Re: [newbie] zip250 way too slow

2001-08-12 Thread Abuse Spam control Department
Sorry for the intrusion, I received a complaint about a user on our local system, is it your wish that I pull this user's acct? On Sunday 12 August 2001 08:09 pm, so spoke poogle: On Sunday 12 August 2001 14:16, you wrote: OK I guess no one cares about helping, I tried to put in as much

Re: [newbie] installing Bastille

2001-08-12 Thread s
I would suggest checking that you have the Bastille-Tk-module rpm installled. -s On Sunday 12 August 2001 01:55 pm, you wrote: Thanks, s. I have tried running from the command line, and I get the message can't find Bastille_Tk.pm in @INC. Any ideas? Thanks again, Stan

Re: [newbie] joystick module

2001-08-12 Thread s
On Sunday 12 August 2001 02:09 pm, you wrote: I'm back to trying to make my joystick work. I made the proper entries in /etc/modules.conf but jstest won't detect the joystick. I tried loading the modules manually and when I did modprobe adi.c (for the logitech module) I received Can't locate

Re: [newbie] Postfix VS. Sendmail

2001-08-12 Thread Michael D. Viron
I installed Webmin but I don't know how to use Webmin to configure Sendmail. Tuan, First, make sure webmin is in fact running by typing '/etc/rc.d/init.d/webmin status' (without the quotes, as root). If it is, it should show something like 'miniserv.pl (pid x) is running...' -- if not,

Re: [newbie] zip250 way too slow

2001-08-12 Thread etharp
we do care about helping, or we would not have wasted the time to read your mail, much less respond, but I would suggest that quite possibly you DID sound Me-AN, and still do, and sound as if what ever curve balls life has thrown you, should be cause to elevate your problems above the rest of

Re: [newbie] Home network Samba question

2001-08-12 Thread Michael Picco
Michael D. Viron wrote: One question that keeps nagging at me and impedes my understanding is: Will the box that is acting as a gateway have a specific gateway IP address in addition to the address I've already given it? Yes. All Gateways have at least 2 IPs (sometimes more depending on

Re: [newbie] MDK 8.0 Partition sizes??

2001-08-12 Thread etharp
ok, I'll bite, why would you, and what was the problems you encountered On Sunday 12 August 2001 10:20, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 11 August 2001 09:38 pm, etharp wrote: Can't share /swap between MS products and real OS It can be done

Re: [newbie] grep -r *.c doesn't find files

2001-08-12 Thread David E.Fox
On Sunday 12 August 2001 06:44 am, George Petri wrote: Surely, grep can do something this basic, can't it (didn't the author of grep write c programs too:)? I don't like find and its complexity very much. Recall that the tools in Unix are (or at least were at one point) designed to do one

RE: [newbie] isn't mandrake 8 slow?????

2001-08-12 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
PAN seems to hold the message headers in RAM to do sorts and such. With 250,000+ message groups this can quickly max out RAM and it swaps like crazy... BTW: One of the great things about PAN (at least to me) is that it CAN deal with this many group headers!!! Other Winblows programs including

Re: [newbie] MDK 8.0 Partition sizes??

2001-08-12 Thread alex
etharp wrote: snip Later, I may add additional Linux systems and plan to share the /home partition with them. The same user names and passwords will be used . Is there some way to insure that the user ID numbers will be the same in all systems? Is it just a matter of

RE: [newbie] Home network Samba question

2001-08-12 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Michael D. Viron wrote: One question that keeps nagging at me and impedes my understanding is: Will the box that is acting as a gateway have a specific gateway IP address in addition to the address I've already given it? Yes. All Gateways have at least 2 IPs (sometimes more

RE: [newbie] isn't mandrake 8 slow?????

2001-08-12 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Heh... I was being a bit facetious... -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 12:14 AM To: Jose M. Sanchez; 'Richie de Almeida'; 'etharp'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [newbie] isn't mandrake 8 slow?????

2001-08-12 Thread etharp
Gee I was under the assumpption the hidden files and folders in /home/username/.pan would have been the stored headers and such. And that would have been the disk access seen when opening a folder On Sunday 12 August 2001 17:02, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: PAN seems to hold the message headers in

RE: [newbie] mp3 encoder missing???

2001-08-12 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Eh, I don't think this is accurate. MP3 formats nor the MPEG format are proprietary... It was defined by a consortium Which is why there are so many legal alternatives to Fraunhoffer's encoder... Fraunhoffer's encoder ITSELF is proprietary, not it's output. BTW: other MP3/MPEG encoders

RE: [newbie] isn't mandrake 8 slow?????

2001-08-12 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Yeah that's where they are written to... But while PAN is running it attempts to hold as much of the header list as possible in RAM, to quicken sorts (which it does all the time.) You can actually delete the file for a particular group, in the .pan directory, while it's running. As soon as you

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-12 Thread erylon hines
On Sunday 12 August 2001 11:06, Peter Rymshaw wrote: Well, progress but I don't know whether it will stick or not. Are you absolutely sure that the 6326 card that you have is an AGP and not PCI? The way I read the video hardware compatiblility list, only the AGP version is supported. I

Re: [newbie] Plancks constant... ;-(

2001-08-12 Thread s
On Saturday 11 August 2001 10:46 am, you wrote: PSS Anyone -ever- got Kwintv to compile and work under 8.0? Nope and I tried. I even had trouble trying to install the dependencies. I think the biggest insurmountable obstacle was with the version of qt it requires conflicting with the one

RE: [newbie] zip250 way too slow

2001-08-12 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
I succumbed to the dark side... It's power was irresistible... Help me Obi-wan... ;-) -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of etharp Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 4:43 PM To: Jose M. Sanchez; 'Linux Newbie'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] mp3 encoder missing???

2001-08-12 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Eh, I don't think this is accurate. MP3 formats nor the MPEG format are proprietary... It was defined by a consortium Which is why there are so many legal alternatives to Fraunhoffer's encoder... Fraunhoffer's encoder ITSELF is

RE: [newbie] using a Windows printer

2001-08-12 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
What KIND of printer is it? -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Stewart Taylor Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 9:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] using a Windows printer Hi All I recently installed V8. Initially the I

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-12 Thread etharp
can you make sure that Plug and pray OS is set to off, and that you do not have any card next to the video card, and that the hard drives are set up as masters on there own IDE channel (believe me, it could well be worth the time to set the jumpers a cables if you get this right). next i would

RE: [newbie] mp3 encoder missing???

2001-08-12 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
I can't speak about this with any great authority... But WinAMP (and other US distributed players such as Sonique) include MP3 encoding modules which are not Fraunhoffer based and there have been no patent lawsuits concerning this. In fact if the MP3 format were proprietary EVERY MP3 encoder

[newbie] Reinstalling without pain?

2001-08-12 Thread Mark Shaw
Recently I had a system crash that wiped out my LM7.2 desktop completely (the one with the cartoon penguins) and left me with only standard KDE -- which is okay, I guess, but I really want the other one back. After trying and failing to get help both here and via the MandrakeExpert feature of

RE: [newbie] Reinstalling without pain?

2001-08-12 Thread Franki
dunno about everyone else, but I save /root (I have a nasty tendency to save stuff in there when working as root.) I also save /etc and /usr (or if its too big, just the apps and configs in there) and i save my www dir in /var I hang onto the copies only till I am competely sure that the new

Re: [newbie] Home network Samba question

2001-08-12 Thread Amien Salie
On Sunday 12 August 2001 21:31, Michael Picco wrote: Having just switched a pair of boxes from Mandrake 7.1 to 8.0, I've had my run of problems getting things working again. The setup here consists of four machines: Win98, Win95 and two Mandrake 8.0. They are all connected via a four-port

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-12 Thread Peter Rymshaw
This is in reply to both of your messages. As I thought, I appear to have a PCI video card. My computer shop receipt says that they installed SiS 6326 PCI VC4MAGP3D S# B46N3151, which I think is ambiguous, but the card is definitely plugged into a PCI slot and my AGP slot inside ib the

Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster 16 in Mandrake 8

2001-08-12 Thread Linus Drouhard
I can't get midi files to play, except in sndconfig. See other responses below. I don't know what most of this means. Thanks for your help. On Friday 10 August 2001 2:36, Frans Ketelaars wrote: Adams, Jamie wrote: It seems odd that you are only getting 'snippets' of sound. Is it

[newbie] wu-FTP and RedHat7.1

2001-08-12 Thread Greg Taylor
By default, it seems remote hosts aren't able to connect. I attempt to, but it just sits there, no messages or anything. I'm not sure what's causing this, any hints?

Re: [newbie] zip250 way too slow

2001-08-12 Thread etharp
I don't think there has been the sort of abuse that one would wish to have an acct pulled for. At least not that I have seen. Of course the only thing that would justify pulling an acct. (for me) would be spam or M$ viruses comming from or through the domain. Heck this does not look like

Re: [newbie] wu-FTP and RedHat7.1

2001-08-12 Thread etharp
hmmm am _I_ losing it, or is this weekend seem to be full of short incomplete questions expecting intuitive answers? maybe more of a hint as to when and where and who and how and how much? On Sunday 12 August 2001 20:40, Greg Taylor wrote: By default, it seems remote hosts aren't

RE: [newbie] zip250 way too slow

2001-08-12 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
This Abuse Spam control is from kittypuss.org not mandrake, so it has nothing to do with the list, AFAIK. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of etharp Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 6:15 PM To: Abuse Spam control Department; [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] MDK 8.0 Partition sizes??

2001-08-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 12 August 2001 03:58 pm, etharp wrote: ok, I'll bite, why would you, Out'a curiosity more'n anything else and what was the problems you encountered As the howto warns, it's just too damn complicated. Does work tho On Sunday 12 August 2001 10:20, Tom Brinkman wrote: On

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-12 Thread etharp
well,,, maybe Don't worry about my time, I am here of my own free will and enjoy it for the heck of it and the learning I receive for free. it seems to me we might be getting some where tho, is the card in the slot next to the AGP slot? It should be, and that would be the first thing to try

[newbie] 2.4.7 kernel

2001-08-12 Thread Terry C
I remember civileme saying that hard drives were limited to ata33 in Mandrake 8.0 because of some problem in the kernel with the Via chipset. Does anyone know if this has been fixed in the 2.4.7 kernel? If so, has anyone compiled the 2.4.7 kernel (mandrake version from cooker) and found that they

Re: [newbie] zip250 way too slow

2001-08-12 Thread etharp
yep, but it Appears to me that it went to the list as a result of a mail to the list from someone whom Jose Sanchez answered: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Linux Newbie Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 10:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster 16 in Mandrake 8

2001-08-12 Thread etharp
Yes, I believe it is in the shared slot with the PCI. but the real question I _meant_ to ask was that there was nothing in the other shared slot. open KDE Control Center=Sound=Sound Server and made the default the sound driver (neither ALSA nor autodetect) then logged out an rebooted.

Re: [newbie] MDK 8.0 Partition sizes??

2001-08-12 Thread etharp
both _great_ reasons if you ask me, thanks, learned somthing again. (ain't Mandrake-linux grand, it even helps keep old farts like me from suffering from Alzhiemers to soon. It does not keep you from it, just the suffering grin) On Sunday 12 August 2001 22:08, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday

Re: [newbie] zip250 way too slow

2001-08-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 12 August 2001 01:16 pm, Linux Newbie wrote: OK I guess no one cares about helping, I tried to put in as much as I knew, but no one was willing to even lift a finger, I'm sick of this elitist attitude I know alot but I'm not telling you What do you expect me to do just pull it out

Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster 16 in Mandrake 8

2001-08-12 Thread Linus Drouhard
I think we're heading down the wrong path. I've checked another place in KDE and there aren't ANY drivers installed for the Soundblaster! HardDrake sees it incorrectly and won't load the drivers. I tried manually. Thanks for your patience. Here are the answers to your questions below.

[newbie] kinda OT: making KDE2.x themes

2001-08-12 Thread Matt Greer
I've been looking all over for information on making themes for KDE2.x, but haven't found anything. I thought I'd try here and see if anyone has any ideas. I can find mountains of information on KDE1.x themes, which helps. But packaging it all together is done differently between 1 and 2. I

[newbie] Second VFAT partition invisible in MDK

2001-08-12 Thread Velanche Stewart
Hello: I have Mandrake-Linux pretty much how I would like it to be. I've spent on and off for about several weeks tweaking the thing (and having to do a few reinstalls). The only thing that I would like to know is this: I've created two Windows partitions. One holds the OS to boot from, the

Re: [newbie] 2.4.7 kernel

2001-08-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 12 August 2001 09:19 pm, Terry C wrote: I remember civileme saying that hard drives were limited to ata33 in Mandrake 8.0 because of some problem in the kernel with the Via chipset. Does anyone know if this has been fixed in the 2.4.7 kernel? Just to be clear, the VIA-IDE bug

[newbie] Fw: Cron root@tbird run-parts /etc/cron.daily

2001-08-12 Thread Paul
Hi everyone, Since a few days I get this message from Cron: Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 04:02:52 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron root@tbird run-parts /etc/cron.daily error: syslog:181 duplicate log entry for

[newbie] ISDN USB configuration

2001-08-12 Thread Ebrahim Elmahdy
HI The Mandrake 8.0 can't recognize the ISDN USB Siemens Santis Communicator do any one now how I' can it work -- Thank you. Ebrahim Elmahdy mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Second VFAT partition invisible in MDK

2001-08-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 12 August 2001 10:53 pm, Velanche Stewart wrote: The only thing that I would like to know is this: I've created two Windows partitions. One holds the OS to boot from, the other is the d:drive to hold data files. Same thing I just did. You need to edit /etc/fstab and add the