Re: [newbie-it] Aggiornamento

2002-03-24 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 01:49, venerdì 22 marzo 2002 hai scritto: Domanda da niubbo totale ho Mandrake 8.1 x aggiornarmi alla 8.2 posso farlo in qche modo automaticamente o devo cancellare quella vecchia installare quella nuova ecc ecc? grassie saluti Ciao, ogni installazione prevede la possibilità di

Re: [newbie-it] floppy

2002-03-24 Thread Tommaso Leddi
19:28, sabato 23 marzo 2002, Lele: Guarda che scandisk non brucia il file mbr dove c'è grub, comunque un dischetto di avvio ci vuole. Purtroppo non so consigliarti niente per crearne uno da win , sono un principiante anch'io. In tutti i primi CD delle distribuzioni ci sono istruzioni e

[newbie-it] notifica lettura email

2002-03-24 Thread Giuseppe
buongiorno o amorevole mailinglist, volevo sapere se su kmail c'è un modo per attivare tutte le opzioni da maniaco di outlook come sapere se l'email inviata a qualcuno è stata letta. Se kmail non lo fa, qualche altro programma per linux contiene queste opzioni? Grazie in anticipo ^_^

[newbie-it] unscribe me

2002-03-24 Thread Lino Garbellini
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Re: [newbie-it] floppy

2002-03-24 Thread root
tom wrote: Salve a tutti Ho un problema non da pocoil floppy non funziona benee non ho un dik di boot! quindi vorrei rimediare prima che winzow mi faccia partire uno scandisk e mi bruci il GUB In poche parole non riesco ne a scrivere ne ad aprire i floppy in linux, con win mi

Re: [newbie] Default OS and Internet Problems

2002-03-24 Thread John Lynch
I am so sorry that your entire computer screwed up. It is good you found out now that Windows was broken while it was still in warranty though. I'm not too sure what you mean by output of the ipconfig command on both machines, Sorry, I do not know much about computers, it's best if you use

Re: [newbie] Adding Text Input in a SELECT drop-down list

2002-03-24 Thread Michael
slap First off: This is an HTML problem not a Mandrake one. /slap Second: The usual proceedure is to have an other option followed by an INPUT TYPE=text ... You can save yourself the greif and follow the usual method, or not :) Michael other New Zealand Andre Dubuc wrote: I have

Re: [newbie] Publishing in Linux

2002-03-24 Thread shipahoy
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 00:48:47 -0500 sda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/index.html I don't think it's intended to be anything but well, Scribus. You're not kidding about being in the early stages - have you actually tried it? It's quite `rough', and if it's

Re: [newbie] usb camera

2002-03-24 Thread Lee
On Saturday 23 March 2002 08:24 am, Lee wrote: And the correct answer was (in this case) edit fstabs and change default to user I know I didn't give enough info for anyone to take a stab at it. Figure I only have 12 hours invested in this one...I'm getting better. 8.2 smokes! Lee

Re: [newbie] eroaster

2002-03-24 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP Though I am sure I added cdwriter to groups for user 'curt' (I'm the only user) when I run 'cdrecord --scanbus' It tells me: No such file or directory exists. Cannot open SCSI driver For possible targets try cdrecord -scanbus. Which gives the same result. This is a good clue

[newbie] KMail 1.3 Mail Status

2002-03-24 Thread _nasturtium
Hello, Is there any way to make Kmail automatically et the Status of a message to Read? (done m,anually by right-clicking, then selecting Set Status-Read). I know this is a bit counterintuitive to disable it, but I like a nice clean screen :-/ I currently have 33000+ posts in my Newbie

[newbie] I'm Locked Out!

2002-03-24 Thread Donald Everett Gulmire, Jr.
I just installed the new and improved Mandrake 8.2. It was harder to get my DSL up than with the 8.1. I've only been running Linux for about three weeks. I like the CDRom icons, but there is one problem. My Floppy, and my two CDRoms are locked. Even to super user. I thought it was a

Re: [newbie] eroaster

2002-03-24 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 24 March 2002 01:15 am, you wrote: On Sunday 24 March 2002 12:07 am, Dennis Myers wrote: Take a look in package manager and make sure that  cdrecord and some of it's associated files are installed. Just to be sure. Dennis, cdrecord, cdda2wav, cdparanoia, mkisofs and readcd are

[newbie] [Newbie] Help With Gateway/Router

2002-03-24 Thread Chris Howe
Hello I have just been switched over from DSL broadband to PPPoE service and I am not able to get a working setup. I have tried Mandrake SNFno go I have tried Smoothwallno go and I have tried E-Smiths gateway and again no go. with SNF I wasn't able to get onto the internet at all.

Re: [newbie] I'm Locked Out!

2002-03-24 Thread Robin Turner
On Sunday 24 March 2002 16:35, Donald Everett Gulmire, Jr. wrote: I just installed the new and improved Mandrake 8.2. It was harder to get my DSL up than with the 8.1. I've only been running Linux for about three weeks. I like the CDRom icons, but there is one problem. My Floppy, and my

Re: [newbie] I'm Locked Out!

2002-03-24 Thread Tim Holmes
Did you try to unmount the devices? Make sure you're not currently accessing something on either one, then run the commands: umount /mnt/floppy eject That should unmount the floppy so you can eject it manually. The eject command will unmount the CD, if it was mounted, before it ejects it.

Re: [newbie] Publishing in Linux

2002-03-24 Thread shipahoy
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:00:37 +0200 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, anyone here used TeXmacs? It claims to be much better than LyX and totally WYSIWYG (if recent /. posts are anything to go by) but I'm skeptical. TeXmacs is very, very impressive, but it is aimed squarely at

Why upgrade? [was: Re: [newbie] I'm Locked Out!]

2002-03-24 Thread Robin Turner
On Sunday 24 March 2002 17:34, Tim Holmes wrote: But now I have a question. Why did you upgrade to 8.2? If 8.1 was working, and you weren't having any problems, why did you upgrade to 8.2? It seems a lot of people think that as soon a new revision comes out, they have to upgrade to the

Re: [newbie] Eroaster

2002-03-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 22 March 2002 05:04 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: Burner's an IDE, I don't care for SCSI drives in a desktop PC. I've turned off devfs a few times but only to test. I reckon devfs is here to stay, so I try and make things work with it. or get different

[newbie] Apache: /cgi-bin/test-cgi Forbidden

2002-03-24 Thread Roger
Hi, I can't get Apache to serve cgi pages on my 8.2 installation. Pointing Konqueror to http://localhost/ serves up the default Apache welcome page, but pointing it to http://localhost/cgi-bin/test-cgi yields the Forbidden - You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/test-cgi on this

Re: [newbie] kernel 2.4.18.6

2002-03-24 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 09:10:18 -0300 Rodrigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I need help. I am running mandrake 8.1 and I installed the 8.2's kernel through rpm -ivh the following package: kernel-2.4.18.6-1-1mdk.i586.rpm Also I had to upgrade mkinitrd and findutils to satisfy

Re: [newbie] Vaio 505 install reaches 1st base - more questions...

2002-03-24 Thread Randy Kramer
Wally wrote: Would any of these editors have some sort of macro system, perchance? Nedit is the one editor I know of that has a macro system, and is my favorite editor in Linux for that and some other reasons (soft wrap (called continuous wrap), regular expression search and replace, some

Re: [newbie] Vaio 505 install reaches 1st base - more questions...

2002-03-24 Thread Randy Kramer
PS: Forgot to mention: * Nedit is on the download CDs -- at least it was for 7.2, and I expect it is on since then -- I (accidentally) did not install it by default on my 8.1 installation, and have not looked for it yet. * I'm almost certain mc is midnight commander, because mc is the

[newbie] pilot-link

2002-03-24 Thread Dan B
I have been trying to get pilot-link correctly installed on working on my system for a week. I also updated everything on the Mandrake side making sure I had the most recent Kernal. Still no luck. When I tried to follow the directions for the developer I am getting feedback that

Re: [newbie] 8.2 on Dell laptop

2002-03-24 Thread Edward and Lada Nowacki
i also have a dell laptop but i have no sound are you having this problem? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Why upgrade? [was: Re: [newbie] I'm Locked Out!]

2002-03-24 Thread Lee
On Sunday 24 March 2002 10:51 am, Robin Turner wrote: On Sunday 24 March 2002 17:34, Tim Holmes wrote: But now I have a question. Why did you upgrade to 8.2? If 8.1 was working, and you weren't having any problems, why did you upgrade to 8.2? It seems a lot of people think that as

[newbie] Major problem with 8.2- crashing on internet connection

2002-03-24 Thread Peter Nguyen
My problem is that having just installed Mdk 8.2 whenever I connect to the internet the computer either freezes or reboots. I can connect to my ISP fine but whenever I try to access a website almost as soon as it starts to retrieve information my system freezes. This happens regardless of

Re: [newbie] KMail 1.3 Mail Status

2002-03-24 Thread shane
On Sunday 24 March 2002 06:42 am, _nasturtium opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Hello, Is there any way to make Kmail automatically et the Status of a message to Read? (done m,anually by right-clicking, then selecting Set Status-Read). I know this is a bit counterintuitive

Re: [newbie] Uptime in signature?

2002-03-24 Thread Spencer Collyer
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 11:02:02 -0500, Todd Slater wrote: I think you either have to use a shell script and use Kmail for your MUA, or you'll have to use a cron job to write the uptime to your .sig file every X seconds. I went around with this a while back, cause I like Sylpheed better than

[newbie] 8.2 and konq cursor oddity

2002-03-24 Thread shane
ok, i have seen this on two machines now and read about it from two other people, so i am just curious as to the extent/cause. if you are running 8.2 open konqi anything browser or file manager or what ever. now choose open location so you have a text input box. type anything. does it

[newbie] Re: [OT] [never-was-on] Living in someother world

2002-03-24 Thread shane
On Sunday 24 March 2002 08:33 am, Robin Turner opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: On Sunday 24 March 2002 13:53, john rigby wrote: ** In a word, no. They were essentially manufactured by the West, the USA in particular. I did spend a considerable time going in and out of

Re: [newbie] 8.2 and konq cursor oddity

2002-03-24 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 23 March 2002 08:33 am, you wrote: ok, i have seen this on two machines now and read about it from two other people, so i am just curious as to the extent/cause. if you are running 8.2 open konqi anything browser or file manager or what ever. now choose open location so you

[newbie] changing the bash prompt

2002-03-24 Thread Skippi
Greetings -- I have modified my prompt with the following code: # prompt with colour PS1==\n\033[1;32m\]\d \t \n\033[1;31m\]\W\[\033[1;33m\]\n \u $ I like this, except for one thing -- for the directory it only shows one level. so if I am in /home/skippi/0data/csu my prompt looks like:

Re: [newbie] I'm Locked Out!

2002-03-24 Thread FemmeFatale
We're rough... to idiots. :) Webster won't agree with me on the definition of idiot but: Idiot: (noun) person who won't help themselves; to whit, someone who whines bitches about said software but refuses to help himself with it find a solution. (verb) usage of the word Idiot with regards to

Re: [newbie] Support?

2002-03-24 Thread Damian
El dom, 24-03-2002 a las 02:57, sda escribió: On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 03:59:55PM -0300, Damian wrote: criticism is out of order here, if you don't like something about Limux-Mandrake, we do not need to hear it, and it's probably not really up to us to change it. if you want to tell

Re: [newbie] 8.2 and konq cursor oddity

2002-03-24 Thread Damian
El sáb, 23-03-2002 a las 11:33, shane escribió: ok, i have seen this on two machines now and read about it from two other people, so i am just curious as to the extent/cause. if you are running 8.2 open konqi anything browser or file manager or what ever. now choose open location so you

[newbie] Interesting FAQ

2002-03-24 Thread civileme
This is now outdated slightly, but still contains information that was true in late 2000 though it has been superceded by information generally more favorable to GNU/linux and the Open Source business models today. The one area is business models. Some folks have decided since the dot coms

Logitech Clicksmart 510 ......... WAS [newbie] [BUG?] [SOLVED?] opl3sa2 ISA PnP soundcard in 8.2 - yeah, I changed it!

2002-03-24 Thread David
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:31:56 -0700 Miark said onto me: Just a quick note to say I'm glad you got this working. Goes to show you that if Linux newbies exhibit the same patience you have, the answers will come. Many others would have given up by now. Miark GIVE UP? And do what, go

Re: [newbie] LM8.2 - ScannerDrake and XSane

2002-03-24 Thread Damian
ehmEl sáb, 23-03-2002 a las 17:22, Joseph Braddock escribió: I just used the new scannerdrake with LM8.2 and it installed my old Mustek 600 III EP Plus without a hitch. Thanks Mandrake! I reported in Beta 1 that it didn't work and you guys fixed it! Kudos! My questions/problem is that

[newbie] REAL Newbies: looka here! AND Helpers

2002-03-24 Thread john rigby
Hi folks, At Sridhars prompting - I went back to looking around - don't know WHY I never found this Site before - perhaps as I always searched mandrake.COM. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/index.php DOCS!! General discussion etc. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/download.php Tons of stuff to help you

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Help With Gateway/Router

2002-03-24 Thread FemmeFatale
U... K You give new meaning to Headless/zombie Gateway ! Sheesh! Frankenstein would be proud! You don't say if you have: - A HUB/Switch/Router to the other terms on the LAN. - Speed of your preferred LAN *may be irrelevant, i'm just trying to

Re: [newbie] Apache: /cgi-bin/test-cgi Forbidden

2002-03-24 Thread Miark
Roger, I'm having the same problem. I think the test is actually printenv, but that's not working either, despite 755 permissions. I'm looking through the conf files now--I'll let you know if I find the answer. Please let me know ASAP if you find the solution first! Miark On Sun, 24 Mar

Re: [newbie] kernel 2.4.18.6

2002-03-24 Thread Rodrigo
Thank you Frans ! Your explanation clarified things to me. I corrected fstab and using the other tools I verified swap is there, on and working fine. Nothing is wrong :-) Thanks, Rodrigo Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 09:10:18 -0300 Rodrigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I

Re: [newbie] changing the bash prompt

2002-03-24 Thread Jussi Aalto
Hi Try this: PS1==\n\033[1;32m\]\d \t \n\033[1;31m\]\${PWD/~}\[\033[1;33m\]\n \u $ Cheers, J. On Sunday 24 March 2002 17:44, you wrote: Greetings -- I have modified my prompt with the following code: # prompt with colour PS1==\n\033[1;32m\]\d \t \n\033[1;31m\]\W\[\033[1;33m\]\n \u $

Re: [newbie] Major problem with 8.2- crashing on internet connection

2002-03-24 Thread FemmeFatale
Try a fresh install, keeping /home if you must :) Works better it seems. Femme Peter Nguyen wrote: My problem is that having just installed Mdk 8.2 whenever I connect to the internet the computer either freezes or reboots. I can connect to my ISP fine but whenever I try to access a

Re: [newbie] Support?

2002-03-24 Thread ed tharp
On Sunday 24 March 2002 00:57, you wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 03:59:55PM -0300, Damian wrote: criticism is out of order here, if you don't like something about Limux-Mandrake, we do not need to hear it, and it's probably not really up to us to change it. if you want to tell someone how

Re: [newbie] error message on boot up

2002-03-24 Thread Damian
El sáb, 23-03-2002 a las 22:55, Song Sourisak escribió: Hi, I saw in the mail archive a question from you asking about the followin error at the boot: change root to /initrd: error -2 I was wondering if you have any idea to solve it. In the archive, the person that answer your question

Re: [newbie] Vaio 505 install reaches 1st base - more questions...

2002-03-24 Thread FemmeFatale
Well... Now you're asking for the world aren't you!? Just weren't happy with what I gave ya were you! Sheesh*grumbles about unrepentant users* K.. Well heres the QD response. Yes. ;) Basically they are all available on the CD's. Kate installs as a default editor *as does the

Re: [newbie] Webmin Other tools

2002-03-24 Thread FemmeFatale
OK I asked this Q once, never got an answer or my ISP ate the email. *likely the latter, I will have to kill them soon I think.*. I need to know only this: If I use say, Komba2 or SAMBA or whatever for my LAN, do I *need* webmin/swat/whatever to help run it??? Any all URLs/help/donations of a

[newbie] Nvidia drivers and Mandrake 8.2

2002-03-24 Thread Gregorio Pérez Aguilera
Hi everybody, When using Mandrake 8.1 I was able to install and use the Nvidia drivers from NVidia site for my GeForce2 GTS using the usual method explainded in the Nvidia README file: - Downloading the source files. - Compilling and installing: $ tar xvzf NVIDIA_kernel.tar.gz

Re: [newbie] Support?

2002-03-24 Thread FemmeFatale
Ed I replied to your last email offlist, did you receive it!? Or do I strangle my ISP!? Femme ed tharp wrote: On Sunday 24 March 2002 00:57, you wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 03:59:55PM -0300, Damian wrote: criticism is out of order here, if you don't like something about

[newbie] Laptop suspend problems

2002-03-24 Thread Peter Nunn
Hi again folks, just wondering if anyone has got suspend and standby working reliably on their laptop? I'm trying to get it going on a Dell Latitude CPi and it works about 50% of the time. If I trigger it with the lid closing, about every second time it goes into suspend, the other 50% into

Re: [newbie] Sheesh already--

2002-03-24 Thread john rigby
Hello Civilme folks, You are a good supporter of the system, Civilme, and a good techo, you are also an atrocious psychologist/philosopher - a true Geek! :-) BTW: Do you know what this symbol means? :-) I keep forgetting many people don't, especially Geeks for some reason Now, if you

Re: [newbie] changing the bash prompt

2002-03-24 Thread Wally
So, what's the equivalent of autoexec.bat? Where can I do tweaky stuff? I'd like to get ls to remember my preferred settings (colour, wide dirinfo display), but it wouldn't take a set command from the command line. How can I make this kind of thing stick? Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers and Mandrake 8.2

2002-03-24 Thread Dave
I had the same issue. After alittle searching on the net. I found this answer and it worked for me. For the folks having issues with the module not inserting. If so, can you change /etc/modules.conf to read /dev/nvidia* instead of /dev/nvidia/*? - Original Message - From: Gregorio

Re: [newbie] Webmin Other tools

2002-03-24 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 24 March 2002 07:47 pm, you wrote: OK I asked this Q once, never got an answer or my ISP ate the email. *likely the latter, I will have to kill them soon I think.*. I need to know only this: If I use say, Komba2 or SAMBA or whatever for my LAN, do I *need* webmin/swat/whatever to

Re: COMMUNITY: Re: [newbie] Support? - a Solution ?

2002-03-24 Thread Carroll Grigsby
John: Enough, already! This list is NOT intended for philosophical discussions of Life, the Universe and Things Like That; it is a _technical_ support list for Mandrake newbies. (Source: Mandrake home page -- pretty damn authoritative, IMHO). If you wish to examine your navel, or someone

Re: [newbie] For the brazilian fellow looking for comp parts.

2002-03-24 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: TKS, anyway! If I change my mind to Asus ;-) thanks again for the time and effort! Ricardo Castanho I got an answer it was mostly for Asus motherboards Couldn't find out much else. Sorry Femme --

Re: [newbie] Support?

2002-03-24 Thread shane
On Monday 25 March 2002 11:35 am, Carroll Grigsby opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Ed: I don't want to appear argumentative, but you aren't even close. The top ten: 1. John Rigby 2. John Rigby checking my own list i have Ed at #15 (often informative a$$hole) does that sit well

Re: [newbie] changing the bash prompt

2002-03-24 Thread Michael
Well Wally: investigate alias, it is a part of bash man bash. Several already exist in your ~/.bashrc definition of ~/.bashrc ~ = Your home directory ~/ = inside your home directory . = any file starting with a period is a hidden file Wally wrote: So, what's the equivalent of autoexec.bat?

[newbie] Printerdrake freezing??

2002-03-24 Thread Linus Drouhard
Hi everyone, To open, I really like Mandrake 8.2. I've been a Mandrake user since 8.0. It's the best out there. 8.2 installation was a breeze but for one point. To start, I have an AMD K6-II running at 420 MHz, in an Asus P5A motherboard, two Maxtor 20 gig hard drives, 160 MB of

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers and Mandrake 8.2

2002-03-24 Thread s
On Saturday 23 March 2002 07:48 am, you wrote: Hi everybody, When using Mandrake 8.1 I was able to install and use the Nvidia drivers snipped The proble is when rebooting the computer: The X was not unable to start. Does anyone knows how to solve this problem??? Thanks! Gregorio when it

[newbie] 8.2 msec question

2002-03-24 Thread s
What can I do to get msec not to change the autologin to no in /etc/sysconfig/autologin everynight on 8.2 running bastille? -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Kmail Phantom account

2002-03-24 Thread Linus Drouhard
Hi all, I did something during the install of 8.2 that left me with a phantom account in Kmail. It has no name, but will not allow me to modify or delete it. Whenever I check mail, it asks for the password for this account, but since it doesn't exist, I just click cancel and go on.

[newbie] Printerdrake freezing??

2002-03-24 Thread Linus Drouhard
Hi everyone, To open, I really like Mandrake 8.2. I've been a Mandrake user since 8.0. It's the best out there. 8.2 installation was a breeze but for one point. To start, I have an AMD K6-II running at 420 MHz, in an Asus P5A motherboard, two Maxtor 20 gig hard drives, 160 MB of RAM,

Re: COMMUNITY: Re: [newbie] Support? - a Solution ?

2002-03-24 Thread Damian
On Sunday 24 March 2002 04:28 pm, john rigby wrote: Hi Damian, A reasonable comment: BUT if the people do not speak up - out of fear of reprisal - how is change ever going to happen? i made my post as an answer to someone complaining about people not being able to post because they

Re: [newbie] I'm Locked Out!

2002-03-24 Thread s
On Sunday 24 March 2002 09:28 pm, you wrote: *shrugs* Whatever guy. Ya i'll tone it down just was excited having fun in the event you still don't like my posts, don't read em. I'm just enjoying myself if I sound 14, oh well...Sorry that bugs you. Femme Well, I've noticed that you

Re: [newbie] Uptime in signature?

2002-03-24 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:35:07 + Spencer Collyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you use Sylpheed-claws you can use scripts in the sigfile. That's what I'm using right now. You just have to add a pipe '|' character to the start of the sigfile name and it will get executed rather than

Re: [newbie] error message on boot up

2002-03-24 Thread Song Sourisak
Hi Damian, Thank you for responding to my message. For your question, no i dont have a /initrd dir... I heard that doing so, the error is gone...hip hip houray Can you tell me the way to do so. Thank you in advance Song The error was exactly (at the boot) : change root to /initrd: error -2 Is

Re: [newbie] changing the bash prompt

2002-03-24 Thread Miark
What's the difference between /etc/rc.d/rc.local and /etc/rc.local ? Miark On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:53:08 -0900, civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: Wally wrote: So, what's the equivalent of autoexec.bat? Where can I do tweaky stuff? I'd like to get ls to remember my preferred

Re: [newbie] changing the bash prompt

2002-03-24 Thread s
On Sunday 24 March 2002 11:41 pm, you wrote: What's the difference between /etc/rc.d/rc.local and /etc/rc.local ? Miark /etc/rc.local is a symlink to /etc/rc.d/rc.local -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Support? - a Solution ?

2002-03-24 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Sunday 24 March 2002 16:28, Damian wrote: well.. this is a newbie list, it's supposed to be a place where you ask questions, get answers, read questions, and give answers. criticism is out of order here I see no reason why criticism should be considered out of order (not that I have any,

Re: [newbie] changing the bash prompt

2002-03-24 Thread Miark
Next time I'll do a ls -l (emphasis on -l) before asking. Thanks, Miark On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 23:45:50 -0600, s [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: On Sunday 24 March 2002 11:41 pm, you wrote: What's the difference between /etc/rc.d/rc.local and /etc/rc.local ? Miark /etc/rc.local is a

Re: [newbie] I'm Locked Out!

2002-03-24 Thread FemmeFatale
Fine. I'll just lurk shut my mouth End of story Femme s wrote: On Sunday 24 March 2002 09:28 pm, you wrote: *shrugs* Whatever guy. Ya i'll tone it down just was excited having fun in the event you still don't like my posts, don't read em. I'm just enjoying myself if I

Re: [newbie] ftp to share files

2002-03-24 Thread Brian Parish
Hanan, You can find out if it's running with the command (as root): service bastille-firewall status If it is and you want to try stopping it: service bastille-firewall stop (and of course .start to restart it) I suspect that this is not the problem however. How are your IP addresses

Re: [newbie] error message on boot up

2002-03-24 Thread Damian
El lun, 25-03-2002 a las 02:40, Song Sourisak escribió: Hi Damian, Thank you for responding to my message. For your question, no i dont have a /initrd dir... I heard that doing so, the error is gone...hip hip houray Can you tell me the way to do so. Thank you in advance Song you mean

Re: [newbie] Printerdrake freezing??

2002-03-24 Thread civileme
Linus Drouhard wrote: Hi everyone, To open, I really like Mandrake 8.2. I've been a Mandrake user since 8.0. It's the best out there. 8.2 installation was a breeze but for one point. To start, I have an AMD K6-II running at 420 MHz, in an Asus P5A motherboard, two Maxtor 20 gig hard

Re: [newbie] 8.2 msec question

2002-03-24 Thread civileme
s wrote: What can I do to get msec not to change the autologin to no in /etc/sysconfig/autologin everynight on 8.2 running bastille? -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] changing the bash prompt

2002-03-24 Thread civileme
Miark wrote: What's the difference between /etc/rc.d/rc.local and /etc/rc.local ? Miark On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:53:08 -0900, civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: Wally wrote: So, what's the equivalent of autoexec.bat? Where can I do tweaky stuff? I'd like to get ls to remember my

Re: [newbie] error message on boot up

2002-03-24 Thread Song Sourisak
Hi, Just to be sure: do I create the /initrd dir in the /boot dir? Would it matter if i have the same your README.WARNING file in it? Maybe i don't get it but why is a simple text file in /initrd would take that error message away? Is it related to the fact that i changed the kernel for a new

Re: [newbie] Support? - a Solution ?

2002-03-24 Thread Damian
El lun, 25-03-2002 a las 02:51, Bryan Tyson escribió: On Sunday 24 March 2002 16:28, Damian wrote: well.. this is a newbie list, it's supposed to be a place where you ask questions, get answers, read questions, and give answers. criticism is out of order here I see no reason why

RE: [newbie] REAL Newbies: looka here! AND Helpers

2002-03-24 Thread Dalton
thanks for the help john rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, At Sridhars prompting - I went back to looking around - don't know WHY I never found this Site before - perhaps as I always searched mandrake.COM. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/index.php DOCS!! General discussion etc.

Re: [newbie] error message on boot up

2002-03-24 Thread Michael
This is obvious to an old hand. When a directory name starts with / that means the top directory. It is the one that contains /bin, /etc, /home, /root and /var. That is why you can only write a new directory in it as root or su (super user). Michael Song Sourisak wrote: Hi, Just to be sure:

Re: [newbie] error message on boot up

2002-03-24 Thread Damian
El lun, 25-03-2002 a las 03:21, Song Sourisak escribió: Hi, Just to be sure: do I create the /initrd dir in the /boot dir? Would it matter if i have the same your README.WARNING file in it? Maybe i don't get it but why is a simple text file in /initrd would take that error message away? Is

Re: [newbie] Apache: /cgi-bin/test-cgi Forbidden

2002-03-24 Thread Miark
Roger, I found the culprit. Near the beginning of the commonhttpd.conf, you'll find a section that sets directory options for the website as a whole: Directory / [blah, blah] Deny from all /Directory The Deny from all tells Apache to disallow anybody to connect from anywhere

Re: [newbie] REAL Newbies: looka here! AND Helpers

2002-03-24 Thread civileme
Dalton wrote: thanks for the help john rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, At Sridhars prompting - I went back to looking around - don't know WHY I never found this Site before - perhaps as I always searched mandrake.COM. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/index.php DOCS!! General

Re: [newbie] Can't get openoffice to install with 8.2

2002-03-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 24 March 2002 18:00, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 00:21:54 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: There is an RPM for OpenOffice on the 8.2 discs. That should go in OK derek Derek, What's the font support like in the

Re: [newbie] Adding Text Input in a SELECT drop-down list

2002-03-24 Thread Andre Dubuc
Hi Michael, I stand slapped and corrected : Perhaps it was lack of sleep, but I sort of figured I should try another list, but everyone seems so helpful and knowledgeable on the newbie list. Sorry about that! At any rate, I've tried what you suggested -- and from other lists, I found that it

[newbie] Koffice in catalan language?

2002-03-24 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I'm using catalan language (-ca) under kde but koffice appears in english because no koffice-i18n-ca package exists. It doesn't make me worry but i'd prefer koffice to use spanish language instead of english (and koffice-i18n-es is installed). Thanks! ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza -

RE: [newbie] Can't get openoffice to install with 8.2

2002-03-24 Thread Peter Nunn
Thanks guys, the speed of response is amazing. I've now installed the rpm, should I now continue on with the install and update to the newer version, or is this dangerous? Ta Peter -Original Message- From: Dennis Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, 24 March 2002 1:24 PM

Re: [newbie] Kmail Phantom account

2002-03-24 Thread Derek Jennings
Try editing ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc by hand HTH derek On Monday 25 March 2002 04:04, Linus Drouhard wrote: Hi all, I did something during the install of 8.2 that left me with a phantom account in Kmail. It has no name, but will not allow me to modify or delete it. Whenever I