[techtalk] Re: [SLL] Mail/Backup

2000-03-25 Thread moebius
Glen, Thanks, I didn't realize that. I guess that what I still don't realize is whether Sendmail sets up the INBOX or whether IMAP does that. Perhaps I'm being thick-headed but I would think that IMAP and MTA's would work together to unite a single directory structure for mail. Please let me kno

Re: [techtalk] Bunch of odd messages

2000-03-25 Thread Darren Osadchuk
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Jeff wrote: >On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 12:39:11PM -0600, Darren Osadchuk wrote: >> >> Which is what they are: >> >> drwxr-xr-x 27 501 users4096 Mar 25 01:09 darren > >I've seen this before. You don't 'own' your home directory. Log in as >root, and run: > >chow

[techtalk] Re: [SLL] Mail/Backup

2000-03-25 Thread taliesin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >[...] I am looking for a way >to put [delivered email] on the same dir. Pref /home/[username], purely for >backup reasons. Currently I am feeling either stupid of clueless, b/c I >can't find any place that describes someone doing this sort of thing and I >would think it

Re: [techtalk] linux and MP3s

2000-03-25 Thread glen
The only advantage to having it be a floppy distro is that I save space, right? Right now I am just trying to get this off the ground. So first I want to get linux onto the computer, and I am wondering what distribution, and how much of the distribution I need. Obviously I don't need everything be

Re: [techtalk] Bunch of odd messages

2000-03-25 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 13:09:43 -0600 (CST), Eric Baudais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Thirdly do $ls -al and see if the permissions are correct for "." and >".." Also make sure the directory is owned by darren and it has the >correct group. BTW, the "-d" option to ls is useful when checking permis

Re: [techtalk] Bunch of odd messages

2000-03-25 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 10:08:29 -0600 (CST), Darren Osadchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >At one point a message came up in Pine that said that "Address book >directory (/home/darren) is read only", and I can't write anything to >that directory. I have no idea how or why that would have >happened. All

[techtalk] Mail/Backup

2000-03-25 Thread moebius
Hello All, I'm hoping for some help with the following problem. I've got RH6.1 w/sendmail and IMAP running. I want to setup a RAID for users to help speed up disk I/O. Here's the problem. Mail is stored in /var/spool/mail/[username]. User create folders, like those created in pine to seperate s

Re: [techtalk] PPP Problems/Questions

2000-03-25 Thread Pete Durst
Hi Harry, You have my eternal gratitude Sir! That was exactly the problem that I was having. Thank you very much for your excellent help. Pete At 03:03 PM 3/25/00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hey Pete, > Do you have a default route set already. If you do that interfers with >ppp, which

Re: [techtalk] PPP Problems/Questions

2000-03-25 Thread moebius
Hey Pete, Do you have a default route set already. If you do that interfers with ppp, which wants to set your default route. Also give wvdial a try. It has worked for almost all ISP's that I have used. HTH, Harry Hoffman Product Systems Specialist Restaurants Unlimited Inc. 206.634.3082 x. 270

Re: [techtalk] PPP Problems/Questions

2000-03-25 Thread Pete Durst
Hi Caity, I tried the different types, and no success with any of them. I was able to monitor the process via the terminal type login, and got some interesting feedback there. After entering my name and password, I was given my IP addresses and the ISP starting sending PPP info back to me.

Re: [techtalk] PPP Problems/Questions

2000-03-25 Thread Pete Durst
Hi Rik, I had a look at this and found that I had the same permissions and settings. Still dies just after connecting to the server. Thanks for the assist. Pete At 08:07 PM 3/25/00 +, Rik Hemsley wrote: >#if Pete Durst > > At this point, I know that the ISP is working, and that I am usin

Re: [techtalk] Switching between desktops...

2000-03-25 Thread Tami Friedman
___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Bunch of odd messages

2000-03-25 Thread Jeff
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 12:39:11PM -0600, Darren Osadchuk wrote: > > Which is what they are: > > drwxr-xr-x 27 501 users4096 Mar 25 01:09 darren I've seen this before. You don't 'own' your home directory. Log in as root, and run: chown darren /home/darren -- Jeff -BEGIN G

Re: [techtalk] PPP Problems/Questions

2000-03-25 Thread Caitlyn Máire Martin
Hi, Pete, > From kppp, I tried to make a connection, went through the most obvious > settings, and selected what I thought were the right switches, and when I > tried to connect (watching the log window), I see the modem getting the > dialing commands, I see the connection message come back, and

Re: [techtalk] PPP Problems/Questions

2000-03-25 Thread Rik Hemsley
#if Pete Durst > At this point, I know that the ISP is working, and that I am using the > right names and passwords, it's just something is not working the way I > want it to in Linux. Argh. Sounds like you might not have pap-secrets set up correctly, or it has the wrong permissions. Y

[techtalk] PPP Problems/Questions

2000-03-25 Thread Pete Durst
Hi, I am having some difficulty establishing a PPP type connection from my laptop computer. Running RH6.1 on an Acer Extensa 393C Laptop, using a 3Com 3C562D PCMCIA combo card. The system has lots of disk space, and is currently configured with 48MB Ram. I am able to use the 10BaseT portion

Re: [techtalk] Bunch of odd messages

2000-03-25 Thread Eric Baudais
> Which is what they are: > > drwxr-xr-x 27 501 users4096 Mar 25 01:09 darren > drwxr-xr-x 13 darren root 4096 Mar 25 10:07 fc > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 8 16:44 httpd > drwxr-xr-x 4 darren root 4096 Mar 11 01:07 installed > drwxr-xr-x

RE: Re: [techtalk] Bunch of odd messages

2000-03-25 Thread osadchuk
(The formatting is going to be a bit wonky here, since I can't seem to d/l any mail at the moment, given the nature of the problem.) --- start quote --- > Unable to lock ICE authority file /home/darren/.ICEauthority > - Yesterday, in a moment of brain lo

Re: [techtalk] Bunch of odd messages

2000-03-25 Thread John Montgomery
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Darren wrote: > As of this morning I'm getting a variety of weird messages, and while > I'm guessing they're all related somehow, I'm not sure how or why. I'm > guessing it had something to do with the fact that Gnome didn't quit quite > right last night for some reason. > >

Re: [techtalk] Newbie Solaris/Ultra 5 Question

2000-03-25 Thread Phil Savoie
Hi Jennifer, At the boot prom you should be able to type boot -s This will bring you into single user mode. Through here you should be able to access the hard drive to change files as needed. Phil At 08:31 25/03/2000 -0600, Jennifer L. Zoch wrote: >I'm hoping someone can help me. I just

Re: [techtalk] Bunch of odd messages

2000-03-25 Thread Rik Hemsley
#if Darren Osadchuk > As of this morning I'm getting a variety of weird messages, and while > I'm guessing they're all related somehow, I'm not sure how or why. I'm > guessing it had something to do with the fact that Gnome didn't quit quite > right last night for some reason. > > If I try to sta

[techtalk] Bunch of odd messages

2000-03-25 Thread Darren Osadchuk
As of this morning I'm getting a variety of weird messages, and while I'm guessing they're all related somehow, I'm not sure how or why. I'm guessing it had something to do with the fact that Gnome didn't quit quite right last night for some reason. If I try to start Gnome, after I type 'startx',

Re: [techtalk] Newbie Solaris/Ultra 5 Question

2000-03-25 Thread Dianna Gregory
I don't think that the Ultra 5's come with Solaris pre-installed. At the OK prompt you have to type boot cdrom and then it'll install the OS. If there's no way for you to get the Solaris CD, let me know, I may be able to help. Dianna "Jennifer L. Zoch" wrote: > > I'm hoping someone can help m

[techtalk] Newbie Solaris/Ultra 5 Question

2000-03-25 Thread Jennifer L. Zoch
I'm hoping someone can help me. I just got a new Sun Ultra 5 and now I can't boot it. It goes through the boot process and then the screen goes blank when it gets to the login window. I have no idea how to change this. I am never able to login so I can't change config files. The only option I