Cron examples?
What are some of the things that you are using cron to do? I used to use a similar DOS based program, same name, eons ago when I ran a BBS. In the middle of the night I had it start up and run maintenence for the online games, delete old local e-mail messages, get/sort/unpack FidoNet mail for the BBS, and assorted other things. I'm just wondering, as a Linux/Debian newbie some of the things that cron can do on my system. I'm drawing a blank right now so maybe if I hear from some others how, and what they use cron it'll spark something. -- James R. Lunsford Email - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page - http://www.comports.com/jrl007 ICQ - 2114258
Re: dumb WordPerfect question
Brian Morgan wrote: Thanks for using NetForward! http://www.netforward.com v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v I've successfully unzipped and installed WordPerfect 8 onto /usr/local/wp8. Now what? What's the name of the executable and where is it? Readme's aren't helping. The exact same thing happened to me. I gave up on it. --- James R. Lunsford Email - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page - http://www.comports.com/jrl007 ICQ - 2114258
Re: dumb WordPerfect question
Mark Wagnon wrote: I've successfully unzipped and installed WordPerfect 8 onto /usr/local/wp8. Now what? What's the name of the executable and where is it? Readme's aren't helping. The exact same thing happened to me. I gave up on it. There were some problems with the wordperfect installation instructions. These instructions apply to the smaller, segmented files. o What you need to do is copy all the files to an empty directory, and make sure their filenames are lowercase. o Unzip each of them. o Untar the gui00 file only. o Run the Runme executalble. o Follow the instruction presented by the installation program HTH I had the large 27(?) meg file. I put it in /usr/local and untarred it, then installed it. It seemed to go well but the 2 times I tried it, no xwp file. -- James R. Lunsford Email - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page - http://www.comports.com/jrl007 ICQ - 2114258
Compiling a new kernel.
I'd like to go from 2.0.34 to 2.0.35. I'm moving kind of slow because I'm using the SuSE 3DLabs xserver for my Creative Labs video card, and I've heard that it won't work with kernels above 2.0.34 and I recently heard that it WILL work with 2.0.35. Anyway, I've had to recompile my existing kernel a few times, once for sound and once for the hell of it, so I've done that. But whenever I did it I just changed to '/usr/src/linux' and did the 'make menuconfig' config thing and configured the kernel. I've got the 2.0.35 source and I've got the updated kernel package for Debian but I noticed one thing: /usr/src/linux is linked to the 2.0.34 directory. Am I correct in assuming that I have to relink /usr/src/linux to the 2.0.35 directory? Anyway, can someone give me a down and dirty way to do this? Also, what are the steps for compiling a kernel? I've done it before, but I'm a scrap of paper kind of guy. I jot down notes as I go along from readmes, how-to's, whatever and at one time I had the process pretty well described on 3 or 4 scraps of paper, but I think I'm missing a scrap or two. I promise if someone gives me the steps, I'll organize them and keep 'em. Or better yet, is the process described pretty well in the readme's for the source (2.0.35)? I'm pretty sure that that's pretty close to the way that I did it the other 2 times, but the procedure is described differently in the kernel package readmes. TIA -- James R. Lunsford Email - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page - http://www.comports.com/jrl007 ICQ - 2114258
XWP - NOT!
Hello all. I installed Wordperfect 8 into /usr/local/wp8 and there's no xwp file to be found anywhere on my system. The only thing that was really out of the ordinary in my installation was that it didn't run under X. I got some kind of error message and it ran in an xterm window. Anyone have any clues as to why I can't run wordperfect on my system? I saw a message about placing DISPLAY=:0.0 into my profile or one of the bash files to eliminate some problems, but I don't know if that will help. TIA. --
Getting setup for mail and news
I've been fooling around with debian for a little while now, and I need some help, or pointers in the right direction. I'm using Netscape for my mail and news, and WVDIAL to dial my isp. What I'd like to do is to get the internal, if that's the right term, stuff going in linux. I tried setting up the pon for the dialer, smail and fetchmail for mail, but I didn't get far. I got confused on what goes where, and in what order. If someone could give me a gameplan I'd really appreciate it. Like what things to install, what order to install them, what docs to read, etc. Thanks in advance.
Setting up a Panasonic KX-P6100 Laser Printer
Has anyone gotten one of these to work under Linux, or can someone give me a hand in getting mine setup? I've looked everywhere that I know of for help but have run out of resources. Thanks.
