Re: [newbie] Dual Booting with Multiple Linux Distros (Mandi, Debian)

2005-04-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
or / partition, and give the full path to the kernel for each distribution, based on the mount point. In other words, if you mounted the Debian root directory on /debian, then the kernel would be /debian/boot/debial kernel. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy

Re: [newbie] Installation (program) problems

2005-04-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
to exectuable :( :( [fx: hangs head in shame] Now installed :) Elwyn Dumb question: is the script executable? Try sh /home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup

Re: [newbie] Installing new monitor

2005-04-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
and update the monitor settings. Then change the resolution. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

2005-04-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
the new KDE packages. It seams to break the 10.1 hotplug setup... Mikkel -- Remember: Sometimes the dragon wins! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)

2005-04-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
JR wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 03:09 pm, JR wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 12:21 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: JR wrote: I put mandrake10.1-Official on my friends desktop. His mouse doesnt work. It doesn't show up in harddrake (the gui tool). In fact, there is no mouse

Re: [newbie] Using the rm command

2005-04-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
standard in. You could probably do something like: for i in $(locate string ; do rm $i ; done or for i in $(locate string ; do rm -i $i ; done or for i in $(locate string ; do rm -f $i ; done Use at your own risk... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste

Re: [newbie] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)

2005-04-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
JR wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 12:21 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: JR wrote: I put mandrake10.1-Official on my friends desktop. His mouse doesnt work. It doesn't show up in harddrake (the gui tool). In fact, there is no mouse section at all, and it's not under peripherals. His mouse is a PS

Re: [newbie] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)

2005-04-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
with it... But Mandrake usualy finds a serial mouse without help. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Lilo on floppy

2005-04-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
. Any help would be appreciated. With 10.1, udev does not seam to create the additional floppy devices for the different floppy formats. But you should be able to use /dev/fd0 in place of /dev/fd0H1440 and have it work. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy

Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

2005-04-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Paul Smith wrote: On Apr 7, 2005 11:59 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Mikkel. Dumb question time - did the flash drive get mounted automaticly on /mnt/removable? This is what usualy happens when you plug one in. If you plug in a second one, it gets mounted on /mnt

Re: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1

2005-04-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
remember right, figure 3-4 hours for the kernel itself...) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
on the two outlets. The difference is usually not that great, but a 2 volt difference means a lot to computers. The problem is worse if you do not have properly grounded outlets. Mikkel -- Remember: Sometimes the dragon wins! Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Updating with RPM drake

2005-04-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
the mirror site, if you trust it, and install them. (rpm --import PUBKEY) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 04 April 2005 09:16 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Do you really want to start comparing who has the oldest hardware sitting around? I think there is a lady on this list that has us all beat. (Especial after I junked the model 33 teletype last year.) An ASR 33? I would

Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse

2005-04-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
that is different then the other boxes. When you change to the other box, the mode gets changed, but it doesn't get reset when changing back to the Linux box. Now, if you could figure out the mode the other boxes are using, and force the Linux box to use the same mode, you would be all set... Mikkel

Re: [newbie] Lost XWindows

2005-04-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
, instead of rebooting. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
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 the shell variables that can be set to change the way man displays things... Mikkel -- Do

Re: [newbie] Display problem

2005-04-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
mode, hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a command line interface login prompt. You can also get there by hitting the Esc key at the boot screen, and typing linux 3 at the prompt. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
want to start comparing who has the oldest hardware sitting around? I think there is a lady on this list that has us all beat. (Especial after I junked the model 33 teletype last year.) Mikkel -- Remember: Sometimes the dragon wins! Want to buy

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
that it could not find that command. Now, as far as you not being to read the IP tables man page, I can not check on what pakage the man page is part of at the moment, but if noone else fills in that part of the answer, then I will get back to you later on it. Mikkel -- Remember: Sometimes

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
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

Re: [newbie] SMC Barricade

2005-04-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
or at SMC. Thanks for any help that you can provide Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Have you considered that the card itself may not work? Has it worked with any other router? Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup

Re: [newbie] Sync PocketPC with Evolution

2005-04-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
/synce/ and http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce/kde/ This will get you started anyway. From what I have seen, syncing with PocketPCs is still in the early stages. It isn't to nearly as good as the syncing to Palm devices. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy

Re: [newbie] Burning 10.2 ISO

2005-04-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
as a user if you haven't gone through the configuration first - you have to set some parmissions and it will ask you for the root password to do it... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup

Re: [newbie] 10.2 on Dell d610

2005-03-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
on the second CD is set up with some different options, and works better for some hardware. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] starting slmodem automatically as root

2005-03-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
well for 2.6.x kernels. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] To Twiki Editors, Welcome to Newbie Manager and List-Members.

2005-03-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
the welcome message - filed and forgotten. You might want to think about adding a mailing list just for tips. That way, the people that are interested could subscribe, and the people that for what ever reason are not interested will not have to filter out extra messages. Mikkel -- Do not meddle

Re: [newbie] can't find /udev/hdc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

2005-03-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
is running, and the second should show any active supermount mounts. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Failed logins and access

2005-03-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Leroy Britton wrote: Yes that will log failed logon attempts, now can you tell me how to log failed access attempts? I need to log any access attempts that result in Permission Denied. Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Leroy Britton wrote: I am new to Linux. I have Mandrake 9.1 running and would like

Re: [newbie] can't find /udev/hdc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
. If you had tried mount /mnt/dvd-rw it probably would have worked. One thig I am a bit puzzeled about it the /udev directory. What version of Mandrake are you using? Did you add udev yourself, or was it part of the install? Was this a fresh install, or an upgrage? Mikkel -- Do not meddle

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
yourself, especialy with the CLI tools, you have to ether escape the space, or quote the name. This is because a space is normaly the seperator between file names, or parts of a command. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup

Re: [newbie] Location of a driver for a softmodem?

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Teilhard Knight wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Teilhard Knight wrote: The Alsa distribution contain a module which is the driver for my laptop (soft)modem. It was in the form snd-atiixp-modem.ko.gz in the directory /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdksmp/kernel/sound/pci. Now, I decompressed it and put

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-format the home partition. You can also have it save your extra data partition. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
which directory this relates to. [ See below ] This partition was being mounted on /mnt before we disabled it. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
tell the installer to leave it alone, and we can help you create a mount point for it later. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 04:12, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. I don't seem to find my way around there particularly well. My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 06:01, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosmary, If you are going to wait, but you don't realy feel like messing around with a lot of stuff in the mean time, we can get you a system that will boot, and that you can work with, withoug getting

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
there, then mount point is missing. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] Editing files as SU with Kword

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 17:53, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: The reason has to do with X server security. Normally, only the user that owns the current X secession can have programs connect to it. Starting an X based program requires that it connect to an X server. Now, the user

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Easy fix. As root, run mkdir /mnt/cdrom. All will be good. I broke this when I had you change how /dev/hda6 got mounted. It may have broke a couple of other things. The reasion is that the mount points for other

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 09:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Easy fix. As root, run mkdir /mnt/cdrom. All will be good. I broke this when I had you change how /dev/hda6 got mounted

Re: [newbie] USB Wireless - Solved!

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
use it for a type III PCMCIA hard drive when I needed it, but there are times when I want to use more then one type II card. But it is still better then some of the new laptops that only have one type II sockets. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste

Re: [newbie] HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SOTL wrote: On Monday 28 March 2005 12:30, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: What file system were you using? How is the power source the systems are connected to? The laptop is battery powered but was plugged into the wall. The MSI box is not currently connected to a UPS. I have one location that I

Re: [newbie] Um, Cardbus Wireless recommendations

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
a try! TIA. You might want to take a look at http://tuxmobil.org/pcmcia_linux_types.html Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Failed logins and access

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
can also run lastb to get a listing of bad logins. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Location of a driver for a softmodem?

2005-03-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
with modprobe. Modprobe wants the module name, and not the module file name. So you never use the .ko.gz when giving modprobe the module to load. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup

Re: [newbie] Booting in I mode - attn Mikkel/Frank - originally USB card reader thread

2005-03-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hi Mikkel Finally remembered your email and went back and tried the above. I am in Mandrake after not starting ALSA. It also hung at starting sendmail so delected that too. Yes I had a problem booting a while back when following some instructions to attempt

Re: [newbie] df table file

2005-03-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
all the partition on /mnt, so that what would normaly be mounted on /mnt/empty would end up mounted on /mnt/mnt/empty, and so forth. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
interface, but this is just a guess at this point. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Assistance from newbies needed

2005-03-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
available] What do you think? Once I heard about it I found it helpful. Although even once I knew about it, I did find actually finding what I need difficult. For example Mikkel mentioned using rescue and console, and i could

Re: [newbie] Editing files as SU with Kword

2005-03-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
, and the X server will not let you connect. Running xhost + localhost or xhost localhost tells the X server that any program on localhost can connect without needing the keys. This is ok for a home system, but is a security risk on a more open system. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: Hi Mikkel: Rosemary has sent me directly some info which I think you ought to be privy to. Her lilo.conf gives the devfs=nomount append only on the one she appears able to boot with. ( albeit that it stalls at ALSA later ) Her append lines also include resume=/mnt/hda8

Re: [newbie] VNC Server startup script

2005-03-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
may not be installed. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] package manager for 10.1

2005-03-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend a package manager for 10.1 that allows me to look inside the rpm file to view folders and files. I liked kpackage in the older versions but I can't find it's equivalent. tia, Bill W. I use Mignight Commander (mc) for this. Mikkel -- Do

Re: [newbie] MySQL File Location

2005-03-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
are always at the beginning of the line, and normaly have a comment block before them. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] i586 v's i686

2005-03-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
, and the glibc libraries. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] OT: How to mount a Windows partition ~ OOps ~ error ~ tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /mnt2; tar xvf - )

2005-03-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
IDE interface hdf - Slave device on third IDE interface ... Depending on your BIOS, it may only have numbers for the devices on the first two IDE interfaces. The sirst IDE interface is sometimes called the primary and the second one the secondary IDE interface. Mikkel -- Do not meddle

Re: [newbie] SCSI card install for Trust Scanner.

2005-03-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Malcolm Candlish wrote: On Tuesday 22 Mar 2005 17:14, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Malcolm Candlish wrote: Hi, The system I use is Mandrake 10.1 86_64 . I used insmod to install module dmx3191d.ko for my scsi card which is necessary for my Trust Scanner. However I get the following return:- '-1

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Frank suggested I install explore2fs and post the fstab file. Here it is /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /mnt ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset

Re: [newbie] MySQL File Location

2005-03-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SOTL wrote: del Hi All Derek and Mikkel Thanks for the information. Derek sorry I did not mean to be insulting. I simply do not understand and am very happy for your help which I thank you very much for. I have checked I do not have a file called S90MySQL in any location. I especially checked

Re: [newbie] Invalid signatures on upgrade files

2005-03-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
size, bad md5sum as well as GPG signiture error. That says the downloaded file is totaly messed up. Ether that, or you don't have read access to it. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup

Re: [newbie] SCSI card install for Trust Scanner.

2005-03-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
modules, and will be shared by them if you have more then one loaded. modprobe dmx3191d Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
is going on with hda6, and where it should be mounted. But it is one problem that I do see, so fixing it should not hurt. (If it is susposed to be mounted of /usr, then we have to get it mounted correctly before the will boot correctly!) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you

Re: [newbie] Invalid signatures on upgrade files

2005-03-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
the space, then after all the machines are up to date, run urpmi --clean to clean up the cache. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] mp3s to wav/cd burning

2005-03-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Chris wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 10:13 pm, Smiley wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:00:09 -0600 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do people use for making music cds from mp3s? k3b I did with gnome-toaster five years ago :) There's also gdrdao (GUI

Re: [newbie] mp3s to wav/cd burning

2005-03-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Chris wrote: On Tuesday 22 March 2005 08:19 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I got into this thread a little late, kind of behind on reading, anyway, I use the below script in 9.0, called mp32wav. #!/bin/bash # mp32wav mp3file=$* mkdir wav for file in $@ ; do #echo $file wavfile

Re: [newbie] Useful URL for newbies

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
to be. There are still a lot of things you can do as root that will break the system. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Useful URL for newbies

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Duncan Anderson wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: There are some added protections to make doing that even harder now. When you type rm from the command line, you are actualy running rm -i thanks to a handy alias. So you would be asked to confirm every deletion. When you get asked about

Re: [newbie] mp3s to wav/cd burning

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Duncan Anderson wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I like to make scripts a bit more bullet proof... I would probably change it to: for i in *.mp3 ; do name=$(basename $i .mp3) mpg123 -s $name.mp3 | sox -f 44100 -w -s -c 2 - $name.wav done This way, it handles files with spaces in the name

Re: [newbie] mp3s to wav/cd burning

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Duncan Anderson wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: lower case names for local varables - so you don't break things if you deside to source the code from another script. Mikkel, Explain this to me, I don't quite follow your rationale here. I always use upper case for variable names so they can

Re: [newbie] Running apps on networked machine

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
to get some work done on the box. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] hostname change

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
riccardo wrote: On Monday 21 March 2005 09:41 pm, Carlton Matthew wrote: How do I change the PC host name ? ~ by editing the file:/etc/HOSTNAME best rgds Nope. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup

Re: [newbie] MySQL File Location

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
this is where you would set your data directory, and you would put my.cfg in the data directory you set in this file. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] MySQL File Location

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
/initscripts-7.61.1/sysvinitfiles. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] MD 10.1 System Halt During Boot.

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
in. If not, let us know, and we can explore other options. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
did before you had the problem is always a good place to start... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] KDE3.4 cannot shutdown

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
: chkconfig alsa off. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] mp3s to wav/cd burning

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
, but you never know. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] audacity

2005-03-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Aron Smith wrote: anyone know where libmp3lame.so is kept (lame is installed) audacity needs it for exporting mp3s [EMAIL PROTECTED] mikkel]$ locate libmp3lame.so /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
that is part of the KDE desktop is simple. This is because of the high level of intergration between the different parts. On the other hand, it definitly will be a learning experence. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup

Re: [newbie] DNS Name Server Issues

2005-03-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
the IP address of the router as your name server, and your gateway. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Re: mp3s to wav/cd burning

2005-03-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
; do lame --decode $i `basename \$i\ .mp3`.wav ; done; } handle names with spaces in them? Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] Adding Drives

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
one partition is not a problem. Depending on how big it is, and how you are planning to do backups, it may make since to split it up though. You may also want to use a chunk of the drive as a swap partition... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste

Re: [newbie] Samba Server

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
security set to user, and the force user option. That way, you can still have private home shares for each user, but that is just me... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want

Re: [newbie] Adding Drives

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Elwyn wrote: On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 15:25, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: What Journalized file system to pick is not a cut and dried decision. It depends on what kinds of data you are going to put on the drive, and who you are asking the question. So you will need to provide more information before

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
here in rpm(8). Add the following lines to /etc/popt if you wish to continue invoking rpmbuild from the rpm command line: It then goes into a table that you can read for your self if you are interested. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Tom wrote: hmmm... tell me more. # rpm --rebuild mplayer-fonts-1.0-10mdk.src.rpm ... snip ... Wrote: /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/noarch/mplayer-fonts-1.0-10mdk.noarch.rpm Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.1910 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + cd

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
that are printable...) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
that the package is at fault and will look for another source. Another question I have, is why I urpmi --install-src yield nothing. Thanks, JHM What happens if you run rpm --checksig kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm? This will check the package. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Well, on my 10.1 system, they are actualy in /usr/lib/rom/rpmpopt-4.2.2 and if I wanted to track it down, there is probably another file symlinked to it, that is defined in rpmrc, but I don't feel like going through all the effort. There are a lot

Re: [newbie] Cant find the printer

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
. Any Ideas Carlton Double check the printer cable? Chase out the gremlins? Get drunk? Just kidding... Does /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/autoprobe show anything? Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom wrote: That was mostly for my own curiousity, specially since Greg an Mikkel have some misgiving about usin 'rpm --rebuild' All I can say is Works for Me an always has I think the point is more that rpm --rebuild is calling rpmbuild to do the work. Because if this, if you do

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 20:08, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I usually put a pretty printed label on them anyway, so that is less of a problem. But one day I would like to get one of the printers that will print directly on CDs/DVDs. But they require printable CD blanks anyway. (I

Re: [newbie] bad signatures

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
signature error is true, but is not the real problem. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] FAT question

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
/sda in place of /dev/sda1 to create/mount a file system that would be the entire drive. It is not really a good idea, but it can be done. Some of the tools will complain about the missing partition table, but you don't have to have one. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons

Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
them? Thanks Rosemary If you are downloading it as an RPM package, then it will replace the old package. BOth urpmi and rpm -Uvh will remove the old package when installing a newer version of the same package. That is one of the nice things about the RPM package format. Mikkel -- Do

Re: [newbie] Doomed: KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
the packages out of the cache? I thought it only did that after it was sucessful in installing them. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
to be root. For example, I always build RPMs as a normal user. I think su to root to install them. If I am building a program for use only by my user, I will install in in ~/bin instead. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup

Re: [newbie] Install HP iPaq

2005-03-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
from the HPC, but I would like to get sync working that way as well. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

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