Re: [newbie] Un libro bueno en Linux

2004-06-16 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 06:40 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 11:27, Aron Smith wrote: So ya reckon the snarling little bastard is out picking pot, eh? I diddn say enuythang. Farmer-in the -dell High ho the merry-o Aron, ya know, someone somewhere DID program a really

Re: [newbie] boot log?

2004-06-16 Thread Eric Huff
Is there a way to access the information that scrolls by as you boot up after booting is finished? If so, please tell me how? I I think you will find that in /var/log/dmesg Oddly, this is not the same as the output you get from the command dmesg. There is also /var/log/boot.log eric

Re: [newbie] libGL

2004-06-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 05:35 pm, Cezary Morga wrote: -Hi there, -I've got this silly problem: when I'm trying to compile (or simple run) some -programs that require libGL it happens that they look for libGL.la -in /usr/X11R6/lib but I have it in /usr/lib. What should I do about it to -make it

Re: [newbie] boot log?

2004-06-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 10:25 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: -On Tuesday 15 June 2004 05:56 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: - On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 03:11, eric jackson wrote: - Hi, - - I'm getting an error from my soundcard when I boot up. I'll post - another message about that in a few minutes. - - Is

RE: [newbie] Serial Card Installation

2004-06-16 Thread Tony S. Sykes
I am on a lan and want to use the modem with Hylafax, so I just need the system to acknowledge it is there. I have run the faxaddmodem on both tty ports and moved the modem around the ports but I am unable to connect to it. The modem on the original com prot is working fine as you would expect.

Re: [newbie] libGL

2004-06-16 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 16:35, Cezary Morga wrote: Hi there, I've got this silly problem: when I'm trying to compile (or simple run) some programs that require libGL it happens that they look for libGL.la in /usr/X11R6/lib but I have it in /usr/lib. What should I do about it to make it

[newbie] Gainward fx5700 ultra

2004-06-16 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Has anybody got the Gainward fx5700 Ultra working with Mandy 10? I have not had a good Linux fix on my home PC for months now and to make matters worse I have somehow contracted a virus in windows (Normally all emails goes through Mandy). X just does not seem to be happy with the card at all. I

Re: [newbie] Sound issue

2004-06-16 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 17:09, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am a quite happy user of mdk 9.2. I am planning to move to mdk 10 Official. However, sometime ago, I installed mdk 10 CE and I experienced problems with sound. Therefore, I would like to know whether the sound problems,

Re: [newbie] libGL

2004-06-16 Thread Cezary Morga
Dnia ro 16. czerwca 2004 08:46, Ronald J. Hall napisa: Do a ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib That should do it. man ln will give you more info on linking files and folders. It helped. Thanks... Cezary Morga Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] OT/semi-lenghty: Any advice for a newbie programmer?

2004-06-16 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 18:06, Marv Boyes wrote: Hello, everyone. I realize that this isn't a developer's list, but I get the sense that there are more than a few developers here, and some of the sharpest people I've yet encountered online. I'm looking for some sage wisdom. ;) I haven't

Re: [newbie] OT/semi-lenghty: Any advice for a newbie programmer?

2004-06-16 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 01:58, robin wrote: Marv Boyes wrote: [snip] Everyone has their own favourite language which they will defend to the death against all others! Sir Robin Guard -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Serial Card Installation

2004-06-16 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 09:39, Tony S. Sykes wrote: I am on a lan and want to use the modem with Hylafax, so I just need the system to acknowledge it is there. I have run the faxaddmodem on both tty ports and moved the modem around the ports but I am unable to connect to it. The modem on the

Re: [newbie] Darkroom Linux

2004-06-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2004 01:15, John Richard Smith wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: In my attic are thousands of old 24x36 mm negatives who never made it to the darkroom enlarger. Furthermore, to set up a darkroom nowadays is almost impossible - at least where I live. So :

Re: [newbie] OT/semi-lenghty: Any advice for a newbie programmer?

2004-06-16 Thread Frank
And with your limited time, should you decide C then drop me a line, 'cause I'm interested and know that two heads are always better than one! ( Frank at Snapafun.co.nz ) [Have started reading 'Sams Teach Yourself C for Linux Programming. Hoyt is right - not easy but a manageable challenge.]

Re: [newbie] Sound issue

2004-06-16 Thread Paul Smith
I have a new install of 10.0 official w/updates . My sound is iffy. xmms dosent work niether does totem but real player works fine and some sound from events but then I always have sound problems, guess its because I dont understand the system very well. Should one expect that the reported

Re: [newbie] Darkroom Linux

2004-06-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 11:42, John Richard Smith wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2004 01:15, John Richard Smith wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: In my attic are thousands of old 24x36 mm negatives who never made it to the darkroom enlarger. Furthermore, to set up a darkroom

Re: [newbie] boot log?

2004-06-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 16:24, Eric Huff wrote: Is there a way to access the information that scrolls by as you boot up after booting is finished? If so, please tell me how? I I think you will find that in /var/log/dmesg Oddly, this is not the same as the output you get from the

Re: [newbie] Sound issue

2004-06-16 Thread Margot
Paul Smith wrote: I have a new install of 10.0 official w/updates . My sound is iffy. xmms dosent work niether does totem but real player works fine and some sound from events but then I always have sound problems, guess its because I dont understand the system very well. Should one expect

Re: [newbie] Sound issue

2004-06-16 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 05:12, Paul Smith wrote: I have a new install of 10.0 official w/updates . My sound is iffy. xmms dosent work niether does totem but real player works fine and some sound from events but then I always have sound problems, guess its because I dont understand

Re: [newbie] Darkroom Linux

2004-06-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2004 11:42, John Richard Smith wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2004 01:15, John Richard Smith wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: In my attic are thousands of old 24x36 mm negatives who never made it to the darkroom enlarger.

Re: [newbie] Un libro bueno en Linux

2004-06-16 Thread John Wilson
On June 15, 2004 11:21 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Tuesday 15 June 2004 06:40 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 11:27, Aron Smith wrote: So ya reckon the snarling little bastard is out picking pot, eh? I diddn say enuythang. Farmer-in the -dell High ho the merry-o

[newbie] [OT] proxy for nntp?

2004-06-16 Thread Todd Slater
Is there any way to use a proxy, like one might for http, to get around the download limits imposed by a free news (nntp) server? Not that I would ever *do* anything like that, mind you, just curious if it was possible. Todd -- Name that tune #10: Now a very great man once said that some people

Re: [newbie] OT/semi-lenghty: Any advice for a newbie programmer?

2004-06-16 Thread John Wilson
On June 15, 2004 04:06 pm, Marv Boyes wrote: Hello, everyone. I realize that this isn't a developer's list, but I get the sense that there are more than a few developers here, and some of the sharpest people I've yet encountered online. I'm looking for some sage wisdom. ;) I haven't done any

Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped

2004-06-16 Thread Johan Sch
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:00:54 -0700 Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johan Sch wrote: Hi list, It happened too me twice today .. urpmi taken permanent vacation after update .. it seems that it just wipes dependencies .. even its own .. after some years of using and trusting it I was let

Re: [newbie] Un libro bueno en Linux

2004-06-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 23:11, John Wilson wrote: Anyway back to the notion of harvest season, it may not be the right time of year to harvest a certain green herb that also has been known to make rope or clothing but at this very moment thousands of ancient hippies are decending onto

Re: [newbie] [HAB] 40 GB USB Drive

2004-06-16 Thread OOzy
On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 17:40, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: OOzy wrote: How can I install a 40 GB USB Drive? OOzy Is the drive partitioned/formatted? If so, I would plug it in, and then look for new directories in /mnt that should automaticly be created for it. If there are no

RE: [newbie] Proxy

2004-06-16 Thread OOzy
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 19:29, Tony S. Sykes wrote: You need to enable to proxy to ignore local ip addy's. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of OOzy Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 4:34 PM To: Mandrake Subject: [newbie] Proxy For me to go

Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files

2004-06-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Bill Shirley wrote: Maybe I didn't pay close enough attention, but it looked like you guys were using 'head' and 'tail' to output to a *.txt file leaving the original intact. Yes, the end result IS the important thing. However, not saying exactly what you want to do leads to misinterpretation.

Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped

2004-06-16 Thread eric jackson
- Original Message - From: Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped Johan Sch wrote: Hi list, It happened too me twice today .. urpmi taken permanent vacation after update .. it seems that it just wipes

Re: [newbie] Un libro bueno en Linux

2004-06-16 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 06:11 am, John Wilson wrote: On June 15, 2004 11:21 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Tuesday 15 June 2004 06:40 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 11:27, Aron Smith wrote: So ya reckon the snarling little bastard is out picking pot, eh? I diddn say

Re: [newbie] [HAB] 40 GB USB Drive

2004-06-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
OOzy wrote: On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 17:40, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: OOzy wrote: How can I install a 40 GB USB Drive? OOzy Is the drive partitioned/formatted? If so, I would plug it in, and then look for new directories in /mnt that should automaticly be created for it. If there are no

[newbie] libssl.so.0

2004-06-16 Thread OOzy
How do I know if this is installed on my LM9.2 or not? If not where can I can find it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Win partition write perm

2004-06-16 Thread martin brandt
Arg! This is hell. I have been trying to obtain write permission on my windows storage partition. I have tried chown-ing in a console (in su), i have tried changing via properties whilst logged in as root, i have tried in Control centre/security/DrakePerm by adding a new rule, modifying the

RE: [newbie] HOW TO: Create Local mirror of main, contrib updates ??

2004-06-16 Thread Jamie Kerwick
Hi Bryan, Thanks for this, I now have a fully working local mirror of main, contrib, jpackage and updates! (weighing it at just over 7GB, as its RPMS only, (no source RPMS). Next thing is to get my PLF mirror up and running. I noticed that they have a link on their site for if you would like to

Re: [newbie] Win partition write perm

2004-06-16 Thread Warden, Matt
On Jun 16, martin brandt had something to say about [newbie] Win partition... Arg! This is hell. I have been trying to obtain write permission on my windows storage partition. I have tried chown-ing in a console (in su), i have tried changing via properties whilst logged in as root, i have tried

Re: [newbie] HOW TO: Create Local mirror of main, contrib updates ??

2004-06-16 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 15 June 2004 09:08 am, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Has anyone managed to get a local mirror working ?? If so, can you let me know how you achieved this?? (oh and how much disk-space is used) Yes. Using Rsync, there are

Re: [newbie] Win partition write perm

2004-06-16 Thread martin brandt
Quoting Warden, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jun 16, martin brandt had something to say about [newbie] Win partition... Arg! This is hell. I have been trying to obtain write permission on my windows storage partition. I have tried chown-ing in a console (in su), i have tried changing via

Re: [newbie] libssl.so.0

2004-06-16 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 12:02, OOzy wrote: How do I know if this is installed on my LM9.2 or not? If not where can I can find it? As root issue the following command: 'slocate -u' wait untill if finishes and then issue locate libssl.so.0 if its installed it will show up. The locate

Re: [newbie] Good Mandrake Linux Book

2004-06-16 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OOzy wrote: What is rute.pdf. Where can I find it? Is it part of my LM9.2 distro? On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 12:49, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Tuesday 15 June 2004 03:49, OOzy wrote: Anybody can recommend a good Mandrake Linux Book or at least a good

Re: [newbie] Win partition write perm

2004-06-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 19:12, martin brandt wrote: Arg! This is hell. I have been trying to obtain write permission on my windows storage partition. I have tried chown-ing in a console (in su), i have tried changing via properties whilst logged in as root, i have tried in Control

Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped

2004-06-16 Thread Brandon Rife
eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Johan Sch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 3:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:46:42 -0400 eric jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From:

Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge

2004-06-16 Thread Richard Urwin
On Wednesday 16 Jun 2004 9:36 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:52:15 -0700 Eric Huff disseminated the following: Maybe i'll give gnoppix a looksy, too. If you do, and when you reboot after trying it out your host name is fuxored, turn off your comp and leave it off for about a

[newbie] Console command to format a usb pendrive?

2004-06-16 Thread Dennis Myers
Can anyone feed me the console command for bash to reformat a usb pen drive? It is fat 32 now and somehow write protected but has no manual write protection switch. Any ideas are appreciated. I think I have the commands from Running Linux but want to be sure so I don't screw this thing up any

[newbie] I can't send e-mails

2004-06-16 Thread Josenildo Marques
Hi. I installed 10.0. Installation was as smooth as it could be and I like it. However, I've got a problem with Evolution: it gives the following error message when I try to send an e-mail Erro ao executar operação: Falhou RCPT TO [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A transação falhou I can get messages. The

Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge

2004-06-16 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:49:44 +0100 Richard Urwin disseminated the following: If you do, and when you reboot after trying it out your host name is fuxored, turn off your comp and leave it off for about a minute. Apparently the settings can stay stuck in physical memory, learned this the

Re: [newbie] boot log?

2004-06-16 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 06:42 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: There is also /var/log/boot.log eric I think what would be more helpful than anything is a /var/log/WTF.log Well, that seemed to go over everybody's head. -- /g Want to buy

[newbie] What port scanning software is in use on the list?

2004-06-16 Thread Terence Golightly
List, I'm thinking about installing portsentry on my box to augment my shorewall firewall. I downloaded the gzipped source and got some compile errors. Before I try to post to the developer, does anybody know of an rpm for that? Is there a better port scanning program? What do yunz out there use?

[newbie] SCSI Detection problem

2004-06-16 Thread Bernardo de Barros Franco
Hello, I have tried to install Mandrake 9 and 10 to no avail, they both freeze after installing the module for the scsi controller, before (while?) detecting the scsi hds attached to it. The funny thing is that I got the installation cds for OpenBSD 3.3, Suse 9 and Red Hat 7.3 all to

Re: [newbie] burning an iso

2004-06-16 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:46:15 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for some reason k3b burned (10 and onlyb one cd now it won't burn any i have 10.0 official and ned to put it on cd so I can set up my new box HELP! Aron, I don't trust k3b. Use cdrecord: cdrecord -v -eject

[newbie] SCSI Detection problem

2004-06-16 Thread Bernardo de Barros Franco
Hello, I have tried to install Mandrake 9 and 10 to no avail, they both freeze after installing the module for the scsi controller, before (while?) detecting the scsi hds attached to it. The funny thing is that I got the installation cds for OpenBSD 3.3, Suse 9 and Red Hat 7.3 all to detect my

[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 to 10.0: Upgrade or fresh install?

2004-06-16 Thread Anguo
Hello, I have 9.2 which is fairly customized and I don't really want to loose all this with a fresh 10.0 install. I WILL back up and make notes on the most important stuff I have in /usr and /var that would be lost during a reformating of the drive, but a flawless upgrade would make many

Re: [newbie] SCSI Detection problem

2004-06-16 Thread Erylon Hines
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 08:45 pm, Bernardo de Barros Franco wrote: | Hello, | | I have tried to install Mandrake 9 and 10 to no avail, they both freeze | after installing the module for the scsi controller, before (while?) | detecting the scsi hds attached to it. | The funny thing is that I got

Re: [newbie] Console command to format a usb pendrive?

2004-06-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Dennis Myers wrote: Can anyone feed me the console command for bash to reformat a usb pen drive? It is fat 32 now and somehow write protected but has no manual write protection switch. Any ideas are appreciated. I think I have the commands from Running Linux but want to be sure so I don't screw

Re: [newbie] Can I install my own program on my web host

2004-06-16 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:49:10 +0300 OOzy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am actually trying to give my user form where they put the coefficient of a transfer function. Then my script will interact with ocatve. Octave then will plot the Bode Plot and hand it back as jpg to me. Aha. A bit more

Re: [newbie] I can't send e-mails

2004-06-16 Thread robin
Josenildo Marques wrote: Hi. I installed 10.0. Installation was as smooth as it could be and I like it. However, I've got a problem with Evolution: it gives the following error message when I try to send an e-mail Erro ao executar operação: Falhou RCPT TO [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A transação falhou I

Re: [newbie] I can't send e-mails

2004-06-16 Thread David
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:07:09 -0300 Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi. | | I installed 10.0. Installation was as smooth as it could be and I like | it. | However, I've got a problem with Evolution: it gives the following | error message when I try to send an e-mail | Erro ao