Re: [newbie-it] modem e masterizzatore

2001-09-19 Thread Daniele Micci
Il 23:39, lunedì 17 settembre 2001, hai scritto: Ciao io non riesco ad installare il modem e il masterizzatore sotto mandrake 8, il modem è un v.90 56 kb della motorola SM56 interno masterizzatore invece è un plexter cd w qualcuno di voi ha queste marche mi potete aiutare? se vi serve

Re: [newbie-it] spegnere il computer.

2001-09-19 Thread Stefano Salari
--- brain [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: non puoi, a meno di dare il permesso all'utente. Si puo`, se non erro basta aggiungere il suo nome in /etc/shutdown (che man shutdown sia con te), ma ho risolto in altro modo: ho inserito nel ~/.bashrc due righe:

Re: [newbie-it] modem e masterizzatore

2001-09-19 Thread Luigi De Pascale
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Daniele Micci wrote: Il 23:39, lunedì 17 settembre 2001, hai scritto: Ciao io non riesco ad installare il modem e il masterizzatore sotto mandrake 8, il modem è un v.90 56 kb della motorola SM56 interno masterizzatore invece è un plexter cd w qualcuno di voi ha

Re: [newbie-it] bash: directory o file inesistente

2001-09-19 Thread Marco
... il messaggio di errore ti dice che non c'è uno script che si chiama configure nella directory da dove lanci il comando ... quindi ... parto dall'inizio e provo ad immaginare: Credo tu ti riferisca ad un programma sorgente con estensione tar.gz (o tar.bz2).. Se è così il primo passo è quello

[newbie-it] Due problemi

2001-09-19 Thread Luigi De Pascale
Salve a tutti ho due problemini: 1) Se lancio kmix (ma anche qualche altra applicazione) tutto funziona ma becco anche il messaggio: Xlib: extension RENDER missing on display :0.0. che cosa e' e come si aggiusta? 2) Da ieri (mi sembra di non avere modificato nulla, ma evidentemente mi

Re: [newbie-it] spegnere il computer.

2001-09-19 Thread Daniele Micci
Il 10:41, mercoledì 19 settembre 2001, hai scritto: [CUT] Io, sul mio sistema casalingo, ho risolto il problema dando il permesso s al comando shutdown per qualsiasi utente: chmod a+s shutdown In questo modo qualsiasi utente diventa root per il periodo di esecuzione del comando

Re: [newbie-it] su raggiunta la dimesione massima del file !?! Colpa di Bastille!

2001-09-19 Thread max
Trovata la soluzione !!! Nella dir: /home/max/.xauth/refcount ci sono tante cartelle quanti sono gli utenti del sistema. Il problema era dovuto alla presenza di grossi files (c.a. 97 M) dal nome unix:0_max ecc (uno per ogni utente) in queste cartelle, eliminati i file è tornato tutto a

Re: [newbie-it] spegnere il computer.

2001-09-19 Thread Stefano Salari
--- Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Il 10:41, mercoledì 19 settembre 2001, hai scritto: Ciao, magari sto per dire una corbelleria, ma così non ottieni che - se il tuo PC non fosse 100% sicuro e qualcuno riuscisse ad entrare - chiunque possa spegnere il tuo PC via Internet?

[newbie-it] Scambio di hard disk

2001-09-19 Thread Stefano Salari
Ciao a tutti, Avrei bisogno di una conferma... Ho un Linux installato sull'hd master del secondo controller (/dev/hdc per intenderci...) Ora pero' vorrei spostare l'hd come master del primo controller (/dev/hda). Dal punto di vista Linux dovrebbe essere sufficiente modificare l'fstab

Re: [newbie-it] spegnere il computer.

2001-09-19 Thread Sebastiano Cordiano
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 10:41:43 +0200 (CEST) Stefano Salari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Io, sul mio sistema casalingo, ho risolto il problema dando il permesso s al comando shutdown per qualsiasi utente: chmod a+s shutdown In questo modo qualsiasi utente diventa root per il periodo di

Re: [newbie-it] Schedaaudio ES1969

2001-09-19 Thread Sebastiano Cordiano
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:29:17 +0200 (CEST) Luigi De Pascale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salve a tutti: Ho un problemino con la scheda audio: Sono costretto a tenere il volume del microfono a 0 perche' altrimenti il computer comincia a fischiare in modo orribile. (non parliamo del mancato

Re: [newbie-it] modem e masterizzatore

2001-09-19 Thread Luigi De Pascale
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Daniele Micci wrote: Il 23:39, lunedì 17 settembre 2001, hai scritto: Ciao io non riesco ad installare il modem e il masterizzatore sotto mandrake 8, il modem è un v.90 56 kb della motorola SM56 interno masterizzatore invece è un plexter cd w qualcuno di voi ha

[newbie-it] Informazioni su prozilla

2001-09-19 Thread Alberto Zanoni
Il 17:28, domenica 16 settembre 2001, hai scritto : ti consiglio di usare un downloader, come nt (downloader for x), o caitoo. Se hai gia' usato getright sono praticamente uguali. Altro programma molto interessante e' prozilla (che ora ha pure un'interfaccia grafica, a parte). E' un

[newbie-it] GCC, qualcuno ci capisce qualcosa?

2001-09-19 Thread CaMiX
Ciao. Mi sapreste dire come posso fare ad ottenere un buon funzionamento di gcc? Mi spiego: quando lancio un qualunque ./configure appare il messaggio: c compiler cannot create executables. Il ./configure lo lancio sempre da root. Come è possibile. Ho il sosppetto che sia successo tutto da quando

[newbie-it] partizione ntfs

2001-09-19 Thread OKreZ
Ciao a tutti, qualcuno saprebbe indicarmi la maniera di montare una partizione ntfs in modo che l'utente ne abbia i permessi di scrittura ? -- -- OKreZ -- www.hampcake.com --

[newbie-it] Per Daniele Micci

2001-09-19 Thread Laura
Ciao Daniele, allora il masterizzatore è un Plextor CD R PX-W1610A Per il modem cercheròma mi sa che lo cambieròanche perchè non va granchè nemmeno sotto Windows.mi sai consigliare una buona marca? e che riconosca il linux??? Grazie a presto - Original Message -

[newbie-it] GCC, qualcuno ci capisce qualcosa?

2001-09-19 Thread CaMiX
Ciao. Mi sapreste dire come posso fare ad ottenere un buon funzionamento di gcc? Mi spiego: quando lancio un qualunque ./configure appare il messaggio: c compiler cannot create executables. Il ./configure lo lancio sempre da root. Come è possibile. Ho il sosppetto che sia successo tutto da

Re: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome?

2001-09-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:14:22 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hope you have broad shoulders. I am getting no where and it may be your fault. You are helping me, because of the problems you are dealing with. Is it possible to have more than one desktop? Of course. GNU/Linux is all about

Re: [newbie] fetchmail pine not receiving (still, again, always)

2001-09-19 Thread WCBaker
Hi Mark (and anyone else who might be entertained by/curious about this saga)! Today I did a complete re-install of Mandrake 8.0 and the picture below represents my current state. I will yet try again on the morrow! I recently got a message from Postfix (YEAH!) from the system. So I get

Re: [newbie] freezes rendering 3d with my nVidia drivers

2001-09-19 Thread Robert MacLean
a few things that might help. I'm away from my box right now so i don't have specifics. will check tonight. there is a setting to set yout agp usage. it defaults to 3 with the new drivers. mine only works if i set it to 1. next i assume you had installed mesa before the drivers. i found that if

Re: [newbie] what is wrong with dependencies

2001-09-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:21:10 -0500, Joseph Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know dependencies are a pain, but so is Windows when some program being install takes it upon itself to update various DLLs that a new app needs, but breaks existing apps in the process. It's such a problem that

[newbie] PPP connection commandline

2001-09-19 Thread AOL Systems
Can pls help me how to connect and configure PPP using the commandline including PAP secrets I really have no knowledge on it.My modem by the way is a US Robotics cause they said that their are optimal configuration regarding this modem. Thanks and any help we gladly appreciated. Thanks and God

Re: [newbie] Digital Cameras

2001-09-19 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Price varies depending on where you get it. MSRP is $1099 (but don't pay that!!) you can find them from many online resalers for $700-800 Not cheap, but this is a 4.1 MgeaPixel , 3x Zoom camera, with exceptional quality. I'm not even worried about getting gimp to recognize it. I can

Re: [newbie] Video cards

2001-09-19 Thread Mohammed Arafa
was just looking at the linux drivers page at nvidia.com .. guess waht they now have a download for the source files for both the kernel and the glx. guess that means they went open source? personally i need to compile the source for my lm8.1rc3...its stuck in text mode - Original Message

Re: [newbie] Nimda virus

2001-09-19 Thread chris swain
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 04:45, you wrote: I caught the tail end of an FBI warning on NPR today that said the Nimda virus affects all Internet computers. That rubs me the wrong way because, as I read later at CNet, it doesn't affect our penguins (as usual). I think the popular media

Re: [newbie] fetchmail pine not receiving (still, again, always)

2001-09-19 Thread etharp
not to seem to dense... but for sure you only have 1 network card in this computer? On Wednesday 19 September 2001 02:20, you wrote: Hi Mark (and anyone else who might be entertained by/curious about this saga)! Today I did a complete re-install of Mandrake 8.0 and the picture below

Re: [newbie] Is this a joke?

2001-09-19 Thread etharp
damn, I bet you wish you had read the directions, since if you had, it would have warned you NOT to use the UPDATE to update a kernel. now you can either reinstall, or compile a new kernel. let me ask you, did you take the time to learn how to drive, or read the drivers handbook they give you

[newbie] laptops

2001-09-19 Thread chris swain
Hi all I know the topic of video cards has been breached many times but id like an opinion. Laptops offered today usually offer a ati radeon card or an nvidia geforce II. Which one might be better, I have heard about troubles with both. I plan to be running lm8 and win4lin on it. Want to

Re: [newbie] PS, HMTL and Web page design

2001-09-19 Thread Andre Dubuc
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 00:42, you wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:49:34 -0400, Andre Dubuc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have produced five booklets of 56 to 100 Postscript pages that I would like to place on a website, with the intent that persons could download them, or view them.

Re: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome?

2001-09-19 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Use Ximian is you are going to use GNOME. Makes life easier. On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Peter Rymshaw wrote: I've decided that I like Gnome more than KDE and want to learn and begin using it. But I'm having problems beyond the normal (like getting CD floppy access from the desktop or panel. I

[newbie] incoming telnet connection

2001-09-19 Thread Valerie Cheng
how do i allow my box to allow incoming telnet connection? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Best NAT Internet Sharing program

2001-09-19 Thread Kevin Fonner
What is the best, simple Internet Sharing program to use that shares it's internet connection with NAT? Thanks, Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] SQL database for patient information

2001-09-19 Thread Mark Johnson
Hmm, I would doubt that you could find a generic application that you could for your purposes. Of course you could find something that was close and extend it to suite your needs but I would think the time and effort of understanding how the application was constructed and applying your

[newbie] panel resets every time I reboot

2001-09-19 Thread Manuel Drake
Hi - not too new to Gnome, but a bit clueless. I add apps launchers to my Gnome Panel, to make life easier on me. Everytime I reboot, I lose *nearly* all of my additions, though for some reason, a couple of hanged on. Any ideas appreciated! I tried saving the session before I reboot, perhaps

Re: [newbie] Best NAT Internet Sharing program

2001-09-19 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Bastille. On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Kevin Fonner wrote: What is the best, simple Internet Sharing program to use that shares it's internet connection with NAT? Thanks, Kevin -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] incoming telnet connection

2001-09-19 Thread Frans Ketelaars
Valerie Cheng wrote: how do i allow my box to allow incoming telnet connection? There is a telnet-server package in Mandrake 8.0 which must be installed and of course if there is a firewall between ssh client and server it must allow telnet acces. However, telnet is insecure because

Re: [newbie] gnome desktop icons after nautilusi

2001-09-19 Thread Charles A. Punch
I have had problems with Nautilus, so I used GMC for my desktop. I'm just curious about these error messages I get when I run nautilus from a terminal. Any ideas what kind of a can of worms I'm opening here? Eel-WARNING **: GConf error: Object Activation Framework error: OAF problem

[newbie] Staroffice 5.2 and M8

2001-09-19 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi All I have a problem that is driving me mad.I tried installing StarOffice 5.2 whilst logged in as root. It works fine when logged in as root but will not work from my user session. I tried altering the permissions but they will not stick. I tried un-installing SO5.2 which it told me it had

Polite software (was RE: [newbie] Is this a joke?)

2001-09-19 Thread Mark Johnson
This is not a gripe, just an observation, but it seems like for most people (including me) their linux system is usually in a constant state of broken-ness, or in some way always marginally handicapped. Why is that? I realize that software is difficult to write just in general and operating

[newbie] panels get worse!

2001-09-19 Thread Manuel Drake
Little help please, having trouble with my Gnome panels, they won't save changes I make. When I logged in last, I just got duplicates of my panels, and when I removed the dupes, and logged back in, I lost one of the two. Still not saving any changes I *mean* to make either. Sorry for my

Re: [newbie] åÓÔØ ÔÕÔ ËÔÏ, ÇÏ×ÏÒÑÝÉÊ ÐÏ ÒÕÓÓËÉ!

2001-09-19 Thread Paul
In reply to ëíó's words, written Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:35:08 +0600 åÓÔØ ÔÕÔ ËÔÏ, ÇÏ×ÏÒÑÝÉÊ ÐÏ ÒÕÓÓËÉ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] I could not agree more. Paul -- Blessed are the Geeks, for they shall internet the earth. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed

Re: [newbie] freezes rendering 3d with my nVidia drivers

2001-09-19 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Robert MacLean wrote: a few things that might help. I'm away from my box right now so i don't have specifics. will check tonight. there is a setting to set yout agp usage. it defaults to 3 with the new drivers. mine only works if i set it to 1. next i assume you had installed mesa before

[newbie] ftp server: maintenance in progress

2001-09-19 Thread Rooms Frédéric
Hi everyboddy, Since I upgraded to linux mandrake 8.0 my ftp server is unreachable. When I try to connect by ftp to my machine, I got the following message: 500 FTP server shut down (Maintenance in progress). I checked in the DrakConf the services who where running. Proftpd

Re: [newbie] Is this a joke?

2001-09-19 Thread lloyd
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome?

2001-09-19 Thread Mark Johnson
-Original Message- From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 5:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Peter Rymshaw Subject: Re: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome? On Tuesday 18 September 2001 17:16, Peter Rymshaw wrote: (..snip..) That's not

RE: [newbie] incoming telnet connection

2001-09-19 Thread Mark Johnson
you ought to use ssh (daemon is sshd) instead of telnet; however, i don't know off hand what port that is. Either way you'll need to open a port on your firewall if you have one, if you don't have you, your full open already... If you want to go the telnet route open port 23... -Original

[newbie] Postfix relayhost problems

2001-09-19 Thread Jamie Kerwick
Right i have on my linux box postfix setup to send mail, which worked fine but with one snap, i'll explain, If i used linux to send all mail, the email would go in and out of our internet gateway gathering our internet providers banners on the way out and then back in again. i changed it to

Re: [newbie] åÓÔØ ÔÕÔ ËÔÏ, ÇÏ×ÏÒÑÝÉÊ ÐÏÒÕÓÓËÉ!

2001-09-19 Thread etharp
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 17:02, you wrote: In reply to ëíó's words, written Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:35:08 +0600 åÓÔØ ÔÕÔ ËÔÏ, ÇÏ×ÏÒÑÝÉÊ ÐÏ ÒÕÓÓËÉ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] I could not agree more. Paul as Sly says Abibsoooluutlly. -- Blessed are the Geeks, for they shall internet the

Re: [newbie] Is this a joke?

2001-09-19 Thread Scott
I have experienced the exact same problem. The only way I have been able to get around it is to re-run the Internet Connection Sharing script on the Mandrake Control Center. That seems to solve the problem. I have also been experiencing a stop in services recently with ICS. The machine just

Re: [newbie] Accessing my files at home ??

2001-09-19 Thread Marcia Waller
This sounds like a good idea. How would one get instructions on how to set this up that are very good and step by step? Thanks. Marcia On Wednesday 19 September 2001 05:56, Franki wrote: What about just using Webmin it has upload/download apps in there.. so you can move files back and

Re: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome?

2001-09-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
A login is a core OS function, and has nothing to do with what you have installed. Have you configured a firewall? I know that the Bastille firewall setup process gives the option of denying direct logins to root as a security precaution. That way, a cracker must crack a user account before they

Re: [newbie] what is wrong with dependencies

2001-09-19 Thread Joseph Braddock
I agree 100%. I was simply trying to point out that auto-updating dependencies would create the problems that Window$ has. To solve a real problem (incompatible DLLs), Microsoft has opted to go the hardware route -- hard drives are cheap. Unfortunately, it still doesn't solve the problem,

Re: [newbie] Me, Linux, or my !@#$%^ ISP

2001-09-19 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 16:38:47 +0100 ai4a [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: I am running LM 7.2 with netscape (the one that comes with LM 7.2). I have been running this version for about 10 months. For the last 2 months I have been having trouble connecting to internet sites. Before the

Re: [newbie] alternatives to windows programs

2001-09-19 Thread ddcharles
Hi, For the internet, stick with RGB; most browsers don't support displaying CMYK images (correctly or at all). Also, most browsers support a very limited colour palette, so even though RGB covers a smaller portion of the colour spectrum, it is MORE than adequate for the amount of colours

Re: journaling and upgrading (Re: [newbie] a filesystem question)

2001-09-19 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Charles A. Punch wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 17 September 2001 10:57 am, Matt Greer escribió: on 9/17/01 10:20 AM, Tom Brinkman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but I'd recommend switching to a journaling FS ASAP. You should have already. What exactly is a journaling file

Re: [newbie] alternatives to windows programs

2001-09-19 Thread Matt Greer
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 20:04, you wrote: Hi, For the internet, stick with RGB; most browsers don't support displaying CMYK images (correctly or at all). Also, most browsers support a very limited colour palette, so even though RGB covers a smaller portion of the colour spectrum,

Re: [newbie] PS, HMTL and Web page design

2001-09-19 Thread Paul
In reply to Andre's words, written Wed, 19 Sep 2001 07:58:25 -0400 Btw, Screem freezes on KDE (locks on Creating desktop), and is usable (sort of) only in Gnome. Probably some dependency that is missing. I'll try Bluefish and Quanta+ instead. Screem dies on my machine also. Quanta works really

Re: Polite software (was RE: [newbie] Is this a joke?)

2001-09-19 Thread Altaira
The hardware drives the software. I am an X-Electronics employee. Greedy, time equals money, perfection a must. QUALITY suffers. Many a time items are shipped off to market that are not what they claim to be. A mistake made in a production line. A deal made with the next in line, (no charge).

Re: [newbie] LM8.1 B3

2001-09-19 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Richie de Almeida wrote: I have no idea as I've never had to try! My best guess is that when a New user logs on to KDE, there must be some script that creates a few of the basic system folders ('.kde' and Autostart for example) and symbolic links to log on a user to KDE. Perhaps you could

Re: [newbie] Staroffice 5.2 and M8

2001-09-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:15:11 +, Stewart Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I have a problem that is driving me mad.I tried installing StarOffice 5.2 whilst logged in as root. It works fine when logged in as root but will not work from my user session. I tried altering the

Re: [newbie] gnome desktop icons after nautilusi

2001-09-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Are you using any 'exotic' fonts? Try switching the font settings in the GNOME Control Centre to something ordinary, like Helvetica or Times. If that doesn't do it, try the following. Edit /etc/gconf/1/path. This is what mine looks like. You should be able to just copy and paste this into your

Re: [newbie] different user permissions for 'guest account' query

2001-09-19 Thread bascule
hi etharp, i'm not worried about guests having their own permanent storage, i just want to give them internet facilities if they visit andi i was worried that creating a new user with the same privileges as my normal user might be too risky given that i installed as 'security=low', i guess the

Re: [newbie] MODEM

2001-09-19 Thread Dean Morrell
At 16:30 9/18/2001 -0400, you wrote: Hi, sounds to me like there is probably an auction at eBay selling an ISA USR V.Everything, being sold by a guy named Dean (wink) :P Hrm... Seems I should have been more clear on this. I just got mine from ebay for 20 bucks. Seriously though, with

Re: Polite software (was RE: [newbie] Is this a joke?)

2001-09-19 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 18:18, you wrote: Do you think if someone or a group could provide a framework dedicated to supporting this scenario it could help open-source developers and users in terms of both time and money? Or do you think it wouldn't have a very significant effect on

[newbie] linux live

2001-09-19 Thread Robert MacLean
Hi Next week starting Monday on Linux.coms Linux live is beginner week. There will be a thing on installing red hat 7.1 and a thing on configuring a fire wall. Thought it might help some people ;) Robert MacLean Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome?

2001-09-19 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 18 September 2001 17:16, Peter Rymshaw wrote: I've decided that I like Gnome more than KDE and want to learn and begin using it. But I'm having problems beyond the normal (like getting CD floppy access from the desktop or panel. I won't have to manually monunt/unmount will I?)

RE: Polite software (was RE: [newbie] Is this a joke?)

2001-09-19 Thread Mark Johnson
Do you think if someone or a group could provide a framework dedicated to supporting this scenario it could help open-source developers and users in terms of both time and money? Or do you think it wouldn't have a very significant effect on these inherent hurdles? Do you think such a framework

Re: [newbie] Same install many PC's

2001-09-19 Thread Norman
Thanks for the reply. I have been looking at my test PC which also has Mandrake Linux 8 on it. In total df shows just under 1.8Gig used. At that size I might only need one CD and a controlling floppy. I am wondering if it would be practical to tar and bzip2 the partitions, which are / /home

Re: [newbie] Sleeping monitor

2001-09-19 Thread Scott
At 02:58 PM 9/19/2001 +1000, you wrote: On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 01:17:37 +0200, The Spider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a certain amount of time of inactivity, my monitor enters power saving mode and then sleep mode. How can i change this? (LM8.0) The KDE control panel has power settings for

Re: [newbie] Is this a joke?

2001-09-19 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 09:17, Stefano POGLIANI wrote: Hi all, running Mandrake 8.0. Yesterday I UPDATED the kernel (Using the MandrakeUpdate utility) to be 2.4.3-20 All at a sudden, iptables is not working (cannot share internet and ALSO the DHCP does not work...). But what

RE: [newbie] incoming telnet connection

2001-09-19 Thread shadowoan
No !!You could get hacked!!! Valerie Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do i allow my box to allow incoming telnet connection? __ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the

Re: Polite software (was RE: [newbie] Is this a joke?)

2001-09-19 Thread civileme
This is not a gripe, just an observation, but it seems like for most people (including me) their linux system is usually in a constant state of broken-ness, or in some way always marginally handicapped. Why is that? I realize that software is difficult to write just in general and operating

[newbie] Me, Linux, or my !@#$%^ ISP

2001-09-19 Thread ai4a
I am running LM 7.2 with netscape (the one that comes with LM 7.2). I have been running this version for about 10 months. For the last 2 months I have been having trouble connecting to internet sites. Before the trouble started, everything worked AOK for about 8 months! I can connect to my ISP

Re: [newbie] Same install many PC's

2001-09-19 Thread Michael D. Viron
During an expert installation of MandrakeLinux 8, it should ask if you want to create a replication floppy--at least it does with 7.2 not sure about 8.0 or 8.1. I'm not sure how exactly it works, but it should be pretty close to what you want. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User

[newbie] Problems with Imac DVSE and Mandrake 8

2001-09-19 Thread Brian
Hello List! I am new to Mandrake, but have been using other distributions for about 5 years. I am a *nix sys admin for an ISP and this one has me stumped. I have a iMac DV/SE with a 400mhz PPC G3 Proc, 256mb Ram, 10gb drive and DVDRom drive. The install went great, X works and everything seems

[newbie] Re: [newbie] , !

2001-09-19 Thread Oleksiy Dushyn
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[newbie] Netgear FE411 PCMCIA support

2001-09-19 Thread S.F.
Hello, Can someone please tell me if Netgear FE411 PCMCIA card is supported by Mandrake 8.0 ? If so, can anyone tell me how to install/configure it? I spent 4 hours straight trying to make it work, still no result... Any help is greatly appreciate it? P.S. I am 99% new to Mandrake and Linux..

Re: [newbie] panel resets every time I reboot

2001-09-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:32:09 -0400 (EDT), Manuel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - not too new to Gnome, but a bit clueless. I add apps launchers to my Gnome Panel, to make life easier on me. Everytime I reboot, I lose *nearly* all of my additions, though for some reason, a couple of

Re: [newbie] LM8.1 B3

2001-09-19 Thread Richie de Almeida
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 07:22, Mohammed Arafa wrote: richie thanks a bundle it worked :)) Glad I could help! umm now how do i do it for ALL the other users without going into each and every /home/user/.kde/Autostart dir? I have no idea as I've never had to try! My best guess is that

[newbie] blocking??

2001-09-19 Thread Franki
Hi all, Does anyone know a way using shell/perl scripting and ipchains to block all urls that request cmd.exe, root.exe, admin.dll and all the others??? (from port 80 of course) I am getting thousands of sustained requests from infected NT/2000 servers and its chewing alot of bandwidth..