Re: Fw: linux newbie

2007-01-15 Thread Ben Scott
[replying on-list to an off-list reply, with the author's permission) On 1/15/07, mike miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I was working as root when building the driver, so that wasn't the problem. I'll try your suggestion on fixing the broken links. Worst case I can just reinstall fc6

impromptu web server using netcat

2007-01-15 Thread Ric Werme
Most of you are probably familiar with the ever useful TCP/IP utility netcat (often /usr/bin/nc). I'm not sure where netcat came from, I didn't hear about it until a year or two ago, and only tried it once or twice. A predecessor (or completely independent) program, ttcp has a similar feature,

TIP: yum hangs on futex()

2007-01-15 Thread Bill McGonigle
Since a server locked up a couple weeks ago yum would just hang trying to do anything. I decided to tackle it today. Doing an strace revealed the hang was after opening the files in /var/ lib/rpm and yum was waiting on a futex() call. To make a long story short, it turns out RPM uses a

Re: Fw: linux newbie

2007-01-15 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:30:39AM -0500, Ben Scott wrote: [replying on-list to an off-list reply, with the author's permission) Sometimes, the package(s) you need will be mentioned in the installation instructions or release notes. More often, the developer assumes that every computer in

Re: TIP: yum hangs on futex()

2007-01-15 Thread Michael ODonnell
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Re: TIP: yum hangs on futex()

2007-01-15 Thread Ben Scott
On 1/15/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doing an strace revealed the hang was after opening the files in /var/ lib/rpm and yum was waiting on a futex() call. Gah! On one of my boxen, I had built a custom kernel to solve some unrelated, odd problem. When I built the kernel, I

All software sucks (was: linux newbie)

2007-01-15 Thread Ben Scott
On 1/15/07, Christopher Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More often, the developer assumes that every computer in the world has the exact same configuration as his own computer. Or that author doesn't have the resources to start 'clean' and find out what exactly installs all the pieces he's

Re: TIP: yum hangs on futex()

2007-01-15 Thread Michael ODonnell
Doing an strace revealed the hang was after opening the files in /var/ lib/rpm and yum was waiting on a futex() call. The fact that some process is blocked in futex() is probably a red-herring, a second-order effect of whatever the *real* problem is, one of those situations where the waiter

Re: Fw: linux newbie

2007-01-15 Thread Michael ODonnell
When I type import Cheetah in Python, I don't know what debian packages I'm depending on -- even if I were to look in obvious places, i'ts likely I'd miss something. Debian has apt-rdepends, which can recursively show the dependencies for a given package. Example results for bash:

Re: Link2VoIP Announcement

2007-01-15 Thread aluminumsulfate
I just came across this announcement that voice-over-IP provider Link2VoIP plans to terminate their support for IAX at the end of February (2007). For those who don't know, IAX is the Inter-Asterisk eXchange protocol used by Asterisk, the open source PBX. Fortunately, Asterisk already supports

Re: Link2VoIP Announcement

2007-01-15 Thread Brian Chabot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also have wonder what the Asterisk team (the creators of IAX) think about Link2VoIP calling IAX2 unstable. Looks like BroadVoice still likes Asterisk: http://www.broadvoice.com/support_install_asterisk.html ...but then they also use SIP pretty exclusively...

Re: Fw: linux newbie

2007-01-15 Thread Ben Scott
On 1/15/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian has apt-rdepends, which can recursively show the dependencies for a given package. FYI, rpm -q --requires packagename does a similar thing for RPM-based systems. RPM generally considers a package to implicitly depends on the

Re: Fw: linux newbie

2007-01-15 Thread Brian Chabot
Ben Scott wrote: FYI, rpm -q --requires packagename does a similar thing for RPM-based systems. In Mandriva Linux, urpmi does that (in theory) automatically (from the man page): The purpose of urpmi is to install rpm packages, including all their dependencies. You can also use