Mirror stuff...

1998-09-14 Thread Chris Trainor
ok, this isn't exactly on-topic here, but i'm trying to find a mirroring program that's like decent. i tried mirror, and fmirror, and both suck. it'll just create symlinks, and not get the darned files. I just want to get the Sparc stuff, I dont' want to have to transfer any of the 'binary-all'

RE: Mirror stuff...

1998-09-14 Thread Richard
Heh.. well put dude They do SUCK. Cheers to the wanker that wrote them. A mirror by definition, I thought .. was something that could download the damn planet at any given time... if you felt like down loading such a large volume :) So, go rename it you loosers. I have just been informed,

Encrypted File System.

1998-09-14 Thread Richard
Has anyone herd or seen a thing called Encrypted File system on any Debian or Linux distribution??? I am told it's lurking around, but this source is not all that reliable. I am interested in this, as I am sure everyone else might be. If it's a load of crap and doesn't exist, maybe

Re: Encrypted File System.

1998-09-14 Thread Josh Duncan
Hello, there is such a file system, called either cfs(for cryptographic file system) or tcfs(for transparent cfs). I don't know if these are one and the same piece of software, I believe so. I also spent 5 minutes and dug up a url fr you(since I forget the one that I had so long ago) try this

Re: unimplemented system calls

1998-09-14 Thread Derrick J Brashear
I seem to remember a big stink a while back about unimplemented system calls, including 103 119. This was fixed in later stable kernel snapshots. I'm just guessing here, but it could be that libc6 2.0.95 is using more of these syscalls than previous versions, so if you don't have the

Re: Mirror stuff...

1998-09-14 Thread Stephen Zander
Chris == Chris Trainor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris ok, this isn't exactly on-topic here, but i'm trying to Chris find a mirroring program that's like decent. i tried Chris mirror, and fmirror, and both suck. it'll just create Chris symlinks, and not get the darned files. I

last glibc breaks apt

1998-09-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
I need some help to finish the upgrade to debian of my old red hat sparc web server. After the upload I found that I can't compile anymore many packages because there are some headers missing. Someone on IRC explained me that if I use a 2.0 libc I must install the source for the kernel 2.0.35,

Re: unimplemented system calls

1998-09-14 Thread Joel Klecker
At 08:33 -0700 1998-09-14, Derrick J Brashear wrote: There are a few more syscalls in the newest code which won't report errors anymore but won't do anything, which will be in the next snapshot. The problem is presumably that glibc is testing for existance but not usefulness of syscalls and so it

Re: unimplemented system calls

1998-09-14 Thread Derrick J Brashear
At 08:33 -0700 1998-09-14, Derrick J Brashear wrote: There are a few more syscalls in the newest code which won't report errors anymore but won't do anything, which will be in the next snapshot. The problem is presumably that glibc is testing for existance but not usefulness of syscalls