[newbie] dual modems

http://www.cwareco.com/eqlplus.html (could you please not attach .bmp [or other image] files?) -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.17mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Apr 9 Passion Sunday Rabboni, ut videam

[newbie] Good Book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111111111

"Doug" == Potts, Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Doug This has probably been asked a million times but can anyone Doug recommend a good book for a newbie! Regards, Doug Potts _Running Linux_ from O'Reilly, by Matt Welsh (and another?), now in 3rd edition. -- Mike Fies

[newbie] everthing's dead. - please help

ver. (hdc is my Zip drive). This indicates (to me) a hardware problem with your Zip drive (or the Zip disk in the drive?). Could you disconnect the drive or keep the drive empty on boot up? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.

[newbie] mounting disk shares of another linux box

registered' is specifically mentioned in the Howto. I learned that the error message appeared therein, by searching for 'RPC: Program not registered' at http://www.google.com/linux. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.

Re: [[newbie] IPCHAINS/MASQ/FORWARDING]

to do 'echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward' as root, and it works. If I do it as non-root, I get 'bash: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward: Permission denied' -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.17mdk http://www.viconet.com/fies

Re: [newbie] root

is as well, and it didn't work...Back to CMi1255179 square one... Can you login as a user and do 'su' and get root after entering the root password? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.17mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.

[newbie] Unnecessary services at startup, Was: Linux is so slow... Please help(numbers on usage)

them from the initialization. Now that more and more desktops are running Linux with the only networking being done being the internet, end users don't see the true performance of Linux, since too many processes are running, consuming too much memory. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Maile

Re: [newbie] slow Linux

"HAL" == HAL 9000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] HAL nope, not one instance of httpd seti@home is taking up HAL about 27% of my CPU... would that greatly affect the HAL performance?? Hello, HAL. Yes. (Why is _HAL_ running seti@home, anyway ? ;-) ) -- Mik

Re: [newbie] Mouse Scrolling?

"Michael" == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] (intellimouse, etc.) Working here with a Logitech mouse. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 Michael If you don't mind, could you give me the procedure you Michael followed to us

[newbie] IPCHAINS/MASQ/FORWARDING

ins' on my machine returns no matches. Were you doing 'echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward' ? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.16mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 26 St Margaret Clitherow "

RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help

ing I mean I'll move the mouse and it will Charles take about 3 seconds for it to *jump* to the location I [snip] What does doing 'top' show? What's taking up your cpu? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.

Re: [newbie] Applixware

tty decent, and the new Corel Office Mike 2000 that's going to be out mid-April seems to be quite [snip] It is shipping: http://linuxtoday.com/stories/18671.html -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.16mdk http://www.v

[newbie] newbie books

her?) from O'Reilly. _Practical Unix and Internet Security_ -- Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford. The second is by no means limited to security issues, but it deals very clearly with issues such as users, groups, permissions, files, attributes, etc etc etc. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Maile

[newbie] Root does not exist

login incorrect" or "user root does not exist". This sounds as if pam is broken or damaged. This happened to me and there are ways to recover without a reinstall. It takes patience and some good fortune. Go to the Mandrake expert list. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Maile

[newbie] re router services question

nip] http://www.justlinux.com/dynamic_dns.html (I'm not connected with justlinux.com.) [snip] -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 10 Feria in Lent

[newbie] X

vel 5 when the xdm / gdm / kdm graphical login runs. You are looking to go to runlevel 3. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 10 Feria in Lent

[newbie] Accessing Windows Drives

w this can be done? Wayne Wayne knetmon ? Ksamba ? kldap ? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 10 Feria in Lent

[newbie] hdc: lost interrupt

't be a DMA66, would it? It might be a hard drive hardware problem: loose cable, hard drive failing. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 10 Feria in Lent

[newbie] WordPerfect8 Problems

etc. Start as many X servers as you want by incrementing :1 to :2, etc. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 10 Feria in Lent

[newbie] /var/run/postmaster.pid

"John_root" == root [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John_root Everytime Bar once that i have ever installed Linux John_root Mandrake v7 i have had an error report when i try and John_root save any LinuxConf changes done in KDE. It says: John_root "invalid /var/run/postmaster,pid

[newbie] Internet Access

A free ISP for Linux was recently announced http://www.teledyn.com/products/FreeWWW -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 6 Sts Perpetua and Felicity "We hear much about new

Re: [newbie] NIC support

fied. You _must_ assign an IP address: one will _not_ be automagically assigned. You may use linuxconf to bring up the eth0 interface, or if you are used to MS Windows, reboot, and you ought to see eth0 initialization in the dmesg. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.

Re: [[newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program?]

ces, which is that cool image of me all you folks can see in my From: header. Plus, inline image (gif, png, xpm, ...). Plus, randomly selecting a .sig quote. And, true threading, based on Message-Id: and References: headers. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.

[newbie] what did i do?

/html; charset=iso-8859-1" Erik http-equiv=Content-Type DEFANGED_META content="MSHTML Erik 5.00.2919.3800" name=GENERATOR DEFANGED_STYLE/STYLE [snip] IRQ conflict? Check /etc/conf.modules -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs a

[newbie] Network in a window?

PMS/webmin-0.77-1mdk.noarch.html -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Feb 13 Sixth Sunday after Epiphany "My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I h

[newbie] e-mail clients rtf

which does. But, Outlook Express can be setup so that email to particular addresses can be in text-only. I believe that the setting is in the address book details about the particular address. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15

[newbie] StarOffice

ou passing to tar? (tar -zxvf ? tar -xvf ?) -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Feb 7 St Romuald Rabboni, ut videam

[newbie] Email programs?

viconet.com/fieschko/xemacs.html -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Feb 2 Purification of the Blessed Virgin (Candlemas) "Mediaeval man endured frightful fasts; but none o

[newbie] HERE IS A UTILITY THAT WILL HELP US ALL!

40$[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mangling executable filename "beeinstall.exe". Mangling executable filename "beeinstall.exe". It works. ftp://ftp.rubyriver.com/pub/jhardin/antispam/html-trap.procmail -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and ran

[newbie] *XVGA* where is the XVGA package

"Zsolt" == Boda Zsolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Zsolt I wrote in RpmDrake to search for: *XVGA* it exited Zsolt How do I know if XVGA16 package is installed on myPC? rpm -qa | grep VGA Are you thinking of XFree86-SVGA or XFree86-VGA16? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange,

Re: [newbie] outrageous memory usage and still no MandrakeUpdate

"Morris" == Morris Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Morris Could this be the problem, since the swap partition spans Morris beyond the 1024 cylinder boundary. No. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-

[newbie] Printer Recommendations

y it later at http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 22 Sts Vincent of Saragossa and Anastasius "The whole truth is gen

[newbie] system freezes after 1 - 2 days

e you able to telnet in from another box on the network? Morris I am running Mandrake 6.1 on a new system that I put Morris together. Morris Mandrake 6.1 Asus P3B-F M/B 128 M PC100 adaptec 2940-u2w Morris ibm 9.1 DDRS scsi drive [snip] How old is the hard drive? -- Mike Fieschko, W

[newbie] Mandrake 7.0

, and post only in text. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 20 Sts Fabian and Sebastian "The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilar

[newbie] outrageous memory usage and still no MandrakeUpdate

ling items into the kernel. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 21 St Agnes "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

[newbie] Email Server under Linux

bly others, are. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 19 Sts Marius and companions or St Canute "What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-cri

[newbie] need help !

nip] What is the content of your /etc/resolv.conf ? You must put your nameservers in it. E.g., my resolv.conf: search viconet.com viconet nameserver 207.17.227.2 nameserver 192.48.96.22 nameserver 207.17.227.7 -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig

Re: [newbie] Printing Problems in 6.5

indows box and use Samba to have the Linux box print jobs be printed on the BJC-6000? Please set your Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 to send mail only in text and not in html. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-

[newbie] RPM ignorance

y to do this or am I Jeremy dreaming too big??? Don't know. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 14 St Hilary or St Felix "Here, adoration of intelligence meets obsession with

Re: [newbie] upgrading kernel

rtition is] read-only other=/dev/hda2 label=dos table=/dev/hda -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 14 St Hilary or St Felix "The whole truth is general

[newbie] Cannot mount root device...

than one selection appear? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 14 St Hilary or St Felix "The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of som

[newbie] KPPP

"Abdoul" == Abdoul Da Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Abdoul When I open my Kppp I have the error: Abdoul This kernel has no PPP support, neither compiled in nor Abdoul via the kernel module loader. to solve this problem: * Abdoul contact your system administrator or * install a

[newbie] Need help configuring PPP on Linux 6.0

"John" == John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John I keep receiving a "script failed" messge. I am using a 56K John modem. Please Help! What script? What does the script attempt to do? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-

[newbie] Lilo

pt timeout=50 other=/dev/hda2 label=Win98 table=/dev/hda image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk label=linux root=/dev/hdb1 append="aha152x=0x340,11,7,1" read-only -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-

Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

nds top me that you may safely delete the directory "linux-2.2.13.old" and its contents. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 14 St Hilary or St Felix "Mediaeval man endured

Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

nux.org/ http://www.linux.com/tuneup/ -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 13 Baptism of Our Lord "It is always simple to fall; there are an infinity of angles at which one falls,

[newbie] any ideas how to read attached .doc files?please

oes a very good job of opening MS Word files, perhaps because Corel's had a long time to work out the filters. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-14mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 5 St Telesphorus or St John Neumann

[newbie] Getting rid of KDE

/dev/null 21; then exec `which $GSESSION` fi fi [end inserted part of /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients here] -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-14mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 5 St Telesphorus or St John Neum

[newbie] SOHO System Administration

UID 501 and GID 501 there. The map_static option in /etc/exports is used to coordinate UIDs and GIDs. /home/ben white(map_static=/etc/nfs/white.map) /home/amy green(map_static=/etc/nfs/green.map) so /etc/nfs/white.map would include uid 5012001 and /etc/nfs/green.map would include uid 501300

[newbie] SCSI card problem

grep scsi' and 'dmesg | grep aha152x' return? What are the entries in /etc/conf.modules for the aha152x? What are the values for the card's address, scsi ID (I assume it's 7), and IRQ? If you 'modprobe aha152x', what is returned? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75

[newbie] Printer Remote

And I need to print in anyone of the two printers. Wilver example: WilverTo B PC---Printer PC--Printer [snip] Assuming that A and B are connected over a network, do a su in X and run printtool, selecting "Add" -- "Remote Unix (lpd) Queue" and fill in the

[newbie] Is there a Linux program to read Mac Quark Xpress files?

, that would be a wonderful added advantage. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-7mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Dec 21 St Thomas "Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look fo

Re: [newbie] Startup issues...revisited

hit F3 key while the file is highlighted. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-7mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Dec 18 Feria "My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to ar

Re: [newbie] Simple fdisk question?

, it gets recognized by fdisk and WH by the dmesg at bootup as /dev/hdc /dev/hdc1 but attempting to WH mount it gives a; "can't find an ext2 filesystem on [snip] Did you create an ext2 filesystem on the partition? man mke2fs -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmac

[newbie] Modem Settings

What make and model modem? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-7mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Dec 18 Feria "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Everlasting Man, 1925]

Re: [newbie] Modem Settings

h you could email me? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-7mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Dec 18 Feria "Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." - [G.K. Chesterton, in ILN, 4/19/30]

Re: [newbie] Virus Protection

ermissions 100600. If I received a virus, and I was running as "mike", and the virus was running as "mike", would not the virus be able to delete or change the cbb data files? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.

[newbie] make?

"Makefile.PL"? Does this work? perl Makefile.PL -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-7mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Dec 17 Feria "What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of

Re: [newbie] Virus Protection

t if you have a specific login you use for cbb Axalon and nothing else, and follow strict rules on when to root [snip] An _excellent_ idea, which I have just implemented. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-7mdk http://www.vic

[newbie] Modem Install

"Dave" == Puentes,David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Can anyone recommend a source to refer to to install my Dave modem on my linux system? I just don't know where to start Dave and I am a fresh newbie. What manufacturer and model modem? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orang

[newbie] SMP question

-fb-2.2.13-7mdk.i586.rpm at rpmfind.net:/linux/Mandrake/6.1/Mandrake/RPMS you might want to grab the kernel-headers-2.2.13-7mdk.i586.rpm and kernel-source-2.2.13-7mdk.i586.rpm from the same site. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2

[newbie] Lexmark 5700

g specific to KDE. Have you looked at http://www.ultranet.com/~setaylor/papers.htm -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-1mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Dec 7 St Ambrose "You have demonstrated at least in my adult li

[newbie] emacs foreground background

ure if you are supposed to change the background, forground, Jas or both. In your ~/.emacs, put (set-face-foreground 'default "black") (set-face-background 'default "honeydew") I don't know of a list of available colors. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 2

[newbie] Good (Linux) Mailreaders for Mailing lists?

works.com/vm/user-manual/vm_12.html#SEC23) For a brief description of how VM threads, see http://www.gnac.com/~hogan/vm/files/rigorous-threads.patch where an email from Bob Glickstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] appears, with his rigorous threads patch to vm-folder.el. On what bases do Netscape and Kmail th

[newbie] Printing Envelopes NIGHTMARE

this model is not listed. What printer support did you install with Star Office? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-28mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Nov 16 St Gertrude "Veblen's conspicuous consumption is still around. B

Re: [Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?]

u get your news, and look at the many options available to customize how gnus behaves. There are many web pages explaining customization options, and a newsgroup gnu.emacs.gnus. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-28mdk http://www.v

Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?

sit http://www.gnus.org as the Gnus news reader does thread and will open a browser by clicking on a URL inside an article. It is the news reader I use. I do not follow binary groups, so others' needs may be different. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and ran

[newbie] Re: Compiling Kernel Black Box

ld do B4 I start... ie: kernel backup, Jaguar bootdisk, or ???. and then the correct procedure after Several things to do, but make sure you rm the symlinks in /boot and /lib/modules, so as not to overwrite the old kernel and associated files. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mail

Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?

n, and Pan, and Star Office newsreader and Jeanette Netscape is still the best. If Linux can only get a [snip] Have you tried gnus? It is a mail and news reader which runs in emacs or xemacs. http://www.gnus.org Very configurable, so it might be a bit complicated to set up. -- Mike Fies

[newbie] .bashrc

the place to do this, what is the syntax? Karen If not .bashrc, then where? Try this in your .bash_profile: # .bash_profile [snip] # User specific environment and startup programs [snip] JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk117_v3/bin export JAVA_HOME -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: X

Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?

a "helper application". Take a look at http://socha.net/Gnus/screenshots/mime.html Is this what you mean: in line MIME decoding: displaying the image in the body of the article? See also http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_4.html#SEC118 -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer:

[newbie] as of last posting, i got ip-masquerading to work... but...

ect. I had to type all the code at the command [snip] Please do not use html mail. Is rc.firewall executable? You might have to 'chmod 775 rc.firewall' -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-22mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/ho

[newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP

92.168.1.1 [snip] Is this a typo? You have two machines with identical IP numbers? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-22mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Oct 30 Feria

Re: [newbie] How to use ns-install that comes with v47 of Netscape for Linux 2.0

er. [snip] man rpm or look in /usr/doc/rpm-xxx [version number] or http://linux.miningco.com/compute/os/linux/library/weekly/aa080499q-a.htm for an introductory article on rpm. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-

[newbie] Mandrake 6.5

ckages / distributes this Mandrake stuff. I believe that it's Mandrake 6.1, but I've not bought it nor examined what's inside the box. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Oct 12 Our Lady of the Pillar

Re: [newbie] How to use ns-install that comes with v47 of Netscape for Linux 2.0

m ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/updates/6.1/i386/ ls netsc* netscape-common-4.7-1.1.i386.rpm netscape-common-4.7-1.i386.rpm netscape-communicator-4.7-1.1.i386.rpm netscape-communicator-4.7-1.i386.rpm netscape-navigator-4.7-1.1.i386.rpm netscape-navigator-4.7-1.i386.rpm -- Mike Fieschko, We

RE: [newbie] Is NFS really that bad (reality check)

NFS-HOWTO to how slow NFS is. My grepping the files did not turn up these references. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-14mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm

Re: [newbie] Is NFS really that bad (reality check)

, since grepping the NFS-HOWTO and the files in the LAME html for those phrases ("horrible" and "problems") returns no relevant matches, what ought you to conclude? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-11mdk mailto

Re: [newbie] loading imwheel at x startup?

r .xinitrc or .Xclients _and_ then opening an xterm and doing 'imwheel -k' again? Where does 'imwheel -k' appear? In one or more places? Are you manually typing in 'imwheel -k' or are you doing 'imwheel -k' without manually typing in the command, or both? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, US

Re: [newbie] loading imwheel at x startup?

tail -f /root/.xsession-errors /dev/console exec /usr/bin/enlightenment [end portion of inserted .xinitrc] -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-11mdk mailto:[EMAIL P

[newbie] My printer doesn't work...

works okay, but I am no longer able to print Looks as if sndconfig grabbed IRQ 7 for the sound card. Check /etc/conf.modules You may have to rerun sndconfig and give the sound card a different IRQ. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el http://www.v

Re: [newbie] loading imwheel at x startup?

rstand you correctly that you are running imwheel in your .xinitrc or .Xclients _and_ then opening an xterm and doing 'imwheel -k' again? Where does 'imwheel -k' appear? In one or more places? What's in your .xinitrc or .Xclients? Please post the 'Section "Pointer"' from your XF86Co

Re: [newbie] Man I HATE this.

he install process. You installed Mandrake on a 486? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-11mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.ht

Re: [newbie] Mounting a Detected SCSI CD-ROM?

stra 1200S V2.9" at device /dev/sga -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-11mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Oct 1 St Re

[newbie] loading imwheel at x startup?

ki/imwheel/ -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-11mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Sep 28 St Wenceslaus "It is always

[newbie] linux-mandrake enlightenment trouble

are. Have you tried the enlightenment rpm , rather than trying to install from a tarball (which is what it sounds as if you're trying if you're running ./configure). -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu

[newbie] Signal 11

this page isn't specific as to Sig 11's during an install. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-9mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.

[newbie] KDE CDROM

ry in /etc/fstab for the cd? Mine is /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom autouser,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-9mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [newbie] Apache, PHP and mSQL

nd httpd.h James Can anyone point me to either of these things? http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/PByName.html for rpms -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-7mdk mai

Re: [[newbie] message repeats]

pages, since I believe vmware doesn't work with 2.2.9-27. It does work with other kernel versions. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-7mdk mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [[newbie] message repeats]

module-info-2.2.9-27mdk $ The symlinks are to the 2.2.13-7 stuff. Chris BTW, what does the -19mdk mean? Probably that it's from a Mandrake distribution. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.in

[newbie] Fetchmail tosses my mail?

I.e., your machine is name localhost.localdomain, and there is no DNS entry at the other machine for that name. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 20.4, VM 6.43 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.9-19mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm

Re: [newbie] 6.1 Download/Install

sks if you want to overwrite, resume, append or skip. Choose resume. This is called "reget", and is very useful. Running ncftp on a virtual console and switching to another virtual console allows you to "use your computer while downloading." -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ,

[newbie] addressbook program

"pol" == pol keem [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is there any good built in text based addressbook program? === The Insidious Big Brother Database ("bbdb"), which works with Emacs or XEmacs. http://pw2.netcom.com/~simmonmt/bbdb/index.html -- Mike Fieschko, West Oran

[newbie] email to ip address

lved...i'm wondering if there are any pol special escape characters so the dns server will just return pol the same ip address... === polkeem Maybe this is completely wrong, but have you tried polkeem@]129.144.26.11] ? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71

Re: [newbie] laptops

"Chris" == Chris D [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: toshiba tecra 740 cdt [snip] http://www.cck.uni-kl.de/misc/tecra710/ the following is from that site: "This page is designed to help you get Linux up and running on your Toshiba Tecra series notebook (... 740CDT)." --

[newbie] laptops

Just easy does it. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 20.4, VM 6.72 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.9-19mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Sep 8 Nativity of the Blessed Vi

[newbie] threads

t two days. What is your mailer? Your X headers indicate you're using one of BG's products. X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 How does your mail reader thread (by Message-ID?)? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 20.4, VM 6.72

[newbie] Opening Windows Files

-t umsdos /dev/[whatever-drive-and-partition-for-dos] /mnt/[whatever-directory-you-want-the-dos-partition-mounted-at] (all on one line). -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 20.4, VM 6.72 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Ke

[newbie] PPP/InterNet Connectivity

can't get anything to work! Netscape just [snip] What's in your /etc/hosts and in your /etc/resolv.conf files? (Have you got your nameserver specified?) -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 20.4, VM 6.72 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ft

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