Coupla Linux Questions?

[Dantoo]

Mandrake 7.0

First of all - is there a facility like CTRL-ALT-DEL that lets you see programs running in the background? For a couple of days the client on a Celeron 533 was down to 256 kkeys/sec and now it is back up to 1.59 Mkeys/sec. Nothing other than the client running that I'm aware of.

Second - I'd like to bring this computer onto my lan. The others are all running W98SE in a peer to peer. I can't find anything that even looks like letting me do this. Ideas?

Thanks guys.

 

[Russ]

Danto,

To see running processes, open a terminal and run top.

To share files with Windows systems, you'll need to set up Samba. It's built in to Mandrake, but for us newbies, it ain't easy. However, there's a cool utility that Dougal turned me on to that makes it easier to do a lot of things in Linux, including Samba.

It's called Webmin, and it's a lifesaver.

Russ, NCNE

 

[DanC]

Dang! - he beat me to it.
Here was my first opportunity to help another with Linux. :|

 

[Dantoo]

Donwloading now

It's not too late to help DanC - how the hell do you change the time on the desktop clock????

Thanks

 

[RC]

Use the date command from the command line.

 

[Kilowatt]

Dantoo, Pay attention now.

<< ..how the hell do you change the time on the desktop clock? >>

First you click on the &quot;DrakConf&quot; icon, then you'll need to log-in with you root password.
Next click on the &quot;Linuxconf - system configuration&quot; block.

Now that will open the &quot;Main&quot; entry to configuring all your Linux system.

To set your clock, click the &quot;Control&quot; tab, and the third box down will be the &quot;date &amp; time&quot; block.

There you can set your &quot;zone&quot; as in time zone, butt you can just leave it blank.
Make sure the &quot;universal format&quot; button is unchecked, unless you want to see &quot;GMT&quot;.
Change the hours, minutes and seconds, to military time (IE: hours to 23 for 11:00 pm).
While your at it, make sure the &quot;Date&quot; is also right.

When you get done looking around in there (and I'll bet you do )
click the &quot;Quit&quot; button at the bottom.
A control panel menu will show up, just click the &quot;Activate configuratiion&quot; bar, and wait a sec for the settings to take.

Once back at you desktop, right click the taskbar at the bottom (or where ever you put it) and sellect &quot;configure&quot;.
Go to &quot;Options&quot; tab, and down toward the bottom, check the &quot;Clock shows time in AM/PM format&quot;.

Your done.
/just leave me $$ on the way out

 

[Kilowatt]

Damn RC, your makin it to easy on them!

 

[RC]

vi editor on unix
notepad for windows

what else do you need

 

[Lord Demios]

Pure Debian Baby.

Nuff said.

LD

 

[Dantoo]

Kilowatt - Truckload of Oz Dollars on way round to be dumped in your driveway. (Currently worth about .02c $US). It'll probably cost you a 20 to get it taken away!!

That step by step process is definitely the level of help I need (Bless you Roy, I know you mean well! )

Nice to see you around LD. Been having a lie down out of the sun?


Oh god - now the instructions are being patently rude>>> &quot;tarball&quot;?????? Well I never!!!!!!=O

 

[RC]

Dantoo- Yes, KW is much better at 'hand-holding' than I am. I thought you had simply forgotten the command. Well, I'm glad you know what time it is -