Re: [newbie] Fortify install

1999-10-25 Thread sphilp
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 06:45:09PM -0500, Jeanette Russo wrote: John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: After installation and testing at www.fortify.net (README file online), you should consider repeating the procedure to fortify netscape-navigator as well.

Re: [newbie] upgrading

1999-10-25 Thread sphilp
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 05:25:01PM -0600, Patrick Neumann wrote: A couple of quick questions 1. I am using Mandrake 6.0 and would like to us VMware ver 1.1 which requires xfree86 3.3.4 and ver 6 of mandrake only uses 3.3.1 What is the simplest way of getting this done. Grab the updated

Re: [newbie] Printer lpq unsolved -- data

1999-10-25 Thread R_Yeo
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear R_Yeo and friends: Here is the output of a series of commands suggested by you to test my printer. The printer itself works fine and the file in question ("shore") printed perfectly several times. And my printer (Epson Stylus Color 600) passed the three

Re: [newbie] Utilities menu -- Reading the bottom?

1999-10-25 Thread Andrew M George
Hi Benjamin. Thats exactly what I did...copied the items into the new menu...and then when I was sure they were working I deleted them out of the old menu (long...but I was paranoid I'd loose an item). If you right click on an item in Kmenuedit you will find an interesting popup appearing with

Re: [newbie] Utilities menu -- Reading the bottom?

1999-10-25 Thread Alex V Flinsch
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: Dear Andrew: Could you put me out of my misery, please :) and show precisely how to move a menu item from one submenu to another? I created the submenu Utilities II, so now I have Utilities I and Utilities II (I always said I was a mathematical genius!).

Re: [newbie] Sound

1999-10-25 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
And to think I was trying to help this thief a few days ago ... Ernie On Sun, 24 Oct 1999,Mr-X- wrote: | wow steve i fear your ability to forward emails from a list to | companies that proly get so many emails a day they delete it all. | and i didnt boast about cracking it.. someone

Re: [newbie] Where is my message ????

1999-10-25 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
This is just to let you know that your message got on the list. I use Kmail KFM for my internet purposes, and can not be of any help. Sorry, Ernie On Sun, 24 Oct 1999,Dominique Deleris wrote: | | It's the 5th time I send a message about Netscape to the list, and it | never appeared !

Re: [newbie] FrameBuffer

1999-10-25 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Piyush Patnaik wrote: Hi All! Can anyone tell me about installing framebuffers. I've rebuild my XServer for using XFree86_FBDev...and made necessary changes to lilo.confbut when I boot up the next time nothing apperars after linux loads. Does anyone know where is

Re: [newbie] Postfix mail will not deliver locally, will not errorback

1999-10-25 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On 25 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve, But If I remember correctly, qmail doesn't come with IMAP support. But niether does postfix, or sendmail. imap support is provided by the imap package Ken -- If I might suggest

Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster CDROM

1999-10-25 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
To the best of my knowlege, the documentation is under the /usr/doc folder. Look in the HOWTO folder for what you need, or in the sub-folder "mini". I do not know if this is the right location, but most of the documentation I have found is there. Ernie On Sun, 24 Oct 1999,Earl Karch wrote: |

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems

1999-10-25 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
Yes there is, the isapnptools. But you will want to read the documentation in /usr/doc/isapnptools/*. The information there is relatively complex, so be well rested when you start. In essence what you do is run pnpdump /etc/isaapnp.conf then edit the /etc/isapnp.conf file for your specific

Re: [newbie] Fortify install

1999-10-25 Thread Rick Murphy
Ok well I vaguely remember when picking packages that I don't think I installed Navigator thinking I didn't need both. Jr. click on your rpm button and cruise around a little and see if it is loaded. If it is click on it and the rpm program will tell you where it is installed. If it is not

[newbie] Connect

1999-10-25 Thread jeff
Hello. I have setup a Linux box for a file server. I am having trouble with win 98 connecting. I feel that the settings in 98 are no correct. Does anyone here have any experiences with this ? Thanks Jeff

[newbie] remove

1999-10-25 Thread Ken Stahlhut

Re: [newbie] Fortify install

1999-10-25 Thread Hugh
Okay since I started this I must ask .Why would anyone need to install both? I have always used one never two Hugh On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote: Ok well I vaguely remember when picking packages that I don't think I installed Navigator thinking I didn't need both. Jr. click on your

Re: [newbie] FrameBuffer

1999-10-25 Thread Piyush Patnaik
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Piyush Patnaik wrote: Hi All! Can anyone tell me about installing framebuffers. I've rebuild my XServer for using XFree86_FBDev...and made necessary changes to lilo.confbut when I boot up the next time nothing apperars after linux

Re: [newbie] DNS server analysis tool?

1999-10-25 Thread M Thompson
I can't answer your question specifically. When looking for an application that performs a certain function, I usually recommend the following links: 1) www.linuxberg.com (all software is rated on a scale of one penguin to five penquins and the site includes a brief explanation of the

[newbie] screen lockup @ shutdown

1999-10-25 Thread Stanley O'Larey
I'm relatively new to Linux. tried to install Redhat 5.2, failed, installed Caldera 2.2, it worked. Boot magic inabled me to run several partitions, Win98, win 3.11, and Linux. Next installed Mandrake 6.0 over Caldera, then upgraded to Mandrake 6.1. I have a 8.4 gig HD, AMD 300 chip. Now the

RE: [newbie] Connect

1999-10-25 Thread raschn
Jeff, I have set up a linux box to server files for Win 98, but it required SAMBA. Let me know what you are trying to do, and I will do what I can to help you out. :) Nate -Original Message- From: jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 01, 1998 4:06 AM To: [EMAIL

[newbie] Re: KDE Enlightenment

1999-10-25 Thread The Cyberian
SG Is enlightenment KDE compliant? if so how do i go about getting it to run SG under KDE? kde.org wasnt much help sad to say. . . Yes Enlightenment is KDE compliant :-) I am running the latest release DR 0.16 of Enlightenment under KDE right now. While kde.org doesn't have much info, if

[newbie] PnP

1999-10-25 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta Hello all!! I have been running mandrake 6 for about a good 2 months now without a hitch *cross fingers* recently I upgraded from a K6-2 350 (AMD) to a K6-2 450 (AMD). b4 my upgrade everything ran smooth as a babys bottom. now I am unable to get any of my Plug -n-

Re: [newbie] Mouse config.

1999-10-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hello, My first visit to this list -- having problems configuring my mouse after installing Linux (Mamdrake) 6.5. Have been lucky enough to clunk my way around via the keyboard, found a few games and text editors. Try booting to console mode. Log in

Re: [newbie] DNS server analysis tool?

1999-10-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: On the Mac there is a great commercial DNS server analysis tool called "DNS expert" available that queries a DNS server and looks for misconfigurations and security issues for any given domain name you choose. However, it is a hundred bucks and I cannot

RE: [newbie] Utilities menu -- Reading the bottom?

1999-10-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote: I would suspect, if the program is nice (in KDE) that the menu editor may conform to the CTRL + X key combo and CTRL + V combo for the cut and paste respectively. Yes. Most programs work OK with the CTRL-X and CTRL-V. John

RE: [newbie] Fortify install

1999-10-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote: This then begs the question, what if the host site you're visiting does not have that level of encryption? What purpose does it serve then? And what if it's using a totally different encryption algorithm from Fortify's? As I understand it, you get 128-bit

[newbie] SB Awe 32

1999-10-25 Thread Todd White
I am a bit daunted by the isapnp.conf file .. is there anyone out there running a sb awe 32 that could send me a copy of their isapnp.conf file? just so i can get a handle on it a bit more. Thanks Todd White

[newbie] FTPd

1999-10-25 Thread Rafael
Hi Friends! What's the best and easiest to configure FTPd that I can use?

[newbie] Utilities -- Reading bottom -- Solved!

1999-10-25 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Thanks so much to all of you for your help. OK, I feel like an idiot. But, you all know (putting on my Chinese wise man hat :) if you fail to get past the first step of a set of instructions (no matter how simple), you'll never get to the next step. (Taking off his Chinese wise

[newbie] Re: Home network

1999-10-25 Thread Jaguar
I am running Mandrake 6.0, and I can connect the box to the 'Net using my cable modem. What I would like to do is make the Linux Box a firewall/server for other computer's downstream. I have Samba installed ( but not used yet ). What other hardware besides NIC's ie: 5 Port Hub, or ??, would be

Re: [newbie] FrameBuffer

1999-10-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote: To start with, during installation from the CD I enabled framebuffer use.after that I made changes to my lilo.confhere is my lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-27mdk Looks like you don't have a

Re: [newbie] Connect

1999-10-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 01 Jan 1998, you wrote: Hello. I have setup a Linux box for a file server. I am having trouble with win 98 connecting. I feel that the settings in 98 are no correct. Does anyone here have any experiences with this ? Do you mean using Windows networking Or are you talking about

RE: Re[2]: [newbie]

1999-10-25 Thread R. 'Trebor' Groves
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/index.html LinuxNewbie.org has what they call NHF Newbieized Help Files the link above will take you to their INTEL versions... one in the top of the list is "Compiling" and under that menu you'll find Kernel Compiling. It is by far the best I've read.

Re: [newbie] Connect

1999-10-25 Thread jeff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, I have set up a linux box to server files for Win 98, but it required SAMBA. Let me know what you are trying to do, and I will do what I can to help you out. :) Nate Hey Nate. I have the Samba installed on the linux box. What I can't seem to get is the

Re: [newbie] Re: Home network

1999-10-25 Thread hevnsnt
I also am setting up a similar network. Using IPmasqurating (or however you spell it) I was wondering if you can watch (not spy hold on) what the other computers are doing on the inet. I currently have an um, cough other OS network setup, and at certain times our total bandwith (56k wow! heh)

[newbie] MOre Printer Woes!

1999-10-25 Thread WH Bouterse
I am continuing to be caught in printer configuration problems. I have had the most trouble in 4 YEARS to configure this frequently used printer! Have I lost what little Linux knowledge I thought I knew!? I certainly dont mind admitting my ignorance if someone can point it out to me :-) My last

[newbie] Linux and upgrades

1999-10-25 Thread Smith, Bill
I don't understand how Linux and the various distributions handle upgrades. For example: I have RedHat 6.0 installed and I decided to flesh it out / upgrade it with Mandrake 6.5. I didn't see anything in the documentation regarding upgrades versus full installs so I started using gnorpm to

Re: [newbie] Connect

1999-10-25 Thread jeff
Plain text passowrds. Humm That I will give a try.. Thanks.. Jeff

RE: [newbie] Re: Home network

1999-10-25 Thread Singer XJ Wang
Do NOT setup Firewall or PROXY, most Cable Provider forbid those servers. What you need is a IP Masquerdaging [damnit, I hate spelling] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jaguar Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 1:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Re: Home network

1999-10-25 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta This is my setup at home. winblows 98 with a 10/100 nic connected to a 5 port autosensing hub the tcp/ip settings are set such that I have assigned it the ip of 10.100.100.13 and the dns server is my firewal box (10.100.100.1) The firewall box has two 3c509 nic's one

[newbie] stdarg.ph

1999-10-25 Thread Ben
I'm trying to install some CPAN bundles and keep getting this error; Can't locat stdarg.ph in @INC (did you run h2ph?) I've run h2ph as suggested, on the directories suggested, but the error persists. After doing some searching, I found a Red Hat errata about this, but the solution offered cd

[newbie] psaux and keyboard locking up

1999-10-25 Thread Timothée Revil
It seems I have a common problem which has no solution... I have a Diamond V770 and a PS/2 mouse, a MouseMan+PS/2 to be exact. I can't set my mouse with either XF86Setup or xf86config under either RedHat 6.0 or Mandrake 6.1. I have seen that many people are writing to this list with the same

Re: [newbie] Where is my message ????

1999-10-25 Thread Dominique Deleris
John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: %_It's the 5th time I send a message about Netscape to the list, and it never appeared ! What's happening ? I attached it to my mail. Are messages about Netscape filtered ? First, Please double-check that you're

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Netscape -- lib5? Really?

1999-10-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote: I just installed Netscape 4.7 (glibc2) and after 3 days of use hasn't crashed. I installed the Plugger plug-in and this time works. With 6.1 Nescape crashed every time the plug-in was started. Kewl. I might have to give that a shot, then! :-) John

Re: [newbie] psaux and keyboard locking up

1999-10-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote: No this doesn't work either.. Sorry, I forgot to mention that configuring my mouse for psaux (the others not working) locks up my keyboard and mouse... psaux??? Not familiar with that config. Are you using serial or PS/2 mouse? Or are you trying to use a PS/2

Re: [newbie] windows screws up linux

1999-10-25 Thread Dux Gregis
First, please stop posting in HTML. Second: Which version of Mandrake did you install? If you installed Mandrake 6.0, did you perform the kernel and initscripts upgrade? If not, that's likely the problem. There is a known bug in the 6.0 distribution which will cause the hard drives to fail

Re: [newbie] SQL on Linux

1999-10-25 Thread Michael R. Batchelor
Does anyone know of a good online SQL tutorial for a db novice regarding linux specifically? Should I be looking toward MySQL or is there another Linux SQL package that is worth investing time in? Thanks for any direction. It really depends on how much you know about SQL. If you don't know

[newbie] remove

1999-10-25 Thread Lawrence Parker
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Re: [newbie] windows screws up linux

1999-10-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote: thanks, I got it working :) but still, if linux doesn't cleanly unmount on account of a crash or the like I can't get x windows running again. It must be possible to get it working without reinstalling linux, running fsck doesn't seem to help (maybe I'm not

Re: [newbie] Mouse config.

1999-10-25 Thread King144a
In a message dated 10/25/99 10:29:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try booting to console mode. Log in as "root" and run /usr/sbin/mouseconfig. Which mouse do you have? If it's a ps/2 style mouse, you should be able to select "generic PS/2 mouse" and "emulate 3

[newbie] Kernel version

1999-10-25 Thread Yifan Yu
Can someone tell me what version is the kernel that comes with Mandrake 6.1? - Yifan

Re: [newbie] psaux and keyboard locking up

1999-10-25 Thread Timothée Revil
My mouse is a PS/2, but isn't that configured under psaux in linux?? PS/2 mice use IRQ 12, well at least mine does ;) And my PS/2 mouse port seems to be enabled because while linux is loading, I see PS/2 mouse port detected, and mouseconfig tells me "Mouse found on PS/2 port".. but when I enable

Re: [Re: [newbie] FTPd]

1999-10-25 Thread Jaguar
heheh "Bugs...we ain't got no bugs...they're FEATURES" paraphrased from Unca Bill Gates @ MicroSHAFT...:) ( just kidding tho...:)) Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rafael wrote: Hi Friends! What's the best and easiest to configure FTPd that I can use? Interesting question give

Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity

1999-10-25 Thread R_Yeo
Mark Nina Drake wrote: Okay, I have set up my internet connection using netcfg. I get a dialing sound and my computer goes through the motions of connecting to my ISP. They seem to connect because I can see the the send and receive indicators blinking on my external modem. When I try

Re: (OT) Re: [newbie] Office Suites

1999-10-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hi Matt, Check out greed - its quite a useful program http://www.public.asu.edu/~arturner/greed/ is the url and I think its on freshmeat as well ... Zak In response to the long downloads, which Linux download manager does everyone recommend?