On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 17:08:40 -0600 Mike Vanecek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > while [[ -n $1 ]]; do
> > gedit $1 & shift;
should that be "gedit $1 && shift;" ?
^^
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On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 05:25:13 -0500 (EST) Mark Neidorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for a mailing list/user
> group/whatever where I can find info
> on linux hand held devices. I know that the
> Sharp Zarus exists, but I'm
> interested in info about software for it and
>
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 06:12:54 -0500 "Anthony E. Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On 24-Dec-2002/10:06 +0530,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >On 24 Dec 2002 at 1:00, Kathy Darlin! wrote:
> >
> >> What file would I edit if I wanted to run a
> particular command when I
> >> logged into Redhat8?
>
the new "phoebe" beta is apparently available,
and while i'm downloading it, can anyone clarify
whether it's a beta for the standard red hat distro,
or for the advanced server? or what?
a google search for info produced literally
*nothing* on this.
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i've already sent a request to
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thrown off the list. here's hoping it happens
soon.
when something like this happens, i've been
told by the RH powers that be that there
are two options for reporting it:
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2) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
so thi
sorry, i couldn't reply directly to the earlier
postings on ext{2,3} conversion, so i'm doing this
thru webmail.
from tests i've run, once you convert from one
filesystem type to the other (using "tune2fs" in
both cases), you obviously have to remount as
the new type to have that change take
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Ted Gervais wrote:
>
> OK. Thanks for the info. Now for another question. If I was going to
> change a system over from ext2 to ext3
careful with the terminology here -- what you should be asking is if
you want to change a *filesystem* over from ext2 to ext3.
> and wan
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Ted Gervais wrote:
> I am running RH7.3. Was wondering about changing /etc/fstab from using
> ext3 to ext2. Can I just amend that file to read ext2 rather than ext3. Is
> it that simple?
that will work if you just want to mount an ext3 FS as ext2, but it will
still conta
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Bret Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 16:50, Jon Gaudette wrote: This is great and all
> for in this case, when you forget your password, but what about the
> security implications of this? Can't just "any ol' user" do this and
> gain root privledges?
>
> Yep. Physica
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Mike Martin wrote:
> --- John Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello,
> >
> > Anyone want to tell me why a semicolon at the beginning of a shell
> > line
> > causes an error?
> >
> > The following work fine under sh, bash, ksh and csh (redhat 7.0):
> >
> > date;ls -l
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Matthew Bradford wrote:
> At best you'd be able to recover data that hasn't already been written
> over. However there is definately no easy way to do this and companies
> actually get paid $1000/KB to recover data like this. (no joke... per
> KILOBYTE)
that equates to $1
On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Jason Costomiris wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 05:04:57PM -0700, The Gyzmo wrote:
> : Why do you have to put '2>&1' after '/dev/null' when
> : piping something to /dev/null, like this:?
> :
> : [command] > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> You've got it backwards.
>
> [command] 2>&1 >
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, David Kramer wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, David Talkington wrote:
>
> > >I use the following:
> > >
> > > ls -d */
> >
> > That's handy -- much cleaner than the grep method, which is what I've
> > been doing. Thanks for the tip! -d
>
> I'm surprised nobody suggested "fin
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, dbrett wrote:
> What I did was for a similar thing was make a directory for each day. i.e
> directories are 1,2,3,4,5 with 5 having the oldest information. I then
> copied the contents of directory 4 to 5, 3 to 4 etc. By doing this I
> did not have worry about deleting olde
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 23:15 05 Jun 2002, Jesse Angell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | Here is my script
> | #!/bin/sh
>
> Note - this isn't bash - it's generic Bourne shell - works in bash, ksh, etc.
> Always a worthy goal. It merely happens that /bin/sh is bash on most
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Siller Gonzalez Pico, Mario A wrote:
> Hi,
> Does anyone know how to enable remote access via telnet to "root" in Red Hat
> 7.2??
four answers:
1) you shouldn't
2) edit /etc/securetty and add one or more entries to allow secure
access on tty ports:
pts/0
pts/1
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 02:35:05AM -0400, Aravind Vinnakota wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I am wondering whether there is any documentation on installing and
> > writing docbook documents on redhat linux specifically.
>
> I've never seen it if there is. But do
is there a simple explanation for how symlinks are treated under
NFS? here's what i'm after.
with each release of red hat, i immediately copy the CD directory
trees under a main directory structure, but keep each CD tree separate
to distinguish between them, so i'll end up with a top level
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Michael Sorrentino wrote:
> On install, you selected to "use password" for grub. Now everytime you boot
> up, it'll prompt for the password. You may have to reinstall to get rid of
> it. During re-install, don't use the password option for Grub.
the grub password is requir
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Kevin Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 30 May 2002 08:03:43 -0400 (EDT), rday wrote:
>
> >not sure if this is an issue or not, but the "lokkit" and
> >"gnome-lokkit" utilities in red hat 7.3 appear to configure
> >ipchains, when i'm assuming most folks will be using
> >iptables. this
On Thu, 30 May 2002, ramakrishna wrote:
> >
> > How can I set ipchains manually or where I can get example documentation
> > about it?
>google search with search string "ipchains"
not sure if this is an issue or not, but the "lokkit" and
"gnome-lokkit" utilities in red hat 7.3 appear to co
given that the last couple releases of RH have come with a CD
that can boot into "linux rescue" mode, is there still any
compelling reason to build an emergency floppy, either at
install time or later with "mkbootdisk"?
i know that you can never have too many recovery tools, but
is there any
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Monte Milanuk wrote:
> [monte@DEMANDRED monte]$ startx : --1
$ startx -- :1
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with the 2.4 kernel, there is a "--bind" option for the mount
command that allows one to mount a directory already mounted on
a filesystem to another mount point.
can anyone supply a really compelling rationale for doing this?
thanks.
rday
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On Tue, 28 May 2002, Chapman, Matt wrote:
> Kickstart!
>
> And if you want to scale back the need for 3 cds simply follow
> instructions on linuxdoc on how to make custom cds. It is easy. I now
> have a filter product running on Redhat with a 1 cd install. Moved my
> rpm to the hdlist and remo
On Mon, 27 May 2002, madhvi wrote:
> Hello ,
> I added the user root to the crontab file below : -
>
> 50 13 * * 1 3 5 root /scripts/backup/test.sh
once again, if you want to specify multiple values for any of
those fields, you need to separate them with commas, as in
50 13 * * 1,3,5 root ...
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Joachim Breuer wrote:
> Or you have the "new" xinetd:
> - 'man xinetd'
> - configuration is a collection of files (one per service) in
>/etc/xinetd.d
> - services are turned on/off by the configuration statement
>'disable = yes'/'disable = no' in their respective f
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Mark Gallagher wrote:
> I feel a right dolt for asking this, but I can't think of anything.
>
> My knowledge of Linux (indeed, UNIX in general) is suficient for me to
> use it for day-to-day stuff, but more detailed things leave me far behind.
>
> Things like starting ftpd
On Mon, 27 May 2002, madhvi wrote:
>
> I have tried automating the backup of my files by scheduling the execution of
>scripts ( I am using rcp to copy the files onto another fileserver).
>
> The problem encountered is :-
>
> I log in as root and issued the crontab -e command. Added the fol
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 00:10 27 May 2002, Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 21:51, Jianping Zhu wrote:
> | > my redhat 7.1 kernel is having trouble, I can only boot into repair
> | > filesystem, I belive in order for the system to work porp
On Sun, 26 May 2002, Jianping Zhu wrote:
>
> i just add a new hd to my redhat 7.1 linux server. After finishing fdisk
> and format I move /home to new hd.
> but I got problem with my fstab.
>
> my original fstab look like:
>
> LABEL=/ / ext2defaults11
> LABEL=/boot
On Sun, 26 May 2002, Joachim Breuer wrote:
> For those running custom kernels with ext3 as a module: Also remember
> to rebuild the initrd (after editing fstab), otherwise the root root
> fs cannot be mounted... Not insurmountable using the install cd/rescue
> mode, but unneccesary hassle.
techn
On Sat, 25 May 2002, Bret Hughes wrote:
> Is the issue whether s is entered at boot or via telinit? Not sure but
> like Mr Wagner, I have always assumed 1 and s were the same but clearly
> they are not.
>
> Keep us informed of any progress you make on figuring this out.
i can tell you what piqu
a number of people i've chatted with lately seemed to think
there was not much difference between run level 1 and run levels
s or S. after i explained it a couple of times, it occurred to
me to make sure *i* understood it properly.
as i understand it, run level 1 is similar to the other num
On 24 May 2002, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 13:07, Ward William E DLDN wrote:
> >
> > Benefits:
> >
> > One, single /var so ALL logs still show up; and nicely,
> > during boot, it TELLS you what kernel you're booting to,
> > so you can decipher.
>
> /var contains data that ma
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Alain NOBLET wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
>
> I'm trying to install the 7.3 on an 7.2 machine(no update). I obtain an
> error message with the second CD. I made 2 CDs of this, and I get the same
> message :
>
> file /mnt/source/RedHat/RPMS/ypserv-2.2-9.i386.rpm
> cannot be ope
On 22 May 2002, C. Linus Hicks wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 17:30, Ed Wilts wrote:
> > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:55:40PM -0700, Samuel Flory wrote:
> > > This should always work `find * -exec rm {} \;`
> >
> > Nope. As long as you include an unquoted * on the command line, it
> > should fail
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Samuel Flory wrote:
> This should always work `find * -exec rm {} \;`
um, no. you still have the same problem of massive wildcard
expansion on the command line, not to mention that it won't
remove directories, and will miss hidden files.
don't try to make this tougher tha
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Keith Morse wrote:
> On Tue, 21 May 2002, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
>
> > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 04:11:03PM -0400, Michael Fratoni wrote:
> >
> > > What .img file are you trying to use?
> > > On the CD, images/boot.img should fit with no trouble.
> > > ls -alh /mnt/cdrom/image
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Henning, Brian wrote:
> good point
> i was trying to go from memory...
> bad idea
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Gordon Messmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 10:03 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too lo
i'd like to set up my laptop dual boot to run 7.2 (my current
setup, which is nice and stable), and 7.3, sort of in "test drive"
mode, with the option of always falling back to 7.2 if need be,
and wanted to list the minimum amount of work i have to do to
share directories/filesystems between th
what i'm about to suggest is blindingly simple, but really
pretty useful. for each release of red hat, i create a separate
partition and filesystem to store the directory structures of
all of the installation CDs, and mount it under /cds. i
explicitly keep the different CD contents in separat
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Mike Burger wrote:
> I'll heartily disagree. I've used both the tarballs, and the rpms. The
> RPMs work wonderfully...less hassle.
>
> On Mon, 13 May 2002, Brian wrote:
> > Newbies and tar-balls.. don't you think an RPM would be
> > way more newbie like ?
i think that
is there a document that explains, in detail, how to do, under
linux, what most people do under windows at the moment? more and
more, i have clients who tell me that they would at least consider
migrating to linux if they knew how to do, under linux, all the
stuff they're doing under windows.
On Sat, 11 May 2002, Rahul Torvi wrote:
> Run sndconfig if u have not installed it install it
is it true that sndconfig must be run while in run level 3?
i'm sure i read that somewhere, but the man page makes no
mention of it.
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in 7.2 and (i think) some earlier versions of red hat, i recall
that using "netconfig" to change a net card's properties, then
de-activating and re-activating that interface has no effect.
why is this?
as a test, i used "netconfig" to change the IP address on an
interface -- these new value
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 4/23/2002 05:50 PM -0700, you wrote:
> > >I believe issuing a simple "service iptables save" will save your current
> > >set of rules and modules, then automatically load those at next system
> > >startup.
> >
> >Hey, McGruff, that's pretty handy .
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Duncan Hill wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, rpjday wrote:
>
> > that explains a lot, since i normally expect to see a "Reply-To:" field,
> > but there is none in the header of postings of this mailing list. is this
> > something i should h
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Mike Burger wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, rpjday wrote:
>
> >
> > i'm embarrassed to admit that i can't figure out how to get pine
> > to "properly" respond to mailing lists.
> >
> > on more than one mai
i'm embarrassed to admit that i can't figure out how to get pine
to "properly" respond to mailing lists.
on more than one mailing list that i'm on, postings have the
header info:
From:
To:
all i want to do is, when i reply, i want the reply to go only
to the mailing list. but my ch
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Kevin Keithan wrote:
> I am using nmap and I am getting an output way to large. Is there a way
> to pipe the output into a file?
repeat after me:
"i redirect output to a file; i pipe output to a program." :-)
$ program > outputfile
$ program1 | program2
rday
i'm looking for pointers on comprehensive and relatively
up-to-date tutorials on iptables. i've got rusty russell's
standard HOWTO at www.iptables.org, which is a good start.
a google search is typically my next approach, but all of
the tutorials that show up are for older versions, althoug
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Edward Marczak wrote:
> On 4/10/02 6:13 PM, "Rodolfo J. Paiz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] pressed the keys
> forming the message:
>
> > At 4/10/2002 03:38 PM -0400, you wrote:
> >> What you're looking for is 'views', introduced in BIND 9. Views allow a
> >> single DNS server to serve
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Fred Whipple wrote:
> rpjday wrote:
> >
> > > > Just wondering, has anyone installed Red Hat on a Dell
> > > > notebook with one of these really high-res screens?
> > > > Is it difficult to configure XFree86? Incidentally,
> &
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Bill Crawford wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Adrian Hunt wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Just wondering, has anyone installed Red Hat on a Dell
> > notebook with one of these really high-res screens?
> > Is it difficult to configure XFree86? Incidentally,
> > can you actually *
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Adrian Hunt wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Just wondering, has anyone installed Red Hat on a Dell
> notebook with one of these really high-res screens?
> Is it difficult to configure XFree86? Incidentally,
> can you actually *read*the*screen* at those high
> resolutions? They offer
is there any reason that a non-root user shouldn't be allowed
to run "e2label" just to *see* the label of a partition? after all,
non-root users can run things like "mount" to see what's mounted,
as long as they're not trying to modify anything.
and running "e2label" with no args as a non-r
is the skipjack list active? i've tried mailing and have
seen nothing.
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is there any indication that red hat might move to CUPS
for printing software with their next release? (no, dear god,
i'm not asking *when* the next release is -- just what
direction red hat seems to be leaning).
rday
p.s. yes, i also know that you can certainly run CUPS now,
what i'm curi
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Jim Bija wrote:
> i have tried to install rhl 8.0 beta on a 233mmx. so did my friend.
> both came up with errors. i reported my bug to
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60526
if you're talking about the new release called "pensacola",
that is *not* the be
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Frank Carreiro wrote:
> Does ncftp do directories? I was unaware of any ftp product with this
> ability. If you could I would simply tar/gzip it then sftp the file(s)
> across.
if by this, do you mean, does it work recursively, yup.
ncftp> get -r
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why is it that one needs to reboot after creating a new
partition with fdisk? i'm assuming that, in addition to
updating the physical partition on the hard drive, one also
must update some kind of in-core kernel table that reflects
the disk layout.
is there any way around the rebooting?
r
is there a documented format for driver disks that can be used
during the install process -- i mean, documented besides just
mounting them using "-o loop" and poking around to see what's
on them?
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On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Allen Wayne Best wrote:
> gordon:
>
> w, i'll be dipped in ... darn, did not know there was a change from
> to tab. musta not looked closely enought in the documentation.
> thanks a whole bunch.
just fyi, the is the korn shell file completion key sequence,
while
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Nick Wilson wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Hi all
> I want to Zip up a directory so that a Win user can unpack it. Trouble
> is, I've read the man page and still can't work out how to do it.
>
> Can someone please tell me?
to zip a directory:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Lewi wrote:
> it that possible to restrict file to not able be copying but still can
> be see the contents.
>
> any suggestions?
not likely, since if someone can list the contents, they can always
just redirect the output to a destination file of their choice.
rday
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, David Talkington wrote:
> Ah, grasshopper, you've discovered one of the seventh wonders of the
> world -- the 'masking' effect when one filesystem is mounted on top of
> another. :-)
>
> You can get the same effect with any mount, local or nfs. If you fill
> /usr/local
the page www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ms-major.htm has a selected
set of public comments on the proposed final judgment of u.s.
versus microsoft. while many of these are worth reading, one
is howlingly funny for its sheer stupidity -- the one submitted
by the Center for the Moral Defense of Capital
as i read it (and i'm hoping to be corrected if i'm wrong),
the tmpfs filesystem is just a more convenient version of a
ram disk, with the following properties:
1) i can create one at any time just by doing a mount:
# mount tmpfs -t tmpfs
2) a tmpfs sits directly on top of the VM subsyste
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 06:30 12 Feb 2002, rpjday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | specifically, i was looking at his collection of map! settings,
> | which represent sequences of text or editing command available
> | while in input mode in vi.
> |
i realize this is a bit off-topic, but i figure this is the
best place to get the expertise.
i was poking around in someone else's .exrc file of vi
settings -- specifically, perl guru tom christiansen's .exrc
which is available for the world to see at www.perl.com, where
he has all sorts of
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Brian Ashe wrote:
> Bob Hartung,
>
> On Sunday 10 February 2002 12:16, you said something about:
> > Hi,
> >I am ready to purchase a new laptop. Which manufacturers offer a
> > preinstalled RH? [I have received negative replies from Compaq and Dell -
> > HP just didn't
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Bob Hartung wrote:
> Hi,
>I am ready to purchase a new laptop. Which manufacturers offer a
> preinstalled RH? [I have received negative replies from Compaq and Dell -
> HP just didn't respond].
pretty much no one, since it's not worth the investment in technical
supp
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Pieter De Wit wrote:
> Hello Eveyone,
>
> How can I setup more loop devices. I have about 20 ISO files that I need to
> mount and share (under Samba) as normal CD. I now have the problem that I am
> running out of loop devices ?!
i would think that all you have to do is use
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Pieter De Wit wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Two quick question :
>
> 1) How do I create an ext3 filesystem (I could only find the ext2 tools)
$ man mke2fs
mke2fs -j ...
> 2) How do I convert an ext2 filesystem to an ext3 filesystem ?
$ man tune2fs
tune2fs -j ...
rda
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Nick wrote:
> Dear all
>
> I have successfully installed RH 7.2 on my laptop (a Toshiba Tecra
> 8000). I now need to set up the PCMCIA card. Does anybody know how I can
> do this (I've found the hardware configuration panel under Gnome, but it
> doesn't appear to let you
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Nick Wilson wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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>
> Hi all,
> This should be simple but I'm not finding it so.
> I want to cp every file and directory that starts with a '.'
> I'm trying to backup all the rc files/dirs on my home dir and just can't
> wor
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
> The O'Reilly Perl book (Programming Perl? It's called the camel book) has
> an EXCELLENT chapter on how it works. If you run
>
> perldoc perlre
>
> Will also give you excellent information.
o'reilly also has an entire book, "mastering regular
this may be a naive question but, what exactly would AOL
get from *buying* red hat, as opposed to simply *using* red hat.
after all, given the GPL nature of red hat, certainly they have
the right to build any technology around red hat that they want,
provided that they don't violate the terms o
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Janyne Kizer wrote:
> This is the problem. Red Hat is committed to open source. AOL-Time
> Warner is committed to proprietary development. Think AIM and AOL
> Keyword and all of the problems that occur on mailing lists (listserv
> and majordomo both) every time a new versio
i haven't seen anyone comment on a sentence from that article
that makes me seriously uneasy:
"An even greater challenge to Microsoft would be for AOL Time Warner
to develop a rival operating system that works exclusively with the
media giant's own Internet service provider, its Web browser
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Mike Burger wrote:
> Simply put, I don't know.
>
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, David Talkington wrote:
>
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > Mike Burger wrote:
> >
> > >If you compiled the kernel with the device drivers as modules, and not
> > >direct
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, David Talkington wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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>
> cameron wrote:
>
> >I haven't read the entire thread so this might have been mentioned, but I
> >read in The Register not long ago that an American senator (SC or SD) has
> >been trying to pass a
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Steve Lee wrote:
> I'm looking into buying a new laptop.
> I have looked at the Dell Inspiron 8100 with
> the 64 megs Radion Video card. How well does it
> run linux Redhat with Gnome ? any problems.
got rh 7.2 running on mine, even with having to deal with
setting up the
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
> > to begin, one could list simple things like mtools to
> > access dos floppies,
>
> You don't need mtools for that. You only need mtools for accessing them
> when they aren't mounted
um, i know. but for windows folks, using mtools is a simp
something i've wanted to do for a while is write up a
document listing the various ways/tools to start using
linux apps in a microsoft environment. not a detailed
description of every tool, just a brief paragraph or two,
followed by a pointer to more info.
to begin, one could list simple
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Adam Getchell wrote:
>
> > Originally to: All
> >
> > Similar question for an upcoming Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop. It comes with XP
> > already installed. Will I be able to install RH 7.2 on another partition,
> > write grub to t
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Ethan Michaels wrote:
> Trying to use make.
>
> make mrproper works OK apparantly
>
> make menuconfig returns error:
> quote:
> make: *** No rule to make target 'include/linux/autoconf.h', needed by
> 'include/linux/version.h'. Stop.
> /quote
that's because, when you run "
i just got an apparently automated reminder from red hat
about my membership on a number of RH mailing lists, which
includes (i think) lists related to previous betas, like
fisher and wolverine (at least one of those was a beta, right?)
i'm curious -- is there any value to a beta-related ma
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
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> On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Patrick Nelson wrote:
> >For some reason I just cant get this...
> >
> >me@mehost>setap -l | grep ESSID: # lists the following
> >lono wireless extensions.
> >
> >et
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm running my monitor at it's max resolution - 1024x768, but fetchmailconf
> still shoots off the bottom of my screen.
>
> I seem to remember somewhere reading that you can grab a window and drag it
> about even if you can't see the grab
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, hari_bhr wrote:
> hi
> thanks
>
> how do i edit MBR and put my own if i want
> if i do iam going to loose the MBR.
go back through my last several postings. if you *really* want
to mess with the MBR, use "dd" to make your own copy of it,
hex edit that, then use "dd" to wr
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Fernando Lozano wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
> > > Can anyone point me to a quick guide on how to build am RPM backage
> > > where you do not have the sources (just binaries) or when the sources
> > > "are the binaries", like for Perl scripts? That is, RPMS tagged as
> > > "noarch" and
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, hari_bhr wrote:
> hi all gurus
>
> does any one tell me how do i edit master boot record
>
> like in MS-DOS i can edit command.com and using asci editor , and replace as i wish
>
> how can do with linux, is possible, where can i find info and editors
> thanks
red hat 7.2
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> Yep. I was just responding to the comment that "/mbr" doesn't work, and
> the probable cause (wrong system, wrong argument order).
i'm perpetually amused by the number of people who want to turn their
linux boxes back into MS boxes but, hey, to each his
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Keith Morse wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, rpjday wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Jackrabbit Slim wrote:
> >
> > > if I run it like this:
> > >
> > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512
> > >
> > > it w
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Jackrabbit Slim wrote:
> if I run it like this:
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512
>
> it will convert the entire hard drive to zeros right? If I do that would I
> be able to rebuild partitions and the partition table from fdisk?
ouch. boy, you really are on a miss
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Jackrabbit Slim wrote:
> Does anyone know of a tool I can use to completely wipe clean the MBR? (and
> if possible to view it's current contents).
my favorite tool to view the contents of a file, including things
like the MBR, is "hexdump". i suggest using both the "c" and
On 25 Dec 2001, Edward C. Bailey wrote:
> >>>>> "rpjday" == rpjday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ...
> rpjday> which brings up a sticky issue: given that the main page of that
> rpjday> site clearly states that "This site is NOT an officia
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Ben Ocean wrote:
> At 12:52 AM 12/26/01 +1000, you wrote:
> >On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Ben Ocean wrote:
> >
> > > Hi;
> > > I need to be able to search the files in a directory for a certain word
> > and
> > > return the files that have it. What's the easy way to do this?
> >
> >
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