Where can I get slink?
For reasons having to do with the size of binaries linking to its version of glibc, slink is the preferred distribution for working with floppy-based router software like LRP. Anyway, I'm running woody and potato and can't find slink anywhere. debian.org seems to have it, but I can't find any actual binaries. Can anybody point me at an installable slink (for i386). Thanks, --Eric House ** * From the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Check out Safe Harbor for PalmOS: http://www.peak.org/~fixin/harbor * **
Is GPROF broken on potato?
It's been broken for me since I updated. But searching the mailing list archives shows no discussion of gprof. Is it working for other people, or am I the only Debian user doing profiling? Thanks, --Eric House ** * From the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Check out Safe Harbor for PalmOS: http://www.peak.org/~fixin/harbor * * The instructions said 'Win98 or better' -- so I installed Linux * **
where did moncontrol go?
Programs using moncontrol() that compiled on slink no longer link on potato. Any idea what library that function lives in? Is there an alternative? Is there no way to search for this information on the Debian site? (moncontrol is used to turn on and off the gathering of statistics during program profiling.) Thanks! --Eric House ** * From the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Check out Safe Harbor for PalmOS: http://www.peak.org/~fixin/harbor * * The instructions said 'Win98 or better' -- so I installed Linux * **
Can't use ediff from *cvs* buffer in emacs on potato
I'm using emacs and cvs on a stock potato system (updated about a week ago). I'd *like* to be using ediff to compare revisions after doing a M-x cvs-update, but it doesn't work. I get this error in the minibuffer: Something went wrong retrieving revision: nil: 1 Plain old vanilla diff works just fine from the *cvs* buffer. Any ideas what's up, or on how to debug it? Thanks, --Eric House ** * From the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Check out Safe Harbor for PalmOS: http://www.peak.org/~fixin/harbor * * The instructions said 'Win98 or better' -- so I installed Linux * **
I've broken lilo; how to fix?
I couple of weeks ago I was trying to teach lilo about my 8 gig disk via some parameter added to the lilo.conf file. I no longer remember what I did, and have long since removed it. But now lilo will not run. It boots the machine fine, and the machine works great; but I can't change my kernel or make any other change that requires running lilo. Running lilo gives me this error message: Warning: device 0x0302 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (4464 1023) Can anyone tell me how to fix this? I'm not concerned about accessing the 8 part of the disk, but only with being able to run lilo again. Thanks! --Eric House ** * From the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Check out Crosswords for PalmOS: http://www.peak.org/~fixin/xwords * * The instructions said 'Win98 or better' -- so I installed Linux * **
Has anybody gotten port forwarding to work with Debian?
I'm running slink, and a 2.2.14 kernel (on a Dell Latitude laptop, though I doubt that matters.) And I can't get port forwarding working. I've rebuilt the kernel with all the required config options set except for CONFIG_IP_FORWARD, which doesn't exist anywhere in the sources for 2.2.14. Meanwhile, running 'ipportfw' gives me: root#: ipportfw Could not open /proc/net/ip_portfw Are you sure you have Port Forwarding installed? ipportfw comes from the package ipportfw_1.11-6.deb, which installed without errors. Has anybody done this? What am I missing? Thanks, --Eric House ** * From the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Check out Crosswords for PalmOS: http://www.peak.org/~fixin/xwords * * The instructions said 'Win98 or better' -- so I installed Linux * **
slink minicom sez: already online; pls hangup
I upgraded my HP Omnibook 800 from hamm to slink a few weeks ago, and since then have been unable to use the version of minicom that's part of that dist. When I attempt to dial, it puts up an alert telling me You're already online; please hangup -- or words to that effect. When I moved my desktop from hamm to slink a few months ago I had no problems. 1.82 is the version of minicom that came with my slink. When I grepped the sources for the alert string (and several small parts of it) I couldn't find it. Finally, I went back to the hamm source disks and got the sources for minicom 1.75. The strings weren't there either -- but when I built that version of minicom it worked just fine. I'm using a pcmcia modem, but am not sure that it's the problem, as ppp still works fine over it. Any ideas? Thanks, --Eric House ** * From the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Check out Crosswords for PalmOS: http://www.peak.org/~fixin/xwords * * The instructions said 'Win98 or better' -- so I installed Linux * **
Getting Gnome themes respected when xhosting
Scenario: Machine 1 running Gnome with theme 1; machine 2 running Gnome with theme 2. I run gtk/themes-aware application on machine 1 but displayed on machine 2 via xhosting. Expected result: application is rendered with theme 2 like all the other windows on the desktop. This is the proper model as established by X. Actual result: application shows up with theme 1 and so looks different from all the other apps on machine 2's display. If I change themes on machine 1, the application's appearance on machine 2 changes. Is there anything I can do about this? Is this the right place to ask? Thanks, --Eric House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |The instructions said 'Win98 or better' -- so I installed Linux| +-+
8-bit safe text utils?
I'm trying to process some 8-bit text on my Debian system and it's giving me fits. Clearly some of the programs I'm piping things through aren't 8-bit aware. Can someone point me to a good listing of these and/or to a discussion of how to work around the limitations of the system. Here's an example of what I'm doing. The input is an official Dutch word list called woor-den.max and the output is to be a compressed dictionary to be included with a free Scrabble clone I'm developing for the PalmOS platform. The words include a character (octal 0267) that indicates hyphenation. I want to pull it out. If in the bash shell (either running in emacs via shell mode or in xterm; it doesn't matter) I type # tr -d \267 woor-den.max tr does nothing. But if I save the same command as a bash shell script and execute it I get the desired result. Working with grep's the same way. This can't be an unfamiliar problem for those of you across the Atlantic. What's the best coping strategy? Thanks! --Eric House /** * Sun .signature deleted: this isn't a Sun project! **/
psaux module won't auto-install
I've compiled both sound support and psaux as modules in my kernel and have enabled kerneld to (as I understand it) load them when needed. And the sound module is getting loaded. If I use xaudio at a time when /sbin/lsmods says sound isn't installed the sound card works and a subsequent call to lsmods shows sound has been installed. But if I try to startx when psaux isn't installed the X server refuses to launch and complains of lack of a mouse. '/sbin/insmod psaux' works as expected, as does a subsequent call to startx. What's the difference between these modules that one loads automatically and the other doesn't? Can it be fixed? Thanks, --Eric House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |The instructions said 'Win98 or better' -- so I installed Linux| +-+
How to trace why a process is running?
Scenario: my machine is on but hasn't been used for several hours when I notice the hard drive taking lots of hits. I log on and run 'top' which tells me a 'find', owned by root, is using 25% of the CPU. 'ps -ef', even as root, doesn't show the 'find'. Question: how do I figure out who started that 'find' and why? Thanks, --Eric House
Can a keyboard pretend to be a mouse?
I'm looking for a bit of software that'll let me use a combination of key strokes (in X) where a mouse is called for. Numberpad '6' moves pointer to the right; '5' simulates a click -- that kind of thing. Some apps don't provide keyboard equivalents for all user actions, and my laptop mouse is a royal pain to use on airplanes. Even the Mac did this years ago, so I'm hopeful. Thanks, --Eric House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |The instructions said 'Win98 or better' -- so I installed Linux| +-+
Learning about/modifying drivers
I need a crash course on Linux drivers. I'm frustrated with the fact that the driver for SCSI CD-ROMs doesn't allow direct access to audio tracks. Since my hardware supports ripping running NT I'd like to modify the necessary Linux driver to allow the same thing on Debian -- or at least to understand why it can't be done. I'm a pretty good C/C++ programmer, but have minimal experience on Linux/Unix. And none with drivers. I don't even understand the relationship between drivers and device files very thoroughly. Where to begin? How do I figure out what source files to modify, who the author/maintainers are -- and later how drivers work? Please recommend books, point me at source files/HOWTOs, etc. Thanks! --Eric House
Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?
What advantages does XEmacs have over Emacs (and are there any the other way around)? I am using emacs at the moment. Is it worth me changing? Another reply listed the advantages of xemacs over emacs. So I'll take the other side. My experience is the opposite of yours: I started with xemacs and then switched to emacs. My primary reason for doing so was that so many more people are using emacs that it's a lot easier to get help, and the contributed packages I wanted to use tended to work better with emacs. Emacs is available everywhere, including on my ISP, so my (still mimimal) expertise transfers, I can use the same .emacs file everywhere, etc. --Eric House
Problems building kernel for sound: dmabuf.c not compiling
I'm trying to build the kernel (2.0.34) with sound support. I've turned it on in the 'make config' step, and build happily until I get this error message: drivers/sound/sound.a(dev_table.o): In function `sound_install_audiodrv': dev_table.o(.text+0x9fe): undefined reference to `DMAbuf_init' dev_table.o(.text+0xa03): undefined reference to `audio_init' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 The routines DMAbuf_init and audio_init live in the files dmabuf.c and audio.c, respectively. As far as I can tell, neither is being included in the build by the config script. They don't get compiled, even after a 'make clean'; and in fact I can 'touch' them and they still don't compile. Manually compiling and 'ar'ing dmabuf.c got rid of the first problem error message, but I can't get rid of the second. Besides, there must be something more serious wrong. Any ideas? I have been trying to add sound support for at least a year now, on several machines running bo and hamm. All fail in the same way. Thanks, --Eric House
Re: How to use a ramdisk?
How do I use ramdisks once they're created? Just copy my files to the disk and symlink to them from where they're expected to be? What do I do to ensure that the files are written to (real) disk on shutdown or at predefined intervals? Just like any other mounted filesystem. They are never written to disk. That's why they call them ram disks. If you want a disk that actually has physical media, why don't you use a real disk? If you're thinking to create a ram disk for performance, don't. Linux agressively uses memory as buffer cache already, so you won't get better performance this way. So there's no point in using ramdisks at all for non-boot tasks? I've read elsewhere that loading a compiler's include files, or frequently referenced documentation, or an emulators's file system, into a ramdisk would significantly improve performance. That's not true? Thanks, BTW, (to you and others) for the quick responses. --Eric House PS /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ramdisk.txt does not talk about using ramdisks in any context other than for creating boot floppies. I guess that's because they're pretty much useless otherwise?
How to use a ramdisk?
The HOWTOs talk about ramdisks as part of the install process, but not as something I can use every day. Assuming that I *can* have a ramdisk on hamm, how do I set it up? So far, I've: put 'ramdisk=2000' in my /etc/lilo.conf file (and run lilo). dmesg tells me that 16 2000K ramdisks were set up, but free shows that no memory is consumed so I assume there's another step to making them available. I want only one, BTW. :-) What's next? I'd expect to need to put something in /etc/fstab, but what's the device file? (/dev/ramdisk?) What if I want more than one? And what's the expected/traditional mount point? The fstype? Is there any further configuration to be done? How do I use ramdisks once they're created? Just copy my files to the disk and symlink to them from where they're expected to be? What do I do to ensure that the files are written to (real) disk on shutdown or at predefined intervals? I'm so full of questions. Surely there's documentation on this somewhere. But: Where? Thanks, --Eric House
Re: SVGATextMode! (was Re: Console mode with 80x24 possible?
SVGATextMode has more advantages over vga= option: * You can choose from dozens of textmodes, for example 100x37 is nice here. vga= only allows three (I think). * You can design your own text modes if you have special needs (for example visually impaired can choose 40x20. Linux is just great.) I spent an hour or so looking at SVGATextMode, and it *appears* that it won't work with my NeoMagic laptop. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. (The NeoMagic has a clock rate of up to 40, and this is needed for denser screen layouts. But since it doesn't know about NeoMagic chips, SVGATextMode can only assume the standard VGA speed around 28 and so barfs. At least, that's my naive reading.) --Eric House
Re: Console mode with 80x24 possible?
My hamm-equipped laptop has an 800x600 screen. When in console mode it uses only the middle of the screen for an 80x24 display -- even though there's room on the screen for at least 120x32. try adding vga=extended or vga=ask to your boot-prompt I tried that a few weeks back and got tiny text scrunched into the middle of my screen. But last night a friend with the same laptop showed me the (hardware-specific) key combination to force text mode to use the whole screen. Once that's done, 'vga=ask' in lilo.conf permits me to choose from a whole range of no-longer-scrunched options, all of them better than 24x80. I wonder if the bios would allow me to change the text mode, or is that truly a machine-specific thing? No matter: I'm happy now. Thanks to all! --Eric +--+ | non-work .sig needed | +--+
RE: Stable GUI Web Browser
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Shaleh wrote: in your bash startup file place: $MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS=True ^^^ export MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS This kills the dns helper. See if that helps any. You don't want the '$' there, do you? --Eric House
Console mode with 80x24 possible?
Can I rebuild the kernal to use my entire display? My hamm-equipped laptop has an 800x600 screen. When in console mode it uses only the middle of the screen for an 80x24 display -- even though there's room on the screen for at least 120x32. I use console mode a lot to save batteries. And I'd love to use the whole screen. But a quick look through the kernel source didn't suggest how to change the screen size. There are params you can set in LILO for more lines, but those result in its using a smaller font to fit more lines into the same screen space, still leaving half the area unused. Does anyone know if it's possible to do what I want, and if so, how? Pointers to documentation welcome! Thanks, --Eric House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |The instructions said 'Win98 or better' -- so I installed Linux| +-+
Re: Notebook for Debian
David Welton wrote: Don't want to spend a fortune Don't need anything fantastic Do want something that works well with Debian Don't want to have to use proprietary X servers. I picked up an HP OmniBook 800 a few weeks ago specifically to run Debian. So far I'm delighted. It has only an 800x600 screen, but for $1000 it's sub-4 lbs, tiny, has a full-size keyboard and TFT display, 2+ gig drive, 2 meg VRAM, 2 PCMCIA slots, and detatchable floppy and CDRom (not counted in the weight). Only 16meg of RAM, with another 32 about $70 and $64 $160. 1 year warranty. For battery life I'm getting about 3 hours running in console mode and about 1 hour running X. The server is the NeoMagic one just moved from binary-only to a free part of XF86. It's done everything I've asked of it so far. --Eric House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |The instructions said 'Win98 or better' -- so I installed Linux| +-+
How much RAM do I need?
I need to decide whether to upgrade my Debian laptop to 48 or 80 meg (from the current 16). Is there any way to log how much swap is currently getting used during the activities I run all the time? Any other advice on how much is enough? This machine is for personal use (e.g. Pilot software development) and will never be a server. Thanks, --Eric House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |The instructions said 'Win98 or better' -- so I installed Linux| +-+
Problems with IBM Home and Away 14.4 PCMCIA modem
I have an HP OmniBook 800 running Debian 2.0 and an IBM Home and Away combo Ethernet/modem PCMCIA card. The Ethernet side of things works brilliantly, but the modem doesn't work at all. A borrowed 3com ethernet/modem combo card worked, so I think the PCMCIA side of things is set up correctly. Also, I've tried a friend's identical HA card in my machine and it fails in the same way. This makes me suspect I'm missing some HA-specific config tip. The card is listed as fully supported on various Linux laptop pages. Here's what happens when I try to use it. First, setserial and lsmod and the syslog suggest that all's well. If I use Kermit to talk to the modem (as per the Serial-HOWTO) at any speed, kermit reports 'OK' after the 'ATE1Q0V1'. But when I then dial, I hear half a second of dialtone and then nothing; Kermit reports NO DIALTONE. If you've successfully configured this modem, or have any ideas, please share! Thanks, --Eric House PS I don't know if the card works under Windoze, as I wiped the disk clean as soon as I got the machine. Probably should have waited +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |The instructions said 'Win98 or better' -- so I installed Linux| +-+
Re: VAIO notebooks
is someone successfully running Debian on one of Sony's VAIO-series notebooks? I am thinking about getting one ... I tried and failed about a year ago. Couldn't get X running. But if they use the NeoMagic chipset that problem should have been fixed, as the information necessary to write the drivers has since been released. My overall impression of the Sonys, though, was that they'd done too much proprietary/cute Windoze-specific stuff. A more generic laptop is happier with Linux. --Eric House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |The instructions said 'Win98 or better' -- so I installed Linux| +-+
Will Apple Studio Display work w/ x86 Hamm?
Anybody know if there are any problems using a flat panel/LCD display, and Apple's in particular, with Debian? I don't even know if I'll need a different driver... Thanks, --Eric House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |The instructions said 'Win98 or better' -- so I installed Linux| +-+
instructions for setting up Wacom ArtPad?
I've borrowed a Wacom Artpad for use with the Gimp (1.0) on bo. But all the searches I've tried for information on configuring my system to use the tablet have turned up nothing. Surely there's an article or HOWTO or FAQ on the subject. Pointers please! Thanks, --Eric House PS I've ordered hamm, so if upgrading's a requirement that's fine with me. +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |The instructions said 'Win98 or better' -- so I installed Linux| +-+
Re: How to get a screenshot?
But how does one get a screenshot under [Debian] Linux? Is there anything comparable to Snapshot (on Solaris), for example? Just use the GIMP! ;-) From the main toolbox window: Xtns - Screen Shot. That was the winning answer. :-) Thanks for all the replies. xv was the most common suggestion, but I'm running Bo still and haven't ever installed a non-free deb before, so it was nice to learn that, once again, the GIMP is all I'll ever need. --Eric House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |The instructions said 'Win98 or better' -- so I installed Linux| +-+
How to get a screenshot?
I want to take a screenshot of a window running under X and eventually to convert it to a .gif file. I assume the Gimp can handle the conversion. But how does one get a screenshot under [Debian] Linux? Is there anything comparable to Snapshot (on Solaris), for example? Thanks, --Eric House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |The instructions said 'Win98 or better' -- so I installed Linux| +-+
Re: Stupid unix
On 24 Jul 1998, Joerg Plate wrote: Is there a simple way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase? 1 cat /usr/local/bin/rename #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw use locale; [...] Why not, in bash: for f in $(ls); do oldName=$f newName=$(echo $oldName | tr [A-Z] [a-z]) mv -i $oldName $newName done I'd not bother with the variable names, but they make it clearer. Disclaimer: I didn't test the above, and may have gotten the tr syntax wrong. But you get the idea. --Eric House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |The instructions said 'Win95 or better' -- so I installed Linux| +-+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: HOWTO on setting up NFS?
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: I'm trying to set up NFS on my 1.3.1 systems in order to share files with a couple of Solaris machines and more. An article in the June '98 _Linux Journal_ describes the procedure for Slackware, but since that distribution has the rpc.* daemons on by default it doesn't mention how to start them up -- and I can't figure it out. If you want Debian as an NFS server you need to add entries into /etc/exports (see exports(5)). The init script /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs will then start the appropriate daemons at boot time. Or you can start them youreself by /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs start. /etc/exports already has a few entries in it, yet dmesg doesn't reveal that the init scrip's been called. When I call it manually it tries to launch the daemons yet none of them starts up. At least they're not there according to 'ps -a'. When I launch rpc.nfsd manually I get this: root# rpc.nfsd -F -d call nfsd[167] 07/16/98 17:25 Could not bind name to socket 0.0.0.0:2049: Address already in use nfsd[167] 07/16/98 17:25 could not make a udp socket Any ideas what's going on? Thanks, --Eric House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |The instructions said 'Win95 or better' -- so I installed Linux| +-+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
HOWTO on setting up NFS?
I'm trying to set up NFS on my 1.3.1 systems in order to share files with a couple of Solaris machines and more. An article in the June '98 _Linux Journal_ describes the procedure for Slackware, but since that distribution has the rpc.* daemons on by default it doesn't mention how to start them up -- and I can't figure it out. Can anyone describe the process or point me at a Debian-specific HowTo or Readme? Thanks, --Eric House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |The instructions said 'Win95 or better' -- so I installed Linux| +-+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
using dhcpcd's -c option
I've installed dhcpcd (off of the 1.3.1 CD) and it's working beautifully to connect my Linux box (still running NT as far as the sysadmins are concerned) with my UltraSparc and the rest of the office network. But in order to connect to the Linux box from outside I need to know its (temporary) IP address. dhcpcd takes as a option a script that gets run when an IP address is assigned, and I could use this script to put the IP address in some known place on the network. But I can't figure out how dhcpcd is getting called -- or rather, in which of the myriad places in /etc/rc?.d/* where it *is* invoked I ought to be adding this param. Any suggestions? Thanks, --Eric relative newbie House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |The instructions said 'Win95 or better' -- so I installed Linux| +-+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
emacs *very slow* to launch
I'm running 1.3.1 in terminal mode. I launch emacs by typing 'emacs' at the cmd line, and it takes *at least* five minutes to come up. Once up, it works just fine. And other apps don't seem to have this problem: they launch as quickly as ever. Once emacs is running, if I go to another virtual console and launch another copy, it takes just as long to come up. This is a recent phenomenon. Until a few weeks ago everything was fine, ie launch took a few seconds the first time and was nearly instantaneous for additional copies. I can't think of anything I've done to change things, but of course I must have done *something*. I have no idea how to track down what's going on. 'top' doesn't suggest that emacs is burning many cycles with whatever it's doing. There's no .emacs file. Behavior's the same, though, if I use -q or --no-site-file to prevent reading in the startup files. I don't think this is an emacs config problem. The same thing seems to happen under X Thanks for any help you can give! --Eric House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |The instructions said 'Win95 or better' -- so I installed Linux| +-+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: emacs *very slow* to launch
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Nick Moffitt wrote: On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, I wrote: I'm running 1.3.1 in terminal mode. I launch emacs by typing 'emacs' at the cmd line, and it takes *at least* five minutes to come up. Once up, it works just fine. And other apps don't seem to have this problem: they launch as quickly as ever. This is the behavior I've come to expect from emacs. Eighteen Megs And Constantly Swapping. It's a huge app! What sort of hardware do you have? What version of Emacs? I wouldn't run it on anything sub-pentium, myself. It's a pentium-class machine, 166mhz most likely. It ran emacs fine just two weeks ago. And once the thing's launched it's still fine. But the now launch takes 5 or 10 minutes where it used to take five seconds. --Eric House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |The instructions said 'Win95 or better' -- so I installed Linux| +-+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: emacs *very slow* to launch
On 16 Jun 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: I suspect this isn't a problem of application size. He'd have to be using a 386 with 4MB of memory for emacs to take 5 minutes to load. More likely it's a problem with emacs trying to get your hostname using gethostbyname() or some such. [Eric], make sure that your hostname is defined and make sure there's an entry in /etc/hosts for that name. If this is a standalone system, or you only connect to the network via dialup make sure that you have an entry in /etc/hosts like: 127.0.0.1 localhost hostname This was the problem. I'd removed the entry for my machine from /etc/hosts (because the machine is now stand-alone, as it doesn't get a static IP address on the office network and I haven't figure out DHCP yet...) I put the entry back and now emacs comes up in the traditional 5+ seconds. Not bad for something that big! :-) Thanks for the quick and accurate diagnosis! --Eric House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |The instructions said 'Win95 or better' -- so I installed Linux| +-+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
