Re: [newbie] How to program shell scripts?

2005-02-24 Thread Avi Schwartz
/LDP/abs/html/ -- Avi Schwartz http://public.xdi.org/=avi.schwartz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] postgres admin user

2005-02-20 Thread Avi Schwartz
://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/index.html and more specifically about users: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/user-manag.html You may also want to subscribe to some of the postgres mailing lists. Avi -- Avi Schwartz http://public.xdi.org/=avi.schwartz

[newbie] To gmail users

2005-02-12 Thread Avi Schwartz
). Important: If you leave the box empty it is not going to work. You have to type in the box! This should eliminate the reply-to header and mailing list replies will now go to the list as they should. Avi -- Avi Schwartz http://public.xdi.org/=avi.schwartz

Re: [newbie] turbotax?

2005-02-12 Thread Avi Schwartz
for the service. Avi -- Avi Schwartz http://public.xdi.org/=avi.schwartz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Urpmi advice needed (2)

2005-02-04 Thread Avi Schwartz
will fail to verify, so each of the eight attribute flags will only appear if there is a problem. Otherwise, a . will be printed in that flag's place. -- Avi Schwartz http://public.xdi.org/=avi.schwartz When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

2005-01-25 Thread Avi Schwartz
://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/ with hdlist.cz 2) Install thundirbird urpmi mozilla-thunderbird http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0-4.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm 3) Install firefox urpmi mozilla-firefox http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0-4.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm Avi -- Avi Schwartz http

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

2005-01-25 Thread Avi Schwartz
and Firefox. Steps: 1) as root add the media source: urpmi.addmedia eslrahc http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/ with hdlist.cz 2) Install thundirbird urpmi mozilla-thunderbird 3) Install firefox urpmi mozilla-firefox Avi -- Avi Schwartz http://public.xdi.org/=avi.schwartz When you have robbed a man of everything, he

Re: [newbie] Alt-F2 Openoffice

2005-01-24 Thread Avi Schwartz
of the distribution. In some cases you have alternatives to the Mandrake packages. In the case of Firefox, you can find the 1.0 release through the great packaging job of Charles E. Edwards. Go to http://www.eslrahc.com/ for more information. Avi -- Avi Schwartz http://public.xdi.org/=avi.schwartz When

Re: [newbie] turn off computer?

2005-01-22 Thread Avi Schwartz
the reply-to setting. It is normally not needed and it causes replies to go directly to you instead of the mailing list. Also, there is no need to send html to this list. Text is all you need. Avi -- Avi Schwartz http://public.xdi.org/=avi.schwartz When you have robbed a man of everything, he

Re: [newbie]

2005-01-20 Thread Avi Schwartz
Matt Florido wrote: I was wondering if M10.1 already has a Webmail package. If not, I'm looking for suggestions on one. The only one I know of is SquirrelMail. SquirrelMail is included in 10.1 official and I believe it was included since at least 9.x. I don't know about CE. Avi -- Avi

Re: [newbie] Rootkit ?

2005-01-04 Thread Avi Schwartz
the message. Avi -- Avi Schwartz http://public.xdi.org/=avi.schwartz When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again. -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Rootkit ?

2005-01-04 Thread Avi Schwartz
an Intrusion Detection System like portsentry or Snort, that would account for the detection of a packet sniffer as IDS's have to sniff packet to detect intrusions. Thanks Bryan and Avi, but I'm running snort or portsentry or anything. So where does this sniffer come from ? - To me it sounds

Re: [newbie] Browser Encoding

2005-01-04 Thread Avi Schwartz
-equiv='content-type' content='text/html; charset=windows-1256' The web page and font look good both in Linux and Mac OS X. I don't have a Windows machine to test this though. Avi -- Avi Schwartz http://public.xdi.org/=avi.schwartz When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your

Re: [newbie] How to configure plugins in Firefox?

2004-12-16 Thread Avi Schwartz
think the only way to add a new type is go to your profile directory and modify mimeTypes.rdf manually. Just make sure you save a backup first :-) -- Avi Schwartz http://public.xdi.org/=avi.schwartz When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again

Re: [newbie] easy urpmi has urPO'd

2004-09-19 Thread Avi Schwartz
Brian Parish wrote: Did I miss something? Has easy urpmi turned up it's toes? Haven't been able to go there for a few days now - just when I had to rebuild my main box too. Murphy does it again! It looks like the URL changed. Try http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Avi

Re: [newbie] Linux connecting to a ms sql server

2004-09-13 Thread Avi Schwartz
other database. If not, then you will have to compile PHP yourself. Check http://www.freetds.org/ for more information. BTW, you have set reply-to in your mailer which screws up replies to the list. Please remove it from you kmail settings. Avi

Re: [newbie] Linux connecting to a ms sql server

2004-09-13 Thread Avi Schwartz
Jeb Barger wrote: The reply to is gone. I will have to check the build tomorrow. How can I check, just try to connect to the sql server or can I check something in the phpinfo(). Jeb Avi Schwartz wrote: Jeb Barger wrote: Ok, I was working on this most of the day today, and there has got

Re: [newbie] mail command in shell script: how to attach a file?

2004-09-02 Thread Avi Schwartz
to know quotas on a remote server) (resending because I didn't see it come through--apologies for dupes) Have it read the file using I/O redirect ( and ) mail -s subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] /name/of/file.txt Or use mutt -a file-to-attach This will also work with binary files. Avi

Re: [newbie] [help]Mandrake 10 installation

2004-08-31 Thread Avi Schwartz
ago and eventually I found that the problem was defective memory. Try to boot from the first CD and instead of starting the install, run memtest and let it test your memory at least for one full cycle. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Radio Ham Question....

2004-08-26 Thread Avi Schwartz
the first page: http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~ptdeboer/ham/rscw/ http://radio.linux.org.au/?sectpat=morseordpat=titledescpat= http://webperso.easyconnect.fr/om.the/web/xcw/ Never used them so I don't know if they even work. Good luck, Avi Want to buy

Re: [newbie] apt-get for Mandrake 10 Official

2004-07-19 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Jul 19, 2004, at 1:25, frankieh wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 18 July 2004 12:13 pm, Avi Schwartz wrote: What is the advantage apt-get has over urpm*? I used it only for a short amount of time on Debian and as far as I can tell, the urpm* suite of programs seem to be equivalent to apt-get

Re: [newbie] apt-get for Mandrake 10 Official

2004-07-18 Thread Avi Schwartz
used it only for a short amount of time on Debian and as far as I can tell, the urpm* suite of programs seem to be equivalent to apt-get. But as I said, I am not fluent when it comes to apt-get. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] How to check if a module is loaded ?

2004-07-06 Thread Avi Schwartz
do i check if this module is loaded and if so how do i unload it ? lsmod will give you a list of modules loaded and rmmod is used to remove a loaded module. I would also suggest that you find out why the rivafp module is loaded in the first place. Check /etc/modules* and /etc/modprobe* Avi

Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Elipse 3.0 code completion does not show selected item.

2004-07-01 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Jun 30, 2004, at 22:17, John Zoetebier wrote: Avi Schwartz wrote: What I did was urpmi gnome-control-center --auto-select and urpmi took care of getting and installing all the necessary packages.  I am a command line kind of guy :-) I had it already installed, that's why I did not see

Re: [newbie] Elipse 3.0 code completion does not show selected item.

2004-06-29 Thread Avi Schwartz
way to do it though and any hints from other users will be much appreciated. I am now installing the gnome control center (into KDE :-) to see if it can control the GTK colors. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] xserver failure

2004-06-25 Thread Avi Schwartz
Did you by any chance updated your kernel recently? If you did, did you remember to rebuild your Nvidia driver? Avi On Jun 25, 2004, at 17:49, John wrote: Hello Xserver fails when booting up. I get the nvidia screen and the blue screen, then it goes to the command line. Entering startx also

Re: [newbie] Proxim Orinoco gold a/b/g card

2004-06-20 Thread Avi Schwartz
mode? I have been looking for a Linux supported g card for a while now. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] urpmi ?

2004-05-13 Thread Avi Schwartz
On May 13, 2004, at 0:36, Marc Hultquist wrote: ATT Avi Schwartz Um what link ? I dont actually see one in your mail ? :\ Sorry, missed the link :-) http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Coldfusion MX / Mandrake 10

2004-05-13 Thread Avi Schwartz
a /bin/sh script text executable then run sh filename.bin If it tells you something like ELF 32-bit LSB executable then change the executable state of the file first: chmod +x filename.bin and the run it: ./filename.bin Avi Want to buy

Re: [newbie] urpmi ?

2004-05-12 Thread Avi Schwartz
/urpmi/proxy.cfg: http_proxy=hostname:port proxy_user=user:pass Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] More evidence of the superior intelligence of Canadians

2004-05-10 Thread Avi Schwartz
On May 10, 2004, at 16:18, robin wrote: JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2004 13:27:00 -0500 Avi Schwartz disseminated the following: 'According to Stacey Quandt, principal analyst of Quandt, 'RBC probably went into the deal as an investment, and now they appear to have lost confidence in SCO's

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-02 Thread Avi Schwartz
/linux/.config /usr/src/linux/config.bak Then copy the running kernel's config file: cp /boot/config /usr/src/linux/.config 4. Try to build the Nvidia modules. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] Should I build the NVIDIA module myself?

2004-04-28 Thread Avi Schwartz
swearing at Mandrake because their X environment stopped working after updating the kernel... Thanks, Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] For Opera lovers...

2004-04-28 Thread Avi Schwartz
email. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] For Opera lovers...

2004-04-28 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Apr 28, 2004, at 9:03, Miark wrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:28:58 -0500, Avi wrote: Now Comcast Internet is also available but I am hesitant to switch. While they are cheaper, it is still $62 a month for a home network (which I don't need, but this is all they currently seem to offer) How

Re: [newbie] Should I build the NVIDIA module myself?

2004-04-28 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Apr 28, 2004, at 10:25, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Avi, If you download the NVIDIA run file (www.nvidia.com) this will build the module for you if you have the kernel source installed. You also have some extra command line options this way, and one of them is to uninstall the module. Tony. So

[newbie] Any update site that works?

2004-04-09 Thread Schwartz Avi
Since the switch to the new mirrors hierarchy I am unable to find any sites that actually carry the MDK 10 Community updates. Anyone had any luck? Which site? Thanks, Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Why MicroSlop wants Google!

2003-11-11 Thread Schwartz Avi
On Nov 11, 2003, at 10:13, Franki wrote: Schwartz Avi wrote: On Nov 11, 2003, at 8:21, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Check it out - very interesting reading. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12603 Unfortunately for the Inquirer, the article is wrong. If you run the Linux Windows search you get

Re: [newbie] Why MicroSlop wants Google!

2003-11-11 Thread Schwartz Avi
On Nov 11, 2003, at 10:47, Charlie wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 09:31, Schwartz Avi wrote: On Nov 11, 2003, at 10:13, Franki wrote: I tried the same with searching for Windows. MSN initially gave me 2399 results but after many clicks on Next it ended up being only 1069! Google gave me

[newbie] Kylix 3 and 9.2?

2003-11-02 Thread Schwartz Avi
for 9.2? Thanks, Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Password Expiration

2003-10-30 Thread Schwartz Avi
: password_aging (9) If you don't have this file or it is empty you may need to have the following line at the top: from mseclib import * Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-28 Thread Schwartz Avi
On Oct 28, 2003, at 13:59, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 28 Oct 2003 6:01 pm, Franki wrote: Schwartz Avi wrote: On Oct 27, 2003, at 17:45, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 27 Oct 2003 9:55 pm, Schwartz Avi wrote: What I heard was that Mandrake used some new untested kernel code in their kernel

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-28 Thread Schwartz Avi
On Oct 28, 2003, at 14:21, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 28 Oct 2003 8:11 pm, Schwartz Avi wrote: I'd get upset if mandrake even thought about paying for it.. LG, should be paying for it because the problem is with them.. not mandrake.. The only thing mandrake have to do, is put

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-28 Thread Schwartz Avi
On Oct 28, 2003, at 15:57, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 28 October 2003 13:11, Schwartz Avi wrote: I just wonder what will happen to all the people that lost their drive. Is Mdk going to pay for them? Can they even afford it? Avi Lol, I'd get upset

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-27 Thread Schwartz Avi
What I heard was that Mandrake used some new untested kernel code in their kernel for the 9.2 release. If this is the case then only Mandrake 9.2 should be affected since most (if not all) other distributions would have stayed away from this code. Avi On Oct 27, 2003, at 15:17, Anarky wrote

Re: [newbie] postfix: delete queue?

2003-10-19 Thread Avi Schwartz
it. And then service postfix start again of course, but only with a good config. Better yet, use postsuper with the -d flag. Much safer then the above. Make sure to read the postsuper manual first. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 9.2 is out!

2003-10-14 Thread Avi Schwartz
sources (givers). I am getting Download rate of 165 KB/s and Upload rate of 55 KB/s on my company's T1. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] And the beat goes on...

2003-10-14 Thread Avi Schwartz
though no mention is made of Antitrust, it is still encouraging to see the government of Israel thinking of using Linux to cut cost. Recently there have been huge cuts in the government budget and when there is little money, people start looking at Linux. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Damn newbie user!

2003-09-19 Thread Avi Schwartz
, they will have to send a probe email to every subscriber on the list using a from address or reply address to which is unique and then wait for the email to be bounced by the sms user. Since the email is unique, they will know the offending email. I have seen this done on other lists. Avi Want

Re: [newbie] ssh question

2003-09-18 Thread Avi Schwartz
is not in the way. sshd is running. It's not a routing problem. What else can I check? Make sure that there is an appropriate entry in /etc/hosts.allow, something like the following line: sshd:ALL Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] msec ignores perm.local

2003-09-02 Thread Avi Schwartz
. Without the -c parameter, the file permissions are not set. Is there a better way to call msec to set the permissions? Shouldn't the file permissions checked and set on each invocation of msec by default? Avi On Monday, Sep 1, 2003, at 18:28 America/Chicago, Björn Olsson wrote: On Monday 1

[newbie] msec ignores perm.local

2003-09-01 Thread Avi Schwartz
and then went ahead and modified the permissions on the directory manually to see what msec does: chmod g+r /var/tmp Unfortunately when I run msec it changes the permissions back to 1773. Isn't perm.local supposed to allow me to override the default settings? How do I achieve this? Thanks, Avi

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Apache

2003-08-14 Thread Avi Schwartz
Apache 1 instead. I have no explanation :-( Avi On Wednesday, Aug 13, 2003, at 12:55 America/Chicago, Bryan Tyson wrote: On Tuesday 12 August 2003 15:41, bob parker wrote: I heard that there are compatability problems with PHP and Apache V2 I am far from an expert on PHP and Apache. However, I

Re: [newbie] Program for joining files together

2003-08-08 Thread Avi Schwartz
cat parts*.avi bigone.avi Avi On Tuesday, Aug 5, 2003, at 19:41 America/Chicago, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi all, Are there any good programs for joining files together under linux? More specifically I want to join some .avi files into one big file. What is the easiest way to do this? Want

Re: [newbie] Program for joining files together

2003-08-07 Thread Avi Schwartz
So I assume that the smaller files are complete AVI files and not splits from a bigger file? Then this is a problem. A quick look on google shows only Windows programs that can do it. Avi On Tuesday, Aug 5, 2003, at 20:08 America/Chicago, Guilherme Cirne wrote: On Tuesday 05 August 2003 21

Re: [newbie] how to scripts

2003-08-01 Thread Avi Schwartz
Here is a nice introduction to bash programming: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html Avi On Friday, Aug 1, 2003, at 10:40 America/Chicago, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i wish to do a script for the terminal, like *.bat-file in windows. is this possible? Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Does mandrakeUpdate really work?

2003-07-28 Thread Avi Schwartz
No, it is fresh 9.1 install and my first Mandrake install so I don't have left overs from 9.0. Avi On Monday, Jul 28, 2003, at 01:47 America/Chicago, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 28 Jul 2003 5:03 am, Avi Schwartz wrote: I ftpd into the site and I can see the rpm in there. However

Re: [newbie] Does mandrakeUpdate really work?

2003-07-28 Thread Avi Schwartz
://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKSA- 2003:066-2): To upgrade automatically, use MandrakeUpdate. which is apparently wrong. Avi On Monday, Jul 28, 2003, at 06:09 America/Chicago, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 28 July 2003 03:22 am, Avi Schwartz wrote: I currently have on my

[newbie] Why doesn't msec set directory permissions properly?

2003-07-28 Thread Avi Schwartz
--- 297 admadm In /var/log/messages I do see that msec is reading the perm.local file. Any idea why is msec ignoring my permissions? Thanks, Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Why doesn't msec set directory permissions properly?

2003-07-27 Thread Avi Schwartz
/adm.adm755 I then run msec but when I check the permissions on the directory I still see: drwxr-x--- 297 admadm In /var/log/messages I do see that msec is reading the perm.local file. Any idea why is msec ignoring my permissions? Thanks, Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Does mandrakeUpdate really work?

2003-07-27 Thread Avi Schwartz
I currently have on my system kernel-2.4.21.0.13 installed. When I am running mandrakeUpdate it tells me there are no updates yet I know that kernel 2.4.21.0.25mdk-1-1 is available as a security fix. Why doesn't it tell me there is an update? Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Does mandrakeUpdate really work?

2003-07-27 Thread Avi Schwartz
I did it before via the GUI and I just did it again via the console and I still get the same No Update message. Very puzzling. Avi On Sunday, July 27, 2003, at 10:27 PM, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 27 July 2003 11:22 pm, Avi Schwartz wrote: I currently have on my system kernel-2.4.21.0.13

Re: [newbie] Does mandrakeUpdate really work?

2003-07-27 Thread Avi Schwartz
I ftpd into the site and I can see the rpm in there. However, and be warned that I have no clue a to what I am doing, the synthesis.hdlist file shows only 2.4.21.0.13 and not 2.4.21.0.25. Can this be the problem? Avi On Sunday, July 27, 2003, at 10:49 PM, Dmitri Vassilenko wrote: I did

Re: [newbie] LILO configuration

2000-12-06 Thread Avi Nehori
fe append=" failsafe" Any help on these issues would be greatly appreciated. Adam Hi adam try my lilo.conf remember that the linux hard drive should be the primary master. -- Avi Nehori He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue. -- Jonathon Swift

Re: [newbie] LILO configuration

2000-12-06 Thread Avi Nehori
Avi Nehori wrote: "adam.e.willcox.1" wrote: I just installed mandrake linux on a second hard drive on my machine. My first hardrive currently has windows 2000. I have 2 questions relating to these. First, how do I access my windows2000 drive(NTFS) in linux, and how do I

Fwd: Re: [newbie] Kmail - can receive, not send messages

2000-12-04 Thread Avi Nehori
are you set to 'Send Now' or to 'Send Later'? -- Alan --- try rpmdrake and search package kdenetwork. -- Avi Nehori This cultural mystique surrounding the biological function -- you realize humans are overly preoccupied with t

[newbie]

2000-03-07 Thread avi
dont sand me email