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[Zeke Krahlin]

Rick Moen wrote:

> I absolutely cannot agree.  Buckle down and _read_ a few chapters of
> _Running Linux_, and compare.

I hear that! I defer to your greater expertise on this.


> > Netscape 4.6 stinks on ice: always crashing the entire system
> > just like in Windoze...forcing a hard reboot, which is not so
> > nice for Linux.
> 
> Misperception.  You need only open a shell and kill it from there,
> or Ctrl-Alt-F1 over to a different virtual console to do likewise,
> or Ctrl-Alt-Bkspace to kill the X server.

I also have the experience of Netscape causing the entire system
to freeze...which then forces me to do a cold reboot.

> Almost always, if you think you have to reboot to fix something in
> Linux, you are mistaken.

This is my assumption, but Netscape seems to violate this rule.

 
> > Learning "chmod" commands, which for some reason seems to work
> > arbitrarily. IOW: as root, I can run this command:
> >
> >       chmod 777 *
> >
> > in a directory, and get absolutely *no changes in permissions
> > (which did not allow writing or executing for all others, and no
> > execution for groups). Or "chmod 555 *", or whatever.
> 
> Either you're omitting something from the above account, or you're
> doing that on a filesystem mounted read-only, or something in the
> above account is wrong -- because that does not add up.

I found the answer: I was experimenting with "chmod" in both a
native Linux partition, and on a DOS partition. It is the DOS
partition, where I get no changes that I requested...even though
it is not mounted as "read-only"...at least, not as root.


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