Re: [newbie] Enlightenment ScreenSavers
Todd, Oh, if you figure out the "off" thing -- where the screen just goes black (I'd love it if I could get that to stop so the screen saver really did just run indefinitely, though I turn off the 'xset s noblank' man xset for the myriad of options available. Yes. I've tried it, but it's ignored. Are you sure it's noblank...? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] 3DForce B-16 nVIDIA RIVA TNT2
I'm thinking of getting this: http://www.accessmicro.com/productinfo.php3?ProductId=HDJAT3DF2B16RTL I can't find anything but a post to some foreign language list (can't even make out the language -- I think Portugese) on this card. I assume that as it uses nVidia Riva TNT2, it likely will work in lm7.2, but I dunno. Anyone have this card working? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Was [newbie]PDF Now pdf netscape
Speaking of pdf, I'd noticed something really cool on my girl friend's install of lm7.2 that's not in mine. She can open pdf's right in netscape, but my netscape wants me to save a pdf to disk. Was that a fluke of the html on the page I'd opened that file from, or is there a netscape setting which will do that for me? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Enlightenment ScreenSavers
Oh, if you figure out the "off" thing -- where the screen just goes black (I'd love it if I could get that to stop so the screen saver really did just run indefinitely, though I turn off the monitor when I'm away for long periods), let me know. Meph Thanks! Ammon Original post Something detailed about getting E screensaver going. Meph wrote Actually, if I remember correctly, the E faq says to use xscreensaver .xdefaults. I have it set up now in E with the maze screensaver. Don't think it's perfect yet (I'll figure it out eventually). Right now, the maze comes up after 5 minutes (as I'd set it to), but though I'd set the screen to go off after an indefinite time, it goes black at varying times (10-60 minutes). Check out the E faq rean the xscreensaver man file. They'll get it going. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: A twist on the OpenSource paradigm: (was RE: [newbie] Linux TaxS oftware?)
OK, but let's look at it this way: If a coder creates something that he'd wanted to fool with produces a decent product, has the integrity to actually work out the bugs apply her/himself to the project, knowing only that the pay is in others using this product, it will, eventually, be noticed by more than those who choose to use it while in alpha beta. Once noticed, along with more work to show, the coder in question can get work as would any Web designer who has something to show -- whether that Web designer made any money on the projects she/he shows to prospective employers. All benefit from open source -- it's just not as apparent as the American "get rich quick" model of "success". Coders get jobs or money to continue both commercial as well as personal /or open source projects; business by hiring experienced, dedicated (though I'm known for boldly complaining that many coders have no dedication), integrity (another thing I'm known to complain about in coders); users by having more to work with. Having a look at Eric Raymond's _The Cathedral and the Bazaar_ will illucidate the whole subject for you. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux "Angus - the only one with any brains." -Lauren Bacall The two most common things in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity. -Harlan Ellison "You eat enough meat, you want to kill somebody. That's the way it works!!" -Denis Leary Thank you, Meph Istopheles Manager Aeon AL Providing alternatives for the stagnating mind. http://Aeon-AL.Com
Re: [newbie] Why is my login pass to my ISP not encrypted?
I was looking at etc/sysconfig/draknet.adsl_pppoe and my username and pass to login to my ISP account was in plain text, viewable by anyone..Is this normal? Yes, slip ppp (pppoe) are not encrypted. There is another log-in protocol, older (I forget just now what that is), which is, but, as I understand it that was never standardized. A friend of mine who runs a large user isp, my Web host, told me long ago when I'd realized what you have that it's not considered that important. Particularly, since one is ~supposed~ to change one's password regularly. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Enlightenment ScreenSavers
Oh, if you figure out the "off" thing -- where the screen just goes black (I'd love it if I could get that to stop so the screen saver really did just run indefinitely, though I turn off the 'xset s noblank' man xset for the myriad of options available. You know, I was thinking that that must be it earlier today, but I didn't have time to look into it. Thanks, I'll fix that thing up in the morning;-). -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] emacs -- not Xemacs
Hey, Been trying -- failing -- to get emacs installed. The rpm installs everything but the executable the INSTALL file referred to in the README file under /usr/share/doc/emacs-20.7. No more rpms! Anyone know where, as I can't find it, I can find the text- based, relatively current, stable (as stable as possible), fully installable tgz (or bz2 even) emacs for lm7.2? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
RE: [newbie] Automatic Day light Savings Time Change
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: 7.2 does this just fine! Yes, though I wasn't expecting it -- my previous os (RH 6.0) only did so on one of three boxes, though each was set to do so. In spite of all the gui-centricity of lm7.2 (don't mind me -- I'm just leaning more more toward a text-based reality), I was very pleased to find the time was right this morning. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Automatic Day light Savings Time Change
Yes, though I wasn't expecting it -- my previous os (RH 6.0) only did so on one of three boxes, though each was set to do so. I wonder why it works on some configurations and not on others? Can't say -- beyond bad coding. This kind of thing is much more common in M$ os' apps -- things which ~should~ work, but will in some installs but not in others. I've a P-100 still with RH6.0 which I'd had (for various reasons) had to reinstall 3-4 times. The only consistency in the biggest problem was that the box couldn't find the network even after entering the settings correctly during the install(s). Each time, there were different, odd settings in the network scripts. That box, of all three I have here, won't accept lilo during install, but will after first boot running /sbin/lilo, won't connect to my lan (let alone access the gateway beyond) till I edit the network scripts. The other two do fine. I've not got lm7.2 on the two faster boxes with only minor problems due to bad app coding either fixed or discarded in favour of an another app. Wish me luck -- I'll be installing lm7.2 on a P-Pro166 (after I get a new video card) for my brother, RH6.2 via ftp on a 486 laptop (had RH5.0 on it a while back without X) FreeBSD on an HP Netserver 486/33 (also needs a video card) soon. If you're interested, I can let you know about any oddities. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Merge several html docs into one?
Is there a quick and easy way to merge several html docs into one file? Can the images also be merged at the same time? Have you tried cat'ing them with something like: cat file,file,file,etc newfile (to copy them to another) cat file,file,file,etc newfile (to move them to another) I don't often cat to file, so you might want to fool with it -- or better, read the man file. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Enlightenment ScreenSavers
Adrian Smith wrote: well, i use E and i never knew it had a screen saver. On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Jesse C. Chang wrote: There's an Epplet called E-ScreenSave, but I have yet to get it to work. Not that I've tried very hard, but... Having the screen automatically go black after 10 minutes is good enough for me. Actually, if I remember correctly, the E faq says to use xscreensaver .xdefaults. I have it set up now in E with the maze screensaver. Don't think it's perfect yet (I'll figure it out eventually). Right now, the maze comes up after 5 minutes (as I'd set it to), but though I'd set the screen to go off after an indefinite time, it goes black at varying times (10-60 minutes). Check out the E faq rean the xscreensaver man file. They'll get it going. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Crystal Audio PnP soundcard Problems.
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Stefan Buller wrote: I have a Crystal Audio PnP soundcard. Harddrake comes up with 3 components: Crystal PnP Audio System CODEC Crystal PnP Audio System MPU-401 Crystal PnP Audio System Control Registers The CODEC seems to be fine, under Kernel Module the MPU-401 Control Registers say: unknown. Any information on how to get a pnpdump or help fixing this problem would be appreciated. Thank you. Had the same trouble with the gui for my Crystal card, so I went into a vt, logged in as root ran /usr/sbin/sndconfig instead. This not only found the card played the sounds, it was going to install the correct module (though the gui was goingt to install a different one which worked for a couple of days, it stopped simply wouldn't work at all). The reason I say "was going to install" is because the system instead installed the lesser one that the gui used. That's OK, because it's been working fine. Use sndconfig -- you'll be pleased. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Runlevel 5 question
Morning Barbara, On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Barbara Pfieffer wrote: When I installed 7.1 I set it up to go to a graphical login. It works great. But, how can I change to just logging on in a console? If I need to that is. As always, if there is a HOW-TO or other info out there, please point me to it. Hmm. A howto on that I think it's in the Tips howto http://www.linuxdoc.org In any case, it's simple enough, as root open /etc/inittab change the line id:5:initdefault: to 3 as below: # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are: # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user mode # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have # networking) # 3 - Full multiuser mode # 4 - unused # 5 - X11 # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # id:3:initdefault: Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] gnome
Stefaans, From my dim past I can remember there is a way arounnd by putting a .bashrc file in your home directory but there must be an easier way!! That's actually handled by ~/.xsession file. At the end, after any stuff you want to open, you put this: exec /usr/bin/enlightenment In your case, you'd want exec /usr/bin/gnome or whatever the actual path to whatever wm you want. My whole .xsession (for now) looks like this: #!/bin/sh # Execute enlightenment. ALWAYS make sure this is at the end of # this startup file - and ALWAYS run things before it with an # at the end. # For example: # xterm # kpanel # It is suggested to use Enlightenment's Remember dialog for # having apps spawned automatically on login. panel xscreensaver exec /usr/bin/enlightenment Be sure you ~/.Xclients is a pointer to ~/.xsession too. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] traceroute for linux
it looks like mandrake didn't come with traceroute, it that true aor am i just not looking for the write file It ~is~ there, on the CD. I was a little disappointed finding that few of the basic (necessary, imo) networking tools aren't installed on the quick 'n easy install. But not a problem, I think it's in the RPMS directory as networktools or something. Open your DrakConf, go to PackageManager look through all the stuff. You'll find numerous things you'll want to install even some things installed you'll want to remove. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
RE: [newbie] read/write to and from NTFS/FAT
Moose, I am using tcp/ip. I'm in the process of setting up a proxy server, so I needed something routable... Shouldn't be any problem with -- at least -- getting from the Windows box to the Linux box. You'll need other tools -- smb, Reflection, etc to get from the Linux to Windows. Although NT ~does~ provide some server tools even with the Pro version. I've not fooled with much in W2k beyond securing it when my girl friend has to use it (we've dsl, so we're always on-line). Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Anybody got Sane working yet?
Graham, I've tried to use Sane under MDK 7.2 but with no luck so far. It tells me that no sane devices are detected. I have a Plustek 9630 parallel port scanner and there appears to be a Plustek back end. Is there anything I need to configure to get a result? Though it didn't work for me -- I have the same scanner, but it won't work in either lm7.2 ~or~ Windows. I'd wasted the whole of a weekend trying to get it working. Anyway, there is an update for the Plustek backend. Trouble is, it requires numerous updates -- at least one of which is an unstable cooker update. May or may not work for you. In the end, I was left with a still unworking scanner various minor problems I couldn't figure out. Doubt it's related, but eventually, my video wouldn't accept any settings above 16-bit colour a very bad refresh rate. So, I'd reinstalled got rid of the whole mess. Let me know if you figure it out, though. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] read/write to and from NTFS/FAT
Jeff, Hell, Can some one advise me on the best way to allow Mandrake 7.2 to read and write to my FAT NTFS partitions? Well, it could be a little tricky depending upon a few things. First, You say you'd installed NTFS, you may have to recompile your kernel choose the r/w module. (Though this module is still in alpha -- has been at least since RedHat 6.0, I've used it in RedHat 6.0 ~~ lm7.2 without fail...but the potential of data loss still exists.) When I'd installed lm7.2 on the box with W2k, the module wasn't automatically installed, I had to recompile. If you're not familiar with compiling the kernel, it's not difficult, but we can address that later. As for the fat partiton, you should simply be able to switch vfat for fat in your /etc/fstab entry for that partition. I may not be expert at setting up dual- (or more) boot systems, but I've done it numerous times without trouble. If we have to go the full route, with all the instructions for setting it up to work (I don't know how much you know about this stuff), my instructions may differ from those of others, but they work just as well. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
RE: [newbie] read/write to and from NTFS/FAT
Whether Jeff wants the detailed instructions or not, I would like them. Thanks a bunch. Alright Moose ( all), Keep in mind that there are reasons some do this one way reasons others do this another. I, by no means, claim the only or right way, but a way I've learned which works for me without trouble. These instructions, with one alteration, come from an article by Joseph Cheek's Linux column in the June 2000 issue of Computer Source magazine. This article is copyrighted, but I don't think there's an issue with extracting the steps from it. Disclaimer end As I'd mentioned, the ntfs write module is alpha -- termed "experimental" "dangerous". This may be true, but I've not heard of anyone actually having any more trouble than I had had before I'd been forced to reinstall W2k (for other reasons), which is now a fat32, instead of ntfs fs. But I'd had no problem with the ntfs write module in either nt4.0 or W2k. So, the first thing you need is to verify that you've the kernel source, c compiler c libraries installed (there may be others that lm7.2 doesn't automatically install, but I don't now remember). You'll get an error if you attempt to compile don't have the files you need. If the source is installed, I'm pretty sure you get specific errors telling you what you need. To verify you have the source, do: ls /usr/src/ If the source is installed, you will have a subdirectory something like: linux-2.2.17 This is the lm7.2 source, so, if you've a different release or kernel, this subdirectory will have a different kernel release. 1. As root, cd to /usr/src/whichever-release-you-have-installed 2. Enter (if in X -- if not, use menuconfig): # make xconfig In here you may want to go through all the different things familiarize yourself. If you see anything you know for a fact isn't on your system, you can change the module setting to suit. If you don't want to take any chances, you can leave it as is -- it simply takes a little longer to boot adds a "not found" line, or something similar, to your logs. There is a section on file systems, some way down you will find the ntfs read module. I believe (it's been a while since I've been in there) there's a section right near there with something about Experimental File Systems -- you shouldn't have any trouble finding it no matter what it's called, though. In here is, among a few other fs', the ntfs write module. You should set this to Load. Don't worry about the warnings. Just know that if there ~is~ potential for trouble, it certainly ~could~ happen. So, naturally, you want to back up any Windows data before you begin. Make any other changes you want save. The buttons are self explanatory. Then, at the command prompt: # make dep # make clean # make bzImage # make modules # make modules_install Now, if you run lilo, as I: # make bzlilo If you prefer grub, I'm sure there's a command line update for to enter, but when I was looking over grub info (I admit, I wasn't exactly studying it, as I was looking for a way to kill it go back to lilo) I didn't see it. Perhaps someone here with more grub knowledge could answer that? Then, making sure you have a boot disk handy, exit root, user, X, restart. I've not had a problem booting, but everyone's config is different. The worst that had ever happened after numerous recompilings was that I'd accidently either neglected some modules or added unnecessary ones. So, if you're careful no to remove anything which even looks remotely important, you should be fine. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Telnet
does anyone know how I can copy files from a Win2k telnet server to a linux box? or is this possible? if anyone knows pls let me know Well, if you don't have ftp available on the Windows box, the only way ~I~ know is to open the file with a text editor highlight paste into an editor on the Linux side page by page. But really, see if the dos ftp client is installed -- it probabaly is. Then you just set your Linux box up to allow access via ftp from that Windows box. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Curiosity
Hey, On Monday 12 March 2001 00:47, Derek Rayne wrote: Warning: The following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: When I got fed up with getting the same message from Netscape each time it strated, I added the three domain names above to the "127.0.0.1 localhost" line in the /etc/hosts file. Never been bothered since ;-) You know, for years (since M$ NS started this), I just couldn't get it. While once you're on-line have been using a browser, any url starting with home.whatever works fine, it's rarely worked as an initial home page. Also, with Internic, I think they've changed their url (long ago now) to something like NetworkSolutions.Com. First, do away with home replace with www try the NetworkSolutions.Com url. Should work much better. Meph --
Re: [newbie] stupid useless program talk
Morning Vic, On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Vic wrote: Yeah, all I wanted was aback up for when both ICQ and aol im puck up and don't me connect Might have a look at EveryBuddy. I'd only set it up once for a friend who was temporarily on AOL. She was never on-line when I'd tried to find her, so I don't know how well it works, but it supports many formats. then my buddies can ssh into my machine, and we can all use the talk thing like I used to back in the 70's. Wish I had tome to figure out what's keeping ytalk from working. I've not actually set it up in lm7.2, but I know that I'd tried talk earlier (on another install now). If I can get some priorities out of the way, I'll set it up let you know how it goes. Meph --
Re: [newbie] stupid useless program talk
On Monday 05 March 2001 03:57, you wrote: I don't see what good 'talk' is. Apparently other people can't either, which is why we have proprietary ICQ protocol clients and servers etc. While I've not been using Linux more than a couple of years, I'd started back in later '94/early '95 with shell accounts in either SysV or FreeBSD boxes. Each had talk, I liked it. Later, I found ytalk. It works a little better supports a few more features. Maybe I'm getting old (though I've always been a bit misanthropic;-), but when it comes to communication, I prefer a text-based deal. I don't chat much, but I've tried some of the gui apps, some of the avatar systems on the Web. All in all, I prefer ytalk. But I've not taken the time to figure out why talk isn't cooperative either in lm7.2 or in RH 6.0. It wouldn't be so bad if talk actually worked -- primitive as it is -- but I, for one, haven't figured out why it just sits times out even when set up on the boxes where the people are. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Tax software
Has anyone found properly functioning tax filing software for linux yet? I have search to no avail. I'd searched all over last year. I remember a few which purported to work in Linux, but they wanted some unrealistic amount of money for the app. I really don't get that -- don't those of us who aren't made of money have to file too? Oh, no money -- no privileges; I remember now. Augh man, don't tell me I have to boot into windows for this? :( Looks like. I'd actually gone the phone-in route this year, as I'd only worked round six months last year -- as far as taxable income is concerned. I rather liked that, I'm getting back a damn site more than I've ever. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] Wacko resolution
Hey, Till this morning, I've been running X at 1280 res with 4 billion colours. Now, I get an unspecified error when I try to change the 16-bit colour at 1024 res. I'd figured maybe it was time to switch to XFree 4.01. Can't find how other than to install it. Did that, no change. Even ran XFree86config to no avail. I've a Diamond Viper 770D with 32MB RAM , naturally, using the Riva TNT2 module which comes with lm7.2. Any help would be appreciated. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] sendmail
Robert, Meph, I have downloaded the two rpm files for sendmail. I found, however that I do have postfix. Would I be better off running this? Also would it send it to pine? Either way. I've been doing what you're trying to with postfix since installing lm7.2. I'd been using sendmail back in RedHat. As for postfix fetchmail, they don't actually function together -- nor do pine fetchmail. The all do their own thing which culminates in one being able to read their mail. So, I don't remember what was required to set up postfix, but I do remember extensive docs available from the postfix.org site. I think it was already set after I configured my system as had been sendmail when I'd set up RedHat. If it isn't set up, check postfix's site -- the faq has lots of info too. Then, for the rest, if you go back to the Web page I'd created for this very thing only with sendmail in RedHat: http://Aeon-AL.Com/LinuxHelp.html follow the instructions for fetchmail (which hasn't changed since the version I'd used when I'd created the page), crontab (also hasn't changed) for pine (which ~has~ changed, but the basic stuff I refer to hasn't), you should be up reading sending mail in a matter of only ten-twenty minutes. One thing, if you havn't updated you pine (I'm running 4.30), you should do so soon. The version which comes with lm7.2 (4.20?) may have an update, but the update from MandrakeSoft isn't the current version I'd got from the pine site. Gotta go to work soon, so I may not be able to respond to any more questions till tonight. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Running Pronto
Chris, After installing pronto I get "Can't locate MIME/Types.pm in @INC" when trying to run it. And it lists various directories, none of which have Types.pm. There a several Types.pm on my machine, however none are in the directory MIME. Have you sub'd to the pronto mailing list? I used to use it when I was running RedHat (now mdk), the coder was extremely helpful. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] More printing problems.
Renaud, Only the Printer Configuration in DraxConf "sees" the installed printers, all the other config progs fail to see them. You'd said that you'd set a printer up, did you do so in DrakConf, or is that what you mean by DraxConf? I'd had trouble with this after the last (not the current cups update, as I've not installed it) cups update. I'd had to remove reinstall cups from the cd, then, after various attemtps, got it. Also, which version of cups is this where did you get it? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] NETSCAPE.
Any body knows... What can I do for clean the history of Netscape? I just do: rm ./.netscape/cache/* then: rm ./.netscape/xover-cache/* Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] sendmail
I am having trouble getting sendmail. I used drakeconf to find what I need, but neither of my cd's seemed to have the files it was looking for one was sendmail-rc. How can I get sendmail to work, so I can use pine Robert Boggs Next step is to go to: http://www.rpmfind.net Get the necessary files check the page I'd referred you to on the other list. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Global .bashrc? (was: Real rm?)
Hey, Thanks Meph. It drives me nuts too. The problem is that I use several users, for different purposes. Since they are all me, they all want the usual Unix response to "rm." It's annoying to have to edit every single ~./.bashrc. Where do I find the "global" or "master" .bashrc file, so I can get rid of that interactive nonsense once and for all? That took a little looking for me too. You'll find it in: /etc/profile.d/alias.sh When a new user's home directory is created, presumably the new .bashrc file is copied from some master .bashrc file somewhere Not exactly. Most of that's controlled by various files, many of which are in /etc/profile.d directory. Is that the one I should change to get real rm for all users? It would get overwritten each time you logged in. Edit the alias.sh file, maybe look through the .sh files for more stuff to set the way you want in terminals. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] /usr/sbin/install-menu?
I have just been trying to install XFree86-4.0.1-28mdk.i586.rpm, using the command rpm -i filename. This failed because of three dependencies. The third of these dependencies is that a /usr/sbin/install-menu is needed by XFree86-4.0.1-28mdk. Am I supposed to create that "install-menu" myself? How do I do that? Easist thing, I think, might be to go to rpmfind.net, look up your XFree file get any dependancies you don't have listed on that XFree page. Are there any guidelines available on how to create an "install-menu"? Or is this "install-menu" something that I can download from somewhere and just put in the /usr/sbin directory? Should be taken care of when installing the dependancies you download from rpmfind.net. You may find the rpm readme helpful for a little more rpm general enlightenment;-). Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Real time?
Uh, I think you mean rdate (the "r" for remote)...? Meph no Meph (?) Yes, Meph, as in Mephistopheles. look at my alias, tdate - rdate. Oops. Sorry. Hadn't noticed that bit. Maybe I misunderstood, but I thought the original problem was a mismatch of less than an hour. No, you got it, but the thread seemed to go off in various related directions. I vaguely remember this same problem on another list. If I remember correctly, it turned out that the time zone was off. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
RE: [newbie] Real rm?
Frankie, yeah and if you accidenly slip when someone calls you, and your are su'd to root, and you put a little asterix in there,, things would get really interesting... I like having a last chance,, Naturally. Accidents are bound to happen to everyone. Maybe I like living with a little risk, or something. But I've only accidently deleted one file in the past three or four years of Linux I didn't mean to (but I had a backup of it, so it all worked out in the end). just my opinion.. you can't be to safe,, thats why its unwise to be root unless you have too. Very true, but again: I like living with a little risk;-). Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] TextConfig or SVGATextMode
I'd found this some time ago went to play with it today, but ther're neither /etc/TexConfig nor SVGATextMode on my system. Is there an lm7.2 specific way to change the console res? Meph Text Mode - Resolution There is a nifty utility called SVGATextMode that lets you really tweak your text mode console to fit your monitor and viewing habits. Say you've got that shiny new 21" monitor, and you fire up your favorite O/S, Linux. Great! The problem is, 80x25 standard mode looks a little rediculous on such a huge monitor! Through LILO, you can set various other sizes based on standard text modes via the "vga=" option. If you want to see what's available on your system, just put "vga=ask" into your /etc/lilo.conf file, run lilo to update your system, reboot, and watch the screen; you'll see some new options. When you find the number for the size you like, replace "ask" with the number you want. That's it! Thing is, these are all basic text modes, and are quite limited in choice. Suppose you've got a hot video card going with that monitor (I hope so!). With the SVGATextMode program I mentioned, you can run exotic resolutions and different fonts! I run my system at home at 132x25 resolution on a 17" monitor. If I had a 20" I would run at 132x60! Play with settings by checking out the /etc/TextConfig file. This lists the resolutions and information for your video card, which you should definately customize for your system. Write down some resolutions you like, and at the prompt, try them out with "SVGATextMode 132x25" (use your values!) and when you settle on one, type in "savetextmode" to save it. You can also set your default resolution in the /etc/TextConfig file; look for it about half way down, above the resolution listings. This is bound to make console/text mode life much better! -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Real rm?
Hey, When I give the command "rm annoyingfile" I expect annoyingfile to disappear -- not to be asked rm: remove 'annoyingfile'? What's the point of asking that? I wouldn't have given the command rm if I didn't want to remove annoyingfile, would I? How do I change the function of rm to make it work the way I would like? This one bothered me too (read "drove me nuts") till I finally looked in ~./.bashrc. It appears MandrakeSoft chose to make an alias for rm to rm='rm -i' which is for interactive. I suppose to gear toward the total 'puter newbie. You can either remove the alias or, as I'd done, switch it to rm='rm -f' which is for force, ie, no questions asked. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Finding monitor specifications.
April, I have a Samsung SyncMaster 4Ne (it says that in big letters on the front of my monitor), but the samsung site doesn't awknowledge the existance of something this old. So, does anyone know of an -intelligent- way to go about guessing my monitor specifications? I suppose you've already come up with a solution, but I'd checked Google on "Samsung SyncMaster 4Ne" the first hit has all your specs: http://www.griffintechnology.com/monitors/Samsu17.html You may wanna print this page out for future reference;-). Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] words file
Hey, I'm running lm7.2 went to spell check something in pine because of the spelling of a word I was confused about. Turns out that ispell's (3.1.20) words file wasn't installed. OK, check the CD -- no words file. Now, I find on rpmfind that the only mandrake (non cooker or src) file which looks right is noarch. So, which one would be best -- other than cooker, I've had enough fooliing with cooker files. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] DB2 and cron.daily problem solved!
Jacqueline, Update . . . I found the answer with a search of the http://www.google.com/linux site. It's from the newbie archives, but for some reason the message didn't come up when I first searched. - So for the first time, today, I did not get this message: DB2 problem.: Missing or empty key value specified Here is the fix: in /etc/cron.daily there is a file called htdig-dbgen do a "chmod -x htdig-dbgen" without the quotes (as root) - Many thanks to all who answered my questions, especially to Paul who's solution is given above. Whoo-hoo! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I've been so caught up in other projects, I've had no time to really address this any further than previous posts. You are perfection. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] re : crashing x
resolution is 1280 x 1024 . on a viewsonic 17 inch monitor . at 16 bit res . admittedly , the res is high , but nothing the 3dfx card couldnt handle . Perhaps. But have you ~tried~ a lower res? You see, it's not a matter of what any piece of hardware can handle, it's the driver being used. Some coders are either better or more thourough than others, there's also the consideration of how the driver installed. I mean, we're talking about electomagnetic impulses being transferred (in this case from CD to hard drive) round. A minor electrical surge from your wall outlet has the potential to alter or even damage those impulses. Chances are it's only that the driver is a little less than stable at 1280x1024. At any rate, it's worth a shot to work down, progressively to see if the trouble lies there. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Virtual Console Switching
I cannot use the Alt Function keys to switch to a Virtual Console. Alt F1 brings up the Menu. The others, nothing... I need access to Consoles. Is there a way to do this? As I recall, under my previous Red Hat installation I could do it. You want Ctl+Alt+F1, or F2, etc. Then, to go back to any gui from there, Alt+F7, or F8, F9 (depending on how many you have running -- I think up to F10). Also, I can find no way to log into a Console when I I log out of Gnome. Not sure what you mean. You should be at a consol prompt when you exit X, but you're already logged in to the system. So, you wouldn't have a login prompt unless you popped to another vc from there Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] printer and cups no longer available
Frederic, I have just installed the update of the cups files with the Update tools from Mandrake (7.2 version). Since then, I can not print anymore. The commands like lpd do not exist anymore. When I try ton configure my printer with the cups tools, nothing happens. When I use the Printer tool from Mandrake, a dialog box says that the cups database is being rebuilt but after a few minuts disappear without doing anything else. Has someone the solution ? I too have this problem, though I'd gone a step further. I removed the update installed cups lpd from the lm7.2 CD. Now I get everything appearing to be fine, but nothing comes out of the printer What's the deal? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] crashing x
mischaco, x crashes , leaving no details 100 % of the time with no discernable pattern . i have installed mandrake 7.1 and 7.2 with similar results . there are NO irq issues , usb is disabled . i have used every video card i own : the issue is worse when i use a 3 button ( optical or ball , with or without a wheel ) mouse . i have used the 7.2 upgrade cd and upgraded the system with drakconf . the system is stable for about 3 seconds to about 24 hours . this is getting a little old . heard of this before ? any help with this ? I'm not expert, I've not seen anyting ~quite~ like this in Linux, but I have in Windows. Three things come to mind: 1. The resolution you're using. Too high a res for the driver in question can really cause problems. 2. The mouse driver. The wrong mouse driver will easily do this. 3. The font you're using. Each or all three are notorious for this kind of thing. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] Update trouble
Hey, Three minor problems due to updates -- one in an attempt to install a scanner driver the others due to MandrakeUpdate: 1. I'd installed various binaries rpms trying to get a scanner driver installled to no avail. Now I get some libc errors when opening images. The images open, but it's annoying to have the errors. 2. Updated cups last night via MandrakeUpdate. Now the printer won't work. I try to get to the settings for the printer, I'm prompted for CD 1, it installs the original kups files, but the printer still won't work. I get this: a) Reading CUPS drivers database... b) The box goes away but I still get a timer on DrakConf with this: chroot: cannot execute /usr/bin/poll_ppd_base: No such file or directory unable to connect to cups server at /usr/lib/libDrakX/printer.pm line 384. Sat Feb 10 08:02:31 2001 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library at /usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 178. Clicking Add does much the same as attempting to open the printer already configured. And, naturally, if I try to print, I get either (depending upon the command used by whichever app) lp (or lpr) command not found. 3. And this only since this morning (I suspect it's due to my having opened Konqeror in hopes of opening a page Netscape displayed badly but there was java Konqueror won't do java): kdecore (KLibLoader): Factory still has object 0x80f7c20 kurisearchfilter kdecore (KLibLoader): ... deleting the factory 0x80fc580 kdecore (KLibLoader): Deleting KLibFactory 0x80fc580 kdecore (KLibLoader): add pending close 0x80d3f28 kdecore (KLibLoader): try to dlclose 0x80adb48: not yet. kdecore (KLibLoader): Deleting KLibrary 0x80f7188 libkuriikwsfilter kdecore (KLibLoader): Factory still has object 0x808e490 kuriikwsfilter kdecore (KLibLoader): ... deleting the factory 0x80e8f88 kdecore (KLibLoader): Deleting KLibFactory 0x80e8f88 kdecore (KLibLoader): add pending close 0x80adb48 kdecore (KLibLoader): try to dlclose 0x80adb48: yes, done. kdecore (KLibLoader): try to dlclose 0x80d3f28: yes, done. kdecore (KLibLoader): try to dlclose 0x80c4ac8: not yet. kdecore (KLibLoader): Deleting KLibrary 0x80e24a8 libkshorturifilter kdecore (KLibLoader): Factory still has object 0x81034f0 kshorturifilter kdecore (KLibLoader): ... deleting the factory 0x80e06c0 kdecore (KLibLoader): Deleting KLibFactory 0x80e06c0 kdecore (KLibLoader): add pending close 0x80c4ac8 kdecore (KLibLoader): try to dlclose 0x80c4ac8: yes, done I suspect all I need do is remove the libc files kde libs reinstall from CD, but is there maybe another -- better -- alternative? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
I've been getting this (maybe only since updated things via
Mandrake Update last night -- re. my previous query):
[Sat Feb 10] [meph meph]$ perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_MESSAGES = "en_US",
LC_TIME = "en_US",
LC_NUMERIC = "en_US",
LC_CTYPE = "en_US",
LC_MONETARY = "en_US",
LC_COLLATE = "en_US",
LANG = "en"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Don't know much perl, so I've no idea where to start to correct
this -- whatever is the actual problem.
Meph
--
"I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody."
-Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] KMail: New mail notification
Hey, Steven Boothe wrote: Greetings: Would someone please help me change the sound notification of incoming mail? There is an[...] option to "Execute command line on new mail", but I don't have any idea of what to put there. Version: KDE 2.0.1 As a side note, wouldn't it be great if we could assign different sounds for different filters? That would make it possible to continue downloading and filing my 100 or so list messages a day, but when I got something person I would here a specific sound... eh? Stevenyou need a sound file to specify (I use a .wav) then remove the X from the "Beep on new mail" selection and add an X to the "Execute command line on new mail" selection and then in the space provided type this: play /(complete path to file)/(sound file).wav If the above command will execute from a console comand line it will execute from here as well. While my experience with kmail was in RedHat 6.0, I'd opened it had a look in (now) lm7.2. This is the ~way~ you set it up, true, but don't count on it working indefinitely. In the kmail which was in RH 6.0 when I'd upgraded it, the wav file only worked when mail came in for a short period -- then only the beep would work. I was running Gnome with E at the time. As for different sounds for different filters, I doubt this will happen (though I've wanted that feature for years) in ~any~ mail reader for a very long time (if ever). Though I should think that the developer of pronto might easily consider setting that feature. If you don't know, pronto's pretty cool, but early in development. You'll find it quite a bit better in many respects than kmail (but keep in mind -- I'm a pine die-hard;-). Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Red Hat to Mandrake
Blaine, ...In the meantime another co-worker who I have helped out on Unix systems where I work has given me Mandrake 7.2 CD's along with StarOffice CD's. I would like to try out all this but I have a question before proceeding - do I need to "wipe out" the Red Had before proceeding or do I just do an install of the Mandrake? If advisable to "wipe out" Red Hat - how? Thanks. I'd recently moved from RH 6.0 to lm7.2 on two pc's ( will be -- if the video card cooperates -- doing a third this weekend). One had had only RH on it, I wanted to dual-boot, so I'd had to format the whole drive. The other though, was alread dual- booting with W2k, so I just popped the lm7.2 cd in the drive started the install. I'd formatted the RH partition installed there. Worked fine. Can't say it'll work for everyone on every pc without trouble, but it souldn't cause any stress. Just don't do an upgrade. Even if it allows the install, you'll definitely run into hassels if you're even able to boot up. Oh, StarOffice is pretty cool. I've been using it since just bofore Sun bought StarDivision ( had used an early pre-cursor to StarWriter, called WordStar, many years ago on a CP/M box). Though I'd relied on M$ Word -- liked it -- for years, I'd had no problem moving to SO love it. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] Text boot graphic
Hey, You know the penguin graphic the info about the 'puter which comes up when booting to a text login? Well, I'm not too hot for the graphic find the info about the box a huge security hole (same thing comes up when telnetting or ssh'ing in -- though without the graphic). I'd edited the rc file, removed the hard coded graphic edited the text. It was fine till I'd rebooted. RedHat would (I've read) only display what one wanted after editing that rc file (but I didn't know that when I was running RH). Now, in lm7.2, I really want it gone. What overwrites the changes made in that rc file, so I can get it to stop showing up? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] HD bad sectors
Does it just avoid these sectors? Or am I in for corrupted files and lost data? You will be if you use it as is -- assuming ~anything~ even writes to it without complaint. Run fscheck on it. There are lots of differnet options available in the man file. I have a few 580MB drives one 1.6MB drive I intend to run through that eventually. At work, if a drive fails, they run only dos scandisk on the drives. If they fail, they go in the trash...or in my shoulder bag;-). Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] OK. Let's try this....
Hey, Guess no one could make out what I was on about with the tape drive, so lemme try another angle: What is the lm7.2 way to install new hardware -- particularly hardware with it's own scsi card? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] Re: More on DB2 and slocate (cron daily problem)
Hey Jacqueline et al, Thanks to Meph and others who replied to my original question. I've looked a little further and can give some more details, so I am going to send this again. Does anyone know what DB2 refers to? All I want to do is _get rid_ of the following daily message: From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anacron) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' DB2 problem...: Missing or empty key value specified slocate: this is not a valid slocate database: /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db Let me throw in a little more here. I may not have anything really useful to add, but my confusing statements may clarify something for someone (maybe even me). Let's start here: We're looking at an anacron job. Looking at /var/spool/anacron/cron.daily tells us only: 20010203 that isn't the least bit helpful. Then /etc/cron.daily/0anacron says: anacron -u cron.daily Nothing helpful here either. Can't just delete it though -- it may be important. -- slocate.db is a list of *.dll (obviously Windows files)Why? Another file (/usr/bin/slocate.cron) is as follows: "udf,nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts,iso9660,usvdevfs" -e "/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net" Odd that your slocate.db would, if I understand you correctly, only list the dll files in your Windows partition. This database is supposed to list all the files on all filesystems on your system. Mine does this. We know that db2 is either ~the~ slocate database or is related to it. We had to manually install slocate, so we have a use for the locate command (one I use often). We ~could~ just remove the software delete the anacron job be done with it, but, again, we have a need for locate. I should think that maybe if we could tell slocate to only do ext2 instead of vfat partitons, we'd be set. Trouble is, as you show above, there is nothing about any vfat or related fs -- only smb, I don't even have samba installed. What's more, mine appears to be a little different than yours: /usr/bin/slocate -u -f "udf,nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts,iso9660,usbdevfs" Do you run samba, Jacqueline? And what are udf, ncp? I assume file systems, but I'm not familiar with them, though only the udf (of these two) are common in both ours. -- The following files (/var/spool/cron/ directory) consist of numbers that don't seem to follow the date and time format: cron.daily -- 20010131 cron.weekly -- 20010127 cron.monthly -- 20010127 Again, this isn't helping. No offense to you Jacqeline -- I'm attacking the coders (as I often do;-). At this point, I just want to get rid of the DB2 message! Heh. If only coders used their own wares, we'd all be happy:-). I don't find it at all odd that root, etc have no crontabs...though I remember in RedHat they had after first boot. Mandrakesoft had evidently decided to put those jobs elsewhere I guess no user -- including root -- has a crontab till they create one. Good or bad, I can't say, but I agree -- I want that message to go away too. You've done a lot of research here, but I'm not so sure it's going to do us any good short of making you more aquainted with how lm handles cron jobs (which I find more confusing that when I'd fist started looking at cron docs to set up my first fetchmail job back in RedHat). Well, short of knowing that slocate runs daily at any bootup that we have a need, the material we have available to us just isn't helping us figure out how to fix it (though I know this either wouldn't happen in other distros or that it'd be easier to fix if it did). No complaints in this respect to Mandrakesoft, as I've said before, I perfer this to RH, but what's the deal? These cron entries aren't like anything I've seen before. Maybe if we concentrate on how we get slocate to ignore our Windows partitions...? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Emergency...solved
I'm into KDE 2.1 now, but I really appreciate your input as I have been wanting to play with Pine for some time now. I just found the user friendliness of Kmail setup appealing. Pine seemed to be a bit more esoteric. Do you know of a good howto on it? Hmm. Not really. But there's extensive help included with it -- most anything, such as in the setup, only needs to be highlighted you hit ? to get more info. Go ahead open it up, keep an eye on the status lines at the bottom for different commands to enter, go to Setup, choose Config (at the opening menu, do s then c enter some info. You may want to take a look at a page on one of my sites which is mostly about setting up pine fetchmail: http://Aeon-AL.Com/LinuxHelp.html There's all sorts of other stuff I've put there so I don't easily lose it, it should get you up running. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] Tape drive scsi card
Hey, Finally, after long searching, I'm ready. Some months ago I was given an HP tape drive by the head of IS where I work. But I've not installed it because 1. he didn't have either a cable or a scsi card for it, 2. buying either a scsi cable to go from centronics to scsi 3 (the port I already have) costs round $65.00 or round $120.00 for a scsi II card (I already had a centronics to scsi II cable). Well, now (for no money) I have not only the exact scsi card the drive works with, but also the cable. So, I plan to attempt to get the drive working this weekend. Now, in fooling round last night with different boots, I'd found that the failsafe boot said something to the effect of looking for "new" hardware. With my scanner, I only know to set it up manually ( plan to look for the recommended cooker rpms this weekend as well). Is the failsafe boot an easier means of installiing new hardware? Or, if not, is there an easier way than doing so manually? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Emergency...solved
Hey, I've never seen 'em change by anything or anybody but the USER ; BTW what happened to my fonts? when i opened this post i am all of a sudden getting those giant dotted letters? but only in the kmail body, not any of the headers. While I can't address your bios thing, this bit is something I'd dealt with often in kmail. A little history: For years, when using shell accounts I'd got to know pine pretty well liked it. When I'd had done with Windows as any more than a gaming platform installed RedHat 6.0 (I'd been using RH 5.0 for a while on two boxes as a secondary OS), I used pine. But RedHat does some odd things sometimes I suddenly couldn't get pine to read the mail headers any longer (pine takes mail in whatever folder reformats the headers for its own purposes -- except it was no longer able to do that no matter what I'd done). In any case, I'd turned to kmail, as I have more than one mail account on more than one mail server. Well, the kmail which is with kde 1.0 (or is that 1.1?) really had some problems -- fonts only one of them. I'd even upgraded to kde 1.2 tried kmail there. Everything was going OK but occasionally would wind up with huge fonts. I finally got fed up with the little problems when any e-mail with pgp signatures would lock up X. I've not bothered since installing lm7.2 trying kmail since pine is doing fine. But I really have no desire to deal with it any longer anyway. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] hosts.allow Question Clarification
Hey, I have a few friends whom I share access to their linux boxes and in return I give them access to mine... it's a tit for tat thing. If I want to block everyone except certain IP's, how can I do that? While the previous post will get you what you're after under most circumstances, there might be trouble on occasion. I'd searched searched till I'd found an example on the Web which has simply not failed me. For hosts.allow: #allow everything inside of the network a few select others ALL: LOCAL, .yourdomain.com, 165.22.8.112, 207.109.85.60 #Give myself some access points in case DNS gets fucked in.telnetd: xxx.xx.xxx.xx in.telnetd: 207.109.85.60 in.telnetd: 165.22.8.112 in.ftpd: xxx.xx.xxx.xx in.ftpd: xxx.xx.xxx.xx in.ftpd: 207.109.85.60 in.ftpd: 165.22.8.112 Here, ALL indicates (basically) that anyone attempting is allowed, but LOCAL means that any with my domain (which is listed) two specific ip's (boxes I use at work) can access. But even if someone spoofed my domain, they'd still have to have a legitimate ip address (one of which is indicated where I have the x's), followed by each of those boxes at work which are allowed telnet ftp (though I can kill the telnet now I have ssh working). For hosts.deny: ALL: ALL This is what's called the paranoid set up. It tells the system that everyone is to be kept out unless there are specific entries in hosts.allow. Give this one a shot. And yes, you can use partial domains ip's -- just remember that if it's the second part (like yahoo.com) you have to lead it off with a . (so, .yahoo.com, or like near the end like 207.109.85.). Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] USB Question
Hey Aaron, I was in HardDrake seeing if my new network card was detected when I noticed something about my SmartCard Reader that I never noticed before. This is what it says in the infomation section of the device: Informations: This device hasn't been identified by HardDrake, please send [blah, blah, blah] My question is in order for me to send this in should create a file of what is contained in /proc/bus/ and attach it to the email? Well, yeah. Either, if the file's large (which it likely isn't), send it as an attachment. Or, as the info isn't likely much, open in your favourite text editor copy paste into the e-mail. The reason I don't hold much hope for you is that though some may have received responses to e-mails to MandrakeSoft, I've received nothing for those I'd sent due to things not found by HardDrake or the one I'd sent for something else from their site. Dunno, but you may be better off reading all you can find on your reluctant hardware maybe seeking help here /or subscribing to the Linux@eGroups (now Linux@YahooGroups) posting there. Good luck, Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Plustek/Silitek scanners
Uli, I don't know anything about Silitek but the Plustek parallel port scanners work very well with linux (even better than with windows because the system is not blocked during scanning). You should install the following rpms: sane-1.0.4-1mdk sane-frontends-1.0.4-1mdk libsane1-1.0.4-1mdk sane-backends-1.0.4-1mdk Then get from http://home.t-online.de/home/g-jaeger/plustek.html the appropiate driver plustek-sane-0_37_23.tar.gz put this file in a new directory e.g. plustek tar zxvf plustek-sane-0_37_23.tar.gz cd plustek_driver make su make install read the INSTALL-File for the modification of /etc/modules.conf Do you know where I can get sane 1.0.4-1? I can find from sane's site an ftp for lm rpm's, but that has only 1.0.3-2 rpmfind has the same. I use the cooker-RPMs. To use them with ML 7.2 you probably must take the src-RPMs and rebuild them. Ah. OK. I'll check it out. Thanks. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Plustek/Silitek scanners
Uli, Meph Istopheles wrote: Now it's my turn to ask about scanners. In any case, in lm7.2, everything, of course, is rpm. Trouble is, the module for the Plustek (parallel) requires first installing the module into the sane directory then recompiling sane. Uh, is there a way to do that with an rpm? Otherwise, which tar version of sane would I get? The doc on the module doesn't go into that. Meph ...the Plustek parallel port scanners work very well with linux (even better than with windows because the system is not blocked during scanning). Excellent. Thought I'd installed W98 over my W2k last night (got to go into Windows in a few to get some stuff installed see if my dos games can find the sound card). My girl friend I are each dual-booting on our boxes, but she spends little time in Windows, I would likely only go there for games. I hated having to put the scanner there -- not only for the reason you state above -- because, with the scanner between our desks, Linux will allow scanning from either box -- Winows won't. You should install the following rpms: sane-1.0.4-1mdk sane-frontends-1.0.4-1mdk libsane1-1.0.4-1mdk sane-backends-1.0.4-1mdk Then get from http://home.t-online.de/home/g-jaeger/plustek.html the appropiate driver plustek-sane-0_37_23.tar.gz put this file in a new directory e.g. plustek tar zxvf plustek-sane-0_37_23.tar.gz cd plustek_driver make su make install read the INSTALL-File for the modification of /etc/modules.conf Too cool. Thank you. I'll check that out this after noon:-). Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Win2000 Partition
Note also that I've used it on NT 4.0 in more than one install on one of two with W2k have yet to run into trouble. Yes, it ~is~ experimental, but what isn't?;-) Meph Note that it is _not_ recommended to enable NTFS write access. I always used to use a small FAT partition as a transfer area between linux and NT. -- Has this been addressed yet? If not How can I set LM7.2 to see a Win2000 partition? This depends upon two things: 1. What format you'd chosen to install W2k on (ntfs or fat32) 2. Depending upon your answer to 1., how your kernel's compiled. [...] Now, as to the kernel issue, if you attempt to save a file to your /win directory get an error that that is not permitted, you'll have to recompile your kernel for ntfs rw. Ask if you don't know anything about recompiling. -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Trying to download mail from a server running postfix
Christian, I've setup postfix on a mdk 7.2 server but I'm having problems downloading mails from it, when I try to download via fetchmail I get: snap [number1@liquid number1]$ fetchmail -p POP3 -u number1 borg.deltacomputers.no Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1 message for number1 at borg.deltacomputers.no (768 octets). reading message 1 of 1 (768 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from borg.deltacomputers.no fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) /snap Anybody got a clue what might be wrong or what logs I should look at to find it out ? Only a clue, sorry. I'd recently been at postfix's Web site am pretty sure I'd seen something about this in their support docs...maybe a faq. I think though... Do I have to setup something in the postfix configs to allow downloading of mail? ...it's something to do with your loopback. I've read of something which I think was simillar with sendmail that if in...um, I can't think of the file, but it lists only loopback host name in /etc (/etc/hosts?). Sometimes the order of the two is wrong. As for a file which ~might~ show something wrong, try /etc/postfix/main.cf Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] Plustek/Silitek scanners
Morning, Now it's my turn to ask about scanners. I have two I've yet to get working in either Linux or W2k (I may be onto something with the Silitek in W2k, but I'm waiting on a response from someone on that). In any case, in lm7.2, everything, of course, is rpm. Trouble is, the module for the Plustek (parallel) requires first installing the module into the sane directory then recompiling sane. Uh, is there a way to do that with an rpm? Otherwise, which tar version of sane would I get? The doc on the module doesn't go into that. Then, for the Silitek (usb), I've come by so little (Silitek doesn't really know what support is, their site doesn't open any longer). Anyone know how I could get either (or both) of these working? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] CUPS
Michael, I have an unsupported epson printer. I know that! But I would really like to see if, like the LM Hardware site says, it will "work in text mode". What you're looking to set up is printcap using (I suppose) postscript (a printer font -- there's more involved, but I don't know a lot about printers). It is an Epson Stylus Scan 2000, and I have tried the main drivers from the updated cups list... any clues? Hmm. I don't know this printer at all, but I'd fooled with a couple of different DeskJets before finally having success in lm7.2 using Cups with a LazerJet. First, I'd recommend checking the (horribly outdated) hardware compatibility list. Weather you find it there or not, go from there to the Printer HowTo. You'll find them both at: http://www.linuxdoc.org I can only remember from having read the howto long ago that most printers can be made to function -- at least minimally -- via postscript. It's just a matter of a little file editing all the info is in the howto for copy paste. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Setting the time
Hey Fred, Does anyone know how to sync the time with an atomic clock Try this: # date -s world.std.com also my time always seems to be off by 1 hour, even if I select DST in linuxconf, any ideas? Well, I'd seen this -- some time ago -- in the linux@egroups list. I think that it turns out to be a bios thing. Have you checked to be sure the time is set correctly there? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Win2000 Partition
Hey, Has this been addressed yet? If not How can I set LM7.2 to see a Win2000 partition? This depends upon two things: 1. What format you'd chosen to install W2k on (ntfs or fat32) 2. Depending upon your answer to 1., how your kernel's compiled. If you'd installed W2k on ntfs, enter this in /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 /winntfs user,exec,umask=0 0 0 If you'd installed on w32, enter this: /dev/hda1 /winvfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 Then create a directory off of / called win (you can name this anything you'd like so long as you name it the same in fstab, but win is simple easier to type). Now, as to the kernel issue, if you attempt to save a file to your /win directory get an error that that is not permitted, you'll have to recompile your kernel for ntfs rw. Ask if you don't know anything about recompiling. Also, while you probabaly have your W2k partition at the beginning of your dirve, /dev/hda1, you may not would have to determine what you'd enter there instead. But hda1 is pretty likely. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] Cron root@Ra-Hoor run-parts /etc/cron.daily (fwd)
Hey, I keep getting this: -- Forwarded message -- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron root@Ra-Hoor run-parts /etc/cron.daily From: Cron Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 04:03:22 -0800 (PST) DB2 problem...: missing or empty key value specified It shows up in my mail box (aliased from root) every morning. I suspect it has something to do with the slocate package I'd installed, but I'd installed it maybe three weeks before this started showing. I also went edited cron.daily removed some seemingly superfulous info about directories, but that's back. I'd love to do away with whatever the problem is. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] can't view ntfs
Hey, Hi, thanks that I could install my LM7.2 and W2K in the same hard disk without any trouble and with grub as the boot manager! Well, let's say with "some" trouble. I too ran into trouble with ntfs. When I'd installed lm7.2 on my girlfriend's box, I'd alrady an existing dual-boot between RedHat 6.0 W2k. That install, deleting the RedHat partition installing lm7.2, went fine rw access to w2k existed without any special work from me except during the lm install. When I went to do the same on my Dell 500MHz box, I'd gone from a RedHat 6.0 only to dual-boot lm7.2 W2k. After the first attempt where W2k decided that it didn't want to install on the first, 10GB, partition installed on the second, 17GB, partition, I started over just setting up a 10GB partition leaving the remaining unformatted. Got eveything installed , wouldn't you know it, I couldn't mount the W2k partition rw -- it would only allow ro. I'd even planned to recompile my kernel to be sure that the ntfs rw module installed. I didn't bother though. I'm getting another scanner (eventually) from my father, so I'd reinstalled W2k on vfat to make things siimpler since W2k, now, is only for Windows DOS games -- once I get the scanner, if it doesn't work in Linux, I should be able to get something out of W2k. May be I have to install something. I would suggest you recompile. There are two ntfs kernel modules -- one is ro, the other (though considered experimental, I've used it with both NT 4.0 W2k without any trouble) is rw. You want to be sure both are set to install -- not just probe -- at boot. If you'd like, after you do some reading (if you've never compiled a kernel), I can send you a short explanation the easy steps tonight. Lemme know. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] can't view ntfs
Emilio, Ok it would be very usefull to install this modules and to recompile my kernel in order to view ntfs in LM7.2, I accept because I have never done it. Thanks No problem. Now, though trouble rarely occurse, be sure to back up your data first. And be sure to read my instructions to the end before you begin. If you've not installed your kernel source (ls -al /usr/src/linux-2.2.17 or whatever version of the kernel you have in /usr/src) do so from your CD now. Log out of XWindows , log out as user, log in as root open X, in a terminal type after the #: 1. # cd /usr/src/linux-2.2.17 2. # make xconfig In here, you'll mostly just want to look round become familiar (to some degree) with the layout -- someday you'll be coming in to make specific changes for new hardware. For now, you want to go to the OS tab (it may be a little different in your version), scroll down to the section for NT/W2k/ntfs, etc (it will likely read ntfs). There are two settings. The first, which is already set to load, is for read only access. There is another there for read/write access (you may find it in another sub section, requiring you click a button to get to it). Click on the option to load the module at boot as opposed to probing (I don't think it'll even allow probing, so just "turn it on". OK or save out close. 3. # make dep 4. # make clean 5. # make bzimage 6. # make modules 7. # make modules_install Each of these from number 5 will take a little time, so be prepared. There's one last step, but if you want to continue using grub as your boot loader instead of lilo, you'll have to read the grub documentation. You see, for those of us who prefer (or only use) lilo, the next step is to tell lilo (if grub, it's telling grub) that you've a new kernel. This, with lilo, is done by: 8. # make bzlilo I don't know the command for grub. Sorry. You shouldn't have any trouble. Once you've finished rebooted, try cd'ing to your W2k directory. Once there, do this: either as user or root (user might be better, but if root can do it, there's just a matter of making a few changes to some things). Now type: pico test press your Enter key. Type a few characters do Ctrl x to close pico. Then pico asks if you want to save the changes. Press y for yes press Enter to save it as "test". Now, watch the status line to see if pico saves the file or tells you it can't. There's no reason it shouldn't save the file, but if you'd done so as user, su to root try it again. If it still won't save, the partition isn't in r/w mode. So, cd to roots home, umount your W2k directory, check /etc/fstab to be sure fstab says to mount in r/w mode (the last bit on the line for your W2k partition should read something like this: user,exec,umask=0 0 0 If it is different, change it to what's above. Remount the W2k partition try it again. Should be fine:-). Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Scanner
I have a UMAX Astra 1220S scanner with a SCSI... Man, a few months ago I was looking all over for one of those, but the scsi version was nowhere to be found except on e-bay, I missed out on them. How can installed ??? Anyway, at the time I was looking for one, I was running RedHat 6.0. So, I don't know for a fact that setting it up under DrakeConf will make it work, but there are drivers for it in sane -- the Linux scanner drivers. I don't have a scanner on my lm7.2, but I just did a locate for sane, it's installed. Try through DrakeConf first. If it won't work, turn to the sane docs. It ~is~ supported;-). Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Scanner
Seb, does anyone know how to get a Scanmaker e3 plus to work in LM 7.2 ? It's parralllel Have you tried first, DrakeConf? I've never heard of this manufacturer, but if it's there, you're set. Second would be to check the Linux /or sane hardware compatibility docs. Like the last scanner question, there are two possibilities. Keep in mind though, 1. parallel scanners are slow, 2. even if you can find no listing of compatibility, you may be able to get, at least, ~some~ of the capabilities (particularly the ability to ~at least~ scan) with drivers for other hardware. A scanner is like most any other piece of hardware -- if one driver doesn't work, there may be another. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
RE: [newbie] Mandrake and Winnt
Bob, Yup, I did read that, and a bunch more... http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/MultiOS-HOWTO.html The how to, although having plenty of good info, does not address win/2000 or nt at all since the author had neither. Sorry. Thought I mentioned that. The reason I'd suggested it was for pointers. Much of the information really does apply to any multi-boot install, yet each carries certain "gotchya's" best addressed if when they come up. I have noticed though, that the howto's are being (albeit slowly) updated, there are new additions as well. I can't imagine it will be long before there will be Linux/W2k howto. Think how it was when the few existing howto's weren't being updated at all. Worse, way beck when there were ~only~ a few. With the growing popularity of Linux, the maintainers of the doc project have realized that they too have to do more than archive out-dated material. I talked to ops in linux-mandrake on irc and there are differences in the nt boot as compared to win/2000. I don't recall the details. Hmm. Well, yes...from what I vaguely remember from the time I'd dual-booted with NT4 (though only for a short time -- I don't much care for NT, let alone Windows). But the differences are worked out as one goes. I'm by no means ~that~ good with Linux, but I've learned a lot from trial error, trial success. And with the fact Windows OS's have often to be reinstalled for whatever reason, one picks it all up. I don't think its anything for 98% of the newbie type people I know to mess with. Hopefully, the other 2% are wise enough to be doing it on a spare disk drive. This is always the safest thing -- particularly with any Windows as the other OS, though I admit that I've managed a pretty stable dual-boot last RH 6.0/W98 now on two boxes with lm7.2/W2k. It has a great deal to do with how Windows installed. It doesn't matter than the box may not have changed between installs -- Windows ( I've noticed that RH 5.0 6.0 to a lesser degree) installs differently each time it's installed. If it isn't especially stable to begin with (all things considered), it won't help your Linux at all. But, though you are ( I am) taking your chances dual-booting on a single drive, things are getting better. I made the mistake of trying to multiboot using space I had left free once a few years ago and lost it all (my live partition, with all my apps and code and financial stuff) in a goofed partitioning program or via my error, I'll never know. It happens to everyone -- it's not necessarily operator error. The first time I installed lm7.2, my W2k had installed oddly on D instead of C. I figured that since both W2k lm7.2 were smart enough to install anywhere on a hard drive, I'd just install lm on the first partiton. During the lm intall, I'd specifially clicked only on the first partiont to format the first, free, partition only. You guessed it -- it formatted the entire drive. Just goes to show that even a smart OS/install app can screw up. I gotta say, though, Linux newbies in particular, seem to rarely be real newbie types like the one I deal with all day, everyday. Heh. If I understand you right, you're talking about the average Windows end-user as opposed to an end-user who'd at least connected to a Unix server via telnet...so to speak. I think one has to be a bit more a geek to even try Linux, let alone try it stick with it. What I don't get is all this talk of a steep learning curve. It's only a very short time that anyone attempting a Unix/Linux remains lost. I've known people who knew nothing beyond point click in Windows who'd learned how to deal with occasionally useing the command line (without too much whining;-) in very short order. A Linux newbie is simply not a 'puter newbie. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] VMWare license
Hey, OK. Maybe my last query on this was just too damned wordy;-). Where is the license.txt for VMWare? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Terratec sound card with CS4624
Does anyone Know how can i install the Terratec DMX XFire 1024 sound card? (CS 4624) I have a Crystal Audio card which uses the cs4624 (I think -- HardDrake can't seem to figure it out). I got shound working first with a lesser module, but later with the right one. Do a CTL+ALT+F2 (if you're in X), log in as root run: # /sbin/sndconfig If sndconfig can't set it properly, you can always set the options manually. I'd start with the Crystal Audio listing, but you may have to go through a few in the list till you find one that works if your card isn't supported. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Scanner
Do you know of a decent scanning suite? I don't know if you're familar with Pagis Pro for windows, but I could really use something like that for Linux. Sorry. I've only recently come by a scanner. It's one of the Silitek's not supported either by sane or W2k (though the driver for W2k supposed makes it so -- no such luck). I'll be getting another from my father soon which is supported by sane, anyway. As for suites, I can only say that I've seen mention in this the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list of a few, but I can't say I remember their names. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] drakxtools
The average income in very small towns like trout creek montana (9 hours from seattle at 90mph) You're neglection the variable time involved on the shoulder of the 90 while the trooper writes you up lectures you on speeding;-). Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
RE: [newbie] Mandrake and Winnt
At 20-01-2001 +0800, you wrote: Can Linux Mandrake dual-boot with Windows 2000? And how to do so?( i have heared that linux's bootloader cannot boot Winows nt) FYI http://www.maximum.inux.com/howtos/howto/2000_05_23/quad_boot.html With or without that link, while you really ought to read the multi-boot howto's at http://www.linuxdoc.org, it's not difficult. The safest thing when setting up a dual- or multi-boot box with any form of M$ (though I don't know if anyone's had the same trouble with SCO) is to be sure the M$ product is installed first. The howtos will tell you how to do so otherwise, but it is recommended M$ go first. From experience with dual-booting RedHat 6.0 W9x, WNT4.0 or W2k, as well as dual-booting LM7.2 W2k, when you install the Linux, it should (, in most cases, will) find that you have another OS installed will allow you to either delete that partition or to use other, unused space. After partitioning the unused space installing, you'll get to the boot set-up. Here you'll tell the system what boot loader to use. The first time you boot, you'll likely not have access to your M$ partition. So, once booted logged into your LM as root, you'll have to do a couple of things. If you'd chosen to use the Grub (default) boot loader, you'll open DrakConf, go to the boot tools icon set that up with your M$ partition. You can call it anything you'd like, but will find it helpful later if you keep it something simple, like win. After that, in a terminal or graphical editor, open /etc/fstab enter a line like this: /dev/hda1 /winvfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 The /dev/hdaX is whatever drive (in this case, after installing W2k first, likely hda1), the /win is the name you've given your W2k partition, the rest is easy access technicalities you can alter by reading the howto's to make more to your liking. After that, as root at the prompt, type: # mkdir /win or whatever you've decided to call your W2k partition in /etc/fstab, reboot. Of course, you don't actually ~have~ to reboot, you can simply enter: # mount /win you're set, but rebooting will let you see all the pretty icons in Grub or the lovely green or red indicators in lilo:-). Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] w3m
Hey, Does anyone here use the text browser w3m? I'd used it as my primary browser in RedHat 6.0 am using the 586 mdk rpm in lm7.2. I'd first installed the rpm to find that it appears to install the japanese version, but setting the English after it's installed doesn't fix what I get. There are numerous odd characters on most pages making some of them almost unreadable. These characters are mostly accented foreign characters, many -- but not all -- are where table boarders go. Even in the Options window, all the names of the different settings are odd characters, but I'd figured out by that window the config file how to get most of the options I want. Later, I'd removed the rpm installed the latest tar which allows some of the config on the command line -- like the language setting. That did the same. Sadly, removing that installing a previous tar release does this too. I'd even tried different terminal fonts. It's always the same. Gotta tell ya, life without java, java script advertising makes the Web a lot easier to deal with, but lynx (even the latest version) leaves much to be desired that w3m does nicely. Any ideas? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] can't switch consoles, why?
Hey Ty, ...I haven't been able to figure out in Mandrake 7.2 is why can't I switch consoles using the norml ctrl alt f1-f7? I'm not in xwindows when attemtping to do this... When I try nothing happens... I might suggest that you might just be impatient. I've noticed that there's some sort of delay. Have you, say, done the usual, but actually lifted your fingers off of Ctl Alt waited a couple of seconds? When first in lm, I wasn't expecting any dealy went through all the F keys before I'd tried lifting off the keys waiting before succeeding in switching consols. FWIW. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie]Problem opening photo attachments
Harcia, Dear All, Someone sent me some photos in BMP format and I cannot find a way to open them. Is there a way to do this? I have Netscape 4.75 and LM7.2. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Marcia If you'd not quite figured it out from the previous guy's response, NS Communicator doens't support bmp (why, when it's probablay the oldest, remaining image format, I'll never understand). You'll have to save it open it in any one of your image viewers/editors. I use gqview for most stuff, ee for quick, command line views the gimp for editing. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] configuring LILO.
Sean, Klilo keeps telling me my Hd is too big for it to reconfigure the boot sequence, and although I've edited lilo.conf I still can't get my machine to boot into the win partition by default, lilo seems to be ignoring the edit I've done. Have I missed something? Here's the first bit of lilo.conf: boot = /dev/hda map = /boot/map timeout = 50 prompt message = /boot/message default = linux That last line should read whatever you've name your Windows partition in /etc/fstab. If you've done that, it's still not working, try editing the file again, but this time, as root, run: # /sbin/lilo That, instead of using klilo, should do it. Meph PS Speaking of lilo, anyone know why grub would still come up during boot if /sbin/lilo has been run? It's not supposed to. And what's this: menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw I don't even remember any "menu-scheme" in RH's lilo. If it was there, I suppose it was blank. Could this be why grub still comes up? -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] problem with nvidia tnt2 m64
It's been a while since I'd read the docs, but I'm sure I'd installed it on the recommendation set there. Evidently, it was necessary in RH 6.0 for me to play the one accelerated game I could even compile -- Quake II. It also had a positive effect in lm7.2, as I can now get acceleration in a few games which before lagged for very long periods before indicating they'd not actually crashed;-). Meph Isn't glide for 3dfx based video cards ? Meph Istopheles wrote: Hey, Don't really wanna "horn" in, but I've a similar situation with my Diamond Viper 770D (it's got the tnt2 chip). With XFree4.01 it's almost dead. I'd installed the glide module some games picked up, but (I suppose those not using glide) are unchanged. Switched to the other XFree 3.xx?) with lm7.2, have little change. -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
RE: [newbie] problem with nvidia tnt2 m64
Hey, Don't really wanna "horn" in, but I've a simillar situation with my Diamond Viper 770D (it's got the tnt2 chip). With XFree4.01 it's almost dead. I'd installed the glide module some games picked up, but (I suppose those not using glide) are unchanged. Switched to the other XFree 3.xx?) with lm7.2, have little change. Meph I have the same card running under XServer 4.01 and in an AMD Duron 800mhz box it is rather fast. Please give more details of your system and I will try to help you. Regards, Ron -- Original Message -- it's so damn slow under ms windows its really fast please help me out -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] problem with nvidia tnt2 m64
Hey Nev, Sorry for butting in as well - but I too have a diamond viper 770 and I just came off SuSE to mandrake. In SuSE I had to download the latest drivers nvdriver.rpm and nv_glx.rpm and activate the 3D part of it in the XF86Config - and ensure the nvidia was selected in preference to nv. Apparently the nv drivers do not work with the drivers from Nvidia. I still have the info with me and I'm not sure how relevant this is to md7.2. Please send it on over. After many hassles on other subjects when I'd ran RH 6.0 ( a Dell altered version of it, at that), I'm rather reluctant to install such things without ~lots~ of docs. Thanks, Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Getting support
Yes it is. [Snipped a bunch of very important but unnecessary stuff];-) For my money I thing Mandrake is really triying, while other distro's are not. So Mandrake keep up the good work. Dude (et al), I apologize to have given the impression that I don't care for lm's support. I've been using Linux for some time, though I'm still something of a newbie in many areas. I'm very pleased with Mandrake in comparison to RedHat will only -- after many months or possibly years -- leave Mandrake to go bsd (which has been my plan since RedHat 5.0 got released installed on two 'puters I was using then). So, yeah. I'm all for it will wait with all the patience I can manage for some response. But I'm a misanthropist very cynical. Just my nature. A very important lesson for us all: Don't ever let your children become end-user support technicians -- they'll hate you everyone else for it;-). Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] still working on windows D drive
Jay wrote: /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hdb2/mnt/DOS_hdb2 vfat So I think you should have: /dev/hdb2 /mnt/DOS_hdb2 vfat rw 0 0 If I'm not mistaken, you have to create /mnt/DOS_hdb2 before this will work. I *think* I used "touch /mnt/DOS_hdb2 but I'm not sure. I am sure that mkdir /mnt/DOS_hdb2 would be better. touch creates a file, you need a directory for a mountpoint. Paul Paul, you're right. My only problem with all this is that having to key in /mnt/whatever is annoying when not necessary. I'm not away of there being any problem making mountpoints off / like /win. That way, you not only save yourself a little typing, but have a meaningful shortcut to the actual device (which I think is the whole point). Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Mouse wheel not running
Francisco, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again; My home computer has a Genius NetScroll+ mouse. Mandrake 7.2 install my mouse as a generic PS2 and the wheel just runs as a third button. If I select the Genius NetScroll then the pointer stop on the top of the screen and doesn't run. Does anyone know how to install this mouse wheel? Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) And from Aston: i haven't tried it yet, but i found this reply on www.linuxnewbie.org For scrollwheel, add "ZAxisMapping 4 5" to the 'pointers' section of XF86Config. Some apps (i.e. Netscape) require imwheel to be running for scrollwheel support. Here is my XF86Config: Section "Pointer" Protocol "MouseManPlusPS/2" Device "/dev/psaux" SampleRate 100 Resolution 200 ZAxisMapping 4 5 Buttons 4 EndSection !-- end quote -- aston sydney, australia You know, back when I'd started in RH 5.0 ( even now in lm7.2 to a degree), editing XFree86 files was very intimidating. If you feel this way as well, you might find it easier to use the gui in drakconf. Try either the M$ wheel mouse or the Logitech mouse setting. Back in RH 5.0 6.0, I'd only had the M$ option, it worked in the few apps where the wheel was supported. One of the two will likely work fine for you. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Getting support
Hey, I've registered my 7.2 and posted a question dated 12 Dec 2000. Till date I've not gotten any response from Mandrake. Anyone with a similar problem getting help from Mandrake? Well, while I've not actually posted via their site, I've issues with two of my cards (Diamond Viper 770D a Crystal Audio sound card (cs4236) had sent the info requested in drakconf to some MandrakeSoft address a few weeks ago. I've heard nothing from them but the auto-responder to let me know they'd got each of the e-mails. So, is MandrakeSoft any better at support than, say, M$? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] still working on windows D drive
Tom, I'm not aware of there being any problem making mountpoints off / like /win. That way, you not only save yourself a little typing, but have a meaningful shortcut to the actual device (which I think is the whole point). I favor doing this too. I always move my Windoze HDD (hda) out of /mnt. I currently mount it on /c. When I had a fat32 partition on hdb (my Linux HDD), I mounted it as /d. This is 'specially nice with supermount, since you don't have the pause while supermount checks your removable media drives (eg, floppy, CD, CD-RW) for inserted media. IIRC, the multi-disk howto also recommends mounting drives/partitions directly off '/' , to improve disk performance, tho I've never seen a difference. I think I remember something being mentioned in the howto about that too, but I'm certainly not one to follow ~all~ the advice in howto's;-). As for performance, my internal zip was off of / in RH, but lm7.2 installed it in /mnt. I don't really mind, but you're right, there seems to be no difference in boot time. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Getting support
I've heard nothing from them but the auto-responder to let me know they'd got each of the e-mails. So, is MandrakeSoft any better at support than, say, M$? I sent in an e-mail for support and got a response back in about 24 hours. That's cool. Wonder if they'll come up with anything for my issues. If you've been reading, I'd got the sound working -- for about a week. Then it suddenly got slow. Now, when resetting everything, all I get are clicks. ...One day. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] Forwarded mail.... (fwd)
Hey,
Below is the second odd e-mail I've received siince instlaling
lm7.2 (was in RH6.0 before). The headers imply that this ~was~
send from my box, but I'm confused as to what would be sending
e-mail to "undisclosed recipients" why the From field would
read "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" when I've never used the whole of
the rfc address in the many years I've had an account with my Web
host.
So, anyone (civileme?) know what's up with this?
Meph
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:04:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Meph Istopheles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Steve Hovey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Forwarded mail
Steve, what do you make of this?
It came to me today had some sort of attachment:
-- Forwarded message --
From meph Wed Jan 10 11:38:32 2001
Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by Ra-Hoor.Aeon-AL.Com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FEB037496
for meph@localhost; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:38:32 -0800 (PST)
Received: from mail.buffnet.net [205.246.19.62]
by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.5.2)
for meph@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:38:32 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:38:32 -0800 (PST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
# $Id: hosts,v 1.9 1998/04/16 14:37:19 joerg Exp $
#
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# This file should contain the addresses and aliases
# for local hosts that share this file.
# In the presence of the domain name service or NIS, this file may
# not be consulted at all; see /etc/host.conf for the resolution order.
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# 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
# 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
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# In case you want to be able to connect to the Internet, you need
# real official assigned numbers. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not try
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"I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody."
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[newbie] Terminal window dupes
Hey, I've never seen this happen in SunOS, RedHat 5.0, or RedHat 6.0. What's the deal? Lately, I'm finding that if I open my pine in a terminal window either opening at start of E or afterward, that ( only that) terminal window duplicates itself on all four of my main desktops. Worse, if I close pine in any one of them, it's closed in all. I've another terminal windows on desktop four opening when E opens acting normally. The only changes I've made recently are having run /sbin/lilo a few times ( still getting grub in spite of this being the instruction to get rid of grub), I'd removed reinstalled xmms thinking that a problem with sound lay there also installed kmp3, , finally, fooled round with both /sbin/sndconfig with sound in drakconf to no avail. Now I have no sound at all, but I'll address that in another post. Any idea what could cause a terminal window to auto-duplicate on each desktop? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] Another day, another sound problem
Morning, After having struggled for some days trying to get my Crystal Audio (CS4236B) working, I'd finally succeeded by using /sbin/sndconfig with the first of the ESS modules then using drakconf to configure specifically for CCrystal PnP Audio System CODEC (CS4232) module. Things were great for days. Then, last night, I went to listen to an mp3 found it wouldn't play -- it just repeated the first noise over over. After removing reinstalling xmms, I'd opened kmp3 to get the same. Next, I tried RealPlayer. RealPlayer could manage to move continually, but very slowly. I tried a couple of radio stations I like off the Web got nasty clicks inconsistant flow. I then opened drakconf to find that my sound settings were off. I reset them no change. I tried running /sbin/sndconfig's ESS it wouldn't work. I even tried ~every~ listing in sndconfig which offered irq 11 ( quite a few others which didn't on differet irq settings) -- still nothing. What could cause this, how might I fix it? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Terminal window dupes
Hey John, Any idea what could cause a terminal window to auto- duplicate on each desktop? That's a similar problem to one I have I'll click on an application icon and get multiple occurrances opened up. Tom reminded me of something I remember reading long ago that the "stickY" state of a window, if "remembered" or saved, will put it on all your desktops. So, next you have it open, check the window settings to see if sticky is set. If so, turn it off. Worked for me. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Grub
Hey Alan, Mephit appears that on this execution of lilo, lilo was written to the MBR of hda. Have you tried rebooting since running it? Finally took the time (Well, time ~is~ limited during the week, after all) to reboot. I'm still getting grub. I don't get it at all. Is just removing all of grub advisable? Also, I'd made a boot disk tested it. Works fine runs lilo all the way through. Only trouble is, once at the command prompt, the font logo are larger. Instead of taking maybe a third of this 20" of viewable space, it's taking now more than two thirds. Is there a way to change this? I mean, 1. I hardly need such large fonts, 2. do I really need to be reminded that I'm running Linux? In relation to this, why isn't the info in issu issue.net which comes up on the screen considered a security issue? If you tell people exactly what you're running when they attempt to log in, they'll know how to enter commands, right? With RH 6.0, I couldn't get it to stop doing that because both issue files would just append what I'd type in them to what showed up on the screen. Any way to change this behaviour in lm7.2? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Mail delayed
Hey Dennis, Thanks for the reply Meph No problem. I find it a little annoying that it takes so long. But I suspect it may be Mandrakesoft's "answer" to duplicate posts. They'll get it right eventually. I was afraid I had broken something again. I tend to fool around with this OS and it's peripherals alot. That's how you learn. Break it. Fix it. Break it again. You realise what you'd done wrong stop doing it;-). As an example I have something messed up in Netscape now where the tool bars are all monochromatic (black) no depth no color. Easy to fix. I'm light sensitive need dark or black backgrounds bright fonts. Netscape is motiff-based (I know little about motiff, but any motiff app's appearance can easily be altered), so all you need is the right wording set in your .Xdefaults. Here're the pertinent settings (I think these are the ones -- I too have fooled with lots of Netscape settings right down to Netscape's global settings files) for Netscape's backgrounds: ~/.Xdefaults !# General FG/BG for menus and borders Netscape*background: #00 Netscape*foreground: #ff In this example, I've an html code for a black backtground bright blue fonts for the foreground. You can use any html code here. If you don't know the codes off the top of your head, just do a search for html color on the Web -- there a bags of pages. Lemme know if you'd like more. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Look and Feel in applications in MDK7.2
Hey, I don't know if it's the way I have set up the look. I have noticed that Netscape and other applications still have a stark, knobby look to the drop down menus. It's not your config. Some apps aren't effected by either gnome's or kde's colour configs. To get most of the rest (there will be a few still not changing), you'll need to add things to your ~/.Xdefaults file. I'd found so many pages on the Web trying to find other settings for Netscape by searching google.com/linux for "xdefaults" and "netscape". You'll find even more pages with setting for various apps just by searching for "xdefaults". The Look and Feel for the buttons and bars have greatly been improved. The edges aren't as sharp looking. Get some either kde or gtk (or both) themes. The stock stuff looks really bad, but there are some really good ones at either kde, or gtk-themes.org. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Realplayer question?
Ronald, I went to a site that uses realplayer, and I got a dialog box saying that it had expired. I followed the links back to www.real.com, but they only have (that I could find) a new version 8 of RealPlayer for Unix. Its an RPM, so I d/l'ed it, and tried to install it, but it says its not the same architecture. Sounds like Real Audio's tactics. Like Netscape, they just love to hide the stuff you want force you into upgrades which don't work properly. Chances are, your realplayer is fine. Did you try opening it, say, from the command line (type realplay) play some known URL? I've found that this works when I get those errors. So...how can I get a new version that works, or where can I find the older version 7 since it worked fine on my setup. If all else fails, try http://www.rpmfind.net search it out. They usually have everything. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Still no RealPlayer?
Okay, I grabbed RealPlayer v7 from RPMfind.net, and installed it. Went thru the installation routine. It still blows up a dialog box saying my copy has expired just as soon as I run it. Can anyone tell me what file(s) I need to delete so that it doesn't see itself as an expired copy, even after a fresh installation? You know, now I think about it, I remember running into this back in RH 6.0. I only remember going through what you are now. But I'm pretty sure I'd put the text of the error in google found a bunch of results from mailing lists. Give it a shot, maybe someone had posted the steps /or files. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] Grub
Hey, I'd mentioned this before, but I'm not sure anyone noticed;-). For a few reasons, I want to boot with lilo instead of grub. Civileme had told me what the grub faq confirms that all I had to do was run /sbin/lilo (as one would do in any other distro to load lilo), but having done this rebooted, grup still loads at the 2nd stage. So, short of deleting all things grub rerunning /sbin/lilo, is there anything else? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Grub
Irwan, At 02:17 PM 1/1/01 -0800, Meph Istopheles wrote: Hey, I'd mentioned this before, but I'm not sure anyone noticed;-). For a few reasons, I want to boot with lilo instead of grub. Civileme had told me what the grub faq confirms that all I had to do was run /sbin/lilo (as one would do in any other distro to load lilo), but having done this rebooted, grup still loads at the 2nd stage. So, short of deleting all things grub rerunning /sbin/lilo, is there anything else? well if so, probably you need to change the lilo.conf a little bit, just add # for example, and run lilo or if it doesn't work then remove the grub ;) Hmm. Adding a #? Here's my lilo.conf. Admittedly, there are some lines here I don't recognize from RH. Is this where grub's coming in? Maybe the menu-scheme? Attached is my lilo.conf, copied to my /home directory. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux boot = /dev/hda map = /boot/map timeout = 50 prompt message = /boot/message default = linux vga = normal root = /dev/hda5 read-only install=/boot/boot.b keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image = /boot/vmlinuz-smp label = linux vga = 788 image = /boot/vmlinuz label = linux-up image = /boot/vmlinuz label = failsafe append = " failsafe" other = /dev/fd0 label = floppy unsafe other = /dev/hda1 label = win
