Re: [newbie] ip chains (newbie confusion)

2000-05-12 Thread vern
I'm a confused newbie too when it comes to writing rules for IPCHAINS, I've had good luck with a program calle PMfirewall it's on www.pointman.org . It's a script for writing rules in IPCHAINS and all you need to do is answer the questions when you execute the script. It's not perfect for

Re: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0

2000-05-12 Thread Romanator
Sounds good. Since I don't have the full version of PM, I'll keep the 1st FAT partition for C. Then, split the 2nd FAT (D drive) using the partition program included with Linux Mandrake 7.0 Power Pack. Roman Ron Greer wrote: Well, you can change the two fat partitions you mentioned just

Re: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0

2000-05-12 Thread Romanator
That will work. I'll have to wait until tomorrow for this one. The only item that I'm concerned about is losing my .img file for restoring my factory presets for my C drive. But hey, that's all part of the learning process. Roman (I have learned that pain is not my enemy) Ron Greer wrote:

[newbie] port 21

2000-05-12 Thread James L. Brady
How can I tell if port 21 is enabled?? I think that this port needs to be activated in order for telnet to work. JLB _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html

Re: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0

2000-05-12 Thread Romanator
Just a follow up question. Have you heard of System Commander 2000 from V Communications? I was considering on purchasing it rather than Partition Magic. Since I would like to have multiple OSs on my computer, I thought that it would be very handy as it also handles all sorts of OS, including

Re: [newbie] Any way back in?

2000-05-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Michaelwhen you boot the computer and the lilo Boot: prompt comes up type: linux 3 You'll come up in console mode where you can sign in as root and fix your /etc/X11/XF86Config file with your favorite console based editor. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made a change to my

RE: re. [newbie] StarOffice Mandrake7

2000-05-12 Thread Glenn Crouch - ESB
GaryI certainly can't say what it is that caused your problems, but I have both SO and WP running on my mdk 7.0 system and have experienced no problems. Mine were installed from disc 5 of the MandrakeSoft Powerpack 7.0. Same here... Glenn Crouch mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:36017076

Re: [newbie] Does Linux need defragmenting?

2000-05-12 Thread Michael Holt
Paul wrote: Hello all, me with a question again. Sometimes I see a check forced on the harddisk while booting. No problem, I think that's even good. When I see something like 7.1% non-contiguous, is there something I should do about it? Or does Linux take care of that by itself? Paul

[newbie] POBCAK

2000-05-12 Thread Bob
A Canadian friend, computer programer, enjoyed the "Linux Virus" and sent this along for consideration. It certainly pertains to me. POBCAK= Problem Occurred Between Chair and Keyboard.

Re: [newbie] Any way back in?

2000-05-12 Thread bascule
i believe -but could be wrong- that giving lilo the option of 'init3' or is it 'init 3'? will put you to a prompt, you may have to type 'linux' followed by option at the boot prompt bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made a change to my XF86Config file which I realized was a mistake when I

[newbie] Question about install Mandrake

2000-05-12 Thread kenny
When i first installed Mandrake 7 it was wonderful. I had a few problems but worked around them. DrakeX recognized my master drive with out a hitch. Something happened to linux when i was on my machine for two months that i really enjoyed. It somehow fell below the 1024 mark and i couldnt boot up

Re: [newbie] Installing Linux Mandrake 7.0 with Lnx4Win

2000-05-12 Thread Marc
Those symbols look like Base64. To install MD your gonna have to repartition. Lnx4Win I heard sucks. It is just a fake linux over windows. - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 7:39 PM Subject: [newbie] Installing

[newbie] 3c509b/3c509b TPO/ 3c509b TPC

2000-05-12 Thread Chris Barrows
BG: Suse 6.4 AMD k6-2 450 64 MB Mother Board : DFI K6BV3+ My network card is a 3c509b... Here is my problem: Bios sees my network card as 3c509b. The card is marked as 3c509b-tp ASSY: 03-0021-201-Rev-A FCC ID: DF 63C509B

Re: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0

2000-05-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
Roman I am afraid that you do not have man options. If you had Win 2000 instead of NT you could convert the NTFS to Fat32. As it is I can see only 2 ways to save your image file. 1) Buy PM 5.0, $50; or 2) If you hav a CD-RW then burn the image file to CD. If you choose #2 verify that the

Re: [newbie] IDontLoveYou (fwd)

2000-05-12 Thread Marc
What is this email about? unix version of ILoveYou??? - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 12:47 AM Subject: [newbie] IDontLoveYou (fwd) | | This is the Unix version of "I Love You". It works on the honor system. | | If

Re: [newbie] port 21

2000-05-12 Thread doom
Port 21 is used for the FTP service. Port 23 needs to be open for telnet. - Original Message - From: "James L. Brady" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 9:53 PM Subject: [newbie] port 21 | How can I tell if port 21 is enabled?? I think that this port

[newbie] re x crashing upon logout

2000-05-12 Thread Caleb McKay
Okay I have tried to install Mandrake repeatedly, using every possible configuration I can think of. My video card (s3 sav4) uses the svga x server. The install goes just dandy and I log in to x windows just fine (from command prompt and using graphic log in). The problem occurs when I try

Re: [newbie] Cookies

2000-05-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Eunice/home/user/.netscape/cookies Alan Eunice Thompson wrote: Does anyone know where cookies are stored in Netscape 4.72? I'd like to delete them Thanks Eunice

[newbie] S3 Trio 3D X server

2000-05-12 Thread Victor Richardson
Now that I've got Mandrake 6.1 installed, I found out that it does not like my S3 Trio 3D video card at any setting. I understand (from the list archives) that these problems have been solved in the latest version (7.0x). I've tried doing an FTP upgrade from the Mandrake mirror sites, but always

Re: [newbie] Installing Linux Mandrake 7.0 with Lnx4Win

2000-05-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romantry deleting your signature file, it appears to be full of random characters. Alan Romanator wrote: I have just opened the Power Pack box, and I am dying to install. It appears that I have two options for installation: A) Running Lnx4Win or B) Repartitioning and running DrakX

Re: [newbie] guide to ISDN configuration ?

2000-05-12 Thread quaylar
On Fri, 12 May 2000 06:27:45 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have a look at : /usr/src/linux/Documentation/isdn/* www.mandrakeuser.org - isdn config section , (very good) www.isdn4linux.com - faq that should do it do get on the way. --quay Hi

RE: [newbie] guide to ISDN configuration ?

2000-05-12 Thread Veit Waltemath
hey, you need this package: isdn4k-utils-3.1b1-4mdk.rpm isdn4net-1.4.1-3mdk.rpm Read the manuals under /usr/doc/isdn4net-1.4.1/ Files to configure are under /etc/isdn/profile. There is an online-manual at www.mandrakeuser.org ( glaube sogar auch in deutsch). On 12-May-2000 Christian Mathes

[newbie] Mob Use of Linux Increasing!

2000-05-12 Thread Y u r i
Mob Use of Linux Increasing by Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier IDC released a report today that shows that Mob use of Linux has passed Windows NT by a 2:1 ratio. Bennie "Root" Calzone confirms that the IDC report does reflect his experience.

[newbie] telnet?

2000-05-12 Thread joey
it is possible to access my linux at home even if im at my office by using TELNET?.. do i need to configure sonmething to my linux to accept the command telnet?.

Re: [newbie]I need Modem Help

2000-05-12 Thread Drake X
Hi Vicky, I'm not sure if this would help in your particular case, and I'm assuming you don't have a winmodem, but it sounds similar to what I went through a few months ago. Here's something someone posted awhile back that got me out of where you seem to be now (KPPP hell). If you try it, try to

Re: [newbie] Does Linux need defragmenting?

2000-05-12 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
On Fri, 12 May 2000, you wrote: I would also like to add to that question; what exactly does 'maximal mount count' mean? -- I think maximal count means the number of times a user boots into Linux before it automatically checks that the system is running ok. An automatic system check

RE: [newbie] VMware 2 run Linux/Win together!

2000-05-12 Thread Bill . Gardner
Thanks! How does it actually operate - basically just as a regular Linux application? Does it look like it would be easy to get rid of if it stops when the trial ends? It runs on a 'virtual' partition on your system. Mandrake has some really good info regarding this on their

Re: [newbie] KDE Desktop

2000-05-12 Thread flupke
from your telnet session, you could try to kill KDE : ps aux |grep -i kde |grep -v grep kill -9 [PID] PID is the PID of KDE (the number in the 2nd column after the "ps" command) If it doesn't work, try to kill your X session HTH Flupke On Thu, 11 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All,

RE: [newbie] port 21

2000-05-12 Thread Mike Perry
That's port 23 mate! 21 is standard ftp port. Cheers: Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack The three most dangerous things are a programmer with a soldering iron, a manager who codes, and a user who gets ideas. -Original Message-

[newbie] named service and mandrake 7 ????

2000-05-12 Thread aifusionextreme
HI I have been trying toget on the inet, and got hold of some docs to do it and confiure the DNS etc.., but they all seem to assume that named is a standard service, which I am sure it is, but I dont seem to have it. I tried the linuxconf startup and its not there, also did a search on

[newbie] Port 25

2000-05-12 Thread James
I am trying to get Qmail (http://www.qmail.org) to run on my installation of Mandrake 7.02. Everything for qmail is working EXCEPT the ability to get mail from outside servers. I can send mail internally and send out from the server without a problem, but can't GET mail from outside. I've been

[newbie] K Menu screwed up - how can I fix it?

2000-05-12 Thread Kirk McElhearn
Every time I log in, my K menu gets all screwed up. The default program groups change to a mixture of KDE and Gnome stuff, and each time I have to edit the menus to change it. Even though I save the changes, the next time I log in the same thing happens. Does anyone know what might be going

Re: [newbie] IDontLoveYou (fwd)

2000-05-12 Thread Vic
Sounds like a joke e mail to me, I found nothing in the headers or tailers. On Fri, 12 May 2000, you wrote: What is this email about? unix version of ILoveYou??? - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 12:47 AM

Re: [newbie] VMware 2 run Linux/Win together!

2000-05-12 Thread L. H. LOO
At 11-05-2000 08:37 AM, you wrote: I don't know what happens after the trial period ends though. Very often the software 'dies', leaving carcase in your pc.

[newbie] Mandrake installer corrupts system?

2000-05-12 Thread Kirk McElhearn
For the second time in a week, I have managed to trash my system. Not that I did anything really wrong - I merely had some problems and tried to reinstall the system as an upgrade. When looking for previously installed packages, it shows an error when it is trying to read an rpm database file.

[newbie] multiple xsessions

2000-05-12 Thread quaylar
hi all. i would like to know how to start multiple xsessions on diff. vt's. i know there is the command startx --:1 which (should) start another xserver but this produces following error : Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer

Re: [newbie] VMware 2 run Linux/Win together!

2000-05-12 Thread michael
Salesman: I found a link to a callwave-esque program in the link to linuxstart that paul sent; in the communications section. Thanks! I have a couple Windows applications that I haven't found good Linux equivalents of yet. One of them is Callwave, the Internet answering machine, which has no

Re: [newbie] Down with LILO!

2000-05-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
is bootmagic commercial or gnu and is partionmagic gnu or commercial?? Kenny PartationMagic and BootMagic are both done by Powerquest and are commercial. Additionally if you buy PM 5.0 you get both PM and BM. Personally I like SystemCommander Deluxe more than PM. It has all the

Re: [newbie] IDontLoveYou (fwd)

2000-05-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
What do I do if I don't have any MP3s? Can I delete my AVIs instead? Charles - Original Message - From: "Vic" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 7:41 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] IDontLoveYou (fwd) Sounds like a joke e mail to me, I found nothing in

RE: [newbie] IDontLoveYou (fwd)

2000-05-12 Thread Rick Moffat
lol! that's a riot. Very funny =) -Original Message- From: Vic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 7:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] IDontLoveYou (fwd) Sounds like a joke e mail to me, I found nothing in the headers or tailers. On Fri, 12 May 2000,

RE: [newbie] Server partitions

2000-05-12 Thread Ron Greer
Well, generally what I do in deciding the size of /usr/local and /usr/opt is, how many programs do you plan to install on top of linux? Most everything you add after distro (Unless a system file) will be installed in /usr/local/blah. If you plan to leave it alone, I wouldn't worry about it...

Re: [newbie] IDontLoveYou (fwd)

2000-05-12 Thread Hellmut
I talked to a friend, he said AVIs and MOVs instead of mp3s are okay! Hellmut What do I do if I don't have any MP3s? Can I delete my AVIs instead? Charles - Original Message - From: "Vic" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 7:41 AM Subject: Re:

RE: [newbie] 3c509b/3c509b TPO/ 3c509b TPC

2000-05-12 Thread Ron Greer
ROTF! Maybe first, you should be asking the Suse Newbie list :P Okay, well, hmm... basically the differences in these cards (From what I understand) is how the BIOS on the card is set. It's not full duplex across these different connections, so the system will use whichever connection you set

RE: [newbie] VMware 2 run Linux/Win together!

2000-05-12 Thread joe_reynolds
I use VMware in Linux to run Win2000 in a virtual machine, and I use VMware in Win NT to run Linux in a virtual machine - I love it! It gives me the operating system I want whenever I want it. I think when the 30-day license expires, it just gives a message to that effect, and won't start the

[newbie] installing a tcp-ip printer

2000-05-12 Thread Oliver Stieber
how do i setup a port to print out on a tip/ip address (10.10.1.49) using raw postscript

Re: [Re: [newbie] Any way back in?]

2000-05-12 Thread Jaguar
If you hit ESC durung the Windows splash screen you can see the DOSy type things happening while Windows continue's to load. Drake X [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the Lilo prompt, type linux 3 - this is run level 3 (without the GUI) - same as being in DOS without Windows being loaded. As a

RE: [newbie] CD Burning

2000-05-12 Thread Ron Greer
Well, heheh, here's a really early tool in development for it :) http://www.reed.edu/~richterr/mp3burn.html Sorry, I haven't played much in this realm. -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: Anthony Huereca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 6:57 PM To:

RE: [newbie] Sendmail for multiple users

2000-05-12 Thread Ron Greer
Hmm... I'd suggest a procmail script. Have something in the subject or in the headers that you can identify with each person. procmail rules for this type stuff :) -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: Adam Stark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 5:36

Re: [newbie] Server partitions

2000-05-12 Thread Eric MC DECLERCK
Add a /usr/local to preserve own progs. Eric Victor Richardson wrote: I'm doing a custom server install of Mandrake 6.1 for our office and was wondering about some partitions and their sizes. The server will only be accessed by 15 users (Win Mac) for basic fileshare and some

RE: [newbie] Re: [blt] weekly field trip

2000-05-12 Thread Ron Greer
Umm okay. Well, hrm... how to start. Basically IMHO the easiest way to do this isn't through a GUI. Go to a terminal, then change directories to /home/Bob/Netscape/caitoo (Or whereever it unpacked to). In there, there should be (probably) an INSTALL file... read it. Generally the standard way

Fwd: Re: [newbie] netscape java problems

2000-05-12 Thread Fernando Camacho Olmos
-- Mensaje Reenviado -- Subject: Re: [newbie] netscape java problems Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 02:55:18 -0500 From: Fernando Camacho Olmos [EMAIL PROTECTED] El mar, 09 may 2000, escribiste: maybe if we knew what your questions is. don I thought I knew

[newbie] Fwd: Aun no recibo respuesta

2000-05-12 Thread Fernando Camacho Olmos
-- Mensaje Reenviado -- Subject: Aun no recibo respuesta Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 07:31:09 -0500 From: Fernando Camacho Olmos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pedi informes si su version de linux soportaba los chat con java. de ser asi, quisiera suscribirme con ustedes. atte. fernando

[newbie] Fwd: netscape java problems

2000-05-12 Thread Fernando Camacho Olmos
-- Mensaje Reenviado -- Subject: netscape java problems Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 07:13:24 -0500 From: Fernando Camacho Olmos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, anyone know how to fix this problem ---

Re: [newbie] Cookies

2000-05-12 Thread Bob
Alan can /home/user/.netscape/cookies be set to READ ONLY? On Fri, 12 May 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Eunice/home/user/.netscape/cookies Alan Eunice Thompson wrote: Does anyone know where cookies are stored in Netscape 4.72? I'd like to delete them Thanks Eunice

[newbie] ZIp drive problem

2000-05-12 Thread Kirk McElhearn
I had to reinstall my Mandrake system. Before, I could unmount my Zip drive by right-clicking and selecting Unmount. This option is no longer there. How do I get it back? Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical

RE: [newbie] KDE Desktop

2000-05-12 Thread flupke
How right you are, Ron! I always forget this usefull utility (pidof). Anybody knows why it is located under /sbin? I usually don't include /sbin in my $PATH. Flupke On Fri, 12 May 2000, Ron Greer wrote: Eesh that sounds like WAAY to much command line :) try: kill -9 `pidof kwm`

[newbie] Wrong Charset in KDE

2000-05-12 Thread Eric MC DECLERCK
Hi all, why get I always the message 'KCharset: Wrong charset !'. What did I wrong ? Thanks Eric

[newbie] my winmodem/wish it was a linmodem

2000-05-12 Thread mrweb
Hi List, Well I sure am glad to see that I have not been alone in my journey through 'winmodem' land. Yes in fact be it well known by all that if you have a 'Creative Modem Blaster Flash 56 PCI DI5630' you have a 'winmodem'. S*cks to think that a person can go and purchase a top of the line

Re: [newbie] Parental Control

2000-05-12 Thread Rial Juan
Hmm. just adding my two cents: I've been watching porn since I was like... uhhm... 6 or so. Ok, at that age I didn't understand what it was all about, except that married people did those kind of things, but anyway... It hasn't made me a less responsible, or more perverted human being. As a

Re: [newbie] multiple xsessions

2000-05-12 Thread Dave Lers
On Fri, 12 May 2000, quaylar wrote: hi all. i would like to know how to start multiple xsessions on diff. vt's. i know there is the command startx --:1 which (should) start another xserver but this produces following error : We just covered that, startx -- :1, note the added space.

Re: [newbie] Sendmail for multiple users

2000-05-12 Thread Paul
On Thu, 11 May 2000, Adam Stark wrote: Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to set up sendmail in such a way to have multiple users uses only one E-Mail address, yet each get their own separate mail. I have a POP3 mailbox at the university, but the rest of my family doesn't.and I want to

[newbie] Boot framebuffer question.

2000-05-12 Thread Ron Greer
Okay, I'm looking for a way to have a fully/mostly graphical boot on my linux machine. I'm assuming this is done by using the Framebuffer techniques (Same ones used to show the Tux in the upper corner during boot), but I have two questions. 1: Is this really what I need? How did Corel do it in

Re: [newbie] named service and mandrake 7 ????

2000-05-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
Do you already have an account with this ISP or are you trying to estalish a new account? If you already have an account open kppp, select setup, New, then enter your connection name, and the access number. Click OK then click OK at the configuration screen, Next enter your Login ID and

[newbie] Gnuplot

2000-05-12 Thread Jose Manuel Llorens Montolio
I try to install a GUI for GNUPLOT and i have found in fr.rpmfind.net two packages, but both require libraries that i don't have: libjpeg.so.6 (SuSe 6.2 distribution) and libg++.so.2.7.2. I looked them with Kpackage but without success (i found only libjpeg.so) I'm not developer and i

RE: [newbie] VMware 2 run Linux/Win together!

2000-05-12 Thread James McLaughlin
Cool! Some scans of that article would be great! Hope the list wouldn't mind though. I can put some links in a mail to my webserver, and get the info to the list that way. We'll try to take it easy on you modem users ,-) Kat

RE: [newbie] Cookies

2000-05-12 Thread Ron Greer
Sure chmod 444 /home/user/.netscape/cookies It may cause a problem with netscape, but that'll do it :) -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 9:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Alan Shoemaker; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] Filtering

2000-05-12 Thread Denis HAVLIK
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Mike Perry wrote: :~By Golly! :~My last message got filtered out and never reached newbie! :~I have replaced any politicly incorrect words/phrases and hope :~that this gets through, but I WOULD respectfully as the Staff at :~Mandrake what is going on. AGAIN, AND FOR THE

Re: [newbie] Subscription

2000-05-12 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~subscribe newbie OH, no - do I really have to forbid this again? I draw back to only unsubscribe some time ago... Hope this will stay isolated and that you will not start flame wars again. You will have much more interesting things to discuss very soon. As for subscribe request - it should

RE: [newbie] Root Password

2000-05-12 Thread Denis HAVLIK
On Thu, 11 May 2000, Ron Greer wrote: :~Two things: :~1. How to set an EXECUTABLE to run AS root: Chmod 6755 executable name :~The 6 sets the Set-UID Flag :) very bad. This gives everyone the right to run this binary as root. Better way to go is to use sudo, or at least: chown root.mygroup

[newbie] Cookie Pal

2000-05-12 Thread Piero
Do you know whethert a program like Cookie Pal exists for Linux?

Re: [newbie] Disableing Supermount and other fstab questions

2000-05-12 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~hi.ive the same problem...but adding user to my fstab doesnt help...i still :~cant mount fs as non-root user..any ideas ? Oh, come on, sure it does. Something like: /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy vfat sync,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev 0 0 will do just fine, trust the daddy. ,-) cu

Re: [newbie] do not read this - it is obscene .-)

2000-05-12 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~Denis, this is COMPLETELY and UTTERLY unprofessional. Certainly there :~are better ways of tracking down the filter (like maybe the headers on :~the posted email) than posting rubbish like this to the mailing list. Sure there is, but none of them would make it absolutely clear that I do not

[newbie] Patch Command

2000-05-12 Thread anils
Hi All, What is the command for checking PATCH LEVELS in Mandrake-Linux ? In SOLARIS its showrev -p. Thanks - anil

Re: [newbie] To all that asked for virus scanner

2000-05-12 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~I am sorry to say that for some unknown reason. I cant send it! :~I have tried over twenty times without success. I am truly sorry :~either Kmail is doing something or the file is too large Please do not send such attachements to the list. Send it to whoever asked for it, or just put it online

RE: [newbie] my winmodem/wish it was a linmodem

2000-05-12 Thread Hank Ingram
My number one question is, what is the best way to tell Linux to look for a new external modem? Or how do I reconfigure Linux to recognize and use my external modem? Run modemtool to find the modem.

RE: [newbie] my winmodem/wish it was a linmodem

2000-05-12 Thread Ron Greer
Easiest way is to delete /dev/modem then ln -s /dev/modem /dev/ttySnumber of modem The 'number of modem' property listed above is just which com port it's on... remember Linux starts counting at 0 (Which everyone should)... So Com1 is ttyS0 Com2 is ttyS1 ...etc. Whichever Com port it's set

RE: [newbie] ppp0 woe-s

2000-05-12 Thread Ron Greer
Hmmm... that's a toughie... basically you messed something up :) J/k. Okay, things I'd look for: 1. Go to /etc/rc.d 2. rgrep -r ppp0 * 3. If something shows up, reply back with what it said (and any more detail you can give). 4. That obviously didn't work, otherwise you wouldn't still be

[newbie] dual 500 celerons

2000-05-12 Thread dFyant .
I am having major stability problems with Linux-mandrake i have an abit bp6 board the computer will just freeze on a shell or even faster in x windows..what could be wrong thanks Get Your Private, Free E-mail from

Re: [newbie] multiple xsessions

2000-05-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
quaynow that makes no sense, as what that error is telling you is that display 0 is already being used, and since you correctly specified display 1 then it shouldn't report about the status of display 0 any longer, it should just go ahead and use display 1. Alan quaylar wrote: On Fri,

Re: [newbie] ZIp drive problem

2000-05-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Kirkmy guess would be that you have supermount enabled and supermount desktop icons don't have this option. Alan Kirk McElhearn wrote: I had to reinstall my Mandrake system. Before, I could unmount my Zip drive by right-clicking and selecting Unmount. This option is no longer there.

Re: [newbie] my winmodem/wish it was a linmodem

2000-05-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
Wade It's a matter of cost. Winmodems are cheaper than Real modems. 99.9% of all PCI modems preinstalled in systems are winmodems and 99% of all PCI modems that you can buy retail are winmodems. There are only 4 that I know for a fact are not winmodems. If you are running windows winmodems

Re: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0

2000-05-12 Thread Romanator
I agree. But, do to the fact that I layed out some serious cash for my Dell Dimenison XPSB 733 workstation, I thought that I would experiment with the partitioning on my other computer. In fact, I am emailing my messages to you - as I am typing. I was thinking of purchasing System Commander 2000

Re: [newbie] How I Automatically Run A Program On Start-Up?

2000-05-12 Thread Paul
On Thu, 11 May 2000, ChOPpY C. Chipper wrote: Hello Again, I was wondering how I could run an FTP Server on Start-Up, I have downloaded and configured it already, but now want it to load on Start-Up, is there a way to do this? Not sure about an FTP server, but most things I want to run

Re: [newbie] IDontLoveYou (fwd)

2000-05-12 Thread Paul
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote: What do I do if I don't have any MP3s? Can I delete my AVIs instead? Charles Hahaha!!! Only if you feel you belong in the "honor system" *grin* Paul )0(---)0( Life is more than increasing its speed. (Mohandas

Re: [newbie] K Menu screwed up - how can I fix it?

2000-05-12 Thread Paul
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Kirk McElhearn wrote: Every time I log in, my K menu gets all screwed up. The default program groups change to a mixture of KDE and Gnome stuff, and each time I have to edit the menus to change it. Even though I save the changes, the next time I log in the same thing

Re: [newbie] Down with LILO!

2000-05-12 Thread Paul
On Fri, 12 May 2000, kenny wrote: is bootmagic commercial or gnu and is partionmagic gnu or commercial?? Bootmagic is a part of the Partition Magic package. And it is very commerial. But worth the money. Paul )0(---)0( Life is more than increasing its speed.

Re: [newbie] guide to ISDN configuration ?

2000-05-12 Thread Paul
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Christian Mathes wrote: Hi all, I would like to connect to the internet via ISDN. If I study the printed manual of Mandrake 7.0 I only find the configuration of a connection via modem. But this is of course not what I am looking for. So can you please tell me where I can

RE: [newbie] Does Linux need defragmenting?

2000-05-12 Thread Paul
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Ron Greer wrote: Linux takes care of that. I may step out WAAAY on a limb here, but from what I've been told, Linux is a self defragmenting OS (Actually, that more depends on the FileSystem than the OS, but hey, so I'm wrong). Either way, linux should handle this fine.

Re: [newbie] slow login in X

2000-05-12 Thread Paul
On Thu, 11 May 2000, bascule wrote: hi all, i recently (last night!) persuaded a friend to install mandrake 7 (air) because under redhat6.0 he could only get 640 by 480 x256 colours in X using his creative voodoo banshee. amd k5 133 32 mb ram 2gig hard disk space 32 mb swap creative voodoo

Re: [newbie] IDontLoveYou (fwd)

2000-05-12 Thread Paul
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Marc wrote: What is this email about? unix version of ILoveYou??? - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | This is the Unix version of "I Love You". It works on the honor system. | | If you receive this mail, you should delete a bunch of GIFs,

Re: [RE: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0]

2000-05-12 Thread Romanator
I cannot find it. It's hidden. However, I do have all of my back up CDs. It's just that the image file come in handy when my C drive gets too full. You know, the good old DLLs that get dumped into the computer. Roman James McLaughlin wrote: Would you like to get rid of the Z drive? Kat

Re: [newbie] 3Dfx

2000-05-12 Thread Evan Holt
Hi there, Does anyone know how can I install the 3dfx drivers and Glide for Linux in a Mandrake Linux System?? If you are lucky enough to own a Voodoo card, just head over to... http://linux.3dfx.com/ and you will find all of the RPMs for device drivers and Glide. Hope that helps, Evan

Re: [newbie] Cookies

2000-05-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ron/Euniceyou'd better make it 400, as it is set by netscape at 600. There's no point in giving it additional readability with the change. Alan Ron Greer wrote: Sure chmod 444 /home/user/.netscape/cookies It may cause a problem with netscape, but that'll do it :) -=Ron=-

Re: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0

2000-05-12 Thread Romanator
The C drive partition is FAT with 2 Gig. The D drive partition is FAT with 2 Gig. The E drive partition is NTFS with about 16 Gig. The computer came from the factory with NT4 and three partitions. The full version of PM allows the user to create and move your partition in NTFS. The PM that

RE: [newbie] Root Password

2000-05-12 Thread Ron Greer
heheh, you're no fun. In the first instance, you are correct. The second, I was under the impression that he just basically wanted another super user, but didn't want the same name root, so that for example email to him as root doesn't go to email to another supervisor. Sorry for any confusion.

Re: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0

2000-05-12 Thread Romanator
That is true. And, I think that I will go for door number 1 and purchase Partition Magic(full version). It can always come in handy). I have all of my CDs, including NT4 In the meantime, I am reading The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook, and documentation provided by MandrakeSoft. And, I fired

Re: [newbie] multiple xsessions

2000-05-12 Thread flupke
Try just "xinit -- :1" or "X -- :1" If these work, then there must be something wrong in your startx script. If this is the case, check the way that it passes the arguments when starting the server. HTH Flupke On Fri, 12 May 2000, quaylar wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2000 09:29:50 -0700, Alan

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] netscape java problems

2000-05-12 Thread Paul
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Fernando Camacho Olmos wrote: El mar, 09 may 2000, escribiste: maybe if we knew what your questions is. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, anyone know how to fix this problem when netscape open a page with java contain this crash.

Re: [newbie] Wrong Charset in KDE

2000-05-12 Thread Paul
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: Hi all, why get I always the message 'KCharset: Wrong charset !'. What did I wrong ? Thanks Eric I don't think you do something wrong. I assume that the packages that were installed were compiled with a different character set loaded than you have on

Re: [newbie] Installing Linux Mandrake 7.0 with Lnx4Win

2000-05-12 Thread Romanator
I thought that I could have a quick look. My curiosity is getting the best of me. I will be repartitioning. Thanks, Roman Marc wrote: Those symbols look like Base64. To install MD your gonna have to repartition. Lnx4Win I heard sucks. It is just a fake linux over windows. - Original

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