Re: using bash features in init scripts

2003-10-01 Thread Thomas Dodd
Jonathan Bartlett wrote: The reason that normal startup scripts don't, is that there's no guarantee /bin/sh will point to bash, or even that bash is installed. If you want to use bash, the first line should be /bin/bash instead of /bin/sh, so it's obvious it needs bash specifically. Is it

Re: GTK+ or QT ???

2003-03-13 Thread Thomas Dodd
John wrote: My own bias favours KDE over Gnome because . I believe C++ a better programming language for this kind of work than C. It does more to help programmers avoid silly errors such as buffer overruns. Are the C++ bindings for gnome? I know GTK+ has GTK--. . I think the recent move in

Re: CDE devkit for Redhat

2003-03-13 Thread Thomas Dodd
Vijeth Bhat wrote: Hi all, Is there a CDE devkit available on Red Hat ? If so, Does it get installed with the standard distribution ? I am using 7.2 and I did not find the diretories /usr/dt /usr/dt/lib etc., as found in solaris / hpux ? CDE is not free in any sense. Red Hat sold a version at

Re: CDE devkit for Redhat

2003-03-13 Thread Thomas Dodd
John wrote: On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Thomas Dodd wrote: CDE is not free in any sense. Red Hat sold a version at one time, back around RHL-5.x. currently XiG sells DeXtop v3.0 for $50 RH quite when it found CDE was broken and RH couldn't fix it. It even offered users a rebate on their next

Re: kernel doesnt seem to take user-specified kernel options

2003-03-05 Thread Thomas Dodd
lar lar wrote: i have a server that's dead, when it boots up it gives the following message, complaining it cant find initrd: Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel booting with linux init=/bin/sh, it still complains about not finding initrd, and gives the same

C++

2003-02-24 Thread Thomas Dodd
I had a question for a C++ programmer. Thought I might find one here :) I have 2 classes that need to reference each other. headerA.h class A{ public: int x; int y; B *left; B *right; } headerB.h class B{ public: int a; int b; A *parent; char foo(); } Give that top is of type A,

Re: C++

2003-02-24 Thread Thomas Dodd
Thanks to all who replied. That solved it. Michael Schwendt wrote: Since only pointers to A and B are involved, a forward declaration class A; in front of class B and That's the one that was causing me trouble. I check the C++ books I had lying around and couldn't find forward

Re: rpm usage was:(no subject)

2003-02-10 Thread Thomas Dodd
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, wo shi ni baba wrote: hi folks, I am running redhat 8.0 on an intel machine, I installed an application by using rpm -i prog.rpm, but when I tried to remove it by rpm -e prog.rpm, it couldn't remove it, so I removed the program files

Re: kernel-headers rpm ?

2003-01-24 Thread Thomas Dodd
Richard Troy wrote: ...In the fall of 1977, if I recall correctly, I got my first PC - it was a Commodore PET, 32Kb. (That's Personal Electronics Translator, for those snip I got a late start, born to late I guess. It ws '86 and the C+4 for me. And I still remember lots of 6502 code. I

Re: RE: kernel-headers rpm ?

2003-01-23 Thread Thomas Dodd
Brian Ipsen wrote: Okay, but running with kernel 2.4.18-19.7.xsmp and having installed kernel-headers-2.4.9-34 on a 7.2 box - gives me, when compiling the ISC ipmi driver from Intel, an error-message when I try to do an insmod: insmod ./imb ./imb: kernel-module version mismatch ./imb

Re: Re: kernel-headers rpm ?

2003-01-23 Thread Thomas Dodd
Richard Troy wrote: I can't remember the _first_ time I've _ever_ had _any_ support from _any_ vendor for Linux! ...Hmmm... Well, no, wait, Informix did give me a Linux I've never has support for any vendor under any OS. Had fun watching M$, Adaptec, and SyQuest point fingers at each

Re: Re: kernel-headers rpm ?

2003-01-23 Thread Thomas Dodd
Riku Meskanen wrote: brother in law or associate professor next faculty, happy with pretty standard Red Hat otherwise but needs to keep system up2date and get some thirdparty modules easily compiled at the times when a kernel was updated too. They wouldn't be using 3rd party modules, unless

Re: kernel-headers rpm ?

2003-01-23 Thread Thomas Dodd
Florin Andrei wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 08:48, Thomas Dodd wrote: They wouldn't be using 3rd party modules, unless I or a sysadmin had set them up. At which time they would ask me or the admin for help. This is how Linux is supposed to take over the world? By asking the sysadmin

Re: kernel-headers rpm ?

2003-01-21 Thread Thomas Dodd
Riku Meskanen wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Thomas Dodd wrote: You also need different headers for each arch, or smp. You need to: cd /usr/src/linux-version; cp configs/kernel-version-arch.config .config; make oldconfig; make dep Yes, I know. All those 'different' headers count together

Re: kernel-headers rpm ?

2003-01-21 Thread Thomas Dodd
Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:44:11AM -0600, Thomas Dodd wrote: I don't think so... If adding a new disk is not possible, use a file, the wonder of loop devices :) While people regularly use loop mounts for CD and floppy images or the initrd, they forget that almost

Re: kernel-headers rpm ?

2003-01-21 Thread Thomas Dodd
Riku Meskanen wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Thomas Dodd wrote: I don't think so... If adding a new disk is not possible, use a file, the wonder of loop devices :) While people regularly use loop mounts for CD and floppy images or the initrd, they forget that almost any filesystem/mountpoint

Re: kernel-headers rpm ?

2003-01-20 Thread Thomas Dodd
Riku Meskanen wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Michael Schwendt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 01:00:17 +0100, Brian Ipsen wrote: One quick question (whcih actually is giving me a lot of trouble building some other software). My RH 7.2 kernel is

Re: Data and common sense about PIV optimizations, Gcc and the Intelcompiler;

2002-12-17 Thread Thomas Dodd
Didn't we just do this thread a few month ago? Mid October, subject: optimised glibc Me, Jean, and Florin atleast. Dan, Check the list archives for that one. Jean Francois Martinez wrote: At least if you are using a PIII. Let's remember that RedHat's ordinary Or athlon. While I'd like an

Re: Redhat-devel-list digest, Vol 1 #800 - 4 msgs

2002-12-09 Thread Thomas Dodd
Jiangbo wrote: Hi, all, Would you please have a look to the following code for me? This code has no compile error, but it will get an error message unresolved symbol sys_semctl. I don't know why. /* gcc -c -Wall test.c*/ #define __KERNEL__ #define MODULE #include

Re: optimised glibc

2002-10-25 Thread Thomas Dodd
Jean Francois Martinez wrote: Seriously, run a couple benchmarks on both plus use the SRPM to rebuild an athlon optimized glibc (rpm -ba --target athlon glibc.spec), benchmark, compare and publish the results. tried after rpm -bi --target=athlon glibc.spec and set

Re: optimised glibc

2002-10-14 Thread Thomas Dodd
Jean Francois Martinez wrote: On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 18:25, Florin Andrei wrote: What is the reason why there are kernel RPMs optimised for Athlon, but no glibc RPMs for Athlon? Perhaps there isn't much to be gained. AMD knows far too well that because it is the minor company most of

Re: Passwd file conversion?

2002-08-19 Thread Thomas Dodd
Albert E. Whale wrote: While the formats of the files are the same, the Salts used for the crypt functions are not the same. I am having 'general' success with the Password Crackers My goal is a transparent migration of the environment for the unknowing users. I think that I can get 85%

Re: /proc/scsi/scsi and /dev mapping ?

2002-08-09 Thread Thomas Dodd
Tom Sanders wrote: Is there a way to map entries in /proc/scsi/scsi with their corresponding mapping with /dev/sda, /dev/sdb etc ? During system boot, entries in /proce/scsi/scsi and /dev are initialized in serial order, and there is a one to one mapping. However, this mapping is NOT

Re: Layered Driver Support in Linux ?

2002-08-08 Thread Thomas Dodd
Tom Sanders wrote: Does Linux support layered drivers ? I want to write a driver that will take requests from the applications and will pass them on to underlying Lot's of drivers do that. md for RAID looks like a disk to app, and it talks to the hd/sd device itself. They whole USB

Re: fonts

2002-07-18 Thread Thomas Dodd
Atul Sowani wrote: A lot of people are indeed going for slackware 8.1! What do Slackware doe for improving the fonts? On 17 Jul 2002 10:40 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: u I'm reading this article on OSNews: u u http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1365 u u One of the comments says this:

Re: Altering the MANPATH in RPM

2002-04-30 Thread Thomas Dodd
Riku Meskanen wrote: On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Thomas Dodd wrote: So the package needs to drop a file in /etc/profile.d that sets the executable path to /opt/foo/bin and man will aututomatically add /opt/foo/man to the MANPATH. It will also look for /opt/foo/bin/man if you don't want seperate bin

Re: [OT] Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread Thomas Dodd
Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: KB == Kathy Bieltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KB Americans may earn more but our government KB is no slouch at taking their cut. We may not KB get taxed they same way but we still pay through KB the nose too. Actually, this is a persistent but false myth.

Re: Altering the MANPATH in RPM

2002-04-29 Thread Thomas Dodd
James Olin Oden wrote: - SNIP - IMHO, best way I can think would be to enhance GNU man to support include directory, like xinetd with /etc/xinetd.d, logrotate with /etc/logrotate.d etc. Thus patch it use /etc/man.config.d if it already doesn't and contrib to project :) I like the

Re: load

2002-03-27 Thread Thomas Dodd
vishist mandapaka wrote: Hi, The granularity of my access should be around once every 5 sec. But one min, I am unable to read that file through a program. I want to read the load of the system through a C program.. Why not? open(/proc/loadavg,O_RDONLY) should work. then read a few bytes.

Re: how to pass flag at boot to leave PSN????

2002-02-15 Thread Thomas Dodd
Vimol wrote: I will write the ASM code to read PSN. Now, how to pass flag at boot to leave PSN x86_serial_nr=1 Either type at the lilo prompt, edit the grub command line, add to the append=... setion in lilo.conf, or the command line in grub.conf -Thomas

Re: HOW DO PROCESSRO ID????

2002-02-14 Thread Thomas Dodd
Vimol wrote: Can any one tell me , how to identify the Process ID using C??? process or processor (aka CPU). The linux kernel disables the *ntel serial number. You need to pass a flag at boot to leave it on. The you use ASM code to read it. The ASM can be embedded in a C source file. Someone

Re: making less faster on large amounts of stdin data

2001-12-14 Thread Thomas Dodd
Wojtek Pilorz wrote: try the following (on a machine with 128M or more of RAM): time perl -e '$n=80; $o=0; for ($i=1;$i= $n; ++$i) { $l=sprintf %s line %8d, offset %10d\n, =x16, $i, $o; print $l; $o += length

Re: making less faster on large amounts of stdin data

2001-12-14 Thread Thomas Dodd
John Summerfield wrote: This is a silly, negative response. If the patch does what Wojtek says, the IMV it should be applied to the source. A patch to speed up a strange use of a program is what seams silly. less (and more) are interactive. why use them in a non interactive way? What's

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug?

2001-10-25 Thread Thomas Dodd
John Summerfield wrote: 88 struct tradeTable 89 { 90 long tradeSize, tradeCount; 91 struct tradeNode *tradeData[]; 92 }; 93 struct tradeTable *root=NULL; /var/share/pgtest/src/c/yahoo.load.pgc:91: array size missing in

Re: 'make modules' broken in red hat 7.1?

2001-05-09 Thread Thomas Dodd
Dan Kegel wrote: cd /usr/src/linux-2.4 make mrproper cp configs/{config file for architecture, smp, enterprise, etc. that is desired} .config make oldconfig --- not sure this is necessarily needed edit Makefile and change EXTRAVERSION make menuconfig menuconfig and xconfig read the

rpm core dump

2001-05-02 Thread Thomas Dodd
Rpm has started acting strange. I haven't changed anything. # rpm -q rpm rpm-4.0.2-7x #rpm -qa |grep anaconda anaconda-7.0.1-6 rpmq: header.c:511: headerLoad: Assertion `rdlen == dl' failed. Abort (core dumped) # rpm --rebuilddb rpmq: header.c:511: headerLoad: Assertion `rdlen == dl' failed.

Re: w/o linux single

2001-04-02 Thread Thomas Dodd
"Michael L. Ibraheem" wrote: sometimes out of security reasons i had to change the allowable run levels to disallow that linux single Setup a password for lilo so you cannot edit the kernel parameters without it. Then add a BIOS password so you cannot boot from a floppy without the BIOS

Re: Estimation of Device Driver!!

2001-03-05 Thread Thomas Dodd
Julie wrote: From: Thomas Dodd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ivan Jager wrote: I think this is the relevant part of the GPL, but you should still read the whole license. Read Donald Becker's take on this. He wrote many of the NIC drivers in/for the linux kernel (including the DEC tulip

Re: Estimation of Device Driver!!

2001-02-26 Thread Thomas Dodd
Ivan Jager wrote: I think this is the relevant part of the GPL, but you should still read the whole license. Read Donald Becker's take on this. He wrote many of the NIC drivers in/for the linux kernel (including the DEC tulip driver) http://www.scyld.com/expert/license.html Non-GPL drivers

Re: Estimation of Device Driver!!

2001-02-26 Thread Thomas Dodd
Karen Shaeffer wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:30:54AM -0600, Thomas Dodd wrote: Non-GPL drivers for the linux kerenl are allowed explicitly by Linus. This is true. But it is not what the questioner was intending to do. The questioner specifically stated the intent was to port a Linux

Re: Estimation of Device Driver!!

2001-02-23 Thread Thomas Dodd
Jalaja Devi wrote: HI, I have to port a Linux2.x PCI device driver to QNX platform. How to estimate the time duration of this work? Is the driver GPL? You should contact the author about do the port since it may violate the driver's license to link it with a non GPL OS. This just came up

Re: Estimation of Device Driver!!

2001-02-23 Thread Thomas Dodd
Jalaja Devi wrote: Yes the driver is GPL!! Don't worry!! That the issue. You may have problems if the driver is GPL and the OS isn't. Is QNX GPL? Do you plan to distribute the driver or the patches? -Thomas --- Thomas Dodd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jalaja Devi wrote: HI

LPRng and lpq

2001-02-22 Thread Thomas Dodd
Sorry to cross post, but it applies to all three places This has bugged me since pinstripe. We have several printers with the queues on a Solaris 2.67 machine. Previous Red Hat releases, HP-UX, and Solaris handled lpq and lprm fine. LPRng since pinstripe has problems. printcap has:

Re: RAD tool from Borland

2001-02-15 Thread Thomas Dodd
Matt Fahrner wrote: A little late but... I think this sounds great but unless they're willing to drop the price dramatically they're probably going to make this thing be stillborn. I'm sure some people will pay for it, but Linux people aren't notoriously generous when it comes to

Re: RAD tool from Borland

2001-02-15 Thread Thomas Dodd
Ed Hill wrote: Thornton Prime wrote: 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. (*snip

Re: RAD tool from Borland

2001-02-08 Thread Thomas Dodd
John Summerfield wrote: Application developers (and their colleagues) may be interested about some mail just dropped in my in box. Borland has RAD a product for Linux called Kylix. "It's full-blooded RAD, the likes of which the mainstream Linux developers have never seen." Kylix ==

Getting fisher?

2001-02-01 Thread Thomas Dodd
Where can I grab the fisher disks? RedHat's ftp site was going 10kB/s. Ran all night and didn't even get 1 disk. (T1 connection from 10Mb LAN) valinux doesn't hve read permission on the fisher directory yet. The other sites in the announcement didn't have the cd images. Mosyt of the mirrors

Re: A question for C programmers about getgrnam

2001-01-30 Thread Thomas Dodd
John Summerfield wrote: I have a code fragment: struct group *grp = getgrnam(group.data()); if (grp == NULL) { int E=errno; cerr "error=" E ": " strerror(E) " " ENOMEM endl;;

Re: A question for C programmers about getgrnam

2001-01-30 Thread Thomas Dodd
John Summerfield wrote: According to the C++ primer which I have before me, The data() method returns a pointer to the first element of a string formed by copying elements from the range [begin,end). (the broken bracket/parentheses pairing belongs to the book too). It deals with

Re: rawhide: XFree86-4.0.2-1/Xft compile error

2001-01-29 Thread Thomas Dodd
Svante Signell wrote: Environment: gcc-2.96-71, glibc-2.2.1-2, binutils-2.10.1.0.2-2, freetype-1.3.1-7 freetype-*2.0.1-40 not yet installed. Does this library supply include files at /usr/include/freetype2 resolving the problem below? If so, perhaps XFree86 should depend on that library

Re: rawhide: XFree86-4.0.2-1/Xft compile error

2001-01-29 Thread Thomas Dodd
Thomas Dodd wrote: Svante Signell wrote: Environment: gcc-2.96-71, glibc-2.2.1-2, binutils-2.10.1.0.2-2, freetype-1.3.1-7 And rawhide's freetype-2.0.1-4 will not build. Using rawhide gcc-2.96-71, glibc-2.2-12, and kernel-2.4.0-0.43.12 (I'm have trouble building kernel-2.4.0-0.99.4

Re: Structural security problems in Redhat 7

2001-01-24 Thread Thomas Dodd
Ingo Luetkebohle wrote: On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 09:02:40PM +0100, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: _structurally_ unsecure like sendmail? By structurally unsecure I mean big setuid root program. The more code you have running setuid root the greater the chances a bug will have

kernel-2.4.0-0.43.12 twice?

2001-01-16 Thread Thomas Dodd
Thomas Dodd wrote: To add some info. lilo has root=/dev/md2 for all the inmages/labels I tried lilo to add the md=0,/dev/hda2,/dev/hdb2 and md=0,0,4,0,/dev/hda2,/hdb2 options to the kernel. No change. Con]mparing the config file for 2.2.17 and 2.4.0 I see the CONFIG_AUTODETECT_RAID option

Re: kernel-2.4.0-0.43.12 twice?

2001-01-16 Thread Thomas Dodd
Chris Kloiber wrote: Bill Nottingham wrote: Thomas Dodd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: I noticed rawhide now has a kernel-2.4.0-0.43.12.srpm date Jan 12. The previous version I had was dated Dec 27. Why wasn't the version/releas/build number incremented? It wasn't rebuilt (if you

Re: linux kernel 2.4.0-0.43.12 RAID

2001-01-12 Thread Thomas Dodd
Daniel Hammer wrote: BS"D excellent question, I have the same problem and would appreciate any solution! Best, The only thing I've found to work is building IDE into the kernel, not using the module. After I got autodetect/boot support in the config, It tried to autodetect BEFORE the IDE

linux kernel 2.4.0-0.43.12 RAID

2001-01-10 Thread Thomas Dodd
Anybody got the Rawhide kerenl to work with RAID ? I have a 2 disk IDE RAID with the md drivers. The 2.2 kernel with the Red Hat patches allow booting with / and /boot as RAID sets. /boot (/dev/md0 ) is RAID1 and / (/dev/md2) is RAID0. With the current rawhide kernel, I get an error when

Re: linux kernel 2.4.0-0.43.12 RAID

2001-01-10 Thread Thomas Dodd
Thomas Dodd wrote: Anybody got the Rawhide kerenl to work with RAID ? I have a 2 disk IDE RAID with the md drivers. The 2.2 kernel with the Red Hat patches allow booting with / and /boot as RAID sets. /boot (/dev/md0 ) is RAID1 and / (/dev/md2) is RAID0. With the current rawhide

Re: linux kernel 2.4.0-0.43.12 RAID

2001-01-10 Thread Thomas Dodd
Thomas Dodd wrote: To add some info. lilo has root=/dev/md2 for all the inmages/labels I tried lilo to add the md=0,/dev/hda2,/dev/hdb2 and md=0,0,4,0,/dev/hda2,/hdb2 options to the kernel. No change. Con]mparing the config file for 2.2.17 and 2.4.0 I see the CONFIG_AUTODETECT_RAID option

Re: glibc optimized for 2.4 kernel: rebuild problem

2001-01-05 Thread Thomas Dodd
Chris Kloiber wrote: "redhat.angus" wrote: preview directory of CD2 of RedHat 7.0 include a glibc package which is optimized for 2.4 and i686 architecture. I run actually the official 2.4.0 on my redhat 7.0 fully up2date (very happy, any functioning). So i would like to rebuild

Re: gcc-2.96: it is fixed or it is still broken?

2000-12-20 Thread Thomas Dodd
Mario Torre wrote: gcc -o t1 -g -Wall -O2 t1.c t1.c: In function `main': t1.c:25: warning: implicit declaration of function `strlen' t1.c:27: warning: implicit declaration of function `strcpy' why -g and -O2 ? optomized with debug info doesn't make much sense. There is not the inclusion

Re: need printtool to work in non-gui environment

2000-12-11 Thread Thomas Dodd
Check the changelog for V1.23 at the linuxconf page, http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf/ It appears someone has written a LPRng module for linuxconf and several other new modules. It was released Dec 5, while the version in RHL 7.0 is 1.19r2 from July 25, and patched by RedHat last on Aug 23

Re: ??adaptec AAA-UDMA IDE RAID card??

2000-12-07 Thread Thomas Dodd
Michel MENGIS wrote: Hi all, I wonder that adaptec isn't supporting linux ;(( stupid company... but I already bought an adaptec AAA-UDMA IDE RAID card (it's a cheap card that support RAID 0,1,0/1,5 IDE with 4 IDE ports). And this one isn't supported by redhat 7.0... According to the

Re: carriage return

2000-11-14 Thread Thomas Dodd
Pranita S wrote: Hi, As many of you suggested to use sed to get rid of carriage return ; sed -e "s/\r/\n/g" your_file_name your_temp_file_name the correct pattern would be "s/\r\n/\n/g" to replace all CR-NL with just NL. "s/\r//g" should work, but if you have a real CR in the file that

Re: Raw Hide 20001024

2000-11-03 Thread Thomas Dodd
"Edward S. Marshall" wrote: On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Bill Nottingham wrote: There's a patch for the ia64 build that happens to break the ix86. It's fixed internally, we'll get it out in the next rawhide. FWIW, there's no other significant changes in the 1.1 package. Ahh, okay (didn't check

Re: Raw Hide 20001024

2000-11-03 Thread Thomas Dodd
"Edward S. Marshall" wrote: On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Thomas Dodd wrote: You wouldn't happen to have that SRPM available would you? I was about to try the same thing with 2.2.18pre19 Not quite done yet. ;-) Once I have a working package, I'll put it up somewhere, unless someone fr

Re: KDE2

2000-10-31 Thread Thomas Dodd
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Evandro Fernandes Giovanini wrote: Actually they're built by us. But I'll push an update later today, there were a couple of issues with the release version that we've fixed since. kcontrol doesn't have the netscape plugins module.

Re: i need kernel-headers-2.2.16-22

2000-10-26 Thread Thomas Dodd
John Summerfield wrote: Thomas Dodd wrote: Install the kernel-source package. in /usr/src/linux, copy the correct config from configs/* to .config make mrproper make mrproper # removes .config Do this make first, then the copy. oops:( I knew you needed the mrproper to get rid

Re: i need kernel-headers-2.2.16-22

2000-10-25 Thread Thomas Dodd
Evandro Fernandes Giovanini wrote: alsa requires the use of kernel-headers version 2.2.16-22 in order to compile for that kernel. i changed the version.h file to tell alsa it was 2.2.16-22 (when it was 2.4.0, as in RH7) but then compilation failed. can someone tell me if rebuilding the

Re: Migration to Linux

2000-10-23 Thread Thomas Dodd
Garboua Nahil Y Contr WRALC/LYSFE wrote: I am migrating applications from an SGI to a linux Platform -- "me and my Big mouth" Most of the Code is portable, yeah most. OKAY, here is what I'm looking for. Sgi has a kernel functions to scan and initialized hardware inventory list, header

Re: kernel-2.2.16-24 and xforms-devel :(

2000-10-10 Thread Thomas Dodd
Svante Signell wrote: rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so (libX11.so.6.1) results in XFree86-devel-4.0.1-0.43, but according to the use of kgcc (1.1.2-40) from compat-egcs-6.2-1.1.2.9, a more reasonable library to use would be libX11.so (libX11.so.6.1) from compat-libs-6.2-2!! Is this a spec

Re: GTK/Makefile newbie question...

2000-09-22 Thread Thomas Dodd
"Freivald, Joseph A, GOVMK" wrote: and the program now fails to compile, complaining that it can't find the gtk libraries. Also, I have tried running the gtk-config file manually and copying the output to FLAGS and LIBS. When gcc attempts to compile the individual modules, there is no

Re: GTK/Makefile newbie question...

2000-09-22 Thread Thomas Dodd
"Freivald, Joseph A, GOVMK" wrote: Yes. Sorry I left that part out. If I put in each module as a -c, just to compile them with the LIBS, then it works, but it won't work re-entrantly. Sounds like one for the gtk/GNOME lists. Are the gtk libs reentrant? gcc -g -O2 -D_REENTRANT -Wall

Re: Athlon K7 + ASUS A7V does not boot for redhat6.2..

2000-09-07 Thread Thomas Dodd
Bill Nottingham wrote: Wacek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: After a proper installation of RedHat 6.2 Gnome workstation option on Athlon K7 with A7V mainboard computer, boot crashes (both normal and single option from LILO) with "General protection Fault ". What should I do to cure

Re: BioStar M7VKA motherboard w/ AMD Duron Boot Problem

2000-09-07 Thread Thomas Dodd
John Summerfield wrote: Greetings: I have been running RedHat 5.2 (2.0.36 kernel) on this machine for a couple o f months, without problems. Yesterday, I upgraded to 6.2 (2.2.14 kernel) and the machine refuses to start Linux. The installation was uneventful, and I can run in

Re: Glint

2000-09-07 Thread Thomas Dodd
Frank Hale wrote: Are there any other graphical alternatives to GnoRPM? I am just not ready to use Gnome all the time. I like using just a small Window manager and a minimal You can use GnoRPM without GNOME, sawfish, or Enlightenment. It just need the GNOME liraries The ones I see (for

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

2000-08-24 Thread Thomas Dodd
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: RH6.2 / rpm-3.0.5-9.6x / NVIDIA_kernel 0.9-4 / XF4.0 fails towork

2000-08-15 Thread Thomas Dodd
Mark Cooke wrote: Nick - maybe this could get rolled into the next release of your linux modules and noted on your FAQ page ? I don't know Nick, but I asked Terence on the linux-nvidia list and it's supposed to be in the 0.9-5 release. Hopefully it'll be out soon :) -Thomas

rpmlib

2000-08-08 Thread Thomas Dodd
I cannt install the rpm packages from pinstripe. I have rpm-3.0.5-0.5 which worked for the rpms in rawhide. I'm getting complaints about rpmlib(CompressesFileNames) = 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) = 4.0-1 are needed by every package I try to install. Where do these come from? I

Re: How to update initscripts ? ;)

2000-07-27 Thread Thomas Dodd
Franz Sirl wrote: At 13:23 27.07.00, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Piotr Majka wrote: [root@link SPECS]# rpm -Uhv ../RPMS/i686/{chkconfig-1.2.7-1.i686.rpm,initscripts-5.35-1.i686.rpm} file /etc/rc.d/init.d conflicts between attemped installs of

Re: How to update initscripts ? ;)

2000-07-27 Thread Thomas Dodd
Bill Nottingham wrote: Thomas Dodd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: I had no problems installing chkconfig-1.2.1-1 and initscripts-5.27-1 from rawhide using rpm-3.0.5-0.5 to rebuild the srpms. Bernhard, what's changed to cause this bug? It's not a bug. He's trying to install over 1.2.1

Re: Files in /proc

2000-07-20 Thread Thomas Dodd
Sounds like a question for the kernel list. I'm sending it there. -Thomas Mike Williams wrote: I am developing a driver for a PCI adapter with a sizeable amount of memory on it. I would like to use a couple of /proc files to read/write various memory location on the adapter

Re: Building ttysnoop from contrib.

2000-07-19 Thread Thomas Dodd
"Mike A. Harris" wrote: On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Thomas Dodd wrote: #define _XOPEN_SOURCE #include unistd.h char *crypt(const char *key, const char *salt); which doesn't look like what you have in the code. But I've never used crypt either. Yeah, I did all that yesterday, and a

Re: Building ttysnoop from contrib.

2000-07-18 Thread Thomas Dodd
"Mike A. Harris" wrote: Much better... Here is line 343 from ttysnoops.c: #ifndef SHADOW_PWD if (strcmp(pw-pw_passwd,crypt(buff, pw-pw_passwd)) == 0) #else I change it to: #ifndef SHADOW_PWD if (strcmp(pw-pw_passwd,(char *) crypt(buff, pw-pw_passwd)) == 0) #else

Re: Other lists down?

2000-07-17 Thread Thomas Dodd
Jean François Ortolo wrote: Hi I fully apologize for posting in this list, that is not devoted for that, but I made many tries to subscribe to any of these mailing-lists, without success: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm getting message from it fine. I subscribed long ago though. [EMAIL

Re: XFree86-4.0.1-30.src.rpm

2000-07-14 Thread Thomas Dodd
Matt Wilson wrote: That file is now in the Xconfigurator package. On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 01:25:13PM +0200, Piotr Majka wrote: This package make XFree86 4.0.1 without one enough important file - /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards --- :) I built this with rpm-3.0.5-0.5, egcs-1.1.2-30, and

kernel cmdline truncation

2000-07-14 Thread Thomas Dodd
I just installed kernel-2.2.16-8 from the rawhide srpm and the kernel command line is being truncated at 80 characters (according to /proc/cmdline) This is with lilo-21.4.1-2 (again from the rawhide srpm). It was working with my 2.2.14-12 kernel but no doesn't. The only think I did was

Re: zip/unzip with zcrypt support

2000-07-11 Thread Thomas Dodd
I can think of two good choices. 1) convert the zip file to a tarred and gziped file. Then add it to the Source list, so you have 2 source files 2) make a patch file that will change the dummy crypt file to the real ones. Put that in the spec file under patches. Is the source file

Re: XFree86-4.0.1 and Red Hat Linux 6.2

2000-07-10 Thread Thomas Dodd
Jose Romildo Malaquias wrote: I am willing to use XFree86-4.0.1 but there is not (or I was not able to find) any RPM packages (that includes the goods by Red Hat) for RH Linux 6.2. I would like to try the ones from RawHide, but they seem not to work. There are unsatisfied dependencies

Re: Recent changes to redhat-devel-list@redhat.com

2000-06-28 Thread Thomas Dodd
List Manager wrote: It was our intention to migrate the list to the new server without impacting any of the members of the list. In fact the change should Hopefully the other lists will go better :) The devel list seams to be the best place to test it though. Community, we have

Re: g++ question

2000-06-12 Thread Thomas Dodd
Alexandru Sofronie wrote: Hi all! I have this question and i don't know anywhere else to post: There is a vector of strings with variant length each one. Please cout me a solution. Or, check the implement below, and PLEASE HELP ME!!! Or, maybe, please indicate another mailing

Re: Have ever heard of a thing called Windows?

2000-06-06 Thread Thomas Dodd
JF Martinez wrote: Tony Nugent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Ever heard of a thing called swat? It comes with samba itself, and is much more comprehensive than gnomba. Yes I did. But Swat is a configurator and its counterpart is GnoSamba not Gnomba. Gnomba is a tool for

Re: Have ever heard of a thing called Windows?

2000-06-06 Thread Thomas Dodd
Thomas Dodd wrote: JF Martinez wrote: Tony Nugent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Ever heard of a thing called swat? It comes with samba itself, and is much more comprehensive than gnomba. Yes I did. But Swat is a configurator and its counterpart is GnoSamba

Re: Have ever heard of a thing called Windows?

2000-06-06 Thread Thomas Dodd
JF Martinez wrote: Thomas Dodd wrote: I just check the gnomba home page. http://gnomba.darkcorner.net SMB browsing from the master browser list was added in version 0.5.9, from Jan 7, 2000 according to the change log. The current version is 0.6.2 which has a lot of bug fixes

New GNOME rpms

2000-05-23 Thread Thomas Dodd
I was looking at the new GNOME rpms in rawhide. Will gnome-core-1.1.90-2 and gnome-media-1.0.51-3 work together? Will all the GNOME stuff be updated to 1.1.90 versions soon? What would I need to get to rebuild from SRPMS since the i386 rpms use a new GLIBC? What order should they be