Re: [newbie] ADSL Dialer

2004-08-12 Thread Alan
Thanks For the help I appreciate it Alan On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 19:39, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 10 August 2004 10:24 am, Alan wrote: stupid question. Is there a gui based dialer for linux to connect through a pppoe connection? I currently use adsl-connect. Thanks

[newbie] Spamassassin

2004-08-12 Thread Ralph Utbult
Hi, I've installed Spamassassin (SA) from Mandrakce Control Center (MCC) package handler. I also use Webmin. When I try to administer SA, it tells me that [it] isn't set up in Procmails (PM) config. What do I needPM for? Doesn't SA work without PM? I would like to run Postfix (with MLs pop3),

[newbie] Telnet

2004-08-12 Thread Alan
How do I start the telnet server on my box. Thanks Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.0 reboot hanging up

2004-08-12 Thread Q.H. Wang
Many thanks, Bryan and Jason. I installed ACPI RPMs and enabled it through MCC last night but the problem is still there. In fact the situation became worse after enabling ACPI, I had to press power-off button quite a while ( 10 seconds) to trun it off when rebooting. Previously what I need is

[newbie] (OT) The Bat

2004-08-12 Thread Lee Wiggers
Morning all Can anyone tell me what this number is? The Bat! (v2.00.6) CD5BF9353B3B7091 The Bat! (v2.04.7) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 I am corresponding with two people who don't know each other and the same number is in both of their headers. Just curious. TIA Lee

[newbie] Mandrakelinux to improve ergonomics and usability

2004-08-12 Thread lewee
Here are the announcements : RECHERCHE BENEVOLES POUR TESTS DERGONOMIE Mandrakesoft recherche des utilisateurs volontaires afin de mener bien une valuation ergonomique de Mandrakelinux 10.0. Chaque volontaire pourra participer une valuation dune dure

[newbie] Strange Invoices

2004-08-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Anyone getting a series of stange invoices by email from US suppliers you have never heard of for goods and services you had nothing to do with billed in US $. Because I am. I'm quite sure it's a scam. But one of the odd things is that it seems to come to me on my above email address slightly

Re: [newbie] Mandrakelinux to improve ergonomics and usability

2004-08-12 Thread Frank
Please turn off your Request Notification facility. lewee wrote: Here are the announcements : RECHERCHE BENEVOLES POUR TESTS DERGONOMIE Mandrakesoft recherche des utilisateurs volontaires afin de mener bien une valuation ergonomique de Mandrakelinux 10.0. Chaque volontaire pourra participer

Re: [newbie] DHCP Server

2004-08-12 Thread Brian Parish
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 00:31, Stephen Kühn wrote: Ok - now I know I must be doing something wrong here folks; but let's start out from the beginning. I constantly have customer computers in here, and generally, when I slap them on the network, I give them a static IP address along with

Re: [newbie] DHCP Server

2004-08-12 Thread Lanman
Stephen Kühn wrote: Ok - now I know I must be doing something wrong here folks; but let's start out from the beginning. I constantly have customer computers in here, and generally, when I slap them on the network, I give them a static IP address along with gateway and the whole nine yards. Today I

Re: [newbie] DHCP Server

2004-08-12 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 00:41, Brian Parish wrote: On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 00:31, Stephen Kühn wrote: Ok - now I know I must be doing something wrong here folks; but let's start out from the beginning. I constantly have customer computers in here, and generally, when I slap them on the

Re: [newbie] Strange Invoices

2004-08-12 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 12 August 2004 09:11, John Richard Smith wrote: Frank wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Anyone getting a series of stange invoices by email from US suppliers you have never heard of for goods and services you had nothing to do with billed in US $. Because I am. I'm

[newbie] w, who, users -- where are they?

2004-08-12 Thread Clint Harshaw
Hi all. I don't seem to have the commands w, who, and users available on my system. Or at least, they don't seem to be giving the anticipated output. Did I misconfigure something during installation? [EMAIL PROTECTED] clint]$ w 11:18:53 up 11:06, 0 users, load average: 0.13, 0.33, 0.30 USER

Re: [newbie] DHCP Server

2004-08-12 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 01:07, Lanman wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: Ok - now I know I must be doing something wrong here folks; but let's start out from the beginning. I constantly have customer computers in here, and generally, when I slap them on the network, I give them a static IP

Re: [newbie] Scream!

2004-08-12 Thread SME Server Admin
On Thursday 12 Aug 2004 13:49, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 11 August 2004 17:26, SME Server Admin wrote: There are some days I want to scream at this setup! I've got Mandrake 10 and Windows XP They'd both been rebooted recently, and setup the shares again in LinNeighbourhood.

Re: [newbie] w, who, users -- where are they?

2004-08-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:19:09AM -0400, Clint Harshaw wrote: Hi all. I don't seem to have the commands w, who, and users available on my system. Or at least, they don't seem to be giving the anticipated output. Did I misconfigure something during installation? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] DHCP Server

2004-08-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Stephen Kühn wrote: Ok - now I know I must be doing something wrong here folks; but let's start out from the beginning. I constantly have customer computers in here, and generally, when I slap them on the network, I give them a static IP address along with gateway and the whole nine yards.

Re: [newbie] w, who, users -- where are they?

2004-08-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 12 August 2004 11:19 am, Clint Harshaw wrote: Hi all. I don't seem to have the commands w, who, and users available on my system. Or at least, they don't seem to be giving the anticipated output. Did I misconfigure something during installation? [EMAIL PROTECTED] clint]$ w

Re: [newbie] Scream!

2004-08-12 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 12 August 2004 10:57, SME Server Admin wrote: On Thursday 12 Aug 2004 13:49, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 11 August 2004 17:26, SME Server Admin wrote: There are some days I want to scream at this setup! I've got Mandrake 10 and Windows XP They'd both been rebooted

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

2004-08-12 Thread Julie Sloan
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 06:12 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Monday 09 August 2004 12:50, Julie Sloan wrote: thanks for your help.Right now I'm in command-line culture-shock, but luckily I don't have a deadline to get comfortable with it. Just remember that linux is a subset of unix

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

2004-08-12 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 12 August 2004 12:14, Julie Sloan wrote: On Wednesday 11 August 2004 06:12 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Monday 09 August 2004 12:50, Julie Sloan wrote: thanks for your help.Right now I'm in command-line culture-shock, but luckily I don't have a deadline to get comfortable

Re: [newbie] Problems with sound

2004-08-12 Thread M.Schild
You mean the 'alternative' sound driver? Yes, not an improvement. Now, when I boot I get: Error while initializing the sound driver device /dev/dsp can´t be opened ( no such file or directory) The error error getting freedb entry is about searching a database on the internet to see the

[newbie] how to mounting usb drive?

2004-08-12 Thread NabilM
I have this external usb dvd-drive. Can some one please tell me how to mount it on Mandrake 9,2. I also have a usb flash drive that mounts automatically. It just bring ups the memory_card icon on the desk top. Cool feature like windows. But how do I access usb cd-drive? Regards,

[newbie] Konsole buffer size

2004-08-12 Thread Marek Pawinski
Hi Is it possible to make the Konsole buffer size infinte or at least something larger. My text runs out quickly when i scroll back to the top. -- Marek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Newbie to Mandrake

2004-08-12 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, I have installed Mandrake 10.0 Power Pack on my pc in my office and also on my laptop. (Two pc's to go.) I'm having the same problem that Stephen is having with the IP address on my laptop so I will be watching the responses. Question: With all the software that came with Mdk 10

Re: [newbie] DHCP Server

2004-08-12 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 12:45, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: Ok - now I know I must be doing something wrong here folks; but let's start out from the beginning. I constantly have customer computers in here, and generally, when I slap them on the network, I give them

Re: [newbie] Scream!

2004-08-12 Thread SME Server Admin
Alas. If I could run my games and Ameol on the linux machine I would happily move over. Alas not. I'm feeling better today, a bit more relaxed... Perhaps the caffine is helping me relax more :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Newbie to Mandrake

2004-08-12 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 05:20, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, I have installed Mandrake 10.0 Power Pack on my pc in my office and also on my laptop. (Two pc's to go.) I'm having the same problem that Stephen is having with the IP address on my laptop so I will be watching the responses.

[newbie] Re: [kdepim-users] Teaching Spamassassin

2004-08-12 Thread SME Server Admin
On Wednesday 11 Aug 2004 13:47, SME Server Admin wrote: 1. What does your local.cf look like in /etc/mail/spamassassin? # This is the right place to customize your installation of SpamAssassin. # # See 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for details of what can be # tweaked. #

Re: [newbie] Problems with sound

2004-08-12 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Thursday 12 August 2004 19:44, M.Schild wrote: You mean the 'alternative' sound driver? Yes, not an improvement. Now, when I boot I get: Error while initializing the sound driver device /dev/dsp can´t be opened ( no such file or directory) Better switch back then! The error error

Re: [newbie] w, who, users -- where are they?

2004-08-12 Thread Clint Harshaw
Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:19:09AM -0400, Clint Harshaw wrote: Hi all. I don't seem to have the commands w, who, and users available on my system. Or at least, they don't seem to be giving the anticipated output. Did I misconfigure something during installation? [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] w, who, users -- where are they?

2004-08-12 Thread Clint Harshaw
Ronald J. Hall wrote: Whats your security level? IIRC, if the sec. lev. is set too high certain things don't work. Standard with all the defaults. Even when I su to root, I get the same results: # w 18:29:36 up 18:17, 0 users, load average: 0.34, 0.38, 0.47 USER TTYLOGIN@ IDLE

RE: [newbie] DHCP Server

2004-08-12 Thread Bill Shirley
You should be seeing messages in /var/log/syslog like: Aug 8 15:32:20 server1 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:d0:09:f4:49:37 via eth0 Aug 8 15:32:21 server1 dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.128.126 to 00:d0:09:f4:49:37 (LAB4) via eth0 Can you post your /etc/dhcpd.conf file? What IP address range are

Re: [newbie] Has someone gotten to my box ?

2004-08-12 Thread et
On Thursday 12 August 2004 18:59, Aron Smith wrote: might be you, might be someone who has your e-mail address in their lookout excuse mail program. do you have Apache orSquid running? have you tried having your box scanned by one of the web based port scanners? i keep getting undelivered

Re: [newbie] Has someone gotten to my box ?

2004-08-12 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 12 August 2004 07:18 pm, et wrote: On Thursday 12 August 2004 18:59, Aron Smith wrote: might be you, might be someone who has your e-mail address in their lookout excuse mail program. do you have Apache orSquid running? have you tried having your box scanned by one of the web

Re: [newbie] Has someone gotten to my box ?

2004-08-12 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 12 August 2004 06:59 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 12759 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2004 20:39:51 - Received: from stm.stmrewards3.com ([206.71.63.232])           (envelope-sender [EMAIL PROTECTED])  

Re: [newbie] Has someone gotten to my box ?

2004-08-12 Thread deedee emrys
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:09:22 -0400, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 12 August 2004 06:59 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 12759 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2004 20:39:51 - Received: from stm.stmrewards3.com

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

2004-08-12 Thread Julie Sloan
On Thursday 12 August 2004 01:34 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 12 August 2004 12:14, Julie Sloan wrote: I've got a desktop set up just for stuff I need to read learn (it's crammed full), I guess we all have such a file mine is 11.8MB and 21 emails to print. Such is life. The

Re: [newbie] Newbie to Mandrake

2004-08-12 Thread BJ Tracy
On Thursday 12 August 2004 05:14 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: SNIP I'm having the same problem that Stephen is having with the IP address on my laptop so I will be watching the responses. Question: With all the software that came with Mdk 10 is there a contact management package like ACT or

[newbie] Re: DHCP Server

2004-08-12 Thread Björn Lundin
Stephen Kühn wrote: I know it's running; already been through that with the IRC guys; yeah, it's running, restarted heaps of times already. The issue is that the client machine (a customer's machine) doesn't seem to want to pick up the IP; I can set it up with static and it's right to go,

Re: [newbie] mplayer xvideo adaptors (length alert)

2004-08-12 Thread deedee emrys
I'm sorry to take so long to get back to you, but I had a lot of downloading to do to get to this point :^(. On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 21:56:42 -0600, Charlie Mahan wrote: On July 30, 2004 20:17:08, deedee emrys wrote: Is there a way to fix mplayer so that the resolution and depth is reduced just