Re: [newbie] Hello?
<< You and me both - had to re subscribe. John the Nadger >> Same here. SuperDan
[newbie] Device is locked.....
Yesterday, I was having troubles when telnetting into my Linux box. I tried using Minicom, and Minicom reported that I couldn't use it, and to ask my system administrator for access or something. Surprisingly, I am the sysadmin. So how do I enable other accounts to use it? Later, I don't remember what account (mine or root) it was on, but Minicom reported something like "device modem is locked". Sometime later I tried again, and Minicom reported that the lockfile was out of date and let me in. But what are lockfiles important for, and what should I do in case this would happen in the future? Dan Rasmussen
Re: [newbie] Instant Messenger
Do a search for GAIM. It stands for GNU Instant Messenger or something like that. It was made by a third party, but i'm sure it works pretty well. It comes as an RPM and was really easy to install. Dan Rasmussen
Re: [newbie] unsubscribe
<< > > This is purely just a passing thoughtbut maybe list listserver could > > do > > with a tag line pointing people to the website to unsibscribe or > > explaining how > > to unsubscribe. > > >> Or perhaps automatic deletion of any email that has "unsuscribe" in the subject, plus removal of the sender with an email telling them that they were removed and why
Re: [newbie] Made a mistake in setup
In a message dated 1/1/00 1:20:43 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could you please explain a few things really quick? << I'm assuming that your machine is coming up in runlevel 5 graphical mode >> Runlevel 5...is there level 4 graphical mode? What is with these runlevels, I see them all over but don't quite understand. Just each runlevel is a level of complexity, where each level depends on the processes going on in the level beneath? << type " linux 3 " with out the quotes. And don't take all day. you only have a few seconds. This will boot you into linux without X. >> How did you know this? -- == [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) running Linux Mandrake 6.1 and/or BeOS. >> Don't bother answering this on the mailing list, but if you feel inspired perhaps you could tell me what you think of BeOS... Thanks! Dan
Re: [newbie] when booting in to linux
<< When you are booting into linux, all the info that lists which drives are connected and what services are started etc etc. How do you get a copy of the start up? I want to print out the thing so I can look at what is happening and what is what. It goes way to fast for me to read. I dont even know what to call it. Can anyone help? Ed >> Does Control P print in Linux before Linux finishes loading? DOS always printed everything after Control P until you hit it again. Dan
[newbie] Windows to Linux networking
Gettin all my questions out of the way :) I have two PCs which are networked together. One runs Windows 98, the other has both WIndows 95 and Linux. It's working fairly well at the moment, but I would like to be able to transfer files back and forth between the Win 98 and the Linux comp. How do I do this? Dan Rasmussen ICQ 4689648
[newbie] MP3 software for Linux
Hello, its me again! I need an MP3 player for Linux, be it XWindows or shell. X11Amp plays an mp3 for about 4 seconds, and then they're slow and jerky. Possibly there is a way to make the buffer really super huge, but I haven't found one. In Windows, I was able to play MP3s by using a program called SCMPX and decreasing the quality to 22 khz. The mp3s played reasonably, although I couldn't run much else without it "skipping". My computer is 66 mhz. Dan Rasmussen
[newbie] BBSes and Linux
I am looking for some software and some good information about setting up a Bulletin Board System under Linux. I'm using Mandrake, version 6 or somethin like that.. :) I had a fairly nice system running under DOS, but the crowds died down eventually, and now it's down. If anybody could give me some software, a link to some software, perhaps Mandrake includes something for it that I don't know about, etc. The modem works and I have used it before with the mini terminal program provided with my distribution. Dan Rasmussen
