trying to clarify variety of bash invocations

2002-12-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i'm trying to clarify the numerous ways to invoke bash -- login vs non-login shell, interactive vs non-interactive -- the implications this has for startup files and so on. first, is there any more comprehensible explanation than the man page? i mean, the man page is all right, b

Kindly clarify

2001-01-22 Thread suman
Hi, I am working on embedded systems. I have only serial ports to my embedded system. I am trying to write a driver for ps/2 keyboard / ps/2 mouse to work with the serial port. I bought an adapter for ps/2 to 9-pin serial port. But I am unable to test as I am not getting any reponse through

Re: Please clarify error messages

2000-12-06 Thread Duane Clark
D. W. Piper wrote: > I've just spent the last couple of days wading through on-line > documentation and mail list archives to no avail. > > Throughout the day we get two-line error messages appearing both on the > console, and in /var/log/messages, such as the following: > > kernel: lookup_b

Please clarify error messages

2000-12-06 Thread D. W. Piper
I've just spent the last couple of days wading through on-line documentation and mail list archives to no avail. Throughout the day we get two-line error messages appearing both on the console, and in /var/log/messages, such as the following: kernel: lookup_by_inode: ino 43807 not found in s

Re: clarify

2000-06-13 Thread Bret Hughes
George Georgiev wrote: > i was running as a root, and my xconfig went all ok. > i have ctx pr711 running under linux on 1024X768 at 32 bit > > _ First guess is that you are su'ed into an account from another. This causes all kinds of console ownership issues. Make sure you are running under th

clarify

2000-06-13 Thread George Georgiev
i was running as a root, and my xconfig went all ok. i have ctx pr711 running under linux on 1024X768 at 32 bit Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTE

Kernel Build Clarify

2000-02-09 Thread Eddie Strohmier
I had a question earlier about kernel configuration and made an error in the order of my steps so I wanted to clarify this incase someone tried to use this order or a kernel build. Earlier I said I had to do this: backing up my old kernel make mkproper make config >> here I set all my o

Re: Help clarify Y2K and Linux

1998-05-30 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Gary Nielson wrote: > me clarify some of what I think I am hearing. Basically, I have an older > Dell PC, 1993 vintage, that is not compliant. My understanding from my Why do you think your PC is not compliant? As far as I know all PC-type computers are compliant,

Help clarify Y2K and Linux

1998-05-29 Thread Gary Nielson
Hi, I am new to this mailing list but have been reading the newsgroup postings on RedHat Linux compliance to the Year 2000. I was wondering if someone could help me clarify some of what I think I am hearing. Basically, I have an older Dell PC, 1993 vintage, that is not compliant. My

Clarify? Re: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server

1998-04-08 Thread Dave Price
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Derek Balling wrote: ..snip.. > > Scalability: If your server workload on Sendmail is running too high, you > can mirror the box over to another machine and load-balance your email > simply by adding an MX record of equal priority. > Derek - how is this implemented in a pop