Re: NFS mounted /home area from SGI computer, good idea?

1998-12-01 Thread Chris Fury
George Bonser wrote: > Yes. Linux uses different UID/GID assignments than SGI does for some > things. For example, if your home directories are owned by the staff > group, you might find them owned by the uucp group when mounted on your > Linux box. As long as your linux box has the same UID for

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread Chris Fury
Vincent Murphy wrote: > It does annoy me also when you can't get the latest whizz bang version of > e.g. Eterm, but at the same time it's a great incentive for us to get up off > our butts and start maintaining them ourselves. True. I keep saying that I want to do something like that, but I never

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread Chris Fury
George Bonser wrote: > He also compares Debian to Slackware as having to "roll your own" stuff. > As if Debian does not have a package manager. It looks like the Microsoft > people think that rpm is the only Linux package manager. Well, not to rock the boat, but I see more .rpm's that I do .deb's

Re: enlightenment

1998-10-14 Thread Chris Fury
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How do I start the enlightment window manager under Debian? I have tried > > ...but that makes it the default for all users on the system, right? If you want to make a lighter window manager for the regular folks (er, root? :) and have a more sophisticated set up fo

Re: enlightenment

1998-10-14 Thread Chris Fury
Christopher J. Morrone wrote: > > How do I start the enlightment window manager under Debian? I have tried > all kinds of .xinitrc, .xsession files but I just don't seem to be getting > it right, my old fvwm2 manager still starts up... chmod 754 ~/.xsession if you're using xdm, chmod 754 ~/.x

Re: X Server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Chris Fury
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > Actually it would be easier to edit /etc/X11/config and change > start-xdm to no-start-xdm and xdm-start-server to no-xdm-start-server. Yeah, but my option has less keystrokes... :P :) Elegence? What's that? -- balderdash.

Re: X server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Chris Fury
Braden N. McDaniel wrote: > Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot > sequence has completed. I *think* this is because I elected to being xdm up > at bootup when I initially installed everything, and now that setting is > kicking in. I suspect the problem may be t

To Upgrade or Reinstall completely?

1998-08-18 Thread Chris Fury
What do you think? Is the upgrade process to 2.0 solid? Or should I start with a fresh disk? -- This space for rent.

Where can I find bo packages?

1998-08-18 Thread Chris Fury
Yeah, yeah, I know, upgrade to 2.0. I will, eventually. :) Right now I need to get some proggies for the gateway at work, and it's a 1.3 machine. Where can I find a mirror of the old stuff? Thanks, Chris -- This space for rent.

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Chris Fury
I don't know about you folks, but my newserver (news.vt.edu) has the group, but I've never seen a single message in it Am I broken? Goetzke, Christopher L wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: George Bonser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, May 21, 1998 10:24 PM > > T