Re: [newbie] trying to post with postfix

2003-01-14 Thread - netmaniac -
Webmin is accessible via: http://localhost:1 or https://localhost:1 ..one of those should work - and you can do the admin from the Winders box instead of sitting on the linux box... Once you get into Webmin, you'll be confronted with HEAPS of GUI based configuration utilities for all

Re: [newbie] Boot disc creation with Nvidia drivers

2003-01-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 00:47, John Richard Smith wrote: > But you know the problem with my M9.0 boot floppy is that it hangs on > the nvidia > screen drivers, it doesn't know how to use them, though they are there > in the OS > so why cannot the boot floppy run them ? > > John Well, because

Re: [newbie] trying to post with postfix

2003-01-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 18:16, - netmaniac - wrote: > Wow! This utility really rocks! I've wasted a lot of time configuring my > daemons editing the config files. Thanks for the tip! I'll report any > problems. No worries man. Just a utility that can't be lived without. -- Wed Jan 15 18:30:00 E

Re: [newbie] trying to post with postfix

2003-01-14 Thread - netmaniac -
Webmin is accessible via: http://localhost:1 or https://localhost:1 ..one of those should work - and you can do the admin from the Winders box instead of sitting on the linux box... Once you get into Webmin, you'll be confronted with HEAPS of GUI based configuration utilities for all t

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select?

2003-01-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 18:00, Angus Auld wrote: > Greetings, I was just updating my system with the latest bunch of updates from Mdk >(BIG bunch). I installed a few packages, and then decided it would be simpler to just >use the "urpmi --auto-select" command, and go to bed. > When I issued the com

[newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft opens the door - or do they?

2003-01-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
This is a must read. Full stop. Period. http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,224997,20271269,00.htm -- Wed Jan 15 18:00:01 EST 2003 6:00pm up 1 day, 9:41, 4 users, load average: 0.48, 0.22, 0.28 -- |__

[newbie] urpmi --auto-select?

2003-01-14 Thread Angus Auld
Greetings, I was just updating my system with the latest bunch of updates from Mdk (BIG bunch). I installed a few packages, and then decided it would be simpler to just use the "urpmi --auto-select" command, and go to bed. When I issued the command however, urpmi informed me that two packages hav

Re: [newbie] trying to post with postfix

2003-01-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 17:53, - netmaniac - wrote: > The client is running windowze and it's pointing to the DNS server > (192.168.0.1) to resolve the names. So, it still need the hosts file? And > about Webmin's server applet for Postfix? I've never used this before but I > would appreciate if

Re: [newbie] trying to post with postfix

2003-01-14 Thread - netmaniac -
> I've installed postfix and following some howtos and it's documentation to > set it up. > > Well, it's running and I can connect to it via telnet and send e-mails to my > other mailbox. The problem is that I can't send e-mails to the postfix > server. I've tried to send e-mails to user@host,

Re: [newbie] KDE Start up tune

2003-01-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 17:43, Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > When I first set this system up it played a little tune when KDE > started. Now it no longer plays when it starts however, I know it still > can because I was tinkering with sound setting trying to get it back and > I was able to play the tune

Re: [newbie] mplayer gui

2003-01-14 Thread Len Lawrence
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:26:25 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ralph Slooten wrote: > > >On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 06:05:17 + > >Len Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Have now got xine, ogle and mplayer installed and running under 8.2 on > - snip

[newbie] KDE Start up tune

2003-01-14 Thread Russ
Hi All, When I first set this system up it played a little tune when KDE started. Now it no longer plays when it starts however, I know it still can because I was tinkering with sound setting trying to get it back and I was able to play the tune so I know it is still there but why won't it play at

Re: [newbie] mplayer gui

2003-01-14 Thread Len Lawrence
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 02:41:59 -0500 Jerry Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > snip > > Anyway, that is not the question. Does the mplayer gui work for > > anybody? It blows up my computer; a nasty clunk from the hard drive, > > a BSOD, and an empty error box, then nada. Forced to reboot at that

Re: [newbie] trying to post with postfix

2003-01-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 16:53, - netmaniac - wrote: > I've installed postfix and following some howtos and it's documentation to > set it up. > > Well, it's running and I can connect to it via telnet and send e-mails to my > other mailbox. The problem is that I can't send e-mails to the postfix >

[newbie] trying to post with postfix

2003-01-14 Thread - netmaniac -
I've installed postfix and following some howtos and it's documentation to set it up. Well, it's running and I can connect to it via telnet and send e-mails to my other mailbox. The problem is that I can't send e-mails to the postfix server. I've tried to send e-mails to user@host, [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Financial Problems

2003-01-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 13:14, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > Here we go again. According to this article at The Register: > http://212.100.234.54/content/4/28859.html > Mandrake _may_ be heading into Chapter 11 or its French equivalent. It is also > considering other options including a merger, another g

Re: [newbie] why china likes linux

2003-01-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 13:09, Mark Weaver wrote: > That would certainly explain all the crack attempts at my system over the last > few months. Hell! I don't even bother going to the whois query servers any > more I've become so familiar with the IP addy's that are showing up in my log > files.

Re: [newbie] Removable Media Icon in KDE

2003-01-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 12:39, Chuck Burns wrote: > How do I get rid of this annoyance, I delete it, but every time I log out, and > back in, it's back! > > - -- > Chuck Burns Stop using SUPERMOUNT. -- Wed Jan 15 16:35:00 EST 2003 4:35pm up 1 day, 8:16, 4 users, load average: 0.12, 0.13,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Financial Problems

2003-01-14 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 09:51 pm, et wrote: > Boy, Carroll Grigsby do you _Like_ to be the bearer of ill tidings? No, I don't. But this struck me as a rather important piece of news, particularly since it's based on an interview with Mandrake's CEO, Francois Bancilhon. For those who haven't R

Re: [newbie] Gnome Search

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:25, RichardA wrote: > On Tuesday 14 January 2003 08:53, Tom Brinkman wrote: > [snip] > > > or by anacron when you > > boot (if that's installed, I don't believe it is by default). > > If anacron isn't installed by default, what happens to cron jobs like > logrotate if the mac

[newbie] problem with xcdroast

2003-01-14 Thread Josenildo Marques
I installed the system again. I thought if I had a fresh start everything would work out. Well, at least I got the modem to work without problems. I think I am really out of luck. Any audio cd I try to copy with xcdroast goes wrong. I also tried to encode the audio cd files into wav files with cd

Re: [newbie] Free the code [OT]

2003-01-14 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 05:00 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Well, life's a bitch sometimes, but by and large I can get what I need > between them, so there are more important things to think of right now. > Maybe sometime I'll get a round tuit ;) > > Anne I used to have one. It was a cast aluminu

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Financial Problems

2003-01-14 Thread et
Boy, Carroll Grigsby do you _Like_ to be the bearer of ill tidings? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Mandrake Financial Problems

2003-01-14 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Here we go again. According to this article at The Register: http://212.100.234.54/content/4/28859.html Mandrake _may_ be heading into Chapter 11 or its French equivalent. It is also considering other options including a merger, another go with the venture capitalists, whatever. (Chapter 11, for

Re: [newbie] why china likes linux

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 January 2003 12:29 am, Robin Turner scribbled incoherently: > Richard Babcock wrote: > > Interesting article in my local paper. > > > > > > http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3582809.html > > Looks like we got our user base! > > Si

Re: [newbie] problems with new install

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 14 January 2003 05:59 am, Colin Jenkins scribbled incoherently: > Hi all, > got a strange problem here... finally got rid of winxp and installed mdk9. > sound cd burners and nvidia card working fine..BUT > whne trying to add a printer, g

Re: [newbie] Free the code

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 14 January 2003 05:00 pm, Anne Wilson scribbled incoherently: > > have you considered trying Opera? you don't appear to be having very good > > luck with Mozilla or Netscape. ;)_ > > - -- > > Mark > > Well, life's a bitch sometimes, but by a

Re: [newbie] Install Mandrake 9.1 problem

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 14 January 2003 06:09 pm, Kaj Haulrich scribbled incoherently: > > you mean the drive itself couldn't handle the 700MB > > media? thats a new one for me, although I'm not saying > > it can't happen. > > - -- > > Mark > > Exactly, Mark. I rep

[newbie] Removable Media Icon in KDE

2003-01-14 Thread Chuck Burns
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How do I get rid of this annoyance, I delete it, but every time I log out, and back in, it's back! - -- Chuck Burns -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+JLvXjcin0YVe4sERAn0EAJ9bnjI/6sa1GwaDk97NjkzQk7dWOACfb0kG Clo

Re: [newbie] userdrake & mcc run amok

2003-01-14 Thread Peter Watson
On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 22:04, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 5:06 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: > > Hi Anne, > > > > I have considered the idea. However, a cat on these two files show > > that they are similar to /etc/passwd, they both belong to root and are > > both read-only for all o

Re: [newbie] why china likes linux

2003-01-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 16:29, Robin Turner wrote: > Richard Babcock wrote: > > Interesting article in my local paper. > > > > > http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3582809.html > > Looks like we got our user base! > > Sir Robin > Okay! Now, Sir Robin, it is your mission - if you choose to

Re: [newbie] why china likes linux

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Scottaline
>http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3582809.html 1.3 billion folks can't be wrong ;o) Mike -- "Always remember, I've taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to htt

Re: [newbie] Install Mandrake 9.1 problem

2003-01-14 Thread Chuck Burns
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, January 14 2003 3:02 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: *snip* > at this point I'm kinda curious as to what speed did you burn the CD at? > anything faster then 4x might be a problem. > > int burnAt4x = neverHaveProblem(checkMediaType); > int burnAtSpeed>

Re: [newbie] Boot disc creation with Nvidia drivers

2003-01-14 Thread John Richard Smith
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 14 January 2003 22:21, John Richard Smith wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 14 January 2003 19:55, John Richard Smith wrote: I have a problem, cannoget new boot disc to boot, it hangs attempting to start xwindows on the command line "startX" long

Re: [newbie] problem with xcdroast

2003-01-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Josenildo Marques wrote: I can't believe it myself because it seems so surrealistic... I have spent hours trying to figure out what could be the problem, but I just can't have a hint at it. X-cd-roast is not showing all the tracks of the cd's I put on the drive. It simply jumps from track 8 to

Re: [newbie] why china likes linux

2003-01-14 Thread Robin Turner
Richard Babcock wrote: Interesting article in my local paper. http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3582809.html Looks like we got our user base! Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Boot disc creation with Nvidia drivers

2003-01-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 22:21, John Richard Smith wrote: > H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > >On Tuesday 14 January 2003 19:55, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>I have a problem, cannoget new boot disc to boot, it hangs attempting > >>to start xwindows on the command line "startX" > >>long error message, endin

Re: [newbie] Mozilla error messages

2003-01-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 7:50 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: On Sunday 12 January 2003 11:50 pm, John Richard Smith scribbled nervously: Everytime I put up mozilla web browser, I get an error message about now having /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/chrome/pa

[newbie] problem with xcdroast

2003-01-14 Thread Josenildo Marques
I can't believe it myself because it seems so surrealistic... I have spent hours trying to figure out what could be the problem, but I just can't have a hint at it. X-cd-roast is not showing all the tracks of the cd's I put on the drive. It simply jumps from track 8 to track 12, for example. Wh

Re: [newbie] M9.1beta1 install

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 14 January 2003 06:11 am, Anne Wilson scribbled nervously: > On Monday 13 Jan 2003 10:16 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > > I've just had a very trying experience trying to install this. > > > > 1) ps2 mouse scrole wheel not detected at all,

Re: [newbie] Where is proftpd?

2003-01-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 07:29, Sascha Noyes wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 14 January 2003 02:10 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > > > > > urpmi gproftpd > > > > will install the GUI for you > > > > derek > > Does gproftpd actually work for anyone here? With me i

Re: [newbie] OT - Which ethernet cable to use

2003-01-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 07:19, Sharrea wrote: > Hi all > > OT I know, but I can't figure out what type of Cat 5 UTP cable (and possibly > adapters) I am supposed to use with this 5-port switching hub I picked up > at the auction. > > The hub manual says: > > Fast Ethernet Ports > These ports req

[newbie] Good looking fonts on 9.0

2003-01-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
Hallo all, A short while back somebody wrote about a tutorial on getting good looking fonts on 9.0. I can't find it any more, so will whoever wrote that tell me again, please. After installing 9.1beta1 and going back to 9.0 to get some serious work done, I find the fonts horrible now. The lapto

RE: [newbie] OT - Which ethernet cable to use

2003-01-14 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] OT - Which ethernet cable to use -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sharrea Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 2:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] OT - Which ethernet cable to use Hi all OT I know, but I

Re: [newbie] OT - Which ethernet cable to use

2003-01-14 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:19:27 +1300 Sharrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > OT I know, but I can't figure out what type of Cat 5 UTP cable (and possibly > adapters) I am supposed to use with this 5-port switching hub I picked up > at the auction. > > The hub manual says: > > Fast Ether

Re: [newbie] Where is proftpd?

2003-01-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 03:39, fifner the dragon wrote: > Hi, > I ran the ftp utility in the mandrake control center (mandrake9). It installed >proftpd for me. > > Where can I find proftpd? > > And does it run with a GUI? If not, can I get a GUI for it? > > Thanks in advance, > Fifner

[newbie] help install

2003-01-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm trying to install transcode, but there are some failings along the way. I'm cut/paste an example from an attempt to install ImageMagick. I don't understand why there seems to be a dependancy on libc.so.6 when it's already installed? Any ideas? [root@quark Installers]# rpm -qi -l glibc |

Re: [newbie] This is personal!

2003-01-14 Thread Sharrea
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:39, Todd Slater wrote: > Sharrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looks great! Love the wallpaper too... where did you get it? Would > > love to have that background (hint... hint...) > > I did an advanced google images search for penguin, and found this artist > on one of th

Re: [newbie] Where is proftpd?

2003-01-14 Thread Derek Jennings
> On Tuesday 14 January 2003 02:10 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > > urpmi gproftpd > > > > will install the GUI for you > > > > derek > > Does gproftpd actually work for anyone here? With me it just crashes and > burns anytime I want to do basically anything. > > Sascha Noyes > To be honest, when I

Re: [newbie] Free the code

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 13 January 2003 05:09 pm, Anne Wilson scribbled nervously: > No go, Derek. I found the plugins in /usr/local/netscape/plugins, so I > copied them to /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/plugins and /usr/lib/netscape/plugins. > I reckoned that I must have c

Re: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake

2003-01-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 00:28, Charles A Edwards wrote: > I may be the odd ball. > I have not had any success using mplayer with any of the win media > files but I can view and listen to all of them, including WMAs, using > xine. > Charles > MPlayer doesn't work in Canada. -- Wed Jan 15 07:3

Re: [newbie] Security audit websites ?

2003-01-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 23:17, Rifza Adriansyah wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 12 January 2003 06:19 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > > Alternatively if you are more comfortable with GUIs, then > > firestarter is a nice GUI front end to iptables which is a lot like

Re: [newbie] Trouble innstalling Mandrake 9.0

2003-01-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 22:47, Birger wrote: > Sorry for repeating myself :-) > > I`ve dowloaded several iso files an burnt them like the manual says with > Nero. > the same problem happens everytime > 1. the very first velcome screen shows > 2. i press enter a (normal) innstall > 3 it does some ki

Re: [newbie] Miscellaneous (longish) ramblings: 9.1beta1,Mandrakesoft, and...

2003-01-14 Thread Charlie
On January 14, 2003 12:21 pm, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: > Interesting post, I would have to say that the approach Mandrake is taking > is a radical departure from the past and was surprised that my install of 9.0 > went so easily. I'd be a whole lot happier to be (at least somewhat) posting t

Re: [newbie] OT - Which ethernet cable to use

2003-01-14 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
Cat 5 cables are pretty standard. Any store that sells hubs, should also carry them. There are no adapters to be concerned with. One end of the cable goes into a nick, the other end into the hub. Now with your firewall, one nic is going to be connected to the dls/cable modem, but you'll need a s

Re: [newbie] Where is proftpd?

2003-01-14 Thread Sascha Noyes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 14 January 2003 02:10 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > > urpmi gproftpd > > will install the GUI for you > > derek Does gproftpd actually work for anyone here? With me it just crashes and burns anytime I want to do basically anything. Sascha

Re: [newbie] Gnome Search

2003-01-14 Thread RichardA
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 08:53, Tom Brinkman wrote: [snip] > or by anacron when you > boot (if that's installed, I don't believe it is by default). If anacron isn't installed by default, what happens to cron jobs like logrotate if the machine is never on at that time? Richard Want to buy yo

Re: [newbie] subscribe

2003-01-14 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:21:47 -0300 Miguel Angel Nicola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Subscribe.man http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/flists.php3 Go there and note the address to send your request to :) HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] My friends don't know better yet (can Mandrake 9 handle a .zip file ?)

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Weaver
Stephen Kuhn scribbled nervously after reading Mark's message: > > Unless I know who the ZIP file is from, I generally use: > > rm -rf filefromwhoknows.zip > > (g) > > UnZIP has been part of linux for quit some time - and ARK (if you're > using KDE) or File-Roller should be able to pick it up just

[newbie] OT - Which ethernet cable to use

2003-01-14 Thread Sharrea
Hi all OT I know, but I can't figure out what type of Cat 5 UTP cable (and possibly adapters) I am supposed to use with this 5-port switching hub I picked up at the auction. The hub manual says: Fast Ethernet Ports These ports require Category 5 unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) cable. These port

Re: [newbie] M9.1beta1 install

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Weaver
Dennis Myers scribbled nervously after reading Mark's message: > On Sunday 12 January 2003 06:56 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: >> > 3) Bootloader refused non install , insisted on being installed >> > >> > 4) refused opportunity to create boot disc >> > >> > 5) upon reboot , found lilo had not been inst

Re: [newbie] Boot disc creation with Nvidia drivers

2003-01-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 19:55, John Richard Smith wrote: > I have a problem, cannoget new boot disc to boot, it hangs attempting > to start xwindows on the command line "startX" > long error message, ending lookin /var/log/xfree86.0.long > please see file enclosed. > > This is a newly created bo

[newbie] Boot disc creation with Nvidia drivers

2003-01-14 Thread John Richard Smith
I have a problem, cannoget new boot disc to boot, it hangs attempting to start xwindows on the command line "startX" long error message, ending lookin /var/log/xfree86.0.long please see file enclosed. This is a newly created bootdisc made in MCC-boot, in M9.0 How do I get a boot disc to cope wit

Re: [newbie] Mozilla error messages

2003-01-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Mark Weaver wrote: On Sunday 12 January 2003 11:50 pm, John Richard Smith scribbled nervously: Everytime I put up mozilla web browser, I get an error message about now having /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/chrome/packages/core/sidebar.xul but it doesn't say anything about what to do to correct it. Any

RE: [newbie] Miscellaneous (longish) ramblings: 9.1beta1, Mandrak esoft, and...

2003-01-14 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Miscellaneous (longish) ramblings: 9.1beta1, Mandrakesoft, and... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charlie Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 12:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Miscellaneous (longish)

Re: [newbie] Is it possible to have a system with no monitor?

2003-01-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 7:03 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: SNIP > 5/ Always close the vnc session before logging off or else files get left > behind preventing it starting next time > vncserver -kill :1 I meant to say always close the vncserver before powering down the server or else files get left be

[newbie] subscribe

2003-01-14 Thread Miguel Angel Nicola
Subscribe. man Address:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Miguel Angel Nicola Mitre 451 3200 Concordia ER "ARGENTINA" telefax +54 345 421 3848 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Where is proftpd?

2003-01-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 4:39 pm, fifner the dragon wrote: > Hi, > I ran the ftp utility in the mandrake control center (mandrake9). It > installed proftpd for me. > > Where can I find proftpd? > > And does it run with a GUI? If not, can I get a GUI for it? > > Thanks in advance, > Fifner Once the R

Re: [newbie] Where is proftpd?

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Weaver
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 11:39 am, fifner the dragon scribbled nervously: > Hi, > I ran the ftp utility in the mandrake control center (mandrake9). It > installed proftpd for me. > > Where can I find proftpd? > > And does it run with a GUI? If not, can I get a GUI for it? > > Thanks in advance, >

Re: [newbie] Is it possible to have a system with no monitor?

2003-01-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 3:35 pm, magnet wrote: > On Monday 13 Jan 2003 12:00 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > > I'm coming into this thread a bit late so apologies if this has already > > been suggested. > > > > VNC server will start the window manager declared in the ~/.vnc/xstartup > > of the user the

Re: [newbie] Miscellaneous (longish) ramblings: 9.1beta1,Mandrakesoft, and...

2003-01-14 Thread Charlie
On January 12, 2003 05:26 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: > snip Not ranting at you Jerry, just ranting. Random snips to follow. :-) > > mine mounts the beta 2 as ext2 just fine, not sure why you're having that > problem... as for lilo if, when you install, at the very first screen you > press F1 for more

Re: [newbie] Mozilla error messages

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Weaver
On Sunday 12 January 2003 11:50 pm, John Richard Smith scribbled nervously: > Everytime I put up mozilla web browser, I get an error message about > now having /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/chrome/packages/core/sidebar.xul > > but it doesn't say anything about what to do to correct it. > > Any suggestions >

Re: [newbie] userdrake & mcc run amok

2003-01-14 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 17:06, Andrei Raevsky wrote: > Hi Anne, > > I have considered the idea. However, a cat on these two files show that > they are similar to /etc/passwd, they both belong to root and are both > read-only for all others, look: > > [andrei@localhost etc]$ ls -lac gtmp ptmp >

[newbie] 2 users shown via monitoring tools

2003-01-14 Thread ThinKer
First, thanks everyone for the info on this. I installed gkrellm on my machine last night and I like it. I will look into the other options given later. Now, When I came home from lunch just now I unlocked my workstation and gkrellm is telling me that there are 2 users logged in. How is that pos

Re: [newbie] mplayer gui

2003-01-14 Thread Miark
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 06:05:17 + Len Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have now got xine, ogle and mplayer installed and running under 8.2 on > my Athlon 2200 with G-Force 2 card, thanks to urpmi and PLF (urpmi > really rocks!), the first time ever for mplayer. One problem, which > may have

Re: [newbie] safari browser

2003-01-14 Thread Alvaro Gil
I used Konqueror for the first time a few months ago. Its by far my favorite Linux browser. Very fast and reasonably feature filled. Safari, is by far the fastest browser for Mac OS X. I highly recommend it if you have not tried it. I Find what apple is doing with open source software stupe

Re: [newbie] userdrake & mcc run amok

2003-01-14 Thread Paul
In reply to Andrei's mail, d.d. Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:06:35 -0500: >[andrei@localhost etc]$ ls -lac gtmp ptmp >-rw-r--r--1 root root 635 Jan 13 10:47 gtmp >-rw-r--r--1 root root 1365 Jan 13 10:47 ptmp > >are you absolutely sure that these are non-critical files? I d

Re: [newbie] userdrake & mcc run amok

2003-01-14 Thread Andrei Raevsky
Hi Anne, I have considered the idea. However, a cat on these two files show that they are similar to /etc/passwd, they both belong to root and are both read-only for all others, look: [andrei@localhost etc]$ ls -lac gtmp ptmp -rw-r--r--1 root root 635 Jan 13 10:47 gtmp -rw-r--

RE: [newbie] possible to synchronize users with Windows?

2003-01-14 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
Hi Jody, Looks like what you want is MS SFU (Services for Unix 2.0 or 3.0). http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/default.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/techinfo/administration/20/nis.asp You may already have 2.0. I haven't been able to determine if it was included. 3.0 is available fo

[newbie] Where is proftpd?

2003-01-14 Thread fifner the dragon
Hi, I ran the ftp utility in the mandrake control center (mandrake9). It installed proftpd for me. Where can I find proftpd? And does it run with a GUI? If not, can I get a GUI for it? Thanks in advance, Fifner -- __ Sign-up for

Re: [newbie] userdrake & mcc run amok

2003-01-14 Thread Anne Wilson
Top posting - as it's such a long message that probably should all be quoted :) Have you tried deleting /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp or both if both exist? They are temp files that get left behind if something goes wrong, and won't damage anything else. Anne On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 3:20 pm, Andrei

Re: [newbie] safari browser

2003-01-14 Thread robin
Richard Babcock wrote: I came across this article on the safari browser but don't understand how it can be touted as fast. I thought KDE and Konqueror were both rather bulky (by comparison to something like IceWM and Mozilla) in order to appear Windows like. If safari is based on this code, how ca

Re: [newbie] Konqueror + java + pogo = no good

2003-01-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 13 Jan 2003 2:32 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: > > Following the advice of the java+konq FAQ, I installed blackdown's java > > 1.4.1, and 1.3.1, and neither one will work with Pogo. However, Galeon > > works just fine with pogo, and java 1.3.1. > > > > Under Konqueror, the java console shows u

Re: [newbie] Newbie Mouse Problem

2003-01-14 Thread William Anderson
Thanks, Jerry. I'll try that. Bill --- Jerry Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:42:33 -0800 (PST) > William Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a USB wireless optical mouse hooked up to > my > > Toshiba laptop. Mandrake 9.0 does not allow either > the > > gli

Re: [newbie] adding Creative cd-writer

2003-01-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 4:45 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Tuesday 14 January 2003 05:05 pm, Josenildo Marques > > wrote: > > On Monday 13 January 2003 04:43 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > On the other hand, permissions are a difficult > > challenge. I have read a lot about how to tackle with > > them.

Re: [newbie] Security audit websites ?

2003-01-14 Thread Derek Jennings
> On Sunday 12 January 2003 06:19 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > > Alternatively if you are more comfortable with GUIs, then > > firestarter is a nice GUI front end to iptables which is a lot like > > ZoneAlarm for Windows. Firestarter is less powerful than shorewall, > > but easier for newbies to re

Re: [newbie] Newbie Mouse Problem

2003-01-14 Thread Jerry Barton
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:42:33 -0800 (PST) William Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a USB wireless optical mouse hooked up to my > Toshiba laptop. Mandrake 9.0 does not allow either the > glidepad or my wireless mouse to work right. All the > mouse is able to do is go up and down on the

Re: [newbie] Newbie Mouse Problem

2003-01-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 03:42 pm, William Anderson wrote: > I have a USB wireless optical mouse hooked up to my > Toshiba laptop. Mandrake 9.0 does not allow either the > glidepad or my wireless mouse to work right. All the > mouse is able to do is go up and down on the screen. > > Red Hat 8.0

Re: [newbie] mplayer gui

2003-01-14 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:14:46 -0500 Terry Sheltra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds like you've gotten further with things than I have. I am not > able to get Xine (off the MDK CDs) to work properly with any DVD I > own. > All I can manage to do is make it crash, even after installing every

Re: [newbie] adding Creative cd-writer

2003-01-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 05:05 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: > On Monday 13 January 2003 04:43 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Yep, that's the one to let your burner on hdc appear > > as a scsi-device, but did you remember to run > > */sbin/lilo* (as root) after editing the file ? > > Kaj et al > > I

[newbie] Newbie Mouse Problem

2003-01-14 Thread William Anderson
I have a USB wireless optical mouse hooked up to my Toshiba laptop. Mandrake 9.0 does not allow either the glidepad or my wireless mouse to work right. All the mouse is able to do is go up and down on the screen. Red Hat 8.0 recognizes my mouse fine. Any suggestions? ___

Re: [newbie] Is it possible to have a system with no monitor?

2003-01-14 Thread magnet
On Monday 13 Jan 2003 12:00 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > I'm coming into this thread a bit late so apologies if this has already > been suggested. > > VNC server will start the window manager declared in the ~/.vnc/xstartup of > the user the vncserver was started from. (You are editing the correct >

[newbie] userdrake & mcc run amok

2003-01-14 Thread Andrei Raevsky
Hi, I already was having some problems with the mandrake control center before. When I was trying to do anything with it, it was systematically telling me that "changes made in this module will not be recorded" (or some very similiar message). Yesterday, however, things got nastier. I wanted

Re: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake

2003-01-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday January 14 2003 05:19 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > Perhaps I need to upgrade the codes. I do have some WMV files > > that won't do it. > > I was talking about WMA streams. Is there a difference? And my > original question was if anyone had gotten mplayer to play WMA > streams off the net

Re: [newbie] adding Creative cd-writer

2003-01-14 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Monday 13 January 2003 04:43 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Yep, that's the one to let your burner on hdc appear as a > scsi-device, but did you remember to run */sbin/lilo* (as > root) after editing the file ? Kaj et al I hadn't done that. When I did it and restarted the system, it worked ! [roo

Re: [newbie] mplayer gui

2003-01-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 01:05 am, Len Lawrence wrote: > Anyway, that is not the question. Does the mplayer gui work for > anybody? It blows up my computer; a nasty clunk from the hard drive, > a BSOD, and an empty error box, then nada. Forced to reboot at that > stage. Tried gmplayer and gu

RE: [newbie] Konqueror + java + pogo = no good

2003-01-14 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
I have java working well with Sun's Jre 1.4. Removed kaffe as suggested from someone on the list. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Jerry Barton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 9:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [newbie] Flash plugin

2003-01-14 Thread Noah A Hicks
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 13:41, Andrewd wrote: > > Is it just the plugin for your browser?, If yes go to the netscape download site > > and you can find the JAVA plugin for Linux there. > > > > > > > > > > >I'm trying to figure out where to get the Java plugi

Re: [newbie] Gnome Search

2003-01-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday January 14 2003 07:56 am, Rich wrote: > I've used the Gnome Search tool since Mandrake 8.0 but have run > into a problem since installing version 9.0. It ran OK for awhile, > but now an error message pops up whenever I run a search that the > slocate.db database is more than 8 days old.

RE: [newbie] possible to synchronize users with Windows?

2003-01-14 Thread Jody Cleveland
Hi Brandon, > That's not going to do what I think you want. Let's get you a > solution. I very much appreciate your time! > 1. Are you trying to sync your linux user db with windows user db? yes > 2. Approximately how many linux hosts/windows hosts. We have three linux boxes and about 300-4

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