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If I do a rm -r I get asked for confirmation on each single file.......how do I stop this confirmation?
Resolution
My res is too high and i can hardly read anything. How do I change this? At the moment I have Gnome running.
MySQL
Firstly does anyone know a good message board for mySQL/Linux?
If anyone has installed mySQL on linux maybe you can help me. I downloaded the standard stable binary 3.23.40 and unpacked it etc. But when I try to run mysql_install_db from the /scripts directory I get this error
"you should do a 'make install' before executing this script"
But I downloaded the binaries! I don't have to 'make' anything do I? Am I missing something fundamental here?
You need to set an alias up in your .bashrc or similar:
alias rm=`rm -f`
thus rm will be interpreted as rm -f automatically, where the f option means 'force'
Resolution
edit the erm.... /etc/X11/XF86config file. under the Screen Section you should see a list of different resolutions and modes, change the appropriate values. remember that Ctrl+alt+Plus will toggle the screen modes for you....
You can also run Xconfigurator to do it in a more graphical way, but if you go wrong there, you could easily screw up X to a much greater extent.... so back up!
SQL
You're running RH71? The RPM's for mySQL are located on the CD, just install them with gnorpm
also install the other relevant rpms on that cd. (CD 2 btw).
gnorpm is no the first CD if it's not already installed, but i'd guess it already is.
the cd should be automatically mounted, if not:
mount /dev/cdrom
OR
mount /mnt/cdrom
the dev version defines the reference to the hardware, whilst the mnt defines where it should be placed. This pair is defined in the text file /etc/fstab.
There are ways to do this with the gnome managers (and kde) as well... i think you can actually right click on an rpm in a file window and there should be an install option, but i'm not sure about that.
You need to set an alias up in your .bashrc or similar:
alias rm=`rm -f`
thus rm will be interpreted as rm -f automatically, where the f option means 'force'
I was always under the impression that this behaviour was caused by there already being an alias setup for rm that actually executed rm with a flag that makes it confirm deletes (rm -i I believe). If this is the case then you'll want to actually edit your .profile / /etc/profile / .bashrc file and remove the alias rather than create another.
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