Re: [newbie] Firefox Mouse Config

2004-11-18 Thread Margot
JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:43:45 -0700 mike disseminated the following: mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlinesuserset boolean false Ack! I missed that one. Many thanks! Maybe you just need to buy a faster mouse? ;-) -- Regards Margot *-*-*-* Sent using Mozilla on a 100%

[newbie] runlevel

2004-11-18 Thread Paul Kaplan
Where do I set the system to boot to runlevel 5 instead of 3? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] runlevel

2004-11-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 18 November 2004 11:45, Paul Kaplan wrote: Where do I set the system to boot to runlevel 5 instead of 3? TIA Paul In /etc/inittab Or by GUI in Mandrake Control CentreBootAutologin check the box to start in graphical environment. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net

[newbie] fsck on boot

2004-11-18 Thread Peter Watson
Where do I set how often the HD's get fsck'd on boot. TIA -- Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] billing system

2004-11-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi, Can any one help me to get the billing system on Linux, I am running an Internet cafe with sixteen computers and eight phones. I am trying to get billing system that could help me. i am running mandrake 10 on the computers. Regards Solly

[newbie] bandwidth management tool.

2004-11-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi, Can you help me to get simple network management tool i have tried MRTG but is complicated to set it up. Regards Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Switching between LAN and dialup

2004-11-18 Thread mikkel
On Thursday 18 Nov 2004 04:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 18 November 2004 03:30 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have encountered this problem too. The network in my office and home is different in respect of network class and thus subnet and default gw. So, to make things

[newbie] Best use of Disk Space

2004-11-18 Thread Tim
What in your opinion/s would be the best way to utilize the disk space of an 80G hard disk? Is it best to have a separate partition for Home Directory? Is it wise to have spare partition for testing stuff on? I understand some folks do this. Separate partition for root? What is best?

Re: [newbie] fsck on boot

2004-11-18 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:02:30 +, Peter Watson wrote about [newbie] fsck on boot: Where do I set how often the HD's get fsck'd on boot. tune2fs See: man tune2fs Ciao, =Dick Gevers= -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [newbie] Best use of Disk Space

2004-11-18 Thread Wojciech Podgrni
Hello Tim! Uytkownik Tim napisa: What in your opinion/s would be the best way to utilize the disk space of an 80G hard disk? Depends on how you use your computer. But Mandrake defaults (I think they are about ~50% /home, ~50% root, and the rest - twice the size of your RAM to the swap partiton)

Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)

2004-11-18 Thread Eric Scott
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 08:35, Rene Borchers wrote: Hi, I think you should have a look at the courier site http://www.courier-mta.org/intro.html it looks like it could be the solution to you problem. mandrake has: Name: courier-imap-pop Version : 2.1.2 Release :

Re: [newbie] Switching between LAN and dialup

2004-11-18 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On November 17, 2004 20:33, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Thursday 18 November 2004 03:30 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I have encountered this problem too. The network in my office and home is different in respect of network class and thus subnet and default gw. So, to make things easier

Re: [newbie] Switching between LAN and dialup

2004-11-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 18 Nov 2004 15:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems to me that this is a common-enough need. TWiki article? Anne I guess this is a hint that I should to learn to write one. ;-) It will have to be based on 9.2, but it should work for 10.x as well. No problem. Just one

Re: [newbie] Best use of Disk Space

2004-11-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 18 Nov 2004 16:01, Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Depends on how you use your computer. But Mandrake defaults (I think they are about ~50% /home, ~50% root, and the rest - twice the size of your RAM to the swap partiton) usually are good. Though it seems to be accepted that 500MB is the

Re: [newbie] Errors I still get on Kmail

2004-11-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 14 November 2004 08:14, Bill Mudry wrote: I finally got my kmail working --- I think ... My hesitation is because of the error that still comes up when I check for mail: ...

[newbie] Cable interface stopped - DHCPREQUEST?

2004-11-18 Thread Paul
Hi everyone, Suddenly this morning my pc stopped talking to the internet. In /var/log/messages I found this: Nov 18 11:15:27 nwyfre dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to xxx.yy.zzz.aa port 67 Nov 18 11:15:55 nwyfre last message repeated 4 times It comes back again and again. The IP address points

[newbie] Initial login very slow (10.1 Official)

2004-11-18 Thread s . aura
Dear all, This is my first post: I am turning to you for help for a minor inconvenience. I have two linux boxes, a home dual-boot machine (it also has XP for my kid's games) and a uniquely Linux box at work. Both were running 10.0 Official until last night when I have the idea of

Re: AW: [newbie] Problems with 10.1 and wireless (ipw2100 - intelcentrino)

2004-11-18 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Monday 25 October 2004 07:50 pm, Sebastian Martin wrote: This sounds like you didn't install the firmware properly. For 10.1 you need the firmware version 0.54. Once that was installed in the right place, I could go past the point of choosing between manual or automatic and properly set up

Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)

2004-11-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 18 November 2004 10:35, Eric Scott wrote: On Wednesday 17 November 2004 08:35, Rene Borchers wrote: Hi, I think you should have a look at the courier site http://www.courier-mta.org/intro.html it looks like it could be the solution to you problem. mandrake has: Name

Re: [newbie] Initial login very slow (10.1 Official)

2004-11-18 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 18 November 2004 02:16 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, This is my first post: I am turning to you for help for a minor inconvenience. I have two linux boxes, a home dual-boot machine (it also has XP for my kid's games) and a uniquely Linux box at work. Both were running

Re: [newbie] Cable interface stopped - DHCPREQUEST?

2004-11-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 18 November 2004 19:05, Paul wrote: Hi everyone, Suddenly this morning my pc stopped talking to the internet. In /var/log/messages I found this: Nov 18 11:15:27 nwyfre dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to xxx.yy.zzz.aa port 67 Nov 18 11:15:55 nwyfre last message repeated 4 times

Re: [newbie] Cable interface stopped - DHCPREQUEST?

2004-11-18 Thread Dan Gordon
On Thursday 18 November 2004 04:58 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: I cannot really find a reason why this happened. Could it be that the lease on the IP number somehow runs out after a certain amount of time? Paul Yes DHCP leases do expire, but then the DHCP client will simply ask for a

Re: [newbie] Scientific Citation Manager software?

2004-11-18 Thread Cezary Morga
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:18:35 +1100 Andrs Keszei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the first 3 links, you would have to be using a real text formatting application with a real text editor (emacs with latex bibtex), and although word seems to be the go in the corporate world, But for ease of use

Re: [newbie] Initial login very slow (10.1 Official)

2004-11-18 Thread mikkel
This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1100809020-1263-5226 Dear all, This is my first post: I am turning to you for help for a minor inconvenience. I have two linux boxes, a home dual-boot machine (it also has XP for my kid's games) and a uniquely Linux box at

[newbie] Audacity problems! need help!

2004-11-18 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
Hi there! I´ve used audacity before without any trouble but, now on mdk10, I just can´t!!! When I launch through a terminal I see a ¨Segmentation fault¨ message! When I click on the icon, mdk tries do load it and then it just goes away! I´ve tried to d/l other versions but I got loads of

Re: [newbie] Initial login very slow (10.1 Official)

2004-11-18 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 18 November 2004 07:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are variations to this theme: I can open a TTY-window (alt-ctl-f1 etc). The first login will hang there too, but opening a second tty-window will let you login immeadiately. So if I want to login quickly after reboot I

[newbie] Lost Mandrake Omline Service Update Icon

2004-11-18 Thread Phil Savoie
Hi All, How do I restore this icon in the system tray? I used to be able to determine when updates were available by the icon changing colors. Now I don't have an icon. Not sure what I did to lose it but it is not there anymore and I would like it back. Could anyone share as to how to

Re: [newbie] Cable interface stopped - DHCPREQUEST?

2004-11-18 Thread Miark
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:05:51 +0100, Paul wrote: Suddenly this morning my pc stopped talking to the internet. In /var/log/messages I found this: Nov 18 11:15:27 nwyfre dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to xxx.yy.zzz.aa port 67 Nov 18 11:15:55 nwyfre last message repeated 4 times It comes

Re: [newbie] Cable interface stopped - DHCPREQUEST?

2004-11-18 Thread Paul
Op Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:35:16 -0500 schreef Dan Gordon: I have seen this happen when my isp has to regroup (i know there is a propper term for this) several subnets to gain performance, a few ip's will be lost off of a subnet and a few new ones gained, i have seen my ip go from 24.116.x.x to

[newbie] What's on port 32768?

2004-11-18 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; Me and my MDK 9.2 server are back... but it's not a tuffy on this string. This evening I noticed a connection from the internet to port 32768 on my server. What's this port used for? Can this be a security threat? I tried google, but all I found was something about some trojan peeps

Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)

2004-11-18 Thread Eric Scott
Okay, so I got the Courier POP3 server installed. Now what? Lol, I was raised on Mac, and have only been using Linux for a couple years... when there's no webmin module I'm stuck. Who/what/wen/where/how do I configure it? Thanx, SigmaChi Courier requires mail to be

Re: [newbie] What's on port 32768?

2004-11-18 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 10:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo; Me and my MDK 9.2 server are back... but it's not a tuffy on this string. This evening I noticed a connection from the internet to port 32768 on my server. What's this port used for? Can this be a security threat? I tried google, but