Re: To link some commands

2000-12-09 Thread Andrew M Edgerton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Edit your .bash_profile for whichever account, adding it to your path. (I hope your using bash as your preferred shell.) My path is this: PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin This paths all executable binaries I find important. Just add : at the end for anythi

Re: What's "locate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days old"

2000-12-06 Thread Andrew M Edgerton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- cron calls 'updatedb' nightly at 4AM localtime, or it should. This updates the database where the list of everything is kept. That message means that updatedb is not running for some reason, or that the slocate.db isn't updating. Check the timestamp on it, ch

Re: DNS

2000-12-03 Thread Andrew M Edgerton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Your named.conf isn't still pointing to the default root file in /var/named is it? If you used something like linuxconf to configure, the default settings may still exist somewhere. Check in /etc/named.conf and see what it is pointing to, then examine those f

Re: web browser NS6

2000-12-03 Thread Andrew M Edgerton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- What glibc are you running? I think this requires glibc 2.1.2 or higher. > [root@mail netscape]#./netscape > > ZILLA_FIVE_HOME=. > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:./Cool > LIBPATH=.:./Cool >SHLIB_PATH=.:./Cool > XPCS_HOME=./Cool > MOZ_PROGRA

Re: Bizarre mails [was:Re: AOL Instant Messenger in a Linux world?]

2000-11-30 Thread Andrew M Edgerton
M Subject: Bizarre mails [was:Re: AOL Instant Messenger in a Linux world?] > Reply to message from Andrew M Edgerton on Thu, 30 Nov 2000, 17:01 <-0600>: > > Hi there, > I have now for the third time or so since yesterday a message like the > following one in my mailbox -- an

Re: AOL Instant Messenger in a Linux world?

2000-11-30 Thread Andrew M Edgerton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Ok, ok, so AIM sucks :) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/15108.html - - Original Message - From: "Todd A. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 5:25 PM Subject: Re: AOL Instant Messenger in a Linu

Re: AOL Instant Messenger in a Linux world?

2000-11-29 Thread Andrew M Edgerton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Luckily the thing works through a standard socks proxy. I use it through squid myself. However, for realtime communication there are better solutions, and what happens if you guys go to lunch and no ones there to get their message? :) - - Original Message

Re: AOL Instant Messenger in a Linux world?

2000-11-29 Thread Andrew M Edgerton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Both GAIM and (yech) AOL's own Linux AIM are good applications for the oscar protocal. I believe most linux app sites have them. davecentral.com, linuxberg, linuxapps.com, GAIM is also available from freshmeat as well. - - Original Message - From: "