Re: NFS mounted /home area from SGI computer, good idea?

1998-12-01 Thread Chris Fury
George Bonser wrote: Yes. Linux uses different UID/GID assignments than SGI does for some things. For example, if your home directories are owned by the staff group, you might find them owned by the uucp group when mounted on your Linux box. As long as your linux box has the same UID for

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread Chris Fury
George Bonser wrote: He also compares Debian to Slackware as having to roll your own stuff. As if Debian does not have a package manager. It looks like the Microsoft people think that rpm is the only Linux package manager. Well, not to rock the boat, but I see more .rpm's that I do .deb's on

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread Chris Fury
Vincent Murphy wrote: It does annoy me also when you can't get the latest whizz bang version of e.g. Eterm, but at the same time it's a great incentive for us to get up off our butts and start maintaining them ourselves. True. I keep saying that I want to do something like that, but I never

Re: enlightenment

1998-10-14 Thread Chris Fury
Christopher J. Morrone wrote: How do I start the enlightment window manager under Debian? I have tried all kinds of .xinitrc, .xsession files but I just don't seem to be getting it right, my old fvwm2 manager still starts up... chmod 754 ~/.xsession if you're using xdm, chmod 754

Re: enlightenment

1998-10-14 Thread Chris Fury
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I start the enlightment window manager under Debian? I have tried ...but that makes it the default for all users on the system, right? If you want to make a lighter window manager for the regular folks (er, root? :) and have a more sophisticated set up for

Re: X server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Chris Fury
Braden N. McDaniel wrote: Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot sequence has completed. I *think* this is because I elected to being xdm up at bootup when I initially installed everything, and now that setting is kicking in. I suspect the problem may be that

Re: X Server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Chris Fury
Martin Bialasinski wrote: Actually it would be easier to edit /etc/X11/config and change start-xdm to no-start-xdm and xdm-start-server to no-xdm-start-server. Yeah, but my option has less keystrokes... :P :) Elegence? What's that? -- balderdash.

Where can I find bo packages?

1998-08-18 Thread Chris Fury
Yeah, yeah, I know, upgrade to 2.0. I will, eventually. :) Right now I need to get some proggies for the gateway at work, and it's a 1.3 machine. Where can I find a mirror of the old stuff? Thanks, Chris -- This space for rent.

To Upgrade or Reinstall completely?

1998-08-18 Thread Chris Fury
What do you think? Is the upgrade process to 2.0 solid? Or should I start with a fresh disk? -- This space for rent.

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Chris Fury
I don't know about you folks, but my newserver (news.vt.edu) has the group, but I've never seen a single message in it Am I broken? Goetzke, Christopher L wrote: -Original Message- From: George Bonser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 21, 1998 10:24 PM To: