Re: (summary) Re: MASSIVE headaches with new >100 GIDs in RH6.0

1999-08-30 Thread Alan Cox
> > Thanks again to RedHat for taking the time to make this clear. A > > brilliant product, with a great support team. Keep up the good work > > guys, it's appreciated. Live long and prosper :) > > > > Unfortunately, it seems RedHat has forgotten that there is a need for a > set of GIDs that

Re: (summary) Re: MASSIVE headaches with new >100 GIDs in RH6.0

1999-08-30 Thread Alan Cox
> | The only written tradition I can find is putting system users,groups below > | 100. I've not seen the other stuff you describe > > Is there a chance we can get RH to go back to supporting this? I would hope they do, but its not my decisions. > I take it from your postings that you, Alan, ar

Re: (summary) Re: MASSIVE headaches with new >100 GIDs in RH6.0

1999-08-30 Thread Alan Cox
> The utmp, xfs, and any other UID/GIDs that landed in the 100-500 range > were a mistake. We're still working out how to correct this for the > next release. The general idea is to leave any existing broken > UID/GIDs that may have been created in 6.0 upgrades/installs but > correct the UID/GID

Re: Linux For VoiceMail

1999-09-03 Thread Alan Cox
> to move it linux. the thing is ive been looking around and cant find > much info on voice mail systems that can run on linux. i was wondering > what some of you may use for your voice mail systems. sorry if this > wasnt a good place to ask. vgetty is the simple example. Try www.linuxtelephon

Re: Check Free space

1999-09-04 Thread Alan Cox
> I need to figure out wether there is any free space on my disk. What > command is for this? df and quota -v for quotas -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Lorax

1999-09-07 Thread Alan Cox
> If so, where/when/how was it announced? Lorax is the new installer test and stuff. It was announced to redhat-announce and also on linuxtoday.com -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Getting started

1999-09-09 Thread Alan Cox
> I am just about to start some Linux kernel/driver > development. Can anyone point me to > the best resources to learn about this. > I need to know: > - how/where to get kernel source ftp.kernel.org > - how to build/install kernel and driver modifications > - kernel debugger info (

Re: Getting started

1999-09-09 Thread Alan Cox
> Thanks Alan. Are there any specific ones that you wouldrecommend? http://www.linux.org.uk/LinuxDOC.html -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: inetd should provide a way to better prevent DOS attacks ( "connection refused" IP based)

1999-09-13 Thread Alan Cox
> It's easy to make an inetd service unusable on Redhat Linux, by simple > flooding the port with connections. Its easy to set it up in inetd.conf to change the time limits if you wish > You should add a feature in inetd which limits the number of connections per > minute based on the source IP

Re: pump broken?

1999-09-14 Thread Alan Cox
> So, in closing, no, I haven't gotten an answer and am entering this into > bugzilla as I type. I'd like to see this resolved as it's quite annoying > to think that if the hurricane knocks power out for >8 hours, my IP will > likely change :( In theory it shouldnt matter. DHCP servers are suppo

Re: inetd should provide a way to better prevent DOS attacks ( "connection refused" IP based)

1999-09-14 Thread Alan Cox
> > number of sessions and maintaining a connections/period limit as well. The > > best you can do is increase the bandwidth an attacker needs which also > > conveniently reduces the potential dead time. > > Increasing bandwidth is not the definitive solution, > since not everyone does have "fat

Re: Athlon (k7)

1999-09-15 Thread Alan Cox
> Will RH 6.0 install on a system with the AMD K7 (Althlon) processor? Yes Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig) processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 1 model name : AMD-K7(tm) Processor stepping: 1 cpu MHz : 548.944675 cache

Re: Athlon (k7)

1999-09-15 Thread Alan Cox
> > bogomips : 547.23 > > > Why is the bogomips so small? I'm getting 800 on a 400Mhz AMD-K6. Bogomips is a bogus (hence the name) measurement of cpu speed used for delay loops. It doesnt compare across different cpu vendors/types. Stream_d: reports Function Rate (MB/s) RMS time

Re: kernel message

1999-09-16 Thread Alan Cox
> I'm getting system messages like this: > > kernel: kmem_grow: Called nonatomically from int - size-32 > > What do they mean? I'm using the 2.2.12-10 kernel. The kernel is catching something naughty going on. What drivers do you run and what were you doing at the time. Alan -- To unsubscr

Re: kernel message

1999-09-16 Thread Alan Cox
> Seems to arise a few seconds after a non-official module ip_masq_icq > handles a login request, though not *every* time. I'll try to track > down the maintainer/author and report it as a bug. Ok. The module is doing memory allocations that ask to sleep for memory but are in an interrupt. Maki

Re: Q to Redhat: How to create7install a patched binary/source

1999-09-28 Thread Alan Cox
> I imagine RH developers only try to build rpms when they have a successful > build. I unpack, hack fix, build in my work tree. When that all works I diff that with the base tree and it to the spec file and try the rpm build -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/nul

Re: future Redhat security-patches updating policy ?

1999-10-04 Thread Alan Cox
> b) how did you do this without a GPL violation? Since you're restricting >redistribution (not your own fault, obviously), and since you've They aren't restricting it - the US government are. You can redistribute it as you see fit. You can go to court and fight first amendment and the like.

Re: kernel 2.2.12 for Redhat 6.0 ?

1999-10-08 Thread Alan Cox
> Warning: the vanilla 2.2.12 is seriously buggy. You have to apply the No: vanilla 2.2.12 is pretty stable for most uses. A few people see a small memory leak. There is a small patch just for that on www.linux.org.uk in the release notes. -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PRO

Re: cdrom polling

1999-10-14 Thread Alan Cox
> when a CD is removed or inserted. It handles running auto-run > programs on the CD, updating the File Manager and playing audio CDs. > > Unfortunately it has absolutely no documentation. It's really nice to > have, though. The best thing to read is the SRPM for "magicdev". This parses the CD

Re: Magical Mystical Changeing hostid?

1999-10-17 Thread Alan Cox
> digging thru log files I found that flexlm was griping about a hostid > mismatch. So I ran the hostid command and I got: a8c02203 > > What the ? I have rebooted several times and I keep getting the > latter results (a8c02203). The only thing I added to the system between > the problem was

Re: Magical Mystical Changeing hostid?

1999-10-17 Thread Alan Cox
> I do not have a /var/adm/hostid file nor do I even have a /var/adm dir. > Running a find on the system from the / dir all I get is: If you don't have a /var/adm/hostid file then it uses the IP address. If you have a /var/adm/hostid it uses that > So now I'm really confused. Under Linux is this

Re: Is "Thread Local Storage" implemented in Linux?

1999-10-19 Thread Alan Cox
> a key word to support this. For example, the following code declares an > integer thread > local variable and initializes it with a value: > __declspec( thread ) int tls_i = 1; > I'm puzzled about how this is implemented. I hope someone can talk about > it, and most > importantly, is someth

Re: netscape crashes on RH 6.1 even more nasty ...

1999-10-19 Thread Alan Cox
> Now I upgraded to 4.7 and it crashes the normal amount. > Does anyone know if Gnome has a browser built into it KDE style? Gnome-help-browser but its not really a useful generic web browser as the KDE one is. Gnome will be using Mozilla once it stabilises - Mozilla is now close to beta Alan

Re: Something like IRIX 'versions changed'?

1999-10-20 Thread Alan Cox
> from the manpage is appended. I've found that the following is a simple > approximation: > > for i in `rpm -qac`; do if [ -f $i.rpmsave ]; then rpm -qf $i;\ > ls -l $i $i.rpmsave; echo; fi done grep ".rpmsave" /tmp/upgrade.log grep ".rpmnew" /tmp/upgrade.log is more direct -- To unsu

Re: More 6.1 Upgrades Woes

1999-10-20 Thread Alan Cox
> I also got mine from an FTP site, it had the same checksum as the ISO > images on other ftp sites. Not that I complain or anything - just > mentioned it for the record. > > If you experience the samewith the "official" product, can you post it > into the bug site? You are welcome to submit stu

Re: parallel port problems with 6.1?

1999-10-21 Thread Alan Cox
> printer problem. In fact, the installation never asks about a printer. > This is different from what I'm used to with all the previous RH installs. > The /dev/lp* files are there, but if I try to pipe something into them it > complains that the device does not exist. I know my hardware work

Re: Where can I find libXm.so

1999-10-23 Thread Alan Cox
> libXm.so is the main shared library for Motif, a commercial GUI > toolkit that is not open-source software. Since Motif isn't > open-source software, it's not included with Red Hat Linux or > PowerTools. However, there is an open-source clone of Motif called > lesstif, and you can find RPM's f

Re: RedHat Domestic

1999-10-25 Thread Alan Cox
> We can put up cryptographic packages on ftp.redhat.de (no export > restrictions here, and also no valid RSA patents). You probably can't. The US govt has this wonderful view that US citizens and companies doing anything like funding encryption work outside the USA are at least accessories to so

Re: Available utilities in 'new' rescue mode

1999-10-25 Thread Alan Cox
> You also have to consider that too many redundant utilities tend to > confuse the user specially new users. Look at the :-) > distribution and its above half a dozen web servers. Red Hat has dropped stuff, xv, bsd-games,.. for various reasons including nobody using it -- To unsubscribe: mai

Re: updated redhat distribution / installation cdroms

1999-10-26 Thread Alan Cox
> soon. I have yet to install RH 6.1 (BTW, on the machine > with NT dual-boot :-)), but I heard several reports > on local mailing lists mentioning instability With dual boot NT you want to pick up the errata boot floppies Alan -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/nu

Re: updated redhat distribution / installation cdroms

1999-10-27 Thread Alan Cox
> I have a box with OS/2, NT and Linux 6. I don't imagine RHL 6.1 will get > anywhere near it; I'm sure it will stumble on OS/2 as well. It shouldnt, unless OS/2 and NT use the same partition type. Alan -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Broken PPP daemon

1999-10-29 Thread Alan Cox
> > not to mention the crashes of netscape, which now crashes almost every 5min. > > Try turning java off; I went through three versions of netscape (to 4.7) > trying to access www.sanford.com.au before thinking of that. It worked for > that site. Try this one. It works around some problems wi

Re: Broken PPP daemon

1999-10-29 Thread Alan Cox
> The sceptic started netscape. It's default home page is min, here, no java. > > Clicekd Edit/Preferences > Searched for and clicked "enable java" > Goodbye netscape. Works for me. Ah well > Next trick? www.mozilla.org 8) And yes right now I'm finding it more stable, tho its certainly incompl

Re: [Fwd: GTK Text Widget]

1999-10-31 Thread Alan Cox
> I am into an application and I issue a system(cmd); from the > GTK Application. Any ideas on how to display stdout on the text > widget. I thought that I could write or redirect the output of the > command to a file, read that file, display the text, and then remove the > temp file. This seem

Re: ftp hangs after file transfers from *.redhat.com

1999-10-31 Thread Alan Cox
> (I've seen mention of an ftp bug in the IP masquerading of the > 2.2.12 kernels, and I'm wondering if what I'm experiencing is > related to this). It isnt actually a bug just a quirk > Has anybody got any clues as to what's going on and how to prevent > this? Thanks. If you use default

Re: Blurry fonts in X (~ 10-12pt)

1999-11-01 Thread Alan Cox
> When I am in X, at 1600x1200 with a Matrox Mill2 AGP, and a > 19" Viewsonic G790, smaller fonts that would otherwise look > fine underwindows (about a 10pt or 12pt courier) are > indistinguisably blurry, its starting to REALLY bother my It normally means you are overdriving the monitor, ramdac

Re: Too many open files?

1999-11-09 Thread Alan Cox
> is there any way to increase the maximum number? Yes. It is configurable in /proc/sys -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Cluster software for Redhat 6.1

1999-11-11 Thread Alan Cox
> Do you know if Redhat has a cluster software for 6.1 where I can send one > job to multiple PCs? You want each machine to do the same job and then wait for them all to finish ? If so try #!/bin/sh for i in $(cat hostlist)) do echo "Beginning on host "$i rsh $i $* & done ech

Re: Question about XFree86 RPMs

1999-11-24 Thread Alan Cox
> handled via xfs. Using an explicit font path isn't really being > supported anymore. Therefore, it makes sense that the XFree packages > require xfs. The Xservers should depend on xfs. Not XFree86 itself. -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: forwarded message from Richard Stallman

1999-12-05 Thread Alan Cox
> mean to say that there is an enormous amount of difficult to replace, > *highly portable* code in Linux that comes from GNU. I can see how the > GNU contributors may feel cheated when all the credit goes elsewhere > in the eyes of the public. Not this again. > At the end, tribalism aside, bot

Re: A couple of source code questions

1999-12-10 Thread Alan Cox
> My question is, how would I extract the source code and patches from > the Apache RPM supplied on the Redhat cd's into a directory like > /usr/src/apache-1.3.9? I was able to install stock apache source > code, no problem, but I am coming up short trying to find the Redhat > patches. > > Sorry

Re: problems with pci modem

1999-12-17 Thread Alan Cox
The uart is almost certainly faked by the windows driver. You could try pointing setserial at the I/O address in PCI space (ie 0xE800 irq 10) but I'd be suprised if it worked -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Problem with SCSI hard disc

1999-12-20 Thread Alan Cox
> downloaded glibc-2.1.2-17.i386.rpm. My SCSI controller is AIC-7890, on a ASUS > P2B-DS motherboard. The disc model is a Seagate ST34520W. The disk seems to have a problem > scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 1, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 39 b0 40 00 00 >02 00 > Info fld=0x39b041, Current

Re: Problem with SCSI hard disc

1999-12-20 Thread Alan Cox
> This sounds like a problem in the 2.2.12 sd.c driver code, not the aic7xxx > driver code (at least it shouldn't be in the aic7xxx driver code because it > doesn't spin the drives up). There are no known spin up problems in the 2.2.12 scsi code. There is one in a few 2.2.14pre releases but that

Re: Problem with SCSI hard disc

1999-12-20 Thread Alan Cox
> So how do I make this unknown SCSI spin-up problem known, and possibly > resolved. > gat Post a report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferably rebuild your kernel with ikd if the kernel is hanging so you get a deadlock trace and try some of the scsi debugging options [If you are thinking help what

Re: RH6.0 Powerdown problem

1999-12-21 Thread Alan Cox
Your APM bios has a bug. Thats not Linux fault nor can we do much about it -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: RH6.0 Powerdown problem

1999-12-21 Thread Alan Cox
> > Your APM bios has a bug. Thats not Linux fault nor can we do much about it > > Well I have the same problem but I would diagnose it as a Linux bug > because Linux tries to powerdown a computer who has an AT power unit Please read the APM bios specification. The APM bios is required to follow

Re: RH6.0 Powerdown problem

1999-12-22 Thread Alan Cox
> However, to Alan Cox, here is my question: > What do you mean with APM bios? My bios is > simply an Award bios, dating from June 1999, APM = Advanced Power Management The "APM BIOS" is a set of calls within your BIOS that handle power management. They are one of the f

Re: RH6.0 Powerdown problem

1999-12-22 Thread Alan Cox
> BTW, what are the reasons behind the need to actually > use the BIOS and not driving the hardware directly, > at least for the most common hw? The majority > of users simply want only the powerdown feature. > > Is the hw so different and / or proprietary, > or are there technical reasons? You

Re: Installing linux in dual/quad processor?

2000-01-02 Thread Alan Cox
> I have a dual and a quad processor machines. > > Would red linux 6.1 work on them ie would linux > actually knows how to utilize the multiple processors? Yes. In most cases it will even automatically detect you have a multiprocessor machine and install an appropriate kernel. > If it does, is

Re: [UPDATE] i686 Redhat compilation

2000-01-03 Thread Alan Cox
> Good decision, > > I have recently compiled half of the Rawhide-19991229 distribution > with gcc-2.95.2-3, running kernel-2.2.13-0.9 and using glibc-2.1.2-17 > without problems. Please also forward the most recent .src.rpm > packages to RawHide. gcc 2.95.2-3 will build a lot of packages. Not a

Re: power management woes (rh61)

2000-01-25 Thread Alan Cox
> nothing BUT a push of the big red button will get things working > again. Oops 0050:blah > Before I go off recompiling and upgrading kernels, I'd like to know if > anyone else has experienced this, and if they know of a working > solution. (Eg, will the current rawhide kernel work?) if its 0

Re: libc5 vs glibc

2000-01-29 Thread Alan Cox
> Likely (to me) problems are > 1 GLIBC has some incompatibilities with LIBC; perhaps the software depends > on old behaviour even though it compiles well enough. If its threaded it may not be able to cope with pre-emption. If its got buggy memory allocation it will trip up differently > 2

Re: bash2

2000-01-31 Thread Alan Cox
> My understanding was that bash2 was fully backwards compatable. > I could however be mildly/wildly mistaken It is mostly but not 100%. The breakages are actually not so much a bash fault either. bash2 is more strictly compliant and this bites some scripts -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscri

Re: -- MARK --

2000-02-10 Thread Alan Cox
syslogd inserts -- MARK -- entries itself if nothing has occured for a long time so that when you read the logs you know nothing is occuring rather than something died -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Anaconda, Corel and feeling discriminated

2000-02-11 Thread Alan Cox
> As to "instant firewalling"; any program which claims to provide instant > firewalling is not going to provide well for a lot of cases. Firewalls You may be suprised. Lokkit seems to be handling all the 'end user' cases thrown at it rather well. Certainly it covers home user dialup, screening

Re: fsck Errors

2000-02-25 Thread Alan Cox
> > No journalling fs is in 2.3.x or likely to be in 2.4 > When is it likely to be incorporated? In the real kernel tree - 2.5.x Expect vendors to ship stuff before then though. > > ext3 is at ftp.linux.org.uk:/pub/linux/sct > > This? > ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/sct/fs/ext3-0.0.2c.tar.g

Re: Rawhide with gcc-2.95.2?

2000-02-25 Thread Alan Cox
> My only complaint about egcs 2.95* being included is that the > kernel folk say NOT to use it to compile the kernel. I hope that > redhat includes gcc-2.7.2.3 or the egcs from 6.1 with the new > dist so kernel compiles aren't risky. Then again, even if they > do include 2.95 only, it will make

Re: Rawhide with gcc-2.95.2?

2000-02-27 Thread Alan Cox
> vs. kernel compiles to specific platforms like x86, cause eg. on Linux/PPC > gcc-2.95.2 is the best compiler to choose for kernel compiles and I slowly get > sick explaining users that your comments on gcc don't apply for us :-). Try using gcc 2.95 and running some of the network cards on a PPC

Re: plead for documentation for changes in redhat 6.2

2000-02-27 Thread Alan Cox
> > In fact people with 16 Megs boxes will be unahappy. Even with 32 megs > > Gnome/kde are not so great when yoyu are using 6.2 beta. > > My daughter's using gnome on RHL 6.0 on a P133, 32 Mb and that's not > flash. Esp when she starts SO. If you use a sensible configuration then both gnome

Re: plead for documentation for changes in redhat 6.2

2000-02-27 Thread Alan Cox
> On a 486 _S_X? The scalable fonts must have been painful for a CPU > without math coprocessor. It took over 1 minute in a 386DX 40 to > parse them when X started. You turn them off. Definitely. I also built a custom window mangler for it Alan -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL

Re: Old Cpus and RedHat

2000-02-28 Thread Alan Cox
> RH 6.2 beta it spent about ten minutes in the 'Preparing to install' > screen and this was on a Cyrix 166+ who is supposed to have about > three times the horsepower of a 486 DX2 66. That would have meant 30 > minutes on a 486. Quite simply unbearable. A text mode install took about 2 hours

Re: Cleaning RedHat 6.2

2000-02-29 Thread Alan Cox
> In the same way I doubt RedHAt should keep shipping half a dozen mail > user agents. Do you wish to voluteer to answer the phone for the people whose mailer you dumped 8). We could ship just joe, its an editor, good for small boxes, who needs emacs or vi 8) -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubsc

Re: Cleaning RedHat 6.2

2000-02-29 Thread Alan Cox
> The description of the ELM package states that few people use it. The description is wrong -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Cleaning RedHat 6.2

2000-03-01 Thread Alan Cox
> Elm is still used by some people, but is no longer in development. If Wrong too 8) -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: fsck Errors

2000-02-22 Thread Alan Cox
> My question is how can I get around this manual intervention in the field. > Should I replace the logic where "sulogin" gets called with my own logic? > What is the best way to do this? There will be no keyboard attached to the > system. Two answers here; #1. Bypass the logic and always force

Re: fsck Errors

2000-02-23 Thread Alan Cox
> and IBM's porting its jfs to Linux; I don't know just how far along it is, ext3 works, tested on Linux > but id does have enough to brag about. As it's proven technology (comes > from AIX and is also used on OS/2) I expect the work to be done reasonably > quickly. Work maybe, but its not p

Re: fsck Errors

2000-02-23 Thread Alan Cox
> I see ext3, coda, reiserfs, gfs, but I don't know what is the "priority" > list (sorted by stableness, good design, features). The all solve different problems. GFS is a shared disk fs Reiserfs is designed for performance and to handle small files well and journalled ext3 is format com

Re: fsck Errors

2000-02-24 Thread Alan Cox
> Where is ext3? It does not show up on my filesystem list (2.3.47). Nor can > I see it at ftp.au.kernel.org No journalling fs is in 2.3.x or likely to be in 2.4 ext3 is at ftp.linux.org.uk:/pub/linux/sct -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: PUMP / DHCP

2000-03-02 Thread Alan Cox
> It was really apalling that you inflicted this virtually untested program > on us in the first place. It has since improved, but the newsgroups still > have posts from people who cannot connect using pump and have to be > instructed on how to use dhcpcd. Why do you persist in this madness? O

Re: PUMP / DHCP

2000-03-02 Thread Alan Cox
> the "violations" of the standard in dhcpcd are necessary to cope with > M$ idiocies in typical servers. Waving the standard doesn't help > the user. M$ are pretty reasonable on DHCP compliance. The stuff I'm helping track is mostly idiot cable modem vendors who basically seem to do 'di

Re: PUMP / DHCP

2000-03-02 Thread Alan Cox
> received. It recommend it for a good alternative. If you > get RH dhcp SRPM, you just have to add it to the files > section or create another package identifier for dhclient. Interesting. I've not tried dhclient though I've been using the ISC dhcpd for ages -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubs

Re: Space on 6.2 CD

2000-03-03 Thread Alan Cox
> wars. This is supposed to be forbidden in this list, even for RedHat s/RedHat/Red Hat/ -- 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)

2000-03-08 Thread Alan Cox
> to a plain red colour (REDhat, see? :) would help SO MUCH to make > commands and their output become a lot more distiguishable. Why not > a different colour on every terminal (and pts)? There is something user interface people call 'Angry Fruit Salad'. Colour in general is bad if overuse

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

2000-03-09 Thread Alan Cox
> > > Kernel \r on a \m 2-processor (\l) > > > > The problem here is that the escapes aren't interpreted > > the same way by the different *getty's. :( > > True. Easily solvable? Hmm, no :( [scrubbed of my original list] Solvable if someone wishes to pick an escape set and implement it in

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

2000-03-09 Thread Alan Cox
> How many gettys does RHS ship AND configure for the VCs? I thought it was > only one. mingetty mgetty (remember serial dialins) getty_ps (sparc console) -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: synchronization between processes (not threads)

2000-03-14 Thread Alan Cox
> pthread_mutex_, but this is for threads. Do I use a semaphore? Seems > like overkill; I just need a binary yes or no lock. Portably you use a semaphore. If you want to be faster and non portable you can use shared memory regions and tricks but those may not work on all cpus -- To unsub

Re: 2 gig filesize limit

2000-03-16 Thread Alan Cox
Reiserfs is also 2Gig. If you wish to go past 2Gig you need a set of kernel patches or the 2.3.99/2.4pre kernel series -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: 2 gig filesize limit

2000-03-16 Thread Alan Cox
> I know that while evaluating Reiser FS for use on SourceForge we've > created files up to 4gb in size. Some versions of reiserfs had a hack for this. Its not a good idea and Im told its now been removed. If you grab the LFS patches for 2.2 from the RH 6.2beta kernel rpms you'll be able to build

Re: 2 gig filesize limit

2000-03-16 Thread Alan Cox
> So are you saying that installing the LFS patches into RH6.1 running on an > Intel P2 box will enable a new 64bit version of ext2 (ext3?) filesystem > that can handle large files? Yes. The ext2 fs can already handle large files, its the infrastructure around it you need to get. The patches add

Re: 2 gig filesize limit

2000-03-16 Thread Alan Cox
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.2beta/i386/RedHat/ and couldn't > find anything related to LFS. Thanks for your patience and sorry to ask so > many questions but I haven't been able to find any info so I can figure it > out for myself. They are in the kernel srpm but commented out by d

Re: Unresolved symbols?

2000-03-21 Thread Alan Cox
> I have built a lot of uni-processor kernels and modules and have > never had this problem. > When I build them with SMP on in a SMP machine, I keep getting > these unresolved symbols. Make sure you make mrproper and clean up everything in your build tree when you change the SMP configuration. T

Re: RedHAt's SU the mother of all trojan horses

2000-03-25 Thread Alan Cox
> It is unfortunate that RedHat's SU keeps the same environment and > specially the same PATH as this leaves the user open to a trivial Actually doing anything else would be extremely broken. > and then tricks root for using su from the same terminal instead of > doing a full login or, a program

Re: RedHAt's SU the mother of all trojan horses

2000-03-25 Thread Alan Cox
> Right. Root should never accept to su from a terminal someone else is > logged in, but this still leaves the problem of the security conscious > Root user who never runs untrusted software as root but one day while > logged as a normal user he runs a program we will call "trojan" who will > mod

Re: Gnome crashing

2000-03-26 Thread Alan Cox
> When I startx loged in as root the help startup (when it was set on the > start up) would crash. And when I'm just loged in it would crash when I > tried to add a modem to the dialup config. The error is: application > rp2-config (Process 1150) has crashed due to a fatal error (segmentation >

Re: RH6.1 rpc.rusersd clones itself; +FIX source patch

2000-04-07 Thread Alan Cox
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Re: mail and nail

2000-04-07 Thread Alan Cox
> I recently installed nail (an open-source mime-compliant version of mail). > It expects /var/spool/mail to have 1777 permissions to allow > a dot-lock to be implemented. It seems that RedHat has disabled > dot-locking in mailx. Questions: 1777 allows any user to make files in /var/spool/mail

Re: mail and nail

2000-04-07 Thread Alan Cox
> Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 1777 allows any user to make files in /var/spool/mail. Fairly soon > > on a student machine you will find /var/spool/mail/.mp3 and the like > > mysteriously appearing. > > That's what quotas are for. And nam

Re: 2048 Unix98 PTYs ?

2000-04-15 Thread Alan Cox
> kernel immediately reports these 2 errors: > ppp: dev_alloc_name failed (-23) > ppp_alloc failed dev_alloc_name assumes 100 is a suitably silly large number of ppp devices. You need to edit net/core/dev.c in the kernel to remove that limit Alan -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscr

Re: 2048 Unix98 PTYs ?

2000-04-18 Thread Alan Cox
> In dev.c, it says "If you need over 100 please also fix the algorithm...". > Can you give me any information on what needs to be fixed? Is it all in > dev.c? If speed isnt an issue just bump the limit to 1000 -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Logout script

2000-04-20 Thread Alan Cox
> #This is the application > sx1 > echo -e 'logout /r' > > Any suggestions. You dont actually need a script for this. Any program can be a users shell. Do chsh user /full/path/to/sx1 -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Installing a new NIC

2000-04-25 Thread Alan Cox
> I am new to Linux and am trying to learn it. I have recently build a Linux > Redhat 6.2 box and installed a network card (3C509B) in the unit. It does > not detect my NIC during boot (and plug and play is enabled in the bios). I > have searched for documentation on installing a new NIC and ca

Re: Installing a new NIC

2000-04-26 Thread Alan Cox
> This is the second time I've seen this... what's the advantage of > using the 3c59x driver over the 3c509 driver? I didn't even realize > that it would work. It shouldnt I misread the original. 3c509 is the correct driver for the ISA MCA and older EISA card. -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubs

Re: Why no i586/i686 support?

2000-05-03 Thread Alan Cox
> -gcc 2.95.2 is 99% ready but not 100%. It happenned only a couple > times in dozens of builds I made with it but I caught it miscompiling > or failing to compile things who compiled well with egcs. We have one known kernel problem left with gcc 2.95.2 and x86 in 2.2.16pre and its weird. You

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-05-04 Thread Alan Cox
> Does anybody have an idea as to the status of DVD support under RH, My > company want's to be sure it can anwser any queries from customers regarding > Linux support for our new drives. We support DVD ROM drives and to an extend DVD RAM. The extra stuff needed for DVD movie playback is not incl

Re: Linux & DVD

2000-05-04 Thread Alan Cox
> Do you know of a site for Linux/DVD related material? That way I can > probably get answers for many of my questions myself instead of burdening > every one out here ;-) www.opendvd.org Alan -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Why no i586/i686 support?

2000-05-04 Thread Alan Cox
> How about with the 2.3.99pre kernels? > > (I don't have the offending card, but I'd like to clear the air) Since the driver just got a major update - I dont know. The goal is certainly to be totally 2.95 friendly -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Sort command problem

2000-05-05 Thread Alan Cox
> did not agree on the order of things. In my case, my locale was set to > en_US by gnome (I think). Setting LC_ALL=C (instead of en_US) and then > doing sort makes sort use strcmp to pick the sorting order, which may > solve your problem. Sort seems to be broken -- To unsubscribe: mail -s un