Re: Ghaphical file diff. tools,

2002-11-26 Thread Tim Hockin
I am using redhat8.0. Where can I get graphical file diff. tools, like mgdiff in suse !. Can any help me please !, tkdiff and it's brother tkcvs are very cool tools. ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question on Linux kernel programming

2002-06-22 Thread Tim Hockin
I am new to linux, my requirement is I have to send data from kernel to a process and it should be asyncronous, ie, process will be doing something and when the kernerl receives data from I/O ports, (UART in our case) it has to inform the process. It would be great if you can send the

Re: Processor Affinity patch?

2001-10-11 Thread Tim Hockin
Actually I am looking for it myself. I searched a lot of places. If you already find it, would you mind sharing that with me? Thanks. Linux SMP HOWTO has a link to Look at PSET - Processor Sets for the Linux kernel which support processor affinity. The Link goes to the following web site:

found in file index error

2001-05-09 Thread Tim Hockin
Hello all, I'm getting this error (package foo found in file index) MANY times upon installation of an rpm I built. It is 100% consistent - whenever I install this RPM, I get this error. I have no idea whats going on, or what I am doing wrong. I am using RPM 3.0.5, and upgrading RPM is not

Re: found in file index error

2001-05-09 Thread Tim Hockin
I'm getting this error (package foo found in file index) MANY times upon installation of an rpm I built. It is 100% consistent - whenever I install this RPM, I get this error. I have no idea whats going on, or what I am doing wrong. I am using RPM 3.0.5, and upgrading RPM is not

Re: C programming question...[OT]

2000-05-04 Thread Tim Hockin
#define MAXARG 4 static char *dirs[MAXARG+1]; a 5 element array of pointers to characters (strings). ac--; av++; if (ac==0) dirs[0] = "/tftpboot"; /* default directory */ while (ac-- 0 n MAXARG) dirs[n++] = *av++; 1. It

Re: procedure for applying a diff patch (the 2.2.14 USB backport)

2000-04-18 Thread Tim Hockin
What would be the procedure for applying a diff patch to kernel source.. make sure the file is, in fact, decompressed. if not, gunzip it. cd /usr/src/linux-2.2.14 patch -p1 /path/to/patch-file voila, done. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: scsi for UNIX

2000-04-17 Thread Tim Hockin
disk under Linux, and if someone could help me to do so, would the driver work in Linux? This is part one of a 2-part question, nope, 99% chance no. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: PCI Modems

2000-04-15 Thread Tim Hockin
Does anyone know if there is any PCI modems that work with Linux? Anyone has any to recommend? ActionTec makes a PCI modem based on the Lucent Venus Chipset that works. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Fork and Pipe

2000-03-24 Thread Tim Hockin
Rather than explain it to you I'll let you figure it out. You may =never= figure it out, but maybe when you've been working on UNIX internals for 20 years you'll learn to be more creative ... Then I'll ask a different question. Why use socketpair instead of using popen or ptys?

Re: RED HAT 5.1 INSTLLATION

2000-03-08 Thread Tim Hockin
In the installation process, earlier it asked me for a login and password. I tried using the password at the "localhost login:" prompt, but the system wants another password. The "localhost login:" prompt just keeps coming back for the correct login.

Re: RH Installation MUST be fixed

2000-02-27 Thread Tim Hockin
Maybe they could put in a "Hey, did you really read what I just said? I'm about to kill all of your data. You sure about this?" message, but that smacks of Microsoft's "Are you sure? Are you really sure? Really and truly? Sure you mean it?". and they should. Most people (based on

Re: question about linux and c

1999-11-25 Thread Tim Hockin
My friend mentioned this to her mother...both the mother and a coworker thought learning c was funny and a waste of time...that c++ was essentially THE language (in that what is funny is that you really can do better C++ once you know C REALLY well. C++ is just that - C + 1. You have to

Re: Why are recompiled distrib so BIG ???

1998-06-30 Thread Tim Hockin
They are a LOT bigger then the distribution binaries. For example : bash from RedHat : about 300 K bash compiled : about 1 MB !!! try "strip bash" after you compile it.. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: BRU error E134 - failed self consistency ...

1998-06-24 Thread Tim Hockin
Could someone please shed some light on the error below? I am unable to find *any* information about this at all. Yes, I am new to BRU. Thanks! Roger [root@linux /root]# bru -cvf /dev/fd0 -L "title" / bru: [Q120] use device "/dev/fd0" ? [y/n] [default: n] y bru: [E134] internal

Re: OS Fuss (IRT: What Good is Linux)

1998-06-22 Thread Tim Hockin
Big Questions: 1. Why such an uproar over OS's when most problems are in the applications (except when NT munched itself one week after I took over). But for a server platform - even an errant application SHOULD NOT BE ABLE to crash the server. 2b. Do companies call Microsoft or

Bug? Powerd not owned by a package..

1998-06-17 Thread Tim Hockin
/sbin/powerd used to be owned by SysVinit - but now it is not owned at all. It is still INSTALLED, but no man page is found, and no package claims ownership. was this intentional? Tim -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Upgrade to 5.1 - DPT RAID fails..

1998-06-16 Thread Tim Hockin
We have a machine with a DPT RAID controller (EATA/DMA driver) and when we try to upgrade to 5.1 from 5.0 the boot disk tells us: HBA at 0xef90 does not respond to INQUIRY, sorry. SCSI: 0 Hosts and it will not pick up the SCSI adapter. I can't rightly install or upgrade if I can't access my