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hi!! i'm new to java and need some help! i installed j2sdk on fedora4.it installed successfully.i could also compile & run 2 programs successfully. but after i restarted the computer and tried compiling using javac it gave me an error... javac:symbol lookup error:/usr/lib/libjc.so.6:undefined symbol : ztvn4java3awtgeo118 i tried it so …

Hello and Hapy Thanksgiving! I've recently set up an old Compaq Deskpro 2000 as a web server. I'm running Damn Small Linux and Apache 2.0.54. Everything works perfect except for one small thing—Apache doesn't start with the system. Does anyone know how to setup Apache to startup when the system …

So, I recently blanked my computer and installed suse 10.1 on my laptop. I used to have 10.0, sound didn't work. I even have had fedora core 5 and Ubuntu on here... STILL NO SOUND! I'm getting frustrated with this stupid thing... hours upon hours of messing around with this. …

Hi I'm trying to work out some network service on smpt protocol. I tried to follow the communication on SMTP by catching the packets with ethereal. It is a mail client application on slackware linux - KMail. I send a stupid mail to see how it flows over that protocol. …

I have read several (numerous really) threads but none of them help me. My computer has two huge hard drives. I have Windows XP on the master drive and I want to install fedora 5 on the slave. During the fedora installation there is a window that says grub will …

Hi there y'all. I recently purchased a beautiful little laptop, and of course, Linux was the first thing that had to be installed. However, I'm having trouble getting everything to work properly. Among the trouble is that of installing support for my wireless WiFi card (internal "Dell Wireless 1500 Draft …

First: if this is in the wrong place, I apologize. I'm a newcomer to Linux, but I'm trying to learn what I need to in order to correctly use it. I've got a program I need to run multiple times, without my having to do anything. The book on Linux …

I have a server, 64mb RAM, 233mhz PII with 3x 2.1GB hdd's, cdrom drive and LAN card. Can anyone reccomend a distro which will be suitable for turning this machine into a file server (SMB or FTP) for my network. It must have a GUI - although this doesnt nececirally …

ok, so on the terminal in fedora 4 I type in " ifconfig" which is the command to see what my ip is, but instead I get: command not found. is there another command? I though in linux ifconfig was the one, I know in windows it's ipconfig.

Hello, I am new to Linux, actually I really want to check it out to see if I like it, but I don't know how to install it. I downloaded Fedora Core 5 the DVD version and burned the image file, now what? Should i buy another hard drive to …

I've looked and looked. Changed hostname files, nodename, played with init.d/network, sys-unconfig etc... I'm using Solaris 9 on an x86 laptop. Here it goes: I had booted Knoppix with the laptop. I took the hard drive out and installed a new one to use for Solaris (the point being this: …

Hi folks, Have just finished setting up a linux box running SuSe v10. I managed to configure SQL, PHP and Apache with no problems but cant get the printing to work the way i want/need to. I want to print to a printer which is installed on a Windows box, …

First of all I would like to thank CSCGAL for a very informative tutorial on setting up samba. As you may well have guessed I am a linux newbie. I went through the tutorial and executed all of the steps as described... but when I restarted samba and tested the …

Hello everyone, I have a fresh install of dapper drake and I would like to change two things from the default behavior: 1) How do you change to a "single click" desktop? 2) Can this system "remember" the last logged in username and go straight to the password prompt? Any …

I am having a problem with the resolution of my suse. I just installed it and everything seemed to be installed correctly. I reboot my machine and went through grub and chose the suse linux[U][/U]. At first, the splash screen, looked fine. Then it got to the login page, and …

Okay, so I installed Fedora Core 5 on my second hard drive. During the installation when it asked me to set up GRUB I had the set up for FC5 and then there was another section for the drive which has Windows XP on it, so I changed the name …

I was writing a C++ CGI-BIN program, but couldn't get it to work in Linux Apache web server. It just seemed to display the c++ program as binary garbage in the Firefox browser, it didn't execute it like a CGI-BIN is supposed to. I put it in the /CGI-BIN/ directory …

Okay, so I made my boot disk and I got it to boot. It came up with a test, and asked me if i wanted to test the integrity of the disk, and said yes, and all worked right. After that it started to, or look like, install. It got …

Ht everyone, I recently decided to leave my older version of mandrake distribusion of linux and try something that at the house were I live is totally new (Ubunto). So I got the cd and started to install the Ubunto... funny thing is that the process goes well untill I …

Hi everyone, I am having some trouble with my .vimrc file for the Vim editor. I copied the same file over from my school account on a red-hat linux over to my Ubuntu linux machine. I know I am saving it in the right location (the home directory) because another …

I am using FreeBSD 6 ... and I use putty to remotely login to FreeBSD ... But the problem is that I can login with all my logins except the root ... when I login through root it gives me an error : server sshd[500] : error : PAM authentication …

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since all that looked at my last post felt disinclined to leave some sort of a responce i have decided to rephrase my question --what do you do after you click download on the torrent and it's done downloading on bittorrent?

...i'm thinking about getting a linux box (inexpensive suggestions welcome!) & setting up a small webspace. i've a broadband connection & the box will be behind a personal hardware firewall... there's so much information on this site about apache that i really don't know where to start, so i would …

Hey, Im trying to install mplayer in my FC4 system, but on giving the RPM commands, I get an error "libpng.so.2 is required". Where do I download this file from? Also, if you can suggest any other player capable of playing DivX movies, it'd be great. When I used mplayer …

hi when i tried installing /usr/bin/perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Template"' it gives me this error message what sould be done make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 2 /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK Running make install make test had returned bad status, won't install without force so what sould be done. every sugestion …

hi all i m having one problem in while writing dvd from command prompt in linux i m having /dev/scd0 as my externel dvd writer command i m using is growisofs -M /dev/scd0=/home/backup but this command is not executing its comming up with problem that its not an iso file …

hi all i m having one assigmnet. please help me in solving thati need to write one script for linux fedora core3. in wich i want to mount one file system to some place and then check that weather that partation is mounted or not now i have to select …

hi all i m having one assigmnet. please help me in solving thati need to write one script for linux fedora core3. in wich i want to mount one file system to some place and then check that weather that partation is mounted or not now i have to select …

I guess that first post was a bit vauge. I have Apache/1.3.3 (Win32) mod_perl/1.29_01-dev up and running. But it's Wide Open! Can someone give me a Walkthrough on setting up the htaccess, htpasswd, and how to use the dbmmanage? Examples would help. Forgive Me the first post, this is really …

What I'm needing to do is set up a Login mechanism for My Website, The Login Page can be found at http://cksPlace.dns2go.com But it's from My last set up using only a FTP server, and AnalogXs' Simple Server. That's when I was running on an ole 98SE box, and it …

hey i have windows xp prof attached with printer(shared on network) and i wanted to print from linux (redhat8 and fedora core 4) what is the procedure to do that. thanks

I'm currently using phpMyAdmin with Plesk 7.5. Well first of all there's the known problem with the CSS not working, but that's besides the point. My question is actually whether it's possible to access phpMyAdmin directly through some URL instead of first logging into Plesk and then navigating all the …

I'm a newbie to Linux. I've set up Fedora Core 2 and got Apache working OK. I'm getting the appropriate page on localhost. Now I want to test Apache for a PHP script I've written with KWrite, but I cannot save a file to /var/www/html because I'm told: "The document …

Hi ,thought i would try fooling with SUSE personal .started a install on a 6.4 gig HDD ,cot called away from computer and didn't get back for over an HR. it foramtted and created 3 partitions .one 450+meg primary dos ,and two nondos partition 50% each of remaing gigs ,i …

I have met a strange problem. When I installed Redhat 9.0 on VMWARE 4.0, all went fine until it told me that some packages on the second CD could not be read, and probably the CD was corrupted. However, it is a good CD, 'coz I installed these packages in …

Hey, I just became a member. This is a nice website. So my question is what are the difference between OpenBSD and FreeBSD...They both seem to be about the same. Thanks for the help (if i get any).:)

So on my pc i have vmware installed so i thought i would try out some linux programs... i loaded mandrake on vmware 4.5 and is working nice, only think is i can't figure out how to get the network to work for mandrake. i have it set for bridged. …

I've posted this on cpanel's forums as well but I was hoping someone here might have a solution, I have a cpanel machine with horde, and when I try to add to the address book it seems that nothing gets added, the database exsists, there are no errors in horde.log …

Greetings from Honduras CA, I have install a VMware 4.0 in my RedHat 8.0 and it runs perfectly, I use a guess WindowsXP and is ok. . . But How can I transfer data or files from a guess OS to my host OS and viseberse. I mean, If I …

I've used serial console on Redhat before, and all I did was direct grub to put the output to the serial port, I was wondering if anyone has done this on FreeBSD or by chance knows some sites that would help make this possible.

Dear friends, When I list the files in my machine with SUN solaris 5.8 I can see an unidentified file like..... -rwxr-xr-x 1 isos staff 566952 Oct 12 2001 sendapi* -rw-r--r-- 1 isos staff 3471 Oct 12 2001 set_environ.inst -rw-r--r-- 1 isos staff 1534 Oct 12 2001 setenv.site -r-xr-xr-x 1 …

I'm running Mozilla 1.3 on Mandrake 9.1, and I have a very hard time reading the text on web pages. Since I'm running a very normal screen resoultion (1024x768), I just increase the text size in Mozilla, by hitting View -> Text Zoom -> 120%, which works fine. Now to …

Hi All, my redhat 8.0 box froze up yesterday leaving me no chose but to powerdown. now it wont boot. it getts going but then starts doing file system checks and drops me in to a recovery shell so i can run fsck and e2fsck. is there a way i …

Hi All, Any of you know when we're likly to see fedora core 2 on release. i know its in beta at the moment. spikes

Hi All, Is it posable to use apache as a web forwarder? what i want to do is have a linux box in the dmz that will relay mail and web requests in to the LAN mail to the exchange and web on to a box with apache. if this …

I get this error message now when running the command 'strings' on any file. obviously I have the command 'ls' in my $PATH, so that isn't the issue. I haven't made any recent changes to anything except for a GTK upgrade to 2.4.0. 'strings' is obviously not dependant on GTK …

I didn't realize how to do this until just now so I thought I'd post about it. Suppose you have a directory on your box called "my_files" and you wish to compress it into a zip file. One level above the directory, use the following command [code]zip -r files.zip my_files/[/code]

What's wrong with the following line in my .htaccess file? All of my other rewrites work, just not this one. I want [url]http://www.techtalkforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10&view=previous[/url] [url]http://www.techtalkforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10&view=next[/url] [url]http://www.techtalkforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10&view=newest[/url] to look like [url]http://www.techtalkforums.com/forums/t10previous.html[/url] [url]http://www.techtalkforums.com/forums/t10next.html[/url] [url]http://www.techtalkforums.com/forums/t10newest.html[/url] I'm using the following code but it doesn't seem to work? It just goes to topic 10 (for example) …