processes with eternal life & frequently asked questions

[Stefan Farestam]

   No, I'm not working on evangelist processes, and by the way the
   'eternal life' was quite short, like 10 hours or so...

      It seemed like I had feeded the popup menu functions with
   garbage, and that it all hanged up somewhere in NeWS (SYSLOG
   indicates that this was the case). As hinted at above the
   processes finally died away, maybe they caught the kill -9
   signals, maybe they didn't.

      On a related issue; It would probably be a good idea to store
   a file somewhere (on an ftp-able site) with frequently asked
   questions (like the contributions sent by Randolph J. Herber
   <HERBER at fnala.fnal.gov>), both on unix and sgi-related issues.
   One topic which seems to pop up regularly is the issue of
   software installation guidelines. Like :

      'How do I install g++ on a 4D20 IRIX 3.3.1'
      'binaries for tex ? ftp-able ?'
      'gemacs on 3130'

      et.c.

   Maybe this information, once it is answered on the net, could be
   stored in a systematic way somewhere ? Anyone is interested to
   spend some time and energy to come up with a workable system,
   as well as some diskplace to store the info (the requirements
   would probably be fairly low since one would only store information,
   not actual code) ?

   Thanks,
          Stefan Farestam



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