Re: Networking 3 simple questions

2004-06-06 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 01:36:03 -0300 James LeClair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On June 7, 2004 12:17 am, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > How do I convert a server which has a static IP, to become a DHCP > > server? I know I need the DHCP server installed, but is there more > > than that? > > > My r

Re: Networking 3 simple questions

2004-06-06 Thread James LeClair
On June 7, 2004 12:17 am, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > How do I convert a server which has a static IP, to become a DHCP > server? I know I need the DHCP server installed, but is there more than > that? My router, which runs woody, has these lines in: etc/network/interfaces: auto eth1 iface eth1 in

Re: Networking 3 simple questions

2004-06-06 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 19:20:43 -0400 Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06/06/04 18:00, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Marvin Aguero wrote: > > > >> Guys, > >> > >> I guess these three questions are simple for those who are familiar > >with> Debian. I would really appreciate some help on these

Re: Networking 3 simple questions

2004-06-06 Thread Adam Aube
Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Marvin Aguero wrote: >> 1) How can I know which IP Address I have been assigned if debian is >> configured as DHCP? Something like ipconfig on the Windows world. > As root, ifconfig You don't have to be root to view the settings, though you will probably have to specify

Re: Networking 3 simple questions

2004-06-06 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/06/04 18:00, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Marvin Aguero wrote: Guys, I guess these three questions are simple for those who are familiar with Debian. I would really appreciate some help on these matters. 1) How can I know which IP Address I have been assigned if debian is configured as DHCP? Someth

Re: Networking 3 simple questions

2004-06-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Marvin Aguero wrote: Guys, I guess these three questions are simple for those who are familiar with Debian. I would really appreciate some help on these matters. 1) How can I know which IP Address I have been assigned if debian is configured as DHCP? Something like ipconfig on the Windows world. As

Networking 3 simple questions

2004-06-06 Thread Marvin Aguero
Guys, I guess these three questions are simple for those who are familiar with Debian. I would really appreciate some help on these matters. 1) How can I know which IP Address I have been assigned if debian is configured as DHCP? Something like ipconfig on the Windows world. 2) If I configured m

Re: simple questions

2002-02-04 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
Le 2002.02.02 19:08, Alexey a écrit : > > > /dev/null 2>&1 > > man bash and see about redirection. :) > It's me again. OK... $ /mount -a mount: /dev/hdc3 already mounted or /mnt/deb busy MSDOS FS: Using codepage 866 MSDOS FS: IO charset koi8-r $ /mount -a > /dev/null $ mount -a > /dev/nul

Re: simple questions

2002-02-02 Thread Alexey
> > A bashism! How about this: > > (cdrecord > /dev/null) >& /dev/null > $ (mount -a > /dev/null) >& /dev/null Nope. It talks.

Re: simple questions

2002-02-02 Thread Alexey
> > > /dev/null 2>&1 > > man bash and see about redirection. :) > It's me again. OK... $ /mount -a mount: /dev/hdc3 already mounted or /mnt/deb busy MSDOS FS: Using codepage 866 MSDOS FS: IO charset koi8-r $ /mount -a > /dev/null $ mount -a > /dev/null 2>&1 the first (error) message disapp

Re: simple questions

2002-02-02 Thread csj
On 02 Feb 2002 15:26:08 +0100 Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 14:45, Alexey wrote: > > 1. How can I make a program produce no output on the shell screen if > > it has no special "quiet behavior" option and >/dev/null doesn't help? > > (the messages are

Re: simple questions

2002-02-02 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 14:45, Alexey wrote: > 1. How can I make a program produce no output on the shell screen if > it has no special "quiet behavior" option and >/dev/null doesn't help? > (the messages are not errors- or warnings-like). Did you still try 2> /dev/null ? Maybe they aren

simple questions

2002-02-02 Thread Alexey
1. How can I make a program produce no output on the shell screen if it has no special "quiet behavior" option and >/dev/null doesn't help? (the messages are not errors- or warnings-like). 2. sh: which: command not found sh: zsoelim: command not found sh: geqn: command not

Re: debian newbie : 2 simple questions

2002-01-30 Thread irvine . russell
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 03:26:41PM +0100, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > > 1) what is the minimal package install to send emails from the shell ?? > > (mailx, zmailer-ssl ?) imperative is : SMTP daemon on port 25 must NOT be > > running. > > install mailx + exim, then comment out the smtp line in /etc

Re: debian newbie : 2 simple questions

2002-01-29 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> 1) what is the minimal package install to send emails from the shell ?? > (mailx, zmailer-ssl ?) imperative is : SMTP daemon on port 25 must NOT be > running. install mailx + exim, then comment out the smtp line in /etc/inetd.conf, then killall -HUP inetd . ask for more informations if you n

debian newbie : 2 simple questions

2002-01-29 Thread José
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi all ! 2 newb questions : 1) what is the minimal package install to send emails from the shell ?? (mailx, zmailer-ssl ?) imperative is : SMTP daemon on port 25 must NOT be running. 2) how to verify if an ETH interface is really in full duplex mo

Re: Simple Questions

2001-02-18 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 11:05:19PM -0800, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > yup the script is executable and works > > I went into the /etc/cron.daily directory and ran it from the command line > via "./webalizer" In that script, are you trying to run some program that exists somewhere else than /bin

Re: Simple Questions

2001-02-17 Thread Leonard Leblanc
> # Hey All, > # > # I have just a quick (and probably stupid) question. I was under the > # impression that you could just place scripts in the cron.daily, > # cron.monthly, and cron.weekly directories and that those scripts would > be > # run. Now either there is an error in my script or I'm no

Re: Simple Questions

2001-02-17 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Leonard Leblanc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Hey All, # # I have just a quick (and probably stupid) question. I was under the # impression that you could just place scripts in the cron.daily, # cron.monthly, and cron.weekly directories and that those scripts would be # run. Now either there

Simple Questions

2001-02-17 Thread Leonard Leblanc
Hey All, I have just a quick (and probably stupid) question. I was under the impression that you could just place scripts in the cron.daily, cron.monthly, and cron.weekly directories and that those scripts would be run. Now either there is an error in my script or I'm not doing something right.

Re: 2 simple questions

2001-02-17 Thread Ethan Benson
see. > Don't run gnome here - sri. > > On Friday 16 February 2001 06:54, Brad Cramer wrote: > > I am not really new to linux (used Redhat for 3 years) but I am a recent > > Debian convert and I have a coulpe of simple questions. I am running Debian > > Woody and eve

Re: 2 simple questions

2001-02-17 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hi Brad, Looks like you just need/want to edit the Message Of The Day (/etc/motd) file. Don't run gnome here - sri. On Friday 16 February 2001 06:54, Brad Cramer wrote: > I am not really new to linux (used Redhat for 3 years) but I am a recent > Debian convert and I have a coulp

Re: 2 simple questions

2001-02-16 Thread Brad Cramer
Thanks that ddid the trick - Original Message - From: "Tom Pfeifer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-users" Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 12:28 PM Subject: Re: 2 simple questions > To change the login prompt message, you can edit the file /etc/issue. > Y

Re: 2 simple questions

2001-02-16 Thread Tom Pfeifer
new to linux (used Redhat for 3 years) but I am a recent > Debian convert and I have a coulpe of simple questions. I am running Debian > Woody and everything is up to date but I want to know how to change the type > of system or version of Debian that shows up on a console login screen. >

Re: 2 simple questions

2001-02-16 Thread Anthony Fox
"Brad Cramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > other question may be a little more complicated. I am using gdm to > login and I normaly run Enlightenment but I wanted to try out Gnome > but when I selecect it from the gdm menu it starts gnome and kde > together. I have replaced the /etc/gdm/Sessions

2 simple questions

2001-02-16 Thread Brad Cramer
I am not really new to linux (used Redhat for 3 years) but I am a recent Debian convert and I have a coulpe of simple questions. I am running Debian Woody and everything is up to date but I want to know how to change the type of system or version of Debian that shows up on a console login screen

Re: A few (simple) questions

2000-12-09 Thread Defresne Sylvain
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi there, > > I installed a few new things to my Debian installation > got most of the stuff working, but there are still > some problems. > I think those are very easy to solve, but I don't have > any idea how. > > > 1.) I managed to get sou

A few (simple) questions

2000-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there, I installed a few new things to my Debian installation got most of the stuff working, but there are still some problems. I think those are very easy to solve, but I don't have any idea how. 1.) I managed to get sound (ALSA with via82...) but only as root. If ie. mpg123 ist start

Re: New to Debian -- simple questions

2000-12-07 Thread Chad '^chewie' Walstrom
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Okay, I recently switched to Debian after using RedHat and > Mandrake-Linux for 2-3 years... Right off the bat, there are two > things I'd like to change. > > 1) Get rid of the login message that displays at the console after > typi

Re: New to Debian -- simple questions

2000-12-07 Thread Jos Lemmerling
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Alson van der Meulen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:11:22AM -0600, Sam TH wrote: > > > 1) Get rid of the login message that displays at the console after > > > typing in my name and password. I read through /etc/login.defs and > > > there was a reference to a file that I t

Re: New to Debian -- simple questions

2000-12-07 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:11:22AM -0600, Sam TH wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > Okay, I recently switched to Debian after using RedHat and > > Mandrake-Linux for 2-3 years... Right off the bat, there are two > > things I'd like to change. > > > > 1) Ge

Re: New to Debian -- simple questions

2000-12-07 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Okay, I recently switched to Debian after using RedHat and > Mandrake-Linux for 2-3 years... Right off the bat, there are two > things I'd like to change. > > 1) Get rid of the login message that displays at the console after > typi

Re: New to Debian -- simple questions

2000-12-07 Thread Sam TH
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Okay, I recently switched to Debian after using RedHat and > Mandrake-Linux for 2-3 years... Right off the bat, there are two > things I'd like to change. > > 1) Get rid of the login message that displays at the console after > typi

Re. : New to Debian -- simple questions

2000-12-07 Thread minh-quang . yvonet
to Debian -- simple questions Okay, I recently switched to Debian after using RedHat and Mandrake-Linux for 2-3 years... Right off the bat, there are two things I'd like to change. 1) Get rid of the login message that displays at the console after typing in my name and password. I read through /etc

New to Debian -- simple questions

2000-12-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
Okay, I recently switched to Debian after using RedHat and Mandrake-Linux for 2-3 years... Right off the bat, there are two things I'd like to change. 1) Get rid of the login message that displays at the console after typing in my name and password. I read through /etc/login.defs and there was a r

Re: simple questions

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 22, Robert S. Ross wrote > I didn't get a satisfactory answer before, so I will try again. I know > about LILO, it is on my boot diskette. How do I get it into the > partition so my System Commander can call it? > My Red Hat installation offers the option of booting from the partition, > if

Re: A couple of simple questions... I think

1999-01-11 Thread Clyde Wilson
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Brant Wells wrote: > Howdy All... > > 1) I got Netscape 4.5 installed on my system... If I login as ROOT, I am > not able to run Netscape... What do I do?? > It's for security reasons. Log on as someone else!

Re: A couple of simple questions... I think

1999-01-09 Thread Anthony Wong
On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 06:14:01PM +0800, Chad A. Adlawan wrote: |>1) I got Netscape 4.5 installed on my system... If I login as ROOT, I am |>not able to run Netscape... What do I do?? | |cookies are sent to you as you browse thru diff websites and are saved in ur home directory, and you wouldnt

Re: A couple of simple questions... I think

1999-01-09 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
cookies are sent to you as you browse thru diff websites and are saved in ur home directory On 1/9/99, at 12:56 AM, Brant Wells wrote: >Howdy All... > >1) I got Netscape 4.5 installed on my system... If I login as ROOT, I am >not able to run Netscape... What do I do?? cookies are sent to you as

Re: A couple of simple questions... I think

1999-01-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 12:56:20AM -0800, Brant Wells wrote: > 1) I got Netscape 4.5 installed on my system... If I login as ROOT, I am > not able to run Netscape... What do I do?? That's deliberate. You shouldn't need to. > 2) I've need to print to a printer that is shared on a WinNT 4.0 > mac

A couple of simple questions... I think

1999-01-09 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy All... 1) I got Netscape 4.5 installed on my system... If I login as ROOT, I am not able to run Netscape... What do I do?? 2) I've need to print to a printer that is shared on a WinNT 4.0 machine... as \\DAHOUSE\HPDESKJE how do I set that up in Linux? Any help would be greatly apprecia

Re: A few (simple?) questions...

1999-01-08 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 01:03:12PM -0500, David Kennedy wrote: > Hi, I was able to get Debian installed and everything I need working but I > have a few questions: > > 1) How do you change the colours of xterm? Right now, when I click on it I > get a black on white window. I can type xterm -bg bla

A few (simple?) questions...

1999-01-07 Thread David Kennedy
Hi, I was able to get Debian installed and everything I need working but I have a few questions: 1) How do you change the colours of xterm? Right now, when I click on it I get a black on white window. I can type xterm -bg black -fg white to get a new xterm window with the colours I want. 2) What

Re: Two semi-simple questions...

1998-02-08 Thread Michael Beattie
> Adam Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 11:24:12AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > Where is the setting which inhibits the addition of the equivalent of > > > 'uname -a' at the start of /etc/motd ?? I have found it before... now I > > > cant. > > > > If you're u

Re: Two semi-simple questions...

1998-02-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Adam Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 11:24:12AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: > > Where is the setting which inhibits the addition of the equivalent of > > 'uname -a' at the start of /etc/motd ?? I have found it before... now I > > cant. > > If you're using hamm, edit

Re: Two semi-simple questions...

1998-02-06 Thread Adam Klein
On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 11:24:12AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: > Where is the setting which inhibits the addition of the equivalent of > 'uname -a' at the start of /etc/motd ?? I have found it before... now I > cant. If you're using hamm, edit /etc/default/rcS and set EDITMOTD=no. HTH, Adam Kle

Re: Two semi-simple questions...

1998-02-05 Thread Ian Keith Setford
> > Where is the setting which inhibits the addition of the equivalent of > 'uname -a' at the start of /etc/motd ?? I have found it before... now I > cant. Try /etc/issue.net and /etc/issue. -Ian _ .__.

Two semi-simple questions...

1998-02-05 Thread Michael Beattie
Hi, Where is the setting which inhibits the addition of the equivalent of 'uname -a' at the start of /etc/motd ?? I have found it before... now I cant. Secondly, trying to start squake as a non-root user, Svgalib gives the error: Cannot get I/O Permissions. any ideas?? It only happens with squak

Re: simple questions

1997-11-30 Thread George Bonser
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, me wrote: > If you can get a copy of OS2 BootManager, it will take care of everything. > I believe it is about the best out there. I have used it with > Win95/FreeBSD, Win95/Linux(slackware), and now Win95/Debian. > It works flawlessly. As does most of the rest of OS/2. It

Re: simple questions

1997-11-27 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi >[my own whining snipped] > >> Perhaps you should boot into W95/DOS and leave it to loadlin to boot >> Linux. That way you can safely leave your MBR in the hands of W95. >Of >> course you should always have a bootdisk ready, just in case W95 for >> some reason becomes unbootable. >> >> -

Re: simple questions

1997-11-26 Thread Gertjan Klein
Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my experience this works, but not nicely. You have to install Win95 > first, and when it gets itselft all screwed up you can't reinstall it > without scrapping your master boot record again, which I'm sure is a real > pain if not a castrophe. Althoug

Re: simple questions

1997-11-26 Thread Kevin Traas
>If you check my sig, you will see that I have Warp3. I love it! I have had >it for about 2 years. I guess you find it a little disappointing that IBM has decided to dump OS/2 now, huh? No more development team - they've all gone over to Java development Oh well, you've picked the *best* OS

Re: simple questions

1997-11-26 Thread me
If you check my sig, you will see that I have Warp3. I love it! I have had it for about 2 years. I also am subscribed to a online "book" for OS2, that is updated by one of the developers of OS2. He was a developer when IBM and M$ were working together. He plainly states that M$ NT is based on OS/2

Re: simple questions

1997-11-26 Thread me
If you can get a copy of OS2 BootManager, it will take care of everything. I believe it is about the best out there. I have used it with Win95/FreeBSD, Win95/Linux(slackware), and now Win95/Debian. It works flawlessly. Now if all I had was Linux and OS/2 on my pc, life would be great! Alas, my wif

Re: simple questions

1997-11-26 Thread Larry G. Gariepy Jr.
--- You wrote: > Hi Clay. > > 1) Yes, Debian can co-exist with Win95. Using something called LILO( > Linux Loader ), it can become your boot manager, which will allow you > boot multiple OS's. In my experience this works, but not nicely. You have to install Win95 first, and when it gets itselft

Re: simple questions

1997-11-26 Thread Britton
On 26 Nov 1997, Sten Anderson wrote: > Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Dana M. Epp wrote: > > > Hi Clay. > > > 1) Yes, Debian can co-exist with Win95. Using something called LILO( > > > Linux Loader ), it can become your boot manager, which will allow you > > > boot m

Re: simple questions

1997-11-26 Thread Sten Anderson
Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Dana M. Epp wrote: > > > Hi Clay. > > > > 1) Yes, Debian can co-exist with Win95. Using something called LILO( > > Linux Loader ), it can become your boot manager, which will allow you > > boot multiple OS's. > > In my experience this w

Re: simple questions

1997-11-26 Thread Britton
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Britton wrote: > > > On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Dana M. Epp wrote: > > In my experience this works, but not nicely. You have to install Win95 > > first, and when it gets itselft all screwed up you can't reinstall it > > with

Re: simple questions

1997-11-26 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Britton wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Dana M. Epp wrote: > In my experience this works, but not nicely. You have to install Win95 > first, and when it gets itselft all screwed up you can't reinstall it > without scrapping your master boot record again, which I'm sure is a

Re: simple questions

1997-11-26 Thread Britton
ey.. its like 10 bucks. Good luck. > > Clayton Berry wrote: > > > > Howdy. I'm new to linux/gnu and have a couple questions I haven't been > > able to find answers to. > > > > 1) Can Debian co-exist with my windows95 environment? > > 2) Does D

Re: simple questions

1997-11-25 Thread Daniel Martin
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Clayton Berry wrote: > 1) Can Debian co-exist with my windows95 environment? As already mentioned, yes it can; you can either set up linux to load via lilo (a boot manager designed for loading linux, but perfectly capable of loading Win95 as well, so that you choose at startup)

Re: simple questions

1997-11-25 Thread Dana M. Epp
bian come with compilers for languages other than Xwindows. > (i.e. c, c++, java, and such?) > > I realize these are probably simple questions, but I got tired of > surfing pages to find the answers. > > Thanks a lot! > Clayton Berry > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM TH

simple questions

1997-11-25 Thread Clayton Berry
Howdy. I'm new to linux/gnu and have a couple questions I haven't been able to find answers to. 1) Can Debian co-exist with my windows95 environment? 2) Does Debian come with compilers for languages other than Xwindows. (i.e. c, c++, java, and such?) I realize these are proba

Re: simple questions

1997-08-23 Thread Jim Pick
> I didn't get a satisfactory answer before, so I will try again. Probably due to the fact that some inconsiderate individuals are using debian-user as a batteground for a flamewar. :-( >I know > about LILO, it is on my boot diskette. How do I get it into the > partition so my System Commander

Re: simple questions

1997-08-22 Thread stick
Howdy! Let's tackle the LILO question first. After we get your system booting the way you want, then we can deal with X. > > I didn't get a satisfactory answer before, so I will try again. I know > about LILO, it is on my boot diskette. How do I get it into the > partition so my System Commander

Re: simple questions

1997-08-22 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 22, Robert S. Ross wrote > I didn't get a satisfactory answer before, so I will try again. I know > about LILO, it is on my boot diskette. How do I get it into the > partition so my System Commander can call it? > My Red Hat installation offers the option of booting from the partition, > if

simple questions

1997-08-22 Thread Robert S. Ross
I didn't get a satisfactory answer before, so I will try again. I know about LILO, it is on my boot diskette. How do I get it into the partition so my System Commander can call it? My Red Hat installation offers the option of booting from the partition, if I wish. How do I get Debian to do that? Un