RE: [newbie] Sendmail.

2001-05-04 Thread Mr S Ganesan
Subject: REdhat 7.1 RH 7.1 is amazing, the apps are very stable. RH 7.1 has almost beaten Windows in interfacing. The scrolling and dragging of windows is very smooth. Mandrake 8.0 is supposed to be the best according to rhe reviews. My friend has started to download Mandrake 8.0. Shall I send th

Fw: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun

2001-05-04 Thread tazmun
oops sorry about the html coding..running most of my email yet from windows and much of my output requires html.. :( - Original Message - From: tazmun To: newbie Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 7:02 PM Subject: Fw: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun - Orig

[newbie] c++ compiler question

2001-05-04 Thread Barbara
I am trying to compile ddd. When I run the configure, I get this error: checking whether the C compiler (gcc) compiles and links a simple C program... yes checking for c++... c++ checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ /usr/bin/c++ ) works... yes checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ /usr/bin/c++

Fw: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun

2001-05-04 Thread tazmun
  - Original Message - From: tazmun To: Franki Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 6:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun Thanks all for your suggestions on this installation.  By changingpermissions and using midnight commander I was able to get

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8 Upgrade Policy

2001-05-04 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Terry: AFAIK, their policy is that you're more than welcome to buy another boxed set. If you don't need the Macmillan add-ons, then you can go either the download or Cheapbytes route. My take is that the boxed sets are a pretty good value -- no long downloads via 56k modem, no CD burning, a printe

Re: [newbie] Update-Alternatives

2001-05-04 Thread Civileme
On Thursday 03 May 2001 16:49, D. Hoyem wrote: > If you are trying to change the window manager go to > Config --> Other --> Mandrake Control Center --> Boot > Configuration and at teh bottom of the GUI you cna > make the change. > > --- SoloCDM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What RPM file for LM8

Re: [newbie] How do I switch from XFree86 3.3.6 to 4.0.3?

2001-05-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Steven wrote: > I have installed LM 8.0, but for some reason I got stuck > with X.3.3.6 instead of the latest 4.0.3? > > Is there someway to upgrade gracefully? I realize I could > try and re-install again, but for one this may not work (as > I have done this install a couple times now without > n

Re: [newbie] Mounting windows partition

2001-05-04 Thread Todd Flinders
You can add this mounting to your /etc/fstab file. This will cause Linux to mount windows upon booting. You need to add the "users" permission to allow users to mount/umount the drive. I don't remember the exact syntax (unfortunately, I am in NT right now), but you will see others in /etc/fstab

[newbie] Java script

2001-05-04 Thread John W
I am at a loss with installing (copying) the .jar files to KDE/share/apps/kjava to enable java scripting support with the Sun jsse. I open the kde directory in my home directory but I do not have a kjava dir. Did I not install something from the begginning or should I be looking somewhere els

Re: [newbie] mount win files

2001-05-04 Thread Todd Flinders
If D: is the second partition on that drive it is hda2. If it is the second hard drive, it should be hdb1. --- kaab kaoutar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the way how to unmount :() > I mean if i delete the mounted files does it delete > from windws ? :( > how to mount D drive ?cause when i typ

[newbie] Mandrake 8 Upgrade Policy

2001-05-04 Thread Terry Smith
Hi folks, I'm just getting back on the list after being dropped a month ago. I see that LM 8.0 is out, has good reviews, etc. I'd like to get it. I purchased a boxed version of the basic LM 7.2 about two months ago. Does Mandrake/McMillan have any kind of upgrade policy? TIA. Terry Smith Wood

Re: [newbie] login/logout/shutdown question

2001-05-04 Thread s
Well, that may be the default gnome login. Isn't there a drop down menubar at the top of the box/graphic? -s On Friday 04 May 2001 08:59 am, you wrote: > I recently installed Mandrake 7.2. When I boot the system I don't see the > login window with the Penguin icons that the manual says I'm supp

[newbie] How do I switch from XFree86 3.3.6 to 4.0.3?

2001-05-04 Thread Steven
I have installed LM 8.0, but for some reason I got stuck with X.3.3.6 instead of the latest 4.0.3? Is there someway to upgrade gracefully? I realize I could try and re-install again, but for one this may not work (as I have done this install a couple times now without noticing any way to speci

[newbie] firestarter

2001-05-04 Thread Danny Gordon
Hello all and thanks for this great list :-) I was wondering as a relitive newbie how i would set up an efective firewall, since i did not know anything about ipchains i was lost. But i found a program called firestarter and it seems simple enough to use. Does anyone have any experiance with

Re: [newbie] Install Alsa, Kernel and Reiserfs

2001-05-04 Thread Ric Tibbetts
g wrote: > > I found the msg from Mark Weaver re; installing RPM's > > I put Alsa, Kernel and Reiserfs rpms in a separate directory called T > I enter the command and received the following msg: > > [root@dhcp-202-6 T]# rpm -ivh --test *.rpm > file /sbin/mkreiserfs from install of reiserfs-util

[newbie] Mail Server again

2001-05-04 Thread Mazen
Hi, all I have installed Postfix in my machine. It runs perfectly. I also need to give my user pop3 facility so I have installed QPopper. I have followed the instructions step by step without any problem. It is still not working. I have tried "telnet MAILSERVER IP 110" but it seems not working

Re: [newbie] Segmentation Fault

2001-05-04 Thread Petre Daniel
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Michael D. Viron wrote: > This sounds like a problem with the rpm database, not with the program > itself. You'll need to run the following commands as root: > > rpm --initdb > rpm --rebuilddb > > This should take care of it. > heya,this is what i get doing the previous co

[newbie] mount win files

2001-05-04 Thread kaab kaoutar
By the way how to unmount :() I mean if i delete the mounted files does it delete from windws ? :( how to mount D drive ?cause when i typed mount -w -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/ it has mounted only C drive. Thanks _ Get Your Priv

RE: [newbie] Sendmail.

2001-05-04 Thread Michael D. Viron
Just a few clarifications here: At 12:22 AM 05/05/2001 +0800, Franki wrote: >There might be a better way of doing this, but my sendmail port 25 has two >security features,, > >It is set to only allow connections to the internal IP's and the firwall >that blocks it from the outside world is blo

[newbie] mount win files

2001-05-04 Thread kaab kaoutar
Hi! Hi I've tried mount -w -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/! cause i never accessed my win files from linux! but now, when i no more access floppy nor cdrom etc :( can u help please? NB: byt the way , we can never see linux files from windows ? Thanks _

[newbie] OT: But it amused me

2001-05-04 Thread poogle
Not often that I find myself without a quick retort but this one did... During a quiet nightshift I was playing with Python on my laptop, a colleague asked what I was doing and a brief explanation followed, then a 2nd colleague who regularly "enthralls" us all by sharing his vast knowledge of al

Re: [newbie] Thanks to everyone for helping w/ the Win2000 install

2001-05-04 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Victor Richardson wrote: > One thing I did notice was that Microsoft assured everyone that Win2000 > would put an end to endless reboots when installin and uninstalling > software. I have a win2k, and this just ain't so... But enjoy. --

Re: [newbie] Getting Java to work

2001-05-04 Thread Todd Flinders
Fonts: Konqueror->Settings->Configure Konqueror->KDE Web Browsing->Appearance KDE Control Center->LookNFeel->Fonts Anti-Aliasing: KDE Control Center->LookNFeel->Style __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices ht

Re: [newbie] modem installation hassles

2001-05-04 Thread Mark Shaw
Quick followup. I reinstalled the modem to COM5 as described near the end below (in the "observations/questions" section), and no joy. Reading the setserial manpage a little closer (something I probably should have done sooner), I see that the command doesn't like IRQ9 and indeed maps it to IRQ2

Re: [newbie] Switching from LM 7.0 to Win2000 Pro

2001-05-04 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Victor Richardson wrote: > > I know this is going to get me a serious heckling, but... > > Unfortunately, my boss wants me to switch one of our (very stable) > Mandrake servers to Win2000 Pro (only) for a tester. The problem I > keep running into is that I cannot get the server to boot from th

[newbie] xfs problem

2001-05-04 Thread Martin Gagnon
Got a problem with xfs at boot time. I worked at it for a couple of days and couldn't get rid of it. Need help! Here's what I get at boot: Starting X font server [ok] At the login prompt, where X usually starts, if I do nothing for 3-5 seconds, I get: Press to continue INIT: Switching to runle

[newbie] Monitor/video card problems

2001-05-04 Thread Gavin
Hi, I could use some help, I' ve been running mdk 7.2 with no problems, today I finally got 8.0, it loaded up fine but when I got to the main screen to log on. all fuzzy, as if the software could not find the settings. I'm using a HEWLETT PACKARD PAVILION M50 monitor with a voodoo3 banchee gr

Re: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun

2001-05-04 Thread Michael D. Viron
First, please turn off "HTML" formatting in your message--in many e-mail programs we end up with all kinds of extra tags. Now, on to the question at hand. First do an 'ls -al filename.bin' from the directory the file is in (This of course presupposes that you are at a command prompt). Check to s

Re: [newbie] Segmentation Fault

2001-05-04 Thread Michael D. Viron
This sounds like a problem with the rpm database, not with the program itself. You'll need to run the following commands as root: rpm --initdb rpm --rebuilddb This should take care of it. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Flor

Re: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun

2001-05-04 Thread Carlos Berardi
I think you should do this as user, not root for the .bin, first do a "chmod 744 filename.bin", then "./filename.bin" for the .rpm do "rpm -i filename.rpm" tazmun wrote: > Hi All > > > > I am very new to Linux and the command line is very intimidating yet. > I have downloaded a supposed

[newbie] new vmware with kernel 2.4 support is out

2001-05-04 Thread Tycho Bizot
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of rh Sent: donderdag 3 mei 2001 3:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Virtual Machines VMWare is supposedly a really good emulator for Windows apps. Apparently it allows you to run virtual machines o

[newbie] login/logout/shutdown question

2001-05-04 Thread Jeffery Chapman
I recently installed Mandrake 7.2. When I boot the system I don't see the login window with the Penguin icons that the manual says I'm supposed to see. Instead I get a plain box with login and password text fields and an OK button. There are no options for shutdown or session type. In the lower ri

Re: [newbie]

2001-05-04 Thread Michael D. Viron
At 11:24 AM 05/04/2001 GMT, Paul wrote: >> i have a Accton EN1660 P&P network-card, is it supported in >> Mandrake 7.2 ? > >As far as I know, it should work. > >> And does Mandrake 7.2 run on the following enviroment: >> DX4-486 100MHZ 28MB Ram ?? > >It will work, but do not count on X-window bein

[newbie] port redirect

2001-05-04 Thread Marcel Dijk
Hello, How do you setup port redirect on the firewall? Example: you have a firewall and behind the firewall is a FTP server. The FTP server is on a private IP address. But you want people from the internet to access the FTP. Thanks, Marcel

Re: [newbie] Segmentation Fault

2001-05-04 Thread AKC Chu
Hi, I think Segmentation fault is a bug or an error in the program, I think you'll have to wait for a bug fix or a newer version of that software. Hope that helps, Aaron On Fri, 4 May 2001, SoloCDM wrote: > How can a Segmentation Fault be corrected? No RPM installations > or uninstalls are a

Re: [newbie] Switching from LM 7.0 to Win2000 Pro

2001-05-04 Thread Cyphfer
When your boss decides Windows 2000 is causing more headaches than it is worth. Here is some advice. Windows 2000 takes over your hard drive. Please ensure you have a working win95/98 boot diskette somewhere so you can kill the Window 2000 boot loader. Boot the system from the win95/98 boot

[newbie] Install Alsa, Kernel and Reiserfs

2001-05-04 Thread g
I found the msg from Mark Weaver re; installing RPM's I put Alsa, Kernel and Reiserfs rpms in a separate directory called T I enter the command and received the following msg: [root@dhcp-202-6 T]# rpm -ivh --test *.rpm file /sbin/mkreiserfs from install of reiserfs-utils-2.2.19_3.5.29-4.1mdk c

RE: [newbie]HELP: Athlon, M7M and Radeon

2001-05-04 Thread Charles A Edwards
The Radeon requires X 4.02, so it is not going to work in a stock 7.2 install and/or system. I currently have 2 Radeon cards, a 32MB DDR and a 64MB DDR w/VIVO, and I think both cards are great. Both system, a Duron 800mhz and a t-bird 1.00ghz, have the ASUS A7V MOBO and Maxtor ATA100 hds. I have

Re: [newbie] riddle me this -- chmod

2001-05-04 Thread Dave Sherman
Not sure if anyone has explained the 'why' of this to you yet, so here goes... The -R (for 'recursive') option only works on directories, not files or even file wildcards. So, if you want to change the directory and all its files and subdirs and subfiles et al, then use chmod -R 644 /backup/w

Re: Re: [newbie] another misconfigured system?

2001-05-04 Thread lixin0217
> On Friday 13 April 2001 22:40, you wrote: > > Forwarded message: > > > From MAILER-DAEMON Fri Apr 13 17:39:43 2001 > > > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Date: 13 Apr 2001 17:37:48 -0700 > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Delivery Status Notification

Re: [newbie]

2001-05-04 Thread Paul
> i have a Accton EN1660 P&P network-card, is it supported in > Mandrake 7.2 ? As far as I know, it should work. > And does Mandrake 7.2 run on the following enviroment: > DX4-486 100MHZ 28MB Ram ?? It will work, but do not count on X-window being very happy with so little RAM. 28Mb is very lit

[newbie]

2001-05-04 Thread thando kan
Hi , i have a Accton EN1660 P&P network-card, is it supported in Mandrake 7.2 ? And does Mandrake 7.2 run on the following enviroment: DX4-486 100MHZ 28MB Ram ?? thanks for info. best regards, thando kan _ Get Your Private

[newbie] error messages

2001-05-04 Thread Franki
Hi all,,, I am getting alot of strange messages emailed by my server that I would like to clean up Here is one... FATAL ERROR: /var/spool/fax/etc/setup.cache is missing! The file /var/spool/fax/etc/setup.cache is not present. This probably means the machine has not been setup using the f

RE: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun

2001-05-04 Thread Franki
type in mc at the command line, (you need to have midnight comander installed, but you probably do anyway) That will ring up a lovely blue screen you can navigate around in,, (self explanitory when you see it..) go to where your rpm is,, then highlight in in MC (again, self explanitory when you

[newbie] Re(2): open associated programs

2001-05-04 Thread newbie-mandrake
thank you but this is not what i actually mean. you can always, of course, type ... kedit or ark in the terminal to open the files associated to kedit or ark in X. what i was looking for is a command in the terminal that will spawn kedit , ark, or any program according to the file association

[newbie]

2001-05-04 Thread newbie-mandrake
thank you but this is not what i actually mean. you can always, of course, type ... kedit or ark in the terminal to open the files associated to kedit or ark in X. what i was looking for is a command in the terminal that will spawn kedit , ark, or any program according to the file association