Re:

1998-06-23 Thread Will Shaw
I think RedHat 5.1 installs with vfat as a kernel module by default, not a built-in feature. Try 'insmod vfat', then 'mount -t vfat /dev/'. Also check /proc/filesystems to see if vfat is listed there. >>I have got RedHat 5.1 which comes with kernel 2.0.34. In the documents >>it says that the

Re: Telnetting into

1998-06-21 Thread Will Shaw
$islog} ] ; then echo "User isn't logged in."; fi # end script Hrm, well...it looks like it should (possibly) work. Give it a try. A good addition would be to have it present a menu of tty's that the user was logged in on, allowing you to message more than the f

Re: change the harddrive

1998-06-17 Thread Will Shaw
Fdisk the new disk, creating a swap partition and linux partition. Make a filesystem (mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdaX) on it and mount it on your current system. cp (--recursive) all of your data to the new disk from /. Then reinstall lilo, changing /etc/lilo.conf to boot /dev/hdaX instead of /dev/hdc2.

Re: Q: news servers

1998-06-17 Thread Will Shaw
I use Dnews, which is commercial software. (www.netwinsite.com) The only reason for doing this is that our internet provider doesn't give us a news feed, and I have to suck the feed from Supernews (www.supernews.com). 'suck' proved less than useful for an operation of this size (a few hundred use