Re: [techtalk] POP mail security

2000-01-07 Thread Jenn V.
Laurel Fan wrote: > > If the asker does know how to do all of this, and is insulted, I'm > sorry, but I'm glad you're insulted because you just wasted my time. Actually, you didn't waste your time - I didn't realise 'man' was paged with 'more' typically - if I know I'm planning to search a ma

Re: [techtalk] POP mail security

2000-01-07 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 8-Jan-100 Re: [techtalk] POP mail sec.. by "Jenn V."@simegen.com > Presumably, since I /think/ the original requester wrote saying 'I looked > there', she didn't. Well, the original requester didn't say anything about having looked anywhere. Note that the original reque

RE: [techtalk] initrd/kernel building

2000-01-07 Thread Linda Walsh
> I have Red Hat 6.1 installed, and am about to rebuild the kernel. My > /etc/lilo.conf has this line in it: > > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.12.12-20.img > > Now, from what I can tell, I'll need to use mkinitrd to make a new initrd > file that matches up with my new (2.2.14, I think -- the latest sta

Re: [techtalk] POP mail security

2000-01-07 Thread Jenn V.
Laurel Fan wrote: > I don't know where you get that I was telling her to search "useless > sources of information". I merely explained how I would go about > looking for that answer, and I think it was useful, since I found the > answer about 3 times, in one form or another. Presumably, since

Re: [techtalk] POP mail security

2000-01-07 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 7-Jan-100 RE: [techtalk] POP mail sec.. by "Linda Walsh"@sgi.com > I typed man on pop, pop3, imap and imap4 and they all came up > null. Would it help you if I pasted the relevant part of the fetchmail manpage? Would it help you if I said the manpage for fetchma

Re: [techtalk] missing posts

2000-01-07 Thread Jenn V.
Theresa Radke wrote: > > I hit ctrl alt backspace to restart kde and got kicked to a place that said some >weird message > > I got same weird message every time I tried to boot, so I wimped out and >reinstalled. :-) Guess I need to buy a book eh? Or remember what the wierd message is

Re: [techtalk] Disk imaging software (was: Re: Other OSes on a Linuxbox)

2000-01-07 Thread jennyw
Sounds great ... Does it do sync or can it just completely wipe a drive clean and rebuild? One of the reasons I was asking is because we use several different OSes, often on the same computer. Thanks! Jen - Original Message - From: "Marlene E. Morley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PR

Re: [techtalk] missing posts

2000-01-07 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I got same weird message every time I tried to boot, so I wimped out > and reinstalled. :-) Guess I need to buy a book eh? Pay attention to the chapter called "Single-user mode". :-) Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.

Re: [techtalk] missing posts

2000-01-07 Thread Theresa Radke
I hit ctrl alt backspace to restart kde and got kicked to a place that said some weird message I got same weird message every time I tried to boot, so I wimped out and reinstalled. :-) Guess I need to buy a book eh? On Sun, 02 Jan 2000 11:10:53 -0500 Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [techtalk] TNT/TNT2 drivers / X server

2000-01-07 Thread Rebecca Gutterman
they just went up... http://www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/htmlmedia/software_drivers.html On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, J B wrote: > So, in short, I need the riva drivers, but they are not available. I > had hoped someone else might have an Xserver for TNT2 3D acceleration, > or know where one might be l

RE: [techtalk] POP mail security

2000-01-07 Thread srl
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Linda Walsh wrote: > It so happens this whole bit of POP security was going through > my head as I was evaluating the idea of getting a service provider > email address in case I moved jobs. I requirement would be the ability > to automatically (perl script) pull the me

RE: [techtalk] POP mail security

2000-01-07 Thread Linda Walsh
> -Original Message- > From: Laurel Fan > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 6:47 PM > To: Linux Ladies > Subject: Re: [techtalk] POP mail security > > > Most unix programs come with documentation. Usually this is in the form > of a man(ual) page. These can be accessed with the man co

Re: [techtalk] Other OSes on a Linux box

2000-01-07 Thread Aaron Malone
> Which operating system is? MacOS. And BeOS, from what I hear, is quite easy. Of course, that's because the range of hardware it supports is still rather small. :) -- Aaron Malone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) System Administrator Poplar Bluff Internet, Inc. http://www.semo.net [EMAIL PR