[newbie] OFF Topic: Unix TTY Config Question
I know this is off topic but most ppl with linux exp have some unix.(openserver 5.06). Are server runs a distribution package that prints to both spooled and direct(/dev/ttyx). I am migrating the information from the old server to a new. How do I configure a tty port to the correct settings to match my printers? If i use print manager then everything works like a champ but if I use the tty port then at about 2 or 3 pages everything gets garbled. I am assuming this is a handshaking issue. Thanks. Paul Kraus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linux Unix Question
How do you know what /dev/device is your tape drive for using tar? Linux how do you create as script that will issue a command such as mount that normally only superuser can use? I want to me able to mount and dismount network resources without having to switch to SU. The mnt directorys already contain the correct RWX permmissions for my user account. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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[newbie] gRRRR
well this is the 15th message I have sent in the last 30 hours and not one has come through. I have resubbed 3 times now to no avail. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LILO substitute?
You could use a boot disk to boot linux. That way with out the disk windows loads with the disk linux loads. If you install windows then linux/lilo you shouldn't have any problems and if you do all you need to do is boot to a dos floppy and run fdisk mbr. which will erase lilo. On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 00:57, Tonton wrote: Is there any way or substitute to load Linux instead of using LILO? because I'm afraid that I will have trouble again in using Windows when I put back LILO in my system. If there is no other way to substitute LILO, please give me a safe, detailed and simple instructions on how to put back LILO in my system. TY... __ www.edsamail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] win4lin 3.0 vnet
I have installed win4lin and set it for vnet. But when I booted windows there was no nic info at all. I added merge nic as the driver and set all the tcp ip setting to what they should be for dhcp. It then asked me for io/irq info for the card. I left it at the default setting. When I reboot it tells me there is a problem and to reconfigure your nic. PK system --- Gateway Solo5300 198mb Ram 733mhz PIII 3cc575 PCMCIA NIC MDK 8.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] smbtar vs tar
why use smbtar over tar? I am backuping a folder on one nt machine to a folder on another nt machine. ( its a temp thing) I mount both folders on my laptop using samba. I then issue the normal tar command and point to the respective mount points. Is there some kind of benifit to smbtar? there seems to be a lot less options. Is there a way to use a linux machine to backup a windows machine to a tape drive that is on another windows machine? Just curious. PK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Email
wow I sent this last night.. and it just now went through. On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 13:17, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Kraus Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 8:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Email I have sent like 5 messages to the server over the last two days and have yet to see any of them show up. If anyone gets this message please send me a response. I got it and the previous one about samba. Are you getting the other mail from the list, like about 100 per day. If not you may need to resubscribe. HTH Dennis M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Digest?
What does a list digest do? is it like an archive? On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 13:40, Matt Chinn wrote: Is there a digest for this list?..I usually like to be on digests.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Backups
Is it possible to backup your entire system by tar /bziping / ? then incase of a system rebuild / reinstall you could boot to a boot disk and untar your machine? If so what is the best way of doing this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Directory Sizes
Is there a way to determin the the size of a directory? totaly file size? Perferably with command line. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SbLive
I am not trying to get the spidif jack to work. I want the speaker output jack to be set for digital output so that it can run digital speakers. On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 04:31, Paul Pak wrote: In Case you are using the alsa sound drivers do the following: as root enter the command: alsactl store it will create the file /etc/asound.conf. Open asound.conf with an editor look for the spdif output line and change it to true. Mine looks like this: switch(S/PDIF output, true) Now save asound.conf and enter the command: alsactl restore , SPDIF out should work now if it is not working maybe you are not using alsa Am Samstag, 16. Februar 2002 23:43 schrieben Sie: How do you switch the analog output on the soundblaster live to digital? In windows there was creative software to do it. I am running digital speakers as it is and now have no sound. Thanks. =_1013938409-13086-1186 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] File Sharing
Are there any good linux file sharing apps? Something along the lines of morpheus. Lime wire is hard to use because it searches by file name. I want something that will search descriptions. Thanks. PK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SbLive
How do you switch the analog output on the soundblaster live to digital? In windows there was creative software to do it. I am running digital speakers as it is and now have no sound. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Directory Structure
One of the reasons for switching to unix was the control over the os that it allows. But I must admit the may files are organized are completly chaotic. One install installs everything into one directory another spreads the files out to every single directory on your drive. How you can possibly maintain backups. Its driving me nuts. I can never find anything. I am anal when it comes to how I keep my files. Is there some logic to this that I am missing? PK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Network Issues. (Has been posted before. Last post on this subject)
I still can not get my laptop to boot up without eth1 failing. MDk found two nics in my laptop even though there was only one pcmcia nic. eth0 doesn't start at startup. eth1 does. When it does it fails... and it takes forever to fail so boot up takes so long. Once its up I can go into mandrake config - Networking - Connection - Expert Setup - eth1 then I can click activate and it comes up immeditly. Any thoughts? I hate having to do this evertime I boot. Paul Kraus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Evolution
I am trying to setup evolution. Is there any way I can import my outlook contacts or a csv or anything? Also it is version 0.13. When I download the 1.x version it won't let me instal. Says it is already installed. Thanks Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OpenOffice.org Text File Spreadsheet import
How do Import a pipe deliminated text file into an openoffice.org spreadsheet? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Samba
I am trying to setup samba. I am able to connect to other pc's using the smbmount command. But when I can't connect to my pc from others on the network. The Smb Server is running. I can see my laptop in network neighborhood on the windows machines but when I click on my pc I get an error saying its not on the network??? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] system tray
I am running gnome desktop. Is there system tray that will work globablly for apps? I want to at a glance see If i have IM's or Email waiting to be read. With having to have the app open on the desktop. PK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Viking Compact Flash Adapter
Any know how to install a PCMCIA Compact Flash Adapter? MDK8. PK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Various Issues
Ok I have a couple questions. I am running a 733mhz gateway solo laptop with 196mb. I am using Enlightenment as my window mandager and that is it. No kde or gnome. Questions -=-=-=-= Anyone know any good sources for information on learning to do everything in the command line? Any good documentation on Samba? On enlightenment screen shots I always see these monitoring icons. The have temperture ram and all sorts of information. When I do my intall and examine the packages I see that there as a package that seems to be these icons that is installed. How do I put them on the desktop? Mdk found two nic cards on my machine eth0 eth1. eth0 never works. eth1 fails every time that the machine is started. However once I get to the desktop I can go into mandrake config, networking, connections, expert, then eth1, then activate. and off it goes with everything working the way it is supposed to. Anyone know a permenant fix for this? Anyone know of a command line command to get the same result? VMWARE -=-=-=- FYI for anyone that so my previous post about problems with VMWARE not booting or installing an os. The problem was related to the s3 savage driver. When I replaced it so that open office would work, vmware also started to work. Just thought you laptop people might be interested. Paul Kraus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Enlightenment
I am creating a custom menu but don't know the paths to the defaults apps that are in the middle click menu. For instance where is the command to run e-term ect. PK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Vmware - Windows 98se
I am running a 733 piii 196mb ram gateway solo 5300 laptop. I am running mdr8.1 and vmware workstation 3. I am trying to install windows 98 or windows xp pro. I am installing it into a virtual disk. Once it start to install the very first step says something linke setting up installer or wizards and then when it gets to 100% the cursor changes to an hour glass and then it crashes. Would I be better off doing seperate partions? I was trying to avoid that. Thanks. Paul Kraus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] VMWare Workstation 3
ok I have installed vmware. I want to install 98se as the second os. I was running xp but xp is a resource hog and way over kill for the one or two apps I need to run in windows. The problem is that I am running a laptop that only has one drive bay. Meaning either cd or floppy. How then can I install 98se seeing as the factory cd is not bootable. Any thoughts would be appreciated. PK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Network Resources
How do I access network resources in a windows workgroup? How do I share a folder? Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com
[newbie] Console Terminal / Sco Help
I finally was able to get the linux console to attach to my sco app and actually work correctly ( took some tweaking ) but now the colors are just awful and hard to look at. If anyone has ever used tiny term for windows you can set your colors then based on what is being displayed by the server the appropriate color shows. IE Reverse would show as reversed blue and white. Is there a way to do this with the console. I cant use use the built in telnet app. I dont why because it is defaulted to xterm just like the linux console but the app display screwed up chars and is unusable with anything other then ascii. Is there a way to use my modem to dial in to my sco box from home? For the same effect I get from telneting from the network. (Sco is already set up for this with the modem and line. I use this in windows all the time). Thanks for all the help. Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com
[newbie] Text Startup / How-to
Does anyone know how to by-pass the grapfical startup as well an the graphical login. I tried to upgrade my s3 savage binary this is a very confusing thing. The probe site tells you to try s3 first for there driver. I download the s3 driver and when I open the tgz file in kde (or any desktop actually) all the files in the archive look corrupt. They all have weird chars ect. Download it and look (https://ranger.s3graphics.com/290-298drv/Savage_4.1.0_binary.tgz). But if I unpack it at a console it creates one binary file. I then copy it over top of the old file and now x won't start. I don't want to reload. Is there a way to fix this? What is the correct procedure for updating this driver? Thanks Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] FW: Text Startup / How-to
Does anyone know how to by-pass the grapfical startup as well an the graphical login. I tried to upgrade my s3 savage binary this is a very confusing thing. The probe site tells you to try s3 first for there driver. I download the s3 driver and when I open the tgz file in kde (or any desktop actually) all the files in the archive look corrupt. They all have weird chars ect. Download it and look (https://ranger.s3graphics.com/290-298drv/Savage_4.1.0_binary.tgz). But if I unpack it at a console it creates one binary file. I then copy it over top of the old file and now x won't start. I don't want to reload. Is there a way to fix this? What is the correct procedure for updating this driver? Thanks Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mail clients
Are there any mail clients that will sort the messages like threads in a news group? That would organization and post reference so nice. Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com
RE: [newbie] Copying Files to Floppy
I have the same problem. cp filename /mnt/floppy . I then cd /mnt/floppy, ls and my file is listed as well as the rest of the contents of the drive. I then remove the disk put it in my windows pc and dir a dir on it and all the original files are there but the new one is not. It is a windows formatted floppy. Now if I mount /mnt/floppy I get an error saying that the drive is already mounted. Also how do you unmount? I try the unmount command which I read about in a book and I get a bash error. No command found. Thanks. PK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 7:36 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Copying Files to Floppy Is the floppy formatted as a FAT (i.e. Windows/DOS) disk or is it formatted as an EXT2 (i.e. Linux filing system) floppy? If you shove a windows formatter floppy,. Linux will see it, recognise it and adjust the copy process accordingly. You should be able to boot into Windows, open up the floppy and see your files. As for the command, to copy abc123.txt you would cp abc123.txt /mnt/floppy/ Should work... -Original Message- From: Pauljames Dimitriu [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 7:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Copying Files to Floppy I'm sure this is a very easy question to answer and I'm being very brain deaded about it How do you copy a file to a floppy drive via terminal? Is it cp filename /mnt/floppy? Everytime I try this and I do an ls in the /mnt/floppy directory, it shows up. However when I bring it to a Winblows machine, I can't see the file. Help??? __ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sco Telnet
Ok I was able to configure our sco app to use the linux xterm settings. It works great in the console and the a telnet to the box. But if I use the telnet app then everything gets all messed up. I get upside down question marks everywhere. Even though the app is set to xterm as well. Very odd. Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com
[newbie] EVOLVE
Are there any tool to import an outlook pst to evolve? Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com
RE: [newbie] OpenOffice
Ok so the problem is the free version won't work with my video card? And the working version costs money? I don't have problem paying for software but I like to see it work first especially if I plan on trying to roll it out on 50 machines. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of tester Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 12:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Paul Kraus wrote: I can not install the software. I am running a gateway solo 5300 laptop. 733 mhz p3 with 196megs of ram. I click on setup it starts but right before the first dialog appears it locks. Screen has background install image and the options box is completly blank except the next button. You cant click on anything and if I move the mouse around it starts slowing the whole system down. It puts vertical lines across the screen. Then it completly freezes. The only thing I can do is shift alt f1. log in kill the .setup and the .setup.bin processes. then I have to wait like a minute or two. Then I can switch back to kde and everything works fine. I need the app. I have to able to reliably work with MS office files. Once I can do this and prove it to the powers that be I will be able to switch the entire office over to linux. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well, bite the bullet and buy a boxed set or download StarOffice 6.0 (6.0 and a revised 5.2 will work with that S3 Savage video chipset) Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Cd-Rom / Digital Speakers
As far as getting digital speakers to work on a sound blaster live you need to log in as root and the #emu-config -d this sets the port to digital. In case you where curious. For some reason I can access any of the cd-rom drives. I have two. In fact the cd-rom icon isn't even on the kde desktop. They worked yesterday and I haven't installed any new software. Any thoughts? Pk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cd-Rom / Digital Speakers
That was supposed to read... I can't access any of the cd-rom drives. On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 21:15:48 -0500 Paul Kraus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as getting digital speakers to work on a sound blaster live you need to log in as root and the #emu-config -d this sets the port to digital. In case you where curious. For some reason I can access any of the cd-rom drives. I have two. In fact the cd-rom icon isn't even on the kde desktop. They worked yesterday and I haven't installed any new software. Any thoughts? Pk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Star Office
Is openoffice and staroffice the same thing? Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of shane Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 4:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Star Office staroffice is in the powerpack not the download, and the truth is you would rather run the newer openoffice downloads. :) hop out to openoffice.org is the place i do believe. On Thursday 24 January 2002 12:48, you spoke unto me thusly: Someone posted earlier that star office was on the mdk8.1 cd's. Where is it located? I can't find it. Paul -- For more than 4 generations the IT Professionals were the guardians of quality and stability in software. Before the dark times. Before Microsoft.. shane registered linux user @ http://counter.li.org/ http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OpenOffice
I can not install the software. I am running a gateway solo 5300 laptop. 733 mhz p3 with 196megs of ram. I click on setup it starts but right before the first dialog appears it locks. Screen has background install image and the options box is completly blank except the next button. You cant click on anything and if I move the mouse around it starts slowing the whole system down. It puts vertical lines across the screen. Then it completly freezes. The only thing I can do is shift alt f1. log in kill the .setup and the .setup.bin processes. then I have to wait like a minute or two. Then I can switch back to kde and everything works fine. I need the app. I have to able to reliably work with MS office files. Once I can do this and prove it to the powers that be I will be able to switch the entire office over to linux. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Network Connectivity issues
On my gatewaysolo5300 I am running a megahtz pcmcia nic. When I install it finds this device and installs two drives both for the same card. One on eth0 and one on eth1 both are setup for dhcp. Neither work when I first boot. I have to go into command center and then I have to go to network, connection, expert. If i try to activate eth0 nothing. it wont work. If i activate eth1 it instantly comes up with no problems. It gets it's ip and all network resoures are available. Thanks. I had posted this before but have since gotten more info to add. I am not trying to repeat my self. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] argggggg installing software
I have tried to install enlightenment and eterm. now both of these fail because they need other rpms installed so I download those rps and they fail because the need other rpms to install. this is utterly ridiculuos. Is there so way to have to software retrieve the files that it needs or am I going to have to play secret agent and spend 3 hours d/l rpm after rpm to find out I still need more rpms. so frustrated PK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] argggggg installing software
Is there compiled list of all the files on the cd's and a description of what they are for? this would help tremedously. On Friday 25 January 2002 07:56 pm, you wrote: On Friday 25 January 2002 04:41 pm, Paul Kraus wrote: I have tried to install enlightenment and eterm. now both of these fail because they need other rpms installed so I download those rps and they fail because the need other rpms to install. this is utterly ridiculuos. Is there so way to have to software retrieve the files that it needs or am I going to have to play secret agent and spend 3 hours d/l rpm after rpm to find out I still need more rpms. so frustrated PK If you have rpmdrake installed, then you can automate this process. You can access it from the Mandrake Control Center. Since both enlightenment and eterm are on your CDs, rpmdrake will install al the other necessary software as well. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Digital Speakers / Sound Blaster Live
I have just installed mandrake on my home pc. Gateway 1.6 p4 with 384mb ram. I am using a sound blaster live and have digital speakers. Is there a driver for this sound card that will work with my speakers? Thanks. PK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Swap Partititon
That's the confusion. I am running 196 megs on my laptop so I should double this. But on my home system I am running 512mb so should I then make a 1gig swap? If not why? Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com -Original Message- From: FLYNN, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 9:03 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Swap Partititon If you have 128 meg, create a swap partion or file of 512 meg. How much memory is installed in you Linux box? -Original Message- From: Paul Kraus [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Swap Partititon Ok now this is confusing. 4.1.3.1. The most simple Is where you have just two partitions: one for the swap space, the other for the files1. Tip: The rule of thumb for the swap partition size is to choose double of the size of your RAM memory. However for large memory configurations (512 MB), this rule is not valid, and smaller sizes are preferred. Says to double your ram to create your swap file then it contradicts itself. Can someone explain exactly how this should be done and maybe some theory behind it? I don't just like knowing how I like to now why. Thanks. Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] telnet / pcmcia
Some posted earlier that in order to fix my network issues I should recompile the kernel with PCMCIA driver set to YES. This is not an option under kernel config all I could find was PCMCIA card bus. Also someone mentioned that mdk 8.1 telnet was broken and there was a fix. Where can I get this? Thanks. Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com
[newbie] Star Office
Someone posted earlier that star office was on the mdk8.1 cd's. Where is it located? I can't find it. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Ipaq
I have an compaq ipaq hand held. Is there any way to synch in linux? I have heard of linux for the ipaq is there any way to synch with this software installed? PK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] White Background
I was configuring my look in feel in KDE and now my background is completly white. It also hides all the text for icons. When I goto to the background screen I have a background image selected. Any ideas? PK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] internet monitoring
Is there a way to setup up Linux so that it restricts access to all internet sites that I don't specify? Can this be done an a user/usergroup setting. Example. I only want some people to only be able to access. www.cnet.com (and all child sites www.cnet.com/*.* ) and I want management to be able to access 5 or 6 more sites. Can I do this with a Linux box between my network and my dsl router? Can I also set it up to had out ip addresses? There is windows software (surf control) that does this same thing but it cost around 2 grand and then you have to have another win2k server setup so all of a sudden my cost for this little task is around 5 thousand. Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ASP Development
I was under the impression that Apache couldn't handle ASP. Thanks for the advice. Paul -Original Message- From: tester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 12:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ASP Development Paul Kraus wrote: The problem isn't the editor it's the viewer. Since its server side scripting I don't want to have to upload a page every time I am done editing it to view it. In windows there is Microsoft's personal web server which lets me access the page and see all the server side scripts run. Its not just vb script although it looks a lot like it. Paul -Original Message- From: Anuerin G. Diaz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 9:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ASP Development On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:11:55 -0500 Paul Kraus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to view active server pages? I maintain several e-commerce sites all built on asp. I could always boot into windows but I am trying to use Linux exclusively to see if it can really meet all my needs. I would need an editor and someway to display the active server pages. Paul Kraus pardon my ignorance but isn't asp pages just html pages with a lot of vbscripts inside? if that is the case then you can just edit it with any of the thousand text editors in linux (nedit, jext, j, kate, MinimumProfit, emacs, vi, ed,...) and view it on the various browsers available ( konqueror, mozilla, galeon, opera,...). if that was not the answer you were looking for just delete this email. ;-) ciao! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Edit with whatever--view by installing Apache and using a browser pointed to http://127.0.0.1:80/pagename.asp And put your pages into /var/www/html (you may need to run a terminal as root once to chmod g+rw /var/www/html and add yourself as user to group apache using userdrake or linuxconf.) That way, people outside who stumble across your IP can see the pages but cannot write to them, and of course as long as you do nothing with index.shtml they won't see anything but the introductory page unless they know your filenames. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] General Questions
open office handles most msoffice files well. i personally have some trouble with odd tables in word docs from time to time but othere than that fairly well. as for software, are you installing mandrake rpms? running kde? more info! -=-=-=-=-=-=- Running KDE and using RPS and sometimes GZ files which I cant seem to install at all. How do you uninstall something? This is OS is very daughnting at first. But I like it :) as for links, http://www.mandrakeuser.org/index.php and for general linux http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Support/ On Monday 21 January 2002 13:11, you spoke unto me thusly: Ok I need to be able to access / change MS Office Files. If I can do this accurtly then I can completely remove the need of Windows. Also there some kind of Term Emulator I can run? I need to attach to a unix host and have it support sco ansi ect. Any one have any good links to beginers info? I can get mandrake to run find now but I am very unclear as to what I am doing or why something worked. Installing software bewilders me. Rpm files install but then don't create any icons to load them. If I navigate to the bin directory I can find the executable but they are all in the directory. That seem rather troublesome when it come to organization. Thanks Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com -- Nimda virus affects Linux! My linux boxes have had their bandwidth chewed up by four thousand Nimda servers infected with IIS. shane registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Probably should be a new thread (Startup Files)
First of all thanks for the info that everyone has providided. How do I create a file that will run at start up? I use the dvorak keyboard layout and I have to go into a command prompt and type some command(I am in win right now and don't have access to what it is) that remaps the keyboard. Can I set this to be done when I log in? Thanks. Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com -Original Message- From: tester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 3:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Paul Kraus wrote: Ok I need to be able to access / change MS Office Files. If I can do this accurtly then I can completely remove the need of Windows. Also there some kind of Term Emulator I can run? I need to attach to a unix host and have it support sco ansi ect. Any one have any good links to beginers info? I can get mandrake to run find now but I am very unclear as to what I am doing or why something worked. Installing software bewilders me. Rpm files install but then don't create any icons to load them. If I navigate to the bin directory I can find the executable but they are all in the directory. That seem rather troublesome when it come to organization. Thanks Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com mandrake rpms load icons or put the programs on menus unless they are designed to run from console. Other rpms may or may not work, but rpm protects against installing programs conflicting with those already installed. With dozens of vendors and thousands of program writers, it is surprising that most programs do instll and work. For MS Office files, you can use StarOffice which will handle them mostly correctly. Some others will as well, like HAncom Office; however be advised that license agreements generally prohibit reverse engineering for the purpose of importing data and as soon as UCITA passes in Washington State, Microsoft will have the full force and effect of law in those agreements--probably the end of compatibility forever. When you find the executable in the directory (and they should generally install to /opt/(packagename) if they are compliant with the Filesystem Huerarchical Standard) You can make that directory path and filename into a command line for the icon you can create by right-clicking on the desktop. Further, inn the process of that icon creation, you can link the application to specific mimetypes (like soffice for .doc files). The basic primers you seek are right on your system if you elected to install documentation-- Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Desktops (Gnome,KDE,ect)
Ok I am assuming that KDE, GNOME, WindowMaker ect are nothing more then front ends to the command line. If this is true what advantages does one have over the other? Which should I learn? Is it worth learning them all? Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RE: Startup Files
VIM? Sorry for the lack of knowledge but I have been running Linux for less then 2 days. -Original Message- From: Mario da Costa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 8:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Startup Files Paul Kraus wrote: First of all thanks for the info that everyone has providided. How do I create a file that will run at start up? I use the dvorak keyboard layout and I have to go into a command prompt and type some command(I am in win right now and don't have access to what it is) that remaps the keyboard. Can I set this to be done when I log in? Thanks. vim your .bashrc and/or .bash_profile Thank You, Regards, mario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ASP Development
Is there a way to view active server pages? I maintain several e-commerce sites all built on asp. I could always boot into windows but I am trying to use Linux exclusively to see if it can really meet all my needs. I would need an editor and someway to display the active server pages. Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hard Drive
How do you access another Partion? I have a fat32 windows partion that I have been saving linux apps on when I was running windows? How do I get to the drive to find the files? Paul Kraus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] General Questions
I need some kind of term emulater. I need to attach to unix box and run are distribution software. Thourghbred in case you wanted to know. But If i telnet I get this strange error which I have never seen. Currently we have terminals attached to the unix box that log in with no problem and we have windows machines running tiny term to attach form windows with no problem. Neither of these methods have caused any problems in the past. here is the error. wow that was really odd. I just went back into the software to regenrate the error and now it trys to let me in but the screen is jarbled but the error is missing. It was there yesterday also. I wonder if i will only recieve that error once each time i boot. But if that is true then I am very confused. I think because telnet doesn't support SCO ansi the screen gets garbled. I have tried to install minicom but I can't get it to work. Paul Kraus P.S. I am running evolve and I can't believe Microsoft hasn't sued. Its a 100% knock off of outlook. Down to the interface and right click menus. On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 11:15, shane wrote: generally the program has a text file readme or install instructions with it. there are also some packages needed to compile some things. if you post names/links to programs you are struggling with to the list it is likely someone can help you better than general vagueness like what i am providing ;-) On Tuesday 22 January 2002 07:29, you spoke unto me thusly: How do compile them manually? There are some gz files I can't find rpms for. I assume I can unzip them to any folder and then from what I read here compile them. What is the process for this. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] General Questions
ok i tried logging back into the unix box. I attached fine. this is what I did $ echo $TERM xterm $ stty speed 38400 baud; ispeed 9600 baud; ospeed 38400 baud; rows = 24; columns = 85; ypixels = 0; xpixels = 0; -parity hupcl swtch = undef; susp = undef; brkint -inpck icrnl onlcr tab3 echo -echoe echok $ TERM=vt102 $ export TERM i then loaded my software -==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= $ sol4 Basic was unable to locate either the TERMINAL id or the MODEL code in the terminal definition file TCONFIGW. BASIC Windows can only be used if the TERMINAL id and the MODEL code are defined in TCONFIGW. Restart BASIC without using Windows and use *NPSD to define this terminal. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I have been administrating this server and this software for over a year and this is the only time I have seen this error. In linux. Also I can not use backspace when I telnet in. either with GTelnet or Console-telnet. Paul Kraus On Tuesday 22 January 2002 12:49 pm, you wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Paul Kraus wrote: I need some kind of term emulater. I need to attach to unix box and run are distribution software. Thourghbred in case you wanted to know. But If i telnet I get this strange error which I have never seen. Currently we have terminals attached to the unix box that log in with no problem and we have windows machines running tiny term to attach form windows with no problem. Neither of these methods have caused any problems in the past. here is the error. wow that was really odd. I just went back into the software to regenrate the error and now it trys to let me in but the screen is jarbled but the error is missing. It was there yesterday also. I wonder if i will only recieve that error once each time i boot. But if that is true then I am very confused. I think because telnet doesn't support SCO ansi the screen gets garbled. I have tried to install minicom but I can't get it to work. Paul Kraus Paul, When you log into the Unix Box, what is TERM set to? At the Unix command prompt: echo $TERM, also run stty and see it that makes a difference. You could try setting TERM to vt102 or vt220, e.g. TERM=vt102; export TERM. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 8.1, gateway solo 5300 laptop, fe575 3com nic
I just setup a dual boot system running xp pro and mandrake 8.1. I installed xp first on a fat32 4.5 gig partion. I then installed manrake on another 4.5 partion and used default install options. Everything worked great. Not one problem. However when in linux/kde I don't have any connectivity to my network at work. Or my cable modem at home. We have dhcp server at work and I figured it would configure itself. I tried going into kde and changing setting but to be honest I have about 10mins worth of exp in linux, Any help would be apperiated. Paul Kraus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie]
Ok I need to be able to access / change MS Office Files. If I can do this accurtly then I can completely remove the need of Windows. Also there some kind of Term Emulator I can run? I need to attach to a unix host and have it support sco ansi ect. Any one have any good links to beginers info? I can get mandrake to run find now but I am very unclear as to what I am doing or why something worked. Installing software bewilders me. Rpm files install but then don't create any icons to load them. If I navigate to the bin directory I can find the executable but they are all in the directory. That seem rather troublesome when it come to organization. Thanks Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
