Re: [newbie] dalziel-1.2

2004-02-21 Thread Ron Stodden
Ron Stodden wrote: News: dalziel is entering its third week of release, without any unresolved issues or complaints. Those who have filled the box reqesting change notification by email on the dalziel web page should by now have been notified of the recent minor updates. Others are reminded

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-21 Thread Christopher Winkler
Mandrake 9.2, clean install, not an upgrade Motherboard: Asus P3V4X (P-III 600mhz) 256mb USB enabled in bios (w/Legacy support set to Auto) HardDrake shows the USB controller as a VIA VT82C586B USBView won't display anything. It says: Can not open /proc/bus/usb/devices. Verify you have

Re: [newbie] Several problems with new kernel boot

2004-02-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Marc Resnick wrote: I'll start from the beginning: I booted from Lilo. The progress meter quickly filled...then...went off the screen...and back on the other side. That was weird... So I rebooted, pressed esc, and booted in text mode. Since I shut down improperly, and hda5 wasn't unmounted

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-21 Thread Ray Hogaboom
On Thu February 19 2004 4:40 pm, deedee wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:53:06, Ray Hogaboom wrote: On Wed February 18 2004 2:22 pm, deedee wrote: On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:14:47, Ray Hogaboom wrote: I am a long time MS-Windows user but new to Linux. I have not been able to find any

[newbie] MDK 9.1 and HP Netserver LH+

2004-02-21 Thread Miroslav Skoric
It makes me wonder if somebody tried to install Mandrake 9.1 on those old HP servers LH+ (Pentium 1 133/166 MHz, 64 MB RAM)? I have a couple of them, at the moment running Windows NT4 Server, serving as PDC/BDC, DNS, WINS, file server etc. In fact, I'd like to use them for the same purpose as

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 21 February 2004 06:43, Ray Hogaboom wrote: Ray, someone else will answer you in detail, but this, to me, is the mos important bit. Linux is secure? But still I have to have a fire wall. Once you have your system running reasonably as

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-21 Thread Lanman
On February 21, 2004 01:43 am, Ray Hogaboom wrote: Ray; I'm just jumping into your thread here, not having seen most of the details from your previous posts. Can you give me some background info on what problems you're having? I'll see what i can do to help -- Lanman Registered Linux user

Re: [newbie] My daily question ... this time, re spamassassin

2004-02-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:24:15 -0600 Chuck Mattsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I'm tearing my hair out and I have little enough to spare, so hope someone can point me in the right direction. I simply want to set up Evolution to use spamassassin on incoming mail. I've been to the

Re: [newbie] adding a second monitor - xinerama (almost there)

2004-02-21 Thread Brian Parish
On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 16:37, Brian Parish wrote: I'm being really lazy here I know, but so far in my 5 minute search of the web I've found info on setting up two monitors with xinerama by manually configuring XF86config-4. I suspect however that there is nice, easy Mandrake gui method. If

Re: [newbie] My daily question ... this time, re spamassassin

2004-02-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 11:33:48 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:24:15 -0600 Chuck Mattsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I'm tearing my hair out and I have little enough to spare, so hope someone can point me in the right direction. I simply want to

Re: [newbie] My daily question ... this time, re spamassassin

2004-02-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 11:33:48 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:24:15 -0600 Chuck Mattsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I'm tearing my hair out and I have little enough to spare, so hope someone can point me in the right direction. I simply want to

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 21 February 2004 02:12, Ray Hogaboom wrote: I am a long time MS-Windows user but new to Linux. I have not been able to find any Application that will run in under Mandrake Linux 9.2 that will replace the my 2 most

[newbie] building a binary from source rpm

2004-02-21 Thread Lanman
Can someone give me a quick review on building a binary rpm from a source rpm? I haven't had to do it in such a long time, that I can't remember all the steps. The src rpm is for Mandrake Cooker. -- Lanman Registered Linux user #190712 Hey MOM? Can we go to the Microsoft Museum today? I hear

[newbie] Moving disk from slave to master

2004-02-21 Thread Søren Neigaard
I have a hd and a cd-w on the same cable, and i have accidently placed the jumbers so that the cd-w is master and the hd is slave, even though according to cable-select it should be the other way around. I have been experiencing some instability when copying/moving large data to/from this hd, and

Re: [newbie] building a binary from source rpm

2004-02-21 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 21 February 2004 14:36, Lanman wrote: Can someone give me a quick review on building a binary rpm from a source rpm? I haven't had to do it in such a long time, that I can't remember all the steps. The src rpm is for Mandrake Cooker. rpm --rebuild x.src.rpm should do that.

Re: [newbie] building a binary from source rpm

2004-02-21 Thread Lanman
On February 21, 2004 09:01 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 14:36, Lanman wrote: Can someone give me a quick review on building a binary rpm from a source rpm? I haven't had to do it in such a long time, that I can't remember all the steps. The src rpm is for Mandrake

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-21 Thread robin
Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 20 February 2004 05:51 am, Robin Turner wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:41 pm, robin wrote: Can anyone recommend a good guide to rpmbuild (along the lines of the old Mandrake RPM HOWTO)? In particular I need information on building RPMs

Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up

2004-02-21 Thread Robert Vojta
What you are seeing is a linux program called uptime If you open a terminal and type uptime you will see those lines. I see you are using Thunderbird for email, I have no experience with thundebird so maybe someone else can help you here. AFAIK there is no way how to tell TB that your

Re: [newbie] adding a second monitor - xinerama (almost there)

2004-02-21 Thread Joe
Brian Parish wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 16:37, Brian Parish wrote: I'm being really lazy here I know, but so far in my 5 minute search of the web I've found info on setting up two monitors with xinerama by manually configuring XF86config-4. I suspect however that there is nice, easy

[newbie] Installing Firefox 0.8

2004-02-21 Thread Christophe Rhein
Hello, I downloaded the tar file of Firefox and I followed Robin's instructions to install it from a terminal... I don't know how but the software installed itself in my temp folder... I was not able to use the tar -zxvf command... Is it the right place or shall I move it some where else? Thank

Re: [newbie] File managing??

2004-02-21 Thread Robert Vojta
Christophe Rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I opened my home folder and I see a lot of files and folders that I don't know... Is there a way to know what to do with them or can I move them around to make my home folder readable? It's on you if your home directory is readable or

Re: [newbie] Installing Firefox 0.8

2004-02-21 Thread Robert Vojta
Christophe Rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I downloaded the tar file of Firefox and I followed Robin's instructions to install it from a terminal... Go to this FTP site ... ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bibri/mandrake/9.2/RPMS/ ... and download this file ...

Re: [newbie] Installing Firefox 0.8

2004-02-21 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 17:03, Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, I downloaded the tar file of Firefox and I followed Robin's instructions to install it from a terminal... I don't know how but the software installed itself in my temp folder... I was not able to use the tar -zxvf command... Is

Re: [newbie] How to connect to a windows LAN?

2004-02-21 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 17:49:32 -0500 Christophe Rhein disseminated the following: I'm back after a nice day of snowboarding... Well my question is: I tried to conect my laptop to the school LAN (win 98) I used the wisard but nothing worked. I did the same thing under XP and no problemo. How

Re: [newbie] Installing Firefox 0.8

2004-02-21 Thread Christophe Rhein
Hello, When I click on the link bellow I get an error message... This is not a file... Thanks for your quick answer Christophe Le Saturday 21 February 2004 11:10 am, Robert Vojta a écrit : Christophe Rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I downloaded the tar file of Firefox and I followed Robin's

Re: [newbie] File managing??

2004-02-21 Thread Olivier Esser
Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, I opened my home folder and I see a lot of files and folders that I don't know... Is there a way to know what to do with them or can I move them around to make my home folder readable? Thank you Christophe Do these files begin with . (a dot)? If yes these files

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-21 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:15:30 + John Richard Smith disseminated the following: Is there a nice little pdf file of this to be had anywhere ? At the very bottom, select 'printable', then save the page as, say, 'rpmhowto.html'. Then: htmldoc --webpage -f /path/to/rpmhowto.pdf

Re: [newbie] Moving disk from slave to master

2004-02-21 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 21 February 2004 08:58 am, Sren Neigaard wrote: I have a hd and a cd-w on the same cable, and i have accidently placed the jumbers so that the cd-w is master and the hd is slave, even though according to cable-select it should be the other way around. I have been experiencing some

Re: [newbie] Installing Firefox 0.8 as main

2004-02-21 Thread Christophe Rhein
Hello, Here is what Anne sended me for changing the main browser: To change which browser you use, you also need the Control Center, but this time it's in Components File Associations text html . You will see a list of the browsers you have installed. Select the one you want, and use Move

Re: [newbie] Installing Firefox 0.8

2004-02-21 Thread Robert Vojta
Christophe Rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I click on the link bellow I get an error message... This is not a file... No, this is a directory and it works ... ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bibri/mandrake/9.2/RPMS/ If you want to access firefox rpm file, you have to click

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-21 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 16:24:19 +0200 robin disseminated the following: Actually, Microsoft now requires that the activation key be affixed to the computer case as part of their OEM program. It's to emphasize that the OS license is tied to that particular computer or some such nonsense...

Re: [newbie] Installing Firefox 0.8

2004-02-21 Thread Paul
On 02/22/2004 12:03 AM, Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, I downloaded the tar file of Firefox and I followed Robin's instructions to install it from a terminal... I don't know how but the software installed itself in my temp folder... I was not able to use the tar -zxvf command... Is it the

Re: [newbie] My daily question ... this time, re spamassassin

2004-02-21 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 21 Feb 2004 2:59 pm, Chuck Mattsen wrote: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_XIMIAN,X_LOOP autolearn=ham version=2.55 X-Spam-Level:

Re: [newbie] My daily question ... this time, re spamassassin

2004-02-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:59:04 -0600 Chuck Mattsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's one of the sites I had chanced upon and have my filter set up that way (with the exception of marking spam read) Thing is, and maybe I'm just under the wrong impression here, I thought this would run all

Re: [newbie] building a binary from source rpm

2004-02-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 09:07:22 -0500 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On February 21, 2004 09:01 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 14:36, Lanman wrote: Can someone give me a quick review on building a binary rpm from a source rpm? I haven't had to do it in such a long

Re: [newbie] building a binary from source rpm

2004-02-21 Thread Robert Vojta
Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hasn't the 'rebuild' function been moved out of rpm into the 'rpmbuild' package? See man rpmbuild. Yes, it was ... If you want to build binary, source, ... rpm package than you have to use `rpmbuild`, not `rpm` ... -- Robert Vojta Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Installing Firefox 0.8 as main

2004-02-21 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 17:25, Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, Here is what Anne sended me for changing the main browser: To change which browser you use, you also need the Control Center, but this time it's in Components File Associations text html . You will see a list of the browsers

Re: [newbie] My daily question ... this time, re spamassassin

2004-02-21 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 10:46, Derek Jennings wrote: When you defined the filter, the first pop up asked what did you want to apply the filter to. If you select 'incoming', then the filter will be applied on all incoming mail. Then the filter itself will 'pipe' all mails through

Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.

2004-02-21 Thread John Drouhard
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:39:00 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:06 am, John Drouhard wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:56:03 -0500 I tried building the 2.4.25 kernel, but I have one problem. I did make dep and make clean etc. separately because make all

Re: [newbie] Several problems with new kernel boot

2004-02-21 Thread John Drouhard
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 23:50:21 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 10:06 PM Subject: [newbie] Several problems with new kernel boot I'll start from the

Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.

2004-02-21 Thread Marc Resnick
On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:35 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:39:00 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:06 am, John Drouhard wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:56:03 -0500 I tried building the 2.4.25 kernel, but I have one

Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.

2004-02-21 Thread Marc Resnick
On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:46 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:35 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:39:00 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:06 am, John Drouhard wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:56:03

Re: [newbie] Installing Firefox 0.8 as main

2004-02-21 Thread John Drouhard
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 11:13:20 -0600 Chuck Mattsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 17:25, Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, Here is what Anne sended me for changing the main browser: To change which browser you use, you also need the Control Center, but this time it's in

Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.

2004-02-21 Thread John Drouhard
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:46:24 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:35 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:39:00 -0500 Just wondering...What does the 'devfs=nomount' mean, because all of my other lilo entries say 'devfs=mount'. Also, I was

Re: [newbie] GTK2 and Sylpheed Claws WORKS!

2004-02-21 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:22:48 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, how much fiddling is involved in moving from Sylpheed to Claws? Apparently, not much. I just installed the RPM in question from orderinchaos. 1) why it installs in /usr/local is anyone's guess. I don't think Sylpheed

[newbie] HELP! Menu items have vanished!

2004-02-21 Thread adam.halesworth
I ran the update tool to update Mandrake last night, I picked say 50 or so rpm's to update, and they totaled around 120 megs. I went to lay down, and fell asleep (It was like 2am). I came to the PC this morning, all packages installed successfully, although when I went into the gnome menu, a good

Re: [newbie] GTK2 and Sylpheed Claws WORKS!

2004-02-21 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:15:30 -0600 John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well when I type across the screen, it wordwraps at the edge of my window. If I resize the window, it acts accordingly. I don't know why yours just runs of the edge of the screen. And the way to make it not Well,

Re: [newbie] HELP! Menu items have vanished!

2004-02-21 Thread Marc Resnick
On Saturday 21 February 2004 01:16 pm, adam.halesworth wrote: I ran the update tool to update Mandrake last night, I picked say 50 or so rpm's to update, and they totaled around 120 megs. I went to lay down, and fell asleep (It was like 2am). I came to the PC this morning, all packages

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-21 Thread Lanman
On February 21, 2004 11:29 am, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 16:24:19 +0200 robin disseminated the following: Actually, Microsoft now requires that the activation key be affixed to the computer case as part of their OEM program. It's to emphasize that the OS license is tied to

Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.

2004-02-21 Thread John Drouhard
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:00:35 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:46 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:35 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:39:00 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 19

Re: [newbie] HELP! Menu items have vanished!

2004-02-21 Thread Paul
On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 20:16, adam.halesworth wrote: I ran the update tool to update Mandrake last night, I picked say 50 or so rpm's to update, and they totaled around 120 megs. I went to lay down, and fell asleep (It was like 2am). I came to the PC this morning, all packages installed

Re: [newbie] HELP! Menu items have vanished!

2004-02-21 Thread adam.halesworth
On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 18:21, Marc Resnick wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 01:16 pm, adam.halesworth wrote: I ran the update tool to update Mandrake last night, I picked say 50 or so rpm's to update, and they totaled around 120 megs. I went to lay down, and fell asleep (It was like 2am).

Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.

2004-02-21 Thread Marc Resnick
On Saturday 21 February 2004 01:04 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:46:24 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:35 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:39:00 -0500 Just wondering...What does the 'devfs=nomount' mean,

Re: [newbie] Installing Firefox 0.8 as main

2004-02-21 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 12:00, John Drouhard wrote: Open a terminal and type 'gnome-control-center' If it isn't there, then install it as root with 'urpmi gnome-control-center' Now, click on Advanced on the left side of the screen. Then double click on preferred applications. The first window

Re: [newbie] from OS X back to Linux (for now)

2004-02-21 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:47:22 -0500 Thinker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Is cooker stable? I am not familiar with how cooker works or is different from the normal distribution. Can someone fill me in on this? There are some issues, but it works pretty well. But you might want to get the RC1

Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.

2004-02-21 Thread Marc Resnick
On Saturday 21 February 2004 01:25 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:00:35 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:46 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:35 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:39:00 -0500

[newbie] NVIDIA and Sound on 10rc1

2004-02-21 Thread Adolfo Bello
I just installed 10rc1 from scratch and updated this morning with cooker sources. Using kernel 2.6.3. Everything works beautifully but I have a problem between NVIDIA and sound, no matter whether I use the open or close source driver. When KDE starts it gives a couple of message boxes. The first

Re: [newbie] building a binary from source rpm

2004-02-21 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 21 February 2004 17:52, Robert Vojta wrote: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hasn't the 'rebuild' function been moved out of rpm into the 'rpmbuild' package? See man rpmbuild. Yes, it was ... If you want to build binary, source, ... rpm package than you have to use

Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.

2004-02-21 Thread John Drouhard
Marc Resnick wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 01:04 pm, John Drouhard wrote: Well the Kernel begins to boot fine. Then I get a Kernel Panic Error, telling me to pass the init= option to kernel. So I make a new initrd, just to see if it would work, and my new Initrd= line in lilo.conf is

Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.

2004-02-21 Thread Marc Resnick
On Saturday 21 February 2004 01:39 pm, John Drouhard wrote: Marc Resnick wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 01:04 pm, John Drouhard wrote: Well the Kernel begins to boot fine. Then I get a Kernel Panic Error, telling me to pass the init= option to kernel. So I make a new initrd, just to

Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.

2004-02-21 Thread John Drouhard
Marc Resnick wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 01:25 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:00:35 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:46 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:35 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2004

Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.

2004-02-21 Thread Marc Resnick
On Saturday 21 February 2004 01:41 pm, John Drouhard wrote: Marc Resnick wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 01:25 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:00:35 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:46 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: On Saturday 21

Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.

2004-02-21 Thread John Drouhard
Marc Resnick wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 01:41 pm, John Drouhard wrote: Marc Resnick wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 01:25 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:00:35 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:46 pm, Marc Resnick wrote:

[newbie] msec guru needed

2004-02-21 Thread John Drouhard
I need to have permissions of 1777 on /var/mail, but msec (or something) keeps changing it back to the default. How can I stop this? Thanks, John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] File managing??

2004-02-21 Thread Christophe Rhein
Thanks it was just that the hiding was not activated... But I have this file:translog.20040209202813.log what is it? Other question: when you install a rpm software where does it go? Is the software automaticly available for all the users? Thank you Christophe Le Saturday 21 February 2004 11:05

[newbie] rpm download

2004-02-21 Thread Christophe Rhein
Hello, What happens if you dowload a rpm package and the internet connection goes dad? Do you have to start all over again? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] msec guru needed

2004-02-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 21 February 2004 19:20, John Drouhard wrote: I need to have permissions of 1777 on /var/mail, but msec (or something) keeps changing it back to the default. How can I stop this? Thanks, John Have you tried

Re: [newbie] File managing??

2004-02-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 22 February 2004 02:21, Christophe Rhein wrote: Thanks it was just that the hiding was not activated... But I have this file:translog.20040209202813.log what is it? Open it in any editor Other question: when you install a rpm software

Re: [newbie] rpm download

2004-02-21 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 20:36, Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, What happens if you dowload a rpm package and the internet connection goes dad? Do you have to start all over again? For larger downloads, I've been using KGet (under the Networking | File Transfer menu (at least here, it is :0) --

Re: [newbie] rpm download

2004-02-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 22 February 2004 02:36, Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, What happens if you dowload a rpm package and the internet connection goes dad? Do you have to start all over again? Yes, unless you have installed a download manager that can

[newbie] Missing nspluginscan

2004-02-21 Thread Marc Resnick
When trying to scan for the netscape plugins I have installed, I get the error Cannot find executable nspluginscan. Does anyone know where I can get it? --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] msec guru needed

2004-02-21 Thread John Drouhard
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 21 February 2004 19:20, John Drouhard wrote: I need to have permissions of 1777 on /var/mail, but msec (or something) keeps changing it back to the default. How can I stop this? Thanks, John Have you tried

Re: [newbie] msec guru needed

2004-02-21 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:58:46 -0600 John Drouhard disseminated the following: Have you tried /etc/security/msec/permlocal ? Hmm, that file doesn't exist. Maybe it isn't msec. You have to create it, and IIRC, it's called perms.local. It very likely is msec that is changing the perms, you can

Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up

2004-02-21 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 21 February 2004 8:37 am, Glenn wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 08:12, Steve Kaufman wrote: I see some of you in your signature files have a line that says how log your machine has been running since the last boot. How do I find

RE: [newbie] PC locks up solid. FIXED MAYBE ????

2004-02-21 Thread Steve Kaufman
THANKS TONY for thefollowing suggestion: add noapic nolapic to your append line of your kernel. I have the same motherboard and have had major problems, I thought it was the sata drives I was using but it was adding acpi=off noapic nolapic that fixed it. THANKS Everyone. This was making

Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up

2004-02-21 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 16:49:35 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Steve Kaufman disseminated the following: OK What's an MUA. Mail User Agent. In your case, Thunderbird. -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 17:27:48 up 16 days, 5:13, 4

Re: [newbie] Installing Firefox 0.8

2004-02-21 Thread Mike Larson
Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, I downloaded the tar file of Firefox and I followed Robin's instructions to install it from a terminal... I don't know how but the software installed itself in my temp folder... I was not able to use the tar -zxvf command... Is it the right place or shall I move

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-21 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:56:56 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Can you imagine what it would be like if it were applied to clothes? You would only be able to wear your Armani tie with your Armani suit. What a horrifying crime against humanity that would be! What Armani

[newbie] No Outhouse for Linux?! Darn!

2004-02-21 Thread JoeHill
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1530733,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K594 -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 18:08:18 up 16 days, 5:54, 4 users, load average: 0.38, 0.19, 0.07 +++ Linux 2.4.22-21mdk i686

Re: [newbie] Installing Firefox 0.8 as main

2004-02-21 Thread anton
Now, click on Advanced on the left side of the screen. Then double click on preferred applications. The first window should be about web browsers. Change it to Custom, then type in, 'mozilla-firefox %s'. Hiya, should this work for konqueror too? It doesn't seem to... Is there any way to get

Re: [newbie] adding a second monitor - xinerama (almost there)

2004-02-21 Thread Brian Parish
On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 03:02, Joe wrote: OK, decided to give it a go and followed the howto. Now both monitors are working, but xinerama isn't - the second monitor just repeats the image of the first and the mouse doesn't go there. I clicked on the enable xinerama button in KDE configuration

Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up

2004-02-21 Thread Glenn
On Saturday 21 February 2004 13:33, Charlie Mahan wrote: Here's a slightly different way to get the running Mandrake... blah blah: #bin bash echo Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org; echo `cat /etc/mandrake-release` kernel `uname -r` echo `uptime` echo

Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up

2004-02-21 Thread Glenn
On Saturday 21 February 2004 15:29, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 16:49:35 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Steve Kaufman disseminated the following: OK What's an MUA. Mail User Agent. In your case, Thunderbird. I think I've been hanging around here too much. Used to be I'd never use an

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-21 Thread Ray Hogaboom
On Sat February 21 2004 5:04 am, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 21 February 2004 06:43, Ray Hogaboom wrote: Ray, someone else will answer you in detail, but this, to me, is the mos important bit. Linux is secure? But still I have to have a

[newbie] Test

2004-02-21 Thread Bill Shirley
Just testing that I can post to the list. Bill Shirley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Sreensavers

2004-02-21 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 18:12 Subject: Re: [newbie] Sreensavers On Wednesday 18 February 2004 08:26, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I have a problem the last time I brought this question up I had 4 screensavers

[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 crash problem

2004-02-21 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
I had my Mandrake 9.2 box running with Evolution open, checking some e-mail accounts. I had a freeze of Evolution, so I tried a reboot. Now it goes to a Grub prompt and stops there. Is there anything I can do to get back into Linux? Thank you, -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-21 Thread robin
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:56:56 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Can you imagine what it would be like if it were applied to clothes? You would only be able to wear your Armani tie with your Armani suit. What a horrifying crime against humanity that would be! What Armani

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-21 Thread Aron Smith
On Saturday 21 February 2004 05:42 pm, robin wrote: JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:56:56 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Can you imagine what it would be like if it were applied to clothes? You would only be able to wear your Armani tie with your Armani suit. What

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-21 Thread Marc Resnick
On Saturday 21 February 2004 08:39 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 05:42 pm, robin wrote: JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:56:56 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Can you imagine what it would be like if it were applied to clothes? You would only

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-21 Thread Aron Smith
On Saturday 21 February 2004 05:52 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 08:39 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 05:42 pm, robin wrote: JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:56:56 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Can you imagine what

Re: [newbie] Sreensavers

2004-02-21 Thread Glenn
On Saturday 21 February 2004 17:28, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I was under the impression that after the above I showed the screensavers menu with permissions etc. The problem is that while I know how to add images to 'slide show' and I created the images with 'gimp' and I believe they are

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-21 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
No one would trust a techie in a suit. Sir Robin Damn right. Any techie who has time to learn a fasion sence obviously didn't learn enough about what they do. -- __ We Are 138 http://www.suse.com http://www.slackware.org http://www.bsd.org

Re: [newbie] Test

2004-02-21 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Saturday 21 February 2004 06:54 pm, Bill Shirley wrote: Just testing that I can post to the list. Bill Shirley Roger that. Couldn't help it. I whipped some ass in Magic : The Gathering today :) -- __ We Are 138 http://www.suse.com

Re: [newbie] Sreensavers

2004-02-21 Thread Glenn
On Saturday 21 February 2004 17:28, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I was under the impression that after the above I showed the screensavers menu with permissions etc. The problem is that while I know how to add images to 'slide show' and I created the images with 'gimp' and I believe they are

[newbie] Installing 9.2 with the latest and greatest (stable)

2004-02-21 Thread Thinker
Ok, so if I go with a 9.2 install.. how can I make sure I get the latest stable kernel and kde/gnome desktop installed off the bat? Is there a way to do this? I only ask about 9.2 because 10.0rcX isn't stable, and from what I am reading, it will not be possible to upgrade from the latest

Re: [newbie] Installing 9.2 with the latest and greatest (stable)

2004-02-21 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 21 February 2004 09:24 pm, Thinker wrote: Ok, so if I go with a 9.2 install.. how can I make sure I get the latest stable kernel and kde/gnome desktop installed off the bat? Is there a way to do this? Yes, at the end of th installation process, you have an opportunity to

Re: [newbie] Installing 9.2 with the latest and greatest (stable)

2004-02-21 Thread Marc Resnick
On Saturday 21 February 2004 09:24 pm, Thinker wrote: Ok, so if I go with a 9.2 install.. how can I make sure I get the latest stable kernel and kde/gnome desktop installed off the bat? Is there a way to do this? I only ask about 9.2 because 10.0rcX isn't stable, and from what I am reading,

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-21 Thread deedee
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 01:43:28, Ray Hogaboom wrote: On Thu February 19 2004 4:40 pm, deedee wrote: snip Wow deedee The time you spent writing this reply has mad my day much brighter! Thank you so much. My problem is in keeping things short :^). If I have a lot of time, I can be brief. But if

Re: [newbie] Installing 9.2 with the latest and greatest (stable)

2004-02-21 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 21 February 2004 09:49 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 09:24 pm, Thinker wrote: Ok, so if I go with a 9.2 install.. how can I make sure I get the latest stable kernel and kde/gnome desktop installed off the bat? Is there a way to do this? I only ask

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