Re: [techtalk] Gnome and window managers

2000-05-27 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Sat, 27 May 2000, joey tsai wrote: > > > Kill off those little gnome-* processes one at a time and see what goes > > away. This usually isn't fatal. You can restart them from an xterm and > > be back where you started. Killing off gnome-session will log you out, > > though :-) > > > If yo

Re: [techtalk] Gnome and window managers

2000-05-27 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 01:45:08AM -0400 or thereabouts, joey tsai wrote: > > If you're not happy about killing things, stop them with 'kill -STOP', do > > a screen refresh and see what doesn't repaint itself. And then 'kill > > -CONT' them when you want them back in the land of the living. > >

[techtalk] breaking the 2.1 barrier

2000-05-27 Thread steve johnson
I've been trying to install linux on a 20.5 gigabyte IBM drive and all of my installation utilities detect it as 1.9GB. I'm trying to install SuSE 6.4 right now. Does anyone know how to have YaST detect the drive as 20.5 gig? thankssteve /**

[techtalk] the lists are back

2000-05-27 Thread Deb Richardson
Greetings and happy weekend all. As many of you probably noticed, the Linuxchix mailing lists were down for a few days this week. This is because our good and friendly systems administrators discovered that there was a potential security hole in the list software we use, and security holes are B

[techtalk] timing out an inactive user

2000-05-27 Thread gabrielle
I have a question for which I've not been able to find the answer. I'd like to kick users off my linux box after they've been inactive for a certain period of time. On Solaris, the following lines are in /etc/default/login: # TIMEOUT sets the number of seconds (between 0 and 900) to wait before

[techtalk] error initializing modem

2000-05-27 Thread Elizabeth Fallon
Ok, I set up everything for my internet connection. Perfect. But now...the modem won't initialize. When I try to use wvdial, it spits out: -->Cannot open /dev/ttyS1: Input/output error Not very helpful at first...but then with minicom, when I press M (to initialize modem), it says "You are