Re: [newbie] Hopefully a relatively easy question
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Paul Zarson wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1010123373-11608-3344 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 How do I recursively search through directories to find a file, when what I want returned is the location, not the file itself? Like in DO$: dir somefile.txt /s Probably a better solution exists but: tree -f | grep somefile.txt should do the trick for now. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kapm-idled?
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, NDPTAL85 wrote: In top what is kapm-idled and why is it taking up all of my CPU time? Is it just marking how much idle CPU time there is? Not quite its actually the kernels advanced power management process. What normally happens when your machine is idle, has nothing to do, it will execute a special no-op instruction which, as the name suggests does nothing at all except to keep the machine ticking over. Now what the kapm-idle process does is it runs whenever the machine is idle and replaces these no-ops with a special instruction to cause the processor to shutdown some parts to conserve power, and also as a side effect reduce heat output. Cool huh! I'm using Mandrake 8.1 with 2.4.13-12mdk All recent kernels have this option. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Strange Directory Listing
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, R C wrote: Hi All, I was playing around in the terminal located in the bottom window of konqueror, issuing commands, and generally looking around and trying to get comfortable using a terminal. I gave the following command: ls -aop -in my home directory. One particular file caught my eye because it was highlighted in flashing red w/white letters. lrwxrwxrwx 1 username 43 Nov 13 19:48 .#RMAIL - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1005694765 It seems to be a link to somewhere else but even looking under file properties was unsucessfulunknown ! Yes you are right the file .#RMAIL is symbolicaly linked to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1005694765. A symbolic link is effectively the same as current hyperlinks in html. If you read from the file the file system will follow the link and give you the contents of the destination. There is no checking by the file systems for valid symlinks and an open will simply fail when a broken link is followed. The other type of link which exists is called a hard link. In this case the file .#RMAIL can be thought of as an alternative name for the destination file and the destination file is not actually deleted from the file system until there are no remianing hardlinks (ie an rm of the file by 1 name will only remove that alternative name and not the file itself). The flshing red is simply a terminal thing to indicate that the destination of the sysmlink link doesn't exist. BTW, I use KDE's mail client, KMail, on LM8.0 Can I get rid of it...or should I get rid of it? Is it normal/problem? No idea why the symlink exists. My guess would be that it's a temporary file used by the mail program. As for deleting or not deleting it, either should be file. I wouldn't worry about it too much in this case. If however this flashing link were in /usr/lib or /dev, for example, then it would be worth trying to figure out why the destination didn't exist. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] web page woe's
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can connect to it on a small local network (3 winblows systems and a mandrake server) by typing in the ip of the local address (192.xxx.x.x) or the external ip(24.x.x.x)but as soon as I try to connect from out side ie work there is no trace. no ping no telnet no ssh no nothing. I am not running a firewall (to my knowledge). Any help would be great. It definitely sounds like firewalling of some sort. So you can't even ping the address from outside. If you can actually ping it then that's a start and you might want to try: telnet host 80 where host is the address of the machine (and assuming the server is on port 80). Also something else to look at, assuming you can ping, is the logs on the server machine to see if you get anything relating to the connection. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mapping keys in Gnome/Sawfish Mandrake 8.0
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Keith Christian wrote: Where can I find info for mapping keystrokes (e.g. Alt-F4 to close a program, Alt-Tab to switch among windows, etc.) ? Gnome control center. Sawfish window manager - shortcuts Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Swap Space
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has me curious. If I don't need much swap, should I not make much swap? Or is there no upper limit? If it's the more the marrier, why not always just make, say, 500MB? The point of swap space is to allow you to have more programs `running' than you can actually fit in your physical memory. If you have swap, when you exaust all of your physical memory the OS can swap to disk those bits of memory that are not actually being accesses. In this way the fact that they are not in physical memory and are on slow disk doesn't matter because that bit of memory is not being accessed. When it does need to be accessed it gets swapped back in and seomething else is swapped out. Determining th right amount of swap space is really black magic. It should be the case that swap + phyical + (some margin of a few %) = the total amount of memory used by all applications you might wish to have running at the one time. If you've already got a linux box then just try opening up everything you might ever want opened at once, check the momory consumption, add a few % to this number, and that should be about your total swap + physical memory number. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Permissions help
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Scott Olfert wrote: Hey all, Why would i be unable to launch the adsl-start script as a user? It's permissions are as follows: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root If i'm reading this correctly, the script then should be readable and executable by my user account? That is correct. rwx by owner (root), rx by group (root), rx by everyone. When i try to run it from bash i get adsl-start: you must be root to run this script. Why would i not be able to run this script as user? Presumably the problem is that something the script attempts to execute is only runnable by root. Thanks for your input, i'm a relative newbie trying to figure out these permissions. Scott -- Travis Olds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Student Jacaranda Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Adelaide
