[newbie] stat-ed

2000-09-16 Thread Barry Winch
Hi, I am was running fine Mandrake 7.0 kernel 2.2.14-15mdk on a i586. I am using SAMBA to provide access between Linux and a couple of windows machines. One of the windows machines (98SE), has a habit of committing suicide at regular intervals (Thanks Micro$oft). After I have resuscitated the

[newbie] Portmapper failure

2000-09-11 Thread Barry Winch
Hi, Up until this morning everything was running fine Mandrake 7.0 kernel 2.2.14-15mdk on a i586. When I rebooted everything went fine until the line after "starting linuxconf". The system appeared to freeze, but some minutes later the following message appeared: mount: RPC: Portmapper failure -

[newbie] tar help please

2000-06-04 Thread Barry Winch
Hi, I've tried looking at the tar man page, but still cant get any joy with tar. I have a directory called archive, with numerous subdirectories. I want to save all these files as a single file called all_archive, while preserving the dirctory structure and permissions, and then finally compress

[newbie] Command Execution

2000-06-02 Thread Barry Winch
Can someone please explain the concept behind ./ in executing a command. If I am in the directory where the programme resides and type the programme name, I get a: "bash: programme name: command not found" message If, from the same directory I type ./programme name everything works as

[newbie] FTP andf Telnet

2000-03-22 Thread Barry Winch
This has to be a case of missing the obvious!! I have installed Manfrake 6.1 (2.2.13-22mdk). I can FTP and TELNET OUT of the box, but I can't telnet in, no connection is ever established I can't even "telnet 127.0.0.1", all I get is : Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Escape character is '^]'

[newbie] FTP andf Telnet

2000-03-22 Thread Barry Winch
This has to be a case of missing the obvious!! I have installed Manfrake 6.1 (2.2.13-22mdk). I can FTP and TELNET OUT of the box, but I can't telnet in, no connection is ever established I can't even "telnet 127.0.0.1", all I get is : Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Escape character is '^]'

Re: [newbie] FTP andf Telnet

2000-03-22 Thread Barry Winch
e built in M$ client VERY bad and had to d/l some other client to be able to use vi. Ove Barry Winch wrote: This has to be a case of missing the obvious!! I have installed Manfrake 6.1 (2.2.13-22mdk). I can FTP and TELNET OUT of the box, but I can't telnet in, no connection is ever esta