Re: [newbie-it] problemi con il kernel

2000-09-29 Thread Andrea Celli
Maurizio Conti wrote: Ciao a tutti, scusate se mi intrometto, ma anche io ho lo stesso problema. Cosa significa "nella directory in cui sto non c'e` un Makefile" Cos'รจ un make file?? man make gv /usr/doc/pmake-2.1.34/tutorial.psc make e` un programma usatissimo dagli sviluppatori

Re: [newbie] partitioning

2000-09-29 Thread Paul
It was Sep 28, 2000, 23:25, when [EMAIL PROTECTED] keyboarded: are their any partitioning programs available in the distro, i need to readjust my partition so i have more room You can use FIPS, which is a freeware DOS program that comes in the DOSUTILS dir. You can also go to www.freshmeat.net

OT: [was RE: [newbie] linux vs. windows. vs. tanks batmobiles ]

2000-09-29 Thread Mark Johnson
-Original Message- From: Larry Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 6:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] The finale of the linux vs. windows. vs. tanks batmobiles :) Look at existing realities rather than speculation. Microsoft has

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-29 Thread Michael
So run your email through a filter before downloading it? Combine that with serious bitching at your phone company for being overpriced. clipped to reduce $$$ No it is not that simple. I frequently used to work overseas. I collected my e-mail using a laptop/cellphone, often at 2400bps due

[newbie] Backing up all files changed since install

2000-09-29 Thread Matt G. Ellis
Hello Lists! I'm posting this to both expert and newbie because I'm not sure how much cross subscription goes on, and I'm not exactly sure what catagory this message falls into. I'm going to be installing a Mandrake system soon, and I know you can back up the file that has the install

Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-29 Thread lselinger
*hands you the keys to a nice shiny station wagon* you're right the tanks are hard to use why bother ..enjoy the car. Lonny -- driving away in tank =) Uh...the free tanks are hard to use. dwyatt

Re: [newbie] Just wondering...

2000-09-29 Thread Paul
It was Sep 29, 2000, 11:03, when [EMAIL PROTECTED] keyboarded: While reading a UNIX book I was wondering (chapter mounting), how does a device (for example a CDROM player or a disk drive) appear in the /dev directory ? The book told me that when you for example mount a floppy drive it should

Re: [newbie] Failed installation

2000-09-29 Thread Paul
It was Sep 29, 2000, 14:38, when Grant Walton keyboarded: As I say, I only saw the message once, and then briefly - a whole list of 'semi-colons missing from line' then the line numbers of a file which I must admit I didn't make a note of. Having tried the installation several times in

[newbie] Question about 2nd HD/dual booting/NOT Windog...

2000-09-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Is it possible to setup up a small 2nd HD running DR-DOS, and that way have access to older DOS games and still not have a Mickeysoft product on my 'Nix box? Thanks in advance! ;-) --

Re: OT: [was RE: [newbie] linux vs. windows. vs. tanks batmobiles]

2000-09-29 Thread Michael
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Mark Johnson wrote: Look at existing realities rather than speculation. Microsoft has announced that they will likely produce only one more MS-Office upgrade before this product becomes an Internet-server distributed product. Why is this a bad thing

[Re: Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush ]

2000-09-29 Thread elldee
Original Message: From: michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush Date: 09/29/00 16:10:55 So run your email through a filter before downloading it? Combine that with serious bitching at your phone company for being overpriced. All this

Re: OT [newbie] Off-topic posts.

2000-09-29 Thread Austin L. Denyer
So run your email through a filter before downloading it? Combine that with serious bitching at your phone company for being overpriced. For a start, I would have to download at least the headers (which are often several k) in order to filter. Secondly, International roaming rates are

Re: [newbie] when I'm online no one can ping , telnet , ftp etc. it works only to localhost

2000-09-29 Thread Ilian Zarov
OK , here is some info from the files : ---host.conf--- order hosts,bind multi on and nothing in hosts.allow and hosts.deny Ilian Zarov Programmer - A red-eyed, mumbling mammal capable of conversing with inanimate objects. On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, you wrote: Hi, Check your

Re: [newbie] when I'm online no one can ping , telnet , ftp etc. it works only to localhost

2000-09-29 Thread Ilian Zarov
I think you ned to look into your /etc/resolv.conf filecheck that the nameserver setup is correct in the file. It should look something like: search foobar.com #where foobar.com is your ISP nameserver aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd #nameserver 1 nameserver aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd #nameserver 2 -- Zap

[newbie] Re rights

2000-09-29 Thread freeman
I just wanted to know if there is a way to change a dir and all sub dir to give rights to everyone.(I have a public folder in a samba network and the rights are all screwed up) I want to be able to add, remove and modify in this directory tree and have someone else be able to see use and

Re: [Re: Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush ]

2000-09-29 Thread Michael
I have no trouble groking my email and I'm sure I probably receive at least as much as you do along with all the work I actually have to do. Besides as I said about 30 messages ago the thread would have died long ago if people stopped telling others to kill it. If nobody responds then the thread

[newbie] Cron

2000-09-29 Thread Richard Davies
Hi Larry, Let me see if I've got this straight. Your wanting cron to run a script that will log an idle user off the system and return to the gui startup screen. Right? I'm not sure if cron is the best method though. How will it determine that the user is not active and log them out

Re: [newbie] Just wondering...

2000-09-29 Thread Goldenpi
it didn't detect my 2nd floppy drive. I fitted two, just because I had one spare. - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Just wondering... It was Sep 29, 2000, 11:03, when [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Is /home dir compatible...

2000-09-29 Thread Paul
It was Sep 29, 2000, 17:55, when Joan Tur keyboarded: I wonder if what's in the /home dir is compatible among the different versions of Linux (Mandrake 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, etc)... And i'm making that question because i've tryed to install Mandrake 7.2b3 on (maybe that's the problem) 7.1 and it

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-29 Thread Vic
BANG!! It died. On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Austin L. Denyer wrote: I frequently used to work overseas. I collected my e-mail using a laptop/cellphone, often at 2400bps due to poor international connectivity, at International roaming rates ($1.60/minute). At that rate, a 10k (with headers)

Re: [newbie] Linux and Windont (was: Installation of Java JDK ...

2000-09-29 Thread GAPrichard
SYMPA doesn't like me. Again trying to repost this message. -Gary- on 9/27/2000 got SYMPA error back, this seemed to be what was missing from on 9/27/2000 got SYMPA error back, this seemed to be what was missing from the postings -- resubmitting sorry if accidental duplication. -Gary-

RE: Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush ]

2000-09-29 Thread Kelly, Christopher
I have to agree with Lance. I was told off by someone the other day because I told them not post crap to the list and like Lance I spend more time deleting junk than reading good informational posts. Please for the love of God, don't post junk here! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Re rights

2000-09-29 Thread Larry Marshall
I just wanted to know if there is a way to change a dir and all sub dir to give rights to everyone.(I have a public folder in a samba network and the rights are all screwed up) Sure...as root just type chmod -R 777 /directorypath/name Cheers --- Larry

Re: OT [newbie] Off-topic posts.

2000-09-29 Thread Austin L. Denyer
No you don't. Just set your email host up with the filters you want. It's not at all hard unless you have a retarded server. *shrugs* Which is fine if your ISP allows it (I do not have my own permanent mail server yet). It's not just about OT messages. If a list is moderated then fine let

Re: [newbie] Cron

2000-09-29 Thread Paul
It was Sep 29, 2000, 10:20, when Richard Davies keyboarded: 59 22 * * * root passwd -l katrina 00 23 * * * root halt 00 8 * * * root passwd -u katrina I think you should try and figure out a script to determine the PID of the Xserver, and let cron do a kill -9 on that. That will kick the login

RE: [newbie] Re rights

2000-09-29 Thread Phil Connor
try this as root or su make a group called "your group name" then create a directory in /home doesn't matter what it is called next chgrp "your group name here" /home/"your directory name here" now chmod 770 /home/"your directory name here" chmod g+s /home/"your directory name here" Then go to

Re: [newbie] Re rights

2000-09-29 Thread Paul
It was Sep 29, 2000, 12:31, when [EMAIL PROTECTED] keyboarded: I just wanted to know if there is a way to change a dir and all sub dir to give rights to everyone.(I have a public folder in a samba network and the rights are all screwed up) I want to be able to add, remove and modify in this

Re: [newbie] where is the c compiler for mandrake 7.1

2000-09-29 Thread Anthony
Did you install the developer install? If you plan on doing any programming, I highly suggest you do the developer install route during installation. please help me out? i could not locate gcc,g++ Gcc/G++ compilers at all in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin. -- Anthony

Re: [newbie] Helix Gnome's Evolution

2000-09-29 Thread Anthony
Yep, I've tried it. It looks a lot like Outlook, and any outlook lovers will really like it. I personally like it's multiple identities feature, and it's got some pretty cool features. It also includes a calender and addressbook. The bad points? It's still in beta, and extremelly buggy for me. If

Re: [newbie] Linux and Windont (was: Installation of Java JDK ...

2000-09-29 Thread Larry Marshall
Linux seems to be one of those things that is hard to get set up, and after it is it works much better that Windonts. First there is the problem of Yep...I guess my view is that with another year of the current efforts to address that installation stuff, this isn't going to be a problem.

Re: [newbie] Just wondering...

2000-09-29 Thread Anthony
If I remember right (which means I could be wrong : ) /dev contains the files for every possible hardware device you could ever attach to your system. That's why it's so big (my /dev has 2234 files, "ls /dev | wc -l"). I remember reading an article on how the 2.2.4 kernel changes that so that the

Re: [newbie] where is the login setup?

2000-09-29 Thread Anthony
Well I can tell you what you did wrong. At the end of the Helix-Gnome installation, it asks if you'd like to keep your current login, or set it up to use Helix-Gnome's login. It defaults to Helix-Gnome's. So I guess you just missed that step. Unfortunatly, I do not know what file decides what

Re: [newbie] Is /home dir compatible...

2000-09-29 Thread Anthony
Yes, they are. I've succesfully upgraded to 7.1 from 7.0, and to 7.0 from 6.1 all using the same /home partition. It's the easy way to upgrade since most of your config files are still intact. And yes, I'm guessing the beta 7.2 is what caused it not to work. At least I hope that's what it was!

Re: [newbie] repartitioned but win98 doesn't know it!?

2000-09-29 Thread Adrian Smith
hmmm. i just did a large HD with win98 / mandrake, and norton disk doctor thinks i have a partition problem tho both OSs work fine, so i believe it just can't recognize the linux partition. if eveything is working fine for you, maybe it's ok??? i'm not really sure. i suppose this

[newbie] OT: why we hate M$

2000-09-29 Thread Adrian Smith
Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked the question: Do we hate MS software because of Bill Gates, or because of the techical merit of their programmers, or because of it's environment/culture, or all of the above. me says: i hate M$ because their software stinks. i still use Ami Pro 3.0 as a

[newbie] log issues - need to fix problems that are arising

2000-09-29 Thread Adam
in my logs I have a few things that I would like to clear up... ## LOGS ## #1 :: Sep 29 15:40:00 adrock CROND[1120]: (root) CMD (

Re: [newbie] Question about 2nd HD/dual booting/NOT Windog...

2000-09-29 Thread Alan Shoemaker
"Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Is it possible to setup up a small 2nd HD running DR-DOS, and that way have access to older DOS games and still not have a Mickeysoft product on my 'Nix box? [snip] Ronthat's exactly what I have on my system. I have 3 scsi drives, but my boot drive is an ide

Re: [newbie] how to compile a program from source

2000-09-29 Thread Anthony
This is one of the most common newbie questions, and one that gave me fits before I figured out the "secret". First off, I suggest rpm's instead of doing it by source. RPM's are just plain easier. But if you're stuck on source, or need the source for some reason... Untar the file. ("tar -xvzf

[newbie] Error loading Ramdisk

2000-09-29 Thread Garry Black
I havemadrake 6.5 installed on an AMD K-6 233 with 96M. Its running perfectly, but I want to do a reinstall to get more familiar with the process. I downloaded the CDROM iso images and booted from the install CDROM. Just after the SCSI probe completes, Linux begins "Loading second stage

Re: [newbie] Just wondering...

2000-09-29 Thread Mark Weaver
It's a temp file that's written there and evaporates when the device is unmounted. (umount) -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...

Re: [newbie] kmail error message

2000-09-29 Thread Mark Weaver
You might try chmod-ing it to 4755, or you could chown it to $USER.$USER and then you'd be able to use the binary of Kmail yourself, but of course non of the other users would be able to use it. That is if there are other users on your system using Kmail. You might also try re-installing the

Re: [newbie] Console error's?

2000-09-29 Thread charlsplant
May the Lord Our God bless you Olf.Liungman. First of all I want to thank you for your grate desire to help me. And yes I did try that command but it did not work. But last nigh ,the Lord had mercy on me,by allowing me to see exactly where the problem was ,it wasn't the commands or what I did ,it

Re: [newbie] repartitioned but win98 doesn't know it!?

2000-09-29 Thread Larry Marshall
i just did a large HD with win98 / mandrake, and norton disk doctor thinks i have a partition problem tho both OSs work fine, so i believe it just can't recognize the linux partition. if eveything is working fine for you, maybe it's ok??? i'm not really sure. i suppose this doesn't

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-29 Thread Mark Weaver
entertaining, isn't it? -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496

[newbie] who answers?

2000-09-29 Thread ed
Hey all I was just wondering who answers these questions we all ask because ive read some I could help answer but NOT sure if I can. Can anybody that knows the answer respond. I have a question about security if I dont use linux for the internet only windows do I still have to disable my ports

Re: [newbie] Just wondering...

2000-09-29 Thread Larry Marshall
If I remember right (which means I could be wrong : ) /dev contains the files for every possible hardware device you could ever attach to your system. That's why it's so big (my /dev has 2234 files, "ls /dev | wc -l"). I "Big" is an wonderful word. /dev is only a shade over 100k.

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-29 Thread Mwinold
In a message dated 29-Sep-00 08:31:50 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No it is not that simple. I frequently used to work overseas. I collected my e-mail using a laptop/cellphone, often at 2400bps due to poor international connectivity, at International roaming rates

Re: [Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush]

2000-09-29 Thread Michael Scottaline
Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BANG!! It died. === Hitler "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing and dreadful idolatry took place there!" Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century

Re: [newbie] Modem: AOpen FM56-PLM

2000-09-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, you wrote: I installed this PnP Acer modem but despite reading docs on setserial and isapnptools, have not succeeded in getting it recognized. In Win95 it sits on Com3, IRQ9 Has anyone installed this modem successfully on their Mandrake system? Any help much appreciated.

Re: [newbie] Seti@HOME

2000-09-29 Thread Anthony
Heh, cool. I would join, but I'm in my own little group and I can't share credits back and forth. But I love the idea of SETI, and I"m one of those who belives that there is extraterrestrial life. The universe is too big for there not be. So if anyone reading this hasn't downloaded SETI yet, I