Re: cmp concern, HD power management concern, Search concern, etc,
From: Kenton W. Mellott (melken_at_co.tds.net)
Date: 11/27/03
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 13:27:59 -0700
I'm happy to say, Search is now working properly through sub-directories. I
did nothing to cause the change, that I know of.
I also was told you can use long names in the terminal with 'find' by
putting the directory path in quotes.
Sincerely,
Gregory D. MELLOTT
for Kenton W. MELLOTT
"Kenton W. Mellott" <melken@co.tds.net> wrote in message
news:3fc054c7_2@newspeer2.tds.net...
> 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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