[expert] Learning from the masters...

2000-06-22 Thread José Ignacio Alvear Zapata
Hello everybod... I'm trying to understand how does the linux kernel works, but it's so confusing... I don't know where to start... Can anybody sugest me a good file to start with? Maybe include/linux/ctype.h? **I kow it's a hard job to do --and I'm not a very good C coder--, but I would

Re: [expert] Mdk71 - su question !

2000-06-16 Thread José Ignacio Alvear Zapata
Hello Ernie, i login as superuser! (root) on console 1 !! Then i want to switch to the user frank. su frank and i get the /dev/tty1 Permission denied. but the user id has changed... Why i get this message?? (with Mdk 7.1). bye -- Andre Steden [EMAIL PROTECTED] - GPG ID: 332441FB Hi...

Re: [expert] GNOME instead of KDE...

2000-05-18 Thread José Ignacio Alvear Zapata
I finally found the way to use gdm as the default DM. Just needed to change the word KDE for GNOME in /etc/sysconfyg/desktop. Thanks for all. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

[expert] GNOME instead of KDE...

2000-05-16 Thread José Ignacio Alvear Zapata
Hi to all: I'm trying to use KDE as less as possible, but there are some features that I still don't know how to set up with GNOME. Could some of you help me? My problems are: 1) I would like to dial to my ISP using some aplication like Kppp. Is there some for GNOME? 2) I'd prefer to use gdm

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7 Security Levels.

2000-05-16 Thread José Ignacio Alvear Zapata
Hi The security issues are well docummented on Mandrake's refference book. I only have it in spanish, so If you dont't have the book, I can translate (as well as I can =( ) the security related part for you. Get Your