Re: [expert] Setting up a mail cronjob

2000-12-04 Thread Jeff Cours
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, praedor wrote: I am almost there with this command: mail -s "ip update message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] This will produce a message with a subject of "ip update message" and add my email to the "To:" field. It does leave an empty message body and doesn't send a "ctrl-d"

Re: [expert] Joysticks

2000-12-04 Thread Jeff Cours
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Stephen Boulet wrote: No. :( Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2? Spence I just spent a few minutes going over the Mandrake site and couldn't find any mention of a joystick under the "Features" section. A search of Mandrake Forum for

Re: [expert] Logitech extreme digital 3D joystick and SBLive card

2000-11-26 Thread Jeff Cours
I've been having similar problems with joy-* modules, but haven't had time to dive into tracking down the source of the problem. Is anyone successfully using a joystick with LM 7.2? thanks, Jeff Stephen Boulet wrote: I'm having trouble getting my joystick to work. I have a Logitech wingman

[expert] joystick support/modprobe error

2000-11-14 Thread Jeff Cours
I'm trying to get joystick support to work on a Mandrake 7.2 installation. I'm able to load the "joystick" module without any problems, but I run into a "Device or resource busy" error when I try to load joy-analog (or joy-sidewinder: it's a Sidewinder 3D joystick). I've appended the actual

[expert] LM 7.2 on PCChips' Book PC

2000-11-13 Thread Jeff Cours
I just finished a successful fresh install of Mandrake 7.2 on a PCChips' Book PC (i810-based motherboard) over the weekend. I did a custom install, low security, development system, but wound up installing all packages. I used CD-R disks from www.cheapbytes.com. One quirk under the graphical

Re: [expert] pop-3

2000-11-04 Thread Jeff Cours
rharvey wrote: so do I need to setup a mx record on my linux box or have my provider set this up correctly on their dns ? Robert - It looks like you have an MX record already. Your MX record points to a machine called "server1.rdcomputersolutions.net". The problem is that there is no A

Re: [expert] root password

2000-10-30 Thread Jeff Cours
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 29-Oct-00 18:07:05 Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how do you setup a second user to have the same access as root a user that will be able to change root password. In novell that is one of the first

Re: [expert] here is the $170 question ^__^

2000-10-29 Thread Jeff Cours
"Michael R. Batchelor" wrote: I guess I'm going to have to download a data sheet and find out how this thing really works. How about giving us a little tutorial if you figure it out? I just downloaded the data sheets and found that they run a few hundred pages. It might take a while to

Re: [expert] here is the $170 question ^__^

2000-10-29 Thread Jeff Cours
"Michael R. Batchelor" wrote: I guess I'm going to have to download a data sheet and find out how this thing really works. How about giving us a little tutorial if you figure it out? I just downloaded the data sheets and found that they run a few hundred pages. It might take a while to

Re: [expert] here is the $170 question ^__^

2000-10-28 Thread Jeff Cours
Makis Marmaridis wrote: This behaviour (having to set the total memory to a meg less than the actual) is specific to your motherboard chipset as it reserves 1 megabyte of the system RAM for use by the video display. I have seen the mem parameter normally working by using the full amount of

Re: [expert] here is the $170 question ^__^

2000-10-27 Thread Jeff Cours
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, andy b wrote: ok... I bought 127 megs of ram to add to my 64 megs my bios recognises 192 megs... but Linux only recognises 64 (even if I only put in the 128 meg module) it would be nice to triply my ram... any ideas? Have you tried using the "mem=" switch in the