Re: [expert] rc.local Contains a "Freeze-system line"

2000-03-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, you wrote: > On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Eric wrote: > > > I don't believe my win-modem is actually Linux usable, but was unable to > > test, as the Kernels didn't match (apparently the binary I got works on > > Red-Hat 6.1 only). > > > > No "winmodem" works with linux. They are ve

Re: [expert] rc.local Contains a "Freeze-system line"

2000-03-03 Thread Frank Arnold
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Eric wrote: > I don't believe my win-modem is actually Linux usable, but was unable to > test, as the Kernels didn't match (apparently the binary I got works on > Red-Hat 6.1 only). > No "winmodem" works with linux. They are very small cards that require windows software t

Re: [expert] rc.local Contains a "Freeze-system line"

2000-03-03 Thread Eric
Thanx all, I was able to use the Floppy-disk Linux to edit the file : http://www.toms.net/rb I don't believe my win-modem is actually Linux usable, but was unable to test, as the Kernels didn't match (apparently the binary I got works on Red-Hat 6.1 only). But, sometimes you get lucky, so I was

Re: [expert] rc.local Contains a "Freeze-system line"

2000-03-01 Thread Rial Juan
Tried "linux single" yet? Although I doubt it'll help. What you could do is boot from a floppy, mount your filesys, edit rc.local and then reboot from HDD. ps: perhaps the most simple way is to just boot in "interactive mode" (you know... When it prompts you to press "I" to enter interactive mo

Re: [expert] rc.local Contains a "Freeze-system line"

2000-03-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, you wrote: > I was playing around with installing some lin-modem drivers which > claimed they might work (hey, right on!), and I ran a script which > inserted a couple lines to the end of rc.local. > > Now, after rebooting, the system freezes after the last line of MY doing >

Re: [expert] rc.local Contains a "Freeze-system line"

2000-03-01 Thread Bug Hunter
most likely this is due to causing a program to run that is not a daemon program, and you have not put it into the background. this will cause this effect: foo this will not cause this effect: foo & bug On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Eric wrote: > I was playing around with installing some lin-m

RE: [expert] rc.local Contains a "Freeze-system line"

2000-03-01 Thread RNDr. Peter FREIMANN
try "linux 1" at the LILO prompt p.f. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eric Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 20:20 To: lin list Subject: [expert] rc.local Contains a "Freeze-system line" I was playing around with

Re: [expert] rc.local Contains a "Freeze-system line"

2000-03-01 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
; From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: lin list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [expert] rc.local Contains a "Freeze-system line" > > I was playing around with installing some lin-modem drivers which > claimed they might work (hey, r

[expert] rc.local Contains a "Freeze-system line"

2000-03-01 Thread Eric
I was playing around with installing some lin-modem drivers which claimed they might work (hey, right on!), and I ran a script which inserted a couple lines to the end of rc.local. Now, after rebooting, the system freezes after the last line of MY doing in rc.local (right after an echo command, s