RE: which shell I'm using?

> > On Thursday 04 March 2004 12:37, Colin Watson wrote: > [...] > > > I learn something new every hour! Never heard of getent before. > > > (Though in this instance 'cat /etc/passwd | grep > > > ^whatever-my-user-name-is' is only one character longer). > > > > There's a useless use of cat award

RE: creating swap partition

> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:49:34PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > > Hi all, quick question here. how big should a swap partition be > relative to the size of the drive? > > Your RAM size matters, not the HDD. > > First of all, you don't want to swap _at all_: buy yourself more RAM, > it's cheap nowada

RE: best practice for crontabs

> > Hi, > > I have just figured out that there are 4 separate (types of) crontabs in > debian > > /etc/crontab > /etc/cron.d/... > /etc/cron.daily, monthly, weekly > /var/spool/crontabs/... > > but I'm none the wiser about why there are so many ways to do > such a simple > thing. C

RE: Where does lpd start at?

> -Original Message- > From: Brad Stockdale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 1:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Where does lpd start at? > > > Hello all, > > I'm trying to figure out where lpd is being started from on > my system. > I've removed t

RE: Root Password recovery

t drives and use vi Do a google on "chtpw" to find it. I think it's called the "offline NT password utility" or something like that. Ben Yau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

question and a helpful hint (pam_tally)

reset itself to zero? Thanks! Ben Yau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

> -Original Message- > From: Adam Aube [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 1:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services > > > On Friday 30 January 2004 04:36 pm, Ben Yau wrote: > > I don'

RE: Send output to file & printer

Jim says: > > As an example, if I issue a command like "ls -laF" on a directory, can I > have the output of that command go to a file (filename = > username_date_time.txt), and print on a remote printer at the > same time, or > do I have to run two commands? > There are a lot of strange ways to ge

RE: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

> -Original Message- > From: s. keeling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 12:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services > > > Incoming from Adam Aube: > > On Friday 30 January 2004 03:15 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > What i

RE: Email client programs

> -Original Message- > From: Ben Yau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -Original Message- > > From: Nate Duehr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Neither POP3 nor IMAP nor anything else will fix a problem at the > > network level. This seems

RE: Email client programs

> -Original Message- > From: Alvin Oga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 10:50 AM > To: Ben Yau > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Email client programs > On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Ben Yau wrote: > > > True, but you can do your

RE: Email client programs

with this, don't know if it will work, but it's worth a shot. This may work in your case depending on when MS OE marks the message as being downloaded. If it marks each message as it downloads, you're in good shape. If it only marks all the messages after downloading all the messag

RE: rebuilding /etc/rc.d Scripts

atd K89klogd K90sysklogd S10portmap S20sendsigs S30urandom S31umountnfs.sh S35networking S40umountfs S90reboot Ben Yau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]