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"Every group has a couple of experts. And every group has at least one
idiot. Thus are balance and harmony (and discord) maintained. It's
sometimes
ct Halt/Reboot.
The GUI login screen can do shutdown and reboot, but I want to also
allow that from a terminal (without the Ctrl+Alt+Del hack).
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While I know how to get it to reappear, my dad sure doesn't.
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though my name is in
/etc/shutdown.allow and I specified the -a switch ("use
/etc/shutdown.allow"), but I _can_ Ctrl+Alt+Del and turn off the
computer during the memory check.
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with telnet, then.
What's the package I want?
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it's still there, waiting to pounce, how can I slay
it once and for all?
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think Axalon mentioned that HE had problems with KDE+32bpp, so
even that's not a real solution.
It worked in 16bpp.
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He recognizes me again!
Odd...
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spaghettified and bloated.
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rebooting into runlevel 3? Is there a way to stop kdm and X
after having booted into runlevel 5?
Thanks in advance, guys
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gtop reports some pretty bad misallocations of disk space... I think
I'll shrink what I can and make room for a /usr/local/ partition.
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Try: Ctrl-Alt-F2 (thru F6)
To get back to X: Ctrl-Alt-F7
That works to hide X, but it's still running.
telinit is what works.
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daemons.
Thanks!!!
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, though.
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it's
quiet. The volume isn't standard. Why, my first computer had a volume
control for it! It was broken, though--I had to apply pressure to that
control for the buzzer to even work.
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A Netscape bug causes it to try to be black and white when run at 24bpp.
Was there a fix for this? I'd appreciate it.
Yes, I used MandrakeUpdate.
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You mean the bpp?
I don't know what the "bpp" is.
Bits per pixel, a.k.a. color depth. I had to set that for the printer.
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with a text editor, but it looks like we're out of
options.
So NOBODY has ever set their print quality in Linux?
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t;). Of course, you
have to run printtool as root.
I'll look into it.
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. I've seen a similar feature before, but that was for printing
("Enter print commandline: ").
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, you'll probably
place all of its contents in /root/tinyfugue-1.2.3. The make
install script will place the binaries where they need to go.
That's WAY too messy for me! I'll go with /usr/src/, unless anyone
objects.
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't load bindings.tcl
Start from control-panel or set environment variable
CONTROL_PANEL_LIB_DIR to the control-panel library dir.
(normally this is /usr/lib/rhs/control-panel)
[andy@localhost andy]$
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keep all my user files. root has stuff too... mostly
configuration, though, but that's annoying stuff to replace.
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need X.
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Sometimes in WindowMaker my mouse pointer disappears. I can get it
back by restarting WindowMaker.
My dad'll probably have some big trouble with this one, so how can I
solve this problem PERMANENTLY?
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How should I install a package distributed in .tar.gz form? It's
called TinyFugue, and it's a MUD client for UNIX (source code form).
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..., and fix it the way it was!
Where are all these Attributes... settings saved on disk?
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quot; and went to the Advanced Options pane. There I
found the Don't Let It Take Focus box checked as well! I turned that
sucker off, and now it works very nicely.
Thanks for offering your help, anyway.
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/dev/hda1 /mnt/c vfat exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
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I printed three pages of graphics (actually HTML), and it took
FOREVER!!! How can I tone down the print quality and (consequently)
save time and ink?
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it?
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, if that helps. All the kmail titlebars are disabled in
appearance.
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hing about attempting to access byeond end of device...
So, guys, what's up? I want my Mandrake back!
p.s. I'll be getting a nice 4-CD Red Hat 6 set tomorrow (or soon).
Cheap*Bytes had a great deal on it! It was, uhm, $7 US.
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MouseSystems-compatible mouse?
p.s. It works in DOS, too. I have a driver there! Unfortunately
Windows will not allow it to be loaded! Windows DOES have a driver,
though... it just lets the mouse sit still. Stupid Windows... it used
to work.
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that I didn't have the serial number.
Please! Anyone! If you have a three-button serial Mouse Systems mouse,
could you (privately) send me the serial number on the bottom of your
mouse?
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How come my posts never seem to reach this list? Even if they hit my
mailbox, I never get replies.
Could someone please reply privately to this message?
And what about the PS/2 port problem? The pppd problem?
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"Success is a disease; it can make smart people think they can't lose."
oped on the Internet. Maybe some nice rich dude
(NOT thinking of Bill!) will contribute some cash that can be used for
paid banner ads, magazine spots, or even TV time.
Then again, I often feel that TV ads cheapen a product... I'd HATE to
see a cheesy Linux ad on TV.
Andy Goth [EMAIL PR
it between a laptop and a PC?). It should plug into the serial
port.
I don't want to pay more than $80, but I also need a fast, reliable 56K
modem. I heard about a Diamond sale recently, but I no longer have the
URL.
p.s. This will the be first modem I have ever bought in my entire life.
Andy Goth
Glad to hear it worked for you.
I kinda missed out ton this thread, but I think it was about troubles
installing WindowMaker.
I installed it from my Cheap*Bytes Mandrake 6.0 CD, and it worked
perfectly right away.
It's beautiful.
Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth ICQ
takes you to the
graphical login screen). I think you can accomplish that by typing
"linux 3" at the LILO prompt.
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be a smaller swap size...
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(or can obtain) some rpms for
them.
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"Success is a disease; it can make smart people thin
ame all .txt files to .doc with REN
*.TXT *.DOC, Linux won't handle mv *.txt *.doc the same way. I haven't
tried it yet, but I imagine it will simply not work. If you want to do
things like that, you can make a tricky shell script called ren or
rename.
Andy Goth
Already partitioned into two equal sizes? Why?
It's a long story but I wanted to make 3 partitions (2 of about 750 MB
so I can store files there and get them ready to burn to CDR), and then
the 3rd partition as just a separate drive. During the drive install my
mouse was disabled so i
It seems the Linux OS is very complex so far.
And what are you basing this on?
What is the true advantage
to running this OS rather than a Windows 98 system?
Linux is far more stable, and you have the source code. It appears to
be better supported, too. Does Microsoft have mailing lists
Can LILO be used to boot MS-DOS from an extended partition? Probably.
Will MS-DOS have any problems with that?
Yes you can load MS Dos from LILO in an extended partition. Dos
shouldn't have any problems with it.
Okay. Cool. I was asking since I have a very fun game that has
incredibly strict memory requirements. It needs tons of conventional
memory--maybe 600k--and requires that no memory managers
Go ahead and finish the install despite the boot disk and LILO not working, and
use loadlin to boot Linux. Then you can go 'head and try installing LILO or
making a boot disk manually.
If you still can't, you may have to use loadlin indefinitely... if so, I'd
suggest editing the msdos.sys
i'm tryin gto install linux for teh first time and i have the image-ISO
file stored on a CD-R that i burned. i tried to download the boot.img
file to stick on a floppy disk, but the image file is 1.4MB and every
disk that i have formatted and tried comes to 1.38MB--there is some
whacked file
try ftp.linux-mandrake.com
Uh... sorry. This computer (which I do not have constant access to) has
a slow modem, and my PC doesn't have a modem at all. Downloading the
whole thing is out of the question.
Compiling the whole thing should take way too long as well. It takes
DJGPP at least a
Actually I've tried both the Mandrake and RedHat 6.0 installs and they do
the exact same thing and hang in the same place. Plus I wouldn't think that
pentium optimizations would cause a hang on the install before anything
really happens.
What kind of a processor _do_ you have? If you don't
Actually I've tried both the Mandrake and RedHat 6.0 installs and they do
the exact same thing and hang in the same place. Plus I wouldn't think
that
pentium optimizations would cause a hang on the install before anything
really happens.
If they both hang in the same place, that
$ cat abcfile xyzfile
This is the contents of xyzfile
$
If anyone has an answer to this, tell us!
Try tracing it.
We can use a very important trick to find out: set -x
- -
What shells does that work with? UX, I know, but BASH?
$ set -x
$
$
Hmm. Maybe root isn't the only user who wants to shut down the system
when he presses Ctrl+Alt+Del. Try comparing the $USERNAME against the
names in shutdown.allow (a la a GAWK script). Would that work, guys?
why not just compare 'id -u' with zero then?
id? I haven't seen this
So I was right. I was expecting pdksh, though (the Public Domain Korn
SHell).
It appears that the maillist switched the order of my two posts.
Yes, the demonic mailer daemon strikes again...
Yes, Korn
Shell. In my experience pdksh is not a good substitute for ksh (although
my
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shuts down X
It's supposed to, but it took maybe an hour for it to respond. Usually
it's instant, but it wasn't in this case.
A second is more like it. You've got something stealing cycles in a big way!
The problem is that a _lot_ of different things can cause
Why all the fuss? It is possible to mount WIN98 fat32 partitions. Simply
download your stuff on the windows machine and mount the partition the *.gz
files are stored on. I've used it for ages.
I know to mount a plain DOS disk with:
mount -t msdos /dev/hXX /mnt/Y
(hXX is, for example, hda1;
Does your system stay running long enough for the cron jobs to process?
I haven't done anything with cron. I have yet to read about what it's
for.
You could have a ton of temp files and stuff waiting to be dumped.
Should I just rm everything out of the /tmp directory?
I still want to know how to shut either X or the process down instantly.
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shuts down X
It's supposed to, but it took maybe an hour for it to respond. Usually
it's instant, but it wasn't in this case.
Input redirection is symbolized by the character. Output is the
character, and output with append uses the characters.
That's like DOS (except that MORE FILE doesn't seem to work).
$ echo this | thisfile
-ksh: thisfile: cannot execute [Permission denied]
KSH? Korn Shell?
This is
Has anyone ever bothered pressing Ctrl+D at the shell prompt? Just try
it. On my computer, it appears to be another way of logging out.
When you encounter an error detected by the shell, it is
normally flagged by the shell. In this example, the shell
is Korn Shell, and the shell designation is "ksh":
$ thisfile
-ksh: thisfile: cannot execute [Permission denied]
So I was right. I was expecting pdksh, though (the Public
On my PC, X appears to have locked up. It's running what I think is
AfterStep. I started xfontsel and poked around a couple of fonts, but
now it's just sitting. It doesn't seem to respond to anything: the
mouse, Alt+F2, Ctrl+Alt+BkSp, Ctrl+Alt+Del, or anything else I know of.
I do NOT want to
On my PC, X appears to have locked up. It's running what I think is
AfterStep. I started xfontsel and poked around a couple of fonts, but
now it's just sitting. It doesn't seem to respond to anything: the
mouse, Alt+F2, Ctrl+Alt+BkSp, Ctrl+Alt+Del, or anything else I know of.
I do NOT
I'm not sure what I did, but somehow I lost the taskbar and application
bar from my desktop under my normal user name. I'm being forced to use
root so that I can access these, but I really don't like the obvious risk
this presents. How can I get these bars back?
Probably the easiest
I was about to make that statement earlier, but I then thought it wasn't
tre since everything that has been said indicated that hard links point
to a single file and when all hard links die the file does as well (and
that kinda invalidated what I thought). It's a good thing this isn't
/etc/shutdown.allow is a file that contains the names of users aloowed to
shutdown the system. It may not be present on your system yet; you'll
have to create it.
Is it a list of user names (or UID's)? Is there a man page on it? I'm
away from Linux right now... I don't feel like starting
/etc/shutdown.allow is a file that contains the names of users aloowed to
shutdown the system. It may not be present on your system yet; you'll
have to create it.
My shutdown.allow file is:
"james
jim
root"
but only root can issue the shutdown command. When I try it as either
I'm running Mandrake 6.0 on a Toshiba 480cdt laptop.
Is that a Satellite Pro?
Could the numlock status be doing weird things with the delete key? I hear
some Laptops are weird that way. Try toggling the numlock; see if it
works then.
laughs out loud
Good luck finding the NumLock key!
What if all the hard links are deleted but the original file remains?
Or will it just disappear?
Each file has at least one hard link. If you delete all the hard
links, you just deleted the file.
So, each file name is like a hard link to the data?
So, each file name is like a hard link to the data?
Yes, precisely.
I was about to make that statement earlier, but I then thought it wasn't
tre since everything that has been said indicated that hard links point
to a single file and when all hard links die the file does as well (and
I installed a theme and now my background changes between the theme
background and another background at seemingly random times. Why?!?
There is a random background option. I think you can right-click the
desktop and look at properties to fix this. Of course, I may be wrong:
I haven't had
Run on down to Fry's and get the parts and roll your own computer. None
of the ones I have built fail me. AL the Famous Maker brand
computer fail me for shitty parts, winmodems, etc. I paid $1500 for a
FAMOUS MAKER brand computer (not Dell, but one quite as well known) and
it sucked bad.
It's a DOS floppy, so:
mount -t fat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
That should do it.
I thought that was -t msdos.
it could be msdos, or fat, or vfat.
vfat would be best, as it supports long file names.
none of it matters, though, if you still have problems with the command.
If
FIPS, eh? Yeah, I read that it could resize partitions as well. Does
anyone have any success stories? Any reports of failures?
Fips basically performs one function: It takes a DOS partition, and splits it
into two smaller partitions. It cannot resize Linux partitions, and it cannot
Linux's answer to the FAT is: Trim it
:)
Are you just joking, or do you mean that the file allocation table (I
think it's called an I-Node table... correct me) grows as necessary?
You could use Partition Magic (the $70 is worth it if you can't find "other"
means of aquiring it). It comes with an additional program called Magic
Mover which can place a complete program and all of it's folder contents in
a new directory, even on another drive. And there will be no
If your BIOS has the option of doing a format, DON'T DO IT!!!
I don't mean "Use BIOS to format it" but "Use Ontrack to format it using
the BIOS format."
Apparently, this was only meant for non IDE/SCSI drives, and can
actually make things worse. Even though you should never have to
The Ontrack program--DDO--is there to make sure that the whole drive can
be accessed without cylinder wrap. The proprietary format is there to
make sure that the drive cannot be read without DDO. Guess what. Linux
read it with no trouble (and with no DDO loaded).
This means you use
Ahhh well, upgrade ;) You can get a better display with vga=ask at lilo,
but it was just a suggestion.
On the computer running Mandrake (pray I get it back unharmed!), "lilo"
wouldn't run since it complained that the kernel didn't support VGA mode
presetting. I couldn't configure LILO until I
I think demonic possession is a definite possibility... Break out the
crucifixes.
Maybe Bill Gates's underworld (and I *do* mean underworld) cronies are
giving a little unholy assistance in his quest for World Domination.
I'd almost like to see what happens when Microsoft attains World
well tar include dot files by default. But you should not do:
cd ~ ; tar cfz /tmp/backup.tgz *
but
cd ~ ; tar cfz /tmp/backup.tgz .
I'm pretty sure this wildcard string will expand to be *all* files--dot
or otherwise.
[.]*
"." alone... it looks like it would only match a file called
mount -f filesystem-type /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
I think that's mount -t, isn't it?
Yes.
Netscape 4.6 sometimes unexpectedly quits when I close one navigator window. Is
this a problem that is fixed in 4.61? Where can I download 4.61?
I find that Netscape quits totally when the last of its windows is
closed. Sometimes--rarely--it stays alive--but once again, that's
rare.
Basically what Partition Magic does that fdisk doesn't, is resize existing
partitions without requiring you to first destroy them (and everything on them)
and recreate them. I guess that's convenient but -I- wouldn't pay $70 for it.
:)
So it's a nondestructive partition resizer? That
I broke my disk up in 3 partitions. 2 Gig or so for "/root", 64M for "swap", and
the balance (6Gig) for "/home". This allows me to reinstall (reformat :-0 ) the
/root and swap and not touch any home (user) files
What about /usr and all those other directories I am forgetting?
So, what if
Installing Mandrake is pretty easy since it uses all those cool Red Hat
configurator programs. I'm sure Bill would like to discredit it by
saying, "But that's text mode! Windows has the edge since it uses
graphics." Edge? I really like text mode. Text mode graphics is fun
to do since it's
Probably for the same reason DOS can only use 640kB RAM. I can
hear it now... "Nobody will ever have a drive larger than 2GB!"
Correction: Nobody will ever BE ABLE TO have a drive larger than 2GB!
That is, with DOS.
I like learning about the internals of my computer. I try to learn all
I
mind. If only I could map "\Program Files" to be on a different
partition...
Of course, such things are trivially easy in Linux... Wonder why
Microsoft chose such a half-assed method of drive management...
Because they're Microsoft and want to make things as easy as
I heard that I should have two Linux partitions. Can anyone give me
more information on this?
You need a bare minimum of two partitions for Linux. One will be your
root partition and the other partition will be your swap partition.
It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you use a swap partition.
Mine is 1994.LBA is Logical (or Linear) Block Addressing. All new
IDE HDs support it. My 1995 WD does. It's just a different way of
numbering the heads, sectors and tracks. I'm pretty sure it does
translation, too. Maybe there's a BIOS update for your
motherboard-assuming it has a flash rom
How do I install LILO on a different disk? How do I make sure it
doesn't trash the Ontrack program?
Well, the "boot=..." line tells LILO where to put itself- in the MBR of
the specified drive, or in the boot sector of the specified partition. As
for trashing the Ontrack program,
All that is great info and right on track except it doesnt matter where the
hard drive goes on the cable. On a dual floppy setup, you must put the A
Drive on the end because of a cut and twist in the ribbon cable, but not on
an IDE. The wires are all in a parallel manner and the drive doesn't
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