Re: [newbie] Hi, I cant boot up my mandrake 91

2003-10-28 Thread stormjumper
i believe it's the integrated Savage 4 video that causing the boot-up issues. try taking total ram - (video ram + 2), and setting the value during bootup like you said. in your case, try press F1, and type in linux mem=94M (i'm assuming you're using the full 32mb capability of the integrated

Re: [newbie] Hi, I cant boot up my mandrake 91

2003-10-28 Thread stormjumper
refer to my other post to the original poster. hopefully, you may yet find that the board is free of blame for this issue. hth - Original Message - From: racerpup2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 09:33 Subject: Re: [newbie] Hi, I cant boot up my

Re: [newbie] Serial port problem

2003-10-28 Thread stormjumper
- Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 04:30 Subject: Re: [newbie] Serial port problem Just to be repetitive on the list, have you set the PNP OS to no in bios? This lets Mandrake sort the IRQs for you. Or so I

Re: [newbie] downloadable 9.2 LG cdroms

2003-10-28 Thread stormjumper
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 17:22 Subject: Re: [newbie] downloadable 9.2 LG cdroms On Monday 27 Oct 2003 11:32 pm, Anarky wrote: the publicly avail ISO's aren't on the mirrors for another few

Re: [newbie] trackball and touchpad

2003-10-28 Thread stormjumper
for a start, you need to get both of them working, one at a time. after that, there are lotsa sites on the net stating how to use X with more than one connecting pointing devices. google for them. or try this one first http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree86-Second-Mouse/index.html pay particular

Re: [newbie] downloadable 9.2 LG cdroms

2003-10-28 Thread stormjumper
yes. using rsync with an rsync'able mirror. incidentally the first link produced by typing rsync mandrake iso produced a wonderful page as the very first link. Jim - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 21:18 Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] ICS, Shorewall stops rest of network

2003-10-26 Thread Stormjumper
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 15:47 Subject: [newbie] ICS, Shorewall stops rest of network It has taken me several months to work out that the reason I can't access the SAMBA server I have set up is because of the

[newbie] Mozilla Mail - turning off auto-mark mail item as read

2003-10-26 Thread Stormjumper
this is really stupid. try as i may, i can't seem to find the option NOT to mark mail as read once i click on it and it appears in the preview pane, (ie i want it to appear as new mail until i manually tell it otherwise) can someone tell me where this option may be hidden? thanks Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-25 Thread stormjumper
u're off wrong. ;-) it's not a bug. the kernel can only access approx 860mb directly. anything above that, and the memory needs to be accessed differently for the total amount of memory, using translation tables. this leads to a performance hit as every memory access takes around 3 reads or

Re: [newbie] MDK9.1 on P100/32Mbyte

2003-10-21 Thread stormjumper
hi Thomas, i can't help with your problem, but i can tell you that 9.1 installs and runs pretty ok on a 64mb ram machine, as long as you dun try to run KDE (and prolly Gnome, but i've never tried.) since it crashes after installing packages, you may wanna try install the absolute minimal number

Re: [newbie] list nazi: hijacking

2003-10-17 Thread stormjumper
offering solutions Stormjumper Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] list nazi: hijacking

2003-10-17 Thread stormjumper
There are areas on pages where discussion can take place, but I see no reason why they must be used for this purpose (leave that bit for the people looking for solutions, if you like). Just post comments to the list, and we'll see what can be done. Anne roger that. Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Genius Wireless Mouse and Keyboard

2003-10-15 Thread stormjumper
i make a few of assumptions, since your mail isn't really clear. 1. wireless usb keyboard works in linux, but not before linux boots up. there's a setting in BIOs that is pertinent to this. it's usually called USB Legacy Keyboard or something like that. turn it on, and see if you can then use it

Re: [newbie] Genius Wireless Mouse and Keyboard

2003-10-12 Thread Stormjumper
maybe you can tell us wat you tried, and what errors you got, and hopefully someone here can help you out. fwiw, i plugged a (Chicony brand) wireless keyboard and mouse set that's on 1 usb port, and it worked outright. and that's under mandrake 8.2. are you sure your usb is already working?

Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program

2003-10-10 Thread stormjumper
- Original Message - From: Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 06:32, julian wrote: [...snip] thanks for the explanations, Julian. picking up the process where the trouble starts: ./configure

Re: [newbie] mcc - security: options dun stick

2003-10-07 Thread stormjumper
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 18:00 Subject: Re: [newbie] mcc - security: options dun stick On Tuesday 07 Oct 2003 6:05 am, Stormjumper wrote: referring to Derek's post on 27 Sep 2003, regarding

[newbie] mcc - security: options dun stick

2003-10-06 Thread Stormjumper
referring to Derek's post on 27 Sep 2003, regarding exploits, i attempted to follow advice on putting an email address and clicking the check box for Security Alerts in Mandrake Control Center - Security - Basic however, the check box option reverts to unchecked (unticked) and the Security

Re: OT: s/w patents and cucumbers [WAS: [newbie] European Parliament votes for software patents.]

2003-09-25 Thread stormjumper
- Original Message - From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 20:25 Subject: Re: OT: s/w patents and cucumbers [WAS: [newbie] European Parliament votes for software patents.] To clarify myself : cucumbers don't care about the EP,

Re: [newbie] Downloading files

2003-09-23 Thread Stormjumper
- Original Message - From: Curt Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 02:06 Subject: Re: [newbie] Downloading files On Monday 22 September 2003 12:56 pm, Stormjumper wrote: |have you tried right clicking the link and doing a save

Re: [newbie] Downloading files

2003-09-22 Thread Stormjumper
- Original Message - From: Curt Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 22 September 2003 08:22 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: |On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 23:10, Curt Tresenriter wrote: | I'm trying to get some xmms skins but every time I hit the link to | d/l, the browsers download dialog box

Re: [newbie] ATRAC CD Walkman

2003-09-22 Thread Stormjumper
- Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 23:05 Subject: Re: [newbie] ATRAC CD Walkman I just wondered whether Sony had come up with some new format that enables more data to be written to disc. Like as not

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-21 Thread stormjumper
- Original Message - From: Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stormjumper wrote: i presume u're using the Epson C82, since that was model referred to previously in this thread. you compared the speed of printout for windoze and linux, but how's the quality

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select

2003-09-21 Thread Stormjumper
- Original Message - From: RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 02:47 Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:20:49 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The --update switch tells urpmi to update the

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select

2003-09-19 Thread Stormjumper
- Original Message - From: RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 23:40 Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select I don't understand the last part of your message. What is significant about the --update switch? The urpmi mini-howto says Once

Re: [newbie] Request Motherboard and CPU suggestions

2003-09-19 Thread Stormjumper
- Original Message - From: The Other [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 23:48 Subject: [newbie] Request Motherboard and CPU suggestions 09/06/03 Hello All, Perhaps the problems I was having installing MDK 9.1 was due to my hardware being

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-19 Thread Stormjumper
- Original Message - From: Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 01:33 Subject: Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer I have one and am very happy with it. Here's a link to it's page on epson.com.

Re: [newbie] Some mandrake 9.1 CD's

2003-09-17 Thread stormjumper
- Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 05:04 Subject: Re: [newbie] Some mandrake 9.1 CD's On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 22:28:02 +0200, Johan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I use mdk9.1 - have only first 4 cd's - downloaded

Re: [newbie] Updating URPMI itself.

2003-09-15 Thread Stormjumper
i have no direct answer to your question, but i seem to recall mandrake once released an updated rpm for urpmi, and it was installed properly using urpmi. so the answer is: probably safe. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [newbie] Article: 9/11-themed viruses hit the Net

2003-09-14 Thread Stormjumper
- Original Message - From: Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 09:59 Subject: Re: [newbie] Article: 9/11-themed viruses hit the Net So, does that mean that in windows a jpg can contain a virus, too? I think they're refering to the

Re: [newbie] Using LAME for ripping audio from Cd's

2003-09-14 Thread Stormjumper
- Original Message - From: Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 15:35 Subject: Re: [newbie] Using LAME for ripping audio from Cd's On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 01:16:00 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Scrape yourself off the

Re: [newbie] Running program through SSH

2003-09-11 Thread Stormjumper
- Original Message - From: HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 02:32 Subject: Re: [newbie] Running program through SSH On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:54:07 +0800 Stormjumper [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: er, joe, actually it doesn't. does

Re: [newbie] picture download tool

2003-09-11 Thread Stormjumper
the short answer is wget. use man wget or wget --help - Original Message - From: Liechti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 01:32 Subject: [newbie] picture download tool hi i need to download bout hunderts of pictures from a homepage. but

Re: [newbie] Running program through SSH

2003-09-09 Thread Stormjumper
- Original Message - From: HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 09:57 Subject: Re: [newbie] Running program through SSH On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 08:45:52 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I type this to run setiathome:

Re: [newbie] OT, how to improve your nick sig, WAS: DVD encryption

2003-09-09 Thread Stormjumper
- Original Message - From: Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT, how to improve your nick sig, WAS: DVD encryption laff well ya thats one way of doing things... I just think up um...diff album names,names of books or artists twist them around. Flowers for Femme

Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-03 Thread Stormjumper
the reason is mainly for system recovery IIRC. reiser fs support was marked as experimental in kernels, and some kernels may not be compiled with reiser fs. by comparison, it's hard to imagine anyone not compiling support for ext2 into any general purpose kernel, esp those used for the floppy

Re: [newbie] Dell TFT 17Flat Screen

2003-08-27 Thread stormjumper
hi John, er, just a slight correction here. a typical basic specfication for a crt is the vertical refresh rate. i believe that is what u're referring to when you mentioned 85. it should probably read as 85hz, ie 85 cycles per second. a typical recommended comfortable value for most pp is 75,

Re: [newbie] Way OT Celeron vs Duron

2003-08-14 Thread stormjumper
hate to disappoint you. there's no way a Duron will work on a motherboard where a Celeron was removed from. ;-) - Original Message - From: Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 20:11 Subject: [newbie] Way OT Celeron vs Duron I am putting a

Re: [newbie] fstab, windows folders and permissions

2003-08-14 Thread stormjumper
- Original Message - From: L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 10:11 Subject: Re: [newbie] fstab, windows folders and permissions On Friday 01 Aug 2003 7:23 am, Sharrea wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 02:02, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have

Re: [newbie] Shorewall config help.

2003-07-31 Thread stormjumper
i'm surprised no one has replied as yet. anyway, you need to edit /etc/shorewall/rules add the following line DNAT net loc:192.168.0.2 tcp 21 assuming 192.168.0.2 is the ip address of your windoze workstation. you can also visit www.shorewall.net. there is a wealth of good documentation,

[newbie] why is my Mandrake gateway crashing?

2003-07-08 Thread stormjumper
one of my mandrake machines always crashes hard, with the following message. Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c51ce0bc followed by memory information, flags, registers contents, call traces etc. and finishes with Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!

Re: [newbie] Iptables kernel question

2003-07-08 Thread stormjumper
you've to check a file called .config, containing options with which the kernel is compiled with. IIRC, it can be found in /usr/src/linux if you installed the kernel sources rpm. as a side note, i recall reading somewhere that future kernels will have the compilation options included WITHIN

Re: [newbie] defragmentation

2003-06-30 Thread stormjumper
to clarify the point abit, relating to Sir Robin's post below and David E Fox's post with the link to the Suse explanation, is it fair to start of by saying that ext2/3 does not need file defragmentation, as the expense of disk fragmentation? due to the way it grabs free space, there will always

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-06-26 Thread stormjumper
i'm not sure if this has been covered, but have you tried expert mode (or text mode)? i'm quite sure i've seen the option somewhere when installing 9.1, but it's been some time since. - Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June

Re: [newbie] Updated kernel

2003-06-26 Thread stormjumper
whatever it is, try not to reboot until you sort this out. (although since the two kernels are very similar, your system MAY survive a reboot) it appears that you have one or more entries in /etc/lilo.conf where the linux kernel (vmlinuz) isn't match properly to the initial ramdisk (initrd.img)

Re: [newbie] RPM: How to register a compiled prog (rox)

2003-06-22 Thread stormjumper
i suspect checkinstall may be what you're looking for although having not used it personally, i can only point you to it and hope it helps http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ also, if you've added your contrib sources properly, # urpmi checkinstall should get your the rpm for

Re: [newbie] kernal upgrade: bug or mis-installation?

2003-06-20 Thread stormjumper
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 04:08 Subject: Re: [newbie] kernal upgrade: bug or mis-installation? On Thursday 19 Jun 2003 8:31 pm, stormjumper wrote: snip shouldn't initrd.img and vmlinuz be pointing

[newbie] kernal upgrade: bug or mis-installation?

2003-06-19 Thread stormjumper
i suspect that my kernel installation has gone somewhat wrong, as symbolic links in /boot are in a mess. can someone verify this for me? following the mandrake advisory MDKSA-2003:069 - Updated kernel packages fix multiple vulnerabilities i downloaded kernel-2.4.21.0.18mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm,

Re: [newbie] favorite ssh for windows?

2003-06-17 Thread stormjumper
i second that reasons (amongst others): 1. single exe file 2. no messy install/uninstall 3. advanced configuration options - Original Message - From: Tim Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 23:54 Subject: Re: [newbie] favorite ssh for windows? Hi

Re: [newbie] Install - supported CD drive

2003-06-16 Thread stormjumper
i'm jumping in a little late on this, so forgive me if these points have already been covered. 1. did you check the md5 checksums of the downloads? 6f1581974e12420fef87868ed6caa31f Mandrake91-cd1-inst.i586.iso 87afe11ddef6b619866322aa0797e45f Mandrake91-cd2-ext.i586.iso

Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost

2003-06-16 Thread stormjumper
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 01:21 Subject: Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost sorry. simple...fresh download on all 3 ISO images, didn't move them around in my hard drive, which i

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically opening ports in Linksys router]

2003-06-16 Thread stormjumper
- Original Message - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 06:40 Subject: Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically opening ports in Linksys router] snipped Rikona has hit it. ICQ does this as well it seems as if

Re: Re[9]: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes?

2003-06-14 Thread stormjumper
, to issue a reboot command. hopefully at least the system would bring itself down gracefully, better than a hard reset would. - Original Message - From: rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: stormjumper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 03:32 Subject: Re[9]: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes

Re: [newbie] Comparing CDs - whats the best way of doing it?

2003-06-13 Thread stormjumper
this was covered some time back in the lists, so if you wan greater detail, you may need to search the archives a little bit. otherwise, as long as it works, the easiest method is md5 /dev/cdrom unfortunately, the consensus at that time is that on certain setups, it may fail with a

Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?

2003-06-12 Thread stormjumper
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 05:36 Subject: Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link? On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 8:52 pm, g wrote: Marco Verheul wrote: Does anybody know how to create a symbolic link?

Re: [newbie] seeking log analyser recommendation for shorewall

2003-06-12 Thread stormjumper
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 22:55 Subject: Re: [newbie] seeking log analyser recommendation for shorewall On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 18:24:41 +0800 stormjumper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually, i'm

Re: Re[7]: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes?

2003-06-12 Thread stormjumper
- Original Message - From: rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: stormjumper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 07:08 Subject: Re[7]: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes? Hello stormjumper, Wednesday, June 11, 2003, 1:42:02 PM, you wrote: s kill actually passes certain signals

Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?

2003-06-12 Thread stormjumper
- Original Message - From: eric huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 12:25 Subject: Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link? and that's probably where apropos comes in (see last line of included output) I was just about to mention apropos,

[newbie] seeking log analyser recommendation for shorewall

2003-06-11 Thread stormjumper
actually, i'm not very sure what i'm asking for, a log analyser or an intrusion detection system. the reason is, my /var/log/kernel/info has become abnormally large over the last 3 days, from 1.5mb between 1 Jun to 8 Jun, to 23++ mb between 8 Jun to now (11 Jun). the cause is due to shorewall

Re: Re[5]: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes?

2003-06-11 Thread stormjumper
kill actually passes certain signals to processes, and the default is to try to shut it down gracefully (using SIGTERM i think) the short of it, is you can try kill -9 process_id to forcefully bring it down. well, the long of it, for a start is to read up on signals, and the obvious places

[newbie] how do i download or re-install packages (using urpmi)

2003-06-03 Thread stormjumper
basically, my mdk 9.0 has been misbehaving, which i attribute to file corruption just before i replaced my failing hard disk. what i've been doing, is to download and reinstall packages manually, WITHOUT uninstalling, cos of dependency issues, whenever the program exhibits symptoms (eg seg

Re: [newbie] Laptop Question

2003-06-03 Thread stormjumper
just a small correction. it's http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ - Original Message - From: Barry Premeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 4:07 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Laptop Question Cody Harris wrote: At 03:37 PM 6/2/2003 -0400, you wrote: On

Re: [newbie] OT, For apache users

2003-06-03 Thread stormjumper
this is not 2.0.46. this is 2.0.45mdk, with the 2.0.46 code for the vulnerabilities included ___ Package name: apache2 Advisory ID:MDKSA-2003:063-1 Date: June 2nd, 2003 Original Advisory

Re: [newbie] Another real Stupid Question

2003-06-01 Thread stormjumper
- Original Message - From: Steve Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 9:55 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Another real Stupid Question On Fri, 30 May 2003 19:43:24 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 07:36 PM 5/30/2003 -0300, you wrote:

Re: [newbie] Another real Stupid Question

2003-06-01 Thread stormjumper
- Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 6:49 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Another real Stupid Question On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 19:22, stormjumper wrote: - Original Message - From: Steve Jeppesen

Re: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-27 Thread stormjumper
cron and anacron are similar in that they run scheduled tasks in the background, but different in that cron runs them at their scheduled time(s) while anacron checks for missed jobs (at boot time), and run them after a specified delay. - Original Message - From: Technoslick [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates

2003-05-27 Thread stormjumper
if you have urpmi properly set up and working, setting a cron job to run, say, every morning at 3am urpmi.update -a urpmi --update --auto-select --auto should keep your system properly updated with security updates - Original Message - From: Cody Harris To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [newbie] Re: Moving directories

2003-04-05 Thread stormjumper
okay, i get it. thank you David, you just corrected my misunderstanding on path syntax in linux. so the the proper syntax is cp -a /home/* /mnt/home or cp -a /home /mnt btw, according to 'man cp' and 'cp --help' 'cp -a' does preserve permissions and ownership - Original Message

Re: [newbie] 9.1 upgrade, eth0 FAILED at boot

2003-04-05 Thread stormjumper
there either... - Original Message - From: Guy Rouillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 14:25 Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.1 upgrade, eth0 FAILED at boot On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 06:50, stormjumper wrote: hi Guy, can you try this an see if it works? from

Re: [newbie] 9.1 upgrade, eth0 FAILED at boot

2003-04-04 Thread stormjumper
hi Guy, can you try this an see if it works? from console, run dhcpcd as root # dhcpcd if it does, it's probably due the new hotplug option in 9.1 you can turn it off by running mandrake control center - Network and Internet - Drakconnect run the wizard, select expert mode, and in one of

Re: [newbie] Courier-imap

2003-04-04 Thread stormjumper
hi Mark, courier-imap wasn't included with mandrake 8.2 and 9.0, dunno about before that, but some kind soul always makes mandrake specific rpms, you can find it in the contribs directory of most mandrake FTP mirrors or at rpmfind.net ps. remember to vote for it during voting season for the

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-04 Thread stormjumper
: Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning On Friday 04 Apr 2003 8:35 am, stormjumper wrote: sorry, somewhat off topic, but how did you get your win98 to see the ntfs partitions? www.sysinternals.com have NTFS drivers for Win9x and even DOS. It'll cost $299 for read/write, but read only is free

Re: [newbie] correct way of setting hostname and using dhcpcd?

2003-03-29 Thread stormjumper
: Re: [newbie] correct way of setting hostname and using dhcpcd? On Saturday 29 Mar 2003 7:00 am, stormjumper wrote: thanks derek. i checked out /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 apparently DHCP is enabled, i think BOOTPROTO=dhcp so i was wrong in assuming that dhcp isn't

Re: [newbie] funny problem with FAT32 parition

2003-03-28 Thread stormjumper
you may want to try /dev/hda4 /d vfat auto,umask=000 0 0 or /dev/hda4 /d vfat auto,umask=007 0 0 if all it contains are data files and no linux executables/scripts. hope this solves your problem - Original Message - From: Srinivas V. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [newbie] correct way of setting hostname and using dhcpcd?

2003-03-28 Thread stormjumper
? On Friday 28 Mar 2003 4:20 pm, stormjumper wrote: i just set up a minimal installation of 9.1, using the normal install, but selecting a very limited number of packages and no X. during install, i wasn't asked for hostname and networking information, so although my network card

Re: [newbie] 9.1 final has been released

2003-03-25 Thread stormjumper
and every mirror i know is absolutely bombed out. i'm getting trickles of 1-2kb/s. lol, i wonder if there're any internet traffic monitors out there that can tell me if the release of mandrake 9.1 caused any great internet disruption. :) - Original Message - From: Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] 9.1 final has been released

2003-03-25 Thread stormjumper
wow. thanks to Anders Linds, bob, and David E Fox for all the ftp sources. never expected to recieve such helpful replies for an offhand remark on how slow my download was. anyway, now dl'ing at 10-15kb/s. nothing to rave about, but compare to the original 1-2kb/s. :) thank - Original

Re: [newbie] RC2 and networking

2003-03-12 Thread stormjumper
i'd hate to dash your hopes, but release candidates are there for people to try, so that bugs and issues can be ironed out. if you as facing such massive problems, and yet bear such high hopes on mdk 9.1 you SHOULD report the issues, (if they haven't already been reported) and try to find

Re: [newbie] RC2 and networking

2003-03-12 Thread stormjumper
- Original Message - From: Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 07:13 Subject: Re: [newbie] RC2 and networking On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, stormjumper wrote: i'd hate to dash your hopes, but release candidates are there for people to try

Re: [newbie] IPTABLES rules for Direct Connect ?

2003-03-02 Thread stormjumper
shorewall has taken a bashing on this list, with many suggesting alternatives, eg gshield, guarddog, firestarter, etc. i just wanna relate my own good experience. i was trying to configure my mdk 9.0 box to share my internet connection with a small home network consisting of 3 win9x pcs and 2

Re: [newbie] Opera7

2003-02-25 Thread stormjumper
i guess if your machine is overspec'ed and blazing fast, opera(7) may not offer considerable (performance) advantages compared to other browsers. in answer to the qn, for most pp, Opera will probably be faster than Konq. IMO however, on any botherline machines, say 500mhz down and 128mb or less,

Re: [newbie] crontab in 9.0

2003-02-24 Thread Stormjumper
i'm jumping into this a little late, but these are my observations. hope they help cron (in 9.0 specifically. dunno about the rest) seems to run itself every hour, or rather, check for new tasks every hour. i was going nuts trying to find out why my script which was supposed to run every minute

Re: [newbie] Dynamic IP

2002-12-03 Thread Stormjumper
hi Mark, ssh runs on port 22, so if you want to ssh into your machine, open port 22 on your router and forward it to the internal ip of your Mandrake box. to give my take on your original question, you can use the following combination for your webmail. Mail Transport Agent - postfix Imap -

Re: [newbie] Samba authentication. It won't let me in :(

2002-12-03 Thread Stormjumper
as a quick and simple fix, if you haven't done so, try enabling encrypted passwords in smb.conf. the syntax is to add in smb.conf in the [global] section encrypted passwords = yes in the default smb.conf shipped in Mdk , this line exists around line 100. if this doesn't help, install the

Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/

2002-12-03 Thread Stormjumper
running Mkd9.0. message-text is Ascii text file. message-graphic is a binary file. - Original Message - From: Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 12:33 AM Subject: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/ Greetings, I am having a strange thing

Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/

2002-12-03 Thread Stormjumper
for default boot. - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 1:24 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/ On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 5:20 pm, Stormjumper wrote: running Mkd9.0. So am I message-text is Ascii text file

Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/

2002-12-03 Thread Stormjumper
, December 04, 2002 5:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/ - Original Message - From: Stormjumper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 04:47:21 +0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/ is that so? mine seems perfectly normal to me

Re: [newbie] Dynamic IP

2002-12-03 Thread Stormjumper
hi mark, i assume you're refering to me. and no, you didn't mail me off list, but on list. :) mandrake specific packages for courier imap and squirrelmail can be found at http://fr.rpmfind.net exact urls are (on one line)

Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/

2002-12-03 Thread Stormjumper
: Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 7:33 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/ - Original Message - From: Stormjumper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 06:06:02 +0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie

Re: [newbie] ADSL Modem not recognised

2002-12-02 Thread Stormjumper
: [newbie] ADSL Modem not recognised Hi Stormjumper - my reply is a bottom of this lot - - Original Message - From: Stormjumper [EMAIL PROTECTED] i'm also trying to get my Speedtouch USB to work with Mandrake, ANY mandrake. Idea.list, you referred to documentation

Re: [newbie] Wonderful article about different Window Managers

2002-12-01 Thread Stormjumper
well, honestly, i felt the article was kinda light too. but thanks to the article and the original poster (thank you Stephen) i saw enough to give fvwm another look, and i'm impressed. it certainly has (suddenly?) come a long way since i gave up on it 2-3 years back. looks like i'm gonna be off

Re: [newbie] ADSL Modem not recognised

2002-12-01 Thread Stormjumper
i'm also trying to get my Speedtouch USB to work with Mandrake, ANY mandrake. Idea.list, you referred to documentation that accompanied the packages. i assume you refer to the Mandrake specific packages. can i find out where to find those package specific documentation? as in which RPM they come

Re: [newbie] 9.0 mirrors

2002-11-24 Thread Stormjumper
i may be stating the obvious, but going to www.mandrake.com under downloads will start you off nicely. also, i just tried typing mandrake 9.0 mirror in google, and i got many valid links as well. On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 01:36:18 -0500 K. Spress [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for

Re: [newbie] shutdown: difference between stopping and shutting down

2002-11-24 Thread Stormjumper
thanks Stephen and Brian... :) On 25 Nov 2002 10:48:35 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 15:46, Brian Parish wrote: On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 20:29, Stormjumper wrote: was suddenly curious about this. when shutting down the Mandrake, and suddenly

Re: [newbie] sylpheed installation on Mandrake 8.1

2002-11-24 Thread Stormjumper
hello Wang Wei, if you're new to linux, if you're using Mandrake, it may be better to stick to using Mandrake specific rpms for installing software, instead of compiling from scratch. better still if you can find rpms specific for your version of Mandrake. you can find Mandrake 9.0 sylpheed

[newbie] shutdown: difference between stopping and shutting down

2002-11-23 Thread Stormjumper
was suddenly curious about this. when shutting down the Mandrake, and suddenly realised not all messages were made equal. some were listed as stopping while others shutting down eg. Stopping crond: [ OK] Shutting down APM daemon: [ OK] are there any significance to why they

Re: [newbie] Problem installing a program

2002-11-21 Thread Stormjumper
just wanna add on that fwiw, a reboot probably isn't necessary. just log-out and re-login. On 22 Nov 2002 01:18:16 -0600 Erik Farnsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe this should fix your problem. (If anyone out there spots an error, please correct as soon as possible for Chris!) In

Re: [newbie] question MCC, samba and /etc/init.d

2002-11-18 Thread Stormjumper
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 21:38, Stormjumper wrote: i'm wondering where samba is usually started in Mdk 8.2. the reason i'm asking is that everytime i wanna access my mdk 8.2 box from any windoze machine, i've to ssh in, and manually kill (as root) the most recent smbd

Re: [newbie] Moving /var/www to different drive

2002-11-18 Thread Stormjumper
i think what you suggested works i was doing that not too long ago, albeit with a slightly diff method. 1. mount the new hdd in a temp location, eg /mnt/new_hd 2. stop apache and a couple of personal crons that worked on /var/www 3. copy the stuff from /var/www to /mnt/new_hd 4. move /var/www to

Re: [newbie] question MCC, samba and /etc/init.d

2002-11-18 Thread Stormjumper
On 19 Nov 2002 08:15:31 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 07:46, Stormjumper wrote: thank you stephen. the issue is not so much my smb.conf, since killing the 2nd smbd process solves the problems. rather, i'm stumped as to which script/tool

Re: [newbie] Corrupt Database

2002-10-08 Thread Stormjumper
i think you can try # slocate -uv man locate tells you that that will create a new database from / as well as other options available. or you may want to check out the options in /etc/updatedb.conf and use #slocate -cv if all else fails, try deleting your current db file,

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