Re: Help! My computer thinks it is a name server

On Fri, 21 May 1999, Matthew Wade Roberts wrote: > For some reason, my Debian box (lehi.tamu.edu) thinks it is the name > server. For instance: > > % nslookup yahoo.com > Server: lehi > Address: 0.0.0.0 > > *** lehi can't find yahoo.com: No response from server > > > > Here is my resolv.co

Re: "green" linux user needs CRON clarification

On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, William Schwartz wrote: > There is a filed called "crontab" in the "etc" directory. That is my "system > wide" crontab. This file I am able to edit and modify... > > then there are crontab files in the "/var/spool/cron/crontabs" directory > that are to be edited with the cr

Re: Redirecting to a tcp port

A TCP port is not a "port" in the sense that a serial device is a port. An application may access the transport layer (TCP & UDP) using the "sockets" API in which the TCP ports of the client and server machines are specified among other things. There is no way that I

Re: even further off topic [was Re: Way off topic: humor

CONGRATULATIONS !! My son, now 5, was 5 weeks early too, and in the first year he was a little sickly, but after that he just took off and is as healthy as a horse. __ Reply Separator

Re: Which Linux distribution???

Debian Linux, of course, is the best distribution :). But I really do believe that or I wouldn't be using it. To determine whether your hardware is supported or not you should consult the HOWTOs. A HOWTO index is located at http://www.linux.org/help/howto.html.

Re: mac & linux

As far as I know, the only Mac processor being supported by MkLinux (the Mac Linux effort) is a PowerPC CPU. I had this running in the early beta distributions of MkLinux in the fall of '96 when I had a PowerPC at work. I had a Mac IIsi at home but MkLinux wasn't being