Re: [newbie] Change rw permissions on folder of files

2002-05-29 Thread Jim Turner
Ok, last one, I swear. ;) You mentioned doing this en mass. Just to be clear, wild cards will work with chmod and chown. So: chmod a+rw * will set every file in the current directory to be world readable and writable (if you execute it as root). --jim On Wed, 29 May 2002, db wrote: > Wo

Re: [newbie] Change rw permissions on folder of files

2002-05-29 Thread Jim Turner
't too confusing. man chmod should help if it is --jim On Wed, 29 May 2002, Jim Turner wrote: > > chmod is the command to change permissions on files. "man chmod" will > tell you all the specifics of how to use it > > --jim > > > > On Wed, 29 May 2

Re: [newbie] Change rw permissions on folder of files

2002-05-29 Thread Jim Turner
chmod is the command to change permissions on files. "man chmod" will tell you all the specifics of how to use it --jim On Wed, 29 May 2002, db wrote: > Working with Redhat 5.2 & Fvfm, I have a ton of files in a folder that I > copied (as root) from a CD. > > I need to reset the rw and

Re: [newbie] Digest version of Newbie available

2002-05-27 Thread Jim Turner
In general, Linux requires two partitions: one for / and one for swap. I've heard that if you have enough RAM you can do without a swap, but I don't know if that's true. Anyone ever done that? Further, most people install with 3 or more partitions. Mine right now has /, swap, /usr and /home a

Re: [newbie] How to install connexant modem driver with the .tarextention

2002-05-27 Thread Jim Turner
On Mon, 27 May 2002, shane wrote: > On Sunday 26 May 2002 10:11 pm, Nashib .J. opened a general hailing > frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > > > Can someone inform me if internet browsing under Linux is quicker than > > browsing under Windows9X. > > generally spealing it is, at lea

Re: [newbie] How to create a cd from ISO file

2002-05-27 Thread Jim Turner
With Nero (at least the version I have, which I don't know offhand and I'm not booting into windows to find out), you first have to rename the file image.iso to image.nrg. I have no idea why. But, once you've done that, click File->Burn Image (this might be Create Image, or even just Image, but

Re: [newbie] Can't find X includes.

2002-05-27 Thread Jim Turner
Problem solved. Thanks. --jim On Mon, 27 May 2002, s wrote: > On Monday 27 May 2002 01:16 am, Jim Turner wrote: > > Hello. > > > > Twice recently I have tried to install a program, and when running > > "./configure" I received this error message: >

[newbie] Can't find X includes.

2002-05-26 Thread Jim Turner
Hello. Twice recently I have tried to install a program, and when running "./configure" I received this error message: checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! This is a brand-new Mandrake 8.2 install, on which everyth