Re: Installing rpm's

2002-07-17 Thread John Summerfield
g and the result of running them. > Another thing is I've installed samba at installation, and I don't find the > swat service anywhere. Using mc, I try find "swat*", but to no avail. Again, > please help. I think the package is samba-swat. I don't recall whether it's i

Re: Sending poweroff command over LAN.

2002-07-12 Thread John Summerfield
> Hi, > > The apcupsd program has a master/slave mode that lets you do just this. You > can find more information at: > > http://www.sibbald.com/apcupsd/3.8manual/configure.html > > Don't forget nut (or nuts?) which is probably on your CD. -- Cheers

Re: Whereis ethtool?

2002-07-12 Thread John Summerfield
ocal/sbin/:/usr/sbin/:/home/summer/bin:/usr/local/bin/:/usr/local/sbin/:/usr/sbin/) [summer@skink incoming]$ whereis ifconfig ifconfig: /sbin/ifconfig /usr/share/man/man8/ifconfig.8.gz [summer@skink incoming]$ -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoo

Re: OpenSSH

2002-06-26 Thread John Summerfield
lar box was installed as 6.2 then upgraded to 7.1 and/or 7.2 then 7.2 -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: Why no spam filter in RH?

2002-06-20 Thread John Summerfield
> I'm running both, although I did have to do a little configuration for > SpamAssassin. I'll try and see if there's stuff that one catches that Bound to be. As I understand it these filters do a lot of their work on conten wherehas the blacklists work on known offende

Re: OT: clearcase ...

2002-06-15 Thread John Summerfield
hem all, and getting the same post-installation customisations done. There are some changes I like to make to all my systems: syslogd writing a copy of messages to tty12 /mnt/nfs being created as a mount-point for the parent of my install tree - I have updates and extra packages in clear view from

Re: Build/Development environments...

2002-06-14 Thread John Summerfield
r own virtual box > . > > > Which sounds's great for some of our device driver work. People use it for that. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to

Re: GCC Differences

2002-06-14 Thread John Summerfield
t y) { >if (y == 20) { > return y; >} else { > toot(x, x*y); I wuz wondering what this line is supposed to do. >} > } > > > -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me i

Re: What about breaking rc.sysint up into an rc.sysinit.d

2002-06-06 Thread John Summerfield
> 6.65-1 - Update translations * Mon Apr 15 2002 Bill Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 6.64-1 [summer@dugite summer]$ Try Bill. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deem

Re: What about breaking rc.sysint up into an rc.sysinit.d

2002-06-05 Thread John Summerfield
it.d and modifying > rc.sysinit to > just loop through each of the scripts in numerical order? > I thought that is what /etc/init.d is about. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be int

Re: Crackers?

2002-05-16 Thread John Summerfield
course the best protection is to turn off and may be uninstall servers > (services) that you won't be using. > > On Thursday 16 May 2002 06:05 am, John Summerfield wrote: > > Is this being broken into? If so, what do I look for? > > May 6 03:22:36 gateway SERVER[5344]

Re: Crackers?

2002-05-16 Thread John Summerfield
(I have it here) running something hardened. Enguarde Linux perhaps - it's LIDS-enabled. and even root can't destroy stuff. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended

Re: Crackers?

2002-05-16 Thread John Summerfield
> John Summerfield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > Is this being broken into? If so, what do I look for? > > This is one line. There were quite a few. > > May 6 03:22:36 gateway SERVER[5344]: Dispatch_input: bad request line > > This is someone trying to break

Crackers?

2002-05-16 Thread John Summerfield
[5363]: connect from 202.105.49.12 to getport(ypbind): request from unauthorized host -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. == If

Re: XFS support

2002-05-09 Thread John Summerfield
t; ___ > Redhat-devel-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list > -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail deliver

Re: Where is a better place to find the Redhat developers? Re: XFS support

2002-05-09 Thread John Summerfield
hope Redhat'll > > include XFS for their next release whenever it my be released or as an > > update to Redhat 7.3. > > > > ___ > Redhat-devel-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailm

Re: FWD: Transition of program from windows to linux

2002-05-09 Thread John Summerfield
; > > ___ > Redhat-devel-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list > -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: m

Re: preemptive kernel in 7.3?

2002-05-06 Thread John Summerfield
es with this distribution"? ;-) It's in the spec file. I'd have thought that at SGI you'd be downloading the src.rpm just as fast as you could so you could merge your own patches;-) -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://w

Re: preemptive kernel in 7.3?

2002-05-06 Thread John Summerfield
> Does the kernel in 7.3 includes the pre-emptive patch or the low-latency > patch? > I just built a kernel from Skipjack source, and there were questions there about low-latency. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolle

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-04 Thread John Summerfield
> On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 15:42, John Summerfield wrote: > > Now you can have 'openoffice.org' 1.0. > > > > > Good to see I'm the only one who sees having 'dot' something in every > product a major irritance :p I think (why am I startin

Re: ReiserFS in Installations

2002-05-04 Thread John Summerfield
llers, do anyone have experiences with these installers? How long after > the Redhat release do it usually lasts until they relase a installer? > I would like Redhat to support more filesystems out of the box and as a > option during the installation (JFS, XFS, ReiserFS, ...). > Gre

Re: ReiserFS in Installations

2002-05-04 Thread John Summerfield
t you can force reiserfs by setting it up in the preinstall section. I have done partitioning there (using fdisk and a script) and that works fine. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me,

Re: International pricing discrepancy

2002-05-03 Thread John Summerfield
T - this might occur if I incur expenses establishing my business, fitting out my office and so on, but don't actually make (significant) sales in the period. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is dee

Re: ReiserFS in Installations

2002-05-03 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > So what is so special about ReiserFS? I've heard it's pretty good for news servers, squid. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me,

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-03 Thread John Summerfield
e 'openoffice.org' 1.0. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. == If you don't like

Re: Project Management

2002-05-03 Thread John Summerfield
idan "Idan wrote this silly program" resource_note idan "Notes can be added anywhere in the scheduler source" resource_note idan "Hmm. Nothing much to say" # christmas holidays, 1998: vacation "*" 1998.Dec.24 1999.Jan.01 task oracle_install "Instal

Re: Project Management

2002-05-02 Thread John Summerfield
ter - some tasks (sanding) need to be done before others (applying paint) start, some people (apprentices) take longer than others etc. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-02 Thread John Summerfield
n on my Athlon (Via chipset), it won't support my hotrod 66. The installer is still pretty horrible too. The mate has just switched from D to RHL. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be

Re: Project Management

2002-05-01 Thread John Summerfield
> John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Does anyone know of any project management (preferably free [I've not made > my > > fortune yet] and usable) for Linux? > > > > TODO lists are all very well as far as they go, but I've n

Re: Project Management

2002-05-01 Thread John Summerfield
> google search > linux project management > yields this site http://linas.org/linux/pm.html Thanks. > > please remeber this is a redhat developement list. Isn't project management a development issue? -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS:

Re: next release

2002-05-01 Thread John Summerfield
> kernel), 7.2 so far has been great. Check the volume of updates for 7.2. Remember some packages have been renewed several times. 7.2 updates include glibc. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is de

Re: next release

2002-05-01 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Was it Hurricane? That was 5.0. Some would say it was aptly named. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my dis

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-05-01 Thread John Summerfield
> > Local people do understand each other dialects there but they dislike > some more than you propaly dislike US English, they would like to > have localization for their living area too. Or don't they? My main concern with Americans is that they assume so readily that what'

Re: Locale config (Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release))

2002-05-01 Thread John Summerfield
grew up in Brisbane. You'd never have said she has a different accent. One could pick a Queenslander by some of the words they use (but it could also be someone from Northern NSW) - for example port (portmanteau) for case (suitcase), and here in WA we wear bathers to go swimming. -- Cheers

Project Management

2002-05-01 Thread John Summerfield
tasks, but not the relationships between them. Years ago I remember things like Harvard Project and I think MS had something too. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread John Summerfield
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, John Summerfield wrote: > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > There's no excuse about translating the manual as here in UK the > > > manuals are all in English ! > > > > English? Or American? > > > What do yo

Re: International pricing discrepancy

2002-04-30 Thread John Summerfield
use then. Four days by car (driving sensibly). England is quite a tiny place. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. == If you don

Re: next release

2002-04-30 Thread John Summerfield
could print on with a one-line FORTRAN program. If the objective is to achieve the maximum, anything less is definitely a bug. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my d

Re: International pricing discrepancy

2002-04-30 Thread John Summerfield
pay RH's costs by buying boxes sets. > > There are tarrifs involved when trying to import a product into a country. > That raises prices too. No tariffs here. Prices still ridiculous. GST here is 10%, there are no other taxes on it. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most so

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > There's no excuse about translating the manual as here in UK the > manuals are all in English ! English? Or American? -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to

Re: next release

2002-04-30 Thread John Summerfield
n quite a deal of unpaid effort helping out on the support effort through these lists. I think that without them, RH wouldn't be in business. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be i

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread John Summerfield
ng to, but in the Retail stores around > here Professional is $99.95 so you aren't paying more. You are in fact > getting it cheaper than I can in a store around here. The $229 at http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/cat/distributions/redhat?elinux=fbb 5971bd8446edb6fc692b26145b24e is

Re: pthread_mutexattr_setpshared? Alternatives?

2002-04-30 Thread John Summerfield
ess-shared mutexes in Red Hat Linux 7.* ? > > Currently, calling pthread_mutexattr_setpshared with PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED It's win the scope of what the list is for. Possibly the kind of developer you're looking for doesn't frequent the list any more. > -- Cheers John Sum

Re: next release

2002-04-30 Thread John Summerfield
> John Summerfield wrote: > > >>--- Jure Pecar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>is there any ETA of the next release of RedHat? I > >>>know that 'when it's > >>>ready' is

Re: Is skipjack 7.3 beta

2002-04-30 Thread John Summerfield
or simply > >7.2.* > > > >Just trying to muddly through the dis-information > >Kevin > > > > > > > >___ > >Redhat-devel-list mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >https://listman.redhat.

Re: next release

2002-04-29 Thread John Summerfield
re, it does accept details (along with details of your credit card). -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. ==

Re: next release

2002-04-29 Thread John Summerfield
I have it via RHN? -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. == If you don't like being told you're wr

Re: next release

2002-04-29 Thread John Summerfield
s the fasted way to get it, and at present that's not so. There's also a problem in the retail outlets - if they can download it once and run off copies to sell cheaply at twice the gross profit of a boxed set, there's bot a lot of point to them to push the boxed set. -- Ch

Re: next release

2002-04-29 Thread John Summerfield
t; get, then why ask? > > Presumably he's one who hopes that Red Hat will eventually understand that its customers really do need to plan these things. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is de

Re: Altering the MANPATH in RPM

2002-04-25 Thread John Summerfield
of your spec file somethin > g > like: > > add2manpath directory_to_add > > > Food for thought...james > > > > _______ > Redhat-devel-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Windows Servers vs Linux

2002-04-23 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > See, http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html > Ron Thanks, Ron. The site's worth a visit for other reasons too! -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be

Windows Servers vs Linux

2002-04-23 Thread John Summerfield
Does anyone know where on the WWW I can find an analysis of server versions of Windows , preferably comparing with Linux? I'm looking to argue the case for L vs W, but I guess its best of people can't knock holes in my arguments. Nothing wrong with a few facts, I say;-) -- C

Re: Better File systems? Was Re: XFS - here's the solution

2002-04-18 Thread John Summerfield
cation much control over it, those that don't buffer always do non-blocking I/O. This design originated in the 60s (VSAM in the 70s). It wasn't until the mid 80s that disk controllers had caching, and then there was lots of hoo-haa about terms such as write-back, write through and what cou

Re: Alternative file systems? Was Re: Better File systems?

2002-04-18 Thread John Summerfield
a brief > statement of the technology and good applications. What I'm thinking of > would be essentially a roll up of what we've read on this list in recent > days. Go back over this thread - (at least) the major ones have been mentioned. -- Cheers John Summerfield

When does one need a "real server?"

2002-04-18 Thread John Summerfield
ly a high-end) single-processor Pentium. Back then that would have been token-ring. Considering the performance problems I had running WordPro off the LAN on a two-computer network, I surmise the clients all had their software installed on the local disk. -- Cheers John Summ

Re: Better File systems? Was Re: XFS - here's the solution

2002-04-18 Thread John Summerfield
t to reduce that possibility then you need to install a UPS. To my mind the important point about a UPS is not that it keeps you up over a power outage (though that is important) but that it allows you to do an orderly shutdown. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: ht

Re: file placement question (FHS?)

2002-03-18 Thread John Summerfield
ome. > According to something I saw recently, /usr/share is for material sharable between architectures. Putting that stuff anywhere in /usr will be a pain if you want to share /usr between systems. Put it in /var, if you want to share it do so with NFS. -- Cheers John Summerfield

Re: read system log?

2002-03-14 Thread John Summerfield
script might evem make the FIFO - if so then it must run before syslog's does; otherwise syslog with create a file. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disp

Re: konqueror crash

2002-03-05 Thread John Summerfield
> kdebase-3.0.0-0.cvs20020218.1 > > As soon as I type the first '/' character of "http://..."; in the > "Location" field, konqueror crashes with a segmentation fault. > 100% reproducible. > > Is anyone else seeing this? Doesn't look lik

Re: Writing safe C code

2002-02-28 Thread John Summerfield
1,700 hits|-| This looks a good one: http://www.shmoo.com/securecode/ -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. == If you don't

Writing safe C code

2002-02-28 Thread John Summerfield
Are there any websites dealing with writing safe C code, particularly in the Linux/Unix environments? -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my dispos

Re: anaconda and buildinstall

2002-02-27 Thread John Summerfield
missing quotes: [ $A = B ] [cc@numbat mondo-1.40-changed]$ [ $A = B ] && echo boo [: =: unary operator expected [cc@numbat mondo-1.40-changed]$ [ "$A" = B ] && echo boo [cc@numbat mondo-1.40-changed]$ -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://w

Mondo mindi

2002-02-27 Thread John Summerfield
mailing list. There's a project for it at sourceforge, but its website there isn't populated yet. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: rawhide dependencies again

2002-02-26 Thread John Summerfield
good laugh. They won't fix it because it's not supposed to be fixed in the sense you mean. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. _

Re: Java in rawhide ?

2002-02-25 Thread John Summerfield
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 05:53:13AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > > > I think the JRE is free to distribute, and that's what I see. > > Only if Java used in the product you're shipping the JRE with. I That's easily managed;-) Couldn't it be dep

Re: Java in rawhide ?

2002-02-22 Thread John Summerfield
think RH should start distribute a DVD-ROM with all that stuff.. looking > for an RPM in 10 CD is not an easy task... find /misc/cd -type f | awk '{print "01 " $1 }' >catalog eject /misc/cd find /misc/cd -type f | awk '{print "02 " $1 }' >>catal

Re: Java in rawhide ?

2002-02-22 Thread John Summerfield
#x27;d? (free as "free beer") > > They may be free to *use*, but they may not be free to *redistribute*. I think the JRE is free to distribute, and that's what I see. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/

Re: [rh-dev] Re: rawhide list

2002-02-21 Thread John Summerfield
redhat-devel at a worthwhile volume. > hmmm -- John, I think you overstate the case: I don't. I think there's so little interesting content left I'll probably not resubscribe when I change email address. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http:/

Re: rawhide list

2002-02-21 Thread John Summerfield
about this list now is there are so many other lists (kickstart, tpm, anacaconda for example) that there are hardly enough development issues to sustain redhat-devel at a worthwhile volume. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note:

Re: Mondo (GPL bare metal recovery & cloning tool)

2002-02-21 Thread John Summerfield
I appreciate that. However, Bero might cut a new rescue CD and put it on before 8.0 is out. Only if he knows about it though. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail de

Re: Mondo (GPL bare metal recovery & cloning tool)

2002-02-20 Thread John Summerfield
send a copy to Bero too for good measure. He may well put it on the rescue CD (if it fits). -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. _

Re: Mondo (GPL bare metal recovery & cloning tool)

2002-02-20 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Mondo http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ I like the logo near bottom, stage right (above the Bush). -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me

Re: kernel-2.4.3-12smp spec file?

2002-02-14 Thread John Summerfield
te large) that have been updated more than once. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. ___ Redhat-deve

Re: HOW DO PROCESSRO ID????

2002-02-14 Thread John Summerfield
> Vimol wrote: > > > Can any one tell me , how to identify the Process ID using "C"??? > > I don't know, but reading the bash source code to see how it expands the > $$ environment variable will tell you. > > Alan This is easier: man getpid --

Re: kernel-2.4.3-12smp spec file?

2002-02-13 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Thu Feb 14 2002 at 05:36, John Summerfield wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > BTW - I thought Red Hat released 7.2 for IA64 machines - so you > might > > want to look at the files there or the updated 2.4.9-13 ones - not > > sure

Re: kernel-2.4.3-12smp spec file?

2002-02-13 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > BTW - I thought Red Hat released 7.2 for IA64 machines - so you might > want to look at the files there or the updated 2.4.9-13 ones - not > sure if they're for IA64 though... -13 is outdated too, -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's

Re: large files?

2002-02-13 Thread John Summerfield
it can do files >2gigs and > > > under what circumstances > > > > It can. BT, DT. > > > > > > ___ > Redhat-devel-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list > -- Cheers John Summerfield Microso

Re: Battery/Power API ????

2002-02-10 Thread John Summerfield
- Hons) > Software Engineer, SAGRN Project > Phone 08 8401 7037(Flinders St) > Fax 08 8231 1385 > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah, Telstra eh? Tell those blockheads we want aDSL, we want it now and we want LINUX support;-). (I'm in one of those

Re: ftpcopy removed ?

2002-02-08 Thread John Summerfield
www.planetmirror.com, has its files at different locations in rsync URLS than for ftp or http. I'm currently using mirror, not in RHL 7.2 (I think it's in 7.1 powertools), to mirror updates. Being written in Perl, it's easier to fix its fault than it is for rsync or wget. -- Ch

Re: how to install Rawhide?

2002-02-06 Thread John Summerfield
wnloading and/or rebuilding extra > packages as necessary - so I'll do that. Thanks! Those packaged might already have been built by the KDE team in the person of Bero. Take a close look at the KDE website. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/r

Re: Hoe to set CD as Autorun

2002-01-08 Thread John Summerfield
triction that the user must be the owner of the special file." If the client's system is configured this way, autorun simply will not work. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be int

Re: Why AnotherLevel support dropped from 7.2?

2002-01-03 Thread John Summerfield
h to a different desktop on the 6.x system, and discovered I had problems logging in on 5.x systems. Home directories are not the right place for system configuration information. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail de

Re: Why AnotherLevel support dropped from 7.2?

2002-01-02 Thread John Summerfield
er end user community. AnotherLevel is also to be prefered in other environments such as Internet Cafes where you don't wanrt clients playing with the settings. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me

Re: VMWare playing politics with Redhat users?

2001-12-31 Thread John Summerfield
The Red Hat gcc 2.96 compiler subtree can also be used to build this tree. You should ensure you use gcc-2.96-74 or later. gcc-2.96-54 will not build the kernel correctly. Ask them for an update that takes this into account. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS:

Re: Glibc, fetish and fpending = SIGSEGV?

2001-12-20 Thread John Summerfield
> I noticied recently that starting from some recent glibc > version, all {file,text,shell}utils (aka fetish) started > to crash at exit, in __fpending() routine. After some Specifically, what version(s) of glibc give you problems? -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most

Re: making less faster on large amounts of stdin data

2001-12-14 Thread John Summerfield
> > > John Summerfield wrote: > > > This is a silly, negative response. If the patch does what Wojtek says, > > the IMV it should be applied to the source. > > > A patch to speed up a strange use of a program is what > seams silly. less (and more) are

Re: making less faster on large amounts of stdin data

2001-12-14 Thread John Summerfield
le > like 'tail -f' does. > > -Thomas > > > > > > ___ > Redhat-devel-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list > -- Cheers John S

Re: ata/133 linux support for pdc20269 is where ?

2001-11-08 Thread John Summerfield
bout 23. I partitioned the second, copied my system over and installed it in place of the first. hdparm reported over 30 Mbytes/sec. Go figure;-) The machine's a lot faster too;-)) -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail deliver

Re: Some packaging bugs in RHL 7.2

2001-11-08 Thread John Summerfield
7.2 packages should fit right into RHL 7.1 with minimal difficulty. At some point RH will (judging from past practice) expect users to use RHL 7.2 errata on earlier RHL 7.x releases. I'm sure I am not the only person to take RHL y.2 packages and install them on 7.1 or y.0 releases,

Re: RH7.2 only supports up to ATA33!!!!!!!!

2001-11-08 Thread John Summerfield
> kernel line of GRUB can help you : > > Um, no, Red Hat Linux 7.2 supports up to ATA100. and only yesterday I was reading about ATA133;-) -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deeme

Re: Configuring firewall appliances

2001-11-03 Thread John Summerfield
> Hi all, > Is it possible when starting up the computer to startup with expert mode? Or > is this expert mode reserved to installation only? Startup what in expert mode? What do you mean "expert mode?" > > Thanks. > > /Osaz > > > ----- Original

Re: Configuring firewall appliances

2001-11-03 Thread John Summerfield
f you mean graphical tools > > > > > > I was looking yesterday at a commercial package based on kernel 2.0. Its web > server serves out web pages for configuration allowing administration from > any browser. > > I'm interested in seeing what its competition is, partic

Re: Configuring firewall appliances

2001-10-30 Thread John Summerfield
ticularly free. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMA

Configuring firewall appliances

2001-10-30 Thread John Summerfield
What tools are around for setting up and remote administration of linux-based machines for firewalls/internet gateways? -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my dispos

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug?

2001-10-26 Thread John Summerfield
> > > John Summerfield wrote: > > >> > > 88 struct tradeTable > > 89 { > > 90 long tradeSize, tradeCount; > > 91 struct tradeNode *tradeData[]; > > 92 }; > > 93

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug?

2001-10-25 Thread John Summerfield
re/pgtest/src/c/yahoo.load.pgc:77: warning: multi-character character constant /var/share/pgtest/src/c/yahoo.load.pgc:91: array size missing in `tradeData' [pgtest@numbat c]$ gcc 3.01 does what I want - define a template for an area and leave me to worry about making sure it's big enou

Re: mount ext3 failed on upgraded 7.2

2001-10-24 Thread John Summerfield
he root > (/dev/sda6) which is ext3 too. Are you sure you're booting the right kernel? Sounds to me like you lack ext3 support in it. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for m

Re: How to stress the system hardware ??

2001-10-10 Thread John Summerfield
measure of whether it works, but not a good guide to how well. For that you need well-designed benchmarks, preferably tailored to your own usage of the computer equipment. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to

Re: How to stress the system hardware ??

2001-10-10 Thread John Summerfield
ady diagnostic, but not much more. I've found Postgresql can give disks and RAM a good workover, but again it's not very scientific. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deem

Re: Linux Management Systems?

2001-10-07 Thread John Summerfield
. It's not all you ays you want, but worth a look if you haven't. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. __

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