[5465] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Some things that could use attention
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliot Lee)
Thu Nov 21 17:34:15 1996
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 17:32:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <199611211643.DAA11321@leonard.anu.edu.au>
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On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> 1) If you specify no mouse at install, you don't get an /etc/sysconfig/mouse
> (Not even one with all the lines commented out). Then of course the gpm
> script in /etc/init.d complains. I'd suggest that for no-mouse systems,
Read the errata. It has this noted in it.
> 4) The UID/GID of "nobody" is 99. I thought that the value of 2^16-2
> was traditionally used for sane handling of the "root_squash" NFS
> mount option.
65534 has had security problems.
> 7) Why does the /bin/login process stay hanging around after launching
> the users shell? On an 8MB machine, a single /bin/login accounts
> for 10% of memory.
It needs to stay around to close the PAM session. It doesn't seem to take
up 0.8M on my system - a lot of it is shared with other processes.
> 9) Holding down <Ctrl><Alt><Del> as opposed to just hitting it once
> causes endless disk activity, and the machine won't reboot until
> you let go. Okay, you say "don't do that then" -- true, but it is
> a DOS-ism habit that I've seen novices do, and the machine's response
> doesn't look very professional.
OK, so then disable ctrl-alt-del altogether :) If you can find a solution
to this problem, I'm sure the red hat people will gladly take it...
> 10) The behaviour of "rpm -e" and "rpm -i" is not consistent with respect
> to suffix stripping. With the -i or -U options, it happily accepts
> names with ".i386.rpm" suffix, wheras -e doesn't. The -q option
> is also like the -e option, in that it doesn't strip. An example:
>
> [root@ratbag i386]# rpm -i gpm-1.10-7.i386.rpm
> package gpm-1.10-7 is already installed
> error: gpm-1.10-7.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> [root@ratbag i386]# rpm -e gpm-1.10-7.i386.rpm
> package gpm-1.10-7.i386.rpm is not installed <---- blatant lie :)
gpm-1.10-7.i386.rpm is NOT installed :) You're confusing filenames and
package names, which are not necessarily correlated. The difference is
noted in the RPM docs, I believe.
> 15) Access to the descriptions in the rpm packages during the initial
> install/selection phase would be useful. This is one of the advantages
> of the Debian install method over RH. For example, I had no idea what
> "TheNextLevel" was (okay, so sue me). A pop-up dialog window with
> the contents of "rpm -q -i foo.rpm" would be very nice. (Perhaps
> there is already a way to do this that I overlooked...)
The line at the bottom of the screen says to 'press F1 to see package
info', and works when you press it ;-)
Hope this helps,
-- Elliot
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