Linux-Misc Digest #3, Volume #24 Thu, 30 Mar 00 21:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: Partition disappeared? ("Jordan Hiller")
Cannot get NFS to work on Mandrake 7 (Jeremy)
kernel/etc does not see all my mem... (Eric Thompson)
Which dev version of linux to install?
Re: Cannot get NFS to work on Mandrake 7 (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: Windows 2000 (Harlan Grove)
Re: compare big files with kind of checksum (Leejay Wu)
Re: kernel/etc does not see all my mem... (Leejay Wu)
Does kernel version matter with VMWare? (Harlan Grove)
Re: Windows 2000 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
VI and ASCII Question ? (Dale Lane)
Re: Applixware or StarOffice (Harlan Grove)
Re: SCSI and IDE disk problems (Yan Seiner)
Re: Setting up a second printer with a PCI Parallel Port Card, ... (Yan Seiner)
Re: HELP! RIGHT NOW! (Yan Seiner)
Re: DEFRAG OR NOT? (Christopher Browne)
Re: Linux GUI query (Christopher Browne)
Re: compare big files with kind of checksum (Colin Smith)
Re: HELP! RIGHT NOW! (Richard Steiner)
Re: HELP! RIGHT NOW! (Richard Steiner)
Re: Dish Network's site is DOWN if you don't use M$'s browser. (Emery Lapinski)
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From: "Jordan Hiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition disappeared?
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:11:16 GMT
David .. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Try "ls /usr/bin/" without quotes.
>
I get "no file or directory found" or something to that effect. As I said,
everything seems to be gone from /usr but I had some data in there that I'd
really like to get back!
Thanks,
Jordan
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From: Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Cannot get NFS to work on Mandrake 7
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:12:53 -0600
Hi!
I followed everything in the NFS-HOWTO but I still cannot get it
working. I have two boxes, "hoffen" and "musha".
My server is hoffen -
hosts.allow =
ALL: ALL
exports:
/ musha(rw, no_root_squash)
/mnt/cdrom musha(ro, no_root_squash)
When I do a:
mount -t nfs hoffen:/ /mnt/misc
on the client I get a "permisson denied", same for /mnt/cdrom
What am I doing wrong? I have setup NFS before and it worked (that was
back in the 1.2.x days! ). both computers have a freshly loaded Mamdrake
7 on them. I have ony changed the above files that deal with the
networking.
Thanks!! - Jeremy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Eric Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel/etc does not see all my mem...
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:53:05 +0000
hello-
this is strange. I am running 2.2.14. on a Suse system.
the bios sees my 192 MB of mem. but when i boot into linux it only sees
14MB, consistantly. i've rebuilt the kernel. booted into an old 2.2.12
kernel i had around and they all see 14 MB:
erict@Byzantine:~ > free
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 14788 14436 352 6724 328
6768
-/+ buffers/cache: 7340 7448
Swap: 722916 26348 696568
If i plug in a NT HDD it sees and uses all the mem.
Oh, and BTW the linux system REALLY only sees 14MB because it is dog
sloooooow.
anyone know what is going on here?
thanks-
eric
i upgraded the memtools and the ps stuff too.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which dev version of linux to install?
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:46:21 +0800
Hi. I'm considering setting up a linux mail/proxy server. With the many
versions available, can anyone direct me to self help site or if you can
offer any opinions on which I should consider as a newbie.
Thanks a bunch.
Mel
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Cannot get NFS to work on Mandrake 7
Date: 31 Mar 2000 00:51:43 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My server is hoffen -
> hosts.allow =
> ALL: ALL
AHHHH! No! That line should be in hosts.deny! Are you trying to
invite the world in through your front door? In hosts.allow you
should only have the hosts you trust, such as musha.
> exports:
> / musha(rw, no_root_squash)
> /mnt/cdrom musha(ro, no_root_squash)
That looks alright.
> When I do a:
> mount -t nfs hoffen:/ /mnt/misc
> on the client I get a "permisson denied", same for /mnt/cdrom
Have you run '/usr/sbin/exportfs -a' since editing /etc/exports? Are you
sure that the nfs server processes are running (look in ps aux)? What
is the output when you start the nfs process by hand via:
'$LOCATION OF init.d/nfs restart'
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows 2000
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:51:50 -0800
Check the documentation for fstab.
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From: Leejay Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: compare big files with kind of checksum
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:56:08 -0500
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.misc: 30-Mar-100 compare big files
with kind.. by peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I copy BIG files from one machine to another over a bad
> network (~30minutes per file) and want to check after if the
> targetfile is really the same then the original.
> I cant verify accros the net so I was thinking about creating
> some kind of checksum (I just remembered this from old
> assembler-time, where you had them to enter the code
> correctely) of each file and then compare the checksum and if
> the checksum is long enough, chances for the files beeing
> equal when the checksum is equal should be ok.
>
> any idea where to get such checksum-thing ?
MD5 seems to still be trusted. Look for an 'md5sum' program, that
might be with whatever distro you have if you're using one. The
one w/ SuSE 6.2, for instance, seems to be the GNU md5sum prog,
which came with the GNU textutils package, which is available at
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu.
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From: Leejay Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel/etc does not see all my mem...
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:57:44 -0500
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.misc: 30-Mar-100 kernel/etc does not
see all.. by Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> this is strange. I am running 2.2.14. on a Suse system.
> the bios sees my 192 MB of mem. but when i boot into linux it only sees
> 14MB, consistantly. i've rebuilt the kernel. booted into an old 2.2.12
> kernel i had around and they all see 14 MB:
[snip]
14MB makes me think "memory hole". Do you, perchance, have an option in
the BIOS that refers to anything that sounds like this?
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From: Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does kernel version matter with VMWare?
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:59:38 -0800
I'd guess VMWare works well with year-old kernel versions
(as in Red Hat 6.0 - kernel version 2.2.5-15). Does it work
_better_ with the latest kernel version?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Windows 2000
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:09:20 GMT
And verily, didst Tim De Vos hastily scribble thusly:
> Hi,
> I can mount my windows 2000 partition from my Linux without any problem.
> The only thing is that I need to be root to access this partition. When
> I try to access it as a regular user I always get "access denied". A
> "chmode -R 777" gets the job done but after a reboot I have to
> do it again. Is there a way so I can access my Windows 2000 partition
> as a regular user. I'm using Redhat 6.1.
Put it in your fstab with user as one of the options (in the field that has
default in it)
e.g.
>From my fstab...
/dev/hda1 /wine vfat auto,user 0 0
Then it can be mounted by any user.
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From: Dale Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VI and ASCII Question ?
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:05:23 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Im using SuSE Linux 6.2 with Vim ( improved vi or vi improved) and I
am trying to edit
a plain text file that has the ascii symols for a box in it,
ascii # 218 - ascii# 196- ascii#191
ascii# 179 ascii#179
ascii#192 - ascii#196 - ascii#217
but I can't figure how to enter these non-keyboard symbols into my
text file with the
Vi editor. I look through the help file and keep reading about the
- insert - mode, but I can't get it to work for me.
Any help on this would be much appreciated .
Dale
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From: Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Applixware or StarOffice
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:08:55 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Student Labs
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Which is better in the following categories:
<snip>
> 6) Better help/HOW-TO's
Gotta be Applix because Star Office's docs are pathetic.
> 7) ...anything else you may wish to add...
What would you use either for? If spreadsheets, Xess is
more powerful, but probably a royal pain to integrate with
presentation packages.
Nice e-mail address, BTW.
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: SCSI and IDE disk problems
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:34:40 -0500
The drive is toast. Replace it immediately.
--yan
"Knut A. Nilsen" wrote:
>
> About 6 months ago I installed a new Seagate Barracuda ST39175LW 9,1 Gb SCSI
> disk on a small fileserver. The disk has one partition taking up the entire
> disk, most of which is 'shared' to Windows clients using Samba (2.0.5a). The
> system has been running happily until yesterday, when I discovered that
> files and directories were missing over the samba share. Trying to list the
> files in linux gave me IO errors. Unmounting the drive and running e2fsck
> gave the following output:
>
> Error reading block XXX (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in
> short read) while doing inode scan. Ignore error<y>?
>
> Ignoring the error would give me more messages like this. Running e2fsck -c
> caused the scsi bus to attempt to reset several times. Finally, after
> several hours of errors, SCSI bus reset attempts etc etc, rebooted the
> machine, unmounted the drive and ran e2fsck -c, which now seamed to work.
> The disk is up and running again with no new error messages...
>
> /var/log/messages:
> Mar 29 12:29:01 arthur kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
> return code = 28000002
> Mar 29 12:29:01 arthur kernel: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current sd08:01:
> sense key Not Ready
> Mar 29 12:29:01 arthur kernel: Additional sense indicates Logical unit is in
> process of becoming ready
> Mar 29 12:29:01 arthur kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 8536140
> Mar 29 12:29:01 arthur kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,1)):
> ext2_write_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=1067
> 010, block=4268070
> Mar 29 12:29:06 arthur kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
> return code = 28000002
> Mar 29 12:29:06 arthur kernel: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current sd08:01:
> sense key Not Ready
> Mar 29 12:29:06 arthur kernel: Additional sense indicates Logical unit is in
> process of becoming ready
> Mar 29 12:29:06 arthur kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 2
> Mar 29 12:30:03 arthur kernel: (scsi0:0:0:-1) Unexpected busfree, LASTPHASE
> = 0x40, SEQADDR = 0x5f
> Mar 29 12:30:07 arthur kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
> return code = 28000002
> Mar 29 12:30:07 arthur kernel: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current sd08:01:
> sense key Not Ready
> Mar 29 12:30:07 arthur kernel: Additional sense indicates Logical unit is in
> process of becoming ready
> Mar 29 12:30:07 arthur kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 983962
> Mar 29 12:30:07 arthur kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
> return code = 28000002
>
> (same message repeated a _lot: of times)
>
> Mar 29 12:36:11 arthur kernel: scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half
> of retries.
> Mar 29 12:36:11 arthur kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
> Mar 29 12:36:14 arthur kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
> return code = 28000002
> Mar 29 12:36:14 arthur kernel: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current sd08:01:
> sense key Not Ready
> Mar 29 12:36:14 arthur kernel: Additional sense indicates Logical unit is in
> process of becoming ready
> Mar 29 12:36:14 arthur kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 2883722
>
> Can anyone explain this behaviour?
>
> Now, for chapter two:
>
> In 'panic', while I was fsck'ing the SCSI drive, I went an bought a second
> 10GB IDE drive, to backup my disk in case I needed to try some extensive
> data recovery. I makde this dosk inot one big partition also (/dev/hdc1).
> Running mke2fs, /var/log/messages is filled with this kind of errors:
>
> Mar 30 11:27:44 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
> Mar 30 11:27:44 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x10
> { SectorIdNotFound }, CHS=770/0/137, sector=197074
> Mar 30 11:28:02 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
> Mar 30 11:28:02 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x10
> { SectorIdNotFound }, CHS=1666/0/79, sector=426450
> Mar 30 11:28:21 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
> Mar 30 11:28:21 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x10
> { SectorIdNotFound }, CHS=3650/0/23, sector=934354
> Mar 30 11:28:22 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
> Mar 30 11:28:22 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x10
> { SectorIdNotFound }, CHS=3650/0/22, sector=934354
>
> ..and runing e2fsck on this disk gives:
>
> Error reading block 3358818 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted
> in short read) while doing inode scan. Ignore error<y>?
>
> ...which is the same message I got on the SCSI disk in the first place!
>
> Which means that I can't get my brand new 10 GB drive to work at all. The
> drive is an IBM DTTA-371010 CHS=19590/16/63
>
> On top of this, as I am writing this post, I see that I get the same error
> messages on /dev/hda and IO errors as I am parsing through /var/log/messages
> to copy the error messages. This disk is an IBM DTTA-350640 CHS=790/255/63
>
> This is beginning to become frustrating! Any ideas, anyone?
>
> Knut Nilsen
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting up a second printer with a PCI Parallel Port Card, ...
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:37:55 -0500
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x3bc,0x378,0x278 irq=7,none,none
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^
change to suit
--Yan
Bob Pelletier wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I was wondering if anyone has every setup a second LPT port on a Linux
> box with a PCI parallel card. I'm running kernel 2.2.12 with lp
> modulerized, and I know the IRQ and IO port for the for the PCI parallel
> adapter. I think all I need to do is put a couple of lines in my
> /etc/conf.modules to get lp or parport to recognize it, though I do not
> know what those lines should be.
>
> Am I on the right track? Do anyone have any suggestions?
>
> TIA,
>
> Bob Pelletier
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP! RIGHT NOW!
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:36:01 -0500
/usr/doc
man man
HOWTOs
RTFM
Joey Le wrote:
>
> when I bye the OS, there is only the manual for setting up, not how to use
> it, where is the documents
>
> jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8bvq6a$n5p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > "Yan Seiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > > Think different
> > > ride a recumbent
> > > use Linux.
> >
> > walk sideways
> > eat standing up
> >
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: DEFRAG OR NOT?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:25:01 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Chris would say:
>Am using the Corel Linux but have not seen any defrag or disk care
>utilites...are there any?
Take a look at <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/linuxkernel#DEFRAG>
Corel Linux most definitely does include the "fsck" utility (aka
"e2fsck"), which is a contraction of "FileSystem ChecK;" if you ever
shut down your system less-than-cleanly, you'll find that it is
automatically invoked at boot time to clean things up.
It also runs (by default) every ten times you reboot without having
run it on a filesystem.
As for defragmentation, there *is* a utility, "defrag," but it is
*not* widely used, and is fairly dangerous.
The time when the ext2 filesystem (much like *most* filesystems)
suffers substantial slowdowns due to fragmentation is when you get a
filesystem Really Full, as in >90% full. It doesn't suffer from this
anywhere *near* as badly as Microsoft's FAT filesystem, and if you go
off and delete some files to reduce space consumption, ext2 will
"heal" to some extent, whereas once FAT is fragmented, it'll be slow
'til it gets defragged.
In short, you very likely don't need to defragment your filesystems;
that's pretty much a Microsoft thing. (And a VMS thing, I have to
admit; but *not* a UNIX thing...)
In another year, it is likely that some of the Journalled filesystems
being worked on such as ReiserFS, ext3, XFS, GFS, and JFS will start
being deployed for use by "naive" users, and they will offer somewhat
different behaviour that likely also involves not needing to
defragment filesystems.
--
Never hit someone head on, always sideswipe. Never say, "Foo's last
patch was brain-damaged", but rather, "While fixing the miscellaneous
bugs in 243.xyz [foo's patch], I found...."
-- from the Symbolics Guidelines for Sending Mail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Linux GUI query
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:25:02 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Harvey Taylor would say:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Harvey Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>>> Hi Folks,
>>> What choices are there for Linux GUIs?
>>>
>>> I know about KDE and XFree86; are there any others?
>>
>> You are obviously confused. XFree86 is a server that gives a graphical
>>[...]
>Indeed. This too shall pass.
>Thank you to the several people who have replied to my query.
>
>A better phrasing of my question would be --- it seems like
>one has a choice of X or X, with whatever flavour window managers;
>are there any alternatives to X11 variants?
>
>What are the Linux gamers using?
>Is there anything at all like the <excuse the swearing> ms directx
>graphics interface for <choose your poison> fast or lightweight gfx?
>
>(ncurses is not an option ;-)
The sort of thing being used to deploy games is SDL: Simple
DirectMedia Layer.
<http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/>
A number of the vendors of games such as Loki (Civilization) are using
SDL as the substrate for programming games.
That is almost certainly the most appropriate thing to look at.
>PS.
>I have picked up the book XFree86 for Linux; would you recommend
>any other?
O'Reilly has a whole series on X that is Quite Good; you probably want
to look carefully through the set of volumes to see which few you want...
--
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really
the tone in which it was conveyed." -- Nietzsche
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Smith)
Subject: Re: compare big files with kind of checksum
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 02:15:52 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 23:44:58 GMT, peter pilsl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I copy BIG files from one machine to another over a bad
>network (~30minutes per file) and want to check after if the
>targetfile is really the same then the original.
>I cant verify accros the net so I was thinking about creating
>some kind of checksum (I just remembered this from old
>assembler-time, where you had them to enter the code
>correctely) of each file and then compare the checksum and if
>the checksum is long enough, chances for the files beeing
>equal when the checksum is equal should be ok.
>
>any idea where to get such checksum-thing ?
Sounds like 'sum' to me.
You might want to take a look at 'rsync' if versions of the files
already exist on the destination system. It only sends the differences
between the files.
--
|Colin Smith: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Windows 2000 |
|Linux: Delivers on the promises Microsoft make. | AKA |
| http://www.linux.org/ | The W2K Bug |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: HELP! RIGHT NOW!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:33:39 -0600
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, "Joey Le" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
>I need help on how to:
> change my screen resolution, run my MindSpring.DUN under linux, change
>wallpaper, change screen saver, access my floppy, access two of my CD Drive
>(seperatly), run browser, restart computer, add user, ....(hey, please, but
>I can go on until morning).
Most of these questions have been answer many times already on Usenet.
Most of them are also too complex to answer up front without obtaining
additional information from you.
For starters, I would suggest going someplace like http://www.deja.com
and searching for various things in the "*linux*" forums (these Usenet
newgroups in database form).
Some quick answers, sort of:
* Control-Alt-Plus and Control-Alt-Minus will toggle between the
various screen depths you have configured in your XF86Config file.
You can use a tool like xf86config to refine those definitions.
* I don't know what a "Mindspring.DUN" is. Do you mean PPP dialer?
* Wallpaper changing is largely dependent on the window manager you
are using. KDE, for example, provides a user-friendly facility
which is quite similar to windows, and which is accessible from the
KDE desktop menu. You can use xv as well.
* For floppy and CD-ROM drives, you need to explicitly mount or
unmount them using the "mount" and "umount" (no "n") commands
*unless* you've installed/configured an automounter. Type
man mount
to obtain online help about the mount command.
* This depends on too many factors to answer intelligently.
* The "shutdown -r now" command will restart the computer.
* Many Linux distributions use a centralized tool like linuxconf or
YaST to configure users. Otherwise, try "adduser" or "useradd"
from the command line.
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
+ VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
A day without sunshine is like night.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: HELP! RIGHT NOW!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:41:40 -0600
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, "Joey Le" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
>when I bye the OS, there is only the manual for setting up, not how to use
>it, where is the documents
Look in the /usr/doc directory. Also, the "man" command shows you the
online manual pages for various commands.
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
+ VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
Burn a flag for freedom :-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Emery Lapinski)
Crossposted-To:
rec.video.satellite.dbs,alt.satellite.tv,rec.video.satellite.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x,comp.infosystems.www.browsers,comp.infosystems.www.browswers.misc
Subject: Re: Dish Network's site is DOWN if you don't use M$'s browser.
Date: 30 Mar 2000 18:08:52 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Randy Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>But I've changed my mind. If any vendor has the hubris to state
>that they won't serve me unless I CHANGE OPERATING SYSTEMS, or
>that they're unable to master the trivial technology of creating
>web pages that work with more than ONE browser, they clearly don't
>care if they lose millions of potential customers. And of course,
>they're incompetent idiots.
But the *really* sad part is that they spend a lot of money trying
to get people to sign up. From their November Quarterly Report
(http://biz.yahoo.com/e/l/d/dish.html):
"As previously described, we subsidize the cost of EchoStar
receiver systems in order to attract new DISH Network subscribers.
Consequently, our subscriber acquisition costs are significant.
During the nine months ended September 30, 1999, our aggregate
subscriber acquisition costs, which include subscriber promotion
subsidies and acquisition marketing expenses, approximated
$370 per new subscriber activation.
and:
"...we expect that our subscriber acquisition costs during
2000 could increase by as much as $25 per subscriber or more.
Emery
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