Can't find it!!

[Dantoo]

Somewhere there has to be a thread that tells me who I have to send a thousand blocks to!

I was in on the big sweepstakes and I know I owe somebody a thousand - could it be you?



PS. Kilowatt if you look at this, it'll save me posting again (lazy)

How do I get the client to start on "startup" in Mandrake? I keep reading the book but I just can't find it. I know I managed to do it once before, but I had a reinstall and need to set it up again.

Thanks

 

[PeterN]

Hi Dantoo,

The contest winner was Semper_Fi.
I don't believe he wants his blocks since no one seems to know his cracking addy.

Peter.

 

[Rendus]

Well, can't help with who you have to crack for, but I may be able to help with running dnetc on boot. What you'll probably want to do is poke at the files in /etc/rc.d (or something similar) and see what format they're in. Usually they're numbered and executed in order of the numbers, so you'll want to make a 99rc5, with this in it:

#!/bin/sh
/home/whatever/dnetc/dnetc &

 

[Dantoo]

Thanks for the info. Guess I'll use those blocks somewhere else then til he steps up and claims them.

Rendus, I'll give that a shot tomorrow and see what I can befuddle out of the system. Even Russ is a veritable Linux genius compared to "I".

 

[ViRGE]

Right now, we're putting all the payoff into a seperate account to be retired later. Please crack your 1000 blocks for crackgamewinner@hotmail.com.

 

[Poof]

Dantoo - you need to get to a console in Mandrake. You could do it by either a bringing up a terminal in KDE or outside of KDE by hitting [CTL][ALT][F2], logging in, changing to your dnet directory, then typing:

./dnetc <blah>

where <blah> are any parameters. Note the &quot;./&quot; which needs to be there.

 

[Dantoo]

Virge: 1K blocks headed to crackgamewinner@hotmail.com

Thanks Poof:

I operate in KDE and bring up a console (Konsole) to operate in. I have the client in /var
and control it by bringing up a new console to enter commands in.

It's just getting the little daemon to start automatically when the machine reboots. I've had excessive power problems in the last few days and I have had to reboot machines constantly.

(The worst cost has been a 10GB drive on my main machine. Last image was six weeks back and now I've lost heaps of email, all my Federation Coms, and 5000 blocks to boot. Brownout killed it stone dead)

 

[BoberFett]

I'll let a 450 run over the weekend cracking for that address, that should put out my 1000 blocks.

 

[MWalkden]

Dantoo, if you are interested in recovering that drive Kilowatt (or another Linux guru) may be able to give you advice on how to take an image of it and pull out files from the image. If it were a Windows box you could use Ghost to do it. It all depends on just what got corrupted.

 

[LeBlatt]

I was going to ask too. Will pay monday, I promise

If the winner doesnt show up, will we choose the closest, or do a manual recount ?

 

[Kilowatt]

I'm reading Dantoo's problem with his HDD, is on his main machine, not his Linux box.

Dantoo, there are a couple different ways to get the client to auto start on a reboot.

One is to enter it as a root cron job.
That will start it up without the user even knowing it, unless they look at all the running processes.

Another way is to use your autostart folder on your desktop.
Inside your autostart folder, put in a new applacation, tell it to start the rc5 client in a term box.

One source for MDK info, is their MUO site (Mandrakeuser.org).
Their Administration page is a great place to see how things are done in Mandrake.