Re: [newbie] Umgangston in dieser Liste

2003-01-08 Thread Milos Prudek
Hughes, Michael wrote: German I know. Was joking :-) Cestine vetsina lidi v teto konferenci taky nerozumi, you see? -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Which version of Mandrake?

2003-01-08 Thread Milos Prudek
I used Red Hat on my desktop since 1999. Mandrake 9.0 is my first Mandrake. It is very good indeed, and I have found no show stoppers or major problems with Mandrake 9. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Personal database use

2003-01-08 Thread Milos Prudek
triggers and stored procedures. Both databases have good documentation and the speed is similar, although MySQL is probably somewhat faster. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Personal database use

2003-01-07 Thread Milos Prudek
it is the best solution. Has anyone any comments? PostgreSQL is excellent and fast. A graphical X window client "pgaccess" is available, stable and full-featured. This client works nicely for both local and remote connections. It definitely beats using web browser for database acce

Re: [newbie] Scripts in Mandrake 9.0

2003-01-07 Thread Milos Prudek
lain mail. Many people on email groups dislike HTML mail, and for a good reason. As for your English, it is absolutely OK and everyone can understand what you mean. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] apache configure for local use

2003-01-07 Thread Milos Prudek
uot;shorcuts", only more powerful. - If you absolutely refuse to learn symlinks, Mandrake allows you to do the same thing with your mouse. Start DrakConf, click System, click Services, and depress "On Boot" button in the httpd line. Since this answer may be useful to other people, I

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

2003-01-07 Thread Milos Prudek
appropriate to discuss politics. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] apache configure for local use

2003-01-07 Thread Milos Prudek
k this. 10 And if not, how do I get it working? Check if mod_php is installed. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Books (or lack of them)

2003-01-07 Thread Milos Prudek
that's Mandrake-specific, HarM correctly pointed out that there is a HTML book on the CD. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] More OO woes

2002-12-25 Thread Milos Prudek
e on the original box). Has anyone had a similar experience? Searching the OO archives didn't produce anything useful. Absolutely not. Not a single problem with OpenOffice and Mandrake 9. I installed Open Office during my Mandrake 9 installation. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pa

Re: [newbie] Using internet

2002-12-19 Thread Milos Prudek
ppp will not connect if you have default gateway already set when ppp is asked to connect. And you probably have default gateway already set. You must delete your default route to eth0 before you attempt to connect via modem (i.e. via ppp). -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Ser

Re: [newbie] Mozilla failed

2002-12-19 Thread Milos Prudek
f a hard reboot, and some of this garbage probably ended up in mozilla data files, and mozilla probably could not resolve it. I understand that lock-up did not occur in your case, but perhaps you may be able to apply my solution if it ever happens again. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your P

Re: [newbie] Using Internet

2002-12-19 Thread Milos Prudek
s not work, but IP address ping works: your route is OK, but you have DNS problems. Check /etc/resolv.conf. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mozilla failed

2002-12-19 Thread Milos Prudek
The usual start menu tab just dies and goes nowhere. That was What do you mean by "start menu tab"? Kstart menu- netwoeking - mail - mozilla messenger. Try to start mozilla from the command line. Write down any error messages. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Ser

Re: [newbie] Using Internet

2002-12-19 Thread Milos Prudek
Gil Katz wrote: Hi I got mandrake 9.0 and when I connect to the internet I can do nothing I mean I cant surf I can't send and receive mail I cant even ping. Can you ping your gateway? -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mozilla failed

2002-12-18 Thread Milos Prudek
problems exactly are you experiencing. the messenger sometimes does sometimes doesn't come up when called. I even tried that windblows cure all , reboot. You will achieve nothing by rebooting Linux. Unless your Linux locked-up hard, do not reboot. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pa

Re: [newbie] Three Unrelated GNOME questions

2002-12-17 Thread Milos Prudek
2. I would like to logon to GNOME using the GDM not the KDE login program. How can I change it from the KDE program now to the GNOME? (I think it is using KDE because I set KDE as default during the installation) Edit your /etc/sysconfig/desktop file: DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm -- Milos Prudek

Re: [newbie] urpmi and autofs

2002-12-17 Thread Milos Prudek
mount(pid1471)'" Could you please send your /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg ? -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] urpmi and autofs

2002-12-16 Thread Milos Prudek
Hi, Instead of supermount, I use autofs. It works great. Except for urpmi and rpmdrake. Both urpmi and rpmdrake fail with similar error message about "device automount(pid1474) not found". pid1474 is the PID of automount process. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Ser

Re: [newbie] localhost?

2002-11-23 Thread Milos Prudek
one means that there is a program on that port (901), and it returns no data. To verify this, send us the output of the following command: "netstat -l" -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] First suspect - me

2002-11-23 Thread Milos Prudek
e Mandrake work absolutely without any problems with supermount disabled. That is a fact. Once I enable supermount, these problems are back. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] localhost?

2002-11-23 Thread Milos Prudek
yet). It's just that it gets confused when I try to access SWAT (http://localhost:901) or the CUPS configuration tool (http://localhost:631) and sends me to search.netscape.com. Try this: http://127.0.0.1:901 http://127.0.0.1:631 Does it work? -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pa

Re: [newbie] Quick chmod question

2002-11-23 Thread Milos Prudek
AndrewD wrote: I need to chmod a whole bunch of files (under a directory), rather than go thru them all one by one is there a quicker way to chmod them all Absolutely. Try this: man chmod If you do not understand the chmod manual, come back to this list and ask. -- Milos Prudek Want to

Re: [newbie] First suspect - me

2002-11-22 Thread Milos Prudek
r you, and mounts the cdrom drive there. When you back out of the /media/cdrom and certain timeout expires, autofs unmounts cdrom, and /media/cdrom directory disappears. More details can be found in autofs man pages. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] First suspect - me

2002-11-22 Thread Milos Prudek
a former RedHat user. I used RedHat 5.2, 6.2 and 7.1 as desktop systems. This is my first Mandrake. Mandrake is good, but supermount needs fixing ASAP. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Program removal

2002-11-22 Thread Milos Prudek
first time, a ".xmms" hidden folder is created in a user's home. These folders will not be removed when you use the Mandrake program management software to remove xmms. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] kdm fails back to failsafe

2002-11-21 Thread Milos Prudek
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 21:14, Milos Prudek wrote: After using Mandrake 9.0 with kdm for a month without any problems, kdm suddenly does not allow any window manager and always runs failsafe window. Change your current runlevels to runlevel 3 - make sure you clean out any

[newbie] kdm fails back to failsafe

2002-11-21 Thread Milos Prudek
r and create a default kdm config, but it did not help. Is there a log file I could investigate, or any other way to troubleshoot this, short of uninstalling kdebase.rpm ? -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com