Re: [expert] How do I get cron to shutup? = XWINDOWS???

On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 07:05:37AM -0400, thus spake Joseph Jenkins: I am having some problems with X-windows, I just did a clean install and went to 7.1, now whenever my machine starts up it tries to run X and then dies. I didn't have this problem with 7.0, that installed and everything ran

Re: [expert] linuxconf sendmail.cf

On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 08:23:34AM -0600, thus spake Joseph Lee Pereira: Linuxconf points to /usr/lib/linuxconf/mailconf to get the info to generate it's sendmail.cf file. Problem is those old files generate a 8.8.7 sendmail.cf file. I have Sendmail 8.10.1; I need to have linuxconf use the

Re: [expert] ppp dying

On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 06:23:26PM -0400, thus spake Phil: Hi everyone I have been running Mandrake since 6.0 I have just installed a fresh 7.1 Its nice :-) However I configure ppp networking with Linuxconfig and select the user (de)activate option and it all works fine BUT ' after a

[expert] Automatng mail delivery with sendmail

Hi - I've given up the unequal struggle with post fix and gone back to sendmail. But I have a problem. Fetchmail downloads the post, but unless I specify procmail in my .fetchmailrc file as the MDA, the mail is dumped in /var/spool/mqueue. I then have to run /usr/sbin/sendmail -q for the

[expert] Postfix and Procmail

Hi! I'm running Mandrake 7.0 with a dial-up connection. My mail system involves Postfix to send , fetchmail to collect on POP3, procmail to distribute, mutt to read, write and generally be man's best friend! It works! It works because I invoke procmail from within my .fetchmailrc like this

[expert] Ducking the DUL

Hi! I'm on a dial-up connection with Mandrake 7. Following Civilme's inspirational email which came through on the digest yesterday, I decided to bypass my ISP's smtp set-up and send mail out there myself. The ISP's outward post system is erratic to say the least, and if it goes wrong this way

Re: [expert] Ducking the DUL

will not accept anything but mail through an ISP smtp server. I wondered if there was a way of dealing with this - registering somewhere, whatever. Sorry again for idiotic first attempt. Glyn M. On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 02:34:10PM +0100, thus spake Lee Willis: Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

Re: [expert] Urgent Help on configuring Postfix for multiple ISP's

Thanks for the pointer to webmin - didn't realise such a wonderful piece of kit existed! Glyn M. On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 10:52:36AM -0800, thus spake Civileme: And to configure postfix, get it running, then make sure you install webmin-0.80-4mdk.noarch.rpm and use it to configure

[expert] Filesystem mount / fstab query

Hi! I'm running Mandrake 7.0. When I boot up and the start-up scripts are running I get this message Mounting local filesystems mount : no medium found FAILED As far as I can see I am able to mount floppies and CD's by hand, and am puzzled by the message. Is there something amiss with

Re: [expert] mail problem

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:37:28PM -0700, thus spake Wizaerd: I've got a linux box I'm trying to install sendmail from the RPM, and it tells me I have a conflict with postfix. I tried uninstalling postfix and it told me it was needed for mutt. SO I tried to uninstall mutt (all of this using

[expert] fvwm2 on Mandrake

Hi! I'm running Mandrake 7 with its wonderful KDE desktop and it's great! Now and again, though, nostalgia overwhelms me and I would like to run fvwm or fvwm2 - nicely uncluttered! I've tried firing it up through an ~/.Xclients file, with a functional .fvwm2rc file in the Home directory and

Re: [expert] high CPU load under MDK7

Sounds like slocate updating it's database. On my system (Mandrake 7) it does this daily. Have a look in the /etc/cron* files to see how yours is set up. Harmless, and useful for finding things. "man slocate" will reveal all. HTH Glyn M. On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 11:08:40PM -0600, thus

Re: [expert] Several Problems

Hm. Try the latest kernel on the Cooker. It contains the module you need for this (well I have a CMI8738 - and it works.) Kernel 2.2.15-0.18mdk Instructions for installing a new kernel are available on Mandrake User org. HTH Glyn M. On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 12:32:05PM -0400, thus spake

Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

ot/message other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda1 append="" read-only On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 08:16:29AM -0800, thus spake Civileme: Glyn Millington wrote: Wow! I tried this and it th

[expert] Re: Old chestnut

Thanks for all the help on my "missing memory" Seems the onboard video is grabbing a handful! TVM Glyn -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of it's parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder

[expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

This is an old question but for me its a new machine. It's an AMd K6 450 with 32 mb RAM (soon to be increased!) On firing up Mandrake 7 (with kernel 2.2.15-0.18mdk), it tells me I have 23MB ram. I've added append = "mem=32m" to lilo.conf with no effect. Can anyone tell me what is going on

Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

Wow! I tried this and it threw my kernel into a panic - had to dig out the rescue disk etc. My first real emergency! I'm only guessing - is the kernel using up 9 MB? and panics when not allowed that space? All explantions welcome! TIA Glyn On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 06:48:11AM -0400, thus

Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

That's it - the graphics board uses 8MB. Thanks for this; glad I don't need to play with Lilo any more! TVM Glyn M. On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:32:29PM +0200, thus spake Wolfgang Bornath: On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:48 +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: This is an old question but for me its

Re: [expert] Sounds pathetic!

. Tom Glyn Millington wrote: Hi there! Having been unable to get any noise out of my sound card under Mandrake 7,(2.2.14-15mdk) I followed some advice given on this list and upgraded to the new kernel on the Cooker 2.2.15-0.18mdk - and hey the sound card works!! BUT barely

[expert] Sounds pathetic!

Hi there! Having been unable to get any noise out of my sound card under Mandrake 7,(2.2.14-15mdk) I followed some advice given on this list and upgraded to the new kernel on the Cooker 2.2.15-0.18mdk - and hey the sound card works!! BUT barely - the volume is pathetic, barely audible.

Re: [expert] Mail programs

If you want good AND stable you need Mutt, sendmail, fetchmail and procmail, all on your Mandrake cd. Not gui though! Glyn M. On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 04:05:19PM +1000, thus spake Wayne Petherick: I am slowly getting used to Linux and am currently looking for a good GUI mail client. At the

Re: [expert] News reader?

SLRN will not, to the best of my knowledge, download anything! On the system I was suggesting Leafnode does the fetching and carrying. SLRN deals with the news when it has arrived, reading, replying posting etc (for all that off-line you need slrnpull too, which is also on the Mandrake CD -

Re: [expert] News reader?

SLRN is the answer! And it should be available on your Mandrake CD. Homepage is, http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html anmd the redoubtable Sven's slrn page is worth a visit http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/slrn/ Set it up with leafnode to collect your news so that you xcan read

Re: [expert] KDE icons disappeared

Hi, don't pretend to be an expert but the simple act of installing Mandrake 7 had similar effects for me. In Midnight commander ("mc" from the command line) try checking whether you have the same files in your root KDE setup as in "me" home directory. And are they same size? If not copy 'em

Re: [expert] Procmail

On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 03:19:35PM -0700, thus spake Charles Curley: On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 08:48:34AM +, Glyn Millington wrote: - - - Which MTAs do you use - sendmail, fetchmail...? Sendmail - - If so then Martin Hollands wonderful Noether Linux page has - plenty

Re: [expert] Procmail

On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 03:19:35PM -0700, thus spake Charles Curley: That is the text of my ~/.forward file I got the offending line from http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/, another web page where the author looks like she knows what she is doing. Sorry - second

Re: [expert] printing non-ascii in mandrake 7 broken

Hi, I'm also running Mandrake 7 - its beautiful - though only with a Bj200. Because I had used it successfully under Man 6.1, I installed Apsfilter, which is freely available on the net, and it worked like a dream. If you don't get any clever solutions to this - I'm very much a newbie

[expert] CMI 8738 sound card on mandrake 7

Hi! I've finally plucked up courage and installed Mandrake 7. At last I have a system that detects my sound card - that's progress, but it still doesn't support the actual production of sound! The card, according to Lothar, is a PCI sound-card, a CMI 8738. Has anyone else out there found

Re: [expert] Printer question

Can't help with the printer but maybe with the mail. Facing exactly the same problem on Mandrake 6.1 I found help on the Noether Linux page http://www.noether.freeserve.co.uk which gives very explicit instructions on how to set up "fetchmail" and "sendmail". Fetchmail can easily be set up to

[expert] Xterms in KDE

Greetings. How do I change the colours of background and text in an Xterm on KDE - it doesn't seem to respond to .Xdefaults adjustments. Many thanks for any light you can shed on this Glyn M.

[expert] Xterm background colour

How do I get a nice BLACK background to Xterms in KDE - and for that matter change the colour of the foreground too. They don't seem to respond to .Xdefaults! Thanks in advance for any suggestions Glyn M.