Re: Several Q's

On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Matthew Majka wrote: > > Also, can anyone recommend a decent three-button mouse (serial or > ps/2). The middle button on my current mouse doesn't work. > I think I picked up a little Memorex mouse from Target several years ago for less than $20. It's MS or Mouse Systems

Kicking the dead sed horse

I tried a couple of the mentioned solutions for removing the hyphenated words from a file and they didn't work for me. Here's my solution: file sedtest: This is line one. This is another long- er line with a hyphen. Another. One more hyphen- ated word. the sed script (ssc): /-$/{

Re: PPP Dialup

I just gave up on trying to configure diald; thought it would make things easier but don't have enough time to mess with it. Started using pon and poff instead. To see when the connection has been established, use ifconfig. If you see a line starting with ppp0 (I'm guessing you are just usin

Adding users to groups

I'm feeling a little crippled without the Control Panel I was used to in my old Red Hat distribution (afraid to try setting up the printer yet!). Couldn't find it in the FAQ's or howto's: how do I add users to diffferent groups, e.g. dialout? Do shadow passwords affect the process at all? -

Re: X startup problems

Thanks for the help, guys. Seems I hosed the file I created with xf86config during the installation. Re-ran that, added the line below, and that fixed the problem. Now if I could find a replacement for that ghastly login screen... Hey, while I'm thinking about it and since I can't try it rig

X startup problems

I picked up Debian Linux on the Boot magazine CD-ROM, and have been trying for a couple of days to get it working the way I want it too, with little success. What's the deal with xdm? My understanding was that that was the program used to login under X, without having to login from a consol