Thanks Janina for your response and I'm really pleased with my linux and how well it's gone for us here. It's now running like clockwork. Thanks for every ones help. I probably will have further questions but so far I am quite pleased. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 9/16/01 at 1:27 PM Janina Sajka wrote: >Hi, Don: > >The Redhat component that you see during the installation is really sort >of a form that collects your preferences. When it installs the various >linux components, it then uses your preferences to write appropriate >values in various configuration files. Once you reboot at the end of the >installation, those settings will be in effect. Thereafter, you will not >need to reboot in order to change to other preferences. There are ways to >restart portions of the linux system without rebooting the entire system. > > >In general, you'll find that you almost never need to reboot linux--unlike >that other OS where rebooting is the norm. In fact, rebooting is so rare >on linux, that many of us take pride in high uptime numbers. To get a >sense of what that is, type 'uptime' as root and check out the stats on >how long your system has been up. As I write this, I have gone to my >office linux system where I find it has been up for 11 days running. Hmmm, >only 11 days? Must have been some kind of electrical problem there! Oh, >no, wait, I remember, I installed a piece of hardware and didn't want to >that with the machine running! <grin> > >I cannot help you with ICQ, but I see from my mailbox that others are >addressing that question. > > > On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, djc >wrote: > >> Question about their fire wall first. When we set it to medium or high or >> none does the change take effect right away or do we have to log off >linux >> and back on? Also we're having quite a bit of trouble with the icq >servers >> keeping connection. We're trying micq which I like and have used before >> under slackware. It keeps dropping the connection but the adsl connection >> here is good and stable. It could be their servers but any thoughts would >> be appreciated. >> >> Msn or mailto:djc2 at pacbell.net >> >> I C Q Number is: 4781694 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > >-- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > >Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > >Chair, Accessibility SIG >Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) >http://www.openebook.org > >Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, >Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp > >Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther >King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at >http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp > >Learn how to make accessible software at >http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup Msn or mailto:djc2 at pacbell.net I C Q Number is: 4781694
