[newbie] three questions
Hi Folks, I have three questions that I can't seem to figure out with Mandrake 8.2. 1.) How do I change the name of my machine? While I was installing Mandrake, I didn't put in a name, and the default was dhcppc5. I would like to change it to something more suitable. 2.) How do I edit the shutdown script so I don't see KillAll [failed] on the Mandrake shutdown screen when I turn the box off. I have been running this Mandrake PC for a month and it has been great. I am convinced that if I could edit this command out of the shutdown script, it would cure the problem. 3.) How do I edit Apache so I can run Perl CGI scripts on my box. I am using the Mandrake default Apache set-up and I cannot seem to get CGI scripts to work. I have tried using the scripts in the cgi-bin and elsewhere and I keep getting an error message like the 403 error below. Forbidden You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/first.cgi on this server. Also, I want to thank everyone on this list. I have been lurking for the past month and I have learned a great deal here. - Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IBM Hard Drives?
Western Digital drives are by far the worst you can get. Thanks for the heads-up on Western Digital. I have been using WD hard drives for the past five years and have never had any problems. I had once WD 8 gig IDE drive run a file and print server for more than 100 straight days without a reboot. So now, I will get ready for them to freeze up and die. :-} - Steve
Re: [newbie] Perl
So, It's not exclusively a linux programmers language ? The others use it too. It's better for some things like internet use perhaps ? One of the many great things about Perl is it can run just about anywhere. Perl is used on Windoze NT, Win2000, Linux. Solaris, etc. It has even been ported to IBM's AS/400. Perl is used for most CGI scripts, but I personally think it is better for Unix administration. There are other languages that I think work better on the web than Perl like PHP and Java Server Pages. Python is also a very interesting language. - Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Perl
Hi John, Perl is a scripting language that comes standard with almost every major Linux distribution, including Mandrake. It's probably the most popular programming language on the Internet. Perl can be used for many things from system administration to processing HTML forms. If you want more information and tutorials on how to use Perl, visit O'Reilly's Perl.com and check out the Perl books at Amazon. Perl is also among the easiest programming languages to learn. If you have ever wanted to become a programmer, Perl is a great place to start. - Steve - Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NEWBIE 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 6:10 PM Subject: [newbie] Perl I often see reference in many situations to Pearl, but what eaxtly is it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] what is KillAll and how do I stop errors
Good afternoon folks, I've been running Mandrake on an old PIII 500 desktop for the past two weeks and everything seems to be working fine, except for when I go to shutdown (Halt). When I shutdown the box and Mandrake goes through it's process, a command KillAll pops up and then I get a failed message. It doesn't seem to hurt anything and I have been ignoring it, but I would like to get this machine running perfectly. Could someone tell me what KillAll does and how I can stop the error messages that I see when the machine shuts down. Thank you! - Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CD-ROM player woes
I can't seem to get my CD player to play music. I know that my sound card works because I can hear the sample sounds when I configued by AWE32 sound card with sndconfig, but when I slip in a CD and try to use the CD Player in KDE, I can't get any sound. The Player recognizes the CD and shows the corrent times for songs, but still no sound. I have tried the obvious - like cranking on the volume controls on the Player and the Sound Mixer, and still silence. Any and all help would be appreciate. I don't like singing to myself. - Steve
Re: [newbie] Hello?
I'm here, but I just joined this list 20 minutes ago. It does seem a bit slow, especially for a Linux newbie list. - Steve On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Josh McCaffrey wrote: Anybody left on the list? I start to wonder what's going on if I don't receive any mail for 3 days...
