Re: GNOME launcher question.

2000-09-02 Thread John Summerfield
> On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, John Summerfield wrote: > > >> I have tried to make such a launcher to no avail. Seems to me > >> KDE allows you to pop up a dialog to logon for "su". I could be > >> wrong though... > >> > >> Any idea of how to do this? It is possible I suppose with a > >> terminal wind

Re: Lib/linux.so.2

2000-09-02 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, John Summerfield wrote: >> >Unable to load intepreter /lib/linux.so.2 ... >> >How to solve this problem?? >> >> Sounds to me like you've maxed out your process table. The Linux >> process table can only hold 512 simultaneous processes. If you >> fill that up, you'll see the

Re: GNOME launcher question.

2000-09-02 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, John Summerfield wrote: >> I have tried to make such a launcher to no avail. Seems to me >> KDE allows you to pop up a dialog to logon for "su". I could be >> wrong though... >> >> Any idea of how to do this? It is possible I suppose with a >> terminal window running su, o

Re: Newt documentation.

2000-09-02 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Derek Tattersall wrote: >> 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 >>

Re: RPM 4

2000-09-02 Thread jfm2
> > > 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

Re: /usr/src/redhat

2000-09-02 Thread John Summerfield
> 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. Thought I answered this a few days ago;-) [summer@possum /tmp]$ cat ~/.rpmmacros %buildroot /

Re: Newbie ghost problem

2000-09-02 Thread John Summerfield
> Ok, I am kmb. I have been running RawHide for 4 years. I started with If you want a stable release, rawhide is not the right choice;-) I've not checked; aren't there .iso images of rawhide? ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /usr/src/redhat

2000-09-02 Thread John Summerfield
> > 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. Don't change /usr/lib/rpm/macros, it gets clobbered by the next rpm update. /etc/rpm/macros is for machin

Re: RPM 4

2000-09-02 Thread John Summerfield
> 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 handl >

Re: Adaptec AAA-UDMA (IDE RAID)

2000-09-02 Thread John Summerfield
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --=_NextPart_000_004F_01C013A3.7E7C82A0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hi all, > > any chance to get a support of Adaptec AAA-UDMA on the next red-hat rls?

Re: RPM 4

2000-09-02 Thread John Summerfield
> > > > 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? > Note: Matt's pointed out that Pinstripe used RPM 4. I've downloaded two versions of 3.0.5, both give me trouble. I'd

Re: ddd (GDB) Question

2000-09-02 Thread John Summerfield
> 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,

Re: GNOME launcher question.

2000-09-02 Thread John Summerfield
> 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

Re: Lib/linux.so.2

2000-09-02 Thread John Summerfield
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Yuzz wrote: > > >Unable to load intepreter /lib/linux.so.2 ... > >How to solve this problem?? > > Sounds to me like you've maxed out your process table. The Linux > process table can only hold 512 simultaneous processes. If you > fill that up, you'll see the abov

Re: Gnome on Redhat

2000-09-02 Thread jfm2
> > > > > > there should be no problem, just look the order you should build the packages > > in www.gnome.org/start/installing/ > > Now if I could only get the src.rpms from HelixCode to build then I > would be happy. I cannot get control-center to build, and well others > won't build either, I

Re: Newbie ghost problem

2000-09-02 Thread kmb
Ok, I am kmb. I have been running RawHide for 4 years. I started with mklinux and moved to linuxppc, bought an Athlon just because of no realplayer and moved to SuSE after trying to update from RedHat-6.1 too many times(3-4 installs of RawHide distro each time) and finding a $50 pricetag at Best

Re: Lib/linux.so.2

2000-09-02 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Yuzz wrote: > > >Unable to load intepreter /lib/linux.so.2 ... > >How to solve this problem?? > > Sounds to me like you've maxed out your process table. The Linux > process table can only hold 512 simultaneous processes. If you >

Re: Gnome on Redhat

2000-09-02 Thread Frank Hale
> > > there should be no problem, just look the order you should build the packages > in www.gnome.org/start/installing/ Now if I could only get the src.rpms from HelixCode to build then I would be happy. I cannot get control-center to build, and well others won't build either, I guess they depen

Re: Newt documentation.

2000-09-02 Thread Derek Tattersall
* Mike A. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [000901 21:43]: > Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 21:26:02 -0400 (EDT) > From: "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Red Hat Development List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Newt documentation. > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Anyo