Re: SRPM weirdness
Net Llama offered this little gem:
% I've suddenly run into a very odd problem trying to rebuild SRPMs. In
% the past I was always able to download foo.src.rpm and run the following
% as root without any problems:
% rpm --rebuild foo.src.rpm
[slash/burn]
% File /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ppp-%{Version}.tar.gz: No such file or
% directory
%
% That last line is the problem. It dies at that point. I tried a
% different SRPM and it died with a similar error. The directory
% structure /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ exists. Any ideas?
It certainly is. You're not using Caldera's version of RPM, but
someone else's, arguably Red Hat's. Somewhere under /usr/lib/rpm
you'll find a file named *macros* - look at it's defintion of
%(Version} and I think you'll figure out how to fix the problem.
Kurt
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Re: SRPM weirdness
Net Llama offered this little gem: [whack] % Well, its the Caldera built SRPMs that are failing. SRPMs built by % other distros or people are fine. I'm not using rpm -3.0.6 from % Caldera, i'm using Redhat's version. Hrmm...perhaps that's the problem. % BTW, what's a macro with respect to rpm? RPM macros are one name that represents another or that expand to some value that can be programmatically determined at run time (vis-a-vis RPM). Kurt ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: linux to be sued
On Saturday 14 July 2001 11:31 pm, Lee wrote: | Not hardly. There is a little thing called standing. Unless a law | firm can show that they have been injuried by Caldera's or Red | Hat's actions and are suing on their own behalf they can not | initiate a law suit in the courts, because they have no standing. | What they can do is if they have already been retained by a party | with standing i.e. an investor, they can try to expand it into a | class action suit by locating as many of the injuried class as | possible. in theory, yes; in practice, no. in fact, at this very moment the firm is advertising for a lead plaintiff. the precedent in class actions is muddy and miserable; fact is, the entire notion ought to be made illegal, as should a substantial part of existing tort law. i absolutely guarantee you that no one went to a law firm saying that they wished to recover damages arising from irregularities in the caldera ipo. instead, the law firm, looking at the ipos the sec is investigating in connection with bear stearns and csfb, started filing suits and advertising for plaintiffs. which is why i was able to write months ago that caldera would probably be sued -- i read the same stuff. -- dep there's more to history than what's in books; that's why it took so long to happen. ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
what are you doing about the ORBS mess?
I finally landed a new job and have been really busy this week. I just got caught up (kinda) and am at a loss about the ORBS thing. My current sendmail.cf uses blackholes.mail-abuse.org for it's DNS spam blocking. Should I swith that to or.orbl.org? What have you guys done about it? Please don't chime in w/ you shouldn't do that. it censorship or any of that other crap. If that's what you want to talk about, go to /. I have sites to run and policies to follow. Thanks -- Douglas J. Hunley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net/Admin: http://linux.nf/ Brainbench Linux Administration Certified ~~ Now offering Linux admin services for the home user ~~ The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Screen Corruption/KMail Experiment
The accelerated driver came with the installation guide . I can send to you off list. Auyeung - Original Message - From: David Aikema [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 7:24 AM Subject: Re: Screen Corruption/KMail Experiment Ok will do. Thanks for your help. What about the accelerated x-server for the i810 that the file mentioned. Seeing as I'm using xf4.1.0 should I just ignore that? David Aikema - Original Message - From: Auyeung at Technet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 7:44 AM Subject: Re: Screen Corruption/KMail Experiment David, Got the document I saved. Here it is. The essence is to reserve 1M of the system memory for the i810 frame buffer. ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Screen Corruption/KMail Experiment
David, I re-visited the site and notice that Intel has a new driver and installation note ( The one I have was dated Apr 2000 ). SUggest you take a look at :- http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel810/Release_Notes_1.htm I think you might need to pick up a new driver for your enhanced 810 as the one that I installed at that time had the first generation of 810. good luck Auyeung - Original Message - From: David Aikema [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 10:19 AM Subject: Re: Screen Corruption/KMail Experiment Ok I tried dropping the total by 1 meg... and got corruption by 2 megs... and got corruption rediscovered motherboard manual and noticed that the graphics chip was actually an enhanced i810 which supports 4 megs of display cache dropped the total by 4 megs and got corruption dropped the total by 5 megs and got corruption This is really starting to drive me nuts! David Aikema - Original Message - From: Auyeung at Technet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 7:44 AM Subject: Re: Screen Corruption/KMail Experiment The essence is to reserve 1M of the system memory for the i810 frame buffer. ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: what are you doing about the ORBS mess?
Douglas J. Hunley wrote: I finally landed a new job and have been really busy this week. I just got caught up (kinda) and am at a loss about the ORBS thing. My current sendmail.cf uses blackholes.mail-abuse.org for it's DNS spam blocking. Should I swith that to or.orbl.org? What have you guys done about it? Please don't chime in w/ you shouldn't do that. it censorship or any of that other crap. If that's what you want to talk about, go to /. I have sites to run and policies to follow. Thanks -- Douglas J. Hunley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net/Admin: http://linux.nf/ Brainbench Linux Administration Certified ~~ Now offering Linux admin services for the home user ~~ The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. ___ Check out: http://www.e-scrub.com/orbs/ I'd think seriously about someone else. The current situation with ORBS is being actively discussed on the vger.kernel.org list. Seems to be a bit of difference of opinion. See the snippet below from a message quoting Alan Cox. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Cox) wrote on 14.07.01 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.e-scrub.com/orbs/ is the key. Ronald F. Guilmette [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this message to spam lists. Anybody still using ORBS for lookups can expect to get random mail bounces. Yeah he's decided to solve his load problem by committing an act of criminal fraud, computer misuse and a few other violations What are you smoking? The DNS requests are happening against his express wishes, so if anything, the *requests* are computer misuse. Alan's NS entries pointing people there definitely are. It's not Ronald who's telling people his server is authoritative; in fact, he's doing just the opposite, loudly. Because of the way Alan disabled the former ORBS list zones, my name server is now shouldering (at least) 1/11th of the total world-wide [I think he means the way the courts did..] I don't. He's talking about technical changes, not about legal reasons. And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would How about starting a true free project, with charter and/or licensing that makes it impossible to go non-free? Something that's controlled by more than one person, and which is explicit about what exactly the rules are, and which part of those rules are responsible for particular entry. MfG Kai - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-admin in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andrew Mathews 10:30am up 10 days, 13:54, 5 users, load average: 1.08, 1.06, 1.05 I despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom I despise. ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: what are you doing about the ORBS mess?
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 10:59:03AM -0400, Douglas J. Hunley wrote: I finally landed a new job and have been really busy this week. I just got caught up (kinda) and am at a loss about the ORBS thing. My current sendmail.cf uses blackholes.mail-abuse.org for it's DNS spam blocking. Should I swith that to or.orbl.org? What have you guys done about it? Please don't chime in w/ you shouldn't do that. it censorship or any of that other crap. If that's what you want to talk about, go to /. I have sites to run and policies to follow. Thanks ORBS is semi-dead, and the people running the old DNS servers don't appear to be too happy about the number of queries. I just saw a note on an ISP list that they've got one server returning positive for any IP address queried. We haven't used ORBS for several years because I consider their testing of sites that haven't sent spam to be a form of network abuse, similar to port scanning. MAPS is going away from their free service to a pay since they've got huge expenses (mostly legal bills), and the individuals who've been financing this out of their own pockets aren't going to continue. I gather that they will still give free service to individuals and hobby type users. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Good luck to all you optimists out there who think Microsoft can deliver 35 million lines of quality code on which you can operate your business.'' -- John C. Dvorak ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: SRPM weirdness
--- Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Net Llama offered this little gem:
% I've suddenly run into a very odd problem trying to rebuild SRPMs.
In
% the past I was always able to download foo.src.rpm and run the
following
% as root without any problems:
% rpm --rebuild foo.src.rpm
[slash/burn]
% File /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ppp-%{Version}.tar.gz: No such file or
% directory
%
% That last line is the problem. It dies at that point. I tried a
% different SRPM and it died with a similar error. The directory
% structure /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ exists. Any ideas?
It certainly is. You're not using Caldera's version of RPM, but
someone else's, arguably Red Hat's. Somewhere under /usr/lib/rpm
you'll find a file named *macros* - look at it's defintion of
%(Version} and I think you'll figure out how to fix the problem.
Thanks Kurt, that clears things up alot. I used Pam's SxS to upgrade
RPM to v.3.0.6, so (not that its her fault) she is the one who is
recommending using RedHat's version. I'd guess because no one else had
come up with a version until just recently.
Turns out that i have /var/lib/rpm (the original) and
/var/lib/rpm-3.0.3. %(Version} is not defined at all in
/var/lib/rpm/macros. Is that the problem? Would doing a forced
'upgrade' to Caldera's rpm-3.0.6 fix this, or break rpm functionality in
other ways? Or could i just grab the macros file from Caldera's
rpm-3.0.6 and use it to replace the existing one? I don't use RPMs much
anymore, but when i do, i'd like to know that they work. :)
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Re: what are you doing about the ORBS mess?
--- Douglas J. Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally landed a new job and have been really busy this week. I just Congratulations! Mind if i ask where, and doing what? got caught up (kinda) and am at a loss about the ORBS thing. My current sendmail.cf uses blackholes.mail-abuse.org for it's DNS spam blocking. Should I swith that to or.orbl.org? What have you guys done about it? Please don't chime in w/ you shouldn't do that. it censorship or any of that other crap. If that's what you want to talk about, go to /. I have sites to run and policies to follow. Thanks Well, i'm not a mail admin, so i'm not really qualified to answer this. = Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux FAQ Step-by-step help:http://netllama.ipfox.com . __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: linux to be sued
On Saturday 14 July 2001 08:11 pm, you wrote: dep wrote: On Friday 13 July 2001 08:18 pm, Lee wrote: | Hide the cookie jar mother! The boobs and cockroaches are at it | again! Does this suit mean that I can sue the racetrack and other | horse owners if the horse I bet on lost even if it was a 100 to 1 | shot? Unfortunately, they'll probably win. I believe there is a | section of the Endangered Species Act dealing with the protection | of the North American Greedy Lawyer Hirer who invest in the initial | offerings of companies like usedtoiletpaper.com this festering infection isn't, alas, unique to north america, as witness the equally ridiculous german adobe nonsense involving killustrator which, it appears, will be settled with no one injured and only about 10 orders of magnitude more work and fuss than there would have been had adobe merely approached the kde folk and stated their objections. but the u.s. situation is quite bad enough on its own, and without vast tort reform -- including, perhaps, the public execution of a plaintiff's lawyer chosen at random daily Snip How about we amend the Constitution to allow for a two week hunting season on all lawyers (including those in public office and on the bench). Because of the expected popularity of the hunt , licenses may have to be issued by lottery. All proceeds shall be used to pay game wardens to insure that bag limits, tagging, and size limits are adhered to. Any funds left over can be deposited in a fund to pay off the plaintiffs in frivolous law suits. While this wouldn't stop greed or frivolous lawsuits it would keep the herd of lawyers from overgrazing the economy. Sounds good to me. When does it start? -- Rick Sivernell Dallas, Texas 75287 972 306-2296 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caldera Open Linux eWorkStation 3.1 Registered Linux User .~. / v \ /( _ )\ ^ ^ In Linux we trust! ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: what are you doing about the ORBS mess? OT
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 14:22:22 -0400 Douglas J. Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: It's a UNIX Admin position with a company called Careworks Technologies. The actual assignment is being the admin for the entire Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services network (unemploment, child services, etc). Pretty cool so far. == Good Luck, Douglas! Sounds as if you'll be doing good work also. Mike -- Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing, and dreadful idolatry took place there. Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, mid 16th Century ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: what are you doing about the ORBS mess?
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 14:22:22 -0400, Douglas J. Hunley wrote: It's a UNIX Admin position with a company called Careworks Technologies. The actual assignment is being the admin for the entire Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services network (unemploment, child services, etc). Pretty cool so far. Wow Doug, Congradulations! stayler ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Screen Corruption/KMail Experiment
Ok. The drivers intel offers on their support site are for the 3.3.x series of xfree. I'm currently running xfree 4.1.0 which is supposed to have support for the i810 (see http://www.xfree.org/4.1.0/Status17.html#17 ) David Aikema - Original Message - From: Auyeung at Technet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 9:24 AM Subject: Re: Screen Corruption/KMail Experiment David, I re-visited the site and notice that Intel has a new driver and installation note ( The one I have was dated Apr 2000 ). SUggest you take a look at :- http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel810/Release_Notes_1.htm I think you might need to pick up a new driver for your enhanced 810 as the one that I installed at that time had the first generation of 810. ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
TIDRe: what are you doing about the ORBS mess?
On Sunday 15 July 2001 17:32, Shawn Tayler babbled: Wow Doug, Congradulations! thanks! -- Douglas J. Hunley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net/Admin: http://linux.nf/ Brainbench Linux Administration Certified ~~ Now offering Linux admin services for the home user ~~ My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
SuSE 7.1, Apache PHP
Hey everyone, I've installed SuSE 7.1 on my box, and I also installed Apache with ALL the modules I could find on the DVD (did this all at initial install time), including PHP4. Whenever I run Apache, I have to comment out any reference to the PHP modules for Apache to run. I'm somewhat familiar with Apache syntax, and from what I can see, it should be fine...the relevant PHP parts point to the right files. Has anyone else had this problem? Alan ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Fwd: [SLE] a free intro to Linux Systems Administration
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Re: .htaccess file
I am interested. Ronnie Gauthier wrote: A while back I wrote a short tutorial on the use of the .htaccess file. It covers most everything except password protection, of which there are already enough written. If anyone would like it let me know. If there are enough I'll just post it here, otherwise I wont waste space and time. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
