Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Brian Servis
-system format. The default is system-dependent. Others have described how they are used and what they pertain to. *- On 29 Sep, Salman Ahmed wrote about "Environment Variable weirdness" > > (1) > Running Debian 2.1, I noticed sth odd about a couple of > en

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread peter karlsson
Salman Ahmed: > But where is this env. var being set from ? It's not even an environment variable, but rather an internal bash variable. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nathan> It's faster to use a "UNIX domain socket" when all traffic is Nathan> local as you avoid some of teh overhead of an IP stack. Why Nathan> waste those milliseconds? sa> Would you be willing to explain the technicalities behind that ? Sou

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: [ snip ] : Nathan> It's faster to use a "UNIX domain socket" when all traffic is : Nathan> local as you avoid some of teh overhead of an IP stack. Why : Nathan> waste those milliseconds? : : Would you be willing to explain the technicali

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Seth R Arnold
You want the HOSTTYPE to say i386, since your machine IS a 386-compatible chip. :) As for that environment variable, you could parse the output of: $ uname -rm 2.0.36 i686 And build it yourself... :) On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 08:39:48PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > (1) > Running Debian 2.1, I n

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Nathan> It's faster to use a "UNIX domain socket" when all traffic is > Nathan> local as you avoid some of teh overhead of an IP stack. Why >

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 08:54:11PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben> Compilation was for i386 so it would run on more than just > Ben> pentiums. > > You mean for the initial install off of the CDs (or whatever) ? No I mean when the

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Salman Ahmed
> "Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nathan> ... but the machine architecture is still "i386", as in Intel Nathan> CISC. Other machine architectures include m68k, powerpc, Nathan> alpha, hp-ppa, etc. Nathan> You don't need to worry about this. Ok, that m

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Salman Ahmed
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> Compilation was for i386 so it would run on more than just Ben> pentiums. You mean for the initial install off of the CDs (or whatever) ? But where is this env. var being set from ? Currently, it is not valid for my system since

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: : : (1) : Running Debian 2.1, I noticed sth odd about a couple of : environment variables (I am running XFree-3.3.3.1-2). : : First of all : : : HOSTTYPE=i386-linux : : I have a Celeron 300A processor and have installed a new : 2.2.12 ke

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 08:39:48PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > (1) > Running Debian 2.1, I noticed sth odd about a couple of > environment variables (I am running XFree-3.3.3.1-2). > > First of all : > > HOSTTYPE=i386-linux Compilation was for i386 so it would run on more than just pent

Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Salman Ahmed
(1) Running Debian 2.1, I noticed sth odd about a couple of environment variables (I am running XFree-3.3.3.1-2). First of all : HOSTTYPE=i386-linux I have a Celeron 300A processor and have installed a new 2.2.12 kernel recently. Where is this variable getting set from ? How do I change t