[newbie] Re: [expert] fetchmail -- almost, i can smell it

2002-02-10 Per discussione Lee Roberts
At 12:22 PM 2/10/2002 -0700, Skippi wrote: Ok, yet another question -- oh and thanks for the more help from everyone. Things are looking up. I think I'm getting my mail downloaded to my box here, but, where does it go I mean as in what file? Fetchmail is getting things from my pop

Re: [newbie] Bastille error

2002-01-14 Per discussione Lee Roberts
At 08:37 PM 1/14/2002 -0500, Todd Slater wrote: When I try to run Interactive Bastille I get the following error: Using Tk user interface module. Only displaying questions relevant to the current configuration. Can't locate Bastille_Tk.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib

[newbie] e-mail via SSL

2002-01-12 Per discussione Lee Roberts
Is there a HOWTO for doing e-mail via SSL? I found a HOWTO for e-mail via SSH but that's not what I want to do (besides, this HOWTO uses telnet to access e-mail which I have disabled). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Why does fetchmail see my messages, but skip retrieving them?

2002-01-06 Per discussione Lee Roberts
This may not solve your problem but have you considered no keep instead of flush. According to the man pages flush can cause problems with retrieving mail if something causes the mail retrieval to hang. BTW, the man pages shows nokeep but it's suppose to be no keep (in other words no and keep

Re: [newbie] c compiler and its problem in 8.0

2002-01-01 Per discussione Lee Roberts
What warnings are you getting? Anyway, you need to add a return value unless you change to function from int main() to void main(). void main() is considered to be bad programming though. Add return 0; as your last line in the main() function. That will return the integer value of 0 (zero) to

Re: [newbie] CDROM problem

2001-12-25 Per discussione Lee Roberts
At 09:51 PM 12/24/2001 -0600, Barbara Pfieffer wrote: I have 2 cdroms, a DVD and a CD burner. When I first installed 8.1, I could play music cds on the DVD drive. Harddrake currently reports the drives as: DVD /dev/hdc CD burner /dev/hdd but it also reports the burner again as /dev/scd0. I

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-24 Per discussione Lee Roberts
At 02:22 AM 12/25/2001 +0900, Doug Lerner wrote: What office suites do people recommend? I need to be compatible with Microsoft Office to at least *some* extent for: Spreadsheets Word Processing PowerPoint Presentations Star Office 5.2 seems OK so far. So far, it reads Word documents and Excel

Re: [newbie] Failures in 8.1 compared to 7.2

2001-12-22 Per discussione Lee Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 03:51 AM 12/22/2001 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think Mandrake is entering the Micro$oft phase of their development. you know, the point where you have to upgrade your hardware everytime you upgrade your software. It certainly seems

Re: [newbie] AOL Greetings!

2001-12-22 Per discussione Lee Roberts
Bah! Humbug! At 07:08 PM 12/21/2001 -0800, AOL Systems wrote: TO ALL LINUX MANDRAKE MAILING LIST FRIENDS: I JUST WANT TO GREET YOU ALL MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! HOPE OUR MAILING LIST WILL MUCH STRONGER AND HELPING SOLVE OUR EVERYDAY PROBLEMS.THANK YOU ALSO FOR ALL WHO ANSWER OUR

Re: [newbie] Failures in 8.1 compared to 7.2

2001-12-22 Per discussione Lee Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 11:48 PM 12/21/2001 -0500, marrandy wrote: Hi. I just installed 8.1 on a new harddrive in the same computer as a working 7.2. The graphics card wasn`t recognised (Nvidia MM200 64M) and even using xf86config and different drivers selected failed

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 Features or 9.0 version

2001-12-20 Per discussione Lee Roberts
At 01:08 PM 12/20/2001 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: thingy and RPMS are forever. Nothing is forever. :-D Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Diamond Supra 56e PRO

2001-12-19 Per discussione Lee Roberts
Are you sure that you're modem is connected to a phone line? If so, have you tried a different phone cord? Or tried plugging in a telephone to that wall jack to see if you can get a dial tone? At 05:40 PM 12/19/2001 +, Gonçalo Cordeiro wrote: Hi everyone... i've recently bought an

Re: [newbie] I can't take it anymore

2001-12-17 Per discussione Lee Roberts
At 12:38 PM 12/17/2001 -0600, Newbie wrote: I guess I'm too neurologically crippled to figure things out myself well damn it, I need more help with that than other people. sorry did not know other way to express it. Don't be too down on yourself. No one person knows everything. Have you asked

Re: [newbie] Mandrake illegal?

2001-12-11 Per discussione Lee Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the good laugh! :-D At 09:56 AM 12/11/2001 -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: http://www.adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/12/2/42056/2147 BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system,

RE: [newbie] SAMBA (was: internet sharing setup)

2001-12-08 Per discussione Lee Roberts
Of Lee Roberts |Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 5:40 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] internet sharing setup | | |Speaking of Samba, I get the icon for the Linux box  to show |up on my Win2K Win95 clients but I can't browse the Linux |box. And if I restart Windows, I have

Re: [newbie] Clock Synchronization

2001-12-08 Per discussione Lee Roberts
At 07:23 AM 11/27/2001 -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: hwclock --hctosys Set the System Time from the Hardware Clock. hwclock --systohc Set the Hardware Clock to the current System Time. (see man hwclock) I use this alias in bashrc to set both hardware and

Re: [newbie] internet sharing setup

2001-12-07 Per discussione Lee Roberts
At 02:52 PM 12/7/2001 -0500, Ed Tharp wrote: why ftp? could use samba and be up and running and sharing files and drives and printers w/ the winders boxes in no time? Speaking of Samba, I get the icon for the Linux box to show up on my Win2K Win95 clients but I can't browse the Linux box.

[newbie] Netscape and Mozilla link problem

2001-12-04 Per discussione Lee Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There's at least one web site (http://www.inewsreports.com/newsreport.asp?newsfeed=easterneuropenews_title=Eastern%20Europe%20News) where the links don't work when using Mozilla or Netscape (4.7x and 6.x). Is it a bug or a configuration problem? I

[newbie] eth1: initialization delayed

2001-11-29 Per discussione Lee Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How or what do I need to do to fix this. I tried playing with the startup scripts to try to fix this but have been unsuccessful. eth1 can be brought up from a terminal window OK. Currently I have the following statements at the end of rc.local.

Re: [newbie] Clock Synchronization

2001-11-27 Per discussione Lee Roberts
. ;-) ciao! On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 00:04:11 -0700, Lee Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running Mandrake 7.2 and had problems with the clock even though I had the proper timezone selected. After running rdate, my clock is now showing

RE: [newbie] win32 badtrans worm.

2001-11-26 Per discussione Lee Roberts
I'm assuming that this virus only affects Windows? My Norton AV just stopped this virus but couldn't clean it even though my AV data files are up to date. So, I had to quarantine the virus and then used the quarantine console to destroy it. At 04:56 AM 11/27/2001 +0800, Franki wrote: yes,

[newbie] Netscape

2001-11-26 Per discussione Lee Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anybody get Netscape 6.2 running on Mandrake 7.2? Looks like all the dependcies are met but I can't get it to install. I get a bunch of GTK errors. It works great on my Win2K machine. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6

Re: [newbie] cat5 cable again

2001-11-14 Per discussione Lee Roberts
What kind of cards are you using? Both cards have to be able to do 100 Mb/s. At 02:34 PM 11/14/2001 +0100, Andrea Fabris wrote: Hi everybody At home i have a little lan (2 pc ;-) ) and i use a crossed cable to connect them, the cable is a cat5 12m long but im able to run the cards only at

Re: [newbie] CDRW problem

2001-11-13 Per discussione Lee Roberts
At 11:35 PM 11/12/2001 -0400, skidley wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Lee Roberts wrote: At 08:03 AM 11/7/2001 -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 06 November 2001 11:22 pm, Lee Roberts wrote: I added append hdc=ide-scsi to lilo.conf but I still can't find the drive with cdrecord -scanbus

Re: [newbie] CDRW problem

2001-11-12 Per discussione Lee Roberts
At 08:03 AM 11/7/2001 -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 06 November 2001 11:22 pm, Lee Roberts wrote: I added append hdc=ide-scsi to lilo.conf but I still can't find the drive with cdrecord -scanbus and gcombust can't find it. The ide-scsi driver does get loaded and the drive gets mounted

Re: [newbie] cdrecord broken in 8.1?

2001-11-12 Per discussione Lee Roberts
At 10:48 AM 11/13/2001 +0900, Pascal Goguey wrote: Hello! I have a problem on 2 machines. One at home and one at work. I was used to burn iso files using an alias, and it doesn not work anymore. Here is the respons of cdrecord in a shell: % cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.10

Re: [newbie] limit of cat5 cables? (length)

2001-11-10 Per discussione Lee Roberts
There's a limit of 100 meters (over 300 feet). So, 40 feet is no problem. At 05:37 PM 11/10/2001 -0500, you wrote: Hi, everybody. I have a DSL connection coming in to the upstairs computer. I'd like to connect (withought having to get a new modem) a computer downstairs to the same connection.

Re: [newbie] The Old Java /Mozilla Question...

2001-11-01 Per discussione Lee Roberts
What's wrong with leaving it where the rpm put mozilla (/usr/bin)? At 05:44 PM 11/1/2001 +, Derek Jennings wrote: This came from a mail on the Galeon list. It is true for Mozilla, Galeon and Netscape Install mozilla at /usr/local/mozilla. The JAVA plugin ( a symbolic link and java2 JVM)

Re: [newbie] LM 8.1 and internet connection on first boot

2001-10-31 Per discussione Lee Roberts
I tried this and I still can't get to the internet from the client. I do get a DHCP config from the linux DHCP server and the client can ping the linux box. I tried disabling the firewall and no-go. Inet connection sharing worked great with 7.2. I guess I should've waited for 8.2? At 10:39 PM

Re: [newbie] tiny firewall

2001-10-27 Per discussione Lee Roberts
I should have reread your info below when I was ready to start the install. I did do the file limits and ended up with the su problem but I found the limits file and remarked out the appropriate line. I had another problem in that after the install of bastille, I started the firewall from the

Re: [newbie] See what MSN.com has done?

2001-10-26 Per discussione Lee Roberts
Goes to show the anti-competitive nature of M$. At 10:23 AM 10/26/2001 -0400, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Texstar wrote: On Thursday 25 October 2001 10:13 pm, you wrote: I had no problem viewing MSN.com I must say that off my Linux box using Netscape, it looks better than using IE

Re: [newbie] tiny firewall

2001-10-21 Per discussione Lee Roberts
Thanks Dennis. Since I have tiny firewall running, do I have to stop it or remove it or both so that I don't risk crashing my system or will InteractiveBastille automatically replace it? At 10:13 PM 10/20/2001 -0500, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 20 October 2001 01:34 pm, you wrote: hmm,

Re: [newbie] about GnuPG in KMail

2001-10-21 Per discussione Lee Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 KMail uses GnuPG by default. GnuPG should already be installed but you need to create a public/private keypair before you can use it with KMail. Consult man gpg for creating the keypair. Once this is done, to sign and/or encrypt you click on the

Re: [newbie] tiny firewall

2001-10-21 Per discussione Lee Roberts
I ran InteractiveBastille and got an error message that Bastille_Tk.pm could not be found. A search of the entire drive turned up nothing for this file. What does this file do and how do I create it? At 10:13 PM 10/20/2001 -0500, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 20 October 2001 01:34 pm, you

Re: [newbie] Firewall Testing

2001-10-20 Per discussione Lee Roberts
At 04:22 AM 10/21/2001 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Steve Gibson has passed on OptOut to another company so that it can be worked on full-time. I can't remember the company's name though. I think you're referring to Ad-aware? Anyway, I don't think there's a Linux version. Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Firewall Testing

2001-10-20 Per discussione Lee Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I use grc.com for a quick check of my firewall. It has been accurate so far. Before I installed my firewall on 8.1, grc.com reported that some ports were closed and some were stealth. After installing the firewall, all ports showed stealth. I trust