[newbie] Computer freezes
Hi, It happened several times now. The computer suddenly ceases to respond. I can not type anything (even the caps-lock and num-lock don't change the led status), whatever was happening on the screen freezes. The mouse pointer still moves when I move the mouse, but does not respond to any button clicks. It seems that other part do continue to work. I sometimes see the hard disk working. It happened both with fluxbox and with gnome (I didn't try too much with other window managers). I couldn't find any trace of what happens in the syslog. I don't think it is a hardware problem, since I also have windows installed, and it never happened there. Also, it never happened with Mandrake 8.2 (I now have 9.0) Any ideas? I don't know even where to start looking. Thanks, Moshe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] c shell path
Hi, I don't use any of these shells, so I don't remember the exact details, but if I'm not mistaken, tcsh reads both ~/.cshrc and ~/.tcshrc. So if you want to have this variable for both shells, put setenv JAVA_HOME whatever In ~/.cshrc. If this file doesn't exist, just create it. Of course, if you are a sysadmin on this machine you might want to set it for all users in (something like) /etc/cshrc. Anyway, all the details about these files should be in man tcshrc HTH Moshe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Aaron Mehl Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:27 AM To: linux newbie Cc: Moshe Kaminsky Subject: RE: [newbie] c shell path Thanks, Yes as in tsch shell, I see no ~/.cshrc at all. I am trying to set up some xml/java stuff and need to set JAVA_HOME On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 01:14, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: Hi, If you really mean *C* shell (csh) then it should probably go into the ~/.cshrc file. You do something like: setenv PATH your path:$PATH Note that the order of the directories is important, the program found in the first of them is the one taken. Which mean that if I have /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin in my path and I add /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01 it will only read the first entry?? Thanks Aaron Moshe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Chmod commands
Hi,
Look at 'man find'. Basically, what you want is something like
find basedir -type d -exec chmod 775 \{\} \; -o -exec chmod 664 \{\}
\;
Here, basedir is the root of the directory tree in which you want this
to be done. -type d is the condition that you found a directory, and
then you execute the chmod 755 on it (\{\} is replaced by the name of
the current file). The -o means 'or', ie, this is not a directory in
which case you exec the other chmod (this is approximate, if you want to
be really careful, you might want to check the situation when the file
is a directory, but the chmod fails for some reason)
The thing with the chgrp can be done similarly.
HTH
Moshe
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Zane Minninger
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 4:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Chmod commands
Is there any way to run chmod and only affect files and not
directories? I
have a semi large tree and I would like any file put in it to
have 664 but
the directories to be 775. Any ideas or am I so new I don't
know of some
common and easy way. This directory can potentially have
several users
putting files into it. I would also like for all the chgrp
to be a static
group and not every persons individual group. Again, there might be
something simple, I'm still pretty new.
Zane Minninger
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[newbie] Connecting to the internet
Hi, I'm trying to understand how to connect to the internet from the X-terminal (instead of kppp). I found a script called ppp-on (for some reason it was not on the path), inserted the phone number and the other details, but I get no connection and I can't understand why. Can someone give (a pointer to) a short explanation how it is done? I tried to look in the HOWTOs, but nothing there worked. Also, is there a way to see the commands that kppp sends? Thanks, Moshe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] what happens in install/upgrade
Hi, Anyone here knows what is exactly the difference between choosing install and upgrade in the installer? I mean, what partitions/files get erased in each case, what happens to the packages, and so on. Moshe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] grep search
Hi,
You may use the find command. find allows you to go through a directory
tree and perform some tests and actions on it. For example, in your case
you want something like
find / -path /mnt -prune -o -type f -exec grep my exp {} \;
Here, the / means start in /, the '-path /mnt -prune' means if the path
is of the form /mnt, don't go into it, the '-o' is a logical or, '-type f'
means only regular files, and the -exec says what command to execute
(the '{}' is replaced by the file name). find has many other option, all
of which you can read about in man find. Note in particular the -mount
option, which might be a simpler way to do what you want
HTH
Moshe
* Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020724 20:59]:
Is there a way of using grep to search for a word in all directories except
those under /mnt ?
Anne
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Re: [newbie] What have I done?
Hi, Did you try using a different window manager? * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020716 13:11]: On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 7:02 am, you wrote: The Mem used is creeping up all the time. Normally, that's OK as well, since Linux wants to use all the available memory -- what's not active for programs is used for disk and for cache, which is a good idea, since unused RAM is wasted. OK But having the system slow down to a crawl is certainly not normal. Some people on the list suggest the offender may be jabberd but I'm not sure that's something you installed (do a ps aux | grep jabber). jabberd is something that is known to gradually swallow RAM -- on my machine it was eating about 200 megs (out of 256) after about 3 days. anne 4391 0.0 0.1 1792 596 pts/1R10:06 0:00 grep jabber I didn't think this was there - I don't use an instant messenger. Drastic it may be, but I may have to. Could you elaborate, please? Well, you just click on 'logout' from KDE which will kill all KDE and X related processes, leaving you at a console shell prompt (if you start kde with 'startkde'). Logout appears to stop X briefly and then goes straight back to the KDE login. There i s a long black screen delay before switching to the KDE login splash. The first part seems OK but there is a long delay at the loading the desktop - almost a minute - and the panel and restoring session icons are there a very long time, too. It does seem to be X, I think, as once a Konsole is opened it responds fast enough, and so does text editor. The KDE startup was extremely slow and everything else has been slow since. The system is almost unusable. Ouch. How long has it been since you restarted? 10:10am up 13:12, Whatever it is, it is being saved/restarted on bootup. Last night it was taking almost a minute to open a folder. This morning it is slightly better, at about 20 secs. I don't ask for the session to be re-started, but I suppose that the message may not be what it seems? I think the trouble may have started when I was trying to add my SCSI film scanner. Afterwards I switched the scanner off, and then told kudzu to remove the configuration, so there shouldn't be anything left. Apart from that, I've run out of ideas. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] directory sizes
Add -a as an option to du. Moshe * Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020711 20:01]: Robt. Miller wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Ross Pearson wrote: I'm having difficulty finding a way to display the total size of a directory and all its contents while at a console. Can anyone give any pointers please. du -b -h On my system this seems to show only subdirectories within a directory, not files within a directory. Is this the expected behavior? Alias does not show that du is an alias for some other command. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] rpm database
Hi, I tried installing some rpm packages (kde3) from the command line. It failed on dependencies - seems that rpm thinks I have nothing installed! I tried to run rpm --initdb It didn't help. When I typed rpm -qa It showed nothing. the rpm program I use is the one that came with the distribution (8.2). I later installed these packages with the software manager, and it worked. I guess that the software manager is just a front end to the same rpm, so I probably have some problems with the parameters, but I have no idea what it is. More generally, if I'm correct that these graphical tools are just front end to command line tools, is it possible to make them print what are the commands they perform? Moshe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Grep..?
In fact, you probably want *only* the name of the file, for which you can use grep -l ... Moshe * Jan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020701 18:49]: * Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020701 08:46]: the command looks like this: grep -i -A 2 ~/CDs/* -e searchterm will look inside of every file in ~/CDs/ directory, the -i switch means 'ignore the difference between upper and lowercase' so it can find Gaim when i search for gaim , then -A 2 means i want it to show me two lines After the matching line. and -e searchterm is... well, the search term. You might try the -H option to grep. It produces output like this, which might be a cleaner output: $ grep -H 'Senator' *.qif cash.qif:PSenator Inn cp91.qif:PThe Senator Inn Conf Ctr cp92.qif:PSenator Inn Conference Center cp.qif:PThe Senator Inn Conf Ctr cp.qif:PSenator Inn cp.qif:ASenator Inn Conference Cente -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, SQL, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] starting process in background
Hi, I don't what is this program, but I know some programs just can't run in the background (for instance, if they need to interact through the terminal). Did you try starting the program in the foreground and then putting it in the background? (by pressing ctrl-z and then bg) Moshe * Schwenk, Jeanie [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020605 21:54]: Can anyone tell me why a process that runs fine in the foreground will not run when it is started in the background? The process is the NetBeans IDE 3.3.1 on linux mandrake 8.2. If I start it without the (running in foreground), it is fine. However, when I startup the IDE in the background, it never comes up and the ide.log file is empty but there is a process that can be seen by doing a ps. Here's what the problem looks like (the 'ls' could just have easily been a return, or a cd or whatever): jchwenk@aster jschwenk]$ /opt/netbeans/bin/runide.sh [4] 17562 [jschwenk@aster jschwenk]$ ls mnt/ ALL/mozparty.pdf prod/ nbuser33/ tmp/Desktop/ docs/ localhost ourmon/ scripts/ Documents/ Mail/ staroffice6.0/ [4]+ Stopped /opt/netbeans/bin/runide.sh But 'ps -elf | grep netbeans' results are: jschwenk 17606 2320 0 17:35 pts/100:00:00 /bin/sh /opt/netbeans/bin/runide What's wrong? I've posted a request for help on this twice on the NetBeans list and have gotten no response. I have to conclude that 1. it's a really stupid question and no one wants to tell me that or 2. it's supposed to work like this or 3. no one else has this problem or 4. it's an OS problem or 5. it's something no one else does. Ok, I really don't think it is any of the above, but when the only things left are ridiculous, that must be it. Please, is there anyone who can start NetBeans in the background on linux? Jeanie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] compilation problem
Hi, Did you check that LD_LIBRARY_PATH contains /usr/local/lib ? (echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to check it) HTH * Rooms Frederic [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020604 12:41]: Hello, I'm trying to install ImageMagick 5.4.6 on Linux Mandrake 8.0. Everything went ok during the compilation. However, when I try to launch display I get the following message: display: error while loading shared libraries: libMagick.so.5: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory When I try to locate this library I find it in: /usr/local/lib/libMagick.so.5 What can I do ? Thank you. Fred Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Access to win partitions
Hi, Perhaps it is mounted without write permission. To check that type mount and check if it says 'rw' in the line corresponding to the windows partition. If that is the problem, you can fix it as follows: umount windows path mount +w windows path If this helps, you can modify the /etc/fstab file for this to happen automatically. See man mount and man fstab for details. Another possibility is that the windows partitions is of type ntfs. In that case, you can't write there, but I guess it's not it, since you say you had write permission before. HTH Moshe * Matt Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020604 13:37]: I posted yesterday about changing access rights to my windows partitions but i'm not sure it came up as i never actually received it! anyway, since reinstalling 8.2 i cannot get write permissions to my windows hard drives where basically all my documents that i need are stored etc. The 1st time i installed 8.2 i didn't have to do anything to get both read/write access to my windows drives so i can't work out how to get it now. I tried changing permissions using chmod a+w win_c but that doesn't give me write permissions, so either something is up or i'm using the wrong commands - probably the latter!! Can anyone help me as this is a real pain as i've just got most things working in Linux and was about to change Linux to my default o/s. Also does anybody else have any problems with Open Office.org 1.0 crashing loads under Ximian-Gnome? Cheers Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Finding out keycodes
Hi,
Try xev. It's a program that prints info about X events to the terminal,
including key codes when you press a key.
HTH,
Moshe
* Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020504 13:04]:
I have a Logitech keyboard with three keys which don't do anything in
Linux ('WWW', 'Mail' and 'Search'). To enable them takes three steps,
it would seem:
1. Find out what keycodes each returns;
2. Tell X that the keycodes exist (man xmodmap got me started);
3. Restart X, restart KDE 3, then use the KDE Control Centre to map the
keycodes to functions.
I'm stuck with the first step; does anyone know of an application which
does this?
Alastair
--
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Re: [newbie] gvim/vimx misbehaving (set guifont)
Hi, You could also set the gui font in some other file. I do it in ~/.vim/after/syntax/syncolor.vim HTH, Moshe * Stewart Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020416 15:57]: yes, it was being overridden by the system. I became root and struck that from the init script. seems like a poor system default if I can't set a font in .vimrc. thanks Moshe Kaminsky wrote: Hi, Did you go through all of the initialization scripts, to see if it's not overridden there? (To see what these scripts are do :help startup inside vim) Moshe * Stewart Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020408 21:46]: I've just upgraded from RH 7.2 to Mandrake 8.2 and gvim/vimx is now ignoring the set guifont directive in my .vimrc file. What's extremely odd about this is that after vim is launched, I can manually issue the command and it sets the font appropriately (yes, I've tried many many different fonts). Something else seems to be taking precedent, but I don't know where. thanks, stewart Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gvim/vimx misbehaving (set guifont)
Hi, Did you go through all of the initialization scripts, to see if it's not overridden there? (To see what these scripts are do :help startup inside vim) Moshe * Stewart Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020408 21:46]: I've just upgraded from RH 7.2 to Mandrake 8.2 and gvim/vimx is now ignoring the set guifont directive in my .vimrc file. What's extremely odd about this is that after vim is launched, I can manually issue the command and it sets the font appropriately (yes, I've tried many many different fonts). Something else seems to be taking precedent, but I don't know where. thanks, stewart Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how do you...
Hi, blackbox has styles - they contain info about colors, fonts, etc. The style files are usually in /usr/share/Blackbox/styles The format is similar to the Xresources files. You can read about it in the man page of blackbox HTH Moshe * Damian [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020404 09:44]: .enlarge blackbox fonts? looks pretty fast, but the menus are so small i'm going blind! i can't find the config files/options for this... thanks Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] alias problem
Hi, Perhaps you can give some more details, like what does happen when you type l. Also, what do you get when you type `alias l'? Moshe * L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020310 17:35]: I have made an alias in /etc/bashrc, $HOME/.bashrc and $HOME/.bash_profile as given below alias l=ls -alF --color=yes |more this doesn't give the desired/actual result as given in command line. Any help please. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED],? [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Killing a program
Hi, I'm not sure I understand the question, but in general to kill a program you can do ps -e to find all the programs running (or do 'ps -e | grep prog name'), then you see its PID (process id) and then kill -9 PID to kill it. HTH Moshe * Mithrilhall2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020227 07:47]: I installed a called Synapse Hotline X and I have it running in the background and I want to kill it but I have no clue. If someone could tell me how to kill this I would appreciate it. Thanks, Mithrilhall * * Mithrilhall's Linux* * Server * * AMD-K2 350MHz* * http://mithrilhall.redirectme.net * * _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Linux, cause i reboot less often than windows users reinstall... -- Moshe Kaminsky (Home) 08-9471073 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adding a partition
Hi,
I think that after you mounted the new partition as /home, it hides the
previous /home directory that you had (since the desktop settings are
stored there, this explains why your desktop has changed). I think that
what you should do is unmount this directory (using 'umount'), move your
/home directory to some other place (eg 'mv /home /home1'), then mount
back, and then move the contents of (say) /home1 to /home
('mv /home1/* /home').
HTH
Moshe
* Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020222 21:31]:
On Friday 22 February 2002 09:45, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
Marcia wrote:
Dear All,
I meant to setup my partitions differently when I installed LM8.1. I
ended up just mounting one small partition and now I would like to add
or mount a partition to give my LM and vmware more room. I have about 8
GB's of disk space covering a masterIDE drive and slave IDE drive. I for
some strange reason only mounted my /dev/hda1 partition which is a little
over 2 GB's. I have a small swap partition then a /dev/hda6 partition
that is over 4 Gb's formatted as linux native, then a slave drive
/dev/hdb which is about 2 Gb's formatted as linux native. Neither of
those partitions are mounted. I would like to mount and use /dev/hda6 but
being the newbie I am I do not know the best way to do this without
corrupting anything. What are the steps to take? Do I do this in
DiskDrake, Linuxconf, or another way? I do not want to lose any data on
the partitions. Any help here will be greatly appreciated. Thank you very
much.
Sincerely,
Marcia Waller
Marcia, if you run KDE, here's a newbie-way : Right-click an empty
spot on your desktop, then select run command. This opens a box, whre
you can type : kdf. Now, click run. You'll now see all your
partitions, provided they are mentioned in /etc/fstab. Simply select a
unmounted partition, rigt-click it and select the option : mount
device. You can even open it in a file-manager right away.
Here's the pro way : from a terminal, type : man mount and read
carefully, taking notes ! Then, set aside ten minutes for drills, and
you at least one inch taller !
If still unsuccesful, post your /etc/fstab file to the list.
HTH
Kaj Haulrich
Thanks very much for your suggestion. Unfortunately , I jumped the gun
yesterday and decided to go to the Mandrake Control Center and use Diskdrake
to mount the already existing ext2 partion in /dev/hda6. I mounted it as the
/home partition although I have a /home directory on my mounted /root
partition at /dev/hda1. After I did this I could no longer launch Diskdrake
and the run command above will not work. I can get to my /etc/fstab through
the command line. Here it is:
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom auto
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip auto
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip2 auto
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
My desktop changed without my changing it and I have not been able to print
from applications now. My email address book changed, too, and alot of
missing emails. I think I royally messed up a few things with some good ole
newbie action. Could someone help me through this? My goal is to move my
/home directory to my new /home partition on /dev/hda6 which is an ext2
formatted partition that I just mounted and named /home. I have been doing
alot of reading about this and it sounds like using the tar command would be
the best way to go. Any help with how to use it for what I want to do: move
/home/marcia directory to /home partition- will be greatly appreciated. Could
someone help me straighten out the mess I made plus accomplish what I was
trying in the first place? Thanks for your help.
Sincerely,
Marcia
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Re: [newbie] sed or awk or ?
Hi, I think you will have to supply some more details for a meaningful answer (like where do you find the names of these files) but if, for instance, you have all the file names in a file, you could run sed/awk on that file (to change, e.g., the line processed21c45.wav to mv processed21c45.wav adi21c45.wav) and then run the file that you get (source filename). If all your files are in one directory, you could get that file using ls -1 dir | filename (or do it all in one line, as in ls -1 dir | sed ... | filename ) Moshe * Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020126 06:54]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have hundreds of files to be renamed! for example processed21c45.wav to adi21c45.wav I've found how to use sed to change 'names' inside files, but no the file name itself. TIA Ricardo Castanho - -- delivery NOT reliable = [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Para mais informa??es veja http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjxSNdcACgkQqJymTCNNyXH+WwCaAi3EuKr/X/3KCglzfmRJ+Ziv tLIAni7WhukNnqxhAZ3Ips6vv34tw5ZW =5KpU -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Linux, cause i reboot less often than windows users reinstall... -- Moshe Kaminsky (Home) 08-9471073 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Baad gvim!
Did you try to change the font from within gvim? (just :set guifont=...) If this works, it might be some problem about the order in which the config files are read. Moshe * Chris Keelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020126 05:05]: Anyone know how to get gvim to behave? I'm running Mandrake 8.1 on my desktop and I cannot get it to recognize any font changes. With a 17 montior, the default font is just too small but editing the .gvimrc file doesn't seem to work. I'd be happy with 9x15 or 10x20 system fonts, but gvim just seems to override any of my customization. Do I have to hack on something besides .gvimrc? I'm running Enlightenment, with the GTK libs, if that helps. - C Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SRPMS
Hi, Maybe someone can explain what are the SRPMS? I usually install programs from a .tar.bz2 file, using the 'configure, make, make install' sequence. What should I do with the other files that I find the SRPM? (Especially the SPEC files, and the patches). What is the advantage of using these instead of the plain .tar.bz2 files? Thanks, Moshe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
