Re: [newbie] mail-client software

2000-09-27 Thread Mandrake
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Re: [newbie] ATi RAge Fury Pro

2000-09-21 Thread Mandrake
Works fine on my machine. Has since 7.0, but 7.1's release was a little more stable for the card. I will be trying 7.2beta this weekend. Mandrake Subject: [newbie] ATi RAge Fury Pro Date: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 05:06:15PM +0100 Time to reply! Quoting Francisco Alcaraz Ariza

[newbie] POSTFIX/SENDMAIL/Multiple Alias

2000-09-06 Thread mandrake
I seen to be having a problem with mail on my mandrake box. I just I have a cable modem and since my ISP forces us to use DHCP so sendmail/postfix only allows mail for that ip given to me and no other domains. How do I configure my box to handle more domains off of DHCP machine. I can control

Re: [newbie] laptops

2000-08-21 Thread Eric's Mandrake Acct
I have the Dell Ispirion 7000 and the KDE desktop seems to big as well. The latop has the ATI Mobility card chip in it. Has anyone had success increasing the resolution to 1024x768 and above. Eric Subject: RE: [newbie] laptops Date: Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 04:26:11PM -0500 Time to

Re: [newbie] how about CompuServe for Linux?

2000-08-21 Thread Eric's Mandrake Account
Wow, AmiPro, that is going back in the day. I thought they were bought by IBM and then they renamed the product WordPro. :) For some reason I believe Applixware does do the conversion. You will have to check the website to be sure though. There prices are getting kinda out of hand though.

Re: [newbie] 7.1 -- 2-CD download mystery -- How?

2000-06-10 Thread Mandrake Account
life. Of course I had a 56K and didn't want to tie up the phone for days. Now I'm on cable, so I download the .iso images and burn CD-R's of Mandrake. I'd recommend you find a friend with a fast connection and a CD-R (or CD-RW) drive. I don't really want to offer to do this for anyone online

[newbie] Swap space 128 Mb?

2000-03-09 Thread Lothar Mandrake
I have read that a swap space partition cannot be larger than 128 Mb, but at the same time it should apparently be 1.5 times the RAM size? Since I have 192 Mb RAM, I guess I should have around 300 Mb swap space? Is this correct? How can I do this if a single swap space cannot be larger

[newbie] library path setup

2000-03-09 Thread Mandrake Magtwo
Is there a way to edit the library search path? Is that what ldconfig is for? Is there another way e.g. from editing some file somewhere? Maybe in /etc? Thanks! _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: [newbie] /, /usr, and /opt?

2000-03-07 Thread Lothar Mandrake
Thank you Emilio. Some people claim that third-party software ends up in /opt however, and if I don't make a separate partition for /opt I guess that is created under /. If / is too small this may cause it to be full rather quickly, while /usr remains comparatively empty. Of course, if

[newbie] Red Hat partition examples?

2000-03-07 Thread Lothar Mandrake
From: "Potts, Ross" [EMAIL PROTECTED] You will be wasting a lot of space. / only needs about 50 MB. I sent this out last week. Try to find a Red Hat 5.0 install book and look up its examples. I have been searching extensively at the Red Hat site to try to find the examples you

Re: [newbie] mandrake 6.0 with pentium II, Apache Server, Oracle 8i

2000-03-06 Thread Mandrake Account
By default root cannot login remotely. It is not suggested to do this as it is a security risk. This can be gotten around if you really need to do it by editing /etc/securetty file. As for the problem with X windows, not sure what is causing that as I have the graphic log in and have no

[newbie] Lnx4win partition resize, how?

2000-03-04 Thread Mandrake Magtwo
I use lnx4win (Mandrake 7.0.2) and it works great. However I did not specify enough space when I first installed it, so I cannot add any more packages. How do I resize the lnx4win loopback device in a way that won't destroy what I already have on it? Thanks

[newbie] Partition sizes?

2000-03-03 Thread Lothar Mandrake
Steve, If his only partitions for linux (other than swap) are / and /usr (I believe he meant/ rather than /root), Yes, that is indeed what I meant. I am sorry that I expressed myself so badly. won't /opt be inside the / partition? That's the usual place for te third party

VIRUS DETECT IN THIS EMAIL DO NOT OPENRe: [newbie] C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe

2000-03-03 Thread Mandrake Account
I just downloaded this email with its attachment and my virus program found a virus in the .exe file At 11:32 PM 3/1/2000 +0100, Xavier Fromant wrote: Test: Pretty Park.exe :) Xavier Fromant

[newbie] Re-invoke DrakX, how?

2000-03-03 Thread Mandrake Magtwo
How do I get back into DrakX again to install additional software I didn't install the first time for Mandrake 7.0.2? I tried typing DrakX at the command line but it didn't work. Thanks for advice... _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com

Re: [Re: [newbie] /usr or /root?]

2000-03-01 Thread Lothar Mandrake
Steve, If his only partitions for linux (other than swap) are / and /usr (I believe he meant/ rather than /root), Yes, that is indeed what I meant. I am sorry that I expressed myself so badly. won't /opt be inside the / partition? That's the usual place for te third party

[newbie] Internet access?

2000-03-01 Thread Lothar Mandrake
The other week somebody posted a link to a page with advice on how to get connected to the Internet using Linux. I stupidly clicked on "delete" before I realized that I could really use that kind of information. If somebody could please repost that link I would be very grateful.

Re: [newbie] RPMs Go Where?

2000-03-01 Thread Mandrake Account
before installing the rpm, go to a xterm session, cd to the directory that has the RPM you want installed and try doing this. rpm -qipl ..rpm |more this will show you just about everything about the rpm. Eric At 07:27 AM 3/1/2000 -0500, Lane Lester wrote: I've read the man page,

Re: [newbie] Cute login

2000-03-01 Thread Mandrake Account
Go to the desktop configurator in XWindows, it gives you the option in there to change the icon or chnage the login manager. At 04:21 PM 3/1/2000 -0600, Meanie wrote: This is my second request here... anyone know how to get rid of the penguin graphic at login? -- Meanie

[newbie] /usr or /root?

2000-02-29 Thread Lothar Mandrake
Having allocated disk space for the /home slice, I have about three GBs left on the disk on which I aim to install Mandrake. Should I allocate a 2 GB partition for the /root slice and a 1 GB partition for the /usr slice, or should I allocate a 1 GB partition for the /root slice and a 2

RE: [newbie] People who get LI at boot up rather than LILO BOOT:

2000-02-25 Thread Mandrake Account
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Actually when the LI pops up it usually means that the /boot part of Linux is no install within the first 1024 cylinder of the hard drive. Take a look the docs and it will probably point you on how to fix this. I personally have a tripe boot

Re: [newbie] Rage Fury 128 32Mb.

2000-02-15 Thread Mandrake Account
This card is supported in version 7.0 as well as it is supported in Red Hat 's beta 6.2 Piglet, Although it seems that the mandrake version had no problems with install. The Rage All in Wonder Pro 128 has problems when it comes to the screen becoming blured and destored. It works however if you

[newbie] Internet HOWTO?

2000-02-14 Thread Lothar Mandrake
A couple of days ago somebody posted an address to a page with instructions on how to get out on the internet with Linux. I have lost that link. Could you please post it again. Thank you. /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at

[newbie] Internet HOWTO?

2000-02-11 Thread Lothar Mandrake
A couple of days ago somebody posted an address to a page with instructions on how to get out on the internet with Linux. I have lost that link. Could you please post it again. Thank you. /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at

Re: [newbie] Too much lsd?

2000-02-06 Thread Lothar Mandrake
From: Dan Ferris [EMAIL PROTECTED] In your .bash_profile file, or whatever shell you use, add the following: alias ls='ls -Fa' then whenever you type ls, it will actually do an ls -Fa. Dan Yes, that is a good idea, but what do I do when I want to do a mere ls? I would like to keep

[newbie] Setting the time in Mandrake?

2000-02-06 Thread Lothar Mandrake
Linux-Mandrake claims that the time is one hour more than the time in the bios (which is the correct time). Setting the correct time with the "date" command is unsatisfactory, since the erroneous time is displayed again after the next reboot. Of course I could keep on changin

[newbie] Set the time in Mandrake?

2000-02-04 Thread Lothar Mandrake
Linux-Mandrake claims that the time is one hour more than the time set in the bios (which is the correct time). Setting the correct time with the "date" command is unsatisfactory, since the erroneous time is displayed again after the next reboot. How do I set the co

[newbie] Set the time in Mandrake?

2000-02-04 Thread Lothar Mandrake
Linux-Mandrake claims that the time is one hour more than the time set in the bios (which is the correct time). Setting the correct time with the "date" command is unsatisfactory, since the erroneous time is displayed again after the next reboot. How do I set the co

[newbie] chmod/chown problems

2000-02-04 Thread Lothar Mandrake
Is there some special trick to chmoding and chowning in Linux-Mandrake? The reason I ask is that I can't get either to work. One partition of my hard disk, named "/common," is dedicated to files I would like all users to be able to share. Unfortunately, its permissions are

[newbie] Floppy problems

2000-02-04 Thread Lothar Mandrake
I have a floppy which I use daily in a Solaris 7 environment. When I try to use it in Linux-Mandrake it is usually mounted as "read-only," forcing me to copy the files to the hard disk before I can work with them. Then I have to copy them to another floppy, and copy

[newbie] Too much lsd?

2000-02-04 Thread Lothar Mandrake
In Solaris I like to keep a little script containing merely the string "ls -Fa" in the /bin directory, enabling me to give this command merely by invoking the name of the script: lsd. In Linux-Mandrake the command lsd already seems to exist. It does not differ from the c

[newbie] update on kernel2.2.3 upgrade fails after trying all the things

1999-03-14 Thread mandrake
Hi, This is to just let every one know I have finaly got 2.2.3 working and this is what I had to do after loading all the files from mandrake for upgrade the procedure still did not work. So I tried to compile my own using the source rpm from mandrake, it failed complaing about I think

[newbie] apache perl quest with mandrake5.3

1999-03-12 Thread mandrake
Hi, I am trying to get some things to work with the apache that came with mandrake5.3 I have installed the DBI I needed and other programes but here is my problem. This is what I am putting in my html page at the top my $r = #!/usr/bin/perl Apache-request; print "HTTP/1.1 200 OK

[newbie] kernel upgrade fail at module dependencies

1999-03-11 Thread mandrake
Hi, I have a test machine in fact the one this email is coming from. I installed a clean 5.3 install and upgraded all the rpms as told except the kernel had to be done -ivh not -Uvh . Any way this is what happened 1.again clean install of mandrake 5.3 2.then all rpm files from mandrake 3

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