Re: basic question!!

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 19:19, Rik Thomas wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 19:23, bruce wrote: > > hi... > > > > can someone please tell me what the command is for generating the messages > > that can appear when someone logs in... i'm pretty sure it's simply > > editing a particular file. but i c

Re: basic question!!

On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 04:49, Rik Thomas wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 19:23, bruce wrote: > > hi... > > > > can someone please tell me what the command is for generating the messages > > that can appear when someone logs in... i'm pretty sure it's simply > > editing a particular file. but i c

Re: basic question!!

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 19:23, bruce wrote: > hi... > > can someone please tell me what the command is for generating the messages > that can appear when someone logs in... i'm pretty sure it's simply > editing a particular file. but i can't recall what it is > > this is driving me crazy!!!

RE: basic question!!

Ritesh Raj Sarraf Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 1:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: basic question!! On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 04:49, Rik Thomas wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 19:23, bruce wrote: > > hi... > > > > can someone please tell me what the command is for ge

basic question!!

hi... can someone please tell me what the command is for generating the messages that can appear when someone logs in... i'm pretty sure it's simply editing a particular file. but i can't recall what it is this is driving me crazy!!! i'm using linux RH8.0 thanks bruce [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: basic question: busy devicess

I found that I couldn't unmount certain filesystems/devices because I had them NFS exported...temporarily shutting off nfs, I was able to unmount the filesystem with no problem, and could remount it when I needed it. On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, David Brett wrote: > In the process of testing mounting an

Re: basic question: busy devicess

o: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: basic question: busy devicess In the process of testing mounting and umounting. I ended up with a partition, which is busy. At least the system thinks it is busy. This leads to two questions. How do you find out what is using a device? Second how do you force

basic question: busy devicess

In the process of testing mounting and umounting. I ended up with a partition, which is busy. At least the system thinks it is busy. This leads to two questions. How do you find out what is using a device? Second how do you force a device to umount (or become free)? david

Re: Did I do something dumb ? - kernel build and basic question

> Pete Lancashire wrote: > > The other question is in the RedHat RPM'ed kernel source is there > > the config file that matches the kernel on the CDROM ? from a freshly installed kernel rpm, run "make oldconfig" to get the settings Red Hat used to build their kernel. hth charles -- To unsubs

Re: Did I do something dumb ? - kernel build and basic question

Pete Lancashire wrote: > > I down loaded the 2.2.16.rpm source, rpm'ed it and then > added a patch (HighPoint 370 chip). That all went well. > > My real goal is to add the patch for the HighPoint IDE > chip, and then maybe tune up and such for the K7. > > Before I dig out the kernel-howto, I'm

Did I do something dumb ? - kernel build and basic question

I down loaded the 2.2.16.rpm source, rpm'ed it and then added a patch (HighPoint 370 chip). That all went well. My real goal is to add the patch for the HighPoint IDE chip, and then maybe tune up and such for the K7. Before I dig out the kernel-howto, I'm using the RedHat guide. I did cd /usr