RH9: cmp concern, HD power management concern, Search concern, etc,

From: Kenton W. Mellott (melken_at_co.tds.net)
Date: 11/23/03 

Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 23:36:52 -0700

    I purchased RH 9 mainly because it made setting up a RAID based system
simple. I did have some troubles with installation until I changed CDROM
drives. (Testing the CD on either drive gave no indication that it was the
problem though.)
The installation went very nicely after that.

    Now, I have noticed that the Search capability is limited to only the
directory chosen. RH8 had full functionality.

    In the Terminal, 'find' hangs up on directories and files with a space
character in their name. And when I use 'cmp' it says '--ignore...' is
invalid when I use any wild card characters.

    When I installed it, I had it install everything. I'm not so sure which
GUI I'm in. I suspect X. And I was unable to find a way to chose a
different one.

    I also could not find a way to power manage the hard drives. I can't
say I ever saw a way in Linux to do so.

    Pretty new at LINUX. Without Linux in the Nutshell I'd be
real weak.

Sincerely,

Gregory D. MELLOTT
and / for Kenton W. MELLOTT.

PS. Is there anyway to get Linux to check specific drives once at startup
or shutdown, when they are not being used.

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