Re: [newbie] Sendmail Setup?

2004-11-16 Thread David Johnson
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Re: [newbie] Ping gamers

2004-11-09 Thread David Johnson
://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- David Johnson http

Fwd: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users

2004-11-01 Thread David Johnson
-- Forwarded message -- From: David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:40:45 -0800 Subject: Re: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users To: Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] You should be able to make your replyto: field blank. I was able to. Now, I can't vouch for whether

[newbie] Uptime question

2004-10-22 Thread David Johnson
times that are different from reality (usually shorter than actual uptime) when I know that they have not rebooted (a check of the logs will verify). Certainly not a major problem, but I'm curious... Thanks -- David Johnson http://www.edave.org

Re: [newbie] Uptime question

2004-10-22 Thread David Johnson
that ALL the Linux boxes out there are suffering from not being able to update their clocks...? On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:26:52 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell W. Behne wrote: Today at 08:39, David Johnson wrote: For my next question: I'm wondering how uptime keeps

Re: [newbie] eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-21 Thread David Johnson
. I seem to recall others mentioned the same thing when 10 came out. Are you sure that it isn't just slow to initialize? ED BTW: your reply:to address is set and so any answers you get don't post to the news list David Johnson wrote: I'm having an issue with a machine that I just

Re: [newbie] eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-21 Thread David Johnson
the reply:to address bl;ank. By default it will reply to your email address except for when you send to mailing lists, then it will reply to the list ED David Johnson wrote: Maybe I should qualify my previous statements. After boot, ifconfig indeed, shows that ETH0 is UP, however it does

Re: [newbie] Re: eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-21 Thread David Johnson
(EDT), Stew Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Björn Lundin wrote: David Johnson wrote: I'm having an issue with a machine that I just built using ml10.0 where eth0 shows as having [Failed] the initialization at boot time, but if I su to root after

Re: [newbie] Re: eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-21 Thread David Johnson
PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 22 October 2004 03:08 am, David Johnson wrote: Ok, so I added the line: MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 And eth0 comes up properly at boot time. Thanks for the help everyone

[newbie] eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-20 Thread David Johnson
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Re: [newbie] eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-20 Thread David Johnson
initialize? On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:57:11 +0700, Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 21 October 2004 05:46 am, David Johnson wrote: I'm having an issue with a machine that I just built using ml10.0 where eth0 shows as having [Failed

Re: [newbie] Best mail Server for Mandrake

2004-10-18 Thread David Johnson
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Re: [newbie] smp kernel

2004-10-16 Thread David Johnson
machine ? -- David Johnson http://www.edave.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] What version of ML am I using?

2004-09-17 Thread David Johnson
what version of the OS I'm running...:( Is there a way (preferably via the console) to tell which OS version I'm running? Thanks -- David Johnson http://www.edave.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Organizing the information got from mailing lists

2004-09-12 Thread David Johnson
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Re: [newbie] Access secondary partition?

2004-09-12 Thread David Johnson
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Re: [newbie] HHGTTG - Tertiary Phase

2004-09-12 Thread David Johnson
-- Necessity has no law. -- St. Augustine - Mandrake Linux 10.1 on PurpleDragon 2.6.8.1-10mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - -- David Johnson http://www.edave.org

[newbie] File System Problem

2004-08-31 Thread David Johnson
Hi all, We had a power failure the other day and now my ML10.0 system barfs out messages every so often to the main screen (presumably when it does an FS check) that look like the following: INFO : [2004-08-31T06:33:15-0700] msg=,Check failed., path=/etc/ioctl.save I presume that this

[newbie] FS Problem?

2004-08-29 Thread David Johnson
I had a power problem at the house the other day and now, at boot up my ML10.0 machine comes up with tons of errors and every so often while the machine is running I see messages such as MARK : [2004-08-29T10:54:12-0700] msg=-- TIMESTAMP -- I have a feeling this is an indication of a

[newbie] Access to documentation packages in 10.0.

2004-08-03 Thread Larry Johnson KISE
Hi all... I installed the Xwindow documentation, and it's in …/docs, but how do you view it? It's not .html or text. Larry Johnson, KeepItSimpleEngineering,Inc. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] Mouse Cursor in Xwindow on 10.0.

2004-08-03 Thread Larry Johnson KISE
Hi all... I need to make my cursor more visible, big screen and bad eyes. I know the latest XFree86 lets you change this using size, themes and environment variables, but I cannot locate the appropriate Mandrake configuration spot. Any body out there know? Larry Johnson

RE: [newbie] Dropped DSL for Cable, now I need a firewall/router

2004-08-02 Thread Larry Johnson KISE
Here are links about using a small 2.4 Linux with the Shorewall firewall. It's Bering-uClibc based on imbedded Linux. I have an old Pentium with a 10 gb disc that's been running nonstop for over five years. It's as reliable as an anvil. Larry Johnson, KeepItSimpleEngineering,Inc. http

[newbie] Switching from SuSE to Mandrake.

2004-07-30 Thread Larry Johnson KISE
a big X vs. Y thread here, I'm sure there are many features of SuSE that are better than Mandrake, but here I'm focusing on the problems I had with SuSE that basically made it unusable for me as a desktop. Look forward to working with the Mandrake community… Larry Johnson, KeepItSimpleEngineering

RE: [newbie] Switching from SuSE to Mandrake.

2004-07-30 Thread Larry Johnson KISE
boot, I decided to go with a clean install to fix those annoyances, and that's when all the problems began. Larry Johnson, KeepItSimpleEngineering,Inc. -Original Message- From: WaltFrampus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 12:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Re: [newbie] MS is at it again... Now Really OT!!!

2003-07-25 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Thursday 24 Jul 2003 11:53 pm, Robin Turner wrote: Todd Slater wrote: Why is it that the only time anybody gets their panties in a bunch is when the talk turns political and controversial? The reason I jumped in to this particular thread was because I was not prepared to let Anne be

Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.

2003-07-22 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Tuesday 22 Jul 2003 12:13 pm, Robin Turner wrote: [...] In American law it's a person - comes from a case around the turn of the century: Dartmouth College vs. someone-or-other. Time we took this thread to the OT list? Sir Robin And in the UK it's Salomon v Salomon Ltd, turn of the

Re: [newbie] MS is at it again... Now Really OT!!!

2003-07-22 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Tuesday 22 Jul 2003 9:18 pm, JoeHill wrote: [...] No, I don't appreciate being treated with disdain by someone whom I have gone *out of my way* to be nice to, to help, to treat as a friend. You only get one chance with me, unfortunately, in that kind of situation. So, fuck off. Wow, you

Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.

2003-07-21 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Monday 21 Jul 2003 8:54 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:47:37 +0100 Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: According to Roger Scruton, whose lectures I attended many years ago, a corporation has the status of a person in law. This strikes me as unfortunate as a

Re: [newbie] SanDisk USB CF/SM readers work?

2003-06-03 Thread Glenn Johnson
FWIW, I have a SOYO SU-CF card reader, USB, and it's working well since I added 'noapic' (whatever that means/does) to my append= line in lilo.conf. All I need to do is 'mount /mnt/removable/' and there are the pics. Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake Linux v9.1 Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Printer not working in openoffice

2003-04-05 Thread Dan Johnson
Well it seems that I didn't have it configured so dumb on my part but now its working with everything! Thanks all you folks! --- Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 April 2003 04:51 am, robin.bcc wrote: Dan Johnson wrote: Hi all I can't find the info I need to get my HP

Re: [newbie] PostgreSQL

2003-03-25 Thread Daryl Johnson
it's probably postgres. If there is a password allocated as well and you don't know what it is, (blowed if I can remember) try su root then su postgres :o) As postgres you are the main postgresql user and can create other users - including yourself. There are huge volumes of notes available

Re: [OT]: U.S. politics in Linux? Was: Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Which i s better:KDE or Gnome?]

2003-01-07 Thread Daryl Johnson
One might just as easily ask if you joined a linux list or a politics list... ;o) On Tuesday 07 Jan 2003 4:29 am, Todd Franklin wrote: hmm. did u not see the OT in the subject line? Anthony Abby wrote: What does any of this crap have to do with Linux? Can you guys please take your

Re: U.S. politics in Linux? Was: Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?]

2003-01-07 Thread Daryl Johnson
A quick check on my own server gave me 352 newsgroups that included the word politics in the title... some scope there I would suggest ;o) regards Daryl On Tuesday 07 Jan 2003 10:40 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Milos Prudek wrote: [...] I think that this list is intended for discussion

[newbie] Print Server

2002-12-27 Thread Glenn Johnson
to configure it under Linux ( Mandrake 9.0 and Redhat 8.0 ). It uses the IPX protocol and the port is named LPT:PS9CB0-1. -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake Linux v9.0 Registered Linux User #175132 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] installing java

2002-12-25 Thread Daryl Johnson
You can, in fact, install Star Office without Java if neccessary however... :o) The Java package is pretty much self installing, from memory. Could you post the name of the package you downloaded please because there are sources, which is done one way, and RPMs which are done another. For

Re: [newbie] palm pilot

2002-12-08 Thread Daryl Johnson
Yes, but it was a bit idiosyncratic to start. Let's see, from memory... I'm using serial so made a soft link from /dev/pilot to /dev/ttyS1. Configured the conduits for diary files and to-dos etc... there is a good bit in the manual about this. Remember to identify the user. Once everything you

Re: [newbie] how automatically load drivers for ISA soundcard?

2002-10-29 Thread David Johnson
sndconfig worked for me. On Tuesday 29 October 2002 08:49 pm, joe wrote: I am running ML 8.2 on an old pentium with an ISA soundcard. Every time I restart i have to use modprobe opl3sa2 to get my soundcard working. Is there any way to automate this? TIA for your help. -- 8:55pm up 2 days,

[newbie] SoundBlaster Live! support in LM9.0?

2002-10-27 Thread David Johnson
in 9.0, but no idea how they make it so. Am I SOL here? Should I go back to the on-board sound card and try to tweak the gain settings? Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- David Johnson -- RLU# 236992 10:57am up 16:07, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.06, 0.08 Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] Adding SCSI Hot-Swap drive

2002-10-27 Thread David Johnson
Hello all, I just added a second HDD to one of my servers (It's an HP LPr, BTW, using Hot-swap SCSI drives). My guess is that it should show up as SDB, but diskdrake doesn't show a second drive at all. I tried rebooting, but the new drive is still not recognized. Does anyone have any idea

Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster Live! support in LM9.0?

2002-10-27 Thread David Johnson
Charles, It is a PCI card. A standard SBLive card. lspcidrake -v reports the following with regard to the card: snd-emu10k1 : Creative Labs|SB Live! (audio) [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:1102 device:0002 subv:1102 subd:8022). That being said, I'm unsure how to change the drivers that are

Re: [newbie] configuration of Snort IDS

2002-10-03 Thread David Johnson
Get a copy of NMAP and start scanning devices on your network to see if the Snort box catches it. If not, you'll need to go over your config settings with a fine-tooth comb. You'll usually find that a type in the network address or something is easy to do. The DNS variable is for you to put

[newbie] Mandrake PPC 8.2 How To Make Bootable CD from ISO

2002-10-02 Thread Keith Johnson
Hello any Mac users out there (or anyone else who knows this stuff), I have downloaded the iso files from Mandrake. I don't have Toast. I was able to mount the isos in OSX (10.1.5), and burn them. Unfortunately, the install CD doesn't boot. The last time I did this was with Mandrake 8.0. With

Re: [newbie] configuration of Snort IDS

2002-09-20 Thread David Johnson
Chris, Your advice is largely accurate, but an easier way to set the $EXTERNAL_NET variable would be to set it equal to !$MY_NET. Keeps the code a little neater. You definately want to set $EXTERNAL_Net to be equal to !$MY_NET to resuce false positives internally. On Friday 20 September

Re: [newbie] MSN Broadband

2002-09-11 Thread David Johnson
You don't need the MSN exporer garbage. You should configure your gateway router to supply the username/password to the DSL service, then all machines behind (in your private network) can use the DSL service as normal. I have accomplished this feat on a friends network without problem. If

Re: [newbie] MSN Broadband

2002-09-11 Thread David Johnson
am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would I need a router? The modem itself won't work? Quoting David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You don't need the MSN exporer garbage. You should configure your gateway router to supply the username/password to the DSL service, then all machines behind

Re: [newbie] MSN Broadband

2002-09-11 Thread David Johnson
If you don't understand basic networking, then there's a lot of ground to cover. A search on google using how to set up a home network reveals lots of beginner how-to's You'll want to get a good grasp for the bsaics of networking before you get into the specifics of what OS changes to make.

[newbie] ATAPI Illegal request errors

2002-09-09 Thread David Johnson
Every so often (at regular intervals), my LM8.2 server spits out the following error message on the console: ATAPI device hda: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05) Invalid field in command packet -- (asc=0x24, ascq=0x00) The failed Start/Stop Unit packet command

[newbie] Changing syslogd to accept remote connections

2002-08-26 Thread David Johnson
I know fro the man page that I have to run syslogd with the '-r' option to allow it to accept remote connections, but I'm trying to figure out how to omdify the daemon so that it always runs that way (where is the service started from?). I'd also like to stop and re-start the service without

[newbie] Video capture with ATI All-in-wonder Pro

2002-08-26 Thread David Johnson
Hello, I just installed an old ATI video card in my linux box as it is not posssible to make it run as a second card in Windows XP. I successfully got the TV portion to work using XAWTV, but would now like to do some video capture via the inputs on the card. Does anyone have a

[newbie] URPMI database locked

2002-08-25 Thread David Johnson
I was forced to kill MandrakeUpdate because nothing happened after a long time of it scanning for updates. Now when I try to run it, I get URPMI database locked and can do nothing else with the program. a scan of man urpmi gave no clues. Does anyone have any idea how to remove the lock from

Re: [newbie] SSH from remote host?

2002-08-21 Thread David Johnson
As an update. Here is the valid portion of auth.log. Looks like it may be an SSH config problem? Aug 20 23:21:32 pengo sshd[5534]: error: Bind to port 22 on 10.0.0.10 failed: Address already in use. Aug 20 23:21:32 pengo sshd[5534]: fatal: Cannot bind any address. Aug 20 23:21:37 pengo

Re: [newbie] SSH from remote host?

2002-08-21 Thread David Johnson
something along the lines of sshd sshd1 sshd2 : ALL : ALLOW Miark David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: I've got a server set up runnin lm8.2 and I configured it to use medium security (if I remember correctly) because it's serving the Internet. Now I'd like to allow remote SSH

[newbie] SSH from remote host?

2002-08-20 Thread David Johnson
I've got a server set up runnin lm8.2 and I configured it to use medium security (if I remember correctly) because it's serving the Internet. Now I'd like to allow remote SSH connections so that I can administer remotely. I know that SSH is running as I can connect from localhost, but using

[newbie] Test (ignore)

2002-08-19 Thread David Johnson
Sorry folks... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Postfix for dummies?

2002-08-15 Thread David Johnson
:05 am, David Johnson wrote: Hello everyone, I'm sure this subject has been covered a thousand times (maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places), but I can't find an answer anywhere. I'm looking for postfix configuration for dummies. I'm currently setting up an LM8.2 machine to rnu

Re: [newbie] full duplex / half duplex

2002-08-15 Thread David Johnson
I can't tell you how to force LM to set the card into full-duplex, but I can tell you that normally, a NIC's autodetect works pretty well. The card should try to negotiate the best signalling speed and duplex level that it can. If it did not autodetect full duplex, then it is highly likely

[newbie] How to configure KMail to get mail from local mail file

2002-08-15 Thread David Johnson
I've just configured fetchmail and gotten it working with postfix and messages are being delivered to my local mail file (/var/spool/mail/djohnson). I have configured KMail to get the mail from this same local file, but the messages do not show up in KMail. I think I am missing something

[newbie] Sound Is Impossible

2002-07-12 Thread Daryl Johnson
It's taken me 4 weeks of fairly constant tinkering, adjustment and experimentation to arrive at the conclusion that it is impossible to configure my sound card - which seems remarkable as in most ways it is getting recognised. Forgive the long post but if anyone has anything constructive to

[newbie] Sound Is Impossible

2002-07-12 Thread Daryl Johnson
It's taken me 4 weeks of fairly constant tinkering, adjustment and experimentation to arrive at the conclusion that it is impossible to configure my sound card - which seems remarkable as in most ways it is getting recognised. Forgive the long post but if anyone has anything constructive to

Re: [newbie] CheckInstall 1.5.1 on ML8.2

2002-05-22 Thread David Johnson
2002 12:28 am, David Johnson wrote: Hello all, I've been out of Linux for a while, but just got an extra machine to play with again. I've installed CheckInstall 1.5.1 from source per instructions. When I run checkinstall, I get the following: [root@timmy checkinstall-1.5.1]# /usr

[newbie] CheckInstall 1.5.1 on ML8.2

2002-05-20 Thread David Johnson
Hello all, I've been out of Linux for a while, but just got an extra machine to play with again. I've installed CheckInstall 1.5.1 from source per instructions. When I run checkinstall, I get the following: [root@timmy checkinstall-1.5.1]# /usr/bin/checkinstall -R checkinstall 1.5.1,

RE: [newbie] Proview LCD Monitors - Feedback?

2002-02-22 Thread Johnson, David
I don't have any information on this brand specifically, but I can give you some things to look for in an LCD monitor if you need help there: There are 3 things that one should look for in a desktop LCD monitor: 1) Contrast ratio - Should be at least 350:1. 400:1 or better is preferable 2)

Re: [newbie] OfficeJet drivers

2002-02-07 Thread Daryl Johnson
You had to ask AFTER I ripped my notes up :o) CUPS contains a driver for the G85 Office Jet and Sourceforge contains information on these drivers. If you log on to HP and search for linux drivers you will find an address for this project which gives a table of suitable drivers to use.

[newbie] Uptime in e-mail sig

2002-02-01 Thread Johnson, David
How do people get their current uptime info into their e-mail signature? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Uptime in e-mail sig

2002-02-01 Thread Johnson, David
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 PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] Uptime in e-mail sig How do people get

RE: [newbie] Kernel update question [How to]

2002-01-14 Thread Johnson, David
? -Original Message- From: skinky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Johnson, David; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel update question [How to] On Saturday 12 January 2002 10:01, Johnson, David wrote: | You've all been

[newbie] KMail install?

2002-01-11 Thread Johnson, David
I recently install LM8.1 and opted to install only Gnome and not KDE, but I want to use KMail. I cannot seem to find a package that will allow me to install only KMail. Must I install KDE to get KMail? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Kernel update question [How to]

2002-01-11 Thread Johnson, David
You've all been so helpful today...Here's another question: I'm going through the process of updating my kernel as detailed in http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-079-1.php3 and my question comes from this snippet of text where I'm supposed to add something to lilo so I can

RE: [newbie] Question - school related so ignore if you want.

2002-01-03 Thread Glenn Johnson
25-30 45 M Cable 4 Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #175132 Usually Powered by Linux Mandrake 8.1! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] clock on dual boot system

2001-12-27 Thread Johnson, David
My guess would be that you have an incorrect time zone set on one of the OS's... -Original Message- From: Kenn Murrah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 1:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] clock on dual boot system okay, i know this is a trivial

Re: [newbie] HW: combo printer/scanner/fax?

2001-12-27 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Thursday 27 December 2001 14:21, you wrote: HP have a supported project to support their own products with linux drivers accross all product lines. There is even a website pointed at from www.hp.com which tells you which m/cs are fully supported and which are still only partly supported.

RE: [newbie] Approximate Schedule for Mandrake 8.2?

2001-12-21 Thread Johnson, David
You might just give 8.1 a try. I had substantial difficulties with 8.0, but they all went away with 8.1... -Original Message- From: Randy Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 7:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Approximate Schedule for Mandrake

RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-19 Thread Johnson, David
This bring up a good point, though. How SHOULD one upgrade their kernel? -Original Message- From: Ed Tharp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake NO Mandrake says do NOT

RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-19 Thread Johnson, David
using. Before you do reboot. Make sure you have a bootdisk and you have read the steps I had to take. Because once you reboot, your not going anywhere until you install the kernel the correct way. From: Johnson, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-19 Thread Johnson, David
old kernel installing the new one.) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Johnson, David Sent: Tuesday, 18 December 2001 3:42 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake This bring up

RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-19 Thread Johnson, David
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 8:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake I hope you took my word and made a bootdisk From: Johnson, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread Johnson, David
Hmm. I did this update some time ago via the package manager without problem. System has not been rebooted since...I don't think that a blanket DO NOT DO THIS is appropriate. Of course you must be very careful when doing something as drastic as updating your kernel. Just make sure you have a

RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread Johnson, David
and thats when the problems started. From: Johnson, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:11:46 -0500 Hmm. I did this update some time ago via

Re: [newbie] Printers-Epson

2001-12-14 Thread Glenn Johnson
. -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #175132 Powered by Linux Mandrake 8.1! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Samba Password Problem!?!

2001-12-10 Thread Glenn Johnson
and log in as Bob, then try to access the Samba server. See if that helps. Names have been changed to protect the innocent Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #175132 Powered by Linux Mandrake 7.1! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

RE: [newbie] lilo

2001-12-08 Thread Glenn Johnson
As root, edit lilo.conf and change 'default = windows' to 'default = linux'. Save the file. In a terminal (again as root) type '/sbin/lilo -v' without the quotes of course. Reboot and watch. Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #175132 Usually Powered by Linux Mandrake 8.1

RE: [newbie] UML diagram tool for Linux

2001-11-19 Thread Mark Johnson
check freshmeat.net or sourceforget.net... I think there is a nice one called Dia... -Original Message- From: Søren Neigaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] UML diagram tool for Linux Anybody know a

RE: [newbie] Mandrake Business Survey

2001-11-19 Thread Mark Johnson
I haven't check out the survey yet, so I might be putting my foot in my mouth, but I'm not sure it's clear how to make linux or for that matter Mandrake Linux more than just a hobbist platform/OS. You often hear Linux has proven itself in the (web) server market but this is a misleading

[newbie] Some Windows hang-ons...

2001-11-13 Thread Johnson, David
Folks, I'd love to ditch Windows completely, but there is still some good software that I hang on to that I think is only available for Windows. Somebody prove me wrong: Outlook with Exchange server - I run an Exchange server at the house and want to maintain the Outlook functionality. Is

RE: [newbie] Screenshot in Gnome

2001-11-13 Thread Mark Johnson
is it possible to take a screen shot using a command line utility? -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 9:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Screenshot in Gnome In reply to Søren Neigaard's words, written 13

Re: [newbie] Lucent Modem

2001-11-12 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
it on the list of the Modem Wizard Configuration, what can I do? Please, any help will be usefull thank you Daniel Pacca -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Alternative to ICQ?

2001-11-02 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
what the list suggest for IM between this linux box and windows users. Something that is fairly secure and has decent features but easy for windows people to install. -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Alternative to ICQ?

2001-11-02 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
it seemed able to do was create relationships between my other users and (occasionally) myself, and did the same thing about sending the same messages over and over. Then it locked up and I demoted it. David Reynolds -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http

Re: [newbie] windows 2k terminal services

2001-11-02 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
-- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Basic business PCs

2001-11-02 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
isn't the place to be asking, but I'm sure most of you will know more about this than I do. I don't want to c*ck this up. TIA skinky PS. I apologise for the long message. -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Samba

2001-11-02 Thread Glenn Johnson
Frank, I'm fairly new at Linux, but I have Samba running on my Mandrake box and can communicate with 3 Windows boxes. I'll take a look if you like. Maybe I can help... -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #175132 Powered by Linux Mandrake 8.1! Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Athlon ( was Pentium IV )

2001-11-02 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
are about the same if I run the Tbird at the default 1.4g and 1.75 Vcore. -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Samba

2001-11-02 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
in advance Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box

RE: [newbie] Windows XP: EXtra Proprietary

2001-10-31 Thread Mark Johnson
I don't think you have to spend another $300 to move XP to another machine. I think you have to tell MS that you are moving it to another peice of hardware (or significantly upgrading the hardware) and they will deactivate the old hardware profile and reactivate the new profile -- for free. You

Re: [newbie] Linux use as Mail Server

2001-10-31 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Professional system. Is this possiable? and if it is HOW?. -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] fetchmail and procmail

2001-10-31 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
fast now Schwebel __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu # Arthur H. Johnson II's Procmail Recipe

Re: [newbie] fetchmail and procmail

2001-10-31 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
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Re: [newbie] With apologies to Edgar Allen Poe ...

2001-10-31 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
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[newbie] Is this program installed?

2001-10-31 Thread Johnson, David
already? David Johnson Security Engineer Iron Mountain Network Services 425.687.6770 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] startx and kde

2001-10-30 Thread Johnson, David
Sridhar, When I installed my LM8.1, I chose Gnome as my default window manager, but since rebooting, I am thrust into KDE by default. When I execute startx gnome I only get a blue screen with a terminal window open and nothing else. Is there something I'm doing wrong or something I need to

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