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Very "standard". Any linux distribution can handle this, provided that your hardware is compatible. AFAIK, SNF7.2 is just Mandrake7.2, with configuration tools improved and different default values for various packages, with a firewall in mind. So:- Anything Mdk7.2 can do, SNF7.2 can also do. - Any server Mdk7.2 can handle, so can SNF7.2. - I guess SNF7.2 is not bad, because IMO Mdk7.2 is one of the best/most stable Mandrake distribution released by Mandrakesoft (if you take into account the "Linux world's" status at release time of course). - I guess SNF7.2 is not worked on anymore. But for that, you'd better ask Mandrakesoft. From what I've read: YES. It is said to be tricky to set-up, but the end-result is said to be reliable, and working well 24/24 7/7. IMO, SNF7.2 is not interesting any more. Much improvement has taken place since that time, both for servers and other programs, and more specifically, server configuration tools have been greatly simplified and improved, up to their great current status in Mdk9.0 (look at Mandrake Control Center's screenshots!). Anyway, first thing you should do is check your hardware here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3 then ask for details on this board for any hardware you have doubts about. Yves.

:-) Ah Ah You beat me :lol: I can't explain those questions. There must be some explanation though. (For soft links, I wondered the same myself). Good luck, and tell us what you discover. Bye, Yves.

Yes it is possible. I did it for freetype2. First install the src.rpm. example: package-1.0-1mdk.src.rpm: rpm -i package-1.0-1mdk.src.rpm Then go to /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES and tar xzf package.tar.gz (the package where you have changes to make). Do your changes inside the newly created package/ directory. After that rm -f package.tar.gz tar czf package.tar.gz package Next, you should go to /usr/src/RPM/SPECS and edit the package.spec file. In the "release" section, change "1mdk" to something unique; eg: "1mdk1me" and save your change (you can also change the compile options; I did that for php). Finally, in that same directory, execute rpm -ba ./package.spec That's all from 1year-old memory, so be creative and adapt it if needed. And read the rpm man page in case of trouble. I almost forgot: the new src.rpm will be in /usr/src/RPM/SRPMS and the binary package should be in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686. I hope this helps. Yves.

I've been using Gnucash for almost 3 years now. I've had no problem. The only thing missing, IMO, is programmed operation on regular dates. But that'll come in next version. Yves.

Let's talk about permissions, files, and directories. If you have the 'r' right for a file, then you can view its content. If you have the 'w' right for a file, then you can modify its content. If you have the 'x' right for a file, then you can execute the file. If you have the 'r' right for a directory, then you can view its content (view what files are there). If you have the 'w' right for a directory, then you can modify its content (add or remove files). If you have the 'x' right for a directory, then you can enter the directory, and try to go further in it (nested directories and files). You can remove any file you don't own in a directory you have the right to write in, eg a file created by root in your home directory. Yves.

On a Linux platform, pop accounts are simply user accounts. And imap are the same, I think. Anyway, you can run linuxconf in console. There's a command-line option to do this. Try linuxconf --help or man linuxconf. Yves.

I don't have any idea on your problem. Maybe you'll have more info by starting fam, and running top. Yves.

686 are PII and compatibles 586 are PI and compatibles You can use a 586 binary on a 686 but not the other way around (normally). Mandrake is created for 586 (hence also for 686 and better), so they don't use any PII-specific instructions when compiling.

Actually, it is not IXext, it is Xext. When a program tells you that you miss -Ifile, then it means that you miss the file.h file in one of the usual includes directory. When a program tells you that you miss -lfile, then it means that you miss the libfile.so... file in one of the usual libraries directory. Try to run urpmf libfile.so or urpmf file.h Yves.

Sorry, Gnoise, not Grecord. Here are the URL: http://gnoise.sourceforge.net/: I use this one because it works well for recording, and it allows very long recordings. However, it is too buggy to be used for sound manipulations. For that I use GWC. http://gwc.sourceforge.net/: I use GWC for two things: cutting long records into small parts, and sound enhancement, when possible. http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/gramofile/: This one I use occasionaly, if the stereo sound of a tape is so much damaged that I have to convert the whole song into mono. Yves.

If you're at machine A and you connect to B by ssh, and you want from this session to connect from B to A, you have to use ssh again IMO. When you run an ssh session, all you do is a secure remote access. You're "sort of" at machine B. If on machine B you do telnet, it will use the telnet port, no matter if you're really on B or if you use B via ssh. Nothing sure, though... Yves.

Very interesting. Good introduction. Thanks for the effort.

Mainly a speed issue.

I vote for Mozilla for these reasons (that I all need): - ability to create HTML messages with inline images, - ability to define as many "identities" as wanted (I must have almost 10!), - ability to use an LDAP directory for contact info, - stability. In fact, stability is a "relative" issue. What I mean is that it is much more stable than evolution for me. Otherwise, evolution would also be a good choice. Yves.

If all is well, you should see your pages in http://localhost/ Your pages should be in /var/www but you can define another document-root, in I don't remember which file, in /etc/httpd/ Yves.

Something I wrote on the club-nihil MUB: I do, too ;-) 8) :lol: I don't know much of it, but here is a "trick" I use at home. I: - want the computer to boot fast - want to run apache, slapd, popd, imapd, xteld... It sounds like a contradiction, doesn't it? My solution is to make two lists of boot services (daemons): -1- the services that are needed to start, up to the login screen (system-related), -2- the services that are not needed to login (application-related). In -1-, I have xfs and numlock. In -2-, I have apache, xinetd, slapd, network, and cups. The services from group -1-, I let start the usual way The services from group -2-, I disable them all, and then I create a new service of my own in this file: /etc/rc.d/init.d/myservices #!/bin/bash case $1 in start) ( sleep 1m; bash >/dev/null 2>&1 <<-FIN /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd start /etc/rc.d/init.d/slapd start /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups start FIN ) & ;; stop) /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/slapd stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups stop ;; restart) /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart /etc/rc.d/init.d/slapd restart /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups restart ;; esac And I enable myservices at boot in runlevel 3 and 5. The result is that myservices is just skipped at boot (start is done in background and begins with a sleep command). But one minute (1m) after it is called, myservices begins working. In this minute I have the time to log in and open whatever applications I want. The 1m parameter is the thing you have to tune to your machine. if your "stripped" machine boots in 15seconds, and you give yourself 15seconds to log in, then you'll replace 1m with 30s. Yves.

:shock: :!: gooooooooooooood :)

Hi! I don't know what you were able to achive, but do you know how to: - give access to the device files (especially mixer...) the same way as on the server, - tunnel sound. Apart from that, I'd say that the existing documentation is rather easy to use. Bye, Yves.

I use grecord for recording, and gwc for improving the wav. Yves.

Sad... the .htaccess file had no effect even on my own Apache (it is enabled in the config file...). Anyway, no problem anymore. With XHTML, CSS files are required to be text/css (that's perfectly normal), and with HTML, CSS are allowed to be anything (more permissive). I looked at my Apache config, and indeed, CSS files are of MIME type text/css, as they should be. I changed this config to text/plain, and I perfectly reproduced my problem (I set it back to normal after). As my provider seems to be totally deaf and blind to W3C standards, I finally removed the DOCTYPE thing from all my XHTML files, and now things work well. Yves. BTW: what do you think of my site? Not so much the content (can you even read French?), but rather layout and colors. PM me :)

Any Mdk would be OK, provided your hardware is compatible. I began Linux computing with a PII350/64MBram, with Mdk6.1/KDE1: very usable. Now I have a PII350/192MBram, with Mdk8.1/Gnome1.4+IceWM: very usable. Recently, I acquired a P150/32MBram laptop, with Mdk8.1/Gnome1.4+IceWM: the fastest GUI desktop I could get; good enough. Sometimes I only use IceWM without Gnome: really better, but no Gnome panel. Generally, Gnome is faster than KDE with a "weak" machine. Further more, within Gnome, I found IceWM to be the fastest and best window manager. Because the rage128 chipset has a bug in Mdk9.0 with DRI, I can't switch to 9.0, but I would if I could because everywhere, it is said it is faster (system is faster to boot, KDE is faster, Gnome is faster). For a conclusion, my advice for your hardware is as follows: - Mdk9.0 with Gnome2+Metacity (the default, never tried this one) or Gnome2+IceWM. - Or if you can't cope with Gnome startup time, just Mdk9.0 with IceWM (or again Metacity if it is faster... I never tried). Yves.

I'm in the process of recording old LPs to CDs. For splitting a big wav file, I use GWC (Gnome Wave Cleaner). Yves.

I prononce it with a short 'i', but the real problem for me is to say how I prononce the 'u'. There's simply no way I can think of, to describe the French 'u' sound in English... Yves.

Thanks, I'll try. I have to try myself, because my provider's support are all newbies :lol: When I talked to them about MIME types errors in the logs, they asked me what is a MIME, what is the URL of the logs I'm talking about, can I explain better please, and what is the URL of the page that gives the error. Yves.

Not sure also because you did not answer my question. Anyway, here's my configuration, along with explanations: http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.ph...p?p=15884#15884 Yves.