[expert] Bash the Path

2002-05-22 Thread C.H. Close
Hi I am having a problem persuading Bash to accept a script to add some additional environment variable to a Konsole environment. The script I am using simply adds some stuff to the PATH statement as well as some extra environment variables typically the file contains statements as

Re: [expert] Bash the Path

2002-05-22 Thread C.H. Close
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2002, C.H. Close wrote: Hi I am having a problem persuading Bash to accept a script to add some additional environment variable to a Konsole environment. The script I am using simply adds some stuff to the PATH statement as well

Re: [expert] SCSI Boot Problem

2001-12-25 Thread C.H. Close
Larry Sword wrote: C.H. Close wrote: Hi Larry, Thanks for your reply. Are you saying that the initrd image is run before the cards SCSI bios gets loaded I hadn't thought of this; but then what is the difference between powering off at the switch and pulling the mains

[expert] SCSI Boot Problem

2001-12-24 Thread C.H. Close
. I did have to move the interrupts around though to get it to work. Can anyone throw any light on this!! Regards, C.H. Close Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] SCSI Boot Problem

2001-12-24 Thread C.H. Close
C.H. Close wrote: Hi All, I have Mandrake 8.1 installed on an IBM IDE drive as a dual boot with Win98 (my sons network games need this). Since I did not want MS on my main drive I resurrected an old Adaptec 2940A pci SCSI card and an IBM 4Gig drive to go with it (the card also

Re: [expert] DNS problems

2001-12-10 Thread C.H. Close
Hi, I suspect that you may be suffering from dynamic modification of your resolv.conf file. Try the following: Start your internet connection: Start a terminal session and su. Then less /etc/resolv.conf. I wouldn't mind betting you find something there that wasn't there when you were

Re: [expert] Linux on a IBM pc server 500?

2001-11-30 Thread C.H. Close
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 30 November 2001 03:02 pm, Expert wrote: Is it possible? A bud of mine picked up an old IBM PC server 500, and unless it is not a bios problem, the stupid thing keeps asking for a Reference disc I

Re: [expert] Fundamental problem with Linux on the mass markey desktop?

2001-09-08 Thread C.H. Close
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The constantly changing APIs/libraries. Moving from mdk7.2 to 8.0 required a complete reinstall to make sure no ghosts from the past remain to cause problems. This is because massive amounts of upgraded libraries were

[expert] Termcap on Mandrake

2001-09-05 Thread C.H. Close
Hi, I have been trying to logon to an old SVR4 server that we have on our work network we run a curses based Db app that I wish to access. On the windows machines on the network I can access it using a simple telnet app using the ansi terminal setup (slightly modified by me to make the

[expert] SCO Binaries on Linux.

2001-09-05 Thread C.H. Close
Hi All, Anybody really clever here that can tell me whether I can run SCO 3.2 binaries on Linux Mandrake. I have seen vague references to this on a web search but I cannot find any definate information. From what I have found there seem to be some kernel modules that support it but I