Re: how to extract *.deb files, etc.
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 06:16:19PM +1000, Stephen Jiang wrote:
> > If you could set your mailer to wrap to 72 characters it would be much
> > appreciated.
>
> How? At the moment, I have MS Outlook Express.
Well, won't the author accept a patch to fix that? Get your money
back, then. ;-)
You can of course type the linebreaks yourself, by hitting enter.
> But this morning I turned on computer, it automatically used xdm to start
> X windows system (and with runlevel 2, I read some book - runlevel must
> set to 5 for using xdm). Furthermore, mouse did not work anymore
> (X windows system was still working).
Your book is even more broken than outlook. Get the source of the book
and do: "sed -ne 's/linux/redhat/gi' book.orig > book.fixed".
If you want a good book, get a book on general unix system administration
for any unix, not one that was really written for one specific version
of only one specific distribution. I recommend you "Essential system
administration" by Aeleen Frisch, published by O'Reilly and associates.
On debian, you start and stop services generally by typing
"/etc/init.d/servicename start" or "stop". This is how it is supposed
to be on unixes that use system V style init.
In debian, we like linux to be like unix. Other players in the field
like linux to be like windows. Some book authors don't understand their
subject and don't do any proper research. Some books seem to be written
in less than 24 hours.
> Ok, I will try this but how I can stop it from running xdm. Which file
> contains
> information to control whether start X via standard way "startx" or via xdm.
You can forcefully stop xdm at the xdm login prompt by typing ctrl-'r'.
For now, uninstall xdm if you do not want to use it. In dselect's
"Select" screen, unset the selection for xdm and run "remove" from
the menu. There are other ways to disable it, but this is good enough
for now. You can always reinstall it if you change your mind, and in
the meanwhile just type "startx" to start the x windows system.
Cheers,
Joost
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