Re: [newbie] Browser of Choice

2000-05-12 Thread Del Kennedy
Hi ~ Can I just say, I'm a newbie to Linux and I'm a home-user, not a Sys Admin. But I think you'll find that if you su to root, cd to /var/spool/mail/ and type: chmod -R 777 * Then that should solve the problem. For details of what this is doing, see the man (or info) pages

[newbie] kppp

2000-05-04 Thread Del Kennedy
Hi ~ any kppp officianados out there ? Every time I go online, I get a whole string of these, sometimes dozens: Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device

Re: [newbie] Re : Enlightenment

2000-04-27 Thread Del Kennedy
will be there!! Regards!! --- Del Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Hi ~ I have run KDE and Gnome for a while under redhat, but recently installed Mandrake and decided to try out Enlightenment. It's fine, but for one thing - if I iconify a window, it vanishes; there are no icons anywhere

[newbie] Re : Enlightenment

2000-04-26 Thread Del Kennedy
Hi ~ I have run KDE and Gnome for a while under redhat, but recently installed Mandrake and decided to try out Enlightenment. It's fine, but for one thing - if I iconify a window, it vanishes; there are no icons anywhere. So my question is : where do iconified windows go to ? (The

Re: [newbie] going back to shell

2000-04-26 Thread Del Kennedy
Edit /etc/inittab (as root) and change the line id:5:initdefault ...to... id:3:initdefault Del. "Rivera, Oscar" wrote: hi my machine boots directly into x windows and I want it to boot to the command prompt how can I do that? can you help? thanks -- \\\|///

Re: [newbie] HELP

2000-04-25 Thread Del Kennedy
this may be stating the obvious but... The login screen should include a selection box for which desktop manager you want at the foot. If you opted to install KDE then you should be able to just select it at that point. Otherwise, CTRLALTF3 should drop you out of x-windows to a command prompt

Re: [newbie] Moving usr and home

2000-04-25 Thread Del Kennedy
Do a copy (cp) not a move (mv) ! It's a whole lot safer. Then you can delete the old directories when you're *sure* you're system's *not* messed up. cp -R /home /mnt/b1/ I'm guessing you've already edited fstab in your /etc partition to automount the new partitions under ./mnt/. Otherwise, try