Re: [newbie] Konsole won't open
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:43:36 -0800, John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On March 26, 2005 09:42 am, eric jackson wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:33:30 -0800, John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip No, that's all it says. Any one know if it's possible to uninstall and re-install Konsole? Eric Jackson Follow the menu System|Configuration|Packaging|Remove Software and then query it for the file(s) Konsole. That will tell you which package needs to be removed. Then urpmi the newest version of the package and install that one. Here's hoping it works. :-) ttfn John I tried that but it wanted to uninstall lots of different packages in addition to the packages directly related to Konsole. I did manage to get things working by installing some packages that urpmi said it couldn't install. Thanks for your help. Eric -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] disable automatic sleep mode
dear listers, I am using Mandrake 9.2 on a Dell Optiplex GX300. I need the computer to run for at least 4 days (heavy calculations with GRASS GIS), unfortunately, it goes into sleep mode after a couple of hours. I meandered within the configuration tools of mandrake 9.2, but did not find anything (same outcome with ACPI on or off ; APIC disabled or enabled). I checked the BIOS but do not find any mention of an option that could disable automatic sleep mode. I have another Dell (different model) with the same Mandrake distro installed, that does not go into sleep mode. any help would be greatly appreciated !!! (I really have to get results pretty soon, this is for my thesis)thanks a lot for your time, eric pante Eric Pante Graduate Student in Marine Biology Grice Marine Laboratory 205 Fort Johnson, Charleston SC 29412 On ne force pas la curiosité, on l'éveille. Daniel Pennac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Konsole won't open
I recently installed 10.1. For some reason Konsole won't open. I get an error message saying KDEinit can't open Konsole. I tried using the other terminal program that Mandrake installed. It will open but it won't accept any input from the keyboard. Any help you can offer would be appreciated. Eric Jackson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Konsole won't open
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:33:30 -0800, John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On March 26, 2005 08:11 am, eric jackson wrote: I recently installed 10.1. For some reason Konsole won't open. I get an error message saying KDEinit can't open Konsole. I tried using the other terminal program that Mandrake installed. It will open but it won't accept any input from the keyboard. Any help you can offer would be appreciated. Eric Jackson Is there any other message from KDEinit about why it won't open Konsole? That might be helpful. I've not had that problem before. KDE has refused to open other programs but never that one. :) ttfn John No, that's all it says. Any one know if it's possible to uninstall and re-install Konsole? Eric Jackson -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Tux Magazine
I just wanted to alert people to Tux Magazine. I stumbled on a link to it somewhere. www.tuxmagazine.com. It is a free linux magazine distributed in PDF format aimed at new users. There is a lot of coverage of software, again aimed at the newbie. They are also looking for people to submit articles. The first issue is on the website now. Eric Jackson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:18:24 +0100, Michel Leunen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SOTL wrote: Please supply info on usual components. Equipment make video card et. Linux Distribution and version et. Mandrake 10.0 updated regularly. I don't think the card installed matter. You didn't say if you had a command prompt or not. If you do have the command line, did you try startx? I lost KDE once and I think that's what I did to get it back although I admit, I'm not sure. Eric -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:30:56 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 11 Mar 2005 15:59, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I guess it is possible that you have to turn the camera on, but I do not think so. (Unless you had to do that for it to be detected in Windows.) Mine is not detected until I switch it on - and it must be in Play mode. Same way for my Powershot A80. And as far as i can tell, it won't mount as a hard drive. So i wrote a few gphoto2 scripts and tied them to keys. I'm pretty happy with the way they work. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85
Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I hope that my next question won't seem as strange. Is there some software that will allow me to erase pictures which are stored on the camera? I have a delete script I wrote that I tied to a menu (watch for email line feeds): #!/bin/sh #gphoto2 --port=usb: --camera Canon PowerShot A80 (normal mode) -D-R echo Delete all pictures? (y/n) read WAIT if [ $WAIT = y ] ; then echo preparing to delete #gphoto2 --port=usb: --camera Canon PowerShot A80 (normal mode) -D -R gphoto2 --port=usb: --camera Canon PowerShot A80 (normal mode) -D -R echo Done deleting echo else echo OK, NOT deleting fi sleep 2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85
In theory it's a storage device, so you should be able to. OTOH, I'd rather play safe and let the camera do it. Mr Geek, have you been able to mount it as a storage device? I haven't on my A80. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] wmv to vcd converter
I would like to get some wmv files to playt on my TV (dvd player). The player can handle VCDs and of course DVDs. Any ideas? Nero was suggested, but of course that's a windows app and not very free. Have you tried mencoder or one of its front-ends like Gmencoder ? I haven't, but I'll give it a shot. It turns out a friend has nero, so i was able to do it there. Now i need to do it with .mov files. Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Forum post
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 20:27:18 -0500 Christopher Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the contents of the file. Sorry so big. I removed all lines starting with # to try and reduce the size. Should I have sent as an attachment? It's better to post as text than an attachment. Not sure about sympa, but some listservers don't even allow attachments. eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:14:37 -0500 Christopher Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to linux in general (1 week) and have decided to put my individual experiences on the internet in a forum format. I have posted small messages for each of the experiences that I have had in the past week. This is to help me in case I need to re-install and need to remember what I needed to do to get things to work. I also hope that it may help others. I have posted here to find out if this is a good idea or not. The link is http://mandrake.cjt-design.com. Different members of the list have helped me and I hope that I can return the favor in the future. Christopher Taylor Welcome to Mandrake, Christopher! Another place you can post articles on Linux solutions is the Twiki at http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org It's been awhile since i did a test run of pretending i was new to it, so if you do try to submit or use it, and run into trouble, let us know. I'm sometimes a little slow on my list reading these days, so feel free to cc me directly when you post. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **
Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:26:00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [newbie]** Welcome to Newbie **: 5. List Etiquette We have prepared a page describing common mailing list etiquette that will make your posts more effective and make fellow list members happier to help. It can be found at the community Twiki: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiq uette May I suggest discouraging shouting as # 11 and renaming # 11 to # 12 ? (Just in case: wherein 'shouting' means ALL LINES CAPS ON; or entire subject CAPS ON: I usually ignore them). That sounds fine by me. Unless anyone objects, we can change it. It's a Twiki, though, so feel free if i don't get over there soon enough. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up an extra hard disk
On Wednesday 02 Mar 2005 16:00, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: One thing to keep in mind, without some extra changes in your lilo.conf, Windows will not boot from the second hard drive! Thanks for clarifying, Mikkel. I just couldn't remember clearly enough. I hadn't remembered, though, that windows could be a problem on the seconf hard drive. I have XP on the second drive, and it boots to it w/o problem. The link i posted earlier has the lines required, i think. Or maybe i inferred from it how to make windows boot. I could send my lilo.conf to the list if someone wants to see it. CC me if you ask, though, because my list-ing is spotty these days. eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up an extra hard disk
Thanks, Duncan and Eric. How can I disable/disconnect the old drive? Have I to unplug it? Yeah, unplug the ide ribbon cable. I'm not sure if just unplugging the power is enough. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] various issues
But I never broke windows so badly I had to reinstall it! You didn't try very hard! I have broke almost every OS I have worked with- no harm in experimenting since that is how you learn - as long as you learn - and you have the time to set aside for reinstalling! I have broken most of them, too. But i never broke the OS on my Timex Sinclair 2068 :) eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord ok, k3b needs root
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:36:46 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 25 Feb 2005 16:23, Eric Huff wrote: I can burn using cdrecord just fine, but i need to be root for k3b to burn. Here are the perms: -rws--x--- 1 root users 54 Jun 15 2004 /usr/bin/cdrdao -rws--x--- 1 root users 326796 Aug 18 2004 /usr/bin/cdrecord Both are -rwsr-sr-x 1 root cdwriter in mine Yep, works now. I actually only set the group bits, just as a test. -rwsr-s--- 1 root users 326796 Aug 18 2004 cdrecord Thanks! eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sympa!!! What the ....
Ron Hunter-Duvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is Sympa requesting confirmation on every email I send? It's always done that to me, since I joined almost a year ago. Anne's right: neither of you are on the sub list with the emails you posted from. I would normally just add you again, but then you'll get two copies of each message. Email me directly if you want help unsubbing or subbing the various addresses. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up an extra hard disk
Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just bought an extra hard disk of 80GB for my computer. Could someone here please tell me how to make it my master disk (I still have the old one of 20GB), without loosing the information on my old disk? I used this: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html Not necessarily the easiest, but it worked. You might want to print it out unless you have another computer running. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] wmv to vcd converter
I would like to get some wmv files to playt on my TV (dvd player). The player can handle VCDs and of course DVDs. Any ideas? Nero was suggested, but of course that's a windows app and not very free. K3b needs mpegs to make a vcd. Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] cdrecord ok, k3b needs root
I can burn using cdrecord just fine, but i need to be root for k3b to burn. Here are the perms: -rws--x--- 1 root users 54 Jun 15 2004 /usr/bin/cdrdao -rws--x--- 1 root users 326796 Aug 18 2004 /usr/bin/cdrecord I ran the k3b setup, and set the group to users, but am not sure if that's correct (and it didn't work). I googled, and just found things saying to set the use burning group option. I don't have a burning group, though, unless users is the burning group. Thanks for any leads. I assume this is a simple settings issue, but i haven't been able to figure it out. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord ok, k3b needs root
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 25 Feb 2005 16:23, Eric Huff wrote: I can burn using cdrecord just fine, but i need to be root for k3b to burn. Here are the perms: -rws--x--- 1 root users 54 Jun 15 2004 /usr/bin/cdrdao -rws--x--- 1 root users 326796 Aug 18 2004 /usr/bin/cdrecord Both are -rwsr-sr-x 1 root cdwriter in mine Anne Thanks. I'll try that tonite and see if k3b works. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ACPI, POWER DOWN not working
Since 2 month I use a new laptop Acer Aspire 1680 with MDK 10.1 community on it. Since the first installation I have no automatic POWER DOWN and I had to turn of ACPI because when I rebooted the computer I got a black screen with no access to the keyboard. I had no problem with MDK 9.2. Do I have to install an other kernel? Are you using noapic or nolapic boot parameters? Where can I find this? mandrake control panel -- boot -- boot loader is one place you can set it. Or /etc/lilo.conf is what mcc edits. I don't have the no's set, so they don't show up in mine. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] gnumeric: customize toolbar
Is it really impossible to customize the toolbars in gnumeric? Don't know But i am so used to having buttons for delete and adding rows that i miss them... They're easy. Click in the label part of the line or column and you can then add or delete lines from a right-click No! Change is bad! :) Just kidding. That does work well, and i suspect once i get used to that, i'll get cranky if i don't have it. You know, I've done it that way in Lotus 1-2-3, SuperCalc and whatever the one I used before that was ;-) I guess there are methods in every package that we either never find or only find by accident. Yeah, often when we do presentations at work, we learn tricks from other people since we can all see the clicks, etc. Unfortunately, gnumeric doesn't print well for me either. I can make it fit to page, but i find i have to go back and make a bunch of columns bigger, or i just get ### in many cels, even though they are visible in normal view. I'm back to openoffice now. Blech. I like most of it's functionality, but it's just sooo slow to start (since i am a rebooter). eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] gnumeric: customize toolbar
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 18 Feb 2005 18:30, Eric Huff wrote: Is it really impossible to customize the toolbars in gnumeric? Don't know But i am so used to having buttons for delete and adding rows that i miss them... They're easy. Click in the label part of the line or column and you can then add or delete lines from a right-click No! Change is bad! :) Just kidding. That does work well, and i suspect once i get used to that, i'll get cranky if i don't have it. Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] gnumeric: customize toolbar
Is it really impossible to customize the toolbars in gnumeric? I like how fast it comes up, and the fact that i was able to set the printing to fit to page (which i could not figure out in open office calc. There was a setting in presentation, but not calc). But i am so used to having buttons for delete and adding rows that i miss them... Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] USB Card Reader
I just bought a USB Multi-card reader. I plugged it in, expecting Mandrake to find it but it didn't. What do I have to do to get my computer to recognize my card reader? Thanks for any help you can give. Eric Jackson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] turbotax?
Turbotax Web works just fine. :) I've been using Web-based turbotax methods for the last few years using linux. One caveat though, I had a little difficulty getting the browser (konqueror or mozilla0 to automatically launch acrobat inside the browser window for printing purposes. I managed somehow to make it work, but most of the time it would sit there and stare at me, reporting that acrobat was not found(it is there) but launching it anyway - where its initial splash screen You can just go to http://www.irs.gov/ and click on the Free File link. There you will find many free web-based tax preparation software AND free e-file. This year I used the HR Block web site and it mostly worked fine with Firefox. The important thing to remember is that in many cases you have to get in through the IRS web site in order to get the free preparation and e-file or you will be asked to pay for the service. I may do that next year. I wonder if you can import a file from the computer version into the web version... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] turbotax?
I used TurboTax Deluxe (freebie from American Century Investments) with Crossover Office 4.0 and it mostly worked ok. Some of the navigation aids don't work properly, but tax preparation and printing seem fine. That's good to know. I haven't decide yet what to do to rid my box of dual booting. I often end up with odd progs that i want to run. Lately, even ones i used to run with wine don't work. I am sure i borked some config during an update or something, but before (for the somple ones) i was able to just run them. I have been playing with bochs, but haven't been able to get XP installed. I guess i'll try to install win98 1st, and see if xp will go in after that. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux commands...???
I get the eth0 internet connection failure thing.It works OK though.It just annoying... A couple solutions: - Thanks to several tips I found my problem. Turning off 'Network Hotplugging' in MCC networking fixed it. One poster mentioned you could get the same effect by setting MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. - - Here was the fix from Derek: From Mandrake Control Centre NetworkManageConnectionsOptions Uncheck Network Hotplugging then restart networking from Mandrake Control CentreSystemServices If that does not help. Open a terminal enter 'su' to become root user then 'ifconfig' You will see a page showing the state of your link. If you see anything in the'collisions' counter, then your connection is trying to work half duplex. In that case come back with details of the ethernet card and driver you are using, and I will show you how to force half or full duplex. HTH derek - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To Chris Lane
Hey, bud, when you get back in your office, could you remember to *never* set an out-of-office auto-reply for an account you use on a mailing list? Many thanks! I rang their contact number this morning, they can't switch it off as it is company policy to have this switched on and they cannot touch his mail system. If it's getting a problem then you can either bounce back, perhaps to the admin. Ignore it until he gets back or get the admin here to disable his mail. Cheers, Elwyn If it's a big problem, i can unsub the address. He'll get a note saying he was unsubbed. But he'll still see this HUGE thread with his name in it. :) eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrakelinux Mailing List Etiquette
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:39:29 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 Jan 2005 16:58, JR wrote: Would someone clarify this for me please? If you use Reply but change the subject, you are hijacking. Does this mean if you change the 'subject' field, or the topic of the thread? Reading it, it would seem to mean the former. But common sense tells me the latter. If you use Reply to get up a form, then erase the subject and type in something different, you are hijacking. What Anne said is correct, and is what the etiquette page refers to. Just to prevent future confusion, i'll add a little to it. We often do call it a hijack if you change the topic during a thread even if you don't change the subject. Usually it's a case of going off on a tangent. Sometimes people will realize it and add HIJACK to the subject line, but i've never seen a ruling on that. Like i said though, what Anne said is really the answer to your question. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To Chris Lane
Hey, bud, when you get back in your office, could you remember to *never* set an out-of-office auto-reply for an account you use on a mailing list? If it's a big problem, i can unsub the address. He'll get a note saying he was unsubbed. But he'll still see this HUGE thread with his name in it. :) eric, I don't feel it was a big problem, I only received the out of office reply one time. Not worth unsubbing him. IMHO Ok. Sounds good to me. I didn't get it at all, so i didn't know if people were being flooded... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] bash: urpmi.addmedia not found
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:37:49 -0500, Andy Yankovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when I go to the site easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and, at step 3, add the suggested command into a terminal/konsole I get bash: urpmi.addmedia. comand not found. Can someone tell me what went wrong and how do I fix it. Thanks, Andy Are you doing this as root? I think you get that error if you run that command and you aren't root. Eric Jackson -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] GPG
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:24:15 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 Jan 2005 19:16, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 21 January 2005 20:12, eric jackson wrote: Forgive me but after reading through the archives I can't seem to find an answer to my question although I'm sure it's been asked before. When I try to install an rpm I often get an error saying The following packages... have bad signatures... I know that means that means the GPG key is missing but I don't know what to do to correct the problem. Thanks for your help. Eric Jackson It means you haven't downloaded the key. You can do so, or just ignore that message. If your sources are Ok (never heard the opposite), just continue. I do it all the time. If you say which sources are giving the error, someone may be able to tell you which key you need and where to get it. Anne Thanks for offering to help. I managed to get things striaghtened out by going to the directory on my computer where the files had been downloaded by urpmi and I got all but one to install by just clicking on it. Eric Jackson - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB8VbfkFAvMr/nNX8RArkDAJ9EFsvZ8F9EtXBbr/paW17xpheXtgCdH2yL njJoNhKFNpQCqGvVsVyPsvQ= =M8gU -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] turn off computer?
Andy Yankovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My computer is used only by me. Never by another person. I have a cable connection that is always on. You'll get a lot of suggestions, but here is what i do: 1. Is the recommended procedure to turn computers off at least nightly or keep them on all the time? I turn mine off to save power, but there is little or no need to do it for stability. 2. Should I install some type of firewall for security reasons? I do not have any secret formula for Coca Cola or things like that on my system, but do have credit card and other financial info, If yes, what do you recommend? You will get a lot of answers here, but i just use a Linksys router with a built in firewall. Also, turn off any services you don't use. MCC is the Mandrake Control Center. type mcc at the cli or find it in the menu system. Then system--services will show what is running. 3. Ditto for anti-virus? If yes, what do you recommend? No real need. There are entire threads on why in the archives and on the web. :) 4. Is the anti-span feature built into KMail sufficient or should I pick a second program. If yes, what do you recommend? I would wait and see how well your present spam filter does. If you still get too much spam (or too many false positives) for your liking, then you could try other ones. I like popfile, myself. http://popfile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl HTH, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] turn off computer?
I turn mine off to save power, but there is little or no need to do it for stability. Once you've stopped using your machine for some time, and the drives have spun down and the monitor goes into powersave mode, how much are you really saving? I've always been curious about that one. I am not really sure myself. I have been planning for years to make a little AC chord splitter so i can measure the current. But i do know that the fan stays on and makes a lot of noise. At the moment, i am not even sure my hard drives shut down properly. But i haven't tried yet, either... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] turn off computer?
1. Is the recommended procedure to turn computers off at least nightly or keep them on all the time? I turn mine off to save power, but there is little or no need to do it for stability. Once you've stopped using your machine for some time, and the drives have spun down and the monitor goes into powersave mode, how much are you really saving? There is a theory that its the power spikes when you turn on equipment that shortens their life - don't know how true it is though. Well, turning them on and off can shorten their lives. It's probably mainly the capacitors charging and discharging. A reason *not* to leave them on is that when you do finally shut down, and the disk drives park the heads all the way, they might run into a big dust bunny that would have otherwise been cleaned on previous shut downs. I think that info came from Stephen Kuhn. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] I just love it
You may have to run su before running ./scanmodem - I don't remember if it will run as a normal user. All the instructions are for running in the command line interface, and not from X, so you nead a terminal window, or you need to drop to the command line. Now, as to what the commands do: mkdiw Wmodem - Creates a new directory off your home directory. cd Wmodem - Changes to that directory. mcopy a:scanmodem.gz - Coppies the file scanmodem.gz from a FAT formatted floppy. gunzip scanmodem.gz- Uncompresses the fiel scanmodem.gz (to scanmodem) chmod +x scanmodem - makes the file scanmodem executable../scanmodem - runs the file scanmodem in the current directory. Nope, that didn't work either. All variations, including those on the same hard drive, fail to get past mcopy. Hmmm, could it be since I ran mcopy from a run box that the file is there but the message only says it can/t read the file. What is this a:scanmodem.gz stuff? I just tried it on mine and as expected, linux doesn't do anything with a: Mine would be /mnt/floppy/scanmodem.gz eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] GPG
Forgive me but after reading through the archives I can't seem to find an answer to my question although I'm sure it's been asked before. When I try to install an rpm I often get an error saying The following packages... have bad signatures... I know that means that means the GPG key is missing but I don't know what to do to correct the problem. Thanks for your help. Eric Jackson -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] I just love it
What is this a:scanmodem.gz stuff? I just tried it on mine and as expected, linux doesn't do anything with a: Mine would be /mnt/floppy/scanmodem.gz When running properly I believe it is supposed to read and print out what chip set you have in a winmodem. Very helpful in trying to get linux to see the modem. I meant the a: part. I haven't seen a: used under linux anywhere. I think you want to use /mnt/floppy or some such. -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] turbotax?
Well, every year i google around for a way to do taxes (on my computer) w/o booting into windows or using the web version. Sooo, anyone figured out a way to do your US taxes under Linux? I've been using turbotax, and this year i might be able to put it on Laura's mac, which is better, but i still feel the sting of not being able to do it on my machine... Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD Burner not recognized
Hi, When I installed 10.1, my computer no longer recognized my Sony DVD burner. Any one know what I should do to get this drive working? I believe it's a Sony DRU-530a Eric Jackson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to get right ALT key to work.
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 08:25:48 -0600 David A. Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The left Alt key works fine but the right Alt key is ignored. It is like the system doesn't recgonize it as a shifting key. Mdk 10.0 You might have to do some man page reading (it's been awhile since i set this up), but you can define keys with xmodmap. In my .xinitrc i have this line: xmodmap ~/.xmodmap I am not sure where you put it if you are running KDE or some such. The entire ~/.xmodmap is at the bottom, but here are the lines you might need: clearmod1 keycode 64 = Alt_L keycode 113 = Alt_R add mod1 = Alt_L Alt_R Hope this helps, eric ~/.xmodmap ! see /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xmodmap.std ! /usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.us_i.xmodm ntl !clearshift !clearlock !clearcontrol clearmod1 !clearmod2 !clearmod3 clearmod4 !clearmod5 keycode 64 = Alt_L keycode 113 = Alt_R keycode 115 = Meta_L keycode 116 = Meta_R add mod4 = Meta_L Meta_R add mod1 = Alt_L Alt_R ! RESULT from running xmodmap with no args ! shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) ! lockCaps_Lock (0x42) ! control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d) ! mod1Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x71) ! mod2Num_Lock (0x4d) ! mod3 ! mod4Meta_R (0x74), Meta_L (0x73) ! mod5 -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org eta_L (0x73), Meta_R (0x74), Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R( 0x71) mod5 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] using k3b to append files to a cd -rw
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:11:20 -0400, Ronald Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am pretty new to burning CD's. I was wondering if there is a way to use k3b (or some other tool) to append files to a cd-rw. I thought this would be easy, but if I drag and drop a new file onto a cd-rw it wants to erase the disk first. Any suggestions? I'm sort of wondering out loud but isn't what you are asking to do called packet writing? With that you can use a CD like a hard drive and add files unto you close or finalize the disk. If that's the case, I'm not sure how well that's supported under linux. I installed something called UDF Tools but I've never been able to figure out what to do with it. I'm pretty sure I remember someone posting saying the same thing and I don't recall them getting an informative response on how to use UDF Tools. Eric Jackson Thanks, R Haynes Dr. Ronald Haynes Mathematics and Statistics Acadia University HSB 153 -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.configfiles
Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shot in the dark - maybe things were loading in the wrong order? Anne Anne, I think you are on to something there. The *order* of these devices coming up seems to be what was giving me the trouble. Since ppp0 is just a *software* device that uses eth0 to do it's thing, eth0 has to come up first, before ppp0. That seems to make sense to me. [8-} I removed ppp0 and eth0 from my configuration, and then added the adsl ppp0 back, using MCC. Things are working OK now, except I am not able to connect to my mail server with KMail using my new account. :-/ I wonder where the config file controling the boot order of eth0 and ppp0 resides? It's in the subdir here that corresponds to your init level: /etc/rc.d In my case: /etc/rc.d/rc3.d Since i boot into init level (runlevel) 3 eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ideal camera connectivity
I'm wondering which option is best to connect to my laptop to a digital camera (which hasnt been chosen yet). I thought that if I got one that supported mass storage, then it would be as simple as mounting my mp3 player. But someone else reccommended getting one that uses CF / SD cards and getting a pcmcia card reader for the laptop. Has anyone any suggestions? I'm a little confused. I expect there will be some difficulty trying to connect the camera via usb, but the pcmcia option might be just as difficult in itself. I borrowed a usb mass storage camera once, and it mounted automatically when i plugged it in. If i unplugged it an plugged it in a lot in a short amount of time, it had a little toruble, but you shouldn't need to do that (i was playing around). Card readers are usually a lot faster than the usb on the cameras. My Powershot A80 takes a long time to upload images compared to my firend's card reader (which is on windows, so i don't know how supported it is). As for software, i wrote some scripts (and mapped them to keys) to download from the powershot (which does not mount as mass storage), including a command to delete the pics. I never even fire up digikam. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ideal camera connectivity
Most popular name camers support mass storage (a few use proprietary formats, like Kodak's). As long as they write to a common format storage medium - CF/SD/SM or whatever - you have the option of going to a card reader later. I may have mis-used mass strage. What do you call a usb camera (or any device) that mounts as a directory (usu under /mnt) ? eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ideal camera connectivity
Most popular name camers support mass storage (a few use proprietary formats, like Kodak's). As long as they write to a common format storage medium - CF/SD/SM or whatever - you have the option of going to a card reader later. What do you call a usb camera (or any device) that mounts as a directory (usu under /mnt) ? That's what I would think of as a mass storage device, Eric. Did you mean something else? Nope, that is what i meant. Just making sure i didn't have it wrong. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ideal camera connectivity
I meant that he could mount as a mass-storage device at first and buy a card reader later if he wants to. My daughter's Kodak, however, can't be used as a mass storage device, but can be mounted with gphoto. (I haven't tried Digikam) If you do try digikam, and you don't see files you downloaded, go up a directory. They may have fixed it, but when i tried it awhile back, it had that bug. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ideal camera connectivity
Any camera that uses the USB Mass Storage protocol is absolutely the way to go. Stay away (far-far away) from any other protocol. USB Mass Storage will be recognized as any other usb drive when you plug the camera into your Linux box, and probably you will get an icon popping up for it on the desktop. But i case you end up with one like mine, i have some easy scripts that, now that i have used them for awhile, i actually prefer. I don't use any photo album software: i just organize them myself. Then i use gqview (or maybe xnview) to view them. The other feature i never used was deleting individual pics from the camera, so keep that in mind. It works out very well (for me). eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] batch res reduction
I have a pile of high res pics to reduce to 800x600 or 640x480 for the website. Anyone have a batch script or prog to do a directory at a time? http://jpgtn.sourceforge.net/ jpgtn -p -f -H -s 400 -q 90 *.jpg Will limit height to 400. I think you can put limits on both while maintaining aspect ratio. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi problem
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 13:31:58 +1300, SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 30 December 2004 07:59 am, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just installed 10.1 Official. When I finished I set up some sites to use with urpmi and I did an update. Urpmi was updated in the process. Since that time I have been unable to get urpmi --auto-select -auto to work. Yesterday after I entered that command the computer never gave me the prompt back even after 6 hours. Anybody know how I can straighten this out? Thanks for your help! Eric Jackson Try urpmi auto-select -a and see if that works. HTH ANd now back to the original thread. Did the above work upon yoy updating urpmi? Sorry, I thought I answered this already. Things seemed to work after I updated the database with urpmi.update. I had updated the database with the Software Media Manager before I ran urpmi --auto-select but that didn't fix the problem but urpmi.update straightened things out. Thanks for the help. Eric Jackson -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Digikam
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 20:29, Edward Holcroft wrote: Can anyone tell me how to get Digikam to be the default app when I plug in my USB camera? At the moment gtkam pops up on my desktop when I connect it. Try kcontrol Components File Associations Image jpg (assuming that's what your camera gives you). On the right you should see a list of apps capable of handling the images. Move Digikam to the top of the list. Anne Will that actually affect which prog opens when the camera is plugged in, or just which prog opens when a jpg is clicked? eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a crappy old P3 and OO opens in 7 seconds... What are the conditions for that? (IE: 1st time, already an Oo instance open, etc) ? mine is approximately: 24 seconds for the 1st time 15 for the 2nd (opening a different file after closing 1st) 6 when opening the 1st file again and leaving the 2nd one open That's with the memory allocation turned up. Waitaminute: it's back down to 9M. I had it at 30. Here's the nums with 30M: ?? seconds for the 1st time (didn't reboot) 13 for the 2nd (opening a different file after closing 1st) 4 when opening the 1st file again and leaving the 2nd one open Here's my computer specs. Am i just suffering from to much fiber? (the intel celery?) Memory 256M processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Celeron (Coppermine) stepping: 6 cpu MHz : 797.669 cache size : 128 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse bogomips: 1581.05 eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Celeron (Coppermine) stepping: 6 snip BTW, how the heck do I get this info? I had to search for the answer myself to get it: cat /proc/cpuinfo eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Huff disseminated the following: It's prolly a combo of the Celeron processor and your memory usage. My OO is set to use 9MB, I set it to 20 and it opened in under 4 seconds. Plonk another stick of memory in there, d00d! Will that help: ~ $ free total usedfree sharedbuffers cached Mem: 255136253272 1864 032396115588 -/+ buffers/cache: 105288 149848 Swap: 506008 284 505724 If i understand free's output correctly (which i may not), there's still 150MB available if needed. Is that correct? eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi problem
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:03:39 -0500, JR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm no guru, but did you try urpmi.update -a first? I had to do this just yesterday to get a package. Jarlath I had done an update using the Software Media Manager. That didn't help. Your suggestion seemed to straighten things out for me. Thank you. Eric Jackson On Thursday 30 December 2004 08:59 am, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just installed 10.1 Official. When I finished I set up some sites to use with urpmi and I did an update. Urpmi was updated in the process. Since that time I have been unable to get urpmi --auto-select -auto to work. Yesterday after I entered that command the computer never gave me the prompt back even after 6 hours. Anybody know how I can straighten this out? Thanks for your help! Eric Jackson -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi problem
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:45:42 -0600, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 30 December 2004 07:59 am, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just installed 10.1 Official. When I finished I set up some sites to use with urpmi and I did an update. Urpmi was updated in the process. Since that time I have been unable to get urpmi --auto-select -auto to work. Yesterday after I entered that command the computer never gave me the prompt back even after 6 hours. Anybody know how I can straighten this out? Thanks for your help! Eric Jackson Try urpmi auto-select -a and see if that works. HTH I managed to get things working after I did an urpmi.update. Thanks for your help. Eric Jackson -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi problem
On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 01:43:20 +1300, SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mike wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: And while we are on urpmi problems can someone tell me why I cannot wholly add another media to my list. I did: # urpmi.addmedia myrpms file://home/frank/MYRPMS and : # urpmi.addmedia -f myrpms file://home/frank/MYRPMS I get some entries in the /var/lib/urpmi directory but when I do : # urpmq --list-media the new media doesn't appear in the list and trying to install the rpms downloaded to the ~/MYRPMS directory, I get the 'Not found' reply. I have tried: # urpmi --update -a But this did not get my new media added either. Hopefully I'm missing something 'no-brainer'. Sorry for jumping in on this thread put I thought to keep the subject matter relevant. I just tried adding a local source as you descibed above, and all turned out well. I used some rpms I downloaded. Could it possibly be something wrong with the rpms themselves. I think rpm looks at the rpm's header for info to generate the hdlist. Maybe download some different rpm's in a new directory and try adding them as locale source to see if it works. Mike I tried by moving or deleting rpms that though they went through before, this time they kept coming up with errors. [EMAIL PROTECTED] frank]# urpmi.addmedia -f myrpms /home/frank/MYRPMS/ using different removable device [/dev/hdc] for Installation CD 2 (x86) using different removable device [/dev/hdc] for Installation CD 1 (x86) using different removable device [/dev/hdc] for Installation CD 4 (x86) using different removable device [/dev/hdc] for Installation CD 3 (x86) added medium myrpms examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 2 (x86).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.dec04club.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.dec04updates.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 1 (x86).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.eslrahc.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 4 (x86).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.dec04main.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.frankplf.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.updates.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 3 (x86).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.frankupdates.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.eslrahc10.1.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.dec04contrib.cz] reading rpm files from [/home/frank/MYRPMS] writing list file for medium myrpms building hdlist [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.myrpms.cz] choosing compression method with gzip -4 for archive /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.myrpms.cz real archive size of /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.myrpms.cz is 1707821 no info available for package flightgear at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/URPM/Build.pm line 465. As you can see, when I installed the flightgear package I had no problems and at that time this directory was a listed media. I simply did a urpmi.removemedia, deleted some old stuff and then ran into this problem when I went back to urpmi.addmedia. [EMAIL PROTECTED] frank]# urpmq --list-media Installation CD 2 (x86) frankcontrib dec04club dec04updates frankmain Installation CD 1 (x86) eslrahc Installation CD 4 (x86) dec04main frankplf updates Installation CD 3 (x86) frankupdates main2 eslrahc10.1 rediris dec04contrib As you can see - no 'myrpms' media. I have even tried a new directory with only the latest download ( and successfully installed ) rpm in it. The same thing is happening. It's driving me nuts. Unless there is a simple way of getting all my media back up should I scrap the lot and start again, well, I may as well be back fighting windows as this is the type of problem I left windows for. Any other ideas anyone? Did you try adding myrpms using the Software Media Manager? Try that and see if things work better. Eric Jackson -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] No hdlists found during installation
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:04:22 -0600, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 27 December 2004 10:38 am, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just tried to do a clean install of 10.1 official. The installation gets as far as the partioning section with no problem. However no matter if I choose Use existing partitions or Erase entire disc, I get an error message saying, An error occured. No hdlsts found. Basically, it then gives me the same partioning options I had before. Any ideas what the problem might be or how I can fix this? Eric Jackson Eric, did you run an md5sum on the .iso, it sounds like a bad disk. Any other errors show up. Try a text install and see what error messages occur? Thanks for replying. I restarted the installation and it went fine. Eric Jackson -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] urpmi problem
Hi, I just installed 10.1 Official. When I finished I set up some sites to use with urpmi and I did an update. Urpmi was updated in the process. Since that time I have been unable to get urpmi --auto-select -auto to work. Yesterday after I entered that command the computer never gave me the prompt back even after 6 hours. Anybody know how I can straighten this out? Thanks for your help! Eric Jackson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] No hdlists found during installation
Hi, I just tried to do a clean install of 10.1 official. The installation gets as far as the partioning section with no problem. However no matter if I choose Use existing partitions or Erase entire disc, I get an error message saying, An error occured. No hdlsts found. Basically, it then gives me the same partioning options I had before. Any ideas what the problem might be or how I can fix this? Eric Jackson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: So zap them before they even hit your machine: Just found out how to set my server to return to sender all mails to unknown users. Not ideal but at least I am getting a bit of peace and quite again! :-) I'm not sure if you want to do that. If it's anything like the stuff that was hitting my inbox a while back, the sender isn't really the virus, but it's using a designated unsecure SMTP server to masquerade as a specific sender, even though that sender doesn't have the virus. I don't know anything about this particular worm, but I know my inbox has been cluttered by similar stuff before. Oddly enough, I started getting it after I posted my email address(es) in a MSDN forum the address(es) I didn't post have never gotten it. Suspicous. Anywho, that's my two cents, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #: 366,862 Registered Linux computer #: 261,856 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] upgrade 9.2 to 10.1 using urpmi
Fajar Priyanto wrote: I guess I'd better ask for help here too. On Thursday 16 December 2004 09:12 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Thursday 16 December 2004 08:08 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi folks, Can I upgrade my mdk9.2 to 10.1 using urpmi? The reason is because I haven't got the time to do a clean install of it. Can I do it? I mean, at least to upgrade certain part of the package, for example: apache and it's modules to the latest package available. Or, can I just download the rpm from 10.1 and use rpm -Uvh on the 9.2? Thanks. Ugh, I found it in the archive. Ok, then my question is: should I update all the sources to 10.1 or via 10.0 first? Ok, I chose to go to 10.1 I urpmi urpmi, then: The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded: ImageMagick-5.5.7.13-3plf.i586 (due to missing ghostscript, due to missing libwmflite-0.2.so.7, due to missing libMagick-5.5.7.so.0, due to unsatisfied libMagick5.5.7 == 5.5.7.13-3plf) XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3-23mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied XFree86 == 4.3) XFree86-server-4.3-23mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied XFree86 == 4.3-23mdk) XFree86-xfs-4.3-23mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied XFree86-libs == 4.3-23mdk) chkfontpath-1.9.10-1mdk.i586 (due to missing XFree86-xfs) fonts-ttf-decoratives-1.3-12mdk.noarch (due to unsatisfied chkfontpath = 1.4.1) fonts-ttf-vera-1.10-2mdk.noarch (due to missing chkfontpath[*]) fonts-ttf-west_european-1.3-12mdk.noarch (due to unsatisfied chkfontpath = 1.4.1) ghostscript-7.07-0.12.1.92mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied urw-fonts = 1.1) libMagick5.5.7-5.5.7.13-3plf.i586 (due to missing libwmflite-0.2.so.7) libwmf-0.2.8-4mdk.i586 (due to missing libwmf-0.2.so.7, due to missing libwmflite-0.2.so.7) libwmf0.2_7-0.2.8-4mdk.i586 (due to missing urw-fonts, due to unsatisfied libwmf == 0.2.8-4mdk) php-imagick-4.3.3_0.9.7-3mdk.i586 (due to missing libwmflite-0.2.so.7, due to missing ImageMagick, due to missing libMagick-5.5.7.so.0) postgresql-python-7.3.4-2mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied postgresql == 7.3.4-2mdk) urw-fonts-2.0-10mdk.noarch (due to missing chkfontpath[*]) (y/N) y I said Y, and then: To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (187 MB): MySQL-bench-4.0.20-3.1.101mdk.i586 MySQL-client-4.0.20-3.1.101mdk.i586 bootloader-utils-1.9-1.1.101mdk.i586 bootsplash-2.1.13-1mdk.i586 dmidecode-2.4-1mdk.i586 drakconf-10.1-2mdk.i586 drakfirsttime-1.1-15mdk.noarch drakxtools-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586 drakxtools-backend-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586 drakxtools-newt-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586 glibc-2.3.3-21mdk.i586 glibc-devel-2.3.3-21mdk.i586 glibc-static-devel-2.3.3-21mdk.i586 gtk+2.0-2.4.9-9mdk.i586 gtkdialogs-2.1-1mdk.i586 gurpmi-4.5-28mdk.noarch harddrake-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586 harddrake-ui-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586 hwdb-clients-0.16-1mdk.noarch ldconfig-2.3.3-21mdk.i586 ldetect-lst-0.1.23-1.1.101mdk.i586 libbeecrypt6-3.1.0-3mdk.i586 libcurl3-7.12.1-1mdk.i586 libecpg3-7.4.5-4mdk.i586 libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0-2.4.9-9mdk.i586 libglib2.0_0-2.4.6-1mdk.i586 libgphoto-hotplug-2.1.4-3mdk.i586 libgphoto2-2.1.4-3mdk.i586 libgtk+-x11-2.0_0-2.4.9-9mdk.i586 libgtk+2.0_0-2.4.9-9mdk.i586 libidn11-0.5.4-1mdk.i586 libieee1284_3-0.2.8-1mdk.i586 libmysql12-4.0.20-3.1.101mdk.i586 libpango1.0_0-1.4.1-1mdk.i586 libpango1.0_0-modules-1.4.1-1mdk.i586 libpgtcl2-7.4.5-4mdk.i586 libpq3-7.4.5-4mdk.i586 libsane1-1.0.14-3mdk.i586 libstdc++6-3.4.1-4mdk.i586 libtiff3-3.6.1-4.1.101mdk.i586 libusb0.1_4-0.1.8-2mdk.i586 libvte4-0.11.11-3mdk.i586 libxorg-x11-6.7.0-4.2.101mdk.i586 locales-2.3.3-8mdk.i586 locales-en-2.3.3-8mdk.i586 mandrake-doc-common-10.1-1mdk.noarch mkinitrd-4.1.12-1mdk.i586 mod_perl-common-1.3.31_1.29-3mdk.i586 pango-1.4.1-1mdk.i586 perl-5.8.5-3.1.101mdk.i586 perl-Glib-1.054-1mdk.i586 perl-Gnome2-Vte-0.04-1mdk.i586 perl-Gtk2-1.054-1mdk.i586 perl-Gtk2-TrayIcon-0.04-1mdk.i586 perl-Libconf-0.33-2mdk.noarch perl-MDK-Common-1.1.18-1mdk.i586 perl-MIME-Lite-3.01-5mdk.noarch perl-MailTools-1.62-1mdk.noarch perl-Net-Jabber-1.30-1mdk.noarch perl-SOAP-Lite-0.60-0.a.2mdk.noarch perl-Term-ReadKey-2.21-4mdk.i586 perl-URPM-1.03-1mdk.i586 perl-XML-Stream-1.21-2mdk.noarch perl-base-5.8.5-3.1.101mdk.i586 perl-devel-5.8.5-3.1.101mdk.i586 perl-doc-5.8.5-3.1.101mdk.i586 perl-libwww-perl-5.800-1mdk.noarch popt-1.8.2-15mdk.i586 postgresql-7.4.5-4mdk.i586 postgresql-contrib-7.4.5-4mdk.i586 postgresql-devel-7.4.5-4mdk.i586 postgresql-jdbc-7.4.5-4mdk.i586 postgresql-pl-7.4.5-4mdk.i586 postgresql-server-7.4.5-4mdk.i586 postgresql-tcl-7.4.5-4mdk.i586 postgresql-test-7.4.5-4mdk.i586 rfbdrake-1.0-7mdk.noarch rpm-4.2.2-15mdk.i586 rpm-build-4.2.2-15mdk.i586 rpmdrake-2.1.5-13mdk.i586 sane-backends-1.0.14-3mdk.i586 sash-3.7-3mdk.i586 urpmi-4.5-28mdk.noarch userdrake-1.1-3mdk.i586 vte-0.11.11-3mdk.i586 xinitrc-2.4.11-1mdk.noarch xorg-x11-6.7.0-4.2.101mdk.i586 Is this OK? (Y/n) n Is this the correct thing to do? Is it safe if I answer yes? Thanks
Re: [newbie] win- linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I spent two hours looking thru umpteen pages to find a torent site to dld the live cd for knoppix so I might see a demo or something to try learning about linux. I live in NY state so a site nearby would be nice if anyone knows of one. On 16 Dec 2004 at 18:43, Anders Lind wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:25:18 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any free program available to sample linux on a winxp system. I thought winaxe might but it is for networked systems. Is Knoppix what you are looking forit is Linux on a CD... /anders Nearby isn't nessesarily always the best choice for a mirror. If bandwidth is a problem with the mirrors (As it usually is in my experience), choose a mirror located where it's the middle of the night ;-). For examply, if I'm downloading at 5 o'clock CT, I might choose a mirror located in France, where it's midnight. Cheerio, ES -- Registered Linux user #: 366,862 Registered Linux computer #: 261,856 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] help on port forwarding
amalasingh wrote: Folks, I am a mdk10.1 user. I am trying to access my localhost by typing my WAN IP address. But it just goes to the Router firewall page. I checked my router settings(especially virtual server configuration) all set correctly. Also confirmed with the router vendor. The vendor says we need technical expertise to forward the local server. Is that true? Do I need to have some networking knowledge to do forward even my http local server?? I use just default ports(80) Please help me. Cheers Amala Singh Why companies insist on treating their customers as stupid idiots (Starband is aweful about this too annoying people, wish I could get DSL here) who couldn't care less about things like port forwarding is beyond me, but if you find a howto as to configure your router it should be intuitive enough. What type of router do you have? Each one is different, but often they have a http-based configuration applet built in, so you simple go to http://[routerLocalIP]; and it's all right there. From that point there should be stuff on google that'll tell you how to forward ports. -- Registered Linux user #: 366,862 Registered Linux computer #: 261,856 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Change Pass in PostGreSQL
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Saturday 18 December 2004 01:12 pm, Eric Scott wrote: Heya; Webmin isn't changing my password on PostGreSQL accounts when I tell it to... hit the save button... the works. It's just not being chipper. Any help? I don't necessarily need Webmin how would I change a user's password in PostGreSQL manually on my Mandrake 9.2 Server? Thanx, ES Hi Eric, 1. edit /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf change/remark the connection authentification method, and add this line: local all all trust -- it won't ask you any password anymore 2. restart postgresql: service postgresql restart 3. su postgres 4. psql -U postgres -d template1 5. alter user nameofuser with password 'thepassword'; 6. \q -- to quit 7. exit 8. restore the pg_hba.conf back to the original setting. 9. restart posgresql 10. you're clear to go :) Okay, sounded easy enough. I got around disabling the postgres account password by su-ing to Root then su-ing to postgres... and started up psql, which I'd never used before. It seems pretty simple... did ALTER USER [username] PASSWORD '[password]', but now what? Just quiting there apparently didn't apply the command I'd just run. The command-line prompt changed from ...=# to ...-# though, whatever that means. :-P Thanx in advance, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #: 366,862 Registered Linux computer #: 261,856 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mail server setup 9.2?
Okay, I tried this a while back with no success. Basically, I need a basic, step-by-step explanation of how to set up a sendmail server and courier-pop server on Mandrake 9.2, and how to add oodles of pop3 clients. I'm setting this up for a medium-large buisness, as they've had no success with their own Windows-based mail servers in front of their firewall ;-). Sendmail and Courier-IMAP-pop are installed and running. Thanx in advance, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #: 366,862 Registered Linux computer #: 261,856 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Burning problem
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 14:52:17 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when trying to burn ISOs to disk using K3b the disk always fails the md5 sum I have set the burning speed as low as it will go 8x but I still get the problem. I need a good copy of Mdk 10.1 Check here to see if you did get a good burn: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/BurningCDsFromISOs eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] hard drive thread
Can anyone point me to he hard drive thread we had awhile ago? I've searched the archives, but can't find it. It's the one where everyone piped in with their experiences with hard drives. Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Change Pass in PostGreSQL
Heya; Webmin isn't changing my password on PostGreSQL accounts when I tell it to... hit the save button... the works. It's just not being chipper. Any help? I don't necessarily need Webmin how would I change a user's password in PostGreSQL manually on my Mandrake 9.2 Server? Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #: 366,862 Registered Linux computer #: 261,856 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail
According to the 'Received:' trace, the message originated at: [220.244.219.186] linux-mandrake.com (220-244-219-186-qld.tpgi.com.au [220.244.219.186]) I have gotten 3-4 from the same IP range, all tpgi.com.au. I usually warn users but no one ever pay attention so I figured I would skip it this time. Yes Bryan, this is the ip address. I have been getting about 25 an hour. And then they stop for awhile, and then they come back. I'm thiking that they stop when wohever it is turns their machine off. I sent a message twice to tpgi to report it. I also sent a message to tpgi. And just now i got a rejection (or maybe a spoofed rejection) as if i had sent a mail from that ip address. I do get it at a different address that i don't use on mandrake lists, so it must be using the spam database as well. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux on the rise
JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 10:06:53 -0800 (PST) Thomas Wilkowski disseminated the following: I found this article interesting and thought it would be good to share. http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~33~2577377,00.html This inspired me to redo an old wallpaper I'd abandoned work on, maybe a little 'over the top', but hey, that's me! http://www.freeyourmachine.org/chewall.png Nice. To both the wallpaper and the article. Article's in my bookmarks, wallpaper is my desktop. Cheers, ES Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Manuals?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 Nov 2004 00:10, Scott Manning wrote: I am having more toruble than I thought with MDK10 and I was thinking that getting the box set with the manuals might be a big help. Does anyone have the box manuals? Are they very helpful or like most manuals these days refer you to the how-tos or mandrakeclub? Maybe the best thing is to get a Mandrake Club membership? When I first started using Mandrake I printed out Mandrake's online documentation. It took a little while but it was easy enough. I then took the printed material to Staples and had them bind them. They would only bind 200 pages in one binding so I ended up with 3 or 4 books but I'm pretty sure it cost me less than $10 US dollars to get them bound. Eric Jackson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Manuals?
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:30:37 +1000, Scott Manning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: eric jackson When I first started using Mandrake I printed out Mandrake's online documentation. The only on-line documentation is basicly the install manual... not the user manual... is that all there is? Thanks Scotty I bought a copy of the manual for 9.1. I just checked http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/fdoc.php3 . The docs for 10.0 are there. I checked the table of contents of the online documentation against the table of contents in my copy of the 9.1 docs. It seems to me that they are just about the same. In other words, it appears that the docs online are the same as the manual. If you are looking for something else, try usr/share/doc. I think The Linux Documentation Project Files (not Mandrake specific) comes with Mandrake, even when you download it. If you can't find them there, Google for the Project and you should be able to find it. Using Google you can often find docs for specific software. Eric Jackson -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 6:39 pm, Bill Mudry wrote: I have heard a lot of terms, but - what is a mobo?? Lol, motherboard. It can get even more confusing if you switch to a Mac list... then MB, Motherboard, Mobo, AND LB, LoBo, Logic Board are all used interchangeably ;-). Cheers, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5; KDE 3.2 configured to look alot like MacOS X). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world hasNO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 9:58 am, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: In fact, I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was Asus that was in the news recently for breaking the ethernet on their motherboards in a way that makes it only work with Windoze but not with Linux, and responding to complaints with we don't support Linux on our motherboards. I don't know about in the news, but I have an ASUS mobo in a server, and it's ethernet sure doesn't work with Linux. I have to use an ethernet PCI-card for networking. Pesky, but at least the integrated graphics-card hasn't been biased against 'real' software... I may not have ethernet on the mobo, but the graphics and sounds works. cheers, Scotti -- Sarki Gwaggo/Little Dude/Little Bear/Shorty/Dory/Sigma Dude/SigmaChi/Scotchz/Doorhelp2/Pigme/Erikimo/Neilleo/Scotti A.K.A Eric Registered Linux user #: 366862 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] M$ using pirated software
On Friday 19 November 2004 11:42 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 19 November 2004 10:16 pm, John Layt wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:07, Stephen Khn wrote: But now, since Ballmer the Bouncing Bimbo has gotten into IP legalaties to fight the GPL/OSS world, they better do something about the skeletons roving around in THEIR own closet... Heard their latest patent claim? They reckon they invented the boolean not equal operator... Somebody dig up Charles Boole and get him down to the Patent Office to school that examiner in elementary logic :-) http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFd=PG01 p =1u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htmlr=1f=Gl=50s1=%2220040230959%22.P GNR .OS=DN/20040230959RS=DN/20040230959 OK, to be fair, it's a particular implementation of ISNOT, but talk about chutzpah! careful they also hold the patent on chutzpah John. Money is a registered trademark of Microsoft, Incorporated. Chutzpah to them I say! What has microsoft ever given the world... without them the worst that would happen is everybody would use Mac OS until they found Linux and Mac is Unix based now so um nothings wrong with that, so who needs Microsoft? Cheers, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5; KDE 3.2 configured to look alot like MacOS X). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world hasNO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)
On Friday 19 November 2004 2:55 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 19 November 2004 21:18, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 19 Nov 2004 15:17, Eric Scott wrote: Am I supposed to define a mail.mydomain.org or something? I tried what I could find in the TWiki, the only thing that looked like it might be very useful to me was a dead link (Or Konqueror was just being pesky again). BTW, what's the Mandrake mail server setup wizard thingamaboper and how do I run it? Thanx, SigmaChi What was the dead link? We are still re-constructing, and if any links are not working we need to know about it. Anne If people are going to send you email you must have a domain name that resolves to your IP address. You either pay to register a domain name, or you could use a dynamic DNS service from someone like dyndns.org who will give you one for free. Once you have a domain name Postfix needs to know what it is. Then any mail Postfix revceives addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for example) gets passed to eric's local mailbox. derek Yeah, I have a domain straight to my IP, sipca.org. (It's a little pesky, because the organization I run the server has a Windows Domain network with the same name so at the moment they can't access www.sipca.org on the web because every time they do it finds their Windows Domain Controller and think's it's www.sipca.org... blasted Windows messed things up again) Anyway, I might be able to figure it out with google now, but while we're on the topic, how do I tell postfix that it's running for sipca.org? Via webmin, preferably, but I can handle a little config-file editing now and again... newbie though I be. Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5; KDE 3.2 configured to look alot like MacOS X). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world hasNO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)
In an earlier post I told how to set up a simple server using the Mandrake mail server Wizard, I tried finding that post in the archives, but it was overwhelming to search for it. Could you give me a brief summary? Supposedly I have Postfix, ProcMail, and Courrier-IMAP/POP3 installed... but I've got no clue what to do from here. (IMAP appears to be working... but my test-messages still aren't making it to my inbox) Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5; KDE 3.2 configured to look alot like MacOS X). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world hasNO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)
On Friday 19 November 2004 05:00, Eric Scott wrote: In an earlier post I told how to set up a simple server using the Mandrake mail server Wizard, I tried finding that post in the archives, but it was overwhelming to search for it. Could you give me a brief summary? Supposedly I have Postfix, ProcMail, and Courrier-IMAP/POP3 installed... but I've got no clue what to do from here. (IMAP appears to be working... but my test-messages still aren't making it to my inbox) Thanx, SigmaChi Am I supposed to define a mail.mydomain.org or something? I tried what I could find in the TWiki, the only thing that looked like it might be very useful to me was a dead link (Or Konqueror was just being pesky again). BTW, what's the Mandrake mail server setup wizard thingamaboper and how do I run it? Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5; KDE 3.2 configured to look alot like MacOS X). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world hasNO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 08:35, Rene Borchers wrote: Hi, I think you should have a look at the courier site http://www.courier-mta.org/intro.html it looks like it could be the solution to you problem. mandrake has: Name: courier-imap-pop Version : 2.1.2 Release : 1mdk Group : System/Servers Size: 66007Architecture: i586 Source RPM : courier-imap-2.1.2-1mdk.src.rpm Build Host: klama.mandrake.org Packager: Oden Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.courier-mta.org Summary : Courier-IMAP POP servers Description : This package contains the POP servers of the Courier-IMAP server suite. Name: courier-imap-pop Version : 2.1.2 Release : 1mdk Group : System/Servers Size: 66007Architecture: i586 Source RPM : courier-imap-2.1.2-1mdk.src.rpm Build Host: klama.mandrake.org Packager: Oden Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.courier-mta.org Summary : Courier-IMAP POP servers Description : This package contains the POP servers of the Courier-IMAP server suite. On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 17:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I shoulda done a little more research before posting; I realize now that Sendmail isn't what I need. Okay, so I need a POP3 server. Only a POP3 server; the corporation I'm setting this up for will have it's own SMTP server. Any recommendations for POP3 servers (Open-source, preferably)? Cheers, SigmaChi Okay, so I got the Courier POP3 server installed. Now what? Lol, I was raised on Mac, and have only been using Linux for a couple years... when there's no webmin module I'm stuck. Who/what/wen/where/how do I configure it? Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world hasNO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] What's on port 32768?
Yo; Me and my MDK 9.2 server are back... but it's not a tuffy on this string. This evening I noticed a connection from the internet to port 32768 on my server. What's this port used for? Can this be a security threat? I tried google, but all I found was something about some trojan peeps think they have running on that port :-S. Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world has NO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)
Okay, so I got the Courier POP3 server installed. Now what? Lol, I was raised on Mac, and have only been using Linux for a couple years... when there's no webmin module I'm stuck. Who/what/wen/where/how do I configure it? Thanx, SigmaChi Courier requires mail to be in Maildir directories, which is not the standard format for a Linux mail spool. In order to get it into Maildir format some MTA (Mail Transfer Agent needs to have put it there) Postfix can do that, as can Procmail. The alternative imap-2004 POP3 server uses standard mailspool files, but again, an MTA has to put the mail into the spool files.. There is a set up file for courier-imap in your /etc/courier folder, but really there is no change from default configuration needed. The POP3 server will expect to find the mail in a folder in each users home directory called ~/Maildir The inside of the Maildir folder has a special structure which is set up by an application called maildirmake++ All of this is described in the mailserver tutorial on my home page since courier-imap is what I use myself. However the imap-2004 POP3 server is easier to set up. There is no need to create special directory structures. However I am still not clear how you intend to get the mail into this mail server, since you said in a previous post that your client has a Windows SMTP server which he intends to retain. POP3 is a protocol for getting mail **out** of a server. How does it get **in** in the first place? derek I take it that, for example, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sends a message with his SMTP server to [EMAIL PROTECTED], Postfix or something recieves it, and plops it into my myaddy's ~/Maildir directory? Forgive me for my ignorance, but I have never set up an email server before :-P. So yeah, have I got the following right?: -I install/startup Courier and Postfix -I create a user for each email address that my client wants (I.E. [EMAIL PROTECTED]), with a ~/Maildir directory for each of them. -Your average Joe sends his message through his ISP's SMTP server to [EMAIL PROTECTED], Postfix grabs it, plops it in /home/Joanne/maildir, Joanne connects to the POP server, and takes it from their into outlook express or whatever. Thanx for your patience... doubtless my next post will have something to do with how to setup Postfix ;-). Cheers, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world hasNO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Digital camera Mandrake?
These days, however, almost all new (quality) cameras have the ability to be mounted as a USB portable drive, which the industry (or at least Canon) refers to as PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol). Are you able to mount canon cameras as removable drives? My powershot A80 works great with gphoto2, but was never able to get it to show up as a drive. thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?
On Sunday 14 November 2004 22:22, Carroll Grigsby wrote: BUT, (a) few users install Windows themselves, Perhaps not, but sooner or later they do reformat and reinstall -- sometimes frequently -- often at the suggestion of MS tech support. Perhaps 2000 and XP are better in this regard, but it has always been the standard fix for the Win9x series. 2000 and XP seem to be a little better in this case, but faar from perfect. PC Magizine still stresses that the only way to keep your computer relatively bug free... weather or not you're connected to the internet and have worms/viruses... is to reinstall at LEAST once a year. I tend to tinker so much with my systems that I reinstall ten times as often, sometimes leaving Windows completely off a system for six months until it's needed again. But back in the dark days when I was a Windows-only user that had never installed an OS, I used Windows XP straight for two years on a Pentium one box @ 233MHz. It ran fine at first, but by the time I finally upgraded my computer it took a minute and a half to open the start menu, with 50% of my memory totally free, and (supposedly) no viruses. I've never had such a problem with Linux' performace reducing with time, but it's commonplace in Windows. I expect no change in that respect with longhorn; rant I heard someplace that to fix this issue Windows would require a complete rewrite of large sections of their kernel... and since when did Microsoft care enouh about the world to make such a contribution to computer performance? Security? Sure! With security fixes you can do things like block competitive software from being installed because it's a security issue, but increase performance? How will that help them? They already have the market share they want. /rant Neway, that's my 2 cents. -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5), multi-booted with RedHat 8.0 (Kernel 2.4.18; can't get Fedora to work!) and Debian 3.0 (Kernel 2.2.20). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world hasNO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kernal not booting in 10.1
Yo; I've got 10.1 PPC, and am trying to install it on a PowerMac 7300/180. I'm trying to boot up w/ BootX to the kernal, which then launches the installer off CD, but with no luck. The mandrake icon appears in the upper left-hand corner, but everything else stalls and stays black, with none of those chipper kernal messages. I have Yellow Dog Linux installed on my only non-Mac partition. Could this be causing the problem? Should I delete yellow-dog and try it? Are there any parameters that I might pass to the kernal that might help? Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world has NO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?
On Thursday 11 November 2004 08:00, David Feldman wrote: I'm evaluating various Linux distros in order to recommend one to novice users, particularly Windows switchers. Mandrake has been recommended to me, especially since it can resize NTFS partitions. I downloaded 10.1 Community and tried to install but have been unable to do so. First I got a text-based installer instead of graphical, and the best I was able to achieve was a system that booted to a text login prompt instead of GNOME or KDE. Then I tried the low-res graphical install, but the best I was able to achieve there was that it would hang at the post-install configuration. Any thoughts? Also, hoping for some clarification: - How does 10.1 Community differ from 10.1 Official? - If 10.1 Official might work better for my purposes, is there any way to download it for eval purposes? - How does 10.1 Official differ from 10.1 Discovery? - How does 10.1 PPC relate to the various Intel versions? Mandrake would definately be one of the top ones for novice users, in my experience. I can sympathize with your installation problems, however, though I've never had the same with Linux. I had similar problems installing RedHat 8 on a certain box, but on others it installs flawlessly. I've had better luck with Mandrake overall. However, though it's a bit uncou for me to recommend it on a Mandrake list, for brand-new Linux users coming over from Windows I'd recommend SuSE. I haven't tried Mandrake 10 yet, so I don't know if it's easier than SuSE or not, but SuSE is definately one of the easiest to find your way around when fresh from the Windows world. Mandrake is a close second though, next being maybe Fedora, but I haven't tried all that many distros myself, so I'm not a real authority. Whatever you do don't try plopping a newbie in Debian. Nothing against Debian, I like Debian, all 14 discs of Debian, but a newbie is liable to give up and never touch Linux again for ten years before he even makes it past the base system installation (Okay, maybe a little exageration, but still, there's a point) I recently got a friend started on Linux and burned him copies of Mandrake 9.2 and SuSE 9.1. Once I'd told him how to get the BIOS set to boot off CD, he had little trouble installing, and he'd never installed an OS before :-P. Mandrake might be better if you want them to get an idea of how vast the open source community is, or if they plan on running a server; to a Windows user 3 discs with thousands of programs seems impossibly huge. The only ISO's available for download from SuSE are for the Personal addition, which basically contains media, IM, web, and office software for a home system, which is still an amazingly large amount of software to a newbie. That's my two cents; Cheers, SigmaChi PS: I might add that, though smaller in volume, I've found this Mandrake list much more helpfull and prompt on response than the higher-volume SuSE list. -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?
It's supposed to be equivalent to 10.1 x86 download edition. Is that the Community or the Official? Basically official, except PPC is not a supported platform, so you probably won't see it being referred to as an official edition anywhere. The PPC port was a community driven project, not by Mandrakesoft, the company. I haven't had much luck on getting MDK 10.1 PPC to work on my ol' PowerMac 7300/180 (Kernel freezes practically before it boots), but from what I've seen it seems like a good OS overall (Seems more lucrative than YellowDog, the Fedora-based port to Mac). I plan on getting an iBook here pretty soon... the first thing I'll do is wipe the drive and dual-boot with OS X MDK 10 :-P. Yeah, so I administer an x86 Linux server in real life but who says I can't have a little fun with my Mac toys now and again! I'd love to see Mandrake's take on the GNOME desktop. Whelp I prefer KDE. Just make sure that you get something using something like the Crystal icon theme! I know that it doesn't do much for productivity, but the only way to really get to love and admire your Linux system is to give it a spiffy desktop environment! :-P. I run KDE with the Crystal SVG icon set and the Keramik theme. and luv it. Beats the dull, practically 8-bit Windows XP looks any day. (Okay, so I'm obsessed, what can I say? I like my Linux :-D) Cheers, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5), multi-booted with RedHat 8.0 (Kernel 2.4.18; can't get Fedora to work!) and Debian 3.0 (Kernel 2.2.20). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world hasNO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Netbios-ssn connections?
Yo; Once again, another question to be applied on my Mandrake 9.2 server box, which you're probably starting to become friends with. I leave KDE System Guard open at times on my SuSE box monitoring the Mandrake server remotely. I've noticed that a TCP connection opens occasionally, connected to from hosts all around the world (China, UK, u-name-it) to a netbios-ssn socket. What's happening here? What's netbios-ssn? All I'm running is a website for a local buisness at the moment... I can't imagine why peeps from China and the UK would want to access this server... are these crackers? Do I have a clue what I'm talking about? Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5), multi-booted with RedHat 8.0 (Kernel 2.4.18; can't get Fedora to work!) and Debian 3.0 (Kernel 2.2.20). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world has NO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Memory filling up on 9.2?
Yo; I've got a Mandrake 9.2 box that I run 24/7 as a http/pop3/ftp server. As time passes the available memory steadily goes down. For example: I rebooted it yesterday morning and KDE System Guard told me it had ~170 MB of free memory. Now KDE System Guard tells me it has ~50 MB of free memory... any clues as to what's filling it up? Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5), multi-booted with RedHat 8.0 (Kernel 2.4.18; can't get Fedora to work!) and Debian 3.0 (Kernel 2.2.20). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world has NO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 Move CD?
I don't believe so. I can't get it to work right one my comp (Once I realized what it was I had to tinker with it ;-) ), or rather I can't get X to work, because my monitor is... um well lets just say it never works with automatic setups. Anyway, I think the idea behind mdkMove is that you can keep your operating system on CD, and your files and settings on a USB drive or whatever, and use your stuff as a guest on other peep's comps without altering they're comp any. And yeah, a great way to try out linux without killing your old OS too. ;-) That's my two cents; SigmaChi On Tuesday 09 November 2004 23:25, Bill Mudry wrote: At 10:14 PM 11/9/04 -0500, you wrote: On Tuesday 09 November 2004 08:42 pm, Eric Scott wrote: Yo; I'm burning 9.2 discs for a friend, and I've got a disk labelled Mandrake 9.2 Move CD. Is this important or worth burning? He's brand new to Linux, I'll actually probably start him with SuSE 'fore MDK 9.2, it seems more Windows-user-friendly. (I dunno 'bout MDK 10, it's not done downloading ;-)) Thanx, SigmaChi Mandrake Move 9.2 is a bootable cd that will allow him to run Mandrake 9.2 without installing it. A Move based on 10.0 was recently reloeased which will have more up to date packages. This is an excellent way to try it before installing it. Sounds like an easy way to demonstrate Linux some on a friend's computer without actually having to partition and install it. Does it modify the target computer any? Bill Mudry -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.1 PPC?
Yo; I just downloaded Mandrake 10.1 PPC and am trying to install it on my PowerMac 7300/180. It seems chipper; I've got Yellow Dog on it and want to try Mandrake. BootX is configured with the ramdisk and kernal specified in the documentation for the install... it seems chipper here, kills MacOS when I click Linux, blacks out the screen, the Mandrake logo appears in the upper left-hand corner and.. nothing. Not a burp, not a bang. Frozen. And help? SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Memory clog on 9.2?
Yo; I've got a Mandrake 9.2 box that I use as a web server. On my SuSE box at home I leave KDE system guard open 24/7 connected to the server via ssh, all that fun stuff. I've noticed that as the server is on for long periods of time, the ammount of free memory goes down, at roughly 3MB/hour. What would be filling it up? I wouldn't give it much though, 'cept this is a server, and at this rate two days of up time and I'm spilling over into SWAP, which would slow it down too much for my liking. Any help? Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Starband on Linux?
Yo; I've got Starband's basic satellite internet package/modem/dish/whatever. The don't officially support Linux with this hardware and have taken great pains to create their own protocal to make sure that you have to have a Windows boxconnected to their modem. Neway, anybody know of an open-source hack that'll let me use this modem from Linux and trash my old Windows router? Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! Not only am I a Linux freak, Mac-lover, and Microsoft-hater, but I'm a Christian as well. To risk using an un-meaningful cliche: Jesus has changed my life for the better! He's my best friend and talking to Him and knowing that He's helping me is what lets me deal with stress with ease. I'm not happy-go lucky, I just know that with God's help I can handle it. My faith is based on facts too. Don't believe me? Go to www.messengersofchrist.cjb.net to find out more (If it's ever up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Faster mirrors?
I'm quite unimpressed with the speed I'm getting from the mirrors for Mandrake 10.0 Official via FTP. Anybody know of a particularly good mirror? Or a bittorrent/jigbo download like there is for Debian? I tried to download 10 earlier with no success (20KB/s download didn't cut it for me), and I'm now downloading the testing version of Debian to tinker with instead (Gettin' my fulll bandwidth from them, via FTP too). More of a comment than a question, but yeah. Cheers, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5). Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] TCP logging?
Yo peeps; I'm trying to set up some simple TCP connection's logging on my Mandrake 9.2 box. Is there a simple script or something I can write and execute that will do something like execute date html_logs/ssh.log netstat -a | grep tcp html_logs/ssh.log every ten seconds or so? I'm sure there are better alternatives to logging this, if you know any let me know. Thanx SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 9.2 Move CD?
Yo; I'm burning 9.2 discs for a friend, and I've got a disk labelled Mandrake 9.2 Move CD. Is this important or worth burning? He's brand new to Linux, I'll actually probably start him with SuSE 'fore MDK 9.2, it seems more Windows-user-friendly. (I dunno 'bout MDK 10, it's not done downloading ;-)) Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Download HTTP?
Yo; does anybody know where I can download Mandrake 10.1 PPC via http instead of FTP? On the FTP mirrors I'm getting an average of about 9KB/s. That just won't do when download 2100MB of data. My satellite broadband has roughly a 600k down/4k up connection... .Yes, I said four up, not forty. I don't know if this would slow down an FTP connection, it doesn't make sense to me, but the point is it's download really really slow. Anyway, I'd like to try http or something instead of ftp, and helpers? -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
