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I'm running a Mandrake 9.2 server with postfix. One of my users didn't recieve mail for around 6-7 days, while other users did (the account now seems to be working fine). Our mail usually comes direct to this server but the server is down then it gets cached on at our ISPs server so we can download it when our DSL connection is back up. I'm trying to track down where the missing emails got lost. If they actually got to our server or whether they got lost at the ISP somehow. Is there a log file which lists incoming emails or is there no way to track the missing mail? I've looked in /var/log/mail but the log files here only seems to log errors and not incoming mail. Thanks

I need to resize some printer postscript files from letter to A4, if you don't want to know why skip the next paragraph. I have printer on a small network which grinds to a halt every time a letter sized document is sent to it, because it expects A4, so it just sits there and asks for letter size paper. I have a system in place which blocks letter sized paper from being printed but I still get complaints from people who can't figure out how to change the size of their document, so I was hoping to resize the document to A4 automatically. So I tried to do this using the command psresize -Pletter -pA4 test.ps test2.ps The problem is, it doesn't seem to work properly. It resizes the printed stuff on the page alright but the produced postscript file is still seen as a letter document by KGhostview and the postscript file it still contains a line with %%BeginFeature: *PageSize Letter . I've tried using different printers (HP LaserJet and Apple Colour Laser) with the same results. I even tried editing the postscript file to change the "PageSize Letter" to "PageSize A4" but with no luck. I also tried using the ImageMagick tools but the resultant postscript file is far too poor quality to use (or it becomes enormous when I set the dpi to a reasonable level and still poor quality). Is their anyway I can resize this postscript file to A4 and have it read it as A4. Thanks.

You could use winamp in windows with one of the output plugins that lets you record to mp3 or ogg. (It plays encrypted wmas as well as unecrypted ones). Alternatively if you have a CD-Writer you can write them to CD using windows media player and then use what ever tool you choose in Linux to rip them to whatever format you want. Or, wait a couple of weeks and then buy crossover office with iTunes support (which won't do a thing for your wma files but will let you buy music legally and then play it back under Linux).

I have a dual monitor system up and running using xinerama, however, I would like to have a seperate log on screen displayed on the second monitor so I can be logged in as two users at once. I don't want to run them seperately, i.e. with two keyboards and mice, just to move the mouse from one screen to another but when I do so for it to be a different user. Is this possible?

Problem solved (sort of). I figured the card was faulty and replaced it with a Geforce 2 MX PCI card. :)

UPDATE: I'm still having problems in Linux and have never got it working, but I also occasionally have problems in Windows XP. In the windows case, a couple of reboots or occasionally removing the card, booting windows, shutting down, reinserting the card, booting windows fixes the problem (this is a pain). However, I still can't get it working in Linux. The problem is that there appears to be a persistent image that remains in the cards memory so just hitting the off button and then rebooting means that a distorted image of the last image appears on the voodoo monitor. I have to turn the computer off at the mains to get rid of this and even then it results in a random image (like an untuned analogue TV picture but static not moving). I've haven't been able to track down a reason for this behaviour in Windows XP, but I'm open to suggestions (it doesn't appear to be linked to using the 3D acceleration of either card). Any ideas?

OK, I've got it partially working now, I'll include my XFConfig-4 file below. However, I get a lot of red lines down the screen and when I move the mouse around or open windows I get lots of dots and lines appearing (on the voodoo card). Also whenever I switch to terminal mode and back again (Ctrl-Alt-F1 and then Ctrl-Alt-F7) only my nvidia card is working. I have tried doing without the NoAccel and SWCursor options and its worse. Here's the file # File generated by XFdrake. # ********************************************************************** # Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of # this file. # ********************************************************************** Section "Files" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath "unix/:-1" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" #DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort) #DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" # Load "glx" # 3D layer Load "dri" # direct rendering EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "Keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" Option "XkbOptions" "" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Generic" ModelName "1024x768 @ 60 Hz" HorizSync 31.5-48.5 VertRefresh 50-70 # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor2" # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "3Dfx Interactive, Inc." BoardName "Voodoo3 (generic)" Driver "tdfx" Screen 0 BusID "PCI:1:7:0" Option "DPMS" Option "NoAccel" "on" Option "SWCursor" "on" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device2" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)" Driver "nv" Screen 0 BusID "PCI:2:0:0" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen2" Device "device2" Monitor "monitor2" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" Screen "screen2" Screen "screen1" RightOf "screen2" #Option "Xinerama" EndSection

I've recently upgraded my second graphics card (primary graphics card a GeForce 4 MX) from a Matrox Millenium to a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI to get dual monitors working properly in Windows XP. However, I can't get the Voodoo card working in 10.0 OE or SuSe 9.1. Interestingly enough I did get it to work in Mandrake Move 2 test edition although the refresh rate and alignment were wrong, so the screen looked a bit off. (Yes, I tried copying XF86Config-4 file from MM to the OE, but no joy). Any suggestions? Thanks

Cam anyone tell me what the support is like for DVD rewriters in 9.2? What types of DVD (+\- R\RW) can I burn (if any) out of the box? Thanks

Have you tried disabling shorewall (and running iptables -L as root to make sure) and then seeing if you can connect?

Gowator, Xinerama support in KDE and GNOME has improved a lot. You can now restrict the panel to one screen and when you maximise it maximises to one screen (not across both). I currently use xinerama with one screen at 1024x768 and the other at 800x600. The only problem I have is with the version of mplayer that comes with 9.2, which chooses to show the control window in an off screen position for most skins, the problem is fixed in 10CE.

OK, solved the problem. But first some clarification. I want to ssh in as a user to my own account. However, it wasn't the lack of world readability or executablitity that was causing the problem. It was making my home directory writable by members of my group. This isn't a problem, I can disable group writing without any bother. Thanks anyway.

I cannot use ssh to log in when my home directory permissions are set to 770, I have to all all users read access to my directory to get it to work. I have only allowed ssh to use key files not the users password and I use 9.2. Is there anyway round this, so that anyone not in my group cannot enter my home directory but I can use ssh (with keys) to login? Thanks

Thanks very much, that's what I was looking for.

I am having a problem running 9.2 . I want a directory /home/all to be readable and writable by everyone and set the permissions appropriately. However, every so often the writable permission keeps resetting and making it read only to anyone not in the owners group. Anyone know why this is happening and how I can stop it? I guess I could write a small script which keeps resetting the permissions every so often but this would be papering over a problem without discovering the undelying causes which I don't like doing. Thanks

Anyone know if there will be a download edition of the AMD64 version of Mandrake 10.0, or do I have to grab the RC before it disapears?

When I open a document in OpenOffice.org in 10CE that has a font that is not on my system it freezes OpenOffice.org. Not always immediately, sometimes it opens ok, then freezes when I scroll down or when I try to type something in, other times it does freeze while loading. I can fix the problem, by adding a substitute font in the font replacement table before I open the document. This is fine for me if I know what font I used in my document but it is not fine for the college where I run the IT and we have Linux desktop machines. You don't always know ahead of time what fonts a document is going to have, nor do I want my users to crash the system everytime they open a document that has a font they have at home but not on our system. Nor is it acceptable to give them an instruction sheet about adding a font to a font replacement table before they can open a document. This is unacceptable behaviour and to an audience that already wants windows and word, it's suicide step for Linux to give them this system as is. I've registered the problem with Bugzilla, for the 10RC but it's still there in 10CE and nothing has been done. Could somebody else try this out and see if this is just my problem or whether its a wider one?

I had exactly the same problem. The only way I solved it was to put buy a nice new modem/router that plugged into my ethernet port (it also solved my many many hassles of trying to get my usb modem working with the various 10RCs and betas). It actually gave me a few extra kps in windows as well.

I think the problem is the router is being set up to forward (or route, I'm not sure of the correct terminology here, sorry) an IP address but needs to be set up to masq it. To illustrate the difference. Here's my situation. I have two seperate lans on different sub mask, one from students and one for staff. The student network is on 192.168.0.0 and the staff on 192.168.69.0 . Now our web sever is on the staff network so students need to access their webmail need to be able to access the web server on the faculty network but nothing else. Therefore, my router (which is actually a 486 running debian Linux) is set up to allow access to 192.168.68.1 (our webserver) on port 80 from 192.168.0.0 . But we also need this to be available from the internet, this needs to be masked. So that requests for port 80 coming from our external ip is masqed to 192.168.69.1 . I think you have set up the internal forwarding (designed for one lan to another) but not masquing (sp?) which is for external IP to lan address. Having said all that I have no idea how to set this up on a router, just a linux box, but it should give you some ideas.

I use clamav, I believe it's available as an rpm in the contrib section. However, I usually install it by downloading direct from their site. http://www.clamav.net/ There's a pdf file explaining how to install and autodownload the updates. This will enable you to scan your drive and find the infected file. If you are using FAT for your windows drive you will then be able to delete the offending files. If your using NTFS, you've got a problem as this is read only under Linux.

OK, I'm assuming you installed it in the default directory which is /usr/local/mozilla so to run it you need to cd to this directory and then type ./mozilla in a terminal. To make the new version of mozilla run from all your mozilla menu items then you need to link to the /usr/bin directory and replace the existing mozilla binary. Let's rename the old binary so its still there and you can run either version but the default is the new one. Run the following in a terminal su mv /usr/bin/mozilla /usr/bin/mozilla-old ln -s /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla /usr/bin/mozilla Now when you run mozilla from a terminal or click on a mozilla icon you should launch your new version.

I'm not sure if this is your situation, but here's mine. I have a 9.2 system with a lan and connected to the internet via an adsl router. When accessing them imap mail from the localmachine or lan, its really fast, no problems. When accessing it through dial it, it was really slow to log in and open a new folder but quick to access messages when this had happened. It was the same when I got my adsl usb modem. When I switched to a router for my adsl at home, it was much much faster. Haven't a clue why, but there you go.

The above works, but if you have access to an imap server then it might be easier to use that. If you create an imap email account in Outlook Express you can then copy all your old emails and folders to that account. Then open it up in what ever email client you need and there's all your emails. If you have to use another server to get the email then you could copy all the emails to that account when you create it in evolution or whatever or but this is kind of loosing the simplicity thing, you can install an imap server and download all your email to it using fetchmail, although this has complication issues if your using dialup.

Still haven't had much luck understanding .spec files. However, I have discovered from the XFree site, that it only installs stuff to /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11, thus if I copy these directories before I install the latest version of XFree, then if I want to upgrade an rpm that requires an XFree rpm then I can restore my backups, install the software and then reinstall the later version of XFree. Not exactly, easy, but I should be able to write a script to automate all of it and it should work. I hope. I will be trying this soon (and posting my sucess or failure for those interested) but before I do, is there anyone out there who can tell me if this is really going to mess up my system, or there's something I've forgotten?

From reading the nvu website, downloading the file and trying to run it. I think what you are supposed to do is untar and gzip it and then cd into the directory and run it with ./nvu However, the website explains that it has been compiled under gcc2.95 and will not work with systems based on gcc 3.3. Guess what Mandrake 9.2 and above is based on gcc 3 not gcc 2. Therefore it will not work. To make it work your going to have compile from source, there is alink explaining how to do this but it involves cvs and a few steps. It's not as straight forward as ./configure, make, make install. But instructions are provided. The URL for builidng from souce is http://www.nvudev.org/sourcecode.html