Re: [newbie] 1.4 GB overkill for /boot?
On 2 Jul 00, at 0:33, Thomas 2 wrote: When I installed LM 7.1 I let it set the three LM partition sizes (/, /boot, and swap). Of the 5 GB available, it assigned about 1.4 GB to the /boot partition. Now I've heard that you only need 10 MB for /boot. Am I wasteing 1.4 GB? Thanks. You most certainly are. My linux machine has a /boot = 10MB, and it is more than sufficient to boot debian and mandrake, and that too with a development kernel and a stable kernel. Rgds Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com
Re: [newbie] automated DUN lacking in Linux - why?
On 2 Jul 00, at 0:53, Thomas 2 wrote: Why doesn't there seem to be any Linux applications that will automatically dialout - like email clients and auto file downloaders? They're a dime a dozen in Windows, but I've never found a single one for Linux. Is there some kind of barrier? As popular as that is in Win, why does it seem to be non-existant in Linux? I know there are work arounds using Cron, but for a Newbie who doesn't have a lot of time, it would be much nicer if it sort of worked out of the box. That would help me in making the transition. But that's just me. Oh yesm, there are. Automatic dial on demand - diald Another easy dialer - wvdial and kde frontend called kwvdial Downloaders - Caitoo - ftp tool(not much recommended) - Downloader for X(search Freshmeat with the string "downloader"(pretty good) - wget(this one is real good). This also has a kde frontend, called kwebget and a gtk fronend called gwget Keep looking for offerings in freshmeat, there may be more, but these are the more popular ones. ==== Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com
Re: [newbie] MS Linux?
On 2 Jul 00, at 0:42, Thomas 2 wrote: MS makes applications for Mac OS and others, but nothing for Linux. It seems especially strange considering that Microsoft choose Linux to run it's Hotmail webservers, instead of NT! I wonder how long until MS Linux comes out? Will Linux ever replace the old "Quick and Dirty OS" (that's what it was known as before Bill bought it out from a small Seattle company in 1980)? Then a future version of Windows could just be a Windows manager like KDE with X. Hey, no Ms bashing. This is a Linux help list, lets keep it that way. OTOH, what you say is perfectly true, I mean the fact that a large company like MS should put in some effort into contributing towards a stable, reliable and dependable OS. It may not be Linux, FreeBSD, it is enough if they make something that works well, and is rock solid. But then, they'll have to write it from scratch, coz DOS can never give the stability of the Unices. ==== Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com
Re: [newbie] Running XFree on Intel i810
On 29 Jun 00, at 9:41, Turski Miroslaw wrote: A am running Mandrake 7.1 and try to run XFree86 4.0 on i810 graphic card. The XServer returns the fallowing error: Did somebody make it running? I am realy desperated and need help. http://www.exocore.com/linux/i810. Read Shanu's i810 install guide. HTH Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com
Re: [newbie] Unpacking tar gz files
On 29 Jun 00, at 19:12, Neil Rowley wrote: Hi, As a recent convert to Mandrake 7 I find myself in a tiz over those so called" tarball" and "gzipped" packages. Having recently downloaded Realplayer G2 and an upgraded version of the Netscape Browser it's pretty obvious that they are not RPM programs. On seeking help about this there is plenty of guidance out there on the use of commands such as "tar xzf" etc. but to where and how do you move the file package from the "home" directory" and what do I do the editing with ? targz filea will unpack with tar zxvf foo_file_version.tar.gz Almost certainly, if the files are binaries, they'll have a readme and install file, in text format which tell you what to do. Read them. There'll usually be a install script file that you'll have to run as ./install, then do a make and make install. Read the man pages man tar tar --help -Rgds Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com
Re: [newbie] Fonts in Netscape
On 30 Jun 00, at 0:09, Pedro _ wrote: I have Mandrake 7.02 and I am disapointed with fonts of Netscape. Pages do not look the same... Where are the "Windows" fonts, like arial, verdana, etc... ? Can we add more fonts to Netscape? How? Set font size to 18 or thereabouts, it'll work fine. Or download the mozilla fonts from www.skunk.mit.edu. Even better, download the latest mozilla binary (current is M16, i think) and use it. It is faster, better, and definitely more eye friendly than Netscape's borg. ==== Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com
Re: [newbie] MS Linux?
On 2 Jul 00, at 18:51, Paul wrote: I missed something of this thread, it seems. MS did try to make the transition from Linux to Windows NT after they took over Hotmail, and they put in a LOT of effort and money. The problem that they faced, however, Well, Hotmail never ran of LinuxIIRC, it used to run FreeBSD, and it still runs FBSD. And it uses qmail and tries to be pretty secure. IMHO, BSD clones are somewhat stabler than Linux systems, if only Bill Joy came out from Sun and helped guide another release of the Berkeley Unix, we people sure would have lots of advances - technical and otherwise. Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com
Re: [newbie] Slow mail
On 2 Jul 00, at 5:50, Dennis Myers wrote: I have stuff pop up two or three days late and yet some of the e-mail for those days came through within minutes of being posted. Some strange goings on, what? It might have soething to do with sendinf the messages to Newbie@ or newbie. Maybe the smaller case does'nt send the mauil to the list immediately. If Havlik is listening, is Mandrake considering using Majordomo 1.94 or 2 for the job and scrapping Sympa. Majordomo seems to be working fine on most lists. Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com
Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 7.0 Complete installation
On 2 Jul 00, at 15:15, Marcia Waller wrote: passwords. I tried the user idea but that did not work. How can I go back through the installation process and change a few things such as create a root password and set up some other things that I skipped without messing up the install?Do I put the install CD in again and I hope you are using a dual boot system with Windows using LILO. At the LiLO prompt, type linux 1. Now when Linux boots up, at the boot prompt type root. It won't ask you for a password. Then type passwd, and enter your password, enter and retype again. You are done. Reboot, normally. Login as root. Goto KDE DrakConf and manage the user settings. Remove old users and add them anew if things dont work out as a last resort. Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com
Re: [newbie] Firewall/security
On 2 Jul 00, at 20:59, Mark Weaver wrote: I'm getting the definate impression that I should maybe have my security set as high as I can stand it just in case. There seems to be quite a few varied opinions and it's better to safe than sorry. Security is one thing, paranoia quite another. If you set your security settings to low during a Mnadrake install, it has something to do with the permissions on your computer rather than security via the internet. Of course, it a good thing to have good security, but if you set the settings to high or paranoid, you won't enjoy working on your desktop. Bar some, most Mandrake users use Linux at home on a workstation or a small home network of 1,2 PCs. Now if you set the settings as High, you can't access many programs as user because you will not have access to execute them. Would that be beneficial? A security setting as Medium is just fine. If you really do want to ensure that someone else is not intruding upon your privacy via the internet(if that is at possible), then you'll need to monitor the logs /var/log/messages when you are connected. Close down and stop ports that are unnecessary and stop unnecessary services like httpd, and such likeon the machine. Not only are they security probs, but memory hogs. A good place to get started is the security howto in /usr/doc, as well as the system admin guide and network admin guide. A good book that is very thorugh is Essential System administration by O Reilly press. Security is one thing, paranoia quite another. Remember, no security settings can fully protect your computer. the best course is careful monitoring, and that comes of need and habit. Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com "So many people, so little purpose."
Re: [newbie] mozilla M16
On 2 Jul 00, at 18:16, Digital Wokan wrote: I'd like to see an RPM of M16 with the SSL capabilities available through a second RPM. Too bad so many governments have to be so uptight over encryption. What's wrong with a binary tarball? It installs pretty well, but the SSL tunneling facility is prety poor as you say. Read the mozilla developer postings and ask there if there's any way to do that. Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com "So many people, so little purpose."
Re: [newbie] Linux on P120 laptop
On 2 Jul 00, at 21:37, Peter Szalay wrote: I pretty new on this list, just subscribe it. I just got a P120, 40M ram, 1Gb hdd laptop. Has anybody have experiences to running Linux (not necesserly Mandrake) on a laptop like mine? Not sure about Mandrake, but Debian will install. The debian install process is a bit tricky tho, but you get a rock solid platform Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com "So many people, so little purpose."
Re: [newbie] Domain not bound message
On 1 Jul 00, at 9:45, Bill Fisher wrote: ng the password, console displays: YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound what does this mean? Also, while the system is coming up from Boot Magic, there is a delay while this message is displayed: Listeing for an NIS Domain Server what does this mean? I'm only local, only outside connection is internet via modem. Wodering if I've made a wrong selection, and if so how can I fix it? Dunno whether this is the correct prescription for what is happening, but methinks you are running unnecessary daemons. If you are running X, then fire up DrakConf and goto Startup Services. Stop all the unnecessary services. for example, I run only the following, the rest have been put to sleep. The startup daemons: crond - for scheduling dhcpd - host control gpm - coz I usually work without X keytable - a must daemon network - another must numlock - optional, though helpful random - necessary sendmail - MTa, you might be using postfix, smail, exim, etc. syslog - preferred xfs - needed by X Just do this, and remove the others. Then boot up again and see if the problem persists. If yes, then send a transcript of tail /var/log/messages. Maybe, someone will decrypt it;] -Rgds Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com
Re: [newbie] acrobat rpm
On 1 Jul 00, at 8:56, Tom Brinkman wrote: ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/falsehope/home/pierre/acroread/ acroread-kde-menus-4.05-2.i386.rpm acroread-kde-menus : Adobe Acrobat Reader KDE System menus Thanks to all who helped. got the tarball from Adobe, and installed. Works fine, AFAICT. Colour rendering is nice, the text is visible and most essentially, have'nt managed to crash it, So far. Rgds Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com
Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 7.0 Complete installation
On 1 Jul 00, at 13:36, Marcia Waller wrote: setup is C,A,SCSI. Should not that be changed to the floppy first and Is your hdd SCSI? Maybe not. Maybe its an IDE. how do I do that? I am a true newbie and have not done much on the Setup At the BIOS option where you have C,a,SCSI written, scroll through the list with the NumKeypad + or the PageUP/DN keys. One of them should work. Change it, so that the order now reads A,C, whatever.Now, your system will boot off the floppy first, if there's a system disk in the fdd. screen. Also, may I install by graphical installation or text installation through MS-DOS? I have made the floppy for graphical with rawrite but how do I do it for text installation? I have already done Grphical installation is flashy, and intuitive. The text install can reduce install times by more than half, and though not very self explanatory, is quite easy. To go the text install way, create a boot disk using rawrite.exe with txt_boot.img. as text installation through DOS without uninstalling bootmagic or partition magic? I appreciate your help with this. I have contacted Since you've already partitioned your hdd, go ahead and install. Just take care that if you have some important data in the Windows partition, it has been backed up. The loadlin based linux install script from DOS will drop you into the install program anyway, so you had better boot from the floppy. I appreciate anyone's input. I do have a Pentium 200 MHZ with 2 IDE hard drives one with 2.5 gigs and the other with over 8 gigs. I have 96 megs That is a great setup. The graphical setup program needs 32 MB RAM work, so it should be easy enough. Go ahead. Install:] Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com
Re: [newbie] YA E-Mail Client?
On 1 Jul 00, at 21:28, ElephantsGoNorth wrote: The other approach - fetchmail/qmail + a ton of ... is working fine in my BSD boxen. Can I just start using Linux? Will this bird ever fly? first, I'll ask you to help me with this;). Have been trying to get a setup like that, to no avail. If you can, send a offlist detail. My q'n: is there any standalone e-mail client for GNU/Linux that allows to delete my e-mail from the server when deleted locally? Try "poppy". But is it possible to synchronise the MUA with a pop account?? AFAIK, that is possible in IMAP, but is pop capable? BTW, great to see people running BSD alongwith Lin;} ==== Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com
Re: [newbie] Help:After installing Mandrake Windows don´t boot
On 28 Jun 00, at 10:52, Arlindo Fragoso wrote: My /etc/lilo.conf looks like this, default is DOZE. boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=windows keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdb6 append="" read-only HTH ==== Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 Installao?
On 30 Jun 00, at 0:07, Gary wrote: Thanks for your input. I really would like the drivers for my TNT2 though, plus the mentioned above. Do you think an install over the 7.0 would The Creative team seems to have released some sort of drivers for the TNT2. You could try the gaming newsgroups for more news of the same. also see http://www.lokigames.com.development for new info and drivers. suffice? I really have my doubts considering the horror stories here upon upgrading. Upgrading is best left aside with most Unices, except Debian which has a nice tool called apt. However, you can do things with the least hassle on a mandrake system if you've taken some precautions,like 1. Make multiple partitions.. My setup is /boot - 10 megs / - 300 megs swap - total 160 megs /var - 200 megs /home - 800 megs /usr - all the rest, in my case 2.5 GB With a setup like this, you can save all the data in your home directory and the configuration files in /etc. Then doing a fresh install in the text mode is both fast and easy. Upgrading takes way too much time and I had a bad experience with upgrading Redhat where the compilers broke after the upgrade. Si I would'nt recommed it Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com
Re: [newbie] Installation problems still.....
On 30 Jun 00, at 14:45, Andreas B. wrote: CD is bootable...my CD just cannot boot from ANY cdrom. (I tried using a 16x Toshiba and that cannot autoboot either). The controls fo booting from the CD are in the BIOS. When you start your machine and the RAM check is going on, press the DEL key, that should drop you into the BIOS. Change the boot sequence so that CDROM is 1st. Also, another problem I met yesterday was that, after I finished installing Mandrake without the X-Server and the system would start normally, then at the login prompt, it would refuse to accept my password although I would type it correctly (no caps lock was on...). You have company!! I had a similar problem with an install. This happened specifically I used the text mode setup, chose to install "everything", and did not configure X. When it did'nt take root password, I thought I had done something silly like forgetting my password or typing it wrong during install. Finally did the dirty thing, booting into runlevel 1 at lilo prompt and set things right. This was with Mandrake 7.0 ==== Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com
Re: [newbie] Lilo MBR
On 30 Jun 00, at 9:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux floppy. The intended use is to allow you to log to your own damaged file system or do other serious system repair, but from what I've read on Tom's documentation you should be able to log to Mandrake and run LILO to restore dual booting on your system. I have'nt followed this thread, but here's my 2 bits.. If u're intention is to restore dual boot with LILO because your boot floppy is damaged, there are much easier options: 1. Boot off your install CD and at the boot prompt, type rescue. Then mount the necesary partitions and make appropriate changes to /etc/lilo.conf, and run lilo -v. 2. Get loadlin for DOS, make a batch file and bot into Linux. Follow same instr. as above. Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com
Re: [newbie] 2nd Hard Drive
On 30 Jun 00, at 5:49, Jason Angus wrote: slave. I want to know how to address installing Linux in that environment and how will Linux see that second disk \hda2? Linux will recognise this new hdd as "hdb". hda2 will mean the second partition on primary hdd. There wil be no probs, go ahead, buy the disk and install. Happy L'xing ==== Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com
[newbie] acrobat rpm
Hello folks Can anyone point out an url for adobe acrobat rpm which works with Mandrake Air without segmentation errors while changing pages? Rgds __ _ Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com / / (_)__ __ __ / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / . . . t h e c h o i c e o f a //_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . .
Re: [newbie] X-server crash
On 28 Jun 00, at 16:27, Dennis Myers wrote: can't get in to server because I had it set to Boot to X-server. So both times I have had to re-install Linux as a new install, and since I haven't figured out how to back up data, I lose stuff. Nothing real Okay!! Set your init default to 3 , ie in /etc/inittab, set the initdefault from 5(which starts the X server on boot) to 3. Or, at lilo boot prompt(if you are using LILO), type linux 3. the x-server (Window in KDE)? How do I get back the server without re-install, I have tried to do just an update but that fails. This is an annoying problem cause I thought linux was more stable than this, or more likely it's something I am doing. Any suggestions would be greatly Linux is certainly more stable than many other operating systems...maybe some of your X settings are not correct. If you can, post what graphic device you are using, that is most likely to be the culprit. __ _ Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com / / (_)__ __ __ / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / . . . t h e c h o i c e o f a //_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . .
Re: [newbie] installing an Intel i810 video card under Mandrake 7.0
On 29 Jun 00, at 3:32, Claudio wrote: Try the intel site. I got my driver from there and it was working under M7.0 Try http://www.exocore.com/linux/i810 There's a prety good article out there. Basically you have to get the gart modules from Intel's site and use them. and if you want to play quake, you'll also have to get the glx modules from utahglx. __ _ Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com / / (_)__ __ __ / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / . . . t h e c h o i c e o f a //_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . .
Re: [newbie] Booting Mandrake Linux 7.1 and Windows 2000
On 29 Jun 00, at 13:55, Michael Graveen wrote: don't even get the option to boot to DOS. The boot loader that comes up is call GRUP. Does anyone know what I can do to fix this? Should I just install Windows 2000 again? Thanks in advance. Can't say everything accuratey as I use LILO and Win98. But try this. When you get to Linux, startx, and in KDE, you'll have an option to configure LILO. Add win2000 and linux. Make win98/linux your default OS(as per choice) and install LILO. A better and faster option is to wriye your own lilo.conf and then lilo -v. __ _ Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com / / (_)__ __ __ / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / . . . t h e c h o i c e o f a //_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . .
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 Installao?
On 29 Jun 00, at 19:33, Larry Hignight wrote: If for some reason your employer or someone else won't allow you to delete the messages check into fetchmail. It is an excellent program designed to fetch The employer will have to be real daft to have such a policy. Pretty soon, the mailbox quotas will be filled, what then? mail off of servers. Don't quote me but I believe it will do what you need quite nicely. Be sure to read up a bit and try fetchmailconf for the configuration. Fetchmail has no option to download only new messages. The only options of note are the "all" option which'll get everything, and the "keep" option which'll suck all but leave the msgs on the mail host. There's one way thoughif you can run a procmail recipe right at your mail host, it might help, like you download all the headers and select those messages you want to download. But don't think KMAIL is capable of this. If your mail host follows the IMAP proto, it might help. __ _ Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com / / (_)__ __ __ / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / . . . t h e c h o i c e o f a //_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . .
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 Installao?
On 29 Jun 00, at 19:49, Gary wrote: Also, there was talk of problems with freeX86 V4, versus the established version. Should I install it over 7.0 (which is very well setup for me presently), or just do a fresh install? Any thoughts from those who have installed it? I believe, if something is working fine, don't break it. If you do not find any special need, then there is no need to upgrade, or for that matter change your OS. When I upgraded the X server to version on my m/c, my goal was better support for my V3, so that I could play Quake better. And it worked better too, with better drivers, the glx extensions and the new XFree4 __ _ Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com / / (_)__ __ __ / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / . . . t h e c h o i c e o f a //_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . .
RE: [newbie] No go on notebook
On 29 Jun 00, at 14:16, Hem Ramachandran wrote: I have a problem with my mouse pointer after installing Mandrake on my Athlon processor which uses a PS2 microsoft mouse and S3- 3D2X graphics card. Instead of the mouse pointer, what I have is a BIG WHITE SQUARE. Do you know what I need to do in the XF86Config file(I suppose,) to change that to a pointer? To remove that white block add this to your /etc/XF86Config under the graphic device tab: no sw_cursor. Please check. If this does'nt work, then try sw_cursor. One of them works, but have forgotten which. __ _ Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com / / (_)__ __ __ / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / . . . t h e c h o i c e o f a //_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . .
[newbie] Postfix configuration
Hello folks Can someone tell how to configure Postfix as my MTA? I have a dial-up account with my ISP and a dynamic IP. Fetching mails from pop servers is fine with fetchmail. I want to use my web based email accounts, like say mailandnews or yahoo, by masquerading as my email address like [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than user@localhost. I had been using sendmail to do this with RedHat, but how do I make Postfix do the same? I am using Mandrake Air. URLs would be helpful as would be a little bit of elaborate help. -Thanks === Sthitaprajna @mailandnews.com === Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something - Westley of "The Princess Bride"
Re: [newbie] E-mail Clients
On 14 Jun 00, at 17:54, Corrado / Prometheus The Gifter wrote: 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? Spruce, mahogany, CSCMail - all these under Gnome. Mutt - The best console based email client Gnus under XEmacs EXMH - The best mail client of all -Regards === Sthitaprajna @mailandnews.com === Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something - Westley of "The Princess Bride"
Re: [newbie] Tar and .Gz
On 13 Jun 00, at 21:47, Fred Hamilton wrote: correct amount of RAM, but it still only reports 64Mb. How can I fix this, or do I need to worry about it? At the LILO prompt specify the amount of RAM. BTW, how did you get 164MB RAM on your machine? 128+32=160. Maybe, you don't have 164MB RAM.Check. Next, how do I install software from TAR or GZ format? I know how to install packages, but I downloaded a file in GZ format and opened it with the software that came with Mandrake, but I could not figure out what to do next? I mean in Windows there is always a setup.exe, but what about Linux? Read the manual pages for tar. In a terminal, man tar, or type tar -- help. That will show you many options. A .tar.gz package is a gzipped version of the actual install files. I know I can extract these files, but I did not know what to do after that. I saw no executables or installation routines. (See I am a newbie!) Example, I have this file: so51a_lnx_01.tar so how do I install it? Once I install it, does it automatically appear on the menu for execution? At the bash or what ever shell you are using, type tar -zvf full_package_name. Then your staroffice application will be untarred to a /opt directory. Go there and read the Readme files. IIRC, there were options for a network or a single user configuration. For help on installing staroffice, there maybe some help at www.mandrakeuser.org. Anyway, man tar and read everything. HTH === Sthitaprajna @mailandnews.com === Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something - Westley of "The Princess Bride"
Re: [newbie] About to give up.
On 13 Jun 00, at 23:40, Everette wrote: 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. A better option to qpopper and faster is fetchmail. It is usually installed by default. At a terminal window, type fetchmailconf. a prety self explanatory GUI will crop up. Should get you popping mails from all over. 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. Now this is something else. Probably your account does have 0 messages. Does Netscape Messenger see any messages there? You say you've sent 20-30 mails to it, but are they really reaching it? Check. Use a dedicated mail client like balsa,kmail, netscape messenger, spruce...while you are setting up the perfect mail combination for yourself. === Sthitaprajna @mailandnews.com === Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something - Westley of "The Princess Bride"
Re: [newbie] No login after installing StarOffice!
On 26 May 00, at 7:07, Paul wrote: 1. How do I stop it from hitting the graphical login? I didn't make a boot disk because I'm an idiot. Open some decent text editor that you like, then open the file, /etc/inittab. Scroll down some and there you'll find a line which goes id:5:...and so on. Just change that 5 to 3 and save the file. The next time you boot, u'll get the bash(or whatever u're using) shell. HTH Sthitaprajna @mailandnews.com
Re: [newbie] winmodem?
On 26 May 00, at 13:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hitachi Mobilized Computing PC card modem with XJACK connector x2 upgradeable 33.6kkps Data/14/4bps Fax It is indeed. A way to check is to turn off the PnP BIOS setting on ur machine to disabled/off. Then boot Linux and try to see if you can detect or configure the modem. If there's no response, it is a winmodem. A good internal modem supported byLinux is the HayesAccura. Sthitaprajna @mailandnews.com
