Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread Mr. Geek
Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 04 April 2005 05:22 pm, Mr. Geek wrote: Isaak, Get your hands on the latest version of webmin at www.webmin.com I thought that Mandrake changed the location of so much stuff that the default webmin was basically unusable for server administration. Am I wrong about th

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On April 2, 2005 05:26, Daniel Anderson wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 04:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 12:40 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: | I'm going back to my TRS80 model 4. | | Dan OMG! I had one of those. I think it cost- like - $1650, which

Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 06:48, Isak Lyberth wrote: > I have a computer where the graphics card is not supported by Xorg. > This anoys me to a great extend as i now have to use some other way of > administrating the server. What means do i have? > (the server is a Fujitsu-Siemens Econel 50 Primergy s

Re: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively

2005-04-04 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 04 April 2005 18:32, Paul Smith wrote: > > I do belive this is being discussed in some context in the expert list as > > well? Might be worth joining to follow the thread. > > Since nobody answered suggesting a firewall with that feature, it may > be very complicated to achieve that, in

[newbie] To su or not to su

2005-04-04 Thread Robert Yu
If I try to install a WIndows program with Wine, should I su to root before doing so? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com __

Re: [ml] [newbie] Which kernel?

2005-04-04 Thread Cameron MacDonald
Dave Ashmore wrote: Cameron MacDonald wrote: Hi I feel really silly for asking this, but what command do I use to find out which kernel I'm using? I know I've done it before, but I've got so many commands rolling around in my head like ball bearings , and I forget to add them to my list of "Re

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-04 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 04 April 2005 04:47 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > On April 2, 2005 05:26, Daniel Anderson wrote: > > On Friday 01 April 2005 04:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: > > > On Friday 01 April 2005 12:40 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: > > > | I'm going back to my TRS80 model 4. > > > | > > > | Dan > > > >

Re: [newbie] Which kernel?

2005-04-04 Thread mike
Cameron MacDonald wrote: > Hi I feel really silly for asking this, but what command do I use to > find out which kernel I'm using? I know I've done it before, but I've > got so many commands rolling around in my head like ball bearings , and > I forget to add them to my list of "Remember this!".

Re: [newbie] Which kernel?

2005-04-04 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 04 April 2005 20:05, Cameron MacDonald wrote: > Hi I feel really silly for asking this, but what command do I use > to find out which kernel I'm using? I know I've done it before, but > I've got so many commands rolling around in my head like ball > bearings , and I forget to add them t

Re: [ml] [newbie] Which kernel?

2005-04-04 Thread Dave Ashmore
Cameron MacDonald wrote: Hi I feel really silly for asking this, but what command do I use to find out which kernel I'm using? I know I've done it before, but I've got so many commands rolling around in my head like ball bearings , and I forget to add them to my list of "Remember this!". Than

[newbie] Which kernel?

2005-04-04 Thread Cameron MacDonald
Hi I feel really silly for asking this, but what command do I use to find out which kernel I'm using? I know I've done it before, but I've got so many commands rolling around in my head like ball bearings , and I forget to add them to my list of "Remember this!". Thanks Cam -- Closing the Wi

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-04 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On April 2, 2005 05:26, Daniel Anderson wrote: > On Friday 01 April 2005 04:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: > > On Friday 01 April 2005 12:40 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: > > | I'm going back to my TRS80 model 4. > > | > > | Dan > > > > OMG! I had one of those. I think it cost- like - > > $1650, which i

Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 04 April 2005 05:22 pm, Mr. Geek wrote: > Isaak, Get your hands on the latest version of webmin at > > www.webmin.com I thought that Mandrake changed the location of so much stuff that the default webmin was basically unusable for server administration. Am I wrong about that? -- /g

Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 00:25, Isak Lyberth wrote: > The server is a Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy Econel50, from the economic > series of their server > on their homepage they just state it as a integrated graphics card :( > the chipset-chip on the server has a cooling unit on, so i am unable to > tel

Re: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 4, 2005 11:01 PM, Stephen Furlong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is there some firewall (working through iptables) able to open > > > > selectively a port for a specific program and not to all programs > > > > installed? (Shorewall is not suitable for that purpose.) > > > > > > *

Re: [newbie] Excluding a certain package of begin installed

2005-04-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 04 April 2005 22:21, Paul Smith wrote: > On Apr 4, 2005 9:25 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there some way of excluding a certain package of begin installed > > > with > > > > > > urpmi --auto-select > > > > To always skip it, enter the package name in /etc/ur

Re: [newbie] Excluding a certain package of begin installed

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 4, 2005 10:44 PM, Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is there some way of excluding a certain package of begin installed > > > > with > > > > > > > > urpmi --auto-select > > > > > > To always skip it, enter the package name in /etc/urpmi/skip.list. There > > > doesn't apear to

Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread Isak Lyberth
The server is a Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy Econel50, from the economic series of their server on their homepage they just state it as a integrated graphics card :( the chipset-chip on the server has a cooling unit on, so i am unable to tell you which chipset it is. Also i can't see any modelnumbe

Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 04 April 2005 22:24, Isak Lyberth wrote: > H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > >On Monday 04 April 2005 22:48, Isak Lyberth wrote: > >>I have a computer where the graphics card is not supported by Xorg. > >>This anoys me to a great extend as i now have to use some other way of > >>administrating the se

Re: [newbie] Excluding a certain package of begin installed

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 4, 2005 10:21 PM, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 4, 2005 9:25 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there some way of excluding a certain package of begin installed with > > > > > > urpmi --auto-select > > > > > To always skip it, enter the package name

RE: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively

2005-04-04 Thread Stephen Furlong
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Angus Auld > Sent: 04 April 2005 11:10 > To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com > Subject: Re: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively > > > - Original Message - > From: "Angus

RE: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread Stephen Furlong
Is it an actual server or just a desktop machine? Either way, some indication as to what motherboard it contains should point us/you in the right direction for graphics card. Open the side panel off (if feasible) and look for any model numbers on the board.   Best of luck!   F

RE: [newbie] Boot manager

2005-04-04 Thread Stephen Furlong
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > mandrake.com] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 04 April 2005 16:35 > To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com > Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot manager > > On Sunday 03 April 2005 18:09, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > Could you

Re: [newbie] KWallet question

2005-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 19:17, John Michael Schneiderman wrote: > On Monday 04 April 2005 10:55, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I've saved a wrong login in kwallet. How can I get to edit the wallet? > > I'm probably overlooking the obvious, but I can't find it. > > > > Anne > > Go to Configure your desktop-

Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread Isak Lyberth
I have not found out what card it is, maybe someone else here knows which it is? it is anoying as the installation was the graphical one, and it looked fine. regards H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 04 April 2005 22:48, Isak Lyberth wrote: I have a computer where the graphics card i

Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread Mr. Geek
Isak Lyberth wrote: I have a computer where the graphics card is not supported by Xorg. This anoys me to a great extend as i now have to use some other way of administrating the server. What means do i have? (the server is a Fujitsu-Siemens Econel 50 Primergy server, with some new onboard graphic

Re: [newbie] Excluding a certain package of begin installed

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 4, 2005 9:25 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there some way of excluding a certain package of begin installed with > > > > urpmi --auto-select > > > To always skip it, enter the package name in /etc/urpmi/skip.list. There > doesn't apear to be a command line way to

Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 04 April 2005 22:48, Isak Lyberth wrote: > I have a computer where the graphics card is not supported by Xorg. > This anoys me to a great extend as i now have to use some other way of > administrating the server. What means do i have? > (the server is a Fujitsu-Siemens Econel 50 Primergy

[newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread Isak Lyberth
I have a computer where the graphics card is not supported by Xorg. This anoys me to a great extend as i now have to use some other way of administrating the server. What means do i have? (the server is a Fujitsu-Siemens Econel 50 Primergy server, with some new onboard graphics chipset. It has a

Re: [newbie] Excluding a certain package of begin installed

2005-04-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 04 April 2005 20:40, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > Is there some way of excluding a certain package of begin installed with > > urpmi --auto-select > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul Put the package name in /etc/urpmi/skip.list derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinux

Re: [newbie] Display problem

2005-04-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Michael Hahn wrote: I've been working on setting up a new system at work, using an older Linux box. The only trouble is the display settings for xwindows are not correct for the new monotor, and as a result, when I run startx, I get nothing but lots of moving horozontal lines. I found xorg.conf, bu

[newbie] Display problem

2005-04-04 Thread Michael Hahn
I've been working on setting up a new system at work, using an older Linux box. The only trouble is the display settings for xwindows are not correct for the new monotor, and as a result, when I run startx, I get nothing but lots of moving horozontal lines. I found xorg.conf, but I'm not sure what

[newbie] Excluding a certain package of begin installed

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Is there some way of excluding a certain package of begin installed with urpmi --auto-select Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www

Re: [newbie] Looking for some site for free web-publishing

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 4, 2005 11:41 AM, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, what I am wanting it is a site for publishing a HOWTO > > pass/forward ports for my modem/router. Since my modem/router has not > > any manual and there is no available HOWTO, I thought that writing > > myself the HOWTO w

Re: [newbie] KWallet question

2005-04-04 Thread John Michael Schneiderman
On Monday 04 April 2005 10:55, Anne Wilson wrote: > I've saved a wrong login in kwallet. How can I get to edit the wallet? > I'm probably overlooking the obvious, but I can't find it. > > Anne Go to Configure your desktop->Security->Launch Wallet Manager Double click on your wallet. Then you can

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 17:07, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > One thing you may want to do is take a look at some of the options in > /etc/man.conf and deside if you want to broaden the search path for man > pages. If you use the man command to look at man pages, you may also > want to look at some of

Re: [newbie] IRC channel, Mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 04 April 2005 14:13, Stephen Kühn wrote: > Hope to see some of y'all drop on by! Trouble is, I wanna go to sleep when you wake up;) Hah, you could've had us a day earlier with April-fool..now there's a missed oportunity!:) -- Good luck, HarM _

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 04 Apr 2005 05:04, rikona wrote: Hello Anne, Sunday, April 3, 2005, 1:25:11 AM, Anne wrote: AW> No man page matching to iptables found. Take a look at iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net - you might find it more useful than the man pages. Other similar stuff through Google,

[newbie] KWallet question

2005-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
I've saved a wrong login in kwallet. How can I get to edit the wallet? I'm probably overlooking the obvious, but I can't find it. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgphB2W5ZfDmQ.pgp Desc

Re: [newbie] Boot manager

2005-04-04 Thread poogle
On Sunday 03 April 2005 18:09, Teilhard Knight wrote: > Could you recommend a good boot manager, please? I mean, to boot several > OSs, but not relying on Lilo. Not Xosl, because it doesn't work together > with a Drive Overlay. > > Teilhard. Grub ? _

Re: [newbie] Strange thing when I try to make urpmi.update

2005-04-04 Thread Anders Lind
> You can't just do urpmi.update - you have to tell it *what* to update. > Either > > urpmi.update -a (which will update all the media you have enabled), or > > urpmi.update eslrahc (which will update only the medium named eslrahc) Now that would explain itthanks Margot *hugs* /Anders ___

Re: [newbie] Strange thing when I try to make urpmi.update

2005-04-04 Thread Anders Lind
LOL now that would explain it *crawls into a hole* but then again nobody else noticed eitherhowever the adding worked but not the updating, I get the same stupid message *mumbels* Thanks a bunch - Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, Apr

Re: [newbie] Strange thing when I try to make urpmi.update

2005-04-04 Thread Margot
Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, I am experiencing a very weird thing when I try to make urpmi.update, because I am at work I cannot make an update with the CD's in the drive, anyway, I have commented those rows out and just have Charles site left as a media, but when I do the urpmi.update I get t

Re: [newbie] Strange thing when I try to make urpmi.update

2005-04-04 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 23:03:26 +1000 Stephen Kühn wrote: > urpmi.addmedia eslrahc http://www.elsrahc.com/10.1/ > > with hdlist.cz You spell my name worse than I do urpmi.addmedia eslrahc http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/ with hdlist.cz Charles -- A black cat crossing your path signifies that

Re: [newbie] Strange thing when I try to make urpmi.update

2005-04-04 Thread Anders Lind
> Could be that his site is down? > Have you tried to manually connect to his site and get the list? > (either via web or ftp)? I can download the file manually via http. /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Strange thing when I try to make urpmi.update

2005-04-04 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:03, Anders Lind wrote: > > Why not remove ALL media, then re-add Charles site...?? > > > > Thanks Stephen, it could have worked LOL, now I get this error...when > Charles > have the time, maybe you could help me > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] urpmi]# urpmi.addmedia eslrahc http://

Re: [newbie] Strange thing when I try to make urpmi.update

2005-04-04 Thread Anders Lind
> Why not remove ALL media, then re-add Charles site...?? > Thanks Stephen, it could have worked LOL, now I get this error...when Charles have the time, maybe you could help me [EMAIL PROTECTED] urpmi]# urpmi.addmedia eslrahc http://www.elsrahc.com/10.1/ with hdlist.cz added medium eslrahc retrie

Re: [newbie] Strange thing when I try to make urpmi.update

2005-04-04 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 22:52, Anders Lind wrote: > Hello friends, > > I am experiencing a very weird thing when I try to make urpmi.update, > because I am > at work I cannot make an update with the CD's in the drive, anyway, I have > commented > those rows out and just have Charles site left as a m

[newbie] Strange thing when I try to make urpmi.update

2005-04-04 Thread Anders Lind
Hello friends, I am experiencing a very weird thing when I try to make urpmi.update, because I am at work I cannot make an update with the CD's in the drive, anyway, I have commented those rows out and just have Charles site left as a media, but when I do the urpmi.update I get the errormessage:

Re: [newbie] IRC channel, Mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 07:36, Anne Wilson wrote: > I have been asked to remind everyone that there is an IRC channel for > Mandrake, on Freenode. It was #mandrake, but is now ##mandrake. I haven't > tried it myself, but I'm told it is a good place to try when you need urgent > help. > > Anne

[newbie] PS2 wheelmouse

2005-04-04 Thread Lee Wiggers
Is anyone else having trouble with the logitech optical mouse in 10.1? I have used it, and am using it now on 4 boxes through a Belkin kvm switch. Win 2k, mdk through 9.2 worked fine, and the other three boxes continue to work properly. The 10.1 mdk uses a different driver and the mouse goes nut

Re: [newbie] Looking for some site for free web-publishing

2005-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 10:55, Paul Smith wrote: > > Actually, what I am wanting it is a site for publishing a HOWTO > pass/forward ports for my modem/router. Since my modem/router has not > any manual and there is no available HOWTO, I thought that writing > myself the HOWTO would help some people.

[newbie] Re: amaroK does not see xine

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 4, 2005 11:01 AM, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just installed amaroK 1.2.3, but it does not list xine as an > usable engine, contrarily to the previous version. Is this normal? Well, it does see xine if one installs amarok-xine Paul _

[newbie] amaroK does not see xine

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I have just installed amaroK 1.2.3, but it does not list xine as an usable engine, contrarily to the previous version. Is this normal? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.man

Re: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 3, 2005 9:02 PM, Angus Auld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there some firewall (working through iptables) able to open > > selectively a port for a specific program and not to all programs > > installed? (Shorewall is not suitable for that purpose.) > > **

Re: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively

2005-04-04 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: "Angus Auld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > > - Original Message - > From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com > Subject: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively > Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 16:15:01 +0100 > > > > > Dear All >

Re: [newbie] Looking for some site for free web-publishing

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 3, 2005 6:03 PM, Philippe Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Is there some site for free web-publishing? > If you mean blogging > http://www.blogger.com/start > >>>Sorry, I was not clear enough. I wanted to mean a free site for > >>>storing my own web-page. > >>Oh you mean host

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 03:44, RickSisler wrote: > > Yep, that works also, for some reason I wrote down in my "things to > > remember book" that the syntax is man:/"manpage name" > > man: also works for me .. but it shows this man:/ in the konqueror > handbook subject: Viewing Help, Man and Info Pag

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 08:36, SnapafunFrank wrote: > Someone might have already answered to this later in the thread but I > think want you need is: > > Open a new tab or page in konqueror and in the address bar type: > > Man:iptables > That's what didn't work for me, but man:/iptables does work. O

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 05:04, rikona wrote: > Hello Anne, > > Sunday, April 3, 2005, 1:25:11 AM, Anne wrote: > > AW> No man page matching to iptables found. > > Take a look at iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net - you might find it > more useful than the man pages. Other similar stuff through Google, >

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-04 Thread SnapafunFrank
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 19:47, RickSisler wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: For the comfort of my eyes I wanted to read man pages in konqueror, Anne, Mikkel, Does man iptables work from command-line? Hi, Rick.