Re: PGP for Linux

1998-07-29 Thread Richard Adams
According to Lee Roberts: While burning my CPU. The docs indicate that I was in the correct directory but I did try "make linux" from the /home/ki7rw/pgp262 directory got the "no target" error. Possably you have read the README and or INSTALL file(s) already, if not do so, normaly

Re: Linux + Mac

1998-07-29 Thread Richard Adams
://www.findmail.com/listsaver/linux-newbie/info.html (thanks to Richard Adams - I never knew there is an archive for this list). Thanks should realy go to the webmaster who put the page on the web, i cant remember how i found it, possably here or with a search. Anyways its there folks, use it. Thanks

Re: Kernel compile

1998-07-30 Thread Richard Adams
According to Kevin Hayes: While burning my CPU. So proud. Got Slack 3.5 installed, fumbled through getting lpr working, ppp going, got X looking good, and even compiled and got kde cruisin'. Many thanks to this list, and a big tip 'o the hat to Ishak, a very patient and considerate guy.

Re: Sharing a Swap?

1998-07-30 Thread Richard Adams
According to Dane Helm: While burning my CPU. Is it possible to share a swap space? Say, for example, I have a 6.4gig hard driveIf I partition 3g for Red Hat and 3g for Slackware can I share the .4 remaining gig as 1 swap or would I split that into 2 .2g swaps..? Yes you can use only

Re: Modem on Geological Time

1998-07-30 Thread Richard Adams
According to Helms, Phil: While burning my CPU. The modem is an internal Sportster 33.6, and is hooked into COM4 (cua3). When in Windows, I noticed that the IRQ for the modem was 5, while the IRQ for the COM port was 3, which also duplicated another COM port. Could this inconsistency and

Re: LILO OS/2?

1998-07-30 Thread Richard Adams
According to Marcus Johnson: While burning my CPU. On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Jimmy Z. Stergiou wrote: On 30 Jul 1998, Jodoin, Dominic wrote: Can anyone explain to me the difference between LILO and loadlin. I'm looking forward to install Winbloze95 and Linux (maybe Slackware) on my

Re: LILO vs LOADLIN

1998-07-31 Thread Richard Adams
According to Jonathan Sprague: While burning my CPU. Karl, your sooo helpful! Actually, lilo is the way to go--UNLESS you need dos to initiate a sound card or something, then you will need to use loadlin (I even saw a package that included an icon to put on your No you dont need loadlin to

Re: rc files...

1998-07-31 Thread Richard Adams
According to Sony Lloyd Ponton: While burning my CPU. Hi, In slackware I can change the host name of my machine in /etc/rc.d/rc.M..where can I find that name in redhat linux 4.2. Cause I was Well actualy you cant change it in rc.M, what you may have done is changed echo "darkstar.frop.org"

Re: LILO Error 01 01 01....

1998-07-31 Thread Richard Adams
According to Anthony Good: While burning my CPU. Greetings ! I'm doing an install on a Gateway with two drives, hda is about 2 GB, hdb about 400 MB. Windoze 95 on the 2 GB drive, Redhat 5.1 on hdb1. LILO is installed on hda. LILO starts up with LI and then 01 01 01... keeps

Re: Apologies if this is already sent. PPP died as I was sending.

1998-07-31 Thread Richard Adams
According to Kevin Connors: While burning my CPU. Subject: Re: Kernel compile Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 18:53:46 -0500 From: Kevin Connors kevin@SicTransitMundi And yet another. I installed sbpcd.i as vmlinuz when my new kernel messed up. I never thought of sbpcd.i as a module. An aside,

Re: install error messages....

1998-08-01 Thread Richard Adams
According to De Tavio Crudup: While burning my CPU. Hello all, I'm trying to install the demo version of accelerated-X. When I type "sh Install" I get the following error message... "cannot find ed in PATH:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/etc" You dont have the program called

Re: usernet

1998-08-01 Thread Richard Adams
According to Lesouef Emmanuel: While burning my CPU. when I kill usernet, I can't reload it if I don't reboot my computer can someone help me? currently using rh5 There is possably a lock file lying around somewhere. You should never just "kill" programs. -- Solo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: install error messages....

1998-08-02 Thread Richard Adams
According to James: While burning my CPU. On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Richard Adams wrote: //According to De Tavio Crudup: While burning my CPU. // // Hello all, // // I'm trying to install the demo version of accelerated-X. When I type // "sh Install" I get the following err

Re: Really simple gcc question

1998-08-02 Thread Richard Adams
According to Anukool Lakhina: While burning my CPU. Hello all. After compiling a simple program in C (using gcc), I can't run my a.out. The error message I get is "a.out: Command not found." But ls tells me that a.out is there! (and it's permission settings are ok) This is really stupid

Re: Irritating ext2fs corruption

1998-08-02 Thread Richard Adams
According to Norbert Bottlaender-Prier: While burning my CPU. Jakob Borg a écrit: ... Is this some cache problem? -- Jakob Borg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 narayan 2.1.112 i586] Hi Jakob ! There's some probability that the problem is in your signature ;-) I

Re: Need help with Info command

1998-08-03 Thread Richard Adams
According to Michael D. Hobgood: While burning my CPU. I've been trying to get the info command on my Slackware 3.5 system to work. Whenever I type info, I get the message "libz.so.1 not found". I've looked at all lib files on my system and this file doesn't exist. After searching the

Re: Configuring new kernel.

1998-08-03 Thread Richard Adams
According to James Maddison: While burning my CPU. I have problem with RH 5.1 and configuring Kernel 2.0.35. Although I've been doing #make config from the /usr/src/linux directory, like I'm supposed to. Did the #make mrproper thing then started to configure. Followed all the steps

Re: Kernel Stuff

1998-08-03 Thread Richard Adams
According to Robert Pinkston: While burning my CPU. I am about to get the new kernel 2.0.35 i just heard was out, last time i tryed to compile a kernel, it would not even read a cdrom, and idea where i can find infromation about what all you can compile into the kernel besides the stuff

Re: For god sake..when are my daemons going to start up..

1998-08-05 Thread Richard Adams
According to Sony Lloyd Ponton: While burning my CPU. Hi, I ve configured my named config files (named.boot, named.ca, named.conf cause I have Bind 8.1..named.rev..named..), and I ve read that I should find in my rc script files an rc file that looks like : if [ -f /etc/inet/named.boot -a

Re: 'gethostbyname'

1998-08-05 Thread Richard Adams
According to No One: While burning my CPU. That is normal. MZNet:/# hostname MZNet MZNet:/# MZNet:/# cat /etc/HOSTNAME MZNet.mznet.nu MZNet:/# ( I think It's normal If Not, Can someone help me ;) Correct performance on your machine maybe, however Ted asked something totaly

Re: Speed when Telnet, FTP, EMAIL

1998-08-05 Thread Richard Adams
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While burning my CPU. Hello, Somebody recently posted a message saying that the connection to their = server was initially slow when trying to access the above services. I = have the same problems does anybody know how to fix this. I cant remember

Re: Linux doesn't see my modem

1998-08-05 Thread Richard Adams
According to Etienne Grossmann: While burning my CPU. Hello, did you have a look at your /etc/fstab file ? The mail subject header says "Linux doesn't see my modem" what does an msdos file system entry in /etc/fstab have to do with that i ask??. I used to have my dos filesystem

Re: Allowing Root telnet

1998-08-09 Thread Richard Adams
According to Anukool Lakhina: While burning my CPU. How can I telnet into my Linux machine as root? I'm using RH5.0 Thanks. There are many ways, but do not forget it can be a very large security risk when doing so. Edit /etc/securetty and add ttyp0 possably 1 2 and 3 also just incase

Re: 'Clock skew' error -- ??

1998-08-09 Thread Richard Adams
According to Drew Krause: While burning my CPU. I'm starting to get rather ominous messages during compiles, including: 'Clock skew detected. Build may be incomplete' 'Modification time in the future' How can I correct this? (Please email me directly, I am not a subscriber). I'm

Re: Boot disk of..

1998-08-09 Thread Richard Adams
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While burning my CPU. Hi, I ve installed redhat 5.0 from cd, but Now that I m on my Linux box ..and no more cd rom in hand..could anyone tell me how I can do my bootdisk... You should have made one (or two) as the README says when you installed the software

Re: ps/2

1998-08-09 Thread Richard Adams
According to JACK WILSON: While burning my CPU. I have an old PS/2 that is no longer used for anything. I was wanting to install linux on it, but after reading the FAQ's it says that it does not support the bus that the PS/2 uses...Has anyone on this list ever got Linux to run successfully

Re: Linux-Newbie FAQ

1998-08-09 Thread Richard Adams
According to Bryan Scaringe: While burning my CPU. Bryan Scaringe a écrit: I'm considering starting a FAQ for this list. However, I can't do it alone. There are some FAQ's (like the ppp stuff) that I have little to no experience with. If anyone is interested in

Re: Having problems with install of Linux

1998-08-09 Thread Richard Adams
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While burning my CPU. Hello. I cannot believe it: I m installing redhat 5.0( kernel 2.0.30), but when I use rawrite (as mentionned in the manual of my linux), at the step where it comes to choose A:\ as the target to put boot.img on it..it says that A:\,

Re: Boot Disks problem..

1998-08-09 Thread Richard Adams
According to Mikkel Ellertson: While burning my CPU. On Sun, 9 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I did a boot disk of my redhat 5.0 (kernel 2.0.32) by going to root and executing following command: dd if =/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192 The bootdisk is probably ok..but pls,

RE: Linux-Newbie FAQ

1998-08-10 Thread Richard Adams
Hi All. Altho' i find the idea of a linux-newbie FAQ quite a good idea, i feel i must say that most questions which are asked here are already in a FAQ. Of course there will be spesific questions which may or may not already have an answer in one or another FAQ. Now considering that "most"

Re: Linux-Newbie FAQ

1998-08-10 Thread Richard Adams
According to Bryan Scaringe: While burning my CPU. Although I agree that there are plenty of FAQs out there, I have not found any suitable for this group. The most appropriate would be the linux-FAQ. However, for the porposes of this group, it is poor at best. Fir example, see the

Re: Removing a linux pation

1998-08-10 Thread Richard Adams
According to Manor G.: While burning my CPU. Hello, i got redhat5.0 installed. i bought a new HD, and i want to remove my old linux patition, add that space to my Windows patition, and install my new slack3.5 [:))] on the new hardisk. my question is.. how do i remove my old linux

Re: Problem with file /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

1998-08-11 Thread Richard Adams
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While burning my CPU. Hi, I have redhat 5, kernel 2.0.32 and the set up went well. I set up domain name as yale.com and the host name as Hale.yale.com. But when I look at /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, I see: # Read in config data if [-f /etc/sysconfig/network ];

Re: Removing a linux pation

1998-08-11 Thread Richard Adams
According to George: While burning my CPU. Talking about removing a Linux partition ... I had installed Redhat 5.0 on my computer. Various troubles developed and RedHat support wouldn't respond so I removed it, deleted the Linux partition, booted the computer with a DOS version 6.22

Re: kernal (kernel)

1998-08-11 Thread Richard Adams
According to Dirk Hunter: While burning my CPU. is there any precompiled kernals i can use for support of a ne2000 net card??? I dont have a cd rom and only a 40mb hdd so i will have to download from the internet... If you are using a standardly installed kernel from a distribution

Re: version info; adduser

1998-08-11 Thread Richard Adams
According to chrisj: While burning my CPU. I am currently using RedHat 5.0 with some updates. Is there an easy way to determing what version I am using of a given binary? Also, is there a GUI interface for 'adduser'? That varies from binary to binary, normaly binary_name -V or -v will

Re: Linux-Newbie FAQ

1998-08-11 Thread Richard Adams
According to James: While burning my CPU. On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Richard Adams wrote: -The FAQ can be found as stated below. - -Redhat /usr/doc/FAQ/FAQ -slackware /usr/doc/faq/faq/linux-faq.ascii.gz -debian /usr/doc/FAQ/linux-faq.ascii.gz hmm, oops! ignore the previous post, guess i

Re: Where is $PATH originally set?

1998-08-11 Thread Richard Adams
According to Bryan Scaringe: While burning my CPU. This one's driving me nuts. there are 4 files sourced when I log in... /etc/profile ~/.profile ~/.bash_profile one other, I can't remember. Mabye /etc/bashrc or /etc/bash_profile Anyway, the first to be

Re: Package

1998-08-12 Thread Richard Adams
According to Mark Dohojda: While burning my CPU. I have couple questions. First of all how do you add packages to a kernel (such as new or updated device drivers). Also how do you compile source code of a program. For instance I just downloaded arena browser. I can untar and gunzip it,

Re: System boots up ..

1998-08-13 Thread Richard Adams
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While burning my CPU. Hi, When my linux 5.0, kernel 2.0.32 boots up..everything goes right till it says it starts amd, then it waits 3 mins ..then my system continues to boot normally. When I shutdown my system, I see: kill amd.. kill innd ..no such pID.

Re: Help for default gateway...

1998-08-13 Thread Richard Adams
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While burning my CPU. Hi, When I installed my redhat 5.0 Linux box, I forgot the default gateway IP (during TCP IP networking set up of my eth0 ethernet card) cause I had to configure Internet connection later. Now, I wanna know how and where to insert the

Re: Source code RPM removal

1998-08-13 Thread Richard Adams
According to Bryan Scaringe: While burning my CPU. Just curious: If I install a source RPM, and "Make"/install it, Will a "rpm -e source-RPM" remove only the source, or will it also get the application and make-waste (.o files) as well. I never use rpm's but if a package is installed by

Re: filesystem check on boot

1998-08-13 Thread Richard Adams
According to Martin Roberts: While burning my CPU. I have just installed RH5 on my system on /hda5 (windoze95 is on the primary partition) and each time I boot it forces a filesystem check. I tried booting, logging on, and immediately shutting down to see if this made any difference but it

Re: remote X compressor for slow links?

1998-08-13 Thread Richard Adams
According to Emmett Hogan: While burning my CPU. SSH not only encrypts traffic, it also compresses it quite nicely. You do need to put a server at the remote end, but if you are talking UNIX to UNIX, the source code is available. It's available from ftp://ftp.cs.hut.fi/pub/ssh the

Re: Serial mouse

1998-08-13 Thread Richard Adams
According to Mark Dohojda: While burning my CPU. Hello all I have serial Microsoft mouse and RedHat linux 5.0. However I can't seem to be able to make my mouse to work. I know that the mouse works fine (it works with windows anyway). When I try to compile a kernel I don't get option

Re: Linux Wannabe dying in the womb

1998-08-14 Thread Richard Adams
According to Bill Baldwin: While burning my CPU. This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0033_01BDC710.1FED6E20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Help! I'm dying here. I'm trying to install

Re: Kernel and module dependencies.

1998-08-14 Thread Richard Adams
According to James Maddison: While burning my CPU. Here's what I'm doing which is straight from the RedHat manual and from my reading of Kernal HOWTOs and other related HOWTOs. As root (not su'd to root) I enter the /usr/src/linux directory. Then I issue a "make mrpoper" from there.

Re: Linux Wannabe dying in the womb

1998-08-14 Thread Richard Adams
According to Bill Baldwin: While burning my CPU. Linux Pro 4.1a (from Workgroup Solutions) is a version of Red Hat = Linux. The instructions state to: - create a partition (800 MB partition created on 2 GB = c-drive...Windoze 95 on other partition) - format disk - restore

Re: compiling kernel

1998-08-14 Thread Richard Adams
According to chrisj: While burning my CPU. While compiling the kernel and running zlilo, I get the following error: open /boot/initrd-2.0.35.img: No such file or directory make [1]: *** [zlilo] Error 1 make [1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.0.35/arch/i386/boot' make: *** [zlilo]

Re: Another pitiful request for assistance...

1998-08-15 Thread Richard Adams
According to Gerry Mullins: While burning my CPU. Hi all, Kent Robotti's excellent DOSLINUX distribution fits my needs and system perfectly! (are you waiting for me to say, "except for one little thing"? Well, except for one little thing: I have a Lucent Technologies Win Modem

Re: Boot diskette

1998-08-15 Thread Richard Adams
According to LENGARD Pascal OCISI: While burning my CPU. To create a boot+root floppy, if you want to, you could just test this = scri[[ MAKEB~5B : 3854 dans MAKEB~5B ]]t (bash) Lengard, Your script however good it may look does not achive the desired results. It may be ok on your

Re: compiling kernel

1998-08-15 Thread Richard Adams
According to Karl F. Larsen: While burning my CPU. Chrisj, I wonder why you run zlilo? When I compile a new kernel I just run lilo and it tells the kernel about the configuration. Why would I prefer to run a compile that makes zlilo? Huum, its one command less. make zlilo = compile

Re: adduser and passwd file(s)

1998-08-15 Thread Richard Adams
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While burning my CPU. I have a strange thing happening.. Once upon a time, I was able to use 'adduser' to add a new user to my system and I would look at the ./etc/passwd file and see the password encoded properly as were all the other ones. Now, when I

Re: Writing to tty from background job

1998-08-15 Thread Richard Adams
According to Kenneth Stephen: While burning my CPU. Mike wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Kenneth Stephen wrote: Hi, I have a shell script which attempts to write a message to a tty from a job scheduled with 'at'. When I execute this script from the foreground, the message

Re: adduser and passwd file(s)

1998-08-16 Thread Richard Adams
According to Ted Gervais: While burning my CPU. On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Richard Adams wrote: My Redhat 4.2 system puts in a "*" but you are forgetting to use; 'passwd new_account' After 'passwd new_account' has been used and succsesfully completed then the passwd file

Re: mounting bootdisk

1998-08-16 Thread Richard Adams
According to Karl F. Larsen: While burning my CPU. Jeron, a boot disk can not be mounted or read by human eyes. It can only be run as a boot disk and you can watch the mini linux load and get an idea what is loaded. Contray to Karls statement! You can COPY the data from a

Re: Linux Wannabe dying in the womb

1998-08-16 Thread Richard Adams
According to Karl F. Larsen: While burning my CPU. It is true Red Hat has GUI config devices that once your used to them it is fine. But then you never learn about the Unix plumbing system. Well just a litte info, Slackware also has the same sort of GUI config devices as you call

Re: Problems finding hardware at boot

1998-08-16 Thread Richard Adams
According to Jeroen: While burning my CPU. Hi, I got the problem that at boot my second CD-ROM drive isn't detected. I get : hda: HP CD-Writer+ 7200, ATAPI CDROM drive - enabling SCSI emulation ATAPI overlap supported: No hdb: no responce (status = 0xd0)

Re: looking for very FAQ

1998-08-16 Thread Richard Adams
According to Karl F. Larsen: While burning my CPU. Hi Vin, Karl k5di here. You must have linux running and get the xxx.tar.gz file to your linux and put it in the /usr/src/ directory. Then cd linux and see if the file README is there. If not, then you need to unpack your big file and do

Re: Upgrading the Kernel...

1998-08-17 Thread Richard Adams
According to Rupesh Nadar: While burning my CPU. Hi, I want to know the steps/procedure to basically compile/update my existing kernel on my Machine. Currently i am running on RedHat 2.0.34 version. Read the README in /usr/src/linux and the Kernel-HOWTO.gz in /usr/doc/HOWTO directory.

Re: realaudio player 5.0

1998-08-17 Thread Richard Adams
According to Bob Liesenfeld: While burning my CPU. Randy Cone wrote: Folks, Has anyone had any luck getting RealAudio player 5.0 to work for Linux i386? When I install the program, I get: File compression not supported. Cannot locate the requested RealAudio decoder. Yup,

Re: Problems finding hardware at boot

1998-08-17 Thread Richard Adams
a personal mail stateing just what you want and need to do. Greetings, Jeroen Richard Adams wrote: According to Jeroen: While burning my CPU. Hi, I got the problem that at boot my second CD-ROM drive isn't detected. I get : hda: HP CD-Writer+ 7200, ATAPI

Re: FAT32 support

1998-08-18 Thread Richard Adams
According to r00t the LiNuXeRRR: While burning my CPU. On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Martin Roberts wrote: I have RH5.0 running nicely now but I believe the kernel version (2.0.32) does not give me FAT32 support. I have read that versions above 2.0.35 have support for FAT32 partitions? Is it

Re: Network card and Redhat

1998-08-18 Thread Richard Adams
According to Wai Lee: While burning my CPU. Hello, I am trying to configure RedHat 4.1 to a computer with an ethernet card. When I first installed RH, I set the network card to a 3COM and later found out that it is not a 3COM. How can I fix this? I tried using netcfg but can't find a

Re: can't telnet

1998-08-18 Thread Richard Adams
According to Gevaerts Frank: While burning my CPU. On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, chris wrote: all computers have 'real' ip's from my 'c' class and all are in the dns records, all computers can ping each other by ip or host.domain name the win95 pc dose not have anything in its hosts

Re: Network card and Redhat

1998-08-18 Thread Richard Adams
According to Karl F. Larsen: While burning my CPU. When you know which card you have you need to recompile your kernel and tell it to support your type. Quite possably no need to "recompile" do not forget when installing the kernel, kernel source kernel modules and the tools to make

Re: Custom LILO boot welcome message?

1998-08-18 Thread Richard Adams
According to Dominic McDonald-Aveyard: While burning my CPU. Hi everyone, I'm wondering, I've read all the how to's and they didn't mention it, but is there a way for me to get LILO to display a standard message and then the boot prompt. Something like, "Please type linux or dos for

Re: help with patching

1998-08-18 Thread Richard Adams
According to Adrian Bolzan: While burning my CPU. Hello! I am not sure if this is the right mailing list ao if not would someone let me know? thanks... Yes. anyway, on with the question: I recently downloaded the patches 2.0.33 .34 and .35 to upgrade from 2.0.32. When i

Re: Custom LILO boot welcome message?

1998-08-19 Thread Richard Adams
According to Gevaerts Frank: While burning my CPU. On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Richard Adams wrote: According to Dominic McDonald-Aveyard: While burning my CPU. Hi everyone, I'm wondering, I've read all the how to's and they didn't mention it, but is there a way for me

Re: Read only file system

1998-08-19 Thread Richard Adams
According to # Rayner Christopher: While burning my CPU. Hi, I've just installed Slackware from a CD-ROM bought with the SAMS Linux Unleashed book. I followed the installation instructions using 'mke2fs' to create the file system. I now cannot complete the installation since the

Re: Somebody help me with my ethernet problem....

1998-08-20 Thread Richard Adams
According to Gevaerts Frank: While burning my CPU. On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Cecep wrote: I've just installed Linux Redhat-5.1 on my computer (P-133 ,16M) and I use Compex (NE 2000 compatible) ethernet card for connection to the internet using my campus LAN. The problem is my computer

Re: Segmentation Fault

1998-08-21 Thread Richard Adams
According to Goody: While burning my CPU. On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, you wrote: Someone said check your memory, a possablity, more information from you as to just how much memory you had and now have would help more, which kernel version, what hardware??. You could use "gdb" The GNU

Re: FW: 3c905B TX and Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro (Turbo)

1998-08-21 Thread Richard Adams
According to David A. Mason: While burning my CPU. Dear Linux Folks, I am a new subscriber, so I apologize in advance if these questions have already been addressed. I've been trying to get RedHat 4.2 to cooperate with my PC, which has a 3c905B TX NIC and Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro

Re: Somebody help me with my ethernet problem....

1998-08-22 Thread Richard Adams
According to Gevaerts Frank: While burning my CPU. something strange is going on. I don't know what ipf-4 is, but as far as I know, the ne2000 driver is called ne. If I remember correctly from previous posts, Red Hat has some configuration tool to decide what modules are loaded

Re: find|xargs grep

1998-08-23 Thread Richard Adams
According to Gevaerts Frank: While burning my CPU. Does anyone know if there is a faster way to search a directory tree for a certain word than "find /dir/ -name "*.txt"|xargs grep -l "theword" " ? I want to do this to make a search engine for my local (LAN) website. Since the site is over

Re: edit command

1998-08-25 Thread Richard Adams
According to Jerome Tan: While burning my CPU. Hi there, Is there an "edit" command in Linux which is like edit.com in DOS? JOE is one, there are many others, joe is possably the closest to edit under dos and one of the simplest to use. Others include vi pico emacs cooledit and many

Re: empty directory

1998-08-25 Thread Richard Adams
According to Jerome Tan: While burning my CPU. Hi there, I linked my /Win98 to my drive C and it shows an empty files, is there a way to fix it? Was it a bug or an error on my configuration? You possably have not mounted the /win98 partition. How can we say if it is a "configuration

Re: strategy for Linux

1998-08-25 Thread Richard Adams
According to Jerome Tan: While burning my CPU. Hi there, Like everyone else, I can see Microsoft's power extending over the ocean, and many people thinks that Linux is the only contender of Microsoft, but so far... it's no much yet. It was known that Linux OS was proud of itself because

Re: empty directory

1998-08-25 Thread Richard Adams
s related filesystem for that matter. The information was at the bottom of the mail. -Original Message----- From: Richard Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 August 1998 09:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: empty directory To use vfat you possably wil

Re: RedHat 5.1 Xbased package installer...

1998-08-25 Thread Richard Adams
According to Gevaerts Frank: While burning my CPU. On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Stephen Newey wrote: I'm not sure if this is your answer, but I've had similar problems before on certain hardware, if the there's a gap in the IDE chain, i.e. you've got hda as your hard disk and hdc as you

Re: VFAT

1998-08-25 Thread Richard Adams
According to Jerome Tan: While burning my CPU. Hi there, Do I need to acquire a new kernel eventhough my kernel is version 2.0.34 to use VFAT? No you can use 2.0.34. Just read /usr/src/linux/README "Carefully" digest what is written there within and then, make a new kernel, do not

Re: RedHat 5.1 Xbased package installer...

1998-08-25 Thread Richard Adams
According to Stephen Newey: While burning my CPU. I've installed here at work a couple of times and the installation never worked when the CD-ROM was secondary master, and HDD is primary master, unless I had a second HDD as primary slave. However, after installation it works fine in it's

Re: RedHat (Manhattan) Troubles

1998-08-25 Thread Richard Adams
According to LENGARD Pascal OCISI: While burning my CPU. Did you recompile the kernel with all (but only) the drivers you need ? When one installs a new distribution one normaly installes the kernel which is in that distribtuion, now all distribions have just about all drivers and some

Re: strategy for Linux

1998-08-25 Thread Richard Adams
According to Jerome Tan: While burning my CPU. I'm sorry but you don't seem to understand, linux is not meant for everyone. As a matter of fact very few computer users like CUI's in general. Most of the linux users myself included have moved on and are recovering from wincrash. Changing

Re: VFAT

1998-08-25 Thread Richard Adams
According to Jerome Tan: While burning my CPU. I did read it and it's fine now. It's pretty easy. I thought Linux is that difficult, there's also a user friendly side of Linux. "Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are." [Jerome Tan] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing a network car

1998-08-26 Thread Richard Adams
According to Karl F. Larsen: While burning my CPU. If your NE2000 doesn't work you need to do dmesg | more and look for where your thernet card should be loaded. If it isn't there at all you need to recompile your kernel with NE2000 support selected. If there but not loaded you must

Re: News Reader

1998-08-26 Thread Richard Adams
According to David Churchill: While burning my CPU. Does anyone have any recommendations for a News reader besides pine. I find Pine very slow and it doesn't remember my ISP's list of groups so every time I subcribe to a new group it takes forever. Also an X based graphical interface

Re: Log Files

1998-08-26 Thread Richard Adams
According to John: While burning my CPU. While I'm out on the internet i wan't to keep a eye on my system to I know if someone's trying to hack me. I already have commented out the services that I don't need running but I heard that theirs some lof files that i can look at while

Re: RedHat 5.1 Xbased package installer...

1998-08-26 Thread Richard Adams
According to John Roberts: While burning my CPU. I don't think my problem is the same that you were having... My setup is as follows, i have a 2.6 GB WD as hda my CD-Rom drive as hdb and a Seagate 240 MB drive as hdc. Could the problem be that i have hdc as my /tmp dir, and the rest of

Re: Hardware validator?

1998-08-27 Thread Richard Adams
According to Martin Roberts: While burning my CPU. You can get "Monkey Linux" which I think will fit on 4 or 5 floppies and comes zipped. It works under the UMSDOS file system so no need to re-format. Because it's a compact distribution it does not take up much disk space. You can

Re: moving a file from dos

1998-08-27 Thread Richard Adams
According to Manor G.: While burning my CPU. Just mount the dos partition. and u'll be able to access the dos files on your linux box. (man mount) if you still dont know how to do it. I read the message as "Two standalone machines", so how would he do what you are telling him to do. ?

Re: RedHat 5.1 Xbased package installer...

1998-08-27 Thread Richard Adams
According to John Roberts: While burning my CPU. From what i've been reading on the group regarding the original message I, too, think that my problem got a bit unclear. The installation of the distribution ( RH 5.1 ) goes perfectly, not a single hitch. i set up X, and was on my way

Re: mounting floppy

1998-08-27 Thread Richard Adams
According to HEXbyte: While burning my CPU. OK I give. How can a regular user(not just root) mount the floppy drive? It has somthing to do with setting a user variable or somthing like that in the /etc/fstab file but my book dosn't go into how to set it up. Thanx in adv. Mike.

Re: Deleting Linux Partition

1998-08-28 Thread Richard Adams
According to Eric Diwouta-Loth: While burning my CPU. Hello, I have one problem: I have a Hard drive on wich I put two OSes: Windows NT server and Linux.Linux is on the extended dos partition and NT on the principal partition. I have bought a new Hard drive and wich to reinstall linux on

Re: WindowMaker problems

1998-08-28 Thread Richard Adams
According to Lambermont, David: While burning my CPU. I'm attempting to get WindowMaker compiled and installed, and I'm running into some strange errors that I can't interpret. Everything seems to work fine in the configure/make/make install process with the following exception (this

Re: Man Pages look strange ?

1998-08-28 Thread Richard Adams
According to # Rayner Christopher: While burning my CPU. I have just managed to get my Slackware 3.0 version installed. Whilst grappling with mounting and unmounting floppies I queried some commands with man. But man didn't quite behave as expected. The screen output was just a reverse

Re: Time Lag

1998-08-28 Thread Richard Adams
According to Lambermont, David: While burning my CPU. Any idea why messages sent to the list server aren't distributed to the list members for HOURS? I posted a message 6 hours ago and it hasn't appeared yet. Those that are trickling in now are about 9 hours old. Let me guess -- it is a

Re: WindowMaker problems

1998-08-28 Thread Richard Adams
According to Karl F. Larsen: While burning my CPU. That error means your not using the latest RH5.1 Linux so you don't have the new library that comes with that. So you can't compile or use this software without making some serious changes to the source code. Rubbish. He seems

Re: deleting file

1998-08-28 Thread Richard Adams
According to Jerome Tan: While burning my CPU. HI there, I tried erase, del and delete and the file doesn't disappear, any idea what's the command used in deleting files? Huum, cant belive this, this would definatly be a case of not Reading The Flipping Manuals, with other words "RTFM".

Re: Time Lag

1998-08-28 Thread Richard Adams
According to Nicholas Bodley: While burning my CPU. On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Lambermont, David wrote: }Any idea why messages sent to the list server aren't distributed to the }list members for HOURS? I posted a message 6 hours ago and it hasn't I'll be foolish enough to venture a guess

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