Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-05-01 Thread Bill Crawford
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Bill Crawford wrote: > I saw a very funny spoof once relating to a localization of Windows, > I think for the "Geordie" locale. For example the main menu would > have "Windiz" down the side ... OK, it wasn't that funny, but I found a

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-05-01 Thread Bill Crawford
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Riku Meskanen wrote: > How many of the more than 50 spoken major english dialects you > think would be worth localization? All or just few? > > There is not really one UK English. You should once visit UK > to find this out and be amazed how hard it's first to understand > pe

Re: Got SIGSEGV with man-1.5j-6.i386.rpm (rawhide)

2002-04-29 Thread Bill Crawford
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Riku Meskanen wrote: > Howdy, > > Anybody out there get the same with std man command from rawhide? > > Or is it just me with 7.2 and upgraded man version from rawhide? > > [mesrik@tacit tmp]$ man -- > Segmentation fault ... > Bugzilla or not? Yes, it's in Bugzilla. I t

Re: Alternative file systems? Was Re: Better File systems?

2002-04-19 Thread Bill Crawford
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Bill Crawford wrote: > I'm curious because I've had the odd problem with garbage data ending > up in open files at the time of a crash. Fortunately the crashes are > infrequent these days, usually associated with 3D games; but it can be > annoying to

Re: Alternative file systems? Was Re: Better File systems?

2002-04-19 Thread Bill Crawford
On 19 Apr 2002, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 11:33, Bill Crawford wrote: > > > Is this now equivalent to ext3's default "ordered data" mode then? > > It sounds like this would make xfs more reliable than reiserfs for me. > > Not exact

Re: Alternative file systems? Was Re: Better File systems?

2002-04-19 Thread Bill Crawford
On 19 Apr 2002, Eric Sandeen wrote: > re: the "nulls in files" problem, it's a fact of life that on a metadata > journaling filesytem, if you lose power, you lose data. In the case of > xfs, synchronous transactions used to mean that you sometimes wound up > with files with a length, but no data

Re: Better File systems? Was Re: XFS - here's the solution

2002-04-18 Thread Bill Crawford
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, John Summerfield wrote: > How many of these fields are absolutely critical? > > struct stat { > unsigned short st_dev; > unsigned short __pad1; > unsigned long st_ino; > unsigned short st_mode; > unsigned short st_nlink; > unsi

Re: Alternative file systems? Was Re: Better File systems?

2002-04-18 Thread Bill Crawford
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Dan Hollis wrote: > On 18 Apr 2002, Florin Andrei wrote: > > 3. XFS > > This is interesting, because the XFS code base is actually very mature > > and stable. That's why, i guess, the Linux port became stable so > > quickly: because only the Linux "hooks" had to be made stabl

Re: Alternative file systems? Was Re: Better File systems?

2002-04-18 Thread Bill Crawford
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Richard Troy wrote: > ANYWAY... I'm using Linux for business these days and I like it a lot but > want a better file system. I've heard of quite a few new ones - new to me > anyway - and when I asked about it, nobody really replied with the kind of > response I was hoping for

Re: Better File systems? Was Re: XFS - here's the solution

2002-04-17 Thread Bill Crawford
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Richard Troy wrote: > One observation I have is that many people have a bizarre, one-sided view > of performance. This is true of a vast number of human activities, such as > the automobile driver who focuses on driving on dry, smooth pavement and > forgets s/he drives in the

Re: XFS - here's the solution

2002-04-16 Thread Bill Crawford
On 16 Apr 2002, Florin Andrei wrote: > On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 07:37, Knut J Bjuland wrote: > > Are Redhat going to include XFS in a rawhide kernel or in Redhat 8.X when it is >ready? > > I'm waiting for that since a lng time. > > In my tests, XFS performed better (in terms of stability AND

Re: nss_db

2002-04-15 Thread Bill Crawford
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Kevin McConnell wrote: > > --- Bill Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Well, I've not noticed anything ... but I havn't > > upgraded everything > > yet. Do you actually need to use nss_db? > > No, I don't ne

Re: nss_db

2002-04-15 Thread Bill Crawford
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Kevin McConnell wrote: > I'm getting problems with nss_db. There is an > undefined symbol causing me to be unable to login or > ssh into the rawhide machine. The symbol is > __set_errno and when I try to ssh into the machine or > login at the console I'm just having login res

Re: nss_db

2002-04-14 Thread Bill Crawford
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Kevin McConnell wrote: > Can anyone else verify that packages are now being > built with references against an undefined symbol > named __set_errno in the nss_db package from the > current rawhide? Um, which packages? I havn't noticed anything here but I'm only up to abou

Re: How to catch SIGKILL ??

2002-03-20 Thread Bill Crawford
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Vimol wrote: > Is there any way to catch SIGKILL ?? No. > Kvimol ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list

Re: .config not shipped with kernel-sources RPM? (was: Re: 'make modules'

2001-05-08 Thread Bill Crawford
rnel, that's exactly why there is no "stock" .config file. However there *are* a number of config files in the configs/ (sp?) directory which you can copy to .config and then do a "make oldconfig; make menuconfig ..." with. > - Dan -- /* Bill Crawford, Unix Systems D

Re: screwed up glibc

2001-04-08 Thread Bill Crawford
trd works, but that's very technical and you don't want to try and do that while you're working this out from a rescue disk. > Svante > -- /* Bill Crawford, Unix Systems Developer, ebOne, formerly GTS Netcom */ #include "stddiscl.h" _

Re: Kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-25 Thread Bill Crawford
b list. It's not "by design" that it doesn't work. That's why it's CONFIG_*DEBUG*_SLAB. > -Thomas -- Bill Crawford, Unix Systems Developer, GTS Netcom work: [EMAIL PROTECTED], home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Redh

"buildinstall" run on Raw Hide tree

2001-01-15 Thread Bill Crawford
that the package it's in is missing from the list used to create the instimage tree ? -- /* Bill Crawford, Unix Systems Developer, ebOne, formerly GTS Netcom */ #include "stddiscl.h" ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EM

Latest Raw Hide missing packages

2001-01-14 Thread Bill Crawford
ftp.redhat.com appears to be missing kernel-utils ? -- /* Bill Crawford, Unix Systems Developer, ebOne, formerly GTS Netcom */ #include "stddiscl.h" ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailma

Dial-up scripts need to restart/reload nscd if nameservers change

2001-01-09 Thread Bill Crawford
f I'm running nscd, it needs to be restarted after the connection is brought up or lookups don't seem to work. I'm not sure which component to Bugzilla this under :) -- /* Bill Crawford, Unix Systems Developer, ebOne, formerly GTS Netcom */

Re: where did anaconda go?

2001-01-08 Thread Bill Crawford
> Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 23:36:27 -0500 > From: Bill Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Bill Crawford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > > Because when the rawhide tree was built, the install images didn't > > > build for one reason or another. Probably some ran

Re: where did anaconda go?

2001-01-07 Thread Bill Crawford
Another quick question: you seem to have changed the HD install option so it looks for ISOs on the hard drive instead of a tree? I created a boot disk from one of the images, booted from it (which worked OK) but when I chose the HD install option, it complained about not being able to find disk ima