Due to some request (see Mandrakeforum article) and the fact that I want
to learn a bit of perl, I am looking at making a wizard for setting up
OpenLDAP.
At present, I am just aiming at the basics:
1)Setup of basic openldap config stuff (basedn, rootdn and rootpw) using
all reasonable schemas
I haven't had the opportunity to try any 9.0 prereleases, so please forgive me
if my suggestions have already been implemented. These suggestions are based on
8.2.
Firstly, the only editor I could find when booted to the rescue CD is VIM. I
think that's a big mistake. Most people (especially
On 02 Aug 2002 12:09:16 +0200, Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thirdly, would it be possible to make the rescue disc and installation
kernels to automatically detect software RAID from superblocks? That would
make installation and
Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thirdly, would it be possible to make the rescue disc and installation kernels
to automatically detect software RAID from superblocks? That would make
installation and configuration MUCH easier.
hard to do. Hardware raid must be built-in the
Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
How is it done at install? From what I understand, it is DiskDrake that does the
detection instead of the kernel (good work there). If that can be made to work
with the rescue disc that would be cool. As a general rule, a user doesn't care
On Fri, 02 Aug, at 16:40:22 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Secondly, can the rescue disc please include cfdisk instead (or in addition to)
fdisk? Cfdisk is far easier to understand and use. I haven't used the rescue
disc in a while, so sorry if cfdisk is already there.
I
Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Firstly, the only editor I could find when booted to the rescue CD is VIM. I
think that's a big mistake. Most people (especially newbies) don't understand
VIM, and nor do they want to. For these people I think Jed would be the best
choice, since
Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Some things I would like to see in the installer...
1) When you select development as an option, all devel packages get
installed by default. It is a royal pain in the ass to have to go back and
find devel packages later on when you are trying to get a
le mer 21-11-2001 à 04:35, Alan a écrit :
Some things I would like to see in the installer...
1) When you select development as an option, all devel packages get
installed by default. It is a royal pain in the ass to have to go back and
find devel packages later on when you are trying
On Wednesday 21 November 2001 04:38, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Some things I would like to see in the installer...
1) When you select development as an option, all devel packages get
installed by default. It is a royal pain in the ass to have to go back
Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
1) When you select development as an option, all devel packages get
installed by default. It is a royal pain in the ass to have to go back
and find devel packages later on when you are trying to get a piece of
code to build.
No, development
On Wednesday 21 November 2001 13:20, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
1) When you select development as an option, all devel packages get
installed by default. It is a royal pain in the ass to have to go
back and find devel packages later on when
Some things I would like to see in the installer...
1) When you select development as an option, all devel packages get
installed by default. It is a royal pain in the ass to have to go back and
find devel packages later on when you are trying to get a piece of code to
build.
2) Something
le jeu 08-11-2001 at 23:31 Todd Lyons a écrit :
Matias Griese wrote on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:22:04PM +0200 :
XMMS: The must have X multimedia system -- ?!?
The only thing misleading there is the capitalization. I would suggest:
XMMS: The X MultiMedia System mp3/ogg player
I'm a
On Fridayen den 9 November 2001 14.36, Fabrice FACORAT wrote:
le jeu 08-11-2001 at 23:31 Todd Lyons a écrit :
Matias Griese wrote on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:22:04PM +0200 :
XMMS: The must have X multimedia system -- ?!?
The only thing misleading there is the capitalization. I would
le jeu 08-11-2001 at 22:26 Matias Griese a écrit :
On 7 Nov 2001, Fabrice FACORAT wrote:
there should be option to choose their own language and keyboard layout
a peer user localdrake ?
Yes, some kind of My Control Center.
Another such a configuration could be choosing the size of the
le ven 09-11-2001 at 08:43 Matias Griese a écrit :
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Tom Badran wrote:
POSTIN: /usr/sbin/mimedb add --priority=5 mozilla text/html
POSTUN: /usr/sbin/mimedb del mozilla
That sounds like a great solution. Do kde and gnome both use this for mime
types? Also, you have to be
Yura Gusev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Todd Lyons wrote:
Matias Griese wrote on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:22:04PM +0200 :
XMMS: The must have X multimedia system -- ?!?
The only thing misleading there is the capitalization. I would suggest:
XMMS: The X
What I would like to see is support for GPIB IEE488, this has a real
foot hold on MS.
At the moment apps are high cost and limited to a few companies.
There was some interest and some drivers written for 2.0 kernels by some
Germans, but that seems to have died.
Its something which would push
le ven 09-11-2001 at 14:50 Oden Eriksson a écrit :
On Fridayen den 9 November 2001 14.36, Fabrice FACORAT wrote:
le jeu 08-11-2001 at 23:31 Todd Lyons a écrit :
Matias Griese wrote on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:22:04PM +0200 :
XMMS: The must have X multimedia system -- ?!?
The only
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 3:20 PM
Subject: [Cooker] Suggestions for upcoming Mandrake
What I would like to see is support for GPIB IEE488, this has a real
foot hold on MS.
At the moment apps are high cost and limited to a few companies.
There was some interest
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 08:26, you wrote:
Yes, but what I meant with one place was to make some kind of
My Control Center, where the user could easily find everything
without searching for an hour or two..
shortcuts to different configuration applications like Gnome Control
Center, Print
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 18:43, you wrote:
No. Nobody uses a central database for mime type handlers, because there
isn't any. Even applications inside Gnome/KDE have their own mime
files..:( But I would like this to change and the only thing towards
working pick a file and choose the program to
On Friday 09 November 2001 17:36, you wrote:
Sounds like a great idea as I love GPIB/HPIB (memories) sigh !!
:-) There is so much gear out there that uses this and for
embedded linux it could open many possibilites (anybody remeber
the commodore machines or the HP/80)
Heh! My first
On 7 Nov 2001, Fabrice FACORAT wrote:
what about a brain storming about that ?
We point out the description that we find incorrect or unclear and
propose an alternative.
After people give their opinion and if there's no major problem we adopt
it.
I think that it's too much work. Better idea
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, John Haywood wrote:
four file browsers (konqueror, gmc, XWC, mc), six browsers (konqueror,
Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, links, lynx) and a raft of possible helper apps
(just look at PostScript viewers...)
I know. But if Mandrake would offer this kind of auto-MIME feature
for
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Why? There are easier ways to do the same:
POSTIN: /usr/sbin/mimedb add --priority=5 mozilla text/html
POSTUN: /usr/sbin/mimedb del mozilla
(perhaps we should first look if the executable exists?)
mimedb would be able to add and remove
Matias Griese wrote on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:22:04PM +0200 :
XMMS: The must have X multimedia system -- ?!?
The only thing misleading there is the capitalization. I would suggest:
XMMS: The X MultiMedia System mp3/ogg player
--
tlyons at mandrakesoft dot com
On 7 Nov 2001, Fabrice FACORAT wrote:
there should be option to choose their own language and keyboard layout
a peer user localdrake ?
Yes, some kind of My Control Center.
Another such a configuration could be choosing the size of the
desktop (screen resolution).
At one time there's only
On 7 Nov 2001, Fabrice FACORAT wrote:
So it's in fact a central mime type definition. Unfortunately we have 2
desktop and until they manage to use some common config files we have to
deal with this.
True. But as long as we have many config files, we could keep
our own database (configuration
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Todd Lyons wrote:
Matias Griese wrote on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:22:04PM +0200 :
XMMS: The must have X multimedia system -- ?!?
The only thing misleading there is the capitalization. I would suggest:
XMMS: The X MultiMedia System mp3/ogg player
XMMS is a multimedia
Yura Gusev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Todd Lyons wrote:
Matias Griese wrote on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:22:04PM +0200 :
XMMS: The must have X multimedia system -- ?!?
The only thing misleading there is the capitalization. I would suggest:
XMMS: The X
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Tom Badran wrote:
POSTIN: /usr/sbin/mimedb add --priority=5 mozilla text/html
POSTUN: /usr/sbin/mimedb del mozilla
That sounds like a great solution. Do kde and gnome both use this for mime
types? Also, you have to be careful with the del in case the item being
No. Nobody
Hi ,
SUN Java 2 JDK 1.3
as already reach the release state
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, you wrote:
Hello,
Some suggestions for new softwares in contrib (or main distro) for
next release of
the Mandrake Distro ( 7.2 ).
Some of these products are still beta products but some of them may
Meir Faraj wrote:
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, you wrote:
Also sprach Geoffrey Lee :
Can't remember which on but there is a jdk on the commercial disk.
Sun jdk1.2.2
so you've to put the 1.3 now ;-)
++
can we desist with the sprach crap and speaky english!
--
Michael Powell PhD wrote:
can we desist with the sprach crap and speaky english!
--
That's right everyone... Make sure you "speaky" english... LOL. My dear
"doctor" will you please open up that closed little mind of yours and
understand that not everyone speaks or rather "speakys" English
Hello,
Some suggestions for new softwares in contrib (or main distro) for
next release of
the Mandrake Distro ( 7.2 ).
Some of these products are still beta products but some of them may
reach a release
state by the time the next Mdk distro (7.2) reaches beta testing
and as long as they
are in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederic Soulier) writes:
Hello,
Some suggestions for new softwares in contrib (or main distro) for
next release of
the Mandrake Distro ( 7.2 ).
Some of these products are still beta products but some of them may
reach a release
state by the time the next Mdk distro
Yo,
Answering those that I know.
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 12:21:12PM +0100, Frederic Soulier wrote:
Hello,
Some suggestions for new softwares in contrib (or main distro) for
next release of
the Mandrake Distro ( 7.2 ).
Some of these products are still beta products but some of them may
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Bluefish (Html editor)
web site: http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/
Already in 7.2
Cool!
* IBM Java 2 JDK 1.3
** NOT OPEN SOURCE BUT SHOULD BE OK TO INCLUDE IT IN CONTRIB
(?) **
web site: http://www.ibm.com/java/jdk/download/index.html
During the bombing raid of Fri, 13 Oct 2000 12:21:12 +0100, somebody
heard Frederic Soulier mumble in fear:
Hello,
Some suggestions for new softwares in contrib (or main distro) for
next release of
the Mandrake Distro ( 7.2 ).
Some of these products are still beta products but
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:37:25AM -0500, Vox wrote:
If we are adding more mail clients, I'd like to nominate Pronto!
It's in contrib (v2.0.1 IIRC), as well as cscmail. I tried to compile the
new versions, but cannot get them to work. Starting cscmail/pronto just
gives me:
Hi again...
I just saw that galeon 0.7.3 is out and I'd love to see it in cooker.
That would also require mozilla M17 to be included... (or at least gecko)
//Snaggen, thinks that galeon it a very promising browser...
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mattias Eriksson) writes:
Hi again...
I just saw that galeon 0.7.3 is out and I'd love to see it in cooker.
That would also require mozilla M17 to be included... (or at least gecko)
It's in progress :))
--
Frédéric Crozat
MandrakeSoft
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 24 August, 2000 Frederic Crozat wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mattias Eriksson) writes:
Hi again...
I just saw that galeon 0.7.3 is out and I'd love to see it in cooker.
That would also require mozilla M17 to be included... (or at least gecko)
"Soulier, Frederic P" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello,
May be off topic, if so pls ignore my comments ;-)
of course not!
A. Mdk 7.0 ISDN card setup
I am using an ISDN card Elsa QuickStep 1000 Pro PCI,
the card does not work after installation of Mdk7
Bill Lea Greenwood wrote:
Hey Pixel- I would appreciate that you didn't answer my mails anymore.
Do you really think you know everything?? Many of us are not programmers,
but know a great deal about beta testing, as well as other things in life.
I was under the assumption that
1) Would it be possible to divide up the RPMs to the 2 different
directories (RPMS vs. RPMS2) for the two different CDs on all the Cooker
mirror sites? This would be a BIG HELP in keeping them up to date.
2) A MakeBootDisk button on the DrakConfig control panel would be handy.
3) On the
"Bill Greenwood" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1) Would it be possible to divide up the RPMs to the 2 different
directories (RPMS vs. RPMS2) for the two different CDs on all the Cooker
mirror sites? This would be a BIG HELP in keeping them up to date.
the list is (now) in
1) Would it be possible to divide up the RPMs to the 2 different
directories (RPMS vs. RPMS2) for the two different CDs on all the Cooker
mirror sites? This would be a BIG HELP in keeping them up to date.
the list is (now) in Mandrake/base/rpmslist
Would it be possible now then to have
Hey Pixel- I would appreciate that you didn't answer my mails anymore.
Do you really think you know everything?? Many of us are not programmers,
but know a great deal about beta testing, as well as other things in life.
I was under the assumption that Mandrake wanted this all tested, and
I have a number of suggestions and/or complaints about the Mandrake 7.0
distribution.
I asked on the "expert" list and it was suggested that this was the
most appropriate forum.
However, before I started flooding this list with a series of messages,
I wanted to see if the actuual denizens of
Ok, I tried Mandrake for the first time recently, and ran into a number
of issues that I thought might be of interest to the Mandrake
developers in the hopes that they will help improve future
disttributions of Mandrake.
BACKGROUND:
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I've been using Unix since 1982, and Linux
-HOWTO.
Don Head
Linux Mentor
Wave Technologies
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-Original Message-
From: Jason Snyder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 9:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Cooker
While using a cable modem at home and Mandrake 6.1 I noticed a few
things that I think could use a change.
1. The Installer for Mandrake 6.1 seems to be optimized for a machine
that is on a private network and the default settings leave a bunch of
potentially dangerous services going (like ftpd
Jason Snyder wrote:
segment I feel much more comfortable using something like SSH2 to
transmit passwords over the Internet. With what I have heard about
openssh 1.x and ssh 1.x, I don't feel all that comfortable using them.
OpenSSH is actually fairly good about fixing problems... although
I
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