Re: Fedora Core 3 Newbie Question

2004-12-21 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi All, I recently switched from Mandrake to Fedora Core 3. I heard a lot of good things about it... Being the newbie that I am - I wonder how do I get updates and new sources for RPMs... In MDK I used the URPMI tool, here I found the up2date tool. Thing is I tried to regi

Re: Fedora Core 3 Newbie Question

2004-12-21 Thread Meir Kriheli
Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi All, I recently switched from Mandrake to Fedora Core 3. I heard a lot of good things about it... Being the newbie that I am - I wonder how do I get updates and new sources for RPMs... In MDK I used the URPMI tool, here I found the up2date tool. Thing is I tried to regi

Fedora Core 3 Newbie Question

2004-12-21 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hi All, I recently switched from Mandrake to Fedora Core 3. I heard a lot of good things about it... Being the newbie that I am - I wonder how do I get updates and new sources for RPMs... In MDK I used the URPMI tool, here I found the up2date tool. Thing is I tried to register to the rhn, now

Re: a debian-newbie question.

2002-02-10 Thread Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader
begin Yotam Rubin quotation: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 10:00:48AM +0200, Erez Doron wrote: > > i'm looking for the base package for the latest debian (for arm) > > Woody is not the latest Debian, as it has not been released yet. This is nitpicking. You could also mention sid... > Woody does n

Re: a debian-newbie question.

2002-02-10 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 10:52, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > What's under > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-arm/base-images-current? > tryed that, it holds *.deb > ( but how can i use deb files if i do not have the base installed) > > anyway, how do ser apt-get to use a proxy

Re: a debian-newbie question.

2002-02-10 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 10:00:48AM +0200, Erez Doron wrote: > hi > > i'm looking for the base package for the latest debian (for arm) Woody is not the latest Debian, as it has not been released yet. > > I couldn't find a parallel to > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-arm/cur

Re: a debian-newbie question.

2002-02-10 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 10:53, Erez Doron wrote: > > What's under > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-arm/base-images-current? > tryed that, it holds *.deb > ( but how can i use deb files if i do not have the base installed) The installation program has some internal version of

Re: a debian-newbie question.

2002-02-10 Thread Shachar Shemesh
What's under ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-arm/base-images-current? In any case, it may well turn out that woody on ARM is not yet available. Shachar Erez Doron wrote: >hi > >i'm looking for the base package for the latest debian (for arm) > >I couldn't find

Re: a debian-newbie question.

2002-02-10 Thread Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader
begin Erez Doron quotation: > hi > > i'm looking for the base package for the latest debian (for arm) > > I couldn't find a parallel to > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-arm/current/base2_2.tgz > ( i.e. there is no base*tgz under > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/ma

Re: a debian-newbie question.

2002-02-10 Thread Erez Doron
On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 10:52, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > What's under > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-arm/base-images-current? tryed that, it holds *.deb ( but how can i use deb files if i do not have the base installed) anyway, how do ser apt-get to use a proxy ? ( i installe

a debian-newbie question.

2002-02-09 Thread Erez Doron
hi i'm looking for the base package for the latest debian (for arm) I couldn't find a parallel to ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-arm/current/base2_2.tgz ( i.e. there is no base*tgz under ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-arm/current ) thanks erez. ==

Re: newbie question in gnu emacs

1999-06-01 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Alex Shnitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dmitry Fink (aka FINiK) writes: > > > How can I make it show colored tagswhen editing html? > > The emacs is out of the redhat dist box and I don't have time > > to learn any lisp. > > If it's emacs and not xemacs, you need to load the hilit19 libr

Re: newbie question in gnu emacs

1999-06-01 Thread Alex Shnitman
Dmitry Fink (aka FINiK) writes: > How can I make it show colored tagswhen editing html? > The emacs is out of the redhat dist box and I don't have time > to learn any lisp. If it's emacs and not xemacs, you need to load the hilit19 library (M-x load-library, then type hilit19, or put (require

newbie question in gnu emacs

1999-06-01 Thread Dmitry Fink (aka FINiK)
How can I make it show colored tagswhen editing html? The emacs is out of the redhat dist box and I don't have time to learn any lisp. Thanks in advance, FINiK ..Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors :) ___

Re: newbie question

1999-05-23 Thread Ilya Tsindlekht
endor's site/computer. > > bye, allow. > -Original Message- > From: DR A Lederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: linux user group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: éåí øàùåï 23 îàé 1999 16:59 > Subject: newbie question > > > i got 2 files. >

newbie question

1999-05-23 Thread DR A Lederman
i got 2 files. tkwine wine both got an extension tar.gz when i try to uncompress the files i get: this is not a gzip file. i use the correct options but nothing. i use rh 6 and the interface gnome. plz tell me what i do wrong. thx DR A LedermanTapuz Medical Editorwww.tapuz.co.il/health[EMAIL P

Re: newbie question

1999-05-23 Thread -
ssage- From: DR A Lederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: linux user group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: éåí øàùåï 23 îàé 1999 16:59 Subject: newbie question i got 2 files. tkwine wine both got an extension tar.gz when i try to uncompress the files i get: t

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-19 Thread Udi Finkelstein
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:57:16 +0300 (IDT), Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Udi Finkelstein wrote: > >> Maybe one of the HHD glitches have simply caused corruption in one of the >> critical Linux files, such as the Kernel. >could be, but isn't the kernel all loaded to

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-19 Thread Oded Arbel
>On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:57:16 +0300 (IDT), Oded Arbel >Yes, but if your on-disk copy is corrupted, then you get a bad kernel next >time you reboot. not the problem in this case. >If the machine is important, than try getting something newer and more >reliable! been reliable so far :-> . ain't the

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-19 Thread Oded Arbel
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Udi Finkelstein wrote: > Maybe one of the HHD glitches have simply caused corruption in one of the > critical Linux files, such as the Kernel. could be, but isn't the kernel all loaded to memory at run time, thus cannot be corrupted (not by HDD glitches anyway) ? > Is this

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-18 Thread Ury Segal
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > "Peter L. Peres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > At the hw level: The addressable memory on an Intel proecssor is divided > > into pages (currently 4k each ?). This is the minimum size of any > > allocated memory, file, program etc. > > Are you saying that "malloc(siz

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-18 Thread Ury Segal
> A segment violation is an access violation on a page of memory, commited > by the program or by the kernel. A sigsegv done by a user program causes > a special piece of code in the kernel to trigger and to stop the user's > task, by delivering a SIGSEGV to it. To be more accurate, it ONLY sends

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-17 Thread Udi Finkelstein
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 00:41:45 +0200, "Oded Arbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >about the hardware - it's an old P75, but I had the memory upgraded to lots >of MBs, and it's quite new (the memory - considering it's an EDO) and I >didn't had any problems with the system at all (hardware wise) except

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-17 Thread Udi Finkelstein
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 10:38:15 +0200 (IST), "Peter L. Peres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Oded Arbel wrote: > >>the next thing that happend is that I got some sort of kernel panic message, >>involving some thing about the CPU (I don't remember exactly the phrasing, >>except that

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-17 Thread Udi Finkelstein
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 19:31:47 +0200 (IST), "Peter L. Peres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There are such things as 'double faults' and 'triple faults'. A triple >fault shuts down the CPU (or resets it ?) afaik. Udi ? ;) Dragging me in had cost me 30 minutes of search time on Intel CD's... Yes, tr

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-17 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
PLP>> What is fishy ? The kernel killed the offending process. What'd you expect PLP>> it to do ? Bluescreen ? No, AFAIU it was process shutdown as in /sbin/shutdown, not as in kill(SEGV). I understand that oops format is: Process $process_name (pid: $pid, process nr: $number, stackpage=$stack)

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-17 Thread Peter L. Peres
frodo>That's strange. What process shutdown does here??? Seems fishy to me. What is fishy ? The kernel killed the offending process. What'd you expect it to do ? Bluescreen ? Peter

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-17 Thread Peter L. Peres
Look into the logs and find out who or what PID6068 was, just before the 1st oops message. Peter

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-16 Thread Peter L. Peres
On 16 Apr 1999, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: >"Peter L. Peres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> At the hw level: The addressable memory on an Intel proecssor is divided >> into pages (currently 4k each ?). This is the minimum size of any >> allocated memory, file, program etc. > >Are you saying that "

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-16 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
OA>> Here's what I got from /var/log/messages : OA>> Apr 14 21:11:49 betalfa kernel: general protection: Try ksymoops (in /usr/src/linux/scripts). It should say you where the failing code was and what it was doing. It's very hard to make sense of this without your kernel symbol map. Read als

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-16 Thread Oded Arbel
>On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Oded Arbel wrote: > >>ScryMUD > >Does it happen to be an alpha version ? Did you read all the docs ? Does >it say it will work on your machine ? it's not an alpha, not even a beta. it's 1.8 something and should be stable. I've read the docs and it should work on my machine, I

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-16 Thread Peter L. Peres
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Oded Arbel wrote: >ScryMUD Does it happen to be an alpha version ? Did you read all the docs ? Does it say it will work on your machine ? >after compiling several things, it reported an error ( I don't remember >which, and I don't have the dump on this computer) and stopped

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-16 Thread Alexander L. Belikoff
Oleg Goldshmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Peter L. Peres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > At the hw level: The addressable memory on an Intel proecssor is divided > > into pages (currently 4k each ?). This is the minimum size of any > > allocated memory, file, program etc. > > Are you s

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Peter L. Peres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At the hw level: The addressable memory on an Intel proecssor is divided > into pages (currently 4k each ?). This is the minimum size of any > allocated memory, file, program etc. Are you saying that "malloc(sizeof(int))" allocates 4k on an Intel m

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-15 Thread =18Isaac Aaron
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Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-15 Thread roih
Shalom, The best reference for determining whether your hardware is buggy is: http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ --- Roi

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-15 Thread Oded Arbel
OK, I think I get it - a segfault means that either my prog is buggy or my hardware is buggy. and I have a problem with accepting either of those explanations - here some more info: I tried to 'make all' a program I downloaded, called ScryMUD (it's a MUD daemon). after compiling several things, it

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-15 Thread Peter L. Peres
You guys befuddled the man again... A segment violation is an access violation on a page of memory, commited by the program or by the kernel. A sigsegv done by a user program causes a special piece of code in the kernel to trigger and to stop the user's task, by delivering a SIGSEGV to it. By de

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-15 Thread Peter L. Peres
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Ury Segal wrote: >Not always. Segmentation Fault is caused by any Segmentation problem, not >just permissions problem. > >For example, assume that a given Address A is not mapped. Is it true to say that > >a program is not "allowed" to touch... but to touch what? Since that a

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-15 Thread Nimrod Zimerman
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 09:02:43AM +0300, Erez Doron wrote: > 'segmentation fault' means that the program you were running > tried to access (read/write) a memory which is not it's own. > > the diference between that and a MS blue screen, is that in linux > the 'segmentation fault' of one progra

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-15 Thread Ury Segal
Vadim Smelyansky wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Oded Arbel wrote: > > OA>what is 'Segmentation Fault' ? > prog have no rigths to access memory segment Not always. Segmentation Fault is caused by any Segmentation problem, not just permissions problem. For example, assume that a given Ad

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-15 Thread Vadim Smelyansky
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Oded Arbel wrote: OA>what is 'Segmentation Fault' ? prog have no rigths to access memory segment OA>.. OA>I realize (think) that this is the same as a win user asking - 'what does OA>the blue screen with the title - Fatal Exception means ?' but I would OA>really like

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-15 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
OA>> .. OA>> I realize (think) that this is the same as a win user asking - 'what does OA>> the blue screen with the title - Fatal Exception means ?' but I would OA>> really like a detailed explanation, as that is just the message I got In detail - your progrm tried to access memory that it has n

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-14 Thread Erez Doron
Oded Arbel wrote: > > ahmm... > what is 'Segmentation Fault' ? > .. > I realize (think) that this is the same as a win user asking - 'what does > the blue screen with the title - Fatal Exception means ?' but I would > really like a detailed explanation, as that is just the message I got > after I

I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-14 Thread Oded Arbel
ahmm... what is 'Segmentation Fault' ? .. I realize (think) that this is the same as a win user asking - 'what does the blue screen with the title - Fatal Exception means ?' but I would really like a detailed explanation, as that is just the message I got after I tried to compile some big proggy