Re: [newbie] Deleted mail does not go to trash in kmail

2003-04-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 1:41 am, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Wednesday 02 April 2003 12:58 pm, Poogle wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 H:57 am, Dennis Myers wrote: > > > as the subject says, I delete a mail and it disappears. What to > > > configure, I have been all through kmail config in the gui.

Re: [newbie] No sound!

2003-04-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 5:16 am, rob wrote: > Wish someone could forward a page like this for printing :( > Are you saying you have a problem printing web pages? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Anyone tried this? (intruder retaliation)

2003-04-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 10:42 am, Aron Smith wrote: > On Wednesday 02 April 2003 10:51 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > Looks interesting! :-) > > > > http://linuxtoday.com/security/2003040101926NWCYNT > > check the date of the story . alas some things are too good to be true > You cain't map a se

[newbie] Changing host?

2003-04-02 Thread c0ldfusi0n
Hey. I have a stupid newbie question again. Here's the prefix of my bash console: [EMAIL PROTECTED] c0ldfusi0n]$ Is there anyway to change the 'localhost' part (and i don't mean changing $PS1)? Thanks in advance -- -cF Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mand

Re: [newbie] USR/3Com Sportster 005686-03 56k

2003-04-02 Thread Anonymous
I made a tiny change in the modem settings ... changed it from 57600 to 38000 or therabouts ... and got online. I was happy to be surfing until I realized the persistent symtom was there ... as with the internal PCI hardware modem ... first session online for hour and 20 ... then got message "oper

Re: [newbie] No sound!

2003-04-02 Thread rob
Wish someone could forward a page like this for printing :( R On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 16:00, Jason Greenwood wrote: > Also, see this article for help: > > http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT8018846552.html > > It helped me understand Linux audio better than ever before!! > > Thanks Austin!!

Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache

2003-04-02 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 16:52, Brian wrote: > Appears to be just be serving your lan. I got into the site just fine (http://www.bustedbox.homelinux.net/) *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free

Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache

2003-04-02 Thread Jeff
--- Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- cF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That address doesn't work for me. > > > > At 01:38 PM 02/04/2003 -0800, you wrote: > > >Hello Everyone, > > > I am attempting to setup a personal website > from > > my > > >SBC Ameritech/Yahoo internet connection. I

Re: [newbie] USR/3Com Sportster 005686-03 56k

2003-04-02 Thread Marc Oestreicher
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 11:40 pm, Anonymous wrote: > I have looked at the USR page entitled "Configuring > U.S. Robotics Modems for use under Unix-Type Systems" > ... but I can't understand the instructions. > > I'm using kppp as the dialer, and still have the init > strings that were suggested

[newbie] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-02 Thread M X
Dear all, I have a 20GB hard disk with a 5GB primary partition(C drive, DOS partition) and 15GB logical partition(D drive, extended DOS partition). The C drive has WinME and all application softwares and has 3.74 GB of free space. The D drive has all my data and has 9.84 GB of free space. I want to

Re: [newbie] USR/3Com Sportster 005686-03 56k

2003-04-02 Thread Dad
I have that modem, string only: ATZ Keith > U.S. Robotics Modems for use under Unix-Type Systems" > Is there anyone on this list who is using this > external modem, and who can suggest a workable init > string? > > Here is what is happening: Modemconf detects the modem > on ttyS0. Modem Query goes

Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache

2003-04-02 Thread Ed Tharp
works if you drop the "www" - Original Message - From: "Glenn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache > > Nor for me... > > On Wednesday 02 April 2003 03:48 pm, cF wrote: > > That address doesn't wo

Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache

2003-04-02 Thread Chad
Jeff, Your URL from the outside is only http://bustedbox.homelinux.net . There is no www in front of it. Your site is working. If you want to be able to use both the bustedbox.homelinux.net and the www.bustedbox.homelinux.net names, you have to set up a ServerAlias in your httpd.conf file. For

Re: [newbie] Deleted mail does not go to trash in kmail

2003-04-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 12:58 pm, Poogle wrote: > On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 H:57 am, Dennis Myers wrote: > > as the subject says, I delete a mail and it disappears. What to > > configure, I have been all through kmail config in the gui. Help is > > appreciated. > > In Kmail 1.5 the delete icon wi

Re: [newbie] Deleted mail does not go to trash in kmail

2003-04-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 03:34 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 4:57 am, Dennis Myers wrote: > > as the subject says, I delete a mail and it disappears. What to > > configure, I have been all through kmail config in the gui. Help is > > appreciated. > > Strange, Dennis, it has al

Re: [newbie] Now mozilla's acting weird

2003-04-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:13, todd wrote: > The default mozilla install on 9.1. I launced it once and tried ctrl-l to open > a url. It wouldn't select the text, type anything, or even kill it with the > "x" in the wm. I had to do a kill command. > > Several other launches, same behavior. > > Del

Re: [newbie] Evolution hangs on start

2003-04-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 08:53, todd wrote: > Tried evolution for reading a local mailbox. Now I can't start it, it just > hangs. ps -Af | grep evolution returns /usr/bin/evolution and: > > todd 29818 1 3 17:45 ?00:00:00 evolution-mail > --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Ma

[newbie] Powerdown on 9.1; bad eip?

2003-04-02 Thread Tom Nuzum
Hi, this must be a common problem: My box does not powerdown completely and hangs on "bad eip " My box Athlon XP on Soyo. I have tries compiling the kernel with and without APM and also I have changed these settings in my bios. I had this same problem back in Mandrake 8 and still cannot find

Re: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ?

2003-04-02 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Sunday 30 March 2003 11:45 am, Zariyan Zephyr wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > As a Linux newbie, I don't really understand why people in Europe and > North America has chosen Linux for daily use. I think people in Europe > and North America can afford Microsoft

Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache

2003-04-02 Thread Ian Trickett
That's better! Ian - Original Message - From: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache > > --- cF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That address doesn't work for me. > > > > At 01:38 PM 02/04/20

Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache

2003-04-02 Thread Ian Trickett
7 pm EST - 404 on http://www.bustedbox.homelinux.net/ Ian - Original Message - From: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:38 PM Subject: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache > Hello Everyone, > I am attempting to setup a personal website fr

[newbie] USR/3Com Sportster 005686-03 56k

2003-04-02 Thread Anonymous
I have looked at the USR page entitled "Configuring U.S. Robotics Modems for use under Unix-Type Systems" ... but I can't understand the instructions. I'm using kppp as the dialer, and still have the init strings that were suggested by Stephen Kuhn (btw, Stephen, I am unable to send email to you

Re: [newbie] OT - Personal Database Applications

2003-04-02 Thread bpx
>On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 9:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I apologize for the off topic post, but I have been searching for a >> personal database application for linux. I have a friend that is makin>g >> the transition from MS to linux and she is hoping that their is somethi>ng >> that can

Re: [newbie] OT - Personal Database Applications

2003-04-02 Thread bpx
>On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 06:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I apologize for the off topic post, but I have been searching for a personal >> database application for linux. I have a friend that is making the transition >> from MS to linux and she is hoping that their is something that can replace

Re: [newbie] Anyone tried this? (intruder retaliation)

2003-04-02 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 10:51 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Looks interesting! :-) > > http://linuxtoday.com/security/2003040101926NWCYNT check the date of the story . alas some things are too good to be true You cain't map a sense of humor. T. Prachett Want to buy your Pack or Services from Man

[newbie] Now mozilla's acting weird

2003-04-02 Thread todd
The default mozilla install on 9.1. I launced it once and tried ctrl-l to open a url. It wouldn't select the text, type anything, or even kill it with the "x" in the wm. I had to do a kill command. Several other launches, same behavior. Deleted ~/.mozilla. Launched mozilla. Clicked in the addr

Re: [newbie] Evolution hangs on start

2003-04-02 Thread todd
Sorry, running 9.1. On Wednesday 02 April 2003 05:53 pm, todd wrote: > Tried evolution for reading a local mailbox. Now I can't start it, it just > hangs. ps -Af | grep evolution returns /usr/bin/evolution and: > > todd 29818 1 3 17:45 ?00:00:00 evolution-mail > --oaf-activate-iid

[newbie] Evolution hangs on start

2003-04-02 Thread todd
Tried evolution for reading a local mailbox. Now I can't start it, it just hangs. ps -Af | grep evolution returns /usr/bin/evolution and: todd 29818 1 3 17:45 ?00:00:00 evolution-mail --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Mail_ShellComponent --oaf-ior-fd=14 Starting it from

Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache

2003-04-02 Thread Derek Jennings
In your dyndns account set the checkbox for 'wildcard' and then anything.bustedbox.homelinux.net will work derek On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 10:56 pm, Jay R. Camp wrote: > Take off the www and it does. I've only personally used dynu.com. They > have several different scripts available to update

Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache

2003-04-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 10:38 pm, Jeff wrote: > Hello Everyone, > I am attempting to setup a personal website from my > SBC Ameritech/Yahoo internet connection. I have a > dynamic ip. I am also doing network address > translation, but I have access to port forwarding in > the router. After si

RE: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache

2003-04-02 Thread Frankie
go and download the latest ddclient there is an rpm you can download or a src rpm you can rebuild.. I have used it in the past on mandrake and there is no problem. it helps that its easy to setup as well. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache

2003-04-02 Thread Glenn
Now, that _does_ work On Wednesday 02 April 2003 03:53 pm, Jeff wrote: > --- cF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That address doesn't work for me. > > > > At 01:38 PM 02/04/2003 -0800, you wrote: > > >Hello Everyone, > > > I am attempting to setup a personal website from > > > > my > > > > >SBC

Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache

2003-04-02 Thread Jay R. Camp
Take off the www and it does. I've only personally used dynu.com. They have several different scripts available to update your IP (there's a Bash, C, and who knows what else). There is a binary available for the C one, but it is a little out of date. You can compile your own, if it works. I

Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache

2003-04-02 Thread Mark Annandale
On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 10:48 pm, cF wrote: > That address doesn't work for me. > > Nor me. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache

2003-04-02 Thread Brian
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 04:38 pm, Jeff wrote: > Hello Everyone, > I am attempting to setup a personal website from my > SBC Ameritech/Yahoo internet connection. I have a > dynamic ip. I am also doing network address > translation, but I have access to port forwarding in > the router. After

Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache

2003-04-02 Thread Jeff
--- cF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That address doesn't work for me. > > At 01:38 PM 02/04/2003 -0800, you wrote: > >Hello Everyone, > > I am attempting to setup a personal website from > my > >SBC Ameritech/Yahoo internet connection. I have a > >dynamic ip. I am also doing network address >

Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache

2003-04-02 Thread Glenn
Nor for me... On Wednesday 02 April 2003 03:48 pm, cF wrote: > That address doesn't work for me. > > At 01:38 PM 02/04/2003 -0800, you wrote: > >Hello Everyone, > > I am attempting to setup a personal website from my > >SBC Ameritech/Yahoo internet connection. I have a > >dynamic ip. I am als

Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache

2003-04-02 Thread cF
That address doesn't work for me. At 01:38 PM 02/04/2003 -0800, you wrote: Hello Everyone, I am attempting to setup a personal website from my SBC Ameritech/Yahoo internet connection. I have a dynamic ip. I am also doing network address translation, but I have access to port forwarding in the

[newbie] dyndns setup and apache

2003-04-02 Thread Jeff
Hello Everyone, I am attempting to setup a personal website from my SBC Ameritech/Yahoo internet connection. I have a dynamic ip. I am also doing network address translation, but I have access to port forwarding in the router. After signing up for dyndns.org service and starting port forwardin

[newbie] OT - Personal Database Applications

2003-04-02 Thread bpx
I apologize for the off topic post, but I have been searching for a personal database application for linux. I have a friend that is making the transition from MS to linux and she is hoping that their is something that can replace her old dBase III (She didn't care for Access and didn't see a need

Re: [newbie] Copy To/Move To

2003-04-02 Thread Jason
Just left click and drag to the appropriate directory and it will ask you which operation you want. Cheers Jason Martin Foster wrote: In Mandrake 9.01, The "Copy To" and "Move To" options don't seem to be available when I right-click on a filename in the Konqueror filemanager. I found this an

Re: [newbie] Burning a bootable cd

2003-04-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 8:54 pm, Peter Watson wrote: > Anne > > In XCDRoast > 1) you first set up a directory, in 'Settings'>'HD Settings' which will > contain your ISO image > > 2)click 'create CD', click 'master tracks', select files you want to > include in right hand window (File/Directory Vie

Re: [newbie] Burning a bootable cd

2003-04-02 Thread Peter Watson
On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 18:59, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 6:47 pm, Miark wrote: > > This was the direction of my question. I can't think of a more > > difficult way to burn Knoppix than jumping through these hoops. I'd > > just download the ISO (which I'm doing now, seeing as 3.

Re: [newbie] Anyone tried this? (intruder retaliation)

2003-04-02 Thread cF
Yeah, nice hoax :P At 01:51 PM 02/04/2003 -0500, you wrote: Looks interesting! :-) http://linuxtoday.com/security/2003040101926NWCYNT -- /\ Dark< >Lord

Re: [newbie] 9.1 Flakey installs, no internet dialer etc

2003-04-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 04:38, Keith wrote: > > I lost the KPPP icon, but after I'd started it once from the console, it > > came back the next time I logged in). > I tried typing kppp and ppp in a terminal, but nothing happened. > I did "Menu-Drake" and now have a entry in "what to do..." for connec

Re: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ?

2003-04-02 Thread Keith
SHARKS WILL NOT ATTACK LAWYERS: "Professional Courtesy" On Monday 31 March 2003 01:20 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Monday 31 March 2003 05:19, Lanman wrote: > > And this is a bad idea? Personally, I'm not all that fond of sharks! > > Besides, we could toss in the laywers while we were at it, and d

Re: [newbie] 9.1 problems

2003-04-02 Thread Joe Braddock
---Original Message--- From: Colin Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 04/02/03 04:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] 9.1 problems > > Just finished a clean install of mdk9.1 and have a few problems. 1. if I run harddrake from the menu or run command, logdrake runs instead. (l

[newbie] Anyone tried this? (intruder retaliation)

2003-04-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Looks interesting! :-) http://linuxtoday.com/security/2003040101926NWCYNT -- /\

Re: [newbie] big download crashes web browser

2003-04-02 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 03 Apr 2003 04:24:37 +1000 Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you're downloading the ISO, the gets "cached" in your home dir - so > you're probably either getting close to running out of space -THEN the > browser craps itself... actually it is being cached in /tmp but the rest of your e

Re: [newbie] 9.1 Flakey installs, no internet dialer etc

2003-04-02 Thread Keith
> I lost the KPPP icon, but after I'd started it once from the console, it > came back the next time I logged in). I tried typing kppp and ppp in a terminal, but nothing happened. I did "Menu-Drake" and now have a entry in "what to do..." for connect to the internet, but nothing happens when I cho

Re: [newbie] Need a Linux based Exchange client

2003-04-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 00:18, T E wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Does anyone know of a Linux based email client that > will connect to a Exchange 5.5 server? Something that > can support calendering and other groupware > activities? > > TIA Evolution has an Exchange Connector provided by Ximian. You

Re: [newbie] not burning anymore!

2003-04-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 22:51, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: > I had that "append" set! > It just happens that the CD-RW only works when IT wants to! > > There is no pattern until now! > > Any other idea? > Bad cable? > > Bad interface (in front of the keyboard!)? > > tks, > > Ric

Re: [newbie] OT - Browser Back and the keyboard

2003-04-02 Thread Marc Oestreicher
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 01:49 pm, Christopher Shaffer wrote: > I've got a general Linux (or I should say, non-windows) question. Why do > most (if not all) Linux web browsers not support the Backspace key as > 'Back' in the web browser. 'Back' is something you hit all the time, and > I'd rathe

Re: [newbie] 9.1 problems

2003-04-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 20:10, Colin Jenkins wrote: > Just finished a clean install of mdk9.1 and have a few problems. > 1. if I run harddrake from the menu or run command, logdrake runs instead. > (logdrake also runs when I run logdrake) There may be an issue with your system path statements. Add

Re: [newbie] Lost bash "Shutdown" command

2003-04-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 20:08, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > Same here, had to copy /sbin/shutdown to /bin to make it visible to all > users, then chmod a+s /bin/shutdown to suid it. I'm using standard > security level, I wonder if in lower security level it's different. > > raffaele > It would be b

Re: [newbie] Lost bash "Shutdown" command

2003-04-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 19:33, Ken Rhodes wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have been using Mandrake since version 6.0 and have continually upgraded with no > real problems. > > However, after recently upgrading to 9.1, when I use the bash command "shutdown" I > get a command not found error message

Re: [newbie] OT - Browser Back and the keyboard

2003-04-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 2:49 pm, Christopher Shaffer wrote: > I've got a general Linux (or I should say, non-windows) question. Why do > most (if not all) Linux web browsers not support the Backspace key as > 'Back' in the web browser. 'Back' is something you hit all the time, and > I'd rather u

Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1

2003-04-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday April 2 2003 04:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Thankyou all. I must say you learn something new every day. I did not know you could call XFdrake from the system terminal like that. However:- Francisco Alcaraz wrote: Richard, For me the rpms from textar r

[newbie] USB to PS2 adapter - not recognised in USB

2003-04-02 Thread XBox Turtle
All, I have bought a UC451N USB to PS2 Adapter but it is not recognised by my XBox when running Mandrake 9. When running KDE and a utility called usbview (I may have the name wrong) I can see my USB mouse and USB keyboard added to the tree as I plug them in. However, when I plug in my PS2 ad

Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1

2003-04-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday April 2 2003 04:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Thankyou all. > I must say you learn something new every day. I did not know you > could call XFdrake from the system terminal like that. However:- > > Francisco Alcaraz wrote: > >Richard, > > > >For me the rpms from textar runed perfe

RE: [newbie] Need a Linux based Exchange client

2003-04-02 Thread Frankie
yup... evolution.. but you will need to buy the plugin for exchange from their site.. evolution is a clone of outlook 2000... very nice it is too.. regards Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of T E Sent: Wednesday, 2 April 2003 10:18 PM

[newbie] Need a Linux based Exchange client

2003-04-02 Thread T E
Hi everyone, Does anyone know of a Linux based email client that will connect to a Exchange 5.5 server? Something that can support calendering and other groupware activities? TIA __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, form

[newbie] OT - Browser Back and the keyboard

2003-04-02 Thread Christopher Shaffer
I've got a general Linux (or I should say, non-windows) question. Why do most (if not all) Linux web browsers not support the Backspace key as 'Back' in the web browser. 'Back' is something you hit all the time, and I'd rather use a keyboard shortcut than generate all those mouse miles sliding

Re: [newbie] not burning anymore!

2003-04-02 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
On Monday 24 March 2003 16:22, you wrote: > > Tried with a brand new one (LG52x) and had the same results! > > > > What could it be? > > TIA > > Ricardo = > You might want to check to see if the /etc/lilo.conf has the following: > image=/boot/vmlinuz > lab

Re: [newbie] Dumb question exporting sound

2003-04-02 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 00:45, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering; using "ssh -C -X IPadress_of.remote.host" works fine in > exporting the Xserver. > Problem is the sound..me and my teenage daughter decided we wanted to > play "tower toppler" downstairs, where the game itself

Re: [newbie] Lost bash "Shutdown" command

2003-04-02 Thread G_REEPER
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yours it not the only one. I found the same problem on my install. It appears that it isn't limited to the console. I do have a extra question. If you have the X starting when it boots instead of logging into an account click reboot and see if your

[newbie] Copy To/Move To

2003-04-02 Thread Martin Foster
In Mandrake 9.01, The "Copy To" and "Move To" options don't seem to be available when I right-click on a filename in the Konqueror filemanager. I found this an extremely useful function in previous versions, in fact, I would say that it's a "must have". Maybe I need to tweek something somewher

Re: [newbie] Lost bash "Shutdown" command

2003-04-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 12:01 pm, Ken Rhodes wrote: > Thanks to all who responded... > > logging in as superuser allows me to use shutdown. I haven't tried the > other suggestions yet. > > Maybe I changed my security level/permissions or something when I upgraded > this time. > I know that (under

Re: [newbie] Lost bash "Shutdown" command

2003-04-02 Thread Ken Rhodes
Thanks to all who responded... logging in as superuser allows me to use shutdown. I haven't tried the other suggestions yet. Maybe I changed my security level/permissions or something when I upgraded this time. Regards, Kenneth Rhodes -- ___

Re: [newbie] Lost bash "Shutdown" command

2003-04-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Ken Rhodes wrote: Hello Everyone, I have been using Mandrake since version 6.0 and have continually upgraded with no real problems. However, after recently upgrading to 9.1, when I use the bash command "shutdown" I get a command not found error message! Can anyone tell me what happened and why?

Re: [newbie] Lost bash "Shutdown" command

2003-04-02 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Same here, had to copy /sbin/shutdown to /bin to make it visible to all users, then chmod a+s /bin/shutdown to suid it. I'm using standard security level, I wonder if in lower security level it's different. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everyone, I have been using Mandrake since vers

Re: [newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO!

2003-04-02 Thread Damian Gatabria
> > Haha! April fools!!! ;p Damn.. i should have known better! LOL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] 9.1 problems

2003-04-02 Thread Colin Jenkins
Just finished a clean install of mdk9.1 and have a few problems. 1. if I run harddrake from the menu or run command, logdrake runs instead. (logdrake also runs when I run logdrake) 2.no sound. sis7012 pci worked out of the box with 9.0, but not with 9.1. tried changing driver, but that killed kde

[newbie] IP address and ProFTPd

2003-04-02 Thread Kasper Thunø
Hey list. My problem is this: When I try to start the ProFTPd i get this error: Fatal: unable to determine IP address of "hostname". I know how to fix this, by putting the hostname/IP in /etc/hosts, for example. It works fine when I do that, but the daemon in question is running on a laptop with a

Re: [newbie] Lost bash "Shutdown" command

2003-04-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 10:33 am, Ken Rhodes wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have been using Mandrake since version 6.0 and have continually upgraded > with no real problems. > > However, after recently upgrading to 9.1, when I use the bash command > "shutdown" I get a command not found error messa

[newbie] Lost bash "Shutdown" command

2003-04-02 Thread Ken Rhodes
Hello Everyone, I have been using Mandrake since version 6.0 and have continually upgraded with no real problems. However, after recently upgrading to 9.1, when I use the bash command "shutdown" I get a command not found error message! Can anyone tell me what happened and why? Or what is the

Re: [newbie] ADSL again

2003-04-02 Thread Anders Lind
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 11:03:56 +0200 Benjamin Pflugmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, that *is* normally so. You may not expect rpms for one distro to > work on another. You wouldn't download some driver for Windows NT when > you have Windows ME, would you? True, but RPMS usually works fine f

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation Problem

2003-04-02 Thread Sendak, John
Many thanks. I re-installed and chose the option without 3D acceleration and everything worked perfectly. Regards John -Original Message- From: QingHua Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 April 2003 10:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Inst

Re: [newbie] FTP

2003-04-02 Thread Toran Korshnah
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 16:11, Teilhard Knight wrote: > What FTP clien has the resume function? I have Mandrake iso 3 partially > downloaded and I was using gFTP which is a real dumb client. I do not what to > lose more than 450 Meg already downloaded. > > Teilhard Knight > The Extraterrestrial >

Re: [newbie] ADSL again

2003-04-02 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Wed 2003-04-02 at 07:44:00 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Nah...it is a fresh Mandrake 9.1-install where I have added both PPP and > RP-PPPoE afterwards. RP-version is 3.5-3 which I downloaded from > rpmfind.net. The only 3.5-3 I find there is for some "PLD Linux Distribution". They see

Re: [newbie] Another very naive question

2003-04-02 Thread Toran Korshnah
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 13:05, Teilhard Knight wrote: > On Monday 31 March 2003 09:28 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 30 Mar 2003 10:19 pm, Toran Korshnah wrote: > > > MM, > > > > > > After that you have to perform (not always, I think) > > > > > > ./configure > > > make > > > make install Sor

[newbie] big download crashes web browser

2003-04-02 Thread fifner the dragon
Whenever I try to download a big file using Mozilla, Mozilla crashes. Small files are ok to download, but Mandrake isos are not. The same thing happens when I use Konqueror. Does anyone know what the problem is? Thanks in advance, Fifner -- __

Re: [newbie] Deleted mail does not go to trash in kmail

2003-04-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 4:57 am, Dennis Myers wrote: > as the subject says, I delete a mail and it disappears. What to configure, > I have been all through kmail config in the gui. Help is appreciated. Strange, Dennis, it has always worked for me (I'm not on 9.1 yet, so can't speak for that). I

Re[2]: [newbie] MDK9.1: named question

2003-04-02 Thread Rainer Koschnick
Hello Derek, Wednesday, April 2, 2003, 10:12:12 AM, you wrote: DJ> On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 8:36 am, Rainer Koschnick wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a question regarding named. I have set up a firewall machine >> which has 2 ethernets cards, one connected to my cable modem, the >> other to my LA

Re: [newbie] Another very naive question

2003-04-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 7:05 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: > On Monday 31 March 2003 09:28 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 30 Mar 2003 10:19 pm, Toran Korshnah wrote: > > > MM, > > > > > > After that you have to perform (not always, I think) > > > > > > ./configure > > > make > > > make install >

Re: [newbie] MDK9.1: named question

2003-04-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 8:36 am, Rainer Koschnick wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question regarding named. I have set up a firewall machine > which has 2 ethernets cards, one connected to my cable modem, the > other to my LAN. On the fw there is dhcpd + named running which, > so far, works fine.

Re: [newbie] How do I do a home partition?

2003-04-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 7:17 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: > Excelent advice, Anne, thanks. I am now moving to another drive, because I > am a bit tight here with only 6 Gig for the entire OS. How much do you have > for Mandrake? I am thinking in something like 40 Gig will be more than > enough. What