Re: [newbie] cd into file
Hi Rosemary, Did you try doing a cd /home/rosemary/L then tab to finish it off. I know that spaces are treated differently. Whenever I forget exact directory names I just cd to the first letter and let the tab key finish it off. It will give you all possible matches from that point forward. HTH, Bill W. On Sunday 27 Mar 2005 21:42, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I am feeling particularly stupid and frustrated just now. I downloaded some files in preparation for installing gwenview. I saved them to /home/rosemary/Linux Stuff/rpms - now I can't cd into it, tells me no such file or directory. Thought I would rename it, but same problem. I don't want to have to do the downloads again. I've not had this problem before. I can see the rpms in konqueror and that is the path it gives. It seems simple but I am stumped. Wondered if it doesn't like the Linux Stuff name? Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] package manager for 10.1
Hi, Can anyone recommend a package manager for 10.1 that allows me to look inside the rpm file to view folders and files. I liked kpackage in the older versions but I can't find it's equivalent. tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] package manager for 10.1
Hi, Kpackage is exactly what I'm looking for. Is there a build for 10.1? I went looking and when I tried to install an older version I entered the 'dependency' loop. Thanks, Bill W. On Friday 25 Mar 2005 16:55, Ian wrote: On Friday 25 Mar 2005 08:42, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend a package manager for 10.1 that allows me to look inside the rpm file to view folders and files. I liked kpackage in the older versions but I can't find it's equivalent. Does Kpackage do this? I know it lists installed packages and gives summary details about the rpm, but may not be what you are looking for. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] package manager for 10.1
Hi, Thanks Rick et al. I tried to urpmi kdeadmin-kpackage and I got 'no package named kdeadmin-kpackage'. I haven't changed any urpmi settings (that I can recall). I also checked in mcc and it can't find it in the software install or remove utilities. hmm.anything else? Thanks, Bill W. On Friday 25 Mar 2005 17:15, Rick Kunath wrote: Bill Winegarden wrote: Is there a build for 10.1? I went looking and when I tried to install an older version I entered the 'dependency' loop. Yes, there is a version for 10.1 It's called kdeadmin-kpackage, and you can urpmi it or install it from MCC. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] pdfripimage_script
Hi, I have been trying to get this script working. Running the script on a small pdf file with three images results only in a copy.pdf that is optionally rm'd. However, there are no jpg's created. Has anyone used this script? It is about 30 or 40 lines. It can be found at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=130721package_id=143427 or I could include it in a posting. I read through the script but I can't 'extract' any command line options that I may be missing. Thanks for any help you may offer... Regards, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] davfs not in kernel
Hi Everyone, I'm back to trying webdav access. I noticed that during shutdown I get a couple of 'failed' messages. Both have to do with davfs not supported in kernel. Is there a way to implement this functionality without re-compiling the kernel? Running a service perhaps? Thanks, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] minicom
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 February 2005 12:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to setup a symlink:rm-f /dev/modemp 1n-s /dev/ttysx ;x in my case is 3 for com 3 in windows I also found reference to echo atz/modem/ttys3 ;x in my case is 3 for com 3 in windows - --- ttys2 would equate to com3 in windows. bill -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCEo8DzHeHGYMT3rQRAuifAKCDRhnnHtoLcmDBbCbUOZWmlMSqPQCbBQeI kJW+BRRg6eZYuXFMyWtSNg4= =SdX1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] sweet superkaramba on Inspiron 9100
Hi all, I have found and configured that application that was pointed out to me. BTW, thanks for that input. It has the ability to display various temperatures and fan speeds. Has anyone on the list managed to change the karamba.theme file so that it will pick up the sensors on an Inspiron 9100? For those unfamiliar with superkaramb, it is a beautiful transparent computer monitor program. It has the ability to do much more. There are multiple themes available at kde-look. Thanks, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Frozen blue screen after upgrading kernel
This past week I worked on updating my Mandrake box from 10.0 to 10.1. Most of the application programs went well. The change over of the kernel took a bit more coaching for me from another Linux person but I got it to work (as far as I can tell). However, on the X system, all I get is a blue screen. The cursor (a plus sign with white edges) moves around but there are absolutely NO icons on the screen and no keystrokes work at all. This is even after running XFdrake (which did seem to do a bunch of configuring) and checking some things.with mcc at the prompt. The only way I got to a prompt has been through booting on Failsafe. Even another lilo entry of 2.6.3 raced to the blue screen and froze. I have been able to change it so that it now stops at the command line (whew!) so at least the machine can take commands. I still am relatively new to Linux and have a long ways to go. Since my field of specialty is in web work, I cannot work without a proper gui screen and browser. The system worked just fine under 10.0. What recommendations do you have? Mr. hopeful, Bill Mudry Mississauga, Ontario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Frozen blue screen after upgrading kernel
At 01:02 PM 2/1/2005, you wrote: On Tuesday 01 Feb 2005 16:36, Bill Mudry wrote: This past week I worked on updating my Mandrake box from 10.0 to 10.1. Most of the application programs went well. The change over of the kernel took a bit more coaching for me from another Linux person but I got it to work (as far as I can tell). However, on the X system, all I get is a blue screen. The cursor (a plus sign with white edges) moves around but there are absolutely NO icons on the screen and no keystrokes work at all. This is even after running XFdrake (which did seem to do a bunch of configuring) and checking some things.with mcc at the prompt. The only way I got to a prompt has been through booting on Failsafe. Even another lilo entry of 2.6.3 raced to the blue screen and froze. I have been able to change it so that it now stops at the command line (whew!) so at least the machine can take commands. I still am relatively new to Linux and have a long ways to go. Since my field of specialty is in web work, I cannot work without a proper gui screen and browser. The system worked just fine under 10.0. What recommendations do you have? How long did you wait? I upgraded my daughter's pc to 10.1 from 10 and on bootup, it did the same. I left it for apprx. 10 minutes, then the graphical login appeared. Never did it again, so might just be configuring? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free I waited for some time actually. There is always some chance that I should have waited longer but I have doubts. Meanwhile, I went back into XFdrake and was able to up the resolution to 1280 x 1024. Its what I prefer anyway. The test showed that the card and monitor (Mitsubishi Diamond Scan 17x) can support this resolution. When I put in startx at the prompt, I got an interesting change. The screen went blue again but only for 1 second or so. Then it changed to a bright red with the cursor still in the middle. It stayed that way for a few seconds and then dropped down to the prompt again. The screen reported the following error: Failed to load module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a (once-only module, 135962511) Something is still keeping it from proceeding further to where all icons come up. How essential is that file? What does it do? Any further suggestions? Still hopeful :-) Bill Mudry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Frozen blue screen after upgrading kernel
At 05:56 PM 2/1/2005, you wrote: Bill Mudry wrote: At 01:02 PM 2/1/2005, you wrote: Cut for brevity :-) I waited for some time actually. There is always some chance that I should have waited longer but I have doubts. Meanwhile, I went back into XFdrake and was able to up the resolution to 1280 x 1024. Its what I prefer anyway. The test showed that the card and monitor (Mitsubishi Diamond Scan 17x) can support this resolution. When I put in startx at the prompt, I got an interesting change. The screen went blue again but only for 1 second or so. Then it changed to a bright red with the cursor still in the middle. It stayed that way for a few seconds and then dropped down to the prompt again. The screen reported the following error: Failed to load module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a (once-only module, 135962511) Something is still keeping it from proceeding further to where all icons come up. How essential is that file? What does it do? Any further suggestions? Still hopeful :-) Bill Mudry Bill; Change to the vesa driver we spoke about yesterday. You don't have a 3D driver installed at this point and X is trying to load one because it's detecting your GeForce card. Right now, that system doesn't have the horsepower to support 3D graphics, but you should be able to get your desktop and decent graphics using the vesa driver. By the way, did you manage to find out which video card you have in that system? The card is an ATI Mach64 3D Rage IIC. It has a Rage IIC chip. It is 1998 vintage. Doesn't that 3D mean that it, instead, should support 3D? Where do I go, what do I do to put it into Vesa? Since this may very well be a 3D card, should I still by trying out Vesa? One step closer, still hopeful ;-) Bill -- Lanman Registered Linux User #190712 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] desktop app at kde-look
Hi, I was checking out kde-look today and I saw a screenshot of a 'gkrellm like' computer monitoring application. However it is full size, transparent and very cool. Does anyone know the name. I'm sure it must be available for Mandrake and that someone on the list is already using it. The screenshot is at http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1id=20260file1=20260-1.pngfile2=file3=name=Metal4kde-0.1f_beta+-+gentoo+ebuild Transparent and on the right hand side of the desktop. Thanks, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel
At 08:19 PM 1/23/2005, you wrote: On Monday 24 January 2005 01:04, Mike Chalmers wrote: SNIP Unless you like to go through the pain you will be better using urpmi to install kernel. Try to find kernel rpm on rpm repository and urpmi it. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. When you say pain do you mean running multiple commands to install the patch? If so, I would like to do it that way. I do not know much about the urpmi yet and I only want to patch the kernel? So if you or someone else will tell me how to patch it using commands that would be great? From, Mike Chalmers There are instruction on compiling new kernels in the manual http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/100/en/Command-Line.html/compiling-kernel-chapter.html But be aware Mandrake apply lots of patches to the standard kernel.org kernel and if you use a standard kernel you might find bits of your system may not work quite the same. Is there a particular reason you want 2.6.10 or is it just for fun? BTW: The latest Mandrake kernel for 10.1 is 2.6.8.1-12mdk and 2.6.10.1-1-1mdk is on the development 'cooker' mirrors. Installing 'Cooker' packages is not advised on a production system as they can have nasty bugs and may require an awful lot of dependencies. Updating my kernel on 10.0 is just where I am and I need advice. I cannot come up with any kernels using urpmq or urpmf even at 2.6.8 and up. This is after updating urpmi successfully to the point this week that I was able to install a huge slew of progams successfully with urpmi with practically no dependency problems. This also included over 800 meg of updates :-). Am I doing something wrong? Please help me know how I can take the easiest and fastest way to upgrade the kernel to the present stable one. I will be pleased to be totally up to date for once but I look to when this is successfully done so I can go on to other things I wish to do. Just a thought. Is there a way to update urpmi only for the kernel?? With thanks. I will try to follow the rest of this thread also. Bill Mudry Mississauga, Ontario derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] adding new features to 10.2
Hi, What is the process for requesting new features to be included in the upcoming release? Is there a place to add suggestions? Thanks Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] adding new features to 10.2
Thanks Dennis. - Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 7:55 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] adding new features to 10.2 On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:42 am, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, What is the process for requesting new features to be included in the upcoming release? Is there a place to add suggestions? Thanks Bill W. Take a look in cooker wiki at http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Mandrakelinux102 there is a ideas bar waiting for you. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 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] mounting webdav
Hi everyone, I found that there is an opportunity to mount webdav directories locally in MCC. All the options that I need to set are there. However, once all is set and I click on 'mount' , the error message states 'mount: fs type davfs not supported by kernel' I think the issue is that the webdav server that I am trying to connect to is secure (ie: https) Does anyone on this list know how to enable this? tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] webdav
Hi, I have been asked by my family to set up a website. The domain is all set and a webdav account has been set up for me to upload files. This is new to me. I have gone into MCC and there is a webdav entry under the mount points tab. It says that davfs must be installed but when I click o.k. to install an error message comes back saying 'mandatory package davfs is missing'. Where can I find the package? Is there a basic tutorial anywhere with information on webdav? Thanks and regards, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] installing new versions - keeping settings etc
Hi, Merry Christmas or happy holidays to all on the list. A quick question that arose from my last installation. I would like to know the best way to save emails, desktop settings etc. when installing new versions. When I installed 10.1 Official I tried to copy my Mail directory and my .kdeshareappskmail directories thinking that they would restore all my emails. When I copied them over to /mnt/win_d (fat32 partition) there were some errors about some files not copied. There were no essential emails so I proceeded with the installation. My kmail directory structure was saved but the actual emails were not. What is the the recommended method of retaining emails? Also, is it advisable to retain desktop settings considering that KDE (my choice) is constantly being upgraded to new versioins? Thanks, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] gimp plugins and gimptool
Hi, I have been experimenting with gimp (2.0) and I want to install the bump map plugin. It is a file simply titled bumpmap.c From my reading, there should be a utility called gimptool that compiles and installs it automatically. My LM 10.1 Official installation doesn't seem to have any file with that name. Is there something I'm missing on this? Has anyone installed this particular plugin? I have subbed to the Gimp list but it isn't as active as this one. Thanks and regards, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] gimp plugins and gimptool
Hi All, I found the built in bumpmap function of Gimp but I'm still wondering about the gimptool application. Is it included in the 2.0 version? tia, Bill W. On Monday 27 Dec 2004 18:26, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I have been experimenting with gimp (2.0) and I want to install the bump map plugin. It is a file simply titled bumpmap.c From my reading, there should be a utility called gimptool that compiles and installs it automatically. My LM 10.1 Official installation doesn't seem to have any file with that name. Is there something I'm missing on this? Has anyone installed this particular plugin? I have subbed to the Gimp list but it isn't as active as this one. Thanks and regards, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream
On Friday 24 Dec 2004 19:16, Kenneth wrote: Kenneth wrote: A Hundred Thousand Thanks, Rick! Although it hasn't helped me fix the problem (yet), I feel that the info you provided is a certain lead. Interestingly, though I am still getting the same error report when I run Kate and for that matter when I start KDE, I get the same results that you sent me when I execute the same command. I'll keep fiddling with it.. :) Thanks for your help, Ken Another request, although, at this point, I'm sure no one could help till after Christmas at least. If someone could go to KcontrolFile Associationsapplication... and hopefully locate there under known types octect-stream.. select octect-stream and then report to me the listing you have under filename patterns, Description, and application preference order. I'm hoping this will give me a pretty good idea of what the defaults are... and it appears that is what I have lost. Happy Hollidays to all, and thanks again, Ken Hi, I went to KControl as requested and listed under octect-stream is Description Unknown Application Preference Order none I then ran Kate to see if all is well and it opened just fine. I run KDE as my desktop and I have not encountered your problem yet. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Regards, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] winsite torrent
Hi, Depending on which browser you use, you should be able to set a minimum font size. I know that I had to set both Konqueror and Firefox to a minimum 13 point font.(my bad eyes). If you can't find the font option, email back for exact instructions. Regards, Bill W. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 4:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] winsite torrent O one other thing i have mandrake 10.1 installed and the desktop fonts are great and also are the menu bars but i cant see the web real well the text is small and i wanted to know where i could go in and ajust the font so i can make the web text bigger thank you for your infromation and help Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] winsite torrent
On Thursday 23 Dec 2004 03:44, Kenneth wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that would be more then helpful to have steps for this how to set that the text on the web looks like size 2 lol and the rest of the computer was fine just dont know where to go to fix it thank you so much for your help From the FirFox Menu select EditPreferencesGeneralFonts Colors for Web Pages play increase the settings till your satisfied. ;) Also there, is a setting for 'minimum font size' If you are using Konqueror, the setting is available in 'Setting'Configure KonquerorTT Fonts All font settings are there including 'Minimum' and 'Medium' sizes. Good luck, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] xdesktopwaves 1.3
On Sunday 19 Dec 2004 07:11, Len Lawrence wrote: libxfree86-devel Hi Len, Thanks for the suggestion. I d/l'd the libxfree86-devel from rpmfind.net and tried to install it with rpm -Uvh ... the following dependencies arose. [EMAIL PROTECTED] bill]# rpm -Uvh libxfree86-devel-4.3-32.3.100mdk.i586.rpm error: Failed dependencies: XFree86-libs = 4.3-32.3.100mdk is needed by libxfree86-devel-4.3-32.3.100mdk fontconfig-devel = 2.1-4mdk is needed by libxfree86-devel-4.3-32.3.100mdk devel(libexpat) is needed by libxfree86-devel-4.3-32.3.100mdk devel(libfontconfig) is needed by libxfree86-devel-4.3-32.3.100mdk devel(libfreetype) is needed by libxfree86-devel-4.3-32.3.100mdk devel(libXpm) is needed by libxfree86-devel-4.3-32.3.100mdk devel(libz) is needed by libxfree86-devel-4.3-32.3.100mdk It seems the whole XFree86 system is required. Question: if I install these xfree86 files what are the chances it will break my Xorg installation? Thanks and regards, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] xdesktopwaves 1.3
Hi, I am running 10.1 Official on a Dell Inspiron 9100. When I try to 'make' xdesktopwaves 1.3 I get a screen full of errors. The first dozen lines follow [EMAIL PROTECTED] xdesktopwaves-1.3]$ make gcc -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 -DXDW_MAX_OPTIMIZATION=2 -c xdesktopwaves.c -o xdesktopwaves.o xdesktopwaves.c:31:22: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory xdesktopwaves.c:32:23: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory xdesktopwaves.c:33:23: X11/Xatom.h: No such file or directory xdesktopwaves.c:34:34: X11/extensions/shape.h: No such file or directory xdesktopwaves.c:64: error: syntax error before xdwOptEnd xdesktopwaves.c:64: warning: data definition has no type or storage class xdesktopwaves.c:76: error: syntax error before xdwOptDoubleBuffer xdesktopwaves.c:76: warning: data definition has no type or storage class xdesktopwaves.c:78: error: syntax error before xdwOptIdle xdesktopwaves.c:78: warning: data definition has no type or storage class xdesktopwaves.c:83: error: syntax error before xdwOptWavesByMouse xdesktopwaves.c:83: warning: data definition has no type or storage class xdesktopwaves.c:84: error: syntax error before xdwOptWavesByWindows xdesktopwaves.c:84: warning: data definition has no type or storage class There are a couple hundred more error lines. I kind of think the issue is in the first four lines. Has anyone managed to get it working on 10.1? Can anyone figure out what I'm missing? Thanks, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] xwd to mpg
Hi, I am trying to show off the new xdesktopwaves to my windows buddies. I d/l'd and compiled xvidcap (x video capture utility). I managed to capture 30 screens (all automatically) and the xvidcap utility will play them but I need to convert the 30 xwd files into a mpg. The faq isn't real clear. Does anyone have the correct syntax or is there another multimedia utility that will do this? BTW, the xdesktopwaves1.2 rocks. It has a new 'rain drops' option and the whole video experience is quite nice! tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] login sounds
Hi, Where can I adjust/change the login theme sound? I use KDE on LM10. tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] java vulnerability
Hi everyone, I'm sure many have already reacted to this news but for those that haven't heard; there is a cross platform (linux included) java vulnerability that could compromise your machine to the user level. It has been address in the latest java jre. Info is here http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/general_article-10295.html I have to relink my browsers now, doh! Regards, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru
At 06:40 PM 11/23/04 +, you wrote: FWIW I have Asus mobos on two boxes, one of which has onboard ethernet. It is recognised and runs without problems. I have heard a lot of terms, but - what is a mobo?? Anne Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] streaming wmv, ogg and amarok
Hi, Has anyone managed to get the amarok player to play the streaming wmv from cbc canada? It does do the streaming ogg but there are only 2 available streams and I would prefer listening to CBC Vancouver. Any other players out there that will decode their wmv streams? Thanks in advance, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Help requested getting Apache virtual servers going
Could someone help me find out why I cannot get some virtual hosts going on Apache. I know my Apache is running ok since I can access it via localhost. I am running Mandrake 10.0. It also responds with [ok] for apachectl start and stop. Could any of you give suggestions on how I can get some virtual hosts going. In particularly, I hope to be able to place virtual web hosts under a public_html directory within the home directories of accounts. I have followed instructions as I found in more than one manual or how-to but I cannot seem to bring up index.htm or index.html files I placed in public_html neither on the local machine or on another (win98) PC on my local net. Below is a copy of the Vhosts.conf file. It may be something in that file but since a lot of this was copied and adopted from working examples, I suspect it is some other problem. May permissions? Ownerships? If you are not interested in assisting, no use reading past this point. The Vhost.conf copy below is included just in case it helps debugging. With thanks in advance, Bill Mudry Mississauga, ON # Vhosts.conf #This is where we store the VirtualHosts configuration. # #Since Apache 1.3.19, we modified the setup to include some nice tricks: # #- We added the User and Group directives so VirtualHosts now work with # suexec directive. If set, Apache will run all cgi scripts under that # user and group (provided the uid and gid are 100 for security). The # directories and cgi files *must* belong to that user/group for the # feature to work #- We added the Setenv VLOG directive. This works in conjunction with # the CustomLog in common.conf. When Setenv VLOG is set, apache will # create a /var/log/httpd/VLOG--MM-ServerName.log instead of logging # to access_log. Use this instead of defining a special logfile for # each vhost, otherwise you eat up file descriptors. #- You can also specify a path for the VLOG for each Vhost, for example, # to place the logs in each user's directory. However, if you want to # use the file for accounting, place it in a directory owned by root, # otherwise the user will be able to erase it. #- I suggest only including the ErrorLog *only* if the vhost will use # cgi scripts. Again, it saves file descriptors! #- We added the Rewrite directives so vhosts will work with the # PERLPROXIED configuration # IP-based Virtual Hosts #VirtualHost 192.168.2.100 #User jmdault #Group jmdault #DocumentRoot /home/jmdault/public_html #ServerName test2.com #Setenv VLOG /home/jmdault/logs #ErrorLogs /home/jmdault/test2-error_log #RewriteEngine On #RewriteOptions inherit #/VirtualHost # Named VirtualHosts #NameVirtualHost 111.222.33.44 #VirtualHost 111.222.33.44 #ServerName www.domain.tld #ServerPath /domain #DocumentRoot /web/domain #/VirtualHost ## NameVirtualHost 192.168.2.200 VirtualHost 192.168.2.200 ServerName billmudry.com ServerPath /home/bill DocumentRoot /home/bill/public_html #ErrorLogs /home/bill/error_log.bill /VirtualHost ## NameVirtualHost 192.168.2.201 VirtualHost 192.168.2.201 ServerName mikewalters.com ServerPath /home/mike DocumentRoot /home/mike/public_html TransferLog logs/access.mike ErrorLog logs/error.mike /VirtualHost ## NameVirtualHost 192.168.2.200 VirtualHost * ServerName www.billmudry.com ServerPath /home/bill ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ServerAlias billmudry.com DocumentRoot/home/bill/public_html #ErrorLogs /home/bill/error_log.bill Directory / OptionsFollowSymLinks AllowOverride None /Directory Directory /home/bill/public_html OptionsIndexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory DirectoryIndex index.html AccessFileName .htaccess LogLevelwarn ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/bill/cgi-bin/ Directory /home/bill/cgi-bin/ AllowOverride None OptionsNone Order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory /VirtualHost Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users? Debian NOT.
had bombed on me. This time it worked ... including getting KDE going. The first try got the text going ok but not a graphical interface. My Mandrake 10.0 is stable now. You may wish to know that I have been a power user going back to pre DOS. Ten to Twelve years ago I even took a series of SCO courses and helped care for a community of over 30 people. I have no reason to just be boastful at all but mention this to show that even a person with a reasonable starting background can STILL find Linux tremendously complex. Once it's installed, you've got a functional desktop in terms of all the basics, Exactly --- once installed. and Synaptic is very close to the Mandrake package manager in MCC, perhaps not as polished. For all the people that dis' Debian, you've got to ask yourself: why is it, We are not just trying to give Debian a bad name. Life is not just black or just white. Debian maybe could be useable by newcomers AFTER it is installed. It can be a nightmare for the uninitiated to install. then, that distros like Knoppix (and all its variations), Mepis, and Xandros have chosen Debian as their base? BECAUSE .. they are recognitions of a need to taking Debian to a more user friendly level. Simple as that. I doubt anyone is saying anything about the internal stability, configurability and good structure of Debian itself, only that it is, frankly, a techie's distro. If any distro is likely to 'scare' a newbie, I'd wager it's Slackware or Gentoo, certainly not Debian. Could be. I have seen a lot of threads lately, though, that are encouraging on Mepis, Knoppix, Mandrake and a few others that either require no install or have easy, graphical, step by step installs with a lot of internal artificial intellligence that protects the less techy crowd from difficult procedures and concepts. This is supposed to be a NEWBIE list. If you want to encourage people to start with Linux, not be quickly discouraged, continue to use it and rise to the next level (beginning amateur?), you have to THINK like a newbie . not as the advanced experts you are. Some people can be highly competent technically but poor and intolerant teachers unless they are willing to apply a goodly measure of humility to the knowledge they have. This is the first step toward being able to mentor others. This makes me want to ask --- do we have any criteria for the level of questions that should be dealt with in a newbie list like this? At what level should a person decide to shift to a more advanced list? The level of knowledge of those requesting help I have noticed has been quite high (not just beginning level). -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org Bill Mudry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] missing usb module?
Hi Everyone, I have been exploring my LM10 installation on my Dell Inspiron 9100 and when I went to check usb devices in KDE Control Centre, it returned the following message... The diagnostics is: Library files for libkcm_usb.la not found in paths Possible reasons: An error occurred during your last KDE upgrade leaving an orphaned control module You have old third party modules lying around. Check these points carefully and try to remove the module mentioned in the error message. If this fails, consider contacting your distributor or packager. Now, my installation won't recognize my Fuji Finepix 2400 no matter what I do. Also, a usb player that I have is not recognized. However, a 'Dell' 128 Mb USB key is! Could this be a reason for my usb incongruities? What action should be taken to resolve this? Thanks, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Errors I still get on Kmail
I finally got my kmail working --- I think ... My hesitation is because of the error that still comes up when I check for mail: Sending failed: Message sending failed since the following recipients were rejected by the server. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The server responded: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: recipient address rejected: need fully-qualified address) The message will stay in the 'outbox' folder until you either fix the problem (e.g. a broken address) or remove the message from the 'outbox' folder. The following transport protyocol was used: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just checked and this error happens each time I check. How can deal with getting rid of this consistent error? With faith for excellent help, Bill Mudry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 Move CD?
At 10:14 PM 11/9/04 -0500, you wrote: On Tuesday 09 November 2004 08:42 pm, Eric Scott wrote: Yo; I'm burning 9.2 discs for a friend, and I've got a disk labelled Mandrake 9.2 Move CD. Is this important or worth burning? He's brand new to Linux, I'll actually probably start him with SuSE 'fore MDK 9.2, it seems more Windows-user-friendly. (I dunno 'bout MDK 10, it's not done downloading ;-)) Thanx, SigmaChi Mandrake Move 9.2 is a bootable cd that will allow him to run Mandrake 9.2 without installing it. A Move based on 10.0 was recently reloeased which will have more up to date packages. This is an excellent way to try it before installing it. Sounds like an easy way to demonstrate Linux some on a friend's computer without actually having to partition and install it. Does it modify the target computer any? Bill Mudry -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] konq won't start
Hi, It seems that Konqueror won't start from the Personal Files icon. It will start from the command line just fine. I can't remember what to delete in my home directory in order for it to start again from the desktop icon. Anyone remember? tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] changing default browser- help
Hi Geoff, Start System Configuration.KDE..Components..File Associations . Then just type in the file extension and the priority of application for opening it. Bill W. On Tuesday 02 November 2004 08:11 pm, geoff wrote: When I click on a URL link in an email, how can I make Mozilla open it instead of Konqueror? I can't find anywhere in preferences to change it. That way, I can bookmark the site if I want to keep it in my preferred Mozilla. Thanks Geoff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] cdrom busy....not umounting
Hi, I'm running LM10 Community on an Inspiron 9100. A fresh install is working 98%. However, the cdrom does not seem to want to let go of any cdrom once I view it's contents in Konq. As root, I get the error umount: /mnt/cdrom: device is busy It seems that supermount may not be operating correctly. fstab follows /dev/hda5 / reiserfs notail,noatime 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0 /dev/hda7 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 Does anything seem out of place? tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Stuck on a network problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -q tightvnc-server tightvnc-server-1.2.9-4mdk Edit /etc/init.d/vncserver and make the top look like this: #!/bin/bash # # chkconfig: 2345 91 35 # description: Starts and stops vncserver. \ # used to provide remote X administration services. USER=root export USER then 'chkconfig --add vncserver' HTH, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Dunford Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 10:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Stuck on a network problem Here I run a simple network with three machines - two running Mandrake 10.0 and one running Windows. The second Linux machine operates as a server on which I back up files from the other two. Currently the server has a monitor, keyboard and mouse but I would like to run it as a straight forward ftp server with just a system unit. Therefore I need to be able to switch it off remotely as the only way until recently was to use its local controls. I have installed VNC on both the Linux machines which I can use to switch off the server but have to set up VNC each time on the remote machine as I lose the settings when that machine is shutdown. How can I set up VNC, and its password, so that it starts when the server is booted and therefore allows me to remove monitor, keyboard and mouse from that particular machine. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Permissions in a network
Yes, you can do this. Make a unix group for these users. As root: groupadd staff Now add users to this group. There may be a GUI way to do this but I would just edit /etc/group and add the users' name to the staff group. Now make the directory: mkdir -m 2770 /home/staff /home/staff/sharedfiles chmod .staff /home/staff /home/staff/sharedfiles Now these users can share files by putting them in /home/staff/sharedfiles HTH, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alexander Ruoff Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 6:40 AM To: Mandrake Mailinglist Subject: [newbie] Permissions in a network I got a question regarding file sharing with a network drive and permissions. We have a small network with 5 PCs connected to a server. /home is placed on the server with all the user accounts as well as a shared account for data storage. The problem is the file sharing... is there a function that all files which are saved (and all folders which are created within) in the shared folder are set automatically to the right group permissions? Thanks for the help Alex Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] How to Capture Text Mode Output?
I think you will find these messages in ~/.xsession-errors HTH, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David B. Carter Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How to Capture Text Mode Output? dmesg gave me the output from the bootup sequence but nothing beyond that. I dug through the files in /var/log/ and found that the stuff that flashed quickly between the time I entered my selection in Xtart and the time the window manager appeared was in /var/log/kdm.log and it appears to be canned text that doesn't change because the date on the file is Oct 1 which, if I'm not mistaken coincides with the time I started messing around with changing display managers and ultimately booting to runlevel 3. As for the errors that appear to be generated while the window manager is running and are there waiting for me when I go back to text mode, I can't find them in any of the files. For example, when I exit Pekwm, there are some PyPanel errors that contain the path to my Python install. When I do a grep -r python /var/log/ The only hits I get back are from rpmdrake logs from the day I first installed the Python devel package. Anyway, I guess it's not that big of a deal if the majority of that stuff was canned text from kdm.log (although I'm curious as to what triggers that to be displayed and what it all means). Hoyt Bailey said: On Wednesday 06 October 2004 07:01, David B. Carter wrote: I don't know if my subject line made any sense, but what I'm trying to do is this: I recently switched from booting in runlevel 5 to runlevel 3. I'm using Xtart to give me a choice of window managers. Since I started doing that, I am noticing several errors and warnings fly by in text mode before the screen switches into graphics mode and launches my window manager of choice. When I log out of my window manager session, some of the info (plus additional output generated during my session) is visible on the screen, but much of it has already scrolled off the top. I want to know how I can capture all that info so that I can look at it after my session is over. I tried using the pause key to pause before the screen switches to graphics mode, but no dice. So, is there a way that I can either page up and see the text mode output that has already scrolled up or redirect the output to a file or something like that? Thanks. Try 'dmesg'. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Strange diff check ?
When in doubt: rpm -ql /usr/bin/lbp660 HTH, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 8:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Strange diff check ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 4:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Strange diff check ? On Friday 24 September 2004 05:25, Dan Gordon wrote: I got this tonight when the nightly security check was done. Security Warning: the md5 checksum for one of your SUID files has changed, maybe an intruder modified one of these suid binary in order to put in a backdoor... - Checksum changed file : /usr/bin/lbp660 I looked at the file it looks like an unknown file, the general proterties says its an unknown file type but permisions says it is executable and ownership is user root and group system. Maybe its nothing but it kinda got the hair up on the back of my neck. Anyone seen this before ? Regards, Dan Gordon Did you just upgrade your printer-filters package? That file is a Canon printer driver. Not an obvious target for a compromise :-) derek Yes I did and it is a canon printer I have, Thanks Derek the hair on the back of the neck is now down. There were several bug and security updates and printer filters and test pages were among them. Thanks again :-) Regards, Dan Gordon --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.768 / Virus Database: 515 - Release Date: 9/22/2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] DNS Problems affter upgrade
Are you running bind? (The daemon is named). It sounds like your are if you are using rndc. When I upgraded from 10.0 OE to 10.1 CE my /etc/rndc.conf and my /etc/named.conf got massaged for me. rndc wouldn't work until I un-massaged it. Check if bind is running: ps aux | grep named Please post your /etc/resolv.conf Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of gcobb Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 2:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] DNS Problems affter upgrade I saved my resolv.conf from the last setup along with my hosts files. They're the same now as they were prior to the upgrade. I know what the problem is, just not how to solve it. I am not sure it's a program that isn't running or if one is set up right, or if it's something to d with rndc or what. Like I said, I'm not sure what has to be running or how some conf files have to be set up. I can post files for anyone to compare to or view if necessary. Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of H.J.Bathoorn Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 1:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] DNS Problems affter upgrade On Sunday 26 September 2004 19:38, Greg wrote: I am having problems with DNS resolution after upgrading from 8.2 to 10. Just about everything else went okay, I just can't get out to a domain name on the server PC. I can get in with the IRC client and email, but also have a Postnuke problem that the DNS thing may fix. I have had this problem every time I've installed Mandrake, there's just something I don't understand. I'm okay in Windoze and all, just have a stumbling block when trying to get it set up locally on my Linux system. I don't know exactly which programs are required, such as Bind, named, etc. I kept my old host.conf files before the upgrade and my resolv.conf I can enter my domain name in Mozilla and it sees my local web root like it should. I can't get to anything else by a domain name though. I have to be pretty close. When booting the computer it would go slow when bringing up ETH0, but now it goes on past it quickly and brings the interface up. I am not hosting my own DNS services. I have a static IP, use cable, have email, the old version of Apache and an IRC server. This is the same computer I've been using since 8.2 was new. I read some and also saw a rndc errror when shutting down. I read up on that too and gathered that info in there has to agree with named.conf. I thought it had but when I ran rndc reload from a command line it said connection refused. The 64 password is the same between both as are server names. I still can't get out on the web with a domain name. I am lost without a doubt. I'm not sure what has to be running, what kind of zone to set up in Bind, or what is supposed to be in the config files. If ANYONE can work with me on this I'd appreciate it more than you know. I can post conf files or anything else you'd want to know. I'd also like to add that from the control panel all my networking info looks to be set up how it should be. I have a FQDN as the hostname, 2 IPs for my DNS servers and my IP, Gateway and Subnet Mask. All that looks right to me. I did read the docs. I read the How-Tos and all that, I'm just dumb enough to not find the answers I am looking for. Thank you! I'm not quite in the clear as to what your setup is but in my case setting the firewall/gateway as nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf sufficed for my cable connection. Frankly I never use the control panel, just type :echo nameserver .xxx.xx.x /etc/resolv.conf and that's it..where .xxx.xx.x is the address of your gateway. If you can ping out to say: www.google.com (216.239.59.99) you're OK, heh?:) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] TightVNC Server... wassup??
Any clues as to what is going on in ~/.xsession-errors? Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Scott Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 3:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] TightVNC Server... wassup?? Yo; I have TightVNC running on a Mandrake 9.1 box on a network with several Windows NT based computers. I've figured out how to get vncserver running... and have it running on display 2. When I access it from the remote computer, however, it starts to load the KDE desktop... then the taksbar disappears, the cursor switches to the loading (watch) icon, and it stalls. any help? Thanx, ES Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Win-Clients 'forget' samba server name
'man smb.conf' will give a much better explanation than I could give you. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Harald T ZIPKO Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 11:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Win-Clients 'forget' samba server name Bill, many thanks for your hints. If you don't have any MS domain controllers, you should add to No, just a small office without any _MS Domain Controllers_... But I am courious: the new entries in the global section are useful because... os level = 33 means? preferred master = yes means? local master = yes means? domain master = yes means? domain logons = yes means? wins support = yes means? wins proxy = yesmeans? Anyway, I will edit the smb.conf asap and hope that everything willl be OK! -- (o Best regards //\Harald T ZIPKO V_/_ please no html - mails -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] eth0:0, eth0:1, eth0:2, etc.
I hope you didn't put it in rc.local. The place for this is /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. [EMAIL PROTECTED] windows.m]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.128.1 NETWORK=192.168.128.0 BROADCAST=192.168.128.255 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes [EMAIL PROTECTED] windows.m]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0\:254 DEVICE=eth0:254 IPADDR=192.168.128.254 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 Make as many ifcfg-eth0:? files as you need. HTH, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of EE Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 10:05 AM To: Bambang Gunawan Cc: Mandrake Subject: Re: [newbie] eth0:0, eth0:1, eth0:2, etc. On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 15:09, Bambang Gunawan wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 07:51:08 -0400, Scott Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 07:13, MyEE wrote: Dears Every time I do ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.1.1 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig eth0:2 192.168.1.2 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 it works fine until I restart the computer everything goes back to its normal and I have do it again . How can I make this permanent --/* snip */-- Isn't it eth0 and eth2? Also, are you using DHCP? Cheers, SW that's just aliasing from eth0 you can add an alias like eth0:whatever_name_is the easy way to make it permanent after reboot, put that at the end of file /etc/rc.d/rc.local HTH Bambang Thanks, it worked. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Accessing MySQL
I guess I woke up cranky this morning. (Still working on my 1st cup of coffee.) What is it you are wanting to do? You can access MySQL from Apache, perl, C, etc. You can administer MySQL from phpMyAdmin (a web interface). Bill RANT Why do ppl ask for help and only give vague descriptions? I installed xyz and it doesn't work! How can I fix it? /RANT -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bobby Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 12:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Accessing MySQL When I had installed MDK 10.0 I also had the apache web server, everything related to PHP, and MySQL installed during the initial installation and been updating them when they needed to be updated. I build websites for the fun of it, but I'm having trouble accessing the database. Would I need go into the Konsole and set myself up in MySQL. I had always used Fox Serv, when it installed in my windows hdd it set everything up including the MySQL during the installation. Bobby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] update installation
urpmi cups-drivers printer-utils HTH, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of john Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 7:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] update installation Hello I am updating md10 and keep getting a conflict message for the cups printer file and the printer utilites file. When trying to install together or indivually, the message says that installation failed due to one conflicting with the other. Since neither has installed, I don't see how they could conflict. It doesn't say which file so I am not sure which way to go from here. Would appreciate any help on this. Thanks John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] FTP Download issues...
Got a firewall on this box? What does 'iptables -L -n -v' say? Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Travis Crook Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 6:08 PM To: Mandrake List Subject: Re: [newbie] FTP Download issues... On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 15:32, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 22:22, Travis Crook wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 14:31, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 20:10, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, snip Any ideas on why this is? tia That link works for me using konqueror, opera, and mozilla-firefox so it clearly has nothing to do wih Linux itself, but something about your environment. No idea what though :-( Thanks for checking and verifying that it wasn't a Linux issue! I will have to keep digging! Thanks! derek Do you have a proxy server in your network? You may need to route your traffic through a proxy. No proxy server here. derek -- Travis Crook Visions Beyond www.VisionsBeyond.com 208-478-7836 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] start up script for mandrake
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of lmcilwain Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 9:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] start up script for mandrake Now for for the exit is that a separate script? If I want to do a /etc/init.d /vncserver start is that just #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/X11/vncserver -user -depth 16 -geometry 1280x1024 :1 and for /etc/init.d/vncserver stop is that just To exit, killall Xvnc and both of these are just executable scripts that I place in the /etc/init.d directory? I just want to be clear so I do this right the first time. On Aug 24, 2004, at 7:21 AM, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 23 August 2004 09:44 pm, lmcilwain wrote: I can't seem to find any rpms so I am stuck with what I have which I know are the latest version. I looked at the rpms that I have on my cd but I didn't see a vnc server on it. Which is why I believe that I downloaded thee source before. Actually, it is called: tightvnc-1.2.9-2mdk.i586.rpm tightvnc-doc-1.2.9-2mdk.i586.rpm tightvnc-server-1.2.9-2mdk.i586.rpm If you are looking for vnc, you are not going to find it. You need to be looking for Tightvnc. I didn't see an rc.d file in my init.d directory in etc so I am wondering is there another place that I can install the startup script that you guys wrote? Sorry, that must have been a brain spasm on my part. The correct directory is /etc/rc.d/init.d you can also get there by cd'ing to /etc/init.d which is a symbolic link to /etc/rc.d/init.d Is there a way to simply write a script that points to the executable? I suppose, although it is not as elegant or functional as the script. #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/X11/vncserver -user -depth 16 -geometry 1280x1024 :1 To exit, killall Xvnc -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com If you wanted to do it right you would install tightvnc-server-1.2.9-2mdk.i586.rpm from the 3rd CD on ML Official 10.0. Run as root: urpmi tightvnc-server Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] start up script for mandrake
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of lmcilwain Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 6:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] start up script for mandrake Hello all, I am looking to create a startup script for vnc server. I had to compile it from source cause it didn't come with the install that I have. Can someone tell me how I can do this or where I need to make entries. I have tried looking in the MCC under services but I didn't see a service for vnc. Please let me know. Thanks, Mandrake has it; it is called tightvnc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd123and4]# rpm -qa | grep vnc tightvnc-1.2.9-2mdk tightvnc-server-1.2.9-2mdk urpmi tightvnc-server Change this in /etc/init.d/vncserver: # # chkconfig: 2345 91 35 # description: Starts and stops vncserver. \ # used to provide remote X administration services. USER=root export USER # Source function library. . /etc/init.d/functions Add your id's to /etc/sysconfig/vncservers. Then 'chkconfig --add vncserver' HTH, Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] FQDN's preventing me to connect to Todd's site?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Jeppesen Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] FQDN's preventing me to connect to Todd's site? On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 16:57:08 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By putting '192.168.1.15 steve.homeip.net steve' in your hosts table you are claiming that the domain homeip.net is on the subnet 192.168.1.x so whenever you try to visit Todds site it will be looking on 192.168.1.x You do not need to declare your servers external IP address (the interface facing your ISP) in your hosts table at all.You will find the address through DNS lookup. The internal address (facing your local net) must be in a different domain to the external interface. It is quite acceptable to make up a domain name such as 'localdomain' As in 192.168.1.15 steve.localdomain steve 192.168.1.1 server.localdomain server DNS is not used to discover IP addresses in the internal network, so you must put entries in the hosts table. Thanks for your help Derek, with your suggestions I have managed to get the server to connect to Todd's site, but none of the clients can resolve his site yet. First I changed the linux systems hostnames in their respective /etc/sysconfig/network files, HOSTNAME=server.homenetwork HOSTNAME=steve.homenetwork HOSTNAME=andrea.homenetwork then I updated (and removed any mention of homeip.net) their hosts files, server's /etc/hosts; 192.168.1.1 server.homenetwork server client's respective /etc/hosts files; 192.168.1.15 steve.homenetwork steve 192.168.1.25 andrea.homenetwork andrea I have also logged out (to reset the hostname), logged back in and restarted the network service on all the linux systems. None of the Windows systems had any mention of homeip.net in their setups so I believe they shouldn't be the source of DNS resolve errors. It seems as if the server or one of the clients is holding onto the homeip.net domain somehow still. Is there anywhere else that domain might be listed and I need to remove it? Somehow I feel this is a easy oneugh! TIA Steve --- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org On the windows boxes, what ip addr is resolving DNS for them? If your server is not resolving DNS for them it doesn't matter how you configure the server!! I would add .lan to the end so that your boxes have a FQDN: 192.168.1.15steve.homenetwork.lansteve I, personally, would run my own DNS server and tell my windows PC's to use it. Then, I can make any name to resolve to any address. If this is interesting, ask how. HTH, Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Wilson Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 11:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin On August 9, 2004 03:01 pm, SME Server Admin wrote: Hiya Right. i've had Spam Assassin running for a few weeks now, and have built up about 300 or so messages in my Spam/missed spam directory. The actually directory is: Local Folders / Spam / MissedSpam Now, I've been into shell and done as it asked, ie type in the following string. The first one was without a dot before Mail and the second was with it in. It's not working. This is in Kontact by the way. Can anyone help? TIA Elwyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ sa-learn --mbox --spam /home/Elwyn/Mail/.spam.directory/MissedSpam/* Learned from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined). [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ sa-learn --mbox --spam /home/Elwyn/.Mail/.spam.directory/MissedSpam/* Learned from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined). [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ Hi everyone. All the answers here didn't help me, I don't know about Elwyn. No matter WHAT kind of mailbox I have my spam messages placed in sa-learn refuses to learn. My first experience was with the Kontact default of maildir boxes and sa-learn couldn't even find them. Off to the SA site I go only to discover that SA hasn't supported maildir boxes for quite a long time. Not a good start. Next up was the thought that a competant mail client should have no problem converting mailboxes. Again, nope. So..set up a new directory structure for my spam to be sent to and make sure it's mbox.. Copy the messages into it then delete everything in the old one. New structure is a directory called spam1 with subdirectories called called filteredspam, missedspan and notspam. Now I try to teach spamassassin on what it missed (over 700 messages): sa-learn --mbox --spam /home/john/.Mail/spam1.directory/missedspam/* bayes expire_old_tokens: lock: 24884 cannot create tmp lockfile /home/john/.spamassassin/bayes.lock.d207-6-227-249.bchsia.telus.net.24884 for /home/john/.spamassassin/bayes.lock: Permission denied I assume you are running this as user 'john'. For some reason you don't have permission to write to the /home/john/.spamassassin directory. As root: chown john.john /home/john chown -R john.john /home/john/.spamassassin chmod u+rwx,g+rx /home/john /home/john/.spamassassin Now run the sa-learn command as user 'john'. I don't know what directory your mail is kept in. I use Courier maildirs. So my INBOX is /home/bill/Maildir/cur and /home/bill/Maildir/new. HTH, Bill Learned from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined). Okay..this isn't good either. There seems to be a lock file there somewhere. For fun I try as root. sa-learn --mbox --spam /home/john/.Mail/spam1.directory/missedspam/* Learned from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined). I'll chase down the lock file and try again. But there is one thing that does bother me a lot. And that's that Konq shows two of the files related to as plain text (filteredspam and nonspam). So I'm not sure they'll work. Help please. In simple words would be nice. :-) ttfn John -- *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE Registered Linux User 362316 *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] DHCP Server
You should be seeing messages in /var/log/syslog like: Aug 8 15:32:20 server1 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:d0:09:f4:49:37 via eth0 Aug 8 15:32:21 server1 dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.128.126 to 00:d0:09:f4:49:37 (LAB4) via eth0 Can you post your /etc/dhcpd.conf file? What IP address range are you wanting to serve? Which ethernet card is it, eth0? The lease file is /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases. HTH, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kühn Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 11:21 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] DHCP Server On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 01:07, Lanman wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: Ok - now I know I must be doing something wrong here folks; but let's start out from the beginning. I constantly have customer computers in here, and generally, when I slap them on the network, I give them a static IP address along with gateway and the whole nine yards. Today I decided I was exceptionally lazy and wanted to setup the DHCP server via the Mandrake Control Centre. Ok - no worries - accepted all the defaults and the likes. But it ain't seeming to work. Wassup? I have a customer machine here - rebooted even - tried to renew the IP, but getting nothing - NADA - WTF am I doing wrong - or do I need to spend more than five minutes on this? Mind you, I'm not having a whinge because of it, but I thought it should work right away and first off...(and I don't want to reboot) stephen kuhn - proprietor Stephen; Check your security level while you're at it, and see if the dhcp server is providing IP's on the correct NIC if the server has two NIC's installed. Lanman Been there done that; nada. It used to be easy under RH to get the DHCPD up and running via webmin; strange that I can't even access the DHCP server under webmin - say it ain't installed...arg...need more beer... stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. Hit them biscuits with another touch of gravy, Burn that sausage just a match or two more done. Pour my black old coffee longer, While that smell is gettin' stronger A semi-meal ain't nuthin' much to want. Loan me ten, I got a feelin' it'll save me, With an ornery soul who don't shoot pool for fun, If that coat'll fit you're wearin', The Lord'll bless your sharin' A semi-friend ain't nuthin' much to want. And let me halfway fall in love, For part of a lonely night, With a semi-pretty woman in my arms. Yes, I could halfway fall in deep-- Into a snugglin', lovin' heap, With a semi-pretty woman in my arms. -- Elroy Blunt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Network problem
So you have a router at 192.168.1.1? Post the output of: ifconfig arp -n iptables -L -n Bill -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Ralph UtbultSent: Monday, August 09, 2004 3:28 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Network problem Hi, New on this list, and new Mandrake user (have some experience with OpenBSD - command line versions, not X). I'm setting up an mail server behind a firewall (Postfix and Mandrake's pop3). My problem is that it only works in the internal network. When I try to ping or trace "the outside", I get "Network unreacheable". My firewall has port 25 open both ways, both UDP and TCP. Routing table: Kernel IP routing tableDestination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Ifacedefault 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo Any suggestions would be helpful - I'm running out of time... Regards, Ralph Utbult Jag har ny epostadress, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ralph Utbult Systemansvarig ABF Göteborg Telefon: 031-7743176 Mobil: 0706-743176
RE: [newbie] folder looses read/write permissions after each reboot....
You are fighting with msec which runs every hour and resets the permissions. What is it you want to do? My guess is that you want a directory where all members of the 'users' group can put stuff. If this is the case: mkdir -m 2770 /home/ubw/users chown admin.users /home/ubw/users drwxrwsrwx 26 admin users 4096 Aug 7 10:29 ubw/ ^ notice s not x This is not the chattr command. This is the directory sticky bit which means all files and directories created under this directory will have the same group ownership as this directory. This is what you want. HTH, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Harald T ZIPKO Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 5:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] folder looses read/write permissions after each reboot chmod 777 /home/ubw result: drwxrwsrwx 26 admin users 4096 Aug 7 10:29 ubw/ ^ notice s not x I don't know what it means, it _may_ have something to do with the chattr command that was mentioned earlier on I think the expert list. ^^ I never heard of this command before (like many others of course ;-) - but: what does this mean for daily usage/work? I am still desperate 'cause the folder permissions are still changing after a halt/reboot of the box; maybe using chmod 777 /folder to change the permissions is not optimal or clean (or whatever...) enough? Any workaround to change the folder permissions in a secure and stable way? -- (o Best regards //\Harald T ZIPKO V_/_ please no html - mails -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of German Guillot Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 9:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 08:29:16 -0400, Bill Shirley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# cat testg #!/bin/sh export DISPLAY=:0.0 echo $DISPLAY /usr/bin/galeon #/usr/bin/mozilla Works for me! Rats! I sure wish I could say the same. Just to be sure, do you mean it's working as a cron job, opening a browser window at certain times? Because that's what I can't get it to do. I can use the script to open Galeon if I run it from an xterm, but that's it. I've tried putting it in a crontab for root, I've tried logging in from run level 3 and then typing startx (but the X process is still owned by root), no result. I have got cron to do other things, but not this. It's like Mikkel said: I bet it will not work from the command line if you are at the command line interface, instead of the command line in an xterm. Any command that needs X to run will NOT work in a cron job. This is because it can not connect to an X server - at least not with the default security settings. It is not a good idea to change the settings to allow this, unless you are on an isulated machine. (I remember playing tricks on people running an open X server...) ;) So do you have your security settings tweaked to allow you to connect to the X server? Because what he says there seems to fit the behaviour on my system exactly, and I'd decided it wasn't worth compromising security for this. But I'm also pretty sure that there must be a workaround (or maybe I'm just mule-headed). Germán. Works from a cron job: 44 11 * * * /root/tmp/tmp/testg Here is my setup: I have vncserver running on my server. I open root's desktop with vncviewer from another PC. From the same another PC, I ssh in and can run the script which starts galeon and the window opens in vncviewer. (I only use the real console in emergencies.) The ssh terminal does not have the environment variable DISPLAY set; thus emulating the environment of cron jobs. This setup also works if the script is run from cron. I tested it here. I'm not sure what you guys are talking about when you say security settings. The another PC is on my local LAN and the server allows a connection. [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# cat testg #!/bin/sh export DISPLAY=:0.0 echo $DISPLAY /usr/bin/galeon #/usr/bin/mozilla Root gets an email from the echo command which reads: :0.0 HTH, Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user
Do you set and export the DISPLAY variable? From an xterminal run: env | grep DISPLAY to see what it is set to. I would think that if you do startx as root then the crontab would have to be root's. Also, if your cron job fails you should get email. Check that for errors. Test your script. Open an xterm and type: unset DISPLAY then run your script. Does it work? Bill PS. My run level is 3 not 5. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of German Guillot Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 12:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 01:42:10 +1000, Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok...just for giggles and grins, I just created a small script to fire up Galeon (/home/stephen/bin/start_galeon) :: snip #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/galeon http://freshmeat.net exit /snip Fired up kcron as myself, added the task, saved the task; fired up kcron again and forced a run; worked like a charm; was I missing something originally in the thread? Well, damnit. No, you're not missing anything, but I obviously am. I have a little script just like yours. I create a crontab with a task for it. It just doesn't work. Other scripts with other commands (cat, for example) are run by cron from my crontab, no problem. So it's not that I can't program a task in cron. It's not that I can't write a script to fire up a browser, that too works (run from the xterm). The only thing I can think of is that your X configuration and mine are different, and mine doesn't allow me to do this. Got a lot more studying to do. Germán. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user
Try putting in the script: DISPLAY=:0.0 at the top after #!/bin/sh HTH, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of German Guillot Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 4:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 15:07:43 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, I did that. I tried PATH=/home/ger/bin and when that didn't work PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11: etc, the whole bash environment variable. Did you add the full path in the script, or in the crontab entry? I added it only in the crontab entry, both in the PATH variable and in the line to be executed. I find specifing the path the script expects in the script itself cuts way down on problems, especialy if you later change your path from what it was when you wrote the script. You can usualy depend on /bin;/usr/sbin, but anything else depends on how the script is being run. Hm. With a script such as: #!/bin/bash cat /home/ger/test.1 /home/ger/test.2 you mean I should write: #!/bin/bash /bin/cat /home/ger/test.1 /home/ger/test.2 right? Well, darn it, yes! I just tried it (that very example with cat, which was not working either) and now it works. That was really mystifying me, because I reckoned cat should always work. Of course it does. Just to see, I made another script to open a browser window. All it has is this: #!/bin/bash galeon It's called /home/ger/bin/gal and works from the command line. But not from cron. Those things you point out might be the reason... I'll use a command that always works and check it. Any suggestions? I bet it will not work from the command line if you are at the command line interface, instead of the command line in an xterm. Any command that needs X to run will NOT work in a cron job. This is because it can not connect to an X server - at least not with the default security settings. It is not a good idea to change the settings to allow this, unless you are on an isulated machine. (I remember playing tricks on people running an open X server...) ;) Right again! :) If I try to run my little program gal from a login shell and not an xterm, I get and error message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ger]$ gal (galeon-bin: 13165): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: I hope this helps... It does indeed, thank you. All the mysteries have been explained. I still can't do what I was trying to do, but now I know why. It was only to learn, so I can count the whole thing a success after all. Thank you again. Germán. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install troubles on Toshiba notebook - Mandrake 10.0
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 27 July 2004 06:22 pm, Wafa Hakim wrote: First, there is a dialog box saying: Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk. There was probably a hardware error in reading data. This sounds to me as one of the following: a - bad burn of the iso b - CD drive done gone south for the winter Bill -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBBvVczHeHGYMT3rQRAkQsAJ0aXeFGNxduZoVwRqzD9YvgGak+AQCfTpEW TkZBkPhIYUsC0Ui9qZWXkjM= =11rq -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT gnutella finds loads of .exe files
Hi, If you check the size and they are around 20 to 75 kB, they are probably Windows viruses. I learned that the hard way. Ignoring them is the best option. Regards, Bill W. On Saturday 24 July 2004 11:47 pm, Brian Parish wrote: I am using gtk-gnutella and have noticed that in recent times, whatever I enter as search criteria, I get back heaps of whatever-I-typed-in.exe files found. I have always ignored them, but does anyone have a clear idea what these are about? cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] best bittorrent client
Hi, I am considering a bittorrent client installation. I prefer a gui application so that others can use it. Can the list members make a recommendation? tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Finally - an ad we can enjoy.
Hi, I think that Linspire is just trying to open some doors. Bill On Friday 23 July 2004 06:28 pm, Jeff Reid wrote: I LOVE IT!! :-) Thanks for the laugh! Jeff - Original Message - From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 5:10 PM Subject: [newbie] Finally - an ad we can enjoy. Friends, although it is Linspire, it´s still Linux : http://www.linspire.com/RunLinspireFlash.php Turn your sound volume up and have a good laugh. Kaj Haulrich. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] knewsticker in LM10
Hi, I finally got my ethernet connection up and running! Thanks to all who offered suggestions. Now to get to the fine tuning. Has Mandrake removed knewsticker from the latest distro? If so, is it possible to implement the previous version? Thanks, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Assistance requested for a minor annoyance
Hi Glenn, That one I know! In MCC, under 'Options' , uncheck 'Display Logs'. Regards, Bill W. On Tuesday 20 July 2004 07:36 pm, Glenn wrote: I solved this one a few months ago on my own, but can't for the life of me remember how I did it. Whenever I do any function within MCC, I get a blank pop-up box with the title Mandrake Tools Logs. Can anybody tell me which package I installed to vex myself so?? Thanks in advance for any assistance. Glenn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Setting up CPAN
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# locate config.h | grep perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/config.h /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/uconfig.h [EMAIL PROTECTED] perl]# rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/config.h perl-devel-5.8.3-5mdk HTH, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Clint Harshaw Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 3:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Setting up CPAN Hi all! I have a fresh installation of Mandrake 10 Official, and need help to get the last piece of the desktop in order. I need CPAN to get Perl modules installed. When I su to root and execute the command: perl -MCPAN -e shell and let it do the automatic configuration, I run into an error when I try to install a module. There is a config.h file that CPAN can't find -- and I can't find it either. When I do o conf, there is nothing in the section for makepl_arg. I read online (http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Programming/Installing_and_Using_CPAN.html) that this is critical and related to my error, but I don't know how to resolve it on this freshly installed Mandrake 10 system. For instance, the site tells me that I should do this: cpan makepl_arg: LIB=/path/to/my/site_perl but I don't know what Mandrake 10's /path/to/my/site_perl should be. Can you please guide me through a newbie configuration of CPAN to fix this error? Thanks very much, Clint Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] changing eth0 module
/etc/modprobe.conf HTH, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill W. Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 11:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] changing eth0 module Hi, I finally checked and it appears that I am running the 2.6 kernel. Can you remember the appropriate file that needs to be edited? Thanks and regards, Bill W. - Original Message - From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] changing eth0 module Bill W. wrote: Hi, I just finished installing LM10 Official on a new Dell Inspiron 9100 laptop (dual boot; winxp). Generally the insallation went well but the network card module has to be changed. I got that from a linux on laptops site. Embarrassingly, I forgot how to change that module (everything always works so well!). Can someone help me out on this. Regards, Bill W. I usualy edit /etc/modules.conf, and run depmod -a. There is a second file for 2.6.x kernels though. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] I tink or I know my postfix local mailer ist kaput!
First let me say: It's early in the AM and I working on my first cup of coffee, so don't expect me to be too sharp. (grin) 'Host or domain name not found' is indeed your problem. Postfix can't figure out where to send the mail. Can you post the output of: cat /etc/resolv.conf and host tbox.blrm.myhouse.localnet and postconf -v I noticed you don't have a 'myhostname' directive. Try adding this to /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 myhouse.localnet HTH, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Terence Golightly Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:47 AM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] I tink or I know my postfix local mailer ist kaput! List, I have corresponed with yins before on this subject and I havn't figured out how to fix this problem. Below are some messages I get (hopefully meaningful) that can help with figuring out how to fix this problem: I don't get anymore mail from overnight cron or other system messages. Jul 15 11:24:46 tbox postfix/pickup[1212]: 59F0E99E12: uid=0 from=root Jul 15 11:24:46 tbox postfix/cleanup[1916]: 59F0E99E12: message-id=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jul 15 11:24:46 tbox postfix/qmgr[15305]: 59F0E99E12: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=319, nrcpt=1 ( queue active) Jul 15 11:24:46 tbox postfix/smtp[1918]: 59F0E99E12: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], orig_to=terryg, re lay=none, delay=0, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=myhouse.l ocalnet type=A: Host not found) Jul 15 11:24:46 tbox postfix/cleanup[1916]: 73F8E99E20: message-id=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jul 15 11:24:46 tbox postfix/qmgr[15305]: 73F8E99E20: from=, size=2280, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jul 15 11:24:46 tbox postfix/qmgr[15305]: 59F0E99E12: removed Jul 15 11:24:46 tbox postfix/smtp[1918]: 73F8E99E20: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=none, delay=0, s tatus=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=myhouse.localnet type=A: Host not found) Jul 15 11:24:46 tbox postfix/qmgr[15305]: 73F8E99E20: removed [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# tail /var/log/syslog | grep postfix Jul 15 11:24:46 tbox postfix/pickup[1212]: 59F0E99E12: uid=0 from=root Jul 15 11:24:46 tbox postfix/cleanup[1916]: 59F0E99E12: message-id=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jul 15 11:24:46 tbox postfix/qmgr[15305]: 59F0E99E12: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=319, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jul 15 11:24:46 tbox postfix/smtp[1918]: 59F0E99E12: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], orig_to=terryg, relay=none, delay=0, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=myhouse.localnet type=A: Host not found) I guess the above is a clue? Jul 15 11:24:46 tbox postfix/cleanup[1916]: 73F8E99E20: message-id=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jul 15 11:24:46 tbox postfix/qmgr[15305]: 73F8E99E20: from=, size=2280, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jul 15 11:24:46 tbox postfix/qmgr[15305]: 59F0E99E12: removed Jul 15 11:24:46 tbox postfix/smtp[1918]: 73F8E99E20: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=none, delay=0, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=myhouse.localnet type=A: Host not found) Jul 15 11:24:46 tbox postfix/qmgr[15305]: 73F8E99E20: removed [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# For right now, I would like to get just local and system messages. eventually, maybe a local mailserver. This is a local machine with one user me :). I will attach my main.cf and aliases file at the end. Oh here is my hosts file: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /etc/hosts 10.0.0.10 tbox.blrm.myhouse.localnet tbox 127.0.0.1 localhost Go easy on me here. When it comes to a mailing system; I how how to send an email, setup my pop3 service using my favorite, a mailserver thats another story from all the config files to DNS ouch! My brain huts! So if some kind denizen could break down the above messages I appreciate it. Thannks, Terry Terry Golightly ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Pittsburgh, Pa Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-14mdk-i686-up-4GB 11:30:09 up 11 days, 22:34, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.11, 0.09 This is the Baron. Angel Martin tells me you buy information. Ok, meet me at one a.m. behind the bus depot, bring five-hundred dollars and come alone. I'm serious! -- The Rockford Files Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] changing eth0 module
Hi, Just to summarize my efforts on this so far. I am trying to configure a Broadcom 4401 ethernet card in a Dell laptop (Inspiron 9100). One of the laptop sites suggests that I replace the B44 module with the TG3 module to make the network card work. It has been suggested that I edit modprobe.conf and modules.conf then run depmod -a. I have no problem editing these files as root but I still have no luck on connecting to my home lan. If I go into MCC and check the network card it says that it is still using the B44 module. Mikkel suggests that there is another file that must be edited for the 2.6 kernels. tia, Bill W. - Original Message - From: Bill Shirley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 3:46 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] changing eth0 module /etc/modprobe.conf HTH, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill W. Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 11:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] changing eth0 module Hi, I finally checked and it appears that I am running the 2.6 kernel. Can you remember the appropriate file that needs to be edited? Thanks and regards, Bill W. - Original Message - From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] changing eth0 module Bill W. wrote: Hi, I just finished installing LM10 Official on a new Dell Inspiron 9100 laptop (dual boot; winxp). Generally the insallation went well but the network card module has to be changed. I got that from a linux on laptops site. Embarrassingly, I forgot how to change that module (everything always works so well!). Can someone help me out on this. Regards, Bill W. I usualy edit /etc/modules.conf, and run depmod -a. There is a second file for 2.6.x kernels though. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -- -- 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] changing eth0 module
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 17 July 2004 07:43 am, Bill W. wrote: Hi, Just to summarize my efforts on this so far. I am trying to configure a Broadcom 4401 ethernet card in a Dell laptop (Inspiron 9100). One of the laptop sites suggests that I replace the B44 module with the TG3 module to make the network card work. It has been suggested that I edit modprobe.conf and modules.conf then run depmod -a. I have no problem editing these files as root but I still have no luck on connecting to my home lan. If I go into MCC and check the network card it says that it is still using the B44 module. Mikkel suggests that there is another file that must be edited for the 2.6 kernels. tia, Bill W. Edit as root: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* where * is the card you're working on. Although it has nothing to do with the module you are talking about, you can verify your network settings are correct. Have you done an lsmod to ensure that you have loaded the module correctly? Here is what my ifcfg-eth1 looks like: DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=10.10.50.4 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=10.10.50.0 BROADCAST=10.10.50.255 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no WIRELESS_ENC_KEY= Bill -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA+asqzHeHGYMT3rQRAkh4AKD1KMqd4A6Dr9P/VBe3F7JMCKPrjgCeP/O9 BKKO21jFnhtVqsokxXpcdns= =bJUB -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] changing eth0 module
Hi, I finally checked and it appears that I am running the 2.6 kernel. Can you remember the appropriate file that needs to be edited? Thanks and regards, Bill W. - Original Message - From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] changing eth0 module Bill W. wrote: Hi, I just finished installing LM10 Official on a new Dell Inspiron 9100 laptop (dual boot; winxp). Generally the insallation went well but the network card module has to be changed. I got that from a linux on laptops site. Embarrassingly, I forgot how to change that module (everything always works so well!). Can someone help me out on this. Regards, Bill W. I usualy edit /etc/modules.conf, and run depmod -a. There is a second file for 2.6.x kernels though. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! 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] module for eth0 - again
Hi, I was finally able to try the two methods of changing the module for eth0. Unfortunately, even if I attempt to save and then restart X (logout -login) the old module reappears. Perhaps a little more information would help. My new LM10 Official installation is dual boot on a Dell Inspiron 9100. It has a 3.2 Ghz processor, a 128 Mb ATI Radeon M11 (recognized as a M10) and the network device is a Broadcom 4401. On a linux-laptop site they suggest that the module selected during installation (B44) will not function and that the TG3 (Broadcom Tigon) module does the trick. I tried manually changing the eth0 references in modprobe.conf (Stephen) and modules.conf and run depmod -a (Mikkel). The Broadcom module, B44 is still there when I restart X. Is there something else that needs to be done or that I am doing wrong to begin with? Thanks and regards, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] incorrect smp installation on laptop
Hi, I am the proud owner of a new Dell Inspiron 9100. 3.2GHz, 128 Mb ATI 9700 video card. I installed WinXP first(NTFS), then LM10 Official. Apart from a sound issue due to feedback - microphone to speakers- the installation went very well. Except, the installation saw a multiprocessor so I have a SMP installation. Has anyone else come across this glitch? Is there an easier method to fix this other than a total reinstall? Do I even need to bother with this? Thanks and regards, Bill W,. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] incorrect smp installation on laptop
Hi, Thanks to both Lanman and Charlie. I'll leave the installation as completed and just watch for inconsistent behaviour. Regards, Bill W. - Original Message - From: Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 2:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] incorrect smp installation on laptop -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 12, 2004 02:47, Bill W. wrote: Hi, I am the proud owner of a new Dell Inspiron 9100. 3.2GHz, 128 Mb ATI 9700 video card. I installed WinXP first(NTFS), then LM10 Official. Apart from a sound issue due to feedback - microphone to speakers- the installation went very well. Except, the installation saw a multiprocessor so I have a SMP installation. Has anyone else come across this glitch? Is there an easier method to fix this other than a total reinstall? Do I even need to bother with this? Thanks and regards, Bill W,. If you want to run a uni-processor kernel you'll need to enable acpi=ht in the lilo append line I believe. I don't know why that wouldn't have been the default though. You can try it if you like, but... In your case; PIV 3.2 GHz processor = multi processor to the installer, because of the hyper threading capabilities.. Or that's probably the case anyway. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I meant: I don't think you need do anything Bill. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.7-1.sds.16mdk 15:40:11 up 2:55, 1 user, load average: 0.22, 0.08, 0.02 If Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is not by some means abridged, it will soon fall into disuse. -- Philip Hale, Boston music critic, 1837 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA8wZXZqvqlrLPr5YRAg3SAJ4/H8tVMdoBD1Q/kCoUmwcoR3cI3QCdHEr6 OcpY/g2CWGiaaFkR6uw4TzE= =ZXmr -END PGP SIGNATURE- 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] changing eth0 module
Hi, I just finished installing LM10 Official on a new Dell Inspiron 9100 laptop (dual boot; winxp). Generally the insallation went well but the network card module has to be changed. I got that from a linux on laptops site. Embarrassingly, I forgot how to change that module (everything always works so well!). Can someone help me out on this. Regards, Bill W. 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 hostname problem
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ronald J. Hall Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 2:45 PM To: MDK Newbie Subject: [newbie] 10.0 hostname problem Okay, I'm still trying to sort out stuff on my sons comp and here is the latest problem (I don't know why I didn't notice this earlier). We have a 4 comp LAN here, 3 desktops hardwired, and 1 laptop via wireless. The comps run like this: 192.168.0.100 darkforce.ky.org (my main comp, v9.2, no problems) 192.168.0.101 darkforce2.ky.org (my sons - the 10.0 problem comp) 192.168.0.102 darkforce3.ky.org (younger son, v9.2 no problems) 192.168.0.104 darkforce4.ky.org (my laptop, v9.2, no problems) On my sons comp, I have: 192.168.0.101 darkforce2.ky.org darkforce2 in /etc/hosts I've got: HOSTNAME=darkforce2.ky.org IPADDR=192.168.0.101 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts should be a directory: [EMAIL PROTECTED] network]# ls -ld /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 15 10:54 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts// I think you should put HOSTNAME in /etc/sysconfig/network: [EMAIL PROTECTED] network]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=yes DHCP_HOSTNAME=elmo.notsolameanswer.org HOSTNAME=elmo.notsolameanswer.org DOMAINNAME=notsolameanswer.org Also, I don't think you can set IPADDR in this file. It should be set in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] network]# cat ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none IPADDR=192.168.4.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.4.0 BROADCAST=192.168.4.255 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes HTH, Bill and I set the IP address and hostname in the Internet wizard as well as being root and just doing a hostname darkforce2.ky.org. Never the less, when I open up a terminal, or do uname -a, it reports the system as being darkforce3.ky.org. As root, I can do a hostname darkforce2.ky.org, log out of any terminal and log back in and then it shows the correct hostname. Until I reboot. Then the 3 shows up again. Anyone have any ideas whats going on here? Thanks! -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] nice/renice question
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ronald J. Hall Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 5:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] nice/renice question On Tuesday 06 July 2004 02:44 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: -On Tuesday 06 July 2004 01:13 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: - Okay, so I want to give a game on my sons comp *top* priorty when running. - (I'm still trying to get better performance out of 10.0 here). - - How can I make a game like Starcraft, via winex3 or cedega run with a -20? - It would be nice if it could be configured so the actual command doesn't - have to be typed in every time, but that the system always knows to run - this game or app this way. - -Not sure if you have to give wine a priority as well, but you could just make -a bash wrapper script to start it off. Name it something like starcraft.sh - -#!/bin/bash -#Startup script for Starcraft - -winex starcraft blah blah blah - -exit - -then chmod +x starcraft.sh and place it in your path, then all you have to do -is type starcraft.sh to start it up. - I already do have a small script for games like that (Dosbox and Sarien games as well). I have a folder on each of the kids desktop called Games with icons (link to application) in them, pointing to each script, so all they have to do is click an icon to play any game thats installed. For example, the starcraft script looks like this: #!/bin/bash #script to run Starcraft: Brood Wars cd .transgaming/c_drive/Program\ Files/Starcraft winex3 starcraft.exe nice -n -20 winex3 starcraft.exe (see 'nice --help') HTH, Bill so where do I use nice or renice at? (I looked at the man pages and examples off the 'Net but I'm still in unfamiliar territory here). could I add it to the script above or hit the script directy with it? I'd really like it so that when the kids click on the starcraft icon, its done. Thats my goal. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Rusty Morse.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 June 2004 05:13 am, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Keith Powell wrote: Are there any radio amateurs on the list? Here too! I am a digital sort of guy, rtty, gtor pactor amtor Bill N7OKD -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA1eSQzHeHGYMT3rQRAiFDAKCdO46c9Y0lhpAI1p/dCKc79WzzyACgqTnp yIY0qHI6fhZ0OX8+zN9Q0kk= =FXnJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD burn verify
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 June 2004 02:04 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Scott Mazur wrote: OK, so I downloaded the ISOs for Mandrake 10.0, and the MD5s all check out. I burned each one to CDROM without any reported problems, but I'm having a heck of a time trying to install on particular box I've got (crashes randomly at the point of installing software). I've had this problem when the drive on the install machine has decided it's getting close to time to leave this world. You can sometimes get past this by blowing the drive out with some canned air. Bill -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA01rMzHeHGYMT3rQRAlbFAKDFVZVaM8yXLvnY261G6LLQYvRuBgCdFSHP QodRfPMu8olIKODF9IgpEwU= =SCbl -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] The network from hell! Kinda Long!
Bring up the linux box's modem and show us the output of: 'ifconfig' 'route -n' 'cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0' 'cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1' 'cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2' Connectivity first, firewall second. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lanman Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 1:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] The network from hell! Kinda Long! Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Lanman wrote: Well Folks, the Lanman has finally met his Waterloo! I'm trying to regain control over a network for a friend, but this thing has to be every SysAdmins nightmare come alive! My friend (Peter) has a small home network in a two-story house. 2 Macs, 3 Windows PC's (Don't ask, I'm working on that!), and a new Mandrake10.0 (Official)-Powered server that we just built to share files (Using Samba back and forth between all the systems as well as to firewall his systems and to handle Dynamic DNS, and also an ADSL connection. Here's where it gets interesting. While Peter had the Internet connection installed 18 months ago and he's been paying for it, he hasn't been using it. Instead, he's been connected to his brother's network and Internet service. I should mention that the brother lives on the first floor, while Peter is on the second floor. Both use the same ISP, and the same ADSL modems which have barely got any configuration options at all, and this is where the problems start. Since both modems run a DHCP server by default, I'm constantly running into problems. It's not possible to disable the DHCP server on either modem, or to reconfigure the modems to server IP addresses on different subnets. Since Peter's brother runs only Windows, and never updates his anti-virus programs, and since the two are constantly sharing files between the two LANS (which are currently running as one LAN on the same subnet), there have been quite a few infection-related problems, which have resulted in my trying to work out a viable solution. I should also mention that neither one wants to break their connection to the other as they have other files that need to be shared as well. So, my solution to the problem, was to install 3 NIC's in the new server, and to use two different subnets. Since Peter has almost 400 Gigs of data stored on his brother's network, he needs access to that data. Switching Peter and his family to Linux on his PC's (and maybe the Mac's as well), is the next phase of this nightmare, but it should go a long way to solving some of the virus issues for the time being. So, I've set up Peter's new server so that it can run his ADSL connection from eth0, his LAN runs on eth1 (using a subnet of 10.0.0.0), and the third NIC connects to his brother's subnet (using a subnet of 192.168.0.0). Now comes the fun part. I've tried everything I could to find out how to run routing through the new server, but de-crypting the HOWTO's for IPROUTE2 is like speaking only Chinese when the book is written in Greek! Can someone shed a bit of light on this please? I'm using IPtables in Webmin (Praise the Powers that be and Jamie Cameron for creating Webmin), to configure the firewall. My plan is to block traffic from the brother's subnet after the routing has been configured, while still allowing Peter to access his data on the brother's LAN. In essence I should be able to DENY, DROP or REJECT anything coming from downstairs, while allowing Samba, Netatalk and Appletalk to see the shares downstairs. I'm not expecting troubles from that aspect of the setup, but I can't get a handle on routing with this no way, no how. I currently have a brain full of too much useless knowledge about routing because none of the documents I've found even try to provide a step-by-step process. They mostly seem to be concerned about explaining the theory, instead of the practical aspects. Sorry this post is so long, but I wanted to explain all the things I'm facing in a clear manner. I'd appreciate any help that can be offered! Thanks in Advance, and sorry to make your collective heads hurt on a weekend! This one has me stumped. Lanman I take it you are running a DHCP server on the Linux box. For the upstairs system, things will be fairly simple. But the downstairs system, the one that uses its own ADSL connection, it gets harder. This is because it will try and send anything that is not on the 192.168.0.0 network through the ADSL modem. It will be able to talk to the Linux box, but not the machines behind it. You can solve some of this by having the Linux box masquarde (spelling) the connection to the lower floor, as well as the dns connection. You will also have to use a non-standard netmask
RE: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files
Ah, but in your original post you said remove. None of the suggestions you received removed the lines; they just copied them to a different file. This is kinda like in the status line of some browers where it says Transfering data from http://www.mydomain.com;. It's not transfering, it's coping. Transfering data implies the removal of the data from the original site after downloading. Transfering files from the CD. lol Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of magnet Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 8:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files On Tuesday 15 Jun 2004 9:09 am, Richard Urwin wrote: On Tuesday 15 Jun 2004 4:11 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:14:04 +0100 magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: each file and then save each with a .txt suffix. Where do I start with this? Since the # of lines you want to remove are known, I'd suggest using the script, but use 'head' and or 'tail'. Those are designed for this purpose. sed will work too, but is more generalized. But, automation via a for loop is what you're looking at doing. i.e. 'head -17 file.htm' would print all but the first 17 lines of the file. This does not work in 9.2 - it gives you the first 17 lines. Also tail -17 gives you the last 17 lines. Now, tail +17 will give you all but the first 17 lines. Too bad head +17 does not work. Mikkel According to the man page, tail +17 does what you want head +17 to do. Not intuitive. I suggest you re-try the test that you ran above. I have tried this under 9.2 and it works fine. Thanks to all that helped. cd to the directory containing the files to be converted, then issue this command: tail +5 original_file.htm new_filename.txt Worked a treat, so I will be making back-ups first g just in case and running Mikkels' script. magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files
Maybe I didn't pay close enough attention, but it looked like you guys were using 'head' and 'tail' to output to a *.txt file leaving the original intact. Yes, the end result IS the important thing. However, not saying exactly what you want to do leads to misinterpretation. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mikkel L. Ellertson Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 11:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files Bill Shirley wrote: Ah, but in your original post you said remove. None of the suggestions you received removed the lines; they just copied them to a different file. No, they copied all but the lines she wanted removed to a different file. In effect, creating a new file that is the original file with the lines removed. I guess to complete the operation, we should add a line to the script that deletes the original file... This is kinda like in the status line of some browers where it says Transfering data from http://www.mydomain.com;. It's not transfering, it's coping. Transfering data implies the removal of the data from the original site after downloading. Transfering files from the CD. lol Bill It is all a matter of definitions. English is not a percise language, so you get things like this... I think the end result is the important thing here, don't you? ;) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] sigmatel mp3 player
Hi, I was wondering if there has been progress on mounting these usb mp3 players. In that other os mine is identified as sigmatel mscn usb device. A google on that term reveals another player using the same systema Transcend JetFlash. In their literature they suggest a simple mount command from /dev/sda1 is all that's needed. Of course, this is not functional in LM10, to my knowledge. I have tried both kernels on the LM10 CE distro. Has this been addressed in 'Official'? Has anyone been successful with this usb mass storage player? Thanks and regards, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] dev file question
put any modules you want to be automatically loaded upon boot in /etc/modules: [EMAIL PROTECTED] samba]# cat /etc/modules # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored. floppy #snd snd-slot-0 snd-pcm-oss snd-seq-oss cdrom processor thermal fan ac battery button scsi_hostadapter HTH, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Grant Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 6:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] dev file question --- Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant wrote: To get it back, try: rm /dev/tts/LTO rm /dev/modem modprobe lt_serial ln -s /dev/modem /dev/tts/LT0 Thanks a lot for getting back to me. I have removed those symlinks and restarted Linux and I still have no LT0 file in my /dev/tts directory. The only file in that directory is a weird one called 0. I just need that LT0 file back so I can dial up with this sucker. When I typed in modprobe lt_serial it just went to the next prompt. What should be happening? - Grant It should be loading the modules for the winmodem, and creating /dev/tty/LT0 (Unless that is not the driver for your modem. I thought I remembered that you had a Lucent chipset...) You can run lsmod and see if lt_serial is already loaded. Mikkel The driver was /dev/tts/LT0 until the symlinks got messed up. I do have a Lucent chipset. I ran lsmod and didn't see anything called lt_serial or anything else that looked like a modem. I've got to get this file back! Any ideas? - Grant Ok, I ran modprobe lt_serial, got a tainted kernel warning message, ran lsmod, and then lt_serial and lt_modem showed up in there. The /dev/tts/LT0 file showed up too! I'll be able to test this tonight at home, but all looks to be well! Thanks for the help Mikkel! - Grant __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Samba server not working
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Video 4Linux Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 8:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Samba server not working I'm trying to set up a Samba server on my Linux Mandrake 10 machine. I've copied the smb.conf settings from the Samba Howto and look like this: [global] workgroup = Thuis netbios name = Linux printcap name = cups disable spoolss = Yes show add printer wizard = No printing = cups [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S read only = No browseable = No [public] comment = Data path = /share force user = bas force group = users guest ok = Yes [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba printer admin = root, bas create mask = 0600 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes use client driver = Yes browseable = No I started the smb and nmb services which repsond both with [OK]. But when I run the command smbclient -L localhost I get: session request to LOCALHOST failed (Call returned zero bytes (EOF)) session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Call returned zero bytes (EOF)) It's 'smbclient -L netbiosname', so for you it's: smbclient -L Linux Note that because I want to share a certain partition with a windows XP machine /share is mounted at a FAT32 partition. No idea if that has samba can share out any partition. You don't have to make it a FAT partition. All my shares are ext3. Unless this is a partition that already has data, I would recomment NOT to use FAT. something to do with my problems. I also cannot chown the /share folder (operation not permitted). It is now owned by root. Help is very welcome. Bas _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] mp3 time display
Hi, I don't know if this is appropriate here, but responses will tell. I have some long (over an hour) mp3 files that will not display total time or time elapsed while playing in my portable. Is there an app that will allow me to fix this? Most, if not all of my mp3's have that information. I have tried'resaving' the file with audacity but itstill doesn't display the information. Can anyone tell me where this info is stored and how to encode / extract it? Thanks in advance, Bill W.
Re: [newbie] mp3 time display
Hi All, I think I have itI split the file in half; each part less than an hour and exported from Audacity as mp3. The time and elapsed is now visible in my player. Must be a limitation in the bios/os of the player. Thanks, Bill W. - Original Message - From: Bill W. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 7:09 PM Subject: [newbie] mp3 time display Hi, I don't know if this is appropriate here, but responses will tell. I have some long (over an hour) mp3 files that will not display total time or time elapsed while playing in my portable. Is there an app that will allow me to fix this? Most, if not all of my mp3's have that information. I have tried'resaving' the file with audacity but itstill doesn't display the information. Can anyone tell me where this info is stored and how to encode / extract it? Thanks in advance, Bill W.
RE: [newbie] How to trouble shoot 'eth0 FAILED'?
Yes, very nice explanation. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kaj Haulrich Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 5:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How to trouble shoot 'eth0 FAILED'? On Monday 17 May 2004 10:56, Derek Jennings wrote: One of the nice things about Linux is that all configuration is by clear text files. No messing about with arcane registry entries is required. When you set that box in the GUI to disable 'Network Hotplugging' what the GUI does is write MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes into the configuration file for that interface. You can learn an awful lot about Linux by exploring the configuration files in the /etc folder, but of course for a newbie it is awfully conforting to be able to use a GUI to configure your system. Network Hotplugging is a daemon which looks for Ethernet heartbeats. Most Ethernet cards are able to detect electrical signals which indicate that there is another ethernet device on the other end of the cable (MII). If Network Hotplugging is enabled your system will automatically up an interface when the heartbeat is detected, and will down it if the heartbeat disappears. This is especially good for laptops because it means you can just plug in the Ethernet cable, and within a few seconds you are connected to the network. The downside of hotplugging is that there are a few devices which will get confused and end up in the wrong mode, and some devices do not support it at all. Hence the ability to disable it. Derek, I don't know your professsional occupation, but if you published a book for linux newbies, you'd become a millionaire overnight. Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] DNS questions
Run a DNS server on your box and the problem is solved. urpmi bind bind-utils chkconfig --add named chkconfig --levels 2345 named on service named start change /etc/resolv.conf to: nameserver 127.0.0.1 HTH, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Frank Bax Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 11:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] DNS questions At 11:04 AM 5/11/04, Frank Bax wrote: At 09:56 AM 5/11/04, Anders Lind wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004 09:51:18 -0400 Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have three Linux machines on the same network with a bunch of windows machines. The ip address of the server hosting corporate email changed last week, but the old ip address was only unplugged yesterday. Two of the linux machines are unable to download email and ping attempts to connect to the old ip address. reboot didn't help. Third linux machine and windows machines are working fine. Looks like a dns issue. What tools do I use to determine which nameserver Linux is using, what ip address that name server is providing for the server we are trying to reach? Frank Open /etc/resolv.conf as root with your favorite editor and you can also have a look in /etc/hosts so everything is the same on all three boxes /etc/resolv.conf was different - change them all to match what our router has and all is well! But more questions. We have a router with dsl modem here. I use dhcp for windows clients. I gave each linux machine a static ip so I can do remote admin. Is there a way to get the ip address of nameservers from the router, like what would happen with dhcp, but still have static addresses for the linux machines? Does no-one have a solution to this nameserver problem? My Linux machines went down again today - apparently my ISP (sympatico/bell) changed name servers and the ip addresses that worked yesterday don't work today! Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] samba configuration in 10.0
Yes, make a copy of your /etc/samba/smb.conf. The 3.0 rpm borked mine. HTH, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Raffaele BELARDI Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 3:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] samba configuration in 10.0 I'll install shortly 10.0 Official on my office PC, which I currently use with 9.2 as samba server to share some Linux partitions (no printers) with windows co-workers. I understand 10.0 includes samba 3.x, while 9.2 uses samba 2.x. Are there any gotchas I should be aware of for the porting of the samba configuration files, or is it painless? I am not using any graphical configuration tool for this task. thanks, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] [Somewhat OT] Recursing in bash
Sounds like a job for 'find' !
find /home/bill -type f -name '*.doc' -exec somecommand someargs {} \;
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
where to only look name what cmdcommand | +-- mandatory
startat files pattern to run args |
|
will insert found name here
you can harmlessly try it:
find /home/bill -type f -name '*.doc' -exec ls -s {} \;
or
find /home/bill -type d -exec ls -ld {} \;
'man find' is your friend.
HTH,
Bill
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of robin
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 4:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] [Somewhat OT] Recursing in bash
I'm trying to write a bash script that will recurse through a
directory,
find Word files, then run antiword on them. Unfortunately,
I'm stuck on
the first stage, which is to get it to recognise a directory. I'd
thought this would work
for i in *
do
if [-d $i]; then
cd $i
and so on, but the third line obviously has the wrong syntax,
as I get
[!: command not found. Any ideas?
Sir Robin
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[newbie] overnight freezing
Hi, I have searched the archives but I came up empty on this particular issue. I have LM10 CE installed on a Dell laptop dual booting win2k. Aside from a video resolution issue, LM10 is a nice release for me. One annoying issue, however, is that if I leave my machine on overnight, it is locked up tight by morning. Nothing but a hard reboot will get it back. Ctl - Alt - F1 etc. doesn't respond. I can't get to a command line at all to try and figure it out. Is there a log file somewhere that might be recording events leading up to the freeze? BTW, I have a simple 'clock' screensaver enabled but 'power management' is not enabled. Also, is there any pressing reasons to upgrade to official? thanks for your ideas, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] I'm losting my samba's shares after some time... permission denied... help plz.
Hi, Do you have wins support = yes in the [global] section of /etc/samba/smb.conf ? os level = 33 domain master = yes preferred master = yes local master = yes wins support = yes domain logons = yes Configure all PC's to use the linux box's IP address as their WINS server and only use the TCP/IP protocol on the PC. (Remove NetBeui protocol). Are these PC's in the same workgroup as the linux machine? Samba - cups printing is kinda boinked on my system right now, so I can't really help you on that one. Bill Shirley -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Flávio Henrique Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 11:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] I'm losting my samba's shares after some time... permission denied... help plz. Bill, I'm happy to say you that works... I create my directories shares out of my /home and works... But now I got another problem... All my win98 clients see their neighborhood area empty... no itens but the network is there and works fine... all users is working... if they hit \\server, e.g., the windows explorer opens it fine.. some clue ?? and, maybe, this is the reason too, that my users can't print in any shared printer... all shared printer goes offline.. everytime... I thank you one more time.. Flávio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] apache making me batty
chmod o+x /home/*
is all you need for the users. It allows the world
to enter the directories but not list them. I
would recommend:
find /home -type d -name public_html -exec chmod 2750 {} \;
find /home -type d -name public_html -exec chown -R .apache {} \;
which sets the group sticky bit on the public_html directories.
All new files/directories created in public_html will have group
apache.
HTH,
Bill Shirley
PS. It is secure if everything in ~/ has the correct permissions.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Todd Slater
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 4:30 PM
To: Mandrake Newbie
Subject: Re: [newbie] apache making me batty
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 03:27:10PM -0400, Todd Slater wrote:
On a 9.1 box running highest level security with Apache
1.3. I'm trying
to access the ~/username directory but keep getting 403
forbidden error.
~/public_html is readable by all
~/public_html/index.html is readable by all
In /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf I have:
Directory /home/*/public_html
AllowOverride All
Options MultiViews -Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
IfModule mod_access.c
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
/IfModule
/Directory
which seems to be pretty standard. I don't see anything in
the apache
logs other than the 403 errors. Anybody know what's up with that?
Well it seems that ~/ needs to be +x, too, so chmod 755 ~/. It works,
but do you reckon it's safe? Also, msec's bound to change permissions
any second now, back to the archives!
Todd
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RE: [newbie] modem problem
My USR 5610b installs on ttyS4 every time. Since this is not an option with KPPP, I always point it to /dev/modem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jonathan Dlouhy Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 11:58 PM To: Mandrake Newbie List Subject: [newbie] modem problem I just bought a USR 5610b modem that was recommended by several knowledgeable folks to work fine with Linux. It seems to want to use Com 4, which I assume is /dev/ttys3. When I look in the /dev directory ttys3 is linked to pty/s51. I suppose that's why my comm and fax programs complain that the modem is either busy or locked? Should I remove that link? And if so, how? Thanks, Jonathan Dlouhy = Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by Mandrake 10.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] turning off mailman
crontab -e -u mail then put a # in front of 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/bin/python -S /usr/lib/mailman-2.1.4/cron/gate_news Bill Shirley -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of robert lester Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 5:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] turning off mailman looking at syslog, it seems that cron is runing the mailman program which brings in news. I never read new. How do I turn it off? It runs every five minutes and fills up syslog. I looked in the cron (hourly,daily,etc) but couldn't find it. bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao-Tsze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] I'm losting my samba's shares after some time... permission denied... help plz.
Yes, msec will mess your permissions up on /share. I will show you how to do this for the samba share docs that is accessable by docusers. You already have /share so as root cd /share chown root.root . chmod 755 . groupadd docusers mkdir -m 2770 docs chown root.docusers docs add this to smb.conf [Docs] comment = share for docusers path = /share/docs browseable = no guest ok = no valid users = @docusers writeable = yes create mask = 771 directory mask = 770 map hidden = yes map archive = yes map system = yes available = yes now edit /etc/group and find the entry for docusers docusers:x:499: [Note, the number may be different. That's ok.] now add the users that you want to be able to access this share to this line and save your changes docusers:x:499:user1,user2,user4 After saving the changes, then finally do a: service smb reload Your users may have to log off and back on before they can map the drive. They won't see the share in Network Neighborhood because we set browesable = no. Change it to yes if needed. If you make a change you must do: service smb reload and they MAY need to log off and back on to see your change. Each file or directory created in /share/docs will be owned by the user that created it and have the group of docusers. All members of group docusers can edit/delete files/directories. Hope this helps, Bill Shirley -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of frankieh Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 6:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] I'm losting my samba's shares after some time... permission denied... help plz. Flávio Henrique wrote: Flávio Henrique wrote: hmmm.. so this msec thing break the shares because is too risk ? I'm right ? is that what your mean ?? It doesn't break the share, it has nothing to do with samba at all. It seems the files that are writable and executable to everyone, and it changes them to safer permissions. in fact, the permission still displayed like dwrxwrxwrx for my share... but the users can access it... even that, I need to give 'chmod 777 /share' again to work... yes, but are the files still 777 Flávio Henrique Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Sasl Authentication for Postfix
I authenticate using imap: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf pwcheck_method: saslauthd [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd # $Id: saslauthd.sysconfig,v 1.1 2001/05/02 10:55:48 wiget Exp $ # Authentications mechanism (for list see saslauthd -v) #SASL_AUTHMECH=pam SASL_AUTHMECH=rimap # Hostname for remote IMAP server (if rimap auth mech is used) # Ldap configuration file (if ldap auth mech is used) SASL_MECH_OPTIONS= # Extra options (for list see saslauthd -h) # -n use 3 threads # -a use remote imap at 127.0.0.1 SASLAUTHD_OPTS=-n 3 -O localhost #SASLAUTHD_OPTS=-n 3 Works like a charm and handles virtual mailboxes too. Bill Shirley -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 6:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sasl Authentication for Postfix On Wednesday 05 May 2004 00:42, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 04 May 2004 04:12 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: I tried copying /etc/shadow to /var/spool/postfix/etc with perms 644 without success. I have seen others talk about how complex getting that to work is, not to mention the security issues. I never tried because of those. How do you configure /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd to work with sasldb ? If I set SASL_AUTHMECH= sasldb I get No, under sasl2, which is what Mandrake10 uses, use use auxprop. Sasl is salsdb. # service saslauthd start Starting saslauthdsaslauthd[13725] :set_auth_mech : unknown authentication mechanism: sasldb (libsasl2-plug-sasldb is installed.) And where does the sasl database go? Once created it goes into /var/spool/postfix/var/lib/sasl2 with postfix:postfix as owner. OK I got it working with sasldb. The problem is all to do with postfix running in a chroot sandbox. For the archives this is what I had to do :- In /etc/postfix/main.cf smtpd_sasl_path = /var/lib/sasl2:/usr/lib/sasl2 smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, check_relay_domains smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous create sasldb database with the command saslpasswd2 -c -u jennings.homelinux.net -a smtpauth derek The database will be created in /etc/sasl.db copy that to /var/spool/postfix/var/lib/sasl2/sasl.db Create the file /var/spool/postfix/var/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf containing the text pwcheck_method: auxprop Create a symlink between /usr/lib/sasl2 and /var/spool/postfix/usr/lib/sasl2 ln -s /usr/lib/sasl2 /var/spool/postfix/usr/lib/sasl2 Thanks derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] fuji finepix 2400
Hi Jerry, Thanks, I did install the 2.4 kernel and voila. Just like it's meant to be...I wonder if these issues get addressed by the kernel developers? Do they need this kind of information to fix these bugs? Anyway, thanks again. Regards, Bill W. - Original Message - From: Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 7:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] fuji finepix 2400 On Sat, 01 May 2004 15:09:45 -0400 Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 07:04, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I was going to try getting the fuji finepix 2400 going again in LM10. A search through the archives indicated a few threads, all seeming to indicate that 9.2 was almost an automatic install whereas 10 somewhat broke it. An inexpensive mp3 (usb) player is also not recognized. Has this usb issue been resolved in LM10 official? Has any list member been successful mounting the finepix camera on LM10 with 2.6.3-4 kernel? tia, Bill W. No problem with my finepix camera over here. It is recognized and mounted automatically. Mandrake 10, fully updated, kernel 2.6.3-9. Adolfo FWIW, it seems to be kind of hit and miss... my finepix 1300 won't work with the latest mdk 2.6 kernel but it works with the 2.4. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] 10.0 CE printing problems
Worked like a charm! Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of JRH Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 1:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 10.0 CE printing problems On Friday 30 Apr 2004 17:32, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: I can't get my printer, an HP Deskjet 845c, to print from 10.0CE I got an old HP DJ520... It's that old, you have to wait for it to get steam up first! Mine wouldnt print, until I installed package HPOJ. It shouldnt have needed it, but it did! When you run the printer installation wizard, it will throw up a little window, asking if your printer is one of a few types, a couple of them being HP Laserjet and OfficeJet. Click yes, and it will install the HPOJ package. Give it a try, it worked for me! JRH -- Sent using Kmail, on Mandrake Linux 10 Community Exposing Microsoft products directly to the internet, is a bit like painting a large bullseye on your butt, and bending over, naked, in a San Francisco steam room. Except, Microsoft isnt nearly as safe Registered Linux User #340061 ICQ: #86015236 Yahoo!: v6vitanic 18:57:48 up 3:42, 1 user, load average: 0.23, 0.24, 0.42 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
