Re: (no subject)

2001-02-20 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Thomas Dodd wrote: Have you checked the price if Windows tools? Look at Delphi, C++ Builder, or any MS Visual * product. Klyix is on par with the Professional versions of those tools, and priced better. True ... but just as Windows products are

Re: Missing kernel-headers in latest 2.2.17 update?

2001-02-20 Thread John Summerfield
Not sure this is quite the correct forum but anyway ... How come the latest kernel security update [RHSA-2001:013-05] does not include a kernel-headers-2.2.17-14.*.rpm package. The notice says get the previous kernel-headers-2.2.16-3 package but that does not exist on ftp.redhat.com.

Re: RAD tool from Borland

2001-02-20 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The cost of doing development on Linux with Kylix is already more expensive than the traditional Linux developer. A Kylix developer will only be competitive if they can produce better code faster than someone not using Kylix. I have watched high school students do

Re: RAD tool from Borland

2001-02-20 Thread Thornton Prime
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, John Summerfield wrote: Instead of speculating how good Kylix is, sit down and use it for a week. Then you will have a sound basis for commenting. I haven't used Kylix, but having used C++ Builder and JBuilder for years year, I don't doubt that it is an outstanding

Re: FTP wont work, please help!

2001-02-20 Thread Christopher McCrory
Hello... 1: This is a 'devel' list, not a system help list Owen Thomas wrote: I have my windows box connected to my redhat (on which i did a full server install) and whenever I try to ftp into it I get the message "Connection failed - /ip address /- connection refused" In

System Type

2001-02-20 Thread Jesse Noller
I have a quick question for everyone, I have to write an installation script for a piece of software on linux, however, this product is supported on multiple distribution types. I need some definitive way of determining a SYSTYPE variable to the tune of cat /path/to/item | grep Redhat

Re: System Type

2001-02-20 Thread Matt Fahrner
Try "/etc/redhat-release". - Matt Jesse Noller wrote: I have a quick question for everyone, I have to write an installation script for a piece of software on linux, however, this product is supported on multiple distribution types. I need some definitive way of

RE: System Type

2001-02-20 Thread Joseph Malicki
perhaps the existance of /etc/redhat-release? However, do you actually need to determine whether the system is redhat, or do you need to look for specific characteristics of the system? It seems that it would make much more sense to look for things such as /etc/sysconfig/whatever or

Re: FTP wont work, please help!

2001-02-20 Thread Oliver Schulze L.
Do you have the wu-ftpd package installed? Look in /etc/hosts.allow or hosts.deny if there is a restriction. Also use ntsysv to enable ftp service and the to a /etc/init.d/xinted restart Good luck Oliver Owen Thomas wrote: I have my windows box connected to my redhat (on which i did a full

RE: System Type

2001-02-20 Thread Jesse Noller
Thanks Matt, I was looking for something more generic (redhat centric) but, hey, I asked a redhat devel list, didn't I? ;) -Jesse -Original Message- From: Matt Fahrner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: System Type

Re: System Type

2001-02-20 Thread Alan Shutko
Jesse Noller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks Matt, I was looking for something more generic (redhat centric) but, hey, I asked a redhat devel list, didn't I? To the best of my knowledge, there's no single thing that all distributions respect. I'm sure there are many distributions that have

Re: RAD tool from Borland

2001-02-20 Thread Alan Shutko
Thornton Prime [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lest they blame the Linux community for poor sales, as we have seen happen with Adobe, Corel, and other vendors. Corel can blame the community all they want, but if they didn't release such obscenely buggy software, or if they bothered to fix it, or

Re: System Type

2001-02-20 Thread Karen Shaeffer
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:13:43PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: Jesse Noller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The best way to do things like this is to check for specific cases that you care about (eg. locations of init scripts) and take actions on that, rather than having a database of "this dist

Re: Missing kernel-headers in latest 2.2.17 update?

2001-02-20 Thread Alan Shutko
Joseph Malicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RHL7 at least lets you have a separate /usr/src/linux so that, if done right, products like VMware can find the headers of the running kernel. VMware lets you tell it where the kernel source is, so if you put it on

Re: Missing kernel-headers in latest 2.2.17 update?

2001-02-20 Thread John Summerfield
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Summerfield Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 6:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Missing kernel-headers in latest 2.2.17 update? The correct kernel headers to have in place are

Re: FTP wont work, please help!

2001-02-20 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Do you have the wu-ftpd package installed? Look in /etc/hosts.allow or hosts.deny if there is a restriction. 'Connection refused" means nobody's listening. You get other errors if the above is the problem. btw I did a server install of RHL 6.2 and decided it was

kernel patching

2001-02-20 Thread Sheldon Instruments
I am trying to rebuild the kernel after applying a patch using 'make bzdisk' to build a boot image on the floppy to test the kernel before overwriting the previous one. It terminates with an error with VFS stating that it could not load the root fs 08:25. I am unable to find any documentation

Re: kernel patching

2001-02-20 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am trying to rebuild the kernel after applying a patch using 'make bzdisk' to build a boot image on the floppy to test the kernel before overwriting the previous one. It terminates with an error with VFS stating that it could not load the root fs 08:25. I am