You can boot into single user mode -- if your friend has LILO, you can type 'linux
single' at the prompt.
>>> Phil Savoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/28 10:00 AM >>>
Hi All,
A friend (no, really) has forgotten his RH6.1 root passwd. In Solaris I
know how to fix this (boot cdrom -s) but how in RH6
But Jeff, I've seen situations where ping has been turned off for security reasons.
Haven't followed this thread closely, has traceroute been tried?
Is telnet turned on on the machine you can't telnet to?
>>> Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/18 1:03 PM >>>
> I can ssh to any server (there
Hi, sorry to be off topic.
My company has an opening for at least 2 pc support persons and I am disillusioned to
hear that no women have applied so far.
The job is primarily NT/Windows/pc apps support, dealing with in-house clients and
their pc upgrades or problems. The PC Support group does
Hey Tim, by the way that Dell monitor is still extremely nice. :)
And been too busy lately to mention it, but that Logitech wireless mouse is the
coolest thing since sliced bread.
I was surprised to hear about the IBM opinion, they sure *look* cool. Also, I've seen
and heard the Dell comp
Linux on laptops:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
Couldn't resist, no one has mentioned IBM ThinkPads, and I've seen two running Linux
that are very very nice.
>>> "Davida Schiff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/01 12:53 PM >>>
Thanks to all who responded. I will probably go with
I am using WindowMaker instead of KDE, but this may be the same---
I highlight text (left mouse button) , then move the cursor to the window I want to
paste to, and click both mouse buttons simultaneously. (the file to vi is already
open and in insert mode)
This may depend more on the type of
There is a command called date to change the system date and time.
date MMDDhhmm.ss(as root) (all digits, month, day, hour, minute, year etc)
Hey, a neat command to remember when searching for how linux does something, is
"apropos".
You can typeapropos date and get a list of
There seems to be a lot of confusion in the language regarding "can an ssh2 machine
connect to an ssh1 machine?"
What I've found is that if I set up the parameters in the /etc/ssh2/ config files,
when I connect from an ssh2 box to an ssh1 box, ssh is smart enough to run ssh1
instead of ssh2 an
Objection!!!
<<< Xavier Gutierrez Munoz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/29 6:40p >>>
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Subba Rao wrote:
>
>I have noticied a meta character named file in the root's home directory and another
>user's
>home directory. They were created on December 23rd. The file ownership permissions
I've got RH too, look in /sbin for modprobe.
when you get the command not found message, you can try
find / -name command-name -print do it as root for access to all directories
you can type /sbin/modprobe from your current directory to run the command.
>>> "Scott Howell" <[EMAIL PRO
I had to install linux on a box without a CDROM, it turned out to be easy enough to
nfs mount a CD on another box, and install over the network.
>>> "J B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/17 2:55 PM >>>
Have been following the thread on splitting files to floppy. Would this
work to split the installa
GNU make is available at http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html.
I thought the installation instructions were pretty good, and it went easily. More
easily than installing gcc
>>> Vinnie Surmonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/15 4:35 PM >>>
as in the 'make' command is not found, or it can't f
Where is make on your box? in /usr/bin? Is /usr/bin in your path? (echo $PATH or
printenv)
While it's a topic, ...I just configured, make'd, and make install'd gcc 2.95.2. No
errors, once I'd installed the GNU make instead of the one I was using here. But now
if I type gcc, I get a 'canno
If setting up your zip is anything like setting up my scsi DAT drive, you might try
looking in /lib/modules/2.2.5-25/scsi (the modules dir for your current kernel,
6.0 is 2.2.5-15, yours might be different)
Then try to load modules to see which one works-
/sbin/modprobe aic7xxx <---that's
This is getting off topic. Also, it is annoying enough to have almost caused me to
write my *opinion*.
And I hate it when I waste others time on my *opinions*.
But if anyone knows the best place online to get affordable memory,I'd also
planned a near future upgrade, but have now postpone
host.conf :
order hosts, bind
means search /etc/hosts first to resolve host names, then search dns.
Name servers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf, if you don't have anything set up for
a dns server, you can remove bind from host.conf.
Tamara
>>> Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/16 8:04 P
When I telnet I often find that the backspace key isn't mapped.
So I type 'stty erase ^?' other variations can be 'stty erase ^backspace key'. This
can be put in your .login script.
Tamara
ps: if you are telneting from outside your school, why don't you use ssh instead of
telnet? Once I use
The process states that 'ps' outputs are: (from the man page)
D uninterruptable sleep (usually IO)
R runnable (on run queue) (eg: running)
S sleeping (eg: suspended, could be bcs of a Cntr-Z, etc)
T traced or stopped
Z a defunct ('zombie') process
I just found the 'pstree' command
18 matches
Mail list logo
