Linux-Misc Digest #362, Volume #24 Thu, 4 May 00 18:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: ls --color command (Mark Crotts)
Re: Netscape (Jim Townsend)
Re: CPU Info (Cyrille Giquello)
syslogd & ftp (Cyrille Giquello)
Re: Autologin as root ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Autologin as root ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Software Automation Tool. ("Peter T. Breuer")
Error while booting linux (Guillaume)
Re: How do you start the telnet daemon under Red Hat 6.1? (Jamie Scott)
Re: Wierd SuSE6.4 problem (Tim Haynes)
Re: good email client for Linux? (Lee Doolan)
Re: Insearch of a backup utility ("Art S. Kagel")
Re: NT/Linux + WIN98 (Matt Friedman)
Re: VPN server for linux (Robie Basak)
Linux on a Dell Poweredge 2450 (Peter Antypas)
ifconfig errors ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Netscape ("Ian")
Re: LILO doesn't like my 10G hard drive (C. C. McPherson)
Re: Error while booting linux (Richard Tilmann)
Re: Insearch of a backup utility ("David ..")
Re: Error while booting linux ("David ..")
Re: VPN server for linux ("Jerry Williams Jr.")
Windows 95/98 under Linux (Tony Lawrence)
make config problems ("Eagle")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Crotts)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: ls --color command
Date: 4 May 2000 22:25:56 GMT
On Thu, 04 May 2000 14:39:47 -0400, C.E.G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>below is an excerpt from the "ls" man page in regards to the "--color"
>option
>
>when I use this option there *are* colors. the problem is that they
>are horribly
>eye offending colors. does anyone know what file I can change in
>order to set
>the defaults of these colors to a more pleasing combination?
>
"dircolors -p > ls_colors"
"vim ls_colors"
set the colors up how you want them then add this to .bash_profile
"eval `dircolors ls_colors`"
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From: Jim Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,netscape.communicator
Subject: Re: Netscape
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 15:11:55 -0500
Ian wrote:
>
> When I configured my modem I entered a DNS name 'www-cache.freeserve.net'
> which is in my proxy settings in windows, there is no number.
It HAS to be a number... The DNS derives the IP number from the name.
If you enter the name of the DNS, then how can it resolve itself ? Try
205.200.16.65 for starters, then e-mail freeserve.net for the other..
./Jim.
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From: Cyrille Giquello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPU Info
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 22:22:23 +0200
Bob Tennent wrote:
> On Thu, 04 May 2000 19:11:46 GMT, Bruceh wrote:
> >Is there a way to determine:
> >1. the number of CPUs
> >2. the CPU speed (MHz)
> >
> cat /proc/cpuinfo
and look at the boot log for more description of your hardware.
cat /var/log/dmesg
--
Cyrille / Ktaland
=================================================
- Cyrille Giquello
- Pour votre MAC: http://TOUSOFT.COM/
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From: Cyrille Giquello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: syslogd & ftp
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 22:28:58 +0200
Hi,
How can we configuring messages from the ftp daemon to syslogd ?
line like :
ftp.* /var/log/ftp.log
doesn't work.
Is there something like local_N ?
Cyrille
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- Pour votre MAC: http://TOUSOFT.COM/
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Autologin as root
Date: 4 May 2000 20:19:44 GMT
Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: how does it do that ??
: Peter T. Breuer wrote in message <8es8h8$vr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
:>Mark Crotts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>: My Debian 2.1 box tries to autologin as root. Any ideas how to stop this?
:>Make it autologout as root too!
:>(become more comprehensible)
By learning to express itself.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Autologin as root
Date: 4 May 2000 20:21:48 GMT
Mark Crotts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On 4 May 2000 16:29:28 GMT, Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>Mark Crotts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>: My Debian 2.1 box tries to autologin as root. Any ideas how to stop this?
:>
:>Make it autologout as root too!
:>
:>(become more comprehensible)
:>
: Okay. If I reboot, instead of getting the login screen I get "password"
: If I enter roots password it logs in.
: If I login as root then "exit" the box tries to log root back in.
Looks like it has a messed up set of init scripts, or else it is
booting in runlevel 1. Examine the runlevel in /etc/inittab, and make
sure it is set to 3. Check the init installation.
: Here's the output
: daylonius:~# exit
: logout
: Password:
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Software Automation Tool.
Date: 4 May 2000 20:18:21 GMT
Lilia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Peter, while you laugh, i suggest you to learn about subject you are
: replied to and about SQA. In the meanwhile, one of the usenet group
What's SQA?
: responded to what i was looking for: it's call Dejagnu. Have a better luck
: in your future flames,
No flame. I'm just still laughing at your scientific ignorance ...
but if they want to take you for a ride, then so much the better - for
them. I just wish people weren't so uptight about defending their
delusions. A profitable discussion might result. I pointed out to you
what is wrong below. It seems to me that you should think about the
implications, and you should explain yourself so that you may get
helped in the direction you want to go.
: Lilia
: Peter T. Breuer wrote in message <8er8sr$o3q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
:>Lilia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>
:>: it's an emulator. it basically means a tool to automate the process of
:>: testing an application. there is a manual and automated testing. and
: plenty
:>
:>What kind of application? Could it test my compiler? Or my compiler
:>compiler? How can the tool test anything at all without knowing its
:>spec?
:>
:>: of packages for all OS except Linux. Winrunner (actually XRunner) by Mercury
:>: Interactive is running on Unix. Another poduct LoadRunner can test Java apps
:>: on Linux. But i'm looking for simply an automated software tool by third
:>: party that will create a test scripts to test in-house application that is
:>: run under Linux. thanks!
:>
:>There is no such thing on any operating system. You are being conned by
:>snake oil salesmen. Without knowledge of the requirements and the spec
:>it can't do anything at all. And it couldn't do anything but the most
:>basic i/o type-checking even given the spec.
:>
:>Excuse me while I laugh.
:>
:>:>What do you mean? Do you mean something that constructs test vectors
:>:>from source code? That's generic theory-of-testing stuff, and will
:>:>in any case be specific to the source code language used.
:>:>
:>:>Please explain yourself ..
Peter
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From: Guillaume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Error while booting linux
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 20:30:08 GMT
I've just installed for the first time linux on a PC and when I'm booting
with lilo boot, I obtain this message:
_______________________________________________________
LILO Boot:
Loading Linux...........
Uncompressing Linux...
crc error
--System halted
_______________________________________________________
What should I do? I am a Newbie in Linux, so if you send me informations,
tell me how to do it. Take note that I have installed Linux 5 times on the
same PC and I still have the same error!!! Hhhhheeeeelllllllpppppp!!!!!!!!
Thanks!!!
Guillaume
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From: Jamie Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.linux
Subject: Re: How do you start the telnet daemon under Red Hat 6.1?
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 20:40:05 GMT
Casey Claiborne wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How can one verify that the telnet daemon has been started under the
> Red Hat 6.1? If it is not started, how does one actually get it going?
> I was hoping to just type a command (similar to when one just types
> a command to start the http server).
>
> Please help me :(
>
> Any help, hints or advice is *truly* appreciated -
>
> Casey
With Red Hat 6.1 telnet is most likely running. It is not a demon by
itself but run out of inetd. Check for a 'telnet' entry in /etc/services
and /etc/inetd.conf
It is easily tested from your local machine by typing 'telnet
localhost'. You should get a login prompt. If you do not and telnet is
listed in /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf chances are that inetd is not
running. You can confirn this by typing /etc/rc.d/init.d/inetd status.
You can start it by typing /etc/rc.d/init.d/inetd start
I hope this helps.
Regards, Jamie Scott
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Haynes)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Wierd SuSE6.4 problem
Date: 04 May 2000 21:39:00 +0100
Reply-To: "Tim Haynes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (phil hunt) writes:
> On Thu, 4 May 2000 11:01:33 +0100, phil hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >I started using my computer this morning, to find it was running very
> >slowly.
> >
> >When I ran top, I found the load average was 30 and it was running loads
> >of "rm" tasks. ps indicated they'd all been started by cron:
>
> In fact, every time I run rm it just hangs there consuming my cpu until I
> zap the process.
One or two options:
1) who's been sleeping in MY machine? (the unlikely option)
2) icky filesystem - what is this, NTFS or something? What state
are the 'rm' processes stuck in, "D" or something more polite?
(Big tip I picked up here: if you've got 30 processes stuck in
state 'D', each one adds 1.0 to your "load".)
3) icky hardware - overheating HDs?
4) another *very* strange option, syslogd bombing out - is that
occupying lots of CPU and is /var/log/messages still being
written to?
(OK so I can't count either ;)
~Tim
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From: Lee Doolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: good email client for Linux?
Date: 04 May 2000 14:00:11 -0700
>>>>> "latompa" == latompa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
latompa> Can anyone recomend a good email client for Linux? kmail
latompa> sucks. Staroffice is too heavyweight. Netscape mail only
latompa> supports one POP3 account and is slow.
emacs gnus is all of those things
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Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 16:54:49 -0400
From: "Art S. Kagel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Insearch of a backup utility
Robert Hagg wrote:
>
> I'm in search of a backup utility that runs under Linux, and capable of
> operating over a TCP/IP based LAN.
> The network is small, 15 nodes consisting of various Linux/NT/9x/Mac
> systems. I would like to be able to backup a complete system, multiple
> drives/boot partition etc.
> I'm interested the various utilities available and first hand experience,
> good or bad.
> Thanks.
> Feel free to cc me direct at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Take a look at BRU Professional.
Art S. Kagel
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From: Matt Friedman <"mwf"@total.net(remove-to-reply)>
Subject: Re: NT/Linux + WIN98
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 16:56:02 -0400
Dan Eaton wrote:
>
> I currently have a dual booting system with NT's boot loader booting
> either NT or Linux.
> I would now like to add WIN98 to the same box. I have an unused 4GB
> partition on my
> drive so I have room for it. My question is how best to go about
> adding WIN98 without trashing my current NT and Linux partitions.
> Thanks for your help.
I may be wrong, but I seem to remember from my last dual-boot experience
that Win98 has to be on the first partition of the first drive for it to
boot at all.
MF
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: VPN server for linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 May 2000 21:13:34 GMT
[comp.os.linux.admin doesn't exist on my news server]
On Wed, 03 May 2000 21:06:58 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I run PPP over SSH, and it works great for creating a VPN over the
>> internet. There is a howto on it that guided me, got it from
>> linuxdocs.org.
>> If you have pppd and sshd, no more software to buy.
>>
>> "H.T. Sun" wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Does anyone know of any VPN (Virtual Private Network) server
>> > applications for Linux ? Any info. will be very helpful.
>> >
>> > Thanks a million
>>
>
>How did you get it to work? I tried to follow the instructions for
>this in the HOW-TO and figured out that ssh and rsh don't connect the
>remote command to a tty, which the scheme apparently depends on.
I've never done this before, but I was reading the pppd man page (latest
version) earlier and noticed that it creates the tty pair.
Robie.
>I verified this by using ssh to run a sleep command remotely, and doing
>a process list on the remote machine and seeing that the sleep had no
>associated tty.
>
>Do you have to specially compile ssh and rsh to achieve this?
>
>Chris Marshall
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
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From: Peter Antypas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on a Dell Poweredge 2450
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 09:24:20 -0600
We have leased one of these babies and we installed NT on it. I
attempted to install Caldera 2.4 and RedHat 6.1 with no success in
recognizing the PERC raid controller (an AMI Megaraid actually?).
The system has an Adaptec 7899 controller with no drives (must be on
ther board). Has anyone else been successful? I looked at Dell's website
and I haven't actually found an installation boot image for anything
other than RH 5.0/5.1
TIA
PS Please reply to peter < at > tiansoft <dot> com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ifconfig errors
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 21:12:12 GMT
I am trying to setup my second nic card and when I type the command:
ifconfig eth1 netmask 255.0.0.0 broadcast 10.0.0.0 10.0.0.1 up
I get the following messages:
SIOCSIFNETMASK: cannot assign requested address
SIOCSIFBRDADDR: cannot assign requested address
Even though I get these messages it still sets the card up with these
addresses, and the card works. Anyone have any ideas why I am getting
these errors, and what I can do to get rid of them?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,netscape.communicator
Subject: Re: Netscape
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 22:25:53 +0100
Thanks so far, I seem to be getting a bit closer. A problem that is
happening now is that when I try to get messages I'm prompted for a password
that I don't know. It isnt my root login and it isn't my internet logon
password.
Jim Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ian wrote:
> >
> > When I try a URL I get a timer on the cursor and nothing else happens.
> > When I try to send email I get a message saying 'unable to locate server
> > smtp.freeserve.net check server name and try again.
> >
> > When I try to get message I get a dialog box saying same as above except
it
> > refers to the pop.freeserve.net (which I entered into pop server box).
> >
> > When I try to subscribe to news I get same as above but a referal to
> > news.freeserve.net
> >
> > Hope you can help.Ian.
>
> Yes.. someone else beat me to it.. You have to define your DNS
> servers. You can quickly check to see if you have a server set by
> typing 'nslookup localhost' at a consol prompt.
>
> Jim.
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From: C. C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: LILO doesn't like my 10G hard drive
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 17:30:46 -0400
> Bill Unruh wrote:
> >
> > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Neil Koozer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > ](3) Try the nuni boot loader (which I wrote:). It avoids bios problems
> > ]by not using the bios. It can boot from anyplace up to 137gb on any IDE
> > ]drive, including drives attached to add-on cards such as ata66 cards.
> > ]It can be downloaded from
> > ]ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders/
> >
> > Interesting. What is its downside? Why is it not the default loader in
> > Linux?
>
> It doesn't do scsi. All scsi cards are different and the driver for
> each one is a bios patch in rom. In principle, nuni could be done for
> scsi by doing a different version for every scsi card and let the
> installing utility sense which one to use. However, the programming
> details for the scsi cards is not available.
>
> I didn't think that this was so bad because the vast majority of new
> users are probably using IDE, and power users who use scsi-only probably
> don't need the help. I have 10 linux systems on my machine, most of
> which are on hde, which is a 17gb drive connected to an Ultra66 card.
> Two of them are on hdd, and on that one I set the bios to 'normal' after
> partitioning it in LBA. The one I'm typing on right now is Slack 7.0 on
> hde11, which is up around cylinder 2000. Lilo can only boot about two
> of these systems, and nuni boots them all.
>
> I tried to interest Slackware and Mandrake in this loader, but they were
> not interested. I used the ploy: You can be the first to advertise
> "Ours boots above 1024". I also pointed out that Linux claims to fix
> things immediately, and the "LI" and "L 01 01..." problems are more than
> 5 years old. I also said, "What if Window would hang with "WI" instead
> of booting, and what if they didn't fix it for over 5 years?"
>
> > (And what does nuni stand for? Or for that matter what does lilo stand
> > for?)
>
> lilo stands for linux loader. For my loader I wanted a pronounceable
> two-syllable name that doesn't start with 'g' or 'k'. When I was born
> (1943), my brother could not pronounce 'neil', and what he came up with
> was 'nuni' (or 'noonie"). So that was my name until I was 5 years old.
> I just happend to think of that and adopted it as the name for my
> program.
>
> Neil.
>
You know that rings a bell, a couple of years ago someone
did a good job of patching lilo for >1024, and that patch
still isn't in lilo :-( Don't get me wrong, I like linux,
but some of the technology that is stuck in linux is soooo
old, like lilo. Just downloaded yours to try. Sorry for
barging in on this thread.
-Clyde
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From: Richard Tilmann <r{no-spam}[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Error while booting linux
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 17:33:38 -0400
Guillaume wrote:
> I've just installed for the first time linux on a PC and when I'm booting
> with lilo boot, I obtain this message:
> _______________________________________________________
> LILO Boot:
> Loading Linux...........
> Uncompressing Linux...
>
> crc error
>
> --System halted
> _______________________________________________________
>
> What should I do? I am a Newbie in Linux, so if you send me informations,
> tell me how to do it. Take note that I have installed Linux 5 times on the
> same PC and I still have the same error!!! Hhhhheeeeelllllllpppppp!!!!!!!!
>
> Thanks!!!
> Guillaume
>
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Hi,
A crc error is usually associated with a bad spot of your hard disk. If
possible, try a different hard disk, or try a different version of a linux
distro, so as to place the boot image in a slightly different location.
During disk formating, be sure to ask the distro install to check the sectors
during format.
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Insearch of a backup utility
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 16:21:38 -0500
Robert Hagg wrote:
>
> I'm in search of a backup utility that runs under Linux, and capable of
> operating over a TCP/IP based LAN.
> The network is small, 15 nodes consisting of various Linux/NT/9x/Mac
> systems. I would like to be able to backup a complete system, multiple
> drives/boot partition etc.
> I'm interested the various utilities available and first hand experience,
> good or bad.
> Thanks.
> Feel free to cc me direct at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You don't say what kind of tape drive you have. But if it is an SCSI
tape then check out http://www.arkeia.com they have a free one you can
use for personal use or try it to see if it will do what you want. I use
it and it works great once it is configured.
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ID # 123538
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Error while booting linux
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 16:29:49 -0500
You need to add some info like which flavor of linux and what type of
hardware your system has. Such as Processor, hard drive, etc...
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ID # 123538
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From: "Jerry Williams Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: VPN server for linux
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 21:50:22 GMT
"H.T. Sun" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of any VPN (Virtual Private Network) server
> applications for Linux ? Any info. will be very helpful.
>
> Thanks a million
I use VNC (Virtual Network Computing), it come with Mandrake 7.0. What is great is I
can run
Windows apps from my Linux box and vice versa. Here is the URL:
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
Hope this helps.
Jerry
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From: Tony Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Windows 95/98 under Linux
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 22:05:01 GMT
I just want to share this if you haven't heard about it
already: http://aplawrence.com/Reviews/win4lin.html
This was the final piece I needed to let me switch to a
Linux desktop (now all I have to do is finish up that
machine with a tape drive and I'm done).
--
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SCO/Linux articles, help, book reviews, tests,
job listings and more : http://www.pcunix.com
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From: "Eagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: make config problems
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 23:02:11 +0100
Is anything special required to be loaded in for this command to run?
I'm using Slackware 7.0 distro ..... without X
In /usr/src/linux, typing the command make config or make menuconfig gives
error message that arch/i386 ...... (sorry trying to remember this from
memory) .... cannot be found and quits on me.
Any ideas than on how I can recompile the kernel?
Thanks
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