Re: Upgrading XFree86 4.1 to 4.2

2002-04-08 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sunday 07 April 2002 07:31 pm, Susan Macchia wrote: Hi all, I'm running a pretty much stock SuSE 7.3 distro running XFree 4.1.1 with kde 2.2.1 and gnome 1.4. I'm thinking of upgrading to XFree86 4.2 and was wondering if I'd have to update my kde and gnome packages. Having never

Re: procmail, day 2

2002-04-08 Thread m.w.Chang
Already did that. That's how I came up with the first version of my /etc/procmailrc. I am going to steal a few lines from your attached procmailrc recipe. I still don't quite understand the locking concept in procmail, and regex, let alone writing my own rules. Need more time... Well, I

Re: speed of transfer

2002-04-08 Thread m.w.Chang
rushing to freshmeat... Net Llama! wrote: Actually, i found it. PPPStatus ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.

[OT] disk space and fatware

2002-04-08 Thread m.w.Chang
you know how those disk space was being used up? artwork and animation, plus bloated object-oriented GUI stuffs. Are they important? well.. any answer wouldn't change the reality. then the cost of a 60 Gig at Future Shop. When I bought my first 105 Meg HD ($500 Cdn) I wondered how the heck

Re: speed of transfer

2002-04-08 Thread m.w.Chang
I also found ethstatus. I wonder what buzzwords one should use to locate this kind of gimmicks. [root@server PPPStatus-v0.4.2]# make cc -O2 -Wall -c -o pppstatus.o pppstatus.c pppstatus.c:45: net/if_ppp.h: No such file or directory make: *** [pppstatus.o] Error 1 Net Llama! wrote: Actually,

Re: speed of transfer

2002-04-08 Thread m.w.Chang
about the error: I used the q-and-d way by changing net/if_ppp.h to linux/if_ppp.h any more elegant, graceful solution? [root@server PPPStatus-v0.4.2]# make cc -O2 -Wall -c -o pppstatus.o pppstatus.c pppstatus.c:45: net/if_ppp.h: No such file or directory make: *** [pppstatus.o] Error 1

Re: Upgrading XFree86 4.1 to 4.2

2002-04-08 Thread Susan Macchia
Thanks! This was exactly what I was looking for ! Douglas J Hunley wrote: On Sunday 07 April 2002 19:31, Susan Macchia wrote: Hi all, I'm running a pretty much stock SuSE 7.3 distro running XFree 4.1.1 with kde 2.2.1 and gnome 1.4. I'm thinking of upgrading to XFree86 4.2 and was

Re: speed of transfer

2002-04-08 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on April 08, m.w.Chang managed to emit: I also found ethstatus. I wonder what buzzwords one should use to locate this kind of gimmicks. [root@server PPPStatus-v0.4.2]# make cc -O2 -Wall -c -o pppstatus.o pppstatus.c pppstatus.c:45: net/if_ppp.h: No such file or

Re: Time card

2002-04-08 Thread =?x-user-defined?q?toylet=2Elinux=5B=A4p=AA=B1=B7N=5D?=
I wrote an attendance system using foxpro for my company. :) Ted Ozolins wrote: Has anyone come acrossed a time card (time clock) program? I've been using spread_sheets to keep track of time spent on various contracts but that is getting to become more of a pain then its worth. I might as

OT KDE3

2002-04-08 Thread Rick Sivernell
Well after 2 days Dougs help in scripts, I have built installed have kde3 up and running, then I put xfce to be in front of kde3 HE HE. Life is good again. One question now. WhenI start xfce from the login screen I get a xfce that is crippled, I then quit it and the real nice xfce starts.

Re: KDE 3.0 is out!

2002-04-08 Thread Matthew Carpenter
check /etc/X11/wmsession.d/* On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 22:29:00 -0800 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.1 on the lab rat. Downloaded the KDE3 rpm binaries for man8.1 and did the install. I can run kde3 from the console (runlevel 3) How ever even though kde3 appears in

Re: procmail, day 2

2002-04-08 Thread Matthew Carpenter
what does you config look like? Do the first lines of each rule make sense? Or does procmail think you are listing two lock files? You can typically go without the lockfiles. On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:36:48 -0500 Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 05 April 2002 01:54,

Re: kde3 rocks!

2002-04-08 Thread Matthew Carpenter
What are the caveats to compiling (or did you get SuSE RPMS)? On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 13:04:19 -0500 Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 05 April 2002 13:02, Net Llama wrote: does it suck? not for me -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778

Re: kde3 rocks!

2002-04-08 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Please. I'd like to see it. Then if anyone would like to host these and any other COL3.1.x RPMs, I would like to supply them. I simply don't have to online-space to take advantage of (yet?). On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 21:39:52 -0500 Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 05 April 2002

Re: speed of transfer

2002-04-08 Thread Net Llama!
Create the symlink tht belong in /usr/include to /usr/src/linux/include On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, m.w.Chang wrote: about the error: I used the q-and-d way by changing net/if_ppp.h to linux/if_ppp.h any more elegant, graceful solution? [root@server PPPStatus-v0.4.2]# make cc -O2 -Wall -c

Re: speed of transfer

2002-04-08 Thread Net Llama!
/usr/include/net/if_ppp.h /usr/src/linux-2.4.18/include/linux/if_ppp.h On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, m.w.Chang wrote: I also found ethstatus. I wonder what buzzwords one should use to locate this kind of gimmicks. [root@server PPPStatus-v0.4.2]# make cc -O2 -Wall -c -o pppstatus.o pppstatus.c

Re: kde(3) mutterings

2002-04-08 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Guys! I believe this is a config setting. Don't ask me what it is, but I'm pretty sure of it. On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 21:36:01 -0700 Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the things I don't like is kdm. It seems there used to be a way, but the current kdm has no way to exit X to a normal

Re: kde(3) mutterings

2002-04-08 Thread Jay Nugent
Greetings, On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote: Guys! I believe this is a config setting. Don't ask me what it is, but I'm pretty sure of it. On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 21:36:01 -0700 Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the things I don't like is kdm. It seems there used to be

Re: kde3 rocks!

2002-04-08 Thread Douglas J Hunley
On Monday 08 April 2002 10:48, Matthew Carpenter wrote: What are the caveats to compiling (or did you get SuSE RPMS)? 1. time. 2. dependencies 3. time I never use rpms if I can avoid it -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep -

Re: guru input needed! (re-inventing disk quotas)

2002-04-08 Thread Net Llama!
THis sounds like it would work, except, what happens if someone wants to pay for 20MB of space? Sure, you could create a loop back file of 20MB, but this doesn't seem all that elegant. Also, copying the contents of one 'allocation' to a larger one is also not all that elegant. On Mon, 8 Apr

guru input needed! (re-inventing disk quotas)

2002-04-08 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Morning all: I have a client that wants to migrate to Linux from Solaris, but one of their main gotchas is the quota support in Linux. They believe (as do I) that quotas seem to be the first thing broken (and the last thing fixed) whever a change is introduced into the fs or block

Re: guru input needed! (re-inventing disk quotas)

2002-04-08 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Douglas J Hunley wrote: On Monday 08 April 2002 12:56, Net Llama! wrote: THis sounds like it would work, except, what happens if someone wants to pay for 20MB of space? Sure, you could create a loop back file of 20MB, but this doesn't seem all that elegant. Also,

Re: guru input needed! (re-inventing disk quotas)

2002-04-08 Thread Douglas J Hunley
On Monday 08 April 2002 12:56, Net Llama! wrote: THis sounds like it would work, except, what happens if someone wants to pay for 20MB of space? Sure, you could create a loop back file of 20MB, but this doesn't seem all that elegant. Also, copying the contents of one 'allocation' to a

Re: QT Install problems

2002-04-08 Thread Douglas J Hunley
On Monday 08 April 2002 14:44, Tim Wunder wrote: BTW, If I'm compiling qt3 in the directory where it will ultimately be installed, is there a reason to even perfom a 'make install'? I unpacked the qt tarball, moved the resulting directory to /usr/lib/qt-free-x11-3.0.3 (or whatever it was).

Re: QT Install problems

2002-04-08 Thread Tim Wunder
Douglas J Hunley wrote: On Sunday 07 April 2002 14:11, Brian Witowski wrote: make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/qt/qmake' [ -d /usr/local/qt/bin ] || mkdir -p /usr/local/qt/bin is this directory getting made? cp -f /usr/local/qt/bin/qmake /usr/local/qt/bin this line is

Re: guru input needed! (re-inventing disk quotas)

2002-04-08 Thread Douglas J Hunley
On Monday 08 April 2002 13:13, Net Llama! wrote: Sure, but would it maintain data integrity, or just give you a gob of data 20MB in size? dunno. guess I'll go play. methinks /home/netllama looks like a good candidate ;) (teasing!) -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User

Re: QT Install problems

2002-04-08 Thread Tim Wunder
Douglas J Hunley wrote: On Monday 08 April 2002 14:44, Tim Wunder wrote: BTW, If I'm compiling qt3 in the directory where it will ultimately be installed, is there a reason to even perfom a 'make install'? I unpacked the qt tarball, moved the resulting directory to

Re: QT Install problems

2002-04-08 Thread Keith Antoine
On Monday 08 April 2002 02:44 pm, Tim Wunder wrote: OK, I'm getting a similar problem with checkinstall. My $QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3.0.3 QT compiles, ie make completes without error (I had to add $QTDIR and $QTDIR/qmake to my $PATH, but it compiled). When I execute checkinstall, it errors out

Re: QT Install problems

2002-04-08 Thread Douglas J Hunley
On Tuesday 09 April 2002 07:43, Keith Antoine wrote: I do not know how they make an rpm of qt but you will find that there is no way to make install. It is supposed to be compiled to /xxx/xxx/kde3 with a ./configure --prefix=/usr/lib/kde3 and a make is all thats required so checkinstall will

Re: QT Install problems

2002-04-08 Thread Douglas J Hunley
On Monday 08 April 2002 15:14, Tim Wunder wrote: 'checkinstall make'. Wouldn't that work? But, now that I think about it. that would work. What's so terribly dificult about rm'ing the directory if I want to unistall it? I might just forego the checkinstall step altogether... nothing. but

Re: guru input needed! (re-inventing disk quotas)

2002-04-08 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on April 08, Douglas J Hunley managed to emit: Morning all: I have a client that wants to migrate to Linux from Solaris, but one of their main gotchas is the quota support in Linux. They believe (as do I) that quotas seem to be the first thing broken (and the

Re: Gentoo news OT

2002-04-08 Thread Collins
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 22:33:56 -0500 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scribbling feverishly on April 07, Collins managed to emit: All is well in gentoo land (for me at least). [snip] Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD? What is WWTLRD?, pray tell? Anything like WWJD? What would

Re: Gentoo news OT

2002-04-08 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on April 07, Collins managed to emit: On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 22:33:56 -0500 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is WWTLRD?, pray tell? Anything like WWJD? What would the lone ranger do? Gotcha. thanks. Kurt -- Slow day. Practice crawling.

OpenOffice641D

2002-04-08 Thread Collins
Has anyone else tried this? FWIW, I found it to be DOA. 1) I tried inserting a chart based on some spreadsheet cells, and it crapped out 2) I tried keying a document and saving it - crapped out again, and it left a whole bunch of temp files in my home directory. I've reverted to 641C. The

Re: kde(3) mutterings

2002-04-08 Thread Jay Nugent
Greetings, On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Tim Wunder wrote: Previously, Jay Nugent chose to write: Greetings, snip You don't EVER have to drop out of X and into a TTY to do work as root. Not even to update X? or your video driver? or your login manager? or your window manager? or your

elx pregold

2002-04-08 Thread Ken Moffat
Anyone tried the elx pregold beta release? -- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove _NO_SPAM_)! ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the

Re: xfree-lite

2002-04-08 Thread m.w.Chang
You should give it a try if you don't like IE. But IE is too popular among the kids to be removed from Win98 or be ignored anyway. Kurt Wall wrote: we have 98lite for Window$ 98 to knock out IE. Never heard of it, but I do as little as possible in the Windows world. Is it do-able after

OT installation

2002-04-08 Thread m.w.Chang
Of one thing that I liked about DOS: There were little dependence between products. SO you can always add/remove packages without breaking others. YOu always knew where your data and the program (games, dbase, wordstar, wordperfect, lotus, harvard graphics, ...) were (well, at least in my

FYI AirConnect Wireless AP

2002-04-08 Thread Bill Day
witht he help of another list mate, I was able to get a wireless access point up, without the use of their software. Change the admin password via the webinterface and get my wifes laptop on the move in the house. the default password is comcomcom, found by Dave Aikema (as I never received