/dev/null

2005-07-21 Thread sandro massidda
I tried to configure lyx and I got this problem, as in the README file here is a very nasty bug in LyX 1.2.2 configure script: if you configure as root and an error occurs during the configure step (e.g. xforms not found), the the script will delete the /dev/null device. This undoubtly leads

Re: /dev/null

2005-07-21 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Old-Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:25:45 +0200 From: sandro massidda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: /dev/null can you help me? http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg35434.html -- Jean-Pierre

Re: /dev/null

2005-07-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg35434.html For those of you (like me) reading this throught the gmane news interface which annoyingly encrypts stuff that it thinks are email addresses:

Re: /dev/null

2005-07-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
. xforms not found), the the script will delete the sandro /dev/null device. This undoubtly leads to very bad effect, sandro since /dev/null is a very basic device in any unix system. sandro If you have been victim of this problem, please complain on i sandro lyx-users@lists.lyx.org to get information

/dev/null

2005-07-21 Thread sandro massidda
I tried to configure lyx and I got this problem, as in the README file here is a very nasty bug in LyX 1.2.2 configure script: if you configure as root and an error occurs during the configure step (e.g. xforms not found), the the script will delete the /dev/null device. This undoubtly leads

Re: /dev/null

2005-07-21 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Old-Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:25:45 +0200 From: sandro massidda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: /dev/null can you help me? http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg35434.html -- Jean-Pierre

Re: /dev/null

2005-07-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg35434.html For those of you (like me) reading this throught the gmane news interface which annoyingly encrypts stuff that it thinks are email addresses:

Re: /dev/null

2005-07-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
. xforms not found), the the script will delete the sandro /dev/null device. This undoubtly leads to very bad effect, sandro since /dev/null is a very basic device in any unix system. sandro If you have been victim of this problem, please complain on i sandro lyx-users@lists.lyx.org to get information

/dev/null

2005-07-21 Thread sandro massidda
I tried to configure lyx and I got this problem, as in the README file here is a very nasty bug in LyX 1.2.2 configure script: if you configure as root and an error occurs during the configure step (e.g. xforms not found), the the script will delete the /dev/null device. This undoubtly leads

Re: /dev/null

2005-07-21 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Old-Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:25:45 +0200 >>From: sandro massidda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: /dev/null >>can you help me? http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg35434.html -- Jean-Pierre

Re: /dev/null

2005-07-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg35434.html For those of you (like me) reading this throught the gmane news interface which annoyingly encrypts stuff that it thinks are email addresses:

Re: /dev/null

2005-07-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
an error occurs during the configure sandro> step (e.g. xforms not found), the the script will delete the sandro> /dev/null device. This undoubtly leads to very bad effect, sandro> since /dev/null is a very basic device in any unix system. sandro> If you have been victim of this proble

Re: /dev/null

2004-09-21 Thread Helge Hafting
JPJuchem wrote: Hello everybody, During the configure step of the instalation of lyx, the scripts deleted my /dev/null. How can I reconstruct it? Somebody could help-me? mknod /dev/null c 1 3 Next time you compile software, don't do it as root, because script errors can do dangerous things

Re: /dev/null

2004-09-21 Thread Helge Hafting
JPJuchem wrote: Hello everybody, During the configure step of the instalation of lyx, the scripts deleted my /dev/null. How can I reconstruct it? Somebody could help-me? mknod /dev/null c 1 3 Next time you compile software, don't do it as root, because script errors can do dangerous things

Re: /dev/null

2004-09-21 Thread Helge Hafting
JPJuchem wrote: Hello everybody, During the configure step of the instalation of lyx, the scripts deleted my /dev/null. How can I reconstruct it? Somebody could help-me? mknod /dev/null c 1 3 Next time you compile software, don't do it as root, because script errors can do dangerous things

Re: /dev/null

2004-09-20 Thread Angus Leeming
JPJuchem wrote: In fact, I was trying to install Lyx-1.2.2. It's a copy that a friend give to me. Now I see on the lyx homepage that the actual version is 1.3.4. It was bad... Anyway, anyone could tell me how to rebuild the /dev/null ? See http://www.lyx.org/news.php3#item26 Warning: Bad

Re: /dev/null

2004-09-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 03:05:43PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: During the configure step of the instalation of lyx, the scripts deleted my /dev/null. How can I reconstruct it? Somebody could help-me? How do you know it was caused by the lyx configuration? Some old version of LyX

Re: /dev/null

2004-09-20 Thread Angus Leeming
JPJuchem wrote: In fact, I was trying to install Lyx-1.2.2. It's a copy that a friend give to me. Now I see on the lyx homepage that the actual version is 1.3.4. It was bad... Anyway, anyone could tell me how to rebuild the /dev/null ? See http://www.lyx.org/news.php3#item26 Warning: Bad

Re: /dev/null

2004-09-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 03:05:43PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: During the configure step of the instalation of lyx, the scripts deleted my /dev/null. How can I reconstruct it? Somebody could help-me? How do you know it was caused by the lyx configuration? Some old version of LyX

Re: /dev/null

2004-09-20 Thread Angus Leeming
JPJuchem wrote: > In fact, I was trying to install Lyx-1.2.2. It's a copy that a friend > give to me. Now I see on the lyx homepage that the actual version is > 1.3.4. It was bad... > > Anyway, anyone could tell me how to rebuild the /dev/null ? See http://www.lyx.org/news.php3#

Re: /dev/null

2004-09-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 03:05:43PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > > During the configure step of the instalation of lyx, the scripts > > > deleted my /dev/null. How can I reconstruct it? Somebody could > > > help-me? > > How do you know it was caused by the lyx

Re: /dev/null

2004-09-19 Thread JPJuchem
In fact, I was trying to install Lyx-1.2.2. It's a copy that a friend give to me. Now I see on the lyx homepage that the actual version is 1.3.4. It was bad... Anyway, anyone could tell me how to rebuild the /dev/null ? Thanks again. JP http://www.jpjuchem.cjb.net Below is the output

Re: /dev/null

2004-09-19 Thread JPJuchem
In fact, I was trying to install Lyx-1.2.2. It's a copy that a friend give to me. Now I see on the lyx homepage that the actual version is 1.3.4. It was bad... Anyway, anyone could tell me how to rebuild the /dev/null ? Thanks again. JP http://www.jpjuchem.cjb.net Below is the output

Re: /dev/null

2004-09-19 Thread JPJuchem
In fact, I was trying to install Lyx-1.2.2. It's a copy that a friend give to me. Now I see on the lyx homepage that the actual version is 1.3.4. It was bad... Anyway, anyone could tell me how to rebuild the /dev/null ? Thanks again. JP http://www.jpjuchem.cjb.net Below is the output

/dev/null

2004-09-18 Thread JPJuchem
Hello everybody, During the configure step of the instalation of lyx, the scripts deleted my /dev/null. How can I reconstruct it? Somebody could help-me? Thanks, JP/Brazil __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam

Re: /dev/null

2004-09-18 Thread Eduard Pauna
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:54:46 -0300 (ART), JPJuchem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, During the configure step of the instalation of lyx, the scripts deleted my /dev/null. How can I reconstruct it? Somebody could help-me? cd /dev ./MAKEDEV /dev/null for options see man MAKEDEV

Re: /dev/null

2004-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 03:05:43PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: During the configure step of the instalation of lyx, the scripts deleted my /dev/null. How can I reconstruct it? Somebody could help-me? How do you know it was caused by the lyx configuration? Can you show us how

/dev/null

2004-09-18 Thread JPJuchem
Hello everybody, During the configure step of the instalation of lyx, the scripts deleted my /dev/null. How can I reconstruct it? Somebody could help-me? Thanks, JP/Brazil __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam

Re: /dev/null

2004-09-18 Thread Eduard Pauna
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:54:46 -0300 (ART), JPJuchem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, During the configure step of the instalation of lyx, the scripts deleted my /dev/null. How can I reconstruct it? Somebody could help-me? cd /dev ./MAKEDEV /dev/null for options see man MAKEDEV

Re: /dev/null

2004-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 03:05:43PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: During the configure step of the instalation of lyx, the scripts deleted my /dev/null. How can I reconstruct it? Somebody could help-me? How do you know it was caused by the lyx configuration? Can you show us how

/dev/null

2004-09-18 Thread JPJuchem
Hello everybody, During the configure step of the instalation of lyx, the scripts deleted my /dev/null. How can I reconstruct it? Somebody could help-me? Thanks, JP/Brazil __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam

Re: /dev/null

2004-09-18 Thread Eduard Pauna
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:54:46 -0300 (ART), JPJuchem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > During the configure step of the instalation of lyx, the scripts deleted my > /dev/null. > How can I reconstruct it? Somebody could help-me? cd /dev ./MAKEDEV /dev/null

Re: /dev/null

2004-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 03:05:43PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > > During the configure step of the instalation of lyx, the scripts > > > deleted my /dev/null. How can I reconstruct it? Somebody could > > > help-me? > > How do you know it was caused by the lyx