Re: [newbie-it] net-card
Ciao, do per scontato che tu sia arcisicuro del tipo di scheda installata... Ho avuto problemi analoghi ai tuoi con la release 5.3 di Mandrake e con la scheda PCI AMD PCNET v3.11, montata sui Kayak XA6/400 di HP. Sebbene autoprobe in fase di installazione sembrasse funzionare, il kernel non vedeva correttamente la scheda, con i sintomi da te descritti. Ho provato selezionando manualmente il driver della scheda (era presente nel menu` di installazione), settando dei parametri per il kernel... niente! Il problema e` che il quella distribuzione ci sono dei bachi su alcuni driver, evidentemente alcuni dei quali non risolti nemmeno con la 6. Secondo me hai due sole possibilita`: 1) navigare sul sito Mandrake per vedere se abbiano rilasciato una nuova versione del driver per la tua scheda; 2) cambiare distribuzione. Io ho scelto la 2), passando alla 6 di redhat e non ho piu avuto problemi.. Ciao, Giovanni On Sun, 25 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao lista!Vengo al sodo:il Kernel è compilato con tutti i crismi ma non riesco a far partire la scheda di rete ho provato a disabilitare il pnp con i jumper,aggiungere i parametri del modulo in /etc/conf.modules,pure un "append" in /etc/lilo.conf ho provato con pnpprobe e poi ativare la configurazione (ACT Y)in /etc/isapnp.conf ma nulla al boot dice: bringing up lo bringing up eth0 delayn interface eth0(o qualcosa del genere) [FAILED] naturalmente quella carogna di win9x la configurata subito e anche SCOUNIXWARE7.1 ho provato con le seguenti schede: 3com C503 ICL ETHERTEAM 16i LEVEL ONE ENC-0100TB(chip REALTEK dovrebbe andare bene sia rtl8139 che rtl 8010) sono disperato tralaltro ifconfig dice le cose giuste tranne che i parametri sono a 0 come se la scheda non funzionasse. Ciao Cello
[newbie] General configuration, tool comparison questions
What is the best way to learn system configuration and administration skills for a home-based Linux system, without feeling like I am on a treasure hunt through the Linux Documentation Project files? I'm somewhat experienced with Unix, but not experienced with system administration and not experienced with Linux. I'm in the process of configuring Mandrake 6.0. I have used the Configuration HOWTO, and found that it had a lot of excellent information. However, I am impatient with brief, introductory information. I want more technical material. Why do I configure it this way? What other options are available? Does anyone have recommendations (books, online documents, URL's, other maillists, etc.)??? ALSO-- we have a number of choices available when selecting basic tools in Linux. Is there a good source for comparing such tools for feature-set, ease of configuration and use, etc. ??? I'd be happy to spend some money for the right books-- I already have Linux for Dummies, and Linux in a Nutshell. Unfortunately they are more introductory than in-depth. Other recommendations welcome. I've checked out book reviews at fatbrain.com, but most of the titles that are recent publication-date and sound good aren't available yet. best wishes, richard myers
Re: [newbie] Re:HTML mail to this list?
Art Rowe wrote: > I have used Outlook Express and like it very much, What is Outlook Express? but I am running Mandrake Linux only at the moment. I am not sure about KFM browser, but Linux Netscape Mail does HTML fine. Yes it does. I like to have HTML turned on because some of my mail lists come that way and look much better. True, But you can post in text and read text or html like I almost always do. Because if you post in text more people can read your E-mail and the person that can help you might only read his e-mail from pine. I have a rather basic system Pentium 133 and a 1.6 hard drive. I'm sorry I would think people with at least that much computing power could reasd html if they want to. Alot of people don't have fast pentium systems or bandwidth to burn. If they don't want to, perhaps they czn just skip those messages. I agree with you. And would like to add that I wish Mandrake digest came in html. Art > HTML is bulkier as a lot of formatting tags and other extranious > non-information bearing garbage. What's wrong with a plain text message. > > Also, not everyone is equipped to handle html, I'm pretty sure Pine doesn't. > Mike Bulmer PS. I will post this in HTML jus cuz!
Re: [newbie] Re:HTML mail to this list?
HI Mike, Thanks for your observations. I have set up Netscape for sending text only. I'll try that for awhile. It doesn't look as nice on my screen while I am writing it. Art -- Mike Bulmer wrote: Art Rowe wrote: . I like to have HTML turned on because some of my mail lists come that way and look much better. . True, But you can post in text and read text or html like I almost always do. Because if you post in text more people can read your E-mail and the person that can help you might only read his e-mail from pine.
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote: I was about to make that statement earlier, but I then thought it wasn't tre since everything that has been said indicated that hard links point to a single file and when all hard links die the file does as well (and that kinda invalidated what I thought). It's a good thing this isn't the case! It's waaay too complicated and unwieldly. Imagine making a hard link and changing your mind about it... if this was true, I couldn't delete it! The truth is much better. Yeah, that is a good idea about deletion protection. If I want to make sure that some data cannot be deleted, I can keep a hard link. I think that you misunderstand. A hard link is the way that you access a file. BUT, there is only one file. Suppose that we have a file named... well, lets create a file: $ echo put this in a file hardlink_1 $ We have created a file the "quick" way, and we gave it the name hardlink_1. And then we "cat" the file, which shows what is in the file. $ cat hardlink_1 put this in a file $ Hardlink_1 is a text file which has the contents, "put this in a file". OK, lets say it a different way. The echo command sends (we say it re-directs) "put this in a file" into the contents of a file named hardlink_1. The "" character is the nifty command that does this redirection. Lets look at the long display of this file: $ ls -l total 2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 rtm 465 19 Jul 27 02:09 hardlink_1 $ OK, notice that it has a file size of 19 (just before the date). Count the characters in the "string" of characters: 123456789012345678 put this in a file 18. One extra byte to store this string gives us the 19. Now we will add another hard link: $ ln hardlink_1 hardlink_2 $ ...and if we look at our directory again: $ ls -l total 4 -rw-rw-r-- 2 rtm 465 19 Jul 27 02:09 hardlink_1 -rw-rw-r-- 2 rtm 465 19 Jul 27 02:09 hardlink_2 $ Both filenames point to the same file. We can display the contents of both files: $ cat * put this in a file put this in a file $ Well, actually, we displayed the contents of ONE file twice. Once using each filename. The * is a wildcard that matches all filenames in the directory. OK, now for the test. We are going to redirect "nothing" to the first hardlink. $ hardlink_1 $ We have replaced the contents of hardlink_1 with "nothing". Since there is nothing in front of the "", nothing is put into the file, replacing whatever had been there. Notice that we don't even need the echo command to do this. And, ls -l tells the story: $ ls -l total 0 -rw-rw-r-- 2 rtm 4650 Jul 27 02:22 hardlink_1 -rw-rw-r-- 2 rtm 4650 Jul 27 02:22 hardlink_2 $ For further proof, try to cat the contents of the two files (or more accurately, the contents of our ONE file twice): $ cat * $ Nothing there. Soo, a second hard link doesn't "protect" the contents of a file. It only offers another way to access the contents of a file. If we use either hard link to change that file, then the contents are changed. Period. Now, lets create a soft link and put something back into the file: $ ln -s hardlink_1 softlink_1 $ The -s "switch" to the link command ln makes this a symbolic, or "soft" link, instead of a hard link. $ ls -l total 2 -rw-rw-r-- 2 rtm465 0 Jul 27 02:22 hardlink_1 -rw-rw-r-- 2 rtm465 0 Jul 27 02:22
[newbie] fetchmail and sender name resolving
Hi, I'm trying to collect my mail using fetchmail. It's accessing my POP boxes without problem but once it's downloaded always seems to say "sender domain must resolve" and flushes each message. How can I stop this happening? Also, does fetchmail pass e-mail to sendmail for delivery? I want to control which mail addresses go to which users. Finally, what's the best way to send e-mail to one address to one mail client and to another address to a different package? I'd like to set [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go to the same user but need to be able to respond with the correct address, and would like to filter lists@ mail into mailboxes but don't mind about james@ mail. Thanks. James. -- James Stewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Telecom ignored us and The Britlinks - http://www.britlinks.co.uk | democracy has died." Phantom Tollbooth - http://www.tollbooth.org | -- Fat And Frantic Sixpence None The Richer in the UK - http://www.britlinks.co.uk/sixpence/
Re: [newbie] Redhat 6 and Soundblaster Live
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, chagilt wrote: Hey I would just like to thank all of you for your help with the soundblaster live...with your advice i had it up and running in under 30 minutes...thanks a lot all!!! Chad Guilette Hi Chad, Just wandering, How does it it sound under Linux? I have been thinking of getting an SB Live but was not sure if it would be worth the investment. What is your esessment of it's sound under Linux? Thanks in advance, John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] shuting down by ord. user..
I want to give a special acces to a user in my linux box to shutdown it, how will i do it? I'm using MDK 6.0 (Venus) Thanks
Re: [newbie] Problems with X and Mandrake screen
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Mark E Hood wrote: Yes. Count me as also having had this problem. I, too, would love to know how to fix it. Seems to be a problem. mark - Original Message - From: David Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 6:55 PM Subject: [newbie] Problems with X and Mandrake screen I've installed Mandrake 6.0 successfully on my Cyrix166 machine, and I've been running kde (though I've had the choice of gnome, etc.). However, after 3/4 days, kde begins to lock-up, causing me to have to reset the machine. After this reset, the Mandrake X screen is replaced by the kde screen (in which I can choose only kde and failsafe, and there is no 'shutdown' option on the screen. I too had problems with KDE though it never got so bad I had to reset thereby causing disk corruption. In the future, when KDE or anyother X app on any desktop causes a lock up, try to get out of it by using the kill command. If X locks up, try this, In example: Use Ctrl + Alt + F2 (you will see a new tty come up with the standard login prompt) Login as root and then type in the root password At the prompt, type: ps ax you will get a screen full of information of all the running processes, on the far left are numbers (like 552, 553 and so on) these are the PID's (process Identification Number, I believe.) anyway, the last two should be your new login, usually bash (or whatever shell you normally use) and the, ps ax command you just entered. Usually the one right above them is the process that is the culprit. Write down the PID of that process. Then at the prompt type the following: kill PID # ie: kill 556 That will kill that process and hopefully free up X. Now use Ctr + Alt +F7 to return to your Xsession and see if it worked. It always has seemed to work for me. (I think I had to do this three times.) As a last resort, if the X session just won't free up, use Ctrl + Alt + backspace to kill the Xsession and return to a prompt ( at that time a reboot might be a good idea as the system might have been rendered unstable) so use shutdown -r now ( shutdown -h now - to shut it down) never ever turn off Linux when running if you can ever avoid it. Also, if you (like Me) do not want to use KDE and hate to have to change the default on the Xwindow login all the time. Use a text editor (any will do) and create a file called "desktop" (without the quotes of course) and place it in the /etc/sysconfig dirrectory. It should contain one line, which should be the desktop environment you want to use, such as the following. GNOME or KDE or AnotherLevel Just the one line in the same case as above. Xinit will look here first, if this file exists it will use this setting to start X, you will still get a prompt for Login and password but it might be a different format depending on your choice of dektop environment. As to getting back to normal now, I wish I knew more, I am a newbie too, if you get no better sugestions you might try to re-install using the upgrade option. You will still keep any new stuff you put in, but KDE and gnome will start from scratch with the default settings. So you will loose any customizations to your desktop you applied. Perhaps someone else can offer a better solution? John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Richard Myers wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote: I was about to make that statement earlier, but I then thought it wasn't tre since everything that has been said indicated that hard links point to a single file and when all hard links die the file does as well (and that kinda invalidated what I thought). It's a good thing this isn't the case! It's waaay too complicated and unwieldly. Imagine making a hard link and changing your mind about it... if this was true, I couldn't delete it! The truth is much better. Yeah, that is a good idea about deletion protection. If I want to make sure that some data cannot be deleted, I can keep a hard link. I think that you misunderstand. A hard link is the way that you access a file. BUT, there is only one file. Suppose that we have a file named... well, lets create a file: $ echo put this in a file hardlink_1 $ We have created a file the "quick" way, and we gave it the name hardlink_1. And then we "cat" the file, which shows what is in the file. $ cat hardlink_1 put this in a file $ Hardlink_1 is a text file which has the contents, "put this in a file". OK, lets say it a different way. The echo command sends (we say it re-directs) "put this in a file" into the contents of a file named hardlink_1. The "" character is the nifty command that does this redirection. Lets look at the long display of this file: $ ls -l total 2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 rtm 465 19 Jul 27 02:09 hardlink_1 $ OK, notice that it has a file size of 19 (just before the date). Count the characters in the "string" of characters: 123456789012345678 put this in a file 18. One extra byte to store this string gives us the 19. Now we will add another hard link: $ ln hardlink_1 hardlink_2 $ ...and if we look at our directory again: $ ls -l total 4 -rw-rw-r-- 2 rtm 465 19 Jul 27 02:09 hardlink_1 -rw-rw-r-- 2 rtm 465 19 Jul 27 02:09 hardlink_2 $ Both filenames point to the same file. We can display the contents of both files: $ cat * put this in a file put this in a file $ Well, actually, we displayed the contents of ONE file twice. Once using each filename. The * is a wildcard that matches all filenames in the directory. OK, now for the test. We are going to redirect "nothing" to the first hardlink. $ hardlink_1 $ We have replaced the contents of hardlink_1 with "nothing". Since there is nothing in front of the "", nothing is put into the file, replacing whatever had been there. Notice that we don't even need the echo command to do this. And, ls -l tells the story: $ ls -l total 0 -rw-rw-r-- 2 rtm 4650 Jul 27 02:22 hardlink_1 -rw-rw-r-- 2 rtm 4650 Jul 27 02:22 hardlink_2 $ For further proof, try to cat the contents of the two files (or more accurately, the contents of our ONE file twice): $ cat * $ Nothing there. Soo, a second hard link doesn't "protect" the contents of a file. It only offers another way to access the contents of a file. If we use either hard link to change that file, then the contents are changed. Period. Now, lets create a soft link and put something back into the file: $ ln -s hardlink_1 softlink_1 $ The -s "switch" to the link command ln makes this a symbolic, or "soft" link, instead of a hard link. $ ls -l total 2
Re: [newbie] Install Problem!
I am new to Linux but I have tried the latest versions of Redhat, Caldera and StormLInux (Beta). It has been the easiest to install. The recognition of the mouse and video have been hangup points, but Mandrake has had the flexibility to allow me to deal with these. Keep trying. I like it enough to abandon Win98 for the time being. Art Ron Smith wrote: and it dies there! What is going on? I'm SO frustrated that I'm about ready to put Windows 98 on the computer and pitch Mandrake out the window. Any help VERY MUCH appreciated. Thanks... Ron Smith Boise, Idaho
Re: [newbie] Problems with X and Mandrake screen
Yes I have had the same problem . I can't tell you how to get the GUI choices back , but as for shutdown :Logon as Root , go to K / Settings /Applications / Login Manager,On the Sessions tab under Allow to shutdown , select ALL, Make sure you apply the change . This should solve that problem , I also would like to know how to get the other GUI choices back . - Original Message - From: David Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 6:55 PM Subject: [newbie] Problems with X and Mandrake screen I've installed Mandrake 6.0 successfully on my Cyrix166 machine, and I've been running kde (though I've had the choice of gnome, etc.). However, after 3/4 days, kde begins to lock-up, causing me to have to reset the machine. After this reset, the Mandrake X screen is replaced by the kde screen (in which I can choose only kde and failsafe, and there is no 'shutdown' option on the screen. [I have not installed any software other than the rpm's on the CD. I have a 2gig HD, a Cirrus Logic 5654 video card, and a parellel Zip drive that I can't get detected.] Has anyone else had this problem?
Re: [newbie] Redhat 6 and Soundblaster Live
I know i'm not the person you directed your mail to, but i'm going to reply anyway !! I thought the sound of the SBLive was pretty crappy under linux with the first two versions of the driver, but with the advent of the new version, things seem to sound considerably better now (or is that just my perception ?). I must say though that what sets the SBLive apart from some of the other higher end cards in creative's range - the Awe64 even if we go a way back - is meant to be the stuff live environmental audio, creatives sound fonts, etc. etc. AFAIK, none of this is yet available under linux, and therefore if you solely run linux, at the moment you would probably be wasting your money. If like me you want blindingly good sound when you're watching DVDs, playing games or whatever you do under Windows, and want as a bonus for your linux install to sound good too, then go ahead and get one, it's well worth the money !! Martin. - Original Message - From: darkknight [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 10:28 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Redhat 6 and Soundblaster Live On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, chagilt wrote: Hey I would just like to thank all of you for your help with the soundblaster live...with your advice i had it up and running in under 30 minutes...thanks a lot all!!! Chad Guilette Hi Chad, Just wandering, How does it it sound under Linux? I have been thinking of getting an SB Live but was not sure if it would be worth the investment. What is your esessment of it's sound under Linux? Thanks in advance, John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Problem with PPP connection
I am new to Linux, but mine did the same thing. Mine did not have a file called resolv.conf in the /etc folder. The resolv.conf has the domain name and nameserver info for your ISP. When i added that file it worked fine. Mine was like this domain nashville.com nameserver 207.65.180.114 nameserver 207.65.180.115 Hope this helps... Ray - Original Message - From: Thomas J. Hamman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 12:36 AM Subject: [newbie] Problem with PPP connection I'm trying to help someone else get Mandrake to work, and she is having a problem with her PPP connection. Basically, her modem seems to work fine, and apparently she can connect fine to her ISP without any trouble. However, she cannot connect to anything else (or at least not receive any transmitted data from anything else). For example if she tries to retrieve a webpage with Netscape, she gets to the 'contacted host, waiting for reply' (or something like that) message and then gets nothing else. Results are similar with other programs (like telnet). Does anyone know what would cause this, and how to fix it? Note: During the install LILO failed to install in her MBR, and the boot disk creation failed also, so I have her using loadlin to boot Linux... but otherwise her installation seems fine. -Tom
[newbie] Apache
Can anybody point me towards a good explanation of how to use .htaccess files in apache? Thanks! Jason
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
Congrats for this wonderful explanation of hard/symlinks. Patrick On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, you wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Richard Myers wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote: I was about to make that statement earlier, but I then thought it wasn't tre since everything that has been said indicated that hard links point to a single file and when all hard links die the file does as well (and that kinda invalidated what I thought). It's a good thing this isn't the case! It's waaay too complicated and unwieldly. Imagine making a hard link and changing your mind about it... if this was true, I couldn't delete it! The truth is much better. Yeah, that is a good idea about deletion protection. If I want to make sure that some data cannot be deleted, I can keep a hard link. I think that you misunderstand. A hard link is the way that you access a file. BUT, there is only one file. Suppose that we have a file named... well, lets create a file: $ echo put this in a file hardlink_1 $ We have created a file the "quick" way, and we gave it the name hardlink_1. And then we "cat" the file, which shows what is in the file. $ cat hardlink_1 put this in a file $ Hardlink_1 is a text file which has the contents, "put this in a file". OK, lets say it a different way. The echo command sends (we say it re-directs) "put this in a file" into the contents of a file named hardlink_1. The "" character is the nifty command that does this redirection. Lets look at the long display of this file: $ ls -l total 2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 rtm 465 19 Jul 27 02:09 hardlink_1 $ OK, notice that it has a file size of 19 (just before the date). Count the characters in the "string" of characters: 123456789012345678 put this in a file 18. One extra byte to store this string gives us the 19. Now we will add another hard link: $ ln hardlink_1 hardlink_2 $ ...and if we look at our directory again: $ ls -l total 4 -rw-rw-r-- 2 rtm 465 19 Jul 27 02:09 hardlink_1 -rw-rw-r-- 2 rtm 465 19 Jul 27 02:09 hardlink_2 $ Both filenames point to the same file. We can display the contents of both files: $ cat * put this in a file put this in a file $ Well, actually, we displayed the contents of ONE file twice. Once using each filename. The * is a wildcard that matches all filenames in the directory. OK, now for the test. We are going to redirect "nothing" to the first hardlink. $ hardlink_1 $ We have replaced the contents of hardlink_1 with "nothing". Since there is nothing in front of the "", nothing is put into the file, replacing whatever had been there. Notice that we don't even need the echo command to do this. And, ls -l tells the story: $ ls -l total 0 -rw-rw-r-- 2 rtm 4650 Jul 27 02:22 hardlink_1 -rw-rw-r-- 2 rtm 4650 Jul 27 02:22 hardlink_2 $ For further proof, try to cat the contents of the two files (or more accurately, the contents of our ONE file twice): $ cat * $ Nothing there. Soo, a second hard link doesn't "protect" the contents of a file. It only offers another way to access the contents of a file. If we use either hard link to change that file, then the contents are changed. Period. Now, lets create a soft link and put something back into the file: $ ln -s hardlink_1 softlink_1 $ The -s
Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..
/etc/shutdown.allow is a file that contains the names of users aloowed to shutdown the system. It may not be present on your system yet; you'll have to create it. Also check /etc/inittab to see if Ctrl-Alt-Del is being caught. If so, anybody (not just those in shutdown.allow) may shutdown the system via the "three finger salute." What you might do is change the Ctrl-Alt-Del command to "logout" or something else that's harmless. -Matt On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Bobby Raagas wrote: I want to give a special acces to a user in my linux box to shutdown it, how will i do it? I'm using MDK 6.0 (Venus) Thanks
RE: [newbie] icq
I am not sure what advanced functions you may use in ICQ, but for me LICQ does fine. It has a few features that ICQ does not. You can spoof messages with it (not that I would) and it always shows the other parties IP even when they do not allow it. You can D/L skins for it and make it look however you desire. It works for me ! Rich -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Manny Styles Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 3:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] icq - Original Message - From: Mike Julien [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 12:00 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] icq there is no need for wine to do that.. go to ftp://ftp.freshmeat.net go to the RPM section and take your pick of icq clones or anything else that is of interest Yants wrote: Is it possible to run ICQ on Linux using WINE? If so, how..? A good idea, but from what I have heard, none of the clones yet have the full functionality of Windows ICQ ... not to mention that you need to have a UIN before you can use any of the linux ICQ clones. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You have to watch out for yourself, because nobody else is going to. Especially during dodgeball. NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..
Can you control what Ctrl-Alt-Del does by user? (i.e.: Let root reboot the system that way, but have it just log everyone else out?) - Theo Matt Stegman wrote: /etc/shutdown.allow is a file that contains the names of users aloowed to shutdown the system. It may not be present on your system yet; you'll have to create it. Also check /etc/inittab to see if Ctrl-Alt-Del is being caught. If so, anybody (not just those in shutdown.allow) may shutdown the system via the "three finger salute." What you might do is change the Ctrl-Alt-Del command to "logout" or something else that's harmless. -Matt On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Bobby Raagas wrote: I want to give a special acces to a user in my linux box to shutdown it, how will i do it? I'm using MDK 6.0 (Venus) Thanks
[newbie] Fights..
I am sorry, I know how bad it is to send jokes to a list, but I think this one applies here very well.. -hevnsnt Q: How many Internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a light bulb? A: 1,331: 1 to change the light bulb and to post to the mail list that the light bulb has been changed. 14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently. 7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs. 27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs. 53 to flame the spell checkers. 156 to write to the list administrator complaining about the light bulb discussion and its inappropriateness to this mail list. 41 to correct spelling in the spelling/grammar flames. 109 to post that this list is not about light bulbs and to please take this email exchange to alt.lite.bulb 203 to demand that cross posting to alt.grammar, alt.spelling and alt.punctuation about changing light bulbs be stopped. 111 to defend the posting to this list saying that we are all use light bulbs and therefore the posts **are** relevant to this mail list. 306 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique, and what brands are faulty. 27 to post URLs where one can see examples of different light bulbs 14 to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly, and to post corrected URLs. 3 to post about links they found from the URLs that are relevant to this list which makes light bulbs relevant to this list. 33 to concatenate all posts to date, then quote them including all headers and footers, and then add "Me Too." 12 to post to the list that they are unsubscribing because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy. 19 to quote the "Me Too's" to say, "Me Three." 4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ. 1 to propose new alt.change.lite.bulb newsgroup. 47 to say this is just what alt.physic.cold_fusion was meant for, leave it here. 143 votes for alt.lite.bulb.
Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..
Matt Stegman wrote: /etc/shutdown.allow is a file that contains the names of users aloowed to shutdown the system. It may not be present on your system yet; you'll have to create it. Also check /etc/inittab to see if Ctrl-Alt-Del is being caught. If so, anybody (not just those in shutdown.allow) may shutdown the system via the "three finger salute." What you might do is change the Ctrl-Alt-Del command to "logout" or something else that's harmless. -Matt are these specific to certain versions of linux, or are these facilities present on all versions? k On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Bobby Raagas wrote: I want to give a special acces to a user in my linux box to shutdown it, how will i do it? I'm using MDK 6.0 (Venus) Thanks -- --- Kelly Dorset HTML programmer for Insight UK http://www.insight.com/uk --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: [newbie] Problem with PPP connection
On 27-Jul-99 Ray Anderson wrote: I am new to Linux, but mine did the same thing. Mine did not have a file called resolv.conf in the /etc folder. The resolv.conf has the domain name and nameserver info for your ISP. When i added that file it worked fine. Mine was like this domain nashville.com nameserver 207.65.180.114 nameserver 207.65.180.115 Hope this helps... Ray Thanks... we did give her a resolv.conf with DNS servers though; one thing I forgot to mention is that we know she can resolve IP addresses because doing an nslookup works fine for her. I'll check and make sure she has the 'domain' line just in case though.. - Original Message - From: Thomas J. Hamman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 12:36 AM Subject: [newbie] Problem with PPP connection I'm trying to help someone else get Mandrake to work, and she is having a problem with her PPP connection. Basically, her modem seems to work fine, and apparently she can connect fine to her ISP without any trouble. However, she cannot connect to anything else (or at least not receive any transmitted data from anything else). For example if she tries to retrieve a webpage with Netscape, she gets to the 'contacted host, waiting for reply' (or something like that) message and then gets nothing else. Results are similar with other programs (like telnet). Does anyone know what would cause this, and how to fix it? Note: During the install LILO failed to install in her MBR, and the boot disk creation failed also, so I have her using loadlin to boot Linux... but otherwise her installation seems fine. -Tom
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Richard Myers wrote: Neat stuff, huh? This is Unix. best wishes, richard myers On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, darkknight wrote: : ) Ever thought about teaching? We, I taught an online college-level Intro to Unix course for several years. Gave it up because (1) the college didn't support it well enough, and (2) I make ten times as much money working for Lucent Technologies. I always had trouble grasping the diferrence between hard links and soft (symbolic) links, untill now. And I was'nt even the poster of the message. cool , thanks alot, you really have patients and should consider teaching as a career. Great stuff indeed, Unix has always facinated me but I thought it too hard for me to grasp. More lessons like that and there might be hope for me yet. I shure am glad I make it a habbit to at least skim through each and every post. Thanks alot, John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmmm. Glad it helped. Maybe we should do some quickie Unix-command-line intro lessons online. QUESTION: should it be on this list, or would it be better to start a new, separate maillist? Or should we just try a few easy lessons, and see how it goes, with the option to move elsewhere later? What say, everyone? best wishes, richard myers
[newbie] Toshiba Satellite 2065 and Sound
I have a Satellite 2065, in checking around regarding Toshiba and Linux and in Toshiba Europe's main "unsupported but we have to mention it because we know that we eventually will" page, I might be out of luck on the sound card and the modem for now as they list. I did find something on a listserv I'm going to try for the modem regarding "statserial" which I'll try. Regarding the sound card there is something weird. It's an ESS that I've not seen before. While standard examples of ESS for laptops (I've had them since 1996 in an AST in a TI Travelmate what a piece of junk that laptop was)include the 688, 1688 and 1888 this one is odd. It has an "ESS Device Manager" at Interrupt Request 11 and a "Maestro DOS Games/FM Devices" at Interrupt Request 05. Strange? They are usually easy, tried and true sound cards. In doing sndconfig it can't find it via PnP nor can it be manually set. There is are two "DEVICE BUSY" type message that flash across the screen briefly at boot up dealing with the above. Since it is Linux-Mandrake 6.0, it goes right into one of the window managers that comes with it. I've been hunting for some sort of boot log in /etc and in /boot to no avail. How do I turn up the error log level boot up messaging file and where is that file located? I apologize for being such a novice.
Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Kelly Dorset wrote: Matt Stegman wrote: /etc/shutdown.allow is a file that contains the names of users aloowed to shutdown the system. It may not be present on your system yet; you'll have to create it. Also check /etc/inittab to see if Ctrl-Alt-Del is being caught. If so, anybody (not just those in shutdown.allow) may shutdown the system via the "three finger salute." What you might do is change the Ctrl-Alt-Del command to "logout" or something else that's harmless. -Matt are these specific to certain versions of linux, or are these facilities present on all versions? k Should be pretty standard. On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Bobby Raagas wrote: I want to give a special acces to a user in my linux box to shutdown it, how will i do it? I'm using MDK 6.0 (Venus) Thanks -- --- Kelly Dorset HTML programmer for Insight UK http://www.insight.com/uk --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
RE: [newbie] Oh, yeah
I'm game for a few online "quickies" Regards, Joseph Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Company -Original Message- From: Richard Myers [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 11:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Richard Myers wrote: Neat stuff, huh? This is Unix. best wishes, richard myers On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, darkknight wrote: : ) Ever thought about teaching? We, I taught an online college-level Intro to Unix course for several years. Gave it up because (1) the college didn't support it well enough, and (2) I make ten times as much money working for Lucent Technologies. I always had trouble grasping the diferrence between hard links and soft (symbolic) links, untill now. And I was'nt even the poster of the message. cool , thanks alot, you really have patients and should consider teaching as a career. Great stuff indeed, Unix has always facinated me but I thought it too hard for me to grasp. More lessons like that and there might be hope for me yet. I shure am glad I make it a habbit to at least skim through each and every post. Thanks alot, John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmmm. Glad it helped. Maybe we should do some quickie Unix-command-line intro lessons online. QUESTION: should it be on this list, or would it be better to start a new, separate maillist? Or should we just try a few easy lessons, and see how it goes, with the option to move elsewhere later? What say, everyone? best wishes, richard myers application/ms-tnef
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, you wrote: Hmmm. Glad it helped. Maybe we should do some quickie Unix-command-line intro lessons online. QUESTION: should it be on this list, or would it be better to start a new, separate maillist? Or should we just try a few easy lessons, and see how it goes, with the option to move elsewhere later? I'd vote for start here and move elsewhere as needed. :-) Just my 2 cents' worth.
[newbie] Unix lessons; was:[ Oh, yeah]
Hmmm. Glad it helped. Maybe we should do some quickie Unix-command-line intro lessons online. QUESTION: should it be on this list, or would it be better to start a new, separate maillist? Or should we just try a few easy lessons, and see how it goes, with the option to move elsewhere later? What say, everyone? best wishes, richard myers Oh, please do. I feel like I'm in remedial school anyway. Damn, there should have been basic *nix classes required for every major at my Univ. They just told us how to do the bare minimum in the computer lab. I guess they didn't want us to be dangerous. Brian
Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..
On Tue 27 Jul, Matt Stegman wrote: /etc/shutdown.allow is a file that contains the names of users aloowed to shutdown the system. It may not be present on your system yet; you'll have to create it. My shutdown.allow file is: "james jim root" but only root can issue the shutdown command. When I try it as either other user I get the error "bash: shutdown: command not found" Also check /etc/inittab to see if Ctrl-Alt-Del is being caught. If so, anybody (not just those in shutdown.allow) may shutdown the system via the "three finger salute." What you might do is change the Ctrl-Alt-Del command to "logout" or something else that's harmless. My inittab file contains the line "ca::ctrlaltdel:logout" but pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del does nothing. I'm running Mandrake 6.0 on a Toshiba 480cdt laptop. James. -- James Stewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Telecom ignored us and The Britlinks - http://www.britlinks.co.uk | democracy has died." Phantom Tollbooth - http://www.tollbooth.org | -- Fat And Frantic Sixpence None The Richer in the UK - http://www.britlinks.co.uk/sixpence/
Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..
/etc/inittab allows commands to be differed by runlevel (i.e. do this in runlevel 3, do that in runlevel 5) but not by user. What you can do instead, however, is add the -a option to the shutdown command in /etc/inittab: In inittab, change the line that says ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now to say ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -a -t3 -r now are these specific to certain versions of linux, or are these facilities present on all versions? Well, I suppose if you have a really, really, really old version of init, it might not have had the Ctrl-Alt-Del catch implemented yet, but If you're using Mandrake, Debian, RH, SLackware, whatever, it will work just the same. As to shutdown, well, every distribution had damn well better include it- you can't safely shut down the machine without it! -Matt P.S. Is "differed" really a word? On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Theo Brinkman wrote: Can you control what Ctrl-Alt-Del does by user? (i.e.: Let root reboot the system that way, but have it just log everyone else out?) - Theo Matt Stegman wrote: /etc/shutdown.allow is a file that contains the names of users aloowed to shutdown the system. It may not be present on your system yet; you'll have to create it. Also check /etc/inittab to see if Ctrl-Alt-Del is being caught. If so, anybody (not just those in shutdown.allow) may shutdown the system via the "three finger salute." What you might do is change the Ctrl-Alt-Del command to "logout" or something else that's harmless. -Matt On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Bobby Raagas wrote: I want to give a special acces to a user in my linux box to shutdown it, how will i do it? I'm using MDK 6.0 (Venus) Thanks
Re: [newbie] Toshiba Satellite 2065 and Sound
-Original Message-
From: David Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a Satellite 2065, in checking around regarding Toshiba and Linux
and
in Toshiba Europe's main "unsupported but we have to mention it because we
know that we eventually will" page, I might be out of luck on the sound
card
and the modem for now as they list.
I did find something on a listserv I'm going to try for the modem
regarding
"statserial" which I'll try.
Regarding the sound card there is something weird. It's an ESS that I've
not seen before. While standard examples of ESS for laptops (I've had
them
since 1996 in an AST in a TI Travelmate what a piece of junk that laptop
was)include the 688, 1688 and 1888 this one is odd. It has an "ESS
Device
Manager" at Interrupt Request 11 and a "Maestro DOS Games/FM Devices" at
Interrupt Request 05. Strange? They are usually easy, tried and true
sound
cards. In doing sndconfig it can't find it via PnP nor can it be
manually
set.
Could it be a WinSound card? ;-) Looks like it's using some sort of
software control for the device. Look in your BIOS setup to see if you can
change options on this device. Since it is probably impossible to change
out the sound card (chips), the device may be hard set in the BIOS. At
the least, Toshiba or ESS may answer emailed questions about the device.
Ask them what cards the sound card/module/chips are supposed to be
equivalent to. How did you get the info ("ESS Device Manager" at Interrupt
Request 11 and a "Maestro DOS Games/FM Devices" at Interrupt Request 05)?
was this from Windows95/3.1?
There is are two "DEVICE BUSY" type message that flash across the screen
briefly at boot up dealing with the above. Since it is Linux-Mandrake
6.0,
it goes right into one of the window managers that comes with it. I've
been
hunting for some sort of boot log in /etc and in /boot to no avail. How
do
I turn up the error log level boot up messaging file and where is that
file
located?
I apologize for being such a novice.
Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..
P.S. Is "differed" really a word? It is, but the word you needed was deferred.
RE: [newbie] Toshiba Satellite 2065 and Sound
Thanks Ripcrd6. I'll look in the bios and on the ESS site (Toshiba wouldn't
help). As far as the info, I got it from Windows 98, settings, control
panel, system. It looks like a combo sound, games and midi controller or
something. Thanks Again! David Klein.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ripcrd6
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 1:54 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Toshiba Satellite 2065 and Sound
-Original Message-
From: David Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a Satellite 2065, in checking around regarding Toshiba and Linux
and
in Toshiba Europe's main "unsupported but we have to mention it because we
know that we eventually will" page, I might be out of luck on the sound
card
and the modem for now as they list.
I did find something on a listserv I'm going to try for the modem
regarding
"statserial" which I'll try.
Regarding the sound card there is something weird. It's an ESS that I've
not seen before. While standard examples of ESS for laptops (I've had
them
since 1996 in an AST in a TI Travelmate what a piece of junk that laptop
was)include the 688, 1688 and 1888 this one is odd. It has an "ESS
Device
Manager" at Interrupt Request 11 and a "Maestro DOS Games/FM Devices" at
Interrupt Request 05. Strange? They are usually easy, tried and true
sound
cards. In doing sndconfig it can't find it via PnP nor can it be
manually
set.
Could it be a WinSound card? ;-) Looks like it's using some sort of
software control for the device. Look in your BIOS setup to see if you can
change options on this device. Since it is probably impossible to change
out the sound card (chips), the device may be hard set in the BIOS. At
the least, Toshiba or ESS may answer emailed questions about the device.
Ask them what cards the sound card/module/chips are supposed to be
equivalent to. How did you get the info ("ESS Device Manager" at Interrupt
Request 11 and a "Maestro DOS Games/FM Devices" at Interrupt Request 05)?
was this from Windows95/3.1?
There is are two "DEVICE BUSY" type message that flash across the screen
briefly at boot up dealing with the above. Since it is Linux-Mandrake
6.0,
it goes right into one of the window managers that comes with it. I've
been
hunting for some sort of boot log in /etc and in /boot to no avail. How
do
I turn up the error log level boot up messaging file and where is that
file
located?
I apologize for being such a novice.
[newbie] 2 questions
1) How do I put an fstab entry sot that I can mount my old floppy controlled QIC-80 tape drive? Or do I use something else. I want to use KDat to make backups. Right now, I have none (no mass storage) and I'm getting nervous. 2) In Kppp I have the whole path to klicq in the 'start when connected' box, but it doesn't start. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!! -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713
Re: [newbie] new configured kernel
You'll need to edit /etc/lilo.conf to reflect the name of the kernel you are upgrading to. Look for the 'image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk' line (at least that's what it reads in mine), and change the vmlinuz... to reflect what the new kernel is called. - Theo helmut halfmann wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, you wrote: On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, you wrote: After the new configuration of the kernel (I removed for example the modules I do not need) I compile it (also make modules and make modules_install and make zlilo) without a problem. Then I install lilo... without any problems... After this I restart my computer and the boot up stops at the message: Try re-running LILO and it SHOULD (from what I've read in here -- never tried updating kernels -- yet G) reconfigure LILO so that it recognizes your new kernel. Hey! Thanks for the answer. My problem is not that I can't select the new (my) kernel at the beginning. When I start lilo and make zlilo I don't get an error msg. ? cu Helmut
[newbie] ipchains question.
I have installed LM as firewall for a company that was using NT proxy. All IP from the private network routes out fine except they can no longer receive exchange email from internet senders. The exchange server is on a private IP number (192.168.0.2) behind the firewall as it was with the proxy server before. I am not familiar with Exchange server (and I do not expect anyone here to be...) but is this just a port forwarding thing for SMTP traffic??? If so, how does one port forward with ipchains? I assume that I would forward the smtp port to my NT server right? Thanks! --- Beach ¤ [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, try not.. do, or do not.. there is no try. -Yoda
[newbie] Problems with updatedb ?
Hi list. I have launched updatedb as root, and now I have a process (slocate) that has been running for 25 minutes, consuming 80-90 % cpu-time, and that does not seem to come to an end. I've cheked my /var/lib/slocate directory, and it shows : -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Jul 27 21:51 slocate.db -rw-r- 1 root slocate 49410 Jul 27 21:52 slocate.db.tmp What's happening ? Thanks for your help. Dominique
Re: [newbie] Problems with updatedb ?
Do you have a FAT or FAT32 partition mounted anywhere? If so, I think you can fix this by First: killing the offending process (`killall slocate`) Second: Telling updatedb to ignore that partition in the future (edit /etc/updatedb.conf and add the mount point of the FAT partition to the EXCLUDE section) I had this same problem and telling updatedb/slocate to exclude the FAT partition fixed it. -Matt On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Dominique Deleris wrote: Hi list. I have launched updatedb as root, and now I have a process (slocate) that has been running for 25 minutes, consuming 80-90 % cpu-time, and that does not seem to come to an end. I've cheked my /var/lib/slocate directory, and it shows : -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Jul 27 21:51 slocate.db -rw-r- 1 root slocate 49410 Jul 27 21:52 slocate.db.tmp What's happening ? Thanks for your help. Dominique
[newbie] Linux Quake II Sound Problems
I followed a link from the Creative Labs soundblaster.com website to OpenSound.com to get Linux sound drivers for my Sound Blaster PCI 128. The sound card works well in the KDE X-Windows environment. I ran into a problem when I installed Quake II for Linux. When I launch Quake II, an OSS message displays, and my system locks up hard. Has anyone on this list tried to run Quake II with the OSS sound system installed? Right now, Linux is a pretty weak platform for PC Games. Will Linux ever catch up to Microsoft's home computer operating systems in that category? Joe Patton
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
I was about to make that statement earlier, but I then thought it wasn't tre since everything that has been said indicated that hard links point to a single file and when all hard links die the file does as well (and that kinda invalidated what I thought). It's a good thing this isn't the case! It's waaay too complicated and unwieldly. Imagine making a hard link and changing your mind about it... if this was true, I couldn't delete it! The truth is much better. Yeah, that is a good idea about deletion protection. If I want to make sure that some data cannot be deleted, I can keep a hard link. I think that you misunderstand. Remember? I was showing the cause of my misundestanding. I was confused that there were *files* and separate *hard links* to those *files*. I do understand now. Filenames are hard links to the data. Making several hard links to data makes more filenames that point to the same data. A hard link is the way that you access a file. BUT, there is only one file. Suppose that we have a file named... well, lets create a file: $ echo put this in a file hardlink_1 $ We have created a file the "quick" way, and we gave it the name hardlink_1. And then we "cat" the file, which shows what is in the file. $ cat hardlink_1 put this in a file $ Hardlink_1 is a text file which has the contents, "put this in a file". OK, lets say it a different way. The echo command sends (we say it re-directs) "put this in a file" into the contents of a file named hardlink_1. The "" character is the nifty command that does this redirection. I know. is good for appending, too. Lets look at the long display of this file: $ ls -l total 2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 rtm 465 19 Jul 27 02:09 hardlink_1 $ OK, notice that it has a file size of 19 (just before the date). Count the characters in the "string" of characters: 123456789012345678 put this in a file 18. One extra byte to store this string gives us the 19. The extra byte... a character to signal the end-of-file? Now we will add another hard link: $ ln hardlink_1 hardlink_2 $ ...and if we look at our directory again: $ ls -l total 4 -rw-rw-r-- 2 rtm 465 19 Jul 27 02:09 hardlink_1 -rw-rw-r-- 2 rtm 465 19 Jul 27 02:09 hardlink_2 $ Both filenames point to the same file. We can display the contents of both files: $ cat * put this in a file put this in a file $ Well, actually, we displayed the contents of ONE file twice. Once using each filename. The * is a wildcard that matches all filenames in the directory. OK, now for the test. We are going to redirect "nothing" to the first hardlink. $ hardlink_1 $ We have replaced the contents of hardlink_1 with "nothing". Since there is nothing in front of the "", nothing is put into the file, replacing whatever had been there. Notice that we don't even need the echo command to do this. And, ls -l tells the story: $ ls -l total 0 -rw-rw-r-- 2 rtm 4650 Jul 27 02:22 hardlink_1 -rw-rw-r-- 2 rtm 4650 Jul 27 02:22 hardlink_2 $ For further proof, try to cat the contents of the two files (or more accurately, the contents of our ONE file twice): $ cat * $ Nothing there. Soo, a second hard link doesn't "protect" the contents of a file. It only offers another way to access the contents of a file. It protects it from *deletion*, which is what I was talking about. Of course, since deletion is only one way to wreck a file, it's not that important. If we use either hard link to change that file, then the contents are changed. Period. I understand already! I guess I didn't explain myself very well. Now, lets create a soft link and put something back into the file: $ ln -s hardlink_1 softlink_1 $ The -s "switch" to the link command ln makes this a symbolic, or "soft" link, instead of a hard link. $ ls -l total 2 -rw-rw-r-- 2 rtm465 0 Jul 27 02:22 hardlink_1 -rw-rw-r-- 2 rtm465 0 Jul 27 02:22 hardlink_2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 rtm465 10 Jul 27 02:35 softlink_1 - hardlink_1 Whoa! Notice that our soft link is created with WORLD WRITE permissions (the 3rd "w" in the group of "rwx's" in the line above). Doesn't matter, the symlink REALLY inherits the permissions of whatever it points to. Also notice that the symlink has 10 bytes. Why is that? Now we will put something into the file that the symlink points to: $ echo another string softlink_1 $ So, what happens if we cat the contents of all the files in the directory? $ cat * another string another string another string $ $ ls -l total 6 -rw-rw-r-- 2 rtm 465 15 Jul 27 02:35 hardlink_1 -rw-rw-r-- 2 rtm 465 15 Jul 27 02:35 hardlink_2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 rtm 465 10 Jul 27 02:35 softlink_1 - hardlink_1 $ All of our files now contain 15 bytes-- 14 for the string,
Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..
/etc/shutdown.allow is a file that contains the names of users aloowed to shutdown the system. It may not be present on your system yet; you'll have to create it. Is it a list of user names (or UID's)? Is there a man page on it? I'm away from Linux right now... I don't feel like starting up another computer. Also check /etc/inittab to see if Ctrl-Alt-Del is being caught. If so, anybody (not just those in shutdown.allow) may shutdown the system via the "three finger salute." What you might do is change the Ctrl-Alt-Del command to "logout" or something else that's harmless. Will Ctrl+Alt+Del reboot the system if it's typed at *any* terminal?
Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..
/etc/shutdown.allow is a file that contains the names of users aloowed to shutdown the system. It may not be present on your system yet; you'll have to create it. My shutdown.allow file is: "james jim root" but only root can issue the shutdown command. When I try it as either other user I get the error "bash: shutdown: command not found" That's because typically only root has the /sbin directory in his path. Any user (who can get into /sbin) can find the shutdown command. Consider putting symlinks to shutdown in the ~/bin directories of each user who should be able to shutdown (that is, assuming that ~/bin is in everyone's path). Also check /etc/inittab to see if Ctrl-Alt-Del is being caught. If so, anybody (not just those in shutdown.allow) may shutdown the system via the "three finger salute." What you might do is change the Ctrl-Alt-Del command to "logout" or something else that's harmless. My inittab file contains the line "ca::ctrlaltdel:logout" but pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del does nothing. I don't know why. I'm running Mandrake 6.0 on a Toshiba 480cdt laptop.
Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..
I'm running Mandrake 6.0 on a Toshiba 480cdt laptop. Is that a Satellite Pro? Could the numlock status be doing weird things with the delete key? I hear some Laptops are weird that way. Try toggling the numlock; see if it works then. laughs out loud Good luck finding the NumLock key! There isn't one! If you want to simulate the NumLock key, press Fn+F10 or Fn+F11. F10 turns the following keys into a numeric keypad (with NumLock off), and F11 turns them into a keypad with NumLock on: 7890UIOPJKL;M./
[newbie] Partioning
Has anyone tried DiskDrake, a Linux Sisk Tool which does partitions. I downloaded but haven't figured out how to unzip it. It is a beta program. Art Andy Goth wrote: Basically what Partition Magic does that fdisk doesn't, is resize existing partitions without requiring you to first destroy them (and everything on them) and recreate them. I guess that's convenient but -I- wouldn't pay $70 for it. :) So it's a nondestructive partition resizer? That doesn't sound exceedingly hard to write. I mean, shouldn't fdisk be able to do this? I understand that it's still *much* easier to reformat everything, but moving data... The snag is that it'll take direct writes. It shouldn't be too hard to grab one block of data and move it over some on disk. If they overlap, start from the other direction. Use memory, too, when the overlapping gets to be too much. What more is there?
[newbie] SAMBA troubles!
After spending the last four days trying to get SAMBA running with shares for win 95 clients, I am appealing to the greater net community. Here's my situation. I've tried multiple times to try and get SAMBA running, and I can't get anything to pop up in the win 95 network neighborhood. All tests I've done using smbclient have all come out fine, indicating I should be able to mount a share. I had it running under Mandrake 6.0 before, but I got a new hard drive and reinstalled and now nothing works. I've made all of the correct entries in the /etc/hosts, /etc/lmhosts, and /etc/smb.conf files for a basic share, but still to no avail. I've tried on multiple win 95 clients with different IP addresses and still nothing. I use both SWAT and a text editor to edit the files and testparm to check and make sure they are valid. Does anyone have any idea of what I can do to get a basic server up and running. I basically want to share a network drive with win 95 clients. Is there a possibility that a mistake in one of my basic IP config files would affect SAMBA in such a manner while leaving the rest of the main internet connectivity (ftp, http, etc.) usable? Any and all help is appreciated. Jason Peterson
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
I would be interested in short tutorials, geared to the time I take to scan my incoming e-mail and mail lists. I am reading Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours at the moment. The discussion on hard links was esoteric for my present state of Linux, but I didn't know what a CD-rom was a few years ago,]. Art Hmmm. Glad it helped. Maybe we should do some quickie Unix-command-line intro lessons online. QUESTION: should it be on this list, or would it be better to start a new, separate maillist? Or should we just try a few easy lessons, and see how it goes, with the option to move elsewhere later? What say, everyone? best wishes, richard myers
Re: [newbie] Unix lessons; was:[ Oh, yeah]
I think that " lessons " would be great for this list . After all it is a newbie list . And I don't really understand half of what I read on this list anyhow . Is there a " new newbie " list somewhere ? Am I really this far behind the rest of the class ? jsm BTW...it seems like many of the books that I've seen take for granted that you have more knowledge about Linux than I have . And I'm not new to computers ( just Linux ) . I'm the one that everyone in my family calls when they have problems with there Windows systems ! Ripcrd6 wrote: Hmmm. Glad it helped. Maybe we should do some quickie Unix-command-line intro lessons online. QUESTION: should it be on this list, or would it be better to start a new, separate maillist? Or should we just try a few easy lessons, and see how it goes, with the option to move elsewhere later? What say, everyone? best wishes, richard myers Oh, please do. I feel like I'm in remedial school anyway. Damn, there should have been basic *nix classes required for every major at my Univ. They just told us how to do the bare minimum in the computer lab. I guess they didn't want us to be dangerous. Brian
RE: [newbie] Partioning
On 27-Jul-99 Art Rowe wrote: Has anyone tried DiskDrake, a Linux Sisk Tool which does partitions. I downloaded but haven't figured out how to unzip it. It is a beta program. Art I've taken a look at it, but haven't tried partitioning with it yet (since generally I'd do partitioning either during an installation, or beforehand from a boot disk). It looks functional and useable. It appears to be able to resize DOS partitions, but cannot resize Linux partitions yet. To extract a tar.gz (or tgz) file, use this command: tar zxvf filename -Most- tar.gz will extract into their own subdirectory under the directory you extract them from. In the case of DiskDrake, if it hasn't changed since I tried it, it extracts into a directory called 'diskdrake'. cd into that dir, and type './diskdrake.README' which runs a script that compiles some source code and then runs diskdrake. After that you can just type './diskdrake' from the diskdrake directory to run it. That's assuming they haven't changed that since I tried it, though; keep in mind it's still rapidly developing beta software. :) Also if there are any documentation files with it (like a README), read them. Andy Goth wrote: Basically what Partition Magic does that fdisk doesn't, is resize existing partitions without requiring you to first destroy them (and everything on them) and recreate them. I guess that's convenient but -I- wouldn't pay $70 for it. :) So it's a nondestructive partition resizer? That doesn't sound exceedingly hard to write. I mean, shouldn't fdisk be able to do this? I understand that it's still *much* easier to reformat everything, but moving data... The snag is that it'll take direct writes. It shouldn't be too hard to grab one block of data and move it over some on disk. If they overlap, start from the other direction. Use memory, too, when the overlapping gets to be too much. What more is there?
RE: [newbie] Apache
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well a good place to start would be the apache documentation that is in the httpd directory unless it was not installed or removed. The next best thing if u cannot find your answer is to go to apache's site http://www.apache.org. The most common use of htaccess is to prompt for a password when someone tries to access a particular page (note not the onnly thing but one of the most common). Mail me directly if u need info on that... On 27-Jul-99 Nichols, Jason wrote: Can anybody point me towards a good explanation of how to use .htaccess files in apache? Thanks! Jason - - PGP Public Key : http://jackal.dhis.org/jackal.txt http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu/pks-commands.html ICQ # : 38756924 Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run like a staff function. -- Paul Licker - - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBN55W99/tgTsNXrtmEQJgkACgqYzbdcIu8sJtQSsXeTmQ3AAeilsAoJd7 QjQlxzCbRRvgvkpvvgQZBAqA =QPvk -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie] How to create a multiple boot configuration
Hi, Recently I completed a Linux install but how can I create a multiple boot (aka Windows 95 menu) so i can choose W95 or Linux without the floppy disk. TIA Lorenzo J. ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
Re: [newbie] Redhat 6 and Soundblaster Live
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Martin White wrote: I know i'm not the person you directed your mail to, but i'm going to reply anyway !! I thought the sound of the SBLive was pretty crappy under linux with the first two versions of the driver, but with the advent of the new version, things seem to sound considerably better now (or is that just my perception ?). I must say though that what sets the SBLive apart from some of the other higher end cards in creative's range - the Awe64 even if we go a way back - is meant to be the stuff live environmental audio, creatives sound fonts, etc. etc. AFAIK, none of this is yet available under linux, and therefore if you solely run linux, at the moment you would probably be wasting your money. If like me you want blindingly good sound when you're watching DVDs, playing games or whatever you do under Windows, and want as a bonus for your linux install to sound good too, then go ahead and get one, it's well worth the money !! Martin. Thanks for responding, I should have been more specifif in the first place anyway, sorry I was not. What I would want the sound card for is LInux, as I do not use Windows at all any longer. My main interrest's would be good midi file playback as well as good mp3 file playback. I had heard that with there earlier releases, Creative still had not got the midi or mp3 playback working that well. So my main concerne is how they got the midi and mp3 sound working. As far as normal system sounds, such as .au .wav .voc etc. my SB16 can even handle that well enough, my only reason for buying the SB Live would be for improved midi and mp3 playback. Can you give me any advice in that area? Thanks in advance, John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Unix lessons; was:[ Oh, yeah]
At 12:32 PM 7/27/99 , you wrote: Hmmm. Glad it helped. Maybe we should do some quickie Unix-command-line intro lessons online. QUESTION: should it be on this list, or would it be better to start a new, separate maillist? Or should we just try a few easy lessons, and see how it goes, with the option to move elsewhere later? What say, everyone? best wishes, richard myers Oh, please do. I feel like I'm in remedial school anyway. Damn, there should have been basic *nix classes required for every major at my Univ. They just told us how to do the bare minimum in the computer lab. I guess they didn't want us to be dangerous. Brian Count me in! :) And if at some point in time we need to move it to some other list, we can do it in OneList (it works nicely, I run 3 mailing lists there :) if nobody has a server to offer :) Arioshi ba :) Vox "Vox populi, Vox Dei" Pain is the gift of the gods...and I'm the one they chose as their messenger
Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, James Stewart wrote: On Tue 27 Jul, Matt Stegman wrote: /etc/shutdown.allow is a file that contains the names of users aloowed to shutdown the system. It may not be present on your system yet; you'll have to create it. My shutdown.allow file is: "james jim root" but only root can issue the shutdown command. When I try it as either other user I get the error "bash: shutdown: command not found" James. shutdown is actully a program in the /sbin directory, you will need to put /sbin in the path for the other users or try /sbin/shutdown see if that works. John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] SAMBA troubles!
95 clients with different IP addresses and still nothing. I use both SWAT Without seeing your smb.conf file it's hard to know what the problem is, but one thing comes to mind...NT and 98 use "encrypted" (or what MS says is encrypted) passwords, while 95 doesn'tSamba con use either encrypted or not...is it possible that you have samba configured to use encrypted passwords? IF that's not the answer, post your smb.conf file and somebody should be able to help :) 95 clients. Is there a possibility that a mistake in one of my basic IP config files would affect SAMBA in such a manner while leaving the rest of the main internet connectivity (ftp, http, etc.) usable? Not that I know...my bet goes for a misconfigured smb.conf :) Arioshi ba :) Vox "Vox populi, Vox Dei" Pain is the gift of the gods...and I'm the one they chose as their messenger
Re: [newbie] Unix lessons; was:[ Oh, yeah]
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Vox wrote: At 12:32 PM 7/27/99 , you wrote: Hmmm. Glad it helped. Maybe we should do some quickie Unix-command-line intro lessons online. QUESTION: should it be on this list, or would it be better to start a new, separate maillist? Or should we just try a few easy lessons, and see how it goes, with the option to move elsewhere later? What say, everyone? best wishes, richard myers Oh, please do. I feel like I'm in remedial school anyway. Damn, there should have been basic *nix classes required for every major at my Univ. They just told us how to do the bare minimum in the computer lab. I guess they didn't want us to be dangerous. Brian Count me in! :) And if at some point in time we need to move it to some other list, we can do it in OneList (it works nicely, I run 3 mailing lists there :) if nobody has a server to offer :) Arioshi ba :) Vox "Vox populi, Vox Dei" Pain is the gift of the gods...and I'm the one they chose as their messenger I would like the lesson's of course, but I am not sure the list would appreciate the extra bandwidth. I seem to live in a cacoon, I never heard of OneList, but perhaps if it would not be an extra burden, we can try to have a list for the lessons there. John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Redhat 6 and Soundblaster Live
On 28-Jul-99 darkknight wrote: What I would want the sound card for is LInux, as I do not use Windows at all any longer. My main interrest's would be good midi file playback as well as good mp3 file playback. I had heard that with there earlier releases, Creative still had not got the midi or mp3 playback working that well. So my main concerne is how they got the midi and mp3 sound working. As far as normal system sounds, such as .au .wav .voc etc. my SB16 can even handle that well enough, my only reason for buying the SB Live would be for improved midi and mp3 playback. Can you give me any advice in that area? mp3's are just very compressed wav's, so if your mp3's sound poor it is probably more likely heavy CPU usage (the CPU is used constantly during mp3 playback, working on decompressing the mp3 as it's played), a problem during the ripping or encoding of the mp3, or maybe just a low bitrate. An SB16 should be enough for your mp3's to sound nearly as good as an audio CD played in your CD-ROM drive... depending on the bitrate the mp3 is encoded at, of course. As for midi's... I guess there are lots of cards that are newer now, but I am pretty happy with my SB AWE64. Nice, typical, widely used sound card that (for me) sndconfig has no trouble setting up. -Tom
Re: [newbie] Unix lessons; was:[ Oh, yeah]
jsm, I am also in the "newbie newbie" category, just trying to learn enough to install linux and run some basic programs from it. I've used shell-based programs to negotiate the Internet (pine, nn, ftp, telnet, etc.), but don't have a clear idea of how to install linux in this 350 Mhz P2 Win98 machine. Can someone recommend some really basic books? Thanks, SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, jsm wrote: I think that " lessons " would be great for this list . After all it is a newbie list . And I don't really understand half of what I read on this list anyhow . Is there a " new newbie " list somewhere ? Am I really this far behind the rest of the class ? jsm BTW...it seems like many of the books that I've seen take for granted that you have more knowledge about Linux than I have . And I'm not new to computers ( just Linux ) . I'm the one that everyone in my family calls when they have problems with there Windows systems ! Ripcrd6 wrote: Hmmm. Glad it helped. Maybe we should do some quickie Unix-command-line intro lessons online. QUESTION: should it be on this list, or would it be better to start a new, separate maillist? Or should we just try a few easy lessons, and see how it goes, with the option to move elsewhere later? What say, everyone? best wishes, richard myers Oh, please do. I feel like I'm in remedial school anyway. Damn, there should have been basic *nix classes required for every major at my Univ. They just told us how to do the bare minimum in the computer lab. I guess they didn't want us to be dangerous. Brian
[newbie] SBlive! in Mandrake 2.2.9
I have been following this thread and have been able to get my SBlive! to work but only by typing modprobe soundcore and insmod -f emu10k1 in a terminal window in KDE. I tried adding the recommended lines to the conf.modules file( the pre-install and post-remove lines) but I get nothing but errors and the sound doesn't work. Any ideas or do you need more specific info? Thanks, Cindy
[newbie] turning KDE off
I've got KDE set to automatically start whenever I boot up Linux-Mandrake. But I want to exit KDE (not just a shell within KDE) and can't get there. What's the trick to go back to good ol' Linux without auto KDE? Thx. ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
Re: [newbie] Re:HTML mail to this list?
Will everyone stfu about HTML. Art Rowe wrote: I have used Outlook Express and like it very much, but I am running Mandrake Linux only at the moment. I am not sure about KFM browser, but Linux Netscape Mail does HTML fine. I like to have HTML turned on because some of my mail lists come that way and look much better. I have a rather basic system Pentium 133 and a 1.6 hard drive. I would think people with at least that much computing power could reasd html if they want to. If they don't want to, perhaps they czn just skip those messages. Art HTML is bulkier as a lot of formatting tags and other extranious non-information bearing garbage. What's wrong with a plain text message. Also, not everyone is equipped to handle html, I'm pretty sure Pine doesn't.
Re: [newbie] Problem with PPP connection
Do you have DNS #'s for the isp listed in the settings of the ppp connection? I ran into that problem myself today. "Thomas J. Hamman" wrote: I'm trying to help someone else get Mandrake to work, and she is having a problem with her PPP connection. Basically, her modem seems to work fine, and apparently she can connect fine to her ISP without any trouble. However, she cannot connect to anything else (or at least not receive any transmitted data from anything else). For example if she tries to retrieve a webpage with Netscape, she gets to the 'contacted host, waiting for reply' (or something like that) message and then gets nothing else. Results are similar with other programs (like telnet). Does anyone know what would cause this, and how to fix it? Note: During the install LILO failed to install in her MBR, and the boot disk creation failed also, so I have her using loadlin to boot Linux... but otherwise her installation seems fine. -Tom
Re: [newbie] Unix lessons; was:[ Oh, yeah]
At 09:28 PM 7/27/99 , you wrote: I would like the lesson's of course, but I am not sure the list would appreciate the extra bandwidth. That's what I was thinking :) I seem to live in a cacoon, I never heard of OneList, but perhaps if it would not be an extra burden, we can try to have a list for the lessons there. It's a free mailing-list server...think of it as Geocities for mailing lists :) They do snap an ad at the bottom of every email (mostly ads about OneList itself...not that that makes sense chuckle :) and the thing I love about it is that it's very easy to manage AND you can keep an archive of mailings (accessible through the web, and I think it's also accessible by non-members if the list admin wants it that way) and it also has a "private ftp" sorta thing, in which list members can stick files for other list members to get...it's a pretty cool thing, and it's free :) Soif somebody wants the list set up, I can do it...we can have various managers for the list, that way there'll be no problem when I disappear for some time once in a while as I usually do :) Arioshi ba :) Vox "Vox populi, Vox Dei" Pain is the gift of the gods...and I'm the one they chose as their messenger For BDSM safety info, visit Vox's Info Center at http://www.the-vox.com/
Re: [newbie] Partioning
Thanks for the helpful information on DiskDrake and the hints on unzipping the file. Art --- "Thomas J. Hamman" wrote: On 27-Jul-99 Art Rowe wrote: Has anyone tried DiskDrake, a Linux Disk Tool which does partitions. I downloaded but haven't figured out how to unzip it. . I've taken a look at it, but haven't tried partitioning with it yet (since generally I'd do partitioning either during an installation, or beforehand from a boot disk). It looks functional and useable. It appears to be able to resize DOS partitions, but cannot resize Linux partitions yet. ..
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
Anything you can do to help us command-line idiots would be greatly appreciated! Richard Myers wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Richard Myers wrote: Neat stuff, huh? This is Unix. best wishes, richard myers On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, darkknight wrote: : ) Ever thought about teaching? We, I taught an online college-level Intro to Unix course for several years. Gave it up because (1) the college didn't support it well enough, and (2) I make ten times as much money working for Lucent Technologies. I always had trouble grasping the diferrence between hard links and soft (symbolic) links, untill now. And I was'nt even the poster of the message. cool , thanks alot, you really have patients and should consider teaching as a career. Great stuff indeed, Unix has always facinated me but I thought it too hard for me to grasp. More lessons like that and there might be hope for me yet. I shure am glad I make it a habbit to at least skim through each and every post. Thanks alot, John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmmm. Glad it helped. Maybe we should do some quickie Unix-command-line intro lessons online. QUESTION: should it be on this list, or would it be better to start a new, separate maillist? Or should we just try a few easy lessons, and see how it goes, with the option to move elsewhere later? What say, everyone? best wishes, richard myers
Re: [newbie] Unix lessons; was:[ Oh, yeah]
I really like the idea for a web home for the tutorial darkknight wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Vox wrote: At 12:32 PM 7/27/99 , you wrote: Hmmm. Glad it helped. Maybe we should do some quickie Unix-command-line intro lessons online. QUESTION: should it be on this list, or would it be better to start a new, separate maillist? Or should we just try a few easy lessons, and see how it goes, with the option to move elsewhere later? What say, everyone? best wishes, richard myers Oh, please do. I feel like I'm in remedial school anyway. Damn, there should have been basic *nix classes required for every major at my Univ. They just told us how to do the bare minimum in the computer lab. I guess they didn't want us to be dangerous. Brian Count me in! :) And if at some point in time we need to move it to some other list, we can do it in OneList (it works nicely, I run 3 mailing lists there :) if nobody has a server to offer :) Arioshi ba :) Vox "Vox populi, Vox Dei" Pain is the gift of the gods...and I'm the one they chose as their messenger I would like the lesson's of course, but I am not sure the list would appreciate the extra bandwidth. I seem to live in a cacoon, I never heard of OneList, but perhaps if it would not be an extra burden, we can try to have a list for the lessons there. John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] turning KDE off
Type 'linux 3' at the lilo prompt and/or change the initdefault:5 entry in your etc/inittab file to initdefault:3 Patrick - Original Message - From: russ proudman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 5:32 AM Subject: [newbie] turning KDE off I've got KDE set to automatically start whenever I boot up Linux-Mandrake. But I want to exit KDE (not just a shell within KDE) and can't get there. What's the trick to go back to good ol' Linux without auto KDE? Thx. ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
RE: [newbie] turning KDE off
On 28-Jul-99 russ proudman wrote: I've got KDE set to automatically start whenever I boot up Linux-Mandrake. But I want to exit KDE (not just a shell within KDE) and can't get there. What's the trick to go back to good ol' Linux without auto KDE? Thx. I am assuming you mean you have X automatically loading when you boot, so that you boot to the graphical login screen where you have a choice of several different window managers (including KDE), and you want to be completely out of X? One thing you can do is change to a different virtual console. You switch between virtual consoles by pressing alt-f1 through alt-f6; press ctrl along with alt to switch from X, and also the console with X is always alt-f7. So for example, you're in X, and want to switch to the second console, you can press ctrl-alt-f2. That gives you a textual login, as if you were completely out of X. Then you can switch back to X by typing alt-f7. Now, if you really want to shut X down, go to the second virtual console with alt-f2, log in as root, and type 'init 3'. This will switch you to runlevel 3, which is the runlevel for full multi-user, multi-tasking Linux. (Note: this will show a couple processes shutting down, and you may have to press enter for it to give you the next command prompt.) If you want to switch back to runlevel 5, which is the runlevel in which X is automatically run and you're given the graphical login, type 'init 5'. If you want to change the default runlevel, open the /etc/inittab file in a text editor, and look for this line near the top: id:5:initdefault: The 5 in that line is what makes the system run in runlevel 5 and start up X when you boot; change the 5 to a 3 to start with the text-based login prompt. -Tom
Re: [newbie] turning KDE off
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, russ proudman wrote: I've got KDE set to automatically start whenever I boot up Linux-Mandrake. But I want to exit KDE (not just a shell within KDE) and can't get there. What's the trick to go back to good ol' Linux without auto KDE? Thx. ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com I assume you mean you want to exit KDE and be in console mode. If that is the case, then you will want to boot up in runlevel 3 rather than in runlevel 5. Runlevel 3 starts in console mode, you can start an Xwindow session by typing starx at a prompt. Then when you exit the Xwindows session you will be back at the console prompt. Runlevel 5 starts up and goes right into the Xwindow login then when you exit, your back at the xwindow login again. I personally use startx now. To start in runlevel 3 you will need to change a line in your "/etc/inittab" file, a few lines down from the top you should see a line like this: id:5:initdefault: change that line to this: id:3:initdefault: Just change the 5 to a 3 , in other words :) You can also do this from linuxconf , but this is the easiest and fastest way. John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] SAMBA troubles!
Petey wrote: situation. I've tried multiple times to try and get SAMBA running, and I can't get anything to pop up in the win 95 network neighborhood. All tests Try this: Click on start, run, then enter "\\linux computer name" and click OK. If that doesn't work, try "\\linux machine's IP address". I've frequently seen cases where a computer won't appear in the network neighborhood, even though it is accessible on the network. Of course, also test to make sure the Win95 machines can see the Linux box at all--try pinging it by name and IP, etc. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
