On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Ken Archer wrote:
> Funny how you remember things your father used to say. Mine used to look at me
> and say, "Experience is a cruel teacher, but a fool can learn from no other."
>
Good one. While certain (safe) commands have had permissions modified
to allow me to run t
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Ron Stodden wrote:
> Anton Graham wrote:
>
> > *Try* XFDrake (yes, it works from the cli as well).
>
> Nope. In Mandrake 7.1:
>
> [root@CO3000655-A ron]# XFDrake
> bash: XFDrake: command not found
> [root@CO3000655-A ron]#
>
Doh! Typo :p
/tmp> rpm -ql drakx
Hi Glyn!
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Glyn Millington wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm running Mandrake 7.0 with a dial-up connection.
>
> My mail system involves
> Postfix to send , fetchmail to collect on POP3, procmail to
> distribute, mutt to read, write and generally be man's best
> friend!
>
> It works!
Hi Bruce!
On Sun, 07 May 2000, Bruce E. Harris wrote:
| How can I erase postfix without damaging fetchmail and procmail?
|
| I want to switch to sendmail, and when I tried rpm -e postfix, I got a
| dependence error saying procmail and fetchmail needs it.
|
They don't actually need postfix, p
On Sun, 07 May 2000, Ken Archer wrote:
| I don't have the "initrd=/boot/initrd.img" line in lilo.conf that was written
| on the original install. I also can't find a initrd.img file with locate.
|
Not everyone has/needs an initrd. Generally, it is used to load modules that
the kernel needs t
Just select +DIR from the playlist buttons and select the mount point of your
CD as the directory.
On Sat, 06 May 2000, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
| Sorry to ask such a silly question, but how can I get XMMS to play CDs?
|
| In Windows, you drag-n-drop E:\Track05.cda to the window, and it starts
| p
Hi bascule!
Default display is :0 and it is already in use when you try to start again.
You must pass arguments to startx like:
startx -- :1
will start a second X session on the second X VC (ctl-alt-f8).
On Sat, 06 May 2000, bascule wrote:
| i have read that it is possible to have more than o
Hi Piero!
On Sat, 06 May 2000, Piero wrote:
| In order to coordinate the Netscape address books in the Windows partition and
| those on the Linux partition, I erased the files corresponding to the last ones
| and substituted them with symlinks to the files existing in the Windows
| partition.
|
On Sat, 06 May 2000, Ted Wager wrote:
| Hi...
| I see quite a lot of mail about kde files being in /opt...On all three
| distros I am using /opt is emptyWondered why ??
Packaged distros tend to relocate KDE (and anything else) to /usr. If you
compile your own KDE from the sources, i
Okay, I guess I missed the biginning of this. . .
On Fri, 05 May 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
| Jimit sounds like /dev/cdrom is a softlink pointing to
| /dev/fd0. It should be a softlink pointing to /dev/hdd
| instead.
|
| Alan
|
|
| Jim Brown wrote:
| >
| > Eduardo Arauz wrote:
| >
It's one of those dreaded WinPrinters. But, you can make it work. First of
all, select an HP Deskjet 500C (don't bother with the test page). You can
download the drivers from http://209.233.17.85/lexmark/ or I will have an RPM
up within the hour at http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/1175/linu
What about giving the directory they will be created inside to nobody? (i.e.
chown nobody )
On Fri, 05 May 2000, Steve Philp wrote:
| Wizaerd wrote:
| >
| > Coming from a MS background, the hardest thing I've had to deal with in
| > trying to learn Linux is the file permissions stuff. In MS,
Of course! His LAN connection is probably set up as the default route/gateway
and as a result internet requests are being routed to the Appletalk network.
Try doing a '/sbin/route del default' (sans quotes) before dialing and see what
happens. In theory, kppp will assign a new default route. I
Actually, it works quite well, but your default config file lacks a local
transport. If you checked your logs (or /var/spool/postfix/deferred), you'd
likely discover that it was indeed picking up the mail, just not delivering
it. FYI, neither sendmail or Postfix "collect" mail. Mail is delivere
kay, open up /etc/ppp/options in your least favorite text editor and add a line
that says "noauth" without the quotes. The authentication failure is because
pppd now defaults to requiring PAP authentication from the other end. If
you're dialing your ISP, it's not going to authenticate itself and
On Mon, 01 May 2000, Bill Shirley wrote:
| I'm not sure what is going wrong here, but my modules are in
| /lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk
| there are other directories under /lib/modules also. (I made an error in my
| original response.) I think there is some option in the kernel build that
| specifi
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Ron Johnson wrote:
| Dave Lers wrote:
| >
| > telnet-server
|
| H. Since I have telnetd, but don't have the telnet-server
| rpm, where does /usr/sbin/in.telnetd come from?
|
| Is there an rpm command to find which rpm contains a certain
| file?
|
| # rpm -qal | grep
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