Have you set your mail client to use sendmail for sending, or to send
mail via localhost?
On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 13:02, Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Jan Lentfer wrote:
Tks Jan! but...
The relayhost option did not work... I've tried all alternativ
Isn't it just 'eject /dev/st0'?
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 13:54, daRcmaTTeR wrote:
I don't
know how to tell /dev/st0 to spit out the tape when everything is
finished.
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I have search high and low for an answer to this, but to no avail: I am
using Evolution as my mail tool and am trying to encrypt a mail using a
key that somebody sent me, which this header
-BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
Version: PGP 7.1.1
The key looks like after importing to gpg:
pub 10
What about:
su - -c
However, unless the first script is running as root, this will stop to
ask you for a password.
Nick.
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>On Sun, 26 May 2002, Kevin Fonner wrote:
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>> I have a bash script that get's called from another bash script. How
>>can I get the seco
I have installed the xscreensaver and GL savers and would like to add them to my kde
configuration. I got them going once before by running kappfinder, but this also
changed my K-menu in a way that clashes with the default mdk layout. Can I add the
screensavers without messing up the K-menu?
T
Can I write DVD-R disks with mdk? does CD-record do this or do I need some other tool?
Thanks,
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slocate (the s is for secure)
Terry Tremaine wrote:
> 1) Is there a reasonable substitute for "locate" other than "find"?
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In the end, LM8.2 did NOT ship with KDE3 in any form. Jump over to
www.mandrake.com and KDE3 is mentioned in the news section on the front
page. This links to installation instructions and rpms for 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2
Krist van Besien wrote:
>Hi all,
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>According to the Mandrake Website the Mand
I installed the KDE3.0 packages last night, just to take a look. They failed to
install properly. As instructed (by the Mandrake web page) I downloaded all the rpms
and then ran 'urpmi *' in the download directory. It failed on kdesdk and asked me if
I wanted to try without dependancy checking.
www.microsoft.com/typography
Mark Williamson wrote:
>>I guess you need Andale Mono (TrueType) font - it's available from Win98 of
>>from MS Typography site.
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When a login fails, then its usually worth a look in
/home//.xsession-errors. This is where all the console output ends
up. Otherwise you could do a failsafe login (starts X and a terminal
only) and run startkde (I assume your using KDE?). All the output from
KDE will then appear in the termin
hate me for sending them on. I don't even have a
way to disinfect myself after the fact.
civileme wrote:
> Nick Thompson wrote:
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>> So lets say that I get M$ Word running under wine, or I spash out on
>> CodeWeavers Crossover Office. If Word is running correctly,
So lets say that I get M$ Word running under wine, or I spash out on
CodeWeavers Crossover Office. If Word is running correctly, I assume my
pristine MDK installation has suddenly become vunerable to Word Macro
viruses. The Linux kernel doesn't have windows anti-virus protection to
save me fro
Uni-Processor, i.e.only one processor - not SMP.
Brian Parish wrote:
>What does UP mean (apart from a familiar direction)
>
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If I want to change the default path for all users, what file should I
be editing? I have installed the xscreensaver rpms on LM8.2 but they are
installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver (?) which is not on the path,
so nobody can use them. Of course users could add this into .profile in
their h
For my money I would use XFS every time. Its fast an recovers quickly
from resets (damn that gnomemeeting junk ;) Its a problem with floppy
boot disks though as the drivers are on the large size. But bootable CDs
are fine for rescues.
Dave Sherman wrote:
>On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 21:19, Mark Wil
^[[1;31m
Mar 26 07:39:44 localhost net_cnx_up:
Mar 26 07:39:44 localhost internet: Checking internet connections to
start at boot failed
Thanks,
Nick.
Nick Thompson wrote:
> I have installed LM8.2 over the weekend and so far everything works
> great. Well I think so, but the logs are
I have installed LM8.2 over the weekend and so far everything works
great. Well I think so, but the logs are not so sure... During bootup my
ADSL link is brought up (takes ~30seconds though, but this is the same
time as under 8.1) but the boot output says "Checking internet
connections to star
Well, I heard a funny story once. A couple of workers from a big
nameless company where woking on (WindBlows) laptops on an American
Airlines flight. Started out fine, but after a few hours things started
to go wrong and eventually both PCs came down in a heap and wouldn't
reboot. It turned ou
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On 13 Mar 2002, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>is it possible to use rpm to get a list of files/packages from the rpm
>>database that were built using zlib? I have a lot built from src.rpm
>>and would like to check ...
>>
>It could be a start to help find packages. How
That works better, thanks. With the extra output, I see that the third
rule only relates to the 'lo' loopback interface, which makes sense.
Kind of a flaw that iptables -L did not tell me this crucial bit of info.
Thanks,
Nick.
Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote:
&
Hello,
With LM8.1 I am trying to shore up my machine using Bastille - I don't
need anything complex. Setup went fine, but now I'm tring to understand
what it has done. iptables -L says:
Chain INPUT (policy DROP)
target prot opt source destination
DROP tcp -- anywhere
One thing that almost all machines do, that often gets over-looked, is
upgrade from time-to-time. Installing a new version of the OS or a
different OS is always best done from scratch and of course you will
backup before doing this, but you might be able to save some time if
your own data in /
On LM8.1 (with devfs) it seem that the first person to login and use the
audio device /dev/dsp gets ownership of it with crw-- permissions,
which seem correct to me. However, on logout, the ownership is retained
and the next person to login can't use the audio device - even if they
are in
'dd' is probably you best bet for OEM situations. Here (in a
corporation) we use KickStart to install Linux. This basically allows
you to boot from a floppy and then load Linux over the network using the
standard install program. You can even store machine configs on the
network so that indivi
Just a thought, as I never recorded through arts, have you enabled full
duplex operation in the kde control center->sound->sound server->sound
I/O tab? I think you need to do this to play and record at the same time
in arts. I'm assuming that your "artsdsp rec output.wav"command was run
while
kmix only controls the mixer and as such allows you to select the source
to record from (red LEDs at the bottom). You need something else to do
the actual recording. Want a GUI? Try KRecord (apps.kde.com) which does
a very good job and will display VU and FFT info to help you get the
levels ri
Franki and others,
Have you got AGP to work with KT266A? With that chipset my install is
using the AGP card as if its a PCI card. This works, but is only 33MHz
instead of AGP x4. In /var/log/messages agp startup says that the
chipset is unsupported and I might want to try "agp_try_unsupported=
That is like I had with my board (Jetway 866ASU + 1GHz Athlon, upgraded
last weekend). In my case I had the CPU clock multiplier wrong. The
manual listed all the settings for the jumpers and I tried the lowest
(x5.0) and it failed. I took all the jumpers off (not even listed) and
now it works
Lee,
What /exactly/ do you mean by boot? Does the BIOS at least get started
(hear any beeps?) and the video show something, or do you mean that LM
will not boot once you have seen LILO? I don't have this mobo, but I
have a KT266A based board and it took me several hours to work out how
to get
Hmm, reply to self :-(
I brought the bits below and it works a treat, LM8.1 detected and
configured everything on it, though I'm not sure the on-board sound is
too good (AC97). I'll play with that later. Otherwise it seems to be a
good value (from £71 inc vat in UK) high performance board (Vi
Has anybody tried this mobo with LM8.1? Does it work okay? Looking to
get this, 256MB PC2100 and 1.0GHz Athlon this weekend. Comments welcome!
Thanks,
Nick.
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I've only ever used it on kde2. Search on apps.kde.org
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Have you been able to get krecord to work through KDE2?
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Hi,
I generally use the impressive krecord program to capture audio from my sound card. It
works great, but as a GUI it is geared to user interaction. What I need to do is
capture some audio at a set time (as a cron job, or at task) for a specified period. I
can handle putting a script togethe
What is the recommended version of gcc compiler for building KDE3? I
seem to remember that one aim of KDE3 was to build with gcc3.0.x, but is
it actually recommended?
Also, do we know yet which version of gcc/g++ will be addressing the
slow runtime library linking issues in C++? (I see gcc3.1
Me too :-) In the MDK control centre-> services. Deselect alsa "on
boot" option. Reconfigure the card with sndconfig and reboot.
Nick.
Harold Hartley wrote:
>the sound mixer doesn't work properly until you do a modprobe of the sound
>card.. and I have been running a sound card thats been li
If I had a 4GB PC (I wish :) I believe that I would need the enterprise
kernel. Is this available during the install or does it need to be
installed afterwards and lilo changed to boot the new kernel? I am
assuming the kernel is on the standard iso images - if not where do I
get it?
Thanks,
N
I get this too. Screen updates stop and the keyboard is dead, but
curiously, the mouse pointer can still be moved around (the pointer
shape does not change as it moves over icons and screen borders though).
All other machine activity continues normally but the logs, including
the XFree log giv
I guess you didn't run ldconfig first? 'ldconfig -v'?
Nick.
Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
>Hi List,
>
> I've done it many times but now I don't know why it's not working.
>I use MDK 8.0.
>
>I've installed fftw and some libs went to /usr/local/lib.
>
>So I add this folder to /etc/ld.so
I think you are right. Although during my day job (Solaris) we use /opt,
at home (MDK) I use /usr/local, which had nothing in it apart from top
level directories after a fresh install. Most addon packages for Solaris
install into /usr/local too. So I really wish we didn't use /opt at
work. How
How so? My laptop dual boots between Win98 and LM8.1. It has the same
hostname in each boot and uses DHCP to get its networking details in
both cases. If I hadn't told our IT department, I'm not sure they'd have
even realised I'd done it.
Nick.
Mark Weaver wrote:
>>The reason that companies
I might be wrong but I think there was a special version of VNC that
"connected" to an already running X server for remote display. I haven't
heard of any way to do this using only X.
Nick.
Oscar wrote:
> Hi all,
> When I conect with ssh to a linux server, I can launch X apps and
> these app
In my experiance 8.1 is much better than 7.x. BUT, never "upgrade" your
OS as this always seems to break stuff (my cd always fails to work
again). Do a good back up and plan for a fresh install every time. It a
shame the upgrade procedure doesn't work well, but a fresh install is
quicker than
And it *has* to be a sim-link as well. I initially copied it and then
spent a whole day working out why it didn't work :-( I don't think it
actuall matters where you install java, the link is used to work out the
path.
Nick.
skidley wrote:
>One thing I had to
>do was make a symlink: /usr/li
Armin,
I have a Nikon 990, and it is not detected as a mass storage USB device.
I think the id it returns has not been registered as a user of
usb-storage, though my guess is that if it were registered it would
work, but I have no idea who to pass the id to. Anyway, I still get
along okay wit
/usr stores much of the ditribution supplied stuff so will be over
written when you upgrade. However /usr/local (and /opt if you have it)
should be seperate partitions. Anything you install which is not part of
the distribution should end up in one of these. Along with /home these
might be wor
And I though 4.78 was flakey. I'm trying to use mozilla now, but its
sooo slw :-( . Does anybody know when Moz 0.9.6 is due - I thought
it was supposed to be last friday. Konqy is pretty good and fast, but it
still chokes on too many pages and java never seems to work for me.
Maybe I'll ha
Hi,
In LM8.1 w/standard KDE2.2.1: If I play an audio CD in my CD-RW drive
with the KDE cd player (not tried other players), then I get a few
messages in /var/log/messages saying something like "/dev/sr0 not ready
please insert a disk" (?). After about three of these messages X locks
up - the
point me in the right direction?
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Agreed, but what is your point? Installing from the rpms is easy (on rpm
based systems) and the nvidia drivers provide much better 3D performance
than the nv driver. Sure, you can use tar balls, but what is the
advantage? The rpm install takes care of backing up the old mesa libs so
that the n
I finally got around to installing the nvidia drivers this weekend. I
thought it might be difficult, but I just grabbed the two src.rpms and
did an 'rpm --rebuild' followed by an 'rpm -ivh' for each and a vi on
the X config file (as per the nvidia instructions) and it worked without
a single h
Usually, you will have to resort to trying the card in different PCI
slots, until it uses the interrupt you want it to. Does your motherboard
manual tell you which PCI slot uses which interrupt? I think IRQ10 on
mine (P5A) is one of the two slots next to the AGP slot (IRQ11). YMMV.
Nick.
Osca
Have you tried 'eject /dev/...'?
> it a PIa to have to start the cd player just to get the cdrom to eject, as it
>ignores umount..
Nick.
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This is just a Unix thing. Since you own the directory the file is in, you can
change the permissions on the file (which are stored in the directory entry, not
in the file). No sensible admin would put a file that must be write only by
root, in a users home directory. That space doesn't belong to
Hmm,
LM8.1 and very basic SoundBlaster16 PCI
In the services module alsa was 'run on boot' but also 'stopped'. strange. I
deselcted its run on boot and rebooted, but kmix still doesn't work. I
reconfigured with harddrake and it still doesn't work. Only reconfiguring with
sndconfig seems to do th
>From looking at the archives it seems, like me, many people are having
problems with kmix. One suggestion I saw said to use sndconfig to
reconfigure sound. I did this in a virtual console before logging in at
KDM and once logged in kmix worked like a charm. One reboot later though
and it's broken
Hi,
In LM-Freq2, I can only mount the first CD I choose. If I eject this one
and insert another, I can only get I/O errors when I 'cd' back into
/mnt/cdrom. This a really annoying if I tried to add packages from the
install CDs which require rpms from both disks. The first one works
fine, then pu
Take a look a www.cygwin.com. XFree86 has been ported to this setup and works on
win9x and NT.
Nick.
Thomas Sourmail wrote:
> By the way, if there are some free X servers for W9x/Nt, I'd be happy to
> know !
>
Konqueror will use the fonts specified in the web page or its associated style
sheet (CSS). You will need to find a solution that overrides this. Maybe you
could set up your own style sheet, or possible use the accessability stylesheet,
which allows you to set base font sizes, etc. Look in kcontro
Hi,
Until I upgraded to LM-Freq2 from LM8.0, my PC always used to turn
itselfs off at the end of a shutdown. Now it just says "Power down" and
leaves it to me to switch off. How can I reenable that feature. I have
ATX everything BTW.
Thanks,
Nick.
Hi,
I just upgraded to LM8.0+Freq last night and was please to see that AA
is now supported by the ATI driver (Rage II 3D) in XFree4.1.0. Strangely
the default config mean fonts >8 and <14 are not AAed, but I fixed this
in XftConfig and, wow, looks great!
Anyway, in the KDE font manager I can't
Hi,
This happened to me when I tried to upgrade from 7.2->8.0. I got no answers that worked
here, but a complete reinstall fixed it. I have just upgraded to Freq and its happened
again, so I can see another reinstall coming on. Interestingly, if I'm persistant
enough,
it does finally seem to mou
Can anybody point me to a good source of info on setting up iptables?
Thanks, Nick.
Hi,
Does LM 8.0 work on Pentium 4? I guess it does, but I thought I'd check
before spending all that cash...
Thanks,
Nick.
Shouldn't that be:
#include
int main ()
{
cout << "Hallo world" << endl;
return 0;
}
I think your prompt is overwritting your output...
Could be wrong,
Nick.
Fabio Spreafico wrote:
> I'm getting problems, that never happened under Mandrake 7.2, in running
> compiled c++ prog
Look at "man date", which will show you how to cutomize the output of date to get
something of the right form.
Then use something like:
mydate=`date +%b%d`
filename="backup_"${mydate}".tgz"
Note: the single quotes around the date command are those you get by pressing the
button to the left of
cdrecord checks access permissions against the users login before giving
access to files, not relying solely on the OS to do this. It is therefore
okay to make it SUID root. Once you do that you don't need root access to
burn CDs.
The GUIs do work of course, but it maybe true that some are better
Mark,
Another way it is possible to loose disk (again, at least on Solaris) is to
create a really big directory in your root partition, lets call it /var, and
then mount a another partition right on top of if. Now the disk space is still
used, but you have no way of seeing it in normal use. I can
Right click on the patch of texture just to the left of the news ticker
and select the remove option.
Nick.
Hoyt wrote:
> I added it to he panel, but now I don't see any way to remove it.
>
Mark,
I'm a Solaris man (as well as mandrake in my spare time), but AFAIK, df
reports actual disk space used (allocated blocks) and du reports the total
of the files sizes in a tree. Since disk space is allocated in fix sized
blocks, there will always be a degree of "wasted" space 'cus the files
I gave up on the upgrade of my 7.2->8.0 box and reinstalled from
scratch. Now when I start an X based application from a command line
I get an error like; "Xlib: missing RENDER extension on display 0:0".
What package is the RENDER extension in? I have a old 2MB ATI card based
on the Mach64 (RageII
Larry Sword wrote:
> Nick Thompson wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have A Ricoh 7060A CD-RW which worked fine under 7.2. I upgraded to
> > 8.0 using this drive to read the CDs. cdrecord --scanbus sees the drive
> > and HardDrake says it has two devices (ide: /dev/h
Hi,
I have A Ricoh 7060A CD-RW which worked fine under 7.2. I upgraded to
8.0 using this drive to read the CDs. cdrecord --scanbus sees the drive
and HardDrake says it has two devices (ide: /dev/hdc - with unknown
vendor [Vendor does appear on the device line], and SCSI: /dev/scd0 -
with Ricoh as
Hi,
When X restarts (on logouts and if I ask from KDM) it occasionally
'loses' its connection with my mouse and keyboard. Now I can't login,
switch to a console or shutdown. My only option seems to be a system
reset (thank the developers for ReiserFS :) Any Ideas why that might be?
Maybe related
Many times that I use MandrakeUpdate, it starts downloading a rpm update
and part way though it says that the has been an error in the download.
If I'm downloading multiple updates it moves on to the next one and
fails on that too. The most revealing case is when I update only one
rpm. The downloa
I don't think this is a problem with that specific RPM as I oftern seem to get the
same problem when using rpm or Mandrake Update. rpm seems to get stuck at about 99.9%
CPU basically for ever - I waited 30mins
before resetting my box. Each time I retry I get the same result. Eventually I figured
Thanks guys, I should have known that but the sndconfig package wasn't
installed. Tis now!
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> type "sndconfig" in the console and set it up from there.
I have Mandrake 7.2 on my DELL Latitude CP (233MHz) and it works well
apart from the sound. Windows seems to sugest it is a Crystal PnP Audio
System. Is there a driver available for this in Mandrake?
Thanks,
Nick.
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