Re: [newbie] Argh-Software manager is killing me!
you guys are all making me feel bad cause mine works correctly. geez! -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how do you configure pine?
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Dalton Roberts wrote: I am a newbie to linux and i would like to know how to configure pine so i can recieve and send emails. I have mandrake 9 and a dialup ISP. Hi Dalton, there really isn't that much to the basic config for Pine. start it up in a console, at the main menu type an uppercase S for setup and then C for configure. all the items to be configured are listed there. unless you're doing something strange you shouldn't need to do anything with the place your inbox is, but you definately have to set the values for you MTA and SMTP whether you're doing that yourself, or using your ISP for that. try this link in your browser. Its a link to Google and will yield tons of good info on how to setup Pine for sending and recieving email. http://www.google.com/search?q=configuring+Pinesa=Google -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Robert Wideman wrote: You might have missed my previous posting stating i figured out that i had to add the computer in /etc/hosts. Good God man! you're doing it the hard way! I prefer the hard way. 1) on the server running NFS ( exporting the filesystems ) start Linux conf-Networking- Network- what else? I know where your going with this anyway... It would just be easier to (as root) type netconf in CLI. Seeing i am never logged in as root, only my user, then i su - and do everything from that. ALso, if i do it GUI then i feel like i am doing a MS way. It just doesnt feel correct doing a REAL OS via GUIserver tasks that is. Thanks. Rob Rob, thats ok... but it sounds like you've been brain-washed into thinking graphical interfaces are a bad thing. they're real handy to have around when you've got a ton of other things to do and you just need to get something config'ed quickly so's you can get that assignment finished before it's time to leave for class or something. ;) -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 12:30 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: I don't need Outlook for that (and for the record I've never used it). I merely ask that you be considerate in your language. There isn't really anything else to say. Plus...today is a continuation of yesterdayi didnt go to sleep last nite...it is 6:30 AM CST here in Austin, TX. That never helps. Haven't you noticed how often you go to sleep with a problem on your mind and wake up with the solution? g Anne wow! can I attest to that one. I wish I had a dollar every time I woke up with the solution to the logic problem I'd been having with a program the night before. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Lanman wrote: Um, Just wanted to jump in here, before everyone starts exchanging hugs and kisses (I hate it when things get mushy!), but has anyone ever considered using Samba instead of NFS? good God Lanman! you used to S word!!! Aah!!! to tell you the truth though, it's been my experience that going Linux to Linux, which I do 97% of the time on my home Lan, NFS is killer compared to the misery Linux-Linux samba brings. IMHO samba only exists to allow winders machines to connect to and share files with a Linux machine. - -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? - --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: pgpenvelope 2.10.2 - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE+QZF3lz3cA934DmQRAid0AJ47RQtPteKR1Zs3YwBzRoLAGAxr4QCfZjeL g80sBeuVcHSY1FpJ2C8WDqM= =BnTE -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off Topic list
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, et wrote: I don't think it is going to work for folks on Earthlink-MindSpring, they won't allow anyone with a dynamic IP use there own mail server, unless they use the smpt server of their ISP as a gateway, or so it seems yeah...it's looking that way, however I may be able to relay through a server I have running at work. That'll have to wait till monday though when I got back into the office. That machine has a static IP address that is DNSable. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Free the code [OT]
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 14 January 2003 05:00 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Well, life's a bitch sometimes, but by and large I can get what I need between them, so there are more important things to think of right now. Maybe sometime I'll get a round tuit ;) Anne I used to have one. It was a cast aluminum coin about an inch in diameter. The letters TUIT ran around the circumference on each face. Gift from a guy that worked for me. After that, instead of commiting to doing something when I got around to it, I'd say ...when priorities permit. -- cmg Oooo! I'll have to try that one on my wife and see what kind of mileage I can get from it. ;) -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problem with xcdroast
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Josenildo Marques wrote: I can't believe it myself because it seems so surrealistic... I have spent hours trying to figure out what could be the problem, but I just can't have a hint at it. X-cd-roast is not showing all the tracks of the cd's I put on the drive. It simply jumps from track 8 to track 12, for example. When I hit the Verify CD button, it says the TOC is outdated and the image on the HD doesn't match with the cd. I encoded some songs with Grip and it worked without problems. I also tried to use GToaster, but I think it doesn't burn images. Isn't it surreal ? Thanks for any tip. It sounds as though you don't have XCDroast configured correctly. and Gnome-Toaster does a nice job of burning images. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Financial Problems
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Colin McElhatton wrote: This is very unsettling news, I really would not want Mandrake to go away any time soon. Of all the Linux flavours I have tried this was the one that I could install without a hitch and whose minor flaws I could fix thanks to this mailing-list among other things. I wish there was more overt support to this distribution as I really think it is work using as a Windows substitute. The only way this OS is going to gain more support is by having applications that install painlessly all the time, that don't use gzip or tar to unpack them but have proper self-executing installers instead. That the Linux Configuration Centre is streamlined further to allow computer-users vis-a-vis computer professionals to carry out the neccessary day-to-day tweaking without having to know what's happening beneath. Um...thats what *rpms* are for. *self extracting installations* as I see it the biggest reason that folks have a problem with the way things install under Linux is because they go into it with the expectation of the system *being* like windows. It is not. there are different rules and ways of doing things that actually have a history in Linux and it is necessary that the user learn and bend to these ways in order to make things work. Not the other way around. There really isn't anything wrong with .tar and .gz file formats - they are tried and true methods of archiving and file compression that have a lot more history and success behind them then does .zip. Having said that I can tell you that there's a fine tool in Mdk 9.0 that allows a user to use these file formats AND the beloved .zip file format *painlessly*. Its called File Roller. It works just like Winzip. As for me I am happy with what I've got even though I would welcome any improvements...which brings up other considerations to mind, like how about having periodic self-extracting OS improvement packs that take the hassle out of upgrading (say the KDE interface if a newer one comes out). I'm talking off the top of my head here, but I would really like to see the day when opting to go Linux ALL THE WAY will be really easy and full of possibilities even for those who just USE a computer to play games, read email, write a document and maybe use their webcams to communicate with others over the net. what you're asking for is a computer that works like a car and _that_ will never happen. Computers will always require its user to possess some knowledge of the OS and it's programs. All it takes is a little learning. Since I've started with Linux almost 7 years ago I've seen huge improvements in the amount of knowledge that is required to install and operate a Linux desktop. I've used all of the major distros at one time or another, and without a doubt Mandrake is King. The single BIGGEST problem for end user to this day remains being able to find the information that will get them going and *their* willingness to avail themselves of that information and learn it. simply dumbing down the interface and the core processes of the system will _never_ make a better, more usable system. It only makes one weaker and far less stable. I believe windows is perfect proof of this. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Financial Problems
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 20 Jan 2003 6:05 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: The single BIGGEST problem for end user to this day remains being able to find the information that will get them going and *their* willingness to avail themselves of that information and learn it. You're right there, mate. There's huge amounts of information in the docs on this computer alone, without what's available on the Internet. The problem for a newbie end user is finding the wheat from the chaff with regard to his particular problem at that time. It's so overwhelming. I don't see any answer to that. It's good and right that so much should be available. What's needed, I think, is some sort of searchable flag that says 'this help file is suitable for beginners'. Anne Hi Anne, thats where these lists come in so incredibly handy. I know it was my salvation when I first started using Mandrake. well, actually I learned the true value of the mailing list/news group when I was learning with RedHat, but the concept is the same. I truely believe that the Mandrake lists are without peer when it comes to support for both the brand new user and the advanced alike. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, John Richard Smith wrote: Ronald J. Hall wrote: Mandrake has filed for bankruptcy... Follow this link... :-( http://lwn.net/Articles/20061/ how much longer will newbie exist I wonder ? john good God all...they haven't gone tets up! they've merely filed chapter 11. they're going to be OK. really! -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why china likes linux
On Wed, 16 Jan 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 04:13, Mark Weaver wrote: On Wednesday 15 January 2003 12:39 am, Stephen Kuhn scribbled nervously: On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 13:09, Mark Weaver wrote: That would certainly explain all the crack attempts at my system over the last few months. Hell! I don't even bother going to the whois query servers any more I've become so familiar with the IP addy's that are showing up in my log files. I just write the owner of the netblock and tell'em to put those dogs on a shorter leash cause I don't like'em screwin around at the doors trying to find a weakness somewhere. - -- Mark You've actually got people trying to hack your linux box? And they're from the same block/class of IP's? Where are the IP's from? Did you piss someone off? not that I'm aware of. Most are scans and probes, but there have been a few attempts at over-running a few of the services I've got running here and there. thankfully, all of them unsuccessful. I had ONE person try to muck with my machine - and I literally opened the door for him to do so - but he didn't get very far - after he had got in via ftp (duh - as anonymous) I blasted him with a binary file and his modem went north (or south, whatever)... (Old BBS trick of sending command.com at their modem, basically) Wow! please elaborate. I am seriously interested in knowing the reasons behind that and why sending a file like that would be a problem to the remote modem. sounds very interesting. evil grin -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why china likes linux
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 15 Jan 2003 5:29 am, Robin Turner wrote: Richard Babcock wrote: Interesting article in my local paper. http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3582809.html Looks like we got our user base! Sir Robin When I was there 18 months ago it was common to see buses with linux slogans on the side. Anne as a followup to this thread this morning when I opened my email client there was the usual message from the system with the overnight logs for review. at the top of the list was about 75 lines revealing a brute force attack that was launched against my server around 8:00 am Sunday morning. apparently, from the logs they were attempting to gain access through ipop3d by running a list of possible login usernames. they were of course quite unsuccessful. Chinanet appears to have more then their fair share of no-job-havin-script-kiddie-scumbags that have nothing better to do then behave as low-brow felons. I just wish the Chinese ISP's would respond to the emails I've been sending them letting them know their network is being used to attempt illegal access of remote computer systems! -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which file system?
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday January 15 2003 05:59 pm, Charlie wrote: On January 15, 2003 03:52 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 12:37, Adolfo Bello wrote: I have seen some posting regarding file system support on upcoming 9.1. What is the best file system for the root partition? Ext2, Ext3, ReinserFS, XFS? Adolfo EXT3 for the root, then you can use whatever you like after that - ReiserFS is quite alright, but for large scale file systems, XFS seems to be the better handler. Keerect except XFS isn't a usable file system for 9.1beta1. No XFS modules at all. I'm not certain about ReiserFS, but ext3 is there, however crappy it runs on my machine. That's why I was using XFS since 8.2 beta; it worked. It's a beta so I suppose the best method is trial and error to find what works adequately as I did before I settled on XFS. Besides; I have three (used under Mandrake) partitions that are roughly 30 GB each and XFS worked the smoothest for this hardware. Personally I'll be waiting for beta2. Or at least another kernel. Regards; I suspect XFS kernel support is iminent. I vaguely recall that it's out for now because of a conflict with somethin else in the current kernel, tho I can't remember what that is. I've used ReiserFS and tried XFS several times for quite some time now (7.x). I've always gone back to ReiserFS, but I believe either is the preferable file system. Civileme had the same opinion. One caveat with either tho. It shouldn't make a differnence, but Civileme use to always recommend that a small ext3 /boot partition be used. Then any and all other partitions (/, /home, and so on) can be either XFS or ReiserFS. IME, this does seem to provide the best results. I've found ReiserFS to be faster than XFS on a desktop system. Hi Tom, I don't recall the reasoning behind that. why was it that the /boot partition should be ext3 and the rest being foratted as ReiserFS? -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Financial Problems
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 20 Jan 2003 7:10 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 20 Jan 2003 6:05 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: The single BIGGEST problem for end user to this day remains being able to find the information that will get them going and *their* willingness to avail themselves of that information and learn it. You're right there, mate. There's huge amounts of information in the docs on this computer alone, without what's available on the Internet. The problem for a newbie end user is finding the wheat from the chaff with regard to his particular problem at that time. It's so overwhelming. I don't see any answer to that. It's good and right that so much should be available. What's needed, I think, is some sort of searchable flag that says 'this help file is suitable for beginners'. Anne Hi Anne, thats where these lists come in so incredibly handy. I know it was my salvation when I first started using Mandrake. well, actually I learned the true value of the mailing list/news group when I was learning with RedHat, but the concept is the same. I truely believe that the Mandrake lists are without peer when it comes to support for both the brand new user and the advanced alike. I wouldn't have survived without this list, and I push it at beginners whenever I get the chance. Anne :) that makes two of us! -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] please don't shoot me - test
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[newbie] test message - please ignore
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Re: [newbie] Samba Printer driver
Barry Michels wrote: I would like to setup Samba to handle our printer for the network. Does the printer have to be Linux compatible? I don't think our Canon GP200 works with Linux... Barry, No, not especially. What matters mostly is the client that is sending the print job. All Samba has to do is present the share. it doesn't do anything with or about the drivers needed for the Printer. Cups can and does take care of that, however for best results be sure that the needed driver is installed and being utilized on the client machine. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help Broke Fstab in MDK 8.2
Raffaele Belardi wrote: Ralph, I think the problem is in all those 'none'. I think that keyword goes in front of the entries which are not real devices, so you should remove it from the cdrom and floppy entries. Here is a good fstab, for example: /dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda3 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda9 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/windata ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 Note that there are only 12 lines in the above and they all begin with /dev, /mnt or none. The mailer program cuts longer lines in two, but in your fstab you shouldn't. raffaele I too noticed these things in my fstab and with them things don't work so good. took the none out from the lines where it appeared and things were again fine. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Server behind a firewall
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, David wrote: This rule would allow traffic going to the www port (80) to be forwarded on. iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT Change destination addresses of web traffic to 5.6.7.8, port 8080. iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -i eth0 -j DNAT --to 5.6.7.8:8080 This lot just came from a google search on 'iptables +forward' HTH David. indeed! google is our friend. google...good! ;) -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0.b3-Problem with updates at end of installation
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Fred Fraley wrote: Has anyone else had a problem with the update part tripping up if they selected an item from the list? One example, autoconf was checked, and I also checked autoconf.x.x.. It immediately tossed me an error mesage and took me back to the start of the update process. Happened with several items several times. So many I (thought I) had the keystrokes memorized. (the following is purely my fault, the flaky fickle fingers of fred strike again. Well, actually the thumb.) Eventually, I clicked the wrong button and did not update the installed packages. And, as in some of the previous betas, the update utility does not seem to work. Is there any way, short of sitting through the entire install again, to get the updates? Does anyone know of anything significant in the updates? I noticed there were quite a few items checked, including some I use. Thank you, Fred Hi Fred, Please keep in mind that what I'm about to say is said with the best of intentions and no offense is meant. But, which part of bleeding edge, _Beta_ release isnt' quite clear? first, since it's a beta release you're guaranteed there are going to be things that don't work. second, it IS the very bleeding edge of the cooker release so what updated packages are you expecting to find for this? -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Star Office question
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Chris Pollock wrote: Relating to my Adabas Database question, should I have installed SO 6.0 as a stand alone or as network? How does/will this affect the operation of Adabas? Hi Chris, Either way would be fine. as a stand alone the only one then that can us SO on your system then would be you, as opposed to using the network install that would allow any user logged into the system to use SO. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Star Office question
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, et wrote: On Monday 19 August 2002 06:47 am, you wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Chris Pollock wrote: Relating to my Adabas Database question, should I have installed SO 6.0 as a stand alone or as network? How does/will this affect the operation of Adabas? Hi Chris, Either way would be fine. as a stand alone the only one then that can us SO on your system then would be you, as opposed to using the network install that would allow any user logged into the system to use SO. Really? I thought the difference was the network install would put all the files in a space accessible by all users and only install about 20 megs in the users space and the single install put about 200 megs in the users this is correct. folders and all the 200 megs could only be accessed by the user that installed SO? and since I bet (don't really know, only a guess) Adabas would require (or like to have) multiple users, the net install would be the recommended manner. the network install places the program files and all other files in a central instalation folder. (I usually install mine to /usr/local/staroffice6.0) and then as you say when the user runs the setup program copies about 20MB with of files over to the ~/$USER. as for Adabas I don't think it really cares whether it's in multi-user environment or not. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] database error
On 17 Aug 2002, chuck wrote: I'm trying to run an executable that uses QT3 and mysql. I get the following error when trying to do this: QSqlDatabase warning: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded QSqlDatabase: available drivers: Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy couldn't open db I'm not sure what the problem is, any help would be appreciated. Thanks, -Chuck Chuck, From what the error message is saying there is a driver that the program requires that is not being loaded for the program at run time. without knowing more about the program my *guess* would be that it wasn't installed correctly. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Messages won't thread in KMail
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Isaac Curtis wrote: On Saturday 17 August 2002 03:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 17 Aug 2002 3:36 am, you wrote: I can't get my messages to thread in KMail. I've tried unchecking and rechecking the option to no avail, as well as restarting X and the entire machine. Any ideas? Isaac Works in mine - but if you filter into different folders you will need to check it for each folder. HTH Anne I thought you were on to something for a sec, but I just checked and everything was already in order. Any other ideas? It used to work fine but the last time I logged in they were all flat and I haven't been able to re-thread them since. Isaac Isaac, Was there anything else that occured at the time when they last worked correctly that sticks out in your mind? -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] nothing? are we broken again?
this is weird...nothing from the list for a while. is my server broken? -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Messages won't thread in KMail
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Isaac Curtis wrote: On Saturday 17 August 2002 08:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Isaac Curtis wrote: On Saturday 17 August 2002 03:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 17 Aug 2002 3:36 am, you wrote: I can't get my messages to thread in KMail. I've tried unchecking and rechecking the option to no avail, as well as restarting X and the entire machine. Any ideas? Isaac Works in mine - but if you filter into different folders you will need to check it for each folder. HTH Anne I thought you were on to something for a sec, but I just checked and everything was already in order. Any other ideas? It used to work fine but the last time I logged in they were all flat and I haven't been able to re-thread them since. Isaac Isaac, Was there anything else that occured at the time when they last worked correctly that sticks out in your mind? Nothing whatsoever. Should I delete and recreate my Mail folder? It's a last resort because I'd like to learn a better way, but I've got no personal or valued emails that are at risk of being lost. So what do you think? Time to resort to brute force tactics? Isaac Isaac, I just had a thought. I was thinking about how the program uses the header information on the email so as to know how and where to thread a message. It could be that if messages in other directories are being threaded correctly that there is something amiss with the headers in the message file for Inbox. email comes in as a plain text file and is appended to the Inbox text file that the email program presents as a folder with messages inside it. Each message is seperated by a From header that signifies the beginning of the each message. That is the first place I would begin to look for the answer to this mystery. I used to use Sylpheed and every now and then if the program didn't close properly some corruption would happen to the mail folders, which in reality are really text files containing email message that have been received. I discovered that the From header usually on the very first message of the Inbox file would get truncated and instead of reading From [EMAIL PROTECTED] the F would get be dropped and Sylpheed would be unable to read the file, present the message and would subsequently die with an error. Until I discovered what was causing the problem it was a real mystery and the only reason I did discover what was responsible for causing the error was because at the time there were a few other files at the time that were experiencing file corruption. To this day I still don't know what was originally responsible for causing this corruption. I can only assume that the file wasn't being written to disk properly on program close, or by the MTA as new messages were coming in to the server. I rather suspect the latter because the problem was mainly with the file that resides in /var/spool/mail/$USER. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] samba GUI interface
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: I just installed samba on Mandrake 8.2 and I was wondering if there was a GUI interface or network configuration on KDM that would allow you to view your local network? I think there is some confusion about what you're asking. Are you trying to view a particular smb mount, or are you looking for something similar to Network Neighborhood where you can see all the machines in your domain? Ric Tibbetts nah...Ric, what they're looking for is the config interface that can be found and accessed through webmin. Its on the servers tab in webmin. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] samba GUI interface
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: I just installed samba on Mandrake 8.2 and I was wondering if there was a GUI interface or network configuration on KDM that would allow you to view your local network? I think there is some confusion about what you're asking. Are you trying to view a particular smb mount, or are you looking for something similar to Network Neighborhood where you can see all the machines in your domain? Ric Tibbetts nah...Ric, what they're looking for is the config interface that can be found and accessed through webmin. Its on the servers tab in webmin. Yeah, that's what I thought at first too, but then reading it, it seemed like he was looking for a way to browse the network, ala network neighborhood. Webmin huh? I've never used it. Does it do anything with samba that swat doesn't? Ric Tibbetts Unix Systems Administration The early bird may get the worm, But the second mouse gets the cheese. well...the actual webmin samba config tool isn't the best but it'll do in a pinch. in 8.2 thats how I access swat. it just seemed the natural way to get to it. course now, unless I'm just feeling lazy, or I'm already in webmin for something, i just do the dirty work for samba in console. Vi is my friend after all. ;) -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spontaneous logout
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Anne Wilson wrote: I've just had the most unnervin exeperience. I had two directories, KMail and several documents open under OpenOffice, copying and pasting away, when suddenly the screen blacked briefly then brought up the login screen. I shall now have to sort out which documents might have been affected by this - I certainly hadn't saved them for a while, so there'll be lost work at least. Let's hope there isn't file corruption too. Anyone any idea what might have happened? Anne Anne, well, look at it this way. it's not a total loss. you were, after all, able to get copy and paste to work in OpenOffice. thats quite an accomplishment. apart from that it merely sounds as though your X server crashed. i doubt you've got any serious file corruption. maybe to the files you had open if that. -- daRmaTTeR Funny thing, my computer acted similarly *In windows mind you blah* and if i tapped the monitor it shimmered. This went on for months... woke up last Saturday Morning almost had a heart attack! The computer was Off! I had left it on over night ;p so... why off? Well after 2 hours or so a lot of cursing *yes i do that alot when computers fuck up*. Ooops... see? Reflex. ;p Anyway turned out my powersupply had died overnight. ;\ Thank god i had a spare computer with a P/S in it I could use. :) Moral of the story: Check the p/s see if you are getting brownouts too ;p Hey Femme! good catch. I hadn't thought of that. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing RPMs on 9.0 Beta 2
Alastair Scott wrote: On Sun 11 August 2002 6:07 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: I have a stupid question .. :-) I have noticed that rpmdrake has been completely redone, and am now thorougly confused about manually installing packages that I download from the internet. Before, all I would have to do is tell Mozilla or Netscape to run /usr/bin/rpminst, but now that doesn't work. I tried to add a local directory using the new Edit Software Sources tool, but can't figure out the syntax of what I need to add to properly configure it as a source. The first two boxes are simple enough (a name, and the path of the directory), but the third box is confusing me (Relative path to synthesis/hdlist). What the heck is that?? Ok, now that I've thoroughly confused everyone g, here are my questions: 1. Is there a way to run the rpm installer program like I used to from Mozilla or Netscape (a la /usr/bin/rpminst)? 2. How do I properly add a local directory as a source to rpmdrake? Not a stupid question. 0. The hdlist, typically, looks like ../base/hdlist.cz in the appropriate box. Essentially, on a server, the RPMs are held in a RPMS directory (somewhere in the ftp tree) and the hdlist - which tells the Mandrake package manipulation software what the RPMs are - is a text file, usually hdlist.cz, in a base directory at the same level of the tree. 1. This will probably be sorted out before the final build. (Personally, I wouldn't do it - I'd prefer to have a close look at what I was downloading before installing it, just I always download a .tar.bz2 file rather than trying to open it straight off with something). 2. Do Configuration | Packaging | Edit Software Sources from the KDE menu, then press Add then, on the window that appears, type in a name (anything) and then the path (file:// and then the path; an example from here is file:///home/thebrix/files/packages). Don't bother with the 'Relative path to synthesis/hdlist'. In fact, I think that box should die horribly; it seems unlikely, unless you're trying to do something eccentric like mirror the entire Cooker on your local hard drive, that it will ever be needed. Interestingly, I think MandrakeSoft is doing the right thing with the packager; the 8.2 one is a sprawling monster as it tries to do everything and has controls all over the places. The 9.0 beta one is getting there, but needs refinements; as one of those fearsome UI people who pick holes in things I've posted some suggestions to the [cooker] mailing list. (My simplest one is dead easy - a window with four buttons which runs each of the existing applications; that would placate the people who want a single packaging application). Alastair excellent, good sound advice. always be sure of what you're installing. the recent compromised packages from Openssh should be a good example. Even the most secure servers can be compromised. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Beta 9.0 2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I,d been useing it all week but got to our local Lug,s meeting yesterday (were there are mostly RED HAT fan,s a few hanging on to Slackware)but only a couple of us useing Mandrake .After the two of us talked about how we liked it ,they decided to do a install,.Everbody liked what they saw but a couple of Red Hat fan,s that were hot on Limbo (Red Hats beta). not to worry...they'll come round. I've seen what Red Hat's offering and it can't even smell what Mandrake is doing with their desktops. At the moment the only thing, and I do mean ONLY thing that RedHat has over Mandrake is their Update system. And that is just barely. The more I use rpmdrake the more I like it and the more I like urpmi. However, I'm a geek and a programmer and love digging and rooting around my system and I'm not afraid if I break something I'll lose my mind trying to fix it. From a purely non-tech user standpoint...well I'll just say I see where Mandrake is going and I'm extremely excited to be along for the ride cause watching this distro grow and mature is some of the most fun I've had with my clothes on.! ;) -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Randy Kramer wrote: g wrote: to determine power requirements, check labels on back of equipment for voltage and amps ratings. multiply volts x amps = va load to determine require ups. That works, but it is conservative. I may have a special case in that I am mostly concerned with riding through very short outages -- 1 second to say 1 minute. I have a 300 VA Conext UPS (I got it from Staples for about $10 after a $20 rebate, IIRC). I'm running 3 computers on it (main boxes only, not the monitor) and am surviving the short outages I occasionally get. Some day I'll pull the plug and time how long the three computers stay up. ah yes...sounds like you've been suffering from the very same rash of storms that have been hitting my area as well these last few days, eh Randy? dern things took my server down twice while i was away on vacation last week. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.0beta iso's -- too big!
hi list, has anyone else noticed that the iso's for Mandrake 9.0beta release are too big to fit on regular size CDRW media? -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ipchains help
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I was wondering if there is a rule I can set to drop *all* icmp? if so how would I add the rule? try something like this: ipchains -A INPUT -p icmp -s 0/0 -j DROP or ipchains -A INPUT -p icmp -i $INTERFACE -j DROP $INTERFACE = your outer interface: if you're using a dialup connection $INTERFACE = ppp0 if you're using a DLS or CABLE connection $INTERFACE = eth0 or eth1 which ever applies... Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SAMBA
Paul Kaplan wrote: Does anyone know of some practical documentation on setting up a W2K box for SAMBA? My principal objective is to be able to access the W2K file system (for which I have administrator rights) from a Lin (ML8.2) box. TIA Paul Paul, to do what you're asking about you simply need to turn on Netbios, define the shares on the win2k box and then connect to them using some kind of samba client on the linux box. gnomba works nicely and will preserve user rights for you much better then if you define the shares that users on the linux box can access using Mandrake Control Center. _THAT_ is a mess. I wouldn't suggest using it. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Is Impossible
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Anne Wilson wrote: I presume there must be a way to set Xmms as the player from the K menu? Anne Hi all, I've been following this thread for a little while now, and have decided to add my 2 cents to the mix. after reviewing the component list of this mobo I've discovered that it is very likely the sound card that is currently installed on this system is quite likely *not* going to work. It is primarily software driven. In plain words it's a *win* card. Am I right or wrong in this? -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1026742835-1428-32 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hey David, I am sorry that you are having so many probs trying to install it. First of all...what program are you using to partition your drive with? If you dont have partition magic then get it now because its one of the best programs to partition with.. currently right now though PM7 doesnt support ext 3 filesystems but when you go to install linux just specify if you want that filesystem or not. I would also try to use Mandrake 8.2 because if you have a video accelerator card then you will really like it Let me know how it all goes for you Andrew however, unless you have a need to resize an existing windows partition, as you would need to do for win2K or windows XP since they do not like the way diskdrake does this, then you really haven't any need for another partitioning tool since diskdrake can do what you need. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ftp issue
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks I am trying to start proftpd and the error I'm getting are Unable to determine IP address of 'ginko.corp.net' Please advise on this. tks/Dex Patel apart from a lot of guessing which really wouldn't help you at all I'd say you don't have the server, (proftpd) configured correctly. since your question is rather vague and you supplied no information about anything other then a short reference to a rather generic error message there really isn't any more anyone *can* do to help you. do you have networking configured and running on this machine? Is this machine connected to the internet or a LAN where this server could be connected to? -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to install Open Office?
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Josef Lowder wrote: I just obtained an Open Office CD from cheapbytes, but I cannot find any installation instructions on the CD. How does one install Open Office from this CD? Josef, can list for me the contents of the CD? -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to install Open Office?
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Josef Lowder wrote: On Thursday 11 July 2002 10:52, you wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Josef Lowder wrote: I just obtained an Open Office CD from cheapbytes, but I cannot find any installation instructions on the CD. How does one install Open Office from this CD? Josef, can list for me the contents of the CD? Here are the most relevant ones (I assume): On the CD: total 0 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 2048 May 14 21:01 binaries/ -rw-r--r--1 root root 974 May 14 21:14 ls-lR.txt -rw-r--r--1 root root 971 May 14 21:13 README.1ST drwxr-xr-x2 root root 2048 May 14 21:01 solver/ drwxr-xr-x2 root root 2048 May 14 21:01 source/ -r--r--r--1 root root 298 May 14 21:16 TRANS.TBL In the binaries directory: total 0 -rw-r--r--1 root root 69877656 Apr 30 14:23 OOo_1.0.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz Josef, Extract the files from this tarball and you'll likely find a file named setup, install, or configure that will, or should be made executable. can't be sure though without knowing whats inside that archive. extract the files into a directory and see what comes out. to initiate the install process then you would do something like this on the command line: ]# ./configure However, you might have saved yourself the trouble since OpenOffice is included on the Mandrake 8.2 install CD's. don't remember which one of the three it's on, in fact I myself just found it over the weekend when i did a fresh install on a workstation at home. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] small KDE3.02 problem
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Roman Korcek wrote: Hi, i installed KDE3.02 most things seem ok except everytime i close a konsole i get a popup error KDEInit could not launch 'konsole-noxft' i just click the ok button..but how can i fix this ?? IIRC you need to edit the button's properties and remove the -noxft from the execute program field. It's somewhere in teh archives, too, I think. HTH Roman thats correct. recreate the button on the task bar and make sure there are no attributes added to the command line. works great then. had the same problem. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 - MP3 Audio not working
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, List User wrote: I have tried using both Noatun and Xmms with the same results from both, for all intents and purposes the player looks like it is working (equalizer works etc) but not sound, volume controls on both players are definatly set to max (adjusting doesnt help either) The only thing I can find that this might be is that my mobo has an onboard sound card that mandrake has picked up even though I have this dsiabled in my bios, and for some reasons mandrake is piping CD Audio though the SB Live and MP3 audio though the mobo?? dunno well...if you've good sound for everything else except the playing of mp3's then again I would suggest checking the volume level of the card where playing those files is concerned. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 - MP3 Audio not working
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, List User wrote: After further investigation it would seem that the only audio I can play is CD audio, no wav or mp3 files will play, mpg movies dont have any sound, it seems like the entire sound server is failing somewhere as cd audio might be done via hardware instead (can anybody confirm) So far I have : - checked Kmix and all volumes are unmuted and set to max - Checked Aumix and the same - Tried in different apps, Xmms, Noatun - Tried different sound servers in - Control Center-Sound-Sound Server-Sound I/O (this is currently set to auto detect, open sound system doesnt seem to do anything different, and the sound server fails to restart on Advanced Linux Sound Architecture - Check in hardDrake and the settings for the Sound Card all seem to be fine I cant think of anything else Ok...now things are beginning to click a bit. are running Alsa sound server? if it is running, turn it off via Mandrake Control Center. what you're experiencing sounds all too familiar, but it's been a little while since I personally have had to deal with it. I _do_ know that turning off the Alsa server is part of the problem/solution. also, what kind of card do you have? -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 - MP3 Audio not working
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, List Account wrote: THIS IS NOT SPAM MAIL, SINCE WHEN DOES SPAM AS LEGITIMATE QUESTIONS?? I AM NOT A HARVERSTER Come on people, just becuase I have setup an email address to manage the multiple mailing lists I access is no reason to witch hunt me. And in reply to the first suggestion to my problem, the volume controls in the application are fine. The app is Noatun which came with the default multimedia install of Mandrake dude! chill!! we're just messin with ya. what happens when you listen to the .mp3's with XMMS? -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Sharing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 g2 wrote: | Hi, | | can you help me on how to setup a private network. My linux server has | 2 NICs and I want to share my internet connection to my subnet. | | I did some googling, read some howtos and visited mandrakeusers.org but | I cant seem to make it work. | | I run mcc, and enables Internet Sharing, I chose eth1 as the one | connected to my LAN. I think I have a problem my routing table. | | from the client side, well I can ping the IP Add of eth0 as well as the | IP Add of eth1. hereis my ifconfig : | | | eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:36:42:45 | inet addr:158.202.49.147 Bcast:158.202.49.255 | Mask:255.255.255.0 | UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 | RX packets:14759 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 | TX packets:5596 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:2 | collisions:306 txqueuelen:100 | RX bytes:4874410 (4.6 Mb) TX bytes:663386 (647.8 Kb) | Interrupt:11 Base address:0xa000 | | eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:07:40:0A:0F:EA | inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 | UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 | RX packets:1196 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 | TX packets:864 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 | collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 | RX bytes:101950 (99.5 Kb) TX bytes:80060 (78.1 Kb) | Interrupt:5 Base address:0xc400 | | loLink encap:Local Loopback | inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 | UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 | RX packets:1585 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 | TX packets:1585 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 | collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 | RX bytes:117535 (114.7 Kb) TX bytes:117535 (114.7 Kb) | | And my route table | | 158.202.49.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 | eth0 | 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 | eth1 | 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 | lo | 0.0.0.0 158.202.49.10.0.0.0 UG0 00 | eth0 | | | when i do [root]#route add -host 192.168.0.1 gw 158.202.49.147 eth1 it | says Network Unreachable. | | Is this what is suppose to have? eth1 will have eth0 IP Add as its | gateway. client (subnet) pc will have eth1 IP Add as its gateway. | | help. | | g2 g2, Did you install and start dhcpd? this is necessary for the client machines. and can you ping any of the client machines from the server? - -- daRcmaTTeR - -- Registered Linux User 182496 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9JEwwJuZ1geTzHgERAnpiAKCJyyAjkuoF911OgB+MmAyZ9WPI6wCghYdm Q+W5zUbws9+dkP0JXX0y4K4= =4NSE -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP Surestore 5000
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Norman wrote: tar cvf /dev/st0 /home/norman did a backup of my home directory. I thought I would need some software to rewind the tape not realising that this would happen automatically after the above command completed. I assume /dev/nst0 is used if you just want to append extra stuff after the first write. best wishes, norm registered Linux user 277766 ok...now you've really got my curiosity peeked. once you get the files on the tape, how in the world does one browse, find, and then get the file(s) off the tape? I've never done this before, but am truely facinated by this. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Mozilla upgrade
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I just jumped into this thread, so maybe I lost something, but I don't have any problem with Mozilla1.0 + JRE1.4.0 + MDK8.2 From Mozilla's Help-AboutPlugins does the java plugin result installed ok? regards, raffaele yes, if you're running the browser as root user at the time you download and install the plugin it will work just fine. you *must* be root though at the time. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] HP Surestore 5000
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: ok...now you've really got my curiosity peeked. once you get the files on the tape, how in the world does one browse, find, and then get the file(s) off the tape? I've never done this before, but am truely facinated by this. Simple. If you put 'em on there with tar, take 'em off with tar. To get a listing of them: tar -tvf /dev/st0 tape_list.tar (would output the contents to a file) Want one off? tar -xvf /dev/st0 path/filename Want to get really trick, you can compress the files when you write them to tape with tar: tar -czvf /dev/st0 files to be backed up To get those off: tar -zxvf /dev/st0 filespec The z in tar will compress/uncompress them on the fly. There are far better utilities for doing backups than tar. But in a pinch, it works. Let's not forget that tar is short for Tape ARchive In fact, tar should by default use whatever your default tape drive is. (works that way on AIX, Solaris, HP-UX anyway) You just type: tar -xv files to back up If you leave off the f, it defaults to the first tape drive. The f flag is actually to designate a file name for the archive other than tape. I haven't tried this on Linux. Maybe I'll check mine when I get home.. ;) Have fun! Ric Now the fun part: This is like a lottery: Will this actually post or not. I haven't had any luck lately. I've almost given up trying. Ric, thank you SO much for that awesome information. I can now see what is on the tape now by writing the contents to a file. however when I attempt to extract a specific file from the tape is tells me that the listed file is not found in the archive. ==error message=== [root@tapeserv root]# tar -xvf /dev/st0 /home/mdw1982/.mc/ini tar: /home/mdw1982/.mc/ini: Not found in archive tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors == end error message === Try dropping the leading slash from the filespec: tar -xvf /dev/st0 home/mdwwhatever/somefile Just watch where you're sitting when you do that. I think if you check the listing you made with 'tar -tvf', you'll notice the leading slash is not there. Tar does that so you can restore them anywhere. If the leading slash is still on, then the file will only restore to it's original location. I usually have a /Data/Restore filesystem for doing restores. I get them off tape to that directory, then put them in place. It's a hassle, but I've hammered home directories by dropping them straight in. (turned a whole home directory into 0 length files... oops!). Cheers! Ric Ric, Thanks...that did the trick. Now all I've got to do is figure out just how to erase the tape before backing up to it. Or, does that happen automagically when tar begins to write to the device? -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP Surestore 5000
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, et wrote: Ric, thank you SO much for that awesome information. I can now see what is on the tape now by writing the contents to a file. however when I attempt to extract a specific file from the tape is tells me that the listed file is not found in the archive. ==error message=== [root@tapeserv root]# tar -xvf /dev/st0 /home/mdw1982/.mc/ini tar: /home/mdw1982/.mc/ini: Not found in archive tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors == end error message === what is it trying to tell me? that you have a puncuation problem? try tar -xvf /dev/st0/home/mdw1982/.mc/ini home/mdw1982/.mc/ini heck I Know squat about tar... I bet I am way wrong actually et, you were really close. heck, for all i know your way could be right also. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Mozilla upgrade
John Richard Smith wrote: Mon 01.07.02 BST OK, I have your download programme and I gather it's a programme to install from the net the latest Mozilla 1.0 install. I am somewhat cautious here because my internet connections cannot be relied upon to aford reliable connection beyound an average of 20min. I'm guessing here but I think the download install might well take a while , so the question is , does it support resume facilities , I don't think so, but correct me if I'm wrong. Anyhow I now have mozilla -i586-pc-linux-gnu-1.0-sea.tar.gz (12.4mb) uncompressed =12.8mb When completed will this method of install include gehko and MRE ? I also have from mozilla website, mozilla-source-1.0.tar.gz (38.0mb) uncompressed = 224.5mb mozilla-source-1.0.tar.bz2(28.2mb) uncompressed = 238.2mb I guess these are complete installs by their size, though they may not include gehko and MRE ? Does anyone know whether these tar balls would support alien RPM rebuilds? Also , if I go down the tar ball install route, is it necessary to remove the rpm version of mozilla first? Is there likely to be conflict? I would prefer to retain the old mozilla installation until ater the new is up and configured, if possible. I would appreciate the advice of your more extensive experience , Thanks, John Hi John, just extract the files from the tarball you downloaded from my ftp server and run the mozilla-install script. I think thats what it's called. That will install Mozilla. If you want you can uninstall the rpm of mozilla, however, there are a number of packages that will have to come out, so you're probably better off for now just leaving them where they are. Just rename the binary that sit in /usr/bin. mv /usr/bin/mozilla /usr/bin/mozilla.0.9.8 [enter] the run the install program. If you compile mozilla from source... *shudder* ... you and your system are going to be busy for a while, so you may want to get a good book to read. plus, if you really new to Linux you may want to start with something smaller. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]test, ignore pls
FemmeFatale wrote: daRcmaTTeR wrote: Well Femme, there are only 999 more email clients out there waiting for you try them out. Why waste time with something that doesn't want to behave itself? believe me I'm in total agreement! Its pissed me off enough I'm curious to see what else I can find. So far I've tried: Sylpheed *can't find the !###$ undelete key!* Ok...I'm a little dislexic this evening. I could-a sworn you were asking where the delete key was and not the undelete. as for that...well there just isn't any such thing. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]test, ignore pls
FemmeFatale wrote: daRcmaTTeR wrote: Well Femme, there are only 999 more email clients out there waiting for you try them out. Why waste time with something that doesn't want to behave itself? believe me I'm in total agreement! Its pissed me off enough I'm curious to see what else I can find. So far I've tried: Sylpheed *can't find the !###$ undelete key!* Evolution *De-volution anyone? :)* Kmail *OK but don't have KDE on this Test OS I was using* Thought of Mutt Pine but they're last resorts, I like gui tools too much. :) I will forge on Find a good email client thingy eventually. But in the meantime, Sylpheed-Claws is the best IMO except for that one swearing friggin little problem! Anyone know if there *is* an UNDO or Undelete function!? Cause if there is I have yet to find it! Femme, heavens! why didn't ya ask? the delete key for Sylpheed is one of two. 1) [L-CTRL+D] 2) [R-CTRL+DEL] Either one of those will get it done nicely in Sylpheed. Personally I'm really enjoying Mozilla Messenger. Especially now more then ever since it's got integrated Mime/PGP support. That rocks. And Pine is the end all/be all for console clients. There just isn't anything else for Console. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]test, ignore pls
Femme wrote: On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 19:24, Roger Sherman wrote: On 29 Jun 2002, Femme wrote: stupid evolution Come on, now...without it, we'd still be amoebas! ;-D You Sir, are in gross violation of highjacking my thread ! Esp. when I was *and still am* cursing evolutions seemingly bizarre behaviour. I want to delete a post, it jumps to a seemingly random post afterwards sometimes after i hit the delete key!? Femme Well Femme, there are only 999 more email clients out there waiting for you try them out. Why waste time with something that doesn't want to behave itself? -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Richard Smith wrote: | | John, | | Actually it does have an outbox. The send-later function is | [CTRL+SHIFT+RETURN] will queue the message for sending later. ut of | curiosity, what version of Mozilla are you running? | | mozilla -v | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204, | build 2002031216 | | Mandrake 8.2 standard issue | | I tried [Ctrl+Shift+Return] and it just zapped this message off to you. | | John | Hi John, Ok...now things are starting to make a little more sense. you will want to upgrade to the latest release of Mozilla. The latest release is 1.0 and it's definately awesome, and in much better shape then the version you're currently running. you'll see the difference immediately. you can grab it from my ftp server if you like. It's a nice fast cable connection so you should have any trouble getting good download speed. host: mdw1982.dyndns.org password: your-email-address path: /pub/linux/online filename: mozilla-i686-pc-linux-1.0-sea.tar.gz This particular tarball comes with an install script so all you have to do is untar it, enter the directory created when untarring the package and run the install script. real straightforward. - -- daRcmaTTeR - -- Registered Linux User 182496 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9HexWJuZ1geTzHgERAg6uAJ0RYXHWEHtFthr4QLlJmXSHhVPIwgCg1tCB gHGu8AeQHBLl40r9uyPsY28= =MI1c -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation Question
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: hm... well... I usually just tell it to open up all the packages on the tree into a tree-like structure. Have to look for that symbol now. This raises a new Question though. I've tried twice now to install from my HDD and heres what I do: Make bootfloppy with the hd.img file form the CD's using RawWrite. Floppys fine. Comp boots off of floppy Installer asks where the files it wants to use are located, so i point it to hdb1/mandrake where resided all the files in their default folders I copied from the CD's. (I had tried yesterday to make it so that there was a structure to that directory like so: hdb1/mandrake/cd1... /cd2... /cd3.) In both cases the install gets through * I believe * the first CD's worth of files then gives me an error about packages having trouble being installed. Help? Could they just be corrupt packages I must re-copy them from CD? Or should I put all the packages into one dir let it install that way? IE, hdb1/mandrake/* (all files under just the mandrake dir, no directories in there). Femme, you will indeed need to have all the files in one parent dir. i.e. hdb1/mandrake/cd1/* give that a try. I have a feeling it will do much better. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spooky! Computer science or voodoo?
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, shane wrote: -pgpenvelope processed message On Monday 24 June 2002 04:40 pm, civileme did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: There is no substitute for intelligence properly used. Writes memo to self to practice practice practice thinking there was a story about a company years ago that sold satelite links for networks in remote areas, ya know big old dish, data both ways. one customer complained that the performance grew stedily worse the last friday night of each month, but was all better by morning. since it made no sense, everyone ignored it, but they kept complaining. finally someone makes the long trip out and actually sits there late into the night to watch. turns out the janitors used the dish asa basket for beer cans every last friday as they drank their take home pay.. :) man! that is incredibly sad... :( -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [OT] [newbie] i am so glad i use linux
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Patrik Marxer wrote: looks too me like they are building the Berlin wall again, the arguments are the same: protection against some outside evil, while actually just locking their own people in. The scary part is, that they are on 90% of the computers so it may very well work. So instead of free linux users looking at locked-in windows users it may end up the other way round. If the cage they are living in is 90% of the world then suddenly we are the ones living in a cage. It kinda worked on DVD, didn't it? I mean my mother could't copy a DVD nor can 90% of the DVD wachers. Language settings and complete control over customers - this is a scary plan. (Is Bill Gates somehow related to Saddam Hussein or Stalin? They must share some genes) Patrik Patrik, thats probably not *all* they share. :\ -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Jendos wrote: How can I configure my local network under 8.2? My IP is 192.186.20.64 Windows DNS server's IP: 192.186.20.125 Windows post server's IP: 192.186.20.2 Domain: inpred Thank! Jendos, you can do a couple of different ways. 1) use Mandrake Control Center's wizards to take you through the configuration process. relatively painless. 2) you can use Linuxconf to configure your machine for the network you're currently a part of. 3) you can do it the old fashioned way, and access the configuration files directly and config your network manually. [the network config files live in /etc/sysconfig/] methods 2, and 3 require either a lot of courage and curiosity on the part of the newbie, or a moderate amount of knowledge of your machine and how it does things. If you don't possess either one of these, then your best bet is method 1. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Some e-mail clientes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charlie wrote: | June 18, 2002 02:35 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: | snip On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, shane wrote: | | |Are we talking about multiple users or multiple email accounts here? If |it's the first, (multiple users) then I would strong recommend that you |create a login on the system for each user. If, on the other hand you're |the only user with multiple email accounts that you want to access with |only a single email client, then of course you can use Kmail, Mozilla, |Evolution, (which by the way will satisfy your requirement for look like |Outlook and/or Outlook Express). All three are fine email clients and all |very functional. | |Both Kmail and Evolution as well as one I just remembered, Sylpheed, have |integrated GnuPG support where as Mozilla doesn't. Sylpheed is very |lightweight and feature rich. If you're looking for lots of functionality, |great speed, and rock solid performance Sylpheed is your client. If you |don't mind the client being a bit sluggish, even on a fast machine, |Evolution makes an excellent email client. It has a wonderful orginaizer |feature as well as calander and date book functionality, AND will |integrate with your PDA via Jpilot. | |Kmail is functional, fast, and configurable as long what you're looking |for is the basics and what is most needed in an email client. | |I know...choices...choices... but its ALL good! | | ~ | Mozilla 1 has for enigmmail that does support encryption now. See: | | http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ | | Just thought you'd like to know. | Charlie, Thank you SO much for that heads up. I've been waiting for this for quite a while and it's finally here. I installed the Enigmail thing into Mozy this afternoon and it's everybit if not more seemless then pgpenvelope is. thanks a ton, Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9FhqwJuZ1geTzHgERAg0zAJ4lpPqtliH6njMmQuxtcLmnu0k5fwCeM5HU Pug/qREEpF/npa+il+vX6ZQ= =Za+/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: WARNING Destructive Software on multiboots, Jetway
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miark wrote: |I was able to assure him as a professional peer - my own background is |thirty years of clinical and industrial psychology - that what he |experienced was... | | | I have, on occasion, thought it remarkable that Frasier | Crane, a well-trained and experienced psychologist, could be | such a dork. Then I though, Ahh, but this is just TV. | | I stand corrected. | | Miark | how in the world did we get from Viruses and worms to clinical industrial p-sci-cologee? It almost sounds like some kind of viral infarction itself, ya know? Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9Fi73JuZ1geTzHgERAikDAJ945Mk45LiKkcZbH3NK9mbyI7pxBgCgpBTv D1K1XBnyB22XWnV8hK10aBw= =5P5d -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mail servers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 et wrote: | seems to be having a problem in the l;ast few days, let me see if this one | gets thru to the list as well as you personal mail | | Sorry Ed that I'm a few days late in answering but this one got through just fine. Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9Fi86JuZ1geTzHgERAjUKAJ9Sq5LpobcTP6a1muqblAA9cXWn1QCdHqD+ gZl/qTb1j2ZlSOdk/XYE/+g= =n3w8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: WARNING Destructive Software on multiboots, Jetway
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Adams wrote: | On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 13:17, FemmeFatale wrote: | |and this is wrong how? :) | |daRcmaTTeR wrote: | |On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Roger Sherman wrote: | |Whatever... | |Roger! ag...you've become a top poster. O no!!! | | | | | LOL, i too went to the bottom of the post to read the rest, only to find | useless attachments. | | Sometimes i post top, sometimes bottom, does this make me dislexic or does it | mean i like tops and bottoms? | :P I think it makes you indecisive. course...not that it matters. carry on... Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9Fi6CJuZ1geTzHgERAiZMAKDF3Sm5kt5EkozPSGe41K4S7UDt2gCgoQ+i AfGwE2F+gmjddtcVJ7nKjGY= =RHNL -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GNOME
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 robin wrote: | Aru Sahni wrote: | | When I first installed MD on my computer, I chose GNOME as my GUI, but | find it takes up too many resources. Which one should I take (i.e. | KDE) and how do I change it? | | Thank You | | Definitely not KDE! (see recent posts on this subject) | | You could try IceWM (I once ran this on a 133MHz/32MB RAM machine and it | was faster than Win98). Others have recommended Fluxbox, but I haven't | tried that (no taskbar/menus, I hear, which is inconvenient but looks | kind of cool). | Robin, with right-click menu what does one need with a task bar menu? Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9FjEYJuZ1geTzHgERAnGnAJwNkoznq6YPXANipQMpeNVfFZhOrgCgndkU gPc4Is3H64OkNA7opNEa8iM= =jDHO -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GNOME
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles A Edwards wrote: | On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:27:00 +0200 | Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | |On Wednesday 19 June 2002 08:38 pm, Aru Sahni wrote: | |When I first installed MD on my computer, I chose GNOME as my GUI, |but find it takes up too many resources. Which one should I take |(i.e. KDE) and how do I change it? |Thank You | | | |If you are 256 MB RAM, consider : | |1. Fluxbox ( very minimalistic, but nice and fast) |2. XFCE ( a little more eye-candy a la OS/2, but very fast) |3. ICEwm ( almost like win98, difficult to configure IMHO) | | | Hey!! | | You left out my #1 | Enlightenment, | | In enlightenment and xfce you can still run the gnome panel without | having to expend the resources necessary to run full gnome. | | |Charles | | -- | Fear and loathing, my man, fear and loathing. | -- H.S. Thompson | -- | Charles A Edwards | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Charles, to each his own man, but are you serious? Enlightenment is every bit the resource hog that Gnome and KDE are. I will say this though. The texstar packages for KDE 3.0.1 are terrific and quite speedy in loading the desktop. not *quite* as fast as my new favorite WM, Fluxbox, but still far faster then KDE2.2.2. Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9FjHxJuZ1geTzHgERAh+YAJ0RMsFWU7KcygkLe1rsFxhJWImkEACgxEPC dyabEZezvnil06SVERdML8c= =n4Gs -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: WARNING Destructive Software on multiboots, Jetway
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Roger Sherman wrote: Whatever... Roger! ag...you've become a top poster. O no!!! -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: WARNING Destructive Software on multiboots, Jetway
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, darklord wrote: On Friday 21 June 2002 11:11 am, you wrote: Shane, I don't have a clue what that guy was say. it sounded like a bunch of incoherent babling. could you please translate for me? Sorry to butt in here, but I think that his post was supposed to be directed to the Internal Revenue service... Everyone knows that you can only speak to those guys with gobble-de-gook, double-speak, and techo-babble... lol no problem at all DL. that was kinda given me a headache trying to understand. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: WARNING Destructive Software on multiboots, Jetway
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Roger Sherman wrote: On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Roger Sherman wrote: Whatever... Roger! ag...you've become a top poster. O no!!! Did you really want me to put one word at the bottom of that drivel? ;-) nah... not really, but whats all that virus like stuff attached to your messages? -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrade crash - broken fonts
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Miark wrote: Hi all, I used MandrakeUpdate an hour ago. It was going to install ImageMagick and something else. But during the process, the computer locked up solid. I ended up pressing reset. When it came back, X was dead. So I manually installed ImageMagick and its lib from the 8.2 CDs because this is what it was working on when it died. When I started X, I go the nVidia splash screen, but then it died, complaining about: FontPath unix/:-1. So I commented that out and started X. It lives! But alas, my fonts are kinda screwed up. What can I do to get it back to normal? Thanks, Miark Honestly Miark, I'd reinstall the X server and see if that takes care of things. you may want to go as far as uninstalling all the XFree86 packages that you've got on the machine first so that you don't run into any bad troubles. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Some e-mail clientes
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, shane wrote: -pgpenvelope processed message On Tuesday 18 June 2002 01:55 pm, Klemm did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Is there a mail client that would be able to handle several profiles (identities) without logging off from the whole system. Something Outlook or OutlookExpress style, where the identity is easily changed. (a logon window asking witch users mails to open) kmail, mozilla, and i am told (but have never used) evolution. Are we talking about multiple users or multiple email accounts here? If it's the first, (multiple users) then I would strong recommend that you create a login on the system for each user. If, on the other hand you're the only user with multiple email accounts that you want to access with only a single email client, then of course you can use Kmail, Mozilla, Evolution, (which by the way will satisfy your requirement for look like Outlook and/or Outlook Express). All three are fine email clients and all very functional. Both Kmail and Evolution as well as one I just remembered, Sylpheed, have integrated GnuPG support where as Mozilla doesn't. Sylpheed is very lightweight and feature rich. If you're looking for lots of functionality, great speed, and rock solid performance Sylpheed is your client. If you don't mind the client being a bit sluggish, even on a fast machine, Evolution makes an excellent email client. It has a wonderful orginaizer feature as well as calander and date book functionality, AND will integrate with your PDA via Jpilot. Kmail is functional, fast, and configurable as long what you're looking for is the basics and what is most needed in an email client. I know...choices...choices... but its ALL good! -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mysql
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: I need to learn mysql. I looked at bookpool and there are too many books to pick from. Can anyone give me a recommendation? I'm a C/Java programmer so it doesn't have to be too basic, just thorough and preferably not put me to sleep. Jeanie Jeanie, take a look at what O'Reily has to offer. for my money their books are some of the best I've seen for alll types of programming. you can also get quite a bit of good information about MySQL from the Mysql documentation that comes with the packages. you can also view their docs online. http://www.mysql.com -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 wishlist :-)
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Linux Maniac wrote: I wonder what you'd like to implemented in the 9.0 release. My wishlist is in short: - a script for installing the nvidia drivers OR a deal with nvidia to provide them preinstalled in MDK 9.0 - Hungarian spell checkers - Opera 6.x - Mldonkey - Latest gtk-gnutella - Themable graphical boot - More KDE/Gnome themes - Support for Mustek ScanMagic 1200 (paralell) - Mozilla 1.1 - Mplayer - An advanced control center with more advanced options - winex and crossover office - preinstalled flash plugin - Maybe a gamer's extension 4th CD so on the first 3 CD there would be only serious programs and the games of kde/gnome - A more discrete and professional Mandrake look (icons, bootup, etc.) -Maybe a change of logo? BAT No! No soup for you!! -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba works as domain server question
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Tuan tran wrote: Hi, I'm using Linux as my file server for all windows computer via Samba. I have no problem with workgroup. It works fine. Now, I want to setup my linux box works like domain server (it means all windows users on my network must logon to this computer). After I setup smb.conf file, I use can not use Windows computer access my Linux box. It said Domain not found! I test smb.conf and it works fine. Therefore, I think I must setup my Linux box as domain server first, isn't it? If yes, WhAT SOFTWARE do I need to install in able to setup my own domain? How do I test it? And can we use Webmin to setup test? Any input is a big thanks Thank you. Tuan Tuan, do you have dhcp server setup and running on this machine along with samba? that is how I'm using samba and linux on my home LAN. all the windows machines login to this machine, get their IP number from this machine as well as share it's internet connection. this machine also serves as fileserver and print server via samba. does this sound like what you're working to setup? -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 wishlist :-)
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Damian G wrote: On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:31:27 +0200 Linux Maniac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder what you'd like to implemented in the 9.0 release. My wishlist is in short: - a script for installing the nvidia drivers OR a deal with nvidia to provide them preinstalled in MDK 9.0 - Hungarian spell checkers - Opera 6.x - Mldonkey - Latest gtk-gnutella - Themable graphical boot - More KDE/Gnome themes - Support for Mustek ScanMagic 1200 (paralell) - Mozilla 1.1 - Mplayer - An advanced control center with more advanced options - winex and crossover office - preinstalled flash plugin - Maybe a gamer's extension 4th CD so on the first 3 CD there would be only serious programs and the games of kde/gnome - A more discrete and professional Mandrake look (icons, bootup, etc.) -Maybe a change of logo? BAT well, i do think they need a redesign.. ( icons, colors, images simply look old ) but hey, they are busy trying to make it work, and they normally accomplish that. the day they can't make it work, they will try to make it look pretty. ( a la M$ ;o) [snip] Damian, clearly you haven't seen kde-301 yet, have you? and besides...it's not their job to make it look prettier. thats what desktop managers like KDE, Blackbox, and the rest are for, right? -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't install with 8.2
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Jagpal Singh wrote: I get the error could not uncompress second stage ramdisk when installing with the CD for ver 8.2. Please help?!?!?! did you burn the cd yourself, or did you purchase the install cd somewhere? it sounds like you've got bad media. mark -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, John Richard Smith wrote: On Tuesday 11 June 2002 15:17, you wrote: Besides, what can't be said in plain text e-mail? Do you lack the necessary communication skills to use simple words? Did Tolkien write using fancy fonts and colours? My point is that HTML mail is simply unnecessary. Do you want /italics/, _underlining_ or *bold* fonts? Do you want a smiley face :-) ? It all can be done in plain text. Plain text is all right as far as it goes, I don't mind using it for say Newbie, or just sending an order to some sales person, but 99% of the world traffic in emails is HTML. Yes it is. and I for one would not like to have my hands tied behind my back by not being able to use it. Suppose you had to email your curriculum vitae to a prospective employer and you emailer cannot send HTML your document looks silly and gives the imprssion you don't care. It says you are not even prepared to take that little bit of extra time and care to make a nice presentation, or that your emailer is not much, and you ought to do something about it. It is not only that, emails are the absolute front runner by far ,by way of an adversiement for linux. Every day many emails get sent around the world people receive and send in HTML but you can always tell it came from a linux user it's plain text. It doesn't say much of a positive message does it. It doesn't say to the world , well here's and example of what I would like to aspire to. It portays Linux users as second best, also runs, not up with the main streem. Now you may want that, absolutely fine, that is your right, ahmen, I for one would champion the right of the individual to do and be whatever they want to be so long as it is not harmful to others as a criminal would be, but most people will willingly accept that sending and receiveing HTML is just fine. I would like that choice to be mine. John nothing personal here John, and I'm a firm believer in to each his own, but HTML mail just plain sucks. it's the bane of sysadmins everywhere and congress AND the global community at large should pass laws prohibiting the use of it on all platforms. do ya wanna communicate an idea or disseminate some information, just make perrty pictures? (and yes...I spelled pretty that way on perpose. :P ) -- Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR -- If your wife told you NOT to do it there's probably a real good reason! - REGISTERED LINUX USER #186492 Penguinized since 1997 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ?
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Jendos wrote: Somebody teach me, please! I have a very low frame rate in my Mandrake 7.2, when I try to playing all video files. Configuratinon is: K6-2 450, 128M. What can I do? Sorry for my English! Jendos, your english is fine...no worries. what kind of video card do you have? -- Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR -- If your wife told you NOT to do it there's probably a real good reason! - REGISTERED LINUX USER #186492 Penguinized since 1997 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, JL Conradie wrote: Hi I'm running the bastille-firewall included with mandrake 8.1. I use the InteractiveBastille command to configure it. When I configure it, it asks which interface is the public interface and what services to block from this interface, but then it also blocks the services from the other interface( not specified as public interfaces). I also wondered if anyone could tell me what ports do i have to allow connections to, to enable connections to webmin. thanks for your help in advance! the webmin server lives on port 1. -- Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR -- If your wife told you NOT to do it there's probably a real good reason! - REGISTERED LINUX USER #186492 Penguinized since 1997 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What to do with old CDs
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Nick Baker wrote: On Sunday 02 June 2002 08:32 pm, you wrote: - Original Message - From: Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Miark wrote: Over the course of two years, I've been tossing old CDs in a pile. I'm guessing there are about 100 now. Any interesting ideas as to what I could do with them? Miark Skeet shooting, anyone? My friend uses them as coasters, for hot mugs of tea and so on, when he has guests round. But seriously... check your Yellow Pages (or equivalent) for Recycling Organisations (or equivalent), give them a call and see what they say about it. I have tried to recycle the AOL disks I receive (about two per week!) but have been told that there is no currently feasible way of dealing with the CD's combination of metal (the layer that receives the info) and plastic. Nick Nick, My youngest uses old cd's to cover a wall in his room as a decoration. he's quite artistically inclined and sees a viable use for many things like that that we'd normally throw out. however I reserve a few that I use as coasters for my coffee mug on the desk. -- Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR -- If your wife told you NOT to do it there's probably a real good reason! - REGISTERED LINUX USER #186492 Penguinized since 1997 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] anonymous ftp
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Azrael wrote: Can't seem to get anonymous ftp working either. Been fiddling on webmin and I thought I had done the trick.. but to no avail. Can anyone tell the the correct details to put into the proftp.conf file? If that's indeed what I need to do.. or what I should do otherwise :) many thanks -- Azrael Azrael, ok...assuming that your directory tree for your ftp server looks at least like this; /var/ftp -- /pub ...there is some basic system setup that you will need to perform before you can start and use your ftp server. I would heartily suggest at this point though that you thoroughly read the docs at the proftpd web site to get a good understanding of how it works and what's going on. this knowledge is important if you're going to run an FTP server and could, at some point, save your machine and it's data. you'll find attached to the message a copy of my current proftpd.conf to work off of. If you like, please feel free to modify it and use it on your server. please understand that you will have to modify it in order to suit the needs of your machine. that being said, here is the down and dirty setup proc. IMPORTANT: /var --/ftp /* everything under this dir including /ftp --/pub/ * should NOT be owned by root! */ 1. as root in a terminal add the user anonymous. ]# adduser anonymous ENTER /* important note: unless you're NOT going to open this * FTP server for public use then do not set a password * for user anonymous */ 2. (optional - but definately recomended) using linuxconf, add a new user named ftpadmin and set this users /home dir as /var/ftp. now you will need add user ftpadmin to the group ftpadmin. you can do so by clicking on the groups definition in Linuxconf. when you've created this user and apply the settings Linuxconf will want ask you about changing ownership of /var/ftp. do so Recursively. 3. create the folder /var/ftp/incoming. as stated before it's owner should be ftpadmin.ftpadmin. chmod this directory 3773. even if you choose not to allow uploading to your ftp server it's still good practive to have this folder present. 4. all folders under /var/ftp/pub including /pub should be chmod'd 755, while the files themselves should have the permissions of 644 and ALL be owned by ftpadmin.ftpadmin. 5. check the services file /etc/services and make sure that these lines are uncommented: ftp-data20/tcp ftp-data20/udp ftp 21/tcp ftp 21/udp these ports must be open in order for outside machines to connect to the ftp server. 6. now you're ready to start your server for the first time. one last check to make. if your proftpd.conf file is correctly configured save the file in /etc and issue this command in a terminal window as root user. service proftpd restart ENTER you should see a response similar to this in your terminal. Shutting down proftpd: [ OK ] Starting proftpd: [ OK ] if you recieve an error message of some sort, then check your /etc/proftpd.conf file to make sure that everything is correctly defined. remember to read the documentation from the proftpd site. there is a lot of good information contained there that will help you understand what's going on should you need to trouble-shoot your installation of proftpd. If have you have trouble and don't understand what's going on give another holler. -- Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR -- If your wife told you NOT to do it there's probably a real good reason! - REGISTERED LINUX USER #186492 Penguinized since 1997 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What to do with old CDs
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Nick Baker wrote: Nick, My youngest uses old cd's to cover a wall in his room as a decoration. he's quite artistically inclined and sees a viable use for many things like that that we'd normally throw out. however I reserve a few that I use as coasters for my coffee mug on the desk. Mark-- My wife and I use them in our garden yard art--if hung so the wind can move them, they catch the light very nicely. All I was saying is that they cannot currently be turned in to recycling centers to melt down to usable raw plastic and metal. But, you did remind me of a non-profit in Portland, OR called SCRAPS that recycles anything that might be used as art materials, especially for schools. I don't have their address, and couldn't find a website for them, though. Nick Nick, thats true...you could also stick them in the microwave on evenings when you're really bored and watch the fireworks display. ;) -- Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR -- If your wife told you NOT to do it there's probably a real good reason! - REGISTERED LINUX USER #186492 Penguinized since 1997 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] What to do with old CDs
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: I give them to my teenage daughter who then nukes them in the wave for about 3 seconds (cool patterns result) She then hangs them on her wall. It looks pretty good especially when she has the black light on. Yeah, it's probably not that great on the wave but she's been doing it for about a year and I can still heat up my tea. Jeanie I'm going to have to do that one again. it's been a while since last it was done. kinda miss the excitement. My wife didn't know I had stuck something in there and thought I was running it empty. I told her that what she was seeing was the results of severe magnatron decay and that we were all being exposed to terrible levels of radiation. she was scared for a fraction of a second and then realized I wasn't in all that big a hurry to get out of the house. and of course the twinkle in my eye was a dead give-away. can't pull anything over on her... ;) -- Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR -- If your wife told you NOT to do it there's probably a real good reason! - REGISTERED LINUX USER #186492 Penguinized since 1997 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux
On Fri, 31 May 2002, civileme wrote: Miark wrote: I find it interesting that they made no mention of the efforts of the NSA to develop a very very secure linux or the adjustments necessary to the standards to accommodate it. It is about as spy-proof as software gets by the spies themselves... NSA has issued a completed source for the kernel and security routines (37 Mb download) and I think you can guess we will be looking carefully at it for possible incorporation. Civileme That seems inconsistent with their we want a back door to Winsux behavior. Why would the NSA want us normal folk to have very secure machines? Doesn't that just make their sky games more difficult? Miark Ummm, the focus has changed in the intelligence community lately. It is more on preventing spying than performing it. The whole issue is in source and is either GPL or public domain (yes, wide open for enhance, extend and claim) for those exclusively done by the NSA, as is required by Federal Law. I am tickled that they released the thing rather than just circulating it to the security-related Federal Agencies, and I am also pleased that they observed the strictures of the GPL, in letter and in spirit. Civileme Civileme, this is incredibly interesting. where does one find the files to compile the NSA's version of Linux. I'd love to take a look at this system. -- Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR -- If your wife told you NOT to do it there's probably a real good reason! - REGISTERED LINUX USER #186492 Penguinized since 1997 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday 31 May 2002 10:55 am, Miark wrote: I find it interesting that they made no mention of the efforts of the NSA to develop a very very secure linux or the adjustments necessary to the standards to accommodate it. It is about as spy-proof as software gets by the spies themselves... NSA has issued a completed source for the kernel and security routines (37 Mb download) and I think you can guess we will be looking carefully at it for possible incorporation. Civileme That seems inconsistent with their we want a back door to Winsux behavior. Why would the NSA want us normal folk to have very secure machines? Doesn't that just make their sky games more difficult? Miark Visit http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/(very interesting) The National Security Agency is the Nation's [USA] cryptologic organization. It coordinates, directs, and performs highly specialized activities to protect U.S. information systems and produce foreign intelligence information. Linux was chosen as the platform for this work because its growing success and open development environment provided an opportunity to demonstrate that this functionality can be successful in a mainstream operating system and, at the same time, contribute to the security of a widely used system. Additionally, the integration of these security research results into Linux may encourage additional operating system security research that may lead to additional improvement in system security. Your tax dollars at work ... betch'a Billy G's fixin to have a baby ;) Ya know Tom - ginning broadly and chest puffed out with Pride, it's things like this that give me such a sense of pride. I LOVE being a Linuxer. I'm downing loading SELinux as I write this and I can't wait to get home from work to being putting it all together! I've never build a linux system from scratch before, but I think its time that I did. -- Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR -- If your wife told you NOT to do it there's probably a real good reason! - REGISTERED LINUX USER #186492 Penguinized since 1997 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux / NSA
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Miark wrote: I'm sure the NSA could crack any PGP e-mail in a minute or two if they wanted to. Miark i'm quite sure you're correct. -- Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR -- If your wife told you NOT to do it there's probably a real good reason! - REGISTERED LINUX USER #186492 Penguinized since 1997 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Announcement: UnitedLinux
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Miark wrote: On the other hand, I bet ol' Billy is grinnin' like a chesire cat over this filth: ..the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution outlines how open source might facilitate efforts to disrupt or sabotage electronic commerce, air traffic control or even sensitive surveillance systems. Unlike proprietary software, open source software does not make the underlying code of a software confidential. 'Computer systems are the backbone to U.S. national security', says Fossedal, chairman... 'Before the Pentagon and other federal agencies make uninformed decision to alter the very foundation of computer security, they should study the potential consequences carefully.' http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.053002/221502375 Tell me Billy isn't greasing their FUD skid. Miark Miark, I smell what you're steppin, and to a small degree I agree, but on the other hand I also have the feeling that the source not being closed source only serves the computing public as to allow the software to be made even more secure. and besides...who is in who's bed? -- Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR -- If your wife told you NOT to do it there's probably a real good reason! - REGISTERED LINUX USER #186492 Penguinized since 1997 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NSA / PGP
On Fri, 31 May 2002, shane wrote: On Friday 31 May 2002 11:26 am, daRcmaTTeR did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: On Fri, 31 May 2002, Miark wrote: I'm sure the NSA could crack any PGP e-mail in a minute or two if they wanted to. Miark i'm quite sure you're correct. i doubt that. it is simply a matter of raw math. http://senderek.de/security/secret-key.protection.html in short if they had a super computer than can only be imagined today (not built) it would take hundreds of years to guess a key. or to quote another page: To recover a particular (128 bit) key, one must, on average, search half the keyspace. That is 127 bits: 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303715,884,105,728. If you had 1,000,000,000 machines that could try 1,000,000,000 keys/sec, it would still take all these machines longer than the universe as we know it has existed and then some, to find the key. IDEA, as far as present technology is concerned, is not vulnerable to brute-force attack, pure and simple. the key size i use (again only once in awhile, but i use it) will take 300,000,000,000,000,000,000 MIPS-years to factor. let them break that in 2-3 minutes. as for backdoors, do you think they could do that to an open source project? nobody would notice? nah. good point shane! I feel better now. -- Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR -- If your wife told you NOT to do it there's probably a real good reason! - REGISTERED LINUX USER #186492 Penguinized since 1997 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] trying to connect
On Wed, 29 May 2002, s wrote: On Thursday 30 May 2002 07:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tryed to connect direct to my cable modem with no luck then everone is suggesting just connect to the windows 2000 system(which I have in the same room) O.K with that I tryed but with about the same luck but I didn,t install samba I need to go back and install it for that to work wouldn,t I No, you won't need samba just for internet access. You'll need to set up internet connection sharing in w2k and config your nic in mandrake. But man, is that backwards or what? I haven't been following your problem, but I would try harder on the linux side first. -s amen to that! its far easier to setup connection sharing on Mandrake then on Win2K. the only problem here would be that you'd need to have the win2k box and anything else behind the mandrake box that is sharing the connection with the others acting as a gateway. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unreal
On Thu, 30 May 2002, D. Olson wrote: Did anyone try this yet? I was considering buying it tomorrow, but I hear that it is pretty hacked together... If it is good, then I will get it. Hey, what's another Native Linux game to add to my collection? Unreal is like $10 here or something. :) believe me when I tell you it is the best $10 dollars you will have ever spent on a game to run in Linux. Provided you're not going to try and run on a machine less then a PII with at least 128MB of RAM and a vid card with less then 16MB of memory on it. as for Unreal itself you will have to get the version that installs in windows and then download the Linux binary to install what's on the CD's to your Linux system. It looks and plays exactly the same in Linux as it does in windows thanks to OpenGL. Loki has done a spectacular job on this game. if you get the CD's labeled UT_GOTY let me know. there is a specific binary that you'll need to run to install the game correctly. I have it here at home and can stick on the FTP server for you no trouble at all. -- Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR -- If your wife told you NOT to do it there's probably a real good reason! - REGISTERED LINUX USER #186492 Penguinized since 1997 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] accesss shareing
On Wed, 29 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the name but my cable company ATT was awful about the ideal don,t want it done for some reason j, what you may want to do is setup the connection sharing and then be sure when you setup your firewall that you enable NAT so that all the data packets leaving the outer interface appear as though they're all coming from the same machine. I've got that running on my gateway at home and it works flawlessly. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2002 03:22 am, Michael Adams wrote: Had a power cut last night. I had bluefish, kwrite, Mozilla, and a terminal all open. The power went came back up for two seconds then died again. I switched the switch at the wall and chewed my nails until the power came back up an hour later. Mandrake started as if i had asked for a restart. No apps, but no corruption. Thankyou god/s. Which file system? Anyhow, you really should have your system on an UPS if power outages are any more than a very rare occurrence. An UPS will also keep power steady and protect your hardware from spikes and brownouts. While the FS can escape damage, your hardware sometimes can't. Hi Tom, Just out of curiosity, how many systems can you safely run on one UPS? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] accesss shareing
On Wed, 29 May 2002, shane wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2002 07:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I have the name but my cable company ATT was awful about the ideal don,t want it done for some reason yeah they think you buy a connection for a machine, not a household. but heym atleast they still let multiple people use one machine. for now. Shane! you don't really think they'd actually attempt to do something like that, do you? grin Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] XFS vs. ReiserFS (OT resurrected)
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: FWIW, since I asked, after 3 experiences with XFS, I'm back to good 'ol tried'n true ReiserFS for all my Linux partitions. Sort'a way OT, I got a 350W inverter for $47 from Wally World a few months ago. It'll run a 19 TV for 5 to 6 hours off the battery in my Chevy ... and then the truck still starts like nothin was drainin it. It's magic!! So after I have to shut down the computer when the power goes out at least I can still watch TV by candle light ;) Tom, Now you've got me wondering. I had been using Reiser and hadn't had any trouble at all, but a few months back I bought a brand new Dell and when I loaded Mandrake on it I chose XFS as opposed to Reiser. Mostly because of what I'd been reading here on the list. as I understood it Reiser was concerned mostly with the metadata of the files and not the entire file itself, whereas XFS looked after the entire file. header and content together and was able to recover both if necessary. am I wrong in my understanding? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2002 09:17 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Wed, 29 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: Which file system? Anyhow, you really should have your system on an UPS if power outages are any more than a very rare occurrence. An UPS will also keep power steady and protect your hardware from spikes and brownouts. While the FS can escape damage, your hardware sometimes can't. Just out of curiosity, how many systems can you safely run on one UPS? Mark I've got a Tbird oc'd to 1.55 gig, Cdrom, CD-RW, 2 HDD's, 17 monitor, and a Altec Lansing subwoofer sound system IOW's a real power hog. I've got an old APC BackUPS 500 that'll keep it all runnin for ~15 minutes when the power goes south. The batteries are original, and I've not needed to replace 'em, or seen a drop in their performance. Just as important, maybe more so tho, an UPS feeds clean power to the system, no spikes or drops. Very important for sensitive electronics reliability and performance. It's only a 500VA UPS, but plenty for a single desk top system. Price was $123 some 5 years ago. They make other UPS systems that can handle multiple systems, even up to multiple rack servers. 'Course they cost more $$'s. APC is the preferred brand, but there's other good ones. They're heavy, so buyin one locally (I got mine at Wall*Mart) is probly a better option than buyin online and payin lot'sa shipping. FWIW, since I asked, after 3 experiences with XFS, I'm back to good 'ol tried'n true ReiserFS for all my Linux partitions. Sort'a way OT, I got a 350W inverter for $47 from Wally World a few months ago. It'll run a 19 TV for 5 to 6 hours off the battery in my Chevy ... and then the truck still starts like nothin was drainin it. It's magic!! So after I have to shut down the computer when the power goes out at least I can still watch TV by candle light ;) Ok then...thanks for the input. that pretty much settles it then. at least for now I'll setup a medium sized UPS to attach the main server and my desktop workstation to to guard against sudden outages brought on by the daily T-storms that we've been getting in Pennsylvania these last few weeks. It's been great though and I'm not complaining. I keep backups of data, and would gladly sacrifice an FS for a farmers field full of corn. How about it Randy K.? you guys down your way getting any of these storms or are they petered out till then get to that end of the state? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it
On Wed, 29 May 2002, et wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2002 10:51 am, you wrote: How long is a rope? snip roflmao,,, I was gonna offer a 35Kw standby gen as my secondary UPS, and I am sure an entire automobile dealership and a cargo airline can stay up for a reallly long time Ed! where the heck ya been man! seems like it's been forever since I've seen you post here. so, what are you saying grin? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Randy Kramer wrote: Just to provide another datapoint: I run three (older) boxes on one UPS rated at 300 VA, 180 Watts. The power supplies total 750 watts (IINM (If I'm Not Mistaken) -- 2 200s and 1 350)). 2 cpus are ~300 MHz, 3rd is 700 MHz, all AMD. I also am looking for protection from short outages (2-60 seconds). UPS is Conexant. Includes an indicator light to show if the UPS is overloaded -- no indication so far. One day I will try a fourth system. BTW, if you live near a Staples, Staples had (and might still have) a $40 rebate running on two different brand 500 VA UPSs (Conexant and APC, IIRC), brought the price down to $10. Nothing fancy like a serial output to shut down your computer, but will do quite well if you deal mainly with short outages like I do. Randy Kramer actually Randy, there is not only a Staples near where I live, but also an Office Max and another tech store that I can't remember the name of at the moment. all of which I'm forbidden to enter under pain of immasculation. :) Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba - Half there?
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Anne Wilson wrote: Sorry that I sent this to your address, instead of the list - I forgot to change the 'Reply to' address. Derek, I have been thinking hard and reading all I can, and I wonder if the problems are a lot deeper rooted. For instance: What I'm trying to achieve is that the filesharing and ICS should be transparent to the kids - they shouldn't need to know which OS I'm running. Currently, we run a MS peer-to-peer network, with my W2K box acting as gateway. I have read that it is notoriously difficult to set up Samba if NETBUI is installed (which it is on the W98 m/cs), and one should get rid of it if at all possible. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be possible, as without it the W2K machines and the W98 machines cannot see each other. TCP/IP is on all m/cs, and is properly set up, as the W98 m/cs connect to the Internet from my W2K m/c over TCP/IP. I wonder, too about m/c names. Under the peer-to-peer setup, no name server is required. I don't see how a hosts list can be set up when two m/cs have static IP addresses and the other two have dynamic (provided by my m/c). We haven't used either DNS or WINS. This sets me to thinking about host names on Mdk - I haven't set this up, I think, and I guess I need it? How can Samba recognise and authenticate a m/c without DNS? And how could I set up DNS with m/cs that don't have a static IP address? I have a feeling that there are lots of things like this that I will have to set up. I forgot that this will not be peer-to-peer, but in fact I will be using this m/c as a server - and I didn't specify that at installation. Yet I was offered the ICS option? Just thinking aloud, but would welcome your comments. Anne PS I just got your smb.conf file, and I'll check it out. Again, pinging is a problem, as I don't have a static address. I think this is possibly the root of the problem and I don't know what to do about it. Hi Anne, I've been loosely following this and I'm curious why you haven't tried setting up a Mandrake box to do the gateway/firewall/file serving duties for the other machines on your LAN. That is how many of us here are doing it. I had many of the same questions you're asking when I first started home-networking, and realized quickly that not only did I not want a p2p network, but that I couldn't see how windows was going to talk to Mandrake with out something like Samba. thus began the journey. It took about a month to get everything squared away, but once it was all setup and working it was well worth the effort. I should mention that there are many here now that helped me a lot to get things up and working. couldn't have done it without them. At present I've got a Mandrake 8.2 machine takin care of the server duties. (all of them - the poor bugger is working very hard!) in addition I've got a mandrake workstation connecting to this LAN, one XP workstation, and one Win98 workstation. it all works very nicely. O, and this includes printing as well. that was a real PITA, but I was able to get it working. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] x config
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Robin Turner wrote: On Tuesday 28 May 2002 18:05, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2002, Robin Turner wrote: On Tuesday 28 May 2002 17:19, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2002, Pupeno wrote: -pgpenvelope processed message I would like to remove any garbage from my x config file, where should I start to see what configuratio is actualy used by my computer ? Bye the way, I'm getting this error: INIT: ld 'x' respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes. Do you know what does it mean ? Thank you. -- Pupeno: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pupeno.com.ar Hi Pupeno, The error you're getting means that X isn't setup correctly on your machine. what version did you install on your machine. X and your vid card and/or the monitor aren't getting along very well. as for your X config file goes...once you've got X installed and configured correctly for your system leave that puppy alone or bad thing can and will happen. there really isn't anything to clean out or it. I got this once I think it was after a power cut resulted in file corruption (this was before I switched to a journalling filing system). Try reconfiguring X using xf86config. If that doesn't work, try reinstalling X, then reconfiguring. Sir Robin It might be a wee bit easier for him to use setuptools in a terminal then to actually try to use xf86config. I never did like that X config tool. My first experience with that monster was RedHat 5.2 5 years ago. didn't like it then and I really think it stinks now. course then, there wasn't a lot of different ways to take care of configuring X in those days. Heh heh, don't I just remember! Configuration procedure: $ xf86config $ cd /etc/X11 $ emacs XF86Config I'd not noticed setuptool before - very handy. Sir Robin man! xf86config + emacs...does _that_ ever bring back memories. scary ones at that. which is what took me to the point of finding setuptools. although in those days it wasn't called that. IN RedHat it was and is called setup. I didn't discover it to be called setuptools till I loaded Mandrake 7.0 some years back. t'was a life saver for my sanity.In those days the hardware I was running was quite generic and the support for some things wasn't what it is now. so configuring X on cheap machines was at best quite problematic. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Card Configuration
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Spyros Spyropoulos wrote: Hi, How do I configure my soundcard on Mandrake 8.0 ? Thnx, spyross hmmm...lets see if I can remember that far back. I haven't seen 8.0 for a few years, so if I get this wrong, please someone correct me. at any rate Spyros, you can do this one of two ways. (1) open a terinal window and use the setuptools utility. when you activate this utility it will either initialize the X gui or will run in the terminal itself. on the menu you're presented with there will be a menu item that will allow you to configure your sound card. it's a small wizard that is simple and straight forward. (2) open Mandrake Control Center, and go to the Hardware item shown on the left of the main panel, click on Hardware, then expand the sound card item in the list; you will see a sound card in the right pane as long as Mandrake picked up the card upon installation. you should also see the card listed as a sub-item in the left pane. click on the sound card in the left pane and hit the configure button in the right pane. a list of drivers will be presented to you with it defaulting to what yours should be. hit the OK button and listen for the audio clip to be played. if you here it click the yes button and you're done. if you didn't hear it and you're sure that you chose the correct driver for your card turn up the volume on your speakers and repeat the last procedure. IF you still don't hear the audio clip then it's likely you have a bit more configuring to do to get your sound working. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
On Friday 24 May 2002 12:18 am, civileme opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Well, Brian it was all over the internet news, including the Register, August 1999. And you can still find the story at www.cryptonym.com where they exvaluated the security danger from it as nothing abnormal, since the only reason the NSA would want such a key is to save a little time. and ashcroft is actively fighting to get a backdoor put into rsa encryption. check what the aclu has to say about tech sometime. -- Give me ambiguity or give me something else. dang it! I like ashcroft, but that really knots my shorts! Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
