scoonma

Hm. Maybe you could use a printer driver originally designed for MacOSX (for CUPS use). The driver on this page is in .dmg format. You could tranfer it into iso format to mount or burn on CD with a tool I found here: http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/ If you're lucky you may find a valid .ppd file inside.

HTH,

scoonma

Edit: Found that the script does not work. Here's a manual to use a converter for Win$:

http://www.magiciso.com/FAQ/FAQ0011.htm

/etc/hosts is:

127.0.0.1 javaguyhost.localhost javaguyhost

 

I get a returned mail saying:

 

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----

<javaguy@sammckee.com>

(reason: 550-Verification failed for <javaguy@javaguyhost.localhost>)

 

[...]

The message is address to javaguy@sammckee.com, not @javaguyhost.localhost.

FWIK the last line says it: Your email addresss is javaguy@sammckee.com. I presume this is correct. What is the "real" hostname of your machine? You said you're using dhcp, which is absolutely okay.

/etc/hosts reflects there's something wrong with your domain setting (the first line states your machine is named javaguyhost (which would be okay) but within the domain "localhost" (which is not okay). A corrrect entry in /etc/hosts would be:

127.0.0.1 localhost javaguyhost

Thus the domain name should be set automatically by your DHCP server, which could result into the following fully qualified hostname:

javaguyhost.sammckee.com

However, most ISPs give different domain names to their customers, so computers with equal hostnames would not interfere and by giving IP numbers automatically, they can serve more customers. Thus you can surf the net without setting a FQHN. As mentioned by SilverSurfer, mail relay at your ISPs mailserver (accepting and transporting mail) is most probably limited in order to prevent spamming. But that would not be a problem as long as the domainname you present to the mailserver is within it's range of allowed domains. If you present "localhost" as part of your domainname, this is obviously not accepted by your ISPs mailserver.

In short: With the entry above you would not set a domainname manually, instead the rest of the FQHN (the domain part) should be set by your dhcp client. That would result in a full name like:

javaguyhost.dynip-dialup12345.sammckee.com

The dynip-dialupXXXXX name range should be in the range of allowed domains for your provider. As long as your ISP runs a mailserver accepting email like that you could send using KMail (using SMTP or IMAP) with, sendmail should work, too.

Edit: Your /etc/mail/authinfo entry must reflect the email password and the username valid for that mailserver, which may be different from the username/password combination you use to establish a connection to your ISP!

Hi alvyn,

welcome to this nice place!

What do you want to achieve by setting up this impressing server functionalities? Administrating servers is no minor task, even for "linux experts" ;)

Before anybody asks, yes I went to the KDE sound system thingy (I think that's the technical term for it), and yes, sound is enabled.

You mean aRTs, right? I'd suggest installing JACK, a newer (and better supported?) sound server.

This is an area of Linux I would love to see somewhat standardized across distributions. Sound configuration should not be rocket science.

I can only affirm that!

Wise you chose not to build a full server ;-)

Okay, some thoughts for going on with sendmail:

- Does the local test perform successfully? ( /usr/sbin/sendmail -bv root@localhost )

- What's in /etc/hosts now? Was it updated now reflecting your new hostname? If not, I'd add your chosen name here as an alias

- Can you see some helpful error message/hints in the logs ( i.e. "tail -200 /var/log/maillog | more" )

After applying any changes I'd restart subsystems ("service network restart"; "service sendmail restart")

HTH,

scoonma

Whoa! That was a great idea, scarecrow. When I run glxgears I get something like the error I noticed running google-earth:

Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":1.0".
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual

This error message would normally indicate you have no 3D acceleration running at all. For beryl and compiz (or xgl) hardware accel it is a prerequisite, so it's quite astonishing that metisse would run at all (beryl or compiz would not). OTOH, it is possible to get googleearth working without acceleration (yet slower than your hardware is capable to do).

Regarding metisse, I've just tried it out for a short glance. As it's basically an enhanced fvwm, I could imagine it running without 3D accel, which would explain the initial error (like googleearth relying on 3D functions from metisse not active at that moment).

Inside my /home/<user>/.googleearth directory, I found a lock file of symbolic link type though googleearth wasn't running any more. Probably the app is not cleaning up resources correctly after exiting. In your stead I'd remove the .googlearth directory completely, do a re-install (and optionally insert myplaces.kml and files of the same type manually; in that case a backup would be necessary before).

Seems you have to add some information to config files. Here is a brief explanation of what to do:

http://cri.ch/linux/docs/sk0009.html

The page explains how to use sendmail to connect to your ISP's SMTP server. Does it fit your needs?

It's nothing special - but clean and green. :-)

There is an SQL error on the Geeklog demo site, so I can't really look at it in action.

Hm. For me it works. I'm attaching a screenshot of the demo site. Did you notice their comments on security? Sounds good to me. And its GPL...

I use DHCP and don't really have a host name--my /etc/hosts just says

127.0.0.1 localhost

 

I'm not exactly sure what it's looking for.

 

Any suggestions?

You could set a qualified hostname in /etc/hosts simply by adding an alias for your localhost:

127.0.0.1 localhost myprettymachine

A better solution is to set a DHCP hostname using MCC/Networking/Reconfigure Network Interface/DHCP. Without a qualified hostname (localhost is always the local machine) you would not be able to use sendmail. There are millions of computers in the world. If every single one would just be named localhost, how could sendmail know where to send it's data to?

Just found a convenient workaround by myself. You can do the following to the ~/.desktop file, which seems to consist of a single line:

DESKTOP=GNOME. The "startx" command does now what I'm used to. :-) Seems a quite convenient way to switch between different layouts.

How do I checksum the actual DVD that I burned ?

Thanks for any help.

Hi mango,

welcome to the board!

I found the easiest way to md5check DVD images is in using k3b for iso files and use the verify option in order to check the data after the burning process. The md5sum will be displayed. So you can compare the md5 output of the verified data to the md5sum of the source iso at a glance (or maybe two).

"startx" may not be the appropriate command to start a KDE session. What about "startkde"?

What do you have in your ~.bash_profile , ~.bashrc and ~.xinitrc files?

The X server must be started first, so a simple "startkde" won't work. I didn't touch ~.xinitrc or

~.bash_profile, and in ~.bashrc I've only added some minor shell aliases. This is perhaps

as I do not like starting the X server by default; with GNOME startx is sufficient for my default

user.

Hi folks,

not sure wether it is related to a similar cause like that one:

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?act=ST&...f=9&t=40887

I've stumbled over some strange behaviour when starting KDE. I first created a fresh user account. After logging in on terminal, then "startx", OpenOffice Writer started automagically. I could (forcefully) terminate the application, but then another instance started up again. I could not get rid of that other than logging out, starting X with xinit and opening a GNOME session. (System is Mandriva 2007.1)

Any ideas please?

I have a feeling that,being that I only have a few seconds,3 of them,to issue the command to cancel the shutdown,anything short of a script will not work.

Thanks to all.

You can change that time to ten secondes by editing /etc/inittab:

# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE

ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t10 -r now

For your user shutdown abort, you may consider this link.

So you'd also have to ad a line like that one:

cc::kbrequest:/sbin/shutdown -c "Shutdown cancelled by user"

But you'd also have to specify the kbrequest more detaild, I didn't find better docs on that than the above...

Just do an "urpmi telnet" as root. If you have it installed already, it wil tell you.

BTW, for security reasons ssh is much more preferable to telnet now, if your provider supports it.

Hi favar,

presumed the mount point of your device is /mnt/removable, and favar is your user login, you could enter a terminal and do the following:

1. Change to root access (su, then password)

2. cd /mnt

3. chown -R favar\: removable

4. chmod -R u+r removable

HTH,

scoonma

No they don't. The wheel group provides to a "common" user special priviledges, as they're defined in /etc/sudoers, but "su" is executable by any user. Don't know which are the defaults under selinux, but for pretty any distro I've used (*buntu excluded, of course) you don't have to be in wheel to execute su.

Hm. This is strange. I was sure when installing previous versions of Mandriva by using CDs (now doing net installs), it was recommended by the installer to add users to wheel in order to be able to get root privileges. Must be a false memory?!?

You can download them here. Version number is 100.14.03, with support for GeForce 8300 - 8600 series cards now.

1) Rename the .mozilla directory from your user dir to something like .mozilla-backup.

 

you mean usr/lib/firefox? there is also usr/lib/mozilla

 

No, I mean a directory within your user space. Perhaps it is not visible from nautilus by default. The full path would be like /home/chiara/.mozilla; assuming chiara is your user login. You could open a normal terminal and enter:

mv /home/chiara/.mozilla /home/chiara/.mozilla-backup

The mv command is the standard linux renaming binary.

HTH,

scoonma

So there's probably something wrong with your user profile. I'd suggest the following:

1) Rename the .mozilla directory from your user dir to something like .mozilla-backup.

2) Restart firefox by typing "mozilla-firefox" within a normal (user) shell terminal. Any errors?

3) Re-import bookmarks (and other stuff) successively from the backup directory.

Good luck!

Hm. What about other programs (Evolution, OpenOffice)? Do they show the same behaviour?

If not, I'd just uninstall Firefox (using MCC or urpmi) and reinstall it again. Don't worry about your personal files (bookmarks, etc), they should remain untouched.

I'm not sure wether is is necessary for newer Mandriva versions, but users to be able to use "su" needed to be members of the "wheel" group.