a simple one!

2001-03-25 Thread Chandra K Nathani
Hey.. When I start a program from the gnome-terminal and put that in background by using &. .. and now if I close the terminal the previously spawned program is also dying.. how do i stop this behavior of the child getting terminated when i terminate the parent? TIA Chandu __

Re: Pdf files with Linux

2001-03-05 Thread Chandra K Nathani
U can download acrobar reader from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html If thats a free ebook why dont u share it with us all. Chandu --- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi people, > > I have found a very nice Unix book in pdf format and > I would like to >

PATH

2001-03-05 Thread Chandra K Nathani
When I say echo $PATH I get /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin$:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.3/bin$ I see those extra dollar signs attached after some directory names. I really dont have them in the files which are actually setting the PATH variable. When I source those file

Re: Lilo - still 1024 limit? - answered incorrectly

2001-03-04 Thread Chandra K Nathani
Yes, lilo has overcome the 1024 limit. When i installed it on my 20G hard disk.. the lilo which was written by default by the installation was not proper and it suggested me to edit the lilo.conf to include the line "lba32" and remove "linear"... and everything was working fine with that correctio

Re: /etc/profile

2001-03-03 Thread Chandra K Nathani
execute the files there. But when i source the /etc/profile now .. it is getting set properly. Help please!! chandu --- rpjday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Chandra K Nathani wrote: > > > Does /etc/profile get executed in RH 7.0 at > startup? > >

/etc/profile

2001-03-02 Thread Chandra K Nathani
Does /etc/profile get executed in RH 7.0 at startup? I think it is not getting executed.. does anyone have the same problem? What is the right place to set all system wide environment variables.. which can be available to all the users? Thanks for the help Chandu = Ask and it shall be retrie