[newbie] Sylpheed key bindings
I wanted a macro which would select a thread and then mark it read, but I don't see how to do that. In fact, although the manual explains how to change the key binding for a menu item, it doesn't seem to work. I right-click on a message, hover the mouse over Select Thread, press CTRL + E, the menu updates, but when I press those keys, nothing happens. 1. Why can't I change a key binding? 2. Can I combine a number of shortcuts into a macro? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: OT: annoying spam filters
On Mon, 24 May 2004 22:37:15 -0700, rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Jonesy, Monday, May 24, 2004, 11:03:40 AM, you wrote: J Just what I like to see: My email addy in a monstrous To: list to J be found on gawd-knows how many infected Winder$ boxes. STOP! You're going to give me nightmares. :-)) How about this one: a friend runs a mail order business. One day he accidently sent a message to his whole address book (including my work address). One of the recipients was a company in China... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:27:42 +, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I deleted the ~/.openoffice folder which contains my personal OpenOffice configuration. Whenever something gets messed up, one of the first things I normally do is delete the personal config files. Do a ls -a to see all the config files in your home directory to see what I mean. Miark I backed up my ~/, and left it to finish overnight. It was still going the next morning. Turns out that there was some sort of recursive link in ~/.openoffice, something to do with the desktop folder. Could the app be drilling down through this when it takes so long to load? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 13:17:08 +0100, Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is one thing, which I am hoping that you, or anyone else with a greater knowledge of Mandrakesoft than I, can answer. I assume that the cheap CDs I would buy from, for instance, The Libranet Emporium, would be the download edition. If I remember correctly, it was mentioned on the list some time ago that the download edition will have adverts which will pop up at any time. This inconvenience is to help 'persuade' us to buy the boxed sets, which will be free of them. Is this correct, or am I dreaming it? Knowing me, it is probably the latter! Any information will be greatfully received. Many thanks Keith The 'ad' is in the install, whilst the packages are being copied over. Not intrusive. Not a problem. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 04:08:00 -0400, robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RichardA wrote: Different update sites seem to have different structures. Also, the Mandrake Club mirrors page doesn't seem to work. What's going on? Which sites are up to date? Wasn't this meant to be fixed by today? Also, how the hell does the new structure work? Everything I read gives different advice. I installed from the 10.0 CE disks. Do I have a choice between: 1) Updating to 10.0 release and then just getting security updates and fixes 2) Following Cooker to 10.1 3) Something in between. If so, what is it? Are the main sources Distribution, Updates and Contrib? If so, where in the new structure are they? Whatever sources I use, I get a curl error message. I live in hope ... Sir Robin There are some very angry people on the forums, and I don't blame them. No one expects Mandrake to actually communicate to their customers, even before a major restructure of the mirrors, but it seems they all went home for Easter withour fixing it. So much for Mandrake's 'enterprise' ambitions. I'll ask about the details of the new Community/Cooker stuff when it's all working. Or maybe I'll get an email from Mandrake explaining it ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] What Does The Document Contains No Data Mean?
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:12:11 +0100, David Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Robin, This still occurs in Firefox 8 - looks like there is a problem that cannot be fixed by the developers - uness they don't care about the User Interface I don't think it's the fault of the browser developers. The server responds to the page request with some data, but then it times out. So, the document exists, but is empty. I would blame the connection or the server, not the browser. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:12:15 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 14 April 2004 08:21, RichardA wrote: There are some very angry people on the forums, and I don't blame them. Frustrated, definitely. Angry. No one expects Mandrake to actually communicate to their customers, even before a major restructure of the mirrors, but it seems they all went home for Easter withour fixing it. So much for Mandrake's 'enterprise' ambitions. An unfair and unjustified comment. Try reading the explanation on the Club pages. The situation only developed as people were going home for the holidays. Warly tried to contact the various mirror owners, but they are totally independent of Mandrake, and most of them were unavailable. Oddly enough, they like holidays, too. There is no way that Mandrake employees can guarantee how long it will take mirror owners to sort out this problem. Let's just hope that not too many of them are taking an extended break. Anne I don't think my comment was unfair or unjust. This should have been tested, and there should have been a backout. The mirror maintainers should have been contacted _before_ this change. We all like holidays, but if we work in IT and we break something mission-critical, we stay and work until it is fixed. Their behaviour is acceptable for a hobby distro, but Mandrake are making 'Enterprise' noises. Mandrake is a great distro -- which is why we're all here -- but the company... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?
Different update sites seem to have different structures. Also, the Mandrake Club mirrors page doesn't seem to work. What's going on? Which sites are up to date? Wasn't this meant to be fixed by today? Also, how the hell does the new structure work? Everything I read gives different advice. I installed from the 10.0 CE disks. Do I have a choice between: 1) Updating to 10.0 release and then just getting security updates and fixes 2) Following Cooker to 10.1 3) Something in between. If so, what is it? Are the main sources Distribution, Updates and Contrib? If so, where in the new structure are they? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] cdrecord errors
This is on 9.2, before and after updates. I've edited /etc/lilo.conf to add hdc=ide-scsi. If I try to burn an iso image, in the GCombust results window I see: /usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted: WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler /usr/bin/cdrecord: Permission denied: WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority() /usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. Google says to check suid on cdrecord, but it's already set. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord errors
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:05:51 +, RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is on 9.2, before and after updates. I've edited /etc/lilo.conf to add hdc=ide-scsi. If I try to burn an iso image, in the GCombust results window I see: /usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted: WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler /usr/bin/cdrecord: Permission denied: WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority() /usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. Google says to check suid on cdrecord, but it's already set. Never mind, the CDs are fine -- I'm installing 10.0 from them now. I'd still like to know what the errors are, though. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord errors
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:05:51 +, RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is on 9.2, before and after updates. I've edited /etc/lilo.conf to add hdc=ide-scsi. If I try to burn an iso image, in the GCombust results window I see: /usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted: WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler /usr/bin/cdrecord: Permission denied: WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority() /usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. Google says to check suid on cdrecord, but it's already set. Never mind, the CDs are fine -- I'm installing 10.0 from them now. I'd still like to know what the errors are, though. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Router Question
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 12:09:51 -0500, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:40:27 -0600 Dennis Myers disseminated the following: Oh and BTW, what the hell is 'Icop'? He means IPCop I think. : ) Looks pretty cool. I might choose that instead of Smoothie when I finally get around to 'upgrading' my router. I used IPCop a couple of years ago, because the community was more helpful (google for Richard Morell sometime, and be glad you never met him in a dark alley), but I read recently that IPCop isn't being actively developed, and that RM is no longer involved with Smoothwall. It might be worth you, and the OP, checking this out before deciding which one to use. Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Good virus program?
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 23:44:12 +1100, _nasturtium [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [OT] Question: My brother would like to know where the Tupac quote comes from :-). To know your enemy, you must become your enemy... Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. - Sun Tzu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hanging box
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:32:33 -0500, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm firing up the Tom Brinkman Signal as we speak ;-) Hmmm, what *would* the Tom Brinkman Signal look like anyway? Easy. A Penguin shape projected onto the clouds. HTH. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Sylpheed links in background (in Galeon)
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 19:13:26 -0500, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:41:13 + RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, on a related note, how can I get anti-aliased text in Sylpheed? Would I need a GTK2-enabled Sylpheed? If so, does one exist? Yep, check Sourceforge. There's a 0.9.8 version out here: http://xem.jp/~tkng/sylpheed-gtk2/sylpheed-0.9.8-gtk2-20031212.tar.bz2 but I've had a few probs with it, like not displaying the messages in the preview pane, crashing. Which is why you'll see I'm back to ver 0.9.5, which seems fairly stable. Much as I crave anti-aliased email, I can't be doing with crashy apps. I'll wait. Thanks, Joe. I'm still really annoyed by the behaviour I mentioned in my original post. I middle-click on a link ... wait for Galeon to appear in front of Sylpheed ... click on the Sylpheed title bar ... repeat. If the email is Crypto-gram, or Need To Know that's a lot of clicks. Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Sylpheed links in background (in Galeon)
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:40:41 +, RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I middle-clicked on a URL in Sylpheed with Mandrake 9.0/Gnome 2.2, it would open in a new tab in the background, and Sylpheed would keep focus. With Mandrake 9.2/Gnome 2.4 the link opens in a new tab, but Galeon gets focus. Where do I change this? In Sylpheed (which currently sends galeon --new-tab'%s')? Or about:config in Galeon? Or gconf-editor? No replies to this -- anyone care to take a guess? Also, on a related note, how can I get anti-aliased text in Sylpheed? Would I need a GTK2-enabled Sylpheed? If so, does one exist? Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Display flickers on laptop ( F-siemens Amilo D 6820 - Ati radeon mobility 9000 vga )
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:28:03 +0100, Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. If you know the correct values for horizontal and vertical refresh rates, become root and edit this file : /etc/X11/XF86Config in the section screen. Don't choose the exact values, but allow an (conservative) interval. Not /etc/X11/XF86Config-4? Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Great Interview with RMS
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:09:19 -0500, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 08:45 am, HaywireMac wrote: Stallman's answers really strike a chord with me, though I have to say I think his stance on Debian is a bit much. Anyway, he has some interesting things to say about DRM, Free Software, and the linkage between software and politics. http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=260 Can FS users be apolitical, can we separate politics from our choice of an OS? Or maybe the question should be, can we *risk* being apolitical when our choice of OS is under attack so to speak? I was fortunate enough to hear RMS speak on a Linux Lunacy tour a few years ago. Awesome stuff, I was really impressed. Saw him in Sheffield a few weeks ago. He spoke for nearly two hours without notes, and without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Unfortunately the talk was about European Software Patents, which is inherently boring, but even so I'm glad I saw him. I'd hoped to smuggle my five month old daughter in, in case some of the genius rubbed off, but she's discovered yodelling. Richard -- Art is not a reproducible result. Creativity is a profoundly subjective act. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gcombust Question
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 06:20:18 -0500, Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...Dang it, I know I checked dev. Is there anything that would change it back when I wasn't looking? Maybe I'm losing it? Early senility? msec changes permissions, as discussed endlessly on this very list. Richard -- Art is not a reproducible result. Creativity is a profoundly subjective act. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How did 9.2 get here ?
Just got my copy of Linux Format magazine it comes with 9.2 d/l edition on it's DVD. I'm wondering where they got it, could they be subscribed to MandrakeClub ? It's RC2. (and I've never managed to get that jigdo program to write proper iso images, anyway). Richard -- Art is not a reproducible result. Creativity is a profoundly subjective act. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: How did 9.2 get here ?
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:43:03 +, Exiddor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:41:17 +, RichardA wrote: [...] It's RC2. Are you sure? In the magazine it says Note that the screenshots are from an install of Mandrake 9.2 RC2, the final release candidate. This is because these pages were written before Mandrake was able to send us the final 9.2 release for the discs. To me that sounds like it's the final version. My bad. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Great Columnist on S.F.
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 14:43:47 -0400, HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24 Oct 2003 11:24:06 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I have alearted several friends who use win$ux most of them don't care Here's a scary (true) story: A friend of a friend has some minor qualifications in IT and actually teaches something to do with computing at a local Technical College. He said to me I told my brother, uninstall that firewall from your Win XP, because all it does is attract attacks. I didn't know whether to laugh, cry, or slit my wrists. Even the newbiest newby on this list is one of the educated elite. Most people have absolutely no clue. None. They don't even know what they don't know. Whichever OS people use, it must be secure out of the box, and it must update itself automatically. Otherwise some pimply-faced youth will get a couple of million zombies together and bring down the whole damn 'net. Richard -- Art is not a reproducible result. Creativity is a profoundly subjective act. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 05:51:00 -0400, HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The directory is about 630MB, and I left it going for 4.5 hours creating a tar.bz2, still wasn't done when I got up this AM. It's been mentioned before, but is there a link somewhere to a higher directory, making a loop? If so, you'll wait for ever. Mine was in ~/.openoffice. I noticed the same file names scrolling past again and again... Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT, Discovery Edition
I've read that it doesn't install any servers, just the desktop stuff. Also, no package selection on install, and a task-oriented instead of app-oriented menu. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shelf...
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 21:02:55 +0200, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone. I just now was extremely glad to have a proper backup. With a filemanager called FR (File Roller), I checked out a strange directory in $HOME called 'shelf'. I don't know where that dir came from. But following that dir down, it got to $HOME/shelf/Programs/$HOME. In the programs there was my entire home dir, which I could follow down AGAIN. On going up the foldertree, coming from 'shelf' back into $HOME, $HOME turned out to be empty. Does anyone have such a 'shelf' directory? Does anyone know where it came from? I updated my backup strategy to skip 'shelf'... Just a friendly warning that you do not fall into the same strange black hole I did. Paul I've seen nested recursive folders in ~/.openoffice. Couldn't work out why copying /home took all night - and filled my backup partition. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SCP software
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 12:37:18 +0100, Ronan O'Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recomend a SCP program simular to WinSCP please. You mean secure copy? It's part of ssh (secure shell). Install that, and you can scp at the comand line Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB not hot-swappable in Linux?
On 02 Oct 2003 06:45:23 +0700, Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I find that unless I have my USB external hard drive connected and powered up *before* booting, Linux won't find it. Is that the way it normally is, or is there something wrong with my system? This works for others, so yes. I have to run diskdrake to get /mnt/removable to appear, and then I can mount my sd-ram card, which is also a USB mass storage device. I've been blaming my very old (~4 yrs) motherboard. Is the there equivalent of the stop device function, so I can safely unplug without powering down the computer first? Umount? Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] keep password broken?
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 09:41:32 +, Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pardon me for saying so but a/ there is no man sudoers, at least not on my MD 9.1; b/man sudo can be read for sure. If it looks too hard to comprehend remember to visit it at a later stage. I have a man page for sudoers, on 9.0, I don't know where yours has gone. IMNSHO I do believe an advice of `Don`t read man...` is not a good advice. I'm sure you know that I was joking. Having said that, when I read: --- The grammar of sudoers will be described below in Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF). Don't despair if you don't know what EBNF is; it is fairly simple, and the definitions below are annotated. Quick guide to EBNF EBNF is a concise and exact way of describing the grammar of a language. Each EBNF definition is made up of production rules. E.g., symbol ::= definition | alternate1 | alternate2 ... --- I get a sudden urge to mow the lawn. On the other hand there are useful examples further down the page. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] more refresh and modeline fun follies
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 10:07:29 +, Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you, (or anyone else) have any suggestions for an automated backup to CD-RW that I could fit and forget I would love to hear about it. Part of the problem is that it is so labour intensive to do the backup. If I had a tape drive I know I could do it. Mondo Backup (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] keep password broken?
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:41:34 -0400, yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bad idea, If your computer connected to the Internet. Even though, the number of viruses/trojans for LINUX is miniscule it not 0. Given all user root rights will increase chance for getting your box compromise. I was responding to absolutely no one can get near my computer, but you're right, if it's connected to the net, that isn't true. Oh, and I worked out the $PATH thing, I just asked... $sudo $PATH Now I get it, sudo uses my user account $PATH, not root's, which is why I have to specify /sbin. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] keep password broken?
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 14:25:27 +0300, robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'd like to do is a little less drastic than previous posts. I use korganizer to access a calendar stored on a remote server, but this means that whenever I login, KDE presents me with a password request. The KDE Control Centre (or Konqueror configuration) insists that I set a timeout on stored passwords, which is silly considering that I have the same password stored permanently by other apps (e.g. ncftp, wvdial). I know this is a security feature to stop users doing silly things, but there should also be a workaround for people who are willing to take risks and sensible enough to take precautions (this is, after all, a one-user workstation, not a server controlling a nuclear power station). So is there a workaround? Sir Robin 'Expect' seems to do this kind of thing. Perhaps you'd have a script using expect as a wrapper around korganiser? Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] keep password broken?
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 21:52:43 +0900, Lance Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure. But absolutely no one can get near my computer. ^_^ And I do mean no one. Then put your user account in /etc/sudoers. Don't read man sudoers -- your head will explode. Instead, add this line: usernameALL = NOPASSWD: ALL I think this is too extreme, I just do: usernameALL = ALL Which means I have to give my password, not root's, to execute a command as root. Also, something happens to the $PATH, (anyone know what?) /sbin doesn't seem to be in it, for example. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages
On 24 Sep 2003 05:30:42 +0700, Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the helpful answerers expect things too. Someone suggested [I'm sorry, I don't know who - Evolution is acting up again: emails open up with blank windows - but that's a topic for another thread] that I try locate, but when I do, all I get is command not found. And man locate gets me No manual entry for locate. All I'm saying is, clearly the answerer in that case expected I would have locate installed already... It may not be installed. Do urpmi slocate as root (slocate is the name of the improved command which replaces locate. However, locate still works because it is symlinked to the new command (symlink ~= shortcut)). Then, as root again, do updatedb to create the database it searches. When it has finished, try to locate something. While you're at it, install anacron, too, unless you leave your computer on 24/7. When you boot, it starts the tasks that cron didn't do whilst the PC was off. This includes an updatedb every day. -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] installing anacron - newbie question...
On 24 Sep 2003 20:00:52 +0700, Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I don't know where to go next from here... I got slocate installed ok but not anacron: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# urpmi anacron no package named anacron You should be able to install it. Do you have a 'main' software source defined? Perhaps the CDs you installed from? Interestingly, I thought I'd have a look at cron itself to see what it's[not] been doing. but even though locate cron brings pages of results, cron itself doesn't seem to want to run: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# cron bash: cron: command not found I think it's called 'crond', because it's a system daemon and not meant to be run directly. Could you perhaps point me to some reading material that explains cron/anacron installation and use? http://www.linuxhelp.net/guides/cron/ looks ok. Generally, the Linux System Administrators' Guide is good, http://www.tml.hut.fi/~viu/linux/sag/sag-0.6.2.html/index.html the Rute User's Tutorial is heavy going, http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html O'Reilly books are good, man pages fairly indigestible. If you see a book about Red Hat instead of Mandrake, or from a few versions ago, most of the command line stuff hasn't changed. Just don't bother reading about KDE 1.x, or whatever. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 04:01:19 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is --update. I apologize for the mistype in my example. I don't think it would do anything at all if you typed in --updates. I believe it would exit and tell you that --updates is not a valid option. As far as what has happened to your system...whether or not updating from all of your sources will fubar your system depends on what sources you have specified. I lost my sources in the re-install, but they must have been conflicting, as you say. Before I tried an upgrade, I booted from CD1, mounted the partitions and copied /var/log/messages to /root so I could look at it later. I thought I was being really clever, but then I re-installed and lost it anyway... Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:20:49 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The --update switch tells urpmi to update the system from the *update urpmi source only*. Examples: urpmi --updates --auto-select will update everything from the *updates* urpmi source. urpmi --auto-select will update the machine from *all* urpmi sources. Is it 'update', or 'updates'? I wonder if I did the wrong one because after I rebooted all hell broke loose. There were scary messages on boot. X loaded, but when I tried to log in, I was told /home didn't exist! (the message was something like 'you could try to use /root, but it won't work' ;). An upgrade still had problems, so I re-installed (it's handy to have /home is on a separate partition), reinstalled Sylpheed and everything is exactly as it was, bar a few things in /etc. If I got the update switch wrong, would updating from all sources completely fubar my setup like that? Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Converting pictures for Palm OS
Is there a way to convert pictures from jpg to prc for a Sony Clie, under Linux? I rushed into this, and now I've got the wrong format (jpg) in the wrong place (root of the memory stick). Also, I thought I had to mount the memory stick to get anything across, but if I can convert on my PC, I won't have needed to buy a memory stick at all, I can just sync -- and supporting closed formats is not my favourite pastime. My fallback is to go into work early, and put this junk onto one of their boxes whilst no-one's looking. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing BibleTime from source - upgrading to MD 9.1
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:03:16 -0700, Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the iso's (md9.1) but each one said it stalled instead of finished (I used Konquerer). However, the size of each file was correct and it seemed to burn ok (I can read each disk in Konquerer). Is it safe? Compare the md5sums for the iso's official ones. If they match, the two are the same bit-for-bit. There's a cleverer way, but I just run md5sum name.iso and visually compare the output with the one on the web page. For a home desktop computer, what is the harm in one partition verses 3 (/, usr, home)? I set this up several months ago and left part of my drive open for a Win partition. I do not want to do that now (which is one of the reasons why I just want to redo the whole thing). I want to devote the entire 60gigs to Linux. I don't need to boot into multiple flavors either (Mandrake is just fine). One partition is reasonable for a home user, but if you want to re-install, having /home on a separate partition makes life much easier. Perhaps just do / and /home? Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] importing contacts into Evolution?
On 13 Sep 2003 06:40:23 +0700, Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 05:41, RichardA wrote: [...snip] Is the directory in your path (almost certainly, use the full path), and is the script executable? (use ls -l). I'm sorry I don't know. I've only really been using Linux for a week or two; I did install it quite a while back but have done nothing with it until recently. I searched for path on my system and found two files but they seem to refer to a program called gconf. This is a basic install of Mandrake 9.0, using whatever defaults it suggested at the time. How/where is the path defined in Mandrake? The path is a list of directories the system looks in to find the command you call. Do echo $PATH to see it. Or give the full path to the command. ls -l in the /usr/bin directory scrolls off the end of the page, and even scrolling back up doesn't go as far as files beginning with c, so I don't know. I looked in 'man ls' but I didn't see any way to make it just show one screenful of info at a time. You're doing ls -l /usr/bin. Try ls -l /usr/bin | less (that's a pipe symbol). Less is a pager, it takes input and puts it out a page at a time. q quits it. What actually do you mean when you ask is the script executable? How do I find out? Each file has some attributes - owner, group and so on. One of them says whether it can be executed. Your shell shows executable files in green with an asterisk. This is what the 'chmod' stuff below is about. Chmod = change mode. And here's something from the web: The best way to import Outlook .pst files into Evolution is to install Mozilla on your Windows system and use Mozilla to import the.pst files and then use Mozilla to export the mail to mbox format. Evolution can then import these mbox files. yes that's exactly what I did - that's how I got my old mail over from Outlook into Evolution, one folder at a time. But the contacts don't come across in .mbx files, which is why I'm asking questions here :) Sorry, didn't realise you were takling about contacts, not mail. Here are the instructions I am trying to follow: [snip] From your Linux/UNIX system, you will then need to convert contacts.csv into files that Evolution can understand by you running it through the Perl script csv2vcard.pl. The program is normally installed with Evolution, but if you don't have it, you can download it from the bottom of this page. Put it in your home directory and make the it executable by running the command: chmod +x ~/cvs2vcard.pl so I copied the file into my home directory and pasted that command into the text window, but it gives the following error: chmod: failed to get attributes of `/home/merlin/cvs2vcard.pl': No such file or directory Puzzled. Is the script in /usr/bin or your home? Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] importing contacts into Evolution?
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 19:06:10 -0400, Mathieu Frenette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard, I already have Mozilla Mail and Mozilla AddressBook installed. However, when I go to Tools-Import-Address Books, the only choice I have is to import Text file (LDIF, .tab, .csv, .txt). Do I need to install an extra package for doing what you mention? Or maybe upgrade Mozilla? My version is 1.3 (as pre-packaged with Mandrake 9.1): mozilla-1.3-1mdk mozilla-mail-1.3-1mdk Regards, Mathieu. I haven't done this myself. I just pasted those instructions in case they helped. What is more, I may have introduced some confusion between importing mail and contacts. Sorry. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: USB memory stick
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 19:15:06 +0200, Björn Lundin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I saw the thread about USB mass storage devices, but I'm not sure if what I'm talking about is the same thing, so I apologize if it is. Did you check the thread 'USB key drives and linux' on the exper list? /Björn Seems to be about icons appearing automatically on the desktop in KDE. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] importing contacts into Evolution?
On 13 Sep 2003 19:30:30 +0700, Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:04, RichardA wrote: [...snip[ed lots of useful info - thanks, Richard] chmod: failed to get attributes of `/home/merlin/cvs2vcard.pl': No such file or directory Puzzled. Is the script in /usr/bin or your home? It's in both. I've just checked again. Does ls -l /path/to/script show it as executable? If not, chmod it. Then /path/to/script parameter parameter must work? Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] importing contacts into Evolution?
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 09:19:49 -0500, Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You shouldn't need 'ls -l'. Check to see, type 'alias ll' in a console, EG, tom $ alias ll alias ll='ls -l' It's long been a standard alias that Mandrake uses. To see all of 'em (including any you've created) just type 'alias'. For displaying large outputs, use 'll |less' and then you can Arrow, Page down, or scroll with your mouse down thru the output, either a page or line at a time. EG, 'll |less /usr/bin' That I did not know. The only problem is when you install, say, Debian, type cd.. and it slaps you in the face because it wanted cd .. Or worse still, you get used to typing rm and having the -i switch aliased in, and then go to A.N. Other distro... Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using LAME for ripping audio from CD's
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:53:27 -0600, Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So lemme get this straight: you can't rip directly to MP3 in linux at all?? Only OGG? (which I am still leery about using...)... That seems very odd if I'm right. FF No, you can rip to mp3. Presumably Mandrake don't include lame because there are licensing issues. Sounds like your best bet is get lame from plf and use grip. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB memory stick
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:41:39 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I saw the thread about USB mass storage devices, but I'm not sure if what I'm talking about is the same thing, so I apologize if it is. I'purchased one of those USB memory sticks (made by GE) and it works great for my laptop (WinXP; sorry, I need to keep a Win machine for school) but I cannot get my desktop (M9.1) to read it. I know the usb ports are working because I've plugged in other things, but it won't recognize the memory stick. Can I do anything or am I s-o-l? Thanks in advance, Jack It should work. What do you mean by 'won't recognise'? Does /mnt/removable get created? If so, try to mount it: mount /mnt/removable. As root, Run tail -f /var/log/messages and plug it in. Does something happen? (CTRL-C to end this). Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB memory stick
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:57:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By not recognize I mean, I get nothing from the computer showing the memory stick. /mnt/removable does not get created (not that I can see, anyway) and here are the results of trying the mount command per your instructions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] brooks]# mount /mnt/removable mount: can't find /mnt/removable in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab I tried the tail command you listed and something happened at first (I received a message showing that the memory was plugged in). However, before I could paste the message result in this email, I copied the results from the mount command, thus losing the results of the tail command. SO, when I tried the tail command again and plugged in the memory stick, I got nothing. When I looked at the port to make sure the stick was plugged in, I noticed that it's not even getting power now (there's a light on it that should come on) and so I might have a hardware problem... Either way, it is definitely not creating /mnt/removable . Could it be an issue with Gnome? I'm using Gnome2.2 (How can I upgrade to 2.4? If you've got an extra minute to answer that one as well, that'd be great.) I don't think Gnome is the issue (this stuff is happening at a lower level than the window manager)(and I think upgrading to 2.4 is nontrivial, unless you wait for the mandrake release which has it). Try drilling down through /dev/scsi/. I had /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc and part1 (my CD writer was on host0). To see what was in /var/log/messages, do cat /var/log/messages, which will put the whole thing into the terminal. Shift-Page-Up to find the bit you need. That power thing sounds like a showstopper -- can you test it on another PC? I've just got back from a wedding reception in Sheffield, and I'm drunk, so I'll leave it there -- have a mess about and tell us what happened. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] importing contacts into Evolution?
On 13 Sep 2003 03:50:31 +0700, Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to import my contacts from Outlook into Evolution. I've exported the contacts to a .CSV file and followed the instructions to convert to file to a vcard file but this is the error I get: bash: csv2vcard.pl: command not found It happens no matter if I try it as myself or if I su to root. I can see that the file exists if I search for it using find files - it is sitting in file:/usr/bin. Could it be the .pl on the end? If so, what to do about it - rename the file, or modify the command? [I pasted it directly off the web page...] Is the directory in your path (almost certainly, use the full path), and is the script executable? (use ls -l). And here's something from the web: The best way to import Outlook .pst files into Evolution is to install Mozilla on your Windows system and use Mozilla to import the.pst files and then use Mozilla to export the mail to mbox format. Evolution can then import these mbox files. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to find files and look everywhere except /mnt?
On 13 Sep 2003 04:20:54 +0700, Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there is something broken somewhere - all I get is: bash: updatedb: command not found bash: slocate: command not found Not sure if slocate is installed by default. Try urpmi slocate. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:47:24 -0500, Joeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might try opening a terminal and issuing a service -f devfsd which will restart devfs and recreate the links to the devices. It may, and I repeat may, cause the new card to be read without having to crawl around to unplug the reader. Joeb Nope. Worth a try, though. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:38:09 -0500, Joeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I just tried this with my smart media reader. I don't have supermount or auto enabled for the device (ie I have to manually mount/umount it). I put in a card and issue a mount /mnt/smedia and as expected the card mounts. I then umount it and put in a different card and reissue the mount command and it mounts that card, too. I forget all the details of the original post, but what happens if you replace auto with noauto in the /etc/fstab for the device and manually mount/umount? Joeb I hate fstab. All those optional fields. Isn't there a gui for it? Anyway, I had this: /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0,exec 0 0 Not knowing which auto you meant, I amended the first: [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]$ mount /mnt/removable/ mount: fs type noauto not supported by kernel Hmmm, you must have meant the second. Actually, I'm much encouraged by the fact that you can swap cards willy-nilly. It means the problem is with my setup, and not with Linux. Perhaps a reinstall or some newer hardware will help -- this is a Celeron 300, on some random cheap motherboard. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:38:09 -0500, Joeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I just tried this with my smart media reader. I don't have supermount or auto enabled for the device (ie I have to manually mount/umount it). I put in a card and issue a mount /mnt/smedia and as expected the card mounts. I then umount it and put in a different card and reissue the mount command and it mounts that card, too. I forget all the details of the original post, but what happens if you replace auto with noauto in the /etc/fstab for the device and manually mount/umount? I mustn't have been awake when I read this post. ML gave a convincing explanation for why this problem happens, and how I need to unplug the card reader. Now you tell me yours works anyway. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] newbie questions
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:24:04 -0500, Wilson, Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok so if I backup /home, does that also backup the user information (username and passwds?) I know each user has a directory under /home. If you back up /home, you do back up personal data, but usernames and passwords are held in /etc along with most (all?) system settings. Personal settings are in hidden files in the user's home directory, so don't forget these. If you reinstall, rather than upgrade, create users with the same names and in the same order as before, because each user has a consecutively issued id number and life will be much easier for you if these match. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Virus
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:23:50 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's the rub - so many go along to PCWorld (or whatever the equivalent is in other countries) and buy what they are given by salesmen who may, just, have heard of macs, but nothing else. A friend of mine demo'd Macs in PC World for Apple. No matter how bad you think the PC World employees are, the reality is worse. About Linux for real beginners, I think they need Lindows done right: Sell the hardware with Linux pre-installed, partly because this stops installs you don't control, and partly because you can limit the hardware options to a very few. Do support remotely. Supply a rescue CD so even a broken system can get online for support Control installs -- if the user does anything independantly, they lose cover. Have a script ask the user for a CD now and then for user data backup. Have the PC message back to base that it backed up (do this transparently, via email, and let the user know what's happening). Basically, you control the system closely, to get economies of scale, but don't be evil, as Google says. Have thousands of oldsters/newbies paying every month for handholding on systems which pretty much run themselves. For their money, they get reliability, and a guarantee that someone will fix it if it goes wrong. There are many Windows PCs out there not being used because there is something trivial wrong with them, but the user doesn't know anyone who can help (and PC World will try to sell them £1500 of new PC). Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Virus
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:37:00 -0600, Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:25:16 +0100 RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Womp! Do support remotely. Supply a rescue CD so even a broken system can get online for support Control installs -- if the user does anything independantly, they lose cover. snick Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Sounds too much like windows... I hate this idea...you're basically straight jacketing a user... and no one likes that. Femme, PostDoctorate Space Cadet This is for people who know nothing about computers. There's no point giving them choices. In fact, they don't want choices. They'll pay for a basic PC which works and is reliable. Or they'll pay MS for something they don't want or need (and trojans, spyware, etc.) I'm talking about people who not only can't install a program, they don't even know what a program is. They currently pay way too much for an XP box, and will never understand or use 95% of it. Why not give them something more appropriate instead? Anyone with even the faintest interest in or knowledge of computers wouldn't want this, but we're a minority. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intel |Unveils
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:24:28 -0500, Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Twin 1 Ghz processors does not a 2 GHz system make. It's still a 1GHz system. Same speed, just more lanes on the highway. If they're open to traffic (software). Anything above 600 Mhz, single processor is good for compiling kernels, specially 'make modules'. That's about it. BTW, with the lastest kernels a few weeks ago, my 1.4 Athlon, oc'd to 1.5Ghz, plain old sdram, would take a stock Mdk config an 'make modules' in 40+ minutes. Now with an XP 3000+ oc'd to 2.3Ghz, DDR 400 sdram @ DDR 427, it doesn't even take 20 minutes. If it was dual cpu, it'd most likely still take close to 20 minutes. It surely wouldn't get done in 10. I've seen people with SMP desktops boast about how one processor could be applying a filter in the GIMP, while the other is getting email, or something. They say the system is more responsive under load. Doesn't make it true, of course (and I think kernel 2.6 will give a _much_ more responsive desktop anyway, something about breaking uninterruptible tasks up into smaller ones). Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] smtp works in kmail but not evolution
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:05:49 +0200, Roland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can send mail using my isp's smtp server in kmail (smtp.ispdomainname) but using the same smtp server name and the same configuration values in evolution I get an unspecific error and mail doesn't get sent. In KMail, are there any settings for server authentication? That might be what Evolution is doing differently -- also, if you start it from a terminal, do you get a useful error on send? On top of that In Kmail I can't see my mail. In Kmail configure receiving modify location points to ~/Maildir though Destination folder only give an inbox option. In Evolution I can see my mail pointing to the same ~/Maildir. So I can send mail to the list via Kmail only see it in Evolution but can't reply to a message from evolution as the smtp doesn't work :-( KMail can use either Maildir or mbox format. I think Evolution uses mbox. Perhaps KMail is looking for Maildir folders? Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices
On 09 Sep 2003 20:22:59 -0700, Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny my USB pen drive is shown on the desktop as harddisk sda1 and I have to mount and un mount it manualy. I didn't do anything I just plugged it in. But what if you plugged in a different pen drive? Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:23:51 +0100, Michael Lothian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 6 in 1 card reader (well it has 4 slots init) sda, sdb, sdc and sdd are the devices the extra number on the end is the partition on the disk. Since all card reader use the scsi module they are treated as hard disks. The problem is we can remove the card without removing the whole drive and nothing seems to be set up to deal with this. It's very annoying, and to be honest having to type in options scsi-mod max_scsi_luns=255 into my modules.conf very annoying. Why can't harddrake do this for me? This sets the max number of scsi devices? What's the default? I've seen a thread which says don't edit /etc/modules.conf, but edit /etc/modutils/aliases, then run update-modules. Myself, I wouldn't know. It is a very worrying state of affairs when somehing works better under windows than in linux. Especally in something so simple. Indeed. I'd be interested to know how apple implemented it as they use some form of BSD underneath the pretty pictures. And it works great on the mac And how soon can we get it into Linux. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:16:37 +0100, Michael Lothian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Think this is a cross between a hotplug error and a removable source being treated as a harddisk You shouldn't need to run diskdrake each time, hotplug should do it all automatically. Yes, that's a different problem. Prolem is hotplug doesn't relise anything has changed until the whole device is removed and reinsterted. People with proper USB harddisks / Pen Disks (or whatever) won't have this problem. It's a bit like a disk in a floppy drive bing treated as a harddisk. Your having to change the whole drive to change 1 disk. Nice analogy. I wouldn't mind so much if I didn't have to crawl around on the floor to get to the USB sockets. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices
On 10 Sep 2003 09:24:41 -0700, Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 07:06, RichardA wrote: On 09 Sep 2003 20:22:59 -0700, Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny my USB pen drive is shown on the desktop as harddisk sda1 and I have to mount and un mount it manualy. I didn't do anything I just plugged it in. But what if you plugged in a different pen drive? Richard I'll have to buy or borrow on to find out.I just want to use it for a multimedia thing. Actually, I think another would work fine. Michael Lothian explained it as a problem where you can change media rather than whole drives. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] newbie questions
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:53:15 -0500, Wilson, Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) What antivirus platform seems to be the standard for Mandrake? I looked at Trend Micro's product, but their product only covers the Redhat kernels. I am assuming you CANNOT compile a RedHat kernel in Mandrake. Linux viruses are almost never seen in the wild, and can only run with the permissions of the user, and would meet a subtlely different environment on each machine... Having said that, you might want to filter out Windows viruses if you had Windows clients. And some Redhat stuff will install on Mandrake, although I imagine they patch their kernel quite differently! 2) What is involved in upgrading 8.2 to 9.1 or 9.2? (Keeping my data intact) If you have /home on a separate partition, don't format it during the install (but back it up in case). If it's not, install, then restore /home from backup. If you bring all your dotfiles (generally ~/.app-name) with you, and some app isn't happy, maybe rename the dotfile and let it create a new one - sometimes formats change. 3) if I have 2 ethernet cards, eth0 and eth1, and let's say I want to disable eth0 and just use eth1, how do I do that? Just for now? ifconfig eth0 down. Permanently? Not sure, why not just ignore it and not plug anything in? Actually, there must be something in the init files which brings the interface up, but I don't know where it is. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices
On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 08:54:56 +, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With supermount you cannot rightmouse click the desktop down to create newwhater device. Instead KDE-look'n'feel - behaviour, then put an |x| against the device, only if it's anything like my experiece it don't work properly most of the time.So I gave up on supermount. John Me too. But whilst I can't mount a second card, I can stil mount the first. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices
On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 08:56:08 +1000, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it's an older motherboard, it could be that APM might have shutdown power to the USB port? (only ran across that issue once, and got rid of APM as well...) stephen kuhn - owner That's good troubleshooting/lateral thinking, but I can still mount the first card when the second won't, so the USB port is awake. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices
On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 00:53:59 +0100, Michael Lothian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunatly I can't find my other mmc card to test any of this out. Could you tel me what's in your /dev/scsi all the way do disk for each card when they're actually working Also has anyone figured out how to get supermount devices to appear on hte desktop as the options in KDe Control Centre don't allow it Thanks Mike I just have this in /dev/scsi: $ ls /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/ cd Then I put a card in the cardreader and run diskdrake. It appears on host1: $ ls /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/ disc part1 I don't know if this shows an extra partition, or is 'disk' the emulated scsi disk? $ ls -l /dev/sda1 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 34 Sep 9 12:36 /dev/sda1 - scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 $ ls -l /dev/sda lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Sep 9 12:36 /dev/sda - scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc etc/fstab points to /dev/dsa1: /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0,exec 0 0 It still seems to me the dynamic filesystem under /dev isn't being cleared up when the card is taken out. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:03:09 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KwikDisk is useful if you want to mount/umount when combined with automount. It may not have a bearing on your problem, but it's one thing you could try. I'd have to install KDE first. I don't think supermount is broken. It's just that if it knows about anything, anywhere on your system that is acting as a file manager at that moment it will not release the lock. That's why it is essential to shut down all Konqueror windows, or similar, even if they are looking elsewhere. In fact, I had a problem with fam a while ago, and even closing all terminals and Nautilus windows didn't make it let go of the mounted filesystem. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:56:50 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any indication that it actually unmounting? Anne Well the umount command doesn't error, and /mnt/removable empties, so I think it is. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices
On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 13:27:09 +0100, Michael Lothian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you checked that the second card doens't have any other partitions on it. Either card works, as long as it is used first. Alternativly you could set up up to use super mount, which would negate the need to use the mount command altogether. Like many people, I had problems with supermount. I've just turned it back on, and I'm still having the same problem. No icons appear on the desktop automatically, though. Should they? Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices
On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 09:40:58 +1000, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]$ mount /mnt/removable/ mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified fam is doing this - you can disable it as a system service - or stop it from a term - either which, once you stop fam, then you'll be able to slap cards'n'cd's without that ghost effect... stephen kuhn - owner I had a run-in with fam a while ago, so I stopped it. This is an old motherboard, which might have poor usb support, and I've recently had to run diskdrake to get the card recognised before mounting it. Perhaps there's a connection? Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] palm
On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 20:17:52 +0300, Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so this will also add a .txt file? and how do I get the software inside the palm to read it? http://gutenpalm.sourceforge.net/ Process the text file on Linux with makeztxt, then upload the reader, zlib and your pdb file. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices
Hi, I can mount an sdram card using a USB device (camera or card reader), but once I've looked at one, if I unmount it, and try to mount another: [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]$ mount /mnt/removable/ mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified I can still mount the original card at this point. I don't believe the error message, I think it's something to do with autofs, or devfs, not deleting something dynamically. Or something. But is there a fix? Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Trident Cyberblade i1 MDK 9.1
I'm trying to install MDK 9.1 on a VIA C3. I get an insmod error during hardware detection when it reboots, but I don't think that's my problem (I can't find anything in the logs about IO or IRQ errors). If I use a 15 CRT monitor, the install seems stable. If I use my LCD screen, it crashes very soon after login. I set the monitor to generic (there's no DVI input on it) 1280 x 1024 x 24bpp, and I'm wondering if this is too high a resolution for the graphics chipset. The chipset is an onboard Trident Cyberblade i1. I think it uses 8MB of shared RAM, and the Trident site talks about up to 1024 x 768 for TFT. I see application crashes, kernel panics and XFDrake crashing with this error: xfs is not running at /usr/lib/libDrakX/Xconfig/test.pm line 47 If there wasn't enough graphics RAM, surely it would just refuse to start?. What can I do to zero in on the problem? Is anyone else running this chipset at this resolution? Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VMWare Workstation 3.2.0 Serial Number
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 20:29:26 -0500, Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday August 15 2003 04:38 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Look - sometimes serials numbers fall out of the sky especially when you're surfing around sites like http://www.astalavista.com - don't know where they come from, but you'd be surprised at the amount of random numbers that are generated that for some reason seem to work properly with applications that require things like serial numbers and CD keys...go figure HINT HINT HINT HINT HINT ...need any more hints? I believe there's a crack in this theory I gave up that theory of operation when I quit winsux 'Sides, the good cracks were gettin harder to find anyhow ; Linux has made an honest man out'a me Seriously If someone wants a serial or a crack I say I can't help them -- if they're going to use proprietary software, let them pay for it. It only makes open source look better. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] reading books on my palm
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:21:24 +0300, Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I've got a palm m105 ... and though I have found software for it in linux ... it doesn't have the most important thing for me: I used my palm for reading novels ... and this software I found for linux only supports like original palm software (organizing, small notes ...) Check out Weasel Reader (http://gutenpalm.sourceforge.net/). J-Pilot can upload both the reader program and the texts it can make. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla 1.4, tetex, and security additions
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:00:00 +, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 3 computer, and my wife has hers and several of my daughters each have computers that float in and out according to presence in the family.I don't propose upgrading them, but the 4 that sit at home will all need one ADSL each. I have concidered building a serverbox to link via lans to each but right now that is beyond my ability, though I don't rule it out for the future, but bear in mind I didn't even own a computer 3 years ago. I would like a server box though, would be fun to muck around with. There are as many solutions to this problem as there are people on this list, but for instance, I was given a P90 by a relative who'd been running Win 3.11 on it for ten years (perhaps even the same install!). I put in a spare NIC, then put IP Cop on it, and the install was easier than Mandrake. I worked out by trial and error which NIC was which, taped a hub to the side, and left it running for a couple of years. It's do-able. Richard -- Get up and turn I loose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon
On 21 Jun 2003 10:21:39 +0100, Douglas Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 14:13, RichardA wrote: snip .. bookmarking in Galeon. You can open a folder in tabs, save a bookmark directly into a subfolder, order them non-alphabetically, export them in three different formats... Sounds very useful, but I don't see how to do this in 1.3.3. Could you give me an idiot's guide? TIA DougB It was from the bookmark manager, bookmarks - 'add bookmark to', or right-clicking in the bookmarks tree, but I'm still on 1.2.5. See my reply to eric- if they really have taken these useful options out, it might be worth installing the older one. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SCSI Em- Again
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:30:13 +0100, John Richard Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Langsley T Russell wrote:
OK John.
I've done everything up to /then copy your new fstab file to /etc
directory./ The only way I could find to change the name of the
fstab file to fstab1 was to log on as root. When logged on as root
none of my desktop files from my standard session are available. So
there is nothing to copy. when I log back on as user I am denied
permission to edit the etc file. If I can't manage to do that I
guess I'll have to undo the name change to fstab/fstab1. how can I
accomplish this crucial step?
LTR }}:{(
Can you copy to a floppy,
Better still copy new fstab to one of those fat32/vfat partitions that
you already have a line in your existing fstab, then logon as root,
then you should be able to make the necessary change in /etc
directory. All this ought to be done as root anyway. you are
constructing system files for universal use, not some oddjob user
task.
I could get you into a root terminal but then you will have to issue
root commands which is more difficult for the newbie. Can you logon as
root to a root desktop ?
John
If you log in as root, open an editor and go to /home/user/Desktop to
find your file?
Or log in as a user, open a terminal, 'su' to root. Then get clever
with 'cp' and 'mv', or run your editor from the terminal (so it runs
as root) and make changes that way.
Richard
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Re: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:22:43 -0400, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:21:34 -0400 Thomas Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: but I get concerned that any time the government gets involved One of my favourite quotes, I still have no idea where it came from: When I hear the word 'government', I reach for my gun. Herman Goering said When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my Browning. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon
On 20 Jun 2003 13:52:33 +0100, Douglas Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 04:24, eric huff wrote: snip Galeon: From the pulldown, there's no easy way to file a bookmark while at the same time changing the name. There's a choice in the preferences to ask the user when the bookmark is saved. I don't see how anyone could complain about bookmarking in Galeon. You can open a folder in tabs, save a bookmark directly into a subfolder, order them non-alphabetically, export them in three different formats... Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon
On 19 Jun 2003 16:39:10 -0400, Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 15:14, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 18 Jun 2003 8:36 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Were you using the most recent version of Mozilla released for 9.1? I believe it's version 1.3.1. It's working pretty well for me. It's gets very extensive use throughout the entire day without any trouble. At the point of install it refused to work for me at all. I removed it, re-installed it, and it has been absolutely fine ever since. I suspect a problem in the mandrake install script. Anne I did the same, Anne, and I found that while it works properly, its really s-l-o-w. Slow to start up and slow to move along the Web. I was under the impression that Galeon uses the Gecko engine of Mozilla, or something core to it. How can it be that a Gnome app on a KDE platform should outperform a neutral one like Mozilla? Is it my system or something else? The truth is I like the pop-up control and tab feature of Galeon over Mozilla...I think its better and more intuitive. Then there's the better import capability over Mozilla. That one makes no sense after how long Netscape has been competing with Internet Explorer! Still, I do recognize that Mozilla has aspects of it that makes it a better choice over Galeon..for one...lack of dependency on the Gnome project architecture and the lack of interaction with KDE. There are other reasons for my believing this. Any ideas why Mozilla would be so much slower? T Mozilla is a bit of a reference implementation, with the web page composer, email client, exotic programmable interface and so on. Galeon is the core html engine with a lightweight interface and nothing else, so it's quicker. I read that this may change - that they'll split Mozilla into separate programs. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Galeon Flash Plug-in
On 12 Jun 2003 13:11:00 +0200 Chris Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Steven, I`ll try the link you`ve supplied Thanks for your time in responding... Regards On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 12:46, Steven Broos wrote: I don't think that's flash, but a Java Applet. (www.sun.com) Didn't get that working in galeon yet... but didn't try much :-) Steven Actually, that's not a java applet, it is flash - click on the jigsaw icon and see what it says it can't find the plugin for. I'm still on 9.0, but the rpm I have is just an i386 one - flash-plugin-6.0.69-6.i386.rpm Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Galeon Flash Plug-in
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:39:02 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 6:01 pm, RichardA wrote: On 12 Jun 2003 15:44:04 +0200 Steven Broos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 15:00, RichardA wrote: Aren't shockwave and flash almost the same thing? The about:plugins page on my Help menu (Galeon 1.2.5) says Shockwave Flash from libflashplayer.so Richard Not sure - is there Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash? I'm sure that I was reading a changelog recently that said something about removing one of these and replacing it with the other. Not much help, other than it suggests that there may be an incompatibility problem if a developer found the need to change. Anne I don't know. I can do java, flash, shockwave, whatever, but the Epson URL mentioned earlier doesn't work for me. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Galeon Flash Plug-in
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 22:43:24 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 10:25 pm, RichardA wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:39:02 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 6:01 pm, RichardA wrote: On 12 Jun 2003 15:44:04 +0200 Steven Broos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 15:00, RichardA wrote: Aren't shockwave and flash almost the same thing? The about:plugins page on my Help menu (Galeon 1.2.5) says Shockwave Flash from libflashplayer.so Richard Not sure - is there Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash? I'm sure that I was reading a changelog recently that said something about removing one of these and replacing it with the other. Not much help, other than it suggests that there may be an incompatibility problem if a developer found the need to change. Anne I don't know. I can do java, flash, shockwave, whatever, but the Epson URL mentioned earlier doesn't work for me. Richard I see it says x-director. I googled, and came up with this somewhat outdated quote After enabling plugins in opera and going to the test page http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/ I've found the only half of the Flash plugin works. Flash Player is ok (the bottom test), but Shockwave Flash is not ok (the top test). which suggests that there are in fact two versions. If you want to read the whole post and reply, it is at http://list.opera.com/pipermail/opera-linux/2001-October/001235.html Anne Anne, thanks for putting me right. There must not be much Shockwave stuff around, since I hadn't noticed I couldn't see it. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Galeon Flash Plug-in
On 12 Jun 2003 17:38:12 -0400 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 17:25, RichardA wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:39:02 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 6:01 pm, RichardA wrote: On 12 Jun 2003 15:44:04 +0200 Steven Broos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 15:00, RichardA wrote: Aren't shockwave and flash almost the same thing? The about:plugins page on my Help menu (Galeon 1.2.5) says Shockwave Flash from libflashplayer.so Richard Not sure - is there Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash? I'm sure that I was reading a changelog recently that said something about removing one of these and replacing it with the other. Not much help, other than it suggests that there may be an incompatibility problem if a developer found the need to change. Anne I don't know. I can do java, flash, shockwave, whatever, but the Epson URL mentioned earlier doesn't work for me. Richard I have to wonder if the Epson site is using a newer version than your plugin supports. T It's worse than that, T. As Linux users, we're barred from experiencing the wonderful world of Shockwave. We'll just have to make do with the useful part of the web. And yes, my plugin is out of date. It goes with my computer, clothes, music... Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DSL
Anyone Know of a DSL provider here in the Bay Area that if not supporting Linux is at least linux Friendly? eg. easy to set up under Mandrake -- Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which Bay Area? Whitley Bay? Richard I wish S.F. Bay area (where being a millionaire just means that you own a nice house) -- Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just making a cheap point about the USA-centric web. As for Whitley Bay (http://www.whitleybaycitizen.co.uk/), if you were a millionaire you could buy the whole town. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HIJACKED: Linux viruses
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:48:24 +0200 MARTIN HENDRIK RAD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Win 98 at work and I'm constantly being attacked by virii/worms/trojans (through email and an open share on the network), also gatorware, which once infected my pc and was a pain to disinfect... I have lately received many emails from [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. etc. We have Norton as well as several specific apps running on boot/startup from the network to clean specific virii very time-consuming and still they come, several times a day. At home, on Mdk 9.1, I haven't had a single attack, all virii are blocked at the ISP (bless them) One day, when you lose five months worth of work (worth thousands of $$$) because of a virus, you will also discard your Windows CD in utter disgust and turn to Linux. Regards, Hendrik I _did_ discard my Windows CD. Also, since I posted the message you are replying to, I have been forcibly educated about how things are in Windows-land. Luckily, I didn't have to lose five months of work. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HIJACKED: Linux viruses
On 09 Jun 2003 09:13:25 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 02:00, Anne Wilson wrote: Look, even out of the box or brownbag - literally any linux distro upon initial installation and configuration (granted that passwords HAVE been put in place) is going to be able to sit nicely without very many issues as opposed to a Windows installation brownbag - the Win box is going to get hit FIRST TIME SURFING with either adware or spyware - irregardless of what or where the user surfs to - but that cannot happen on a linux box. I think that's a wild exaggeration. I surfed for years using Win98 and never once had a problem. Admittedly I was cautious, and later started using Eudora, Opera and ZoneAlarm, but I started out with IE, OE etc. Look at XP. It was released with a known vulnerabilty (UPNP), but many people are probably unpatched and still surfing without having been hit. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Whilst on the music files subject
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 10:41:13 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have some shn files on my system and can't seem to find a program that will deal with them and that works. John shn - lossless compressed wav file format. Xmms will play them with a plugin, or a tool called shorten translates between shn and wav. I've seen a MDK 9.0 package of shorten, but I think the licence means it won't be in the default distro (the licence is 'free for non-commercial use' rather than free as in fries, sorry freedom). Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DSL
On 08 Jun 2003 17:53:26 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone Know of a DSL provider here in the Bay Area that if not supporting Linux is at least linux Friendly? eg. easy to set up under Mandrake -- Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which Bay Area? Whitley Bay? Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi: You may want to update your urpmi database
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 16:49:25 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check your mirror for 9.0 contrib is still there. A lot of the 9.0 mirrors have been disappearing off the web recently. derek Got it - the message isn't update the details of your sources, it's update the actual sources you use. I'll do that. Thanks. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HIJACKED: Linux viruses
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 10:26:55 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 15:15:42 +0100 RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I think that's a wild exaggeration. I surfed for years using Win98 and never once had a problem. Admittedly I was cautious, and later started using Eudora, Opera and ZoneAlarm, but I started out with IE, OE etc. same experience here, but unfortunately it's not currently relevant. If you were using Win98 anything more than 3 years ago, you simply cannot compare the two time-frames. With worms and virii, it is literally reaching the point of exasperation with the majority of Windows users, and that has been the situation since maybe mid 2001. The problem certainly existed before that, obviously, but it's only been in the years since XP was released that it's become so egregious, since it includes so many features that enable users to do things like run an IIS web server without knowing the slightest thing about it, and the dangers involved. Steve Gibson was right, XP has been the worst thing to hit the internet since spam. -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 10:21:38 up 6 days, 8:25, 3 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.04 Good point. I haven't used Windows at home for a while. I think the IIS thing started in Win2K. Our install instructions at work say tell it not to install IIS, then turn off the IIS it installed. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux
On 08 Jun 2003 15:15:44 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ONLY OS that's brainlessly installed is MacOS. Wait, sorry, I used to so Solaris setups on Sparcs, and that was BRAINLESS as well - I only had to know how to configure the networking - which I had to say yes to DHCP and then that was it. | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| It's no coincidence that the hardware for these two OSs is strictly controlled. If someone made a Linux distro and only sold/supported it on the bundled hardware, there's never be a problem. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla problem
On 06 Jun 2003 22:05:17 -0400 Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 04:28, RichardA wrote: On 05 Jun 2003 18:29:37 -0400 Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 18:21, Femme wrote: lol i didn't notice till a few mins ago that it was loading Phoenix. Now called Firebird. Oops. Still... I can't get it to open links in new tabs...yet Phoenix is setup that way...or supposed to be. Ideas? :)-- Femme Don't you just add %s to the command? Richard The other thing I've noticed is that if i have a Firebird/Phoenix window open already, it uses that program to open a URL. If not, it uses mozilla...isn't there somewhere in Evo I can specify which program to open?! i'm in KDE btw...-- Femme *** *Using Evolution on * *Mandrake 9.1 Loving it!* *Suck it M$hit! OWNED! * *** I don't know why it would do that, only that Evo being a Gnome app, you want the Gnome Control Centre - but you knew that already. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla problem
On 05 Jun 2003 18:29:37 -0400 Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 18:21, Femme wrote: lol i didn't notice till a few mins ago that it was loading Phoenix. Now called Firebird. Oops. Still... I can't get it to open links in new tabs...yet Phoenix is setup that way...or supposed to be. Ideas? :)-- Femme Don't you just add %s to the command? Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] probs mounting cds mandrake 9.1 supermount
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 15:42:15 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 06 Jun 2003 3:12 pm, RichardA wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 11:11:47 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One problem with supermount is that if you mount/umount anything manually you will upset it, and it's a devil of a job to get it soothed, short of rebooting. In my experience, as long as you simple allow supermount to do its job, mounting automatically when you put the disk in, and unmounting when you eject, it works fine. BUT - if you have any Konqueror windows open it will not umount - because Konqueror is still reading it for indexing purposes. This is when it's tempting to think that something is wrong and try to force it with a manual umount. First - have you tried just logging out and back in? Sometimes that cleans up after mistakes. If that doesn't help, try re-booting. Then try to make yourself stick rigidly to the 'close all browsing windows' rule before ejecting, and see if that cures it. If none of this applies to you, sorry - I don't know how much experience you have, so don't be offended. Anne I had problems even after closing all browser windows and terminals. Tracked it down (I think I used /sbin/fuser) to a process called 'fam' which watches directories for changes, presumably so a file browser can update its view. Richard That sounds extremely likely - to all intents and purposes the browser was still open. So what did you do about it? Anne I killed it. Then I stopped the service. It's possible that I now press refresh in Nautilus more often than I did, but I'm not bothered. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] probs mounting cds mandrake 9.1 supermount
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 18:03:27 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I killed it. Then I stopped the service. It's possible that I now press refresh in Nautilus more often than I did, but I'm not bothered. Richard And supermount has behaved sincethen? Anne I haven't used it much recently - I do urpmi via the web, I don't play games, I have a DVD player in the next room and I archive onto another PC. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
On Mon, 02 Jun 2003 19:28:13 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:34 PM 6/2/2003 -0300, you wrote: Whats her face has left the building me thinks is no longer in the mood to help. beleive me i tried. Hehehe. Kids of today, no manners. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ssh
I don't know what was wrong, but I fixed it - I did so much typing I was either going to write the complete works of Shakespeare or get ssh running. Luckily, it was the latter. Actually, I'm not sure if I had everything installed and running at each end. 'Connection refused' might not always mean what it says. Sometimes it might mean 'ssh? never heard of it'. Anyway, All's Well The Ends Well. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ssh
I seem to remember ssh Just Worked when I used it before, but this time I got 'Connection refused'. So I generated keys, put both host and remote public keys in 'authorised_keys', and this happens: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] .ssh]$ ssh -vv drina OpenSSH_3.4p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090607f debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be trusted. debug1: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to drina [192.168.1.3] port 22. ssh: connect to address 192.168.1.3 port 22: Connection refused --- I don't like that RHosts line, but I think it's turned off in /etc/ssh/ssh_config. I also turned off CheckHostIP, because I haven't got a known_hosts file. What I do have is these: ~/.ssh/authorised_keys ~/.ssh/id_rsa ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub Each has permissions -rw- --- --- What am I missing? Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed keyboard focus
On 30 May 2003 08:52:03 +0200 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 23:09, RichardA wrote: the message list not the message. Is there an easy way to jump to each unread message N for Next, P for Previous (like Pine does) , and then page within it using only the keyboard? TAB from inside the message summary view. Also, how many messages can I keep in a folder before Sylpheed has problems (I'm at 7500 and counting...)? When is your disk full? Really, messages get a number on disk, and the number can go up quite high. At a certain moment you will experience some slowness in getting the summary view, when there are VERY many files Sylpheed has to go through. For the coming 25,000 mails you should be fine though. Paul -- If you think the pen is mightier than the sword, the next time someone pulls out a sword I'd like to see you get up there with your Bic. http://nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Ximian Evolution Thanks Paul, and Todd. I really, really like Sylpheed. A lot. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed keyboard focus
On Thu, 29 May 2003 17:58:18 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I already answered Paul's post, but I've just noticed: The space bar not only pages down in a long message, if you're at the bottom and press it again, it jumps to the next message too! Someone has given this a lot of thought... Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
