Re: Hurd TWiki forum - hosting

2002-05-11 Thread Ryan M. Golbeck
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AFAIK you can't host a domain name with a dinamical IP address. You > want a static IP to host the DNS, but standard DNS servers offered > by your domain registrar are not as flexible as free (as in freedom and > price) services like dyndns.org (they tak

Re: fakeroot inquiry

2002-05-03 Thread Ryan M. Golbeck
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was thinking of a hurdish alternative to fakeroot. What we need is > just a way of chown files to any user without having root proviledges. I don't think being able to chown files to any user is a good idea. Think about filling up someone's disk quota

Re: Cannot install HURD: bsdutils missing

2002-05-02 Thread Ryan M. Golbeck
Andreas Rottmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm right now trying to install the HURD (once again :-)), but when > executing /.coss-install /gnu --download ' it complains about > now finding bsdutils. I checked the main archive and it's really not > there ('ls pool/main/u/util-linux/*hurd*' yiel

Re: fstab (was Re: instalation)

2002-04-28 Thread Ryan M. Golbeck
Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hurd:~# df > df: cannot read table of mounted filesystems This is normal. The Hurd doesn't have a central listing of mounted filesystems. If you want to check the disk usage on a filesystem just point df to anywhere in it. For example: df /hom

Re: usage of reserved C++-keyword in cthreads.h

2002-02-13 Thread Ryan M. Golbeck
Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is a lot more difficult for C++ parser to accomodate > non-portable C code. IMO, all proper C code should compile with > a C++ compiler. I wonder what you think of C99 then? Ryan -- Ryan Golbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Computer Science, University Of Wa

Re: Xdm make my screen black (was: X11 failled to run ...)

2001-12-08 Thread Ryan M. Golbeck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I do well follow your howto but when I launch: > "kill -HUP 66 (the pid of runttys)" > the following message comes: > "/hurd/init: /libexec/runsystem terminated abnormaly (segmentation fault) > [snip] > > And finaly after a reboot, I got the message: > "/libexec/runsyst

Re: question about booting hurd

2001-12-05 Thread Ryan M. Golbeck
Juanjo Marín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > root (hd0,5) > kernel /boot/gnumach.gz -s root=hd0s6 > module /hurd/ext2fs.static --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} > module /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec $(exec-task=task-create) To use this method, your root= must look like this: root=device:

Re: Xdm make my screen black (was: X11 failled to run ...)

2001-12-04 Thread Ryan M. Golbeck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 2. Does it exist a way to have access to a serial consol to try to take back > the > control of the box to avoid the hard reboot? See http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/thug/serial-howto.txt and search this list and you will find relevant information to getting this setu

Re: question about booting hurd

2001-12-03 Thread Ryan M. Golbeck
Juanjo Marín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but on Matthew Vernon's 'The easy guide to installing Hurd on a Linux > box' these commands aren't mentioned Neal's guide is much more update, follow it's instructions. Ryan -- Ryan Golbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Computer Science University Of Waterloo

Login shell on serial port

2001-11-21 Thread Ryan M. Golbeck
Hey I wrote up a small doc on putting a login shell on your serial port so that you can login from another box. The document is here: http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/thug/serial-howto.txt Be warned that in the current Hurd package there is a bug in runttys that will cause a segfault if you hav

Re: Login Shell on Serial port

2001-11-17 Thread Ryan M. Golbeck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ryan M. Golbeck) writes: > I'm trying to get gnumach to start a login shell on the serial port. > > I have uncommented the line in /etc/ttys that reads: > com0 "/libexec/getty 9600" dialup onsecure > > On reboot, runsystem se

Login Shell on Serial port

2001-11-17 Thread Ryan M. Golbeck
Hello, I'm trying to get gnumach to start a login shell on the serial port. I have uncommented the line in /etc/ttys that reads: com0 "/libexec/getty 9600" dialup onsecure On reboot, runsystem segfaulted with the following error: /libexec/runsystem: line 140: 90 Segmentation