Re: [techtalk] X/windowmaker

2000-03-24 Thread aprilk
For netscape try looking in /opt as well, some distros I think might put it there too, which would explain why it isn't in the path. To let it be found in the path, 'ln -s /usr/bin/netscape' should work or wherever you prefer it. April Nicole Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I can't *f

[techtalk] Sending pictures from cron

2000-03-24 Thread GeekGrrl
I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to email a webcam snapshot via a crontab entry. I have the entry done and it works, but 'mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] < webcam.jpg' results that account receiving a garbled mess instead of an image. (Yes, I know the mess -is- the image). Is there any way to s

Re: [techtalk] Sending pictures from cron

2000-03-24 Thread Rik Hemsley
#if GeekGrrl > I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to email a webcam snapshot via > a crontab entry. I have the entry done and it works, but 'mail > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < webcam.jpg' results that account receiving a garbled > mess instead of an image. (Yes, I know the mess -is- the image). >

Re: [techtalk] Sending pictures from cron

2000-03-24 Thread Jeramia Ory
> Is there any way to send this as an attachment so it does not get so > garbled? Can pine work in a one-line command without invoking the whole > program? I think you want mpack. It will MIME encode a file and then mail it off. Jeramia ___ tec

Re: [techtalk] X/windowmaker

2000-03-24 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
I know that's what I did on my box at home (link wherever netscape was  to /usr/local/bin/netscape), but I think what happened here is that I  installed all of the base/shared files but didn't install an actual  version of netscape with executables and all that... :o) As far as the font problem g

Re: [techtalk] Sending pictures from cron

2000-03-24 Thread GeekGrrl
After trying uuencode and trying mpack (after digging it up), mpack works better for me. :) Thank you, everyone, for your time and suggestions! On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Jeramia Ory wrote: > > Is there any way to send this as an attachment so it does not get so > > garbled? Can pine work in a one-li

Re: [techtalk] Shell Scripts

2000-03-24 Thread Jeff
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 04:03:13PM -0400, Lisa Dickson wrote: > hmm, RTFM? resist trying funny man? :-) Uh, yeah. ;) > > I'm IT Univ student trying to explore unknown territory--Linux. Time > considerations impinge (reading the manual for example) so I thought I would > try to ascertain a "ge

[techtalk] telnet connections refused randomly?

2000-03-24 Thread Michelle Leonard
I'm trying to work on a clients machines. All are basic RH6.1 gnome workstation installs (ftp and nfs added) I'n telneting into the main machine without any problems. But when I try to get to the second machine, sometimes it allows, sometimes I get the "connection refused" errors. Sometimes I'l

RE: [techtalk] telnet connections refused randomly?

2000-03-24 Thread Michelle Pariset
Hi, I would look at your physical transport layer...cables, nic, hub... Good Luck. Michelle -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michelle Leonard Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [techtalk] telnet connections

Re: [techtalk] Shell Scripts

2000-03-24 Thread Phil Savoie
Hi Lisa, May I recommend an excellent "take you by the hand and walk you down the garden path" book. It is called UNIX Shells by Example by Ellie Quigley. This book does C, bourne, korn, awk, sed, and grep. There are a multitude of "example" snippits with line by line explanation of each

[techtalk] help for a newbie

2000-03-24 Thread mc
Hi all. I have been reading this list for about a month, and finally got the nerve to try to install RedHat 6.1. So far so good, except, I can't get my NIC card to work. It is a Lynksys LNE100tx. I found the tulip module, it seems to be in the right place (per what I have read on the net). I

Re: [techtalk] X/windowmaker

2000-03-24 Thread Steve Howes
Nicole Zimmerman wrote: [SNIP] > I installed both xfs and xfstt. In /etc/X11/xfs/config, I changed ^^^ > default-point-size to = 75 (it was something like 120 before) and my > default-resolutions to 60,60,75,75 (they were 75,75,100,100), but n

Re: [techtalk] X/windowmaker

2000-03-24 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
> If this is similar to my /etc/X11/fs/config then what order are your > font directories listed? Is the 100dpi directory listed before the > 75dpi directory ? If so try swapping them around. I'll try that, thanks :o) On my home machine (where the fonts are smaller) it's that way (100dpi before