Re: Shared Swap

2000-07-09 Thread Richard Adams
On Sat, 08 Jul 2000, David Aikema wrote about, Shared Swap: Can two different linux distros share a single swap partition? Yes, swap is part of the linux system and not distribution indipendant. -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe

Re: Linux replacements for some Windows prgs (was Re: ISO - Why Here

2000-07-09 Thread Richard Adams
On Sat, 08 Jul 2000, David Jones wrote about, Linux replacements for some Windows prgs (was Re: ISO - Why Here: On 5 Jul 00 at 16:31, Richard Adams wrote: Obviously you do not convince people well enough, i have little or few problems, i even install it for them, i have never found

Re: KDE not working

2000-07-09 Thread Richard Adams
On Sat, 08 Jul 2000, Charles Farinella wrote about, Re: KDE not working: On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Richard Adams wrote: The easiest way IMO, is to create a .xinitrc in your home directory and insert into it: startkde I belive the Redhat way was and still is, edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop

Re: Login Names

2000-07-09 Thread Richard Adams
On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, Peter wrote about, Re: Login Names: Thanks so much for your help. Nothing changed. I guess I have to change my user name from peter to pfheiss. Puzzling is that mail sent to peter@server reaches pfheiss@server I dont think it should be puzzeling at all, peter's mail is

Re: ? configuring NIC KNE110TX ?

2000-07-09 Thread Richard Adams
On Sat, 08 Jul 2000, Charles E. Gelm wrote about, ? configuring NIC KNE110TX ?: Howdy, All: I saw Rays explaination, but considering i use slackware i thought i could help just a little more. I've just installed Slackware-7.0 - kernel 2.2.13. But I'm lost at where to find information

Re: Slackware 7.1 text.gz foot disk

2000-07-09 Thread Richard Adams
On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, Mike Keithley wrote about, Slackware 7.1 text.gz foot disk: Beware of the text.gz rootdisk in Slackware 7.1. It does not have SCSI device files and it seems some of the errorchecking code has been removed from the setup script. Could you elaborate on this, In the

Re: problem with updates

2000-07-09 Thread Richard Adams
On Sat, 08 Jul 2000, Nauman ul-Haque wrote about, problem with updates: Hi, I have RH 6.1 working on my machine. I wanted to patch up my different security related bugy packages. Now I went upto the Red Hat site --support-- then chose EH 6.1 then --securtiy advisors. Now I can find lots of

Netcard.

2000-07-09 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Hi. I have a PCI netcard. I have the .c file and now I want to get the file compiled. In the .c file there is showed how to compile, but its not really working here. /* * Local variables: * compile-command: "gcc -DMODULE -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c rtl8139.c" *

lynx

2000-07-09 Thread hermit
Hi All - I find that I am using lynx text based browser more and more and like it for it's simplicity and speed. Can anyone point me in the direction of a lynx mailing list or user group? I have a few questions regarding this browser, configuration etc. Thanks, Dick Williams - To

Re: Netcard.

2000-07-09 Thread Richard Adams
On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, Erik Jakobsen wrote about, Netcard.: Hi again. I was looking in a wrong .c file. The correct info for compiling is : I belive you have the wrong c file period, this version will fail on a 2.2.x system. AFAIK, 2.2.x does not have pci_scan.h Anyway why replace the

Re: lynx

2000-07-09 Thread Richard Adams
On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, hermit wrote about, lynx: Hi All - I find that I am using lynx text based browser more and more and like it for it's simplicity and speed. Can anyone point me in the direction of a lynx mailing list or user group? I have a few questions regarding this browser,

uptime's load averages

2000-07-09 Thread Niclas Hedhman
What does these figures represent?? [niclas@controller niclas]$ uptime 7:34pm up 46 days, 23:37, 1 user, load average: 1.12, 1.19, 1.12 More than 100% or what? Niclas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: uptime's load averages

2000-07-09 Thread Richard Adams
On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, Niclas Hedhman wrote about, uptime's load averages: What does these figures represent?? [niclas@controller niclas]$ uptime 7:34pm up 46 days, 23:37, 1 user, load average: 1.12, 1.19, 1.12 man uptme explanes, the 3 fileds are the "average" over the past 1, 5 and

Re: Daylight Savings Time

2000-07-09 Thread Richard Spencer
With RedHat, "/etc/localtime" is a symlink to /usr/share/zoneinfo/somefile where somefile is a file called either something like "EST", or perhaps "America/New_York.") * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000709 05:26]: Set the TZ environment variable to the right value. tzselect will pick

Re: Netcard.

2000-07-09 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Richard Adams wrote: On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, Erik Jakobsen wrote about, Netcard.: Hi again. I was looking in a wrong .c file. The correct info for compiling is : I belive you have the wrong c file period, this version will fail on a 2.2.x system. AFAIK, 2.2.x does not have

routing to a different machine

2000-07-09 Thread Pete
I suppose the answer to this is simple but ... I want to route external http requests sent my Linux dialup machine, to a web server on my second (internal)machine. How would I tell my Linux machine to send all requests on port 80 to my other machine ? I want to setup a web server on my local

Re: routing to a different machine

2000-07-09 Thread Ray Olszewski
It depends on several things you haven't told us. First, do you already have the "dialup" machine set up as a router? I'll assume you do. Second, is it doing firewalling /or Masq'ing now? Probably. Third, what kernel is it using? 2.0.x and 2.2.x kernels are VERY different in how they handle

Re: HD mirroring utility?

2000-07-09 Thread Marc Mutz
Richard Adams wrote: snip Of course i dont want to step on Marc's toes here, but sometimes Marc answers mails after a few days, hence my reply to you. snip My girl-friend's fault :-) Marc -- Marc Mutz [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://marc.mutz.com/Encryption-HOWTO/ University of Bielefeld,

Re: SuSE64

2000-07-09 Thread Marc Mutz
Ted Gervais wrote: I wonder if someone might have a thought on how and where I can add these lines to my SuSE64 configuration.. I want to add: route add 44.135.34.201 eth0 route add default gw 44.135.34.201 eth0 snip man route.conf Marc -- Marc Mutz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: uptime's load averages

2000-07-09 Thread Marc Mutz
Niclas Hedhman wrote: What does these figures represent?? [niclas@controller niclas]$ uptime 7:34pm up 46 days, 23:37, 1 user, load average: 1.12, 1.19, 1.12 The computation goes as follows, IIRC: load = 0; for (i=0; i= number_of_timeslices_per_second; i++) sum +=

Re: SuSE6.4 Netscape ?

2000-07-09 Thread Marc Mutz
Erik Jakobsen wrote: Hello. I've installed the SuSE6.4 here with the included Netscape4.72. The e-mail has been set up as normal from the properties menu. If I hit the 'Get Msg' Icon, and I enter the password for the ISP, and hit hit 'OK', the Netscape exits. It should not, but

Re: Shared Swap

2000-07-09 Thread Marc Mutz
Richard Adams wrote: On Sat, 08 Jul 2000, David Aikema wrote about, Shared Swap: Can two different linux distros share a single swap partition? Yes, swap is part of the linux system and not distribution indipendant s/indipendant/dependant/ If you use 2.0 kernels and 2.2 kernels, make

Re: HD mirroring utility?

2000-07-09 Thread Richard Adams
On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, Marc Mutz wrote about, Re: HD mirroring utility?: Richard Adams wrote: snip Of course i dont want to step on Marc's toes here, but sometimes Marc answers mails after a few days, hence my reply to you. snip My girl-friend's fault :-) Must be one hell of a

Re: Linux replacements for some Windows prgs (was Re: ISO - Why

2000-07-09 Thread David Jones
On 6 Jul 00 at 22:07, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: On Sat, 08 Jul 2000, David Jones wrote: So what do you recommend as competitive Linux replacements for: CorelDraw (vector graphics program) CorelXara (vector graphics/bitmap program) Has Corel not announced that those will soon be

Re: Linux replacements for some Windows prgs (was Re: ISO - Why

2000-07-09 Thread David Jones
On 8 Jul 00 at 16:29, Michael H. Warfield wrote: They are already in Beta test (at least CorelDraw is) and Corel PhotoPaint has already escaped from that Beta and is free for download. I don't know about CorelXara. Personally, I like Gimp and Dia. What is Dia? Another blast of bits

Re: Linux replacements for some Windows prgs (was Re: ISO - Why

2000-07-09 Thread David Jones
Thanks, Richard. FWIW, I have the Deluxe CorelLinux which includes WP Suite 8 for Linux. I also have Star Office around here. I understand Star Office has a capable drawing program as part of the package, but I haven't really done anything with it. Anyone who has used Star Office for Linux

Re: Linux replacements for some Windows prgs (was Re: ISO - Why

2000-07-09 Thread David Jones
On 8 Jul 00 at 15:02, Jim Reimer wrote: The Corel products are becoming available for Linux - Photopaint is available now. http://linux.corel.com Thanks for the reminder - hadn't checked in there for awhile. The Gimp is an excellent graphics package that may meet some of your needs.

Re: uptime's load averages

2000-07-09 Thread Niclas Hedhman
Marc Mutz wrote: Niclas Hedhman wrote: What does these figures represent?? [niclas@controller niclas]$ uptime 7:34pm up 46 days, 23:37, 1 user, load average: 1.12, 1.19, 1.12 The computation goes as follows, IIRC: load = 0; for (i=0; i= number_of_timeslices_per_second;

Re: your mail

2000-07-09 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
Thanks to all who helped, it now works a treat. Cheers, Ron the Frog, soaked on the banks of the Paraguay River. On Sat, 08 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Init scripts are rather distro and version specific, but most setups run /etc/rc.d/rc.local after the other bootup scripts, so it is