Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

; # Add necessary new display entries to .Xauthority file. xauth -v add "${eth0}:${xdpnum}" "${access}" "${mcookie}" xauth -v add "${host}:${xdpnum}" "${access}" "${mcookie}" xauth -v add "${host}/unix:${xdpnum}" "${access}" "${mcookie}" Why does anyone need to read megabytes of urandom? If it really is random, then 16 bytes should be enough. -- Jeff Sheinberg

Re: db3 configure dies at kill?

. How about using this construct to access the arguments, as it is more portable, exec kill [EMAIL PROTECTED]"$@"} since Korn shells (pdksh & ksh93) will give a "parameter not found" error for "$@" when the argument count ($#) is equal to zero. -- Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: cross compile gnumach and hurd

es passive translators on ufs partitions, as ext2fs needs to be created with the -O hurd option in order for passive translators to work. -- Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Sharing swap with FreeBSD

Well, not quite. The Hurd can use Linux swap partitions, but *BSD cannot use Linux swap partitions, because they are not `configured'! -- Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Timezone question

ough so that the choices are obvious. One also must run the `tzconfig' program to inform the system of the current time zone in use. However, the `/etc/default/rcS' file is a part of the `sysvinit' package, and I don't exactly know what its status is under the HURD. HTH, -- Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

bug in `cross-install'

Hi, I like the auto download feature, thankx. I encountered the following error message when installing from scratch, Preparing /etc/hosts. Installing terminfo entry for mach. uudecode: usr/share/terminfo/m/mach: stdin: No such file or directory This is due to trying to fix some klu

Re: new web pages

gnu pages are not this bright white. Thanks, -- Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: GRUB for Debian in general?

, and allows one to chose the scheme that she finds the least/most confusing! I would also like to point out the area where grub is more flexible than lilo - grub has much less reliance on statically calculated data. Grub locates partitions, kernel images, and files at run time, whereas l

Re: deb_{install,remove}

can > soon use a native dpkg on the Hurd. :) The latest versions of deb_{install,remove} are attached to this email. I hope I got most of the bugs out. I had some fun when I removed mount, login, reboot, umount from my running system. I am a devotee of Foghorn Leghorn,