6.1.92 feedback

2000-03-13 Thread Chris Abbey
thought I'd take a second and comment on the 6.2 rc 1.2 (030400) install process while it formats a couple gigs of real slow dasd 1. I hope all that "driver disk" crap is explained real well in the final docs. (1.1. I hope there are docs, I couldn't find even draft docs.) Took a few minutes b

synchronization between processes (not threads)

2000-03-13 Thread Paul Carver
Hello. I'm new to Linux (mostly a Win32 developer). I am porting some code that uses the Win32 CreateMutex in order to synchronize access to a file across several processes. On Win32, a mutex works across processes (not only threads). I remember a class I took years ago allowed file locking as

Re: PLEASE don't clear tty1 on boot! (lilo,init,rc.d and other related issues)

2000-03-13 Thread Chris Abbey
At 09:20 3/14/00 +1000, you wrote: >On Mon Mar 13 2000 at 11:05, Alan Shutko wrote: >> Personally, I have syslog log everything to VC 12, which makes it easy >> to check things. It's a quick change to all the machines I administer >> and makes my life much happier. > >Hey, great minds think alike

Re: mysql.so

2000-03-13 Thread Tony Nugent
On Thu Mar 09 2000 at 23:02, Robin Cook wrote: > Hello, > > Is there anywhere that has instructions on how to create the mysql.so for > PHP3? IIRC, In the .spec file for the latest php rpms. Cheers Tony -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: PLEASE don't clear tty1 on boot! (lilo,init,rc.d and other related issues)

2000-03-13 Thread Tony Nugent
On Mon Mar 13 2000 at 11:05, Alan Shutko wrote: > John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Not all boot-time messages are kernel messages; indeed, most of the useful > > ones aren't. For example, dmesg won't display any of these: > > Personally, I have syslog log everything to VC 12,

Tracing down a problem....

2000-03-13 Thread Robin Cook
Hello, I am trying to trace down a problem and was hoping for some info on how best to do accomplish it. I have an SB Live card. Under Redhat 6.1 with all updates (uses the 2.2.12 kernel) and using the newest emu10k1 driver the joystick works just fine. But If I install the Rawhide ve

Re: pgcc

2000-03-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Nikolaos A. Margaritis wrote: >Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:24:13 +0200 >From: Nikolaos A. Margaritis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: pgcc > >Pgcc seems to be quite a promissing project. I have noticed they are currently >using gcc 2.95.3. Is there any possi

Re: PLEASE don't clear tty1 on boot! (lilo,init,rc.d and other related issues)

2000-03-13 Thread Alan Shutko
John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not all boot-time messages are kernel messages; indeed, most of the useful > ones aren't. For example, dmesg won't display any of these: Personally, I have syslog log everything to VC 12, which makes it easy to check things. It's a quick change to

Re: PLEASE don't clear tty1 on boot! (lilo,init,rc.d and other related issues)

2000-03-13 Thread Levente Farkas
John Summerfield wrote: > > > actually, you can change the default behavior of dmesg to see all of the boot > > messages if you so desire... man dmesg for more nfo. > As others have observed, even if it did, logging in is hardly the epitome > of convenience. If the messages stayed there, I could

Re: PLEASE don't clear tty1 on boot! (lilo,init,rc.d and other related issues)

2000-03-13 Thread John Summerfield
> actually, you can change the default behavior of dmesg to see all of the boot > messages if you so desire... man dmesg for more nfo. That's nonsense. From the man page: NAME dmesg - print or control the kernel ring buffer Not all boot-time messages are kernel messages; indeed, most of