1. what OS are you using on home and office PC? Sometimes ago I had
problems formatting a vfat partition from Linux: it was not recognized
from DOS. I had to reformat it from DOS. Could it be that the
linux-formatted vfat partition was not visible from the office PC
bacause you accessed it
system-wide: /etc/profile.d/local.sh (if it does not exist, create it)
user: ~/.bashrc (if you use bash)
raf
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In which file do I set system wide path and in which file do I set path
only for specific user?
Thanks in advance.
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Scott,
it is used both ways, i.e to see linux disk from windows and viceversa.
In the former case you need the samba server, in the latter the client.
Paul,
I did this rather a long time ago so I'm not sure I really didn't have
to do any configuration for the client. Currently I only need to
Same here, had to copy /sbin/shutdown to /bin to make it visible to all
users, then chmod a+s /bin/shutdown to suid it. I'm using standard
security level, I wonder if in lower security level it's different.
raffaele
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I have been using Mandrake since
Yes, it was my first setup. hda (primary IDE channel 1) contained a
windows, hdb (secondary IDE channel 1) contained MDK8.1. Lilo installs
in the MBR of hda and boots both os without problems.
I don't remember the details since it was more than a year ago, but
since it was my first linux
It's because some people had problems burning the 700M ISO images on
older cd-writers, so for the 9.1 they decided to stay below 650M.
raffaele
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I just noticed 9.1 images are smaller then 9.0 and
wonder why is that.
Martin
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Those are typically executables. They are not associated with anything,
but must be run from the shell.
Open a shell (also known as terminal), change to the directory where the
.bin is located (with cd), then type ./filename.bin
raffaele
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What do I do with a .bin
on how how windows
names it.
rebboot and you'll have the nt bootloader booting both
O.S.
Hope this helps.
Ciao
Leonardo.
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scritto: Leonardo,
we installed lilo on the first sector of the /boot
partition, as
reccomended by the RH help for NT-linux
I'm helping a friend install RedHat7.3. I realize now how good the MDK
distributions are!
We are trying to have a dual boot with W2K. The problem is that after RH
installation, LILO does not show the W2K option. No problem, we think,
let's boot in linux and insert in lilo.conf the additional
That's what I thought, and I did exactly as you write. But, running lilo
to update the bootloader, we got the error message partition not found
or something alike, and the bootloader was not changed.
Thanks for the link, I was quite surprised seeing that ntfs is not
included in RH. I guess MDK
Leonardo,
we installed lilo on the first sector of the /boot partition, as
reccomended by the RH help for NT-linux coexistence on the same disk (in
case of W95/98-linux coexistance it reccomended to put lilo in MBR
instead), but I admit I did not understand why.
What's this difference between
Yes:
Linux Partition HOWTO
Partition-Rescue HOWTO
In one of the two (I think the first one) you'll find a rationale behind
the choice of a /boot partition. Both are available from the Linux
Documentation Project web site. Print and keep handy! :-)
raffaele
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Adolfo
I normally upgrade using the tarball from mozilla.org.
1. delete /usr/local/mozilla (don't know if it is necessary)
2. run the mozilla-installer you downloaded and untarred, as root
3. run mozilla as root, exit after it starts
4. run as normal user.
5. update the links to the plugins (Flash,
] wrote:
On Friday 07 March 2003 08:28 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
It has to be because it is in your home directory then. Even though the file
is owned by root, it is fully manipulateable (is that a word) by the user
that owns the specific ~/. Does that sound like a possibility?
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This is a good explanation, thanks! After your comment I checked man
chmod, I guess the explanation below is what you are referring to:
STICKY DIRECTORIES
When the sticky bit is set on a directory, files in that directory may
be unlinked or renamed only by root or their owner. Without the
I am not sure I understand all the details of your problem. But, msec in
levels above 3 does use crond to reset the directory permissions (among
other things, check: man msec and /usr/share/doc/msec-*/security.txt).
You can change this behavious modifying /etc/security/msec/perm.local
This file
Cervisia is a graphical front end to CVS, a software versioning system.
raffaele
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Thank you Sharrea for your help on my kdeinint problem, it works beautifully
now.
I also have something in my Preference Order called Cervisia. Just wondering
if anyone knows what this is?
R
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Raffaele
when i ping 127.0.0.1 all is ok i get replay.
when i urmpi i get
everything already installed
when doing the ps command i get
1364 ?S 0:00 xinetd -stayalive -reuse -pidfile
/var/run/xinetd.pid
3724 pts/2S 0:00 grep xinetd
there is a file call
that it _does_not_ contain any
only_from lines. If it does, delete them.
There's not much more to telnetd configuration.
good luck,
raffaele
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On Tuesday 25 February 2003 09:36, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
Raffaele
it seems that i can't start telnet service
when i do service
Assuming that you have the telnet server installed, you need to start it
(Mandrake Control Center, System tab, Services icon).
Also, I had a similar problem on the MDK PC I use at home, where I have
a modem Internet connection. I looks like if you don't connect to
internet, loopback port is
are empty
The last two are the least probable causes, unless you have messed up
with the security scripts. What level of security are you running?
raffaele
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On Monday 24 February 2003 11:33, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
Didn't work
any other idea's?
Gil
Assuming that you have
For IceWM (standalone, not within KDE), there's a configuration utility
called IcePref. There you'll find a Mouse Buttons tab where you should
be able to disable right click.
Or, you can edit directly ~/.icewm/preferences.
raffaele
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This is a multi-part message in MIME
Can't find compress on my MDK9.0. Does anybody know in which package it
might be located?
thanks,
raffaele
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Can your BIOS let you boot from the CDROM? If so, at the MDK splash
screen hit F1 and then type rescue. It should load a clean kernel image
from the cdrom and present you with a menu. I don't remember exacly
where, but at some point it will run fscheck (or let you do it manually)
on your
You need to use a preamp not only for boosting volume, but also for
equalizing the frequency response of the vinyl player head. If you don't
do it, the lower frequencies will be too low in volume, while the higher
frequencies will be too loud (see for example
http://www.paia.com/riaa.htm for a
To check the path(s), type
$ env | grep PATH
or
$ echo $PATH
I don't think java.rpm sets up the path to the executables. You can do
it by hand adding it to your .bashrc. Or, you can create a
/etc/profile.d/local.sh as root, and put those settings there, so they
will be loaded by all the users
Don't know if it makes sense, but have you tried
$ whereis g++
On my MDK9.0 I get:
g++: /usr/bin/g++ /usr/share/man/man1/g++.1.bz2
From your log looks like g++ is not installed. It could be in a
different package than gcc (i.e. gcc-c++)
raffaele
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below is the output
Found it! Thanks to your hint I checked the Cervisa web page and found
that it is included in the kdesdk package. That's why I did't find it
with a simple search within rpmdrake.
thanks again,
raffaele
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On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 18:13, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
If you can't
MDK8.2 included a KDE-based cvs client called Cervisia, which had some
bugs but was not bad.
It seems that MDK9.0 does not include it anymore (I wonder why), so I'm
looking for an alternative. Basically I need to be able to tag
directories and to checkout a tagged version - all the rest can
You probably did not format the hdb disk with
# mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdb1
I normally forget to do that when I change partitions or disks on my PCs
and get that same behaviour you describe :-)
How to recover:
The system uses /etc/fstab file do decide which disks/partitions to
mount at boot. Your
...and issue
#lilo
on the command line , otherwise changes do not take effect.
raffaele
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On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 04:55:07 -0600
Mr. VLE79E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How to configure LILO so it does not automatically run Linux.
Open up /etc/lilo.conf as root with your
it should also be possible to load the core dump file in the gdb and
backtrace the problem...
gdb -core=core file name
raffaele
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That's a great idea.
Thanks.
Stephen Kuhn wrote:
Try using an editor to look through the headers on the coredump files -
or use a
Wonderful, thanks a lot, it did the trick! I am always amazed of how
easily can Linux kernel be reconfigured, provided you know how... :-)
Could you post the link you found?
Thanks again, you where very helpful!
raffaele
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Try this line:
echo 0
If you don't want to use the MDK control center you could install one of
the diallers like kpppd (it's in kde-networking) or the gnome
equivalent, of which I don't remember the name, or any other dialler.
But be warned that pppd MUST run as root. That doesn't mean that you
must be root to
There is a gnome GUI front end to mysql and postgresql, it's called GDA.
It's in your MDK8.2 or 9.0 disks, you need to install the gda package
and the gda-mysql or gda-postgres packages. I installed but had not the
time yet to test it.
Has anybody tried GDA?
raffaele
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I tried them all, I'm out of resources...
I have a Trust 56K external modem. It worked fine with MDK8.2 and kppp
dialer, still works fine with Windows. Doesn't work with Linux since I
upgraded to MDK9.0.
I did not manage to configure the internet access using the control
center. Modem dials
in
originally.
J) Login and you wilkl find that the sound card is working.
HTH
Seedkum
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Ralph,
I think the problem is in all those 'none'. I think that keyword goes in
front of the entries which are not real devices, so you should remove it
from the cdrom and floppy entries.
Here is a good fstab, for example:
/dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda3 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
none
. Can anybody confirm? And who created
/dev/sound?
The board is still not displayed in Mandrake Control Center, but that's
not important as long as I can hear my MP3...
thanks again,
raffaele
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On Monday 30 September 2002 03:38 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
I have an old
Manager for
Mandrake 8.2. Am I doing something wrong? What can I do to fix it?
Iceburgh69
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I have an old ISA ESS1688-based sound card. That same audio card worked
fine in MDK8.2. After MDK9.0 installations, I see that:
- kernel detects an ISA PnP card, but does not seem to load the sound
modules (at least, I do no see any specific message in /var/log/info or
warnings)
- there is
Here's another possibility: I have separate partitions for /, /boot,
/usr and /home. When I chose this scheme, I thought 150Mbyte would
suffice for /. Later I discovered that Mozilla uses /tmp for temporary
download cache, so I cannot download more than approxinatively 100Mbyte
with Mozilla
Same here... I tried to download and compile the latest version, but had
compile errors in the htmldoc source (there's a call to a non-existent
FLTK function).
Then I discovered the MDK8.2 had the rpm included ;-)
raffaele
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I have once used a tool called htmldoc. The
I'm looking for a package to mirror a web site (i.e. able to parse the
html pages for links). Any suggestion? I have not seen anything in like
that in MDK8.2.
raffaele
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ok, thanks to an off-list reply I found wget and httrack. For sure ehe
first one is on the MDK cd, so I should look better next time
raffaele
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I'm looking for a package to mirror a web site (i.e. able to parse the
html pages for links). Any suggestion? I have not
I normally use
# mpg123 -w output filename.wav input filename.mpg
I'm not aware of an xmms pluging.
raffaele
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Is there a program or Xmms plugin that will convert mp3s to wavs?
I'm sure I used to have such a thing but I can't, for the life of me,
remember what it
grip is good for ripping (it uses cdparanoia) and compressing (I use
lame). Not as good as EAC for windows IMHO, unfortunately. The feature I
miss in grip is that it does not signal exactly where it eventually
encounters an error during the rip process, so you can judge if it is
fine or you
Something similar happens to me also with mozilla 1.0 on W2K. In my
case, .exe are renamed to .exe.jpg!
raffaele
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I had a wierd thing occur at work down loading the 9 beta 4 iso's. when they where
saved to disk they all had a .exe added to them. This is Mozilla 1.0 I
Check this out:
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/xwin/xkeys.html#remap
Basically, you can use
# xmodmap -pke | less
to read the current key map. Tilde key is identified there as asciitilde.
raffaele
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Another question (I already asked some days ago): in my keyboad there
How do I tell rpmdrake to use a proxy when fetching security updates and
the like?
thanks,
raffaele
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see below.
raffaele
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* When I run service inetd status I get inetd: unrecognized
service.
* When I run service xinetd status I get xinetd (pid 411) is
running...
inetd is superseeded by xinetd (eXtended inetd), so one excludes the
other.
After some fiddling with diskdrake I moved the / partition away from
hda1, dedicated that to FAT32, created an hda3 (primary) partion for
/boot and an hda6 for /.
Installation of WinME gave exactly the same result as before, i.e. I/O
error when I reboot :-( Only, this time I was more
I need to install WinME on a disk with MDK8.2 already installed on it.
With diskdrake I created a 3Gbyte primary partition of type FAT32 (LBA)
on unpartitioned space of hda. The new partition is seen as hda3 in
linux and C: with DOS fdisk.
Then, booting from a WinME rescue disk I install
and
overwrites the boot loader
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 09:51, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
/I need to install WinME on a disk with MDK8.2 already installed on it.///
/With diskdrake I created a 3Gbyte primary partition of type FAT32 (LBA) ///
/on unpartitioned space of hda. The new partition
. Some apps may kill it by mistake,
forcing new apps to fall back to OSS or ALSA for sound. Secondly, try launching
your app with 'esddsp' appended at the beginning, e.g.:
$ esddsp xmms
This should hopefully force the app to use ESD.
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:38:01 +0200, Raffaele Belardi
I am trying to use my MDK8.2/Gnome to learn foreign language (French).
To do this I need to:
1. hear a pre-recorded voice (from CD or from a .wav)
2. record my voice
3. listen to my voice recording
I tried yesterday with XMM + Grecord, I am able to listen to the CD/wav,
but I am having
or even http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php:
Direct root Login is disabled for Level 4 and 5
raffaele
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On Sat, 08 Jun 2002 12:27, et wrote:
On Friday 07 June 2002 06:21 pm, you wrote:
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 14:46:13 -0700
Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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phone
su
chmod a+s /usr/bin/mkisofs
chmod a+s /usr/bin/readcd
...sets the suid bit for thoese two files. xcdroast did the same on my
system. The No root configuration file found! is normal until you crun
xcdroast as root and configure it.
raffaele
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On Wednesday 05 June
make sure you connected the audio cable (4-lead with flat heads) from
the CD to the sound card.
raffaele
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Hi , My name is Igor Scerbina, I recently installed Mandrake linux OS
and am interested in learning as much as i can.
I am currently having trouble setting up
...but from the sun site you can only donwload version 5.2, and only
till some time in the near future when they will remove it from the
online site. 6.0 not for free, and thus cannot be downloaded from sun's
(or any other ) site.
staroffice 6.0 is based on openoffice 6.0, which is free.
That is strange, I am using currently using mozilla 0.99 with JRE 1.4
without problems.
Did you link the correct files (i.e. those under jdk1.x.x\jre\plugin, if
memory serves)? From mozilla, if you click on help-about plugins, do
the plugins appear correctly instaled?
raffaele
[EMAIL
I have a CDplayer and a CDRecorder on my PC. With MDK8.1 rpmdrake
ejected the CDRecodered tray, but really expected the cd to be in the
CDPlayer... It fooled me more than once!
That's now fixed with MDK8.2.
Could it apply to you ;-) ?
raffaele
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I noticed that I
I can't seem to find abiword in MDK8.2. Was it left out on purpose?
If so, anyone can suggest a lightweight MSWord reader (I use OpenOffice
for the full feature set)?
regards,
raffaele
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The only problem I see in your log is that you used 'dummy' mode flag.
That way cdrecord does a 'test' write, without turning the laser on: no
actual recording takes place.
If you are using a GUI front-end, check that the 'dummy' flag isn't set.
raffaele
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Hi,
I
No, you should not get an error during dummy write. I did not read
carefully your message, I saw the first error below, which seemed
corrected, but not the second one.
There is some other problem, but out of my scope. Sorry!
(but don't give up to widows yet!)
raffaele
Track 01: 21 of 650
How do you encode WAV into mp3 on MDK8.2? I know grip supports ripping
and encoding, but I didn't find a stand-alone tool like bladeenc in the
distribution. Any hints?
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lilo contains three different boot entries for the same kernel image.
Two of them are normal (label=linux and label=failsafe) the third I
don't know what it's for. Anyway, it doesn't look to me like you need to
delete any file from that.
Don't bother about the /proc directory, it is not a
To access the iso images from the hard disk, you first need to mount them:
mkdir /cdrom
mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop /home/cd_iso_file /cdrom
After this, you should be able to browse with kpackage (or with anything
else) into the iso's.
(see for example the CD-Writing HOWTO, chapter
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