RE: [newbie] Proview LCD Monitors - Feedback?
I don't have any information on this brand specifically, but I can give you some things to look for in an LCD monitor if you need help there: There are 3 things that one should look for in a desktop LCD monitor: 1) Contrast ratio - Should be at least 350:1. 400:1 or better is preferable 2) Brightness - Don't go below 250 nits. 300 or better is preferable 3) Response time - This is especially important if you're going to be gaming or watching movies. Should be around 25ms or so. This is information I've gathered recently as I've been trying to find a decent, cheap (relatively speaking) 17+ monitor to replace the 15 LCD panel I have now. I saw a Sylvania at Costco the other day that was inexpensive and had 400:1 contrast ratio with 350 nits brightness, but a slow 45ms response time. It would have been miserable for gaming. If I'm off base here, someone please correct me as I'm not the ultimate knowledge source on LCD screens...:-) HTH -Original Message- From: Sevatio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 5:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Proview LCD Monitors - Feedback? I'm thinking about buying an LCD Monitor made by Proview. Have any of you used this brand and would you recommend it? Thanks, Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Uptime in e-mail sig
How do people get their current uptime info into their e-mail signature? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Uptime in e-mail sig
I'm using Evolution right now. -Original Message- From: FLYNN, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:04 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Uptime in e-mail sig Combination of a pipe, backticks and an email reader which lets you run a program or script to determine the contents of the sig. Which email reader do you use? -Original Message- From: Johnson, David [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 5:12 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] Uptime in e-mail sig How do people get their current uptime info into their e-mail signature? File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Kernel update question [How to]
Running the RPM -ivh did add the new kernel's boot info to the bottom of lilo.conf, and it included the read-only directive. If/when I decide the move solely to the new kernel and nix the old kernel, should I remove this directive? The default boot info does not include this. What does it mean? -Original Message- From: skinky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Johnson, David; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel update question [How to] On Saturday 12 January 2002 10:01, Johnson, David wrote: | You've all been so helpful today...Here's another question: | | I'm going through the process of updating my kernel as detailed in | http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-079-1.php3 | and my question comes from this snippet of text where I'm supposed to | add something to lilo so I can boot to the old kernel if I need to: | | You will also want to create a new entry with the initrd and image | directives pointing to the old kernel's vmlinuz and initrd images so | you may also boot from the old images if required. | How do I make these additions to /etc/lilo.conf? After installing your kernel with # rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.x-xmdk.i586.rpm look in /boot where your new vmlinuz/images will have been installed. Sometimes the new kernel installation adds the new kernel vmlinuz (boot image) to /etc/lilo.conf for you (usually at the bottom of the file). If it has not already been added for you, add it yourself. For example when I installed a new kernel (2.4.16.3mdk-1-1mdkenterprise) I added: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.16.3mdk-1-1mdkenterprise label=24163-1-1mdkent root=/dev/hda5 read-only optional vga=normal append= hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi devfs=nomount mem=1152M You can use similar parameters to your existing kernel listing in the lilo.conf file. The label can be anything you like so that you can identify it when lilo gives you the option at boot. If you want to make the new kernel your default to boot, just change the default= (near the top of the file) to your new kernel label. After saving the file, you must run lilo for changes to take effect. In a terminal as root: # lilo or # /sbin/lilo Then reboot and enjoy! skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KMail install?
I recently install LM8.1 and opted to install only Gnome and not KDE, but I want to use KMail. I cannot seem to find a package that will allow me to install only KMail. Must I install KDE to get KMail? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kernel update question [How to]
You've all been so helpful today...Here's another question: I'm going through the process of updating my kernel as detailed in http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-079-1.php3 and my question comes from this snippet of text where I'm supposed to add something to lilo so I can boot to the old kernel if I need to: You will also want to create a new entry with the initrd and image directives pointing to the old kernel's vmlinuz and initrd images so you may also boot from the old images if required. How do I make these additions to /etc/lilo.conf? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] clock on dual boot system
My guess would be that you have an incorrect time zone set on one of the OS's... -Original Message- From: Kenn Murrah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 1:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] clock on dual boot system okay, i know this is a trivial issue but it's driving me nuts ... i've created a dual boot (windows ME and linux) in which the clock is 6 hours different between the two ... if i correct the clock in one operating system, when i reboot, it's wrong in the other ... what am i doing wrong here, gang ? thanks, kenn __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Approximate Schedule for Mandrake 8.2?
You might just give 8.1 a try. I had substantial difficulties with 8.0, but they all went away with 8.1... -Original Message- From: Randy Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 7:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Approximate Schedule for Mandrake 8.2? Anybody know approximately (or better) when Mandrake 8.2 will be out? I'm getting eager to upgrade from 7.2, but had significant difficulty with 8.0 and Traktopel Beta 3, I'm hoping that 8.2 might be the charm. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake
This bring up a good point, though. How SHOULD one upgrade their kernel? -Original Message- From: Ed Tharp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake NO Mandrake says do NOT upgrade the kernal VIA packagemanger Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake
Just for fun, I decided to see what I had done to my machine. I was running -26 of the kernel and according the RPM manager, I had installed -34. When I reboot, I get: Loading LinuxEBDA too big and it stops there... You all were right! :-) -Original Message- From: David .. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake With the kernel you have to reboot for it to take effect. Try this at the command line type in : uname -a You'll see the current kernel that your using. Before you do reboot. Make sure you have a bootdisk and you have read the steps I had to take. Because once you reboot, your not going anywhere until you install the kernel the correct way. From: Johnson, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:56:03 -0500 That's the beauty of Linux. I shouldn't HAVE to reboot...right? :-) Fortunately, it's only a machine for me to learn the OS on, so I don't have a problem wiping and re-installing... -Original Message- From: David .. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake Ah so you haven't rebooted eh. Go ahead, and reboot then come back to the list with your findings. I did the package install and it was fine for a few hours, after i did the reboot, then it took the new kernel and thats when the problems started. From: Johnson, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:11:46 -0500 Hmm. I did this update some time ago via the package manager without problem. System has not been rebooted since...I don't think that a blanket DO NOT DO THIS is appropriate. Of course you must be very careful when doing something as drastic as updating your kernel. Just make sure you have a way out planned before-hand! -Original Message- From: David .. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 6:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake Just a warning to those who like using the Mandrakes Package Manager. When your run the check for new security patches and you see the option to update your kernel. DON'T! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake
Thanks for the great tip! I'll try that next time! :-) -Original Message- From: Franki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 8:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake yeah, its a good point, but its an easy answer.. download your kernel rpm install it with rpm -ivh kernel.x.x.x.rpm (the I stands for install, as opposed to upgrade.) then get your new kernel headers, and upgrade them. rpm -Uvh kernel-headers.x.x.x.rpm The U being indicative of upgrade. That will work just wonderfully, and if for some reason, the install fails, it won't clag your install because the old kernel is still there to get you up and running again. once you know the new one works, you can remove the old with : rpm -e kernel.old.x.x I have been doing this for ages and its never failed. (ie, I have never toasted my old kernel installing the new one.) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Johnson, David Sent: Tuesday, 18 December 2001 3:42 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake This bring up a good point, though. How SHOULD one upgrade their kernel? -Original Message- From: Ed Tharp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake NO Mandrake says do NOT upgrade the kernal VIA packagemanger Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake
I did not, but I have been wanting an excuse to re-install the OS anyway...I'm still new at this OS and had messed some things up before. This gives me a good chance to clean house again... (Maybe I should just learn to fix my mistakes! :-) -Original Message- From: David .. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 8:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake I hope you took my word and made a bootdisk From: Johnson, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 15:03:02 -0500 Just for fun, I decided to see what I had done to my machine. I was running -26 of the kernel and according the RPM manager, I had installed -34. When I reboot, I get: Loading LinuxEBDA too big and it stops there... You all were right! :-) -Original Message- From: David .. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake With the kernel you have to reboot for it to take effect. Try this at the command line type in : uname -a You'll see the current kernel that your using. Before you do reboot. Make sure you have a bootdisk and you have read the steps I had to take. Because once you reboot, your not going anywhere until you install the kernel the correct way. From: Johnson, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:56:03 -0500 That's the beauty of Linux. I shouldn't HAVE to reboot...right? :-) Fortunately, it's only a machine for me to learn the OS on, so I don't have a problem wiping and re-installing... -Original Message- From: David .. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake Ah so you haven't rebooted eh. Go ahead, and reboot then come back to the list with your findings. I did the package install and it was fine for a few hours, after i did the reboot, then it took the new kernel and thats when the problems started. From: Johnson, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:11:46 -0500 Hmm. I did this update some time ago via the package manager without problem. System has not been rebooted since...I don't think that a blanket DO NOT DO THIS is appropriate. Of course you must be very careful when doing something as drastic as updating your kernel. Just make sure you have a way out planned before-hand! -Original Message- From: David .. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 6:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake Just a warning to those who like using the Mandrakes Package Manager. When your run the check for new security patches and you see the option to update your kernel. DON'T! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake
Hmm. I did this update some time ago via the package manager without problem. System has not been rebooted since...I don't think that a blanket DO NOT DO THIS is appropriate. Of course you must be very careful when doing something as drastic as updating your kernel. Just make sure you have a way out planned before-hand! -Original Message- From: David .. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 6:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake Just a warning to those who like using the Mandrakes Package Manager. When your run the check for new security patches and you see the option to update your kernel. DON'T! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake
That's the beauty of Linux. I shouldn't HAVE to reboot...right? :-) Fortunately, it's only a machine for me to learn the OS on, so I don't have a problem wiping and re-installing... -Original Message- From: David .. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake Ah so you haven't rebooted eh. Go ahead, and reboot then come back to the list with your findings. I did the package install and it was fine for a few hours, after i did the reboot, then it took the new kernel and thats when the problems started. From: Johnson, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:11:46 -0500 Hmm. I did this update some time ago via the package manager without problem. System has not been rebooted since...I don't think that a blanket DO NOT DO THIS is appropriate. Of course you must be very careful when doing something as drastic as updating your kernel. Just make sure you have a way out planned before-hand! -Original Message- From: David .. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 6:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake Just a warning to those who like using the Mandrakes Package Manager. When your run the check for new security patches and you see the option to update your kernel. DON'T! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Some Windows hang-ons...
Folks, I'd love to ditch Windows completely, but there is still some good software that I hang on to that I think is only available for Windows. Somebody prove me wrong: Outlook with Exchange server - I run an Exchange server at the house and want to maintain the Outlook functionality. Is there Linux software to mimic this? MS Money - I have grown to love this software over the years for keeping track of my finances. Is there comparable software out there for Linux? Turbo Tax - I discovered this gem last year and love the ease with which it helps me do my taxes every year. Is there tax prep software out there? Finally, Games - I do quite a bit of LAN gaming with my friends who run Windows. I know that things like Quake 3 are around, but what about others like Half-life, Diablo II, etc. Is there anywhere near the selection of first rate games for Linux as for Windows? Thanks for any help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Is this program installed?
I just finished re-installing LM8.1 and am beginning to build the machine into a Snort machine. One of the software pieces that I want to install for this purpose is OPEN SSH. When I issue a rpm -qa openssh I get the output: openssh-2.9p2-4mdk Does this mean that I installed the package already? David Johnson Security Engineer Iron Mountain Network Services 425.687.6770 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] startx and kde
Sridhar, When I installed my LM8.1, I chose Gnome as my default window manager, but since rebooting, I am thrust into KDE by default. When I execute startx gnome I only get a blue screen with a terminal window open and nothing else. Is there something I'm doing wrong or something I need to edit to fix this problem? -Original Message- From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 6:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mark D'voo Subject: Re: [newbie] startx and kde On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:21:57 -0600, Mark D'voo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When i do a startx, how do I tell it to run blackbox, not kde ?? mark SYNTAX: startx environment name So to get Blackbox, it should be 'startx blackbox', or perhaps 'startx Blackbox'. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan OS/2 is the platform of the '90s. -- Bill Gates Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Category 5 cable question
I don't know about the UL specifications, but CAT5 is not rated at 1,000mbps. It may work, but there will be no guarantee. CAT5 is designed to be rock-solid at up to 100mbps. If you want 1000baseT, you'll need to bump up to CAT5e or CAT6 (the latter is VERY expensive) otherwise, you take your chances. -Original Message- From: Tuan Tran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 11:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Category 5 cable question I just bought a 1,000ft CAT5 cable. On the box it show UL Type CM/MP. My question is what is type CM/MP? Will it be able to run at 1,000mps? Thank you. Tuan _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Circular dependencies?
Dave,
Thanks for the tip. There's now a TON of dependencies on mozilla that I
don't yet have installed, but your trick DID work.
I am thinking I may just attempt to make a network boot disk and use that to
do an upgrade to 8.1, to help avoid some of this frustration...
-Original Message-
From: Dave Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 3:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Circular dependancies?
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On Tuesday 23 October 2001 16:53, David Johnson
spouted off about [newbie] Circular dependancies?:
Here begins my problem:
When I try to install the Galeon rpm, I get:
[root@pengo packages]# rpm -i galeon-0.12.1-2mdk.i586.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
GConf = 1.0.4 is needed by galeon-0.12.1-2mdk
mozilla = 0.9.4 is needed by galeon-0.12.1-2mdk
So I went and downloaded the GConf 1.0.4 rpm and attempt to install
that:
[root@pengo packages]# rpm -i GConf-1.0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
libGConf1 = 1.0.4 is needed by GConf-1.0.4-2mdk
libdb-3.2.so is needed by GConf-1.0.4-2mdk
So I download the libGConf 1.0.4 rpm and when I install it, I get:
[root@pengo packages]# rpm -i libGConf1-1.0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
GConf = 1.0.4 is needed by libGConf1-1.0.4-2mdk
Is this my fault for trying to install from the 8.1 RPM's or should I be
able to do this?
Sometimes you need to assume that you are more intelligent than RPM ;-)
In this case, you can use the --nodeps option to tell RPM to ignore
dependencies. I don't recommend using it when it's not absolutely
necessary, but in this case I think it is.
Use the --nodeps option to install libGConf first (and also install
libdb-3.2, preferably without using the nodeps option unless necessary).
Something like this:
#rpm -U --nodeps libGConf1-1.0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm
Notice also, that I used option -U rather than -i. This way, you ensure
that if such a package already exists on your system (unlikely, but
possible), you will Upgrade it properly. And if no package exists, then
RPM is smart enough to treat the 'U' as an 'i'. I also like to add options
'vh' ('-Uvh') as well, so I get verbose messages from RPM, and I see hash
marks (a text-based progress bar) during the upgrade/install.
- From there, GConf should be able to install without the nodeps option, and
so on.
Dave
- --
You can't have everything... where would you put it?
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[newbie] Postfix config problem?
Ok, so I'm starting to get the hang of this Linux thing. I'm now running Postfix to act as my SMTP service to get e-mail out from my machine. I do this because I'm using the POP3 account from my home DSL provider and they don't allow relaying from machines not on there network for SMTP traffic. Anyway, most mail traffic outbound looks pretty normal, but the headers do include tags with the hostname of the machine (pengo.xxx.com), which is not available in any DNS in the world. I have configured my address and reply-to fields in KMail properly, but Postfix is still attaching the machine's host name to all of the outbound messages. This is causing a problem when I try to subscribe to the snort-users mailing list as the majordomo at sourceforge keeps trying to relay to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and kicking my messages back because it can't reach that e-mail address. Is there some configuration that I must do to Postfix/sendmail to get an actual routable address to show up there? Thanks for any help. David Johnson RLU# 236992 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Changing window managers
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I'm running 8.0 Which brings up another question. Since installing 8.0, something has gone wrong with my computer such that I now cannot use the CD-ROM! I have tried a new unit. I have tried moving the CD-ROM from the secondary IDE channel to the primary. I have tried making it the master, slave, etc., nothing works. Anyway, I'm not trying to solve my CD-ROM issue any more as I think it's more of a motherboard issue or something, but I would still love to upgrade to LM8.1. How can I do this? I know there's a way to do an FTP installation. Can you tell me how to initiate this? Thanks for the advice! -Original Message- From: Jose M. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 12:45 PM To: 'Johnson, David' Subject: RE: [newbie] Changing window managers It sounds like you did not perform a full installation. 8.1 normally asks you about configuring the system the first time X is run. Removing .drakfw starts this process over again. You may want to go back and install as many RPM's as you can. Did you reformat and re-install? Or did you attempt an upgrade? ;( -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Johnson, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 2:52 PM |To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' |Subject: RE: [newbie] Changing window managers | | |I start up in text mode, so idea 1 is out. As for methods 2 |and 3, I don't have either of those files (.drakfw and |.xinitrc) on my system that I can find. | |Is there another way? | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Changing window managers
I'm running LM8.0 and have been using KDE since I installed, but I have been playing with Gnome on another machine I have and would like to switch this machine over. How can I change from KDE to Gnome? Thanks David Johnson RLU# 236992 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Source tarballs and directories...
Sorry for the COMPELTE newbie-ness here, but is it safe to remove the tarball and subsequent directories for a piece of software once I install it? E.G. I just downloaded the tarball for Flex and decompressed it into the directory structure, then went through the configure/make/install process and the program is now installed. Can I get rid of the tarball and source directories? Thanks for the help as I feel my way through an entirely new OS here! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
