spinynorman

Mad Penguin have posted their peer review. :)

Could someone set the stage for me? I've been away for 3 months and have no idea what's going on, nor what SCO is....

Here's a good summary. :)

KNotes - on 9.1 it's under Office/PDA. :)

Is this article on filename globbing what you need? :unsure:

NewsForge currently has a discussion about What are the best Linux IRC and IM clients?

:)

I don't know how to pipe to a file and still display in the console, but there are plenty here who are more experienced than me with bash so someone will know.

I'm not sure I qualify, but I have found the tee command, which does this. With the ls command, it strips out the colour on screen and in the file.

ls -l | tee -a teefile

This example also suppresses the wide format -

ls ~ | tee -a teefile

Just thought you'd like to know...

When you're in the shell, have you tried the 'save history as' option on the edit menu?

It seems to fit the bill. :)

I downloaded the following from rpm.pbone.net and installed in order:

msec

drakxtools

drakxtools-newt

drakcronat

menudrake

harddrake-ui

drakconf

I ran menudrake which put MCC back in the menu; and then added MCC to the panel.

Thanks for everyone's help!

There's some stuff at Cheapbytes. :)

Thanks, bvc. The urpmi.log just contains the stuff I've entered at the command line. The rpm.log has this -

/var/log/rpmpkgs {

    weekly

    notifempty

    missingok

}

Did you download drakcronat, menudrake, and msec?

Isn't that what I tried to do here? :unsure:

[root@localhost root]# urpmi drakconf drakcronat menudrake msec
no package named drakcronat
no package named menudrake
no package named msec

I have tried some of your suggestions with the following results:

[root@localhost root]# rpmdrake
-bash: rpmdrake: command not found

[root@localhost root]# rpm -q drakcronat
package drakcronat is not installed
[root@localhost root]# rpm -q menudrake
package menudrake is not installed
[root@localhost root]# rpm -q msec
package msec is not installed
[root@localhost root]# rpm -e --nodeps drakcronat menudrake msec
error: package drakcronat is not installed
error: package menudrake is not installed
error: package msec is not installed
[root@localhost root]# urpmi drakconf
To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (15 MB):
drakconf-9.1-13.1mdk.i586
drakxtools-9.1-31.3mdk.i586
drakxtools-newt-9.1-31.3mdk.i586
harddrake-ui-9.1-31.3mdk.i586
Is this OK? (Y/n) y
installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/drakconf-9.1-13.1mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/drakxtools-newt-9.1-31.3mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/drakxtools-9.1-31.3mdk.i586.rpm
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/harddrake-ui-9.1-31.3mdk.i586.rpm

Installation failed:
       drakcronat >= 0.1.3-1mdk is needed by drakconf-9.1-13.1mdk
       menudrake >= 0.7.2-1mdk is needed by drakconf-9.1-13.1mdk
       msec >= 0.38 is needed by drakxtools-newt-9.1-31.3mdk

[root@localhost root]# urpmi drakconf drakcronat menudrake msec
no package named drakcronat
no package named menudrake
no package named msec

[root@localhost root]# cd /tmp
[root@localhost tmp]# rpm -ivh drakcronat-0.1.3-1mdk.i586.rpm menudrake-0.7.2-1mdk.i586.rpm msec-0.38-?mdk.i586.rpm
error: open of drakcronat-0.1.3-1mdk.i586.rpm failed: No such file or directory
error: open of menudrake-0.7.2-1mdk.i586.rpm failed: No such file or directory

I wasn't sure which directory to use, so tried /tmp.

Would it be helpful to find exactly which items Mandrake Update removed? The dialogue box listed perhaps 20 items. I've looked in /var/log but can't find anything. Would this be recorded somewhere? :unsure:

Use "urpmi drakconf --force"

Sorry, Tim, got the same errors... :unsure:

Thanks for replying, anna. Did as you suggested and got the following messages:

[root@localhost root]# mcc
-bash: mcc: command not found
[root@localhost root]# urpmi drakconf
To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (15 MB):
drakconf-9.1-13.1mdk.i586
drakxtools-9.1-31.3mdk.i586
drakxtools-newt-9.1-31.3mdk.i586
harddrake-ui-9.1-31.3mdk.i586
Is this OK? (Y/n) y
   ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/.../updates/9.1/RPMS/drakconf-9.1-13.1mdk.i586.rpm
   ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/.../updates/9.1/RPMS/drakxtools-newt-9.1-31.3mdk.i586.rpm
   ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/.../updates/9.1/RPMS/drakxtools-9.1-31.3mdk.i586.rpm
   ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/.../updates/9.1/RPMS/harddrake-ui-9.1-31.3mdk.i586.rpm
installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/drakconf-9.1-13.1mdk.i586.rpm
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/drakxtools-newt-9.1-31.3mdk.i586.rpm
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/drakxtools-9.1-31.3mdk.i586.rpm
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/harddrake-ui-9.1-31.3mdk.i586.rpm

Installation failed:
       drakcronat >= 0.1.3-1mdk is needed by drakconf-9.1-13.1mdk
       menudrake >= 0.7.2-1mdk is needed by drakconf-9.1-13.1mdk
       msec >= 0.38 is needed by drakxtools-newt-9.1-31.3mdk
[root@localhost root]# urpmi drakcronat
no package named drakcronat
[root@localhost root]# urpmi menudrake
no package named menudrake
[root@localhost root]# urpmi msec
no package named msec

Any ideas?

I've just used Mandrake Update to try to install some updates for 9.1 relating to glibc and coreutils.

Before I could install them, I was prompted to remove various items including drakconf before the update could take place. This was slightly worrying, but I went ahead. Once the items were removed, the process ended without installing the new stuff. I used the install button several times, but it just went through the motions of removing the afore-mentioned items.

I came out of MCC getting an error about not finding drakconf, and my MCC icon disappeared.

How do I get out of this mess?

I'll keep looking around to find something that explains that first of 4 number strings when doing a "number" chmod.

Sorry, didn't read your post properly. According to a Linux Journal article on the subject -

In octal mode, SUID and SGID are set by specifying them in another column before the user mode. For SUID use 4, for SGID use 2, and use 6 for both:

 

$ chmod 4755 test_file

-rwsr-xr-x 1 eric  users

Is this what you're looking for? :unsure:

You may find this useful: Fun with Numbers in chmod. B)

ZDNet reports that Sun Microsystems has signed a deal with the Chinese government for up to a million Linux desktops over the next year.

You may be interested in Nvu, which is under development, according to a report on LinuxOrbit. It's based on Mozilla Composer and supported by... Lindows.

The release of Version 1.0 is scheduled for 1st quarter of 2004. Developers helping with the project will be able to download and test interim releases in the near future.

iphitus, Gowator: thank you sir but please don't call me sco because I am not.

einamo...

In case you got lost in Gowator's explanation :P , iphitus wasn't calling you SCO: he wasn't addressing you in particular, he was just venting his feelings about that company...

Gowator was agreeing with that. Anyway, welcome on board. :)

The Inquirer reports... (text in full)

SIX GIANTS of the industry are to form a group to commercially promote the Linux operating system, according to a report in today's Nihon Keizai Shimbun.

 

The newspaper says that IBM, Hitachi, NEC, NTT, Fujitsu and Argo 21 will not only tweak the operating system and make other software applications, but will promote the OS actively in Japan.

 

But the move won't just be limited to Japan. In autumn, the South Korean, Chinese and Japanese governments said they would help companies to develop and promote Linux.

 

And the Japanese consortium will link with South Korean and Chinese groups so that their work is not duplicated, the newspaper said. While the Japanese group will work on security and software development, the Korean consortium will focus on Linux-based PDAs, and China on PC operating system work.

One thing I'm looking for is labeling software that will take the TOC of the disk, and write it to a label.

 

Nero does this in Windoze, and it works great. Especially for Audio CD's as it will put all of the track info you want in the label too (length of run, etc).

cid, you may be interested in this thread - any cd cover designer software for Linux/MDK? :)

As James suggests, you can use the character map, which in KDE and Gnome you can find under Applications/Text Tools.

You can also use the <alt gr> keys for some characters. I can't remember where I found the information, but on my UK keyboard, I can use the following (amongst others) -

Diaeresis (umlaut)

ä/Ä <alt gr>[ a/A

ö/Ö <alt gr>[ o/O

ü/Ü <alt gr>[ u/U

Acute

á/Á <alt gr>; a/A

é/É <alt gr>; e/E

ú/Ú <alt gr>; u/U

Circumflex

â/Â <alt gr>' a/A

ê/Ê <alt gr>' e/E

Grave

à/À <alt gr># a/A

è/È <alt gr>' e/E

Cedilla

ç/Ç <alt gr>; c/C

Double s

ß <alt gr>s

Hope this helps. :)

The Register reports an attempt to submerge a slick backdoor in the next version of the Linux kernel.

For the geeks amongst us, Kerneltrap.org describes the incident in more detail.

Don't know if this is any use for what you want, but PCLinuxOnline reports the release of E/OS LX 0.2.3. The main site is in Spanish, but there are English pages. :unsure:

Nameless Foo writes "It´s available the version 0.2.3 of the emulator for FreeDOS for run Windows/DOS/Linux programs, and console games (nes/snes/sega/psx), with autodetect hard system, network support, multimedia support, media system and office programs. Based on the linux kernel 2.4.22 fixed, Xfree86 4.3.0 and Wine/DOSbox/Twillows.  It´s only 50 mb for download, with english and spanish support.

 

The link: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/meos/eo...23.zip?download

 

And the website: http://www.eoslx.tk