Re: [newbie] Undelivered mail
I get one of these every time I post to the newbie list, and they all share the same common path. Here's the latest: i5DGIrO09036 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 17:18:53 +0100 I don't know who Andrew Cliffe is He has been subscribed for a long time (i have an oldish copy of the subscribe list). Probably just a dead account, though i don't know why my direct email didn't get bounced. I just removed him, but if it is still a good account, he has an email from me and he can get in touch to correct it. I only recently reset my newbie account to recieve mail (just too busy for awhile), so that's when i looked into this, but even then, it took me awhile to get to it. As for the note from sympa, For further assistance, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED], I fell for that. Never heard from the postmaster, nor has the problem been remedied. Yeah, a long time ago, after i tried most of the emails listed in the headers and got nowhere, Vincent hooked me up with Charles at Mandrake (who i can't find anymore) who gave me sub/unsub ability for issues like this. But then i figured out why no one listens: those addresses get so much spam. I had to just send them to trash. That's why i put the section in the weekly newsletter saying to email me for issues. eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [Software] Where did the Theme Manager go on KDE 3.2?
Hi Dennis, Those are the Icons Themes - not the general theme. Cheers, On Sunday 13 June 2004 18:59, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 13 June 2004 09:04 am, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi All, I was looking for the Theme Manager that used to be under the Look Feel Sub-Menu... Can't find it... I am running KDE 3.2 (Branch 20040204) on MDK 10.0 Official. I have a bunch of .ktheme files I would like to try out... Thanks ! Hi, go to configure your desktop icons, and you will see a tab for themes there. HTH -- ::. Amichai Rotman The Jerusalem Linux Club - Founder. UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 --- PLEASE READ: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PDF to IMG (JPG, GIF, etc)
Hi, Do you mean extract the image files from the PDF or something? I know if you used Photoshop (I know, its not Linux) you can import PDF and convert to PSD/JPG (any supported image file). Does Gimp have any features like this? You could try using some software to convert PDF to HTML, and then extract the images Ali On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 05:54, OOzy wrote: Is there a program incldued in LM9.2 distro that converts PDF to IMG i.e. JPG, GIF, etc? __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] automatic batch editing of files
Hi all, I require some pointers for the following problem please: I have 100+ files of html code, ie: page0001.htm page0002.htm page0003.htm etc... but I need to remove the first 20 lines and the last 17 lines from each file and then save each with a .txt suffix. Where do I start with this? I used to do this sort of thing on much larger numbers of pages on my trusty Amiga using a DOS script and an editor with an AREXX port running over-night but not a clue how to even start on my Mandrake 9.2 box. As always, any help is much appreciated :) magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 10:15:29 -0400 Bryan Phinney disseminated the following: It's going to take heaps long for a desktop environment to get polished enough - not just candied up to hide the kluges and bandages. I've poured my heart and soul into linux - advocating it, pushing it, showing it's true merits - and currently I'm rather glad that those that come over to my place DON'T see Gnome or KDE (or the Java Desktop for that matter) as at least my XFCE w/ ROX sidebar look rather clean and nice and it's not a hog or a dog. Just as long as you are not selling them on GNU/Linux as you present it with the idea that a non-technical user can easily achieve the same thing. There are costs/benefits to everything, including the act of using an environment like KDE which works fairly well for some people out of the box with few changes, and the type of customized interface that is possible by someone who knows what they are doing. ...this is why I feel very strongly that Linux distros should make much more of an effort to either include more alternatives to KDE and Gnome in the default install, more than just one or two like Fluxbox (yech) or IceWM (double yech). IMO, XFCE should definitely be a part of the default install of any distro, it is the strongest contender for the simple and lighweight + ease-of-use competition. I just don't see the logic in presenting new users with only two (or in some cases only one!) WM/DE. The idea that making Linux look like Windows, or 'unifying the Linux desktop', will draw more users just doesnt' hold water. What will draw new users to Linux much more effectively is to show them that they have a variety of choices in the way in which they interact with their computer. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org 11:48:19 up 11 days, 22:10, 6 users, load average: 2.00, 1.82, 1.80 +++ Well, he might as well have been bombing Denmark. -- Gore Vidal, on the bombing of Afghanistan after 9/11 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Changing gnome icons
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 21:19, David Robertson wrote: How can I replace my Gnome (2.4) Trash icon with one of my choice - properties doesn't give me the option to use a custom icon? I've searched for the appropriate config file and googled, but no joy, so suggestions would be appreciated. David ~/home/yournamehere/.gnome-desktop/Wastebasket - it's editable; you can change: X-Nautilus-Icon=gnome-fs-trash-empty to whatever else...(sometimes it works, sometimes it don't) Used to be that Gnome was highly configurable (and not so bloated) - back in the pre-2.0 days - was my preferred wm/desktop, but nowadays, it's, well, just way too much bloat, not configurable as it used to be; but that's what the Gnome developers think is simple. Thanks for that. I haven't tried 2.6 yet but I believe it's worse from the configurability point of view. I don't really like KDE - too bloated for my liking - so maybe I'll go back to using WindowMaker eventually. David -- Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Serial Card Installation
On Monday 14 June 2004 17:02, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Hi All, I am trying to install a 2 port serial card. I have been googling and found some info but just need the steps made a bit clearer. I understand that I need the lspci -vv (below) to get the values for the card. I have also printed the dmesg output as well. I also read I need to MAKEDEV but I tried this and created a dev directory with the name of the new tty device I was trying to create. Any help, manuals would be a great help. Thanks, Tony. lspci -vv 00:0c.0 Serial controller: NetMos Technology 222N-2 I/O Card (2S+1P) (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550]) Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic: Unknown device 0002 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: I/O ports at d000 [size=8] Region 1: I/O ports at cc00 [size=8] Region 2: I/O ports at c800 [size=8] Region 3: I/O ports at c400 [size=8] Region 4: I/O ports at c000 [size=8] Region 5: I/O ports at bc00 [size=16] dmesg ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS4 at I/O 0xd000 (irq = 11) is a 16550A ttyS5 at I/O 0xcc00 (irq = 11) is a 16550A It seems to me the kernel found the two new serial ports named ttyS4 and ttyS5? HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Changing gnome icons
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 21:19, David Robertson wrote: How can I replace my Gnome (2.4) Trash icon with one of my choice - properties doesn't give me the option to use a custom icon? I've searched for the appropriate config file and googled, but no joy, so suggestions would be appreciated. David ~/home/yournamehere/.gnome-desktop/Wastebasket - it's editable; you can change: X-Nautilus-Icon=gnome-fs-trash-empty to whatever else...(sometimes it works, sometimes it don't) Ummm, I've just tried to do this - and I don't have /home/der/.gnome-desktop ? David -- Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Changing gnome icons
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 03:13, David Robertson wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 21:19, David Robertson wrote: How can I replace my Gnome (2.4) Trash icon with one of my choice - properties doesn't give me the option to use a custom icon? I've searched for the appropriate config file and googled, but no joy, so suggestions would be appreciated. David ~/home/yournamehere/.gnome-desktop/Wastebasket - it's editable; you can change: X-Nautilus-Icon=gnome-fs-trash-empty to whatever else...(sometimes it works, sometimes it don't) Ummm, I've just tried to do this - and I don't have /home/der/.gnome-desktop ? David What about: gnome-search-tool = Wastebasket ...see what that turn up...?? stephen kuhn - proprietor == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com mobile: 0410.728.389 -- 03:22:37 up 1 day, 7:46, 3 users, load average: 0.08, 0.11, 0.14 -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- This email is virus-free because we don't use Microsoft products Hewett's Observation: The rudeness of a bureaucrat is inversely proportional to his or her position in the governmental hierarchy and to the number of peers similarly engaged. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Changing gnome icons
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 03:13, David Robertson wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 21:19, David Robertson wrote: How can I replace my Gnome (2.4) Trash icon with one of my choice - properties doesn't give me the option to use a custom icon? I've searched for the appropriate config file and googled, but no joy, so suggestions would be appreciated. David ~/home/yournamehere/.gnome-desktop/Wastebasket - it's editable; you can change: X-Nautilus-Icon=gnome-fs-trash-empty to whatever else...(sometimes it works, sometimes it don't) Ummm, I've just tried to do this - and I don't have /home/der/.gnome-desktop ? David What about: gnome-search-tool = Wastebasket ...see what that turn up...?? Nope - tried that one -- Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Changing gnome icons
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 03:13, David Robertson wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 21:19, David Robertson wrote: How can I replace my Gnome (2.4) Trash icon with one of my choice - properties doesn't give me the option to use a custom icon? I've searched for the appropriate config file and googled, but no joy, so suggestions would be appreciated. David ~/home/yournamehere/.gnome-desktop/Wastebasket - it's editable; you can change: X-Nautilus-Icon=gnome-fs-trash-empty to whatever else...(sometimes it works, sometimes it don't) Ummm, I've just tried to do this - and I don't have /home/der/.gnome-desktop ? David Sorry - forgot versions - ok: /home/der/Desktop/Trash/.directory You can edit that file (.directory) stephen kuhn - proprietor == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com mobile: 0410.728.389 -- 03:29:49 up 1 day, 7:53, 3 users, load average: 0.02, 0.09, 0.12 -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- This email is virus-free because we don't use Microsoft products Breathe deep the gathering gloom. Watch lights fade from every room. Bed-sitter people look back and lament; another day's useless energies spent. Impassioned lovers wrestle as one. Lonely man cries for love and has none. New mother picks up and suckles her son. Senior citizens wish they were young. Cold-hearted orb that rules the night; Removes the colors from our sight. Red is grey and yellow white. But we decide which is real, and which is an illusion. -- The Moody Blues, Days of Future Passed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where to report incorect hardware identification?
On Monday 14 Jun 2004 15:48, David A. Ferguson wrote: Where to report incorect hardware identification? Mandrake 10 official is loading the wrong ethernet driver. The text in the 'Notice' is correct. It is a: Davicom Ethernet 100/10 MBit DM1902 The 'tulip' driver is incorrectly loaded. The proper driver is 'dmfe'. I think the Davicom is based on a tuplip core so the tulip driver almost works. Well at least it loads, but you can't transfer data with it. I am doing a network install and I can't even get it to get a DHCP address. Anyway, the correct driver is 'dmfe'. By using expert mode I can manually pick this driver and everything works fine. Who/where/how do I report this small configuration error so that others can benifit? Here are some relavent lines from the log: * PCI: device 1282 9102 needs full pci probe * PCI: device is actually 1282 9102 0291 8212 * PCI: device 1282 9102 is Davicom|Ethernet 100/10 MBit DM9102, driver is tulip * have to insmod tulip * needs tulip * succeeded tulip * NET: alias eth0 tulip Thanks...David https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/index.cgi Check to make sure it is not already logged before opening a bug report. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Serial Card Installation
Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Monday 14 June 2004 17:02, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Hi All, I am trying to install a 2 port serial card. I have been googling and found some info but just need the steps made a bit clearer. I understand that I need the lspci -vv (below) to get the values for the card. I have also printed the dmesg output as well. I also read I need to MAKEDEV but I tried this and created a dev directory with the name of the new tty device I was trying to create. Any help, manuals would be a great help. Thanks, Tony. lspci -vv 00:0c.0 Serial controller: NetMos Technology 222N-2 I/O Card (2S+1P) (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550]) Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic: Unknown device 0002 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: I/O ports at d000 [size=8] Region 1: I/O ports at cc00 [size=8] Region 2: I/O ports at c800 [size=8] Region 3: I/O ports at c400 [size=8] Region 4: I/O ports at c000 [size=8] Region 5: I/O ports at bc00 [size=16] dmesg ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS4 at I/O 0xd000 (irq = 11) is a 16550A ttyS5 at I/O 0xcc00 (irq = 11) is a 16550A It seems to me the kernel found the two new serial ports named ttyS4 and ttyS5? HTH, -Frans I think you are right. From the looks of things, Linux know how to handle that PCI card, and is assigning the ports to /dev/ttyS4 and /dev/ttyS5 (or /dev/tty/S4 and /dev/tty/S5) I believe the reason it is not using /dev/ttyS1 and /dev/ttyS2 is that there are addresses associated with /dev/ttyS0 through /dev/ttyS3 and they are not always detected at boot time, depending on boot parametors. (COM1 through COM4 in DOS.) So the PCI ports are assigned to the ports after them. Depending on what you are planning to use the ports for, you will probably be creating, or having the system create links to them from more descriptive names. (modem, mouse, pilot, camera, etc...) 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] MCC - gone.
On Monday 14 June 2004 16:04, Johan Sch wrote: Hi List, MCC is gone..no GUI..no mcc from console. Kindly please which rpms need to be re-installed to fix this . I have already gone via cd1 upgrade..no use. Urpmi was also gone but was restored by cd1 upgrade. Thanks If I recall correctly : drakxtools and (maybe) drakxtools-newt HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * http://www.haulrich.net * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files
magnet wrote: Hi all, I require some pointers for the following problem please: I have 100+ files of html code, ie: page0001.htm page0002.htm page0003.htm etc... but I need to remove the first 20 lines and the last 17 lines from each file and then save each with a .txt suffix. Where do I start with this? I used to do this sort of thing on much larger numbers of pages on my trusty Amiga using a DOS script and an editor with an AREXX port running over-night but not a clue how to even start on my Mandrake 9.2 box. As always, any help is much appreciated :) magnet You may want to use sed for the actual editing. You can also use head and tail to chop off x number of lines. Sed tends to be more powerful, and you can put all the editing options in one command file. As far as feeding the file to sed, consider something like: for i in *.html ; do NAME=`basename($I).html` sed -f $NAME.html $NAME.txt done (I may have some of the syntax wrong - it is that kind of day... But you should get the idea.) 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] Changing gnome icons
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 03:13, David Robertson wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 21:19, David Robertson wrote: How can I replace my Gnome (2.4) Trash icon with one of my choice - properties doesn't give me the option to use a custom icon? I've searched for the appropriate config file and googled, but no joy, so suggestions would be appreciated. David ~/home/yournamehere/.gnome-desktop/Wastebasket - it's editable; you can change: X-Nautilus-Icon=gnome-fs-trash-empty to whatever else...(sometimes it works, sometimes it don't) Ummm, I've just tried to do this - and I don't have /home/der/.gnome-desktop ? David Sorry - forgot versions - ok: /home/der/Desktop/Trash/.directory You can edit that file (.directory) Thanks Stephen OK - this is the modified /home/der/Desktop/Wastebin/.directory file - [Desktop Entry] Type=Directory Icon=/home/der/installfiles/icons/Trashbox.png EmptyIcon=/home/der/installfiles/icons/Trashbox.png Name=Trash Name[af]=Gemors Name[az]=Zibil Name[be]= Name[bg]= Name[bn]= Name[bs]=Smee Name[ca]=Paperera Name[cs]=Ko Name[cy]=Sbwriel Name[da]=Affald Name[de]=Mlleimer Name[el]= Name[en_GB]=Wastebin Name[eo]=Rubujo Name[es]=Papelera Name[et]=Prgikast Name[eu]=Zaborra Name[fa]= Name[fi]=Roskakori Name[fr]=Corbeille Name[gl]=Lixo Name[he]= Name[hi]= Name[hr]=Smee Name[hu]=Szemtkosr Name[is]=Rusl Name[it]=Cestino Name[ja]= Name[ko]= Name[lo]= Name[lt]= iukliad Name[lv]=Miskaste Name[mk]= Name[mn]= Name[mt]=Skart Name[nb]=Sppel Name[nl]=Prullenbak Name[nn]=Papirkorg Name[nso]=Seswaraditlakala Name[pl]=mietnik Name[pt]=Lixo Name[pt_BR]=Lixo Name[ro]=Gunoi Name[ru]= Name[se]=Ruskalihtti Name[sk]=K Name[sl]=Smeti Name[sr]= Name[sv]=Papperskorg Name[ta]= Name[tg]= Name[th]= Name[tr]=p Name[uk]= Name[uz]= Name[ven]=Tshikha Name[vi]=Thng rc Name[wa]=Batch Name[xh]=Inkukumo Name[xx]=xxTrashxx Name[zh_CN]= Name[zh_TW]= Name[zu]=Izibi Comment=Contains removed files I've replaced the two icon entries with the desired filename. Makes no difference, though, and every time I edit the file, it saves as .directory~ If I then rename to .directory, log out and restart Gnome - no change. I'm confused! Maybe I'll just keep the standard icon.Thanks for trying, though - any more suggestions? David -- Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files
On Monday 14 Jun 2004 7:08 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: magnet wrote: Hi all, I require some pointers for the following problem please: I have 100+ files of html code, ie: page0001.htm page0002.htm page0003.htm etc... but I need to remove the first 20 lines and the last 17 lines from each file and then save each with a .txt suffix. Where do I start with this? I used to do this sort of thing on much larger numbers of pages on my trusty Amiga using a DOS script and an editor with an AREXX port running over-night but not a clue how to even start on my Mandrake 9.2 box. As always, any help is much appreciated :) magnet You may want to use sed for the actual editing. You can also use head and tail to chop off x number of lines. Sed tends to be more powerful, and you can put all the editing options in one command file. As far as feeding the file to sed, consider something like: for i in *.html ; do NAME=`basename($I).html` sed -f $NAME.html $NAME.txt done (I may have some of the syntax wrong - it is that kind of day... But you should get the idea.) Mikkel Yes, your suggestions are perfect for what I need to do. Many thanks for the fast responce Mikkel. magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] amd64 iso???
I'm a standard member. I think I goofed because I can't find the ISO for mandrake 10.0 for the amd64 chip. where do I download it? bob lester Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MCC - gone.
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:06:57 +0200 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 14 June 2004 16:04, Johan Sch wrote: Hi List, MCC is gone..no GUI..no mcc from console. Kindly please which rpms need to be re-installed to fix this . I have already gone via cd1 upgrade..no use. Urpmi was also gone but was restored by cd1 upgrade. Thanks If I recall correctly : drakxtools and (maybe) drakxtools-newt HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- Thanks for your reply. Were already installed. Will now go for a new install. Lucky I save all updates to a spare partition. My home dir also saved to same spare part. Regards -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Forbbiden
I did create the .htaccess file and added allow from all but no help On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 23:58, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 13 Jun 2004 18:52, OOzy wrote: H, after solving the issue of linking my windows html (/mnt/Win/www) to /var/www/html, I got another issue which is when I run my browser (127.0.0.1) I get a forbbiden msg. However, when I type cd /var/www/html I go directly to /mnt/Win/www) so what it is up. By the way the permission in /mnt/Win/www is 777 (all x's) Try creating a file in there called .htaccess containing the line allow from all If there is an .htaccess file in a folder Apache consults it. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] mcc with icons but with no letters
Dear All After having tried to install some software, mcc has become with no letters, but the icons inside are shown. Any ideas to repair that? Thanks in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mcc with icons but with no letters
After having tried to install some software, mcc has become with no letters, but the icons inside are shown. Any ideas to repair that? I have meanwhile found out the solution: I re-installed pango. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] File needed to make... where can I get it?
Hey, I have Mandrake 9.1, and I've been trying to install Boson 0.10 from source. (I've never installed from source before) I've managed to configure the files, and supposedly install all the dependancies, but when I make it, it can't find a file libGL.la I had a similar error with another file, but found the appropriate package and installed it, and I thought I did the same with this. (Is it a Mesa file by any chance?) But I still get the error. Any help? Thanx, ES Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Movie making
On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 08:34, Michael Adolf wrote: On Friday 11 June 2004 01:06 pm, Travis Crook wrote: Hi All, This might be a little off-topic, but does anyone know of a good DVD authoring package? With menu creation? Thanks! Have you looked at: http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net Mike I'll give it a try when I get a minute. Thanks! -- Travis Crook Visions Beyond www.VisionsBeyond.com 208-478-7836 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MCC - gone.
On Monday 14 June 2004 20:57, Johan Sch wrote: On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:06:57 +0200 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 14 June 2004 16:04, Johan Sch wrote: Hi List, MCC is gone..no GUI..no mcc from console. Kindly please which rpms need to be re-installed to fix this . I have already gone via cd1 upgrade..no use. Urpmi was also gone but was restored by cd1 upgrade. Thanks If I recall correctly : drakxtools and (maybe) drakxtools-newt HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- Thanks for your reply. Were already installed. Will now go for a new install. Lucky I save all updates to a spare partition. My home dir also saved to same spare part. Regards MCC is part of drakconf. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Changing gnome icons
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 04:06, David Robertson wrote: OK - this is the modified /home/der/Desktop/Wastebin/.directory file - whack I've replaced the two icon entries with the desired filename. Makes no difference, though, and every time I edit the file, it saves as .directory~ If I then rename to .directory, log out and restart Gnome - no change. I'm confused! Maybe I'll just keep the standard icon.Thanks for trying, though - any more suggestions? David Ah well - shows that there's even less customisation available in Gnome nowadays - it's getting dumbed down for the masses. stephen kuhn - proprietor == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com mobile: 0410.728.389 -- 07:42:49 up 1 day, 12:06, 3 users, load average: 0.45, 0.26, 0.09 -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- This email is virus-free because we don't use Microsoft products Too much of anything, even love, isn't necessarily a good thing. -- Kirk, The Trouble with Tribbles, stardate 4525.6 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File needed to make... where can I get it?
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 06:31, Eric Scott wrote: Hey, I have Mandrake 9.1, and I've been trying to install Boson 0.10 from source. (I've never installed from source before) I've managed to configure the files, and supposedly install all the dependancies, but when I make it, it can't find a file libGL.la I had a similar error with another file, but found the appropriate package and installed it, and I thought I did the same with this. (Is it a Mesa file by any chance?) But I still get the error. Any help? Thanx, ES The file should live under: /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a ...GLcore stuff if I remember correctly...have you installed your proper video driver and all the other X related libs? stephen kuhn - proprietor == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com mobile: 0410.728.389 -- 08:01:30 up 1 day, 12:25, 3 users, load average: 0.15, 0.11, 0.07 -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- This email is virus-free because we don't use Microsoft products Have you ever noticed that the people who are always trying to tell you `there's a time for work and a time for play' never find the time for play? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files
magnet wrote: On Monday 14 Jun 2004 7:08 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: magnet wrote: Hi all, I require some pointers for the following problem please: I have 100+ files of html code, ie: page0001.htm page0002.htm page0003.htm etc... but I need to remove the first 20 lines and the last 17 lines from each file and then save each with a .txt suffix. Where do I start with this? I used to do this sort of thing on much larger numbers of pages on my trusty Amiga using a DOS script and an editor with an AREXX port running over-night but not a clue how to even start on my Mandrake 9.2 box. As always, any help is much appreciated :) magnet You may want to use sed for the actual editing. You can also use head and tail to chop off x number of lines. Sed tends to be more powerful, and you can put all the editing options in one command file. As far as feeding the file to sed, consider something like: for i in *.html ; do NAME=`basename($I).html` sed -f $NAME.html $NAME.txt done (I may have some of the syntax wrong - it is that kind of day... But you should get the idea.) Mikkel Yes, your suggestions are perfect for what I need to do. Many thanks for the fast responce Mikkel. magnet :) Definitly having a bad day - realy messed up the example. Try: for i in *.html ; do NAME=`basename $i .html` sed script file $i.html $i.txt done You can also use the NAME=$(basename $i .html) form if you don't like back quotes. You can also use tail +n file to give you all except the first n lines in a file. 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] Modules loading configuration
Hi, I had this problem - but then I thought "If I don't have a floppy, why does it keep trying to detect it?" The answer I found, was in the BIOS. I disabled the floppy drives - they were on Auto originally. Maybe this could be your answer? After disabling them, run fstab (or whatever the hardware detection program is) and see if that makes a difference. Sorry if someone else has answered this, but I thought I would give a suggestion! AliAlbert Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I have a computer that doesn't have a floppy drive. Time to time(when I load mcc), I get an error stating that floppy module failed toload. Also, on bootup, I have a warning message saying that modulesaren't configured properly. I think those 2 messages are related. Howcan I specify to Mandrake that I do not have a floppy and that it shouldnot try to load the module?I'm running Mandrake 10 official (download edition) with 2.6 kernel2.6.3-13mdk.AlbertWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comJoin the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Forbbiden
OOzy wrote: I did create the .htaccess file and added allow from all but no help On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 23:58, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 13 Jun 2004 18:52, OOzy wrote: H, after solving the issue of linking my windows html (/mnt/Win/www) to /var/www/html, I got another issue which is when I run my browser (127.0.0.1) I get a forbbiden msg. However, when I type cd /var/www/html I go directly to /mnt/Win/www) so what it is up. By the way the permission in /mnt/Win/www is 777 (all x's) Try creating a file in there called .htaccess containing the line allow from all If there is an .htaccess file in a folder Apache consults it. derek I have not been following this thread, so I may be off base, but if I remember correctly, there is an option in Apache about following or allowing symlinks. It sounds like this is set to no. 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] amd64 iso???
Call me ignorant, but doesn't the ISO distro automatically detect which arch you have? I don't know if this applies to anything other than IA32, or AMD64. If you can, get hold of a live Linux iso - one of them that runs off a CD + RAM. If it works, then theres a good chance others will too :-) Hope this helps, Ali --- robert lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a standard member. I think I goofed because I can't find the ISO for mandrake 10.0 for the amd64 chip. where do I download it? bob lester Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problems upgrading from 2.6.3.7 to 2.6.3.9 kernel
Has anyone else here experienced a problem upgrading from the .7 to the .9 kernel with Mandrake 10.0. I run the Reiserfs filesystem and use a Promise IDE controller for my hard drives. Running the .7 kernel, everything is fine and Mandrake boots right up. As soon as I install either the .9 or .13 kernel and try to boot, I get errors saying that the root filesystem was not cleanly umounted and asking if I want to fix errors. When I reboot the system and go back to the .7 kernel, Mandrake comes right up with nary a whimper. I am using the ide=reverse line as a lilo option so that my primary motherboard hd controllers stay as hda through hdd to keep dual booting clean for the few times that I need to do that. Linux doesn't seem to be having a problem with that particular parameter but for some reason, it does seem to be having a problem getting to the partitions on the Promise IDE controller after upgrading the kernel. Any suggestions? -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Forbbiden
On Monday 14 June 2004 06:17 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: OOzy wrote: I did create the .htaccess file and added allow from all but no help On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 23:58, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 13 Jun 2004 18:52, OOzy wrote: H, after solving the issue of linking my windows html (/mnt/Win/www) to /var/www/html, I got another issue which is when I run my browser (127.0.0.1) I get a forbbiden msg. However, when I type cd /var/www/html I go directly to /mnt/Win/www) so what it is up. By the way the permission in /mnt/Win/www is 777 (all x's) Try creating a file in there called .htaccess containing the line allow from all If there is an .htaccess file in a folder Apache consults it. derek I have not been following this thread, so I may be off base, but if I remember correctly, there is an option in Apache about following or allowing symlinks. It sounds like this is set to no. Mikkel probly needs an 'index.html' file too, if he does not have an .htaccess allowing 'fancy index. -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: OT: annoying spam filters
On Mon, 24 May 2004 22:37:15 -0700, rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Jonesy, Monday, May 24, 2004, 11:03:40 AM, you wrote: J Just what I like to see: My email addy in a monstrous To: list to J be found on gawd-knows how many infected Winder$ boxes. STOP! You're going to give me nightmares. :-)) How about this one: a friend runs a mail order business. One day he accidently sent a message to his whole address book (including my work address). One of the recipients was a company in China... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [Software] Where did the Theme Manager go on KDE 3.2?
On Monday 14 June 2004 01:47 am, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi Dennis, Those are the Icons Themes - not the general theme. Cheers, On Sunday 13 June 2004 18:59, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 13 June 2004 09:04 am, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi All, I was looking for the Theme Manager that used to be under the Look Feel Sub-Menu... Can't find it... I am running KDE 3.2 (Branch 20040204) on MDK 10.0 Official. I have a bunch of .ktheme files I would like to try out... Thanks ! Hi, go to configure your desktop icons, and you will see a tab for themes there. HTH You are right, the desktop theme manager seems to be gone. Looked around and found only background. ?not much help sorry. -- Dennis M. Linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File needed to make... where can I get it?
- Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 5:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] File needed to make... where can I get it? On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 06:31, Eric Scott wrote: Hey, I have Mandrake 9.1, and I've been trying to install Boson 0.10 from source. (I've never installed from source before) I've managed to configure the files, and supposedly install all the dependancies, but when I make it, it can't find a file libGL.la I had a similar error with another file, but found the appropriate package and installed it, and I thought I did the same with this. (Is it a Mesa file by any chance?) But I still get the error. Any help? Thanx, ES The file should live under: /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a ...GLcore stuff if I remember correctly...have you installed your proper video driver and all the other X related libs? stephen kuhn - proprietor Suposedly... I even reinstalled my NVIDIA driver for my integrated GeForce II... but still the same thing. Recently, however, I tried to install what I thought was the normal NVIDIA driver, and it practically killed my X free. Maybe when I removed it it removed this file? God Bless, ES Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files
When sed is not quite powerful enough, you should start learning awk. Other commands that are very useful are cut and tr. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cd mount problem
On Saturday 12 June 2004 10:44 pm, David E. Fox wrote: If you're using 10.0 (which seems likely) you want to use the ATA device for the cdrom, not the scsi device. You'll want to prefix your device with ATA: (i.e., cdrecord -dev=ATA:1,0,0). try cdrecord --scanbus -dev=ATA, see what it reports. It should report your manufacturer under 1,0,0. I am using 10.0 CE and when I tried the above I get: ** scsidev: 'ATA' devname: 'ATA' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (warly-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.80-mdk '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.80 04/03/08 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'LITE-ON ' 'DVDRW LDW-451S ' 'GSB4' Removable CD-ROM 1,1,0 101) * 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * *** Although it says the drive is on 1,0,0, dvd::rip would only work when I set the cdrecord device = ATAPI:0,0,0. Bottom line is it now works. Thanks for your help! Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] amd64 iso???
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:21:12 +0100 (BST) Alastair Fay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Call me ignorant, but doesn't the ISO distro automatically detect which arch you have? No, AMD64 is an entirely different set of CDs. Every package is recompiled for 64-bit AMD64 instruction set. To the original poster, don't know about the club, but the RC1-level RPMs and iso's can be found at the normal mirror sites. pair, raven and warwick have them (amongst others, but those are the ones I use.) -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PDF to IMG (JPG, GIF, etc)
On Monday 14 June 2004 12:54 am, OOzy wrote: Is there a program incldued in LM9.2 distro that converts PDF to IMG i.e. JPG, GIF, etc? try from command liene: $ pdf2ps somefile.pdf (convert pdf to ps file) $ pstopnm somefile.ps (convert ps to ppm file) at that point for each page you will get somefile001.ppm somefile002.ppm , etc for each file run $ pnmtojpeg somefileXXX.ppm (replace XXX with 001,002,etc) -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PDF to IMG (JPG, GIF, etc)
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:12:53 -0400 yankl disseminated the following: Is there a program incldued in LM9.2 distro that converts PDF to IMG i.e. JPG, GIF, etc? try from command liene: $ pdf2ps somefile.pdf (convert pdf to ps file) $ pstopnm somefile.ps (convert ps to ppm file) at that point for each page you will get somefile001.ppm somefile002.ppm , etc for each file run $ pnmtojpeg somefileXXX.ppm (replace XXX with 001,002,etc) or with one command: convert somefile.pdf somefile.jpg -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org 22:01:45 up 12 days, 8:24, 5 users, load average: 1.87, 2.25, 2.01 +++ Behind every great fortune is a crime. -- Balzac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge
I did try 2.6 on the livecd Gnoppix (like Knoppix, only Gnome instead of KDE), and I was *really* impressed at how fast it ran off the CD, and how user-friendly it was. It's very intuitive. I decided I'd wait until Mandrake packaged it, perhaps in 10.1? I am on 10.0: ~ $ uname -a Linux cuda.ehuffy.com 2.6.3-7mdk #1 Wed Mar 17 15:56:42 CET 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Review of MDK 10.0
Here: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7360 Pretty positive overall, though I find his disdain for 9.2 inexplicable. 9.2 has been nothing but rock solid, not one lock-up. Quote: While I still can't get my system to play WMV files, nor DVD's, I have to say that this is the best Mandrake version I've used yet, and has become my favorite Linux distro at the moment. Few distro's stay on my hard drive longer than an hour, and it's been almost two weeks with this one. I haven't touched my Windows partition in so long, I forgot what it looks like. I feel that MDK10 more than makes up for 9.2, and it's definitely an apology well accepted! ? -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org 22:14:42 up 12 days, 8:37, 5 users, load average: 1.69, 1.77, 1.86 +++ Well, he might as well have been bombing Denmark. -- Gore Vidal, on the bombing of Afghanistan after 9/11 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Cinelerra
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 21:35:13 -0500 Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the work. I haven't had a chance to try the downgrade path yet. I won't waste my time compiling the latest version until an even later version comes out. Compilation, at least in this case, did not help. I still got the same aborted message when running the resulting binary. I wrote the packager (Austin Acton) and he says that he is aware of the problem, wixhed me luck on compiling, and is intent on producing a new plf rpm within a week if all goes well - so I'd wait a little while, and then raid plf's cupboards :). Oh, and I was not successful in compiling the source of the newer version. The source needs avifile-devel it seems, and ATM I can't get that package installed due to a dependency file that urpmi can't find. I figure that will sort itself out. I also got one or two obscure assembler messages that ATM I'm not sure what to do. In short, the binary I'm using works, is a slightly newer (1.2.0) version, but it's only available AFAICT as a i386 binary rpm, so it likely wouldn't use the MMX stuff :(. http://aleron.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/heroines/cinelerra-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm if you're interested :) You'll need an XFree compatibility library, but it'll let yuo know that. Linus -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:00:34 -0600 evolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This program will make a boot disk that can let old machines boot any bootable cd (worked for me on old pentium): http://ebcd.pcministry.com/download/oldbios.exe Doesn't help much if the 10.0 kernel is too big to fit on a floppy :(. There should be a way to make a stripped down kernel (like take out a lot of extra module support) for just this purpose. Failing that, I much preferred some of the older CDs because you could use them as a boot disk as well as a rescue disk. For instance, you could simply type linux single root=/dev/hdaX (or something like that) at the linux prompt, when booting from CD. That functionality seems to be missing from Mandrake. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can I install my own program on my web host
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:18:20 +0300 OOzy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May be this question is to be asked here but I am asking to know if it is feasible. Can I install program like Octave on my directory in my web host? Well, installing that should be as simple as typing urpmi octave if you have sources defined properly. I believe it is in contrib. There are some similar programs in contrib as well -- for instance macsyma, but that's old and rather clunky compared to something like Mathematica. Of course, you get what you pay for. Of course, I lack sufficient skill to make much use of the software (not math expert) but macsyma seemed rather capable when I tried it out, despite the clunkiness, which is much nicer if you use the X interface rather than the command line. I'm not sure how web host enters into this. Are you trying to have some kind of Web interfacing to Octave? Or, are you just trying to install the program somewhere else? If the latter, it is possible, provided you have permission somewhere to write the package to. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:14:04 +0100 magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: each file and then save each with a .txt suffix. Where do I start with this? Since the # of lines you want to remove are known, I'd suggest using the script, but use 'head' and or 'tail'. Those are designed for this purpose. sed will work too, but is more generalized. But, automation via a for loop is what you're looking at doing. i.e. 'head -17 file.htm' would print all but the first 17 lines of the file. magnet -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy
David E. Fox wrote: On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:00:34 -0600 evolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This program will make a boot disk that can let old machines boot any bootable cd (worked for me on old pentium): http://ebcd.pcministry.com/download/oldbios.exe Doesn't help much if the 10.0 kernel is too big to fit on a floppy :(. Actualy, it does. What it does is let a machine that doesn't support booting from a CD boot from a CD anyway. The floppy is basicly a loader program that finds your CD-ROM drive, checks if there is a bootable CD in it, and then boot from the CD. It also works on systems with more then one CD-ROM drive. I have worked with a couple of systems that would not boot from CD if there was more then one CD-ROM drive. Even though the BIOS wouldn't handle booting from CD with more then one drive, this program would. There should be a way to make a stripped down kernel (like take out a lot of extra module support) for just this purpose. The number of modules doesn't have much affect on kernel size. Things like cutting down on the number of SCSI modules, or NICS does not help. NOt supporting any SCSI drives, or no network support would help, but then you have to have different boot disks, depending on how you are installing. (IDE system, SCSI system, network install, ect...) Failing that, I much preferred some of the older CDs because you could use them as a boot disk as well as a rescue disk. For instance, you could simply type linux single root=/dev/hdaX (or something like that) at the linux prompt, when booting from CD. That functionality seems to be missing from Mandrake. 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] automatic batch editing of files
David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:14:04 +0100 magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: each file and then save each with a .txt suffix. Where do I start with this? Since the # of lines you want to remove are known, I'd suggest using the script, but use 'head' and or 'tail'. Those are designed for this purpose. sed will work too, but is more generalized. But, automation via a for loop is what you're looking at doing. i.e. 'head -17 file.htm' would print all but the first 17 lines of the file. This does not work in 9.2 - it gives you the first 17 lines. Also tail -17 gives you the last 17 lines. Now, tail +17 will give you all but the first 17 lines. Too bad head +17 does not work. 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
[newbie] clamav successful upgrade, but....
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I've managed to upgrade my clamav from 0.70 to 0.73, but why in the source of mail, the version is said to be still 0.70? Shouldn't it be stated 0.73? Or only the major version mentioned? clamuko: 0.70. spamassassin: 2.63 Thanks - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 12:00:51 up 3:48, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAzoKikp5CsIXuxqURAm2tAJ0f1lPU2IsCSOexWMqvyA8pOoHBtACdHYOT rsi/Q2+9v6GQQz0TFMIlD20= =r0Bv -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
