From j-pinkney at onu.edu Wed Feb 1 21:36:05 2006 From: j-pinkney at onu.edu (Jason Pinkney) Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:36:05 -0500 Subject: can't play to LCD projector In-Reply-To: <20060131170053.A33EC734DD@hormel.redhat.com> References: <20060131170053.A33EC734DD@hormel.redhat.com> Message-ID: <43E129C5.2040702@onu.edu> Dear List, I'm having trouble using my laptop with an LCD projector (for presentations) ever since I installed FC2. The current WinXP OS works in this regard. My old RH7.3 OS also used to work smoothly. However, that was a custom built kernel from the manufacturer of my laptop, and the FC2 kernel is standard (not customized). I know how to obtain many different resolutions and HFL/VFL's on the laptop screen using xrandr and the F7 key. I know that F8 should toggle the signal to the external monitor. I expected 640x480, 70 Hz Vsync, and 16 bit resolution to work, but the best I can get is the top left corner of my display appearing on the projector (with bad colors). I have tried many different options and settings in my Xorg.conf file, so I hesitate in sending one. So let me first ask: is there any reason to expect the FC2/Xorg system to fail where the RH7.3 system succeeded? thanks for any wisdom, Jason From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Wed Feb 1 21:40:38 2006 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:40:38 -0800 Subject: Which software uses the htt group? Message-ID: The subject line says it all, I can't find it in google. I need to know which piece of software is getting installed that adds the htt group (gid 101) to the group file. Thanks, Travis From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Feb 2 00:36:41 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:36:41 -0800 Subject: Which software uses the htt group? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1138840601.27596.49.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 13:40 -0800, Waldher, Travis R wrote: > The subject line says it all, I can't find it in google. > > I need to know which piece of software is getting installed that adds > the htt group (gid 101) to the group file. Uh, how about a shell script: #!/bin/bash for RPM in `rpm -qa`; do RES=`rpm -q --scripts $RPM | grep groupadd` if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo $RPM: echo " "$RES fi done ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Admitting you have a problem is the first step toward getting - - medicated for it. -- Jim Evarts (http://www.TopFive.com) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Feb 2 00:44:24 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:44:24 -0800 Subject: can't play to LCD projector In-Reply-To: <43E129C5.2040702@onu.edu> References: <20060131170053.A33EC734DD@hormel.redhat.com> <43E129C5.2040702@onu.edu> Message-ID: <1138841064.27596.56.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 16:36 -0500, Jason Pinkney wrote: > Dear List, > I'm having trouble using my laptop with an LCD projector > (for presentations) ever since I installed FC2. The current > WinXP OS works in this regard. My old RH7.3 OS also used to > work smoothly. However, that was a custom built > kernel from the manufacturer of my laptop, and the FC2 kernel is > standard (not customized). > > I know how to obtain many different resolutions > and HFL/VFL's on the laptop screen using xrandr and the F7 > key. I know that F8 should toggle the signal to the external monitor. > I expected 640x480, 70 Hz Vsync, and 16 bit resolution to work, but the best > I can get is the top left corner of my display appearing on the projector > (with bad colors). > > I have tried many different options and settings in my Xorg.conf > file, so I hesitate in sending one. > So let me first ask: > is there any reason to expect the FC2/Xorg system to fail where the RH7.3 > system succeeded? Uh, no. Directing the output between the LCD and external port is typically controlled by the BIOS. However, if you set the display to 640x480 and press F8 (usually it's a combo of the function key and an "F" key--on my Fujitsu it's "[Fn]+F10"), you should see the same stuff on both the LCD and the projector. If the projector is mucked up, the odds are that you either aren't really running in 640x480 or have a vertical refresh that's not compatible. If you have your old XFree86 config file lying about, you can get Xorg to use it instead of its own. You have to specify the "-c (file)" option to the server when you start it and I can't guarantee it'll work, but you can try it. See "man Xorg" for details. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Consciousness: that annoying time between naps. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From admin at tootai.net Thu Feb 2 09:26:24 2006 From: admin at tootai.net (Administrator TOOTAI) Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:26:24 +0100 Subject: can't play to LCD projector In-Reply-To: <1138841064.27596.56.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <20060131170053.A33EC734DD@hormel.redhat.com> <43E129C5.2040702@onu.edu> <1138841064.27596.56.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <43E1D040.4010304@tootai.net> Rick Stevens a ?crit : >On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 16:36 -0500, Jason Pinkney wrote: > > >>Dear List, >>I'm having trouble using my laptop with an LCD projector >>(for presentations) ever since I installed FC2. The current >>WinXP OS works in this regard. My old RH7.3 OS also used to >>work smoothly. However, that was a custom built >>kernel from the manufacturer of my laptop, and the FC2 kernel is >>standard (not customized). >> >>I know how to obtain many different resolutions >>and HFL/VFL's on the laptop screen using xrandr and the F7 >>key. I know that F8 should toggle the signal to the external monitor. >>I expected 640x480, 70 Hz Vsync, and 16 bit resolution to work, but the best >>I can get is the top left corner of my display appearing on the projector >>(with bad colors). >> >>I have tried many different options and settings in my Xorg.conf >>file, so I hesitate in sending one. >>So let me first ask: >>is there any reason to expect the FC2/Xorg system to fail where the RH7.3 >>system succeeded? >> >> > >Uh, no. Directing the output between the LCD and external port is >typically controlled by the BIOS. However, if you set the display to >640x480 and press F8 (usually it's a combo of the function key and an >"F" key--on my Fujitsu it's "[Fn]+F10"), you should see the same stuff >on both the LCD and the projector. [...] > > Some laptops have also added the possibility to display only on the external ports, which means 3 positions for the Fct key or two different key combination. On my laptop -Asus- I need to connect the external display *before* switching on the computer. -- Daniel From dkdbrain at optonline.net Thu Feb 2 17:11:23 2006 From: dkdbrain at optonline.net (dkd brain) Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:11:23 -0500 Subject: dual boot install q In-Reply-To: <20060202170054.2968E744B8@hormel.redhat.com> References: <20060202170054.2968E744B8@hormel.redhat.com> Message-ID: <9B7953EC-AC7F-43D3-9B27-4C2EFABA80F1@optonline.net> I want to set up a dual boot install, and I am wondering how I should format the drives. I have 2 hdd's in my pc, and want to install rhel on 1 drive and winxp on the other drive. Ideally, I would like to be able to use the rhel drive from winxp and the winxp drive from rhel... what would be the recommended drive formats for use in this scenario? thanks in advance From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Feb 2 17:54:48 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:54:48 -0800 Subject: can't play to LCD projector In-Reply-To: <43E1D040.4010304@tootai.net> References: <20060131170053.A33EC734DD@hormel.redhat.com> <43E129C5.2040702@onu.edu> <1138841064.27596.56.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43E1D040.4010304@tootai.net> Message-ID: <1138902888.27596.89.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 10:26 +0100, Administrator TOOTAI wrote: > Rick Stevens a ?crit : > > >On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 16:36 -0500, Jason Pinkney wrote: > > > > > >>Dear List, > >>I'm having trouble using my laptop with an LCD projector > >>(for presentations) ever since I installed FC2. The current > >>WinXP OS works in this regard. My old RH7.3 OS also used to > >>work smoothly. However, that was a custom built > >>kernel from the manufacturer of my laptop, and the FC2 kernel is > >>standard (not customized). > >> > >>I know how to obtain many different resolutions > >>and HFL/VFL's on the laptop screen using xrandr and the F7 > >>key. I know that F8 should toggle the signal to the external monitor. > >>I expected 640x480, 70 Hz Vsync, and 16 bit resolution to work, but the best > >>I can get is the top left corner of my display appearing on the projector > >>(with bad colors). > >> > >>I have tried many different options and settings in my Xorg.conf > >>file, so I hesitate in sending one. > >>So let me first ask: > >>is there any reason to expect the FC2/Xorg system to fail where the RH7.3 > >>system succeeded? > >> > >> > > > >Uh, no. Directing the output between the LCD and external port is > >typically controlled by the BIOS. However, if you set the display to > >640x480 and press F8 (usually it's a combo of the function key and an > >"F" key--on my Fujitsu it's "[Fn]+F10"), you should see the same stuff > >on both the LCD and the projector. [...] > > > > > Some laptops have also added the possibility to display only on the > external ports, which means 3 positions for the Fct key or two different > key combination. > > On my laptop -Asus- I need to connect the external display *before* > switching on the computer. The Fujitsu uses "[Fn]+F10" in three ways. Assuming the built-in display is on now, the first "[Fn]+F10" switches to external only, a second "[Fn]+F10" switches to both external and internal, and a third "[Fn]+F10" returns it back to internal only. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Millihelen, adj: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Feb 2 18:09:59 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:09:59 -0800 Subject: dual boot install q In-Reply-To: <9B7953EC-AC7F-43D3-9B27-4C2EFABA80F1@optonline.net> References: <20060202170054.2968E744B8@hormel.redhat.com> <9B7953EC-AC7F-43D3-9B27-4C2EFABA80F1@optonline.net> Message-ID: <1138903799.27596.102.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 12:11 -0500, dkd brain wrote: > I want to set up a dual boot install, and I am wondering how I should > format the drives. I have 2 hdd's in my pc, and want to install rhel > on 1 drive and winxp on the other drive. Well, you need to install XP first, and make sure you install it on the first drive. Install RHEL second and make SURE you install it on /dev/hdb (or /dev/sdb if you use SCSI or SATA drives). When it comes to installing the GRUB boot loader, make sure you install it on the MBR of /dev/hda (or /dev/sda if you use SCSI or SATA). grub knows how to boot both Linux and Winbloze. > Ideally, I would like to be able to use the rhel drive from winxp and > the winxp drive from rhel... That is a problem. There is no way you'll get Windows to see native Linux partitions (remember, Microsoft would really like to think Linux doesn't exist). You could have the Linux installation use FAT32 filesystems rather than ext2 or ext3 filesystems, but then you suffer the same problems as Windows (slow access and potential fragmentation). > what would be the recommended drive formats for use in this scenario? If all you want to do is move data between Linux and Windows, I'd set aside part of the Windows or Linux disk (you choose) for that purpose. Set that up as a FAT-32 or VFAT filesystem. You can mount it as drive D: under Windows or (for example) "/windata" under Linux. Boot Linux and write your data to /windata. Boot Windows and you'll find the data under D:\. Note that if you use NTFS on the windows side, Linux will have limited access to it. You need the NTFS filesystem kernel module, and I recommend do DON'T use it to WRITE data to NTFS. That is problematic. READING from NTFS is fine. This is why I recommend a "shared" partition that's formatted in FAT32 or VFAT. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I doubt, therefore I might be. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From admin at tootai.net Thu Feb 2 20:03:13 2006 From: admin at tootai.net (Administrator TOOTAI) Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:03:13 +0100 Subject: dual boot install q In-Reply-To: <1138903799.27596.102.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <20060202170054.2968E744B8@hormel.redhat.com> <9B7953EC-AC7F-43D3-9B27-4C2EFABA80F1@optonline.net> <1138903799.27596.102.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <43E26581.9080209@tootai.net> Rick Stevens a ?crit : > > [...] > >>Ideally, I would like to be able to use the rhel drive from winxp and >>the winxp drive from rhel... >> >> > >That is a problem. There is no way you'll get Windows to see native >Linux partitions (remember, Microsoft would really like to think Linux >doesn't exist). You could have the Linux installation use FAT32 >filesystems rather than ext2 or ext3 filesystems, but then you suffer >the same problems as Windows (slow access and potential fragmentation). > > There is this solution http://www.fs-driver.org/ to read/write ext2/ext3 from Windows Another one is Explore2fs http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm -- Daniel From c.hare at comcast.net Thu Feb 2 21:22:19 2006 From: c.hare at comcast.net (Chris Hare) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 15:22:19 -0600 Subject: network install floppy boot images Message-ID: Hi all. I can't seem to find the answer. I have a small box here I need to install on. It has no CD-ROM, and I don't have a USB CD-ROM anyhow. It has a good network card in it, and I could do a network install if I had a floppy boot image. Can anyone provide any info on where to get one? 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URL: From redhat at ifh.dk Thu Feb 2 21:55:42 2006 From: redhat at ifh.dk (Mikael Rasmussen) Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 22:55:42 +0100 Subject: Cannot install FC 4 Message-ID: <43E27FDE.1090908@ifh.dk> I am trying to install FC4 on a windows machine, but every time I try, i get the following errors: "Cannot open device ..........." "Please append a correct..................." "..................." Kernel panic - Not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(8,3) The system is as follows: Motherboard: ASRock K8Upgrade-VM800 Processor: AMD Sempron 3000+ HDD (200GB): Maxtor 6L200PO - Drive C: 19,52 GB (FAT32) - Drive D: 68,35 GB (NTFS) - Rest: 102,01 GB Unformatted. Can anyone help on this. My girlfriend wants a computer with the same great opportunities as my own Mikael Rasmussen From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Feb 2 22:48:32 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:48:32 -0800 Subject: network install floppy boot images In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1138920512.27596.141.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 15:22 -0600, Chris Hare wrote: > Hi all. > > I can't seem to find the answer. I have a small box here I need to > install on. It has no CD-ROM, and I don't have a USB CD-ROM anyhow. > It has a good network card in it, and I could do a network install if > I had a floppy boot image. Can anyone provide any info on where to > get one? I need it for AS v4. > > Another option is a FAT formatted USB attached hard disk with the CD > images extracted to it. However, I can't find info on how to do this > either. If your machine can boot from USB, then go get a $35 128MB USB pen drive. Find a machine that does have a CD on it, put the first CD in that drive AND plug in the USB pen drive. Go to the CD's /images directory. You'll find a file called "diskboot.img". You need to copy that to the USB drive in raw mode. If you're running Linux, the "dd" command will do it: # dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sda (assuming the pen drive is at /dev/sda). If you're using Windows, you need to use a program such as rawrite (do a google search for that). When you're all done, go to the machine you want to install on, plug in the pen drive and boot from it. From there you can specify a network install. This is all explained in the installation handbook: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/x8664-multi-install-guide/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - When all else fails, try reading the instructions. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Feb 2 22:50:16 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:50:16 -0800 Subject: Cannot install FC 4 In-Reply-To: <43E27FDE.1090908@ifh.dk> References: <43E27FDE.1090908@ifh.dk> Message-ID: <1138920616.27596.143.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 22:55 +0100, Mikael Rasmussen wrote: > I am trying to install FC4 on a windows machine, but every time I try, i > get the following errors: > > "Cannot open device ..........." > "Please append a correct..................." > "..................." > Kernel panic - Not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown > block(8,3) > > The system is as follows: > > Motherboard: ASRock K8Upgrade-VM800 > Processor: AMD Sempron 3000+ > HDD (200GB): Maxtor 6L200PO - Drive C: 19,52 GB (FAT32) - Drive D: 68,35 > GB (NTFS) - Rest: 102,01 GB Unformatted. > > > Can anyone help on this. My girlfriend wants a computer with the same > great opportunities as my own Try entering "linux nodma nofb" to the "boot:" prompt: boot: linux nodma nofb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the - - reader...who doesn't get it. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Feb 2 23:09:09 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:09:09 -0800 Subject: network install floppy boot images In-Reply-To: <1138920512.27596.141.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <1138920512.27596.141.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <1138921749.27596.153.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 14:48 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 15:22 -0600, Chris Hare wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I can't seem to find the answer. I have a small box here I need to > > install on. It has no CD-ROM, and I don't have a USB CD-ROM anyhow. > > It has a good network card in it, and I could do a network install if > > I had a floppy boot image. Can anyone provide any info on where to > > get one? I need it for AS v4. > > > > Another option is a FAT formatted USB attached hard disk with the CD > > images extracted to it. However, I can't find info on how to do this > > either. > > If your machine can boot from USB, then go get a $35 128MB USB pen > drive. Find a machine that does have a CD on it, put the first CD in > that drive AND plug in the USB pen drive. Go to the CD's /images > directory. You'll find a file called "diskboot.img". You need to copy > that to the USB drive in raw mode. If you're running Linux, the "dd" > command will do it: > > # dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sda > > (assuming the pen drive is at /dev/sda). If you're using Windows, you > need to use a program such as rawrite (do a google search for that). > > When you're all done, go to the machine you want to install on, plug in > the pen drive and boot from it. From there you can specify a network > install. > > This is all explained in the installation handbook: > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/x8664-multi-install-guide/ I should have also added that if the machine CAN'T boot from USB, then go get Smart Boot Manager (again, google for it). It loads onto a floppy and once it's booted, it can get to darned near anything on your machine. And, if I might suggest, go spend the money and get a USB CD-RW/DVD. They're not that expensive and a really, really handy thing to have around. I have a USB/Firewire CD-RW/DVD+-RW that works terrific. Yes, it was about $150, but it's saved my bacon many times. Rick's emergency toolkit: Floppy with Smart Boot Manager on it 1GB USB pen drive USB/Firewire CD-RW/DVD+-RW drive Burned CDS: "RecoveryIsPossible" (RIP) CD UltimateBootCD (UBCD) CD System Rescue CD CDs or DVDs with all current RedHat, FedoraCore, CentOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, GenToo, SuSE and darned near every other Unix/Linux permutation you can think of. Yes, I'm a geek. I also have shiny armor and a white steed! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?" "I don't remember" - - -- Chumbawumba, "Amnesia" (TubThumping) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From bwnayak at yahoo.com Fri Feb 3 06:55:28 2006 From: bwnayak at yahoo.com (Biswajit Nayak) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 22:55:28 -0800 (PST) Subject: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted In-Reply-To: <1138642628.18733.36.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <20060203065528.4474.qmail@web30707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Rick, Please find the motherboard and hard disk info that you have requested. ATI RS482 chipset hda: WDC WD1600BB-22GUC0, ATA DISK drive micro atx motherboard http://www.emachines.com/support/product_support.html?cat=Desktops&subcat=T-Series&model=T6414 Please let me know if i can enable dma on this machine Thanks BN --- Rick Stevens wrote: > On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 17:49 -0800, Biswajit Nayak > wrote: > > No I do not think i did with nodma . Here is the > > output of > > > > [root at localhost ocsperf]# cat /proc/cmdline > > ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet > > Ok, so you didn't disable DMA there. You are, > however, using LVM. > Are you using hardware or software RAID? If so, > then you can't just > turn DMA on on one drive, but on all drives that > make up the RAID. > > We also need to know a bit more about your hardware. > What motherboard > are you using? What kind of drives? > > > 2. How to make sure that the controller/drive does > not > > permit dma > > ? > > Again, it could be an interaction between RAID (if > used), LVM and your > controller. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer > rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. > http://www.vitalstream.com - > - > - > - Polygon: A dead parrot (With apologies to > John Cleese) - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From bwnayak at yahoo.com Fri Feb 3 06:59:36 2006 From: bwnayak at yahoo.com (Biswajit Nayak) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 22:59:36 -0800 (PST) Subject: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20060203065936.17455.qmail@web30702.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Andrew, Thanks for your help. Can you please little bit elaborate what you did to workaround. What is the spec file you changed before rebuilding the kernel ? Thanks Biswajit --- Andrew Bowden wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 17:49 -0800, Biswajit Nayak > wrote: > > > No I do not think i did with nodma . Here is the > > > output of > > > > > > [root at localhost ocsperf]# cat /proc/cmdline > > > ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet > > > > Ok, so you didn't disable DMA there. You are, > however, using LVM. > > Are you using hardware or software RAID? If so, > then you can't just > > turn DMA on on one drive, but on all drives that > make up the RAID. > > > > We also need to know a bit more about your > hardware. What motherboard > > are you using? What kind of drives? > > > > > 2. How to make sure that the controller/drive > does not > > > permit dma > > > ? > > > > Again, it could be an interaction between RAID (if > used), LVM and your > > controller. > > Hi, I'm a long time reader, first time poster ;) > I think that I had this problem about a week ago > when I was rebuilding > my kernel on a new Debian box. It turned out that > the problem was that > if you compiled the kernel with ide_generic enabled, > this module > 'knocked' off any specific ide controller (this was > with kernel 2.6.12 - > I think). > > The way that I ended up fixing this was to do lspci > and work out what > chipset was controlling the ide channel (from memory > it was a VIA) and > then enabling this in the kernel and disabling the > ide_generic module. > > This worked for me, I am not guaranteeing anything > for you - but if you > break it you get to keep both the pieces :) > > Andrew Bowden > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From redhat at ifh.dk Fri Feb 3 10:03:03 2006 From: redhat at ifh.dk (Mikael Rasmussen) Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:03:03 +0100 Subject: Cannot install FC 4 In-Reply-To: <1138920616.27596.143.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <43E27FDE.1090908@ifh.dk> <1138920616.27596.143.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <43E32A57.10001@ifh.dk> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wralphie at comcast.net Fri Feb 3 14:06:57 2006 From: wralphie at comcast.net (jludwig) Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 09:06:57 -0500 Subject: dual boot install q In-Reply-To: <43E26581.9080209@tootai.net> References: <20060202170054.2968E744B8@hormel.redhat.com> <1138903799.27596.102.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43E26581.9080209@tootai.net> Message-ID: <200602030906.57154.wralphie@comcast.net> On Thursday 02 February 2006 15:03, Administrator TOOTAI wrote: > There is this solution http://www.fs-driver.org/ to read/write ext2/ext3 > from Windows > Another one is Explore2fs > http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm Would this endanger Linux to windoze virii?? From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Feb 3 17:58:43 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:58:43 -0800 Subject: dual boot install q In-Reply-To: <200602030906.57154.wralphie@comcast.net> References: <20060202170054.2968E744B8@hormel.redhat.com> <1138903799.27596.102.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43E26581.9080209@tootai.net> <200602030906.57154.wralphie@comcast.net> Message-ID: <1138989523.27596.160.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 09:06 -0500, jludwig wrote: > On Thursday 02 February 2006 15:03, Administrator TOOTAI wrote: > > > There is this solution http://www.fs-driver.org/ to read/write ext2/ext3 > > from Windows > > Another one is Explore2fs > > http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm > Would this endanger Linux to windoze virii?? No, Linux cannot be infected with Windoze-specific viruses. I will not swear to how well Explore2fs on XP works, however. It may corrupt an ext2/ext3 filesystem in the same way the Linux write-enabled ntfs module may corrupt an NTFS filesystem. The lowest, reliable common denominator is FAT32 or VFAT used as a conduit between the two systems. They both know about it, it's fairly old and stable technology and it works. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Feb 3 18:06:05 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:06:05 -0800 Subject: Cannot install FC 4 In-Reply-To: <43E32A57.10001@ifh.dk> References: <43E27FDE.1090908@ifh.dk> <1138920616.27596.143.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43E32A57.10001@ifh.dk> Message-ID: <1138989965.27596.166.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 11:03 +0100, Mikael Rasmussen wrote: > Still the same: > 'Please append a correct "root"=boot option' The problem is that the installer kernel can't find the root filesystem on the CD/DVD. This is normally caused by a DMA issue or a conflict between IDE devices. Try the boot again, but try "ide=nodma" instead of just "nodma". > > > Mikael > > > Rick Stevens wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 22:55 +0100, Mikael Rasmussen wrote: > > > > > I am trying to install FC4 on a windows machine, but every time I try, i > > > get the following errors: > > > > > > 'Cannot open device ...........' > > > 'Please append a correct "root"=boot option' > > > '...................' > > > Kernel panic - Not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown > > > block(8,3) > > > > > > The system is as follows: > > > > > > Motherboard: ASRock K8Upgrade-VM800 > > > Processor: AMD Sempron 3000+ > > > HDD (200GB): Maxtor 6L200PO - Drive C: 19,52 GB (FAT32) - Drive D: 68,35 > > > GB (NTFS) - Rest: 102,01 GB Unformatted. > > > > > > > > > Can anyone help on this. My girlfriend wants a computer with the same > > > great opportunities as my own > > > > > > > Try entering "linux nodma nofb" to the "boot:" prompt: > > > > boot: linux nodma nofb > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > > - - > > - Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the - > > - reader...who doesn't get it. - > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > > Subject: unsubscribe > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - UNIX is actually quite user friendly. The problem is that it's - - just very picky of who its friends are! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gnichols at tpg.com.au Sat Feb 4 03:49:08 2006 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 14:49:08 +1100 Subject: dual boot install q In-Reply-To: <1138989523.27596.160.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <20060202170054.2968E744B8@hormel.redhat.com> <1138903799.27596.102.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43E26581.9080209@tootai.net> <200602030906.57154.wralphie@comcast.net> <1138989523.27596.160.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <43E42434.2040308@tpg.com.au> Rick Stevens wrote: > On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 09:06 -0500, jludwig wrote: > >>On Thursday 02 February 2006 15:03, Administrator TOOTAI wrote: >> >> >>>There is this solution http://www.fs-driver.org/ to read/write ext2/ext3 >>>from Windows >>>Another one is Explore2fs >>>http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm >> >>Would this endanger Linux to windoze virii?? > > > No, Linux cannot be infected with Windoze-specific viruses. I will not > swear to how well Explore2fs on XP works, however. It may corrupt an > ext2/ext3 filesystem in the same way the Linux write-enabled ntfs > module may corrupt an NTFS filesystem. The lowest, reliable common > denominator is FAT32 or VFAT used as a conduit between the two systems. > They both know about it, it's fairly old and stable technology and it > works. Good advice! Explore2fs is not recommended for writing from XP to ext2/3 UNLESS you have thoroughly tested it according to the instructions on the explore2fs web site. However, that said, it is a very handy utility for examining your linux disks from XP. A 'must have' for Linux/XP dual boot systems. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kind regards, Graeme. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Life is knowing how far to go without crossing the line. From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Sat Feb 4 04:53:09 2006 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 21:53:09 -0700 (MST) Subject: CD Boot Problems Message-ID: I've got FC4 running on my notebook - against my best wishes I need to install XP on it for my daughter - she has a class that requires Windows to run a program from the class. I don't have a windows machine in the house (I do have a bunch of Linux machines though). Well, I happen to have XP, came with a computer. The notebook will no longer boot off a CD - could it be GRUB? The BIOS is setup to boot from the CD but no go. Or maybe my XP disk is bad (after all it is windows). Thanks, Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. From admin at tootai.net Sat Feb 4 12:36:13 2006 From: admin at tootai.net (Administrator TOOTAI) Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 13:36:13 +0100 Subject: CD Boot Problems In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <43E49FBD.8010502@tootai.net> brad.mugleston at comcast.net a ?crit : >I've got FC4 running on my notebook - against my best wishes I >need to install XP on it for my daughter - she has a class that >requires Windows to run a program from the class. I don't have a >windows machine in the house (I do have a bunch of Linux machines >though). > >Well, I happen to have XP, came with a computer. The notebook >will no longer boot off a CD - could it be GRUB? The BIOS is >setup to boot from the CD but no go. Or maybe my XP disk is bad >(after all it is windows). > > A solution I use is Qemu: it allows you to run another OS in your linux session, no need to have a partition for it. So I have an W2k and XPHome (official) installed on my notebook ;-) For your CD, try to see if you can read it from your linux session and try to boot from your FC4 CD, you will then know if it's a CD problem or a boot one. -- Daniel From Murali.Vallath at quest.com Sat Feb 4 17:25:30 2006 From: Murali.Vallath at quest.com (Murali Vallath) Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 09:25:30 -0800 Subject: Kernel panic - (RedHat - migrating from RHEL 3.0 ... 2.4 kernel to RH4.0 2.6 kernel.... Message-ID: the current state.. Did and Upgrade from 2.4 to 2.6 kernel RHEL4.0 version 2.6.9-5 EL kernel image.. at which time I had no issues.. it booted fine. subsequently I wanted to get to the latest kernel.. so did a upgrade to 2.6.9-22.el using CDs now I am stuck.. ........ error on boot.... Mounting root filesystem mount: error 6 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none Switching to new root switchroot: mount failed: 22 umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! ......................... my grub.conf file looks like this... #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.6.9-22.EL) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinux-2.6.9-22.EL ro root=/dev/sda1 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-22.EL.img ............................................ based on a search on google.. I added the /dev/sda1 to the root assuming it was a LABEL issue. however I am having no luck. My knowledge of Linux is very bad when it comes to linking and compiling etc. if any of this is required please add some steps.. looking for help... thks mv -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr Sat Feb 4 22:54:52 2006 From: kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr (Kostas Sfakiotakis) Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 00:54:52 +0200 Subject: dual boot install q In-Reply-To: <43E42434.2040308@tpg.com.au> References: <20060202170054.2968E744B8@hormel.redhat.com> <1138903799.27596.102.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43E26581.9080209@tootai.net> <200602030906.57154.wralphie@comcast.net> <1138989523.27596.160.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43E42434.2040308@tpg.com.au> Message-ID: <43E530BC.2090202@cha.forthnet.gr> Greetings Graeme , Graeme Nichols wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > > Good advice! Explore2fs is not recommended for writing from XP to ext2/3 > UNLESS you have thoroughly tested it according to the instructions on > the explore2fs web site. I have always felt quite uncomfortable with something like that . I mean messing an ext2 partition from XP or messing an NTFS partition under Linux ( reading an NTFS partition under Linux works fine ) but i don't want to know about writing . However, that said, it is a very handy utility > for examining your linux disks from XP. You mean that you try to verify the integrity of an ext3 filesystem from within Windows XP . Well personally i would prefer testing Windows XP Partitions from Windows XP with say Norton Disk Doctor and forcing an filesystem check upon next reboot for the root filesystem for Linux . A 'must have' for Linux/XP dual boot systems. I would vote against that . I dual boot between Windows XP and Linux for the last 2,5 years and i never felt the need for such a thing Kind Regards, Kostas From gnichols at tpg.com.au Sun Feb 5 01:35:45 2006 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 12:35:45 +1100 Subject: dual boot install q In-Reply-To: <43E530BC.2090202@cha.forthnet.gr> References: <20060202170054.2968E744B8@hormel.redhat.com> <43E42434.2040308@tpg.com.au> <43E530BC.2090202@cha.forthnet.gr> Message-ID: <200602051235.46111.gnichols@tpg.com.au> On Sunday 05 February 2006 09:54, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > Greetings Graeme , > > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > > > > > Good advice! Explore2fs is not recommended for writing from XP to ext2/3 > > UNLESS you have thoroughly tested it according to the instructions on > > the explore2fs web site. > > I have always felt quite uncomfortable with something like that . I mean > messing > an ext2 partition from XP or messing an NTFS partition under Linux ( > reading > an NTFS partition under Linux works fine ) but i don't want to know about > writing . > However, that said, it is a very handy utility > > > for examining your linux disks from XP. > > You mean that you try to verify the integrity of an ext3 filesystem > from within Windows XP . Well personally i would prefer testing Windows > XP Partitions from Windows XP with say Norton Disk Doctor and > forcing an filesystem check upon next reboot for the root filesystem > for Linux . > > A 'must have' for Linux/XP dual boot systems. > > I would vote against that . I dual boot between Windows XP and Linux for > the > last 2,5 years and i never felt the need for such a thing > > > Kind Regards, > Kostas Hi Kostas, Explore2fs is NOT a tool for manipulating or checking the integrity of any file system, XP or Linux. It is a tool for use on Windows (in my case XP) to list the contents of a Linux file system, a Windows Explorer if you like, while working in Windows. I have used it extensively over the years to check my Linux filesystem for a particular file I am looking for on Windows but couldn't find. It saves booting into Linux to check if the file is on the Linux system and then booting back to Windows to finish the task in hand. Like I said, a very useful utility. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Unix is not an 'Ah ha!' experience, it is more a 'Holy Cow!' - - experience. - - Colin McFadyen. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From dragonite.wylie at verizon.net Sun Feb 5 04:20:29 2006 From: dragonite.wylie at verizon.net (Russell Golden) Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 22:20:29 -0600 Subject: Cannot install FC 4 In-Reply-To: <43E32A57.10001@ifh.dk> References: <43E27FDE.1090908@ifh.dk> <1138920616.27596.143.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43E32A57.10001@ifh.dk> Message-ID: <43E57D0D.8010708@verizon.net> sounds like what i had with my laptop when i tried installing FC4. i eventually gave up and stuck with dual booting between red hat linux 9 and windows xp. *shrug* nobody was ever able to figure out what the heck was going on. Mr. Stevens, you never got back to me on that last one lol note to self: if i ever feeling like using fedora, try that boot option btw, i checked out FC4 on my tower, it finally decided to work on that computer. IMO, red hat linux 9 is a lot better. see if you can find the install ISOs for that. and the best part: the RHL9 CDs work! :P Mikael Rasmussen wrote: > Still the same: > >'Please append a correct "root"=boot option' > > >Mikael > > > > > Rick Stevens wrote: > >>On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 22:55 +0100, Mikael Rasmussen wrote: >> >> >>>I am trying to install FC4 on a windows machine, but every time I try, i >>>get the following errors: >>> >>>'Cannot open device ...........' >>>'Please append a correct "root"=boot option' >>>'...................' >>>Kernel panic - Not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown >>>block(8,3) >>> >>>The system is as follows: >>> >>>Motherboard: ASRock K8Upgrade-VM800 >>>Processor: AMD Sempron 3000+ >>>HDD (200GB): Maxtor 6L200PO - Drive C: 19,52 GB (FAT32) - Drive D: 68,35 >>>GB (NTFS) - Rest: 102,01 GB Unformatted. >>> >>> >>>Can anyone help on this. My girlfriend wants a computer with the same >>>great opportunities as my own >>> >>> >> >>Try entering "linux nodma nofb" to the "boot:" prompt: >> >> boot: linux nodma nofb >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >>- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >>- - >>- Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the - >>- reader...who doesn't get it. - >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Redhat-install-list mailing list >>Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >>To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >>redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >>Subject: unsubscribe >> >> >> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-install-list mailing list >Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >Subject: unsubscribe > From harold at hallikainen.com Sun Feb 5 05:43:02 2006 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 21:43:02 -0800 (PST) Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails Message-ID: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> I'm installing FC4 on an old machine after having success on a new machine. I did a new install (instead of update) and modified the same configs I modified on the new machine. Here's the latest problem. This is getting real close to working correctly! If I do /sbin/service httpd restart or /sbin/service dovecot restart, the restart fails (the stop fails too since they did not start properly during boot). However, if I do /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/sbin/dovecot , they both seem to run fine. How can I find out what's going wrong during boot or restart that's causing these to not run? I've looked in the httpd logs and the messages log and found nothing. THANKS! Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Sun Feb 5 05:57:57 2006 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 22:57:57 -0700 (MST) Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <20396.198.60.114.90.1139119077.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> On Sat, February 4, 2006 10:43 pm, Harold Hallikainen said: > I'm installing FC4 on an old machine after having success on a new > machine. I did a new install (instead of update) and modified the same > configs I modified on the new machine. Here's the latest problem. This is > getting real close to working correctly! > > If I do /sbin/service httpd restart or /sbin/service dovecot restart, the > restart fails (the stop fails too since they did not start properly during > boot). However, if I do /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/sbin/dovecot , they both > seem to run fine. How can I find out what's going wrong during boot or > restart that's causing these to not run? I've looked in the httpd logs and > the messages log and found nothing. I would recommend (httpd) to go to the /var/log/httpd directory and remove everything, then run service httpd start and see if there's anything in the logs in that directory. I'm not familiar enough with dovecot, even though I've now installed it on all of my email servers, to offer a similar test. There may be one I also will be interested in. HTH, Karl > > THANKS! > > Harold > > -- > FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Sun Feb 5 06:44:02 2006 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 23:44:02 -0700 (MST) Subject: CD Boot Problems In-Reply-To: <43E49FBD.8010502@tootai.net> References: <43E49FBD.8010502@tootai.net> Message-ID: > A solution I use is Qemu: it allows you to run another OS in your linux > session, no need to have a partition for it. So I have an W2k and XPHome > (official) installed on my notebook ;-) > > For your CD, try to see if you can read it from your linux session and try to > boot from your FC4 CD, you will then know if it's a CD problem or a boot one. > -- > Daniel > Thanks, I messed with it and cleaned the CD really well and it finally booted (been sitting in the drawer too long I guess). Anyway it starts and says it going to check out my equipment and it may take awhile, after an hour or so I gave up - it had it's chance. I can open the CD from with in Linux is there a way to start the install from someplace other than a boot? Brad From riegersteve at gmail.com Sun Feb 5 07:45:43 2006 From: riegersteve at gmail.com (Steve Rieger) Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 23:45:43 -0800 Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: On Feb 4, 2006, at 9:43 PM, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > I'm installing FC4 on an old machine after having success on a new > machine. I did a new install (instead of update) and modified the same > configs I modified on the new machine. Here's the latest problem. > This is > getting real close to working correctly! > > If I do /sbin/service httpd restart or /sbin/service dovecot > restart, the > restart fails (the stop fails too since they did not start properly > during > boot). However, if I do /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/sbin/dovecot , they > both > seem to run fine. How can I find out what's going wrong during boot or > restart that's causing these to not run? I've looked in the httpd > logs and > the messages log and found nothing. > > THANKS! > > Harold check the permissions think about it, whats the difference betwix apachectl start and service httpd start From admin at tootai.net Sun Feb 5 10:16:24 2006 From: admin at tootai.net (Administrator TOOTAI) Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 11:16:24 +0100 Subject: CD Boot Problems In-Reply-To: References: <43E49FBD.8010502@tootai.net> Message-ID: <43E5D078.6060702@tootai.net> brad.mugleston at comcast.net a ?crit : >>A solution I use is Qemu: it allows you to run another OS in your linux >>session, no need to have a partition for it. So I have an W2k and XPHome >>(official) installed on my notebook ;-) >> >>For your CD, try to see if you can read it from your linux session and try to >>boot from your FC4 CD, you will then know if it's a CD problem or a boot one. >>-- >>Daniel >> >> >> >Thanks, I messed with it and cleaned the CD really well and it >finally booted (been sitting in the drawer too long I guess). >Anyway it starts and says it going to check out my equipment and >it may take awhile, after an hour or so I gave up - it had it's >chance. > >I can open the CD from with in Linux is there a way to start the >install from someplace other than a boot? > > You could boot with FREEDOS diskette and the run setup from CD, but I dont think it will change anything. Perhaps try to make a copy from the CD ... -- Daniel From bob at bobcatos.com Sun Feb 5 19:37:52 2006 From: bob at bobcatos.com (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 13:37:52 -0600 Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <20060205193752.GA11123@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:43:02PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > I'm installing FC4 on an old machine after having success on a new > machine. I did a new install (instead of update) and modified the same > configs I modified on the new machine. Here's the latest problem. This is > getting real close to working correctly! > > If I do /sbin/service httpd restart or /sbin/service dovecot restart, the > restart fails (the stop fails too since they did not start properly during > boot). However, if I do /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/sbin/dovecot , they both > seem to run fine. How can I find out what's going wrong during boot or > restart that's causing these to not run? I've looked in the httpd logs and > the messages log and found nothing. Look again. For httpd, look in /var/log/httpd/error_log. For dovecot, look in /var/log/maillog. If a service isn't starting properly, there _must_ be some information either on the screen or in a log. > THANKS! > > Harold Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. bob at bobcatos.com http://www.bobcatos.com The best things in life aren't things. From kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr Sun Feb 5 21:45:21 2006 From: kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr (Kostas Sfakiotakis) Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:45:21 +0200 Subject: dual boot install q In-Reply-To: <200602051235.46111.gnichols@tpg.com.au> References: <20060202170054.2968E744B8@hormel.redhat.com> <43E42434.2040308@tpg.com.au> <43E530BC.2090202@cha.forthnet.gr> <200602051235.46111.gnichols@tpg.com.au> Message-ID: <43E671F1.7060905@cha.forthnet.gr> Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Sunday 05 February 2006 09:54, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: < snip > > Explore2fs is NOT a tool for manipulating or checking the integrity of any > file system, XP or Linux. It is a tool for use on Windows (in my case XP) to > list the contents of a Linux file system, a Windows Explorer if you like, > while working in Windows. My apologies then . I have misunderstood the use of Explore2fs. I have used it extensively over the years to check > my Linux filesystem for a particular file I am looking for on Windows but > couldn't find. It saves booting into Linux to check if the file is on the > Linux system and then booting back to Windows to finish the task in hand. > > Like I said, a very useful utility. Since things are that way , then i have no other choice but to agree with you . Kind Regards, Kostas From harold at hallikainen.com Sun Feb 5 21:53:38 2006 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 13:53:38 -0800 (PST) Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <20060205193752.GA11123@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060205193752.GA11123@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <55504.192.168.1.1.1139176418.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> > On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:43:02PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: >> I'm installing FC4 on an old machine after having success on a new >> machine. I did a new install (instead of update) and modified the same >> configs I modified on the new machine. Here's the latest problem. This >> is >> getting real close to working correctly! >> >> If I do /sbin/service httpd restart or /sbin/service dovecot restart, >> the >> restart fails (the stop fails too since they did not start properly >> during >> boot). However, if I do /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/sbin/dovecot , they both >> seem to run fine. How can I find out what's going wrong during boot or >> restart that's causing these to not run? I've looked in the httpd logs >> and >> the messages log and found nothing. > > Look again. For httpd, look in /var/log/httpd/error_log. For > dovecot, look in /var/log/maillog. If a service isn't starting > properly, there _must_ be some information either on the screen or in > a log. > I left httpd running last night by manually starting it. I then did a service httpd restart this afternoon. Here's the restart: [root at kauko sbin]# ./service httpd restart Stopping httpd: [ OK ] Starting httpd: [FAILED] [root at kauko sbin]# And here's the error_log: [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ... [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] Digest: done [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP SDK [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable [Sun Feb 05 04:02:22 2006] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session mutexes based on 150 max processes and 0 max threads. [Sun Feb 05 04:02:23 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora) configured -- resuming normal operations [Sun Feb 05 13:49:44 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down Waiting for data... (interrupt to abort) The 13:49:44 appeared when I did the restart. Nothing appeared after that... THANKS! Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com From micros50 at computer.net Sun Feb 5 22:41:55 2006 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 17:41:55 -0500 Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <1139179314.6858.23.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 00:43, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > If I do /sbin/service httpd restart or /sbin/service dovecot restart, the > restart fails (the stop fails too since they did not start properly during > boot). However, if I do /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/sbin/dovecot , they both > seem to run fine. How can I find out what's going wrong during boot or > restart that's causing these to not run? I've looked in the httpd logs and > the messages log and found nothing. > > THANKS! > > Harold Whats up with this ?? Are the control scripts now located in "/sbin/service" and no longer in "/etc/rc.d/init.d" ?? From mlandman at face2interface.com Sun Feb 5 23:19:22 2006 From: mlandman at face2interface.com (Marty Landman) Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 18:19:22 -0500 Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <1139179314.6858.23.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1139179314.6858.23.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.0.20060205181659.01ee97e0@face2interface.com> At 05:41 PM 2/5/2006, mylar wrote: >Whats up with this ?? Are the control scripts now located in >"/sbin/service" and no longer in "/etc/rc.d/init.d" ?? Hmm, I'll have admit as a new person to linux that whenever I run into a problem with ppp and have to reboot I do /sbin/service smb start /sbin/service httpd start That's because I don't understand the way to get these two services to start automatically on boot. Have done a little reading, obviously not enough to get with the program. Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Webmaster's Bulletin Board: http://bbs.face2interface.com/ Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal From harold at hallikainen.com Mon Feb 6 01:44:25 2006 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 17:44:25 -0800 (PST) Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20060205181659.01ee97e0@face2interface.com> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1139179314.6858.23.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> <6.2.0.14.0.20060205181659.01ee97e0@face2interface.com> Message-ID: <35590.192.168.1.1.1139190265.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> > At 05:41 PM 2/5/2006, mylar wrote: > >>Whats up with this ?? Are the control scripts now located in >>"/sbin/service" and no longer in "/etc/rc.d/init.d" ?? > > Hmm, I'll have admit as a new person to linux that whenever I run into a > problem with ppp and have to reboot I do > > /sbin/service smb start > /sbin/service httpd start > > That's because I don't understand the way to get these two services to > start automatically on boot. Have done a little reading, obviously not > enough to get with the program. > > Marty > I use Desktop/SystemSettings/ServerSettings/Services - Check off the services you want to start at boot. Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com From mlandman at face2interface.com Mon Feb 6 02:02:30 2006 From: mlandman at face2interface.com (Marty Landman) Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 21:02:30 -0500 Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <35590.192.168.1.1.1139190265.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.or g> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1139179314.6858.23.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> <6.2.0.14.0.20060205181659.01ee97e0@face2interface.com> <35590.192.168.1.1.1139190265.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.0.20060205205956.0311c0b8@face2interface.com> At 08:44 PM 2/5/2006, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > At 05:41 PM 2/5/2006, mylar wrote: > > > >>Whats up with this ?? Are the control scripts now located in > >>"/sbin/service" and no longer in "/etc/rc.d/init.d" ?? > > > > Hmm, I'll have admit as a new person to linux that whenever I run into a > > problem with ppp and have to reboot I do > > > > /sbin/service smb start > > /sbin/service httpd start > > > > That's because I don't understand the way to get these two services to > > start automatically on boot. Have done a little reading, obviously not > > enough to get with the program. > > > > Marty > > > >I use Desktop/SystemSettings/ServerSettings/Services - Check off the >services you want to start at boot. Thanks Harold, I'll do that. Would still like to understand the command line workings though, if possible. Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Webmaster's Bulletin Board: http://bbs.face2interface.com/ Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal From brkittycat at verizon.net Mon Feb 6 02:10:57 2006 From: brkittycat at verizon.net (Brenda Radford) Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 21:10:57 -0500 Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20060205205956.0311c0b8@face2interface.com> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1139179314.6858.23.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> <6.2.0.14.0.20060205181659.01ee97e0@face2interface.com> <35590.192.168.1.1.1139190265.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <6.2.0.14.0.20060205205956.0311c0b8@face2interface.com> Message-ID: <43E6B031.6090401@verizon.net> Marty Landman wrote: > At 08:44 PM 2/5/2006, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > >> > At 05:41 PM 2/5/2006, mylar wrote: >> > >> >>Whats up with this ?? Are the control scripts now located in >> >>"/sbin/service" and no longer in "/etc/rc.d/init.d" ?? >> > >> > Hmm, I'll have admit as a new person to linux that whenever I run >> into a >> > problem with ppp and have to reboot I do >> > >> > /sbin/service smb start >> > /sbin/service httpd start >> > >> > That's because I don't understand the way to get these two services to >> > start automatically on boot. Have done a little reading, obviously not >> > enough to get with the program. >> > >> > Marty >> > >> >> I use Desktop/SystemSettings/ServerSettings/Services - Check off the >> services you want to start at boot. > > > Thanks Harold, I'll do that. Would still like to understand the > command line workings though, if possible. > > Marty > > > Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 > Webmaster's Bulletin Board: http://bbs.face2interface.com/ > Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > Marty, the command chkconfig service on (example: chkconfig httpd on) starts the service upon reboot see man chkconfig Brenda From mlandman at face2interface.com Mon Feb 6 02:17:09 2006 From: mlandman at face2interface.com (Marty Landman) Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 21:17:09 -0500 Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <43E6B031.6090401@verizon.net> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1139179314.6858.23.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> <6.2.0.14.0.20060205181659.01ee97e0@face2interface.com> <35590.192.168.1.1.1139190265.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <6.2.0.14.0.20060205205956.0311c0b8@face2interface.com> <43E6B031.6090401@verizon.net> Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.0.20060205211604.02787b58@face2interface.com> At 09:10 PM 2/5/2006, Brenda Radford wrote: >the command chkconfig service on (example: chkconfig httpd on) >starts the service upon reboot > >see man chkconfig Thanks Brenda. Sounds like what I needed. Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Webmaster's Bulletin Board: http://bbs.face2interface.com/ Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal From jkinz at kinz.org Mon Feb 6 02:43:18 2006 From: jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz) Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 21:43:18 -0500 Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <1139179314.6858.23.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu>; from micros50@computer.net on Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 05:41:55PM -0500 References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1139179314.6858.23.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Message-ID: <20060205214318.A21010@redline.comcast.net> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 05:41:55PM -0500, mylar wrote: > Whats up with this ?? Are the control scripts now located in > "/sbin/service" and no longer in "/etc/rc.d/init.d" ?? Look at it: /sbin/service is just a script that runs the scripts in "/etc/rc.d/init.d". Nothings been moved, just another level of indirection (a layer) and some nicer semi-englishized vocabulary To shorten the typing even more you can add this script to your system: ######### CUT HERE ##################### #!/bin/bash if [ "x$DEBUG" = "xT" ] ; then set -vx fi name=`basename $0` action=${name#s} if [ $# -ne 1 ] ; then echo "${action}s the named service" echo "Usage: $name " exit fi /sbin/service $1 $action ######### CUT HERE ##################### Make symbolic links to it named: sstatus, sstop, srestart and sstart Then just say "sstart " or "sstop " etc.. Example: sstart sendmail = "service sendmail stop" Does is save a lot of typing? No, but it was a fun way to demonstrate Bash shell variable munging "Go Pats!" ... What? ....oh. Never mind. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Brandeis To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness. -- Eugene Ionesco From bob at bobcatos.com Mon Feb 6 03:48:15 2006 From: bob at bobcatos.com (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 21:48:15 -0600 Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <1139179314.6858.23.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1139179314.6858.23.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Message-ID: <20060206034815.GC24744@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 05:41:55PM -0500, mylar wrote: > On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 00:43, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > If I do /sbin/service httpd restart or /sbin/service dovecot restart, the > > restart fails (the stop fails too since they did not start properly during > > boot). However, if I do /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/sbin/dovecot , they both > > seem to run fine. How can I find out what's going wrong during boot or > > restart that's causing these to not run? I've looked in the httpd logs and > > the messages log and found nothing. > > > > THANKS! > > > > Harold > > Whats up with this ?? Are the control scripts now located in > "/sbin/service" and no longer in "/etc/rc.d/init.d" ?? No. service httpd start is exactly the same thing as /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. bob at bobcatos.com http://www.bobcatos.com The best things in life aren't things. From bob at bobcatos.com Mon Feb 6 04:15:51 2006 From: bob at bobcatos.com (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 22:15:51 -0600 Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <55504.192.168.1.1.1139176418.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060205193752.GA11123@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <55504.192.168.1.1.1139176418.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <20060206041551.GE24744@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:53:38PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:43:02PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > >> I'm installing FC4 on an old machine after having success on a new > >> machine. I did a new install (instead of update) and modified the same > >> configs I modified on the new machine. Here's the latest problem. This > >> is > >> getting real close to working correctly! > >> > >> If I do /sbin/service httpd restart or /sbin/service dovecot restart, > >> the > >> restart fails (the stop fails too since they did not start properly > >> during > >> boot). However, if I do /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/sbin/dovecot , they both > >> seem to run fine. How can I find out what's going wrong during boot or > >> restart that's causing these to not run? I've looked in the httpd logs > >> and > >> the messages log and found nothing. > > > > Look again. For httpd, look in /var/log/httpd/error_log. For > > dovecot, look in /var/log/maillog. If a service isn't starting > > properly, there _must_ be some information either on the screen or in > > a log. > > > > I left httpd running last night by manually starting it. I then did a > service httpd restart this afternoon. Here's the restart: > > [root at kauko sbin]# ./service httpd restart > Stopping httpd: [ OK ] > Starting httpd: [FAILED] > [root at kauko sbin]# > > > > And here's the error_log: > > [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest > authentication ... > [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] Digest: done > [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP SDK > [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable > [Sun Feb 05 04:02:22 2006] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session mutexes > based on 150 max processes and 0 max threads. > [Sun Feb 05 04:02:23 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora) configured -- > resuming normal operations > [Sun Feb 05 13:49:44 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down > Waiting for data... (interrupt to abort) > > > The 13:49:44 appeared when I did the restart. Nothing appeared after that... > > THANKS! > > Harold Hmm. This does not compute. Try to start it again, and very soon after, do this: cd /var/log ls -lrt The last log touched will be at the bottom of the list. My guess is it will be messages. Check that. Also check /var/log/httpd/access_log. It must be leaving a suicide note somewhere. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. bob at bobcatos.com http://www.bobcatos.com The best things in life aren't things. From harold at hallikainen.com Mon Feb 6 05:01:30 2006 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 21:01:30 -0800 (PST) Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <20060206041551.GE24744@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060205193752.GA11123@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <55504.192.168.1.1.1139176418.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060206041551.GE24744@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <34930.192.168.1.1.1139202090.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> > On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:53:38PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: >> > On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:43:02PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: >> >> I'm installing FC4 on an old machine after having success on a new machine. I did a new install (instead of update) and modified the >> same >> >> configs I modified on the new machine. Here's the latest problem. >> This >> >> is >> >> getting real close to working correctly! >> >> >> >> If I do /sbin/service httpd restart or /sbin/service dovecot restart, >> >> the >> >> restart fails (the stop fails too since they did not start properly during >> >> boot). However, if I do /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/sbin/dovecot , they >> both >> >> seem to run fine. How can I find out what's going wrong during boot >> or >> >> restart that's causing these to not run? I've looked in the httpd >> logs >> >> and >> >> the messages log and found nothing. >> > >> > Look again. For httpd, look in /var/log/httpd/error_log. For dovecot, look in /var/log/maillog. If a service isn't starting properly, there _must_ be some information either on the screen or in a log. >> > >> I left httpd running last night by manually starting it. I then did a service httpd restart this afternoon. Here's the restart: >> [root at kauko sbin]# ./service httpd restart >> Stopping httpd: [ OK ] Starting httpd: [FAILED] [root at kauko sbin]# >> And here's the error_log: >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest >> authentication ... >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] Digest: done >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP SDK [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable [Sun Feb 05 04:02:22 2006] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session mutexes >> based on 150 max processes and 0 max threads. >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:23 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora) configured -- >> resuming normal operations >> [Sun Feb 05 13:49:44 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down Waiting for data... (interrupt to abort) >> The 13:49:44 appeared when I did the restart. Nothing appeared after that... >> THANKS! >> Harold > > Hmm. This does not compute. Try to start it again, and very soon after, do this: > > cd /var/log > ls -lrt > > The last log touched will be at the bottom of the list. My guess is it will be messages. Check that. Also check > /var/log/httpd/access_log. It must be leaving a suicide note somewhere. > OK, here it is... [root at kauko squirrelmail]# /sbin/service httpd restart Stopping httpd: [ OK ] Starting httpd: [FAILED] [root at kauko squirrelmail]# cd /var [root at kauko var]# ls -lrt total 204 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 28 2005 racoon drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Apr 20 2005 tux drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 20 2005 cvs drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 22 2005 preserve drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 22 2005 opt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 22 2005 nis drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 22 2005 local lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 7 18:17 mail -> spool/mail drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 7 18:24 db drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 7 18:24 account drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 7 18:25 empty drwxr-x--- 5 root named 4096 Jan 7 20:30 named drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 7 20:39 ftp drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 7 20:52 kerberos drwxr-xr-x 5 netdump netdump 4096 Jan 7 20:52 crash drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 7 20:53 yp drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jan 7 22:30 cache drwxr-xr-x 2 pcap pcap 4096 Jan 7 22:44 arpwatch drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Jan 7 22:52 spool drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jan 7 22:52 www drwxr-xr-x 35 root root 4096 Jan 8 14:17 lib drwxrwxr-x 8 root lock 4096 Feb 5 18:16 lock drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Feb 5 18:17 log drwxrwx--T 2 root gdm 4096 Feb 5 18:17 gdm drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 18:28 tmp drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 4096 Feb 5 20:55 run [root at kauko var]# I ran the restart at 20:55. Looking in run, I see this: [root at kauko var]# cd run [root at kauko run]# ls -lrt total 412 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 2 2004 ppp drwxr-xr-x 2 radvd radvd 4096 Feb 25 2005 radvd drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Mar 7 2005 mailman drwxr-xr-x 2 pvm pvm 4096 Mar 8 2005 pvm3 drwxrwx--x 2 quagga quagga 4096 Apr 4 2005 quagga drwxr-x--- 2 news news 4096 Apr 7 2005 news drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 13 2005 saslauthd drwx------ 2 radiusd radiusd 4096 Apr 14 2005 radiusd drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Apr 27 2005 pluto drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 2 2005 winbindd drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 16 2005 mdmpd drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 16 2005 mdadm drwxrwx--- 2 named named 4096 May 17 2005 named drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 18 2005 iptraf drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 23 2005 usb drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 May 25 2005 netreport drwxrwxr-x 2 root screen 4096 May 27 2005 screen drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 30 2005 nscd drwx------ 4 root root 4096 Jan 8 14:52 sudo drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 4 16:53 ptal-printd drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 4 16:53 ptal-mlcd drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 4 16:59 console -rw------- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 syslogd.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 rpcuser rpcuser 5 Feb 5 18:16 rpc.statd.pid -rw------- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 klogd.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 irqbalance.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 auditd.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 nifd.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody root 5 Feb 5 18:16 mDNSResponder.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 xinetd.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 sshd.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 cupsd.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Feb 5 18:16 ntpd.pid drwxr-xr-x 2 mysql mysql 4096 Feb 5 18:16 mysqld -rw------- 1 root smmsp 33 Feb 5 18:16 sendmail.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 smmsp smmsp 50 Feb 5 18:16 sm-client.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 gpm.pid drwxr-xr-x 3 iiimd iiimd 4096 Feb 5 18:16 iiim -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 crond.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Feb 5 18:16 xfs.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 smbd.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 nmbd.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 messagebus.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 haldaemon.pid drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 18:16 dbus -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 cups-config-daemon.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 atd.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:17 gdm.pid -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 4608 Feb 5 18:17 utmp drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 18:20 dovecot drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 4096 Feb 5 18:20 dovecot-login [root at kauko run]# So.... I don't see any log entry... Ideas? THANKS! Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com From ktr at mtu.edu Mon Feb 6 05:13:36 2006 From: ktr at mtu.edu (Kevin Raber) Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:13:36 -0500 Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <34930.192.168.1.1.1139202090.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060205193752.GA11123@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <55504.192.168.1.1.1139176418.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060206041551.GE24744@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <34930.192.168.1.1.1139202090.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <43E6DB00.9060806@mtu.edu> Harold Hallikainen wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:53:38PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: >>>> On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:43:02PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: >>>>> I'm installing FC4 on an old machine after having success on a new > machine. I did a new install (instead of update) and modified the >>> same >>>>> configs I modified on the new machine. Here's the latest problem. >>> This >>>>> is >>>>> getting real close to working correctly! >>>>> >>>>> If I do /sbin/service httpd restart or /sbin/service dovecot > restart, >>>>> the >>>>> restart fails (the stop fails too since they did not start properly > during >>>>> boot). However, if I do /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/sbin/dovecot , they >>> both >>>>> seem to run fine. How can I find out what's going wrong during boot >>> or >>>>> restart that's causing these to not run? I've looked in the httpd >>> logs >>>>> and >>>>> the messages log and found nothing. >>>> Look again. For httpd, look in /var/log/httpd/error_log. For > dovecot, look in /var/log/maillog. If a service isn't starting > properly, there _must_ be some information either on the screen or in > a log. >>> I left httpd running last night by manually starting it. I then did a > service httpd restart this afternoon. Here's the restart: >>> [root at kauko sbin]# ./service httpd restart >>> Stopping httpd: [ OK ] > Starting httpd: [FAILED] > [root at kauko sbin]# >>> And here's the error_log: >>> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] Digest: generating secret for > digest >>> authentication ... >>> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] Digest: done >>> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP SDK > [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable [Sun > Feb 05 04:02:22 2006] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session mutexes >>> based on 150 max processes and 0 max threads. >>> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:23 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora) configured > -- >>> resuming normal operations >>> [Sun Feb 05 13:49:44 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down > Waiting for data... (interrupt to abort) >>> The 13:49:44 appeared when I did the restart. Nothing appeared after > that... >>> THANKS! >>> Harold >> Hmm. This does not compute. Try to start it again, and very soon > after, do this: >> cd /var/log >> ls -lrt >> >> The last log touched will be at the bottom of the list. My guess is it > will be messages. Check that. Also check >> /var/log/httpd/access_log. It must be leaving a suicide note somewhere. >> > > > OK, here it is... > > [root at kauko squirrelmail]# /sbin/service httpd restart > Stopping httpd: [ OK ] > Starting httpd: [FAILED] > [root at kauko squirrelmail]# cd /var > [root at kauko var]# ls -lrt > total 204 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 28 2005 racoon > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Apr 20 2005 tux > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 20 2005 cvs > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 22 2005 preserve > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 22 2005 opt > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 22 2005 nis > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 22 2005 local > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 7 18:17 mail -> spool/mail > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 7 18:24 db > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 7 18:24 account > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 7 18:25 empty > drwxr-x--- 5 root named 4096 Jan 7 20:30 named > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 7 20:39 ftp > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 7 20:52 kerberos > drwxr-xr-x 5 netdump netdump 4096 Jan 7 20:52 crash > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 7 20:53 yp > drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jan 7 22:30 cache > drwxr-xr-x 2 pcap pcap 4096 Jan 7 22:44 arpwatch > drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Jan 7 22:52 spool > drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jan 7 22:52 www > drwxr-xr-x 35 root root 4096 Jan 8 14:17 lib > drwxrwxr-x 8 root lock 4096 Feb 5 18:16 lock > drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Feb 5 18:17 log > drwxrwx--T 2 root gdm 4096 Feb 5 18:17 gdm > drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 18:28 tmp > drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 4096 Feb 5 20:55 run > [root at kauko var]# > > > I ran the restart at 20:55. Looking in run, I see this: > > [root at kauko var]# cd run > [root at kauko run]# ls -lrt > total 412 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 2 2004 ppp > drwxr-xr-x 2 radvd radvd 4096 Feb 25 2005 radvd > drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Mar 7 2005 mailman > drwxr-xr-x 2 pvm pvm 4096 Mar 8 2005 pvm3 > drwxrwx--x 2 quagga quagga 4096 Apr 4 2005 quagga > drwxr-x--- 2 news news 4096 Apr 7 2005 news > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 13 2005 saslauthd > drwx------ 2 radiusd radiusd 4096 Apr 14 2005 radiusd > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Apr 27 2005 pluto > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 2 2005 winbindd > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 16 2005 mdmpd > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 16 2005 mdadm > drwxrwx--- 2 named named 4096 May 17 2005 named > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 18 2005 iptraf > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 23 2005 usb > drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 May 25 2005 netreport > drwxrwxr-x 2 root screen 4096 May 27 2005 screen > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 30 2005 nscd > drwx------ 4 root root 4096 Jan 8 14:52 sudo > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 4 16:53 ptal-printd > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 4 16:53 ptal-mlcd > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 4 16:59 console > -rw------- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 syslogd.pid > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpcuser rpcuser 5 Feb 5 18:16 rpc.statd.pid > -rw------- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 klogd.pid > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 irqbalance.pid > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 auditd.pid > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 nifd.pid > -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody root 5 Feb 5 18:16 mDNSResponder.pid > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 xinetd.pid > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 sshd.pid > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 cupsd.pid > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Feb 5 18:16 ntpd.pid > drwxr-xr-x 2 mysql mysql 4096 Feb 5 18:16 mysqld > -rw------- 1 root smmsp 33 Feb 5 18:16 sendmail.pid > -rw-r--r-- 1 smmsp smmsp 50 Feb 5 18:16 sm-client.pid > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 gpm.pid > drwxr-xr-x 3 iiimd iiimd 4096 Feb 5 18:16 iiim > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 crond.pid > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Feb 5 18:16 xfs.pid > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 smbd.pid > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 nmbd.pid > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 messagebus.pid > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 haldaemon.pid > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 18:16 dbus > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 cups-config-daemon.pid > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 atd.pid > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:17 gdm.pid > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 4608 Feb 5 18:17 utmp > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 18:20 dovecot > drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 4096 Feb 5 18:20 dovecot-login > [root at kauko run]# > > > So.... I don't see any log entry... Ideas? > > > THANKS! > > Harold > > Harlod, I believe the request was for: cd /var/log ls -lrt From gnichols at tpg.com.au Mon Feb 6 05:33:46 2006 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:33:46 +1100 Subject: ClamAV and freshclam Message-ID: <200602061633.50563.gnichols@tpg.com.au> Hello Folks, I have just installed clamav-0.88-1.fc4 on my laptop using 'yum install clamav' and there is no freshclam command. Is this a 'feature' of this version or have I made a mistake? I tried 'yum install freshclam' but it reported 'No action needed' Or is the command to update the sig file something different in this version? 'rpm -q clamav' states it contains a tool for automatic updating via Internet. On my desktop there is a service for automatically updating the sig file but not on my laptop after installing clamav. I didn't have clamav on this machine previously. Ta. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Mon Feb 6 06:35:23 2006 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 23:35:23 -0700 (MST) Subject: ClamAV and freshclam In-Reply-To: <200602061633.50563.gnichols@tpg.com.au> References: <200602061633.50563.gnichols@tpg.com.au> Message-ID: <13308.198.60.114.90.1139207723.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> On Sun, February 5, 2006 10:33 pm, Graeme Nichols said: > Hello Folks, > > I have just installed clamav-0.88-1.fc4 on my laptop using 'yum install > clamav' and there is no freshclam command. Is this a 'feature' of this > version or have I made a mistake? I tried 'yum install freshclam' but it > reported 'No action needed' Or is the command to update the sig file > something different in this version? 'rpm -q clamav' states it contains a > tool for automatic updating via Internet. On my desktop there is a service > for automatically updating the sig file but not on my laptop after > installing > clamav. ClamAV is usually used as a gateway mail scanner. Freshclam is installed by default. Check /usr/local/bin/ for it. The clamav website has good docs on it, too. I have it on my email server and freshclam runs from rc.local on bootup with the following command: /usr/local/bin/freshclam -d --checks=50 --daemon-notify="/usr/local/etc/clamd.conf" --on-update-execute="/home/karlp/bin/freshclam.sh update" --on-error-execute="/home/karlp/bin/freshclam.sh failed" --on-outdated-execute="/home/karlp/bin/freshclam.sh outdated" -u root That's all on one line, btw. HTH. Karl > > I didn't have clamav on this machine previously. > > Ta. > > -- > Kind regards, > > Graeme Nichols. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -- karl _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ ____________ __o _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ ____________ _-\<._ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ (_)/ (_) _/ _/ _/ _/ ...................... _/ _/ arl _/_/_/ _/ earson KarlP at ourldsfamily.com --- Senior Consulting Sys/DB Analyst http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com --- My Thoughts on Terrorism In America right after 9/11/2001: http://www.ourldsfamily.com/wtc.shtml --- A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. -Ramsey Clark --- From nmw at ion.le.ac.uk Mon Feb 6 10:02:22 2006 From: nmw at ion.le.ac.uk (Nigel Wade) Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 10:02:22 +0000 Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <55504.192.168.1.1.1139176418.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060205193752.GA11123@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <55504.192.168.1.1.1139176418.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <43E71EAE.1010309@ion.le.ac.uk> Harold Hallikainen wrote: >>On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:43:02PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: >> >>>I'm installing FC4 on an old machine after having success on a new >>>machine. I did a new install (instead of update) and modified the same >>>configs I modified on the new machine. Here's the latest problem. This >>>is >>>getting real close to working correctly! >>> >>>If I do /sbin/service httpd restart or /sbin/service dovecot restart, >>>the >>>restart fails (the stop fails too since they did not start properly >>>during >>>boot). However, if I do /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/sbin/dovecot , they both >>>seem to run fine. How can I find out what's going wrong during boot or >>>restart that's causing these to not run? I've looked in the httpd logs >>>and >>>the messages log and found nothing. >> >>Look again. For httpd, look in /var/log/httpd/error_log. For >>dovecot, look in /var/log/maillog. If a service isn't starting >>properly, there _must_ be some information either on the screen or in >>a log. >> > > > I left httpd running last night by manually starting it. I then did a > service httpd restart this afternoon. Here's the restart: > > [root at kauko sbin]# ./service httpd restart > Stopping httpd: [ OK ] > Starting httpd: [FAILED] > [root at kauko sbin]# > > Try running the script directly with sh and the -x flag (which will echo commands before they are executed) so you see where the script is failing: # sh -x /etc/init.d/httpd start -- Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK E-mail : nmw at ion.le.ac.uk Phone : +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555 From harold at hallikainen.com Mon Feb 6 15:54:20 2006 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 07:54:20 -0800 (PST) Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <20060206041551.GE24744@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060205193752.GA11123@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <55504.192.168.1.1.1139176418.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060206041551.GE24744@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <20158.207.177.227.29.1139241260.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> > On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:53:38PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: >> >> > On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:43:02PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: >> >> I'm installing FC4 on an old machine after having success on a new >> >> machine. I did a new install (instead of update) and modified the >> same >> >> configs I modified on the new machine. Here's the latest problem. >> This >> >> is >> >> getting real close to working correctly! >> >> >> >> If I do /sbin/service httpd restart or /sbin/service dovecot restart, >> >> the >> >> restart fails (the stop fails too since they did not start properly >> >> during >> >> boot). However, if I do /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/sbin/dovecot , they >> both >> >> seem to run fine. How can I find out what's going wrong during boot >> or >> >> restart that's causing these to not run? I've looked in the httpd >> logs >> >> and >> >> the messages log and found nothing. >> > >> > Look again. For httpd, look in /var/log/httpd/error_log. For >> > dovecot, look in /var/log/maillog. If a service isn't starting >> > properly, there _must_ be some information either on the screen or in >> > a log. >> > >> >> I left httpd running last night by manually starting it. I then did a >> service httpd restart this afternoon. Here's the restart: >> >> [root at kauko sbin]# ./service httpd restart >> Stopping httpd: [ OK ] >> Starting httpd: [FAILED] >> [root at kauko sbin]# >> >> >> >> And here's the error_log: >> >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest >> authentication ... >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] Digest: done >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP SDK >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:22 2006] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session >> mutexes >> based on 150 max processes and 0 max threads. >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:23 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora) configured -- >> resuming normal operations >> [Sun Feb 05 13:49:44 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down >> Waiting for data... (interrupt to abort) >> >> >> The 13:49:44 appeared when I did the restart. Nothing appeared after >> that... >> >> THANKS! >> >> Harold > > Hmm. This does not compute. Try to start it again, and very soon > after, do this: > > cd /var/log > ls -lrt > > The last log touched will be at the bottom of the list. My guess is > it will be messages. Check that. Also check > /var/log/httpd/access_log. It must be leaving a suicide note somewhere. > OK, doing ls -lrt on the right directory, I get: [root at kauko log]# pwd /var/log [root at kauko log]# date Mon Feb 6 07:46:39 PST 2006 [root at kauko log]# /sbin/service httpd restart Stopping httpd: [FAILED] Starting httpd: [FAILED] [root at kauko log]# ls -lrt total 5152 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Nov 2 2004 ppp drwxr-xr-x 2 privoxy privoxy 4096 Mar 2 2005 privoxy drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 5 2005 fax drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Mar 7 2005 mailman drwxr-xr-x 2 canna canna 4096 Mar 7 2005 canna drwxrwx--- 2 quagga quagga 4096 Apr 4 2005 quagga drwx--S--- 2 amanda disk 4096 Apr 22 2005 amanda drwxr-xr-x 2 tomcat tomcat 4096 May 10 2005 tomcat5 drwxr-x--- 2 squid squid 4096 May 16 2005 squid drwxr-xr-x 2 iiimd iiimd 4096 May 23 2005 iiim drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 27 2005 vbox -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 7 18:21 spooler.4 -rw------- 1 root utmp 0 Jan 7 18:21 btmp.1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 7 18:25 mail -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72220 Jan 7 20:29 scrollkeeper.log -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 0 Jan 7 20:51 mysqld.log.4 drwxr-xr-x 3 news news 4096 Jan 7 22:14 news drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jan 7 22:18 iptraf drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp 4096 Jan 7 22:18 uucp -rw------- 1 root root 39790 Jan 7 22:58 anaconda.xlog -rw------- 1 root root 38944 Jan 7 22:58 anaconda.syslog -rw------- 1 root root 15832 Jan 7 22:58 anaconda.log -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 8 14:17 boot.log.4 drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Jan 8 14:17 audit -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55878 Jan 11 04:02 rpmpkgs.4 -rw------- 1 root root 4068 Jan 15 11:13 secure.4 -rw------- 1 root root 6813 Jan 15 12:19 maillog.4 -rw------- 1 root root 186559 Jan 15 12:19 cron.4 -rw------- 1 root root 467643 Jan 15 12:19 messages.4 -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 15 12:19 spooler.3 -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 0 Jan 15 12:19 mysqld.log.3 -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 15 12:19 boot.log.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55878 Jan 21 04:02 rpmpkgs.3 -rw------- 1 root root 1327 Jan 21 22:35 secure.3 -rw------- 1 root root 567926 Jan 22 04:02 messages.3 -rw------- 1 root root 8451 Jan 22 04:02 maillog.3 -rw------- 1 root root 376146 Jan 22 04:02 cron.3 -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 04:02 spooler.2 -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 04:02 secure.2 -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 0 Jan 22 04:02 mysqld.log.2 -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 04:02 boot.log.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56543 Jan 28 04:02 rpmpkgs.2 -rw------- 1 root root 517218 Jan 29 04:02 messages.2 -rw------- 1 root root 6096 Jan 29 04:02 maillog.2 -rw------- 1 root root 395521 Jan 29 04:02 cron.2 -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 29 04:02 spooler.1 -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 29 04:02 boot.log.1 -rw-r----- 1 root root 2300 Jan 29 17:47 acpid -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 165888 Jan 29 18:01 wtmp.1 drwx------ 3 radiusd radiusd 4096 Feb 1 04:02 radius -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56543 Feb 4 04:02 rpmpkgs.1 -rw------- 1 root root 2260 Feb 4 22:10 secure.1 -rw------- 1 root root 632534 Feb 5 04:02 messages.1 -rw------- 1 root root 15036 Feb 5 04:02 maillog.1 -rw------- 1 root root 395130 Feb 5 04:02 cron.1 drwxr-xr-x 2 lp sys 4096 Feb 5 04:02 cups -rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 5 04:02 spooler drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 04:02 httpd -rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 5 04:02 boot.log -rw------- 1 root utmp 384 Feb 5 17:57 btmp -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 3440 Feb 5 18:10 mysqld.log.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46138 Feb 5 18:12 Xorg.0.log.old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11655 Feb 5 18:16 dmesg -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 757 Feb 5 18:16 mysqld.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 676 Feb 5 18:17 sshblacklisting drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 18:17 gdm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46138 Feb 5 18:17 Xorg.0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 225 Feb 5 18:28 yum.log drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 21:32 samba drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 00:00 sa -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67742 Feb 6 04:04 prelink.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56561 Feb 6 04:05 rpmpkgs -rw------- 1 root root 5001 Feb 6 04:54 maillog -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 76032 Feb 6 07:40 wtmp -rw------- 1 root root 1511 Feb 6 07:40 secure -r-------- 1 root root 19136220 Feb 6 07:40 lastlog -rw------- 1 root root 65638 Feb 6 07:45 cron -rw------- 1 root root 130754 Feb 6 07:45 messages [root at kauko log]# It looks like there were entries in messages and cron. Here's the last few lines of messages: Feb 6 07:40:52 kauko sshd(pam_unix)[15144]: session opened for user root by root(uid=0) Feb 6 07:45:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15256]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Feb 6 07:45:02 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15256]: session closed for user root Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15320]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15321]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15321]: session closed for user root Feb 6 07:50:02 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15320]: session closed for user root and cron Feb 6 07:40:01 kauko crond[15134]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1) Feb 6 07:45:01 kauko crond[15257]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg --lock-file /var/lock/mrtg/mrtg_l --confcache -file /var/lib/mrtg/mrtg.ok) Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond[15322]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg --lock-file /var/lock/mrtg/mrtg_l --confcache -file /var/lib/mrtg/mrtg.ok) Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond[15323]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1) I don't see anything related to the httpd restart... More ideas? THANKS!!! Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com From bob at bobcatos.com Mon Feb 6 16:41:52 2006 From: bob at bobcatos.com (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 10:41:52 -0600 Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <20158.207.177.227.29.1139241260.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060205193752.GA11123@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <55504.192.168.1.1.1139176418.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060206041551.GE24744@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <20158.207.177.227.29.1139241260.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <20060206164151.GA11045@bobcat.bobcatos.com> > On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 07:54:20AM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:53:38PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > >> > >> > On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:43:02PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > >> >> I'm installing FC4 on an old machine after having success on a new > >> >> machine. I did a new install (instead of update) and modified the > >> same > >> >> configs I modified on the new machine. Here's the latest problem. > >> This > >> >> is > >> >> getting real close to working correctly! > >> >> > >> >> If I do /sbin/service httpd restart or /sbin/service dovecot restart, > >> >> the > >> >> restart fails (the stop fails too since they did not start properly > >> >> during > >> >> boot). However, if I do /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/sbin/dovecot , they > >> both > >> >> seem to run fine. How can I find out what's going wrong during boot > >> or > >> >> restart that's causing these to not run? I've looked in the httpd > >> logs > >> >> and > >> >> the messages log and found nothing. > >> > > >> > Look again. For httpd, look in /var/log/httpd/error_log. For > >> > dovecot, look in /var/log/maillog. If a service isn't starting > >> > properly, there _must_ be some information either on the screen or in > >> > a log. > >> > > >> > >> I left httpd running last night by manually starting it. I then did a > >> service httpd restart this afternoon. Here's the restart: > >> > >> [root at kauko sbin]# ./service httpd restart > >> Stopping httpd: [ OK ] > >> Starting httpd: [FAILED] > >> [root at kauko sbin]# > >> > >> > >> > >> And here's the error_log: > >> > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest > >> authentication ... > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] Digest: done > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP SDK > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:22 2006] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session > >> mutexes > >> based on 150 max processes and 0 max threads. > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:23 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora) configured -- > >> resuming normal operations > >> [Sun Feb 05 13:49:44 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down > >> Waiting for data... (interrupt to abort) > >> > >> > >> The 13:49:44 appeared when I did the restart. Nothing appeared after > >> that... > >> > >> THANKS! > >> > >> Harold > > > > Hmm. This does not compute. Try to start it again, and very soon > > after, do this: > > > > cd /var/log > > ls -lrt > > > > The last log touched will be at the bottom of the list. My guess is > > it will be messages. Check that. Also check > > /var/log/httpd/access_log. It must be leaving a suicide note somewhere. > > > > > OK, doing ls -lrt on the right directory, I get: > > [root at kauko log]# pwd > /var/log > [root at kauko log]# date > Mon Feb 6 07:46:39 PST 2006 > [root at kauko log]# /sbin/service httpd restart > Stopping httpd: [FAILED] > Starting httpd: [FAILED] > [root at kauko log]# ls -lrt > total 5152 > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Nov 2 2004 ppp > drwxr-xr-x 2 privoxy privoxy 4096 Mar 2 2005 privoxy > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 5 2005 fax > drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Mar 7 2005 mailman > drwxr-xr-x 2 canna canna 4096 Mar 7 2005 canna > drwxrwx--- 2 quagga quagga 4096 Apr 4 2005 quagga > drwx--S--- 2 amanda disk 4096 Apr 22 2005 amanda > drwxr-xr-x 2 tomcat tomcat 4096 May 10 2005 tomcat5 > drwxr-x--- 2 squid squid 4096 May 16 2005 squid > drwxr-xr-x 2 iiimd iiimd 4096 May 23 2005 iiim > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 27 2005 vbox > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 7 18:21 spooler.4 > -rw------- 1 root utmp 0 Jan 7 18:21 btmp.1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 7 18:25 mail > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72220 Jan 7 20:29 scrollkeeper.log > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 0 Jan 7 20:51 mysqld.log.4 > drwxr-xr-x 3 news news 4096 Jan 7 22:14 news > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jan 7 22:18 iptraf > drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp 4096 Jan 7 22:18 uucp > -rw------- 1 root root 39790 Jan 7 22:58 anaconda.xlog > -rw------- 1 root root 38944 Jan 7 22:58 anaconda.syslog > -rw------- 1 root root 15832 Jan 7 22:58 anaconda.log > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 8 14:17 boot.log.4 > drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Jan 8 14:17 audit > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55878 Jan 11 04:02 rpmpkgs.4 > -rw------- 1 root root 4068 Jan 15 11:13 secure.4 > -rw------- 1 root root 6813 Jan 15 12:19 maillog.4 > -rw------- 1 root root 186559 Jan 15 12:19 cron.4 > -rw------- 1 root root 467643 Jan 15 12:19 messages.4 > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 15 12:19 spooler.3 > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 0 Jan 15 12:19 mysqld.log.3 > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 15 12:19 boot.log.3 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55878 Jan 21 04:02 rpmpkgs.3 > -rw------- 1 root root 1327 Jan 21 22:35 secure.3 > -rw------- 1 root root 567926 Jan 22 04:02 messages.3 > -rw------- 1 root root 8451 Jan 22 04:02 maillog.3 > -rw------- 1 root root 376146 Jan 22 04:02 cron.3 > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 04:02 spooler.2 > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 04:02 secure.2 > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 0 Jan 22 04:02 mysqld.log.2 > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 04:02 boot.log.2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56543 Jan 28 04:02 rpmpkgs.2 > -rw------- 1 root root 517218 Jan 29 04:02 messages.2 > -rw------- 1 root root 6096 Jan 29 04:02 maillog.2 > -rw------- 1 root root 395521 Jan 29 04:02 cron.2 > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 29 04:02 spooler.1 > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 29 04:02 boot.log.1 > -rw-r----- 1 root root 2300 Jan 29 17:47 acpid > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 165888 Jan 29 18:01 wtmp.1 > drwx------ 3 radiusd radiusd 4096 Feb 1 04:02 radius > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56543 Feb 4 04:02 rpmpkgs.1 > -rw------- 1 root root 2260 Feb 4 22:10 secure.1 > -rw------- 1 root root 632534 Feb 5 04:02 messages.1 > -rw------- 1 root root 15036 Feb 5 04:02 maillog.1 > -rw------- 1 root root 395130 Feb 5 04:02 cron.1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 lp sys 4096 Feb 5 04:02 cups > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 5 04:02 spooler > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 04:02 httpd > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 5 04:02 boot.log > -rw------- 1 root utmp 384 Feb 5 17:57 btmp > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 3440 Feb 5 18:10 mysqld.log.1 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46138 Feb 5 18:12 Xorg.0.log.old > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11655 Feb 5 18:16 dmesg > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 757 Feb 5 18:16 mysqld.log > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 676 Feb 5 18:17 sshblacklisting > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 18:17 gdm > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46138 Feb 5 18:17 Xorg.0.log > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 225 Feb 5 18:28 yum.log > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 21:32 samba > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 00:00 sa > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67742 Feb 6 04:04 prelink.log > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56561 Feb 6 04:05 rpmpkgs > -rw------- 1 root root 5001 Feb 6 04:54 maillog > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 76032 Feb 6 07:40 wtmp > -rw------- 1 root root 1511 Feb 6 07:40 secure > -r-------- 1 root root 19136220 Feb 6 07:40 lastlog > -rw------- 1 root root 65638 Feb 6 07:45 cron > -rw------- 1 root root 130754 Feb 6 07:45 messages > [root at kauko log]# > > > It looks like there were entries in messages and cron. Here's the last few > lines of messages: > > Feb 6 07:40:52 kauko sshd(pam_unix)[15144]: session opened for user root > by root(uid=0) > Feb 6 07:45:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15256]: session opened for user root > by (uid=0) > Feb 6 07:45:02 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15256]: session closed for user root > Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15320]: session opened for user root > by (uid=0) > Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15321]: session opened for user root > by (uid=0) > Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15321]: session closed for user root > Feb 6 07:50:02 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15320]: session closed for user root > > and cron > > Feb 6 07:40:01 kauko crond[15134]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1) > Feb 6 07:45:01 kauko crond[15257]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/mrtg > /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg --lock-file /var/lock/mrtg/mrtg_l --confcache > -file /var/lib/mrtg/mrtg.ok) > Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond[15322]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/mrtg > /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg --lock-file /var/lock/mrtg/mrtg_l --confcache > -file /var/lib/mrtg/mrtg.ok) > Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond[15323]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1) > > > I don't see anything related to the httpd restart... More ideas? I give up. Maybe when Rick Stevens gets his morning coffee, he'll have some obvious solution that we've all missed. > THANKS!!! > > Harold Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. bob at bobcatos.com http://www.bobcatos.com The best things in life aren't things. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Feb 6 17:31:40 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 09:31:40 -0800 Subject: Kernel panic - (RedHat - migrating from RHEL 3.0 ... 2.4 kernel to RH4.0 2.6 kernel.... In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1139247100.27596.177.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 09:25 -0800, Murali Vallath wrote: > the current state.. > > Did and Upgrade from 2.4 to 2.6 kernel RHEL4.0 version 2.6.9-5 EL > kernel image.. at which time I had no issues.. it booted fine. > > subsequently I wanted to get to the latest kernel.. so did a upgrade > to 2.6.9-22.el using CDs > now I am stuck.. Upgraded via CD? Huh? You did a rpm -ivh /media/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/kernelsomething Did you rebuild the initrd image? You have to do that if you have / on an ext3 filesystem. Boot off the old image, then: # cd /boot # mkinitrd -f -v initrd-2.6.9-22.EL.img 2.6.9-22.EL Then try the boot again. > > ........ error on boot.... > Mounting root filesystem > mount: error 6 mounting ext3 Line above is a dead giveaway you don't have the ext3 module in your initrd image. > mount: error 2 mounting none > Switching to new root > switchroot: mount failed: 22 > umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 > kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > ......................... > my grub.conf file looks like this... > > #boot=/dev/sda > default=0 > timeout=10 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.6.9-22.EL) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinux-2.6.9-22.EL ro root=/dev/sda1 > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-22.EL.img > > ............................................ > > based on a search on google.. I added the /dev/sda1 to the root > assuming it was a LABEL issue. > however I am having no luck. > > My knowledge of Linux is very bad when it comes to linking and > compiling etc. if any of this is required please add some steps.. > > looking for help... > > thks > > > mv > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I.R.S.: We've got what it takes to take what you've got! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Feb 6 17:54:36 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 09:54:36 -0800 Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <20060206164151.GA11045@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060205193752.GA11123@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <55504.192.168.1.1.1139176418.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060206041551.GE24744@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <20158.207.177.227.29.1139241260.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060206164151.GA11045@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <1139248476.27596.196.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 10:41 -0600, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 07:54:20AM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:53:38PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > >> > > >> > On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:43:02PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > >> >> I'm installing FC4 on an old machine after having success on a new > > >> >> machine. I did a new install (instead of update) and modified the > > >> same > > >> >> configs I modified on the new machine. Here's the latest problem. > > >> This > > >> >> is > > >> >> getting real close to working correctly! > > >> >> > > >> >> If I do /sbin/service httpd restart or /sbin/service dovecot restart, > > >> >> the > > >> >> restart fails (the stop fails too since they did not start properly > > >> >> during > > >> >> boot). However, if I do /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/sbin/dovecot , they > > >> both > > >> >> seem to run fine. How can I find out what's going wrong during boot > > >> or > > >> >> restart that's causing these to not run? I've looked in the httpd > > >> logs > > >> >> and > > >> >> the messages log and found nothing. > > >> > > > >> > Look again. For httpd, look in /var/log/httpd/error_log. For > > >> > dovecot, look in /var/log/maillog. If a service isn't starting > > >> > properly, there _must_ be some information either on the screen or in > > >> > a log. > > >> > > > >> > > >> I left httpd running last night by manually starting it. I then did a > > >> service httpd restart this afternoon. Here's the restart: > > >> > > >> [root at kauko sbin]# ./service httpd restart > > >> Stopping httpd: [ OK ] > > >> Starting httpd: [FAILED] > > >> [root at kauko sbin]# > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> And here's the error_log: > > >> > > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest > > >> authentication ... > > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] Digest: done > > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP SDK > > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable > > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:22 2006] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session > > >> mutexes > > >> based on 150 max processes and 0 max threads. > > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:23 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora) configured -- > > >> resuming normal operations > > >> [Sun Feb 05 13:49:44 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down > > >> Waiting for data... (interrupt to abort) > > >> > > >> > > >> The 13:49:44 appeared when I did the restart. Nothing appeared after > > >> that... > > >> > > >> THANKS! > > >> > > >> Harold > > > > > > Hmm. This does not compute. Try to start it again, and very soon > > > after, do this: > > > > > > cd /var/log > > > ls -lrt > > > > > > The last log touched will be at the bottom of the list. My guess is > > > it will be messages. Check that. Also check > > > /var/log/httpd/access_log. It must be leaving a suicide note somewhere. > > > > > > > > > OK, doing ls -lrt on the right directory, I get: > > > > [root at kauko log]# pwd > > /var/log > > [root at kauko log]# date > > Mon Feb 6 07:46:39 PST 2006 > > [root at kauko log]# /sbin/service httpd restart > > Stopping httpd: [FAILED] > > Starting httpd: [FAILED] > > [root at kauko log]# ls -lrt > > total 5152 > > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Nov 2 2004 ppp > > drwxr-xr-x 2 privoxy privoxy 4096 Mar 2 2005 privoxy > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 5 2005 fax > > drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Mar 7 2005 mailman > > drwxr-xr-x 2 canna canna 4096 Mar 7 2005 canna > > drwxrwx--- 2 quagga quagga 4096 Apr 4 2005 quagga > > drwx--S--- 2 amanda disk 4096 Apr 22 2005 amanda > > drwxr-xr-x 2 tomcat tomcat 4096 May 10 2005 tomcat5 > > drwxr-x--- 2 squid squid 4096 May 16 2005 squid > > drwxr-xr-x 2 iiimd iiimd 4096 May 23 2005 iiim > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 27 2005 vbox > > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 7 18:21 spooler.4 > > -rw------- 1 root utmp 0 Jan 7 18:21 btmp.1 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 7 18:25 mail > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72220 Jan 7 20:29 scrollkeeper.log > > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 0 Jan 7 20:51 mysqld.log.4 > > drwxr-xr-x 3 news news 4096 Jan 7 22:14 news > > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jan 7 22:18 iptraf > > drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp 4096 Jan 7 22:18 uucp > > -rw------- 1 root root 39790 Jan 7 22:58 anaconda.xlog > > -rw------- 1 root root 38944 Jan 7 22:58 anaconda.syslog > > -rw------- 1 root root 15832 Jan 7 22:58 anaconda.log > > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 8 14:17 boot.log.4 > > drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Jan 8 14:17 audit > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55878 Jan 11 04:02 rpmpkgs.4 > > -rw------- 1 root root 4068 Jan 15 11:13 secure.4 > > -rw------- 1 root root 6813 Jan 15 12:19 maillog.4 > > -rw------- 1 root root 186559 Jan 15 12:19 cron.4 > > -rw------- 1 root root 467643 Jan 15 12:19 messages.4 > > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 15 12:19 spooler.3 > > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 0 Jan 15 12:19 mysqld.log.3 > > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 15 12:19 boot.log.3 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55878 Jan 21 04:02 rpmpkgs.3 > > -rw------- 1 root root 1327 Jan 21 22:35 secure.3 > > -rw------- 1 root root 567926 Jan 22 04:02 messages.3 > > -rw------- 1 root root 8451 Jan 22 04:02 maillog.3 > > -rw------- 1 root root 376146 Jan 22 04:02 cron.3 > > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 04:02 spooler.2 > > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 04:02 secure.2 > > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 0 Jan 22 04:02 mysqld.log.2 > > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 04:02 boot.log.2 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56543 Jan 28 04:02 rpmpkgs.2 > > -rw------- 1 root root 517218 Jan 29 04:02 messages.2 > > -rw------- 1 root root 6096 Jan 29 04:02 maillog.2 > > -rw------- 1 root root 395521 Jan 29 04:02 cron.2 > > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 29 04:02 spooler.1 > > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 29 04:02 boot.log.1 > > -rw-r----- 1 root root 2300 Jan 29 17:47 acpid > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 165888 Jan 29 18:01 wtmp.1 > > drwx------ 3 radiusd radiusd 4096 Feb 1 04:02 radius > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56543 Feb 4 04:02 rpmpkgs.1 > > -rw------- 1 root root 2260 Feb 4 22:10 secure.1 > > -rw------- 1 root root 632534 Feb 5 04:02 messages.1 > > -rw------- 1 root root 15036 Feb 5 04:02 maillog.1 > > -rw------- 1 root root 395130 Feb 5 04:02 cron.1 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 lp sys 4096 Feb 5 04:02 cups > > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 5 04:02 spooler > > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 04:02 httpd > > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 5 04:02 boot.log > > -rw------- 1 root utmp 384 Feb 5 17:57 btmp > > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 3440 Feb 5 18:10 mysqld.log.1 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46138 Feb 5 18:12 Xorg.0.log.old > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11655 Feb 5 18:16 dmesg > > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 757 Feb 5 18:16 mysqld.log > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 676 Feb 5 18:17 sshblacklisting > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 18:17 gdm > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46138 Feb 5 18:17 Xorg.0.log > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 225 Feb 5 18:28 yum.log > > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 21:32 samba > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 00:00 sa > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67742 Feb 6 04:04 prelink.log > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56561 Feb 6 04:05 rpmpkgs > > -rw------- 1 root root 5001 Feb 6 04:54 maillog > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 76032 Feb 6 07:40 wtmp > > -rw------- 1 root root 1511 Feb 6 07:40 secure > > -r-------- 1 root root 19136220 Feb 6 07:40 lastlog > > -rw------- 1 root root 65638 Feb 6 07:45 cron > > -rw------- 1 root root 130754 Feb 6 07:45 messages > > [root at kauko log]# > > > > > > It looks like there were entries in messages and cron. Here's the last few > > lines of messages: > > > > Feb 6 07:40:52 kauko sshd(pam_unix)[15144]: session opened for user root > > by root(uid=0) > > Feb 6 07:45:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15256]: session opened for user root > > by (uid=0) > > Feb 6 07:45:02 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15256]: session closed for user root > > Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15320]: session opened for user root > > by (uid=0) > > Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15321]: session opened for user root > > by (uid=0) > > Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15321]: session closed for user root > > Feb 6 07:50:02 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15320]: session closed for user root > > > > and cron > > > > Feb 6 07:40:01 kauko crond[15134]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1) > > Feb 6 07:45:01 kauko crond[15257]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/mrtg > > /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg --lock-file /var/lock/mrtg/mrtg_l --confcache > > -file /var/lib/mrtg/mrtg.ok) > > Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond[15322]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/mrtg > > /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg --lock-file /var/lock/mrtg/mrtg_l --confcache > > -file /var/lib/mrtg/mrtg.ok) > > Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond[15323]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1) > > > > > > I don't see anything related to the httpd restart... More ideas? > > I give up. Maybe when Rick Stevens gets his morning coffee, he'll > have some obvious solution that we've all missed. Hi, guys. Hmmm...looking at the thread, you've tried a lot of things. First off, check /etc/sysconfig/httpd to see if there are any oddities in the configuration. Also note that /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd does NOT use apachectl to start. It does check the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file for any Apache 1.3 config directives and aborts if it sees any. It's odd, but Apache 2.0 will start with 1.3 directives in the file, but it tries to ignore them. The start script, however, aborts. The directives it looks for are: ServerType BindAddress Port AddModule ClearModuleList AgentLog RefererLog RefererIgnore FancyIndexing AccessConfig ResourceConfig If any of those are found in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, the script will abort. Of course, if you just do a "/usr/sbin/httpd", then it'll start up. As to the dovecot stuff, dovecot is the new IMAP/POP daemon (replacing the old imapd/ipop3d system). It writes its logs to /var/log/maillog, so check that for errors. It is controlled by a config file, /etc/dovecot.conf, and there may be a typo in there. As to someone's comment about how startup scripts are done: All actual startup/shutdown scripts are in /etc/rc.d/init.d. In /etc/rc.d/rcX.d (where the X refers to the system run level), there are symlinks back to the /etc/rc.d/init.d scripts. These links are prefixed with either "Sxx" or "Kxx". The "Sxx" links are used when the system enters the given run level and are called "start scripts". The system ordinarily runs them in numerical order ("S01" before "S02" and so on) and passes them the "start" command. The "Kxx" scripts are used when the system _leaves_ the run level and are called "kill scripts". These are also run in numerical order and are given the "stop" command. /usr/sbin/service is a simple script that checks the appropriate /etc/rc.d/init.d/rcX.d directory for a link containing the service name you give it, and passes it the option you give it: service smb start checks the appropriate /etc/rc.d/rcX.d directory for a symlink containing the string "smb" and passes it the "start" option. As to how to enable any service to start at boot time: chkconfig servicename on E.g.: chkconfig smb on will enable smb to start on the next boot. Conversely: chkconfig smb off will prevent it from starting at boot. Note that chkconfig only enables or disables the start from boot. If you need it to start now, use the "service smb start" (or "service smb stop") command as well. Does that help? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If the enemy's in range...so are you! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Feb 6 17:59:29 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 09:59:29 -0800 Subject: CD Boot Problems In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1139248769.27596.201.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 21:53 -0700, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > I've got FC4 running on my notebook - against my best wishes I > need to install XP on it for my daughter - she has a class that > requires Windows to run a program from the class. I don't have a > windows machine in the house (I do have a bunch of Linux machines > though). > > Well, I happen to have XP, came with a computer. The notebook > will no longer boot off a CD - could it be GRUB? The BIOS is > setup to boot from the CD but no go. Or maybe my XP disk is bad > (after all it is windows). No, the ability to boot from CD is in the BIOS. If the CD media itself is bad, that may prevent a boot. The CD drive itself may also be bad (or the lens dirty). Try to boot from CD again and see if the machine even accesses the CD. If it does, try a different piece of media (even the first Fedora CD or the rescue CD) and see if that boots. If that also fails, try getting a CD drive cleaner disk and use it. See if that helps. Also keep in mind that if it's an older CD drive and you're trying to read a blue-green CDR on it, it may not work because the laser used on older CD drives was 690nM and not the more current 630nM or 650nM wavelength and can't read the blue-green media (yes, I know that's a bit obscure, but...) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Consciousness: that annoying time between naps. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From brkittycat at verizon.net Mon Feb 6 18:55:37 2006 From: brkittycat at verizon.net (Brenda Radford) Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:55:37 -0500 Subject: RHEL AS 4 U2 Slow In-Reply-To: <1138666224.27596.18.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <43DE8240.6080905@verizon.net> <1138657491.18733.57.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43DEA777.9040706@verizon.net> <1138666224.27596.18.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <43E79BA9.8020205@verizon.net> Rick Stevens wrote: >On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 18:55 -0500, Brenda Radford wrote: > > >>Rick Stevens wrote: >> >> >> >>>On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 16:16 -0500, Brenda Radford wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Installed RHEL AS 4 U2 on an 80 GB HD (non-production, educational box). >>>>When I turn it on, it is slow doing all the things it does when it boots >>>>up. >>>>After it is finished, I right-click on Open Terminal, and it takes >>>>forever for a >>>>window to pop up. How do I find out why it is so slow? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>You need to look at the output of "ps ax" or "top" and see which process >>>is sucking up the resources. You then have to sort out why that's >>>happening. >>> >>>If this is the first boot on the machine, the dread "updatedb" process >>>may be running. It can take a lot of resources. Either wait for it to >>>finish (it will, eventually) or kill it and let it run when your machine >>>isn't busy. It is what updates the "slocate" database and typically >>>runs at 4:00 a.m.--provided you leave the machine on. If you shut the >>>machine off and 4:00 a.m. rolls by while it's off, the process will >>>launch shortly after the machine boots so it can "catch up". >>> >>>Of course, if you don't need the "slocate" command then disable the >>>updatedb process completely by editing /etc/updatedb.conf and changing >>>"DAILY_UPDATE=yes" to "DAILY_UPDATE=no" and killing any currently >>>running process. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>I have 895 MB memory and a 1995.494 MHz CPU. >>>> >>>>The only thing I did manually in the install was to partition the hard >>>>disk (from df): >>>> >>>>Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >>>>/dev/hda5 1004024 162144 790876 18% / >>>>/dev/hda1 497829 15985 456142 4% /boot >>>>none 452880 0 452880 0% /dev/shm >>>>/dev/hda10 20161172 123016 19014016 1% /home >>>>/dev/hda3 2016044 35836 1877796 2% /opt >>>>/dev/hda8 10080488 55408 9513012 1% /tmp >>>>/dev/hda2 10080520 3546400 6022052 38% /usr >>>>/dev/hda7 5036284 42924 4737528 1% /usr/local >>>>/dev/hda9 10080488 147520 9420900 2% /var >>>>/dev/hdb1 101089 33094 62776 35% /mnt/hdb1 >>>>/dev/hdb2 76051264 24007900 48180136 34% /mnt/hdb2 >>>>/dev/fd0 1424 3 1421 1% /media/floppy >>>> >>>>I do have a second hard drive that ran RHEL AS 3, but it isn't mounted in >>>>/etc/fstab; it was done manually above. >>>> >>>>I do have 2 errors in the kernel log, but I don't know what they mean: >>>> >>>>shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5 >>>>shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>I wouldn't worry about those. They're related to the ACPI (Advanced >>>Configuration and Power Interface) system and aren't critical. You may >>>wish to turn off ACPI ("chkconfig acpid off;service acpid stop") or >>>boot with "noacpi". >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Rick, >> >>There were no resource hogs in "ps ax" or "top". >> >>It wasn't "updatedb". "DAILY_UPDATE" was no. I have been booting the >>machine at least once a day >>since I installed on January 16. BTW, I love "slocate". >> >>I turned off acpid first by stopping the service; things improved >>dramatically and instantly. >>Then I chkconfig'd it off. >> >> > >Interesting that acpid hosed the machine that badly. Weird! > > > >>I want to boot with "noacpi". Where do I put that? >> >> > >Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf. Find the stanza that reflects your kernel, >and edit the "kernel=" line. Put " noacpi" at the end. For example, >on my Fedora Core 4 machine: > >title Fedora Core (2.6.14-1.1656_FC4) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb >quiet noacpi <<<<====NOTE! > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4.img > >If you just want to try it once, reboot the system. At the grub >screen scroll to the kernel you want to play with and hit "E". >Scroll down to the kernel line and hit "E" again. Go to the end of >the line and add " noacpi" to it (don't forget the leading space and >do NOT include the quote marks), then hit and press B. The >system will boot with noacpi THIS TIME ONLY. If you want it to be >permanent, you have to edit the grub.conf file as I mentioned above. > > > > Rick, The perkiness from dropping acpid only lasted a day. Any other ideas? Did I partition it to death? The output from ps ax: PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ? S 0:00 init [5] 2 ? SN 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] 3 ? S< 0:00 [events/0] 4 ? S< 0:00 [khelper] 5 ? S< 0:00 [kacpid] 23 ? S< 0:00 [kblockd/0] 33 ? S 0:00 [pdflush] 34 ? S 0:00 [pdflush] 36 ? S< 0:00 [aio/0] 24 ? S 0:00 [khubd] 35 ? S 0:00 [kswapd0] 110 ? S 0:00 [kseriod] 199 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 1042 ? S References: <200602061633.50563.gnichols@tpg.com.au> <13308.198.60.114.90.1139207723.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <43E7F9F5.6090209@tpg.com.au> karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > On Sun, February 5, 2006 10:33 pm, Graeme Nichols said: > >>Hello Folks, >> >>I have just installed clamav-0.88-1.fc4 on my laptop using 'yum install >>clamav' and there is no freshclam command. Is this a 'feature' of this >>version or have I made a mistake? I tried 'yum install freshclam' but it >>reported 'No action needed' Or is the command to update the sig file >>something different in this version? 'rpm -q clamav' states it contains a >>tool for automatic updating via Internet. On my desktop there is a service >>for automatically updating the sig file but not on my laptop after >>installing >>clamav. > > > ClamAV is usually used as a gateway mail scanner. Freshclam is installed by > default. Check /usr/local/bin/ for it. The clamav website has good docs on > it, too. I have it on my email server and freshclam runs from rc.local on > bootup with the following command: > > /usr/local/bin/freshclam -d --checks=50 > --daemon-notify="/usr/local/etc/clamd.conf" > --on-update-execute="/home/karlp/bin/freshclam.sh update" > --on-error-execute="/home/karlp/bin/freshclam.sh failed" > --on-outdated-execute="/home/karlp/bin/freshclam.sh outdated" -u root > > That's all on one line, btw. > > HTH. > > Karl Hello Karl, thank you very much for the info. I cannot find freshclam anywhere on the machine. It doesn't look like it was installed with this particular package. I will check on the clamav web site. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kind regards, Graeme. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nothing is ever a total loss; it can always serve as a bad example. From gnichols at tpg.com.au Tue Feb 7 02:13:29 2006 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:13:29 +1100 Subject: ClamAV and freshclam In-Reply-To: <13308.198.60.114.90.1139207723.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> References: <200602061633.50563.gnichols@tpg.com.au> <13308.198.60.114.90.1139207723.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <43E80249.5010600@tpg.com.au> karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > On Sun, February 5, 2006 10:33 pm, Graeme Nichols said: > >>Hello Folks, >> >>I have just installed clamav-0.88-1.fc4 on my laptop using 'yum install >>clamav' and there is no freshclam command. Is this a 'feature' of this >>version or have I made a mistake? I tried 'yum install freshclam' but it >>reported 'No action needed' Or is the command to update the sig file >>something different in this version? 'rpm -q clamav' states it contains a >>tool for automatic updating via Internet. On my desktop there is a service >>for automatically updating the sig file but not on my laptop after >>installing >>clamav. > > > ClamAV is usually used as a gateway mail scanner. Freshclam is installed by > default. Check /usr/local/bin/ for it. The clamav website has good docs on > it, too. I have it on my email server and freshclam runs from rc.local on > bootup with the following command: > > /usr/local/bin/freshclam -d --checks=50 > --daemon-notify="/usr/local/etc/clamd.conf" > --on-update-execute="/home/karlp/bin/freshclam.sh update" > --on-error-execute="/home/karlp/bin/freshclam.sh failed" > --on-outdated-execute="/home/karlp/bin/freshclam.sh outdated" -u root > > That's all on one line, btw. > > HTH. > > Karl Hello again Karl, I downloaded the fc4 package from the clamav web site and installed it after removing the package that yum installed. It installed just fine and now I have freshclam and the freshclam service started. Thank you very much for your help. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kind regards, Graeme. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I didn't believe in reincarnation in any of my other lives. I don't see why I should have to believe in it in this one. -- Strange de Jim From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Tue Feb 7 03:57:04 2006 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 20:57:04 -0700 (MST) Subject: CD Boot Problems In-Reply-To: <1139248769.27596.201.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <1139248769.27596.201.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 21:53 -0700, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > > I've got FC4 running on my notebook - against my best wishes I > > need to install XP on it for my daughter - she has a class that > > requires Windows to run a program from the class. I don't have a > > windows machine in the house (I do have a bunch of Linux machines > > though). > > > > Well, I happen to have XP, came with a computer. The notebook > > will no longer boot off a CD - could it be GRUB? The BIOS is > > setup to boot from the CD but no go. Or maybe my XP disk is bad > > (after all it is windows). > > No, the ability to boot from CD is in the BIOS. If the CD media itself > is bad, that may prevent a boot. The CD drive itself may also be bad > (or the lens dirty). Try to boot from CD again and see if the machine > even accesses the CD. If it does, try a different piece of media (even > the first Fedora CD or the rescue CD) and see if that boots. If that > also fails, try getting a CD drive cleaner disk and use it. See if > that helps. > > Also keep in mind that if it's an older CD drive and you're trying to > read a blue-green CDR on it, it may not work because the laser used on > older CD drives was 690nM and not the more current 630nM or 650nM > wavelength and can't read the blue-green media (yes, I know that's a bit > obscure, but...) > Thanks, I messed around with the CD, cleaned it up and got it to boot - went into one setup and it froze up so either the CD is bad or it doesn't like the computer. OH, well, I guess I get to keep it running under Linux. Thanks for all the help. Brad From harold at hallikainen.com Tue Feb 7 05:12:39 2006 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 21:12:39 -0800 (PST) Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <1139248476.27596.196.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060205193752.GA11123@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <55504.192.168.1.1.1139176418.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060206041551.GE24744@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <20158.207.177.227.29.1139241260.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060206164151.GA11045@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <1139248476.27596.196.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <41363.192.168.1.1.1139289159.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> > On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 10:41 -0600, Bob McClure Jr wrote: >> > On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 07:54:20AM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: >> > >> > > On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:53:38PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: >> > >> >> > >> > On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:43:02PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen >> wrote: >> > >> >> I'm installing FC4 on an old machine after having success on a >> new >> > >> >> machine. I did a new install (instead of update) and modified >> the >> > >> same >> > >> >> configs I modified on the new machine. Here's the latest >> problem. >> > >> This >> > >> >> is >> > >> >> getting real close to working correctly! >> > >> >> >> > >> >> If I do /sbin/service httpd restart or /sbin/service dovecot >> restart, >> > >> >> the >> > >> >> restart fails (the stop fails too since they did not start >> properly >> > >> >> during >> > >> >> boot). However, if I do /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/sbin/dovecot , >> they >> > >> both >> > >> >> seem to run fine. How can I find out what's going wrong during >> boot >> > >> or >> > >> >> restart that's causing these to not run? I've looked in the >> httpd >> > >> logs >> > >> >> and >> > >> >> the messages log and found nothing. >> > >> > >> > >> > Look again. For httpd, look in /var/log/httpd/error_log. For >> > >> > dovecot, look in /var/log/maillog. If a service isn't starting >> > >> > properly, there _must_ be some information either on the screen >> or in >> > >> > a log. >> > >> > >> > >> >> > >> I left httpd running last night by manually starting it. I then did >> a >> > >> service httpd restart this afternoon. Here's the restart: >> > >> >> > >> [root at kauko sbin]# ./service httpd restart >> > >> Stopping httpd: [ OK ] >> > >> Starting httpd: [FAILED] >> > >> [root at kauko sbin]# >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> And here's the error_log: >> > >> >> > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] Digest: generating secret for >> digest >> > >> authentication ... >> > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] Digest: done >> > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP >> SDK >> > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable >> > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:22 2006] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session >> > >> mutexes >> > >> based on 150 max processes and 0 max threads. >> > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:23 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora) >> configured -- >> > >> resuming normal operations >> > >> [Sun Feb 05 13:49:44 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down >> > >> Waiting for data... (interrupt to abort) >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> The 13:49:44 appeared when I did the restart. Nothing appeared >> after >> > >> that... >> > >> >> > >> THANKS! >> > >> >> > >> Harold >> > > >> > > Hmm. This does not compute. Try to start it again, and very soon >> > > after, do this: >> > > >> > > cd /var/log >> > > ls -lrt >> > > >> > > The last log touched will be at the bottom of the list. My guess is >> > > it will be messages. Check that. Also check >> > > /var/log/httpd/access_log. It must be leaving a suicide note >> somewhere. >> > > >> > >> > >> > OK, doing ls -lrt on the right directory, I get: >> > >> > [root at kauko log]# pwd >> > /var/log >> > [root at kauko log]# date >> > Mon Feb 6 07:46:39 PST 2006 >> > [root at kauko log]# /sbin/service httpd restart >> > Stopping httpd: [FAILED] >> > Starting httpd: [FAILED] >> > [root at kauko log]# ls -lrt >> > total 5152 >> > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Nov 2 2004 ppp >> > drwxr-xr-x 2 privoxy privoxy 4096 Mar 2 2005 privoxy >> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 5 2005 fax >> > drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Mar 7 2005 mailman >> > drwxr-xr-x 2 canna canna 4096 Mar 7 2005 canna >> > drwxrwx--- 2 quagga quagga 4096 Apr 4 2005 quagga >> > drwx--S--- 2 amanda disk 4096 Apr 22 2005 amanda >> > drwxr-xr-x 2 tomcat tomcat 4096 May 10 2005 tomcat5 >> > drwxr-x--- 2 squid squid 4096 May 16 2005 squid >> > drwxr-xr-x 2 iiimd iiimd 4096 May 23 2005 iiim >> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 27 2005 vbox >> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 7 18:21 spooler.4 >> > -rw------- 1 root utmp 0 Jan 7 18:21 btmp.1 >> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 7 18:25 mail >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72220 Jan 7 20:29 scrollkeeper.log >> > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 0 Jan 7 20:51 mysqld.log.4 >> > drwxr-xr-x 3 news news 4096 Jan 7 22:14 news >> > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jan 7 22:18 iptraf >> > drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp 4096 Jan 7 22:18 uucp >> > -rw------- 1 root root 39790 Jan 7 22:58 anaconda.xlog >> > -rw------- 1 root root 38944 Jan 7 22:58 anaconda.syslog >> > -rw------- 1 root root 15832 Jan 7 22:58 anaconda.log >> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 8 14:17 boot.log.4 >> > drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Jan 8 14:17 audit >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55878 Jan 11 04:02 rpmpkgs.4 >> > -rw------- 1 root root 4068 Jan 15 11:13 secure.4 >> > -rw------- 1 root root 6813 Jan 15 12:19 maillog.4 >> > -rw------- 1 root root 186559 Jan 15 12:19 cron.4 >> > -rw------- 1 root root 467643 Jan 15 12:19 messages.4 >> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 15 12:19 spooler.3 >> > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 0 Jan 15 12:19 mysqld.log.3 >> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 15 12:19 boot.log.3 >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55878 Jan 21 04:02 rpmpkgs.3 >> > -rw------- 1 root root 1327 Jan 21 22:35 secure.3 >> > -rw------- 1 root root 567926 Jan 22 04:02 messages.3 >> > -rw------- 1 root root 8451 Jan 22 04:02 maillog.3 >> > -rw------- 1 root root 376146 Jan 22 04:02 cron.3 >> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 04:02 spooler.2 >> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 04:02 secure.2 >> > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 0 Jan 22 04:02 mysqld.log.2 >> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 04:02 boot.log.2 >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56543 Jan 28 04:02 rpmpkgs.2 >> > -rw------- 1 root root 517218 Jan 29 04:02 messages.2 >> > -rw------- 1 root root 6096 Jan 29 04:02 maillog.2 >> > -rw------- 1 root root 395521 Jan 29 04:02 cron.2 >> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 29 04:02 spooler.1 >> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 29 04:02 boot.log.1 >> > -rw-r----- 1 root root 2300 Jan 29 17:47 acpid >> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 165888 Jan 29 18:01 wtmp.1 >> > drwx------ 3 radiusd radiusd 4096 Feb 1 04:02 radius >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56543 Feb 4 04:02 rpmpkgs.1 >> > -rw------- 1 root root 2260 Feb 4 22:10 secure.1 >> > -rw------- 1 root root 632534 Feb 5 04:02 messages.1 >> > -rw------- 1 root root 15036 Feb 5 04:02 maillog.1 >> > -rw------- 1 root root 395130 Feb 5 04:02 cron.1 >> > drwxr-xr-x 2 lp sys 4096 Feb 5 04:02 cups >> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 5 04:02 spooler >> > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 04:02 httpd >> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 5 04:02 boot.log >> > -rw------- 1 root utmp 384 Feb 5 17:57 btmp >> > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 3440 Feb 5 18:10 mysqld.log.1 >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46138 Feb 5 18:12 Xorg.0.log.old >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11655 Feb 5 18:16 dmesg >> > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 757 Feb 5 18:16 mysqld.log >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 676 Feb 5 18:17 sshblacklisting >> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 18:17 gdm >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46138 Feb 5 18:17 Xorg.0.log >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 225 Feb 5 18:28 yum.log >> > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 21:32 samba >> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 00:00 sa >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67742 Feb 6 04:04 prelink.log >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56561 Feb 6 04:05 rpmpkgs >> > -rw------- 1 root root 5001 Feb 6 04:54 maillog >> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 76032 Feb 6 07:40 wtmp >> > -rw------- 1 root root 1511 Feb 6 07:40 secure >> > -r-------- 1 root root 19136220 Feb 6 07:40 lastlog >> > -rw------- 1 root root 65638 Feb 6 07:45 cron >> > -rw------- 1 root root 130754 Feb 6 07:45 messages >> > [root at kauko log]# >> > >> > >> > It looks like there were entries in messages and cron. Here's the last >> few >> > lines of messages: >> > >> > Feb 6 07:40:52 kauko sshd(pam_unix)[15144]: session opened for user >> root >> > by root(uid=0) >> > Feb 6 07:45:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15256]: session opened for user >> root >> > by (uid=0) >> > Feb 6 07:45:02 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15256]: session closed for user >> root >> > Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15320]: session opened for user >> root >> > by (uid=0) >> > Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15321]: session opened for user >> root >> > by (uid=0) >> > Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15321]: session closed for user >> root >> > Feb 6 07:50:02 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15320]: session closed for user >> root >> > >> > and cron >> > >> > Feb 6 07:40:01 kauko crond[15134]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1) >> > Feb 6 07:45:01 kauko crond[15257]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/mrtg >> > /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg --lock-file /var/lock/mrtg/mrtg_l --confcache >> > -file /var/lib/mrtg/mrtg.ok) >> > Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond[15322]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/mrtg >> > /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg --lock-file /var/lock/mrtg/mrtg_l --confcache >> > -file /var/lib/mrtg/mrtg.ok) >> > Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond[15323]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1) >> > >> > >> > I don't see anything related to the httpd restart... More ideas? >> >> I give up. Maybe when Rick Stevens gets his morning coffee, he'll >> have some obvious solution that we've all missed. > > Hi, guys. > > Hmmm...looking at the thread, you've tried a lot of things. First off, > check /etc/sysconfig/httpd to see if there are any oddities in the > configuration. > > Also note that /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd does NOT use apachectl to start. > It does check the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file for any Apache 1.3 > config directives and aborts if it sees any. It's odd, but Apache 2.0 > will start with 1.3 directives in the file, but it tries to ignore them. > The start script, however, aborts. The directives it looks for are: > > ServerType > BindAddress > Port > AddModule > ClearModuleList > AgentLog > RefererLog > RefererIgnore > FancyIndexing > AccessConfig > ResourceConfig > > If any of those are found in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, the script will > abort. Of course, if you just do a "/usr/sbin/httpd", then it'll start > up. > > As to the dovecot stuff, dovecot is the new IMAP/POP daemon (replacing > the old imapd/ipop3d system). It writes its logs to /var/log/maillog, > so check that for errors. It is controlled by a config > file, /etc/dovecot.conf, and there may be a typo in there. > > As to someone's comment about how startup scripts are done: > > All actual startup/shutdown scripts are in /etc/rc.d/init.d. In > /etc/rc.d/rcX.d (where the X refers to the system run level), there > are symlinks back to the /etc/rc.d/init.d scripts. These links are > prefixed with either "Sxx" or "Kxx". The "Sxx" links are used when the > system enters the given run level and are called "start scripts". The > system ordinarily runs them in numerical order ("S01" before "S02" and > so on) and passes them the "start" command. > > The "Kxx" scripts are used when the system _leaves_ the run level and > are called "kill scripts". These are also run in numerical order and > are given the "stop" command. > > /usr/sbin/service is a simple script that checks the appropriate > /etc/rc.d/init.d/rcX.d directory for a link containing the service name > you give it, and passes it the option you give it: > > service smb start > > checks the appropriate /etc/rc.d/rcX.d directory for a symlink > containing the string "smb" and passes it the "start" option. > > As to how to enable any service to start at boot time: > > chkconfig servicename on > > E.g.: > > chkconfig smb on > > will enable smb to start on the next boot. Conversely: > > chkconfig smb off > > will prevent it from starting at boot. Note that chkconfig only enables > or disables the start from boot. If you need it to start now, use the > "service smb start" (or "service smb stop") command as well. > > Does that help? > I REALLY appreciate all the help! But, it still doesn't run! None of the old commands remain in the httpd.conf . I also tried deleting all the httpd conf files from this machine, then rsyncing them over from a machine that works great, and changing stuff like hostname and not much else in the config files. Still starts from /usr/sbin/httpd but not from /sbin/service httpd restart. I did a config file syntax check: [root at kauko sbin]# ./httpd -t Syntax OK So, that looks ok. Apparently I messed SOMETHING up! -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com From harold at hallikainen.com Tue Feb 7 05:31:01 2006 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 21:31:01 -0800 (PST) Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <41363.192.168.1.1.1139289159.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060205193752.GA11123@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <55504.192.168.1.1.1139176418.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060206041551.GE24744@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <20158.207.177.227.29.1139241260.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060206164151.GA11045@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <1139248476.27596.196.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <41363.192.168.1.1.1139289159.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <56531.192.168.1.1.1139290261.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> > >> On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 10:41 -0600, Bob McClure Jr wrote: >>> > On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 07:54:20AM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: >>> > >>> > > On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:53:38PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: >>> > >> >>> > >> > On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:43:02PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen >>> wrote: >>> > >> >> I'm installing FC4 on an old machine after having success on a >>> new >>> > >> >> machine. I did a new install (instead of update) and modified >>> the >>> > >> same >>> > >> >> configs I modified on the new machine. Here's the latest >>> problem. >>> > >> This >>> > >> >> is >>> > >> >> getting real close to working correctly! >>> > >> >> >>> > >> >> If I do /sbin/service httpd restart or /sbin/service dovecot >>> restart, >>> > >> >> the >>> > >> >> restart fails (the stop fails too since they did not start >>> properly >>> > >> >> during >>> > >> >> boot). However, if I do /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/sbin/dovecot , >>> they >>> > >> both >>> > >> >> seem to run fine. How can I find out what's going wrong during >>> boot >>> > >> or >>> > >> >> restart that's causing these to not run? I've looked in the >>> httpd >>> > >> logs >>> > >> >> and >>> > >> >> the messages log and found nothing. >>> > >> > >>> > >> > Look again. For httpd, look in /var/log/httpd/error_log. For >>> > >> > dovecot, look in /var/log/maillog. If a service isn't starting >>> > >> > properly, there _must_ be some information either on the screen >>> or in >>> > >> > a log. >>> > >> > >>> > >> >>> > >> I left httpd running last night by manually starting it. I then >>> did >>> a >>> > >> service httpd restart this afternoon. Here's the restart: >>> > >> >>> > >> [root at kauko sbin]# ./service httpd restart >>> > >> Stopping httpd: [ OK >>> ] >>> > >> Starting httpd: >>> [FAILED] >>> > >> [root at kauko sbin]# >>> > >> >>> > >> >>> > >> >>> > >> And here's the error_log: >>> > >> >>> > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] Digest: generating secret for >>> digest >>> > >> authentication ... >>> > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] Digest: done >>> > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP >>> SDK >>> > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable >>> > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:22 2006] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session >>> > >> mutexes >>> > >> based on 150 max processes and 0 max threads. >>> > >> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:23 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora) >>> configured -- >>> > >> resuming normal operations >>> > >> [Sun Feb 05 13:49:44 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down >>> > >> Waiting for data... (interrupt to abort) >>> > >> >>> > >> >>> > >> The 13:49:44 appeared when I did the restart. Nothing appeared >>> after >>> > >> that... >>> > >> >>> > >> THANKS! >>> > >> >>> > >> Harold >>> > > >>> > > Hmm. This does not compute. Try to start it again, and very soon >>> > > after, do this: >>> > > >>> > > cd /var/log >>> > > ls -lrt >>> > > >>> > > The last log touched will be at the bottom of the list. My guess >>> is >>> > > it will be messages. Check that. Also check >>> > > /var/log/httpd/access_log. It must be leaving a suicide note >>> somewhere. >>> > > >>> > >>> > >>> > OK, doing ls -lrt on the right directory, I get: >>> > >>> > [root at kauko log]# pwd >>> > /var/log >>> > [root at kauko log]# date >>> > Mon Feb 6 07:46:39 PST 2006 >>> > [root at kauko log]# /sbin/service httpd restart >>> > Stopping httpd: [FAILED] >>> > Starting httpd: [FAILED] >>> > [root at kauko log]# ls -lrt >>> > total 5152 >>> > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Nov 2 2004 ppp >>> > drwxr-xr-x 2 privoxy privoxy 4096 Mar 2 2005 privoxy >>> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 5 2005 fax >>> > drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Mar 7 2005 mailman >>> > drwxr-xr-x 2 canna canna 4096 Mar 7 2005 canna >>> > drwxrwx--- 2 quagga quagga 4096 Apr 4 2005 quagga >>> > drwx--S--- 2 amanda disk 4096 Apr 22 2005 amanda >>> > drwxr-xr-x 2 tomcat tomcat 4096 May 10 2005 tomcat5 >>> > drwxr-x--- 2 squid squid 4096 May 16 2005 squid >>> > drwxr-xr-x 2 iiimd iiimd 4096 May 23 2005 iiim >>> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 27 2005 vbox >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 7 18:21 spooler.4 >>> > -rw------- 1 root utmp 0 Jan 7 18:21 btmp.1 >>> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 7 18:25 mail >>> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72220 Jan 7 20:29 scrollkeeper.log >>> > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 0 Jan 7 20:51 mysqld.log.4 >>> > drwxr-xr-x 3 news news 4096 Jan 7 22:14 news >>> > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jan 7 22:18 iptraf >>> > drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp 4096 Jan 7 22:18 uucp >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 39790 Jan 7 22:58 anaconda.xlog >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 38944 Jan 7 22:58 anaconda.syslog >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 15832 Jan 7 22:58 anaconda.log >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 8 14:17 boot.log.4 >>> > drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Jan 8 14:17 audit >>> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55878 Jan 11 04:02 rpmpkgs.4 >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 4068 Jan 15 11:13 secure.4 >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 6813 Jan 15 12:19 maillog.4 >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 186559 Jan 15 12:19 cron.4 >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 467643 Jan 15 12:19 messages.4 >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 15 12:19 spooler.3 >>> > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 0 Jan 15 12:19 mysqld.log.3 >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 15 12:19 boot.log.3 >>> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55878 Jan 21 04:02 rpmpkgs.3 >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 1327 Jan 21 22:35 secure.3 >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 567926 Jan 22 04:02 messages.3 >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 8451 Jan 22 04:02 maillog.3 >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 376146 Jan 22 04:02 cron.3 >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 04:02 spooler.2 >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 04:02 secure.2 >>> > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 0 Jan 22 04:02 mysqld.log.2 >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 04:02 boot.log.2 >>> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56543 Jan 28 04:02 rpmpkgs.2 >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 517218 Jan 29 04:02 messages.2 >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 6096 Jan 29 04:02 maillog.2 >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 395521 Jan 29 04:02 cron.2 >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 29 04:02 spooler.1 >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 29 04:02 boot.log.1 >>> > -rw-r----- 1 root root 2300 Jan 29 17:47 acpid >>> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 165888 Jan 29 18:01 wtmp.1 >>> > drwx------ 3 radiusd radiusd 4096 Feb 1 04:02 radius >>> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56543 Feb 4 04:02 rpmpkgs.1 >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 2260 Feb 4 22:10 secure.1 >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 632534 Feb 5 04:02 messages.1 >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 15036 Feb 5 04:02 maillog.1 >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 395130 Feb 5 04:02 cron.1 >>> > drwxr-xr-x 2 lp sys 4096 Feb 5 04:02 cups >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 5 04:02 spooler >>> > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 04:02 httpd >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 5 04:02 boot.log >>> > -rw------- 1 root utmp 384 Feb 5 17:57 btmp >>> > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 3440 Feb 5 18:10 mysqld.log.1 >>> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46138 Feb 5 18:12 Xorg.0.log.old >>> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11655 Feb 5 18:16 dmesg >>> > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 757 Feb 5 18:16 mysqld.log >>> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 676 Feb 5 18:17 sshblacklisting >>> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 18:17 gdm >>> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46138 Feb 5 18:17 Xorg.0.log >>> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 225 Feb 5 18:28 yum.log >>> > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 21:32 samba >>> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 00:00 sa >>> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67742 Feb 6 04:04 prelink.log >>> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56561 Feb 6 04:05 rpmpkgs >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 5001 Feb 6 04:54 maillog >>> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 76032 Feb 6 07:40 wtmp >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 1511 Feb 6 07:40 secure >>> > -r-------- 1 root root 19136220 Feb 6 07:40 lastlog >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 65638 Feb 6 07:45 cron >>> > -rw------- 1 root root 130754 Feb 6 07:45 messages >>> > [root at kauko log]# >>> > >>> > >>> > It looks like there were entries in messages and cron. Here's the >>> last >>> few >>> > lines of messages: >>> > >>> > Feb 6 07:40:52 kauko sshd(pam_unix)[15144]: session opened for user >>> root >>> > by root(uid=0) >>> > Feb 6 07:45:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15256]: session opened for user >>> root >>> > by (uid=0) >>> > Feb 6 07:45:02 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15256]: session closed for user >>> root >>> > Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15320]: session opened for user >>> root >>> > by (uid=0) >>> > Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15321]: session opened for user >>> root >>> > by (uid=0) >>> > Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15321]: session closed for user >>> root >>> > Feb 6 07:50:02 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15320]: session closed for user >>> root >>> > >>> > and cron >>> > >>> > Feb 6 07:40:01 kauko crond[15134]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1) >>> > Feb 6 07:45:01 kauko crond[15257]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/mrtg >>> > /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg --lock-file /var/lock/mrtg/mrtg_l --confcache >>> > -file /var/lib/mrtg/mrtg.ok) >>> > Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond[15322]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/mrtg >>> > /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg --lock-file /var/lock/mrtg/mrtg_l --confcache >>> > -file /var/lib/mrtg/mrtg.ok) >>> > Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond[15323]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1) >>> > >>> > >>> > I don't see anything related to the httpd restart... More ideas? >>> >>> I give up. Maybe when Rick Stevens gets his morning coffee, he'll >>> have some obvious solution that we've all missed. >> >> Hi, guys. >> >> Hmmm...looking at the thread, you've tried a lot of things. First off, >> check /etc/sysconfig/httpd to see if there are any oddities in the >> configuration. >> >> Also note that /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd does NOT use apachectl to start. >> It does check the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file for any Apache 1.3 >> config directives and aborts if it sees any. It's odd, but Apache 2.0 >> will start with 1.3 directives in the file, but it tries to ignore them. >> The start script, however, aborts. The directives it looks for are: >> >> ServerType >> BindAddress >> Port >> AddModule >> ClearModuleList >> AgentLog >> RefererLog >> RefererIgnore >> FancyIndexing >> AccessConfig >> ResourceConfig >> >> If any of those are found in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, the script will >> abort. Of course, if you just do a "/usr/sbin/httpd", then it'll start >> up. >> >> As to the dovecot stuff, dovecot is the new IMAP/POP daemon (replacing >> the old imapd/ipop3d system). It writes its logs to /var/log/maillog, >> so check that for errors. It is controlled by a config >> file, /etc/dovecot.conf, and there may be a typo in there. >> >> As to someone's comment about how startup scripts are done: >> >> All actual startup/shutdown scripts are in /etc/rc.d/init.d. In >> /etc/rc.d/rcX.d (where the X refers to the system run level), there >> are symlinks back to the /etc/rc.d/init.d scripts. These links are >> prefixed with either "Sxx" or "Kxx". The "Sxx" links are used when the >> system enters the given run level and are called "start scripts". The >> system ordinarily runs them in numerical order ("S01" before "S02" and >> so on) and passes them the "start" command. >> >> The "Kxx" scripts are used when the system _leaves_ the run level and >> are called "kill scripts". These are also run in numerical order and >> are given the "stop" command. >> >> /usr/sbin/service is a simple script that checks the appropriate >> /etc/rc.d/init.d/rcX.d directory for a link containing the service name >> you give it, and passes it the option you give it: >> >> service smb start >> >> checks the appropriate /etc/rc.d/rcX.d directory for a symlink >> containing the string "smb" and passes it the "start" option. >> >> As to how to enable any service to start at boot time: >> >> chkconfig servicename on >> >> E.g.: >> >> chkconfig smb on >> >> will enable smb to start on the next boot. Conversely: >> >> chkconfig smb off >> >> will prevent it from starting at boot. Note that chkconfig only enables >> or disables the start from boot. If you need it to start now, use the >> "service smb start" (or "service smb stop") command as well. >> >> Does that help? >> > > > I REALLY appreciate all the help! But, it still doesn't run! None of the > old commands remain in the httpd.conf . I also tried deleting all the > httpd conf files from this machine, then rsyncing them over from a machine > that works great, and changing stuff like hostname and not much else in > the config files. Still starts from /usr/sbin/httpd but not from > /sbin/service httpd restart. I did a config file syntax check: > > [root at kauko sbin]# ./httpd -t > Syntax OK > > > So, that looks ok. Apparently I messed SOMETHING up! > > Oops! I geess I hit send instead of save draft. Anyway, I just rebooted the system and watched the screen during the reboot. I saw a message go by about httpd that said something like "ServerRoot must be a directory." ServerRoot is "/etc/httpd" which IS a directory (and this works with the /sbin start and is working on another machine). Another error message on dovecot flew by. I'll deal with that a little later. Any ideas about the httpd error, which does not, as far as I can find, show up in any logs? Time for bed here! More work on this tomorrow night! THANKS! Harold -- From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Tue Feb 7 06:54:48 2006 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 23:54:48 -0700 (MST) Subject: ClamAV and freshclam In-Reply-To: <43E80249.5010600@tpg.com.au> References: <200602061633.50563.gnichols@tpg.com.au> <13308.198.60.114.90.1139207723.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <43E80249.5010600@tpg.com.au> Message-ID: <11596.198.60.114.90.1139295288.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> On Mon, February 6, 2006 7:13 pm, Graeme Nichols said: > karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: >> On Sun, February 5, 2006 10:33 pm, Graeme Nichols said: >> >>>Hello Folks, >>> >>>I have just installed clamav-0.88-1.fc4 on my laptop using 'yum install >>>clamav' and there is no freshclam command. Is this a 'feature' of this >>>version or have I made a mistake? I tried 'yum install freshclam' but it >>>reported 'No action needed' Or is the command to update the sig file >>>something different in this version? 'rpm -q clamav' states it contains a >>>tool for automatic updating via Internet. On my desktop there is a service >>>for automatically updating the sig file but not on my laptop after >>>installing >>>clamav. >> >> >> ClamAV is usually used as a gateway mail scanner. Freshclam is installed >> by >> default. Check /usr/local/bin/ for it. The clamav website has good docs on >> it, too. I have it on my email server and freshclam runs from rc.local on >> bootup with the following command: >> >> /usr/local/bin/freshclam -d --checks=50 >> --daemon-notify="/usr/local/etc/clamd.conf" >> --on-update-execute="/home/karlp/bin/freshclam.sh update" >> --on-error-execute="/home/karlp/bin/freshclam.sh failed" >> --on-outdated-execute="/home/karlp/bin/freshclam.sh outdated" -u root >> >> That's all on one line, btw. >> >> HTH. >> >> Karl > > Hello again Karl, > > I downloaded the fc4 package from the clamav web site and installed it > after removing the package that yum installed. It installed just fine > and now I have freshclam and the freshclam service started. > > Thank you very much for your help. I just thought about the above startup options. Here's the freshclam.sh script I use with the 3 passed parameters shown in the startup: #!/bin/bash usage () { echo "Usage: freshclam.sh [update|failed|outdated]" exit 1 } if [ doo"$1" = 'doo' ] ; then usage else DO=$1 fi perlcln () { RTN=`echo $V|perl -pe 's/%(..)/pack("c",hex($1))/eg'` RTN=$RTN$EM0 } DATE=`date` "M0=" EM2=`echo "Tail (-n10) of clamav.upd in /var/log/clamav"` cnt=7 until [ $cnt -le 0 ] do CNT=`tail -n"$cnt" /var/log/clamav/clamav.upd|head -n1` V=$CNT perlcln CNT=$RTN echo $CNT >> /tmp/zzxxaa cnt=$(($cnt-1)) done FL=`cat /tmp/zzxxaa` if [ $DO = 'update' ] ; then EM1=`printf "Freshclam update ran ($DATE)"` elif [ $DO = 'failed' ] ; then EM1=`printf "Freshclam update failed ($DATE)"` else usage fi EMALL=$EM1$EM0$EM0$EM2$EM0$EM3$EM0$FL echo $EMALL|mail -s "FreshClam $DO" karlp rm /tmp/zzxxaa exit 0 Yes, I know, it's not very elegant, but hey, I'm a problem solver, not a programmer and it seems to work... But, I'm not opposed to being told how to do it better. Any takers? Karl > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Kind regards, > > Graeme. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I didn't believe in reincarnation in any of my other lives. I don't see why > I should have to believe in it in this one. > -- Strange de Jim > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -- karl _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ ____________ __o _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ ____________ _-\<._ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ (_)/ (_) _/ _/ _/ _/ ...................... _/ _/ arl _/_/_/ _/ earson KarlP at ourldsfamily.com --- Senior Consulting Sys/DB Analyst http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com --- My Thoughts on Terrorism In America right after 9/11/2001: http://www.ourldsfamily.com/wtc.shtml --- A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. -Ramsey Clark --- From micros50 at computer.net Tue Feb 7 08:26:48 2006 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 03:26:48 -0500 Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <1139248476.27596.196.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060205193752.GA11123@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <55504.192.168.1.1.1139176418.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060206041551.GE24744@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <20158.207.177.227.29.1139241260.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060206164151.GA11045@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <1139248476.27596.196.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <1139300808.6858.1734.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 12:54, Rick Stevens wrote: > > Hi, guys. > > Hmmm...looking at the thread, you've tried a lot of things. First off, > check /etc/sysconfig/httpd to see if there are any oddities in the > configuration. > > Also note that /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd does NOT use apachectl to start. Is the fact that it doesn't use "apachectl" to start true of all the apache configs that come bundled with Fedora ? Reason being is that I never use the apache that comes with the distro. I generally like to compile, build and install and configure Apache from scratch. I call it "scratchy Apache". When I create the startup scrips I set them to use apachectl. Is that okay or does the distro do it a better way ?? mylar From nmw at ion.le.ac.uk Tue Feb 7 09:18:14 2006 From: nmw at ion.le.ac.uk (Nigel Wade) Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 09:18:14 +0000 Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <56531.192.168.1.1.1139290261.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060205193752.GA11123@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <55504.192.168.1.1.1139176418.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060206041551.GE24744@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <20158.207.177.227.29.1139241260.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060206164151.GA11045@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <1139248476.27596.196.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <41363.192.168.1.1.1139289159.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <56531.192.168.1.1.1139290261.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <43E865D6.1090900@ion.le.ac.uk> Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > Oops! I geess I hit send instead of save draft. Anyway, I just rebooted > the system and watched the screen during the reboot. I saw a message go by > about httpd that said something like "ServerRoot must be a directory." > ServerRoot is "/etc/httpd" which IS a directory (and this works with the > /sbin start and is working on another machine). Another error message on > dovecot flew by. I'll deal with that a little later. Any ideas about the > httpd error, which does not, as far as I can find, show up in any logs? > If httpd claims that a directory is not a directory when it clearly is, it could be SELinux. Are you running in enforcing mode? Maybe the SELinux setup for Apache has got mangled, and httpd is unable to access /etc/httpd and therefore falsely assumes it's not a directory. If you are running SELinux in enforcing mode try switching to permissive mode (setenforce permissive) temporarily while you start httpd. If that works you need to fix the SELinux access rights to the httpd config files. Your website files may also need fixing. -- Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK E-mail : nmw at ion.le.ac.uk Phone : +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555 From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Feb 7 17:46:42 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 09:46:42 -0800 Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails In-Reply-To: <1139300808.6858.1734.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> References: <59142.192.168.1.1.1139118182.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060205193752.GA11123@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <55504.192.168.1.1.1139176418.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060206041551.GE24744@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <20158.207.177.227.29.1139241260.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <20060206164151.GA11045@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <1139248476.27596.196.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <1139300808.6858.1734.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Message-ID: <1139334403.27596.222.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 03:26 -0500, mylar wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 12:54, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > > Hi, guys. > > > > Hmmm...looking at the thread, you've tried a lot of things. First off, > > check /etc/sysconfig/httpd to see if there are any oddities in the > > configuration. > > > > Also note that /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd does NOT use apachectl to start. > > Is the fact that it doesn't use "apachectl" to start true of all the > apache configs that come bundled with Fedora ? > > Reason being is that I never use the apache that comes with the distro. > I generally like to compile, build and install and configure Apache from > scratch. I call it "scratchy Apache". When I create the startup scrips > I set them to use apachectl. Is that okay or does the distro do it a > better way ?? apachectl is the "official" Apache.org method. The init.d script works fine also. It's your choice. I tend to use apachectl myself. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - ...Had this been an actual emergency, we would have fled in terror - - and you'd be on your own, pal! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Feb 7 18:12:49 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:12:49 -0800 Subject: RHEL AS 4 U2 Slow In-Reply-To: <43E79BA9.8020205@verizon.net> References: <43DE8240.6080905@verizon.net> <1138657491.18733.57.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43DEA777.9040706@verizon.net> <1138666224.27596.18.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43E79BA9.8020205@verizon.net> Message-ID: <1139335969.27596.234.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 13:55 -0500, Brenda Radford wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > > >On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 18:55 -0500, Brenda Radford wrote: > > > > > >>Rick Stevens wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 16:16 -0500, Brenda Radford wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Installed RHEL AS 4 U2 on an 80 GB HD (non-production, educational box). > >>>>When I turn it on, it is slow doing all the things it does when it boots > >>>>up. > >>>>After it is finished, I right-click on Open Terminal, and it takes > >>>>forever for a > >>>>window to pop up. How do I find out why it is so slow? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>You need to look at the output of "ps ax" or "top" and see which process > >>>is sucking up the resources. You then have to sort out why that's > >>>happening. > >>> > >>>If this is the first boot on the machine, the dread "updatedb" process > >>>may be running. It can take a lot of resources. Either wait for it to > >>>finish (it will, eventually) or kill it and let it run when your machine > >>>isn't busy. It is what updates the "slocate" database and typically > >>>runs at 4:00 a.m.--provided you leave the machine on. If you shut the > >>>machine off and 4:00 a.m. rolls by while it's off, the process will > >>>launch shortly after the machine boots so it can "catch up". > >>> > >>>Of course, if you don't need the "slocate" command then disable the > >>>updatedb process completely by editing /etc/updatedb.conf and changing > >>>"DAILY_UPDATE=yes" to "DAILY_UPDATE=no" and killing any currently > >>>running process. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>I have 895 MB memory and a 1995.494 MHz CPU. > >>>> > >>>>The only thing I did manually in the install was to partition the hard > >>>>disk (from df): > >>>> > >>>>Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > >>>>/dev/hda5 1004024 162144 790876 18% / > >>>>/dev/hda1 497829 15985 456142 4% /boot > >>>>none 452880 0 452880 0% /dev/shm > >>>>/dev/hda10 20161172 123016 19014016 1% /home > >>>>/dev/hda3 2016044 35836 1877796 2% /opt > >>>>/dev/hda8 10080488 55408 9513012 1% /tmp > >>>>/dev/hda2 10080520 3546400 6022052 38% /usr > >>>>/dev/hda7 5036284 42924 4737528 1% /usr/local > >>>>/dev/hda9 10080488 147520 9420900 2% /var > >>>>/dev/hdb1 101089 33094 62776 35% /mnt/hdb1 > >>>>/dev/hdb2 76051264 24007900 48180136 34% /mnt/hdb2 > >>>>/dev/fd0 1424 3 1421 1% /media/floppy > >>>> > >>>>I do have a second hard drive that ran RHEL AS 3, but it isn't mounted in > >>>>/etc/fstab; it was done manually above. > >>>> > >>>>I do have 2 errors in the kernel log, but I don't know what they mean: > >>>> > >>>>shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5 > >>>>shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5 > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>I wouldn't worry about those. They're related to the ACPI (Advanced > >>>Configuration and Power Interface) system and aren't critical. You may > >>>wish to turn off ACPI ("chkconfig acpid off;service acpid stop") or > >>>boot with "noacpi". > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>Rick, > >> > >>There were no resource hogs in "ps ax" or "top". > >> > >>It wasn't "updatedb". "DAILY_UPDATE" was no. I have been booting the > >>machine at least once a day > >>since I installed on January 16. BTW, I love "slocate". > >> > >>I turned off acpid first by stopping the service; things improved > >>dramatically and instantly. > >>Then I chkconfig'd it off. > >> > >> > > > >Interesting that acpid hosed the machine that badly. Weird! > > > > > > > >>I want to boot with "noacpi". Where do I put that? > >> > >> > > > >Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf. Find the stanza that reflects your kernel, > >and edit the "kernel=" line. Put " noacpi" at the end. For example, > >on my Fedora Core 4 machine: > > > >title Fedora Core (2.6.14-1.1656_FC4) > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb > >quiet noacpi <<<<====NOTE! > > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4.img > > > >If you just want to try it once, reboot the system. At the grub > >screen scroll to the kernel you want to play with and hit "E". > >Scroll down to the kernel line and hit "E" again. Go to the end of > >the line and add " noacpi" to it (don't forget the leading space and > >do NOT include the quote marks), then hit and press B. The > >system will boot with noacpi THIS TIME ONLY. If you want it to be > >permanent, you have to edit the grub.conf file as I mentioned above. > > > > > > > > > Rick, > > The perkiness from dropping acpid only lasted a day. Any other ideas? > Did I partition it to death? Partitioning (as in hard drive) shouldn't have that kind of performance hit that you're experiencing. > The output from ps ax: > > PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND > 1 ? S 0:00 init [5] > 2 ? SN 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] > 3 ? S< 0:00 [events/0] > 4 ? S< 0:00 [khelper] > 5 ? S< 0:00 [kacpid] > 23 ? S< 0:00 [kblockd/0] > 33 ? S 0:00 [pdflush] > 34 ? S 0:00 [pdflush] > 36 ? S< 0:00 [aio/0] > 24 ? S 0:00 [khubd] > 35 ? S 0:00 [kswapd0] > 110 ? S 0:00 [kseriod] > 199 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] > 1042 ? S 1590 ? S< 0:00 [kauditd] > 1623 ? S< 0:00 [kmirrord] > 1624 ? S< 0:00 [kmir_mon] > 1653 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] > 1654 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] > 1655 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] > 1656 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] > 1657 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] > 1658 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] > 1659 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] > 2289 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/dhclient -1 -q -lf > /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases -pf /var/run/dhclient-eth0.pid eth0 > 2343 ? Ss 0:00 syslogd -m 0 > 2347 ? Ss 0:00 klogd -x > 2368 ? Ss 0:00 portmap > 2388 ? Ss 0:00 rpc.statd > 2416 ? Ss 0:00 rpc.idmapd > 2492 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/smartd > 2502 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd > 2517 ? Ss 0:00 xinetd -stayalive -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid > 2530 ? SLs 0:00 ntpd -u ntp:ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g > 2551 ? Ss 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections > 2559 ? Ss 0:00 sendmail: Queue runner at 01:00:00 for > /var/spool/clientmqueue > 2617 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd > 2660 ? Ss 0:00 gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2 > 2670 ? Ss 0:00 crond > 2696 ? Ss 0:00 xfs -droppriv -daemon > 2706 ? SNs 0:00 anacron -s > 2715 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd > 2734 ? Ss 0:00 dbus-daemon-1 --system > 2745 ? Ss 0:00 rhnsd --interval 240 > 2755 ? Ss 0:00 cups-config-daemon > 2766 ? Ss 0:01 hald > 2776 tty1 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1 > 2801 tty2 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2 > 2887 tty3 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3 > 2906 tty4 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4 > 2913 tty5 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5 > 2920 tty6 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6 > 3174 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/gdm-binary -nodaemon > 3207 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/gdm-binary -nodaemon > 3213 ? S 0:15 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth > /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7 > 3521 ? Ss 0:01 /usr/bin/gnome-session > 3549 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s > 3576 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session > /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients > 3577 ? Ss 0:00 dbus-daemon-1 --fork --print-pid 8 > --print-address 6 --session > 3581 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 5 > 3584 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon > 3586 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/libexec/bonobo-activation-server > --ac-activate --ior-output-fd=18 > 3588 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon > --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon --oaf-ior-fd=22 > 3594 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/gam_server > 3603 ? S 0:00 xscreensaver -nosplash > 3627 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/metacity --sm-client-id=default1 > 3631 ? Ss 0:00 gnome-panel --sm-client-id default2 > 3633 ? Ssl 0:00 nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id > default3 > 3635 ? Ss 0:00 gnome-volume-manager --sm-client-id default6 > 3637 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/wnck-applet > --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Wncklet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=26 > 3639 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/mixer_applet2 > --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=28 > 3641 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/clock-applet > --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=30 > 3643 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/notification-area-applet > --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_NotificationAreaApplet_Factory > --oaf-ior-fd=32 > 3647 ? Ss 0:00 eggcups --sm-client-id default5 > 3653 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/gnome-vfs-daemon > --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_VFS_Daemon_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=36 > 3666 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/mapping-daemon > 3668 ? Ss 0:00 pam-panel-icon --sm-client-id default0 > 3672 ? S 0:00 /sbin/pam_timestamp_check -d root > 3788 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 > -spawnfd 28 > 3790 ? Sl 0:01 /usr/bin/gnome-terminal > 3791 ? S 0:00 gnome-pty-helper > 3792 pts/1 Ss 0:00 bash > 3818 pts/1 R+ 0:00 ps ax There's nothing obvious there. What you really need to do is run "top" and look at the top few processes listed there (you can usually ignore the "init", "top" and "X" processes) and see what's sucking up the CPU time. Watch the "%CPU" and %MEM" columns and find the process that's got the highest "%CPU" bit. That's the one we need to look at. Also pay attention to the bit that looks like this: Cpu(s): 4.6% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 94.4% id, 0.0% wa, 1.0% hi, 0.0% si as it shows a summary of where the CPU is spending its time: "us" = user state "sy" = system state "ni" = non-interruptible sleep "id" = idle "wa" = I/O wait state "hi" = hardware interrupts "si" = software interrupts Even if you don't see a process sucking up a lot of CPU, but you see the CPU spending a lot of time in the "wa" state, then you have a disk problem. Look in the process list for processes in the "D" state. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Do you know how to save five drowning lawyers? No? GOOD! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From brkittycat at verizon.net Tue Feb 7 22:29:59 2006 From: brkittycat at verizon.net (Brenda Radford) Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:29:59 -0500 Subject: RHEL AS 4 U2 Slow In-Reply-To: <1139335969.27596.234.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <43DE8240.6080905@verizon.net> <1138657491.18733.57.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43DEA777.9040706@verizon.net> <1138666224.27596.18.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43E79BA9.8020205@verizon.net> <1139335969.27596.234.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <43E91F67.7090808@verizon.net> Rick Stevens wrote: >On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 13:55 -0500, Brenda Radford wrote: > > >>Rick Stevens wrote: >> >> >> >>>On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 18:55 -0500, Brenda Radford wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Rick Stevens wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 16:16 -0500, Brenda Radford wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>Installed RHEL AS 4 U2 on an 80 GB HD (non-production, educational box). >>>>>>When I turn it on, it is slow doing all the things it does when it boots >>>>>>up. >>>>>>After it is finished, I right-click on Open Terminal, and it takes >>>>>>forever for a >>>>>>window to pop up. How do I find out why it is so slow? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>You need to look at the output of "ps ax" or "top" and see which process >>>>>is sucking up the resources. You then have to sort out why that's >>>>>happening. >>>>> >>>>>If this is the first boot on the machine, the dread "updatedb" process >>>>>may be running. It can take a lot of resources. Either wait for it to >>>>>finish (it will, eventually) or kill it and let it run when your machine >>>>>isn't busy. It is what updates the "slocate" database and typically >>>>>runs at 4:00 a.m.--provided you leave the machine on. If you shut the >>>>>machine off and 4:00 a.m. rolls by while it's off, the process will >>>>>launch shortly after the machine boots so it can "catch up". >>>>> >>>>>Of course, if you don't need the "slocate" command then disable the >>>>>updatedb process completely by editing /etc/updatedb.conf and changing >>>>>"DAILY_UPDATE=yes" to "DAILY_UPDATE=no" and killing any currently >>>>>running process. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>I have 895 MB memory and a 1995.494 MHz CPU. >>>>>> >>>>>>The only thing I did manually in the install was to partition the hard >>>>>>disk (from df): >>>>>> >>>>>>Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >>>>>>/dev/hda5 1004024 162144 790876 18% / >>>>>>/dev/hda1 497829 15985 456142 4% /boot >>>>>>none 452880 0 452880 0% /dev/shm >>>>>>/dev/hda10 20161172 123016 19014016 1% /home >>>>>>/dev/hda3 2016044 35836 1877796 2% /opt >>>>>>/dev/hda8 10080488 55408 9513012 1% /tmp >>>>>>/dev/hda2 10080520 3546400 6022052 38% /usr >>>>>>/dev/hda7 5036284 42924 4737528 1% /usr/local >>>>>>/dev/hda9 10080488 147520 9420900 2% /var >>>>>>/dev/hdb1 101089 33094 62776 35% /mnt/hdb1 >>>>>>/dev/hdb2 76051264 24007900 48180136 34% /mnt/hdb2 >>>>>>/dev/fd0 1424 3 1421 1% /media/floppy >>>>>> >>>>>>I do have a second hard drive that ran RHEL AS 3, but it isn't mounted in >>>>>>/etc/fstab; it was done manually above. >>>>>> >>>>>>I do have 2 errors in the kernel log, but I don't know what they mean: >>>>>> >>>>>>shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5 >>>>>>shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>I wouldn't worry about those. They're related to the ACPI (Advanced >>>>>Configuration and Power Interface) system and aren't critical. You may >>>>>wish to turn off ACPI ("chkconfig acpid off;service acpid stop") or >>>>>boot with "noacpi". >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>Rick, >>>> >>>>There were no resource hogs in "ps ax" or "top". >>>> >>>>It wasn't "updatedb". "DAILY_UPDATE" was no. I have been booting the >>>>machine at least once a day >>>>since I installed on January 16. BTW, I love "slocate". >>>> >>>>I turned off acpid first by stopping the service; things improved >>>>dramatically and instantly. >>>>Then I chkconfig'd it off. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Interesting that acpid hosed the machine that badly. Weird! >>> >>> >>> >>>>I want to boot with "noacpi". Where do I put that? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf. Find the stanza that reflects your kernel, >>>and edit the "kernel=" line. Put " noacpi" at the end. For example, >>>on my Fedora Core 4 machine: >>> >>>title Fedora Core (2.6.14-1.1656_FC4) >>> root (hd0,0) >>> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb >>>quiet noacpi <<<<====NOTE! >>> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4.img >>> >>>If you just want to try it once, reboot the system. At the grub >>>screen scroll to the kernel you want to play with and hit "E". >>>Scroll down to the kernel line and hit "E" again. Go to the end of >>>the line and add " noacpi" to it (don't forget the leading space and >>>do NOT include the quote marks), then hit and press B. The >>>system will boot with noacpi THIS TIME ONLY. If you want it to be >>>permanent, you have to edit the grub.conf file as I mentioned above. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Rick, >> >>The perkiness from dropping acpid only lasted a day. Any other ideas? >>Did I partition it to death? >> >> > >Partitioning (as in hard drive) shouldn't have that kind of performance >hit that you're experiencing. > > > >>The output from ps ax: >> >> PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND >> 1 ? S 0:00 init [5] >> 2 ? SN 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] >> 3 ? S< 0:00 [events/0] >> 4 ? S< 0:00 [khelper] >> 5 ? S< 0:00 [kacpid] >> 23 ? S< 0:00 [kblockd/0] >> 33 ? S 0:00 [pdflush] >> 34 ? S 0:00 [pdflush] >> 36 ? S< 0:00 [aio/0] >> 24 ? S 0:00 [khubd] >> 35 ? S 0:00 [kswapd0] >> 110 ? S 0:00 [kseriod] >> 199 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] >> 1042 ? S> 1590 ? S< 0:00 [kauditd] >> 1623 ? S< 0:00 [kmirrord] >> 1624 ? S< 0:00 [kmir_mon] >> 1653 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] >> 1654 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] >> 1655 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] >> 1656 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] >> 1657 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] >> 1658 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] >> 1659 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] >> 2289 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/dhclient -1 -q -lf >>/var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases -pf /var/run/dhclient-eth0.pid eth0 >> 2343 ? Ss 0:00 syslogd -m 0 >> 2347 ? Ss 0:00 klogd -x >> 2368 ? Ss 0:00 portmap >> 2388 ? Ss 0:00 rpc.statd >> 2416 ? Ss 0:00 rpc.idmapd >> 2492 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/smartd >> 2502 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd >> 2517 ? Ss 0:00 xinetd -stayalive -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid >> 2530 ? SLs 0:00 ntpd -u ntp:ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g >> 2551 ? Ss 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections >> 2559 ? Ss 0:00 sendmail: Queue runner at 01:00:00 for >>/var/spool/clientmqueue >> 2617 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd >> 2660 ? Ss 0:00 gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2 >> 2670 ? Ss 0:00 crond >> 2696 ? Ss 0:00 xfs -droppriv -daemon >> 2706 ? SNs 0:00 anacron -s >> 2715 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd >> 2734 ? Ss 0:00 dbus-daemon-1 --system >> 2745 ? Ss 0:00 rhnsd --interval 240 >> 2755 ? Ss 0:00 cups-config-daemon >> 2766 ? Ss 0:01 hald >> 2776 tty1 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1 >> 2801 tty2 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2 >> 2887 tty3 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3 >> 2906 tty4 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4 >> 2913 tty5 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5 >> 2920 tty6 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6 >> 3174 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/gdm-binary -nodaemon >> 3207 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/gdm-binary -nodaemon >> 3213 ? S 0:15 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth >>/var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7 >> 3521 ? Ss 0:01 /usr/bin/gnome-session >> 3549 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s >> 3576 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session >>/etc/X11/xinit/Xclients >> 3577 ? Ss 0:00 dbus-daemon-1 --fork --print-pid 8 >>--print-address 6 --session >> 3581 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 5 >> 3584 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon >> 3586 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/libexec/bonobo-activation-server >>--ac-activate --ior-output-fd=18 >> 3588 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon >>--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon --oaf-ior-fd=22 >> 3594 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/gam_server >> 3603 ? S 0:00 xscreensaver -nosplash >> 3627 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/metacity --sm-client-id=default1 >> 3631 ? Ss 0:00 gnome-panel --sm-client-id default2 >> 3633 ? Ssl 0:00 nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id >>default3 >> 3635 ? Ss 0:00 gnome-volume-manager --sm-client-id default6 >> 3637 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/wnck-applet >>--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Wncklet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=26 >> 3639 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/mixer_applet2 >>--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=28 >> 3641 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/clock-applet >>--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=30 >> 3643 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/notification-area-applet >>--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_NotificationAreaApplet_Factory >>--oaf-ior-fd=32 >> 3647 ? Ss 0:00 eggcups --sm-client-id default5 >> 3653 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/gnome-vfs-daemon >>--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_VFS_Daemon_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=36 >> 3666 ? S 0:00 /usr/libexec/mapping-daemon >> 3668 ? Ss 0:00 pam-panel-icon --sm-client-id default0 >> 3672 ? S 0:00 /sbin/pam_timestamp_check -d root >> 3788 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 >>-spawnfd 28 >> 3790 ? Sl 0:01 /usr/bin/gnome-terminal >> 3791 ? S 0:00 gnome-pty-helper >> 3792 pts/1 Ss 0:00 bash >> 3818 pts/1 R+ 0:00 ps ax >> >> > >There's nothing obvious there. What you really need to do is run >"top" and look at the top few processes listed there (you can usually >ignore the "init", "top" and "X" processes) and see what's sucking up >the CPU time. Watch the "%CPU" and %MEM" columns and find the process >that's got the highest "%CPU" bit. That's the one we need to look at. > >Also pay attention to the bit that looks like this: > >Cpu(s): 4.6% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 94.4% id, 0.0% wa, 1.0% hi, >0.0% si > >as it shows a summary of where the CPU is spending its time: > >"us" = user state >"sy" = system state >"ni" = non-interruptible sleep >"id" = idle >"wa" = I/O wait state >"hi" = hardware interrupts >"si" = software interrupts > >Even if you don't see a process sucking up a lot of CPU, but you see >the CPU spending a lot of time in the "wa" state, then you have a disk >problem. Look in the process list for processes in the "D" state. > > > > Rick, From top, on two different days: [brenda at localhost ~]$ top top - 20:40:49 up 11 min, 2 users, load average: 0.03, 0.05, 0.06 Tasks: 83 total, 1 running, 82 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 2.3% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 97.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 905760k total, 306536k used, 599224k free, 18996k buffers Swap: 1799232k total, 0k used, 1799232k free, 180724k cached [brenda at localhost ~]$ top top - 15:31:16 up 35 min, 4 users, load average: 0.24, 0.07, 0.02 Tasks: 89 total, 1 running, 87 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 1.3% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 98.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 905760k total, 396168k used, 509592k free, 23224k buffers Swap: 1799232k total, 0k used, 1799232k free, 244368k cached The only time the CPU showed any activity in the I/O wait state was when top was first started, at the 1-4% level, and only for an instant. It immediately went back to 0.0%. The only other processes that showed up at the top of the list (besides those you mentioned) were gnome-terminal, hald, and rhn-applet-gui, but they only used tiny amounts of CPU and MEM, even with 4 or 5 terminal windows open (hence the 4 users). The more times I ran top, the more Memory it reported used (in the top header). It went up to more than 4XX,XXX used before I was finished, after running top and ps ax numerous times. I didn't have any processes in the "D" state. Any ideas? Thanks, Brenda From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Feb 7 22:54:47 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:54:47 -0800 Subject: RHEL AS 4 U2 Slow In-Reply-To: <43E91F67.7090808@verizon.net> References: <43DE8240.6080905@verizon.net> <1138657491.18733.57.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43DEA777.9040706@verizon.net> <1138666224.27596.18.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43E79BA9.8020205@verizon.net> <1139335969.27596.234.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43E91F67.7090808@verizon.net> Message-ID: <1139352888.27596.263.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 17:29 -0500, Brenda Radford wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: I'm cleaning up the message a bit...there's a lot of cruft we don't need to deal with anymore. > >There's nothing obvious there. What you really need to do is run > >"top" and look at the top few processes listed there (you can usually > >ignore the "init", "top" and "X" processes) and see what's sucking up > >the CPU time. Watch the "%CPU" and %MEM" columns and find the process > >that's got the highest "%CPU" bit. That's the one we need to look at. > > > >Also pay attention to the bit that looks like this: > > > >Cpu(s): 4.6% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 94.4% id, 0.0% wa, 1.0% hi, > >0.0% si > > > >as it shows a summary of where the CPU is spending its time: > > > >"us" = user state > >"sy" = system state > >"ni" = non-interruptible sleep > >"id" = idle > >"wa" = I/O wait state > >"hi" = hardware interrupts > >"si" = software interrupts > > > >Even if you don't see a process sucking up a lot of CPU, but you see > >the CPU spending a lot of time in the "wa" state, then you have a disk > >problem. Look in the process list for processes in the "D" state. > > > > > > > > > Rick, > > From top, on two different days: > > [brenda at localhost ~]$ top > > top - 20:40:49 up 11 min, 2 users, load average: 0.03, 0.05, 0.06 > Tasks: 83 total, 1 running, 82 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 2.3% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 97.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si > Mem: 905760k total, 306536k used, 599224k free, 18996k buffers > Swap: 1799232k total, 0k used, 1799232k free, 180724k cached > > [brenda at localhost ~]$ top > > top - 15:31:16 up 35 min, 4 users, load average: 0.24, 0.07, 0.02 > Tasks: 89 total, 1 running, 87 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie > Cpu(s): 1.3% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 98.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si > Mem: 905760k total, 396168k used, 509592k free, 23224k buffers > Swap: 1799232k total, 0k used, 1799232k free, 244368k cached > > The only time the CPU showed any activity in the I/O wait state was when > top was first started, > at the 1-4% level, and only for an instant. It immediately went back to > 0.0%. The only other > processes that showed up at the top of the list (besides those you > mentioned) were gnome-terminal, > hald, and rhn-applet-gui, but they only used tiny amounts of CPU and > MEM, even with 4 or 5 > terminal windows open (hence the 4 users). > > The more times I ran top, the more Memory it reported used (in the top > header). It went up to more than > 4XX,XXX used before I was finished, after running top and ps ax > numerous times. That's normal and nothing to worry about. Start worrying if you see the "Swap: 0k used," thing start to go non-zero. That means you're out of memory and the system has to swap things from memory to disk and back to run them. That slows the machine down a LOT. > I didn't have any processes in the "D" state. Ok, so we don't seem to have an I/O wait state issue. I did notice a zombie process there in the second top report. I'm curious as to which process that is and what its parent is. Try doing a "ps ax" and find the process that's in a "Z" state. > Any ideas? Well, it doesn't seem to be process or memory related. It could be context switching issues. Try doing a "vmstat 5" for, say a minute, then CTRL-C to get out of it. Look at the "cs" column towards the right. If that gets to 5 digits, we have something that's causing context switch problems and there's a bit more investigation we need to do. Also look at the output of "dmesg" for clues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gnichols at tpg.com.au Wed Feb 8 00:58:37 2006 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:58:37 +1100 Subject: ClamAV and freshclam In-Reply-To: <11596.198.60.114.90.1139295288.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> References: <200602061633.50563.gnichols@tpg.com.au> <13308.198.60.114.90.1139207723.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <43E80249.5010600@tpg.com.au> <11596.198.60.114.90.1139295288.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <43E9423D.2010300@tpg.com.au> karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > On Mon, February 6, 2006 7:13 pm, Graeme Nichols said: > >>karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: >> >>>On Sun, February 5, 2006 10:33 pm, Graeme Nichols said: >>> >>> >>>>Hello Folks, >>>> >>>>I have just installed clamav-0.88-1.fc4 on my laptop using 'yum install >>>>clamav' and there is no freshclam command. Is this a 'feature' of this >>>>version or have I made a mistake? I tried 'yum install freshclam' but it >>>>reported 'No action needed' Or is the command to update the sig file >>>>something different in this version? 'rpm -q clamav' states it contains a >>>>tool for automatic updating via Internet. On my desktop there is a service >>>>for automatically updating the sig file but not on my laptop after >>>>installing >>>>clamav. >>> >>> >>>ClamAV is usually used as a gateway mail scanner. Freshclam is installed >>>by >>>default. Check /usr/local/bin/ for it. The clamav website has good docs on >>>it, too. I have it on my email server and freshclam runs from rc.local on >>>bootup with the following command: >>> >>>/usr/local/bin/freshclam -d --checks=50 >>>--daemon-notify="/usr/local/etc/clamd.conf" >>>--on-update-execute="/home/karlp/bin/freshclam.sh update" >>>--on-error-execute="/home/karlp/bin/freshclam.sh failed" >>>--on-outdated-execute="/home/karlp/bin/freshclam.sh outdated" -u root >>> >>>That's all on one line, btw. >>> >>>HTH. >>> >>>Karl >> >>Hello again Karl, >> >>I downloaded the fc4 package from the clamav web site and installed it >>after removing the package that yum installed. It installed just fine >>and now I have freshclam and the freshclam service started. >> >>Thank you very much for your help. > > > I just thought about the above startup options. Here's the freshclam.sh > script I use with the 3 passed parameters shown in the startup: > > #!/bin/bash > usage () { > echo "Usage: freshclam.sh [update|failed|outdated]" > exit 1 > } > if [ doo"$1" = 'doo' ] ; then > usage > else > DO=$1 > fi > perlcln () { > RTN=`echo $V|perl -pe 's/%(..)/pack("c",hex($1))/eg'` > RTN=$RTN$EM0 > } > DATE=`date` > "M0=" > EM2=`echo "Tail (-n10) of clamav.upd in /var/log/clamav"` > cnt=7 > until [ $cnt -le 0 ] > do > CNT=`tail -n"$cnt" /var/log/clamav/clamav.upd|head -n1` > V=$CNT > perlcln > CNT=$RTN > echo $CNT >> /tmp/zzxxaa > cnt=$(($cnt-1)) > done > FL=`cat /tmp/zzxxaa` > if [ $DO = 'update' ] ; then > EM1=`printf "Freshclam update ran ($DATE)"` > elif [ $DO = 'failed' ] ; then > EM1=`printf "Freshclam update failed ($DATE)"` > else > usage > fi > EMALL=$EM1$EM0$EM0$EM2$EM0$EM3$EM0$FL > echo $EMALL|mail -s "FreshClam $DO" karlp > rm /tmp/zzxxaa > exit 0 > > Yes, I know, it's not very elegant, but hey, I'm a problem solver, not a > programmer and it seems to work... But, I'm not opposed to being told how to > do it better. Any takers? > > Karl Hi Karl, like you, I am a problem solver not a programmer. I'll give it a go. On my desktop system, FC4, I have a service called freshclam (Desktop --> System Settings --> Server Settings --> Services) that by ticking the box beside it and starting this service it will update the sig file using freshclam on a regular basis. It sets up cron etc. The ClamAV package that was installed on my laptop by yum didn't have freshclam as part of the package (or if it did it didn't install it) but the package I downloaded from the clamAV web site did and now my laptop has the same setup as my desktop machine. I manually run clamscan -r --quiet ~/ each day. Works well. I could set up a cron job for it but I am lazy. Thank you for your help. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kind regards, Graeme. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. -- Simone de Beauvoir From brkittycat at verizon.net Wed Feb 8 02:28:23 2006 From: brkittycat at verizon.net (Brenda Radford) Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:28:23 -0500 Subject: RHEL AS 4 U2 Slow In-Reply-To: <1139352888.27596.263.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <43DE8240.6080905@verizon.net> <1138657491.18733.57.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43DEA777.9040706@verizon.net> <1138666224.27596.18.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43E79BA9.8020205@verizon.net> <1139335969.27596.234.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43E91F67.7090808@verizon.net> <1139352888.27596.263.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <43E95747.2040102@verizon.net> Rick Stevens wrote: >On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 17:29 -0500, Brenda Radford wrote: > > >>Rick Stevens wrote: >> >> > >I'm cleaning up the message a bit...there's a lot of cruft we don't >need to deal with anymore. > > > >>>There's nothing obvious there. What you really need to do is run >>>"top" and look at the top few processes listed there (you can usually >>>ignore the "init", "top" and "X" processes) and see what's sucking up >>>the CPU time. Watch the "%CPU" and %MEM" columns and find the process >>>that's got the highest "%CPU" bit. That's the one we need to look at. >>> >>>Also pay attention to the bit that looks like this: >>> >>>Cpu(s): 4.6% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 94.4% id, 0.0% wa, 1.0% hi, >>>0.0% si >>> >>>as it shows a summary of where the CPU is spending its time: >>> >>>"us" = user state >>>"sy" = system state >>>"ni" = non-interruptible sleep >>>"id" = idle >>>"wa" = I/O wait state >>>"hi" = hardware interrupts >>>"si" = software interrupts >>> >>>Even if you don't see a process sucking up a lot of CPU, but you see >>>the CPU spending a lot of time in the "wa" state, then you have a disk >>>problem. Look in the process list for processes in the "D" state. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Rick, >> >> From top, on two different days: >> >>[brenda at localhost ~]$ top >> >>top - 20:40:49 up 11 min, 2 users, load average: 0.03, 0.05, 0.06 >>Tasks: 83 total, 1 running, 82 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie >>Cpu(s): 2.3% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 97.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si >>Mem: 905760k total, 306536k used, 599224k free, 18996k buffers >>Swap: 1799232k total, 0k used, 1799232k free, 180724k cached >> >>[brenda at localhost ~]$ top >> >>top - 15:31:16 up 35 min, 4 users, load average: 0.24, 0.07, 0.02 >>Tasks: 89 total, 1 running, 87 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie >>Cpu(s): 1.3% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 98.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si >>Mem: 905760k total, 396168k used, 509592k free, 23224k buffers >>Swap: 1799232k total, 0k used, 1799232k free, 244368k cached >> >>The only time the CPU showed any activity in the I/O wait state was when >>top was first started, >>at the 1-4% level, and only for an instant. It immediately went back to >>0.0%. The only other >>processes that showed up at the top of the list (besides those you >>mentioned) were gnome-terminal, >>hald, and rhn-applet-gui, but they only used tiny amounts of CPU and >>MEM, even with 4 or 5 >>terminal windows open (hence the 4 users). >> >>The more times I ran top, the more Memory it reported used (in the top >>header). It went up to more than >>4XX,XXX used before I was finished, after running top and ps ax >>numerous times. >> >> > >That's normal and nothing to worry about. Start worrying if you see >the "Swap: 0k used," thing start to go non-zero. That means you're out >of memory and the system has to swap things from memory to disk and back >to run them. That slows the machine down a LOT. > > > >>I didn't have any processes in the "D" state. >> >> > >Ok, so we don't seem to have an I/O wait state issue. I did notice a >zombie process there in the second top report. I'm curious as to which >process that is and what its parent is. Try doing a "ps ax" and find >the process that's in a "Z" state. > > > >>Any ideas? >> >> > >Well, it doesn't seem to be process or memory related. It could be >context switching issues. Try doing a "vmstat 5" for, say a minute, >then CTRL-C to get out of it. Look at the "cs" column towards the >right. If that gets to 5 digits, we have something that's causing >context switch problems and there's a bit more investigation we need >to do. > >Also look at the output of "dmesg" for clues. > > > Rick, The zombie was a "[netstat} ". I don't know where that came from, but it eventually went away. I did a kill PID on it. (I have forgotten the best way to get rid of zombies.) The "vmstat 5" cpu cs value was 281, then 60-70 unless I moved the mouse, opened another terminal window (397), or piped the vmstat man page to the printer, but the highest it got then was 4685. Nowhere near 5 digits. From dmesg in the GUI, I have 3 errors besides the error you get when you don't have a CD in the CD-ROM (open failed). With a few lines for context for the first one (I have SELinux disabled): > Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized > SELinux: Initializing. > SELinux: Starting in permissive mode > There is already a security framework initialized, register_security > failed. <<<==This is the error > selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability > Capability LSM initialized as secondary And the two errors I told you about before: > shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5 > shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5 And not an error, but the line from grub.conf we edited is in there: > Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet noacpi If you want to see all of /var/log/dmesg, just say so. I'll post the whole thing. RHEL AS 3 didn't run slow like this on this machine. I upgraded to AS 4 because that is what we're using at school in the Red Hat Academy. I would ask Red Hat why it is so slow, but you don't get any support with an academic subscription. The machines at school are running ES 4, also with SELinux disabled, and they aren't slow like mine at home. When I told my instructor my machine at home was slow, he asked me how fast was my CPU and how much memory I had. I told you all that when I first posted. Then I told him it improved, (which didn't last), and we haven't talked about it again. Thanks for your time and efforts, Brenda From harold at hallikainen.com Wed Feb 8 14:30:32 2006 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 06:30:32 -0800 (PST) Subject: httpd and dovecot service start fails Message-ID: <59887.192.168.1.1.1139409032.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> > Harold Hallikainen wrote: > >> >> Oops! I geess I hit send instead of save draft. Anyway, I just rebooted the system and watched the screen during the reboot. I saw a message go by >> about httpd that said something like "ServerRoot must be a directory." ServerRoot is "/etc/httpd" which IS a directory (and this works with the /sbin start and is working on another machine). Another error message on dovecot flew by. I'll deal with that a little later. Any ideas about the httpd error, which does not, as far as I can find, show up in any logs? >> > > If httpd claims that a directory is not a directory when it clearly is, it could > be SELinux. Are you running in enforcing mode? Maybe the SELinux setup for Apache has got mangled, and httpd is unable to access /etc/httpd and therefore > falsely assumes it's not a directory. > > If you are running SELinux in enforcing mode try switching to permissive mode > (setenforce permissive) temporarily while you start httpd. If that works you > need to fix the SELinux access rights to the httpd config files. Your website > files may also need fixing. > > EXCELLENT! I tried disabling SELINUX and everything started up correctly! I guess I have a little reading to do on SELINUX... THANKS! Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com From c.hare at comcast.net Fri Feb 10 06:47:13 2006 From: c.hare at comcast.net (Chris Hare) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:47:13 -0600 Subject: kickstart file not found during PXE boot Message-ID: This has had me running in circles for the last few hours. Admittedly, this is my first time using a kickstart file. I followed the instructions in the Sys Admin manual for setting up for a PXE boot. The PXE client is successful at getting its static IP address from the DHCP server. It can download the TFTP images to boot. But I immediately get an error that the kickstart file (null) isn't found. (No such file or directory). If I can fix this darn thing, this machine will be running pretty damn fast because I think I have the other kinks worked out of it (I hope). The kickstart file is located in /tftpboot/linux-install/rhel-ES-4 and is called ks-firewall.cfg The boot images are found okay in this directory. Here is the config data from /tftpboot/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg/default default local timeout 100 prompt 1 display msgs/boot.msg F1 msgs/boot.msg F2 msgs/general.msg F3 msgs/expert.msg F4 msgs/param.msg F5 msgs/rescue.msg F7 msgs/snake.msg label local localboot 1 label 0 localboot 1 label 1 kernel rhel-ES-4/vmlinuz append initrd=rhel-ES-4/initrd.img ramdisk_size=7000 ks=ks-firewall.cfg ~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j_70 at comcast.net Fri Feb 10 15:29:25 2006 From: j_70 at comcast.net (j_70 at comcast.net) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:29:25 +0000 Subject: No display with new monitor Message-ID: <021020061529.14800.43ECB155000E6284000039D02200761394CFC9A106@comcast.net> I have just put a new monitor on my RHES 3.0 box. I have no display. I probably need to run system-config-display --reconfig but since I can't see anything, how? How do I get to the command line when the system is going through boot-up. TIA. From c.hare at comcast.net Fri Feb 10 15:42:16 2006 From: c.hare at comcast.net (Chris Hare) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:42:16 -0600 Subject: kickstart file not found during PXE boot Message-ID: This has had me running in circles for the last few hours. Admittedly, this is my first time using a kickstart file. I followed the instructions in the Sys Admin manual for setting up for a PXE boot. The PXE client is successful at getting its static IP address from the DHCP server. It can download the TFTP images to boot. But I immediately get an error that the kickstart file (null) isn't found. (No such file or directory). If I can fix this darn thing, this machine will be running pretty damn fast because I think I have the other kinks worked out of it (I hope). The kickstart file is located in /tftpboot/linux-install/rhel-ES-4 and is called ks-firewall.cfg The boot images are found okay in this directory. Here is the config data from /tftpboot/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg/default default local timeout 100 prompt 1 display msgs/boot.msg F1 msgs/boot.msg F2 msgs/general.msg F3 msgs/expert.msg F4 msgs/param.msg F5 msgs/rescue.msg F7 msgs/snake.msg label local localboot 1 label 0 localboot 1 label 1 kernel rhel-ES-4/vmlinuz append initrd=rhel-ES-4/initrd.img ramdisk_size=7000 ks=ks-firewall.cfg ~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john.wood at openda.com Fri Feb 10 17:00:48 2006 From: john.wood at openda.com (John Wood) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:00:48 +0000 Subject: HAL deamon hangs at bootup... Message-ID: <1d11a7bf9b75004e9ba7a4bb78449942@192.168.222.1> Hi, We have two IBM x346 servers, with hard disks running off IBM ServeRaid 7k. I have tried without success to boot "Redhat Enterprise Application Server 4" on either. The install goes swimmingly, it asks me about partitions, packages, network settings, date and time, and the "post install" setup goes ok too, allowing me to do the activation. Then, after the last (what I assume is the last) "next" button, the screen goes blank, and the monitor powers it's self down to standby. Now, the hard disk lights are still flashing, and the Num-Lock key still toggles, so not sure what happens at this point. After leaving the server alone for about an hour hoping it is just a long final bit to the setup, I get fed up and reboot it, and it seems fine, booting up with the gui. It then switches to the character bootup and asks me to do a file system check (which I select "yes"). It does the check and then carries on with the startup, pausing finally on "Starting HAL deamon". Now, you know when you plug a monitor in with a higher resolution or refresh rate than the monitor can handle and you get a load of funny colours and lines? Well, it has an inch deep of this across the top of the monitor. Not sure how this can happen, as the monitor can handle resolutions higher than the standard 800x600 that Redhat was installed with. The mouse doesn't move, but again the "Num-lock" works and the hard disks are still whirring, I just can't get it to boot any further! 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URL: From pradeepkrlko at gmail.com Fri Feb 10 17:50:27 2006 From: pradeepkrlko at gmail.com (Kumar Pradeep) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:20:27 +0530 Subject: No display with new monitor In-Reply-To: <021020061529.14800.43ECB155000E6284000039D02200761394CFC9A106@comcast.net> References: <021020061529.14800.43ECB155000E6284000039D02200761394CFC9A106@comcast.net> Message-ID: Hi, This is Pradeep from Bangalore (India), r u using LCD monitor? which version of Linux ur using? just try this if ur using LCD monitor, you can try disabling the frame buffer by typing 'boot: linux nofb' at the starting of installation. Regards, Pradeep System engineer On 2/10/06, j_70 at comcast.net wrote: > > I have just put a new monitor on my RHES 3.0 box. I have no display. I > probably need to run system-config-display --reconfig but since I can't see > anything, how? How do I get to the command line when the system is going > through boot-up. TIA. > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -- Regards, Pradeep +91 934294 8743 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From markknecht at gmail.com Fri Feb 10 20:38:02 2006 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:38:02 -0800 Subject: Dual User computer Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0602101238i6444bbe9i5216198b75982362@mail.gmail.com> Hi all, It's been awhile since I posted here. I hope you'll humor the question. We got interested in a very inexpensive way to move my mom, now in her 70's, to Linux. My dad's been running Linux for over two years now and loves it. My mom's Windows machine is old, slow and almost completely unmaintained, meaning dangerous, etc. The idea I hit upon, since neither of them require ANY performance and generally require almost no multimedia capabilities, was to install a second PCI-based VGA in the existing machine, along with a second mouse and keyboard. The idea was that possibly I could create a new screen setup within the xorg.conf file that would link the new USB keyboard/mouse to the PCI adapter while keeping the AGP adapter linked with the PS/2 mouse/keyboard. Should this be possible somehow or are thee known problems? In the end, since we run gdm, I'd really like to get gdm displayed on both monitors and allow logins from either keyboard, etc. Your thoughts about the idea are really appreciated. Thanks, Mark From bob at bobcatos.com Sat Feb 11 05:04:27 2006 From: bob at bobcatos.com (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:04:27 -0600 Subject: No display with new monitor In-Reply-To: <021020061529.14800.43ECB155000E6284000039D02200761394CFC9A106@comcast.net> References: <021020061529.14800.43ECB155000E6284000039D02200761394CFC9A106@comcast.net> Message-ID: <20060211050427.GA19762@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 03:29:25PM +0000, j_70 at comcast.net wrote: > I have just put a new monitor on my RHES 3.0 box. I have no > display. I probably need to run system-config-display --reconfig but > since I can't see anything, how? How do I get to the command line > when the system is going through boot-up. TIA. http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#x_fails Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. bob at bobcatos.com http://www.bobcatos.com The best things in life aren't things. From pradeepkrlko at gmail.com Sat Feb 11 15:28:12 2006 From: pradeepkrlko at gmail.com (Kumar Pradeep) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:58:12 +0530 Subject: No display with new monitor In-Reply-To: <20060211050427.GA19762@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <021020061529.14800.43ECB155000E6284000039D02200761394CFC9A106@comcast.net> <20060211050427.GA19762@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: R u able to see the first linux boot screen (initiallizing....) Regds, Pradeep On 2/11/06, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 03:29:25PM +0000, j_70 at comcast.net wrote: > > I have just put a new monitor on my RHES 3.0 box. I have no > > display. I probably need to run system-config-display --reconfig but > > since I can't see anything, how? How do I get to the command line > > when the system is going through boot-up. TIA. > > http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#x_fails > > Cheers, > -- > Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. > bob at bobcatos.com http://www.bobcatos.com > The best things in life aren't things. > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -- Regards, Pradeep +91 934294 8743 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ricochet at actcom.net Sat Feb 11 20:27:20 2006 From: ricochet at actcom.net (Ricochet) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:27:20 -0700 Subject: Old PIII computer will not boot from CD or DVD Message-ID: <000e01c62f49$8f296290$0200a8c0@t2c2h6> I have not been able to install fedora on my Compaq PIII which has XP on currently. It will not boot from CD or DVD and will not copy iso images to the hard drive from the DVD. I've tried to make a floppy for installation but the file is too large. Do they make larger capacity floppies now? I haven't used them in 5 years and had to dig them out of a box. Apparently the older version BIOS will not allow booting from CD/DVD. I've tried 4 different CD/DVD distros, so I am sure it isn't a defective media problem. I'm out of ideas and would appreciate any help. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.6/257 - Release Date: 2/10/2006 From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Sat Feb 11 20:59:00 2006 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:59:00 -0700 (MST) Subject: No display with new monitor In-Reply-To: References: <021020061529.14800.43ECB155000E6284000039D02200761394CFC9A106@comcast.net> <20060211050427.GA19762@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <22101.198.60.114.90.1139691540.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> >> > I have just put a new monitor on my RHES 3.0 box. I have no >> > display. I probably need to run system-config-display --reconfig but >> > since I can't see anything, how? How do I get to the command line >> > when the system is going through boot-up. TIA. >> >> http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#x_fails >> Just login and with no display, press CTRL-ALT - or CTRL-ALT + to change video modes. When you get one that you can see, run system-config-display --reconfig and go to work. HTH Karl >> Cheers, >> -- >> Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. >> bob at bobcatos.com http://www.bobcatos.com >> The best things in life aren't things. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Redhat-install-list mailing list >> Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >> To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >> redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >> Subject: unsubscribe >> > > > > -- > Regards, > Pradeep > +91 934294 8743 > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe -- karl _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ ____________ __o _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ ____________ _-\<._ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ (_)/ (_) _/ _/ _/ _/ ...................... _/ _/ arl _/_/_/ _/ earson KarlP at ourldsfamily.com --- Senior Consulting Sys/DB Analyst http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com --- My Thoughts on Terrorism In America right after 9/11/2001: http://www.ourldsfamily.com/wtc.shtml --- A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. -Ramsey Clark --- From winstephen at yahoo.com Sat Feb 11 21:04:43 2006 From: winstephen at yahoo.com (StephenW) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 16:04:43 -0500 Subject: Old PIII computer will not boot from CD or DVD In-Reply-To: <000e01c62f49$8f296290$0200a8c0@t2c2h6> References: <000e01c62f49$8f296290$0200a8c0@t2c2h6> Message-ID: <43EE516B.306@yahoo.com> Ricochet wrote: > I have not been able to install fedora on my Compaq PIII which has XP > on currently. It will not boot from CD or DVD and will not copy iso > images to the hard drive from the DVD. I've tried to make a floppy for > installation but the file is too large. Do they make larger capacity > floppies now? I haven't used them in 5 years and had to dig them out > of a box. Apparently the older version BIOS will not allow booting > from CD/DVD. I've tried 4 different CD/DVD distros, so I am sure it > isn't a defective media problem. I'm out of ideas and would appreciate > any help. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.6/257 - Release Date: 2/10/2006 > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-install-list mailing list >Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >Subject: unsubscribe > The old versions of Win98 would boot a small program that setup the CD for install. I have not done it for awhile but I bet if you "Google" for something like "Win98 boot floppy" you will get a hit. If not, let me know and I will dig out my old programs and look for one (I have them all in the back of the closet somewhere). StephenW From wralphie at comcast.net Sat Feb 11 21:39:53 2006 From: wralphie at comcast.net (jludwig) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 16:39:53 -0500 Subject: Dual User computer In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0602101238i6444bbe9i5216198b75982362@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b0602101238i6444bbe9i5216198b75982362@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <200602111639.53282.wralphie@comcast.net> On Friday 10 February 2006 15:38, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi all, > It's been awhile since I posted here. I hope you'll humor the question. > > We got interested in a very inexpensive way to move my mom, now in > her 70's, to Linux. My dad's been running Linux for over two years now > and loves it. My mom's Windows machine is old, slow and almost > completely unmaintained, meaning dangerous, etc. > > The idea I hit upon, since neither of them require ANY performance > and generally require almost no multimedia capabilities, was to > install a second PCI-based VGA in the existing machine, along with a > second mouse and keyboard. The idea was that possibly I could create a > new screen setup within the xorg.conf file that would link the new USB > keyboard/mouse to the PCI adapter while keeping the AGP adapter linked > with the PS/2 mouse/keyboard. > > Should this be possible somehow or are thee known problems? > > In the end, since we run gdm, I'd really like to get gdm displayed > on both monitors and allow logins from either keyboard, etc. > > Your thoughts about the idea are really appreciated. > > Thanks, > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe As I remember this is possible, though I have not done so myself. You would have to manually edit xorg.conf so that the USB keyboard, monitor1 and mouse were linked to, say, screen1 and the PS/2 keyboard monitor0 and mouse to screen0 etc. -- Some people have convictions. Some people have opinions I think I'll have a cheeseburger! From wralphie at comcast.net Sat Feb 11 22:22:39 2006 From: wralphie at comcast.net (jludwig) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 17:22:39 -0500 Subject: No display with new monitor In-Reply-To: <021020061529.14800.43ECB155000E6284000039D02200761394CFC9A106@comcast.net> References: <021020061529.14800.43ECB155000E6284000039D02200761394CFC9A106@comcast.net> Message-ID: <200602111722.39181.wralphie@comcast.net> On Friday 10 February 2006 10:29, j_70 at comcast.net wrote: > I have just put a new monitor on my RHES 3.0 box. I have no display. I > probably need to run system-config-display --reconfig but since I can't see > anything, how? How do I get to the command line when the system is going > through boot-up. TIA. > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe When grub comes up hit 'e' (the letter e) this puts you in edit mode. Select the kernel line kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 ro root=/dev/hda2 and put a 3 at the end S.A. kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 ro root=/dev/hda2 3 hit enter/return then 'b'. -- Some people have convictions. Some people have opinions I think I'll have a cheeseburger! From maheshbalasub at gmail.com Sun Feb 12 04:59:42 2006 From: maheshbalasub at gmail.com (Mahesh Balasubramanian) Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 10:29:42 +0530 Subject: Red hat Kernel -installation Clarification Message-ID: <884aefd70602112059w59dd0cc3h2442275f44df3fcc@mail.gmail.com> Hi, We have a system Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 5) kernel 2.4.21-32.EL...we wanted to know if this from Fedora core stable or Red hat AS..how we differentiate Red hat enterprise linux from fedora core distributions....the installer for this is anaconda..we wud have thought anaconda is the installer for fedora core ANy pointers appreciated Thanks and regards -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From Orgul.Eroglu at thomson.net Sun Feb 12 06:29:23 2006 From: Orgul.Eroglu at thomson.net (Eroglu Orgul) Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 01:29:23 -0500 Subject: unsubscribe References: <021020061529.14800.43ECB155000E6284000039D02200761394CFC9A106@comcast.net><20060211050427.GA19762@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <9EDF7BAFCF9B1E46834C4F84A1EB3FC509D298@INDYSMAILMB03.am.thmulti.com> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 2052 bytes Desc: not available URL: From admin at tootai.net Sun Feb 12 12:48:36 2006 From: admin at tootai.net (Administrator TOOTAI) Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:48:36 +0100 Subject: Gateway problem In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <43EF2EA4.2080502@tootai.net> brad.mugleston at comcast.net a ?crit : >Running FC4 on one of my computers and for some reason it will >not store the gateway after a reboot. I need to type in > > route add default gw 192.168.1.1 ath0 > >and then it works until the next reboot. I can't remember how or >where to put that to make it there after a reboot. > > In /etc/sysconfig/[network,network-scripts] or /etc/sysconfig/static-route Ifup-aliases should do it from your ifcfg-ath0 -- Daniel From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Mon Feb 13 17:10:43 2006 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:10:43 -0800 Subject: Gateway problem Message-ID: > -----Original Message----- > From: Administrator TOOTAI [mailto:admin at tootai.net] > Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 4:49 AM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: Gateway problem > > brad.mugleston at comcast.net a ?crit : > > >Running FC4 on one of my computers and for some reason it will > >not store the gateway after a reboot. I need to type in > > > > route add default gw 192.168.1.1 ath0 > > > >and then it works until the next reboot. I can't remember how or > >where to put that to make it there after a reboot. > > > > > In /etc/sysconfig/[network,network-scripts] or > /etc/sysconfig/static-route Ifup-aliases should do it from your ifcfg-ath0 > > -- > Daniel I prefer to see the system default gateway (of which, there can only be one) in /etc/sysconfig/network. Add a line: GATEWAY=x.x.x.x It drives me nuts when people put the gateways on specific interfaces. Of course, this is all personal preference. From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Mon Feb 13 17:10:44 2006 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:10:44 -0800 Subject: RHEL AS 4 U2 Slow Message-ID: > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > > > Any ideas? > > Well, it doesn't seem to be process or memory related. It could be > context switching issues. Try doing a "vmstat 5" for, say a minute, > then CTRL-C to get out of it. Look at the "cs" column towards the > right. If that gets to 5 digits, we have something that's causing > context switch problems and there's a bit more investigation we need > to do. > > Also look at the output of "dmesg" for clues. > I don't know if it was brought up, but it could also be his network settings. XWindows, even local to the box needs to be able to talk to itself on an IP level. If your network settings are messed up, your computer will still start in to a GUI, but it will respond dog slow. Sometimes with no error message, telling you why it is running slow. Travis From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Feb 13 23:09:39 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:09:39 -0800 Subject: No display with new monitor In-Reply-To: <22101.198.60.114.90.1139691540.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> References: <021020061529.14800.43ECB155000E6284000039D02200761394CFC9A106@comcast.net> <20060211050427.GA19762@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <22101.198.60.114.90.1139691540.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <1139872179.26796.26.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 13:59 -0700, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > >> > I have just put a new monitor on my RHES 3.0 box. I have no > >> > display. I probably need to run system-config-display --reconfig but > >> > since I can't see anything, how? How do I get to the command line > >> > when the system is going through boot-up. TIA. > >> > >> http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#x_fails > >> > > > Just login and with no display, press CTRL-ALT - or CTRL-ALT + to change > video modes. When you get one that you can see, run system-config-display > --reconfig and go to work. Or simply "CTRL-ALT-F1" to get to a text screen. Log in as root and run "system-config-display". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Brain: The organ with which we think that we think. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Feb 13 23:21:54 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:21:54 -0800 Subject: HAL deamon hangs at bootup... In-Reply-To: <1d11a7bf9b75004e9ba7a4bb78449942@192.168.222.1> References: <1d11a7bf9b75004e9ba7a4bb78449942@192.168.222.1> Message-ID: <1139872914.26796.33.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 17:00 +0000, John Wood wrote: > Hi, > > > > We have two IBM x346 servers, with hard disks running off IBM > ServeRaid 7k. I have tried without success to boot ?Redhat Enterprise > Application Server 4? on either. The install goes swimmingly, it asks > me about partitions, packages, network settings, date and time, and > the ?post install? setup goes ok too, allowing me to do the > activation. Then, after the last (what I assume is the last) ?next? > button, the screen goes blank, and the monitor powers it?s self down > to standby. Now, the hard disk lights are still flashing, and the > Num-Lock key still toggles, so not sure what happens at this point. > > > > After leaving the server alone for about an hour hoping it is just a > long final bit to the setup, I get fed up and reboot it, and it seems > fine, booting up with the gui. It then switches to the character > bootup and asks me to do a file system check (which I select ?yes?). > It does the check and then carries on with the startup, pausing > finally on ?Starting HAL deamon?. Try booting in rescue mode from the first CD. Let the system mount the filesystem as /mnt/sysimage. Then do this: # chroot /mnt/sysimage # mount /var # rm -f /var/run/haldaemon.pid # exit # exit Pop out the CD and see if it'll boot. > Now, you know when you plug a monitor in with a higher resolution or > refresh rate than the monitor can handle and you get a load of funny > colours and lines? Well, it has an inch deep of this across the top > of the monitor. Not sure how this can happen, as the monitor can > handle resolutions higher than the standard 800x600 that Redhat was > installed with. It's not necessarily that, but the sync rate or vertical refresh may be incompatible. Try booting in text mode first, then with the new monitor plugged in, run "system-config-display" and set it up. BTW, this happens more often with LCDs than CRTs. > The mouse doesn?t move, but again the ?Num-lock? works and the hard > disks are still whirring, I just can?t get it to boot any further! X hasn't come up properly, so the mouse probably hasn't been initialized yet. > Any help would be appreciated!! I hope the above helps a bit. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - The moving cursor writes, and having written, blinks on. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Feb 13 23:25:08 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:25:08 -0800 Subject: Old PIII computer will not boot from CD or DVD In-Reply-To: <000e01c62f49$8f296290$0200a8c0@t2c2h6> References: <000e01c62f49$8f296290$0200a8c0@t2c2h6> Message-ID: <1139873108.26796.36.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 13:27 -0700, Ricochet wrote: > I have not been able to install fedora on my Compaq PIII which has XP > on currently. It will not boot from CD or DVD and will not copy iso > images to the hard drive from the DVD. I've tried to make a floppy for > installation but the file is too large. Do they make larger capacity > floppies now? I haven't used them in 5 years and had to dig them out > of a box. Apparently the older version BIOS will not allow booting > from CD/DVD. I've tried 4 different CD/DVD distros, so I am sure it > isn't a defective media problem. I'm out of ideas and would appreciate > any help. Go get Smart Boot Manager (http://btmgr.webframe.org/). This is a little program that fits on a floppy. You boot to it and from there you can boot darned near anything mass storage you have on the machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - BASIC is the Computer Science version of `Scientific Creationism' - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mmcculli at visualtech.ca Mon Feb 13 23:36:41 2006 From: mmcculli at visualtech.ca (Mark McCulligh) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:36:41 -0500 Subject: Highpoint IDE Raid Card Message-ID: <43F11809.8020200@visualtech.ca> Hi Group, I have a Hightpoint RocketRAID 133 raid card that I am trying to install. I downloaded the driver from their website and I have to configure it with the kernel source. make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.4-52-default [from their readme file] To get my kernel source as I know it is no longer part of the default install I did the following commands. up2date --get-source kernel rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.12-1-1381_FC3.src.rpm cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS rpmbuild -bp --target=i586 kernel-2.6.spec cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12/configs cp kernel-2.6.12-i586.config ./.config cd .. make oldconfig At this point I am lost. Where do I tell highpoint where my kernel source is? I tried this: make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12 but I just got a lot of errors. Has anyone used this card and can get me an idea on what I need to do. Thanks, Mark. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Feb 13 23:35:18 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:35:18 -0800 Subject: Red hat Kernel -installation Clarification In-Reply-To: <884aefd70602112059w59dd0cc3h2442275f44df3fcc@mail.gmail.com> References: <884aefd70602112059w59dd0cc3h2442275f44df3fcc@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1139873718.26796.47.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 10:29 +0530, Mahesh Balasubramanian wrote: > Hi, > > We have a system Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update > 5) kernel 2.4.21-32.EL...we wanted to know if this from Fedora core > stable or Red hat AS..how we differentiate Red hat enterprise linux > from fedora core distributions....the installer for this is > anaconda..we wud have thought anaconda is the installer for fedora > core > > ANy pointers appreciated Fedora Core (FC) is the "experimental hamster" for RHEL. RH Enterprise Linux 3 (AS or ES 3) was based on Fedora Core 1 (which was originally going to be called Red Hat Linux 10), and RHEL 4 is based on FC3, but RHEL and FC are not the same thing. FC is where Red Hat tries things out. Once the stuff becomes proven and stable in FC, the next version of RHEL comes out based on it. Those of us who use FC are "at the pointy end of the stick". FC is NOT supported by Red Hat. Can you use FC1 updates for your RHEL 3 system? No, not if you want to continue your support from Red Hat. Will it work? Well, yes, but you'll have lots of dependency things to sort out on your own AND Red Hat won't support the system any longer. So, if you have RHEL AND a service contract, stick with the up2date updates you get from Red Hat. If you wish to strike out on your own, Fedora Core 4 is the latest stable release of FC and it works well. Your call, kemosabe. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Grabel's Law: 2 is not equal to 3--not even for large values of 2. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Feb 13 23:38:27 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:38:27 -0800 Subject: Gateway problem In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1139873907.26796.51.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 09:10 -0800, Waldher, Travis R wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Administrator TOOTAI [mailto:admin at tootai.net] > > Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 4:49 AM > > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > Subject: Re: Gateway problem > > > > brad.mugleston at comcast.net a ?crit : > > > > >Running FC4 on one of my computers and for some reason it will > > >not store the gateway after a reboot. I need to type in > > > > > > route add default gw 192.168.1.1 ath0 > > > > > >and then it works until the next reboot. I can't remember how or > > >where to put that to make it there after a reboot. > > > > > > > > In /etc/sysconfig/[network,network-scripts] or > > /etc/sysconfig/static-route Ifup-aliases should do it from your ifcfg-ath0 > > > > -- > > Daniel > > I prefer to see the system default gateway (of which, there can only be one) in /etc/sysconfig/network. Add a line: > > GATEWAY=x.x.x.x > > It drives me nuts when people put the gateways on specific interfaces. That's very dangerous, as "GATEWAY=" in, say, "ifcfg-eth0" will get stomped on by a "GATEWAY=" in ifcfg-eth1. > Of course, this is all personal preference. As was mentioned by someone else, you can only have ONE default gateway, and it should be in /etc/sysconfig/network. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Hello. My PID is Inigo Montoya. You `kill -9'-ed my parent - - process. Prepare to vi." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From brkittycat at verizon.net Mon Feb 13 23:57:08 2006 From: brkittycat at verizon.net (Brenda Radford) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:57:08 -0500 Subject: RHEL AS 4 U2 Slow In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <43F11CD4.4010306@verizon.net> Waldher, Travis R wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] >> >> >> >>>Any ideas? >>> >>> >>Well, it doesn't seem to be process or memory related. It could be >>context switching issues. Try doing a "vmstat 5" for, say a minute, >>then CTRL-C to get out of it. Look at the "cs" column towards the >>right. If that gets to 5 digits, we have something that's causing >>context switch problems and there's a bit more investigation we need >>to do. >> >>Also look at the output of "dmesg" for clues. >> >> >> > >I don't know if it was brought up, but it could also be his network >settings. > >XWindows, even local to the box needs to be able to talk to itself on an >IP level. If your network settings are messed up, your computer will >still start in to a GUI, but it will respond dog slow. Sometimes with >no error message, telling you why it is running slow. > >Travis > > Travis, Decided to reinstall last Friday without doing the disk partitions manually, and now it is performing beautifully! I don't understand why disk partitions would slow things down, and neither did anyone I asked about it, but that is the only thing I did differently. Not sure if there were also problems with network settings (it wasn't giving me any error messages), but it seems to be all cleared up now. (I hope I am not speaking too soon this time!) Thanks, Brenda From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Feb 13 23:58:07 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:58:07 -0800 Subject: Highpoint IDE Raid Card In-Reply-To: <43F11809.8020200@visualtech.ca> References: <43F11809.8020200@visualtech.ca> Message-ID: <1139875087.26796.56.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 18:36 -0500, Mark McCulligh wrote: > Hi Group, > > I have a Hightpoint RocketRAID 133 raid card that I am trying to > install. I downloaded the driver from their website and I have to > configure it with the kernel source. > > make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.4-52-default [from their readme file] > > To get my kernel source as I know it is no longer part of the default > install I did the following commands. > up2date --get-source kernel > rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.12-1-1381_FC3.src.rpm > cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS > rpmbuild -bp --target=i586 kernel-2.6.spec > cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12/configs > cp kernel-2.6.12-i586.config ./.config > cd .. > make oldconfig > > At this point I am lost. Where do I tell highpoint where my kernel > source is? > > I tried this: > make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12 > but I just got a lot of errors. > > Has anyone used this card and can get me an idea on what I need to do. It'd help if we could see some of the errors you got. You probably need to actually build the kernel and modules...some 3rd party drivers need a real kernel and not just the configured source: # cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12 # make bzImage;make modules After that, your make command for the driver should work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - You know you've landed gear-up when it takes full power to taxi. - - -- Chuck Yeager - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mmcculli at visualtech.ca Tue Feb 14 01:52:50 2006 From: mmcculli at visualtech.ca (Mark McCulligh) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:52:50 -0500 Subject: Highpoint IDE Raid Card In-Reply-To: <1139875087.26796.56.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <43F11809.8020200@visualtech.ca> <1139875087.26796.56.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <43F137F2.7040403@visualtech.ca> Rick Stevens wrote: >On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 18:36 -0500, Mark McCulligh wrote: > > >>Hi Group, >> >>I have a Hightpoint RocketRAID 133 raid card that I am trying to >>install. I downloaded the driver from their website and I have to >>configure it with the kernel source. >> >>make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.4-52-default [from their readme file] >> >>To get my kernel source as I know it is no longer part of the default >>install I did the following commands. >>up2date --get-source kernel >>rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.12-1-1381_FC3.src.rpm >>cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS >>rpmbuild -bp --target=i586 kernel-2.6.spec >>cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12/configs >>cp kernel-2.6.12-i586.config ./.config >>cd .. >>make oldconfig >> >>At this point I am lost. Where do I tell highpoint where my kernel >>source is? >> >>I tried this: >>make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12 >>but I just got a lot of errors. >> >>Has anyone used this card and can get me an idea on what I need to do. >> >> > >It'd help if we could see some of the errors you got. You probably need >to actually build the kernel and modules...some 3rd party drivers need a >real kernel and not just the configured source: > > # cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12 > # make bzImage;make modules > >After that, your make command for the driver should work. > > I ran the "make bzImage;make modules" commands then build the driver. See below for the output. I then ran insmod to load the driver and got a Invalid module format error. I see a couple warnings in building the driver. Any ideas what to do next. First time building my own drivers. Thanks for your help. [root at calonweb003 drivers]# make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12 RR1520=0 cp -f raid.o raid.obj make -C /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12 SUBDIRS=`pwd` modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12' CC [M] /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.o In file included from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.c:49: drivers/scsi/hosts.h:1:2: warning: #warning "This file is obsolete, please use instead" In file included from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.c:129: /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/entry.c: In function `fOsBuildSgl': /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/entry.c:903: warning: implicit declaration of function `scsi_to_pci_dma_dir' In file included from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.c:130: /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c: In function `hpt_set_info': /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:230: warning: `verify_area' is deprecated (declared at include/asm/uaccess.h:105) /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:236: warning: `verify_area' is deprecated (declared at include/asm/uaccess.h:105) /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:242: warning: `verify_area' is deprecated (declared at include/asm/uaccess.h:105) In file included from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.c:130: /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:260: warning: ignoring return value of `copy_from_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:268: warning: ignoring return value of `copy_to_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:272: warning: ignoring return value of `copy_to_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result In file included from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/ioctl.c:6, from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.c:131: /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/gui_lib.c: In function `get_array_info': /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/gui_lib.c:271: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code LD [M] /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt37x2.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST Warning: could not find /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/.raid.obj.cmd for /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/raid.obj *** Warning: "scsi_to_pci_dma_dir" [/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt37x2.ko] undefined! CC /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt37x2.mod.o LD [M] /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt37x2.ko make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12' [root at calonweb003 drivers]# modprobe sd_mod [root at calonweb003 drivers]# insmod ./hpt37x2.o insmod: error inserting './hpt37x2.o': -1 Invalid module format >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >- - >- You know you've landed gear-up when it takes full power to taxi. - >- -- Chuck Yeager - >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-install-list mailing list >Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >Subject: unsubscribe > > From ricochet at actcom.net Tue Feb 14 06:25:59 2006 From: ricochet at actcom.net (Ricochet) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:25:59 -0700 Subject: Fedora 3 installed! No CD or DVD Message-ID: <000c01c6312f$85338d50$0200a8c0@t2c2h6> I finally got a CD of Fedora 3 to install. I have no idea what I did right, just beginner's luck I guess. Everything looks great except that the CD-Rom and DVD burner won't work. This is a dual boot system with Linux on the second hard drive. I need to install the netgear driver to get an internet connection. At this point I have neither CD or internet. What now? Thanks, Sherry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.6/258 - Release Date: 2/13/2006 From riegersteve at gmail.com Tue Feb 14 06:56:40 2006 From: riegersteve at gmail.com (Steve Rieger) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:56:40 -0800 Subject: Fedora 3 installed! 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URL: From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Tue Feb 14 14:20:34 2006 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:20:34 -0800 Subject: Gateway problem Message-ID: > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > > > > I prefer to see the system default gateway (of which, there can only be > one) in /etc/sysconfig/network. Add a line: > > > > GATEWAY=x.x.x.x > > > > It drives me nuts when people put the gateways on specific interfaces. > > That's very dangerous, as "GATEWAY=" in, say, "ifcfg-eth0" will get > stomped on by a "GATEWAY=" in ifcfg-eth1. Which is why it drives me nuts. LOL > > > Of course, this is all personal preference. > > As was mentioned by someone else, you can only have ONE default gateway, > and it should be in /etc/sysconfig/network. Woohoo! I think that was me! :D It's fun being able to answer questions, that just a year and some ago I was asking myself. :) From redhat at buglecreek.com Tue Feb 14 16:21:21 2006 From: redhat at buglecreek.com (redhat at buglecreek.com) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:21:21 -0700 Subject: lastb command Message-ID: <1139934081.4414.254352889@webmail.messagingengine.com> I would like to use the lastb command. I have created /var/log/btmp and tried some unsuccessful logins. It seems that only failed login attempts from a tty* are logged. "last" and "lastlog" shows both remote and local logins. Does lastb only support local failed login attempts? I know that these failed remote attemps get logged in /var/log/messages, but would like to see them with lastb. Thanks From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Feb 14 18:29:04 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:29:04 -0800 Subject: Highpoint IDE Raid Card In-Reply-To: <43F137F2.7040403@visualtech.ca> References: <43F11809.8020200@visualtech.ca> <1139875087.26796.56.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43F137F2.7040403@visualtech.ca> Message-ID: <1139941744.26796.88.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 20:52 -0500, Mark McCulligh wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > > >On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 18:36 -0500, Mark McCulligh wrote: > > > > > >>Hi Group, > >> > >>I have a Hightpoint RocketRAID 133 raid card that I am trying to > >>install. I downloaded the driver from their website and I have to > >>configure it with the kernel source. > >> > >>make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.4-52-default [from their readme file] > >> > >>To get my kernel source as I know it is no longer part of the default > >>install I did the following commands. > >>up2date --get-source kernel > >>rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.12-1-1381_FC3.src.rpm > >>cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS > >>rpmbuild -bp --target=i586 kernel-2.6.spec > >>cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12/configs > >>cp kernel-2.6.12-i586.config ./.config > >>cd .. > >>make oldconfig > >> > >>At this point I am lost. Where do I tell highpoint where my kernel > >>source is? > >> > >>I tried this: > >>make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12 > >>but I just got a lot of errors. > >> > >>Has anyone used this card and can get me an idea on what I need to do. > >> > >> > > > >It'd help if we could see some of the errors you got. You probably need > >to actually build the kernel and modules...some 3rd party drivers need a > >real kernel and not just the configured source: > > > > # cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12 > > # make bzImage;make modules > > > >After that, your make command for the driver should work. > > > > > I ran the "make bzImage;make modules" commands then build the driver. > See below for the output. I then ran insmod to load the driver and got a > Invalid module format error. I see a couple warnings in building the > driver. Any ideas what to do next. First time building my own drivers. > Thanks for your help. > > [root at calonweb003 drivers]# make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12 RR1520=0 > cp -f raid.o raid.obj > make -C /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12 SUBDIRS=`pwd` > modules > make[1]: Entering directory > `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12' > CC [M] /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.o > In file included from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.c:49: > drivers/scsi/hosts.h:1:2: warning: #warning "This file is obsolete, please > use instead" > In file included from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.c:129: > /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/entry.c: In function `fOsBuildSgl': > /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/entry.c:903: warning: implicit > declaration of function `scsi_to_pci_dma_dir' > In file included from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.c:130: > /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c: In function `hpt_set_info': > /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:230: warning: `verify_area' is > deprecated (declared at include/asm/uaccess.h:105) > /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:236: warning: `verify_area' is > deprecated (declared at include/asm/uaccess.h:105) > /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:242: warning: `verify_area' is > deprecated (declared at include/asm/uaccess.h:105) > In file included from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.c:130: > /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:260: warning: ignoring return > value of `copy_from_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result > /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:268: warning: ignoring return > value of `copy_to_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result > /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:272: warning: ignoring return > value of `copy_to_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result > In file included from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/ioctl.c:6, > from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.c:131: > /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/gui_lib.c: In function `get_array_info': > /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/gui_lib.c:271: warning: ISO C90 forbids > mixed declarations and code > LD [M] /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt37x2.o > Building modules, stage 2. > MODPOST > Warning: could not find /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/.raid.obj.cmd for > /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/raid.obj Note the message above. > *** Warning: "scsi_to_pci_dma_dir" > [/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt37x2.ko] undefined! And that one. > CC /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt37x2.mod.o > LD [M] /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt37x2.ko > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12' > [root at calonweb003 drivers]# modprobe sd_mod > [root at calonweb003 drivers]# insmod ./hpt37x2.o > insmod: error inserting './hpt37x2.o': -1 Invalid module format First off, Mark, 2.6 kernels use ".ko" modules, not ".o" modules, so your forced "insmod ./htp37x2.o" is invalid. If there's a "htp37x2.ko" module, try to insmod that instead. Second, it looks suspiciously like the .ko has an issue with an undefined global, "scsi_to_pci_dma_dir" as denoted in the second line I said to not. This may be caused by the missing file mentioned in the first line I said to note. I don't know if it's fatal or not. As I said, if there's a ".ko" module, insmod that and see if things work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Squawk! Pieces of Seven! Pieces of Seven! Parity Error! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Feb 14 18:40:58 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:40:58 -0800 Subject: Gateway problem In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1139942458.26796.93.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 06:20 -0800, Waldher, Travis R wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > > > > > > I prefer to see the system default gateway (of which, there can only > be > > one) in /etc/sysconfig/network. Add a line: > > > > > > GATEWAY=x.x.x.x > > > > > > It drives me nuts when people put the gateways on specific > interfaces. > > > > That's very dangerous, as "GATEWAY=" in, say, "ifcfg-eth0" will get > > stomped on by a "GATEWAY=" in ifcfg-eth1. > > Which is why it drives me nuts. LOL > > > > > > Of course, this is all personal preference. > > > > As was mentioned by someone else, you can only have ONE default > gateway, > > and it should be in /etc/sysconfig/network. > > Woohoo! I think that was me! :D It's fun being able to answer > questions, that just a year and some ago I was asking myself. :) I guess that makes you an official journeyman Guru! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - God is real...........unless declared integer or long - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mmcculli at visualtech.ca Tue Feb 14 18:41:22 2006 From: mmcculli at visualtech.ca (Mark McCulligh) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:41:22 -0500 Subject: Highpoint IDE Raid Card In-Reply-To: <1139941744.26796.88.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <43F11809.8020200@visualtech.ca> <1139875087.26796.56.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43F137F2.7040403@visualtech.ca> <1139941744.26796.88.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <43F22452.2030601@visualtech.ca> Rick Stevens wrote: >On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 20:52 -0500, Mark McCulligh wrote: > > >>Rick Stevens wrote: >> >> >> >>>On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 18:36 -0500, Mark McCulligh wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Hi Group, >>>> >>>>I have a Hightpoint RocketRAID 133 raid card that I am trying to >>>>install. I downloaded the driver from their website and I have to >>>>configure it with the kernel source. >>>> >>>>make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.4-52-default [from their readme file] >>>> >>>>To get my kernel source as I know it is no longer part of the default >>>>install I did the following commands. >>>>up2date --get-source kernel >>>>rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.12-1-1381_FC3.src.rpm >>>>cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS >>>>rpmbuild -bp --target=i586 kernel-2.6.spec >>>>cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12/configs >>>>cp kernel-2.6.12-i586.config ./.config >>>>cd .. >>>>make oldconfig >>>> >>>>At this point I am lost. Where do I tell highpoint where my kernel >>>>source is? >>>> >>>>I tried this: >>>>make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12 >>>>but I just got a lot of errors. >>>> >>>>Has anyone used this card and can get me an idea on what I need to do. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>It'd help if we could see some of the errors you got. You probably need >>>to actually build the kernel and modules...some 3rd party drivers need a >>>real kernel and not just the configured source: >>> >>> # cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12 >>> # make bzImage;make modules >>> >>>After that, your make command for the driver should work. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>I ran the "make bzImage;make modules" commands then build the driver. >>See below for the output. I then ran insmod to load the driver and got a >>Invalid module format error. I see a couple warnings in building the >>driver. Any ideas what to do next. First time building my own drivers. >>Thanks for your help. >> >>[root at calonweb003 drivers]# make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12 RR1520=0 >>cp -f raid.o raid.obj >>make -C /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12 SUBDIRS=`pwd` >>modules >>make[1]: Entering directory >>`/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12' >> CC [M] /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.o >>In file included from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.c:49: >>drivers/scsi/hosts.h:1:2: warning: #warning "This file is obsolete, please >>use instead" >>In file included from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.c:129: >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/entry.c: In function `fOsBuildSgl': >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/entry.c:903: warning: implicit >>declaration of function `scsi_to_pci_dma_dir' >>In file included from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.c:130: >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c: In function `hpt_set_info': >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:230: warning: `verify_area' is >>deprecated (declared at include/asm/uaccess.h:105) >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:236: warning: `verify_area' is >>deprecated (declared at include/asm/uaccess.h:105) >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:242: warning: `verify_area' is >>deprecated (declared at include/asm/uaccess.h:105) >>In file included from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.c:130: >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:260: warning: ignoring return >>value of `copy_from_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:268: warning: ignoring return >>value of `copy_to_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:272: warning: ignoring return >>value of `copy_to_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result >>In file included from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/ioctl.c:6, >> from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.c:131: >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/gui_lib.c: In function `get_array_info': >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/gui_lib.c:271: warning: ISO C90 forbids >>mixed declarations and code >> LD [M] /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt37x2.o >> Building modules, stage 2. >> MODPOST >>Warning: could not find /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/.raid.obj.cmd for >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/raid.obj >> >> > >Note the message above. > > > >>*** Warning: "scsi_to_pci_dma_dir" >>[/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt37x2.ko] undefined! >> >> > >And that one. > > > >> CC /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt37x2.mod.o >> LD [M] /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt37x2.ko >>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12' >>[root at calonweb003 drivers]# modprobe sd_mod >>[root at calonweb003 drivers]# insmod ./hpt37x2.o >>insmod: error inserting './hpt37x2.o': -1 Invalid module format >> >> > >First off, Mark, 2.6 kernels use ".ko" modules, not ".o" modules, so >your forced "insmod ./htp37x2.o" is invalid. If there's a "htp37x2.ko" >module, try to insmod that instead. > >Second, it looks suspiciously like the .ko has an issue with an >undefined global, "scsi_to_pci_dma_dir" as denoted in the second line >I said to not. This may be caused by the missing file mentioned in the >first line I said to note. I don't know if it's fatal or not. > >As I said, if there's a ".ko" module, insmod that and see if things >work. > > I send an email to the company's tech support asking about the undefined global "scsi_to_pci_dma_dir". I also asked them about the .ko module. I will let you know what they say. Thanks Rick for your help on this. Mark. >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >- - >- Squawk! Pieces of Seven! Pieces of Seven! Parity Error! - >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-install-list mailing list >Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >Subject: unsubscribe > > -- ___________________________________________ Mark McCulligh, Web Consultant VisualTech Components www.VisualTech.ca mmcculli at visualtech.ca (519)318-7905 From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Feb 14 19:53:46 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:53:46 -0800 Subject: Highpoint IDE Raid Card In-Reply-To: <43F22452.2030601@visualtech.ca> References: <43F11809.8020200@visualtech.ca> <1139875087.26796.56.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43F137F2.7040403@visualtech.ca> <1139941744.26796.88.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43F22452.2030601@visualtech.ca> Message-ID: <1139946826.26796.99.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 13:41 -0500, Mark McCulligh wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > > >On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 20:52 -0500, Mark McCulligh wrote: > > > > > >>Rick Stevens wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 18:36 -0500, Mark McCulligh wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Hi Group, > >>>> > >>>>I have a Hightpoint RocketRAID 133 raid card that I am trying to > >>>>install. I downloaded the driver from their website and I have to > >>>>configure it with the kernel source. > >>>> > >>>>make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.4-52-default [from their readme file] > >>>> > >>>>To get my kernel source as I know it is no longer part of the default > >>>>install I did the following commands. > >>>>up2date --get-source kernel > >>>>rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.12-1-1381_FC3.src.rpm > >>>>cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS > >>>>rpmbuild -bp --target=i586 kernel-2.6.spec > >>>>cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12/configs > >>>>cp kernel-2.6.12-i586.config ./.config > >>>>cd .. > >>>>make oldconfig > >>>> > >>>>At this point I am lost. Where do I tell highpoint where my kernel > >>>>source is? > >>>> > >>>>I tried this: > >>>>make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12 > >>>>but I just got a lot of errors. > >>>> > >>>>Has anyone used this card and can get me an idea on what I need to do. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>It'd help if we could see some of the errors you got. You probably need > >>>to actually build the kernel and modules...some 3rd party drivers need a > >>>real kernel and not just the configured source: > >>> > >>> # cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12 > >>> # make bzImage;make modules > >>> > >>>After that, your make command for the driver should work. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>I ran the "make bzImage;make modules" commands then build the driver. > >>See below for the output. I then ran insmod to load the driver and got a > >>Invalid module format error. I see a couple warnings in building the > >>driver. Any ideas what to do next. First time building my own drivers. > >>Thanks for your help. > >> > >>[root at calonweb003 drivers]# make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12 RR1520=0 > >>cp -f raid.o raid.obj > >>make -C /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12 SUBDIRS=`pwd` > >>modules > >>make[1]: Entering directory > >>`/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12' > >> CC [M] /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.o > >>In file included from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.c:49: > >>drivers/scsi/hosts.h:1:2: warning: #warning "This file is obsolete, please > >>use instead" > >>In file included from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.c:129: > >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/entry.c: In function `fOsBuildSgl': > >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/entry.c:903: warning: implicit > >>declaration of function `scsi_to_pci_dma_dir' > >>In file included from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.c:130: > >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c: In function `hpt_set_info': > >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:230: warning: `verify_area' is > >>deprecated (declared at include/asm/uaccess.h:105) > >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:236: warning: `verify_area' is > >>deprecated (declared at include/asm/uaccess.h:105) > >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:242: warning: `verify_area' is > >>deprecated (declared at include/asm/uaccess.h:105) > >>In file included from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.c:130: > >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:260: warning: ignoring return > >>value of `copy_from_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result > >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:268: warning: ignoring return > >>value of `copy_to_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result > >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hptproc.c:272: warning: ignoring return > >>value of `copy_to_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result > >>In file included from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/ioctl.c:6, > >> from /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt.c:131: > >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/gui_lib.c: In function `get_array_info': > >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/gui_lib.c:271: warning: ISO C90 forbids > >>mixed declarations and code > >> LD [M] /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt37x2.o > >> Building modules, stage 2. > >> MODPOST > >>Warning: could not find /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/.raid.obj.cmd for > >>/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/raid.obj > >> > >> > > > >Note the message above. > > > > > > > >>*** Warning: "scsi_to_pci_dma_dir" > >>[/usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt37x2.ko] undefined! > >> > >> > > > >And that one. > > > > > > > >> CC /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt37x2.mod.o > >> LD [M] /usr/local/src/highpoint/drivers/hpt37x2.ko > >>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12' > >>[root at calonweb003 drivers]# modprobe sd_mod > >>[root at calonweb003 drivers]# insmod ./hpt37x2.o > >>insmod: error inserting './hpt37x2.o': -1 Invalid module format > >> > >> > > > >First off, Mark, 2.6 kernels use ".ko" modules, not ".o" modules, so > >your forced "insmod ./htp37x2.o" is invalid. If there's a "htp37x2.ko" > >module, try to insmod that instead. > > > >Second, it looks suspiciously like the .ko has an issue with an > >undefined global, "scsi_to_pci_dma_dir" as denoted in the second line > >I said to not. This may be caused by the missing file mentioned in the > >first line I said to note. I don't know if it's fatal or not. > > > >As I said, if there's a ".ko" module, insmod that and see if things > >work. > > > > > I send an email to the company's tech support asking about the undefined > global "scsi_to_pci_dma_dir". I also asked them about the .ko module. > I will let you know what they say. > > Thanks Rick for your help on this. "That's what we're here for" --(c)2006, Red Hat Install List ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. - - -- Groucho Marx - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From tkobayas at indiana.edu Tue Feb 14 23:23:47 2006 From: tkobayas at indiana.edu (tkobayas at indiana.edu) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:23:47 -0500 Subject: Installation does not start.... Message-ID: <20060214182347.kgbegsbf8cwkkswg@webmail-beta.iu.edu> Hi, I have migrated from WIN to LINUX just now and am trying to install RH WS4 on my celeron 351 CPU machine. As I would like to see how 64 bit redhat does for me, I downloaded and burned x86_64 iso images to 5 CDs. When I try to install WS4, it does not start installation processes, but instead, "ISOLINUX 3-11 ..." stays in black screen forever.... My motherboard is built in with Intel's graphic 950. According to Intel, this graphic chip is compatible with Linux. Is there something I should have done to start installing? Even if it starts, how can I install Intel's graphic driver so that I can enjoy graphic installation? Should I go with linux text??? Sorry for stupidly fundamental questions.. Help appreciated in advance. Taka From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Feb 14 23:53:19 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:53:19 -0800 Subject: Installation does not start.... In-Reply-To: <20060214182347.kgbegsbf8cwkkswg@webmail-beta.iu.edu> References: <20060214182347.kgbegsbf8cwkkswg@webmail-beta.iu.edu> Message-ID: <1139961199.26796.104.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 18:23 -0500, tkobayas at indiana.edu wrote: > Hi, > > I have migrated from WIN to LINUX just now and am trying to install RH > WS4 on my celeron 351 CPU machine. As I would like to see how 64 bit > redhat does for me, I downloaded and burned x86_64 iso images to 5 CDs. > > When I try to install WS4, it does not start installation processes, > but instead, "ISOLINUX 3-11 ..." stays in black screen forever.... My > motherboard is built in with Intel's graphic 950. According to Intel, > this graphic chip is compatible with Linux. > > Is there something I should have done to start installing? Even if it > starts, how can I install Intel's graphic driver so that I can enjoy > graphic installation? Should I go with linux text??? Intel Celeron processors are 32-bit processors and can't run 64-bit operating systems. You need an AMD Athlon-64, AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon-64 processor to run the x68_64 version. You should download and install the x86 version. Note that the 64-bit processors I mention above can run EITHER the x86_64 (64-bit) or x86 (32-bit) operating systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Do not taunt the sysadmins, for they are subtle and quick to anger - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From k_vepuri at yahoo.com Wed Feb 15 15:49:04 2006 From: k_vepuri at yahoo.com (koteswararao vepuri) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:49:04 -0800 (PST) Subject: Mozilla web Browser not working Message-ID: <20060215154904.55715.qmail@web53904.mail.yahoo.com> Hi, Mozilla browser on my Linux used to work. Now when I open it is opening an alert window with no messages in it. I am not seeing any error messages in /var/log/messages also. Vesrion ES 3 Can anybody tell me how to resolve this issue? Thanks, Kotesh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From gnichols at tpg.com.au Thu Feb 16 02:29:32 2006 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:29:32 +1100 Subject: Somewhat OT email addresses Message-ID: <43F3E38C.3030709@tpg.com.au> Hello Folks, I know this is somewhat OT but I was wondering if it is possible to send an email with an address in the following format; username@[IP address] I have been fiddling around because a person with whom I was writing to has suddenly become unknown, possibly because of DNS failure, I'm not sure, and the mail is returned undeliverable as the domain is unknown. They are having the same problem sending mail to me. I did a ping on my ISP's SMTP mail server and while there was a 100% failure rate on the packets, most probably due to some firewall setting, I was given the IP address, in this case, 203.12.160.34 I sent a test email to name at 203.12.160.34 but it bounced with the following error; 553 5.3.5 203.12.160.34 config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) 554 5.3.5 Local configuration error Is it possible to do what I am trying and circumvent the DNS? If SKP can help me I would appreciate it. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kind regards, Graeme. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. -- Ogden Nash From jkinz at kinz.org Thu Feb 16 03:15:49 2006 From: jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:15:49 -0500 Subject: Somewhat OT email addresses In-Reply-To: <43F3E38C.3030709@tpg.com.au>; from gnichols@tpg.com.au on Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:29:32PM +1100 References: <43F3E38C.3030709@tpg.com.au> Message-ID: <20060215221549.A9982@redline.comcast.net> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:29:32PM +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote: > Hello Folks, > > I know this is somewhat OT but I was wondering if it is possible to send > an email with an address in the following format; username@[IP address] Yes, it works. I've done it. May not work for all MTA's. Some may require a domain name. > I have been fiddling around because a person with whom I was writing to > has suddenly become unknown, possibly because of DNS failure, I'm not > sure, and the mail is returned undeliverable as the domain is unknown. > They are having the same problem sending mail to me. > > I did a ping on my ISP's SMTP mail server and while there was a 100% > failure rate on the packets, most probably due to some firewall setting, > I was given the IP address, in this case, 203.12.160.34 > > I sent a test email to name at 203.12.160.34 but it bounced with the > following error; > > 553 5.3.5 203.12.160.34 config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) > 554 5.3.5 Local configuration error > > Is it possible to do what I am trying and circumvent the DNS? > > If SKP can help me I would appreciate it. > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Kind regards, > > Graeme. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. > -- Ogden Nash > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Brandeis To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness. -- Eugene Ionesco From gnichols at tpg.com.au Thu Feb 16 03:41:22 2006 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:41:22 +1100 Subject: Somewhat OT email addresses In-Reply-To: <20060215221549.A9982@redline.comcast.net> References: <43F3E38C.3030709@tpg.com.au> <20060215221549.A9982@redline.comcast.net> Message-ID: <43F3F462.9030709@tpg.com.au> Jeff Kinz wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:29:32PM +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote: > >>Hello Folks, >> >>I know this is somewhat OT but I was wondering if it is possible to send >>an email with an address in the following format; username@[IP address] > > > Yes, it works. I've done it. May not work for all MTA's. Some > may require a domain name. OK. Thank you very much Jeff. > > > >>I have been fiddling around because a person with whom I was writing to >>has suddenly become unknown, possibly because of DNS failure, I'm not >>sure, and the mail is returned undeliverable as the domain is unknown. >>They are having the same problem sending mail to me. >> >>I did a ping on my ISP's SMTP mail server and while there was a 100% >>failure rate on the packets, most probably due to some firewall setting, >>I was given the IP address, in this case, 203.12.160.34 >> >>I sent a test email to name at 203.12.160.34 but it bounced with the >>following error; >> >>553 5.3.5 203.12.160.34 config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) >>554 5.3.5 Local configuration error >> >>Is it possible to do what I am trying and circumvent the DNS? >> >>If SKP can help me I would appreciate it. >> >>-- >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>Kind regards, >> >>Graeme. >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. >> -- Ogden Nash >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Redhat-install-list mailing list >>Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >>To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >>redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >>Subject: unsubscribe >> > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kind regards, Graeme. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In the long run we are all dead. -- John Maynard Keynes From bret_stern at machinemanagement.com Thu Feb 16 03:55:52 2006 From: bret_stern at machinemanagement.com (Bret Stern) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:55:52 -0800 Subject: Somewhat OT email addresses In-Reply-To: <20060215221549.A9982@redline.comcast.net> Message-ID: <001201c632ac$e1c47470$0300a8c0@mmbret> you should use a domain name with email. it may work internally, or unreliably on the outside. mail delivery systems will generally not want to work with ip numbers in email addresses. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Kinz Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 7:16 PM To: RedHat Install List Subject: Re: Somewhat OT email addresses On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:29:32PM +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote: > Hello Folks, > > I know this is somewhat OT but I was wondering if it is possible to > send an email with an address in the following format; username@[IP > address] Yes, it works. I've done it. May not work for all MTA's. Some may require a domain name. > I have been fiddling around because a person with whom I was writing > to has suddenly become unknown, possibly because of DNS failure, I'm > not sure, and the mail is returned undeliverable as the domain is unknown. > They are having the same problem sending mail to me. > > I did a ping on my ISP's SMTP mail server and while there was a 100% > failure rate on the packets, most probably due to some firewall > setting, I was given the IP address, in this case, 203.12.160.34 > > I sent a test email to name at 203.12.160.34 but it bounced with the > following error; > > 553 5.3.5 203.12.160.34 config error: mail loops back to me (MX > problem?) > 554 5.3.5 Local configuration error > > Is it possible to do what I am trying and circumvent the DNS? > > If SKP can help me I would appreciate it. > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Kind regards, > > Graeme. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. > -- Ogden Nash > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Brandeis To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness. -- Eugene Ionesco _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Subject: unsubscribe From jkinz at kinz.org Thu Feb 16 12:15:39 2006 From: jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:15:39 -0500 Subject: Somewhat OT email addresses In-Reply-To: <001201c632ac$e1c47470$0300a8c0@mmbret>; from bret_stern@machinemanagement.com on Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 07:55:52PM -0800 References: <20060215221549.A9982@redline.comcast.net> <001201c632ac$e1c47470$0300a8c0@mmbret> Message-ID: <20060216071539.B9982@redline.comcast.net> On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 07:55:52PM -0800, Bret Stern wrote: Bret, please fix your email client And please try not to top post To fix outlook express: http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ To fix Outlook: http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/ > you should use a domain name with email. it may work internally, > or unreliably on the outside. mail delivery systems will generally > not want to work with ip numbers in email addresses. The first thing done when actually sending an email is translate the domain name to an IP address. Since 1981 I've always been able to send emails via an IP address. Now I know I haven't encountered every MTA in existence but I view that experience as somewhat indicative. Try this experiment: Get a gmail account, compose and send an email to yourself@[your IP address] see if you get it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Kinz > Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 7:16 PM > To: RedHat Install List > Subject: Re: Somewhat OT email addresses > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:29:32PM +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote: > > Hello Folks, > > > > I know this is somewhat OT but I was wondering if it is possible to > > send an email with an address in the following format; username@[IP > > address] > > Yes, it works. I've done it. May not work for all MTA's. Some may require > a domain name. > > > > I have been fiddling around because a person with whom I was writing > > to has suddenly become unknown, possibly because of DNS failure, I'm > > not sure, and the mail is returned undeliverable as the domain is unknown. > > They are having the same problem sending mail to me. > > > > I did a ping on my ISP's SMTP mail server and while there was a 100% > > failure rate on the packets, most probably due to some firewall > > setting, I was given the IP address, in this case, 203.12.160.34 > > > > I sent a test email to name at 203.12.160.34 but it bounced with the > > following error; > > > > 553 5.3.5 203.12.160.34 config error: mail loops back to me (MX > > problem?) > > 554 5.3.5 Local configuration error > > > > Is it possible to do what I am trying and circumvent the DNS? > > > > If SKP can help me I would appreciate it. > > > > -- > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Kind regards, > > > > Graeme. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. > > -- Ogden Nash > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > > Subject: unsubscribe > > > > -- > Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. > speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail > > "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of > zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Brandeis > > To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is > madness. -- Eugene Ionesco > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Brandeis To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness. -- Eugene Ionesco From JMARTI05 at intersil.com Thu Feb 16 13:46:17 2006 From: JMARTI05 at intersil.com (Martin, Jonathan (Contractor)) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:46:17 -0500 Subject: Somewhat OT email addresses Message-ID: <13E204E614D8E04FAF594C9AA9ED0BB702EA87DD@PBCOMX02.intersil.corp> I'd say your chances of this working are slim to none. Most modern MTAs require a domain name, because they can or do accept email for multiple domains. If for example you email user at 1.1.1.1 and 1.1.1.1 accepts email for company.com and department.company.com its not going to know where to route that email to. In the "old days" before virtual hosting this would more commonly work, but since the concept of NATs came about and people found out its easier (and cheaper) to secure one external IP than 12, this concept has been all but quashed. *IF* by some miracle the mail server can look itself up (i.e. reverse lookup the ip you are emailing to) and that IP's reverse DNS points to the mail domain it might work. Honestly though, someone needs to go to godaddy.com, spend $5 and renew their domain. -Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Graeme Nichols Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 9:30 PM To: RedHat Install List Subject: Somewhat OT email addresses Hello Folks, I know this is somewhat OT but I was wondering if it is possible to send an email with an address in the following format; username@[IP address] I have been fiddling around because a person with whom I was writing to has suddenly become unknown, possibly because of DNS failure, I'm not sure, and the mail is returned undeliverable as the domain is unknown. They are having the same problem sending mail to me. I did a ping on my ISP's SMTP mail server and while there was a 100% failure rate on the packets, most probably due to some firewall setting, I was given the IP address, in this case, 203.12.160.34 I sent a test email to name at 203.12.160.34 but it bounced with the following error; 553 5.3.5 203.12.160.34 config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) 554 5.3.5 Local configuration error Is it possible to do what I am trying and circumvent the DNS? If SKP can help me I would appreciate it. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kind regards, Graeme. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. -- Ogden Nash _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Subject: unsubscribe From jkinz at kinz.org Thu Feb 16 17:19:31 2006 From: jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:19:31 -0500 Subject: Somewhat OT email addresses In-Reply-To: <43F3E38C.3030709@tpg.com.au>; from gnichols@tpg.com.au on Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:29:32PM +1100 References: <43F3E38C.3030709@tpg.com.au> Message-ID: <20060216121931.C9982@redline.comcast.net> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:29:32PM +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote: > Hello Folks, > > I know this is somewhat OT but I was wondering if it is possible to send > an email with an address in the following format; username@[IP address] > > I have been fiddling around because a person with whom I was writing to > has suddenly become unknown, possibly because of DNS failure, I'm not > sure, and the mail is returned undeliverable as the domain is unknown. > They are having the same problem sending mail to me. > > I did a ping on my ISP's SMTP mail server and while there was a 100% > failure rate on the packets, most probably due to some firewall setting, > I was given the IP address, in this case, 203.12.160.34 > > I sent a test email to name at 203.12.160.34 but it bounced with the > following error; Graeme, I see one issue here that you would need to fix, assuming you are trying to send am email to someone other than yourself. You need to enter the IP address of their domain (or their domain's SMTP server), not the IP of your ISP's SMTP server. Or have I misunderstood your intent? -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Brandeis To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness. -- Eugene Ionesco From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Feb 16 18:09:35 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:09:35 -0800 Subject: Somewhat OT email addresses In-Reply-To: <20060216121931.C9982@redline.comcast.net> References: <43F3E38C.3030709@tpg.com.au> <20060216121931.C9982@redline.comcast.net> Message-ID: <1140113376.26796.156.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 12:19 -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:29:32PM +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote: > > Hello Folks, > > > > I know this is somewhat OT but I was wondering if it is possible to send > > an email with an address in the following format; username@[IP address] > > > > I have been fiddling around because a person with whom I was writing to > > has suddenly become unknown, possibly because of DNS failure, I'm not > > sure, and the mail is returned undeliverable as the domain is unknown. > > They are having the same problem sending mail to me. > > > > I did a ping on my ISP's SMTP mail server and while there was a 100% > > failure rate on the packets, most probably due to some firewall setting, > > I was given the IP address, in this case, 203.12.160.34 > > > > I sent a test email to name at 203.12.160.34 but it bounced with the > > following error; > > > > Graeme, I see one issue here that you would need to fix, assuming you > are trying to send am email to someone other than yourself. > > You need to enter the IP address of their domain (or their domain's SMTP > server), not the IP of your ISP's SMTP server. Graeme, Jeff's right. You can't send mail to YOUR SMTP server and expect it to go out. If sending mail to "yourfriend at theirdomain.tld" doesn't work, you're probably having an issue with DNS. A quick test is if you can surf the web on your machine. If not, then you definitely have a DNS issue. This can be caused by several factors: you haven't configured the DNS on your machine properly (this is the "/etc/resolv.conf" file), or you have DNS blocked by a firewall somewhere (either via iptables on your machine or by the firewall on your router or modem...possibly both). Your /etc/resolv.conf file should contain AT A MINIMUM, one line: nameserver ip-address-of-your-ISP's-DNS-server For example: nameserver 64.7.192.162 Ideally, you'd have two or three lines, one for each of your ISP's DNS servers: nameserver 64.7.192.162 nameserver 64.7.192.163 If you don't know your ISP's DNS server addresses, ask them for them. If you still can't get them, use the lines above. They're for our DNS servers and I don't mind if you use them. Being the wonderful human being I am, I won't even charge you for their use! :-) Next, you have to check your firewall settings. On your local machine, use "iptables -L -n". You MUST permit TCP and UDP connections to port 53 on your machine for DNS to work. Appropriate lines to add to your /etc/sysconfig/iptables file are: -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --sport 53 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --sport 53 -j ACCEPT Also check the firewall on your router or cable/DSL modem and verify they allow incoming and outgoing TCP and UDP messages using port 53. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I.R.S.: We've got what it takes to take what you've got! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gnichols at tpg.com.au Fri Feb 17 01:54:24 2006 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:54:24 +1100 Subject: Somewhat OT email addresses In-Reply-To: <20060216121931.C9982@redline.comcast.net> References: <43F3E38C.3030709@tpg.com.au> <20060216121931.C9982@redline.comcast.net> Message-ID: <43F52CD0.7080205@tpg.com.au> Jeff Kinz wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:29:32PM +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote: > >>Hello Folks, >> >>I know this is somewhat OT but I was wondering if it is possible to send >>an email with an address in the following format; username@[IP address] >> >>I have been fiddling around because a person with whom I was writing to >>has suddenly become unknown, possibly because of DNS failure, I'm not >>sure, and the mail is returned undeliverable as the domain is unknown. >>They are having the same problem sending mail to me. >> >>I did a ping on my ISP's SMTP mail server and while there was a 100% >>failure rate on the packets, most probably due to some firewall setting, >>I was given the IP address, in this case, 203.12.160.34 >> >>I sent a test email to name at 203.12.160.34 but it bounced with the >>following error; > > > > > Graeme, I see one issue here that you would need to fix, assuming you > are trying to send am email to someone other than yourself. > > You need to enter the IP address of their domain (or their domain's SMTP > server), not the IP of your ISP's SMTP server. > > Or have I misunderstood your intent? > > Hi Jeff, You've understood me corectly. I made a few phone calls yesterday and discovered that the people who own the domain have apparently failed to renew it. Its no longer a valid domain name. Before I discovered that I thought that there -may- have been a DNS failure and it -may- have been possible to address the mail to their IP address bypassing the DNS. I was sending mail from my account to the address name@[my ISP's SMTP IP address], not their ISP's SMTP IP address, which I cannot obtain anyway. My MTA sent the mail OK but it bounced back with the error I posted earlier. I haven't achieved my objective, for obvious reasons, but I have learned a lot thanks to everyone who helped me. Who said you cannot teach an old dog new tricks? Thank you to everybody. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kind regards, Graeme. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Normal times may possibly be over forever. From gnichols at tpg.com.au Fri Feb 17 02:23:05 2006 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:23:05 +1100 Subject: Somewhat OT email addresses In-Reply-To: <1140113376.26796.156.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <43F3E38C.3030709@tpg.com.au> <20060216121931.C9982@redline.comcast.net> <1140113376.26796.156.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <43F53389.2030102@tpg.com.au> Rick Stevens wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 12:19 -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote: > >>On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:29:32PM +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote: >> >>>Hello Folks, >>> >>>I know this is somewhat OT but I was wondering if it is possible to send >>>an email with an address in the following format; username@[IP address] >>> >>>I have been fiddling around because a person with whom I was writing to >>>has suddenly become unknown, possibly because of DNS failure, I'm not >>>sure, and the mail is returned undeliverable as the domain is unknown. >>>They are having the same problem sending mail to me. >>> >>>I did a ping on my ISP's SMTP mail server and while there was a 100% >>>failure rate on the packets, most probably due to some firewall setting, >>>I was given the IP address, in this case, 203.12.160.34 >>> >>>I sent a test email to name at 203.12.160.34 but it bounced with the >>>following error; >> >> >> >>Graeme, I see one issue here that you would need to fix, assuming you >>are trying to send am email to someone other than yourself. >> >>You need to enter the IP address of their domain (or their domain's SMTP >>server), not the IP of your ISP's SMTP server. > > > Graeme, Jeff's right. You can't send mail to YOUR SMTP server and > expect it to go out. Hi Rick, yes, I can understand that now. > > If sending mail to "yourfriend at theirdomain.tld" doesn't work, you're > probably having an issue with DNS. A quick test is if you can surf the > web on your machine. If not, then you definitely have a DNS issue. > This can be caused by several factors: you haven't configured the DNS > on your machine properly (this is the "/etc/resolv.conf" file), or you > have DNS blocked by a firewall somewhere (either via iptables on your > machine or by the firewall on your router or modem...possibly both). > > Your /etc/resolv.conf file should contain AT A MINIMUM, one line: > > nameserver ip-address-of-your-ISP's-DNS-server > > For example: > > nameserver 64.7.192.162 > > Ideally, you'd have two or three lines, one for each of your ISP's DNS > servers: > > nameserver 64.7.192.162 > nameserver 64.7.192.163 My /etc/resolv.conf only had their primary DNS so I added the second line containing their secondary DNS. > > If you don't know your ISP's DNS server addresses, ask them for them. > If you still can't get them, use the lines above. They're for our > DNS servers and I don't mind if you use them. Being the wonderful human > being I am, I won't even charge you for their use! :-) Ohhh... thank you Rick. Your blood is worth bottling you know. :-) > > Next, you have to check your firewall settings. On your local machine, > use "iptables -L -n". You MUST permit TCP and UDP connections to port > 53 on your machine for DNS to work. Appropriate lines to add to your > /etc/sysconfig/iptables file are: > > -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT > -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --sport 53 -j ACCEPT > -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT > -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --sport 53 -j ACCEPT My /etc/sysconfig/iptables file contains the following:- [graeme at barney ~]$ sudo /sbin/iptables -L -n Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 ACCEPT icmp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 255 ACCEPT esp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 ACCEPT ah -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 ACCEPT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state RELATED,ESTABLISHED ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:22 REJECT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with icmp-host-prohibited You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/graeme [graeme at barney ~]$ While I haven't expressly allowed your above it appears that I have covered it in the ALL or am I having myself on? I used the graphical interface and selected the highest security when I set up my firewall. So far I don't seem to have had a problem but that may be good luck rather than good management. Would you suggest that I add your suggestion directly into the file as you have written them? IPtables is a black art to me :-) > > Also check the firewall on your router or cable/DSL modem and verify > they allow incoming and outgoing TCP and UDP messages using port 53. Again, my router has the following set:- Telnet Telnet traffic is blocked from the WAN to the LAN FTP FTP traffic is blocked from the WAN to the LAN TFTP TFTP traffic is blocked from the WAN to the LAN Web Web traffic is blocked from the WAN to the LAN SNMP SNMP traffic is blocked from the WAN Ping Ping traffic is blocked from the WAN That is all I can set up in my router, a Billion ADSL Router Switch 5100. I guess that everything that is not blocked above is allowed. Thanks for the help Rick. Its much appreciated. And thanks to Jeff, Brett and Martin as well for their assistance, all of which is appreciated. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kind regards, Graeme. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A neighbor came to Nasrudin, asking to borrow his donkey. "It is out on loan," the teacher replied. At that moment, the donkey brayed loudly inside the stable. "But I can hear it bray, over there." "Whom do you believe," asked Nasrudin, "me or a donkey?" From jkinz at kinz.org Fri Feb 17 02:34:16 2006 From: jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:34:16 -0500 Subject: Somewhat OT email addresses In-Reply-To: <43F52CD0.7080205@tpg.com.au>; from gnichols@tpg.com.au on Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 12:54:24PM +1100 References: <43F3E38C.3030709@tpg.com.au> <20060216121931.C9982@redline.comcast.net> <43F52CD0.7080205@tpg.com.au> Message-ID: <20060216213416.D9982@redline.comcast.net> On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 12:54:24PM +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote: > I haven't achieved my objective, for obvious reasons, but I have learned > a lot thanks to everyone who helped me. Who said you cannot teach an old > dog new tricks? Well ,even if you do teach an old dog new tricks, the arthritis will keep it from doing them. Oh, sorry, activated non-sequiter mode there for a moment.... -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Brandeis To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness. -- Eugene Ionesco From gnichols at tpg.com.au Fri Feb 17 03:35:28 2006 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:35:28 +1100 Subject: Somewhat OT email addresses In-Reply-To: <20060216213416.D9982@redline.comcast.net> References: <43F3E38C.3030709@tpg.com.au> <20060216121931.C9982@redline.comcast.net> <43F52CD0.7080205@tpg.com.au> <20060216213416.D9982@redline.comcast.net> Message-ID: <43F54480.4050509@tpg.com.au> Jeff Kinz wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 12:54:24PM +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote: > >>I haven't achieved my objective, for obvious reasons, but I have learned >>a lot thanks to everyone who helped me. Who said you cannot teach an old >>dog new tricks? > > > Well ,even if you do teach an old dog new tricks, the arthritis will > keep it from doing them. > > Oh, sorry, activated non-sequiter mode there for a moment.... > > This old dog aint that old...., yet.... :-) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kind regards, Graeme. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always. -- Albert Schweitzer From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Feb 17 18:40:37 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:40:37 -0800 Subject: Somewhat OT email addresses In-Reply-To: <43F52CD0.7080205@tpg.com.au> References: <43F3E38C.3030709@tpg.com.au> <20060216121931.C9982@redline.comcast.net> <43F52CD0.7080205@tpg.com.au> Message-ID: <1140201637.26796.184.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 12:54 +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote: > Jeff Kinz wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:29:32PM +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote: > > > >>Hello Folks, > >> > >>I know this is somewhat OT but I was wondering if it is possible to send > >>an email with an address in the following format; username@[IP address] > >> > >>I have been fiddling around because a person with whom I was writing to > >>has suddenly become unknown, possibly because of DNS failure, I'm not > >>sure, and the mail is returned undeliverable as the domain is unknown. > >>They are having the same problem sending mail to me. > >> > >>I did a ping on my ISP's SMTP mail server and while there was a 100% > >>failure rate on the packets, most probably due to some firewall setting, > >>I was given the IP address, in this case, 203.12.160.34 > >> > >>I sent a test email to name at 203.12.160.34 but it bounced with the > >>following error; > > > > > > > > > > Graeme, I see one issue here that you would need to fix, assuming you > > are trying to send am email to someone other than yourself. > > > > You need to enter the IP address of their domain (or their domain's SMTP > > server), not the IP of your ISP's SMTP server. > > > > Or have I misunderstood your intent? > > > > > Hi Jeff, You've understood me corectly. I made a few phone calls > yesterday and discovered that the people who own the domain have > apparently failed to renew it. Its no longer a valid domain name. > > Before I discovered that I thought that there -may- have been a DNS > failure and it -may- have been possible to address the mail to their IP > address bypassing the DNS. I was sending mail from my account to the > address name@[my ISP's SMTP IP address], not their ISP's SMTP IP > address, which I cannot obtain anyway. My MTA sent the mail OK but it > bounced back with the error I posted earlier. Outgoing mail should NEVER have your SMTP server's address in the name. It must be the domain name of the recipient OR the IP address of the recipient's MX server (as shown in a "dig domain.tld mx" command). You should NEVER specify your SMTP server in an address. That's handled by entries in your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf (or /etc/mail/client.cf) file. > I haven't achieved my objective, for obvious reasons, but I have learned > a lot thanks to everyone who helped me. Who said you cannot teach an old > dog new tricks? > > Thank you to everybody. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Silence! Or I shall replace you with a very small shell script! - - - The Wizard of OS - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Feb 17 19:41:52 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:41:52 -0800 Subject: Somewhat OT email addresses In-Reply-To: <43F53389.2030102@tpg.com.au> References: <43F3E38C.3030709@tpg.com.au> <20060216121931.C9982@redline.comcast.net> <1140113376.26796.156.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43F53389.2030102@tpg.com.au> Message-ID: <1140205312.26796.191.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 13:23 +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 12:19 -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote: > > > >>On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:29:32PM +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote: > >> > >>>Hello Folks, > >>> > >>>I know this is somewhat OT but I was wondering if it is possible to send > >>>an email with an address in the following format; username@[IP address] > >>> > >>>I have been fiddling around because a person with whom I was writing to > >>>has suddenly become unknown, possibly because of DNS failure, I'm not > >>>sure, and the mail is returned undeliverable as the domain is unknown. > >>>They are having the same problem sending mail to me. > >>> > >>>I did a ping on my ISP's SMTP mail server and while there was a 100% > >>>failure rate on the packets, most probably due to some firewall setting, > >>>I was given the IP address, in this case, 203.12.160.34 > >>> > >>>I sent a test email to name at 203.12.160.34 but it bounced with the > >>>following error; > >> > >> > >> > >>Graeme, I see one issue here that you would need to fix, assuming you > >>are trying to send am email to someone other than yourself. > >> > >>You need to enter the IP address of their domain (or their domain's SMTP > >>server), not the IP of your ISP's SMTP server. > > > > > > Graeme, Jeff's right. You can't send mail to YOUR SMTP server and > > expect it to go out. > > Hi Rick, yes, I can understand that now. > > > > If sending mail to "yourfriend at theirdomain.tld" doesn't work, you're > > probably having an issue with DNS. A quick test is if you can surf the > > web on your machine. If not, then you definitely have a DNS issue. > > This can be caused by several factors: you haven't configured the DNS > > on your machine properly (this is the "/etc/resolv.conf" file), or you > > have DNS blocked by a firewall somewhere (either via iptables on your > > machine or by the firewall on your router or modem...possibly both). > > > > Your /etc/resolv.conf file should contain AT A MINIMUM, one line: > > > > nameserver ip-address-of-your-ISP's-DNS-server > > > > For example: > > > > nameserver 64.7.192.162 > > > > Ideally, you'd have two or three lines, one for each of your ISP's DNS > > servers: > > > > nameserver 64.7.192.162 > > nameserver 64.7.192.163 > > My /etc/resolv.conf only had their primary DNS so I added the second > line containing their secondary DNS. > > > > If you don't know your ISP's DNS server addresses, ask them for them. > > If you still can't get them, use the lines above. They're for our > > DNS servers and I don't mind if you use them. Being the wonderful human > > being I am, I won't even charge you for their use! :-) > > Ohhh... thank you Rick. Your blood is worth bottling you know. :-) (Hic! It is in bottles!) :-) > > > > Next, you have to check your firewall settings. On your local machine, > > use "iptables -L -n". You MUST permit TCP and UDP connections to port > > 53 on your machine for DNS to work. Appropriate lines to add to your > > /etc/sysconfig/iptables file are: > > > > -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT > > -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --sport 53 -j ACCEPT > > -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT > > -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --sport 53 -j ACCEPT > > My /etc/sysconfig/iptables file contains the following:- > > [graeme at barney ~]$ sudo /sbin/iptables -L -n > Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) > target prot opt source destination > RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 > > Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) > target prot opt source destination > RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 > > Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) > target prot opt source destination > > Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references) > target prot opt source destination > ACCEPT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 > ACCEPT icmp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 255 > ACCEPT esp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 > ACCEPT ah -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 > ACCEPT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state > RELATED,ESTABLISHED > ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW > tcp dpt:22 > REJECT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with > icmp-host-prohibited > You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/graeme > [graeme at barney ~]$ > > While I haven't expressly allowed your above it appears that I have > covered it in the ALL or am I having myself on? I used the graphical > interface and selected the highest security when I set up my firewall. > So far I don't seem to have had a problem but that may be good luck > rather than good management. Well, it's covered in the 'state RELATED, ESTABLISHED" rule. When you make a DNS query (allowed by the OUTPUT chain), replies will be tagged as "ESTABLISHED" by the INPUT chain and allowed. > Would you suggest that I add your suggestion directly into the file as > you have written them? IPtables is a black art to me :-) No, you're fine. > > Also check the firewall on your router or cable/DSL modem and verify > > they allow incoming and outgoing TCP and UDP messages using port 53. > > Again, my router has the following set:- > > Telnet Telnet traffic is blocked from the WAN to the LAN > FTP FTP traffic is blocked from the WAN to the LAN > TFTP TFTP traffic is blocked from the WAN to the LAN > Web Web traffic is blocked from the WAN to the LAN > SNMP SNMP traffic is blocked from the WAN > Ping Ping traffic is blocked from the WAN > > That is all I can set up in my router, a Billion ADSL Router Switch > 5100. I guess that everything that is not blocked above is allowed. No, you're OK. If you can browse the web, DNS is working. > Thanks for the help Rick. Its much appreciated. And thanks to Jeff, > Brett and Martin as well for their assistance, all of which is appreciated. I'm sure we're all glad to help. 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Biker Blue From harold at hallikainen.com Sat Feb 18 06:06:07 2006 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:06:07 -0800 (PST) Subject: /dev/ttyUSB0 Message-ID: <36477.192.168.1.1.1140242767.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> I'm trying to set up a ppp connection through my cellphone. I'm using a USB to EIA232 adapter on FC4_64. I can talk to the cellphone (send AT commands, dial, etc.) from GtkTerm using /dev/ttyUSB0 when logged in as root. As another user, I get permission denied. Desktop/SystemSettings/Network lets me define a modem device on ports such as dev/ttyS0, etc., dev/modem, dev/tty|1, dev/input/ttyACM0, dev/ttyM0, etc. But, no /dev/ttyUSB0. So... what do I do to set up a ppp connection on my cellphone modem on /dev/ttyUSB0? THANKS! Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com From bc98kinney at yahoo.com Sun Feb 19 23:46:04 2006 From: bc98kinney at yahoo.com (Bob Kinney) Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:46:04 -0800 (PST) Subject: kermit configuration file Message-ID: <20060219234604.25324.qmail@web30715.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I've searched high and low for an answer to this; hopefully somebody here can help. I'm trying to get kermit to read two commands from a .mykermrc file in my home directory: SET LINE /dev/ttyS0 SET CARRIER-WATCH OFF I also have an identical .kermrc. For some reason, the SET LINE command does not work. [bob at micron ~]$ kermit /var/lock C-Kermit 8.0.209, 17 Mar 2003, for Red Hat Linux 8.0 Copyright (C) 1985, 2003, Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. Type ? or HELP for help. (/home/bob/) C-Kermit>show file Transfer mode: automatic File patterns: automatic (SHOW PATTERNS for list) File scan: on 49152 Default file type: binary File names: converted Send pathnames: off Receive pathnames: auto Match dot files: no Wildcard-expansion: kermit File collision: backup File destination: disk File incomplete: auto File bytesize: 8 File character-set: ascii File default 7-bit: ascii File default 8-bit: latin1-iso File UCS bom: on File UCS byte-order: little-endian Computer byteorder: little-endian File end-of-line: lf File eof: length File download-directory: (none) Send move-to: (none) Send rename-to: (none) Receive move-to: (none) Receive rename-to: (none) Initialization file: /home/bob/.kermrc Root set: (none) Disk output buffer: 32768 (writes are buffered, blocking) Stringspace: 500000 Listsize: 102400 Longest filename: 255 Longest pathname: 4096 Last file sent: (none) Last file received: (none) Also see: SHOW PROTOCOL, SHOW XFER, SHOW PATTERNS, SHOW STREAMING, SHOW CHARACTER-SETS (/home/bob/) C-Kermit>show comm Communications Parameters: Line: /dev/tty, speed: unknown, mode: remote, modem: generic Parity: none, duplex: full, flow: none, handshake: none Carrier-watch: off, close-on-disconnect: off Lockfile directory: /var/lock Typical port device name: /dev/ttyS0 Modem signals unavailable Type SHOW DIAL to see DIAL-related items. Type SHOW MODEM to see modem-related items. (/home/bob/) C-Kermit> If I rename .kermrc to hide it, the CARRIER-WATCH line changes to the system default of "auto". Using FC3 on kernel 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3. Anyone have any advice? --cat __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From harold at hallikainen.com Mon Feb 20 02:15:17 2006 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 18:15:17 -0800 (PST) Subject: /dev/ttyUSB0 and PPP In-Reply-To: <36477.192.168.1.1.1140242767.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <36477.192.168.1.1.1140242767.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <58214.192.168.1.1.1140401717.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> > I'm trying to set up a ppp connection through my cellphone. I'm using a USB to EIA232 adapter on FC4_64. I can talk to the cellphone (send AT commands, dial, etc.) from GtkTerm using /dev/ttyUSB0 when logged in as root. As another user, I get permission denied. > > Desktop/SystemSettings/Network lets me define a modem device on ports such > as dev/ttyS0, etc., dev/modem, dev/tty|1, dev/input/ttyACM0, dev/ttyM0, etc. But, no /dev/ttyUSB0. > > So... what do I do to set up a ppp connection on my cellphone modem on /dev/ttyUSB0? > Still working on this... A google search came up with the suggestion that I add ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/modem to my /etc/rc.local . I've done that and am still having trouble getting ppp to dial out. I'm using the network configure menu desktop/SystemSettings/network. At one point, I could see it dial just the 1 dialing prefix, but not the rest of the number. Currently, it doesn't try to dial at all. Instead, I get "cannot connect to network device" when I try to activate it. As root, I can talk to the cellphone using gtkterm. As a non-root user, I get permission denied. Here's a little more info: [root at hhlaptop ~]# ls -l /dev/modem lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 19 18:00 /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyUSB0 [root at hhlaptop ~]# ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Feb 19 18:04 /dev/ttyUSB0 [root at hhlaptop ~]# So... any ideas? THANKS!!! Harold From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Mon Feb 20 04:56:27 2006 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:56:27 -0700 (MST) Subject: Gateway problem In-Reply-To: <1139873907.26796.51.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <1139873907.26796.51.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: > On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 09:10 -0800, Waldher, Travis R wrote: > > > > > brad.mugleston at comcast.net a ?crit : > > > > > > >Running FC4 on one of my computers and for some reason it will > > > >not store the gateway after a reboot. I need to type in > > > > > > > > route add default gw 192.168.1.1 ath0 > > > > > > > >and then it works until the next reboot. I can't remember how or > > > >where to put that to make it there after a reboot. > > > > > > > > > > > In /etc/sysconfig/[network,network-scripts] or > > > /etc/sysconfig/static-route Ifup-aliases should do it from your ifcfg-ath0 > > > > > > -- > > > Daniel > > > > I prefer to see the system default gateway (of which, there can only be one) in /etc/sysconfig/network. Add a line: > > > > GATEWAY=x.x.x.x > > > > It drives me nuts when people put the gateways on specific interfaces. > > That's very dangerous, as "GATEWAY=" in, say, "ifcfg-eth0" will get > stomped on by a "GATEWAY=" in ifcfg-eth1. > > > Of course, this is all personal preference. > > As was mentioned by someone else, you can only have ONE default gateway, > and it should be in /etc/sysconfig/network. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - OK, due to rolling blackouts my machine went down again - putting "GATEWAY=192.168.1.1" in /etc/sysconfig/network didn't work. On reboot fetchmail could not find anything outside the home network, neither could ping. I typed in "route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0" and everything stated working again. I checked /etc/sysconfig/network and the "GATEWAY=192.168.1.1" was there. Thanks, Brad From inode0 at gmail.com Mon Feb 20 08:06:52 2006 From: inode0 at gmail.com (inode0) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 02:06:52 -0600 Subject: Gateway problem In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 2/13/06, Waldher, Travis R wrote: > I prefer to see the system default gateway (of which, there can only be one) in > /etc/sysconfig/network. Add a line: > > GATEWAY=x.x.x.x > > It drives me nuts when people put the gateways on specific interfaces. > > Of course, this is all personal preference. I guess. There can be multiple default gateways although only one active at a time. My preference is that each interface have an appropriate gateway set for it and which is used as the default network gateway is controlled by setting GATEWAYDEV in /etc/sysconfig/network rather than by setting the default gateway directly there. John From bret_stern at machinemanagement.com Mon Feb 20 21:19:12 2006 From: bret_stern at machinemanagement.com (Bret Stern) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:19:12 -0800 Subject: Dual Nic Cards - Apache Message-ID: <000001c63663$4c1d2b00$2701a8c0@mmbret> I'm trying to setup a web server which is exists in a DMZ. The server has two NIC cards. One card (192.168.5.85) allows public web access; the other card (192.168.0.85) allows my internal network route for html, perl updates. The idea is to allow public access via the 192.168.5.85 card, while letting me do html and perl updates from my internal network via the 192.168.0.85 address. The cgi scripts which are called in the dmz would access data through the internal network 192.168.0.85 for internal databases etc. Is this a statisfactory and reasonably safe aproach? Comments Bret Stern From bob at bobcatos.com Mon Feb 20 21:35:39 2006 From: bob at bobcatos.com (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:35:39 -0600 Subject: Dual Nic Cards - Apache In-Reply-To: <000001c63663$4c1d2b00$2701a8c0@mmbret> References: <000001c63663$4c1d2b00$2701a8c0@mmbret> Message-ID: <20060220213539.GA7953@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 01:19:12PM -0800, Bret Stern wrote: > > I'm trying to setup a web server which is exists in a > DMZ. > > The server has two NIC cards. > One card (192.168.5.85) allows public web access; the other > card (192.168.0.85) allows my internal network route for > html, perl updates. > > The idea is to allow public access via the 192.168.5.85 card, > while letting me do html and perl updates from my internal > network via the 192.168.0.85 address. > > The cgi scripts which are called in the dmz would access data > through the internal network 192.168.0.85 for internal databases etc. > > Is this a statisfactory and reasonably safe aproach? I don't think so, though I'm not sure how your DMZ is connected to the 'Net or how your LAN is connected to the 'Net. In general, you should not be able to get to your LAN from the DMZ. Otherwise it's not much of a DMZ. But getting from the LAN to the DMZ is okay. On my system, my firewall (an old AMD K6-III 450 box) has three NICs. One goes to the DSL modem on my assigned static IP, and the other two go to my DMZ (one box which is my mail and web server and has one NIC) and my LAN. The firewall is configured so that any machine on the LAN can get to the outside and to the DMZ, but nothing gets in (that is unrequested) except SSH and it stops at the firewall. The firewall also routes ports HTTP(S), SMTP, POP3, IMAP, and a few special cats and dogs to the DMZ. But the DMZ has no access to the LAN. > Comments > > Bret Stern Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. bob at bobcatos.com http://www.bobcatos.com The best things in life aren't things. From admin at tootai.net Mon Feb 20 22:25:34 2006 From: admin at tootai.net (Administrator TOOTAI) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:25:34 +0100 Subject: Gateway problem In-Reply-To: References: <1139873907.26796.51.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <43FA41DE.7040203@tootai.net> brad.mugleston at comcast.net a ?crit : > [...] > >OK, due to rolling blackouts my machine went down again - putting > > "GATEWAY=192.168.1.1" in /etc/sysconfig/network didn't >work. On reboot fetchmail could not find anything outside the >home network, neither could ping. I typed in > > "route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0" > >and everything stated working again. I checked >/etc/sysconfig/network and the "GATEWAY=192.168.1.1" was there. > > Strange. What route do you have before adding manualy the default one? In your first post you spoke about ath0 device? Is networking set to yes in network? This is my network file (FC3): NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=hostname.domain GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Also, route add default gw 192.168.1.1 is enough, no need to add the device. -- Daniel From bret_stern at machinemanagement.com Mon Feb 20 23:46:46 2006 From: bret_stern at machinemanagement.com (Bret Stern) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:46:46 -0800 Subject: Dual Nic Cards - Apache In-Reply-To: <20060220213539.GA7953@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <000001c63677$ea921c50$2701a8c0@mmbret> -----Original Message----- From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:bob at bobcatos.com] Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 1:36 PM To: bret_stern at machinemanagement.com; Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: Dual Nic Cards - Apache On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 01:19:12PM -0800, Bret Stern wrote: > > I'm trying to setup a web server which is exists in a DMZ. > > The server has two NIC cards. > One card (192.168.5.85) allows public web access; the other card > (192.168.0.85) allows my internal network route for html, perl > updates. > > The idea is to allow public access via the 192.168.5.85 card, while > letting me do html and perl updates from my internal network via the > 192.168.0.85 address. > > The cgi scripts which are called in the dmz would access data through > the internal network 192.168.0.85 for internal databases etc. > > Is this a statisfactory and reasonably safe aproach? I don't think so, though I'm not sure how your DMZ is connected to the 'Net or how your LAN is connected to the 'Net. In general, you should not be able to get to your LAN from the DMZ. Otherwise it's not much of a DMZ. But getting from the LAN to the DMZ is okay. On my system, my firewall (an old AMD K6-III 450 box) has three NICs. One goes to the DSL modem on my assigned static IP, and the other two go to my DMZ (one box which is my mail and web server and has one NIC) and my LAN. The firewall is configured so that any machine on the LAN can get to the outside and to the DMZ, but nothing gets in (that is unrequested) except SSH and it stops at the firewall. The firewall also routes ports HTTP(S), SMTP, POP3, IMAP, and a few special cats and dogs to the DMZ. But the DMZ has no access to the LAN. > Comments > > Bret Stern Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. bob at bobcatos.com http://www.bobcatos.com The best things in life aren't things. So if you had a web server, which required access to a database, couldn't the database be accessed via the second nic card. [Internet]->[firewall]->routed to [web server] 192.168.5.85 [second nic] 192.168.0.85 --\ | | [Local Lan switch |||||] | [data server] 192.168.0.85 -/ This configuration is too risky?? Thanks Bret From bret_stern at machinemanagement.com Tue Feb 21 00:44:08 2006 From: bret_stern at machinemanagement.com (Bret Stern) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:44:08 -0800 Subject: Dual Nic Cards - Apache In-Reply-To: <000001c63677$ea921c50$2701a8c0@mmbret> Message-ID: <000001c6367f$ec77ab90$2701a8c0@mmbret> -----Original Message----- From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:bob at bobcatos.com] Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 1:36 PM To: bret_stern at machinemanagement.com; Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: Dual Nic Cards - Apache On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 01:19:12PM -0800, Bret Stern wrote: > > I'm trying to setup a web server which is exists in a DMZ. > > The server has two NIC cards. > One card (192.168.5.85) allows public web access; the other card > (192.168.0.85) allows my internal network route for html, perl > updates. > > The idea is to allow public access via the 192.168.5.85 card, while > letting me do html and perl updates from my internal network via the > 192.168.0.85 address. > > The cgi scripts which are called in the dmz would access data through > the internal network 192.168.0.85 for internal databases etc. > > Is this a statisfactory and reasonably safe aproach? I don't think so, though I'm not sure how your DMZ is connected to the 'Net or how your LAN is connected to the 'Net. In general, you should not be able to get to your LAN from the DMZ. Otherwise it's not much of a DMZ. But getting from the LAN to the DMZ is okay. On my system, my firewall (an old AMD K6-III 450 box) has three NICs. One goes to the DSL modem on my assigned static IP, and the other two go to my DMZ (one box which is my mail and web server and has one NIC) and my LAN. The firewall is configured so that any machine on the LAN can get to the outside and to the DMZ, but nothing gets in (that is unrequested) except SSH and it stops at the firewall. The firewall also routes ports HTTP(S), SMTP, POP3, IMAP, and a few special cats and dogs to the DMZ. But the DMZ has no access to the LAN. > Comments > > Bret Stern Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. bob at bobcatos.com http://www.bobcatos.com The best things in life aren't things. So if you had a web server, which required access to a database, couldn't the database be accessed via the second nic card. [Internet]->[firewall]->routed to [web server] 192.168.5.85 [second nic] 192.168.0.85 --\ | | [Local Lan switch |||||] | [data server] 192.168.0.85 -/ > should be [data server] 192.168.0.xxx This configuration is too risky?? Thanks Bret _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Subject: unsubscribe From bob at bobcatos.com Tue Feb 21 01:14:57 2006 From: bob at bobcatos.com (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:14:57 -0600 Subject: Dual Nic Cards - Apache In-Reply-To: <000001c6367f$ec77ab90$2701a8c0@mmbret> References: <000001c63677$ea921c50$2701a8c0@mmbret> <000001c6367f$ec77ab90$2701a8c0@mmbret> Message-ID: <20060221011457.GA17714@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 04:44:08PM -0800, Bret Stern wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:bob at bobcatos.com] > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 1:36 PM > To: bret_stern at machinemanagement.com; Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: Dual Nic Cards - Apache > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 01:19:12PM -0800, Bret Stern wrote: > > > > I'm trying to setup a web server which is exists in a DMZ. > > > > The server has two NIC cards. > > One card (192.168.5.85) allows public web access; the other card > > (192.168.0.85) allows my internal network route for html, perl > > updates. > > > > The idea is to allow public access via the 192.168.5.85 card, while > > letting me do html and perl updates from my internal network via the > > 192.168.0.85 address. > > > > The cgi scripts which are called in the dmz would access data through > > the internal network 192.168.0.85 for internal databases etc. > > > > Is this a statisfactory and reasonably safe aproach? > > I don't think so, though I'm not sure how your DMZ is connected to the 'Net > or how your LAN is connected to the 'Net. In general, you should not be > able to get to your LAN from the DMZ. Otherwise it's not much of a DMZ. > But getting from the LAN to the DMZ is okay. > > On my system, my firewall (an old AMD K6-III 450 box) has three NICs. > One goes to the DSL modem on my assigned static IP, and the other two go to > my DMZ (one box which is my mail and web server and has one NIC) and my LAN. > The firewall is configured so that any machine on the LAN can get to the > outside and to the DMZ, but nothing gets in (that is > unrequested) except SSH and it stops at the firewall. The firewall also > routes ports HTTP(S), SMTP, POP3, IMAP, and a few special cats and dogs to > the DMZ. But the DMZ has no access to the LAN. > > > Comments > > > > Bret Stern > > Cheers, > -- > Bob McClure, Jr. > > > So if you had a web server, which required access to a database, couldn't > the database be accessed via the second nic card. > > [Internet]->[firewall]->routed to [web server] 192.168.5.85 > [second nic] 192.168.0.85 --\ > | > | > [Local Lan switch > |||||] > | > [data server] 192.168.0.85 -/ > > > should be [data server] 192.168.0.xxx Yes, you could, but, again, you are bypassing the firewall. So if a cracker breaks into your web server, he has access to your LAN. > This configuration is too risky?? I wouldn't bet my business on it. Is it not practical to move the database to the web server, or at least to another machine on the DMZ? If the web server needs only read-only access to the database, you could periodically refresh the DMZ database from the LAN database by pushing the data out from inside. > Thanks > Bret Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. bob at bobcatos.com http://www.bobcatos.com The best things in life aren't things. From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Tue Feb 21 02:48:18 2006 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:48:18 -0700 (MST) Subject: Gateway problem In-Reply-To: <43FA41DE.7040203@tootai.net> References: <1139873907.26796.51.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43FA41DE.7040203@tootai.net> Message-ID: <19166.198.60.114.90.1140490098.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> On Mon, February 20, 2006 3:25 pm, Administrator TOOTAI said: > brad.mugleston at comcast.net a ??crit : > >> [...] >> >>OK, due to rolling blackouts my machine went down again - putting >> >> "GATEWAY=192.168.1.1" in /etc/sysconfig/network didn't >>work. On reboot fetchmail could not find anything outside the >>home network, neither could ping. I typed in >> >> "route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0" >> >>and everything stated working again. I checked >>/etc/sysconfig/network and the "GATEWAY=192.168.1.1" was there. >> >> > Strange. What route do you have before adding manualy the default one? > In your first post you spoke about ath0 device? Is networking set to yes > in network? > > This is my network file (FC3): > > NETWORKING=yes > HOSTNAME=hostname.domain > GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > > Also, route add default gw 192.168.1.1 is enough, no need to add the device. Is NetworkManager available? When run, it forks to the background and managers the route settings and DNS. It seems to work fine... I don't know if that will help or not. Karl > > -- > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -- karl _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ ____________ __o _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ ____________ _-\<._ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ (_)/ (_) _/ _/ _/ _/ ...................... _/ _/ arl _/_/_/ _/ earson KarlP at ourldsfamily.com --- Senior Consulting Sys/DB Analyst http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com --- My Thoughts on Terrorism In America right after 9/11/2001: http://www.ourldsfamily.com/wtc.shtml --- A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. -Ramsey Clark --- From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Tue Feb 21 05:58:45 2006 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:58:45 -0700 (MST) Subject: Gateway problem In-Reply-To: <19166.198.60.114.90.1140490098.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> References: <1139873907.26796.51.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43FA41DE.7040203@tootai.net> <19166.198.60.114.90.1140490098.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <22283.198.60.114.90.1140501525.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> On Mon, February 20, 2006 7:48 pm, karlp at ourldsfamily.com said: > > On Mon, February 20, 2006 3:25 pm, Administrator TOOTAI said: >> brad.mugleston at comcast.net a ??crit : >> >>> [...] >>> >>>OK, due to rolling blackouts my machine went down again - putting >>> >>> "GATEWAY=192.168.1.1" in /etc/sysconfig/network didn't >>>work. On reboot fetchmail could not find anything outside the >>>home network, neither could ping. I typed in >>> >>> "route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0" >>> >>>and everything stated working again. I checked >>>/etc/sysconfig/network and the "GATEWAY=192.168.1.1" was there. >>> >>> >> Strange. What route do you have before adding manualy the default one? >> In your first post you spoke about ath0 device? Is networking set to yes >> in network? >> >> This is my network file (FC3): >> >> NETWORKING=yes >> HOSTNAME=hostname.domain >> GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx >> >> Also, route add default gw 192.168.1.1 is enough, no need to add the >> device. > > > Is NetworkManager available? When run, it forks to the background and > managers the route settings and DNS. It seems to work fine... "managers"???? Man it's dark in here... MANAGES... I feel better now. KLP > > I don't know if that will help or not. > > Karl > >> >> -- >> Daniel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Redhat-install-list mailing list >> Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >> To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >> redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >> Subject: unsubscribe >> > From luiz-pereira at procergs.rs.gov.br Tue Feb 21 17:05:48 2006 From: luiz-pereira at procergs.rs.gov.br (Luiz Gustavo Anflor Pereira) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:05:48 -0300 (GMT-03:00) Subject: RHEL 4 and SATA disk Message-ID: <22347273.1140541548975.JavaMail.tomcat@springfield.procergs.com.br> Hello all I am trying to install a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 update 1 on a Dell machine (Power Edge 850), with a SATA disk, model ST380013AS, but the linux does not recognize the disks... What can i do? Is there a driver that anybody knows? Any help is very important. thank you very much. 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As another user, I get permission denied. > > > > Desktop/SystemSettings/Network lets me define a modem device on ports > such > > as dev/ttyS0, etc., dev/modem, dev/tty|1, dev/input/ttyACM0, dev/ttyM0, > etc. But, no /dev/ttyUSB0. > > > > So... what do I do to set up a ppp connection on my cellphone modem on > /dev/ttyUSB0? > > > > > Still working on this... A google search came up with the suggestion that > I add > > ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/modem > > to my /etc/rc.local . I've done that and am still having trouble getting > ppp to dial out. I'm using the network configure menu > desktop/SystemSettings/network. At one point, I could see it dial just the > 1 dialing prefix, but not the rest of the number. Currently, it doesn't > try to dial at all. Instead, I get "cannot connect to network device" when > I try to activate it. > > As root, I can talk to the cellphone using gtkterm. As a non-root user, I > get permission denied. Here's a little more info: > > > [root at hhlaptop ~]# ls -l /dev/modem > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 19 18:00 /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyUSB0 > [root at hhlaptop ~]# ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0 > crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Feb 19 18:04 /dev/ttyUSB0 > [root at hhlaptop ~]# > > > So... any ideas? Well, the first thing is to change the permissions on /dev/ttyUSB0. You need to edit the /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules and change the KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", GROUP="uucp", MODE="0660", OPTIONS="last_rule" line to read "MODE=0666" to permit world read/write operations, then unplug the dongle and plug it back in. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - The gene pool could use a little chlorine. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Feb 21 22:59:43 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:59:43 -0800 Subject: kermit configuration file In-Reply-To: <20060219234604.25324.qmail@web30715.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060219234604.25324.qmail@web30715.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1140562783.26796.256.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 15:46 -0800, Bob Kinney wrote: > I've searched high and low for an answer to this; hopefully somebody here can > help. > > I'm trying to get kermit to read two commands from a .mykermrc file in my home > directory: > > SET LINE /dev/ttyS0 > SET CARRIER-WATCH OFF > > I also have an identical .kermrc. > > For some reason, the SET LINE command does not work. > > [bob at micron ~]$ kermit > /var/lock > C-Kermit 8.0.209, 17 Mar 2003, for Red Hat Linux 8.0 > Copyright (C) 1985, 2003, > Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. > Type ? or HELP for help. > (/home/bob/) C-Kermit>show file > > Transfer mode: automatic > File patterns: automatic (SHOW PATTERNS for list) > File scan: on 49152 > Default file type: binary > File names: converted > Send pathnames: off > Receive pathnames: auto > Match dot files: no > Wildcard-expansion: kermit > File collision: backup > File destination: disk > File incomplete: auto > File bytesize: 8 > File character-set: ascii > File default 7-bit: ascii > File default 8-bit: latin1-iso > File UCS bom: on > File UCS byte-order: little-endian > Computer byteorder: little-endian > File end-of-line: lf > File eof: length > File download-directory: (none) > Send move-to: (none) > Send rename-to: (none) > Receive move-to: (none) > Receive rename-to: (none) > Initialization file: /home/bob/.kermrc > Root set: (none) > Disk output buffer: 32768 (writes are buffered, blocking) > Stringspace: 500000 > Listsize: 102400 > Longest filename: 255 > Longest pathname: 4096 > Last file sent: (none) > Last file received: (none) > > Also see: > SHOW PROTOCOL, SHOW XFER, SHOW PATTERNS, SHOW STREAMING, SHOW CHARACTER-SETS > (/home/bob/) C-Kermit>show comm > > Communications Parameters: > Line: /dev/tty, speed: unknown, mode: remote, modem: generic > Parity: none, duplex: full, flow: none, handshake: none > Carrier-watch: off, close-on-disconnect: off > Lockfile directory: /var/lock > Typical port device name: /dev/ttyS0 > > Modem signals unavailable > > Type SHOW DIAL to see DIAL-related items. > Type SHOW MODEM to see modem-related items. > > (/home/bob/) C-Kermit> > > > If I rename .kermrc to hide it, the CARRIER-WATCH line changes to the > system default of "auto". > > > Using FC3 on kernel 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3. > > Anyone have any advice? First, swap the "SET CARRIER-WATCH OFF" and the "SET LINE /dev/ttyS0" lines. You have to turn off carrier watch before swapping to a line without carrier. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - BASIC is the Computer Science version of `Scientific Creationism' - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Feb 21 23:02:22 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:02:22 -0800 Subject: Gateway problem In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1140562943.26796.259.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 02:06 -0600, inode0 wrote: > On 2/13/06, Waldher, Travis R wrote: > > I prefer to see the system default gateway (of which, there can only be one) in > > /etc/sysconfig/network. Add a line: > > > > GATEWAY=x.x.x.x > > > > It drives me nuts when people put the gateways on specific interfaces. > > > > Of course, this is all personal preference. > > I guess. There can be multiple default gateways although only one > active at a time. My preference is that each interface have an > appropriate gateway set for it and which is used as the default > network gateway is controlled by setting GATEWAYDEV in > /etc/sysconfig/network rather than by setting the default gateway > directly there. No, there is only ONE default gateway. The rest are network- or device- specific gateways. GATEWAYDEV simply forces the default gateway to use a specific device, but the source address of the packets so routed will still have the original address. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If it's stupid and it works...it ain't stupid! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Feb 21 23:09:03 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:09:03 -0800 Subject: RHEL 4 and SATA disk In-Reply-To: <22347273.1140541548975.JavaMail.tomcat@springfield.procergs.com.br> References: <22347273.1140541548975.JavaMail.tomcat@springfield.procergs.com.br> Message-ID: <1140563343.26796.265.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:05 -0300, Luiz Gustavo Anflor Pereira wrote: > > Hello all > > I am trying to install a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 update 1 on a Dell > machine (Power Edge 850), with a SATA disk, model ST380013AS, but the > linux does not recognize the disks... > > What can i do? Is there a driver that anybody knows? I believe there's a driver on the Dell website for that. It'll be in the form of an "img" file that you have to "dd" or "rawrite" to a floppy, then do the install but specify "linux dd" at the "boot:" prompt. When the system asks for the driver disk, pop the floppy you made in and things should go OK. The URL for the page is: http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R97743&SystemID=PWE_P4_850&os=LIN4&osl=en&deviceid=5646&devlib=0&typecnt=2&vercnt=1&formatcnt=1&fileid=126591 Follow the instructions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To err is human, to forgive, beyond the scope of the OS - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From roldan at digi.cupet.cu Wed Feb 22 01:18:35 2006 From: roldan at digi.cupet.cu (Roldán) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:18:35 -0600 (Hora estándar central) Subject: NIS install Message-ID: <43FBBBEB.000006.02100@overmind> Hello Im setting up a NIS network and i have configured my server and a client. the problem is that when i do the ypinit -s myserver on the client i get this error message that sid that ther is not server runig in myserver. but when i start up the sistem it say that the bind to the nis domain was [ok], what i'm missing here? thanks Rold?n LG -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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My preference is that each interface have an > > appropriate gateway set for it and which is used as the default > > network gateway is controlled by setting GATEWAYDEV in > > /etc/sysconfig/network rather than by setting the default gateway > > directly there. > > No, there is only ONE default gateway. The rest are network- or device- > specific gateways. GATEWAYDEV simply forces the default gateway to use > a specific device, but the source address of the packets so routed will > still have the original address. Serious question: How do the following two arrangements differ in practice? (1) Set GATEWAY=10.10.1.254 in /etc/sysconfig/network (2) Set GATEWAY=10.10.1.254 in the eth0 profile and set GATEWAYDEV=eth0 in /etc/sysconfig/network I wasn't really thinking about the gateway being defined by DHCP but if it is isn't it put in the interface profile anyway? I'm sitting at a box with three NICs, each connecting to a different network. The gateway I use as the default seems tied to the interface anyway. So it seems that controlling the default via GATEWAYDEV makes good sense (until you help me understand why it doesn't at least). Less seriously: # route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.10.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 10.10.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 0.0.0.0 10.10.1.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 10.10.0.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 What would you call those last two things? *** picture John ducking *** When I said you could have multiple default gateways this is what I had in mind when I said it. John From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Feb 22 01:51:01 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:51:01 -0800 Subject: NIS install In-Reply-To: <43FBBBEB.000006.02100@overmind> References: <43FBBBEB.000006.02100@overmind> Message-ID: <1140573061.26796.304.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 19:18 -0600, Rold?n wrote: > > Hello > Im setting up a NIS network and i have configured my server and a > client. > the problem is that when i do the ypinit -s myserver on the client i > get this error message that sid that ther is not server runig in > myserver. but when i start up the sistem it say that the bind to the > nis domain was [ok], what i'm missing here? > > Do NOT post HTML here. No backgrounds, no cutesy rubber stamps, nothing. Just plain text, thank you. Anything else may break message threading, and we really don't want to waste bandwidth shooting around a bunch of GIFs. Are you sure you have nisserver running on the server ("service ypserv start")? Did you set up the NIS domain properly on both the server and the client ("domainname mynisdomain")? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Feb 22 02:00:08 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:00:08 -0800 Subject: Gateway problem In-Reply-To: References: <1140562943.26796.259.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <1140573608.26796.313.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 19:06 -0600, inode0 wrote: > On 2/21/06, Rick Stevens wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 02:06 -0600, inode0 wrote: > > > I guess. There can be multiple default gateways although only one > > > active at a time. My preference is that each interface have an > > > appropriate gateway set for it and which is used as the default > > > network gateway is controlled by setting GATEWAYDEV in > > > /etc/sysconfig/network rather than by setting the default gateway > > > directly there. > > > > No, there is only ONE default gateway. The rest are network- or device- > > specific gateways. GATEWAYDEV simply forces the default gateway to use > > a specific device, but the source address of the packets so routed will > > still have the original address. > > Serious question: > > How do the following two arrangements differ in practice? > > (1) Set GATEWAY=10.10.1.254 in /etc/sysconfig/network > > (2) Set GATEWAY=10.10.1.254 in the eth0 profile and set > GATEWAYDEV=eth0 in /etc/sysconfig/network > > I wasn't really thinking about the gateway being defined by DHCP but > if it is isn't it put in the interface profile anyway? > > I'm sitting at a box with three NICs, each connecting to a different > network. The gateway I use as the default seems tied to the interface > anyway. So it seems that controlling the default via GATEWAYDEV makes > good sense (until you help me understand why it doesn't at least). > > Less seriously: > > # route -n > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface > 10.10.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 > 0 0 eth0 > 10.10.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 > 0 0 eth1 > 0.0.0.0 10.10.1.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 > 0 0 eth0 > 0.0.0.0 10.10.0.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 > 0 0 eth1 > > What would you call those last two things? *** picture John ducking > *** When I said you could have multiple default gateways this is what > I had in mind when I said it. Well, that's a weird kernel routing table for sure. The default one will be the last one listed, I'll wager. While they both show up as gateways, the last one in the table is usually treated as the default. Having a setup as you have there will often confuse the hell out of ARP tables and such down the line and may break some non-robust spanning tree algorithms. Really, you only need one default route and it should be aimed at a real gateway IP, not at a device. The device mechanism is there to allow you to "bridge" a network where you don't have a true gateway and, while it works, it is very confusing to a lot of upline hardware. When you specify a gateway IP, it will bind to the interface on the network where the gateway is. Your stuff will work. The default is the last one listed in your table (I'd have to look into that to be sure...it may be the first one), but you still only have one default and configs such as yours can cause problems down the road. Just be aware of it. > > John > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "How does that damned three seashell thing work?" - - - Sylvester Stallone, "Demolition Man" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From harold at hallikainen.com Wed Feb 22 03:49:57 2006 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:49:57 -0800 (PST) Subject: /dev/ttyUSB0 and PPP In-Reply-To: <1140561923.26796.252.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <36477.192.168.1.1.1140242767.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <58214.192.168.1.1.1140401717.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1140561923.26796.252.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <43946.192.168.1.1.1140580197.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> > On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 18:15 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: >> > I'm trying to set up a ppp connection through my cellphone. I'm using >> a >> USB to EIA232 adapter on FC4_64. I can talk to the cellphone (send AT >> commands, dial, etc.) from GtkTerm using /dev/ttyUSB0 when logged in as >> root. As another user, I get permission denied. >> > >> > Desktop/SystemSettings/Network lets me define a modem device on ports >> such >> > as dev/ttyS0, etc., dev/modem, dev/tty|1, dev/input/ttyACM0, >> dev/ttyM0, >> etc. But, no /dev/ttyUSB0. >> > >> > So... what do I do to set up a ppp connection on my cellphone modem on >> /dev/ttyUSB0? >> > >> >> >> Still working on this... A google search came up with the suggestion >> that >> I add >> >> ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/modem >> >> to my /etc/rc.local . I've done that and am still having trouble getting >> ppp to dial out. I'm using the network configure menu >> desktop/SystemSettings/network. At one point, I could see it dial just >> the >> 1 dialing prefix, but not the rest of the number. Currently, it doesn't >> try to dial at all. Instead, I get "cannot connect to network device" >> when >> I try to activate it. >> >> As root, I can talk to the cellphone using gtkterm. As a non-root user, >> I >> get permission denied. Here's a little more info: >> >> >> [root at hhlaptop ~]# ls -l /dev/modem >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 19 18:00 /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyUSB0 >> [root at hhlaptop ~]# ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0 >> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Feb 19 18:04 /dev/ttyUSB0 >> [root at hhlaptop ~]# >> >> >> So... any ideas? > > Well, the first thing is to change the permissions on /dev/ttyUSB0. > You need to edit the /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules and change the > > KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", GROUP="uucp", MODE="0660", OPTIONS="last_rule" > > line to read "MODE=0666" to permit world read/write operations, then > unplug the dongle and plug it back in. > THANKS Rick! After this change, gtkTerm can talk to the cellphone on the USB as a non-root user. I then tried the internet connection wizard. It exits with error 8. Here's what shows up in /var/log/messages: Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop ifup-ppp: pppd started for home on /dev/modem at 19200 Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop pppd[3187]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0 Feb 21 19:37:00 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0 Feb 21 19:37:00 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Initializing modem. Feb 21 19:37:00 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Sending: ATZ Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Sending: ATQ0 Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: ATQ0 Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: OK Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Re-Sending: ATZ Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: ATZ Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: OK Feb 21 19:37:11 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: stdin not read/write and $MODEM not set Feb 21 19:37:11 hhlaptop pppd[3187]: Connect script failed Feb 21 19:37:12 hhlaptop pppd[3187]: Exit. So, it looks like pppd is being passed device/modem, but wvdial is not able to communicate with it. I'm guessing the OK entries are the responses from the cellphone, so it looks like we're talking to it. So, what's the line at 19:37:11 mean? THANKS!!!!! Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com From maheshbalasub at gmail.com Wed Feb 22 08:39:50 2006 From: maheshbalasub at gmail.com (mac) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:09:50 +0530 Subject: Ramdisk Grub issues! Message-ID: <884aefd70602220039n1840bb9fg56343dd47dfdab29@mail.gmail.com> Hi, Hi we have a RHEL 3 server,we have a query 1 can we have two diff ram disks in grub.conf 2 How do we mark an active one and how can we dynamically choose the other during boot 3 Does the ramdisk load after grub.conf menu (bootloader) ??? Any help appreciated regards -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bob at bobcatos.com Wed Feb 22 16:57:43 2006 From: bob at bobcatos.com (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:57:43 -0600 Subject: Ramdisk Grub issues! In-Reply-To: <884aefd70602220039n1840bb9fg56343dd47dfdab29@mail.gmail.com> References: <884aefd70602220039n1840bb9fg56343dd47dfdab29@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20060222165743.GB5301@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 02:09:50PM +0530, mac wrote: > Hi, > > Hi we have a RHEL 3 server,we have a query > > 1 can we have two diff ram disks in grub.conf If you mean more than one initrd-*, I think the answer is yes. > 2 How do we mark an active one and how can we dynamically choose the other > during boot You would make two separate stanzas in grub.conf, one for each initrd. Make the titles descriptive. > 3 Does the ramdisk load after grub.conf menu (bootloader) ??? No. > Any help appreciated > > regards Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. bob at bobcatos.com http://www.bobcatos.com The best things in life aren't things. From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Wed Feb 22 17:07:19 2006 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:07:19 -0800 Subject: NIS install Message-ID: > _______________________________________ > From: Rold?n [mailto:roldan at digi.cupet.cu] > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 5:19 PM > To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > Subject: NIS install > > > > Hello > Im setting up a NIS network?and i have configured my server and a client. > the problem is that when i do the ypinit -s myserver on the client i get > this error message that sid that ther is not server runig in myserver. but > when i start up the sistem it say that the bind to the nis domain was > [ok], what i'm missing here? > thanks ? ypinit -s myserver is used to setup another machine as a NIS slave. (A second NIS server that is a slave of your master.) If a machine is just a client, all you need to do is configure ypbind. The reason that you are getting the error that the server is not running on your client is that ypserve hasn't been set to run at startup. If the machine is truly a client, you don't want ypserv running. The next problem you will have, on your master, if when you ran ypinit, you didn't specify any slave servers that machine will fail to connect to the master. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Feb 22 17:51:28 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:51:28 -0800 Subject: /dev/ttyUSB0 and PPP In-Reply-To: <43946.192.168.1.1.1140580197.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <36477.192.168.1.1.1140242767.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <58214.192.168.1.1.1140401717.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1140561923.26796.252.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43946.192.168.1.1.1140580197.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <1140630688.26796.339.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 19:49 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 18:15 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > >> > I'm trying to set up a ppp connection through my cellphone. I'm using > >> a > >> USB to EIA232 adapter on FC4_64. I can talk to the cellphone (send AT > >> commands, dial, etc.) from GtkTerm using /dev/ttyUSB0 when logged in as > >> root. As another user, I get permission denied. > >> > > >> > Desktop/SystemSettings/Network lets me define a modem device on ports > >> such > >> > as dev/ttyS0, etc., dev/modem, dev/tty|1, dev/input/ttyACM0, > >> dev/ttyM0, > >> etc. But, no /dev/ttyUSB0. > >> > > >> > So... what do I do to set up a ppp connection on my cellphone modem on > >> /dev/ttyUSB0? > >> > > >> > >> > >> Still working on this... A google search came up with the suggestion > >> that > >> I add > >> > >> ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/modem > >> > >> to my /etc/rc.local . I've done that and am still having trouble getting > >> ppp to dial out. I'm using the network configure menu > >> desktop/SystemSettings/network. At one point, I could see it dial just > >> the > >> 1 dialing prefix, but not the rest of the number. Currently, it doesn't > >> try to dial at all. Instead, I get "cannot connect to network device" > >> when > >> I try to activate it. > >> > >> As root, I can talk to the cellphone using gtkterm. As a non-root user, > >> I > >> get permission denied. Here's a little more info: > >> > >> > >> [root at hhlaptop ~]# ls -l /dev/modem > >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 19 18:00 /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyUSB0 > >> [root at hhlaptop ~]# ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0 > >> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Feb 19 18:04 /dev/ttyUSB0 > >> [root at hhlaptop ~]# > >> > >> > >> So... any ideas? > > > > Well, the first thing is to change the permissions on /dev/ttyUSB0. > > You need to edit the /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules and change the > > > > KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", GROUP="uucp", MODE="0660", OPTIONS="last_rule" > > > > line to read "MODE=0666" to permit world read/write operations, then > > unplug the dongle and plug it back in. > > > > > THANKS Rick! After this change, gtkTerm can talk to the cellphone on the > USB as a non-root user. I then tried the internet connection wizard. It > exits with error 8. Here's what shows up in /var/log/messages: > > Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop ifup-ppp: pppd started for home on /dev/modem at > 19200 > Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the > University of California > Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 > Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop pppd[3187]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0 > Feb 21 19:37:00 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0 > Feb 21 19:37:00 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Initializing modem. > Feb 21 19:37:00 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Sending: ATZ > Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Sending: ATQ0 > Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: ATQ0 > Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: OK > Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Re-Sending: ATZ > Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: ATZ > Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: OK > Feb 21 19:37:11 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: stdin not read/write and $MODEM not > set > Feb 21 19:37:11 hhlaptop pppd[3187]: Connect script failed > Feb 21 19:37:12 hhlaptop pppd[3187]: Exit. > > > So, it looks like pppd is being passed device/modem, but wvdial is not > able to communicate with it. I'm guessing the OK entries are the responses > from the cellphone, so it looks like we're talking to it. So, what's the > line at 19:37:11 mean? Have you edited /etc/wvdial.conf? You have to set the MODEM variable in the "Dialer Defaults" section of that file. Something like: [Dialer Defaults] Modem = /dev/ttyS0 Baud = 57600 Init = ATZ Init2 = AT S11=50 Phone = 555-4242 Username = apenwarr Password = my-password Full details are in the wvdial(1) and wvdial.conf(5) man pages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Microsoft is a cross between The Borg and the Ferengi. - - Unfortunately they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to - - do their programming." -- Simon Slavin - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From harold at hallikainen.com Wed Feb 22 18:15:13 2006 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:15:13 -0800 (PST) Subject: /dev/ttyUSB0 and PPP In-Reply-To: <1140630688.26796.339.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <36477.192.168.1.1.1140242767.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <58214.192.168.1.1.1140401717.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1140561923.26796.252.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43946.192.168.1.1.1140580197.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1140630688.26796.339.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <48441.207.177.227.29.1140632113.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 19:49 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: >> > On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 18:15 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: >> >> > I'm trying to set up a ppp connection through my cellphone. I'm >> using >> >> a >> >> USB to EIA232 adapter on FC4_64. I can talk to the cellphone (send AT >> >> commands, dial, etc.) from GtkTerm using /dev/ttyUSB0 when logged in >> as >> >> root. As another user, I get permission denied. >> >> > >> >> > Desktop/SystemSettings/Network lets me define a modem device on >> ports >> >> such >> >> > as dev/ttyS0, etc., dev/modem, dev/tty|1, dev/input/ttyACM0, >> >> dev/ttyM0, >> >> etc. But, no /dev/ttyUSB0. >> >> > >> >> > So... what do I do to set up a ppp connection on my cellphone modem >> on >> >> /dev/ttyUSB0? >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> Still working on this... A google search came up with the suggestion >> >> that >> >> I add >> >> >> >> ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/modem >> >> >> >> to my /etc/rc.local . I've done that and am still having trouble >> getting >> >> ppp to dial out. I'm using the network configure menu >> >> desktop/SystemSettings/network. At one point, I could see it dial >> just >> >> the >> >> 1 dialing prefix, but not the rest of the number. Currently, it >> doesn't >> >> try to dial at all. Instead, I get "cannot connect to network device" >> >> when >> >> I try to activate it. >> >> >> >> As root, I can talk to the cellphone using gtkterm. As a non-root >> user, >> >> I >> >> get permission denied. Here's a little more info: >> >> >> >> >> >> [root at hhlaptop ~]# ls -l /dev/modem >> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 19 18:00 /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyUSB0 >> >> [root at hhlaptop ~]# ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0 >> >> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Feb 19 18:04 /dev/ttyUSB0 >> >> [root at hhlaptop ~]# >> >> >> >> >> >> So... any ideas? >> > >> > Well, the first thing is to change the permissions on /dev/ttyUSB0. >> > You need to edit the /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules and change the >> > >> > KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", GROUP="uucp", MODE="0660", OPTIONS="last_rule" >> > >> > line to read "MODE=0666" to permit world read/write operations, then >> > unplug the dongle and plug it back in. >> > >> >> >> THANKS Rick! After this change, gtkTerm can talk to the cellphone on the >> USB as a non-root user. I then tried the internet connection wizard. It >> exits with error 8. Here's what shows up in /var/log/messages: >> >> Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop ifup-ppp: pppd started for home on /dev/modem >> at >> 19200 >> Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of >> the >> University of California >> Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 >> Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop pppd[3187]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0 >> Feb 21 19:37:00 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: WvDial: Internet dialer version >> 1.54.0 >> Feb 21 19:37:00 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Initializing modem. >> Feb 21 19:37:00 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Sending: ATZ >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Sending: ATQ0 >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: ATQ0 >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: OK >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Re-Sending: ATZ >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: ATZ >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: OK >> Feb 21 19:37:11 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: stdin not read/write and $MODEM >> not >> set >> Feb 21 19:37:11 hhlaptop pppd[3187]: Connect script failed >> Feb 21 19:37:12 hhlaptop pppd[3187]: Exit. >> >> >> So, it looks like pppd is being passed device/modem, but wvdial is not >> able to communicate with it. I'm guessing the OK entries are the >> responses >> from the cellphone, so it looks like we're talking to it. So, what's the >> line at 19:37:11 mean? > > Have you edited /etc/wvdial.conf? You have to set the MODEM variable in > the "Dialer Defaults" section of that file. Something like: > > [Dialer Defaults] > Modem = /dev/ttyS0 > Baud = 57600 > Init = ATZ > Init2 = AT S11=50 > Phone = 555-4242 > Username = apenwarr > Password = my-password > > Full details are in the wvdial(1) and wvdial.conf(5) man pages. THANKS! I'll have a look at that tonight! I was kinda hoping the internet connection wizard was indeed a wizard and would know how to set up whatever needed to be set up. Also, the various books I have (one being a Fedora Core Bible) make no mention of this (just use the wizard!). Google searches have led me nowhere (I found a lot about syncing your Palm Pilot through USB). So, I REALLY REALLY appreciate all the help you've provided. Often when you've answered a question, then that question comes up later, I've gone through the archives to find the answer. The Fedora documentation project seems, thus far, to be concentrating on installation. I hope that it ends up as extensive as wikipedia. So... THANKS! Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Feb 22 18:39:43 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:39:43 -0800 Subject: /dev/ttyUSB0 and PPP In-Reply-To: <48441.207.177.227.29.1140632113.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <36477.192.168.1.1.1140242767.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <58214.192.168.1.1.1140401717.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1140561923.26796.252.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43946.192.168.1.1.1140580197.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1140630688.26796.339.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <48441.207.177.227.29.1140632113.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <1140633583.26796.375.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:15 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 19:49 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > >> > On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 18:15 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > >> >> > I'm trying to set up a ppp connection through my cellphone. I'm > >> using > >> >> a > >> >> USB to EIA232 adapter on FC4_64. I can talk to the cellphone (send AT > >> >> commands, dial, etc.) from GtkTerm using /dev/ttyUSB0 when logged in > >> as > >> >> root. As another user, I get permission denied. > >> >> > > >> >> > Desktop/SystemSettings/Network lets me define a modem device on > >> ports > >> >> such > >> >> > as dev/ttyS0, etc., dev/modem, dev/tty|1, dev/input/ttyACM0, > >> >> dev/ttyM0, > >> >> etc. But, no /dev/ttyUSB0. > >> >> > > >> >> > So... what do I do to set up a ppp connection on my cellphone modem > >> on > >> >> /dev/ttyUSB0? > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> Still working on this... A google search came up with the suggestion > >> >> that > >> >> I add > >> >> > >> >> ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/modem > >> >> > >> >> to my /etc/rc.local . I've done that and am still having trouble > >> getting > >> >> ppp to dial out. I'm using the network configure menu > >> >> desktop/SystemSettings/network. At one point, I could see it dial > >> just > >> >> the > >> >> 1 dialing prefix, but not the rest of the number. Currently, it > >> doesn't > >> >> try to dial at all. Instead, I get "cannot connect to network device" > >> >> when > >> >> I try to activate it. > >> >> > >> >> As root, I can talk to the cellphone using gtkterm. As a non-root > >> user, > >> >> I > >> >> get permission denied. Here's a little more info: > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> [root at hhlaptop ~]# ls -l /dev/modem > >> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 19 18:00 /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyUSB0 > >> >> [root at hhlaptop ~]# ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0 > >> >> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Feb 19 18:04 /dev/ttyUSB0 > >> >> [root at hhlaptop ~]# > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> So... any ideas? > >> > > >> > Well, the first thing is to change the permissions on /dev/ttyUSB0. > >> > You need to edit the /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules and change the > >> > > >> > KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", GROUP="uucp", MODE="0660", OPTIONS="last_rule" > >> > > >> > line to read "MODE=0666" to permit world read/write operations, then > >> > unplug the dongle and plug it back in. > >> > > >> > >> > >> THANKS Rick! After this change, gtkTerm can talk to the cellphone on the > >> USB as a non-root user. I then tried the internet connection wizard. It > >> exits with error 8. Here's what shows up in /var/log/messages: > >> > >> Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop ifup-ppp: pppd started for home on /dev/modem > >> at > >> 19200 > >> Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of > >> the > >> University of California > >> Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 > >> Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop pppd[3187]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0 > >> Feb 21 19:37:00 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: WvDial: Internet dialer version > >> 1.54.0 > >> Feb 21 19:37:00 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Initializing modem. > >> Feb 21 19:37:00 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Sending: ATZ > >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Sending: ATQ0 > >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: ATQ0 > >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: OK > >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Re-Sending: ATZ > >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: ATZ > >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: OK > >> Feb 21 19:37:11 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: stdin not read/write and $MODEM > >> not > >> set > >> Feb 21 19:37:11 hhlaptop pppd[3187]: Connect script failed > >> Feb 21 19:37:12 hhlaptop pppd[3187]: Exit. > >> > >> > >> So, it looks like pppd is being passed device/modem, but wvdial is not > >> able to communicate with it. I'm guessing the OK entries are the > >> responses > >> from the cellphone, so it looks like we're talking to it. So, what's the > >> line at 19:37:11 mean? > > > > Have you edited /etc/wvdial.conf? You have to set the MODEM variable in > > the "Dialer Defaults" section of that file. Something like: > > > > [Dialer Defaults] > > Modem = /dev/ttyS0 > > Baud = 57600 > > Init = ATZ > > Init2 = AT S11=50 > > Phone = 555-4242 > > Username = apenwarr > > Password = my-password > > > > Full details are in the wvdial(1) and wvdial.conf(5) man pages. > > > THANKS! I'll have a look at that tonight! I was kinda hoping the internet > connection wizard was indeed a wizard and would know how to set up > whatever needed to be set up. Also, the various books I have (one being a > Fedora Core Bible) make no mention of this (just use the wizard!). Google > searches have led me nowhere (I found a lot about syncing your Palm Pilot > through USB). To be really honest, I haven't used a PPP connection in a LONG time. I've been on T1s, T3s, DS48s or various broadband connections for over 10 years, so I'm not really up on how the connection wizard works. Also, I'm an old-time CLI geek and I like to know how the "gears work". I suppose I should try the wizard and see what's what. There does seem to be a dearth of detailed information on many Linux aspects. I've found a reasonable book that does get into some of the detail. It's "Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Fedora Core 4" by Richard L. Peterson (McGraw-Hill/Osborne, ISBN 0-07-226154-4). It's not hugely detailed, but it does contain a lot of the guts. > So, I REALLY REALLY appreciate all the help you've provided. > Often when you've answered a question, then that question comes up later, > I've gone through the archives to find the answer. The Fedora > documentation project seems, thus far, to be concentrating on > installation. I hope that it ends up as extensive as wikipedia. So... > THANKS! You're welcome. I try to help as best I can. I've been puttering around in the computer field for over 30 years and some stuff has to rub off on me in that length of time. :-) I've thought about joining the wikipedia projects, but I never seem to have the time to participate properly and I think that half-hearted attempts are often worse than not helping at all. I keep thinking that things will calm down here at the office and I'll have time--but there's ALWAYS another brushfire popping up that needs stomping out. So, I answer mail on the list and that's about all I can do for the time being. To quote myself, "The spirit is willing, but the schedule is a right bitch!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Squawk! Pieces of Seven! Pieces of Seven! Parity Error! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From roldan at digi.cupet.cu Wed Feb 22 22:46:47 2006 From: roldan at digi.cupet.cu (roldan) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:46:47 -0500 Subject: about nis Message-ID: i have in my server the domain nisnet created when i do the make under the directory /etc/yp the nisdomainname returns nisnet as result and i put the ypserv running in debug mode and there is a line that says: ypserv.conf:dns:0 what this means? in the other hand i tried to bind from a client machine but i still having the error : "no binds to domain" and so i don't understand the command ypinit -m that i should run in the master server, do i have to add all the networks clients machines in the /etc/hosts file, and add all the networks users too before run the command? please answer me soon thanks From harold at hallikainen.com Thu Feb 23 04:50:42 2006 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:50:42 -0800 (PST) Subject: /dev/ttyUSB0 and PPP In-Reply-To: <1140630688.26796.339.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <36477.192.168.1.1.1140242767.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <58214.192.168.1.1.1140401717.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1140561923.26796.252.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43946.192.168.1.1.1140580197.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1140630688.26796.339.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <39846.192.168.1.1.1140670242.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 19:49 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: >> > On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 18:15 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: >> >> > I'm trying to set up a ppp connection through my cellphone. I'm >> using >> >> a >> >> USB to EIA232 adapter on FC4_64. I can talk to the cellphone (send AT >> >> commands, dial, etc.) from GtkTerm using /dev/ttyUSB0 when logged in >> as >> >> root. As another user, I get permission denied. >> >> > >> >> > Desktop/SystemSettings/Network lets me define a modem device on >> ports >> >> such >> >> > as dev/ttyS0, etc., dev/modem, dev/tty|1, dev/input/ttyACM0, >> >> dev/ttyM0, >> >> etc. But, no /dev/ttyUSB0. >> >> > >> >> > So... what do I do to set up a ppp connection on my cellphone modem >> on >> >> /dev/ttyUSB0? >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> Still working on this... A google search came up with the suggestion >> >> that >> >> I add >> >> >> >> ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/modem >> >> >> >> to my /etc/rc.local . I've done that and am still having trouble >> getting >> >> ppp to dial out. I'm using the network configure menu >> >> desktop/SystemSettings/network. At one point, I could see it dial >> just >> >> the >> >> 1 dialing prefix, but not the rest of the number. Currently, it >> doesn't >> >> try to dial at all. Instead, I get "cannot connect to network device" >> >> when >> >> I try to activate it. >> >> >> >> As root, I can talk to the cellphone using gtkterm. As a non-root >> user, >> >> I >> >> get permission denied. Here's a little more info: >> >> >> >> >> >> [root at hhlaptop ~]# ls -l /dev/modem >> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 19 18:00 /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyUSB0 >> >> [root at hhlaptop ~]# ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0 >> >> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Feb 19 18:04 /dev/ttyUSB0 >> >> [root at hhlaptop ~]# >> >> >> >> >> >> So... any ideas? >> > >> > Well, the first thing is to change the permissions on /dev/ttyUSB0. >> > You need to edit the /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules and change the >> > >> > KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", GROUP="uucp", MODE="0660", OPTIONS="last_rule" >> > >> > line to read "MODE=0666" to permit world read/write operations, then >> > unplug the dongle and plug it back in. >> > >> >> >> THANKS Rick! After this change, gtkTerm can talk to the cellphone on the >> USB as a non-root user. I then tried the internet connection wizard. It >> exits with error 8. Here's what shows up in /var/log/messages: >> >> Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop ifup-ppp: pppd started for home on /dev/modem >> at >> 19200 >> Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of >> the >> University of California >> Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 >> Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop pppd[3187]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0 >> Feb 21 19:37:00 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: WvDial: Internet dialer version >> 1.54.0 >> Feb 21 19:37:00 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Initializing modem. >> Feb 21 19:37:00 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Sending: ATZ >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Sending: ATQ0 >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: ATQ0 >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: OK >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Re-Sending: ATZ >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: ATZ >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: OK >> Feb 21 19:37:11 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: stdin not read/write and $MODEM >> not >> set >> Feb 21 19:37:11 hhlaptop pppd[3187]: Connect script failed >> Feb 21 19:37:12 hhlaptop pppd[3187]: Exit. >> >> >> So, it looks like pppd is being passed device/modem, but wvdial is not >> able to communicate with it. I'm guessing the OK entries are the >> responses >> from the cellphone, so it looks like we're talking to it. So, what's the >> line at 19:37:11 mean? > > Have you edited /etc/wvdial.conf? You have to set the MODEM variable in > the "Dialer Defaults" section of that file. Something like: > > [Dialer Defaults] > Modem = /dev/ttyS0 > Baud = 57600 > Init = ATZ > Init2 = AT S11=50 > Phone = 555-4242 > Username = apenwarr > Password = my-password > > Full details are in the wvdial(1) and wvdial.conf(5) man pages. OK... Further note! The config file created by the gui looked reasonable. I changed the modem from /dev/modem to /dev/ttyUSB0 and tried again. I'm still getting "error 8" and similar log entries: Feb 22 20:44:09 hhlaptop ifup-ppp: pppd started for home on /dev/modem at 19200 Feb 22 20:44:09 hhlaptop kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California Feb 22 20:44:09 hhlaptop kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 Feb 22 20:44:09 hhlaptop pppd[3215]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0 Feb 22 20:44:10 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0 Feb 22 20:44:10 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: Initializing modem. Feb 22 20:44:10 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: Sending: ATZ Feb 22 20:44:15 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: Sending: ATQ0 Feb 22 20:44:15 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: ATQ0 Feb 22 20:44:15 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: OK Feb 22 20:44:15 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: Re-Sending: ATZ Feb 22 20:44:15 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: ATZ Feb 22 20:44:15 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: OK Feb 22 20:44:21 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: stdin not read/write and $MODEM not set Feb 22 20:44:21 hhlaptop pppd[3215]: Connect script failed Feb 22 20:44:22 hhlaptop pppd[3215]: Exit. I think the key here is "stdin not read/write and $modem not set." The OK lines seem to be my modem (cellphone) responding to the AT commands. I did a Google search on the phrase quoted above, and it appears to be a common problem. My search has not yet revealed a solution. I'll continue the search, but would certainly appreciate any ideas! THANKS! Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Thu Feb 23 05:51:44 2006 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:51:44 -0700 (MST) Subject: Fedora Core 4 and Ubuntu Message-ID: <17847.198.60.114.90.1140673904.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> I've recently begun installing Kubuntu (ubuntu.com) at work on a few workstations. Interesting to find that a USB Palm Pilot syncs right out of the box. On Fedora Core 4, I've never had good success syncing. It works very sporadically at best. Why? -- karl _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ ____________ __o _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ ____________ _-\<._ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ (_)/ (_) _/ _/ _/ _/ ...................... _/ _/ arl _/_/_/ _/ earson KarlP at ourldsfamily.com --- Senior Consulting Sys/DB Analyst http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com --- My Thoughts on Terrorism In America right after 9/11/2001: http://www.ourldsfamily.com/wtc.shtml --- A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. -Ramsey Clark --- From maheshbalasub at gmail.com Thu Feb 23 17:43:54 2006 From: maheshbalasub at gmail.com (mac) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:13:54 +0530 Subject: Linux AS 3 -tcp/ip stack issues Message-ID: <884aefd70602230943jc43f40byf93ba8da5d749d5b@mail.gmail.com> Hi, We just installed RH AS 3 on a dell 2650 poweredge for an application that runs on AS 3.As soon as we run this application(this app caters to a lot of client hits) and we run a netstat to troubleshoot application networking issues we get "Warning : got bogus tcp line " and FEW EST to clients ...most of the connection being bogus tcp lines. What is the implication of this as we often need to retstart our application also ANy pointers appreciated regards -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From JMARTI05 at intersil.com Thu Feb 23 18:08:48 2006 From: JMARTI05 at intersil.com (Martin, Jonathan (Contractor)) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:08:48 -0500 Subject: Linux AS 3 -tcp/ip stack issues Message-ID: <13E204E614D8E04FAF594C9AA9ED0BB702F28A1D@PBCOMX02.intersil.corp> I can't speak for the application or the issue you are having but we do run several Dell 2650s with AS3 U3 and U6 with no issues. We once had an issue with SMP not working / causing a kernel panic which was fixed by a BIOS upgrade (A20 / the latest I believe.) -Jonathan ________________________________ From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of mac Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:44 PM To: Redhat-install-list at redhat.com Subject: Linux AS 3 -tcp/ip stack issues Hi, We just installed RH AS 3 on a dell 2650 poweredge for an application that runs on AS 3.As soon as we run this application(this app caters to a lot of client hits) and we run a netstat to troubleshoot application networking issues we get "Warning : got bogus tcp line " and FEW EST to clients ...most of the connection being bogus tcp lines. What is the implication of this as we often need to retstart our application also ANy pointers appreciated regards -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Feb 23 18:11:58 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:11:58 -0800 Subject: /dev/ttyUSB0 and PPP In-Reply-To: <39846.192.168.1.1.1140670242.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <36477.192.168.1.1.1140242767.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <58214.192.168.1.1.1140401717.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1140561923.26796.252.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43946.192.168.1.1.1140580197.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1140630688.26796.339.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <39846.192.168.1.1.1140670242.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <1140718318.31672.15.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 20:50 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 19:49 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > >> > On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 18:15 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > >> >> > I'm trying to set up a ppp connection through my cellphone. I'm > >> using > >> >> a > >> >> USB to EIA232 adapter on FC4_64. I can talk to the cellphone (send AT > >> >> commands, dial, etc.) from GtkTerm using /dev/ttyUSB0 when logged in > >> as > >> >> root. As another user, I get permission denied. > >> >> > > >> >> > Desktop/SystemSettings/Network lets me define a modem device on > >> ports > >> >> such > >> >> > as dev/ttyS0, etc., dev/modem, dev/tty|1, dev/input/ttyACM0, > >> >> dev/ttyM0, > >> >> etc. But, no /dev/ttyUSB0. > >> >> > > >> >> > So... what do I do to set up a ppp connection on my cellphone modem > >> on > >> >> /dev/ttyUSB0? > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> Still working on this... A google search came up with the suggestion > >> >> that > >> >> I add > >> >> > >> >> ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/modem > >> >> > >> >> to my /etc/rc.local . I've done that and am still having trouble > >> getting > >> >> ppp to dial out. I'm using the network configure menu > >> >> desktop/SystemSettings/network. At one point, I could see it dial > >> just > >> >> the > >> >> 1 dialing prefix, but not the rest of the number. Currently, it > >> doesn't > >> >> try to dial at all. Instead, I get "cannot connect to network device" > >> >> when > >> >> I try to activate it. > >> >> > >> >> As root, I can talk to the cellphone using gtkterm. As a non-root > >> user, > >> >> I > >> >> get permission denied. Here's a little more info: > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> [root at hhlaptop ~]# ls -l /dev/modem > >> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 19 18:00 /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyUSB0 > >> >> [root at hhlaptop ~]# ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0 > >> >> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Feb 19 18:04 /dev/ttyUSB0 > >> >> [root at hhlaptop ~]# > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> So... any ideas? > >> > > >> > Well, the first thing is to change the permissions on /dev/ttyUSB0. > >> > You need to edit the /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules and change the > >> > > >> > KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", GROUP="uucp", MODE="0660", OPTIONS="last_rule" > >> > > >> > line to read "MODE=0666" to permit world read/write operations, then > >> > unplug the dongle and plug it back in. > >> > > >> > >> > >> THANKS Rick! After this change, gtkTerm can talk to the cellphone on the > >> USB as a non-root user. I then tried the internet connection wizard. It > >> exits with error 8. Here's what shows up in /var/log/messages: > >> > >> Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop ifup-ppp: pppd started for home on /dev/modem > >> at > >> 19200 > >> Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of > >> the > >> University of California > >> Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 > >> Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop pppd[3187]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0 > >> Feb 21 19:37:00 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: WvDial: Internet dialer version > >> 1.54.0 > >> Feb 21 19:37:00 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Initializing modem. > >> Feb 21 19:37:00 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Sending: ATZ > >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Sending: ATQ0 > >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: ATQ0 > >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: OK > >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Re-Sending: ATZ > >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: ATZ > >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: OK > >> Feb 21 19:37:11 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: stdin not read/write and $MODEM > >> not > >> set > >> Feb 21 19:37:11 hhlaptop pppd[3187]: Connect script failed > >> Feb 21 19:37:12 hhlaptop pppd[3187]: Exit. > >> > >> > >> So, it looks like pppd is being passed device/modem, but wvdial is not > >> able to communicate with it. I'm guessing the OK entries are the > >> responses > >> from the cellphone, so it looks like we're talking to it. So, what's the > >> line at 19:37:11 mean? > > > > Have you edited /etc/wvdial.conf? You have to set the MODEM variable in > > the "Dialer Defaults" section of that file. Something like: > > > > [Dialer Defaults] > > Modem = /dev/ttyS0 > > Baud = 57600 > > Init = ATZ > > Init2 = AT S11=50 > > Phone = 555-4242 > > Username = apenwarr > > Password = my-password > > > > Full details are in the wvdial(1) and wvdial.conf(5) man pages. > > > OK... Further note! The config file created by the gui looked reasonable. > I changed the modem from /dev/modem to /dev/ttyUSB0 and tried again. I'm > still getting "error 8" and similar log entries: > > Feb 22 20:44:09 hhlaptop ifup-ppp: pppd started for home on /dev/modem at > 19200 > Feb 22 20:44:09 hhlaptop kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the > University of California > Feb 22 20:44:09 hhlaptop kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 > Feb 22 20:44:09 hhlaptop pppd[3215]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0 > Feb 22 20:44:10 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0 > Feb 22 20:44:10 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: Initializing modem. > Feb 22 20:44:10 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: Sending: ATZ > Feb 22 20:44:15 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: Sending: ATQ0 > Feb 22 20:44:15 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: ATQ0 > Feb 22 20:44:15 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: OK > Feb 22 20:44:15 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: Re-Sending: ATZ > Feb 22 20:44:15 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: ATZ > Feb 22 20:44:15 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: OK > Feb 22 20:44:21 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: stdin not read/write and $MODEM not > set > Feb 22 20:44:21 hhlaptop pppd[3215]: Connect script failed > Feb 22 20:44:22 hhlaptop pppd[3215]: Exit. > > > I think the key here is "stdin not read/write and $modem not set." The OK > lines seem to be my modem (cellphone) responding to the AT commands. I did > a Google search on the phrase quoted above, and it appears to be a common > problem. My search has not yet revealed a solution. I'll continue the > search, but would certainly appreciate any ideas! Try changing the "Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0" to "MODEM = /dev/ttyUSB0" and see. Shell variables are case sensitive. Since the error message is bitching about "$MODEM", my guess is that it's looking for "MODEM = " and not "Modem = ". And if that fixes it, send a Bugzilla report about it. That's nasty! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Feb 23 18:12:59 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:12:59 -0800 Subject: Fedora Core 4 and Ubuntu In-Reply-To: <17847.198.60.114.90.1140673904.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> References: <17847.198.60.114.90.1140673904.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <1140718379.31672.16.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 22:51 -0700, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > I've recently begun installing Kubuntu (ubuntu.com) at work on a few > workstations. Interesting to find that a USB Palm Pilot syncs right out of > the box. On Fedora Core 4, I've never had good success syncing. It works > very sporadically at best. Why? How are you syncing? USB? Bluetooth? I've never had a problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Feb 23 18:17:40 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:17:40 -0800 Subject: Linux AS 3 -tcp/ip stack issues In-Reply-To: <884aefd70602230943jc43f40byf93ba8da5d749d5b@mail.gmail.com> References: <884aefd70602230943jc43f40byf93ba8da5d749d5b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1140718660.31672.21.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 23:13 +0530, mac wrote: > Hi, > > We just installed RH AS 3 on a dell 2650 poweredge for an application > that runs on AS 3.As soon as we run this application(this app caters > to a lot of client hits) and we run a netstat to troubleshoot > application networking issues we get "Warning : got bogus tcp line " > and FEW EST to clients ...most of the connection being bogus tcp > lines. What is the implication of this as we often need to retstart > our application also > > ANy pointers appreciated The machine has all current updates? If not, update it. It'd help if you'd give us the full netstat command you're issuing and I'm not sure what you mean by "FEW EST to clients". Is that an error from your application or a system error? I don't recall seeing that before. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Warning: You are logged into reality as the root user... - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Feb 23 18:33:07 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:33:07 -0800 Subject: about nis In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1140719587.31672.36.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 17:46 -0500, roldan wrote: > i have in my server the domain nisnet created when i do the make under the > directory /etc/yp > the nisdomainname returns nisnet as result > and i put the ypserv running in debug mode and there is a line that says: > ypserv.conf:dns:0 > what this means? > > in the other hand i tried to bind from a client machine but i still having > the error : "no binds to domain" > > and so i don't understand the command ypinit -m that i should run in the > master server, do i have to add all the networks clients machines in the > /etc/hosts file, and add all the networks users too before run the command? You really should buy a book on NIS if you're going to be playing with this. I recommend the O'Reilly book "Managing NFS and NIS". First, your master server AND all slaves and clients must belong to the same NIS domain. This is set by the "domainname" command and will NOT survive a reboot unless you set "NISDOMAIN" in the /etc/sysconfig/network file: NISDOMAIN=mynisdomain AND either "ypserv" or "ypbind" is run at boot time. Second, the NIS master must have "ypinit -m" run on it at least once to set up the databases. Third, the NIS master should have "ypserv" running on it ("service ypserv start"). The master should also automatically start ypserv at boot time ("chkconfig ypserv on" will set that up). Fourth, all of the machines involved must be able to resolve the various IP addresses involved--either via DNS or entries in the /etc/hosts file. Fifth, your NIS clients should have /etc/yp.conf configured. At a minimum, they should have: ypserver name-or-IP-address-of-the-NIS-server See the manpage for ypbind ("man ypbind") for details. Your NIS clients should then be able to bind to the server using "ypbind". Once this is confirmed, enable ypbind to start at boot time ("chkconfig ypbind on"). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Reality: A crutch for those who can't handle science fiction - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From redhat at buglecreek.com Thu Feb 23 19:49:33 2006 From: redhat at buglecreek.com (redhat at buglecreek.com) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:49:33 -0700 Subject: RPM- two packages installed Message-ID: <1140724173.15832.255118230@webmail.messagingengine.com> We are required to scan our networks for current patch levels. The automated tool flags packages that need to be updated. For example, it said that it is required to update gnutls to the current version (gnutls-1.0.20-3.2.1). Doing a "rpm -qa | grep gnutls" outputs "gnutls-1.0.20-3.2.1" and also "gnutls-1.0.20-3". I assume the scanner is not smart enough to realize that the newer version is in fact installed and is simply seeing that the older version is installed. My question is how does two versions of the same package get installed? I know that if you do a rpm -i "newer version of pkg" it will install the new one and leave the old one, but is there any other way that this can happen? I am seeing this quit a lot and am starting to wonder if someone is installing new packages with rpm -i instead of rpm -U. Also, running up2date (with default config) should not leave the old package? Correct? This examples is on a Redhat ES4 install. Thanks From dhamilton at rose.edu Fri Feb 24 00:48:36 2006 From: dhamilton at rose.edu (Hamilton, David) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:48:36 -0600 Subject: Error installing kernel with up2date Message-ID: Hello, I have RHEL 4 installed and I keep getting an error while trying to install the kernel that up2date recommends I install. Does anyone know how I can correct this? Here is the error message: There was a package dependency problem. The message was: Unresolvable chain of dependencies: lksctp-tools-1.0.2-6.4E.1 conflicts with kernel >= 2.6.10 The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy dependencies: Package Required by ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please modify your package selections and try again. Thanks! From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Feb 24 01:29:05 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:29:05 -0800 Subject: RPM- two packages installed In-Reply-To: <1140724173.15832.255118230@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1140724173.15832.255118230@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <1140744545.31672.70.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 12:49 -0700, redhat at buglecreek.com wrote: > We are required to scan our networks for current patch levels. The > automated tool flags packages that need to be updated. For example, it > said that it is required to update gnutls to the current version > (gnutls-1.0.20-3.2.1). Doing a "rpm -qa | grep gnutls" outputs > "gnutls-1.0.20-3.2.1" and also "gnutls-1.0.20-3". I assume the scanner > is not smart enough to realize that the newer version is in fact > installed and is simply seeing that the older version is installed. My > question is how does two versions of the same package get installed? I > know that if you do a rpm -i "newer version of pkg" it will install the > new one and leave the old one, but is there any other way that this can > happen? If the "%post" script craps out when installing a package, the removal of old stuff may not happen. The sam is true if either the "%preun" or "%postun" scripts fail on the old package. > I am seeing this quit a lot and am starting to wonder if > someone is installing new packages with rpm -i instead of rpm -U. Also, > running up2date (with default config) should not leave the old package? > Correct? > This examples is on a Redhat ES4 install. You are correct about the "-i" and it may be that someone is doing what you say. They may also be doing a "-f" to force an install. By default, up2date is supposed to do "-U" with the exception of the kernel binary RPMs. This is all in the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date file, specifically the "pkgsToInstallNotUpdate" list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If it's stupid and it works...it ain't stupid! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Feb 24 01:40:02 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:40:02 -0800 Subject: Error installing kernel with up2date In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1140745202.31672.78.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 18:48 -0600, Hamilton, David wrote: > Hello, I have RHEL 4 installed and I keep getting an error while trying to install the kernel that up2date recommends I install. Does anyone know how I can correct this? Here is the error message: > > There was a package dependency problem. The message was: > > Unresolvable chain of dependencies: > lksctp-tools-1.0.2-6.4E.1 conflicts with kernel >= 2.6.10 > > > The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy dependencies: > Package Required by > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Please modify your package selections and try again. You need to update your lksctp-tools RPM first, then update the kernel: up2date lksctp-tools up2date kernel-whatever up2date does occasionally have issues with this type of circular dependency. You might also bugzilla that with the fine folk at Red Hat to warn them of it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - C program run. C program crash. C programmer quit. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From milis at ogs-id.com Fri Feb 24 02:47:09 2006 From: milis at ogs-id.com (Milis) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:47:09 +0700 Subject: Install RHEL 4 into IBM x346 Message-ID: <7410072404.20060224094709@sur.ogs-id.com> Dear All, I am new comer in this list, and now I need some knoledge share for any one has experince for installling RHEL 4 into IBM X346, I have 2 IBm x346 for building into cluster system, in the IBM x346 board I have raid level 1 config, and its config through IBM ServeRaid, but fortunately while I install RHEL 4 into this server, my logical hdd known as NOT RAID 1 but as INDEPENDENT HDD, I ahve been try to use disk image from IBm AND/OR from adaptec, but they still known as INDPENDENT HDD. pls share your knowledge for solve this problem. Thanks a lot for your knowledge. Note : I've been update all BMC and BIOS as IBM Instruction on their web site. -- Tks & Best regards, Andi EP IT Engineer mailto:milis at ogs-id.com From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Fri Feb 24 02:57:01 2006 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:57:01 -0700 (MST) Subject: Fedora Core 4 and Ubuntu In-Reply-To: <1140718379.31672.16.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <17847.198.60.114.90.1140673904.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <1140718379.31672.16.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <29747.198.60.114.90.1140749821.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> On Thu, February 23, 2006 11:12 am, Rick Stevens said: > On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 22:51 -0700, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: >> I've recently begun installing Kubuntu (ubuntu.com) at work on a few >> workstations. Interesting to find that a USB Palm Pilot syncs right out of >> the box. On Fedora Core 4, I've never had good success syncing. It works >> very sporadically at best. Why? > > How are you syncing? USB? Bluetooth? I've never had a problem. USB only. That's the only way a Tungsten T5 comes. Overall, Ubuntu handles USB devices better. The USB port doesn't come and go with the connect. It's a MAKEDEV type device all the time. I get permission problems and had to write a script that sets the owner every few seconds. That didn't work more than once in about 15-25 tries. I changed to a hardware update so when a USB device is attached, the permissions are changed to my user and that doesn't work more than once every 5-10 times. I ran the script with that and didn't see any improvement. This has been a while and I gave up, syncing to Win2000 (VMWare guest) only. I'm actually thinking of installing Ubuntu on VMWare and seeing how that works. Karl > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check? - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -- karl _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ ____________ __o _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ ____________ _-\<._ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ (_)/ (_) _/ _/ _/ _/ ...................... _/ _/ arl _/_/_/ _/ earson KarlP at ourldsfamily.com --- Senior Consulting Sys/DB Analyst http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com --- My Thoughts on Terrorism In America right after 9/11/2001: http://www.ourldsfamily.com/wtc.shtml --- A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. -Ramsey Clark --- From waynehapp at earthlink.net Fri Feb 24 04:38:54 2006 From: waynehapp at earthlink.net (Wayne Happ) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:38:54 -0500 Subject: Installing Enterprise WS4 on Dell XPS 400 Message-ID: I have had a number of problems getting RedHat WS 4.0 to install and run on my Dell XPS 400. The latest problem is the integrated network card. I downloaded the latest ISO images for WS4 EMT64. When I go through the install process it does not seem to find the network card period. Any ideas where to start looking? Regards, Wayne Happ From harold at hallikainen.com Fri Feb 24 04:56:24 2006 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:56:24 -0800 Subject: /dev/ttyUSB0 and PPP In-Reply-To: <1140718318.31672.15.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <36477.192.168.1.1.1140242767.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <58214.192.168.1.1.1140401717.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1140561923.26796.252.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43946.192.168.1.1.1140580197.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1140630688.26796.339.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <39846.192.168.1.1.1140670242.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1140718318.31672.15.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <1140756984.6886.18.camel@hhlaptop.hallikainen.org> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 10:11 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 20:50 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 19:49 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > >> > On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 18:15 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > >> >> > I'm trying to set up a ppp connection through my cellphone. I'm > > >> using > > >> >> a > > >> >> USB to EIA232 adapter on FC4_64. I can talk to the cellphone (send AT > > >> >> commands, dial, etc.) from GtkTerm using /dev/ttyUSB0 when logged in > > >> as > > >> >> root. As another user, I get permission denied. > > >> >> > > > >> >> > Desktop/SystemSettings/Network lets me define a modem device on > > >> ports > > >> >> such > > >> >> > as dev/ttyS0, etc., dev/modem, dev/tty|1, dev/input/ttyACM0, > > >> >> dev/ttyM0, > > >> >> etc. But, no /dev/ttyUSB0. > > >> >> > > > >> >> > So... what do I do to set up a ppp connection on my cellphone modem > > >> on > > >> >> /dev/ttyUSB0? > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> Still working on this... A google search came up with the suggestion > > >> >> that > > >> >> I add > > >> >> > > >> >> ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/modem > > >> >> > > >> >> to my /etc/rc.local . I've done that and am still having trouble > > >> getting > > >> >> ppp to dial out. I'm using the network configure menu > > >> >> desktop/SystemSettings/network. At one point, I could see it dial > > >> just > > >> >> the > > >> >> 1 dialing prefix, but not the rest of the number. Currently, it > > >> doesn't > > >> >> try to dial at all. Instead, I get "cannot connect to network device" > > >> >> when > > >> >> I try to activate it. > > >> >> > > >> >> As root, I can talk to the cellphone using gtkterm. As a non-root > > >> user, > > >> >> I > > >> >> get permission denied. Here's a little more info: > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> [root at hhlaptop ~]# ls -l /dev/modem > > >> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 19 18:00 /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyUSB0 > > >> >> [root at hhlaptop ~]# ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0 > > >> >> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Feb 19 18:04 /dev/ttyUSB0 > > >> >> [root at hhlaptop ~]# > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> So... any ideas? > > >> > > > >> > Well, the first thing is to change the permissions on /dev/ttyUSB0. > > >> > You need to edit the /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules and change the > > >> > > > >> > KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", GROUP="uucp", MODE="0660", OPTIONS="last_rule" > > >> > > > >> > line to read "MODE=0666" to permit world read/write operations, then > > >> > unplug the dongle and plug it back in. > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >> THANKS Rick! After this change, gtkTerm can talk to the cellphone on the > > >> USB as a non-root user. I then tried the internet connection wizard. It > > >> exits with error 8. Here's what shows up in /var/log/messages: > > >> > > >> Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop ifup-ppp: pppd started for home on /dev/modem > > >> at > > >> 19200 > > >> Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of > > >> the > > >> University of California > > >> Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 > > >> Feb 21 19:36:59 hhlaptop pppd[3187]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0 > > >> Feb 21 19:37:00 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: WvDial: Internet dialer version > > >> 1.54.0 > > >> Feb 21 19:37:00 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Initializing modem. > > >> Feb 21 19:37:00 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Sending: ATZ > > >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Sending: ATQ0 > > >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: ATQ0 > > >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: OK > > >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: Re-Sending: ATZ > > >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: ATZ > > >> Feb 21 19:37:05 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: OK > > >> Feb 21 19:37:11 hhlaptop wvdial[3203]: stdin not read/write and $MODEM > > >> not > > >> set > > >> Feb 21 19:37:11 hhlaptop pppd[3187]: Connect script failed > > >> Feb 21 19:37:12 hhlaptop pppd[3187]: Exit. > > >> > > >> > > >> So, it looks like pppd is being passed device/modem, but wvdial is not > > >> able to communicate with it. I'm guessing the OK entries are the > > >> responses > > >> from the cellphone, so it looks like we're talking to it. So, what's the > > >> line at 19:37:11 mean? > > > > > > Have you edited /etc/wvdial.conf? You have to set the MODEM variable in > > > the "Dialer Defaults" section of that file. Something like: > > > > > > [Dialer Defaults] > > > Modem = /dev/ttyS0 > > > Baud = 57600 > > > Init = ATZ > > > Init2 = AT S11=50 > > > Phone = 555-4242 > > > Username = apenwarr > > > Password = my-password > > > > > > Full details are in the wvdial(1) and wvdial.conf(5) man pages. > > > > > > OK... Further note! The config file created by the gui looked reasonable. > > I changed the modem from /dev/modem to /dev/ttyUSB0 and tried again. I'm > > still getting "error 8" and similar log entries: > > > > Feb 22 20:44:09 hhlaptop ifup-ppp: pppd started for home on /dev/modem at > > 19200 > > Feb 22 20:44:09 hhlaptop kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the > > University of California > > Feb 22 20:44:09 hhlaptop kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 > > Feb 22 20:44:09 hhlaptop pppd[3215]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0 > > Feb 22 20:44:10 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0 > > Feb 22 20:44:10 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: Initializing modem. > > Feb 22 20:44:10 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: Sending: ATZ > > Feb 22 20:44:15 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: Sending: ATQ0 > > Feb 22 20:44:15 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: ATQ0 > > Feb 22 20:44:15 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: OK > > Feb 22 20:44:15 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: Re-Sending: ATZ > > Feb 22 20:44:15 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: ATZ > > Feb 22 20:44:15 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: OK > > Feb 22 20:44:21 hhlaptop wvdial[3231]: stdin not read/write and $MODEM not > > set > > Feb 22 20:44:21 hhlaptop pppd[3215]: Connect script failed > > Feb 22 20:44:22 hhlaptop pppd[3215]: Exit. > > > > > > I think the key here is "stdin not read/write and $modem not set." The OK > > lines seem to be my modem (cellphone) responding to the AT commands. I did > > a Google search on the phrase quoted above, and it appears to be a common > > problem. My search has not yet revealed a solution. I'll continue the > > search, but would certainly appreciate any ideas! > > Try changing the "Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0" to "MODEM = /dev/ttyUSB0" and > see. Shell variables are case sensitive. Since the error message is > bitching about "$MODEM", my guess is that it's looking for "MODEM = " > and not "Modem = ". > > And if that fixes it, send a Bugzilla report about it. That's nasty! Well, that didn't fix it! Here's a the config file: [Modem0] MODEM = /dev/ttyUSB0 Baud = 19200 SetVolume = 0 Dial Command = ATDT Init1 = ATZ Init3 = ATM0 Modem = /dev/modem FlowControl = CRTSCTS [Dialer home] Area Code = 805 Username = ****** Password = ********** Phone = *** **** Dial Prefix = 1 Stupid Mode = 1 Init1 = ATZ Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 Inherits = Modem0 [Dialer home0] Init1 = ATZ Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 Inherits = Modem0 And here's what comes out the log: Feb 23 20:00:48 hhlaptop pppd[4049]: Starting link Feb 23 20:00:49 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0 Feb 23 20:00:49 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: Initializing modem. Feb 23 20:00:49 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: Sending: ATZ Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: Sending: ATQ0 Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: ATQ0 Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: OK Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: Re-Sending: ATZ Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: ATZ Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: OK Feb 23 20:01:00 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: stdin not read/write and $MODEM not set Feb 23 20:01:00 hhlaptop pppd[4049]: Connect script failed So... I guess it's time for me to spend the weekend on Google! I'll also check the linux networking newsgroup. THANKS Rick! Harold From maheshbalasub at gmail.com Fri Feb 24 17:12:19 2006 From: maheshbalasub at gmail.com (mac) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:42:19 +0530 Subject: LInux on sdb Message-ID: <884aefd70602240912r4566ee49ibede20c61dc81e@mail.gmail.com> Hi, Can we install linux / ,/home,/boot on sdb ??we installed linux as3 on a dell poweredge system and boot was on sdb7 ..when we reboot ,the OS does not boot !! 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URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Feb 24 19:01:14 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:01:14 -0800 Subject: Fedora Core 4 and Ubuntu In-Reply-To: <29747.198.60.114.90.1140749821.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> References: <17847.198.60.114.90.1140673904.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <1140718379.31672.16.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <29747.198.60.114.90.1140749821.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <1140807674.31672.121.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 19:57 -0700, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > On Thu, February 23, 2006 11:12 am, Rick Stevens said: > > On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 22:51 -0700, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > >> I've recently begun installing Kubuntu (ubuntu.com) at work on a few > >> workstations. Interesting to find that a USB Palm Pilot syncs right out of > >> the box. On Fedora Core 4, I've never had good success syncing. It works > >> very sporadically at best. Why? > > > > How are you syncing? USB? Bluetooth? I've never had a problem. > > USB only. That's the only way a Tungsten T5 comes. Overall, Ubuntu handles > USB devices better. The USB port doesn't come and go with the connect. It's > a MAKEDEV type device all the time. I get permission problems and had to > write a script that sets the owner every few seconds. That didn't work more > than once in about 15-25 tries. I changed to a hardware update so when a USB > device is attached, the permissions are changed to my user and that doesn't > work more than once every 5-10 times. I ran the script with that and didn't > see any improvement. Well, shoot. I sync my ancient Handspring Visor on FC4 via USB all the time, and I sync my E2 via either USB or bluetooth (bluetooth mostly) as well. The USB sync (at least as far as pilot-link is concerned) is always on /dev/ttyUSB1. Bluetooth is a bit more involved. > This has been a while and I gave up, syncing to Win2000 (VMWare guest) only. > I'm actually thinking of installing Ubuntu on VMWare and seeing how that > works. I can send you what I have for FC4, if it'll help. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - The light at the end of the tunnel is really an oncoming train. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Feb 24 19:03:34 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:03:34 -0800 Subject: Installing Enterprise WS4 on Dell XPS 400 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1140807814.31672.125.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 23:38 -0500, Wayne Happ wrote: > I have had a number of problems getting RedHat WS 4.0 to install and run on > my Dell XPS 400. > > The latest problem is the integrated network card. I downloaded the latest > ISO images for WS4 EMT64. When I go through the install process it does not > seem to find the network card period. > > Any ideas where to start looking? We need to know what the network card is. Can you do an "lspci -v" and send us what it spews out for the "Ethernet" device? Example: [root at prophead ~]# lspci -v 03:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01) Subsystem: GVC/BCM Advanced Research: Unknown device 2179 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5 Memory at dfdee000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Expansion ROM at bdc00000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I doubt, therefore I might be. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Feb 24 19:07:02 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:07:02 -0800 Subject: /dev/ttyUSB0 and PPP In-Reply-To: <1140756984.6886.18.camel@hhlaptop.hallikainen.org> References: <36477.192.168.1.1.1140242767.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <58214.192.168.1.1.1140401717.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1140561923.26796.252.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43946.192.168.1.1.1140580197.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1140630688.26796.339.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <39846.192.168.1.1.1140670242.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1140718318.31672.15.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <1140756984.6886.18.camel@hhlaptop.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <1140808022.31672.128.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 20:56 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > > > Try changing the "Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0" to "MODEM = /dev/ttyUSB0" and > > see. Shell variables are case sensitive. Since the error message is > > bitching about "$MODEM", my guess is that it's looking for "MODEM = " > > and not "Modem = ". > > > > And if that fixes it, send a Bugzilla report about it. That's nasty! > > Well, that didn't fix it! Here's a the config file: > > [Modem0] > MODEM = /dev/ttyUSB0 > Baud = 19200 > SetVolume = 0 > Dial Command = ATDT > Init1 = ATZ > Init3 = ATM0 > Modem = /dev/modem > FlowControl = CRTSCTS > > [Dialer home] > Area Code = 805 > Username = ****** > Password = ********** > Phone = *** **** > Dial Prefix = 1 > Stupid Mode = 1 > Init1 = ATZ > Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 > Inherits = Modem0 > [Dialer home0] > Init1 = ATZ > Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 > Inherits = Modem0 > > And here's what comes out the log: > > Feb 23 20:00:48 hhlaptop pppd[4049]: Starting link > Feb 23 20:00:49 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: WvDial: Internet dialer version > 1.54.0 > Feb 23 20:00:49 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: Initializing modem. > Feb 23 20:00:49 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: Sending: ATZ > Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: Sending: ATQ0 > Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: ATQ0 > Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: OK > Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: Re-Sending: ATZ > Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: ATZ > Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: OK > Feb 23 20:01:00 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: stdin not read/write and $MODEM > not set > Feb 23 20:01:00 hhlaptop pppd[4049]: Connect script failed > > > So... I guess it's time for me to spend the weekend on Google! I'll also > check the linux networking newsgroup. THANKS Rick! Hmmm. Well, there's one more thing to try... $ MODEM=/dev/ttyUSB0;export MODEM and try it again. (this is weird!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To err is human, to moo bovine. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Feb 24 19:08:36 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:08:36 -0800 Subject: LInux on sdb In-Reply-To: <884aefd70602240912r4566ee49ibede20c61dc81e@mail.gmail.com> References: <884aefd70602240912r4566ee49ibede20c61dc81e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1140808116.31672.131.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 22:42 +0530, mac wrote: > Hi, > > Can we install linux / ,/home,/boot on sdb ??we installed linux as3 on > a dell poweredge system and boot was on sdb7 ..when we reboot ,the OS > does not boot !! You can install Linux anywhere...so long as your boot loader (grub) can find it. Note, however, that grub has to be installed in the boot sector of /dev/sda. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Have you noticed that "human readable" configuration file - - directives are beginning to resemble COBOL code? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Feb 24 19:25:44 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:25:44 -0800 Subject: about nis In-Reply-To: <43FF69A4.000001.01220@overmind> References: <1140719587.31672.36.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43FF69A4.000001.01220@overmind> Message-ID: <1140809144.31672.144.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 14:16 -0600, Rold?n wrote: > i'm so sorry to have to ask again about nis configuration. the fact is > that > i can't get the o'relly's book, i can't afford it, i'm from cuba and i > can't > buy over internet i hope you know that > > any way i download some free literature about nis in orfer to know hot > to set up and i do everithing step by step and nothing works, thaht's > wy i wrote here searching for help > > i only have two machines for testing purposes one is the master and > the other is the client, the master machine is named > redes.digi.cupet.cu and the other is called overmind.digi.cupet.cu > both have this entry in the /etc/sysconfig/network file: > NISDOMAIN=nisnet > and ypserv runs at boot time in the master also ypbind runs in the > client > i ran ypinit -m in the server and enter the name of the server > (redes.digi.cupet.cu) when he ask me the names of the hosts that runs > NIS servers, perhaps i should put there the name of the nis domain or > the name of the client or anything else but i couldn't find nothing > that point me in the right direction > in both machines the /etc/hosts files point to each one > and in the client yp.conf file i put the line: > domain nisnet server redes.digi.cupet.cu > with all this done i still having the message not bound to server when > i start the client > what i do wrong? > > > > On all machines, confirm that the domain name is set properly (just enter "domainname" and verify it). On the master, make sure ypserv is running. Now, if the clients really are clients (and not slave servers), you simply need to do a couple of things: 1. Edit /etc/yp.conf on the CLIENTS and make sure there is a line such as: ypserver name-or-IP-address-of-master in it. 2. Edit the /etc/nsswitch.conf file on the CLIENTS and modify the lines for "passwd", "shadow" and "group" to include "nisplus nis": passwd: files nisplus nis shadow: files nisplus nis group: files nisplus nis 3. Restart ypbind on the clients: service ypbind restart 4. Test the clients to make sure they're picking up the map you want: ypwhich -m That should do it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Feb 24 19:35:27 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:35:27 -0800 Subject: Install RHEL 4 into IBM x346 In-Reply-To: <7410072404.20060224094709@sur.ogs-id.com> References: <7410072404.20060224094709@sur.ogs-id.com> Message-ID: <1140809727.31672.151.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 09:47 +0700, Milis wrote: > Dear All, > > I am new comer in this list, and now I need some knoledge share for > any one has experince for installling RHEL 4 into IBM X346, > > I have 2 IBm x346 for building into cluster system, in the IBM x346 > board I have raid level 1 config, and its config through IBM > ServeRaid, but fortunately while I install RHEL 4 into this server, my > logical hdd known as NOT RAID 1 but as INDEPENDENT HDD, > > I ahve been try to use disk image from IBm AND/OR from adaptec, but > they still known as INDPENDENT HDD. > > pls share your knowledge for solve this problem. > Thanks a lot for your knowledge. > > Note : I've been update all BMC and BIOS as IBM Instruction on their > web site. If the IBM is doing hardware RAID1, then the two drives will appear as a single drive to RHEL. In other words, RHEL should only see /dev/hda, which is the RAID1 representation of the two physical drives. If it's still showing up as two drives (/dev/hda and /dev/hdb), then the RAID1 isn't set up properly at the BIOS level and you need to fix that. When you create the RAID1, the BIOS should take a quite a while to build the RAID volume. It generally isn't instantaneous. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Blech! ACKth! Ooop! -- Bill the Cat (Outland) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From jkinz at kinz.org Fri Feb 24 19:25:58 2006 From: jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:25:58 -0500 Subject: about nis In-Reply-To: <1140809144.31672.144.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com>; from rstevens@vitalstream.com on Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:25:44AM -0800 References: <1140719587.31672.36.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43FF69A4.000001.01220@overmind> <1140809144.31672.144.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <20060224142558.A5266@redline.comcast.net> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:25:44AM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > On all machines, confirm that the domain name is set properly > (just enter "domainname" and verify it). On the master, make sure > ypserv is running. > > Now, if the clients really are clients (and not slave servers), you > simply need to do a couple of things: > > 1. Edit /etc/yp.conf on the CLIENTS and make sure there is a line such > as: ypserver name-or-IP-address-of-master > > in it. > > 2. Edit the /etc/nsswitch.conf file on the CLIENTS and modify the lines > for "passwd", "shadow" and "group" to include "nisplus nis": > 3. Restart ypbind on the clients: service ypbind restart > > 4. Test the clients to make sure they're picking up the map you want: > ypwhich -m > That should do it. Huh, Rick Stevens takes a $35 book, 400 pages long and reduces the entire tome to four simple steps. Typical Rick..... :) In other news O'Reilly publishing has asked a judge for an injunction preventing Rick from responding to emails....... -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail Rumsfeld tells Bush, "3 Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq today." "Oh my Lord". says Bush. He sits with his head in his hands for a long minute and then looks up and asks: "How many is a brazillion? ba-da bing! (Thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the veal.) From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Feb 24 19:40:18 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:40:18 -0800 Subject: about nis In-Reply-To: <20060224142558.A5266@redline.comcast.net> References: <1140719587.31672.36.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43FF69A4.000001.01220@overmind> <1140809144.31672.144.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <20060224142558.A5266@redline.comcast.net> Message-ID: <1140810018.31672.155.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 14:25 -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:25:44AM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > > On all machines, confirm that the domain name is set properly > > (just enter "domainname" and verify it). On the master, make sure > > ypserv is running. > > > > Now, if the clients really are clients (and not slave servers), you > > simply need to do a couple of things: > > > > 1. Edit /etc/yp.conf on the CLIENTS and make sure there is a line such > > as: ypserver name-or-IP-address-of-master > > in it. > > > > 2. Edit the /etc/nsswitch.conf file on the CLIENTS and modify the lines > > for "passwd", "shadow" and "group" to include "nisplus nis": > > > 3. Restart ypbind on the clients: service ypbind restart > > > > 4. Test the clients to make sure they're picking up the map you want: > > ypwhich -m > > > That should do it. > > > Huh, Rick Stevens takes a $35 book, 400 pages long and reduces the > entire tome to four simple steps. > > > Typical Rick..... :) > > > In other news O'Reilly publishing has asked a judge for an injunction > preventing Rick from responding to emails....... Heheheheh! They'll never catch me! (phone rings) "Yes?" (mumble mumble) "Oh, uh, Ok. Be right there." Gotta run. Some guys from the FBI want to talk to me about something... :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - On a scale of 1 to 10 I'd say... oh, somewhere in there. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From roldan at digi.cupet.cu Fri Feb 24 22:18:47 2006 From: roldan at digi.cupet.cu (Roldán) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:18:47 -0600 (Hora estándar central) Subject: about dns Message-ID: <43FF8647.000001.01512@overmind> ok i chek the domainname on the master and that ypserv was runnig, and i chek in the client the yp.conf file says: ypserver redes.digi.cupet.cu then in the nsswitch file i add the entry 'nisplus' to passwd, shadow and group lines and then when i restart the ypbind and do ypwhich -m it says: can't get map list for domain nisnet. reason: internal nis error -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Interesting to find that a USB Palm Pilot syncs right out >> of >> >> the box. On Fedora Core 4, I've never had good success syncing. It >> works >> >> very sporadically at best. Why? >> > >> > How are you syncing? USB? Bluetooth? I've never had a problem. >> >> USB only. That's the only way a Tungsten T5 comes. Overall, Ubuntu handles >> USB devices better. The USB port doesn't come and go with the connect. >> It's >> a MAKEDEV type device all the time. I get permission problems and had to >> write a script that sets the owner every few seconds. That didn't work >> more >> than once in about 15-25 tries. I changed to a hardware update so when a >> USB >> device is attached, the permissions are changed to my user and that >> doesn't >> work more than once every 5-10 times. I ran the script with that and >> didn't >> see any improvement. > > Well, shoot. I sync my ancient Handspring Visor on FC4 via USB all the > time, and I sync my E2 via either USB or bluetooth (bluetooth mostly) as > well. > > The USB sync (at least as far as pilot-link is concerned) is always on > /dev/ttyUSB1. Bluetooth is a bit more involved. > >> This has been a while and I gave up, syncing to Win2000 (VMWare guest) >> only. >> I'm actually thinking of installing Ubuntu on VMWare and seeing how that >> works. I did that. It works out-of-the-box, as-advertised... > > I can send you what I have for FC4, if it'll help. That would be helpful. Thanks, Karl > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - The light at the end of the tunnel is really an oncoming train. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -- karl _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ ____________ __o _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ ____________ _-\<._ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ (_)/ (_) _/ _/ _/ _/ ...................... _/ _/ arl _/_/_/ _/ earson KarlP at ourldsfamily.com --- Senior Consulting Sys/DB Analyst http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com --- My Thoughts on Terrorism In America right after 9/11/2001: http://www.ourldsfamily.com/wtc.shtml --- A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. -Ramsey Clark --- From milis at ogs-id.com Sat Feb 25 02:05:24 2006 From: milis at ogs-id.com (Milis) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:05:24 +0700 Subject: Install RHEL 4 into IBM x346 In-Reply-To: <1140809727.31672.151.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <7410072404.20060224094709@sur.ogs-id.com> <1140809727.31672.151.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <1929299295.20060225090524@sur.ogs-id.com> Dear Rick, is that coz the HostRaid of IBM x346 Board doesn't have ECC Memory to implement this? while I buy from IBM Vendor they not including ECC Memory for this HostRaid. or any solution to fix this problem? Thx in advance -- Tks & Best regards, Andi EP IT Engineer mailto:milis at ogs-id.com Saturday, February 25, 2006, 2:35:27 AM, you wrote: > On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 09:47 +0700, Milis wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> I am new comer in this list, and now I need some knoledge share for >> any one has experince for installling RHEL 4 into IBM X346, >> >> I have 2 IBm x346 for building into cluster system, in the IBM x346 >> board I have raid level 1 config, and its config through IBM >> ServeRaid, but fortunately while I install RHEL 4 into this server, my >> logical hdd known as NOT RAID 1 but as INDEPENDENT HDD, >> >> I ahve been try to use disk image from IBm AND/OR from adaptec, but >> they still known as INDPENDENT HDD. >> >> pls share your knowledge for solve this problem. >> Thanks a lot for your knowledge. >> >> Note : I've been update all BMC and BIOS as IBM Instruction on their >> web site. > If the IBM is doing hardware RAID1, then the two drives will appear > as a single drive to RHEL. In other words, RHEL should only see > /dev/hda, which is the RAID1 representation of the two physical drives. > If it's still showing up as two drives (/dev/hda and /dev/hdb), then > the RAID1 isn't set up properly at the BIOS level and you need to fix > that. When you create the RAID1, the BIOS should take a quite a while > to build the RAID volume. It generally isn't instantaneous. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - > - Blech! ACKth! Ooop! -- Bill the Cat (Outland) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Sat Feb 25 02:56:27 2006 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:56:27 -0800 Subject: about dns Message-ID: ________________________________________ From: Rold?n [mailto:roldan at digi.cupet.cu] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:19 PM To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com Subject: about dns ok i chek the domainname on the master and that ypserv was runnig, and i chek in the client the yp.conf file says: ypserver redes.digi.cupet.cu then in the nsswitch file i add the entry 'nisplus' to passwd, shadow and group lines and then when i restart the ypbind and do ypwhich -m it says: can't get map list for domain nisnet. reason: internal nis error ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Look in your /etc/sysconfig/network NISDOMAIN= From maheshbalasub at gmail.com Sat Feb 25 17:39:29 2006 From: maheshbalasub at gmail.com (mac) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:09:29 +0530 Subject: Linux AS 3 swap question!! Message-ID: <884aefd70602250939g69822942tc07458f426d5fbea@mail.gmail.com> Hi, We have a Linux EL AS 3 running on a poweredge server with 8 GB ram ...we would like to know how to change the swap space on a linux AS 3 system dynamically and would AS3 support a swap size of 16 GB any pointers appreciated regards -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr Sat Feb 25 23:04:06 2006 From: kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr (Kostas Sfakiotakis) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:04:06 +0200 Subject: LInux on sdb In-Reply-To: <884aefd70602240912r4566ee49ibede20c61dc81e@mail.gmail.com> References: <884aefd70602240912r4566ee49ibede20c61dc81e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4400E266.7080608@cha.forthnet.gr> Greetings mac, mac wrote: > Hi, > > Can we install linux / ,/home,/boot on sdb ??we installed linux as3 on a > dell poweredge system and boot was on sdb7 ..when we reboot ,the OS does > not boot !! There is no problem whereever you put linux . For example my Fedora Core 4 installation is on /dev/hdb ( Primary Slave ) but my boot loader ( grub ) is on the MBR of /dev/hda ( Primary Master ) or if you prefer my boot loader is on the MBR of the disk that boots the computer . So if you don't mind me asking , which is your boot drive ? > Any pointers would be appreciated > > regards > Kind Regards, Kostas From kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr Sat Feb 25 23:06:32 2006 From: kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr (Kostas Sfakiotakis) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:06:32 +0200 Subject: LInux on sdb In-Reply-To: <1140808116.31672.131.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <884aefd70602240912r4566ee49ibede20c61dc81e@mail.gmail.com> <1140808116.31672.131.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <4400E2F8.5020505@cha.forthnet.gr> Greetings Rick, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 22:42 +0530, mac wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>Can we install linux / ,/home,/boot on sdb ??we installed linux as3 on >>a dell poweredge system and boot was on sdb7 ..when we reboot ,the OS >>does not boot !! > > > You can install Linux anywhere...so long as your boot loader (grub) can > find it. Note, however, that grub has to be installed in the boot > sector of /dev/sda. Rick , do you by any means assume that mac is booting from /dev/sda ? Which would be the First SCSI Disk of the First SCSI Controller that he has installed ? Kind Regards, Kostas From harold at hallikainen.com Sat Feb 25 23:24:46 2006 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:24:46 -0800 (PST) Subject: /dev/ttyUSB0 and PPP In-Reply-To: <1140808022.31672.128.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <36477.192.168.1.1.1140242767.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <58214.192.168.1.1.1140401717.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1140561923.26796.252.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43946.192.168.1.1.1140580197.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1140630688.26796.339.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <39846.192.168.1.1.1140670242.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1140718318.31672.15.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <1140756984.6886.18.camel@hhlaptop.hallikainen.org> <1140808022.31672.128.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <44809.192.168.1.1.1140909886.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> > On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 20:56 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > >> > >> > Try changing the "Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0" to "MODEM = /dev/ttyUSB0" and >> > see. Shell variables are case sensitive. Since the error message is >> > bitching about "$MODEM", my guess is that it's looking for "MODEM = " >> > and not "Modem = ". >> > >> > And if that fixes it, send a Bugzilla report about it. That's nasty! >> >> Well, that didn't fix it! Here's a the config file: >> >> [Modem0] >> MODEM = /dev/ttyUSB0 >> Baud = 19200 >> SetVolume = 0 >> Dial Command = ATDT >> Init1 = ATZ >> Init3 = ATM0 >> Modem = /dev/modem >> FlowControl = CRTSCTS >> >> [Dialer home] >> Area Code = 805 >> Username = ****** >> Password = ********** >> Phone = *** **** >> Dial Prefix = 1 >> Stupid Mode = 1 >> Init1 = ATZ >> Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 >> Inherits = Modem0 >> [Dialer home0] >> Init1 = ATZ >> Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 >> Inherits = Modem0 >> >> And here's what comes out the log: >> >> Feb 23 20:00:48 hhlaptop pppd[4049]: Starting link >> Feb 23 20:00:49 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: WvDial: Internet dialer version >> 1.54.0 >> Feb 23 20:00:49 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: Initializing modem. >> Feb 23 20:00:49 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: Sending: ATZ >> Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: Sending: ATQ0 >> Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: ATQ0 >> Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: OK >> Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: Re-Sending: ATZ >> Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: ATZ >> Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: OK >> Feb 23 20:01:00 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: stdin not read/write and $MODEM >> not set >> Feb 23 20:01:00 hhlaptop pppd[4049]: Connect script failed >> >> >> So... I guess it's time for me to spend the weekend on Google! I'll also >> check the linux networking newsgroup. THANKS Rick! > > Hmmm. Well, there's one more thing to try... > > $ MODEM=/dev/ttyUSB0;export MODEM > > and try it again. > > (this is weird!) > Well... Weird it is. Now and then it would dial out, most of the time it would not. It would say active in the network configuration window even when it was not connected. Very difficult to figure out! Anyway, one my books makes mention of kppp, which happens to be on this laptop. The book says you can use kppp or the internet configuration wizard, then goes on to describe the wizard and never mentions kppp again. So, I tried kppp. It works great! It had trouble dealing wity ttyUSB0, but works fine on /dev/modem. This email is being sent from my laptop through my cellphone calling my server at home. It works!!!!!! Now I can use this machine more on my hour bus commute! Thanks Rick, and everyone! Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com From bret_stern at machinemanagement.com Sun Feb 26 00:47:16 2006 From: bret_stern at machinemanagement.com (Bret Stern) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:47:16 -0800 Subject: Dual NIC cards - Need help Message-ID: <002301c63a6e$33434ce0$0200a8c0@mmbret> I have installed two NIC cards on a Dell Poweredge 1300. I'm routing port 80 through my firewall to my web server. These requests arrive via eth0. Eth1 is used to access a backend database via perl cgi scripts called on the host Apache httpd server. One card is on subnet 192.168.0.xx One card is on subnet 192.168.5.xx I can ping both networks. However, I cannot see any of the Samba and Windows 2000 servers on my network. My plan is to have perl scripts access the backend database. Any ideas on why I cannot see my internal network using the gnome Network explorer? Or is it a good thing not being able to see the internal network? Regards, Bret Stern From rstevens at vitalstream.com Sun Feb 26 02:06:50 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:06:50 -0800 Subject: Install RHEL 4 into IBM x346 In-Reply-To: <1929299295.20060225090524@sur.ogs-id.com> References: <7410072404.20060224094709@sur.ogs-id.com> <1140809727.31672.151.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <1929299295.20060225090524@sur.ogs-id.com> Message-ID: <1140919611.31672.176.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 09:05 +0700, Milis wrote: > Dear Rick, > > is that coz the HostRaid of IBM x346 Board doesn't have ECC Memory > to implement this? while I buy from IBM Vendor they not including ECC > Memory for this HostRaid. > or any solution to fix this problem? ECC memory would have very little to do with the RAID itself. The ECC would only affect the writeback cache (if you use it). Without that memory, you'd need to use writethrough cache. Are you certain that the two drives are really and truly set up in a hardware RAID1 on the controller? When you create the RAID group, the controller should take a while to build the RAID1 pair. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Fear is finding a ".vbs" script in your Inbox - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Sun Feb 26 02:08:42 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:08:42 -0800 Subject: about dns In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1140919722.31672.179.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 18:56 -0800, Waldher, Travis R wrote: > > ________________________________________ > From: Rold?n [mailto:roldan at digi.cupet.cu] > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:19 PM > To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > Subject: about dns > > ok i chek the domainname on the master and that ypserv was runnig, and i > chek in the client the yp.conf file says: ypserver redes.digi.cupet.cu > then in the nsswitch file i add the entry 'nisplus' to passwd, shadow and > group lines and then when i restart the ypbind and do ypwhich -m it says: > can't get map list for domain nisnet. reason: internal nis error > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Look in your /etc/sysconfig/network > > NISDOMAIN= You have to have the SAME NIS domain on the client machine. Run "domainname" and verify it's set to the same as the master. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - NEWS FLASH! Intelligence of mankind decreasing! Details at... - - uh, when, uh, the little hand is, uh, on the... Aw, NUTS! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Sun Feb 26 02:19:47 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:19:47 -0800 Subject: Linux AS 3 swap question!! In-Reply-To: <884aefd70602250939g69822942tc07458f426d5fbea@mail.gmail.com> References: <884aefd70602250939g69822942tc07458f426d5fbea@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1140920388.31672.190.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 23:09 +0530, mac wrote: > Hi, > We have a Linux EL AS 3 running on a poweredge server with 8 GB > ram ...we would like to know how to change the swap space on a linux > AS 3 system dynamically > > and would AS3 support a swap size of 16 GB > > any pointers appreciated You can have up to 16 swap sections but each is limited to 2GB each, giving a total of 32GB of swap. You can't change the swap size dynamically, since the swap is on a fixed-size partition or file. You can enable and disable various swap files or partitions using the swapon(8) or swapoff(8) commands. Swap has to be either a separate partition OR a zero-filled file. You probably know how to make a swap partition. To create a swap _file_: 1. Find a partition that has enough free space for the swap you want. 2. As root, do: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/swap/file count=size For example, to create a 2GB swap file called "/var/swapfile": # dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swapfile count=2G 3. Convert the file to a swap file: # mkswap /var/swapfile 3. Activate via: # swapon /var/swapfile 4. Edit your /etc/fstab file and add a line for this swap file so it'll activate on the next boot: /var/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 Voila! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - God is real...........unless declared integer or long - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Sun Feb 26 02:22:51 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:22:51 -0800 Subject: LInux on sdb In-Reply-To: <4400E2F8.5020505@cha.forthnet.gr> References: <884aefd70602240912r4566ee49ibede20c61dc81e@mail.gmail.com> <1140808116.31672.131.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <4400E2F8.5020505@cha.forthnet.gr> Message-ID: <1140920571.31672.194.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 01:06 +0200, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > Greetings Rick, > > Rick Stevens wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 22:42 +0530, mac wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>Can we install linux / ,/home,/boot on sdb ??we installed linux as3 on > >>a dell poweredge system and boot was on sdb7 ..when we reboot ,the OS > >>does not boot !! > > > > > > You can install Linux anywhere...so long as your boot loader (grub) can > > find it. Note, however, that grub has to be installed in the boot > > sector of /dev/sda. > > Rick , do you by any means assume that mac is booting from /dev/sda ? > Which would be the First SCSI Disk of the First SCSI Controller > that he has installed ? Well, yes. You must have a boot loader (grub, lilo, system commander, whatever) in the MBR of the first "active" disk. For Dell machines, that'd be /dev/sda (we use TONS of 1850s and 2850s). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - All generalizations are false. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Sun Feb 26 02:24:21 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:24:21 -0800 Subject: /dev/ttyUSB0 and PPP In-Reply-To: <44809.192.168.1.1.1140909886.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <36477.192.168.1.1.1140242767.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <58214.192.168.1.1.1140401717.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1140561923.26796.252.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43946.192.168.1.1.1140580197.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1140630688.26796.339.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <39846.192.168.1.1.1140670242.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1140718318.31672.15.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <1140756984.6886.18.camel@hhlaptop.hallikainen.org> <1140808022.31672.128.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <44809.192.168.1.1.1140909886.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <1140920661.31672.196.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 15:24 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 20:56 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > > >> > > >> > Try changing the "Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0" to "MODEM = /dev/ttyUSB0" and > >> > see. Shell variables are case sensitive. Since the error message is > >> > bitching about "$MODEM", my guess is that it's looking for "MODEM = " > >> > and not "Modem = ". > >> > > >> > And if that fixes it, send a Bugzilla report about it. That's nasty! > >> > >> Well, that didn't fix it! Here's a the config file: > >> > >> [Modem0] > >> MODEM = /dev/ttyUSB0 > >> Baud = 19200 > >> SetVolume = 0 > >> Dial Command = ATDT > >> Init1 = ATZ > >> Init3 = ATM0 > >> Modem = /dev/modem > >> FlowControl = CRTSCTS > >> > >> [Dialer home] > >> Area Code = 805 > >> Username = ****** > >> Password = ********** > >> Phone = *** **** > >> Dial Prefix = 1 > >> Stupid Mode = 1 > >> Init1 = ATZ > >> Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 > >> Inherits = Modem0 > >> [Dialer home0] > >> Init1 = ATZ > >> Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 > >> Inherits = Modem0 > >> > >> And here's what comes out the log: > >> > >> Feb 23 20:00:48 hhlaptop pppd[4049]: Starting link > >> Feb 23 20:00:49 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: WvDial: Internet dialer version > >> 1.54.0 > >> Feb 23 20:00:49 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: Initializing modem. > >> Feb 23 20:00:49 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: Sending: ATZ > >> Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: Sending: ATQ0 > >> Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: ATQ0 > >> Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: OK > >> Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: Re-Sending: ATZ > >> Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: ATZ > >> Feb 23 20:00:54 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: OK > >> Feb 23 20:01:00 hhlaptop wvdial[4610]: stdin not read/write and $MODEM > >> not set > >> Feb 23 20:01:00 hhlaptop pppd[4049]: Connect script failed > >> > >> > >> So... I guess it's time for me to spend the weekend on Google! I'll also > >> check the linux networking newsgroup. THANKS Rick! > > > > Hmmm. Well, there's one more thing to try... > > > > $ MODEM=/dev/ttyUSB0;export MODEM > > > > and try it again. > > > > (this is weird!) > > > > > Well... Weird it is. Now and then it would dial out, most of the time it > would not. It would say active in the network configuration window even > when it was not connected. Very difficult to figure out! Anyway, one my > books makes mention of kppp, which happens to be on this laptop. The book > says you can use kppp or the internet configuration wizard, then goes on > to describe the wizard and never mentions kppp again. So, I tried kppp. It > works great! It had trouble dealing wity ttyUSB0, but works fine on > /dev/modem. This email is being sent from my laptop through my cellphone > calling my server at home. It works!!!!!! Now I can use this machine more > on my hour bus commute! > > Thanks Rick, and everyone! Glad you got it working. Now I'll have to dig into wvdial and see just what the kapok is going on. You've piqued my curiosity, damn you! Like I didn't have enough to do already! :-D ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Do not taunt the sysadmins, for they are subtle and quick to anger - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Sun Feb 26 02:28:00 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:28:00 -0800 Subject: Dual NIC cards - Need help In-Reply-To: <002301c63a6e$33434ce0$0200a8c0@mmbret> References: <002301c63a6e$33434ce0$0200a8c0@mmbret> Message-ID: <1140920880.31672.201.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 16:47 -0800, Bret Stern wrote: > I have installed two NIC cards on a Dell Poweredge 1300. > > I'm routing port 80 through my firewall to my web server. > These requests arrive via eth0. > > Eth1 is used to access a backend database via perl cgi > scripts called on the host Apache httpd server. > > One card is on subnet 192.168.0.xx > One card is on subnet 192.168.5.xx > > I can ping both networks. However, I cannot see any of > the Samba and Windows 2000 servers on my network. Can you ping the various machines in question? Can you do a traceroute and verify which interface they're listening on? > My plan is to have perl scripts access the backend > database. > > Any ideas on why I cannot see my internal network using > the gnome Network explorer? Or is it a good thing not > being able to see the internal network? This is most commonly a route issue, but it could be a firewall or iptables issue. Could you send us the IP map of what you have and possibly a better description of what you have set up (what's plugged into each switch, etc.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Admitting you have a problem is the first step toward getting - - medicated for it. -- Jim Evarts (http://www.TopFive.com) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From dhamilton at rose.edu Sun Feb 26 03:00:46 2006 From: dhamilton at rose.edu (Hamilton, David) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:00:46 -0600 Subject: Error installing kernel with up2date Message-ID: -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Rick Stevens Sent: Thu 2/23/2006 7:40 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: Error installing kernel with up2date On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 18:48 -0600, Hamilton, David wrote: > Hello, I have RHEL 4 installed and I keep getting an error while trying to install the kernel that up2date recommends I install. Does anyone know how I can correct this? Here is the error message: > > There was a package dependency problem. The message was: > > Unresolvable chain of dependencies: > lksctp-tools-1.0.2-6.4E.1 conflicts with kernel >= 2.6.10 > > > The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy dependencies: > Package Required by > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Please modify your package selections and try again. You need to update your lksctp-tools RPM first, then update the kernel: up2date lksctp-tools up2date kernel-whatever up2date does occasionally have issues with this type of circular dependency. You might also bugzilla that with the fine folk at Red Hat to warn them of it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - C program run. C program crash. C programmer quit. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried that and I seem to be stuck. [root at Davids-RHEL ~]# up2date lksctp-tools Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rh-i386-desktop-4... Fetching rpm headers... ######################################## Name Version Rel ---------------------------------------------------------- The following packages you requested are already updated: lksctp-tools Typing up2date -kernel-2.6.9 starts the graphical version of up2date and I get the error about lksctp-tools. if I type up2date -u I get the following: [root at Davids-RHEL ~]# up2date -u Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rh-i386-desktop-4... Fetching rpm headers... ######################################## Name Version Rel ---------------------------------------------------------- kernel 2.6.9 22.0.2.EL i686 Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... There was a package dependency problem. The message was: Unresolvable chain of dependencies: lksctp-tools-1.0.2-6.4E.1 conflicts with kernel >= 2.6.10 The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy dependencies: Package Required by ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Does anyone know what the problem might be? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 3737 bytes Desc: not available URL: From dhamilton at rose.edu Sun Feb 26 03:53:40 2006 From: dhamilton at rose.edu (Hamilton, David) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:53:40 -0600 Subject: Error installing kernel with up2date Message-ID: -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Hamilton, David Sent: Sat 2/25/2006 9:00 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: RE: Error installing kernel with up2date -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Rick Stevens Sent: Thu 2/23/2006 7:40 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: Error installing kernel with up2date On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 18:48 -0600, Hamilton, David wrote: > Hello, I have RHEL 4 installed and I keep getting an error while trying to install the kernel that up2date recommends I install. Does anyone know how I can correct this? Here is the error message: > > There was a package dependency problem. The message was: > > Unresolvable chain of dependencies: > lksctp-tools-1.0.2-6.4E.1 conflicts with kernel >= 2.6.10 > > > The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy dependencies: > Package Required by > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Please modify your package selections and try again. You need to update your lksctp-tools RPM first, then update the kernel: up2date lksctp-tools up2date kernel-whatever up2date does occasionally have issues with this type of circular dependency. You might also bugzilla that with the fine folk at Red Hat to warn them of it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - C program run. C program crash. C programmer quit. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried that and I seem to be stuck. [root at Davids-RHEL ~]# up2date lksctp-tools Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rh-i386-desktop-4... Fetching rpm headers... ######################################## Name Version Rel ---------------------------------------------------------- The following packages you requested are already updated: lksctp-tools Typing up2date -kernel-2.6.9 starts the graphical version of up2date and I get the error about lksctp-tools. if I type up2date -u I get the following: [root at Davids-RHEL ~]# up2date -u Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rh-i386-desktop-4... Fetching rpm headers... ######################################## Name Version Rel ---------------------------------------------------------- kernel 2.6.9 22.0.2.EL i686 Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... There was a package dependency problem. The message was: Unresolvable chain of dependencies: lksctp-tools-1.0.2-6.4E.1 conflicts with kernel >= 2.6.10 The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy dependencies: Package Required by ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Does anyone know what the problem might be? -------------------------------------------------------- I figured it out. Between semesters I was playing around with the fedora core 4 kernel and installed it and after I played around I removed the info in grub about it but never uninstalled it. Since it was a newer kernel than the 2.6.9 up2date didn't want to install the older one. I did the rpm -e command to uninstall the FC4 kernel and the new RHEL kernel installed and everything is up to date now. Thanks for your time. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In-Reply-To: <1140920388.31672.190.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <884aefd70602250939g69822942tc07458f426d5fbea@mail.gmail.com> <1140920388.31672.190.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <884aefd70602252136j4de4687ek3c9941adbd5e3d9@mail.gmail.com> Appreciate your response ..Thanks ..i juts have a couple of queries 1)i have a swap partion of 16 GB ...how can i go about decreasing the size of this partition ie the size of swap 2)Can both the swap file and partition coexist ?? 3)WHich is a better approcah ..partition or file and which exists after every reboot Really appreciate your help here Thanks On 2/26/06, Rick Stevens wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 23:09 +0530, mac wrote: > > Hi, > > We have a Linux EL AS 3 running on a poweredge server with 8 GB > > ram ...we would like to know how to change the swap space on a linux > > AS 3 system dynamically > > > > and would AS3 support a swap size of 16 GB > > > > any pointers appreciated > > You can have up to 16 swap sections but each is limited to 2GB each, > giving a total of 32GB of swap. You can't change the swap size > dynamically, since the swap is on a fixed-size partition or file. You > can enable and disable various swap files or partitions using the > swapon(8) or swapoff(8) commands. > > Swap has to be either a separate partition OR a zero-filled file. You > probably know how to make a swap partition. To create a swap _file_: > > 1. Find a partition that has enough free space for the swap you want. > > 2. As root, do: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/swap/file count=size > > For example, to create a 2GB swap file called "/var/swapfile": > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swapfile count=2G > > 3. Convert the file to a swap file: > > # mkswap /var/swapfile > > 3. Activate via: > > # swapon /var/swapfile > > 4. 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URL: From admin at tootai.net Sun Feb 26 12:00:19 2006 From: admin at tootai.net (Administrator TOOTAI) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:00:19 +0100 Subject: Linux AS 3 swap question!! In-Reply-To: <884aefd70602252136j4de4687ek3c9941adbd5e3d9@mail.gmail.com> References: <884aefd70602250939g69822942tc07458f426d5fbea@mail.gmail.com> <1140920388.31672.190.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <884aefd70602252136j4de4687ek3c9941adbd5e3d9@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <44019853.7050101@tootai.net> Please don't top post. mac a ?crit : > Appreciate your response ..Thanks ..i juts have a couple of queries > > 1)i have a swap partion of 16 GB ...how can i go about decreasing the > size of this partition ie the size of swap > With [sc]fdisk or any other partition tool. > 2)Can both the swap file and partition coexist ?? Yes > > > 3)WHich is a better approcah ..partition or file and which exists > after every reboot Well, a swap partition on a file system means that if this file system is broken, swap file will be too. You understand also that the swap file is usable only if the file system is mounted. For me, swap file is to be used if you need to add swap on a system where you can't add swap partition > > Really appreciate your help here > > Thanks > > On 2/26/06, * Rick Stevens* > wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 23:09 +0530, mac wrote: > > Hi, > > We have a Linux EL AS 3 running on a poweredge server with 8 GB > > ram ...we would like to know how to change the swap space on a linux > > AS 3 system dynamically > > > > and would AS3 support a swap size of 16 GB > > > > any pointers appreciated > > You can have up to 16 swap sections but each is limited to 2GB each, > giving a total of 32GB of swap. You can't change the swap size > dynamically, since the swap is on a fixed-size partition or file. You > can enable and disable various swap files or partitions using the > swapon(8) or swapoff(8) commands. > > Swap has to be either a separate partition OR a zero-filled > file. You > probably know how to make a swap partition. To create a swap _file_: > > 1. Find a partition that has enough free space for the swap you want. > > 2. As root, do: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/swap/file count=size > > For example, to create a 2GB swap file called "/var/swapfile": > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swapfile count=2G > > 3. Convert the file to a swap file: > > # mkswap /var/swapfile > > 3. Activate via: > > # swapon /var/swapfile > > 4. Edit your /etc/fstab file and add a line for this swap file so > it'll > activate on the next boot: > > /var/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 > > Voila! > -- Daniel From A.Fadyushin at it-centre.ru Sun Feb 26 15:38:39 2006 From: A.Fadyushin at it-centre.ru (A.Fadyushin at it-centre.ru) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:38:39 +0300 Subject: Linux AS 3 swap question!! Message-ID: You can decrease (or increase) the size of swap partition using the same method as for any other partition (e.g. repartition that part of disk with fdisk). Of course, you should disable that partition (with 'swapoff' command) before changing its size, recreate its structure with 'mkswap' after changing the size and enable that partition using 'swapon'. You can use both swap partition(s) and swap file(s) at the same time in any combinations - e.g. 1 swap partition and 1 swap file, or 2 swap partitions and 1 swap file, etc. I think that a swap partition is a better approach because the access to partitions is faster than access to the file. Swap partition and swap file will survive the reboot. Swap partitions are exist as long as them exist in the disk's partition table and marked as swap partitions in /etc/fstab (entry in /etc/fstab is necessary for automatic enabling of that partition on startup, even without such a entry the partition could be enabled with 'swapon'). Swap files are exist as long as them are not deleted (for example, using 'rm') from the filesystem (the entry in /etc/fstab is used the same way as for swap partitions). Neither swap partitions nor swap files are automatically deleted by the system. Alexey Fadyushin Brainbench MVP for Linux http:///www.brainbench.com ________________________________ From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of mac Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 8:36 AM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: Linux AS 3 swap question!! Appreciate your response ..Thanks ..i juts have a couple of queries 1)i have a swap partion of 16 GB ...how can i go about decreasing the size of this partition ie the size of swap 2)Can both the swap file and partition coexist ?? 3)WHich is a better approcah ..partition or file and which exists after every reboot Really appreciate your help here Thanks On 2/26/06, Rick Stevens wrote: On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 23:09 +0530, mac wrote: > Hi, > We have a Linux EL AS 3 running on a poweredge server with 8 GB > ram ...we would like to know how to change the swap space on a linux > AS 3 system dynamically > > and would AS3 support a swap size of 16 GB > > any pointers appreciated You can have up to 16 swap sections but each is limited to 2GB each, giving a total of 32GB of swap. You can't change the swap size dynamically, since the swap is on a fixed-size partition or file. You can enable and disable various swap files or partitions using the swapon(8) or swapoff(8) commands. Swap has to be either a separate partition OR a zero-filled file. You probably know how to make a swap partition. To create a swap _file_: 1. Find a partition that has enough free space for the swap you want. 2. As root, do: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/swap/file count=size For example, to create a 2GB swap file called "/var/swapfile": # dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swapfile count=2G 3. Convert the file to a swap file: # mkswap /var/swapfile 3. Activate via: # swapon /var/swapfile 4. Edit your /etc/fstab file and add a line for this swap file so it'll activate on the next boot: /var/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 Voila! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - God is real...........unless declared integer or long - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Subject: unsubscribe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bret_stern at machinemanagement.com Sun Feb 26 20:11:40 2006 From: bret_stern at machinemanagement.com (Bret Stern) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:11:40 -0800 Subject: Dual NIC cards - Need help In-Reply-To: <1140920880.31672.201.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <000001c63b10$dbaea850$0200a8c0@mmbret> > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 6:28 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux; > bret_stern at machinemanagement.com > Subject: Re: Dual NIC cards - Need help > > On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 16:47 -0800, Bret Stern wrote: > > I have installed two NIC cards on a Dell Poweredge 1300. > > > > I'm routing port 80 through my firewall to my web server. > > These requests arrive via eth0. > > > > Eth1 is used to access a backend database via perl cgi > > scripts called on the host Apache httpd server. > > > > One card is on subnet 192.168.0.xx > > One card is on subnet 192.168.5.xx > > > > I can ping both networks. However, I cannot see any of > > the Samba and Windows 2000 servers on my network. > > Can you ping the various machines in question? Can you do a > traceroute > and verify which interface they're listening on? > > > My plan is to have perl scripts access the backend > > database. > > > > Any ideas on why I cannot see my internal network using > > the gnome Network explorer? Or is it a good thing not > > being able to see the internal network? > > This is most commonly a route issue, but it could be a firewall or > iptables issue. Could you send us the IP map of what you have and > possibly a better description of what you have set up (what's plugged > into each switch, etc.) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Admitting you have a problem is the first step toward getting - > - medicated for it. -- Jim Evarts (http://www.TopFive.com) - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mostly better now! One of my network cards was not starting on boot, even though it was setup to do so. They were both Intel Pro 100 cards. I replaced one of the nic cards. Now both network cards come up on boot. Also, I am now able to see the internal network servers, AND the internet. My last configuration is to remove the gateway on the internal lan card, so there is only one gateway to the internet. I haven't played, or read much about the iptables setup, but may be asking shortly. This is the best place to get complete answers on Red Hat! Cheers, Bret From kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr Sun Feb 26 22:24:40 2006 From: kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr (Kostas Sfakiotakis) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:24:40 +0200 Subject: LInux on sdb In-Reply-To: <1140920571.31672.194.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <884aefd70602240912r4566ee49ibede20c61dc81e@mail.gmail.com> <1140808116.31672.131.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <4400E2F8.5020505@cha.forthnet.gr> <1140920571.31672.194.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <44022AA8.3050207@cha.forthnet.gr> Greetings Rick , Rick Stevens wrote: > On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 01:06 +0200, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > >> >>Rick , do you by any means assume that mac is booting from /dev/sda ? >>Which would be the First SCSI Disk of the First SCSI Controller >>that he has installed ? > > > Well, yes. You must have a boot loader (grub, lilo, system commander, > whatever) in the MBR of the first "active" disk. Well i suspected as much , but i was uncertain whether the Original Poster knew the difference . You see if the machine has an IDE Controller too then you have to ask the machine to boot from the SCSI Controller . For Dell machines, that'd be /dev/sda Do Dell machines come with just a SCSI Controller on them ? I guess /dev/sda still maintains if's original meaning of the first SCSI disk . (we use TONS of 1850s and 2850s). You mean Adaptec Host Adapter 1850 / 2850 ? Kind Regards, Kostas > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - All generalizations are false. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From bret_stern at machinemanagement.com Sun Feb 26 23:34:30 2006 From: bret_stern at machinemanagement.com (Bret Stern) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:34:30 -0800 Subject: Dual NIC cards - Need help In-Reply-To: <1140920880.31672.201.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <000001c63b2d$315f3cd0$0200a8c0@mmbret> > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 6:28 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux; > bret_stern at machinemanagement.com > Subject: Re: Dual NIC cards - Need help > > On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 16:47 -0800, Bret Stern wrote: > > I have installed two NIC cards on a Dell Poweredge 1300. > > > > I'm routing port 80 through my firewall to my web server. > > These requests arrive via eth0. > > > > Eth1 is used to access a backend database via perl cgi > > scripts called on the host Apache httpd server. > > > > One card is on subnet 192.168.0.xx > > One card is on subnet 192.168.5.xx > > > > I can ping both networks. However, I cannot see any of > > the Samba and Windows 2000 servers on my network. > > Can you ping the various machines in question? Can you do a > traceroute > and verify which interface they're listening on? > > > My plan is to have perl scripts access the backend > > database. > > > > Any ideas on why I cannot see my internal network using > > the gnome Network explorer? Or is it a good thing not > > being able to see the internal network? > > This is most commonly a route issue, but it could be a firewall or > iptables issue. Could you send us the IP map of what you have and > possibly a better description of what you have set up (what's plugged > into each switch, etc.) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Admitting you have a problem is the first step toward getting - > - medicated for it. -- Jim Evarts (http://www.TopFive.com) - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > I'm going to re-start this project. The same problem with one of the nic cards not starting on boot was happening AND...AND...AND I'm re-installing Fedora 4 on the system after a filesystem failure. What is the typical procedure for setting up two nic cards on a host system meant to provide http/web services? If a how-to exists, please point me. sunday fun, Bret Stern From j.wirt.112 at comcast.net Sun Feb 26 23:52:50 2006 From: j.wirt.112 at comcast.net (John Wirt) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:52:50 -0500 Subject: Cannot open Evolution Email application Message-ID: <44023F52.7090405@comcast.net> I have recently updated my RedHat Enterprise workstation to version 2.4.21-37.0.1.EL but in the process the Evolution Email application no longer works. He Kmail application works but not Evolution Email. When I try to start Evolution, an error message appears, "Cannot access the Ximian Evolution Shell." After updating RedHat, I got an error in the boot up.that the eth0 connection could not be started because, "...some other host is already using address 192.168.10.50." The Kmail client would not work either. To get an email client, I used the Network Configuration Tool to delete the installed connection and create a new one. The installed connection had a fixed IP address at 192.168.10.50 and it's status was "Inactive." I tried to Activate" it but got the message the "some other host is already using address 192..168.10.50." So, I deleted this connection. After installing a new connection at 192.168.10.51, I am able to use KMail but not Evolution. I am not sure why the 192.168.10.50 connection is "locked." In fact, it no longer exists, at least when viewed with the Network Configuration application. I assigned this fixed IP address when I originally configured RedHat. My machine came setup by Dell but I configured it. The 192.168.10.50 connection worked for months with Evolution Email. The reason that Evolution will no longer open is probably that it is configured to use a connection that no longer works for some reason. I would like to clear this "other host that is using 192.168.10.50" but do not know what to do to accomplish this. Once cleared, maybe Evolution will open and I will be back in business. I do not understand why this 192.168.10.50 connection has apparently gotten locked up. After a considerable effort I have swapped the physical drives 0 and 1 to install another operating system which craves drive 0 in a dual boot arrangement, and in the process of reconfiguring Grub to run from drive 1 I had occasion to send some emails out to my other computer. In reconfiguring Grub I was booted to a copy of Knoppix but configured KMail to use 192.168.10.50. This worked. I do not know if KMail was running in Knoppix or in the copy of Linux in the /root directory on the new drive 1. Thank you for any assistance you can provide. Basically, what I want to do is delete the 192,168.10.50 connection that has apparently been taken over by some process and recreate it for Evolution to use. Maybe I have to uninstall Evolution in order to accomplish this. I do not know how to uninstall Evolution. John Wirt From ramin.shariatian at ineo.com Mon Feb 27 03:05:56 2006 From: ramin.shariatian at ineo.com (ramin.shariatian at ineo.com) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 04:05:56 +0100 Subject: Ramin SHARIATIAN est absent(e). Message-ID: Je serai absent(e) du 27/02/2006 au 10/03/2006. Je r?pondrai ? votre message d?s mon retour. From j.wirt.112 at comcast.net Mon Feb 27 04:29:37 2006 From: j.wirt.112 at comcast.net (John Wirt) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:29:37 -0500 Subject: Cannot open Evolution Email application (MODIFICATION) Message-ID: <44028031.2040900@comcast.net> Aha! I have determined that the 192.168.10.50 IP address belongs to my Print Server. So this explains the error message that "...some other host is already using address 192.168.10.50." Starting the Evolution EMail shell still produces the error message, "cannot access Ximian Evolution shell "The new discovery is that the 192.168.10.50 IP address has nothing to do with this. However, I did at one point create a Ethernet connection, eth0, for this IP address. Obviously, this was a mistake. The question is have I corrupted the TCPIP configuration somehow (or the configuration of Evolution)? How can I fix the Evolution email program? John Wirt -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Cannot open Evolution Email application Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:52:50 -0500 From: John Wirt To: Redhat Install List I have recently updated my RedHat Enterprise workstation to version 2.4.21-37.0.1.EL but in the process the Evolution Email application no longer works. He Kmail application works but not Evolution Email. When I try to start Evolution, an error message appears, "Cannot access the Ximian Evolution Shell." After updating RedHat, I got an error in the boot up.that the eth0 connection could not be started because, "...some other host is already using address 192.168.10.50." The Kmail client would not work either. To get an email client, I used the Network Configuration Tool to delete the installed connection and create a new one. The installed connection had a fixed IP address at 192.168.10.50 and it's status was "Inactive." I tried to Activate" it but got the message the "some other host is already using address 192..168.10.50." So, I deleted this connection. After installing a new connection at 192.168.10.51, I am able to use KMail but not Evolution. I am not sure why the 192.168.10.50 connection is "locked." In fact, it no longer exists, at least when viewed with the Network Configuration application. I assigned this fixed IP address when I originally configured RedHat. My machine came setup by Dell but I configured it. The 192.168.10.50 connection worked for months with Evolution Email. The reason that Evolution will no longer open is probably that it is configured to use a connection that no longer works for some reason. I would like to clear this "other host that is using 192.168.10.50" but do not know what to do to accomplish this. Once cleared, maybe Evolution will open and I will be back in business. I do not understand why this 192.168.10.50 connection has apparently gotten locked up. After a considerable effort I have swapped the physical drives 0 and 1 to install another operating system which craves drive 0 in a dual boot arrangement, and in the process of reconfiguring Grub to run from drive 1 I had occasion to send some emails out to my other computer. In reconfiguring Grub I was booted to a copy of Knoppix but configured KMail to use 192.168.10.50. This worked. I do not know if KMail was running in Knoppix or in the copy of Linux in the /root directory on the new drive 1. Thank you for any assistance you can provide. Basically, what I want to do is delete the 192,168.10.50 connection that has apparently been taken over by some process and recreate it for Evolution to use. Maybe I have to uninstall Evolution in order to accomplish this. I do not know how to uninstall Evolution. John Wirt From tpotter at techmarin.com Mon Feb 27 05:45:35 2006 From: tpotter at techmarin.com (Ted Potter) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:45:35 -0800 Subject: Cannot open Evolution Email application (MODIFICATION) In-Reply-To: <44028031.2040900@comcast.net> References: <44028031.2040900@comcast.net> Message-ID: <5ce05200602262145u34f009e3qcb73a68f385f8ff@mail.gmail.com> On 2/26/06, John Wirt wrote: > > Aha! I have determined that the 192.168.10.50 IP address belongs to my > Print Server. So this explains the error message that "...some other > host is already using address 192.168.10.50." Starting the Evolution > EMail shell still produces the error message, "cannot access Ximian > Evolution shell "The new discovery is that the 192.168.10.50 IP address > has nothing to do with this. > > However, I did at one point create a Ethernet connection, eth0, for this > IP address. Obviously, this was a mistake. The question is have I > corrupted the TCPIP configuration somehow (or the configuration of > Evolution)? > > How can I fix the Evolution email program? > > John Wirt John - a quick google produced this http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2003-April/msg00567.html you might want to try that. Just google the error message for more links hth Ted -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Cannot open Evolution Email application > Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:52:50 -0500 > From: John Wirt > To: Redhat Install List > > > > I have recently updated my RedHat Enterprise workstation to version > 2.4.21-37.0.1.EL but in the process the Evolution Email application no > longer works. He Kmail application works but not Evolution Email. > > When I try to start Evolution, an error message appears, "Cannot access > the Ximian Evolution Shell." > > After updating RedHat, I got an error in the boot up.that the eth0 > connection could not be started because, > > "...some other host is already using address 192.168.10.50." > > The Kmail client would not work either. To get an email client, I used > the Network Configuration Tool to delete the installed connection and > create a new one. The installed connection had a fixed IP address at > 192.168.10.50 and it's status was "Inactive." I tried to Activate" it > but got the message the "some other host is already using address > 192..168.10.50." So, I deleted this connection. > > After installing a new connection at 192.168.10.51, I am able to use > KMail but not Evolution. > > I am not sure why the 192.168.10.50 connection is "locked." In fact, it > no longer exists, at least when viewed with the Network Configuration > application. I assigned this fixed IP address when I originally > configured RedHat. My machine came setup by Dell but I configured it. > The 192.168.10.50 connection worked for months with Evolution Email. > > The reason that Evolution will no longer open is probably that it is > configured to use a connection that no longer works for some reason. > > I would like to clear this "other host that is using 192.168.10.50" but > do not know what to do to accomplish this. Once cleared, maybe Evolution > will open and I will be back in business. > > I do not understand why this 192.168.10.50 connection has apparently > gotten locked up. After a considerable effort I have swapped the > physical drives 0 and 1 to install another operating system which craves > drive 0 in a dual boot arrangement, and in the process of reconfiguring > Grub to run from drive 1 I had occasion to send some emails out to my > other computer. In reconfiguring Grub I was booted to a copy of Knoppix > but configured KMail to use 192.168.10.50. This worked. I do not know if > KMail was running in Knoppix or in the copy of Linux in the /root > directory on the new drive 1. > > Thank you for any assistance you can provide. > > Basically, what I want to do is delete the 192,168.10.50 connection that > has apparently been taken over by some process and recreate it for > Evolution to use. Maybe I have to uninstall Evolution in order to > accomplish this. I do not know how to uninstall Evolution. > > > John Wirt > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -- Ted Potter tpotter at techmarin.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jdunn at sefas.com Mon Feb 27 09:51:24 2006 From: jdunn at sefas.com (John Dunn) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:51:24 -0000 Subject: Installing java 1.4.2 JDK Message-ID: <000901c63b83$5fbe0100$3e04050a@johnman> I need to install java 1.4.2 JDK on Redhat linux 9 At the SUN site I can find Java(TM) 2 SDK, Standard Edition 1.4.2 Is this the same thing? John Dunn From rodrigofariatavares at bol.com.br Mon Feb 27 11:21:43 2006 From: rodrigofariatavares at bol.com.br (Rodrigo Faria Tavares) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:21:43 -0300 Subject: Customized CD Fedora Core 4 Message-ID: <000401c63b8f$fdf40e30$0100a8c0@faria> Hello, I?ll customized my CD with Fedora Core 4 I have a question : Threre is a list with the basics packages from FC4 in any site, or forum ? Still I don?t need to install nfs-utils, bluetooh, NetworkManager and others. And other question : How I can to select the packages , and install them yet with a configuration. Example : install squid yet configured. Att, Rodrigo Faria Tavares e-mail : rodrigofariat at yahoo.com.br Analista de Suporte Linux _______________________________________________________ Yahoo! Acesso Gr?tis - Internet r?pida e gr?tis. Instale o discador agora! http://br.acesso.yahoo.com From j.wirt.112 at comcast.net Mon Feb 27 12:58:35 2006 From: j.wirt.112 at comcast.net (John Wirt) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 07:58:35 -0500 Subject: Cannot open Evolution Email application (Retract) Message-ID: <4402F77B.2020103@comcast.net> Please ignore the message titled, "Cannot open Evolution Email application." Something else has happened in my network that has to be fixed first. John Wirt From milis at ogs-id.com Mon Feb 27 13:13:26 2006 From: milis at ogs-id.com (Milis) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:13:26 +0700 Subject: Install RHEL 4 into IBM x346 In-Reply-To: <1140919611.31672.176.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <7410072404.20060224094709@sur.ogs-id.com> <1140809727.31672.151.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <1929299295.20060225090524@sur.ogs-id.com> <1140919611.31672.176.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <1065262117.20060227201326@sur.ogs-id.com> Dear Rick, Yes, I make sure many times, but finally its always appear, and I've been try all downloable files from ibm website for this server, but till 2day, I still go failed to using RAID1 while install RHEL 4. any idea? Rick, thanks a lot for yr knowledge -- Tks & Best regards, Andi EP IT Engineer mailto:milis at ogs-id.com Sunday, February 26, 2006, 9:06:50 AM, you wrote: > On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 09:05 +0700, Milis wrote: >> Dear Rick, >> >> is that coz the HostRaid of IBM x346 Board doesn't have ECC Memory >> to implement this? while I buy from IBM Vendor they not including ECC >> Memory for this HostRaid. >> or any solution to fix this problem? > ECC memory would have very little to do with the RAID itself. The > ECC would only affect the writeback cache (if you use it). Without > that memory, you'd need to use writethrough cache. > Are you certain that the two drives are really and truly set up in a > hardware RAID1 on the controller? When you create the RAID group, the > controller should take a while to build the RAID1 pair. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - > - Fear is finding a ".vbs" script in your Inbox > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Feb 27 18:15:09 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:15:09 -0800 Subject: Linux AS 3 swap question!! In-Reply-To: <884aefd70602252136j4de4687ek3c9941adbd5e3d9@mail.gmail.com> References: <884aefd70602250939g69822942tc07458f426d5fbea@mail.gmail.com> <1140920388.31672.190.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <884aefd70602252136j4de4687ek3c9941adbd5e3d9@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1141064110.31672.212.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 11:06 +0530, mac wrote: > Appreciate your response ..Thanks ..i juts have a couple of queries > > 1)i have a swap partion of 16 GB ...how can i go about decreasing the > size of this partition ie the size of swap You don't have to, but only 2GB will be used of the 16GB will be used. You could use something like gparted to hack your 16GB into 8 2GB chunks and use them if you wish. Be very careful when using gparted--you can screw up the partition table easily. > 2)Can both the swap file and partition coexist ?? Yes. > 3)WHich is a better approcah ..partition or file and which exists > after every reboot I prefer swap partitions, as the filesystem isn't involved when swaps occur. It appears to be just a tiny bit faster. Swap partitions always exist--even when Linux isn't running. Swap files aren't available until the local filesystems are mounted. However, swap is enabled after that step in the boot process, so swap files will be present when swap is turned on. Look at /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and you'll see the filesystem mounts around line 485 or so, and the swap turned on around line 620 or so. > Really appreciate your help here Not a problem. Glad to be of assistance. > On 2/26/06, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 23:09 +0530, mac wrote: > > Hi, > > We have a Linux EL AS 3 running on a poweredge server with 8 > GB > > ram ...we would like to know how to change the swap space on > a linux > > AS 3 system dynamically > > > > and would AS3 support a swap size of 16 GB > > > > any pointers appreciated > > You can have up to 16 swap sections but each is limited to 2GB > each, > giving a total of 32GB of swap. You can't change the swap > size > dynamically, since the swap is on a fixed-size partition or > file. You > can enable and disable various swap files or partitions using > the > swapon(8) or swapoff(8) commands. > > Swap has to be either a separate partition OR a zero-filled > file. You > probably know how to make a swap partition. To create a swap > _file_: > > 1. Find a partition that has enough free space for the swap > you want. > > 2. As root, do: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/swap/file count=size > > For example, to create a 2GB swap file called "/var/swapfile": > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swapfile count=2G > > 3. Convert the file to a swap file: > > # mkswap /var/swapfile > > 3. Activate via: > > # swapon /var/swapfile > > 4. Edit your /etc/fstab file and add a line for this swap file > so it'll > activate on the next boot: > > /var/swapfile > swap swap defaults 0 0 > > Voila! > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer > rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. > http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - God is real...........unless declared integer or long > - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Death is nature's way of dropping carrier - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Feb 27 18:28:29 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:28:29 -0800 Subject: Error installing kernel with up2date In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1141064909.31672.226.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 19:53 -0800, Hamilton, David wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Hamilton, > David > Sent: Sat 2/25/2006 9:00 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: RE: Error installing kernel with up2date > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Rick > Stevens > Sent: Thu 2/23/2006 7:40 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: Error installing kernel with up2date > > On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 18:48 -0600, Hamilton, David wrote: > > Hello, I have RHEL 4 installed and I keep getting an error while > trying to install the kernel that up2date recommends I install. Does > anyone know how I can correct this? Here is the error message: > > > > > There was a package dependency problem. The message was: > > > > Unresolvable chain of dependencies: > > lksctp-tools-1.0.2-6.4E.1 conflicts with kernel >= > 2.6.10 > > > > > > The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy > dependencies: > > Package Required by > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Please modify your package selections and try again. > > You need to update your lksctp-tools RPM first, then update the > kernel: > > up2date lksctp-tools > up2date kernel-whatever > > up2date does occasionally have issues with this type of circular > dependency. You might also bugzilla that with the fine folk at Red > Hat > to warn them of it. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com > - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com > - > - > - > - C program run. C program crash. C programmer quit. > - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > I tried that and I seem to be stuck. > > [root at Davids-RHEL ~]# up2date lksctp-tools > > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rh-i386-desktop-4... > > Fetching rpm headers... > ######################################## > > Name Version Rel > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > The following packages you requested are already updated: > lksctp-tools > > Typing up2date -kernel-2.6.9 starts the graphical version of up2date > and I get the error about lksctp-tools. if I type up2date -u I get the > following: > > [root at Davids-RHEL ~]# up2date -u > > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rh-i386-desktop-4... > > Fetching rpm headers... > ######################################## > > Name Version Rel > ---------------------------------------------------------- > kernel 2.6.9 22.0.2.EL > i686 > > > Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... > There was a package dependency problem. The message was: > > Unresolvable chain of dependencies: > lksctp-tools-1.0.2-6.4E.1 conflicts with kernel >= > 2.6.10 > > > The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy > dependencies: > Package Required by > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Does anyone know what the problem might be? > -------------------------------------------------------- > I figured it out. Between semesters I was playing around with the > fedora core 4 kernel and installed it and after I played around I > removed the info in grub about it but never uninstalled it. Since it > was a newer kernel than the 2.6.9 up2date didn't want to install the > older one. I did the rpm -e command to uninstall the FC4 kernel and > the new RHEL kernel installed and everything is up to date now. Thanks > for your time. Ah, HAH! Good catch! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - grasshopotomaus: A creature that can leap to tremendous heights... - - ...once. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Feb 27 18:50:23 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:50:23 -0800 Subject: Linux AS 3 server memory -whodunit In-Reply-To: <884aefd70602260139y5dfd4ab2t39262593ef6d2a2f@mail.gmail.com> References: <884aefd70602260139y5dfd4ab2t39262593ef6d2a2f@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1141066223.31672.239.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 15:09 +0530, mac wrote: > > > Hi All, > > We have a Linux AS server with 4 GB of RAM and problems ( > At any point of time my Free -m Gives total of 4000 mb and used of > 3900 and free 10 mb but my buffers/cache used is hardly 1000 mb and > 3000 mb free > > Whereas > > the top always gives > > mem used 4000 mb avg and used 3972 > > Going by bufffers/cache i shudnt be having memory issues BUT our > server is monitored and keeps throwing above 80% memory utilisation > all the time > > > why is there a discrepancy between TOP and FREE and which shud be > used more definitely for memory analysis "top", "free" and "vmstat" use the same info from /proc. That data is a snapshot of what the memory was at the time the command read /proc. Since top reads it once per update period, it will reflect the ongoing state of memory, whereas free is a one-time look. I prefer vmstat myself and I can run make it run once ever "N" seconds for "X" loops. > and why do we get over 80% used all the time when buffers/cache is > low all times High memory utilization is a good thing. It means the system is trying to cache as much as it can. The system doesn't split memory up...it just uses what it has. The other data ("buffers, cache, swap") just show you where the memory is being used so you can do some tuning. The only other option is using swap and that will slow your machine down a LOT. That's another place where vmstat can help you out--if you see the "si" or "so" getting large, you need more RAM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - When in doubt, mumble. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Feb 27 19:00:21 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:00:21 -0800 Subject: Installing java 1.4.2 JDK In-Reply-To: <000901c63b83$5fbe0100$3e04050a@johnman> References: <000901c63b83$5fbe0100$3e04050a@johnman> Message-ID: <1141066821.31672.248.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 09:51 +0000, John Dunn wrote: > I need to install java 1.4.2 JDK on Redhat linux 9 > > At the SUN site I can find Java(TM) 2 SDK, Standard Edition 1.4.2 > > Is this the same thing? I'm assuming you need to install Java for use in your web browser, right? In that case, you really only need the JRE (Java runtime environment). JRE is usually available separately. JRE is also included with JDK (Java Development Kit). JDK is also available separately or as part of the SDK (System Development Kit). If you go to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html, you'll see the JRE and SDK available. Again, for browser use, you only need the JRE package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Treat each day as if it's your last...a lot of crying and whining - - usually gets you what you want! -- Sam Sledge - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From micros50 at computer.net Mon Feb 27 19:44:01 2006 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:44:01 -0500 Subject: Installing java 1.4.2 JDK In-Reply-To: <000901c63b83$5fbe0100$3e04050a@johnman> References: <000901c63b83$5fbe0100$3e04050a@johnman> Message-ID: <1141069441.7032.3.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 04:51, John Dunn wrote: > I need to install java 1.4.2 JDK on Redhat linux 9 > > At the SUN site I can find Java(TM) 2 SDK, Standard Edition 1.4.2 > > Is this the same thing? > > > John Dunn > Yes, that is the one you want. mylar From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Tue Feb 28 04:29:15 2006 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:29:15 -0700 (MST) Subject: Gateway problem In-Reply-To: <43FA41DE.7040203@tootai.net> References: <1139873907.26796.51.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <43FA41DE.7040203@tootai.net> Message-ID: On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Administrator TOOTAI wrote: > brad.mugleston at comcast.net a ?crit : > > > [...] > > > > OK, due to rolling blackouts my machine went down again - putting > > > > "GATEWAY=192.168.1.1" in /etc/sysconfig/network didn't > > work. On reboot fetchmail could not find anything outside the > > home network, neither could ping. I typed in > > > > "route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0" > > > > and everything stated working again. I checked > > /etc/sysconfig/network and the "GATEWAY=192.168.1.1" was there. > > > Strange. What route do you have before adding manualy the default one? In your > first post you spoke about ath0 device? Is networking set to yes in network? > > This is my network file (FC3): > > NETWORKING=yes > HOSTNAME=hostname.domain > GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > > Also, route add default gw 192.168.1.1 is enough, no need to add the device. > My network file is about the same as yours. Prior to doing this there was no gateway. Brad From jdunn at sefas.com Tue Feb 28 08:31:10 2006 From: jdunn at sefas.com (John Dunn) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:31:10 -0000 Subject: Korn Shell for redhat linux 9 Message-ID: <000f01c63c41$54383b70$3e04050a@johnman> Is it possible to run the Korn Shell (ksh)? rather than bash. I cannot find ksh in my redhat 9 installation. John Dunn Product Consultant Direct Dial +44 (0) 117 373 6122 Sefas Innovation Ltd, CityPoint, Temple Gate, Bristol BS1 6PL, UK. Tel: +44(0) 117 373 6114 Fax: +44 (0) 117 373 6115 www.sefas.com From j.refugio.rodriguez at metztli-it.com Tue Feb 28 09:18:03 2006 From: j.refugio.rodriguez at metztli-it.com (J. Refugio Rodriguez) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:18:03 -0800 (PST) Subject: Korn Shell for redhat linux 9 In-Reply-To: <000f01c63c41$54383b70$3e04050a@johnman> Message-ID: <20060228091803.29281.qmail@web515.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --- John Dunn wrote: > Is it possible to run the Korn Shell (ksh)? rather > than bash. I cannot find > ksh in my redhat 9 installation. You can make a soft link to the zsh --which purportedly provides some extensions to ksh's functionality: ln -s /bin/ksh /bin/zsh Then simply invoke and customize your new "ksh" I came across the problem when installing IBM middleware. Needless to say the above incantation saved the day. On the other hand, the Penguin will allow you freedom of choice. Download the RPM for the public domain korn shell (pdksh) and install and customize to your pleasure. I believe Slackware continues including it. Jose R. Rodriguez http://www.metztli-it.com From j.refugio.rodriguez at metztli-it.com Tue Feb 28 10:22:00 2006 From: j.refugio.rodriguez at metztli-it.com (J. Refugio Rodriguez) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:22:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: Korn Shell for redhat linux 9 (corrected --its a little late ...or early ; ) In-Reply-To: <20060228091803.29281.qmail@web515.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20060228102200.34410.qmail@web512.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com> "J. Refugio Rodriguez" wrote: --- John Dunn wrote: > Is it possible to run the Korn Shell (ksh)? rather > than bash. I cannot find > ksh in my redhat 9 installation. You can make a soft link to the zsh --which purportedly provides some extensions to ksh's functionality: ln -s /bin/zsh /bin/ksh Hence the above is correct and not the previous assertion of the symbolic link... Then simply invoke and customize your new "ksh" I came across the problem when installing IBM middleware. Needless to say the above incantation saved the day. On the other hand, the Penguin will allow you freedom of choice. Download the RPM for the public domain korn shell (pdksh) and install and customize to your pleasure. I believe Slackware continues including it. Jose R. Rodriguez http://www.metztli-it.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From manoharakn at yahoo.com Tue Feb 28 14:34:08 2006 From: manoharakn at yahoo.com (manohara kn) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:34:08 -0800 (PST) Subject: 11. Re[4]: Install RHEL 4 into IBM x346 (Milis) Message-ID: <20060228143408.24136.qmail@web31007.mail.mud.yahoo.com> hai This may not solution but what i had expirenced just informing you i installed WINDOWS 2003 SERVER ON IBM E-SERVER 226 WITH RAID-1(FALUT TOLRENCE),First i booted from IBM SERVER CD "SETUP AND INSTALLATION DRIVER REPOSITORY" AS PER INSTURCTION GIVEN IN THE CD I PROCEDED ,CREATE RAID1,THEN SELECTED OS AS WIN2003, AND FINALLY INSERTED THE OS CD. AFTER 2 OR 3 TIMES REBOOTING THE SERVER WAS READY. YOU CAN DO ONE THING CHECK THE RIAD ADOPTER AND DOWNLOAD THE DRIVER FROM CD GIVE TO YOU OR FROM THE IBM SITE . COPY DOWNLOAD IMAGE FILE TO FLOPY ,AND MANUALLY CREAT RAID BY PRESSING "CTRL + A "AT THE TIME OF BOOTING IN THE SERVER . AFTER CREATING RIAD ,. INSTALL THE LINUX OS WTIH DOWNLOADED FILE USRING "dd " option Why i am telling this is because in Device mangaer list in my windows 2003 shows as following SCSI AND RAID CONTROLLER AS 1.Adaptec AIC-7902B host raid driver 2.Adpatec AIC-7902B Ultra 320 scsi so you my download Adaptec aic-7920B host driver for linux, the driver my differ depedning on the module series my ibm server series is 226 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com