Re: grammar correction chap 4.1 LFS 6.6

2010-03-11 Thread Mike Lynch
stosss wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Mike Lynch mjly...@mchsi.com wrote: stosss wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:32 PM, stosss sto...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Brians Emeritus Professor of English Washington State University If the word following begins with a vowel

Re: grammar correction chap 4.1 LFS 6.6

2010-03-10 Thread Mike Lynch
stosss wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:32 PM, stosss sto...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Brians Emeritus Professor of English Washington State University If the word following begins with a vowel sound, the word you want is “an”: “Have an apple, Adam.” If the word following begins with a

Re: RE: fsck.ext3:devices or resource bu sy while try to open /dev/sdb

2009-10-26 Thread Mike Lynch
The message is usually seen when attempting to dismount a drive that has a file that is still open by a process. You can usually use lsof and ps to figure out which process has a file open on the device. kevin631012 wrote: Hi All, I got a problem as title . what I am thinking is what kind of

Re: cp foo{,.bak} not always supported

2008-06-01 Thread Mike Lynch
Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 02:52:30PM +0200, Gilles Espinasse wrote: It has been reported on ipcop-devel list that cp foo{,.bak} contruction is broken on Ubuntu-8.04 This was on expect instructions cp configure{,.bak} cp: missing destination file operand after

Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?

2008-02-26 Thread Mike Lynch
My 2 cents is going to have to go towards keeping the LiveCD. I find it very useful to use for building LFS on target systems that don't already have a Linux distro installed. Several have suggested that a liveCD from a different distro could be used but I suspect finding one with all of the

Re: Thanks to devs

2007-09-06 Thread Mike Lynch
Randy McMurchy wrote: Mike Lynch wrote these words on 08/16/07 21:06 CST: I agree, configuring it for high security SNMPv3 with ACL's is not trivial. I could probably provide some configurations for SNMPv1 that, while they wouldn't be appropriate for high security installations, would

Thanks to devs

2007-08-16 Thread Mike Lynch
I've been working with *nix since the early 80's and have been using linux since the early 90's. It's only been during the past 5 years or so that I have been using linux exclusively. I've always been curious as to what it takes to create a linux system from the sources and never really had the

Re: Thanks to devs

2007-08-16 Thread Mike Lynch
Randy McMurchy wrote: snip Thanks for writing in. I too use it, as do thousands (perhaps millions by now) of other people. Some in mission-critical installations. It's probably time that BLFS put it in the book. However, configuration of such a package is a stiff thing. You must do a bunch

Re: An idea for a new development model

2007-08-15 Thread Mike Lynch
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Greg Schafer wrote: Pacman rules!!! :-) Oops, sorry, back on topic. I guess Slackware scripts could be adapted judging by the content at Jaguar Linux: http://www.jaguarlinux.com/ Thanks for the link. Indeed, it looks that a lot of work has been