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try to install libdvdcss . #urpmi libdvdcss . though they say...

an alternative... open your konsole... as a regular user.. type the command $top it will show you thus running processes... and you can kill those belongs to you.. if you do that as root..you can kill those processes belongs to others. end it by pressing q . if you press "u" followed by a username, it will display the processes belongs to that particular user. . man top for further info. . edit: just tried on my box.. ctrl+esc pops up task manager.. :P

you mean, you sign in as root in order to browse? not good.. or maybe you just have to sign in as root when installing th eflash plugin?. btw. in firefox 1.5, you dont need to manually extract the flash plugin, it will inform you that there is a missing plugin and need to be installed... but, you cant install firefox 1.5 on RPM, so you have to download it from firefox download page.. extract the tgz file.. move it to where you will be able to run it.. but really.. correct me if im wrong, but try to avoid browsing as root... :P

dont forget.. log files for any clue ....

eh... to them... disregard the request..(but just incase they would like to, its better).. . got an answer from a certain guy. though different command but sort of have the same effect .. #chage -d 0 username sorry, I really did'nt know it, but now I know . Thanks Guys !

mandy, redhat, centos, have'nt check FC about it, but I dont understand why that option is not available on them, is that particular function, on them some kind of vulnerability? :unsure: . hope they will add that function on their passwd-util, Suse, Xandros and Mepis have that so why not on them... though a very little function, but still, very important on a system that handles multiple users...

that file has a password protection, you need to ask the one who create that rar file for the password.. its not the root password

Konqueror is an Internet Browser, have you tried it? :P

I already check the GUI passwd management of mandriva and NONE.. #urpmi shadow-util The package(s) are already installed I think that's what you mean.. so its been already installed. . Oh mandy.. mandy, what have you done?...

I dont get it... might be that RedHat does not have that option either.. as i've mentioned above.. the output of command "passwd --help" on my Mandriva 2005 and on My Centos Box are similar.. does not have the -e option... Centos is a Clone of redhat.. but why? . Is there a way to re-install the passwd util package? from source?

here''s the output of passwd --help on Mandriva 2005 and they are similar with centos (an RHClone) and in opensuse yeah.. I dont understand why that option is not available...on mandy

ok.. Im still on LE 2005, and dont find that option on it, ( I dont know if 2006 have this).. on xandros, it has an option on GUI passwd management to force the user to change the passwd on the next login... on cli.. -e option is used on the command "passwd".. same with OpenSuse, it has the -e option to do the same on cli... how should I do it on mandriva? any Idea? (man page says nothing about it...) TIA!!! btw, NIS or LDAP is not an option... :P [moved from Software by spinynorman]

you can install both... It will not break your box anyway...

editing source code.. if the application you installed is an opensource, then you can edit the source code yourself, but if not....you wont... the default apps on linux are mostly open source... so editing it is allowed.. if Window$ open their source, well .. i dont know what will happen..

well... I did not make it, I mean, I did not replace it with any other distro... afterall, xndros is still linux, and its debian... I just realized that, this is a chance for me to learn deb... so I decided to just keep it as is.. now I'm exploring apt-get on installing those missing applications... . one more thing.. apt-get is just fast.. have u tried it?

thanks guys... maybe I should replace it with Mandriva... I have an LTSP server running on Mandriva 10.1 serving 3 ThinClient running for almost two years now.. and was able to resolve some problem on it... though I have tried Centos but as Server for File, mail, and web... and hav'nt tried it as Desktop thanks again... at least I will not be force to join another Forum :P . honestly.. Im trying to get rid of Mandriva on my desktop.. but failed to look for something better... . In fairness to OpenSuse, I have it on other Boot on this same desktop Im using.. and I only encountered one problem on it..yet, the AutoFS/automounter package... which I really needed on mounting smb and nfs drive on demand, though its the same problem that Mandriva has on its default autofs package.. it wont auto-unmount on the certain timeout...but was able to resolve it on mandriva by installing autofs package from source, while on OpenSuse, I cant even install the autofs source.., but in general.. as how I see OpenSuse on my desktop.. its cool..

ok, they (main Office) sent me a pc preinstalled with Xandros 3 Business Edition, with a couple of Diskless workstations...so it is supposed to act as an LTSP server.. I already installed on it LTSP and its working.. but the guy who installed the xandros created so many partitions... well, I dont really know if this is the default Xandros Partition.. I'd tried to change some partition assignment via the fstab, but when rebooted.. it sets back some of its default... I dont have the CD of Xandros, so I cannot do some changes, since if it will crash.. I dont have something to Fix it... also, some utils that other distro have are not on xandros... like.. qparted, or the one similar to diskdrake... tried to apt-get it but it wont install due to some failed dependencies... also, it does'nt have the chkconfig tool, maybe it have and I just dont knew it or it has been renamed... . Now, I started to deslike it... if.... what distro shoud I use to replace it... its a deb distro.. but I prefer rpm.. what if I replace it with Mandriva? or Centos..? or openSUse? I just need some of your thoughts... really.. Its been two days since im staring on this Xandros thing trying to figure out if I should replace it... :unsure:

but is it safe to used those options.?. unless if you really trust the source of those package, but if those are updates, the sigs should be checked...

try to update your urpmi database... as root #urpmi.update -a -v that will update all repositories... there might be some changes on the repos.. that is why you've got that errors, then after it finish..do the #urpmi --clean it will clean the cached rpms... then repeat what you were trying to do..

I dont believe that you really can hide your IP add on the net unless if close all the ports of your box, and doing that also removing your internet access.. . everytime you surf and open a website... your IP had been logged.. and if a certain real hacker really wanted to Hack you..he will find a way to access those sites that you visited... then also..he/she wont just go on to technical way, but you have'nt just notice.. you are talking already to him/her.. beware of this

what an idea!? do you really understand what you've done?

ok, I'd like to ask it here, since I think its a sort of related to the topic, how could I make it happen, I have a remote Desktop PC, then I have full access on it thru ssh, then via cli, I want to start a certain application.. say.. emacs and display it on that remote PC's desktop, so it'll just pop up on that desktop.. is it possible? how?

you mean you physically switched the hard drive or just doin it via the BIOS?.. anyway, try this one.. tried it on GRUB Bootloader attach the LINUX HD as primary Master and the Windows HD as Secondary Master, the shared Stuff as the Secondary Slave. then if you can do that... try to boot on Mandy Lnux, then edit Grub . the easy way to edit is via CLI ( :P ) . anyway, what ever way you can edit it, just add the following entry below on you /boot/grub/menu.lst . default with entries for linux only.. it could be different with yours.. . timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan default 5 title linux kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda1 splash=silent initrd (hd0,4)/initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda1 initrd (hd0,4)/initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 failsafe acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda1 devfs=nomount initrd (hd0,4)/initrd.img so add the following.. title Windows rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) chainloader +1 then save the file with that entry and restart and check if that new grub entry will work....

re: root password.. there should always be a root password., well, if you skipped the part that you should assign a password for it, the you can just boot on failsafe, can be found in your grub menu upon booting to the specific kernel, then when you have the prompt, you can just do . passwd root . then enter root password

windows...:P ohh .. love is blind Redhat 6... but imagine, that was year 2001 when I started using it..... so that was a very old CD then..