1. kmail can use plenty of pop accounts. I have no idea why you should
be having any trouble with that. It's very easy.
2. You of course do have to be root before you can stuff like pick
which services to run. If you find this concept unacceptable, and you
like the way it works under Windows, then just dispense with your user
account and always log in as root. This is very insecure but no more
insecure than running Windows, which was your alternative approach.
3. Not clear on if you managed to install DrakConf, but to do it all you
need to do is "su", type in the root password, insert your 1st Mandrake cd,
change to directory where your cd is mounted and
rpm -i M*/L*/DrakConf*
You could also use kpackage or rpmdrake, but the above will work no
matter how little stuff got installed.
4. Then you can type in "DrakConf" by hand to run it.
5. Or you can just live with the default services. I don't get why you
think you need to muck with the startup services in the first place.
They shouldn't cause any big problems.
6. To the other poster: Yes, you do "man xx" to find out what it is.
6. If you really *can't* live with the defaults *and* you find the
process of fixing this to be too much to deal with, and you find it
easier to customize Windows, perhaps you indeed ought to go back to
Windows.
But personally I'd recommend that you first consider Caldera OpenLinux;
its installation is oriented towards "workstation" or "server" or
whatever. It has drawbacks (less flexible than Mandrake; not optimized
for the hardware), but Windows has these same drawbacks.
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| Lane Lester wrote:
| >
| > Seve said:
| > > Go to DrakConf on your desktop and select Startup Services. Then you
| > just
| > > uncheck the stuff you don't need. When you're done, that
| > > pc should boot up much quicker.
| >
| > A lot of those names are cryptic to this newbie. Is there an explanation
| > somewhere of what they do... omigosh, are you going to say, "man [name]"?
| > <g>
| > --
| > Lane
| > ____
| > Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
| > Using Linux to get where I want to go...
|
| Well I tried all the above:
| DrakConf didn't function, I had to be root before it showed up in my
| desktop.
| Read somewhere that it might not be installed, went to the RPMS checker
| and found
| no mention of it there. Thought I scan the CD's it won't let me do that
| now
| either nothing in mnt. So with the advent of "7.0 features" I'm back to
| newbie
| status. I also subscribed to that mailing list. I did get X functional
| again,
| and can acess Nutscrape here so I can reach you guys. Went to
| Mandrake's site
| watched the pretty demo on DrakConf, but no info on how to get there.
| It may
| do what I'm wanting to do (kill off some of the many processes, and
| dameans).
| I just want a functional desktop, no network (other than ISP dialup)
| which I
| now do through KPPP. I like the StarOffice now I read that it may be
| endagered
| by NutScrape, can't surf very well with KFM because many sites don't
| like the
| way it handles cookies. Kmail was neat but couldn't use more than one
| POP3
| account. Is there any help out there?? I know "go back to Windoze if
| it's this
| tough".
| But I liked the penguin!
| Vern
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