Re: kde

2003-09-30 Thread Brenden T.
Karasik, Vitaly wrote: to be loaded Gnome I has got used already to KDE and I do not know where to register that was started KDE /etc/sysconfig/desktop - put KDE there Just FYI, I tried this recently and it didn't work. The login widget still ran Gnome in stead of KDE. I'm still track

Re: URGENT! I removed a fs using parted and rebooted now I get an error!

2003-09-29 Thread Brenden T.
dlangschied wrote: I have a slight problem with that; I dont have a rescue disk. This is a laptop without a floppy drive and during install it would not let me copy to the CD/RW. I have it fixed now. Is there any way to create a rescue CD? The other emails are quite correct, but just FYI, I once

Re: port forwarding with IP TABLES - bad argument

2003-09-25 Thread Brenden T.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Noah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 9:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: port forwarding with IP TABLES - bad argument $IPTABLES -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -d $EXTIP --dport 10700 -j DNAT --to

Re: iptables module install

2003-09-24 Thread Brenden T.
Noah wrote: okay thanks for the wonderful replies. I am starting off on this. I see that the module is not loaded. currently have the 2.4.20-20.8 kernel on an i386 machine. how can I quickly get the iptables module installed? I dont have the kernel source. so do I need to download it or is th

Re: Scripting questions

2003-09-24 Thread Brenden T.
Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq wrote: Hello Please help me with these basic scripting questions. How do you tell the path of the current directory? Is there an equivalent to the Left$ & Right$ functions found in BASIC in Linux scripting? What I mean is how do you extract a given number of characters f

Re: NAT tutorial

2003-09-24 Thread Brenden T.
gh wrote: http://netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO//NAT-HOWTO.html I found Rusty's How To just a bit thin. When I set up my NAT, I used the IP Masquerade How To more than anything. http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/ Post up if you have any questions, I've got my nat box sitting rig

Re: how to serve my own domain?

2003-09-23 Thread Brenden T
Mark McDonald wrote: I've registered my domain. Now I'd like to serve it. I've read and setup the DNS HOWTO and everything works well (for my internal network). [DSL connection with almost static IP]. If your connection is *almost* static, I don't think you can use traditional name servers. T

RH9: Switching between KDE and Gnome

2003-09-23 Thread Brenden T
Hi all, newbie here with a question. I upgraded from RH 7.2 to RH 9, and when I did so I added KDE to the install, just so I could play around with it. My default Gnome desktop works fine, but when I uses the session menu from the login to select KDE, I get a terse dialog saying "Could not sta