Re: boot process

2000-09-01 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Frank Hale wrote: >Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 22:55:46 -0400 >From: Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Subject: boot process > >What src.rpm package is the message "Welcome to Red Hat linux" in? >This message is d

boot process

2000-09-01 Thread Frank Hale
What src.rpm package is the message "Welcome to Red Hat linux" in? This message is displayed during the boot process. Thanks, Frank ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list

Re: /usr/src/redhat

2000-09-01 Thread Bob Tennent
> If I wanted to change the usage of /usr/src/redhat by RPM where would I > change this? /usr/lib/rpm/macros, or other rpm macro files, such as /etc/rpm/macros or ~/.rpmmacros. Bob T. ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://l

Newt documentation.

2000-09-01 Thread Mike A. Harris
Anyone care to hand me the secret decoder ring and magic handshake to turn: /usr/doc/newt-devel-0.50.8/tutorial.sgml into: /usr/doc/newt-devel-0.50.8/tutorial.txt or: /usr/doc/newt-devel-0.50.8/tutorial.html ;o) Reading raw sgml is like reading /boot/zImage to understand the kernel source c

Re: /usr/src/redhat

2000-09-01 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Frank Hale wrote: >If I wanted to change the usage of /usr/src/redhat by RPM where would I >change this? Is this hard coded in the RPM source code? I'd like to do >something like /usr/src/my_distribution_name_here. Probably in the rpm-.src.rpm RPM. The rpm-build RPM crea

/usr/src/redhat

2000-09-01 Thread Frank Hale
If I wanted to change the usage of /usr/src/redhat by RPM where would I change this? Is this hard coded in the RPM source code? I'd like to do something like /usr/src/my_distribution_name_here. Thanks, Frank ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL

Re: RPM 4

2000-09-01 Thread Evandro Fernandes Giovanini
> > > > > > If RHI isn't using RPM 4, I sure wouldn't;-) > > > > > > > So what would be your choice, if you were creating your own > > distribution? Should I go with RPM 3.05? > > Go with RPM 4. Many of the new packages RPM 3.05 will *not* be able to handle > merely based on the version numbe

Re: Gnome on Redhat

2000-09-01 Thread Evandro Fernandes Giovanini
> I'm downloading the latest Gnome src.rpm packages from helixcode, I am > going to build these and I want to replace the ones on the RH 6.2 > install disk with these. Should I expect any problems by doing this? > Hopefully everything will work nice. > there should be no problem, just look the or

Re: RPM 4

2000-09-01 Thread Jeff Pitman
On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, you wrote: > > > > If RHI isn't using RPM 4, I sure wouldn't;-) > > > > So what would be your choice, if you were creating your own > distribution? Should I go with RPM 3.05? Go with RPM 4. Many of the new packages RPM 3.05 will *not* be able to handle merely based on the

unsuscribe

2000-09-01 Thread Alex Sofronie
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Afterstep not in Red Hat 7

2000-09-01 Thread Alex Kanavin
What is the reason behind excluding Afterstep window manager from Red Hat 7 beta? I thought I could find it in Powertools but it's not there too, while fvwm1 is there and fvwm2 is still in the main distribution... -- Alexander Homepage: http://www.sensi.org/~ak/ ___

Gnome on Redhat

2000-09-01 Thread Frank Hale
I'm downloading the latest Gnome src.rpm packages from helixcode, I am going to build these and I want to replace the ones on the RH 6.2 install disk with these. Should I expect any problems by doing this? Hopefully everything will work nice. Thanks, Frank _

Re: RPM 4

2000-09-01 Thread Frank Hale
> > If RHI isn't using RPM 4, I sure wouldn't;-) > So what would be your choice, if you were creating your own distribution? Should I go with RPM 3.05? Thanks, Frank ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/m

Re: RPM 4

2000-09-01 Thread Matt Wilson
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 07:15:36AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > If I decide to upgrade to RPM 4 for my customized > > distribution should I build all the RPMs again? Right > > now they are built with RPM 3.04. > > > > If RHI isn't using RPM 4, I sure wouldn't;-) Pinstripe used RPM 4.0. M

Re: RPM 4

2000-09-01 Thread John Summerfield
> If I decide to upgrade to RPM 4 for my customized > distribution should I build all the RPMs again? Right > now they are built with RPM 3.04. > If RHI isn't using RPM 4, I sure wouldn't;-) It might be a useful test of RPM 4, but I'd not expect it to add anything to your distribution. And, if

Re: PS1 & PWD

2000-09-01 Thread Nitebirdz
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear All, > > How to display PATH anytime instead of just a "$' in RedHat ksh? I remember > PS1 and PWD should be used. But I can't get the exact expression of that. By > the way, I can't find .profile under my home directory. Why? > I don't know

Re: fork() oddity?

2000-09-01 Thread Jeff Pitman
On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, you wrote: > When I fork() inside a program, the PID of the child is > incremented by two. Very odd. The system has zero activity on > it, and I can repeatedly get the same result. The program works > however, it just seems odd to me that the parent's PID is say > 500, and

Re: PS1 & PWD

2000-09-01 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Dear All, This is hardly a development question... > How to display PATH anytime instead of just a "$' in RedHat ksh? "man pdksh" > I remember PS1 and PWD should be used. But I can't get the exact > expression of that. By the way, I can't find .profile under my ho

ddd (GDB) Question

2000-09-01 Thread Christopher Harrer
Hello All, I seem to vaguely remember some conversations about this in the past, but I can't find anything. I have a question concerning the use of ddd (GDB) on SMP systems. If I set a breakpoint in my code, hit the breakpoint, look at a few locals and then continue, 3 out of 4 times my targ

Re: GNOME launcher question.

2000-09-01 Thread Alex Kanavin
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote: > Any idea of how to do this? It is possible I suppose with a > terminal window running su, or something but that is incredibly > messy looking. I want it to look nice. Run halt or reboot in X as normal user. You'll see nifty gtk window asking for a pa

GNOME launcher question.

2000-09-01 Thread Mike A. Harris
I'm packaging up a package that will have a GNOME icon placed on the GNOME menu's. It *MUST* be run as root however, and I want the GNOME launcher that fires it up to first "su" to root, or some other mechanism. I'd prefer a nice GUI dialog box popup that prompts for the root password, and then

fork() oddity?

2000-09-01 Thread Mike A. Harris
When I fork() inside a program, the PID of the child is incremented by two. Very odd. The system has zero activity on it, and I can repeatedly get the same result. The program works however, it just seems odd to me that the parent's PID is say 500, and an immediate fork() gives the child a PID