Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 3:47 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 03:06, Anne Wilson wrote: Over a long period I have seen commands given for finding informationabout a system, for instance this morning there was cat /proc/bus/usb/devices. It seems to me that those of us

Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 9:54 pm, KevinO wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 11:53 am, KevinO wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: As a side-issue, I have to get close to the page and squint to read that page, Kevin. For those with less than perfect vision, dark blue text on black

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 3:00 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: One thing sadly lacking imho is the urpmi gui interface. There is only blank spaces with locations for url and relative path to synthesis/hdlist: ?? Of course if you don't enter the information exactly correct, it fails. With no hints

[expert] Xawtv problem

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
My Philips webcam works perfectly under Camstream. In xawtv all I get is a wide bright green stripe, with faint lines across it. If I switch to full screen it is clear that there are four (iirc) ghost images of what the camera should be displaying. Does anyone know what's causing this and

Re: Not so funny side of spam [was Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring]

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 4:59 pm, David Rankin wrote: Not so funny side of spam: Anne started ending up in my deleted items box after filtering tiscali.co.uk what also has the reputation of a spam site. Don't worry Anne, we will pull you out of the deleted items I'm not too

Re: [expert] Xawtv problem

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 7:49 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 11:27 am, Anne Wilson wrote: My Philips webcam works perfectly under Camstream. In xawtv all I get is a wide bright green stripe, with faint lines across it. If I switch to full screen it is clear

Re: [expert] Xawtv problem

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 8:13 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 02:59 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Hi Dark Lord. This is xawtv-3.85, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.21-0.13mdk) /dev/video0 [v4l]: no overlay support v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway

Re: SCSI card not recognised by MD9.1 - ??similar to [expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 1:18 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Hi, First time subscriber, please excuse if this is all repetition. I've had no success in solving this problem on the newbie list-- My disk drives are PCI/IDE/ etc.but I have an old useful 35mm film scanner CanoScan 2700FS that

[expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
I need to change permissions of /dev/v4l. As su I can chown, chgrp and chmod, the ls shows the new values. If I log out and in again they are back to what they were before. Why? It can't be security, because I'm changing the owner to root. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 9:25 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:10:44 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I need to change permissions of /dev/v4l. As su I can chown, chgrp and chmod, the ls shows the new values. If I log out and in again they are back to what

[expert] Runs as root but not as user

2003-09-10 Thread Anne Wilson
schrieb Anne Wilson: On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 8:07 pm, PUYDT Julien wrote: Then no wonder the error message is the same: change the perms to a more sensible 660, and the owner to root:video, and that should work. OK - now it's [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# ls -l /dev/v4l/ total 0 crw

[expert] CLI for monitoring

2003-09-09 Thread Anne Wilson
Over a long period I have seen commands given for finding informationabout a system, for instance this morning there was cat /proc/bus/usb/devices. It seems to me that those of us with aging grey cells, and maybe others as well, would be glad of a list of these really useful commands. Could

Re: [expert] this one is harmless?

2003-09-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 5:55 am, Charlie wrote: Is someone interested in ancestry of :- linux, Linux Mandrake or ? Interesting one, that. Coming through with the Approved subject line I was immediately suspicious, but ancestry.com appears to be a genuine genealogy site for USA, and

Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring

2003-09-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 12:08 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 06:53, KevinO wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote: Over a long period I have seen commands given for finding informationabout a system, for instance this morning

Re: [expert] this one is harmless?

2003-09-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 1:47 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 11:24:05 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Interesting one, that. Coming through with the Approved subject line I was immediately suspicious, but ancestry.com appears to be a genuine genealogy site for USA

Re: [expert]OT - was I'm in big trouble

2003-09-08 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 08 Sep 2003 7:11 am, Eric Huff wrote: Actually, i have been told by fellow californians that when travelling and asked where from, it's better to say California, and not the US. Evidentily, many of the places that frown on the US in general are ok with California. LOL I thought

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-08 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 5:18 pm, Joerg Mertin wrote: Hi Anne, actually - you can change things. With TAB you can cycle the stuff around. Then you make sure that the option you have choosen is selected, hit TAB twice to be on the Do button - and you then can do some stuff. Also - XFdrake

Re: [expert] User shutdown

2003-09-08 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 08 Sep 2003 10:25 am, Charlie wrote: it'll stick It did g Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert]OT - was I'm in big trouble

2003-09-08 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 08 Sep 2003 4:32 pm, Eric Huff wrote: It'll be 8 then. With all the people i know from different places, i finally put a timezone table on my twiki home page... Good idea, that. I still haven't worked out Stephen's time zone in Oz. Did you know that Augustin is in Taiwan? So

Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd

2003-09-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 12:19 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Ok so in your config file it should have the full path not just the path stub. Instead of /var/lock put /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd Then the config file line 93(if I remember right) won't give you and error. Did that, and it (?)

Re: [expert] Filter mail: bcc case

2003-09-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 12:43 am, Nigel Wilkinson wrote: On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 22:26:54 +0200 Olaf Marzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to have fetchmail add something I can use to recognize the mailbox I downloaded the mail from? Thanks Olaf I think you need to examine the

Re: [expert] User shutdown

2003-09-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 12:26 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 9:27 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Remind me where to find the setting that allows users to shut down? I've found it in kde's control centre, where I have it set to allow everybody to shutdown

Re: [expert] User shutdown

2003-09-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 11:04 pm, Charles-Roberts wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 9:27 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Remind me where to find the setting that allows users to shut down? I've found it in kde's control centre, where I have it set to allow everybody to shutdown

Re: [expert] User shutdown

2003-09-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 11:49 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: I guess you have autologin enabled. The autologin-package is broken in 9.1. Disable autologin in MCC somewhere and go to kde control center and enable it there. This way you have autologin and the little dragon at logout. This should be

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 12:47 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 06 September 2003 04:44 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Forcing it to recognise that it is a Matrox card, not a SiS did the trick. I've done all the upgrades now. It seems unbelievable, but I couldn't get eth0 up either, and as soon

Re: [expert]OT - was I'm in big trouble

2003-09-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 11:05 pm, Eric Huff wrote: Not to worry - I don't think I've ever watched a complete episode. ;-) You do watch Enterprise, though...right? :) *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* This next wednesday the 10th, of course, being the season premier.

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 12:53 am, Nigel Wilkinson wrote: Loads of hints on how to effect the install but no-one's asked if you're still married or isn't he back yet He took it better than I expected g, presumably because he'd had an enjoyable night out. I was getting very nervous when

Re: [expert] Interesting times with sound

2003-09-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 4:47 am, Patricia Fraser wrote: Argh! It might be the cable. I was hoping for software; there's this Intimidating Sticker on the case saying Do Not Remove. Goshdarnit. Take a look at Derek's website http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/ . I did have a cable attached, but I

Re: [expert]SOLVED! Interesting times with sound

2003-09-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 6:27 am, Patricia Fraser wrote: The xmms-cdread plugin is on the CDs - in supplement. Installed, and on a whim, changed the cd that XMMS is looking at to /dev/scd0 - and bingo! sound! 8-) Good. This is what the link I sent you would have recommended. As I said, it

Re: [expert]OT - was I'm in big trouble

2003-09-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 12:50 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 07:44, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 11:05 pm, Eric Huff wrote: Not to worry - I don't think I've ever watched a complete episode. ;-) You do watch Enterprise, though...right? :) *Catch

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 1:37 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 07 September 2003 07:47 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 12:53 am, Nigel Wilkinson wrote: Loads of hints on how to effect the install but no-one's asked if you're still married or isn't he back yet He

Re: [expert]SOLVED! Interesting times with sound

2003-09-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 11:19 pm, Patricia Fraser wrote: Hi Anne, On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 6:27 am, Patricia Fraser wrote: The xmms-cdread plugin is on the CDs - in supplement. Installed, and on a whim, changed the cd that XMMS is looking at to /dev/scd0 - and bingo! sound! 8-)

Re: [expert]OT - was I'm in big trouble

2003-09-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 07 Sep 2003 4:50 pm, Eric Huff wrote: *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* This next wednesday the 10th, of course, being the season premier. Uh? Am I missing something? I've been watching on Mondays on Sky1. I understood that there wasn't going to be

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 05 Sep 2003 11:22 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 05 Sep 2003 11:09 pm, Steve Browne wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 22:40:50 +0100, you wrote: I was installing 9.1 on David's box while he was out. It has booted to the point of the blue wave, then it can't get

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 05 Sep 2003 9:50 pm, Joerg Mertin wrote: Hi Anne, you mean - you have to run XFdrake in text mode ? or does it start in graphic mode ? It was in text mode, which I expected. I have done it that way before, but this time I couldn't edit anything at all. Anyway - make sure there

Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd

2003-09-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 1:08 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Wel,, the new Smart-UPS700 is in and working, except for two problems - 1) It complained about line 61 in the config file. I take it that it was expecting to find a log file to which it could append, but didn't find it. The line

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 12:45 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: If you are installing 9.1 with an LCD monitor, the appropriate driver for the video card may not be present. For instance, I have an Nvidia video card and a Viewsonic LCD; I had to download Nvidia's driver before I could get

Re: [expert] Speaking of Wiki's and HOWTO's

2003-09-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 12:51 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: Hi folks. This is just a general information post about our wiki situation. There seems to be a lot of discussion on this list about the Community Wiki. It seems the membership of this list has really taken to the concept. I also see a lot

Re: [expert] Speaking of Wiki's and HOWTO's

2003-09-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 1:39 pm, Thomas Backlund wrote: From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 12:51 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: Hi folks. This is just a general information post about our wiki situation. There seems to be a lot of discussion on this list about

Re: [expert] Speaking of Wiki's and HOWTO's

2003-09-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 2:02 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 06 September 2003 08:16 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 12:51 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: Hi folks. This is just a general information post about our wiki situation. There seems to be a lot of discussion

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 8:42 am, James Sparenberg wrote: If you run startx from runlevel 3 ... what does it give you as the reason for not starting? There are no error messages. KDE is obviously trying to start up. I hear the .wav file, and bits of the display flash on screen then off

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 4:11 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 8:42 am, James Sparenberg wrote: If you run startx from runlevel 3 ... what does it give you as the reason for not starting? There are no error messages. KDE is obviously trying to start up. I hear the .wav file

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 3:39 pm, Eric Huff wrote: There must be a way to get it to look again at this. Does harddrake run from the cli, and will it allow me to set the graphics card? I should be able to get to the machine again in around 1/2 hour g XFdrake lets you choose video cards,

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 5:12 pm, Eric Huff wrote: OK - I'm in failsafe, logged in as root. I have XFdrake showing a menu in text mode on screen. I can move around the menu, but I can't change anything. What am I missing? Here is how it works for me: up down arrow moves in the menu Yes

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 5:12 pm, Eric Huff wrote: OK - I'm in failsafe, logged in as root. I have XFdrake showing a menu in text mode on screen. I can move around the menu, but I can't change anything. What am I missing? Here is how it works for me: up down arrow moves in the menu

Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd

2003-09-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 5:05 pm, Ray Warren wrote: On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 12:07:34PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: The file in question appears to be /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd On My system there is also a file named /var/lock/LCK..ttyS0 If You're using a com port other than com1 you need

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 8:47 pm, Eric Huff wrote: Hi, Eric. Well, I'm not sure whether it was the curry, the wine or hitting the keyboard harder, but I finally got it to accept my input. LOL! Reminds me of Apu's grace: Good rice, good curry, good Gandhi let's hurry. Apu??? Anne --

[expert] User shutdown

2003-09-06 Thread Anne Wilson
Remind me where to find the setting that allows users to shut down? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 9:08 pm, Guilmot Mike wrote: Apu??? Apu nahaseesomething ... in The Simpsons ? :-) Kind regards, Guilmot Mike Ah - I must be the only person in the western world that has never seen The Simpsons g Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 9:37 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 06 September 2003 11:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 8:42 am, James Sparenberg wrote: If you run startx from runlevel 3 ... what does it give you as the reason for not starting? There are no error

Re: [expert] User shutdown

2003-09-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 9:27 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Remind me where to find the setting that allows users to shut down? I've found it in kde's control centre, where I have it set to allow everybody to shutdown, but still all I'm getting is a small square offering logout or cancel. Logging out

Re: [expert] Did someone else get this also?????

2003-09-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 05 Sep 2003 1:05 am, Charlie wrote: IIRC also doesn't infect win98 and Millennium boxes. [or is there just no patch for these from M$ because they no longer support those O/S's?] As I understand it, it uses a 'feature' introduced into NT and present in all related versions :-)

Re: [expert] VIRUS!!! ( was Re: Approved )

2003-09-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 05 Sep 2003 12:35 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: O, for God's sake! I can't believe the Mandrake list server passed this message along! There are people who do read this list from within windows. How Dare They! LOL Actually, I'm not. Why help the competition? Would anyone

[expert] Don't tell me we have another major annoyance on our hands!

2003-09-05 Thread Anne Wilson
Undeliverable: Re: [expert] VIRUS!!! ( was Re: Approved ) Date: Fri Sep 5 13:58:55 2003 From: System Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your message To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] VIRUS!!! ( was Re: Approved ) Sent: Fri Sep

Re: [expert] VIRUS!!! ( was Re: Approved )

2003-09-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 05 Sep 2003 2:51 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: O, for God's sake! I can't believe the Mandrake list server passed this message along! There are people who do read this list from within windows. How Dare They! LOL Actually, I'm not. Why help the competition?

Re: [expert] Don't tell me we have another major annoyance on our hands!

2003-09-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 05 Sep 2003 3:35 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:17:57 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: As if sms wasn't enough Oh for the love of $DEITY! I've had 3 in the last half-hour. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http

Re: [expert] Don't tell me we have another major annoyance on our hands!

2003-09-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 05 Sep 2003 4:26 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:53:15 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I've had 3 in the last half-hour. not me, Mailfilter caught them all :-) I have it running with fetchmail on my client *and* server now, so if one misses

Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd

2003-09-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 4:13 am, david wrote: Anne, I am presently running apcupsd, and if I recall, it required nothing more than rpm -Uvh acp.rpm on my 7.2 box. It has been running since '01 without a hickup. The trick is to figure out what information your APC box will deal out.

Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd

2003-09-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 05 Sep 2003 7:01 pm, Ray Warren wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 05:23:23PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 4:13 am, david wrote: Anne, I am presently running apcupsd, and if I recall, it required nothing more than rpm -Uvh acp.rpm on my 7.2 box

Re: [expert] VIRUS!!! ( was Re: Approved )

2003-09-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 05 Sep 2003 7:58 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: I dunno seems they may be trying to adjust things. I just got a bounce message from Sympa because one of the addresses the list goes to is dead. inserted text Your message To: Expert List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

[expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-05 Thread Anne Wilson
I was installing 9.1 on David's box while he was out. It has booted to the point of the blue wave, then it can't get the display up. I tried going to init 3, then running XFdrake as root, the menu comes up, but I can't find any way to change any part of the configuration. I have to set it to

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 05 Sep 2003 11:09 pm, Steve Browne wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 22:40:50 +0100, you wrote: I was installing 9.1 on David's box while he was out. It has booted to the point of the blue wave, then it can't get the display up. I tried going to init 3, then running XFdrake as root,

Re: [expert] More on threading

2003-09-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 04 Sep 2003 9:30 am, Michael Adams wrote: For christmas. Does the latest KMail, Sylpheed, or claws support deletion of a entire collapsed thread in one step. This is what i'd love to see. I'd happily leave threads in my folders longer until they had well and truly dried up if i

Re: [expert] Did someone else get this also?????

2003-09-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 04 Sep 2003 11:36 am, Charlie wrote: I suppose it was quite harmless but naturally it went in the bin. Yes - I got one for both the expert and the newbie list. I sent this to the newbie list when it was the first to arrive: Looking at the headers, I'm confused. I was looking for

Re: [expert] VIRUS!!! ( was Re: Approved )

2003-09-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 04 Sep 2003 12:57 pm, Mark wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See the attached file for details O, for God's sake! I can't believe the Mandrake list server passed this message along! There are people who do read this list from within windows. It is affecting

Re: [expert] Did someone else get this also?????

2003-09-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 04 Sep 2003 2:00 pm, Mark Belanger wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 20:36:42 +1000 Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [expert] Re: Approved From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] See the attached file for details Inserted here was:- thank_you.pif I suppose it was quite

Re: [expert] HOWTO Samba server with XPHome ME clients

2003-09-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 04 Sep 2003 5:57 pm, Niclas Jacobsson wrote: Hi All! I've got problems setting up a samba server for WinME XPHome clients. Printersharing works like a charm but file/directory (oops sorry for the Win-terminology...) sharing seems difficult to get working. Resources setup with

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 4:15 am, Mark wrote: I had thought about that. but then I decided not to do it that way cause I'd end up having to edit and clean up too much. So I chose the try the elegant lazy method. as it turns out when I used cat do combine the files all I got was the first page

[expert] Network printing

2003-09-03 Thread Anne Wilson
The only other mandrake box in the house does not have a printer. Today I needed to print from it. Using mcc/printerdrake it picked up all four instances of the printer on my box. However, any attempt to print a test page comes up with an error saying unknown host anne-linux.lydgate.net

Re: [expert] threading in Kmail...

2003-09-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 5:12 pm, Mark wrote: Hi list, I've noticed, after loading 9.2RC1 that message threading in Kmail is still REALLY screwed up. anyone have a word to this point that could give me a clue as to whats going on here? Are you sure you never delete a mail until the whole

Re: [expert] threading in Kmail...

2003-09-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 4:58 pm, Mark Belanger wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:12:19 -0400 (EDT) Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed, after loading 9.2RC1 that message threading in Kmail is still REALLY screwed up. anyone have a word to this point that could give me a clue as to

Re: [expert] threading in Kmail...

2003-09-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 6:06 pm, Mark wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 5:12 pm, Mark wrote: Hi list, I've noticed, after loading 9.2RC1 that message threading in Kmail is still REALLY screwed up. anyone have a word to this point that could

Re: [expert] Network printing

2003-09-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 6:59 pm, Joerg Mertin wrote: Hi Anne, James is rihgt. If you don't have a decent DNS running within your LAN, you need to keep the canonical-Name - IP-Address translations in the /etc/hosts files on both systems (Printer-Server and Client). Hi, Joerg. My reply

Re: [expert] Can KMail be set to filter attachments?

2003-09-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 10:54 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Failed. It crashes kmail. I tried to create a new folder in Maildir format, delete it, create a symlink by the same name to /dev/null. I then tried to move an email in one of my other folders into the new /dev/null folder...it crashes

Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 02 Sep 2003 3:46 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: How many people here can successfully create a boot disk under 9.1 or 9.2 using mkbootdisk and a 1.4 meg floppy? Under 9.1 I used the gui with success. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [expert] Print problems

2003-09-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 4:54 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Anne, There are numerous settings you can make to the page and in the print settings. File-Page Setup - Format Options, Margins Headers/Footer. Try playing around with these and then use the File-Print preview to check the page. Oh yes,

Re: [expert] (slight OT) Upgrade cycles discussion

2003-09-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 02 Sep 2003 7:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 22:55, Eric Huff wrote: Either way, what is the best way to upgrade? I started at 9.1, so i've never encounter this choice before... The beginnings of a tutorial is here.

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 6:18 pm, Mark wrote: Hi List, I've forgotten how to do something that I used to know how to do. That is, using cat to combine a list of files into one single file. The problem: the list of files below, I would like to combine into just one file. les_csharp_12_p1.pdf

Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-09-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 02 Sep 2003 12:14 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: Yes, sorry. I'm so use to always havin it installed I didn't think, lm_sensors-2.8.0-4mdk. Just 'urpmi lm_sensors' I believe it's been included for some time, so an older lm_sensors package will probly work too. It's on your CD's OK

Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 12:42 pm, Katinka Mills wrote: Sorry for the delay, I could not find the page I liked to show people (I think the site is down) if you go here http://www.interfacebus.com/Design_PCI_Pins.html A1 / B1 is the back of the computer. and the pins count towards you. If you

[expert] Can KMail be set to filter attachments?

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
I know I should be sorting out a mail server, but until I have enough time I need short term solutions. In kmail I'd like a pop-filter to delete on server emails that contain attachments containing .exe and the like. I can't find any way of filtering on attachments For that matter I can't

[expert] Print problems

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
I'm having some problems when I print from Mozilla, and I think they are related. I cannot print the url in the header or footer, when printing from a website, and I frequently lose a couple of lines at the page changeover. I think both are related to the margin settings, but although I have

Re: [expert] Print problems

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 2:26 pm, stefmit wrote: Are you using CUPS? Have you tried replacing lpr with xpp (after installing xpp, of course), in the print -- properties -- print command line? xpp would offer you much more options in regards to margins, etc... Hi, Stef. Yes, I generally use xpp,

Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 4:13 am, david wrote: Anne, I am presently running apcupsd, and if I recall, it required nothing more than rpm -Uvh acp.rpm on my 7.2 box. It has been running since '01 without a hickup. The trick is to figure out what information your APC box will deal out.

Re: [expert] Print problems

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 5:12 pm, R N dev wrote: Hi Anne, i'm quite sure it is. I use kprinter --stdin, but i think that Mozilla (or Netscape) converts the output to ps and after passes it to command line. So try to change the page setup option to have your correct output and see what happen...

Re: [expert] Print problems

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 5:00 pm, Mark wrote: What version of Mozy are you using. I've not heard anything about a bug in Mozilla that would produce a problem like this. That is not to say that it's not possible, however, it sounds more like a problem with the printer drivers then anything else.

Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 5:27 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: If that level of detail is of interest, you will love The Indespensable PC Hardware Book: Your Hardware Questions Answered by Hans-Peter Messmer. Addison Wesley. ISBN: 0201876973 Very low level. Very complete. I've too many irons in the

Re: [expert] Can KMail be set to filter attachments?

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 5:03 pm, Mark wrote: Procmail should be able to do this nicely for you. Even if you're pulling your mail down from your ISP's mailserver. In order to employ procmail to filter, you'd simply using Fetchmail to bring the messages down. They'd then be deposited in

Re: [expert] Can KMail be set to filter attachments?

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 1:36 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 08:18, Anne Wilson wrote: I know I should be sorting out a mail server, but until I have enough time I need short term solutions. In kmail I'd like a pop-filter to delete on server emails that contain attachments

Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - Sorted

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
Son-in-Law just called - card in, now working correctly. He has W2K installed and it has been a huge struggle, particularly since it insists that the driver disks for both graphics card and monitor are corrupt. Internet of course has furnished the necessary, but I'm really looking forward to

Re: [expert] Can KMail be set to filter attachments?

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 10:32 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have struggled with getting kmail to directly delete filtered crap myself for some time. It just occurred to me, based on this thread, that there may be a clunky way to do this. There is no direct way to set kmail folders to point to

Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 10:29 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Anne, 'dmidecode' (as root) will tell you what voltage the AGP slot has, among other bios settings. EG (excerpt from mine), Handle 0x001B DMI type 9, 13 bytes. Card Slot Slot: AGP Type:

Re: [expert] What Wiki?

2003-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 7:47 am, Eric Huff wrote: We have a wiki? What URL? Is there any way we could get stuff like this added to the welcome message? I didn't get any response regarding who to contact for list admin stuff... No - I've already explored this. The problem is that if they

Re: [expert] Postfix Mail server

2003-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 7:50 am, Eric Huff wrote: My understanding was that a tutorial was supposed to be an indepth lesson on how to do something like ... oh setup postfix. The HowTo section was supposed to be quick point of info like say how to make a floppy image, or some other

Re: [expert] What Wiki?

2003-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 1:38 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 12:43:10 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Otherwise, perhaps a few of us could start adding the url to our sigs? Howz this? I'm even giving it more gloss than my own site, which of course is quite

[expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
A Soltek board, just bought, says that using a 2x graphics board will fry the mobo (wrong voltage). The G-Force2 MX-400 is a 2x/4x board. Is it safe to assume that it will have the right voltage, merely falling back to 2x if the mobo doesn't have the later standard agp? Anne -- Registered

Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 3:15 pm, Katinka Mills wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Saturday, 30 August 2003 10:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
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Re: [expert] Postfix Mail server

2003-08-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 29 Aug 2003 3:06 am, Eric Huff wrote: I'm in the process of setting up a new mailhost and plan to chroot it; but my current postfix is very anti-spam and documented at http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix Pierre - is there a link to this on the HOW-TO page? A bit of

Re: [expert] I cannot see what I write here

2003-08-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 29 Aug 2003 1:18 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: Never tried that (18 beers %-D ) ;) but it would explain why he can't see what he writes :-) Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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