[newbie] No Sound in Kaffeine with Mary Gauthier video
Hi folks, This music video (which is Quicktime - I think) gives me pictures but no sound when played in Kaffeine. Sound is OK with other music vids and CDs. Is there some add-on that I need to download, or any way of tweaking the program? Any pointers would be appreciated. -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problems with streaming audio/video in Xine
Hi again, Just installed Xine in the hopes of overcoming the limitations i seem to have with Kaffeine. However still no sound with .mov files. Also, when I try to connect to radio stations, I get the following error: Error loading library: cook.so.6.0 These libraries are installed in /home/graham/codecs along with all the others. What, if anything, can I do about these problems? -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. 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 with streaming audio/video in Xine
Graham Watkins wrote: Hi again, Just installed Xine in the hopes of overcoming the limitations i seem to have with Kaffeine. However still no sound with .mov files. Also, when I try to connect to radio stations, I get the following error: Error loading library: cook.so.6.0 These libraries are installed in /home/graham/codecs along with all the others. What, if anything, can I do about these problems? Further to this, when starting gxine from the command line, I get the following message which may be relevant (or not): lirc: lirc_init failed. Make sure that you have lircd running lirc: and that you have the permissions to connect to the socket This occurs whether running as user or root so somehow I don't think it's a permissions issue. What is lircd anyhow? -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. 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 into file
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I am feeling particularly stupid and frustrated just now. I downloaded some files in preparation for installing gwenview. I saved them to /home/rosemary/Linux Stuff/rpms - now I can't cd into it, tells me no such file or directory. Thought I would rename it, but same problem. I don't want to have to do the downloads again. I've not had this problem before. I can see the rpms in konqueror and that is the path it gives. It seems simple but I am stumped. Wondered if it doesn't like the Linux Stuff name? Rosemary When typing folder names containing blank spaces, you have to type it like this: /home/rosemary/Linux\ Stuff/rpms Alternatively, you could rename the folder as LinuxStuff. -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firefox gone bad
Aidan Holmes wrote: Can't seem to find the .mozilla directory - any clues as to where to look? Since I still rely on urpmi (and can't see a good reason not to at this stage) I still have no idea where things get installed on my system. It's in your home directory - you'll need to switch on show hidden files in your file manager in order to see it though. -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Amorok - Behaving Strangely
Morning All, There's been a strange turn of events with Amorok in the last couple of days. Every time I try to add a track to the playlist it won't accept it. There is a message in the bottom left hand corner Some URLs could not be added. Of course this means that I can't use it at all. I've tried taking it off and re-installing but this makes no difference. Xmms will still play my mp3s but damn it, I liked Amorok :-( Ideas anyone? Cheers, -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Amorok - Behaving Strangely
Graham Watkins wrote: Morning All, There's been a strange turn of events with Amorok in the last couple of days. Every time I try to add a track to the playlist it won't accept it. There is a message in the bottom left hand corner Some URLs could not be added. Of course this means that I can't use it at all. I've tried taking it off and re-installing but this makes no difference. Xmms will still play my mp3s but damn it, I liked Amorok :-( Ideas anyone? Cheers, Sorry to reply to my own post, but I've just found out it still when I start it as root from the command line. Curiouser and curiouser. -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NTL Cable modem problems in MDK10.0 install
Marcus Davage wrote: Hi, all. I'm trying to convert a friend, who's built his own PC, from XP to Linux. So far, his experience with installing Mandrake 10.0 (the only version I had to lend him) has been good, except that he says he can't connect to the internet. He has an NTL cable modem. I've never had a problem downloading support for my ISA linmodem, but he's not a techie, and I've never used cable modems before. I'm trying hard to prevent him from crossing over to the dark side, but he thinks he needs XP to access the net. I thought the Mandrake installation wizard detected modems like that, but I doesn't think it has. Can anyone who has experience please suggest some questions/solutions I can ask/recommend to him? Thanks very much. Marcus I had no problem connecting using an NTL modem - been using it since 8.2. Your friend might find it easier (assuming his modem is like mine) if he connects to it via an ethernet cable rather than USB, as the modem has facilities for both. When I have installed subsequent versions of Mandrake, the modem has been picked up automatically with no problems whatsoever. -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi query
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 07:35:28 + Graham Watkins disseminated the following: I presume this means that a source has become messed up somehow. What do I have to do to get it put right? Well, this may not be the 'best' sol'n, but try removing and adding the source again. I had to do this a little while ago because apparently something had changed on his end. Did it. It appears to have done the trick. Thanks. -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] urpmi query
Hi Y'all, Recently, while attempting to 'urpmi' a new program, I got the following message at the command line: unable to access hdlist file of eslrahc, medium ignored I presume this means that a source has become messed up somehow. What do I have to do to get it put right? cheers, -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software
BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Well my plans are moving ahead and I need to know if there is a user friendly web page design software package for linux that those of you have used and like. I'm using Mandrake 10.0. TIA B.J. Tracy I like Arachnophilia although if you are a complete novice regarding html, Mozilla Composer may suit you better. -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 boot stalling at checking for new hardware
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: New install Mandrake 10.1 - after first boot got welcome to first boot window. Now boot justs stops at checking for new hardware. I waited five minutes - is this long enough? If not what can I do please? Thanks in advance Rosemary Does it happen every time? I've had it happen to me very occasionally. When I get fed up with waiting (generally not very long) I hit the reboot switch and then the system boots up properly. It doesn't happen to me often enough to feel like a real problem. -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux commands...???
JR wrote: On Saturday 29 January 2005 04:40 am, teguh wrote: Hi all, I have some questions and do need your help since I'm really,really,really new in Linux. 1. on booting my comp shows this status Bringing up interface loopback eth0 FAILED. But the rest are OK. What does it mean? and how to fix it? Dunno what it means but I get it all the time. In my case eth0 refers to my internet connection which works perfectly once the computer is up and running. If your internet or other network connection works OK, I suggest you don't worry about it. Cheers, Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] j2re-1_4_1_01 where to get it?
black starfish wrote: I keep getting 1.5 and it always crashes my browsres Try www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status. It's where I got mine. Cheers, Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] java
Dave Needham wrote: hi all.ive just dwnloaded java j2re-1_4_1_01 linux i586-rpm.bin how do install it please.ive double clicked on it but nothing. This may help (quoted from the readme file that helped with my own installation). Change details to match your own version no. of course. - Make the shell script executable % chmod +x j2re-1.4.2-01-linux-ARCH.bin (Replace ARCH with the architecture of your system, e.g. replace ARCH with i586 if your on an Intel system.) - Change to the directory you want to install into, e.g /usr/local % cd /usr/local - Extract the contents of the Java 2 SDK by running the shell script % ./j2re-1.4.2-01-linux-ARCH.bin (Replace ARCH with the architecture of your system, e.g. replace ARCH with i586 if your on an Intel system.) - Add j2re1.4.2/bin to PATH, e.g. if you installed into /usr/local % export PATH=/usr/local/j2re1.4.2/bin:$PATH Hope this helps. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] re java
Dave Needham wrote: -- hi greham soory dont understand. how do i get a shell up to put comands in,need step by step please.new to linux. Hi Dave -don't have time for detailed instructions as I have to go out. I'd probably get them wrong anyway. Assuming you are in KDE, there is a little icon of a monitor on your taskbar towards the lefthand side. klick on this and you have a shell to type commands in. You should (I think) su to root for this (type su root without the quotes and enter root password at the prompt). Good luck There are some real geniuses here who pick this up and run with it. Over to you guys. Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] re java
Dave Needham wrote: -- hi greham soory dont understand. how do i get a shell up to put comands in,need step by step please.new to linux. Hi Dave -don't have time for detailed instructions as I have to go out. I'd probably get them wrong anyway. Assuming you are in KDE, there is a little icon of a monitor on your taskbar towards the lefthand side. klick on this and you have a shell to type commands in. You should (I think) su to root for this (type su root without the quotes and enter root password at the prompt). Good luck There are some real geniuses here who can pick this up and run with it. Over to you guys. Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems
Margot wrote: Nooo! I think we'd better transfer any further 'goat' discussion to the OT list... Yup, before you get everybody's goat :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror??
Andy Yankovich wrote: Is there a way to have a specific web site open in Konqueror whenever it starts, using KDE (GUI) only? Snipped Thanks, Andy Hi, There may be better ways but this worked for me. Right-click on the KDE desktop, select create newfilelink to location (url). In the dialogue box enter the URL of the site you want to open and a name for the link. Hey Presto! A direct line to whatever web page you want to access in Konqueror. And you can have as many of them as you want. Cheers, Graham 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 k3b to append files to a cd -rw
eric jackson wrote: On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:11:20 -0400, Ronald Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am pretty new to burning CD's. I was wondering if there is a way to use k3b (or some other tool) to append files to a cd-rw. I thought this would be easy, but if I drag and drop a new file onto a cd-rw it wants to erase the disk first. Any suggestions? I'm sort of wondering out loud but isn't what you are asking to do called packet writing? With that you can use a CD like a hard drive and add files unto you close or finalize the disk. If that's the case, I'm not sure how well that's supported under linux. I installed something called UDF Tools but I've never been able to figure out what to do with it. I'm pretty sure I remember someone posting saying the same thing and I don't recall them getting an informative response on how to use UDF Tools. Eric Jackson I know there was a project to develop full udf support for linux but I believe it was discontinued. At least that was the situation about a year ago. Don't remember the details and haven't checked since. Cheers, Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gates: 'Yer a bunch o' Commies'
JoeHill wrote: Quote: Bill Gates is an intelligent man [wha?] who has done a great deal of good in the world. So when he gets caught out in a bare-faced lie this should matter to all of us; and last week, when he called the opponents of American intellectual property law a communist movement he was encouraging a mistake that could impoverish the entire world. Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1387447,00.html And from the same article: For the moment, the folly stops at the borders of Europe. An attempt to allow software patenting within the EU was halted last month by a Polish veto Well done Poland. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gates: 'Yer a bunch o' Commies'
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 11 January 2005 20:52, Graham Watkins wrote: Well done Poland. Indeed. We can all show our gratitude here : http://thankpoland.info/ Kaj Haulrich. Done. Thanks for the info. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ASCII characters
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not wanting to hijack the web-page thread, but Kaj's comment reminded me of a minor annoyance. I don't need special characters all that often, but when I do I have to use kcharselect (not knocking it - it's a useful tool). I used to be able to memorise a few select ASCII codes and enter them by alt+numberpad code. That's much quicker if you are preparing a longish document. I find it hard to believe that there isn't a similar facility in Linux, but I haven't found it yet. Does it exist? Anne - -- gucharmap could be what you are looking for - although I don't know enough about it to be sure. Cheers, Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.
Anne Wilson wrote: I don't use Evo, but IIRC it uses mdir format, which means that each message is in a separate file (mbox puts a whole mail folder into one file). This being so, if you can identify which messages are the infected ones you can safely delete them, leaving all others. Whichever format a mail agent uses, deleting the offending messages, then compacting the folder (in mbox this is very important - if mdir format does it, use it) should leave you in a safe state. OTOH, if you don't read your mail at all in windows you are not going to be propagating the virus anyway. Are you sure about Evo using mdir format - I only seem to have files for mail folders and the virus is residing in these. What the clamav scan show is as follows: .evolution/mail/local/Inbox: Worm.Bagle.AP FOUND .evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/Newbie: Worm.SomeFool.P FOUND (rest of scan snipped) --- SCAN SUMMARY --- Known viruses: 25253 Scanned directories: 31 Scanned files: 59 Infected files: 2 Data scanned: 62.38 MB I/O buffer size: 131072 bytes Time: 76.410 sec (1 m 16 s) [EMAIL PROTECTED] graham]$ If you search for attachments with the extensions .com, .exe and .zip you can probably delete all the infected mails by hand. (From Linux, just to be sure.) If such attachments existed on my system, I would have known about them - and deleted them at the hurry-up. No single mails show any sign of infection. If you want to make it easy for yourself in future, read the TWiki page on setting up PopFile (it exists for windows, too). Training is a doddle, and after, say, 2 days everything should be working really well. You have to hand-classify the first few virus types that it sees, but then it can be set to add [virused] to the headers, and the mail agent can filter them into a separate folder for you. Messages classified: 27,224 Classification errors: 115 Accuracy: 99.57% (Last Reset: Tue Jul 6 14:35:03 2004) Looks interesting, I'll check it out. Thanks Do the names Worm.bagle.AP, Worm.Somefool.P, SCO.A mean anything here? Yes, I've heard them all. Some of them exist under more than one name, and the various anti-virus sites will often only list one name. The main thing is not to panic. We can help you set up systems to keep you safe, but virused emails do keep coming. There's nothing you can do about that. Those who run mailservers filter them out at that level, but it's perfectly safe to do it at desktop level. FWIW, I got around 150 virused emails in November - and I don't have the volume of mail that professionals have - all identified, deleted, and the folders compacted. I'm aware that there will always be e-mails with viruses attached. They tend to come in waves - nothing for a while then loads. Usually I just delete them when I get them. The worrying thing here is that what I have picked up doesn't appear to have arrived attached to any individual mail. If it had, I would have spotted it. It is the mysterious nature of the infection - the first I have ever encountered on a Linux box - that has spooked me. I still don't know whether I should quarantine and delete all my mail (a desperate measure indeed) in order to get rid of it. As I mentioned, klamav claims to be able to quarantine messages containing viruses and worms but the component klammail doesn't seem to exist on my system - ideas, anyone? I intend looking at clamav soon, but I can't help you on that atm. Anne There don't seem to be any Clamav/Klamav users in the group. Unless they're still too hungover to respond :-) Cheers, Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 01 January 2005 09:39, Graham Watkins wrote: Wish it were that simple. I'm not running a mail server with windows clients. This is a dual booting stand alone machine and I never use windows for downloading mail. (In fact I use it as little as possible.) Do the names Worm.bagle.AP, Worm.Somefool.P, SCO.A mean anything here? Yes. I have copies of all three on my Linux system. I also do not use Windows for mail. You don't have to run windows to end up with your email address being used by someone else who does have Windows and who gets infected with a Worm which then tries to propagate to you. Erm, I'm not clear what you are trying to tell me here. Are you saying that it's not really a problem if it's not a windows mail program that's infected? As I mentioned, klamav claims to be able to quarantine messages containing viruses and worms but the component klammail doesn't seem to exist on my system - ideas, anyone? Amavis or Amavis-new. There should be packages available in RPM format. Integrating those with Postfix is a little more difficult but not overly much. However, you can use Amavis without doing the integration and simply let Amavis quarantine the viruses for you. I'll look into this - thanks. Integrating with Postfix is not a problem as I don't run it. But will it scan mails in Mozilla or Evolution? Something that will seems to be my only chance of eradicating the problem without actually having to trash my entire mailbox. Cheers, _ Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.
deedee E wrote: I confess to some confusion about your problem. Is there some reason you are forced to execute the worm-infested e-mail while running Windows? Why not just treat it like junk mail and delete it? Isn't it junk mail? I'm not executing anything. I'm not doing anything with mail in windows. I'm not treating it as junk mail because these worms are not (visibly) attached to any individual mail. They are attached to the mail folders in my personal Mozilla (and now Evolution) settings. This is what I get from a Clamav scan: .evolution/mail/local/Inbox: Worm.Bagle.AP FOUND .evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/Newbie: Worm.SomeFool.P FOUND (rest of scan snipped) --- SCAN SUMMARY --- Known viruses: 25253 Scanned directories: 31 Scanned files: 59 Infected files: 2 Data scanned: 62.38 MB I/O buffer size: 131072 bytes Time: 76.410 sec (1 m 16 s) [EMAIL PROTECTED] graham]$ There are no dodgy files .exe, .com, .pif or otherwise. If they had been attached to individual mails, I would have known about them already. I thought that I had made this clear - apparently not. The problem as I see it is to find some way of disinfecting these files *without having to wipe all my existing mail*. This is why I was asking about the bug in Klamav which prevents me from scanning individual mails in Evolution. Are you receiving e-mail that you must open and deal with that also contains viruses? And, you must open it in Windows? Is that the problem? Like a Word attachment you're expecting from a colleague and it turns out to have a virus perhaps. Even then, you can safely open it in OO. OO can't execute VBS macros (the carrier of viruses in MSOffice files). No, no, and no. I know and this isn't the point of my query. (snipped) Sign up for the security advisories if you're concerned about Linux exploits. Mandrake has a great mailing list for security advisories. There are a number of Linux sites which list advisories for all Open Source software. AV software tends not to include anything that's not actually in the wild. Security advisories come out as soon as a vulnerability is known. For a Linux system, they are much more useful and timely than AV software. This may be worth looking at - thanks. Just to underscore what others have mentioned -- antivirus software (including Linux antivirus software) is looking for Windows viruses. It is really necessary only for Linux mail servers distributing mail to people who may open their mail in Windows. Personally, I've always found it useful for scanning my Windows partitions without going to the trouble of starting Windows. Linux antivirus software also tends to be more expensive than Windows AV software and a bigger headache to install, because it's not really meant for a stand alone system. Have you considered installing one of the many excellent free Windows AV products on your Windows installation, and just boot into Windows once a week to update the definitions? Try Googling for one. My Windows setup has a fairly regularly updated Norton AV on it but life's too short to boot into Windows just to run a scan - that's one of the reasons I installed Clamav/Klamav. The rpm version of Klamav is quite old (0.6) and is giving me the problem, i.e. not installing Klammail. There is a much newer version (0.9) on the Klamav site but it's source code and won't compile on my system. Evidently no-one here has had the Klamav experience. Hope none of you ever need to. Cheers, Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.
Hi Y'all and a happy new year, My first crisis of the year began this morning. I finally got round to installing clam anti virus and Klamav. My first scan brought up about half a dozen worms hiding out in my mailboxes. I quarantined the mail files which cost me all the mail I had stored on mozilla. Before deleting the files, I imported them into evolution which I do not use for downloading mail - dangerous? Possibly, but I wanted to be able to clean it up using Klamav which purports to use a program called klammail to quarantine infected mails. However, I cannot set it up to filter the mail in evolution because the klammail program does not seem to exist anywhere on my system. Anyone know anything about this? It seems a rather urgent situation as I, like so many others here, had assumed that linux was more or less immune to this sort of thing and finding this lot came as a bit of a shock. Is it possible to get klammail to weed out the suspect mails or should I just bite the bullet and delete the lot? Cheers, Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.
JR wrote: Hi Graham, I have yet to install clam av, but I just wanted to point out that the viruses being detected are most likely windows viruses that would pass through a linux system without being able to cause any harm. The reason clam av detects these is because linux is often used as a mail server which often has windows clients. Hope you get your problem resolved, and happy new year! JR Wish it were that simple. I'm not running a mail server with windows clients. This is a dual booting stand alone machine and I never use windows for downloading mail. (In fact I use it as little as possible.) Do the names Worm.bagle.AP, Worm.Somefool.P, SCO.A mean anything here? As I mentioned, klamav claims to be able to quarantine messages containing viruses and worms but the component klammail doesn't seem to exist on my system - ideas, anyone? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.
Graham Watkins wrote: Do the names Worm.bagle.AP, Worm.Somefool.P, SCO.A mean anything here? As I mentioned, klamav claims to be able to quarantine messages containing viruses and worms but the component klammail doesn't seem to exist on my system - ideas, anyone? I've just done a search on Symantec for these 3 and nothing has come up. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Xfce4 settings question
This ought to be easy but I can't figure it out. How do I get the iconbox to launch with xfce4 instead of having to start it from the command line? Is there anywhere I should put a script for this and any other program I want launched on startup? The xfce manual can only be described as cryptic. Happy new year y'all. Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installed Webmin but can't access it.
SnapafunFrank wrote: Try adding another zero to your url === http://localhost:1 I did, that was just sloppy copy/pasting on my part. If that fails check your /etc/hosts file. If you are not sure then post a copy of the file here. Like I said, when I rebooted the problem was fixed. People here reckon there are other ways of getting webmin working and I'm sure they are right. But I'm a happy bunny now - till the next problem anyway. 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] Installed Webmin but can't access it.
Graham Watkins wrote: Good morning all, Graham here with the dumb question of the day. I've just installed Webmin and when I try to access http://localhost:1000, the connection is refused. A permissions thing perhaps. Or is the firewall getting in the way? I'm using 10.1 Community. Previously I was using 9.2 and never had this problem. Cheers, Please ignore this question. I'd forgotten that I needed to reboot first. That was a dumb one even by my standards. Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Acrobat Reader Install Problem
Greetings, I tried to install the Acrobat Reader yesterday, something that worked perfectly under 9.2. However the install only proceeded to the point where I got the following error message: Installing platform dependent files ... Done ./INSTALL: line 219: ed: command not found ERROR installing /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread Line 219 of the installation file reads: ed -s $i __EOF__ as my programming knowledge is considerably less than rudimentary, I cannot see what correction is required. Anyone encountered and managed to deal with this program? All help and advice appreciated. Cheers, Graham 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
Brian Parish wrote: 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 Hi Guys, getting into the debate a little late but this info from the xcdroast site seems relevant: Linux Kernel 2.6.8 broke CD-Writing: I had several reports that the last 2.6.x kernel broke CD-Writing using the ATAPI driver. Don't update if you want to continue to use X-CD-Roast, or switch back to SCSI-emulation. It's a pity that I had to trash 3 cds before I found out about this. From what has been said here, I gather that SCSI emulation is no longer an option. So what's the best way of writing CDs now? My burner is the OPTORITECD-RW CW5201 if that matters. 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
RickSisler wrote: Hi Graham, k3b works for me, both DVD and CD's and the RPM's are from Charles. http://www.eslrahc.com/ Hope it works for ya. Tried it, worked. Thanks Rick. 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 Recovering Data
Duncan Anderson wrote: Hello Graham Anyhow, what I want to know is what is the best way to recover data from a hard drive that is about to fail, but contains part of my Mandrake installation (usr home) when I get a new box up and running. Can I install it as a slave disk an access it through a new Mandrake installation or perhaps a live CD distribution? Or are there other ways? I realise this isn't exactly a Mandrake specific topic but there is more concentrated computer wisdom here than any other place I know so I hope you can steer me right. The method that you mention is perhaps the safest, ie. install it as a slave disk, etc. I have done that sort of thing many times. As long as you are methodical and logical, you should be OK. I have done this with Redhat 5.2, SCO OpenServer, SCO UNIX 4.2, MS-Dog, and various versions of Mandrake from version 7.1 up. Most recently I did it with Mandrake 10.1beta2. It is a good way of upgrading your system as well as a way of recovering data from an ailing drive. Once you have installed your new drive, simply run drakconf (diskdrake) and set up the mount points and off you go! regards Duncan Hi Guys, First off, apologies for posting from a Windows box. I'm slowly rebuilding a system after a major hardware catastrophe (see earlier post). After looking at a few options for data recovery from a linux system, I finally opted for the System Rescue CDROM at http://www.sysresccd.org/download.en.php Installed the hard disk as a slave and booted up from the CD.It worked a treat when I finally figured out how to mount the partitions. Got everything I couldn't do without and then some. It may be a while before I get a new linux box up and running as I'm pretty busy just now. But when I do, I shall be moving up from 9.2 to 10.1 Community. I'm looking forward to it. Cheers, Graham 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 Recovering Data
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:35:31 + Graham Watkins disseminated the following: It is an ex-motherboard, it has ceased to be No, no, it's just pining for the fjords... If you hadn't screwed it to the case it would be pushing up the daisies by now. 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 Recovering Data
Duncan Anderson wrote: Graham Watkins wrote: It may be a while before I get a new linux box up and running as I'm pretty busy just now. But when I do, I shall be moving up from 9.2 to 10.1 Community. I'm looking forward to it. Cheers, Graham When you do get around to it, have fun! cheers Duncan Thanks. You can expect plenty of dumb questions when I do. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT Recovering Data
Hi Guys, My Box died today :-( I was having some problems with a hard drive on the way out and was in the process of backing up my significant data when it froze and I had to do a hard reboot. After this, the machine would not start at all (It is an ex-motherboard, it has ceased to be). With luck I should be getting a new machine very soon - I've been on the point of doing so for about a year. Anyhow, what I want to know is what is the best way to recover data from a hard drive that is about to fail, but contains part of my Mandrake installation (usr home) when I get a new box up and running. Can I install it as a slave disk an access it through a new Mandrake installation or perhaps a live CD distribution? Or are there other ways? I realise this isn't exactly a Mandrake specific topic but there is more concentrated computer wisdom here than any other place I know so I hope you can steer me right. Thanks, Graham Watkins Newbie, man and boy - for about 5 years now. - Email provided by http://www.ntlhome.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] Is Abba safe?
Richard Urwin wrote: Actually ABBA music is technically highly complex. Which only goes to prove it ain't real Rock'n'Roll. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.
Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 09:51 am, Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Utley wrote: When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find that I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access 'Scheduled Cron Jobs'. I get the following messageAn error occurred while loading https://localhost:1/cron/index.cgi: Connection to host localhost is broken. When I replace the original Webmin rpm the problem disappears. Any ideas please as, If I remember rightly, the update is a security issue. Thanks, Simon. Confirmed. Will investigate/reissue if I can fix it. Stew, this bug exists in Cooker too. I reported it as bug #12129, so if you fix it in 10.0, please fix it in 10.1 and cooker also? I've just updated Webmin on my 9.2 installation and am having the same problem. Will there be a fix for that? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
Alexander Ruoff wrote: I'm running 224Mb ram which I would have thougbt was enough. Although vid memory is probably a bit light at 16Mb Hi Graham, since the OO problem is solved I just got one question... you got a 16 MB graphic card (which shouldn't be a problem... used 8 MB and 16 MB until very recently with both 9.2 and 10.0) or do you have one of the intel extrem graphic cards? There you can change it in the bios and even if the max. is 16 in the bios setting, the card can use the full 32 or 64 MB as fare as I know. If I am wrong 'bout this info, please correct me ;) Alex Hi Alex, I've got an onboard graphics card SiS530 3D PCI/AGP which borrows memory off the board. Although I believe it can be adjusted in the bios, the mobo documentation stipulates 16Mb as the recommended maximum. So its probably safest to leave it alone. I hope to do some serious upgrading fairly soon anyway. Cheers, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
Miark wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:22:04 +0100, Graham wrote: It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box on it. Blow away your .openoffice directory and that'll probably fix it: rm -rf ~/.openoffice Miark Been there, done that and it does seem to be opening up a lot faster now. Printing quicker too. I'll see how it goes from now on. Thanks for all the advice folks. Dunno where I'd be without this list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box on it. Oh, and I can't figure out how to change the default printer settings and right now life's too short to try. It's just as well I've got Star Office because if all I had to use was OO, I think I'd be forced to spend a lot more time in Windows. Come to think of it, I might get faster results using Word with Wine. Is everyone else here having the same experience? How do you cope? I'm using it with Mandrake 9.2 and KDE 3.1. on a Pentium III for all the difference it makes. I have no plans to upgrade the software until I get a faster computer. Cheers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Free space
Alan wrote: Could anybody tell what is the easiest way to monitor the free space on my partitions. In Mandrake 9.1 I used kdiskfree (I think that was the right name) but I can find it on Mandrake 10. Thanks Alan From the command line, type df (without the quotes of course). There's generally a command line option for anything you might want to do. Sometimes it's a bit more complicated than that but it's generally quicker than a GUI. Wish there was a command line version of Open Office :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 16:22, Graham Watkins wrote: Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box on it. (snipped) Is everyone else here having the same experience? How do you cope? (snipped again) Abiword. I can see your point but the compatibility with Word is likely to keep me looking at OO, SO or . Word ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
Alexander Ruoff wrote:
Am Do, den 28.10.2004 schrieb Graham Watkins um 8:22:
Well, why?
In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go
at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing.
(snipped)
Is everyone else here having the same experience?
How do you cope?
(snipped again)
How much memory do you have? I used until recently a PIII 450 with 128
MB, MDK 10.0 in the office and OO was slow but it didn't need 15 Minutes
to open a document.
Now with a Celeron D and 512 MB OO is fast and I see no difference with
my Pentium M and 512 MB. Thus I assume that it's either due to low
memory or there is a problem with your OO installation. Have you tried
to reinstall OO yet?
Alex
PS: Even my really old K6 200 with 112 MB doesn't need 15 mins to open a
file with OO, I just tested it... ('bout 30 secs for 10,7 kb)
I'm running 224Mb ram which I would have thougbt was enough. Although
vid memory is probably a bit light at 16Mb
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Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 28 October 2004 02:22 am, Graham Watkins wrote: Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. (Snipped) Is everyone else here having the same experience? How do you cope? (Snipped again) What you are experiencing is not normal and sounds like a configuration issue of some kind. Can you make another user on your box and try to start it there? Are you using Mandrake packages of OO.o or the binary installer provided by OO.o? Just tried running under root (yes, I know I shouldn't) and it was much faster. Then tried starting it as me using xfce4 which is less of a memory hog - such a slow opening I wondered for a while if it had crashed. Looks like you may have something with the configuration problem idea. I'm using mandrake binaries which came with the original installation. Cheers, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT: A Virus Plague
Hi guys, This past week or so, I have been mailed a number of virus attachments. Usually with only a smiley face in the message body. These have caused no problem as they are Windows viruses (viri?) and I only ever download my mail under Linux - learnt the necessity for that the hard way a few years ago. What I'd like to ask here is can I do anything? i.e. make a report to some body which can arrange for the perpetrators to be crucified without the benefit of broken legs or at least get their accounts closed. (It goes without saying that the addresses are spoofed). It is a kind of spam, so could I perhaps get spamcop or similar orgs interested? Advice anybody? Cheers, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Printer Install Problem with Samsung ML 1755
Hi guys, My old printer died last week so after a suitable period of mourning, I went out and bought a Samsung ML 1755 as it said on the box that it would work with Linux. Following the instructions contained in the README.TXT file on the installation cdrom, I attempted to run the setup.sh script. The result can be seen below: /mnt/cdrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] cdrom]# ls autorun* bin/ cups/ data/ help/ icon.xpm locale/ manual/ misc/ ppd/ README.txt scripts/ setup.data/ setup.sh* [EMAIL PROTECTED] cdrom]# ./setup.sh bash: ./setup.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied I'd appreciate anyone telling me what this means and what I should do about it. Cheers, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Printer Install Problem with Samsung ML 1755
Aron Smith wrote: On Sunday 17 October 2004 09:39 am, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi guys, My old printer died last week so after a suitable period of mourning, I went out and bought a Samsung ML 1755 as it said on the box that it would work with Linux. Following the instructions contained in the README.TXT file on the installation cdrom, I attempted to run the setup.sh script. The result can be seen below: /mnt/cdrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] cdrom]# ls autorun* bin/ cups/ data/ help/ icon.xpm locale/ manual/ misc/ ppd/ README.txt scripts/ setup.data/ setup.sh* [EMAIL PROTECTED] cdrom]# ./setup.sh bash: ./setup.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied I'd appreciate anyone telling me what this means and what I should do about it. Cheers, try copying the script from the Cd over to your box then run it I had this problem on my ML4500 Yeeehahh! It worked. Thanks a lot. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Printer causes KDE to crash
David Trethewey wrote: For some reason if my printer is connected to the computer and switched on during boot, it causes KDE to crash at the peripherals stage. The printer is an Epson C40UX, I'm using Mandrake 10.0. Anyone know anything about this problem? David Don't have an answer, but I've found that KDE does have a tendency to crash on load-up at the peripherals stage whether my printer is switched on or not. (At least my version - 3.1 does.) What I'm trying to say is that the problem you are having may not necessarily be causally related to your printer. Then again, I could be completely wrong about tbis. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Security Updates
Margot wrote: Stew Benedict wrote: On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Margot wrote: For 10.1 Community, same as for 10.0 Community, there are *no* 'update' sources. Updates for Community are found in 'main', not in a separate source. Go to easyurpmi, select 10.1 Community sources for 'main', 'contrib', 'jpackage' and 'plf'. Every day, open a root terminal and do this: urpmi.update -a --no-md5sum urpmi --auto-select You currently see updates hitting community main? I was under the impression that that is static atm. Went through this last night with a support person and it looked like the hdlist on proxad was dated Sept15. Thanks, No, none at the moment, but that's where they would be once they start coming through, isn't it? I check every day because I'm on dialup - I don't want to leave it a couple of weeks and then find that I've got loads of updates to catch up on - better to do them as when they appear, in easily-digestible chunks. Hi Y'all, This is a bit of topic, but thought you might like to know that all the messages with this header went straight into my trash bin. Nice to know that my customised Mozilla mail filters are working. -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Audio Query
Morning All, Anybody here know which, if any, Linux media program will play a file with an .asx extension? Cheers, -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Audio Query
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 02:12, Graham Watkins wrote: Morning All, Anybody here know which, if any, Linux media program will play a file with an .asx extension? Have you tried the PLF version of mplayer? LX No, but then I can't get the version of Mplayer that I have to play anything at all. -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 19:42, Graham Watkins wrote: Why is everyone suddenly having a go at Joe? Because he's there? Carry on like this and he may not be. -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] UDF format cd-writer for Linux
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some program to write on cd-rws in such a way that the files can be updated without having to erase the cd before writing the new version of the files? In particular, I am interested in a program that writes in UDF format (to be also compatible with MS Windows cd-writer programs). Try a google search for UDF and Linux. There seems to be some stuff but it's in the early development stage. I toyed with the idea of trying something like this but balked at messing around with bleeding edge software. Hope something usable appears soon as UDF Read-write ability is about the only reason I need to continue using Windows. Addressed this to Paul first by mistake - sorry:-( -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] archiving to multi volumes
hugenots wrote: welcome newbie, can someone sugest nice script for making tar arcives with given size from given folder, presuming that data in folder is more than given volume size; that volumes must be independet form each other (no file spliting); that volume name is smart (e.g. vol1.tar; vol2.tar vol3.tar; ...) maybe I'm thinking in the wrong direction, then please enlighten me :) the idea is to make tar arcives for storing to dvd, except storing will be done once in a month, but archiving should be perfomed more or less every night. so there will be hard copy and daily backup. Have a look at the following: http://linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=viewarticleartid=222page=1 It deals with making cd backups but you may be able to tweak it. -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 22:55, Lanman wrote: On 20 Sep 2004 14:34:45 -0500 Eric Scott disseminated the following: Why is everyone suddenly having a go at Joe? -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD
JRH wrote: Hi all, Bit of a good one this! I have 2 HDD's in my machine, and I want to boot from both Drives. My main drive (/dev/hdc) is where LiLo is installed. On my main drive, I have: hdc1: Windows 98SE, hdc5: /root, hdc7: /usr, hdc8: /home. The second drive, contains Windows ME (dont ask!!), and DiskDrake sees it as /dev/hda, and LiLo sees it as hda1. In theory, all looks like it should work. But it dont! When I boot, I select Win ME in LiLo, then I get a boot failure message (something along the lines of invalid boot disk, please replace and hit any key to retry- looks like it's BIOS initiated.) Swop the drives over, and it will boot into ME fine, so the OS is intact etc. Any Ideas?? or am I just hoping for too much? :-( JRH Dunno much about ME but it's probably the case, as with 98, that in order to boot, it needs to be installed on the first sector of the Master HD. This would explain why it boots up when you swap the drives. (Interesting experiment: - swap the drives then try to boot 98SE. If it fails then I'm probably right about this.) Never heard of a way round this although there are smarter people than me on this list so you never know. -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ClamAV
JRH wrote: Ok, I have downloaded and installed it, and it has asked me to set up a user account for Clam, which I have done. However, I cant get it to scan my entire drive, as maybe I am doing something wrong. I know the clamscan command starts it scanning, but it will only seen to scan the current directory which you happen to be in at the time. With F-Prot, you type f-prot / and it will scan the entire drive, including the windows partition. Any ideas what I need to be typing with clam, to get it to do this? Thnaks, JRH Hi, The command you need is clamscan -r / without the quotes if you want to scan the entire system. -r stands for recursive. Mostly however, I just scan my Windows partitions. I figure that if there's any trouble, that's where it's most likely to be. However, the Law of Excremental Occurrences has just kicked in. Just tried to run a scan and got the following message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] graham]# clamscan -r / LibClamAV Error: cl_hex2str(): Malformed hexstring: 633a5c312e6261743a2a3a456e6162 (length: 97)37363730053797374656d5c43757272656e74436f LibClamAV Error: readdb(): Malformed pattern line 1617 (file /var/lib/clamav/viruses.db2). ERROR: Malformed database. --- SCAN SUMMARY --- Known viruses: 21793 Scanned directories: 0 Scanned files: 0 Infected files: 0 Data scanned: 0.00 MB I/O buffer size: 131072 bytes Time: 1.545 sec (0 m 1 s) This suggests that I have a corrupted virus database. Can I do anything about this or do I just have to wait until it it is updated? Also, does anybody know how I can save the output of a scan to a text file as the output is not completely visible in the terminal window. -- Graham Watkins Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her. (Kinky Friedman - When The Cat's Away) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ClamAV
Graham Watkins wrote: However, the Law of Excremental Occurrences has just kicked in. Just tried to run a scan and got the following message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] graham]# clamscan -r / LibClamAV Error: cl_hex2str(): Malformed hexstring: 633a5c312e6261743a2a3a456e6162 (length: 97)37363730053797374656d5c43757272656e74436f LibClamAV Error: readdb(): Malformed pattern line 1617 (file /var/lib/clamav/viruses.db2). ERROR: Malformed database. --- SCAN SUMMARY --- Known viruses: 21793 Scanned directories: 0 Scanned files: 0 Infected files: 0 Data scanned: 0.00 MB I/O buffer size: 131072 bytes Time: 1.545 sec (0 m 1 s) This suggests that I have a corrupted virus database. Can I do anything about this or do I just have to wait until it it is updated? Just a ps to the above - tried renaming the existing db2 so I could download a new one via freshclam. This went successfully but on attempting to scan got the same as above. Looks like the problem is at clam's end. I shall mail them. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ClamAV
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Sunday 15 August 2004 05:17, Graham Watkins wrote: Also, does anybody know how I can save the output of a scan to a text file as the output is not completely visible in the terminal window. Usually this works 'command filename.txt' if not of if yhou want to see the output as well as store it try 'command | tee filename.txt'. This is for commands that give output to stdout. Thanks Hoyt. If I can get past the database problem, I shall try that. -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Shorewall VMWare
Hi Y'all I've had this problem for some time and nothing I try seems to fix it. Whenever I run VMware, unless I switch off Shorewall and reboot first, I am unable to access the virtual network and consequently can't save or work on files outside the virtual disk. I've tried setting up the following firewall rule along lines suggested to me some time back by Anne - apparently it worked for her. ACCEPT loc:172.16.210/24, !172.16.210.1 $fw all - - For me though, no joy. Can anyone tell me if there's something wrong with the rule or if there's anything else I need to do. I'm a total newbie when it comes to Shorewall and life's probably too short to become an expert. Another possibility is to install a program that I can use to close the internet connection when Shorewall is stopped. There used to be such a thing in an earlier version of Mandrake (8.2, I think) but it's not on 9.2 which I'm using. This of course would be very much the second best option. Any input gratefully received. I'm surprised this problem isn't better documented. -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ClamAV
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: However, the Law of Excremental Occurrences has just kicked in. Just tried to run a scan and got the following message: Odd just tried this myself and it runs fine for me... Very weird. It was OK yesterday. I've tried deleting the virus.db files and downloading them again but I'm still getting the same result. Mine are updated from clamav.sourceforge.net. Is it possible to get them from anywhere else? -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Shorewall VMWare
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 15 August 2004 08:27 am, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Y'all I've had this problem for some time and nothing I try seems to fix it. Whenever I run VMware, unless I switch off Shorewall and reboot first, I am unable to access the virtual network and consequently can't save or work on files outside the virtual disk. I've tried setting up the following firewall rule along lines suggested to me some time back by Anne - apparently it worked for her. ACCEPT loc:172.16.210/24, !172.16.210.1 $fw all - - For me though, no joy. Can anyone tell me if there's something wrong with the rule or if there's anything else I need to do. I'm a total newbie when it comes to Shorewall and life's probably too short to become an expert. Another possibility is to install a program that I can use to close the internet connection when Shorewall is stopped. There used to be such a thing in an earlier version of Mandrake (8.2, I think) but it's not on 9.2 which I'm using. This of course would be very much the second best option. Any input gratefully received. I'm surprised this problem isn't better documented. You probably have to add the vmnet interface to the /etc/shorewall/interfaces file as a trusted interface. I've already added vmnet1 to interfaces in the local zone but it doesn't help. I'm wondering if I should open some ports. -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT - Big plc adopts Linux - Guardian Article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1270834,00.html -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection upgrade. Mandrake 10 Official
simon wrote: I am thinking of upgrading from a dial-up connection to Blueyonder Broadband (a UK provider) running Mandrake 10 Official and wonder if I will have any configuration problems? Anyone with any experience of this? I'm with NTL and when I changed, Mandrake picked up the box as new hardware straight away and configured everything for me. I was straight on the net. You'll have an easier time of it if you can use an ethernet modem rather than USB. Can Blueyonder provide/support this? If not, things may get a bit complicated, although I'm sure people here will be able to help -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Link to cd backup tutorial
Hi guys, A few days ago, someone posted a link to a tutorial on making backups that could be split to fit on cds. I thought I'd saved the link but now I can't find it. I've been to the archives and can't find it there either. So if someone could see their way clear to posting it again, I would be most grateful -- Graham Watkins Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her. (Kinky Friedman - When The Cat's Away) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Link to cd backup tutorial
Graham Watkins wrote: Hi guys, A few days ago, someone posted a link to a tutorial on making backups that could be split to fit on cds. I thought I'd saved the link but now I can't find it. I've been to the archives and can't find it there either. So if someone could see their way clear to posting it again, I would be most grateful Don't worry, I just found it. (Sod's Law) -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Link to cd backup tutorial
http://linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=viewarticleartid=222page=1 -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] high pitched whine coming from new Maxtor!
Anthony Cull wrote: . Maxtor drives I have found are verry reliable. My maxtor makes the occasonal ticking sound during high load mine is 3-4 years old. Reliable? Up to a point Lord Copper. I've had two of them croak on me - one after 6 months (which I got replaced under guarantee) and the other after about 3 years. In my experience a ticking sound is an indication that the final appeal has failed and it is not long for this world. You'd better make regular backups while you still can. -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Real Audio Player
Stephen Kuhn wrote: Are you trying to install it as root, or as yourself? My earlier reply appears not to have been delivered. Installing as root - as always. -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Real Audio Player
Paul Smith wrote: Brett Lyon wrote: Where can one find a Mandrake rpm for Real Audio Player? Another idea, which I newbie executed this week, is to install the HelixPlayer or RealPlayer10 from https://helixcommunity.org/ I have download RealPlayer from https://helixcommunity.org/ and I have it already playing on my computer. Thanks to everybody who have tried to help me! I tried to do just that but it didn't seem to want to install. Does RP8 get in the way? I'm running 9.2 (it ain't broke - mostly - so I ain't gonna fix it just yet). -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Real Audio Player
Hoyt Bailey wrote: Have you tried 'urpmi RealPlayer'? [EMAIL PROTECTED] graham]# urpmi RealPlayer no package named RealPlayer I have now :-) -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] xfce4 Realplayer
Hi guys, Whenever I start Realplayer under the xfce4 window manager, it runs but I get no sound. Anyone know how to fix this? I'm running Mandrake 9.2 and Realplayer 8. Thanks, -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI - An infinity of Dependencies
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 18:52:14 +0100 Graham Watkins wrote: Yep, but it doesn't deal with the dependency question. It will, but you will need to have as sources 1) My site 2) 10.0 Main 3) 10.0 Contrib 4) PLF The easiest way is to use http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/, there you can set-up all the needed sources other than mine. Charles Hi Y'all, Just given my urpmi settings a thorough spring clean, added the full complement of source (including yours, Charles) and installed the latest xfce4. I now seem to have the full range of menus, icons (though file manager doesn't seem to be working this time) and settings. Thanks to everybody who helped, especially Charles, whose site is an invaluable resource for all Mandrake users. Cheers, -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] URPMI - An infinity of Dependencies
Having become convinced that something was fundamentally wrong with my installation of xfce4, I uninstalled the lot and attempted a fresh install via urpmi. It failed due to unsatisfied dependencies. Evidently xfprint was required. Installation of xfprint failed due to the absence of a2ps which failed due to the absence of I forget what but this loop continued until it was asking me for dvd libraries or something (I don't have a dvd) and I ran out of enthusiasm for the entire project I'm obviously wrong but I'd always thought that urpmi was supposed to take care of dependencies for me. Is there a way round this or should I resign myself to an xfce4less existence? -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compaq Pressario and Mandrake 9.2
RAT wrote: Hi, I'm totally new in Linux and kind of lost :) 1st - the modem in my laptop doesn't work. Ok, it's WinModem, but I search several forums and find some solutions. I've figured out that I have Conexant chipset and found a driver at http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/ but it's not for free and it doesn't even seems to work. Is there another driver for my modem which works? 2nd - my laptop has touchpad with scroll buttons. I also searched forums and I wasn't sucessful. I found a driver for my touchpad but it killed it so I had to go back to my PS2 driver. Any sugestions? OI! YOU'VE HIJACKED ME BLEEDIN THREAD!! -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI - An infinity of Dependencies
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi Have you tried added Charles Edwards list to your URPMI and using his Xfce4 RPM's? I have them installed here and they work fine for me. http://www.eslrahc.com Yep, but it doesn't deal with the dependency question. -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4
Hi Dudes, Thought I'd see what all the fuss is about with xfce4. Trouble is some things don't seem to work. Don't have any menus any more - is this right? Also the settings icon produces no activity. Trying to open settings from the command line with usr/bin/xfce-setting-show gets me No such file or directory so I guess I must be missing some files. Anyone know what I need? And finally (for now) the terminal icon doesn't work (although I can get a terminal by opening the manual and starting another shell). I like the speed and the simplicity but I do need to mess with it some to make it into what I need so access to the settings is a must. Grateful for any input. Thanks guys. -- Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4
Margot wrote: Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Dudes, Thought I'd see what all the fuss is about with xfce4. Trouble is some things don't seem to work. Don't have any menus any more - is this right? The menus should appear if you right-click anywhere on the desktop. Did you not find this, or is it not working for you? Not working for me I'm afraid. And finally (for now) the terminal icon doesn't work (although I can get a terminal by opening the manual and starting another shell). I had the same problem - it seems to try to call up a type of terminal I didn't have installed! Solution was to right-click on the icon, select properties, and change the command to konsole. Margot Thanks Margot, I'll try that. I've R'ing the TFM and there seems to be loads more stuff I don't seem to have. This is what makes me think I'm missing parts of the package. -- Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4
Margot wrote: Graham Watkins wrote: And finally (for now) the terminal icon doesn't work (although I can get a terminal by opening the manual and starting another shell). I had the same problem - it seems to try to call up a type of terminal I didn't have installed! Solution was to right-click on the icon, select properties, and change the command to konsole. Margot It worked - thanks. -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] soundcard woes
Rory wrote: I ran alsaconf and it's got me to the next stage. I now have sound!! If I run a CD, I can play music. However, the sound is drowned out with lots of white noise. I had similar problems to yours with 9.2. I solved the cruddy sound quality problem by adjusting the settings in kmix. If you open it up you'll find a number of sliding controlls labelled 0100 1001. I got good sound by switching the third and the fifth ones off (click on green light at top so it's dark). I have no idea why this works or whether it will work in the same way for you. -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word relationship.(Kinky Friedman - Greenwich Killing Time) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] soundcard woes
Rory wrote: Okay, thanks for the alsa-utils tip. Not sure why it was on CD4 if it's necessary to activate some sound cards. But, finding it via FTP solves that. It should install as a default. I ran alsaconf and it's got me to the next stage. I now have sound!! If I run a CD, I can play music. However, the sound is drowned out with lots of white noise. However, I can't hear trailers that I see playing at apple.com/trailers/ As well, I don't hear the sound start-up at the beginning. So, I made a nice, big step that time. But, still a ways to go. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I had similar problems to yours with 9.2. I solved the cruddy sound quality problem by adjusting the settings in kmix. If you open it up you'll find a number of sliding controlls labelled 0100 1001. I got good sound by switching the third and the fifth ones off (click on green light at top so it's dark). I have no idea why this works or whether it will work in the same way for you. -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word relationship.(Kinky Friedman - Greenwich Killing Time) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Shorewall VMware
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 April 2004 08:23, Graham Watkins wrote: Anyone know how to configure Shorewall so as to enable access to the Linux host by the W98 guest? As things stand, I can only see the host from the guest if I shut Shorewall down. In rules I have ACCEPT net:192.168.0.0/24,!192.168.0.1 fw all Thanks Anne - I'm trying to set it up using webmin. I'm not sure I got it right because I still can't connect to the host. It's sometimes the case (at least on my system) that the Windows guest takes a while to respond to changes in the firewall, so I'll leave it a while before crying for help again. Graham Watkins -- On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word relationship.(Kinky Friedman - Greenwich Killing Time) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Shorewall VMware
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 17:23, Graham Watkins wrote: Anyone know how to configure Shorewall so as to enable access to the Linux host by the W98 guest? As things stand, I can only see the host from the guest if I shut Shorewall down. You should be able to share the internet connection by enabling sharing of the internet connection in MCC; I've always NOT used the suggested bridging IP DHCP server in VMware and just assigned a nice old static IP with the gateway being that of the host system and then used IPTABLES to route as ICS would. Works fine for all my virtual machines. There's no problem with the internet connection. Perhaps I wasn't as clear as I might have been. IE found and used that from day one. What's confounding me is the network neighbourhood thingy where I should be able to see my linux /home/graham folder and my networked printer (which was the only way I could get a printer working with VMWare). Haven't had much time to mess with it lately but I think I need to tweak Shorewall as there is no problem when I switch that off. -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word relationship.(Kinky Friedman - Greenwich Killing Time) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Shorewall VMware
Anyone know how to configure Shorewall so as to enable access to the Linux host by the W98 guest? As things stand, I can only see the host from the guest if I shut Shorewall down. -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word relationship.(Kinky Friedman - Greenwich Killing Time) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone else get this ?
Poogle wrote: Subject is [newbie] is that your wife? (header info snipped) Got it, binned it, emptied bin. You've got to get up pretty early in the morning to catch me out with one of those. In fact it's best not to go to bed at all. Last Saturday, a friend of mine was checking his mail online from my computer and tried to open an attachment from an unknown source. Luckily, this being Linux it wouldn't open. When I'd finished beating him about the head with my stout stick, I impressed upon him that you never open attachments from somebody you don't know ESPECIALLY NOT ON SOMEONE ELSE'S COMPUTER Looks like Linux saved my arse once again. As regards this one, it's probably been relayed through someone subscribed to the list - although the header info means nothing much to me other than that the gov.au suggests a government agency of some kind. On my netscape webmail account I recently got a bounce message from the county authority informing me that a message I had sent to someone there contained a virus. I hadn't sent a message and had never heard of the recipient. I forwarded the message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but never heard anything more. Perhaps the use of goverment servers is a favourite spammer technique these days. Maybe it's a good way to infect a lot of computers Then again perhaps it's just coincidence. I don't really know what I'm talking about anyway. -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word relationship.(Kinky Friedman - Greenwich Killing Time) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Double Posting
Keith Powell wrote: Yesterday, I posted a request for help with automatic disconnecting from the Internet. Some time later when I next connected and checked my e-mails, it hadn't appeared on the list, but there was a message saying that it had bounced. So I sent it again to see what happened the second time. Later last night, there was still no sign of either message on the list. This morning, when I connected and checked, both the bounced posting and the second one were there, together with two replies from Robin and Hoyt. I got mislead with the message saying that my posting had bounced and I sent the duplicate too quckly. Sorry about that! That is the reason for the duplicate posting. Cheers Keith Strange that. I posted yesterday and got a bounce message. I couldn't be bothered to try posting again but later on the message appeared. Nobody replied so I can't be sure if anyone saw it but me. A glitch in the list software perhaps? Be interesting to see if I get a bounce on this one. -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word relationship.(Kinky Friedman - Greenwich Killing Time) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Double Posting
Keith Powell wrote: On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 12:50 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 07:36, Graham Watkins wrote: Strange that. I posted yesterday and got a bounce message. I couldn't be bothered to try posting again but later on the message appeared. Nobody replied so I can't be sure if anyone saw it but me. A glitch in the list software perhaps? Be interesting to see if I get a bounce on this one. I've been receiving these messages recently even when my posts appear just fine. Adolfo Latest Scores so far today! Messages posted to the list: 3 Messages appearing on the list: 3 Bounce messages received: 3 Cheers Keith And I've just been bounced again. -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word relationship.(Kinky Friedman - Greenwich Killing Time) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Double Posting
JoeHill wrote:
On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 17:02:15 +0100
Graham Watkins disseminated the following:
Nobody replied so I can't be sure if anyone saw it but me. A glitch in
the list software perhaps?
Be interesting to see if I get a bounce on this one.
I've been receiving these messages recently even when my posts appear
just fine.
Adolfo
Latest Scores so far today!
Messages posted to the list: 3
Messages appearing on the list: 3
Bounce messages received: 3
Cheers
Keith
And I've just been bounced again.
I've said it before and I'll say it again:
:0
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{
:0
/dev/null
}
;-)
I don't use any of the mailserver programs but I suppose I could set up
a filter in Moz to send them to trash.
(pause)
There I've done it. This one will test whether it works.
The spam's been really heavy lately, so I would imagine the 'lag time' in posts
showing up is just heavy traffic. I had a coupla days around the end of March
where I was filtering over 150 spam mails/day :-\
Don't see any spam these days. Mind you, I had to change my E-mail
address last September to stop the infernal stuff.
--
Graham Watkins
On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used
the word relationship.(Kinky Friedman - Greenwich Killing Time)
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Re: [newbie] Mozilla desktop icon dosent work
Hoyt Bailey wrote: I installed mozilla 1.6 from mozilla.org a tar.gz file. When engaged from the run-mozilla.sh script it works fine. Therefore I used the path to script as the command for the icon. It generates a flopping hourglass in the kicker but dos not start mozilla. What did I do wrong? At last a question that I actually know the answer to - I think mozilla 1.6 is installed in a different part of the folder forest to 1.4. Change the execute properties of the link to : /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla and all should be well thereafter. Cheers, Graham Watkins Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 06:18, Graham Watkins wrote: Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: Hey! I'm Irish! I don't drink beer or lager anyway. I like Cognac...That's about it for booze. Nowt wrong with Bushmills 12 Yr Old. C'mon - I can think of a few better than Bushies. stephen kuhn - owner There may be some as good ... but better? You'd better tell me in case I'm missing something. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word relationship.(Kinky Friedman - Greenwich Killing Time) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.
Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: If it wasn't for IBM you wouldn't be talking to us. Weren't they the first people to nail a typewriter to a television? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word relationship.(Kinky Friedman - Greenwich Killing Time) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 06:39, Graham Watkins wrote: There may be some as good ... but better? You'd better tell me in case I'm missing something. Glenfiddich, Glenmorangie, Balvenie, Bowmore... stephen kuhn - owner If we're looking at scotch, I'd have to disagree regarding Glenfiddich which tastes and smells of sick. I do have a fondness for the Madeira cask conditioned version of Glenmorangie. No experience of the other two. Can recommend Jura and Glenlivet though. I'd still argue that Bushmills 12yr old single stands with the best of them though. I guess it's like favourite text editors - very much a personal thing. -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word relationship.(Kinky Friedman - Greenwich Killing Time) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Firewall blocks off virtual network
I have set up with much toil, blood, tears and sweat, a VMware virtual network. However, this will only function with Shorewall switched off - not a desirable state of affairs, I'm sure you will all agree. The following output from dmesg seems relevant: Shorewall:OUTPUT:REJECT:IN= OUT=vmnet1 SRC=172.16.210.1 DST=172.16.210.255 LEN=113 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 DPT=631 LEN=93 Shorewall:OUTPUT:REJECT:IN= OUT=vmnet8 SRC=192.168.8.1 DST=192.168.8.255 LEN=112 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 DPT=631 LEN=92 My knowledge of Shorewall consists of little beyond the ability to switch it on and off. Could some of you good folks suggest what I need to do to enable the network without letting any intruders in from elsewhere. Thank y'all. -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word relationship.(Kinky Friedman - Greenwich Killing Time) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Possibly OT: CD Writer Drive Failure: Hardware Problem or Software Glitch?
John Richard Smith wrote: Graham Watkins wrote: Hi folks, My CD writer cannot read Data CDs any more. It either causes Konqueror to freeze or the entire system to lock up (with Num Lock and Caps Lock lights flashin) requiring a hard reboot. What has changed lately ? Did you change anything like bios settings? kernel updates? is the desktop icon well set up , can you mount and umount /mnt/cdrom try, in a terminal with a data disk in drive, mount /mnt cdrom (it's probably mounted already) if so umount /mnt/cdrom then, mount /mnt/cdrom then, ls /mnt/cdrom and see it it reads data. If it fails maybe the ide cable is not seated properly? not likely because you say it reads data in windblows. I think I would try removing the device form the system after that and remaking it with the CL in fstab but that can be risky. I'm assuming it has worked in M9.2 before. I just wonder whether the Xwindows display programme may be at fault, because of the konq gui involvement .Do you have any other hangups in other programmes? Is it just the writer when it hangs ? It has worked before in 9.2 - it's even worked intermittently over the last couple of days. I've changed the cable, but this doesn't seem to make much difference. I've now disabled supermount and am mounting cds manually from cl (I'll have to try my hand at bash scripts to cut down on the typing). Trouble is, when it doesn't work which is at least half the time, it can freeze the system solid. Hard reboots for Linux? That's almost unheard of!! As regards other programs, mozilla 1.4 crashes a lot and I have a similar cd problem (i.e crashing) when trying to run VMware. Nothing else so drastic as this though. I'm away for a spell, back in a few days. John Have fun. -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word relationship.(Kinky Friedman - Greenwich Killing Time) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Possibly OT: CD Writer Drive Failure: Hardware Problem or Software Glitch?
Hi folks, My CD writer cannot read Data CDs any more. It either causes Konqueror to freeze or the entire system to lock up (with Num Lock and Caps Lock lights flashin) requiring a hard reboot. fstab looks like this: none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 I'd admit the possibility that it was giving up the ghost (it's quite old) but for 2 things: 1) It works in Windows and 2) It plays and copies music CDs with no difficulty. Is there anything I can do or should I be looking at buying a new one? It's a Mitsumi C4802TE if that matters. I'm running 9.2 -- Graham Watkins Penguins are so sensitive to my needs Lyle Lovett Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Possibly OT: CD Writer Drive Failure: Hardware Problem or Software Glitch?
Josenildo Marques wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 17:25, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi folks, My CD writer cannot read Data CDs any more. It either causes Konqueror to freeze or the entire system to lock up (with Num Lock and Caps Lock lights flashin) requiring a hard reboot. Please notice this is a shot in the dark. Have you thought about getting it cleaned ? You say it's old and maybe its lens is a little dusty. One of those CD-cleaners would do the job. HTH Can't hurt to try I guess. Wheres the Jif! :) Seriously though, I'll let y'all know if it makes any difference. -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word relationship.(Kinky Friedman - Greenwich Killing Time) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
