Re: message board related

2003-10-07 Thread Aaron Cimolini
Yeah totally, Look into phpBB2, its probably the most popular bulletin board system online right now. It is coded in PHP and uses a MySQL DB for data storage. I am not really sure if it can be installed through the debian package manager, but it is really simple to setup manually, even for non

Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

2003-10-04 Thread Aaron Cimolini
Hey Mike, Sounds like you are looking for some weight for your argument that debian is the best. For some apps yes! But in a situation with these macs you may be better off getting a mix of OSX servers and some debian boxes for the PCs. I have worked with OS X server version 10.1.4 and it was uns

Re: Root path question

2003-10-04 Thread Aaron Cimolini
I had a similar problem with switching to the root user and not getting all of root's path variables added to my environment. my instructor said to use this command: su - root And it worked like a charm. Apparently it loads you into a new shell exactly like you just logged in as the user. All you