Inel Wireless 2915ABG & FC4 on Dell Inspiron 9300

[Neil Cherry]

D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Neil Cherry <ncherry at comcast.net>
> 
> | ... also a tip, use the command perror to find out
> | what an error number means. Example:
> | 
> | wolfgang(pts/5)$ perror 2
> | Error code   2:  No such file or directory
> 
> Cute.  I had not known of perror(1) (perror(3) has been around for
> perhaps 25 years).
> 
> perror(1) is part of the mysql-server package so not all folks have it
> installed.
> 
>     $ type perror
>     perror is /usr/bin/perror
>     $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/perror
>     mysql-server-4.1.12-2.FC4.1
> 
> 
> | You don't use the '-' in front of the number.
> 
> Right.  The internal kernel functions tend to use negative errno(3)
> values to indicate failure.  These sometimes leak out into messages, as
> in this case.  errno(3) values themselves are strictly positve (0
> means "no error").

I never knew it was included with mysql. I created one for my
3B1 (yes a long time ago) and I've always had it. It's simple
enough, you're just passing a number to the function perror. :-)

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