Re: [newbie] Apache and PHP
You should add two packages: mod_php and php-mysql. M. On Saturday 14 April 2001 06:54, Dave Sherman wrote: Hi all, Has anyone here installed Apache and PHP on their Mandrake system? I installed the rpms, and Apache is working. I can bring up the default page, and I also configured it to read out of user 'www' directories on a ~username request. But when I went to add the lines in httpd.conf for PHP, I started getting errors. Specifically, it appears that the PHP module does not exist. I can find a php binary in /usr/bin, and there are a couple of PHP extensions in /usr/lib/php (for mySql and something else, IIRC). However, there does not appear to be a libphp4.so, or whatever the file is called that Apache is looking for. I can get more details if anyone needs them. But what I really would like is a how-to so I can do it myself. The Apache and PHP docs all assume that I am going to compile the source myself, but I assume that since Mandrake included the rpms, that this is not necessary. So, any pointers? Dave -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Visual Basic 6 for Linux?!?!
Hi... You might find this is what you're looking for: http://www.janus-software.com/ Cheers. M. On Monday 19 March 2001 09:29, Andrei Raevsky wrote: I realize that this question might be "anathema" for all Microsoft haters out there. But being I newbie - I get to ask it anyway: is there a way to program for Linux using Visual Basic 6? Or is there a VB6-"like" integrated development environment for Linux? If not - what is the closest thing? How can a VB programmer apply his skills in the Linux world? Thanks! _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Major Leakage.
You should probably rebuild your RPM database with this command: rpm --rebuilddb M. On Saturday 17 March 2001 17:25, Ozz wrote: Hi Guys. I have just re-installed Mandrake Linux 7.2 on my laptop. I re-partitioned as follows: hda1 - 144Mb - Suspend. hda2 - 6.19Gb - Linux Extended; contains: hda5 - 15Mb - /boot hda6 - 128Mb - Swap hda7 - 6.05Gb - / Obviously, having re-installed from my original CDs, there were a lot of updates that needed to be applied. So, I struck up my trusty MandrakeUpdate program, which listed about 90 rpms totalling about 310Mb. However, regardless of how I try to apply these upgrades, I run into the following problem. As soon as rpm tries to actually install the package, it starts to grab MAJOR memory. This grows rapidly until within a couple of seconds it is using ALL memory as well as most of the swap, grinding the machine to a halt. It was pretty scary running top on another console and seeing rpm's memory usage growing to 155Mb. It would have climbed higher if I hadn't killed it... This happens regardless of the package I'm installing. A single 150kb rpm file will do it, just as a 35Mb one will. HELP! Regards, Ozz. --- -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] pmfirewall?
On Thursday 15 March 2001 12:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just downloaded pmfirewall. I have some pretty bad questions as I am a complete newbie. I want to get this up and running so that I can feel safe about getting on the net. My question is, after I unzip it where should I point the file when I untar it as root? ie tar -xvf "---" Just untar it into a temp directory. The installer will put things where they need to go. (BTW, if you're running Mandrake 7.2, you may need to create a directory called "/usr/man/man8" to hold pmfirewall's man page.) When I run the install shell it's saying that it isn't finding the directory or something. What _exactly_ is it saying? And, does anyone have any general suggestions about out of box security for a complete newbie? I know absolutely nothing about IP chains. There's really no such thing as out-of-box security but, fortunately, pmfirewall doesn't require you to know anything about IP chains. It would be helpful if you could tell us... 1. How you're connecting to the net (i.e., modem, cable modem, ADSL, etc.) 2. Whether you want to protect a single machine or a home network. 3. Whether you're planning to run servers on your linux box (i.e., web server, ftp server, etc.) 4. Whether your ISP assigns your IP address dynamically using DHCP (i.e., do you get a different IP address every time you connect?). M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Nautilus 1.0 install
There was a comment on Linux Today saying that there was some problem installing under Mandrake 7.2. Don't know the details... (Interesting how, after all this time, the Ximian installer still doesn't support 7.2. I wonder if Eazel is experiencing the same "problem"...) M. On Tuesday 13 March 2001 06:07, Syamsul Anwar wrote: Has anybody installed the just-released Nautilus 1.0 for Gnome yet? It looks mighty impressive. But I'm not sure whether I'd get a trouble- free install with the Redhat 6.x RPMs? -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Replicating users ?
Ron, there is a "network install" for StarOffice. I haven't used it and don't know the details but I believe it's designed for precisely this situation. How about checking Sun's SO website? M. On Sunday 11 March 2001 09:37, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: I have converted the local Anglican Church Bishop to Linux: His Grace was worried about pirated software being used on the diocese's computers, and I pointed out to him the perfect answer: Avoid the Gates of Hell, run Linux ;-) So I have now been volunteered to install Linux as the new computers' OS at the Diocesan office. Problem: one machine will be used by about fifteen parishes, each with a Minister, a treasurer and a person responsible for thate parishe's magazine. Or in other words, have to create about 45 user's accounts, each installed with StarOffice. I was thinking of creating one user "master" /home/user directory, and making 45 copies of it, each with its owner's name; Question: Should this better be done before or after creating the users' accounts ? TIA, Ron the frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Mandrake needs a readme file fro KDE2.1 Final Release RPMS install instructions needed
On Saturday 10 March 2001 04:49, Romanator wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 09 March 2001 20:17, you wrote: Hi everybody, Do to the lack of a readme file, I ran an rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm, as I was getting all sorts of dependency errors while upgrading from KDE2.1 beta 2 to KDE2.1 Final Release. Bad idea. I had to reinstall MDK7.2. I'm back to square one KDE2. Which rpms are need to upgrade to the final release and in which order? Any help would be appreciated. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Roman this is exactly the way I did it and I had no problem except with printing, I broke cups somehow. So, the thing is did you really have the install from KDE2.1beta2 or a lower release? My install of 2.1 final was on top of the beta 2 and I had to add two other packages I can't remeber and add "apdm" package. Wait I'll look and see what they were, (into konsole looking at kpackage) ok, I think it was libg++ and a glibc package. Then I went to console mode completely out of KDE and used the rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm and then did the rpm --rebuilddb and then upgrade-menus -v and then rebooted and here I am back with KDE2.1 If this is the same way that you did it I do not understand the problem except.. Civileme indicated that you should be sure and do the hdparm -d1 /dev/hd? with the question mark being your harddrive letter. That optimisation may be the difference? I have just reached the end of my knowledge base, hope something in all that mess helps you. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 I installed from KDE2.1 beta 2. However, I was missing ppp and apmd. I have no idea what Libkdefakes.so.0 is used for? Should I upgrade from KDE2 to KDE2.1 beta 2 and then take it from there? Libkdefakes is a "fake" library. I don't know exactly what that means or why it's called in the install, but the Mandrake testers were told they could safely ignore this dependency. If it's the only thing that's preventing the install, then use "--nodeps". Apmd is on the 7.2 install CD. According to the description it's for laptop installs, but the Mandrake testers were told it also has a function in the KDE bug-reporting system and 2.1 needs it for this. Use the Package Manager with the 7.2 CD mounted and search for "apmd", then install this package. I think it's probably preferable to do this before installing 2.1 but I suppose you could again use "--nodeps" and do it after. Cheers. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Partition information?
Oh, boy. I don't know if Linux is up for that! :-) Try "df" at the command prompt. Cheers. M. On Thursday 08 March 2001 16:09, you wrote: I have gone and lost the paper on which I had written down what partitions on the hard disk contain which Linux partitions. Is there some way to get informaion about this in Linux -- some kind of command I can give, or some kind of application I can run? The best thing would be if I could get that information in a form that I can understand, preferably something like this: /dev/hda5 / 1.2 GB /dev/hda6 /usr 1.2 GB /dev/hda7 /home 650 MB /dev/hda8 /swap 500 MB I understand that this is probably asking way too much though, so I'll settle for information about how big the partitions are, and what they are called (/dev/hda?). I can probably figure out what they contain just by getting information on how big they are. DRX -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1
On Friday 09 March 2001 09:46, you wrote: Has anyone managed to upgrade to KDE 2.1 from Mandrake 7.2? Is there a comprehensive explanation of how to upgrade? Thanks for any advice, Oder. These are NOT official instructions, but they were written for people testing the Mandrake 2.1-for-7.2 RPMs and they worked for me: -[ snip ]- Install instructions: Download into a Directory like /home/username/tmp/KDE (you do not need static libs and such nor the devel packages unless you want kdevelop 1.4) get into root and cd to that directory urpme qt2 urpme kde urpme arts urpme koffice rpm -ivh *rpm rpm --rebuilddb update-menus -v#hit a return after it appears to hang exit logout login under kde Voila! Cautions and bugs: 1. it makes the appearance of emacs unbelievably ugly 2. KDevelop will keep asking for a library path even after you give it te correct one Just hit cancel and it will complete installation (Kde bug of some sort). -[ snip ]- A couple of additional caveats (again, these applied to me and may not to you): 1. Install the apmd package before the install. You can find it in the 7.2 distribution. 2. When you install the RPMs, you may get conflicts with existing installs of kdoc, imap, imap-devel, and qt-devel. Remove these packages using the command, "rpm -e [packagename]" before doing the "rpm -ivh *rpm" step above. 3. This upgrade procedure should work to update any configuration including and later than KDE 1.99. Cheers. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] New 8.0 thread
I'm running the beta on a dual-boot system. Overall, I think it's pretty good for the first go-round but there are several pieces still missing. Many people have reported problems with sound, you can't yet burn CDs, there are some packages still to be added, etc. I'm booting into 8.0 using GRUB. (I don't know about LILO, but I had no trouble installing GRUB.) I certainly didn't have to use a boot diskette. M. On Friday 09 March 2001 17:24, you wrote: So, Im planning on installing 8.0b tomorrow, but I hear LILO wont work with it yet, and that Ill have to use a boot disk with it. But I also heard the feature to make a boot disk doesnt work yet either...what should I do to be able to boot into the system once installed? Or do I have it all wrong? peace, Rog Registered Linux user #19071 -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] 8.0 beta
On Friday 09 March 2001 18:26, KompuKit wrote: enjoy ...while you still can... Or what? Please. I've tried to ignore this thread for several days. I'm not confrontational by nature, but I've really had enough. I take part in this mailing list because I often need help with Linux and I'm sometimes able to help. Pin-headed religious trogs like you are just noise. Have a productive day and a rewarding afterlife. :-) M. Michael O'Henly wrote: On Thursday 08 March 2001 15:47, you wrote: BELIEVE as you will...that is "your" (entitled)...decision... Gosh, thanks Kit. I feel better already knowing we have your permission (if not exactly your...uh..."blessing") to think and believe what we want. I speak truth...and only truth... it is not my fault...if others can not accept the truth... I only SHARE the truth !! Well hey, don't let humility, discretion, or common sense stand in your way. Tell us what you really think! After all, your faith (or medication) obviously requires that you "SHARE the truth" with everyone everywhere as often as possible -- regardless of they may wish to discuss. You know, this stupid thread has jammed up my Inbox tighter than a Oh, never mind. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] 8.0 beta
[What, you mean GOD reads this list? Well, Leapin' Jeeezzz, if I'd only known...!] Yo, Big Guy! (GOD)! Can you _pulllze_ make KDE 2.1 Final save the default to US=Letter when I'm printing? Please. I'll be good, l promise! M. On Friday 09 March 2001 19:19, KompuKit wrote: FORGIVE them, Father...for they know not what they do or say... -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] 8.0 beta
On Friday 09 March 2001 18:26, KompuKit wrote: enjoy ...while you still can... Or what? Please. I've tried to ignore this thread for several days. I'm not confrontational by nature, but I've really had enough. I take part in this mailing list because I often need help with Linux and I'm sometimes able to help. Pin-headed religious trogs like you are just noise. Have a productive day and a rewarding afterlife. :-) M. Michael O'Henly wrote: On Thursday 08 March 2001 15:47, you wrote: BELIEVE as you will...that is "your" (entitled)...decision... Gosh, thanks Kit. I feel better already knowing we have your permission (if not exactly your...uh..."blessing") to think and believe what we want. I speak truth...and only truth... it is not my fault...if others can not accept the truth... I only SHARE the truth !! Well hey, don't let humility, discretion, or common sense stand in your way. Tell us what you really think! After all, your faith (or medication) obviously requires that you "SHARE the truth" with everyone everywhere as often as possible -- regardless of they may wish to discuss. You know, this stupid thread has jammed up my Inbox tighter than a Oh, never mind. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] 8.0 beta
On Friday 09 March 2001 18:26, KompuKit wrote: enjoy ...while you still can... Or what? Please. I've tried to ignore this thread for several days. I'm not confrontational by nature, but I've really had enough. I take part in this mailing list because I often need help with Linux and I'm sometimes able to help. Pin-headed religious trogs like you are just noise. Have a productive day and a rewarding afterlife. :-) M. Michael O'Henly wrote: On Thursday 08 March 2001 15:47, you wrote: BELIEVE as you will...that is "your" (entitled)...decision... Gosh, thanks Kit. I feel better already knowing we have your permission (if not exactly your...uh..."blessing") to think and believe what we want. I speak truth...and only truth... it is not my fault...if others can not accept the truth... I only SHARE the truth !! Well hey, don't let humility, discretion, or common sense stand in your way. Tell us what you really think! After all, your faith (or medication) obviously requires that you "SHARE the truth" with everyone everywhere as often as possible -- regardless of they may wish to discuss. You know, this stupid thread has jammed up my Inbox tighter than a Oh, never mind. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Printing from Staroffice 5.2 under CUPS ?
Hi Ron... I don't use SO so I can't help directly -- but here are a couple of links that should help. The first is for the Mandrakeuser.org site that discusses CUPS printing generally: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups0.html The second talks about SO specifically: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups8.html Paraguay, eh? Interesting. I was in Venezuela a couple of times last year and I am hoping to go to Guyana this summer. South America is amazing, a whole other world... Buenos tardes! M. On Saturday 03 March 2001 07:11, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: I am (trying to) configure the printer fro SO 5.2 but have not so far even managed to print a test page. I found a printer in the list offered by SO, but dont know what to indicate as the print command (lpr -Plp ?) for printing under Cups. Any idea ? TIA, Ron, on the bbanks of the Paraguay River. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] SPAM
Presumably you subscribed to this list becuase you're a LInux-Mandrake user who can benefit from the help of other users. The request that you not send autoreplies to the list is perfectly legitimate. (And if one person actually expressed it, you can be sure lots of others are at least thinking it.) Your reply is an obnoxious and inconsiderate way to treat people who, as a rule, go out of their way to share what they know. I hope, rather than consulting your legal department (hubba, hubba!), you'll ask your IT department for some help configuring your emailer. Have a nice day. M. On Monday 26 February 2001 16:55, Cyber Sam wrote: You my knowledge, having an autoreply assigned to my email is not spamming, if in the opinion of the moderators of this list it is considered spam, I should let you know that I run a legal business on the web that requires that my customers get a timely reply to all of there queries. I have had my legal department look at what constitutes 'SPAM' and in there opinion, since the autoreply does not imply or solicited you to do anything, only supplies information, it can not be legally considered 'SPAM'. If you do not like the fact that my company has an autoreply assigned to it's email, you have the choice of filtering it out, or ignoring it. Reporting it to the anti-spam groups will not cause me to change how I or how thousands of other businesses do business in the net. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Cannot Execute binary file
A file with the extension .tar.gz or .tgz is an archive (similar to the *.zip files you may be familiar with from Windows). The first step is to unpack it. We can tell from the extension that it has been archived with the linix command "tar" and then compressed with the "gzip" command. In Linux-Mandrake, the easiest way to unpack it is to use this command: tar -zxvf [filename] This decompresses the contents of the archive in the current directory and recreates the the archive's original hierachy of files and subdirectories. It will also leave the original archive intact. There are many of other ways to do it, but that's what works best for me. Incidentally, what you'll end up is the _source code_ for the item you want to install. This means your next step will be to compile it (i.e., using the source code to create a binary, or executable, version of the program). M. On Monday 26 February 2001 19:32, BamBam wrote: When I try to execute .tar.gz and .tgz files from the terminal window, I get a message that says cannot execute binary file. I've tried ./filename and sh filename with no success. Can someone help me out with this one? Oh yea... I almost forgot. chmod 755 filename was also tried, but I still cannot execute anything from the terminal window. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Running executables - strange behavior
In linux, executables must either be located in your PATH, or the executable name has to have the path prepended -- which is what you're doing when you use "./". (Actually, you _can_ add "./" to your PATH but this is considered a poor idea from the security standpoint.) M. On Monday 26 February 2001 20:31, Robert Fleming wrote: I have an executable named 'hello'. If I cd to the directory it is in and type 'hello' it says file not found. However, if I type './hello' it works properly. Why is this? and is there any way I can resolve it? thanks wade -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] printers again
You might get better responses if you said what your requirements are first. Office? Colour? High volume? Cost? For starters, any Postscript printer can be made to work perfectly with any Linux flavour. More and more non-Postscript printers are being well supported as well. In Linux-Mandrake that support is primarily through the use of CUPS. Check this site for details: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups0.html Actually, it's not responding today for some reason, but keep checking the URL. Lots of good info here. M. On Sunday 25 February 2001 17:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: looking for many opinions on printers ones that work perfectly with 7.2 all responses are greatly appreciated -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] PHP
Also, you may need to install a couple of additional RPMs: mod_sql and php-mysql. They're available on RPMFind in the Mandrake 7.2 flavour. Curious that they aren't installed by default since anyone using PHP or MySQL is probably going to need them, but perhaps it was becuase MySQL hadn't been GPL'd when 7.2 was released. M. On Friday 23 February 2001 09:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you don't a directory php I think the rpm already did the job, but you have only to uncomment the lines in httpd.conf which say to the apache that the files with .php extensions must be sent to the php parser they are similar to: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3 .php AddType application/x-httpd-php4-source .phps Bye Enrico On 24 Feb 2001, at 9:58, dison Andrs wrote: Hello all, For job with PHP I need to make a directory php? where should I create it? Do I need to configurate the server web? My server web is Apache. Thanks for all -- dison Andrs Rivera Norea Ingeniero de Sistemas Departamento de Informtica Universidad de San Buenaventura Medelln - Colombia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usb-med.edu.co/~neos -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Real rm?
On Thursday 22 February 2001 11:46, DRX wrote: 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? If you want to live dangerously, you can use "rm -f annoyingfile". Another command you should know is "man [commandname]". For example, "man rm" tells you all the options for the command, including "-f". Keep in mind that Linux doesn't provide any mechanism for undeleting data. The "are you sure" prompt is there to save you from yourself. How do I change the function of rm to make it work the way I would like? If you REALLY want to live dangerously, you can create an alias something like: alias rmf = "rm -f" Put this in your .bashrc file. Then use the command "rmf" instead of "rm" and it will do what you're asking. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] sorting konqueror(KDE) bookmarks
Konqueror in the soon-to-be-released KDE 2.1 has a new bookmark editor with sorting. M. On Thursday 22 February 2001 14:11, s wrote: It's all manual at this point. I made folders to organize mine, but you can manually alphabetize, in order of importance, or whatever. The point being - manually. When your browser is open, click bookmarks, then edit. -s On Thursday 22 February 2001 01:27 pm, you wrote: Greetings! Is there anyway to sort these? They just seem to be displayed in arbitrary order.. ? Thanks, Steven -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] want my linux work faster and networking
Star Office is an astounding resource hog. I think Sun's promoting Star Office (and now Open Office) as a relatively inexpensive way to irritate Microsoft and create warm, fuzzy feelings about their "support" for Linux. It depresses me to see all the effort being put into Open Office. It's like Mozilla all over again. I simply can't believe that a functional office suite NEEDS to be such a pig. M. On Thursday 15 February 2001 07:51, Tafta Zani wrote: I have heard that linux is relatively faster then windows. But why do windows can open such large application like MS Word 2000 in less than five seconds but LM 7.2 needs more than that to open Star Office 5.2 -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1
Personally, I'd hold off a few weeks for the release version of KDE 2.1. This is a significant upgrade and, in my experience, even more stable than 2.0.1. M. On Thursday 15 February 2001 13:41, Rem wrote: Hi again, I have Mandrake 7.2 and KDE 2.0 I am afraid to upgrade KDE to 2.0.1 from the software update wizard. Can anyone tell me if it is really installable? Sometime ago when I tried, I could not get to install the KDE rpms. Another thing is that whether it would be worthwile to upgrade Thanks R -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] My review of KDE2.1 beta 2
My experience with 2.1 Beta 2 has been a lot more positive. I'm sure that themes will be functional in the final release and I can live without them until then. From recent posts on KDE.News it sounds like graphical polish is being applied right now... http://dot.kde.org/981832647/ Konqueror has been very stable and shows lots of improvement from earlier versions (a new and very good bookmark editor, more control over fonts, better page rendering, etc.). I have never experienced the "blank KControl thing" although there's been lots of talk about it here. (I'm not disagreeing with you, but perhaps it's not a problem everyone would experience.) In terms of overall stability, KDE 2.1 Beta 2 is the most stable KDE I've used and considering how quickly this release has come on the heels of 2.0 that's an impressive accomplishment. Here's an article which sets this in perspective... http://www.linuxtoday.com.au/r/article/jsp/sid/595874 I'm looking forward to the final release. M. On Sunday 11 February 2001 13:11, Vic wrote: Hello from the States. I would like to offer my review for kde2.1beta 2 I for the most part liked all the new features, altho some of them were broken, such as the blank kcontrol thing, rendering it useless in root account. I also liked the new config menu for Konqueror but the user agent editor was broken would not save the settings that you put in. I lost the theme from Kde2 where the close X box was on the left, where I wanted it, and in the beta2 I could not find this theme anymore all the themes were with the close box on the right which I did not want, just preference, not crippling by any means, but a strong preference. The theme manager altho functional, was slightly impaired due to the fact that you cannot add any themes to it, nor find the original theme that kde2 had by default. It did sort of fix the Konq crashing, but the knotifeir was broken, kept crashing causing the crash notifiyer to keep coming up and be irritating. Over all kde2.1beta2 was a nice update of features, but at this time I do not feel it is for me to stick with this and I went back to kde2 original. I look forward to other's reviews of this beta and to hear from them about the next review, I might hold off on updating to any betas until I hear from other people first, as I should not have messed with my main machine, but I still thank Chris for making them into rpm form and I thank KDE for trying. Thanks Vic -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] My review of KDE2.1 beta 2
On Sunday 11 February 2001 13:54, Vic wrote: Cool. How did you get your kcontrol to work? I didn't have to do anything. It just worked "out of the box". As I mentioned in another post, I did a completely clean install of 7.2 prior to installing Beta 2 and perhaps this is why I had no problem. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] unusual syslog entries can someone help?
: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=6 210.97.4.253:3433 207.144.244.100:98 L=60 S=0x00 I=10780 F=0x4000 T=45 SYN (#34) Feb 11 17:07:58 hp1 kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=6 210.97.4.253:3433 207.144.244.100:98 L=60 S=0x00 I=14182 F=0x4000 T=45 SYN (#34) Feb 11 17:55:14 hp1 kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=17 199.90.74.52:137 207.144.244.100:137 L=78 S=0x00 I=9682 F=0x T=111 (#34) Feb 11 17:55:16 hp1 kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=17 199.90.74.52:137 207.144.244.100:137 L=78 S=0x00 I=26066 F=0x T=112 (#34) Feb 11 17:55:17 hp1 kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=17 199.90.74.52:137 207.144.244.100:137 L=78 S=0x00 I=29394 F=0x T=112 (#34) Feb 11 18:15:33 hp1 kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=6 128.239.101.6:4669 207.144.244.100:53 L=60 S=0x00 I=19267 F=0x4000 T=53 SYN (#34) Feb 11 18:15:36 hp1 kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=6 128.239.101.6:4669 207.144.244.100:53 L=60 S=0x00 I=20396 F=0x4000 T=53 SYN (#34) As the log shows this has been going on most all day. Is someone attempting to hack my comp or is something totally screwed up? Thanks in advance, Ian K. Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Window Maker desktop screenshot
That looks really nice! By the way, what functionality do you give up when you run KDE apps under WindowMaker? M. On Friday 09 February 2001 11:01, Dave Sherman wrote: Here's my promised Window Maker desktop screenshot: http://www.users.qwest.net/~dcsherman/dms/desktop1.png Dave -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Fresh install, no sound
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, that didn't work. I think tomorow morring I'll reinstall 7.2... Cheers. M. On Friday 09 February 2001 17:51, Anthony wrote: Try running "sndconfig" as root. That should fix it. Hi there... I reinstalled 7.2 last night and now I have no sound in KDE. I'm running KDE 2.1 Beta 2 but I don't think this is a factor -- I've been running it with sound until yesterday's reinstall. In KControl, I've selected "Start aRts soundserver on startup". When I reboot and log into KDE, I should be getting the "fanfare" with the splash screen, but I'm not. I'm also not getting the system beep. (On the other hand, XMMS plays streaming audio normally). Any suggestions? Thanks. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] RPMs
To install and RPM, the easiest way is to open a terminal window and, at the command prompt, type "su" followed by your root password. You need to be the root user in order to install software on your system. Then, in the directory containing the downloaded RPM, type: rpm -ivh [RPM_filename] This tells the program RPM to install and verify the file, and to display hash marks as a sort of progress indicator. (Actually -i on its own would be sufficient.) If you're in doubt about what you're doing, you might want to try: rpm -ivh [RPM_filename} --test This will do a "dry run" and tell you whether you're likely to run into any problems. Remember after you've installed your RPM to type "exit" so that you return to the normal user. You don't want to stay logged in as root any longer than necessary. There's a lot more you can do with RPM. See "man rpm" for details. Cheers. M. On Sunday 04 February 2001 14:32, Julio Gutierrez wrote: Can anyone tell me how to install rpms that I have downloaded, this is the first time I actually install one so any help will be appreciated Thanx! Julio -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Getting Star Office 5.2 to show up under user menu on mdk7.2
I'm guessing that you installed it as root. I'm pretty sure Star Office needs to be installed with the user account. M. On Sunday 04 February 2001 15:51, Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, For some reason Star Office 5.2 only shows up on my menu bar while logged in as root. Is there a way for me to have this on my menu bar under user? An help would be appreciated. Roman Registered Linus User #179293 -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Cd recorder works but-----
On Sunday 04 February 2001 16:04, A V Flinsch wrote: Note to Mandrake folks -- This seems to be a common problem. Why not change the install and setup programs to automatically setup all ide cd drives as scsi emulation? Mine was set up automatically when I installed 7.2. (Took me months to figure out how to do it with Red Hat.) M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] The new Hearts game
What you're looking at are the programs' "sources". This means that you'll have to compile it on your system. Usually this isn't a big deal, even if you don't understand what's actually happening while you do it. I'm not familiar with the package you mentioned, but here are the general steps: First, you unpack it. From the filename we know that it's been archived with tar and then compressed with gzip (i.e., filename.tar.gz). (Tar takes a group of files and folders and archives them into a single file. Gzip makes that single file smaller.) Make a temporary folder. Copy hearts-1.2pre1.tar.gz into that folder. Give the following comand at the command line: tar -zxvf hearts-1.2pre1.tar.gz This will unpack the archive and recreate the original "sources", probably in a folder of their won. In the top level of that new folder should see some text files with names like README or INSTALL. Read them. There may also be a file called "configure". Give the following command at the command line: ./configure Configure looks at your system and figures out what you have. If it finds you're lacking things this program needs, it will tell you. Assuming configure finds no problems, give the following command at the command line: make This actually compiles the program. You'll see a lot of text scrolling by and depending on the size of the program it may take a few minutes to complete. Assuming it finishes with no fatal errors, become the root user (i.e., "su", then your root password), and then give the following command at the command line: make install This puts copies of the compiled program and its supporting files in various places on your machine. After you've done this, become your normal user again (i.e., "exit") and you should be able to run the program from the command line: hearts [or whatever the correct name is] If you find it works properly, you can run it in future by hitting Alt-F2 and entering the name, creating a menu item, or with a desktop shortcut... Cheers. M. On Saturday 03 February 2001 05:30, you wrote: Dear Anyone, Have any of you downloaded and installed the new hearts-1.2pre1.tar.gz? This is for KDE2. I have LM 7.2 with KDE2 and I would like to install this however I am a tar newbie. I have read and studied everything about tar and I still do not get it. What would be the exact steps to install this new game? The directions seem so complicated to me. If someone can help with this I will appreciate. I know that many of you have kindly given me instructions however I was told to follow the instructions of the tar file itself and that is where I am absolutely lost. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Marcia -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Problem copying text to Netscape email from text editor
Try highlighting in the text editor, then clicking the middle mouse button in Netscape. Works for me. M. On Thursday 01 February 2001 03:22, you wrote: Hi everybody, On quite a few occasions, I have been trying to copy and paste text from one the text editors in Linux. It appears that none of them will copy to Netscape's email. Which is the most compliant? Any ideas? -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Problem copying text to Netscape email from text editor
Try highlighting what you want to paste in the text editor, then middle-clicking into Netscape. Works for me. M. On Thursday 01 February 2001 03:22, you wrote: Hi everybody, On quite a few occasions, I have been trying to copy and paste text from one the text editors in Linux. It appears that none of them will copy to Netscape's email. Which is the most compliant? Any ideas? -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Cameras was: More problems as if
When you say that Gphoto2 supports USB, do you mean with the 2.4 kernel? I have a Fuji USB Smartmedia reader attached to my Mac which I'd love to connect to my linux box. M. On Wednesday 31 January 2001 10:02, you wrote: Take a look at GPhoto ,(www.gphoto.org), I have a canon digital ixus, and it works fine with Gphoto2 version 1 of gphoto supports lots of cameras(but not USB) version 2 (still alpha) supports more cameras and USB, and has konquror and gnome intergration. evrything was fairly easy to compile and install, apart from the konquror intergration which was missing some files from the cvs get. I am considering getting a digital camera, would you or anyone on this list know of where I can go snoop to find a list of linux supported digital cameras? I know of gphoto and heard it works fair, but I need to be sure so I don't have to keep taking cameras back for exchange, that would look really weird. Thanks. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
[newbie] Killing GIF animations in Konqueror
Hi... My admiration for Konqueror is boundless -- but I would really like to know if there's an easy way to kill GIF animations. Cheers. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Updating KDE 2 to KDE 2 Beta 2
It's in the unsupported directory -- not in the 2.1 Beta 2 directory. ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/unsupported/i586 M. On Monday 29 January 2001 08:27, you wrote: I did not see any xinitrc package what s the file name? On Monday 29 January 2001 06:04 am, so spoke Christopher Molnar: Do not forget the xinitrc package from the unsupported dir. On Saturday 27 January 2001 21:31, Romanator wrote: Vic wrote: Scuse Rex's abuse. I think I shall try the beta downloads if they will not hose out my system, I do become very upset if something bunks it up and I don't know enuf to dig into every little config file, I just re-install. Which ones have you installed onto 7.2 ? My install is on a AMDK6 400 64M ram kernel 2.2.17-21mdk installed from the download of 7.2 iso Should I download from the post that Romanator did ? I can't find the post from Chris. Thanks for all the info On Saturday 27 January 2001 01:41 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Vic, Have you done any of the KDE updates from the batch that Chris has posted to the list about? Since coming from KDE2.0 to KDE2.1beta2 I've noticed Konqueror's stability increasing. That might be a help if you haven't installed the upgrades yet. Vic, Here's the help file that I used: If you want to upgrade KDE 2 to KDE2 Beta 2, download the files from the following link: http://atik.ciril.fr/pub/linux//mandrake-devel/unsupported/i586/kde2.1B et a2 Step 1. Log on as root and download the kde2.1Beta2 rpms. Copy the rpms to a new folder i.e. kdebeta and save the folder in your root directory. Step 2. Log out of X and log on in "console mode" Step 3. Type in: cd Type in: rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm If everything goes well, remove the -- test. The verbose command will show if something is missing. If you are missing certain rpm files or libraries, navigate back to that ftp site and download the files. Step 4. Type in: rpm --rebuilddb Give this some time and above all do not interrupt it. Step 5. Type in: update-menus -v Give this time. D o not interrupt it. Reboot you computer. That's it. Files to download: arts-2.1-0.20010122.4mdk.i586.rpm jdk-sun-1.2.2-3mdk.i586.rpm kdeaddutils-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdeaddutils-devel-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdeadmin-2.1-0.20010122.3mdk.i586.rpm kdebase-2.1-0.20010122.5mdk.i586.rpm kdebase-devel-2.1-0.20010122.5mdk.i586.rpm kdegames-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdegraphics-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdegraphics-devel-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-2.1-0.20010122.4mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-devel-2.1-0.20010122.4mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-sound-2.1-0.20010122.4mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-sound-devel-2.1-0.20010122.4mdk.i586.rpm kdemultimedia-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdemultimedia-devel-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdenetwork-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdenetwork-devel-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdepim-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdesdk-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdesupport-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdesupport-devel-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdetoys-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdeutils-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdevelop-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdoc-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.noarch.rpm koffice-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm koffice-devel-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm libarts2-2.1-0.20010122.4mdk.i586.rpm libarts2-devel-2.1-0.20010122.4mdk.i586.rpm qt2-2.2.3-5mdk.i586.rpm qt2-devel-2.2.3-5mdk.i586.rpm qt2-doc-2.2.3-5mdk.i586.rpm quanta-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm unixODBC-1.8.12-1mdk.i586.rpm -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie]
No, root is god. ;-) As a user, you can't prevent root's access to your directories. M. On Monday 29 January 2001 09:36, you wrote: Kevin, Does this mean that even root cannot access it now? Thnx =) Andrew - Original Message - From: Kevin Tambascio To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 10:22 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] chmod -R 700 /home/your username - Original Message - From: Andrew Rice Jr To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 11:08 AM Subject: [newbie] Can someone tell me how to deny access to my whole entire home directory to everyone else but myself or how to password protect it? Andrew Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -------- -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: Re: [newbie] Goodbye
You may be having the same problem I had. Here's how to find out: 1. Have you been able to play audio CDs using another OS (i.e., Windows)? 2. Can you play streaming audio (i.e., Shoutcast) or other sound material from the web? 3. Do you know whether you have a CD audio cable? If you can play audio CDs using another OS, then you have an audio cable and the source of the problem lies elsewhere. But, if you can play streaming audio but not audio CDs, then probably all you need to do is connect an audio cable from your CD to your sound card. Apparently most CD drives come with one, although it may not have been connected when the drive was installed. In any case, you can buy one from a dealer for a couple of bucks. M. On Tuesday 30 January 2001 03:40, you wrote: I have both SuSE and Mandrake 7.1. I can't make SuSe work with my video card. I can't play audio cd's with LM 7.1. Go figure, huh... Kscd can play the cd but no sound is coming out. I have decent sound for events on all window managers, xmms works. It's pretty weird. Can anybody help? I don't wanna give up on Mandrake. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] bz2 extensions
bunzip2 [filename] M. On Sunday 28 January 2001 16:07, you wrote: can someone tell me how unzip tar files with bz2 extensions your help will be really appreciated Julio -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] kde2.1beta2 question
On Sunday 28 January 2001 13:09, you wrote: Still have them icons jumping out at me tho. Don't like that. God I hope they make that an option in the final! It's an option right now. Just deselect 'enable icon zooming' in your Panel prefs. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Double drat..
Hi Dave...
I created a Linux install CD under Windows using Easy CD Creator a long time
ago and it was quite straightforward. I think all I had to do was
double-click on the ISO in the Explorer and Easy CD Creator "did the right
thing".
CD burning is not difficult in Linux, but it is different perhaps that what
your used to. If you can do the burn under Windows, it might get you of to a
better start.
M.
On Saturday 27 January 2001 16:22, you wrote:
Hmmm.. I bet you're right. That's not all I have to learn. g I use
Nero for burning (which, it seems, has no association with ISO files) and
Direct CD for pocket writing. I have an old copy of Easy CD Creator
(Adaptec) and will download the upgrade so I can follow the instructions I
found this morning on the L-M site in a document called "How to burn a
Mandrake CD from an iso9660 file under Windows? [By Laurent Daniel
Sinitambirivoutin]"
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/howtos/iso/howtoisoen.html#ECD
Dave
KompuKit wrote:
This is the reason...you only see one file with an ISO
extension...
it is because you NEVER actually burned it correctly...
instead ...you only copied the iso file to the CD...
learn how to burn,,, is my suggestion
(contains no tree
nor even 1 directory, only the ISO file.. which is exactly the correct
size as compared to what I downloaded.)
Dave Burrows wrote:
Hi, John and all;
Early this morning (about 4:11 am), I finished downloading the ISO
files that I began last Sunday evening. It took only 5.5 days to
download both ISO
files with my super duper speedy delivery dial-up connection. ;)
I tried to install this version of Linux-Mandrake, having been burned
to CD but am told by the installer that it doesn't appear to be a
Linux-Mandrake disk. After several attempts including 1 with the
purchased CD (which contains only a beta of KDE2.0 but which
initializes correctly) I booted back to Windows and looked at the
purchased disk (showed a number of directories as expected) and at the
one I had just burned (contains no tree nor even 1 directory, only the
ISO file.. which is exactly the correct size as compared to what I
downloaded.)
I decided that I better test the install boot (floppy) disk I made,
thinking that it might be pointing to something it can't find on the
CD. (by the way, the CD device I used to try to install either disk is
the writer not the
CD-ROM; everything works fine with the purchased disk but not the one I
burned) In my BIOS, i changed the boot order to boot from the the cd
device,
then C:\ then A:\. On reboot, I read that CD failed and it booted to
C:\. I tried both CD devices with the same failure resulting.
What must I do to make this file function? A rhetorical question: 4.5
years ago when I was totally new to Windows (had only ever used a DOS
machine before that), I never had this much trouble with that OS nor
since; why do I want this one so much? Rhetoric off, rant on: why IS
this such a bugger to install and configure for someone who is not a
programmer and 'only' a user? Wouldn't Linux be more likely to do some
serious damage to the MS market if it were a little more user friendly?
Rant off. g
Tenacity reigns; I still want Linux. Any suggestions anyone?
Dave
John W wrote:
You can download the ISO image and burn that to a cd/cd's. I have
also looked at the mandrake mirrors and in the past have downloaded
everything except the lin4win and dostools to my harddrive in a
folder named Mandrake and have then created a boot image to boot up
and direct the installer the Mandrake DIR and installed from a Fat
partition.
--
John W
--
Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Very simple yet stupid question.
Actually, that's not a stupid question. Lots of people (myself included) have gotten stuck on that one. When I asked, the answer I got was a command with an "-l" switch that showed you all the possibilities. Of course, I can't remember the command off the top of my head. Argghhh. Maybe someone will remember for me...? Some aren't obvious. For instance, "startx Sawmill". If you use "startx sawmill" (lower case) instead, X launches with icewm. Go figure... M. On Friday 26 January 2001 13:05, you wrote: Thank you all..I knew if I asked that stupid ques., that I would get a stupid answer :o) Seriously, thanks again. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Todd Flinders Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Very simple yet stupid question. startx Gnome --- Jorge_Ramrez_Llaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but what if one didn't coose a graphical login to begin with? - Original Message - From: "Jay" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 7:44 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Very simple yet stupid question. On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, you wrote: I am currently running LM7.1 and KDE for my desktop. I have seen Screen shots with GNOME and want to check it out. Here is the stupid question. How do I open up the GNOME desktop env.? Jim Warwick American Family Insurance IS Security [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://1cis.com Free E-mail Servers with unlimited mailboxes 1st Class Internet Solutions You can do this via the graphical login dropdown box. Choose Gnome and viola! -- Jay ~May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend~ http://www.mrsnooky.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ http://1cis.com Free E-mail Servers with unlimited mailboxes 1st Class Internet Solutions http://1cis.com Free E-mail Servers with unlimited mailboxes 1st Class Internet Solutions -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Sound Card Not Functioning On Laptop
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 08:23, you wrote: P.S. I could, I suppose, install Windows (I have NT 4.0) for the express purpose of seeing what sound card I have...ouch ;-))! Ouch is right! I wouldn't do that. ;-) Among other things, NT wants to be the big kid on the block and will grab the Master Boot Record if you install it after linux. If I were you, I'd do some research on Google to determine the provenance of your card. Then once you've narrowed it down to a few likely candidates, run sndconfig and try out different drivers. You'll know immediately if you're successful because sndconfig plays a sound file of LInus Torvalds saying, "My name is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce linux "leeenoooks"." Cheers. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] postscript lament
I think that's actually "a2ps" as in "anything to postscript". The URL is: http://www.inf.enst.fr/~demaille/a2ps/ M. On Tuesday 23 January 2001 09:49, you wrote: One way is to use a program called Apsfilter. It automatically recognizes and transforms documents into PostScript, and can then pipe the document through ghostscript to your printer. It supports LPR and ghostscript 5 uniprint driver support. It also supports printing of HTML and PDF documents. Get it at Downloads.com On another note, there is Logictran RTF Converter. It will convert to HTML and then maybe you could get a convertor from HTML to .ps? Also at downloads.com I know this isn't what you want to hear but there is a program I used to use in windows that would "print" to PDF files and an option was to save as .ps as well. I wonder if it might run under an emulator? This gave great quality and was real easy to use. The other options I have not actually used since I have no use for them. It might be a little screwy but if it works, maybe you could script it to be automatic. ??? Other than that someone else probably has better knowledge... Good luck, --Matt White Bear Lake, MN - Original Message - From: "Vicar In A Tutu" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 7:38 AM Subject: [newbie] postscript lament And a very nice one to you too. Kindly allow me to inquire whether any software is available that would enable me to transfer rtf files into postscript documents. The only way of doing it now is opening a text file with Netscape, save it as postscript and then feed the thing to the printer. In case you doubt my abilities of finding the print button in applications, allow me to state that the real manifestation of my idiocy was the purchase of an Oki printer - but then again, in those halcyon days who could have known that I might want to run Linux on this box? So, basically, the way to print things is: oki4drv necronomicon.ps (as root), then wait and pray to Nyarlathotep the paper doesn't jam, for if it does, you have to print the whole thing from the beginning again. A tiring and frustrating activity. All information on the subject would be highly appreciated. Love, Pope Mickey the 23d, Patron Saint Of Moronic Oxymorons, Zee Blue Rat Ov Kaos, Psychic Terrorist, Offender Of The Faith. All hail Discordia! _ "The earth is full of ghosts now Ghost that sweat and ghosts that sigh Instead of peace just stop and cease A final and a sweet release" Coil, "The Dark Age Of Love" _____ -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Re: I want Micro-EMACS
I used emacs until I discovered jed (which is also part of the LM distribution). Jed has most of emacs' power but none of the footprint. It's fast enough to use an an email editor, has umpteen dozen modes that support indenting, syntax highlighting, etc., and is actively developed and supported by its author, John Davis. M. On Sunday 21 January 2001 11:26, you wrote: Ummm, do you realize that the install of 7.2 you made probably has both emacs and xemacs? These run like Micro-EMACS (same commands plus some features) without a new compile. The one link I found for a port of Micro-EMACS to linux _says_ it is GPL, but the original text from the author suggests it is shareware. It compiles easily, it runs nicely (in a terminal), and it supports a nice subset of emacs commands. The port does use French messages. It runs from whatever directory you put the binary into after compiling. It appears to demand that any files edited BE in that directory, because it doesn't appear to support directory paths. ftp.ac-grenoble.fr/ge/Office/microemacs-5.03.tgz is the link I used. I don't think I will use MicroEMACS unless I have a very limited machine. I would dearly miss the color-coding of c, bash, perl, and python source. Civileme -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Error Compiling Netatalk
Hi... I assume you have a reason for wanting to build netatalk from sources. If not, you might want to try the Mandrake rpm "netatalk-1.5pre3-1mdk.i586.rpm" which can be found on RPMFind. I installed this a few days ago and it runs very well. Drop me a note if you have any trouble setting it up. I'm not an expert but I have fiddled with netatalk a bit lately and may be able to help. M. On Saturday 20 January 2001 13:48, you wrote: Hello, I am running Linux-Mandrake 7.2 (installed from downloaded ISO) on an AMD Athlon based system with 128MB of RAM. I have the kernel sources installed and have successfully compiled a kernel. I am trying to install netatalk following the instructions provided in the Netatalk HOWTO: http://www.anders.com/projects/netatalk/ I downloaded the source recommended : ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/users/asun/release/netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3.ta r.gz Then "tar -xvzf"ed it into ~/src/ I obtained a couple of files from other software packages and placed them in ~/src/netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3/include, as specified in the HOWTO. The files were tcpd.h from TCP_Wrappers 7.6 and des.h from libdes. A couple of steps in the HOWTO's instructions for editing the makefile mention PAM and shadow passwords. Both of these steps could be skipped if you have both PAM and shadow passwords. Near as I can tell this is true of Mandrake 7.2, am I correct? Anyhow, I did not change anything in the makefile. When I run make I get the following output before make exits: make[4]: Entering directory `/home/david/src/netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3/etc/afpd' gcc -DNEED_QUOTACTL_WRAPPER -DUAM_RNDNUM -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fsigned-char -Wunused -Wuninitialized -I../../include -I/usr/local/include -DUSE_PAM -DAPPLCNAME -c -o unix.o unix.c In file included from unix.c:19: auth.h:12: security/pam_appl.h: No such file or directory make[4]: *** [unix.o] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/david/src/netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3/etc/afpd' make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/david/src/netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3/etc/afpd' make[2]: *** [afpd] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/david/src/netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3/etc' make[1]: *** [../../etc] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/src/netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3/sys/linux' make: *** [all] Error 2 [root@crank netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3]# The compleat output of make is available here just in case someone needs to see more of if: http://www.mhtc.net/~lanelson/makeout.html Any ideas on what I need to do to make this compile would be much appreciated. Thanks Much David Nelson -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Crash report
Since these appear to be KDE problems, I'd suggest you send them to bugs.kde.org rather than the list. M. On Saturday 20 January 2001 15:59, you wrote: Hello list I have a couple of crash reports, listed below, attn: Developers! Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="konqueror-crash.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="KDiskFree-crash.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: ------------ -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 Downloadable Version...
There isn't one. Look for it in the upcoming KDE 2.1. M. On Thursday 18 January 2001 19:02, you wrote: hey all, Is the kde 2.0 that comes with the downloadable version of mandrake a beta version? I can't seem to find the theme manager in it. Thanks. Chris Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -------- -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] record iso image
Hi... There are a lot of variables, but this should put you pretty close... 1. Become the root user. At the command prompt, type "su" and then your root password. 2. At the root command prompt, type: cdrecord -scanbus This should return something that looks a bit like so: Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jrg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 8100 ' '1.0g' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * The name of your CD burner may be different or it may be at a different address on the bus. That's fine -- just note the three numbers in the leftmost column beside your CD burner. (In my case, it's "0,0,0".) 3. Put a blank CDR into your drive. Go into the directory in which you saved your .iso file and type the following (inserting the actual filename): cdrecord -v -dummy dev=0,0,0 [filename].iso This is a test burn. It won't actually write to the disk, but it will tell you if you're likely to have any problems. Assuming you don't... 4. Type: cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 [filename].iso That's it! Good luck... M. On Tuesday 16 January 2001 16:51, you wrote: Its too hard I don't understand what to type On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, salane wrote: On Tuesday 16 January 2001 07:29 pm, you wrote: Hello, sorry for the dumb question I searched the archives but I can't find the command to record an iso image to the cd recorder. Thanks cdrecord read man cdrecord first -- Proudly sent using Kmail from Linux-Mandrake 7.3 (cooker) ICQ# 306324 Salane -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Printing in Cups
Yes, I have this problem as well. I'm definitely interested in figuring this one out. M On Tuesday 16 January 2001 11:11, you wrote: Does anyone have the problem of not being able to change the margins on letter size paper? I have tried changing in inches or centimeters, saving, and then print immediately, and there does not appear to be any change. Does cups only recognize root for these changes? Something don't work. Help is as always appreciated. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] record iso image
OK. One step at a time. :-) What do you get with "cdrecord -scanbus"? M. On Tuesday 16 January 2001 17:30, you wrote: Uh oh, I think I got a bd problem, what do I do if it says: [root@kittypuss Temp]# cdrecord -v -dummy dev=0,0,0 Mandrake72-inst.iso Cdrecord 1.8.1 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jrg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. OOPS- On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Michael O'Henly wrote: Hi... There are a lot of variables, but this should put you pretty close... 1. Become the root user. At the command prompt, type "su" and then your root password. 2. At the root command prompt, type: cdrecord -scanbus This should return something that looks a bit like so: Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jrg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 8100 ' '1.0g' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * The name of your CD burner may be different or it may be at a different address on the bus. That's fine -- just note the three numbers in the leftmost column beside your CD burner. (In my case, it's "0,0,0".) 3. Put a blank CDR into your drive. Go into the directory in which you saved your .iso file and type the following (inserting the actual filename): cdrecord -v -dummy dev=0,0,0 [filename].iso This is a test burn. It won't actually write to the disk, but it will tell you if you're likely to have any problems. Assuming you don't... 4. Type: cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 [filename].iso That's it! Good luck... M. On Tuesday 16 January 2001 16:51, you wrote: Its too hard I don't understand what to type On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, salane wrote: On Tuesday 16 January 2001 07:29 pm, you wrote: Hello, sorry for the dumb question I searched the archives but I can't find the command to record an iso image to the cd recorder. Thanks cdrecord read man cdrecord first -- Proudly sent using Kmail from Linux-Mandrake 7.3 (cooker) ICQ# 306324 Salane -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Grub Question
Just become the root user (i.e., do "su", then enter your root password) and open up /boot/grub/menu.lst in an editor -- at the command prompt enter "vi /boot/grub/menu.lst" (replacing "vi" with the name of your favourite editor). On Friday 12 January 2001 04:11, you wrote: I know that this has been covered, because I remember seeing it. So, please forgive my ignorance. How can I edit the Grub menu after it has been installed? I know that the list resides in /boot/grub/menu.lst. How can I edit that file? Thanks y'all, Chris Kelly --- Boy of Destiny King of Nothing -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Worthless RPM software
You're attempting to install a package built with RPM version 4 using RPM version 3. Did you get the packages you're trying to install from Mandrake Cooker? M. On Friday 12 January 2001 13:36, you wrote: I would like to know why every time I attempt to install something worthless RPM says: "only packages with major numbers = 3 are supported by this version of RPM" -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Installing KDE2.0 themes -- how?
There's something more than just where you place themes happening here. I tried installing Acqua by placing its pixmaps under /usr/share/apps/kstyle/pixmaps and its themerc under /usr/share/apps/kstyle/themes. Then I ran the Themes Manager. It didn't "see" the new theme, so I clicked on the Add button and noticed that it's looking for this pattern: "*.ktheme" -- which doesn't coincide with anything in the theme package. Any suggestions? M. On Wednesday 10 January 2001 22:02, you wrote: Dear friends: The instructions for manually installing KDE 2.0 themes are quite confusing. The instructions given as part of the Aquatica theme (install in ~/.kde/share/apps/kstyle conflict with others advising installing them in /usr/share/apps/kstyle. Could someone please specify PRECISELY how and where a KDE 2.0 theme should be installed? Thanks so much. Benjamin -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Re: Win4Lin - Does it do WinMe?
On Thursday 11 January 2001 11:09, you wrote: With all the gungho WIn4Lin supporters out there I wonder, does anyone know if it supports WinMe or is it exclusively for Win98? Just Win95/98. http://www.netraverse.com/products/win4lin/index.php M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Kernel in 7.2
If you're at your machine, a quick of finding this out is: uname -a Cheers. M. On Thursday 04 January 2001 16:41, you wrote: Hi all, Due to brain leakage and severe lack of caffeine, can someone tell me what the kernel version is in Mandrake 7.2? Cheers Dave -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
[newbie] What is the LED font?
Hi... What is the LED font? I mean -- I know what it is -- but what does it indicate? My only guess is a web page has specified a font that's not in my system without providing a generic alternative M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
[newbie] Re: Changing font in Advanced Text Editor
Sorry. Should have waited one more minute before posting. ;-) Control Centre / Look'n'Feel / Fonts / Fixed width. By the way, 10 pt Courier appears to be the default. This is pretty unfortunate since it's almost illegible. On the other hand, it's a good reason for figuring out how to change default fonts... M. On Tuesday 02 January 2001 14:00, you wrote: Hi... Am I missing something or is it really not possible to change the font in the Advanced Text Editor? I'd like to use a different fixed-width font, but I can't see how to change it... Cheers. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
[newbie] Changing font in Advanced Text Editor
Hi... Am I missing something or is it really not possible to change the font in the Advanced Text Editor? I'd like to use a different fixed-width font, but I can't see how to change it... Cheers. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] need help with installing KDE 2.1 Beta 1
I can't say whether this is the "best" way, but here's what I did: 1. Starting with a reasonably fresh install of 7.2... 2. From the URL in the announcement message, download all the RPMS. Put them in a directory. 3. Create a subdirectory called "libical" and move the libical RPMs into it. 4. Create a subdirectory called "printing" amd move the following RPMs into it: cups-1.1.4-9mdk.i586.rpm cups-common-1.1.4-9mdk.i586.rpm cups-drivers-1.0-2.1mdk.i586.rpm ghostscript-5.50-48mdk.i586.rpm ghostscript-module-SVGALIB-5.50-48mdk.i586.rpm ghostscript-module-X-5.50-48mdk.i586.rpm ghostscript-utils-5.50-48mdk.i586.rpm kups-0.8-27.1mdk.i586.rpm kups-devel-0.8-27.1mdk.i586.rpm libcups1-1.1.4-9mdk.i586.rpm libcups1-devel-1.1.4-9mdk.i586.rpm libqtcups1-1.1-2.1mdk.i586.rpm libqtcups1-devel-1.1-2.1mdk.i586.rpm qtcups-1.1-2.1mdk.i586.rpm 5. Starting in the "libical" directory... rpm -ivh libical-0.20d-2mdk.i586.rpm 6. In the parent directory (containing the remaining RPMs) enter: rpm --rebuild rpm -Uvh *.rpm --test The --test will tell you whether proceeding with the install is likely to encounter any problems. Assuming it doesn't... rpm -Uvh *.rpm rpm --rebuilddb update-menus -v 7. In the "printing" directory... rpm -Uvh *.rpm rpm --rebuilddb update-menus -v I split out the printing stuff so as not to lump everything into one massive update. (I also rebuild the RPM database frequently because I've had problems updating too many RPMs at once.) There seem to be two versions of libical in the most recent update. I only installed the second one noted above. (It needed to be installed before the remaining RPMS in the parent directory.) This may not be the best approach -- but it worked for me. Cheers. M. On Tuesday 02 January 2001 15:21, you wrote: All I have now is 33 rpm files in a dir and I have no idea what to do next.. when I try to unpack a file it says it can't because it depends on another file.. I'm really confused here :) -Johan- -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Firewalls
There are a lot of firewall solutions. One that many people recommend is pmfirewall. It asks you some simple questions about your network: how you get your IP address, what services you want accessible, etc., then generates a customized firewall script. Pmfirewall is based on IPCHAINS, so you do need to have that installed. (BTW, if you're running a recent version of LInux-Mandrake, IPCHAINS should already have been in your system.) You can download pmfirewall from http://www.pointman.org. Cheers. M. On Monday 01 January 2001 08:10, you wrote: How does one go about setting up a firewall in Linux? I discovered the firewall daemon and am running that...is that how most home users do it? (When I tried to configure it it complained that ipchains was not installed, so I installed it. Does that sound OK?) I've used IPFilter before, where I could create a list of rules. Is there a kernel-driven firewall available? I have a home computer with a DSL connection. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Advice needed on firewall...
On Wednesday 27 December 2000 21:53, you wrote: After setting up ipchains with pmfirewall's script, also find portsentry and have that loaded. Works fine against port-attacks. Then you should be reasonably safe. Thanks for your reply. I'm interested that you run portsentry as well as PMfirewall. In a situation where you've blocked all access to your network from external hosts (as I have), would running portsentry be redundant? I'm trying to decide whether I should add portsentry or not. The way I understand it, portsentry senses a port scan and then immediately creates a rule that adds the scanning host to a REJECT or DENY rule. So if you've told your firewall to do this by default for all external hosts, is that the same thing? Thanks. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
[newbie] Advice needed on firewall...
Hi... I've installed LM7.2 with "medium" security. I would have chosen a higher level but I found LM's documentation on security unclear and confusing. I know that I need to close some ports -- and I also want to use my Linux host to masquerade IPs for a couple of other machines. Ideally, I'd like closed ports to DENY rather than REJECT, and I'd like logging of connection attempts. My impression is that DrakConf's "internet connection sharing" command runs a DHCP server and masquerades IPs. This is more than I need (DHCP) but it works so I'll use it. I'm also looking a pmfirewall http://www.pointman.org/ to provide a firewall. It looks well-documented and well-supported, and is based on IPCHAINS. Questions: 1. Does "internet connection sharing" create any kind of a firewall on its own? I notice that if you use the command more than once, you get a warning that "an existing firewall" has been detected... 2. Is there any overlap between "internet connection sharing" (as implemented by LM) and pmfirewall? pmfirewall asks whether you're running a DHCP server and masquerading IPs, so I think it generates a script that takes into account these things. I just don't want to wind up in a situation where they're both applying IPCHAINS rules and perhaps conflicting. 3. If you have any other advice about how to protect a 1-Linux / 2-Mac home network using the Linux box, two ethernet cards and a cable connection, I'd be very interested. Many thanks. M.
Re: [newbie] Playing CDs: great controls but NO SOUND...!
Thanks. This does seem to be the problem -- I just don't have an audio cable for my CDRW. Fortunately, it's pretty standard hardware so I should be able to pick one up. M. On Saturday 23 December 2000 18:10, you wrote: Did the CD sound work under any other operating system. e.g. Windows? I've had the same problem a couple of times. Every time it has been because I'd been working inside my computer and forgotten to reconnect the sound cable from the CD-ROM to the sound card. Revenant. Michael O'Henly wrote: Hi... Here's what I'm using: - brand new LM7.2 install - 1 CD device which happens to be a CDRW drive (HP8100) - garden-variety Sound Blaster using the Esoniq 1371 driver I have no problem playing streaming audio or .wav sounds. When I load a CD and launch the CD Player application, it displays info about the CD (track length and other stuff), ejects when I click on the Eject button, etc. -- but there's no sound. What am I going wrong? Society Design Mailing List http://www.egroups.com/group/Society_Design For any and all aspects of designing societies, from discussion of real- world utopian ideas to fantastic fictional or roleplaying worlds. ---Revenant [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
[newbie] ReiserFS
Hi... In the LM7.2 Expert Install there is an option for using "hard drive optimizations". Is this LM's obscure way of referring to ReiserFS? If not, where else in the Installer can one choose ReiserFS? Thanks. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Sharing
I've used that to share my cable connection with a couple of Macs and it was absolutely effortless. I just set the Macs to use DHCP, then ran the "Internet Connection Sharing" command, and they were on. No rebooting needed. It shouldn't be that much harder for your Windows boxes, assuming you've set them up to use DHCP. M. On Monday 18 December 2000 15:26, you wrote: DrakConf in Mandrake 7.2 has an "Internet Connection Sharing" feature. I haven't tried it, so I can't say how good it is. On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 04:06, Angel Rodriguez wrote: My home network is running Win98 on my desktop and Win95 on my corporate laptop. I want to add my Linux Mandrake only machine to this network and be able to share my internet connection with Linux. The Win98 machine is running MS internet sharing software. How would I accomplish this? A.Rodriguez -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] How to print a man page?
There are several ways to do it. Try searching on "printing man pages" in Google. Doing that a while ago I found this: man -t [command_name] | lpr ...which outputs to my Postscript print in a proportional font. Very nice. On Sunday 17 December 2000 06:23, you wrote: How would I go about printing a man page? -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
[newbie] Problem installing KDE2.1 beta
Hi... Here's what I've done so far... 1. A clean install of Mandrake 7.2. 2. Downloaded all the KDE2.01 RPMs. Followed instructions for installing them (rpm -Fvh *.rpm; rpm --rebuilddb; update-menus -v). 3. Downloaded all the KDE2.1beta RPMs. 4. Did rpm -Fvh *.rpm. Got two failed dependencies -- one for libical and the other for libkscan.so.1. 5. Did rpm -i libical-0.20d-1mdk.i586.rpm. That took care of one dependency. I'm not sure where libkscan.so.1 lives or how to deal with that dependency. More to the point, since I'm installing on a fresh system, I'm curious why no one else has reported this problem... Any suggestions? Thank you. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] mounting cdrom problems
What is on the CD that you're trying to mount? This is, for instance, the message you would get if you tried to mount a music CD (since music CDs don't contain a filesystem). M. On Monday 11 December 2000 05:15, you wrote: Dear Sir/Madame, I installed the last version of Linux mandrake, but I have problems in mounting my cdrom, model: hp cd-writer 9100 series In particular, I have the following problem when I mount it mount /mnt/cdrom mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too many mounted file systems The first line is OK, and the error is reported in the second line. My fstab file contains the following stuff -- /dev/hda8 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda7 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto user,auto,nosuid 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,rw 0 0 /dev/zip/mnt/zipauto noauto,user,rw 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 -- Could you please explain me how to solve this problem ? I thank you in advance. Yours faithfully, Emidio Gabrielli === = Emidio Gabriellie-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institute of Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Helsinki Phone: (+358) 9 191 8508 P.O. Box 9, Siltavuorenpenger 20 C Fax: (+358) 9 191 8458 FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland === = -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] CDRW problems cont'd
On Wednesday 13 December 2000 20:48, you wrote: [root@localhost dennis]# ls -l /dev/cdrom1 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Dec 13 20:26 /dev/cdrom1 - scd0 [root@localhost dennis]# Here is what I see when listing the dev, does anyone see a probable cause for why I can not access the writer as user? I'm baffled. help ! This is saying that /dev/cdrom1 is linked to /dev/scd0. What are the permissions on scd0? M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
[newbie] PHP in Mandrake 7.2
Hi... Is PHP enabled by default in 7.2? I'm asking because when I point to an index.php file, it's displayed as plain text. The way I understand it, PHP can be loaded dynamically (as a DSO module), compiled into Apache, or run as a CGI. In the Mandrake httpd.conf, the lines that would cause Apache to recognize files with the appropriate PHP filename extensions are all commented out. Also, there are no LoadModule statements for PHP -- which makes me think that it's not running as a DSO. So what do I need to do to make Apache do the right thing when it sees a *.php file? Thank you! M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
