Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 14 August 2004 10:48 pm, Amy wrote: Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all answered by reading the man pages. However, I absolutely

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-15 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 15:48, Amy wrote: Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all answered by reading the man pages. However, I absolutely

Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin

2004-08-15 Thread John Wilson
On August 14, 2004 09:23 pm, Chris wrote: On Saturday 14 August 2004 11:01 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: snip Odd, my SA 2.63 works fine with maildir. snip Ok, here is how I've got my SA running. Way back when I started running SA I went to, I believe it was Derek Jenning's site where he has/had

[newbie] Linux vs. Windows Viruses

2004-08-15 Thread Stephen Kühn
For those that like to play the devil's advocate and state that linux based viruses ARE coming to linux as it's popularity grows; this is a great commentary explaining why I will never be true. (Oh, yeah, for OS/X as well) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/06/linux_vs_windows_viruses/ --

Re: [newbie] Problems with sound

2004-08-15 Thread M.Schild
I just tried something, make a backup of your /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf like cp /etc/modules.conf /etc/modules.conf.bak and cp /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.conf.bak (just in case something goes wrong, because alsaconf writes to these files when it runs). This way you can

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-15 Thread Amy
Rob Blomquist wrote: On Saturday 14 August 2004 10:48 pm, Amy wrote: Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all answered by reading the man pages.

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-15 Thread Amy
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 15:48, Amy wrote: Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all answered by reading the man pages. However, I

[newbie] Font problem

2004-08-15 Thread Alan Dunford
Yesterday I did a routine urpmi update - security, bugs and normal updates but did not make a note of the programs to be updated. I suppose about 30 programs in all were affected. However, everything appeared to install correctly and the update list is now empty, but the next time I fired up

Re: [newbie] Phone program for Kontact hook up.

2004-08-15 Thread simon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, please can anyone point me in the right direction for a phone program that hooks up with Kontact so that I can click on the phone numbers of Kontact contacts and have my pc dial up the number. Simon. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

[newbie] ClamAV

2004-08-15 Thread JRH
Ok, I have downloaded and installed it, and it has asked me to set up a user account for Clam, which I have done. However, I cant get it to scan my entire drive, as maybe I am doing something wrong. I know the clamscan command starts it scanning, but it will only seen to scan the current

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-15 Thread Snapafun
Amy wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 15:48, Amy wrote: Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all answered by reading the man pages.

Re: [newbie] Illogicall threading.

2004-08-15 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 14 August 2004 20:35, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 14 August 2004 08:18 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I have 'threads default to closed' selected in he Settings of kmail. Yet I just noticed that in the ham folder all messages are being threaded and apparantly messages being

Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin

2004-08-15 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 14 August 2004 22:44, John Wilson wrote: On August 9, 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

Re: [newbie] ClamAV

2004-08-15 Thread Graham Watkins
JRH wrote: Ok, I have downloaded and installed it, and it has asked me to set up a user account for Clam, which I have done. However, I cant get it to scan my entire drive, as maybe I am doing something wrong. I know the clamscan command starts it scanning, but it will only seen to scan the

Re: [newbie] ClamAV

2004-08-15 Thread Graham Watkins
Graham Watkins wrote: However, the Law of Excremental Occurrences has just kicked in. Just tried to run a scan and got the following message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] graham]# clamscan -r / LibClamAV Error: cl_hex2str(): Malformed hexstring: 633a5c312e6261743a2a3a456e6162 (length:

RE: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin

2004-08-15 Thread Bill Shirley
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Wilson Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 11:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin On August 9, 2004 03:01 pm, SME Server Admin wrote: Hiya Right. i've had

[newbie] Re: k3b problem

2004-08-15 Thread Russell Butler
Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 14 August 2004 09:38 pm, Russell Butler wrote: Since upgrading from MK 9.1 to 10 (final download) with kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk I am unable to run k3b (0.11.12-2.3mdk) under KDE, and unable to kill the splash screen, either as user or as root. Seems to hang at Scanning

Re: [newbie] ClamAV

2004-08-15 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Sunday 15 August 2004 05:17, Graham Watkins wrote: JRH wrote: Ok, I have downloaded and installed it, and it has asked me to set up a user account for Clam, which I have done. However, I cant get it to scan my entire drive, as maybe I am doing something wrong. I know the

Re: [newbie] Re: k3b problem

2004-08-15 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Sunday 15 August 2004 05:42, Russell Butler wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 14 August 2004 09:38 pm, Russell Butler wrote: Since upgrading from MK 9.1 to 10 (final download) with kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk I am unable to run k3b (0.11.12-2.3mdk) under KDE, and unable to kill the splash

Re: [newbie] ClamAV

2004-08-15 Thread Graham Watkins
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Sunday 15 August 2004 05:17, Graham Watkins wrote: Also, does anybody know how I can save the output of a scan to a text file as the output is not completely visible in the terminal window. Usually this works 'command filename.txt' if not of if yhou want to see the output

[newbie] KMail crashed by a link

2004-08-15 Thread Thereidos
Hi all! Would someone 'round here be so kind and explain to me why the heck my Kontact/KMail keeps crashing when I move mouse pointer over a hyperlink? KMail simply stops responding to anything... It doesn't happen all the time but quite often lately. -- Cezary 'Thereidos' Morga [EMAIL

[newbie] Netscape 4x on mdk 10

2004-08-15 Thread Marco Verheul
Hi all, I want to install Netscape 4.7 on my mdk 10.0 machine to be able to test whether websites still look good in old browsers. Will it mess up other browsers such as Mozilla? Is there a rpm that I can use for installation on mdk10.0? Cheers, Marco -- Registered Linux user #268279

Re: [newbie] Re: k3b problem

2004-08-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 15 August 2004 06:42 am, Russell Butler wrote: After a bit of trouble I was able to upgrade, but unfortunately the scsi modules for 2 scanners (flatbed and slide) do not work under 2.6.3. Then  I have to configure Win4Lin so that I do not have to keep rebooting. There should be a

Re: [newbie] KMail crashed by a link

2004-08-15 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Sunday 15 August 2004 06:53, Thereidos wrote: Hi all! Would someone 'round here be so kind and explain to me why the heck my Kontact/KMail keeps crashing when I move mouse pointer over a hyperlink? KMail simply stops responding to anything... It doesn't happen all the time but quite

[newbie] Shorewall VMWare

2004-08-15 Thread Graham Watkins
Hi Y'all I've had this problem for some time and nothing I try seems to fix it. Whenever I run VMware, unless I switch off Shorewall and reboot first, I am unable to access the virtual network and consequently can't save or work on files outside the virtual disk. I've tried setting up the

Re: [newbie] (OT) The Bat

2004-08-15 Thread Richard Urwin
On Thursday 12 Aug 2004 7:40 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] ClamAV

2004-08-15 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
However, the Law of Excremental Occurrences has just kicked in. Just tried to run a scan and got the following message: Odd just tried this myself and it runs fine for me... -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a

Re: [newbie] KMail crashed by a link

2004-08-15 Thread Thereidos
W licie z nie, 15-08-2004, godz. 14:25, Hoyt Bailey pisze: On Sunday 15 August 2004 06:53, Thereidos wrote: Hi all! Would someone 'round here be so kind and explain to me why the heck my Kontact/KMail keeps crashing when I move mouse pointer over a hyperlink? KMail simply stops

Re: [newbie] ClamAV

2004-08-15 Thread Graham Watkins
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: However, the Law of Excremental Occurrences has just kicked in. Just tried to run a scan and got the following message: Odd just tried this myself and it runs fine for me... Very weird. It was OK yesterday. I've tried deleting the virus.db files and downloading them

[newbie] MandrakeMove, Printing problem

2004-08-15 Thread Graham Neal
Dear Club, with all the hundreds of Club Emails I have received, cannot understand why no one has replied tomine, as under. I have in fact solved the scanner problem, that now works perfectly, but only if I use as Root!! perhaps this is a key to the printer solution. On an Acer Aspire 1300

Re: [newbie] Linux vs. Windows Viruses

2004-08-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 16:48:34 +1000 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: For those that like to play the devil's advocate and state that linux based viruses ARE coming to linux as it's popularity grows; this is a great commentary explaining why I will never be true. (Oh, yeah, for OS/X as

[newbie] Formatting Dual Boot Partitions

2004-08-15 Thread Masha du Toit Brendon Bussy
Hi , Newbie to Linux here. I would like to dual boot Mandrake .10 and XP and have a question about partitioning formating... - I'd like to create the following partitions on a 120gig SATA drive: 10gig XP Os 90gig Storage 8gig Mandrake 2gig Swap 10gig Home directory My question: I would like the

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-15 Thread Chris
On Sunday 15 August 2004 01:16 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 15:48, Amy wrote: Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all

Re: [newbie] Formatting Dual Boot Partitions

2004-08-15 Thread Brian Parish
On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 23:31, Masha du Toit Brendon Bussy wrote: Hi , Newbie to Linux here. I would like to dual boot Mandrake .10 and XP and have a question about partitioning formating... - I'd like to create the following partitions on a 120gig SATA drive: 10gig XP Os 90gig

[newbie] Command completion only for some users

2004-08-15 Thread Björn Olsson
On my machine, which is running at msec level 4, I have two accounts. One of them is a member of the wheel group, which means command completion is activated. The other one is just a member of its own personal group, so command completion isn't working. Does anyone know how to activate this

Re: [newbie] (OT) The Bat

2004-08-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 12 August 2004 02:40 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Shorewall VMWare

2004-08-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 15 August 2004 08:27 am, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Y'all I've had this problem for some time and nothing I try seems to fix it. Whenever I run VMware, unless I switch off Shorewall and reboot first, I am unable to access the virtual network and consequently can't save or work on

[newbie] KDE Headers??

2004-08-15 Thread JRH
Help! I'm trying to install Apollon v1.0, using the so called all in one installer (all in one pain in the ass so far!). I have had qt and Xfree related probhlems, which I have managed to overcome. Now it is throwing the mother of all errors up And I havent a clue what to do now!

Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin

2004-08-15 Thread John Wilson
On August 15, 2004 03:03 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: snip John you need to get to the messages for instance on my system the following works: sa-learn --ham /home/hoyt/.Mail/ham/cur You might try konqueror and go down to the individual messages that should give you the path. I am running kontact

Re: [newbie] KDE Headers??

2004-08-15 Thread John Wilson
On August 13, 2004 09:33 am, JRH wrote: Help! I'm trying to install Apollon v1.0, using the so called all in one installer (all in one pain in the ass so far!). I have had qt and Xfree related probhlems, which I have managed to overcome. Now it is throwing the mother of all errors

Re: [newbie] KDE Headers??

2004-08-15 Thread Thereidos
W licie z pi, 13-08-2004, godz. 18:33, JRH pisze: Help! I'm trying to install Apollon v1.0, using the so called all in one installer (all in one pain in the ass so far!). I have had qt and Xfree related probhlems, which I have managed to overcome. Now it is throwing the mother

Re: [newbie] Shorewall VMWare

2004-08-15 Thread Graham Watkins
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 15 August 2004 08:27 am, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Y'all I've had this problem for some time and nothing I try seems to fix it. Whenever I run VMware, unless I switch off Shorewall and reboot first, I am unable to access the virtual network and consequently can't save or

Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin

2004-08-15 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Sunday 15 August 2004 16:48, John Wilson wrote: On August 15, 2004 12:18 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: snip He dosent consider himself an expert but he is an excellent teacher. The best teachers aren't the dreaded SME. They're people who have struggled like the rest of us and pass the

Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin (Thanks!!!)

2004-08-15 Thread John Wilson
Thanks to all who answered. It's all working now. Chris, I'll be in touch with you off the list about other information you have. Once again thanks to all! ttfn John *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free

Re: [newbie] [OT] Dumbest question ever asked

2004-08-15 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 15 August 2004 04:39 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: snip I know, I know; it pays the bills. But it still makes me feel like a streetwalker in a seedy area of a crappy city. g Charlie Charlie: You're OK so long as you don't cut your rates after midnight. -- cmg

[newbie] Downloads and Installs

2004-08-15 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, I have a number of books on Linux and find them to be a wealth of knowledge but they are really vague when it comes to downloads and installations. Can someone suggest a good book that will walk me thru a download and installation. I may be making this harder than it is, but I have

[newbie] DVD +/-RW / +/-R drives

2004-08-15 Thread julie
I've searched the Internet until I'm bleary eyed and hunted through archives and not come up with an answer as to which DVD +/-RW / +/-R might work with Mandrake Official 10. There are some tempting sales on right now and I'd like to take advantage ... Anyone know anything about I/OMagic or

Re: [newbie] Downloads and Installs

2004-08-15 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 15 August 2004 21:24:09, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, I have a number of books on Linux and find them to be a wealth of knowledge but they are really vague when it comes to downloads and installations. Can someone suggest a good book

Re: [newbie] DVD +/-RW / +/-R drives

2004-08-15 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 15 August 2004 11:32 pm, julie wrote: I've searched the Internet until I'm bleary eyed and hunted through archives and not come up with an answer as to which DVD +/-RW / +/-R might work with Mandrake Official 10. There are some tempting sales on right now and I'd like to take

[newbie] i'm getting bored

2004-08-15 Thread Nurahmadie ^_^
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Re: [newbie] DVD +/-RW / +/-R drives

2004-08-15 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 15 August 2004 22:32:10, julie wrote: I've searched the Internet until I'm bleary eyed and hunted through archives and not come up with an answer as to which DVD +/-RW / +/-R might work with Mandrake Official 10. There are some tempting

Re: [newbie] i'm getting bored

2004-08-15 Thread Brian Parish
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