paul

I know a few of you are already using xfree4.3. anon !! DragonMage ??? so what are the cool new things? and where can I find some interesting cursors ... and don't say red-dot coz I didn't think that was so cool :(

yeah you're right ...

exactly :-) and you could have in your .bashrc, startx but then what the point?

yes you can I have a local webserver with all 3 mandrake cds on it (not in iso format) then I make a network boot disk .. you can find that on cd1 under /images the boot disk will ask whether you want to do a "nfs", "http" or "ftp" install. give you network details and away you go

startx /usr/bin/startkde startx /usr/bin/startgnome (I think) startx /usr/bin/fluxbox you can even do this startx /usr/local/games/ut/ut or startx /usr/local/games/ut2003/ut2003 :-) reboot = shutdown -r now halt = shutdown -h now

its quite easy edit /etc/inittab look for a line like this id:5:initdefault: and change it to id:3:initdefault:

all logs are stored in /var/log/ you could start by looking thru /var/log/messages /var/log/syslog

hostname is got thru the ifcfg-ethx files on boot up .. so if you change the hostname in ifcfg-ethx then when you reboot it will be changed :-)

edit you /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth file example ifcfg-eth0 ifcfg-eth1 this will make the changes stick

good point qnr .... I'm using vanilla-sources so preempt patch might speed things up

mozilla took me 2 hours *ish openoffice took 12 hours *ish x took 5-7 (not sure I went to sleep) fluxbox took me 2-3minutes warning !!!! firstly do an lsmod on your mandrake so you know what drivers you have loaded. and take a backup of XFree86-4 config file (its like gold)

even us old timers forget about the simple solutions, sometimes :wink:

qnr: cool ... thats uber geeky :#: bvc: very little is done for you in gentoo, but perhaps more than LFS ... its not too bad :-D vim ???? it all done with vi baby :#: none of this vim stuff :P

:D or you can do a stage1 install like I did on my Dual Pentium3 1gig with 1gig or RAM and it took me 12 hours before I reboot after an install ... and 3 days before I had X fluxbox and mozilla :P worth it tho' I think

have you tried editing the *My Computer* file and changing the Name ??? paul@trinity paul $ cat ~/.gnome-desktop/paul's Home [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Encoding=UTF-8 Name=paul's Home Type=X-nautilus-home URL=file:///home/paul X-Nautilus-Icon=gnome-fs-home paul@trinity paul $ change "Name=paul's Home" to "Name=My Computer"

its coz gentoo uses a *linux from scratch* setup. everything is optimized for your specific hardware works out to be pretty fast too 8)

I was gonna suggest make the application link to xterm -e /this/is/my/script

the only thing my wife missed was Office. so codeweavers, and $30 bucks later she now has KDE / Evolution / Mozilla / and MS Office :-) .... she's happy We were running all manner of Windows OSes on here puter ... all illegal, so I put my foot down, and said NO MORE ILLEGAL SOFTWARE. When she saw the price of Windows (NZD $889.00) she thought USD $60 for Mandrake DVD sounded pretty good 8)

Yep. I was looking at getting it off ebay or amazon but I found it there at The Warehouse :) cool .. another NZer 8) but how can you use telecom jetstart ... I hate telecom at least johnnyv is an ihug user :wink: I've got 802.11b wireless ... not associated with any ISP :D ... I can pick who I want to buy my data from 8)

nope there is a default site, so you can still access the machine via IP ex: http://www.thewebb.net.nz (on my loudas server) http://loudas.com (on my loudas server) http://202.27.218.97 (my default site on my loudas server)

I've never used LinuxConf to configure websites, so I don't know what its doing .... I'll go do some reading

ok open a terminal (xterm or whatever) su - root then do this tail -f /var/log/httpd/errors* this will watch the error logs in realtime then try to access your website a few times, and see what turns up in the logs. post them back here

also did you try http://yourhostname.whatever/index.htm ?? index.htm may not be in your DirectoryIndex my suggestion is to move /var/www/calandria to /var/www/html then change the commonhttpd.conf and Vhost.conf files to reflect the change As steve mention /var/www/html is the default dir and will work straight from install

then it works???

yep Steve is right for security purposes your /var/www/calandria should be owned by apache, and 755'ed chown -R apache.apache /var/www/calandria chmod -R 755 /var/www/calandria but for ease of use (no one listen this is a secret :#: ) I have chown -R paul.paul /var/www/html/loudas.com that way I can work without having to su