On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 10:45, Nick Rout wrote:
> obviously you didn't put the email address in the adddress book, just
> the letters CLUG, or you aren't using it right.
You are quite correct Nick - the address not being in the right place is
the most obvious thing, which is why I checked that first.
Unfortunatly (or perhaps fortunatly) I don't know of a simple way to do
a screen print to show/prove exactly what I was seeing.
I never had these sort of simple problems when I was using Microsoft
products. It really pisses me off when the simplest of things make me
look stupid and them I'm made to feel stupid for it!
As always, thanks for your kind assistance.
Cheers Don
>
>
> > I deleted the entry in the address book, typed
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the to field for any new messages and
> > moved on.
> >
> > > You also had resource issues, what happens in top when you start one of
> > > those annoying programs that takes so long?
> >
> > No. I looked to see if anything was using much resource when sitting
> > idle but that's about it.
>
> I think this would be an important check to see if there is some errant
> process taking up inordinate resources. eg sometimes if sound isn't
> working right, and the program is trying to play a nice little warning,
> the sound process might bo ballistic for a while. bring the xterm with
> top running to the front ("always on top") and play around a bit.
>
> >
> > > Did you upgrade to the latest redhat package to see if it fixed any of
> > > these problems? (Although from the redhat site, it looks like a security
> > > bugfix rather than solving your sort of problem).
> >
> > No.
> >
> > > Have you stopped any of those 29 or so services you had running?
> >
> > No. I spent the afternoon reading all the different bits of advise I
> > got and looking around the different things while also looking at some
> > other stuff I had to do.
>
> as your problems sound like resource issues I would make this a priority.
>
> >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 25 May 2004 09:52:31 +1200
> > > Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Where is the ximian web site? I ended up on a Novell web site last time
> > > > I tried looking for an update.
> > >
> > > funny that, novell bought ximian
> >
> > Right.
> >
> > In MS land we tell people to look at the Outlook link on the MS web
> > site... not the 'outlook web site'.
> >
> > Sorry that I'm not yet 100% up on the play about how these things are
> > done.
> >
> > > >
> > > > Is there an rpm or do I have to build it from source?
> > >
> > > download instructions are on the site.
> >
> > Yes. The instructions are there. I'd seen them and read bits of them.
> >
> > I was unsure what applied to my system.
>
> from what i recall running wget -q -O - http://go.ximian.com|sh
> downloads a graphical installer that allows you to choose what to
> download, ie the whole ximian thing, or just evoulution, or whatever. Of
> course the choice you make may have some dependencies, it could
> change quite a bit on your system, but it should tell you first.
>
>
> Be aware of what that line of code does. It downloads the file at
> http://go.ximian.com and pipes it to the shell, ie the equivalent of
> allowing an unchecked script loose on your system, and it doesn't run
> unless you are root. If you want to check
> it first you can just download it and read it.
> >
> > I was unsure what impact it would have...
> >
>
> no, here neither.
>
> > Hence I asked a couple more questions :)
> >
> > Thanks all for your help.
> >
> > Cheers Don
