In _C_, determining if an interface is up or not.

I am trying to write a small network application in C, however it needs to determine wether or not a given network interface is up and running or not. Since it is in _C_, I want to talk _directly_ to the kernel. How exactly does one poll the kernel in C for interface information? I do _not_ wan

Re: chmod problem..

> How do I recursively SGID a directory tree, but only hitting the > dirs, not the files? > > In other words, I want: > > chmod -R g+s dir/ > > But no files SGID, just the subdirectories? > > Can I use the "X" permission somehow? I never understood it.. > > Or should I do something like: >

Unresolved symbols on kernel rebuild

Hi, I tried to compile the kernel on a Intel PII using Red Hat 6.2. I did a make xconfig make dep make zImage make modules make modules_install cp zImage /boot (respective modification to /etc/lilo.conf) /sbin/lilo but when the system try to load some modules (like the sound and the network mo

Re: Minor(?) errors running ppp

On Thu Aug 24 2000 at 15:21, Carl Kigundu wrote: > Hello there, > > Can anyone help me determine the protocol my ISP is trying > to send me? > > After connecting all goes well however. > > > > Aug 24 08:16:31 hfcu chat[739]: CONNECT > Aug 24 08:16:31 hfcu chat[739]: -- got it > Aug 24 0

Re: groupadd -o???????????????

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Peter Blomgren wrote: >Maybe I'm too used to reading cryptic man pages, but this one >seems pretty clear to me... Well it wasn't to me until someone pointed it out. Thanks to all that pointed this out to me. >> The groupadd command lists a "-o" option. >> >> SYNOPSIS >>

Re: rawhide: anaconda-7.0-1.200008101755 fails to compile

Svante Signell wrote: > PS: I this the list to use for these reports, since rawhide/pinstripe > are development distributions, or should something like bug-buddy be used? Since no one else said it yet: Use Bugzilla, http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/ to officialy report bugs. -Thomas

Re:

God, please *STOP* this issue!!! It's really not worth these 80 posts I see in my mailbox. I'll never believe typing 'C-h i' is difficult to anyone who uses emacs ( or needs, say, full gcc functionality ). I can see there's 5.4M of info and 21M of man pages on my HDD. And I'm bilingual. When I w

Re: rawhide: kudzu-0.68-1 fails to compile

Svante Signell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Compile fails for root, non-root and i386, i686: > ... > cc -c -O2 -march=i686 -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE -DVERSION=\"0.68\" >-I/usr/include/python1.5 -o ide.o ide.c > ide.c: In function `ideProbe': > ide.c:214: structure has no member named `command_set_1'

Re: rawhide: compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2.src.rpm fails to compile

compat packages have to be built in the environment that they prodive compatibility for. In this case, compat-glibc-6.2 has to be built on a 6.2 system. As for the other stuff, you have some strange mix of a pinstripe and a rawhide, it seems. Pick one or the other, install Everything. All pack

Minor(?) errors running ppp

Hello there, Can anyone help me determine the protocol my ISP is trying to send me? After connecting all goes well however. Aug 24 08:16:31 hfcu chat[739]: CONNECT Aug 24 08:16:31 hfcu chat[739]: -- got it Aug 24 08:16:31 hfcu chat[739]: send (^M) Aug 24 08:16:31 hfcu pppd[726]: Serial c

VGA card configuration problem...

Hi, I am not able to configure my vga card in Red Hat Linux 6.2. It is SiS 630 which is present in the database of linux which i configure with the help of xf86config utility, but after configuring it, my STARTX doesn't work properly.. I am getting problem as i had upgraged my system from P1 to

Re: rawhide: Xconfigurator-4.3.45-1 fails to compile

Matt, thank you very much. I had kudzu-0.68-1 and kudzu-devel-0.52-3 installed. Upgrading kudzu-devel to 0.68-1 solved the problem. Still kudzu-0.68-1 does not compile on my machine, see separate mail. Matt Wilson writes: > I think your kudzu and kudzu-devel packages are out of date. > > On

Re: how to upgrade from rpm-3 to rpm-4 ??

At 01:45 24.08.00, John Summerfield wrote: > > > As I recall, not all are happy with 3.0.5. I found it wouldn't build > an rpm > > on > > > my newly-installed RHL 6.2 (couldn't find the files) so reverted to > 3.0.4 > > > which built the same rpm without any problem. > > > > Did you test this w

rawhide: freeciv-1.11.4-3 fails to compile

rpm --rebuild --target=i686 freeciv-1.11.4-3.src.rpm: (the last version building was 1.10.1-1) ... gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I. -I./.. -I./../include -I../../common -I../../intl -I/usr/X11R6/include -DNDEBUG -O2 -march=i686 -Wall -c pixcomm.c In file included from pixcomm.c:54: pixc

rawhide: e2fsprogs-1.18-12 fails to compile

rpm --rebuild --target=i386 e2fsprogs-1.18-(11,12).src.rpm: (this package has not compiled since version 1.18-5!!) ... cc -DHAVE_LINUX_FS_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_STDARG_H=1 -DHAVE_ERRNO_H=1 -DHAVE_MALLOC_H=1 -DHAVE_MNTENT_H=1 -DHAVE_PATHS_H=1 -DHAVE_DIRENT_H=1 -DHAVE_GET

rawhide: i686/non-root compat-egcs-6.2-1.1.2.9 fails to compile

Building compat-egcs-6.2-1.1.2.9.src.rpm results in: 1. i386 root: OK 2. i386 non-root: Seems like some files are not built, build ends with: (have not traced into it yet) PreReq: /sbin/ldconfig rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 Requires: ld-linux.so.2 libc.so.6 libm.so.6 libstdc++-libc6.1

rawhide: compat-libs-6.2-2 fails to build

time rpm --rebuild --target=i386 compat-libs-6.2-2.src.rpm: ... + ln -s libXaw.so.6.1 libXaw.so + ln -s libXaw.so.7.0 libXaw.so ln: libXaw.so: File exists Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.21383 (%build) Script exits if multiple library entries?? Why not link to the latest version, ln -s -> l

rawhide: compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2.src.rpm fails to compile

rpm --rebuild --target=i386 compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2.src.rpm: ... make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/glibc-2.1.3' make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/glibc-2.1.3' cat Versions.def glibc-compat/Versions.def > /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/glibc-2.1.3/build-i386-linux/Versions

Re: groupadd -o???????????????

From: Mike A. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Three mentions of "-o" being used, so the manpage author > obviously knows a great deal about this "-o" option. It appears > that he wanted to keep this secret information to himself though > as there is no actual explanation as to what -o does. "-o" is

Re: rawhide: Xconfigurator-4.3.45-1 fails to compile

I think your kudzu and kudzu-devel packages are out of date. On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 09:17:00AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > Compile fails for root, non-root and i386, i686: > ... > cc -Wall -I/usr/include/kudzu -D_GNU_SOURCE -DVERSION=\"4.3.45\" >-DCARD_DATABASE_FILE='"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Card

rawhide: anaconda-7.0-1.200008101755 fails to compile

rpm --rebuild --target=i686 anaconda-7.0-1.28101755.src.rpm: ... cc -Wall -g -O -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -fPIC -I../isys -DENABLE_NLS -I/usr/include/python1.5 -I../edd `gnome-config --cflags gnomeui` `glib-config --cflags gthread` -c -o partspec.o partspec.c partspec.c: In function `fdiskCleanOrig

rawhide: Xconfigurator-4.3.45-1 fails to compile

Compile fails for root, non-root and i386, i686: ... cc -Wall -I/usr/include/kudzu -D_GNU_SOURCE -DVERSION=\"4.3.45\" -DCARD_DATABASE_FILE='"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards"' -DMONITOR_DATABASE_FILE='"/usr/X11R6/share/Xconfigurator/MonitorsDB"' -O2 -march=i686 -c -o Xconfigurator.o Xconfigurator.c X

rawhide: kudzu-0.68-1 fails to compile

Compile fails for root, non-root and i386, i686: ... cc -c -O2 -march=i686 -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE -DVERSION=\"0.68\" -I/usr/include/python1.5 -o ide.o ide.c ide.c: In function `ideProbe': ide.c:214: structure has no member named `command_set_1' make: *** [ide.o] Error 1 Bad exit status from /var/tm

rawhide: i386 kernel-2.2.16-21 fails to compile

After 68 min the compile of the i386 version fails: (i686 builds OK) ... kgcc -MD -O -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -pipe -I../include -I/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/linux/include -I../modules -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11/include -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 -c cardinfo.c kgcc cardinfo.o -o cardinfo -L/usr/X