At 10:04 PM 11/2/2008, you wrote: >I ran into this issue with the 8.04 LiveCD back in May and had a brief >email exchange about it with Jeff Epler (because I wanted to speak of >other things with him). > >Armed with Jeff's response about the memory constraint that was imposed >in the 6.06 LiveCD and the rtai fix y'all had been anticipating would be >released in time for the 8.04-LiveCD build, I went looking for an easy >way to determine what version of RTAI was actually running on my >machine. To save others the time it took me to do this (of course I may >just be the slow kid in the class and the rest of you already know the >answer), there is a utility called rtai-config that can provide the >answer when invoked with the --version option. > >Unfortunately, the location of this utility seems to be dependent on the >kernel version because of the way the rtai extensions are built. On my >machine, it's in the /usr/realtime-2.6.24-16-rtai/bin directory and >currently it returns the answer 3.6.1, confirming Alex's comment that >"...if you have your updates installed, then it's definitely fixed." > >I'll see if I can find an appropriate place to add this tidbit to the wiki. > >Regards, >Kent > >PS - mentioning the wiki reminds me to take a moment to rant that we all >should be explicitly date/time stamping our contributions and specifying >their effectivity (e.g., the software versions to which they apply) so >subsequent readers have a clue whether the information they are looking >at is relevant to their problem. As EMC/EMC2 and the wiki both evolve >over time it gets harder and harder to know what's hot and what's merely >historically interesting.
And though it's not a unixy question type list, for those unix noobs that want or need to find a file that's located somewhere in the system but you have no idea where, type "cd /", then "find . -name <filename> -print". This command, with it's qualifiers, starts looking in your current working directory, and recursively searches through each subdirectory for the file in question. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
