not predictablee... However, I have bought powerpacks before, and probably will again.. I'd like to start trialing mdk10 asap to see if its suitable for my clients.. but I can't do that yet because I don't have access to the torrent or the ISO's... As I have said, I've find vendors with google (just enter mandrake linux community as a search term) who sell the 10.0 community CDs for about 4$. It is perfectly their right to do this since the Cds are GPL. It is in this way that I find the attitude of Mandrake a little stupid. Olivier Esser __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bittorrent help -- some detail please
On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 20:37, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Somebody on here said that it is possible by special request to get an FTP download of the ISOs. Well I an a club member and want to make that request - so whoever it was could you point whoever sets this up in my direction. No matter what I try I can't get a decent download going via bittorrent. Its been running for days now and max rate I have got so far is average of 8Kb/s and if I throttle back the upload I get even less :-( Its downloaded 2Mb in the last 8 hours. I suspect it may be my crap broadband provider. regards There is a link on the club site for arranging this. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Multi-boot with LILO and Mandrake
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 15:40, Ron Joordens wrote: Hello Everyone, I have just installed Mandrake on a system which already had Windows XP and FreeBSD installed on it. I want to be able to choose which OS to use at boot time. However, I am given no menu to choose from and the default Mandrake starts automatically. LILO is installed in the MBR. I had a look at the lilo.conf file and saw that Mandrake saw the pre-existing windows partition and added the relevent lines to the file. It did not add lines for FreeBSD. I was able to add FreeBSD using the tools available in the configuration menu. However still no options appear to choose OS on bootup. I have discovered that if I manually change the default in lilo.conf, I can boot Windows and FreeBSD successfully. However doing so entails changing lilo.conf, running lilo to install to MBR, rebooting to other OS. Then to boot to another OS, I have to boot Mandrake using a boot floppy and change it again. So how do I change lilo.conf to enable a menu. I was under the impression through reading the man pages that the menu was enabled by default. Following is my lilo.conf file: -- boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map vga=normal default=Mandrake_Linux keytable=/boot/us-latin1.klt nowarn message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz-enterprise label=Mandrake_Linux root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd-enterprise.img append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi splash=silent read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi splash=silent vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=Windows table=/dev/hda other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe other=/dev/hda2 table=/dev/hda label=FreeBSD - The man page also says that the /boot/message file is limited to approximately 65,000 bytes. My /boot/message file is 102KB and is filled with unreadable hieroglyphics. Here's a sample: -- * 6 X +|#x 2lq ?'z *|V-;[EMAIL PROTECTED]'=S!8t ;Mc HHH~==0000 333????qq;;yyyFFFF ppp 9999 HHH~~=0000 333???qq;;yyFFFF ppp 9999 HHH~==00000 333????q;;yyyFFFF ppp 9999 HHH~==0000 33????qq;;yyFFFF ppp Isn't this supposed to be a readable text file that shows the message to display like for example. LILO Menu 1 - Windows 2 - Mandrake 3 - FreeBSD Also my /boot/map file is filled with the same type of hieroglyphics and is 119KB in size. Can anyone give me any pointers on how to modify my lilo.conf file to get a menu? Or is it the message and map files that are at fault? Also on another related issue. When I tried to create my Mandrake boot floppy for Mandrake Enterprise it failed because it was too big to fit on a floppy. I had to create one with the other kernel mdk. How do I create one for the enterprise kernel? Everytime I boot from the floppy it detects changes to the hardware and asks if I want to load the tools to configure them. Then when I boot from the hard disk, it again detects new hardware. Anyone know why this is? Thanks in advance for your help. Ron Joordens Melbourne Try adding: timeout=100 after the nowarn line in your lilo.conf, then run lilo to rebuild the boot manager. I suspect that without this, you get the menu for 0 seconds before it boots the default image. HTH Brian (also Melbourne!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] adding a second monitor - xinerama (almost there)
On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 16:37, Brian Parish wrote: I'm being really lazy here I know, but so far in my 5 minute search of the web I've found info on setting up two monitors with xinerama by manually configuring XF86config-4. I suspect however that there is nice, easy Mandrake gui method. If so, can anyone point me at it? I have added a second video card and attached a monitor to it. Mandrake sees both cards, but if I run XFdrake and tell it to test, it just tests the active one without noticing which card I've chosen. So I guess that's just talking to the X server and the X server hasn't noticed the second card. I'll start hacking at XFconfig86-4 if that's what's required, but if there's a tool that does it right... OK, decided to give it a go and followed the howto. Now both monitors are working, but xinerama isn't - the second monitor just repeats the image of the first and the mouse doesn't go there. I clicked on the enable xinerama button in KDE configuration and restarted X, but still no go. I have attached my XF86Config-4 file. Can anyone see what I've missed? thanks Brian # File generated by XFdrake. # ** # Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** Section Files # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath unix/:-1 EndSection Section ServerFlags #DontZap # disable CrtlAltBS (server abort) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work #DontZoom # disable CrtlAltKP_+/KP_- (resolution switching) Option Xinerama true EndSection Section Module Load dbe # Double-Buffering Extension Load v4l # Video for Linux Load extmod Load type1 Load freetype Load glx # 3D layer EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard1 Driver Keyboard Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout en_US Option XkbOptions EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/psaux Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier monitor1 VendorName Plug'n Play HorizSync 30-72 VertRefresh 50-120 # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync ModeLine 1024x48065.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine 768x576 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine 768x576 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier monitor2 VendorName Plug'n Play HorizSync 30-72 VertRefresh 50-120 # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync ModeLine 1024x48065.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine 768x576 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine 768x576 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic) Driver nvidia Option DPMS BusID PCI:1:7:0 EndSection Section Device Identifier device2 VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic) Driver nvidia Option DPMS BusID PCI:2:0:0 EndSection Section Screen Identifier screen1 Device device1 Monitor monitor1 DefaultColorDepth 16 Subsection Display Depth 8 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 15 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 24 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection EndSection Section Screen Identifier screen2 Device device2 Monitor monitor2 DefaultColorDepth 16 Subsection Display Depth 8 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 15 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 24 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier layout1 Screen screen1 Screen Screen 2 LeftOf Screen 1 InputDevice Keyboard1 CoreKeyboard InputDevice Mouse1 CorePointer EndSection Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] adding a second monitor - xinerama (almost there)
On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 03:02, Joe wrote: OK, decided to give it a go and followed the howto. Now both monitors are working, but xinerama isn't - the second monitor just repeats the image of the first and the mouse doesn't go there. I clicked on the enable xinerama button in KDE configuration and restarted X, but still no go. I have attached my XF86Config-4 file. Can anyone see what I've missed? thanks Brian Section ServerFlags #DontZap # disable CrtlAltBS (server abort) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work #DontZoom # disable CrtlAltKP_+/KP_- (resolution switching) Option Xinerama true EndSection IIRC there should be a line in the server layout section that reads something like: Option Xinerama or Option Xinerama true. Better have another look at the howto. Yes, that's correct, but it's under the ServerFlags section and I have that set (see above). Thanks anyway, but there must be something else. Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] adding a second monitor - xinerama I presume
I'm being really lazy here I know, but so far in my 5 minute search of the web I've found info on setting up two monitors with xinerama by manually configuring XF86config-4. I suspect however that there is nice, easy Mandrake gui method. If so, can anyone point me at it? I have added a second video card and attached a monitor to it. Mandrake sees both cards, but if I run XFdrake and tell it to test, it just tests the active one without noticing which card I've chosen. So I guess that's just talking to the X server and the X server hasn't noticed the second card. I'll start hacking at XFconfig86-4 if that's what's required, but if there's a tool that does it right... TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Troubleshooting - No Sound
Hello All, I am pretty new to Linux, and I am not really sure of the best practices on troubleshooting hardware problems yet, but I am willing to learn. I am running Mandrake 9.2 on an IBM ThinkPad T23 laptop, and I am having a problem getting my sound to work. Mandrake is reporting that I have an Intel 82801 AC97 Audio Controller, and it is using the i810_audio driver, but the sound isn't working. I see that there is a way to switch to an ALSA driver, and I did that and it didn't seem to correct the problem so I am back ot using the OSS driver. I am trying to find out what type of sound card IBM says should be in my T23 laptop, and I haven't really found anything that is all that reliable on their site. In using the Troubleshooting steps from the Mandrake Control Center it appears that everything is loaded and setup properly, and am out of ideas. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to go next? Thanks, Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Evolution remembers old accounts
I recently fixed one of my 9.2 systems a little too aggresively and ended up re-installing. Copied back the evolution folder and everything there works as expectedexcept... When I reply to a message - any message - evolution sets the sender address to an old account long deleted. Somewhere this account is still lurking in the system, but why evo has decided to use it in this way is beyond me. Anyone know how to kill it for good? Every time I forget to switch the From: address, I get a relaying not allowed response and have to resend. I've had a look through the evo folders and removed anything that has to do with old accounts, but no change in behavior. All the best for the holiday season - almost time to hit the beach and forget entirely about e-mail for a while! TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mozilla Flash problem
Two 9.2 boxes. Both running Mozilla as included in the distro. Both have the flash files in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins On one, help about plugins shows flash and it works. On the other help about plugins shows no flash and of course it doesn't. Any suggestions on where else to look? TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound and Video Update
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 07:44, Teilhard Knight wrote: First, I would like to thank all those who answered my post Sound and Video On the video side, I have downloaded the NVIDIA package, but I have not installed it because I do not know how to switch off KDE. Could you tell me how? And also how to start it again? In a console window, type: init 3 X will shut down and you can log in as root, do your nvidia install, then type: startx to get X started again. On the sound side, I seem to have a hardware problem. For those who didn't read my first post, I have a DVD drive, a CD-RW, and a DVD+RW. Both WinXP and Mandrake (9.2) have problems even displaying the contents of the DVD drive and the DVD+RW. The CD-RW works fine. This happened after installing Mandrake, but I do not know how this can give problems in WinXP. The two OS's live in their own partitions, and as far as I know, they do not fiddle with each other. I feel this is not a Mandrake issue, but in case you can offer me a hand, I'll be grateful. It's tough to see how mdk could be responsible as you say. No clue here. Sorry Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NTFS and Lilo in MBR
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 20:59, R.E. Perrett wrote: I have a hard drive with Windows XP Pro installed using NTFS. I want to put Mandrake 9.2 on a second hard drive. If I tell the install program to put the Lilo boot loader on the NTFS drive in the MBR will it work or will the NTFS cause problems because Linux can't write to an NTFS drive? Roger No - it will work just fine. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Uber Linux-Noob here. 1st question
I have Mandrake 9.1 installed on my machine, and durring installation it didn't have an option for the correct drivers for my printer (Lexmark X75). Anyone know where I can find these (if they are even available now), or if there are other compatible drivers that might work? Thanks. Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now
Re: [newbie] LG has posted Firmware Fixes for Bum Drives
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 12:54, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:14 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: It looks as though LG has posted revised firmware for affected drives and also published a method for reflashing already dead ones. Point your browser to http://us.lgservice.com/ click Device Driver icon click CD-ROM link The first hit is Emergency download for Physical Dead Drive from Mandrake Linux 9.2 There is a .gif attached that explains how to reflash the drives. There are also firmware upgrades for 9 drive models. WDYT? This is great but the english is so broken that I am not sure exactly what to do. First problem is how to boot into MS-DOS mode? Second problem is what the heck does C:W(with a bar through it)temp mean? I can get the light to come on again on the drive but have no idea how to flash the firmware from the discription. Any help is appreciated. Oh, I am trying to revive this drive using a K6II soyo mobo with win2K loaded. Hi Dennis, It's not a class act is it! The C with the bar is a character mapping error - should be a \. So this is just the DOS prompt, not a command you have to enter. The example assumes that you've downloaded a program called xferlg and stored it in C:\temp It also assumes that a file called q1iglx32 exists in the same directory. Where you get these files is unclear to me, but I have looked around their site to try to find them. The best way to do this is probably to build yourself a DOS boot diskette, and copy the downloaded stuff to it. Your procedure would then look like: A:\ Xferlg q1iglx32 [enter] I presume the CDR-8322B that follows is a response to a prompt issued by xferlg. If you are using W2K, then it's likely that you have NTFS which DOS can't read. Hence the suggestion to do all this using a boot floppy. HTH Brian -- Brian Parish Managing Director Univex Systems Pty. Ltd. Mobile: 0414 325 521 Office: 03 9844 4402 Fax:03 9844 4432 www.univex.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] post-install 9.2 issues with mozilla and openoffice
I have now installed 9.2 on 3 machines, 2 as upgrades and the other as a full install. The two upgraded machines both have small problems. On one - a laptop - mozilla won't start. No errors displayed when run in a console, just waits a while then goes away. On the other OOo sometimes hangs at the splash screen. I can't kill the processes. Restart X and up it comes. Any ideas on either of these? TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !
I started out with mandrake in my house but at work I use redhat 9.0 for windows file sharing, dns, all integrated into a server 2003 dfs structure and active directory, I also utilize rsync for a network back up of other things stored on the rh server. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mike Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up ! Lanman wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? Lanman Lanman, I use Linux mandrake 9.1 both at home and at work .( writing from there now ) I work at an Information management company that does record storage, Microfilming, and Scanning. I use word 2000 and excel in linux through crossover office 2.1.0 to print labels and reports. this is on a dual booted win2000/Mdk 9.1 box. the network here is a combination of one win server 2003 and various older windows units 98/98se/w2k/xp and 1 older win server- I can surf tthe network freely except for the win2003 tree. I use an old HP Laser jet 5L to print with and have NO problems with anything. I didn't have to do any tweaking I can remember, it just installed and worked. I have done updates and such all thru mcc and it was boring. I have played around with a lot of different themes and styles , etc and haven't broken anything yet. we even have regular power outs but it hasn't hurt anything yet. all and all very boring to report really. -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA * This message is intended for the sole use of the individual and entity to whom it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, nor authorized to receive for the intended addressee, you are hereby notified that you may not use, copy, disclose or distribute to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete the message. Thank you. STI Computer Services * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Kernel Panic:??
Would it be possible to use a boot disk to access the info on the disk and edit or replace conf files? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 3:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:?? I am afraid that the partition table on your disk is fried, or the partitions have taken a terrible beating. The system cannot locate the proper partition to load the initial files from. I hope you have a decent backup of your /home data, because this sounds like format and reinstall to me. But perhaps someone else has a better, less drastic solution. Paul On 01/03/1997 08:58 AM, Bulloved wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.2. Last Wednesday we had a momentary power failure. When I rebooted my computer following the power failure it hung on the Linux boot. I have spent the last two days trying to solve the problem on my own with no luck, unfortunately. Here is what I get on boot. It starts with identifying my HD and CD ROM and then starts on the file systems. It gets to mounting root file system mount error 6 mounting ext 3 flags Freeing unused kernel memory: 256k freed Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel. -- Although the moon is smaller than the earth, it is farther away. http://www.nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Thunderbird 0.4a * This message is intended for the sole use of the individual and entity to whom it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, nor authorized to receive for the intended addressee, you are hereby notified that you may not use, copy, disclose or distribute to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete the message. Thank you. STI Computer Services * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2: 1st boot eth0 connects to LAN, 2nd boot etc. not - dhcp assigns loopback
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 21:53, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 05:33, Cliff Skoog wrote: Bingo. Thanks so much Brian, I think the problem with trying static before was that the subnets didn't match between the machines, and I was mesmerized by incredulity at the second boot dhcp issue. Hi there: I was following this thread very closely. Could you, please, post the IP you got from DHCP and the static IP that you have setup to solve your problem? Regards, Adolfo Cliff will probably respond, but in case he doesn't...you can use a number of address ranges, but the most frequently used is probably 192.168.0.x where x is between 1 and 254 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 It depends a bit on what else is in your network. For example, one of the standard addresses used by routers is 10.0.0.138 (same subnet). If you have one of these it's just as easy to use the 10.0.0.x range so you don't have to change the router's address. Doesn't really matter as long as the range used is consistent and the subnets match. The advantage of using these particular numbers is that they are in defined ranges that do not get routed across the internet, so they'll stay private to your LAN no matter how you manage to screw up your router/firewall/whatever. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Audio recording levels
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 09:47, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:26:54 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Hmm, I'd level them all out first. Otherwise you wind up with some louder than others. Can be annoying once you burn it to CD... :-) I think it would work out the same either way. Depends on the desired end result, and since he asked about *increasing* the volume, which -m may in fact *not* do... Dons audio engineer hat If you normalize and find that the volume is no greater, it's because the dynamic range is such that the peaks are already at maximum value. This is not usually an issue with rock/pop stuff as it's almost always produced with substantial compression, but for more variable material you may be looking for compression rather than normalization. Note that if you normalize -g x (where x 1) a track which already has peaks at the maximum range, you'll introduce very nasty distortion at those points. The idea to use rezound is probably a good one just because it allows you to see what's going on. Of course if there are 3000 tracks to process, the CLI approach has a lot to recommend it! HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Audio recording levels
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 21:41, John Richard Smith wrote: Brian Parish wrote: Dons audio engineer hat The idea to use rezound is probably a good one just because it allows you to see what's going on. Of course if there are 3000 tracks to process, the CLI approach has a lot to recommend it! HTH Brian Thanks, to all, for the support from you have given me, you have opened up a treasure of possibilities for me in regard to getting to grips with sound manipulation. May I first confirm that there are a number of options as regards to which normalize command I should choose when trying to reset sound levels, here are what I have guessed from the help files and man pages, no practicable examples are give , so it's a question of trial and error. Still this is generally how I have currently come to understand it, normalize -n --no-adjust *.wav n= a number, but what ? not clear from helpfile exactly what number. I don't quite understand exactly what this is doing but seems to indicate it is assessing the current state of .wav files and what it thinks it needs to be done without actually implemmenting it, correct ? Below seems to be the general range of the normalize -g command, correct ? normalize -g 1.1 *.wav normalize -g 1.2 *.wav normalize -g 1.3 *.wav normalize -g 1.4 *.wav normalize -g 1.5 *.wav normalize -g 1.6 *.wav normalize -g 1.7 *.wav normalize -g 1.8 *.wav normalize -g 1.9 *.wav normalize -g 2.0 *.wav = twice volume level Then there is a normalize -a command (amplitude ?) with a range as follows, normalize -a 1.0 *.wav scale 0.0 to 1.0 normalize -a 0.9 *.wav normalize -a 0.8 *.wav normalize -a 0.7 *.wav normalize -a 0.6 *.wav normalize -a 0.5 *.wav normalize -a 0.4 *.wav normalize -a 0.3 *.wav normalize --amplitude=AMP *.wav This didn't do anything for me so I must have it wrong. There also seems to be a normalize -m *.wav command, haven't yet sussed this one. I have a current project inwhich an old audio tape circa 1975 of an audio recording of Faure requiem recorded in 1963 of the Paris Conservatoire orchestra, conducted by Andre Cluytens, and old favourite of mine, and of which I would dearly like to make a first class audio CD of, purely for my own enjoyment. The tape itself seems to play well enough, I don't think there is excessive wear in it's quality, but bear in mind it has been played, and magnetic tape is not reknown for it longevity. Anyway to my ear it sounds still good. Now using gramofile I have managed to cache up 9 .wav files, the first attempt of which was so quiet that even with my computer's sound level turned to maximum volume it wouldn't be regarded as very good sound level.Nevertheless , by turning up the source soundlevel beyond normal green sythesizer levels (the visual stuff) into the orange and red I can get a higher sound level cached up on the HD. It is still not much regarded by my computer as being load, and the sound level is such that the quality of play is I believe not as good, bear in mind that may just be because the higher source levels brings out the imperfection, but I suspect it is actually distorting the wave pattern. Gramofile dosn't seem to have any graphical sound display aspect to it's capabilities.So maybe gramofile is not the best tool in this respect. I have rezound and audacity on my system, but both seem only to want to work upon audio files already cached to HD, which is all very useful but not the problem I face, I really want to be able to feed the sound stream from source, into a graphical programme that enables me to see what kind of general sound level and quality of wave form I'm getting from the source, and to make adjustments to that situation from the beginning rather than turn it into a hit and miss affair. It is possible that either or both of these programmes do this but if so I haven't found out how, to date. Anyhow once cached to HD, rezound plays the audio .wav files, but the quality of the sound is much worse than when the same files are played in an ordinary .wav sound player programme like xcdroast has built into it ( KSCD and the like don't play cached HD .wav files only CD's) but possibly this is as it should be. I don't know, this is all very new to me and I'm feeling my way . So at the moment, I can cache the tape to HD and play them as .wav files , but the sound levels are poor and I need to learn how best to use the apps to repair and restore . Hints and suggestions welcomed. John John, To get quality, you need to achieve a reasonable level when first recording the input from the tape. Recording at low level then boosting the signal later is like starting out with an 8 bit recording then converting it to 16 - it will end up looking like CD quality, but still sounding like an old cassette. What you need to concentrate on then is setting the initial level
Re: [newbie] 9.2: 1st boot eth0 connects to LAN, 2nd boot etc. not - dhcp assigns loopback
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 23:44, Cliff Skoog wrote: Hello wise ones, I had 9.1 running (Dell Precision 420 MT dual processor). Installed 9.2 (and reinstalled several times - same thing), and my Win95 shares showed up the 1st time I booted. And the address was pingable. All boots thereafter, eth0 was assigned to 127.255.255.255 on boot through dchp, the shares were gone (thought my hub lights blink). I ping the Windows IP and get 'network unreachable.' Much net searching has led to a better understanding of networking, but no solution. I'm now keeping a copy of the 9.2 virgin install on a 2nd partition so I can keep trying without the hour of reinstallation each time. HELP What happens when you do (as root): ifconfig ifdown eth0 ifup eth0 ifconfig Does it change address? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2: 1st boot eth0 connects to LAN, 2nd boot etc. not - dhcp assigns loopback
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 08:13, Cliff Skoog wrote: Brian Parish wrote: What happens when you do (as root): ifconfig ifdown eth0 ifup eth0 ifconfig Does it change address? The same address is assigned, and the rest of the info is pretty much the same too. The only thing is, as during boot, it takes a long time for eth0 to be assigned an IP. It does on the first boot too, when it always does connect to the shares, but not quite as long that the next times when it doesn't connect. -cliff Sounds like your DHCP server is not serving too well. What device is providing the addresses? In any case, it's probably easiest just to go to static addresses and bypass all this. Particularly if you only have a couple of nodes, it's not exactly a major issue to maintain a static setup. If you want to go this way and are unclear about what settings to use, just post again. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converted second hard drive do i need to run lilo?
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 14:17, Dan Gordon wrote: When i installed mandrake i had two hard drives, my primary which has mandrake and my secondary which had a destroyed install of mandrake on it. When i put mandrake on my primary the secondary was no longer seen by the system, i just used diskdrake to convert the secondary drive back into a empty fat32 drive. My question is do i need to run lilo or anything for the system too see it again? I will just be using it for storage. Regards, Dan Gordon You only need to mount it. You can do this in diskdrake as well. No change to lilo or anything else. Answer yes when diskdrake asks if you want the changes written to fstab. But why use fat32? Unless of course you are dual booting windoze and want to share data between W$ and Mandrake via this drive. Otherwise, there's no good reason not to use a decent journalized filesystem like reiser or xfs or ext3. Reiser is my preference, but any of them are far better than fat32! HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2: 1st boot eth0 connects to LAN, 2nd boot etc. not - dhcp assigns loopback
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 11:35, Cliff Skoog wrote: Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 08:13, Cliff Skoog wrote: Brian Parish wrote: What happens when you do (as root): ifconfig ifdown eth0 ifup eth0 ifconfig Does it change address? The same address is assigned, and the rest of the info is pretty much the same too. The only thing is, as during boot, it takes a long time for eth0 to be assigned an IP. It does on the first boot too, when it always does connect to the shares, but not quite as long that the next times when it doesn't connect. -cliff Sounds like your DHCP server is not serving too well. What device is providing the addresses? In any case, it's probably easiest just to go to static addresses and bypass all this. Particularly if you only have a couple of nodes, it's not exactly a major issue to maintain a static setup. If you want to go this way and are unclear about what settings to use, just post again. cheers Brian Hello again, Thanks for looking into this. I've tried setting to static from the drake network tool, several times, trying to follow info I found. No joy on pinging Win95 either. Those Win machines have static IPs set, and can talk to each other, which I don't want to lose, so I'm reluctant to mess too much on that side, especially since the thing always works with dchp from a virgin install. Maybe I should go back to 9.1. But I'll be delighted to try static again, so fire away. appreciatively, cliff OK. Run DrakConnect and click on the wizard. Let it detect the network card. Enter a name for your machine, an IP address in the same range as your W$ machines and the same subnet they are using and you are basically good to go. You haven't mentioned how your internet access is organized so I'll assume you are using dial-up directly from the linux box, but if not you'll need to also tell DrakConnect the IP address of your gateway and enter the DNS addresses in /etc/resolv.conf That's a quick and dirty explanation. If it falls short on detail, just ask. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] md5 checksums for downloaded 9.2 ISOs
Does anyone have these or know where to find them? TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] md5 checksums for downloaded 9.2 ISOs
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 02:30, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday 31 October 2003 08:35 am, Brian Parish wrote: Does anyone have these or know where to find them? TIA Brian http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=1302 Look down towards the bottom of the page Thanks Tom, I am a club member, so it is the bittorrent downloads I want to check. To all the other replies, thanks anyway. Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] k3b or not to be
I'm using k3b-0.9-2mdk on my main workstation - works great! Just installed it on another 9.1 machine, ran the setup, all looks fine, but then running as a normal user I get all these issues with not finding mkisofs etc. Is there some magic here? Can I wipe out a config file somewhere and start again? TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] compiling openldap source
Title: Message has anyone compiled the source code for openLDAP, i am having so much trouble when it comes to making it * This message is intended for the sole use of the individual and entity to whom it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, nor authorized to receive for the intended addressee, you are hereby notified that you may not use, copy, disclose or distribute to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete the message. Thank you. STI Computer Services *
[newbie] ssh key generation
Title: Message i am trying to use scp to transfer incremental updates in some files using rsync but i want it to go over an ssh connection for the encryption and some compression, but i can't remember for the life of me how to generate a key for ssh. help!!! brian * This message is intended for the sole use of the individual and entity to whom it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, nor authorized to receive for the intended addressee, you are hereby notified that you may not use, copy, disclose or distribute to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete the message. Thank you. STI Computer Services *
Re: [newbie] tar.gz.tar
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 18:19, Borys Radzyminski wrote: Hi , Can anyone tell me which command i can unpack this file??? Greets Ya0 Try: tar -xzvf the-tar-file-name x = extract z = unpack using gzip v = tell me what you are doing f = here's the file name HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LG CDROM...have one, need recommendation
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 23:40, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I would like a recommendation as to what would be a good choice of replacement for my LG CRD-8482B in my Dell Dimension. I can understand how Dell makes such a killing on there machines when you learn what the components are worth. :-( I have used this drive w/8.2, 9.0 and now 9.1, but I would like to move up to 9.2 soon, so it looks like I will need a new drive. Actually, I would like to get a CD-RW instead of a CR-ROM, so I would greatly appreciate any feedback/recommendations for good, Linux (Mandrake) friendly options in the medium price range. TIA for your time and assistance. --Angus Can't go far wrong with Lite-on in my experience. You may like to consider one of their combo DVD/CDRW drives - not much more expensive than the basic CDRW. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hopefully a simple SAMBA question
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 12:42, Trey Sizemore wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 22:06, Brian Parish wrote: This is undoubtedly the wrong way to do it, but it's easy and works every time. If you are happy to have no security on this at all, set guest only access and make the guest account root (presumably this is the owner of /tmp). Also set samba to use share level access instead of user level. This makes it wide open to any client machine on your LAN, but that seems to be what you want anyway. HTH Brian You're right, I just want to briefly transfer a number of files over. I think I have it set up now as you mentioned above, but still cannot browse below the workgroup from the Win2000 machine. These are the relevent sections of smb.conf I have. Any issues? [Global] null passwords = yes dns proxy = no socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 security = share os level = 65 map to guest = bad user max log size = 50 read only = no path = /tmp guest only = yes encrypt passwords = yes printer admin = @adm workgroup = MDKGROUP printcap name = cups log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m printing = cups preload = global homes printers server string = Samba Server %v guest account = root default service = global username map = /etc/samba/user.map guest ok = yes snip [temp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp read only = no guest ok = yes I think you need to have guest only = yes under [temp] as well as in the global section. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hopefully a simple SAMBA question
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 08:52, Trey Sizemore wrote: Setting up SAMBA to transfer files from a Windows 2000 laptop to my Mandrake box. SAMBA is running and in smb.conf I've made an entry for a [temp] directory (/tmp), writeable and guest ok = yes. To test the connection to this shared folder on my Mandrake box, I run 'smbclient //localhost/temp. The interface is added ok, I hit 'Enter' for the password prompt, and then I get the following output: Anonymous login successful Domain=[MDKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.8a] tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME What did I not do that would be causing this error? My Win2000 laptop sees the Mdkgroup domain, but cannot see the temp folder below it. Thanks. This is undoubtedly the wrong way to do it, but it's easy and works every time. If you are happy to have no security on this at all, set guest only access and make the guest account root (presumably this is the owner of /tmp). Also set samba to use share level access instead of user level. This makes it wide open to any client machine on your LAN, but that seems to be what you want anyway. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] doom2.wad file not found
Yes, I am running an original, the main reason is because I work for a software development company that write soley for windows and I want to show them that windows is not the only platform and my boos really likes doom. So I thought this would be an eye catcher. But thanks I will check out that site to run doom natively. brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ronald J. Hall Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 12:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] doom2.wad file not found On Thursday 25 September 2003 11:32 am, brian wrote: i just installed wine and installed a nice little utility called winetools which makes things go really smoothly. i installed doom and everything looked good during the install but then when i went to run the program, it launched but then gave a message saying that it couldn't find the doom2.wad file, make sure it is in the doom directory. it is. any ideas would be great! thanks, brian Brian - are you using the original Doom or Doom2? Reason I'm asking is, there are several open-source Doom alternatives. I use Prboom to play Doom here, and it will work with Doom 1, Doom 2, and Ultimate Doom .wad files. I use WineX, but only as a last resort - to play games that I've been unable to find an open source resolution for. IMHO - you're always better off if you can run it native first. Check out this link: http://prboom.sourceforge.net/ -- /\ DarkLord \/ * This message is intended for the sole use of the individual and entity to whom it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, nor authorized to receive for the intended addressee, you are hereby notified that you may not use, copy, disclose or distribute to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete the message. Thank you. STI Computer Services * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] doom2.wad file not found
Where can I download that from? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Layt Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 4:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] doom2.wad file not found On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 04:54, brian wrote: Yes, I am running an original, the main reason is because I work for a software development company that write soley for windows and I want to show them that windows is not the only platform and my boos really likes doom. So I thought this would be an eye catcher. But thanks I will check out that site to run doom natively. brian Just a thought, how about showing him Return To Castle Wolfstein: Enemy Territory, its fully native, identical to the windows version, very recent, free as in beer, and impressed the heck out of me... John. * This message is intended for the sole use of the individual and entity to whom it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, nor authorized to receive for the intended addressee, you are hereby notified that you may not use, copy, disclose or distribute to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete the message. Thank you. STI Computer Services * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] not able to connect to win xp home edition
I too, like another writer, am having trouble connecting to an xp box. i can connect fine to my friends win xp pro box but not to my girlfriends win xp home box. I get an smb error. Any ideas?? thanks, brian * This message is intended for the sole use of the individual and entity to whom it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, nor authorized to receive for the intended addressee, you are hereby notified that you may not use, copy, disclose or distribute to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete the message. Thank you. STI Computer Services * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Viruses..........
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 21:32, Eric S. Dye wrote: Dear List, I received two viruses (both sobig) from the newbie list..from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would suggest getting a good antivirus program. I am using a combination of Norton, Trend Micro, AVG and Benign. AVG can be gotten for free, though I use the registered version. Benign is a wonderful program that just came out that neutralizes any suspicious mail. It can be secured from www.firetrust.com. There is a 15 day trial on it and then you have to buy the program. McAfee has a good program. I am using XP at the moment, but also have Lindows installed. I have the Mandrake 9.0 as well, but it is not installed at the moment. Having gotten a number of viruses from the Newbie list, I am surprised because I thought Linux was pretty much impervious to viruses. I don't know which of the above programs can be used with Linux. Eric S. Dye, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 7.0.167 / Virus Database: 259.11.7 - Release Date: 9/1/2003 I your using Linux, the Sobig virus won't bother you. It's a Windows virus only. -- Brian Craft Yahoo Instant Messenger ID: bcraft67 AIM: linuxman67 Website: http://userdata.acd.net/javaman67/ Linux..the OS of Choice! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Fetchmail SMTP error - Domain of sender address does not resolve
I have a server which was happily downloading mail from several pop3 mailboxes. After a reboot, for every message I get: SMTP error - Domain of sender address does not resolve Pulling the messages directly with an e-mail client works, so it would not appear to be something amiss with the ISP's mail server. Can anyone suggest what's going on here? TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fetchmail SMTP error - Domain of sender address does notresolve
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 15:45, David wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 15:28, Brian Parish wrote: I have a server which was happily downloading mail from several pop3 mailboxes. After a reboot, for every message I get: SMTP error - Domain of sender address does not resolve Pulling the messages directly with an e-mail client works, so it would not appear to be something amiss with the ISP's mail server. Can anyone suggest what's going on here? Your mailserver is attempting to reverse lookup the sender domain of each email. Have the DNS ip's changed? If using a mailserver in chroot jail, is it's copy of resolve.conf correct? Is your default route/gw setup? HTH, David. Thanks David, It looks like that I agree, but this is not really a mailserver, just a 9.1 box that runs fetchmail. Would fetchmail really try to do reverse lookups? Anyway, I'll check out that angle. thanks again Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Ritmo USB modem model N2801
I have a customer with one of these. Drakconnect doesn't want to see it. I'm not sure whether this qualifies as a Winmodem, but a quick scan of linmodems.org didn't show up anything. Does anyone have experience with one of these? TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Video capture card for linux
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good quality capture card that will work with linux? Any advice on apps that make good use of it also appreciated. TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution archiving
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 22:02, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 18:42, Brian Parish wrote: Just installed 1.4.4 Very nice - even synch with the Palm V works! I still can't find a way however, of archiving or deleting old calendar entries. So currently I have well over 2000 appointment records being synchronized with the Palm V, taking many minutes. Am I missing something? This a basic requirement, so maybe I am. TIA Brian Didn't we cover this already before? Like a few months back or something like that? Meanwhile, you might want to check into the Evo listing - there are scripts you can create to do such as that - or maybe a script is already created... BTW, what do you reckon about the new look of Evo? I'm still using 1.3.3 - mainly because I don't want to download 50+ mb right now...and I'm carefully rearranging my home network... We sort of covered it, but only with negative results and in relation to a much older version. Thought I'd give it another spin as I still can't believe it's not there. Good idea about scripts though. I'll do some google-ing and report back if I turn anything up. The new look is a vast improvement. Didn't realize just how much until I went back the the version on the 9.1 distro after installing the cooker version and finding that it didn't work at all. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Evolution archiving
Just installed 1.4.4 Very nice - even synch with the Palm V works! I still can't find a way however, of archiving or deleting old calendar entries. So currently I have well over 2000 appointment records being synchronized with the Palm V, taking many minutes. Am I missing something? This a basic requirement, so maybe I am. TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
