[newbie] RE: [expert] PDF writer
- Original message From: Eko Budiharto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] PDF writer Date: 03-13-03 05:37 is there anyone of you know PDF writer for linux? Thank you. -- Eko Budiharto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Developer Hardware Communication Section MIS Department PT. Pelayaran Meratus Hi, ps2pdf, txt2pdf etc, should be on the disks. I use a Samba printer which pipes the data from a Win PS printer driver through ps2pdf and then dumps the resultant pdf on a network share. HTH David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mounting a filesystem ...
mkdir /mnt/meaningful_name mount -t nfs or ext2 etc /dev/hda8 /mnt/meaningful_name your data should be in /mnt/meaningful_name from memory... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rainer Sent: 14 October 2002 15:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mounting a filesystem ... hello, i've got mandrake set up on hdb1 and i would like to access a debian partition on hda8. looked at the control center and was somewhat perplexed by th options for mountpoint, i was under the impression it should be /mnt ... . tried to edit fstab by adding the info and that didn't work. obviously i'm missing something. tried to access debian from redhat (hda6) and got the same message, 'mount point does not exist' . also at boot and shutdown i got a message something like, 'no new endfile'. any help would be appreciated. thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Where are the unix2dos on dolphin?
Any suggestions anyone, please. TIA Dave --- Oracle 8 on Linux HOWTO author. http://www.dgssoftware.co.uk/oracle Systems Admin, Oracle Installs, Web Design and Programming Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] 9.0 believed to be out (in mild disguise)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Todd Franklin Sent: 24 September 2002 09:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.0 believed to be out (in mild disguise) Confirmation: This is the real deal. I haven't burned them yet, but here's the information from eroaster: Volume ID: MandrakeLinux9.0-inst-1 Volume ID: MandrakeLinux9.0-inst-2 Volume ID: MandrakeLinux9.0-i18n-doc I'm still a bit sceptical whether the distro is ready for prime-time yet, but they ARE here. Todd P.S. Mandrake, please don't kick me off your list... :-) Alastair Scott wrote: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3353 It can be got from the various mirrors; I'm downloading mine from the fast and reliable UK academic network ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandra ke/Mandrake-iso/i586 kindly paid for by the British taxpayer ... er ... um ... myself and others ;) The curious thing is that the ISO files, although dated last night, are still called '...rc3...', but the belief is that Mandrakesoft has done this, as it apparently did with 8.2, in order to damp down a mad rush: the filenames will be changed in time. I also note that the third ISO is 100MB larger than has been in the various betas and RCs; in about nine hours from now I'll find out what's been added. Now to hide under the bed to escape all the complaints from people who wanted their 'pet bug' fixed and find out it wasn't (ouch! - but it had to be said) Alastair Hi All, Just spoken to linuxemporium.co.uk and have just told them about these changes. They had not noticed, but are prepared to supply the 'phantom rc3' versions if wanted. They are downloading them while I type. I don't have a fast connection so I have just pre-ordered the full versions. Thought it might interest someone... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Question
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: 13 September 2002 02:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Question Derek Jennings wrote: I assume you want to scan for Windows viruses since Linux is not susceptable to viruses itself. Kapersky anti virus is popular. It interfaces directly in with the postfix mail server. I believe a copy of Kapersky is on the Powerpack version of the Mandrake Cds, or you can get it here. http://www.kaspersky.com/ As for a mail server. No need to spend $1800 Postfix comes on your Mandrake Cds for free. POP3 or IMAP access to mails no problem, and your boss can get copies. If you want something that does all the other (non mail) features of Microsoft Exchange then take a look at Bynari http://www.bynari.net derek On Wednesday 11 Sep 2002 11:13 am, Elliot wrote: Hi there guys. I am thinking of implementing Mandrake in my office network. Want it to act as the domain using samba.Which antivirus should i get? .. Also my boss wants to read everyone's email. Whats is the alternative version to Exchange 2000? ... i just wanna setup a folder on his outlook so that he can read whenever he wants to. Heard that Caldera can do that. Someone advise please? ... heard its expensive about 1800USD for about 20users. My email server is hosted outside. So i am just thinking of pulling the mails from the pop server and dropping it onto the users here in my office. can i do that with Caldera Volution? .. or is there a easier or cheaper alternative. Cheers guys. cheers` Elliot Williams IT Executive - I was going to suggest Trend Microvirus, but after reflecting on your message for a few moments and what your boss wants to do I think I'd tell him to get F^*ed and find a new boss. That just really curdles my milk. Who the HELL do these anal-retnetives think they are anyway. Thats just down and out WRONG. Any self respecting IT professional worth their salt, have the moral fiber and integrity to just say no. And I HAVE. you may be surprised at the response. I do believe there are laws against what he's wanting to do. At the very least MORAL laws if not public laws. DAMN! that just makes me SICK! Mark Here in the UK, a law is soon to be passed that evesdropping on email is the same as tapping a telephone. Companies will not be allowed to do it. Police will need a court order. As for the technical side, I use postfix with virus protection from 'hbedv' in Germany. I have the setting 'always_bcc = user' in main.cf and have an archive account set up. This is for backup/archival puposes only. The file never gets read unless the user request a copy of the email. The email file is rotated on a regular basis. What your boss is suggesting also boils my blood...tell him to get a life! David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Can't ftp to my linux-system
big snip First you need to have an ftp server running on your linux box (you didn't say whether you did or not - so let's start with the obvious). If you DO, then you'll need to post more information on your settings, etc. snip Also check that the /etc/hosts.allow file has the IP address, if you are in a secure environment then, ALL:ipddress would be ok. It would not hurt to also put the ip in /etc/hosts. (replace ipaddress with the client ip) HTH David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] access CDROM
I am not an expert, but is your scd0 the same cdrom/writer as hdc. I did not think you could mount the device twice even though it is a diff /dev/ branch. Just an observation. HTH. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of chr Sent: 05 September 2002 19:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] access CDROM Hi guys, I just install my linux Mandrake 8.1, but I got a problem to access my CD ROM (previous installation got no problem such this time). I try to mount it but failed even as root. I also try to give command like this: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom and I got error message like this: /dev/hdc: Input/output error mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only /dev/hdc: Input/output error mount: you must specify the filesystem type What kind of errror is that and how to fix it? FYI here is my /etc/fstab content: /dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/win_e vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0 may some one help me for this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ISOs (loop) in fstab possible?
Try; /export/iso/disk.iso /export/iso/disk iso9660 loop,unhide 0 0 and; /etc/modules.conf add the line, options loop max_loop=255 which will allow you more than 8 devices on loop. Re-load the module. I have all my CD's mounted accross the network, serving Linux and Windows. HTH Dave. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roman Korcek Sent: 25 July 2002 15:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] ISOs (loop) in fstab possible? Hi list, Is it possible to add ISOs as loop devices to fstab for easy mounting? Something like /dev/hda1/iso/mdk82/Mandrake82-cd1-inst.i586.iso /mnt/image1 iso9660 loop,users Didn't work for me, said the ISO is no directory. -- TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hd swap
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 07:41:11 -0800 Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am running LM8.1 on a laptop (with much help from this list) along with W2K. I am running out of room so I am considering installing a 30 gig hard drive. What is the best method of transferring my entire system from one hd to the other? Has anyone had any luck with this? Regards, Bill W. If you can run both harddrives then use something like norton ghost to ghost the disk, boot to DOS disk and run ghost from floppy. After ghost, just swap the disks and reboot. I have done this on Desktop no problem and I ghost my client disk as backup regulary. HTH Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:28:05 -0200 Rodrigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all ! What is the best way to make a firewall for a desktop station ? There aren't any servers running on my computer. Right after installing mdk8.1 I ran the control center and set the firewall answering the questions. Some time ago I decided to explore the BastilleInteractive options (I was curious) and left almost all the items set with the default options. I think it didn't make much difference for me and I have the same settings I had with the control center's firewall, but there is a doubt: how can I make sure that my firewall is running ? I don't see any process called Bastille or iptables with ps -ax, I only see a message during the boot process, initializing Bastille Firewall [OK]. Another question, are all the standard firewall that come with mdk8.1 dependant on Bastille or I can disable Bastille at start-up ? Thanks, Rodrigo Don't be fooled by the name Bastille, it is nothing more than a glorified rules generator for the iptables system. Iptables is a kernel system so that you will not see a daemon running. It is a set of rules that each packet entering or leaving the system will pass thru. I posted a mail to this or the expert list within the last month detailing the basic rules to lock your system. /sbin/iptables -l as root will show you what rules are in place. If you read the iptables man pages etc, you will never go back to Bastille or any other rule generator, the best firewall is always the one that you write yourself only if you know what you are doing. And that does not take long with iptables! Thats enough from me for now! ATB Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] in.timed daemon
Hi All,
I have just installed the MDK 8.0 intimed RPM package. The server is in a trusted
zone, as certain places on web suggest it has flaws. Anyway, having installed it, how
do you set it up, Searching on web no one explains what to do next. If I use webmin on
a remote box and tell it to sync the local time with the server, I just get an error
that port 37 was not responding. I think I may have to edit /etc/services and or
/etc/xinetd.conf but I am not sure what to add. I tried entering the following, but
nothing changed:
service time
{
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= no
server = /usr/sbin/in.timed
user= root (tried without this
line as well)
}
Any suggestions would be great!
TIA
Dave
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Re: [newbie] Reboot..how often
One of my servers uptime is 8 months, why reboot? Thats very Windoze! Dave. On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:52:34 -0800 Ed Kasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I have one RedHat 6 server only machine that runs mostly as a pop and web server that only gets rebooted when we clean it every 6 months or so Of course I monitor the memory and disk usage on a regular basis. But the wonderful thing about the os is that it has none of those inherent memory leaks that seems to continue to plague Microsoft products.. Ed At 09:34 PM Tuesday, 1/29/2002, Jesse Angell wrote -= I run a linux server, that hosts multiple chat servers. I used to do this on Windows 2000 and required a reboot at least once a week. I am curious now that I've switched to Mandrake Linux 8.1 how often should I reboot to clear things out to avoid unwanted down times, here is my uptime information 10:30pm up 12 days, 2:01, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 If I know how often It needs to rebooted I could setup a script to do it and tell my customers that its down every blah blah time for a blah blah amount of time... ?? Any ideas? Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . When you reach the crossroads, take it. - Yogi Berra Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] For Help
You need some client utils installed. The safest way would be to use SSH if yur server will accept it, failing that the really insecure way would be to use Telnet (the passwords are sent plain text across the web). Anyway, whatever you decide, open the software manager and search for either 'ssh' or 'telnet' with 'client' in the name. Select which one you want and install it. Whichever one you decided, open a new shell window, and enter 'ssh latcs5.cs.latrobe.edu.au -l userid' or 'telnet latcs5.cs.latrobe.edu.au -l userid'. The userid is the remote userid you have on the server. You will be asked to authenticate yourself. HTH Dave, On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 07:12:37 -0500 Jamil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am Jamil. I am a novice user of Linux Mandrake 8.0 and i am facing difficulties wihin it. can u please help me by letting me know that how can i get inti a server ( e.g : latcs5.cs.latrobe.edu.au) from the Terminal. As it will help me to do my studies. I want to get in this server and execute linux command. I tried a lot, but i failed. I would be very greateful if u let me khow. Thank u. jamil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problem with chicken or egg dependencies problem (or so it seems)
Try typing 'rpm -ivh all the rpm's in a list' as root. I find that telling RPM about all of the dependant rpms on one line solves this problem. Dave. On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:21:19 -0600 Kenn Yahoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings ... In trying to install Evolution on my Mandrake Linux box, I've encountered a slew of dependency problems, most of which I was able to solve ... but at this point, I still have one dilemma ... When I tried to install Evolution, I get the message that it requires gtkhtml ... no problem ... So I try to install gtkhtml and get the message that GConf is required ... That's where it gets interesting ... when I attempt to install GConf I get a message that libGConf1 = 1.0.7 is needed by GConf ... but when i try to install libGConf1, I get a message that: GCONF = 1.0.7 is needed by libGConf1-1.0.7mdk libConf1 = 1.0.4 is needed by GConf-1.0.4-2mdk what am i missing here ? can anyone help me decipher this? thanks in advance for the help. kennM _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fetchmail at BOOT
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:18:38 +0800 SKLIM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! How can I run fetchmail when each time I boot the server. I am not configure the LinuxConf How can I configure the fetchmail for enable to run each time I boot the server. Best Regards, SKLIM If you have fetchmail installed, try 'chkconfig --add fetchmail' as root user. Dave. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Accessing Windows Files
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 20:38:33 -0500 Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 11 January 2002 23:04, you wrote: On Friday 11 January 2002 10:41 pm, Charles Muller wrote: Hello All, I am a newcomer to Linux and to this list. I hope that you will not be bothered by my extremely elementary questions. never I have installed Mandrake 8.1 in a dual boot with Windows 2000 on my Dell desktop. The first thing I would like to do is get some of my previous text documents transferred from the Windows sector into Linux. But with the KDE file manager, I cannot see into the Windows area. Can someone advise me on how to do this? Mandrake may have already set up your windows files as a directory under /mnt If you go into Konqueror File Manager, labelled 'home directory' on your desktop and look in the left pane you will see the root directory. Just click on the plus sign in front of it (like in Windows) or double click on it and all the 'sub' directories will appear. One of them will be the mnt directory. Click on the plus sign in front of it and within it should appear the windows directory labelled 'windows'. Once there, it should all be familiar territory. mnt is where linux puts other file systems and Mandrake is very good at setting it up during installation. hth, Bill W. You may have a problem if you have Win2K using NTFS? Not done it myself, but I think NTFS and Linux have a problem. Someone advise please? Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cannot get into system, how do I rescue Lilo?
OK, you want to resue LILO, Boot from the CD and type rescue; then: mkdir /rescue What /dev/hd?? is you normal / root directory mnt -t ext2 /dev/hd?? /rescue rm -rf /boot ln -s /rescue/boot /boot Edit the file /rescue/etc/lilo.conf to what you want /rescue/sbin/lilo -C /rescue/etc/lilo.conf This will re-write your lilo There are more ways, but this is the way I remember, used it many times HTH Dave On Monday, 17 Dec 2001 14:43:08 + Hugo Saro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Originally to: All This is a MIME-formatted message. If you see this text it means that your E-mail software does not support MIME-formatted messages. --=_tcob1.net-7122-1008635521-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I had the same problem once, reinstalling linux solved the lilo problem.. hope this helps... --- Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, A dual boot system. I was trying repair an earlier problem, and of course made it even worse. Now Lilo will not boot up. It gets to LI and just sits there blinking. How do I re-install Lilo so as to access the system again. I have tried booting into the boot cd and typing 'rescue', I can then get to a prompt. After looking at an article about basic Unix commands I used 'ls' to see my directories. Whoopee, I can see then 'til I'm blue in the face. I swear I am going to take a course in basic Linux commands after I get through this! I did also try to reinstall the whole kit and kiboodle, but each time I try, it gets as far as installing packages and then just quits, with two minutes to go! The activity lights on the cdrom drive and HD just die. I've tried waiting for ages! Nothing! I tried using the Plextor burner as a boot device and to load the OS from but with the same result. Here are some tech details that may help. Any help will be gratefully appreciated, as I'm kinda' dead in the water here. (Posting from the wifes machine here, sshhh...) Mick AMD Athlon 1Ghz 512 ram Plextor CD Burner 52X ATAPI CDROM Floppy NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 M64 LM 8.1 __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com --=_tcob1.net-7122-1008635521-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename=message.footer X-Mime-Autoconverted: from 8bit to 7bit by courier 0.36.1 - Gateway Information. This message originated from a Fidonet System (http://www.fidonet.org) and was gated at TCOB1 (http://www.tcob1.net) Please do not respond direct to this message but via the list Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
