Re: [newbie] Redirecting in KMail
On Friday 28 February 2003 08:20, Robert Golovnyov wrote: Does the KMail support redirecting messages or can I only forward them? Yes. You can redirect or bounce both via a menu item or automatically via filters. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hams on the list
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Re: [newbie] Telnet
On Saturday 22 February 2003 09:00, Larry Williams wrote: On Saturday 22 February 2003 06:08, Gil Katz wrote: On Saturday 22 February 2003 07:22, Larry Williams wrote: Stephan the answer to your 2 q is no and i'll be tahnkfull if you will e-mail them to me Larry i have enteries in /etc/services one of them is telnet 23/tcp i tried to cennect to port 23 and nothing, i installed telnet server on the comp but not sure if it works. the whole problem started when i try to use hotwayd and could'nt connect to hotwayd via telnet. Gil I just looked up HotWayd online. Very interesting. I use gotmail, but I think I'll try out HotWayd. Following up to my pown message, I did download and install HotWayd. Very sleek indeed. Looks like it will be a better solution than gotmail. Not that gotmail is bad, but it does have to be run as a precommand in Kmail, where HotWayd is just another POP3 service. Anyway, I followed the instructions as written on the web site and set my port to 8110. I then did telnet localhost 8110 and got a familiar POP3 greeting. Entering user [EMAIL PROTECTED] and pass secretword got me another familiar POP3 response after it negotiated with a hotmail server. Gil, make sure you're using the correct port in your telnet command, then reply here to let us know if it's working now. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IDE Tape drive
On Thursday 20 February 2003 23:55, g wrote: Larry Williams wrote: My memory is slowly returning. I had to load the ftape.o module to use the drive. do you and femme know each other? lol. LOL. Nah. I'm not stoned, I'm old. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Telnet
On Friday 21 February 2003 03:35, Gil Katz wrote: Hi when ever i try to connect to telnet 127.0.0.1 port i get Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused in /etc/hosts.allow i wrote telnet : 127.0.0.1 what should i do? Gil Hi Gil. I get the same thing here, but I didn't allow the telnet service when I installed. Do you have telnet entries in /etc/services? Do you have a telnet server installed? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IDE Tape drive
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 21:04, g wrote: Larry Williams wrote: I used to have an old Jumbo 250 installed and working with a 3.x or 4.x 4 cms jumbo 250 tape drives that i have are floppy tape drives and i use ftape for them. Yes, you are correct. My memory is slowly returning. I had to load the ftape.o module to use the drive. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] pre-recorded cd and permissions
On Thursday 20 February 2003 15:52, Chris wrote: I put in a pre-recorded cd in my drive a bit ago, clicked on the cd icon and got a box that said I don't have enough permissions to open /mnt/cdrom, tried my other drive, got the same. A cd that I've recorded mp3's on works just fine. Why won't a pre-recorded one? And what may I have to do to fix it? Your pre-recorded CD is, I assume, an audio CD with an audio track (or tracks). Your MP3s are stored in a computer-readable filesystem. Audio CDs are not mounted the same way, and that's likely your issue. When you put in your audio CD, do you then open a CD player like XMMS or KsCD to play the disc? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IDE Tape drive
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 19:30, Mark Berry wrote: Hi Has anyone any experience of setting up a IDE tape drive? I have a HP Colorado Travan which is recognised as /dev/hdg but there are no entries in /etc/fstab so I can't mount it. I used to have an old Jumbo 250 installed and working with a 3.x or 4.x Slackware once. You need the tape-related files installed if they are nto already, such as mt. To use the drive, you don't mount it, but you read from and write to the device with data transfer applications like dd or tar. You use mt to position the tape or rewind it. Sorry this isn't much help, I haven't used a tape for some years. I assume there are some docs included with the tape package(s) that should help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gkrellm on top
On Saturday 15 February 2003 12:53, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Keeping it on top is another issue - that depends on the WM you're using. If you're using KDE, you should be able to right-click the icon/name in the taskbar and choose SHOW ON ALL DESKTOPS (or something similar - I'm in Fluxbox now and don't want to kill all my processes) Same location, different option. To keep the window on top (in KDE), right-click on the running app in the taskbar and choose Always On Top. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kmail external editor
On Saturday 15 February 2003 11:13, tuija wrote: Thanks emacs shows up, but if I try to reply some message emacs doesn't go to inbox in that particular message. Emacs shows plain new window? I would like to integrate emacs in to Kmail same as I can integrate it to Mutt, when I write muttrc editor=emacs. Is it possible? Thanks advance Tuija I get the same results if I select xemacs as the editor (emacs wouldn't start, I assume because it's shell-based). I also got the same results using gvim. But, Kate showed both new text and the quoted message. Just a data point. Hope it helps. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] letting users use root commands
On Saturday 15 February 2003 01:39, Robert Wideman wrote: My issue is resolved. i had tried this before but didnt work at the time rpmdrake has 755 permissions on it by default. I had to change this to 775 AND add the user to wheel group. Also i checked the groups out by group username and made sure i was listed as correct Working fine. Thanks for the help Stephen. Rob I think another way to do it is to setuid on the file: chmod u+s rpmdrake The advantage is that you can define permission per file instead of per user or per group, but that's also the disadvantage. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] no audio in Xine...?
On Monday 17 February 2003 03:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day, as the sub says, I get no audio when playing VCDs in Xine. Audio works fine in XMMS, but in Xine I get video ok but no sound. Clicking on the config tool and then to the audio tab reveals the audio driver to use is set to null. Well that would do it, I guess... Thing is, there's no way I can see to change it. Clicking all over the window does nothing; the help tab brings up a blank page. I've been wandering around the Mandrake control center, but it doesn't seem to report anything wrong. The sound chip is an AC97 onboard [a Matsonic MS9107C+ motherboard]. What other system details should I include to enable you to help me better? TIA, as always I ran into this same problem a couple months ago using an ESS card. I ended up removing and then reinstalling the xine package and it started to work again. The config file is the same as the previous load, so I'm assuming (guessing) that a file got corrupted somehow and reinstalling xine fixed it. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] manli TV
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 06:52, p s wrote: Sorry if this is stupid, I am completely new to linux. I have tv card manli tv with chip SAA7134. It is not automaticaly recognized by mandrake (in the hardware list I can see the chip, with module:unknown). I wrote by hand 'modprobe saa7134' and 'modprobe tuner' and installed xawtv. It seems to run, but I can't see anything. And when I run scantv, it sais some errors. Could anybody help me? The card is not in the list of cards supported by saa7134 (I tried to put 'card=0' (generic card)). Well, if you saw some errors, can you post them here? It will help the list determine how best to help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ethernet over USB?
Re: Fwd: [newbie] Ethernet over USB? From: Larry Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 21:00:29 -0800 On Tuesday 04 February 2003 18:15, David Reynolds wrote: Am I using the wrong list for this inquiry? I am not sure if I am barking down the wrong pipe, or no one knows what in the world I am smoking (to continue the mixed metaphor). Hmm. It's possible your question is beyond the mere newbie. But I'll give it a shot. The problem may be related to my never having used (set up?) my USB ports correctly, since I've never used them up until now. I don't use my USB for communication, but it does automagically connect me to my clik drive and camera. Although these are devices and not ports, the point is that Mandrake found them for me. Qtopia Desktop doesn't seem to have any way to force the connection. So I go to check if the usb port is even up: [root@naeblis david]# ifup usb0 SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device Failed to bring up usb0. Have you tried ipconfig? If it's a communication port like eth* or ppp* then it should show up. How odd. I can't find ANYWHERE online exactly how to deal with this, and don't even know where to begin with SIOCGIFFLAGS. I've been trying to follow the directions in http://www.ruault.com/Zaurus/ethernet-over-usb-howto.html but I got stalled at the point where I don't HAVE a directory called /usr/src/linux - I have /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/[athlon/i386/i486/i586/i686/k6/noarch]... all of which are completely empty. The page discusses configuring your kernel to support usbd networking. If it already does, like if usbdnet.o.gz was already on your system, the you can skip the compile part. On my system I found the usbdnet module in /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/usb/usbdnet.o.gz, it came from the kernel package. If you already have this file, skip the compule stuff and see if the rest of the doc works. At this point /etc/modules.conf looks like this: pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias autofs autofs4 alias eth0 tulip alias usb0 usbdnet /*added by me today*/ alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 Have you tried modprobe? If the kernel is ready and usbdnet.o is available, you should get something. I got a warning that the symbol for the echo_tx parameter was not found, but it did load the module. Sorry for the clueless questions, but several hours of Googling hasn't helped any... do I just need to restart the machine? I wouldn't think so, since my kernel patch was never successful. You shouldn't have to restart the machine unless the kernel itself has been modified. As for Googling, maybe you're not looking for the right thing. See, it's not always easy to describe what you're looking for AND get results that are readily useful. I searched for linux check kernel usbdnet (without quotes) and I got several links related to the Zaurus. One in particular, http://humphrey.applitec.com/zaurus, refers to another link that indicates you don't need to compile the kernel to get this working. Hope this helps. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing a file list
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 18:16, Todd Slater wrote: That helps, thanks for the explanation, Larry. I'm just going to keep on thinking it's magic that it knows to open that file before it does the other stuff that comes before it. I always assumed it was linear, left to right, in such a simple sequence. Sounds good, Todd. I took an Intro to Unix class at a community college a couple years ago and discovered that bit of trivia there. I think it was under the heading of Magic, sub-heading of Slight-of-Code. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] installing software and sound
On Sunday 02 February 2003 16:37, Richard J wrote: When I play a cd through my computer, I am having to have the volume from the player and on the speakers on full to hear anything, and even then it is not very loud. How can I change this? My guess is that you have your CD volume turned down in your mixer panel. In KDE, you can run kmix (Menu, Multimedia, Sound) and adjust the input level for your CD. If this is set to full, then you will need to open the box and make sure the audio cable from your CD to your sound card is firmly seated at both ends. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!
On Sunday 02 February 2003 14:10, FemmeFatale wrote: My b/f is a windows MCSE. Fine. In windows you run as root anyway. Even on 2k I run as an Admin. Now he says he sees no diff from that to running as Root in linux. I can't give him any better argument for not doing so other than its insecure (he doesn't care about that on a home compy) that you can reall botch Xwindow. Botching that doesn't faze him either cause he'll just reinstall anyway. Help?? Convince him? pls? Thx Well, I don't think I can make much of an argument. On the Windows side it's too inconvenient to log in as a regular user without having full-time admin-level rights to do the occasional admin-level task. It's not as easy, that I've discovered, as it is in Unix. Unix provides both the su and sudo commands that allow a regular user to become root temporarily to perform a function or two, but the user doesn't have those functions all the time. In the occasional instance when something potentially dangerous could be done without the operator's full awareness, not being root can be a system saver. I learned from experience that being a regular user and entering a command like rm -rf / will result in permission denied errors, but doing the same as root is catastrophic. Sure, most of us won't enter such a command, but if you're cwd is /tmp/crap and you MEANT to enter rm -rf ./* but forgot the dot, you won't realize it until it's too late. You may not be able to convince your friend that operating as root is a bad thing, he may just have to experience it for himself. I hope he listens to you, though, because I think I'd rather kick myself in the peaches and banana than erase all my files. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] connection sharing for selected computers only
On Friday 31 January 2003 23:43, fifner the dragon wrote: How do I set up my connection sharing to share the connection with one computer (192.168.0.3) but not with another (192.168.0.2)? Thanks in advance, Fifner The way I would do it would be with iptables. If you are able to share your connection with all computers now, you can tell iptables that only the input IP is 192.168.0.3 (versus your ethernet device). In my network, I allow all machines. I use: iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -j ACCEPT but if I wanted to allow only one machine I would use: iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -s 192.168.0.3 -j ACCEPT If you don't yet share your connection, then you'll want to read up on iptables and probably masquerading. I used the IP-Masquerade-HOWTO file in my /usr/share/doc/HOWTO directory (it's a little deeper) and created scripts and config files according to the text. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)
On Thursday 30 January 2003 14:24, Anne Wilson wrote: As root edit /etc/sysconfig/network and manually remove the GATEWAY entry. Reboot the machine and the DNS resolution should start working ok. Actually, as I'm quickly learning, there shouldn't be a need to reboot. You will have to restart your network service, whcih can be done as root by typing service network restart Cheers, Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Win98 - Samba - CUPS - HP DJ540 still fails
I know this shouldn't be this hard. Maybe it's because I have a very old printer, I don't know. I do know that I was able to make this all work when I had lprng installed, but that was in a Red Hat installation, and I haven't been able to get lprng running in Mandrake. Here it is again in case you missed it, plus summaries of assistance to date (thank you Anne and Stephen for your efforts): I have Mandrake 9.0, installed just about every package cause I have the space. I have not yet upgraded anything via the upgrade link in the K menu. I have configured Samba (2.2.6-1.0pre2.2mdk) so my two other Win98 machines can see the Linux box and can access shares. I have iptables configured so the two computers can get to the internet. They cannot ping the Linux box, but I may have willfully prevented that. I have configured cups (1.1.16-0.4mdk) so that I can print locally to my antique HP DeskJet 540 printer. I also enabled raw file printing by uncommenting the two related lines in the mime.* files, but only after seeing a complaint about that in the error log. So far, everything works. Except, I can't print from the Win98 machines. Every attempt results in an error stating it cannot convert file 0 to a printable format and hints that ESP Ghostscript is not installed. I just finished compiling and installing ESP Ghostscript 7.05.5, but the error persists. I was unable to find any reference in the local docs or at the cups website that could help. I am assuming I need to tell cups where to find espgs apart for just restarting cupsd, but I'm at a loss how. Or why. Anne suggested I stick with the recommended printer driver when configuring cups. I don't see much difference in performance, but since I am only printing locally, I could be overlooking something, so I did set the driver to the recommended one. Stephen suggested I use Webmin to configure the printer. I did try, but it complained that lpd is not installed. I didn't see that I could tell Webmin not to use it. As I said earlier, I tried to install lprng because I know it works for me, but I couldn't. I tried to compile the source but it complained that /usr/include was not a system directory. I don't think I have an ANSI C compiler, which the web site suggested I use. I could install the RPM after satisfying dependencies, but it wouldn't complete the configuration process, telling me that, as root, I didn't have permission to access a directory or create a file. Hrumph. It's kind of depressing that something as simple as printing could be so hard, especially since it seems this kind of problems shouldn't exist because it's not documented at all. I mean, I jumped through all the hoops I think I should have used, but it still fails. Any suggestions? Is this something I could stump the experts with? Thanks for reading my lenghty diatribe (would be shorter if I didn't use adjectives, I guess). And many thanks for any assistance you can offer. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Win98 - Samba - CUPS - HPDJ540 fails
Hi All. I'm new to this list, and I've checked the archives and tried all the suggestions I've found, but I am still unable to printfrom either of my two Win98 boxen. My Mandrake 9 machine has most of the packages installed but none are upgraded yet. I'm using kernel 2.4.19.16mdk samba 2.2.6-1.0pre2.2mdk CUPS 1.1.16-0.4mdk The network and firewall functions - all machines can use the internet connection on the Linux box - but pings to the linux box fail. I don't know if it's related, I doubt it, but just in case... I've created smb.conf based on a message in November by Anne Wilson, and my cupsd.conf is based on several messages found here and elsewhere. I can provide them if you like. The error I get is in cups/error-log. It states it is unable to convert file 0 to printable format even though a raw file is sent and application/octet-stream is enabled in both mime.* files. Any thoughts? Should I consider PDQ or find and install some other lp daemon? If so, what print system should I define in Samba? Thanks in advance, Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win98 - Samba - CUPS - HPDJ540 fails
On Saturday 25 January 2003 09:11, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 4:50 pm, Larry Williams wrote: Hi All. I'm new to this list, and I've checked the archives and tried all the suggestions I've found, but I am still unable to printfrom either of my two Win98 boxen. My Mandrake 9 machine has most of the packages installed but none are upgraded yet. I'm using kernel 2.4.19.16mdk samba 2.2.6-1.0pre2.2mdk CUPS 1.1.16-0.4mdk The error I get is in cups/error-log. It states it is unable to convert file 0 to printable format even though a raw file is sent and application/octet-stream is enabled in both mime.* files. Any thoughts? Should I consider PDQ or find and install some other lp daemon? If so, what print system should I define in Samba? Thanks in advance, Larry Hi, Larry. It's usually best to fix one problem at a time :) So, which is most urgent for you? I don't know much about firewall issues - my router takes care of that for me, so someone else will advise you there. It sounds to me as though that might be a good part of the issue. Also, is the printer physically attached to the linux box or some other? Can you print from the local printer? Is there no success at all, or is it networked printing that's the problem? What model printer is it. and how did you install it? Anne Hi Anne. The printer is more urgent since all three computers can access the Internet. I just included the ping bit in case it was related. The printer is attached to the Linux box on /dev/lp0, it's an HP Deskjet 540. I installed it first during installation, where it was automatically detected. I didn't make any drastic changes to the pre-definied settings except to force grayscale. It does print locally and has always printed test pages. According to the Mandrake Control Center (drakconf), wherein I've removed and reinstalled the printer without any problems, the printer is using the recommended Ghostscript + hpijs driver, but I've also tried the CUPS+GIMP-Print v4.2.2 (en) and Ghostscript + [cdj|djet]500 drivers with the same results (local print works, remote from Win doesn't). Thanks for any help you can provide. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win98 - Samba - CUPS - HPDJ540 fails
On Saturday 25 January 2003 09:43, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 4:50 pm, Larry Williams wrote: I didn't notice the model number in your header. I'm sorry to say that I think you are unlucky here. HP are pretty good at providing linux drivers, but mainly from the 600 series onwards. Check it out at http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/linux/products/printing_imaging/deskj et_printers.html#supported Anne Hmm. I kind of thought that. Do you know if there is an alternative to CUPS then? I guess I can use PDQ, but I'm not sure how to tell Samba to use it. Thanks, Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win98 - Samba - CUPS - HPDJ540 fails
On Saturday 25 January 2003 09:47, Anne Wilson wrote: This is better news. Mandrake must be providing a suitable driver. OK - when I tried to print over the lan, only a couple of weeks ago, I had much the same problem. I eventually got as far as having a readable file in a spool directory, but still couldn't get it to print. On the advice of Stephen Kuhn, I installed the windows driver on the windows machine, saying that I wanted to install over the network. I can't recall the exact sequence, but it then allows you to browse to the printer on the host machine, in my case it's //anne-linux/printer. Go throught the whole normal installation, but don't print a test page. Take the re-boot, then call up the printer in the usual My Computer/Printers folder, and print a test page from there. It worked for me Anne Hi Anne. Yes, I've done this as well. Before I installed Mandrake 9 I was using Red Hat 7.3. It came with lprng and CUPS, and I couldn't get CUPS to work then either. But lprng worked just fine. I thought I could go get lprng and put it on Mandrake, but I ran into roadblocks: The source won't compile because (I believe) I'm not using an ANSI C compiler (just gcc that came with Mandrake) and the RPM is too specific to Red Hat and I couldn't get the dependencies to load (one was older than an existing package and the two necessary libraries aren't part of the new package). So unless I can upgrade my printer (which may happen in the next month along with a system upgrade), I'm open to alternative print spoolers, or PDQ if I can properly configure Samba. Thanks, Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
