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Re: Offtopic Linux stuff

• Posted by Daniel Berstein <daber at PAIR.COM> Apr 01, 1999
• 453 views

At 08:05 AM 01-04-1999 , you wrote:
>Daniel writes:
>> Thanks Riwal. I'll check your link. About searching 'inetd'... on Linux
>> system that's a standard daemon for HTTP servers (AKA Apache).
>>
>
>Actually inetd is in charge of starting internet daemons that aren't
>needed to be running all the time.  Look at /etc/inetd.conf to see which
>services inetd provides on your system.  The HTTP server is called httpd.

Thanks for the explanation.

>
>Also, instead of using Xconfigurator try XF86Setup.

Or xf86config for a text based configuration... I was able to enter
manually my H/V sync rates here.

>> I suspect I need to be editing the configuration file myself, but where
>> is it ?
>
>/etc/X11/XF86Config  (I think)

I think it's /etc/XF86Config or /usr/X11R6/X86Config

>>  And are there any better text-mode editors in
>> (red-hat, Hurricane release) Linux than edlin ?
>
>Try pico

I personally like 'joe'.

>The "multiple consoles" are actually called "virtual consoles", see the
>man page for "console".

Note that virtual console 7 (ALT-7) is the XWindow screen. From XWindow you
can move to a text console by presing CTL-ALT-<number>


Regards,
          Daniel  Berstein
         [ daber at pair.com ]