RE: [newbie] Setting the time

I've tried this and I get: #date -s world.std.com date: invalid date 'world.std.com' Is this an enhancement made to Mandrake 7.2?? I have 7.1 on my machine. Is that the problem? Thanks in advance, Mark -Original Message- From: Meph Istopheles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday,

[newbie] VPN Client software

Greets Penguin-Pals! Looking for something similar to NT2000's built in feature to VPN to our corporate network. Commercia/Share/Freeware are all fine. I'm NOT looking to do ssh/PPTP if I don't have to. I also, don't want to run linux masquerading if I don't have to as both my machines at

[newbie] Linux and VPN

Greets Penguin-Pals! Looking for something similar to NT2000's built in feature to VPN to our corporate network. Commercia/Share/Freeware are all fine. I'm NOT looking to do ssh/PPTP if I don't have to. I also, don't want to run linux masquerading if I don't have to as both my machines at

RE: [newbie] un-remove

where was that tar file on tape you made the night before ;-) Short of not having thatyou're (the file) is toast. Mark -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 10:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] un-remove It was

RE: [newbie] Logging off a user ?

kill -9 PID is the command you want to wipe out any task running. User ROOT can kill tasks not associated with this, so it woul d have to be a ROOT owned crontab entry. Also you may want to look at the grep piping into cut to get the acual PID's of the the output generated from the grep. Do a

RE: [newbie] mail redirection query

How about just a plain old .forward file to forward all mail to any other email address. Mark -Original Message- From: bascule [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 12:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] mail redirection query i would like mail for

RE: [newbie] mail redirection query

for 'internal' addresses? where would i put it and what is the appropriate man page tia bascule "Wignall, Mark T" wrote: How about just a plain old .forward file to forward all mail to any other email address. Mark

RE: [newbie] Linux on Oracle

The mount points are in support of Oracle's OFA, and not a requirement. You can have just a single mount point if you like. In my case I've just created a single mount point of /db ... in fact my first installation just did a mkdir off of root for /db. I've since changed to a whole new drive

[newbie] Linux/Networking/Firewall

Hoping for some help here: I previously had the following setup within my network at my residence. 1 Linux box w/ 2 NIC cards. 1 connected to the DSL modem, and 1 to a HUB where other computers throughout the house are connected. I configured NIC 1 for the IP address given to me by my DSL

RE: [newbie] LILO hangs

Boot from your windows startup floppy and then at the A: prompt, type SYSTEM. this will overwrite the MBR on your hard disk, by transferring the system files from the floppy to hard disk. This is NOT like formatting your hard drive, so all your files will be intact. Mark Wignall

RE: [newbie] C++ program?

Try the gnu one ... it's on the Linux Install CD Mark -Original Message- From: Joe Brault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 9:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] C++ program? Hello all, I have aninteresting question for everyone. I am in the

RE: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD??

Joe, It's possible that the media itself is not rated for 8x writes. I've bought cheap cd-rom blanks that claimed 6x speeds for writes, but it's a crapshoot as to when it works. I just lower the write speed to the next lower speed, and it usually works fine. Mark -Original Message-

[newbie] PPP (Patch Program Please)

Can someone help me locate the #()*)@ Patch program? I realize I'm a newbie, and niavely thought that if the install program installes the patch-install script located in /usr/src/Linux/scripts, that it would also install the related patch program, presumably in /usr/bin. I've did an install 3