philomena wrote:
I've been following some of the firewall posts and have read some How-tos,
but there is something I'm not clear on. I don't have a network at home,
just a single PC, but its connected via DSL, so its always on and has a
static IP. Is this setup open to attack ?
There is a
First, make sure you have numlock-1.0-7mdk installed. Next, open kpackage and find
the numlock package (System / Configuration / Boot and Init). Single click on the
package and look at the 'properties' tab to verify that you have this version
installed. Next look at the 'File list' tab and
This link should get you that file.
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/numlock-1.0-7mdk.i586.rpm
Seve
-Original Message-
From: Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Saturday, April 15, 2000 1:37 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Num
Hi,
Can anyone help with this problem ?
I have installed Mandrake 6.5, standard installation. On reboot just after install I
find that I cannot telnet to the box from any other unix/linux box. I can however
telnet to other boxes from the newly installed box.
Also rsh to the the box gives
Oops! I guess I should have included that link, thanks for adding.
Mike
Sevatio Octavio wrote:
This link should get you that file.
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/numlock-1.0-7mdk.i586.rpm
Seve
-Original Message-
From: Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ROTFL
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try mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask them to take off there mailing
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- Original Message -
Hello everyone...
I have installed Mandrake 7.0 a week ago...
I just have a small question..
I heard things about Linux like "Rock Solid" and
so...
What i noted is that Mandrake 7.0 crashes just like
Windows!!! Yes... Its crashes are much less than
Windows! but.. It crashes!!! It crashed about
Mohamed,
What services do you have running while these things occur? Also, are you using
Mandrake 7.0-2 ?
seve
-Original Message-
From: Mohamed Saad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Saturday, April 15, 2000 5:21 AM
Subject: [newbie] lots of crashes???
Hi,
Can anyone help with this problem ?
I have installed Mandrake 6.5, standard installation. On reboot just after
install I find that I cannot telnet to the box from any other unix/linux
box.
I can however telnet to other boxes from the newly installed box.
Also rsh to the the box gives
Hello All,
Trying to set up fetchmail - this is my .fetchmailrc file:
poll mail.uk2.net
protocol pop3
user "t"
password "x"
However when I run fetchmail --check it says 'no mailservers have been
specified'
Anyone?
Glen
OK, Im really no expert to this, but I have some ideas:
1) You
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Ove Peter wrote:
Some networking problems:
I am hooked to my campus ethernet network.
While running windows, I get tremendous throughput loading pages, doing
ftp, etc..now in netscape in linux, I am getting throughput no higher
than
3.5k/sec and then it starts
Mohamed Saad wrote:
Hello everyone...
I have installed Mandrake 7.0 a week ago...
I just have a small question..
I heard things about Linux like "Rock Solid" and
so...
What i noted is that Mandrake 7.0 crashes just like
Windows!!! Yes... Its crashes are much less than
Windows! but.. It
Get the M14 milestone build of Mozilla from www.mozilla.org. It's much
faster than Netscape and really pretty stable.
Then if you're feeling really cool, download the Sullivan skin from
www.mozillazine.org
Woohoo!
dave
andy barnes wrote:
snip
Are there any options to Netscape for
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Mohamed Saad wrote:
well... here are the crashes!
KDE: I was opening 2 windows of Netscape. And
suddenly, the whole system freezed! I just could move
the mouse! but i can't do anything! I had to press
ctrl+alt+backspace to log out! and it worked!
well that means your
Can someone please re-post it, as I've lost all my mail while I've been
re-formatting all my drives!!
Is it an easy job to install them?? Let me re-phrase that..is it easy
for a new Linux user??
Cheers
Andy
Since it's the weekend,
:o)
rant on
Linux is very stable and beats windows all over the place.
But,
until the Linux community gets this web browser "crap" resolved, to me,
Linux ain't worth the CD it is shipped on.
90% of my usage is surfing the internet.
IE 4 has problems, and 5 is worse,
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Heather wrote:
From: "Brian Heather" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 22:13:33 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [newbie] 3c905 problem fixed!
I uninstalled Mandrake to install RedHat, and I was having some
At the start-up screen, instead of LILO we only see LIL and there it freezes. What
could we have done wrong and how can we fix it?
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Okay, I successfully gunzipped some tar.gz files, now I can't access the sub-folders
in them. I tried to use tar -zvf without luck, and tar -z all sorts of other
combinations. what am I doing wront?
Not enough hours in the day to learn all this stuff!
***
Hi folks
I lurk much of the time here but do have to comment on the Windows vs Linux
debate.
Couple comments/observations from our 4 systems at home and two at work:
Use both Windows and Linux (Mandrake 7.0) extensively (I like Chevys AND
Fords too)
Never crash Windows 98 or NT - perform
Okay, I can't print in beautiful, beautiful, 1200 dpi color anymore, and I can't make
money with my cad program anymore. I've already reformatted my entire hard drive for
Linux and kissed them all goodbye. See? I was really committed to this!
I knew you could load Mandrake from windows and
What is the quickest, easiest and safest route to get into root when you
are logged on as a user, and is it possible to do so without cutting
your ISP connection?
Cheers
Andy
If you just want to do a few things as ROOT ie: install an RPM, open a
Konsole, and type "su" then root's password.
If you want to do a bunch of things, probably logout and back in as ROOT.
HTH
Jaguar
andy barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the quickest, easiest and safest route to get
On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 03:30:25PM +0100, andy barnes wrote:
What is the quickest, easiest and safest route to get into root when you
are logged on as a user, and is it possible to do so without cutting
your ISP connection?
"su -", and enter the root password when prompted. Shouldn't
bohter
A tar.gz file is a gzipped tar file. A tar file is a "tape archive" file, which
basically is an uncompressed kind of archive, meaning: it contains a lot of
files, but doesn't compress them. So basically what happens upon creating a
tar.gz file is: all input files get put into one big file, and
Well folks, I've had the opposite experience from most of you with Mandrake
7. I've yet to have it crash, which is not so with Win 98 SE. I have a new
(three week old) Athlon 600 with 192 megs of memory and two 13.5 hd's Windows
on the first, Linux on the second. A couple of things I have
When you install an RPM, you have to be in root, don't you??
OK..when you install, where does Linux put this program.. Bear with me
as I'm used to a Windows environment, where it puts it either onto your
C drive or into Program Files on C drive, and you kind find an .exe even
if you can't see
That's odd... I had the same problem w/ Netscape when I was using Mdk6.1 . But since
going to 7.0-2Mdk, netscape has zapped only
twice. And this timeline goes back to the day 7.0-2mdk was made available for
download.
Seve
-Original Message-
From: steve harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Well folks, I've apparently had the opposite experience from most of
you with Mandrake
7. I've yet to have it crash, which is not so with Win 98 Second
Edition OEM version I have a new (three week old) Athlon 600 with 192
megs of memory and two 13.5 hd's Windows
on the first, Linux on the
Hi Andy,
Boy, it's great to see that you're thinking the same as me! :)
I've just installed Linux myself - it's a steep learning curve!! I too am
used to the Windows way, although I love DOS etc. Always been a DOS
person - Started with it many years ago so as far as the command line, it
ain't
Jaguar wrote:
If you just want to do a few things as ROOT ie: install an RPM, open a
Konsole, and type "su" then root's password.
If you want to do a bunch of things, probably logout and back in as ROOT.
HTH
Jaguar
andy barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the quickest, easiest and
I get this once in awhile too. Just boot up with your boot diskette. Then login as
usual. Open up the console as superuser and
just enter "lilo". That alone should correct your problem.
I'm still curious as to why this happens. If anyone of you guys know... please share.
Is it something
remove
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of andy barnes
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2000 10:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Where do Programs Go?
When you install an RPM, you have to be in root, don't you??
OK..when you
andy barnes wrote:
When you install an RPM, you have to be in root, don't you??
OK..when you install, where does Linux put this program.. Bear with me
as I'm used to a Windows environment, where it puts it either onto your
C drive or into Program Files on C drive, and you kind find an
Run a search on "LinuxCad". There are also others out there. I may self
have been looking. Just now beginning to attempt my first linux setup.
- Original Message -
From: "Leanne Leith" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2000 9:23 AM
Subject: [newbie]
"ChOPpY C. Chipper" wrote:
Hi!
I'm new in LiNuX, so could somebody tell me how to a program that I made
in g++? I have no idea how to run programs, except for the ones in
the "KDE Menu".Thanks
A Lot!
-Julien
Well, at least one way is to open a terminal window into the directory
the program you
Andy,
Before we start... let's drift back to windows for a second... For installations, you
just click the install file and it pretty
much does everything for you. RPM files are also capable of this - IF the author
included the icon, documentation, and a Kmenu
entry. This is not always the
Hi all,
Please forgive me for this possible simple question;
I've just download Mozilla - I've extracted the tar/gz file no problems -
everything went into a directory called 'package' along with sub-directories
err, assuming you do call them this in LINUX :)
Err, I'm stuck - What now? :)
Sevatio Octavio wrote:
Andy,
Before we start... let's drift back to windows for a second... For installations,
you just click the install file and it pretty
much does everything for you. RPM files are also capable of this - IF the author
included the icon, documentation, and a Kmenu
First, let me tell you that I have several linux box at home, and that
one of them is running for two months, without a reboot. And still I
could say that it's running for one year, since the reboots are ONLY due
to electricity failures or hardware upgrades!!
You have to realize that your linux
rant on
[...]
until the Linux community gets this web browser "crap" resolved, to me,
Linux ain't worth the CD it is shipped on.
[...]
rant off
I hate to say it (again), but this is absolutely correct. To gain
widespread acceptance any Linux distribution *MUST* have a good browser,
a good
Something weird is going on here. I downloaded the Mozilla fonts for Netscape
and followed the instructions for installing them per www.mandrakeuser.org.
The next time I start Netscape I can see the Mozilla fonts and everything is
wonderful.
The problem is, the next time I log back in I don't
Mohamed Saad wrote:
I heard things about Linux like "Rock Solid" and
so...
It is -- when properly configured.
What i noted is that Mandrake 7.0 crashes just like
Windows!!! Yes... Its crashes are much less than
Windows! but.. It crashes!!! It crashed about 4 times
this week!! (windows
andy barnes wrote:
Mohamed Saad wrote:
Hello everyone...
I have installed Mandrake 7.0 a week ago...
I just have a small question..
I heard things about Linux like "Rock Solid" and
so...
What i noted is that Mandrake 7.0 crashes just like
Windows!!! Yes... Its crashes are
yes you have to be in root, unless you have set your nornal login to
superuser equivalent (which you shouldnt do) As for where the program
installs, I would assume that it installs in whichever directory you are
currently in, I actually wanted to use rpms at first, but the tar.gz is
better,
Leanne Leith wrote:
Okay, I successfully gunzipped some tar.gz files, now I can't access the sub-folders
in them. I tried to use tar -zvf without luck, and tar -z all sorts of other
combinations. what am I doing wront?
I thought you couldn't boot.
?
-Stephen-
Leanne Leith wrote:
Okay, I successfully gunzipped some tar.gz files, now I can't access the sub-folders
in them. I tried to use tar -zvf without luck, and tar -z all sorts of other
combinations. what am I doing wront?
Not enough hours in the day to learn all this stuff!
Hours are
Never mind -- I found the original e-mail
Would the person who asked for my help with the DOS filesystems please
send me another e-mail? I've had a look at your "query" file and I have
some answers for you.
-Stephen-
I have a CD rom and CD RW.. I cannot get a read of the CDRW.
Both Drives are identified correctly, and both have icons on the
desktop.
Any ideas?
Cheers
Andy
Below is an except from my message log. I cannot get ppp dialin to work.
(Dialout works fine, as you can see..)
I have had no problems in the past with Redhat 5.x andppp dialin and dialouts.
Now, I just switched to Mandrake, and I get this wierd error about the peer not
authorized to use
Hello all,
I just spent the afternoon hunting up all the infos,
HOWTO's and man pages that weren't installed
on my initial installation. Spent quite a time with
the CDROM,CD-R HOWTO's. That left me with
another question or two. I can read CD's CD-R's,
but no CD-RW's does that mean that they
andy barnes wrote:
What is the quickest, easiest and safest route to get into root when you
are logged on as a user, and is it possible to do so without cutting
your ISP connection?
go to the command line
type "su" w/o the quotes.
enter the password
off you go.
Dan
At lilo TAB and type:
linux init 3 vga=ask
then choose whatever mode and you will bott in console mode.
X.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some how I lost my video setup!!! I can go through the boot up
sequence all the way up to about where the graphical login menu should
come up, then screen
I think this has gone on long enough, now I need ot get to work and see
if there are any things I may have picked up from this website. Too many
letters to read each day to have much time to work on this system. Have
much to learn and NO way to do it with all of the mail.
Thanks very much for
Quick question.. I am VERY new to linux. I just installed mandrake 7.0
It detected my mouse as a 'default mouse' I have an intellimouse explorer
pro and would like to use the scroll bar. Ho do I change it to the correct
mouse. It also didn't detect my Creative Labs AWE64, is there any way to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some how I lost my video setup!!! I can go through the boot up
sequence all the way up to about where the graphical login menu should
come up, then screen goes black. Is there a command I can use to get
into the text boot mode in order to get back into the system to
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