Re:_[newbie-it]_consiglio_su_un_editor_html

2001-11-22 Thread Stefano Salari
--- Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Io, abituato a scrivere comunque html con editor di testo (non WYSIWYG) anche sotto win (notepad, per intenderci) mi trovo molto bene con emacs. Comunque se ti interessano editor visuali molto user-friendly esiste la versione per linux di

[newbie-it] 8.1

2001-11-22 Thread Luigi De Pascale
Salve a tutti, io ho una Mandrake 8.0 Di recente ho preso i dischi della 8.1 e mi chiedevo se installarla. Visto che molti di voi lo hanno gia' fatto, lo consigliate? Altra questione: non vorrei formattare e ripartire, vorrei conservare le directory degli utenti, come fare? Ciao

[newbie-it] Script di Backup

2001-11-22 Thread Luigi De Pascale
Ciao, uso settimanalmente uno script di bkup che seleziona i files che mi interessa salvare e li comprime. Lo script e' il seguente: #|/bin/bash cp $(find ~/ -name *.tex) ~/Bkup BK=~/bkup$(date +%d%m%Y).tgz tar -czf $BK ~/Bkup/ mi piacerebbe invece che lui scegliesse i files seguendo una lista

Re: [newbie-it] Script di Backup

2001-11-22 Thread Andrea Celli
Luigi De Pascale wrote: Ciao, uso settimanalmente uno script di bkup che seleziona i files che mi interessa salvare e li comprime. Lo script e' il seguente: #|/bin/bash cp $(find ~/ -name *.tex) ~/Bkup BK=~/bkup$(date +%d%m%Y).tgz tar -czf $BK ~/Bkup/ mi piacerebbe invece che lui

R: [newbie-it] Script di Backup

2001-11-22 Thread luca laghi
Ciao, uso settimanalmente uno script di bkup che seleziona i files che mi interessa salvare e li comprime. mi piacerebbe che lui scegliesse i files seguendo una lista che io posso modificare a piacere. La lista la scriverei nel formato file1 file2 file3 E se tu facessi for i in

Re: [newbie] Still Crashing on restart, every time...

2001-11-22 Thread Steve Weltman
Well Grant, theres a little known tale of a Linux user that once had an affair with his machine because it never cheated like his other one. Maybe this is why it's hanging on shutdown (just can't let me go...?)? Whatdya think? See real updated information below... ---Here's your

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd

2001-11-22 Thread Ethan
I changed my settings back to low and still got the same problem I have only one CD rom drive that can also play DVD.. pls help. thank you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pine.LNX.4.33L2.061235300.4339-10@havana"> Problem is if you look at his output, both /dev/cdrom0 and /dev/cdrom2

[newbie] How to setup a Firewall with Masq, on a MDK installation

2001-11-22 Thread Michael Gerner Andreasen
Godday everyone, my name is Michael, and i got a question for the list. My boss wants me to setup a firewall based on linux, so thats what iam dooing, for the job, we has an old 233Mhz with 32meg of ram and a 2,1Gb hdd, there is also 5 net-cards in the computter, eth0 connected to the switch

Re: [newbie] Mounting WinNT Partitions

2001-11-22 Thread Onur Kucuk
R Is it possible to mount WinNt NTFS partitions in linux? If so, what is R the correct format to use in fstab? mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 ntfs user,exec,umask=0 0 0 But keep in mind that writing to an NTFS partition is still experimental. (It has been for long actually :) Onur Kucuk

Re: [newbie] JPilot is not working...

2001-11-22 Thread A V Flinsch
On Wednesday 21 November 2001 23:59, you wrote: Are there any JPilot experts out here? I would very much like to use my Palm Vx for handheld stuff, but jpilot isn't working either (well, not after I changed stuff). I changed some configurations in the mail sync program and now the

[newbie] Cheap CD's

2001-11-22 Thread Peter Watson
Anyone in the UK with a dial up connection or without a CD burner might find this site useful www.letsbuylinux.co.uk They sell cheap Mandrake CD's (and most other distros) -- Regards pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Partition Magic for Linux

2001-11-22 Thread bascule
i second not trusting it with ext3, even if you try to 'convert' back to ext2 before using pm, without converting pm sees the linux drives as having no unused space even if you know they are mostly empty! 'converting' first allows pm to work but in my case doing a resize caused wierd fsck

Re: [newbie] How to setup a Firewall with Masq, on a MDK installation

2001-11-22 Thread Derek Jennings
Well I'm not aware of any of the standard tools that would do quite this, but I'm sure the correct combination of IPtable commands would have the desired effect. Start reading 'man iptables' (Not sure if Mandrake 7.1 supports iptables. In which case ipchains is the command to use) This HOWTO

RE: [newbie] No sound - LM 8.1 as user but sound appears when log in as root

2001-11-22 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Check the security configuration in /etc/security The default is NOT to grant device rights to users, until the admin changes things... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ethan |Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 11:24 PM |To:

RE: [newbie] No sound - LM 8.1 as user but sound appears when log in as root

2001-11-22 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Eh, as soon as the system reboots, it will be reset by the security scripts. Instead /etc/security/console.perms must be modified. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of meta |Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 12:12 AM |To: [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Still Crashing on restart, every time...

2001-11-22 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
I just can't resist this, please forgive... No, promiscuous mode, is what the machine goes into, just before it goes down on you |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Grant Fraser |Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 11:24 PM |To:

Re: [newbie] formatting floppies

2001-11-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 21 November 2001 05:12 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Since mdk8.1 I'm burning floppies like hell. It's not the drive itself, I tested that, so it's got to be Mandrake. I know Linux is more demanding on floppy quality, but 2 good floppies out of 10 is overdoing it :( Anybody else have

Re: [newbie] Question about installing a .tar.gz file

2001-11-22 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 20:15:27 -0600 Michael D. Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Typically a .tar.gz file isn't directly installed. Instead, you usually: 1. run 'tar -xzvf whatever.tar.gz' from the command line 2. run './configure' (to configure it) 3. run 'make' (to compile) 4. run

Re: [newbie] Gaming Edition

2001-11-22 Thread Robert MacLean
buy it only. mandrake has to make money some how ___ Robert MacLean Head of IDWS Technical Services and Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.idws.com Tel: 0860-ONLINE (0860-665469) Fax: (011) 955-5611 NOTE: Please include this message in your

[newbie] Gaming Edition

2001-11-22 Thread Metamorphysical
I couldn't find anything, but is the Gaming Edition available for download somewhere or do they have to sell it because The Sims comes with it?

Re: [newbie] Gaming Edition

2001-11-22 Thread Metamorphysical
ok cool thanks. - Original Message - From: Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 8:27 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Gaming Edition buy it only. mandrake has to make money some how ___ Robert

[newbie] 'localhost login' error

2001-11-22 Thread Langa, Percy (GPACE)
hi all, my 'localhost login prompt' gives me the following error: daemon.critmon[762]: failure to servers telnet 1006358289 localhost daemon.critmon[762]: failure to servers http 1006358550 localhost i do not know what i have done wrong, however, 'everything' is running fine, ie i can login in

Re: [newbie] office 2000 shares

2001-11-22 Thread Frank McKenna
I would like to try to share the application itself across the LAN as opposed to just files and documents. Thanks in advance Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love

Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers

2001-11-22 Thread David ..
Yes edit the XF86Config-4 before you reboot with the changes needed for the video drivers. From: R C [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 01:38:38 -0500 Ok, I appreciate all your help. I understand

Re: [newbie] No sound - LM 8.1 as user but sound appears when log in as root

2001-11-22 Thread Ethan
could I know exactly what must be done in console.perms ? I tried modifying the permissions for sound to 0766 but to no avail... it still does not give any sound ! pls advise. thank you... Jose M. Sanchez wrote: 001301c1734a$c898dd40$d60a@WHOPPER"> Eh, as soon as the system reboots, it

Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers

2001-11-22 Thread Robert MacLean
there is no need to reboot. when you are at the command prompt, edit the config file and type startx. it will then attempt to load x. if it fails it will kick you back to the console. otherwise it will work ___ Robert MacLean - Original Message -

Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers

2001-11-22 Thread David ..
I'm somewhat new at this as well. But here it goes, this worked for me, just did it last night. run tar -zxvf files downloaded -This will create two directories. -CD into the dir with the kernal -Run make -Once done, then do make install. Next move to the dir with un tar'ed GLX, do the same as

Re: [newbie] AOL help Simple Samba

2001-11-22 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 15:57, Randy Kramer wrote: Dave Sherman wrote: My Aunt MAUREEN was a military advisor to IKE TINA TURNER!! OK, so what's the rest of the story? I run fortune in a cron job, to generate my signature file. I really don't know what some of these things mean I think

Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers

2001-11-22 Thread Robert MacLean
the tar command will only work for .tar.gz files the rpms require the rpm command ___ Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: David .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 4:29 PM Subject:

Re: [newbie] office 2000 shares

2001-11-22 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 08:22, Frank McKenna wrote: I would like to try to share the application itself across the LAN as opposed to just files and documents. I have never done this, but... You should be able to just map a network drive in your Windows box, to the Samba share, and then

Re: [newbie] AOL help Simple Samba

2001-11-22 Thread robin
Dave Sherman wrote: On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 15:57, Randy Kramer wrote: Dave Sherman wrote: My Aunt MAUREEN was a military advisor to IKE TINA TURNER!! OK, so what's the rest of the story? I run fortune in a cron job, to generate my signature file. I really don't know what some of these

Re: [newbie] formatting floppies

2001-11-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 22 November 2001 12:06, you wrote: On Wednesday 21 November 2001 05:12 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Since mdk8.1 I'm burning floppies like hell. It's not the drive itself, I tested that, so it's got to be Mandrake. I know Linux is more demanding on floppy quality, but 2 good

Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers

2001-11-22 Thread David ..
Oops. I thought he had downloaded the tar version of the source files. From: Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:38:20 +0200 the tar command will only work for

Re: [newbie] AOL help Simple Samba

2001-11-22 Thread Randy Kramer
Dave Sherman wrote: On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 15:57, Randy Kramer wrote: Dave Sherman wrote: My Aunt MAUREEN was a military advisor to IKE TINA TURNER!! OK, so what's the rest of the story? I run fortune in a cron job, to generate my signature file. I really don't know what some of

[newbie] booting in console mode and seeing booting logs to diagnose problem

2001-11-22 Thread Anguo
Hi all! Idual boot win98 + Mandrake 8.1 Questions: 1- How can I use the boot disk to boot into the console mode rather than the graphical login? 2- Where can I then see the logs of the booting sequences. Problem: KDE or any other window manager won't start anymore. The graphic login

Re: [newbie] formatting floppies

2001-11-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 22 November 2001 08:11 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: I haven't tried fiddling with the etc/fstab entry yet, wanting to know if this was happening to others as well. Apparently it does! My guess is that setting fs to fat instead of auto might help, but I'm not sure as that will force

Re: [newbie] Reload Xinetd

2001-11-22 Thread skidley
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Ethan wrote: that's strange. I am running LM 8.1 and issued the command as root in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ driectory. typing xinetd by itself gets no response. And I believe that xinetd is the default - for without it, ftp and other services cannot run... man xinetd

[newbie] asf files on mplayer runs too fast

2001-11-22 Thread mnu
I installed the mplayer-0.50-2mdk.i586.rpm using rpm -ivh file command, and it seemed to install properly, finally. (I don't know how to enable -gui using rpm, though :( but I'll make do with terminal mode as long as I get to watch my movies). .avi files run beautifully. .asf files,

Re: [newbie] Reload Xinetd

2001-11-22 Thread skidley
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Ethan Lee wrote: many thanks. that worked, but may I ask why are there 2 differing versions of xinetd ? Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: you are using the xinetd from /usr/sbin. you may have issued xinetd from a directory other than the one specified or you didnot type the

[newbie] looking for old WXFTP rpms

2001-11-22 Thread Jim Snyder
Hi Folks Hope you all are having a nice Thanksgiving. I am on my fourth install of mandrake 8.1 and I think I finally got it right. I still cannot access my locked external zip drive but do have access to the CD finally. Does anyone have copies of the older WXFTP program in RPMs? I lost them

[newbie] dhcpd can't find eth0

2001-11-22 Thread Cliff Bowman
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. (If you're outside the US, Happy Thursday?) I can't seem to get my system to network properly. When I try to ping it from another (known good) machine, nada... Looking at the boot.log file shows that the ifup process fails, then immediately thereafter the

Re: [newbie] Laptop touchpads Linux info

2001-11-22 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, PENA FAMILY wrote: Hi, I do have a touchpad on my desktop! (Guess the brand name?) I have used it with debian, slack, freebsd, conectiva and now with mdk8.1! My touchpad is connected to ps2 with the adapter it came with! I'm

[newbie] empty messages anyone?

2001-11-22 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, It's been a while that I'm receiveing blank messages, just the headers! Anyone else with the same trouble? []s Ricardo Castanho - -- Whenever possible mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] == Linux