[newbie] How to Unsubcribe

2000-02-16 Thread Donald Carpenter
Sorry, I gave you the wrong qddress in my last post. here's the correct address Send your request to unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] just type unscribe in the subject and in the body of your message

Re: [[newbie] killing the kmail popup mail-check window]

2000-02-16 Thread Michael Scottaline
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

[newbie] mandrake admintool ?

2000-02-16 Thread Oliver Sieben
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

Re: [newbie] random 'find' process

2000-02-16 Thread steve . flynn
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

Re: [newbie] Unsubscribe

2000-02-16 Thread steve . flynn
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

Re: [newbie] Unsubscribe

2000-02-16 Thread steve . flynn
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

Re: [newbie] SBLive and kernel recompilation

2000-02-16 Thread steve . flynn
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

Re: [newbie] Fw: CDRproblems

2000-02-16 Thread steve . flynn
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

Re: [newbie] sgriffa@hotmail.com - Unsubscribe

2000-02-16 Thread steve . flynn
You trying to unsubscribe or just replying to other peoples messages wthout actually adding any text? To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the subject : unsubscribe newbie. or go to the web page and unsubscribe via the web interface. Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations

Re: [newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program?

2000-02-16 Thread steve . flynn
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

Re: [newbie] HELP!!! After deleting /tmp

2000-02-16 Thread Audrey Beck
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

Re: [newbie] mandrake admintool ?

2000-02-16 Thread steve . flynn
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

[newbie] boot log

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Perry
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

Re: [newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program?

2000-02-16 Thread Ribbo
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

Re: [newbie] irq's

2000-02-16 Thread Audrey Beck
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?

Re: [newbie] boot log

2000-02-16 Thread steve . flynn
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

[newbie] How to Eject zip drive

2000-02-16 Thread Vic
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

Re: How about Roadrunner? Re: [newbie] Nic problem

2000-02-16 Thread BryanMoorehead
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.

Re: [[newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program?]

2000-02-16 Thread steve . flynn
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

Re: [newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program?

2000-02-16 Thread steve . flynn
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

Re: [newbie] SBLive and kernel recompilation

2000-02-16 Thread Vic
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

[newbie] Permissions to /mnt

2000-02-16 Thread steve . flynn
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

Re: [newbie] unsubscribe newbie.

2000-02-16 Thread Tony
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

Re: [newbie] unsubscribe newbie.

2000-02-16 Thread steve . flynn
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:

[newbie] Please take me off your mailings list

2000-02-16 Thread tere flynn
Please take me off the mailng to receive the on-going chat blubs. I am getting too many __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: [newbie] unsubscribe newbie.

2000-02-16 Thread Tony
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

Re: [newbie] unsubscribe newbie.

2000-02-16 Thread bluebottle
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

Re: [newbie] Please take me off your mailings list

2000-02-16 Thread steve . flynn
We can't take you off the list - you need to unsubscribe yourself To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the subject : unsubscribe newbie. or go to the web page and unsubscribe via the web interface. Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst "tere flynn" [EMAIL

[newbie] Printing to NT

2000-02-16 Thread Ron Warren
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

RE: [newbie] Please take me off your mailings list

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Perry
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

Re: [newbie] unsubscribe newbie.

2000-02-16 Thread steve . flynn
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

[newbie] need help with mySQL installation

2000-02-16 Thread Marc Herms (Mercator GmbH)
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

RE: [newbie] unsubscribe newbie.

2000-02-16 Thread Gilles Veber
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:

[newbie] install video problems hercules thriller

2000-02-16 Thread jpwa
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

Re: [newbie] Mitsumi Scrolling Mouse Support?

2000-02-16 Thread HAL 9000
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.

Re: [newbie] random 'find' process

2000-02-16 Thread David van Balen
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

Re: Fw: [newbie] Fw: CDRproblems

2000-02-16 Thread David van Balen
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

Re: [newbie] xcdroast

2000-02-16 Thread David van Balen
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

Re: [Re: [[newbie] killing the kmail popup mail-check window]]

2000-02-16 Thread Michael Scottaline
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

[newbie] hogwash

2000-02-16 Thread Erik Nugent
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.2 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com

RE: [newbie] unsubscribe newbie.

2000-02-16 Thread steve . flynn
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

Re: [newbie] irq's

2000-02-16 Thread rharvey
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:

[newbie] Help, who have i FM801 sound card installed

2000-02-16 Thread Fernando Camacho Olmos
Sorry but my english is bad. Can you help me to install the sound card. Atte. Fernando Camacho Olmos [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fw: [newbie] Fw: CDRproblems

2000-02-16 Thread Denis Havlik
:~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

Re: [newbie] xcdroast

2000-02-16 Thread steve . flynn
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.

Re: [newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program?

2000-02-16 Thread Denis Havlik
:~ 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

Re: [newbie] xcdroast

2000-02-16 Thread Dan Ferris
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]

Re: [newbie] Can't start XWindows

2000-02-16 Thread Denis Havlik
:~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

Re: [newbie] coupla problems about supermount and write

2000-02-16 Thread Denis Havlik
:~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

Re: [newbie] Difference between 7.0 and 7.0-2?

2000-02-16 Thread Denis Havlik
:~ 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

Re: [newbie] How to Eject zip drive

2000-02-16 Thread Denis Havlik
:~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

Re: [newbie] Joystick/Gamepad

2000-02-16 Thread Denis Havlik
:~ 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

Re: [newbie] irq's

2000-02-16 Thread David van Balen
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"

Re: [newbie] kfm hangs on reading /mnt/

2000-02-16 Thread Denis Havlik
:~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

Re: [newbie] Permissions to /mnt

2000-02-16 Thread Denis Havlik
:~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

Re: [newbie] irq's

2000-02-16 Thread steve . flynn
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

Re: [newbie] Help, who have i FM801 sound card installed

2000-02-16 Thread steve . flynn
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)

[newbie] Ip - forwarding

2000-02-16 Thread Michael Holmes
How do you know it is compiled in your kernel?

Re: [newbie] Help, who have i FM801 sound card installed

2000-02-16 Thread Shane
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.

Re: [newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program?

2000-02-16 Thread Sevatio Octavio
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:

Re: [newbie] Why can't non-root user save to DOS partion?

2000-02-16 Thread Dan Ros
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

[newbie] Fw: Thanks for all the help

2000-02-16 Thread Eunice Thompson
- 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

Re: [newbie] Mitsumi Scrolling Mouse Support?

2000-02-16 Thread Alan Shoemaker
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,

RE: [newbie] C++ libraries

2000-02-16 Thread Maghera, Gabor
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

Re: [newbie] unsubscribe newbie.

2000-02-16 Thread Alan Shoemaker
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

Re: [newbie] CD-rom

2000-02-16 Thread Brent Timmer
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

[newbie] NTFS in Linux

2000-02-16 Thread Brent Timmer
Anybody know if there is a way to see my ntfs partitions in linux?

Re: [newbie] Difference between 7.0 and 7.0-2?

2000-02-16 Thread George Houdek-Viskovska
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,

[newbie] help

2000-02-16 Thread Kit
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

Re: [newbie] uploading web site

2000-02-16 Thread Sam
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

Re: How about Roadrunner? Re: [newbie] Nic problem

2000-02-16 Thread Vic
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

Re: [newbie] coupla problems about supermount and write

2000-02-16 Thread Vic
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

Re: [newbie] How to Eject zip drive

2000-02-16 Thread Vic
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)

Re: [newbie] core files absent???

2000-02-16 Thread Christian Geisler
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

Re: [newbie] make (compiling a program)

2000-02-16 Thread Elvis Dieguez
ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv=Content-Type>

[newbie] Good Programming Editor

2000-02-16 Thread Maghera, Gabor
Can anybody recommend a good programming editor. Then key features I am looking for are remote editing (open and save through ftp) and syntax highlighting. Thanks, Gabor

[newbie] Kernel

2000-02-16 Thread Erik
How do I get the kernel onto my linux drive if I can't get net access. Is there a way to access my win98 partition. Thanks and thank you to all who responded to to my last post.

Re: How about Roadrunner? Re: [newbie] Nic problem

2000-02-16 Thread george jones
I have MediaOne's One-Way RoadRunner. Uses a 56k modem and a General Instruments SB1000 Surf Board. Can't use it in linux yet though. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 6:39 AM Subject: Re: How about Roadrunner? Re:

Re: How about Roadrunner? Re: [newbie] Nic problem

2000-02-16 Thread Wendell E. Gragg
When I installed Mandrake, I just set up the nic for dhcp and did not have to worry about the DNS. Apparently, that is done dynamically by RR. Oh, I did have to set the gateway. I got that from winipcfg in windows. Now the question is whether or not RR in your area is set up the same way.

Re: [newbie] NTFS in Linux

2000-02-16 Thread Sam
Brent Timmer wrote: Anybody know if there is a way to see my ntfs partitions in linux? Hello Brent, Look at your /etc/fstab For my setup, I added the line: /dev/hda4 /nt40 ntfs defaults 0 0 then I added the directory "nt40" to my "/" partition There is proably a cmd to make all this

Re: [newbie] Kernel

2000-02-16 Thread Dan Ros
How do I get the kernel onto my linux drive if I can't get net access. Is there a way to access my win98 partition. Thanks and thank you to all who responded to to my last post. Do you not have the partitions mounted in /mnt/? -- http://www.uplink.freeuk.com - ICQ: 15212336

[newbie] C Header Files

2000-02-16 Thread Joe Knapp -Technician
When i used gcc to try and compile a program i got the error that stdlib.h and stdio.h could not be found... do they not get installed with the "recommended" install of mandrake 7.0-2 ?? Joe Knapp [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Help, who have i FM801 sound card installed

2000-02-16 Thread German G. Sanchez Urrutia
Ya intentaste con soundconfig?, si tu tarjeta esta soportada por el ess driver esta deberia de ser la solucion mas sencilla, sin embargo no todas las tarjetas estan soportadas por este driver, existen 2 drivers alternativos uno de ellos ha sido mensionado varias veces en la lista pero es de

[newbie] Documentation!!!!!!!!1

2000-02-16 Thread Mark Potochnik
The full MK 7.0 documentation is now online. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fdoc.php3 MarkP

[newbie] OPTI 929 and CDU33A Creative

2000-02-16 Thread Jaguar
I am slapping together another system here..with an OPTI 929 w/proprietary SONY controller and Sony CDU33A Creative CD-Rom. The mobo is old enuff to NOT support CD-Rom boot...so I made a boot.img floppy and tried. It failed on the CD-Rom mount to install MDK 6.0...and therefore I can't

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[newbie] Weather Background in Gnome....

2000-02-16 Thread David Schur
I was wondering if anyone has that code for making the background of their desktop the current weather map? I know someone was working on this... Please send me a copy of whatever if you could ; ) the script etc.. :) Thanks, Dave

Re: Re: [newbie] telnet

2000-02-16 Thread David Schur
telnet-0.14-2mdk.i586.rpm - telnet client telnet-server-0.14-2mdk.i586.rpm - telnet server these are the two rpm's that come w/ mandrake 7... It took me a while to putz around but i got mine working, I cannot log in as root, but i can as another user so this may be your problem as well. It

[newbie] LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests

2000-02-16 Thread John
Hello Newbies: When trying to get a network connection going with pppd/chat, the chat script finishes, but then pppd fails every time with: ...pppd[1683]: Serial connection established. ...pppd[1683]: Using interface ppp0 ...pppd[1683]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS2 ...pppd[1683]: LCP:

Re: Fw: [newbie] Fw: CDRproblems

2000-02-16 Thread Eunice Thompson
Denis Havlik wrote: :~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

RE: [newbie] mandrake admintool ?

2000-02-16 Thread Paulus Hendarwan
Hi, Oliver, - For installing bootloader, network (change hostname, IP address, etc), you can use Linuxconf, type : linuxconf at command prompt - For installing software, you can use kpackage (software that packaged with RPM format), type : kpackage at prompt. - For installing hardware,

Re: How about Roadrunner? Re: [newbie] Nic problem

2000-02-16 Thread Vic
Thanx Wendell :) On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Wendell E. Gragg mewed: When I installed Mandrake, I just set up the nic for dhcp and did not have to worry about the DNS. Apparently, that is done dynamically by RR. Oh, I did have to set the gateway. I got that from winipcfg in windows. Now the

Re: Fw: [newbie] Fw: CDRproblems

2000-02-16 Thread Richard Yevchak
Try "cdrecord -scanbus" as root. If that shows a burner attachted, edit /etc/fstab and see where the line for your CD-R is trying to mount the device from. It should probably be changed to /dev/scd0. If you've got 7.0 just try to change the line dev=blah to "dev=/dev/scd0". Richard On Wed,

Re: Fw: [newbie] Fw: CDRproblems

2000-02-16 Thread David van Balen
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: Denis Havlik wrote: snip after making all the necessary changes to the kernel ( i.e. scsi emulation for the cdr drive and cd romdrive) making a new boot disk, when i try to mount the drives i'm still receiving the same message " mount:

[newbie] need help...

2000-02-16 Thread jean seberg
linux users, i recently(couple weeks ago) installed linux on my 3gig pc along side win95. everything was going good, but tonight i had a problem starting linux. (i have bootmagic to switch the oses) the problem: right after linconfig, before the x window loads...the screen starts flashing on

[newbie] Toshiba Configuration Problems (3 different things!!)

2000-02-16 Thread Dave Felice
I just put Mandrake 7.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 205CDS laptop and was wondering how to configure a few things: 1) last year I had RedHat 5.2 on this machine and found configuration parameters to get the system to allow an 800x600 display instead of 640x480. I went into XF86Config and put

Re: [newbie] Modem jumper settings

2000-02-16 Thread Steve Leseman
Hi - I followed your instructions for getting Plug Play to work for my PnP USR modem, and everything went as you laidout, until I rebooted. In red text, it roughly said, "don't know what to do with start dependent functions no action taken can't parse isapnp.conf... around line 64 or

[newbie] Windows and Linux networking

2000-02-16 Thread sdos
Hello, I have isdn, and can connect with my Linux machine, I want to use my Linux bow as a gateway/firewall/file server. Can anyone give me an idea on how to do this. I know almost everything about windows networking, but I'm new to connecting Unix/Linux and windows and new to using Linux as a

[newbie] Anyone from Israel?

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Perry
Hi Folks! This may be slightly off topic, but are there any of you that happen to live in Israel? Specifically in or near Hadera? Its Lonely here fighting with Mandrake all by my self :-( Cheers: Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack