RH and ALPHAS....

2000-11-23 Thread Nikolaos Margaritis
Any news about rh7.0 for alphas? It seems that we have been forgotten... :-( cheers, Nikos -- Dr. Nikolaos A. Margaritis Molecular Modelling of Materials Laboratory Department of Physical Chemistry National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos" Ag. Paraskevi, Athens 15310, Greece. Tel.: +

Poweroff again...

2000-10-16 Thread Nikolaos Margaritis
Hi, people maybe remember that in the days of rh5.x, there was a problem with shutting the machine down properly. That was solved with the inclusion of the flag '-p' at the command 'halt' in the file /etc/inittab. Well, the same problem reappeared when I upgraded my system to rh7.0. The flag is

bash2 problem

1999-12-29 Thread Nikolaos Margaritis
Hi, I have added the following lines in my .bashrc and now the command line gets confused and produces garbage: if [ "x$DISPLAY" != "x" ]; then PS1='[\u@\h]\$ \033];`dirs`\007'; function cd(){ pushd $1; PS1='[\u@\h]\$ \033];`mydirs`\007' }

Problem with SCSI hard disc

1999-12-20 Thread Nikolaos Margaritis
Hi, I have a problem with my hard disc when I try to upgrade or install an RPM whose files go in /usr. For many RPMs I can hear a very intence noise coming from the hd. After the installation, the partition where the /usr lies (sda5) has some inconsistencies. This is exactly what happened recent

Re: Minor problem with initscripts-4.41-2.i386.rpm

1999-09-20 Thread Nikolaos Margaritis
>What happens if you then do rpm -V initscripts after this? I get : S.5T c /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt S.5T c /etc/rc.d/rc.local Well, I have modified rc.local so don't worry about it -- Dr. Nikolaos A. Margaritis Agias Marinis 40, Larissa 41221, Hellas (Greece) Tel: +30(0)41 233568 URL: htt

Re: Minor problem with initscripts-4.41-2.i386.rpm

1999-09-20 Thread Nikolaos Margaritis
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Bill Nottingham wrote: >Nikolaos Margaritis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: >> This is how used to be written in the previous release of initscripts >> but it is absent now... >> With -p my system shuts down properly as it should do :) > >Now I'm co

Re: Minor problem with initscripts-4.41-2.i386.rpm

1999-09-20 Thread Nikolaos Margaritis
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Bill Nottingham wrote: >Nikolaos Margaritis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: >> I suggest we put "halt -p" instead of simply "halt" >> so that the system powers off properly. (unless some other >> change has taken place) > >Um, the ha

Minor problem with initscripts-4.41-2.i386.rpm

1999-09-20 Thread Nikolaos Margaritis
I suggest we put "halt -p" instead of simply "halt" so that the system powers off properly. (unless some other change has taken place) -- Dr. Nikolaos A. Margaritis Agias Marinis 40, Larissa 41221, Hellas (Greece) Tel: +30(0)41 233568 URL: http://users.otenet.gr/~markoni -- To unsubscribe: m

problem with X

1999-09-02 Thread Nikolaos Margaritis
Hi, I have a PII rawhide system. Some days ago a strange problem appeared: When the system starts in telinit 5 mode all users (including root) can login from kdm, except one user. In this user's case the kdm prompt reappers. So, I thought lets isolate the problem. I did telinit 3. Having logge