On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:17:12PM -0500, thus spake Jim Dwyer:
How do i check how much space i have left on my hard drive?
Thanks,
Jim
df
HTH
GM
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Can anyone explain why I have two resolve.conf files? One in
/etc, and then another in /etc/ppp? And why are they different?
/etc/resolve.conf is
search localdomain
nameserver 212.1.130.10
nameserver 212.1.128.156
These are the DNS I put in when I set up my dial-up system.
Hi!
As I wrote yesterday, I can log-on with kppp (using Mandrake 7.1)
but not get fetchmail to to download or lynx to act. Using a
shell script of my own I can do all these things.
I changed /etc/ppp/resolv.conf to match /etc/resolv.conf and
everything worked fine with kppp
something seems
Now here's a thing!
I installed 7.1 on my machine last week and it went beautifully,
everything worked. The best install EVER! In particular KPPP worked!
Following a brief flirtation with XFree86 4, I re-installed -
yes, weep over my folly, but I did it partly because I wanted to
re-jig my
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 01:59:45PM -0700, thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I am using Mandrake 7.1
Somehow I did something to my linux box and now I don't have the penguins on
the login screen. I am reffering to the penguins that represent each user. I
used to have a root penguin and my
Hi - just upgraded to Helium - it went like a dream (the best
install ever) and the new Gnome is gorgeous! Just wanted to
congratulate the Mandrake team and this is the only public place
I can do it.
Brilliant! Thank you folks..
Glyn M.
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On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 09:24:44AM -0400, thus spake ~*Mark*~:
I re-ran the install.sh and made sure that ports 25 and 110 are indeed
open. FM is still not bringing down the mail for use in Pine. I really
came to like that program! Wish I could get it running again.
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Mark
Hi, Mark.
I
Hi, Andy.
You need to find a file called "soffice" which is a
start-up script. On system it's in the bin directory off the
Office51 directory.
what does
locate soffice
tell you?
RPM?
Try rpm -q staroffice that will tell whether you have it
installed or not
HTH
Glyn
On Thu, Jun
Use kppp to dial up. Get the details you need to insert from an
ISP somewhere near you. "Linux" don't provide ISPs themselves;
nor, to my knowledge, do Mandrake.
Two further suggestions.
Turn the caps lock off - it is like being shouted at.
As a next step set up kmail - dead easy and a
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 02:00:16PM -0500, thus spake Gary:
Now I am having a problem with this mail business as I have 3 ISPs.
So, I figured to make life easier, to use Fetchmail, Procmail,
Sendmail, along with latest Mutt which of course is a mail agent, so
must be used with Fet, Proc, and
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 05:56:07PM -0400, thus spake Charles A Edwards:
I received nearly 30 of the following messages this afternoon. The
attachment were all replys that I had sent and all did post to the list so
why I getting undelivered notices now. Is this happening to anyone else.
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 06:19:09AM -0700, thus spake Luc Marts:
Hi
how do i check if this "procmail" is installed? and if
it is not installed where can i get it?
thanks ver much
Luc
--- Everett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
rpm -qa | less should list EVERYTHINg you have installed in
rpm
Luc, how are you trying to collect the mail from your ISP?
Do you get any messages when you try to poll the ISP?
Are you, as your subject line suggests, using sendmail?
A little more information might be useful in tracking the
problem.
Glyn M.
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 09:25:43AM -0700, thus
Hi.
I'm trying to install the latest version of fvwm2 on my system
which runs Mandrake 7.0. One of the unsatisfied dependencies
which prevents me installing is the need for a file
/usr/sbin/install-menu
I can't track this down! Can anyone tell me which rpm I'm
looking for?
TIA
Glyn M.
Fetchmail to get it; procmail to sort it into folders; Mutt to
read and write; sendmail to send it. All on your Mandrake CD
just BEGGING to be tried out!
HTH
Glyn M.
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 05:54:16PM +0200, thus spake Corrado / Prometheus The Gifter:
Hello, everybody!
I'm currently
At 11:40 PM 6/13/00 -0400, you wrote:
Hello again
I'm going to try this one last time before I give up.
A few months back I bought linux-mandrake 6.1 I installed a few progams
one being qpopper mail server, It worked fine.
A few weeks ago I downloaded and installed mandrake 7.0 I did a
I know this thread is way off-topic, but you have
my curiosity up now...doesn't "old money" also
refer to a well-to-do family whose fortunes have
existed for generations, as opposed to "new money"
where someone has just acquired a fortune? Just
wondering! ;-)
Yes!
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Hi - I've got the same problem but alas no solution.
When you say "others", what do you mean?
Do you know about the wc (word count command) that is part of the
system? It can be set up to work inside Vim and others.
Can let you have the relevant snippet from my .vimrc file if that
would
Marc,
You can find instructions for this on mandrakeuser.prg
Have a look in /usr/docI'm sure there is a HOWTO on this.
I attach a recipe for connecting to Freeserve in the UK via the
console as another recipe on the same theme!
HTH
Glyn M.
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 07:46:57AM -0400,
Hey, folks - when you go on holiday how about switching off your
connection to the mandrake mailing list! As the summer
approaches (at least here in the UK and in the northern
hemisphere) I can forsee lots of automated replies being
circulated if we don't help each other in this way.
TVM
Glyn
In KDE right click on the desktop and pick "Log out" from the
menu.
In anything you like
Ctrl - Alt - Backspace pressed simultaenously should get you
there, but there must be a menu option somewhere
HTH
Glyn M.
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 11:12:55AM -0400, thus spake Jim:
I have a dumb
Can you run X as root? If so then you need to look at
permissions -
waht are the permissions of things beginning with .X or.x in your
home directory? Should be "user user" or "user users". The
neatest way is to get into /home and do
chown -R xnma /home/xnma (- whatever your user name is)
First question is
Have you installed it?
In a terminal typerpm -q -a | less
Move up and down the results to find a make rpm.
If it's not there, the answer is on your Mandrake CD.
When it IS there type rpm -q -R packagename
to find out about dependencies. On my system the
Right! That gets my vote too...
Glyn M.
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 03:28:17PM -0400, thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I agree with Joseph S. Gardner's comment (below). A firewall as part of
the initial installation of Linux-Mandrake (even for a newbie) is a good
idea. Some people
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 07:00:24PM +0200, thus spake Denis HAVLIK:
Should save his strength and help mandrakeuser.org instead of setting up
Yet Another Tips Site, and loosing interest after a few weeks.
Indeed - mandrakeuser.org is marvellous and should be slapped
onto the cd at release
Just checking - have I got this right? Macmillan have exclusive
rights?
Does that mean no more Cheapbytes CDs in the United Kingdom, for
example? If that's the case I'll have to migrate to Debian!
PLEASE tell me I'm wrong
in suspense
Glyn M.
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at
Hi.
Can I make suggestion? - hell, I'm going to. When you post to
the list could you make the subject line tell us something about
your problem or news, rather than simply the fact that you need
help? Almost ALL of us need help, that's why we're here.
All sorts of good reasons for that
1. It
Odd! Works for me here on Mandrake 7.0 Can you post up your ip-up.local file?
Glyn M.
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 02:05:40AM -0400, thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I am sort of new to mandrake but have a very little experience with linux.
I have set up a ppp connection that connects on boot and
Log on!
Then just do "startx"
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 12:13:44AM +0100, thus spake John Watson:
Every time I boot I go straight to the logon prompt instead of the Graphical
Prompt. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get my KDE back?
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On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 05:01:50AM +, thus spake Younes Zouhair:
Wade wrote:
Hi List,
I have found an occasion or two to use the 'Ctrl, Alt, Backspace'
command a couple of times which has been a saving grace, but I have only
had a need to kill a runaway (unresponsive)
: The soul is greater than the hum of its parts
Dear Friend,
You need to have a good look at /usr/doc and its contents, and if you can get
hold of the O'Reilly "Running Linux" by Matt Welsh Matthias Kalle Dalheimer and
Lar Kaufman (3rd edition) its worth it!
Good luck
Glyn
On Sun,
On the other hand, Vi - improved, the glorious Vim , is
worth learning because of its staggering flexibility - and anyone
using Mandrake 6.1 or 7 gets a natty GTK interface with pretty icons
and all the things that those poor souls suckled on Windows need to
feel right at home. Try the Vim
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