[newbie] If you want to unsubscribe from the list READ THIS

2000-02-24 Thread Jackal
Please follow the accompanying instructions to unsubscribe from the Mandrake Mailing List. To unsubscribe send a mail to sympa\@linux-mandrake.com and put in the subject : unsubscribe newbie. or go to the web page and unsubscribe via the web interface.

Re: [newbie] unsubscribe requests.

2000-02-24 Thread Jackal
I am trying not to nit-pick but I was going through my mailbox and I noticed that one of the favorite subject line for unsubscribing to the list also happpens to be Subject: Please get me off the list Subject: HELP how do i get off this damn list ...etc ... Boy it is going to be difficult to

Re: [newbie] compiling details

2000-02-24 Thread Jackal
I hope I can help but I can only guess ... -I did ./config, make and make install with all of them, no problem with the smaller programs, but the big ones have either, - module dependencies, wich shouldn't be there cause the asked modules are allready installed (MICO asked for Qt

[newbie] Information of unsubscribing to the list

2000-02-23 Thread Jackal
Hi ... I have been following the thread of mails on this list about people not knowing how to unsubscribe from this list. This is what I have to say and my suggestion to solve this problem. A lot of people join this list because they are newbies ... and I expect a great deal of them rely on a

[newbie] Problems with ppp (Mandrake7)

2000-02-04 Thread Jackal
I am having problems starting ppp in Mandrake 7. My modem and did not have any problems when I was using Mandrake 6.1 but after the upgrade I cannot use ppp anymore I checked the /var/log/messages and saw a message complaining about module char-major-108 but i have kind of fixed that

Re: [newbie] URGENT! Windows partion has gone! (fwd)

2000-01-31 Thread Jackal
You probably did it already but did you run lilo after editing the lilo.conf? On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 06:36:10AM -0800, MERCATOR GmbH wrote: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 06:28:39 -0800 (PST) From: MERCATOR GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: jpgois [EMAIL

[newbie] Making use of Win keys

1999-12-01 Thread Jackal
I came across information sometime ago about how to make use of the three silly windows keys that are absolutely useless in linux. However, I cannot remember if it was on this list or somewhere else. Anybody has any ideas how to map win keys to things ike alt or ctrl or other mappings?

Re: [newbie] Books

1999-11-12 Thread Jackal
Boy ... u are going to get a lot mails with differing opinions with a mail like that ... Running Linux by Matt Welsh or Matt Walsh seems to be pretty popular. On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 07:18:05AM -0800, jeff wrote: Hello. Now that I have most of my little problems under control. I guess I

Re: [newbie] Repartitioning utility

1999-10-29 Thread Jackal
Yes fips does do a non-destructive resize. The interface is a quite like the fdisk (linux) interface. Make sure you read the README first or else you might not know what you need at different stages of the re-partitioning. Hope this helps. On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 04:24:00AM +, Ron

Re: [newbie] DCC

1999-10-22 Thread Jackal
I am not sure about Linux-Windows95 on PILP. The author od the PLIP HOWTO has specifically mentioned that there have been no successful attempts to do PLIP between a Linux and Win95 box. However, things might have changed since then . On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 03:40:15AM -0600, Axalon

Re: [newbie] terminal related lockups

1999-10-19 Thread Jackal
I am not sure if our problems are one and the same but I had this problem on my laptop. Occasionally, the system will lock the keyboard and the mouse and I had to switch it off and on to continue...but a quick look at the clock showed that the system is still running. I was desperate and wrote

[newbie] [OT][humour] Evil?

1999-10-07 Thread Jackal
I hate to post OT stuff to the list but I just could not help it. Goto Google.com and type in "more evil than satan" and see which site comes up tops! I will apologize to anybody who thinks i am wasting bandwidth but i just think the guys at google.com are doing a very good job...my number 1

Re: [newbie] Problem with Lynx

1999-10-06 Thread Jackal
create a tmp directory in your home directory On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 10:48:27AM -0400, Ephrem Hugh Bensusan wrote: Can anyone help me? I have installed Mandrake 6.0. When I invoke Lynx it fails with the error message: metamail: Can't open temporary file! I have read the man pages

Re: [newbie] Crontab

1999-10-03 Thread Jackal
the "1" refers to the standard out and "2" refers to the standard error. the "21" directs the messages that go to the standard error to the stadard out (usually screen) On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 05:32:28AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the effect of "21" in a crontab? I see many people

RE: [newbie] Apache

1999-07-27 Thread Jackal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well a good place to start would be the apache documentation that is in the httpd directory unless it was not installed or removed. The next best thing if u cannot find your answer is to go to apache's site http://www.apache.org. The most common

Re: [newbie] Downloading Files

1999-07-22 Thread Jackal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well Netscape has to get the blame partially but a big part of the blame has also to go to the guys administering the webserver as well. There is a file called mime.types (it is there in linux systems as well probably under the conf dir in httpd).

RE: [newbie] Mandrake... (fwd)

1999-07-22 Thread Jackal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There is Yellow Dog Linux for Apple macintosh G3 and then there is LinuxPPC and MkLinux for PowerMacs ... dont know if these fit your hardware ... not very familiar about macs... On 23-Jul-99 hevnsnt wrote: Can anyone answer this question for me?

RE: [newbie] Installing

1999-07-21 Thread Jackal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Put the mandrake cd in and , if your bios supports it, just reboot and let the install program load up from the bootable cdrom. If not then u need a boot disk and then install it. If I am not wrong there is a readme (or install) file in the root

RE: [newbie] how does one.......

1999-07-15 Thread Jackal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 run "Xconfigurator" and choose 8bpp and 640*480 as one of hte choices of reslution and screen depth when it comes to that stage... u might need to find out information like your monitor's refresh rates etc though...(should find that info in the

Re: [newbie] LM installation

1999-07-14 Thread Jackal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Actually, i think the workstation installation does that as well (qipes out paritions and then creates new ones). I have never used the server nor workstation installation method but I thought that I read it in the manual somewhere. On 14-Jul-99

RE: [newbie] speaking of passwords

1999-07-14 Thread Jackal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 login as root and change the password for the user (unless it is the root password that u forgot). If it IS the root password that u forgot then u have to rebbot into single mode and change the root passwd from there... On 14-Jul-99 [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Configuration

1999-07-07 Thread Jackal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I dont really get the apache question but if the website if remote then u can use somehting like wget to mirror the site. If it is local u can set a cron to copy the contents to another directory. Actually come to think of it u can use wget for the