Re: [newbie] Switch to text mode

2004-08-09 Thread Ankit Malik
yup! tried it as root but still isn't working! On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 10:18:26 -0400, et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 08 August 2004 08:58 am, Ankit Malik wrote: How to switch to text mode /sbin/init 3 isnt working for me as root -- linux counter #167806 --

[newbie] Kicker Crash

2004-08-09 Thread Ankit Malik
My kicker keeps crashing every time I login. It crashes once for each login. Plus i havent done anything notorious! -- ___ Ankit Malik http://www.scribbler.tk GNU --Spread the Fire ! Someone Open the (M$) Windows: I am suffocating!

Re: [newbie] When clicking on CD ROM icon Cervisia starts, not konqueror

2004-08-09 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 06:35 pm, John Richard Smith sent these thoughts: John Zoetebier wrote: When I put a CD ROM in the PC an icon is shown on the desktop. When clicking on CD ROM icon Cervisia starts, not konqueror. And I get this error message; remote CVS working folders not supported This

[newbie] network monitoring

2004-08-09 Thread Andrewd
I have a DSL connection at home but I want to monitor the bandwidth I am using each month. What would people recommend - using MDK10/KDE. If possible I don't want to sign into the Control Centre each time to turn it on. Also I need it to pick up the usuage when my daughter is logged on as well.

Re: [newbie] Switch to text mode

2004-08-09 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 16:03, Ankit Malik wrote: yup! tried it as root but still isn't working! On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 10:18:26 -0400, et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 08 August 2004 08:58 am, Ankit Malik wrote: How to switch to text mode /sbin/init 3 isnt working for me as

RE: [newbie] folder looses read/write permissions after each reboot....

2004-08-09 Thread Harald T ZIPKO
You are fighting with msec which runs every hour and resets the I do not want to fight - I want to live in peace ;-) msec - obviousely a command and part of a cron job... I'll have a closer look. permissions. What is it you want to do? My guess is that you want a directory where all

[newbie] [OT] Oooooh! That's gotta hurt!

2004-08-09 Thread JoeHill
I've had to roll back a few client's machines already when they stopped functioning properly after doing a full 'Windows Update', so I'm not surprised at this: Quote: In the memo to employees, seen by CNET News.com, IBM's internal technology department stated that Windows XP SP2 will change the

Re: [newbie] Where are the sources

2004-08-09 Thread Dan Gordon
On Monday 09 August 2004 10:29 am, Morissette Jean wrote: Hi all, I have installed Mandrake 10.0. Now, to install VWware, I need to find the source code (the header files *.h). Is there on the CDs? Thank for your help Jean If they are downloaded cd's then i dont beleive the kernel sources

Re: [newbie] PLPtools for Psion Revo

2004-08-09 Thread Paul
A good search on Google pointed me to a place that has a real Mdk10 RPM for it... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Multifunction time again

2004-08-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 August 2004 06:44:06, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Hi Folks, It's time to get me one of these thingamabobs. I want one that prints and scans under mandrake 10 with copy and fax standalone. Anyone got one that works? Regards

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

2004-08-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 August 2004 03:02:03, Thereidos wrote: Alright, now goes my story : I've installed Firestarter and configured it using it's wizard. Everything seemed alright but the main window kept crashing... so I switched to KMyFireWall and

RE: [newbie] Network problem

2004-08-09 Thread Bill Shirley
So you have a router at 192.168.1.1? Post the output of: ifconfig arp -n iptables -L -n Bill -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Ralph UtbultSent: Monday, August 09, 2004 3:28 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Network

[newbie] For my Pekwm Bro's

2004-08-09 Thread JoeHill
New theme! Very boring! ;-) http://www.freeyourmachine.org/distant.png Download: http://www.freeyourmachine.org/distant.tar.gz -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:00:13 up 5 days, 13:42, 9 users, load average: 0.84, 0.39, 0.19 +++ Saddam killed his

Re: [newbie] [OT] Oooooh! That's gotta hurt!

2004-08-09 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 02:47, JoeHill wrote: I've had to roll back a few client's machines already when they stopped functioning properly after doing a full 'Windows Update', so I'm not surprised at this: Quote: In the memo to employees, seen by CNET News.com, IBM's internal technology

Re: [newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-09 Thread Julie Sloan
On Monday 09 August 2004 12:30 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: On Sunday 08 August 2004 21:52:09, Julie Sloan wrote: That was my fault. When I install a system one of the first things I do is change the display manager from mdkkdm to kdm. don't tell me how - maybe I'll find it on my own :) (like

Re: [newbie] Where are the sources

2004-08-09 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 02:32, Paul Smith wrote: Morissette Jean wrote: I have installed Mandrake 10.0. Now, to install VWware, I need to find the source code (the header files *.h). Is there on the CDs? Jean, I do not think that you can find VMware in Mandrake CDs, as VMware is a

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

2004-08-09 Thread Thereidos
Dnia pon 9. sierpnia 2004 20:09, napisae: Now I've noticed that iptables are run during bootup (drakxservices says so too). Running kmyfirewall says that the firewall is running but www.grc.com says otherwise. I have to click 'run firewall' in kmyfirewall to really make it work... May it be

Re: [newbie] [OT] Oooooh! That's gotta hurt!

2004-08-09 Thread Julie Sloan
On Monday 09 August 2004 12:47 pm, JoeHill wrote: I've had to roll back a few client's machines already when they stopped functioning properly after doing a full 'Windows Update', so I'm not surprised at this: dumb question #8765432: I haven't used IE while online in years, but do have it

Re: [newbie] [OT] Oooooh! That's gotta hurt!

2004-08-09 Thread Thereidos
Dnia pon 9. sierpnia 2004 19:55, Julie Sloan napisa: On Monday 09 August 2004 12:47 pm, JoeHill wrote: I've had to roll back a few client's machines already when they stopped functioning properly after doing a full 'Windows Update', so I'm not surprised at this: dumb question #8765432: I

Re: [newbie] [OT] Oooooh! That's gotta hurt!

2004-08-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 August 2004 12:35:12, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 02:47, JoeHill wrote: I've had to roll back a few client's machines already when they stopped functioning properly after doing a full 'Windows Update', so I'm not

Re: [newbie] [OT] Oooooh! That's gotta hurt!

2004-08-09 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:55:33 -0400 Julie Sloan disseminated the following: I've had to roll back a few client's machines already when they stopped functioning properly after doing a full 'Windows Update', so I'm not surprised at this: dumb question #8765432: I haven't used IE while

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

2004-08-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 August 2004 12:09:12, Thereidos wrote: whack Now I've noticed that iptables are run during bootup (drakxservices says so too). Running kmyfirewall says that the firewall is running but www.grc.com says otherwise. I have to click 'run

Re: [newbie] [OT] Oooooh! That's gotta hurt!

2004-08-09 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 05:03, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 August 2004 12:35:12, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 02:47, JoeHill wrote: I've had to roll back a few client's machines already when they stopped functioning

[newbie] Email Client

2004-08-09 Thread Rob Toner
Wondering if anyone has been able to run a single email client that can be used for both Windoze and Linux? I'm looking to dual boot between Win 2K and Mandrake. However, maintaining two seperate email clients is getting ugly. My ISP doesn't support IMAP so thats out.. Thanks.

Re: [newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 August 2004 11:50:11, Julie Sloan wrote: whack That was my fault. When I install a system one of the first things I do is change the display manager from mdkkdm to kdm. don't tell me how - maybe I'll find it on my own :) (like I

Re: [newbie] Email Client

2004-08-09 Thread Anders Lind
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:31:37 -0500 Rob Toner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wondering if anyone has been able to run a single email client that can be used for both Windoze and Linux?I'm looking to dual boot between Win 2K and Mandrake. However, maintaining two seperate email clients is

Re: [newbie] Email Client

2004-08-09 Thread Thereidos
Dnia pon 9. sierpnia 2004 21:31, Rob Toner napisa: Wondering if anyone has been able to run a single email client that can be used for both Windoze and Linux?I'm looking to dual boot between Win 2K and Mandrake. However, maintaining two seperate email clients is getting ugly. My ISP

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

2004-08-09 Thread Thereidos
Dnia pon 9. sierpnia 2004 21:18, Charlie Mahan napisa: That's about all I know about the software, sorry. It's also probably all I'll ever know about it for the simple reasons that I have a radically edited set of rules that I use for iptables that is specific to my environment, and the only

Re: [newbie] Email Client

2004-08-09 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 05:31, Rob Toner wrote: Wondering if anyone has been able to run a single email client that can be used for both Windoze and Linux?I'm looking to dual boot between Win 2K and Mandrake. However, maintaining two seperate email clients is getting ugly. My ISP doesn't

Re: [newbie] Email Client

2004-08-09 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 09 August 2004 03:31 pm, Rob Toner wrote: Wondering if anyone has been able to run a single email client that can be used for both Windoze and Linux?I'm looking to dual boot between Win 2K and Mandrake. However, maintaining two seperate email clients is getting ugly. My ISP

Re: [newbie] Email Client

2004-08-09 Thread Anders Lind
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 05:54:00 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a bit iffy at best. You COULD, however, experiment to see if you can use Mozilla Thunderbird and have the local folder pointing to a shared VFAT32 partition; they should store the data in the same format for

Re: [newbie] [OT] Oooooh! That's gotta hurt!

2004-08-09 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 15:23:23 -0400 JoeHill disseminated the following: dumb question #8765432: I haven't used IE while online in years, but do have it installed just to check that my webpages load correctly innit. So... if I do occasionally go online on the winxp side (but with the

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

2004-08-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 August 2004 13:50:01, Thereidos wrote: Dnia pon 9. sierpnia 2004 21:18, Charlie Mahan napisa: That's about all I know about the software, sorry. It's also probably all I'll ever know about it for the simple reasons that I have a

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

2004-08-09 Thread Thereidos
Dnia pon 9. sierpnia 2004 18:57, Charlie Mahan napisa: You can (as super user in a terminal) use chkconfig iptables on or in the drakxservices menu put a check mark for start at boot and then hit the start button or I believe there's another interfering wrapper available now called drakfw for

Re: [newbie] Email Client

2004-08-09 Thread Julie Sloan
On Monday 09 August 2004 03:31 pm, Rob Toner wrote: Wondering if anyone has been able to run a single email client that can be used for both Windoze and Linux?I'm looking to dual boot between Win 2K and Mandrake. However, maintaining two seperate email clients is getting ugly. My ISP

Re: [newbie] [OT] Oooooh! That's gotta hurt!

2004-08-09 Thread Julie Sloan
On Monday 09 August 2004 04:18 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 15:23:23 -0400 Well, all I can say is, my wife's machine is a default install of XP, has been for a few years, and we've never had a virus, worm, or otherwise. The only thing protecting the box is my firewall

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

2004-08-09 Thread Thereidos
Dnia pon 9. sierpnia 2004 22:14, Charlie Mahan napisa: I would wonder too. Are you using Firestarter because you had good results with it somewhere else or just because? Shorewall is default in Mandrake and seems to work in an acceptable manner most of the time. Dan's Guardian has also

[newbie] Teaching Spamassassin

2004-08-09 Thread SME Server Admin
Hiya Right. i've had Spam Assassin running for a few weeks now, and have built up about 300 or so messages in my Spam/missed spam directory. The actually directory is: Local Folders / Spam / MissedSpam Now, I've been into shell and done as it asked, ie type in the following string. The

AW: [newbie] Email Client

2004-08-09 Thread Sebastian Martin
If you use two different mail programms or just two different installtions of the same email client, your solution would only have the incomming mails in both programms, it would not help to have a common history of the emails sent however. Sebastian Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:

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

2004-08-09 Thread Thereidos
Dnia pon 9. sierpnia 2004 22:14, Charlie Mahan napisa: I would wonder too. Are you using Firestarter because you had good results with it somewhere else or just because? Shorewall is default in Mandrake and seems to work in an acceptable manner most of the time. Dan's Guardian has also

Re: [newbie] Where are the sources

2004-08-09 Thread et
On Monday 09 August 2004 12:32 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Morissette Jean wrote: I have installed Mandrake 10.0. Now, to install VWware, I need to find the source code (the header files *.h). Is there on the CDs? Jean, I do not think that you can find VMware in Mandrake CDs, as VMware is a

Re: [newbie] [OT] Oooooh! That's gotta hurt!

2004-08-09 Thread Julie Sloan
On Monday 09 August 2004 03:08 pm, Thereidos wrote: Dnia pon 9. sierpnia 2004 19:55, Julie Sloan napisa: snip snip snip So... if I do occasionally go online on the winxp side (but with the Mozilla or N7 browser) and I don't have IE on quickstart or anything, is there any reason at all

Re: AW: [newbie] Email Client

2004-08-09 Thread Julie Sloan
On Monday 09 August 2004 06:03 pm, Sebastian Martin wrote: If you use two different mail programms or just two different installtions of the same email client, your solution would only have the incomming mails in both programms, it would not help to have a common history of the emails sent

[newbie] Connecting to the net

2004-08-09 Thread jedson
Hi I hope that in time I will be able to shift entirely from windows to Linux. I have both political and practical reasons for wanting to do this. However, I am just getting started with Linux and do not have a lot of technical expertise. So my goal is contingent on being able to get

Re: [newbie] Connecting to the net

2004-08-09 Thread Paul Smith
jedson wrote: I can't get connected to my provider and out to the net from the Mandrake program Jedson, Welcome to Linux Mandrake! You should first tell us what sort of modem are you using. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Connecting to the net

2004-08-09 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 09 August 2004 07:19 pm, jedson wrote: After working through the program, providing the info they wanted as well as I could, I clicked the button to test the connection. Got the message The system doesn't seem to be connected to the Internet. Try to re configure your connection. I

Re: [newbie] For my Pekwm Bro's

2004-08-09 Thread Job Evers
What is the program you have running in the upper right hand corner? On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, JoeHill wrote: J: J: New theme! Very boring! ;-) J: J: http://www.freeyourmachine.org/distant.png J: J: Download: J: J: http://www.freeyourmachine.org/distant.tar.gz J: J: -- Job Evers --

[newbie] Can't install jpackage sources

2004-08-09 Thread Trey Sizemore
I've got Mandrake 10.1 beta1 installed and am in the process of doing some upgrades. I've managed to get main, contrib, and PLF sources installed, but I'm having some issues getting jpackage. I think this is where I get the java packages from. Here's the error I'm getting (I've tried several

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

2004-08-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 August 2004 16:29:04, Thereidos wrote: Dnia pon 9. sierpnia 2004 22:14, Charlie Mahan napisa: I would wonder too. Are you using Firestarter because you had good results with it somewhere else or just because? Shorewall is default in

Re: [newbie] Where are the sources

2004-08-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 09 August 2004 01:00 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: On Monday 09 August 2004 10:29 am, Morissette Jean wrote: Hi all, I have installed Mandrake 10.0.  Now, to install VWware, I need to find the source code (the header files *.h).  Is there on the CDs? Thank for your help Jean If they

Re: [newbie] For my Pekwm Bro's

2004-08-09 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 19:43:56 -0400 (EDT) Job Evers disseminated the following: What is the program you have running in the upper right hand corner? In order of appearance: wmcpuload, wmupmon, wmnetload, wmmaiload, and wmsmixer ...all available from dockapps.org or

Re: [newbie] Can't install jpackage sources

2004-08-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 August 2004 17:54:05, Trey Sizemore wrote: I've got Mandrake 10.1 beta1 installed and am in the process of doing some upgrades. I've managed to get main, contrib, and PLF sources installed, but I'm having some issues getting jpackage.

[newbie] Adding another Linux distro to MDK lilo.conf

2004-08-09 Thread Trey Sizemore
I originally had on SUSE 9.1 installed on my HD. When I added MDK 10.1, I chose not to install the bootloader as I was going to make an entry in the SUSE grub.conf to boot MDK 10.1. For some reason, MDK overwrote the MBR anyway and now I have lilo with MDK options and I'd like to add SUSE as an

Re: [newbie] [OT] Oooooh! That's gotta hurt!

2004-08-09 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 21:42:27 -0400 Carroll Grigsby disseminated the following: Julie Sloan disseminated the following: Maybe I'm just lucky? :) Very lucky. I have a saying, kinda nasty, but... 'Running XP without a firewall is like bending over to pick up the soap in the shower at

Re: [newbie] Connecting to the net

2004-08-09 Thread Eric Huff
I can't get the Mandrake program to find my printer, and I can't get connected to my provider and out to the net from the Mandrake program (which is why I am using Windows.) What kind of computer do you have? Are you using the parallel port for printing? I have a compaq presario celeron

Re: [newbie] Can't install jpackage sources

2004-08-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 August 2004 19:18:07, Trey Sizemore wrote: whack Thanks, still getting the same errors as I posted earlier. Maybe there's something wrong with the mirror? Anyone else having an issue with this? Thanks. It's quite possible the

[newbie] File Recover Tools

2004-08-09 Thread David
Hi Guys Gals, Yesterday whilst working in OO spreadsheets I managed to lose a couple of my files. They were there this morning but I had three files with the same name and when I tried to rename them two just disappeared. It appears that two of the files got renamed to the file that I was

Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin

2004-08-09 Thread Erylon Hines
On Monday 09 August 2004 03:01 pm, SME Server Admin wrote: | Hiya | | Right. i've had Spam Assassin running for a few weeks now, and have built | up about 300 or so messages in my Spam/missed spam directory. The actually | directory is: | | Local Folders / Spam / MissedSpam | | Now, I've been into

[newbie] Problem with installing ppp-mppe

2004-08-09 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I am trying to install ppp-mppe, but I get the errors below. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul - [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMs]# urpmi ppp-mppe-2.4.0-4.i386.rpm installing ppp-mppe-2.4.0-4.i386.rpm Preparing...

Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin

2004-08-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 August 2004 19:48:07, Erylon Hines wrote: On Monday 09 August 2004 03:01 pm, SME Server Admin wrote: | Hiya | | Right. i've had Spam Assassin running for a few weeks now, and have built | up about 300 or so messages in my Spam/missed

Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin

2004-08-09 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 09 August 2004 9:33 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: I beg to differ. The Mail directory for K-Mail since (I believe) 3.1 *is* a hidden directory, while the sub-directories in it are not. No point hiding those is there, they live in a hidden directory. The rest of what you advised is

Re: [newbie] [OT] Oooooh! That's gotta hurt!

2004-08-09 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 09 August 2004 07:45 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 21:42:27 -0400 Carroll Grigsby disseminated the following: Julie Sloan disseminated the following: Maybe I'm just lucky? :) Very lucky. I have a saying, kinda nasty, but... 'Running XP without a firewall is

Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin

2004-08-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 12:33 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: I beg to differ. The Mail directory for K-Mail since (I believe) 3.1 *is* a hidden directory, while the sub-directories in it are not. No point hiding those is there, they live in a hidden directory. The rest of what you advised is

Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin

2004-08-09 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 10:45 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 10 August 2004 12:33 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: I beg to differ. The Mail directory for K-Mail since (I believe) 3.1 *is* a hidden directory, while the sub-directories in it are not. No point hiding those is there, they live