[newbie-it] crash durante avvio Mandrake 7.2

2001-01-27 Thread Alberto Mura
Salve, sono riuscito ad installare senza problemi Mandrake 7.2 su un PC privo di bus USB. Purtroppo, durante la procedura di avvio il computer si pianta nel momento in cui cerca di individuare i devices usb. Ricorrendo al modo interattivo e saltando quel passaggio il boot avviene

Re: [newbie-it] asuscom isdnlink 128k adapter interno

2001-01-27 Thread solare
ma come ti colleghi? quali sono le procedure che tu fai da utente per collegarti. Ho capito che poi non ti colleghi, ma forse posso provarci. poi ti faccio sapere (spero che siano passaggi facili, sai non sono pratica) Grazie - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie-it] crash durante avvio Mandrake 7.2

2001-01-27 Thread pacmo
Sono curioso anch'io, a me non si pianta ma mi d un errore per i primi 5 minuti in continuazione una volta arrivato alla login nel terminale a caratteri. Comunque al posto tuo proverei a partire con l'opzione failsafe che ti dovrebbe aprire linuxconf, qui prova a cercare nei vari servizi che

Re: [newbie-it] crash durante avvio Mandrake 7.2

2001-01-27 Thread marco
Il 12:27, sabato 27 gennaio 2001, scrivesti: Salve, sono riuscito ad installare senza problemi Mandrake 7.2 su un PC privo di bus USB. Purtroppo, durante la procedura di avvio il computer si pianta nel momento in cui cerca di individuare i devices usb. Vorei sapere se c'e' in Linux

Re: [newbie-it] crash durante avvio Mandrake 7.2

2001-01-27 Thread Alberto Mura
Caro Marco, ti sono enormemente grato del suggerimento. Lunedi' provero' a metterlo in pratica e ti faro' sapere come sara' andata (il PC Linux lo uso al lavoro). Saluti, Alberto In date Saturday 27/01/01 14.24 +0100, you wrote: Il 12:27, sabato 27 gennaio 2001, scrivesti: Salve, sono

[newbie-it] stampanti in rete

2001-01-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ho un piccolo problema con la configurazione di due stampanti collegte in rete logale. dopo averle configurate con drakeconf non riesco a stampare nulla. il messaggio che ricevo e: "Epson is not ready". Qualcuno mi sa spiegare come posso sbloccarle? Ciao Silvano

[newbie-it] sito

2001-01-27 Thread Alessio Redsword Bertini
ragazzi, vi consiglio di fare un salto su questo mini-portale che tratta di un po' di argomenti interessanti per Linux http://anacronia.luda.it ciao a tutti quanti "the only good monster... is a FIREBALLED monster" // Alex "Redsword" Bertini // [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?

2001-01-27 Thread Jay
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, you wrote: hi, i have 7.1 already, but its not running smoothly yet. before i got stuck in sorting it all out, i was considering getting 7.2. do you think it's worth it (the bother of finding someone to download it for me and burn it onto a cd), or should i just stick

Re: [newbie] Win2000 Partition

2001-01-27 Thread David Pilcher
Note that it is _not_ recommended to enable NTFS write access. I always used to use a small FAT partition as a transfer area between linux and NT. - Original Message - From: "Meph Istopheles" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 11:29 PM

[newbie] Re: AVP-Linux....No Antivirus Database found???

2001-01-27 Thread Anthony
On Saturday 27 January 2001 02:50, you wrote: Hi guys, I hope someone can help me with this problem. I am trying to perform a virus scan on my system, but when I enter (AvpLinux -- / * )I recieve a message from the terminal that the antivirus database was not found. When I install LM 7.2 the

[newbie] Configure ISDN and conect to Internet

2001-01-27 Thread Miquel Baixas
Hell. I have a problem configuring a ISDN. Te DrafNet detects my ISDN but when I try to conect it says that it does not detect the modem. I've found a driver http://www.isdn4linux.de/ but I dont know what to do whith it. When I try to install it says that in need same files like libk... Sorry I'm

[newbie] Where is the auto-install theme feature in kde2.1 Beta 2?

2001-01-27 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, After little db rebuilding I finally got kde2.1 Beta 2 working. Great job!! There is one thing. I thought that there was a "theme" manager or auto-install button. Does any one know about this? Roman Registered Linux User #179293

[newbie] Can I use themes from previous kde versions?

2001-01-27 Thread Romanator
Hi all, I was wondering if I could install a few themes from previous versions of kde1.x to kde2.1 Beta 2. There doesn't seem to be that much under kde2. Or is there? Roman

[newbie] Trying to download mail from a server running postfix

2001-01-27 Thread Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
I've setup postfix on a mdk 7.2 server but I'm having problems downloading mails from it, when I try to download via fetchmail I get: snap [number1@liquid number1]$ fetchmail -p POP3 -u number1 borg.deltacomputers.no Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1 message for number1 at

[newbie] Kppp in Red Hat 6.2

2001-01-27 Thread L. H. LOO
I am the sole user of my Linux box with RH 6.2. Login as root, I could call Kppp, connect to ISP and surf the Net with Netscape. Login as user- Kmenu-Internet-Kppp- linux asked for root passwd, keyin root passwd, hard disk light flashed a few times and nothing happens. Presumed it is permission

FW: [newbie] Add a modem into com port 5

2001-01-27 Thread Charles A Edwards
Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 8:18 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Add a modem into com port 5 Not meaning to butt in but if the modem in question is PCI and

[newbie] XFree Server Refresh??

2001-01-27 Thread Anthony
Hi Guys, I have problem with my refresh rate or something else. I have to manually refresh X because the screen will become blurry. If I scroll a text in a fast pace the letters and screen looks distorded and shady. Can someone help? I have a voodoo banshee AGP card, with a Gateway monitor

Re: [newbie] Win2000 Partition

2001-01-27 Thread Meph Istopheles
Note also that I've used it on NT 4.0 in more than one install on one of two with W2k have yet to run into trouble. Yes, it ~is~ experimental, but what isn't?;-) Meph Note that it is _not_ recommended to enable NTFS write access. I always used to use a small FAT partition as a

Re: [newbie] Trying to download mail from a server running postfix

2001-01-27 Thread Meph Istopheles
Christian, I've setup postfix on a mdk 7.2 server but I'm having problems downloading mails from it, when I try to download via fetchmail I get: snap [number1@liquid number1]$ fetchmail -p POP3 -u number1 borg.deltacomputers.no Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1 message for number1

[newbie] Plustek/Silitek scanners

2001-01-27 Thread Meph Istopheles
Morning, Now it's my turn to ask about scanners. I have two I've yet to get working in either Linux or W2k (I may be onto something with the Silitek in W2k, but I'm waiting on a response from someone on that). In any case, in lm7.2, everything, of course, is rpm. Trouble is, the

[newbie] KDE2.1 Beta 2 win2000 Look

2001-01-27 Thread Romanator
Hi all, You guessed it, I'm trying to figure out kde2.1 Beta 2. For some reason, I was able to select the win 2000 look in user. However, I cannot reproduce this under root. Strange, it's usually the other way around. Roman

[newbie] Asus A7V Ata 100 Controller

2001-01-27 Thread Wayne Rolfe
Hi there, I need to know how to get linux mandrake 7.1 to see the drives on my ATA 100 controller, when I run the commands ide2=0x8400,0x8002 ide3=0x7800,0x7402 my system will see the drives attached to the controller then give me will just "hang there my kernel will not boot any further.

[newbie] 3c905b NIC drivers not installing

2001-01-27 Thread Salman H Butt
Hey, First off, here's my system info: AMD Ahtlon 550 Asus K7M Motherboard Elsa Erazor X (Geforce 32MB SDR) 128MB RAM Soundblaster live! value 3Com 3C905B NIC I'm running Mandrake 7.2. Under Release of the KDE Configuration Panel, it says 2.2.17-23mdk (which I suppose refers to the linux

[newbie] CUPS

2001-01-27 Thread -michael-
I have an unsupported epson printer. I know that! But I would really like to see if, like the LM Hardware site says, it will "work in text mode". It is an Epson Stylus Scan 2000, and I have tried the main drivers from the updated cups list... any clues? -- -michael-

Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?

2001-01-27 Thread Romanator
Vic wrote: Please excuse Rex, you can't find good help anymore. Anyway. yeah Konq seems to love crashing and it has been reported at bugs.kde.org and I'm looking all over the place trying to learn how to find the rpms to upgrade, I think the bug was reported at:

Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?

2001-01-27 Thread Romanator
-michael- wrote: On Saturday 27 January 2001 08:26 am, regarding Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?, you said: Please excuse Rex, you can't find good help anymore. Anyway. yeah Konq seems to love crashing and it has been reported at bugs.kde.org and I'm looking all over

RE: [newbie] 3c905b NIC drivers not installing

2001-01-27 Thread Salman H Butt
It was suggested to me that I get the latest stable kernel which would have support for the 3c905b. Does anyone know which version that would be and where I would get the source? Or how I could find this information? Thanks, Salman - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Salman Butt '03 Princeton

Re: [newbie] Users

2001-01-27 Thread andrew
thnx for the fast reply to my email =) On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Meph Istopheles wrote: Hey, This is an easy question..How do you create new users from the command line? adduser ?..useradd ?.. In lm ( even RH) it's, as root, useradd or /usr/sbin/useradd. Be sure to do: #

Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?

2001-01-27 Thread Mark Weaver
au come-on Vic...give the guy a break. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Vic wrote: Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:22:31 -0600 From: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Can I use themes from previous kde versions?

2001-01-27 Thread Mark Weaver
Roman, To tell you the truth the older KDE themes work TONS better then the themes put together for KDE2.0 and above. In fact, that's all I've been using are the themes for previous versions of KDE. These work great! enjoy... -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up

Re: [newbie] KDE2.1 Beta 2 win2000 Look

2001-01-27 Thread Mark Weaver
Roman, You will have to "add" that theme to the lineup in theme manager for root to use this theme. The themes don't load globally. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Romanator wrote:

Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?

2001-01-27 Thread Mark Weaver
Vic, Have you done any of the KDE updates from the batch that Chris has posted to the list about? Since coming from KDE2.0 to KDE2.1beta2 I've noticed Konqueror's stability increasing. That might be a help if you haven't installed the upgrades yet. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts

[newbie] video drivers

2001-01-27 Thread The Conways
I think I have been driving the guys in Tech support at Mandrake nuts, so they referred me to this list. They are great about answering question, but sometimes they assume you know more than you do. I have been having problems with my Diamond Speedstar A50(Sis 6326 chipset). My children were able

[newbie] PostgreSQL -- Database

2001-01-27 Thread NERILL
I have Mandrake 7.0 and I have been trying to gety PostgreSQl running but unsuccesfully. If I type 'psql', i get connection refused. if i type postmaster, i get 'postmaster doesnt know where to find database system data...' any ideas? Neri

Re: [newbie] CUPS

2001-01-27 Thread Meph Istopheles
Michael, I have an unsupported epson printer. I know that! But I would really like to see if, like the LM Hardware site says, it will "work in text mode". What you're looking to set up is printcap using (I suppose) postscript (a printer font -- there's more involved, but I don't know a

[newbie] Zip drives and printers on the same port

2001-01-27 Thread Peter Spotts
I recall a year or so back that then-modules (correct term?) for zip drives ran, but not if you had a printer hooked up to the drive's backside. I now discover that if on ML72 (HP Pavilion) I configure my printer, Konquerer hangs up when I try to access the zip drive. Does rule still apply, or is

[newbie] lilo v21.5

2001-01-27 Thread Sean Kenny
I've now discovered that my lilo problem is probably down to the fact that I have an olde version of lilo. Can some one point me in the right direction of how to obtain lilo v.21.5, and also where I might find out the process by which I upgrade lilo.

Re: [newbie] Can I use themes from previous kde versions?

2001-01-27 Thread Romanator
Hi Mark, KDE 1.x had lot's of themes. I'm sure many of the themes will be added to KDE2.x, as soon as it's acceptable for release. Did you notice that the themes have a different file extension? There are a lot of features that you won't find until you dig deep. By the way, the rebuild was an

Re: [newbie] KDE2.1 Beta 2 win2000 Look

2001-01-27 Thread Romanator
It's part of a "Decoration" submenu of the top toolbar of the window. Right-click on it and select: Decoration--Win2K Check out Decoration--RISC OS It just zips along! Mark Weaver wrote: Roman, You will have to "add" that theme to the lineup in theme manager for root to use this

Re: [newbie] video drivers

2001-01-27 Thread Romanator
The Conways wrote: I think I have been driving the guys in Tech support at Mandrake nuts, so they referred me to this list. They are great about answering question, but sometimes they assume you know more than you do. I have been having problems with my Diamond Speedstar A50(Sis 6326

Re: [newbie] Add a modem into com port 5

2001-01-27 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:29:34 +0800, Herbert wrote: As you know by using "kpp" we can only add the modem into com port 1 to port 4. Would you tell me how to add a modem into the com port 5 ? Best regards Herbert --- Sat, 27 Jan 2001 14:27:07 Well

Re: [newbie] Zip drives and printers on the same port

2001-01-27 Thread Jon Doe
On Saturday 27 January 2001 03:06 pm, you wrote: I recall a year or so back that then-modules (correct term?) for zip drives ran, but not if you had a printer hooked up to the drive's backside. I now discover that if on ML72 (HP Pavilion) I configure my printer, Konquerer hangs up when I try

Re: [newbie] Can I use themes from previous kde versions?

2001-01-27 Thread Mark Weaver
Glad I could help Roman. After this week I'm hoping that my system has decideded it's had enough of all the excitement and behaves itself for a while. I've been using KDE 1.1.2 themes pretty much exclusively. For what ever reason the themes for KDE 2.x don't work at all. -- Mark "If you don't

Re: [newbie] Asus A7V Ata 100 Controller

2001-01-27 Thread abe
hey wayne, let me be te first to say that you should turn off HTML mail as it will enrage some otherwise perfectly coherent people to the point of insanity. So, if you want to reach the widest possible group of people for answers to your questions and generally be a good member of the online

[Fwd: [newbie] A7V and dual boot]

2001-01-27 Thread abe
I'm trying to help my brother get a dual boot going with mandrake and win98se on an A7V. His windows drive is an ATA 100 drive on the primary ATA100 controller. His mandrake drive is an ata66 drive on the primary ata66 drive. I can get mandrake to see the ATA100 drive by passing

[newbie] Perplexing Soundcard problem with Mandrake 7.1

2001-01-27 Thread Richard Kleeman
I am having a tough time getting my soundcard to work under Linux. First of all I installed Mandrake 7.1 because I have a Promise UDMA/66 IDE controller which most other releases of Linux do not recognise (I tried Redhat 7.0 and Mandrake 7.2 without luck). So Mandrake 7.1 worked and most of the

[newbie] mc is no longer in spanish??

2001-01-27 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I'm spanish and so i've got my programs in this language. But today i've started Midnight Commander and it's in english ?! 8-? I've updated it using the rpm program and the --force parameter with no luck... any idea?? Thanksss! 8-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL

[newbie] Double drat..

2001-01-27 Thread Dave Burrows
Hi, John and all; Early this morning (about 4:11 am), I finished downloading the ISO files that I began last Sunday evening. It took only 5.5 days to download both ISO files with my super duper speedy delivery dial-up connection. ;) I tried to install this version of Linux-Mandrake, having

Re: [newbie] Double drat..

2001-01-27 Thread KompuKit
This is the reason...you only see one file with an ISO extension... it is because you NEVER actually burned it correctly... instead ...you only copied the iso file to the CD... learn how to burn,,, is my suggestion (contains no tree nor even 1 directory, only the ISO file.. which is exactly

Re: [newbie] Double drat..

2001-01-27 Thread Dave Burrows
Hmmm.. I bet you're right. That's not all I have to learn. g I use Nero for burning (which, it seems, has no association with ISO files) and Direct CD for pocket writing. I have an old copy of Easy CD Creator (Adaptec) and will download the upgrade so I can follow the instructions I found

Re: [newbie] Can I use themes from previous kde versions?

2001-01-27 Thread Romanator
Oh yeah? Are you able to load the old themes from KDE 1.1.2 to KDE 2 Beta 2? If you can, I'm going to download them. Roman Mark Weaver wrote: Glad I could help Roman. After this week I'm hoping that my system has decideded it's had enough of all the excitement and behaves itself for a

Re: [newbie] Double drat..

2001-01-27 Thread Michael O'Henly
Hi Dave... I created a Linux install CD under Windows using Easy CD Creator a long time ago and it was quite straightforward. I think all I had to do was double-click on the ISO in the Explorer and Easy CD Creator "did the right thing". CD burning is not difficult in Linux, but it is

[newbie] cannot get cups to work

2001-01-27 Thread timmy1443
When I first installed LM 7.2 my printer worked just fine, then one day I tried to print and I got the error that it couldn't reach the cups server. Since then I have tried reinstalling cups with many different updates but I have still had no luck. every time I reinstall I go to printerdrake

RE: [newbie] cannot get cups to work

2001-01-27 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
I had a similiar problem. After uninstalling the default CUPS drivers and re-installing the updated drivers everything worked fine. Merely "upgrading" the existing RPM's did not work though. It was not until I performed an uninstall then re-install that things started working. Curiously this

Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?

2001-01-27 Thread Vic
Well-maybe, its just that I have been accused of posting abuse to the list when it was my secretaries, in the past. If Rex makes me a promise to not post every little blasted comment to the list when I am busy but need someone to take some dictation. I guess I have just had bad luck with

Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?

2001-01-27 Thread Vic
Scuse Rex's abuse. I think I shall try the beta downloads if they will not hose out my system, I do become very upset if something bunks it up and I don't know enuf to dig into every little config file, I just re-install. Which ones have you installed onto 7.2 ? My install is on a AMDK6 400

[newbie] connecting to a DHCP LAN

2001-01-27 Thread Salman H Butt
hey, has anyone successfully connected to a LAN using DHCP to configure all your settings? i've been trying with my 3Com 3c905b without any luck. whenever i try to configure eth0 to use dhcp as its config mode in basic host information (of linuxconf), it never saves my settings. that is, i put

[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 not detecting RAM correctly

2001-01-27 Thread Salman H Butt
Hey, Mandrake 7.2 has the wrong amount of RAM. During the install, it asked me to put in how much I had, since it often makes an error detecting RAM. I put '128', and after reading through the list, I realized I should have put '128 MB'. Is there any way for me to fix this? Is this kept in a

Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?

2001-01-27 Thread -michael-
Vic: The french ftp site (cyril) has always given me the fastest connections. Get everything in the folder. As far as KDE goes, it's the best yet! I have the same kernel. Vic wrote: Scuse Rex's abuse. I think I shall try the beta downloads if they will not hose out my system, I do

Re: [newbie] Updating KDE 2 to KDE 2 Beta 2

2001-01-27 Thread Romanator
Vic wrote: Scuse Rex's abuse. I think I shall try the beta downloads if they will not hose out my system, I do become very upset if something bunks it up and I don't know enuf to dig into every little config file, I just re-install. Which ones have you installed onto 7.2 ? My

FW: [newbie] connecting to a DHCP LAN

2001-01-27 Thread Charles A Edwards
Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 9:40 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] connecting to a DHCP LAN You need to manually install the DHCP package. It is not

[newbie] Installed ML7.2, cannot find CD-RW and Floppy

2001-01-27 Thread surya
Hi: I installed ML7.2 on a PIII box. The opted to install as a developer machine. Everything went of smoothly. However when I try to access a CD either by clicking on the CD-ROM icon on the KDE desktop or by doing a "ls /mnt/cdrom" it says that there is an I/O error. I looked at the mtab

Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?

2001-01-27 Thread Mark Weaver
Vic, I can fully appreciate your position. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Vic wrote: Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 20:01:58 -0600 From: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?

2001-01-27 Thread Mark Weaver
Vic, Yes...use the URL that Roman posted, only take one the "/" (front slashes) cause theres a spot in the URL where there are two and should only be one. I think he was eating expresso beans again. Your system sounds a lot like mine. Chris's rpm's are good ones and will treat your system well.

RE: [newbie] connecting to a DHCP LAN

2001-01-27 Thread Salman H Butt
ok, thanks. i'll try that. where's the best place to for that? rpmfind.net? or is it on the mandrake 7.2 iso cd's (install and/or extensions)? thanks again, salman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles A Edwards Sent: Saturday, January

RE: [newbie] connecting to a DHCP LAN

2001-01-27 Thread Salman H Butt
well, i checked out if i had dhcp installed using 'rpm -q dhcp'. and it gave dhcp-1.0b1pl17-4mdk. so, is it actually installed? or could this be a dhcp server? thanks, salman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Salman H Butt Sent: Saturday,

Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?

2001-01-27 Thread Vic
Ok I need the exact url and server stuff. and please show me the correct folder too. Thank you On Friday 26 January 2001 08:28 pm, -michael- wrote: Vic: The french ftp site (cyril) has always given me the fastest connections. Get everything in the folder. As far as KDE goes, it's the best

Re: [newbie] Asus A7V Ata 100 Controller

2001-01-27 Thread Robert Wertzler
On Saturday 27 January 2001 09:30, you wrote: Hi there, I need to know how to get linux mandrake 7.1 to see the drives on my ATA 100 controller, when I run the commands ide2=0x8400,0x8002 ide3=0x7800,0x7402 my system will see the drives attached to the controller then give me will just

[newbie] Wireless Bridge Cable Modem

2001-01-27 Thread kinpoonc
Hello, Please pardon me if this has been posted before. I'm connected to the Internet via a cable modem. Instead of a wired Bridge (eg, SMC's Barricade) I would like to install a Wireless equivalent (with NAT, Firewall, single IP, etc). Has anyone gotten any such device to work properly?

Re: [newbie] Updating KDE 2 to KDE 2 Beta 2

2001-01-27 Thread Vic
On Saturday 27 January 2001 08:31 pm, Romanator wrote: Many thankx for all this info, if I return to the list, I made it. If not, I have drowned in an ocean of kde poop. Wish me lucjk, see you on the other sied. screw the typos I don't wanna correct them now. sorry later, if I make it

Re: [newbie] Trying to download mail from a server running postfix

2001-01-27 Thread Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
On Saturday 27 January 2001 14:59, Meph Istopheles wrote: Christian, I've setup postfix on a mdk 7.2 server but I'm having problems downloading mails from it, when I try to download via fetchmail I get: snap [number1@liquid number1]$ fetchmail -p POP3 -u number1

Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?

2001-01-27 Thread Romanator
Mark Weaver wrote: Vic, Yes...use the URL that Roman posted, only take one the "/" (front slashes) cause theres a spot in the URL where there are two and should only be one. I think he was eating expresso beans again. Your system sounds a lot like mine. Chris's rpm's are good ones and

Re: [newbie] Updating KDE 2 to KDE 2 Beta 2

2001-01-27 Thread Romanator
Piece of cake. Follow the steps and you'll be alright. Good luck! Roman Vic wrote: On Saturday 27 January 2001 08:31 pm, Romanator wrote: Many thankx for all this info, if I return to the list, I made it. If not, I have drowned in an ocean of kde poop. Wish me lucjk, see you on

[newbie] Netscape Messenger problems

2001-01-27 Thread marcia
Dear All, I have Linux Mandrake 7.2 and have been using Netscape. Since last night I can send out mail but not receive. I checked with Cox Cable, my internet server and they said the problem was not from their end. I can use the internet but not receive mail. Then this afternoon for about 5 hours

[newbie] Does AbiWord crash on you?

2001-01-27 Thread Romanator
Here's one for you. Log in as root, and type up something simple in AbiWord. Save it to /usr/home/your_name. Next, log in as user. Open the same file and add a couple of lines to the document. Try to save it. Does it crash? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Turbo Charged Penguin Email

Re: [newbie] Netscape Messenger problems

2001-01-27 Thread Romanator
marcia wrote: Dear All, I have Linux Mandrake 7.2 and have been using Netscape. Since last night I can send out mail but not receive. I checked with Cox Cable, my internet server and they said the problem was not from their end. I can use the internet but not receive mail. Then this

[newbie] Bell answering service and dial-up internet connection

2001-01-27 Thread Pavel Zubkov
Hi to everyone! I was wondering if someone could help me out. Recently I started using 7.0 Mandrake. The problem I have is : I have a Bell answering service. If there is a message waiting to be picked up there is a bisy signal instead of the dial tone. Is there any way to override the search

[newbie] piping directory filelist to tar for extraction, how?

2001-01-27 Thread TY
This is driving me crazy, i've read the man and info files for tar, and read what little info I could find on pipes. I have a bunch of filename.tar.bz2 files in a directory that I wish to unzip and extract all at once. It doesn't appear that tar lets one use wildcards with -xf, at least to