RE: [newbie] Some problems

2001-02-25 Thread Daryl Johnson
I was advised once not to use kill -9 if I could get away with using one of the other signal numbers as it is so 'brutal'. (It was described as 'like creeping up behind the process and hitting it with an axe'.) I'm impressed that this option doesn't work and don't know what to suggest sorry.

Re: [Re: [newbie] some problems after new install]

2000-06-01 Thread Jaguar
What security level did you set on your boxtry reducing the security in DrakConf. HTH Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, I reformatted and reinstalled (again) thinking i might have missed something up during the installation. Now the mail problem seems to be fixed but i was still getting

Re: [newbie] some problems after new install

2000-05-31 Thread Fireman71
ok, I reformatted and reinstalled (again) thinking i might have missed something up during the installation. Now the mail problem seems to be fixed but i was still getting a connection refused message when i tried to telnet and ftp into my machine. I checked the /etc/inetd.conf file and telnet

Re: [newbie] some problems after new install

2000-05-30 Thread Paul
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Fireman71 wrote: 1 - when trying to send an email with the mail command i got the message :: "/etc/sendmail.cf: line 0: cannot open: No such file or directory" so i went and checked, sure enough, there is no file there. I then went back to the mandrake cd and tried :: "rpm

Re: [newbie] some problems with Linux

1999-08-09 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, brandon wrote: I already have the linux installed on my pc. The problem is: I can only use the features and applications when I login as "root". During installation, I chose a user name and password for a normal user. But when I login as the non-privileged user, I