Re: [newbie] 10 Updates not showing?

2004-04-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 00:52, Rick Kunath wrote: This one has me stumped... I have a pure 10 community install with the correct 10 official updates because I reinstalled Mandrake after the short mistaken trip some of us took to Cookerville. I know the Mandrake updates of the last few

Re: [newbie] 10 Updates not showing?

2004-04-21 Thread Rick Kunath
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 04:00 am, Margot wrote: I kept getting emails from Mandrake about available updates, I finally found a working mirror, but still didn't get any updates through MCC, so I checked the list of updates against the list of packages I had installed and found that the

Re: [newbie] 10 Updates not showing?

2004-04-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 14:02, Rick Kunath wrote: On Wednesday 21 April 2004 04:00 am, Margot wrote: I kept getting emails from Mandrake about available updates, I finally found a working mirror, but still didn't get any updates through MCC, so I checked the list of updates against the

Re: [newbie] 10 Updates not showing?

2004-04-21 Thread Rick Kunath
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 08:28 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Me too. Have you tried (as root) : urpmi --auto-select ? Yes. Urpmi wanted to do an update, but I aborted it because I had no idea as to what it wanted to install, package wise. I am still a bit leery about not knowing what is

Re: [newbie] 10 Updates not showing?

2004-04-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 14:55, Rick Kunath wrote: On Wednesday 21 April 2004 08:28 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Me too. Have you tried (as root) : urpmi --auto-select ? Yes. Urpmi wanted to do an update, but I aborted it because I had no idea as to what it wanted to install, package wise.

[newbie] Automatically mount a USB drive

2004-04-21 Thread Alexandre Aractingi
Hi all, I'm using Mdk 10.0 and I have a USB2 drive which is detected ok by hotplug (/etc/fstab gets updated when I plug the drive), but I still have to mount /mnt/removable to have it mounted. Is there a way to have it automatically mounted? Thanks, -- Alexandre Aractingi [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Help! I Killed Samba

2004-04-21 Thread Amichai Rotman
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 11:12, shaz wrote: Hi all Up until recently my system has been running fine. Then I had a power cut :( Now. I have two computers. 1 mandrake 9.1 and 1 winxp. linux connected to dialup modem. winxp thru network to linux. this is the situation after power cut.

Re: [newbie] Evolution crashes while adding signature

2004-04-21 Thread Paul
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 23:27, Stephen Kuhn wrote: If that doesn't work, you might want to update/upgrade GTKHTML and the other associated libs; you can use Ximian's Red-Carpet to update Evo and the libs without a hassle/problem. Also, you might want to just completely upgrade Evo to the

[newbie] Question about remote access

2004-04-21 Thread Ian MacGregor
I have a question concerning remote access and iptables. I have installed Mandrake 10.0 Community on a PII 450Mhz. with 256Mb RAM. I have tweaked all the settings in Mandrake Control Center, but I know nothing about iptables. I have assigned the following to the su and login commands: owner:

[newbie] Knotify and Soundcard

2004-04-21 Thread James Hill
An interesting one this I finally found the route to a stable(ish) 10 community, buy installing 9.2 and upgrading, as opposed to a clean install of 10. I've always had some driver issues with the soundcard (C Media CM8738), but nothing that was not easily sorted. Until today. Boot

Re: [newbie] Question about remote access

2004-04-21 Thread Paul
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 17:05, Ian MacGregor wrote: I tried to telnet myself in a konsole session and got a reply telling me connection refused. I tried to ping myself and got 6 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4999ms It seems that my box would be invisible to anyone

Re: [newbie] Question about remote access

2004-04-21 Thread Ian MacGregor
Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who knows how to ping :( On Wednesday 21 April 2004 8:21 am, Paul wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 17:05, Ian MacGregor wrote: I tried to telnet myself in a konsole session and got a reply telling me connection refused. I tried to ping myself and got 6 packets

Re: [newbie] 10 Updates not showing?

2004-04-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 21 Apr 2004 13:55, Rick Kunath wrote: On Wednesday 21 April 2004 08:28 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Me too. Have you tried (as root) : urpmi --auto-select ? Yes. Urpmi wanted to do an update, but I aborted it because I had no idea as to what it wanted to install, package wise. I

Re: [newbie] Question about remote access

2004-04-21 Thread Paul
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 17:27, Ian MacGregor wrote: Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who knows how to ping :( Hmmm. Not sure if you could see me as a good friend, but I do ping once in a while. You can send me your IP through private mail, I could check for you. Paul

Re: [newbie] Question about remote access

2004-04-21 Thread Ian MacGregor
I just sent you some info. thanks for volunteering. On Wednesday 21 April 2004 8:36 am, Paul wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 17:27, Ian MacGregor wrote: Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who knows how to ping :( Hmmm. Not sure if you could see me as a good friend, but I do ping once in a

Re: [newbie] 10 Updates not showing?

2004-04-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 17:32, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 21 Apr 2004 13:55, Rick Kunath wrote: On Wednesday 21 April 2004 08:28 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Me too. Have you tried (as root) : urpmi --auto-select ? Yes. Urpmi wanted to do an update, but I aborted it because I

[newbie] Knotify and Souncard issue......

2004-04-21 Thread JRH
An interesting one this I finally found the route to a stable(ish) 10 community, buy installing 9.2 and upgrading, as opposed to a clean install of 10. I've always had some driver issues with the soundcard (C Media CM8738), but nothing that was not easily sorted. Until today. Boot up,

Re: [newbie] 10 Updates not showing?

2004-04-21 Thread Ronald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Op woensdag 21 april 2004 00:52, schreef Rick Kunath: This one has me stumped... I have a pure 10 community install with the correct 10 official updates because I reinstalled Mandrake after the short mistaken trip some of us took to Cookerville.

Re: [newbie] Automatically mount a USB drive

2004-04-21 Thread Ian Urie
On Wednesday 21 Apr 2004 14:06, Alexandre Aractingi wrote: Hi all, I'm using Mdk 10.0 and I have a USB2 drive which is detected ok by hotplug (/etc/fstab gets updated when I plug the drive), but I still have to mount /mnt/removable to have it mounted. Is there a way to have it automatically

[newbie] Knotify and Soundcards......

2004-04-21 Thread JRH
An interesting one this I finally found the route to a stable(ish) 10 community, buy installing 9.2 and upgrading, as opposed to a clean install of 10. I've always had some driver issues with the soundcard (C Media CM8738), but nothing that was not easily sorted. Until today. Boot up,

Re: [newbie] Copying FTP tree

2004-04-21 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 02:34:19PM +0800, Arys P. Deloso wrote: How do you get an exact copy of an FTP tree with ALL the permissions and time stamps preserved? I tried: 1. draksync BUT it gives up (does nothing) especially when the stuff gets big; AND 2. ncftp with recursive get but

[newbie] Updating: ftp vs. http

2004-04-21 Thread Travis Crook
Hi all, I am trying to add sources via urpmi. When I try and add a source that is ftp it times out - no matter which one I use. When I try a source that is http, it connects no problem and adds the source. Any ideas as to why? I am behind a firewall but haven't seen ftp problems using

[newbie] Official ATI drivers in 10.0

2004-04-21 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
I see I have access to official ATI drivers from http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/, but how do I get them to work (with my Radeon)? I have downloaded and installed ATI_GLX-3.7.6-2mdk.i586.rpm ATI_GLX-utils-3.7.0-2mdk.i586.rpm ATI_kernel-2.6.3.7mdk-3.7.6-2mdk.i586.rpm and was told to run XFdrake. I

[newbie] Automatically mount a USB drive

2004-04-21 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On April 21, 2004 11:27, Ian Urie wrote: ... In KDE...go to behaviour , tick the mounted hard drive partition. I take it you mean System - Configuration - KDE - LookNFeel - Behavior I was trying this out (I'm having usb problems too), and noticed the option to show icons for unmounted

Re: [newbie] Automatically mount a USB drive

2004-04-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 21:40, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: snip Is there a Mandrake equivalent to Ctrl-Alt-Del, which on Windoze 2K usually at least allows me to gain enough control to do a clean shutdown (I'm not a Windoze fan, my employer makes me use it, I just like to have that particular

Re: [newbie] trying xfce4 - help

2004-04-21 Thread Richard Urwin
On Wednesday 21 Apr 2004 5:20 am, Carl J. Bauman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can run anything you like from within XFCE, the right-click menu should be the same as your KDE or Gnome menus Hi Joe, I didn't find this to be true in my case. I'm running Mandrake 10.0 and, since I was

Re: [newbie] wc

2004-04-21 Thread Richard Urwin
On Wednesday 21 Apr 2004 5:51 am, JoeHill wrote: Just saw this on the Procmail Tips page and it has me all excited: see 'man wc' ...haven't the faintest idea what to use it for yet, but I haven't been this horned up about a command line tool since I discovered 'grep' :-D On a distant list,

Re: [newbie] Updating: ftp vs. http

2004-04-21 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 02:22 pm, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, I am trying to add sources via urpmi. When I try and add a source that is ftp it times out - no matter which one I use. When I try a source that is http, it connects no problem and adds the source. Any ideas as to why?

Re: [newbie] Automatically mount a USB drive

2004-04-21 Thread Alexandre Aractingi
Le mer 21/04/2004 à 19:27, Ian Urie a écrit : In KDE...go to behaviour , tick the mounted hard drive partition. Hi, thanks for the tip. Actually this was already ticked, I also ticked unmounted hard drive partition and it appeared when I plugged my USB device, so it's kinda working. But I

Re: [newbie] Automatically mount a USB drive

2004-04-21 Thread Richard Urwin
On Wednesday 21 Apr 2004 9:24 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: In case of nothing (exept the keyboard) working, and right before you consider a hard reset, you have to play a little piano-sonata : Alt + SysRq + r + s + e + i + u + b (Mnemotech : Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring) This

Re: [newbie] Copying FTP tree

2004-04-21 Thread Arys P. Deloso
Noong Thursday 22 April 2004 01:20, isinulat ni Todd Slater: On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 02:34:19PM +0800, Arys P. Deloso wrote: How do you get an exact copy of an FTP tree with ALL the permissions and time stamps preserved? I tried: 1. draksync BUT it gives up (does nothing) especially

Re: [newbie] Copying FTP tree

2004-04-21 Thread Floyd Hagen
How about wget? from man wget: -m --mirror Turn on options suitable for mirroring. This option turns on recursion and time-stamping, sets infinite recursion depth and keeps FTP directory listings. It is currently equivalent to -r -N -l inf

Re: [newbie] Automatically mount a USB drive

2004-04-21 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On April 21, 2004 14:24, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 21 April 2004 21:40, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: snip Is there a Mandrake equivalent to Ctrl-Alt-Del, which on Windoze 2K usually at least allows me to gain enough control to do a clean shutdown (I'm not a Windoze fan, my employer

[newbie] Trying to get usb cd burner working

2004-04-21 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
Sent this yesterday, but it seems that I didn't respond to the confirmation soon enough, so it was never distributed... And to update a bit: 1. I discovered that the harddrake and hotplug services were not set to start at boot, so I manually started them, and set them to start at boot. 2.

Re: [newbie] Copying FTP tree

2004-04-21 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:10:27AM +0800, Arys P. Deloso wrote: Noong Thursday 22 April 2004 01:20, isinulat ni Todd Slater: On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 02:34:19PM +0800, Arys P. Deloso wrote: How do you get an exact copy of an FTP tree with ALL the permissions and time stamps preserved?

[newbie] Legends

2004-04-21 Thread Miark
I was excited to try a Tribes-type game called Legend: http://hosted.tribalwar.com/legends/ but the fonts used in the in-game menus are so screwed up that I can't configure it. No mention of this in their FAQ or forums. Any ideas? Miark

[newbie] chmod directory and file?

2004-04-21 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I found out that some directories and files that I copied from windows have 777 in permission. I tried to chmod -R 644 /directoryname, all files were correctly set into 644, but then all directories were also set into 644. I understand that

Re: [newbie] Evolution crashes while adding signature

2004-04-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 00:57, Paul wrote: On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 23:27, Stephen Kuhn wrote: If that doesn't work, you might want to update/upgrade GTKHTML and the other associated libs; you can use Ximian's Red-Carpet to update Evo and the libs without a hassle/problem. Also, you might want

Re: [newbie] trying xfce4 - help

2004-04-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 07:08, Richard Urwin wrote: If you install from Charles' source the Mandrake menu appears as on entry in the right click menu. You'll have to ask him how he did it though if you want to stick with the compiled version. My best tip: load the command line applet and

Re: [newbie] Evolution crashes while adding signature

2004-04-21 Thread Paul
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 06:43, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Now ya got me stumped - but you might want to get on the mailing list for Evo and ask there - they're wizards in that group. Okay, I'll do that. Thanks for the help and the tips!! Paul Want

Re: [newbie] chmod directory and file?

2004-04-21 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On April 21, 2004 15:01, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, I found out that some directories and files that I copied from windows have 777 in permission. I tried to chmod -R 644 /directoryname, all files were correctly set into 644, but then all directories were also set into 644. I understand

Re: [newbie] Re: Mozilla fonts

2004-04-21 Thread Miroslav Skoric
John Richard Smith wrote: Now I am not saying that the problem you are experiencing is due to this ongoing problem, but it may be, If you cannot get true trype fonts to work now maybe the problem is that they have fixed the ghostscript to work with the new fonts and in doing so messed up the

[newbie] Re: Mozilla fonts

2004-04-21 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On windoze 2k (forced to use it by my employer), I installed mozilla, then later netscape (can't remember why I needed netscape). Netscape stomped all over my mozilla settings. Trashed my bookmarks and everything (it grabbed the existing profile without asking me). I

[newbie] Re: Mozilla fonts

2004-04-21 Thread Miroslav Skoric
JoeHill wrote: Nothing, just an a suggestion *if you wanted the TrueType fonts*. Does it mean that the 'original' Mozilla that comes with Mdk 9.1 does not use TrueType fonts? It looks just fine. Anyway, tnx for suggestion. Misko Want