thanks in advance,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River.
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Cerro Cora 3662 no matter how small,
Asuncion (Paraguay) ever goes completely unpunished.
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My grateful thanks to all who pointed me in the right direction, it now
works ;-)
Ron the Frog, on the rainy banks of the Paraguay River.
Renaud OLGIATI No act of kindness,
Cerro Cora 3662 no matter how
small, Asuncion (Paraguay
else could / should I look for that is missing ?
TIA,
Ron the Newbie, on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River.
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Cerro Cora 3662 no matter how small,
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, freezing on the banks of the Paraguay River.
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a 'p' file - since then, I use tar
exclusively for such things.
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On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, Richard Adams wrote:
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Renaud OLGIATI wrote about, Re: HD mirroring utility?:
I tried to follow your line, but get from tar an error message to the
effect that it "cowardly refuses to create an empty archive."
What is possably happening i
, and installs KDE by default.
I only noticed Gnome when it came up once after a failed re-installation ;-)
Renaud OLGIATI No act of kindness,
Cerro Cora 3662 no matter how small,
Asuncion (Paraguay) ever goes completely unpunished
On Sat, 08 Jul 2000, David Aikema wrote:
Can two different linux distros share a single swap partition?
Dont know if its general, but they do on mine: I have Corel Linux on
one partition, Mandrake on another and they adress the same swap
partition;
Of course, they dont work at the same time
In the course of migrating from another OS/GUI to Linux, I have just
re-written in gawk a short program I had before to generate at each
boot-up a new sig-file for my email.
Thie gawk script works fine, and I have tried to invoke it from
/etc/profile thinking it would thus run at start-up.
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 ported to Linux ?
Cheers,
Ron the rog, on the banks of
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 a good place
for site customization. Man init and man inittab for how it works.
If you want to run it for each
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
I would like to have the same configuration and access the same data
folders whether I'm logged in as root, or as my user id.
I thought of having the two sharing /root as home dir; would this
create a security weak-spot ? Or any other problems ?
Any advice will be gratefully received.
Ron the
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Richard Adams wrote:
Not really a silly question, however if the files are in /root roots home
dir, then you will comprimise /root as a private unreadable directory to
other users, this because you would have to change permissions of not only
the file in /root but /root
I have been troubled recently by KPanel which often dies on me, usually
when I close KPPP after a long download using Netscape.
I have solved the annoyance by creating on my desktop a link to
/usr/bin/kpanel but I wonder:
Is this the sign of some other problem ?
Should I look for other
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why do a long download with netscrape, when there is
wget and lynx?
'Cause I'm trying to download from Sun.Com, and they make you jump throuh a
number of HTML/JAVA loops before you get to the download page.
Cheers,
Ron the Frog, frozen on the
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Santosh Vadawale wrote:
Recently I downloaded Staroffice 5.2 and performed network
installation on our small NFS/NIS based network (Four machines all running
RH6.0 on PII-450 with 128MB). The original installation (as root) went
very smoothly and finished properly.
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Richard Adams wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Renaud OLGIATI wrote about, Re: Staroffice 5.2 'aborted':
I have (tried to) install so5.2 today, and get a similar result.
Mind, the installation procedure gave me several error messages, refering
to files that could
Grovelling apologies, my message to StarOffice support was by mistake
copied to the list.
I will check the adress before sending (one hundred times ;-)
R.Olgiati
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L.
Am I in a nightmare ?
I would like to install on my Mandrake system (which is a variant of RH from
what I hear) the Wordperfect which resides on my Corel Linux CD.
WP comes as a .deb file.
So I need dpkg to install it
But the only dpkg I have is also in a .deb file ;-(
HLP !
TIA,
Ron
Here's another question that's been worrying me for a few nights:
Converted to Linux, I would like to install it on my laptop.
Problem: the laptop does not have a CD player, and I dont relish the idea
of copying and feeding it gazillions of floppies.
Is there a way to connect it by serial
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually the easier way would be to install it over NFS if you have
network cards for both machines all you do is edit /etc/exports and make
sure nfsd is running
Very true, O KIng, but the laptop is entirely devoid of any form of network
card;
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Richard Adams wrote:
I installed all the A series and N series, which is a total of 24 disks,
however you can cut that amount down considerably.
I belive Lawson once made a list of the minimum disks needed to install and
have a working network.
I think I now see my
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, you wrote:
A "core dump" is a file left by a "crashed" program that would allow
someone who knows what they're doing (not me, hehehehe) to figure out
what might have gone wrong. If you're not sure what it is, my guess
is that it would be of little use to me (or me ;o)
Two weeks back, I posted a message asking anyone who had upgraded from SO
5.1 to 5.2, and would be wiilling to sell me the CD he now no longer
needed, to contact me.
One lister did, and sent me his CD; unhappily, the US and Paraguayan potal
service worked managed between them to turn the CD into
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, you wrote:
Have I missed somthing ?
man dos
Stupid of me, I tried forman dosemu And got nothing in result !
Thanks for the help,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River.
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Money can't buy you happiness,
As an aside to this thread, is there a simple way to find the size of a
given branch of the file-tree ?
Or in other words, to find how big is /someting/other including all the
subdirectories ?
TIA,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River.
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If voting could really
On Fri, 04 Aug 2000, Richard Adams wrote:
Or in other words, to find how big is /someting/other including all the
subdirectories ?
du -m /something/other
Finally got it:
du -sx /xxx
Cheers,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River.
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Always remember
Had the same problem with my box; disk would start acting strangely at
times;
Changed the disk for a new one, same story;
Then found that it stopped its strange doings if I wiggled the HD ribbon
cable; changed the cable and no more problems.
What will I do with this extra HD ? VBG
Cheers,
I remember working on a machine with 4 k memory; but this was a main-frame
(IBM 1620) using vacum tubes; input and output by punched cards, and
running Fortran II;
Must have been in '68 or '69.
This was the "obsolete" machine us students were allowed to play with; for
serious computing, there
On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, you wrote:
I know this is only halfway a Linux techie question, but can anyone direct me
to a site where I can find some good info on using Netscape? (And not
Netscrape's own gotta-be-on-line-to-use-it 'Help' system which is as useless
as a Windoze Help file :(
(I
Is there a way to do this with KDM ? I dont like Netscape
TIA,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River.
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were God apprised of all the facts of the case.
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Anyone here who has upgraded to 5.2 and would be ready to sell me his
StarOffice 5.1 CD ?
Please contact me off-list.
Cheers,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River.
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they
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