linux help

2006-02-24 Thread Wale Akintan
Im sorry to bother you, but I finally got the apache running correctly. It was my naivety. I was specifying the wrong port in the URL. Like I said earlier, I am a complete rookie at this. And this simple mistake has cost me 2 nights of sleep and almost cost me a girlfriend too! Thanks anyway, and y

Re: linux help (running apache web server)

2006-02-24 Thread David Berg
On 2/24/06, Wale Akintan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Im a complete rookie in linux and I have just installed redhat 9.0. I This is a Debian support list, not Redhat. For Redhat or apache specific help you really ought to try redhat.com and apace.org to find the relevant mailing lists. Yo

linux help (running apache web server)

2006-02-24 Thread Wale Akintan
Hello, Im a complete rookie in linux and I have just installed redhat 9.0. I am a totally new user. I downloaded some instructions on installing apache web server, and it seemed to go fine. I test started the web server with the /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start command and it started. pid 1808

Re: Linux help system (Was: -=> Re: I hate it when that happens...)

2004-08-17 Thread listcomm
>>I recently engaged with "exim", and if it weren't for the fact that >>I found an obscure reference buried in the back yard in the dead of >>night, to the fact that there is an "exim-docs" package which needed >>to be loaded *in addition* to the exim docs which turn up in the >>"/usr/share/docs" d

Re: Linux help system (Was: -=> Re: I hate it when that happens...)

2004-08-15 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Aug 13 at 05:05AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Documentation is a much-ignored standard. > > Some is in man format: > man man > THe GNU project likes info > info info > Some projects prefer HTML: > links /usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc/html/index.html > Others think postscript is cool

Re: Linux help system (Was: -=> Re: I hate it when that happens...)

2004-08-12 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's built in in - at least in bash ;) Not only that, but (correct me if I'm wrong - that's why I'm posting this) it appears that the docs for some things are split into docs that appear in HTML in /usr/share/docs, and docs that appear via the "help" command (the data

Re: Linux help system (Was: -=> Re: I hate it when that happens...)

2004-08-12 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > If the "help" command is only available in "bash", I'll have to > do some negotiating... I'm a csh/tcsh nazi and hate anything that > looks like the original Bourne shell on general principles (or no > principles at all, FTM) > > Please correct me if I'm wrong about an

Re: Linux help system (Was: -=> Re: I hate it when that happens...)

2004-08-12 Thread Stefan Nicolai O'Rear
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:04:07AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > It's built in in - at least in bash ;) > > Not only that, but (correct me if I'm wrong - that's why I'm > posting this) it appears that the docs for some things are > split into docs that appear in HTML in /usr/share/docs, a

Re: Linux help system (Was: -=> Re: I hate it when that happens...)

2004-08-12 Thread Thomas Adam
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:04:07AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > It's built in in - at least in bash ;) > > Not only that, but (correct me if I'm wrong - that's why I'm > posting this) it appears that the docs for some things are > split into docs that appear in HTML in /usr/share/docs, a

Linux help system (Was: -=> Re: I hate it when that happens...)

2004-08-12 Thread listcomm
> It's built in in - at least in bash ;) Not only that, but (correct me if I'm wrong - that's why I'm posting this) it appears that the docs for some things are split into docs that appear in HTML in /usr/share/docs, and docs that appear via the "help" command (the data for which is stored somewh

Re: Linux help !

1998-12-02 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
(Redirected to debian user list) At 01:11 PM 12/2/98 +1300, you wrote: >I've just got Debian Linux 2.0 set up on my system, and I can't even >figure out how to unpack *.deb files because when I create my user >account Dselect the package frontend program bombs out and gives me the >excuse saying

Re: Linux Help Needed.

1997-04-18 Thread Britton
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, val.tamarov wrote: > Hi there !!! > I installed Linux in my system but i can't run dselect to install all the > packages. > Please help me what to write when dselect asks me for the locations and > some blocks, what I have to type there. I have Pentium Pro (686) with to > HD

Linux Help Needed.

1997-04-17 Thread val.tamarov
Hi there !!! I installed Linux in my system but i can't run dselect to install all the packages. Please help me what to write when dselect asks me for the locations and some blocks, what I have to type there. I have Pentium Pro (686) with to HD controllers on board. So my 2 HD's are conected to fi

Re: Linux Help Needed.

1997-04-17 Thread Alexandre Lebrun
Hi. Hey, you shouldn't begin with 'I have a PPro ...'. It make me jaleous and I don't want to help you ! ( the 486 is great, but still...) I suppose your CD-rom is IDE, so your block device name should be /dev/hdc1 I'm not sure because mine is different. hda is the master on the first interfa

Re: MSDOS to LINUX ?? HELP!!

1996-12-08 Thread Paul Seelig
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, James D. Richardson Jr. wrote: > I have downloaded the Linux Debain source code and read all of > the text files. They tell me that the compiler needed is the gcc-2.3.6 > so I downloaded the file and it needs compiling also. > Where did you download your Debian stuff? The site

Re: MSDOS to LINUX ?? HELP!!

1996-12-08 Thread Bruce Perens
Read the installation instructions on our web site http://www.debian.org, and install a Debian Linux system on a spare disk partition using those instructions. You won't need the compiler to do that. You may then install the "gcc" package and compile what you like, but we provide all of the program

MSDOS to LINUX ?? HELP!!

1996-12-07 Thread James D. Richardson Jr.
I have been waiting and tring to start play with the linux operating system. I have downloaded the Linux Debain source code and read all of the text files. They tell me that the compiler needed is the gcc-2.3.6 so I downloaded the file and it needs compiling also. So I read all of the text files on