Re: my last two cents on how questions should be handled

2003-02-07 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Larry Greenleaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some of you seem to forget that you were new to > Linux once. Maybe the people who posted here did > "RTFM" and did not understand it. Lets be real, some > of these man pages are cryptic at best. Yes, you are right. I was new to linux at one poi

Re: my last two cents on how questions should be handled

2003-02-07 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- wo shi ni baba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you did all I said, good for you, GOOD GOOD, > should I give you some cookies? > peace out No, but you could have at least had the common courtesy to at least acknowledge what I told you. = Kevin C. McConnell --RHCE-- _

Re: my last two cents on how questions should be handled

2003-02-06 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- wo shi ni baba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's what I think how questions should be handled: > > 1.In the case the question is posted to the wrong > forum, politely direct the inquirer to the correct > forum. I did that. > 2.In the case the question lacks a title, politely > tells the

Re: RedHat 8.0 kernel compile problems

2003-02-06 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Larry Greenleaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have seen this post in several other locations. > There are a lot of people, including myself, that > can't seem to get make modules to complete > successfully. Which kernel version might you be referring to? = Kevin C. McConnell --RHCE--

Re: (no subject)

2003-02-06 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many experienced people would not have even read > your question, because > you neglected to use the Subject: field to tell us > what you're writing > about. I will say, that is why I didn't read this thread. The only reason I read it now, was because I *KNEW

Re: PXE kickstart with multiple network cards

2003-02-04 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I understand it, he's trying to control which NIC > is used to install. > Reoving support for other NICs does not affect > what's used later. > > Then, he can fiddle with /etc/modules.conf if > necessary. > > I personally would simply plug the cable into

Re: PXE kickstart with multiple network cards

2003-01-30 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Removing the modules for the NICs you don't want to > use will force the > issue;-) I thought he was trying to designate which card he wants to be eth0, eth1, etc... so that he can plug each device into multiple networks/and or designate which device should r

Re: PXE kickstart with multiple network cards

2003-01-29 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Lars Damerow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From Kevin McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wed, Jan > 29, 2003 at 11:13:23AM -0800: > > > > This is just something to get your mind working. I > > know there is a way to pass options to modules as > > t

Re: PXE kickstart with multiple network cards

2003-01-29 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Lars Damerow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way I can make the device naming more > clear? This is just something to get your mind working. I know there is a way to pass options to modules as they're loaded. Using the IRQ and base address, couldn't one conceivably assign eth0 to b

RE: Problem Compiling Linux Kernel 2.4.20

2002-12-19 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Corrupted kernel tarball then? > Download/unpack/compile again? Did you also verify the source using the PGP key? How about making the required links to the linux-2.4.20 dir? ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.4.20 linux ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.4.20 linux-2.4

Re: Whereis ethtool?

2002-07-12 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which only checks the path. > > See the difference: > > [summer@skink incoming]$ which ifconfig > /usr/bin/which: no ifconfig in > (/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin/:/usr/local/sbin/:/usr/sbin/:/home/summer/bin:/usr/lo

Re: Whereis ethtool?

2002-07-11 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Jitesh Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do not see manpage also. 'whereis' > command also > does not show ethtool. Though this isn't really the appropriate list for this question, I will still answer with a realistic answer. You should use the which command instead. It's on many more sy

Re: Crackers?

2002-05-16 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Lars Nordin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course the best protection is to turn off and may > be uninstall servers > (services) that you won't be using. And for an extra, extra layer of protection, if you have the resources available, you should make each device on your network and "appli

Re: next release

2002-04-28 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Jure Pecar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > is there any ETA of the next release of RedHat? I > know that 'when it's > ready' is the best answer... If you knew that was the best answer you were going to get, then why ask? = Kevin C. McConnell --RHCE-- ___

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

2002-04-18 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Dan Hollis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i haven't played with jfs at all, afaik it is the > most recent of the > bunch. it has interesting features but it seems both > xfs and reiser are > considerably more advanced and tested. Actually, JFS is the oldest of them all. JFS was the original

Re: nss_db

2002-04-15 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- 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 need it, but checking my /etc/nsswitch.conf shows that I'm not using it first either. That's the strange part. I always

Re: nss_db

2002-04-14 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Bill Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Um, which packages? I havn't noticed anything here > but I'm only up > to about Thursday with Raw Hide ... I'll happily try > a few things or > do a before/after test around upgrading whatever is > causing trouble. I'm getting problems with nss_db

nss_db

2002-04-14 Thread Kevin McConnell
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? = Kevin C. McConnell --RHCE-- __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online

OT: Uncle George where are you?

2002-03-21 Thread Kevin McConnell
Uncle George, Mozilla is looking for you. Please visit this URL: http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/missing.html :o) Hope this is you = Kevin C. McConnell --RHCE-- __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://mo

Re: Mondo (GPL bare metal recovery & cloning tool)

2002-02-21 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Riku Meskanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nope, you guessed wrong, I haven't been living > in complete darkness either :) I know you aren't living in darkness, otherwise you would be using some __OTHER__ O$. ;o) > I've had VMware since Jun 21 1999 and gone trough > all > releases up to 3.

Re: rawhide list

2002-02-21 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Jeremy Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the same time, it's extremely easy for me to lose > an email about > something in the pile of emails I get every day. Bugzilla is much better for documenting issues because every step of the process is put into writing and then filed into the DB.

Re: rawhide list

2002-02-21 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- John Ellson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example, it surprises me that some rpm > dependency errors seem > to not get fixed quickly. Would you like us to > report them? I think they would rather have us fix them than report them. = Kevin C. McConnell --RHCE-- __

Re: Mondo (GPL bare metal recovery & cloning tool)

2002-02-21 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Riku Meskanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Those of you who haven't had opportunity to > experience HP-UX > features of host cloning, I guess you've never heard of VMware which supports host cloning under linux in a few seconds. = Kevin C. McConnell --RHCE-- ___

Re: ftpcopy removed ?

2002-02-10 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Trond Eivind Glomsrød <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We only have rsync for official mirror, AFAIK. As Trond points out... official mirrors use it. Doesn't that say enough? There are places that mirror off of redhat that do offer anonymous rsync

Re: ftpcopy removed ?

2002-02-08 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- "Ivan F. Martinez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ftpcopy is good to mirroring redhat files, because > they change the dates without changing the files, I > can specify to > ignore date changes. Also the new version have a > security key for limiting the number of deletes each > time I run. In

Re: how to install Rawhide?

2002-02-06 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Adam Dingle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I discovered Red Hat's Rawhide FTP directory > (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/) not > long ago, and I've > successfully grabbed a few packages from it and > installed them on top of my > Red Hat 7.2 installation. OK, so now I've decide

Re: large files?

2002-02-04 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Panu Matilainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, it's a 2.4 kernel thing but patches to 2.2 > kernel exist too, and > then you need glibc support also. RH7.0 had AFAIR > LFS-support in the > -enterprise kernel but that won't help you with > RH6.1 at all where you'd > need to recompile glibc

Re: large files?

2002-02-04 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- terry barnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What prompted my hypothetical system question is I'm > in the process > of specing out a new file server and I thought maybe > someone here > would know if the setup would overcome the 2 gig > limit I'm > experiencing with our current server. The

Re: large files?

2002-02-03 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- terry barnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a question I hope someone here might be able > to answer. > Will this machine be able to serve files larger than > 2 gigs via Samba? out of curiousity, where are you getting the 2 gig barrier from? There shouldn't be any problem with this. If

Re: "No space left on device" when runing buildinstall

2002-01-29 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- "Lee, Myoung Ho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. > > I'm using redhat-7.2 to make customized redhat cd. > > when I run /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/buildinstall, > some errors are > occurred. > > . > mke2fs 1.23, 15-Aug-2001. > Wrote /tmp/makebootdisk.tree.11940 ( 604k > com

Re: Redhat distro development questions

2002-01-25 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Trond Eivind Glomsrød <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erik Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm curious how RedHat manages it's releases, > especially while balancing the > > needs of RedHat users against the fact that most > of the code in your product > > comes from somewhere else. F

Re: Redhat distro development questions

2002-01-19 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Erik Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I'm curious how RedHat manages it's releases, > especially while balancing the > needs of RedHat users against the fact that most of > the code in your product > comes from somewhere else. For the next release of > RedHat, does the CEO wake > up o

Re: snavigator and insight

2002-01-07 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Jose Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PS: This is the second email I send to this list. > From the first one I've received an automated reply > saying that it was required approval from the list > moderator, but it was never posted and I didn't > received further reply. If the list is no

Re: future journal filesystem. XFS, JFS in rawhide

2001-12-28 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Michael Tokarev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is about C++ only. C language programs ARE > compatible. Note that > in e.g. 7.x, there is libstdc++-compat libraries, I > expect to find the > same on 8.x, so your C++ programs compiled on 7.x > will run just fine on > 8.x -- like 6.x vs 7

Re: future journal filesystem. XFS, JFS in rawhide

2001-12-28 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Jean Francois Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Kanavin wrote: > Reiserutils was in 7.2 and I think in 7.1. 7.2 > kernel has reiserfs > support and I think 7.1was compiled with ReiserFS > support too. So you > can create and mount ReiserFS partitions if you > want. I have us

Re: kernel programming

2001-12-18 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Hetz Ben Hamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Amir, > > I recommend to you to buy this book and learn from > it - lots of people told > me it's a good book to learn: > > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive2/ Some other good ones are: Understanding the Linux Kernel (also by oreilly)

Rawhide development list

2001-12-17 Thread Kevin McConnell
Is this the appropriate list where rawhide developers mediate, and if not, where would that be? If one were developing something in hopes to get it into the RH distro, where would they be asking questions and talking to other developers if the/this rawhide list isn't the proper place? TIA = K