Hi, Mike. Try using paragraphs in the future, please ... your message runs
together enough that I, at least, found it hard to read. Below, I've deleted
the parts I can't help with and answered where I could.
At 01:41 PM 4/6/00 -0400, Mike Stevenson wrote [in part]:
>secondly, i have 96 MB of ram in my computer, but
>mandrake is only picking up 64 MB of it. it still counts up to 96 when i
>first boot up.
Yeah, this is an old bug that was supposed to have been fixed, but that
we're starting to see again. Not sure why it's happening, but here's the fix.
Edit /etc/lilo.conf to add this line:
append="mem=96M"
the re-run lilo. Then reboot, and the kernel should see all your RAM.
>oh yes, adding users.. when I was still doing the
>install setup, i'm absolutely positive that I created an account in my
>name aside from the root accout. there was nothing set up when i first
>started, though.
I don't really know how to explain this discrepancy, aside from the obvious:
either your certainty is misplaced or the system is buggy.
>i tried creating one with useradd, but i seem to be
>having some problems with the -p flag. the man file says that the
>argument for -p is the encrypted password as returned by crypt. does
>this mean I have to write a c program before I can add my user?
No. Much easier to do one of the following
run useradd without the -p option, then use "passwd accountname"
to set its password (as root, replacing "accountname"
with the actual userid).
run adduser, which is (sort of) an interactive front end to
useradd
>ok, only
>a couple left to go. :-) ./ doesn't seem to be in my path, and i
>haven't had any luck in adding it there. i thought it was just setenv
>PATH $PATH: ./, but that doesn't seem to do anything.
If the "you" here is root, you don't want to do this -- it introduces a
security risk. People disagree about whether it is okay for non-privileged
users. If you want to do this, the best way it to edit the file that sets
the PATH variable at login. The global file is /etc/profile; the
individual-user file varies by distribution, and I'm not sure what Mandrake
uses (could be .profile, .bashrc, .pash_profile, or a couple of others).
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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