Re: [newbie-it] Cerco drivers modem rockwell

2001-12-04 Thread Marco
Salve a tutti, ho sentito che è difficile installare un winmodem del genere rockwell softmodem (chipset conexant). [CUT] problema è il modem, chi ha la risposta giusta al mio problema sarei felice che la pubblicasse. Grazie Claudio

[newbie-it] Cancellazione mainlist

2001-12-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cancellazione servizio maillist Guerra Antonio [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie-it] Rockwell/Conexant modem

2001-12-04 Thread Fabio Manunza
Ciao Luigi. Ho seguito il tuo consiglio, ma è evidente che ho installato come modem il principe dei figli di p... Nessun cambiamento, il modem si limita, secondo kppp ad essere occupato... Grazie lo stesso. Fabio - Original Message - From: Luigi De Pascale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Rif: Re: [newbie-it] mdk8.1 e audio

2001-12-04 Thread redboy81
Io ho provato a rinominarla da dev suond a dev audio ma mandrake non si è più avviata. Sarà, ma più passano le versioni e più i problemi aumentano. saLuti Da: Mauro Ongaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data: 03 dicembre 2001 22:35:15 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: [newbie-it] mdk8.1 e audio

Re: Rif: Re: [newbie-it] mdk8.1 e audio

2001-12-04 Thread Mauro Ongaro
Cosa hai fatto esattamente ? Io ho provato a rinominarla da dev suond a dev audio ma mandrake non si è più avviata. Sarà, ma più passano le versioni e più i problemi aumentano. saLuti

Fwd: Re: Rif: Re: [newbie-it] mdk8.1 e audio

2001-12-04 Thread Mauro Ongaro
Cosa hai fatto esattamente ? Io ho provato a rinominarla da dev suond a dev audio ma mandrake non si è più avviata. Sarà, ma più passano le versioni e più i problemi aumentano. saLuti ---

Re: [newbie-it] Modem interno

2001-12-04 Thread Sandro
Il 15:45, martedì 4 dicembre 2001, hai scritto: io ho un Acer Extensa 500T, ma il kernel e' il 2.4.2 Ci sono problemi? Grazie No, nessun problema. Ho il driver per il 2.4.2. Se vuoi te lo mando. Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini Linux Mandrake 8.0 Linux Machine: 103048 Linux User:

[newbie] IP settings

2001-12-04 Thread NDPTAL85
How do I manually set or change my IP thru the terminal? Does it have something to do with ifconfig? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Top posting poll

2001-12-04 Thread Ron Bouwhuis
Well done, Dan. Underlying message is common sense prevails! Ron. --- Dan Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the tide of messages regarding all of your opinions has ended, and I am happy to report the following, in order, winners: 1. Top posting ok 2. Please change subject line

[newbie] netword card

2001-12-04 Thread Rooms Frédéric
Hi, I post my message again since I haven't received any response and I haven't resolved the problem. I have got a notebook with a combo 3c575cT network card. The card is recognised by Mandrake 8.0. When I try to ping myself, the data packets aren't send. When I configure manually the IRQ and

[newbie] Installation problem

2001-12-04 Thread Helle Espen
I have Dell inspiron 3800. Have had Linux mandrake 7.? (1?) on it before without any problem. Tried now to install LM 8.1, and I am not able todo it. It hangs whenit tries to use the CDROM (But it is able to use it before.Strange..) Can anyone please help me? Here comes what I

Re: [newbie] IP settings

2001-12-04 Thread quaylar
At 03:15 04.12.2001 -0500, you wrote: How do I manually set or change my IP thru the terminal? Does it have something to do with ifconfig? Thanks. yes it does have something to do with ifconfig, read the manual page for ifconfig - it will tell u all the available options. --qu Want to

Re: [newbie] Alternative to QuickTime

2001-12-04 Thread Derek Jennings
The best alternative to Quicktime I have found is ... Quicktime.. It can be made to run under Linux using the codeweavers crossover plugin available from www.codeweavers.com. Crossover is a wine application and enables you to run native windows plugins including Microsoft Powerpoint/Word/Excel

Re: [newbie] Internet connection sharing

2001-12-04 Thread quaylar
At 17:57 04.12.2001 +1100, you wrote: I have just dedicated one of my machines as a Linux server. Installed Mandrake 8.1 and chose server partitioning. Almost everything works great! That is it does immediately after I set up internet connection sharing, but after a server reboot I can no

[newbie] FTP Problem - Please help if you can thanks :)

2001-12-04 Thread Neil R Porter
Hi all I have proftpd setup at home and here at work i'd like to access it. At home I tried it out and it works fine over the home network... using cuteftp here at work produces the following log... basically it hangs a while on Connecting data socket... and then says Failed to establish data

Re: [newbie] Alternative to QuickTime

2001-12-04 Thread ethan
speaking of wine, are there any quick pointers on how best to use it ? I have a pure linux environment and must I partition it for windoze ? Ideally would like to run on my existing linux partition. Any HOW-TOs, tips would be appreciated thanks. Derek Jennings wrote:

Re: [newbie] Alternative to QuickTime

2001-12-04 Thread Derek Jennings
I wish there were an 'easy' way to use wine. The easiest ways are to use the crossover plugin, or the transgaming wine implementation. They have been 'tweaked' for their particular purpose and save you the grief. If you were to spend the time you could get wine doing the same things yourself

[newbie] I need your immediate help!

2001-12-04 Thread Mandrake Newbie
Hello gurus! I am using Mandrake 8.1 and I just downloaded the kernel-2.4.13-mdk.rpm and the latest iptables available in the speakeasy.rpmfind.net site. I tried to install the new kernel and iptables using the commands of: # rpm -ivh kernel-xxx.mdk.rpm and # rpm -Uvh iptables-xxx.mdk.rpm

Re: [newbie] FTP Problem - Please help if you can thanks :)

2001-12-04 Thread quaylar
At 11:24 04.12.2001 +, you wrote: hi neil, this error indicates that your ftp client was not able to establish a data connection to your home pc at target port 20 (this is ftp-data). so either u have a firewall at work that doesnt allow traffic from/to port 20 or - and this is more likely

Re: [newbie] gnomeppp pppd daemon dies

2001-12-04 Thread lee
I asked this question sometime ago and was advised that if I was using x-screensaver or apache that these could conflict with this type of connection. I basically gave up on it and made kppp work..if ya get gnome ppp to work I'd love to know how you did it :-) Lee I haven't used gnome

[newbie] Upgrading kernel-2.4.13-12mdk.i586.rpm problem

2001-12-04 Thread Mandrake Newbie
Hello, gurus! I am using Mandrake 8.1 and I just downloaded the kernel-2.4.13-12mdk.i586.rpm and iptables-1.2.4-2mdk.i586.rpm available in the speakeasy.rpmfind.net site. I tried to install the new kernel and iptables using the commands of: # rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.13-12mdk.i586.rpm and # rpm

[newbie] SPAM FILTER

2001-12-04 Thread Matt Koppelman
I am a new sysadmin for my ISP.. we have a horrible spam problem here, and no one has done anything in the past to resolve it. I have decent linux experience, but i wouldnt exactly call myself a pro.. :) i have been looking into blackmail, but it seems very difficult to install. I was

Re: [newbie] fetchmail config..

2001-12-04 Thread Derek Jennings
If you press the 'Test' button in fetchmailconf you will see the dialogue between fetchmail and the server. That should tell you what is up. HTH Derek On Tuesday 04 December 2001 14:38, you wrote: Hi all, I have a small fetchmail problem.. I have a .fetchmailrc file in /root that is

Re: [newbie] SPAM FILTER

2001-12-04 Thread John Pisini
You can try junkbusters this link is from their FAQ http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/ijbfaq.html#isps hope this helps John Pisini http://www.cafecomputer.com Registered Linux User #100542 No. Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda From: Matt Koppelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To:

Re: [newbie] SPAM FILTER

2001-12-04 Thread Derek Jennings
Spam Assassin is worth looking at http://spamassassin.sourceforge.net It performs textual analysis of mails and scores them. It also looks up known spammers and includes the Vipul's Razor collective spam database that was featured on Slashdot a couple of days ago. The Perl version is probably a

Re: [newbie] SPAM FILTER

2001-12-04 Thread Matt Greer
From: Matt Koppelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am a new sysadmin for my ISP.. we have a horrible spam problem here, and no one has done anything in the past to resolve it. I have decent linux experience, but i wouldnt exactly call myself a pro.. :) i have been looking into blackmail, but it seems

[newbie] mandrake8.0 and internet

2001-12-04 Thread Marek M
Can anyone tell me where to write my ip, mask, dns numbers to connect to internet?Where is this file or if you could send me for example your file (if you want you can change numbers - i want just example)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tego nie znajdziesz w ¿adnym sklepie! [

Re: [newbie] SPAM FILTER

2001-12-04 Thread Matt Koppelman
i dunno.. i dont have THAT much experience.. i've heard procmail is a nightmare to install, i'm looking for something quick, and easy.. - Original Message - From: Matt Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] SPAM FILTER

Re: [newbie] mandrake8.0 and internet

2001-12-04 Thread gerco
there are two methods (or more) but with these, answer your problems: 1. menu k/Internet/dialer kppp/setup or configuration (in this moment i job with RedHat 7.1 and dont remember if in LM 8.o has this name ..) 2. Edit /etc/resolv.conf bye geRcO El Mar 04 Dic 2001 10:41, escribiste: Can

Re: [newbie] mulitple desktop managers

2001-12-04 Thread Ed Tharp
did you try the f8 or f9 tty? On Tuesday 04 December 2001 12:44, you wrote: it should not but I still dont see where the second manager went (did it come up?). i thought the loading failed as is implied by the the 'Fatal Server Error'. ciao! On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 21:02:23 +0600 Mark

Re: [newbie] Realtek 8139 and internet

2001-12-04 Thread Matt Greer
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 08:04 am, you wrote: Greeting from Poland Linuxmen ! I'm green. Can anyone tell me where to write my ip, mask, dns numbers to connect to internet ? Which file, or maybe your example. If you're in X, load up the mandrake control center. Then

Re: [newbie] Samba file shares problem/oddity

2001-12-04 Thread tek1
scenario/pre-requisites: --- 1) windows username = myWinUser, password = 12345 linux/samba steps: --- 1) create a linux user: useradd myLinuxUser 2) open up the /etc/samba/smbusers file and add the below line: myLinuxUser = myWinUser *

[newbie] usb magnetic strip readers on linux?

2001-12-04 Thread tek1
anyone have experience with this? looking to purchase one that has a usb interface. will this work on linux? thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] SPAM FILTER

2001-12-04 Thread Paul Schwebel
As far as mail sorting, I've found getmail works well and is easier to set up than procmail. You can then feed mail from getmail into a spam filtering program, but I think you'd have to do that with procmail as well. -Paul Well, how did I get here? Schwebel --- Matt Koppelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] SPAM FILTER

2001-12-04 Thread Paul Schwebel
--- Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, have you looked into setting up some regex's in the SMTP's configuration file. This is one good way to start taking a bite out of all that crap they're sending at your mailservers. snip Could you explain what regex's in the SMTP'S

[newbie] Still no printing in LM8.1!

2001-12-04 Thread Marcia
Dear All, I have been reading everything and doing everything I can think of to get my Epson Stylus Color to work with LM 8.1. I wrote for help about a week ago and nothing that has been suggested has worked. I even reinstalled LM 8.1 and the exact same thing happened again. The printing

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 and webcam

2001-12-04 Thread Florian Struck
Well i recently bought a Quickcam 3000 PRO from logitech without knowing there support behaviour =/ it is supported starting at kernel 2.4.13 . Since it has Phillips ingredients. Phillips webcams are supported (allmost all AFAIK ) they use the kernel module pwc (so does my logitech ) but dont

Re: [newbie] XFree upgrade question

2001-12-04 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Monday 03 December 2001 12:54, tek1 wrote: how can you easily tell what version you are running? *running* is problematic, but this command will tell you what is *installed* rpm -q XFree86 -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za

Re: [newbie] SPAM FILTER

2001-12-04 Thread Newbie
What I do from my e mail server is to make the file /etc/mail/access (used by sendmail) and in the file called access, you can bounce mail that you don't want, for example my /etc/mail/access file reads liek the one below, however please note that some of the addresses are obscured to protect

Re: [newbie] XFree upgrade question

2001-12-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
tek1 wrote: hello. i have 2 basic questions abt xfree86: 1. how can you easily tell what version you are running? 2. i believe that i'm running 3.3.6 (because it mandrake software manager, under installed, i found xfree86-server-common 3.3.6), but i'd like to upgrade to 4.1.0. what

Re: [newbie] Installation problem

2001-12-04 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:32:24 +0100 Helle Espen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Dell inspiron 3800. Have had Linux mandrake 7.? (1?) on it before without any problem. Tried now to install LM 8.1, and I am not able to do it. It hangs when it tries to use the CDROM (But it is able to use it

[newbie] cups and windows shared printer - stumped

2001-12-04 Thread Kathy Montgomery
I've been trying for ages (or what seems like ages) to get CUPS to print to a Windows 2000 shared printer. I am stumped. I tried to use kups to configure the printer (since people reported success with kups), but to no avail. The following lines appear in my /var/log/cups/error_log file when I

[newbie] XFree86 gamma adjustment

2001-12-04 Thread Warren Post
I need help adjusting the gamma of my monitor. I've tried four methods without success: (1) The man page for XF86Config(5) documents the optional entries Gamma x or Gamma r g b in the XF86Config file which should set the monitor's gamma (x, r, g, and b being between 0.1 and 10.0, default 1). I

Re: [newbie] XFree upgrade question

2001-12-04 Thread tek1
thank you very much alan :) i really appreciate it. unfortunately, after changing to xfree4.1.0, it didn't really recognize my video card (a card made by a company called msi - has tnt2 m64 support; 3.3.6 has no problems with it) and defaults to a horrendous looking screen (resolution

[newbie] Intel or Realtek?

2001-12-04 Thread Eric Caron
Hi everybody, I need to replace one of my network cards and I was wondering which model would be better between one that has the very popular Realtek 8139 or one that has the Intel 21143 (is that the one called 'Tulip'?). Both are by Intellinet and they are in the cheap and affordable category

Re: [newbie] Realtek 8139 and internet

2001-12-04 Thread Tomek Nowinski
Jesli masz XFree mozesz to zrobic z Mandrake Control Center - Network and Internet - Connection. Najlepiej bedzie jesli zostawisz w czasie ustawiania opcje DHCP w ten sposob automatycznie bedziesz mial wszystkie ustawienia OK i praktycznie od razu mozesz dostac sie do sieci. Ostroznie z

Re: [newbie] Intel or Realtek?

2001-12-04 Thread Ralph Slooten
I use Realtek, and have been using them for about a year now with absolutely no problems. The other I don't know, but I would say quite openly that the Realtek cards are great :-) Both are used here at home with 1 computer running Mandrake, and the other redhat... so there are no problems there.

Re: [newbie] How to execute .jar files on LM 8.1

2001-12-04 Thread Jon Doe
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 12:49:47 -0500 Anuerin G.Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what version of java do you want to use? im using the one from sun and its working fine. classpath is defined in the .bashrc (single person) or in the /etc/profile (all users). my .bashrc entries look like this:

Re: [newbie] FTP Problem - Please help if you can thanks :)

2001-12-04 Thread bascule
your cuteftp client at work is uisng passive mode, i assume thatis because work is behind a firwall that won' allow active ftp, toget passive mode to work with proftpd you need to allow the ftp client to either: i) connect to any random high port or ii) connect to a range of ports specified on

Re: [newbie] Still no printing in LM8.1!

2001-12-04 Thread Bill Bussell
I have the same no print problem with my HP 690C. The driver is installed, but the test page or any other document remains in the print que forever. I thought that it could have something to do with the pass-through connector for my scanner, but this causes no problems for WIN ME. I made

[newbie] Changing the button style at Mandrake Control Center s user interface

2001-12-04 Thread ccihan
how can I change the button decoration or style at Mandrake Control Center s user interface.Changing gnome or kde button styles (or decoration) doesnt effect it.Also gdm 's upper menu buttons are the same! Changing gnome s button decoration doesnt effect them. This is because I am very

[newbie] Changing the button style at Mandrake Control Center s user interface

2001-12-04 Thread ccihan
how can I change the button decoration or style at Mandrake Control Center s user interface.Changing gnome or kde button styles (or decoration) doesnt effect it.Also gdm 's upper menu buttons are the same! Changing gnome s button decoration doesnt effect them. This is because I am very

Re: [newbie] SPAM FILTER

2001-12-04 Thread g
Matt Koppelman wrote: I am a new sysadmin for my ISP.. we have a horrible spam problem here, greetings matt, congrats on your new position. everyone has a horrible time with spam. so do not feel alone. no one has done anything in the past to resolve it. because it is such a problem, is

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install problem

2001-12-04 Thread Brian Parish
Thanks John, but yes, they were already executable. I played some more and made it work by moving the installation files to another directory. Not sure what difference this made yet, unless the fact that the directory I was trying to install in originally was in an exported tree caused the

Re: [newbie] Galeon and Java

2001-12-04 Thread Michael Leone
It's not safe, and you NEVER should connect as root. For much the same reasons you should NEVER use Windoze to connect at all. In both situations, anybody has root capabilities This is not 100% correct. If you use Win9x/WinME, it is correct. All users have root privleges. If you use

[newbie] How can I config the button style at Mandrake Control Center s user interface

2001-12-04 Thread ccihan
how can I change the button decoration or style at Mandrake Control Center s user interface.Changing gnome or kde button styles (or decoration) doesnt effect it.Also gdm 's upper menu buttons are the same! Changing gnome s button decoration doesnt effect them. This is because I am very

Re: [newbie] Still no printing in LM8.1!

2001-12-04 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 12:39 pm, Marcia wrote: Dear All, I have been reading everything and doing everything I can think of to get my Epson Stylus Color to work with LM 8.1. I wrote for help about a week ago and nothing that has been suggested has worked. I even reinstalled LM 8.1 and

[newbie] cChanging the button style at Mandrake Control Center s user interface

2001-12-04 Thread ccihan
how can I change the button decoration or style at Mandrake Control Center s user interface.Changing gnome or kde button styles (or decoration) doesnt effect it.Also gdm 's upper menu buttons are the same! Changing gnome s button decoration doesnt effect them. This is because I am very

Re: [newbie] XFree upgrade question

2001-12-04 Thread skidley
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Michel Clasquin wrote: On Monday 03 December 2001 12:54, tek1 wrote: how can you easily tell what version you are running? *running* is problematic, but this command will tell you what is *installed* rpm -q XFree86 XFfree86 -version will do it. -- Chad Young

Re: [newbie] can't eject cdrom

2001-12-04 Thread meta
Should be: eject /dev/hdc On Monday 03 December 2001 20:05, you wrote: On Monday 03 December 2001 07:43 pm, ethan wrote: I tried that and got this : umount /mnt/cdrom umount: /mnt/cdrom: not mounted [root@Echelon ethan]# eject eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid

Re: [newbie] Still no printing in LM8.1!

2001-12-04 Thread erylon hines
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 13:39, you wrote: Dear All, I have been reading everything and doing everything I can think of to get my Epson Stylus Color to work with LM 8.1. I know this isn't going to help much, because I wiped 8.1 and put 8.0 on (with 8.1 upgrades like the newest version

Re: [newbie] can't eject cdrom

2001-12-04 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, ethan wrote: There IS a mandrake 'feature' that makes that! Whenever you change a file it changes it back on reboot! It perfect in general but, what if you *need* to change the config? I think it is connected to the 'security'

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-04 Thread meta
I think so, check all the service u run. I just use 128Mb, never got like what u got. I monitor my memory used by gkrellm and open bluefish, opera, netscape, xmms, yahoo messenger, prozilla download manager, audio galaxy satellite, and still works fine, with not that much of using memory as u

Re: [newbie] Still no printing in LM8.1!

2001-12-04 Thread Marcia
Dear Civileme, I originally chose cups with gimp print for Epson Stylus Color. Then I reinstalled and chose cups but with the lpr spooler and the same things happened again. I, also, changed drivers many times through webmin and the problems did not improve. Finally I got rid of cups and went

Re: [newbie] Still no printing in LM8.1!

2001-12-04 Thread Marcia
Dear Bill, Thank you for informing me of your problem. That answers my next question...should I get a new printer? I think not since I am noticing other printer brands are having similar problems here and there. I hope we can get these problems resolved. It is really nice to be able to

Re: [newbie] Realtek 8139 and internet

2001-12-04 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 15:04:57 +0100 Marek M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greeting from Poland Linuxmen ! I'm green. Can anyone tell me where to write my ip, mask, dns numbers to connect to internet ? Which file, or maybe your example. === It can be done in kppp

Re: [newbie] Still no printing in LM8.1!

2001-12-04 Thread Marcia
Thank you for your help. At least it is good to hear that someone did get an Epson to print eventually in 8.1. I have been thinking of going back to 8, but I think 8.1 is better for some other things. I even thought of doing a dual boot with Windows 95 , for a last resort way to get a working

Re: [newbie] SPAM FILTER

2001-12-04 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Matt Koppelman wrote: I don't know anything about procmail!] But I'm using it with spamfilter (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]). And it's perfect!! I just followed the instructions and that's it!! Must likely you DO have procmail

Re: [newbie] Still no printing in LM8.1!

2001-12-04 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 02:27:54 -0500 Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your help. At least it is good to hear that someone did get an Epson to print eventually in 8.1. I have been thinking of going back to 8, but I think 8.1 is better for some other things. I even thought of doing

Re: [newbie] Intel or Realtek?

2001-12-04 Thread Grant Fraser
I have installed cicero cards (on win 98 and LM8.0) that turned out to be realtek 8139's. Installation was flawless and the box even came with a 24hr 1-800 support number. It said something like Before you take this card back to the store please call. No opinion on Intel. Grant On

[newbie] FTP problem

2001-12-04 Thread Daniel Chen
Hi, I just begin to learn Linux, so my question may be very stupid. I just set up a Mandrake Linux 8.1 on my computer. I try to use FTP to connect to my linux server, it has no problem when the computer is in the same LAN. However, when I route outside the LAN and connect it from the Internet,

Re: [newbie] Still no printing in LM8.1!

2001-12-04 Thread Dan Shackelford
I admit to seeing this thread in the middle, not from the beginning, and REALLY admit to being a newbie but have you checked out www.linuxprinting.org yet? Specifically: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=62112 http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=stp At 02:27

RE: [newbie] FTP problem

2001-12-04 Thread Franki
This is a complete guess, but try swappin to passive ftp... its possible that your authentication is working fine on port21 but when it tries to switch to a high port, it is being blocked by a firewall (you do have one don't you?) easier to swap to passive... like I said, thats just a guess,

Re: [newbie] fetchmail config..

2001-12-04 Thread Anke Max
Gidday Frank Don't know anything about fetchmail but I have a silly question. Have you swapped the two around and put Yahoo first? rgds max Frank asked on Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:38 PM I have a small fetchmail problem.. I have a .fetchmailrc file in /root that is supposed to check a

Re: [newbie] Upgrading kernel-2.4.13-12mdk.i586.rpm problem

2001-12-04 Thread Anke Max
I'm no guru. In a situation where I have something which depends on another and vice versa I put them all into an empty dir and use # rpm -Uvh * This seems to work well. rgds max Hello, gurus! I am using Mandrake 8.1 and I just downloaded the kernel-2.4.13-12mdk.i586.rpm and

Re: [newbie] Still no printing in LM8.1!

2001-12-04 Thread Anke Max
Gidday Marcia I have no experience with printing in Linux so this is a long shot. I had untold problems with printing just the odd file on the 14 iMacs at our school and it turned out to be 3 out the many installed fonts just locked up the printer whenever they were used. The error messages I

RE: [newbie] FTP problem

2001-12-04 Thread Damian G
as you probably already know, ftp uses two connections, data and control connection. the control connection is the one you make when you connect to the server. now, when you want to list the contents of a directory ( or download a file ), you will receive the directory listing or the file

Re: [newbie] Still no printing in LM8.1!

2001-12-04 Thread shane
sorry my only experience is a networked usb printer, but have you tried surfing a few sites? a nice starting place, http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Support/ On Tuesday 04 December 2001 23:20, you spoke unto me thusly: Dear Bill, Thank you for informing me of your

Re: [newbie] Still no printing in LM8.1!

2001-12-04 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 10:17 pm, Marcia wrote: Dear Civileme, I originally chose cups with gimp print for Epson Stylus Color. Then I reinstalled and chose cups but with the lpr spooler and the same things happened again. I, also, changed drivers many times through webmin and the

[newbie] sound server fatal error tmp/mcop-geert is not owned by user

2001-12-04 Thread belcoop
Is there anybody who knows how to solve the problem message above? How do I reconfigure/reinstall this famous soundserver as a real newbie? Run update or so? Geert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Armagetron and Tux Racer Games will not run

2001-12-04 Thread Michael Peligro
I recently installed Linux-Mandrake 8.1 on my system. For a Harry Homeowner or a Joe Sixpack like me, I was glad the installer recognized all my devices and installed properly without me having to fiddle with cryptic Unix commands or logging to the dreaded console (which I don't know how to use).

[newbie] Netscape and Mozilla link problem

2001-12-04 Thread Lee Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There's at least one web site (http://www.inewsreports.com/newsreport.asp?newsfeed=easterneuropenews_title=Eastern%20Europe%20News) where the links don't work when using Mozilla or Netscape (4.7x and 6.x). Is it a bug or a configuration problem? I

[newbie] An interesting definition I came across

2001-12-04 Thread Robin
Something I found in dictionary of computing while looking up something else. http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?evil+and+rude Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] SPAM FILTER

2001-12-04 Thread Mark Weaver
Matt, have you looked into setting up some regex's in the SMTP's configuration file. This is one good way to start taking a bite out of all that crap they're sending at your mailservers. That is definatelythe first place i would start to look as opposed to finding a third party app to take care

Re: [newbie] SPAM FILTER

2001-12-04 Thread Mark Weaver
Matt, Procmailis fairly simple and straightforware and just requires a bit of time to get to know it and the syntax it uses to filter mail. it's very nice once you get to know it. -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ Registered Linux User # 186492 Beware of little sins. Mosquitoes drink more