Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Who may join

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> Are there any rules converning who may become a member of MLUG?

Well, they let me join...

> The reason I ask is that I am in email contact with someone who is
> having trouble getting c++ to work on his RedHat Linux distribution
> (like he gets "program not found" error messages).  I was going to
> recommend this mailing list to him as a place to get help.  But I
> wonder if people mind if mlug becomes a mailing list for the whole
> world.

The mlug archives already seem to have a surprising number of world-wide
fans; I've gotten about a dozen queries from strangers via email
concerning stuff on the list they have gotten to via a google search.
People who actually *know* something must be drowning in this kind of
thing. :-)

And it's only a matter of time before somebody newgroups alt.fan.mogmios
and gateways all his mlug posts there. :-)

I think the only worrisome issue that doesn't involve abuse is the
eventual consequences on the volume of posting.  The split off of
discussion has helped (there are days when you just "d" through this),
and I guess someday it might be reasonable to split off networking or
programming into separate lists.

> I am guessing that his installation is very messed up, but I have no
> experience of RedHat at all.

My guess is that either he may have installed only a subset of the tools,
possibly via rpm --force, or his path is in disarray.  When does "program
not found" happen?  Does "gcc -v" produce anything sensible?

jking


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