Johnuse it in a shell script and put the shell script in one
of the /etc/cron.x directories.
Alan
John Kofinas wrote:
I use rdate once in a while to set my computers clock, but that is a manual
approach. Is there any automated approach to this?
Thanks
John
--- John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been lurking here for several months nw - just watching!!!
And last of all for all you males out there - Would someone please explain
A:What's a differential?
A type of equation.
B.How's it work?
The same way algebra does, but with a
John Aldrich wrote:
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
A friend told me to enable my IDE CD-writer by putting append="hdc=ide-scsi" in
lilo.conf (lilo was run afterward) and insmod ide-scsi in rc.local.
That allowed xcdroaster to have access to my CD-writer as scd0, but now I can't
read
Ian Hogan wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to get my DSL connection to work under Mandrake 7, and am having
some troubles. If anyone has any insight, I would be very grateful.
Pertinant details are below. Thanks for any help you can provide,
ian
The gist: I have a Cisco 605 Internal DSL
John Aldrich wrote:
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
Where the heck do I get the above file I"m trying to update my KDE Networks
package to the one in Mandrake 7 (I'm using Mandrake 6.0, KDE 1.1.2) and the
silly thing won't install because it can't find the exact version of libstdc++
John Kofinas wrote:
I use rdate once in a while to set my computers clock, but that is a manual
approach. Is there any automated approach to this?
Thanks
John
Well, there are several. The nicest I have seen is in
DrakConf/Linuxconf under date and time--it basically calls rdate
and
Stephen Bosch said:
What could be overriding the inittab line?
Have you got 'startx' in any of your startup scripts?
Sure don't. Taking the other guy's question as a clue, I commented out the last
line of inittab:
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
After I rebooted, sure enough, I
At 18:13 02/04/00 EDT, you wrote:
Stephen Bosch said:
What could be overriding the inittab line?
Have you got 'startx' in any of your startup scripts?
Sure don't. Taking the other guy's question as a clue, I commented out the last
line of inittab:
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
On 2 Apr 00, at 20:05, Tom Berkley wrote:
Delete the user, recreate the user, login as the user, startx as the
^
That was what I've done. But that's not a _real_ solution ! Please
read carefully trough the letters
jpilrose said:
Another solution is to just type linux 3 at the boot prompt then you
are sure
you will only go to level 3.
I =think= that works only for folks who haven't customized their lilo.conf. For
example, I type mx (Mandrake X) or mc (Mandrake Console... which doesn't work)
or
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Tim Wojtaszek" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not the original poster but I had the same problem, as did many others
as a search on DejaNews revealed albeit with no solution.
I had to change my host.allow and host.deny fileshave you done that?
Yes, yes...
If that's the internal modem that Dell ships, it's a WinModem.
The DeskPorte Fast 100 combo card, for one, works well. Haven't tried
others.
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| My Inspiron 7000 is currently dualbooting Win98SE and Mandrake 7.0.2 quite
| nicely. The only problem i am having is
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
I use rdate once in a while to set my computers clock, but that is a manual
approach. Is there any automated approach to this?
Set up a cron job to do this on a daily basis? weekly
basis??? Dunno...
John
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
John
It is in libstdc++ rpm
For Mandrake 7.0 it is in libstdc++-2.95.2-3mdk.i586.rpm
Yeah. Thanks. I found it. Unfortunately, according to RPM,
that would break several other programs, including
Netscape. :-( I guess I"m just going to have to add a third
Adding the '3' in there is what does the trick
Michael Holt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message -
From: "Lane Lester" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 4:01 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
jpilrose said:
Another solution is to
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
/dev/sr0 is another location where your cdwriter appears.
insmod is not the currently preferred method
You're correct on that. My bad. :-)
John
Hello,
I am currently using Debian/GNU-Linux and may switch to
Mandrake. Mandrake seems to be easy to update, but what
about upgrades from 7.0 to its successor. Debian provides
a very elegant way to do this. Is upgrading Mandrake a
easy job or complicated.
Marc
--
Sent through GMX FreeMail -
BTW, if you choose to do this from a console WINDOW, make
sure you use "su -" to get root status, as otherwise
"setup" isn't in your path, even when you use plain "su."
John
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
[snip]
now make sure inetd is running
/etc/rc.d/init.d/inetd status
Ug, it was not. Now, how do I tweak whatever to make sure it does
after the next reboot ?
Starting inetd did the trick - many thanks, I spent two days on this
one :-(
Well, one
just put it in a cron job.
man 5 crontab
On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, John Kofinas wrote:
I use rdate once in a while to set my computers clock, but that is a manual
approach. Is there any automated approach to this?
Thanks
John
Info world published Feb. 1, 2000, an artical by Dan Neel, where Dell announced
that it is pre-installing Linux on two of its laptop offerints. The Dell
Inspiron 7500, and the Latitude CPX. They were to be shipping these by the
second week of Feb, 2000.
Herman
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am currently using Debian/GNU-Linux and may switch to
Mandrake. Mandrake seems to be easy to update, but what
about upgrades from 7.0 to its successor. Debian provides
a very elegant way to do this. Is upgrading Mandrake a
easy job or
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
Don't know how well you know rpm but if not a lot of detail, hope this
encourages you to take a day or two and read the Maximum RPM book (at
least the first half) Most helpful thing any redhat or mandrake user
will ever do.
Well, I *did* try "whatprovides"
In addition, to make sure the clock is right upon bootup, I put the command
in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
Russ
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bug Hunter
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 7:01 AM
To: John Kofinas
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
Heeheeehee
John,
Does it feel like your arm is being twisted to upgrade to AIR? I
have a PPro running like a champ on it, FWIW.
Hmm...only slightly. :-) This will (hopefully) be a
DUAL-PPro. I have both processors in there, but can't run
both at once,
To add extra users on to your system, there are numerous programs that are
simple to use, adduser from the command line (my fav) "adduser foo" and then type
"passwd foo" and give the pass at the prompt. Or you can use linuxconfig,
DrakConfig, or kuser, to add users. Just run one of those
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 09:06:30AM -0600, Herman R.willett wrote:
Hi:
Just tried porting an app that I wrote back in 94 on SCO Zenix. This app has
been successfully ported to SCO Unix, and HP-UX. It is a straight Xlib C
application. I copied the source to my Linux box and ran the cc on
I haven't been following this thread, so excuse my ignorance. Did you say
that X works o.k.? If so, go to the Drakconf icon on your kde desktop and
then select the 'X configurator' button. That will allow you to adjust your
settings and whether you want to boot directly into X or go straight
Lane Lester wrote:
jpilrose said:
Another solution is to just type linux 3 at the boot prompt then you
are sure
you will only go to level 3.
linux 3 doesn't work for me...
i type:
linux init 3
(try that =) )
-Stephen-
Civileme wrote:
BTW, the Netscrape on 7.0 is the most stable I have seen--Only
once have I had my little watcher triggered... the little script
that sleeps and loops looking for a zombie lib.ld.so... to kill
-9 style.
Oooh... that sounds interesting... is that something you did yourself?
Civileme wrote:
I have a Cisco 675 that is doing me absolutely no good in an area
where rates are $330/month for 128K DSL IF you can get the
service. I cannot because there is no spare pair of wires coming
to where I live.
You guys should move to Canada =) This is the land of cheap, fast
This is true. And it should be made better.
But . . . it's really not possible to never have problems. There's too
darn much varient hadware out there, and exhaustive testing is
impossible.
[FWIW, I've had the Win95 ok / Win98 won't install on THREE of the
FOUR computers I've tried it on
Shouldn't need to insmod or modprobe at all.
Most likely,
a) the IDE devices should stop moving once you get rid of the insmod.
b) the SCSI devices all got bumped up one in the chain.
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| A friend told me to enable my IDE CD-writer by putting
I was writing code for maximum portablity on Unix and other systems 8
or 9 years ago, and not striving to make it the smallest that could be
achived, though 15 years ago I can remember sweating how small I could
make it to cram stuff under the 640k line, and cursing Bill's name for
introducing
That really *is* odd. Are you sure that this is consistent,
reproducable behavior?
Is this an ancient printer, perhaps?
I had an old one that could be either tractor-fed or sheet fed (like a
typewriter), and if switched into sheet-feed mode it would do that.
Is it possible that the linux
You might try symlinking from whatever you really have to that and see
if it works.
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| Where the heck do I get the above file I"m trying to update my KDE Networks
| package to the one in Mandrake 7 (I'm using Mandrake 6.0, KDE 1.1.2) and the
| silly thing
The differential on a car allows the wheels to turn at different rates
of speed so that you can steer while under power.
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| --- John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I have been lurking here for several months nw - just watching!!!
|
| And last of all for all
Well, of _course_ if you are running as root and doing stuff in the
user's directory any files you create are owned by root.
The real solution: don't do that.
The real fix after you've done it: in the same directory,
chown -R user.user .
For user "user".
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
|
Yes, that's what he wants to do:
Allow a certain user (call him "fred") to CREATE USER ACCOUNTS,
but deny fred the ability to, say, write to the /usr/bin tree.
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| To add extra users on to your system, there are numerous programs that are
| simple to use, adduser
"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote:
You guys should move to Canada =) This is the land of cheap, fast and ubiquitous
DSL...
I pay $27 US a month for 1.5 mbps =)
I tried to get my friend in greater Detroit (!!!) onto DSL recently - no service
in his area.
Desperate, we looked into ISDN -- no
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Charles Curley wrote:
Is there a Mandrake 6.1 for 486? Or can I use the version I have? I
thought 6.1 was 586 up, but I see, RTFMing, that the box says 486 up.
yes, there is one. search in www.linux-mandrake.com. I've
downloaded it already, but I have not tested
On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
Hmm a virus-like Linux distro. Nope. Don't think it's likely to happen. Not
an auto-install version, but perhaps a version where you CAN install from a
central server, but that's already possible. :-)
yes,
I am able to get ppp running, and i am assigned a local IP address
dynamically.
I can run netscape locally and things like that, but can't get a
remote server to open up an x window on my local machine.
(I get the "can't open display" message")
i ssh over to a remote server.
i can, if need be
Hi !
Sorry but I didn't find the address of wish-list what somebody
mentioned. So I send my wishes here and hope that the Mansrake
developers read the list.
1.) sudo - I didn't find the package what I found extremely useful
2.) _complete_ manual for MSEC. Where/how could I modify the
scripts
install the sudo rpm.
then, give the user access to passwd. be careful, as sudo can easily be
misconfigured to allow access to all files. Don't ever use the word ALL
in sudoers.
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Harald Wolf wrote:
Hi,
i want do enable a user to create other user accounts and set
I'm pushing kernel 2.0.36 into a 20 meg flash disk. I'm having trouble
getting pam to recognize the users in /etc/passwd. I'm copying the entire
pam.d directory in /lib/security.
Can someone give me some hints? I've got it booting in about 9 meg
worth of flash now. If it goes to 15 meg,
I switch between Mandrake 7.02 and Win98 SE. I know, I know... but I
have clients who use Windows so I have no choice.
Under Linux I can reach any website without difficulty, hell even using
the floppy disk QNX and it's tiny browser I can do this.
Under Win98 there are numerous sites which
Found a good use for windoze, booted it up
yesterday for my daughter and it came up
wanting to adjust my clock for "daylight
savings" time, so I did, it did, and here I am!
Vern
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
I use rdate once in a while to set my computers
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
You out there who Expect that a group of volunteers working almost in
isolation can produce perfect code every time, which runs on every variety
of equipment - just think of the very small steps taken during these past
60 or so years.
Kinda makes a case for
After reading all the mails about this getting not installed and
that not working with MDK7 and some people nailing MDK7-CDs on
their garage walls
Just for a change here's a small success story:
I read the SuSE cdb in search for a printer for my MDK7 box. I
read the vast printer database on
Vern,
Nobody can help you with the video card until you tell us the maximum
capabilities of the monitor it has to feed. Most popular video
cards are way overkill for the monitors people actually have and can
afford. Running up towards the maximum capability of any monitor is
usually a mistake
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 16:33 -0300, Marcos Dione wrote:
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Charles Curley wrote:
Is there a Mandrake 6.1 for 486? Or can I use the version I have? I
thought 6.1 was 586 up, but I see, RTFMing, that the box says 486 up.
yes, there is one. search in
Did I post to the wrong list? Did I miss an obvious FAQ? My problem
seems to be Mandrake 7-specific, and v7 FAQ isn't incomplete.
Maybe my question's just too puerile, but if someone could at least
point me in the right direction?
thanks,
-Tim
Tim Hammerquist wrote:
First, I apologize if
Civileme said:
"rdate -s (yourfavoritetimeserver); hwclock --systohc" (without
What is a good choice for "yourfavoritetimeserver"? Please give the full URL or
whatever goes in the linuxconf field.
--
Lane
Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
Using Linux to get where I want to go...
You guys make me sick! :-)
BellSouth says I'm lucky to have
my 24K wire! Still waiting for satelittes
here!
Vern
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
Civileme wrote:
I have a Cisco 675 that is doing me absolutely no good in an area
where rates are $330/month for 128K DSL IF you can get the
Sounds like you need to use "xhost" to allow the remote machine to access
your X display. When you ssh in, X11 forwarding is normally setup through
ssh itself.
Try doing "xhost +remote.machine.com" on the machine you want to allow
connections to, then opening up the X app.
Of course, why not
** Reply to message from Lane Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] on
03 Apr 2000 17:49:40 EDT
Lester, since you're in the states, goto:
http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/service/nts.htm
And pick one from the NIST "server address" list! They all work
George
Civileme said:
"rdate -s
beowulf cluster?
My idea is for a network of several hundred sparc stations
dave
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
Hmm a virus-like Linux distro. Nope. Don't think it's likely to happen. Not
an auto-install
Hello,
I am new to this list.
I searched mandrake site but couldn't find any information about making
comps, compss, compssList, compssUsers files.
I modified hdlist and deplists to remove some packages from the original
mdk 7.0 distribution.
I made comps, compss, compssList, compssUsers
The NIC section of the RealPort card is working fine...it talks at 100Mb
with the rest of my LAN and even surfs thru the ICS gateway just fine.
The Modem is a different story, as far as I could can tell it's setup
properly(but I'll be honest and say I have never had to setup a modem under
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
It might be cheap but at least our fingers are thawed enough to use a keyboard.
8-)
Isn't Cleveland a two hour drive from Toronto? I didn't know it was in the
Banana Belt =)
-Stephen-
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
I guess you are referring to the new mdk7 for 486 (needed
because v.7.0x is for 586 or up). Charles was asking about v.6.1
working on a 486.
Yes, Charles, I installed a 6.1 on a 486/40MHz w/ 64M of ram. It
works nice although I don't use X on it.
No, this printer isn't _that_ old. I think it was
purchased about a year and a half ago. It is an inkjet
printer, but it does seem like the wheels or rolls or
whatever feeds the paper thru aren't quite running the same
speed. But again, how would that be linux specific?
Monte
--- "Brian T.
Entering "mx 3" does not prevent X from autostarting. Here is the lilo.conf
stanza:
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdk
label = mx
vga = normal
append = "mem=124M"
root = /dev/hdb8
read-only
--
Lane
Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
Using Linux to get where I want to go...
I'm also dual booting, I've noticed that Windoze seems to have quite a
problem with connecting to different sites, don't know how to answer other
than - just use Linux!
Michael Holt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scott Sweeney wrote:
You might want to try the Microsoft Windows [expert]
mailing
list.:P
Fire up kppp and click the setup option then select modem tab followed
by the modem query. As long as the Xircom modem is not a winmodem (don't
think it is) then you should get a successful test. You may have to
configure the serial port id (/dev/ttyS1 probably since your internal
serial port is
vern wrote:
You guys make me sick! :-)
BellSouth says I'm lucky to have
my 24K wire! Still waiting for satelittes
here!
Vern
What a bummer. They've been offering 1.5bps ADSL in the N.O.
area since early '99. Cable's been around that long, too.
At %50/mo, ADSL ain't cheap, but I've
Your point is taken. However, since I work primarily in Linux, and since I trust and
respect the opinions of THIS group rather than any Microsoft mailing list, therefore I
posted to this list. No offence was intended.
I also regard the gurus on this list to be better informed re TCP/IP, and I
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
After reading all the mails about this getting not installed and
that not working with MDK7 and some people nailing MDK7-CDs on
their garage walls
BWWHH! HOWWEE! I love great!!
I'm really disappointed. Now what do I do with the
I know this subject has been covered, but I can't find the the old
email.
Running Mandrake 6.1 and looking for a way to improve the poor Netscape
fonts. If someone could point me to the solution I would appreciate it.
Thanks
Pat
Okay Ron I was a little vague mainly because
I really didn't know what I wanted. I need and
can afford pretty basic video. I found a Matrox
Mystique 2 MB card for $31 on the net the other
night and got that. The Linux hardware site says
it's great and I know it can do windoze I will probably
Nope, it's NOT the internal modem, when I bought the laptop I specifically
told them to leave the modem OUT. The one I am having a problem with is a
Xircom Realport card..it's the Card that is a 10/100 Nic and a modem in
a Type III PCMCIA card.
--Dave
At 07:08 AM 4/3/00, Brian T.
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
You guys make me sick! :-)
BellSouth says I'm lucky to have
my 24K wire! Still waiting for satelittes
here!
Vern
Hmm...well, I've got ISDN... and I'm a Bellsouth customer. :-)
John
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
8.) a console or GUI interface for ISDN ifaces - once again, I'm
rather lazy
Errmm...I thought we already HAVE a GUI interface. What's KISDN if not a GUI
interface for ISDN??? Granted I haven't used it since I'm on a lan-based ISDN,
but Also, the package
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
Civileme said:
"rdate -s (yourfavoritetimeserver); hwclock --systohc" (without
What is a good choice for "yourfavoritetimeserver"? Please give the full URL or
whatever goes in the linuxconf field.
Two that I use regularly are time.nist.gov (Nat'l Institute
Mike Tracy Holt said:
I haven't been following this thread, so excuse my ignorance. Did you say
that X works o.k.? If so, go to the Drakconf icon on your kde desktop and
then select the 'X configurator' button. That will allow you to adjust your
settings and whether you want to boot
Stephen F. Bosch said:
linux 3 doesn't work for me...
i type:
linux init 3
(try that =) )
No, it doesn't work for me. What does your linux.conf look like? I have
customized mine for shorter entries: win, mx, mc, and m2. The idea is that win
starts Win98, mx starts Mandrake in X,
Saw your post, Tim. I'm still trying to reproduce the error.
Perhaps you could post output of
# dmesg
# cat /etc/fstab
Civileme
Tim Hammerquist wrote:
Did I post to the wrong list? Did I miss an obvious FAQ? My problem
seems to be Mandrake 7-specific, and v7 FAQ isn't incomplete.
I can understand. I have been coding since 1973 and first used
'on-line' computing in '77. I remember coding on PDP8-10, and
using punch tape to feed the things. I remember trying to reduce
the size of 'working' code. So those same rules followed even
today when I have to turn out a
xhost +
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| I am able to get ppp running, and i am assigned a local IP address
| dynamically.
| I can run netscape locally and things like that, but can't get a
| remote server to open up an x window on my local machine.
|
| (I get the "can't open display"
** Reply to message from Pat Mc [EMAIL PROTECTED] on
Mon, 03 Apr 2000 21:05:46 -0400
I know this subject has been covered, but I can't find the the old
email.
Running Mandrake 6.1 and looking for a way to improve the poor Netscape
fonts. If someone could point me to the solution I would
OK there seemed to be some interest, so here it is in its
simplest form. This one kills a single zombie netscape and all
its children.
I have some difficulty with the fact that there are orther
species of wild netscapes which this routine does not hunt, but I
am still testing netshkape2.
John Aldrich wrote:
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
You guys make me sick! :-)
BellSouth says I'm lucky to have
my 24K wire! Still waiting for satelittes
here!
Vern
What?
Do the satellites take a move when they approach your home?
I do believe they are up there.. DirectPC is
Lane Lester wrote:
Civileme said:
"rdate -s (yourfavoritetimeserver); hwclock --systohc" (without
What is a good choice for "yourfavoritetimeserver"? Please give the full URL or
whatever goes in the linuxconf field.
--
Lane
Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
Using Linux
thanks jon,
yes, i would have thought that ssh would take care of this,
but it isn't.
i tried both of your suggestions, and still get:
Xt error: Can't open display.
i would have thought that ssh would change $DISPLAY, but
i need to do this manually.
i have noticed that my local .Xauthority
Scott Sweeney wrote:
You might want to try the Microsoft Windows [expert] mailing
list.:P I'm sure you'll find plenty of free support there...j/k
(Sorry, I just -had- to say something.)
On 3 Apr 00, at 13:37, John N wrote:
I switch between Mandrake 7.02 and Win98 SE. I know, I
Lane Lester wrote:
Entering "mx 3" does not prevent X from autostarting. Here is the lilo.conf
stanza:
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdk
label = mx
vga = normal
append = "mem=124M"
root = /dev/hdb8
read-only
Again -- have you tried "mx init 3"? Init doesn't know you're
Pat Mc wrote:
I know this subject has been covered, but I can't find the the old
email.
Running Mandrake 6.1 and looking for a way to improve the poor Netscape
fonts. If someone could point me to the solution I would appreciate it.
Thanks
Pat
http://www.mandrakeuser.org
It is
I was in as my normal self, in X, opened up an xterm window and su'ed so I
could change something in my lilo.conf. Everything went fine until i logged
out of X, it said roughly " Id 1 respawning to quickly - terminal disabled
for 5 minutes." I saw this and couldn't understand how id 1 (root)
Pathere's a good start.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU.html
Alan
Pat Mc wrote:
I know this subject has been covered, but I can't find the the old
email.
Running Mandrake 6.1 and looking for a way to improve the poor Netscape
fonts. If someone could point me to the
Lane Lester wrote:
Stephen F. Bosch said:
linux 3 doesn't work for me...
i type:
linux init 3
(try that =) )
No, it doesn't work for me.
The key part of this is the "init 3" part -- it should come after whatever profile
name you've configured lilo to use for Linux.
If you
Wayne,
All you have to do is install the kernel-source rpm from your
distribution (just drag and drop it on to a running kpackage) and all
will come good. Once the sources are installed, you can ONLY run
'make xconfig' from an su root terminal window at /usr/src/linux/.
Wayne wrote:
When I
FWIW, kernel "hacking" usually refers to actually whaling away on the
source code.
This is no longer necessary; you can build a slimmed-down custom kernel
with just "make xconfig" and the instructions in gives you. Quite
easy but tiresome.
OTOH, the benefit is small; most of the drivers are
rpmdrake
is a nice tool that satisfies the dependencies, though it fails to
allow for multiple selection.
To clarify: There is no wishlist list; when you report bugs with the
bug-reporting list, you can specify
Severity: wishlist
in order to mark a wish-list item.
To find the bug-reporting
The problem is that if it's win-specific TCP/IP problems, well, it
provides an opaque view and besides we're all here 'cause we want to
get *away* from Windows.
I mean, really, we all love ya', but Windows questions *will* be better
answered by Windows users than Linux users, methinks.
On
I don't think that any of us has a clue what might be causing it.
Might be helpful to know the type of HD; some HDs are on bad terms with
586 code because they were out of spec before and now the code is fast
enough to notice.
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| Did I post to the wrong list? Did
You ought to know that any hardware device failure, pretty much, claims
to be "busy" even when that's far removed from the real problem.
You should probably verify that you have the right device.
Try this:
cat /dev/modem (in one xterm)
cat /dev/modem (in another)
In the second xterm, try:
Stephen,
You MAY be missing the anonftp RPM, which is not installed by
default.
If the client is expecting an anonymous login, this RPM may be
necessary.
Stephen Boulet wrote:
Unfortunately, this didn't help. :(
Any other suggestions?
--
Regards,
Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
Will,
Were you not aware that an rgrep RPM is included with Mandrake, and
should have been installed to provide an rgrep command? (see man
rgrep)
Will Merkens wrote:
RECURSIVE GREP
Here is a nasty One-Liner:
Did you wish you could grep through files recursively
down subdirectories:
Russ,
The slocate databse by default includes all the files from all the
partitions that were mounted the last time updatedb was run
You have to run (as root) updatedb to initialise this database and
whenever you want it to be made up to date.
It is set to run daily automatically at about 4
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