Ivan Trail wrote:
Hello,
Ivan,
More bpp means more memory
needed right? If you put pencil to paper you get 2,621,440 megabytes for the
1280x1024 resolution in 16bpp definition. Well within the 4M memory capacity.
You need to read the Video-Timings HOWTO to get the real formula. The
Joseph,
Look up the su and kdesu commands. It's a good idea to set up a
characteristic theme for user root. Then when you, as a normal user, su
and become root, the windows will come up in those colours to remind
you.
iTOOL wrote:
I cannot run linuxconf, nor can I peruse the /var/log
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Sean Armstrong wrote:
Sorry if this message is off topic. I was wondering if it was possible to
install the bare minimum onto a laptop with floppies, since this is the only
drive I have to use on an install. If this is possible, what files do I need
for this and if there
At risk of prolonging this agony further, I too have been unable to get a
cd burn with my new Ver 7.0-2 install. I have an LG CED 8042B 4x4x24 IDE
cd rw, which the install correctly identified. The install also faked some
sort of IDE-SCSI translation so the system "thinks" this is a SCSI drive.
I have used su during some of my configuration, so I'm familiar with it.
However, it doesn't really answer my question on how to change (and have
them take effect) user permissions for a user, to grant him the SuperUser
access.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
From: Trevor Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] cdrecord problem with Mdk 7.0
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:50:55 +1100
[snip]
page file size being wrong. xcdroast identifies the cd-rw as a scsi
device. Is this necessary, or can the
I saw this page offered to someone else asking the same question. Hope
it helps.
http://www.mindspring.com/~john_mcl/adding_fonts.html
God Bless,
Sam
Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack
http://www.wcc.net/~peacemkr/linuxindex.html
NOT an IE friendly site!
"Istvan B." wrote:
I hev
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, you wrote:
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, you wrote:
If I make changes to the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files, do I have to
rebbot for these changes to take effect or is there a service (such as
INETD) that I need to kill and re-start?
cd /etc/sysconfig/
network restart
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Hello,
I have recently attained a MAG 570FD monitor to use with my laptop. I can't
seem to use the highest definition for the monitor. For instance, I can get
the 1280x1024 resolution to work on 8 bits-per-pixel (bpp) but it will only do
1024x768 with16bpp
- Original Message -
From: Istvan B. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 7:06 AM
Subject: [expert] Adding ttf fonts
I hev just signed up to this list, although I've been using
Mandrake for about 8 months now (RedHat before), so
- Original Message -
From: Cajus Pollmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 5:00 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Floppy install???
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Sean Armstrong wrote:
Sorry if this message is off topic. I was wondering if it was possible to
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 11:50:55PM +1100, Trevor Farrell wrote:
| At risk of prolonging this agony further, I too have been unable to get a
| cd burn with my new Ver 7.0-2 install. I have an LG CED 8042B 4x4x24 IDE
| cd rw, which the install correctly identified. The install also faked some
|
Please check out the following URL: It is a SxS that I wrote. Axalon, when
will Mandrake incorporate the Andre Hedrick patch into the default MDK
kernel and the default MDK kernel source?
http://users.nf/linux/addenda6.htm
Some other good links are:
http://users.nf/linux/addenda21.htm
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote:
We're thinking of moving the majority of our customers' mail to linux, and
a few issues have come up:
This email comes to you from a mandrake box's sendmail :)
1)How secure is sendmail 8.6.9 ? What are the main things we need to do to
secure our public
I have 2 computers .
1: A mandrake 7.0 new install, 256 meg ram Ethernet Card ( System at
Work) (T-1 Line)
2: A windows 2000 box at home which also has 256 meg ram 600 Mhz
(Modem Line For Kids)
Is it possible that system 1 be connected to system 2 . So system 2
can benifuit from the work
"Istvan B." wrote:
I hev just signed up to this list, although I've been using
Mandrake for about 8 months now (RedHat before), so I'm not
really sure if this is an already over-discussed issue (I could
imagine it to be). I've also sent this message to both expert and
newbie, because I
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote:
2) Worst case scenario is that our public facing linux box gets hacked, and
taken down completely - what's the best way of backing this up to ensure
minimum downtime - we'd ideally like to have a 'backup' linux box that
mirrors itself from the main one,
Yes it is possible if you use IP masquarding and such.
-Al
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 08:20:24PM +1100, Ron Stodden wrote:
Ivan Trail wrote:
More bpp means more memory
needed right? If you put pencil to paper you get 2,621,440 megabytes for the
1280x1024 resolution in 16bpp definition. Well within the 4M memory capacity.
You need to read the
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Try the following URL:
http://www.toms.net/rb/
You could also plug your laptop into a network and run the installation from
a network.
I ran into a situation this weekend where Tom's root/boot
disk might have helped... IF it supports SCSI. DOES Tom's
I have 2 computers .
1: A mandrake 7.0 new install, 256 meg ram Ethernet Card ( System at
Work) (T-1 Line)
2: A windows 2000 box at home which also has 256 meg ram 600 Mhz
(Modem Line For Kids)
Is it possible that system 1 be connected to system 2 . So system 2
can
- Original Message -
From: WH Bouterse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 1:29 PM
Subject: [expert] ghostscript-5.50-4mdk
I recently installed the cooker ghostscriptmdk rpms
They seem to have working support for even more
printers including
- Original Message -
From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Floppy install???
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Try the following URL:
http://www.toms.net/rb/
You could also plug your laptop
Al Smith wrote:
Yes it is possible if you use IP masquarding and such.
-Al
I will nedd 2 nic .
so in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local
ipchains -P foward DENY
ipcaahains -A foward -i eth1 -j MASQ
echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_foward
Sean Armstrong wrote:
Sorry if this message is off topic. I was wondering if it was possible to install the bare minimum onto a laptop with floppies, since this is the only drive I have to use on an install. If this is possible, what files do I need for this and if there is a good info page to
question:
I have an Hp-Envizex xterminal , whih is connected to our network.
The Xtermina is used to nfs to my linux box.
Since nfs is so slow.
could I install anothe nic into my linux box , and ipfowar to my
Xterminal.
regards.
How do you get ghostscript to work? I've been trying to print with my 600c
for weeks. I don't know how to set my printer up to use ghostscript when I
go to print in an application.
- Original Message -
From: WH Bouterse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February
Title: Setting up FTP server
I am a newbie to the linux world and would like to set up Linux Mandrake 7.02 as an FTP server. I would like to allow anonymous and user logins.
I had the built in FTP server running last night but it would not allow for the anonymous logins and when I
When my Linux box boots up I have it go directly into X, I then have to log
on to get a KDE desktop, and run any application programs in the autostart
folder ( which display status information on the VDU ).
Question
Is it possible so that after boot, it logs on itself as some user
Hello Group,
Was wondering if anyone out there is running setiathome on thier Mandrake
system?
If so which file do I need to download and how do you set it up. Oh I'm
running
Mandrake 7.0-2. I found a way to clear rewriteable cd's also cange window
managers
to blackbox and run genome toaster from
Trevor Farrell wrote:
At risk of prolonging this agony further, I too have been unable to get a
cd burn with my new Ver 7.0-2 install. I have an LG CED 8042B 4x4x24 IDE
cd rw, which the install correctly identified. The install also faked some
sort of IDE-SCSI translation so the system
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote:
How do you get ghostscript to work? I've been trying to print with my 600c
for weeks. I don't know how to set my printer up to use ghostscript when I
go to print in an application.
An intelligent filter chooser script sets up the exact path of filtration
- Original Message -
From: Sergio P. Korlowsky
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Floppy install???
Sean Armstrong wrote:
Sorry if this message is off topic. I was wondering if it was possible to
install the bare minimum onto a
Joe Sheble wrote:
I have used su during some of my configuration, so I'm familiar with it.
However, it doesn't really answer my question on how to change (and have
them take effect) user permissions for a user, to grant him the SuperUser
access.
I am aghast. What you set out is exactly
iTOOL wrote:
If I make changes to the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files, do I have to
rebbot for these changes to take effect or is there a service (such as
INETD) that I need to kill and re-start?
thanx
Joseph E. Sheble
a.k.a. Wizaerd
Wizaerd's Realm
http://www.wizaerd.com
Kevin Venkiteswaran wrote:
I know, I know, Java on Netscape for Unix bites. BUT, say I wanted to
test it out. I've uninstalled the 4.70 NS files (both common and
communicator) from my system and installed the tarball from Netscape of
the 128-bit version. Call me silly, but if I'm
I downloaded the linux glib version and installed in my home directory and
pointed a startup script to it within that diectory upon system startup...
dave
On
Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote: Hello Group,
Was wondering if anyone out there is running setiathome on thier Mandrake
system?
If so
I have used the glibc_2.x and it works well. I have two linux boxes running
it.
Lyle
-Original Message-
From: Ralph | byte-runner | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 5:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] setiathome
Hello Group,
Was wondering if
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Hello Group,
Was wondering if anyone out there is running setiathome on thier Mandrake
system?
If so which file do I need to download and how do you set it up. Oh I'm
running
If you have a real Intel processor use i686-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1 or
- Original Message -
From: Ralph | byte-runner | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 6:35 PM
Subject: [expert] setiathome
Hello Group,
Was wondering if anyone out there is running setiathome on thier Mandrake
system?
If so which file do I need
I believe that Slackware is distributed in "Disk Sets".
The newer one comes on CD, but is or should still be
broken down into individual disk sets comprised of
a stack of 1.44's.
Example, the base system including the kernel, login
etc. is disk set A, and used to be about 4 floppies.
You load
I have downloaded the vertion you said how do you get it to run??nerwbie
here sorry
- Original Message -
From: "Alex V Flinsch" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] setiathome
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Hello
iTOOL wrote:
If I make changes to the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files, do I have to
rebbot for these changes to take effect or is there a service (such as
INETD) that I need to kill and re-start?
Myles Vredenburg answered:
No need to restart any daemons or reboot for the changes to
I downloaded and installed ghostscipt 6.0 wiht ML7.02 and tried to set up my Epson
Stylus 860 color printer. I checked the printer database by G. Taylor and found both
stc2 and stc2_h are working for
this printer. I did make the printer print postscript files by using PDQ (and xpdq).
However,
Mandrake 7.0-2. I found a way to clear rewriteable cd's also cange window
managers
to blackbox and run genome toaster from there works great for me.
I really don't want my genome toasted :)
funny very funny!
Hello All!!
I have don tons and tons and tons of linux installs (from Slackware to
RH and now LM) on local IDE drives (hda/hdb etc..)
I am currently seeking info on how to get LM installed on a 9gb SCSI
drive.
I am able to boot the cdrom, load my scsi drive, see my scsi disks
install the os
to
Be aware Slackware is BSD-flavored Linux and not Sys-V
flavored Linux like RedHat/Mandrake/SuSE. If you do
not know what I am talking about, you will soon find
out... hehehehehehe. :-)
Bare with my ignorance for a minute, what is the difference?
Thanx,
SA
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote:
| Ron,
|
| Just install as follows. (you can vary it after the swap
| and / partitions.)
|
| sda1 - swap, 110M.
| sda2 - / (root) 400M
| sda3 - /usr 3000M
| sda4 - extended partion for remainder of hd
| sda5 - /home (whatever amount)
| sda6 - /opt (same as above)
Check out the howto (which unfortunately doesn't seem to be in the
Mandrake 7.0 installation).
And the ansser is yes, that burns it.
To copy, you can just extract the bits with
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=image-file
and then re-burn them with
cdrecord dev=0,0 speed=4 image-file
[In
You would probably have more luck if you set your run-level down to 3
to inhibit kdm/xdm. Then you should be able to just "su" to whomever
at the end of rc.local and "startx" . . . . or, perhaps better, set up
a "startuser" script that is SUID to the desired user and have *that*
do a startx.
I'm not sure how clear this is yet, so I hope this clarifies:
First, the reason that you aren't supposed to run as root is because
root has all the priviliges necessary to completely destroy your
system. Even if you could grant another user those same privileges
(and you can't; that's
I have 2 computers .
1: A mandrake 7.0 new install, 256 meg ram Ethernet Card ( System at
Work) (T-1 Line)
2: A windows 2000 box at home which also has 256 meg ram 600 Mhz
(Modem Line For Kids)
Is it possible that system 1 be connected to system 2 . So system 2
can benifuit from
| Question
|
| Is it possible so that after boot, it logs on
itself as some user (not root!)
| then goes into X and KDE then starts the
application programs running without
| someone having to log it in with a username and
password.
|
If the application to be executed
run
setiathome --help
to determine which switches you need..
then run it with those switches.
On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, you wrote:
I have downloaded the vertion you said how do you get it to run??nerwbie
here sorry
- Original Message -
From: "Alex V Flinsch" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Hi,
I started a new channel on openprojects called #Linux-Mandrake.
A channel were all us Linux-Mandrake enthusiasts can chat about the
latest cooker or how kernel 2.4 is going to "sweet" and xfree86
4.0 will make use of that ge force card you got, and so we can help out
some new people
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