Re: [expert] shutdown..

2000-03-22 Thread Rene Scott
On Mar 21 Lane Lester wrote: > It interests me that, when people ask about shutting down, advice is > often given about shutdown with added parameters. Is there any down side > to using "reboot"? -ksh: reboot: not found [No such file or directory] I.e. not all system have a reboot/halt command.

Re: [expert] error message

2000-03-20 Thread Rene Scott
On Mar 19 Wayne wrote: > Anyone shed anylight on what this means? > > > /usr/X11R6/bin/abiword: line 34: 4043 Segmentation fault (core dumped) > $ABISUITE_HOME/bin/AbiWord_d "$@" Hi, abiword received a signal SIGSEGV (11), because tried to store a value in a const object or tried to a

Re: [expert] Kernel Compile

2000-03-12 Thread Rene Scott
Hi, change the HOSTCFLAGS in /usr/src/linux/Makefile and CFLAGS_NSR/CFLAGS in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/Makefile to -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -Wall and avoid using any optimized compiler, use gcc-2.7.2.3 or 2.95.2 if you want a stable kernel. Rene On Mar 12 Tom Berkley wrote: > B

Re: [expert] Kernel Compilation

2000-03-12 Thread Rene Scott
Hi, please see the klogd(8) manual page for info about the System.map file. On Mar 12 Tom Berkley wrote: > No, the System.map in boot in not affected by a kernel compilation. The > System.map in /usr/src/linux ( or wherever you installed the source) is updated. > I'm thinking that the System.ma

Re: [expert] problem starting notes-server with new kernel

2000-03-10 Thread Rene Scott
Hi, maybe the output from strace is helpful. strace -o outputfile /opt/lotus/bin/server and look for failed syscalls, eg., open("configfile", O_RDONLY) = -1 -1 is error, 0 or greather after the '=' is success. Hope this helps, Rene Today Harald Wolf wrote: > Hi, > > i had to create a

Re: [expert] troff / .mm -> something modern

2000-03-10 Thread Rene Scott
Hi, try with mm2html/troff2html from the ast-open packege from AT&T, http://www.research.att.com/sw/download (source & binary). Rene On Mar 9 Linda Walsh wrote: > John Aldrich wrote: > > > > On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, you wrote: > > > I have some old unix docs that were written for troff -

Re: [expert] Port 25 / 119 messges

2000-02-26 Thread Rene Scott
Hi, for sendmail edit the sendmail.cf file directly, eg., O SmtpGreetingMessage=$j I'm not Sendmail; $b - or - add define(`confSMTP_LOGIN_MSG', `$j ObscureMTA; $b')dnl to the sendmail.mc file and rebuild the .cf file. And read http://www.sendmail.org/m4/tweakingoptions.html. And don't know abou

Re: [expert] mdk.rpm vs .rpm

2000-02-22 Thread Rene Scott
Hi, try rpm --nodeps ..., and check out rpm(8). Rene On Feb 21 seanc wrote: > Many packages assume normal naming and not the mdk added so dependancies > for rpms aren't realized even though they exist. > > eg. gnome-pilot,gnome-pim (as they were looking for gnome-pim dependancies > th

Re: [expert] Compiling the Kernel

2000-02-22 Thread Rene Scott
Hi, Today Dennis Robertson wrote: > Hello List, > > I have made several attempts to compile the kernel in LM7.0, both from > the headers, source and ncurses on the distro and from the 2.2.14 kernel > from kernel.org. Previous attempts with LM6.1 were successful. > > At the end of 'make bzImag

Re: [expert] Rotate logs

2000-02-22 Thread Rene Scott
Hi, see logrotate(8), /etc/cron.daily/logrotate, /etc/logrotate.d. Rene Today Eric L. Damron wrote: > What controls when and which logs get rotated? I would like to be able > to add logs of my own and alter the time that they are rotated. > > > Thanks > > -- UNIX was never desig