[newbie] mqsql

2000-08-20 Thread Ajudgeone
Has anyone run mysql from the standard 7.0 distribution? Do you need to install additional binaries? I can't seem to make it work and it appears that the mandrake distribution is different from all the tutorials that I read. Does anyone have any advice?

Re: [newbie] Remote login (telnet and X)

2000-08-20 Thread Welker Donald P NPRI
I am further than I was: inetd was not starting. What script is inetd normally started from? I should add that this system was installed with the "secure" option, so it probably isn't doing lots of things that a default installation would do automatically. For example, I also need to get it

Re: [newbie] Free ISPs Compatible With Linux

2000-08-20 Thread Anthony
The key word in this discussion is "Free". Regular ISP's work just fine, but free one's usually require you to run a .exe that displays ads while your connected. And since they don't make a Linux version of those ad programs, you can't connect to the free ISP. I dont know what all this fuss is

Re: [newbie] Internet configuration for Mandrake 7.0

2000-08-20 Thread Anthony
I think clicking on "Basic Host Information" will get you to the dialog box you need. I have installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 on my computer. I would like to configure my internetconnection using a cable modem. The only information to do so that I found concerns Mandrake 6.0 This tells me to go

Re: [newbie] X setiathome

2000-08-20 Thread KompuKit
which file did you download for mandrake 7.0 Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Hi, Has anyone successfully installed the X setiathome screen. I have just downloaded the text version as I could not get the X version to work at all. I am using Mandrake 7.1 now. Thanks in advance --

Re: [newbie] GRUB bootloader question

2000-08-20 Thread Mark Weaver
Kathleen Dickason wrote: You can hit 'c' to bring up a command line when GRUB pops up. :) Now I just need to figure out how to add BeOS... thanks Kathleen...I think there's a menu file for grub that you can edit. I read something about that today from the list. ...ok...I was looking for

Re: [newbie] BSOD (fwd, fun)

2000-08-20 Thread patrick darcy
Mark Weaver wrote: patrick darcy wrote: Greg Stewart wrote: i apolajise for my last post. there is a puppy in the house and he was bothering me :) I don't believe you!!! :-) --Greg its absolutely true. where i live there is a new puppy named of all things gum

Re: [newbie] Test 2 -after subscribed again-

2000-08-20 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Joanthat changed something, look below at the header I copied from the message I'm replying to, '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' is gone! Alan Subject: [newbie] Test 2 -after subscribed again- Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 22:29:00 +0200 From: Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Internet configuration for Mandrake 7.0

2000-08-20 Thread Dan LaBine
Mifune; Your ISP (Internet Service Provider) set up your cable modem with one specific network card. The first thing to remember is that you MUST use that network card ! Each network card ( No matter who built it ), has a distinct MAC ( Machine Access Code ). That code is only used on your

Re: [newbie] Test 2 -after subscribed again-

2000-08-20 Thread stengblad
? On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, you wrote: -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de

Re: [newbie] Red hat installation problem

2000-08-20 Thread Steve Weltman
- Original Message - From: "patrick darcy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 8:00 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Red hat installation problem Mark Weaver wrote: patrick darcy wrote: i think u need to get Mandrake 7.1 hopefully throw out your

Re: [Re: [newbie] Time]

2000-08-20 Thread Jaguar
Is GMT checked in one of the setup options? If so...uncheck it. HTH Jaguar Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... but bios, or hardware clock is still wrong so (as root) run 'hwclock --systohc' I did this, and then hwclock --show shows the right time. But When I reboot it

Re: [newbie] Kppp and Networking

2000-08-20 Thread Greg Stewart
OK, I think I've learned something tonite... Mandrake seems to like adding the line: ALL:ALL EXCEPT localhost:DENY to the /etc/hosts.deny file. Since this is the case, you'll need to remove it and add your internal client (Box2) to the /etc/hosts/allow file on Box1 with: ALL:ALL

Re: [newbie] two copies

2000-08-20 Thread Paul Yeiter
What is this a jke now I have three copy's of the same letter. Gee wiz what's up with this user group E-mail. - Original Message - From: "Paul Yeiter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 9:01 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] two copies No thats not the

Re: [newbie] laptops

2000-08-20 Thread Steve Weltman
KFC?? I hope that it isn't a bucket of Fried Chicken you're trying to install Mandrake 7.1 into!! I don't think that we have software for that yet. But it might taste better!! Have a good day! (sorry for the odd humor, I saw KFC and went into left field with that!) Steve W. - Original

Re: [newbie] BSOD (fwd, fun)

2000-08-20 Thread Steve Weltman
Mandrake does not install well on livestock or domestic pets. Please do not write for support on these installs to this mailing list! But the 'boot' command seems to have a decent affect if used correctly. (Just kidding! It's Monday morning and I'm not at work yet!) Steve Weltman -

[newbie] Orphaned Sectors

2000-08-20 Thread Jonathan Drews
Hi: After installing Mandrake 7.0, I got the following warning from hdparm: [root@localhost planck]# hdparm -i /dev/hda /dev/hda: Model=WDC WD204BA, FwRev=16.13M16, SerialNo=WD-WMA071003891 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR5Mbs FmtGapReq } RawCHS=16383/16/63,

Re: [newbie] Re: Undeliverable: and Repeat Messages

2000-08-20 Thread Greg Stewart
I've always maintained that Windows runs better when the computer is OFF. Some admins just simply forget to follow that premise! --Greg Stewart, MCP :-) You notice it is from an NT box? (sorry, couldn't resist) g Yep.that does sum it up:) Maxtor

Re: [newbie] New Kernel

2000-08-20 Thread Anthony
Yep, the kernel is 2.4. It was supposed to be out last fall, but now it'll be this fall when it's finally released in a stable form. You can already download a beta version of it if you're feeling lucky from www.kernel.org, but if you want an "official" release, then you'll have to wait a month

Re: [newbie] Lost passwords

2000-08-20 Thread Anthony
Does anyone know how to find out what a lost password is? I don't think you can, as a security precation. You just have to set a new password. -- Dennis - A registered Linux user #180842 -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

Re: [newbie] help

2000-08-20 Thread Anthony
Hi there, What package(s) do I need to install to have iostream.h in my system? Thanx I had the same problem as you, and I think http://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/contrib/libc6/i386/libg++-devel-2.8.1-2.i386.html was supposed to give you that file. However, my suggestion is that if you

Re: [newbie] Partitioning questions

2000-08-20 Thread Goldenpi
erm...I have no boot partition with lilo, a 2gi /partition and no home partition. Works through. I store a lot of data of my other hard drive which is full of fat32. It is weird, it wont do linux and it will not boot windows. I think it has a bad cilender. I found an alternative boot loader to

Re: [newbie] Re: [expert] reiser fs ? (was: Unexplained crashes)

2000-08-20 Thread Goldenpi
Not so reliable for me. I have already had to reformat once just after I got it, because I didn't shut down properly. - Original Message - From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Doug McGarrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 10:31 PM Subject:

Re: [newbie] Kppp and Networking

2000-08-20 Thread Goldenpi
yes. Im getting two of most. - Original Message - From: Kathleen Dickason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 11:23 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Kppp and Networking I'm getting three copies of some posts now...is anyone else? Kathleen

Re: [newbie] OT Linux has on windows

2000-08-20 Thread Mark Hillary
The problem is the microsoft has forced comanpies to creat hardware that will only work with windows. They have not disclosed all of the API's for windows so that program made by microsoft have more functionalty than ones that are write by other companies. Funny that you mettion that linux can't

Re: [newbie] Time

2000-08-20 Thread Paul
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Aaron Lynch wrote: Ok, but here's the deal. When I do this :rdate -sp time.nist.gov it sets it correctly to 17:01 but if I restart the box, it reverts back to 10:55 so how do I make it stick? Have you tried looking at the BIOS clock already? If that is off, the

Re: [newbie] Kppp and Networking

2000-08-20 Thread Paul
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: You might check your preferences, I think I saw where you were using Netscape. If you don't check the take deleted messages off of the server, Sorry, friend, has nothing to do with it. When I pull mail, the messages are most certainly deleted, and I get

Re: [newbie] Kppp and Networking

2000-08-20 Thread Paul
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Kathleen Dickason wrote: I'm getting three copies of some posts now...is anyone else? Kathleen Yes, me too. Almost looks like Xerox-Mandrake this way ;-) Paul -- Some people will never burn out, for they were never on fire to begin with... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

[Re: [newbie] AOL for Linux]

2000-08-20 Thread Altoine Barker
Steve Weltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyway that anyone knows to get AOL set up on a linux operating system(Mandrake 7.1) Thanks in advance ~Lance Why is it you would like to put training wheels on a fighter-jet? Honestly, I would look for an ISP in

Re: [newbie] Partitioning questions

2000-08-20 Thread Greg Stewart
Rudimentary my dearehm... I like it! --Greg I found an alternative boot loader to lilo or grub, and this makes linux a bit more reliable by preventing windows from doing anything to it. Its calld the-switch-I-put-in-the-power-cables. Since I have 3 hard drives, all is working well.

[newbie] Multi-copies

2000-08-20 Thread L. H. LOO
Hey, something is going nuts. I said there were two copies of message. Now I got FOUR ! For example the posting by Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] subject : Kppp and Networking. If it is currency notes, the more the merrier ;-)

Re: [newbie] how can I stop SMTP

2000-08-20 Thread Paul
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, duncan wrote: Disable Postfix or Sendmail. It sounds like that is the problem. Paul How can I check SMTP on my system or disable it as pop has worked fine prior to this upgrade. Any help would be great. Regards Duncan -- Silence is a

Re: [newbie] Multi-copies

2000-08-20 Thread Jim Reimer
Wonder what would happen if I subscribed from a new address, and then put "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the .forward file on that machine? -jdr- "L. H. LOO" wrote: Hey, something is going nuts. I said there were two copies of message. Now I got FOUR ! For example the posting by Bob [EMAIL

[newbie] IP chains will be the death of me yet!

2000-08-20 Thread Dan LaBine
Can anyone give me a hand with ipchains? I've got a server/client environment at home which works very well, except for the client connection to the Internet. The IPchains man was almost useless. I've got a working cable-modem connection on my server (no problem there), but I can't figure

[newbie] Test

2000-08-20 Thread Joan Tur
Does this message arrive?? 8-? -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de

Re: [newbie] Test

2000-08-20 Thread Jim Reimer
yes Joan Tur wrote: Does this message arrive?? 8-? -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de -- Regards, Jim Reimer - WA5RRH [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.webzone.net/jdreimer

Re: [[newbie] Test]

2000-08-20 Thread Michael Scottaline
Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this message arrive?? 8-? -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de === Yes, Indeed! ;o) Mike "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting,

Re: Undeliverable: Re: [newbie] Lost passwords

2000-08-20 Thread patrick darcy
Gary wrote: Why have I been getting these messages for the past several days. My post does get to the newbie group, but I always get this bounce. Anybody else get these? -- Regards Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Lost passwords

Re: [newbie] IP chains will be the death of me yet!

2000-08-20 Thread John
Dan, I feel your pain. I was in IP chains hell all Saturday. If I understand what your realy trying to do, its IP Masquerading. The IP Masquerading HowTo that came with Mandrake /usr/doc/howto/html had a section that had an ipchains firewall script that was cut and paste and change

Re: [newbie] IP chains will be the death of me yet!

2000-08-20 Thread Paul
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Dan LaBine wrote: Can anyone give me a hand with ipchains? I've got a server/client environment at home which works very well, except for the client connection to the Internet. The IPchains man was almost useless. I've got a working cable-modem connection on my server (no

Re: [newbie] laptops

2000-08-20 Thread Eunice Thompson
Marcia, try to have at least 64 MB of memory, Windows will appreciate it. I saw a post of yours asking about an Emachine laptop; i won't say anything abot that brand, but stay away from CELERON processors; go with an AMD or a good ol' Pentium. I myself use a Toshiba. They are one of 'THE NAMES'

[newbie] Free ISPs Compatible With Linux

2000-08-20 Thread Andrew Bartorillo
Does anyone know of any free ISP's that offer versions of their software that are Linux compatible? I presently use Yahoo's Blue Light but the only version of their software that is available is for Windoze. Any help would be appreciated. --Drew--

Re: [newbie] Test

2000-08-20 Thread Kathleen Dickason
Yep! :) Joan Tur wrote: Does this message arrive?? 8-? -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de

[newbie] GRUB bootloader question

2000-08-20 Thread Kathleen Dickason
Okay, I have kind of a silly question. How do I add another OS to GRUB? I started with a dual-boot Windows98/Mandrake 7.1 setup, and GRUB worked just dandy. Still does, but I have since added a 2nd hard drive and two more OSes, one of which I boot from floppy, and the other of which I

Re: [[newbie] Test]

2000-08-20 Thread Christopher Mills Wolfe
Michael Scottaline wrote: Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this message arrive?? 8-? -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de === Yes, Indeed! ;o) Mike "Many loads of beer were brought.

[newbie] How to change desktops?

2000-08-20 Thread Jim Reimer
I have KDE installed - if I install the GNOME RPM, how do I switch over to it? (Or if I wanted to, how would I switch from KDE to generic X?) -jdr-

Re: [newbie] Time

2000-08-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, you wrote: Ok, but here's the deal. When I do this :rdate -sp time.nist.gov it sets it correctly to 17:01 Sets the system, or software clock but if I restart the box, it reverts back to 10:55 so how do I make it stick? ... but bios, or

Re: [newbie] Partitioning questions

2000-08-20 Thread Goldenpi
I had to use it. Windows 95 insists on booting from hda, which is the only drive big enough to put linux on. Linux needs the whole drive. I fixed it by putting windows on another hard drive, the other hda. Selecting between them is done with a switch in the power cable and a few relays. windows

Re: [newbie] Free ISPs Compatible With Linux

2000-08-20 Thread Mark Weaver
Andrew Bartorillo wrote: Does anyone know of any free ISP's that offer versions of their software that are Linux compatible? I presently use Yahoo's Blue Light but the only version of their software that is available is for Windoze. Any help would be appreciated. --Drew--

Re: [newbie] Red hat installation problem

2000-08-20 Thread Mark Weaver
patrick darcy wrote: i think u need to get Mandrake 7.1 hopefully throw out your windoz and start fresh. this is the best of the best u kow. i have heard that red hat is more difficult to install. and i have a question, is mandrake the next version gonna come with koffice or not. pat

[newbie]

2000-08-20 Thread Andrew Collington
Hi there, I have Mandrake 7.1 and I was trying to recompile the kernel so that I could use my 3com ethernet card. Whilst I was in the config panel (using make xconfig) I also set on the USB drivers because I have a USB scanner, printer and desktop camera. However, when trying to compile with

Re: [newbie] How to change desktops?

2000-08-20 Thread Paul
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Jim Reimer wrote: I have KDE installed - if I install the GNOME RPM, how do I switch over to it? (Or if I wanted to, how would I switch from KDE to generic X?) You should be able to edit your ~/.xinitrc file, and define your preference in there. exec kde # runs KDE exec

Re: [newbie] GRUB bootloader question

2000-08-20 Thread Paul
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Kathleen Dickason wrote: Okay, I have kind of a silly question. How do I add another OS to GRUB? Still does, but I have since added a 2nd hard drive and two more OSes, one of which I boot from floppy, and the other of which I access by typing things in GRUB's command

Re: [newbie] IP chains will be the death of me yet!

2000-08-20 Thread maxtor
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, you wrote: Can anyone give me a hand with ipchains? I've got a server/client environment at home which works very well, except for the client connection to the Internet. The IPchains man was almost useless. I've got a working cable-modem connection on my server (no

Re: [newbie] Fw: zip disk drive

2000-08-20 Thread Mark Weaver
Greg Stewart wrote: =*= Wrote: I am sorry. I have no idea how to respond to this: ^?þ^@!^@D^@O^@C^@T^@Y^@P^@E^@ ^@H^@T^@M^@L^@ ^@P^@U^@B^@L^@I^@C^@ ^@"^@-^@/^@/^@W^@3^@C^@/^@/^@D^@T^@D^@ SNIP Well, if you parse the ^ and the @ you get the following (of course, mine arrived in

[newbie] Installing GNOME

2000-08-20 Thread Jim Reimer
ok - now I can change desktops, but I'm not sure where to start with the GNOME installation. I have 26 RPM's containing either parts of GNOME, or utilities related to or working with GNOME. Which one goes in first? Or does it matter? I figure at least a few will have dependency failures if

RE: [newbie] Great Networking Surprise

2000-08-20 Thread Michael Hatzakis
Well, all I can say is that thank god I am on the 'newbie' list. I went and checked and turns out apache wasent installed properly. I realized this cause I could ping, I could telnet and I could get to the internet via wingate, thus... I am flying along here. I love this new Mandrake. I

Re: [newbie] Red hat installation problem

2000-08-20 Thread Michael Hatzakis
agreed, I think Mardrake is a well packaged product. Thanks, Michael Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Michael Khachiki wrote: I know mandrake 7.1 works... I have it installed on an other machine. but I wanted to see how red hat look and feel likes

Re: [newbie] Red hat installation problem

2000-08-20 Thread Mark Weaver
Michael Khachiki wrote: I know mandrake 7.1 works... I have it installed on an other machine. but I wanted to see how red hat look and feel likes I'm a former redhat user, and the day I ordered RedHat 6.2 I also ordered Mandrake 7.0 which I then promptly changed to 7.1. I noticed a

Fwd: Undeliverable: Re: [newbie] network

2000-08-20 Thread Eunice Thompson
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Undeliverable: Re: [newbie] network Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 05:01:47 +0100 From: System Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your message To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] network Sent:Sat, 19 Aug 2000 03:26:26 +0100 did

Re: [newbie] System failure

2000-08-20 Thread Mark Weaver
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to all Last night, during my Linux session, we had a power shortage in our town. And today, when I tried to reboot, I had these messages: ... check forced mode ... /dev/hda4 file system with errors ... Failed ...unexpected inconsistency; run fsck

Re: [newbie] Fw: zip disk drive

2000-08-20 Thread Mark Weaver
Greg Stewart wrote: Did everyone receive this message in BIG-5 Chinese characters, or are my eyes really that bad? --Greg Hi Greg, No, your eyes aren't bad. I got the same message. I promptly hit the DELETE key and sent it to packet hell where it's now being recycled into packets

Re: [newbie] Lost passwords

2000-08-20 Thread Gary
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Does anyone know how to find out what a lost password is? I don't think you can, as a security precation. You just have to set a new password. The way Linux is setup (unless changed by hand) passwords are shadowed and encrypted with SH-5, so there absolutely is no

RE: [newbie] Netscape Update ?!

2000-08-20 Thread Welker Donald P NPRI
Thanks, that worked once I found kpackage. How many package managers does this beast have, anyway? -Original Message- From: Harry Flaxman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 9:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Netscape Update ?! Remove the

Re: [newbie] IP chains will be the death of me yet!

2000-08-20 Thread Dan LaBine
Thanks to all who responded to my post. The help is much appreciated! Dan - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] IP chains will be the death of me yet! On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Dan LaBine

Re: [newbie] i486 install problem

2000-08-20 Thread bascule
thanks for all your replys, it seems i may have a hardware prob, oh well first stop, a new i/o card (after checking those links) mark - there is a special version of mandrake 70-2 compiled for 486s that i downloaded from one of their mirrors, as far as i know it is the only i486 iso they do

[newbie] Remote login (telnet and X)

2000-08-20 Thread Welker Donald P NPRI
I would like to be able to telnet to my Linux box and/or use X from a remote system. The remote system has an X server, but how do I set up the daemons on the Linux computer? They don't currently appear to be running (since telnet attempts bounce).

Re: [newbie] GRUB bootloader question

2000-08-20 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Kathleen Dickason wrote: Okay, I have kind of a silly question. How do I add another OS to GRUB? Still does, but I have since added a 2nd hard drive and two more OSes, one of which I boot from floppy, and the other of which I access by typing things in GRUB's

Re: [newbie] deb vs rpm

2000-08-20 Thread Greg Stewart
rpm can install and updrage packages from an ftp stie just like deb. Try: rpm -Uvh ftp.redhat.com/pub/updates/6.2/RPMS/etc/packagename*.rpm as long as you have the directory tree correct it should take all the "packagename" rpms and update accordingly. Since I'm not "registered" with redhat,

[Fwd: Undeliverable: [newbie] Test]

2000-08-20 Thread Joan Tur
I don't know what happens!? Is the mailing list working? I dont receive any messages since one week ago! 8-? System Administrator escribió: Your message To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] Test Sent:Sun, 20 Aug 2000 13:13:57 +0100 did not reach the following recipient(s):

RE: [newbie] Netscape Update ?!

2000-08-20 Thread Paul
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Welker Donald P NPRI wrote: Thanks, that worked once I found kpackage. How many package managers does this beast have, anyway? Kpackage, RPMdrake, GnoRPM, RPM. Enough, I guess, for everyone to choose :) Paul -- Silence is a little bit of heaven descending to earth )0(

Re: [newbie] Remote login (telnet and X)

2000-08-20 Thread Paul
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Welker Donald P NPRI wrote: I would like to be able to telnet to my Linux box and/or use X from a remote system. The remote system has an X server, but how do I set up the daemons on the Linux computer? They don't currently appear to be running (since telnet attempts

Re: [newbie] Red hat installation problem

2000-08-20 Thread Greg Stewart
Hey! wait till RedHat 7.0 is out in full release. The beta has a better implementation of gnome, also provides the option for XFree86 3.3.6 or 4.0.1, and has a huge amount of kernel tweaks to 2.2.16 that provide features found in the upcoming 2.4 kernel. The "sharper and prettier" problem was

Re: [newbie]

2000-08-20 Thread Mark Hillary
The Usb support in the 2.2 kernels is a bit here and there. It is only beta. Where as the Usb support for the 2.4 kernels in a lot better even though those kernels are considerd to be beta them selves. i think that it would be best to go and download the latest 2.4 test kernel, which I think is

RE: [newbie] Remote login (telnet and X)

2000-08-20 Thread Welker Donald P NPRI
ftp and telnet lines are both uncommented but connections are refused even between the Linux computer and itself (including localhost). I would like to be able to telnet to my Linux box and/or use X from a remote system. The remote system has an X server, but how do I set up the daemons

Re: [newbie] Kernel Complie Prob

2000-08-20 Thread Greg Stewart
It sounds like you may have trun off/left off some dependent features elsewhere in the configuration. I don't knwo what dependencies exist for USB, I don't use it...But do a make clean and try over checking all services... maybe turning off and on only limited services to test the compile until

Re: [newbie] Lost passwords

2000-08-20 Thread Mark Hillary
Just to let every one know the way to change the root password if you forget it (or for some other reason) is to at the the LILO (I use LILO becuase it is better, I think) prompt type linux 1 then run 'passwd' and change any of the passwords on the system. You realy don't want people doning

[newbie] X setiathome

2000-08-20 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Hi, Has anyone successfully installed the X setiathome screen. I have just downloaded the text version as I could not get the X version to work at all. I am using Mandrake 7.1 now. Thanks in advance -- /Andrew Scotchmer\ ICQ#50762100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \---composed on

Re: [newbie] GRUB bootloader question

2000-08-20 Thread Kathleen Dickason
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Kathleen Dickason wrote: Okay, I have kind of a silly question. How do I add another OS to GRUB? As far as I know, you need to edit (as Root) /boot/grub/menu.lst Check "info grub" and look at the Installation section, this should get you

Re: [newbie] Remote login (telnet and X)

2000-08-20 Thread Greg Stewart
Are you attempting to telnet in from a machine where you are logged in using an account with the same username/password, or a different one? I had/have lots of problems with remote logins using ssh on my MDK box, and I've taken security down to "low" through that DrakConf crap which I had to

Re: [newbie] Netscape Update ?!

2000-08-20 Thread Greg Stewart
In the past that is how it's been (occasionally--they change things around from time to time)... did you download a tarball from netscape? I still haven't heard any alerts about a need to upgrade to 4.75, so I'm leaving it be for now. I tried NS6.0pre2 and find it unbearably slow...although it

[newbie] auto_inst.cfg.pl generation problem

2000-08-20 Thread bascule
i have just searched the archives and found this link to the docs on how to do an auto install but when i try to run the suggested prog off my install cd (/Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/perl-install/g_auto_install) i get an error message saying that this prog cannot be run. i appear to have perl

Re: Undeliverable: [newbie] Test]

2000-08-20 Thread Kathleen Dickason
Brilliant in its profound evilness! Kathleen, hapless newbie Greg Stewart wrote: We're saving all the messages with the intent of duplicating them multitudinous times and then flooding the hapless newbie list users until their heads spin around and hard drives explode. Well, it's an

[newbie] ISDN setup in Mandrake 7.1

2000-08-20 Thread Thomas Morgan
Moi, Does anyone have a clue to the hows of setting up an ISDN pci card, with Mandrake 7.1. I know that the "isdn4k-utils" is faulty, what else is? I would like to get this system online before classes start, so if anyone can help, please do. Thanks in advance. tcm13

RE: [newbie] Remote login (telnet and X)

2000-08-20 Thread Welker Donald P NPRI
It's not outside my LAN, though I do look forward to using ssh for other reasons (such as access from home). I'd like to get X and telnet working before I do that, though. If this remote machine is outside your LAN, you mey wish to can telnet, and install ssh or Open SSH. These will provide

Re: [newbie] PHP

2000-08-20 Thread Greg Stewart
I don't use it myself, but one of the SysEng guys I work with just set up Apache, MySQL, and PHP, along with writing a web-dased DB for scheduling meeting rooms and he did it in less than a shift. I do know that Apache will give you warnings about the default php needing to be upgraded or

[newbie] RPMLIB missing?

2000-08-20 Thread Dennis Myers
I have downloaded the new Netscape packages from cooker but when I try to install "common" I get a message that says I have a dependency missing in the form of "rpmlib". I can't find it on the cooker or on my CDs. Can someone point me the right way. I had the 128 bit before but I got my files

Re: [newbie] Audio Devices

2000-08-20 Thread Greg Stewart
There are 3 users on my system, "god", "goddess", and "penguin". This is just too much...I'm going home! :-) --Greg __ message envoye depuis http://www.ifrance.com emails (pop)-sites persos (espace

RE: [newbie] Remote login (telnet and X)

2000-08-20 Thread Pete Clapham
Hi -- You're having the same trouble I had/have. There's a part of your inetd.conf (I think) file where it allows you to allow or deny access to various IP numbers. Take a look at these. Uncommenting the lines in inetd.conf just starts the daemons. However, you probably have the default

Re: [newbie] Audio Devices

2000-08-20 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
I have recently installed Mandrake 7.0 (Air) [1.1.2 KDE, 2.2.14-15mdk kernel]. There are 3 users on my system, "god", "goddess", and "penguin". root god can acess the audio devices (through audio mpeg player), however, goddess and penguin can not. All three of the users in group "god".

[newbie] Lilo Failure

2000-08-20 Thread Michael Hatzakis
Trying to get my system to boot from the hard drive not the floppy. When I run lilo and klilo, I get the error message: "Warning: /dev/hdb1 is not on the first disk" That does this mean exactly? Thanks, Michael

Re: [newbie] Kppp and Networking

2000-08-20 Thread Marcia Waller
Yes, I am getting about 3 copies of some posts, too. I prefer it to getting nothing.:) Marcia

[newbie] Alsa

2000-08-20 Thread Daniel J. Ferris
Is there anyone who has installed the ALSA drivers with Mandrake. I compiled the utilities, the library, and the drivers. Also made the devices as stated in the ALSA HOWTO. But it still installs the OSS drivers. Any advice would be helpful. Dan -- ... I think I'd better go back to my DESK

[newbie] Test 2 -after subscribed again-

2000-08-20 Thread Joan Tur
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Re: [newbie] auto_inst.cfg.pl generation problem

2000-08-20 Thread bascule
a) the link was to chapter 8 of the mandrake user guide reference manual b) i may have tried it as root but i didn't try running it from a terminal - voila! however what you get is the graphical installation routine for the i586 asking questions that the i486 text install doesn't ask, the i486

Re: [newbie] Test

2000-08-20 Thread Marcia Waller
Yes, it has arrived.:) Marcia

Re: Undeliverable: [newbie] Test]

2000-08-20 Thread Mark Weaver
Greg Stewart wrote: We're saving all the messages with the intent of duplicating them multitudinous times and then flooding the hapless newbie list users until their heads spin around and hard drives explode. Well, it's an idea... --Greg Cool! I'm game... :)

Re: [newbie] Remote login (telnet and X)

2000-08-20 Thread Pete Clapham
Hi all -- I assume this is a response to Donald Welker's original and then follow-up query about FTP and Telnet. I agree with Greg that the config is quirky, but I disagree that it is a matter of login name/password on the local machine. I was actually able to fix FTP (but not Telnet) on

Re: [newbie] GRUB bootloader question

2000-08-20 Thread Kathleen Dickason
You can hit 'c' to bring up a command line when GRUB pops up. :) Now I just need to figure out how to add BeOS... Mark Weaver wrote: Kathleen Dickason wrote: Okay, I have kind of a silly question. How do I add another OS to GRUB? I started with a dual-boot Windows98/Mandrake 7.1

Re: [newbie] Free ISPs Compatible With Linux

2000-08-20 Thread Goldenpi
I dont know what all this fuss is about, unless us isps work differently than uk. All I had to do was enter the phone number, username, password, dns and a few other things to get both my isps going on linux. apart from aol, compuserve and msn, most isps should work with linux. The isp doesn't

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