Re: Passwd expire

2000-08-17 Thread Tony Nugent
On Thu Aug 17 2000 at 15:18, "Murugan Krishnan" wrote: > When I do su - I am getting message "your passwd will expire in -1 days". > > even if I change the passwd it come out with the same message. Does it mean > my passwd will expire tomorow ?. How do I fix this. man 8 adduser man 5 passwd m

Raid5 Install on FTP

2000-08-17 Thread Kirk Whiting
How do you get RedHat 6.2 to install from FTP and make the Raid5 array (Linux Raid). Disk druid is no help there is no button 'make raid' int the console version. I have all the partitions defined with fdisk how in console install do i tell it to build the array. The regular GUI install works grea

Documentation bug for 'gendiff'

2000-08-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
Before editing a file, copy the file, appending the exten sion you have chosen to the filename. I.e. if you were going to edit somefile.cpp, copy it to somefile.cpp.save before editing it. Then edit the first copy (some file.cpp). After edit

Re: tty control on bootup

2000-08-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Eric H. Majzoub wrote: >Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:54:29 -0500 (CDT) >From: Eric H. Majzoub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Development RedHat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: tty control on bootup > >Hi, > >I had a power outage and upon reboot, after the filesystems underwent >automati

tty control on bootup

2000-08-17 Thread Eric H. Majzoub
Hi, I had a power outage and upon reboot, after the filesystems underwent automatic repair, there is garbage on tty1 and tty2. I can kill them, let them respawn, and then they are fine. I can't seem to find any file(s) that got mangled. It now shows garbage on these ttys whenever the machine r

Passwd expire

2000-08-17 Thread Murugan Krishnan
When I do su - I am getting message "your passwd will expire in -1 days". even if I change the passwd it come out with the same message. Does it mean my passwd will expire tomorow ?. How do I fix this. Thanks Murugan ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing

Re: binary packages to include specs

2000-08-17 Thread John Summerfield
> > >[summer@emu summer]$ rpm -qif /usr/bin/rpmbuilder > >Name: rpmbuilder Relocations: /usr > >Version : 0.5 Vendor: (none) > >Release : 2mdk Build Date: Sat May 13 08:52:19 > >2000 > >Install date: Tue J

Re: Bugzilla client frontend project idea discussion..

2000-08-17 Thread Adrian Likins
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:40:26AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, John Summerfield wrote: > > If I wrote such a beast, it would be straight C, with an API to > plugin various frontends to such as discussed above. That way it > works everywhere. You install the frontend for

Re: binary packages to include specs

2000-08-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, John Summerfield wrote: >> >Mike >> >Just what's in a src.rpm that's so useful that is NOT in the spec file? >> >> Umm... the source code? Depends on what you mean by "useful" I > >Of course, if you want the source get the src.rpm. Yes, but often it is also needed to under

Re: binary packages to include specs

2000-08-17 Thread John Summerfield
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, John Summerfield wrote: > > > >Mike > >Just what's in a src.rpm that's so useful that is NOT in the spec file? > > Umm... the source code? Depends on what you mean by "useful" I Of course, if you want the source get the src.rpm. > > 1) We might be able to build a new

Re: binary packages to include specs

2000-08-17 Thread John Summerfield
> John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Just what's in a src.rpm that's so useful that is NOT in the spec file? > > Patches? You don't need them to see how it was built;-) Well, not unless it was configured by patching, and I HAVE seen that done. Anything else?

Re: Bugzilla client frontend project idea discussion..

2000-08-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, John Summerfield wrote: >> If I wrote such a beast, it would be straight C, with an API to >> plugin various frontends to such as discussed above. That way it >> works everywhere. You install the frontend for your prefered >> environment. No reliance on perl/tcl/tk/python

Re: Rawhide mysql in RH 6.2?

2000-08-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Cristian Paslaru wrote: >->> I'm currently needing mysql for building the caudium webserver >->> package, and I am downloading the Rawhide .src.rpm to build in >->> Red Hat 6.2. >->> >->> Are there any guidelines I should be aware of when >->> building? I've got RPM version

Re: binary packages to include specs

2000-08-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, John Summerfield wrote: >> 1 in 10 users that look at 1-5 out of the 2000 .spec files >> that would be installed, would then have to get some src.rpm code >> likely to get going anyway. After they've learned what they >> could from the spec file (about 15 seconds worth)

Re: Bugzilla client frontend project idea discussion..

2000-08-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, John Summerfield wrote: >> Relying on tonnes of external stuff being installed for a bug >> reporting app is asking for a smaller list of bug reports. TCL >> should be burned off the face of the earth IMHO... but that is >> just because 99% of all TCL apps crash horribly or

RE: vger disappearance?????

2000-08-17 Thread Copeland, Matthew
vger has had a drive failure. Matthew M. Copeland ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list

Re: binary packages to include specs

2000-08-17 Thread Alan Shutko
John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just what's in a src.rpm that's so useful that is NOT in the spec file? Patches? -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! 86 days, 2 hours, 26 minutes, 25 seconds till we run away. Be security conscious -- National defense is

Re: Rawhide mysql in RH 6.2?

2000-08-17 Thread Cristian Paslaru
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote: ->> I'm currently needing mysql for building the caudium webserver ->> package, and I am downloading the Rawhide .src.rpm to build in ->> Red Hat 6.2. ->> ->> Are there any guidelines I should be aware of when ->> building? I've got RPM version 3.0.5 i

Rawhide mysql in RH 6.2?

2000-08-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
I'm currently needing mysql for building the caudium webserver package, and I am downloading the Rawhide .src.rpm to build in Red Hat 6.2. Are there any guidelines I should be aware of when building? I've got RPM version 3.0.5 installed, and the rest of the system is pretty much 6.2 + updates.

Re: XFree86

2000-08-17 Thread John Summerfield
> Does anyone know where I can get XFree86 4.0.1 rpms? Rpmfind doesn't have > any. > I've been pulling the src.rpm from the pinstripe collection at ftp.redhat.com You may wish to get xconfigurator from there too. ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing lis

Re: Bugzilla client frontend project idea discussion..

2000-08-17 Thread John Summerfield
> > If I wrote such a beast, it would be straight C, with an API to > plugin various frontends to such as discussed above. That way it > works everywhere. You install the frontend for your prefered > environment. No reliance on perl/tcl/tk/python or whatever... Speed of the app is completel

Re: binary packages to include specs

2000-08-17 Thread John Summerfield
> > Even if the .spec files _were_ installed with every package, the > 1 in 10 users that look at 1-5 out of the 2000 .spec files > that would be installed, would then have to get some src.rpm code > likely to get going anyway. After they've learned what they > could from the spec file (abo

Re: binary packages to include specs + script

2000-08-17 Thread John Summerfield
> > Or better yet, take all the .spec's and put them in one big > > tarball to download, or heck - even an RPM. > > > > rpm -ivh specs-6.2.i386.rpm > very good ideea! > Won't tell you how Henri G built tomcat at Falsehope. ___ Redhat-devel-list

Re: Bugzilla client frontend project idea discussion..

2000-08-17 Thread John Summerfield
;-) Shouldn't this be [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Relying on tonnes of external stuff being installed for a bug > reporting app is asking for a smaller list of bug reports. TCL > should be burned off the face of the earth IMHO... but that is > just because 99% of all TCL apps crash horribly or are in

Re: binary packages to include specs

2000-08-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Levente Farkas wrote: >> >> >I think it would be a good idea that binary packages (built with rpm) to >> >> >automagically include the spec file (and to place it under >> >> >/usr/doc/package.../). This is helpfull in 2 situations: >> >> > - as an inspiration for new package

Re: binary packages to include specs

2000-08-17 Thread Levente Farkas
"Mike A. Harris" wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, John Summerfield wrote: > > >> >I think it would be a good idea that binary packages (built with rpm) to > >> >automagically include the spec file (and to place it under > >> >/usr/doc/package.../). This is helpfull in 2 situations: > >> > - as an