Re: [newbie] A Little Something for us SysAdmins!

2004-08-03 Thread Aron Smith
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 13:40, Aron Smith wrote: I just sent that to all my users/clients/customers - I wonder if I'll get anything... I'll bcc them and tell them that you love Vegamite and Sardine Sandwitches ;-) Er, howdya know that? That's scary... we installed Gnomemeeting

Re: [newbie] After running chkrootkit

2004-08-03 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Bryan, Charlie, Lyvim, > chkrootkit -x lkm Reading, trying to understand and have come to the conclusion that I'm not compromised. Why? I'll try to explain to the best of my meagre abilities. I ran chkrootkit and the following showed up. Checking `lkm'... You have    48 process hidden for re

Re: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake-Linux?

2004-08-03 Thread Lanman
Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 03 August 2004 06:22 pm, Lanman wrote: Has anyone heard of a Mandrake install causing a black-screen right at the beginning of the install? I've been trying to install Mandrake 10.0 and 9.2 on an ECS K7VMM board with a Duron 650 CPU and 512MB of ram, and right after I p

[newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2004-08-03 Thread newbie
This is an automated weekly message mainly intended for people new to Mandrake's Newbie List. = In This Message = 1. General Mailing list info 2. Leaving the list 3. List news 4. List Etiquette 5. Twiki 1. Gene

Re: [newbie] Re: Bad signatures

2004-08-03 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 13:08, JoeHill wrote: > On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 13:03:55 +1000 > Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: > > > > It will be 6 days before I can jab at Joe again so you Might > > > become the the focus of my blunt tipped wit. > > > > > > > > > > > > Charles > > > > Is Jo

Re: [newbie] Re: Bad signatures

2004-08-03 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 23:08:59 -0400 JoeHill wrote: > That should be added to the list etiquette thingie :-D --- --- -- -- -- Charles -- Oh Dad! We're ALL Devo! -- Mandrake Linux 10.0 on BigBoy #184142 Registered Linux user #182463 *http://www.eslrah

[newbie] Borked then fixed my KDE Setup from a backup but....

2004-08-03 Thread Chris
when booting I get the following: Error while initializing the sound driver: device: default can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. XMMS won't load also I'm betting its something easy but I can't find it. -- Chri

Re: [newbie] Re: Bad signatures

2004-08-03 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 13:03:55 +1000 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: > > It will be 6 days before I can jab at Joe again so you Might > > become the the focus of my blunt tipped wit. > > > > > > > > Charles > > Is Joe on a holiday or something? No, he went over his quota. Between

Re: [newbie] Re: Bad signatures

2004-08-03 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 12:59, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 12:35:22 +1000 > Stephen Kühn wrote: > > > No we don't. > > Watch It! > > It will be 6 days before I can jab at Joe again so you Might > become the the focus of my blunt tipped wit. > > > > Charles Is Joe on a h

Re: [newbie] Re: Bad signatures

2004-08-03 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 12:35:22 +1000 Stephen Kühn wrote: > No we don't. Watch It! It will be 6 days before I can jab at Joe again so you Might become the the focus of my blunt tipped wit. Charles -- Fortune's real live weird band names #425: Lisa Gives Head -- Mandra

Re: [newbie] Re: Bad signatures

2004-08-03 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 12:13, Charlie Mahan wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On August 3, 2004 18:19:06, Brenda Bell wrote: > > Uh... I think my sig started this whole mess about seasons and > > tourists... sorry :$ > > Don't be sorry. You'll get used to this bunch even

Re: [newbie] Re: Bad signatures

2004-08-03 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On August 3, 2004 18:19:06, Brenda Bell wrote: > Uh... I think my sig started this whole mess about seasons and > tourists... sorry :$ Don't be sorry. You'll get used to this bunch eventually. Hell they even let me hang around! > > Edmonton,AB,Cana

Re: [newbie] Re: Bad signatures

2004-08-03 Thread Brenda Bell
On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 18:02:49 -0600 Charlie Mahan wrote: > Not quite et. It's winter and mosquito. 10 1/2 months of ice and snow followed > by 6 weeks of swatting the provincial bird. > > What's all this sudden talk about tourists and target shooting anyway? Or is > that why everyone here has st

Re: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake-Linux?

2004-08-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 06:22 pm, Lanman wrote: > Has anyone heard of a Mandrake install causing a black-screen right at > the beginning of the install? I've been trying to install Mandrake 10.0 > and 9.2 on an ECS K7VMM board with a Duron 650 CPU and 512MB of ram, and > right after I press the E

Re: [newbie] How to determine that Firestater is running?

2004-08-03 Thread Dan Gordon
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 03:58 pm, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I have Firestarter installed on my computer. How can I be sure that > Firestarter is always running and protecting my computer? Is it only > active when one type firestater in the command line? You could check with one of the man

[newbie] Basic Security Q's

2004-08-03 Thread Tim
Hi Everybody, Just install Mandrake 10, I think i've set it up ok to keep the bad guys out. Q1: How can i check im secure. Q2: I've been to www.grc.com and used the "Shields up" test which said my computer was "Stealthed" except for port 113 which was "closed". I understand thats good, but is

Re: [newbie] Mouse Cursor in Xwindow on 10.0.

2004-08-03 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 09:26, Larry Johnson KISE wrote: > Hi all... > > I need to make my cursor more visible, big screen and bad eyes. > > I know the latest XFree86 lets you change this using size, themes and > environment variables, but I cannot locate the appropriate Mandrake > configuration sp

Re: [newbie] Re: Bad signatures

2004-08-03 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On August 3, 2004 17:53:05, et wrote: > On Tuesday 03 August 2004 01:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:52:17 + (UTC) > > > > Jonesy wrote: > > > We only have 3 seasons: Hunting, Ski, Tourist. > > > > On our recent trip to Co

Re: [newbie] Problem with VMware

2004-08-03 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 20:59, J. Gregory Croes wrote: > Error: The file you were looking for was not found. (404) > Please try your search with Google below: > > Thanks, > Gregory I may have misspelled; either which, try: http://thor.prohosting.com/~kilgoret/files/ stephen kuhn - proprietor __

Re: [newbie] PRBOOM Kaput!!

2004-08-03 Thread Terence Golightly
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 16:05, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 01 August 2004 09:02 pm, Terence Golightly wrote: > > > Yesh!! Now I need to find a Descent I/II clone to run on my box and I'll > > be back to my good ole gaming days! > > > > Terry > > Er, what about Descent 3? It rocks here - nativ

Re: [newbie] Re: Bad signatures

2004-08-03 Thread et
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 01:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:52:17 + (UTC) > > Jonesy wrote: > > We only have 3 seasons: Hunting, Ski, Tourist. > > On our recent trip to Costa Rica, we learned they only have two: > rainy and rainier :) > ) > New Hampshire (the state wi

Re: [newbie] Problem with VMware

2004-08-03 Thread J. Gregory Croes
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 03:19, Gregory Croes wrote: Hallo, guys I still have this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gregory]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gregory]# vmware & [1] 2621 [EMAIL PROTECTED] gregory]# vmware-config.pl Making sure VMware Workstation's services are stopped. St

[newbie] Mouse Cursor in Xwindow on 10.0.

2004-08-03 Thread Larry Johnson KISE
Hi all... I need to make my cursor more visible, big screen and bad eyes. I know the latest XFree86 lets you change this using size, themes and environment variables, but I cannot locate the appropriate Mandrake configuration spot. Any body out there know? Larry Johnson, KeepItSimpeEnmgineering

[newbie] Access to documentation packages in 10.0.

2004-08-03 Thread Larry Johnson KISE
Hi all... I installed the Xwindow documentation, and it's in …/docs, but how do you view it? It's not .html or text. Larry Johnson, KeepItSimpleEngineering,Inc. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakes

[newbie] More of a poll - Software upgrades worth it?

2004-08-03 Thread Ryan Steffes
When /. ran an article saying that Crossover Office would be supporting iTunes my last reason to hold on to Windows is fading away. Now I want to put some real effort into getting my linux box not just to the point where I like it, but to the point my wife is willing to use it. What I'm tryin

Re: [newbie] Sceduling Automatic Reboots

2004-08-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Bryan Phinney wrote: I did read a bit about some of the hardware card based ones. Looks pretty neat actually and doesn't sit between the powersupply and the UPS but instead hooks to the reset button on the motherboard. Agent runs on software and sends a signal to reset the timer, if the timer cou

Re: [newbie] After running chkrootkit

2004-08-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 06:36 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > You can also issue the command: > /usr/lib/chkrootkit/chkproc -v -v For mine: # chkrootkit -x lkm ROOTDIR is `/' ### ### Output of: /usr/lib/chkrootkit/chkproc -v -v ### PID 2058: not in readdir output PID 2058: not in ps output CWD 2

Re: [newbie] Automatic Reboot Scheduling

2004-08-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 03:08 am, Mark Rogers wrote: > I will be a long way away from the machine in question, and its a new > setup. I have seen it freeze once in the last two weeks and I cant have it > doing the same when Im away from it. (Possibly hardware but at this stage > Im uncertain).

Re: [newbie] Sceduling Automatic Reboots

2004-08-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 05:54 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > I am not sure about the one for the Mac, but the one for the PC > generates a NMI or a reset if it times out. The way they usualy work is > you have to write to a specific port or memory location before the timer > times out, or it

Re: [newbie] After running chkrootkit

2004-08-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 03:18 pm, Trevor Rhodes wrote: > On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 05:11 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > chkrootkit -x lkm > > All I get from this command is the following... > > ROOTDIR is `/' Okay, try to cd to the /usr/lib/chkrootkit directory and then issue the command. You can als

[newbie] Can't install Mandrake-Linux?

2004-08-03 Thread Lanman
Has anyone heard of a Mandrake install causing a black-screen right at the beginning of the install? I've been trying to install Mandrake 10.0 and 9.2 on an ECS K7VMM board with a Duron 650 CPU and 512MB of ram, and right after I press the Enter button to start the install, the screen goes blac

Re: [newbie] Automatic Reboot Scheduling

2004-08-03 Thread Mark Rogers
** Reply to message from Lee Wiggers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 3 Aug 2004 03:38:20 + Hi Lee & Team > On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 23:01:10 +1000 > "Mark Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Team > > > > Thanks to all those who have given invaluable help over the last > > few weeks. One las

Re: [newbie] Automatic Reboot Scheduling

2004-08-03 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 18:21, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Frans Ketelaars wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 August 2004 15:01, Mark Rogers wrote: > > > Hi Team > > > > > > Thanks to all those who have given invaluable help over the last > > > few weeks. One last item (for the moment) that I need to do

[newbie] Visor suddenly not syncing

2004-08-03 Thread JoeHill
Up until 5 days ago, my Visor was syncing no problem with J-Pilot, now it just gives me the error: Syncing on device /dev/pilot Press the HotSync button now pi_bind Illegal seek Check your serial port and settings

Re: [newbie] Sceduling Automatic Reboots

2004-08-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 03 August 2004 12:40 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: The device you are talking about is a watchdog timer. They are available for a lot of different systems. You can get one on a ISA or PCI card for a PC as well. They used to be built-in on the Sparc Stations. T

[newbie] BitTorrent Not working

2004-08-03 Thread JRH
Hi all, I have just gone back to 9.2 from 10CE, and I am still getting BT and BTGUI playing up on me. When I double click a .torrent file, I get an error message saying that KDEinit couldnt find the BitTorrent executable I have checked, and the folder /usr/lib/bittorrent exists, but it co

Re: [newbie] After running chkrootkit

2004-08-03 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On August 3, 2004 14:02:02, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > I was rooted a couple weeks back, but since I was preparing to do a fresh > > install (the day it was first logged) it wasn't a big deal. I just > > formatted the drive and started over. The best par

Re: [newbie] a program to email upon website changes?

2004-08-03 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 01:47:00PM -0400, g2 wrote: > Clint, Todd, > > Thanks for the suggestions. > I will check out the scripting tools you mentioned, however they will probably > be beyond my skill level. > Regarding Mozilla's ability to watch a website, yes I have explored that > feature. >

Re: [newbie] Problem with VMware

2004-08-03 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 04:12, Jason Kretzer wrote: > I am having the same problem. It asks for the location of my C > headers. When I give them, it says that the headers are the wrong > version of my kernel and that even if it compiled the proper modules > that they would not load in the kernel. >

Re: [newbie] Powerpack VS CE

2004-08-03 Thread PM
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 22:28, Gregory Croes wrote: > > > What is the difference between mandrake powerpack an community edition > Mandrake explain it at their sites. Specific links: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/10/powerpack http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/10.0/features/ BTW, 'CE' w

Re: [newbie] Problem with VMware

2004-08-03 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 03:19, Gregory Croes wrote: > Hallo, guys > > I still have this error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] gregory]$ su > Password: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] gregory]# vmware & > [1] 2621 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] gregory]# vmware-config.pl > Making sure VMware Workstation's services are stopped. >

Re: [newbie] Powerpack VS CE

2004-08-03 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 14:28, Gregory Croes wrote: > Dan Gordon wrote: > >On Tuesday 03 August 2004 01:19 pm, Gregory Croes wrote: > >>Hallo, guys > >> > >>I still have this error: > >> > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] gregory]$ su > >>Password: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] gregory]# vmware & > >>[1] 2621 > >>[EM

Re: [newbie] After running chkrootkit

2004-08-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 15:14, Charlie Mahan wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On August 3, 2004 12:59:12, Trevor Rhodes wrote: > > Hello Oh Great Guru Types, > > > > What the hell should I be doing now? > > > > Checking `lkm'... You have48 process hidden for readdir c

[newbie] How to determine that Firestater is running?

2004-08-03 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I have Firestarter installed on my computer. How can I be sure that Firestarter is always running and protecting my computer? Is it only active when one type firestater in the command line? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pa

Re: [newbie] A Little Something for us SysAdmins!

2004-08-03 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 13:40, Aron Smith wrote: > > I just sent that to all my users/clients/customers - I wonder if I'll > > get anything... > I'll bcc them and tell them that you love Vegamite and Sardine > Sandwitches ;-) Er, howdya know that? That's scary... stephen kuhn - proprietor _

[newbie] Powerpack VS CE

2004-08-03 Thread Gregory Croes
Dan Gordon wrote: On Tuesday 03 August 2004 01:19 pm, Gregory Croes wrote: Hallo, guys I still have this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gregory]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gregory]# vmware & [1] 2621 [EMAIL PROTECTED] gregory]# vmware-config.pl Making sure VMware Workstation's services are stoppe

Re: [newbie] After running chkrootkit

2004-08-03 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On August 3, 2004 12:59:12, Trevor Rhodes wrote: > Hello Oh Great Guru Types, > > What the hell should I be doing now? > > Checking `lkm'... You have48 process hidden for readdir command > You have48 process hidden for ps command > Warning: Pos

Re: [newbie] After running chkrootkit

2004-08-03 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On August 3, 2004 12:59:12, Trevor Rhodes wrote: > Hello Oh Great Guru Types, > > What the hell should I be doing now? > > Checking `lkm'... You have48 process hidden for readdir command > You have48 process hidden for ps command > Warning: Pos

Re: [newbie] After running chkrootkit

2004-08-03 Thread Trevor Rhodes
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 05:11 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > chkrootkit -x lkm All I get from this command is the following... ROOTDIR is `/' Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux-Mandrake 10.0 Registered Linux user # 290542

Re: [newbie] After running chkrootkit

2004-08-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 02:59 pm, Trevor Rhodes wrote: > Hello Oh Great Guru Types, > > What the hell should I be doing now? > > Checking `lkm'... You have48 process hidden for readdir command > You have48 process hidden for ps command > Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed Run chkroot

Re: [newbie] Sceduling Automatic Reboots

2004-08-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 12:40 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > The device you are talking about is a watchdog timer. They are > available for a lot of different systems. You can get one on a ISA or > PCI card for a PC as well. They used to be built-in on the Sparc > Stations. There is suppor

Re: [newbie] After running chkrootkit

2004-08-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 14:59, Trevor Rhodes wrote: > Hello Oh Great Guru Types, > > What the hell should I be doing now? > > Checking `lkm'... You have48 process hidden for readdir command > You have48 process hidden for ps command > Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed Back up your da

[newbie] After running chkrootkit

2004-08-03 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Hello Oh Great Guru Types, What the hell should I be doing now? Checking `lkm'... You have48 process hidden for readdir command You have48 process hidden for ps command Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered

Re: [newbie] Problem with VMware

2004-08-03 Thread Dan Gordon
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 02:12 pm, Jason Kretzer wrote: > I am having the same problem. It asks for the location of my C > headers. When I give them, it says that the headers are the wrong > version of my kernel and that even if it compiled the proper modules > that they would not load in the ke

Re: [newbie] Problem with VMware

2004-08-03 Thread Dan Gordon
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 01:19 pm, Gregory Croes wrote: > Hallo, guys > > I still have this error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] gregory]$ su > Password: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] gregory]# vmware & > [1] 2621 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] gregory]# vmware-config.pl > Making sure VMware Workstation's services are stopped

Re: [newbie] Problem with VMware

2004-08-03 Thread Jason Kretzer
I am having the same problem. It asks for the location of my C headers. When I give them, it says that the headers are the wrong version of my kernel and that even if it compiled the proper modules that they would not load in the kernel. -Jason On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 13:19:27 -0400, Gregory Croes

Re: [newbie] Sceduling Automatic Reboots

2004-08-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 07:00 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Tuesday 03 August 2004 06:38 am, Mark Rogers wrote: > >The machine > > will not be logged on as 'root' and my security limit is set pretty high > > (i.e. the reboot command needs to be looged in as 'root' before it > > executes). Anyone

Re: [newbie] Sceduling Automatic Reboots

2004-08-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 08:59 am, Mark Rogers wrote: > ** Reply to message from Charles A Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, > 2 Aug 2004 23:35:19 -0400 > > Hi Charles > > Didnt know I had hijacked any thread. I didnt realise that this list was a > little different to most I use. I simply replyi

Re: [newbie] Clock in kicker.

2004-08-03 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 07:57, John Richard Smith wrote: > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > >I used to have the date shown under the time in the kicker > > I don't know about under, but side by side, time+date, > RMclick clock applet - type - plain - LMclick. > > John Thanks John I used the gui to reconfigur

Re: [newbie] Clock in kicker.

2004-08-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Hoyt Bailey wrote: I used to have the date shown under the time in the kicker I don't know about under, but side by side, time+date, RMclick clock applet - type - plain - LMclick. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your

[newbie] Clock in kicker.

2004-08-03 Thread Hoyt Bailey
I used to have the date shown under the time in the kicker but I reconfigured something (cant remember what) and I now have Chicago (my timezone) in its place and I cant remove it. I installed another user and that user has the date where it should be so it is likely something in my user defau

Re: [newbie] Stopped printing.

2004-08-03 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 06:36, Frank wrote: > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > >On Tuesday 03 August 2004 03:17, Frank wrote: > >>Keith Powell wrote: > >>>On Monday 02 Aug 2004 14:04, PM wrote: > On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 15:44, Keith Powell wrote: > >I have an Epson Stylus 670 printer and it has suddenl

Re: [newbie] VPN client

2004-08-03 Thread Paul Smith
Guy Rouillier wrote: Where did you get these from? The mirrors are still distributing ppp-2.4.1. It appears you found a Mandrake build of 2.4.2, but you don't have a matching Mandrake build of pptp. I see on the pptpclient site that pptp 1.5.0 seems to correspond to ppp 2.4.3. I got a matching

Re: [newbie] Stopped printing.

2004-08-03 Thread Glenn
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 05:36, Frank wrote: > >> > >>Well not for me I'm afraid. Everything seems to be OK within > >>'Configure' but when I try to print, even the test page from within > >>'Configure', all I get is : > >>"Error while reading filter description for true. Empty command line > >>r

Re: [newbie] Stopped printing.

2004-08-03 Thread Frank
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Tuesday 03 August 2004 03:17, Frank wrote: Keith Powell wrote: On Monday 02 Aug 2004 14:04, PM wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 15:44, Keith Powell wrote: I have an Epson Stylus 670 printer and it has suddenly stopped printing from Mandrake (although it wil

Re: [newbie] Sceduling Automatic Reboots

2004-08-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 06:38 am, Mark Rogers wrote: >The machine > will not be logged on as 'root' and my security limit is set pretty high > (i.e. the reboot command needs to be looged in as 'root' before it > executes). Anyone have any idea of how I should go about doing this? You can use a c

Re: [newbie] Stopped printing.

2004-08-03 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 03:17, Frank wrote: > Keith Powell wrote: > >On Monday 02 Aug 2004 14:04, PM wrote: > >>On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 15:44, Keith Powell wrote: > >>>I have an Epson Stylus 670 printer and it has suddenly stopped > >>> printing from Mandrake (although it will still print correctly

[newbie] Ping Derek Jennings

2004-08-03 Thread Teilhard Knight
Derek, I am sure you can help me configure my wireless card under 10.0 Official. I haven't had much luck with feedback from the list, but here it goes my original post: && Hello: I just erased Mandrake 9.2 because I could never configure access to Internet, and installed 10.0 officia

Re: [newbie] PCI wireless card

2004-08-03 Thread Teilhard Knight
- Original Message - From: "Kevin Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 11:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] PCI wireless card > Teilhard Knight wrote: > > >Hello: > > > >I just erased Mandrake 9.2 because I could never configure access to > >Inte

[newbie] MySQL not starting

2004-08-03 Thread David Anderson
Hi, I am trying to start MySQL using "mysql start" and get the following error message: ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' Can anyone give me a clue as to how to get round this? -- Regards, David David Anderson

RE: [newbie] Automatic Reboot Scheduling

2004-08-03 Thread Tony S. Sykes
I would imagine it is easy enough to do, set-up a cron job and get it to do a reboot -r. Never tried so you will be a guinea pig. As everybody else has said I can see no benefit in doing this on a daily basis. Tony. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [newbie] Stopped printing.

2004-08-03 Thread Frank
Keith Powell wrote: On Monday 02 Aug 2004 14:04, PM wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 15:44, Keith Powell wrote: I have an Epson Stylus 670 printer and it has suddenly stopped printing from Mandrake (although it will still print correctly from other distros). I haven't altered anything since it

[newbie] Re: OpenOffice

2004-08-03 Thread Russell Butler
BJ Tracy wrote: While trying to register my Open Office to get upgrades, it tells me an "error occured while trying to start the web browser. Please check the OpenOffice.org and web browser settings." I have done that several times and find nothing wrong. Can someone give me an example of ho

Re: [newbie] Automatic Reboot Scheduling

2004-08-03 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 23:01:10 +1000 "Mark Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Team > > Thanks to all those who have given invaluable help over the last > few weeks. One last item (for the moment) that I need to do is > setup my system (which is always on) to reboot once a day. Im > doing this t