Re: gcc 3.0.2

2001-12-29 Thread Chang
Is there really an embargo on gcc 3.0.2 (as suggested by someone in the list weeks ago)? Could I download it from Hongkong? :) I just upgrade the gcc in workstation 3.1 to 2.95.3 this afternoon, using tarball. In an attempt to upgrade the gcc to 3.0.2 and such I've somehow managed to break it

Re: Request for Assistance - Consulting Opportunity For Pay

2001-12-29 Thread Collins Richey
On Friday 28 December 2001 09:44 pm, you wrote: Hello: Since I have great respect for the opinions and knowledge of the individuals on these lists, I'm humbly asking for your help. I've got the following problem: Linux 2.4.13 system GCC 2.95.3 In an attempt to upgrade the gcc to 3.0.2

Re: gcc 3.0.2

2001-12-29 Thread kwall
On December 29, Chang enlightened our ignorance thusly: Is there really an embargo on gcc 3.0.2 (as suggested by someone in the list weeks ago)? Could I download it from Hongkong? :) No. I'm not aware of any embargo on gcc 3.0.2. In fact, gcc 3.0.3 was just released early this week or late

Re: Request for Assistance - Consulting Opportunity For Pay

2001-12-29 Thread kwall
On December 29, Collins Richey enlightened our ignorance thusly: Others will be able to help you get back to the status quo ante. Be advised, I've never heard of any good results using the gcc 3... compiler. I'm fairly sure that the compiler is indded broken, although you may have

Re: Request for Assistance - Consulting Opportunity For Pay

2001-12-29 Thread kwall
[Posted and emailed] On December 28, George Kasica enlightened our ignorance thusly: Hello: Since I have great respect for the opinions and knowledge of the individuals on these lists, I'm humbly asking for your help. I've got the following problem: Linux 2.4.13 system GCC 2.95.3

Re: Request for Assistance - Consulting Opportunity For Pay

2001-12-29 Thread Dave Anselmi
Sorry for cross posting, but maybe this will be interesting on both. Does anyone know of any lists that discuss reliability and disaster recovery? I have some ideas below, but they are from my experience only. George Kasica wrote: [...] What I'm asking is: Is there ANYONE out there that know

Re: Request for Assistance - Consulting Opportunity For Pay

2001-12-29 Thread Collins Richey
On Saturday 29 December 2001 08:39 am, you wrote: On December 29, Collins Richey enlightened our ignorance thusly: Others will be able to help you get back to the status quo ante. Be advised, I've never heard of any good results using the gcc 3... compiler. I'm fairly sure that the

Re: OTPalm pilots under linux (was: Re: More SxS Steps)

2001-12-29 Thread Alan Jackson
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 06:09:51 -0800 (PST) Susan Macchia wrote: Mike, There are a bunch of tools written, do a man of pilot-link. I use pilot-xfer to simply sync/backup my pilot w/ no GUI (again, man pilot-xfer). Go to jpilot.org to see a really sweet GUI. They have a great user list.

Re: OTPalm pilots under linux (was: Re: More SxS Steps)

2001-12-29 Thread Dave Anselmi
Alan Jackson wrote: [...] I have a cryptic note that I assume is related to setting up jpilot : ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/pilot chmod 777 /dev/pilot chmod 777 /dev/ttyS1 The mode of /dev/pilot is irrelevant since it is a symlink. They show as 777 as soon as the link is created anyway. The

Re: Request for Assistance - Consulting Opportunity For Pay

2001-12-29 Thread Net Llama
I really have to agree with Dave on this. I can think of alot of ways to recover from this, and unless you have money to burn, you really don't need a consultant to help you do it. But if you still feel differently, and haven't found anyone for the job, i'll gladly take up the flag. Contact me

Re: OTPalm pilots under linux (was: Re: More SxS Steps)

2001-12-29 Thread Mike Andrew
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 05:43, Alan Jackson wrote: Susan wrote Kurt Wrote Folks, this is good stuff and thank you, 75% of an SxS is not so much how to do it, but, in fact, confirmation that it can be done, even and especially when it's simple. I'll put a small blurb of collated material

Re: Playing with a webcam

2001-12-29 Thread David Aikema
On December 29, 2001 02:39 pm, Mike Andrew wrote: I also keep getting a message box on startup telling me that I should save echo -noxv $HOME/(dot)xawtv Then when starting up I get: /home/david/.xawtv:1: syntax error David Aikema ___

Re: Request for Assistance - Consulting Opportunity For Pay

2001-12-29 Thread Mike Andrew
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 05:12, Collins Richey wrote: rant It would surely be nice if the compiler and library folks could make progress without breaking old things. I still remember (not too fondly) all the havoc that the current glibc generated when it was new. /rant double rant squared THE

glibc (Was Re: Request for Assistance...)

2001-12-29 Thread kwall
On December 30, Mike Andrew enlightened our ignorance thusly: On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 05:12, Collins Richey wrote: rant It would surely be nice if the compiler and library folks could make progress without breaking old things. I still remember (not too fondly) all the havoc that the current

elx linux evaluation continued

2001-12-29 Thread Collins Richey
Well, my beloved gentoo distro has become somewhat unstable, so I've switched back to elx at least temporarily. A few notes: 1) I've stripped out some of the offending daemons, so startup/shutdown is a little faster. Still looking at removing others, but going slow to avoid breaking anything.

DNS server won't start in eD2.4

2001-12-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
This is very odd. My 'named' server won't start from SysV. It won't start from a root shell if I try # cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d # ./S10named start However, it will start if I do it by sourcing the file: # . ./S10named start I presume the difference is something it needs from

RE: elx linux evaluation continued

2001-12-29 Thread gsublett
On 30-Dec-01 Collins Richey wrote: [snip] 5) Unlike every distro I've used in the past, elx does not include the telinit command, so the only way I could switch to run level 3 was to edit /etc/inittab and reboot. [snip] telinit is just a link to init -- Gary 2:58pm up 40

Re: DNS server won't start in eD2.4

2001-12-29 Thread Dave Anselmi
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: This is very odd. My 'named' server won't start from SysV. It won't start from a root shell if I try # cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d # ./S10named start Does it produce any output doing that? However, it will start if I do it by sourcing the file: # .

Re: DNS server won't start in eD2.4

2001-12-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 06:13:58PM -0700, Dave Anselmi wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: This is very odd. My 'named' server won't start from SysV. It won't start from a root shell if I try # cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d # ./S10named start Does it produce any output doing

Re: elx linux evaluation continued

2001-12-29 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Saturday 29 December 2001 04:36 pm, you wrote: 4) Most of my problems with the 2.4.17 kernel are not compiler related, but rather due to the elx default kernel config compiling everything under the sun. When I backed out to my standard config, even the much maligned (by me) gcc3

Re: DNS server won't start in eD2.4

2001-12-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 08:23:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On December 29, Kevin O'Gorman enlightened our ignorance thusly: This is very odd. My 'named' server won't start from SysV. It won't start from a root shell if I try # cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d # ./S10named start

Re: elx linux evaluation continued

2001-12-29 Thread Collins Richey
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 17:28:42 -0800 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 December 2001 04:36 pm, you wrote: 4) Most of my problems with the 2.4.17 kernel are not compiler related, but rather due to the elx default kernel config compiling everything under the sun. When I

RE: gcc 3.0.2

2001-12-29 Thread lesley
What is gcc 3.0.2 ??? A linux Platform??? -Original Message- ??? : Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?? : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?? : 2001?12?29? 21:52 ?? : Re: gcc 3.0.2 Is there really an embargo on gcc 3.0.2 (as suggested by someone in the list weeks ago)? Could I download it from

Re: gcc 3.0.2

2001-12-29 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sunday 30 December 2001 12:33 am, lesley observed: What is gcc 3.0.2 ??? A linux Platform??? Its an essential part of any running linux distro. -- Keith Antoine aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer,

RE: gcc 3.0.2

2001-12-29 Thread Net Llama
gcc = gnu compiler collection Without it, you can't build new software. --- lesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is gcc 3.0.2 ??? A linux Platform??? -Original Message- ??? : Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?? : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?? : 2001?12?29? 21:52 ?? : Re: gcc 3.0.2

[submission] ftp - ftp_server (Joel Hammer)

2001-12-29 Thread toylet =?x-user-defined?q?=5Blinuxism=5D=5B=A4p=AA=B1=B7N=5D?=
I just want to improve the readability in the 2nd article on the webpage ftp - ftp_server (joel hammer) begin irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set the local timezone into your xferlog or syslog, you need to copy the zoneinfo file to the ~ftp tree. In general, /etc/localtime is a link to

Re: Playing with a webcam

2001-12-29 Thread Mike Andrew
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 10:58, David Aikema wrote: echo -noxv $HOME/(dot)xawtv Then when starting up I get: /home/david/.xawtv:1: syntax error That was a fix provided for me by the immortal D Bandel. if it troubles you echo $HOME/(dot)xawtv -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

More Steps 30th Dec

2001-12-29 Thread Mike Andrew
BEDTIME READING -Hardware Driver API's and Technical Briefs - CDROM API Kernel Driver Description (new)             Userland Driver source code IEEE1284 Parallel Interface     The LS120 parallel Interface protocol .      The Zip parallel Interface protocols.