RE: [newbie] Higher priority for XMMS

2002-03-18 Thread FLYNN, Steve
to the program from within a non-root account? On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 10:36, FLYNN, Steve wrote: You can 'nice' the task, to a lower value to give it more cpu cycles. However, to do so, you will have to be root anyway. It's easy enough to do with the sudo command though

RE: [newbie] best news reader and ftp client

2002-03-18 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Rather than using Pan for binary newsgroups, try bnr (Binary News Reaper). There is a Win version and a Linux version available. It;s really is very very good for binary newsgroups. http://www.bnr.com (I think!) -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [SMTP:[EMAIL

RE: [newbie] best news reader and ftp client

2002-03-17 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Agent runs quite happily under WINE, so if you are happy with it, just keep using it! Other than that, I like tin and mutt for news. -Original Message- From: Donald E.Gulmire [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 2:16 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Higher priority for XMMS

2002-03-17 Thread FLYNN, Steve
You can 'nice' the task, to a lower value to give it more cpu cycles. However, to do so, you will have to be root anyway. It's easy enough to do with the sudo command though... -Original Message- From: Nelson Bartley [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday,

RE: [newbie] Which File system?

2002-03-16 Thread FLYNN, Steve
So, you want a file-system which isn't secure, you don't want to back it up and you aren't bothered about it being stable... It all really depends on what you use your machine for... what's the machines' primary use? -Original Message- From: Aryan Ameri [SMTP:[EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Willing to run Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-16 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Providing the fans hold up, then yes. Ensure you route cabling correctly. Don't use massively high-spin speed hard drives - they run a lot hotter than slower stuff. Be sensible about the configuration of the machine... 24*7*365 isn't a problem. The important thing is the load on the box.

RE: [newbie] NVidia RPMs for LM 8.1

2002-02-09 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Yep. -Original Message- From: Rick [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 10:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] NVidia RPMs for LM 8.1 OK... I think I just learned something about RPM...

RE: [newbie] Memory Management

2002-02-09 Thread FLYNN, Steve
How much swap do you have defined? You machine definately calls 'swapon' in the boot process? What's the output from 'free'? I've no idea of what LinuxExt32 is - is it EXT2 or EXT3? -Original Message- From: Tonton [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday,

RE: [newbie] benchmarking

2002-02-09 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Benchmarking is exceptionally complicated. For starters read the benchmarking FAQ - it'll give you an idea of how complicated it can get. If you are upgrading the kernel you are going to be looking at timing response times of packages, the start-up time of packages and suchlike. I'd use a

RE: [newbie] Unsatisfied Dependancies

2002-02-08 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Have you tried www.rpmfind.org? -Original Message- From: Mark Evans [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 10:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Unsatisfied Dependancies Hi Im attempt to install mplayer in a Mandrake 8.1 system. My

RE: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Reboot..how often]

2002-02-08 Thread FLYNN, Steve
I seem to recall, and I may be off the mark here, as it's a dim and distant memory, that kppp is written in Tcl which isn't the most gracious handler of memory in my opinion - it does something weird holding onto resources (especailly memory), which could be the cause of your problems. Just my

RE: [newbie]

2002-02-02 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Caching and buffers. Don't worry - it's a good thing that all of your ram is in use, it means none of it is being wasted. However, KDE2 is a bit of a hog when it comes to resources. If you're really bothered by it, use a lighter WindowManager like BlackBox. -Original Message- From:

RE: [newbie] Uptime in e-mail sig

2002-02-02 Thread FLYNN, Steve
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:RE: [newbie] Uptime in e-mail sig I'm using Evolution right now. -Original Message- From: FLYNN, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:04 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

2002-02-01 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Negative. /etc/fstab is read by mount everytime it needs to mount something. Additions are no problem. Edits may necessitate unmounting and remounting that device (say if you changed the mount point from /mnt/zip to /mnt/zipdrive for example). -Original Message- From: Ronald J. Hall

RE: [newbie] Uptime in e-mail sig

2002-02-01 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Combination of a pipe, backticks and an email reader which lets you run a program or script to determine the contents of the sig. Which email reader do you use? -Original Message- From: Johnson, David [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 5:12 PM To: '[EMAIL

RE: [newbie] find out the last modified date of a file

2002-01-30 Thread FLYNN, Steve
stat -l filename grep the output for Modify but you'll have to convert the date into MMDD -Original Message- From: tek1 [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 2:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] find out the last modified date of a file

RE: [newbie] .xsession-errors

2002-01-30 Thread FLYNN, Steve
: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 2:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] .xsession-errors On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:11:01 - FLYNN, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Is it just me or everyone get ever growing .xsession

RE: [newbie] Perl script is not able to execute

2002-01-30 Thread FLYNN, Steve
./perl.pl You probably don't have the current directory in your search path, so when you issue the perl.pl command, the machine looks everywhere, apart from the current directory. Either get into the habit of specifying ./command or add ./ to your search path. Be aware that many people do not

RE: [newbie] new installation

2002-01-30 Thread FLYNN, Steve
You need to boot with a rescue disk, or with your installation CD and type 'rescue' at the LILO prompt. This will allow you to mount your linux root partition and sort out your /etc/lilo.conf file. Remember to run /sbin/lilo after changing the config file or your changes will have no effect.

FW: [newbie] Text Startup / How-to

2002-01-30 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Sent directly to Paul, and to the list, in case anyone else wants to know. -Original Message- From: FLYNN, Steve Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 1:36 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:RE: [newbie] Text Startup / How-to To fire up to multi-user mode and not start X

RE: [newbie] Copying Files to Floppy

2002-01-29 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Is the floppy formatted as a FAT (i.e. Windows/DOS) disk or is it formatted as an EXT2 (i.e. Linux filing system) floppy? If you shove a windows formatter floppy,. Linux will see it, recognise it and adjust the copy process accordingly. You should be able to boot into Windows, open up the floppy

RE: [newbie] How to work PCMCIA

2002-01-29 Thread FLYNN, Steve
I've never managed to get my Psion GoldCard PCMCIA card working. This is a 56K fax modem and 10/100 Ethernet card. It gets detected at boot and correctly identified, but I then get (type by hand - any typo's are mine) cs: cb_config(bus 5) cs: could not allocate 512 IO ports for cardbus

[newbie] .xsession-errors

2002-01-29 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Is it just me or everyone get ever growing .xsession-errors files for each userid who uses X? Mine seem t be full of: kicker: WARNING: KDE detected X error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9 Major Opcode 14 Anyone got any clues as to why I get these errors and more

RE: [newbie] Xinetd Based Services

2002-01-29 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Chargen generates random characters I believe. Never found a use for it. daytime sends back the date and time echo just echos back whatever was fired into it time send back the local time (Note that these are my descriptions - they may not be particularly accurate) They are all pertty much used

RE: [newbie] How to work PCMCIA

2002-01-29 Thread FLYNN, Steve
I can do - where do I start looking? For example, if I wanted to force the card to use IRQ5, where do I set that kind of thing up? (I suck at the PC config bit!) -Original Message- From: Harm Bathoorn [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 1:48 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Copying Files to Floppy

2002-01-29 Thread FLYNN, Steve
As an addendum, you can force Linux to sync all mounted devices, via the 'sync' command. I think Linux auto-sync's every 5 seconds, so if you pop of the floppy during the 5 seconds after the copy command has finished and before Linux sync's the physical disk, you'll end up with nothing on the

RE: [newbie] How to work PCMCIA

2002-01-29 Thread FLYNN, Steve
No confilicts in Syslog other than the one's I posted when I insert or remove the card. The IR port on my Inspiron 3600 doesn't work, neither in windows nor in Linux, so I've assumed it's FUBAR'd. As it's a fairly old machine, the BIOS isn't the most configurable I've ever seen. I think I'll

RE: [newbie] Starting Apache + PHP

2002-01-29 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Sounds to me like to you don't have all the necessary apache rpm's installed. I'd recommend you go into software manager, select flat-listing and enter apache in the search box. Install anything which is shown. -Original Message- From: Andre Dubuc [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: [newbie] Copying Files to Floppy

2002-01-29 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Something which can help in situations likes this is the man -k command. For example, man -k mount will give you all man pages which have anything to do with 'mount' including 'umount'. It's the same as the apropos command. Works well when you know the area of interest you want to find out a

RE: [newbie] mail from root

2002-01-29 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Are you talking about tripwire? It mails syslogs, mail logs and suchlike to root on a weekly basis (or whenever you want actually). man tripwire and have a play - I think it's what you're after. -Original Message- From: Paul Rodríguez [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: Re[2]: [newbie] cd-rw

2002-01-28 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Daft question, but what is UDF? I've never understood some of the odd types of CD you can create. -Original Message- From: Roman Korcek [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 1:15 PM To: Ralph Slooten Subject: Re[2]: [newbie] cd-rw Hi, I am having

RE: [newbie] Mounting an install of 8.1 or 8.2beta as RO to prevent any damage

2002-01-28 Thread FLYNN, Steve
PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 8:43 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Mounting an install of 8.1 or 8.2beta as RO to prevent any damage I think you are going to be wanting to read up on NFS to mount your

RE: [newbie] installing 8.1

2002-01-28 Thread FLYNN, Steve
That's a Pentium I I believe. I suspect that the packages it's going to install, if you ever get it to install, are all optimised for Pentium II's. I don't even know if they will work correctly? Would you like me to burn you a copy of MDK 6.5 and post it to you, so you can at least get

RE: [newbie] resizing partitions

2002-01-27 Thread FLYNN, Steve
With 768 meg or RAM, you'll be hard pushed to use any swap at all I'd have thought! Before you go off fidling with partitions, I'd fire up your installation disk in windows and use RAWWRITE to dump the MEMTEST image to a floppy disk. Reboot with the floppy in and MEMTEST will boot automatically.

RE: [newbie] Cd-Rom / Digital Speakers

2002-01-27 Thread FLYNN, Steve
What does 'mount' say? -Original Message- From: Paul Kraus [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 2:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Cd-Rom / Digital Speakers That was supposed to read...

RE: [newbie] Book question.

2002-01-27 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Sounds like you want to learn how to use your desktop environment efficiently first. If you use KDE, start with the KDE manuals and then move onto LSAG (Linux system Administrators Guide). This book is available for installation from your disks - it comes with the distribution.

RE: [newbie] installing 8.1

2002-01-27 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Are you quite sure your BIOS won't allow a CDROM boot? It must be a truely ancient laptop if it doesn't. It's not a Dell Insprion is it? What normally happens is that the CDROM can be connected top the parallel port via a special cable which carries the signal and enough power for the drive

RE: [newbie] resizing partitions

2002-01-27 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Yep - you can use dd. Insert your Installation disk (I'm usign MDK 8.0 but it should be roughly the same). 'dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/memtest.bin of=/dev/fd0' That' will copy the memtest.bin image file onto you floppy disk. It'll overwrite anything on the disk so make sure there's nothing on

RE: [newbie] installing 8.1

2002-01-27 Thread FLYNN, Steve
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 17:23 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Are you quite sure your BIOS won't allow a CDROM boot? It must be a truely

RE: [newbie] installing 8.1

2002-01-27 Thread FLYNN, Steve
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 17:33 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Hmmm - tricky. Have you got sfficient drive space to perform a Hard-drive

RE: [newbie] installing 8.1

2002-01-27 Thread FLYNN, Steve
it's not possible to connect it via a cable :-( Tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 17:23 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1

RE: [newbie] copying files from cd

2002-01-27 Thread FLYNN, Steve
You aren't copying it correctly! You should be doing something like 'cp /mnt/cdrom/afile.txt ~/afile.txt'. Are you doing this copy from the command line or the desktop. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 7:35 PM

RE: [newbie] installing 8.1

2002-01-27 Thread FLYNN, Steve
packaged in a shop which cost £30! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 18:51 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Didn't you

RE: [newbie] copying files from cd

2002-01-27 Thread FLYNN, Steve
I've never used Nautilus, so I can't comment, but what you are doing sounds correct. or at least plausible. No ida why it gives you an empty file though. Any Nautilus users who can comment? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: [newbie] copying files from cd

2002-01-27 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Being perfectly honest, it's fairly easy from the command line and is worth having a play with jsut to get yourself comfortable with using the CLI. It's often easier from CLI, as you are fairly sure of getting some error message back when there was a problem. -Original Message- From:

RE: [newbie] resizing partitions

2002-01-26 Thread FLYNN, Steve
I believe GnuPartEd can non-destructively resize partitions, but make sure you have any important data backed up first, just in case. What makes you think you need to resize your swap partition anyway? Does your machine come close to utilising all of your existing swap space now?

RE: [newbie] Security

2002-01-25 Thread FLYNN, Steve
What were the two users? If one was logged in from :0 and the other from a pts* terminal, don't worry - they are both you! Command 'w' should give you some information... -Original Message- From: Curt Tresenriter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January

RE: [newbie] trouble installing 8.0

2002-01-25 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Use a etxt install. Hit F1 and select text for a text only install. -Original Message- From: m!ke mcgranahan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 1:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] trouble installing 8.0 i have an old dell 486/66, with

RE: [newbie] trouble installing 8.0

2002-01-25 Thread FLYNN, Steve
? mike - Original Message - From: FLYNN, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 5:32 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] trouble installing 8.0 Use a etxt install. Hit F1 and select text for a text only

RE: [newbie] less

2002-01-24 Thread FLYNN, Steve
How are you actually invoking less? Sounds like you are doing something like 'ls -al | less' If you want to view file abc123 you should be using 'less abc123'. Have I misunderstood your question? -Original Message- From: Bo Rosén [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January

RE: [newbie] Swap Partititon

2002-01-24 Thread FLYNN, Steve
If you have 128 meg, create a swap partion or file of 512 meg. How much memory is installed in you Linux box? -Original Message- From: Paul Kraus [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] less

2002-01-24 Thread FLYNN, Steve
That is extremely strange. Do a 'which less' and then 'ls -al wherever less is located'. Make sure that less isn't linked to ls or something similar. On the face of it, it should work. -Original Message- From: Bo Rosén [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: [newbie] Swap Partititon

2002-01-24 Thread FLYNN, Steve
: Thursday, January 24, 2002 5:19 PM To: 'FLYNN, Steve'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Swap Partititon That's the confusion. I am running 196 megs on my laptop so I should double this. But on my home system I am running 512mb so should I then make a 1gig swap? If not why

RE: [newbie] Hard Drive

2002-01-22 Thread FLYNN, Steve
mount -t fat32 /dev/hda3 /mnt/C Obviously, change hda3 to whatever device is your windows partion. You can get a clue by looking at the boot messages (dmesg | less). -Original Message- From: Paul Kraus [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 5:23 PM To: Newbie

RE: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 8.1

2002-01-20 Thread FLYNN, Steve
How much RAM do you have in this machine and is it known to be good? The only thing I can think of preventing Linux from creating and mounting a ram disk is either lack of free ram (try installing via a text install, rather than graphical) or bad ram (only option is to buy some decent ram). You

RE: [newbie] wolfenstien.

2002-01-20 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Going to need a touch nore information than that Derek. What problem are you having? What error messages do you get and at what stage? -Original Message- From: Derek fowler [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 10:08 AM To: [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Anyone using an Xfree86 4.01 with a Voodoo 4?

2002-01-19 Thread FLYNN, Steve
' and look for some errors. Anyway, if the DRI is enabled , try the 'gears' You should see 2 gears spinning in 3d and in the command prompt where you've run the command you should see the rate. Michael Spivak -Original Message- From: FLYNN, Steve

RE: [newbie] Log size in Linux

2002-01-19 Thread FLYNN, Steve
A weeks syslog on my box gzips down to about 30K. I can keep a several months of logs on a floppy, comfortably. I'd strongly advise against logrotating daily unless you don't want the logs. If you don't want the logs, switch them off. -Original Message- From: Erylon

RE: [newbie] I lost my user accounts

2002-01-19 Thread FLYNN, Steve
What do you can in your .xsession-errors files for your bad users? How's about your Xfree log file, messages and syslog? Any clues in there? -Original Message- From: Bill Winegarden [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 12:19 AM

RE: [newbie] terminal games?

2001-10-05 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Nethack. Slash. LARN. Rogue. Moria. Basically, all of the roguelikes are curses based. (there are hundreds more - these are the fellows I play regularly). -Original Message- From: Matt Greer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 6:12 AM

RE: [newbie] Download accelerators for Linux?

2001-10-04 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Although this isn't for Linux, I'd heartily recommend GetRight. It allows you to remove the spyware, which is only there for the unregistered version, and even so, a carefully crafted HOSTS file prevents it from talking back to the spyware collector. In fact, I use quite a bit of spyware and

RE: [newbie] 8.1 ~ Floppy not working

2001-10-04 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Well, what does 'ls -al /dev/fd*' show? What appears in /var/log/messages when you mount the drive? -Original Message- From: Ralph Slooten [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 9:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [newbie] Creative soundblaster live

2001-10-03 Thread FLYNN, Steve
I wouldn't of thought so Mike - what would bash do with a line like setenv SOURCE /usr/local/src when it was expecting something like SOURCE=/usr/local/src ; export SOURCE I suspect you'd break your shell and then have to repair it pretty quickly! Reminds me of the time one of my sysprogs

RE: [newbie] Installing Zip drive on 8.0

2001-10-03 Thread FLYNN, Steve
: Thursday, September 27, 2001 2:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing Zip drive on 8.0 FLYNN, Steve wrote: What's wrong with following the ZIP FAQ? All it involves is insmod'ing the ppa modules and mounting the drive. I did it on my laptop, running Mandrake 6.5

RE: [newbie] Command not found

2001-10-02 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Log in as your normal user and type 'set' at the command prompt. What do you have for $PATH? You don't want your ordinary user to have administrator rights. It's a bad move. However, if you REALLY want to expose your self to disaster, you can either simply log in as root, or use root to make

RE: [newbie] Command not found

2001-10-02 Thread FLYNN, Steve
fully qualify the command name. For example, /bin/ls /bin/cd /bin/vi However, if your path is as you show below, it should work. Maybe your login script isn't exporting the path to subshells... Can see why not though. -Original Message- From: Loke Kit Kai [SMTP:[EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Creative soundblaster live

2001-10-02 Thread FLYNN, Steve
]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 02 October 2001 23:20 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Creative soundblaster live Have you tried sndconfig? Works for me in 8.0. You may also want to change the volume levels with aumix or KMix

RE: [newbie] Command not found

2001-10-02 Thread FLYNN, Steve
% setenv NAME value C shell $ NAME=value; export NAME Bourne or Korn shell As a rule, Csh doesn't need to export it's variables - it does it automatically. Post the contents of your ~/.cshrc... Maybe this will help: Bourne Shell The original Bourne shell has one file that it reads when

RE: [newbie] Installing Zip drive on 8.0

2001-09-27 Thread FLYNN, Steve
What's wrong with following the ZIP FAQ? All it involves is insmod'ing the ppa modules and mounting the drive. I did it on my laptop, running Mandrake 6.5 about a week ago, without a problem. Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message-

RE: [newbie] kapm-idled?

2001-09-26 Thread FLYNN, Steve
It's been done to death loads of times. The overall result is don't worry about it, it's an idle task which soaks up unused cycles for accounting purposes. It's not really using ANY of your processor cycles. Look at the output from 'top' in a console. Check out the CPU utilisation figures at

RE: [newbie] letting computer run overnight without overheating

2001-09-20 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Providing your heatsink fans are working OK, it'll be fine. My machine hasn't been switch off for over 3 years. It runs at 100% CPU utilisation 24/7 either rendering or running the Dnet client. You machine will idle overnight, providing you aren't doing the same as me, so HD's will spin down -

RE: [newbie] kernel panics

2001-09-18 Thread FLYNN, Steve
What's the error message when the Kernel Oops's? Cut and Paste from your /var/log/messages will be good, and you might want to ask on the Expert list too! Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Marcin Jendrzejewski

RE: [newbie] Console mode

2001-09-17 Thread FLYNN, Steve
You can edit the /etc/issue* files - The one which has all of the escape codes in it, draws the penguin. Takes me back to my BBS days with ANSI graphics and whatnot! Actually, has anyone ever bothered to come up with a better penguin or other nice little ansi graphic for the console welcome

RE: [newbie] memory buffering and disk defragmenter

2001-09-16 Thread FLYNN, Steve
You don't want to switch buffering off - the kernel will release the buffers as programs request memory. Linux also doesn't really need to use a defragmentation program either. If you do inisist on running it, read the man page VERY carefully and make sure the drive you are defragging is not

RE: [newbie] Deleted mail in KMail still there?

2001-09-16 Thread FLYNN, Steve
As a rule, when you flag a message for deletion, it just get's flagged. It still physically there. When you compact, all of the flagged for deletion messages are actually deleted. Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From:

RE: [newbie] maximal mount count error

2001-09-15 Thread FLYNN, Steve
In this case it doesn't necessarily mean there is a consistency check required because a suspected disk problem. It imply means the maximal count without an FSCK has been reached, or the system has been set up to request an fsck every n months or whatever. You can change the frequency of the

RE: [newbie] Installing software problems

2001-09-15 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Sounds like you don't have the X development headers installed. Check on your Mandrake discs and install the RPM's. Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Adam Cripps [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday,

RE: [newbie] Installing software problems

2001-09-15 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Apologies, I'm dialled in to work and attempting to persuade an IBM mainframe to play ball with me. I think I'm winning, but at the expense of concise and clear answers to the list! :-( If anyone out there has ever done any condition code processing in JCL, they'll understand how twisted my mind

RE: [newbie] burning iso

2001-09-15 Thread FLYNN, Steve
I say it as Lin-nux. Suite yourself, although Linus himself pronounces it like this. Sounds like you've burnt the ISO file directly onto a CD. It's an Image, so burnt it as one... Email me privately if you need instructions on using Nero to but the ISO, but it's really easy. Steve Flynn NOP

RE: [newbie] StartX-problems

2001-09-15 Thread FLYNN, Steve
I'd suspect that you have a very large error file somewhere - look in /var/log, /tmp/ and the other usual places for a very large files. For example, is there a particularly large .xsession-errors file anywhere (maybe in /root)? If you want to resize your partition, mybe FIPS will do it, or one

RE: [newbie]Dialling out problem

2001-09-13 Thread FLYNN, Steve
AT is the Hayes command for Attention. For example, ATDT12345 means Attention, Dial, Tone calling, 12345 ATDP is Attention, Dial, Pulse calling and so on... Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Jamie Kerwick [SMTP:[EMAIL

[newbie] diff'ing the Mandrake kernel against Linus's kernel

2001-09-12 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Purely for educational purposes, I'd like to see what changes Mandrake have made to the kernel from the original kernel supplied by Linus. Now, as there are a great many files to compare, can anyone think of a neat way to automate the diff'ing? I feel a script coming on, but I'm unsure if it can

RE: [newbie] Attention for everybody

2001-09-12 Thread FLYNN, Steve
What is your problem with your Linux box? Is fortune spewing this rubbish out and you want to turn it off? Maybe you want it to give you a fortune each login? In that case, edit your relevant configuration file for your shell and call fortune from it. You could even put in somewhere like

RE: [newbie] How to avoid a sound queue

2001-09-12 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Have you been playing with your sendmail configuration Christian? I got a bounce message from dysthe.net earlier this evening which had lots of localhost.localdomain stuff in it, which makes me think something isn't right with your set-up, especially as it bounced due to you userid not existing!

RE: [newbie] Which Kernel?

2001-09-12 Thread FLYNN, Steve
In answer to your second question, /usr/src/linux/.config should contain the options used to compile the current kernel. Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: The Spider [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday,

RE: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA

2001-09-11 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Whilst this is all very touching (and no, I'm not being cynical), can please we *not* discuss it on the list. People agreeing with others that it's a terrible thing and their prayers are going out to the victims it all well and good, but irrelevant. Yes, I know it sounds cold, callous, etc. but

RE: [newbie] Linux not loading

2001-09-07 Thread FLYNN, Steve
What is the specific error message you are getting and where? Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Paul Chandler [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:50 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Kernel Make Commands

2001-09-06 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Bill, I think maybe you have misunderstood what the make command actually does. I think you were attempting to roll your own kernel, and you were calling 'make menuconfig' and suchlike, but with no luck. Probably getting a No rule to make menuconfig or similar... What

RE: [newbie] simple command line question

2001-09-06 Thread FLYNN, Steve
CTRL-D will end it the continuation... Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: jennifer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 1:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [newbie]

2001-09-06 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Problems getting Kmail to work? :-) Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Hipolito Lopez [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 6:49 PM To: Linux-Newbie Subject:

RE: [newbie] Help please ...

2001-09-06 Thread FLYNN, Steve
. -Original Message- From: FLYNN, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 6:05 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Help please ... I've got my Voodoo 4 4500 working with MDK 8.0, but not very well. Switching from

RE: [newbie] Help please ...

2001-09-06 Thread FLYNN, Steve
I've got my Voodoo 4 4500 working with MDK 8.0, but not very well. Switching from X to console or vice-versa can take 3 or 4 seconds. Saying that, I've not had the time to spend on fixing the problem and generating a proper XF86Config-4 file. However, my card worked straight out of the install -

RE: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-05 Thread FLYNN, Steve
I suspect you might when all the script kidding get their hands on a few hundred in XP machines with Raw Sockets available and they start making CodeRed look like a toy. Bad times are ahead lads...bad times... :-( Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386

RE: [newbie] keyboarding

2001-09-05 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Will WINE not handle Mavis Beacon? Must admit, I've never tried it... Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: James S Bear [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 5:06 AM To: [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] What is LAPM protocol?

2001-09-04 Thread FLYNN, Steve
You never will get 56K connections unless you are in laboratory conditions and the modem you are connecting to as around 3 feet away. Dragging back to my BBS days, I seem to recall LAPM is an error correction protocol, but as I don't have my USR Courier manual with me, I can't be certain. If

RE: Please!!!!!!! FW: [newbie] HowTO patch

2001-09-04 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Well, what exactly are you trying to patch and why? It's a bit like say I have this vehicle, please tell me how to change the cam belt. The answer usually depends on what kind of vehicle it is. From your message it sounds like you are attempting to apply patches to BlackBox 0.6.1.1. Correct?

RE: Please!!!!!!! FW: [newbie] HowTO patch

2001-09-04 Thread FLYNN, Steve
it . . . Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 12:37 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Please!!! FW: [newbie] HowTO patch Well

RE: [newbie] What is LAPM protocol?

2001-09-04 Thread FLYNN, Steve
I was half-right then - it performs error correction by requesting the packet to be sent again. If only I had Web access from work - email only for me though... :-( Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Paul [SMTP:[EMAIL

RE: Please!!!!!!! FW: [newbie] HowTO patch

2001-09-04 Thread FLYNN, Steve
specify all the files patched when the patch apps ask for it? Sorry for so many questions. Hey! I'm really lerning! Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: Tuesday

RE: [newbie] Help wif X

2001-09-04 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Which version of Mandrake? Which version of X? If you log in at the console prompt, and enter 'startx' what happens? Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Hugo Saro [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday,

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