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2000-08-07 Thread Jeitner, Nickolas

Re: rc

2000-08-07 Thread Mo McKinlay
# This might script that logs via ssh user init/root, and run correct command. # Or just a packet via net, but then all auth is our task to do. *nod* # Simpliest and portable way is making socket or fifo somewhere in /dev/*. # user init/root group init/root. I considered this - /dev/scm, or /de

Re: rc

2000-08-07 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 11:27:07PM +0100, Mo McKinlay wrote: > > Some things I've been kicking around: > > - Remote service management > > This is a tricky issue. There's no real defined protocol for it AFAIK, > and things like authentication need very careful consideration. The best > th

Re: rc

2000-08-07 Thread Mo McKinlay
# Yes, and if there is no gpm installed or it failed, X will run anyway. Okay, that's cool. Some things I've been kicking around: - Remote service management This is a tricky issue. There's no real defined protocol for it AFAIK, and things like authentication need very careful considerati

Re: rc

2000-08-07 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 10:46:47PM +0100, Mo McKinlay wrote: > # Also we will probably need start-a-before-b relation > # (gpm should be tarted before X, but X don't depend on gpm nor gpm on X) > > I *think* I follow this. I take it this would only ever come into play if > two services are going t

Re: rc

2000-08-07 Thread Mo McKinlay
Okay, the revised list.. # > * Started # > * Stopped # Not sure if paused, stopping and starting bring us much. I'm not entirely sure what I decided 'paused' was for. As you say, it's usefulness is rather limited - I've opted to nuke that one from the list. # Also starting and stopping

Re: rc

2000-08-07 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 09:10:41PM +0100, Mo McKinlay wrote: > I had an idea about developing this for Linux (I wasn't aware some such > thing existed) - actually inspired by WinNT's "service" handling. The way > it worked was (briefly): > > - Every service had several states: > * Stopped >

Re: rc

2000-08-07 Thread Mo McKinlay
# On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 09:05:03PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: # > On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 02:51:54PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: # > > System V init has some deliberate limits (for example a fixed number of # > > run-levels). For the hurd we want something better. # > # > So, what

Re: rc

2000-08-07 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 09:05:03PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 02:51:54PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > System V init has some deliberate limits (for example a fixed number of > > run-levels). For the hurd we want something better. > > So, what will the hur

Re: rc

2000-08-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 02:51:54PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > System V init has some deliberate limits (for example a fixed number of > run-levels). For the hurd we want something better. So, what will the hurd implement ? When ? > > However, I ported sysvinit from Linux to the Hurd. An e

Re: gnu mach/hurd on Alpha, update!

2000-08-07 Thread Ron Farrer
Niels Möller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Are you using the OSKit branch of gnumach? Not at this time. Mostly because we have been unable to locate *any* Alpha specific work. Ron pgpnBT166XfR0.pgp Description: PGP signature

rc

2000-08-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Am Mon, 07 Aug 2000 13:43:30 Juli-Manel Merino Vidal Sie: > Hi all, > > I've been trying to add a script (to load a keymap) in the boot > sequence, and at last, I found where I should put this stuff. > > Why the rc script is in /libexec/rc ? And why is not the boot method a > System V one, as De

Floppy drive... slow

2000-08-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi, what happens with the floppy drive access ? It's really slow... I've done a dd from an image file to a floppy disk and it needed a LOT of time... -- Juli-Manel Merino Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Become a GNU! (http://www.gnu.org) Running D

rc

2000-08-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, I've been trying to add a script (to load a keymap) in the boot sequence, and at last, I found where I should put this stuff. Why the rc script is in /libexec/rc ? And why is not the boot method a System V one, as Debian GNU/Linux is ? Thanks -- Juli-Manel Merino Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: GNU GRUB 0.5.95 boot image available

2000-08-07 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) Subject: Re: GNU GRUB 0.5.95 boot image available Date: 05 Aug 2000 13:40:18 +0200 > When speaking about GRUB, I have a possibly stupid question: Are there > any plans to extend GRUB to support other architectures? Yes. Because I have a sparc64 machine and

Re: cross-install needs C locale to work properly.

2000-08-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Am Mon, 07 Aug 2000 12:36:17 Santiago Vila Sie: > cross-install does not work properly if the locale is different than C, > because it considers every non-english dpkg message as "unusual", and > it fails. Yep. I am currently patching cross-install and producing a new tar file. Expect more tomor

cross-install needs C locale to work properly.

2000-08-07 Thread Santiago Vila
Greetings. cross-install does not work properly if the locale is different than C, because it considers every non-english dpkg message as "unusual", and it fails. Either LANG=C (or LC_ALL=C) is added to cross-install, or else it should not consider unusual messages as a fatal error. Note: This i

Re: WARNING don't install e2fsprogs 1.19

2000-08-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Marcus Brinkmann writes: > On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 02:24:19AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > This needs to be fixed, but in the meanwhile: stay away. > > And please put in the easy guide: > > mke2fs -O sparse_super -o hurd /dev/xxx I have done this (thanks for the Cc Marcus). My

Re: gnu mach/hurd on Alpha, update!

2000-08-07 Thread Niels Möller
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some of you may remember me inquiring about gnu hurd/mach on the Alpha. I > have recently started working on it (after finding the original CMU > sources) and am now working with Christopher C. Chimelis > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on it. Currently we are just wor