Re: [newbie-it] mdk8.0 su suse

2001-07-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message - From: bosva [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 10:39 PM Subject: [newbie-it] mdk8.0 su suse salve a tutti...domandina da vero neofita... oltre a uindos sul mio vecchio hd, ho installato mdk7.2 e suse7.0 su due diverse

Re: [newbie-it] AIUTO!!!

2001-07-04 Thread Andrea Celli
CaMiX wrote: Ragazzi, come diavolo si torna in modalità grafica? Cosa devo eseguire. Mi ci è andato da solo e non riesco più a tornare al mio caro KDE... CaMiX I casi sono due: - ha fatto crash il server grafico. Prova a capirne il perche' leggendo /var/log/messages e a farlo ripartire

Re: [newbie-it] A proposito di compilazione

2001-07-04 Thread Stefano Salari
Provo a risponderti, anche se non sono assolutamente un cervello!!! :( Visto che in questa lista ci sono dei cervelli (grazie a loro e a tutti quelli ci aiutano sulla strada di linux) chiedo due cose che dovrebbero essere semplici: - a proposito del mio dannato winmodem (sono 3 settimane

Re: [newbie-it] Configurazione di inizio sessione

2001-07-04 Thread freefred
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 19:00, you wrote: Rieccomi. Sono il vostro incubo, eh? Una cosa abbasytanza importante: come si settano le condizioni di inizio sessione? Perché pur non selezionando all'uscita ripristina sessione al prossimo accesso, il pinguino se ne sbatte altamente e mi

Re: [newbie-it] Configurare xterm

2001-07-04 Thread Mr_Brain
At 16.41 03/07/01, you wrote: Uso Mandrake 8.0 e vorrei sapere dove sono i file di configurazione di xterm (e anche come sia fa a trovarli) Quello che vorrei fare è inserire i font + grandi (perchè se no divento cieco!) Tieni premuto ctrl e fai click con il tasto destro.. Cmq i file di

[newbie-it] Passaggio al kernel 2.4

2001-07-04 Thread Mr_Brain
Salve a tutti :-) Qualcuno sa se aggiornando il kernel al 2.4.x si guadagna qualcosa in velocita'?? (nel caso particolare, il passaggio sarebbe dal 2.2.17 al 2.4.2, su una mdk7.2..) -- Ciao Mr_Brain - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie-it] Scanner

2001-07-04 Thread Sebastiano Cordiano
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:10:38 -0400 CaMiX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao! Il SANE l'ho installato, ma il problema è che l'hardrake non mi riconosce lo scanner. L'USB s',, anche perché sennò il mio mouse non funzionerebbe, ma lo scanner nulla. Teoricamente dovrebbe bastare il SANE per fare in

Re: R: [newbie-it] LILO

2001-07-04 Thread Alessandro Rocca
From: Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: R: [newbie-it] LILO Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 14:23:47 +0200 Ho riguardarto meglio. C'e` un'apposita opzione lilo -r per ripristinare la situazione precedente. Purtroppo in modalità rescue non

Re: [newbie-it] AIUTO!!!

2001-07-04 Thread Mr_Brain
At 20.48 03/07/01, you wrote: Ragazzi, come diavolo si torna in modalità grafica? startx? Cosa devo eseguire. Il server X, un client, un window manager, eventualmente un desktop manager.. :) Mi ci è andato da solo Dove?? e non riesco più a tornare al mio caro KDE... Hai gia' provato xfce

Re: R: [newbie-it] LILO

2001-07-04 Thread Andrea Celli
Andrea Celli wrote: Come posso fare per rimettere LILO al posto suo? Non è una cosa che mi sia mai capitata, ma penso che il comando LILO, lanciato senza alcun flag, vada a riscrivere nell'MBR (che sta per master boot record) le informazioni necessarie, riportate, vado a memoria,

Re: [newbie] Acrobat

2001-07-04 Thread Tim Holmes
I take it you downloaded the tar.gz from Adobe's web page? From there type : [root@r2d2 installed] tar -zxvf linux-ar-405.tar.gz ILINXR.install/ILINXR.TAR ILINXR.install/INSTALL ILINXR.install/INSTGUID.TXT ILINXR.install/LICREAD.TXT ILINXR.install/READ.TAR ILINXR.install/ReadMe [root@r2d2

[newbie] Network configuration help...

2001-07-04 Thread Graham Kerr
Recently I installed mandrake 8.0, and everything was ok... But now I seem to have no network connection to the rest of the network (can't connect to my smoothwall machine...so no internet) Ive ran 'netcfg' and checked the settings and IP addresses etc and all seem fine... even changed the

RE: [newbie] Net Install Problems

2001-07-04 Thread Aaron
I don't understand why you would have a problem witha badly pressed CD when doing a install over the net? I'm not using any CD? Aaron -Original Message- From: Adams, Jamie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 2:07 AM To: 'Aaron' Subject: RE: [newbie] Net Install

Re: [newbie] Network configuration help...

2001-07-04 Thread Paul
Did you put all the machines into /etc/hosts everywhere? Can you ping the other machines on IP-address level? (yes: the cables and connections are ok, no: the cables or connections are not ok) Paul Recently I installed mandrake 8.0, and everything was ok... But now I seem to have no

Re: [newbie] Internet Security

2001-07-04 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 21:57:44 -0400 Judith Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: S'ok - we've all been here at some point GGrin that had something to do with mail transport. So okay, some progress. At sdesign.com I had fewer ports open than I did before, but I'm still seeing open ports at 631

Re: [newbie] Internet Security

2001-07-04 Thread Graham Kerr
Here's what I did... I edited the file '/etc/rc.d/rcfirewall', and added rules for the services that i required, or wanted to block... It was in the form: ipchains {rule.} ipchains {rule...} etc., etc. Try man ipchains and/or search the web for sample rcfirewall scripts, and how to

[newbie] Re: xcin not working.

2001-07-04 Thread An-Guo
I have installed Mandrake 8.0 a few weeks ago but I haven't been able to configure it the way I need to yet. I have tried to get help from a local linux list about installing chinese functinalities, but my problem is not solved. I hope someone here will be able to help me. :-) Basically, I

[newbie] dns record

2001-07-04 Thread SK
Hi! I need help on my local dns record. Below is my new dns server. I want to create a new record call intranet. But when I use nslookup to test my record it was not found. Need help ... $TTL 86400 @ IN SOA @ root.localhost ( 9 ; serial

Re: [newbie] Internet Security

2001-07-04 Thread Paul
I tried to run the interactive Bastille but I didn't understand the options and the explanations were much too sketchy. I don't like to make decisions like that when I don't understand what I'm doing. So I ran BastilleChooser instead and figure it's better than nothing. Why isn't

RE: [newbie] No sound for NeoMagic 256AV

2001-07-04 Thread Adams, Jamie
OK, i found the sndconfig package and installed it. But it didnt work anyway, it said i didnt have a kernel with 'modular sound' enabled. How would go about enabling this in the kernel? Cheers -- Jamie -- From: etharp[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04

[newbie] RE: [expert] udma 66????

2001-07-04 Thread Franki
According to Civilme, mandrake 8 shuts off udma 66 or above on motherboards with the 686 southbridge chip,, and that chip is on every KT133 motherboard I have seen thus far... (it does this to stop a bug in the chip causing you to lose data.) Bet thats your problem, I am waiting for Mdk8.1 to

Re[1] [newbie] fonts in StarOffice

2001-07-04 Thread kp _
have you tried importing all the fonts from windows if you've got a dual boot system? I made that and : 1. Import didn't finish, i had to close the window 2. the windows fonts did not appear in SO, but when I typed the name of the font it seems to be ok 3. I tried 2 or 3 fonts and then SO

RE: [newbie] Internet Security some iphains stuff... simple explanation

2001-07-04 Thread Franki
Hi Judith,, rather then comment on the command stuff that the other responses are focusing on, I will try to help you out in my megre way... first, what type of connection do you have? cable, ppp (dialup) ADSL all can require different answers.. The problem is that I do everything with

[newbie] What does Load Average mean?

2001-07-04 Thread George Petri
Hi! I continually see something called a Load Average as a statistic for servers, ftp sites...and even my machine :) But what does it mean? The output from uptime tells me this: 11:50pm up 2:48, 2 users, load average: 0.49, 0.55, 0.51 So is this saying that my system is being loaded

RE: [newbie] mini linux distro recommendations

2001-07-04 Thread Franki
try freeSCO,, its amazing what they fit on a floppy,,, works great, we are using it on several machines here, even one acts as a mini dialup server... great little product. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Fireman71 Sent: Wednesday, 4

RE: [newbie] Internet Security

2001-07-04 Thread Franki
I thought I might comment here, it is quiet acceptable to close both cups and x11 on your external interface,, (ie the one that connects to the outside world, be it via ppp0,, eth0 or other, in fact, since you want neither X or cups linked to the outside world, its RECOMMENDED you do close them

Re: [newbie] StarOffice and Linux2.4.3-20mdk

2001-07-04 Thread Jay DeKing
On Tue, 03 Jul 2001, Romanator wrote: Jay DeKing wrote: On Sun, 01 Jul 2001, Romanator wrote: On Sunday 01 July 2001 05:42 pm, RobertLuzader wrote: Perhaps someone can give a newbie some advice. I recently purchased Mandrake 8.0 and so far I'm pretty satisfied. Having worked in

Re: [newbie] mini linux distro recommendations

2001-07-04 Thread steve campbell
Just wonderingdoes anyone know of a floppy distro with reiserfs support? I use toms boot disc and while it is great for hacking my friends broken windows, I can't actually use it on my own Linux..ironic huh? :) On Wednesday 04 July 2001 06:03, Brandon Caudle wrote: www.loaf.org

RE: [newbie] HSP56 micromodem

2001-07-04 Thread Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of pepe torrres Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 10:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] HSP56 micromodem had anyone installed a hsp56 micromodem on madrake??? pls help! Try this site. It has

Re: [newbie] What does Load Average mean?

2001-07-04 Thread Paul
As ffar as I know it is the average number of jobs in the run queue over the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes. The numbers displayed are an indication of how many processes were competing for CPU time at any given time averaged over N minutes. Paul

Re: [newbie] StarOffice and Linux2.4.3-20mdk

2001-07-04 Thread Jay DeKing
On Wed, 04 Jul 2001, Jay DeKing wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2001, Romanator wrote: Jay DeKing wrote: On Sun, 01 Jul 2001, Romanator wrote: On Sunday 01 July 2001 05:42 pm, RobertLuzader wrote: Perhaps someone can give a newbie some advice. I recently purchased Mandrake 8.0 and so

Re: [newbie] mini linux distro recommendations

2001-07-04 Thread A V Flinsch
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 00:19, Fireman71 wrote: Not really related to Mandrake but I am looking for a mini linux distro (under 20 meg and preferably one just one floppy) that i can load onto an old 386 computer and configure to act as an internet masquerading / firewall machine.

Re: [newbie] mini linux distro recommendations

2001-07-04 Thread n6tadam
Hi, I happen to also use hal91, which was reviewed on the Linux Gazette (www.linuxgazette.com) recently. Take a look at the following URL: http://www.itm.tu-clausthal.de/~perle/hal91/ HTH, Thomas Adam - Original Message - From: A V Flinsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Fireman71 [EMAIL

[newbie] lineighborhood

2001-07-04 Thread etharp
when I use linneighborhood to try and browe my windows machines, I can see them and see the shared resources, but when i try to mount the share, I get an error that says something like error, standard in must be in a tty and a radio button to click OK. any IDEAS?

[newbie] Remote Running

2001-07-04 Thread Mark Lucas
Does anyone know of a program that will enable me to run KDE (or similar) over my network (TCP/IP) in a window on a W2K machine? I can run Linux command prompt over SSH very succesfully but can't seem to run X over SSH. Mark

Re: [newbie] Mandrake and ADSL support

2001-07-04 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is the modem internal or external? If it is external, then all you need to do is configure your LAN connection. My external DSL modem even includes a dhcp server, so all I had to do was set up dhcpcd on my Linux boxes, and they worked perfectly.

Re: [newbie] mini linux distro recommendations

2001-07-04 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FreeSco -- fits on a ploppy. I have used it for several routers/firewalls, for my clients and my own company. www.freesco.org Dave On Tuesday 03 July 2001 23:19, thus spake Fireman71: Not really related to Mandrake but I am looking for a

Re: [newbie] No sound for NeoMagic 256AV

2001-07-04 Thread Frans Ketelaars
Adams, Jamie wrote: OK, i found the sndconfig package and installed it. But it didnt work anyway, it said i didnt have a kernel with 'modular sound' enabled. How would go about enabling this in the kernel? Is the soundcore module loaded ( '/sbin/lsmod' ) ? If not, as root, what does

Re: [newbie] What does Load Average mean?

2001-07-04 Thread George Petri
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 10:33, Paul wrote: As ffar as I know it is the average number of jobs in the run queue over the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes. The numbers displayed are an indication of how many processes were competing for CPU time at any given time averaged over N minutes. Paul So

Re: [newbie] Blackbox

2001-07-04 Thread Michael Scottaline
Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all: My first qestion to this list. I like light window managers, therefore am using Blackbox. In other environments one can tab through the desktops by using `control-F1' etc. How does one do this with BB? == If I'm

Re: [newbie] Net Install Problems

2001-07-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Try one of these: * install from a different mirror; * do a very minimal install and then add more packages with Software Manager afterwards. On Wed, 4 Jul 2001 16:35, Aaron wrote: I don't understand why you would have a problem witha badly pressed CD when doing a install over the net? I'm

Re: [newbie]Odd KMail Problem

2001-07-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Problems like hangs and crashes in Kmail can often be fixed by deleting the *.index files in your ~/Mail directory. On Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:20, s wrote: That is weird. That's the third problem with kmail I read about today (actually two and one of my own that started last night). But yours

Re: [newbie] dns record

2001-07-04 Thread Chris Buxton
Insufficient information, so I'll make some assumptions. In particular, I assume you're trying to do this all on one machine, right? If so, check your '/etc/resolv.conf'. It should have a line that looks something like this: nameserver 127.0.0.1 That should be the first line that starts with

Re: [newbie] mingetty and kdeinit

2001-07-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Yep. Some programmes employ multiple processes or threads to provide extra functionality or increased speed. On Wed, 4 Jul 2001 02:02, Dan Gordon wrote: Is it normal for more than one instance of mingetty and kdeinit to be running when i look in gps or top ? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan.

Re: [newbie] attached log

2001-07-04 Thread Tom
Would y'all go to Google and search 'netiquette'. Please. It's very rude to post attachments to a public mailing list. and then y'all keep re-attaching it to your replies. That's beyond being rude. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [newbie] Blackbox

2001-07-04 Thread Steve
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Michael Scottaline wrote: Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all: My first qestion to this list. I like light window managers, therefore am using Blackbox. In other environments one can tab through the desktops by using `control-F1' etc. How

[newbie] What is the MFT?

2001-07-04 Thread George Petri
Hello everybody! Sometimes when I type mount, I get this: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 973M 874M 50M 95% / /dev/hdb81020M 358M 662M 35% /home /dev/hda8 806M 575M 231M 71% /mnt/d /dev/hdb6 15G

Re: [newbie] attached log

2001-07-04 Thread Steve
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Tom wrote: Would y'all go to Google and search 'netiquette'. Please. It's very rude to post attachments to a public mailing list. and then y'all keep re-attaching it to your replies. That's beyond being rude. Thanks Tom, I also noticed that lack of proper

Re: [newbie] Internet Security

2001-07-04 Thread Tom
On Tuesday 03 July 2001 08:57 pm, Judith Miner wrote: How can I get those ports closed? Clear directions much appreciated! If you tell me exactly where to look and what to edit, I can do it, but I can't figure it out on my own. In DrakConf, click on Security, then on Firewalling. You'll

Re: [newbie] curious ....

2001-07-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:10, Judith Miner wrote: Sridhar wrote: I noticed that you said in an earlier post that you had trouble importing your fonts. Have you tried using DrakFont (part of the Mandrake Control Centre)? Of course. It's a very limited tool, but it did make some TrueType fonts

[newbie] KDM to XDM

2001-07-04 Thread Terry C
Which file do I need to change so that I boot into XDM instead of KDM? I am going to install the nvidia drivers instead of using the XFree86 drivers for my video card and have read that there are some problems which have been attributed to using KDM. Thanks. Terry

[newbie] firewall logs

2001-07-04 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, I have configured the 'tinyfirewall' in the Mandrake Control Centre. Can anyone tell me where the logs are stored? Thanks and regards, Bill W.

Re: [newbie] configure

2001-07-04 Thread Van Winssen Ramaakers
Op maandag 2 juli 2001 05:48, schreef u: Install the X-Headers library i think, though it might be called X-Development or something similar to that.. Cheers -- Jamie -- From: Van Winssen Ramaakers[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:02 July 2001 16:30 To:

[newbie] Small desktop

2001-07-04 Thread Van Winssen Ramaakers
Second issue, I've been installing LM 8.0 on A friends Lcd-pc from Mitac , sold as A Fujitsu. (No dual boot, plain Linux!! Yess!! The owner is A computer newbie in any way.) During X configuration, I only get A desktop that is much smaller than the lcd screen is, and it is placed in the left

RE: [newbie] LISa configuration

2001-07-04 Thread Gabriel Arcos
I get working Network browsing by execute lisa -K in Super user mode, I don't know is that's the right way, but work. - Original Message - From: ivan miranda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] LISa configuration Hi ,

[newbie] curious X information

2001-07-04 Thread Terry C
I am getting conflicting information concerning the version of X I'm running, and the color depth. When I bring up X-Server - KDE Control Module it tells me that I am running XFree86 3.3.6 and a 24 bit color depth. If I run XFree86 -version in a terminal it tells me that I am running XFree86

Re: [newbie] Small desktop

2001-07-04 Thread Tim Holmes
What it sounds like to me, is that you're booting and then X is loading failsafe. Now when I load failsafe, it shows up in the lower right hand corner, but it may be something I've set up. I doubt it has anything to do with what version of X you're running. Then again... it could be loading

Re: [newbie] StarOffice and Linux2.4.3-20mdk

2001-07-04 Thread Jay DeKing
I have a USB printer. No TV card, no network card. The only ISA card I have is my modem (only one ISA slot, the rest are PCI and AGP). The USB is integrated into the mobo. When the problem first manifested itself, I had the printer attached to the parallel port and nothing was using the USB

Re: [newbie] What does Load Average mean?

2001-07-04 Thread Paul
It was Wed, 4 Jul 2001 23:23:44 + when George Petri wrote: So at appoximately what load average should I start to get worried about the system being too busy (i.e. becomes so unresponsive that I can't do any work)? Wouldn't know exactly, depends a lot on what your system does in general.

Re: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-07-04 Thread Judith Miner
Jose wrote: I wish that Apple would make a version of their software for the intel platform. Then the disappointed Windows users could go that way rather than try their hands on Linux. In other words, you wish we'd go away. Sorry--I've used a Mac and I don't care for the Mac. It insulates the

Re: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-07-04 Thread Judith Miner
civileme wrote: at install time, there is an option to give root no password. Then you can function as user, but if you need super-user, you just ask for the program and you don't get asked for the password. I don't understand this. If root has no password, is there any protection with

Re: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-07-04 Thread Judith Miner
Michael wrote: It is possible to have a user that has root-like privileges -- Try going to your user manager of choice and changing the uid / gid (user and group ids) to 0. If you do so, the account will become a root user. What would be the advantages of doing that rather than simply

Re: [newbie] StarOffice and Linux2.4.3-20mdk

2001-07-04 Thread Romanator
Jay DeKing wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2001, Romanator wrote: Jay DeKing wrote: On Sun, 01 Jul 2001, Romanator wrote: On Sunday 01 July 2001 05:42 pm, RobertLuzader wrote: Perhaps someone can give a newbie some advice. I recently purchased Mandrake 8.0 and so far I'm pretty

Re: [newbie]Odd KMail Problem

2001-07-04 Thread s
Will they rebuild themselves? (ie: can I still view the messages indexed there if .index deleted?) -s On Wednesday 04 July 2001 08:02 am, you wrote: Problems like hangs and crashes in Kmail can often be fixed by deleting the *.index files in your ~/Mail directory.

Re: [newbie] Internet Security

2001-07-04 Thread Romanator
Paul wrote: I tried to run the interactive Bastille but I didn't understand the options and the explanations were much too sketchy. I don't like to make decisions like that when I don't understand what I'm doing. So I ran BastilleChooser instead and figure it's better than

Re: [newbie] What does Load Average mean?

2001-07-04 Thread David E. Fox
Wouldn't know exactly, depends a lot on what your system does in general. But if it starts running on more than 50 for a single user machine, I'd start IF *my* box got a load average of 50, I'd be pulling my hair out one strand at a time :). Seriously, a load average of 50 is *extremely* high

RE: [newbie] Net Install Problems

2001-07-04 Thread Aaron
That's OK. I'm now trying to burn a ISO image and see if that works. Aaron -Original Message- From: Adams, Jamie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 2:56 AM To: 'Aaron' Subject: RE: [newbie] Net Install Problems Sorry, i thought you meant that you were installing

Re: [newbie] Net Install Problems

2001-07-04 Thread s
Next time your installing, if you press the details button, you can watch the progress bar and see if it's a particular app giving you the problems. (I had a copy of redhat 7.0 that would freeze up on the zlib install, so I had to install without it and add it in later after boot with rpm.)

[newbie] great looking theme

2001-07-04 Thread s
For those of you who like themes for you kde, I found one that looks really great. I love what it does for the menu(s). Of course it's at themes.org. Eazel-like-2.x-Style.tar.gz Anybody got the transparent menus thing going on yet? -s

Re: Re[1] [newbie] fonts in StarOffice

2001-07-04 Thread Romanator
In addition, download the drakfont update. Ron Peake wrote: Hi You probably need the latest version of Mandrake Update software for Mandrake version 8.0. FTP site addresses in your country you can get from the linux-mandrake.com website Regards, Ron kp _ wrote: have you tried

Re: [newbie] StarOffice and Linux2.4.3-20mdk

2001-07-04 Thread Jay DeKing
It's working now. The problem was the Xfree 4.0.3 graphics driver; my previous install had that driver loaded, and despite going through the Mandrake Control Center (as root) and telling it to use 3.3.6, the 4.0.3 software was still lingering on the system. Reverting to 7.2 and upgrading

Re: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-07-04 Thread David E. Fox
I don't understand this. If root has no password, is there any protection with regard to the Internet, or does the password protect Not having a password on root is a very bad idea. I suggest if the option still exists on Mandrake, that it be removed. First, root can do anything it wants.

Re: [newbie] Star office problem

2001-07-04 Thread Randy Kramer
Roman, You can take Windows fonts and use them in Linux. AFAIK, you can do so legally on a dual boot machine where you have Windows legally installed. I can't tell you the step-by-step of how to do it -- I think it's been mentioned in this thread or elsewhere on the list -- I've done this by

Re: [newbie] multiple OSes problems

2001-07-04 Thread amadeus
Hello, Consider a mobile rack unit. It will allow you to swap hard drives, so you can have one hard drive with Mandrake and another with Windows or whatever else.. It is an option as is multiple booting, but this allows one to use both. That way, if there is a problem with one it will never

Re: [newbie] CDwriting questions

2001-07-04 Thread Daniel Espinosa
Hi: multisession means you can write any files today, anothers files tomorrow, etc., by example, make backups every weekend, which you can read at any time. On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, s wrote: I have some questions about this cd writing thing. (Relatively new to this). 1. With a

Re: [newbie] Acrobat

2001-07-04 Thread Daniel Espinosa
Hi: You can tray download it again, then install it (usually at /usr/local/acro...) On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Kevin Fonner wrote: Has anybody had any luck installing adobe acrobat reader on Mandrake yet? They don't have a lot of support on their site and when I try to run the install script in

Re: [newbie] Star office problem

2001-07-04 Thread Romanator
Hi Randy, Okay. But I have to figure how to import them into Linux. Roman Randy Kramer wrote: Roman, You can take Windows fonts and use them in Linux. AFAIK, you can do so legally on a dual boot machine where you have Windows legally installed. I can't tell you the step-by-step of

[newbie] koffice 1.1/KDE 2.1.1 must be rebuilt from src.rpm!

2001-07-04 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Dennis and friends: I did a thorough search for this libkdeprint.so.0 file using Google. I am quite familiar with this process and have done this before. In this case, it turns out that the answer in on KDE's site: the file is part of libkdeprint, and this library is only available as

[newbie] Error compiling balsa

2001-07-04 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I was compiling balsa 1.1.5. I got the following error. cc1: warnings being treated as errors send.c: In function `libbalsa_process_queue': send.c:423: warning: passing arg 2 of `smtp_set_messagecb' from incompatible pointer type make[2]: *** [send.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory

[newbie] Balsa rpm install

2001-07-04 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have downloaded balsa-1.1.5 rpm. I have mdk 8.0. It gives dependency errors. I have already have compiled libesmtp-0.8.0. tty output for rpm install is as follows. [root@lvghomepc lvgandhi]# rpm -ivh balsa-1.1.5-1.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: libesmtp = 0.7.1 is needed by

[newbie] Message translation...

2001-07-04 Thread Roger Sherman
This was sent to root on my box by the system - is someone trying to hack me through port 23? It actually keeps getting sent to root, every half hour or so... From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jul 4 21:31:06 2001 Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 16:35:37 -0400 (EDT) From: root [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

[newbie] Soundcard problem

2001-07-04 Thread Roger Sherman
I have a Compaq Presario 5834, which unfortunately has an integrated soundcard on the mobo (an ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive, which apparently uses the snd-card-es1938 module). A couple months ago, about the time 8.0 came out, I bought a Soundblaster Live Platinum 5.1. I never actually tried to get it

Re: [newbie] Acrobat

2001-07-04 Thread Judith Miner
Kevin wrote: Has anybody had any luck installing adobe acrobat reader on Mandrake yet? Yes, I put it on Mandrake 8 and it's working fine. There is a Readme file you get when you untar the download and it has specific information about installing in Linux. Check the Readme to make sure you

Re: [newbie] Problem in installing Mandrake Linux

2001-07-04 Thread Judith Miner
Shashi wrote: So my problem is how do I install to have both Linux and Windows working on my system? What is the problem I am having? I can't answer that. However, I can tell you what I did to get a perfectly functioning dual boot between Windows 98SE and Mandrake 8. It took me four tries, by

Fw: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-07-04 Thread tazmun
It is not perfect, but relaxation beyond that lets in the sort of nonsense you see in Windows all the time. Ok, I too am curious exactly what is meant here? I've had my computer in windows mode to all the sites I am aware of to check security and as far as I know it is secure as it is

Re: [newbie] Star office problem

2001-07-04 Thread Randy Kramer
Romanator wrote: Okay. But I have to figure how to import them into Linux. I use kde on Mandrake 7.2 with the MandrakeFreq from 20010315. Start drakfont (it should be on your menu -- in my case it it is under configuration - other - drakfont). You can do this from a user account -- it will

Re: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-07-04 Thread Brandon Caudle
Yes it is alot easier to hack a windows machine than a windows machine. If you have a high speed internet access and you share your hard drive with your local network it can be viewed from the outside world. This is through windows file and print sharing. The only way this could happen in Linux

Re: [newbie] Star office problem

2001-07-04 Thread Judith Miner
Roman wrote: if you find some sort of workaround, please let me know what steps you took to import them [Windows fonts] into your Linux box. I did this once, to my sorrow (will explain later). This Drakfont option assumes you have Windows on your hard drive and Linux can see it. When you start

Re: [newbie] CDwriting questions

2001-07-04 Thread Judith Miner
s wrote: I have some questions about this cd writing thing. (Relatively new to this). I've done it only in Windows, so I'm not sure how my answers apply to Linux. 1. With a cdrw, is it necessary to blank it before rewriting over it? (I seem to have to). Yes. If you're using regular CD

[newbie] allowing ident

2001-07-04 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, I would like to use KVirc but the servers require that 'ident' be enabled. I have set up the firewall in Mandrake Control Centre, with all services offl. Which of the services in the setup wizard relates to 'ident'. It is not mentioned by name. Or is there some way to individually

[newbie] Mandrake Security Question/Problem

2001-07-04 Thread Brent Jones
The Snort/Bastille feature is causing problems while refreshing large lists of servers to ping, and get a reply from. I use a program called Gamespy (you probably know what it is) itll ping and query game servers to get info on them, but when I ping large lists of game server, the Mandrake

[newbie] Hmmmmm...

2001-07-04 Thread John Berger
Hey gang, I downloaded gpa, the frontend for gnupg, and I had to also download gtk+ 1.2.10, because it said it called for it. Well, I untarred gtk+, did ./configure, make, make install, and all went well. Then I untarred gpa-0.4.1, cd'd to the new gpa directory (both are in /home/(me)),

Re: [newbie] Hmmmmm...

2001-07-04 Thread Paul
I downloaded gpa, the frontend for gnupg, and I had to also download gtk+ 1.2.10, because it said it called for it. Well, I untarred gtk+, did ./configure, make, make install, and all went well. Then I untarred gpa-0.4.1, cd'd to the new gpa directory (both are in /home/(me)), but got

[newbie] ./configure, spelling error *before*

2001-07-04 Thread Mafiajoe3
sorry, i meant to type "before" not bore JOE

[newbie] LinNeighborhood

2001-07-04 Thread ivan miranda
Hi , I use xsmbrower,more comfortable with this,(there is no need to mount the shares ), on mounting one gets more acess of the directory,but i had seen them crashing after mounting at times.Also try komba2.I don't remember the links,you should be able to get it from rpmfind.net Ivan

[newbie] Permedia2 chip set

2001-07-04 Thread ivan miranda
Hi all, I have Sony GDM 1950,this monitor does not work with normal video cards.From the net i found a couple of cards (fixed freq card) which can work with this monitor.I am planning to purchase Gemini3D 6321,AGP card(Permedia2)chip set.I had a look at mandrake hardware support and here it list

[newbie] Netscape mail

2001-07-04 Thread ivan miranda
Hi all, I use Netscape messanger for e-mail.My problem is that the format of the date for the mails i receive differs,some show only time,some mails show day and time,some show all(mm/dd/yy) as a result when new mails come ,they are not arranged in an orderly mannerso it's very

Re: [newbie] Re: Use of Linux thread-off subject

2001-07-04 Thread poogle
snip I must agree with you. But, being new to Linux, there is not much I *can* do without the GUI. Is there a resource out there for Mandrake/KDE that would detail all the keyboard shortcuts you can use?? I know a volume could be written about something like VI or Emacs, but I'm more

Re: [newbie] StarOffice and Linux2.4.3-20mdk

2001-07-04 Thread Romanator
That's great news. Earlier this year, I installed XFree 4.0.3 thinking that if it is a higher revision, my card would work better. In fact, it was the opposite. I removed XFree 4.0.3 via the Software manager, set up my display to use XFree 3.3.6, rebooted my computer and it got fixed. I was

[newbie] Support for Permedia2 video card

2001-07-04 Thread ivan miranda
Hi all, I have Sony GDM 1950,this monitor does not work with normal video cards.From the net i found a couple of cards (fixed freq card) which can work with this monitor.I am planning to purchase Gemini3D 6321,AGP card(Permedia2)chip set.I had a look at mandrake hardware support and here it list

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