[expert] [OT]: windows as proxy and linux as client
Hello, I work for a school in which we are using GNU/Linux in desktop for the students. Incredibly the servant proxy is still Windows since the school seemed to have it well thus. Now the question is: If I want to make use of Internet I put the machine Windows like gateway. Then I go to the configuration of the navigator and put the direction of proxy. The subject is: How do I do when in order to PC with linux uses proxy windows (it's the same computher that gateway) in order to use wget in a console either apt-get if use Knoppix or urpmi with Mandrake. I explain myself? And again I clarify, that it is an aberration to use Windows as proxy, but I have not decided it Do ... I explain myself? Thank you very much... -- Obed Liberty Software Libre al desktop http://obed.com.ar - Baje el manual para el nuevo usuario de GNU/Linux de http://www.obed.com.ar/doc/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [OT]: windows as proxy and linux as client
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 03:13 pm, Sergio Javier Belkin wrote: Hello, I work for a school in which we are using GNU/Linux in desktop for the students. Incredibly the servant proxy is still Windows since the school seemed to have it well thus. Now the question is: If I want to make use of Internet I put the machine Windows like gateway. Then I go to the configuration of the navigator and put the direction of proxy. The subject is: How do I do when in order to PC with linux uses proxy windows (it's the same computher that gateway) in order to use wget in a console either apt-get if use Knoppix or urpmi with Mandrake. I explain myself? And again I clarify, that it is an aberration to use Windows as proxy, but I have not decided it Do ... I explain myself? Thank you very much... This may not be as understandable to you as your English is to me, but here goes: Mandrake Control Center has a network configuration panel that includes DrakProxy that allows you to set proxies for http and ftp. I am pretty sure that setting such a proxy should work for urpmi and grpmi which is the graphical install program for Mandrake. Traffic for those two should be either ftp or http and those should match up with the proxies set in Drakproxy wizard. It may work as well for wget since that is an http transfer agent and it should use whatever proxy is set in the configuration files since it simply goes out on port 80. I am not as familiar with Knoppix, although I have done some work with it, but the theory is the same, provided Knoppix offers some method of setting a global type of proxy. If it does not, then there is a file in /etc/apt called apt.conf that is the configuration file for apt-get. If you add a line such as: Acquire::http::Proxy http://proxy.example.you:8080/;; you should be able to specify the proxy for apt-get to use when downloading packages. I would try this out and if you have problems, do a man apt-get and you should be able to get the proper settings from the man page for that application. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT - for shell mongers: how _not_ to list a file
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 00:29:33 +0200, jipe wrote: one easy way ... GLOBIGNORE=no_not_this_one then any glob like * will ignore this file bye jipe YIKES! Why use estoeric, shell specific stuff when the proper application of STANDARD (cross-shell) command will do: cd TheDirectory cp `ls -c1 | grep -v TheFileToExclude -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT - for shell mongers: how _not_ to list a file
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 00:29:33 +0200, jipe wrote: one easy way ... GLOBIGNORE=no_not_this_one then any glob like * will ignore this file Ok, lets see if I can type a coherent sentence WITHOUT hitting the send key stroke (apparently CTRL-E, which is end-of-line in xemacs..) cd TheDir cp `ls -c1 | grep -v theFileToExclude` theNewDir -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 04:28 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Should only effect the users system. As for Kwrite I used this as example. The print panel will be used for all programs that use kdeprint. Well, I just tried this with kedit and the headers still do appear, even though they do not appear any more in kwrite. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Servers...
Anyone know what the fsck Mdk is doing with the list servers...? They've recently been using: 80.67.180.167 azerty.mandrax.org 80.67.180.173 smtp.mandrakeonline.net and now: 80.67.180.172 mail.moondrake.net each time failing to properly setup rDNS until my filters start bouncing to postmaster@host... I've tried posting recently; to no avail, so I'll be surprised if this msg hits the list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:58, Anne Wilson wrote: It is forecast that the UK will have considerable power outages this winter, so I'm trying to get my ancient APC Backups to autoshutdown, in case I'm not around to catch it. Up to now it has just held the system going long enough for me to shutdown, but that's too risky if power cuts can be any time. So - I've installed apcupsd. I've gone through the conf file, and checked what I can, but the serial cable I had supplied with this unit doesn't indicate type at all. The documentation says that you can run apctest to check it. I can't find apctest, and it doesn't appear on either my installed list or installable list. I know that some of you run apcupsd, so do you have the test program, and if so, how did you find it? Anne First, are you sure that its supposed to be an executable? What I mean is it possible it's a test procedure not an executable that runs a test? urpmf yeilds apcupsd:/usr/share/doc/apcupsd-3.10.5/doc/manual/apctest.html is why I'm asking. tongue in cheek mode Second I'd like to comment on this recent trend of power outages. I realize that technology wise at least, California Style, and trends, have an ever increasing affect on the US, and even the world at large. During the summer of 2002 We here in California experienced a number of brown out's, and rolling blackout's. Next thing we know it's all the rage on the US east coast. Except they had to just go one better and really take down the whole east coast in one gulp. Now it seems according to what Anne is saying, this trend is spreading to Europe and England. Personally I'm flattered but I would like to point out that not everything we do here is worth copying. /toungue in cheek mode James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [OT]: windows as proxy and linux as client
Byan, Thanks for your answer despite my bad english! El Miércoles 27 Agosto 2003 02:32, Bryan Phinney escribió: On Tuesday 26 August 2003 03:13 pm, Sergio Javier Belkin wrote: Hello, I work for a school in which we are using GNU/Linux in desktop for the students. Incredibly the servant proxy is still Windows since the school seemed to have it well thus. Now the question is: If I want to make use of Internet I put the machine Windows like gateway. Then I go to the configuration of the navigator and put the direction of proxy. The subject is: How do I do when in order to PC with linux uses proxy windows (it's the same computher that gateway) in order to use wget in a console either apt-get if use Knoppix or urpmi with Mandrake. I explain myself? And again I clarify, that it is an aberration to use Windows as proxy, but I have not decided it Do ... I explain myself? Thank you very much... This may not be as understandable to you as your English is to me, but here goes: Mandrake Control Center has a network configuration panel that includes DrakProxy that allows you to set proxies for http and ftp. I am pretty sure that setting such a proxy should work for urpmi and grpmi which is the graphical install program for Mandrake. Traffic for those two should be either ftp or http and those should match up with the proxies set in Drakproxy wizard. It may work as well for wget since that is an http transfer agent and it should use whatever proxy is set in the configuration files since it simply goes out on port 80. I am not as familiar with Knoppix, although I have done some work with it, but the theory is the same, provided Knoppix offers some method of setting a global type of proxy. If it does not, then there is a file in /etc/apt called apt.conf that is the configuration file for apt-get. If you add a line such as: Acquire::http::Proxy http://proxy.example.you:8080/;; you should be able to specify the proxy for apt-get to use when downloading packages. I would try this out and if you have problems, do a man apt-get and you should be able to get the proper settings from the man page for that application. -- Obed Liberty Software Libre al desktop http://obed.com.ar - Baje el manual para el nuevo usuario de GNU/Linux de http://www.obed.com.ar/doc/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] XFS mount problems
Hello all, Can anyone help me diagnose why my previously working (reiserfs), now formatted with XFS, hard drives will no longer mount? I did the transition from reiserfs to XFS in diskdrake. It asked, and I allowed it, to write to my fstab file. As far as I can tell it wrote it correctly, but after a shutdown and unplug (to avoid damage in a lightning storm) the drives will no longer mount at boot, nor can I mount them manually. I used them for a few hours, copying 28GBs of data back and forth without any problems before I had to shutdown. The Pertinent lines in my fstab are: /dev/hdg1 /drive2 xfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hdh1 /drive3 xfs defaults 1 2 Here are the lines from my previously working configuration (before they were converted to XFS): /dev/hdg1 /drive2 reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/hdh1 /drive3 reiserfs notail 1 2 Any suggestions? -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ AMD Duron 1.3GHz | Mandrake 9.1 | Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdkduron KDE 3.1.3 | Mozilla 1.4 Mail Client Uptime: 22:55:00 up 1:35, 1 user, load average: 0.21, 0.15, 0.08 ___ All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] XFS mount problems
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:15, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Hello all, Can anyone help me diagnose why my previously working (reiserfs), now formatted with XFS, hard drives will no longer mount? I did the transition from reiserfs to XFS in diskdrake. It asked, and I allowed it, to write to my fstab file. As far as I can tell it wrote it Your fstab file does not matter at all in this context, which is to achieve a basic mount of the drives. The only reason an fstab file exists is so that parameters can be passed to mount by a script and approved by root. The main concern right now is, have your drives been corrupted. If mount cannot do a manual operation, then that means it's not seeing what it is supposed to be seeing when you make the attempt. Don't want to worry you but this isn't good. It's still probably something simple, though. To verify that this is or is not the case the next thing is you need to do is comment out everything pertaining to the partitions in question in fstab and start mount attempts manually, because at this point fstab is redundant and is only going to get in your way; at least until you achieve a successful manual mount. After you get rid or disable the relevant entries in fstab, again attempt to mount them xfs. If they won't mount xfs, then boot your 9.1 cdrom and go into rescue mode. NOW attempt to mount xfs. If it still won't go then try to mount them reiser. If that doesn't work... Well, give that a shot and we'll go from there. LX correctly, but after a shutdown and unplug (to avoid damage in a lightning storm) the drives will no longer mount at boot, nor can I mount them manually. I used them for a few hours, copying 28GBs of data back and forth without any problems before I had to shutdown. The Pertinent lines in my fstab are: /dev/hdg1 /drive2 xfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hdh1 /drive3 xfs defaults 1 2 Here are the lines from my previously working configuration (before they were converted to XFS): /dev/hdg1 /drive2 reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/hdh1 /drive3 reiserfs notail 1 2 Any suggestions? -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] XFS mount problems
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:15, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Hello all, Can anyone help me diagnose why my previously working (reiserfs), now formatted with XFS, hard drives will no longer mount? I did the transition from reiserfs to XFS in diskdrake. It asked, and I allowed it, to write to my fstab file. As far as I can tell it wrote it Your fstab file does not matter at all in this context, which is to achieve a basic mount of the drives. The only reason an fstab file exists is so that parameters can be passed to mount by a script and approved by root. The main concern right now is, have your drives been corrupted. If mount cannot do a manual operation, then that means it's not seeing what it is supposed to be seeing when you make the attempt. Don't want to worry you but this isn't good. It's still probably something simple, though. To verify that this is or is not the case the next thing is you need to do is comment out everything pertaining to the partitions in question in fstab and start mount attempts manually, because at this point fstab is redundant and is only going to get in your way; at least until you achieve a successful manual mount. After you get rid or disable the relevant entries in fstab, again attempt to mount them xfs. If they won't mount xfs, then boot your 9.1 cdrom and go into rescue mode. NOW attempt to mount xfs. If it still won't go then try to mount them reiser. If that doesn't work... Well, give that a shot and we'll go from there. LX With the fstab entries commented out. [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# mount -t xfs /dev/hdg1 /drive2 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdg1, or too many mounted file systems This is also what I see at boot. What could have happened to both of the drives to corrupt them, if that is the case? They were working like a dream before the shutdown. Could it be a kernel module problem? XFS is compiled as a module. Wouldn't that have kept it from working at all (even before the reboot) if that were the case? -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ AMD Duron 1.3GHz | Mandrake 9.1 | Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdkduron KDE 3.1.3 | Mozilla 1.4 Mail Client Uptime: 23:40:01 up 38 min, 1 user, load average: 0.41, 0.45, 0.23 ___ All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 18:30, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2003 04:28 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Should only effect the users system. As for Kwrite I used this as example. The print panel will be used for all programs that use kdeprint. Well, I just tried this with kedit and the headers still do appear, even though they do not appear any more in kwrite. Kedit seems to be less capable it doesn't give these options ... but kwrite does... go figure. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] XFS mount problems
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 20:49, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:15, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Hello all, Can anyone help me diagnose why my previously working (reiserfs), now formatted with XFS, hard drives will no longer mount? I did the transition from reiserfs to XFS in diskdrake. It asked, and I allowed it, to write to my fstab file. As far as I can tell it wrote it Your fstab file does not matter at all in this context, which is to achieve a basic mount of the drives. The only reason an fstab file exists is so that parameters can be passed to mount by a script and approved by root. The main concern right now is, have your drives been corrupted. If mount cannot do a manual operation, then that means it's not seeing what it is supposed to be seeing when you make the attempt. Don't want to worry you but this isn't good. It's still probably something simple, though. To verify that this is or is not the case the next thing is you need to do is comment out everything pertaining to the partitions in question in fstab and start mount attempts manually, because at this point fstab is redundant and is only going to get in your way; at least until you achieve a successful manual mount. After you get rid or disable the relevant entries in fstab, again attempt to mount them xfs. If they won't mount xfs, then boot your 9.1 cdrom and go into rescue mode. NOW attempt to mount xfs. If it still won't go then try to mount them reiser. If that doesn't work... Well, give that a shot and we'll go from there. LX With the fstab entries commented out. [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# mount -t xfs /dev/hdg1 /drive2 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdg1, or too many mounted file systems This is also what I see at boot. What could have happened to both of the drives to corrupt them, if that is the case? They were working like a dream before the shutdown. Could it be a kernel module problem? XFS is compiled as a module. Wouldn't that have kept it from working at all (even before the reboot) if that were the case? have you tried to rmmod the module and then modprobe or insmod it back (if it is buggered you might be able to tell this way.) Other question would be, is it loading correctly at boot? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] XFS mount problems
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:15, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Hello all, Can anyone help me diagnose why my previously working (reiserfs), now formatted with XFS, hard drives will no longer mount? I did the transition from reiserfs to XFS in diskdrake. It asked, and I allowed it, to write to my fstab file. As far as I can tell it wrote it Your fstab file does not matter at all in this context, which is to achieve a basic mount of the drives. The only reason an fstab file exists is so that parameters can be passed to mount by a script and approved by root. The main concern right now is, have your drives been corrupted. If mount cannot do a manual operation, then that means it's not seeing what it is supposed to be seeing when you make the attempt. Don't want to worry you but this isn't good. It's still probably something simple, though. To verify that this is or is not the case the next thing is you need to do is comment out everything pertaining to the partitions in question in fstab and start mount attempts manually, because at this point fstab is redundant and is only going to get in your way; at least until you achieve a successful manual mount. After you get rid or disable the relevant entries in fstab, again attempt to mount them xfs. If they won't mount xfs, then boot your 9.1 cdrom and go into rescue mode. NOW attempt to mount xfs. If it still won't go then try to mount them reiser. If that doesn't work... Well, give that a shot and we'll go from there. LX With the fstab entries commented out. [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# mount -t xfs /dev/hdg1 /drive2 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdg1, or too many mounted file systems This is also what I see at boot. What could have happened to both of the drives to corrupt them, if that is the case? They were working like a dream before the shutdown. Could it be a kernel module problem? XFS is compiled as a module. Wouldn't that have kept it from working at all (even before the reboot) if that were the case? More than once, when changing the filesystem type in diskdrake, I have had the experience of the format not being recognized after a reboot. For instance, the filesystem might come up looking like Linux Native in diskdrake or fdisk and doing mkreiserfs manually (and another reboot) does the trick. Do you see the partitions as xfs in diskdrake? Rolf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wanted us to know: OTOH, looking at this thread, I've learned that I can print pretty well anything direct to pdf, which is definitely worth knowing. How much does it cost to do a comparable thing in Windows? I'm just curious. - -- Blue skies... Todd Public key: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc scandal cannonball: you gonna wear your ferengi ears? :) Morph scandal: everyone knows its the year of the Romulan..*slap* scandal trust me to show up unfashionably dressed to a scifi convention Linux kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk 6 users, load average: 0.17, 0.13, 0.27 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc iD8DBQE/TC+RIBT1264ScBURAp76AJ9KnmzxwCqxV/zNEeDxZEuflB/3WACg3l5t bNqVpcoFSG9j6rrdy6+QH+k= =K9tF -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix and lookup failure
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miark wanted us to know: That did it! Thanks! Out of curiosity, why didn't that happen automatically when I installed Postfix? I thought that it was a part of the post install scripts, but looking at it, it's not. I assume that's because by default you don't want it to be able to receive mail for just any account. It forces the admin (you) to administer your machine properly. I can see that a gui to do this would be a nice addition though. - -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | I vowed revenge on the soul | | http://www.mrball.net | of Bingbong. | | http://faq.mrball.net |Doug Glanville on espn.go.com | Linux kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk 6 users, load average: 0.02, 0.08, 0.23 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc iD8DBQE/TDDrIBT1264ScBURAq/3AJ9ErZP/JOw7umjLBAVgY6YqEhpuewCfZ3dY Lj0lbDom1dI/h7oFYZGbIZA= =qZBl -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [OT]: windows as proxy and linux as client
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:13, Sergio Javier Belkin wrote: Hello, I work for a school in which we are using GNU/Linux in desktop for the students. Incredibly the servant proxy is still Windows since the school seemed to have it well thus. Now the question is: If I want to make use of Internet I put the machine Windows like gateway. Then I go to the configuration of the navigator and put the direction of proxy. The subject is: How do I do when in order to PC with linux uses proxy windows (it's the same computher that gateway) in order to use wget in a console either apt-get if use Knoppix or urpmi with Mandrake. I explain myself? And again I clarify, that it is an aberration to use Windows as proxy, but I have not decided it Do ... I explain myself? Thank you very much... Bryan's answer is a good one, but if it doesn't fix everything you'll find that most network applications do have the ability to configure a proxy. For wget, make a ~/.wgetrc. For links, go to Setup Network Options. So on and so forth. HTH, -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 19:52, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:58, Anne Wilson wrote: It is forecast that the UK will have considerable power outages this winter, so I'm trying to get my ancient APC Backups to autoshutdown, in case I'm not around to catch it. Up to now it has just held the system going long enough for me to shutdown, but that's too risky if power cuts can be any time. So - I've installed apcupsd. I've gone through the conf file, and checked what I can, but the serial cable I had supplied with this unit doesn't indicate type at all. The documentation says that you can run apctest to check it. I can't find apctest, and it doesn't appear on either my installed list or installable list. I know that some of you run apcupsd, so do you have the test program, and if so, how did you find it? Anne First, are you sure that its supposed to be an executable? What I mean is it possible it's a test procedure not an executable that runs a test? There's only a handful of options, so I just tried them all until it worked. Funny story -- at my new job I have an older RH 7.3 box and a newer WinXP box sitting side-by-side (Yah for synergy2.sourceforge.net!). I have to use the Winders box for a few applications, and since it's the one with resources to burn I'm also using it for the occasional stuff that needs doing. Generally this means Cygwin of course, but a growing amount of good GTK2 stuff is being ported to Windows :-) gaim and gkrellm are particularly important. Anyway, our power is less than stellar so I was given a little APC unit to go with these boxen. It's just barely got the oomph to handle both boxes for a few minutes without the monitors, so a graceful shutdown daemon is important. I figured what the fsck, drop the APC CD in to the Winders box and see what happens -- that's what they designed it for, right? Well, two reboots later it finally sees the UPS, but the supposed network functionality is broken and the service keeps barfing when the power blips. Turns out, apcupsd is ported to windows now. Fifteen minutes later, networked UPS is working just fine and the APC crap is uninstalled. Gotta like that. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] XFS mount problems
Rolf Pedersen wrote: More than once, when changing the filesystem type in diskdrake, I have had the experience of the format not being recognized after a reboot. For instance, the filesystem might come up looking like Linux Native in diskdrake or fdisk and doing mkreiserfs manually (and another reboot) does the trick. Do you see the partitions as xfs in diskdrake? Rolf Yes I do. -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ AMD Duron 1.3GHz | Mandrake 9.1 | Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdkduron KDE 3.1.3 | Mozilla 1.4 Mail Client Uptime: 00:55:00 up 34 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.09 ___ All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Fast Mandrake Downloder - New Release!
The troels team is very pleased indeed to announce the availability of a new fast Mandrake downloader (English only) - see sig below for the URL. You may now: Specify different exclude files for each download tree, Specify additional options to rsync. --delete is suggested for all tree downloads, and nothing for iso9660 CD image downloads. Run a number of downloads concurrently providing the destinations do not overlap (Caution: overlap not checked for!). Running a number of downloads concurrently makes sense when the source of network constriction is distant from you, so that a number of independent streams may be established. Download of the 9.2 trees is provided for when they become available. Fully supported by email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions and suggestions welcome. Have fun! -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] If you keep a green bough in your heart, the singing bird will come Get Fastest Mandrake downloader, English-only, from: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/ Click all ye faithful! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?
I sure would like to get away from kprinter. Hasn't been much of a priority, but i'll add this to my B list of things to try... Hmm - I don't know how much you can achieve from kmail - I haven't had time to play around - but in Mozilla, if you hit Print then Properties from the first screen, that is where I have xpp set. OTOH, as a one-off experiment, I put kprinter in place of it, and printed to pdf - no batch file required. I'll send the result to you (it's just too big to send to the list) Hah! Now i understand your other email better. I was thinking batch file because my computer is not very fast and kprinter always takes a long time to fire up. Partly it is because i am impatient, partly because i don't run kde... But, having discovered kprinter, i do set a lot of apps to print to it. eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?
OTOH, looking at this thread, I've learned that I can print pretty well anything direct to pdf, which is definitely worth knowing. How much does it cost to do a comparable thing in Windows? I'm just curious. I have been told that with pdf955 http://www.pdf995.com/ you can do it for free, and it works pretty well. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] XFS mount problems
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Hello all, Can anyone help me diagnose why my previously working (reiserfs), now formatted with XFS, hard drives will no longer mount? I did the transition from reiserfs to XFS in diskdrake. It asked, and I allowed it, to write to my fstab file. As far as I can tell it wrote it correctly, but after a shutdown and unplug (to avoid damage in a lightning storm) the drives will no longer mount at boot, nor can I mount them manually. I used them for a few hours, copying 28GBs of data back and forth without any problems before I had to shutdown. The Pertinent lines in my fstab are: /dev/hdg1 /drive2 xfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hdh1 /drive3 xfs defaults 1 2 Here are the lines from my previously working configuration (before they were converted to XFS): /dev/hdg1 /drive2 reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/hdh1 /drive3 reiserfs notail 1 2 Any suggestions? I've found the problem. diskdrake didn't change the fomatting of the drive when I converted (or thought I had) them from reiserfs to xfs. It only changed the entry in fstab. It was trying to mount reiserfs drives as xfs. When I thought I had formatted them I apparently didn't know that the Format button doesn't do anything. I haven't checked bugzilla for this yet, but I guess I will. That would explain why, as one poster suggested, manually creating the file system did the trick where doing it through diskdrake did not. I found out what was wrong by starting an install of Mandrake 9.2 Beta 2. It was reporting the file system as reiserfs-- contradicting what diskdrake was saying (xfs). Anyway... now to manually create the xfs partitions... Thanks everyone-- for the suggestions. -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ AMD Duron 1.3GHz | Mandrake 9.1 | Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdkduron KDE 3.1.3 | Mozilla 1.4 Mail Client Uptime: 02:50:00 up 6 min, 1 user, load average: 0.67, 0.44, 0.23 ___ All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Assist me educate the UK
Put your 02p/02c worth on the bbc site, please. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/h2/h2.cgi?find=%3C1061841126-16816.29%40forum2.thdo.bbc.co.uk%3E#mid Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Assist me educate the UK
Anne Wilson wrote: Put your 02p/02c worth on the bbc site, please. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/h2/h2.cgi?find=%3C1061841126-16816.29%40forum2.thdo.bbc.co.uk%3E#mid Anne I'll be there when it is open. What's up with that? What is their reasoning behind that? -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ AMD Duron 1.3GHz | Mandrake 9.1 | Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdkduron KDE 3.1.3 | Mozilla 1.4 Mail Client Uptime: 03:30:00 up 12 min, 1 user, load average: 2.67, 1.73, 0.81 ___ All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?
On Wednesday 27 Aug 2003 7:19 am, Eric Huff wrote: OTOH, looking at this thread, I've learned that I can print pretty well anything direct to pdf, which is definitely worth knowing. How much does it cost to do a comparable thing in Windows? I'm just curious. I have been told that with pdf955 http://www.pdf995.com/ you can do it for free, and it works pretty well. I don't know that one. I bought the full Acrobat 4.0 for £185, but that is much more powerful, allowing, for instance, editable pdfs for teamwork, to be finalised later. Soon after that PDF Factory came out, which is either free or low-cost - I can't remember which. I don't know, though, whether any of them could be used straight from a browser like this. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd
On Wednesday 27 Aug 2003 3:52 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:58, Anne Wilson wrote: It is forecast that the UK will have considerable power outages this winter, so I'm trying to get my ancient APC Backups to autoshutdown, in case I'm not around to catch it. Up to now it has just held the system going long enough for me to shutdown, but that's too risky if power cuts can be any time. So - I've installed apcupsd. I've gone through the conf file, and checked what I can, but the serial cable I had supplied with this unit doesn't indicate type at all. The documentation says that you can run apctest to check it. I can't find apctest, and it doesn't appear on either my installed list or installable list. I know that some of you run apcupsd, so do you have the test program, and if so, how did you find it? Anne First, are you sure that its supposed to be an executable? What I mean is it possible it's a test procedure not an executable that runs a test? urpmf yeilds apcupsd:/usr/share/doc/apcupsd-3.10.5/doc/manual/apctest.html is why I'm asking. That's the doc page. Half way down the first page it says 'If you don't know what cable you have, you can use the apctest program to determine the type of cable that you have'. tongue in cheek mode Second I'd like to comment on this recent trend of power outages. I realize that technology wise at least, California Style, and trends, have an ever increasing affect on the US, and even the world at large. During the summer of 2002 We here in California experienced a number of brown out's, and rolling blackout's. Next thing we know it's all the rage on the US east coast. Except they had to just go one better and really take down the whole east coast in one gulp. Now it seems according to what Anne is saying, this trend is spreading to Europe and England. Personally I'm flattered but I would like to point out that not everything we do here is worth copying. /toungue in cheek mode LOL. I understand that the problem here is that we have converted most of our power stations to gas, in the name of the environment. We have been relying on our own supply of natural gas, which is now running low. Because we had that resource we didn't created storage for gas - and the Not-In-My-Backyard pressure groups carry a lot of weight here - like the rest of Europe did, so if we have a cold winter there are going to be problems. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Assist me educate the UK
On Wednesday 27 Aug 2003 8:34 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Put your 02p/02c worth on the bbc site, please. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/h2/h2.cgi?find=%3C1061841126-16816.2 9%40forum2.thdo.bbc.co.uk%3E#mid Anne I'll be there when it is open. What's up with that? What is their reasoning behind that? LOL - this is the BBC! You can't expect them to be up to date g Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Bootspash with linus kernel
Which patch should I add to the linus kernel to have a bootsplash? Thanks Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Assist me educate the UK
On Wednesday 27 Aug 2003 8:34 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Put your 02p/02c worth on the bbc site, please. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/h2/h2.cgi?find=%3C1061841126-16816.2 9%40forum2.thdo.bbc.co.uk%3E#mid Anne I'll be there when it is open. What's up with that? What is their reasoning behind that? LOL - this is the BBC! You can't expect them to be up to date g They're open now - I've put my 2c worth in. Good luck to it, Anne! -- Trish Fraser, Sunbury, Australia Linux user #283226 counter.li.org cassiopeia up 3 days and counting kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bootspash with linus kernel
From: Olaf Marzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which patch should I add to the linus kernel to have a bootsplash? Thanks Olaf http://www.bootsplash.org/ Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] XFS mount problems
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 02:59, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: I've found the problem. diskdrake didn't change the fomatting of the drive when I converted (or thought I had) them from reiserfs to xfs. It only changed the entry in fstab. It was trying to mount reiserfs drives as xfs. When I thought I had formatted them I apparently didn't know that the Format button doesn't do anything. I haven't checked bugzilla for this yet, but I guess I will. That would explain why, as one poster suggested, manually creating the file system did the trick where doing it through diskdrake did not. I found out what was wrong by starting an install of Mandrake 9.2 Beta 2. It was reporting the file system as reiserfs-- contradicting what diskdrake was saying (xfs). Anyway... now to manually create the xfs partitions... Thanks everyone-- for the suggestions. If you might remember it was one of my last suggestions to mount the partitions as reiser. ;) LX -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT - for shell mongers: how _not_ to list a file
Am Wed, 27 Aug 2003 01:10:59 + schrieb Matthew O. Persico: On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 00:29:33 +0200, jipe wrote: one easy way ... GLOBIGNORE=no_not_this_one then any glob like * will ignore this file bye jipe YIKES! Why use estoeric, shell specific stuff when the proper application of STANDARD (cross-shell) command will do: cd TheDirectory cp `ls -c1 | grep -v TheFileToExclude because 1) I asked for a shell specific solution (= we're talking about bash, aren't we?) 2) modifying file globbing is much less overhead than having to invoke two extra commands 3) modifiying file globbing has the advantage that this works for all other commands that use the globbing features - which is IMHO very useful. happy hacking. udo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [OT]: windows as proxy and linux as client
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 06:11 pm, Sergio Javier Belkin wrote: Byan, Thanks for your answer despite my bad english! Trust me, your english is s much better than my spanish! -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Servers...
Pierre Fortin wrote: Anyone know what the fsck Mdk is doing with the list servers...? They've recently been using: 80.67.180.167 azerty.mandrax.org 80.67.180.173 smtp.mandrakeonline.net and now: 80.67.180.172 mail.moondrake.net each time failing to properly setup rDNS until my filters start bouncing to postmaster@host... I've tried posting recently; to no avail, so I'll be surprised if this msg hits the list. Hi Pierre, Hey! guess what? It made it... I've noticed a lot of the same thing going on, and had to readjust my firewall so's I could get mail from the lists. I don't know what they're doing unless they're redirecting in order to avoid worm traffic as much as possible. -- Mark If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless, Sharing is what makes them powerful. Registered Linux User # 186492 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd
Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 27 Aug 2003 3:52 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:58, Anne Wilson wrote: It is forecast that the UK will have considerable power outages this winter, so I'm trying to get my ancient APC Backups to autoshutdown, in case I'm not around to catch it. Up to now it has just held the system going long enough for me to shutdown, but that's too risky if power cuts can be any time. So - I've installed apcupsd. I've gone through the conf file, and checked what I can, but the serial cable I had supplied with this unit doesn't indicate type at all. The documentation says that you can run apctest to check it. I can't find apctest, and it doesn't appear on either my installed list or installable list. I know that some of you run apcupsd, so do you have the test program, and if so, how did you find it? Anne First, are you sure that its supposed to be an executable? What I mean is it possible it's a test procedure not an executable that runs a test? urpmf yeilds apcupsd:/usr/share/doc/apcupsd-3.10.5/doc/manual/apctest.html is why I'm asking. That's the doc page. Half way down the first page it says 'If you don't know what cable you have, you can use the apctest program to determine the type of cable that you have'. tongue in cheek mode Second I'd like to comment on this recent trend of power outages. I realize that technology wise at least, California Style, and trends, have an ever increasing affect on the US, and even the world at large. During the summer of 2002 We here in California experienced a number of brown out's, and rolling blackout's. Next thing we know it's all the rage on the US east coast. Except they had to just go one better and really take down the whole east coast in one gulp. Now it seems according to what Anne is saying, this trend is spreading to Europe and England. Personally I'm flattered but I would like to point out that not everything we do here is worth copying. /toungue in cheek mode LOL. I understand that the problem here is that we have converted most of our power stations to gas, in the name of the environment. We have been relying on our own supply of natural gas, which is now running low. Because we had that resource we didn't created storage for gas - and the Not-In-My-Backyard pressure groups carry a lot of weight here - like the rest of Europe did, so if we have a cold winter there are going to be problems. Anne how in the world is it possible that they could have been so short sited? I've been loosely following this stuff in the news and it's mind boggling. I'd expect this sort of thing from some US planners, but from cultures as mature as GB and Europe! -- Mark If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless, Sharing is what makes them powerful. Registered Linux User # 186492 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd
Anne, If you're using serial cable, better. I wasn't able to setup a apc ups with usb cable. If you allow me, despite not knowing to identify your cable type, use apcupsd version 3.8 (not 3.10 that come with MDK 9.1). The former version is quite less complicate to setup and so you can try by chance in the apcupsd config file to find out which cable you have. Other suggestion is to get apcupsd source code from apcupsd.org. There you'll get apctest. And then you may play out with apcupsd 3.10. Sorry if I couldn't help more. On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: It is forecast that the UK will have considerable power outages this winter, so I'm trying to get my ancient APC Backups to autoshutdown, in case I'm not around to catch it. Up to now it has just held the system going long enough for me to shutdown, but that's too risky if power cuts can be any time. So - I've installed apcupsd. I've gone through the conf file, and checked what I can, but the serial cable I had supplied with this unit doesn't indicate type at all. The documentation says that you can run apctest to check it. I can't find apctest, and it doesn't appear on either my installed list or installable list. I know that some of you run apcupsd, so do you have the test program, and if so, how did you find it? Anne -- -- Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva -- M.Sc - Dep. Física - PUC/RJ D.Sc - IBCCF/UFRJ Bolsista Pesquisador LAC-INPE São José dos Campos (SP), Brasil www.lac.inpe.br/~alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Servers...
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:23 am, many eyes noted that Pierre Fortin wrote: I've tried posting recently; to no avail, so I'll be surprised if this msg hits the list. I received this if it is any help. Charlie -- Of one thing it is said that is bad and of another it is said that is good. But there is nothing inherent in things that make them good or bad, for each thing's self is empty of independent existence. - Samantabhadra-bodhisattva-sutra This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1Beta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Servers...
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:54:46 -0400 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Fortin wrote: Anyone know what the fsck Mdk is doing with the list servers...? They've recently been using: 80.67.180.167 azerty.mandrax.org 80.67.180.173 smtp.mandrakeonline.net and now: 80.67.180.172 mail.moondrake.net each time failing to properly setup rDNS until my filters start bouncing to postmaster@host... I've tried posting recently; to no avail, so I'll be surprised if this msg hits the list. Hi Pierre, Hey! guess what? It made it... I've noticed a lot of the same thing going on, and had to readjust my firewall so's I could get mail from the lists. I don't know what they're doing unless they're redirecting in order to avoid worm traffic as much as possible. Looks like I got your message too -- **BUT** my mailer is bouncing a lot of list msgs coming from their recent addition (80.67.180.172 mail.moondrake.net) because they can't seem to add proper DNS entries before starting to use new servers -- Mdk does this everytime they add/change hosts... only after getting automated bounces from me do they eventually fix their DNS... :^P Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] postfix problems
Hi everyone I got some problems when i tried to install qmail (i already got postfix 20010228-p103working well) And the installation didn´t work, so i uninstalled qmail. I run a webserver on a Mandrake 8.1 machine, and usually get some e-mails from the server, but now i don´t. I think qmail, either deleted some postfixfiles, or changed them in the installing process. So my question is what to do? /kim
Re: [expert] XMMS plugins
Anyway, try EFXmms as it let you use several efect plugins at the same time: it shows the ones available and you select wich ones are to be in use. El mié, 13-08-2003 a las 04:48, Miark escribió: On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:21:42 -0500, John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's actually only using the one in the drop down box. The checkbox enables effect plugins in general...not all of them. John Drouhard I guess if I had click Apply when scrolling through them, I may have figured that out :-) Still, they should say Use plugin, singular. Thanks, Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Diego Dominguez __/\__ | | Andalucia /\ Spain \/ |__ __| \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Security settings advice/aid?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I currently run my laptop at security level 2 (default). I would like to beef it up but fear wrecking the useability of my system. In the past, if I simply select security level 3, for instance, it changes enough settings that basic things like running games or a number of other user apps becomes impossible as a user. I don't want this. What I want is to beef up my security without rendering games unplayable, thus, instead of doing an msec 3 or 4 I would like to tweak settings via Drakperm...but I fear unintended consequences. Can anyone offer advice on what settings to change that will take me beyond a generic msec level 2 towards a higher level without preventing basic, simple use by me as a user? I do not want to have to go superuser just to do things that should normally be doable by any user, and as I mention, in the past, setting the system to level 3 is enough to wreck useability (as a user). praedor - -- Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them that they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. - --Hermann Goering -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TMm3aKr9sJYeTxgRAi9pAKCXJgZu8fDxpg01Hd9EgFdILTh4hQCfcfTq KQHlL1hAA+30/Xfmcse0uGk= =chNj -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2003 04:28 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Should only effect the users system. As for Kwrite I used this as example. The print panel will be used for all programs that use kdeprint. Well, I just tried this with kedit and the headers still do appear, even though they do not appear any more in kwrite. Ronald, ?? Another thought squashed. I tried Kwrite, Kedit and Kate and the all have different behaviour. Kwrite works and has a full Kdeprint panel with all options but NO SPELL CHECKING. Kedit has spell checking but does not call the full Kdeprint panel with all options. Different programmer?? Kate has SPELL CHECKING and calls the full optioned Kdeprint panel.. Figure that. Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix problems
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:01:31 +0200 Kim Brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone I got some problems when i tried to install qmail (i already got postfix 20010228-p103 working well) And the installation didn´t work, so i uninstalled qmail. I run a webserver on a Mandrake 8.1 machine, and usually get some e-mails from the server, but now i don´t. I think qmail, either deleted some postfixfiles, or changed them in the installing process. So my question is what to do? /kim I never installed or worked with qmail; but postfix does replace sendmail... maybe qmail does likewise (check its docs)... if so, you'll have to re-install postfix. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] XFS mount problems
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 03:38, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 02:59, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: I've found the problem. diskdrake didn't change the fomatting of the drive when I converted (or thought I had) them from reiserfs to xfs. It only changed the entry in fstab. It was trying to mount reiserfs drives as xfs. When I thought I had formatted them I apparently didn't know that the Format button doesn't do anything. I haven't checked bugzilla for this yet, but I guess I will. That would explain why, as one poster suggested, manually creating the file system did the trick where doing it through diskdrake did not. I found out what was wrong by starting an install of Mandrake 9.2 Beta 2. It was reporting the file system as reiserfs-- contradicting what diskdrake was saying (xfs). Anyway... now to manually create the xfs partitions... Thanks everyone-- for the suggestions. If you might remember it was one of my last suggestions to mount the partitions as reiser. ;) LX well the good news is . data isn't lost. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 11:44 am, Larry Sword wrote: Ronald, ?? Another thought squashed. I tried Kwrite, Kedit and Kate and the all have different behaviour. Kwrite works and has a full Kdeprint panel with all options but NO SPELL CHECKING. Kedit has spell checking but does not call the full Kdeprint panel with all options. Different programmer?? Kate has SPELL CHECKING and calls the full optioned Kdeprint panel.. Figure that. Larry Dang, you'd almost imagine that a bunch of different people had written our favorite software/OS huh? lol! I guess I'll choose Kwrite then - I don't need spellchecking that badly, but those headers really need to go. I had always used kedit before because its perfect as a fast/light on the fly text editor/viewer. Thanks for all the input! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] urpmi problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to update/upgrade my KDE to the texstar 3.1.3 rpms. When I run urpmi kdebase kdelib kdegraphics kdenetwork it downloads about half of the required rpms (dependencies) but then craps out with: Installation failed, some files are missing: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libmp3lame0-3.93.1-2.1plf.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/kdelibs-devel-3.1.3-9.1tex.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/kdebase-kdm-3.1.3-4tex.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/notlame-3.93.1-2.1plf.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libqt3-3.1.2-9.1tex.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libopenslp1-1.0.11-3.1tex.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/kdelibs-3.1.3-9.1tex.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/kdegraphics-devel-3.1.3-1tex.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libarts-1.1.3-1tex.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/arts-1.1.3-1tex.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/kdenetwork-3.1.3-2tex.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/kdegraphics-3.1.3-1tex.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/kdebase-3.1.3-4tex.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/kdenetwork-devel-3.1.3-2tex.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/kdebase-devel-3.1.3-4tex.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/mdkkdm-9.1-27mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/liblm_sensors1-2.7.0-2mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/kdelibs-common-3.1.3-9.1tex.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/kdebase-nsplugins-3.1.3-4tex.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libarts-devel-1.1.3-1tex.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libqt3-common-3.1.2-9.1tex.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libqt3-devel-3.1.2-9.1tex.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/openslp-1.0.11-3.1tex.i586.rpm You may want to update your urpmi database I DID update my database. I just did it again, just now, and ran the same command again - yet I get the same mess above. How do I get past this? They MUST exist as it is in the list the urpmi itself generates based on what exists in the first place. praedor - -- Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them that they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. - --Hermann Goering -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQE/TPeBaKr9sJYeTxgRAin9AJjW6URR30VmF6YPde9irnpE+GfzAJwKXcem wD/Xk8t9MHvkQ6o6Ru6REQ== =EJHP -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix Mail server
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:14:39 +0100 Michael Lothian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'd like to set up my own Postfix mail server but... I'm not entirely sure how to. I have my own domain name (which is currently hosted) but I'd like it to point to my fixed ip instead. What would be the best way to do this? And how should I set it up etc? I'm in the process of setting up a new mailhost and plan to chroot it; but my current postfix is very anti-spam and documented at http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix I've heard that if it isn't set up correctly it's a spammers paridise is this true and if so how can I avoid it Make sure relaying is off -- of course, you'll need pop-before-smtp to allow mobile users to relay -- then again, some ISPs like mindspring/earthlink block port 25 from dialups -- that's also dicsussed on my pages. Thanks Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] FYI: Streamlined SSH access to different machines behind a singleIP
Since I just had to solve this problem with the help of google, I documented it here: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/AccessingMultipleMachinesBehindASingleIPAddress Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Assist me educate the UK
On Wednesday 27 Aug 2003 10:56 am, Patricia Fraser wrote: On Wednesday 27 Aug 2003 8:34 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Put your 02p/02c worth on the bbc site, please. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/h2/h2.cgi?find=%3C1061841126-168 16.2 9%40forum2.thdo.bbc.co.uk%3E#mid Anne I'll be there when it is open. What's up with that? What is their reasoning behind that? LOL - this is the BBC! You can't expect them to be up to date g They're open now - I've put my 2c worth in. Good luck to it, Anne! Thanks for all the support, folks Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Postfix Mail server
Hi I'd like to set up my own Postfix mail server but... I'm not entirely sure how to. I have my own domain name (which is currently hosted) but I'd like it to point to my fixed ip instead. What would be the best way to do this? And how should I set it up etc? I've heard that if it isn't set up correctly it's a spammers paridise is this true and if so how can I avoid it Thanks Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd
On Wednesday 27 Aug 2003 12:32 pm, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Anne, If you're using serial cable, better. I wasn't able to setup a apc ups with usb cable. If you allow me, despite not knowing to identify your cable type, use apcupsd version 3.8 (not 3.10 that come with MDK 9.1). The former version is quite less complicate to setup and so you can try by chance in the apcupsd config file to find out which cable you have. Yes, I'm on serial. Other suggestion is to get apcupsd source code from apcupsd.org. There you'll get apctest. And then you may play out with apcupsd 3.10. Sorry if I couldn't help more. I'll take a look at that in the morning, Alan. Thanks Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
