Re: networking

2002-02-27 Thread David Aikema
On February 26, 2002 11:43 pm, Zoran wrote: On Feb 26 David Aikema was heard saying: -I'd like to specify a hostname that eth0 should pass to the dhcp server in -use when it is brought up. I could always manually edit it into the ifup -script, but I'm wondering if I can specify this

Re: Email Signature

2002-02-27 Thread Cidadão Dorense
Thanks! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Typing furiously on February 26, Cidadão Dorense managed to emit: Thanks, Keith! I believe though that Kurt doesn't change it himself all the time. Kurt, is that a script that your Mail client point to or is a feature of that client?

Re: Speaking of Archives...

2002-02-27 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Ian spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: Netscape shows messages back through 2002-10-10... ook? isn't that looking ahead and not back :) -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org and

Re: cleaning up /dev

2002-02-27 Thread Tim Wunder
Douglas J Hunley wrote: snip scd0 scsi cd-rom yes? the cd is IDE, so I dont' need this. right? As long as it's not a CD-RW. But I'm with Joel on this, why bother? I'd realy like to know. It seems to me to be more trouble than it's worth. Regards, Tim

Re: cleaning up /dev

2002-02-27 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Net Llama spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: I occasionally find it useful. YMMV. fair enough. but I can always use makedev at some point in the future... You never know what the future may bring. Perhaps you'll switch to IDE at some time in the future? this is the 1221

Re: Speaking of Archives...

2002-02-27 Thread Ian
Douglas J Hunley wrote: Ian spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: Netscape shows messages back through 2002-10-10... ook? isn't that looking ahead and not back :) Err. Umm. 2001 is what I thought...but my fingers weren't listening. -- Linux SxS

Re: cleaning up /dev

2002-02-27 Thread Net Llama
--- Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Net Llama spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: You never know what the future may bring. Perhaps you'll switch to IDE at some time in the future? this is the 1221 box we're talking about. I don't forsee that happening. Oh

Re: Help With X and VMware

2002-02-27 Thread Net Llama
--- Tyler Regas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help! Okay, its not that urgent, but I've installed Mandrake 8.1 into VMware so I could get familiar with installing and configuring it as a server, and I stupidly set the video color depth to 16-bit. Well, the emulated chipset doesn't do 16-bit,

Re: RPM 4.x

2002-02-27 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. I'll just upgrade by installing WS 3.1.1! Douglas J Hunley wrote: Brett I. Holcomb spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: I've seen references to rpm version 4.x. Is that something I should upgrade to or are there incompatiblities between 3.x and 4.x that would cause

Re: new list feature

2002-02-27 Thread Net Llama
--- Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As of this afternoon, I've removed the virus check milter from all mailing lists and inserted MIMEDefang in its place. I simply couldn't find a decent (feature vs price) anti-virus, and MIMEDefang offer a decent substitute while adding other

Re: Adding window managers

2002-02-27 Thread Net Llama
--- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running KDE 2.2.1 on WS 3.1 and want to add xfce so I can try it. However, all the reference sto window mangers and the X-windows manuals (I have the O'Reilly manuals) mention the various x files as in start x, xinitrc, etc. However,

Re: Adding window managers

2002-02-27 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I installed it from an RPM compiled for my i686 from the source RPM. I ran xfce_setup, went to runlevel 3, then back to 5 and then went to the Control Center but it didn't show up so I typed in xfce and added it. I then logged out and selected my login and xfce. I got xfce but the

Re: RPM 4.x

2002-02-27 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
What version would you recommend? Douglas J Hunley wrote: Brett I. Holcomb spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: I've seen references to rpm version 4.x. Is that something I should upgrade to or are there incompatiblities between 3.x and 4.x that would cause me grief. My

Re: Adding window managers

2002-02-27 Thread Ken Moffat
OK! just went to caldera 3.1.1, kde2, k menu, as below, config, pref, system,login manager. (that's close, anyway) sessions tab, type startxfce in the box at lower left, this will highlight add, click add and reboot and that's it. xfce is on the menu, select it and it should work. This assumes a

Re: Adding window managers

2002-02-27 Thread Net Llama
Xscreensaver isn't absolutely required, but its always a nice thing to have (especially the new v. 4.01, which has some really spiffy new ones). --- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK! just went to caldera 3.1.1, kde2, k menu, as below, config, pref, system,login manager. (that's close,

Re: Adding window managers

2002-02-27 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I'll do it. I just typed xfce and I did not reboot! I found the xscreensaver is not required. I saw that message and asked on the mailing list. so I did an rpm --nodeps -ivh on xfce. I did get the screensaver but had a compiler error when I was building it. Thanks. Ken Moffat wrote:

Re: Adding window managers

2002-02-27 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I changed it to startxfce and just logged off KDE, selected startxfce and was in business. I didn't even have to reboot! Now the mouse and keyboard work. I'll work with it tomorrow to figure out how to get the KDE menus to popup. Thanks. Ken Moffat wrote: OK! just went to caldera 3.1.1,

Re: Adding window managers

2002-02-27 Thread Net Llama
A few weeks ago, someone else on this list ran into a weird keyboard-dead problem when they installed XFCE. I wish i remembered who or how he fixed it. ugh --- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed it from an RPM compiled for my i686 from the source RPM. I ran xfce_setup,

Re: Kmail Confusion

2002-02-27 Thread Mike Andrew
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 07:30, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Since it isn't always the same IP I'm hosed for a solution. Hm. Maybe I'll build a script that kicks off Kmail *after* a ping of my ISP. Hard to believe but 'fraid so. Incidentally, diald binary exhibits same problem. There is no

Re: networking

2002-02-27 Thread Zoran
Today David Aikema was heard saying: snip - *** I am having difficulties understanding if you are a server or a - client? - -eth0 is (well will be) connected to the cable modem and needs to use dhcp -to grab an address from there this system will not be a dhcp server *** Thus you will be the

Re: networking

2002-02-27 Thread David Aikema
On February 27, 2002 10:25 pm, Zoran wrote: *** Thus you will be the client and your ISP the server. That means your ISP will setup your client (you) the way they decided to: IP, nameservers... and host/domainname. You can, however, control the host/domainname provided by your ISP as far