Re: [newbie-it] Partizoni FAT 32

2002-11-17 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 15:38, sabato 16 novembre 2002, Mavricijo Babič ha scritto: Salve a tuti, Ho un problema con dele partizoni Fat 32, le vedo da Linux ma non ne vedo il contenuto. Sa qualcuno dirmi perche? Garzie mile Facci vedere il tuo fstab, può essere utile per capirne di più. --

[newbie-it] kmail, protezione e pigrizia

2002-11-17 Thread Beppe
buongiorno oh gloriosa mailinglist ^___^ e soprattutto buon weekend volevo sapere... esiste un modo in kmail per proteggere una cartella da guardoni indesiderati? tanto per dirla in parole povere: il mio computer lo uso solo io il 99% del tempo e non ci sono su cose personali quindi posso

[newbie-it] OT (ma carino) su debian e slack

2002-11-17 Thread Beppe
Buon giorno oh gloriosa mailinglist ^___^ dopo le tante risposte ricevute riguardo al domandone filosofico su slackware vi tedio con un'altro OT (implorando in ginocchio il perdono di quelli a cui questo ot non interessa). Quando sentivo solo parlare di linux credevo che la massima aspirazione

[newbie-it] Surrisclaldamento e ventola

2002-11-17 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Salve a tutti, Sto facendo una piccola indagine diretta a coloro che hanno la mdk 9.0 su pc da tavolo e/o portatile Avete riscontrato cambiamenti riguardo i processi di surriscaldamento e successiva attivazione della ventola?? Nei pc dove ho installato la mdk 9.0 puntualmente dopo un po' parte

Re: [newbie-it] Che caldo!!

2002-11-17 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 23:25, sabato 16 novembre 2002, miKe ha scritto: okkio a non aver impostato la scheda audio in modo strano, spesso sovraccarica la cpu in particolare controlla che non sia settata in full duplex; i parametri standard vanno benone Tutto ciò è molto strano: da mandrake control ho visto

Re: [newbie-it] Re: update mdk9

2002-11-17 Thread gianni piazza
Alle 01:16, domenica 17 novembre 2002, carmine de pasquale ha scritto: - Original Message - From: gianni piazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 4:45 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Re: update mdk9 Qualcuno mi sa spiegare come mai non riesco a

Re: [newbie-it] OT (ma carino) su debian e slack

2002-11-17 Thread miKe
Alle 12:21, domenica 17 novembre 2002, Beppe ha scritto: dopo le tante risposte ricevute riguardo al domandone filosofico su slackware vi tedio con un'altro OT ma ti diverti proprio... ;) allora la mia domanda è: dal punto di vista di un'utilizzatore esperto, perchè slack e non debian? o

Re: [newbie-it] Che caldo!!

2002-11-17 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 16:02, domenica 17 novembre 2002, miKe ha scritto: devi cercare dal pnnello di controllo di kde è artsd il responsabile a mio avviso ho controllato ed è tutto a posto, tra l'altro avevo pure disabilitato artsd nei giorni scorsi... altro responsabile potrebbe essere slocate cioè

Re: [newbie-it] Surrisclaldamento e ventola

2002-11-17 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 17:40, domenica 17 novembre 2002, sandro ha scritto: Mdk 9.0 installata su una workstation e su un portatile, nessun problema di surriscaldamenti o ventole che entrano in funzione (il portatile - ovvio). Uhm... Ma quando parli di pc sui quali hai installato mdk9 intendi anche pc da

[newbie-it] Strano!!!!

2002-11-17 Thread Benedetto Santarella
Salve a tutti, ho scaricato un file zippato da internet, lo decompattato nella directory tmp, ad un cero punto ho cercato di cancellarlo, ma Linux, mi ha detto che l'accesso e' negato, ho pensato Non ho i permessi giusti faccio un semplice ls -l, e mi accorgo che ho i seguenti permessi

Re: [newbie-it] kmail, protezione e pigrizia

2002-11-17 Thread freefred
On Sunday 17 November 2002 12:10 pm, Beppe wrote about [newbie-it] kmail, protezione e pigrizia: fare una cosa del tipo richiamare kmail da super user solo x il pop3 su cui arrivano le mail importanti e non vorrei che la password fosse richiesta ad ogni controllo di quel pop. prima o poi

Re: [newbie-it] xine

2002-11-17 Thread sandro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 01:57, lunedì 18 novembre 2002, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti Qualcuno di voi sa come fare per velocizzare le immagini dei dvd con xine? visto che va a scatti in modo impressonante C'è il sistema? Cosa devo fare? Grazie dell'attenzione

Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution

2002-11-17 Thread Matthias R. Fischer
Am Sam, 2002-11-16 um 19.10 schrieb Derek Jennings: On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 16:28:52 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 3:53 pm, you wrote: On Saturday November 16 2002 08:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Ctrl-Alt-plus and Ctrl-Alt-Minus... Paul

Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution

2002-11-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 20:40, Matthias R. Fischer wrote: On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 3:53 pm, you wrote: On Saturday November 16 2002 08:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Ctrl-Alt-plus and Ctrl-Alt-Minus... Paul -- How odd - but it is on. Anne Clt+Alt+

Re: [newbie] /dev/tts/2

2002-11-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 22:02, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 16 November 2002 01:59 pm, you wrote: What about removing the modem, rebooting, putting the modem back in, rebooting and seeing if the modem is found again? Just a thought, can't you do the same thing, but just run kudzu for

Re: [newbie] HP 4400C ScanJet

2002-11-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 11:05, Chris wrote: On Saturday 16 November 2002 04:31 am, you said, and I quote: On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 13:00, Chris wrote: Any hope though that I can get this one up and running? Have you been to the SANE website and have you gotten their latest back ends for

Re: [newbie] Now VERY OT - Mandrake 9 ASUS A7N266-VM Motherboard

2002-11-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 18:24, Anne Wilson wrote: Example to make a printable file of the tar manual: $ man tar | col -b tar.txt Then take a look at tar.txt in an editor before printing and you'll see that its all formatted for you. HTH Sharrea That sounds brilliant. Thanks,

Re: [newbie] RE: mandrake control center unreachable

2002-11-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 19:22, ivette brusselmans wrote: KDEDIR='/USR' Uh - well, the KDEDIR='/usr' should be exactly like that - you have no /USR directory, but you DO have a /usr directory... ...meanwhile, I was trying to emulate your situation on my Mandrake box, and I couldn't. There HAS to

[newbie] 9.0 - import files

2002-11-17 Thread Anne Wilson
Well, the hardware install was faultless - I can't believe it. I've still got some configuration to do, and some file copying from the old /home directories, users to set up, etc., but that's just time. One thing is panicking me a little - I can't find my old korganiser file. Nor do I see how

Re: [newbie] /dev/tts/2

2002-11-17 Thread Peter Watson
On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 10:22, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 22:02, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 16 November 2002 01:59 pm, you wrote: What about removing the modem, rebooting, putting the modem back in, rebooting and seeing if the modem is found again? Just a thought,

[newbie] Downloading packages.

2002-11-17 Thread Keith Powell
Sorry for such very newbie questions, but I am lost! Is there a good tutorial on downloading and installing packages from the Internet? The Package Manager section of the Mandrake manual is far too sketchy for me: it hardly mentions it. I have no problems installing from the disks, or doing an

Re: [newbie] addendum

2002-11-17 Thread Charlie
On November 16, 2002 12:10 pm, Don and Alexa Pongracz wrote: An addition to my previous correspondence. The computer now looks for the internet addy for shaw.ca ...I think I my have keyed in the wrong thing for host and now the poor computer is dreadfully confused Hi Alexa; Depends what Shaw

Re: [newbie] 9.0 - import files

2002-11-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 2:26 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 11:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: One thing is panicking me a little - I can't find my old korganiser file. Nor do I see how to import it (I presume 3.0 won't simply use

Re: [newbie] Fixating CD's

2002-11-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 17 November 2002 09:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote: We all know what the effect of fixating is, but what actually is the physical process of fixation. For instance, what if anything, is the lazer doing to the newly etched track. John This doesn't really

Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution

2002-11-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Steve Jeppesen wrote: On 17 Nov 2002 21:21:51 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dang - I still can't get it to work with XP... Um, You may have a problem getting THAT to work! I thought XP meant Xtreme Propritary!!!

[newbie] Brother printer - heads up

2002-11-17 Thread Carroll Grigsby
If you have a Brother HL-1040, HL-1050, HL-1060 or MFC-P2000, be aware that they are the subject of a factory recall campaign. There is a problem with the fuser cartridges (the expensive one) that can cause a fire. Details are available at www.brother.com/usa. They'll give you the name of

[newbie] Setting Default Browser for Evolution

2002-11-17 Thread Pat Koch
Greetings, I am currently running Mandrake 9.0 with Evolution 1.20tex. I am trying to set the default browser that Evolution uses to be either Mozilla XFT or Netscape 7.0. I have changed the settings in the KDE Control Center and in the Gnome Control Center to one of the above mentioned browsers

Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution

2002-11-17 Thread Marc
Dang - I still can't get it to work with XP... Um, You may have a problem getting THAT to work! I thought XP meant Xtreme Propritary!!! -- In the case of Winblows I thought it was for Xtra Pay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Planning ahead - next step

2002-11-17 Thread Terry Smith
Right, Derrick. Good advice. But, if you do mix up users, or if the distro starts the UID numbering sequence differently (as in RH vs Mandrake, 500 vs 501), you can 'handedit' the /etc/passwd file. Terry Smith Cape Cod USA On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 13:01, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sat, 16 Nov 2002

[newbie] upgrade problem

2002-11-17 Thread Matthew Van Horn
Since I upgraded to 9.0, I am having problems using my old (8.1) ~/.xinitrc If I even create the file, then startx will not work. I don't know what the cause is, can someone point me in the right direction? The contents of my old .xinitrc are: #!/bin/bash export LANG=en_US export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP

[newbie] OT: Root Password Failure

2002-11-17 Thread Technoslick
I cannot log in as root on my new installation of RH 8.0! I am sure that it was caused by my fat fingered typing during installation. Is there a way to recover or change an erroneous password for root? Or am I going to have to reinstall again? From scratch, or will an update work? Sorry for the

Re: [newbie] Planning ahead - next step

2002-11-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 5:11 pm, Terry Smith wrote: Right, Derrick. Good advice. But, if you do mix up users, or if the distro starts the UID numbering sequence differently (as in RH vs Mandrake, 500 vs 501), you can 'handedit' the /etc/passwd file. How? Anne Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] 9.0 - import files

2002-11-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 4:09 pm, you wrote: Of course, it will be the vmlinuz version statement, won't it? I have to go out for a while now, but I'll look at that when I get back, thanks. Anne That's right and the initrd version to suit. If you install lilo via M9.0

Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure

2002-11-17 Thread Anthony Abby
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 12:32, Technoslick wrote: I cannot log in as root on my new installation of RH 8.0! I am sure that it was caused by my fat fingered typing during installation. Is there a way to recover or change an erroneous password for root? Or am I going to have to reinstall again?

Re: [newbie] PPPoE in Allied Modem.

2002-11-17 Thread Bruno Gunter
Oh yeah ! Works your tip ! Thank you !! Bruno Gunter On Saturday November 16 2002 08:40 am, Bruno Gunter wrote: Hi all, I tried to put a Allied modem to connect via ASDL in mandrake 9.0, I tried several times and does not work. I used: - DHCP server to take IP and DNs from the server

Re: [newbie] Planning ahead - next step

2002-11-17 Thread Terry Smith
Anne, Here's a snippet from my RH 8.0 /etc/passwd file: ... pvm:x:24:24::/usr/share/pvm3:/bin/bash radvd:x:75:75:radvd user:/:/bin/false terry:x:501:501:Terry Smith:/home/terry:/bin/bash . The last line is associated with user 'terry' and includes the user name:whether the user employs

Re: [newbie] Planning ahead - next step

2002-11-17 Thread Anne Wilson
Thanks, Terry. That's worth filing for reference :-) Anne On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 6:34 pm, Terry Smith wrote: Anne, Here's a snippet from my RH 8.0 /etc/passwd file: ... pvm:x:24:24::/usr/share/pvm3:/bin/bash radvd:x:75:75:radvd user:/:/bin/false terry:x:501:501:Terry

Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure

2002-11-17 Thread Technoslick
Thanks, Anthony! I couldn't remember what I needed to do. After spending three days trying to get some older video hardware to work with RH 8, I was getting so peeved! This was my first attempt at uisng Grub outside of a normal boot-up. Someone here once said that GRub was a nice boot manager,

Re: [newbie] well, help!

2002-11-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 23:43, Peter Watson wrote: On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 23:40, Robin Turner wrote: Don and Alexa Pongracz wrote: Hi, I'm Alexa, and really new to the Linux route but sticking with it because I want to. snip there are cheaper alternatives - thrid-party distributors

Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure

2002-11-17 Thread Anthony Abby
[snip] Now, here's one for you If booting into Level 1 is this 'easy', I would think that you would want to eliminate this possibility in a network environment (for Grub or LILO) to keep intruders from bypassing the need for a password and getting root access. Would you password Grub or

Re: [newbie] 9.0 - import files

2002-11-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 23:46, Anne Wilson wrote: I don't know whether too persevere trying to fix this or not. If I can get my kaddressbook and korganiser files in I'm not worried about anything else. I think I have found the organiser, but can't open it, and the only import option is

Re: [newbie] well, help!

2002-11-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 17 November 2002 01:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 23:43, Peter Watson wrote: On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 23:40, Robin Turner wrote: Don and Alexa Pongracz wrote: Hi, I'm Alexa, and really new to the Linux route but sticking with it because I want to. snip

Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution

2002-11-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 03:14, John Richard Smith wrote: I thought XP meant Xtreme Propritary!!! Oh, I thought XP means Xtra Problems. eXtraneous Problems. BTW, I can get the CTRL/ALT/+ to work in XP - but I'm running

Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure

2002-11-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 04:32, Technoslick wrote: I cannot log in as root on my new installation of RH 8.0! I am sure that it was caused by my fat fingered typing during installation. Is there a way to recover or change an erroneous password for root? Or am I going to have to reinstall again?

Re: [newbie] well, help!

2002-11-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 06:46, Dennis Myers wrote: Yeah, buy, I do crashtesting and beta testing on ML since 8.0 and still buy the boxed set from Mandrake just to give the company support. I also need to join the Club but haven't yet cause I keep spending money on the wrong things. : )

Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure

2002-11-17 Thread Technoslick
Thanks, Stephen... I went in another way...using my boot floppy that I created during the install. As I mentioned in my reply to Anthony, my biggest hassle was passing linux single to Grub. It has been years since I used Grub, and then it was a text-based booter. Once I was able to boot to single

[newbie] Get me out of this - PLEASE

2002-11-17 Thread Anne Wilson
After installing 9.0 on my second hdd I was not getting a choice at lilo stage. Following advice I re-wrote lilo from the CD1 of 9.0 This was a really bad idea. It reinstalled my boot loaded for 8.2, and now I'm stuck in 8.2 with a perfectly good 9.0 installation inaccessible. I have

[newbie] Galeon instability revisited.

2002-11-17 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Hi, all. I mentioned earlier that I was having stability issues in Galeon on several different machines, both upgrades and fresh installs. I tried deleting the .galeon folder, also running some cleanup scripts. I also run galeon without the soundwrapper option, but still unstable. I am

Re: [newbie] well, help!

2002-11-17 Thread Robin Turner
Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 17 November 2002 01:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: [snip] Why are we talking about buy Mandrake when it's freely downloadable? This is free software - you pay for packaging, support and the likes...otherwise, it's free software. We should be promoting it as free

Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure

2002-11-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 07:10, Technoslick wrote: Thanks, Stephen... I went in another way...using my boot floppy that I created during the install. As I mentioned in my reply to Anthony, my biggest hassle was passing linux single to Grub. It has been years since I used Grub, and then it was

Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure

2002-11-17 Thread RichardA
Best. Sig. Ever. Stephen Kuhn, Sunday 17 November 2002 19:53: THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #14 -- VALGOL VALGOL is enjoying a dramatic surge of popularity across the industry.  VALGOL commands include REALLY, LIKE, WELL, and Y*KNOW. Variables are assigned with the

Re: [newbie] Galeon instability revisited.

2002-11-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 07:59, Paul Rodriguez wrote: Hi, all. I mentioned earlier that I was having stability issues in Galeon on several different machines, both upgrades and fresh installs. I tried deleting the .galeon folder, also running some cleanup scripts. I also run galeon without the

Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure

2002-11-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 09:15, RichardA wrote: Best. Sig. Ever. Stephen Kuhn, Sunday 17 November 2002 19:53: THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #14 -- VALGOL VALGOL is enjoying a dramatic surge of popularity across the industry. VALGOL commands include REALLY, LIKE,

Re: [newbie] CUPS hangup

2002-11-17 Thread Warren Post
El jue, 14-11-2002 a las 14:34, Anne Wilson escribió: For some peculiar reason every time I try to print I am having problems. The printer starts OK, but hangs part way down the page. It is as though the print is not spooling, and drawing direct so that the slightest thing interferes with

[newbie] Evolution folder repair

2002-11-17 Thread Warren Post
Perhaps this will help someone. I had a mail folder in Evolution become corrupt. Evolution's error message went so far as to declare the entire folder irrecoverably lost. Not true! It's easy to fix: I closed Evolution and went to the relevant directory

Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution

2002-11-17 Thread Warren Post
El sáb, 16-11-2002 a las 07:02, Anne Wilson escribió: What was that keyboard combination that involved the numberpad + and -? I seem to have accidentally got a rather large display, and want to put it back to moderate size. Ctrl-Alt-plus sign and Ctrl-Alt-minus sign are what you want, I

Re: [newbie] Desktop misalignment on laptop screen

2002-11-17 Thread Warren Post
El sáb, 16-11-2002 a las 16:49, Peter Spotts escribió: Folks, I have a slight (and only slightly annoying) problem with Mandrake 8.1 on a new Toshiba laptop (1905-303). My desktop, be it Ximian Gnome or Fluxbox, appears to be raised off the bottom of the screen by about four to six pixels.

Re: [newbie] Get me out of this - PLEASE

2002-11-17 Thread Terry Smith
This should be fixable with some additional information. Looks like you need a new 'stanza' for the 9.0 install. What is the name of the drive 9.0 is installed on (e.g. hdb)? What are the partitions for /boot and / on that drive (e.g. /dev/hdb1 = /boot, etc.)? What is the name of the boot image

Re: [newbie] Get me out of this - PLEASE

2002-11-17 Thread cannewilson
-- Original Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Get me out of this - PLEASE From: Terry Smith microsmith To: newbie newbie Date: 17 Nov 2002 16:28:28 -0500 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This should be fixable with some additional information. Looks like you need a new 'stanza' for the 9.0 install.

Re: [newbie] Desktop misalignment on laptop screen

2002-11-17 Thread Robin Turner
Warren Post wrote: El sáb, 16-11-2002 a las 16:49, Peter Spotts escribió: Folks, I have a slight (and only slightly annoying) problem with Mandrake 8.1 on a new Toshiba laptop (1905-303). My desktop, be it Ximian Gnome or Fluxbox, appears to be raised off the bottom of the screen by about four

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-17 Thread Jordan Thompson
Hi all, OK, now that I think that everything is working (I'l find out for sure tomorrow when I try to access my mail server from outside my ISP) I want to control who sends mail through my smpt server. What is the best way to do this? I guess I have two thougts: 1) change the port number 2)

[newbie] GKRELLM and LM_SENSORS

2002-11-17 Thread John Richard Smith
I just wanted to say that now that I have had time to really use both gkrellm and lm_sensors and mastered how to get the gui display up large enough to display the results to perfection I for one am impressed, and I for one, would like to see both intergrated into MCC. John -- John Richard

[newbie] setting an eviromment variable in bash

2002-11-17 Thread Jordan Thompson
now you'd think this was easy and I'm sure it is once you know how ;-) I want to do a setenv (which does not exist in bash.) I am using ant which expects JAVA_HOME to be set to wherever your jre is. I tried: set JAVA_HOME=yadayada when I do this, and then do a set | grep HOME, I get:

Re: [newbie] GKRELLM and LM_SENSORS

2002-11-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 08:58, John Richard Smith wrote: I just wanted to say that now that I have had time to really use both gkrellm and lm_sensors and mastered how to get the gui display up large enough to display the results to perfection I for one am impressed, and I for one, would like

Re: [newbie] setting an eviromment variable in bash

2002-11-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 09:02, Jordan Thompson wrote: now you'd think this was easy and I'm sure it is once you know how ;-) I want to do a setenv (which does not exist in bash.) I am using ant which expects JAVA_HOME to be set to wherever your jre is. I tried: set

[newbie] Server option in mandrake contol center is missing

2002-11-17 Thread mazer
Hi all, I have a problem, I am trying to configure postfix BUT there is no server option in the mandrake control center for server optionswhat I have is the following: Boot Hardware Mount points Network and internet security system software management I also tried logging in as root first

Re: [newbie] Server option in mandrake contol center is missing

2002-11-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 17 November 2002 11:18 am, mazer wrote: Hi all, I have a problem, I am trying to configure postfix BUT there is no server option in the mandrake control center for server optionswhat I have is the following: Boot Hardware Mount points Network and internet security system

Re: [newbie] Server option in mandrake contol center is missing

2002-11-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 5:18 pm, mazer wrote: Hi all, I have a problem, I am trying to configure postfix BUT there is no server option in the mandrake control center for server optionswhat I have is the following: Boot Hardware Mount points Network and internet security system

Re: [newbie] Server option in mandrake contol center is missing

2002-11-17 Thread shane
On Sunday 17 November 2002 9:18 am, mazer did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I have a problem, I am trying to configure postfix BUT there is no server option in the mandrake control center for server optionswhat I have is the following: Boot Hardware Mount points Network and

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 9:52 pm, Jordan Thompson wrote: Hi all, OK, now that I think that everything is working (I'l find out for sure tomorrow when I try to access my mail server from outside my ISP) I want to control who sends mail through my smpt server. What is the best way to do this? I

Re: [newbie] well, help!

2002-11-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 17 November 2002 03:09 pm, Robin Turner wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 17 November 2002 01:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: [snip] Why are we talking about buy Mandrake when it's freely downloadable? This is free software - you pay for packaging, support and the

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-17 Thread Jordan Thompson
By default Postfix will only relay mail for users on the local network (to avoid spammers taking over your mail server). So without having to do *anything* you are pretty secure. (By relay, I mean accept a mail and forward it on to another mail server) Well, the reason I set this up was so

Re: [newbie] GKRELLM and LM_SENSORS

2002-11-17 Thread Pilagá
El Dom 17 Nov 2002 18:58, John Richard Smith escribió: I just wanted to say that now that I have had time to really use both gkrellm and lm_sensors and mastered how to get the gui display up large enough to display the results to perfection I for one am impressed, and I for one, would like to

Re: [newbie] Server option in mandrake contol center is missing

2002-11-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 04:18, mazer wrote: Hi all, I have a problem, I am trying to configure postfix BUT there is no server option in the mandrake control center for server optionswhat I have is the following: Boot Hardware Mount points Network and internet security system

RE: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-17 Thread Marlo Montanaro
snip -Original Message- *anything* you are pretty secure. (By relay, I mean accept a mail and forward it on to another mail server) derek /snip Let's just be clear on a relay so we don't confuse the new guys... A relay is sending mail from one **domain** to another **domain**

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting upamailserveron9.0?

2002-11-17 Thread John McQuillen
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 09:45, Jordan Thompson wrote: By default Postfix will only relay mail for users on the local network (to avoid spammers taking over your mail server). So without having to do *anything* you are pretty secure. (By relay, I mean accept a mail and forward it on to

Re: [newbie] slow boot

2002-11-17 Thread Joseph Braddock
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 07:41, Jim Snyder wrote: Hi I recently loaded mandrake 9.0 and am thrilled with it overall. I have had some problems with a HP CD-writer that I finally unplugged as I have another USB HP CD-RW that works fine. I am suspecting a problem from doing this. When Linux

Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure

2002-11-17 Thread Michael Viron
As far as security goes, yes absolutely, you should password protect Grub, as well as place put a bios password on your system and disable booting from floppy and cd-rom. Anthony Not to mention that if you're using the machine as a server, it would be a wise idea to get a case that you can lock

[newbie] Print Sharing-HP Laserjet 3100

2002-11-17 Thread Technoslick
Has anyone successfully shared an HP LaserJet 3100 off of a Linux PC, where the clients PCs are running Windows? If so, through Samba, print server? TIA T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] slow boot

2002-11-17 Thread Jim Snyder
Yes, I did the cmos thing, etc. It must be the network card. How do I stop the network from loading at startup? Thank you On Sunday 17 November 2002 06:46 pm, Joseph Braddock wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 07:41, Jim Snyder wrote: Hi I recently loaded mandrake 9.0 and am thrilled with it

Re: [newbie] Server option in mandrake contol center is missing

2002-11-17 Thread mazer
Steven Kun and Derek Jennings You guys rock!!! Thanks for the help. On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 17:25, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 5:18 pm, mazer wrote: Hi all, I have a problem, I am trying to configure postfix BUT there is no server option in the mandrake control center

[newbie] Non-Destructive Resizing of NTFS Partitions

2002-11-17 Thread Technoslick
I was doing a little reading and found the name of a Linux app that safely resizes NTFS partitions. (Win NT 4.0, Win 2K, Win XP...supposedly) This has been discussed here before, but I thought I would post it again for anyone needing it now, or searching the listserv for it later: File Name:

[newbie] localhost file rendering with apache server

2002-11-17 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have apache running. I have a perl script in cgi-bin to concatenate various text files for header body and tail and display it when requested using a module from tripod TripodPage.pm. It works OK for pure text files. But when the created html file contains reference to a .jpg pic, it is not

Re: [newbie] Server option in mandrake contol center is missing

2002-11-17 Thread Spencer
On November 17, 2002 09:18 am, mazer wrote: Hi all, I have a problem, I am trying to configure postfix BUT there is no server option in the mandrake control center for server optionswhat I have is the following: Boot Hardware Mount points Network and internet security system

Re: [newbie] Looking for an app that ...

2002-11-17 Thread Gary Armstrong
On Saturday 16 November 2002 02:33 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 00:14, Gary Armstrong wrote: I'm having trouble putting a name to what I want, so not suprisingly I'm having trouble finding anything. I want describe the network of a small company. So I'm hoping to find

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-17 Thread Jordan Thompson
I use pop-before-smtp for this. Mandrake RPMs can be found using rpmfind.net. The home page (popbsmtp.sourceforge.net) doesn't appear to be available right now. I think I have this on my machine already, but I can't remember how to get to it. Anyway, pop-before-smtp allows your server to

[newbie] How to open .exe files

2002-11-17 Thread Marcia
Dear All, Is there a program in linux that will open .exe files or programs? Thanks. Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How to open .exe files

2002-11-17 Thread Spencer
On November 17, 2002 07:24 pm, Marcia wrote: Dear All, Is there a program in linux that will open .exe files or programs? Thanks. Marcia Wine;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How to open .exe files

2002-11-17 Thread Lyndon Lininger
Try wine or vmware. - Original Message - From: Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 9:24 PM Subject: [newbie] How to open .exe files Dear All, Is there a program in linux that will open .exe files or programs? Thanks. Marcia

[newbie] ML 9.0 and fonts

2002-11-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyone else have trouble with crappy (technical term) looking fonts in ML 9.0 on a laptop? The last time I had fonts this crappy I was playing games on my Atari. tia R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to

RE: [newbie] How to open .exe files

2002-11-17 Thread Franki
.exe files are dos/windows executables... they are not natively supported on linux.. but with wine, you can create a windows compatability layer that can allow you to run them..(sometimes) bascially, wine creates a fake windows enviroment, and tries to fool windows programs into thinking they

RE: [newbie] slow boot

2002-11-17 Thread Aguet, Pierre
Alternatively, instead of disabling the NIC you may want to assign a fixed IP address ''192.168.0.1'' with a mask ''255.255.255.0'' for instance. This will make your system is not waiting for DHCP reply anymore. For this setup and for disablib the NIC, use the MCC, Mandrake Control Center. Have

Re: [newbie] Get me out of this - PLEASE

2002-11-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: After installing 9.0 on my second hdd I was not getting a choice at lilo stage. Following advice I re-wrote lilo from the CD1 of 9.0 This was a really bad idea. It reinstalled my boot loaded for 8.2, and now I'm stuck in 8.2 with a perfectly good 9.0 installation

Re: [newbie] GKRELLM and LM_SENSORS

2002-11-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Pilagá wrote: El Dom 17 Nov 2002 18:58, John Richard Smith escribió: I just wanted to say that now that I have had time to really use both gkrellm and lm_sensors and mastered how to get the gui display up large enough to display the results to perfection I for one am impressed, and I for one,