[newbie-it] lilo

2001-12-10 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
qualcuno saprebbe dirmi se si puo` e come si fa a cambiare l'immagine di sfondo di lilo quando parte in modalita` grafica? Grazie ENx -- Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che... risparmia: http://www.email.it/f Studi e lavori? Con LOL ti prepari da casa con l’assistenza on-line di un docente.

Re: [newbie-it] devfs and sound

2001-12-10 Per discussione Marco
Stefano Sebastiani ha scritto: Però da interfaccia grafica non ho suoni di sistema, non posso sentire file midi (kmidi abortisce ) e non ho più il dev/cdrom (qualcuno conosce il major e il minor number per ricrearlo?) per sentire i cd musicali. E' sufficiente creare un link

Re: [newbie-it] La mia MDK ha un bug.....?

2001-12-10 Per discussione Luigi De Pascale
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Gnubbo wrote: Uso MDK 8.1 kernel 2.4.8.34.1 Ho aggiunto con drakconf tre utenti al sistema e ho assegnato loro password del tipo poldo - password001 chicco - password002 olivia - password003 Ho scoperto, chiaramente sbagliando, che se mi loggo ad esempio come chicco e

[newbie-it] Warning

2001-12-10 Per discussione Fabio Congiu
Dopo aver modificato il file etc/fstab, perche mi impediva l'accesso a floppy e cdrom, mi è comparsa una scritta: [mntent] Warning: no final new line at the end of etc/fstab. Cosa vuol dire? grazie Fabio

Re: [newbie-it] mandrake 8.0 su win2k

2001-12-10 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Grazie 1000! Questo software sembra splendido... una chicca per quel che stavo cercando... ti ringrazio moltissimo !!! Cu s%N! Ciaociao Byez ! L8r \\marco [www] http://members.xoom.it/verbal_666 ||| http://surf.to/verbal_666 [email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ||| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ||| [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie-it] Warning

2001-12-10 Per discussione Fabio Congiu
Giuseppe Giorgi wrote: In fondo al file ci deve essere una riga vuota, premi invio alla fine dell'ultima riga, così facendo vai a capo, su di una nuova riga. Se ho sbagliato qualcuno di più esperto mi corregga. Ciao, Beppe. - Original Message - From: Fabio Congiu [EMAIL

[newbie-it] Soundcards

2001-12-10 Per discussione Fabio Congiu
ho un problema: non funziona bene l'audio. Ho usato sndconfig per configurarlo ed è andato tutto bene. Quando ho riavviato la macchina però il suono è scomparso. Su HardDrake vengono menzionate due soundcards: OPTi sound system e OPTi SoundExpression MPU-401. La prima saundcard ha il Tool di

[newbie-it] Mandrake 8.1

2001-12-10 Per discussione Milko Ferioli
Ciao a tutti, ho un problemino, non capisco perchè appena avviato Mandrake 8.1 non mi appare la barra che si trova in basso al video ( per capirci KDE a sx e l'orologio a dx). Sono costretto a fare due logout per farla apparire, cosa ho combinato? Ciao e grazie Milko

[newbie-it] Tuxracer

2001-12-10 Per discussione Fabio Congiu
Ho provato ad installare, con il tool Mandrake Software, Tuxracer ma non funziona, non parte il gioco pur essendo presente come applicazione nella categoria divertimento. grazie Fabio

Re: [newbie-it] lilo

2001-12-10 Per discussione Fabio Manunza
Ciao, penso tu ti riferisca ad Aurora, che ti informa sui progressi di connessione del sistema. Vai sul Mandrake Control Center, sezione boot. Da li puoi scegliere il front-end grafico che più ti aggrada. Fabio - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [newbie-it] mandrake 8.0 su win2k

2001-12-10 Per discussione mike
- Original Message - From: Mark AKA VèrB@L [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 2:33 AM Subject: [newbie-it] mandrake 8.0 su win2k E' possibile far girare la versione 8.0 da una sessione Windows 2000? Esiste qualche software per caricare Linux da

Re: [newbie] ltmodem initialization

2001-12-10 Per discussione Frans Ketelaars
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 11:52:34 -0800 Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm getting my system back into shape after the kernel mishap. The most important aspect will be the modem. On my original system (LM 8.1) and a Dell Inspiron 8000, I used the LTModem drivers to get it up and

Re: [newbie] Kernal Panic

2001-12-10 Per discussione g
irl60 wrote: I couldn't even use Xkill, so I hit the reset switch, and up came a bunch next time, exit x with ctrl+alt+bkspc. this will/should drop you to command line with only x errors. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage.

[newbie] Bastille

2001-12-10 Per discussione poogle
I have iptables installed, all the Bastille packages and used BastilleChooser rather than baffle myself with InteractiveBastille, done a stealth scan at http://scan.sygatetech.com which shows ports as closed rather than stealth, I understand from previous posts that if Bastille is running

RE: [newbie] RAID SUPPORT

2001-12-10 Per discussione Mark Stewart
I've also been looking at a few of the current crop of mobos that feature RAID support. I'm *not* interested in them because they purport to support RAID--I've heard civilme's warnings several times--but rather in the interest of getting an extra IDE channel or two. Is this a reasonable

Re: [newbie] once again ... wordperfect 8

2001-12-10 Per discussione shane
sorry i know this doesn't help much, but i am running 8.1 with the addition 2 libs you mention and wp 8 is running fine, so i know it can be done. i did install 8.1 fresh though. have you tried the corel newsgroups? On Sunday 09 December 2001 13:11, Michel Clasquin spoke unto the masses

Re: [newbie] Transgamings Winex (I can play Diablo 2)!!!

2001-12-10 Per discussione shane
lol! i have also run starcraft and diablo and now tfc, half-life and counterstrike. even though i have half the video ram in linux as in win 2000, i have _better_ fps in linux! sadly i can't play sims. seems they had to change the code to get it in linux so the win version doesn't run

Re: [newbie] not enough space on tmp? / archives for this list?

2001-12-10 Per discussione tek1
hi anuerin! thanks for the excellent suggestion. will try it! additional questions abt /tmp -are the files (that programs place there temporarily) automatically cleaned up at certain times, or do we need to manually delete the files there? if the latter, how do we know which we can delete

[newbie] mozilla/galeon upgrade questions

2001-12-10 Per discussione Preston
Hello all, Using Mandrake 8.1 (download edition) I want to upgrade to Galeon 1.0. I also downloaded Mozilla 0.9.6 and installed it. Now, here is where things get screwy. While upgrading Mozilla it says 0.9.4 is needed. Shouldn't this be covered by the newer release? Is there a particular

RE: [newbie] Apache problem

2001-12-10 Per discussione Dennis Herndon
One problem to check with your home directory is to make sure you have that squiggly mark in front of the home users name: /home/~neil/webpages/index.html -Dennis -Original Message- From: Neil R Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 12:29 To: Linux Newbie

Re: [newbie] Can't boot on iMac CDRW

2001-12-10 Per discussione Kathy Montgomery
I run Mandrake on a G4. For some reason, I was never able to get OpenFirmware to boot Linux by default as soon as I turn it on. So when I turn on the computer, I go into OpenFirmware, then type (according to the number of my boot partition): boot hd:9,\\yaboot After that I get the yaboot

[newbie] SSH problems

2001-12-10 Per discussione Dragon .
I have a computer I thought SSH was working on. I used Putty to log in but it never asked me for my pass phrase, just my username and password. I don't know if that was encrypted or not. I'm starting to think not. Anyway, I installed Bastille and told it to keep the ssh port and port 22

Re: [newbie] Whereis latest kernel?

2001-12-10 Per discussione Paul Rodríguez
Go to any mandrake ftp site (follow the download link from the main page). Once logged in, go up a couple of directories to the directory Mandrake. Then go into directory updates . For example, if the 8.1 link on the website is: ftp://ftp2.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/mandrake/8.1/i586/ The

RE: [newbie] SSH problems

2001-12-10 Per discussione Carl Lafferty
did you make sure that you told putty to use ssh protocol? and you need to turn off telnet since ssh is much more secure. I use putty quite often and one of my main bugaboos is forgetting to tell it to use ssh when I go to my machine. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] SSH problems

2001-12-10 Per discussione Dragon .
When I open Putty, I type in the address and click the dot for ssh. Telnet is turned off, Bastille seems to have turns off all ports and my machine doens't respond to ping, telnet, tracert or anything else. My supervisor wanted to know why he couldn't ping it. From: Carl Lafferty [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] SSH problems

2001-12-10 Per discussione Carl Lafferty
Not familiar enough with bastille to be able to offer any suggestions. my only time installing ssh was on a slackware box that didn't have it bundled. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dragon . Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 2:31 PM

[newbie] Insane modem

2001-12-10 Per discussione Miark
Hi all, I have a real modem that's loosing its mind. Every once in a while it will go into a 20- minute fit where it it clicks continually as if someone were typing ath1 ath0 ath1 ath0 I think it's been doing it in Windows too. The modem isn't actually installed in Linux because I use a

Re: [newbie] What are the environment variables?

2001-12-10 Per discussione Carlos Jimenez Z.
Thanks for your explanation. El Dom 09 Dic 2001 08:39, escribiste: environment variables store certain settings/values that are needed by programs on your machine. it allows you to specify the settings/values in a central location. environment variables are usually stored in /etc/profile

[newbie] Printing set up via command line?????

2001-12-10 Per discussione Donnie Green
I am running LM 7.2. Does anyone know how to setup printing via the command line interface (CLI)? I know that I can do it from GUI, but I would like to know what files to create/alter and such. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The alternative, possibly, is to set it up using the GUI

RE: [newbie] SSH problems

2001-12-10 Per discussione Dragon .
What are the config files and what needs to be done to allow access? Do I have to tell the sshd file to accept logins? Does ssh just ask for a username and password if it is encryped, not the phrase? From: Carl Lafferty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] DNS and IPX questions? (was something else!) ;-

2001-12-10 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
NDPTAL85 wrote: Larry, thanks! I added what you said to add and its working now. I still don't know what caused it to stop working before but at least I know its working now and I don't have to re-install. And thanks to everyone else who helped too. (I'm cross-posting so everyone can see

RE: [newbie] DNS and IPX questions? (was something else!) ;-

2001-12-10 Per discussione Franki
yes, thats correct... I put the gateway device in there.. I think its like this: GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 or whatever your gateway device is... and I leave GATEWAY empty, then it just defaults to the that devices address.. always worked for me.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Editors won't save file, why not?

2001-12-10 Per discussione Warren Post
On Saturday 08 December 2001 17:30, Mick wrote: Hi list, I am trying to edit my lilo.conf file in order to tell the system that I have a second cdrom drive that I want detected as a scsi dev. Each time I go to save the changes to the file in the editor it says 'cannot save file,

RE: [newbie] SSH problems

2001-12-10 Per discussione Michael Viron
SSH, by default, checks many different routes to login: 1. Checks for a hosts.equiv, shosts.equiv, .rhosts, or .shosts and verifies that the username matches on both ends, allowing the user immediate access 2. Checks for a public / private key pair, at which point it will ask for the

Re: [newbie] Bastille

2001-12-10 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Monday 10 December 2001 10:40, you wrote: I have iptables installed, all the Bastille packages and used BastilleChooser rather than baffle myself with InteractiveBastille, done a stealth scan at http://scan.sygatetech.com which shows ports as closed rather than stealth, I understand from

[newbie] General firewall getting started type questions

2001-12-10 Per discussione Brian Parish
OK, time to get serious about this frewall stuff! I installed 8.1 with the server defaults. It seems that this has resulted in some kind of firewall, because when I turned on internet connection sharing it warned me that a firewall was in place and that I might have to do some manual

Re: [newbie] Samba Password Problem!?!

2001-12-10 Per discussione Glenn Johnson
Alan Carpenter wrote: Alan, one of the things that stopped me from logging into a Samba Server from a Windows box was that I was not logged on to the Windows box with the exact user name that Samba was expecting; i.e. Samba expects Bob and I'm logged on ( Windows box ) as Bobby. Log off Windows

Re: [newbie] General firewall getting started type questions

2001-12-10 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 00:08, Brian Parish wrote: OK, time to get serious about this frewall stuff! I installed 8.1 with the server defaults. It seems that this has resulted in some kind of firewall, because when I turned on internet connection sharing it warned me that a firewall was

Re: [newbie] General firewall getting started type questions

2001-12-10 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Monday 10 December 2001 19:08, you wrote: OK, time to get serious about this frewall stuff! I installed 8.1 with the server defaults. It seems that this has resulted in some kind of firewall, because when I turned on internet connection sharing it warned me that a firewall was in place

RE: [newbie] General firewall getting started type questions

2001-12-10 Per discussione Franki
if I were you, I'd download gShield (do a google search) its really easy, there is only one file to download, and it asks questions that require one word answers.. and it can do anything you want, port forwarding and such.. its the closest I have found to pmfirewall on my long search for a

Re: [newbie] not enough space on tmp?

2001-12-10 Per discussione Anuerin G.Diaz
hi, be glad to contribute something ;-). if you look at the mandrake control center-boot-boot config-Advanced , there is a checkbox (sticky push button box? ;-) that should clean tmp at each boot but for some reason it doesnt work here. it is not recomended to just delete the locks in tmp

Re: [newbie] Bastille

2001-12-10 Per discussione skinky
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 04:40, poogle wrote: | I have iptables installed, all the Bastille packages and used | BastilleChooser rather than baffle myself with InteractiveBastille, done | a stealth scan at http://scan.sygatetech.com which shows ports as | closed rather than stealth, I

Re: [newbie] not enough space on tmp?

2001-12-10 Per discussione tek1
hi anuerin. thanks again for your feedback! :) At 09:32 01/12/11 -0500, you wrote: hi, be glad to contribute something ;-). if you look at the mandrake control center-boot-boot config-Advanced , there is a checkbox (sticky push button box? ;-) that should clean tmp at each boot but for

Re: [newbie] Bastille

2001-12-10 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Monday 10 December 2001 22:01, you wrote: I still don't consider ths a bug, I can get into the machine form any where I choose, if I set it up to not allow me in as root via network or virutual console (ALT+CTRL+f4) or SU. still works, just won't let a 'root user in the wrong door. but I

[newbie] cvs not working out of the box?

2001-12-10 Per discussione tek1
just wondering if anyone's gotten cvs working right out of the box? here's what i did so far: -created a new repository in /etc/cvs/repos -in /etc/cvs/cvs.conf, set CVSROOT=/etc/cvs/repos when i go to mandrake control center and click on system/services and then on cvs, it

[newbie] where can I set mouse sensitivity?

2001-12-10 Per discussione Paul Rodríguez
where can I set mouse sensitivity either in linux or gnome? -Paul Rodríguez _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] where can I set mouse sensitivity?

2001-12-10 Per discussione ajax
I just ran across this the other day. Haven't tried it: http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200104/200104.htm heres the relevant section: I bought the Dexxa Mouse on 1/6/2001 and installed it 1/7/2001. It made my mouse performance even worse. The Linux mouse was as bad as a notebook

[newbie] ssh and x

2001-12-10 Per discussione ajax
I'm having problems starting x through an ssh connection. When I log on I get the following message: Last login: Mon Dec 10 21:15:50 2001 from xx.xx.xx.xxx /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name hxx-xx-xx-xxx:10.0 in add command where the x's are my ip address. I'm sure I had x

[newbie] Re: [expert] DNS problems (Its FIXED! W00 H00!)

2001-12-10 Per discussione NDPTAL85
On Monday, December 10, 2001, at 02:01 PM, Larry Sword wrote: NDPTAL85 wrote: Here is the results of route -n [root@Dreadnaught root]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0