Re: Shutdown & Networking - some more newbie (easy?) questions

From: David (thunderbolt01_at_netscape.net)
Date: 08/30/03 

Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 21:23:00 GMT

Jim Marnott wrote:
> I installed Debian about two weeks ago and I'm slowly getting used to
> things, but I've still got some questions.
>
> 1) I am unable to shut down my computer without hitting the power button
> -- or logging on as root, opening a terminal and typing reboot. I've
> tried ctrl-alt-delete and ctrl-alt-backspace. The latter just sends me
> to the login screen again. What's the trick?

Try: shutdown now
Or: shutdown -h now
You could also change the "-r" to "-h" in the line in
/etc/inittab so it does a shutdown instead of a reboot.

# What to do at the "Three Finger Salute".
# ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t5 -r now

> 2) Sometimes I will download and install something, but am unable to run
> the program. ie: I just downloaded Mozilla Thunderbird and I believe I
> unarchived it properly, put it in a directory and then went hunting for
> something to double-click. Nothing looked right, so I tried a few that
> didn't look too wrong (including a file called "thunderbird",) but
> nothing happened. Is there a trick here?

This isn't windows so you can't "DoubleClick" to install programs
if you download the source code it must be compiled before it can
be used. Read the README and INSTALL files included with the
source package.

> 3) I am dual-booting with win XP. When XP is running, I have my machine
> networked with a win ME machine. How can I get linux to see that win ME
> machine? Do I need software, or am I just not looking in the right place?

You are probably looking for Samba if you are wanting to use
"Network Neighborhood" or whatever it is that windows calls it. 

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