Re: Is This Thing On?

2001-12-31 Thread Keith Morse

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I *still* dislike sendmail


Ah, but this is what postfix is for!

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Re: elx linux evaluation continued

2001-12-31 Thread Declan Moriarty

Was it Collins Richey who wrote on Sunday 30 December 2001 00:36:
 Well, my beloved gentoo distro has become somewhat unstable, so I've
 switched back to elx at least temporarily.

 A few notes:

 3) I found rpm versions of xfce and sylpheed, and they went in without a
 hitch, even though not specifically designed for elx.  It appears that
 anything redhat/mandrake crafted will work.

I have been running Mandrake for a while now, and allow me to add that IMHO, 
Red Hat and Mandrake  are no longer fully compatible, just alike. Elx has 
probably done what Mandrake did - started with a basic Red Hat file 
arrangement and then added their own work. They have differed widely in 
areas, and Mandrake has added loads of 'drakes (Harddrake, diskdrake(out 
yet?), drakfont, rpmdrake, XFdrake,) mainly dodges so they don't have to 
explain anything. Thay have you testing for them (e.g. crashtester, 'cooker') 
before they will do that.

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Re: elx linux evaluation continued

2001-12-31 Thread Collins Richey

On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 09:39:30 + Declan Moriarty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Was it Collins Richey who wrote on Sunday 30 December 2001 00:36:
  Well, my beloved gentoo distro has become somewhat unstable, so I've
  switched back to elx at least temporarily.
 
  A few notes:
 
  3) I found rpm versions of xfce and sylpheed, and they went in without
  a hitch, even though not specifically designed for elx.  It appears
  that anything redhat/mandrake crafted will work.
 
 I have been running Mandrake for a while now, and allow me to add that
 IMHO, Red Hat and Mandrake  are no longer fully compatible, just alike.
 Elx has probably done what Mandrake did - started with a basic Red Hat
 file arrangement and then added their own work. They have differed
 widely in areas, and Mandrake has added loads of 'drakes (Harddrake,
 diskdrake(out yet?), drakfont, rpmdrake, XFdrake,) mainly dodges so they
 don't have to explain anything. Thay have you testing for them (e.g.
 crashtester, 'cooker') before they will do that.
 

You're most likely right.  I haven't kept up with Mandrake since the 8.0
(???) Beta which I liked better than the final product.  They wouldn't
really explain much to me, even when I was on the 'cooker' list.

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elx typo final

2001-12-31 Thread Collins Richey

I've reported the infamous typo to elx, which is what I should have done
in the first place instead of getting involved (and helping to fuel) a
flame war.  Sigh, I guess I'm easy flame bait.

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Re: elx linux evaluation continued

2001-12-31 Thread Mike Andrew

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 03:02, Ted Ozolins wrote:

 On another note, I can not seem to be able (or programs) to use ttyS0 or
 any serial port as a mere mortal. ttySX is owned by root and in the group

[snip]

temporarily (at least) cripple out GiveConsole and TakeConsole in /etc/X11/~


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Postifx (Was: Re: Is This Thing On?)

2001-12-31 Thread kwall

On December 31, Keith Morse enlightened our ignorance thusly:
 On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  I *still* dislike sendmail
 
 
 Ah, but this is what postfix is for!

Agreed, but I couldn't figure out how to configure the relaying stuff
so I could still get email. It built and installed without incident.
It is more a difficulty understanding relaying (or anti-relaying,
rather) configuration directives, which denseness on my part also
afflicts me vis-a-vis sendmail. I looked at the docs, looked at
examples, my eyes glazed over, so I returned to the evil I know
(sendmail).

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Re: Netscape 6.2 Composer

2001-12-31 Thread Joel Hammer

Netscape 6.2 is working fine as a browser. email is not working quite right.
I just tried the newest Opera on the SxS web site. It crashed when I tried
to search the site.
Joel
 
 Do you get that far without a crash? ;-)
 
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Re: Netscape 6.2 Composer

2001-12-31 Thread Michael Scottaline

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 09:18:10 -0500
Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration:

 Netscape 6.2 is working fine as a browser. email is not working quite
 right. I just tried the newest Opera on the SxS web site. It crashed
 when I tried to search the site.
 Joel

H., Odd.  I just tried browsing through the SxS for about 10 minutes,
using Opera 6.0TP and didn't encounter that problem.  Ran a search and
that seemed to work fine also. shrug  Which version of Opera were you
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Re: Asus and Intel

2001-12-31 Thread Chang

TUSL is another Asus board that uses Intel i815e b-step for Tualatin
CPUs. The Asus' 440BX boards are very reliable and have great
performance. It was an excellent choice for building home servers.

The latest offering is the i845D chipset (forgot the model no.)
I have high expection for it and may upgrade to it when 
P4 becomes cheaper. Right now, P4 is dam expensive.

Net Llama wrote:
 
 The 440BX chipset is by Intel.  I wasn't aware that they ever let Asus
 put their chipsets on their mobos.
  SMP is enabled in the kernel, too. I got some bridge resources problem
  when the kernel boots. Puzzling. It's just a Asus P2B-F that uses
  440BX
  chipset. It's ACPI support is not standard enough, though.
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Re: Netscape 6.2 Composer

2001-12-31 Thread Joel Hammer

I am using the latest version. I suspect that a lot of such crashes are due
to java, which may not be working quite right, although, I don't have such
problems with netscape 6.2. Often, a repeat attempt at such a site with
opera is successful, so, this is a sporadic but common problem for me when
I use opera.
Joel
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 09:53:47AM -0500, Michael Scottaline wrote:
 On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 09:18:10 -0500
 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration:
 
  Netscape 6.2 is working fine as a browser. email is not working quite
  right. I just tried the newest Opera on the SxS web site. It crashed
  when I tried to search the site.
  Joel
 
 H., Odd.  I just tried browsing through the SxS for about 10 minutes,
 using Opera 6.0TP and didn't encounter that problem.  Ran a search and
 that seemed to work fine also. shrug  Which version of Opera were you
 using? Mike
 
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Re: Postifx (Was: Re: Is This Thing On?)

2001-12-31 Thread David A. Bandel

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 09:06:35 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream:

 On December 31, Keith Morse enlightened our ignorance thusly:
  On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   I *still* dislike sendmail
  
  
  Ah, but this is what postfix is for!
 
 Agreed, but I couldn't figure out how to configure the relaying stuff
 so I could still get email. It built and installed without incident.
 It is more a difficulty understanding relaying (or anti-relaying,
 rather) configuration directives, which denseness on my part also
 afflicts me vis-a-vis sendmail. I looked at the docs, looked at
 examples, my eyes glazed over, so I returned to the evil I know
 (sendmail).
 

Well, at least I'm not the only one with this problem.  I have only
postfix on one system, but I'm getting ready to install sendmail from
source -- why?  because I know how to configure it.

Ciao,

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More Steps Jan 1

2001-12-31 Thread Mike Andrew

Bedtime Reading - Print Filters (Joel Hammer)

FTP-Server (corrections) (Linuxism)

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Re: Netscape 6.2 Composer

2001-12-31 Thread Michael Scottaline

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 11:41:41 -0500
Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration:

 I am using the latest version. I suspect that a lot of such crashes are
 due to java, which may not be working quite right, although, I don't
 have such problems with netscape 6.2. Often, a repeat attempt at such a
 site with opera is successful, so, this is a sporadic but common problem
 for me when I use opera.
 Joel
==
Yup..., likely due to its being a TP (beta).  Hopefully when the 6.0 final
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Re: CAL_UP.SH and Douglas

2001-12-31 Thread Herbert H. DeLong

Do you have CAL_UP.SH yet? Where can it be found?
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Subject: Re: CAL_UP.SH and Douglas


Chris Kassopulo babbled on about:
 I have it if you need it.

please bounce it to my address below. thanks
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Re: Postifx (Was: Re: Is This Thing On?)

2001-12-31 Thread kwall

On December 31, David A. Bandel enlightened our ignorance thusly:
 On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 09:06:35 -0500
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream:

[clippage]

  Agreed, but I couldn't figure out how to configure the relaying stuff
  so I could still get email. It built and installed without incident.
  It is more a difficulty understanding relaying (or anti-relaying,
  rather) configuration directives, which denseness on my part also
  afflicts me vis-a-vis sendmail. I looked at the docs, looked at
  examples, my eyes glazed over, so I returned to the evil I know
  (sendmail).
 
 Well, at least I'm not the only one with this problem.  I have only
 postfix on one system, but I'm getting ready to install sendmail from
 source -- why?  because I know how to configure it.

If David can't figure it out (postfix configuration, that is), I feel
much better and less the idiot.  

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Re: Asus and Intel

2001-12-31 Thread Jerry McBride

On Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:23:30 +0800 Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 TUSL is another Asus board that uses Intel i815e b-step for Tualatin
 CPUs. The Asus' 440BX boards are very reliable and have great
 performance. It was an excellent choice for building home servers.
 
 The latest offering is the i845D chipset (forgot the model no.)
 I have high expection for it and may upgrade to it when 
 P4 becomes cheaper. Right now, P4 is dam expensive.
 

I'm curious why you would wait for P$ to get cheaper when the Athlon XP is cheaper and 
a better performer? For half the cost, you could be running the state of the art in 
cpu's now.


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Re: Asus and Intel

2001-12-31 Thread Jerry McBride

On Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:23:30 +0800 Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 TUSL is another Asus board that uses Intel i815e b-step for Tualatin
 CPUs. The Asus' 440BX boards are very reliable and have great
 performance. It was an excellent choice for building home servers.
 
 The latest offering is the i845D chipset (forgot the model no.)
 I have high expection for it and may upgrade to it when 
 P4 becomes cheaper. Right now, P4 is dam expensive.
 

I'm curious why you would wait for P$ to get cheaper when the Athlon XP is cheaper and 
a better performer? For half the cost, you could be running the state of the art in 
cpu's now.


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Re: Postifx (Was: Re: Is This Thing On?)

2001-12-31 Thread Bill Campbell

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 01:10:46PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...

If David can't figure it out (postfix configuration, that is), I feel
much better and less the idiot.  

I've been using smail-3.2 for years instead of sendmail.  Learning Postfix
has been on my to-do list for at least a year, but is fairly low priority
since smail is working fine for me, and I have quite a bit of supporting
code that uses smail's features that will require modification.

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Fwd: can't we just get along ...

2001-12-31 Thread Douglas J Hunley



--  Forwarded Message  --

Subject: can't we just get along ...
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:18:12 -0800 (PST)
From: terry white [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: linux-admin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

... for them what care:

the microsoft antitrust settlement is the object of at least one
online petition.  the one mentioned later, takes exception to it.

it seems that microsoft will pay $1,000,000,000 in damages.  this
targeted at underpriviledged K-12 environments.  on the surface, this
sounds good, but digging a little deeper, reveals a microsoftesq palour.
microsoft maintains 'control' of how the money spent ...

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Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 11:06:42 -0600
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Subject: ROBERT X. CRINGELY(R): Notes from the Field from InfoWorld.com,
 Monday, December 31, 2001


ROBERT X. CRINGELY(R): Notes from the Field InfoWorld.com

Monday, December 31, 2001

SNIP

Feeling proactive?

Here's something for the fun holiday pastimes file. If you're feeling
proactive take a peek at some of the anti-Microsoft settlement petitions
that are swirling around the Internet, one of which is this grassroots
effort ( http://stephenadler.org/petition ).

Why should you bother? Well, as one reader observes, there's this little
legacy of Richard Nixon's administration called the Tunney Act of 1974.
It's designed to open up antitrust cases for public comment on the basis
of determining whether the corporation and the Justice Department's
proposed settlement is in the public interest. We're now inside the
60-day comment period that started on Nov. 28.

So, do you agree with the settlement? Join in the holiday fun and send an
e-mail to microsoft.atr@usdoj, and send a copy to
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On the hunt...

2001-12-31 Thread Jerry McBride


Would someone that's running eserver 3.1 send me a copy of the kernel .config file?

I'd like to look it over for learning purposes.

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kde

2001-12-31 Thread Ted Ozolins


are mandrake and elx the only distros that do not place kde in /opt ???
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Re: On the hunt...

2001-12-31 Thread Bill Campbell

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 05:37:03PM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:

Would someone that's running eserver 3.1 send me a copy of the kernel .config file?

I'd like to look it over for learning purposes.

The version used to build the linux-kernel-binary RPM is in
/usr/src/linux-2.4.2/arch/i386/defconfig.  Copy that to
/usr/src/linux/.config then run ``make oldconfig''.

If you really want to see how Caldera builds the kernel, grab the
SRPMS for it from their ftp site, then do an ``rpm -i xxx'' and
``rpm -bp /usr/src/OpenLinux/SPECS/linux.spec'' which will put
the buildable source tree under /usr/src/OpenLinux/BUILD.

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Re: kde

2001-12-31 Thread Peter Ruskin

On Monday 31 Dec 2001 23:35, Ted Ozolins wrote:
 are mandrake and elx the only distros that do not place kde in /opt ???

Red Hat (dead rat?) has it in /usr.

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Re: kde

2001-12-31 Thread Collins Richey

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 15:40:55 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 
 --- Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
  are mandrake and elx the only distros that do not place kde in /opt
  ???
 
 Redhat
 
 =
 
gentoo.  It's really anti-LSB to use /opt for much of anything.  gentoo
intends to use /opt only for binary-only packages.

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A Happy New Year to all

2001-12-31 Thread Collins Richey

Some of you, of course, are already at next year.

Enjoy the new year anyway.

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Re: kde

2001-12-31 Thread Ted Ozolins

On Monday 31 December 2001 03:40 pm, you wrote:
 --- Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  are mandrake and elx the only distros that do not place kde in /opt
  ???

 Redhat

I wonder what happened to all the standardization that was being squacked 
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Re: kde

2001-12-31 Thread Ted Ozolins

On Monday 31 December 2001 03:48 pm, you wrote:
 On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 15:40:55 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 wrote:
  --- Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   are mandrake and elx the only distros that do not place kde in /opt
   ???
 
  Redhat

 gentoo.  It's really anti-LSB to use /opt for much of anything.  gentoo
 intends to use /opt only for binary-only packages.

Ok, then according to the LSB where should Kde, Gnome, Xfce and etc. be 
placed?

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Re: kde

2001-12-31 Thread Collins Richey

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 16:04:23 -0800 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Monday 31 December 2001 03:48 pm, you wrote:
  On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 15:40:55 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  wrote:
   --- Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
are mandrake and elx the only distros that do not place kde in
/opt???
  
   Redhat
 
  gentoo.  It's really anti-LSB to use /opt for much of anything. 
  gentoo intends to use /opt only for binary-only packages.
 
 Ok, then according to the LSB where should Kde, Gnome, Xfce and etc. be 
 placed?

As I understand it, in the /usr hierarchy like any other program.  I know,
I know, that sucks, but that's the current drift.  It does make it a
little more difficult (impossible?) to run multiple kde/gnome releases,
although the latest gnome claims to be installible and usable alongside
the previous gnome.


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Re: Fwd: Re: elx linux

2001-12-31 Thread Tim Wunder

Previously, Ted Ozolins chose to write:
 On Sunday 30 December 2001 08:07 am, you wrote:
  On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 07:48:54 -0800 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   --  Forwarded Message  --
   Here is the reply I received from elx re: some short-coming with
   their distro. Its almost scary to think that anyone would be foolish
   enough to run their system mainly as root. Their approach is starting
   to look and feel ___ almost Micro$oftish :( Has anyone been able to
   find any source code on their site? If its there, I'm definately
   missing it, I've looked but no joy.
  
   Subject: Re: elx linux
   Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:24:49 +0530 (IST)
   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  
   Hi Ted,
  
   This spell check is not matured in K mail , it is still an experimental
   feature which soon be made proper. In linux world every bit of code is
   written with great passion and on the best effort basis. But we are
   working to make things better. ELX believes that the main user will
   always be root and therefore it does not give full priviledges to all
   users.  To grant access to any device you can log in as root and run
   open your file manager and can grant access to any device or file.
   This is more of a secuirty feature.
  
   Please do keep sending your suggestions and input.
 
  Ted, I believe you are misinterpreting their response (Indian British
  English?).  What I think they are saying is logon as root and change the
  permissions to grant access to a particular device which is exactly what
  I've had to do for /dev/dsp on many distros to get any sounds played by
  mere mortals.

 not really since and I quote ELX believes that the main user will
 always be root  seems very clear to me. This is not a good thing.

I think they mean that root is the main user in that it is the user that 
shall control other users and what the other users have access to. Not that 
you should use the system mainly as root. I think they do not mean 
'main' as 'primary'. In other words, I think you lost something in their 
translation ;)

Tim
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more elx notes - python

2001-12-31 Thread Collins Richey

For you python types,

elx has a fairly ancient version (python 1.5) linked as python; you need
to reference python2 to get version 2.

I noticed this when a script failed to recognize builtin string methods.

I'm sure things like this will be better documented as the distro matures.

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Re: Asus and Intel

2001-12-31 Thread Chang

AMD CPUs are a bit hot. The top-of-the-line ones don't have the
protective circuit like P4. Chipsets that support AMD CPU  contantly had
driver problem (notably VIA). Intel periodically cut prices of her CPU
(ok, it's evil, but I am a consumer).

It's better to stick with her unless you are in a hurry to get good
performance out of your hardware NOW. :) Then I may recommnd you to try
SiS 745 chipset + AMD CPU. Hope Nvidia nForce could work out like
i440BX... the 440BX is such a legendary chipset!

 I'm curious why you would wait for P$ to get cheaper when the Athlon XP is cheaper 
and a better performer? For half the cost, you could be running the state of the art 
in cpu's now.
 

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Re: /dev/hda failing?

2001-12-31 Thread stayler

On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 16:00:06 -0800 (PST), Net Llama wrote:

The 440BX chipset is by Intel.  I wasn't aware that they ever let Asus
put their chipsets on their mobos.

The entire P2B line was 440BX based.  I have 3 here now  One with
an 80Mbyte/sec SCSI adaptec controller

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OT hardware Re: Asus and Intel

2001-12-31 Thread stayler

On Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:23:30 +0800, Chang wrote:

TUSL is another Asus board that uses Intel i815e b-step for Tualatin
CPUs. The Asus' 440BX boards are very reliable and have great
performance. It was an excellent choice for building home servers.

Speaking of the TUSLC MB line.  ANyone ever come across a fix for this
MB's tendency to misidentify CPUs?  It wants to ID my P3-1G as a
P3-500E, it takes alot of fiddling to get it back and it forgets itself
everytime a coldboot occurs

stayler

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Re: OT hardware Re: Asus and Intel

2001-12-31 Thread Chang

Could it be as simple as updating the BIOS?
Anyway, the BIOS id thing is always not dependable and necessary.

 Speaking of the TUSLC MB line.  ANyone ever come across a fix for this
 MB's tendency to misidentify CPUs?  It wants to ID my P3-1G as a
 P3-500E, it takes alot of fiddling to get it back and it forgets itself
 everytime a coldboot occurs

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upgrading e2fs in Workstation 3.1

2001-12-31 Thread Chang

How should I start upgrading my e2fsprog to 1.25

[root@server src]# rpm -e ext2fs-1.19-4
error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
ext2fs = 1.19 is needed by ext2fs-devel-1.19-4
libcom_err.so.2 is needed by dump-0.4b21-2
libcom_err.so.2 is needed by mc-4.5.51-2
libcom_err.so.2 is needed by quota-3.01-2
libext2fs.so.2 is needed by dump-0.4b21-2
libext2fs.so.2 is needed by mc-4.5.51-2
libext2fs.so.2 is needed by quota-3.01-2
libuuid.so.1 is needed by parted-1.4.10-1

pretty scarry... should I just forcibly remove the package?
how should I ./configure my e2fsprog-1.25 to keep the dependencies after
make install?

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Re: upgrading e2fs in Workstation 3.1

2001-12-31 Thread kwall

On January 01, Chang enlightened our ignorance thusly:
 How should I start upgrading my e2fsprog to 1.25
 
 [root@server src]# rpm -e ext2fs-1.19-4
 error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
 ext2fs = 1.19 is needed by ext2fs-devel-1.19-4
 libcom_err.so.2 is needed by dump-0.4b21-2
 libcom_err.so.2 is needed by mc-4.5.51-2
 libcom_err.so.2 is needed by quota-3.01-2
 libext2fs.so.2 is needed by dump-0.4b21-2
 libext2fs.so.2 is needed by mc-4.5.51-2
 libext2fs.so.2 is needed by quota-3.01-2
 libuuid.so.1 is needed by parted-1.4.10-1
 
 pretty scarry... should I just forcibly remove the package?
 how should I ./configure my e2fsprog-1.25 to keep the dependencies after
 make install?

You should be okay to use --force followed by make install, but
just make sure that make install puts things where the rpm you
remove puts them.

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start bind-9.2.0 using uid named

2001-12-31 Thread Chang


I was following the SxS to reocmpile my bind 9 to start as user named.
I got this error:

Jan  1 14:40:40 server named[11022]: Jan 01 14:40:40.073general:
critical: couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named.pid': Permission denied
Jan  1 14:40:40 server named[11022]: Jan 01 14:40:40.073general:
critical: exiting (due to early fatal error)

what should be the permission and owners of /var/run?

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Re: start bind-9.2.0 using uid named

2001-12-31 Thread Chang

sorry. found a response from http://www.isc.org
I move the pid file to /var/named

Mr. Hunley, you may need to add some notes to your bind9 installation
guide... :)

Chang wrote:
 
 I was following the SxS to reocmpile my bind 9 to start as user named.
 I got this error:
 
 Jan  1 14:40:40 server named[11022]: Jan 01 14:40:40.073general:
 critical: couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named.pid': Permission denied
 Jan  1 14:40:40 server named[11022]: Jan 01 14:40:40.073general:
 critical: exiting (due to early fatal error)
 
 what should be the permission and owners of /var/run?

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