Re: [newbie] Change rw permissions on folder of files
chmod is the command to change permissions on files. man chmod will tell you all the specifics of how to use it --jim On Wed, 29 May 2002, db wrote: Working with Redhat 5.2 Fvfm, I have a ton of files in a folder that I copied (as root) from a CD. I need to reset the rw and perhaps ownership attributes en mass so that the files can be written to and worked with by other users. I know this is basic but could anyone clue this newbie in? ~ Love her as I loved her, and there will be joy.~ King Humperdink Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Change rw permissions on folder of files
Hey again. It just occurred to me that you'll prolly wanna change the owner of those files to something more prctical than root. That command is chown. So, to change the owner of file.txt from whatever to kenny, you would type chown kenny file.txt Then ls -l will show you owners and permissions of all files, which you can then change with chmod. ie: chmod a+rwx file.txt would give the world permission to read write and execute file.txt. ( a = 'all / everyone' + = 'add the permissions thatfollow' rwx = 'read write and execute' ) I hope this isn't too confusing. man chmod should help if it is --jim On Wed, 29 May 2002, Jim Turner wrote: chmod is the command to change permissions on files. man chmod will tell you all the specifics of how to use it --jim On Wed, 29 May 2002, db wrote: Working with Redhat 5.2 Fvfm, I have a ton of files in a folder that I copied (as root) from a CD. I need to reset the rw and perhaps ownership attributes en mass so that the files can be written to and worked with by other users. I know this is basic but could anyone clue this newbie in? ~ Love her as I loved her, and there will be joy.~ King Humperdink ~ Love her as I loved her, and there will be joy.~ King Humperdink Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Change rw permissions on folder of files
Ok, last one, I swear. ;) You mentioned doing this en mass. Just to be clear, wild cards will work with chmod and chown. So: chmod a+rw * will set every file in the current directory to be world readable and writable (if you execute it as root). --jim On Wed, 29 May 2002, db wrote: Working with Redhat 5.2 Fvfm, I have a ton of files in a folder that I copied (as root) from a CD. I need to reset the rw and perhaps ownership attributes en mass so that the files can be written to and worked with by other users. I know this is basic but could anyone clue this newbie in? ~ Love her as I loved her, and there will be joy.~ King Humperdink Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't find X includes.
Hello. Twice recently I have tried to install a program, and when running ./configure I received this error message: checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! This is a brand-new Mandrake 8.2 install, on which everything (else) works fine. What does this mean? Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks. --jim ~ Love her as I loved her, and there will be joy.~ King Humperdink Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't find X includes.
Problem solved. Thanks. --jim On Mon, 27 May 2002, s wrote: On Monday 27 May 2002 01:16 am, Jim Turner wrote: Hello. Twice recently I have tried to install a program, and when running ./configure I received this error message: checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! This is a brand-new Mandrake 8.2 install, on which everything (else) works fine. What does this mean? Install XFree86-devel. -s ~ Love her as I loved her, and there will be joy.~ King Humperdink Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to create a cd from ISO file
With Nero (at least the version I have, which I don't know offhand and I'm not booting into windows to find out), you first have to rename the file image.iso to image.nrg. I have no idea why. But, once you've done that, click File-Burn Image (this might be Create Image, or even just Image, but it's something like that). Then it opens a find file dialog and you just select your image.nrg. It then gives you some options that don't mean anything to me, and I've always found that if I just leave them set as they are, it works fine. --jim On Mon, 27 May 2002, Guy Zelck wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the Mandrake 8.2 .iso files and I am having problems getting them to work when I try to burn to a cd. Can someone please provide me with a quick easy way to put iso files on CDs thnks Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Use Gcombust, 'Burn' tab : burn from iso image. Piece a cake. ~ Love her as I loved her, and there will be joy.~ King Humperdink Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to install connexant modem driver with the .tarextention
On Mon, 27 May 2002, shane wrote: On Sunday 26 May 2002 10:11 pm, Nashib .J. opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Can someone inform me if internet browsing under Linux is quicker than browsing under Windows9X. generally spealing it is, at least in my experience. same connection, same server, same time , (ok one right after the other) when i had a windows machine linux downloaded files both ftp and http faster than win2k. but not a whole lot. if you are thinking your 56k will act like dsl, it ain't. :) When downloading the mandrake iso images from linuxiso.org with Win98, I consistently got 45k/sec downloads. I don't know if it cycles through different mirrors or not, but as I said, they were consistently 45k/sec (and I downloaded several times due to IE temp directory issues). Anwyay, isntalled Mandrake, same machine, same ethernet card, etc, and downloading images from linuxiso.org again, consistently got 100k/sec downloads. It seems a bit far-fetched that linux should handle my ethernet card -that- much better than windows, but like I said, the results were the same every time for several trials on both systems. So, for whatever it's worth --jim -- After you install Windows XP, you have the option to create user accounts. If you create user accounts, by default, they will have an account type of Administrator with no password. -- Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q293834 shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ ~ Love her as I loved her, and there will be joy.~ King Humperdink Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Digest version of Newbie available
In general, Linux requires two partitions: one for / and one for swap. I've heard that if you have enough RAM you can do without a swap, but I don't know if that's true. Anyone ever done that? Further, most people install with 3 or more partitions. Mine right now has /, swap, /usr and /home all on their own partitions. PartitionMagic 7.0 is a wonderful thing. You can add, delete and resize partitions without losing data. It's incredibly slow and inefficient, though, (mine took 8.5 hours to repartition a 40 gig drive that was about 75% full) so beware. But in the end, it worked and it worked flawlessly, with no data loss or any problems. --jim On Mon, 27 May 2002, Dwight Hines wrote: I've just subscribed and will only be able to work on the linux on my powerbook G3 firewire after hours and on weekends. I have not yet installed or obtained the software. My plan is to read the digests for a while and then when I have some time go for the installation. First question: I have a 6 gig disk internal and it is already partitioned. Can I just clean one of those partitions and install linux on it so it is not necessary to blow away the whole disk and all my wonderful contents? Thank you in advance, dh ~ Love her as I loved her, and there will be joy.~ King Humperdink Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
