[newbie] file Permissions
I figured out why all my files were not working right it wasn't that they were text files but the permissions are messed up... everytime i try to install something the permissions for it are always messed up! is their some setting i can change to stop this... i am not telling it to save permissions i don't think but apparently it is! anyone have any idea why it is doing this...i am using linux mandrake 5.3 if that has anything to do with it NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download.html
Re: [newbie] installing RPM all files are treated like documents?!?
no i meant all files are treated like text files instead of executeables ...sorry was in hurry when writing this Steve Philp wrote: Clay wrote: when i install a file from an rpm or tar.gz it seems that all the files in the rpm or tar.gz are treated like text files instead of executables like they should be! what gives?! i downloaded these files under windows 98 then mounted my fat 32 partition under linux got the files from the fat 32 partition put them on my linux partition and tried to install them and it extracts them ok and everything just none of the files are treated correctly they are all treated like executeables! someone please help me! What do you mean by "they're treated like executables"? Are you able to install them? It's possible that the permissions on the files are being munged because you're putting them on a FAT32 partition that has no idea about file permissions or ownership. I've noticed that when using my FAT32 partition under Linux all files are listed as executable. I doubt that it's going to cause a problem for you, since even if you ATTEMPTED to execute them nothing would happen. If it bothers you, simply chmod them to be non-executable (chmod -x filename) and you're all set. -- Steve Philp "Oh Lord, I go for penguins. 'Cause penguins are [EMAIL PROTECTED] so sensitive to my needs..."--Lyle Lovett NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download.html
Re: [newbie] X fails
make sure you have your monitor configured correctly get out your monitor manual if it isn't listed in list and make sure you have right horzontinal lines and virtical lines set in the thing when you do customi had same problem with my computer at first and thought it was graphics card but found out i just had monitor configured wrong Keith Robinson wrote: total newbie. just getting started dual boot Linux/Win98 Install of linux went fine. configured X to Mach 64 server. when i try to startx the screen goes blank. The only reference I can find in the documents is to "free a getty process." I haven't a clue what this means, but looked in /etc/inittab. Six lines for getty, tty1-- tty6. nothing for tty7 or 8. Big TIA - Indras.Net is a Web ring of Peace, Culture and Education http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/6601/ Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. -- Frederick Douglass -- Keith Robinson NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download.html
[newbie] installing RPM all files are treated like documents?!?
when i install a file from an rpm or tar.gz it seems that all the files in the rpm or tar.gz are treated like text files instead of executables like they should be! what gives?! i downloaded these files under windows 98 then mounted my fat 32 partition under linux got the files from the fat 32 partition put them on my linux partition and tried to install them and it extracts them ok and everything just none of the files are treated correctly they are all treated like executeables! someone please help me! NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download.html
[newbie] Linux kernel, modem, and dosemu questions
first question...i have a rockwell hcf 56k data fax pci modem and was wondering if anyone else had the same modem and was able to get it to work under linux mandrake with kppp and if so how? second question. this has to due somewhat with first question what adavantages will i have by installing latest linux kernel and how do i install it? also if i install it do you think that might help my modem get working because i know my modem is a PnP and i heard somewhere that latest linux kernel has full PnP support... third question... i can't seem to get xdos to work it says there is some error in some .global file or something like that and i looked that file but couldn't figure out what the heck to do in it and what was causing the problem... well any help anybody can provide with these questions would be greatly appreciated! ps.. i am affraid i already know the answer to my first question and that is get a new modem (like an externel one)...but if you know something i don't about getting a PnP modem to work under linux i would greatly appreciate it! NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download.html
[newbie] one more question i almost forgot...
how do you get linux mandrake to see my fat 32 partition i have used linux slackware and was able to get it to see my fat 16 partition on my older computer but didn't see a way to get my fat 32 visible under linux...again any help would be appreciatied NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download.html
[newbie] ok sorry to be a pain but i have two more question...
ok i figured out my first dosemu problem now i have another one and can't seem to figure out how to even start with itok when i run xdos now it gives me some vga font error ... i probably should of written it down and wrote it exactly right here oh well... ok here is my second problem and a real anoying one... i downloaded the latest wine rpm and tried to install it and it looked like everything installed ok but it didn't...now i can't even use winei looked at where it put what looked to be the executable file but the file isn't a runable file... it put wine in a directory called /usr/local/bin i believe was it...i know i should be able to upgrade this program with no problem but apparently not :P... oh i a downloading the binary in tar.gz format right now and am going to try it that way but if you know what i did wrong with installing it with the rpm i would greatly apreciate it if you told me what i did wrong... NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download.html
