Re: Problems with libX11.so.6.

2000-10-15 Thread Simon Hales
h other programs could. Once I had worked out what was going on, the above method enabled me to track down the 4 or 5 "oldlibs" packages I needed to install. Regards Simon Hales My ICQ Number is:- 89224228 Powered by Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 (http://www.debian.org)

Re: home network question

2000-09-22 Thread Simon Hales
up to forward queries to another nameserver on the Internet, (In which case you can also read the DNS Howto, and set up DNS records for you LAN), or a nameserver address provided by your ISP, in which case you will need to use the /etc/hosts file on each machine to record the names of other

Re: OT: shell prompt tip

2000-09-16 Thread Simon Hales
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, J.P. Larocque wrote: >On an unrelated note, I'm *fairly* new to Linux (or UNIX in general), only >having been using it for about a year. In the DOS command-interpreter 4DOS, >I could refer to parent directories as . and .. as is the norm in DOS and UNIX. >But I could also typ

smbfs in Potato

2000-08-28 Thread Simon Hales
Hi I have a Debian box running Samba, and with smbfs support in the kernel. It is connected to a home LAN with a Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (with the TCP/IP upgrade installed as the only protocol) box on the same network. I recently installed Potato on the Samba machine, which had previously b

Re: [ctrl]-[alt]-[del] => 'shutdown -h now'

2000-08-01 Thread Simon Hales
firewall/IP masq box), without needing to switch my monitor on, wait for it to give a picture, and log in, or needing to telnet in from the PC I want to surf from. Regards Simon Hales On Tue, 1 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi Group, > > Currently when I 3-finger-salute my laptop It

Re: Starting/Stopping SCSI HD's

2000-07-28 Thread Simon Hales
sks ONLY. These are "hdparm -y, hdparm -Y, hdparm -s, [/dev/sdb]" as far as I know, and when I try them, I get "operation not supported on SCSI disks" Regards Simon Hales On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, C. Falconer wrote: > hdparm can do this I have memories of it being mention

Starting/Stopping SCSI HD's

2000-07-27 Thread Simon Hales
nel:device-id:LUN]" or "camcontrol start [channel:device-id:LUN]". I presume there is also a way I can do this in Linux? What packages (if any) will I need to add using Dselect? Hope someone can help (and I can take out these earplugs :-) Simon Hales