Re: color ls

1996-10-26 Thread Jeff Myers
We use the following and it seems to work... eval `dircolors -b` either in the /etc/profile (global) or the the individual user's profile works as well. At 12:40 PM 10/25/96 PDT, you wrote: >To get color ls, use the command > > alias ls="ls --color=auto" > >That's for "sh" and "bash". If

Re: Smail / Sendmail

1996-10-02 Thread Jeff Myers
First option: If I remember correctly, during Sendmail install, it asks if you would like to have Sendmail forward all mail to another address. Simply give it the IP of the Win95 box and configure Sendmail NOT to use DNS. The /etc/hosts file should do what you need. Second option: Using a Linux

Re: make-kpgk modules troubles

1996-10-01 Thread Jeff Myers
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to offer the user the option of inserting a floppy and making a boot disk as part of the make-kpkg kernel_image? Or perhaps the ./bootdisk.sh kernel-images NOT to require the .deb format? I must admit I haven't given this a lot of thought. But I too was wean

Re: How can I set the TERM environment variable?

1996-09-20 Thread Jeff Myers
try... /etc/profile At 08:50 PM 9/18/96 -0500, you wrote: >After installing Debian base packages I installed elvisnox. But, I see that >after booting the TERM environment variable is set to cons80x25. How can I >best set it to another value (eg linux) during boot for all users? Where is >it s

PS missing TT field

1996-09-19 Thread Jeff Myers
I've just recently changed over from Slack. As I'm beginning to feel everything out it really looks very encouraging! I have noticed one thing that perhaps someone else has run across. the "ps" command yields a display without the TT field displayed. PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 75 1 R

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1996-09-19 Thread Jeff Myers

List Probagation Time ???

1996-09-19 Thread Jeff Myers
Is it me or does it take sometime for messags to probagate to the subscribers. I have submitted Two messages and received neither. What am I doing wrong? Is this characteristic of this list? Can I do something to help? Thanks...Jeff

PS missing TT field

1996-09-19 Thread Jeff Myers
I've just recently changed over from Slack. As I'm beginning to feel everything out it really looks very encouraging! I have noticed one thing that perhaps someone else has run across. the "ps" command yield a display without the TT field displayed. PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 75 1 R