Re: Small Bug - silly question again

2000-03-20 Thread Gregory Ade
On 18 Mar 2000, Brian May wrote: I have heard (3rd hand) that ACL (access control lists) are directly supported by EXT2 (although user programs are still in development). Hmm. The latest version of EXT3 I've seen (at ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/) doesn't have any ACL support,

Re: Small Bug - silly question again

2000-03-20 Thread Alan P. Laudicina
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:41:59PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 07:59:15PM +0100, Zsombor Gergely wrote: Everybody seems to know what the login shell is useful for. I am an unfortunate exception. Please, explain me this! You are desperately in need for a shell, to

Re: Small Bug - silly question again

2000-03-20 Thread SCOTT FENTON
Well, we can think about that when there really /is/ an install. Alan P. Laudicina wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:41:59PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 07:59:15PM +0100, Zsombor Gergely wrote: Everybody seems to know what the login shell is useful for. I am

Re: Small Bug - silly question again

2000-03-20 Thread Brian May
Gregory == Gregory Ade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory On 18 Mar 2000, Brian May wrote: I have heard (3rd hand) that ACL (access control lists) are directly supported by EXT2 (although user programs are still in development). Gregory Hmm. The latest version of EXT3

RE: Small Bug - silly question again

2000-03-20 Thread Lucas C. Wagner
-Original Message- From: Alan P. Laudicina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 4:09 AM To: Marcus Brinkmann Cc: Debian Hurd list Subject: Re: Small Bug - silly question again On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:41:59PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Thu, Mar 16,

About ACLs

2000-03-20 Thread Christopher Browne
On 20 Mar 2000 16:15:35 +1100, the world broke into rejoicing as Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Somebody told me ACLs were already in EXT2, just not supported by user tools yet... There are some basic hooks that have been in place in the kernel since about '97. Due to Ted Ts'o. The

Re: Small Bug - silly question again

2000-03-20 Thread Alan P. Laudicina
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: You are desperately in need for a shell, to read your email (via IMAP), browse the net, check a domain name, or whatever. A machine is nearby running the Hurd. You go to the machine and use it. I started this thread and here is where I comment

Re: Small Bug - silly question again

2000-03-20 Thread Dirk Ritter
Hello Alan P. Laudicina! On Sun, 19 March 2000 at 01:09:07, you wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:41:59PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: You go to the machine and use it. On a second thought - you don't just 'use' a machine that displays a friendly XDM login screen - probably the

Re: Small Bug - silly question again

2000-03-20 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Alan P. Laudicina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: You are desperately in need for a shell, to read your email (via IMAP), browse the net, check a domain name, or whatever. A machine is nearby running the Hurd. You go to the machine and use it.

Re: cross compilation tool versions

2000-03-20 Thread Jim Franklin
Hi Jeff I really like your page on cross compilation. Is there any reason to not use egcs 1.1.2 for the entire process? Jim Jeff Bailey wrote: On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 10:11:43PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: I have documented what works for me at http://hurd.zugzug.com/ - The only change

Re: Small Bug - silly question again

2000-03-20 Thread da Bobstopper
Alan P. Laudicina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: You are desperately in need for a shell, to read your email (via IMAP), browse the net, check a domain name, or whatever. A machine is nearby running the Hurd. You go to the machine and

Re: Small Bug - silly question again

2000-03-20 Thread Roland McGrath
I'm sure this discussion has been enlightening to all those involved, but I think it has run its course and I'm tired of it filling up my mailbox now. I have not really been paying attention, but from what I have noticed the the discussion that has taken place is not about the Hurd, but about

Re: cross compilation tool versions

2000-03-20 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 08:19:05AM -0700, Jim Franklin wrote: Thanks. egcs ought to work for the entire process - I chose to use the most recent compiler for 2 reasons: 1) There were some significant improvements in the cross-compiler stuff in the 2.95 series. This is not particularily

Re: cross compilation tool versions

2000-03-20 Thread Roland McGrath
I need to go through the effort of figuring out how to setup OSKit GNUMach. Once that is done, I will change the instructions so that egcs isn't used at all. (Contributions welcome!! hint, hint - for that and any other 'help documentation that people want posted'). For oskit and gnumach