Re: [newbie] How to change graphical environment in 7.2
Open up a terminal window and type switchdesk At 09:02 PM 11/08/2000 -0500, you wrote: 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 Squashman dit, embrasse mon fesse.
Re: [newbie] URGENT
You know the say that GOD saves. Root is God and you should be saving a copy of your shadow password file. If you did not then so be it. Do you not remember what your password is. Then boot into linux single mode. At 04:30 PM 11/06/2000 -0800, you wrote: TiGereYe wrote: i have a problem here i lost my root pass...i loaded up the rescue imageand went to edit /etc/passwd as advised. but...i couldnt figure out how to change it...in there it says... root::0:0::/:/bin/bash what do i edit in that to reset the pass? and if there is a better way that would be better...thanks for your help TiGereYe - Accept No Substitutes - --- -- Dont Start Racin Or I will Start Racin...Bets On That You'll Be Disgracin. __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup TiGereYeyour encryped passwords will be in your /etc/shadow file. -- Alan Squashman dit, embrasse mon fesse.
Re: [newbie] No user pwd needed on startup
You might want to check your inittab file in /etc See what the run level is set to. At 05:40 PM 11/06/2000 +0100, you wrote: Hallo!! I've installed 7.2 on my laptop and i've changed something... don't know where!! It's booting directly to my user account without asking me for the password! Where are those settings?? Thanks!! ;-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Squashman dit, embrasse mon fesse.
RE: [newbie] No user pwd needed on startup
The file is inittab and the run level should be 3 for multiuser mode. At 12:46 PM 11/06/2000 -0500, you wrote: Just my guess: You might have set runlevel to something like 2 or 3. I don't remember exactly which file in /etc you need to look. My guess is /etc/init.rc. It should be set to 4 (multi-user) or 5 (multi-user with graphical login screen). Hope this helps. Andy -- From:Joan Tur[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Monday, November 06, 2000 11:40 AM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] No user pwd needed on startup Hallo!! I've installed 7.2 on my laptop and i've changed something... don't know where!! It's booting directly to my user account without asking me for the password! Where are those settings?? Thanks!! ;-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Squashman dit, embrasse mon fesse.
Re: [newbie] Windows
Could you people please discuss this outside of the mailing list. I am getting sick and tired of it. At 09:13 PM 11/03/2000 -0700, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bills got enough money so i could care less And just how much money is too much? Is it the amount more than you have? I don't buy into the class envy deal or socialist mentality. I've nothing more to address on this issue ... it's starting to smell like a troll to me. -Charles Squashman dit, embrasse mon fesse.
Re: [newbie] Samba
First of all why are you using swat. At 03:11 PM 11/01/2000 -0600, you wrote: Ok, I have been through two different configure setups, one from Linuxnewbie and the other from a book called "Mastering Linux". Neither of which reflects the current Samba 2.0.7 that I am using and I have also looked at the mandrake site. Anyone know of a good source to guide me through setting up Samba? I'm close but can't quite get there with the available info. Swat won't make the changes for me. I get a error message that says My computer is not authorized access. Should I have been in root and not gone to a browser as a plain ole user? Advise is, as usual, always welcome. -- Dennis M. a registered Linux user #180842 Squashman dit, embrasse mon fesse.
RE: [newbie] Windows
AMEN At 06:22 AM 11/03/2000 -0700, you wrote: It doesn t matter if anyone s making money from your piracy. Pirating software is a crime, no matter if it s friends sharing a program or a business selling illegal copies. I m all for free distribution of software. That s why I like the ideas behind Linux so much. I may not agree with some laws, but they are still the laws and we should abide by them until we can change them. Sorry, I m afraid that was more like my FOUR cents I ll get off my soapbox now. CJD -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows In a message dated 02-Nov-00 04:47:33 Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's not exactly something I'd announce on a public mailing list. who in here supports microshaft making money??? with crapy software!! besides they would have to do some serious searching to find me. and although ms has lots of money everyone i know pirates that stuff, if it is worth pirating, no ones making money, i dont have a tech manual that comes with the software, so last i checked it was still legal. it all depends on how you do things Squashman dit, embrasse mon fesse.
Re: [newbie] Installing 7.2: swap problem
NO At 06:14 PM 11/01/2000 -0800, you wrote: Ed Tharp wrote: hey, I am really a newbie , but should not your swap be twice the size of the ram? - Original Message - From: "Brice Ruth" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 4:19 PM Subject: [newbie] Installing 7.2: swap problem Greetings! Veteran Linux user here, tryin' out Mandrake Linux for the first time ... First off, I can't get through the install. Here's what happens: Everything goes along fine until we're in the stage where the hard drive gets partitioned. I have a 6G drive and I wanted to partition it manually ... so I do. 128M swap, 512M root, the rest goes to usr. Don't comment on how intelligent or stupid my partitioning scheme is, please - that shouldn't be at issue here :) The installer partitioning interface works fine, I click "done", it pops up a message about writing the partition table to disk "ok" and then I get the error ... some kind of incomplete sentence about swap. Here it is verbatim: An error occurred swap area needs to be. WTF? so I hit "OK" ... try again ... I've tried a million different things ... I've tried using ALT+F2 to get to the command line, used the fdisk on the CD to manually partition the drive, write out the partition, reboot the system ... no go. This isn't some crazy system ... fairly new, actually. AMD Athlon 700 w/ 6G Seagate medalist pro drive, 128M ram, 66MHz UDMA capable, but I think the drive is actually a 33MHz ... Any help at all would be most sincerely appreciated! Regards, Brice Ruth Check your 'man swap' and you will find they say 128 MB. You can have up to 8 swap partitions (16 according to the LPI study guide). -- Barry :-) Registered Linux User #183879/pre font size=3 /blockquotebr /font Squashman dit, embrasse mon fesse.
Re: [newbie] how 2 change 2 command line
You could do a core dump. Control ALT Backspace. Or you could just set your Inittab file to boot to run level three and then when you want to run X just type StartX from the command line. At 10:38 PM 11/02/2000 +0200, you wrote: OK, I want to do some administrative things that I need to do on command line, without X running (like sndconfig, etc.) In the installation (Custom), I selected to boot to X. Is there an easy way to exit X, either during boot, or afterwards (preferable). I haven't found anything in the application launcher ... TIA creaktop Squashman dit, embrasse mon fesse.
Re: [newbie] egcs1.1.2
try rpmfind.net At 01:55 PM 10/31/2000 -0600, you wrote: Where I can find the rpm of egcs1.1.2 for Mandrake 7.1 ? thanx --- Rodrigo Castro Hernandez Area de Desarrollo Departamento de Computo Universidad Latina de CR --- Squashman dit, embrasse mon fesse.
Re: [newbie] Anybody know if a driver for the HP Deskjet 722C is in the works, or exists under another version of Linux besides Mandrake?
Would it work if you just set it up as a postscript printer. At 04:57 PM 10/30/2000 -0500, you wrote: Hi, I e-mailed to ask how to set up my HP DeskJet 722C under Mandrake 7.1 because I couldn't get it to work under any other drivers. I got a response (thank you!) saying that a driver doesn't exist because it uses a different communication protocol than other printers. Does anyone know if there is a driver in the works or existent in any other version of Linux? I switched to Linux because I was tired of losing time due to crashes when I was doing homework, but Linux is then no good to me if I can't print anything up! Thank you again! -Dan Squashman dit, embrasse mon fesse.
