Linux-Misc Digest #230, Volume #19 Sun, 28 Feb 99 14:13:16 EST
Contents:
Re: A few small questions from a novice (Michael Powe)
Re: Anti-Virus for Linux (ozric)
Making Programs SUID root ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Re: Linux Users in Houston TX ("Rick Carlson")
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Bill Vermillion)
Re: More bad news for NT ("Jon Wiest")
Re: Linux/FreeBSD compatability (Was Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)) (Bill
Vermillion)
Re: More bad news for NT ("Jon Wiest")
Re: More bad news for NT ("Jon Wiest")
Re: More bad news for NT ("Jon Wiest")
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Jim McCusker)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Johan Kullstam)
adobe acrobat (F. Heitkamp)
Re: More bad news for NT ("Jon Wiest")
Re: More bad news for NT ("Jon Wiest")
Re: RH 5.2 and Kernel 2.2.2 Problems ("Lerxst")
Re: Error compiling Kernel 2.2.2 (Eric Potter)
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A few small questions from a novice
Date: 27 Feb 1999 23:56:39 -0800
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>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bill> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michael Powe
Bill> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ] Bill> Actually the
Bill> ppp-off script is relatively useless. It does ] Bill> not
Bill> allwo the user to kill the script, mainly because the ]
Bill> Bill> lock file (whic ppp-off uses to find the number of the
Bill> ] Bill> process to kill) is readable only by root, even if
Bill> pppd was
Bill> ]Dang, I've been using that script for a year and a half and
Bill> never knew ]it didn't work. I wonder what has been causing
Bill> my modem to hang up ]every time I invoked it. Must be that
Bill> dead chicken I whirl over my ]head each time. If I log in
Bill> as root, does that mean I can get rid of ]the chicken?
Bill> Ah!! So that is what I have been doing wrong so that my
Bill> ppp-off script does not work! Thanks for the hint.
Bill> Actually, perhaps we have different ppp-off scripts. Mine
Bill> reads /var/run/ppp0.pid to find the pid of the ppp
Bill> process. However, that file on my system is read only to
Bill> root. As a result, even if the user started the pppd
Bill> session, the ppp-off script does not work as that user
Bill> cannot read that pid from that file.
8<--------------------------------------------------->8
#!/bin/sh
######################################################################
#
# Determine the device to be terminated.
#
if [ "$1" = "" ]; then
DEVICE=ppp0
else
DEVICE=$1
fi
######################################################################
#
# If the ppp0 pid file is present then the program is running. Stop it.
if [ -r /var/run/$DEVICE.pid ]; then
kill -INT `cat /var/run/$DEVICE.pid`
#
# If the kill did not work then there is no process running for this
# pid. It may also mean that the lock file will be left. You may wish
# to delete the lock file at the same time.
if [ ! "$?" = "0" ]; then
rm -f /var/run/$DEVICE.pid
echo "ERROR: Removed stale pid file"
exit 1
fi
#
# Success. Let pppd clean up its own junk.
echo "PPP link to $DEVICE terminated."
exit 0
fi
#
# The ppp process is not running for ppp0
echo "ERROR: PPP link is not active on $DEVICE"
exit 1
8<--------------------------------------------------->8
(Linux 2.2.0) [/home/michael/source]
56 --> ll /var/run
total 8
srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 16 02:10 gpmctl
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3 Feb 16 02:10 gpmpid
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3 Feb 16 02:10 klogd.pid
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3 Feb 16 02:10 lpd.pid
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Aug 31 1998 pcmcia-scheme
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 6 Feb 27 21:41 ppp0.pid
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 32 Feb 16 02:10 sendmail.pid
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3 Feb 16 02:10 syslogd.pid
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 784 Feb 26 21:48 utmp
I started using this script on my Really Horrible 4.2 box and migrated
it over here to Slackware 3.5.
mp
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Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
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"Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write."
-- Anthony Trollope
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From: ozric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Anti-Virus for Linux
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 16:10:36 GMT
NAI Makes a scanner for unix. It is for mail and SMB shares. checkwith
them
http://www.nai.com/
Brian Donovan wrote:
>
> Hi, I was wondering if there is any anti-viral utilities available for
> linux. I'm at college with ethernet and like the biological type computer
> viruses tend to pass rather quick. Thanks for your help,
>
> Brian Donovan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Making Programs SUID root
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 17:03:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm not sure if this is the same thing as a program that runs as SUID root,
but I have a desktop machine that is running linux which only myself and my
wife use. I'm trying to get away from running as root, and using my own user
account, but there are programs that I need to run as root and I was
wondering if there is a way that I can change the permissions so that both
myself and my wife can run them without running as root. For example I
installed staroffice on my computer, but I installed it using the root
account. Now if I want to run staroffice I have to open an xterm, su to root
and then invoke staroffice on the command line. I'd rather have it set up so
that I can use either a kde shortcut or a windowmaker dock to execute the
application. I realize this is a security risk, but this is a desktop
machine. I've turned off all of my inbound network services except ssh, so
I'm not all that concerned about being hacked. Is there any way to do this
or do I simply have to suck it up and su each time.
Thanks,
Brian Seppanen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: 28 Feb 1999 17:09:35 GMT
Ugh... that looks a bit like PS to me ... =)
- Mike
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999 14:11:36 GMT, Brett W. McCoy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 28 Feb 1999 09:15:22 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Hehehe... If I had a good printer, and a book on TeX, I'd learn it... =)
>>
>>I've heard that TeX is a markup language, like HTML, but without hyper-
>>text... is this correct?
>
>In some respects. The development environment is much more complex then
>HTML, of course. Here is a sample TeX script:
>
>\begin{figure}
> \begin{center}
> \hrule
> \vspace{8pt}
> Some text
> \hrule
> \vspace{8pt}
> \end{center}
>\end{figure}
>
>(swiped from the O'Reilly book _Making TeX Work_, by Norman Walsh)
>
>In HTML, the equivalent would be something like:
>
><html>
> <body>
> <hr>
> <p>
> Some text
> <hr>
> <p>
> </body>
></html>
>
>I believe LaTeX has some facilities for SGML document formatting.
>
>-- Brett W. McCoy
> http://www.lan2wan.com/~bmccoy/
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From: "Rick Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Linux Users in Houston TX
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 12:12:55 -0600
I just started learning Linux this week.
I am attempting to convert an accounting software package (which I wrote 10
years ago) from QNX to Linux.
It uses a 3GL B-Tree database system using hard-coded C record structures.
I can transfer the source code using Kermit, but I would appreciate
suggestions for
the database back end.
Keep in mind that this is a commercial application, and the owner will not
distribute soruce code, so I have to remain compliant with the Gnu Library
Public License.
Anyone know which database package (yes, I am using Red Hat, version 5.2) I
should use? I would prefer not to convert to SQL for the first version.
I suppose I could purchase the FairCom C-TREE development system for $900
and convert the source to Linux, but I would prefer to use something already
written for and tested under Linux.
Remove the obvious anti-spam text from my E-mail if you respond privately.
Thanks.
Rick
James Mitchell wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I've just picked up on the tail end of this thread.... so I don't know
>what it's about. If it's worth anything, there is a new LUG at Rice
>University.
>
>http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~rlug/
>
>
>--
> ^-^ - James Mitchell
> (O O) 713/630.8310 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Vermillion)
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 17:36:06 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I always call "#" the "number sign" myself.
>in the uk, the shifted three gives the proper pound symbol and what in
>the us is displayed as # is in the uk shown as the wacky L.
So if you order something and say you want three pounds worth,
does that mean you want the amount which 3 pounds sterling will
buy, or do you get 3 pounds by weight - which may cost a lot more
than 3 pounds sterling. I think lb is perfectly good
abreviation.
--
Bill Vermillion bv @ wjv.com
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From: "Jon Wiest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.linux
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 12:24:34 -0600
Gregory Propf wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Sorry Jon, but I've used both. Linux does indeed "wipe the floor" with
>NT and NT is NOT a "real operating system". If I were bound for Mars on
>a ship that I found was controlled by NT I would not go. I would trust
>Linux provided they weren't using a development kernel. Granted NT is
>better than 95,98 or 3.1 but only in the sense that a bowl of cold gruel
>is better than a bowl of dog shit.
Uh, Sorry to you too Greg, I've used (and use) both. But you've fallen into
the same trap and not qualified your opinion. "Wipe the floor", give me a
break. What kind of sound-bite is that? It's not information, so it is
therefore disinformation. Show me stats! Numbers! Objective tests!
My objection is to the over-hype. Really, I don't doubt the power of Linux.
I have it, I use it, I can see it. But just because I like Linux doesn't
mean I suddenly think NT is shit (which is what seems to happen here, you
can't like both, you'll piss off the fanatics). I do think Win95 is shit,
BTW, but I also wouldn't trust the barely-computer-literate users in our
company to anything else.
Where I work we use Novell, NT and SCO. SCO is like a rock, so is NT, those
servers are never down. Novell...sheesh, it's always down. Trying to get
the IST manager where I work to replace SCO with Linux is unlikely to meet
with success as he only heard of it a couple of months ago, but I will be
trying. We can't replace NT since we there are several apps we run designed
for NT only. And there would be no point! It's doing great as it is.
Jon
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Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Vermillion)
Subject: Re: Linux/FreeBSD compatability (Was Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?))
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 17:45:34 GMT
In article <7bb3ja$1i3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Graffiti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I started with writing quite a few GNU/Linux/Slackware specific code
>because that was the only environment I could test code on. It took
>me a while working with NetBSD, Solaris, and SunOS 4 before I was
>confident that code I wrote would be portable.
>Since my home machine was Linux-only, I couldn't test it on non-Linux
>platforms where I do most of my development. (home)
....
>I'm sure those people would be more than happy to learn how to write
>portable code. All they have to do is spend $100000e^inf on a few
>UNIX workstations so they can run Solaris, HP/UX, SCO, AIX, MVS (Yes,
>it has UNIX branding), SINIX, ....
>While it is true many brands of UNIX and the hardware they run on are
>fairly cheap these says (used computers), expecting a lot of the
>high-school aged kids who live off a minimum-wage job or an allowance
>to go out and buy them to "learn UNIX" is a bit unrealistic. :-)
Well the iNTEL versions of the *ix variant tend to require more
resources than Linux or FreeBSD, it's not an iodinately greater
need. Memory likes to be a 64MB, HD's need a minimum of about
300-500MB to install. Other than that you can have Solaris, SCO's
Unix, SCOs Unixware for the same price you'd pay for Linux/FreeBSD.
The keywors are "same price that you'd pay"?' as they are not
donwloadable across the net. SCO's Unixware - full version is $69
plus-shipping handling. Their personal edition is $19.95 plus
shipping and handling as is their SCO Openserver (V.3).
Solaris for iNTEL is $10 + shipping handling. There prices are
in the range of most of the commercial CD releases of the
non-commerical free *ixes.
Depending on the 'used computer' some of the commercial OSes will
be a little creaky, but even used Pentium systems are cheap now.
As to the SCO offering, they charge for the CD. However a license
is free at their site, and you can legally borrow the media so the
only additional cost is the time it takes to get a license
generated on line
>Quite often, the people writing non-portable, Linux-only code do it for
>one of two reasons:
>1) They don't have access to a non-Linux mahcine.
>2) They just started playing with Linux, and have no idea what
>portability is.
I'd suspect the latter.
>Either way, why not cut them some slack? Point out where the code is
>non-portable to them. Make suggestions. Soon, they'll realise how
>valuable being able to write portable programs are, and they'll learn.
>If not, their programs probably aren't that useful, anyways.
Correct.
--
Bill Vermillion bv @ wjv.com
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From: "Jon Wiest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.linux
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 12:30:44 -0600
Amen brother, my point exactly.
Jon
David Hawthorne wrote in message <7b8bmg$kev$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
<snip>
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From: "Jon Wiest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.linux
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 12:29:08 -0600
Gregory Propf wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>As for Netscape locking up, you WILL find that happening under Linux.
>The difference is that bad software can't crash the whole system under
>Linux like it does ALL THE DAMN TIME under Windows. Don't argue with me
>on this, I work with this garbage every workday and I know what I'm
>talking about.
You again! Man you are condescending. You think you are the only one
working with this stuff everyday? I do too. Golly, gee, perhaps we are
using it for different things. I will argue, based on experience.
As for Netscape, it does lock up Linux. I have locked up Linux, not with
any server apps, yet though. Couple of DOOM sessions tells me Linux is
pointless as a DESKTOP.
Jon
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From: "Jon Wiest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.linux
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 12:35:03 -0600
Gregory Propf wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Well, no, actually Windows doesn't have any merit apart from its ability
>to subvert the industry's attempt to develop standard protocols and
>APIs. Without it the whole software industry would have fewer menial
>jobs today ("Oh , please Mr. Technician help me reboot my computer for
>the 10,000th time today) and far more that actually contributed to the
>real progress of computer science and technology. Microsoft is a giant
>anchor tied to the throats of everyone in the computer industry today.
>The only progress will come from the rejection of their proprietary
>"solutions". As someone saddled with the task of supporting MS's
>worthless products I resent the implication that they have done anything
>worthwhile.
O yes, the "subversion" argument. Let us all weep together: "If only
people could take care of their own computers, we would be freed from this
agony of support..." Spare me. What do you think, everyone in the world
has time to read HOWTOs? I don't think graphic artists need to know about
chat scripts. Why should my wife know as much as I do just so she can read
her email?
Anyway, I for one greet this new turn of events with open arms. Lots of
employment opportunities. What could you possibly be crying about?
Jon
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From: Jim McCusker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 13:14:48 -0500
"Brett W. McCoy" wrote:
>
> On Sun, 28 Feb 1999 02:27:59 -0800, jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> Hehehe... If I had a good printer, and a book on TeX, I'd learn it... =)
Or take a look at Lyx or Klyx, which is a document processor that
outputs tex.
> >> I've heard that TeX is a markup language, like HTML, but without hyper-
> >> text... is this correct?
> >
> >No, it is not correct. It is a document description language, like
> >PostScript.
>
> I would say TeX is more like HTML than PostScript. PostScript is more a
> vector-path page description language.
Yes, they are rather similar in that they are both markup languages. The
big difference, however, is what is done with it by the things that use
it. HTML is parsed and rasterized for a computer monitor. TeX is usually
converted to dvi, and then in turn to postscript, which are neither
rasterized formats.
Jim
--
Jim McCusker | Class of '99, BA Computer Science & Cognitive Science
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://cif.rochester.edu/~fprefect
~Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it,
poorly.~
~~Henry
Spencer
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Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 28 Feb 1999 13:22:54 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Vermillion) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> I always call "#" the "number sign" myself.
>
> >in the uk, the shifted three gives the proper pound symbol and what in
> >the us is displayed as # is in the uk shown as the wacky L.
> So if you order something and say you want three pounds worth,
> does that mean you want the amount which 3 pounds sterling will
> buy, or do you get 3 pounds by weight - which may cost a lot more
> than 3 pounds sterling.
and (to continue this useless thread) it may cost less.
> I think lb is perfectly good abreviation.
for weights yes. for british money, no.
in the US the $ is originally a thin U over top of an S. (think of
the double line $). why shouldn't US100 be an acceptible substitute
for $100?
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (F. Heitkamp)
Subject: adobe acrobat
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 28 Feb 1999 18:27:09 GMT
I've used Adobe acrobat reader successfully before I upgraded to
glibc-2.1. Now it doesn't work. I think its because it is linked
to libc-5. This in itself shouldn't cause a problem. When it
tries to load the Xt and Xext libraries on my system it says it
can't fine libXt.so.6. It is based on glibc-2.1 (actually probably
2.0.105 or so) and I think that is the reason. If I copy libc-5
based libXt and libXext to my libc-5 library directory might that
work? Also is there a glibc-2.1 based version of Acroread?
Fred
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From: "Jon Wiest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.linux
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 12:41:25 -0600
Perry Pip wrote in message ...
>On Sun, 28 Feb 1999 01:57:56 -0500, Jim Ross
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Center of KDE often hangs my Linux system. The hard drive cranks, like
KDE
>>is in a loop, I can't do crtl-alt-del or ctrl-alt-f2 or anything. I have
>Sounds Like something is crashing your X-Server, not Linux.
Uh, if he can't get another console, and he can't get it to stop what it's
doing, isn't that a crash at the Linux level? If the crashing X server
makes Linux inaccessable, what's the difference?
Jon
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From: "Jon Wiest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.linux
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 12:35:54 -0600
>How many of us
>: started with Linux as our first OS?
>
Oh no! Not another elitist club!!
Jon
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From: "Lerxst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 5.2 and Kernel 2.2.2 Problems
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 12:52:56 -0500
Here's a breakdown:
- installed RH 5.2 w/everything available in the installation
- no networking (other than dialup but I haven't gotten that far)
- no SCSI harddrives - just an iomega internal scsi, which worked fine
- kernel 2.0.36, recompiled and rebooted nicely
- downloaded and unpacked 2.2.2 - it DID NOT overwrite the 2.0.36 source as
I had removed the 2.0.36 source.
- did all the wonderful make mrproper, make menuconfig, make dep, make
clean, make zImage, make modules, make modules_install, copied the zImage to
to where it's supposed to go, (in my case, overtop of the old one, except
now I wish I had the old one), lilo, and reboot :)
No errors - just reboots with no messages when I try to load linux - Did
everything as I've done before on successful recompiles.
The options I picked in the menuconfig shouldn't have made any major
changes - I used all the options I had used before, but obviously something
has changed....
I hope this gives enough information to let someone suggest some ideas -
either way I think I'm going to have to reinstall - but when I go to compile
2.2.2 I don't want the same thing happening.
Thanks
ne... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>On Feb 27, 1999 at 23:36, Lerxst eloquently wrote:
>
>>Hi, (I posted this to comp.os.linux.misc, wasn't sure which group would be
>>the correct - so forgive me if you're reading this twice)
>>
>>I recently installed RH 5.2 which I'm pretty sure comes with kernel ver
>>2.0.36. It worked fine as expected - I then downloaded kernel ver 2.2.2 -
>>compiled the new kernel - the compile went fine - made all the necessary
>>changes (I think) to /etc/lilo.conf, (just like I've done from 2.0.3x to
>>other 2.0.3x kernels) and when I reboot this happens:
>>
>>LILO comes up, I pick my Linux boot scheme and TADA, the machine
reboots!!!!
>>The Win98 boot scheme still works but Linux will NOT boot....any ideas?
>There is a lot of stuff you have left out.....
>What packages did you upgrade if any?
>Were there any error messages when trying to boot?
>We'll need a few more pointers to be able to help you...
>
>--
>I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.
> -- W.C. Fields
>
John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>Lerxst wrote:
>
>> I recently installed RH 5.2 which I'm pretty sure comes with kernel ver
>> 2.0.36. It worked fine as expected - I then downloaded kernel ver
2.2.2 -
>> compiled the new kernel - the compile went fine - made all the necessary
>> changes (I think) to /etc/lilo.conf, (just like I've done from 2.0.3x to
>> other 2.0.3x kernels) and when I reboot this happens:
>
>> LILO comes up, I pick my Linux boot scheme and TADA, the machine
reboots!!!!
>> The Win98 boot scheme still works but Linux will NOT boot....any ideas?
>
>Did you remember to re-run lilo after you made your
>changes? If you didn't, lilo is still trying to use the old
>configuration and will fail.
>
>
>--
>
>-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Potter)
Subject: Re: Error compiling Kernel 2.2.2
Date: 28 Feb 1999 15:31:22 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
Christian Bienia enlightened this group thus:
> Hi!
>
> I always get this error if I try to compile loopback.c or another
> sourcefile that includes sock.h:
>
> [Excerpt from 'make bzImage' start]
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/net'
> make all_targets
> make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/net'
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
> -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe
> -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2
> -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686 -c -o lo
> opback.o loopback.c
> /usr/src/linux/include/net/sock.h: In function `sk_filter':
> In file included from loopback.c:51:
> /usr/src/linux/include/net/sock.h:796: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type
> /usr/src/linux/include/net/sock.h:796: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type
> /usr/src/linux/include/net/sock.h:796: warning: passing arg 1 of
> `sk_run_filter' from incompatible
> pointer type
> /usr/src/linux/include/net/sock.h:796: too few arguments to function
> `sk_run_filter'
> /usr/src/linux/include/net/sock.h: In function `sk_filter_release':
> /usr/src/linux/include/net/sock.h:807: warning: implicit declaration of
> function `sk_filter_len'
> /usr/src/linux/include/net/sock.h:811: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type
> /usr/src/linux/include/net/sock.h: In function `sk_filter_charge':
> /usr/src/linux/include/net/sock.h:817: dereferencing pointer to
> incomplete type
> make[3]: *** [loopback.o] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/net'
> make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/net'
> make[1]: *** [_subdir_net] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers'
>make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2
> [Excerpt end]
>
>
> Does anybody know how to fix this?
>
>
> Chris
You could try the latest alan cox patch, which is now 2.2.2-ac5. It compiles
and runs great on my system.
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