Re: [newbie] Spam Control (was: Living in the johns world)

to initiate spam control from mailing lists? I checked googled and found much in German, but not much in English. Thanks! Kipling Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Few are those who see with their own

Re: [newbie] Reboot..how often

that its down every blah blah time for a blah blah amount of time... ?? Any ideas? Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . When you reach the crossroads, take it. - Yogi Berra Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Domain hosting--how to?

A static ip and registered domain name are necessary to create an address record in DNS. Your isp can handle this. See if they have that as a service. Of course they'll charge extra to set it up, etc At 09:30 PM 1/15/2002, you wrote: I've been playing with Apache and am able to access

Re: [newbie] cron

One can also change their EDITOR env setting to pico should one be so inclined... Ed At 11:38 AM 1/10/2002, Real Name wrote: or just enter crontab -e from any prompt and make your edits in VI Dan B On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:20:27 -0500 sda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at

Re: [newbie] Change Time

server, the script will cheerfully report success. Maybe in a later version ... Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations. - Elton Trueblood Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] System attack Recovery Question

not permitted Thanks in advance... Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it; when people are saying it can't be done. - Mary Francis Berry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] System attack Recovery Question

At 03:45 PM Wednesday, 12/26/2001, you wrote -= On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:47:25 -0800 Ed Kasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: hard link so that it can't be deleted or updated until we find the hard link. My question is how do I trace this link so I can delete

Re: [newbie] System attack Recovery Question

? Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. --Samuel Butler Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] System attack Recovery Question

At 08:26 PM Wednesday, 12/26/2001, daRcmaTTeR wrote -= On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 15:34:47 -0800 Ed Kasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: We tried runlevel 1 but the file system for hda1 gets mounted as read only for some reaon How does one get around that? Ed

Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Review - please comment] - corrected link

://www.mandrakestore.com Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldn't do. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Review - please comment

to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Web page design

without knowing now to program. I have been using frontpage 2000. I'm trying to get away from windows and just use linux. next i need to change over my hp joranda 450 to use under linux and quicken then i can delete windows. thanks Bill Nash Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . You

Re: [newbie] limit of cat5 cables? (length)

? (approx. 30-40 feet) Is there a limit to cat5 length in order to remain effective? Do I need a wireless solution? is that even safe? Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant. --Steven Wright

Re: [newbie] GRUB

altconfigfile (hd0,4)/lnx4win/boot/grub/menu.once default 0 Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens. --Benjamin Disraeli Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

It has been my experience that most of the offenders don't even know the difference between html and plain text let alone know how to change a setting. I thought all I had to do was turn it on and just go... }B-) I can't tell you how frustrating it was for me to get some members of some

Re: [newbie] Checking on port 80 scans?

I am editing the /etc/logcheck/ignore file which I've checked the path in logcheck.sh to make sure it's pointing there.. which it is. I have all the logcheck files in the same dir. Check the docs as to the exact files that you should be seeing Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA

Re: [newbie] Checking on port 80 scans?

2001 15:13, you wrote: FWIW - I use a handy little tool called Logcheck from Psionic that monitors logs and reports via email. It's very configurable and runs via cron so you can run it as often as you like. Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem

Re: [newbie] Checking on port 80 scans?

to use or where this might be logged? Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA Linux registered user 219525 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Can't find StarOffice in KDE menu

I even reported this little bug to Star and never heard anything back... I just manually created the links. Ed At 07:07 PM 9/13/2001 -0400, you wrote: I installed StarOffice.. and it tells me it is installed into the KDE menu. I restarted my KDE. But it's still not in the KDE menu. How can I

Re: [newbie] Open source hits back?

From the end of the article: For those who didn't immediately see the irony in my editorial, I feel it necessary to mention that this was only written as a joke in response to the frustrating times we're all experiencing in our ever-continuing battle with Microsoft. Written At 05:18 PM

RE: [newbie] Newbie :) WU-FTPD

Try Webmin. www.webmin.com At 10:32 AM Saturday, 8/18/2001, you wrote -= Is there a GUI interface for proftpd or wu-ftpd? I am used to having a visual interface like in serv-u and G6 Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything

Re: [newbie] Win2k

Be sure you have your lilo boot floppy before you do anything. Then install Win2k. You can then use your lilo boot floppy to boot to linux and then run lilo again which will install the loader. Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA ~~~ There is victory in surrender. On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Robert

Re: [newbie] Local network browsing not working

17:38, Ed Kasky wrote: Trying to browse network using Konqueror returns the following error: Could not connect to host localhost I am running MD 8 and Samba 2.0.10. Other windows machines can see and connect to this one but it can't see the other machines on the network through

[newbie] Local network browsing not working

. Ed -- Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA ~~~ I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ~ Albert Einstein

Re: [newbie] *.GZ

I have had no problems using Winzip 8 on .tar's and .gz's Ed At 09:01 AM 7/5/2001 -0500, Boliver Allmon wrote: Can anyone tell me of a program that will allow me to un-archive a gz file on a windose computer? I have some How-Tos I would like to read here at work. I have WinZip, but it does not

Re: [newbie] /mnt/windows problem

of error and the only solution it provided was to erase the entire drive! Needless to say, I was not amused. Tazmun AFAIK, it's _very_ dangerous to mount NTFS partitions (file system corruption!) -Frans -- Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA ~~~ A drug is neither

Re: [newbie] Volume Control in KDE?

is to manually launch and dock kmix, logout with 'save setting' and from then on as long you don't accidentally exit kmix before logging out it will always be launched, at least this is how i deduced i got it to work for me bascule On Thursday 21 June 2001 10:29 pm, you wrote: Ed Kasky wrote

[newbie] Volume Control in KDE?

Is there a volume control anywhere in KDE desktop? I hate to admit to being used to the slider in windoze But... Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Improve the computing world. Toss a Mac off a cliff.

Re: [newbie] Removing Linux, how do I re-install next OS?

and the board. Do you hear the drive spin up when you power on? Ed Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA Just another day in paradise... }B-) On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Michael A Duffy wrote: Hi List, I had LM 8.0 loaded onto a smaller sized HD than the one I am using now. I now want to remove

Re: [newbie] Can't access floppy )-:

... Ed -- Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA ~~~ Not one shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Re: [newbie] Can't access floppy )-:

At 08:24 AM 6/8/2001 -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: Ed Kasky wrote: I can't figure out why I can't access floppy drive in LM8 install. In Konqueror the floppy icon has a lock on it even when logged in as root. # cd /mnt/floppy results in the following: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: input/output error

Re: [newbie] Why doesn't StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel?

This is exactly the issue. Anyone figure out why yet? Ed At 11:59 AM 6/5/2001 -0700, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Yes, but you shouldn't have to. That's the point. StarOffice claims that it installed the icon to the panel during install, and it doesn't work. The question from the original poster was

[newbie] fd0 input/output error

# cd /mnt/floppy results in the following: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: input/output error In Konqueror the floppy icon has a lock on it even when logged in as root. permissions are drwxrwxrwx 1 root root from fstab: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=dev/fd0 0 0 Any ideas? -- Ed

[newbie] How to Compile Kernel

/arch/i386/boot/bzImage but there's no folder with that name. I found a bvmlimux of kernel size in a folder named ../arch/i386/boot/compressed and tried to use that but that's when I get the error. Any ideas or url's for some howto's or docs are appreciated Ed Ed Kasky Los Angeles

Re: [newbie] How to Compile Kernel

Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA Just another day in paradise... }B-) On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Tim Holmes wrote: locate database at like 4 AM every day. I'm assuming it's been a day or so later, so try doing a locate bzImage. From there it will find where that file is, provided it's actually

Re: [newbie] Why doesn't StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel?

I had to put the links in manually.. Ed Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA Just another day in paradise... }B-) On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, Has any one been successful in having StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel after installation in LM8? I can't get it to work

Re: [newbie] windows 2000 dual boot

I have a dual boot system with win2k but use a second hd on which I installed Mandrake. I didn't like the way it handled the windows partition. Once you get it installed you'll need to recompile the kernel using xconfig to enable ntfs support so you can see the partition... Ed At 09:15 AM

[newbie] Default Viewing Font - Kwrite/Konquerer

for view a file's contents... In settings/configure konqueror/appearance there is a tab for appearance which lists fonts for various things but none make any changes to the font in the viewer or in Kwrite. Ed -- Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA ~~~ Everyone has a right to be stupid.  Some

Re: [newbie] Default Viewing Font - Kwrite/Konquerer

going to control centre-look and feel-style and check anti-aliasing, then choose your fonts from the font tab Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~~American Indian Proverb

Re: [newbie] fstab and /mnt/windows

On Friday 18 May 2001 20:12, thus spake Ed Kasky: If it's an ntfs formatted partition do I use ntfs in place of vfat? Ed At 01:20 PM Friday, 5/18/2001, Dave Sherman wrote -= Try this: /dev/hde1/mnt/windows vfatuser,exec,umask=0 0 0 It should give you full read/write

[newbie] fstab and /mnt/windows

What would be the proper entry in /etc/fstab to automatically mount my windoze partition from hde? I would like to at least have read access to be able to access files. Is this correct? /dev/hde1/mnt/windows ext2defaults 1 2 Thanks in advance Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles

Re: [newbie] fstab and /mnt/windows

If it's an ntfs formatted partition do I use ntfs in place of vfat? Ed At 01:20 PM Friday, 5/18/2001, Dave Sherman wrote -= Try this: /dev/hde1/mnt/windows vfatuser,exec,umask=0 0 0 It should give you full read/write access. Dave On Friday 18 May 2001 10:33, thus spake Ed Kasky

Re: [newbie] install problem?

to load. So there's a confliction between the label of the HD. Could this be a problem with my promise controller? Could this be a bug in the install? Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you

Re: [newbie] 3 programs i'd love to get

I have found Netscape Messenger to work just fine for NG's... Ed ~~ At 09:11 PM 5/10/2001 +0200, Paul wrote: It was Thu, 10 May 2001 14:24:40 -0400 when Rog wrote: One program I'd love to see is Agent/Free Agent, since I don't like the newsreaders I've found in Linux. Agent works very well

[newbie] Re: Homepage [ALERT] Virus alert...

.htm; |-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--30--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-| Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . The grass is always greener when you leave the sprinkler on.

[newbie] Still Unable to mount root fs

hdf1? Thanks in advance Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished.

[newbie] Unable to mount root fs

on the second drive? Watching the boot process it appears to recognize both drives. Any ideas or suggestions as to what to look at next? Thanks in advance Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Bad day: Spouse is reading a new book : Celibacy. The Secret Weapon.