Re: [newbie] Sendmail - User Unknown

1999-12-05 Thread Andrew M George
in conjunction) Andrew On Sun, 05 Dec 1999, Peter Heckert wrote: Andrew M George wrote: Thanks Peter, I do have uper case characters in my username (fetchmail seem to be passing them OK..It's probably Sendmail not picking them up Locate this line in /etc/sendmail.cf: Mlocal, P=/usr/bin

Re: [newbie] Sendmail - User Unknown

1999-12-04 Thread Andrew M George
quot; here forcecr smtpaddress localhost On Sun, 05 Dec 1999, you wrote: Hi Andrew, Andrew M George wrote: Hi, I've just started to try to configure sendmail on my Linux PC at home (rather than just using Kmail to grab mail direct from my ISP)...and I'm having a problem getting the mail

Re: [newbie] Window Managers and xdm

1999-12-01 Thread Andrew M George
On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: You'll also need to use KDE's "kdmconfig" tool to add it it to the drop-down box. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Richard Yevchak wrote: I download blackbox and I was wondering how to add it to the list of wm's I am presented

RE: [newbie] OT: useless factoid part deux

1999-11-20 Thread Andrew M George
hmmm 1. Go to video Store 2. Rent Die hard III 3. Fast Forward to the park scene 4. Take notes (sorry...couldn't resist) On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote: 1. Fill the 5 gallon bucket using the 3 gallon bucket. Now there is 3 gallon of water in the 5 gallon bucket. And you can add 2 more gallon

Re: [newbie] X-server (2)

1999-11-20 Thread Andrew M George
try desktopcfg, its by us and it runs from a console unlike switchdesk --Axalon OK...I asked this once before but didn't get a reply how do you add a window manager to the KDM/XDM list and get it working? KDM configure llows you to add a menu

Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?

1999-11-12 Thread Andrew M George
Joe Marcom wrote: Hello, again. I've been using Free Agent as my NG reader in window$ for as long as I have been online. Now that I'm moving up to Linux, what do you recommend? Thanks. Joe I have tried several and found that Staroffice suits me best. SO combined

[newbie] I'm probably missing something blingdingly obvious with KDM....

1999-10-27 Thread Andrew M George
Hi, I'm probably missing something blindingly obvious but how do you add another window manager to KDM's list I know KDM's config tool gets it on the list, but it dosn't seem to run. After a bit of poking around I found Xsession seems to control where it looks for a window manager, but after

Re: [newbie] Utilities menu -- Reading the bottom?

1999-10-25 Thread Andrew M George
Hi Benjamin. Thats exactly what I did...copied the items into the new menu...and then when I was sure they were working I deleted them out of the old menu (long...but I was paranoid I'd loose an item). If you right click on an item in Kmenuedit you will find an interesting popup appearing with

Re: [newbie] Utilities menu -- Reading the bottom?

1999-10-24 Thread Andrew M George
I know the feeling... what I wound up doing was editing the menu structure so Utilities now goes to 2 submenues (Utilities a -k and Utilities l -z) with all the apps moved to their respective submenu. Of course, next time I install an RPM that makes an entry into the utilities menu, I'm going to

[newbie] DVI to win converter

1999-10-20 Thread Andrew M George
Hi guys. Is there any app out there that will convert a DVI or postscript doc to eitehr an MS word format or RTF Maxwell seems to be good at running RTF I know, but I've been using Lyx a lot, and I was wondering if there was a way of converting it's formatted output to something my unrepentant

RE: [newbie] [OT] Just tried kmail!

1999-10-19 Thread Andrew M George
Interesting, I've never even thought of doing that I have a download directory in my Kpanel, so I usually just wait until I surf to something I like, open the download directory (which starts a new window) and drag the link / FTP icon across to it... Thats what I love about Linux...there's so

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 6.1

1999-10-19 Thread Andrew M George
Haha, Actually, I've been getting that error with linuxconf since Redhat 5.0...never figured out why On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, you wrote: Bloody Australia and damn Australians. Place has gone down hill since they stopped drinking Swan Lager and started on that awful stuff that comes out of green

[newbie] Weird PPP problem

1999-10-15 Thread Andrew M George
Hi I've been using Mandrake for quite a while, and recently upgraded to 6.1 While I was adding some RPM's that didn't go in from the CD during my install, I've noticed something odd has started happening Kbiff, Kmail (actually all of the internet programs) don't seem to want to use pppd if I