re: Command line questions

2002-10-05 Thread xxxx xxxxxxx
> 2. I have no problem changing to any directory that does not have spaces in > it but I have no idea of how to account for a space in a directory like in > the command "cd My Document"? You could also try this: $ cd "My Document" It works on my system, but might not on yours. Hope this he

Re: Command line questions

2002-10-05 Thread Elias Athanasopoulos
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 07:35:48PM -0400, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote: > 1. Is there an option to the ls command that will allow the scroll to page > like the old dos command dir -p would? O'Reilly's Linux in a Nutshell does not > so indicate but I have a hard time believing that this is so; that

Re: Command line questions

2002-10-05 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 07:35 PM 10/5/02 -0400, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote: >[...] >1. Is there an option to the ls command that will allow the scroll to page >like the old dos command dir -p would? O'Reilly's Linux in a Nutshell does >not >so indicate but I have a hard time believing that this is so; that just does

Command line questions

2002-10-05 Thread Frank Roberts - SOTL
After studious consultation with several of my Linux books and an all day experience in attempting to access the hard drive of a Windows box using Tomsrtbt I have a couple of command line questions. Background: Box was started on Tomsrtbt and HD was successful mounted. ls -a > Windors-C.txt un

Re: test

2002-10-05 Thread Chuck Gelm
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Re: kswapd (?!) error

2002-10-05 Thread Petre Bandac
On Saturday 05 October 2002 18:23, Ray Olszewski wrote: > OK. You want an opinion. It's only a guess, but I'd suspect a problem with > > your swap partition, since the failure described is a paging problem: > > > Oct 5 04:45:04 k kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging > > request at > >

Re: kswapd (?!) error

2002-10-05 Thread Ray Olszewski
OK. You want an opinion. It's only a guess, but I'd suspect a problem with your swap partition, since the failure described is a paging problem: > > Oct 5 04:45:04 k kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at > > virtual address 361dcf1b Also, ftp transfers tend to fi

Re: kswapd (?!) error

2002-10-05 Thread Petre Bandac
"More information on making sense of the dump is in Documentation/oops-tracing.txt" and "You can use the "ksymoops" program to make sense of the dump." seems like I've got some researching to do today :-) thank you, richard, for pointing the direction, petre On Saturday 05 October 2002 1

Re: kswapd (?!) error

2002-10-05 Thread pa3gcu
On Saturday 05 October 2002 13:28, Petre Bandac wrote: > petre@k:~$ uname -a > Linux k 2.4.18-HTB #4 Wed Sep 25 02:47:50 EEST 2002 i686 unknown > > it is a Slackware 8.1 installed a few weeks ago > > I have 256 MB RAM and 200 MB swap space > > I stay away for the experimental kernels, as what I wa

Re: kswapd (?!) error

2002-10-05 Thread Petre Bandac
petre@k:~$ uname -a Linux k 2.4.18-HTB #4 Wed Sep 25 02:47:50 EEST 2002 i686 unknown it is a Slackware 8.1 installed a few weeks ago I have 256 MB RAM and 200 MB swap space I stay away for the experimental kernels, as what I want from my system is stability. the uptime of the machine was at t

Re: kswapd (?!) error

2002-10-05 Thread pa3gcu
On Saturday 05 October 2002 05:16, Petre Bandac wrote: > can anyone translate in plain english the error below, please ? (the > computer was frozen, and though it responded to ping, none of the services > running - sshd, ftpd and apache - worked) No to translate it properly into English you would

Re: Make Linux bootdisk

2002-10-05 Thread pa3gcu
On Friday 04 October 2002 16:26, Abhijit Vijay wrote: > Hi All, > > Could anyone please tell me how to make a linux > bootdisk? Is it true that a linux bootdisk made for > one computer cannot be used to boot another linux > machine? Ray explained in great detail, however to expand on what he said

Re: read-only file system

2002-10-05 Thread pa3gcu
On Saturday 05 October 2002 03:02, a a wrote: > hello > im trying to edit a file in /etc/rc.d but it says "Read-only file system" > how do i change it to writeable? Files in /etc/rc.d/ are owned by "root" so one would need to be root or have root permissions to edit one of those files. > > than