problem about /bin/true

2006-05-02 Thread Krishna Kumar
Hi All, I have a small problem when I tried to install latest 2.6 kernel on my desktop. When compiling and installing the mkinitrd program referenced to /bin/true and gae out an error No module /bin/true for linux 2.6.version. I do not really understand why the version of this binary is

I found a little bug of uname command

2006-05-02 Thread george_xuehui
Good Morning: Sir/Lady. I am chinese user of RedHat 9. My kernel version is 2.4.20-8 on an i686. Today I found a little bug of uname command. I read manual of uname. If I used uname -v, the system will print the kernel version. But I found the system did not print the kernel version

sort -n -u buggy ???

2006-05-02 Thread Arnauld Michelizza
Sort command seems to be buggy : $ sort --version sort (GNU coreutils) 5.94 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html. There is NO WARRANTY,

Re: sort -n -u buggy ???

2006-05-02 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [It is odd that you used the obsolete bug-textutils mailing list alias, even though you are using the latest coreutils 5.94.] According to Arnauld Michelizza on 5/2/2006 3:46 AM: Sort command seems to be buggy : $ cat foo 83.154.241.254

Re: I found a little bug of uname command

2006-05-02 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to george_xuehui on 5/2/2006 2:20 AM: Good Morning: Sir/Lady. I am chinese user of RedHat 9. My kernel version is 2.4.20-8 on an i686. Today I found a little bug of uname command. I read manual of uname. If I used uname -v,

Re: problem about /bin/true

2006-05-02 Thread Paul Eggert
Krishna Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When compiling and installing the mkinitrd program referenced to /bin/true and gae out an error No module /bin/true for linux 2.6.version. This sounds like a problem with mkinitrd or with your module system, not with coreutils, so you might try asking

Re: I found a little bug of uname command

2006-05-02 Thread Paul Eggert
george_xuehui [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I used uname -v, the system will print the kernel version. But I found the system did not print the kernel version but program produced time. Many systems, including mine, use a time stamp to denote the kernel version. That's probably what happened

Re: patch: contrib/compare_tests

2006-05-02 Thread Brian Dessent
Andrew Pinski wrote: I was lazy today and decided to use compare_tests. Guess what, it doesn't work on recent coreutils/sort (i.e. the one on FC5). From the texinfo doc: On older systems, `sort' supports an obsolete origin-zero syntax `+POS1 [-POS2]' for specifying sort

Re: patch: contrib/compare_tests

2006-05-02 Thread Andrew Pinski
Andrew Pinski wrote: I was lazy today and decided to use compare_tests. Guess what, it doesn't work on recent coreutils/sort (i.e. the one on FC5). From the texinfo doc: On older systems, `sort' supports an obsolete origin-zero syntax `+POS1 [-POS2]' for