| 1. | How can I change the default runlevel setting in inittab and keep it
changed in ascii login for example ?
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| It is actually quite simple: -
run YaST
-
System Configuration
-
Login Configuration
-
Then select ASCII rather than Graphical
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| 2. | What is the equivalent of Windows' CTRL-ALT-DEL in Linux to list all running programs?
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|
A nice easy one is top (open a terminal and
type in top). Should be available on pretty much every flavor of *nix.
It lets you see the applications, and how much CPU is dedicated to each
app etc. Assuming you use KDE as your window manager, you could also try the
KDE System Guard. It is similar in function
to the Windows Task Manager..... In the SuSE menu it is under
->-> or if you use the KDE default menus, it is just under
.
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| With ps -aux you can read the processes running, and if
you want to see one specific process, then ps -aux
| grep my-procees-name |
| And pstree gives a nice tree structure of any
children processes of any app that may have one.. |
| 3. | How can I disable the splash screen ? |
| |
| 4. | How can I print a list of installed packages ?
|
| rpm -qa|sort |more
|
| rpm -qa >> packages.csv This gives a nice little
file named packages.csv. Then use
Kspread or Star
Office and open it like a comma separated values file and
then sort, search, etc. |
| 5. | How can I use a different machine for logging messages ? |
| Edit /etc/sysconfig/syslog on the server and
set
SYSLOGD_PARAMS="-r"
The -r option allows remote machines to log to syslog. On the
client machine, edit /etc/syslog.conf and add
the line(s)
*.* @server
to log everything to the host named server. You may want to be
more selective. The left hand side is the usual syslog.conf
patterns. Don't forget to restart the syslog on both machines after the
above editing. |
