RE: [newbie] enable telnet from a remote machine.

2000-12-11 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
look for the telnet-server rpm on the cdrom, it is there ;) =-Original Message- =From: Michael, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] =Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 9:29 AM =To: Mandrake Linux News group (E-mail) =Subject: [newbie] enable telnet from a remote machine. = = =I have installed

RE: [newbie] No user pwd needed on startup

2000-11-06 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
/etc/inittab look for id:#:initdefault: were # would be something like 3 for non gui and 5 for gui Ron =-Original Message- =From: Liaw, Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] =Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 12:46 PM =To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' =Subject: RE: [newbie] No user pwd needed on

RE: [newbie] Samba

2000-11-02 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
www.samba.org =-Original Message- =From: rharvey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] =Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:17 AM =To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba = = =Do you have the url =will you please post it. = =thanks =- Original Message - =From: "James Schofield"

RE: [newbie] uninstalling packages

2000-10-27 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
=-Original Message- =From: jesse martinez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] =Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 10:16 AM =To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =Subject: [newbie] uninstalling packages = = =How do I uninstall a package?? rpm -e packagae name =How do I know which packages are installed in a

RE: [newbie] Help!!!! How do you give a user rights to make them stay in his own home dir? How do you turn off services to just one user?!

2000-10-27 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
=-Original Message- =From: rharvey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] =Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 11:10 AM =To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =Subject: [newbie] Help How do you give a user rights to make them =stay in his own home dir? How do you turn off services to just one =user?! = = =How do

RE: [newbie] C++ program?

2000-10-05 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
Joe, LM has a c/c++ compiler that you can install during the installation process (or after if you choose) check under the development information during install =-Original Message- =From: Joe Brault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] =Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 12:40 PM =To: [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] ipchains

2000-09-15 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
would not a virtual nic work here? eth0:1, eth0:2 etc..?? =-Original Message- =From: Adrian Wildey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] =Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 4:01 PM =To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =Subject: [newbie] ipchains = = =Hi, = =I am currently seting up ipchains with masquerading

RE: [newbie] Secure FTP?

2000-08-30 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
my bust! here is the link http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fcrypto.php3 -Original Message- From: Damien Mc Kenna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 1:52 PM To: Mandrake Newbies List Subject: [newbie] Secure FTP? I've heard of sftp being a secure form of FTP,

[expert] sendmail

2000-08-02 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
PROTECTED] Is this possible? if so how? what software? regards, -Ron == __ /_/\ Ronald J. Yacketta / \\ \ Solaris Systems Administrator

RE: [newbie] NT4 domain joining

2000-07-29 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
www.samba.org -Original Message- From: J Michael Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 1:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] NT4 domain joining Anyone know of an app or the procedure to get a linux (mandrake 7.0) box to join and login to an NT4 domain?

RE: [newbie] How to TAR directory

2000-06-06 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
tar cvf /tmp/etc.tar /etc also could zip it up at the same time tar zcvf /tmp/etc.tgz /etc Ron -Original Message- From: KompuKit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 10:57 PM To: Mandrake Linux Subject: [newbie] How to TAR directory How would I use the command

RE: [newbie] Modem locks

2000-05-15 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
check under /var/lock maybe kpp has a .lock file out there somewhere??? -Original Message- From: John Rye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 9:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Modem locks Hi folks - I had a power outage a short time ago and assume

RE: [newbie] DHCP

2000-04-27 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
install the dhcp-client rpm -Original Message- From: Dallas Haggar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 7:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] DHCP Hi, I have installed Mandrake 7.02 (i486) on my old 486 DX2/66. I have an SMC8000 series ethernet card set

RE: [newbie] DHCP

2000-04-27 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
its on the mandrake cdrom Mandrake/RPMS -Original Message- From: Martin Solms [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 9:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] DHCP "Yacketta,Ronald J" wrote: install the dhcp-client rpm Where do I find the rpm?

RE: [newbie] sound card config

2000-04-27 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
I have the same problem at work on my gateway e-1440 (everything is on the board with the 810 chipset) -Original Message- From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 2:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] sound card config On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, you

RE: [newbie] Network settings

2000-04-25 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
linuxconf -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 4:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Network settings Howdy, just got 7.0 totally up and running however my network settings didn't take. Does anybody know how I

[newbie] yet more problems with 7-02 iso install on a compaq E1400

2000-04-24 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
Okay, I finaly got 7-02 installed, got my nic/vid working and noticed linux only sees 10mb of my 127mb ram!! well heck I thought, added mem=128M to the append line of lilo.con ran lilo rebooted and now get a GPF this is the before crash (from dmes for the mem detection) 14364K/16384k after

[newbie] memory problems with lm 7-02 on a compaq E-1400

2000-04-24 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
after I installed Lm and got the nic/vid working I noticed that linux was only seeing 10M of my 127M of ram I added the mem=128M to lilo.con ran lilo and rebooted after the reboot I get a GPF (general protection fault) right after the detection of memory it reads: CPU:0 EIP:

[newbie] Intel 82801AA 810 chipset AC'97

2000-04-24 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
trying to configure thos crappy company compaq E-1400 so far got the nic/vid to work been tyring to get the sound card to work running sndconfig finds the card but then says its not supported does anyone know of a drive/kernel that supports the 82801AA 810 chipset AC'97?? Regards, Ron

RE: [newbie] yet more problems with 7-02 iso install on a compaq E1400

2000-04-24 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
ACK! Please ignore these posts! I thought I canceled them and did not send I fixed my problem with the mem=17M vice mem=128M Sorry for the BS post! Ron -Original Message- From: Yacketta,Ronald J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 11:14 AM To: Newbie (E-mail

RE: [newbie] Apologies not necessary here......

2000-04-24 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
I agree tho my appologie wa not due to me being a newbie but rather my ignorance and of not properly canceling an email that was not intended to be sent. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 4:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] booting / installing from 7-02 iso

2000-04-19 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
-Original Message- From: Yacketta,Ronald J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 6:24 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] booting / installing from 7-02 iso whats tomsrtbt ? never heard of that one -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

[newbie] booting / installing from 7-02 iso

2000-04-18 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Hello all!! I have built numerous linux boxes from slackware to mandrake and have yet to run into the following problem I am haveing with my recent go at burning the LM 7-02 iso and installing from it. I have a win95 box i want to dual boot I used fips and reduced my C drive down to 3g and freed

Re: [newbie] Proxy server and cable setup.

2000-03-30 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
I use RR in Rocheste, NY just set the protocol for you nic to DHCP (under linuxconf) and linux will setup the rest based on the info it receives from the DHCP server "Pittman, Merle" wrote: contact your ISP and get all the info (DNS, IP, gateway, etc.) and then you can proceed.

Re: [newbie] Alternate advice sources on rebooting.

2000-03-26 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
-- Ronald J. Yacketta Sr. Solaris System Administrator/Engineer www.newmg.net/yacketta -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This is unix country... on a quiet night, you can hear windows crash... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: [newbie] comanche

2000-03-25 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit=== -- Ronald J. Yacketta Sr. Solaris System Administrator/Engineer www.newmg.net/yacketta

Re: [newbie] 3com NIC install and then xDSL setup

2000-03-15 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
question: Why do you need to recompile / install the driver? undert /lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/net be a all the compiled NIC drivers in module format. just try insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/net/3c59x.o is that does not give you any errors then you can proceed to linuxconf/drakxconfig etc.. to

Re: [newbie] How to get SCSI card detected/working??

2000-03-14 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
1) what type of card? 2) what is the chip name on the card? when I install linux I have to manual select the scsi driver and pass it parameters for linux to see/use it Ron Paul Apking wrote: Hi everyone. How can i get my SCSI card to be detected/working? For some reason my card cant be

Re: [newbie] startup scripts

2000-03-13 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
The contents of /etc/motd are displayed by login(1) after a suc­ cessful login but just before it executes the login shell. not sure about the You have mail thing tho Ed Negari wrote: Which login script displays the /etc/motd and says "You have mail"? I checked the /etc/profile and

Re: [newbie] New Hard driveand Linux

2000-03-09 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
why go through all that headach? why not just plop the cdrom in the drive, boot from it and do a clean install??? Eunice Thompson wrote: I'm planning to build a new system, and I'd like to have Linux ( in a separate system)by itself. I can make an image of the Linux partition with 'Drive

Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Netscape

2000-03-09 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
rpm -e netscape ??? Thanhvu Nguyen wrote: Hi .. I have Netscape Communicator 7.0 , have quite alot trouble with it ... I am about to install 7.2 ...but not sure how to Uninstall this .. is there any uninstall feature or I have to delete the folder manually ..That brings up another

Re: [newbie] Setting up cable modem in Calgary (Shaw@home)

2000-03-09 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Rynix, Take a look at the list archive, I spent a good deal of the past week - week 1/2 helping several LM 7 users get online with 43com cards and a cable modem. I posted the steps to test to see if you cards would load, see if dhcpcd is installed and even a brief step by step to use

Re: [newbie] Cannot ping gateway

2000-03-08 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Lief Erickson wrote: On 07-Mar-2000 Lief Erickson wrote: The problem: I can't ping my gateway address. The setup: I have Linux Mandrake 6.1 with two NICs: eth0=3c595 eth1=3c900B DSL connection in bridging mode - not PPP! The NICs are running. I have looked at

Re: [[newbie] User/Root Frustration]

2000-03-08 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
well that can be saolved with sendmail ;) you could have the addy rewritten by sendmail when it is sent ;) Lane Lester wrote: Why not just use root and be done with it then? Because then my email goes out with that as my username, and everyone knows that I'm not a "true believer" in the

Re: [newbie] can't fully download...

2000-03-08 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
to the net on nicA, and the reverse for return traffic in nicA out nicB to win98. while linux traffic should be directional through nicA. hrm Ron Ryan Drafall wrote: "Ronald J. Yacketta" wrote: are you downloading from a winblows box through a dualhomed linux box? if so you might

Re: [newbie]

2000-03-07 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
then goto www.linux-mandrake.com and unsubscribe :) avi wrote: dont sand me email

Re: [newbie] Newbie trouble

2000-03-07 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
at the lilo prompt type linux -S one you get a shell prompt should be # type passwd it will prompt you for a passwd, type in one you would like to use then retype it when it asks you to verify it. now when you can reboot and login as root with the password you entered above Ron Êùíóôáíôßíïò

Re: [newbie] .sh files

2000-03-07 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
bosco, with that attitude your well on your way to linux succes :) I fought tooth and nail with my first two or three linux installs, never gave you (kinda like Rocky ;) ) Good luck with you new powerfull non Mr. Bill crash-o-matic os :) Ron bosco wrote: Thanks for the help... That problem

Re: [newbie] IP Alias

2000-03-07 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
not sure about linux but I have done exactly what you saying with hp-ux and solaris. you can try it and see what you get Foung Vang wrote: I read the mini-HOWTO on IP Alias but was wondering if it's possible to have two different IP Address assign to the card? Ex. Network Card with

Re: [newbie] Parallel Port file transfers

2000-03-07 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
dont think it is possible to use direct-cable-connection between linux and win98 what you can do is setup samba that will allow you to share files/dirs/printers etc.. between win/linux Ron Chris Barrows wrote: How would one go about connecting a Win98 machine with a Linux box through a

Re: [newbie] NIC support

2000-03-06 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
looking at the supported hardware list for nics I do not see the card name or the chipset name. is this is a PnP card? if so, have you tried to disable the PnP functionality before you install? Charles Sharp wrote: "Ronald J. Yacketta" wrote: there are a couple of w

Re: [newbie] NIC support

2000-03-06 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
BINGO! I have two of them in my box :) rather easy to install lets take the easier route here (could have you editing files but we wont ;) ) if your useing kde (login as root) and fire up DraxConfig goto Basic host information select Adapter 1 Select enable Select dhcp set network device to

Re: [newbie] clock gaining several hours a day

2000-03-05 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
setup nntpd (or xntpd) all of the following is done as root and then call /sbin/hwclock --systohc in a cron my ntp.conf looks like this: # These are EST time server! need to use a time server in your timezone server 128.118.25.3 server 192.220.202.75 make sure that xntpd is set to start at

Re: [newbie] boot to console

2000-03-05 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
dmesg | more Harald Wolf wrote: Hi, how can a review the error messages that my new selfcreated kernel produces on startup ? or how avoid start up xdm automatically after boot so i can step back with "Shift-Up" to see the exact errormessages ?

Re: [newbie] NIC support

2000-03-05 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
what chipset is it? tulip? rtl8139? etc.. give us some specs from the card and we should beable to say hay or nay on the use of the card. if it is a PnP card, see if you can turn the PnP ability off and assign it a irq like 9 or 10 Ron Charles Sharp wrote: Hello, I just installed

Re: [newbie] Post install setup of NIC

2000-03-05 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
1) try insmod /lib/mod*/2*/net/ne2000 if you dont get an error message then try modprobe ne2000 you should see something like this eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:29:2E:AA:27 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

Re: [newbie] Post install setup of NIC

2000-03-05 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
DOH! I ment insmod /lib/mod*/2*/net/ne NOT insmod /lib/mod*/2*/net/ne2000 Ron "Ronald J. Yacketta" wrote: 1) try insmod /lib/mod*/2*/net/ne2000 if you dont get an error message then try modprobe ne2000 you should see something like this eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWadd

Re: [newbie] Post install setup of NIC

2000-03-05 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Man I must be fried!! add a .o to the insmod /lib/mod*/2*/net/ne as in insmod /lib/mod*/2*/net/ne.o "Ronald J. Yacketta" wrote: 1) try insmod /lib/mod*/2*/net/ne2000 if you dont get an error message then try modprobe ne2000 you should see something like this eth0

Re: [newbie] telnet problem

2000-03-03 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
install the telnet-server rpm James wrote: Sorry if this has been asked before, but I cannot find the answer on the Mandrake web site anywhere. I have installed 6.1 (I was having too many problems with the 7.02 installation) and everything seems to be working great except the telnet. It

Re: [newbie] The Sound of Silence

2000-03-03 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
I know I did not seeing it was a .exe which lead me to believe it was not executable by *nix. Larry Varney wrote: I've never seen such a sudden drop in posts. Was it the appearance of that virus on the list? Did Mandrake do something to slow down the posting? It's funny, but when I

Re: [newbie] TELNET

2000-02-28 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Have you installed the telnet-server rpm On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Villaitodo, Daniel wrote: I've installed Mandrake when I try to telnet this machine over the LAN the host refuse the connection. The host respond to ping, the service telnet is in the /etc/inetd.conf all the other tcp

Re: [newbie] Make utility in Linux-Mandrake

2000-02-28 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
need to install make-3.77-11mdk.i586.rpm On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am scouting for the Linux equivalent of the Unix make utility. Does anyone know where it can be found. Thanks. I am a Mandrake 6.1 User.

Re: [newbie] Windows and Linux networking

2000-02-17 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
This is my setup at home Linux box with two NICS 5 port hub eth0 (the first NIC) is attached to the cable modem eth1 (the second NIC) is attached to port 1 on the hub with a ip of 10.100.100.1 I have ipforwarding turned OFF ipmasqurading turned ON have the sifi firewall package installed along

Re: [newbie] telnet problems

2000-02-13 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
try installing the telnet-server rpm :) On 13 Feb 2000, Jonathan Hendler wrote: Hi, I am not sure if this is a newbie, or experienced question,,, which means that it is probably a newbie question. I have been trying to allow telnet access to my machine In securetty I have all the

Re: [newbie] Telnet port

2000-02-12 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
you can edit /etc/services and change the default port On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Chris wrote: Is it possible that cox@home has the port 23 blocked for incoming? If so is there a way to change the default telnet port linux uses?

Re: [newbie] crontab help

2000-02-07 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, dave wrote: I thought I had this licked last night, but I guess I didn't. It seems that using crontab I can do neat console things like wget an image from a web site, but I can't seem to make anything happen in X. Can anyone tell me why this crontab wgets the file on

Re: [newbie] StarOffice

2000-02-07 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
what command did you use? sounds like a tar zxvf file.tar if the arcgive is not compressed you will get the error you mentioned try tar zvf file.tar is that failes re-download in binary mode *if ftp'ed) On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, HAL 9000 wrote: hello.. thanks for the replies about screenshots :o)

Re: [newbie] Gcc: Missing iostream.h ?

2000-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Do you have the development rpms installed for gcc/g++??? On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Alan Tam wrote: Hi all, I am new to Linux and have just installed Mandrake 7.0 When I try to compile Hello World as a C++ program in Code Crusader, gcc compliants about missing iostream.h

Re: [newbie] NT authentication

2000-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
www.samba.org On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, JAMIL HUSSAIN wrote: can you help me I have 2 machines: - 1 running windows NT 4.0 workstation the other is runnin NT server i want to remove NT server on the second machine and install LINUX so the machine can authenitcate the other machine.

Re: [newbie] Retrieving Lost Root Password

2000-02-04 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
boot into single user mode at the lilo: type linux S On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Emerald Arcana wrote: I changed my root password and I must have typed it into the system incorrectly because Linux no longer accepts it. So, what can I do to retrieve the password for root? Thanks.

Re: [newbie] Time

2000-02-03 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
xntp! :) On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, David Tabachnikov wrote: I got a problem with my time. It always changes... Like if today I set my time to 11:00PM, and this system isn't rebooted. I come tommorow at the same time, it shows 11:35PM, though the mechanical clock on the wall still shows

RE: [newbie] DHCP...

2000-02-02 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Dave wrote: Thanks=) things to check: ifconfig (do you see an eth0?) it gives me: loLink encap:Local Loopback inetaddr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

Re: [newbie] Installing licq or kxicq

2000-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Sounds like you do not have the compiler and associated header/library files installed. check you distro for glib-devel-1.2.6-1mdk.i586.rpm glibc-devel-2.1.2-9mdk.i586.rpm gcc-2.95.2-3mdk.i586.rpm gcc-c++-2.95.2-3mdk.i586.rpm gcc-colorgcc-2.95.2-3mdk.i586.rpm gcc-cpp-2.95.2-3mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [newbie] DHCP...

2000-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
DHCP under linux for internet connection via a cable modem is cable under linux. I know a few users of RH, Debian, Slakcware and yes LM that use DHCP (dhcpd or pump) to connect to thier cable modem ISP. I myself have a dual homed (two nics) linux box running LM with my eth0 being the primary

Re: [newbie] Anyone local

2000-01-31 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
No way! I am in Rochester, NY born and raised in Syracuse. wife is from Colton, NY (outside of Potsdam)! On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Tony Watts wrote: Hey all you Linux fansIf there is anyone local to me, That would be great...we could get together and use mutual resources..if so please contact

Re: [newbie] URGENT eth0 init. failed

2000-01-31 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
try modprobe 3c509 then try ifconfig if you see a eth0 more than likely you hit pay dirt now you can go into linixconf and tell it which kernel modual to use for eth0 On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, jpgois wrote: Sorry I'm not a guru, but I can TRY to help you. As the 'automagical' tools don't seem

Re: [newbie] Cable Internet

2000-01-30 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Ray, Once the machine is booted type ifconfig -a you should see something similar to: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:C5:F4:08:3A inet addr:24.161.66.6 Bcast:24.161.67.255 Mask:255.255.252.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING PROMISC MTU:1500 Metric:1

Re: [newbie] @home connection

2000-01-30 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Ray, to the best of my knowledge the cable providers assign ip's etc.. via dhcp my setup looks like this (in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0) DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp IPADDR="" NETMASK="" BROADCAST=255 ONBOOT=yes you will need to keep your resolv.conf inorder for the dhpc to work.

Re: [newbie] Telnet into another Linux box.

2000-01-30 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
in.telnetd in /etc/inetd.conf also need the telnet-server rpm. Regards, Ron On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: How do you set up a linux box so that someone can Telnet into it? What daemon is responsible for that service? Seve

Re: [newbie] Hello!!!

2000-01-30 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
1) tar xvf gnome-chess-0.2.2.tar which should create a directory, more than likely gnome-chess-0.2.2 or gnome-chess 2) cd to the newly created directory 3) look for some docs like README or INSTALL 4) read the docs and hopefully it will inform you how to install the gnome-chess-0.2.2 Regards,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 AIR and MySQL recompile

2000-01-26 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
try gcc -v what do you get? if you get no command found, then you need to install gcc On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Radar wrote: I have seen several people post a message with the same error as I am getting, but with no answer as to how to fix it: I am attempting to install mysql onto my

Re: [newbie] help( i may have a virus in linux)

2000-01-26 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Dont worry it is not a virus!! it is a dump file from a program that abnormaly aborted during its execution (aka segv or segmetaion fault) you can delete them without any harm to the system On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, David Cole wrote: I found a file in the root directory called core. its icon is

[newbie] Re: [expert] Re: Missing 'egcs' in egcs packages for Mandrake 7.0!!

2000-01-23 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Dont think that is the correct resolution. I went through the mandrake 7.0 RPMS and found the egcs rpms. I think what you should have done (if not done already) is to goto your cdrom (or the spot your dl'ed mandrake 7.0 to) and head into the rpms dir and rpm -Uhv egcs*.rpm I had the same problem

Re: [newbie] A problem with Telnet

2000-01-05 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta the age old telnet question ;) by default mandrake does not install the telnet-server rpm, you must do that yourself. its on the cd or where you dl'ed it.

Re: [newbie] in.telnetd

2000-01-03 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta m6.1 does not install the telnet server by default, mount up your cd (or goto the directory you dl'ed it to) and install the telnet server Dan Guarine [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/29/99 08:20:06 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc

RE: [newbie] Tulip driver

2000-01-03 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta looking for a good card? I have had nothing but good times with my two linksys cards that use the rtl8139 driver

[newbie] https

1999-12-30 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Hello all! I just got my home netwrok back up and online (other pc had a blow vid card and I was to lasy to get another for a few months) enough of the small chat ;) now to the reason why I post. I am haveing problems conntecting to https sites from my win98 box that is connected to the linux

Re: [newbie] Corel Linux

1999-12-29 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta I had the same problem unti lI told samba not to use encrypted passwords and then added a regkey (from samba) to NT/95/98 that forced passwords to be sent unencrypted. the regkey comes with samba, should beable to get it from thier www site (www.samba.org) Regards

Re: [newbie] port forwarding

1999-12-29 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta take a look at the firewall toolkit at http://www.tis.com/research/software/ I run a similar setup here and use TIS as the port forwarder works like a champ "ATL Oledog" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/29/99 10:28:22 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

Re: [newbie] archives

1999-12-29 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta www.linux-mandrake.com thier is a link to the mailing lists which will have a link to the archives jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/29/99 01:59:14 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A

Re: [newbie] Win 98/VMWare followup

1999-12-15 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Gregg Carrier wrote: I have an ATAPI CD Rom drive. me to ;)

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Looks Great, But...

1999-12-15 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta possible IRQ/DMA conflict?

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install

1999-12-14 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Jeffrey L Sawyer Jr wrote: I didn't want to show how ignorant of linux or unix I am but I have to. I downloaded StarOffice and it is in my home DIR as so51a_lnx_01.tar . I can click on it and it opens up to show many other .tar folders. I am using KDE and can't figure out how to install

Re: [newbie] vmware

1999-12-13 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta I noticed that as well. during the install of vmware it mentiones that vmwre is not compiled for this kernel and would you like to recompile etc.. I just answered yes to its recompile questions and then all went well (following thier install docs) Regards, Ron

Re: [newbie] OT - uptime

1999-12-10 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta I think it depends on what you do with you linux box. if your running a httpd server or some other form of a server (like ftp/sendmail etc) that the general inet public can use then I would say it would be best to leave it up. but, if your just and everyday average

[newbie] editors

1999-12-07 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Hello ALL!!! I am looking for a rtf (rich text file) editor for linux.. is their such a beast (I know it is winblows crap!!)

Re: [newbie] KPPP Earthlink, part 2

1999-12-07 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta not sure if this is it or not, but back in the days (like roughly 2 years ago) when I had the misfortune of using a modem and PPP to a ISP the key to my PPP was either chap or pap (not sure which) but that could be your problem as well. Not sure tho "J. H

Re: [newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction

1999-12-06 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
"Shannon M. Johnston" wrote: Where do you get a copy of mailman? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ronald A. Yacketta starting a mailing list is not that hard actualy. If I were to start one I would grab a copy of mailman and install it (accoring to the INSTALL/README)

Re: [newbie] more eth0 problems!! HELP!! (please)

1999-12-04 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
AntifluX wrote: i installed mandrake.i got my NIC card working...then i shutdown reboot into windows for a bit, then i went back to linux now it doesnt see my NIC when i do a "lsmod" when i goto Activate under netcfg it says "Delaying eth0 initialization" whats this all about p.s. i

Re: [newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction

1999-12-03 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta starting a mailing list is not that hard actualy. If I were to start one I would grab a copy of mailman and install it (accoring to the INSTALL/README) oh yeah, need a *nix with sendmail and a non-blocked port 25 you could even goto www.listbot.com and start a list

Re: [newbie] DNS server?

1999-12-03 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Chromatic Bloom wrote: Okay, I need a simple explanation of DNS. I have a linux box that I want to setup and put online. I want to own a domain name. I want to do this using MediaOne Cable Modem. This requires DNS updates as MediaOne changed your IP at random times. How can I do

Re: [newbie] Several Linux Questions...

1999-12-03 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Joe Brault wrote: Hello, I have several questions... (1) When I load my user, I can get to a command line fine, however, when I try to load KDE, I am unable to. I get a message that says a new version was installed, then it asks me if I want to install or not. No matter what

RE: [newbie] Re:

1999-12-02 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta True how true it is. BUT... the file downloaded from creative labs has a readme that details its install/confg etc... "Serpico" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/02/99 12:50:13 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A

Re: [newbie] Re:

1999-12-02 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta OPS! Let me take back my previous post :) I misread the post I replied to Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/01/99 07:49:44 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: Re: [newbie

Re: [newbie] JDK for Mandrake?

1999-12-02 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta check www.freshmeat.net I think there is a site named www.blackdown.com or something similar, just do a search on freshmeat.net I nabed the jdk1.2 (port of the sun java 2.0) Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/01/99 11:54:37 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Telnet went bye-bye after update.

1999-12-02 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
"Morrell, Mike" wrote: I'm still relatively new at Linux (1 month) but I started out with LM 6.0. I recently ran the update program and it updated some stuff like Netscape, init-scripts, etc. Previously I could telnet and ftp to my linux box. Now I cannot seem to telnet or ftp to my linux

Re: [newbie] win vs. linux downloads

1999-12-01 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta Yes, at times I dl linux apps etc.. from work on my NT box either ftp them or email them to my account on my server at home. "Jack E Dorris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/01/99 01:39:00 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(b

Re: [newbie] Re:

1999-12-01 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta sndconfig will not work with the ensoniq pci card you have to (as was mentioned b4) goto the creative labs page, dl the ensoniq driver and install it "Serpico" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/01/99 03:59:27 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Window Managers and xdm

1999-12-01 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta Thats the ticket!! thanks alot! Richard Yevchak [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/01/99 04:37:29 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: Re: [newbie] Window Managers and xdm Since I first

Re: [newbie] /home partition -- how?

1999-11-23 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta Depends on how much Mem you currently have and what you will be doing with the box. I myself am an OLD school SA/SE and still live by the old proverb of swap should be 2 times greater than you memory so I have 128mb of ram right now and my swap space is freaking huge

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