-----Original Message----- From: Henry T Wijaya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 28 March 2002 3`24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] random thoughts
Hi (again, unashamedly), 'few' quick questions. 1) Under WinXX, you can share a particular partition or directory. How do I do that under Linux, esp when the rest of the pc's are running w2k? Do I have to set it up via samba? Yes samba can take care of this. if your not sure how to set it up try reading man samba, and even try installing SWAT which should help you configure and administer samba 2) Under WinXX, there's such a thing call "WORKGROUP", and that allows anyone to view the shared partitions/directories. How do I do that under Linux? Samba again? Yes samba again. 3) Using command-line under bash, one can basically "trace", TAB, and a list of matching executables are shown, provided of course in the executables are in your path. I had added /usr/sbin in my .bash_profile, yet "trace" TAB doesn't shows up any matching executables. What's going on? .bash_profile will only be of any use if you are using bash as your interpreter. If you are using korn shell (ksh) or C shell (csh) then then your .bash_profile will be ignored. 4) What's the name of the program that spits out random quotes whenever one logins? Its called fortune....if using Red Hat its usually found somewhere like /usr/games. 5) How do I know if the nic is operating @ 10 or 100mbps? I've used 'ifconfig', seems like the nic is operating @ 10mbps, since RX bytes:10546363 (10.0 Mb). If that's the case, how do I change it to 100mbps? My nic does support 100mbps. :) RX bytes:10546363 <-- this just indicates the amount of received bytes since the interface had been brought up. My guess is if your card supports 100megabits then it will operate at 100megabits by default unless its can switch between 10 and 100 and your connected to a 10megabit device like a hub. 6) In my home directory, I've an executable 'dnetc', and would like to make a directory named 'dnetc' too, but mkdir complains /home/henry [henry@nsw henry]$ mkdir dnetc mkdir: `dnetc' exists but is not a directory [henry@nsw henry]$ So how do I accomplish creating a directory when there's a file with an exact name of the intended directory? Its complaining because there is a file called dnetc therefore you cant have a directory called that too...simply rename the file to something else...e.g. mv dnetc dnetc-file then make your directory... mkdir dnetc not move the original file into the directory and change it back to its original name... mv dnetc-file ./dnetc/dnetc 7) man ls states that the -A option will list everything except those . & .. yet... [henry@nsw BitchX]$ ls -A ~ .bash_history .bash_logout .bash_profile .bashrc bookmarks.html ... your confused...when it says it will list everything except . and .. it means the the directories called . and .. if you look very closely at the contents of a directory your see [.] and [..] in just about every direcotory (except root (/)) I don't know the best way to explain this but the directory [..] is a link back to the previous directory in that tree of directories...so if I was to change dir to /usr/local/games/quake3 then do an ls | more I would see the first 2 directories are [.] and [..]...not if I was to type cd .. it would drop me back 1 directory so if I typed pwd it would show /usr/local/games Now as for [.]..this is a link the the current directory you are in...so if you wanted to execute the file quake3 in /usr/local/games/quake3, instead of typing /usr/local/games/quake3/quake3 to start it you could simply type ./quake3 if you are already in the directory /usr/local/games/quake3 Does that make any sense to anyone else?? Bear in mind its 5:23 in the morning... 8) How do I copy from a terminal and paste it onto any window program? Copying & Pasting is fine if I were to do it from a window to a window, using the normal CTRL + C, CTRL + V, respectively. Hmm, this one is a little tricky...i don't think clipboard sharing among programs is completely developed...i mean some programs don't have any trouble sharing the clipboard but some programs do..thats why you'll find some programs you can cut and paste to where as other you cant...what you can try doing if you have a 3 button mouse selecting the text with the left button on the mouse then going to the window you would like to paste to and press the middle mouse button. If you only have a 2 button mouse then you can change your X configuration to emulate 3 buttons on your mouse...cant explain how to do that right now tho... Hope that doesn't take up too much of your time... 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