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I was doing some web browsing and all of a sudden my hard drive started going nuts (lots of chattering like it was working its tail off). I ran top and saw that msec and msec_find were chewing up a...

I called both my local ISP and the web hosting company that is hosting my web site (2 different companies). I had my email program set up to use my web hosting company as the outgoing email server...

The problem is:
I can't receive email that I send to myself (ie if I include my own email address on the cc line or if I purposely send myself an email to use as a record of some event that I am...

Thanks for the reply. My guess also is that normal email shouldn't have or use anything other than normal text. My concern was that if I had subscribed to a mailing list or made an online purchase,...

I have discovered procmail and am trying to create a few recipes that will kill some of the spam and viruses before it hits my in-box. I have a few recipes that seem to be working fairly well, but...

Well, that was simple enough.

I've never had that happen before................didn't have a clue what was going on.

Using Mandrake 9.0
Opened a terminal and su'd to root.
Did "updatedb" and then "locate".
Did "rm filename then
Tried to exit su and return to normal user mode, but got this message: "There are...

Don't know if this will help, but I had what seemed like an intermittent problems with CD-rom drive opening and ejecting CD's. It worked fine for awhile, then it seemed like it worked most of the...

I was playing around with the "startx -- :1 &" command and noticed that after you start the F8 session or instance, then do w or who, the information that is displayed is the same as if you only had...

Thank you.
Both of the responses to my questions and confusion helped a lot.

Actually, I'm running WindowMaker. How do I find the version of QT that I am running and how do I change the path in the makefile? That's something that I've never had to do before?

EDIT
I...

When I do w I get:
default :0 MAR 7 16:00

When I do who I get:
...up 10 days..... 1 user ........
then
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ .........and some other stuff
default :0

(fyi My...

Tried installing the QT Frontend. Had problems:
1. downloaded qtfprot-0.2.1b.tar.bz2
2. Untarred/decompressed using tar -jxvf qtfprot-0.2.1b.tar.bz2 (I tried using tar -zxvf, but got an error...

How can I determine the number of (user) sessions currently running? I think I have more than one, but am not sure how to find out. This computer is not networked any other computers, but is...

Thanks. I don't have a specific distro in mind yet. I just pulled this old PC out and was wondering what I could do with it. I'll look at a few distros and see if they have floppy boot...

I have an old 486 PC (circa 1992/1993) that I want to use as an experimental PC to learn a little more about the guts of Linux. If I screw something up, no problem, wipe the hard drive clean and...

I am currently running a 486-66mhz PC made by Gateway circa 1992 as a diskless workstation networked to my 1Ghz AMD Athlon PC (acting as server). With this setup my old 486 is running Mandrake...

Yes, I use LILO. I'll try the nodma command the next time I boot, but it's been 3 months since I've turned this PC off, so rebooting isn't something that I would prefer to do.

I have a SCSI card...

I tried changing fs=auto to fs=iso9660. No change. Can't read drive contents from the DVD drive and can't get the drive door open on the CDROM drive.

Also, when I enter the command:
umount...

I'll try changing these and see what happens


When I look at the floppy icon in konqueror when the floppy drive is empty, it has a lock on it. When I put a floppy in the drive, the drive can be...

I have an internal CDRom/RW drive and an internal DVD drive. Both are factory original to my Compaq Presario AMD1Ghz box (several years old). I have 2 problems, probably related. First, I can push...

Is your XP box going into a sleep or hibernation mode? Maybe the PC pwered down your hard drive save energy and it takes time for your XP box to wake up and re-initialize itself into a working...

Try: locate smbd
then locate nmbd

This will tell you where those files are installed. I don't know about RH, but sometimes files get installed in the wrong place (ie RH puts them in one...

another option...............

Have you thought about NOT installing RH on the second PC and using it instead as a client to your existing RH PC (which would become the server). You would boot...

I tried chmod as root. When i did chmod 777 /mnt/jaz, it looked like it took the command, but when I went back and looked at the permissions, they were still 755. I did chmod from within Nautilus...