Re: File Management

2002-09-25 Thread Heimo Claasen
Thanks, Steven and others who replied to this thread. I suspect I have to go with this indeed: > Your best bet would probably be to just rely on your package manager. Hmm. Interesting, nevertheless: > This initially sounds like a good idea. In fact, I once went as far as > actually writing such

Re: PPP Question

2002-09-25 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 10:12 AM 9/26/02 +0800, Peter wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Curious. What does your man page for "ifup" say about where it looks > > for its default interfaces file? > >]$ pinfo ifup >Przemek's Info Viewer v0.5.8 >Error: could not open info file, trying manual >Error: No manual page foun

Re: PPP Question

2002-09-25 Thread Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Curious. What does your man page for "ifup" say about where it looks > for its default interfaces file? ]$ pinfo ifup Przemek's Info Viewer v0.5.8 Error: could not open info file, trying manual Error: No manual page found either. ]$ locate ifup |more /etc/sysconfig/ne

Re: debian install question

2002-09-25 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 06:21 PM 9/25/02 -0400, neil t wrote: >Greetings all- >Firsttnx for the help I have been receiving from the group. >ok... >I have an extra HD that I have slaved off of my >cdromI went ahead and have partioned it with >a linux primary and a swap file, then I formatted it. >I would like t

debian install question

2002-09-25 Thread neil t
Greetings all- Firsttnx for the help I have been receiving from the group. ok... I have an extra HD that I have slaved off of my cdromI went ahead and have partioned it with a linux primary and a swap file, then I formatted it. I would like to give Debian a try and want to install it on

Re: my linux connection is slow

2002-09-25 Thread Ramzez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I'm using RedHat 7.3; my connection is with ppp dialup... the connection is slow in all sense, first when try to stabilish the connection later when I try to surf on the web... the same with applications like browsers, mail apps, etc I supos

Re: Dumb Questions

2002-09-25 Thread Wladimir Foo
> Hi, Paul: > > There are no dumb questions... > There are, however, dumb answers. > It is up to you to separate the grain from the chaff. > IMHO, 'foo' is a polite synonym for 'fu' which is > part of 'fubar'. ergo, 'foo', as used commonly as a > placeholder, has no meaning. And here follows th

Re: Dumb Questions

2002-09-25 Thread Chuck Gelm
Hi, Paul: There are no dumb questions... There are, however, dumb answers. It is up to you to separate the grain from the chaff. IMHO, 'foo' is a polite synonym for 'fu' which is part of 'fubar'. ergo, 'foo', as used commonly as a placeholder, has no meaning. HTH, Chuck Paul Kraus wrote: >

Re: Install Slack/or/RedHat to SCSI HD???

2002-09-25 Thread pa3gcu
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 18:36, Hal MacArgle wrote: > Several days RTFM's, Books and trial/error's, no joy w/ a Seagate > SCSI HD and Adaptec 1515 Controller, except that DRDos7.03, MSDos6.2 > and MSDos7.0 all find it and assign C: automatically. I dont want to jump the gun, however i was

Re: auto login

2002-09-25 Thread pa3gcu
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 18:48, LL Phillips wrote: > If you buy LINDOWS root is the default user. > Lorraine The principles of linux are being explioted by Lindows, (by that i mean) get everyone to operate as root, before you know it linux will be just as vunarable as Windows, then window

Re: X

2002-09-25 Thread pa3gcu
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 16:59, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 01:24 PM 9/25/02 -0300, you wrote: > >Hi there > > > >Is there any program that usualy change the XF86Config file? > >cause everytime I change my XF86Config and start X it go back to the > >original > > Depends a bit on the distro, bu

Install Slack/or/RedHat to SCSI HD???

2002-09-25 Thread Hal MacArgle
Several days RTFM's, Books and trial/error's, no joy w/ a Seagate SCSI HD and Adaptec 1515 Controller, except that DRDos7.03, MSDos6.2 and MSDos7.0 all find it and assign C: automatically. HD configured using Seagates' Dos DM program with three partitions; one for Dos, 650mB, and the remainder i

Re: auto login

2002-09-25 Thread LL Phillips
If you buy LINDOWS root is the default user. Lorraine http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1803&page=3 Elias Athanasopoulos wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 04:19:10PM +, a a wrote: > > Hello > > Is there a way i can automatically login as root when i boot up the > > computer? > > M

Re: X

2002-09-25 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 01:24 PM 9/25/02 -0300, you wrote: >Hi there > >Is there any program that usualy change the XF86Config file? >cause everytime I change my XF86Config and start X it go back to the >original Depends a bit on the distro, but I can't think of any common app that would rewrite XF86Config *every*

X

2002-09-25 Thread Daniel Provin
Hi there Is there any program that usualy change the XF86Config file? cause everytime I change my XF86Config and start X it go back to the original thanks Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordom

Re: Dumb Questions

2002-09-25 Thread Jim Reimer
everything you ever wanted to know about foo but were afraid to ask is at http://tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/foo.html -jdr- On Wednesday 25 September 2002 10:38 am, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > Hello All , Not to prolong this threads death ... > > FUBAR , Old Military (& others) Fou

Re: Dumb Questions

2002-09-25 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All , Not to prolong this threads death ... FUBAR , Old Military (& others) Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition A less polite word was used in the original then too: foobar , To attempt to loose the 'Fouled' because of the less

Re: Dumb Questions

2002-09-25 Thread pa3gcu
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 13:23, Paul Kraus wrote: > What does foo stand for. It is used everywhere. I understand its just a > placeholder for the file name or what ever is pertinent to the context > it is used but I would still like to know what it means. I did read somewhere one that it wa

Re: Dumb Questions

2002-09-25 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:23 AM 9/25/02 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: >What does foo stand for. It is used everywhere. I understand its just a >placeholder for the file name or what ever is pertinent to the context >it is used but I would still like to know what it means. These days it doesn't "stand for" anything. It's

Re: PPP Question

2002-09-25 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 04:00 PM 9/25/02 +0800, Peter wrote: >Thanks Ray! > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Glad you got it working. One small correction on what I sent you > > before. > > > At 10:31 AM 9/25/02 +0800, Peter wrote: [...] > > > >There is no such file as /etc/interfaces > > > Sorry. Make that /etc/network/i

Dumb Questions

2002-09-25 Thread Paul Kraus
What does foo stand for. It is used everywhere. I understand its just a placeholder for the file name or what ever is pertinent to the context it is used but I would still like to know what it means. Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company 216.267.5775 Voice 216-267-6176 Fax www.pelsu

Re: PPP Question

2002-09-25 Thread Peter
Thanks Ray! [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Glad you got it working. One small correction on what I sent you > before. > At 10:31 AM 9/25/02 +0800, Peter wrote: [...] > >There is no such file as /etc/interfaces > Sorry. Make that /etc/network/interfaces . There are no interfaces files in my RH7.2