shell program help wanted!

2000-09-14 Thread Nianwei Xing
Hi, debians: I have a question about the shell program. The problem is I have lots of files with long file name under on directory and I want to changes the names of the files to temp0, temp1.gif,temp2.gif,.tempN.gif,etc and I wrote the following shell program, but it doesn't work(actually, I d

Fwd: Newbie questions

2000-08-18 Thread Nianwei Xing
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X server

2000-08-02 Thread Nianwei Xing
Hi, debians: I have a problem about X server: after I login from my account and type "startx", it give me the following error message: Authentication failed--cannot startx X server -X11 TransSocketUNIXConnect: can't connect: errno=111 Xinit: connection refused(errno=111): unable to connect to serve

How to change I/O address

2000-07-30 Thread Nianwei Xing
Hi, Debians: I have a question about network card. When I move my computer to another place, I need reconfigure my network. The situation is when I reboot my system with my rescue disk and go to install, then configure network and then I did all apropriate changes. However It still doesn't work. Af

mount

2000-07-30 Thread Nianwei Xing
hi, debians; I forget my root password and check the FAQs, somebody said that after reboot the system and mount filesystem and then edit the file /etc/passwd, it will work. so i reboot my computer with my rescue disk and at the boot prompt, type rescue mount=/dev/hdc1, when the screen shows the fol

root password

2000-07-29 Thread Nianwei Xing
Hi, Debians: I can not find my root password right now but I do need login as root to do something, so is there anyway to find it out or I can setup a new one? I can login from my account. Thanks a lot! Nianwei __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party

Re: how to configure the networks card in RedHat

2000-07-26 Thread Nianwei Xing
27;t know if I'll be able to help, but I'll try. > > First, type the following > > netstat -rn > > and hit ENTER. > > Email me back what prints out on the screen. > > Also, let me know what ethernet card and which > driver you have > installed. Ok?

how to configure the networks card in RedHat

2000-07-25 Thread Nianwei Xing
Hi,linux: I just install RedHat 6.2 with ftp. After installation, I find that the netscape do not work. I went to "Control Panel" to configurate the networks, and find that under that item "interface" that my machine is at the status "inactive" and I make it "active" and then save it. After that I

Re: g++ and netscape

2000-07-23 Thread Nianwei Xing
e and login it again, all of the bookmarks dispears. That's what I want to know. Sorry for I didn't tell the details of my problem. So do you know how to handle it? Cheers Nianwei --- Ragga Muffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nianwei Xing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &

g++ and netscape

2000-07-23 Thread Nianwei Xing
Hi, Debians: I have two problem with my new debian. 1. Afte I compile and link my c++ code with g++ , it generate a.out but I can not execute it. should I need to install some packages? 2. I can not use "add bookmark" in my netscape, however, there is the file bookmark.html exist under the director

How to install Acroread

2000-07-21 Thread Nianwei Xing
Hi, debians: I am a new comer for Debian. I just want to install acroread on my machine. I am not the super user and also I have download the linux-ar-405.tar.gz. Any infomation is appreciated! Nianwei __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail – Free email

About display

2000-07-20 Thread Nianwei Xing
Hi, I am a new debian user and after finish the installation,I got a question about display. I want to work on another unix machine, after "xhost" and "telnet", I use the command: export DISPLAY=my machine name:0.0 and then when I want to use some program, it is message like this: Cannot open dis

About Staroffice

2000-07-18 Thread nianwei xing
Hi, there: Anyone know where to find the commands for StarMath? I use StarOffice 3.1. Thanks in advance! Nianwei __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/