Re: [newbie] Download DVD - MISSING FILES
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:39:39 + Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] are certainly NOT on the DVD I obtained commercially. The supplier said quote We simply download the iso and burn them for distribution [snip] Yes I have many files missing from my download edition, but they are all on the main mirrors so it's not much of a problem once you know to set up a main source. Thanks Peter, knew that, dun that :-) Thing is I'm on dial-up here and the thought of downloading more than 1900 files for a total of around 2Gb is not a real option either. (yes, I do know I don't need them all). Nevertheless it's very frustrating to have to continnually go online to obtain libraries and applications which you expect to be on a DVD which is supposed to contain better than 3500 files if the the file-count on the main repository is to be believed, I have taken other steps to rectify my shortfall, I merely intended to see if others on the list had encountered the same problem Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Download DVD - MISSING FILES
Hi all, Having, (finally), obtained a 10.1 Download DVD I have made what can only be described as an interesting discovery There are at least 1900 files MISSING from the .iso image. Amongst several others: glibc-devel-2.3.3-21mdk.i586.rpm, rpm-build-4.2.2-15mdk.i586.rpm, rpm-python-4.2.2-15mdk.i586.rpm, rpm-rebuilder-0.20-1mdk.noarch.rpm, rpmlint-0.62-1mdk.noarch.rpm are certainly NOT on the DVD I obtained commercially. The supplier said quote We simply download the iso and burn them for distribution Anyone else noted this Sorry to have my day ruined Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PPPD fails to connect [LCP Config-Requests timeout?]
On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 12:30:45 +0200 Robert Lucencic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, John. Still nothing. KPPP started PPPD, which now actually does something (receives!!!): Ok, [large snip] Let's go back to basics with a few questions. Why did you change from the external modem? They are usually very reliable. Have you ever been able to connect to your ISP using either of these modems from this machine using Linux or Windows? You have obviously run the following command (without the quotes) as root haven't you: 'wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf'. Would you do so with the external modem plugged in and turned on and paste the contents of /etc/wvdial.conf here. I think we need to see which modem is being detected by wvdial The other thing you need to think about is if you have kppp setup correctly. I've looked at the following webpage: http://www.vodatel.hr/index.cgi?menu_id=54 which shows the POP, SMTP and DNS settings for your ISP. Would you recheck them and I suggest trying with the DNS part set to manual so that the nameserver is clearly defined. Cheers John (NZ) pgpI5XnquLuZH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] PPPD fails to connect [LCP Config-Requests timeout?]
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 14:15:06 +0200 Robert Lucencic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all! I've installed Mandrake 10.1 Community Edition recently. I'm having problems with my modem connection to the Net. Modem dials and connects, pppd terminates 10-20 secs later, saying Oct 6 22:59:32 case pppd[7104]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0 Oct 6 22:59:32 case pppd[7104]: using channel 2 Oct 6 22:59:32 case pppd[7104]: Using interface ppp0 Oct 6 22:59:32 case pppd[7104]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS0 Oct 6 22:59:32 case pppd[7104]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x185fd023 pcomp accomp] Oct 6 22:59:59 case last message repeated 9 times Oct 6 23:00:02 case pppd[7104]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Oct 6 23:00:02 case pppd[7104]: Connection terminated. Oct 6 23:00:02 case pppd[7104]: Exit. My /etc/ppp/options: lock noauth noipdefault usepeerdns My Pap-secrets and Chap-secrets seem correct: # Secrets for authentication using PAP # client server secret IP addresses 'mylogin' * 'mojpswd' * mylogin * mojpswd I've tries both KPPP and wvdial, changed modem from USR 56K external to some Conexant HSFi V.92 PCI softmodem. Everything is the same. I have not editied any initial scripts manually, everything was created with Internet wizard from drakconf and KPPP. Can anyone help? Yup, edit your /etc/ppp/options file to reflect the following, your problem should(tm) 'go away' The lines in question are those beginning: icp and ipcp. Take a look at the descriptions in man pppd for more information. cut here lock debug noauth defaultroute lcp-max-configure 45 ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote idle 600 cut here Cheers John (NZ) pgp29d2Z6NQdK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] [HAB] Can't go to https site with either Netscape, Firefox, Opera
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:17:21 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 24 September 2004 05:00, MyEE wrote: Dears, Netscape, Firefox and Opera can't read any site that starts with HTTPS. They say The operation is timed out: This is true for Linux and Windows version of the above browsers. Unfortunately, IE has not problem to get HTTPS site. Can any one help? I ran into this problem a while back, it turned out to be due to a modem problem. In my case NO browser could access https sites ... If you can, substitute you modem - see if the problem goes away. Cheer John (NZ) pgpGaSKGPJunl.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] USB cardreader problems
This message is crossposted. Opsys: Mandrake 10.0 Official Here's the situation: We have a Kodak DC3200 digital camera which ises a conventional compactflash module for storage. Because we cannot connect the camera directly to computer, there seems to be now way of reading from the camera. Solution was to obtain a 6-in-1 USB cardreader. (DSE XH6747) This is where to problem occurs. The USB 'hotpluging' does work as shown by the contents of /etc/fstab below (watch for wrapping), however we cannot see the contents of the 32mb flash module (which we know to be good and to contain a bunch of pictures) when selecting the icon on the desktop as user nor as root. Of course the usual big but is inserted here - It works ok in WinXP :-( My computer shows the device as 4 separate drives I, J, K and L and the data on the card can be read and copied from drive I(eye) in the /dcim directory. I seem to recall there was discussion on this issue some time ago but haven't been able to locate any references. === /etc/fstab before reader insertion /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,ro,exec 0 0/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,sync,user,unhide,n odev 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 == /etc/fstab after insertion /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,ro,exec 0 0/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,sync,user,unhide,n odev 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host4/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocha rset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 == John (nz) .mimetmp Description: PGP signature pgpef6hAiF7MF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Richard Smith wrote: | Martin Foster wrote: | | On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:11:56 +0100, John Richard Smith | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | | Heres wanadoo's technical support reply to my email last night, | | Dear John, | | Thank you for your email. | | The 1470 is only needed if your caller identity is witheld - it | usually will not cause any problem whether the number is | witheld or not. | | If you have any further queries then please do not hesitate to | get in contact with us again. | | Kind Regards | | Wanadoo Technical Support REF:WOOTS | | | Original Message Follows: I'm | currently using, 147008089916080 147008089916164 | | But is the 1470 strictly necessary, | - | | And so I'm flabbergasted. Never would of thought it. But there | it is. | | | and so you think I should remove 1470 then ? | | I don't see any harm in removing it. | | However, I don't think that's what causing the problems. Have you | had a look at my other suggestions yet? | | OK, I've removed the 1470 prefix and am having less trouble, but | it's too soon to say, but I'm hopeful. | | I'm thinking if this holds up, then maybe the problem is that kppp | handles prefix numbers on the initial dialup but not subsequently | on redial due to a cutoff.Could that make sense ? Somehow it does | not handle the 1470 prefix on redial, but that of course does not | account for why I am getting poor email download in the first | place, that is, that I'm getting cut off during a pop3 download. | Wanadoo my ISP may be rationalising the use of their equipement, I | don't know, though I strongly suspect it, but they would hardly | want to cut users off mid email download. That I find unlikely. It | is not in their best interest. Especially high traffic user like | me. I maybe get 400/ 800 emails a day (about 1/3 is spam though) | and they want to get this traffic off their servers ASAP for | obvious reasons. | | I tried Stephens AT string, AT F C1 D2 E1 Q0 V1,it hung, Not | sure where to put ATH0 for the hangup string . I currently have ###ATH, | I'm to change that to ATH0 ?, I currently have hangup | response OK, presumeably leave that. John, What do you have in /etc/ppp/options ? Also, if you have wvdial installed, running wvdialconf will give you a pretty good initialisation string which you can copy into the modem options tab of kppp's setup. Cheers John (NZ) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFA8npN8a+rYf8pSJ4RAh6iAJ90NySPeeVEK84LAHs+bX4nzvC89wCfZpa5 ODQlphsX7s0TkDg2Go6GDD4= =t0wI -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Richard Smith wrote: | Martin Foster wrote: | | On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:11:56 +0100, John Richard Smith | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | | Heres wanadoo's technical support reply to my email last night, | | Dear John, | | Thank you for your email. | | The 1470 is only needed if your caller identity is witheld - it | usually will not cause any problem whether the number is | witheld or not. | | If you have any further queries then please do not hesitate to | get in contact with us again. | | Kind Regards | | Wanadoo Technical Support REF:WOOTS | | | Original Message Follows: I'm | currently using, 147008089916080 147008089916164 | | But is the 1470 strictly necessary, | - | | And so I'm flabbergasted. Never would of thought it. But there | it is. | | | and so you think I should remove 1470 then ? | | I don't see any harm in removing it. | | However, I don't think that's what causing the problems. Have you | had a look at my other suggestions yet? | | OK, I've removed the 1470 prefix and am having less trouble, but | it's too soon to say, but I'm hopeful. | | I'm thinking if this holds up, then maybe the problem is that kppp | handles prefix numbers on the initial dialup but not subsequently | on redial due to a cutoff.Could that make sense ? Somehow it does | not handle the 1470 prefix on redial, but that of course does not | account for why I am getting poor email download in the first | place, that is, that I'm getting cut off during a pop3 download. | Wanadoo my ISP may be rationalising the use of their equipement, I | don't know, though I strongly suspect it, but they would hardly | want to cut users off mid email download. That I find unlikely. It | is not in their best interest. Especially high traffic user like | me. I maybe get 400/ 800 emails a day (about 1/3 is spam though) | and they want to get this traffic off their servers ASAP for | obvious reasons. | | I tried Stephens AT string, AT F C1 D2 E1 Q0 V1,it hung, Not | sure where to put ATH0 for the hangup string . I currently have ###ATH, | I'm to change that to ATH0 ?, I currently have hangup | response OK, presumeably leave that. John, What do you have in /etc/ppp/options ? Also, if you have wvdial installed, running wvdialconf will give you a pretty good initialisation string which you can copy into the modem options tab of kppp's setup. Cheers John (NZ) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFA8SYo8a+rYf8pSJ4RAkKcAKDbY5iQCnD5fvKhj/vO6eU+2rRgYACdH3D/ 90W3pvQRG+EnH4KHvrWwUvo= =qVhp -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:46:18 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raffaele BELARDI wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: How to decypher dialupscript Where can I get a list of explanation of the messages the dial up window gives you in kppp ? John Not sure of what kppp prints since I don't use it, but V90 and older modems use the Hayes command set (i.e. AT commands), you can find explanation for example here: http://docs.kde.org/en/3.1/kdenetwork/kppp/appendix-hayes-commands.html raffaele Much obliged Raffaele,that was what I'm looking for, though I still have a few lines unexplained, this is what I'm getting after a particular recurrence like this, kppp logs on and emails download, then halfway through the process my ISP seems to cut me off, this causes kppp to redial with this error message, ATZ OK AT F1 V1 TERMINATION REASON.. NONE LAST TX rate N/A HIGHEST TX rate. 300 BPS LAST RX rate N/A HIGHEST RX rate. 300 BPS PROTOCOL N/A COMPRESSION. N/A Line QUALITY 255 Rx LEVEL 214 Highest Rx State 00 Highest TX State 00 EQM Sum. RBS Pattern. FF Rate Drop... FF Digital Loss Local Rtrn Count 00 Remote Rtrn Count... 00 V90 OK ATM1L1 OK ATDT147008089916080 NO CARRIER Question is why no carrier ? Immediately I redial she logs on as usual. This has now become a pattern. I don't understand the scale of report in the F's and the numbers, like Line QUALITY.. 255, is that good bad or indifferent. All my searches in google have come up with no detailed explanation, and although your suggestion is very helpful it isn't complete, as far as I can see. The basic questions I need answering are, Am I being cut off because my ISP is overloaded and needs to make room for others, Am I being cut off because of line quality or modem config. Am I being cut off because of software like guarddog(don't think so, but I'm not sure) etc. What do you have in /etc/ppp/options ??? John (nz) 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 Most Popular Programming Language in Linux
On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 20:54:00 -0400 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 08 July 2004 01:17 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Thursday 08 Jul 2004 3:16 am, Justin Grote wrote: RU That's true if you're deciding between C, Java and Ada, but many RU languages are very different. I'm sorry if I implied that. I meant in general. You could have written a connection graph from a network capture in C, and you could have written an expect-style script in Bash or C, it doesn't mean it'd be EASY or best-suited. Once again, right tool for right job. BTW, I am totally agreeing with you. :) And likewise a C vs. Java argument is largely religious, and there are other sets of languages that are similarly close to each other. I'm just glad that no one mentioned APL. -- cmg nor PL/2 John (nz) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Rights issue in ML10
On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 20:08:36 -0600 Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 July 2004 12:23, hackhound wrote: I had to reinstall ML10 due to hard drive crash over the weekend. Now I am experiencing tighter security than I used to when it comes to browsing directories in Konqueror or from the console. Previously I was able to see all directories in Konqueror from my user account. Some could not be accessed, and they had a little padlock icon to indicate so. Now Knoqueror will only allow me to access my home directory. I have no clue what I need to modify in my user account to regain these rights. Thanks much, Hackhound I had this happen to me once, and found that the permissions for a ton of files changed from my username to the numeric userid (and the wrong one at that). Since the userid was 502 (this was a while ago. Could have been 501, instead), instead of glenn, I was refused access. All of the affected files had the lock icon. I used Konqueror as root to change them to glenn, and all was well again. I frequently re-install due to making stupid experimental mistakes, and almost always forget the order in which I assigned my user accounts (7 of them) in the previous install and the UID/GID pairs get messed up as a result. I have my /home and /usr/local on their own partitions, and they are not formatted during the installation There is a easy fix for this and it's worth having this little script around. Just run the following script from /home as root: cut here === # fixusers - fix user uids and gids $ cd /home $ for U in * ; do echo $U ; chown -R $U:$U $U ; done cut here === It returns a list of the user directories as it progresses and takes around 30 seconds on my /home with around 8gig of data. Cheers John (NZ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Packages Installer
On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 17:32:28 +0300 EE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys/Gals I Installed freetype-1.3.1-20mdk.i586.rpm* I got few error but later I lost my menu System|Configuration|Packages|Install Package Any idea 'update-menus -v -n' (without the quotes) as root and user Cheers John nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Packages Installer
On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 13:22:03 -0400 Matt Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'update-menus -v -n' (without the quotes) as root and user Out of curiosity, what is the -n switch for? I did not see anything in the manpage. While trying it out, it seemed to create some different output to stdout, but that could have been because I was trying it out as a non-root user. Not sure other than that it appears to exit cleanly. I can't remember where I got the -n been using for what seems like years :-)) Cheers John (NZ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.
On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 08:16:25 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I think I made all the changes that were recommended. I still dont understand although I was able to contact my bank and access my account which is what really started all this. It appears that everything is now working. But I have some questions. I went into the welcome screen, Configuration and redone the internet portion. Reset hostname to: 68.89.250.128 Reset 1st DNS to:151.164.1.8 Reset 2nd DNS to : 206.13.28.12 Reset 3rd DNS to: 151.164.11.201 (provided by Tom) Rebooted the system. You didn't need to reboot, a 'service network restart as root will restart your network with the changed parameters. I'm still confused about why you set your hostname to an ip address '/etc/resolv.conf' didnt change? [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf search domain_not_set.invalid nameserver 192.168.0.1 nameserver 192.168.0.1 Just to try and help us understand a little about your setup could you post the results of both '/sbin/ifconfig' and '/bin/hostname' [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=68.89.250.128 NETWORKING=yes [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes WIRELESS_ENC_KEY= NEEDHOSTNAME=yes Cheers John (nz) 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
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:50:42 +0200 RAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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? For what is worth, I have no end of hassles with winmodems in laptops - there is quite simple if a little costly way around this hassle - It works for me everytime now and I 'look after' 8 laptops running linux. The answer is a PCMCIA modem card - about $US60 from the Shack and a whole heap of other outlets. And the PCMCIA interface is freely available as source or binary, in fact I think it's even on the 3-CD download set. Worth considering? I've had no trouble with dial-up with a Zoom V92 PC Card (Series 1003 - Model #3075, Check it out at: http://www.zoom.com/products/dial_up_pc_card.html 2nd - my laptop has touchpad with scroll buttons. I also searched forums and I wasn't sucessful. I found a driver for my touchpad but it killed it so I had to go back to my PS2 driver. Any sugestions? My Acer 653LCI has one of those touchpads and has worked out of the box with MDK9.2, ok the scroll buttons don't work but it is quite useable otherwise. I beleive there is a generic Synaptics driver which can enable the scroll buttons. However, IMHO it's seems simpler to use a 'standard' ps/2 or usb mouse. Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 10:15:42 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2004 09:08, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: As far as resolv.conf, if you are running DCHD, then the file should get rebuilt with the information from your DSL modem. But it is possible that you have overridden this. Could you post the contence of /etc/sysconfig/networks, and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0? (Also ifcfg-eth1 if you have one.) There are some logs in /var/logs that may help as well, but I don't remember exactly where Mandrake puts things, and you don't want to post /var/log/messages! Should I remove dhcp, since this is a single user desktop machine I have no use for networking unless necessary for other things. There is no eth1. No, you need it to configure the port to talk to your router. I don't have a router unless the DSL modem is acting as one. It is supposed to have a firewall? [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/networks cat: /etc/sysconfig/networks: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ Typo on my part - should be /etc/sysconfig/network cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no WIRELESS_ENC_KEY= NEEDHOSTNAME=yes [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ One thing I forgot to ask you - does your ISP use PPPoE? One way to check this is in Windows run winipcfg and check what interfaces you have. If you are using PPPoE, someone else on the list can probably walk you through the proper way of setting it up. Mikkel I don't have Windows installed but I don't think pppoe is involved. '/etc/ppp/resolver.conf' dosent exist the file '/etc/resolv.conf' does. [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=192.168.0.1 NETWORKING=yes [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf search domain_not_set.invalid nameserver 192.168.0.1 nameserver 192.168.0.1 I set this yesterday to the nameservers provided by sbcglobal but it always gets reset. I need a way to put the right nameservers in this file instead of my DSL modem. Hoyt, My /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 - which defines my local network, yours _should look somewhat similar, being in mind that the ip numbers may be different. [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.1.5 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ My local loopback network (ipcfg-lo) is defined like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo DEVICE=lo IPADDR=127.0.0.1 NETMASK=255.0.0.0 NETWORK=127.0.0.0 # If you're having problems with gated making 127.0.0.0/8 a martian, # you can change this to something else (255.255.255.255, for example) BROADCAST=127.255.255.255 ONBOOT=yes NAME=loopback [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ Yours should not be any different. This is what I have in /etc/sysconfig/network [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=pilot.localhost.localdomain NETWORKING=yes GATEWAY= [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ And is what I would expect to see in yours, There's something not right about your network setup (not wrong, just not right). In just about every network setup I've seen HOSTNAME has been configured as above ie. the name of the machine on the local network Have you considered re-running the network configuration from Mandrake Control Centre for both your local network and your DSL setup now that you have the parameters supplied by your ISP I don't have DSL (only dial-up) and my etc/ppp/resolv.conf contains ONLY the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ cat /etc/ppp/resolv.conf nameserver 203.97.33.14 nameserver 203.97.37.14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ While /etc/resolv.conf contains: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf search clear.net.nz localhost.localdomain nameserver 203.97.33.14 nameserver 203.97.37.14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ All of this stuff is initially setup when you do your network settings during installation. On my system /etc/resolv.conf is changed at every use, with what appears to be the content of /etc/ppp/resolv.conf being appended with a couple of blank lines then a commented line which says something like: # Temporary PPP, and then the content of /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. The appended part is removed when I disconnect. See if this helps any to nail it down, although I think re-running your network configuration wizards might be simpler than trying hit and miss edits to config files. But in saying this bear in mind what Tom Brinkman showed you in his responses in another part of this thread. Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to
Re: [newbie] router up Now?
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:33:54 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2004 11:11 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Okie Dokie I by brute force threats and vast quantities of beer have gotten my network up (partially) so far both units can connect to the net but not to each other. any help appreciated Connect the flubbergister to the quantum knot and turn on the power. You should now see the other side. Very carefully step through and you should be able to see each other now. No! No! No! You have to run the piddlemeister past the schmithousen before you connect the flubbergeister else the quatum doesn't knotrite Seriously though, I think we need a little more info to debug this, at least tell us what kind of beer you drank. Yeah, that should help. And even more important assure me it's at hasn't been buddied with frogs Cheers John (nz) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 07:03:10 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 06:44, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 05:47 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I have random resolver problems sometimes it works fine and others it times out unable to find the site I'm sitting on IE 'google.com'. Here is my '/etc/resolv.conf': [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf search domain_not_set.invalid nameserver 192.168.0.1 nameserver 192.168.0.1 I had commented 'search domain_not_set_invalid' previously. Can someone tell me what a valid search domain would be? Hi Hoyt, Search domain means that if you're typing a non FQDN, it will append the domain name you specify in /etc/resolv.conf. For example, if you set search mydomain.com, then when you type mypc in a browser, it will actually look for mypc.mydomain.com If you don't have a local domain, you don't need to specify the search... line in /etc/resolv.conf Your problem seems to be in the name server 192.168.0.1 Ok any ideas what I can do about it. Apparantly that was installed by 'sbcglobal.com' at least I suppose it was. Normally, (I think) you would insert the DNS numbers of your ISP's nameserver here: Which will be something like: 209.184.203.7 and 204.107.19.17 which O got from a lookup on WHOIS. Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT - music lovers beware
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/23/beastie_boy_cd_virus/ Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] What port scanning software is in use on the list?
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:57:37 -0400 Terence Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List, I'm thinking about installing portsentry on my box to augment my shorewall firewall. I downloaded the gzipped source and got some compile errors. Before I try to post to the developer, does anybody know of an rpm for that? Is there a better port scanning program? What do yunz out there use? See if you can find portsentry-1.1-3mdk.i586.rpm, it certainly works well with 9.2, don't know about 10.x. Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Loads of new ROX goodness...
On Sun, 16 May 2004 08:06:34 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2004 15:21:09 +1200 John Rye disseminated the following: ...saw someone in my logs using their noodle, though ;-) For once the noodle was in gear :-))) But ... I was really going after rox ... How the blazes does one get it into the kdm drop-down list?? The wiki refers to gdm only. On the other hand running 'rox' from the command line returns a messageabout the display not being found? I gotta be missing something here ... I think you might want to run ROX-Session, also available on the Wiki. Just urpmi rox-session - the rpm is in contrib. Thanks Margot, that did it Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Loads of new ROX goodness...
On Sat, 15 May 2004 21:21:17 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.orderinchaos.org/MakISO.tar.gz Whoops, that is of course: http://www.orderinchaos.org/MakeISO.tar.gz ...saw someone in my logs using their noodle, though ;-) For once the noodle was in gear :-))) But ... I was really going after rox ... How the blazes does one get it into the kdm drop-down list?? The wiki refers to gdm only. On the other hand running 'rox' from the command line returns a message about the display not being found? I gotta be missing something here ... Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Checksumming CDs
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 00:33:08 -0400 Guy Rouillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:20:10 +1200 John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone remind me ? I need to compute the md5sum of a cd before I duplicate it If you are doing this from Linux, then dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2k | md5um If you want to validate an .iso file before burning it, then substitute the file name for /dev/cdrom. That's the one, Thanks Guy Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Checksumming CDs
Could someone remind me ? I need to compute the md5sum of a cd before I duplicate it Thx John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] File Recovery Utilites
Could someone recommend a (preferably Linux-based) file recovery utility? I have 1.2mb of data on a damaged vfat floppy I desparately need to get back. Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing Second Parallel Port
I have need of a second parallel port to use my old parallel Epson GT5000 scanner. I've installed a Dolphin 2-port card which Harddrake lists as follows: Vendor: Timedia Technology Co Ltd Bus: PCI Bus identification: 1409:7268:1409:104 Location on the bus: 0:c:0 Description: SUN1888 Simple Comm. Controller Module: unknown Media class: COMMUNICATION_PARALLEL dmesg shows the following segment: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]# dmesg | grep parport parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: irq 7 detected parport0: Printer, Canon BJC-210SP parport1: PC-style at 0xe800 (0xe400) [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport2: PC-style at 0xe000 (0xdc00) [PCSPP,TRISTATE] lp0: using parport0 (polling). lp1: using parport1 (polling). lp2: using parport2 (polling). [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]# According to the documentation which comes with card I have to do the following steps: # insmod parport.o # insmod parport_pc.o io=0x378,0xe000,0xe800 irq=7,none,none But this is what is returned: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]# insmod parport.o insmod: parport.o: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]# insmod parport_pc.o io=0x378,0xe000,0xe800 irq=7,none,none insmod: parport_pc.o: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]# So I try: # insmod parport # insmod parport_pc io=0x378,0xe000,0xe800 irq=7,none,none And get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]# insmod parport Using /lib/modules/2.4.22-10mdk/kernel/drivers/parport/parport.o.gz insmod: a module named parport already exists [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]# insmod parport_pc io=0x378,0xe000,0xe800 irq=7,none,none Using /lib/modules/2.4.22-10mdk/kernel/drivers/parport/parport_pc.o.gz insmod: a module named parport_pc already exists [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]# Now it's obvious I'm doing something wrong ... but I can't for the life of me see what it is ... Can anyone point me in the right/correct direction??? Cheers John (nz) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LCP timeout sending Config-Requests
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:21:52 +
Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Rye wrote:
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 17:13:16 +
Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear All
I have everything configured on my computer to connect to the
Internetthrough Mandrake 9.2. However, I always get the following
message (in/var/log/messages):
LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
The username/password are not authenticated. Could somebody here
please help me?
first read the pppd man page ('man pppd' in a terminal) then edit
/etc/ppp/options to reflect the following, it should(tm) solve the
LCP timeouts.
lock
debug
noauth
defaultroute
lcp-max-configure 45
ipcp-accept-local
ipcp-accept-remote
idle 600
cheers
John (nz)
John,
Thanks! I did as you suggest, but no progress, unfortunately. Maybe, I
should buy a Ethernet modem...
I guess you mean external modem here? My spellchecker does this
too :-))
What type of modem do you have? Winmodem???
Does it work in any other operating systems you have access to?
Have you talked to your ISP?
Does your ISP have a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) which addresses
this type of problem?
I would suggest that if you are on dialup then an external modem is a
much more reliable option despite the bunch of extra cables it imposes
on you.
The other think to check is that your ISP' dns numbers and domain name
are listed in both /etc/ppp/resolv.conf and /etc/resolv.conf - like mine
below:
$ cat /etc/ppp/resolv.conf
nameserver 203.97.33.14
nameserver 203.97.37.14
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
search clear.net.nz localhost.localdomain
nameserver 203.97.33.14
nameserver 203.97.37.14
nameserver 192.168.1.2
Cheers
John (nz)
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Re: [newbie] LCP timeout sending Config-Requests
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 17:13:16 +
Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear All
I have everything configured on my computer to connect to the Internet
through Mandrake 9.2. However, I always get the following message (in
/var/log/messages):
LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
The username/password are not authenticated. Could somebody here
please help me?
first read the pppd man page ('man pppd' in a terminal) then edit
/etc/ppp/options to reflect the following, it should(tm) solve the LCP
timeouts.
lock
debug
noauth
defaultroute
lcp-max-configure 45
ipcp-accept-local
ipcp-accept-remote
idle 600
cheers
John (nz)
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Easy Urpmi
On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:27:55 + Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 31 January 2004 03:22 pm, Margot wrote: IIRC, the easy urpmi site has moved, no longer hosted at zarb. But urpmi.setup should list a bunch of mirrors (?). It won't list plf sites for the same reasons those packages can't be included in the distro. The problem is that urpmi.setup is looking to the plf zarb site to obtain the list of mirrors which is no longer there, so it fails. There must be some way to adjust urpmi.setup so it looks in the new place for the mirror list, but I'm afraid this is beyond my level of skill! Margot Just for you ;) I looked, Configuration | URL for Server list: There you can edit it. The nice thing about urpmi.setup is that it can be configured, then it adds the servers you choose for updates automagically, and names them main, contrib. Which can also be edited if you want to, say for instance, enable multiple mirrors. So it looks like it needs to be pointed to urmpi.org Thank you Tom. All up and running now! So what did you finally point it at? I've tried various combinations without success Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] strangness with PPP modem
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:47:54 -0700 Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:22:27 -0700 Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:39:42 +1300 John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:16:45 -0700 Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone offer insight into this situation: I am using MDK 9.1 and have an external modem on ttyS0 (com 1). 1. With KPPP I can connect as the user, but I keep losing my connection and it returns an error code 16 (the modem hung up). I don't have any hang up problems under windows98, it works just fine there. 2. With wvdial I can only connect as root. I also get hangups and error code 16. When connected with wvdial as root I can not see the connection as the user. Example, Mozilla can not connect to internet even tho the connection is active. 3. When I try to connect with wvdial as user I get can not open /dev/modem. device or resource busy even tho it is clearly not busy. As stated, KPPP can find and access the modem just fine. file/device attributes: /dev/modem lrwxrwxrwx 1 rootroot/dev/modem - ttyS0 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw 1 skippi tty 'skippi' is my user account. I'm not sure why ttyS0 is owned by skippi and not root. Maybe that is part of the problem? Any ideas or suggestions? Other things I should check? Thank you. Adrian Adrian, try editing (as root) your /etc/ppp/options to the following: # /etc/ppp/options lock debug crtscts noauth defaultroute lcp-max-configure 45 ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote idle 600 # eof The line beginning icp-max- is the one which reduced my error 16 hangups. My other suggestion is to copy wvdials' recommended init string into kppp and to increase the 'guard time' (in modem commands panel) to maximum (255). Increasing the other timeouts in the kppp config panels may also help. Cheers John (now if only I could get my pcmcia modem to work ) Hmm, thank you. I will give these things a try and see what happens. This problem is driving me totally nuts. Adrian Well, I might dare to say that after changing my /etc/ppp/options file to what you have in yours it seems that I am staying connected a bit longer, but still not for very long. Also increased all the wait times in KPPP. What exactly does this line 'lcp-max-configure 45' do? Can anyone translate? Take look at the pppd daemon manual page (type 'man pppd' in a terminal without the quotes) for the full description. Cranking the value of ipc-max-configure beyond about 45 is probably a bit pointless - it's there to increase the time available for authentication with your ISP.. I tried setting it to 145 and it seemed to time out faster. I'm going to try different values see what happens. Also try the google thingy. Ok - looking back I see I mis-read the error message being returned - It's 16 not 19 - this means your own modem is hanging up before the connection is established. As far as I can see there is nothing in the pppd options to control this time, but there is in the kppp setup. Go to kppp - Setup - Device and increase the Modem Timeout value to it's maximum (which I think is 120 seconds), see if that helps any. If that doesn't improve things your next option is to start fiddling with the S-registers of your modem. This is very modem specific and will depend on your particular modem AND whether you have the documentation for it's command set. I'm afraid that if you go this path you're pretty much on your own ... :-)) Try this out and see what happens. You might also be able, if you're ready adventurous, to increase the modem timeout value in kppprc if 120 seconds is still not enough - it's something I haven't tried - if I haven't connected within 2 minutes I tend to try again later on the assuption that the ISP's portals are overloaded. Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PCMCIA Problems on Acer Travelmate 653LCi Laptop
Hi Folks, I'm at the end of my tether with this thing :-)) Having been through (and through and through) the PCMCIA howto untold times and Googled for hours, I'm no further ahead in getting this thing to stick on a stock Mdk9.1 install The problem is getting the modules to load at boot, I can get the card recognised _only_ by modprobing ds, serial_cs and yenta_socket as root after the laptop as booted. I've always been under the impression that adding module names to /etc/modules would cause them to be installed at boot time I know I'm missing something really simple here but I'm dammed if I can see what it is. /etc/modules as follows: # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored. yenta_socket pcmcia_core serial_cs ds scsi_hostadapter == /etc/pcmcia/pcmcia # /etc/pcmcia/pcmcia # PCMCIA=YES PCIC=i82365 == /etc/modules.conf # /etc/modules.conf # alias tap0 ethertap options tap0 -o tap0 unit=0 probeall scsi_hostadapter usb-storage ide-scsi alias eth0 bcm4400 alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394 above snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss = Any and all help , assistance, pointers and even brickbats gratefully received ... Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] strangness with PPP modem
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:16:45 -0700 Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone offer insight into this situation: I am using MDK 9.1 and have an external modem on ttyS0 (com 1). 1. With KPPP I can connect as the user, but I keep losing my connection and it returns an error code 16 (the modem hung up). I don't have any hang up problems under windows98, it works just fine there. 2. With wvdial I can only connect as root. I also get hangups and error code 16. When connected with wvdial as root I can not see the connection as the user. Example, Mozilla can not connect to internet even tho the connection is active. 3. When I try to connect with wvdial as user I get can not open /dev/modem. device or resource busy even tho it is clearly not busy. As stated, KPPP can find and access the modem just fine. file/device attributes: /dev/modem lrwxrwxrwx1 rootroot/dev/modem - ttyS0 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw1 skippi tty 'skippi' is my user account. I'm not sure why ttyS0 is owned by skippi and not root. Maybe that is part of the problem? Any ideas or suggestions? Other things I should check? Thank you. Adrian Adrian, try editing (as root) your /etc/ppp/options to the following: # /etc/ppp/options lock debug crtscts noauth defaultroute lcp-max-configure 45 ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote idle 600 # eof The line beginning icp-max- is the one which reduced my error 16 hangups. My other suggestion is to copy wvdials' recommended init string into kppp and to increase the 'guard time' (in modem commands panel) to maximum (255). Increasing the other timeouts in the kppp config panels may also help. Cheers John (now if only I could get my pcmcia modem to work ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 boo hoo blues.
On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 03:16:24 -0400 James Henry Maiewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Thank you so much! Making the change in Mandrake Control center let Kasper the friendly dragon (does He have an official name?) come back, as well as stopping the automatic login. I never thought to go beyond the KDE control center. Thanks also for the tips regarding reinstaling. I am mostly ignorant of the ins and outs of HD partitions, but will do some reading and keep your advice in mind. I was planning on doing this anyway, as I was going to see if I could 'borrow' a copy of windo$ and install it on another partition (I only have one HD) in my further attempts at coaxing non-static sound out of my sound card. To answer your questions. I have a SBLive! mp3+ 5.1. When I first bought the computer, I thought that since I could play my CDs, everything was A-OK, but when I tries to play an mp3 once, my illusions were sorely shattered. I've tried changing permissions, drivers, arts/noarts(I guess arts is a KDE thing, and I really prefer KDE, but Gnome is no better). The closest thing to sound that I can get out of the card is louder static when I play a file (it is so frustrating to see the EQ levels dancing while I listen to hiss). As soon as I unmute the PCM slider, I open myself up to the possibility of a static attack (it doesn't seem to be predictable when it will come); moving the PCM slider makes a noise like an electronic version of corduroy pants; turning arts off seems to kill the noise as well. If there were one thing that I have read about but haven't tried, its using ALSA in OSS emulation. I have no idea what that is, or how one goes about doing it. That is really besides the point, I'll work on it slowly but surely and success will be all the sweeter. Thank you again. Jim, Do you have a cable between your cdrom drive and your sound card?? What you describe above seems to indicate that you may not. It's usually a skinny cable with a flat 4-pin connector at one end which fits to the flatish socket 4-pin connector toward one side at the rear of the cdrom drive. The other end will connect to some kind of header socket on the sound card - I'm not familiar with your card so can't help much there. Worth a look? John nz -Jim On Monday 02 June 2003 10:45 pm, Joeb wrote: When you did your upgrade, did you keep your existing home directory? If so, if you create a different user and log in as that user, do you still have the problems you refer to in your post? Very often, configuration files change between releases and the old configuration files in your home directory don't work properly in the new version. If the new user works correctly, you can try deleting the .kde folder in your home directory and logout and back in to kde (note, if you do so, you will lose all of your kde customizations you have done). With the .kde directory gone, kde will recreate the configuration files. When upgrading from one version to the next, my normal procedure is to rename my home directories to something else (like /home/mydir.old) then do an install instead of an upgrade (don't let the installer format / if home is on the / partition instead of a separate /home partition). In the installer, I recreate the users and then after the install is complete, I move back from the original directories, the files I want to keep (i.e. documents, emails, etc.). The downside to this method is that you lose any customizations that you have done to the windows manager (i.e. wallpapers, themes, etc.) Enough of all of that, in terms of your sound card problems, what type of sound card is it and does/did it work under 9.0? Also, to turn off the auto login at boot, you goto the Mandrake Control Center, select the Boot icon and select DrakBoot. Make sure to check the selection that says No, I don't want autologin at the bottom of the screen. If your MCC comes up like mine, you need to enlarge the window to see the OK and Cancel buttons, they don't show normally, but if you don't enlarge the window and hit one of them, you get a message about changes not being saved and they aren't. Hit OK to save the change. Hope that helps, Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kppp questions
On Mon, 02 Jun 2003 01:55:27 +0100 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been playing around with kppp. Two questions: 1. Are my frequent Mozilla crashes anything to do with the fact that I now have it opening on connect rather than manually? Are these 'crashes' or disconnects? If disconnects edit your /etc/ppp/options as follows (man pppd for details): lock# prevents other connects to the modem noauth# prevents authentication requests defaultroute# sets the current route to the IP lcp-max-configure 25 # this one helps with slow logon handshakes ipcp-accept-local # accepts local ip address as set by ISP ipcp-accept-remote # as above for remote address idle 600 # time in seconds before automatic hangup debug# Can't remember this one , bugger:-)) 2. Is there a way to get kppp to connect on startup? Not sure - I prefer to run it when I need it. John nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I think I found a bug..
On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 00:49:24 -0400 Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 02:46, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I think most of us have already seen this, mate. After you've completed your installation, you're supposed to update your software sources - some of us have chosen to just copy the three CD's locally to HD and never deal with slapping around CD's again...(and actually, it's a better bet that way...) -- OK How do i do that exactly? I'm sure someone posted instructions how to do this previously but I'll be damned if i saw it. :\ As root, 'rpm --rebuilddb' It's also worth running 'updatedb' and 'update-menus -v' after any application install. The first re-builds the database for slocate, and second will ensure your menus are updated. John nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will beignored
On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 20:32:02 -0900 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But really I have always felt trapped in these discussions. I don't Me too!! believe there is really enough common ground to compare them. emacs is easier to get started with thanks to the tutorial built in, and vi is easier to master. emacs is at the same time a desktop, a shell, a scripting host, and a basically crash-proof word processor (Yep I was around when computers worked with 64K memory and MINCE+SCRIBBLE / Final Word II/Borland's SPRINT was a going enterprise and crashes were frequent, and that bound me closer to emacs, cause I always forgot to save on WordStar). Hell Civileme that dates us :-)) remember Wordmaster too?? Wordstar!! Now that's still my fallback for massaging large text files. I still find it amazing that a 64k executable with overlays could handle 16mb even in the cp/m days!! It's also the only editor (sic) I found which could move text in columnar mode. Mind you I've never had to try this since returning to *nix. Besides, I have an affection for wheat on dark slate gray that always looks green to me... :-) Yeah but that's to do with snow-blindnes isn't :-)) John (nz) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GLX gears
On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:38:31 -0500 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 Athlon-xp 1800, 256mb ram, Geforce2 Mx 400 32mb, Solteck SL-KT400-A4 (VIA KT333) Stock ML9.0, using standard nvidia drivers from Xfree. Monitor at 1024x768x65k Default glxgears display gives: 1632 frames in 5.0 seconds = 326.400 FPS 1732 frames in 5.0 seconds = 346.400 FPS 1732 frames in 5.0 seconds = 346.400 FPS 1632 frames in 5.0 seconds = 326.400 FPS Expanded to full screen 300 frames in 7.0 seconds = 42.857 FPS 200 frames in 5.0 seconds = 40.000 FPS 200 frames in 5.0 seconds = 40.000 FPS 200 frames in 5.0 seconds = 40.000 FPS Cheers John (nz) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] C/L question
On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 07:31:21 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 02:15, Anne Wilson wrote: I see the following: chown [-R] [user][.][group] files from which I gather that a space goes after the -R, but not between the other components? What does the [.] stand for? Anne Here's a for instance chown -Rf nobody:netusers /home/shared_drive/* Take care with the recursive option (-R) on a directory structure. I recently got caught out big time and changed the ownership of my WHOLE /home (Only 8Gb!! and 7 users to fix - took days!!) This commandline _could_ do this too! Especially if being run as root. If you are intending only to change the ownership of the files _below_ /home/shared_drive you should omit the the training '/*' because any symbolic links you have in that structure could be followed into other structures!! Forewarned - Forearmed Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone using a Soltek mobo?
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:19:54 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 31 Jan 2003 1:50 am, John Rye wrote: I'm running Mandrake 9.0 on a Soltek SL-KT400-A4/7 Socket A board, Via KT133 series, running an Athlon-XP 1800 with no problems. Thanks for that. For your interest a good test of a mother board is to locate, aquire,steal, borrow or of coarse d/l Knoppix. Now that's an interesting thought. No good in this situation, because I'll have to buy it before I can test it, but a good idea for checking out existing older computers. Thanks. I mildly disagree Anne, if the vender needs or wants the sale they will want to find a way to prove their product does what they advertise. I guess it is a little more difficult if you purchasing from a remote source (as I was), but I was able to use a 'return on failure to perform' promise made by the vendor. (Do you have any consumer protection legistation you could invoke?) Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone using a Soltek mobo?
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:54:18 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read that there have been problems installing RH on Soltek mobos. Is anyone using one with Mandrake? Anne I'm running Mandrake 9.0 on a Soltek SL-KT400-A4/7 Socket A board, Via KT133 series, running an Athlon-XP 1800 with no problems. 1 x AGP Slot 5 x PCI slots 3 x DDR Ram for a max of 3GB USB Smart card reader And of course it's screened in a pretty irridesant(?sp?) mauve (This was the swinger for me!!) Only one 'however' and it's kernel related - to do with reassigning IRQs during boot up. The kernel deals with this and just carries on regardless. === For your interest a good test of a mother board is to locate, aquire,steal, borrow or of coarse d/l Knoppix. It's run-off-the-cd system. Real fast, Real Smart, Debian based (I think). I used it on the several boards I was 'offered' before I chose this pretty one. The test criteria was simply if Knoppix booted through sweetly and there where no issues playing with the many apps on the cd - then it was a in contention! Oddly, the Soltex and Gigabyte were the only ones which passed, NONE of the PCChips boards passed, price (and colour) ruled in the end! Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trojan alert - Australian IP (connect.com.au)
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:50:56 +0100 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not me. I know my mail is scanned automatically on the server for virusses, but I always get a warning, so no, it's not comming though this side. Are you sure it's the mailing-list that he's sending to? I didn't think I'd inferred they were coming thru the list. :-) they're not. This address is only used for maillist traffic, so it was a thought that maybe others on this list were getting them too. My ISP service doesn't do any scanning (says it's the enduser responsibility!!), so I filter everything suspicious elsewhere and take a wee peek now and then. Just as a statistic I've received 170 of these things since 15 December, 87 from the same IP group. I'm not very concerned as there's no chance they'll get executed - no windows in this cabin!! Cheers John Greetings Ralph On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:50:00 +1300 John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While on the subject of trojans etc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PCI Parallel Card
Anyone had experience with these devices? I have need of a second //port on my beast (AthlonXP 1.8 on a Soltek SL-KT400-A4/L Mobo running stock Mandrake 9.0) to run my ancient but reliable Epson GT-4000 scanner (with ADF unit). Works find when configured as a GT-5000) So I obtained a Netmos 9805 card and got it working out of Win98SE without too much hassle - but I cannot get it to work out of Linux. It's recognised in /proc/pci as follows: Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Communication controller: PCI device 9710:9805 (NetMos Technology) (rev 1). IRQ 19. Master Capable. Latency=64. I/O at 0xe800 [0xe807]. I/O at 0xe400 [0xe407]. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe007]. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc07]. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd807]. I/O at 0xd400 [0xd40f]. As I understand I need to 'insmod parport.o' and then tell 'parport' where it is. Problem is that when I do the 'insmod parport.o' I get: [root@numbnuts john]# insmod parport.o insmod: parport.o: No such file or directory [root@numbnuts john]# Where/How do I go about this?? And IRQ 19??? I always thought we only had access to IRQ 1 thru 15 I've been away from the hardware interface a bit to long maybe?? Any help would be greatly appreciated Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Star Trek Nemesis
On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 13:37:50 -0600 s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 05 January 2003 1:18 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: And just for the record...I love Deanna's large, brown eyes. Haven't noticed any change in her bust size, but those eyes are a winner! hope it don't break your heart to find out they were contacts. :) -s Contacts??? I didn'y know you could do _that_ with contacts!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: U.S. politics in Linux? Was: Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Which isbetter:KDE or Gnome?]
On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 14:22:19 -0600 Todd Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What gets me is that the whole Iraq thing is over the oil. There's still no conclusive proof that they have weapons of mass destruction, but we know for sure they have vast amounts of oil. In fact, the Bush administration has already divided it up amongst the oil companies. (primarily american I'm sure) It makes me want to puke. We know North Korea is making weapons-grade plutonium right now, but since there's no oil there, the Bush administration has decided to use diplomacy instead of bombing them. Hmm double standard? And what ever happened to Bin Laden anyway? Why haven't they gotten him? Most advanced military in the world can't find one guy? We've got sattelites that can find oil miles deep, but can't find one terrorist in a cave! GR! Sorry about the rant, but here I sit in the midwestern US, I was layed off in April 02 and I can't find a job, my unemployment has been cut off, the economy is going to hell, and this f***ing moronic administration is slowly taking away our rights. Pretty soon the only US constitutional right left will be to own a gun so we can blow our own heads off. I very seldom comment on threads such as this (although I do enjoy the content) While there are some subscribers who have some difficulty with these postings, I believe they do have some merit. So I sit here in the deep South Pacific watching and observing .. I have become increasingly frustrated with all the BS over Weapons of Mass Destruction mostly perpetuated by a news media which seems to longer bother to analyse the outpourings of political speechwriters! There is only one Weapon of Mass Destruction and to my almost certain knowledge that weapon was last used in August of 1945!! To include biological warfare systems in that definition is wrong, erroneous, incorrect and just plain silly!! These are certainly weapons of terror, (and should certainly be outlawed), however their usefulness in reality is doubtful. The 'agent' being used has to be able to 'hang about' .. Think about this ... You have to deliver a 'biological agent' by some means ... now you have to 'release' it ... now it has to 'hang about' for a while sos it can 'effect' a significant proportion of the target population .. So then, what about the effects of wind, heat, cold etc on these 'agents'. So what about our own natural immunities and the ability of our own immune systems to neutralise these 'foreign bodies' in our systems. I'm not biological scientist, but my general understanding of the effectiveness of all Natures' viruses, bugs etc is that they are able to replicate themselves inside of very narrow environmental margins. These 'biological weapons' are subject to the same environmental constraints as Natures' are!! And bear in mind that when these types of weapon where used during WW1 (1914-18) that there were as many casualties inflicted on the 'deliverers' as on the 'receivers' regardless of which 'side' was delivering or receiving. There is a very good article on this issue at: http://www.snopes.com/rumors/realdeal.htm It deserves some consideration by all of us. Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where is network?
On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 01:22:31 +0200 Can Baytan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Best list ever seen, Thanks Charles, Stephen, Jason, etharp, mousedrake with alt-F1 menu - run like charm. Now, I installed 9.0 with a single CD, a magazine promotion, I didn't see kppp, thinking kppp is in other CD's today I've DL'ed 3 iso's and burned, I've rebooted from fd0 and choose update packages, copying (but where) suppose to be done because my / df is increased from 23% to 37%, now AFAIU from this list there is no kppp on the 9.0 distribution(sheesh, also where is my pico, mc, XV), but when I run install packages, RPM db is not seemed to changed, locate wvdial gives a vim readme file thats all. This single CD 9.0 installation went perfect better than ever, except networking and sound as regular user (root plays jingling bells). Really feel strange a Linux without networking. kppp is in 'kdenetwork-3.0.3-15.1mdk.rpm' so 'urpmi kdenetwork' (less quotes) as SU should tell you if it's installed or not. wvdial is in 'wvdial-1.42-4mdk.rpm' so (again) 'urpmi wvdial' Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all AND Geek vswhatever
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 01:33:14 -0500 David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trimmed somewhat Take a look at /etc/security/limits.conf As I recall there is a parameter in there with has something to do with the problem you describe. Mind you this is from the land which holds the Americas Cup - STILL!!! Cheers John With that said, on to current problems I recently, against my better judgement and on advice given from someone on this list, performed an OS upgrade to fix a boot problem caused by altering my partition table. The problem is now fixed. I can boot without the boot disk now. BUT, this caused more problems: 1- I cannot su. error reads: su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted 2- I cannot mount or umount as user. ( I could before ) 3- I cannot run a program as root. error reads: GET THIS Incorrect password! Please try again. 4- I cannot log in as root on CLI, only in GUI - this makes ABSOLUTLY NO sense to me whatsoever I have no idea how to fix any of these. Any help would be most appreciated. David Bainbridge, GA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Capturing audio
Hi all, I'm looking for a usable program for capturing audio from my soundcard. I've hunted all over Freshmeat and Google but don't seem to be abble to find anything which compiles let alone works!! If it's of any help I'm running Mandrake 8.1, kernel 2.4.16. Biggest problem is locating the device file, everything seems to be looking for /dev/dsp but doesn't find it :-((( Any suggestions most welcome Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 192802ICQ#: 89345394 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] driver for Dell Trinitron
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 02:10:48 -0500 Elijah Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # Hi all, # # Does anyone know where I can find the driver for a Dell trinitron monitor? Driver?? I suspect you actually want the specifications - Yes?? Try looking at http://www.monitorworld.com They have a pretty good index. Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 192802ICQ#: 89345394 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:29:07 +0100 Mark Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm running LM 7.2 (usually with KDE). I've tried using DrakConf - Change Screen Resolution with no success. My hardware is listed in the dropdowns for both graphics card and monitor so I select them both Cirrus Login GD544x and Gateway 1572FS. I choose a resolution of 1024 x 768. Doing a Show Information displays the correct hardware AND resolution. Doing a Test again shows 800 x 600 instead of the configured 1024 x 768. It simply refuses to change to the required resolution. Mark, I had the same set of problems as you a few weeks ago, and didn't win!! Best I got was 800x600x16 and very poor definition as that. These cards seem to run well in Windows but the Linus drivers seem to be rather short. I swapped out to another card and solved the problem. Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826ICQ#: 89345394 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]Dialling out problem
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 04:24:06 -0700 (PDT) Adam Cripps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed and am looking forward to getting on the net with Linux. My modem - (COM2) seems to be working fine, but when it dials the ISP number I get a woman on the network (recorded voice) saying that the number has not been recognised, please try again. I think the problem stems from the fact that for the ISP (NTL - dialling in the UK) I have to dial a prefix of 1263 - it might be this that causes problems in the dialing process. Is there any way of getting a pause between the 1263 and the rest of the 0800 number? Adam, Your message above is a little confusing... Do you mean that you have to dial 1263 _before_ you can access the general telephone network?? If that's the case it would indicate that the first part of the number (1263) is used to get outside of a PABX (Private Branch Exchange) the internnal telephone system used by a business, and the recorded message comes from the PABX equipment rather than the General network. If you are calling from home, you would only use the 0800-number. If from your work, and your workplace uses a PABX then you have to use the first part as well. It may be that if you add a comma in the dial string after the 1 and another after the 263 part you will get through the PABX exchange. Your dialstring in this case should look like this: ATDT1,263,0800 xxx (the x's for the other numbers) Give this a try and come back to us. (you can also try dialing the nembers from your telephone to see what you get from which ever location you attemting to get access from - you should get noises similar to those you hear from fax machines when you connect to your ISP's modem Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826ICQ#: 89345394 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LILO and welcome screen
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:32:15 -0400 Valerie Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I also want to get rid of the blue welcome bitmap. If you find a solution off-list, could you please tell me? Thanx. Simplest way of doing that is uninstall aurora. As root: rpm -e aurora Should fix that bit. Hi there. I've been quietly testing 8.1 since the first beta. This is the first linux distro I've tried in many years of dabbling that I feel is compelling enough to switch to (from Windows.) I'm having several minor problems and have many questions. I thought I'd start with something simple =): 1) When LILO loads, I want to have a simple prompt (boot:) This used to be possible with LILO but I can't figure-out what to modify let alone how to midfy it to get rid of that colour menu. I figured out how to get rid of the text (by editing the message files), but how do I eliminate the colour box menu? 2) I run 1024x768x16bpp at boot so I can see as many of the boot-time messages on-screen as possible. Unfortunatly, that lousy blue welcome bitmap is in the way. How do I get rid of it? STIA for the help all. I'll be asking lots of questions to get things going well. :-) A comment about what happened in New York: the world is broken, and since everything effects everything else in the web of life, we are all culpable. Heal yourself, and you'll heal the world. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826ICQ#: 89345394 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Webmail Thingo for Apache and Mandrake. OT
On Fri, 07 Sep 2001 17:15:24 -0400 Isaac Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett wrote: I need a webmail type of access program for a server running Mandrake. It needs to be able to handle IMAP accounts. Also, it needs to work as thus. Someone logs in as- username - user pass - password When when they send mail in the program, it sets their return address as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Brett. This got posted in the middle of Jennifer's simple command line question thread for me. Did this happen to everyone? If so, is it because of something the poster did, something on the drake server, or what? This same issue has happened to me several times in the past. I'm using KDE on 7.2 and probably more relevantly I'm running Mozilla 0.9.3 (2001080104). Please let me know if this is/isn't happening to the rest of you so I can file a report in Bugzilla if it's just a mozilla mail issue. No, it's not a bug.. I believe it's the result of the poster (Brett) replying to that message and changing the subject line rather than posting a new message. The message id in the headers would place it where it wound up (in the middle of another thread). I use another mailer (Sylpheed) and I see the same thing frequently and tend to ignore it. It's really a case of how posters need to be a little more careful about how they go about starting new threads. Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826ICQ#: 89345394 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] downloaded packages stored where?
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 08:57:29 +1200 skinky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /var/cache/grpmi Hi all, Could some kind person please enlighten me as to where Software Manager stores downloaded update packages? I want to reinstall LM8.0 so I'm backing everything up to another drive but I can't for the life of me find the packages that I've updated via Software Manager. TIA skinky _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826ICQ#: 89345394 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] religion in Linux?!
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:04:48 -0500 Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Snip (ps: this thread could go south really fast, we should be careful not to translate religion to mean Catholicism or Protestantism or etc... religio means to link back and there is a reason why the word religion is used to address these themes that are much larger than Catholicism, Buddhism, etc... What I am getting at is becareful to think that there is a Christian sentiment running through Linux, but rather what seems religious is rather a play on ideas that represent the big primal themes and symbology that humans have had to deal with since the beginning.) Well done that man!! Ok hows about a bit of associated associations - (just to keep this thoroughly on topic g) MarkJohnson MarkPhysic Johnson Son of John MarkJohn Evangalists of Old JohnFisherman Fish water Water floats Floats bird Bird floats Floats swims Swims fish Fish food Foodfisherman fishermanfisherbird Fisherbirdpenguin! Now I hear that call - must off and make my ritual supplications to the severely handicapped avian which makes it life bearable by attempting to reduce the invasion of the genus picsae in disdain of the great distractors the god Linus. Morning all - had my coffee!!! -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826ICQ#: 89345394 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Programs
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 11:18:34 +0200 Mohammed Arafa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, nobody knows of a program that will install .tar automatically? Take a look at kconfigure you should be able to locate via freshmeat It's a nice GUI Cheers John - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 3:26 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing Programs I occaisionally download programs from the net for my box, however, some ti me the rpms are in rh6.0 or rh7.0 format. and that would mean they are optimised for the 386(?) cpu. Correct. An .i386.rpm is optimised for 80386. which means my only alternative for a good install for the pentium class wo uld be any tarball format. Or locate the rpm at http://www.rpmfind.net and select an i586.rpm file if it is available. he lp doing make, install whatever so i downloaded this command line tool ca lled alien that wil supposedly do the job automatically. Normally this is not so difficult. the sequence of commands I use is: /configure make su make install exit however, i want something like rpmdrake... with a gui... and admitedly i m a recovering windows user. This will only go a limited stretch, I think. RpmDrake can assist you in doing a lot, because it knows the installed base of files, and has access to a repository of what still can be installed. In what you want, the program should know of all there is to be installed, where to get it and be able to go out and fetch it too. Sounds too good to be true, almost! :-) i have been to www.kde.org and found kinstall (and yes its in .tar format) but am not sure about it as the reviews on it dont give it a 5 out of 5. Never looked at it/tried it... SO I was wondering if there was anything better than KInstall? If you run into it, please share the list :) Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826ICQ#: 89345394 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Realplayer sound defaults
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 18:25:30 -0400 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, My realplayer (basic v.8) keeps loading with the volume all the way down. In itself I can move that up to something audible when I load realplay, but the plugin for netscape and mozilla don't have a volume control. What do I have to do to make the setting stick? The file ~/.RealNetworks_RealMediaSDK_60 says that the volume is set to 97, but on load there's no sound until I move the slider up. Is this a bug in version 8? Paul. Have you run the mixer controls for your desktop?? I had to run Aumix (KDE) to get sensible sound levels on my system. The settings seem to be recorded in /etc/aumixrc globally and ~/user/.aumixrc locally. Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826
Re: [newbie] Monitor LG Studiworks 441
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 23:22:17 -0400 Aldo Caruso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.monitorworld.com/ There you'll find specs for most monitors Cheers Hi, I've just installed Mandrake 8 and I've a monitor LG Studioworks 441. Mandrake correctly detects the card (Intel 810), but when it attemps to enter X Windows the screen gets black. If I set, using, XConfigurator in console mode, 640 x 480 video mode, then I can enter XWindows mode with no problem. I think something is wrong with the frequency of the monitor. Is there a way of setting it ? Does somebody know which are the correct horizontal and vertical frequency for this kind of monitor in order to put it in 800 x 600 or 1024 x 720 mode ? Thanks in advance, Aldo -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826
Re: [newbie] Modem Configuration
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 19:18:22 -0400 Tom Malone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom, First off - Welcome to Linux OK then, a couple of points to start with.. You need to give us rather more information.. What kind of system do you have?? What kind of modem? (You are dual booting with Windows - I see that from your headers :-) Go to Control Panel -- Modems -- Properties (I think) and run the utility which looks at the modem's internal registers. From there make a note as to which Address and Port windows has the modem assigned to. Make a note of what the modems Identification string is. If that Id string or the modem labels in Control Panel -- Systems -- has the characters 'DSF' or 'HCL' in it - then you may have a software modem and it _MAY NOT_ (not _will_not_) be supported by Linux. This will mean maybe a different approach. OK Com Ports. In Linux the serial ports are labeled /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS1 and so on, /dev/ttyS0 is the equivilent of Windows/MsDos Com1: and so on. So you need to tell your dialer software where it it in the /dev/ttySx form. A side note to that, I suggest that you do not assign your modem to Com1 (/dev/ttyS0) as the is a chance that your mouse regardless of type may also be assigned there resulting in device conflicts. Nuf to start with?? Write direct if you wish - I shall echo to the list. Cheers John I am having a lot of trouble configuring my modem. One problem is that I have never used Linux before - today is my first day. I just got Mandrake 8.0 installed, and I don't know where to go to configure the modem. During install I told the configuration program that the modem was on COM2 (which i thought was correct, but i could be wrong) - other than that, I don't know what info I can provide to help anyone determine what I did wrong. I would be really grateful for any advice! TIA Tom Malone -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826
Re: [newbie] Dial-up error pppd daemon died expectedly modem settings
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 01:05:25 +0100 Minhaz at Telco4u [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This email was delivered to you by The Free Internet, a Business Online Group company. http://www.thefreeinternet.net --- John, thanks for sending me your modem settings. No problem.. I will compare this to my modem settings and amend accordingly. I noticed that your modem volume setting is M1L3, whereas mine is M1L4. Another user (like you and me receiving this Mandrake mailing list) also emailed me to changed my Modem volume setting from M1L4 to M1L3. I have not changed my Modem Command settings (except for the Initialization String and Guard Time setting). All other settings in the Modem Command settings (including M1L4) were automatically created. Did you have to change your modem setting from M1L4 to M1L3 or was it automatically created for you ? I will also changed the Hangup String option by removing the 3+ signs. I changed the hangup strings so that the file could be sent to you. You will need to put them back the way they should be. They should look the following but with '+' signs instead of the '' signs as shown here: EscapeString= this is 3 '+' signs HangupString=ATH this is 3 '+' signs followed by ATH I use Mandrake-Linux 8 and it correctly uses 'M1L3' to set the maximum speaker volume, so you should set yours to 'M1L3' as the other email suggested. Be careful about copying lines from my kppprc into yours - things like DNS numbers and so on will be completelt different. My /etc/ppp/options is exactly as sent previously, but here it is again. lock noauth defaultroute ipcp-accept-remote ipcp-accept-local idle 300 Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826
Re: [newbie] Switch between LAN and Modem Connection (2)?
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:44:09 -0400 Van Winssen Ramaakers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op woensdag 11 juli 2001 12:13, schreef u: It looks like I was too optimistic. I am still having problems with both LAN and modem based Internet connections. The modem has the priority at the moment. It is a US Robotics Sportster 56 Kbps modem. The modem worked fine under a Red Hat Linux 7.0 quick diagnostic install to see if it worked properly. With Mandrake back in place, it seems to respond both under /dev/modem and /dev/ttyS0 the later being where the modem resided under Red Hat. I am dialing into a pulse (not tone) telephone system, but under Red Hat, the modem worked fine regardless of whether the use tone button was active or not. I have tried changing the dial init from ATDT to ATDP, but am unsure as to whether this is the correct command. Isn't there an easier way of doing this? I had A non responding modem many times, and it was always A conflict with other hardware. Take out all the isa/pci cards and see if it works. Then put the cards back one by one, and you might try various slots. Also consider that your mouse may also be bound to /dev/ttyS0 regardless of type. May I suggest assigning the modem to something other than /dev/ttyS0 and giving that try. However, you may have to shuffle the serial ports in your BIOS as well. I have the same modem here - assigned to /dev/ttyS3 and can switch between tone and pulse with out any problems. Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826
Re: [newbie] Internet Security
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 21:57:44 -0400 Judith Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: S'ok - we've all been here at some point GGrin that had something to do with mail transport. So okay, some progress. At sdesign.com I had fewer ports open than I did before, but I'm still seeing open ports at 631 (tcp) and 6000 (tcp X11). Port 631 is your Cups printer Daemon and 6000 is part of your GUI setup I got the same results whether I went online as root or as user. How can I get those ports closed? Clear directions much appreciated! If you tell me exactly where to look and what to edit, I can do it, but I can't figure it out on my own. I'm not sure about the results of cups the port being closed, but as I understand closing the X11 port with have a sortakindlikeabit deretorious effect on your preference for the GUI (um - won't work) g It's a real ring-a-round - if you want to close/disable 631 completely, you might well wind up removing the cups systems and installing the 'old' lpr/lpd' system - others will correct me on this issue. I tried to run the interactive Bastille but I didn't understand the options and the explanations were much too sketchy. I don't like to make decisions like that when I don't understand what I'm doing. So I ran BastilleChooser instead and figure it's better than nothing. Why isn't Bastille on medium security closing all my ports? I agree with these comments. Part of the problem with many applications we try to use when we are unfamiliar with them is the on-screen instruction. Remember that very many of the applications developers do not use English (which-ever flavour) as their first language and as a result many messages are rather obscure. I don't have a work around for this. I use the firewalling which is accessed from the Mandrake Control Centre. It is a subset of Bastille and unless one is totally paranoid about security, I feel it is quite adequate for the 'average home user' (which included me). Have you taken a look at that yet, I know there's a great deal to learn here and I suspect that you, like many other on the list, will eventually get there. There are a good many books out there which are very helpful - one which I found useful when I was first starting was:Sams Teach Yourself Linux in 10 minutes which cost me about $US10. It's 200-page paperback which helps with much of the 'basic' stuff. If you want to get more detail then look at the O'Rielly titles in your local book-store. _BUT_ bear in mind that many of the books out there are written around the Redhat distributions and may not be exactly what you are looking for. Look at this way (Comment from mere male) The diff between RH and LM is much the same as the difference between a couple od say Microwave ovens - they do the same job - it's just that the controls are different. Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826
[newbie] Re: [expert] modem connection woes
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:38:18 +1200 syed irfan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have used this isp in NZ with mandrake 7.2 with a hardware internal modem, it woked like a breeze, now when i have switched to mandrake 8.0, snip Add the following in your /etc/ppp/options for a start: ipcp-accept-remote ipcp-accept-local These make sure that ppp and the remote accept what they see as 'gospel' You should also probably add 'noauth' and 'defaultroute' as well and set a timeout vakue such as 'idle 300' where the value 300 is in seconds. The other bit for NZ lines is set your modem initialisation string up. The three ISPs I use all seem to work best with the following: 'ATZD2C1K0M0#CLS0' Check with your particular modem documentation to see it all are valid. Cheers John (You may contact me direct if you wish) -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826
[newbie] Commandline for diff or similar function
I have two text files, one of around 900 lines and another of about 1600 lines. Both files have duplicated lines. I'm trying a get a third file which contains ONLY the unique lines from these two files. Initially it seemed that 'diff' would be the answer but for the life of me I cannot work out how to get the result I'm looking for. Could some give me a pointer? Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826
Re: [newbie] True Type Fonts in StarOffice5.2?
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 01:12:47 -0500 Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dual-boot LM 8.0/Win98 SE. Thanks to Mandrake, I've been using True Type fonts in Netscape and Mozilla since LM 7.1. Question: Is there any way to use these True Type fonts in StarOffice 5.2? StarOffice's print fonts are fine. They look very good indeed. But its screen fonts are atrocious. Can anything be done about this? Ben I was chasing this issue some time ago and found a font conversion ulity which would convert from ttf to adobe type 1 fonts. I'm sorry I can't remember what the name was but I located it via a Google search using font convert' or similar as the search key. Give it a try. Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826
Re: [newbie] Star office problem
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 10:24:37 +0300 ivan miranda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have installed a power pack version of LM8.Staroffice works fine,java okay,but the fonts...awafullhow can i correct this.Earlier,i have corrected the fonts problem in LM8 and the browsers,by removing the existing abisuite and installing a newer version.The second problem is that i have an HP5000 series laser printer on the network.The staroffice printer menu does not include this how can use this printer?The same printer was configured in cups is working fine(samba printer).Thanks in advace for the help Go to the options or printer prefs submenu and change the default printer to point to xpp - that works for me Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826
Re: [newbie] Problem with su
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 04:17:35 +0200 Amien Salie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm having a problem using the su command, this is the error i'm getting: File size limit exceeded This message is to do with user space quotas. edit /etc/security/limits.conf there is a line near the end which defines maximum user space, either comment it out or make the value very large Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826
Re: [newbie] Install error
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:48:51 -0400 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy, Those 'can't be moved' clusters always gave me trouble when I attempted skrinking. For the past few Linux installs where dual-booting was going to be used, I found it a better option to remove and reinstall Windows into it's own part of the first harddisk. I realise that this option is a problem if you have 'valuable' data in the windows partition but I suggest it will give you a great deal less hassle. Cheers John 1. Sometimes when I defrag a Windows partition there are clusters that can't be moved in various locations throughout the partition -- can resize move those while shrinking? 2. Does reshrink give any warning before it reshrinks if the size you ask for requires moving the can't be moved clusters? 3. Does resize even attempt to move clusters, or does it just shrink by the amount of emtpy space at the end of the partition? Thanks, Randy Kramer Charles A Edwards wrote: 1)Run both ScanDisk and Defrag on your drive before you begin the installation 2)Run the installation in Expert mode. 3)At the partitioning stage of the installation click on your Windows partition and select the resize option and resize it by the amount of space you wish to alow for linux. -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826
Re: [newbie] kpppd exit status 16
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 20:05:07 +0300 MinOtAVrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi i m totally newbie with Linux (1 week) when i try to connect with my Netmode modem i get this error message kpppd fails Exit Status 16 type man pppd for help Finally this message means Modem terminate the connection. What i can do to connect Please Help... In the setup section of kppp you should increase the timeout values, I use 130 seconds for modem timeout, and set the guardtime value in modem commands to 255. Also add the following to your /etc/ppp/options file: idle some value in secondsI use 300 ipcp-accept-remote ipcp-accept-local In most cases these changes will prevent many of those failures, _BUT_ be aware that many of the failures when using dail-up are due to variations in line quality. Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826
Re: [newbie] upgrade from 7.1 to 8.0
On Mon, 4 Jun 2001 13:08:16 -0700 (PDT) Jesse C. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone done this? Were there any problems encountered, such as when upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2? I want to upgrade from 7.1 to 8.0, but I'm wondering if it will be a headache to do without having to wipe my hard drive and install from scratch. I did this one one of my machines, HOWEVER ... there are caveats. The filesystem has a different and (I understand) incompatible layout so a straight off upgrade will NOT work the way we would expect. I suggest you backup your essential data files (I backed-up my /home even though it was on a separate partition.) and be prepared to re-install any applications you have obtained from other sources and do a complete re-install. Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] OT: A strange one...
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 17:57:49 +0200 Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 01 June 2001 22:12, poogle wrote: I have just replaced my PC case, a baby AT motherboard into an ATX case. Now because of the difference between AT and ATX power supplies my PC powers down when I issue the shutdown command, well almost, the monitor goes into suspend. Now for the strange part, if I have left my external (serial)modem with it's own power supply, switched on and I turn it off AFTER shutdown the PC re-boots. The really strange one though, if it is switched on BEFORE I power up, the PC fails to detect my hard drives, switching it off causes a re-boot and all is well, I can then switch on the modem. It would appear that something is not set correctly in the BIOS, any ideas ? Wake up on ring detect? Civileme Yes - it's an option in the Power Management section of the Award Bios (bioeses?? Biosee). I suggest you turn off ALL of the 'wake up on event' options. I had this problem with my mobo too! Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] Network printing problem
On Fri, 18 May 2001 14:47:52 -0700 (PDT) Todd Flinders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried setting the printers up with kups? That makes it super easy. Configuration-Printers-Kups Thanks Tom, that was the clue I'd been seeking. I bounced around for several days looking all over the net, I didn't look at ConfigPrinters in detail because the first few entries referred to printers I don't have (Lexmark, Oki and Epson Stylus), I assumed (mistakely)from those entries that that section was to setup Non-Standard or Special-Case devices. Wouldn't it be nice if the CUPS web interface made some reference to Kups? After all it does sortof come from or with the same stable. Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] Problem booting up with LILO
On Wed, 16 May 2001 14:58:22 +0200 f d [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boot from your floppy and check that /etc/lilo.conf is in fact pointing to the correct partition of the hard disk. it should point to the partition you assigned to /boot. Cheers Hi there all! I have a problem when booting lilo (or grub?, whatever the default is at the installation). When the system starts up all i get is this: L01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 And if i let it do i´d finish with hundreds of 01 rows. The first ´L´makes me think it does try to load lilo but fails. When booting from ploppy i got no errors and the system starts up with no problem. So i tried to install lilo on the floppy and restore my HD mbr (with fdisk /mbr)to leave it alone, but the same thing happened!! Im running a p600 with two HD, Windows is installed on a 40gb ATA100 7200 brand new HD(primary master), and the one im trying to install linux on is a 8gb set up as a secondary SLAVE. Anyone can help? All comments will be highly apreciate. Thanks in advance F.D. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] how to make boot disks
On Fri, 11 May 2001 16:01:43 +0200 Alan Rolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stupid question... How do i make a boot disk for my machine in case something goes wrong? i.e. from the console.. From a console as root (su, password) mkbootdisk (uname -r) dead easy Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] how to make boot disks
On Fri, 11 May 2001 17:34:22 -0400 Ciro Durán [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There´s also another issue: I´ve read about making a boot disk not from linux, but from windows... I didn´t understand nothing...It says I need an image, a root disk, etc. How do I do that? Hi Ciro, I'm not sure I understand your question. If you want to make an installation boot disk you will find a README file in the dosutils subdirectory on your Mandrake Installation CD. This shows you how to do this from Windows. I notice on one of my machines which does not allow booting from CDs, that, if I enable the windows option to run the CD on insertion, I will start up a little graphical program which makes a Mandrake bootdisk. Does this help? Cheers John El Ciro - Original Message - From: John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alan Rolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 11:28 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] how to make boot disks On Fri, 11 May 2001 16:01:43 +0200 Alan Rolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stupid question... How do i make a boot disk for my machine in case something goes wrong? i.e. from the console.. From a console as root (su, password) mkbootdisk (uname -r) dead easy Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] rm 'ing stuff
On Wed, 2 May 2001 14:46:06 -0400 Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most shells have what I like to call dumby aliases. In the .shellrc, and when I say .shellrc I mean .YOUR_SHELLrc file. So if you are using bash, in your .bashrc you will find various dumby aliases. Just to add to Toms' excellent description below. To see what aliases you have available just type 'alias' (Without the quotes of course) at you bash prompt. Works a treat Example [john@john john]$ alias alias cd..='cd ..' alias cp='cp -i' alias d='ls' alias l='ls' alias la='ls -A -k' alias ll='ls -l' alias ls='ls --color=auto -F' alias lsd='ls -d */' alias md='mkdir' alias mv='mv -i' alias p='cd -' alias rd='rmdir' alias rm='rm -i' alias rpmip='rpm -q --provides ' alias rpmqpil='rpm -qpil ' alias rpmreb='rpm -vv --rebuild ' alias rpmwhat='rpm -q --whatprovides ' alias rpmwhich='rpm -qf `which ' alias s='cd ..' [john@john john]$ Cheers John == [timh@eric timh]$ cat .bashrc # .bashrc # User specific aliases and functions alias rm='rm -i' alias mv='mv -i' alias cp='cp -i' alias s='cd ..' alias d='ls' alias p='cd -' Those are the ones that come with bash. Cshell has the same bit as well as most. Personally, I think they're a good idea. Helps keep you honest. If you check out the man page for rm you will see, this, and other things as well. OPTIONS Remove (unlink) the FILE(s). -d, --directory unlink directory, even if non-empty (super-user only) -f, --force ignore nonexistent files, never prompt -i, --interactive prompt before any removal -r, -R, --recursive remove the contents of directories recursively -v, --verbose explain what is being done --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit As you see the -i is for interactive. It will ask you if you're sure each time a new file comes across the command. When I'm deleting cache for Netscape or deleting something in a directory that I'm sure I can wipe out, I use rm -Rf /dir. However just like the one person commented a rm -rf . /* will delete the . directory, which translates to your pwd, as well as the / directory and everything in it! But that's what backups are for! :0) I suggets you use rm -Rfv until you're used to doing that, and are sure you are dealing with the right info. -v, setting it to verbose will print out everything that it's just done. So it will tell you that file BLAH was removed. As always I include more information then needed, but hopefully that was helpful! tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real Men use Vi. * Jordan Elver [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010502 15:03]: | Hi, | How do I remove stuff i.e. rm -r folder/ without having to type yes to every | file in the folder? | | I thought there might be an alias in .bashrc but I can't see anything in | there? | | Any ideas? | | TIA, Cheers, | | Jord -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
[newbie] Just Couldn't Resist!!
FOOT-AND-MOUTH BELIEVED TO BE FIRST VIRUS UNABLE TO SPREAD THROUGH MICROSOFT OUTLOOK Researchers Shocked Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Symantec's AntiVirus Research Center today confirmed that foot-and-mouth disease cannot be spread by Microsoft's Outlook email application, believed to be the first time the program has ever failed to propagate a major virus. Frankly, we've never heard of a virus that couldn't spread through Microsoft Outlook, so our findings were, to say the least, unexpected, said Clive Sarnow, director of the CDC's infectious disease unit. The study was immediately hailed by British officials, who said it will Save millions of pounds and thousands of man hours. Up until now we have, quite naturally, assumed that both foot-and-mouth and mad cow were spread by Microsoft Outlook, said Nick Brown, Britain's Agriculture Minister. By eliminating it,we can focus our resources elsewhere. However, researchers in the Netherlands, where foot-and-mouth has Recently appeared, said they are not yet prepared to disqualify Outlook, which has been the progenitor of viruses such as I Love You, Bubbleboy, Anna Kournikova, and Naked Wife, to name but a few. Said Nils Overmars, director of the Molecular Virology Lab at Leiden University: It's not that we don't trust the research, it's just that as scientists, we are trained to be sceptical of any finding that flies in the face of established truth. And this one flies in the face like a blind drunk sparrow. Executives at Microsoft, meanwhile, were equally sceptical, insisting that Outlook's patented Virus Transfer Protocol (VTP) has proven virtually pervious to any virus. The company, however, will issue a free VTP patch if it turns out the application is not vulnerable to foot-and-mouth. Such an admission would be embarrassing for the software giant, but Symantec virologist Ariel Kologne insisted that no one is more humiliated by the study than she is. Only last week, I had a reporter ask if the foot-and-mouth virus spreads through Microsoft Outlook, and I told him, 'Doesn't everything?' she recalled. ++ Cheers John --- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
[newbie] 7.2 install problem - Cdrom X-server
I finally took the plunge and installed 7.2. Installation was uneventful other than the soundcard not being found. that was fixed without hassle. However. there are two problems .. Problem A) Cdrom is inaccessible despite running through the Cdburner tutorial pages. Error message as user or root: [john@john john]$ ls /mnt/cdrom ls: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error [john@john john]$ Permissions from /dev [root@john /dev]# ls -l cdr* lrwxrwxrwx1 root root9 Apr 21 20:19 cdrom - /dev/scd0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root9 Apr 21 15:09 cdrom1 - /dev/scd0 [root@john /dev]# ls -l scd* brw-rw1 john cdrom 11, 0 Sep 27 2000 scd0 brw-rw1 john cdwriter 11, 1 Sep 27 2000 scd1 brw-rw1 john cdwriter 11, 2 Sep 27 2000 scd2 brw-rw1 john cdwriter 11, 3 Sep 27 2000 scd3 brw-rw1 john cdwriter 11, 4 Sep 27 2000 scd4 brw-rw1 john cdwriter 11, 5 Sep 27 2000 scd5 brw-rw1 john cdwriter 11, 6 Sep 27 2000 scd6 brw-rw1 john cdwriter 11, 7 Sep 27 2000 scd7 I don't understand why user john should own /dev/scd(?), so far I haven't dared to change the ownership Fstab as follows: - /dev/hdc5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda7 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda9 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 /root/ ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdd5 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda10 /usr2 ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda11 /usr3 ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 - Problem B) X-Server (I think) - I cannot see where the issue is: My Vidcard is an S3 Virge DX with 4mb Ram, the monitor a CTX 1451, resolution 16-bit 800x600; these two have been working together without fault thru LM6.x and until I installed LM7.2, (and obviously with that other opsys). I think (grin), that I selected XFree 4, can't be sure as I have both XF86Config AND XF86Config-4 in /etc/X11. I cannot start X automatically (init 5) as the monitor (Or vidcard) goes directly to a ?powersave? mode. When I login to the CLI (init 3), I can startx and run KDE without problems, however if/when I exit from KDE I have the same problem as above and the only way I can regain control is either a three-finger-salute or hard reset. Ctrl-Alt-Del restarts without causing me any hassles. Can someone point me to some help here, I know I've seen it covered before but haven't been able to find the references. Cheers John --- "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Getting online
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 00:08:06 -0800 phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone help me with this error message: "warning the following hosts are unknown. It indicates that Netscape cannot find a nameserver. I shall assume you haven't yet setup a dialer.. Activate Kppp (the Internet Icon on your desktop). Go to Setup and fill in the Accont names and phone numbers etc. Set the authentican to that which your ISP uses. PAP, CHAP etc. (you may have to contact them for this info as well as some other) Click on the DNS tab and enter the DNS name and numbers for your ISP, they will be numbers of the form: 123.123.123.123. (Again you may have to get this from your provider) Click OK, then click on the Device Tab Select where your modem is from the dropdown menu. There are some caveats here, which will depend on your modem and how it's connected to your system. In Windows the Modem is connected to Com1:, Com2:, Com3:, Com4: etc, with Linux those ports are called /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS1, /dev/ttyS2, and /dev/ttyS3. So Com1 = /dev/ttyS0 and so on. Be careful here that your modem is not setup to Com1 or /dev/ttyS0 there is a good chance that your mouse regardless of type is also on this port and you'll get device conflicts. Flowcontrol should be 'CRTSCTS' and Line Termination 'CR' , maximum line speed will depend on your modem capability, usually you can selct the maximum displayed. That done you can click on the Modem tab and then Query modem to test if it's recognised. That all dun you're ready to dial, and Netscape _should_ behave normally. You may mail me direct if you wish. Cheers --- Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] Kppp
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:43:33 -0500 "Robert F. Trettel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, All I just had callwaiting put on my phoneline. My Question is how and where do I tell Kppp about it?? I have touch-tone ,so the *70, will work in Windoze. My ISP doesn't have a script. All I had to do before was to put the proper Telephone number and Kppp did the rest. Is this the same now or what?? In your Kppp setup add the *70~ to the _FRONT_ of your ISP's phone number. That should fix it. The ~ indicates the modem should wait for (usually) 1/2 second before continuing the dial string. Check your modems user manual for details. You may have to experiment with the length of the delay by adding extra ~'s into the string Cheers John --- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
[newbie] RPM Updating
Sometime ago there was a series of posting regarding upgradeing/updating RPM to current versioning (4.???). I haven't been able to locate those posting. Could someone point me in the right direction, I remember there was a progression involved. I'm currently running L-M7.1 and rpm-3.0.4 and keep running into versioning problems as I attempt to upgrade some of the packages I use. Cheers John --- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] filenames - bright green with * after them
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:55:57 +1300 "Robert Fleming" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several files on our system appear bright green with a * immediately after them when a directory listing is performed. What does this indicate? That their 'executable' bit is set. In most cases that will mean that that file may be run by typing it's command. For example the commandline ls -l /usr/bin/s* returns the following listing of /usr/bin (truncated) -rwxr-xr-x1 root root14627 Apr 1 2000 /usr/bin/s2p* -r-xr-sr-x1 root games 21296 May 11 2000 /usr/bin/same-gnome* -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 2994 Apr 18 2000 /usr/bin/sane-config* -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 122 Apr 25 2000 /usr/bin/savetextmode* -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 194 Apr 21 2000 /usr/bin/saveunimap* -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 140752 May 12 2000 /usr/bin/sawmill* -rwxr-xr-x1 root root12816 May 12 2000 /usr/bin/sawmill-capplet* -rwxr-xr-x1 root root10704 May 12 2000 /usr/bin/sawmill-client* -rwxr-xr-x1 root root35314 May 12 2000 /usr/bin/sawmill-themer* -rwxr-xr-x1 root root30416 May 12 2000 /usr/bin/sawmill-ui* -rwxr-xr-x1 root root19440 Apr 18 2000 /usr/bin/scanimage* And so on run 'man ls' from your console for a detailed explaination Cheers John --- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] untar commands?
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 02:24:46 -0500 Bill Barto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tar -zxvf 'wholecompletefilename' Could someone please tell me how to uncompress and install a tar.gz file? I have been trying for hours checking the docs and can't seem to make it work. My BIOS ate my 40G HD and I installed new controller card. MFG only has e-mail support and wife is crying about "the mouse doesn't work the same as windows". I d/l the support.pdf file from the MFG but the built in reader gives me blank pages. Now I have d/l Acrobat reader but can't get it to untar. Have used Archiver in 7.2 and can get to the files but leaves them in tar format. How do I get them from tar to executables? --- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] Impossible question?
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:57:24 +0100 DRX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as_png.c:41: X11/xpm.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [as_png.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/AfterStep-1.8.0/asimagelib' make[1]: *** [../../asimagelib/libasimage.a] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/AfterStep-1.8.0/src/Zharf' make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/local/src/AfterStep-1.8.0/src/Script/Widgets' make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'all'. Firstly an extract from the README found in Afterstep-1.8.8.tar.gz start LIBRARIES +-+ The following libraries are not necessarily required to run and enjoy AfterStep however, support for them is included within AfterStep and it's various Modules. o xpm (ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs/X/) o jpeg(ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/) o png (http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/pngcode.html) finish=== I obtained the following files from the above sites (or mirrors) xpm-3.4i.tar.gz jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz libpng.1.0.9.tar.gz zlib.tar.gz (zlib-1.1.3 (latest version - required by libpng) and then compiled/installed them according the README/INSTALL instructions within those tarballs. And then reran the make and make install from Afterstep-1.8.8 As far as I can tell Afterstep now works correctly on my test system. I normally use KDE as my GUI, so I'm not a good judge of the correctness or otherwise of Afterstep. Usual disclaimer - YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary) Cheers --- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] Impossible question?
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 01:39:37 +0100 DRX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VERY large snip of totally useless information Have you attempted to compile this afterstep 'upgrade' yet. ? The first step in the process is to run './configure' in the top directory (without the quotes). If the configure works you can move on to the next step which is run 'make' The word '_works_' in this case means to run without error messages. What you are looking for are messages such as: 'Can't find htop/passthegravy.h' 'File not found' and so on. So...in short unpack the tarball:- tar -zxvf filename cd to the resulting directory Run './configure' Write down the _entire_ text of any messages thrown up by the compiler so that we might help. Then we can move to the next step. At that point some of those of on the list just might have sufficient information with which to help you. You may rest assured that if you don't supply relevant information your problem may well end up in pending baskets underneath the PDP-11's some of us keep in our basements.. All that said, I am a Linux newbie myself, I've been around computers since the Intel 4040 was issued with linen daipers. I'm at the other end of the world and my nearest hands-on help is more than 6 hours drive away. I have discovered to my peril that if I don't supply timely, consise and sensible information when I seek help that I might as well go-eat-dirt. Nuf said? Cheers John --- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] New install - Xwindows
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:01:32 -0500 "Owens, Blaine C" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anybody who is not a smartass can give me a clue as to how to correct my Xwindows problem then I think I can figure the rest out for myself. The card according to Windows Device Manager is Trident 9685/9680/9682/9685/9382/9385-1 PCI It was discovered by the Mandrake install as Trident Microsystems TGUI9660 (generic) TGUI 9660/968x/968x This is not your video card. It's the monitor you selected during your install. Establish the characteristics of your monitor (Horizondal and vertical refresh rates etc) Reboot and go to text mode (type 'linux 3' at the lilo prompt or select 'failsafe' from GRUB) Log on as root and run 'Xconfigurator' and select your monitor (if it's listed) else a monitor which matches yours. Cheers John --- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] Installing WinXows again
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 06:40:50 -0300 John David Molina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El S_bado 17 Febrero 2001 15:18, escribiste: Boot into Linux and make a boot disk. Make sure the boot disk works. Then reinstall windows. Afterward, use the botdisk to get back into Linux. Then go into the LiLo configuration and reinstall Lilo on your Master Boot Record. ~Lance Please, refresh my memory. How do you make a boot disk? I have lost the one I made when I installed LM 7.2 mkbootdisk `uname -r` Note the reverse quotes. -- John David Molina --- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] Reinstalled Windows 98, how to get Linux to boot again?
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:39:21 -0800 (PST) Keith Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have an 8 gig hard disk with Windows 98 on the primary partition. Installed Mandrake 7.0, no problems, could boot to either Windows 98 or Mandrake 7.0 with no problems. I had to reinstall Windows 98 a few days ago, ow I cannot boot to Mandrake 7.0. The Linux partition should be OK. How do I reinstall LILO without damaging the Windows 98 partition? Use the boot disk you made when you installed. You did make one didn't you Grin then as root run /sbin/lilo Cheers John --- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] Finding monitor specifications.
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 21:47:29 -0800 "April" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip.. So, does anyone know of an -intelligent- way to go about guessing my monitor specifications? And, is there a way to change the configuration for the monitor without completely re-installing? An hour between getting to guess makes guessing completely no fun. Get behind your monitor and look for serial numbers, part numbers, FCC id's etc. Then go to: http://driverguide.com/ There is/are search facilities there which _should_ point you in the right direction. You can also boot to your non-GUI console (At lilo prompt, type 'linux 3' (without the quotes)) and run 'Xconfigurator' (again no quotes') and from there try various monitor types, starting with the 'High Frequency SVGA' and so on until you find something which fits. But try the link above first - there are further links to sites where monitor specs are listed. Cheers John --- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] want my linux work faster and networking
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 10:09:25 - "carjam" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably, but some people (like me) are stuck with html. I use outlook express. I have set all the options to plain text. In 5 places I have set the options to plain text. And it still sends html. I am makeing my own mail client now :). A suggestion for you. I recognise your difficulty with Outlook, there are alternatives. May I suggest that you take a look at Eudora, It allows plain ascii and has all of the other addons which Windows mailers have. http:/www.eudora.com That will get you to their d/l site where you have a number options, d/l the Lite version for Ver 3xx - it works very well. Cheers John --- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] Disappeared Internet access
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 11:33:08 +0100 DRX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The modem beeps the way it's supposed to, and the little window tells me that it is connecting me to the Internet, but when it is finished I can't get to anywhere in Netscape. It tells me that every address is unknown. I cannot ping anything either. The command ping gives the reply that the address is unknown, no matter whom I try to ping. Have you checked that you have a correct 'homepage' entry in Netscape, I found that problem after one of my installs. Also check if you have proxys enabled, could be in there too. It's been a couple of months since I used Linux, but when I did, I had no trouble getting out on the Internet. I have checked the "kppp configuration" settings, and they are correct -- they are the same they were a couple of months ago, when everything worked just fine. I can't figure this out. Does anybody have any suggestions? I am grateful for all help. DRX Cheers John --- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] Installing WinXows again
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 07:27:18 -0600 Riker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this involves booting with the boot disk, but just not sure what cammands I need to run to get Linux back in control. at your floppy boot prompt type: linux 3 hit enter Login as root cd /etc If you need to edit lilo use your favourite editor, then: /sbin/lilo hit enter That will write to your first hard disks' boot partition. Easy eh? Cheers John --- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] partitions on text linux install mode
On Thu, 08 Feb 2001 00:46:59 , AcidShell *-.-* said: Im trying to install Mandrake 7.0, how i have only 32 ram, im using the text mode, but in this mode, when i must select the partitions only appears the /hda2 (such that i dont create) and i cant choose anythng else. I have a 1rst hd with 2 gb, and a 2nd with 8 gb, i wish use 700 mb of the first and 1 gb for the 2nd. That's problem I have a few times during 57-plus installs of L-M 7.1 where the mouse wasn't detected. Moving around the application is a combination of tabs and Ctrl-chars. When you get to that screen use you Tab key to get to the drive you wish to deal with, strike Enter, that will select the drive (/dev/hda, /dev/hdb etc). You can then use your arrow keys to move to the partition you wish to manipulate. Once you have it highlighted you will see two panels, the left will show Create, Modify, Delete and so on. The right will give you a description of the highlighted partition. you can use Control-M for Modify, Control-C for Create, Control-D for Delete and so on. Striking that key combination will raise a sub-menu relevant to the function you have selected. Again in this sub-menu it's tab to each field. I suggest you have a play on a spare HDD to work out how to drive the application - then you have little chance of screwing up any data on the drive you are trying to partition. Cheers John -- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmers' Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972)
Re: [newbie] Getting into Linux..
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:36:47 -0500, Tim Holmes said: When I got through the install, it askes me if I want to use Lilo/GRUB. I say yes, goes through and askes what partition the MBR would be on, and then does something. Takes a minute, harddrve light goes off, and then it continues with the last few parts of the install. Makes me think it's done what it's supposed to do. Sure sounds as if it has setup the boot stuff for the hard disk. The LS-120 are the _NEW_ floppys that will handle floppy discs that are a 100 Mb. I have no idea why I got it, I was just like "Hmmm sounds like a new toy, why not." I have had no problems with it Windows, it runs over IDE so it's much faster then a legacy floppy. But the LS-120 is in YODA. And YODA boots with no problem. The machine that I kept getting the GRUB prompt in is R2D2. I just built that machine right before Chrismtas. I'm losing track here, same LM version on both YODA and R2D2? yes? But YODA has LS-120 as a floppy drive. Are you able to read and write the LS-120? It has a legacy floppy, and it takes like 8 minutes, does not give me any errors, and then lets the install go on. But the floppy has never worked. Now that makes me wonder.. You see the floppy disk led light up at all?? Especially at powerup?? Have you got a faulty floppy cable? Is it seated correctly? Is the floppy driver faulty? Got a neighbour who'll let you swap out his/her FDD for an hour or so? I was so pissed at one point, I tried to make it a dual boot, to get it to work. In Windows the floppy works, I could create a boot disk and then fdisk /mbr the hard drive. I haven't tried to make a boot disc in R2D2 since I finally got Mandrake installed on it. But as I understand it's R2D2 with the grub/lilo problem As you say next para, R2D2 is on the network, can you see it's entire filesystem? If so, what's the contend of /boot ? is there a grub subdirectory? What's in there?? I'm just glad that R2D2 is on the "network" and is running Linux. But took me almost a month to get Mandrake on there. I've tried RedHATE, SuSE, Caldera, OpenBSD, TurboLinux (Which hung at a GRUB prompt too.), and Mandrake. I'm intrigued that another distribution also did this.. Of all of them I like Mandrake the most. SuSE had a billion windows managers and some kewl looking appz, but was high maint. and didn't really use the same architecture. No slocate to update the locate, not to mention it's a good 10-12 GB install! My experience is Mandrake only, 12 yaers ago it was Sco Xenix on Altos machines I'm thinking it might be my MB. Never heard of this problem any other time, but I don't know exactly how to prove that hypothesis wrong or right. I mean I could gut YODA, put R2D2's hardware in it, and go from there, but that's just way too much work! You may be right about the mobo, but check those cables too, and try the swapout of the floppy drives if you can. I'm echoing this to the list as well seems the reply to: is still broken cheers -- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmers' Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972)
Re: [newbie] Getting into Linux..
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 08:29:22 -0500, Tim Holmes said: When I get a grub prompt it doesn't give me any option to log in as root. I've tried to su - root several times and I get nothing. I just slap in a Winbloze98 floppy in there, and do a fdisk /mbr. So how do I log in as root? Tim, Did you make a boot disk when you installed Linux?? What options does your Grub menu give you?? I'm not familar with Grub but I'm sure there must be a 'failsafe', 'Single user' or similar option for you to try. Seriously the Linux boot disk is the best option, using a dos boot and then FDISK /MBR is going to destroy your boot sector in linux terms and throw you into your Windows system. If you can get into linux via grub, you should be able to su to root from your user account and make yourself a boot disk with the following commandline: " mkbootdisk `uname -r` " (without the double quotes but WITH the reverse quotes shown around the uname option) Give it a try ?? John * Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010122 06:18]: Chris Hall wrote: Hello, I recently had to reinstall Winblows and it wiped out Grub. How can I get back into linux and set it back up? Thanks! Log in as root. From and command prompt, type in: lilo Press the enter key. Reboot you computer. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Penguin Charged Email -- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmers' Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972)
Re: [newbie] Two little problems
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 14:01:15 +0800, L. H. LOO said: At 19-01-2001 -0500, you wrote: Question 2. My computer came with a winmodem installed but I have an external USR modem that I connected to one of the ports on the back (COMM1). The problem is that ML7.2 does not know there is a modem connected (checked Hardrake and there is nothing there, no modem is seen). How do I make sure the ML knows there is a modem attached? Suggest take out the winmodem, in Windows configure the external USR on COM1 (not COMM1); reboot into your Linux, link /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS0 - that is Big S and zero. If you have kppp in your Linux Box, use it to connect to your ISP. HTH, if you need further info mail me off the list. Just a couple of small but possibly very important notes to this thread. If you have a Winmodem AND an External, I would only use the external. That way you you recover an IRQ line for both opsys(s)(ii) [ what IS the plural grin] IF you are using a PS/2 mouse, be aware that it may also get assigned to /dev/ttyS0 (Com1:), this WILL result in an IRQ conflict. I would suggest that in Windows you set your external modem up on Com2: rather than Com1: for the same reason as above. Then in Kppp you can assign your modem to /dev/ttyS1 (= Com2:). Cheers John -- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmers' Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972)
Re: [newbie] drakxtools
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 17:49:00 -0500 (EST), Mark Weaver said: I would think that it would be one of two things that cause this. 1) plain old American arrogance NO comment !! 2) a very "small" world view caused mainly by spending too much time in ones own back yard and not having enough contact with the outside world. Yes - it does seem for the visitor that there is a 'small world view' A year or so ago, I spent a few weeks in the US, and was really surprised at the numbers of people I met who hadn't been 'Out of STATE" let alone the country. America being as big "physically" speaking as it is I wouldn't be all that surprised to find out that 80% of its population has never been out of the country. I could 'understand' people I met who didn't know where my country was, or that It's best known after all for it's ability to hold off a concerted invasion attempt by the US Military for nearly 20 years only by means of Flour-bags and Rubber Duckies!! However, that I seemed to know more about the general physical geography of North America was a real stunner!! I remember one young woman who was amazed that one could sit in an aircraft for 15 hours without even seeing land just getting to the US, and THEN spend another 5 or 6 hours getting from one side to the other!!! The same young woman was later heard to argue with another about the difference between Texans and Arizonians - her primary argument being that one must be more suntanned than the other - 'because of all the desert'!! That doesn't include Canada or Mexico. I'm referring to off the continent adventures and such. Its surprising how different the outlook and attitude of the Europeans is from that of the Americans. Being an American myself the difference between the European and American world views is sometimes startlingly great. I think you all think that, I think I know that you all think that, I just wish that we all knew that we all knew that we all thought that !! grin It would be a wonderful world if ALL it's (the worlds') population realised just how small this speck of interplanetary dust we inhabit is!! Cheers John -- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmers' Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972)
Re: [newbie] Piece of )(*(*^ Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:17:21 -0600, Vic said: I'm getting ()*(*^% off.!! this is not a challenge it is an impossibility!! Same f@#$@#$% ing trash over and over again. Vic, Settle down, take a few deep breaths, and short walk in the woods, But not neccasarily in that order. My next few comments are not intended to be demeaning - ok? I'm getting on a bit now but I, like you, am learning more and more everyday I climb into Linux as you will too. It's important to take one step at a time at this early stage. It's also important to readup as much as you can - there is an emense volume of info out there. There are several very good websites to look thru and two of the best (my view) are: http://www.Linuxnewbie.org and http://www.MandrakeUser.org Both of these sites have heaps of very helpful information on them. and you should take the time to peruse them - ok? = Right then. I've come late into this thread, I haven't been following your tribulations, but it would appear you are have difficulty getting your cdrom(s) recognised. Question #1 - which distribution are you using? Question #2 - How many CDROM drives do you have? Question #3 - are you able to READ from either drive yet? I'm happy to try and help you from here (16 hours into your future), however Tom Brinkman is one of the most useful help utilities you have right nor right here on the list - take note on EVERYTHING he has to say regardless of the subject - you'll run into these things I promise!! (Apoligies to Tom!!) Email me direct if you wish - I'll try to help. Cheers John -- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmers' Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972)
Re: [newbie] Piece of )(*(*^ Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:17:21 -0600, Vic said: I'm getting ()*(*^% off.!! this is not a challenge it is an impossibility!! Same f@#$@#$% ing trash over and over again. Vic, Settle down, take a few deep breaths, and short walk in the woods, But not neccasarily in that order. My next few comments are not intended to be demeaning - ok? I'm getting on a bit now but I, like you, am learning more and more everyday I climb into Linux as you will too. It's important to take one step at a time at this early stage. It's also important to readup as much as you can - there is an emense volume of info out there. There are several very good websites to look thru and two of the best (my view) are: http://www.Linuxnewbie.org and http://www.MandrakeUser.org Both of these sites have heaps of very helpful information on them. and you should take the time to peruse them - ok? = Right then. I've come late into this thread, I haven't been following your tribulations, but it would appear you are have difficulty getting your cdrom(s) recognised. Question #1 - which distribution are you using? Question #2 - How many CDROM drives do you have? Question #3 - are you able to READ from either drive yet? I'm happy to try and help you from here (16 hours into your future), however Tom Brinkman is one of the most useful help utilities you have right nor right here on the list - take note on EVERYTHING he has to say regardless of the subject - you'll run into these things I promise!! (Apoligies to Tom!!) Email me direct if you wish - I'll try to help. Cheers John -- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmers' Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972)
Re: [newbie] Piece of )(*(*^ Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:17:21 -0600, Vic said: I'm getting ()*(*^% off.!! this is not a challenge it is an impossibility!! Same f@#$@#$% ing trash over and over again. Vic, Settle down, take a few deep breaths, and short walk in the woods, But not neccasarily in that order. My next few comments are not intended to be demeaning - ok? I'm getting on a bit now but I, like you, am learning more and more everyday I climb into Linux as you will too. It's important to take one step at a time at this early stage. It's also important to readup as much as you can - there is an emense volume of info out there. There are several very good websites to look thru and two of the best (my view) are: http://www.Linuxnewbie.org and http://www.MandrakeUser.org Both of these sites have heaps of very helpful information on them. and you should take the time to peruse them - ok? = Right then. I've come late into this thread, I haven't been following your tribulations, but it would appear you are have difficulty getting your cdrom(s) recognised. Question #1 - which distribution are you using? Question #2 - How many CDROM drives do you have? Question #3 - are you able to READ from either drive yet? I'm happy to try and help you from here (16 hours into your future), however Tom Brinkman is one of the most useful help utilities you have right nor right here on the list - take note on EVERYTHING he has to say regardless of the subject - you'll run into these things I promise!! (Apoligies to Tom!!) Email me direct if you wish - I'll try to help. Cheers John -- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmers' Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972)
Re: [newbie] Piece of )(*(*^ Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:17:21 -0600, Vic said: I'm getting ()*(*^% off.!! this is not a challenge it is an impossibility!! Same f@#$@#$% ing trash over and over again. Vic, Settle down, take a few deep breaths, and short walk in the woods, But not neccasarily in that order. My next few comments are not intended to be demeaning - ok? I'm getting on a bit now but I, like you, am learning more and more everyday I climb into Linux as you will too. It's important to take one step at a time at this early stage. It's also important to readup as much as you can - there is an emense volume of info out there. There are several very good websites to look thru and two of the best (my view) are: http://www.Linuxnewbie.org and http://www.MandrakeUser.org Both of these sites have heaps of very helpful information on them. and you should take the time to peruse them - ok? = Right then. I've come late into this thread, I haven't been following your tribulations, but it would appear you are have difficulty getting your cdrom(s) recognised. Question #1 - which distribution are you using? Question #2 - How many CDROM drives do you have? Question #3 - are you able to READ from either drive yet? I'm happy to try and help you from here (16 hours into your future), however Tom Brinkman is one of the most useful help utilities you have right nor right here on the list - take note on EVERYTHING he has to say regardless of the subject - you'll run into these things I promise!! (Apoligies to Tom!!) Email me direct if you wish - I'll try to help. Cheers John -- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmers' Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972)
