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It's been a while seen I've seen this posted and there is not a good place to
find this info. Where do I unstop X form starting?

Also I am wondering why no manual or FAQ tells you basic things like when you
want to start Netscape or alot of other programs you just type that name in the
command line.

Or why when you want to use the locate command you have to wait a day (and
leave the computer on) for  the database to be updated in the middle of the
night. I may write a top 100 tips to using linux at some time in the future. It
seems like basic things are really tough especially coming from the mac
background. Someone need to post a Mac-Linux equivalant guide.

I understand most things now but the learning curve was steep.

gary hostetler

that should be stopping X from starting

gary hostetler

<< Also I am wondering why no manual or FAQ tells you basic things like when

Quote:> you want to start Netscape or alot of other programs you just type that
> name in the command line.

Actually, this is pretty intuitive, isn't it? >>

I'm laughing because you would think it was pretty intuitive to just type in
the name of the program and it would work. It took me a long long time to
figure that out. I was using X to find the icon and then clicking on that to
get it started. It noever occurred to me to just type the name. Most of the
commands I was using were someone else's that I picked up.
gary hostetler

I read the other posting as well. And I guess you are looking for
/etc/inittab, where you might want to change the defaultrunlevel from 5
to 3.

Quote:> Also I am wondering why no manual or FAQ tells you basic things like when
> you want to start Netscape or alot of other programs you just type that
> name in the command line.

Actually, this is pretty intuitive, isn't it?

Quote:> Or why when you want to use the locate command you have to wait a day (and
> leave the computer on) for  the database to be updated in the middle of
> the night.

Good one! This happened to me ONCE and never again!

Quote:> I may write a top 100 tips to using linux at some time in the future. It
> seems like basic things are really tough especially coming from the mac
> background. Someone need to post a Mac-Linux equivalant guide.

Yepp.

Quote:> I understand most things now but the learning curve was steep.

Sure was. I was lucky, I came from DOS.

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  >> Or why when you want to use the locate command you have to wait a
  >> day (and leave the computer on) for the database to be updated in
  >> the middle of the night.

  Andrew> Good one! This happened to me ONCE and never again!

I've never worked with LinuxPPC (I'm waiting for the CD to arrive to
install it on my new PowerBook), but this is how it works on most
(Intel) Linux systems:

Updating the database is done by 'cron'; see /etc/crontab and/or the
files under /etc/cron.d/

You can either change the time on which the database is updated to a
more suitable time for your situation (see 'man cron' and 'man
crontab' for the format of the day/time specifications in the crontab
files), or run 'updatedb' manually every once in a while.

Note that if you're not the only user on your system, you should run
updatedb as user 'nobody' rather than 'root'. Otherwise, updatedb will
happily gather information about all private files of all users. So,
as root type

  su nobody -c updatedb

See also 'man updatedb'

HTH,
Rene

        If you have ONLY used Mac systems, *typing* anything to
get a program running is not intuitive at all.  But come on,
who hasn't used DOS? ;-)

Quote:> << Also I am wondering why no manual or FAQ tells you basic things
like when
> > you want to start Netscape or alot of other programs you just type
that
> > name in the command line.

> Actually, this is pretty intuitive, isn't it? >>

> I'm laughing because you would think it was pretty intuitive to just
type in
> the name of the program and it would work. It took me a long long time
to
> figure that out. I was using X to find the icon and then clicking on
that to
> get it started. It noever occurred to me to just type the name. Most
of the
> commands I was using were someone else's that I picked up.
> gary hostetler

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Quote:>If you have ONLY used Mac systems, *typing* anything to
>get a program running is not intuitive at all.  But come on,
>who hasn't used DOS? ;-)

I have NEVER used DOS only the point and click mac and windows 95/98-which has
some typing in the run program but that's it. Typing the name is not intuitive.
Neither is dragging a floppy icon to the trash to eject the disk on a mac. I
had one boss who always used the eject disk command from the special menu to
eject his disks and he wondered why the icon was still there and grayed out.

gary hostetler