What about mySQL? Seems pretty popular. There's also
Adabas(sp?), postgres, etc. For a database with CGI, you can have
a look at MetaKit, http://www.equi4.com/metakit/
Unless you need something very complex, one of the most versatile
ways of handling simple database functions is with some
Alan,
There was another thread on these message boards
that outline that the best way to install Pronto was
to go get the installer and let it go and get anything
it needs and it installs it on your computer for you.
Sounds pretty slick to me. Check the site again,
must be a place to get the
Ed,
At the time I first asnwered your message I was sitting at my Workstation
at work. I hate to admit it, but it's not a Linux workstation. At this
momemt I'm sitting at my PC at home. So, I pop open a terminal window and
type in the command man procmail and guess what pops up? Yes, you
I did that several times but it always ended up on
root@armagedon:/usr/lib$ man procmail
No manual entry for procmail
Any suggestions?
As I recall, your msg indicated that your man pages were in zip
format. Maybe you'd have better luck if you use gunzip on them.
Cheers ---
I am on a Mandrake 7.0 machine trying to set up a mail
transport. I tried postfix and sendmail and now trying
smail. The goal is just to move mail retrieved via
fetchmail through the system to the Unix mailbox
/var/spool/mail. The user does not want to use Netscape for
mail. The error message
(Snip)
Now if I could only get my cd-burner to work. . .but THATS for another posting.
--
Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at
http://home.netscape.com/webmail/
Hey there
Describe your problem a little closer - my Plextor works realy fine on an Adaptec
Dear friends:
This is to inform you of an ongoing petition to encourage
interoperatiblity between KDE and Gnome:
The article: KDE/Gnome Interoperatibility:
http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/main/0,10228,2595903,00.html
The Petition
http://rivyn.derkarl.org/news/html/thelist.php3
Yours,
Have you tried re-installing the man RPM onto your system yet? that might
be an option.
--
Mark
I love my Linux Box...
REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym.
Registered Linux user # 1299563
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, mendes wrote:
Hello
Unfortunately man procmail won't
Here is a problem I have had a couple of times. I spend time on the
net one night and everything is ok, I boot up the next day and my
X-server won't boot, the screen just flashes off and on black to blue. I
can't get in to server because I had it set to Boot to X-server. So
both times I have
Hey I was just wondering has anyone ever set up a SCSI Zip dirve?
I was wondering how to go about it and if it would be really much faster
then a P port setup
Let me take a look at your Vhosts.conf and httpd.conf and I'll help you get it going.
Seve
-Original Message-
From: Christopher Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] VirtualHost
There are some
Ok I'm defnately a newbie to Linux trying to install Mandrake 7.1. After full
install it won't get past initilisation and dies just before xwindows starts.
Message is
"Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 07:07 ???
I fear it may be my video card? as I'm using a sony laptop with a
How do you change the IRQ setting on a module dependent NIC? I tried
"options driver irq=N, in /etc/conf.modules but this didn't work. I am
trying to get two NICs to work, but after reading the dmesg, it says both
IRQs are 0.
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Adriaan Barel wrote:
The solution would then be to create a file like that.
Open an editor (no name given, there are many), write
imwheel -k
on the first line, and save it as ~/.xinitrc
Voila. That should do it.
Paul
Hi Every One,
I just got my wheel working on my PS/2
Howdies.
Got a small problem since installing Mandrake 6.1 - my PPP sessions freeze me
out of launching *ANY* new programs! (D'Oh!) I can continue to run one, or
several: already opened programs - BUT ! Can't run anything in addition. Just
stops. No error messages, just no action. Close
Hello folks
Can anyone point out an url for adobe acrobat rpm which works with
Mandrake Air without segmentation errors while changing pages?
Rgds
__ _ Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com
/ / (_)__
Hi,
Try the intel site. I got my driver from there and it
was working under M7.0
God look,
Claudio H.
--- A ANELA [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: I am
running a Dell L400c computer as a test pc, it
has an onboard video
card using a Intel i810 chipset. I went to the Dell
site, they have a
Yes larry, mine finally worked with no problems!! I'm really happy about
it! I have 2 drives on my promise, and my CD-R and CD Rom on mainboard.
Mark
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry
Hignight
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000
On the face of it, the Federation's economic model tells a lot about TrekVille; there
is no money, all things
are provided at no charge, everyone simply does their job; sounds as believable as
"Beam me up, Scotty".
6/28/00 7:49:16 PM, "Ronald J. Hall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"F. E. Schaper"
I have installed Mandrake 7.0 on several occaisions, each time having odd
problems - network not configured, mouse not found, X config failures etc.
This time, my newly acquired GPL 7.1 has sprung a double-whammy :
(1) hung on X config in the installation - a reboot started the system ok,
Hello,
I have an adaptec aha152b. It work fine with these settings
aha152x=0x340,11,7,1
(IO base, DMA, SCSI ID, parity)
Try
modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x340,11,7,1 [set the values according to your
system]
Then, if it works, enter the line in rc.local
OR
Reinstall (update) and enter the settings
Fritz,
I liked your commentary. You speak well, but I think you're all wet. For
reasons known only to yourself and maybe a few close friends you've pigeon
holed literally hundreds of thousands of people whom you don't even know
into a group of very small minded bunch of misfits that clearly
David,
Your 2 cents are right on the money! Thank you.
--
Mark
I love my Linux Box...
REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym.
Registered Linux user # 1299563
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, David Lawrence wrote:
The clown is William Shatner, the 'convention' that he said "get a
Klingons are cool!
--
Mark
I love my Linux Box...
REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym.
Registered Linux user # 1299563
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
"F. E. Schaper" wrote:
Tell the Star Trek freaks to move out of the basement, take off the ears,
Hello,
First time Mandrake user (Helium), but have been running Debian for 2 years
already. Two questions:
1) is there no curses-based package manager like Debian's dselect included with
Mandrake?
2) the package ppp is installed, but pppconfig not. Anything additional I need
to install for
Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How come then it recognizes my 1542 adapter, but I can't access the
device? heavens! it even loads the drivers or whatever it's doing when
it's booting and lists it amoung the other devices, but I can't use the
tape drive. When I attempt to mount the
Below is the contents of my /etc/man.config file
Not on my system this file is "man.config" not ".man.config".
mendes wrote:
Hello
Unfortunately man procmail won't work. I have just found out that man
can't find a thing. The /etc/.man.config is empty. Could someone tell me what
When the display falls back, try CTRL-ALT-F2 to switch to a free console.
Sounds like something is playing with your permissions. To be on the safe
side, once you have the machine back up running, back up
/etc/Xfree86/XF86Config and your home dir - if it does go AWOL again you
can over-write
Dennis,
I think that you can hit ctrl-alt-backspace and it will exit the x-server
(or is it esc instead of backspace)... anyway, then you could run the
xconfigurator and see what settings you needed to change. Maybe this is
incorrect, but I had a problem (not exactly the same) where I had the
http://www.firstlinux.net/pollBooth.php3?pollID=1
If you automatically boot into X at startup and subsequently X fails, do
not ssume that you have to do a reinstall.
if you are using LILO then at the boot prompt just type in linux 3 and
it will boot to a command prompt, from there you can login and as root
run Xconfigurator to fix or just to
At the LILO prompt when first starting Linux type "linux 3" -- w/o quotes.
That will take you to a text console, from there you can rerun your X setup
with whatever config program your prefer.
As to why you lose X config I have no idea.
HTH
Jaguar
Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is a
Well SCSI is faster for multidisk access. I have an IBM 7200 RPM UW
drive
with an Adaptec 2940UW controller. If I run speed tests it is not any
faster than my fujitsu 5400RPM IDE drives
But these tests are pretty much transfer speed tests not lets load the
drive down with some requests then
On 28 Jun 00, at 16:27, Dennis Myers wrote:
can't get in to server because I had it set to Boot to X-server. So
both times I have had to re-install Linux as a new install, and since I
haven't figured out how to back up data, I lose stuff. Nothing real
Okay!! Set your init default to 3 , ie
Hi,
I've got the following problem.
SInce I've got a CD rewriter, in /etc/lilo.conf there has been added :
append "hdd=ide-scsi"
in order to emulate scsi. This all works great: I can burn and mount the
cd-rw on /dev/scd0. No problem at all.
However, this also makes my zip-drive to behave scsi
:~I am running a Dell L400c computer as a test pc, it has an onboard video
:~card using a Intel i810 chipset. I went to the Dell site, they have a
:~RedHat 6.2 driver. This doesn't work on Mandrake 7.0, does anybody know how
:~to get it to work?
Take LM 7.1, it works with i810
--
Hello all. I have Linux Mandrake OS 7.0 Complete. I have Bootmagic
installed and Partition magic. The bootmagic screen gives me a choice to
go into Windows 95 or Linux. When I choose Windows it boots fine but
Linux just gives me a black screen that says preparing to open Linux and
just sits
Is there a way to make Kmail check a mail account and only download the new
messages (No I can't delete the messages after they've been downloaded)
--
-David Talbot
Those who would choose security over freedom deserve neither. -B. Franklin
Here are a couple of sites to try, they helped me to install MD 7.0 on a Sony
VAIO
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~and1000/vaioF-series.html
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote:
Ok I'm defnately a newbie to Linux trying to install Mandrake 7.1. After
Hi !! I have just installed the Madrake 7.1 iso
but near the end of the install he asked me if i had the Ext disk but and the Apps
Dick...
I dint have those at this point but it seem that we dont need it to install because
the istall continued with no problems...
What is on those disk ?? is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the face of it, the Federation's economic model tells a lot about TrekVille;
there is no money, all things
are provided at no charge, everyone simply does their job; sounds as believable as
"Beam me up, Scotty".
While that senerio is possible it is very
Michael Scottaline wrote:
Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How come then it recognizes my 1542 adapter, but I can't access the
device? heavens! it even loads the drivers or whatever it's doing when
it's booting and lists it amoung the other devices, but I can't use the
tape drive.
I have a sound card (SoundBlaster of some type) that was detected and installed
using the es1371 driver in Mandrake 7.1.
Problem is the volume is very unsatisfactory. I've set the Kmixer volume all
the way up and it's only "listenable" not quite blastable.
(seems like I'm spamming the list with
On 29 Jun 00, at 3:32, Claudio wrote:
Try the intel site. I got my driver from there and it
was working under M7.0
Try http://www.exocore.com/linux/i810
There's a prety good article out there. Basically you have to get the
gart modules from Intel's site and use them. and if you want to play
I've just installed Mandrake Linux 7.1 on a computer that has Windows 2000
already installed. Linux was installed on its own hard drive. When the
boot loader comes up I don't get the option to boot to Windows 2000. I
don't even get the option to boot to DOS. The boot loader that comes up is
Hi, All,
I have a problem with my mouse pointer after installing Mandrake on my
Athlon processor which uses a PS2 microsoft mouse and S3- 3D2X graphics
card. Instead of the mouse pointer, what I have is a BIG WHITE SQUARE.
Do you know what I need to do in the XF86Config file(I suppose,) to change
Marcia
Go to this web site:
http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/
and do a search on "LILO Boot Magic".
I'm sure you'll find the solution there, if no one from this list is
able to help.
I wish I could; I do know that you would probably be better off
uninstalling Boot Magic,
Adriaan,
I didn't have any luck when I created the .xinitrc file so what I did
was created a link to /user/X11R6/bin/imwheel in my Autostart folder on
my desktop.
But before it would work as user I had to give users permission to read
and write to /tmp/imwheel.pid
I then
i just installed Mandrake on a friend's laptop- he's got a Sony Vaio
PCG-F250 (or something like that), when it came time to configure X I
just took the defaults for the monitor, which was a generic high
frequency that can do 1024x768.
Everything worked fine except that freakin USB mouse, so he
On 29 Jun 00, at 13:55, Michael Graveen wrote:
don't even get the option to boot to DOS. The boot loader that comes up is
call GRUP. Does anyone know what I can do to fix this? Should I just
install Windows 2000 again? Thanks in advance.
Can't say everything accuratey as I use LILO and
Hello
I have been running kmail-1.29 for quite a while, unfortunately it decided to
not send emails
anymore (error 550). Would anyone know what could be wrong?
Thanks a lot.
Ed
I got mine from adobe. URL follows:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html
Follow links to free reader and choose the one for Linux.
Bambi
Sthitaprajna wrote:
Hello folks
Can anyone point out an url for adobe acrobat rpm which works with
Mandrake Air without segmentation
I'm s happy that I asked before trying to fiddle with it in Mandrake
7.0 Happy days are here again off to burn some iso images.
Sir Larry the Happy
Mark wrote:
Yes larry, mine finally worked with no problems!! I'm really happy about
it! I have 2 drives on my promise,
Hello All,
I have been lurking and have noticed that many people have had trouble with
installing V7.1. I am not talking about burning CDs, etc, but rather with
the actual installation. I just ordered 7.1 and the CDs should be here
shortly. Question is, is it okay. Seems like some have been
first you have to make sure...that "lilo" is installed on your hard
drive,,,that has linux on it...then lilo has to be configured to boot
linux first...not windows...
then bootmagic...must be configured correctly...
I have partitionmagic 5.0 it comes with bootmagic...
and this is how I have it,
Jaguar wrote:
At the LILO prompt when first starting Linux type "linux 3" -- w/o quotes.
That will take you to a text console, from there you can rerun your X setup
with whatever config program your prefer.
As to why you lose X config I have no idea.
HTH
Jaguar
Dennis Myers [EMAIL
HughI've been using a scsi zip drive since Mandrake 5.2.
There's nothing to set up in recent versions, it's recognized
during the install and set up automatically as a supermount
device.
Alan
Hugh wrote:
Hey I was just wondering has anyone ever set up a SCSI Zip dirve?
I was wondering
Marciaboot your computer with the floppy that you created
created during the Linux installation. Login as root. In a
console type:
/sbin/lilo
The next time you boot the computer you should be able to
choose Linux from BootMagic successfully.
Alan
Marcia Waller wrote:
Hello all. I
Hello all,
I rebooted today and noticed the problem isn't the mouse configuration;
rather, the usb mouse module is failing to load. I'm not too familiar with
Mandrake so I used the console to take a look at /lib/modules and to my
surprise there are six directories ?!?!?!
uname -a (or -r)
Hello there,
I have some trouble installing Mandrake on my
system and would like some help. The problem is that, when I boot from a disk
(being created by rawrite using cdrom.img), installation starts normally, and I
get into the graphical user interface. I select the keyboard map and
Thanks Didier for the reply
I tried the modprobe, no luck, so I reinstalled. This time just entered
0140,10,7,1 at the SCSI setup option. (the install book not clear here)
Only other problem was that I needed to edit /etc/fstab to change the /mnt/zip
from the vfat automatically set up to ext2 for
Partition Magic has partitioned my HD supposedly. That was done first.
Thank you for your help.Marcia
I will check out the website, thank you. Your suggestion sounds good. If
this bootmagic thing does not work I will do what you suggest. Thank you
for your help. Marcia
On 29 Jun 00, at 19:33, Larry Hignight wrote:
If for some reason your employer or someone else won't allow
you to delete
the messages check into fetchmail. It is an excellent program
designed to fetch
The employer will have to be real daft to have such a policy. Pretty
soon, the
On 29 Jun 00, at 19:49, Gary wrote:
Also, there was talk of problems with freeX86 V4, versus the
established
version. Should I install it over 7.0 (which is very well setup
for me
presently), or just do a fresh install? Any thoughts from those
who have
installed it?
I believe, if
On 29 Jun 00, at 14:16, Hem Ramachandran wrote:
I have a problem with my mouse pointer after installing Mandrake on
my
Athlon processor which uses a PS2 microsoft mouse and S3- 3D2X
graphics
card. Instead of the mouse pointer, what I have is a BIG WHITE
SQUARE.
Do you know what I need to
Dear Denis and friends:
Remember my rant about this problem (i.e. of combinging the
install/upgrade option with automatic/custom/expert on THE SAME DIALOGUE
BOX?
Well, as luck or rather misfortune (almost!) would have it, it just
happened to me.
Anxious to try out the new 7.1 anti-aliasing
Marciasure, during the Linux install you were asked to
supply a password for the root account, so when the system
asks for a login name type root and when it asks for a
password type the root password you supplied during the
install.
Alan
Marcia Waller wrote:
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
In editing the /etc/fstab I run across the term supermount.
My books don't describe this.
I want to set the zip and floppy drives so that a user as well as root can
access them and I thought that the entry user or users would do this.
Thanks for any info
bill
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Wienand Drenth wrote:
Hi,
I've got the following problem.
SInce I've got a CD rewriter, in /etc/lilo.conf there has been added :
append "hdd=ide-scsi" in order to emulate scsi.
This all works great: I can burn and mount the cd rewriter on /dev/scd0.
No problem at all.
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 10:03:16AM +0530 or thereabouts, Sthitaprajna wrote:
Also, there was talk of problems with freeX86 V4, versus the
established version. Should I install it over 7.0 (which is very well
setup for me presently), or just do a fresh install? Any thoughts from
those
Benjaminhfirst off what's this doing in newbie?
Second, are you assuming that an upgrade is going to
partition/format the drive(s) or is there evidence that this
happens?
After all an upgrade skips the partitioning step. You can't,
after all, upgrade a clean set of partitions
I have been lurking and have noticed that many people have had trouble with
installing V7.1. I am not talking about burning CDs, etc, but rather with
the actual installation. I just ordered 7.1 and the CDs should be here
shortly. Question is, is it okay. Seems like some have been having
W only works as root. I want all users to see who is on. They
can do this
using Finger, but I'd rather have W work as I'm so used to it.
It displays
the header for W, but no username or user info. I tried changing the
permissions on the utmp file, but to no avail.
what about "w"
This seems to make sense. Thank you. I will try this. Marcia
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