I'm trying to upgrade rpm 4.1 that comes standard with
red hat 8.0 to rpm 4.2.
rpm 4.1 has some bugs that don't allow
relocation and don't set certain scripting parameters
like RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX.
It is also rumored that rpm 4.1 will
cause problems with the rawhide glibc-2.3.1-XX
(which is giving
I'm wondering about nameserver config.
Specifically, caching. It seems like my provider,
road runner, hardly does any. For example,
I repeatedly request the page news.google.com.
I imagine many other hawaii customers do the same
thing every day. Yet, this entry is not cached
in their dns. Is this e
> > I've recently installed rh8 and am getting some funny output
> > with man if I ssh or telnet into the box.
>
> Try setting 'LANG=C' in your environment before running man.
>
> -Vince
Thanks Vince,
that did it.
Hi,
I've recently installed rh8 and am getting some funny output
with man if I ssh or telnet into the box. I've tried it with
windows telnet, secure crt as vt100, secure shell as xterm,
and cygwin ssh with TERM=cygwin.
The output appears fine if I use the box as a workstation,
either under x or i
Hi Charles.
are you checking for spurious wakeups in your threads?
(using a while loop and a custom flag like:
pthread_mutex_lock(&t_lock);
while (!t_cond_flag) {
err = pthread_cond_wait(&t_cond, &t_lock);
if (err) { whatever }
}
//do work
t_cond_flag = 0;
pthread_mutex_unlock(&t_loc
