Re: [vox-tech] X server crashed?

2003-08-14 Thread Katie
I guess Gateway feels us mere mortals aren't competent enough to fix our own computers. I can't get the cover off to save my life. Guess I have to take it to one of their repair centers so they can blow out the dust. :-/ Maybe something else caused the x server problem? Katie --- Rod Roark

[vox-tech] X server crashed?

2003-08-14 Thread Katie
. what happened and what can I do to fix this? Katie = -- Only two things are necessary to keep a redhead happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it. :-) __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use

Re: [vox-tech] X server crashed?

2003-08-14 Thread Katie
I run Mandrake 9.0. The log file is the same as Debian. I checked it and there are no error lines at all. There were a few warnings (WW) scattered through it, but no errors. Katie --- R. Douglas Barbieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Katie, what distro are you running by chance? On Debian

Re: [vox-tech] X server crashed?

2003-08-14 Thread Katie
It doesn't appear to be CPU overheating. Here's what happens: [EMAIL PROTECTED] katie]$startx info scrolls by really fast screen blinks to black, then blinks back info pops up with version release date blah, blah, default settings using vt 7 waiting for x server to shut down [EMAIL

Re: [vox-tech] newbie annoyed with tin

2003-01-30 Thread Katie
. I'm pretty sure it's in the search path. Can someone give me a step by step procedure for turning this into a shell script, please. Thanks Katie From Ken Bloom: I suggest doing this by using the following command, replacing login and password with your own login and password: echo qy | lynx

Re: [vox-tech] newbie annoyed with tin

2003-01-30 Thread Katie
Katie wrote: Can someone show me step by step how to make this into a shell script? Bill Kendrick wrote: Well, show us what you've got. #!bin/bash echo qy | lynx https://secureweb.ucdavis.edu:443/cgi-auth/sendback?;; http://email.ucdavis.edu/news/news-succeed.html;; -force_secure

Re: [vox-tech] newbie annoyed with tin

2003-01-30 Thread Katie
/katie/bin/runtin: line 3: qy: command not found and I'm back to the command line. How do I fix this? --- Samuel Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #!bin/bash In addition to Bill's remarks below, this line needs to be #!/bin/bash That is, an absolute path (starts with slash) rather than

[vox-tech] newbie annoyed with tin

2003-01-28 Thread Katie
is katie. I don't know how to find ~katie/.bashr. When I put it at the command line I got /home/katie/.bashrc not a directory. Katie wrote: Is there any way to set this up so I don't have to do the $ export NNTPSERVER=news.ucdavis.edu everytime I go to use tin? From: Bill Kendrick [EMAIL

Re: [vox-tech] newbie annoyed with tin

2003-01-28 Thread Katie
added the line NNTPSERVER=news.ucdavis.edu at the end of the other stuff. Katie wrote: I don't have an /etc/news/server file. I tried to create one, but it didn't work. Most likely I did it wrong. How would I create /etc/news/server? I don't know how to find ~katie/.bashr. When I put

[vox-tech] Re: newbie now having trouble with pico

2003-01-26 Thread Katie
installed without a hitch, so now I can use pico. Thanks! Katie = Only two things are necessary to keep a redhead happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it. :) __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus

[vox-tech] Re: newbie now having trouble with pico

2003-01-26 Thread Katie
not yet installed so i've gotten in the habit of: rpm -Uvh package Yeah, this could be the problem. When I downloaded, KPackage took over and I was really just a monkey pressing whatever buttons it gave me. I'm thinking I better try the above method from now on. Thanks! Katie = Only two

[vox-tech] newbie annoyed with tin

2003-01-25 Thread Katie
. I brought up a terminal to try it. It didn't work. Here's what happened: 1. [...katie]$tin 2. this message flashed at the bottom of the screen really quickly: copyright... can't open /var/lib/news/active try tin -r to read news via NNTP 3. [...katie]$ I tried the tin -r, got a cannot connect

[vox-tech] Re: newbie annoyed with tin

2003-01-25 Thread Katie
] $ export NNTPSERVER=news.ucdavis.edu $ tin -r Yay!!! It worked! I've got tin working now. Woohoo! Thanks guys! Katie = Only two things are necessary to keep a redhead happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have

[vox-tech] newbie now having trouble with pico

2003-01-25 Thread Katie
to install it I got: ome/katie/.kpackage/ncurses-5.2-34.i686.rpm;echo RESULT=$? error: failed dependencies: libncurses5 = 5.2 is needed by libncurses5-devel-5.2-27mdk libncurses5 = 5.2 is needed by php-readline-4.2.3-1mdk libncurses5 is needed by scli-0.2.9-2mdk libpanel.so.5