[ale] miscellaneous questions

[Ben Phillips]

* How do you make the PC speaker stop beeping?  Is there a /dev/????? from
which I can divert input? 

* 'ls' question:  What possible causes might there be for the
/etc/DIR_COLORS to be partially ignored?  Colorized 'ls' is working for
directories and executables, but not for things that correspond to file
extension.  DIR_COLORS isn't being usurped by an environment variable
belonging to the user, because I can type 'set' and LS_COLORS doesn't come
up as a defined variable.

* I'm new to Red Hat.  When I installed new kernel source using an RPM, it
screwed up somehow.  I infer this from the fact that kernel compiles fail
now -- and for that matter, so does an ssh compile (!).  How would you go
about trying to fix what happened without messing up rpm's business?


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