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-- Red Hat Certified

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 point in my

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: 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-- Red

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 person

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 whichever

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

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 be

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 they're loaded. Using the IRQ and base address, couldn't one

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

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

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 appliance.

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-- RedHat Certified Engineer

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 have

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-- RedHat Certified Engineer __ Do You Yahoo!?

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. There

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-- RedHat Certified Engineer

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-- RedHat Certified Engineer

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: 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. In

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 the

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 decided I'm

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 largest

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 (and

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 compressed, 1175k

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 one morning

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 used

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.x. I

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) Linux