Re: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 04:11, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 20 Mar 2003 4:55 pm, Miark wrote: Anne, What problems? I scsi-emu my DVD drive and I've never had a hiccup reading data CDs, music CDs, or with copying. Miark I seem to remember that if you did the install from that drive, there would be problems in that the software installer would not be looking at the right place to find the disks. I'd have to check back to see exactly what was said about this, but I think it was so. It's worth remembering that just about anything he wants to do can be done on that disk without scsi-emulation, so why risk problems? H, not sure about the software installer issue exactly, although I've never had a problem. However, I always make the following changes after I scsi emulate my DVD-ROM drive: (as root) vi /etc/devfs/conf.d/dvd.conf (then in vi):%s/ide/scsi/g :wq vi /etc/devfs/conf.d/rdvd.conf :%s/ide/scsi/g :wq service devfsd restart %s/ide/scsi/g substitutes all instances of ide in the file with scsi and ensures that /dev/dvd correctly points to your DVD drive. Btw, I initially began making this change for the benefit of Xine, not XCDroast or the software installer... I hope this helps, Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tar questions, ta
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 19:49, Michael Adams wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:21, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 06:16, Michael Adams wrote: 1. I backed up an old system and i made the mistake of using absolute paths. I now want to extract from this tar ball into my newer system. I want to extract individual files and want to place them in an 'extraction' directory. Can i do it? How? (if i get it wrong i could write over existing files) I like using the facilities within Konqueror as a file manager for handling TAR/GZ files - then I can just drag/drop files where I want them - irregardless of paths. Yeah, me too, but konq won't see .hiddenfiles in a tar. Konqueror will show .hiddenfiles in a tar if you select 'Show Hidden Files' under the 'View' menu. Just tested it :) Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] user mode linux question
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 00:24, Robert Wideman wrote: Are you talking about a chroot environment? Have you used UML? It sure doesnt sound like it. Do you know what Robert? This is a newbie list, so chances are he hasn't used UML... Please be a bit more patient with people on this list. I still haven't gotten over the id10t error statement that you made to someone on this list a while ago. With all due respect, if you can't deal with newbies on their level, stick to the expert list. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] user mode linux question
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 10:00, Robert Wideman wrote: And yes i do apologize about the ID10T thing. Apology accepted... I am not normally hyper-sensitive, but the ID-10-T thing really gets to me, as I work in a NOC providing 2nd and 3rd level support and the only time I ever hear this joke is when some know-it-all from the 1st level help desk is bitching about some poor user on the other end of the line. I just didn't think it belonged on a newbie list, that's all. Please, if I'm overreacting, forgive me. As far as the UML thing i just was like why the hell is this guy trying to help when he knows nothing about it?. I did appreciate it in the long run b/c people do what to learn and how to run stuff without paying for the real stuff (uml is a vmware alternative in a way). I don't really think the guy was trying to help with something he knew nothing about, more like he was trying to gain a better understanding of what your problem was. As far as the newbie level...I am not they great as far as getting on that level. That is one reason why i got fired from a call center is b/c i couldnt handle the intrepretting everything every minute for the customer who barely knew where the start button was. I really believe that job of the 1st level help desk person is much more demanding than many people realise, and although not as technical as some would like, it really does take a patient and empathetic person to be a good 1st level help desk employee. And we are not all such :) I do not bash someone for learning. If that is how i was interpretted i am sorry, it was not meant that way. Cool, let's move on and be happy :) For what it is worth I hope my apology is wanted. Well, an apology wasn't necessarily wanted or required. I have no right to go demanding apologies on this list. I just needed to get something off my chest, that's all. Thanks anyway. Kind regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Java...
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 10:20, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:59 pm, wrnash wrote: For mandrake 9.0 you can do the following After install of the bin you will need to link it to the java bin ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin/java /usr/bin/java Change j2re1.4.1_01 to what java you have installed. You can also just move the files over to the /usr/bin/java directory, as they are installed in a block, in what ever directory they get put. Or you can just add the new java directory to your path. Or you could do it the way it is done by default in 9.0, with the /etc/alternatives system... As root do: update-alternatives --display java you should get something like the following output: java - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/lib/kaffe/bin/java /usr/lib/kaffe/bin/java - priority 30 to add the new java to the alternatives system do (as root): update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin/java 40 The above is one line. Then 'update-alternatives --display java' should give the following output: java - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin/java /usr/lib/kaffe/bin/java - priority 30 /usr/lib/j2re1.4.1_01/bin/java - priority 40 man update-alternative will give you the inside scoop. Hope this helps Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GLX gears
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 12:15, Chuck Burns wrote: On Tue, February 4 2003 6:44 pm, civileme wrote: : On Tuesday 04 February 2003 02:38 pm, et wrote: : a post a few days ago got me to thinking, I would like to see what scores : different video cards and chipsets and mem give on glx gears : my Geforce 4, Nvidia drivers from the club, dual P3 1000, 512 mem : 4721 frames in 5.000 seconds = 944.200 FPS : 4738 frames in 5.000 seconds = 947.600 FPS : 4556 frames in 5.000 seconds = 911.200 FPS 1024x768x32bit as normal size. 4050 frames in 5.0 seconds = 810.000 FPS 4042 frames in 5.0 seconds = 808.400 FPS 4075 frames in 5.0 seconds = 815.000 FPS P4 1.6G, GeForce2 MX 32M 576M ram. 1280x1024x16bit - normal size NVIDIA drivers - 41.91 6722 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1344.400 FPS 7680 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1536.000 FPS 7653 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1530.600 FPS 7603 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1520.600 FPS 7677 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1535.400 FPS 7647 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1529.400 FPS 7600 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1520.000 FPS Athlon XP 1.2G, GeForce2 MX 400 64M 512M ram. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bugzilla (bitch session)
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 16:04, Miark wrote: Okay. Now can somebody tell me who I contact to make suggestions on wording and other usability issues? Try joining and posting to the cooker list. I'm sure they'll help you with Bugzilla, as well as listen to your suggestions on wording, usability and other beta release issues. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] text editing function required.
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 21:19, magnet wrote: On Sunday 02 Feb 2003 9:55 am, Benjamin Jeeves wrote: Perl will do it but you will need to make the scripted or there might be one on the net have a look On Sunday 02 Feb 2003 9:46 am, magnet wrote: I have a large text file containing thousands of url's, one per line, and am trying to find a suitable utility that will strip out identical lines and leave a condensed file. Can anyone suggest a good solution? Thanks :) Perl... hmm, didn't think of that. I know squat about writing perl so I'm off to google for a solution. Cheers for the *very* prompt reply Benjamin! :)) I've just done a little reading and it appears that this can be done very simply at the command prompt... try: sort filename | uniq sortedfilename Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I need help syncing my Handspring Treo USB with Linux(again)
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 06:57, ThinKer wrote: Sorry to be a pest by asking this again but this is really important in my Linux Evolution. One of the last steps in being windows free in my daily computing is my ability to sync my contacts, to-do and calendar with my PDA. I searched Google for Treo USB to sync with Linux and I found nothing useful. I am running Mandrake 9 (2.4.19-16mdk kernel) on a 500 Mhz PIII with 256MB RAM. I am using KDE 3.0.1 Desktop, Evolution 1.2.1 and would ultimately like to sync my Treo 180 USB with Evolution. I have Jpilot and KPilot installed but I haven't been able to sync with either of these programs. My PDA is a Handspring Treo 180 (GSM phone/PalmOS PDA hybrid). The Treo is running Palm OS 3.5. I need to use the USB connection to connect with my PC. According to WebMin, my USB is set to start at boot and is currently running. (MandrakeSoft, : usb,v 1.44) but I am not 100 % sure it is running. Any help/guidance/instruction on this would be greatly appreciated. A step-by-step set of instructions from begining to end would be a wonderful thing. The following is a post from the Evolution list. I know nothing about this (I don't have a PDA), so if you need more help, try joining the Evolution List at http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution Note that the author reports success syncing with jpilot, which you say fails for you, so perhaps you need to recompile the kernel with support for this before moving on. At least you know it does work... :) quote Now... let me see if I can remember how i did it ;-) 1. Syncing already worked between treo and jpilot, so the kernel support and pilot-link support was there and working... (that enough for many other e-mails). 2. downloaded gnome-pilot-0.1.71 source 3. applied the patches that came with the source rpm (gnome-pilot-0.1.65-synctype.patch gnome-pilot-0.1.70-noapplet.patch) 3. ./configure 4. make 5. make install even though I got errors on this... it did put a fresh gpilotd up in /usr/bin Note! I told tools/Pilot Setting/Devices that my device was a SERIAL device NOT a USB device ... go figure Then I fired up evolution, attached the treo, hit the hotsync button, fired up /usr/bin/gpilotd (as myself... not as root)... and watched all my contacts, todo's and calendar items update! -- John M Trostel [EMAIL PROTECTED] unquote I hope this helps. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem lights
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 20:56, Keith Powell wrote: On Thursday 23 Jan 2003 9:30 pm, John McQuillen wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 02:30, Keith Powell wrote: I have been investigating the Gnome desktop, and have been trying to get the Modem Lights applet working to use it for dial-up. I can't get it to work. When I click on it, nothing happens. It gives pppon (without the speech marks) as the connect command. I assume that pppon is a script, but it doesn't appear to installed anywhere. Trying to run pppon from a command line doesn't work either. How do I get Modem Lights to work, please? I can't find a help file for it anywhere. Try '/sbin/ifup ppp0' and '/sbin/ifdown ppp0' for disconnect. I still can't get it to work: I must be doing something very wrong. In the connect command box I have tried the following: ifup ppp0 /sbin/ifup ppp0 cd /sbin/ifup ppp0 I then changed the ifup permissions to 'me' as user and 'users' as group and repeated the above. Although as 'others' could run the script, it should have run without changing permissions. I then copied the ifup and ifdown scripts into the /etc/ppp folder and tried again. Again Modem Lights asked me if I wanted to connect and then just remained blank. The only way I can connect with ifup (and disconnect with ifdown) is to enter cd /sbin and then run ifup ppp0 (or ifdown ppp0) in a terminal. Sorry to bother you further, but have you any more advice, please? I don't know what else to try. You will have to allow normal users to run pppd. As Root, edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 Set USERCTL=yes Cross your fingers and try again with /sbin/ifup ppp0 in the Modem Lights connect box. I hope that works for you. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem lights
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 02:30, Keith Powell wrote: I have been investigating the Gnome desktop, and have been trying to get the Modem Lights applet working to use it for dial-up. I can't get it to work. When I click on it, nothing happens. It gives pppon (without the speech marks) as the connect command. I assume that pppon is a script, but it doesn't appear to installed anywhere. Trying to run pppon from a command line doesn't work either. How do I get Modem Lights to work, please? I can't find a help file for it anywhere. Try '/sbin/ifup ppp0' and '/sbin/ifdown ppp0' for disconnect. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Routing question
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 09:44, Todd Edwards wrote: I have a routing question. Todd, Please post this question again as a new thread and I'll answer it for you there... btw, if you don't know what I'm talking about, you may get an idea if you read your post (or this one for that matter) in threaded view. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Routing question
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 14:20, John McQuillen wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 09:44, Todd Edwards wrote: I have a routing question. Todd, Please post this question again as a new thread and I'll answer it for you there... btw, if you don't know what I'm talking about, you may get an idea if you read your post (or this one for that matter) in threaded view. Ooops, sorry, I see you had already created a new thread, thanks, I'll answer your question there. Kind regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Routing question
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 00:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a routing question. I need to be able to relay information transparently from one network card to another. I have wireless equipment that connects to an ethernet card, however it can only communicate with that card. I need to be able to connect the wireless radio to one network card in a mandrake box, and a cat 5 cable to a nic in the same box. I need the information to pass transparently from one card to the other (prefer with the same ip subnet) example these 2 cards installed on the same machine eth0 192.168.0.10 eth1 192.168.0.20 all information that comes in on eth0 is relayed to eth1 and all information that comes in on eth1 is relayed to eth0 Any help will be appreciated. Is this possible? What you need to do is to create a bridge. First check that your kernel config includes support for bridging: cat /boot/config|grep -i bridge should return (CONFIG_BRIDGE=m or y ) Next, install the bridge-utils package: urpmi bridge-utils Then create the bridge using the program brgctl from the bridge-utils package: 'brctl addbr name' where name can be anything you like. Then add the two interfaces to the bridge: 'brctl addif name eth0' 'brctl addif name eth1' The bridge interfaces should have no ip address: 'ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0' 'ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0' You can then assign an ip address to the bridge for management: 'ifconfig name IP Address' Let me know if this setup works for you. If it does, create a small script to execute on startup that creates the bridge for you every boot. Kind regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Default Browser
On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 10:37, Rich wrote: I recently upgraded from Mandrake 8.2 to version 9.0 and everything went smoothly. My problem is that Evolution 1.2.1 doesn't load a browser when a link is clicked. The problem may be that I can't find anyplace in Mandrake to assign a default browser. Is it possible that I missed it, or has it been removed as an option? You need to change the default browser in GNOME. gnome-control-center Go to 'Advanced' - 'Preferred Applications' then select 'Custom Web Browser' and enter the command line for your preferred browser. Mine is currently 'mozilla %s'. Regards John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD region killer
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 15:34, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: Dear Stephen, Friends, I did delete all file in dvd_disc_2215_css and re-extract the tar file. And then I did below instruction: - [root@localhost dvd_disc_2215_css]# l COPYING dvd_disc.c dvd_disc_.o dvd_file.h dvd_udf.h README.dvd_disc RE dvdbackup.c dvd_disc.h dvd_file.c dvd_udf.c Makefile README.dvd_file re [root@localhost dvd_disc_2215_css]# ./configure bash: ./configure: No such file or directory [root@localhost dvd_disc_2215_css]# make make: *** No rule to make target `../dvd_css', needed by `dvd_udf.o'. Stop. [root@localhost dvd_disc_2215_css]# make install make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop. [root@localhost dvd_disc_2215_css]# -- Did I do something wrong? Hi, You have the same archive as I do, yet mine works... Hm. Check your Makefile... is the second line as quoted below uncommented in your makefile? # include this only, if dvd_css modules is available #UDF_SOFT_CSS=1 It should be as above (commented with a #) if you don't have the dvd_css sources (which you don't). Make sure the above line is commented as shown and do: make clean make That should be all you need to do. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] apache on 2nd machine?
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 14:50, Jerry wrote: OK, I'm hoping this is possible Main computer: windows 98se with ICS 2nd computer: Mandrake 9.0 Connection: Main: 2 NIC's. one to the cable modem (no router) and one to connect via crossover cable to the 2nd box 2nd: 1 NIC connected via crossover cable to the main computer. Objective: to run apache from the 2nd computer not just on the local network but also on the internet. Other info: using a dynamic DNS service from no-ip.com, using their update program for linux machines on the 2nd computer it resolves (i think it's resolving it... it doesn't give much output) to the main computer's IP (that of the cable modem) can this be done? You will need to set up port forwarding on your Windows computer. If you port forward port 80 on the main computer to port 80 on the 2nd computer, all http requests will be transparently forwarded to the 2nd computer. A bit of Googling found a free app to help configure port forwarding with ICS on Win98: http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/ics/icsconfiguration.htm Let us know how you go. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Region killer for DVD drive
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 15:59, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: Dear Friends, Anyone knows where can I get/download the region killer for my Pioneer DVD drive ? http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvd/dvd_disc_2215_css.tar.gz You will need to 'make all' once you untar the archive. Then run regionset. Your dvd drive will have to be /dev/dvd, otherwise, specify the dvd drive at the commandline (eg. ./regionset /dev/hdb) Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi and autofs
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 20:26, Milos Prudek wrote: Hi, Instead of supermount, I use autofs. It works great. Except for urpmi and rpmdrake. Both urpmi and rpmdrake fail with similar error message about device automount(pid1474) not found. pid1474 is the PID of automount process. I use automount as well with zero problems. I don't, however, use the default configuration. Rather than accessing my mounts with /misc/mountpoint, I change the /misc in /etc/auto.master with /mnt. This gives me /mnt/mountpoint as I am used to. To deal with the issue of browsing to a non-existant directory under /mnt (until it is accessed), I use a symbolic link in the root directory, eg. /cdrom which points to /mnt/cdrom. I have had no issues whatsoever with this setup. Urpmi and RPMDrake work flawlessly. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Simple (???) email question
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 01:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Kuhn writes: On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 09:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two linux boxes connected to an Ethernet hub. In the /etc/hosts file on each computer I have the IP address, fully qualified name (for the local domain) and alias of the other machine. I can ping and FTP the other box without a problem. But if I try to email the other box, the email sits in the queue and eventually I get an error message saying the domain couldn't be found and the message is undeliverable. I thought that by having an entry in /etc/hosts the mail program would query the other computer to see if there was an account on that host to receive the email. Do I really need to set up one of the computers as the server on such a simple network? You have to make sure that POP3 is running as a service. pop3??? my understanding of pop3 was that the emails were held on a remote server until you retrieved them. I wanted to send an email directly from box A to box B. I didn't want client B to have to retrieve email being held on server A. As well, you're going to have to double check your POSTFIX configurations as well. I actually left the postfix configurations at the default, since the comments within the config file said it would get my hostname and domain through system variables ($HOSTNAME and $HOSTDOMAIN or something like that) I guess I could fiddle with the postfix settings too... You don't need pop3, this will work between the postfix daemons of the two boxes... however, for reasons I haven't yet bothered to investigate, postfix now maintains its own hosts file and resolv.conf. You need to make sure that your /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf are the same as /var/spool/postfix/etc/hosts and /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf. That should fix it. You should really only have to mail user@alias (/etc/hosts) to successfully send mail between the boxes. But without a valid resolv.conf, you won't be able to send mail outside either. 'postfix check' will let you know if these files are out of sync. Hope that helps, Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] External Hard drive on Parallel port.
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 16:08, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 09:17, Dennis Myers wrote: A friend gave me one of those cases that you can put a spare hard drive in and it uses a parallel port connection. It is generic and has no FCC # on it, but the box says it works for hard drives. Anyone have any idea how to access it to format and read/write to it? It runs on a seperate power supply and shows up in hard drake as an SBLive joystick. ( I think). Is this thing useless or what? Any help is appreciated. If you don't have the parallel IDE support in the kernel (i.e. module) you're not going to be able to access it properly. Check if you've got that module (lsmod to view loaded modules) and see what's listed as parport (parallel port). If you DON'T see any modules for the parport, you might try loading 'em (insmod parport_pc, insmod parport) and trying again... The parallel port IDE device module is paride Read the documentation /usr/src/linux/Documentation/paride.txt for detailed usage. Especially note that you should set your BIOS to use EPP mode rather than ECP mode for your parallel port. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Write command directly to modem?
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 23:04, Ray Henry wrote: So, got it working. Now just have to figure out why it can't detect a dial tone. It's somewhere in software... Modem responds to all commands except dialing out... :/ I have often experienced problems with modems not detecting a dialtone here in Australia, and I have always just told the modem to ignore it. If there's a dialtone, there's a dialtone, it doesn't matter whether the modem can detect it or not... In kppp you can just uncheck 'wait for dial tone before dialing', or try changing 'atdt' in your dial string to 'atd/' Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] External Hard drive on Parallel port.
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 16:08, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 09:17, Dennis Myers wrote: A friend gave me one of those cases that you can put a spare hard drive in and it uses a parallel port connection. It is generic and has no FCC # on it, but the box says it works for hard drives. Anyone have any idea how to access it to format and read/write to it? It runs on a seperate power supply and shows up in hard drake as an SBLive joystick. ( I think). Is this thing useless or what? Any help is appreciated. If you don't have the parallel IDE support in the kernel (i.e. module) you're not going to be able to access it properly. Check if you've got that module (lsmod to view loaded modules) and see what's listed as parport (parallel port). If you DON'T see any modules for the parport, you might try loading 'em (insmod parport_pc, insmod parport) and trying again... The parallel port IDE device module is paride Read the documentation /usr/src/linux/Documentation/paride.txt for detailed usage. Especially note that you should set your BIOS to use EPP mode rather than ECP mode for your parallel port. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] about to give up
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 20:09, greg wrote: O.K. ALL some good developments here. Excellent! Just what I like to hear :) I have set up my modem to a static setup. This obviously meant that my windows xp and red hat systems would not connect to the internet after setting it. This was o.k., all I did was go in, change the settings from dhcp assigning, to a static address. This gave me a chance to check the details that I have been giving mandrake to access the internet. In both wind/rh an ip of 10.0.0.1, gateway of 10.0.0.138 and dns of 10.0.0.138, with the netmask set to 255.0.0.0, got them working again no problems. Now, in Mandrake, I set up the system with static as well. Setting all the details as above, it now activates the eth0 device normally at boot. This means it was only failing before due to the dhcp allocation failing, not the device itself. So now eth0 is up when I boot into mandrake. BUT, it still didn't connect to the net. I re-ran the wizard, and re-set the details again, and it connected! It was accessing web sites no worries, and I received a couple of emails as well. I re-booted the computer, and tried to access again. It didn't connect, so I ran the wizard again, and again it connected o.k. On the third re-boot, the same happened, and I re-ran the wizard, but this time, and all attempts thereafter, it just won't connect to the net at all again. So what is happening here? I now know everything is correct in regards to details, the eth0 device is coming up o.k., and windows and red hat work o.k. with the static settings. Mandrake definately has a bug in it somewhere. You have a triple boot system here right? Only one nic? With one address? Otherwise, it sounds a bit like an IP address conflict. If not, we need to look at the config files... Forgetting about the wizard, as I think it is buggered, where can I manually set all the details in the appropriate config files for networking and internet. If I new exactly the initialisation process of mandrake, I could just go in and set it myself, and hopefully this would work. Surprising that it actually connected two times, and now it won't at all, hey!! At least I know I am nearer to the solution than I was this morning, thanks to you guys. Can you please post /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and /etc/sysconfig/network? Joeb, you mentioned the other day something about you having an idea what may be the problem. Something about modifying the net.conf file to remove the GATEWAY= line, and possibly something else. Did you have a chance to follow up on this by any chance mate? In your case, Greg, you need the GATEWAY= line, as your Mandrake box is not the gateway, the router is. You need to tell Mandrake where to send all packets addressed to unknown destinations (to the default gateway). Getting close... Kind regards, John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] about to give up
Hi Greg, This is getting to be a long story, so I'll only include the essentials from previous mails... If interested, here is what is in the modems internal software: PPP (VPI 8, VCI 35) ipa ipa 150.101.208.30 255.255.0.0 eth010.0.0.138 255.0.0.0 loop127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 auto DHCP domain name :lan hostname: user 10.0.0.1 Okay, we have an external address (150.101.208.30) and an Internal address (10.0.0.138). Do you have 10.0.0.138 as your default gateway on the Mandrake box? In /etc/sysconfig/network you should have 'GATEWAY=10.0.0.138' and 'GATEWAYDEV=eth0' When installing Mandrake, I have selected (when setting up net/internet) the ethernet option, and selected bootp/dhcp instead of entering any details. This is how Red Hat is configured (ethernet connection/dhcp) and works no probs. After this, booting into MK9, internet does not work. When it is booting, the detection of eth0 fails. Running ifconfig in MK9, shows up only the lo details, and eth0 is not running. Is your RedHat 8 installation running its own DHCP server? Do you have any messages in '/var/log/messages|grep -i dhcp' on the Mandrake box? As a result, obviously no connection. Does not matter how many different ways I configure the connection through the wizard, it still does not work, even when I select ADSL, and choose DHCP. If I run ifup eth0, it fails. When I run 'ifconfig eth0 -pointopoint 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0', it brings eth0 up, but still does no good, and when I run the internet wizard, if knocks eth0 out, and puts it down again. M, the way I read the -pointopoint keyword in the docs for ifconfig, what you are doing here is attempting to set the address for the other end of the link. Now, I haven't been following this thread until now, so I'm not sure if you've been told specifically to use -pointopoint, but I don't think that this is doing what you want... When I bring up ifconfig in RH8, these are the addresses that come up: eth0 inet addr :10.0.0.1 Bcast 10.255.255.255 Mask 255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 lo inet addr : 127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0 To me that suggests that RH is using 10.0.0.1 as gateway. If I'm wrong, please someone correct me. Here, RH is 10.0.0.1, the gateway should be the internal address of the router, which is 10.0.0.138. Please note with the above, that when running ifconfig eth0 -pointopoint 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 in mandrake, the 'UP BROADCAST RUNNING' section has a word 'NOTRAILERS' in it. Does this have a critical part to play?? This is one difference between the RH8 and MK9 ifconfig display. Google tells me that NOTRAILERS means that the interface doesn't support trailer encapsulation. Don't ask me what that means :) I don't think it is important here, however. Anne, as far as I know, the eth0's address is automatically assigned? (dhcp) and being the only device on the network in redhat, it gets an address of 10.0.0.1. The router/modems address is 10.0.0.138. I use this address (when eth0 is working) in my browser to get into the configuration of the router. This brings up the routers menu (which is web site design based) to configure everything. Forgive me from snipping from here to the end, but I think that the main problem here is DHCP. Your router needs to get its external address by DHCP from your ISP, but if it is also serving DHCP to the lan, you could have a conflict if you are also serving DHCP in Mandrake. This may not be the case, however, but I would try the following: Turn off dhcpd in Mandrake and let your nic get an IP address from the DHCP server in the router, if it has one... Otherwise, set a static IP on your nic of 10.0.0.1 and make sure that your gateway is set to 10.0.0.138 and dev eth0. I hope this helps, Kind regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] about to give up
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 23:44, Dale Kosan wrote: No. I think the problem is the nic is not initialized. He said he was seeing initizing of eth0 failed error... If the nic fails to get an address because of a dhcp error, won't initialisation of the interface fail? It's not clear from the posts the exact error message, only that on booting it fails to detect eth0. Is there an error message, or is this conclusion based on the fact that eth0 is not listed in ifconfig output after booting up? I can't find anywhere in my past logs any mention of the term initialize with a case insensitive search for my Realtek 8139 nic. I am now using an SMC USB ethernet device and I don't get initialize messages for it either. If it works in RH8, I really can't see that Mandrake 9.0 is broken to the extent that it wouldn't detect a working nic. Anyway, we won't know until we here more from Greg... By the way, I had some corrupted mail from the beginning of this thread, so I may be missing some vital information. Please forgive me if I am way off track. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kppp help required - SOLVED
On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 08:20, Michael Adams wrote: The computer on 56k MoDem connected ok to the net but web pages were not fetching. I guess this was because the IP request was not sending the correct IP address for my computer but was sending a default address (0.0.0.0). (Correct me if this is wrong John). Not quite. It wasn't that you were sending a default address. The routing table is specific to your computer and network. Without getting too technical, it works something like this: If you wished to send a message to another computer on your network, say from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.2, your computer begins reading the routing table from top to bottom and stops once it sees that the network 192.168.0.0/24 is on interface eth0. After a further process of finding the specific machine to send to (which I won't go into here), it sends the message through eth0 to the destination. But what happens when you want to communicate with someone outside your network? In the case of the Internet, you can't have listings in your routing table for all the networks out there, so you have a default gateway defined in your routing table, which says, 'if you don't know where this network is, send it here'. The route to the default gateway is the default route, and the default route is notated as 0.0.0.0. It is always the last route in your routing table. All the computers on your network that are not connected to the Internet require a default route that points to the computer that is connected to the Internet. On the computer that is connected to the Internet, you require a default route that points to the Interface that is connected directly to the Internet. In your case, you had a default route and gateway defined in /etc/sysconfig/network pointing to eth0 and kppp was refusing to replace it with a default route pointing to the Internet when it came up. By getting rid of the previous default route, kppp was able to give you a default route (0.0.0.0) to the Internet on interface ppp0. I hope that helps, Kind regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate forsettingup amailserveron9.0?
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 03:32, Jordan R. Thompson wrote:
Now, I am reading the installation instructions:
2. Edit the pop-before-smtp-conf.pl file to customize it for your system.
***
I assume it the one in /etc.
***
Look for this:
# Set the log file we will watch for pop3d/imapd records.
#$file_tail{'name'} = '/var/log/maillog';
If the mentioned file is not the correct one that your email server uses to
log when someone has authenticated, you can uncomment the second line and
tweak its value (note that the code immediately following these lines might
find your logfile automatically -- it searches for several other values).
***
I could not find any file that looks likely... I am running postfix, but
could not find maillog in var/log or anywhere else! Do I need to
reconfigure something in postfix?
***
No, uncomment the second line, as mentioned and it will find your
logfile automatically, or else set it to /var/log/mail/info which is
your mail log file.
Regards,
John...
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Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate forsettingup amailserveron9.0?
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 04:04, Jordan R. Thompson wrote: OK, so maybe its /var/log/mail/info (I'm guessing.) Next it says to set the $pat variable: OK, I'm lost. I am using Postfix, and have no idea what the custom DB style or dbpath is. I also don't get what I am supposed to do with the $pat variable. Here's what my pop-before-smtp-conf.pl file has: # For UW ipop3d/imapd and their secure versions. This is the DEFAULT. #$pat = '^(... .. ..:..:..) \S+ (?:ipop3s?d|imaps?d)\[\d+\]: ' . #'(?:Login|Authenticated|Auth) user=\S+ ' . #'host=(?:\S+ )?\[(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)\]'; 1; What am I supposed to do with that!? Leave it at the default. ie. don't uncomment any of the pat lines and you should be right. Nearly there :) Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kppp help required
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 15:21, Michael Adams wrote: We are now the proud owners of three Mandrake-Linux computers in a two person house. My trusty P3-500 on 8.2, the old p1-100 on 7.1, and now a new cheap preloaded beast (well kitty) from DSE here in New Zealand running 9.0 download. Tried connecting the new one to the net and am having results sort-of. It connects but refuses to load a web page. I am resonably certain it is not DNS resolution because the reported automatic servers both match the ones i am using on this box. From this /var/log/syslog (below) i wonder if the fault may be that the address supplied by the ISP over the 56k link is not being used when requesting pages and that the default localhost address is? Any ideas apreciated. Nov 20 12:01:05 localhost pppd[9589]: pppd 2.4.1 started by gaeil, uid 1001 Nov 20 12:01:05 localhost pppd[9589]: Using interface ppp0 Nov 20 12:01:05 localhost pppd[9589]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ham Nov 20 12:01:05 localhost /etc/hotplug/net.agent: assuming ppp0 is already up Nov 20 12:01:09 localhost pppd[9589]: not replacing existing default route to eth0 [192.168.0.1] Try replacing GATEWAYDEV=eth0 in /etc/sysconfig/network to GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 and remove GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx altogether. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for settingup amailserveron9.0?
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 04:47, Jordan R. Thompson wrote:
I got pop-before-SMTP as suggested, but I can't find any documentation for
it. I am afraid to install it without any documentation as it may do more
harm than good until I get it configured right. Does anyone have
documentation on this or can send me their configuration files? I am using
postfix.
Try this (attached)
Regards,
John...
Darron Froese [EMAIL PROTECTED] provided this excellent and clear
tutorial get-started-quick procedure for pop-before-smtp. Bennett Todd and
Wayne Davison have made some changes to keep it up-to-date with the newer
releases.
Please send criticisms and corrections to the popbsmtp mailing list:
URL:http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/popbsmtp-users
Please send thanks and kudos to Darron Froese, whose creative work this
document is. (His home page: http://darron.froese.org/ .)
--
This *is* the easy way - it actually doesn't get any easier than this.
Do these things:
1. Install the necessary perl modules that pop-before-smtp requires.
If you want to install the perl modules as RPMs, take a look at the script
in contrib named getfromcpan. It fetches the perl modules, turns them into
RPMs, and then (if you run it as root) installs them. (I prefer to build
the RPMs as a non-root user and then install the RPMs manually as root.)
The script works either way because it looks for your ~/.rpmmacros file to
determine what topdir to use.
Note that some systems already have pre-built packages for some or all of
these RPMs already available, so you might want to check your distribution
CDs or your favorite RPM/Apt site.
For the non-RPM way, run these commands as root:
% perl -MCPAN -e 'install Time::HiRes'
% perl -MCPAN -e 'install File::Tail'
% perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Parse'
% perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::Netmask'
That will install the necessary Perl modules from CPAN automatically -- as
long as you have Internet connectivity and a Perl that knows about CPAN.
2. Edit the pop-before-smtp-conf.pl file to customize it for your system.
Look for this:
# Set the log file we will watch for pop3d/imapd records.
#$file_tail{'name'} = '/var/log/maillog';
If the mentioned file is not the correct one that your email server uses to
log when someone has authenticated, you can uncomment the second line and
tweak its value (note that the code immediately following these lines might
find your logfile automatically -- it searches for several other values).
Take a look at the $pat definitions in the pop-before-smtp-conf.pl file
and uncomment the one for the mail server that you're running - if you're
running Linux it's probably going to be the $pat denoted by: # For UW
ipop3d/imapd (this is also the default if no $pat is uncommented in the
config file). Make sure you uncomment all the lines from the $pat =
start down to the nearest ';' for your pattern of choice (this is usually
2-3 lines).
If you're using Postfix and need to use a custom DB style or a different
dbfile path, feel free to edit that into the file as well.
If you're not using Postfix, you'll hopefully find your SMTP software
mentioned near the end of the config file. Comment out the preceding =pod
line for the section you want to enable.
3. Test the pop-before-smtp daemon.
Run this to ensure that your $pat choice is right:
% ./pop-before-smtp --config=./pop-before-smtp-conf.pl --debug --nowrite
--reprocess
(That should be all one line.) You should see messages about what IPs the
script finds and which ones it considers local and non-local. (Press
Ctrl-C to abort the script when you've seen enough.) If you didn't see any
IP mentions, either you don't have any POP/IMAP connections in the file, or
you don't have the right $pat variable uncommented. Check the maillog file
manually to see what's up and then retest until things look good.
4. Install the script and its support files.
Run these commands:
% cp pop-before-smtp.init /etc/rc.d/init.d/pop-before-smtp
% cp pop-before-smtp /usr/sbin/
% cp pop-before-smtp-conf.pl /etc
5. Start the pop-before-smtp daemon:
% /etc/rc.d/init.d/pop-before-smtp start
Verify that the DB file has been created. If you're not sure where to
look, run pop-before-smtp --dumpconfig and look at the dbfile value.
The actual created filename may have a suffix on it (such as .db), so
append a '*' on the end of the name when you look for it. Some examples:
ls -l /etc/postfix/pop-before-smtp*
ls -l /etc/mail/popauth*
This file should have a fairly recent modification date (as it should have
just been created).
6. Setup your SMTP software to look for this new DB file.
For Postfix:
Look in your /etc/postfix/main.cf for smtpd_recipient_restrictions --
add this somewhere into that line:
check_client_access hash:/etc/postfix/pop-before-smtp
If you don't already have an smtpd_recipient_restrictions in your
main.cf, add
Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting upamailserveron9.0?
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 09:45, Jordan Thompson wrote: By default Postfix will only relay mail for users on the local network (to avoid spammers taking over your mail server). So without having to do *anything* you are pretty secure. (By relay, I mean accept a mail and forward it on to another mail server) Well, the reason I set this up was so that I could use my server from _anywhere_. I use pop-before-smtp for this. Mandrake RPMs can be found using rpmfind.net. The home page (popbsmtp.sourceforge.net) doesn't appear to be available right now. Anyway, pop-before-smtp allows your server to relay for users who successfully authenticate via POP. I use this successfully to host mail for my family. You will need to set the mail client to log in before sending mail for this to work. Kind regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network help
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 02:09, L.V.Gandhi wrote: PC2 IP address 192.168.1.1 PC1 IP address 192.168.1.2 PC3 IP address 192.168.1.3 PC4 IP address 192.168.1.4 network address is 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.249 Hi there, I suggest you visit the archives (if you don't keep your mail) and re-read the following message (and replies) contained in a thread you started here earlier this month: http://www.mandrake.com/en/archives/newbie/2002-11/msg00724.php Now, if the netmask you quoted above is merely a typo, kindly disregard this post :) Otherwise, please understand that what you are trying to do with your netmask (which should be 248 in any case) is totally unnecessary in your situation and you should stick to a classful mask (255.255.255.0) if you don't have a thorough understanding of IP addressing. If you insist on subnetting your network, please understand that the tightest mask that you can use on a 'C' class network requiring 4 host addresses is 248. I'll leave it to you to explain to me, why that is the case. If you don't know, do a little reading on TCP/IP and then try to explain your error. You won't believe how much it will help cement your understanding of the subject :) Sorry if I sound like a school teacher, but you really need to be solid in the fundamentals to understand networking when it becomes a little more complex. Kind regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] networking advice
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 18:12, Erik Farnsworth wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 10:45, teddy wl wrote: 1.for connecting all your PC you need ethernet card for every PC. configuring the IP address ex. 192.168.1.0/24 if you do not understand the IP you must read the basic of TCP/IP or i sugestion to you, to enter this address for your PC's : PC 1 : 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 PC 2: 192.168.1.2 netmask same above PC 3:192.168.1.3 netmask same above PC 4: 192.168.1.4 netmask same above I'm a little confused here. with the example above (and I admit that I have never worked with a home network that included Windows machines)... I would expect to see: network base address:192.168.1.0/29 or 192.168.1.0 netmask: 255.255.255.248 PC 1:192.168.1.1 PC 2:192.168.1.2 PC 3:192.168.1.3 PC 4:192.168.1.4 broadcast address: 192.168.1.5 I have seen several examples of networking as stated above by Teddy...but don't understand how that setup would be 'legal' (in the networking sense) and would work properly. I would expect a netmask of 255.255.255.0 for each of the machines would indicate that each machine was authoritative for an entire Class C network. I plan to set up my own home network soon (no windows machines, but several linux PCs and a mandrake iMac and an OS X iBook)...and I want to do it correctly, but without 'overkill'. Could someone with networking experience add a few cents to this, please? There is no reason why you can't use an entire class C network at home for your 2,3 or 4 host network, besides, the private address range in use here is actually a class B (192.168.0.0/16) and there would be no problem using that either. It would just mean that you have one network and shit loads (256^2-2) of unique host addresses available. By using CIDR (Classless Inter Domain Routing) you ignore the native class of the network and adjust the mask to suit your requirements of unique networks/unique hosts. The tighter you make your mask (adding bits to the default class mask), the more unique networks you have available, while limiting the amount of unique hosts that you can have per network. By the way, your example is incorrect. A 29 bit mask (255.255.255.248) will give you 6 possible hosts with 0 being the network address, 6 hosts, and 7 being the broadcast address. The way I like to think of it is in lots of 256. 256-248=8, minus 2 for your network and broadcast addresses and you are left with 6 possible hosts. 256/8=32, so you would be able to have 32 separate networks with 6 hosts each. There is really no need to go to the trouble of subnetting to this extent, however, unless you have need for multiple networks. I hope that my explanation has been understandable :) Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XDMCP
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 19:06, Tony Castro wrote: Anybody ever use XDMCP to connect to their linux machines? Any advice for setting it up? Yes, I found the following article called 'Remote X sessions with XDMCP in four easy steps' on MandrakeForum and forwarded it to my local LUG recently. Works great! http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2237 Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Path Variable
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 08:30, Stefano Pogliani wrote: I created a file called java.sh in /etc/profile.d/ which contains the following lines: JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0_01 export JAVA_HOME PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH export PATH I decided that I would try to do this using the alternatives system (which Mandrake already uses for Java). This is what I came up with (using j2re1.4.0 from SUN). (as root)... - copy j2re1.4.0 directory to /usr/lib - run (one line): update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/lib/j2re1.4.0/bin/java 40 Now, Java 1.4.0 is the preferred alternative and I am keeping within the /etc/alternatives system. Perhaps Mandrake could look at providing a GUI for managing /etc/alternatives for 9.1? btw, if anyone can see a problem with this approach, please let me know. I've only just set it up, so haven't had a chance to test thoroughly. Regards, John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] offsite backup
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 21:40, William R. Nash wrote: Does any one have information on how to do offsite backup. I would like to backup windows and linux machines. I have a large SQL and exchange data base i would like to store off site. any infomation. Thanks Bill Nash Take the tape home with you? :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pause while on vacation
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 11:55, Roland Hughes wrote: I am going on vacation and need to turn it off for a while, or my isp will kill me, and I can not find out how. Sorry, I can't help you with how, but I'm sure they'll make it as slow and painful as possible :o) Good luck, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] root login
On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 13:04, Drake Zero wrote: I installed 8.2 a few days ago and I'm trying to login as root (I think that's what it is) from a command line from the KDE desktop. When I installed Mandrake I recall setting the root password but not a name. Is there a default name for use to login as root or will I have to install all over again (not a big deal)? If you have already logged in as a user and need to execute certain commands as root, use 'su'. 'su' will request a password. Give the root password and you will be root. Type 'exit' to go back to being a normal user. If you haven't logged in as a user and wish to log in to the desktop as root, (which isn't a good idea for many reasons), the username for root is...wait for it... root! Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Ripping with Man. 8.2 ?
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 22:53, Barran, Richard wrote: Grip will lookup track names for you, and has no limitation on encoding bitrates. On the downside, it doesn't seem to like reading from IDE CD-writers :-( although I got it to work in the end. Somehow. snip longest sig I've ever seen! That's funny, cause I find that Grip doesn't like my dvd drive and I have to use my IDE CD-Writer to rip from. mmm, interesting. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with Evolution
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 15:12, Miark wrote: Is that a new feature? I don't see that in the Evolution that came with 8.2. It is in the 'View' menu, not the 'Edit' menu, second section down. Make sure you're in a mailbox though, or you won't see it. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xcdroast help
On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 01:40, Gerald Waugh wrote: I can run xcdroast as root, but not as a user, I selected all (users) in the setup TABS sections Upgrade to xcdroast 0.98alpha10. From the xcdroast web site (www.xcdroast.org): Alpha10 is the long awaited release that adds multi session, CD-Text and experimental DVD support. The non-root mode is now also much easier to configure and there have been a lot of other improvements. I think that this might go a ways towards solving your problem. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I like this Mozilla1!
On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 05:00, Paul Rodriguez wrote: I have to say, I really love using Galeon. I never really saw the use in it till I tried it a little. It's just so much faster (being a gtk-native mozilla basically). And I really love having those quick search bars. But after downloading and installing the latest mozilla, galeon crashes as soon as I open it. I tried upgrading, but there were so many dependencies. And ideas? - Paul Rodriguez Try running galeon without soundwrapper and see if that helps. It solved my problems with Galeon crashing in every version. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Command-line command list
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 09:07, Michael Adams wrote: On Sun, 19 May 2002 09:44, Roger Sherman wrote: On Sat, 18 May 2002, Chris Ames wrote: Where should I go to find a listing of the command-line commands? I've been trying to copy the MP3's from the CD's that I burned over to a personal folder, but it buggers up rather often. Last time I tried, it gave me an error message when the file was at the end of being copied that it couldn't read the file. I tried it with another file and it happened again. I know that the command-line is more reliable than a GUI, plus I think it's a good idea to get to know the commands when in command-line anyway. I remember what CS does, but that's about it. snip I have a great book called Linux System Commands, by Patrick Volkerding and Kevin Reichard (MT Books) that I just can't recommend enough. It lists virtually all the commands, with a summary of what each does, along with the list of options, as well as what they do. It also lists related commands, and lists the DOS - Linux equivalents. snip All the posts you have received are good advice. Built into your system is some good documentation. For information about all the commands try man in a console. Specifically for your problem. man man - a manual on the manual man cp - the copy command man chown - changing ownership man chgrp - changing group ownership man chmod - changing the permissions (who has access to what) Slightly more awkward is info. It covers things slightly better than man. Typing info on its own gets a list of all commands (that have an info page written) with a quick description. Also at the top you get a little on how to drive it. Remember q and h and you can't go wrong. snip By the way, the alternative answer to this post is. man and info are your friends Another very helpful command (and perhaps more appropriate in your case) is 'apropos'. From the man page: apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard output. You need only specify a loose term to apropos to get an idea of relevant commands available on your system. eg: apropos directory turns up a list of commands relevant to working with directories. Apropos also turns up programming functions which you'll have to learn to ignore if you're only interested in system commands. Try it and you'll see what I mean. Very helpful tool! I hope this helps. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] - inetd.conf file?
Sorry about the signature tag, Fortune seems possessed sometimes. ;-) -- If you want to tame fortune for sig purposes, use 'fortune -s' to request a short fortune! Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: MS v. Caldera concerning DR-DOS
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 16:35, Brian Koppe wrote: Hey everyone, I'm writing a paper concerning the current MS trial and why the DOJ's proposal should not be accepted, and I am working on creating a historical understanding of the situation in the first few pages of my paper. I remember reading somewhere that it was proven that MS intentinoally coded Windows 3.1 to check to be sure the version of DOS it was running on was MS-DOS. Unfortunately I can't find this source anymore to use this information. If anyone knows of a source which states this, your help would be appreciated. Any other sources that you think may be useful are welcome as well. Thanks in advance! I think this must be what you're talking about... http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/7715.html Be sure to acknowledge Google in the bibliography! :) Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Supermount survey...
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 01:27, darklord wrote: I'm just curious, and would like to get everyone's input on Supermount. After running so long without it under v8.1, and now using it again under v8.2, well - I'm just about ready to disable it again. Can everyone just comment on whether or not they are using it, and maybe some pros and cons? Thanks! I had all kinds of trouble with supermount,then discovered autofs. It is so much easier and works perfectly. Here's how: (As root): supermount -i disable urpmi autofs (it may already be installed) You will then have three files in /etc. auto.master, auto.net and auto.misc. autofs by default mounts under /misc, but I like it to mount under /mnt as I am used to. So I made the following modifications to these files: My auto.master looks like this: /mnt/etc/auto.misc --timeout=10 /net/etc/auto.net --timeout=10 My auto.misc looks like this: kernel-ro,soft,intr ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux cdrom -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/cdrom cdrom2-fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/cdrom1 win -fstype=smbfs,rw,nosuid,nodev,username=x,password=x ://windows/c My auto.net is not changed from the default. So now I just type ll /mnt/cdrom and automount kicks in! Yay! :) Only thing is that /mnt is empty until the mountpoint is mounted by autofs. So in a programs file dialog you will usually have to navigate to /mnt then manually type cdromtab or cdromenter to have the mountpoint mounted and see the contents of the dir. With autofs being so easy, I have no idea why so much effort has been put in to supermount in the first place. As I said, it works perfectly for me. I hope this helps, let us know how you go... Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problems Installing commercial ver. 8.2
On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 16:00, Greg Pettiford wrote: So I check all of them, click Install, and get the following error message depslist.ordered mismatch against hdlist files It then kicks me back to formatting and choosing a mount point. I have a felling that it may be a bad cd from the retail package, but am unable to get back to the store yet to exchange it and see. Any thoughts people? I have had similar problems whilst upgrading in the past if I didn't format the /var partition. If you are formatting the /var partition then I'm afraid that I'm stumped! Regards John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting spare Ext2 Partition
The only problem is that the run time script saysmount local files system, mount fs type defaults not supported which seems to me that it does not like my defaults 1 1 , I first chose 0 0 ,with the same result , Can anyone suggest a setting that would be agreeable to the boot script, or what am I doing wrong here. Note the spare partition is just that , no OS. Compare the following two lines (tabbed for effect): /dev/hda7 / ext2defaults 1 1 /dev/hda9 /mnt/ext2-vol6 defaults 1 1 notice something missing? Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting spare Ext2 Partition
On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 01:32, John Richard Smith wrote: Compare the following two lines (tabbed for effect): /dev/hda7 / ext2defaults 1 1 /dev/hda9 /mnt/ext2-vol6 defaults 1 1 notice something missing? Regards, John... Hmmm, so there is. Later, Actually No, The implication is that I missed mnt/ off, but actually hda7 is the boot OS ,not the spare exts partition (hda9) which I want to mount in order to gain access to it. ext2-vol6 is a directory in /mnt and the access point to the partion hda9. Look again, In the first entry you have specified, correctly, the device, the mountpoint and the filesystem type. In the second entry you have specified the device and the mountpoint, but no filesystem type! That's why the system complains of unknown filesystem type 'defaults'. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
