Re: [vox-tech] Before I do this...

2002-03-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
begin Rusty Minden [EMAIL PROTECTED] For what my limited advice is worth I would start by checking the install. Is it partitioned properly IE is /var and / on separate partitions this is a pet peeve of mine I like to start with proper partitioning, but that is only my opinion. good

Re: [vox-tech] Before I do this...

2002-03-25 Thread Rod Roark
On Monday 25 March 2002 12:44, Rusty Minden wrote: ... Is it partitioned properly IE is /var and / on separate partitions this is a pet peeve of mine... I'm just curious to know why you feel so stongly about this. I've heard it before and tend to think it's a good idea, but never thought it

Re: [vox-tech] Before I do this...

2002-03-25 Thread Rod Roark
OK, thanks. I work with a lot of different distribution releases and like to put all the distribution-specific stuff in one partition, and things like /home and /opt and /tmp elsewhere. Since /var is more or less distribution-specific I tend to leave it in the root filesystem for my own use.

[vox-tech] how to be not nice within C

2002-03-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
is there a way for an executable written in C to change its own nice value? is there a system call that does this sort of thing? pete ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] how to be not nice within C

2002-03-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
DOH!!! why oh why does man 1 nice have to come before man 2 nice?!? ;-) thanks, bill! pete Oegin nbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 05:43:54PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: is there a way for an executable written in C to change its own nice value? is there a system

Re: [vox-tech] how to be not nice within C

2002-03-25 Thread nbs
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 05:57:02PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: DOH!!! why oh why does man 1 nice have to come before man 2 nice?!? ;-) thanks, bill! Yeah. Irritating. Every time I want to man printf, I always end up with the shell 'printf' program's man page, not the C library

Re: [vox-tech] need to debug boot crash

2002-03-25 Thread eric nelson
ME wrote: On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, eric nelson wrote: First, something about mount program didn't pass correct address, then RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 nfs: RPC call returned error 101 over and over There are so many errors, that I can't scroll back. I'll need to redo the