Re: [newbie] noarch?

- these are typically documentation or system configuration files which are not dependent on the type of architecture of the machine. src.rpm (SRPMS) - these are files that can be 'rebuilt' and consist of the source code of the program or library and any relevant patches. HTH, Michael -- Michael

Re: [newbie] Make : tex Command

Install tetex-1.0.7-31.1mdk.i586.rpm from the updates section of the ftp site. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:27 PM 12/31/2001 +0800, you wrote: Hi Tom, Further to my late posting

Re: [newbie] executing via cron

, or shell. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:57 PM 12/28/2001 -, you wrote: hopefully someone can help. I have three php scripts I'd like to execute autoimatically twice a day. My isp says

Re: [newbie] SSHD not running

More specifically, Make sure that openssh, openssh-clients, and openssh-server are installed. The openssh-askpass and openssh-askpass-gnome packages don't need to be installed unless you want to tunnel an X display via your ssh connection. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978

Re: [newbie] Unable to read partition table

Is this as a user or as root that you can't access your CDRW? Are you trying to burn something or mount a CD? The more info (like the above) that we have, the more likely that someone on the list will have an idea as to what's going on. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978

Re: [newbie] Setting Samba acts like DOMAIN for local intranet.

mind helping you, you need to do a little research / setup yourself first. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 01:29 PM 12/25/2001 -0800, you wrote: Hi, Before, I setup Samba for my local

Re: [newbie] Can someone explain to me how to.................

At 01:53 AM 12/24/2001 -0800, you wrote: You are correct about the twice-compressed file. You need to do the following (from a terminal): 1) gunzip *.*.gz 2) tar -xvf *.tar Good luck, Paul Actually, if you want to do it that way, the first step could be 'gunzip *.gz' or even 'gunzip *gz'

Re: [newbie] dependency tree

perhaps it is a not a standard Mandrake rpm. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] LS Command help

options 'man' has. Man is basically a very large and pretty complete set of summaries for just about every command you can run from the command line. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want

Re: [newbie] Telnet config

be done as root). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Motions Fowarded :-)

to the redhat lists quite a while back). http://findaschool.org/~mviron/mdk72/ (rpms / srpms for 7.2 from old cooker srpms) For these, I since started using 8.1 srpms--have around 100 - 150 that I've checked so far. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration

Re: [newbie] Can someone explain to me how to.................

'tar -xzvf ghx3_Linux_x86_glibc22_20010802.tar.gz' and then read the README and / or INSTALL file(s). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 09:37 PM 12/23/2001 -0800, you wrote: install files

Re: [newbie] places to put stuff

, as opposed to very few large ones. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] places to put stuff

of the journalling file systems. Also look at ext3, and I believe XFS is a journalling file system as well. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

directly. If nothing else, we can at least (hopefully) provide suggestions that might point you in the right direction. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

(Win 95/98) or a username / password combination (Win NT / 2000). To make things easier, you can set up your linux box as a domain controller and therefore will only have to deal with username / passwords on the linux side. If you want to pursue that, let me know. Michael -- Michael Viron

Re: [newbie] packages

be to do an 'rpm -qi packagename' on whatever package(s) you are interested in. If you want info regarding all packages, you can do 'rpm -qai all.txt'. -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] packages

tarball. Early on the biggest problem I sometimes had with .rpm's was trying to find out just where the script was putting the actual executable. Mark, 'rpm -ql packagename' comes to mind--it tells you what files are in a package and where they are. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux

RE: [newbie] SSH problems

. FYI, the config files are typically located under /etc/ssh. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 02:16 PM 12/10/2001 -0600, you wrote: What are the config files and what needs to be done to allow

Re: [newbie] Spam

.pl is poland, I believe. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 11:17 AM 12/08/2001 -0500, you wrote: I wonder what country has .PL? I always think .pl is a perl script? On Saturday 08

Re: [newbie] apache public_html help needed

execute, other execute 0755 == user read / write / execute, group read / execute, other read / execute 0644 == user read / write, group read, other read). If you still have problems beyond that, take a look at the error_log file under /var/log/httpd that apache uses. Michael -- Michael Viron

Re: [newbie] How to find Space on HD?

cron jobs that occur periodically). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How to find Space on HD?

GB drives are partitioned as large 20 GB reiserfs partitions mounted at /home and /backup. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Backup MySQL Data

copies of the same message to the list (in HTML no less) within 2 minutes. I'm sure most people got the first one. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:26 PM 11/28/2001 +0800, you wrote: Hi

Re: [newbie] How to find Space on HD?

do a 'df -h' which will tell you how large each partition is, how much you've used, how much is available for use, and what percent of the partition is being used. If any % is higher than about 75-80%, it's usually time to take a look to see where you can free up some room. Michael -- Michael

Re: [newbie] Need help to setup LOCAL DOMAIN

-- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] howto-intro

Try looking at http://www.linuxdoc.org/, which is where most of the howtos, guides, and mini-howtos are located. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 07:45 PM 11/23/2001 +, you wrote

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