Re: [newbie] Netscape - Locking Up and Self-terminating - How toprevent?

1999-11-03 Thread sphilp
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 12:21:40PM -0500, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 09:01:47PM -0500, Michael R. Batchelor wrote: Unfortunately, THAT PC isn't one of the clock sync clients. So just set up the scheduler on that machine to run "net

Re: [newbie] Netscape - Locking Up and Self-terminating - How toprevent?

1999-11-03 Thread sphilp
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 10:27:12AM -0500, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 09:01:47PM -0500, Michael R. Batchelor wrote: Unfortunately, THAT PC isn't one of the clock sync clients. So just set up the scheduler on that machine to run "net time

Re: [newbie] Trouble installing/configuring X/video card

1999-11-02 Thread sphilp
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 02:31:32PM -0800, Tuan Nguyen wrote: I have a monitor manual with all the spec such as horizontal and vertical range, but Xconfigurator doesn't allow manual input the range. Unless, I am missing something. You're right, it doesn't. You'll need to edit

Re: [newbie] Netscape - Locking Up and Self-terminating - How toprevent?

1999-11-02 Thread sphilp
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 07:28:28AM -0500, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: Steve Philp wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Mon, 1 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, a neat trick I picked up from a budding "cracker" at work: (I chastised him severely for the action, but you gotta

Re: [newbie] mirroring

1999-11-02 Thread sphilp
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 08:32:15AM -0500, Ronald J. Yacketta wrote: Hello all!! do any of you know where I could get some mirror software for linux? I would like to mirror my internal 4 scsi 9gb's to 4 external 9gb's. (maybe a raid package where I could do raid 10 w/stripeing??) The

Re: [newbie] Re: your mail

1999-11-01 Thread sphilp
On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 09:43:22PM -0800, Chip Wiegand wrote: I am interested in this also. I have apache installed and it does run. I can connect to my pages from any pc in my home network. The next part is this - How do we (I) get to our pages from the outside world? Don't we need a

Re: [newbie] RealplayerG2 - Why Does It Stop After A Few Seconds?

1999-11-01 Thread sphilp
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 10:54:38AM -0800, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm using Mandrake6.1 with the G2realplayer (also with licensed OSS driver). Here's the problem: Whenever I use the G2player, it would only play for a few seconds and then it would be silent. At the same time it goes silent,

Re: [newbie] Compiling C++ programs

1999-11-01 Thread sphilp
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 05:28:58PM -0500, David Smith wrote: Hi. I'm new to Linux and C++... (what a dangerous combination!), but I have not been able to figure out how to complie and link my rookie programs... can someone please point me in the right direction. g++ -o

Re: [newbie] Resolv.conf

1999-11-01 Thread sphilp
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 08:35:32PM -0200, Gustavo Viola wrote: Been forced to send this msg under the other OS, since kppp is misbehaving. I had one of those misconfigurations of etc/resolv.conf -- although I am not sure how that happened to begin with, since I haven't fooled with it lately

Re: [newbie] Who's been logging in?

1999-11-01 Thread sphilp
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 09:54:17PM +, Ty C. Mixon wrote: Is there a log, or is there a way to create one, that shows who has logged into my machine, when and what they did? The 'last' command will show you a list of who's logged into the machine and the timespan. For "what they did", it

Re: [newbie] Procmail

1999-11-01 Thread sphilp
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 01:44:35PM -0600, Vic wrote: Hey all I was wondering if anyone had any procmail experience. I want to write a simple procmail 'recipe' that would bounce mail from certain addresses rather than just move them to /dev/null You can't bounce mail from procmail. It's

Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP

1999-10-31 Thread sphilp
On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 05:26:54PM -0500, Alex V Flinsch wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: On a linux terminal, start a 'ping 192.168.1.2'. Then switch terminals and run did taht and it's pinging away happily tcpdump -i eth0 | tee tcpdump-output

[newbie] Re: your mail

1999-10-31 Thread sphilp
On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 03:35:22PM -0800, Dreja Julag wrote: Hello all! I am wondering if I can create a web server of my own with my linux box for my friends and neighbors. I think it sounds like a cool experiment, but I don't know where to start. Thanks for the help. I know, I could

Re: [newbie] Segmentation Faults?

1999-10-31 Thread sphilp
On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 07:20:47PM -0500, Clyde J. Kell wrote: Help, Whenever I try to run a particular program I receive an: Segmentation Fault core dumped What program? Then when I try to do anything else I receive: unable to load interpreter init: Id "3" respawning too fast disabled

Re: [newbie] Fortify install

1999-10-25 Thread sphilp
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 06:45:09PM -0500, Jeanette Russo wrote: John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: After installation and testing at www.fortify.net (README file online), you should consider repeating the procedure to fortify netscape-navigator as well.

Re: [newbie] upgrading

1999-10-25 Thread sphilp
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 05:25:01PM -0600, Patrick Neumann wrote: A couple of quick questions 1. I am using Mandrake 6.0 and would like to us VMware ver 1.1 which requires xfree86 3.3.4 and ver 6 of mandrake only uses 3.3.1 What is the simplest way of getting this done. Grab the updated

Re: [newbie] Sound

1999-10-24 Thread sphilp
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 03:53:22PM +0800, Mr-X- wrote: well why do they charge you $20 ? for there code... Because they're the ones with the driver that you want. It's your choice: write the code yourself, buy the driver from OSS, or go without sound. why should they get our money while most

Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?

1999-10-24 Thread sphilp
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 10:35:24AM +, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Sam: Thank you so much for the info. Just ordered Que's Special Editon Using StarOffice by Michael Koch (for Linux only) the 15,50+ pages version from Macmillan (http://www.mcp.com). Just as a "head's up" to people,

Re: [newbie]

1999-10-24 Thread sphilp
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 06:37:03AM -0600, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And a replacement package for the kernel problem is coming soon, right MandrakeSoft?? :) Haven't forgotten anyone i swear, I think i've just about got this stable so as i can

Re: [newbie] Plugger

1999-10-24 Thread sphilp
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:14:09PM +, Alan_N wrote: John Aldrich wrote: Hey, all...just a reminder that the Mandrake RPM of Netscape is the Libc5 version, and if you go to get "plugger" or any other C-version specific plugin, you need to get the libc5 version, not the GLIBC2

Re: [newbie] How do I bring eth0 down?

1999-10-24 Thread sphilp
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 06:10:24PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 04:50:25AM +, Ty Mixon wrote: On my box the commands are also shortened to ifup and ifdown. They're different commands. Do a 'which ifup' and 'which ifconfig' to

Re: [newbie] -- MARK --

1999-10-24 Thread sphilp
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 06:10:53AM +0400, Steve Sykes wrote: Every 20 minutes, a message with the time,date,hostname and -- MARK -- shows up on the screen when I tail the messages file. What is this? It's just a marker so you can see that the system logs are still running. It might be useful

Re: [newbie] Harddrive problem

1999-10-23 Thread sphilp
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 07:50:03PM -0700, Yifan Yu wrote: Is there a way to find out what address I should use? Also, when I tried the boot option, it says ide2 is an invalid option. Do you already have Linux installed on this machine? You can find information about the controller in

Re: [newbie] home directory

1999-10-23 Thread sphilp
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:32:34AM -0700, Eric L. Damron wrote: I want to move the home directory away from my system disk onto a larger disk. What files to I need to edit to make everything point to the right things? (We'll assume /dev/hdb2 is the new partition) First, create the

Re: [newbie] Re: newbie Core Dump

1999-10-23 Thread sphilp
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:27:51PM -0400, Jaguar wrote: What is a core dump??? and why do you get them??? A core dump is a dump of the system memory to allow debugging of a broken application. Why do you get them? Programming errors. Yours, theirs, doesn't really matter unless you don't have

Re: [newbie] Where is Kernel?

1999-10-23 Thread sphilp
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 07:45:35PM -0400, art-nj wrote: I am trying to compile ftape and keep getting errors. I think it is because I have not properly specified the location of the kernel. I am running mandrake 6.0. Which directory would contain the Kernel? /usr/src/linux Your help is

Re: [newbie] user security

1999-10-23 Thread sphilp
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 06:25:32PM -0700, Richard Salts wrote: What user privileges do I, as root, enact to be able to enable an ordinary user to be able to dial up the Internet and use browser, e-mail, chat, etc? The only thing you have to do is allow them to dialup. Everything else is

Re: [newbie] re - compiling kernal to support ESS-Solo - 1 soundchip

1999-10-23 Thread sphilp
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 02:34:09PM +1300, Warren Doney wrote: Has anyone got tips/links for doing this? cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig and when you get to the Sound menu, say 'Y' to ESS-Solo1. It's marked as experimental, so I don't know how well it works. -- Steve Philp Network

Re: [newbie]

1999-10-23 Thread sphilp
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 07:40:54PM -0600, Sam wrote: My advice is to get the mandrake release too. I'm going through installing most of the major releases that you can download or get get from LinuxMall for $2.00 in order to write a review on them from a newbie's perspective. Here's what I've

Re: [newbie] Re: newbie Core Dump

1999-10-23 Thread sphilp
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 10:10:46PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote: On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, you wrote: What is a core dump??? and why do you get them??? Core dump is a memory dump of a crashed program. Instead of a "blue screen of death" like you get with Microsoft, you get a "core dump" Now come

Re: FIXED !!! [newbie] Postfix mail will not deliver locally, will not error back

1999-10-23 Thread sphilp
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 10:27:35PM -0400, R. 'Trebor' Groves wrote: Amen somebody Congrats! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie]

1999-10-23 Thread sphilp
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 07:38:30PM -0700, Seth Gibson wrote: On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, you wrote: My advice is to get the mandrake release too. I'm going through installing most of the major releases that you can download or get get from LinuxMall for $2.00 in order to write a review on them

Re: [newbie] My printer...

1999-10-23 Thread sphilp
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 10:54:30PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote: On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, you wrote: After several installations and reading several documents, I have found that my Epson Stylus Color 740 printer will not work under Linux at all times (my experience and quote from a howto

Re: [newbie] Fortify install

1999-10-23 Thread sphilp
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 11:14:35PM -0400, Hugh wrote: Today I tried installing Fortify into netscape. But I ran into a problem When I try to UN zip the file I get an alarm that says it doesn't know -xf- I'm using this command gzip -dc Fortify-1.4.5-unix-x86.tar.gz | tar -xf- what am I doing

Re: [newbie] Sound

1999-10-23 Thread sphilp
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 11:38:20AM +0800, Mr-X- wrote: i have a key generator already from linuxcracks Are you really broke enough that you're unwilling to pay $20 for the drivers? This _REALLY_ pisses me off. Hannu and the rest of the guys at Open Sound/4Front have worked their asses off

Re: [newbie] tgz files

1999-10-22 Thread sphilp
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 06:16:51PM -0700, Eric L. Damron wrote: Are tgz files the same as tar.gz files? If not how do I decompress them? They're exactly the same, just named to be compatible with yucky "legacy" operating systems. :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging

Re: [newbie] BUG: 6.1

1999-10-21 Thread sphilp
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:27:23PM -0600, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure howlong till the next ide patch is out for 2.2.13 hopefully it'll fix this. also which error are you getting again 'hdX: lost interupt' or the DMA timeout Check your

Re: [newbie] BUG: 6.1

1999-10-21 Thread sphilp
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 11:25:20PM -0600, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: [snip steve] hda: QUANTUM BIGFOOT_CY6480A, 6204MB w/67kB Cache, CHS=13446/15/63, DMA hdd: ATAPI 20X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA So, the kernel believes that

Re: [newbie] wyse 60 emulation ona linux client

1999-10-21 Thread sphilp
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 03:49:12PM +0800, PCLow wrote: my company currently uses a ms windows emulation application (Anzio) to emulate wyse 60 to access the PICK application on a redhat server supplied by the vendor. I'm trying to use a linux client to access PICK instead, but having

Re: [newbie] BUG: 6.1

1999-10-21 Thread sphilp
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 05:41:59AM -0600, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 11:25:20PM -0600, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: [snip steve] hda: QUANTUM BIGFOOT_CY6480A, 6204MB w/67kB

[newbie] [sphilp: BUG: 6.1 -- portmap]

1999-10-21 Thread sphilp
I'm not sure this posted through to the list last night. My apologies if they did. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Continuing the bug parade... I was cleaning up my system tonight, removing unnecessary packages. I removed the portmap

[newbie] [sphilp: BUG: 6.1 -- chkfontpath]

1999-10-21 Thread sphilp
Here's the second bug report I mailed last night. I haven't seen it hit the mailing lists, so I'm forwarding it back in. My apologies if it made it the first time and I missed it. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Another one... Trying to

Re: [newbie] BUG: 6.1

1999-10-20 Thread sphilp
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 10:03:57PM -0600, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two more bugs to report: 1) By default, Mandrake attempts to turn on DMA for available IDE devices. Attempting to copy the contents of a CDROM to my hard drive, I

Re: [newbie] BUG: 6.1

1999-10-20 Thread sphilp
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:22:54AM -0400, Singer XJ Wang wrote: also, what version of GCC? Doesn't ship with gcc, it uses pgcc-1.1.3 instead. On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Singer XJ Wang wrote: Okay, two quickies: Mandrake 6.1 is pretty much 99% Compatible with RedHat 6.1 right? Supposed

Re: [newbie] BUG: 6.1

1999-10-20 Thread sphilp
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 07:40:36AM -0600, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) By default, Mandrake attempts to turn on DMA for available IDE devices. Attempting to copy the contents of a CDROM to my hard drive, I encountered the following

Re: [newbie] BUG: 6.1

1999-10-20 Thread sphilp
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 05:48:39AM -0700, Kumba wrote: In regards to the CD glitch you had: hdd: ATAPI reset complete ATAPI device hdd: Error: Unit attention -- (Sense key=0x06) Power on, reset or bus device reset occurred -- (asc=0x29, ascq=0x00) hdd:

Re: [newbie] Gnome upgrade!

1999-10-20 Thread sphilp
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:53:43AM -0400, Miguel Rodriguez wrote: Hi everybody. Iam very glad cause very cool things are happening in the Desktop arena. Recently we saw the Octuber Gnome and Enlightenment 0.16 releases. My question is why Mandrake users can't enjoy them? I was looking

Re: [newbie] How to market Linux?

1999-10-20 Thread sphilp
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 04:45:48PM +, M Thompson wrote: Hi All, I have been a member of this list (Mandrake Newbie) for a short while now and know that there are a ton of knowledgeable participants on it...I am taking a Marketing class as part of my MBA curriculum. For my Marketing

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: xmms-0.9.5.1-19991020cvs1]

1999-10-20 Thread sphilp
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 07:45:05PM -0600, Sam wrote: Ryan Weaver wrote: xmms-0.9.5.1-19991020cvs1.i386.rpm517611 xmms-0.9.5.1-19991020cvs1.src.rpm 745487 xmms-devel-0.9.5.1-19991020cvs1.i386.rpm 14847

[newbie] BUG: 6.1 -- portmap

1999-10-20 Thread sphilp
Continuing the bug parade... I was cleaning up my system tonight, removing unnecessary packages. I removed the portmap package, but noticed that it showed up again in the output of 'rpm -qa'. Here's a transcript of the activity: Script started on Wed Oct 20 21:37:50 1999 [root@tippy /root]#

[newbie] BUG: 6.1 -- chkfontpath

1999-10-20 Thread sphilp
Another one... Trying to remove fonts from the xfs fontserver using the chkfontpath utility results in a segmentation fault: Script started on Wed Oct 20 22:05:34 1999 [root@tippy fonts]# chkfontpath --list Current directories in font path: 1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled 2:

Re: [newbie] DNS Server for Mandrake?

1999-10-19 Thread sphilp
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 12:22:53AM -0400, Paul Hoy wrote: Hello, Does anyone know the name of the DNS RPM package that comes with Mandrake? bind, bind-utils, bind-devel -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Installing from other packages

1999-10-19 Thread sphilp
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:09:52AM -0400, John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, you wrote: Is it possible to install an app from one Linux package into another? I have a SuSE 6.2 with StarOffice (among others) and I would like to be able to install it in Mandrake. If this can be

Re: [newbie] Installing from other packages

1999-10-19 Thread sphilp
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 04:09:35PM +0100, Simon Norris wrote: Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but the applications you install will mainly depend on the Linux Kernel you're running. If your kernel is compatible, you should be relatively trouble free. See if you can find the install spec for

Re: [newbie] Intel 810 chipset

1999-10-19 Thread sphilp
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 03:55:42PM -0400, Michael R. Batchelor wrote: Has anyone tried, successfully or unsuccessfully, to install Mandrake 6.1 on an Intel 810 motherboard? Does any Xserver support that chipset yet? Is this a repost? I think I remember responding to this question a couple

Re: [newbie] terminal emulation problems

1999-10-19 Thread sphilp
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 10:03:21PM +0200, Jose Ramon Delgado wrote: Hi , I am trying to connect my labtop to the serial port of my PC with Linux , and actually a got it , but the problem is that the speed of the comunication is really slow , ( for example 5 minutes just to load the

Re: [newbie] FTP install...

1999-10-19 Thread sphilp
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 08:24:26AM +0800, Aaron deRozario wrote: Just out of interest - what is the telnet client included in windows called? telnet. Of course, there's no pretty GUI for it, so Windows doesn't exactly announce that it's installed. You'll either have to create an icon for it

Re: [newbie] Installing from other packages

1999-10-19 Thread sphilp
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:16:00PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, you wrote: SuSE uses RPM. And RPM's are tons easier than tarballs. :) Yeah...I didn't realize that SuSE uses RPM as well. :-) Good to know. I was wondering why people keep getting referred to SuSE's

Re: [newbie] Follow-up to SMP troubles

1999-10-19 Thread sphilp
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 10:27:05PM -0400, John May wrote: Here's what VMware has to say about the SMP troubles I, and others, are having. The whole article is quoted for clarity. --- SNIP --- Does this mean that Linux-Mandrake is a "lame" distribution? It sure does. It means that they

Re: [newbie] Q about excessive HDD swapping when in KDE

1999-10-18 Thread sphilp
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 09:01:21PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote: May I suggest you look at Penguin Computing in the future? At least for straight linux boxes. :-) Don't know how their price compares (haven't really researched it) but at least you know that if it works in Linux, chances are it'll

Re: [newbie] Q about excessive HDD swapping when in KDE

1999-10-18 Thread sphilp
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 08:44:12AM -0400, Michael Lueck wrote: On Sun, 17 Oct 1999 23:17:46 -0400, Steve Philp wrote: To check what Linux detected, use the command 'free'. The output will look like: Right on the nose! Total Mem= 14616 Should I have used the paramater when starting the

Re: [newbie] Symbolic links between Netscape inbox files in Linux and DOS

1999-10-18 Thread sphilp
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 10:49:03PM +0100, colin.murphy wrote: It would be kinda neat if I could set up a symbolic links for Netscape in Linux to use the equivalent DOS files for things like the message files. This would keep both Netscape's in sync. Would this work? More importantly, if

Re: [newbie] DCC

1999-10-18 Thread sphilp
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 09:27:50AM -0600, Guillermo Belli wrote: I need to share some file betweeb two PCs I own, and because the files are big (5 mb or so) it is not possible to do that with floppies. So I connect them via parallel-clable with winsucks' Direct Cable Connection utility. How

Re: [newbie] SAMBA

1999-06-03 Thread sphilp
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 01:32:46AM +, Philip C. Hewitt II wrote: thanks I works for every Windows95 machine I've tested it on but now I find that it will not work on Windows98 PCs...it just keeps asking for the password for IPC$...and no matter what I put in there I get rejected and an

Re: [newbie] formatting hard drive

1999-06-03 Thread sphilp
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 04:39:33PM -0700, Hidong Kim wrote: Hi, I just installed Mandrake 5.3 on a machine with a single 10.1 GB ide drive. During the installation, I only set up a 200 mb /boot, a 2 gb /, and 190 mb of swap in three logical partitions. Now that the system is running, I

Re: [newbie] kppp connects finally!!!but...

1999-06-02 Thread sphilp
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 02:44:20PM -0500, Jose Alberto Abreu wrote: s3x escribió: i've finally got kppp to connect to my isp but after the connection is made i try to ping and the terminal window hangs. i open up netscape and it can't find anyplace. i try to change the mail account from

Re: [newbie] configuring Xfree86

1999-06-01 Thread sphilp
On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 01:35:54PM -0500, eahenryii wrote: Thanks for the advice! I ran Xconfigurator. The first choice is the Card. I chose wd 90c24a2, which is the factory spec card for my laptop. I was exited from the program and the message Server doesn't exist, can't

Re: [newbie] Mounting Remote Windows Drives

1999-06-01 Thread sphilp
On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 11:49:49AM -0400, Duke16 wrote: What is the best way to be able to get to my remote windows hard drive which is connected to the same network as the Mandrake-Linux Computer. smbfs support in the kernel. and what would be the best way of getting to the linux drive

Re: [newbie] TNT2 and Venus

1999-06-01 Thread sphilp
On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 07:27:52PM +0200, Martin Cleaver wrote: And which mail software did you use to reply and keep the gif and html??? :) I admit it: I want OE for Linux! ;-) What else is capable of downloading from POP and saving on the server for x days etc... Dunno. I use mutt

Re: [newbie] Long Filename MS-DOS support?

1999-05-16 Thread sphilp
Dan Brown wrote: I know the long filenames in the DOS/Win95 filesystem are a kluge, but does linux support them? If so, at what version of the kernel? Thanks for any info! Since way back in the middle parts of the 2.0.x kernel series. Just mount the partition as vfat and you're all

Re: [newbie] How to receive mail under shell?

1999-05-13 Thread sphilp
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 03:31:18PM +1200, John l.yn wrote: Hi: I can receive my internet mail throught Kppp under X-window and also can receive local network mail using mailx under shell. I want to receive my internet mail under shell. How to do this? Use fetchmail or a mail client that

Re: [newbie] Batch commands

1999-05-08 Thread sphilp
On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 02:52:28PM -0400, Luke Vandervort wrote: Is there an equivalent to the dos batch commands in linux? I would like to start x windows with the following command but do not want to type the whole thing everytime. startx -- -bpp 16 A couple ways to do this... First,

Re: [newbie] Different Resoltions, No Virtual Desktop Size

1999-05-08 Thread sphilp
On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 07:50:55PM -0500, Matthew Stegman wrote: Original Message: from Birchall, Richard Subject - RE: [newbie] Different Resoltions, No Virtual Desktop Size She likes her screen resolution to be 1280x1024 (which operates at 60Hz on this monitor) while I like mine at

Re: [newbie] nfs problems

1999-05-08 Thread sphilp
On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 03:05:57PM -0700, Hidong Kim wrote: Hi, I have a network of three Linux machines named weaver, ripley, and jonesy. I have them networked, and their disks were all nfs mounted. But then today, all of the sudden, weaver is not seeing ripley's disks, and jonesy is

Re: [newbie] TCP/IP for LAN

1999-05-06 Thread sphilp
On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 06:18:21AM -0500, Meanie wrote: Hey all.. thanks a ton for all the help thus far. I don't know much, but I try to help out when I can. My new problem regards my Realtek 8029 (NE2k compatible) PCI LAN card. I was pretty sure I had it set up right upon installation

Re: [newbie] How can run program automatic at boot?

1999-05-06 Thread sphilp
On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 03:44:20PM +0800, John l.yn wrote: Hi: I dont know which file include the information. I have tired many *.conf. I want to run one program at boot. /etc/rc.d/rc.local -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Q: XMessageBox

1999-05-01 Thread sphilp
On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 06:56:58AM +0300, Martin Barnard wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there was a program anywhere which will open a message box in X containing a text string that's passed to it. for example, if I wanted a bash script that would open a message box telling me of an event

Re: [newbie] a webby question

1999-05-01 Thread sphilp
httpd/html/sphilp. However, as far as the webserver is concerned when parsing webpages, that directory is actually /html/sphilp. That's why you're getting the problems when trying to see the images when you browse the page. Hope this explanation helps! I can't upload my graphics to my we

Re: [newbie] PCI sound cards under linux?

1999-04-29 Thread sphilp
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 06:10:40PM -0700, Gryphon wrote: I've got a Diamond Monster Sound MX300, and I'm wondering if anyone knows a way to get this card working in linux? It has full legacy support under DOS, but I believe that a DOS helper program is necessary to enable that. Has anyone

Re: [newbie] printer setup

1999-04-29 Thread sphilp
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 04:57:41PM -0700, Hidong Kim wrote: Hi, I can't set up my printer, an HP DeskJet 870Cxi. It was working ok after the initial installation of Mandrake 5.3 under kernel 2.0.36. I've since compiled 2.2.6, and I can't get my printer to work. printtool detects no

Re: [newbie] Linux Install Question

1999-04-28 Thread sphilp
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 01:01:56PM -0400, Owens, Jerry wrote: I downloaded a copy of Linux-Mandrake 5.3 to my primary hard drive which is dos formatted and running win95. I am installing Linux on a second hard drive. I am using a floppy boot disk to install Linux. How can I get the install

Re: [newbie] How to change the resolution of X-windows?

1999-04-28 Thread sphilp
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 03:17:38PM +0800, John l.yn wrote: Hi: I have two question below: 1. I want to change the resolution of X-windows from 16 color to 24 bit color.Help say that using 'alt'-'ctrl'-'+', but it doesnt work. There is a difference between resolution and color

Re: [newbie] Errors when trying to run X-Windows

1999-04-28 Thread sphilp
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 12:29:02PM -0700, Thomas Franks wrote: I'm not actually using the Mandrake distribution, but I had Redhat 5.2 installed and then downloaded and setup KDE. It worked fine at first, but I ran xconfigurator to reset my video profile, and now every time I try to start

Re: [newbie] Keyboard problem - HELP!!!!!!

1999-04-28 Thread sphilp
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 07:17:52PM -0400, James J. Capone wrote: Try running Linuxconfig from the command prompt. This should give you the option of changing it. All though I am not sure. On Monday, April 26, 1999 6:42 PM, Toshiro Viera Stalker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: : Hi! I've

Re: [newbie] ancient monitor

1999-04-25 Thread sphilp
On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 02:07:07AM -0600, Jose Alberto Abreu wrote: Greetings, you-who-are-wiser-than-i-am: Problem is... my monitor is a complete mystery. Its an old Compaq that a friend gave to me, it was part of his 386 setup... In windblows, it works as "standard VGA monitor" and

Re: [newbie] When on kppp, getting mail but not getting out

1999-04-23 Thread sphilp
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 07:56:56AM -0700, Linda Mike wrote: Hello Steve everyone else, On top of my regular problems with Linux, when I am in e-mail, I am able to download all my mail, but the message I sent yesterday never made it to the group. I am able to get onto Netscape, also.

Re: [newbie] When on kppp, getting mail but not getting out

1999-04-23 Thread sphilp
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 12:49:09PM -0700, Linda Mike wrote: Check to make sure the Outgoing SMTP server is named correctly in the Preferences setting of Netscape. That's about the only thing that would affect sending mail in Netscape. I should have clarified myself. I am not

Re: [newbie] Two questions

1999-04-23 Thread sphilp
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 04:44:12PM -0400, Michael Scottaline wrote: I hope two questions in one message doesn't put me over my limit ;o). I have successfully downloaded and installed WP 8.0. I had thought that the printer I have installed (Deskjet 695c -- passed the Postscript test in

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Ps2 Mouse

1999-04-23 Thread sphilp
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 11:53:41PM +0300, Martin Barnard wrote: Hi I have just bought a new mouse (Ps/2 variety) and am wondering which port etc it uses. Any help would be appreciated. I have tried cua0-3 and ttyS0-3 for most of the mice. /dev/psaux -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Windows 98 and Linux

1999-04-22 Thread sphilp
On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 01:43:56PM -0400, Jon Bass wrote: Hello all, I am trying to install Mandrake 5.3 on my Windows 98 system so that I can have these 2 OSs. When I go to shrink my partition using FIPS, the free space isn't reported correctly. I have 690 megs of free space, I have

Re: [newbie] RealPlayer 5.0 setup

1999-04-21 Thread sphilp
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 08:12:02PM +1000, Bela Lantos wrote: Hello guys, 3. go further down, and just above the Troff document entries you find another entry for Real Audio. Edit it: Description: RealAudio MIMEType: audio/x-pn-realaudio Suffixes: rm,ra,ram Click the Application radio

Re: [newbie] unix and shell programming CBTs

1999-04-21 Thread sphilp
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 09:03:58PM +0800, Kuraiken wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 06:28:23PM -0400, Charley Sparks wrote: I have cbts available for unix and shell programming. if you have the bandwidth, and want a copy drop a note to me at work.. [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] unix and shell programming CBTs

1999-04-21 Thread sphilp
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 08:24:52AM -0400, d.r.stewart wrote: On 20 Apr 99 at 23:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excuse my ignorance, but what are cbts? ComputerBasedTraining Similiar to products like those things that TigerDirect sells to teach ya how to use microsoft products. oh

Re: [newbie] Installing TV Tuner

1999-04-21 Thread sphilp
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 07:13:20PM +0700, Lukman Hakim wrote: Check http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html for the driver and information on supported cards. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've allready installed my TV Tuner with kwintv and bttv, the picture works well

Re: [newbie] Mail Archive

1999-04-21 Thread sphilp
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 12:25:49PM -0400, Matthew S. Freeman wrote: I have SO many questions that I'd drive everybody nuts. So instead, I'd like to know if theres someplace I can browse all these messages to pick and choose what I need to know... Just a short list of my questions: What

Re: [newbie] Committee for the Moral Defense of Microsoft

1999-04-21 Thread sphilp
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 12:54:37PM -0400, Michael R. Batchelor wrote: At 04:11 AM 4/21/99 -0700, you wrote: I'm not convinced that it is a joke... It is definitely not a joke, but it *IS* an alternate mind set. (Not an altered mind set, an alternate one.) Basically the argument boils

Re: [newbie] how to get apps on KDE desktop

1999-04-21 Thread sphilp
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 09:11:39AM -0700, Linda Mike wrote: Steve, I also downloaded the 5.0 version of StarOffice and would very much like to install it also. If it would help, my user is: /home/ladylake There are installation instruction websites available that will walk you through

Re: [newbie] 3dfx card and MESA

1999-04-21 Thread sphilp
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 10:37:37AM -0400, Birchall, Richard wrote: I am unable to get the MESA (OpenGL clone) demos working on my Voodoo Graphics card. 1. I have downloaded installed the binary rpm's for the Linux Glide driver. The 3dfx test program does work (displays the rotating

Re: [newbie] how to get apps on KDE desktop

1999-04-21 Thread sphilp
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 09:09:46AM -0700, Linda Mike wrote: Steve, I appreciate your wanting to help. I feel at this time very frustrated with Linux. I have Mandrake 5.3 installed and (hoping) that everything installed is as it should be. Anyway, I have a program called ProSplitter

Re: [newbie] Re:Printer

1999-04-21 Thread sphilp
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 01:03:06PM -0700, Bill Moshier wrote: Hi. When I searched the HP Deskjet support user community forum, a web site was listed that at least has correct b/w support for the 722C printer and Linux. The site to get the driver/information is:

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