Re: [newbie] How much space do i have left
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:17:12PM -0500, thus spake Jim Dwyer: How do i check how much space i have left on my hard drive? Thanks, Jim df HTH GM -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
[newbie] why two resolv.conf files???
Can anyone explain why I have two resolve.conf files? One in /etc, and then another in /etc/ppp? And why are they different? /etc/resolve.conf is search localdomain nameserver 212.1.130.10 nameserver 212.1.128.156 These are the DNS I put in when I set up my dial-up system. /etc/ppp/resolv.conf is nameserver 212.1.128.156 nameserver 212.1.128.157 and these numbers have appeared from nowhere? There doesn't seem to be a problem but I'm curious. TIA Glyn M. -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
[newbie] KPPP again
Hi! As I wrote yesterday, I can log-on with kppp (using Mandrake 7.1) but not get fetchmail to to download or lynx to act. Using a shell script of my own I can do all these things. I changed /etc/ppp/resolv.conf to match /etc/resolv.conf and everything worked fine with kppp something seems to have re-written my /etc/ppp/resolv.conf file and now even if I change it back it will not cut the mustard... any ideas?? This is /etc/resolv.conf search localdomain nameserver 212.1.130.10 nameserver 212.1.128.156 TIA Glyn M. -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
[newbie] KPPP - a sad relapse
Now here's a thing! I installed 7.1 on my machine last week and it went beautifully, everything worked. The best install EVER! In particular KPPP worked! Following a brief flirtation with XFree86 4, I re-installed - yes, weep over my folly, but I did it partly because I wanted to re-jig my partitions (and it was so much fun last time) Now here I am on my dial-up connection and I can connect up nicely with a little shell script and send and download mail (postfix and fetchmail) and lynx will take me wherever I want to go. BUT kppp dials up, logs in and then nothing - fetchmail will not fetch, postfix will not post and lynx just sits on the rug and purrs. I did something right last time that I've failed to do this time, but can anyone tell me what it might be? TIA Glyn M -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [newbie] No Penguins on login screen.
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 01:59:45PM -0700, thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am using Mandrake 7.1 Somehow I did something to my linux box and now I don't have the penguins on the login screen. I am reffering to the penguins that represent each user. I used to have a root penguin and my username penguin on this screen. I can still login just fine the only difference is that the penguins are gone. Can someone tell me how to get the penguins back? Thanks in advance; -mike Hey, more penguins?? I'll order 7.1 right now. Why didn't they tell me? GM -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
[newbie] Helium is wonderful.
Hi - just upgraded to Helium - it went like a dream (the best install ever) and the new Gnome is gorgeous! Just wanted to congratulate the Mandrake team and this is the only public place I can do it. Brilliant! Thank you folks.. Glyn M. -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [newbie] Fetchamil is broken! :(
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 09:24:44AM -0400, thus spake ~*Mark*~: I re-ran the install.sh and made sure that ports 25 and 110 are indeed open. FM is still not bringing down the mail for use in Pine. I really came to like that program! Wish I could get it running again. -- Mark Hi, Mark. I wonder where the problem really is here! Just in case, check port 25 and sendmail Try telnet localhost (or whatever your hostname) 25 If you get a response type in HELO localhost You should get a cheery "pleased to meet you message" from sendmail. If not there is something wrong with sendmail, or your firewall will not even let YOU in. -- Like this:- [glyn@glyn-thebearded glyn]$ telnet glyn-thebearded 25 Trying 10.12.11.26... Connected to glyn-thebearded.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. 220 glyn-thebearded.localdomain ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 16:32:40 +0100 HELO glyn-thebearded 250 glyn-thebearded.localdomain Hello glyn-thebearded.localdomain [10.12.11.26], pleased to meet you --- Is fetchmail bringing down the mail anywhere? set syslog in your .fetchmailrc will send out put to maillog - you might then get some indication of where the mail IS going. --- If that doesn't shed any light could you let us have a look at your fetchmailrc and a few chunks from maillog? Good luck? Glyn M -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [newbie] Where are the apps??
Hi, Andy. You need to find a file called "soffice" which is a start-up script. On system it's in the bin directory off the Office51 directory. what does locate soffice tell you? RPM? Try rpm -q staroffice that will tell whether you have it installed or not HTH Glyn On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 08:21:49AM -0700, thus spake Andrew Miller: Loaded Mandrake 7.0 on a Thinkpad 760XL and used RPM to install StarOffice and Apache. Now I can't find them. They don't show up in any KDE application menus and the only icon that shows for StarOffice just runs the installer. I've done that twice and can't find the application. This seems really basic, but where are they? I perused the directory that StarOffice created and find nothing that seems to be an app. As for Apache, the find utility finds nothing with Apache in it. Do I have to run a second installer from the hard drive? I know I'm doing something very basic wrong, but can't figure out what it is. HelL! Andy -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [newbie] INTERNET CONNECTION
Use kppp to dial up. Get the details you need to insert from an
ISP somewhere near you. "Linux" don't provide ISPs themselves;
nor, to my knowledge, do Mandrake.
Two further suggestions.
Turn the caps lock off - it is like being shouted at.
As a next step set up kmail - dead easy and a delight to use -
and then we'll all be spared the acres of gunk at the bottom of
your e-mail.
Linux is dautning to start with but hang on in there - it's
really worth it.
Glyn M
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 10:31:52AM -0700, thus spake Lee LCpl Erik J:
I JUST STARTED USING LINUX. WHAT SHOULD I USE TO DIAL IN TO. DO THEY HAVE
LIKE A FREE INTERNET PROVIDERS ANY WHERE? I JUST DON'T KNOW MUCH YET. IF
ANYONE COULD HELP ME OUT, I WOULD APPRECIATE IT.
LCPL LEE, ERIK J
373 WEBMASTER / COMPUTER TECH /
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Re: [newbie] The mail programs for 7.0 (Air)
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 02:00:16PM -0500, thus spake Gary: Now I am having a problem with this mail business as I have 3 ISPs. So, I figured to make life easier, to use Fetchmail, Procmail, Sendmail, along with latest Mutt which of course is a mail agent, so must be used with Fet, Proc, and Send programs. This was installed with no problem. I read the man pages until 4:00 a.m. used Fetchmail config and set it up the way I wanted it for the ISPs. .. Turned it on (Deamon polling every 15 minutes), and boy can I hear the email coming in to my machine. Bravo! No mean feat, this. OKAY - now what do I do? Yes, this is funny. Where is the email? Where did it go in my machine. This is where I am stuck. It is Probably in /var/spool/mail. The place to check is /var/log/maillog - should tell you where the post ends up spooled somewhere, but where, and how do I get it? I don't understand where it comes in, when to start Procmail, etc. Well, on the same system I invoke procmail straight from .fetchmailrc - suppposedly less satisfactory than letting sendmail and procmail set up a relationship - but have you SEEN sendmail.cf?!? I can start Fetchmail and have it run in the background easily enough after booting. How do I get the Mutt setup to find the mail file to work on, etc. I am totally lost. There really is no reference material on this in the Mandrake User Guide and Reference Manual. Indeed! Mutt and Procmail have good home pages and there is an excellent Mutt reference manual and some good procmail tutorials. But what I always find most helpful is a really well annotated configuration file. The page that helped me most is http://roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk/~hobbit/cave.html where Telsa has useful .muttrc and .procmailrc files nicely annotated Can somebody help me figure this out. If you want to compare notes (I'm no expert) mail me direct HTH Glyn -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [newbie] Undelivered mail
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 05:56:07PM -0400, thus spake Charles A Edwards: I received nearly 30 of the following messages this afternoon. The attachment were all replys that I had sent and all did post to the list so why I getting undelivered notices now. Is this happening to anyone else. Charles This is the Postfix program at host webserver. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program Same here! -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [newbie] sendmail
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 06:19:09AM -0700, thus spake Luc Marts: Hi how do i check if this "procmail" is installed? and if it is not installed where can i get it? thanks ver much Luc --- Everett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rpm -qa | less should list EVERYTHINg you have installed in rpm format. If procmail isn't there then it's on your Mandrake CD somewhere. Good luck! Glyn M. -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [newbie] sendmail
Luc, how are you trying to collect the mail from your ISP? Do you get any messages when you try to poll the ISP? Are you, as your subject line suggests, using sendmail? A little more information might be useful in tracking the problem. Glyn M. On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 09:25:43AM -0700, thus spake Luc Marts: Hi I have installed madrake a while ago everything works BUT i create a account for email then i go on another pc and set that account up i use that account to send email to say a hotmail account well on the hotmail account i receive the email then i reply to it then i go back to the created account but i never receive the email back i am currently using my IP as the address thanks for the help everyone (using mandrake 7.0 full install) Luc __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
[newbie] Fvwm2 dependencies
Hi. I'm trying to install the latest version of fvwm2 on my system which runs Mandrake 7.0. One of the unsatisfied dependencies which prevents me installing is the need for a file /usr/sbin/install-menu I can't track this down! Can anyone tell me which rpm I'm looking for? TIA Glyn M. -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [newbie] E-mail Clients
Fetchmail to get it; procmail to sort it into folders; Mutt to read and write; sendmail to send it. All on your Mandrake CD just BEGGING to be tried out! HTH Glyn M. On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 05:54:16PM +0200, thus spake Corrado / Prometheus The Gifter: Hello, everybody! I'm currently using the Netscape e-mail client along with Kmail; I'm looking for a client which features message filters and search and multiple pop accounts, better if designed for Gnome; there's a lot of programs, what would you suggest me? Thank you! Corrado -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [newbie] About to give up.
At 11:40 PM 6/13/00 -0400, you wrote: Hello again I'm going to try this one last time before I give up. A few months back I bought linux-mandrake 6.1 I installed a few progams one being qpopper mail server, It worked fine. A few weeks ago I downloaded and installed mandrake 7.0 I did a complete install doing away with every thing I setup in 6.1 includeing qpopper. Well it looked like every thing setup OK so I reinstalled qpopper but it want work now in fact I tried some other mail server software and can't get any of thm to work. When I use telnet it logs onto the mail server fine and tells me I have 0 massages, my mail client software logs in fine but tell's me I have no new massages this afther I have sent about 20 or 30 test mail to it. Please if any one has any idea what's going on please let me know I am about to give up. Thanks Are you getting any error messages? Are you sure the test messages are getting through? - have a look in/var/log/maillog, what do you see? Is sendmail getting them off your machine? Give us some more info! Peace! Glyn M -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [newbie] Olde Money
I know this thread is way off-topic, but you have my curiosity up now...doesn't "old money" also refer to a well-to-do family whose fortunes have existed for generations, as opposed to "new money" where someone has just acquired a fortune? Just wondering! ;-) Yes! -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [newbie] Probs with Abiword
Hi - I've got the same problem but alas no solution. When you say "others", what do you mean? Do you know about the wc (word count command) that is part of the system? It can be set up to work inside Vim and others. Can let you have the relevant snippet from my .vimrc file if that would help. Glyn M. On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 08:58:47AM +0100, thus spake Andrew Scotchmer: Hi, Just had a look at Abiword and have come across a problem. Does anyone else when starting Abiword have half the screen blanked out? I can only see half the document because of this and the grey area even extends out of the window and onto the desktop where it stays until I refresh. It is a shame because I need the word count facility that abiword has and which I have not been able to find on others. I have contacted abisource but they have not responded so does anyone here know of a solution? Thanks, Andrew -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [newbie] Console Dial Up
Marc, You can find instructions for this on mandrakeuser.prg Have a look in /usr/docI'm sure there is a HOWTO on this. I attach a recipe for connecting to Freeserve in the UK via the console as another recipe on the same theme! HTH Glyn M. On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 07:46:57AM -0400, thus spake Marc: I have searched low and medium and I do not know where high is. Well I guess this is high. Can some one let me know how I can dial into my isp through the console only. No need to go into X at all. Thanks alot. _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* ** Title: Connecting to Freeserve using Linux Connecting to Freeserve using Linux One of the first things new Linux user wants to do with Linux is connect to the internet, and rightly so. The internet is the largest and most useful source of information and help about Linux. It's a lot easier to try out a suggestion to a problem in Linux from a newsgroup or webpage if you are reading it using Linux. This article shows how to connect to Freeserve, step by step. If you don't already have an account with them we will go through setting one up. It shouldn't be too difficult to adapt this to other ISP's, and as it's free, it doesn't cost anything to try these scripts before adapting them. First, using any editor add the following line to /etc/ppp/options: auth Open /etc/ppp/chap-secrets and add this line: freeservesignup * signup We now need to make the password file unreadable to normal users. Type in: chmod 600 chap-secrets Now we need to start the actual Freeserve scripts. First we'll make a directory for them, by typing: mkdir /etc/ppp/peers Here comes the Freeserve-specific settings. Create a file /etc/ppp/peers/freeserve and put the following in it: connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/peers/freeserve.chat' name freeservesignup /dev/modem 115200 crtscts modem defaultroute noipdefault asyncmap 0x mru 1500 mtu 1500 noauth Now we need to create the file that says what to tell the modem. Create a file /etc/ppp/peers/freeserve.chat containing: ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" "" AT OK ATDT08450796699 CONNECT Edit the /etc/etc resolv.conf file so that it contains: nameserver 195.92.195.94 nameserver 195.92.195.95 This tells linux what DNS servers to use. Now we have to make a script to connect us to freeserve. Create /usr/bin/fs with these two lines in it: #!/bin/bash /usr/sbin/pppd call freeserve And for a script to disconnect, create a file called /usr/bin/fs-off with the following: #!/bin/bash kill `cat /var/run/ppp0.pid` The previous two have to be made executable. Type these two commands in: chmod 755 /usr/bin/fs chmod 755 /usr/bin/fs-off Finally we have to make it possible for any user (not just root) to connect. Type in: chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd Now we are ready to sign-up for an account. If you already have an account, skip on to the part that says what to do once you've signed up. Otherwise follow on: Load X-Windows and then start Netscape Navigator (or any other browser with SSL support) From an XTerm, type the command fs, and your modem should start dialling Once you are connected, go to the following URL https://signup.freeserve.net Follow the signup process, recording your email address and password. In your XTerm type the command fs-off to disconnect. Now that you've signed up, you have to type the new settings in. Edit the /etc/ppp/chap-secrets file. Replace freeservesignup with your nodename and signup with your password. For example, if your email address was [EMAIL PROTECTED] and your password mypassword, change the line to this: furey.freeserve.co.uk * mypassword Enclose the password in double quotation marks if it contains any spaces. Edit the /etc/ppp/peers/freeserve file and replace freeservesignup with your nodename, as before. All that remains is for you to setup your internet software. Here are some details which should help: Web proxy server: www-cache.freeserve.net Port: 8080 SMTP server (outgoing email): smtp.freeserve.net POP3 server (incoming email): pop.freeserve.net Use your email address as your username and your dial-up password for the password. News server: news.freeserve.net You're now ready to browse the internet under Linux. Type fs to connect and fs-off to disconnect. Happy surfing!
[newbie] Disconnect when on holiday!
Hey, folks - when you go on holiday how about switching off your connection to the mandrake mailing list! As the summer approaches (at least here in the UK and in the northern hemisphere) I can forsee lots of automated replies being circulated if we don't help each other in this way. TVM Glyn M. -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [newbie] Shutting down X
In KDE right click on the desktop and pick "Log out" from the menu. In anything you like Ctrl - Alt - Backspace pressed simultaenously should get you there, but there must be a menu option somewhere HTH Glyn M. On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 11:12:55AM -0400, thus spake Jim: I have a dumb questionI need to run in command line mode and can't seem to get there. Can anyone tell me how to shut down X and get to the command line? thanks Jim -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [newbie] X Windows Problem - Booting
Can you run X as root? If so then you need to look at permissions - waht are the permissions of things beginning with .X or.x in your home directory? Should be "user user" or "user users". The neatest way is to get into /home and do chown -R xnma /home/xnma (- whatever your user name is) chgrp -R users(or xnma) /home/xnma BUT it sounds like you're missing something vital rpm - have you got those fonts installed? (Find the installlog file - it should tell you!) HTH Glyn M. On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 04:34:53PM +0930, thus spake Vyking: Hello, I hope that someone can help with this frustrating problem I have been having. I recently purchased the Linux Mandrake 7.0 Complete Operating System. I am having troubles with booting X Windows. System: Celeron 433 128 Mb Ram Linux installation is on secondary hard drive (Partition is 3Gb). 3dfx Voodoo 3 3500 video card AGP (16Mb) The actual installation runs without a hitch. I do the test for the configuration of X Windows and this displays perfectly. I choose to keep the setting. On bootup, I login with no problems (X Windows not configured to boot automatically). When I type startx, the problems begin. I get a blue screen with the mouse pointer as a black X. I have a small window top left with the command prompt, as well as another window with the command prompt that is a little larger on the bottom right. Both prompts are active when the mouse pointer is hovered over that window. This goes no further. There are no error messages. I have tried everything I can think of. I have used the upgrade process to go in and change settings (monitor, resolution, card etc) many times but with no luck. I have formatted and reinstalled. I have tried using a PCI ET6000 graphics card. I have set X Windows to automatically boot but get something slightly different. The screen is blue with a small window saying login and password. This is not the normal KDE login, but more a text based window. I have never used or installed Linux before, but it appears that the graphical processes are failing to run. When at the prompts (after trying startx), I have tried typing startx again. I get a message stating that the server is already running. When hitting Ctrl Alt F12 I do notice the following messages "The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi does not exist Entry deleted from font path The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi does not exist Entry deleted from font path" I'm not sure if this would cause the symptoms I have, but thought I'd put it in anyway. I would appreciate it if someone could find the time to help me out. Thanks, Brett -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [newbie] problem with make
First question is Have you installed it? In a terminal typerpm -q -a | less Move up and down the results to find a make rpm. If it's not there, the answer is on your Mandrake CD. When it IS there type rpm -q -R packagename to find out about dependencies. On my system the result is as below, but you should do it yourself [glyn@localhost glyn]$ rpm -q -R make-3.77-11mdk /sbin/install-info /bin/sh ld-linux.so.2 libc.so.6 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) [glyn@localhost glyn]$ Have a good look at man rpmIt's a marvellous command! HTH Glyn M. On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 12:08:57PM -0700, thus spake Kanishka Jayasekara: I need some help on mandrake 7 installed it but why isnt the make command working ? is there some thing els i got to install to make the make command work ? thanks - Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/free_video/ -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [newbie] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION: Security
Right! That gets my vote too... Glyn M. On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 03:28:17PM -0400, thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I agree with Joseph S. Gardner's comment (below). A firewall as part of the initial installation of Linux-Mandrake (even for a newbie) is a good idea. Some people will have cable modems and other things that are on all the time and thus have a need for a firewall before they know it or know enough to try to put one in. -Gary- -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [newbie] Pauls proposed website
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 07:00:24PM +0200, thus spake Denis HAVLIK: Should save his strength and help mandrakeuser.org instead of setting up Yet Another Tips Site, and loosing interest after a few weeks. Indeed - mandrakeuser.org is marvellous and should be slapped onto the cd at release time IMHO! By the way, may I borrow your signature -- ---oOO--(_)--OOo- ZPoPyDA is a postgresql database adapter for Zope based on PoPy -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: McMillan monopoly [was [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.]
Just checking - have I got this right? Macmillan have exclusive rights? Does that mean no more Cheapbytes CDs in the United Kingdom, for example? If that's the case I'll have to migrate to Debian! PLEASE tell me I'm wrong in suspense Glyn M. On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 03:16:40PM +0200, thus spake Denis HAVLIK: :~Hi Denis :~ I thank heavens that I live in Finland and still have a choice from whom I :~can buy Mandrake-Linux! I am not so sure. I think McMillan is not allowed to mess around in Europa anymore .-) But it will be basically the same package now AFAIK. cheers Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- ZPoPyDA is a postgresql database adapter for Zope based on PoPy -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
[newbie] DON'T just say Help!
Hi. Can I make suggestion? - hell, I'm going to. When you post to the list could you make the subject line tell us something about your problem or news, rather than simply the fact that you need help? Almost ALL of us need help, that's why we're here. All sorts of good reasons for that 1. It helps those who know about the problem you have to spot it straight away. 2. It helps those who don't know about your problem and who aren't interested to delete the message and not waste time. 3. It stops my wonderful mail client (Mutt - it's marvellous) from presenting me with threads a mile long that say nothing but Help - Help -Help - Help -Help - Help -Help - Help -Help - Help - Help - Help -Help - Help -Help - Help -Help - Help - ANY kind of indication of the nature of your problem is better than "Help!" or "Newbie in trouble!" or even "Expert stumped" Sorry - grumble over. Peace be with you all Glyn M. -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [newbie] running a script when reconnecting pppd
Odd! Works for me here on Mandrake 7.0 Can you post up your ip-up.local file? Glyn M. On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 02:05:40AM -0400, thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am sort of new to mandrake but have a very little experience with linux. I have set up a ppp connection that connects on boot and reconnects when the connection is lost. This keeps my computer connected to the internet. There are a few scripts that i need to run each time my connection is dropped and reconnects. I set the connection up via DrakConf then Network Config then PPP/SLIP in mandrake 7.0...In RedHat 6.2 all i needed to do was add a few lines to call the scripts i needed run to /etc/ppp/ip-up.local which was called via /etc/ppp/ip-up each time a connection to the internet was made with ppp0 but these scripts arent called under mandrake or at least with the way i have it set up presently. All help on this is greatly appreciated. Ian K. Harrell Instructional Methods [EMAIL PROTECTED] To reply remove the NO and the SPAM from the above address. -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of it's parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [newbie] Can't start KDE
Log on! Then just do "startx" On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 12:13:44AM +0100, thus spake John Watson: Every time I boot I go straight to the logon prompt instead of the Graphical Prompt. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get my KDE back? -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of it's parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [newbie] how to kill a runaway app?
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 05:01:50AM +, thus spake Younes Zouhair: Wade wrote: Hi List, I have found an occasion or two to use the 'Ctrl, Alt, Backspace' command a couple of times which has been a saving grace, but I have only had a need to kill a runaway (unresponsive) app, rather than my xserver. My question, is there a way to kill an app and not restart my xserver? Also would this apply to a runaway process as well? Thanks, b/web Wade Hello, What I usually do is that: press CTRL+ALT+F2 'to get to tty2 console there login and use pidof or top (take a look at their respective man pages Younes Zouhair In an xterm, as root, "ps ax" willshow you which processes are running. "kill 666" or whatever the process number is, will kill it. HTH Glyn M. -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of it's parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [newbie] General advice??
: The soul is greater than the hum of its parts Dear Friend, You need to have a good look at /usr/doc and its contents, and if you can get hold of the O'Reilly "Running Linux" by Matt Welsh Matthias Kalle Dalheimer and Lar Kaufman (3rd edition) its worth it! Good luck Glyn On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 01:54:41PM +, thus spake Joerg Reinhardt: Hi, I already tryed to make my problem clear in a mail called "help!", but it was six in the morning, I was frustrated and it got quit chaotic, so here is my problem struktured a little more: - basic "anatomie" of linux
Re: [newbie] RE: your mail
On the other hand, Vi - improved, the glorious Vim , is worth learning because of its staggering flexibility - and anyone using Mandrake 6.1 or 7 gets a natty GTK interface with pretty icons and all the things that those poor souls suckled on Windows need to feel right at home. Try the Vim Homepage [www.vim.org ]for info and downloads. The only reason I'm sticking with Mandrake 6.1 is that I couldn't persuade 7.0 to compile the latest Vim :-) Glyn M. On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, you wrote: At 10:08 AM 2/10/00 -, you wrote: use vi, type vi filename at a command prompt, useful commands are: :write - to save :quit - to quit :quit! - to force quit btw. you will probably hate it :) Shame on you, suggesting than a new user use vile and then giving an inadequate warning. I ~~~ "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts" Douglas Hoftstatder ~~~
