* Kipling Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [18 Feb 02 10:59]:
> but whenever I stop wvdial, the fethcmail daemon does not quit, unless I
> do it manually. Can anyone please help?
Sigh. After working briefly, ip-down.local is no longer being run. I
have disccovered through experimenta
* Kipling Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [18 Feb 02 11:59]:
> I made an 'ip-down.local' as follows;
>
> but whenever I stop wvdial, the fethcmail daemon does not quit, unless I
> do it manually. Can anyone please help?
Problem solved, but unexpectedly so. I had a dupl
* shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [21 Mar 02 17:10]:
> also they should not include any known address of john the mandrake list
> spammer.
A practical question (I hope!) on spam control:
Can procmail handle more than one address in a recipe?
e.g.
:0
* ^From.*[EMAIL PROTECTED]
* ^From.*[EMAIL PROTEC
* Carlos Arigós <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11 Mar 02 21:53]:
> Install rdate rpm. As root, type: rdate -s clock-1.cs.cmu.edu && hwclock
> --systohc
>
> I don't know how to automate this task; any idea?
I added it to /etc/ppp/ip-up.local
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Kipling
Want to buy your Pack or Services f
* Bill Winegarden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [17 Feb 02 20:15]:
>I just wanted to be able to see inside an archive quickly.
Have you tried mc (Midnight Commander) from a console, or gmc from X? I
just select an archive, hit and it lets me peek inside any
archive (*.zip, .*rpm, etc)
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Hope That Helps
This should be so easy, I cannot figure out why it is not working! I
want to stop the fetchmail daemon when I am not connected to my ISP, fo
I made an 'ip-down.local' as follows;
#!/bin/sh /usr/bin/fetchmail -quit
the file is:
-rwxr-xr-x1 root root 35 Feb 18 09:05 /etc/ppp/ip
* James Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [15 Feb 02 21:31]:
> Does anyone know if there is an email client for mandrake/linux that allows
> me to check my email from Hotmail a la Outlook Express?
all of them, you just need something to negotiate access to hotmail:
http://www.cudeso.be/linuxdoc/gotmail
* Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [13 Feb 02 20:24]:
> Trying to upgrade my version of Gnome to the latest from
> www.ximian.com/download with the suggested method of lynx - blah, blah, etc,
> etc. It works OK but my ISP disconnects me every two hours so I keep having
> to resume all the time. Can this b
* Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [09 Feb 02 22:00]:
> did you run Links as root in your home dir? Good chance that the file in
> question now is owned by root, and you as user have no more say over it.
>
> Otherwise: good luck!
Thank you for steering me in the right direction! I checked my .links
dir
Hello!
Links (the text based browser) was working yesterday, then today, wehn I
tried to start it up, I got this (see subject line)
I can use links as root, just not as user.
Curiouser and curiouser...
Kipling
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakes
On Thursday 07 February 2002 04:09, Roberto Armenteros wrote:
> Hi, I just realized that the way I configured my MD
> 8.1 box allows users to reboot the machine. How can I
> keep users from running the reboot command?
How are they doing that? Check and see if you have a file
/etc/shutdown.allow
* Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04 Feb 02 18:57]:
> OK... I'm sure the answer to this is so simple that it is staring me
> in the face. How do I get XMMS to play an audio CD? For the life of me,
> I can't figure it out. I assume that it can do so since you can set it
> to check CDDB.
>
> Someone make
* Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [29 Jan 02 19:07]:
> If you have devfs enabled (which it is by default in 8.1 ), then your audio
> device will be /dev/sound/audio or /dev/sound/dsp
Hi Derek!
I had no problem with the sound on Mandrake 7.2, but with 8.1, I have no
joy, not with devfs, nor
* Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [30 Jan 02 15:16]:
> Well, yes (I thought they all did -- well except maybe the command line
> thingies like Pine, Mutt, ...).
My 'command line thingie' (Mutt), sorts by threads.
(excerpt from .muttrc)
folder-hook . set sort=threads
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Kipling
Want to bu
* Philomena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [15 Mar 01 22:51]:
> I have GRUB setup to boot each of the /boot partitions appropriately
Hi there!
Could you give me a little more detail on how to do that, please?
When I try to run 'grub-install /dev/hda1' I get:
/usr/share/grub/i386-mandrake/stage1: Not foun
* Kipling Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [09 Mar 01 16:47]:
> when I run it, I see "Error opening terminal: xterm-color." strace
> reveals that adom is looking for ~/.terminfo/x/xterm-color and
> /usr/lib/terminfo/x/xterm-color. I did an rpm -ql of xterm* and
> found t
* Shane Roppel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07 Mar 01 18:23]:
> I'm not big on the whole military time thing here... could someone tell me
> how to change the time format kde2 to 12 rather than 24?
FWIW, the 24hr clock is used by many who work shifts, such as
medical staff (like my mother) and railwayme
Hi there!
The short question is in the subject, here is some detail:
Compiling adom from source seems to go fine, but then when I run it,
it dumps core (which I do not yet know how to analyze) Is this
easy to do?
Installing adom from the rpm (adom-099g15-3.i586.rpm) seems simple
enough, requir
* Brandon Dienar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [18 Feb 01 13:24]:
> I'm trying to do a dial-up to my local ISP using PPP with Rockwell chipset
> modem, using GnomePPP. The modem appears to be dialing up just fine,
> connects and goes through the authentication but disconnects straight
> afterwards. It does
Hi!
I was experimenting with printer drivers, and as root, called
printerdrake from the terminal:
[root@localhost bkc]# printerdrake
everything already installed
Starting CUPS printing system: [PASSED]
So far, so good! I made did my choices, and exited printerrdrake,
but then found this in the
* walter hanagriff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11 Feb 01 16:40]:
> I reasked my original questions with this info incase somebody has
> already tested it with a quantum fireball
Everything I have read says before you tinker with your hardware,
back-up your files!
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux
* Franki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [14 Feb 01 00:19]:
> did you recently compile a new kernel??
Actually, no. I did something even more reckless for a Linux Newbie-
I tried to configure postfix (ohhh, nooo!)
One of my doomed attempts included a visit to Linuxconf to try and
find a hostname t
Hi!
I did something, and now I get this as part of the line:
Bringing up interface ppp0: Failed to activate ppp0 with error 2
in the boot sequence.
How do I fix this, please?
Kipling+
Till Kamppeter wrote:
>
> It seems that you have an old version of CUPS with a bug. See
>
>
> http://www.mandrakeforum.com/commentShow.php3?sid=20001116101952&pid=75
>
> and go to
>
>http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20001214090405
>
> You will find updates for all CUPS-relat
Happy 7th day of Christmas! (7 penguins a swimming?)
The message I sent earlier this morning has not yet appeared, so hear is
some more information on the same problems.
The Linux login works almost to the end. The last entry I can read says
:
Running Linuxconf hooks
Then something about fonts
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 December 2000 05:00, you wrote:
> > Bringup a terminal...su to root...then type
> >
> > kpackage
> >
> > it's still in the version...just not in the menu.
>
> and rather broken till you reach KDE2.01
>
> Civileme
>
Thank you for the prompt
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