Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Issue...
On Sunday 26 November 2000 01:27, some strange eryl did etch this in stone: > > You are still thinking in Windows terms. > > You Can Not use Netscape to connect directly to the internt. > > You need to connect to the internet first, and then launch Netscape. the problem he's having isn't that though. his problem if you read his post was that he connects fine ahead of time with kppp but then upon launching nutscrape, it goes nowhere. when he said direct connection to the internet he meant the setting under prefs in nutscrape that allows it to connect on it's own and not with a proxy. the problem he has is with DNS not winblows user ignorance. others have replied with the correct info on him setting up his DNS without tearing him down based on a linux superiority complex. -x. -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft ICQ 4841244
Re: [newbie] mandrake 7.2: installation from iso's problem... PLEASE HELP!
On Thursday 23 November 2000 16:32, some strange person did etch this in stone: when each step fails, do a ctrl+alt+F1 or F2 or whichever to see if you can figure out what is at the root of the software failure to begin with. usually on the other tty's at the console the error return is better. when you get that info, post it to the list. -x. -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft ICQ 4841244
Re: [newbie] Corel getting out of the Linux business?
On Thursday 23 November 2000 12:59, some strange person did etch this in stone: > you know...that's not necessarily a bad thing. Just my opinion though. :P frankly, i share that opinion -x. -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft ICQ 4841244
Re: [newbie] LM7.2 -- Switchdesk -- where is it?
On Thursday 23 November 2000 04:22, some strange person did etch this in stone: > Dear friends: > > I am embarrassed to ask. Just installed LM7.2 with KDE 2.0 Final. Looks > great. Well, I can't help but ask: where is "switchdesk" in xterm. How > do I switch to gnome, etc. For the life of me, I can't find switchdesk. > It must be right under my nose. I did check KDE's Help, but now answer > there. > it's not there... you have to create your own file in your home dir to customize your window manager.. ".Xclients" is the name os the file. create it with a text editor.. it should read lke this.. #!/bin/sh exec gnome-session /*(or whatever WM you use, "exec wmaker", "exec xfce", etc.)*/ do a "chmod 700 .Xclients" then log out and log back in and you should be set... or you can go to redhat's site and DL their switchdesk and install the RPM.. it works on mandrake as well.. -x. -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft ICQ 4841244
Re: [newbie] Problem with Telnet
On Tuesday 21 November 2000 00:05, some strange person did etch this in stone: > Hi, I am having a problem with telnet into my linux box too. I can telnet > into remote sites, but cannot do it other way around. It always tells me > that "connection closed by foreign host". > > In my /etc/inetd.conf I had it setup like following. > telnetstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd -l -a > > Can some one give me idea? what does "-l" and "-a" mean ? > > oh... i setup security as medium when I first install the system. > comment out the localhost part in the /etc/hosts.deny -x. -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft ICQ 4841244
Re: [newbie] sendmail problem ....
On Monday 20 November 2000 12:26, some strange person did etch this in stone: > I upgraded one of my servers to LM 7.2 last week and things seem to work > fine so far. The only issue I have trouble resolving is a sendmail issue. I > can send and receive mail via pop/smtp for all accounts from external mail > clients. However if I try o send mail via ie.pine I can only send mail as > root NOT as a regular user. did you check your /etc/mail.deny or /etc/mail.allow files? -x. -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft ICQ 4841244
Re: [newbie] E problem
On Friday 17 November 2000 21:25, some strange person did etch this in stone:
> Does anybody that uses Enlightenment know how to get the "regenerate menus"
> option on the maintenance menu? I isntalled 7.2 and it doesn't have that
> option.
/*ADD_MENU_TEXT_ITEM("Regenerate Menus", __A_EXEC,
ENLIGHTENMENT_BIN"/e_gen_menu")*/
all on one line of course at the end of the maintenance menu section in
the/usr/share/enlightenment/config/menus.cfg file
-x.
--
"Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom,
but for him who has come back out of the nethermost
chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests
nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft
ICQ 4841244
Re: [newbie] su for desktop icon
On Thursday 16 November 2000 20:46, some strange person did etch this in stone: > Got gtoaster up and running. Works fine from the command line after I log > in as su. Is there any way to modify my desktop icon to open gtoaster as > su? Mike Riffle > the command shoulr read... "kdesu -c gtoaster" -x -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft ICQ 4841244
Re: [newbie] Booting to Linux
On Thursday 16 November 2000 21:08, some strange person did etch this in stone: > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: > > AAAaah...turn off the friggin HTML > > mail!!! Www HATE HTML mail! > > > > AAaaah. > > You know, even my version of pine will get HTML mail these days > > But by and large you are right I guess. > > Dan mailservers would get really bogged down if everyone posted in html, esp. on lists with a huge amount of traffic. -x. -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft ICQ 4841244
Re: [newbie] New to list
> Last year I fooled around with Linux for a few weeks and I remember that > one of the CD's had several RPM packages of themes which you could install > very simply. I can find those no where, except on the web as tar or gz > files. Installing them as RPMS was easy as it placed them where they > belonged. As a zipped package, where do I place the files to enable the > theme and where can I get the theme manager? > in addition to what others have posted about gtk themes i thought i would mention (since you mentioned themes in an older version) that KDE 2 doesn't have the same kind of theme manager as KDE 1. the old theme selector doesn't work in KDE 2. that's why the lack. -x. -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft ICQ 4841244
Re: [newbie] How to change graphical environment in 7.2
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 09:33, you wrote: > I think KDE2.0 is great and all, but how do I change my default window > manager to Enlightenment, or maybe even GNOME? Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 had a > utility called "switchdesk" but I can't find it in 7.2... > > HELP!!! > add "exec gnome-session" or "exec enlightenment" or "exec wmaker"(without the quotes of course) to your .Xclients-default file -x. -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft ICQ 4841244
Re: [newbie] Aurora
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 05:55, you wrote: > How does one get Aurora to run at boot? I just installed the download > version of 7.2, development install, ReiserFS, using grub. The Aurora > package is installed, but I can't find out anywhere how to get it to > run. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Carl Kehley > ICQ 1412676 you can use either tksysv (it runs as a service) or linuxconf with the ability to modify the way services start enabled. set it to run first before anything else. S01 -x. -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft ICQ 4841244
Re: [newbie] Newbie Stops Leaping Forward!
> > So are you saying that the new ATA100 cables have to plug into 2 > seperate interfaces? > I have not seen one of the new drives or cables for them. I looked at > Abit's KA7-100 spec.sheet, but it wasn't very insightful as to what > those extra slots were for. Just assumed they were like the KT7-RAID. > Guess that's what I get for assuming. :) > > And I thought I got over assuming things after I assumed Micro$oft would > fix their software!! Hehe they act just like regular IDE controllers.. two drives per port. -x. -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft ICQ 4841244
Re: [newbie] MODEMS
On Tuesday 07 November 2000 23:45, you wrote: > hello, > > Once somebody posted a web page that listed modems and if they are real > modems or winmodems and if there is any linux drivers for them... does > anybody have it?. > plus i have a question...if it is a winmodem and there is no linux driver > for it...is it basically rendered useless in linux? www.linmodems.org -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft ICQ 4841244
Re: [newbie] Dual booting - PC Boot Manager
On Tuesday 07 November 2000 11:59, you wrote: > I am not sure, but I think you might need to move your network device lower > in the boot sequence through your bios set-up. > precisely... in addition, some NIC cards also have a setup feaure to disable their built-in (bios-independant) boot function.. in that case usually just before the "searching for DHCP server."or whatever message is a "hit CTRL to enter boot setup" type message. it'll enter a setup proggie that will let you disable the network boot feature. .x -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft ICQ 4841244
Re: [newbie] Newbie Stops Leaping Forward!
> > Those boards with 4 interfaces are RAID boards. ABit makes one for the > athlon/thunderbird (KT7-RAID, I think)You can really only use the normal > 2 interfaces for up to 4 drives. The other 2 interfaces are used to > mirror the first 2. no... they are ATA100 controllers.. i just built one yesterday. they're like onboard SCSI host controllers but with IDE 80 pin connectors and you can use them however you like as i understand.. the ATA100 controller sure didn't mind the 66 drive i put on it.. -x. -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft ICQ 4841244
Re: [newbie] Apache UserDirs
On Tuesday 07 November 2000 23:31, you wrote: > also, in addition to my aforementioned owner/group statement you must also > make all the parent dirs searcheable by a browser which means making > /home/~ dirs rwxr-xr-x > > -x. heh, allow me to interject again to correct my folly.. it should actually be rwxr-x--x what i posted before would create a nice lil security breach for that user -x. -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft ICQ 4841244
Re: [newbie] Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LAN Card (LNE100TX) Installation
On Tuesday 07 November 2000 11:53, you wrote: > > Is it possible to set this card up under Mandrake 7.2? I believe it uses > the tulip driver which I downloaded off the Linksys site but for some > reason it would not compile correctly and would not create a tulip.o file. > Right now I am using an old 3com 10 mbit card, but since I am gonna be > moving large files to the servers using my network I wanna set-up the > Linksys card... if it's not possible anyone wanna reccomend a good card? > All my other computers(Windows) have Linksys cards, and are working > beautifully. i got this same card working under my girlfriend's linux mandrake setup.. sure you're compiling as root? tulip.o should be there if so. if not i can send the tulip.o file through email -x. -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft ICQ 4841244
