Re: [newbie] start up script for mandrake

2004-08-25 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 07:27 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Tuesday 24 August 2004 09:18 pm, lmcilwain wrote: > > Now for for the exit is that a separate script? > > > > If I want to do a /etc/init.d /vncserver start is that just > > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > /usr/bin/X11/vncserver -user -depth 1

Re: [newbie] start up script for mandrake

2004-08-25 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 09:18 pm, lmcilwain wrote: > Now for for the exit is that a separate script? > > If I want to do a /etc/init.d /vncserver start is that just > > > #!/bin/bash > > /usr/bin/X11/vncserver -user -depth 16 -geometry 1280x1024 :1 & > > and for > > /etc/init.d/vncserver stop is

RE: [newbie] start up script for mandrake

2004-08-25 Thread Bill Shirley
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of lmcilwain > Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 9:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] start up script for mandrake > > > Now for for the exit is that a separat

Re: [newbie] start up script for mandrake

2004-08-24 Thread lmcilwain
Now for for the exit is that a separate script? If I want to do a /etc/init.d /vncserver start is that just #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/X11/vncserver -user -depth 16 -geometry 1280x1024 :1 & and for /etc/init.d/vncserver stop is that just To exit, killall Xvnc and both of these are just executable scripts

Re: [newbie] start up script for mandrake

2004-08-24 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 23 August 2004 09:44 pm, lmcilwain wrote: > I can't seem to find any rpms so I am stuck with what I have which I > know are the latest version. I looked at the rpms that I have on my cd > but I didn't see a vnc server on it. Which is why I believe that I > downloaded thee source before.

Re: [newbie] start up script for mandrake

2004-08-23 Thread lmcilwain
I can't seem to find any rpms so I am stuck with what I have which I know are the latest version. I looked at the rpms that I have on my cd but I didn't see a vnc server on it. Which is why I believe that I downloaded thee source before. I didn't see an rc.d file in my init.d directory in etc

Re: [newbie] start up script for mandrake

2004-08-23 Thread lmcilwain
I don't have an /rc.d directory. I guess I will try to install the rpm if I can. Will this have an adverse affect to the fact that I installed this from scratch? Can I just delete the usr/local/vnc directory and then re install the rpm? On Aug 23, 2004, at 6:18 PM, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Mo

RE: [newbie] start up script for mandrake

2004-08-23 Thread Bill Shirley
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of lmcilwain > Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 6:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] start up script for mandrake > > > Hello all, > > I am looking to creat

Re: [newbie] start up script for mandrake

2004-08-23 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 23 August 2004 06:08 pm, lmcilwain wrote: > Hello all, > > I am looking to create a startup script for vnc server. I had to > compile it from source cause it didn't come with the install that I > have. Can someone tell me how I can do this or where I need to make > entries. Use this in

[newbie] start up script for mandrake

2004-08-23 Thread lmcilwain
Hello all, I am looking to create a startup script for vnc server. I had to compile it from source cause it didn't come with the install that I have. Can someone tell me how I can do this or where I need to make entries. I have tried looking in the MCC under services but I didn't see a servi

Re: [newbie] Start up: hijacked to sigs

2003-06-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday June 12 2003 11:30 pm, eric huff wrote: > Somebody had added text below a sig, so when somebody else > replied, kmail stripped the sig and all below it in the reply. I believe I replied to that post myself. When I clicked on Kmail's reply, the mesg wasn't quoted. I saw the problem

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 2:00 am, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Thursday 12 June 2003 12:41 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Thursday June 12 2003 07:31 am, Todd Slater wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 08:56:03AM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > Which brings up another point. We often tell newbies abou

Re: [newbie] Start up: hijacked to sigs

2003-06-12 Thread eric huff
> > the hyphens so that sig's are ignored by servers. If your mail > > reader includes sigs in replys, that are properly separated from > > the mesg body by the hyphens, then it's your email client that has > > a bad design. Kmail properly and automatically adds the hyphens > > before the sig. >

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-12 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 12 June 2003 09:32 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Thursday 12 June 2003 09:00 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > On Thursday 12 June 2003 12:41 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > On Thursday June 12 2003 07:31 am, Todd Slater wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 08:56:03AM +0100, Anne Wilson wro

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-12 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 12 June 2003 09:00 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Thursday 12 June 2003 12:41 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Thursday June 12 2003 07:31 am, Todd Slater wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 08:56:03AM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > Which brings up another point. We often tell newbies

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 6:56 pm, Todd Slater wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:41:15PM -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: > I'm not saying that the "two hypens + space + carriage return" > standard for setting off a sig is bad design, I'm saying that not > giving the user a choice of whether to include t

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 1:31 pm, Todd Slater wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 08:56:03AM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Which brings up another point. We often tell newbies about html, > > but rarely do I see any mention of how to handle sigs. If > > someone leaves a sig in place and replies below

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:41:15PM -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday June 12 2003 07:31 am, Todd Slater wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 08:56:03AM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > Which brings up another point. We often tell newbies about > > > html, but rarely do I see any mention of how

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:41:15 -0500 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Notice before my sig the two hyphens Do not forget the or it will not work if you manually enter the separator. -- Course I'm ornery and would prefer to call then dashes Charles -- On the Internet, nobody know

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday June 12 2003 07:31 am, Todd Slater wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 08:56:03AM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Which brings up another point. We often tell newbies about > > html, but rarely do I see any mention of how to handle sigs. > > If someone leaves a sig in place and replies bel

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 08:54:14 -0400 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sylpheed seems to leave the sig intact by default I am using claws, but for this I believe the settings are the same. Go into Configuration/Common Preferences/Quote At the bottom of the top window you should see %Q Change t

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-12 Thread JoeHill
On 11 Jun 2003 21:51:11 -0700 Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Point taken when you mentioned green text I realized that somehow I > had lost part of the settings for Evolution and it had reverted to > default behavior BTW is this in HTML (EVO says its plaintext) Plain ol' text, pardner

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-12 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 08:31:16 -0400 Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > How do other MUA's handle sigs in a reply? What else are people > using--kmail, sylpheed, evolution . . .? Sylpheed seems to leave the sig intact by default, but one cool feature is that before I hit reply, it allows me

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-12 Thread Technoslick
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 08:31, Todd Slater wrote: > Hmm, this sounds like bad design in kmail rather than a breach of > etiquette. It is not difficult to imagine times when you would want to > reply and include the original writer's sig. If anything, kmail should > offer the option of turning off au

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 08:56:03AM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 4:47 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > On Wednesday 11 June 2003 02:05 am, Aron Smith wrote: > > > To compound the felony, the second poster entered his message below > > his signature, the result being that his re

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 4:47 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Wednesday 11 June 2003 02:05 am, Aron Smith wrote: > To compound the felony, the second poster entered his message below > his signature, the result being that his reply has disappeared. > This is because KMail automatically deletes sign

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-11 Thread Aron Smith
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 20:47, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Wednesday 11 June 2003 02:05 am, Aron Smith wrote: > > > > Look, guys, I've tried to be polite about this damn HTML thing. But green text > on a white background is more than I can take. DON'T SEND HTML TO THIS LIST! > > To compound the

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-11 Thread Miark
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:47:52 -0400 Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Look, guys, I've tried to be polite about this damn HTML thing. But green text > on a white background is more than I can take. DON'T SEND HTML TO THIS LIST! > >... > > Oh well, at least it wasn't on a mauve bac

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-11 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 11 June 2003 02:05 am, Aron Smith wrote: > On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 22:53, Jordan Ward wrote: > > Hi all, I hope to get some good information from everyone. > > > > I look forward to possibly receiving and providing some positive > > feedback. > > > > > > > > > > > > During the boot up of

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-11 Thread ed tharp
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 02:52, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 15:53, Jordan Ward wrote: > > Hi all, I hope to get some good information from everyone. > > > > I look forward to possibly receiving and providing some positive > > feedback. > > During the boot up of Linux Mandrake 6.0 I g

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 15:53, Jordan Ward wrote: > Hi all, I hope to get some good information from everyone. > > I look forward to possibly receiving and providing some positive > feedback. > During the boot up of Linux Mandrake 6.0 I get the following: > /dev/hdc5 contains a file system with err

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-10 Thread Aron Smith
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 22:53, Jordan Ward wrote: > Hi all, I hope to get some good information from everyone. > > I look forward to possibly receiving and providing some positive > feedback. > > > > > > During the boot up of Linux Mandrake 6.0 I get the following: > > > > /dev/hdc5 cont

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-10 Thread Aron Smith
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 22:53, Jordan Ward wrote: Hi all, I hope to get some good information from everyone. I look forward to possibly receiving and providing some positive feedback.     During the boot up of Linux Mandrake 6.0 I get the following:

[newbie] Start up

2003-06-10 Thread Jordan Ward
Hi all, I hope to get some good information from everyone. I look forward to possibly receiving and providing some positive feedback.     During the boot up of Linux Mandrake 6.0 I get the following:   /dev/hdc5 contains a file system with errors, check forced   I know there is an

Re: [newbie] Start-up Screen Failed Messages

2002-07-25 Thread Tony Finnis
shane - On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:59, you wrote: > On Thursday 25 July 2002 1:11 am, Tony Finnis did speak unto the huddled > > masses, saying: > > Mounting local filesystems FAILED > > Entering non-interactive startup > > Mounting other filesystemsFAILED > > do you have a remote/USB/smartca

Re: [newbie] Start-up Screen Failed Messages

2002-07-25 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 July 2002 1:11 am, Tony Finnis did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > Mounting local filesystems FAILED > Entering non-interactive startup > Mounting other filesystemsFAILED do you have a remote/USB/smartcard/zip file s

[newbie] Start-up Screen Failed Messages

2002-07-25 Thread Tony Finnis
Hi All - I recently upgraded from Mandrake 8.0 to 8.2 - no problems. However, on booting the graphical screen always showed . . Mounting local filesystems FAILED Entering non-interactive startup Mounting other filesystemsFAILED This did not seem to cause any problems, however I woul

Re: [newbie] start up file

2001-12-07 Thread Derek Jennings
By a remarkable coincidence there was a tip posted on www.pclinuxonline.com on that subject just yesterday. I tried it out it works just dandy :-) Derek On Friday 07 December 2001 03:50, you wrote: > Hi, > I would like to get the sound mixer to start when I log in as user. I seem > to re

Re: [newbie] start up file

2001-12-07 Thread Ed Tharp
On Thursday 06 December 2001 22:50, you wrote: > Hi, > I would like to get the sound mixer to start when I log in as user. I seem > to remember that there is an init file that I edit for this purpose. For > the life of me I can't remember which one. > Anyone help me with this one? > > Thanks

[newbie] start up file

2001-12-06 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, I would like to get the sound mixer to start when I log in as user. I seem to remember that there is an init file that I edit for this purpose. For the life of me I can't remember which one. Anyone help me with this one? Thanks and regards, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Servic

Re: [newbie] Start-up making Linux-Windows mix

2001-10-25 Thread root
>From what I heard it "WINE" being repackaged and sold for a price. Kinda of like the pet rocks for those of you who can remember that...lol Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] start up sound

2000-10-24 Thread Barry Premeaux
ed wrote: Hi all I was wondering how do I make wav.sound files play like at kde startup, do I have to add the wav file to my path ? Iam running mdk7.1  thanks all. Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.

[newbie] start up sound

2000-10-23 Thread ed
Hi all I was wondering how do I make wav.sound files play like at kde startup, do I have to add the wav file to my path ? Iam running mdk7.1 thanks all. Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1

Re: [newbie] Start-up Screen

2000-04-22 Thread Evan Holt
Hi again, Just out of curiosity, is the start-up boot manager just an addition to the Debian versions such as Corel and Storm Linux? Thanks, Evan Holt

Re: [newbie] Start-up Screen/MaximumLinux Magazine

2000-04-22 Thread Evan Holt
Hi there, From: Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > EvanI just installed storm (using the cd that came with > MaximumLinux Magazine) and thought the same as you about its > version of lilo. It's on my list of things to do to see if I > can lift the lilo out of storm and use it in Mandrake.

Re: [newbie] (newbie) Start-up Screen

2000-04-21 Thread Alan Shoemaker
EvanI just installed storm (using the cd that came with MaximumLinux Magazine) and thought the same as you about its version of lilo. It's on my list of things to do to see if I can lift the lilo out of storm and use it in Mandrake. If you beat me to it, let me know how it works out, ok? Al

Re: [newbie] (newbie) Start-up Screen

2000-04-21 Thread Eric MC DECLERCK
> Evan Holt wrote: > > Hi there, > > I think the start-up screens for Corel Linux and Storm Linux are > great, where you get to choose your OS, rather than the cruddy text > boot manager. Is there any way to make your own (other than using > BootMagic)? > > Thanks, > > Evan You are right about

Re: [newbie] (newbie) Start-up Screen

2000-04-21 Thread Michael Holt
I don't know about making your own, probably need some programming experience? There's also System Commander, I believe they offer a boot manager. I'm using the BeOS boot manager, only drawback with that would be that you would have to install BeOS to configure it. You could uninstall BeOS afte

[newbie] (newbie) Start-up Screen

2000-04-21 Thread Evan Holt
Hi there,   I think the start-up screens for Corel Linux and Storm Linux are great, where you get to choose your OS, rather than the cruddy text boot manager. Is there any way to make your own (other than using BootMagic)?   Thanks,   Evan

Re: [newbie] Start-up services

2000-03-27 Thread Roger Bird
"Pittman, Merle" wrote: > text boot by typing "linux 3" at the lilo prompt. > > Use linuxconf to reset the system services. > > > -Original Message- > > From: Roger Bird [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 10:30 AM

Re: [[newbie] Start-up services]

2000-03-27 Thread Jaguar
Roger Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did a dumb thing on the weekend. My machine had been running > perfectly-sound, internet, x-windows. I wanted to make it more secure > since I am on cable @home. > > After doing some reading I went into startup services in x (as root of > course) and mu

[newbie] start up problem

1999-10-25 Thread NeoUzuki
I'm so sorry I acidentally sent the same question twice

[newbie] start up problem

1999-10-25 Thread NeoUzuki
Hello everyone. I have one question. Soon after I instal Linux-mandrake I try to start it up. I thought it would work. but no it decided to get an error right after it tried to start the loopback device. What happened? If you guys could answer this it would help me a whole bunch Since