Re: Scandisk and Defrag

2000-10-18 Thread Magnus
If one keeps the /boot and /root directories on two small partitions one can avoid having to reboot byt simply unmounting the FS you want to fsck and then remounting whil the system is up. This is one of the major bnefits of proper lartitioning. But then again.. I hate having to down a system.. (t

last Thursday's meeting October 12, 2000

2000-10-18 Thread Timothy Bolz
Thursday October 12,2000 There were about 20 people. More new faces again. There were 6 computers being worked on. This was a fun meeting. Seth gave a demonstration on how lynx can be used for a text based browser and still bring up pictures. So for all you lynx fans out there yes you can se

Scandisk and Defrag

2000-10-18 Thread Staley W. Mims, III
Hi Drew -- I'm posting this to the users group also as there are many new Linux users who might like to have this info. The Linux OS uses the ext2 filesystem which is considerably different from the vfat32 system of MS. As I mentioned earlier today (or started to), Linux checks the filesystem ev

Re: Q. installing rpm files in Mandrake 7.1?

2000-10-18 Thread Kent Loobey
At 05:10 PM 10/18/00 -0700, you wrote: >On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Seth Cohn wrote: > >> What you want is the xpm.h header file. There is an xpm-devel rpm. >> You want to install that. > >OR the Xfree86-devel rpm if you are running Xfree86 4.0 (a quick google >found that existed also and has xpm.h also

Re: [PLUG] ANNOUNCE: 1st Advanced Topic Talk Oct 18th, 2000

2000-10-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I would like to go, but need a ride. I'm in downtown Portland, near Civic Stadium. 503 222-4173

Re: Q. installing rpm files in Mandrake 7.1?

2000-10-18 Thread Seth Cohn
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Seth Cohn wrote: > What you want is the xpm.h header file. There is an xpm-devel rpm. > You want to install that. OR the Xfree86-devel rpm if you are running Xfree86 4.0 (a quick google found that existed also and has xpm.h also... Seth

Re: Q. installing rpm files in Mandrake 7.1?

2000-10-18 Thread Seth Cohn
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Kent Loobey wrote: > Argg, I am trying to compile a C program that I downloaded from the > internet. I get a compile error because it can't find "xpm.h". So I look > at the diskettes that I got from Mandrake and they include a source file > called xpm-3.4k-8mdk.src.rpm. R

Q. installing rpm files in Mandrake 7.1?

2000-10-18 Thread Kent Loobey
Argg, I am trying to compile a C program that I downloaded from the internet. I get a compile error because it can't find "xpm.h". So I look at the diskettes that I got from Mandrake and they include a source file called xpm-3.4k-8mdk.src.rpm. So I think this should be a piece of cake. I get in

Re: debian mailq frozen! Help!

2000-10-18 Thread Patrick R. Wade
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 01:03:37PM -0700, Cory Petkovsek wrote: > >This is the third time I've sent this message. It seems that the >efn mail server is not sending my mail? The mail I've sent is in my sent >folder, however is no longer in the mail queue of my mail server. > Hm; it looks from he

Re: Xaos

2000-10-18 Thread Bob Crandell
Hi I am trying to update Gnome. After downloading all the source files and installing them, I get an unknown gnome session error. The directions said to remove the gnome package before starting. Now I got no GUI. Not a great loss, I guess, except I was hoping to learn it. Slackware 7.1 How do

debian mailq frozen! Help!

2000-10-18 Thread Cory Petkovsek
This is the third time I've sent this message. It seems that the efn mail server is not sending my mail? The mail I've sent is in my sent folder, however is no longer in the mail queue of my mail server. Anyway, I'm having trouble sending mail on my laptop. On mandrake I had a nicely configure

ANNOUNCE: 1st Advanced Topic Talk Oct 18th, 2000

2000-10-18 Thread David Mandel
Announcing the start of the Portland Linux Users Group Advanced Topic Meetings. *** Sponsored by MandrakeSoft *** The First Talk is Building a system to Backup and Restore from a tape drive. This was a project for INTS (Mark Wills). They have many machines that run

Printing

2000-10-18 Thread Bob Crandell
Are there any default limits to print job sizes? I have a guy who is printing 4 and 5 meg graphics. Printing is raw. That is, there are no filters. In printcap the mx line says 0 The server is Redhat 5.1 The workstations are Windows. Thanks

Re: My lame uptime

2000-10-18 Thread Christopher Allen
On Wed, 18 Oct 100, Neil Parker wrote: > Christopher Allen wrote, > >On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Christopher Allen wrote: > >> It's doing it now. It is ls-kinux.so. %CPU: 99.2. > The apparent culprit, ld-linux.so, is a "helper" process...it runs whenever > you run a program that uses shared libraries (w

Re: Macromedia

2000-10-18 Thread Dean Ridgway
Greetings Lindsay, >I went to the site, and downloaded the software for Linux. > >www.macromedia.com/shockwave > >Then I went into my files and clicked on the files, but they would >not open. I was supposed to "decompress" the files which sounds >like pkunzip but I don't know how. I've recent

Re: My lame uptime

2000-10-18 Thread Neil Parker
Christopher Allen wrote, >On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Christopher Allen wrote: >> It's doing it now. It is ls-kinux.so. %CPU: 99.2. >Still haven't been able to kill it. I had a single instance of Navigator >open with twelve browsing windows open and now they are all gone. > >Now, suddenly, the CPU isn't