[newbie] min spec's for 10.1
Hello all, Please forgive this basic question, I couldn't find the minimum requirements for MD 10.1 anywhere. the worst part is I'm actually running 10.1 on this pc. Also, Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux suitable to work on a Pentium 233 with 80 MB ram. Its for my mother, who wants to have a go on the Internet, I set her up with my old pc as above running XP but its infected with spy ware after only 2 days from a clean install, Mum forgot to start zonealarm before she went online. Tim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB Cable modem
Thank you, Have amended modprobe.conf and it has been ok for last couple of days. Cheers Tim I have to set up a new modem connection every time i reboot, it just seems to forget that i set one up, but if i go into Manage connections its there but i can't do anything with it. Does your /etc/modprobe.conf file contain the text alias eth0 usbnet ? If not put it in. If it is already there try putting the text usbnet in the file /etc/modprobe.preload If still no luck open a terminal and enter 'dmesg' and look for the boot messages concerning your usb network interface and tell us what they are. derek 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] USB Cable modem
Hello all, My 10.1 system has developed a strange problem. I have to set up a new modem connection every time i reboot, it just seems to forget that i set one up, but if i go into Manage connections its there but i can't do anything with it. I've tried deleting all connections and make a fresh one, but as soon as i reboot it says no connection configured. While booting it says failed to start eth0. This has been an intermittent problem since i converted, perhaps every 2-3 weeks i would have to make a new connection. But now its every time, you can imagine how annoying it is! Any ideas? Thanks Tim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NTL Cable modem problems in MDK10.0 install
Graham Watkins wrote: Marcus Davage wrote: Hi, all. I'm trying to convert a friend, who's built his own PC, from XP to Linux. So far, his experience with installing Mandrake 10.0 (the only version I had to lend him) has been good, except that he says he can't connect to the internet. He has an NTL cable modem. I've never had a problem downloading support for my ISA linmodem, but he's not a techie, and I've never used cable modems before. I'm trying hard to prevent him from crossing over to the dark side, but he thinks he needs XP to access the net. I thought the Mandrake installation wizard detected modems like that, but I doesn't think it has. Can anyone who has experience please suggest some questions/solutions I can ask/recommend to him? I use NTL Cable modem connected via usb, forget what order the menus come in but when asked select... Cable connection load a manual driver Select usbnet or something like that (there are two usb driver near the bottom of the list) Ok everything else thats it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Maintenance, what if any?
Duncan Anderson wrote:
Tim wrote:
I noticed a few days ago somebody mentioned deleting log files tmp
files, is this necessary? If so what else should i be doing?
If i don't will it have an adverse affect on my system?
The reason i ask is i,ve noticed Firefox Thunderbird are taking
longer to load, only a few seconds longer but it's noticeable. I,ve
spent an hour or so searching the official doc's on ML, It doesn't
seem to imply its needed.
Running 10.1 with all the updates.
(snip)
Always check your /var/log directory for signs of problems. If your
log files are getting too large, then you need to view them to see if
there are any problems. A useful check is:
(From the root prompt:)
cd /var/log
grep -y error * | less
Hi again, thanks for advice. Did the above got a screen full of info, not sure what i'm looking for.
the first date is December 7 so i presume thats the date i installed 10.1
it seems to be saying there are a lot of errors, a small sample is below...
mdkkdm.log:Feb 19 19:05:29 mdkkdm_config[4705] error: Invalid option
value 'All' at /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc:292
mdkkdm.log: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??)
unknown.
mdkkdm.log:Feb 19 19:21:28 mdkkdm_config[4693] error: Invalid option
value 'All' at /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc:292
mdkkdm.log: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??)
unknown.
mdkkdm.log:Feb 19 20:37:01 mdkkdm_config[4705] error: Invalid option
value 'All' at /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc:292
mdkkdm.log: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??)
unknown.
mdkkdm.log:Feb 20 12:47:26 mdkkdm_config[4582] error: Invalid option
value 'All' at /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc:292
mdkkdm.log: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??)
unknown.
mdkkdm.log:Feb 21 01:05:13 mdkkdm_config[4702] error: Invalid option
value 'All' at /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc:292
mdkkdm.log: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??)
unknown.
messages:Feb 20 13:01:03 localhost msec: changed mode of
/var/log/kernel/errors.1.gz from 644 to 640
messages:Feb 20 13:01:03 localhost msec: changed mode of
/var/log/mail/errors.1.gz from 644 to 640
messages:Feb 20 13:01:03 localhost msec: changed mode of
/var/log/cups/error_log from 644 to 640
messages:Feb 20 13:01:03 localhost msec: changed mode of
/var/log/daemons/errors.1.gz from 644 to 640
messages:Feb 20 13:01:03 localhost msec: changed mode of
/var/log/lpr/errors.1.gz from 644 to 640
messages:Feb 20 13:01:03 localhost msec: changed mode of
/var/log/cron/errors.1.gz from 644 to 640
messages:Feb 21 01:05:02 localhost shorewall: reports
complaining about errors that it didn't catch
messages:Feb 21 01:05:03 localhost shorewall: reports
complaining about errors that it didn't catch
messages:Feb 21 01:05:55 localhost kernel: hdd: drive_cmd: status=0x51
{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
messages:Feb 21 01:05:55 localhost kernel: hdd: drive_cmd:
error=0x04Aborted Command
nvidia-installer.log: -Wpointer-arith -Wno-multichar -Werror -O
-fno-common -MD -Wno-cast-qual -Wn
nvidia-installer.log: o-error -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__
-DMODULE -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_
nvidia-installer.log: ith -Wno-multichar -Werror -O -fno-common -MD
-Wno-cast-qual -Wno-error -D_L
nvidia-installer.log: eses -Wpointer-arith -Wno-multichar -Werror -O
-fno-common -MD -Wno-cast-qua
nvidia-installer.log: l -Wno-error -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES
-D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURC
nvidia-installer.log: arentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wno-multichar
-Werror -O -fno-common -MD -Wno-ca
nvidia-installer.log: st-qual -Wno-error -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNE
nvidia-installer.log: es -Wpointer-arith -Wno-multichar -Werror -O
-fno-common -MD -Wno-cast-qual
nvidia-installer.log: -Wno-error -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__
-DMODULE -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE
rpmpkgs:libgpg-error0-1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
syslog:Feb 21 01:05:02 localhost shorewall: reports
complaining about errors that it didn't catch
syslog:Feb 21 01:05:03 localhost shorewall: reports
complaining about errors that it didn't catch
syslog:Feb 21 01:05:55 localhost kernel: hdd: drive_cmd: status=0x51 {
DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
syslog:Feb 21 01:05:55 localhost kernel: hdd: drive_cmd:
error=0x04Aborted Command
Xorg.0.log: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??)
unknown.
Xorg.0.log.old: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??)
unknown.
Xorg.1.log: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??)
unknown.
Xorg.1.log.old: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??)
unknown.
Xorg.9.log: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??)
unknown.
is this good or bad?
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[newbie] Maintenance, what if any?
Hi all, I noticed a few days ago somebody mentioned deleting log files tmp files, is this necessary? If so what else should i be doing? If i don't will it have an adverse affect on my system? The reason i ask is i,ve noticed Firefox Thunderbird are taking longer to load, only a few seconds longer but it's noticeable. I,ve spent an hour or so searching the official doc's on ML, It doesn't seem to imply its needed. Running 10.1 with all the updates. Tim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Best use of Disk Space
What in your opinion/s would be the best way to utilize the disk space of an 80G hard disk? Is it best to have a separate partition for Home Directory? Is it wise to have spare partition for testing stuff on? I understand some folks do this. Separate partition for root? What is best? Obviously for Linux only, I currently have a 40G HD Dual booting XP and ML 10. with 3 * 10G for Windows and 1 * 10G for ML. This Disk is very nearly full and i don't want to delete anything from the windows partitions. I primarily use ML instead of XP (Yep, another convert). I do plan to upgrade to ML 10.1 when i get the new HD. All advice welcome Thank you Tim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] urpm
Hello, I normally Lurk n Learn, but I'm a bit confused at the moment. How do you know what update you need? For example: Mandrake update might offer a list of updates for various bits of software BUT how do i know which updates i need? How do i compare whats on my system against the update list? What I've done in the past is select them all, but that means big downloads and possibly wasting bandwidth. Ok I've done some checking/reading the manual and believe if type this in the command line ( urpmi.update -a; urpmi --update --auto-select --auto ) it will only update what is needed is that correct? TIA Tim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpm
Thats great i didn't realize it was so user friendly (Mandrake update i mean) :-) Thank you everybody Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Basic Security Q's
Hi Everybody, Just install Mandrake 10, I think i've set it up ok to keep the bad guys out. Q1: How can i check im secure. Q2: I've been to www.grc.com and used the Shields up test which said my computer was Stealthed except for port 113 which was closed. I understand thats good, but is it accurate? And do i need to do more? Q3: I've decided to use Mozilla for browsing and email/news, is it secure enough for online shopping/banking? What im intending doing is get a good safe secure system set up with linux and then get rid of XP. (yes i know what you're thinking, but just the facts pls) :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Cable Modem for MDK 9.2
Does anyone have any suggestions about which cable modems work under Mandrake 9.2? I've searched and haven't found anything too solid yet. Tim Martin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Test
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[newbie] Realtek ALC650 NO DVD sound!!!
I'm real new to the Linux world. For the past month I've been playing around with MDK 10.0, trying to accomplish ALL the same tasks I can currently perform on my Win2K machine. I've been following this list for a little over a month and haven't seen a solution to my problem. PROBLEM: In Xine, no DVD audio! Xine also will not play Audio CDs (It won't even recognize them!!). Same thing happens with Totem Media Player. I can play Audio CDs with KsCD XMMS I even downloaded the source code from the Realtek tried to build without success!!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Painfully slow page loads
It's taking my mandrake 10 (just installed) box way too long to load a page. Doesn't matter whether I'm in mozilla, firefox or the KDE one (conqueror I think). This isn't a problem on my debian machine or on the win2K box my girlfriend uses. 9.2 didn't have these problems before I upgraded - is anybody else having this problem or am I just drunk? Thanks, Tim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] can't read lexar jumpdrive
I have two 128mb Lexar JumpDrives. The first is the secure model and the second is just a regular one. Mandrake will read and write from the secure one, but the regular one will not read or write. I can't figure out why, can anyone help? Here is my fstab file. Let me know if you need more info. Tim /dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda2 /mnt/windows ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb7 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable auto user,owner,noauto,rw,unhide 0 0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 Community available to club members...
The last time I checked, the silver membership was $120 USD per year. Ramin wrote: I wonder if you meant to buy the boxed versions while you were a club member? So you really wanted to help Mandrake, right? Otherwise you could just go either way but not both? SO i dont understand the point of the complaint when it was your decision to support Mandrake. I also decided to support Mandrake so i became a club member but did not want to over-support them by buying the boxed versions! Overall being a club member has advantages over buying the boxed version in particular if you have broad band internet connection. This way you can better keep your system up-to-date in particular nowadays that very often a newer version of some application appears! Besides with a yearly silver membership, you almost gain three consecutive versions of Mandrake for $60 which is just a bit more than the price of the powerpack version. If you buy two powerpack boxes each year , you will pay about $110 each year! So being a club member is very economical. Regards, Ramin On March 5, 2004 06:07 am, Walt Frampus wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 04:07, Derek Jennings wrote: If Club members have absolutlely no privileges, not available to non members then they would be whining instead of you. Not surprisingly MandrakeSoft want to please the people who actually pay something. Let's see, I purchased MY copies of mandrake since 1999. I have every version BTW, since then. I guess beta testing and reporting bugs means nothing. I don't see the point in a 'club' anyway, I am not going to pay for something twice. I will either wait for the boxed set or move on to another distro, which is what linux is all about, freedom of choice. Walt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] urpmi database locked
I was downloading the mandrake update list and lost my internet connection. Now when I use urpmi it says that my database is locked. Does anyone know how to unlock it? Tim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0rc1 - error installing library
The only other information, is that there's a prompt to continue the installation. If I choose to continue with the install, it completes successfully (seemingly so). After I reboot login, I don't have the ability to run drakconf (I get an error, something about missing package components.). Not at all fun. Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: "Tim" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 20:03 Subject: [newbie] 10.0rc1 - error installing library I still new at the whole linux setup. I've tried to install the basic set of packages from scratch, without success. During the package install process, an error is displayed 'Error installing package Libxml2-2.6.6-1mdk.i586'. Does anyone know if this is due to a bad CD image file or packaging by Mandrake? I've burned new CDs from a couple mirror sites. Since I'm a developer (on the Windows platform), I'd like to migrate to Linux. Sidebar: I've noticed that Mandrake has changed their installer from v9.2 to v10.0rc1 (not as robust). Thanks, Tim 1. I'm not an expert! 2. For a good answer I (if I knew the answer) would require more information. There should have been some other info about the error. 3 9.2 is one version of Mandrake and 10.0rc1 is another version just released. Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0rc1 - error installing library
Thanks Dennis. I didn't expect an RC package to be a partial. From my experience, each RC is potentially the Final. TWC Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 02:34 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: "Tim" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 20:03 Subject: [newbie] 10.0rc1 - error installing library I still new at the whole linux setup. I've tried to install the basic set of packages from scratch, without success. During the package install process, an error is displayed 'Error installing package Libxml2-2.6.6-1mdk.i586'. Does anyone know if this is due to a bad CD image file or packaging by Mandrake? I've burned new CDs from a couple mirror sites. Since I'm a developer (on the Windows platform), I'd like to migrate to Linux. Sidebar: I've noticed that Mandrake has changed their installer from v9.2 to v10.0rc1 (not as robust). Thanks, Tim 1. I'm not an expert! 2. For a good answer I (if I knew the answer) would require more information. There should have been some other info about the error. 3 9.2 is one version of Mandrake and 10.0rc1 is another version just released. Regards; Hoyt 10rc1 is a Release Candidate, it is not yet a fully completed OS. Much of the reason the installer does not seem as robust is due to some packages not on it and a bunch of debugging tags are still in the code until they feel it is ready to go final, then it gets cleaned up and they put the "Sunday go to meetin' clothes" on it. I am not a programmer so that is my language for what I see happen. If you want to migrate (a good thing) I would go ahead and run the rc1 as best you can for now, rc2 is imminent and final should be close on its heels in the next 5 to 10 days. Schedule has slipped a bit from what is posted. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Cirque Glidepoint Cruise Cat touch pad
First timer!! I'm having trouble getting a Glidepoint touch pad with Mandrake v9.2 (download version). Basically, the mouse cursor jumps all over the screen every time I try to move the cursor. The touch pad works fine on my Win2000 machine. I'd like to migrate my five machines over to Mandrake. Tim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] favorite ssh for windows?
Hi Eric, Putty is small and fantastic: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html Tim - Original Message - From: eric huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 4:46 PM Subject: [newbie] favorite ssh for windows? Hi folks, Anyone have a favorite ssh program for win2000? I need to get it on my machine at work. I googled, but there seemed to be too many choices. Thanks! eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Rebuilding RPM Database
Recently I tried to check which RPMs I had installed for a few packages, and the rpm -qa | grep package_name took forever. This has happened in the past, so I just rebuild the database. rpm --rebuilddb I've done this many times in the past, with a number of machines, and it goes through, takes a few minutes, but then works when it's done. So I tried this recently, and it never really rebuilds the database. I've been trying to rebuild the database for an hour now, and it's just sitting there. r2d2 mail # rpm --rebuilddb r2d2 ~ $ ps auxw | grep rpm root 25037 0.0 0.6 5020 3148 pts/17 S14:01 0:00 /usr/lib/rpm/rpmd --rebuilddb What's the problem here? Is there something else I should be doing? In the past, after a power outage, once it reboots, the RPM db is fine. I would rather not reboot my workstation, and figured there was another means around this. Does anybody have any ideas/suggestions? $ rpm --version RPM version 4.0.4 Thanks a lot! tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NFS Mount Problems
I do NFS installs, and here's what I have set for my /etc/exports, perhaps you could give something along these lines for it to work: /install 192.168.2.0/24(rw,all_squash,anonuid=500,anongid=500) That's always worked. So any machine on my internal network can access the NFS mounts. In Mandrake(9.0), /var/www is now owned by root, not apache. I'm not sure if that's the case in RedHat. But that could be causing you some problems. But you shouldn't need to use the netmask in there. I don't have mine specified, and it works. I have that /install mounted on various machines to use with urpmi or apt-get, and I have no problem installing packages like that. After you make the edits, make sure you restart all the services. portmap nfs nfslock netfs I would suggest umounting all the currently mounted NFS mounts before restarting netfs. It can complain quite a bit at times. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | Help! Please! | | No matter what I do, I cannot seem to get an export to mount FROM my Mdk 9.0 box. Here is my | setup: | | Old_Server - 10.0.0.1 - RedHat 7.2 | Workstation - 10.0.0.2 - Suse 8.1 | New_Server - 10.0.0.3 - Mandrake 9.0 | | Now, I have an export from Old_Server to Workstation, so I know my NFS client works. When I try | and mount an export from New_Server, I get this: | | mount: 10.0.0.3:/var/www failed, reason given by server: Permission denied | | Here is the contents of my config files on New_Server: | | /etc/exports | | /var/www 10.0.0.2(no_root_squash,rw) | | /etc/hosts.deny | --- | portmap:ALL | lockd:ALL | mountd:ALL | rquotad:ALL | statd:ALL | | /etc/hosts.allow | | portmap: 10.0.0.2 | lockd: 10.0.0.2 | rquotad: 10.0.0.2 | mountd: 10.0.0.2 | statd: 10.0.0.2 | | Any suggestions? I know its probably something silly that I am over looking. | | Thanks, | | Chris `--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rebuilding RPM Database
Well, that did the trick! I thought to do that a while ago, but I didn't know all of the files I needed to delete. Thanks for the help. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | See if rebuilding the RPM database from scratch, like this, helps: | | rm /var/lib/rpm/_* | (should ask you if you want to delete __db.001 and __db.002. Say yes.) | | rpm --rebuilddb | | HTH | | Damian | | -- | -- | I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from | all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt | (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com `--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Creating Installing SSL key for HTTPD
I've been trying to create a proper SSL key for https instead of the test one that's put in place during the install. I found some mod_ssl docs in /var/www/html/addon-modules/mod_ssl-2.8.10, but something's not quite jiving. If you check out /var/www/html/addon-modules/mod_ssl-2.8.10/ssl_faq.html it tells after you've created your new key, to edit your httpd.conf (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and add the following lines: SSLCertificateFile /path/to/SSL_key.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/SSL_key.key I found this on some other docs I found online, but when I restart HTTPD, there's a problem: Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 15 of httpd.conf: Invalid command 'SSLCertificateFile', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration Are the docs just wrong? Or was this not built into mod_ssl for Mandrake Apache? Here's what apache RPMs I have installed, and mod_ssl version: # rpm -qa | grep apache apache-devel-1.3.26-6.1mdk apache-conf-1.3.26-3mdk apache-modules-1.3.26-6.1mdk apache-mod_perl-1.3.26_1.27-7mdk apache-1.3.26-6.1mdk apache-common-1.3.26-6.1mdk apache-source-1.3.26-6.1mdk apache-suexec-1.3.26-2mdk apache-manual-1.3.26-6.1mdk # rpm -qa | grep mod_ssl mod_ssl-2.8.10-5.1mdk All of which, I'm pretty sure are up to date. What do I need to do use this key I've created? Or heck, where's there current key placed? Perhaps I'll just move my server.crt and server.key into their places and use those. Any help is always appreciated. Thanks! tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating Installing SSL key for HTTPD
Well, I found where the other keys are kept: /etc/ssl/apache I moved my keys into their places, but that doesn't work. It just sits and hangs at Starting httpd: Is there something I'm missing, or should I bould mod_ssl and apache from source to fix this? Any ideas? tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | I've been trying to create a proper SSL key for https instead of the | test one that's put in place during the install. I found some mod_ssl | docs in /var/www/html/addon-modules/mod_ssl-2.8.10, but something's not | quite jiving. | | If you check out | /var/www/html/addon-modules/mod_ssl-2.8.10/ssl_faq.html it tells after | you've created your new key, to edit your httpd.conf | (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and add the following lines: | |SSLCertificateFile /path/to/SSL_key.crt |SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/SSL_key.key | | I found this on some other docs I found online, but when I restart | HTTPD, there's a problem: | | Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 15 of httpd.conf: Invalid command | 'SSLCertificateFile', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not | included in the server configuration | | Are the docs just wrong? Or was this not built into mod_ssl for | Mandrake Apache? | | SNIP `--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] postfix problems
You do know that Postfix is an MTA and you need something like Cyrus IMAP to get the information out of Postfix's spool, right? There are a couple of good how-to's for configuring a setup like that. The one I'm using to setup my server at home is: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO/index.html Tim Donahue -Original Message- From: - netmaniac - [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] postfix problems I've two mail servers on my network: a w2kserver and a linux one. The w2k box is the PDC which is connected to the internet and its mail server is working fine. But, when I try to send any e-mail to the linux box (postfix) I can't read them. I mean, I don't know where they went to. There's nothing in the spool folders, but the w2kserver says that the message was delivered. By the way, if someone has any good documentation about postfix I would like to know the url. Peace! netmaniac MSN Messenger: converse com os seus amigos online. Instale grátis. Clique aqui. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Soyo Dragon+ On-Board Sound
Funny you should mention that. I have a Soyo K7VX Dragon+ motherboard on one of my systems. It's not the one I'm running linux on, but my on-board sound did fail after just a few months. I had to buy a sound card to get my TV card sound to work again. Line-out still works, but line-in stopped working. This is with Windows XP. Sorry I can't tell you if it would have worked with linux before it failed. Just an FYI. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Paul Rodolfo Rodriguez Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 9:20 PM To: newbie Subject: [newbie] Soyo Dragon+ On-Board Sound Hi, I was wondering if anybody here knows how or has been able to get the On-Board sound working on a Soyo motherboard. I have Soyo Dragon+ which is known to be very Linux friendly, but have not been able to get - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Installing 9.0
I ran the dosutils/rawwrite.exe program to create my boot floppy under windows. When you run that program, you have to point to the images/cdrom.img file to create the floppy. Is that what you did? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Greg Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 8:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Installing 9.0 Hi every one I ordered 9.0 from Mandrakes web site but have no word on when they will get here So I figured I would download it and burn my own from the download I downloaded 9.0 and burned a cd but when I try to make a boot disk to a floppy the is nothing on the floppyI never had any trouble before with the disks that I bought Any ideas Thanks Greg - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] networking advice
I will be doing home network with two-machine network pretty soon, but don't have real experience yet. However, I found this that looked promising: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Home-Network-mini-HOWTO.html HTH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of L.V.Gandhi Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 8:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] networking advice I have 4 PCs. [...] As a newbie in networking i need initiation and advice - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] X not shutting down cleanly
Hello, i have lm 8.2 and set it up for run level 5, medium security. for one of my user id's whenever I log out the system just hangs. the only thing that works to get the system to respond is ctrl-alt-f1, then i have a logon again, su to root, then reboot the machine (because if i try to do startx it tells me an x session is still running). if i log on as other users things are fine. i log on. i log off. back to the graphical log on screen as expected. thoughts? _ Surf the Web without missing calls! Get MSN Broadband. http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] lm 8.2 boot configuration
hello, in the boot section of the mandrake control center i can choose to have the machine auto logon, what user id to use, and have kde be invoked as the window manager. problem: one of my user id's doesn't show up (and wouldn't you know it that is the one i want to use since it is the one that exits cleanly when i log out). thx in advance. _ Choose an Internet access plan right for you -- try MSN! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] best way to find things out
Someone posted a documentation question earlier and got a pretty good answer, but I'm still trying to figure out the best way to find things out. I guess I'm a little spoiled by MSDN. For instance, if I want to know about file permissions, it would be Really Neat if there were a tool I could run and enter file permissions into a search box, and get a list of matching pages. I remember there used to be something called the Linux Documentation Project. I'm sure they must still be working on it, but even years ago there were more Howto's than you could shake a stick at. I kind of expected there to be a really cool downloadable manual by now. Maybe it's out there and I just haven't found it yet. I get the impression that the Mandrake people are holding out for some bucks, figuring people who won't pay for the OS might pay for the docs. That's fine if that's what they want to do, but there must be a mother lode of vanilla linux info out there somewhere. The stuff I downloaded from the Mandrake site was OK but a little disorganized and obviously incomplete. Could someone maybe give a road map as to where the Good Documentation is, and how to get it installed on one's machine? Or could some of you give some of your own tips on how you look things up? It can't all be word of mouth. - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] best way to find things out
You know, just as I was hitting the send button I thought of that myself. :-) Must admit http://www.tldp.org/ looks pretty good. I think I might buy the CD. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Erik Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 6:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] best way to find things out Google Linux Documentation Project (with quotes)lots of entries - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] best way to find things out
I like this. Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 6:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] best way to find things out [...] http://www.google.com/linux [...] - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Linux w/ Win98SE
I haven't done this lately, but I believe that when you originally installed W98 it asks you if you want to create a W98 boot floppy (in case you run into problems later, etc.). If you did that, you can boot from the floppy, then run fdisk to wipe the disk and create partitions before doing the install. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Flux Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:00 AM To: Linux Subject: [newbie] Linux w/ Win98SE So, in perfect newbie fashion, I decided to pop in my Compaq Evo N150 recovery disc and completely start ALL OVER AGAIN! But here's the question: If this recovery forced me to reformat the entire drive and make the whole thing one partition, how am I supposed to install Linux on it for a dual-boot? Maybe I should ask WHERE am I supposed to install Linux? Please help, because I'm sure to cause myself more pain hashing through it myself... - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Linux w/ Win98SE
I agree with this. I can't remember if the W2K install won't let you create a fat32 partition. If that's the case, you can still use the W98 boot floppy to create partitions with fdisk, then run W2K install. W2K (XP too) is happy to install onto fat32. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Technoslick Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux w/ Win98SE My only comment on your predicument is that I can't see why you are downgrading to Win 98 SE? Did you have a problem with Win 2K that makes you want to go to a less robust and older version? Win 2K can be reloaded with a FAT32 partition instead of NTFS. As long as you own the 'better' version of Windows and it's not giving you any problems, I wouldn't load Win 98 SE just to get the FAT32 and sharing between the two O/S's. - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] wondering about 9.0 pre-orders
You're right about that. Most of the folks in my region have had cable modems and/or DSL available for years, but I seem to live in a little pocket that for some reason has been neglected on both fronts. The SBC commercials say whatever it takes. Yeah, right. And what's this I keep reading about telecommunications infrastructure being overbuilt in the 90's? For a long time I lamented the fact I couldn't get broadband, but have lately realized I really don't need it 99% of the time. Maybe it's just sour grapes. Anyway, I used Fresh Download which is freeware (registration after 30 days is free) to manage the download of the three mandrake CDs. It did take a little over a week to get them all, so at this point I'd guess the box will get there first. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Barran, Richard Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:35 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] wondering about 9.0 pre-orders Not everyone has (or wants) a broadband connection. In fact, I feel quite safe in saying that only a *small minority* of PCs worldwide are connected in that way :-) or indeed should ever be; for sending emails and occasional browsing a 56k connection is plenty enough! - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to switch window managers?
Hi, I can't figure out how to use Gnome instead of KDE. I went into mandrake control center, and under boot config set Launch graphical environment and autologin with GNOME, but I'm still getting KDE. There must be somewhere else to make the switch, yes? Tim - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Difficulties in receiving posts
Since you mentioned OE, with OE that came with IE6.0 I had sudden problems which I finally tracked down to anti-virus. Since then I had to turn off email scanning in anti-virus console and I can use OE again. Probably doesn't apply to you, since my symptoms were quite different. Just a thought. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Technoslick Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 5:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Difficulties in receiving posts [...] The fact that you are having (or were having) this problem using a Linux email program, where I am stuck right now in OE on Win2k, leads me believe that this probably isn't an incompatibility thing between their listserv program and the program-O/S I am using. - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Display messed up after install
Hi, I installed Linux-Mandrake 9.0. Everything went pretty smooth. Selected Gnome for default desktop. After install, upon reboot got first-time (I think) screen, to do more configuration. This screen was unusable, because the display was all messed up. I had basically three vertical bands across the screen: red, green, and blue, I think. On top of that, there was the first-time screen, but it was all out of sync and mostly unreadable. Also, I couldn't find the mouse pointer anywhere on the screen, not that there was really anything to click on. I had to use the cpu reset button to quit the screen. Since then, when I boot I go right to desktop, but the screen is still messed up. The left-hand third of the display is repeated in the middle and right sides of the screen, and it's kind of wavy and unreadable in places. On that screen, I was able to find the mouse pointer and get to a menu item called action-logoff (I think that's what it was), but that's all. Has anyone seen this? I guess it's something to do with X. Where do I go from here? I uninstalled Mandrake, and will re-install soon, but what do I do different, or if I end up with the same thing, how do I troubleshoot? My system is motherboard: GVC-VP1541 cpu: AMD-K6P2/350 video: SiS 5598/6326 PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0 monitor: NEC MultiSync FP1370 Thanks, Tim --- Introducing NetZero Long Distance Unlimited Long Distance only $29.95/ month! Sign Up Today! www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Partial Internet Access Problem
Hi I'm having problems configuring internet access on a new laptop (via a built in ethernet card / LAN). Details of my configuration are at the bottom of the message. Any help gratefully received. Here's what I can do: (from my machine) telnet to another local machine (inside firewall) ping a machine outside the firewall ftp to a local machine (from a machine outside the firewall) open a terminal on my machine via ssh ping my machine Here's what I can't do: access the internet (mozilla, konqueror) ssh/telnet/ftp to machines outside the firewall The machine is dual boot and everything works under Windows XP with the same settings as I entered via the connection wizard in the control centre. I have a static IP, and the DNS server is definitely working OK. The network monitoring tool reports that my connection is up. I'm pretty new to linux so if you need any more information then let me know. Any ideas anyone? Cheers Tim CONFIGURATION: Model:Dell Inspiron 8200 operating system: Mandrake 8.2 CPU: Intel Pentium 4 (Mobile) 1.8GHz Memory: 512Mb Network card: 3COM corporation 3c905C-TX (built in) * Tim Wright Department of Earth Sciences Parks Road Oxford OX1 3PR email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The print job that wouldn't die
I have had problems like the original poster. I solved them by doing a quick 'ps -A' and looking for a process named 'parallel' or something similar, I can't remember at this time. Then a quick 'killall -9 (process name)' does the trick HTH, tim It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it is. If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't our's either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs. -Oxford University Press, Edpress News On Monday 23 September 2002 18:32 pm, et did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: On Monday 23 September 2002 09:17 pm, you wrote: If the printer has a very large memory buffer inside it (40+ pages), killing the print job at the computer will not stop the printer from finishing printing what is in it's memory buffer already. maybe unplugging the AC power from the printer. and waiting about 2 min. before plugging it back --- Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reboot the computer and the printer. (?) If that doesn't work, call up a priest and ask him to bring holy water... ;-) Miark Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: I have a print job I want to kill, but not even a stake through it's heart seems to work. I have tried: * Killing it with the CUPS web admin tool (localhost:631). CUPS now says there are no jobs pending, but the printer keeps printing. * ps ax. There's nothing obvious to kill. * lpq. It says lp is ready and no entries * cancel lp. It says cancel: cancel-job failed: client-error-not-possible What else can I try to kill off this monster? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM 9.0, RC1? Beta4? Rsync... can it????
It worked for me... I used carroll.aset.psu.edu and got 2.8x acceleration tim On Monday 02 September 2002 17:45 pm, s did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: On Monday 02 September 2002 07:33 pm, Franki wrote: Does anyone know if its possible to rsync my beta4 CD's to RC1 or the final release, (when it gets here?\) if only a dozen packages were changed, it'd be cool if I didn't have to download the whole iso's again. rgds Frank Maybe this might help. I haven't tried it, but it sounds good. http://www.palatialpond.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html hth, -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI database locked
Here is what I do: open a konsole, type 'ps -A' and look for a process with 'urpmi' in its name. note the PID. then type(you might have to be root for this) 'kill -9 PID', replacing PID with the appropreate number. Hope this helps, tim TFTD(thought for the day):It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. -- Jerome K. Jerome On Sunday 25 August 2002 10:01 am, David Johnson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I was forced to kill MandrakeUpdate because nothing happened after a long time of it scanning for updates. Now when I try to run it, I get URPMI database locked and can do nothing else with the program. a scan of man urpmi gave no clues. Does anyone have any idea how to remove the lock from the urpmi database? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] swat/telnet not installed
excellent! that is exactly what i needed. i have beem messing with xinetd.conf and everything seems ok. when i did a urmpi telnet the telnet-server-krb5 was the only possible rpm it could find. i didn't see a samba-swat tho. maybe i'll have to look online for that rpm. so you would do a /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinet restart instead of service xinet restart? From: Michael Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] swat/telnet not installed Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 22:56:46 -0500 You need to have the package telnet-server-krb5 installed to have a telnet server, For swat, you need samba-swat. If you don't have either installed, then they won't start. Telnet / swat are both handled via xinetd, so in order to have them running, you'll need to make sure they are installed, then make sure that the corresponding files for them under /etc/xinetd.d/ do not have disable = yes in them. If they do, change that to disable = no. Finally, restart xinet, by typing '/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinet restart' . Of course, you must be root to edit the xinetd files, install rpms, and restart xinetd. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations General Education Online http://www.findaschool.org At 12:29 PM 8/19/2002 -0700, you wrote: hello, i was looking in the services section of the mandrake control center and both swat and telnet are set to automatically start when the machine boots. i went hmmm when i saw that the services were stopped. i clicked on the start button and it said it couldnt find swat. same for telnet. i then did urpmi telnet and urpmi swat and it couldn't find them? any hints? t _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Outlook killers for Windows/Linux
what is the word on the street for Internet Exchange Messanger Server from IMA? http://www.ima.com/documents/release6_0.html From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: Outlook killers for Windows/Linux Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 19:51:20 -0500 On Tuesday 20 August 2002 07:15 pm, Warren Post wrote: What alternatives to Outlook exist for shared calendars, contacts, tasks, etc.? It has to run in both Windows and Linux, and has to be in Spanish. I've successfully switched our city government from MS Office to OpenOffice as a first step in migrating it to Linux later. Now we have a new city manager who wants either Outlook or something with similar groupware features for our LAN. He's cautiously open minded about open source and Linux, so even though the easy thing to do is buy a few copies of Outlook I'd much rather impress him with something open source (that will also work under Linux, thus making it easier to later dump Windows). I couldn't find anything on Freshmeat. Twig and phpgroupware, which come on the Mandrake CDs, are interesting cross platform groupware. Any other ideas? Thanks, Warren What about Evolution? Have you looked at that? It is very Outlookish. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] swat/telnet not installed
hello, i was looking in the services section of the mandrake control center and both swat and telnet are set to automatically start when the machine boots. i went hmmm when i saw that the services were stopped. i clicked on the start button and it said it couldnt find swat. same for telnet. i then did urpmi telnet and urpmi swat and it couldn't find them? any hints? t _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] how do i install wizdrake, or see if it is installed?
i have just done what i thought was a successful installation...but i can't tell if Wizdrake is installed. the documentation, Mandrake Linux 8.1: Reference manual, says it you have Wizdrake installed then you can use the wizards to help configure the Network, Samba, DNS, DHCP, etc. snipThe server configuration wizards are available through the Control Center. When the wizdrake package is installed, a new menu entry appears in the Mandrake Control Center tree menu (figure 15-2).snip When i run the Control Center i cannot see the new entry that is supposed to appear so i can then go to the screen depicted in fig 15-2. i wasn't prompted during install to load any wizards. I can't find in the Software Manager section of the Control Center where I can even install Wizdrake. any help? thx _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] oops sent wrong msg...how bout: telnet/swat installation
ignore my last msg about wizdrake...it was sent in error...what i meant to ask was: i can't figure out how to install telnet or swat. i look in the services section of the mandrake control center and it says telnet and swat are to start at boot. lo and behold they are stopped. i try to start them and i am told they cannot be found. i then try urpmi telnet and urpmi swat and urmpi can't find them to install them. any ideas? t _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] how do i install wizdrake, or see if it is installed?
i have just done what i thought was a successful installation...but i can't tell if Wizdrake is installed. the documentation, Mandrake Linux 8.1: Reference manual, says it you have Wizdrake installed then you can use the wizards to help configure the Network, Samba, DNS, DHCP, etc. snipThe server configuration wizards are available through the Control Center. When the wizdrake package is installed, a new menu entry appears in the Mandrake Control Center tree menu (figure 15-2).snip When i run the Control Center i cannot see the new entry that is supposed to appear so i can then go to the screen depicted in fig 15-2. i wasn't prompted during install to load any wizards. I can't find in the Software Manager section of the Control Center where I can even install Wizdrake. any help? thx _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kdm configure not working.
I've gone through and made this change, but I still get KDM for KDE2.x. If I then try and load KDE3, it gives me IceWM. I've been using this webpage to set it up. http://www.desktop-linux.net/kde3-tips.htm I went through and did as it says. And it doesn't make sense that merely changing the name in the Session suddenly tells it to load KDE3. I usually load a machine in init 3. But since this machine is for other users, I figured I'd start it in leve 5. For the life of me, I can't figure out why it's not loading KDE3's KDM, or why it runs IceWM when I select KDE3. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | I would guess that you still have KDE2 still loaded on your system. If so, it is |the kdm that loads instead of the KDE3 version (which is what you are configuring). |To get KDM from KDE3 to load change the last line in /etc/inittab to read: |x:5:respawn:/opt/kde3/bin/kdm -nodaemon (instead of x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm |-nodaemon) | and reboot your machine. BTW, you need to have root access to edit inittab (either |login as root or in a terminal window do a su command). | | Joe | | | On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 07:12:00 + | L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I have mdk 8.2 with kde3 in /opt. I tried to change kdm settings. Though I | could change them in dialog, it is not taking reflected when I logout/reboot. | What to do. I work in kde3. | -- | | L.V.Gandhi | 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 | MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA | [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042 | | | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com `--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mysterious Opening and Shutting CD-ROM
I got home yesterday, headed into my office, turned the monitors on and sat down to check email and IRC. Suddenly I hear something. Confused, I pay it no nevermind, but only at first. I took it for something going on outside to start. After about a minute or two, the sounds were too frequent and with exacting intervals, I finally decided to look around. Off to my right, where I have a number of machines sitting on the floor. My workstations CD-ROM tray was ejecting, then close, ejecting, then closing. You get the picture. My wonderment is, Why?? I was connected to the machine from work, as I always do. At no point did I run an ejecting command, and I can't think of anything I could have done to cause this to start. Has anybody run into this type of behavior, or am I to sumise that my machine was haunted, at least for the afternoon? Thanks for any insight on these bizzare events! tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Remote Login
Did you su to root before running this command? apachectl is something you need to be root to run. Thus it's been put in one of the various sbins on the machine. Unless you edit the $PATH for that user, it won't even see applications in /sbin, /usr/sbin, or /usr/local/sbin. You can't telnet into a server as root. So maybe you forgot to grant yourself root access before running this command. That's what first comes to my mind. Let us know. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | | | I made a telnet connection against my LINUX System and tried to run the | command apachectl but my system can´t recognize the sentence, but when | I´m on Console works fine... | A Telnet session, have all the privileges like a console session ?? | There is another way to have a remote access to my system ? | | Regards | | Nenister | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com `--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query
You didn't actually need to upgrade gcc. If you check the configure options, you'll find the option to --disable-gcc-checking. Mandrake was very nice to patch their built version of gcc for us. They've been doing this since 8.0. The configure script doesn't check for problems with it, it just checks the version number. I've been compiling MPlayer for some time, and each time I've used --disable-gcc-checking and I've had no problems, bug related that is, with it since. With the new versions, make sure you copy the MPlayer-0.90pre5/etc/codec.conf and MPlayer-0.90pre5/etc/input.conf to ~/.mplayer. There have been some changes made to it regularly. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | Thanks for the quick instructions! Worked first try (although I had to | upgrade gcc from 2.96 to 3.0.4). | `--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Latest Nvidia drivers
I just downloaded and installed the latest nvidia drivers, but im still having problems loading up glx on my computer. Anyone had any similar problems with nvidia drivers? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Latest Nvidia drivers
Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 28 May 2002 4:18 pm, Tim Ford wrote: I just downloaded and installed the latest nvidia drivers, but im still having problems loading up glx on my computer. Anyone had any similar problems with nvidia drivers? A few thoughts for you to check out:- Look in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions if you have a file called libGLcore.a then rename it or else GLX will not load correctly. I assume you have edited /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 correctly ? InsertLoad glx in the Modules section EditDriver nvidia in the Graphics section You do have Xfree 4.x enabled do you? Xfree3.x is not going to work. Try running glxinfo in a terminal. If you get pages of output then glx is working. Look in /var/log/XFree86.0.log for errors when loading X post the errors here if you do not understand what they mean. HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I had previously put in load glx' into that config file, but hadn't changed the driver name. One other thing i noticed that in my extension i don't have a libglcore at all, but i do have a libglx.so What puzzles me is that it has the extension .so which makes it a executable binary, instead of being an archive (.a). is that correct and am i wrong? and when running glxinfo - xlib: extension glx missing on display :0.0 comes up multiple times. anyway, im restarting x, and hoping for the best. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Program help
Ok, i have configured the bpalogin.conf and ran chmod on bpalogin (though every reboot/relogin it reverts... but anyway). Now i ran what you said through the command line - /usr/sbin/bpalogin -c /etc/bpalogin.conf now i ran that, nothing happened in the terminal except a new line appearing, however i was able to connect to the internet for a limited time. after about 1 minute it stopped working (story of my life), and i attribute that to the heartbeat problem. is that correct? so i opened up firestarter, and gave it permission to allow the port 5050 from the qld (my state) inital ip address. however, it kept refusing my connection, so i will reboot in a sec and attempt again. two things puzzled me - 1. I run bpalogin from nautilis, and nothing happens at all. 2. No confirmation or anything appears when i do the above bpalogin command from the terminal. on a side note, linuxconf is configured correctly in that - my 3 ip addresses are for the qld servers, and my domain name is qld.bigpond.net.au. is there anything i haven;t done that still doesn't allow me to have a continuous connection, or have i done something wrong, or am i asking the wrong people and there is a how-to to setup this. any help would be appreciated. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Program help
Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 19:14, Tim Ford wrote: Ok, i have configured the bpalogin.conf and ran chmod on bpalogin (though every reboot/relogin it reverts... but anyway). Now i ran what you said through the command line - /usr/sbin/bpalogin -c /etc/bpalogin.conf now i ran that, nothing happened in the terminal except a new line appearing, however i was able to connect to the internet for a limited time. after about 1 minute it stopped working (story of my life), and i attribute that to the heartbeat problem. is that correct? so i opened up firestarter, and gave it permission to allow the port 5050 from the qld (my state) inital ip address. however, it kept refusing my connection, so i will reboot in a sec and attempt again. two things puzzled me - 1. I run bpalogin from nautilis, and nothing happens at all. 2. No confirmation or anything appears when i do the above bpalogin command from the terminal. on a side note, linuxconf is configured correctly in that - my 3 ip addresses are for the qld servers, and my domain name is qld.bigpond.net.au. is there anything i haven;t done that still doesn't allow me to have a continuous connection, or have i done something wrong, or am i asking the wrong people and there is a how-to to setup this. any help would be appreciated. Sounds like you are nearly there. In the config file there is a line commented out by default that reads: localport 5050 Have you uncommented this? If not, the port can be random I think. Just running bpalogin as root should make it run as a daemon. In fact it will probably already have set itself up like this and be running when you reboot. Any messages will end up in your syslog. Try: tail /var/log/messages and you should see something about bpalogin there. bpalogin will relogin whenever the connection times out, so that should be all you require. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Actually, i now have it working. The config file is setup properly, firestarter is working and i have been connected for more than a few minutes. I didn't understand that it ran as a daemon (i do now), and all i need to do is learn how to configure it to run as soon as i login as my user. But i'll work that out myself. Thanks for all your help brian, i wouldnt have been connected if it weren't for your help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Program help
Tim Ford wrote: Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 19:14, Tim Ford wrote: Ok, i have configured the bpalogin.conf and ran chmod on bpalogin (though every reboot/relogin it reverts... but anyway). Now i ran what you said through the command line - /usr/sbin/bpalogin -c /etc/bpalogin.conf now i ran that, nothing happened in the terminal except a new line appearing, however i was able to connect to the internet for a limited time. after about 1 minute it stopped working (story of my life), and i attribute that to the heartbeat problem. is that correct? so i opened up firestarter, and gave it permission to allow the port 5050 from the qld (my state) inital ip address. however, it kept refusing my connection, so i will reboot in a sec and attempt again. two things puzzled me - 1. I run bpalogin from nautilis, and nothing happens at all. 2. No confirmation or anything appears when i do the above bpalogin command from the terminal. on a side note, linuxconf is configured correctly in that - my 3 ip addresses are for the qld servers, and my domain name is qld.bigpond.net.au. is there anything i haven;t done that still doesn't allow me to have a continuous connection, or have i done something wrong, or am i asking the wrong people and there is a how-to to setup this. any help would be appreciated. Sounds like you are nearly there. In the config file there is a line commented out by default that reads: localport 5050 Have you uncommented this? If not, the port can be random I think. Just running bpalogin as root should make it run as a daemon. In fact it will probably already have set itself up like this and be running when you reboot. Any messages will end up in your syslog. Try: tail /var/log/messages and you should see something about bpalogin there. bpalogin will relogin whenever the connection times out, so that should be all you require. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Actually, scrap that last message (ARRRHH!!). I obviously didn't wait the full 5 mins before firing that email off. I still have my internet disconnect after 5 mins. I've opened up everything i think in firestarter, the localport is uncommented, and i still get kicked off. And i tried reconnecting, and i cannot. I know im probably annoying, but im trying everything i know and can do, and it still not giving me proper connectivity. Do you know a way to ensure im not killed by the hearbeat? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Program help
Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 12:43, Tim Ford wrote: A few quick questions - Im trying to get internet connectivity through Telstra Big Pond cable. I have run ifconfig, and it showed me which one was connecting. For the second part, i needed to run a program which allows me to access the cable line. It came in RPM fashion, i installed it, and now i cannot run the program, as it doesn't show up in my run list, and the binary has the descritption application/x-octetstream. i was wondering how i could go about running the program (i run gnome, btw), and/or finding where i went wrong in the installation. Tim, I have set up bigpond cable for customers. I had to use a thing called bpalogin. It's easy to set up and use. Can mail it to your privately if you like. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Actually, thats the problem. I have Bpalogin rpm, and i installed it, however i cannot run it. When i go to the binary of it, it says its not an application (it says its an octetstream), and i am unsure how to run it, delete it or reinstall it. Any help would be appreciated. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] aliases
Word to the wise, do not toy with /etc/profile.d/. Just leave those alone, and as I've detailed in the past, create your own ~/.aliases for your user. (Check the archives. This has been covered before.) The best place to add your aliases is in ~/.aliases. Yes, you can put them in ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile, but it's best to keep those files small, and a typo is more friendly in ~/.aliases then it would be in ~/.bashrc etc; So set up your ~/.aliases by using your favorite text editor. Here's the format: alias alias_name=command_to_alias Here's an example: alias mp='mplayer -vo x11' To get rid of an alias, use the unalias command. It's built into the shell. $ type unalias unalias is a shell builtin So after you've created all your aliases in ~/.aliases, end the file with your Unaliases Unalias unalias md unalias d Follow that format. It will prevent problems in the future, and you're not affecting other users that might want those default aliases. alias rm=rm -i is a good example. After you've created/edited your ~/.aliases, at the end of your ~/.bashrc add this line: source ~/.aliases This will set up aliases for each time you open a new terminal. Source your ~/.bashrc and it will re-read your environment files. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | Hi, | When I types aliases on Mandrake 8.2 I get list of aliases. Say if I want | to remove a few of them, whichfile should I edit? | Thanks and bye. | -Payal | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com `--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] msec --PERM.LOCAL file format
On April 24, 2002 00:07, Fred Fraley wrote: Can someone point me to the format for the perm.local file for msec? I find references to same as ... but the files referred to don't exist on my system. Specifically -- at level 3 the umask of 022 doesn't allow write access to my /mnt/windows directory for wine. I have created a windows group and added the group to user profiles Now I want to change the umask to 007. I can umount and remount to get things working, but msec's resetting back to the defaults is frustrating. Tnx, Fred Fred: Have a look at the files in /usr/share/msec There is a perm.x there for each level of msec. Hope this helps, -- Tim C [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Monitor
It depends on your video card configuration. If you have a card with dualhead built in, then it's usually just proper drivers from the manufacturer. It seems that 8.2 automatically installs and recognizes dualhead on a video card. I'm running the Matrox G400 MAX. My business partner's running the G550 I believe. He installed 8.2 on that machine recently and it saw in the install that he had dual display support, installed the driver. All he had to do was install Matrox's software to configure the dual display. If you're going to use two video cards, things can be much different and at times more difficult. But it's possible. I've toyed with the idea of putting a second video card in my workstation to stretch my display total to 3, but not sure it's worth it. It is very do-able. It's been possible for a while now as I understand it. Just depends on how you go about implimenting it. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | How do I go about configuring Dual Montiors. It's now the only thing keeping | me from going full linux and throwing my windows copy in the garbage. Anyone | know how I go about settting up dual monitors.. Please help | | Jesse Angell | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com `--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do you create a RPM files from Tarball sources
# rpm -ta gtk-gnutella-0.80.tar.gz SNIP Wrote: /usr/src/RPM/SRPMS/gtk-gnutella-0.80-1.src.rpm Wrote: /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/gtk-gnutella-0.80-1.i686.rpm Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.84635 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + cd gtk-gnutella-0.80 + rm -rf /var/tmp/gtk-gnutella-root + exit 0 That's another way of doing it. So now you could check out the RPM that's stored at /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/gtk-gnutella-0.80-1.i686.rpm, or /usr/src/RPM/SRPMS/gtk-gnutella-0.80-1.src.rpm. Hope that's what you're looking for. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | Can you help me. | I need to learn how to create rpm files from tar files. | I want to experiment with alsa-driver-0.9.0beta9.tar.bz2 | | SNIP | | This oneseems to like my system, but it would seem I also | need version h first , what ever that is. | | I have compiled and installed tar balls before, I downloaded and installed a | scanner driver for my mustek scanner, with some supervision,meaning with | someone to ask, if need be,which works, and I have done a number of simpler | things on my own. | | SO HOW DO I GO ABOUT IT. | and what is version.h | I feel that it falls into two parts, preperation and action. | For instance do I have all necessary software installed to create | rpm's from tar balls, and if not what do I need to do. | | Thank you, | | John | | -- | John Richard Smith | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com `--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] weird log...
Basically, the system's being lazy with the log. In some cases this can
almost be seen as a good thing. It means your don't have much writing
to the log.
All you need to do is find the what it's repeating. It should be last
line written ABOVE all of those things. Here's an example from my log.
Apr 16 02:47:32 localhost snort[29743]: [1:477:1] ICMP Source Quench
[Classification: Potentially Bad Traffic] [Priority: 2]: {ICMP}
Apr 16 02:49:04 r2d2 last message repeated 7 times
So it repeated the line from snort 7 times before something interrupted
what it was doing, then made it print again.
All you have to do is find out what's above all of those. Try this
command, it may give you the line that it's repeating.
grep -B 5 repeated /var/log/messages
So it finds every line that has repeated in it, then prints the 5 lines
BEFORE it as well. Check the man page for grep for more options. If
you don't get anything printed with the above command, change the 5 to a
10.
Hope that helps.
tdh
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| hi..
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| i've just noticed a funny thing on my machine.. i switched
| to tty12 to look at the messages being displayed there
| and saw something like this:
|
| Apr 18 15:11:15 localhost last message repeated 2 times
| Apr 18 15:12:17 localhost last message repeated 2 times
| Apr 18 15:13:19 localhost last message repeated 2 times
| Apr 18 15:14:21 localhost last message repeated 2 times
| Apr 18 15:15:23 localhost last message repeated 2 times
| Apr 18 15:16:25 localhost last message repeated 2 times
| Apr 18 15:17:27 localhost last message repeated 2 times
|
| all over the screen, every exactly 1 minute 2 seconds. i have no clue about
| this.. i've shut down every program except for my wm ( fluxbox ) and sylpheed.
| does anyone know what his means? it's the first time i get this...
|
| thanks.
|
| Damian
|
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Re: [newbie] New silly Question. ;) Recommend good file manager?
Hey Femme. I think what you're looking for is ROX. Somebody asked me on #mandrake what file manager I use. You know I'm a console man, so my answer was xterm. However, somebody else came up with the option of ROX. It's pretty simple, but you can set up defaults to open up certain file types, and it is GUI of course. I've installed it, but have only played with it breifly. It looks nice, and appears to be pretty functional though. Check it out, it may be what you're looking for in E. But keep in mind you can still use your other file managers in E. You can run Konqueror in if you'd like. http://rox.sourceforge.net/rox_filer.php3 Hope that helps! tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | I need a semi-decent one. KDE uses Konqueror, and I tried GWC?... for | enlightenment. | | I hated GWC *or whatever its called*. Any ideas? :) | | Right now I have the default SU FM and thats it in Enlightenment. | | Thx | Femme | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com `--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I just found the strangest thing...
Is there some console tool which will search some online dictionary for definitions? At work we used to have a tool call webster. Which would do just that, but it was discontinued and I've never been able to find something like that. Does anybody have any sort of idea/suggestions for this? Thank you. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | I loaded gdict (I would assume that this would work with kdict as well), which | is set to use the server dict.org on port 2628. I then entered the word | defenestration (without the quotes). Here's what I got: | | defenestration n. mythically from a traditional Czech | assasination method, via SF fandom 1. Proper karmic retribution | for an incorrigible punster. Oh, ghod, that was _awful_! Quick! | Defenestrate him! 2. The act of exiting a window system in order to | get better response time from a full-screen program. This comes from | the dictionary meaning of `defenestrate', which is to throw something out | a window. 3. The act of discarding something under the assumption that | it will improve matters. I don't have any disk space left. Well, | why don't you defenestrate that 100 megs worth of old core dumps? | 4. Under a GUI, the act of dragging something out of a window (onto | the screen). Next, defenestrate the MugWump icon. 5. The act of | completely removing Micro$oft Windows from a PC in favor of a better OS | (typically Linux). | | Can anyone verify this? | | -- | Sridhar Dhanapalan | | Jennifer Lopez = JLo (pron: Jay-Low). | Bill Gates = BGa (pron: Be-Gay). | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com `--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need an explanation about LICQ
Hey Femme. Well, I read both of your messages, and a bit confused. From the message below, it sounds as if you already have LICQ installed. The next email goes through and details how to install LICQ from binary. So do you have LICQ installed and can't configure? Or did you try and install it from another source to see if that fixed the problem? As for your message below. It's been a while now, but a majority of ICQ clients/clones have had problems sending messages, as well as recieving messages with any sort of regularity. It was the point that I was getting/sending messages that would arrive about 65% of the time. That's why I installed an IRC server on my network to talk to friends with. As for your inquirery below, nslookup is a Name Server lookup tool. You give it an IP address or a name, it then queries the default Name Servers to get your information back. However it's being slowly phased out. $ nslookup icq.mirabilis.com Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases. Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead. Run nslookup with the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing. Server: 68.42.244.6 Address:68.42.244.6#53 Non-authoritative answer: icq.mirabilis.com canonical name = icq.fes.mirabilis.com. icq.fes.mirabilis.com canonical name = 1.fes.mirabilis.com. Name: 1.fes.mirabilis.com Address: 205.188.153.97 Name: 1.fes.mirabilis.com Address: 205.188.153.98 Take not to the not just below the command. Host will give you the same basic information, however I've always liked nslookup. $ host icq.mirabilis.com icq.mirabilis.com is an alias for icq.fes.mirabilis.com. icq.fes.mirabilis.com is an alias for 1.fes.mirabilis.com. 1.fes.mirabilis.com has address 205.188.153.97 1.fes.mirabilis.com has address 205.188.153.98 Checking my LICQ configs, it's pointed to icq.mirabilis.com and default server port is 4000. BUT!! But, I really only have it on to tell me who's on line. It's good for that, but I don't think I've sent/recieved a message in quite some time. [network] AllowNewUsers = 1 NumOfServers = 3 DefaultServerPort = 4000 #Server1 = login.icq.com Server1 = icq.mirabilis.com Server2 = icq2.mirabilis.com Server3 = icq3.mirabilis.com If your ~/.licq/licq.conf doesn't look like that, give it a try. I've been on the LICQ mailing list for some time now. Why I'm still on there any more, I don't know. I used to test the CVS trees and all that good stuff, but then I gave up on LICQ due to the changes that AOL made. Hope that helps a little! tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | I sent this *accidentally* to Ollie on the list :| | | *sigh* I feel stupid now but I still need help with this if possible? | | | OK I've been reading the LICQ homepage FAQ. | | Helpful to a point. However my problem seems to be the one that comes | with LM8.2 works but I cannot change the default servers. And if I do, | they don't work. The solution *according to the FAQ* is to do thus: | | This is a problem with the ICQ servers and people who use icq2000. For | some reason a selection of the icq servers do not allow you to log on | using another client after using | icq2000. | The solution? Edit ~/.licq/licq.conf and set the servers to be a valid | icq.mirabilis.com ip except 205.188.153.*, e.g. 205.188.179.33. Try | nslookup icq.mirabilis.com for more. | This, hopefully, will make it work. In any case, it's not a LICQ | problem, but a mirabilis stupidity. | | I understand the stupidity line. Thats about it ;0 | | OK so what's nslookup and how do I do it? How does it work what do | I do once it provides me with the information I need? | | FWIW, the windows clients connect to login.icq.com on port 5190. | | I set that info up in the ~/.licq/licq.conf file. It times out. I | checked their bugsite and its pretty useless. It lists this as an open | problem thats all. | | The best suggestion they have is to upgrade to a newer version. Anyone | using the new one? Does it solve this problem? | | Thx | | Femme | | *Sorry no humour today! read the Sig!* :) | | -- | Good Decisions You boss Made: | | We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that | character from Peanuts. | | - Source: Dilbert `--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Script
Here are a few of them that I've gone back to and toyed with from time to time. -- Basica walk through http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/programming/introbashscript.html -- Another basica HOW-TO http://www.pxh.de/fs/svcd/index.html -- And my favorite, how to add colors to your scripts output! :') http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue65/padala.html Check those out. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | Jesse Angell wrote: | | Thanks, that did just what I wanted. | Does anyone on the list have a URL to a guide on how to script? | | I ask as I am interested in doing many things automatically and can't | ask you guys to right the scripts for me. | | Thanks | -- | === | Hylton Conacher on KDE 2.1.1 on kernel 2.4.3-20mdk#1 | Registered Linux user # 229959 on Mandrake 8 on an i686 (AMD 1 Ghz K7 | mobo | Licenced Windows user | === | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com `--- -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unisys, Microsoft to launch anti-Unix ads
What I like is SUN's response: Sun still does not see Microsoft as a real threat in the datacenter market where reliability, availability, serviceability and security are key, the company said. As for Unix being 'inflexible,' 'expensive,' and 'complex,' we feel those are terms much better suited to the closed and proprietary world of Windows. I think the French term is Touché. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | http://news.com.com/2100-1001-870805.html?legacy=cnettag=pt.msnbc.feed..ne_9506331 | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com `--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] adding date to tar.gz file?
Just add an executable line to the name of the tar.gz by using date. Pretty simple. I do it all the time. tar -zxf /path/to/file-`date +%m-%d-%y`.tar.gz /path/to/dir/to/backup You'll end up with /path/to/file-03-26-02.tar.gz Check out date --help for all the possible flags, so you can get your tar file as specific as you'd like. Including the time, just the day and month, format, etc; Hope that helps ya. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | I have a script I use to backup some important files in my home directory. It works |fine but I would like it to add the curent date to the file name IE: |backup-03-26-02.tar.gz instead of just backup.tar.gz | Any suggestions on how to do this? I looked in the tar man and tar howto but |couldn't find exact syntax for the current date. | thanks | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com `--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm Locked Out!
Did you try to unmount the devices? Make sure you're not currently accessing something on either one, then run the commands: umount /mnt/floppy eject That should unmount the floppy so you can eject it manually. The eject command will unmount the CD, if it was mounted, before it ejects it. From there, put the floppy back in, and run the command: mount /mnt/floppy Then try to access the contents of the floppy. Similar steps with the CD-ROM. Insert the CD: mount /mnt/cdrom cd /mnt/cdrom ls -a I'm not sure how the automount works in 8.2. It may need to be tweaked a bit. But now I have a question. Why did you upgrade to 8.2? If 8.1 was working, and you weren't having any problems, why did you upgrade to 8.2? It seems a lot of people think that as soon a new revision comes out, they have to upgrade to the new rev. That's not the case. In previous revs that was needed. There was a good sized jump in kernel capabilities and hardware additions from 7.2 to 8.0. So there was a need to upgrade there. But from 8.1, to 8.2, I don't believe there is. I've noticed, more so this time then with the last two Mandrake revs, that people are upgrading merely because there's a new version. Micro$HAFT has conditioned people to think that a new version is out, and you have to upgrade. This is not the case with Linux. If you keep your apps and patches up to date, there's no need to upgrade. There are still people on the list that run on Mandrake 7.2. In my opinion it's still the most stable of Mandrake's releases. If you upgrade the kernel and apply safty patches and the like, there's still no need to upgrade. At the time I only went to 8.0 because of better hardware support. Hope my suggestions helped. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | I just installed the new and improved Mandrake 8.2. It was harder to get | my DSL up than with the 8.1. I've only been running Linux for about three | weeks. I like the CDRom icons, but there is one problem. My Floppy, and my | two CDRoms are locked. Even to super user. I thought it was a permission | problem, but I can't get in. What should I do. By the way, thanks for | answering my questions without flaming the heck out of me. I guess I'm used | to some ruff newsgroups. | | Thanks, | | Don | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com `--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 3-button mouse
Try running mouseconfig again. **As root mouseconfig Go through that, and then try testing it again. Of course if you've not done that already. But I think that's where I'd start. I think that will ask you to test the mouse and let you know if it's going to work. I have a Kensington Expert Mouse Pro, and it works just fine. Mouse wheel, and 3 of the 4 mouse buttons work. And if I had time, I could probably get the 6 quick start buttons to work if I really worked at it. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | Hi, | | The middle button of my mouse isn't working. It is properly setup as Generic | 3 Button Mouse in Mandrake Control Center. But it simply doesn't work. I | remember it working correctly under LM 8.0. Does anybody know what could be | wrong? | | TIA, | | -- | Guilherme Cirne | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] translucent shell window
Check out the man/help pages for aterm and Eterm. aterm -tr That should give you a transparant background. Eterm 0.8.*, ~I BELIEVE~, gives you a transparant background by default. But I don't know if that's the case. I do know that with the right tags, or by clicking through the menu you can easily have a transparent background. You can also add tint to those and the like. I'd create a screen shot of some examples, but that's not that easy from here at work. If you're interested in some more information and or examples, feel free to email me directly. Transparent *terms are pretty sweet. I use a lot of them at home. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | I was wondering how I could get the shell window to appear translucent. | | Thanks in advance, | Mithrilhall | | * | * Mithrilhall's Linux* | * Server * | * AMD-K2 350MHz* | * http://mithrilhall.redirectme.net * | * | | | | _ | Do You Yahoo!? | Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] alias problem
To the best of my knowledge, this is a Linux thing. Now, Manadrake may use the /etc/profile.d/alias.sh script, but Linux uses the /etc/profile.d to keep some of it's aliases like that. Checking on a RedHAT machine, I can see other *.sh as well as *.csh files in that directory for setting up aliases. So this isn't something that's entirely Mandrake specific. One other thing. Somebody asked did you reboot after making those settings. Reboots are for two reasons. 1) Hardware upgrades 2) New Kernel installs. Never reboot your machine because you installed an application, or your application crashed. The 'source command or the '.' command can read settings changed like that. Just tell the current shell to re-read those settings, a new shell spawned will auto- matically read those settings. We stopped using Windows so we didn't have to waste time rebooting! tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | thanks for the detailed reply. For systemwide change i used to in | bashrc.Fundanental thing I wasnot knowing that about /etc/profile.d/alias.sh. | Is it specific to mdk 8.1 ? | -- | L.V.Gandhi | 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 | MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA | [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042 -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor
| On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 11:34:55AM +0100, Kaj Haulrich wrote: | Indeed, thinking that Linux needs PhotoShop, man what do you think the | GIMP does? Clearly not well researched as the only thing PhotoShop does | that GIMP doesn't yet is CYMK colour - that's coming though. | I think the point's being missed here. Yes, GIMP will do most of the things that Photoshop does, but is it as familiar and as widely used as Photoshop? Photoshop has become a very well known, accepted standard, for image editing. Being used on Macs as well PCs. I know quite a few people who started out just playing with Photoshop for the hell of it, then turned into Photoshop gurus. For all I know that's possible and true with GIMP, but who do you know that doesn't know about Photoshop? When it comes down to it, it's what are people used to and comfortable using? And if Linux were get Photoshop, it could take over more of the PC market. I think most would agree with that. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] alias problem
Okay, let's back up here a second.
1) If you want ot add an alias, let's do this right.
a) Edit your ~/.bashrc, adding this line at the very bottom
of the file:
source ~/.aliases
2) Create your ~/.aliases by opening your favorite editor.
vim ~/.aliases
alias l=ls -alF --color=yes |more
** note **
An alias will work with quotes () or an apostrophe (').
This is the correct way about doing this. Use this method before you start
editing /etc/profile, or /etc/bashrc. The reason for this is that those files
access another file that you didn't seem to know about, and it's reading those
files first, since they're higher in the pecking order.
At a prompt, type this command: type l
$ type l
l is aliased to `ls'
It's already alisted to that. Editing my ~/.aliases to reflect the line of:
alias l=ls -alF --color=yes |more
$ source ~/.aliases
$ type l
l is aliased to `ls -alF --color=yes |more'
It's reading my ~/.aliases, which is what YOU want, and is behaving as it should.
So you know, these bash aliases are stored in /etc/profile.d/alias.sh. That's where
the aliases for rm -i and more are kept. I would not suggest editing those. If you
don't like those things, change them in your ~/.aliases, but leave the sytem wide
settings as they are.
SO... the reason why l is still giving you ls output is because you've edited the
wrong file and added your aliases. Follow steps 1 and 2 above and your problem will
be fixed.
tdh
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| I have made an alias in /etc/bashrc, $HOME/.bashrc and $HOME/.bash_profile
| as given below
| alias l=ls -alF --color=yes |more
| this doesn't give the desired/actual result as given in command line.
| Any help please.
| --
| L.V.Gandhi
| 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017
| MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA
| [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042
|
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Re: [newbie] alias problem
| Okay, let's back up here a second.
|
| 1) If you want ot add an alias, let's do this right.
|
| a) Edit your ~/.bashrc, adding this line at the very bottom
| of the file:
|
| source ~/.aliases
|
| 2) Create your ~/.aliases by opening your favorite editor.
|
| vim ~/.aliases
| alias l=ls -alF --color=yes |more
|
| ** note **
| An alias will work with quotes () or an apostrophe (').
|
| This is the correct way about doing this. Use this method before you start
| editing /etc/profile, or /etc/bashrc. The reason for this is that those files
| access another file that you didn't seem to know about, and it's reading those
| files first, since they're higher in the pecking order.
Sorry, one more comment. Once you've done this, source your ~/.aliases, either
of the two lines will do that for you
. ~/.aliases
source ~/.aliases
I forget a step. So make that step 3.
tdh
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Re: [newbie] Speed.... Or lack of?
Sure. Never use KDE or GNome. If you ask me, which you didn't, but I'm going to tell you anyway, (lol) KDE and Gnome were written for converted Windows users, with the Windows philosphy in mind. They are intensely bloated system hogs. So much so that it bogs a system down when you're not running KDE or Gnome, but want to use a KDE/Gnome app real quick. Example: I'm a full time Enlightenment user. I don't use any other WM's in conjunction with Enlightenment, just E, and nothing else. I opened gvim which is basically Gnome ViM. I've been doing a lot work with procmail lately, and it was just a little easier to use. With two of those open, both instances editing two or three files, I noticed a huge performance difference. I closed all of them, and suddenly I was running up to normal again. Samething goes with KDE. I used to use ksnapshot to take screen shots, but it takes 15 seconds for the damn thing to load since I don't run KDE. Because of that, I wrote myself a screenshot script so I wouldn't have to use that thing ever again! I would suggest getting some more RAM. Your machine can run on that hardware and run very well. Hell, for me, that's an ideal machine to uninstall XF86 and use as my console machine. But if you need something like KDE/Gnome, then you need more RAM. And lots of it. Since KDE takes a large chunk of the RAM when it loads, and then trying to load other hogging KDE apps. So two suggestions. Never, EVER, use KDE or Gnome Upgrade your RAM to at least 128, however I would suggest 256 or more. Check out www.crucial.com/ for inexpensive RAM prices. Hope that helps a little. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | I just installed Mandrake 8.1 on my machine. | | PIII @ 733MHz 64 MB Ram, 40 GIG HDD, With about 38 GIGs free. | | After I use KDE or GNOME and browse the internet for a while (maybe 20 or 30 | mins), the machines starts bogging down so bad that it takes MINUTES to open | new windows, check mail, open apps, etc etc... | | | Any ideas or suggestions? | | Thanks. | | | JD | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Enlightenment
You're trying to create a menu for your LEFT mouse click? What you need to do is create ~/.enlightenment/file.menu. Here's the format you need, and an example from mine. User Menus Menu Name NULL menu menuname.menu APP NAME /path/to/icon exec /path/to/command That's the basic format. He's an example of what I have in one of my menus. Eterm /usr/X11R6/share/icons/mini/Eterm.xpm exec Eterm Some people actually type /exec /usr/bin/Eterm but it's not needed. As long as the command is in your $PATH, it will run the app for you. I hope that's what you're asking for, let me know if it's not though. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | I am creating a custom menu but don't know the paths to the defaults apps that are |in the middle click menu. For instance where is the command to run e-term ect. | | PK | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] On the Subject of clocks ... Need Enlightenment
I use Enlightenment full time, and have done so for over two years now. For a lot of E users, they are provided a clock by another app. Many use the app gkrellm. Here's a screen shot of the two I have running on my desktop right now. There's an option of it displaying a clock, as well as doing other things for you. (Displaying when you have mail, users on the machine, ssh, ftp, sftp connections, and 'many many more!') http://ic.net/~timh/gkrellm_clock.png The little fish tank looking thing in the middle is something unrelated to gkrellm. But it has a clock under the host name, and date. A lot of E users use an app like that. It servers multiple functions and think it looks kewl as well! :') Of course there are more generic ways of doing it with xclock. It's completely up to your likes and dislikes. There also may be epplets that have a clock. I think if you check out /usr/bin/E-Clock.epplet. You can use that as well. Check out GKrellM's webpage. Youcan download it there, and find plugins to use with it as well. http://web.wt.net/~billw/gkrellm/gkrellm.html Hope that helps. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com | yes OK Bad joke in subject line | | I literally need a clock in Elightenment. I'm so frigging clueless... Every | other WM. has one... Even that weirdo TWM. I have tried all the WM's Mandrake | 8.x has to offer by default. I don't remember if there is one in Blackbox | (haven't played with it much). | | So far I am partial to KDE *yay windowsy interface i can handle!* | Enlightenment *Yay Linuxy interface I can handle!* | | But... the lack of a clock in E is driving me insane! | | Help? | | Femme | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com - Uptime --- 2:04PM up 2:24, 1 user, load averages: 0.06, 0.03, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problem with Mouse Freezing.
Hello, I'm a newbie, having just installed Mdk8.1 as a dual boot with my Win2K machine. The problem is I have 3 machines which use a Video/Keyboard/Mouse switch. If I start Mdk8.1 everything is fine, but once I switch to one of the other machines and then switch back, the Mouse has Frozen..:( Is there any way to unfreeze the mouse with out shutting down? -- Best regards, Tim mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Alias question...
*Slight* correction. :0) In bash you need quotes if the alias includes spaces. Example: alias z=zwrite That DOES NOT need quotes. alias mp='mplayer -vo x11' This alias DOES need quotes. I know... I'm nit-picking, just giving away free information! :0) tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | On Saturday 29 December 2001 17:06, you wrote: | Hi. I'm trying to get to alias's (pleural sp?) to work and am having | a problem. Here is what I put into /home/darklord/.bashrc: | | alias diablo2=winex /mnt/windows/Program\ Files/Diablo\ II/Game.exe | alias starcraft=winex /mnt/windows/Program\ | Files/Starcraft/starcraft.exe | | Bash always complains that it can not find either of the *.exe files. | It doesn't complain about the path to them... | | In bash you need quotes around the aliased command if it consists of | more than one word. | | S | | -- | Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines | Remove the fruit to obtain reply address: | spencer at lasermount satsuma dot uklinux dot net | 5:57pm up 35 days, 3:57, 13 users, load average: 0.05, 0.12, 0.20 | Registered Linux User #232457 | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com - Uptime --- 6:06PM up 66 days, 6:45, 3 users, load averages: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how do I save any html page
I can't remember, but doesn't the wget command get the HTML and the images? Or there's an option to tell it to do so? I stopped using it since it was so darn slow, but maybe somebody else can answer that question. man wget wget --help tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | Hi... | i want to save a html page, but when I did it with Konqueror... it only | saved the text, and i need the images... I mean i need the page like in the | internet but off-line... How do I do that with konqueror or any app?? | | thanks | -- | Usuario Registrado | de Linux #232544 | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -Uptime --- 1:59PM up 25 days, 2:39, 1 user, load averages: 0.01, 0.03, 0.00 --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Outlook Express to Linux - how can I - also Draughting package needed
It turns out that the Eudora mail files are almost mbx. There are actually two files for each mailbox. One is mailbox_name.mbx and there's Mailbox_name.toc. Why this is done, I'm not entirely sure. I think it keeps the info for attachments and the like. The problem is, even plain text emails, are then translated into HTML in Eudora. So no matter how you download it, it turns it into HTML. So when I tried to add some of my old backed up Eudora Pro mail folders to my current mail folders, they're all in HTML. Now I have mutt set up to use a text browser to show stuff like this, but I have to initiate it via a few key strokes, and it just gets annoying. I guess if I didn't hate KMail so much, and used that, I wouldn't have this grip. But I can't stand it, and mutt is more functional, and better suited for me. The same sort of issue may be the case with Look out Express mail folders, but think goodness I haven't had to use that since October of '98! tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | On Wednesday 14 November 2001 02:07, Tim Holmes wrote: | From what I've read, and what I've played with, you don't need to make | the Outlook Express mail file anything. You should be able to use it | as is, and then port it to something you can use in *nix. | | http://freshmeat.net/projects/mbx2mbox/ | | I was looking for something to port Eudora Pro mail files to Linux, and | had a bit of frustration and problems and then it didn't really do that | well of a job. But check out that app above. Maybe it will work. | tdh | | | According to chapter 7 of the Kmail manual Euroda Pro files are already in | the same format as Kmail. All you have to do is copy them over in the right | place. | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -Uptime --- 1:01AM up 22 days, 13:41, 2 users, load averages: 0.21, 0.09, 0.03 --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Outlook Express to Linux - how can I - also Draughting package needed
From what I've read, and what I've played with, you don't need to make the Outlook Express mail file anything. You should be able to use it as is, and then port it to something you can use in *nix. http://freshmeat.net/projects/mbx2mbox/ I was looking for something to port Eudora Pro mail files to Linux, and had a bit of frustration and problems and then it didn't really do that well of a job. But check out that app above. Maybe it will work. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | | I am still a captive of Windows, mainly because I depend on Autocad and I | have a relatively huge mail archive stuck in Outlook Express. | | Because of this dependency I find that while I am in Windows I make full use | of it's other facilities - Office97 etc. and only try to familiarise myself | with MLinux in my 'spare' time. | | I would very much like to take the plunge and go full-time Linux but I want | to bring my mail archives with me in some form where I can consider them MY | files - such as delimited ascii at worst or an accessible indexed database | format at best. | | So, does anyone know of: | a) a prog that will convert OE files | b) a draghting package similar to Autocad for Linux. | | TIA | | Dave S. | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -Uptime --- 9:05PM up 20 days, 9:45, 4 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] web page woe's
24-net... which one? Are you running off a RoadRunner connection? They closed down port 80 after the CodeRed fiasco. So you'd have to change the port you use for your webserver in httpd.conf to something like port 90. That's what most people do. http://name.dns.com:90/ is how you'd access it. But make sure you have the processes running. Run these commands. [root@r2d2 /root]# /etc/init.d/httpd status Apache is running. httpd: 1308 19629 19628 19627 19310 19309 19308 19307 1074 Apache-mod_perl is running. httpd-perl: 1064 1063 1062 1061 1060 Use /etc/init.d/httpd extendedstatus for more information. [root@r2d2 /root]# /etc/init.d/network status Configured devices: lo eth0 /Devices that are down: Devices with modified configuration: [root@r2d2 /root]# /etc/init.d/sshd status sshd (pid 709) is running... If you get output similar to that, then you should be able to acquire connections from the outside world. By default, Mandrake 8.0 does not install Bastille, and even if you do have iptables installed, there aren't any set up to block certain traffic. First thing, make sure you can ping the machine. Can you ping your work machine? There might be something on your work firewall that's denying you. So do some testing on both sides to find out where the problem is. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | I have a little problem. I set up a web page on my linux mandrake 8.0 | server and am unable to get to it remotely. | | I can connect to it on a small local network (3 winblows systems and a | mandrake server) by typing in the ip of the local address (192.xxx.x.x) | or the external ip(24.x.x.x)but as soon as I try to connect from out side | ie work there is no trace. no ping no telnet no ssh no nothing. | | I am not running a firewall (to my knowledge). Any help would be great. | | | Lost in Linux | | Mike | | | | Get your own free email account from | http://www.popmail.com | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -Uptime --- 9:20PM up 20 days, 10 hrs, 4 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] limit of cat5 cables? (length)
Actually, there's no tested maximum length for CAT5. However if you're going by the specs, 100M is the max between some sort of device. Whether it's a repeater, a hub or something. Many of use have done networks where we've used CAT5 much longer then 100M for whatever reason, and have had no problem. But, for those of you who have gone through MCSE or Cisco, or any network training, they say the spec is 100M, for performance. The instructor will also tell you after you've learned the spec, and passed the test, forget the spec! In the real world, you do what works. More then 100M of CAT5, works. I think many of us can attest to that. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | | Heh, I've run many single drops of over 200 meters on Cat-5e using | 100BaseT w/o problems to connect buildings together. | | Everything is in the shielding. | | -JMS | | |-Original Message- | |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ed Kasky | |Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 6:19 PM | |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |Subject: Re: [newbie] limit of cat5 cables? (length) | | | | | |Quoting liberally from Ethernet Networks by Gilbert Held: | | | |The IEEE 8023 standard for 10BASE-T using unshielded twisted | |pair at 10 Mbps, maximum segment length is 100 meters or 328 feet... | | | |Now if you want to get really technical, the 100 meters was originally | |meant to consist of 3 segments. | |The first segment can be up to 90 meters from a patch panel to a wall | |plate. Segments 2 and 3 which can be up to 10 meters in | |length allow for | |patch cables at each end of the link. | | | |You are well within the maximum length and it's a lot cheaper than a | |wireless solution. | | | |At 05:37 PM Saturday, 11/10/2001, Paul wrote -= | |Hi, everybody. I have a DSL connection coming in to the upstairs | |computer. I'd like to connect (withought having to get a new | |modem) a | |computer downstairs to the same connection. Can I send a cat5 cable | |down throught the wall from the router to the downstairs computer? | |(approx. 30-40 feet) Is there a limit to cat5 length in order to | |remain effective? Do I need a wireless solution? is that even safe? | | | |Ed Kasky | |Los Angeles, CA | |. . . . . . . . | |My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises | |he makes so later I can ask him what he meant. | |--Steven Wright | | | | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -Uptime --- 2:50PM up 19 days, 3:30, 4 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MSI KT266A and Athlon 1800+ Wooohooo!!! but a tiny problem. 3073.64 BOGOMIPS!
Did you do any sort of compile for this other kernel? OR was it a rpm install? If so, you may want to try uninstalling the kernel, then installing it again. It will then try and rebuild it, and it may work then. Just a suggestion. Another suggestion, don't install 8.1. Install 8.0. 8.1 has been nothing but hassles for us here, and a lot of people on th elist have found problems with it as well. I would suggest 8.0. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | Hi all, | | Tonight I went over and upgraded my CPU and Motherboard to the above | system.. | | It now gets 3073.64 Bogomips... (was 2779.72 with a standard Athlon 1.4) | | | Anyway, the upgrade went flawlessly till I went to boot mandrake 7.2 | | It started, then started framebuffer, then detected the drives, | then it stopped at this: | | ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14 | ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irg 15 | | it hadn't locked up, because the caps and number lock keys still worked.. it | just sat there doing nothing... for ages, I let it go for 30 minutes and | nothing changed. that was kernel 2.2.19-5.1mdksecure I could find nothing in | the logs to detail the problem but didn't expect to, because at this stage, | it isnt' writing anything to the logs. | | Then I did the 3 finger salute and selected the default 2.2.17-26 kernel... | | that worked, and it booted up.. | | So my question is, why does it boot 2.2.17, but not 2.2.19??? I don't want | to leave it like this because 2.2.17 was buggy and had security flaws didn't | it? | | (I tried to boot 2.2.19-4.1mdksecure as well, same problem as 5.1,, sat | there doing nothing.) | | I will be upgrading the system to mdk8.1 in a week or so, but I want this | thing to be secure until then.. | | Can anyone make any suggestions? | | One last observation, is that kudzu and harddrake could not load anythign | for the chipset, harddrake showed 4 unknown VIA other devices which was to | be expected, but the system worked well enough otherwise.. (except for the | 2.2.19 kernels.) | | | rgds | | Frank. | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -Uptime --- 4:01PM up 19 days, 4:41, 3 users, load averages: 0.08, 0.05, 0.01 --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] avi files
I decided to try this xmovie you're talking about since Mplayer is pretty ugly and it acts up when you try and resize the window while watching a movie. But I'm running into problems with the install. demux_qt.c:44:18: zlib.h: No such file or directory demux_qt.c: In function `quicktime_read_moov': demux_qt.c:3182: `z_stream' undeclared (first use in this function) demux_qt.c:3182: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once demux_qt.c:3182: for each function it appears in.) demux_qt.c:3182: parse error before `zstrm' demux_qt.c:3214: `zstrm' undeclared (first use in this function) demux_qt.c:3214: `alloc_func' undeclared (first use in this function) demux_qt.c:3214: parse error before `0' demux_qt.c:3215: `free_func' undeclared (first use in this function) demux_qt.c:3215: parse error before `0' demux_qt.c:3216: `voidpf' undeclared (first use in this function) demux_qt.c:3216: parse error before `0' demux_qt.c:3222: warning: implicit declaration of function `inflateInit' demux_qt.c:3223: `Z_OK' undeclared (first use in this function) demux_qt.c:3227: warning: implicit declaration of function `inflate' demux_qt.c:3227: `Z_NO_FLUSH' undeclared (first use in this function) demux_qt.c:3228: `Z_STREAM_END' undeclared (first use in this function) demux_qt.c:3239: warning: implicit declaration of function `inflateEnd' demux_qt.c: At top level: demux_qt.c:2638: warning: `quicktime_trak_init_audio' defined but not used make[3]: *** [demux_qt.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/software/tarballz/xine-lib-0.9.4/src/demuxers' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/software/tarballz/xine-lib-0.9.4/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/software/tarballz/xine-lib-0.9.4' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 Where do I get this Quicktime mess it's talking about. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | If you've got Mandrake8.1 there ia a program called xmovie. If you don't | have it go to sourceforge with the address http://xine.sourceforge.net and | download an excellent media player. It's still in beta, but it should help | you. Cheers and good luck. | | Craig Williamson | | -Original Message- | From: mnu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 7:12 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: [newbie] avi files | | | | Does anyone know of any program that would allow me to view .avi files in | linux? | | Thanks | | Meg | -Uptime --- 6:28AM up 15 days, 19:08, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] logfile location?
I posted a few weeks ago RE: getting my USR Sportster ISDN 128k internal ISA modem working. No one responded. After attempting to get it to work via HardDrake by configuring it from there, I get an unable to connect error. If I punch the log button, a text screen pops containing the events leading to the error and the specific error itself. My question is, where is this logfile deposited? The window that pops has no title I'm unable to cut/paste the contents. Also, is there anyone else out there with this same modem that has gotten it to work successfully w 8.1 (or any other previous version)? What other configuration do I need to do, if any, in addition to the HardDrake stuff? I'm completely new to Linux so I'm pretty lost in trying to get this to work. I've been hammering at it for 3 weeks now and I'm about ready to throw in the towel and crawl back to MS with my tail between my legs;-(. Without Internet connectivity it's a waste of time. Again, ANY insight at all would be most appreciated. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Installing new rpms from disks
I don't have Disk Free installed. Is there an RPM for that? I couldn't find it on rpmfind. -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 6:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing new rpms from disks On Tuesday 30 October 2001 16:35, you wrote: One word Huh?. Mounting cd's at the command prompt? And what does fstab mean? I am clueless to all of this. I'm newbie of newbies really. I know what the command prompt is but I don't know squat of commands. Does linux have a page of command definitions or something I could look up and print out? Rob To get started, try typing 'apropos whatyouwanttodo'. In this case that would be 'apropos mount'. You'll get a listing with a brief description for each, for all available commands havin to do with mount. Then typing 'man mount' will describe how to use the mount command, and refer you to related commands. Problem is, the MAN(ual) pages were written by and for people who already understand everything ;) So it's tough learnin in the beginning, but you're gonna need to get your feet wet sooner or later. If you don't want to use the command line, you could use Disk Free to mount your CDROM. It's on your K menu under Applications | Monitoring. Just right click on the drive and choose mount (or unmount) in the dialog box that appears. Many of us have been using it since supermount broke. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA chmod +x /bin/Laden.al-Qaeda.Taliban Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ISDN modem
Gosh, thanks for the help, Bill -Original Message- From: Bil Reynolds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 12:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ISDN modem On Saturday 27 October 2001 11:03 am, you wrote: Could someone PLEASE help? I have a USR ISDN Sportster 128k internal ISA modem. I have no idea how to get this to work, or even if it's possible. It appears it wasn't detected upon installing 8.1. I REALLY want to ditch all MS products from my system, but if I can't connect to the internet with MD, I'm stuck. Based on my initial research, it appears that I need to configure my PPP setup 1st. One source says I need to have a '/etc/isapnp.conf' file, which I don't. Is this all true? If so, what do I need to put in there, and what other steps do I need to take? Is there a GUI/KDE thingy to do all this? I've seen sveral refernces to 'HardDrake, but I either don't have it installed or I can't find it. I'm sorry if these are really stupid questions, but I gotta start somewhereANY assistance would be most greatly appreciated. Thanks! Hi Caorls lasdkshdjsahjdhsjhdjfhjdfhds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ISDN modem
Could someone PLEASE help? I have a USR ISDN Sportster 128k internal ISA modem. I have no idea how to get this to work, or even if it's possible. It appears it wasn't detected upon installing 8.1. I REALLY want to ditch all MS products from my system, but if I can't connect to the internet with MD, I'm stuck. Based on my initial research, it appears that I need to configure my PPP setup 1st. One source says I need to have a '/etc/isapnp.conf' file, which I don't. Is this all true? If so, what do I need to put in there, and what other steps do I need to take? Is there a GUI/KDE thingy to do all this? I've seen sveral refernces to 'HardDrake, but I either don't have it installed or I can't find it. I'm sorry if these are really stupid questions, but I gotta start somewhereANY assistance would be most greatly appreciated. Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Cooker?
What/who is Mandrake Cooker? What's the diff between Cooker RPMs std. Mandrake?
[newbie] ISDN in USA
I just installed v8.1 I have a USR (USRobotics) Sportster 128k ISA modem. Upon Mandrake installation, I was offered the options of Euro-ISDN or ISDN with no D channel support. Neither of these will work in the US. Does anyone know definitively if ISDN4Linux supports D channel? If not, what do I need to install to get this modem to work? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Word
Personally I love vi. I actually use ViM, but it's the same thing. I only use 3 editors. vim gvim (ViM just a GUI from of it. It's kinda nice.) nedit (Which is a lot like EditPad, for those of you who know what EditPad is. I hope he makes a *NIX clone of EditPad one day!) I've heard a lot of people like mcedit, and slew of other things, I like the basics. I type about 80 words a minute, so vi is perfect for me. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 17021091 - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 3:38PM up 11 days, 2:40, 4 users, load averages: 0.17, 0.07, 0.02 | Hey guys, | | Can you tell me what good editors there are besides vi, pico..blah!, | abiword and kword?? | | | Thank ya much! | | | Andrew | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] point one?
I agree! That's one real annoying thing about Netscape. I would suggest to you Opera then. I think I have like 8 diferent browsers installed on my machine, but that's the one I use. I use Netscape for the JAVA applets like chat.yahoo.com and things like that, but for the most part, I don't use Nutscrape at all. And Galeon should work in KDE form what I understand. I use Enlightenment on my workstation at home, and at other remote offices I use Afterstep. (Afterstep isn't bad, but I like Enlightenment much better!) I then use FVWM2 at work. KDE was too Windows-y for me. I was trying to distance my self from Windows all together! tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 17021091 - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 11:41AM up 8 days, 22:42, 6 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 | on 10/3/01 10:12 AM, Tim Holmes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I've never used Galeon, but mainly because I've always just disliked GNOME. | The only thing I like about GNOME would be GIMP. But I really like Opera! | | I still haven't found a unix web browser I really like yet. I just tried | Galeon for the first time last night, and it looks promising. But only if it | works in KDE, I also don't like gnome. | | Never any font problems, and one thing I've hated about Netscape, is it's | resizing issue. | | What I've hated about Netscape for years is that resizing the window causes | Netscape to rerequest the webpage. Its already got the *$(ing data, just | reflow it! | | Matt | | | _ | Do You Yahoo!? | Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] attachments in every message??
Yeah, they just started this, what... a month ago! It's a bit annoying, but I know nothing's going to be done about it any time soon. I'm on like 10 lists, and the Mandrake ones are the only ones that are doing this. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 17021091 - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 3:48PM up 9 days, 2:49, 4 users, load averages: 0.06, 0.03, 0.00 | I recently signed back up to the expert and newbie lists | for mandrake in anticipation of the new 8.1 release and | find that something is different with the list. | It may have been discussed before but now EVERY message | I have gotten today has had a 'message.footer' file attached | to it. Is this normal?? | | -- | Carl Lafferty | Sys Admin | Floyd County Public Library | www.fclib.org | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
