Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie part 2
Hiya. - Conceptual #1. I'm struggling to figure out where Suse/Linux puts things. On XP, on the whole, programs are installed (by default) in c:\Program Files, dlls etc in C:\Windows and subdirs, user data in C:\Documents and settings\User\ and sub dirs. Is there a direct Linux equivalent? And I'm beginning to think that Suse ain't the same as Redhat? Can you give me a HoNe Rule Of Thumb for where to find stuff? Linux type operating systems tend to have the following layout (but YMMV). /usr - operating system and program files. /etc - system and program configuration files /home - personal account data (Documents and settings if you like) /tmp - temporary files and data /var - server data files such as mail spools and web content etc /mnt - mounted file systems (such as cdroms etc) This isn't exhaustive and is really just a guide - don't take me for gospel :) Suse is a different distribution to RedHat - the main differences between distrubutions are really found in the style of package management. RPM files are RedHats way of managing dependencies (program x needies libraries z,y and foo to run). I don't use Suse so I cannot say for sure what they use, but I don't think its RPM based. - Conceptual #2. Being a big Firefox fan I downloaded the RPM from mozilla.org to my desktop (as root) and ran it. It seems to have installed in a directory under the desktop, which, I suspect, isn't correct. Where should I have put it so that all users can run it? Its probably extracted the contents of the RPM instead of actually installing it - you should probably install a SuSE specific package if at all available. If not, try going for the regular (non rpm) installer that they have available. HoNe Q1: How do I uninstall apps? You can usually do this using the package management tools provided by the distribution. I'm not a Suse user so I couldn't give you anything specific but I'm sure any of the Suse users on the list could point you in the right direction. HoNe Q2: I've got this Suse 9.3 from the Linux mag. Can I 'install' that over what I've got? Will I lose anything (eg YaST online update or similar? I'm hazy as to what I get for paying fifty quid for the boxed version of 9.1 vs the free versions) Most distros offer an upgrade path between minor versions - upgrading major versions (ie. 9.1 ->10.0 ) can cause problems but you're usually ok within minor revisions. However, your milage may vary. Buying a boxed set of a distribution doesn't normally mean that the basic software is any different (depending on the boxset, extra packages may be thrown in though) - you are usually paying for either an x day support contract where you can get support over the phone/by email, or decent manuals describing setup procedures etc etc. Your boxset should have some info about what sort of support you get and for how long, if any. Hope this has been of some help, back to lurking now. Cheers. Russell. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Dapper gets thumbs up in the Daily Record.
Subhi S Hashwa wrote: > interesting how it's under sex & health headline:) or at least Quite. I was wondering what on earth Ubuntu had to do with sex or health :-) Cheers. Russell. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Re: Fwd: rpmdb: DB.LOCK
Peter George wrote: > Bizarrely not seeing my own posts hitting either list, or anyone's > replies. :-( > > Anyway, fsck from Kmoppix on /dev/sda1 & /dev/sda3 show OK. You said it was a PE1550? You could try the OMSA-Knoppix disks linked from: http://linux.dell.com/monitoring.shtml That would at least help you rule out hardware failure. (Double check that the version of OMSA included supports your machine first, YMMV as always). ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Help with SU
Phillip Bennett wrote: > Apparently when the permissinos are set as : rwxr-xr-x root named 60480 > Apr 10 2006 /bin/su it's not a good thing. Because su needs suid permissions to be able to set the uid to the one you are wanting. > Thanks for all the help though. It has been a very weird problem. With > random permissions like this though, I think it might be time to rebuild. > Has anyone seen this type of thing before? Have you run some sort of hardening script that removes suid/guid bits from scripts/programs on your system (such as bastille?) - this will remove normal user functionality from programs such as ping etc. Running su under sudo would have worked fine as you were running su as root and not as you. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Hardware question - slightly linux related :)
On 13/06/2007 22:32, Colin McKinnon wrote: > I've just had a Google - the 2950 is kind of small (2U) - and you want all > the > disks internal Putting the disks internally is the only design constraint > you've given - but it is a big problem! Try to rethink this if you can. Dell PE2950 can take 6 hotswap drives. If they are fully populated you could always expand using a PowerVault or somesuch. Only drawback is the more spindles, the more current you draw. We've got a few 2950s with a PV220S hanging off them. They work fine for the most part - depends on the Perc card that they talk to though. Perc5 cards never seem to quite have the same performance as we got out of Perc4s. But that's a whole different discussion... :-) ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Drupal and the society.......
On 24/02/2008 18:52, Willie Fleming wrote: Do we draw the line north or south of Berwick? I guess that's really argument about where we draw the soap line :-) ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Introduction
On 14/08/09 14:56, james tobin wrote: > open source talent acquisition consultant That's got to be the best euphemism for recruitment tart I've seen in a while. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
