Brian,
I like your response and Joris Lambrecht's to this saga the best.
As both a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) NT 4.0 and a
Linux Professional Institute Certified (LPIC) person, I can tell you first
hand no one knows it all. We all enter the arena at some level
I just did a cat on /etc/fstab to see how my Debina 2.2.17 machine sees
the floppy.
/dev/fd0/floppy autodefaults,user,noauto0 0
is the entry in fstab.
I then popped in a blank floppy and did;
mke2fs /dev/fd0 /floppy
Then did;
mount /floppy
Then;
cd /floppy
Then;
ls
Joey,
Do; man pwconvand you can read all about turning on shadow
passwords, and you guessed it pwunconcv turns it back off.
John
-Original Message-
From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 9:35 PM
To: Ross Smith
Cc:
Stephen,
This comes up quite often so let me help. First there are two
clocks; system clock and hardware clock.
The one we tend to know about is the system clock and we invoke the
date time with the command; date
The one we tend to not know about is the hardware
Lee,
I agree with Jason, look at the cheapbytes site, notice that there
is more than one offering. They had one with a very large text/reference
book that I wished I had purchased. I got both the source and the
executable (6CD) set but the (3CD) set and the big book might be the way to
-Original Message-
From: Holp, John Mr.
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 9:44 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: softlink/hardlink
Debain Experts,
I have some confusion relative to soft links versus hard links and inode
numbers. If I do the following
Not too many weeks ago I was looking for the same thing. I ended up with
the book Debina GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed. It does have 1120 pages in it but
as you indicate it is a little outdated. I run Debian 2.2.17 here in my
office and it seems to serve okay in that capacity.
The book seems to
Steve,
In my .exrc file I have placed;
set wm=9
That will break the line 9 keystrokes from the right side, give it a
try.
John
-Original Message-
From: Steven E. Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 2:36 PM
To:
Some refinement;port 20 is ftp data
port 21 is ftp
port 23 is telnet
-Original Message-
From: Eric Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 3:31 PM
To: Daniel de los Reyes
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Debian Users,
I have recently ordered a book titled Sendmail for Linux by
Richard Blum but right now I am inpatient as it hasn't arrived as of today.
I know about the existence of the .forward file and as mail comes in
the .forward file is checked if it exists and then mail is
I am getting mixed results from different sources about the subject of
reserved internet addresses for internal subnets.
Most indicate that 10.x.x.x is for the category A network
and 192.168.0.0 though 192.168.255.255 for the C category
But the confusion is in the B category.
Some sources
If you want to force the systems clock time to be that if the hardware clock
time do:
hwclock -s
or
hwclock --hctosys
all syntax in this instance is lower case
John
-Original Message-
From: Henrique M Holschuh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 3:10
A couple of days ago someone asked the question that was in the back of my
mind, but I don't recall seeing the answer/s.
In Red Hat and some other Red Hat like distributions the path sequence
/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc.local
can be used to execute your custom scripts and/or start daemons at boot
Also try;
zcat the_file_name | more
John
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 11:54 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Opening .gz files with links
Anthony Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andre Berger
Debian Warriors,
Is there a general technique or utility that allows one to install a
non-Debina package on a Debian system?
I am finding very sketchy information about a thing called
alien syntax something like;
alien package_name.rpm
Will apparently
My documentation indicates that if you see LI at the prompt and then the
process hangs, the second stage boot loader was loaded properly but can't be
executed.
Try adding the word linear to the global portion of the /etc/lilo.conf
file.
Re-run LILO -- /sbin/lilo
Then reboot
This is
Joris,
I am currently studying for the Linux Professional Institute (LPI)
102 final exam. The exams are TOUGH but I like their idea/concept. LPI
is actually distribution independent for most areas. They accomplish this
by retreating to the least common denominator - as an example to
Debian Users,
There is an old reference to an Apache manual being maintained on
line at /home/httpd/html/manual, does anyone know where to find this manual?
I think it is like a read-me-first Apache reference or first time Apache
installation reference.
Thanks,
John
test message
-Original Message-
From: Ray Percival [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 9:46 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; Howell Caton
Subject: Re: certification
IMHO, If you have the knowledge and are doing the certs to impress
employers do the Red Hat
Debian Warriors,
I seem to be having trouble using the debian-user@ address but
can do a reply to all.
At any rate, LPI certification covers all distributions of Linux.
That is done by retreating to the least common denominator --- example, to
add a new user within the LPI
Rob,
Try zcat archieve_set file_name, to look at things.
Then;
tar xzvf archieve_set file_name
John
-Original Message-
From: Rich Puhek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 2:26 PM
To: Rob Hudson
Cc: Debian
Subject: Re: Get a single file from a tar archive?
sg.au,
I have been trying to install Debina official distribution for the
past 2 to 3 days - version 2.2.17
There is no problem with my CD in that installation takes right off
when you boot with the first CD in the drive.
I CANNOT get Make Linux Bootable Directly From
-Original Message-
From: Holp, John Mr.
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 7:44 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Installation troubles
Debian Experts,
I ordered and received three (3) Official Debina CDs with the Debian
2.2.16 distribution. After I
Debian People,
Someone wrote me an e-mail and included an URL to a seller of
Official Debian that included free support. Please re-send the URL as I
have lost it.
Thanks,
John
Debian Warriors,
I have purchased a book titled Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed, it is
about 1120 pages in length and in the back cover is a CD labeled Debain
GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed.
I have a clean Pentium 255 MHz machine that previously ran SuSE
Linux with no problems. To make
Debian Warriors,
Some time back I found a book listing titledOfficial Debian
GNU/LInux 2.0
Linux 3 CD-ROM with
new manual
Does anyone know where I can purchase this book? I cannot find it
today with any of the on-line
]
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 1:47 PM
To: Jon Pennington
Cc: Holp, John Mr.; 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
Subject: Re: Installing Debian trouble
At Wed, 03 Jan 2001 10:48:17 -0600,
Jon Pennington wrote:
Holp, John Mr. wrote:
[...]
The system then attempts to extract
Xucaen,
I have purchased the following books:
1. Linux Systems Administration Handbook by Mark F. Komarinski
About 385 pages, not enough examples, syntax, etc., for me.
2. PREP KIT General Linux I by Theresa Hadden Martinez
About 350
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