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I have to admit, that there is no really functioning GUI for the rioutils.

STARTING:(/usr)/sbin/ifup eth0 (or eth1)STOPPING:(/usr)/sbin/ifdown eth0 (or eth1)STATUS:(/usr)/sbin/ifconfig -a

Example: The quanta packagerpm -q quanta Check whether and which version of quanta is installedrpm -ql quanta List all files (and their installation location) that are provided by the quanta packagerpm -ivh quanta Install quantarpm -e quanta Erase (deinstall) quantarpm -aq | grep quanta If you don't know exactly what you are looking for you can list all packages and grep them with a substring.rpm -q -f filename Search for rpm packages that provide filenameA good manual for rpm managemant: http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/.If you want to query an RPM that is not installed, you need the following syntax:rpm -qpl requires quanta.rpm This would list all requirements and all files that are in the package.cat package.rpm | rpm2cpio | pax -r Extract a file from an rpm package.

I got a bit confused about the ps2pdf conversion utility.

It never happened to me under Red Hat 9, but when I am working in KDE as a normal user and try to execute emacs from a terminal, in which I am su, I occasionally get the following error message:jeltsch@mcblpc2:~ suPassword:mcblpc2:/home/jeltsch emacs test.txtXlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by serverXlib: Invalid XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 key (failed key comparison)emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0.Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use -d'.Also use the xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit connections from your machine.

I figured out (hopefully correctly) that owner, group and accession rights to files and directories on an smbmount are not changeable, not even by root.

After working with GCK2.5 under wine I have identified more bugs that make the program quit unexpectedly.

Installing Staden 2003b on Suse 9

We have a shared directory (/home/shared) on our computer and a usergroup called "shared".