Recovery help (Maybe OT)

2002-06-26 Thread szonyi calin
Hi I'm new to the list. If this is OT please tell me and i won't bother you again. I'm not a newbie but I need help. I managed to do a rm -rf / It erased my /bin /boot /dev and something from /mnt I recovered from backup but can't boot. I boot the default kernel, it boots fine. ... boot mess

Re: process time limit?

2002-06-26 Thread James Mohr
This does not specifically address your question, but I think this is actually the answer you wanted: http://www.linux-tutorial.info/cgi-bin/display.pl?266&0&0&0&3 regards, jimmo On Thursday 27 June 2002 01:39, Jim Reimer wrote: > I have a script run by cron once every half hour which > gets a

Re: process time limit?

2002-06-26 Thread Jos Lemmerling
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Jim Reimer wrote: > I have a script run by cron once every half hour which > gets a RADAR image, does some manipulation on the file, > and stores it. It's been running fine for a few weeks > now. > > However, when I got home from work today, the computer > was *very* sluggi

process time limit?

2002-06-26 Thread Jim Reimer
I have a script run by cron once every half hour which gets a RADAR image, does some manipulation on the file, and stores it. It's been running fine for a few weeks now. However, when I got home from work today, the computer was *very* sluggish, and 'ps' showed many many instances of both the sc

Re: gcc

2002-06-26 Thread Elias Athanasopoulos
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 01:37:16PM +0530, Kilaru Sambaiah wrote: > On Wednesday 26 June 2002 01:03 pm, Sridhar J (june end) wrote: > > Hello > > > > When I compile a C program using gcc, I get an a.out file. But when I type > > a.out, the error is "No such command" > > pwd is not in your path. Add

Automatically play an audio CD (resent b/c/o no solution yet)

2002-06-26 Thread Oliver Ob
Is there any way to simply have some background (console) task AUTOMATICALLY play that cd in background as soon as I put that cd into the drive? How do I do that? (console solutions please!) === thanks, also text pointers appreciated. cda is running (started with cda on)

ls --color=auto ?

2002-06-26 Thread Tim Fletcher
hi all, sorry, real newbie alert ;) on a version of mandrake i had installed, when i typed ls, the colors appered. i now use Cygwin on a windows machine, but my question is : do i have to place a shortcut in a file somewhere saying ls = ls --color=auto Thanks for your time tim - To unsubscribe

Re: CPU Utilization & Priorities

2002-06-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 01:50 PM 6/26/02 +, Gavin Laking wrote: >Hi, > >I'm struggling to understand exactly what my 'load average' is reporting. > >I run several applications at once, and by using 'top' I can ascertain >what applications are currently gobbling up the most memory and CPU >resources. At the minut

Re: Reg:gcc

2002-06-26 Thread Brian Bilbrey
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 05:26, Sridhar J (june end) wrote: > Doesn't it mean that a.out is in the current directory? So why I should go > to a parent directory as in ./a.out to execute it? Sorry, you're not understanding a couple of things. First, "./" is the *current* directory, not the paren

Re: gcc

2002-06-26 Thread Szekely-Benczedi Endre
./a.out maybe? To be sure you try to run it from the current directory. I think your PATH environment varianle doesn't contains the "." (current) directory... Szekely-Benczedi Endre -sysadmin "Petru Maior" University Targu Mures, Romania On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Sridhar J (june end) wrote: > Hello

Re: Reg:gcc

2002-06-26 Thread Gavin Laking
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 17:56:41 +0530 "Sridhar J (june end)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > Thanks to all of you who replied promptly to my question. I would like to > clarify one thing. When I compiled the program using gcc, I tried typing > a.out. When that didn't work, I did a ls -l whic

Re: Reg:gcc

2002-06-26 Thread Mark Gallagher
Sridhar J (june end) wrote: > Hello > > Thanks to all of you who replied promptly to my question. I would like to > clarify one thing. When I compiled the program using gcc, I tried typing > a.out. When that didn't work, I did a ls -l which showed me a file called > a.out*. > > Doesn't it mean t

Re: Reg:gcc

2002-06-26 Thread Jos Lemmerling
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Sridhar J (june end) wrote: > Thanks to all of you who replied promptly to my question. I would like to > clarify one thing. When I compiled the program using gcc, I tried typing > a.out. When that didn't work, I did a ls -l which showed me a file called > a.out*. > > Doesn'

CPU Utilization & Priorities

2002-06-26 Thread Gavin Laking
Hi, I'm struggling to understand exactly what my 'load average' is reporting. I run several applications at once, and by using 'top' I can ascertain what applications are currently gobbling up the most memory and CPU resources. At the minute when I run the Distributed.net client (which I stopp

problem with login

2002-06-26 Thread Alan Womack
Is there a way to check the results of each PAM module's result from the /etc/pam.d/system-auth and /etc/pam.d/login configuration files? I'm struggling with an in ability to log in while I get my ldap authentication going, but I don't know which layer is failing. The secure log isn't much

Reg:gcc

2002-06-26 Thread Sridhar J (june end)
Hello Thanks to all of you who replied promptly to my question. I would like to clarify one thing. When I compiled the program using gcc, I tried typing a.out. When that didn't work, I did a ls -l which showed me a file called a.out*. Doesn't it mean that a.out is in the current directory? So wh

Re: gcc

2002-06-26 Thread Mark Gallagher
Sridhar J (june end) wrote: > Hello > > When I compile a C program using gcc, I get an a.out file. But when I type > a.out, the error is "No such command" > > How do I execute the file? When you type "a.out", Linux checks the various "path" directories (e.g. "/usr/bin") for a file named "a.out

fonts

2002-06-26 Thread azie
hello there, I'm just wondering how to install fonts for linux. Can we use ttf fonts? How do we make sure that all applications can use the installed fonts? Thank in advance for those who can help me. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a mes

Re: gcc

2002-06-26 Thread Kilaru Sambaiah
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 01:03 pm, Sridhar J (june end) wrote: > Hello > > When I compile a C program using gcc, I get an a.out file. But when I type > a.out, the error is "No such command" > > How do I execute the file? > > Regards > Sridhar > - pwd is not in your path. Add it. otherwise type .

gcc

2002-06-26 Thread Sridhar J (june end)
Hello When I compile a C program using gcc, I get an a.out file. But when I type a.out, the error is "No such command" How do I execute the file? Regards Sridhar - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordom

Re: gcc

2002-06-26 Thread Joseph Jackson
Sridhar J (june end) wrote: > Hello > > When I compile a C program using gcc, I get an a.out file. But when I type > a.out, the error is "No such command" > > How do I execute the file? > > Regards > Sridhar > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > t