[newbie] Booting in I mode - attn Mikkel/Frank - originally USB card reader thread

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Hi Mikkel Finally remembered your email and went back and tried the above. I am in Mandrake after not starting ALSA. It also hung at starting sendmail so delected that too. Yes I had a problem booting a while back when following some instructions to attempt to get a USB mouse going. I had

Re: [newbie] [HAB] Should I upgrade?

2005-03-27 Thread et
On Sunday 27 March 2005 02:13 am, riccardo wrote: On Sunday 27 March 2005 03:36 am, OOzy Pal wrote: I am using Athlon 1.3 GHz and I would like to upgrade to Celeron 2.4 GHz. Is it worth it. I mean will I see a difference. Someone said the the 1.3 will perform better with Linux do to the

Re: [newbie] df table file

2005-03-27 Thread RickSisler
SnapafunFrank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: When within my system I issue the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 966M 714M 203M 78% / /dev/hda1 966M 14M 903M 2% /boot /dev/hda6 9.4G

[newbie] df

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
This is my df - quite different to what knoppix gave! [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 5.8G 1.7G 3.9G 30% / /dev/hda9 12G 170M 12G 2% /home [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ It's the same when I am root.

Re: [newbie] [HAB] Should I upgrade?

2005-03-27 Thread SigmaX
What are their FBS speeds, respectively? If your Athlon had a 100MHz FBS and the Celeron has a 400MHz FBS, I'd go for the celeron hands down. SigmaX OOzy Pal wrote: Dears I am using Athlon 1.3 GHz and I would like to upgrade to Celeron 2.4 GHz. Is it worth it. I mean will I see a difference.

[newbie] Location of a driver for a softmodem?

2005-03-27 Thread Teilhard Knight
The Alsa distribution contain a module which is the driver for my laptop (soft)modem. It was in the form snd-atiixp-modem.ko.gz in the directory /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdksmp/kernel/sound/pci. Now, I decompressed it and put it in /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdksmp/modem and ran modprobe

Re: [newbie] Location of a driver for a softmodem?

2005-03-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Teilhard Knight wrote: The Alsa distribution contain a module which is the driver for my laptop (soft)modem. It was in the form snd-atiixp-modem.ko.gz in the directory /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdksmp/kernel/sound/pci. Now, I decompressed it and put it in /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdksmp/modem and ran

Re: [newbie] Booting in I mode - attn Mikkel/Frank - originally USB card reader thread

2005-03-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hi Mikkel Finally remembered your email and went back and tried the above. I am in Mandrake after not starting ALSA. It also hung at starting sendmail so delected that too. Yes I had a problem booting a while back when following some instructions to attempt to

Re: [newbie] Booting in I mode - attn Mikkel/Frank - originally USB card reader thread

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hi Mikkel Finally remembered your email and went back and tried the above. I am in Mandrake after not starting ALSA. It also hung at starting sendmail so delected that too. Yes I had a problem booting a while back when following some

Re: [newbie] extracting cd audio files

2005-03-27 Thread Antoine Farnault
On KDE,i think there is another way that is easyer... Just tape audiocd:/ on the address bar of konqueror when your cdrom is mount. Le samedi 26 mars 2005 à 13:35 +0100, H.J.Bathoorn a écrit : On Saturday 26 March 2005 10:50, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 26 March 2005 00:51, Paul Kaplan

Re: [newbie] Program to save a selected part of a picture

2005-03-27 Thread Duncan Anderson
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:08:01 -0800 Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 25 March 2005 12:09 pm, Paul Smith wrote: | Dear All | | I am looking for a (simple) program to save a selected part of a | picture. Any suggestions? | | Thanks in advance, | | Paul May I

[newbie] cd into file

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
I am feeling particularly stupid and frustrated just now. I downloaded some files in preparation for installing gwenview. I saved them to /home/rosemary/Linux Stuff/rpms - now I can't cd into it, tells me no such file or directory. Thought I would rename it, but same problem. I don't want

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-27 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi Rosemary, Did you try doing a cd /home/rosemary/L then tab to finish it off. I know that spaces are treated differently. Whenever I forget exact directory names I just cd to the first letter and let the tab key finish it off. It will give you all possible matches from that point forward.

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-27 Thread aron smith
On Sunday 27 March 2005 12:42 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I am feeling particularly stupid and frustrated just now. I downloaded some files in preparation for installing gwenview. I saved them to /home/rosemary/Linux Stuff/rpms - now I can't cd into it, tells me no such file or

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 27 March 2005 22:42, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I am feeling particularly stupid and frustrated just now. I downloaded some files in preparation for installing gwenview. I saved them to /home/rosemary/Linux Stuff/rpms - now I can't cd into it, tells me no such file or directory.

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-27 Thread Joe Mecklin
in addition to the other suggestions, prefacing the space with a \ (ie Linux\ Stuff) when you reference it should make it available. also, enclosing anything with spaces in it in single or double quotes ('/home/rosemary/Linux Stuff/rpms') should also allow access. On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:57:01

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 27 March 2005 03:57 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Did you create that Linux Stuff directory in Konqueror ? If so, the command shell probably won't see it. The shell doesn't like spaces in file names. You could try to rename that directory to i.e. Linux_Stuff or some such. HTH Kaj

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 27 March 2005 03:57 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Did you create that Linux Stuff directory in Konqueror ? If so, the command shell probably won't see it. The shell doesn't like spaces in file names. You could try to rename that directory to i.e. Linux_Stuff or some

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-27 Thread aron smith
On Sunday 27 March 2005 01:50 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 27 March 2005 03:57 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Did you create that Linux Stuff directory in Konqueror ? If so, the command shell probably won't see it. The shell doesn't like spaces in file names.

[newbie] disable automatic sleep mode

2005-03-27 Thread Eric Pante
dear listers, I am using Mandrake 9.2 on a Dell Optiplex GX300. I need the computer to run for at least 4 days (heavy calculations with GRASS GIS), unfortunately, it goes into sleep mode after a couple of hours. I meandered within the configuration tools of mandrake 9.2, but did not find anything

[newbie] USB Mouse problem

2005-03-27 Thread Jason Oakley
Maybe if I try asking one question per email. Like others, my USB mouse never works when I boot MDK. I have to log on using keyboard only, then use Cursor keys and enter and tab to change the mouse to something else, eg PS2 then I can change it back to PS2/USB and everything is fine. Next time I

[newbie] Log Off/Reboot/Halt

2005-03-27 Thread Jason Oakley
When I want to log off, the only option I have is LOG OFF. There's no Reboot or Halt option. Randomly (it seems) I get the dragon log off/reboot/halt menu, but not very often. I can go into the settings and set SHUTDOWN to EVERYONE (after logging back in as root. That is, log off, log in as

Re: [newbie] df table file

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
mount point for one partition is /mnt for example. ) At present I'm even unaware of how many partitions that system has. There are long ways of finding out but you have given me another place to look before I go there with tomsrtbt. Again, your input is greatly appreciated. -- Newbie Seeking

Re: [newbie] Booting in I mode - attn Mikkel/Frank - originally USB card reader thread

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
already. Rosemary The new entry is within lilo.conf and I may have mentioned it before ~ it involves the devfs=nomount append parameter. Get back with you later. Awaiting some updated copies of some config files. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-27 Thread Chris
On Sunday 27 March 2005 02:42 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I am feeling particularly stupid and frustrated just now. I downloaded some files in preparation for installing gwenview. I saved them to /home/rosemary/Linux Stuff/rpms - now I can't cd into it, tells me no such file or

Re: [newbie] USB Mouse problem

2005-03-27 Thread Jason Oakley
Rob. This is mine: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection Not sure what that gets set to when I log in, but after selecting the mouse that's what it's set to. This is

[newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Hello Frank Thanks for that vote of confidence! No joy with df ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt bash: /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# df /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt df:

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Chris wrote: On Sunday 27 March 2005 02:42 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I am feeling particularly stupid and frustrated just now. I downloaded some files in preparation for installing gwenview. I saved them to /home/rosemary/Linux Stuff/rpms - now I can't cd into it, tells me no such file

Re: [newbie] df

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
' q ' ( Q for quit ) and press Enter to get out of fdisk. ] AND as stated above ~ don't go looking around with this command ~ it could land you in trouble. If you are not happy with my warnings here then please call me. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
a text file at the location ( path ) you choose. An extension of this is to use two greater than symbolsand this will add to the text file rather than overwrite it. Hope this becomes a useful tool for you to use. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small

[newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Warnings well heeded. I am almost too scared to do anything in Mandrake now - no just kidding. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# fdisk /dev/hda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
: There is no mention here of Alsa at all, yet this is where things are usually initiated and I am surprised by Alsa's absence. You might want to start a thread at newbie@linux-mandrake.com about this. That is: alsa hangs the system during bootup and that it being missing from this file: Ask if this is normal

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 14:47, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello Frank Thanks for that vote of confidence! No joy with df ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt bash: /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt: No such file or directory [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] df table file

2005-03-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: RickSisler wrote: SnapafunFrank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: When within my system I issue the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 966M 714M 203M 78% / /dev/hda1 966M 14M 903M 2%

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
be that there is something different here. *Er if either of the commands simply returned you directly to the prompt without doing anything then check your Desktop the file ( df.txt ) may actually be there...* -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
out immediately: Within your 00-mdk.rules file is a section for sound devices: There is no mention here of Alsa at all, yet this is where things are usually initiated and I am surprised by Alsa's absence. You might want to start a thread at newbie@linux-mandrake.com about

Re: [newbie] digikam update

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 21 Mar 2005 05:30, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 12:16, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 22:45, Dan Gordon wrote: On March 20, 2005 04:48 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: After mucking about most of the day, and thinking I had installed the

Re: [newbie] USB Mouse problem

2005-03-27 Thread Ivo Perich
What happened in the Mandrake installation? Did the mouse work? If so, I had exactly the same problem with a ps/2 mouse. In the instalation, it worked fine. After the reboot, it didn't. I used the cursor keys and enter the tab, changed the mouse to anything, then PS/2 and it worked. When i

Re: [newbie] USB Mouse problem

2005-03-27 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 28 March 2005 03:10, Jason Oakley wrote: dmesg says: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver usbcore: registered new driver usbmouse drivers/usb/input/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 15:29, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Monday 28 Mar 2005 14:47, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello Frank Thanks for that vote of confidence! No joy with df ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt

[newbie] unsubscribe

2005-03-27 Thread Jeremiah Brown
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rosemary McGillicuddy Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 6:30 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] cd into file Chris wrote: On Sunday 27 March 2005 02:42 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote

Re: [newbie] df table file

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
of finding them out ~ but that no one file that relates specifically to this is available to see from using another system to look in. Worth a try though. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered

Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
and let me know what those errors are. ] # cd /mnt/hda6 # ls Look at any directories listed here ( other than lost found ) and tell me what they are please. Not trying to crowd you so will stop here and await your replies. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
immediately: Within your 00-mdk.rules file is a section for sound devices: There is no mention here of Alsa at all, yet this is where things are usually initiated and I am surprised by Alsa's absence. You might want to start a thread at newbie@linux-mandrake.com about this. That is: alsa hangs the system

Re: [newbie] USB Mouse problem

2005-03-27 Thread Jason Oakley
Rob Blomquist wrote: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver usbcore: registered new driver usbmouse drivers/usb/input/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver Those lines are

Re: [newbie] USB Mouse problem

2005-03-27 Thread Jason Oakley
Ivo Perich wrote: What happened in the Mandrake installation? Did the mouse work? If so, I had exactly the same problem with a ps/2 mouse. In the instalation, it worked fine. After the reboot, it didn't. I used the cursor keys and enter the tab, changed the mouse to anything, then PS/2 and it

Re: [newbie] Log Off/Reboot/Halt

2005-03-27 Thread Jason Oakley
Jason Oakley wrote: When I want to log off, the only option I have is LOG OFF. There's no Reboot or Halt option. Randomly (it seems) I get the dragon log off/reboot/halt menu, but not very often. I can go into the settings and set SHUTDOWN to EVERYONE (after logging back in as root. That is,

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-27 Thread Duncan Anderson
aron smith wrote: On Sunday 27 March 2005 12:42 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I am feeling particularly stupid and frustrated just now. I downloaded some files in preparation for installing gwenview. I saved them to /home/rosemary/Linux Stuff/rpms - now I can't cd into it, tells me no such

Re: [newbie] Halt/Reboot buttons not available at Login Screen

2005-03-26 Thread DAN WALKER
I have exactly the same problem. I have googled but no answer. I messed in the menu and found it!! If you have KDE, press the start (cannot think what else to call it), system, configuration, kde, system, login manager. In there, select shotdown, and you can change the allow shutdown option top

Re: [newbie] extracting cd audio files

2005-03-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 26 March 2005 00:51, Paul Kaplan wrote: Can anyone recommend a program for copying individual tracks from an audio cd to a hard drive? What about file format for storing the files in? What about converting between audio file formats? TIA Paul Grip is best if you want to rip

Re: [newbie] extracting cd audio files

2005-03-26 Thread gary
Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 26 March 2005 00:51, Paul Kaplan wrote: Can anyone recommend a program for copying individual tracks from an audio cd to a hard drive? What about file format for storing the files in? What about converting between audio file formats? TIA Paul Grip is best if

Re: [newbie] Halt/Reboot buttons not available at Login Screen

2005-03-26 Thread James Henry Maiewski
Hello, I had a similar problem when, by accident, I switched to automatic login of one user (Mandrake Control Center (type mcc) Boot Autonlogin). - JHM On Friday 25 March 2005 8:53 pm, Russel Dains wrote: I have just installed Mandrake 10.1. I am unable to reboot or shutdown the

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread James Henry Maiewski
Hello, I lost count of the number of times my blind experimentation (along with sheer stupidity (like the time I uninstalled the package installer DOH!). Do not be afraid of this. However, the best advice I ever got on this list was to mount your /home directory on a seperate

Re: [newbie] Program to save a selected part of a picture

2005-03-26 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:59:05 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a (simple) program to save a selected part of a picture. Any suggestions? There's always the Gimp, but for something easier try KolourPaint. Gimp usage is not very inuitive, therefore some

[newbie] MD 10.1 KDE 3.2 slow starting of programs

2005-03-26 Thread markus.niemi
Hi, I just installed Mandrake 10.1 Download version with KDE 3.2.3. Especially KDE programs start slowly. For example konsole takes 22 seconds to bring up. Konqueror doesn't start at all. Some other programs: KWrite 26s Kontact 30s Kuickshow 23s KDE Control Center 25s Firefox 7s OpenOffice

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I lost count of the number of times my blind experimentation (along with sheer stupidity (like the time I uninstalled the package installer DOH!). Do not be afraid of this. However, the best advice I ever got on this list was to mount your /home directory

[newbie] Package with the Acrobat Reader fonts

2005-03-26 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Is there some package with the Acrobat Reader fonts? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] extracting cd audio files

2005-03-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 26 March 2005 10:50, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 26 March 2005 00:51, Paul Kaplan wrote: Can anyone recommend a program for copying individual tracks from an audio cd to a hard drive? What about file format for storing the files in? What about converting between audio

[newbie] Mail cron job output.

2005-03-26 Thread Simon
I am running the following cron job: /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Rkhunter Check 21 I get the following message : Output from command /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Rkhunter Check 21 .. /bin/sh: line 1: mail: command not found Any ideas how to get the

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread SnapafunFrank
At present, I take it that you cannot even get to the login screen ? -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I lost count of the number of times my blind experimentation (along with sheer stupidity (like the time I uninstalled the package installer DOH!). Do not be afraid of this. However, the best advice I ever got on this list was to mount your /home directory

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
I think you will find that at present both Mikkel and I are enjoying time with our families, it being easter and all. Yes - I totally understand that. Simply posting that stuff because i have the head space to do it. We will assist you no matter what you decide but I believe you need to make

Re: [newbie] MD 10.1 KDE 3.2 slow starting of programs

2005-03-26 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 26 March 2005 06:52 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just installed Mandrake 10.1 Download version with KDE 3.2.3. Especially KDE programs start slowly. For example konsole takes 22 seconds to bring up. Konqueror doesn't start at all. Some other programs: Usually this means

[newbie] OT - OOo in Windows

2005-03-26 Thread Anne Wilson
Sorry for this, but I need some urgent help. Tomorrow I have to install OOo under Windows for my daughter. I'm trying to woo her, kicking and screaming, from her use of Lotus WordPro. I've installed it here under Win4Lin so that I can look it over. The problem I've found is that clicking on

[newbie] Updating your Free Mandrakelinux

2005-03-26 Thread Robert Yu
What's a good way of updating your free version of Mandrake? I've only thought of two: - using a higher version of a Mandrake CD - updating through updating programs - others? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Mail cron job output.

2005-03-26 Thread Simon
I am running the following cron job: /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Rkhunter Check 21 I get the following message : Output from command /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Rkhunter Check 21 .. /bin/sh: line 1: mail: command not found Any ideas how to get the

Re: [newbie] OT - OOo in Windows

2005-03-26 Thread SnapafunFrank
ToolsOptionsOpenOffice.orgExternal Programs Set things here and you are able to browse to your preferred program .exe files. Enjoy -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213

Re: [newbie] OT - OOo in Windows

2005-03-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 14:00, SnapafunFrank wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Sorry for this, but I need some urgent help. Tomorrow I have to install OOo under Windows for my daughter. I'm trying to woo her, kicking and screaming, from her use of Lotus WordPro. I've installed it here under

Re: [newbie] Mail cron job output.

2005-03-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 26 March 2005 13:58, Simon wrote: I am running the following cron job: /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Rkhunter Check 21 I get the following message : Output from command /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Rkhunter Check 21 .. /bin/sh: line 1:

Re: [newbie] OT - OOo in Windows

2005-03-26 Thread Mr. Geek
Anne Wilson wrote: Sorry for this, but I need some urgent help. Tomorrow I have to install OOo under Windows for my daughter. I'm trying to woo her, kicking and screaming, from her use of Lotus WordPro. I've installed it here under Win4Lin so that I can look it over. The problem I've found

[newbie] LDAP server

2005-03-26 Thread Anthony Brooks
I'm trying to setup a LDAP server. I've installed the server package and phpLDAPAdmin but I have no clue on what I'm doing. I've googled and looked at faq's but I was just wondering if there is an easy tutorial somewhere that I could look at. Thanks. -- Anthony Brooks

Re: [newbie] Mail cron job output.

2005-03-26 Thread Simon
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 14:15, Derek Jennings wrote: Try /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | /bin/mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Rkhunter Check 21 If that does not work check the mail package is installed. Derek I tried that but it failed with : /bin/sh: line 1: /bin/mail: No such file or directory what

Re: [newbie] Mail cron job output.

2005-03-26 Thread Chris
On Saturday 26 March 2005 07:58 am, Simon wrote: I am running the following cron job: /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Rkhunter Check 21 I get the following message : Output from command /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Rkhunter Check 21 .. /bin/sh: line 1:

Re: [newbie] Halt/Reboot buttons not available at Login Screen

2005-03-26 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 26 March 2005 03:57, DAN WALKER wrote: I have exactly the same problem. I have googled but no answer. I messed in the menu and found it!! Right-Click on the Menu Bar and choose Add, Applet, Lock/ Logout Applet. That will add the lock and logout applet buttons to your menu bar. --

Re: [newbie] Mail cron job output.

2005-03-26 Thread Simon
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 14:50, Chris wrote: Simon, this is how I have my rkhunter cronjob setup /usr/local/bin/rkhunter --cronjob --createlogfile -c and I have the following entry in my /etc/crontab: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] therefore all

Re: [newbie] Mail cron job output.

2005-03-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 26 March 2005 14:38, Simon wrote: On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 14:15, Derek Jennings wrote: Try /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | /bin/mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Rkhunter Check 21 If that does not work check the mail package is installed. Derek I tried that but it failed with : /bin/sh:

Re: [newbie] LDAP server

2005-03-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 26 March 2005 14:25, Anthony Brooks wrote: I'm trying to setup a LDAP server. I've installed the server package and phpLDAPAdmin but I have no clue on what I'm doing. I've googled and looked at faq's but I was just wondering if there is an easy tutorial somewhere that I could look

Re: [newbie] Halt/Reboot buttons not available at Login Screen

2005-03-26 Thread Duncan Anderson
Russel Dains wrote: I have just installed Mandrake 10.1. I am unable to reboot or shutdown the system from the login screen. The only available option is to type reboot or halt in a command line. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help. Another solution is to change your display manager. You

Re: [newbie] OT - OOo in Windows

2005-03-26 Thread julie
On Saturday, March 26, 2005, Anne Wilson wrote: Sorry for this, but I need some urgent help.  Tomorrow I have to install OOo under Windows for my daughter.  I'm trying to woo her, kicking and screaming, from her use of Lotus WordPro.  I've installed it here under Win4Lin so that I can look

Re: [newbie] Mail cron job output.

2005-03-26 Thread Simon
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 15:17, Derek Jennings wrote: mailx That's it Derek, I installed the missing mail program and all works fine now. Thanks to Chris and your good self. Simon. -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ GnuPG Key:

[newbie] Editing files as SU with Kword

2005-03-26 Thread Simon
I cannot open files in order to edit them when I am in Konqueror as SU. I get an error message :KDEInit could not launch 'kwrite' I do have Kwrite installed. Any ideas please. Thanks, Simon. -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ GnuPG Key:

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Okay - I tried this. At the cd it said home not set so I added / after looking down at the vi instructions - hope that was right, now thinking it should have been ~! Anyway - rebooted and it stalled at ALSA again. In windows explore2fs, now see only hda2, hda3

[newbie] Konsole won't open

2005-03-26 Thread eric jackson
I recently installed 10.1. For some reason Konsole won't open. I get an error message saying KDEinit can't open Konsole. I tried using the other terminal program that Mandrake installed. It will open but it won't accept any input from the keyboard. Any help you can offer would be

[newbie] Re: LDAP server

2005-03-26 Thread Anthony Brooks
Derek Jennings wrote: Install the drakwizard package and then start Mandrake Control Centre There will be a new server section. In there is a wizard to set up LDAP for you. Thanks Derek for the reply. I should of been a little more specific. I'm still running 10.0 on my server. I do have a

[newbie] changing host/user name???

2005-03-26 Thread Simon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] simon]$ how do I change the above to something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of my mac?? address? Simon. -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ GnuPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xE94E2292

Re: [newbie] Assistance from newbies needed

2005-03-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
the Welcome to Newbie list message, but isn't there a link to the TWiki site in the message? Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] changing host/user name???

2005-03-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 26 March 2005 16:20, Simon wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] simon]$ how do I change the above to something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of my mac?? address? Simon. MandrakeControlCentreNetworkInternet to set a hostname If you did not set your MAC address as the hostname yourself,

Re: [newbie] changing host/user name???

2005-03-26 Thread Simon
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 16:35, Derek Jennings wrote: MandrakeControlCentreNetworkInternet to set a hostname If you did not set your MAC address as the hostname yourself, then your ISP is doing it via DNS. To stop it, edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (or whatever) and add the

Re: [newbie] Assistance from newbies needed

2005-03-26 Thread Anne Wilson
read the Welcome to Newbie list message, but isn't there a link to the TWiki site in the message? There is. I wonder if anyone ever bothers to read the message. It was put together after a lot of thought about what new listers need to know. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http

Re: [newbie] OT - OOo in Windows

2005-03-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 14:35, Mr. Geek wrote: Anne; Take a look at the title bar in OpenOffice. Go to ToolsOptionsOpenOffice.org, and open that section. Look for a subsection called External Programs and change the settings to match your preferences. I know you have to be logged in as the

Re: [newbie] Konsole won't open

2005-03-26 Thread John Wilson
On March 26, 2005 08:11 am, eric jackson wrote: I recently installed 10.1. For some reason Konsole won't open. I get an error message saying KDEinit can't open Konsole. I tried using the other terminal program that Mandrake installed. It will open but it won't accept any input from the

Re: [newbie] Editing files as SU with Kword

2005-03-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 15:51, Simon wrote: I cannot open files in order to edit them when I am in Konqueror as SU. I get an error message :KDEInit could not launch 'kwrite' I do have Kwrite installed. Any ideas please. Thanks, Simon. Yes - I've no idea why it happens, but the cure is

Re: [newbie] Konsole won't open

2005-03-26 Thread eric jackson
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:33:30 -0800, John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On March 26, 2005 08:11 am, eric jackson wrote: I recently installed 10.1. For some reason Konsole won't open. I get an error message saying KDEinit can't open Konsole. I tried using the other terminal program that

Re: [newbie] Konsole won't open

2005-03-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 17:42, eric jackson wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:33:30 -0800, John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On March 26, 2005 08:11 am, eric jackson wrote: I recently installed 10.1. For some reason Konsole won't open. I get an error message saying KDEinit can't open

Re: [newbie] Editing files as SU with Kword

2005-03-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 15:51, Simon wrote: I cannot open files in order to edit them when I am in Konqueror as SU. I get an error message :KDEInit could not launch 'kwrite' I do have Kwrite installed. Any ideas please. Thanks, Simon. Yes - I've no idea why it happens, but the

Re: [newbie] Editing files as SU with Kword

2005-03-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 17:53, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: The reason has to do with X server security. Normally, only the user that owns the current X secession can have programs connect to it. Starting an X based program requires that it connect to an X server. Now, the user that is logged

Re: [newbie] MD 10.1 KDE 3.2 slow starting of programs

2005-03-26 Thread Markus Niemi
Hi, thanks for help. I added hostname to this file and now KDE programs start in few seconds. :-) Unfortunately second problem appeared. Mouse cursor freezes now and then, and sometimes whole X crashes so that only reset helps. I moved my mouse (Logitech Cordless MouseMan Optical USB) from usb

[newbie] YOUR MESSAGE #57288 - IDE CONTROLLER PROBLEM

2005-03-26 Thread Linda Ken Bowmer
Hi, I wondered if you could send me a copy of your message 57288, on the above subject, from Mail Archive. It appears to have been deleted. I am installing new hard drive (Samsung 6.4G) and during the set up I have received this message General failure on the integrated secondary IDE

Re: [newbie] YOUR MESSAGE #57288 - IDE CONTROLLER PROBLEM

2005-03-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 16:46, Linda Ken Bowmer wrote: Hi, I wondered if you could send me a copy of your message 57288, on the above subject, from Mail Archive. It appears to have been deleted. I am installing new hard drive (Samsung 6.4G) and during the set up I have received this

Re: [newbie] YOUR MESSAGE #57288 - IDE CONTROLLER PROBLEM

2005-03-26 Thread et
On Saturday 26 March 2005 11:46 am, Linda Ken Bowmer wrote: Hi, I wondered if you could send me a copy of your message 57288, on the above subject, from Mail Archive. It appears to have been deleted. I am installing new hard drive (Samsung 6.4G) and during the set up I have received this

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