[newbie-it] Editing come Root

2002-01-12 Thread Marco Fortini
Salve a tutti, devo aggiungere una riga ad un file,ma solo il "Root" user può modificarlo; vorrei sapere utilizzando un editing di KDE (con finestra) come faccio, dopo averlo aperto ed editato, a salvarlo con i diritti del"RootUser" ? saluto e ringrazio Marco Fortini

[newbie-it] Directory del Kernel

2002-01-12 Thread Marco Fortini
Salve a tutti, ho installato un Mandrake 8.0 con Kernel 2.4.3 come mai delle istruzioni dettagliate di un "Howto" danno per scontato che esiste una directory /usr/src/linux, mentre da me non esiste. di fatto non posso eseguire le istruzioni perchè anche quando poi invio il comando "make

Re: [newbie-it] Editing come Root

2002-01-12 Thread Stefano
Entra nel sistema kde come root. Quando all'avvio kde ti chiede la password scrivi come userId: root e come password la password di root. - Original Message - From: Marco Fortini To: Mailing list Linux Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 6:08 PM Subject:

Re: [newbie-it] Editing come Root

2002-01-12 Thread Corrado
Il sab, 2002-01-12 alle 19:33, Stefano ha scritto: Entra nel sistema kde come root. Quando all'avvio kde ti chiede la password scrivi come userId: root e come password la password di root. O più semplicemente partendo da utente normale puoi aprire un terminale, digitare su root, premere

Re: [newbie-it] Directory del Kernel

2002-01-12 Thread miKe
Il 18:22, sabato 12 gennaio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] Directory del Kernel, ha scritto: Salve a tutti, ho installato un Mandrake 8.0 con Kernel 2.4.3 come mai delle istruzioni dettagliate di un Howto danno per scontato che esiste una directory /usr/src/linux, mentre da me non esiste.

[newbie] SIS630 / SIS301 video ?

2002-01-12 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! Does any of you have that video card? It belongs to SIS630 motherboards' chipset and this chipset includes LAN (SIS900) and audio (SIS7018). If you've got it installed please tell me how the video card performs in 3D (games). I know there are linux drivers for them at

RE: [newbie] can we play cracked games with the new wine

2002-01-12 Thread mike cola
umm since thats a shady question, then i suspect you wont get an answer here.. feel free to try but its up to you to support warez..after all if this was windows list you wouldnt ask for help with pirated shiznit.. im dont have much against warez per se but im not gonna help either...and i

Re: [newbie] What can Linux do ???

2002-01-12 Thread Ed Tharp
yes if you either download the block (module), or write it your self, heck a shorter list might be what PHP and MY sql can NOT do. you might try hoard, imap-php, php-groupware, as far as other stuff linux can do, what do you want to do? windows=where do you want to go today Mac= go

Re: [newbie] Video Capture Suggestions Sought

2002-01-12 Thread Ed Tharp
I have quite a bit of analog video footage (i.e. standard VHS videocassettes) that I am interested in capturing and outputting into some kind of vcd format. From what I read, it is possible to put video onto a standard (non-DVD) CD-R in a format that can be played by most DVD players. If

Re: [newbie] KMail install?

2002-01-12 Thread Ed Tharp
often deleteing the first message (In the Kmail outbox) will cure the sending problem you had, often a mal-formed address will cause no server to pick up the message, so it stays in the outbox ,blocking the rest of the messages. On Friday 11 January 2002 09:52, you wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan

Re: [newbie] install win after install linux?

2002-01-12 Thread Ed Tharp
winblows does not have to be first, the install likes it (insists?) better tho, you can install and then change the harddrive toi the second channel, use lilo to dual boot. On Friday 11 January 2002 15:27, you wrote: As far as I know, Windows has to be the first primary partition of the

Re: [newbie] can u read this?

2002-01-12 Thread alex
This might help: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Damian G wrote: hey... i thought i was asking a simple question... ( perhaps too simple to be answered? ) did the list get my message? this is not the first time i get no response when i come here with a

Re: [newbie] Help with Real Player Plugin

2002-01-12 Thread Ed Tharp
On Monday 17 December 2001 13:36, you wrote: Originally to: All This is a MIME-formatted message. If you see this text it means that your E-mail software does not support MIME-formatted messages. --=_tcob1.net-7179-1008635553-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

[newbie] Re: [expert] How I got my USB card reader to work!

2002-01-12 Thread Larry Varney
I haven't been able to get my SimpleTech Flashlink to work with Mandrake 8.1 - it keeps getting identified (after modprobe) as a 1 gig scsi drive, even without a card in it. I suspect that the fact that it's a combination reader, for both Compact Flash and Smart Media, might be the problem. At

Re: [newbie] binding ip and new registered domain based website, have problem

2002-01-12 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Friday 11 January 2002 07:09 pm, eric wrote: Dear linux user: about how to binding ip and domain name, I mean I have 12.34.56.78 's static ip, I can see test webpage by type in url as http://12.34.56.78, and I also register a domain name , like linuxspice.com , so I put the server name

[newbie] is client scanning possible with samba?

2002-01-12 Thread Ken Nowack
Hello, So far things are going well. I've got samba up and running finally. It needs a little tweaking still, but it's working. I've got an HP OfficeJet G55 all-in-one printer connected to the samba server. I installed it using cups for the print manager. Behind the server I've got 3 win2k

[newbie] [OT Humor] - ASSISTED COMPUTING

2002-01-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
(swiped off an overclocking NG) THE TOUGHEST DECISION: SHOULD MY LOVED ONE BE PLACED IN AN ASSISTED COMPUTING FACILITY? For family members, it is often the most difficult and painful decision they will face: to accept that a loved one - a parent, a spouse, perhaps a sibling - is

Re: [newbie] SIS630 / SIS301 video ?

2002-01-12 Thread Randy Kramer
tester wrote: I have tweaked them a bit and they do work fine, and the drivers are already in the XFree4.1.0 Civileme, Interesting! When I try to install Mandrake 8.1 (or 7.2) (expert mode, both cases) (Matsonic 8308E(P) motherboard), it doesn't offer to install XFree 4, but only Xfree 3

Re: [newbie] [ OT ] StarOffice 5.2 vs. OpenOffice 6.0

2002-01-12 Thread Randy Kramer
Thanks for your response! I haven't tried OpenOffice so I can't offer any comparisons. I see that others have, and I see your response that they have helped! Good luck! Randy Kramer Mandrake Newbie wrote: My swap space is not yet even touched. Actually, more than 100 MB are still free

Re: [newbie] [OT Humor] - ASSISTED COMPUTING

2002-01-12 Thread s
On Saturday 12 January 2002 11:39 am, you wrote: (swiped off an overclocking NG) THE TOUGHEST DECISION: SHOULD MY LOVED ONE BE PLACED IN AN ASSISTED COMPUTING FACILITY? oh my ... lolol. I have a few candidates in mind. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Unable to dial out due to logfile not opening

2002-01-12 Thread minhaz_islam
I cannot dial out using my external modem - any error message says cannot open logfile. I have checked my DNS settings in \etc\resolv.conf and they contain the correct DNS settings. I then deleted and reinstalled my ISP settings (username/password/phone number) and my PC can dial out to the

Re: [newbie] [OT Humor] - ASSISTED COMPUTING

2002-01-12 Thread Andy Davidson
At 11:39 AM 1/12/02 -0600, Tom Brinkman wrote: (swiped off an overclocking NG) THE TOUGHEST DECISION: SHOULD MY LOVED ONE BE PLACED IN AN ASSISTED COMPUTING FACILITY? This originated on the SatireWire site several months ago. (See http://www.satirewire.com/features/siliconpines/acf.shtml)

Re: [newbie] SIS630 / SIS301 video ?

2002-01-12 Thread Joan Tur
Es Dissabte 12 Gener 2002 17:16, en tester va escriure: I have tweaked them a bit and they do work fine, and the drivers are already in the XFree4.1.0 Ok, fine. SiS has been the most linux-friendly of the chipset makers for a while. If you go to www.linuxbios.org, you will find that there

Re: [newbie] [OT Humor] - ASSISTED COMPUTING

2002-01-12 Thread Andre Dubuc
Gee, Tom -- do you think I could apply? One month, I installed W98 over 100 times, before realizing that my had motherboard died. So, I bought another one, but this time I plugged it in, and it had Linux on it! Btw, I'm still waiting for my refund from MS. Hopefully yours, Andre --

[newbie] Step in system time at boot

2002-01-12 Thread attila
Hi! I have a Mandrake 8.1 workstation with a dial-up internet connection. I'm trying to synchronize the system time to some ntp servers with chronyd package but it can't work well. I realised that there are two step in system time while the system boots up and I think that this affects the

Re: [newbie] Wine Caesar 3

2002-01-12 Thread Derek Jennings
You might find winex is better than standard wine. They have put work recently into handling of CD's for games. Winex is a 'fork' of wine devoted to making games work. Eventually the work will be folded back into wine, but first the developers want to recover their costs by selling

RE: [newbie] Accessing Windows Files

2002-01-12 Thread techmage
I am running W2K and my Man 8.1 seems to work with it fine (However, I have not accomplished any writing to the NTFS from Linux... Just reading). Hope this helps... =^} -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of David Stevenson Sent: Saturday,

Re: [newbie] OT: Small OS for Old Hardware

2002-01-12 Thread tester
Barb wrote: I know this is a mandrake list, but I have a couple of old dells like that and I install Debian with a few floppy images and the rest a network install. Barbara At 03:59 PM 1/11/2002, you wrote: Shane, thanks for the response, but I am really looking for something

RE: [newbie] [OT Humor] - ASSISTED COMPUTING

2002-01-12 Thread techmage
I'm with ya... I got a lot of ppl that could be put in this home... All My users at work, parents, wife, kids... Hmmm... Almost all I know... hehe Subject: Re: [newbie] [OT Humor] - ASSISTED COMPUTING On Saturday 12 January 2002 11:39 am, you wrote: (swiped off an overclocking NG) THE

Re: [newbie] Wine Caesar 3

2002-01-12 Thread Andre Dubuc
Thanks Derek, I downloaded winex CVS source last night. Everything went smoothly except for the final make install where I got an error message: Could not find wine config [Drive x] entry for current working directory. Invalid path `C:2\windows' for windows directory: does not

Re: [newbie] Wine Caesar 3

2002-01-12 Thread Miark
Now, I'm confused. Are they talking about how LM names the directory (/mnt/win_c/windows) or MS (C:\Windows). The entry in the error message seems to be a mix of LM and MS! [My other drive is /mnt/win_2 but does not have windows installed, but is formatted VFAT.] Perhaps, as a newbie I

[newbie] tried to install xwine cvs... got error

2002-01-12 Thread chris huston
Hi, I'm trying out the xwine cvs did the standard ./configure make depends make and make install No errors at all [WoW] but when i try to run ./wine as root or as a my main user.. me, i got this error any clues... ./wine: Symbol `Dosvm' has different size in shared object, considerr

[newbie] OK I got LICQ working...

2002-01-12 Thread FemmeFatale
Took installing on Mandrake 8.1. I never did get it working on 8.0..the default install of Licq that is. As to what i did, i just installed the package, found my password was wrong; had to figure out where the dir. ~ was then edited the config file for Licq. Put in the correct password it works

Re: [newbie] Wine Caesar 3

2002-01-12 Thread Derek Jennings
Not sure how it works with CVS since I used the RPM's but you should end up with a folder called .transgaming in your home directory which in my case contains :- folder c_drive/ #which is your 'dummy C drive' for installing windows apps folder wineserver-username.localdomain/

[newbie] Root in Kongueror and download

2002-01-12 Thread Gary Montalbine
I am using LM 8.1. I am the only user. I have read and write privileges for all directories and files. However, when downloading I can only download into my home/gary directory. Once downloaded i can move them to another directory while in root. If I try to download into any other directory,

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[newbie] e-mail via SSL

2002-01-12 Thread Lee Roberts
Is there a HOWTO for doing e-mail via SSL? I found a HOWTO for e-mail via SSH but that's not what I want to do (besides, this HOWTO uses telnet to access e-mail which I have disabled). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Importing Addressbooks/kspreadsheets

2002-01-12 Thread Erylon
I'm in the final stages of becoming a linux-only household, now that I have a usb flashcard reader that works. My final problem is importing my wife's Outlook Address book to the kaddress book. I've found that the kmail import tool will import all mail folders, after I imported the Outlook

[newbie] sending carriage return from .sh script

2002-01-12 Thread tek1
one of my scripts logs into a cvs site and i want to send a carriage return as the next command so that i can (automatically) log in anonymously (return = anonymous login). the script pauses when the cvs site asks for the password though, and i have to hit return manually. after that

Re: [newbie] sending carriage return from .sh script

2002-01-12 Thread Dan Butler
I believe it's a ^M Can always give it a try while you wait for someone else who is sure. Dan B - Original Message - From: tek1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 3:43 AM Subject: [newbie] sending carriage return from .sh script one of my

Re: [newbie] e-mail via SSL

2002-01-12 Thread Michael Viron
SSL isn't a protocol in and of itself. It's a way of encrypting communications between two machines. You can, however, wrap just about any protocol in ssl (which is what they've done with pop3 / imap). Try linuxdoc.org to see if there is a HOWTO or do a search in your favorite search engine

Re: [newbie] can we play cracked games with the new wine

2002-01-12 Thread NY-Bro
I agree with u, no need to rip free software, but do u think I am going to pay whatever I have to pay to have Age of Emires, or MS Flight simulator? I am a very poor guy... --- Mark D'voo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 12 January 2002 03:24 pm, you wrote: WINE seems to run cracked

Re: [newbie] OK I got LICQ working...

2002-01-12 Thread Kaj Haulrich
FemmeFatale wrote: Took installing on Mandrake 8.1. I never did get it working on 8.0..the default install of Licq that is. As to what i did, i just installed the package, found my password was wrong; had to figure out where the dir. ~ was then edited the config file for Licq. Put in the

Re: [newbie] Wine Caesar 3

2002-01-12 Thread s
On Saturday 12 January 2002 03:48 pm, you wrote: Not sure how it works with CVS since I used the RPM's How's that working out for ya'? Are the games really enjoyable? -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Wine Caesar 3

2002-01-12 Thread Andre Dubuc
Thanks for asking . . . I just dumped the mess I had created. Everything went fine until I got the error: Could not find wine config [Drive x] entry for current working directory. Invalid path `C:2\windows' for windows directory: does not exist Figured out it had to be the

Re: [newbie] OK I got LICQ working...

2002-01-12 Thread David Reynolds
On Friday 05 January 2001 03:09 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Took installing on Mandrake 8.1. I never did get it working on 8.0..the default install of Licq that is. As to what i did, i just installed the package, found my password was wrong; had to figure out where the dir. ~ was then edited the

Re: [newbie] sending carriage return from .sh script

2002-01-12 Thread Miark
In perl, you could send a newline character: \n or the Control-M: \cM But I dunno about shell scripts. Miark - Original Message - From: tek1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 1:43 AM Subject: [newbie] sending carriage return from .sh script

Re: [newbie]

2002-01-12 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 23:19:12 +0100 Pinhead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: subscribe newbie Uhm, happy to wellcome a newbie of course, but see this link to subscribe: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 ,note the address :) -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

[newbie] /dev/shm (again)

2002-01-12 Thread Smiley
Thanks to who explained me /dev/shm (ach... I dleted the mail :( ); one thing I wonder, anyway: when I type df (diskfree) on a terminal, I now can see something like this: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdc5 1965344 1342184523324 72%

[newbie] USB Scanner not seen

2002-01-12 Thread Andy Davidson
OK, I thought this was going to be an easy one. Apparently I was wrong. I have an Epson Perfection 1650 USB scanner chosen partially because it is supported by SANE under Linux. I am running Mandrake 8.1 which has USB support. But the scanner does not show up in /dev/usb, though usbview shows

Re: [newbie] USB Scanner not seen

2002-01-12 Thread Joseph Braddock
I don't know if this will help, since I don't have a USB scanner, but I do have a USB smart card reader. It shows up under /proc/bus/usb and also as a SCSI device as sda. Have you tried loading Harddrake and seeing if it sees your scanner? Joe On Saturday 12 January 2002 08:47 pm, you

Re: [newbie] USB Scanner not seen

2002-01-12 Thread Andre Dubuc
On Saturday 12 January 2002 21:47, you wrote: OK, I thought this was going to be an easy one. Apparently I was wrong. I have an Epson Perfection 1650 USB scanner chosen partially because it is supported by SANE under Linux. I am running Mandrake 8.1 which has USB support. But the scanner

Re: [newbie] [OT Humor] - ASSISTED COMPUTING

2002-01-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 12 January 2002 01:13 pm, Andre Dubuc wrote: Gee, Tom -- do you think I could apply? everybody's eligible, sooner or later ;) One month, I installed W98 over 100 times, before realizing that my had motherboard died. So, I bought another one, but this time I plugged it in, and

Re: [newbie] [OT Humor] - ASSISTED COMPUTING

2002-01-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 12 January 2002 12:22 pm, Andy Davidson wrote: At 11:39 AM 1/12/02 -0600, Tom Brinkman wrote: (swiped off an overclocking NG) THE TOUGHEST DECISION: SHOULD MY LOVED ONE BE PLACED IN AN ASSISTED COMPUTING FACILITY? This originated on the SatireWire site several months ago.

RE: [newbie] Accessing Windows Files

2002-01-12 Thread Charles Muller
Thanks to all who advised on locating the Windows partitions. Indeed, it was right there under root/mnt. Regards, Charles Muller Toyo Gakuen University Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJK-English Dictionary http://www.acmuller.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] can we play cracked games with the new wine

2002-01-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 12 January 2002 05:16 pm, NY-Bro wrote: I agree with u, no need to rip free software, but do u think I am going to pay whatever I have to pay to have Age of Emires, or MS Flight simulator? I am a very poor guy... If you hadn't mentioned MS Flight simulator I probly woudn'ta

[newbie] Apache problems

2002-01-12 Thread Jon Doe
Still having apache permission problems. I can't find the messages that were just sent to the list on how this was fixed. I am not even sure if its a permission problem, everytime I type in my webaddress it changes to 192.168.0.3 which I thought was how my windows box connected to the network,