Sorry, I gave you the wrong qddress in my last post.
here's the correct address
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Dave W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can it be done? I can live with kmail, even though it doesn't do rtf
and html, but I check mail every minute, and that cursed! window pops up
every minute and gets in my way. Can that booger be turned off? I even
tried moving it to another desktop and it
Hi, there
I just came from another Linux dist.
Now I am trying Mandrake ...
can somebody tell me, if there is an administration tool
( for installing a bootloader, hardware, software, network etc.)
and how it is called ?
Thanx
oliver
--Meine Meinungen moegen sich geaendert haben,nicht
The cron daemon.
man cron
man at
man atq
man anacron
Have a look at your crontab file - it controls what starts up, how often
and at what time. It's a scheduler running constantly. In your case, it may
have been cleaning your /tmp directry, rebuilding your RPM database or
several other
Sigh..
Seriously, this is a great list - very helpful. I've only been subscribed
for a few days and was suprised at the signal to noise ratio. However, and
it seems to be the same on many lists, many people throw away the
introdutory message they get when the subscribe. I don't know if
NO!
Dammit!
Address the message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This means put
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the space marked 'address'
It's usually the first box at the top of the screen. Might be called TO: or
something similar.
No click in the bit where it says 'SUBJECT'.
Type UNSUBSCRIBE NEWBIE
For
PAY?
This is Free Software! Open source and all that! :)
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
"John Catral" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 16/02/2000 09:20:24
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM)
Subject: Re: [newbie] SBLive and
Tried 'make xconfig'?
Failing that, browse Makefile to see what targets are defined... targets
are defined like this:
targetname:
stuff stuff stuff
If you still can't work it out, post your makefile to me and I'll have a
look - can't promise anything but I see enough Makefiles at work
You trying to unsubscribe or just replying to other peoples messages wthout
actually adding any text?
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or go to the web page and unsubscribe via the web interface.
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations
Afraid not - I've always used ELM on *nix boxen and I like it.
I've not used /any/ mail packages under Mandrake, as I've currently only
got a 56k WinModem in my box at home and until I get around to installing
the development kernel which supports WinModems I'm only connecting to the
net
KDE seems to write all over there and NEED it's configuration files it
puts there. I had to reinstall. Couldn't ever get it all fixed
properly. :(
Brent Timmer wrote:
Help!! I deleted the files in /tmp(thinking they were only temporary files).
Now I can't get into blackbox, cant run simple
Tried linuxconf?
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
"Oliver Sieben" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 16/02/2000 10:19:17
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM)
Subject: [newbie] mandrake admintool ?
Hi, there
I just came from
Hi folks!
Just a quicky
How can I have a logfile made of all the messages that appear when booting?
It would certainly help me to debug my system...
Cheers:
Michael Perry.
RD. Dep. Netafim Magal.
Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
Try StarOffice.
But, I'm still looking for a linux email client that can handle multiple accounts
for sending.
Seve you should try Mutt (www.mutt.org) for handling multiple acc.
i could send you my Mutt config if you want.
--
Rib
"I
Log in as root to a console window and enter:
cat /proc/interrupts
rharvey wrote:
is there a way to get a list of irq's. in windows you can see what irq
and dma's and addresses are free so you can set an card up to work
with the free resources. where can I find this info at it linux?
dmesg
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
Mike Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 16/02/2000 08:58:08
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM)
Subject: [newbie] boot log
Hi folks!
Just a quicky
How
Where do I click OR how can I create an icon to eject the zip drive?
No, I don't want to type it in a terminal wondow all the time.
Running Mandrake 7.0, by the way how is the 7.2 better?
--
Linux Cat
MediaOne's Roadrunner service is what I have.
Bryan
Speaking of which, does anyone have roadrunner's cable modem
service? If so do they or have they had any such of this kind
of trouble? I am getting roadrunner's (Cox cable) service.
Kmail not doing HTML can only be a good thing IMHO!
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 15/02/2000 16:51:19
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM)
Subject: Re: [[newbie] Can anyone
Eh! Nah! Lovely programs.
Actually, I say this never having used ELM or PINE on my installation. I've
used them both before under other flavours but never under Mandrake. Saying
that,
I used to use ELM as my email package on my Amiga 3000 alongside TIN for
news. Being connected via a modem in
I think they should offer a CD
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, John Catral mewed:
If you gusy want you can just pay $20 for the drivers from
www.opensound.com. You get 2 years of free updates. Its the easiest thing
for your SBlive! =)
John
- Original Message -
From: James Luongo [EMAIL
Someone else on the list is attempting to dothe same thing as myself.
Basically, root has the ability to write files back to my DOS partitions,
whereas 'steve', my normal user does not.
This is very incovenient as it means I have to run my distributed.net
client under root to allow it to
you have not read Shakespeare? Or looked recently at words derived from your
(and my) middle ages heritage. Good Anglo Saxon words are not the same as
gratuitous swearing, if you are so impolite to some admittedly dense
stranger then I would not like to hear your language after hitting your
thumb
You're right, you probably wouldn't
This also has nothing to do with linux, so if you want to continue the
discussion, weshould really take it private
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
"Tony" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 16/02/2000 14:14:18
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Please take me off the mailng to receive the on-going chat blubs.
I am getting too many
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Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
I should perhaps have explained the significance of the email address--I
am 72 years old which might explain some of the oldfarts peccadilloes, have
been playing with computers since the first of Sinclairs efforts and perhaps
might now qualify as oldest Linux student on the block as the
Whilst I agree that people's inabitity to "unsubscribe" can be frustrating I
fail to see the need for the 'f' word in group email. By all means tell the
chap what you think IN PRIVATE. All you do is let yourself down.
John the Nadger
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Not really - that's why I
We can't take you off the list - you need to unsubscribe yourself
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subject :
unsubscribe newbie.
or go to the web page and unsubscribe via the web interface.
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
"tere flynn" [EMAIL
I installed Mandrake 7.0 and want to print to my
HPLaserJet 5P on my WinNT 4.0 server. Samba was already installed by Mandrake
7.0. I also enabled TCP/IP printing on the WinNT server. I can ping the WinNt
server so TCP/IP is working. I tried to install the network SMB WinNT printer
during
Perhaps linux-mandrake could create an "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
or even better re-direct all unsubscribe messages to
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" , might be as bad as one of those DOS
attacks that are becoming so popular these days though for hotmail as I
doubt that their servers could take the load :-(
Jeez
I seem to have caused a bit of a stir with my reply.
I personally don't have a problem 'barrack room language' with it but I
appreciate there are people who do. For this, I apologise unreservedly.
The only reason I posted the message to the list in the first place was
because the gentleman
WHO could help me with mySQL installation?
I have already installed it (the binary), but it doesn`t load. I need some
help, because I am a novice.
Linux 2.0.36 + Apache 1.2.14 or something similar
Thanks,
Marc
*
* MERCATOR GmbH *
* Your Presence
I m still receiving emails or I ve already unsubscribe 2 times (And I know
how to fucking unsubscribe).
What s wrong , is this a joke? (a bad one)
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: mercredi 16 février 2000 16:00
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:
I have a problem when loading Mandrake 7.0 everything is fine until I
get to the video config, when I got to test after the 8 sec delay the
screen goes into a pixelated mess. I have tried loading in expert mode
so I can choose the card manualy, I've tried, Hercules thriller and
Rendition v2200
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
HALactivate imwheel according to its directions.
Alan
HAL 9000 wrote:
Hello all.. i have installed mandrake 7.0 and i read that it supports
scorlling mice. i have a mitsumi scrolling mouse, and was just curious
as to how i would enable this option.
Makes sense. thanks
DvB
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The cron daemon.
man cron
man at
man atq
man anacron
Have a look at your crontab file - it controls what starts up, how often
and at what time. It's a scheduler running constantly. In your case, it may
I believe there's a copy of LILO on the boot disk... at least a file that
says where to boot from. Try changing that.
DvB
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote:
well, I reinstalled The entire OS; made sure I included all the necessary
packages for kernel recompilation. I was able
As a side note, xcdroast should run as root so that cdrecord can run with
a more favorable nice value, reducing the possibility of buffer underruns.
Hence running as suid root and not changing the ownership of the file...
DvB
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Never used
David W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
That sounds like a pretty good idea - but makes getting my mail require
user input. And I get a LOT of mail :-\ I've never tried kbiff - might
try it just for the heck of it to see how it works.
Let me know
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I singed up for this mailing list to learn. it seems like half the
messages are from people trying to unsubscribe. I wish they would
stop!
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If the list server is not honouring unsubscribe commands, then we need to
inform mandrake and get them to check out the logs.
You are sending the email to unsubscribe from the same address you
subscribed to are you!
Failing that, go to
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3
and
my system says there is no such dir
it also says no such file
i did a search what now?
- Original Message -
From: Audrey Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 4:35 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] irq's
Log in as root to a console window and enter:
Sorry but my english is bad.
Can you help me to install the sound card.
Atte. Fernando Camacho Olmos
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:~well, I reinstalled The entire OS; made sure I included all the necessary
:~packages for kernel recompilation. I was able to make the changes but now
:~am stuck ,because the instructions say to change LILO.
:~I didn't install LILO, I use a boot disk to boot to Mandrake. How do I
:~change the
I'd never considered that root user would have a diferent nice level to
normal users. I've no idea why as the OS I used to use (VME) has a special
ID you can login to when the machine is so heavily stuffed that normal
users are hanging. Effectively running right up there with the kernel.
:~ Might be a daft question but what's wrong with ELM and PINE?
:~
:~ You desperate to have a GUI interface?
:~
:~ Steve Flynn
:~ IBM MVS Operations Analyst
:~
:~
:~
:~They both are nasty when used offline.
I have been using pine for years at home (i.e. ofline). What is the
problem?
Denis
David van Balen wrote:
As a side note, xcdroast should run as root so that cdrecord can run with
a more favorable nice value, reducing the possibility of buffer underruns.
Hence running as suid root and not changing the ownership of the file...
DvB
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:~Yesterday, everything was fine. The problem is that other people have got
:~access to the machine so I do not know what exactly happened.
Other people have ROOT access to your machine? Then it could be
just anything.
You can try checking the consistency of your rpm-packages
with
:~Is supermount broken in MDK 7? I try to go to
:~the mounted directory (/mnt/cdrom), and it says
:~i/o error, but there's a CD in it (that I can
:~read on other systems). I try to mount it, and
:~it says that it's already mounted. Yet I managed
:~somehow to look at CDs with 7.0 earlier, it
:~ Besides fixing a problem with the partitioner, what other
:~fixes/differences are there in 7.0-2 of Mandrake?
:~
See: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fupdates.php3
cu
Denis
:~Where do I click OR how can I create an icon to eject the zip drive?
:~
:~No, I don't want to type it in a terminal wondow all the time.
quickdirty:
1) make a script that does it:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/eject options
2) make this script executeable:
chmod 755 script
3) add a link to the
:~ I have a rather generic gamepad that connects to my soundcard... what
:~ would I have to do to get this gamepad to work?
:~
:~
:~some joystick module included in mandrake. you just have to recompile.
:~for more information you may take a look at
Did you type 'cat /proc/interrupts' or 'cat proc/interrupts'?
This is a common mistake for people new to unix. The first will look in
the 'proc' directory located in the root dir while the second will try to
find a 'proc' directory in the current directory and result in a "no such
dir/file"
:~Subject: Re: [newbie] kfm hangs on reading /mnt/
:~
:~Dan Ros wrote:
:~
:~ Any ideas why?
This has been cleaned in 7.02:
Take a look at /etc/fstab, and remove "conv=auto" option everywhere.
cu
Denis
:~Someone else on the list is attempting to dothe same thing as myself.
:~
:~Basically, root has the ability to write files back to my DOS partitions,
:~whereas 'steve', my normal user does not.
This is a mount option for fat/vfat. You have to change it in /etc/fstab.
HINT: linuxconf is
You don't have a directory /proc ?
If not, try
dmesg ~/startlog
vi ~/statrlog (use your fav editor instead of vi if you like)
Does it list the IRQ settings in there?
In case you are wondering, dmesg allows you to view all of the messages
produced during IPL (boot-time). It's the
Run sndconfig from the root user.
If it works, rejoice.
If it doesn't, shout up!
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
Fernando Camacho Olmos [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 17/02/2000 04:34:49
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM)
How do you know it is compiled in your kernel?
Fernando Camacho Olmos wrote:
Sorry but my english is bad.
Can you help me to install the sound card.
Atte. Fernando Camacho Olmos
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try going in to your DrakConf Icon on the KDE desktop then hardware
configuration.
I am new too so thats all of the help that I can offer.
Rib,
Thanks! I'm checkin' it out.
Seve
-Original Message-
From: Ribbo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 3:36 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program?
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
Is there something special about mounted DOS partitions that I need to know
about as far as permissions are concerned? I'm being forced to work as root
because otherwise I have no ability to write to DOS partitions. There must be a
way around this!? Please help.
I think it is because it is a FAT
- Original Message -
From: "Eunice Thompson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 10:05 AM
Subject: Thanks for all the help
Just wanted to thank everyone for helping with my CD woes.
A big thanks to Steve Flynn in the UK.
I still
seth/usr/doc/imwheel-0.9.6/
Alan
HAL 9000 wrote:
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
HALactivate imwheel according to its directions.
Alan
HAL 9000 wrote:
Hello all.. i have installed mandrake 7.0 and i read that it supports
scorlling mice. i have a mitsumi scrolling mouse,
I found the package containing the standard C++ libraries. It is on the
Mandrake installation CD under Mandrake/RPMS. The name of the package is:
libstdc++-2.95.2-3mdk.i586.rpm. I have installed it and it seems to be fine
now,
Gabor
-Original Message-
From: David van Balen
Here's the email address of guy in charge of this list.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If I could find it you should you have been able to find it
too! Instead of bothering the users of this list by using the
list to vent your frustrations, email him with your problem,
PLEASE!
Gilles Veber wrote:
I m
Here's a message I got from someone
else.
First become root and edit the /etc/lilo.conf and
add append="hdd=ide-scsi" to it. Here is mine:
/etc/lilo.config
Anybody know if there is a way to see my ntfs partitions in linux?
Tam se podivej Tam najdes co potrebujes :-)) Jirka
- Original Message -
From: Denis Havlik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Difference between 7.0 and 7.0-2?
:~ Besides fixing a problem with the partitioner,
First of all, WHY all the dups of email?
second, what is wrong with all these people about unsubscribing?
this is getting way out of hand
TO ALL YOU PEOPLE out there, who wish to unsubscribe to this list...
PLEASE,PLEASE go to the start page of linux-mandrake and on the left
hand side of
bluebottle wrote:
I feel a bit guilty about doing my Linux group website using windows and
pagemill.
I've just downloaded Bluefish onto Mandrake 7. Has anyone a good suggestion for
an ftp prog (like Cuteftp) that I can use.
Just done clean install of Mandrake 7 (2nd version) and had no
Cool so when they give you your netmasks and all that
where all in linuxconfig's network setup thingy
do you type where?
I'm wondering if the ISP gives the DNS numbers
the same name as what they are listed in
the network configger, or if its similar to
dialup or closer to like setting up a
I noticed that with supermount one cannot df -h or df in any way
and see that it is mounted.
By the way, what happened to kdiskfree?
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Denis Havlik mewed:
:~Is supermount broken in MDK 7? I try to go to
:~the mounted directory (/mnt/cdrom), and it says
:~i/o error, but
COOL thanks Denis
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Denis Havlik mewed:
:~Where do I click OR how can I create an icon to eject the zip drive?
:~
:~No, I don't want to type it in a terminal wondow all the time.
quickdirty:
1) make a script that does it:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/eject options
2)
Try the following: In a xterm type
'ulimit -c unlimited' (without quotes)
now a dying program should produce those core files.
there seems to be a restriction set for the maximum size of
core files a program can produce. with that line above, you
can change this.
ulimit is a bash-built-in
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