Re: [newbie] Computer shuts off after a few seconds
Thanks for all the responses. Well, stupidly, I tried (actually I succeeded) in putting a stick of DDR ram in an SDRAM slot. The system still worked after I took it out though. This morning I disconnected all the drives, took the ram out and cleaned the slots and replaced it and gave it an overall cleaning with air. There is some play in the motherboard, I pushed away from the case- not sure what else to do about that. Tried starting it to see if there was any difference. It ran longer this time, maybe 10 seconds, then there was a blue flash in the vicinity of the power supply and it cut off. Oh well, I think this one is beyond me. Thanks, SW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Computer shuts off after a few seconds
Hello Today I put a third hard drive and an additional 256MB of ram (there were already 2 256MB sticks) in my computer, after which it would not boot. I took the new ram out and it booted ok. I took one of the original sticks out then to look at it make sure I had gotten the right kind, and replaced it. Since then when I turn the computer on it turns off right away. As soon as the fans start to turn, it cuts off. It is a 1.53 gig athlon, K7S5A motherboard, pc2100 ram. Appreciate any help. Thanks, SW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: So zap them before they even hit your machine: Just found out how to set my server to return to sender all mails to unknown users. Not ideal but at least I am getting a bit of peace and quite again! :-) I'm not sure if you want to do that. If it's anything like the stuff that was hitting my inbox a while back, the sender isn't really the virus, but it's using a designated unsecure SMTP server to masquerade as a specific sender, even though that sender doesn't have the virus. I don't know anything about this particular worm, but I know my inbox has been cluttered by similar stuff before. Oddly enough, I started getting it after I posted my email address(es) in a MSDN forum the address(es) I didn't post have never gotten it. Suspicous. Anywho, that's my two cents, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #: 366,862 Registered Linux computer #: 261,856 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] upgrade 9.2 to 10.1 using urpmi
Fajar Priyanto wrote: I guess I'd better ask for help here too. On Thursday 16 December 2004 09:12 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Thursday 16 December 2004 08:08 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi folks, Can I upgrade my mdk9.2 to 10.1 using urpmi? The reason is because I haven't got the time to do a clean install of it. Can I do it? I mean, at least to upgrade certain part of the package, for example: apache and it's modules to the latest package available. Or, can I just download the rpm from 10.1 and use rpm -Uvh on the 9.2? Thanks. Ugh, I found it in the archive. Ok, then my question is: should I update all the sources to 10.1 or via 10.0 first? Ok, I chose to go to 10.1 I urpmi urpmi, then: The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded: ImageMagick-5.5.7.13-3plf.i586 (due to missing ghostscript, due to missing libwmflite-0.2.so.7, due to missing libMagick-5.5.7.so.0, due to unsatisfied libMagick5.5.7 == 5.5.7.13-3plf) XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3-23mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied XFree86 == 4.3) XFree86-server-4.3-23mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied XFree86 == 4.3-23mdk) XFree86-xfs-4.3-23mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied XFree86-libs == 4.3-23mdk) chkfontpath-1.9.10-1mdk.i586 (due to missing XFree86-xfs) fonts-ttf-decoratives-1.3-12mdk.noarch (due to unsatisfied chkfontpath = 1.4.1) fonts-ttf-vera-1.10-2mdk.noarch (due to missing chkfontpath[*]) fonts-ttf-west_european-1.3-12mdk.noarch (due to unsatisfied chkfontpath = 1.4.1) ghostscript-7.07-0.12.1.92mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied urw-fonts = 1.1) libMagick5.5.7-5.5.7.13-3plf.i586 (due to missing libwmflite-0.2.so.7) libwmf-0.2.8-4mdk.i586 (due to missing libwmf-0.2.so.7, due to missing libwmflite-0.2.so.7) libwmf0.2_7-0.2.8-4mdk.i586 (due to missing urw-fonts, due to unsatisfied libwmf == 0.2.8-4mdk) php-imagick-4.3.3_0.9.7-3mdk.i586 (due to missing libwmflite-0.2.so.7, due to missing ImageMagick, due to missing libMagick-5.5.7.so.0) postgresql-python-7.3.4-2mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied postgresql == 7.3.4-2mdk) urw-fonts-2.0-10mdk.noarch (due to missing chkfontpath[*]) (y/N) y I said Y, and then: To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (187 MB): MySQL-bench-4.0.20-3.1.101mdk.i586 MySQL-client-4.0.20-3.1.101mdk.i586 bootloader-utils-1.9-1.1.101mdk.i586 bootsplash-2.1.13-1mdk.i586 dmidecode-2.4-1mdk.i586 drakconf-10.1-2mdk.i586 drakfirsttime-1.1-15mdk.noarch drakxtools-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586 drakxtools-backend-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586 drakxtools-newt-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586 glibc-2.3.3-21mdk.i586 glibc-devel-2.3.3-21mdk.i586 glibc-static-devel-2.3.3-21mdk.i586 gtk+2.0-2.4.9-9mdk.i586 gtkdialogs-2.1-1mdk.i586 gurpmi-4.5-28mdk.noarch harddrake-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586 harddrake-ui-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586 hwdb-clients-0.16-1mdk.noarch ldconfig-2.3.3-21mdk.i586 ldetect-lst-0.1.23-1.1.101mdk.i586 libbeecrypt6-3.1.0-3mdk.i586 libcurl3-7.12.1-1mdk.i586 libecpg3-7.4.5-4mdk.i586 libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0-2.4.9-9mdk.i586 libglib2.0_0-2.4.6-1mdk.i586 libgphoto-hotplug-2.1.4-3mdk.i586 libgphoto2-2.1.4-3mdk.i586 libgtk+-x11-2.0_0-2.4.9-9mdk.i586 libgtk+2.0_0-2.4.9-9mdk.i586 libidn11-0.5.4-1mdk.i586 libieee1284_3-0.2.8-1mdk.i586 libmysql12-4.0.20-3.1.101mdk.i586 libpango1.0_0-1.4.1-1mdk.i586 libpango1.0_0-modules-1.4.1-1mdk.i586 libpgtcl2-7.4.5-4mdk.i586 libpq3-7.4.5-4mdk.i586 libsane1-1.0.14-3mdk.i586 libstdc++6-3.4.1-4mdk.i586 libtiff3-3.6.1-4.1.101mdk.i586 libusb0.1_4-0.1.8-2mdk.i586 libvte4-0.11.11-3mdk.i586 libxorg-x11-6.7.0-4.2.101mdk.i586 locales-2.3.3-8mdk.i586 locales-en-2.3.3-8mdk.i586 mandrake-doc-common-10.1-1mdk.noarch mkinitrd-4.1.12-1mdk.i586 mod_perl-common-1.3.31_1.29-3mdk.i586 pango-1.4.1-1mdk.i586 perl-5.8.5-3.1.101mdk.i586 perl-Glib-1.054-1mdk.i586 perl-Gnome2-Vte-0.04-1mdk.i586 perl-Gtk2-1.054-1mdk.i586 perl-Gtk2-TrayIcon-0.04-1mdk.i586 perl-Libconf-0.33-2mdk.noarch perl-MDK-Common-1.1.18-1mdk.i586 perl-MIME-Lite-3.01-5mdk.noarch perl-MailTools-1.62-1mdk.noarch perl-Net-Jabber-1.30-1mdk.noarch perl-SOAP-Lite-0.60-0.a.2mdk.noarch perl-Term-ReadKey-2.21-4mdk.i586 perl-URPM-1.03-1mdk.i586 perl-XML-Stream-1.21-2mdk.noarch perl-base-5.8.5-3.1.101mdk.i586 perl-devel-5.8.5-3.1.101mdk.i586 perl-doc-5.8.5-3.1.101mdk.i586 perl-libwww-perl-5.800-1mdk.noarch popt-1.8.2-15mdk.i586 postgresql-7.4.5-4mdk.i586 postgresql-contrib-7.4.5-4mdk.i586 postgresql-devel-7.4.5-4mdk.i586 postgresql-jdbc-7.4.5-4mdk.i586 postgresql-pl-7.4.5-4mdk.i586 postgresql-server-7.4.5-4mdk.i586 postgresql-tcl-7.4.5-4mdk.i586 postgresql-test-7.4.5-4mdk.i586 rfbdrake-1.0-7mdk.noarch rpm-4.2.2-15mdk.i586 rpm-build-4.2.2-15mdk.i586 rpmdrake-2.1.5-13mdk.i586 sane-backends-1.0.14-3mdk.i586 sash-3.7-3mdk.i586 urpmi-4.5-28mdk.noarch userdrake-1.1-3mdk.i586 vte-0.11.11-3mdk.i586 xinitrc-2.4.11-1mdk.noarch xorg-x11-6.7.0-4.2.101mdk.i586 Is this OK? (Y/n) n Is this the correct thing to do? Is it safe if I answer yes? Thanks
Re: [newbie] win- linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I spent two hours looking thru umpteen pages to find a torent site to dld the live cd for knoppix so I might see a demo or something to try learning about linux. I live in NY state so a site nearby would be nice if anyone knows of one. On 16 Dec 2004 at 18:43, Anders Lind wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:25:18 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any free program available to sample linux on a winxp system. I thought winaxe might but it is for networked systems. Is Knoppix what you are looking forit is Linux on a CD... /anders Nearby isn't nessesarily always the best choice for a mirror. If bandwidth is a problem with the mirrors (As it usually is in my experience), choose a mirror located where it's the middle of the night ;-). For examply, if I'm downloading at 5 o'clock CT, I might choose a mirror located in France, where it's midnight. Cheerio, ES -- Registered Linux user #: 366,862 Registered Linux computer #: 261,856 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] help on port forwarding
amalasingh wrote: Folks, I am a mdk10.1 user. I am trying to access my localhost by typing my WAN IP address. But it just goes to the Router firewall page. I checked my router settings(especially virtual server configuration) all set correctly. Also confirmed with the router vendor. The vendor says we need technical expertise to forward the local server. Is that true? Do I need to have some networking knowledge to do forward even my http local server?? I use just default ports(80) Please help me. Cheers Amala Singh Why companies insist on treating their customers as stupid idiots (Starband is aweful about this too annoying people, wish I could get DSL here) who couldn't care less about things like port forwarding is beyond me, but if you find a howto as to configure your router it should be intuitive enough. What type of router do you have? Each one is different, but often they have a http-based configuration applet built in, so you simple go to http://[routerLocalIP]; and it's all right there. From that point there should be stuff on google that'll tell you how to forward ports. -- Registered Linux user #: 366,862 Registered Linux computer #: 261,856 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Change Pass in PostGreSQL
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Saturday 18 December 2004 01:12 pm, Eric Scott wrote: Heya; Webmin isn't changing my password on PostGreSQL accounts when I tell it to... hit the save button... the works. It's just not being chipper. Any help? I don't necessarily need Webmin how would I change a user's password in PostGreSQL manually on my Mandrake 9.2 Server? Thanx, ES Hi Eric, 1. edit /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf change/remark the connection authentification method, and add this line: local all all trust -- it won't ask you any password anymore 2. restart postgresql: service postgresql restart 3. su postgres 4. psql -U postgres -d template1 5. alter user nameofuser with password 'thepassword'; 6. \q -- to quit 7. exit 8. restore the pg_hba.conf back to the original setting. 9. restart posgresql 10. you're clear to go :) Okay, sounded easy enough. I got around disabling the postgres account password by su-ing to Root then su-ing to postgres... and started up psql, which I'd never used before. It seems pretty simple... did ALTER USER [username] PASSWORD '[password]', but now what? Just quiting there apparently didn't apply the command I'd just run. The command-line prompt changed from ...=# to ...-# though, whatever that means. :-P Thanx in advance, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #: 366,862 Registered Linux computer #: 261,856 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mail server setup 9.2?
Okay, I tried this a while back with no success. Basically, I need a basic, step-by-step explanation of how to set up a sendmail server and courier-pop server on Mandrake 9.2, and how to add oodles of pop3 clients. I'm setting this up for a medium-large buisness, as they've had no success with their own Windows-based mail servers in front of their firewall ;-). Sendmail and Courier-IMAP-pop are installed and running. Thanx in advance, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #: 366,862 Registered Linux computer #: 261,856 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Change Pass in PostGreSQL
Heya; Webmin isn't changing my password on PostGreSQL accounts when I tell it to... hit the save button... the works. It's just not being chipper. Any help? I don't necessarily need Webmin how would I change a user's password in PostGreSQL manually on my Mandrake 9.2 Server? Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #: 366,862 Registered Linux computer #: 261,856 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [toread] [newbie] MDK 10.1 Official SiS 180 Sata
Good question, not working for me, either. Richard On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 21:41, António Jorge Mota Vasconcelos wrote: Hello. I have a problem installing the MDK 10.1 Official. It can´t load the sis_sata modules correctly. I saw (trough Google) this is a general problem. My question is if anyone has already compiled a specific module to insert before the hardware detection. Or if exists any other way (besides installing a PATA disk and compiling the kernel) to do the installation. Have also tried commands like linux noapic, noloapic, and ACPI disabled in BIOS, etc. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux on the rise
JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 10:06:53 -0800 (PST) Thomas Wilkowski disseminated the following: I found this article interesting and thought it would be good to share. http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~33~2577377,00.html This inspired me to redo an old wallpaper I'd abandoned work on, maybe a little 'over the top', but hey, that's me! http://www.freeyourmachine.org/chewall.png Nice. To both the wallpaper and the article. Article's in my bookmarks, wallpaper is my desktop. Cheers, ES Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ethernet ADSL modem
problem fixed.. got a D-link 4 port modem router thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Manuals?
- Original Message - From: eric jackson When I first started using Mandrake I printed out Mandrake's online documentation. The only on-line documentation is basicly the install manual... not the user manual... is that all there is? Thanks Scotty Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Manuals?
I am having more toruble than I thought with MDK10 and I was thinking that getting the box set with the manuals might be a big help. Does anyone have the box manuals? Are they very helpful or like most manuals these days refer you to the how-tos or mandrakeclub? Maybe the best thing is to get a Mandrake Club membership? Thanks in advance Scotty Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Ethernet ADSL modem
Hello again; I am in Australia and thinking of just buying an ethernet adsl modem to save the USB set-up hassels. So in an effort to determine what exact models were supported I ran the wizard in KDE. Now here's the thing... it asks you for your provider and Australia is not even listed! :( So what does that mean? I have to go about it from the command line? Secondly, are there any modems that you can recommend using for MDK 10.1? Thanks Scotty Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake Boxed Set
I can get the Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official Boxed Set - PowerPack Edition for $70 even tho I use 10.1. I really just want the manuals.. is this a good idea? Thanks again Scotty Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Returning Newbie
Hi ppl, Been about 5 years since my last foray into Linux...heaps has change..2 q's if I may; Dumb question 1. What directory are the How-to pages in again? Not so dumb question 2. USB? Is it plug and play as in Win or does it need to be mounted like other drives (ie when using a thumb drive) Not so dumb question 3. Can anyone point me to a FAQ on setting up an a USB ADSL modem? Kconfigure only allows for ehternet connected dls modems... Thanks Very Much Scotty Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Returning Newbie
- Original Message - From: John Wilson Click the Star/Foot thingy on the left, More Applications, Documentation, English Howtos. If, of course, you installed them :) Thought I had... maybe I didn't...hmmm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 6:39 pm, Bill Mudry wrote: I have heard a lot of terms, but - what is a mobo?? Lol, motherboard. It can get even more confusing if you switch to a Mac list... then MB, Motherboard, Mobo, AND LB, LoBo, Logic Board are all used interchangeably ;-). Cheers, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5; KDE 3.2 configured to look alot like MacOS X). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world hasNO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 9:58 am, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: In fact, I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was Asus that was in the news recently for breaking the ethernet on their motherboards in a way that makes it only work with Windoze but not with Linux, and responding to complaints with we don't support Linux on our motherboards. I don't know about in the news, but I have an ASUS mobo in a server, and it's ethernet sure doesn't work with Linux. I have to use an ethernet PCI-card for networking. Pesky, but at least the integrated graphics-card hasn't been biased against 'real' software... I may not have ethernet on the mobo, but the graphics and sounds works. cheers, Scotti -- Sarki Gwaggo/Little Dude/Little Bear/Shorty/Dory/Sigma Dude/SigmaChi/Scotchz/Doorhelp2/Pigme/Erikimo/Neilleo/Scotti A.K.A Eric Registered Linux user #: 366862 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] M$ using pirated software
On Friday 19 November 2004 11:42 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 19 November 2004 10:16 pm, John Layt wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:07, Stephen Khn wrote: But now, since Ballmer the Bouncing Bimbo has gotten into IP legalaties to fight the GPL/OSS world, they better do something about the skeletons roving around in THEIR own closet... Heard their latest patent claim? They reckon they invented the boolean not equal operator... Somebody dig up Charles Boole and get him down to the Patent Office to school that examiner in elementary logic :-) http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFd=PG01 p =1u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htmlr=1f=Gl=50s1=%2220040230959%22.P GNR .OS=DN/20040230959RS=DN/20040230959 OK, to be fair, it's a particular implementation of ISNOT, but talk about chutzpah! careful they also hold the patent on chutzpah John. Money is a registered trademark of Microsoft, Incorporated. Chutzpah to them I say! What has microsoft ever given the world... without them the worst that would happen is everybody would use Mac OS until they found Linux and Mac is Unix based now so um nothings wrong with that, so who needs Microsoft? Cheers, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5; KDE 3.2 configured to look alot like MacOS X). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world hasNO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)
On Friday 19 November 2004 2:55 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 19 November 2004 21:18, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 19 Nov 2004 15:17, Eric Scott wrote: Am I supposed to define a mail.mydomain.org or something? I tried what I could find in the TWiki, the only thing that looked like it might be very useful to me was a dead link (Or Konqueror was just being pesky again). BTW, what's the Mandrake mail server setup wizard thingamaboper and how do I run it? Thanx, SigmaChi What was the dead link? We are still re-constructing, and if any links are not working we need to know about it. Anne If people are going to send you email you must have a domain name that resolves to your IP address. You either pay to register a domain name, or you could use a dynamic DNS service from someone like dyndns.org who will give you one for free. Once you have a domain name Postfix needs to know what it is. Then any mail Postfix revceives addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for example) gets passed to eric's local mailbox. derek Yeah, I have a domain straight to my IP, sipca.org. (It's a little pesky, because the organization I run the server has a Windows Domain network with the same name so at the moment they can't access www.sipca.org on the web because every time they do it finds their Windows Domain Controller and think's it's www.sipca.org... blasted Windows messed things up again) Anyway, I might be able to figure it out with google now, but while we're on the topic, how do I tell postfix that it's running for sipca.org? Via webmin, preferably, but I can handle a little config-file editing now and again... newbie though I be. Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5; KDE 3.2 configured to look alot like MacOS X). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world hasNO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)
In an earlier post I told how to set up a simple server using the Mandrake mail server Wizard, I tried finding that post in the archives, but it was overwhelming to search for it. Could you give me a brief summary? Supposedly I have Postfix, ProcMail, and Courrier-IMAP/POP3 installed... but I've got no clue what to do from here. (IMAP appears to be working... but my test-messages still aren't making it to my inbox) Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5; KDE 3.2 configured to look alot like MacOS X). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world hasNO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)
On Friday 19 November 2004 05:00, Eric Scott wrote: In an earlier post I told how to set up a simple server using the Mandrake mail server Wizard, I tried finding that post in the archives, but it was overwhelming to search for it. Could you give me a brief summary? Supposedly I have Postfix, ProcMail, and Courrier-IMAP/POP3 installed... but I've got no clue what to do from here. (IMAP appears to be working... but my test-messages still aren't making it to my inbox) Thanx, SigmaChi Am I supposed to define a mail.mydomain.org or something? I tried what I could find in the TWiki, the only thing that looked like it might be very useful to me was a dead link (Or Konqueror was just being pesky again). BTW, what's the Mandrake mail server setup wizard thingamaboper and how do I run it? Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5; KDE 3.2 configured to look alot like MacOS X). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world hasNO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 08:35, Rene Borchers wrote: Hi, I think you should have a look at the courier site http://www.courier-mta.org/intro.html it looks like it could be the solution to you problem. mandrake has: Name: courier-imap-pop Version : 2.1.2 Release : 1mdk Group : System/Servers Size: 66007Architecture: i586 Source RPM : courier-imap-2.1.2-1mdk.src.rpm Build Host: klama.mandrake.org Packager: Oden Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.courier-mta.org Summary : Courier-IMAP POP servers Description : This package contains the POP servers of the Courier-IMAP server suite. Name: courier-imap-pop Version : 2.1.2 Release : 1mdk Group : System/Servers Size: 66007Architecture: i586 Source RPM : courier-imap-2.1.2-1mdk.src.rpm Build Host: klama.mandrake.org Packager: Oden Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.courier-mta.org Summary : Courier-IMAP POP servers Description : This package contains the POP servers of the Courier-IMAP server suite. On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 17:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I shoulda done a little more research before posting; I realize now that Sendmail isn't what I need. Okay, so I need a POP3 server. Only a POP3 server; the corporation I'm setting this up for will have it's own SMTP server. Any recommendations for POP3 servers (Open-source, preferably)? Cheers, SigmaChi Okay, so I got the Courier POP3 server installed. Now what? Lol, I was raised on Mac, and have only been using Linux for a couple years... when there's no webmin module I'm stuck. Who/what/wen/where/how do I configure it? Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world hasNO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] What's on port 32768?
Yo; Me and my MDK 9.2 server are back... but it's not a tuffy on this string. This evening I noticed a connection from the internet to port 32768 on my server. What's this port used for? Can this be a security threat? I tried google, but all I found was something about some trojan peeps think they have running on that port :-S. Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world has NO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)
Okay, so I got the Courier POP3 server installed. Now what? Lol, I was raised on Mac, and have only been using Linux for a couple years... when there's no webmin module I'm stuck. Who/what/wen/where/how do I configure it? Thanx, SigmaChi Courier requires mail to be in Maildir directories, which is not the standard format for a Linux mail spool. In order to get it into Maildir format some MTA (Mail Transfer Agent needs to have put it there) Postfix can do that, as can Procmail. The alternative imap-2004 POP3 server uses standard mailspool files, but again, an MTA has to put the mail into the spool files.. There is a set up file for courier-imap in your /etc/courier folder, but really there is no change from default configuration needed. The POP3 server will expect to find the mail in a folder in each users home directory called ~/Maildir The inside of the Maildir folder has a special structure which is set up by an application called maildirmake++ All of this is described in the mailserver tutorial on my home page since courier-imap is what I use myself. However the imap-2004 POP3 server is easier to set up. There is no need to create special directory structures. However I am still not clear how you intend to get the mail into this mail server, since you said in a previous post that your client has a Windows SMTP server which he intends to retain. POP3 is a protocol for getting mail **out** of a server. How does it get **in** in the first place? derek I take it that, for example, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sends a message with his SMTP server to [EMAIL PROTECTED], Postfix or something recieves it, and plops it into my myaddy's ~/Maildir directory? Forgive me for my ignorance, but I have never set up an email server before :-P. So yeah, have I got the following right?: -I install/startup Courier and Postfix -I create a user for each email address that my client wants (I.E. [EMAIL PROTECTED]), with a ~/Maildir directory for each of them. -Your average Joe sends his message through his ISP's SMTP server to [EMAIL PROTECTED], Postfix grabs it, plops it in /home/Joanne/maildir, Joanne connects to the POP server, and takes it from their into outlook express or whatever. Thanx for your patience... doubtless my next post will have something to do with how to setup Postfix ;-). Cheers, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world hasNO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic 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 for novice users?
On Sunday 14 November 2004 22:22, Carroll Grigsby wrote: BUT, (a) few users install Windows themselves, Perhaps not, but sooner or later they do reformat and reinstall -- sometimes frequently -- often at the suggestion of MS tech support. Perhaps 2000 and XP are better in this regard, but it has always been the standard fix for the Win9x series. 2000 and XP seem to be a little better in this case, but faar from perfect. PC Magizine still stresses that the only way to keep your computer relatively bug free... weather or not you're connected to the internet and have worms/viruses... is to reinstall at LEAST once a year. I tend to tinker so much with my systems that I reinstall ten times as often, sometimes leaving Windows completely off a system for six months until it's needed again. But back in the dark days when I was a Windows-only user that had never installed an OS, I used Windows XP straight for two years on a Pentium one box @ 233MHz. It ran fine at first, but by the time I finally upgraded my computer it took a minute and a half to open the start menu, with 50% of my memory totally free, and (supposedly) no viruses. I've never had such a problem with Linux' performace reducing with time, but it's commonplace in Windows. I expect no change in that respect with longhorn; rant I heard someplace that to fix this issue Windows would require a complete rewrite of large sections of their kernel... and since when did Microsoft care enouh about the world to make such a contribution to computer performance? Security? Sure! With security fixes you can do things like block competitive software from being installed because it's a security issue, but increase performance? How will that help them? They already have the market share they want. /rant Neway, that's my 2 cents. -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5), multi-booted with RedHat 8.0 (Kernel 2.4.18; can't get Fedora to work!) and Debian 3.0 (Kernel 2.2.20). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world hasNO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kernal not booting in 10.1
Yo; I've got 10.1 PPC, and am trying to install it on a PowerMac 7300/180. I'm trying to boot up w/ BootX to the kernal, which then launches the installer off CD, but with no luck. The mandrake icon appears in the upper left-hand corner, but everything else stalls and stays black, with none of those chipper kernal messages. I have Yellow Dog Linux installed on my only non-Mac partition. Could this be causing the problem? Should I delete yellow-dog and try it? Are there any parameters that I might pass to the kernal that might help? Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world has NO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic 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 for novice users?
On Thursday 11 November 2004 08:00, David Feldman wrote: I'm evaluating various Linux distros in order to recommend one to novice users, particularly Windows switchers. Mandrake has been recommended to me, especially since it can resize NTFS partitions. I downloaded 10.1 Community and tried to install but have been unable to do so. First I got a text-based installer instead of graphical, and the best I was able to achieve was a system that booted to a text login prompt instead of GNOME or KDE. Then I tried the low-res graphical install, but the best I was able to achieve there was that it would hang at the post-install configuration. Any thoughts? Also, hoping for some clarification: - How does 10.1 Community differ from 10.1 Official? - If 10.1 Official might work better for my purposes, is there any way to download it for eval purposes? - How does 10.1 Official differ from 10.1 Discovery? - How does 10.1 PPC relate to the various Intel versions? Mandrake would definately be one of the top ones for novice users, in my experience. I can sympathize with your installation problems, however, though I've never had the same with Linux. I had similar problems installing RedHat 8 on a certain box, but on others it installs flawlessly. I've had better luck with Mandrake overall. However, though it's a bit uncou for me to recommend it on a Mandrake list, for brand-new Linux users coming over from Windows I'd recommend SuSE. I haven't tried Mandrake 10 yet, so I don't know if it's easier than SuSE or not, but SuSE is definately one of the easiest to find your way around when fresh from the Windows world. Mandrake is a close second though, next being maybe Fedora, but I haven't tried all that many distros myself, so I'm not a real authority. Whatever you do don't try plopping a newbie in Debian. Nothing against Debian, I like Debian, all 14 discs of Debian, but a newbie is liable to give up and never touch Linux again for ten years before he even makes it past the base system installation (Okay, maybe a little exageration, but still, there's a point) I recently got a friend started on Linux and burned him copies of Mandrake 9.2 and SuSE 9.1. Once I'd told him how to get the BIOS set to boot off CD, he had little trouble installing, and he'd never installed an OS before :-P. Mandrake might be better if you want them to get an idea of how vast the open source community is, or if they plan on running a server; to a Windows user 3 discs with thousands of programs seems impossibly huge. The only ISO's available for download from SuSE are for the Personal addition, which basically contains media, IM, web, and office software for a home system, which is still an amazingly large amount of software to a newbie. That's my two cents; Cheers, SigmaChi PS: I might add that, though smaller in volume, I've found this Mandrake list much more helpfull and prompt on response than the higher-volume SuSE list. -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! 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 for novice users?
It's supposed to be equivalent to 10.1 x86 download edition. Is that the Community or the Official? Basically official, except PPC is not a supported platform, so you probably won't see it being referred to as an official edition anywhere. The PPC port was a community driven project, not by Mandrakesoft, the company. I haven't had much luck on getting MDK 10.1 PPC to work on my ol' PowerMac 7300/180 (Kernel freezes practically before it boots), but from what I've seen it seems like a good OS overall (Seems more lucrative than YellowDog, the Fedora-based port to Mac). I plan on getting an iBook here pretty soon... the first thing I'll do is wipe the drive and dual-boot with OS X MDK 10 :-P. Yeah, so I administer an x86 Linux server in real life but who says I can't have a little fun with my Mac toys now and again! I'd love to see Mandrake's take on the GNOME desktop. Whelp I prefer KDE. Just make sure that you get something using something like the Crystal icon theme! I know that it doesn't do much for productivity, but the only way to really get to love and admire your Linux system is to give it a spiffy desktop environment! :-P. I run KDE with the Crystal SVG icon set and the Keramik theme. and luv it. Beats the dull, practically 8-bit Windows XP looks any day. (Okay, so I'm obsessed, what can I say? I like my Linux :-D) Cheers, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5), multi-booted with RedHat 8.0 (Kernel 2.4.18; can't get Fedora to work!) and Debian 3.0 (Kernel 2.2.20). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world hasNO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Netbios-ssn connections?
Yo; Once again, another question to be applied on my Mandrake 9.2 server box, which you're probably starting to become friends with. I leave KDE System Guard open at times on my SuSE box monitoring the Mandrake server remotely. I've noticed that a TCP connection opens occasionally, connected to from hosts all around the world (China, UK, u-name-it) to a netbios-ssn socket. What's happening here? What's netbios-ssn? All I'm running is a website for a local buisness at the moment... I can't imagine why peeps from China and the UK would want to access this server... are these crackers? Do I have a clue what I'm talking about? Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5), multi-booted with RedHat 8.0 (Kernel 2.4.18; can't get Fedora to work!) and Debian 3.0 (Kernel 2.2.20). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world has NO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Memory filling up on 9.2?
Yo; I've got a Mandrake 9.2 box that I run 24/7 as a http/pop3/ftp server. As time passes the available memory steadily goes down. For example: I rebooted it yesterday morning and KDE System Guard told me it had ~170 MB of free memory. Now KDE System Guard tells me it has ~50 MB of free memory... any clues as to what's filling it up? Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5), multi-booted with RedHat 8.0 (Kernel 2.4.18; can't get Fedora to work!) and Debian 3.0 (Kernel 2.2.20). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world has NO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 Move CD?
I don't believe so. I can't get it to work right one my comp (Once I realized what it was I had to tinker with it ;-) ), or rather I can't get X to work, because my monitor is... um well lets just say it never works with automatic setups. Anyway, I think the idea behind mdkMove is that you can keep your operating system on CD, and your files and settings on a USB drive or whatever, and use your stuff as a guest on other peep's comps without altering they're comp any. And yeah, a great way to try out linux without killing your old OS too. ;-) That's my two cents; SigmaChi On Tuesday 09 November 2004 23:25, Bill Mudry wrote: At 10:14 PM 11/9/04 -0500, you wrote: On Tuesday 09 November 2004 08:42 pm, Eric Scott wrote: Yo; I'm burning 9.2 discs for a friend, and I've got a disk labelled Mandrake 9.2 Move CD. Is this important or worth burning? He's brand new to Linux, I'll actually probably start him with SuSE 'fore MDK 9.2, it seems more Windows-user-friendly. (I dunno 'bout MDK 10, it's not done downloading ;-)) Thanx, SigmaChi Mandrake Move 9.2 is a bootable cd that will allow him to run Mandrake 9.2 without installing it. A Move based on 10.0 was recently reloeased which will have more up to date packages. This is an excellent way to try it before installing it. Sounds like an easy way to demonstrate Linux some on a friend's computer without actually having to partition and install it. Does it modify the target computer any? Bill Mudry -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.1 PPC?
Yo; I just downloaded Mandrake 10.1 PPC and am trying to install it on my PowerMac 7300/180. It seems chipper; I've got Yellow Dog on it and want to try Mandrake. BootX is configured with the ramdisk and kernal specified in the documentation for the install... it seems chipper here, kills MacOS when I click Linux, blacks out the screen, the Mandrake logo appears in the upper left-hand corner and.. nothing. Not a burp, not a bang. Frozen. And help? SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Memory clog on 9.2?
Yo; I've got a Mandrake 9.2 box that I use as a web server. On my SuSE box at home I leave KDE system guard open 24/7 connected to the server via ssh, all that fun stuff. I've noticed that as the server is on for long periods of time, the ammount of free memory goes down, at roughly 3MB/hour. What would be filling it up? I wouldn't give it much though, 'cept this is a server, and at this rate two days of up time and I'm spilling over into SWAP, which would slow it down too much for my liking. Any help? Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Starband on Linux?
Yo; I've got Starband's basic satellite internet package/modem/dish/whatever. The don't officially support Linux with this hardware and have taken great pains to create their own protocal to make sure that you have to have a Windows boxconnected to their modem. Neway, anybody know of an open-source hack that'll let me use this modem from Linux and trash my old Windows router? Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! Not only am I a Linux freak, Mac-lover, and Microsoft-hater, but I'm a Christian as well. To risk using an un-meaningful cliche: Jesus has changed my life for the better! He's my best friend and talking to Him and knowing that He's helping me is what lets me deal with stress with ease. I'm not happy-go lucky, I just know that with God's help I can handle it. My faith is based on facts too. Don't believe me? Go to www.messengersofchrist.cjb.net to find out more (If it's ever up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Faster mirrors?
I'm quite unimpressed with the speed I'm getting from the mirrors for Mandrake 10.0 Official via FTP. Anybody know of a particularly good mirror? Or a bittorrent/jigbo download like there is for Debian? I tried to download 10 earlier with no success (20KB/s download didn't cut it for me), and I'm now downloading the testing version of Debian to tinker with instead (Gettin' my fulll bandwidth from them, via FTP too). More of a comment than a question, but yeah. Cheers, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] TCP logging?
Yo peeps; I'm trying to set up some simple TCP connection's logging on my Mandrake 9.2 box. Is there a simple script or something I can write and execute that will do something like execute date html_logs/ssh.log netstat -a | grep tcp html_logs/ssh.log every ten seconds or so? I'm sure there are better alternatives to logging this, if you know any let me know. Thanx SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 9.2 Move CD?
Yo; I'm burning 9.2 discs for a friend, and I've got a disk labelled Mandrake 9.2 Move CD. Is this important or worth burning? He's brand new to Linux, I'll actually probably start him with SuSE 'fore MDK 9.2, it seems more Windows-user-friendly. (I dunno 'bout MDK 10, it's not done downloading ;-)) Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Download HTTP?
Yo; does anybody know where I can download Mandrake 10.1 PPC via http instead of FTP? On the FTP mirrors I'm getting an average of about 9KB/s. That just won't do when download 2100MB of data. My satellite broadband has roughly a 600k down/4k up connection... .Yes, I said four up, not forty. I don't know if this would slow down an FTP connection, it doesn't make sense to me, but the point is it's download really really slow. Anyway, I'd like to try http or something instead of ftp, and helpers? -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin? - wandering on to proFTP and ssh
On Monday 08 November 2004 00:55, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Saturday 06 November 2004 03:34 am, Eric Scott wrote: Hold up. Reinstalling proftpd got me a default that worked... supposedly... but then why does it say 220 (vsFTPd 2.0.1) when I ftp into my domain. lol. Gee wizzle this is getting confusing. Here I thought I was dealing with proFTP, and now there's vsFTP... which I didn't even remember I installed. Anyway; since it's already running... where's the vsFTPd config file? lol. Sigma It should be in /etc/vsftpd.conf However, back to proftpd. On default installation (without any config to edit), you should be able to connect to your FTP server, using your system username and password. Well I got proFTPd working. Somehow (Don't ask me how) I got vsFTPd insatlled earlier from source with the config file someplace else. I couldn't find it in etc or anywhere. But yeah, I disabled vsFTPd and now proFTPd works fine. Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Setup NFS access?
Yo peeps;
I'm trying to set up an NFS server on my Mandrake 9.2 server with client
access from a SuSE 9.1 box. Here's what I did on the server:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ssh sipca.org
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eric]$ su
Password:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eric]# vi /etc/exports
snip
Added /var/www/html sipca.org(ro,root_squash)
/snip
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eric]# exportfs -r
exportfs: /etc/exports [2]: No 'sync' or 'async' option specified for export
*:/home/eric.
Assuming default behaviour ('sync').
NOTE: this default has changed from previous versions
exportfs: /etc/exports [3]: No 'sync' or 'async' option specified for export
sipca.org:/var/www/html.
Assuming default behaviour ('sync').
NOTE: this default has changed from previous versions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eric]#
On the SuSE box I got:
linux:/mnt # mount -t nfs sipca.org:/var/www/html /mnt/athlonxp
pmap_getmaps rpc problem: RPC: Timed out
mount: sipca.org:/var/www/html failed, reason given by server: Permission
denied
I'm new to NFS... and all this I just tried from a googled howto. Any help?
Thanx,
ES
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Re: [newbie] Setup NFS access?
On Sunday 07 November 2004 14:08, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Sunday 07 November 2004 19:12, Eric Scott wrote:
Yo peeps;
I'm trying to set up an NFS server on my Mandrake 9.2 server with client
access from a SuSE 9.1 box. Here's what I did on the server:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ssh sipca.org
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eric]$ su
Password:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eric]# vi /etc/exports
snip
Added /var/www/html sipca.org(ro,root_squash)
/snip
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eric]# exportfs -r
exportfs: /etc/exports [2]: No 'sync' or 'async' option specified for
export *:/home/eric.
Assuming default behaviour ('sync').
NOTE: this default has changed from previous versions
exportfs: /etc/exports [3]: No 'sync' or 'async' option specified for
export sipca.org:/var/www/html.
Assuming default behaviour ('sync').
NOTE: this default has changed from previous versions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eric]#
On the SuSE box I got:
linux:/mnt # mount -t nfs sipca.org:/var/www/html /mnt/athlonxp
pmap_getmaps rpc problem: RPC: Timed out
mount: sipca.org:/var/www/html failed, reason given by server:
Permission denied
I'm new to NFS... and all this I just tried from a googled howto. Any
help? Thanx,
ES
Are you running a firewall? If so you need to open port 111 and also make
sure the portmapper service is running.
BTW: The easy way for newbies to set up NFS servers is to use the 'NFS
Mount' GUI in Mandrake Control Centre. It works over an ssh link. Just
start 'mcc' from your ssh shell.
derek
Whelp I don't have a firewall... and I don't know about you but my MCC only
lets me mount servers with NFS Mounts, not create them. Am I missing
something? My entire /etc/exports file is as follows:
/home/eric *(rw)
/var/www/html *(rw)
It says permission denied when I try to access. Any help?
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Re: [newbie] Setup NFS access?
On Sunday 07 November 2004 17:24, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 07 November 2004 23:45, Eric Scott wrote: /home/eric *(rw) /var/www/html *(rw) It says permission denied when I try to access. Any help? Just open /home/eric with konqueror and rightclick the directory you want to share, and go down to the bottom of the menu and select share. If you haven't configured filesharing yet (be it nfs or samba) you can click on configure filesharing button there or (if you have); click on the shared radio button. That's about it...it can't get much harder IMO;) About /var/www/html; I'm not so sure that's shareable in the nfs way, I useally restrict myself to /home/triade files for safety's sake. Well sharing home direcories won't help me. I need the html directory. -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setup NFS access?
On Sunday 07 November 2004 17:53, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 08 November 2004 00:32, Eric Scott wrote: Well sharing home direcories won't help me. I need the html directory. So what are you trying to share? /var/www/html sounds more like a webserver to mewhich could be reached by:http://adres_of_your_box_here:80; depending on what webserver software you're running, or from where you're connecting from if you've got a firewall..don't need any sharing there! Right, I'm trying to share the web server directory read/write for easy remote website editing. It seems like it'd be much more convenient over NFS than FTP or SCP. If you've got a better idea I'm open for tips. My I-net connection has like a 4k upload rate, and editing over SSH/VNC is starting to become a real chore. I just got FTP running though, which I will need for a few clients, and can live with it for the present, but as a web host administrator I'd like to have NFS access to the entire http server directory. Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Firewall Admin?
Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics. Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin?
On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics. Thanx, SigmaChi MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall Tick the box for FTP server Or if you want to learn about how the firewall works in depth, read the files in /etc/shorewall and visit www.shorewall.net derek Lol, I should of at least checked the control center before I posted. But anyway, my firewall is totally off. ProFTPD seems to be running smoothly... but not letting me access. Allow me to quote my previous post: quote Yo people. I've got a Mandrake Linux 9.2 server running ProFTP v1.28. I thought I had it all set up to run with anonymous FTP access (Using a sample /etc/proftpd.config from proftpd.org for now), and starting through xinetd... but apparently it isn't set up right, or at least it's not wanting to be just jiggy with me. Here's my setup and what happens when I try to access the ftp site: details My config file is a standard example (temporaraly) that can be found at http://proftpd.org/docs/configs/anonymous.conf After copying the above file in to /etc/proftpd.conf, I restarted xinetd. (I know next to nothing about xinetd or how to run proftpd under it, but for what it's worth, there's a 'proftpd-xinetd' file in /etc/xinetd.d/) Here's what gets my relatively-novice Linux mind boggled. Something seems to be running, but I only sorta get an ftp connection when the client connects: At this point 'netstat -a | grep ftp' gives: tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN Seems chipper, from what I can gather from the limited proftpd howtos I've found. When I start to connect with a client and do netstat I get (domains are aliased): tcp0 0 [MyDomain]:ftp [ClientDomain] ESTABLISHED The client says Connected to [MyDomain] ([MyIP]) A few seconds later it goes: 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection /details Now this is probably way too much of the wrong info needed to solve my problem, which I suspect is relatively simple. I'm obviously new to FTP and fairly new to Linux; but I need this FTP server up and (eventually) configured to my requirements. any help? /quote I'm starting to get pretty frustrated with this. Couldn't I just skip the newbie part and know everything? I'll probably show up this weekend asking how to get a POP3 server up, so if you have any pre-emptive tips fire away. Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin?
On Friday 05 November 2004 11:52, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics. Thanx, SigmaChi MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall Tick the box for FTP server Or if you want to learn about how the firewall works in depth, read the files in /etc/shorewall and visit www.shorewall.net derek Lol, I should of at least checked the control center before I posted. But anyway, my firewall is totally off. ProFTPD seems to be running smoothly... but not letting me access. Allow me to quote my previous post: quote Yo people. I've got a Mandrake Linux 9.2 server running ProFTP v1.28. I thought I had it all set up to run with anonymous FTP access (Using a sample /etc/proftpd.config from proftpd.org for now), and starting through xinetd... but apparently it isn't set up right, or at least it's not wanting to be just jiggy with me. Here's my setup and what happens when I try to access the ftp site: details My config file is a standard example (temporaraly) that can be found at http://proftpd.org/docs/configs/anonymous.conf After copying the above file in to /etc/proftpd.conf, I restarted xinetd. (I know next to nothing about xinetd or how to run proftpd under it, but for what it's worth, there's a 'proftpd-xinetd' file in /etc/xinetd.d/) Here's what gets my relatively-novice Linux mind boggled. Something seems to be running, but I only sorta get an ftp connection when the client connects: At this point 'netstat -a | grep ftp' gives: tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN Seems chipper, from what I can gather from the limited proftpd howtos I've found. When I start to connect with a client and do netstat I get (domains are aliased): tcp0 0 [MyDomain]:ftp [ClientDomain] ESTABLISHED The client says Connected to [MyDomain] ([MyIP]) A few seconds later it goes: 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection /details Now this is probably way too much of the wrong info needed to solve my problem, which I suspect is relatively simple. I'm obviously new to FTP and fairly new to Linux; but I need this FTP server up and (eventually) configured to my requirements. any help? /quote I'm starting to get pretty frustrated with this. Couldn't I just skip the newbie part and know everything? I'll probably show up this weekend asking how to get a POP3 server up, so if you have any pre-emptive tips fire away. Thanx, ES Chech you log files - the messages generated when you try to connect should be helpful. It may be that xinetd is listening because of the proftpd-xinetd file. If so, and the path to proftpd is wrong, you will get this kind of response. You will also get it if proftpd is not configured properly. You could also be running into a problem because of /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. A lot of daemons check these files to see if the system trying to connect is allowed to use the service. Everything run through xinetd is subject to these rules. But the error message doesn't really indicate this problem. In any case, it is not a firewall problem right now, because you do connect, but the connection is dropped afterworlds. Mikkel Aha! Would it be because my /etc/proftpd.conf file has severtype set to standalone? What to I replace standalone with to tell it to work through xinetd? just inetd or xinetd? thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] POP3 on 9.2?
Okay, so I gotta get a POP3 server on my MDK 9.2 box. Any suggestions on what I should use? I need something simple; I've never run a mail server before. And, at that, how do I set it up? Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin?
On Friday 05 November 2004 12:13, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 17:43, Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics. Thanx, SigmaChi MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall Tick the box for FTP server Or if you want to learn about how the firewall works in depth, read the files in /etc/shorewall and visit www.shorewall.net derek Lol, I should of at least checked the control center before I posted. But anyway, my firewall is totally off. ProFTPD seems to be running smoothly... but not letting me access. Allow me to quote my previous post: quote Yo people. I've got a Mandrake Linux 9.2 server running ProFTP v1.28. I thought I had it all set up to run with anonymous FTP access (Using a sample /etc/proftpd.config from proftpd.org for now), and starting through SNIP The newbie way of getting proFTP to work is to uninstall proFTP and remove the config file you are using, then install the drakwizard package and Mandrake Control Centre will have a new 'Server' section. It will reinstall and configure proFTP for you. derek Sounds dandy... but there's no cd drive in the system, and it's five miles away at the moment. (I'm using tightvnc/ssh/webmin to admin it) Anyplace I could download and install the same packages and config software? Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin? - wandering on to proFTP and ssh
On Friday 05 November 2004 12:51, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 18:32, Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 12:13, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 17:43, Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics. Thanx, SigmaChi MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall Tick the box for FTP server Or if you want to learn about how the firewall works in depth, read the files in /etc/shorewall and visit www.shorewall.net derek Lol, I should of at least checked the control center before I posted. But anyway, my firewall is totally off. ProFTPD seems to be running smoothly... but not letting me access. Allow me to quote my previous post: quote Yo people. I've got a Mandrake Linux 9.2 server running ProFTP v1.28. I thought I had it all set up to run with anonymous FTP access (Using a sample /etc/proftpd.config from proftpd.org for now), and starting through SNIP The newbie way of getting proFTP to work is to uninstall proFTP and remove the config file you are using, then install the drakwizard package and Mandrake Control Centre will have a new 'Server' section. It will reinstall and configure proFTP for you. derek Sounds dandy... but there's no cd drive in the system, and it's five miles away at the moment. (I'm using tightvnc/ssh/webmin to admin it) Anyplace I could download and install the same packages and config software? Thanx, ES Go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ declare a urpmi source for 'main' and 'contrib' and you will never be asked for a CD. It will get everything off the net. derek Well I did what you said and got it reinstalled. I installed everything that came up when I searched for proftp, but there's still no server section in the control center. I installed gproftpd, but it only works for standalone, and I'd prefer to run it via xinetd (Which is the default setup.) I've found enough howto's that I might be able to dig and and config it manually via the /etc/proftpd.conf file... maybe :-P. One plus: I know the server works now. lol; in konqueror when I go to ftp://[mydomain] it logs in and gives me an empty directory with a pub folder... it's a start. Anyway, do you know the package for the proftp server config module you mentioned? Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin? - wandering on to proFTP and ssh
Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics. Thanx, SigmaChi MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall Tick the box for FTP server Or if you want to learn about how the firewall works in depth, read the files in /etc/shorewall and visit www.shorewall.net derek Lol, I should of at least checked the control center before I posted. But anyway, my firewall is totally off. ProFTPD seems to be running smoothly... but not letting me access. Allow me to quote my previous post: quote Yo people. I've got a Mandrake Linux 9.2 server running ProFTP v1.28. I thought I had it all set up to run with anonymous FTP access (Using a sample /etc/proftpd.config from proftpd.org for now), and starting through SNIP The newbie way of getting proFTP to work is to uninstall proFTP and remove the config file you are using, then install the drakwizard package and Mandrake Control Centre will have a new 'Server' section. It will reinstall and configure proFTP for you. derek Sounds dandy... but there's no cd drive in the system, and it's five miles away at the moment. (I'm using tightvnc/ssh/webmin to admin it) Anyplace I could download and install the same packages and config software? Thanx, ES Go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ declare a urpmi source for 'main' and 'contrib' and you will never be asked for a CD. It will get everything off the net. derek Well I did what you said and got it reinstalled. I installed everything that came up when I searched for proftp, but there's still no server section in the control center. I installed gproftpd, but it only works for standalone, and I'd prefer to run it via xinetd (Which is the default setup.) I've found enough howto's that I might be able to dig and and config it manually via the /etc/proftpd.conf file... maybe :-P. One plus: I know the server works now. lol; in konqueror when I go to ftp://[mydomain] it logs in and gives me an empty directory with a pub folder... it's a start. Anyway, do you know the package for the proftp server config module you mentioned? Thanx, SigmaChi Hold up. Reinstalling proftpd got me a default that worked... supposedly... but then why does it say 220 (vsFTPd 2.0.1) when I ftp into my domain. lol. Gee wizzle this is getting confusing. Here I thought I was dealing with proFTP, and now there's vsFTP... which I didn't even remember I installed. Anyway; since it's already running... where's the vsFTPd config file? lol. Sigma -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] ProFTPD not Jiggy
Yo people. I've got a Mandrake Linux 9.2 server running ProFTP v1.28. I thought I had it all set up to run with anonymous FTP access (Using a sample /etc/proftpd.config from proftpd.org for now), and starting through xinetd... but apparently it isn't set up right, or at least it's not wanting to be just jiggy with me. Here's my setup and what happens when I try to access the ftp site: details My config file is a standard example (temporaraly) that can be found at http://proftpd.org/docs/configs/anonymous.conf After copying the above file in to /etc/proftpd.conf, I restarted xinetd. (I know next to nothing about xinetd or how to run proftpd under it, but for what it's worth, there's a 'proftpd-xinetd' file in /etc/xinetd.d/) Here's what gets my relatively-novice Linux mind boggled. Something seems to be running, but I only sorta get an ftp connection when the client connects: At this point 'netstat -a | grep ftp' gives: tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN Seems chipper, from what I can gather from the limited proftpd howtos I've found. When I start to connect with a client and do netstat I get (domains are aliased): tcp0 0 [MyDomain]:ftp [ClientDomain] ESTABLISHED The client says Connected to [MyDomain] ([MyIP]) A few seconds later it goes: 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection /details Now this is probably way too much of the wrong info needed to solve my problem, which I suspect is relatively simple. I'm obviously new to FTP and fairly new to Linux; but I need this FTP server up and (eventually) configured to my requirements. any help? Thanx, SigmaChi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] ProFTPD?
Heya. I have a server at work running Mandrake 9.2. I'm administering it remotely through webmin/vnc/ssh and all that fun stuff. Here's the problem: I want to set up my /var/www/html directory with limited FTP access. I can't figure out or find howtos on the webmin module for proftpd, and apparently I don't know how to work the /etc/proftp.conf file because the changes I make seem to make no difference. Can anybodye give me a basic howto to set this up? I'm not a very experienced linux user or server admin, so don't get to techy on me. :-) Thanx, ES PS: My thanx to this list, if it weren't for you guys I probably never would have gotten familiar enough with linux to use it as a server. Either that or I'd be trying SuSE or something over Mandrake right now. :-\ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OpenGroupware
job is to evaluate the possible solutions out there, and to define an easy installation and procedural process for any new products we take on. If I can't install it for testing purposes, I'm not going to consider it as a viable option. If my developers can't get it to work, then it's not going to be easy for my technical or sales staff to sell or maintain. That is what will hurt Linux and O-S software in the long run. The inability for the general consumers to try it for themselves before buying it. Plain and simple. The fact that OGO is either missing a clear and precise installation document or simply doesn't work without some significant step that seems to be missing, means it's not quite there yet. End of story. Yeah, I got that point, however I still don't understand this lack of trying the Live-CD. You really need to clear that up for me. Looks like your two cents turned out to be wooden nickels Bryan. There was NO reason to be insulting or demeaning in your reply. I asked for help not for judgments. Well, I will grant that you asked for help the first time out. The second time, however, I disagree. You were making judgements and I just reflected those back at you. Perhaps you should reconsider your comments. Okay, done. I stand by what I said. If you think that Linux will die if only it doesn't fulfill what you have stated that it needs to do, which if I read correctly, is to replace Microsoft in all things, then I disagree and think that you are misguided at best and dangerous to my own vision of what I want at worst. If I thought that the powers that be were going to take your counsel and trod down that path, I would immediately begin looking for some other OS that would stick with technical excellence and free as in speech, as the primary goals with quality, security, features, performance, and ease of use coming in dead last. I deal in the real world, and it would be nice if you did too. Well, I do. I work in the software world and have to deal with the problems caused by monolithic software structures centered around ease of use. Linux has put a jump in my step and a sparkle in my eye that was almost squashed out by having to deal with people convinced that they could be stupid because the software they used encouraged it. I am not eager to go back down that road again. I would rather raise sheep. We're in for a hell of a fight against the Big Bad in Redmond, and it would be nice if we could stop fighting amongst ourselves before we try to take them on. MS may be fighting us but we are NOT fighting them. And discourse and disagreements, vigorously discussed makes us stronger, not weaker. If you go along to get along, you won't get very far at all. No matter how good linux is or will become, it won't make a bit of difference if the community as a whole is constantly at odds with each other. Like the saying goes,... if you're not part of the solutions, you're part of the problem. Well, we seem to both be pointing back at the other and saying that you are the problem. I guess that goes with the territory. -- Scott R. Rineer M.C.S.A., M.C.S.E Network Administrator STABLER COMPANIES INC. 635 Lucknow Road Harrisburg, PA, USA 17110 Phone (717) 236-9307 X 248 Mobile (717) 571-9369 Fax (717) 236-1281 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stablercompaniesinc.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OpenGroupware
and I have an incentive to make you happy. Give me nothing, and my only incentive is what makes me happy. If that also makes you happy, then great, if not, oh well. IMHO, many Microsoft users and admins who consider switching from Windows to Linux in a production environment are going to expect software to install a bit easier than OGO does. And, IMHO, if they expect it to work the same, they should BUY a copy of a distribution from Mandrake, Red Hat, IBM, Novell, etc. and pay for support to get it properly installed and configured or expect to learn how to do it themselves. Why is the bar for Linux immediately higher than for MS, Unix, Apple? All of those products cost money and have RD put into them supported by their customers, one way or another. With Linux, you have to put something into it as well. Besides bitching/griping because if that were the same as currency, Linus would own the world by now. There is no such thing as a free lunch. And that is not a poor reflection on Linux/OS, it is merely the reality of the world that Linux/OS resides in. Considering that the script has to be run as root, and considering that Linux is a lot more powerful and flexible in what it can do, these problems shouldn't exist. Pray tell why not? I can buy a commercial software product in the Windows world and have it fail to do something that I need it to do. Why would Linux be any different? I can buy a commercial product for Windows and have the installation fail because of conflicts with some other software in my environment. Again, why would Linux be any different? My only recourse is to return the software and get my money back. How is Linux any different? Linux is more powerful, flexible and that is why the problems exist. Because the power and flexibility are partly a product of it not being a monolithic, closed environment where everything is the same and controlled and can be depended upon to be the same. You say flexibility, they say uncertainty. It is, in reality, the same animal. It is both a boon and a curse. It creates problems and can be used to solve problems as well. Give me a small, simple tool that requires no other components, software and I can write an installation script that I guarantee will work on any Linux platform in the world without any problem at all. Make the project more complex, tie in other dependencies and you increase the potential problems exponentially. Also, the comercial version apparently has properly built scripts that set up a fully functional install so it seems strange that a modified version of that script isn't included with the GPL'ed version. G. Again. Gee, a company spent some time and effort to do something, invested their energy,effort, resources and want compensation for it. So what? GPL says that source is available when you use other GPL software. They have made source available. Their install scripts do NOT include GPL software so they are not REQUIRED to release it to the public. Do you have some other copy of the GPL that says that an OS developer becomes an indentured servant to you by virtue of you wanting his product? Perhaps you know something that I don't. Are you being paid to spread FUD for proprietary software companies? Because from my POV, it sounds an awful lot like the same old story. Just my 2 cents. And mine. -- Scott R. Rineer M.C.S.A., M.C.S.E Network Administrator STABLER COMPANIES INC. 635 Lucknow Road Harrisburg, PA, USA 17110 Phone (717) 236-9307 X 248 Mobile (717) 571-9369 Fax (717) 236-1281 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stablercompaniesinc.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 community on bittorrent = slow
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:15:53 -0600, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote On September 18, 2004 15:18, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2004 14:02, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2004 12:57 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2004 12:35, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 13:16, Dennis Myers wrote: Is anyone else d/ling the 10.1 community on bt? I have discs 4 and 5 very quickly but the CD1-3 torrent is very slow. At best I get 10kbs. I have checked all the settings and do not know what to do to make it d/l faster. Any suggestions? TIA for your recommendations. Doing the same and getting the same. I've got the proper ports opened up and AFAIK the configuration is correct. Similar 10.0.2 download was 80k or better on average. I don't know how to fix. LX Dont use torrent??? Good suggestion, but I have not found the mirrors with just the iso's and thus bittorrent is the only way at the moment. I usually have had very fast response on bittorrent. : P I haven't tried bittorrent because I'v seen too many complaints like yours. Somehow its not ready for prime time. The problem with bt is just the number of others that have it running on the same torrent. It kind of works opposite to regular downloading. With a regular d/l, where everyone is hitting the same server, the more users, the slower it gets. But with bt, the more users the faster it gets. I got pretty good speed out of bt for 10.1C, but maybe it was just my timing. I left it running for a while to help out others who were downloading, but I needed the disk space, so I had to burn them and delete them. When I'm done some repartitioning, I'll put them back and restart bt. If everyone with a high speed connection leaves their bt running even after the d/l is finished, it will help out others, at a modest cost in bandwidth consumed. Even if you don't plan to use 10.1C immediately, if you have the bandwidth and the disk space, d/w with bt, and you'll help out others. Or... The ISOs could be distributed to many more reliable mirrors where highband width is a planned feature easily accomodated. Then we wouldn't have to all be pointed at the same mirror fighting for access or waiting on 30 dial-up bt users with an expected completion time of 300 hrs. Let the mirrors use bt to update, I believe that would suit their model best. As for the rest of us, the best case bt scenario is exactly equal to a good mirror, where as the worst case is simply laughable. I don't see that as progress, just an excuse for mirrors to shrug their responsibility. What Mandrake really needs is a centrally managed mirror list that ACTIVELY checks the status of other mirrors, listing only those that are up and properly organized. It should be a no brainer to register your mirror with Mandrake and likewise have your mirror checked for consistency automatically to be listed. Heck, do away with the whole urpmi/easyurpmi media snafu all together and dynamically pick the mirror with the least overload for every update. That would easily free up the mirrors of the world and redistribute plenty of bandwidth. Of course, that's just my opinion (slow day)... Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 19:04, Carroll Grigsby wrote: For all of us anti-MS folks, here's Bob Cringely's latest: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040916.html -- cmg Lol, ranks right up there with freeyourmachine.org, only this stuff's logical instead of the ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. This link is... um... the logical, reasonable, believable ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. From a fellow anit-MS folk, ES -- Sent from a proudly owned Pentium One computer running Mandrake Linux 9.1 (A good use for an old box) To mess up a Linux box, you have to work at it; To mess up a Windows box, you just have to work on it. If we stop voting for them, will they go away? Registered Linux User #366862 Registered Linux Computer #261856 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] TightVNC Server... wassup??
Yo; I have TightVNC running on a Mandrake 9.1 box on a network with several Windows NT based computers. I've figured out how to get vncserver running... and have it running on display 2. When I access it from the remote computer, however, it starts to load the KDE desktop... then the taksbar disappears, the cursor switches to the loading (watch) icon, and it stalls. any help? Thanx, ES Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 21:19, JoeHill wrote: On 20 Sep 2004 14:34:45 -0500 Eric Scott disseminated the following: Lol, ranks right up there with freeyourmachine.org, only this stuff's logical instead of the ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. This link is... um... the logical, reasonable, believable ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. Thanks for the positive feedback. I'm really glad you joined our little group here. Now fuck off. Lol, don't worry, I was already considering trying out debian on the server I'm about to buy, in which case you won't have to deal with me on your little group list any longer - 'cept when I need to deal with this box. :-P God Bless, Sc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT Basic C/MySQL error?
I'm exploring basic C/C++ programming in accessing MySQL server. I'd
prefer PostgreSQL in C++, but the only tutorial/example I found easily
was MySQL in C. I know very little about C/C++ or SQL; just barely
enough that I see a little more than jibberish... I see intelligent
jibberish. :-P I'm running MySQL and KDevelop on a Mandrake 9.1 box. I
know this is quite off topic, but I figured I'd try it on this awesome
list anyway. :-P Anywho, this is the example I found:
code sample
#include ltmysql/mysql.h
#include ltstdio.h
int main(){
MYSQL mysql;
MYSQL_ROW row;
MYSQL_RES *result;
unsigned int num_fields;
unsigned int i;
mysql_init(mysql);
if
(!mysql_real_connect(mysql,localhost,root,,MyDatabase,0,NULL,0))
{
fprintf(stderr, Failed to connect to database: Error: %s\n,
mysql_error(mysql));
}
else {
if(mysql_query(mysql, SELECT * FROM my_table));
//here goes the error message :o)
else {
result = mysql_store_result(mysql);
num_fields = mysql_num_fields(result);
while ((row = mysql_fetch_row(result)))
{
unsigned long *lengths;
lengths = mysql_fetch_lengths(result);
for(i = 0; i num_fields; i++)
{
printf([%.*s] \t, (int) lengths[i], row[i] ?
row[i] : NULL);
}
printf(\n);
}
}
}
return 0;
}
/code sample
I replaced the MyDatable, My_table and root password sections with
data specific to my server. Keep in mind that I'm newbie to about
everything SQL/Linux/C/C++. On compiling I get hundreds of lines of
stray '\240' in program intermingled with other various errors, and
the build fails. Anyone have a clue whats up?
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[newbie] Domain access wtih Samba?
Yo; I use Samba to connect my Mandrake 9.1 box to my Windows 2000 Server box. The Wintel Server has a domain network setup... can I join this via Samba? Or maybe from some other program; I'm just familiar with Samba. It really makes no difference in efficiency or other, ask LinNeighborhood makes access to the remote domain as easy as to the local workgroup, I'm just tired of having my two different computers listed under seperate workgroups. thanx, ES -- Sent from a proudly owned Pentium One computer running Mandrake Linux 9.1 (A good use for an old box) To mess up a Linux box, you have to work at it; To mess up a Windows box, you just have to work on it. If we stop voting for them, will they go away? Registered Linux User #366862 Registered Linux Computer #261856 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10 and 10.1 mouse driver
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 04:18:09 +, Lee Wiggers wrote Hello list Recently my test box in 10.0 Official noted new hardware on boot. With vast stupidity, I followed along and it changed my mouse driver. The mouse hiccups and goes into fits when I kvm to another box and back. I saw it as an opportunity and reformatted, then installed the new 10.1. It does the same thing. I swapped the kvm outputs with another box to make sure it was not a hardware problem (Belkin Omni-view with perfect track record). It is most definitely a mdk thing. Anyone have a suggestion or experiencing the same problem? I have not had satisfactory performance since 9.2 and, frankly, I'm growing weary. My mouse kvm problems usually end with a switch to a USB keyboard and mouse (KVM with USB connections). Different Kernel versions just seem to have some aversion to mice on KVM switches. IMHO it's entirely an Linux Kernel bug that should have been put to rest a long time ago. My final solution was an inexpensive PS2-to-USB adapter cable to make all my keyboard/mouse problems USB problems. Seems USB mice just don't suffer from the same confusion. Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...
On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 01:06, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 12:06, Eric Scott wrote: You have been paying too much attention to CBS the like we still havent given up to the neocomms. I know how you feel, as I had just about the same view a year or so ago. But I've found that if you give it a second chance... and turn a blind eye to the political corruption... America really isn't all that bad. We've got plenty of flaws, PLENTY, but all the same America is still the greatest and, relatively, one of the free-est contries on earth, and I'm sticking with it. If all else fails we can all move to Scotland. Cheers, ES Thanks for the complement, Eric. You should join us on the MandrakeOT mailing list. You've got a uk addy though. Are you not in the states? LX Lol, I'm in little ol' Hicksville USA (Illinois). I just happened to find a good pop server in the UK, and am also into my Scottish roots. :-P MandrakeOT list,huh? Sounds really... um... OT. lol. ES -- Sent from a proudly owned Pentium One computer running Mandrake Linux 9.1 (A good use for an old box) To mess up a Linux box, you have to work at it; To mess up a Windows box, you just have to work on it. If we stop voting for them, will they go away? Registered Linux User #366862 Registered Linux Computer #261856 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Good, Intuitive developement platform?
Yo; Though I'm not a proficient or experience developer, I like to tinker with code every now and then and learn what I can. What are some of the best development environments can I run on my Mandrake 9.1 box that have something like the intuitiveness of KDevelop and something in the neighborhood, or at least the same state, as Visual Studio .net? Thanx, ES -- Sent from a proudly owned Pentium One computer running Mandrake Linux 9.1 (A good use for an old box) To mess up a Linux box, you have to work at it; To mess up a Windows box, you just have to work on it. If we stop voting for them, will they go away? Registered Linux User #366862 Registered Linux Computer #261856 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:42:51 -0400, JoeHill wrote Well, I guess it depends on how you define 'country', at least to me. If you mean the people around you, that you live with and work with, and all the people that share your goals and values, basic to most of us, like 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (of course, in Canada it's: 'Life, Liberty, and the Security of the Person'...typical vague and somehow disturbing Canadian shite), then of course no one would disavow their country, IMO. Look Joe, if you want to raise your flag and shout it from the mountains more power to you. But if you feel you have to start dissing Canada to do it you're going to find yourself on the filtered end of many null buckets. Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Web hosting 101...
Yo. I'm done some experimenting with web hosting, but I'm really quite new at it. I have a little home network with a single static IP. The internet server (Windows 2000 Server... I'd prefer a Mandrake box, but anyway) is the only computer with the static IP. I also have an ol' Mandrake 9.1 box attatched. My experience is really close to null; what I'd like to know is this: is it possible, basically, to host a website on the Mandrake box and have it easily acessable to the web? I know that the Win2k box is up to it, IIS's http ftp servers work without flaw, but is there any way that I can route a domain to the Mandrake box that doesn't have an Internat IP? sure, it's got a local IP, but that doesn't do much good. Thanx, ES -- If we stop voting for them, will they go away? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Web hosting 101...
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 23:57, frankieh wrote: Eric Scott wrote: Yo. I'm done some experimenting with web hosting, but I'm really quite new at it. I have a little home network with a single static IP. The internet server (Windows 2000 Server... I'd prefer a Mandrake box, but anyway) is the only computer with the static IP. I also have an ol' Mandrake 9.1 box attatched. My experience is really close to null; what I'd like to know is this: is it possible, basically, to host a website on the Mandrake box and have it easily acessable to the web? I know that the Win2k box is up to it, IIS's http ftp servers work without flaw, but is there any way that I can route a domain to the Mandrake box that doesn't have an Internat IP? sure, it's got a local IP, but that doesn't do much good. Thanx, ES -- If we stop voting for them, will they go away? Yes you can, all you need to do is port forward port 80 on the windows box to port 80 on the internal IP of the mandrake box. I haven't used 2000 in a while, but I did once use it that way, and right clicking on the network interface in question and selecting properties is how to find the place to set the port forward. I'd imagine google would be quite handy if you can't find it yourself. Okie day, seems simple enough. I found some basic how-to's via google, and supposedly got port 80 forwarded to my Linux box's IP. Problem is it seems to make no difference. supposedly I should just be able to go to http://[my.internet.ip]:80/index.shtml or whatever and get apache... right? I know apache is working okay because I can go to http://[my.local.ip]/index.shtml and it pops up with it's placeholder. what am I not doing? Thanx, ES -- Sent from a proudly owned Pentium One computer running Mandrake Linux 9.1 (A good use for an old box) To mess up a Linux box, you have to work at it; To mess up a Windows box, you just have to work on it. If we stop voting for them, will they go away? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] VS.net SQL clones?
Heya, I am just now making the switch from Windows to Mandrake 9.1 as my primary operating system. Really the only two things that I'm missing from Windows are Visual Studio .net and SQL server. What are the advantages and disadvantages of MySQL/PostgreSQL or any others over MS SQL Server 2000? And what's the closest developement tool I can get to the power of Visual Studio? I'm not a professional developer, but I still need both of these for some odd jobs I'm doing, so your feedback is appreciated. Thanx, ES Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Format NTFS?
On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 14:38, Vincent Voois wrote: Eric Scott wrote: Anybody know of a program that will let me format a given partition as NTFS? Fat32 might do it, I don't know. I'm trying to deal with a faulty Windows installation, and as I'm sure you know, Windows' installer/rescue is the worst on earth. No joke. Anyway, it wants me to have a Windows 2000 compatable partition on hda for (I assume) it's bootloader process, even though I'm installing on hdb. Windows installer tells me to make a Win2k compatable partition on hda, but doesn't provide me with the resources to do so. (The diskdrake thingy in MDK control center doesn't create a valid FAT partition, which is why I need another) FAT16 and FAT32 are also Windows 2000 compatible partitions :P Try fdisk. It was my problem; I forgot to hit the format button in MDK control center, and therefore Windows couldn't recognize the unformatted FAT partitions that I had defined. Oops :-P It's alright though, 'cause the Windows Setup I was trying to use killed the disk somehow... problems over. When there's no disk to format you don't have much of a problem formatting. :-P thanx, ES __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can only run mozilla as root
On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 07:16, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 03 September 2004 04:18 pm, Scott Wagner wrote: Hi I downloaded mozilla RPMs on my daughter's computer into her /home directory and installed them with rpmdrake. libnspr4-1.6-12mdk.i586 libnss3-1.6-12mdk.i586 mailcap-2.0.4-12mdk.noarch mozilla-1.6-12mdk.i586 I can only start the browser from the konsole if I su to root. The permissions of the executable are, ls -l /usr/bin/mozilla -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6603 Mar 22 11:14 /usr/bin/mozilla* the same as on my box, where it runs properly. I can't think of any reason why it shouldn't run. Cheers, Scott I finally fixed mozilla in my case the problem was in my home directory in the file .mozilla try 'ls -la .mozilla and see what the permissions are, also you might want want to rm /root/.mozilla. Luck! Thanks Hoyt, that was it. Cheers, Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Can only run mozilla as root
Hi I downloaded mozilla RPMs on my daughter's computer into her /home directory and installed them with rpmdrake. libnspr4-1.6-12mdk.i586 libnss3-1.6-12mdk.i586 mailcap-2.0.4-12mdk.noarch mozilla-1.6-12mdk.i586 I can only start the browser from the konsole if I su to root. The permissions of the executable are, ls -l /usr/bin/mozilla -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6603 Mar 22 11:14 /usr/bin/mozilla* the same as on my box, where it runs properly. I can't think of any reason why it shouldn't run. Cheers, Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] wireless card for M10
Can someone recommend a wireless PCI card that works with Mandrake 10? I'm using an 802.11b AP but would consider getting a 802.11g card in anticipation of upgrading later -- as long as it's backward compatible. Thanks, SW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] rescue disk probs
Hello I'm trying to use my 10.0 rescue disk to re-write lilo in hda. The problem is I have an improperly named kernel image in /etc/lilo.conf, so the rewrite fails whenit runs "lilo". I don't seem to be able to open lilo.conf with vi to change it from the rescue console though. I just get an empty new /etc/lilo.conf file, and ls /etc doesn't show a lilo.conf file (or a bunch of others either). How can I fix the file? Cheers, SW
[newbie] rescue disk probs
Thanks, I'm back in Mandrake. I did # mkdir /mnt/tmp and then # mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/tmp and then found /etc/lilo.conf at /mnt/tmp/etc/lilo.conf Vi was acting a little sickly, but I was able to delete the bad stanza. Thanks all, SW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] DHCP Server
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 07:14:20 +1000, Stephen Kühn wrote On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 09:00, Bill Shirley wrote: You should be seeing messages in /var/log/syslog like: Aug 8 15:32:20 server1 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:d0:09:f4:49:37 via eth0 Aug 8 15:32:21 server1 dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.128.126 to 00:d0:09:f4:49:37 (LAB4) via eth0 Can you post your /etc/dhcpd.conf file? What IP address range are you wanting to serve? Which ethernet card is it, eth0? The lease file is /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases. HTH, Bill I ended up giving up on it; since it didn't show up in webmin, and since I couldn't get it running in five minutes or less, I gave up. It wasn't that important to me, I just wanted to make it easier to have client's machines snag an IP without setting a static one. No big worries. Really does get on my nerves, though, that it didn't play nicely with webmin...which is supposed to reflect a standard... I've had no problem setting up a dhcpd server, and it shows up nicely in webmin. Out of the box, the default settings should work without further tweaking. Are you sure the dhcpd server package is really installed? Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFree or Xorg?
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 07:13:33 -0400, Lanman wrote Scott Mazur wrote: On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:19:19 -0400, Lanman wrote Can someone provide info regarding switching from XFree86 to Xorg? I've been trying for day to get it working properly, and I'm still stumped. I'm running an ATI Radeon 9200SE AGP video card with 128MB onboard ram. XFree86 is installed and running, but I can't find the DRI module anywhere. It seems that without that module, I'm not going to get OpenGL to work. At the same time, Xorg running on another box, driving an NVidia card is detecting the card properly and loading the proper OpenGL driver module. Even so, Xorg refuses to give me OpenGL on the ATI card, and the drivers at ATI's site don't seem to be usable with XFree86-4.4.0 . Which version of which system should I be running on mandrake 10.0 Official that will allow me to finally get OpenGL working? Also, if I migrate to Xorg, is there a new config file to set up, and if so, what's the procedure? I'm getting a little peeved at running a Vesa module for this card, and any help would be greatly appreciated. My eyes are turning into little brown wrinkled raisins! Lanman I have exactly that same card running under Xorg, with fully functioning acceleration. Switching to Xorg is a no brainer. Just install Xorg. I believe it replaces Xfree86 and creates links to the config file (uses the exact same config file, no changes). When you reboot, your x logs will look exactly the same, only you'll see Xorg, where you might have seen Xfree86. No extra kernel modules, no ATI kernels, no ATI drivers. Just stock MDK 10.0. Seems to me, the motherboard chipset may ultimately be a factor as different agp modules are needed for each (which has nothing to do with your ATI card), so your mileage may vary... Scott Scott; Thanks for the reply. Switching to Xorg didn't cut it at this end and I'm back to XFree86 and a basic (vesa) driver. SiS chipset on the board is detected and proper modules for it are loaded with no problems, but still No Joy on the ATI card. I've noticed that XFree86 doesn't get un-installed during install of Xorg, and due to that, I can still recover to XFree86 when Xorg coughs up a big wet nasty hairball. The transition to Xorg (IMHO) isn't all it's cracked up to be, since it seems to be incomplete. So far, Mandrake Control Center doesn't see Xorg, or provide a GUI to configure it, and it probably won't change that until Mandrake makes a point of dropping Xfree86, and revising their tools for Xorg. I hear that this is in the works with most of the major distro's, and some have already made the switch, but Mandrake's not there yet. Actually, MCC handles Xorg just fine, since it uses the same config file and format. The only thing that would make the switch total is changing the text wording from Xfree86 to Xorg. It's probably a good idea to keep the Xorg and Xfree86 config files linked as there will likely be users using both for some reason or another for a long time to come. Just like keeping /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/modules.conf in sync (kernel 2.6 and 2.4 formats) even if you're only running one or the other kernel. I don't know how you managed to get Acceleration working without the driver modules from ATI, but then again, it wouldn't surprise me, since Xorg still has a bit of mystery about it, as far as I'm concerned. For instance, why write the output of xorgconfig to the xorg.conf if xorg is using the XF86Config-4 file? Why even mention it? It sounds like it's going to write the output to the file, and then you'll have to find out how to launch Xorg differently than how you launch XFree86. Well, technically, xorg isn't using XF86Config-4, it's using xorg.conf and if xorg is all you have installed then that's all it has to use. But since xorg (the mandrake rpm at least) is designed to work along side an existing Xfree86 setup, xorg.conf is a link to XF86Config-4 so both xorg and Xfree86 share the same config file. When the decision is made to officially drop XFree86 for good, then xorg.conf will become the main file and the XFree86 package (should you decide to install it) will probably be designed to link off the xorg config file rather than how it's done today. It's different, but once the initial shock wears off, it makes good sense :) The QA section of xorgconfig (which by the way did not identify my card properly) seems to skip past a few points which it says it wants to ask you about, and it moves on to the next section as if those questions never existed. I never used the xorgconfig command (never used the Xfree86 equivalent tool either). Just set things up through the MCC GUI tool. Now for the weird part. I had to run some tests on another distro (Fedora Core 2),the other day and during the start of the install it specifically identify my
Re: [newbie] XFree or Xorg?
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:19:19 -0400, Lanman wrote Can someone provide info regarding switching from XFree86 to Xorg? I've been trying for day to get it working properly, and I'm still stumped. I'm running an ATI Radeon 9200SE AGP video card with 128MB onboard ram. XFree86 is installed and running, but I can't find the DRI module anywhere. It seems that without that module, I'm not going to get OpenGL to work. At the same time, Xorg running on another box, driving an NVidia card is detecting the card properly and loading the proper OpenGL driver module. Even so, Xorg refuses to give me OpenGL on the ATI card, and the drivers at ATI's site don't seem to be usable with XFree86-4.4.0 . Which version of which system should I be running on mandrake 10.0 Official that will allow me to finally get OpenGL working? Also, if I migrate to Xorg, is there a new config file to set up, and if so, what's the procedure? I'm getting a little peeved at running a Vesa module for this card, and any help would be greatly appreciated. My eyes are turning into little brown wrinkled raisins! Lanman I have exactly that same card running under Xorg, with fully functioning acceleration. Switching to Xorg is a no brainer. Just install Xorg. I believe it replaces Xfree86 and creates links to the config file (uses the exact same config file, no changes). When you reboot, your x logs will look exactly the same, only you'll see Xorg, where you might have seen Xfree86. No extra kernel modules, no ATI kernels, no ATI drivers. Just stock MDK 10.0. Seems to me, the motherboard chipset may ultimately be a factor as different agp modules are needed for each (which has nothing to do with your ATI card), so your mileage may vary... Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] TV Card recommendation
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 13:47:56 -0400, Michael Adolf wrote I am ready to purchase a TV Card Requirements: Include cable ready tuner have s-video in/out accept antenna or cable PCI TVWin (TV-PVR-350) does everything I want. Is this the one to get. Any cheaper available. Recommendations?? PVR-350 contains an mpeg encoder and decoder hardware. In other words you can capture directly to an mpeg file and save a ton of processing power. Likewise you can send an mpeg file directly to the card and get video out. Again saving a ton of processing power. The catch is support. PVR-350 output is still bleeding edge. You won't easily find drivers for Mandrake. The encoder part (capture) is not so bleeding edge, but you'll still have trouble finding drivers for Mandrake. The 2.6 kernel support is still pretty fresh. You can get around the decoder (output) poor support with any number of graphic cards that have TV out. In that case the TV-PVR-250 is a cheaper option. It's exactly the same as the 350, but without the output. The PVR- 250 has been supported in the 2.4 kernel for some time now and near as I can tell, 2.6 kernel support is there too. (at least that's what I've been told, I'm still trying). You'll have to do your own leg work, it's not part of the Mandrake config tools. If you can stand living on the edge, the PVR-350 should be a nicely supported hardware before too long, but the card may sit not fully used until then. In theory, ATI TV Wonder (capture only) cards should be supported, but I've yet to produce proof of that. Stay away from ATI all-in-wonder cards (as I've learned). Win-TV GO cards are easily installed and supported well. Great if you're looking to get TV up on the monitor with a minum fuss (and they're relatively cheap). I never had much luck capturing anything to file (never tried very hard) but install and config is fully supported in Mdk. Other than these I can't comment. Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade and IPv6 default
On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 21:49:55 -0400, Ryan Steffes wrote This is possibly a dumb question or at least a question with not enough information, but I'm was trying to upgrade my kernel from the 2.6.3-7mdk rpm to the source 2.6.7 from kernel.org (with the -ck4 patch). The problem I'm having is that when I try to use it, it seems to insist on using IPV6, so it's not getting any IP address from my gateway. It ends up assigning some number to eth0 and then some bad number to eth0:9 and basically not working. Any clues? I had a similar problem moving from 2.6.3-7mdk to 2.6.3-14mdk (at least it appears similar). Eth0 would take forever to load (and eventually fail). Ifconfig looked like all the network interfaces were in IPV6 mode. My solution was to check the 'no acpi' box in the mcc boot config. Never spent any time looking into it beyond that, but I did notice that ifconfig reports IPV6 information even on a non IPV6 network. I suspect the nic hardware was just not being setup properly, and lacking a solid IPV4 ip address, ifconfig reported only the IPV6 info. Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD playing? :-\
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 17:22, PM wrote: On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 23:09, Eric Scott wrote: I recently reinstalled Mandrake Linux 9.1 on my good ol' Pentium 1 @ 233Mhz. It's an old computer, but it had a 40x12x48 CD RW drive. I have sound up and running fine (via sndconfig), but the CD player still doesn't play CDs. The counter runs and it does everything else it's supposed to do, except for actually spit out the sound. Anybody know how I can fix this? I'm pretty newbie so be basic. Thanx, ES It does have the cable between Cd sound card doesn't it? ooo; mwehe. I'm smart when I wanna be ;-) I'm sure I have it in a drawer somewhere... but I don't recall plugging it in when I replaced it's old crappy 4x drive. :-P Thanx! This list rocks even with *duh* stuff. lol ES Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD playing? :-\
Yeah. I thought I already had a cable... but I can't find it newhere :-S. It's wierd, under windows I can just plug into the headphone jack on the CD player and it'll go fine, but I still can't get sound to come out of it w/ KsCD. U know where I could download Totem or one of those things? I have 9.1 and don't dare to put anything too much more advanced on this ol' computer, it runs slow enough after choosing 9.1 over 8.2. :-P On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 17:40, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 06 July 2004 22:09, Eric Scott wrote: I recently reinstalled Mandrake Linux 9.1 on my good ol' Pentium 1 @ 233Mhz. It's an old computer, but it had a 40x12x48 CD RW drive. I have sound up and running fine (via sndconfig), but the CD player still doesn't play CDs. The counter runs and it does everything else it's supposed to do, except for actually spit out the sound. Anybody know how I can fix this? I'm pretty newbie so be basic. Thanx, ES If you use the KsCD player, it will need an audio cable from the drive to the soundcard/motherboard. In 10.0 one can use Totem, because it uses the IDE interface. However, i think XMMS and maybe Grip can be tweaked to use that as well. But without an analog cable KsCD is a no-go. An audio cable comes at around $ 1. Kaj Haulrich. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade and IPv6 default
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 09:43:12 -0600, Scott Mazur wrote On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 21:49:55 -0400, Ryan Steffes wrote This is possibly a dumb question or at least a question with not enough information, but I'm was trying to upgrade my kernel from the 2.6.3-7mdk rpm to the source 2.6.7 from kernel.org (with the -ck4 patch). The problem I'm having is that when I try to use it, it seems to insist on using IPV6, so it's not getting any IP address from my gateway. It ends up assigning some number to eth0 and then some bad number to eth0:9 and basically not working. Any clues? I had a similar problem moving from 2.6.3-7mdk to 2.6.3-14mdk (at least it appears similar). Eth0 would take forever to load (and eventually fail). Ifconfig looked like all the network interfaces were in IPV6 mode. My solution was to check the 'no acpi' box in the mcc boot config. Never spent any time looking into it beyond that, but I did notice that ifconfig reports IPV6 information even on a non IPV6 network. I suspect the nic hardware was just not being setup properly, and lacking a solid IPV4 ip address, ifconfig reported only the IPV6 info. Sorry, it was the 'Force no local APIC' box I checked, not acpi. Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD playing? :-\
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 22:13, Aron Smith wrote: On Tuesday 06 July 2004 01:49 pm, Eric Scott wrote: Yeah. I thought I already had a cable... but I can't find it newhere :-S. It's wierd, under windows I can just plug into the headphone jack on the CD player and it'll go fine, but I still can't get sound to come out of it w/ KsCD. U know where I could download Totem or one of those things? I have 9.1 and don't dare to put anything too much more advanced on this ol' computer, it runs slow enough after choosing 9.1 over 8.2. :-P On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 17:40, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 06 July 2004 22:09, Eric Scott wrote: I recently reinstalled Mandrake Linux 9.1 on my good ol' Pentium 1 @ 233Mhz. It's an old computer, but it had a 40x12x48 CD RW drive. I have sound up and running fine (via sndconfig), but the CD player still doesn't play CDs. The counter runs and it does everything else it's supposed to do, except for actually spit out the sound. Anybody know how I can fix this? I'm pretty newbie so be basic. Thanx, ES If you use the KsCD player, it will need an audio cable from the drive to the soundcard/motherboard. In 10.0 one can use Totem, because it uses the IDE interface. However, i think XMMS and maybe Grip can be tweaked to use that as well. But without an analog cable KsCD is a no-go. An audio cable comes at around $ 1. Kaj Haulrich. Open XMMS right click in the upper left corner.. A menu should drop down click on Visualization plugins Configure and activate the CD player plug-in (might as well activate the mp3 plug-in too . (you don't necessarily need the sound cable) Okie day. I think I follow so far... but I can't find anywhere where it will let me tell it to play via IDE. The plugins are all enabled by default. ?? __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Displaying certain resolution @ certain frequency
Yo; I have a Panasonic E15 monitor attatched to an old Pentium 1 box running Mandrake 9.1. The default setup in the Mandrake Control Center for this particular monitor doesn't function right, so I have it set at a generic 800x600 screen @ 60Hz, which is what it is... but to display 1024x768 (The max resolution) I have to display at 75Hz (Under Windows anyway), but it doesn't let me change it from 60Hz to 75Hz. The long and short of it is I wanna tell my computer to display 1024x768 at 75Hz, and I can't do that through the easy nifty little control center... so how can I? Thanx God Bless, ES Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] KDE scroll wheel flakey?
I'm experiencing a problem I've never seen on any of my other Mandrake boxes (9.2, 10.0CE upgraded from 9.2). This was a fresh install from scratch on a new box, then updated to the latest CE and x11.org. The mouse works perfectly except for one extremely annoying problem. When I scroll up in KDE (kfm) using the mouse wheel, the directory listings not only scroll up but over 4 or 5 chars as well. In otherwords, the horizontal scroll gadget at the bottom of the frame (if the content is wide enough to require it) jumps to center position every time I scroll up. I live and die by that scroll wheel, so this little quirk makes me just want to throw the mouse at the wall. It seems to affect only kfm, but I haven't confirmed that. The only KDE config option I can find for the scroll wheel is to set the number of lines to scroll. I haven't found anyplace where it might been possible to remap the up wheel movement to some other action. The problem has persisted through many KDE upgrades, and since this is a newly installed box, I can't even say if it the problem new or was there from the start. Any ideas if this is a KDE bug? x11.org bug? config problem? Anyone else experience this? Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:19:46 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12 24601004 3389416 19961900 15% /backup Cool! Someone else with a hankering for a backup partition. I partition every HD with at least one backup partion (usually mounted on /backup/hda, /backup/hdb, etc) and usually give it 50% of the disk space. This way it's at least big enough to save a copy of the entire working partitions (or a good supply incremental backups), although to be honest, 20g backup more than covers my needs. And more importantly, having a backup partition on two drives guarantees you won't be toasted should one drive fail. Just my personal preferences... I'm curious. What is the reasoning for splitting /boot at all? Why not simply leave it in the root / partition? I've always seen it suggested to be split into it's own partion, I just don't see the point. Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:06:27 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote On Monday 28 June 2004 11:42, Scott Mazur wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:19:46 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12 24601004 3389416 19961900 15% /backup Cool! Someone else with a hankering for a backup partition. I partition every HD with at least one backup partion (usually mounted on /backup/hda, /backup/hdb, etc) and usually give it 50% of the disk space. This way it's at least big enough to save a copy of the entire working partitions (or a good supply incremental backups), although to be honest, 20g backup more than covers my needs. And more importantly, having a backup partition on two drives guarantees you won't be toasted should one drive fail. Just my personal preferences... I'm curious. What is the reasoning for splitting /boot at all? Why not simply leave it in the root / partition? I've always seen it suggested to be split into it's own partion, I just don't see the point. Scott Cant answer that. I requested info about partitions and processed those into what I provided. No reason other than I didnt know enough to do it diffenently. The only reason for having a backup partition was because that was what was left over and I expected that to be cleared after transfer to cd-rw. It worked the first time and hasnt since. Now its too big for a single cd and I cant figure out how to get it on the cd without splitting some files and randomly placing the others, it would be a nightmare to restore when it exceeded 24gb. So it sounds like the /boot partition is a left over from the good old days and doesn't apply to anything even moderatly new anymore (died with the 10G limit?). I'm a big believer in backup up to HD (as opposed to burning disks or dumping to tape). First by backup up to a dedicated backup partition, and even better, syncing 2 backup partitions on separate drives, and even better better, syncing the backups to yet another computer (in case the entire box fries). Of course, I've also customized my full (and incremental) backup scripts to take care of everything nicely so backing up (and restoring) is very convienient. As another personal preference, I always create a single partition mounted as /system at 1g size. I use this partiton to keep custom scripts (like backup/recovery and setup), copies of config files, browser links, misc info, etc. It's just big enough to be useful without taking up to much space. It's my permanent storage area. Between installs and upgrades I can wipe every other partition (including /home) if I have to, without loosing all my own hard work. I'm also guaranteed that no other install/ugrade process will try to touch my stuff. Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:14:43 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote On Monday 28 June 2004 12:56, Scott Mazur wrote: As another personal preference, I always create a single partition mounted as /system at 1g size. I use this partiton to keep custom scripts (like backup/recovery and setup), copies of config files, browser links, misc info, etc. It's just big enough to be useful without taking up to much space. It's my permanent storage area. Between installs and upgrades I can wipe every other partition (including /home) if I have to, without loosing all my own hard work. I'm also guaranteed that no other install/ugrade process will try to touch my stuff. And when your HD goes to the happy hunting ground what then. The /system partition gets copied entirely to the /backup/hda partition, which in turn is copied directly to the /backup/hdb partition (second drive). /backup/hda is also copied entirely to a second box, which in turn keeps it safe by duplicating it on two drives. It's maybe excessive redundancy (and wasted disk space), but nothing short of my house burning down is ever going to knock out 4 drives in 2 boxes (knock on wood). And if my house burns down, well then I've got more things to worry about than the melted cdrom/tape backups I had sitting on the shelf. /system never really goes away ;) Actually the scripts I keep in /system are far more involved. They also catalogue users, installed RPMS, network settings and modify server config files (apache, named, nfs, postfix, shorewall, etc). In fact the /system directory (and a full /backup)is all I need to bring a blank box up to full running and configured status with the minumum fuss (the important stuff anyway). Makes upgrading a breeze (or at least repeatable). It's really nice to just click through the default install cdroms then let the scripts in /system take over (post-install) to install/configure the missing pieces to bring the machine back to my prefered settings. Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] CD burn verify
OK, so I downloaded the ISOs for Mandrake 10.0, and the MD5s all check out. I burned each one to CDROM without any reported problems, but I'm having a heck of a time trying to install on particular box I've got (crashes randomly at the point of installing software). This isn't the first time I've installed MDK 10.0 (network upgrade from 9.2), and I'm beginning to suspect the CD is corrupt so I googled for some method to compare the CD against the ISO, but came up with scratch. Is there an easy way to verify a burned CD against the original ISO? Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD burn verify
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:03:24 -0400, Marc Lijour wrote Le June 18, 2004 03:47 pm, Scott Mazur a écrit : OK, so I downloaded the ISOs for Mandrake 10.0, and the MD5s all check out. I burned each one to CDROM without any reported problems, but I'm having a heck of a time trying to install on particular box I've got (crashes randomly at the point of installing software). This isn't the first time I've installed MDK 10.0 (network upgrade from 9.2), and I'm beginning to suspect the CD is corrupt so I googled for some method to compare the CD against the ISO, but came up with scratch. Is there an easy way to verify a burned CD against the original ISO? k3b has an option check and it calculates the md5sum. Ya, sure if you want to burn a new CD. Unfortunately, that does nothing to verify an previously burned CD. Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD burn verify
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:04:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote Is there an easy way to verify a burned CD against the original ISO? dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 | md5sum Without the bs option, it will still work, but it will generate a read error at the end of most CDs... Thanks! That was the ticket. The burned MD5 matched the ISO MD5, so at least my burner is working fine. Only now I've got to find out what the problem is with the box I'm installing :( Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] File needed to make... where can I get it?
Hey, I have Mandrake 9.1, and I've been trying to install Boson 0.10 from source. (I've never installed from source before) I've managed to configure the files, and supposedly install all the dependancies, but when I make it, it can't find a file libGL.la I had a similar error with another file, but found the appropriate package and installed it, and I thought I did the same with this. (Is it a Mesa file by any chance?) But I still get the error. Any help? Thanx, ES Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File needed to make... where can I get it?
- Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 5:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] File needed to make... where can I get it? On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 06:31, Eric Scott wrote: Hey, I have Mandrake 9.1, and I've been trying to install Boson 0.10 from source. (I've never installed from source before) I've managed to configure the files, and supposedly install all the dependancies, but when I make it, it can't find a file libGL.la I had a similar error with another file, but found the appropriate package and installed it, and I thought I did the same with this. (Is it a Mesa file by any chance?) But I still get the error. Any help? Thanx, ES The file should live under: /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a ...GLcore stuff if I remember correctly...have you installed your proper video driver and all the other X related libs? stephen kuhn - proprietor Suposedly... I even reinstalled my NVIDIA driver for my integrated GeForce II... but still the same thing. Recently, however, I tried to install what I thought was the normal NVIDIA driver, and it practically killed my X free. Maybe when I removed it it removed this file? God Bless, ES Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Removed secondary hard disk... now what?
- Original Message - From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 8:21 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Removed secondary hard disk... now what? Eric Scott wrote: Yo, I recently backed up some stuff from on Lintel/Wintel hybrid box to another by putting the hard disk from the first computer into the second, copying about 250MB of data to the second HD, and then removing it. As I semi expected, my Mandrake Linux 9.1 OS went haywire when it realized that it's new secondary HD had dissapeared again. I've since reformatted the HD from the first computer, so I can't just plug it back in and get Linux to boot on the second computer. What can I do? I have files backed up on the second computer's Linux system, so I can't just reinstall. If I upgrade overtop of the current linux, as the installer lets u do, will it solve the issue? I get an error during boot about hdd, basically telling me that it just might not exist. (Duh, I took it out.) But it won't boot past that. Any help? I'm novice to Linux, so please be basic. Thanx, ES I would try booting with the failsafe boot option. Then edit /etc/fstab and remove any references to the second hard drive. Then reboot as normal. If failsafe doesn't boot, try booting off the install CD in the rescue mode. Or do like I do - have a bookable Linux CD that gives you a stand-alone Linux system that runs off the CD. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Failsafe doesn't work, I already tried that. I can handle getting into rescue mode via the CD, but how do I edit /etc/fstab and what exactly do I edit? I'm a real novice here. Thanx, ES Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Removed secondary hard disk... now what?
- Original Message - From: Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 9:12 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Removed secondary hard disk... now what? On Friday 11 June 2004 09:50 am, Eric Scott wrote: Failsafe doesn't work, I already tried that. I can handle getting into rescue mode via the CD, but how do I edit /etc/fstab and what exactly do I edit? I'm a real novice here. Thanx, ES Eric, you might want to keep in mind that no one here is sitting over your shoulder looking at the partitions on your hard drive, so unless the psychic computer tech is online, I doubt that anyone is going to be able to tell you exactly what to edit in the fstab to properly remap the partitions. When you physically move a drive on a machine, the hard drive parititions get renumbered according to their physical placement on the drive. hdc becomes hda, hdd becomes hdb, etc. Without knowing exactly how the original drives were partitioned and mapped, I really doubt that we can tell you how to map them now. You need to try to figure out the physical placement of the partitions on the drive, i.e. first ide drive on 1st ide controller is hda, first partition is hda1, etc. Once you know that, you can issue the mount command manually from the rescuecd command prompt. Assuming one ide hard drive attached to the primary ide controller, and root is on the first partition: mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/root If you have a CD attached to the primary controller, of course, that changes the mapping. Your primary hard drive might be on the secondard controller in which case it is hdc. If the cdrom is attached first and the ide drive second, both on the primary ide controller, then the cd is hda and the hard drive would be hdb. Once you get root mounted, you should be able to cd to /mnt/root/etc and edit the fstab file. When you edit it, you need to change the former settings of /dev/hd?? to the new correct settings. Then you need to edit the lilo.conf file to change the parameters to point to the new devices as well. Then run the command to rewrite the mbr with the altered lilo.conf settings. it is in /usr/sbin but I can't recall the exact command offhand. If what I have written sounds too complex, then the best suggestion that I can make to you is to reinstall Linux being careful to only format the /usr and / partitions. You should be able to reinstall without repartitioning the drive and if you remember the order of the partitions, you can put everything in the same place and you will only have a new root and usr partition which should leave your data intact. If you don't remember the original partition order, then trying to remap the partitions manually is going to be an issue as well. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Thanx... I'm almost ok so far. I figured out that the local HD is hdc, and the mandrake partition is hdc6, and I'm almost sure that the hard disk that I put in and removed was hdd, 'cause it always stalls while trying to mount hdd when I boot. My problem now is getting hdc6 to mount in rescue mode... when I try to mount to /mnt/root is says the directory doesn't exist, and if I try anyplace else is says: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc6, or too many mounted file systems Just to clarify I think that this disk is find and hasn't been ruined by any su newbie mishap of mine, as far as I know... :-P Thanx for ur help, I should only need a bit more... that reinstall is sounding better and better all the time, but I'd like to actually say i killed and revived my computer instead of i killed and lost my computer... again ES Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Removed secondary hard disk... now what?
- Original Message - From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 12:41 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Removed secondary hard disk... now what? Eric Scott wrote: - Original Message - From: Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 9:12 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Removed secondary hard disk... now what? On Friday 11 June 2004 09:50 am, Eric Scott wrote: Failsafe doesn't work, I already tried that. I can handle getting into rescue mode via the CD, but how do I edit /etc/fstab and what exactly do I edit? I'm a real novice here. Thanx, ES snip Thanx... I'm almost ok so far. I figured out that the local HD is hdc, and the mandrake partition is hdc6, and I'm almost sure that the hard disk that I put in and removed was hdd, 'cause it always stalls while trying to mount hdd when I boot. My problem now is getting hdc6 to mount in rescue mode... when I try to mount to /mnt/root is says the directory doesn't exist, and if I try anyplace else is says: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc6, or too many mounted file systems Just to clarify I think that this disk is find and hasn't been ruined by any su newbie mishap of mine, as far as I know... :-P Thanx for ur help, I should only need a bit more... that reinstall is sounding better and better all the time, but I'd like to actually say i killed and revived my computer instead of i killed and lost my computer... again ES The mount problem is probaly because there isn't a directory called /mnt/root. (A directory called root in the /mnt directory.) One thing to try - At the boot screen, hit the Esc key. You should then get a list of boot options, and a LILO: prompt. Type linux init=/bin/bash. This should start Linux, and only mount the root partition. You will get a command prompt, and a limmited system. You can then edit /etc/fstab and remove the references to /dev/hdd. Then you can reboot, and all should be well. You will have to use text editor, like vi, ed, joe, ect. I like to use mc, and the editor mcedit that is part of the package... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Well... it gave me: kernel paic: Atempted to kill init! thanx for ur patience, ES Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Good Rich Office
Definately Open Office. KOffice is good to, but it can only import from MS, not export (At least the versions I've used) Cheers, ES - Original Message - From: PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 4:01 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Good Rich Office On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 23:51, OOzy wrote: What is a good office similar to MS. I need a rich Word processor. I am switching from Windows to Linux. At least I don't lose much functionality. BR Open Office. Or it's 'richer' relative Sun Office at USD 80 -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Removed secondary hard disk... now what?
Yo, I recently backed up some stuff from on Lintel/Wintel hybrid box to another by putting the hard disk from the first computer into the second, copying about 250MB of data to the second HD, and then removing it. As I semi expected, my Mandrake Linux 9.1 OS went haywire when it realized that it's new secondary HD had dissapeared again. I've since reformatted the HD from the first computer, so I can't just plug it back in and get Linux to boot on the second computer. What can I do? I have files backed up on the second computer's Linux system, so I can't just reinstall. If I upgrade overtop of the current linux, as the installer lets u do, will it solve the issue? I get an error during boot about hdd, basically telling me that it just might not exist. (Duh, I took it out.) But it won't boot past that. Any help? I'm novice to Linux, so please be basic. Thanx, ES PS: Anybody who's been following my previous posts, I FINALLY got the first comp's drive reinstalled with Windows XP and Linux happilly side by side... but I still need these backup files from the second comp, which has Windows 2000 and Linux side by side. ES PSS: I know everything points to it, but I don't live in the UK!! I live in the US, I just have a British email address and surname. :-P Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
