Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake 9.0

2003-01-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 5:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is my rules for shorewall. # #ACTION SOURCE DESTPROTO DESTSOURCE ORIGINAL # # PORTPORT(S) DEST # DNAT net loc:192.168.1.3 tcp 80 -

[newbie] Printing Woes

2003-01-19 Thread Chuck Burns
I have a Xerox DocuPrint C11, and a shared OfficeJet d155xi on another computer. Here's the deal. If I print in grayscale, everything comes out beautifully, on both printers, however, if I print in color, it's all wavey and stuff.. like the printer heads arent seeking properly, or something.

Re: [newbie] Trojan alert - Australian IP (connect.com.au)

2003-01-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 19 January 2003 21:18, Trevor Rhodes wrote: I know I'm about to open up a can of worms here, but can we not let it get out of control people. Ok, here goes. Is there a 'decent' online security site that could check my ports? Properly? Why not do it yourself using nmap(fe) or let

Re: [newbie] Printer Still not working

2003-01-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 10:09 pm, Russ wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 13:54, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 9:44 pm, Russ wrote: Hi All, I am still not able to use my printer. First before uninstalling, are you sure it is not already working? If you try printing from any

Re: [newbie] Printing Woes

2003-01-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 10:18 pm, Chuck Burns wrote: I have a Xerox DocuPrint C11, and a shared OfficeJet d155xi on another computer. Here's the deal. If I print in grayscale, everything comes out beautifully, on both printers, however, if I print in color, it's all wavey and stuff.. like the

Re: [newbie] Printer Still not working

2003-01-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 19 January 2003 22:09, Russ wrote: First before uninstalling, are you sure it is not already working? If you try printing from any KDE application like KWord you will see a drop down list of available printers. Is yours listed? Yes it is but nothing happens when I choose to

Re: [newbie] Printer Still not working

2003-01-19 Thread Russ
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 15:35, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 19 January 2003 22:09, Russ wrote: First before uninstalling, are you sure it is not already working? If you try printing from any KDE application like KWord you will see a drop down list of available printers. Is yours listed?

Re: [newbie] non-profit??

2003-01-19 Thread et
yep, but WW is a Mandrake user On Sunday 19 January 2003 03:55 pm, Miark wrote: Will Wheaton played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek, The Next Generetion. I'm can't remember who played Horseshack. Welcome Back Kotter aired loong before ST:TNG. Miark On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 14:40:51 -0500 et

Re: [newbie] Printer Still not working

2003-01-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 19 January 2003 23:18, Russ wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 15:35, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 19 January 2003 22:09, Russ wrote: First before uninstalling, are you sure it is not already working? If you try printing from any KDE application like KWord you will see a drop

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-19 Thread robin
Miark wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:13:14 -0800 Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's odd that someone from the same timezone as myself can't imagine that the article was published on the same day but before the announcement came out. I don't care about -your- timing. My point was to the

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 19 January 2003 23:32, robin wrote: Except, of course, you're serious. I agree that _if_ Mandrake dies, your ideas would serve the remaining community well. So if you wanna draw up plans for that possibility (not eventuality) then fine. Expect the best, but prepare for the

[newbie] Installing software problems

2003-01-19 Thread al-hassan jagne
How do I install a software on Mandrake 9? I am a brand new user and I cannot figure out how to install any software or programs. I have a cd with slackware and other programs that I cannot install into Linux. I am getting frustrated, but I dont want to give up, so someone help me. Thanks.

[newbie] Wheel mouse in applications

2003-01-19 Thread robin
I've just bought an optical wheel mouse with the name of - dig this - Optical Faerie - chic 1380 (it's from China, and assume they were going through a thesaurus). After installing imwheel, the wheeel works as a middle button, but rolling it to scroll only works in Mozilla. Scorlling in

Re: [newbie] Installing software problems

2003-01-19 Thread Aaron Mehl
Do you have the installation discs from mandrake?? try the control center software manager. Or use urpmi and the name of the package. __ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*

Re: [newbie] non-profit??

2003-01-19 Thread robin
et wrote: yep, but WW is a Mandrake user Hence all those OT Star Trek posts, perhaps. I hated Wesley Crusher (stupid name, stupid person) but started to like Will Wheaton after reading his blog. Sir Robin -- Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the

Re: [newbie] Installing software problems

2003-01-19 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 19:37, al-hassan jagne wrote: How do I install a software on Mandrake 9? I am a brand new user and I cannot figure out how to install any software or programs. I have a cd with slackware and other programs that I cannot install into Linux. I am getting frustrated, but

Re: [newbie] Installing software problems

2003-01-19 Thread robin
al-hassan jagne wrote: How do I install a software on Mandrake 9? I am a brand new user and I cannot figure out how to install any software or programs. I have a cd with slackware and other programs that I cannot install into Linux. I am getting frustrated, but I dont want to give up, so

Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse in applications

2003-01-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 01:44:13 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've hunted around on the web, but there's little documentation on imwheel. Anyone who's had similar problems, please answwer before I take it back to the shop! With todays WMs and apps 95% of the time you do not need

Re: [newbie] pppd keeps dieing!

2003-01-19 Thread Can Baytan
My /etc/ppp/options are below: Most important line is noauth for such problems, don't ask why, try bud dry. Best Can Baytan. asyncmap 0 passive persist proxyarp noauth domain noway.edu.tr netmask 255.0.0.0 lock crtscts defaultroute modem -detach Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 20 Jan 2003

[newbie] FTP Login

2003-01-19 Thread Zane Minninger
How would I create an FTP only ID, with no home directory. a generic with read only access. I currently have a username and password on the system and I am using that, but that doesn't sound very safe, the more I think about it. I would like someone to log in and be dumped into the /var/ftp

[newbie] VueScan

2003-01-19 Thread Aurélio Diniz
I've downloaded vuescan. Does anyone knows how it plays with mkd 9? I'm using iscan with my epson 1250 photo but i find it a little limited. cheers filipe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Uninstalling/reinstalling programs

2003-01-19 Thread Zane Minninger
As some of you know, I'm having problems with vim and have decided to just re-install a good version. I found the RPM and used RPM to un-install it, but the executable is still there and some other files. Are these at a state I can just delete them and the program is un-installed? I also

Re: [newbie] Trojan alert - Australian IP (connect.com.au)

2003-01-19 Thread Trevor Rhodes
HarM, Why not do it yourself using nmap(fe) or let somebody you trust do it? Caus'n I wouldn't know what the hell I was doin!!! :^) Could you explain nmap(fe) for me? Where? What? etc. Most of those sites would scare me s**tless if I'd have had a Winders-box. If you like FUD at it's

Re: [newbie] FTP Login

2003-01-19 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:59:21 -0600 Zane Minninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would I create an FTP only ID, with no home directory. a generic with read only access. I currently have a username and password on the system and I am using that, but that doesn't sound very safe, the more I

[newbie] Chmod commands

2003-01-19 Thread Zane Minninger
Is there any way to run chmod and only affect files and not directories? I have a semi large tree and I would like any file put in it to have 664 but the directories to be 775. Any ideas or am I so new I don't know of some common and easy way. This directory can potentially have several

[newbie] changing to a webserver

2003-01-19 Thread ThinKer
Hello, I have been using my Mandrake 9 Box as a desktop since I installed it. I now want it to also be a webserver that will allow me to place a few informational pages for others on my network to view. I think I have the webserver set up. The problem is I can open a browser on the linux box

[newbie] Apache Security

2003-01-19 Thread Marlo Montanaro
Hi, Once again, thanks to those who got me straightened out on installing/updating RPM's. Now I've gotten Apache 1.3.27 installed on Mandrake 9.0. Just curious how secure it is considered out of the box. I've seen quite a few Nimda and Code Red hits against it- obviously unsuccessfully. But

Re: [newbie] Evolution default browser

2003-01-19 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 21:50, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: K, this has to be the most asked (and answered) question about Evolution. I click on a link in an email and it opens Mozilla. I'd rather it open a new tab in Galeon. I've read about 312 messages I found in Google and have gone in to

RE: [newbie] Chmod commands

2003-01-19 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
Hi, Look at 'man find'. Basically, what you want is something like find basedir -type d -exec chmod 775 \{\} \; -o -exec chmod 664 \{\} \; Here, basedir is the root of the directory tree in which you want this to be done. -type d is the condition that you found a directory, and then you execute

Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake 9.0

2003-01-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 05:25, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 09:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is my rules for shorewall. Shorewall version 1.3 - Rules File It's a real bad idea to post a firewall ruleset to the net. Better to find a firewall person you trust and then

Re: [newbie] PHP-Nuke..... check this out!

2003-01-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 05:37, Anne Wilson wrote: Developers have to eat too. I can. Not for moving, but for despicable slights on Mandrake when they have supported him. Anne Look at it this way - if your job is on the line because you drive a Ford and the Ford keeps choking and puking,

Re: [newbie] non-profit??

2003-01-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 06:33, Miark wrote: On 17 Jan 2003 14:40:33 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe, if non-profit is the way to go - why not create a religion around all of this - really! If L.Ron Hubbard can write a newspaper column describing just how to create a

Re: [newbie] non-profit??

2003-01-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 06:40, et wrote: On Sunday 19 January 2003 02:33 pm, Miark wrote: On 17 Jan 2003 14:40:33 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe, if non-profit is the way to go - why not create a religion around all of this - really! If L.Ron Hubbard can write a

[newbie] rpmdrake issue

2003-01-19 Thread Rob Wideman
I am having issues where rpmdrake (Software Sources Manager) will not update when i add/delete something AND it closes when i hit the Remove button. So i have found the /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg files and removed the lines that i didnt want. They are not listed anymore. The problem that i still have

Re: [newbie] GNOME login quirk

2003-01-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 08:31, Russ wrote: Hi All, When I login to GNOME I get this error message before it loads; Could not look up internet address for (my computer name used to log onto attbi's cable network). This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It may be possible to

Re: [newbie] PHP-Nuke..... check this out!

2003-01-19 Thread Todd Slater
On 20 Jan 2003 17:34:37 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Peace! (And I drive a Honda - and I was born in Detroit - so as far as loyalty to a product goes, I've just slighted Ford, Chevy/GM and Chrysler, didn't I?) Do they have roads in Australia? (I used to live in Mexico

Re: [newbie] Printer Still not working

2003-01-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 08:44, Russ wrote: Hi All, I am still not able to use my printer. I was able to change my update source and have updated all my installed packages. However, I don't think it was able to properly fix my printer stuff because I'm not sure I had all the proper packages

Re: [newbie] pppd keeps dieing!

2003-01-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 08:45, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 20 Jan 2003 5:21 am, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Hi all, Got a problem getting onto the internet. After entering the relevant account details and connecting to my ISP after about 30 secs I get the error message that says the pppd

Re: [newbie] GNOME login quirk

2003-01-19 Thread Rob Wideman
KDE's looking better all the time... AAA I hate that damn thing...too cartooney like WinXP. Ah that would be another reason why i havent moved past Win2k as my other OS. Guess everyone has their own cuppa tea like you say. Rob __ Do you

Re: [newbie] Printing Woes

2003-01-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 09:18, Chuck Burns wrote: I have a Xerox DocuPrint C11, and a shared OfficeJet d155xi on another computer. Here's the deal. If I print in grayscale, everything comes out beautifully, on both printers, however, if I print in color, it's all wavey and stuff.. like the

[newbie] Xine hangs up after goiing through the tutorial

2003-01-19 Thread Rob Wideman
MDK9, updated and all. I went though this tutorial before finding it on MDK's site: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2477 BUTWhen i click on the NAV button like it states to Xine hangs an i have to kill it. Any thoughts? Rob __ Do

[newbie] posting problems

2003-01-19 Thread tuija
Hi, I'm new with using Linux and especially posting systems. When I try to fetchmail my mail from remote pop3, what I suppose to write? fetchmail somemailserver.xx if I write this it goes to server and asks password, but it didn't go to my mail account? Howto get it going to my mail account in

Re: [newbie] Installing software problems

2003-01-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 10:37, al-hassan jagne wrote: How do I install a software on Mandrake 9? I am a brand new user and I cannot figure out how to install any software or programs. I have a cd with slackware and other programs that I cannot install into Linux. I am getting frustrated, but

[newbie] kalle.saarinen@acte.fi

2003-01-19 Thread Silent Bob
Hello, I was wondering how to display disk space in commad line? Used/free etc. Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse in applications

2003-01-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 10:44, robin wrote: I've just bought an optical wheel mouse with the name of - dig this - Optical Faerie - chic 1380 (it's from China, and assume they were going through a thesaurus). After installing imwheel, the wheeel works as a middle button, but rolling it to

Re: [newbie] kalle.saarinen@acte.fi

2003-01-19 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:00:02 +0200 Silent Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was wondering how to display disk space in commad line? Used/free etc. Bob df -h will probably get you what you want. man df man du HTH, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] changing to a webserver

2003-01-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 13:49, ThinKer wrote: Hello, I have been using my Mandrake 9 Box as a desktop since I installed it. I now want it to also be a webserver that will allow me to place a few informational pages for others on my network to view. I think I have the webserver set up. The

Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse in applications

2003-01-19 Thread Rob Wideman
So it's safe to assume that you've rerun mousedrake and all that jazz, right? I am using a MS Optical usb/ps2 mouse attached to an Apex Outlook KVM when i installed MDK9. Once i got it installe i used mousedrake and selected the generic ps2 wheel mouse and clicked OK, after that anything that

Re: [newbie] KDE Printer

2003-01-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 15:07, Russ wrote: I then decided to reinstall Evolution. Not a problem. All my setting and saved emails were also saved. However, now I couldn't send any mail. I could receive to my little hearts content. Since I was back to the old version that ships with Mandrake I

Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse in applications

2003-01-19 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 23:13, Rob Wideman wrote: So it's safe to assume that you've rerun mousedrake and all that jazz, right? I am using a MS Optical usb/ps2 mouse attached to an Apex Outlook KVM when i installed MDK9. Once i got it installe i used mousedrake and selected the generic

Re: [newbie] Xine

2003-01-19 Thread Len Lawrence
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:37:23 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just downloaded all the xine rpms I could get from plf.zarb.org. Then I tried xine. I seemto have installed a new copy of the ui, and this one only offers dvb and vcd - no dvd, so now I can't play anything. Do I

[newbie] Strange behavior in 9.1betas

2003-01-19 Thread Charlie
Hello; After all the complaining I did last week about the fun I was having installing beta1 on the same machine as Dolphin having people ignore my posts wouldn't surprise me at all. :-) beta2 downloaded; checked the md5sums (all good) burned the CDs and bit the bullet. Everything backed up,

[newbie] PHP-Nuke..... check this out!

2003-01-19 Thread Anthony Abby
Just in case no one had happen to notice this http://phpnuke.org/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=5325mode=order=0thold=0 Am I wrong here? Didn't Mandrake support Burzi from the beginning of his project? -- Anthony Abby - http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News

Re: [newbie] PHP-Nuke..... check this out!

2003-01-19 Thread Anthony Abby
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 13:37, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 6:37 pm, Charlie wrote: On Sunday 19 January 2003 11:11 am, Anthony Abby wrote: Just in case no one had happen to notice this http://phpnuke.org/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=5325mode=orde r= 0thold=0

Re: [newbie] PHP-Nuke..... check this out!

2003-01-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 17:43, Todd Slater wrote: On 20 Jan 2003 17:34:37 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Peace! (And I drive a Honda - and I was born in Detroit - so as far as loyalty to a product goes, I've just slighted Ford, Chevy/GM and Chrysler, didn't I?) Do

Re: [newbie] GNOME login quirk

2003-01-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 17:50, Rob Wideman wrote: KDE's looking better all the time... AAA I hate that damn thing...too cartooney like WinXP. Ah that would be another reason why i havent moved past Win2k as my other OS. Guess everyone has their own cuppa tea like you say. Rob

Re: [newbie] posting problems

2003-01-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 17:59, tuija wrote: Hi, I'm new with using Linux and especially posting systems. When I try to fetchmail my mail from remote pop3, what I suppose to write? fetchmail somemailserver.xx if I write this it goes to server and asks password, but it didn't go to my mail

Re: [newbie] kalle.saarinen@acte.fi

2003-01-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 18:00, Silent Bob wrote: Hello, I was wondering how to display disk space in commad line? Used/free etc. Bob Open up a terminal and type: df -h Voila! -- Mon Jan 20 18:30:00 EST 2003 6:30pm up 4 days, 4:13, 6 users, load average: 0.54, 0.19, 0.12

[newbie] Re:gcc Trouble

2003-01-19 Thread Graham Pohle
I've went to edit my /etc/inittab file and it was already 5. Since last time I was here, I have downloaded quite a bit of stuff and most of it I had to get from the net. I couldn't get it off the CD, or find it in the packages that came with the distro. I did run that ldconfig and the CPU went

Re: [newbie] Xine

2003-01-19 Thread Rob Wideman
If you have xine-dvdnav installed from the Mandrake CDs you could try xine -pq -s DVD dvdnav:// from the command line. Ok, If you saw my JUST poste Xine after tutorial install issue it actually comes up and plays. ONLY after a good 5 minute thing of where it looks up the CSS keys, here is

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