Re: [newbie-it] grazie

2002-10-28 Thread sandro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 20:54, domenica 27 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: grazie Sandro ho guardato in /etc/fstab/ e ti mando quello che ho visto fammi sapere grazie ancora mario L'fstab va bene, le impostazioni sono uguali alle mia (tranne che io ho il lettore in

Re: [newbie-it] VMWARE 3.2+OT Wordfast

2002-10-28 Thread Andrea Celli
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:05:41 +0200 Chiara Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .finalmente potrò vedere quei dannati cd dei dizionari zanichelli Io ho un CD del dizionario Zanichelli italiano-inglese (trovato in allegato ad una rivista) che funziona benone con WINE :-) ciao,

[newbie-it] path

2002-10-28 Thread giamgax
Hi folks, per la prima volta tentavo di compilare un programma, non avendo nessun compilatore installato ho recuperato gcc dai sacri cd della distro. al ./configure mi dice che non lo trova nel $path. come si fa a inserire un programma nel path? vi risparmio il racconto dei tentativi che ho

Re: [newbie-it] path

2002-10-28 Thread LukenShiro
Alle 11:53, lunedì 28 ottobre 2002, giamgax ha scritto: come si fa a inserire un programma nel path? Presupponendo l'uso della bash: se ti serve a livello globale, in /etc/profile trovi la definizione della variabile $PATH: aggiungici la directory che ti serve, separata da quanto precede con

Re: [newbie-it] Non funziona la instalazione Mandrake 9.0

2002-10-28 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 22:41, domenica 27 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: Sva non ho anchora risoloto il problema dela instalazione di Mandrake 9.0 Se faco partire la instalzione diretamente da dal boot disk dopo vare pasatlo il menu di avio vedo aprarire questo mesagio: THAT CDROM DISC DOES NOT SEEM TO BE A

Re: [newbie-it] grazie

2002-10-28 Thread mario
Alle 08:37, lunedì 28 ottobre 2002, hai scritto:Sandro ecco quello che compare digitando da shell eroasterinoltre i file che mi hai segnato sono presenti tranne l'ultimo mpeg123 premetto che so malissimo l'inglese cerca di perdonarmi! 28.10.2002 16.23:22.520 INFO None Main you are mario-you

Re: [newbie-it] (O.T.)Problemi Anti-Virus

2002-10-28 Thread freefred
On Saturday 26 October 2002 10:05 pm, miKe wrote about Re: [newbie-it] (O.T.)Problemi Anti-Virus: a proposito, che tu sappia, è possibile far passare altre variabili oltre a %S, %D e %F ? magari addirittura esterne a kmail ? [basterebbe invocarlo con uno script che le esporta prima..] mh,

Re: [newbie-it] grazie

2002-10-28 Thread sandro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 16:53, lunedì 28 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: Alle 08:37, lunedì 28 ottobre 2002, hai scritto:Sandro ecco quello che compare digitando da shell eroasterinoltre i file che mi hai segnato sono presenti tranne l'ultimo mpeg123 premetto che so

[newbie-it] mozilla come salvare mail e addres

2002-10-28 Thread paolo brusasco
ciao a tutti. qualcuno sa come si salva l'address book e le mail di mozilla prima di una reinstallazione con formattazione? voglio restituire la verginità al mio sistema, provando una red hat 8.0 trovato in edicola (ovviamente in attesa di pinzare una 9.n). probabilmente si può salvare la

Re: [newbie-it] mozilla come salvare mail e addres

2002-10-28 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 20:09, lunedì 28 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: ciao a tutti. qualcuno sa come si salva l'address book e le mail di mozilla prima di una reinstallazione con formattazione? voglio restituire la verginità al mio sistema, provando una red hat 8.0 trovato in edicola (ovviamente in attesa di

Re: [newbie] learn to system program Linux

2002-10-28 Thread Hesham Khonji
I bought the book Linux Programming By Example. If you know nothing about the topic, and would like a starting point, I recomment the book. The book is quite basic, but you should be familiar with C. The book point you towards the right direction, and from then on you can use the man pages for

Re: [newbie] learn to system program Linux

2002-10-28 Thread Hesham Khonji
Oh yes, I forgot. Also check The Linux Documentation Project, you might be able to download a book on the subject from there. www.tldp.com Good luck. Hesham From: Hesham Khonji [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] learn to system program

[newbie] Burning frustration

2002-10-28 Thread gikoreno
Hi everyone, I hope you had a nice weekend. I've been trying to burn ISO images on my burner. It's the first time I try this on Linux, and so far it's been quite the disaster... The command I am using is the following: cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 driveropts=burnfree dev=1,2,0 /tmp/s.iso I

[newbie] mounting XP RW

2002-10-28 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
Hi, How can I mount XP so that I can copy within Mandrake to Windows. I've disabled ro in the advanced settings but I still can't copy to my windows partition. Does anybody know how I can solve this problem in Mandrake 9.0 HTH, Cuno Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] mounting XP RW

2002-10-28 Thread Brian Parish
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 19:40, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: Hi, How can I mount XP so that I can copy within Mandrake to Windows. I've disabled ro in the advanced settings but I still can't copy to my windows partition. Does anybody know how I can solve this problem in Mandrake 9.0 HTH, Cuno

Re: [newbie] mounting XP RW

2002-10-28 Thread Hesham Khonji
I have had this problem before. I believe it is because you formated your XP partifion is a NTFS. NTFS and Linux don't like each other (Linux lacks fully functional support of the file system). When I had this problem, there was no solution except to change my NTFS file system to FAT32. I don't

[newbie] Problems shutting-down in M-L 9.0

2002-10-28 Thread DaveA
Hi all. Well, just installed M-L 9.0 and it certainly looks pretty nice. Bit over the top with all the GUI stuff on logon and shutdown, but it certainly gives you heaps more info about what is going on than Windoze ever has... The problem of the minute is, when I go to shutdown the PC (from

RE: [newbie] Problems shutting-down in M-L 9.0

2002-10-28 Thread DaveA
Hi ET, This box resides on a Windoze network (although eventually it would be nice to get rid of that!) with an IPCop box as the firewall, and whilst it would be cool to be able to access the data on the Windoze boxes, it's not crucial as I'm mainly using this box as a learning exercise. Given

[newbie] automount ?

2002-10-28 Thread peter
Hi I've a question to automount. everything is working well. mounting , reading.Wenn I try to get the CD out of the player ( right click onto the cd-icon inside removable media ) the tray opened and closed immediatly. You have to be very quick to get your CD out. my question: is it a problem

[newbie] Internet connection

2002-10-28 Thread Bruno Pedersen
Mandrake 9.0 I have set up Kppp to be connected via COM1 to my ISDN TA, in Linux called /dev/modem I can see that I am connected to ISP, as the second counter starts counting, but when trying to connect to a web-site by Konqueror, it seams that Konqueror is not connected to the internet, and

Re: [newbie] Burning frustration

2002-10-28 Thread John Richard Smith
gikoreno wrote: Hi everyone, I hope you had a nice weekend. I've been trying to burn ISO images on my burner. It's the first time I try this on Linux, and so far it's been quite the disaster... The command I am using is the following: cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 driveropts=burnfree

RE:Re: [newbie] how to get webcams running + software

2002-10-28 Thread Ambrosc
Hi, thx, does that program detect the cam by itself or do i have to do anything before? orgun On Sunday 27 October 2002 03:54 pm, Orgun wrote: HI, how do i get may terratec terracam usb running? what software is available? orgun Hi, try installing gqcam and then in a terminal type

Re: [newbie] Internet connection

2002-10-28 Thread bascule
i would guess that mmc is the place to do this, in my mmc in 9.0 there is a 'wizard' button i followed through a few steps before cancelling and i came upon a page that listed various types of connection including 'normal modem', try that route if it is in your mandrake version bascule On

Re: [newbie] Problems shutting-down in M-L 9.0

2002-10-28 Thread bascule
the automount stuff involves /misc and /net, i don't really understand it myself but have a look in /etc/auto.* and see if there are any clues there bascule On Monday 28 Oct 2002 11:07 am, DaveA wrote: The problem of the minute is, when I go to shutdown the PC (from inside and outside of

Re: [newbie] HP ScanJet 3200C(again)

2002-10-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 28 October 2002 12:37, Maarten Vanraes wrote: I scanned before in mdk8.2 (i had to be root), but since I installed mdk9, i can't scan anymore. I configure it in mandrake control center, but when I use XSane, it says scanner not found? I looked at umax_pp.conf and saw that the

Re: [newbie] sndconfig on laptop (9.0)

2002-10-28 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 05:42:53 + Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a CTX EzBook laptop running Mandrake. Under 8.2, sndconfig got sound working. Now in 9.0, if I run sndconfig, it simply hangs. Any suggestions? Miark Is your card ISA PnP? If yes what's the output of pnpdump? If

[newbie] Display messed up after install

2002-10-28 Thread Tim Werner
Hi, I installed Linux-Mandrake 9.0. Everything went pretty smooth. Selected Gnome for default desktop. After install, upon reboot got first-time (I think) screen, to do more configuration. This screen was unusable, because the display was all messed up. I had basically three vertical bands

Re: [newbie] Problems shutting-down in M-L 9.0

2002-10-28 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 21:01:15 +0930 DaveA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ET, This box resides on a Windoze network (although eventually it would be nice to get rid of that!) with an IPCop box as the firewall, and whilst it would be cool to be able to access the data on the Windoze boxes, it's

[newbie] Why file privileges changing?

2002-10-28 Thread Katherine Richmond
Hi Everyone, What would be causing the file privileges for group and world to change on a directory? For example, the security on /home/ftp_data changed from drwxrwxrwx to drwxr-xr-x even though no one did a chmod (or anything else) to that directory. Here are the steps that were taken for this

Re: [newbie] how to install windows and still have lilo?

2002-10-28 Thread Todd Flinders
An easier way is to just make a boot disk (you can use the dd command or the Mandrake Control Center). After installing Windows, boot into GNU/Linux using your boot disk. After you log in, become root and type: /sbin/lilo -v That will reinstall lilo. On Sunday 27 October 2002 12:46 pm,

Re: [newbie] No rear sound, SBLive!

2002-10-28 Thread Todd Flinders
Try AlsaMixerGUI. On Sunday 27 October 2002 02:40 pm, Miark wrote: With 8.2, Kmixer had a slide control that changed the volume of my rear speakers for my SoundBlaster Live! value card. Now, running 9.0, I have no rear sound, and none of the KMixer controls is helping. Ditto with Aumix.

Re: [newbie] learn to system program Linux

2002-10-28 Thread Todd Flinders
This book is a must have for any UNIX system programmer: http://www.textbookx.com/product_detail.php?detail_isbn=0201563177type=keywords=advanced+programming+in+unix+searchtype=stdstart_num=0order_by= Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment Stevens, W. Richard ISBN: 0201563177 Published:

Re: [newbie] Why file privileges changing?

2002-10-28 Thread coolian
Have you started and stopped ftp or any service that uses that directory recently? Hi Everyone, What would be causing the file privileges for group and world to change on a directory? For example, the security on /home/ftp_data changed from drwxrwxrwx to drwxr-xr-x even though no one did a

Re: [newbie] Why file privileges changing?

2002-10-28 Thread Katherine Richmond
No, all we have to do is wait about 30 - 45 minutes and it changes back to drwxr-xr-x (automatically?) Kathy --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you started and stopped ftp or any service that uses that directory recently? Hi Everyone, What would be causing the file privileges for group and

Re: [newbie] Why file privileges changing?

2002-10-28 Thread JM5379
i've seen the same problem. no answer, but i'm thinking it's one of the deamons associated with security levels/permissions/authorizations. possibly msec, since it does run a cron job if installed and running. check ps ax | grep msec as root to verify. --- Original Message --- From: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Why file privileges changing?

2002-10-28 Thread Katherine Richmond
The cron.hourly directory has a pointer to the msec daemon(msec - /usr/sbin/msec). If we remove the pointer, would that cause security problems? Kathy --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've seen the same problem. no answer, but i'm thinking it's one of the deamons associated with security

Re: [newbie] Why file privileges changing?

2002-10-28 Thread JM5379
i don't know, honestly. you might try commenting that out, see what happens. also, perhaps run msec to change the security to a lower level and see what results you get. either allows for a quick recovery if necessary, i would think. --- Original Message --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Katherine

RE: [newbie] Why file privileges changing?

2002-10-28 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Why file privileges changing? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 9:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Why file privileges changing? i've seen the

RE: [newbie] Why file privileges changing?

2002-10-28 Thread Katherine Richmond
Can you tell me how to set the security to normal. Thanks, Kathy --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw this on the list before, and it was due to security set to high or at least above standard. Could be the problem. HTH Dennis M. --- end of quote --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from

RE: [newbie] Why file privileges changing?

2002-10-28 Thread JM5379
man msec should give you the details. --- Original Message --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Katherine Richmond) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Why file privileges changing? Can you tell me how to set the security to normal. Thanks, Kathy --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw this on

Re: [newbie] Why file privileges changing?

2002-10-28 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Actually, msec is a set of script, not a daemon. One thing it does is set up periodic checks over file permissions, which can be overridden. Try adding to /etc/security/msec/perm.local an entry with the directories you don't want to be changed. Here's a link with some more explanation:

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-10-28 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Dennis, Thank you very much for your kind reply. I reinstalled Mandrake 9.0 and at least this time the CDR was auto-detected with 'cdrecord -scandisk' as on 0,3,0. However it still will not work, due to the following error messages from both X-CD-Roast and the cdrecord command line as follows:-

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-10-28 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Hi Charlie of Edmonton Canada, Thank you very much for your kind reply. I re-installed Mandrake 9.0 and at least this time the CDR was auto-detected with 'cdrecord -scandisk' as on 0,3,0. However it still will not work, due to the following error messages from both X-CD-Roast and the cdrecord

Re: [newbie] how to install windows and still have lilo?

2002-10-28 Thread joe
I wanted to thank everyone for their helpful suggestions and pose some related questions: I tried to install XP in my fat32 partition, but it refused to install there. Does XP want to be the first partition on a disk (starting from cylinder 0)? Will I have to delete my / partition and re-install

[newbie] KDevelop - Installed But where?

2002-10-28 Thread Michael Baca
I just installed Kdevelop through the software manager, but I cant seem to find it. I checked start|applications|development etc. But its not there. Am I just looking in the wrong place? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] PATH for Qt

2002-10-28 Thread Erik
I downloaded the tar.bz2 file for qt-x11-free-3.0.6, configured,compiled and installed it. Works nicely. One problem. The INSTALL file indicated that I needed to create a .profile in my user directory and add four lines defining PATH for it's main directory, libs directory, etc. and then log

Re: Re: [newbie] how to get webcams running + software

2002-10-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 28 October 2002 06:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, thx, does that program detect the cam by itself or do i have to do anything before? orgun On Sunday 27 October 2002 03:54 pm, Orgun wrote: HI, how do i get may terratec terracam usb running? what software is

Re: [newbie] Kodak camera DC280

2002-10-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 02:16 pm, Lars Ole Christoffersen wrote: Thanks a lot for that infpormation It did the trick Wonder why they install the old one pr default, when the other one is available i rpm's??? man, 2002-10-28 kl. 00:34 skrev Dennis Myers: On Monday 28 October 2002 05:10

Re: [newbie] how to install windows and still have lilo?

2002-10-28 Thread Michael Notforyou
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:58, joe wrote: I wanted to thank everyone for their helpful suggestions and pose some related questions: I tried to install XP in my fat32 partition, but it refused to install there. Does XP want to be the first partition on a disk (starting from cylinder 0)? I don't

Re: [newbie] one more - CD-RW's

2002-10-28 Thread Henry Oliver
I just got off of this problem myself only I did not realize when I was trying to read the CDRW media that I had used DirectCD to write on it. If it has been written by DirectCD then you will have to go back to windows directCD and convert it to a regular CDRW disc format. Linux cannot read

[newbie] Changing Mirrors download mirrors? Kdevelop Again.

2002-10-28 Thread Michael Baca
Ok so I figured out what is going on. I just didnt notice it before. It seems ftp.stealth.com is down(?). As I cant get the needed files to install kdevelop from it. So how would I change mirrors so I can get the files? Sorry to be a pain. I just want to get started as I have limited free time.

Re: [newbie] Burning frustration

2002-10-28 Thread Miark
I've got the same crap going on here. In the last three CDs I've burned * The CPU meter hits the roof. It maintains 99% usage the entire time. Under 8.2 burning duties never exceeded 1.5%. * A 16MB fifo buffer while burning a 600MB CD, stuggles to keep full, rarely maintaining 25% content.

[newbie] ftp or http install

2002-10-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did anyone see my message about ftp or http install from a floppy? I haven't seen any replies, maybe I should repost eh? - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] Burning frustration

2002-10-28 Thread harry
hi, I have the same problems with my linux... I think it is still not very stable... I use windows whenever I need to burn a cd... harry - Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 7:40 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Burning

[newbie] VNC Questions ...

2002-10-28 Thread H. Carter Harris
I have been trying to get VNC functionality on a new, textbook install of ML 8.2. I posted here before and with the wisdom of the group, I was successful with TightVNC. However, to earn the title newbie I did make some mistakes during the install. First, I installed it while while in the shell

[newbie] What do I have to download?

2002-10-28 Thread Antonio R.
Hi everybody :) I want to install the Mandrake Linux OS in my computer but I don't know what to download :( so can anybody tell me which one of this options do I have to download please?; - Mandrake Linux 9.0 for i586 and higher - Mandrake Linux 9.0 ISO images mirrors for i586 and higher -

[newbie] Mozilla upgrade?

2002-10-28 Thread David Reynolds
I'm still using Mdk 8.2 in the interest of stability. I'm also testing out Mozilla and like what I see, but I've still got 0.9.8. What is the last stable version you can install with Mandrake 8.2? Mozilla 1.0? David Reynolds -- Three boasts of a fool: riches; lineage; dissipation. Want

Re: [newbie] auto set for Pc User.***

2002-10-28 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 28 October 2002 02:03 am, Suppachai Rattanadiloknaphuket wrote: How to use rockwell 56 int on Mandrake 8.1? How to protect hacker and set firewall / or auto set firewall on user?can read some pdf/doc about Linux? -auto set for Pc User.*** Sawaddee Sawaddee: About your modem: Your

Re: [newbie] Mozilla upgrade?

2002-10-28 Thread Todd Franklin
I was doing that too until everybody pulled support for it :-( Oh well. It was time to make "the jump" anyway. So far, it's been running quite well... :-) Hey just noticed you're from KC! Cool! I live in OPKS. Good to know there's more of us here. Todd David Reynolds wrote: I'm

RE: [newbie] What do I have to download?

2002-10-28 Thread Kesav Tadimeti
Download the ISOs for i586(Pentium) *IF* you have an inexpensive way of downloading them. Each of those ISOs is about 650MB. Alternatively, you may purchase them from shops that sell them at a nominal cost. P.S: alternatively you might try Solaris 8 for Intel. Sun sells this for about $45 USD and

Re: [newbie] auto set for Pc User.***

2002-10-28 Thread Erik
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 01:03, Suppachai Rattanadiloknaphuket wrote: How to use rockwell 56 int on Mandrake 8.1? How to protect hacker and set firewall / or auto set firewall on user?can read some pdf/doc about Linux? -auto set for Pc User.*** Sawaddee Sawaddee, You may be able to find

Re: [newbie] Mozilla upgrade?

2002-10-28 Thread David Reynolds
On Monday 28 October 2002 05:42 pm, Todd Franklin proclaimed: I was doing that too until everybody pulled support for it :-( Oh well. It was time to make the jump anyway. So far, it's been running quite well... :-) Hey just noticed you're from KC! Cool! I live in OPKS. Good to know

Re: [newbie] Problems shutting-down in M-L 9.0

2002-10-28 Thread Miark
I figured out tonight that if I, using drakxservices, shutdown autofs, then I can halt or reboot without a problem. I expect you'll experience the same thing, Dave. So what is autofs and what happens if I leave it off permanently? Miark On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:37:05 +0930 DaveA [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Burning frustration

2002-10-28 Thread gikoreno
Hey John, I have a scsi card, and it takes the first scsi bus (scsi0), that's why the burner is on scsi1 Speed is 40x for CDR's... I've burned no problems at that speen when I still used Win2k... On lilo I do have those entries you are talking about. I have a CDROM and a burner, and here are the

Re: [newbie] mounting XP RW

2002-10-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 22:08, Brian Parish wrote: On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 19:40, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: Hi, How can I mount XP so that I can copy within Mandrake to Windows. I've disabled ro in the advanced settings but I still can't copy to my windows partition. Does anybody know how I can

Re: [newbie] What do I have to download?

2002-10-28 Thread Bo Rosén
tis 2002-10-29 klockan 07.26 skrev Antonio R.: - Mandrake Linux 9.0 ISO images mirrors for i586 and higher With a pentium 4 this is what you want. Don't forget to take a look at the README file as it explains how to burn a cd with each file to install from. Good Luck, Bo Want to buy

Re: [newbie] auto set for Pc User.***-thankyou cm

2002-10-28 Thread Suppachai Rattanadiloknaphuket
--- Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 28 October 2002 02:03 am, Suppachai Rattanadiloknaphuket wrote: How to use rockwell 56 int on Mandrake 8.1? How to protect hacker and set firewall / or auto set firewall on user?can read some pdf/doc about Linux? -auto set for Pc

Re: [newbie] auto set for Pc User.***how to register Linux user.coz my mdk8.1 is version download

2002-10-28 Thread Suppachai Rattanadiloknaphuket
how to register Linux User.coz my mdk8.1 is version download.and i agree GPL.i install disk 3 too. Sawaddee --- Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 01:03, Suppachai Rattanadiloknaphuket wrote: How to use rockwell 56 int on Mandrake 8.1? How to protect hacker and set firewall