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netstat -tan Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State It works! I had some trouble though. When I logged off from IceWM, X did not come back up. Running startx from the command line started up KDE. After a reboot though, everything seems to work. So the procedure is as follows: Edit the /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc file and next time X starts, it should be fine. 192c192 < ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp -deferglyphs 16 --- > ServerArgsLocal=-deferglyphs 16

Yes, running ps -ef |grep dm gives /usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon as the dm. However, there is no file for kdm in /etc/X11. There is a directory for kdm in /etc/kde/. The file /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc has an option called ServerArgsLocal which is currently set to "-deferglyphs 16". BTW, the comment next to it says that the default is "-nolisten tcp" (as I had mentioned in my previous post)! I don't know why it was changed to the insecure option. I'll post a follow up if the above changes work. Thanks for the helpful post!

A firewall is necessary no matter what ports you have closed. However, it would be better to close down the port since I am not using it. BTW, it seems that KDE will close the port by default if it is chosen as the desktop environment, so it should be possible with some setting, but which file do I change?

I found that my mandriva 2007.1 was listening on both ports 6000 and 7741. The other one was lisa, which was not active when I installed it. Anyway, I turned it off using chkconfig. I looked up how to prevent X from listening on this site, but the change does not seem to do anything. In the file /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, :0 local /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -deferglyphs 16 I am using IceWM. Any help is appreciated, as I use this machine to access Internet.

Thanks for the reply. That works in Firefox.

Thanks for the reply. I tried it, and it works well as far as it goes. However, I have a low memory machine, and I am not running KDE. I would like a program that does not load all the KDE infrastructure. Further, clearing the contents of the clipboard using the klipper command only makes it unavailable to klipper. Middle click still has the data available, which is the original problem I was hoping to solve.

Is there a way to access the clipboard in Mandriva similar to /dev/clipboard in cygwin? Middle click in Firefox sends the clipboard data to Google, so this is not a minor issue. I would like to have a program (daemon?) clear the clipboard data when I start firefox. I have had this problem for a while in Mandriva. I am running Mandriva 2007.1. Any help is appreciated. TIA

I have downloaded the Scrapbook extension, which seems to do what I want.

I have mounted a file system on NFS over a fast ethernet connection. I am able to copy files off the mounted partition at 10 MB/s, but when I try to play it using xine, it stalls after a couple of seconds. If I copy the same file onto my hard disk, it plays fine. There are no error messages in the logs. Both systems are running Mandriva 2007.1. Anyone running NFS with xine? Are there any other remote file options for Mandriva (other than Samba)? Any help is appreciated.

I tried to download it from firefox and then using curl, and both failed. It seems there is some redirect that they are not parsing. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: Anyway, works with wget. Good thing Mandriva has ten different programs for the same function.

Thanks--I will check it out, although the link that is given for the download doesn't seem to work. I am looking for something which can do a little more too--if I could put all the files from spidering a page in a single file, that would be sweet. Thanks for all the replies.

Is there some software in Mandriva to download webpages to a single file rather than the current situation where a large number of small files are created on disk? I have to delete these manually, and moving them is no fun either. I suppose it will have to a firefox plugin for ease of use, but is there a format to which I can convert these? I looked at xchm, but it seems to look at reading chm files rather than creating it. What do people here use? I believe such a system would reduce the files on my disk to a tenth. Any help is appreciated.

To make the sensors modules behave correctly, add these lines to /etc/modules.conf: #----cut here---- # I2C module options alias char-major-89 i2c-dev #----cut here---- To load everything that is needed, add this to some /etc/rc* file: #----cut here---- # I2C adapter drivers modprobe i2c-i801 # Chip drivers modprobe eeprom # Warning: the required module coretemp is not currently installed # on your system. For status of 2.6 kernel ports check # [url="http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices"]http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices[/url]. If driver is built # into the kernel, or unavailable, comment out the following line. modprobe coretemp # sleep 2 # optional /usr/local/bin/sensors -s # recommended #----cut here---- Looks like the coretemp module is missing from my kernel. A quick google search shows that I the 2.6.17 kernel version doesn't have the module. People have reported success with the latest kernel from cooker. This feature is not worth a kernel upgrade for me. :unsure:

That command comes up empty. I had answered all the questions for sensors-detect program. Perhaps the configuration files have not been updated.

I installed the lm_sensors package and it detected the chip as intel core 2. However, it didn't load any modules at the end, and the sensors command shows no sensors are installed and none of the i2c modules seem to be loaded. I will try again with the ksensors package next. Does this update /proc/acpi too? Thanks for the help.

I have a theory about why it doesn't happen--the packages are names libmozilla-firefox2...etc instead of libmozilla-firefox-2..etc. This would be a packaging issue rather than a mcc issue. The disk space it takes up is quite large too. :mellow:

Is there a FAQ around here which talks about stuff that can be turned off without breaking anything? I had the mdkapplet and net_applet start up each time and consume most of my free RAM. I find that killing net_applet does not affect my network--as far as I can see all that it does is to put an icon in the taskbar. And slightly offtopic, I recently had a very good experience with mandriva which I want to put somewhere where people can read it: I swapped out my motherboard and processor, and mandriva detected and configured everything on the next boot! :D I have a fully functioning system with sound, networking and video (all new hardware, note!)

In my 2007.1 install, $ rpm -qa |grep firefox libmozilla-firefox2.0.0.8-2.0.0.8-1mdv2007.1 mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.12-1.1mdv2007.1 libmozilla-firefox2.0.0.3-2.0.0.3-2mdv2007.1 libmozilla-firefox2.0.0.11-2.0.0.11-1.1mdv2007.1 libmozilla-firefox2.0.0.6-2.0.0.6-4mdv2007.1 libmozilla-firefox2.0.0.12-2.0.0.12-1.1mdv2007.1 Since mozilla is frequently updated, this gives takes up a lot of space. Anyone else have the same problem? I had deleted a bunch of them manually a while ago, and these are the latest ones to crop up. Any help is appreciated.

I am running mandriva 2007.1 on a Core 2 Duo processor. The directory /proc/acpi/thermal_zone is empty. I am running the 32 bit version. I am able to see the temperature in the BIOS, so the sensor is working. Does mandriva support the temperature sensor of this chip? Do I need to load some modules? Any help is appreciated.

I chose to copy the DVD during the installation, and then there was no space left to do a complete install There should have been an option in the install to change it if the complete install could not be performed. Individual package selection is a real pain. Finally did the installation with the minimal packages (no KDE etc). Can I now delete the lines from MCC and the files from the hard disk without mcc breaking? My system is not connected to the internet, so I don't really need to update anything.

I suppose the manual formatting will work. Formatting a new disk with a CD like Knoppix would be the way to go then, rather than killing the install in the middle. I suppose letting the / use 1k blocks would not be a problem for most users. Is this a problem in the x86_64 too?

I am running Mandriva 2007.1 on my system, and the default block size of 1k is causing problems with a file limit of 17G. Now, the block size cannot be changed without copying out all the files and reformatting. What is the default block size for Mandriva 2008? If it is still 1k, is there an option to choose 2k or 4k during install? I find that in the file /etc/mke2fs.conf, the default block size is 4k, with 1k for small file systems. I plan to upgrade my system to 2008, and would like to avoid this problem. Any help is appreciated. [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

I have used procmail before, back when I thought it could stop spam. Anyway, I find that this version of Mandriva I am using has msmtp as a standard package. I have managed to configure it to send email via hotpop, and a test email was sent successfully. Last time I had trouble getting it to work with gmail, so I will try that and post here. The error message at the time was: 535 5.7.1 Credentials Rejected even though I had used the correct user name and password.

Have you gotten mailx to work without sendmail?

I tried using mutt, but they are quite adamant about not supporting SMTP. They want people to use sendmail. I had downloaded some additional programs (msmtp) to work with mutt on this, but I found them quite flaky. If anyone here has gotten mutt working with SMTP, I will give it another go. I really don't need all the features mutt has to offer though, so if there is something simpler out there I would like to know. The problem with most of the UNIX programs are that they assume a working sendmail installation. And people also assume, I think, that the new Linux users wouldn't be interested in command line programs. I would just use web mail, but I really need offline compose capability. I am using gmail right now. Thanks for all the replies.