alaa

if you recompile the kernel srpm you get the same kernel.

so you could download the srpm and look at its spec file to find out how and what Mandrake did.

most of it is also documented in the RPM changelog.

and BTW the kernel config was usually found under /boot/config AFAIK using that to configure your kernel would produce a clone of mandrake kernel.

cheers,

Alaa

maybe its a permissions problem, try to run mozilla as root (I know its not generaly a good idea but you'll only do it for a few seconds), and see if it works.

cheers,

Alaa

well if you're sure this is due to pan then it is probably a bug

you can try to use a more recent version of pan (I think texstar provides pan rpms)

and see if the problem presists (backup you .pan directory though, pan trashed my configs after an upgrade before).

you can try posting to the pan users mailing list http://mail.freesoftware.fsf.org/mailman/l...tinfo/pan-users for help

and finaly you can try other newsclients.

cheers,

Alaa

read

you can apply a patch by running the command

patch orignial patch

where orinignal is the filename of the file you want to patch and patch is the file name of the patch you want to apply

in your case it'll probably be

patch  radeon_driver.c  radeon_driver.c.patch

or something similar

cheers,

Alaa

smp is semetric multi processor or something similar.

its the kernel support for boards with more than one processor

maybe smp is needed for the Intel hyperthreading thingy?? I wouldn't know I use AMD.

cheers,

Alaa

yeah I thought you'd like it :-)

now if only I can find a tool to draw icons for iconified windows (thats why they're called iconfied right??).

cheers,

Alaa

login as root and run the command

passwd

or from the Mandrake Control Center use userdrake to change the password.

cheers,

Alaa

if you're not going to allow anonymous ftp consider using ssh with the scponly shell instead.

just install scponly using urpmi

create a new user and make scponly his/her/its shell

put the data you want to serve in the new users home directory

now you can use ssh file transfer tools like gftp to connect to the server and download/upload files.

cheers,

Alaa

gnome writes its gtk configs to ~/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2

best way to sync the configs is symlink .gtkrc-2.0 to .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2

let gnome handle the file

and put any modifications you want to make (like font settings) in ~/.gtkrc-mine

cheers,

Alaa

just use split, its part of the GNU utils and comes standard with all GNU/Linux distros

split -b 1400k foo foo

will split foo into a series of file <=1400 KB called fooaa, fooab, fooac etc.

split -b 700m foo foo

will create 700MB files

to joing the files just concatenate them with cat

cat foo?? > foo

or if you don't want to copy all the files to one place and then join them you can use

cat /mnt/cdrom/fooaa >> foo

swap media then run

cat /mnt/cdrom/fooab >> foo

etc.

cheers,

Alaa

you can try using wmctrl in your script http://sweb.cz/tripie/utils/wmctrl/

I've absolutley no idea how to do it though.

cheers,

Alaa

IMO it is much harder to create an automated exploit or a virus for GNU/Linux

thats the important thing about GNU/Linux security.

some crackers will always be able to compromise some systems, but it'll not spread like fire.

it is also relativly easier to limit the damage of such exploits with GNU/Linux, even for an unexperienced user.

a cracker may get normal user access but will find it hard to get root access etc.

cheers,

Alaa

BTW you don't need to use rpm to install kernel updates anymore

URPMI knows that kernel packages should be installed not upgraded

check /etc/urpmi/inst.list

and it downloads the files for you too.

cheers,

Alaa

I upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2 with texstar gnome 2.4 rpms installed.

only trouble was I had to manualy upgrade or remove some devel packages.

I just removed all devel packages and the problem went away

urpmi --auto-select did the rest.

cheers,

Alaa

try idesk http://idesk.timmfin.net/

its not a file manager it only adds launchers, but you can always tell it to launch a file manager.

rox seems to be a popular option, I personaly can't stand an app that hides my root window, and it takes to much resources to do what it does imo.

cheers,

Alaa

compiles with no problems here.

at first I though it was problem with the -pipe CFLAG, tested it here and it works fine.

anyway you can try without -pipe since man gcc claims it sometimes confuses assemblers.

cheers,

Alaa

AFAIK gxedit doesn't have syntax highlighting.

if you need a GTK editor with syntax highlight try scite , glimmer or gedit.

cheers,

Alaa

what wrong with Mandrake??

juest remove all packages you don't need.

keep urpmi.

if you prefer gui keep XFree86 and a lightweight window manager (fluxbox, pekwm, something like that) and the drakxtools.

make sure only services you need are running

update your machine using

urpmi.update update_source
urpmi --update --autoselect

I have MDK 9.1 running on an old Toshiba laptop with only 32 MB of ram, I use it as a desktop and it works fine as long as I'm only running lightweight packages that I know I need.

cheers,

Alaa

you can have the two configs in one file

just create two seperate monitor sections and give them different identifiers

then create two seperate server layout sections one using the monitor/monitors and the other using the tvout

then you can choose between them by running

X -layout tv_layout
X -layout normal_layout

replacing tv_layout and normal_layout with the server layout identifiers.

if you use xinit or startx then you run them this way

xinit -- -layout tv_layout
startx -- -layout normal_layout

and yes you can start mutliple KDE and Gnome and whatever sessions and switch between them (and yes they can be run by the same user).

if the question however is to have them both visible at the same time, then no it can't be done without patching XFree.

cheers,

Alaa

BTW you can install a kernel using RPMDrake and urpmi, urpmi knows not to upgrade kernels but to install them side by side (check the /etc.urpmiinst.list file), and it does update lilo configs.

you should see extra entries in your lilo menu after you install a new kernel.

as for the marcello kernel, this is the stock kernel without any extra patches by mandrake.

I would recommend you stick to the plain kernel provided by Mandrake (but you'd better upgrade the kernel).

as for /usr/src I think you're trying to find the kernel sources which is installed by the package kernel-source

so make sure you have an update source defined, connect to the internet and run

urpmi kernel-2.4.22.21mdk

reboot your computer (2.4.22-21mdk should now be your default kernel)

run

urpmi kernel-source

and you'll find the kernel sources in /usr/src/linux

cheers,

Alaa

you'll be better of ditching Mandrake configs and using one of Shorewalls standard config files.

shorewall is a great tool but for some reason Mandrake configs are hard to work with.

so read the quick start up guide here http://www.shorewall.net/1.3/two-interface.htm

and get the two interface skeleteon config files and add the rules you just posted they should work fine.

cheers,

Alaa

slocate error is not related to your dvd blues, it just did not get the chance to update your database.

by default Mandrake have daily and weekly locate cron jobs, but they only work late at night.

if you don't normaly leave your PC running all the time you might want to install anacron which relies on frequency instead of fixed times.

cheers,

Alaa

then you need to import PLF's public key.

until 9.1 it was sufficient to run this command as root

lynx -source http://plf.zarb.org/plf.asc | gpg --import

but I think starting from 9.2 you'll need

lynx -source http://plf.zarb.org/plf.asc > plf.asc

rpm --import plf.asc

then you'll need to associate the key with the plf source.

you can do that through the Software Sources Manager (I have no idea how to do it from the command line).

after that your PLF packages should install without signature errors.

cheers,

Alaa

BTW you can use

netstat -t

to show tcp connections without having to grep

netstat -p

also lists the programs responsible for these connections

and

netstat -n

is much faster since it lists IPs numericaly without trying to reverse DNS them

netstat -c

will let nestat run forever and just refresh the display every few seconds.

I usualy want to keep a count of the number of open connections in front of me so I run

watch "netstat -tn | wc -l"

cheers,

Alaa