Re: [newbie] Re:

1999-12-01 Thread Dan Brown
that I got mine working w/o problems by just using sndconfig. The module needed is, if memory serves, es1370. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Re: [newbie] aol

1999-11-21 Thread Dan Brown
uot;using Linux" that way... -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Re: [newbie] OT: useless factoid part deux

1999-11-20 Thread Dan Brown
r (in the 3-gallon bucket, which will be 1 gallon) wherever you need it. Refill the 3-gallon bucket and pour it wherever you need it, which will give you 4 gallons there. What does this have to do with a Linux list? -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for

[newbie] Winmodems...

1999-10-05 Thread Dan Brown
Just FYI, I recently ran across a page of somebody who's working on a Linux driver for the Lucent Tech. winmodem. Check out http://www.close.u-net.com/ for more info. A hardware modem is still a much better bet, though... -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the

Re: [newbie] NetScape 128bit encrypted

1999-10-03 Thread Dan Brown
From: David M. Kufta [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am sending this to the list in the hope that someone can point me to a 128bit encryption enabled version of netscape that I can run on my Hmmm, I got mine (4.61) from home.netscape.com. There might not be a version of 4.7 with the 128 bit

Re: [newbie] Setting up a modem

1999-10-03 Thread Dan Brown
From: Mike Easter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi i was wondering how to get linux to recognize my modem it is definetly not a winmodem because it recognizes it as a pci device any help with this will be greatly appreciated If it's a PCI device, it almost certainly _is_ a winmodem, and Linux'

Re: [newbie] Starting httpd (or any program for that matter) on boot

1999-09-30 Thread Dan Brown
From: Arcana [EMAIL PROTECTED] I posted this question before but I received about six or seven entirely different responses and so I'm going to ask again. You posted this exact same question yesterday, and I replied to it. Did you try what I suggested? If so, what happens?

Re: [newbie] Mounting a Detected SCSI CD-ROM?

1999-09-30 Thread Dan Brown
From: Paul Hoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, I'm unable to locate an entry for sda0, only sda, sda2, etc..Am I completely on the wrong track? Actually, the device you should be looking for is /dev/sr0, not /dev/sd[x].

Re: [newbie] Starting httpd on boot

1999-09-29 Thread Dan Brown
From: Arcana [EMAIL PROTECTED] try to run the /sbin/chkconfig --add httpd, it returns the error, "service httpd does not support chkconfig". Edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd, and add these two lines near the top--like after line 2: # chkconfig: 2345 10 90 # description: Activates/Deactivates

Re: [newbie] Install nightmare

1999-09-26 Thread Dan Brown
From: Valheru [EMAIL PROTECTED] starting sendmail. After the delays it gets all the way to the Login prompt, pauses a few seconds, and in the middle of me typing, the screen starts to scroll down and fills with messages (too fast for me to read) and the monitor resets itself, but stays in

Re: [newbie] IP Masquerading: Questions.

1999-09-25 Thread Dan Brown
, you'd use ipchains instead. Both packages are available as RPMs. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Re: [newbie] Samba - Help with Linux Box and Win98 Box.

1999-09-25 Thread Dan Brown
Sevatio Octavio wrote: Plus, is there some information out there that gets to the point and tells me how to set this up? http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/samba/index.html -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good

Re: [newbie] KPPP With Earthlink

1999-09-25 Thread Dan Brown
resolution. If not, your routing isn't set properly. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Re: [newbie] how to set up monitor res and more problems

1999-09-25 Thread Dan Brown
iuser access, but in text mode), or "linux 1" for single-user access. I've found that there are very few problems in Linux which require you to reinstall the system. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Re: [newbie] Un-tar?

1999-09-24 Thread Dan Brown
'z' to tell it to uncompress as well. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Re: [newbie] Serial port/modem problems

1999-09-24 Thread Dan Brown
Dan Brown wrote: OK, I finally got the NIC working on this Compaq. However, I still can't get a properly-functioning serial port. Here's what's happening: The most frustrating kind of fix... The internal modem is working now, and I don't know why, as I can't tell what I did

Re: [newbie] Trouble w/ NIC, modem.

1999-09-22 Thread Dan Brown
r's site, it appears that the only options supported by that driver are debug, and options, which is obsolete. Drat. Is there any other way of getting Linux to give this card irq 10, or do I just need to try a different card? -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs

Re: [newbie] TNT2 no go??

1999-09-22 Thread Dan Brown
From: RiNgMaStEr [EMAIL PROTECTED] well if i can, what OS r u running, and also how can i get my second HD I'm running Mandrake 5.3, stock + the TNT2-enabled X server from nVidia's web page.

Re: [newbie] Trouble w/ NIC, modem.

1999-09-22 Thread Dan Brown
From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, obviously i wasn't fully paying attention i said options ne. No like it says the ne2k-pci doesn't accept an irq, you'll need to tell your bios to assign it an irq, somecards have a tool to set this also. What flavor is the card anyway? The

Re: [newbie] (Off Topic)

1999-09-22 Thread Dan Brown
From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps a friendly reminder is far better than a stab in the back, especially since it appears he was simply trying to help out fellow "tuxters" No, it appears that he was attempting to hawk his ill-thought-out service, while giving the appearance

Re: [newbie] Linux and Windows mixed network

1999-09-20 Thread Dan Brown
From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] You'll probably need NetBEUI on the clients if you're going to be running Samba on the Linux server. If you're not interested in Samba, you could stick with straight TCP/IP for all machines. How so? Samba doesn't replace NetBEUI, it replaces a WinNT

Re: [newbie] need to increase my /root

1999-09-20 Thread Dan Brown
From: Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think I made /root too small and /home too big. Can I use PM 4 to resize ext2 partitions without messing things up I really don't want to reinstall Yes, this should work fine--at least, it's worked for me several times. Be sure to re-run lilo.

Re: [newbie] Linux and Windows mixed network

1999-09-20 Thread Dan Brown
From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] How so? Samba doesn't replace NetBEUI, it replaces a WinNT server. The You mean require? Either, actually--it almost sounded like you were saying that Samba was netbeui, or some such thing. My apologies. I've been dealing with NetBEUI/TCP/IP

Re: [newbie] How do I install php-3_0_9_tar.tar

1999-09-19 Thread Dan Brown
have on this. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Re: [newbie] Modem

1999-09-19 Thread Dan Brown
From: Sam Munns [EMAIL PROTECTED] How can I set it up where when I restart my machine it runs the command /etc/setserial /dev/ttyS3 UART 16550A automatically? edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local, and add this command at the end.

Re: [newbie] the programming language

1999-09-19 Thread Dan Brown
From: Joe Brault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry for the overly simple question... but can anyone tell me what language Linux was written in? Thanks in advance and don't laugh too long The kernel is largely in either C or C++, with bits of assembly. The other utilities are in various

Re: [newbie] FTP anonymous or user

1999-09-19 Thread Dan Brown
From: terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have set Domain Name: megabitwest.net Host name: http://www.megabitwest.net * Please post as plain text; the HTML messages can get hard to read sometimes. In this case, it looks like you set your host name incorrectly; the "http://" isn't

Re: [newbie] iso

1999-09-19 Thread Dan Brown
From: David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just out of curiosity, what's the difference between an iso distro and a "regular" one? An .iso file is a CD image. If you have a CD burner (and a fast net connection), you can just download this file to your drive, and burn it to a CD (as an

[newbie] Trouble w/ NIC, modem.

1999-09-18 Thread Dan Brown
specification, but that wasn't the case here (setserial reported correct information both times). I haven't yet tried adding my external modem on the built-in com port. Any ideas on this one? Any help would be much appreciated. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the

Re: [newbie] How do I install php-3_0_9_tar.tar

1999-09-18 Thread Dan Brown
ME file with the package, it'd be a good idea to read it. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring" -- The Judgment of St. Colum Cille

Re: [newbie] this is a subject.

1999-09-17 Thread Dan Brown
John Aldrich wrote: I think the SupraMax 56i is also a software-modem. The call The SupraMax is a Winmodem. The SupraExpress, however, is not, and is a fairly decent modem (I've got three of them). -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it

Re: [newbie] Mount hd on boot

1999-09-17 Thread Dan Brown
t;uid=" or "gid=" (as appropriate) to the options for each drive I wanted accessible. For example, if I wanted it to be owned by uid 501, I'd add "uid=501" to the options. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Re: [newbie] rpm package won't install!

1999-09-16 Thread Dan Brown
, the router) for the NT box with about 5 minutes of configuration. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring" -- The Judgment of St. Colum Cille

Re: [newbie] Recovering LILO

1999-09-14 Thread Dan Brown
From: Richard Salts [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the future, if I should have to install, reinstall Windows 98 or 2000 when it comes out, how can I recover LILO _without_ having to reinstall Linux also? Very easily, but it depends on your having a suitable boot disk which will boot your OS.

Re: [newbie] Modem

1999-09-14 Thread Dan Brown
Murray Strome wrote: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root5 Sep 14 07:52 /dev/modem - ttyS1 (the modem is on COM1). Well, this is one problem--ttyS1 is com2; you'd need to change the link to ttyS0. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons

Re: [newbie] New Problem

1999-09-12 Thread Dan Brown
let alone 8 times. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Re: [newbie] Runlevel 5

1999-09-12 Thread Dan Brown
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sometimes, though, I find it necessary to kill X. How can I do so $ su # init 3

Re: [newbie] Runlevel 5

1999-09-12 Thread Dan Brown
From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you sure you're in runlevel 5? Or have you hand-hacked it to display that information on VT1? Typically, there's nothing logged to the text consoles in runlevel 5. There is in mine, or at least I think there is. When I boot, it acts just like

Re: [newbie] Bypassing X windows

1999-09-12 Thread Dan Brown
From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] telinit 3 What's the difference between this and "init 3"?

Re: [newbie] say it isn't so...

1999-09-11 Thread Dan Brown
breath). Don't know about the printer. Oh, BTW, please turn off HTML in your mail client... -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Re: [newbie] Mount hd on boot

1999-09-11 Thread Dan Brown
ermissions, and it's got to default to _something_. It's safer, I guess, to disallow writes by default. There is a way to change this, but I forget how. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Re: [newbie] ISDN Router

1999-09-10 Thread Dan Brown
n of Linux. For more info, check out http://members.home.net/ipmasq/. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

[newbie] Lost lilo...

1999-09-08 Thread Dan Brown
prompt, enter "linux root=/dev/hdb1" (or whatever partition is root). This should boot your system somewhat normally. Then, once it's booted, do /sbin/lilo. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Re: [newbie] losing lilo

1999-09-07 Thread Dan Brown
our root filesystem] /mnt bash# /mnt/sbin/lilo /mnt/etc/lilo.conf -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Re: [newbie] Installation

1999-09-06 Thread Dan Brown
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] But where would it go? /usr/local? Should I make a special directory to hold downloaded packages? I suppose the proper place would be /usr/src, but I've usually just left the source directories in /root (or, sometimes, in /home/danb/src). If you're in

Re: [newbie] losing lilo

1999-09-06 Thread Dan Brown
From: Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] misbehaving, but lost lilo in the process. Now I can't get Mandrake 5.2 to boot up. I tried using the rescue disk, got to the #bash prompt, but have no idea what to do next. I tried reinstalling lilo from the CD ...and you didn't have a boot

Re: [newbie] losing lilo

1999-09-06 Thread Dan Brown
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] mkbootdisk {kernel-version} will make a boot disk for me? I made one, but I can't seem to find it. Now I want another one... Yes, it will. Rather a nice feature actually. Just be careful--if you're running (for example) 2.2.9-19mdk, you need to

Re: [newbie] ethernet card setup (an add on)

1999-09-06 Thread Dan Brown
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Too help narrow down the program that i want, i know its not ifconfig. It had I think what you want isn't netconfig, but netcfg.

Re: [newbie] Re: 3Dfx configuration help

1999-09-04 Thread Dan Brown
problems. You need to use the Riva drivers with the Riva cards, and the 3dfx drivers with the 3dfx cards. If your card is actually TNT-based, download the correct X server from www.nvidia.com and install it per their directions. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs

Re: [newbie] Problems configuring a modem

1999-09-04 Thread Dan Brown
, but it certainly won't now. Get a hardware modem for Linux. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Re: [newbie] Doc

1999-09-02 Thread Dan Brown
From: Aaron deRozario [EMAIL PROTECTED] On a slightly different note, I also would like to install Mandrake 6.0 on a computer without CD-ROM boot. Could I use a boot disk from RedHat 5.2 to select CDROM install and then let teh Mandrake CDROM take over? It's very unlikely, but why would

Re: [newbie] modem questions

1999-08-30 Thread Dan Brown
From: Mike Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've got a U.S. Robotics 56k Voice Win Modem. Does anyone know if it's Winmodems are not supported under any variety of Linux, period (hence the name, _Win_modems). It is possible that future versions of the kernel will contain some support, but I'm

Re: [newbie] moving /home

1999-08-21 Thread Dan Brown
p -a /home/* /mnt/home cd /home rm -r * pico /etc/fstab --add a line to mount /dev/newdrive on /home umount /dev/newdrive mount /dev/newdrive -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and

[newbie] lnx4win problems...

1999-08-19 Thread Dan Brown
Two days ago, I downloaded the mandrake60-2 iso image, figuring that it'd be interesting to play with it. Since I don't want to do anything to my existing 5.3 installation, though (and also since I'm actually installing it on a work computer), I tried installing it using lnx4win. The

Re: [newbie] Modem difficulties

1999-08-19 Thread Dan Brown
From: Rick Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] more pronounced way. Obviously these vendors, such as Diamond and others, that refuse to write drivers for *nix must know something that we don't. And what, do you think, would that be? I can tell you one thing that we all know: there are more Windows

Re: [newbie] Re:

1999-08-18 Thread Dan Brown
From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] According to www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html, the TNT2 is NOT supported, unless it'll work with the TNT drivers. You might find an X server for the TNT2 off Nvidia's home page I'm not sure if the TNT driver will work, but nvidia does have an X

Re: [newbie] Need path help with NFS (or FTP) install

1999-08-17 Thread Dan Brown
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I want to install Mandrake on the other machine. The obvious choice is an NFS install, so I boot up the machine I want Linux on with bootnet.img, The problem with an NFS install is that the machine with the files must be configured as an NFS server. This is

Re: [newbie] Linux for home consumers?

1999-08-16 Thread Dan Brown
procedure--but it's more of a pain than using it. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Re: [newbie] Modem problems. - Motorola Voice Sufer?

1999-08-16 Thread Dan Brown
devices; if you're using kernel 2.2.x, you need to use ttyS*, because the kernel's done away with the cua* devices. If you're using 2.0.x, you can use cua*, but ttyS* is a better choice, because it leaves the door open for upgrades. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs

Re: [newbie] word processing and finance apps

1999-08-16 Thread Dan Brown
From: pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] anyone got any suggestions on what word processing or simple check book balancing programs to use for linux? i am used to ms word, so i would As far as a word processor goes, how about WordPerfect? Version 7 is available for Linux, free for

Re: [newbie] Linux for home consumers?

1999-08-15 Thread Dan Brown
From: Richard Salts [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder. Are there any home users on this list? I'm a home user. I'm also a tech support rep for a major ISP. There's no way I'd recommend Linux to the majority of the people with whom I deal daily. For the most part, it's not a matter of

Re: [newbie] How do i know if i have a winmodem?

1999-08-13 Thread Dan Brown
"winmodem," "HCF," "HSP." -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Re: [newbie] USB

1999-08-13 Thread Dan Brown
(2.3.x; 2.3.11 is the latest), but I still don't think there's enough to actually use a modem. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story rather than the story that is less end

Re: [newbie] File operations and Zip archives

1999-08-12 Thread Dan Brown
James Stewart wrote: Also, what are the commands to rename, copy and move files? I've tried saying ln and then removing the previous file, but this hasn't worked. To rename and to move, use mv old file new file. To copy, use cp file[s] new location. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] partitions...

1999-08-12 Thread Dan Brown
From: Joe Brault [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a very serious problem. I am trying to delete my partitions, and am unable to. I can delete the partition for dos, but I cannot delete the Option 1: use the Linux fdisk (or disk druid) program. Option 2: use Partition Magic 4.0 (3.0 might

Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem

1999-08-12 Thread Dan Brown
From: Singer XJ Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernal 2.4.x series will support WinModems. Linux has already called for a Feature Freeze for 2.4.x in a week. Remeber. the upgrade from 2.2 to 2.4 OK, we're freezing features in a week for 2.4, and there's currently (even in 2.3.11) no support for

Re: [newbie] still can't use usercfg!

1999-08-10 Thread Dan Brown
f it can't find the rpm command, IMO, that would be a Very Bad Thing. Perhaps your path is messed up, but I'm not sure how that would have happened. If it gives a different error, then of course the course of action would change. That command looks correct to install any package starting with usercf

Re: [newbie] Honest opinions on Linux

1999-08-10 Thread Dan Brown
From: Toby Sheets [EMAIL PROTECTED] to running this OS rather than a Windows 98 system? Believe me I hate Bill Gates and will be happy when he folds - that is why I am switching to Linux - but is there really an advantage at this point in the game or IMNSHO, that is exactly the wrong

Re: [newbie] Accessing Floppy / CDROM Disks

1999-08-09 Thread Dan Brown
Michael Chopek wrote: unmount /mnt/cdrom It's umount, not unmount (the first n doesn't belong there). -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Re: [newbie] Command Line

1999-08-09 Thread Dan Brown
Neilesh Patel wrote: how do I get to the command line in linux? everytime i start up it goes past the lilo command prompt and goes into the GUI and makes me login to kde etc. Click on one of the terminal icons on the taskbar; it'll open up a shell window. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] KPPP

1999-08-09 Thread Dan Brown
From: Brian Leas [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been trying to get kppp to dial out to my isp, but with no luck. The prompt says "Sorry, the modem is not ready" pops up. Does anyone have any ideas of what could be wrong? 1.The modem's in use. 2.The modem isn't set up correctly. 3.

Re: [newbie] Command Line

1999-08-09 Thread Dan Brown
From: Neilesh Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] however, once i'm in the /etc folder how do I open and edit inittab? I'm a Use a text editor; you could use any of them--vi, joe, edit, emacs, pico, whatever. I usually use pico. Type "pico inittab"

Re: [newbie] booting to GUI

1999-08-08 Thread Dan Brown
From: Stephan Rex [EMAIL PROTECTED] I updated some files yesterday, and now linux only boots to the command line login prompt and not the KDE login. Some which file and what options do i need to change to fix this? Can you get into X at all, like with startx? If that works, try running

Re: [newbie] Loading modules?

1999-07-31 Thread Dan Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Dan Brown" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where do I specify what modules to load at boot time? Currently, /etc/conf.modules Currently, I have one active, and three commented, lines in conf.modules. One commented line reads "# alias eth

Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..

1999-07-29 Thread Dan Brown
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Yes, it is. It's also the "end-of-file" character in Unix. Just a bit of theory: In Unix, everything is a

Re: [newbie] UNIX INTRO: Shells, redirection

1999-07-29 Thread Dan Brown
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternately, you can call a shell and tell it to run the shell script file. "sh printpwd" should do the trick... is this right? In most shells, ". printpwd" (notice the period) will run a shell script as Both of those will run a script, but there's a

Re: [newbie] UNIX INTRO: Shells, redirection

1999-07-29 Thread Dan Brown
From: Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternately, you can call a shell and tell it to run the shell script file. "sh printpwd" should do the trick... is this right? In most shells, ". printpwd" (notice the period) will run a shell

[newbie] Loading modules?

1999-07-29 Thread Dan Brown
Where do I specify what modules to load at boot time? Currently, some modules load, while others do not. Particularly, the tulip and sg modules do not load. I can manually load them as root by typing /sbin/insmod, but that's a bit of a pain. Thanks for any info!

Re: [newbie] SAMBA troubles!

1999-07-27 Thread Dan Brown
y "\\linux machine's IP address". I've frequently seen cases where a computer won't appear in the network neighborhood, even though it is accessible on the network. Of course, also test to make sure the Win95 machines can see the Linux box at all--try pinging it by name and IP, etc.

Re: [newbie] Would people please stop sending HTML mail to this list?

1999-07-26 Thread Dan Brown
From: stephan schutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why? HTML is pretty much a standard... outlook, eudora, netskape mail... Sure, HTML is a standard--for web pages. Especially considering that this is a Linux list, not everybody uses an HTML-aware GUI mail client. Lots of people still use programs

Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah

1999-07-26 Thread Dan Brown
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, each file name is like a hard link to the data? Yes, precisely.

Re: [newbie] kernel re-compilation

1999-07-22 Thread Dan Brown
From: Periklis Christodoulou [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder if I can get help with recompiling my kernel in order to support ntfs file system. When I tried "make xconf" it failed saying there are It's make xconfig. Make sure you're in /usr/src/linux when you do this.

[newbie] Samba Server Step-by-Step

1999-07-20 Thread Dan Brown
I thought I'd posted this to the list, but I guess not. The guide is at this URL: http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/samba/index.html. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Re: [newbie] networking

1999-07-19 Thread Dan Brown
From: Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] So where do I go from here? That they can ping is good. Where you need to go from here is to set up Samba, which will let your win98 box see files/printers/etc on your Linux box, and smbclient, which will do the same for your Linux system. There's an

Re: [newbie] networking

1999-07-19 Thread Dan Brown
From: Mike Ortiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] implimentation. Is samba a better alternative? I suppose for a small home network it doesn't make a lot of difference. For a larger network, where the Linux (or Win) box may need to integrate with existing standards, it would obviously be more

Re: [newbie] Modem

1999-07-19 Thread Dan Brown
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps someone can identify it as a Winmodem from its name. According to Windows, it's a TOSHIBA Internal Modem (V.34 33.6 Data+Fax+Voice). It's on what Windows calls "Toshiba Modem Port (COM2)" (which ought to I can't identify it for sure, but "Toshiba

Re: [newbie] networking

1999-07-19 Thread Dan Brown
From: Morpheus The Sinful Weeper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey, that samba step by step guide, could i get a copy ? It's at http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/, along with several other similarly useful pieces of documentation.

Re: [newbie] Man ?

1999-07-17 Thread Dan Brown
ngly doubt it), even though I haven't told Netscape to attach any files to this message. Cool off, OK? -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Re: [newbie] vmware help

1999-07-16 Thread Dan Brown
/include/linux # ln -s asm /usr/src/linux/include/asm -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring" -- The Judgment of St. Colum Cille

Re: [newbie] zip drive help

1999-07-15 Thread Dan Brown
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] how can i use my zip drive in linux? i need to download things in win98 to the disk and then bring them over to linux. any suggestions? What kind of zip drive? SCSI, IDE, parallel? If it's SCSI, you'll need to mount /dev/sdx4 (where x is the appropriate device

Re: [newbie] speaking of passwords

1999-07-14 Thread Dan Brown
he machine isn't physically secure, no (reasonable) amount of software security will help you. As to the "I certainly do not know", why not try it out yourself? -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Re: [newbie] shutdown problem fixed

1999-07-13 Thread Dan Brown
y the path to it. When you su, it doesn't run the normal login files for root, which means that anything that's in root's path, but not in your path, won't be visible. There is an option to su to change this behavior, but I don't remember what it is. man su would tell you, though. -- Dan Brown, KE

Re: [newbie] Installation of LM 6.0: Best partition size

1999-07-13 Thread Dan Brown
Civileme wrote: The mileage of others may vary. The trick is to remember that your initial partitioning cannot be changed without a full backup/clean wipe. On the other Sure it can--just use partition magic (and, of course, re-run lilo). -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Fwd: Re: [SATLUG] more networking help

1999-07-10 Thread Dan Brown
From: Axalon [EMAIL PROTECTED] No there is no limit of pc's only line length and that actualy depends on the cable quality. Not so. Actually, I was wrong too--the max is 30 PCs per 10Base2 segment. You can populate up to three segments with computers, using repeaters between the

Re: [newbie] Win/DOS Emulator - VMWare

1999-07-08 Thread Dan Brown
chine does not exist. Samba, however, works great. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Re: [newbie] DSL and Mandrake

1999-06-26 Thread Dan Brown
From: Rich McCabe [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will give that a try. I am not sure what you meant by "where 2=x=254". I think maybe a typo in there. No typo -- x should be at least 2, but not more than 254. Unfortunately, the standard keyboard doesn't have a "less than or equal to" character, so I

Re: [newbie] DSL and Mandrake

1999-06-26 Thread Dan Brown
From: Rich McCabe [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will give that a try in the morning. And Dan the Cisco is plugged directly into the hub and I will be sending this E Mail with it. It works OK but I want to use IP masquerading on the Linux box and have everything go through it. Maybe not needed, but my

Re: [newbie] samba

1999-06-12 Thread Dan Brown
John Brack wrote: Anyone remember the webpage for that very help samba walkthru? http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/samba/index.html -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story rather than the

Re: [newbie] need help networking

1999-06-06 Thread Dan Brown
ains needs to be installed as well. The HOWTO is an excellent walkthrough; it takes you through the process step by step. I have a real Win98 box, as well as virtual NT and 98 machines (in VMware) accessing the net through my Linux machine this way. You can also configure a firewall this way. -- Dan Bro

[newbie] Screenshots in KDE?

1999-06-05 Thread Dan Brown
Does anybody know of a utility that will do screenshots in KDE (or X generally?) I ran across a trick using xv, but I could only get that to capture the xv window, which isn't what I'm trying to do. Any help is appreciated! -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the

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