Re: multiple x sessions?

2002-09-11 Thread Tom Goulet (UID0)
> Well, almost. Thanks -- now I remember having read this before! but > for some reason, the simple startx command puts me right into kde, > without the usual dialog box asking how I want to log in. This > happens regardless of what user I log in as. That is startx's job. I think you can use

Re: multiple x sessions?

2002-09-11 Thread Tom Goulet (UID0)
> Is it really straightforward to configure my woody system to allow > multiple X sessions on the same monitor? To start another X session: startx -- :1 It will end up running on the next available virtual console, and you can switch between them by using Linux's virtual console switchingness.

Re: Virtual Servers on Apache

2002-09-11 Thread Tom Goulet (UID0)
Try it this way: > NameVirtualHost 208.12.13.138:80 NameVirtualHost * > > DocumentRoot /var/www/NPC/ > ServerName www.npc-usa.com > > > For everything that isn't the default. > But regardless of which site I go to I end up in the directory for > www.npc-usa.com You have too many _def

Re: wget's Great; Is there a wput?

2002-09-11 Thread Tom Goulet (UID0)
> I need to upload a 700MB file to a remote Debian machine, and the > network is "iffy" between here and there. Is there a counterpart to wget > that will push a file and keep trying until all the pieces arrive? I will have to recommend: while ! rsync -vessh foo host: ; sleep 15 ; done -- Tom

Re: Kernel Panic with 2.4.19-686

2002-09-10 Thread Tom Goulet (UID0)
> VFS: Cannot open root device "306" or 03:06 > Pleae append a correct "root=" boot option Does it /etc/lilo.conf have the correct root= line? Does the kernel have IDE drivers (not as a module)? ("306" above is /dev/hda6 I think) Does the kernel have ext3 drivers (not as a module)? You can re

Re: /dev/pts (aka UNIX98 ptys) needed?

2002-09-10 Thread Tom Goulet (UID0)
> Will anything break if I dont have /dev/pts support compiled into my > kernel? Probably not. -- Tom Goulet mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UID0 Unix Consultingweb: em.ca/uid0/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: mtent warning - newbie

2002-09-10 Thread Tom Goulet (UID0)
> I got 3 rows of the flwg msg during booting: > "[mtent] warning: no final new line at the end of etc/fstab" This should fix it: echo >> /etc/fstab Make sure there are two >>s. > the flwg is my /etc/fstab file Please spell words out in full. > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. >