Re: Weird Problem

Hi Mark,

On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Mark Sansome wrote:

> I'm having trouble with this. I cannot, of course, update my CVS repository
> in Linux because I don't have Internet access. This is however a dual-boot
> box so - in Windows - I downloaded the CVS snapshot tarball and placed it in
> the Windows partition which I can access from Linux. Back in Linux I copied
> the tarball into a new directory (wireless2) and ran the instructions listed
> on the CVS webpage but got this error on the last command...
>
> [root@localhost wireless2]# cvs -d 'pwd'/CVS co at76c503a
> rcmd: getaddrinfo: Temporary failure in name resolution
> cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if
> any)
> [root@localhost wireless2]#
>
> Where do I go from here?
Please use _backticks_ ` in this command (which let the bash substitute
the stdout of the command in that place), not normal ':
cvs -d `pwd`/CVS co at76c503a

> Could anyone send me a tarball with the relevant files in?
no problem, sent as personal mail.

> >What's the output of "uname -a" for your kernel?
>
> [mark@localhost mark]$ uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 #1 Tue Aug 3 09:39:58 EDT 2004
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Sorry, wrong question from my side. What's the output of the following
command executed while the current working dir is the root dir of the
kernel source of 2.6.7-1.494.2.2:

	cat include/linux/version.h

/Jörg