Linux-Misc Digest #994, Volume #26 Thu, 1 Feb 01 18:13:03 EST
Contents:
building gpm (Dirk Groeneveld)
ALD - Assembly Language Debugger - where? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Can't write to FAT partition as user (GYULAI Mihaly)
Re: Is FreeBSD Linux ? (John Hasler)
Re: what does this kernel message mean? (arif)
Re: USB printer with kernel 2.2.18... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can't write to FAT partition as user ("Tom Edelbrok")
Re: Can't write to FAT partition as user (Yvan Loranger)
unapcking the 2.4 kernel in a home dir (jafgon)
Re: how do I mount my tape drive? (John Thompson)
Re: unapcking the 2.4 kernel in a home dir (Brian Skahan)
Re: what does this kernel message mean? ("Arthur H. Gold")
Re: Lowercase in RPM DB (Steve Ackman)
Re: fuck... (Lee Allen)
Re: at queue problems (Gregory A Greenman)
Re: implementation of colored man pages (Thomas Dickey)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else (Steve Mading)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else (Steve Mading)
Re: fuck... ("nybblex")
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else (Steve Mading)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else (Steve Mading)
Re: how to upgrade rpm (Steve Ackman)
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From: Dirk Groeneveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: building gpm
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 22:43:00 +0100
Hi!
Does anyone know where to get and how to build gpm (general purpose mouse
daemon)? I just downloaded gpm-1.13 and he fails make'ing with a parse
error.
I'm using gcc 2.95.2, distributionless.
Dirk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ALD - Assembly Language Debugger - where?
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 21:10:39 GMT
This Linux tool used to be available (apparently) at
www.ellipse.magenet.com/ald.html but this link is now
broken. Does anyone have a (recent) copy of ALD or
knows of a new URL that works?
TIA.
dan
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: GYULAI Mihaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't write to FAT partition as user
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 21:14:00 GMT
I can't write to my FAT partition as user.
In the /etc/fstab file I have the following line:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/dosc msdos auto,user,rw,exec
What should I modify to allow write for user (myself)?
(I hoped that the 'rw' option is enough, but it's not)
--
GYULAI Mihaly
http://gyulai.freeyellow.com
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD Linux ?
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 20:10:06 GMT
Elf Sternberg writes:
> If it hadn't been for AT&T (which at the time owned the Unix trademark)
> suing the Berkeley group and preventing its widespread release, we'd all
> be using BSD and Linux would be an interesting side project. But because
> it was held up in the courts, Linus's release of his kernel made Linux
> the defacto "free Unix" to play with.
I was a beta tester for BSDI. I stuck with them through the lawsuit,
upgraded to 1.0 when it ended, and switched to Linux a bit later. While
the lawsuit certainly hurt BSD, I don't think it's the whole story.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: arif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what does this kernel message mean?
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 16:37:39 -0500
That's what I thought it was, but what's the point of it? I mean aside
from marking the time, what's its utility?
-arif
pb wrote:
> arif in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
>> I was looking through my logs on a newly installed suse 7.0 system, and
>> saw this message: I've got no idea what it is though... can anyone help?
>> Jan 31 00:27:31 linux -- MARK --
>> Jan 31 00:47:31 linux -- MARK --
>> Jan 31 01:07:31 linux -- MARK --
>> Jan 31 01:27:31 linux -- MARK --
>> Jan 31 01:47:31 linux -- MARK --
>
>
> Look at the times. It's just a message that says 20 minutes has
> passed, and all is well. No big deal, just ignore it.
>
> It can be modified for different time periods, but I can't remember
> how.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.portable,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: USB printer with kernel 2.2.18...
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 21:40:41 +0000 (UTC)
In comp.os.linux.portable Ben Bergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to set up my epson photo 870 with redhat 7.0. I have built
> a new kernel with usb printer support and I have a lpd-o-matic filter
> for my printer. In /dev/usb there is an inode
> crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 0 Aug 24 03:00 lp0
> I used control-panel to add the printer. When I try to start lpd I get
> this
> Starting lpd: Warning - lp: cannot open lp device '/dev/usb/lp0' - No
> such device
> So it seems like the kernel isn't recognizing the device at boot up.
> Has anyone gotten a usb printer to work? If so what did you have to
> do. This seems like a generic problem which has nothing to do with the
> specific printer. Thanks in advance...
I had an Epson 740 and used it with the USB backport for the 2.2
kernel (this was on SuSE 6.2, I don't remember the exact kernel
version). I'm also using a Redhat 7 system to connect to my digital
camera via USB.
The problem you describe sounds as if the usb modules are not loaded.
You can check with /sbin/lsmod, this should show something like this:
...
usb-uhci 19052 0 (unused)
usbcore 42088 1 [usb-uhci]
...
On Redhat 7.0, these two modules are loaded during boot, but you will
also need the printer module to talk to the printer.
You should be able to load it with "/sbin/modprobe printer".
I hope you are aware of http://www.linux-usb.org/ and especially the
Linux USB Guide.
I'm still trying to figure out how to load the modules automatically
when they are needed. One way is to add "alias char-major-180
printer" to /etc/conf.modules (on SuSE) or /etc/modules.conf (on
Redhat) and edit /lib/modules/.../modules.dep to tell that the printer
module needs usb-uhci, but I'm not sure if that's the best way.
Hope this helps,
Rainer
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From: "Tom Edelbrok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't write to FAT partition as user
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:44:19 -0800
I don't know what your problem is but I have no problem. I offer the
following ideas that work perfectly fine for me, (for HD or floppY):
To access a FAT partition on the C: drive place the following line into
/etc/fstab:
"/dev/hda1 /mnt/c-drive vfat exec,dev,suid,rw 1,1"
You can then mount the drive by entering "mount c-drive", and unmount it by
entering "umount c-drive". Alternatively, you could leave the entry out of
fstab and enter "mkdir /mnt/c" followed by "mount -t vfat /dev/hda1
/mnt/c".
To access the floppy drive you can enter either of the following lines into
fstab:
"/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat user,exec,dev,suid,rw 1,1"
"/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,rw 0,0"
Alternatively you can use "linuxconf" to set an NFS volume mount point.
"linuxconf" will place an entry into fstab for you. Modify the entry by
changing NFS to VFAT.
Tom.
"GYULAI Mihaly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:95cjid$cgu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I can't write to my FAT partition as user.
>
> In the /etc/fstab file I have the following line:
>
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/dosc msdos auto,user,rw,exec
>
> What should I modify to allow write for user (myself)?
>
> (I hoped that the 'rw' option is enough, but it's not)
>
> --
> GYULAI Mihaly
> http://gyulai.freeyellow.com
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yvan Loranger)
Subject: Re: Can't write to FAT partition as user
Date: 1 Feb 2001 21:59:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yvan Loranger)
GYULAI Mihaly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> I can't write to my FAT partition as user.
>
> In the /etc/fstab file I have the following line:
>
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/dosc msdos auto,user,rw,exec
>
> What should I modify to allow write for user (myself)?
>
> (I hoped that the 'rw' option is enough, but it's not)
Off the top o' my head
/dev/hda1 /mnt/dosc msdos auto,user,rw,exec,uid=YOU,gid=YOUR-GROUP,umask=002
--
Merci.........................Yvan Pour le plein air: Club Vertige
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ncf.ca/vertige
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From: jafgon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: unapcking the 2.4 kernel in a home dir
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 17:00:17 -0500
Greetings,
I'm reading the new 2.4 kernel documentation and it says to unpack
the kernel in a /home/user/ directory do to poor header addressing.
Could someone be more specific on why this is? I always read that kernel
unpacking goes into /usr/src. Had this always been true or is the new
location specific to the 2.4 kernel.
Thanks in advance,
J
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: how do I mount my tape drive?
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 20:04:17 -0600
Darren and Marla Welson wrote:
>
> I am adding a tape drive to an existing AHA-1542 SCSI controller. I have
> one HD already configured and working, but I cannot figure out how to access
> my tape drive. I have tried:
> mount -t ext2 -r /dev/sdb /mnt/tape
> mount -t ext2 /dev/tape /mnt/tape
>
> but no go. Is it possible I will need to recompile my kernel?
Tape devices don't use file systems so you don't mount them.
Just read and write the data directly to the device.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Skahan)
Subject: Re: unapcking the 2.4 kernel in a home dir
Date: 1 Feb 2001 22:10:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Am Thu, 01 Feb 2001 17:00:17 -0500 b/wrote/a �crit
jafgon < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > in comp.os.linux.misc :
>
> I'm reading the new 2.4 kernel documentation and it says to unpack
>the kernel in a /home/user/ directory do to poor header addressing.
>Could someone be more specific on why this is? I always read that kernel
>unpacking goes into /usr/src. Had this always been true or is the new
>location specific to the 2.4 kernel.
>
I don't remeber seeing that so I unpacked it in /usr/src/, it works fine
for me.
--
Brian Skahan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 16:16:44 -0600
From: "Arthur H. Gold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what does this kernel message mean?
arif wrote:
>
> That's what I thought it was, but what's the point of it? I mean aside
> from marking the time, what's its utility?
> -arif
>
> pb wrote:
>
> > arif in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> >
> >> I was looking through my logs on a newly installed suse 7.0 system, and
> >> saw this message: I've got no idea what it is though... can anyone help?
> >> Jan 31 00:27:31 linux -- MARK --
> >> Jan 31 00:47:31 linux -- MARK --
> >> Jan 31 01:07:31 linux -- MARK --
> >> Jan 31 01:27:31 linux -- MARK --
> >> Jan 31 01:47:31 linux -- MARK --
> >
> >
> > Look at the times. It's just a message that says 20 minutes has
> > passed, and all is well. No big deal, just ignore it.
> >
> > It can be modified for different time periods, but I can't remember
> > how.
As I said in my previous reply (which may not have
propogated to your server--maybe this one will), it's
letting you know that the logger is functioning but there's
nothing to say.
HTH,
--ag
--
Artie Gold, Austin, TX (finger the cs.utexas.edu account
for more info)
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
A: Yes I would. But not enough to put it out.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Ackman)
Subject: Re: Lowercase in RPM DB
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:24:02 -0500
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:15:05 -0500, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I'm installing MySQL using rpm and when I tried to install
>MySQL-bench-3.22.32-i386 rpm told me I needed MySQL-DBI-perl-bin. I
>downloaded it and installed it but it appears as mysql (lowercase) and
>MySQL-bench does not seem to see it...
>
>Is there any fix for this?
If you mean that 'rpm -ivh MySQL-bench-3.22.32-i386' informs
you of failed dependencies, then use the --nodeps option:
'rpm -ivh --nodeps MySQL-bench-3.22.32-i386' This will install
it without checking for dependencies.
If you mean they both installed but then MySQL-bench complained
when you tried to run it, then you could link the required name
to the required file.
--
Steve Ackman
http://twovoyagers.com
Registered Linux User #79430
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Allen)
Subject: Re: fuck...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 22:24:02 GMT
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 19:08:54 +0200, "nybblex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I thought that my old kernel, xserver, and kde will work fine after a
>faillure attempt to compile the new 2.4.0 kernel, but I was wrong...
>I 'll try to describe my story as quikly as I can... (my english sucks
>sometimes..)
>After the recompilation, my machine was refused to boot... anyway I booted
>up with my old kernel but something very weird happend (I 'm new to
>Linux)...
>When it attempts to start startx, kdestart, xinit or whatever (I 'm not sure
>how it works exactly) it fails and it boots without graphical environment...
>Hitting Alt-F7 I see a black screen and a blinking cursor...
>xinit logs me into grahical mode, but there is only the konsole there..
>Netscape loads fine...
>/var/log/messages says nothing and so dmesg...
>if I type startkde is says something about segmentation error and core
>dumped...
At the end of compiling your new kernel, did you "make install" and
"make modules_install" ?
-Lee Allen
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From: Gregory A Greenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: at queue problems
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 22:38:02 GMT
In article <956l3k$44v$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, mike_ellebracht@my-
deja.com says...
> In article <49Ad6.61407$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Tom Edelbrok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This may be of only little help to you in isolating the problem but I
> have a
> > similar problem with Redhat 6.0 when I get the "at" command to run
> certain
> > scripts from within /etc/rc.d/rc.local at boot-up time. They will sit
> in the
> > queue forever, even though a display of the queue shows that the time
> they
> > are scheduled to run has approached, come, and then gone. I ended up
> solving
> > the problem by using crontab instead, and within the crontab-executed
> script
> > I place some bash lines that ensured the script only performs its
> intended
> > function once. A dumb band-aid solution, but no one has yet been able
> to
> > tell me why some batch jobs go into never-never land.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > Gregory A Greenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > I have two users users set up on my Mandrake Linux 7.0
> > > computer that are both trying to use the at queue to run
> > > programs. They both have a shell script that calls the at
> > > command. The line where at is called is:
> > >
> > > at -q b -f diprun $2 $3 $4
> > >
> > > This works fine for one of the users, but for the other, when
> > > the appropriate time comes, diprun does not execute. It just
> > > stays in the queue indefinitely without ever executing.
> > >
> > > If anyone knows why this is happening and how to fix it, I'd
> > > greatly appreciate your help.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Greg
> > > ------------------
> > > greg -at- spencersoft -dot- com
> >
> >
> Not really much help again, but I was taught that the AT command was
> designed more for scheduling a one time task and the CRON function was
> more for running repeated tasks. If one user can use AT and not the
> other though, it is probably a permission problem or else they do not
> belong to the right group (which is really a permission problem also).
>
> Mike
Tom and Mike,
Thanks for the help. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one
experiencing this behaviour.
I checked to make sure that both accounts were configured the
same wrt what groups they are members of and what permissions
they have, so I don't think that's the problem.
I'm going to set up another account on my computer and see if
that one is able to use AT okay. Also, I'm going to try to
schedule a few more scripts with AT and see if they also fail
to execute when scheduled.
If I get it working, I'll post a follow up here.
Greg
----
greg -at- spencersoft -dot- com
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From: Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: implementation of colored man pages
Date: 1 Feb 2001 22:38:50 GMT
J�rg Ziefle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How is the colorization of the man pages under Red Hat (and misc. other
> distributions) done?
> The man pages themselves don't contain the formatting commands staticly.
> So is there a modified version of man which parses and inserts the
> colorization commands before sending the stuff to STDOUT/the pager?
It's possible that xterm is doing it (colors can be assigned to bold,
underline and reverse). Just checking, I see that this is the case for
Redhat 6.2 (read the XTerm app-defaults file).
--
Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://dickey.his.com
ftp://dickey.his.com
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From: Steve Mading <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: 1 Feb 2001 22:32:48 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In comp.os.linux.misc Steve Mading <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> Consider this sentence:
:> Standard way: "I went home," Bob said.
:> More Logical way #1: "I went home", Bob said
:> More Logical way #2: "I went home" Bob said
:> More Logical way #3: "I went home." Bob said
:> The standard way is illogical because the comma is there as an
: It is not the standard way. It is a typesetting convention that dates
: from the times when types were awkward sizes and so ", looked
: wrong (large space before comma with small wavy thing up top).
: Nowadays you can use any convention - provided you do so consistently.
: Different houses and series use different styles. I see nothing wrong
: with any of your examples.
Regardless of *why* this is the case, it was pushed for many
years (when I was being taught grammar) as *the only* correct way.
I know that this has changed recently. I chose this example on
purpose because it was one that was less controversial (the decision
to drop the illogical usage has already gained public acceptance).
Had I picked a grammer rule that was still in use today, people wouldn't
have been as likely to see the wisdom in deliberately spurning it.
Much like passive resistance is not the same thing as ignorance of the
law, bad grammar usage does not necessarily imply ignorance of grammer,
the "bad" grammar could be deliberate. There's a few other grammar
rules I deliberately break, that have not yet gained acceptance. For
example, I will not capitalize the word starting a sentence if the
word is a technical term that is case-sensitive and the lowercase
and uppercase meanings are actually different. For example, if I
talk of an integer in Java, and I am referring to the primitive
type "integer" rather than the class called "Integer", I will not
capitalize "integer" at the start of the sentence, as in this
example:
integers are 32-bit numbers in Java.
Integers are classes in Java.
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From: Steve Mading <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: 1 Feb 2001 22:37:08 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Erik Funkenbusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: "Steve Mading" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
: news:957i20$h7q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
:> : Deism is a belief in the existance of God.
:>
:> One that has nothing to do with Christianity. Which is kind of
:> important considering what this subthread is about.
: By that token, Judaism isn't welcome in this country either, which is
: ridiculous.
Right, it is ridiculous. But that's the way it would be if this were
a Christian nation, which, thankfully, it isn't. It's a secular
nation with a large Christian population - a very important distinction
to make.
:> : Atheism is a belief in the non-existance of God.
:>
:> No it isn't. It's the lack of the belief that god does exist.
:> To call this a belief rather than simple default skepticism is
:> to assume that god existing is the default, which is circular.
: No, Atheism is the believe that god doesn't exist. Agnosticism is the lack
: of a belief in god.
You assume they are mutually exclusive. They are not. I am both.
: Atheism is active disbelief, Agnisticism is skepticism about the belief.
No.
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From: "nybblex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fuck...
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 00:40:13 +0200
Yes I did!.. I also changed lilo.conf and run lilo...
The fact is that now I 'm booting with my old kernel which was working just
fine.. Maybe still does, but I can't use KDE... It is weird because I didn't
do anything...
After the failure about compiling the kernel 2.4.0, I tried to compile again
my old kernel... Then I tried to compile it again using "make oldconfig"
this time... but nothing changed...
what if I try to reinstall KDE??
> At the end of compiling your new kernel, did you "make install" and
> "make modules_install" ?
>
> -Lee Allen
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From: Steve Mading <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: 1 Feb 2001 22:41:06 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: No..that's agnosticism.
: A theism *IS* a belief....specifically a belief in the null postulate.
Break it down: a - theism = lack of theism = lack of the belief that
god exists.
:> If you null hypothesis is that
:> deities and the supernatural don't exist, then no active
:> 'belief' is not necessary.
:>
:> Agnosticism is more of a position that the issue is unsolved
:> or unsolvabe.
: i.e. "I don't know"
Belief and knowlege are not the same thing. An honest person could
admit to themselves that while they believe a god exists, they really
don't *KNOW* this for sure. Agnosticism is compatable with theism and
also with atheism. It is not some third in-betweener group, like the
popular media distorts it to be.
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From: Steve Mading <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: 1 Feb 2001 22:59:48 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Steve Mading wrote:
:>
:> No it isn't. It's the lack of the belief that god does exist.
: That definition encompasses both Atheism & Agnosticism.
It encompasses all atheists and *some* agnostics, specificly those
that are both agnostic and atheist. One can be both, assuming
the more technical philosophical definition of term is being used,
rather than the one that is becoming popular through common usage.
It works much like the way common usage has usurped the term
"hacker" to mean something different than what it meant to those
who used the word to describe themselves. The word "hacker"
described a set of people with certain technical skills and a way
of attacking a problem 'sideways' to get elegant solutions that
were not readily apparent. A certain subset of these people
started getting media attention when they used those skills to
circumvent computer security. Since this was the public's only
exposure to "hackers", they falsely assumed that this subset of
hackerdom was what the word "hacker" refered to, not realizing
that the subset they were exposed to was not indicative of the
whole set. Similarly, those atheists that actually do have the
active belief that there is no god tend to be a more vocal subset
of the whole, and the term gets mis-applied to them only.
: Theism: "I believe in a God/Goddess"
: Polytheism: "I believe that there are multiple Gods and/or Godesses"
: Atheism: "I believe that no God or Goddess exists"
This only describes some atheists, not all of them.
: Agnosticism: "I don't know if one or more God(s)/Godess(es) exist or not"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Ackman)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: how to upgrade rpm
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 18:04:41 -0500
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 19:26:56 +0000, Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Ive just updated to RPM 4 and it trashed the database! or it cannot read
>it.Now when I try to install I get lists of dependecies of files I know
>I've installed.As far as I know RPM4 is backward compat.
You need to rebuild your rpm database.
REBUILD DATABASE OPTIONS
The general form of an rpm rebuild database command is
rpm --rebuilddb
To rebuild a new database, do:
rpm --initdb
--
Steve Ackman
http://twovoyagers.com
Registered Linux User #79430
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Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
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