From sarangi at bpost.kek.jp Thu Dec 2 06:28:40 2004 From: sarangi at bpost.kek.jp (Tapas Ranjan) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:28:40 +0900 (JST) Subject: "tap-to-click" doesn't work (fwd) Message-ID: Hi : I am asking this question again, since nobody responded my last request. Probably at that time there were a few more prominent problems in the list. Hope to get suggestions this time. The "tap-to-click" behaviour of the touchpad doesn't work for my pc having a FC2 and 2.6.8 kernel. If I remember correctly it was working properly when I had RH9 on the same box. I am not sure exactly what I need to change or do new, please suggest. Here the part of "xorg.conf" describing "mouse" : Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" Option "MaxTapTime" "20" Option "MaxTapMove" "220" EndSection Thanks ---Tapas From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Dec 2 17:41:46 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 09:41:46 -0800 Subject: "tap-to-click" doesn't work (fwd) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41AF53DA.8090402@vitalstream.com> Tapas Ranjan wrote: > Hi : > I am asking this question again, since nobody responded my > last request. Probably at that time there were a few more prominent > problems in the list. Hope to get suggestions this time. > > The "tap-to-click" behaviour of the touchpad doesn't work for my pc > having a FC2 and 2.6.8 kernel. If I remember correctly it was working > properly when I had RH9 on the same box. I am not sure exactly what I need > to change or do new, please suggest. Here the part of "xorg.conf" > describing "mouse" : > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" > Option "MaxTapTime" "20" > Option "MaxTapMove" "220" > EndSection Try taking out the "MaxTapTime" and "MaxTapMove" options (just comment them out) and restart X. See if that works. I don't have that on FC3 on my Fujitsu Laptop. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "The Schizophrenic: An Unauthorized Autobiography" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarangi at bpost.kek.jp Fri Dec 3 06:01:34 2004 From: sarangi at bpost.kek.jp (Tapas Ranjan) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 15:01:34 +0900 (JST) Subject: "tap-to-click" doesn't work (fwd) In-Reply-To: <41AF53DA.8090402@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: Hi Rick : On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > Tapas Ranjan wrote: > > Hi : > > I am asking this question again, since nobody responded my > > last request. Probably at that time there were a few more prominent > > problems in the list. Hope to get suggestions this time. > > > > The "tap-to-click" behaviour of the touchpad doesn't work for my pc > > having a FC2 and 2.6.8 kernel. If I remember correctly it was working > > properly when I had RH9 on the same box. I am not sure exactly what I need > > to change or do new, please suggest. Here the part of "xorg.conf" > > describing "mouse" : > > > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Mouse0" > > Driver "mouse" > > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" > > Option "MaxTapTime" "20" > > Option "MaxTapMove" "220" > > EndSection > > Try taking out the "MaxTapTime" and "MaxTapMove" options (just comment > them out) and restart X. See if that works. I don't have that on FC3 > on my Fujitsu Laptop. I solved it by installing the "synaptics" touch pad driver and by following the setup procedure. Now everything works fine. No matter, thanks for your suggestion. ---Tapas From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Dec 3 17:18:13 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 09:18:13 -0800 Subject: "tap-to-click" doesn't work (fwd) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41B09FD5.2090203@vitalstream.com> Tapas Ranjan wrote: > Hi Rick : > > On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>Tapas Ranjan wrote: >> >>>Hi : >>> I am asking this question again, since nobody responded my >>>last request. Probably at that time there were a few more prominent >>>problems in the list. Hope to get suggestions this time. >>> >>> The "tap-to-click" behaviour of the touchpad doesn't work for my pc >>>having a FC2 and 2.6.8 kernel. If I remember correctly it was working >>>properly when I had RH9 on the same box. I am not sure exactly what I need >>>to change or do new, please suggest. Here the part of "xorg.conf" >>>describing "mouse" : >>> >>>Section "InputDevice" >>> Identifier "Mouse0" >>> Driver "mouse" >>> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" >>> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" >>> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" >>> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" >>> Option "MaxTapTime" "20" >>> Option "MaxTapMove" "220" >>>EndSection >> >>Try taking out the "MaxTapTime" and "MaxTapMove" options (just comment >>them out) and restart X. See if that works. I don't have that on FC3 >>on my Fujitsu Laptop. > > > I solved it by installing the "synaptics" touch pad driver and > by following the setup procedure. Now everything works fine. No matter, > thanks for your suggestion. Glad you got it running. I don't seem to have a similar driver installed, yet my touchpad works fine. Weird. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a - - rigged demo. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Sat Dec 4 18:21:33 2004 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 11:21:33 -0700 (MST) Subject: modprobe Message-ID: I'm trying to install ndiswrapper to get my Motorola wireless card working in my notebook. Following the instructins everything seems to be working until I get to the "modprobe ndiswrapper" command. The commands are ndiswrapper -i ndiswrapper -l bcmw15.inf output is installed ndis drivers bcmw15 driver present, hardware present modprobe ndiswrapper output it FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found >From reading there should be a file /etc/modules.conf file but that isn't to be found. Any suggestions? I just upgraded to FC2 Thanks -- Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. From markknecht at gmail.com Sat Dec 4 18:35:44 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 10:35:44 -0800 Subject: modprobe In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b04120410358c4bebe@mail.gmail.com> On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 11:21:33 -0700 (MST), brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > I'm trying to install ndiswrapper to get my Motorola wireless > card working in my notebook. Following the instructins > everything seems to be working until I get to the "modprobe > ndiswrapper" command. > > The commands are > > ndiswrapper -i > > ndiswrapper -l bcmw15.inf > > output is > installed ndis drivers > bcmw15 driver present, hardware present > > modprobe ndiswrapper > > output it > FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found > > >From reading there should be a file /etc/modules.conf file but > that isn't to be found. > > Any suggestions? I just upgraded to FC2 > > Thanks > > -- > Brad Mugleston, KI0OT > Brad, Hi. Up front I wish you the very best of luck. I have tried 3 times to get this working. I also have a Broadcom adapter. I have failed in utter dispair every time. As for your immediate problem is there any possiblity that you have two kernels on your system? If so then is ndiswrapper built for the kernel you are running right now. I don;t like this, but there are two (at least) 'ndiswrapper' files in this package: 1) A script that sets things up. 2) A driver that gets loaded. Too bad they have the same name, right? ;-) Here's the data from my laptop running Gentoo: flash mark $ slocate ndiswrapper | grep bin /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper-buginfo /home/mark/storage/data/ndiswrapper/SP23107A/layout.bin flash mark $ slocate ndiswrapper | grep ko /lib/modules/2.6.8-gentoo-r2/misc/ndiswrapper.ko /lib/modules/2.6.9-rc2-mm4-VP-S7/misc/ndiswrapper.ko modprobe is looking for the .ko file. Do an slocate and see if you have one that is associated with the kernel you are running. When you find it (or build it) then you're in for the real fun. ;-) As I said, I went down in flames 3 times but I'd love to get it working. I'm here this weekend and I have the same wireless NIC in this laptop so maybe we can do it together. Cheers, Mark flash mark $ From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Sat Dec 4 18:38:43 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 12:38:43 -0600 Subject: modprobe In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20041204183843.GA22263@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 11:21:33AM -0700, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > I'm trying to install ndiswrapper to get my Motorola wireless > card working in my notebook. Following the instructins > everything seems to be working until I get to the "modprobe > ndiswrapper" command. > > The commands are > > > ndiswrapper -i > > ndiswrapper -l bcmw15.inf > > output is > installed ndis drivers > bcmw15 driver present, hardware present > > modprobe ndiswrapper > > output it > FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found > > > >From reading there should be a file /etc/modules.conf file but > that isn't to be found. /etc/modules.conf has been replaced by /etc/modprobe.conf. > Any suggestions? I just upgraded to FC2 > > Thanks > > > -- > Brad Mugleston, KI0OT Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Grace happens. From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Sat Dec 4 19:49:36 2004 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 12:49:36 -0700 (MST) Subject: modprobe In-Reply-To: <20041204183843.GA22263@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > > /etc/modules.conf has been replaced by /etc/modprobe.conf. > OK, so I have the modprobe.conf file - any suggestions? I only have ONE kernel loaded as I haven't done an update yet. I'd tried this before and ran into the kernel problem so I re-installed everything to get a fresh start (my notebook has nothing on it but Linux and I keep it very clean so I can just format and install without worries. One thing I've done different this time is I used the rpm to install ndiswrapper - I'm assuming it did everything in up to the point of "ndiswrapper -i bcmw15.inf" which is where I started from but everyone knows what assume means. I'm at home today (on and off) so I'll check back in so any suggestions would be great. Brad From markknecht at gmail.com Sat Dec 4 20:29:10 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 12:29:10 -0800 Subject: modprobe In-Reply-To: References: <20041204183843.GA22263@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0412041229423716fe@mail.gmail.com> On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 12:49:36 -0700 (MST), brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > > > > /etc/modules.conf has been replaced by /etc/modprobe.conf. > > > > OK, so I have the modprobe.conf file - any suggestions? > > I only have ONE kernel loaded as I haven't done an update yet. > I'd tried this before and ran into the kernel problem so I > re-installed everything to get a fresh start (my notebook has > nothing on it but Linux and I keep it very clean so I can just > format and install without worries. > > One thing I've done different this time is I used the rpm to > install ndiswrapper - I'm assuming it did everything in up to the > point of "ndiswrapper -i bcmw15.inf" which is where I started > from but everyone knows what assume means. This could be part of the problem. I built from source and got a bit further. Please do uname -a and slocate ndiswrapper | grep .ko and report the results back. If this was the wrong RPM then it might have placed the module in the wrong directory for your kernel. > > I'm at home today (on and off) so I'll check back in so any > suggestions would be great. > > Brad > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 robertmcclure at earthlink.net Sat Dec 4 20:39:30 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 14:39:30 -0600 Subject: modprobe In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0412041229423716fe@mail.gmail.com> References: <20041204183843.GA22263@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <5bdc1c8b0412041229423716fe@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20041204203930.GA22931@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 12:29:10PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 12:49:36 -0700 (MST), brad.mugleston at comcast.net > wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > > > > > > /etc/modules.conf has been replaced by /etc/modprobe.conf. > > > > > > > OK, so I have the modprobe.conf file - any suggestions? > > > > I only have ONE kernel loaded as I haven't done an update yet. > > I'd tried this before and ran into the kernel problem so I > > re-installed everything to get a fresh start (my notebook has > > nothing on it but Linux and I keep it very clean so I can just > > format and install without worries. > > > > One thing I've done different this time is I used the rpm to > > install ndiswrapper - I'm assuming it did everything in up to the > > point of "ndiswrapper -i bcmw15.inf" which is where I started > > from but everyone knows what assume means. > > This could be part of the problem. I built from source and got a bit further. > > Please do > > uname -a > > and If you installed it today, you will need to run (as root) "updatedb" before you run ... > slocate ndiswrapper | grep .ko (s)locate works from a database that is built every morning around 4am. > and report the results back. If this was the wrong RPM then it might > have placed the module in the wrong directory for your kernel. > > > > > I'm at home today (on and off) so I'll check back in so any > > suggestions would be great. > > > > Brad Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Grace happens. From markknecht at gmail.com Sat Dec 4 21:31:10 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 13:31:10 -0800 Subject: modprobe In-Reply-To: <20041204203930.GA22931@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <20041204183843.GA22263@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <5bdc1c8b0412041229423716fe@mail.gmail.com> <20041204203930.GA22931@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b041204133156bd0e14@mail.gmail.com> > > This could be part of the problem. I built from source and got a bit further. > > > > Please do > > > > uname -a > > > > and > > If you installed it today, you will need to run (as root) "updatedb" > before you run ... > > > slocate ndiswrapper | grep .ko > > (s)locate works from a database that is built every morning around > 4am. > > Good point From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Sun Dec 5 01:11:23 2004 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 18:11:23 -0700 (MST) Subject: modprobe In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b041204133156bd0e14@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: uname -a ===> 2.6.8-1.521 i686 which is how the RPM is labled slocate ndiswrapper | grep .ko ===> null -- doesn't look good. while we are on the topic what is the difference between updatedb and locate -u and slocate and locate I've always used locate -u and locate On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > This could be part of the problem. I built from source and got a bit further. > > > > > > Please do > > > > > > uname -a > > > > > > and > > > > If you installed it today, you will need to run (as root) "updatedb" > > before you run ... > > > > > slocate ndiswrapper | grep .ko > > > > (s)locate works from a database that is built every morning around > > 4am. > > > > > Good point > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Sun Dec 5 02:03:55 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 20:03:55 -0600 Subject: modprobe In-Reply-To: References: <5bdc1c8b041204133156bd0e14@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20041205020355.GA25321@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 06:11:23PM -0700, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > uname -a ===> 2.6.8-1.521 i686 which is how the RPM is labled > > slocate ndiswrapper | grep .ko ===> null -- doesn't look good. > > while we are on the topic what is the difference between > > updatedb and locate -u > > and > > slocate and locate > > I've always used locate -u and locate In the old days there was updatedb that built the database, usually from a script in /etc/cron.daily/, and locate that made use of it. Then it was discovered that it let you see the existence of files that you wouldn't normally know about as a mere mortal. Then came Security-Enhanced Locate, or slocate, which stores permission and ownership information, so that if you couldn't normally know about the file/directory/whatever, then slocate isn't going to tell you about it, either. In the current distros, both locate and updatedb are symlinked to slocate. "slocate -u", "locate -u", and updatedb do exactly the same thing. "slocate" and "locate" do precisely the same thing. "man slocate" and "man updatedb" for more details. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Grace happens. From markknecht at gmail.com Sun Dec 5 02:18:56 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 18:18:56 -0800 Subject: modprobe In-Reply-To: References: <5bdc1c8b041204133156bd0e14@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b04120418187acd5a94@mail.gmail.com> On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 18:11:23 -0700 (MST), brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > uname -a ===> 2.6.8-1.521 i686 which is how the RPM is labled > > slocate ndiswrapper | grep .ko ===> null -- doesn't look good. > OK, so that's the root cause of your module not found message. It would seem to me that one of a number of things must have happened: 1) The RPM you installed was for a different kernel. (Doesn't seem to be the case from the names...) Tale a look at /lib/modules: ls /lib/modules and see if there is more than one directory. You should find one that matches your kernel. You might find another one that would have been created when an RPM for a different kernel was installed. 2) The RPM installed source code somewhere and it's waiting for you to build the kernel module. You'd have to look the RPM and see what it contained and where it put things if this is the case and then build it. 3) Something else... I don't know if this is clear, but modules MUST match the kernel that's running. You can have multiple kernels on the system, but when you boot one there must be a corresponding /lib/modules directory for the kernel to find it's modules. Frustrating I'm sure but I think you're making a bit of headway. Good luck, Mark From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Sun Dec 5 06:52:19 2004 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 23:52:19 -0700 (MST) Subject: modprobe In-Reply-To: <20041205020355.GA25321@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: ok, I downloaded and built my own kernel package. Went through everything as before and got to "modprobe ndiswrapper" which worked this time (one more step done) Looked in the system log and didn't find the message about ndiswrapper being loaded. I had gotten the warning that I only had a 4k stack size and I may have problems - it didn't lock up or anything like it said it just didn't work. So I have two questions 1 - any good instructions on how to get the stack size larger? 2 - I've read the install instructions a number of times and each time I find something else I probably need to do. It says to make sure I have the "Wireless Tools" installed. What are those and how do I tell if I have them installed. If they aren't installed where do I get them to install them? Thanks, -- Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. From markknecht at gmail.com Sun Dec 5 16:35:20 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 08:35:20 -0800 Subject: modprobe In-Reply-To: References: <20041205020355.GA25321@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b041205083526c9178f@mail.gmail.com> On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 23:52:19 -0700 (MST), brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > ok, I downloaded and built my own kernel package. Went through > everything as before and got to "modprobe ndiswrapper" which > worked this time (one more step done) Looked in the system log > and didn't find the message about ndiswrapper being loaded. > > I had gotten the warning that I only had a 4k stack size and I > may have problems - it didn't lock up or anything like it said it > just didn't work. > > So I have two questions > > 1 - any good instructions on how to get the stack size larger? Not that I know of. I thought it might be a kernel config option but I can't find it this morning. > > 2 - I've read the install instructions a number of times and each > time I find something else I probably need to do. It says to > make sure I have the "Wireless Tools" installed. What are those > and how do I tell if I have them installed. If they aren't > installed where do I get them to install them? Here's one link. Sorry this isn't easier on FC. It's trivial on Gentoo. http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html > > Thanks, > > > > -- > Brad Mugleston, KI0OT > > There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that > understand binary and those that don't. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 info at cmis-inc.com Sun Dec 5 20:29:58 2004 From: info at cmis-inc.com (Info) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 12:29:58 -0800 Subject: Fedora Core 3 Belkin Crazy Mouse In-Reply-To: <20041205170017.DEDF973F97@hormel.redhat.com> Message-ID: <200412052116.iB5LGGK4028060@mx3.redhat.com> I just installed Fedora Core 3, no problems except that my mouse is totally random until I disconnect and reconnect it. I'm using a Belkin Omniview KVM to switch between machines. A Google search shows several postings about this. It seems to be a known bug going back to Fedora Core 1. There is a work around http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla...glist=123273#c5 Which suggests a fix and points to another (duplicate) bug. One posting had a long set of instructions on recompiling the kernel to fix this problem. Since I installed from RPM and am some what timid about recompiling kernels, I wondered if there was some sort of configuration change that would solve this problem. While there may be, the writers assumed that their rather cryptic postings would be understandable. If someone has solved this problem by editing file /xxx/yyy/zzz.something and rebooted the system, I'd sure like to receive the details. ghd -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Mon Dec 6 05:34:19 2004 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 22:34:19 -0700 (MST) Subject: modprobe In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b041205083526c9178f@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: I'm still not getting any messages in /var/log/messages or /var/log/dmesg about this card but I ignored that and tried some other things out. OK, I found out the Tools were already there and installed. Interesting, it looks like everthing is there and runing but it doesnt' want to be recognized enought to get the job done. FC2 has a GUI setup for the card, it sees it and can do everything except initalize it. The card does light up much brigher now and the data light does flash, not much but it's flashing. "ifconfig" shows packets going in and out so I'm getting to think it's outside the machine. Tomorrow I shut down all security on the hub and see what happens - I may have it so tight I can't get in. Are there any tools that tell you about signals the card has found? I know my son's notebook found 3 signals while at home (one from our hub and the others from?) I'll do some more reading about the tools and see where I can get with that. I also have used UP2DATE to upgrade all my software produced after my CD's were produced - all except the kernel. If I decided to start again from scratch I'll upgrade that first. Thanks for all the help so far. Any wild ideas or suggestions where to read I'm all for it. Thanks, Brad On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Mark Knecht wrote: > > http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html From Goetz.Kluge at infineon.com Mon Dec 6 08:44:10 2004 From: Goetz.Kluge at infineon.com (Goetz.Kluge at infineon.com) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 09:44:10 +0100 Subject: Interrupt(?) Problems when booting Message-ID: Seemingly due to some interrupt problems FC2 with a 2.6.15xx kernel gets stuck for some time on a PC here. Even the clock doesn't run during that time. Interrupt 4 is disabled when loading USB drivers (too many interrupts; ERR in /proc/interrupts is 5). After that delay the system continues booting. The new 2.6.1.6FC2 (number recalled from memory; presently can't look up the exact number) kernel however gets stuck until hard reset. The hang up occurs when attempting to install the USB file system. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From daisyofbywater at yahoo.com Mon Dec 6 11:49:27 2004 From: daisyofbywater at yahoo.com (daisy) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 03:49:27 -0800 (PST) Subject: /var/log/message problem Message-ID: <20041206114927.61679.qmail@web54601.mail.yahoo.com> Hello everyone. I would appreciate help with my /var/log/message file. It is no longer logging anything. Background of the problem: Previously the message logs worked without problem. When the log file grew to a certain size it would create an archive /log/var/message.1 file and create a brand new and empty /log/var/message file. For some reason, however, one day the log file archives were no longer being created and the message file just grew and grew. When my RedHat Linux system began to slow and lag, I thought that the /var/log/message file, which by then was very large, was the problem. I decided to do a temporary fix until I could get expert advice on how to get the system to create archives and new message files automatically. What I tried: I manually copied the /var/log/message file and renamed it /var/log/message.1. I also manually created a /var/log/message file. This did not work. No messages were logged at all. I then renamed one of the older archive files that were still of managable size as /var/log/message. Still no luck. Advice I am hoping for: 1. How to fix my /var/log/message file so that it will log necessary warnings. Why did creating a blank /var/log/message file cause the sytem to not log anything? Is the file a special binary file? 2. Why did the system stop updating and archiving the /var/log/message file in the first place. Thanks for any advice in advance. As you can probably tell, I am still at beginner level. I hope I explained the situation well enough. daisy --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From A.Apprich at science-computing.de Mon Dec 6 12:22:55 2004 From: A.Apprich at science-computing.de (Alexander Apprich) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 13:22:55 +0100 Subject: /var/log/message problem In-Reply-To: <20041206114927.61679.qmail@web54601.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041206114927.61679.qmail@web54601.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <41B44F1F.8090303@science-computing.de> Hi Daisy, daisy wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I would appreciate help with my /var/log/message file. It is no longer > logging anything. > > Background of the problem: Previously the message logs worked without > problem. When the log file grew to a certain size it would create an > archive /log/var/message.1 file and create a brand new and empty > /log/var/message file. For some reason, however, one day the log file > archives were no longer being created and the message file just grew and > grew. When my RedHat Linux system began to slow and lag, I thought that > the /var/log/message file, which by then was very large, was the > problem. I decided to do a temporary fix until I could get expert > advice on how to get the system to create archives and new message files > automatically. > > What I tried: I manually copied the /var/log/message file and renamed > it /var/log/message.1. > I also manually created a /var/log/message file. This did not work. No > messages were logged at all. I then renamed one of the older archive > files that were still of managable size as /var/log/message. Still no > luck. > > Advice I am hoping for: > 1. How to fix my /var/log/message file so that it will log necessary > warnings. Why did creating a blank /var/log/message file cause the sytem > to not log anything? Is the file a special binary file? AFAIK if you change the file manually, syslog does not longer log events there because it noticed the manually change. Did you check for syslogd to run? service syslogd status if this doesn't come back with a pid for syslogd I would recommend a service syslogd restart > 2. Why did the system stop updating and archiving the /var/log/message > file in the first place. Hmmm, updating because syslogd is not running, archiving because logrotate doesn't work. Check if /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exists > > Thanks for any advice in advance. As you can probably tell, I am still > at beginner level. I hope I explained the situation well enough. > > daisy > Hth Alex From gerrynix at yahoo.com Mon Dec 6 13:25:39 2004 From: gerrynix at yahoo.com (gerrynix) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 05:25:39 -0800 (PST) Subject: /var/log/message problem In-Reply-To: <41B44F1F.8090303@science-computing.de> Message-ID: <20041206132539.81761.qmail@web51908.mail.yahoo.com> --- Alexander Apprich wrote: > Hi Daisy, > > daisy wrote: > > Hello everyone. > > > > I would appreciate help with my /var/log/message file. It is no > longer logging anything. > > > > Background of the problem: Previously the message logs worked > without problem. When the log file grew to a certain size it would create an archive /log/var/message.1 file and create a brand new and empty /log/var/message file. For some reason, however, one day the log file archives were no longer being created and the message file just grew and grew. When my RedHat Linux system began to slow and lag, I thought that the /var/log/message file, which by then was very large, was the problem. I decided to do a temporary fix until I could get expert advice on how to get the system to create archives and new message files automatically. > > > > What I tried: I manually copied the /var/log/message file and > renamed it /var/log/message.1. > > I also manually created a /var/log/message file. This did not > work. No messages were logged at all. I then renamed one of the older archive files that were still of managable size /var/log/message. > Still no > > luck. > > > > Advice I am hoping for: > > 1. How to fix my /var/log/message file so that it will log > necessary warnings. Why did creating a blank /var/log/message file cause the sytem to not log anything? Is the file a special binary file? > > AFAIK if you change the file manually, syslog does not longer log > events there because it noticed the manually change. Did you check for syslogd to run? > > service syslogd status > > if this doesn't come back with a pid for syslogd I would recommend > a > > service syslogd restart > > > 2. Why did the system stop updating and archiving the > /var/log/message > > file in the first place. > > Hmmm, updating because syslogd is not running, archiving because > logrotate doesn't work. Check if > > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate > > exists > > > Thanks for any advice in advance. As you can probably tell, I am > still at beginner level. I hope I explained the situation well enough. > > > > daisy > > > > Hth > > Alex Unless you have changed the configuration in /etc/syslog.conf file... the name of the log file that will be written-to is: /var/log/messages (ending with an 's') It also appears that logrotate is not configured to "rotate" a file named: /var/log/message ... Thus, no /var/log/message.1, etc.. -- Nix > _______________________________________________ > 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 rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Dec 6 17:43:00 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 09:43:00 -0800 Subject: modprobe In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b041205083526c9178f@mail.gmail.com> References: <20041205020355.GA25321@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <5bdc1c8b041205083526c9178f@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <41B49A24.4010202@vitalstream.com> Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 23:52:19 -0700 (MST), brad.mugleston at comcast.net > wrote: > >>ok, I downloaded and built my own kernel package. Went through >>everything as before and got to "modprobe ndiswrapper" which >>worked this time (one more step done) Looked in the system log >>and didn't find the message about ndiswrapper being loaded. >> >>I had gotten the warning that I only had a 4k stack size and I >>may have problems - it didn't lock up or anything like it said it >>just didn't work. >> >>So I have two questions >> >>1 - any good instructions on how to get the stack size larger? > > > Not that I know of. I thought it might be a kernel config option but I > can't find it this morning. You must rebuild the kernel to go back to the old 8K stack size. There is no other way to do it. ndiswrapper >0.80 works fine with a 4K stack. >>2 - I've read the install instructions a number of times and each >>time I find something else I probably need to do. It says to >>make sure I have the "Wireless Tools" installed. What are those >>and how do I tell if I have them installed. If they aren't >>installed where do I get them to install them? > > > Here's one link. Sorry this isn't easier on FC. It's trivial on Gentoo. > > http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html ndiswrapper is not a difficult thing to build or install. There are several prerequisites: 1. You MUST have the kernel source installed for the kernel you are planning to have the driver run on. 2. You must be RUNNING that kernel before you build ndiswrapper. The Makefile for ndiswraper does a "uname -r" to see which kernel to build for (or you can bugger the Makefile to make it use the one you want). 3. You must have the gone through at least the equivalent of "make config" on the kernel source to configure it for your usage. This can be done by copying the appropriate config file from /boot and to the kernel source directory's ".config" file and executing "make oldconfig". 4. You can then build ndiswrapper. Don't forget to do "make install". You will find the driver installed as /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/misc/ndiswrapper.ko 5. Now it's installed. You can follow the rest of the instructions in the README/INSTALL files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Dec 6 17:54:07 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 09:54:07 -0800 Subject: /var/log/message problem In-Reply-To: <20041206114927.61679.qmail@web54601.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041206114927.61679.qmail@web54601.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <41B49CBF.7030901@vitalstream.com> daisy wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I would appreciate help with my /var/log/message file. It is no longer > logging anything. > > Background of the problem: Previously the message logs worked without > problem. When the log file grew to a certain size it would create an > archive /log/var/message.1 file and create a brand new and empty > /log/var/message file. For some reason, however, one day the log file > archives were no longer being created and the message file just grew and > grew. When my RedHat Linux system began to slow and lag, I thought that > the /var/log/message file, which by then was very large, was the > problem. I decided to do a temporary fix until I could get expert > advice on how to get the system to create archives and new message files > automatically. The logs rotate on a scheduled basis as determined by /etc/logrotate.conf -- not when they reach a certain size. Note, however, that neither the kernel logger nor syslogd are built with LFS (large file support), so neither program can "talk" to a file bigger than 2GB. > What I tried: I manually copied the /var/log/message file and renamed > it /var/log/message.1. > I also manually created a /var/log/message file. This did not work. No > messages were logged at all. I then renamed one of the older archive > files that were still of managable size as /var/log/message. Still no > luck. A manual rotate is done via: cp file file.1 cat /dev/null >file or mv file file.1 touch file Or you can force logrotate to do it whenever you wish: logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf > > Advice I am hoping for: > 1. How to fix my /var/log/message file so that it will log necessary > warnings. Why did creating a blank /var/log/message file cause the sytem > to not log anything? Is the file a special binary file? syslogd only creates log files when it starts up. If it ever tries to log to a non-existant file, it will cease logging for that file entirely. Simply make sure the target file exists, then (as root) run: killall -HUP syslogd or /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog restart to force syslogd to look at the file again. > 2. Why did the system stop updating and archiving the /var/log/message > file in the first place. If the file went over the 2GB limit, syslogd can't write to it anymore. The fix is to make sure the file doesn't go above 2GB or to recompile syslogd with LFS (large file support). > Thanks for any advice in advance. As you can probably tell, I am still > at beginner level. I hope I explained the situation well enough. You explained it quite well. Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Real Time, adj.: Here and now, as opposed to fake time, which only - - occurs there and then - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Dec 6 18:05:41 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 10:05:41 -0800 Subject: modprobe - correction to my post In-Reply-To: <41B49A24.4010202@vitalstream.com> References: <20041205020355.GA25321@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <5bdc1c8b041205083526c9178f@mail.gmail.com> <41B49A24.4010202@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <41B49F75.5000905@vitalstream.com> Rick Stevens wrote: [snip] > 4. You can then build ndiswrapper. Don't forget to do "make install". > You will find the driver installed as > > /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/misc/ndiswrapper.ko Oops! Sorry, that should read /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/ndiswrapper.ko Sorry. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 rhil at manordata.uklinux.net Mon Dec 6 18:35:19 2004 From: rhil at manordata.uklinux.net (Chris Hewitt) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:35:19 +0000 Subject: Fedora Core 3 Belkin Crazy Mouse In-Reply-To: <200412052116.iB5LGGK4028060@mx3.redhat.com> References: <200412052116.iB5LGGK4028060@mx3.redhat.com> Message-ID: <1102358118.31346.4.camel@amdk63.homemanordata.nodom> On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 20:29, Info wrote: > I just installed Fedora Core 3, no problems except that my mouse is > totally random until I disconnect and reconnect it. I???m using a > Belkin Omniview KVM to switch between machines. > > > > A Google search shows several postings about this. It seems to be a > known bug going back to Fedora Core 1. > > There is a work around > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla...glist=123273#c5 Which suggests > a fix and points to another (duplicate) bug. One posting had a long > set of instructions on recompiling the kernel to fix this problem. > > > > Since I installed from RPM and am some what timid about recompiling > kernels, I wondered if there was some sort of configuration change > that would solve this problem. While there may be, the writers > assumed that their rather cryptic postings would be understandable. > > > > If someone has solved this problem by editing file > /xxx/yyy/zzz.something and rebooted the system, I???d sure like to > receive the details. If you put "psmouse.proto=bare" in the kernel line in grub.conf it sorts it out (assuming a PS2 mouse) but you lose the use of the wheel. Some people have reported success with "psmouse.proto=imps" but I've had to use "bare". Funnily enough, I posted the same answer on the Fedora Core list yesterday. Hope this helps. Chris From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Dec 6 18:55:47 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 10:55:47 -0800 Subject: Fedora Core 3 Belkin Crazy Mouse In-Reply-To: <1102358118.31346.4.camel@amdk63.homemanordata.nodom> References: <200412052116.iB5LGGK4028060@mx3.redhat.com> <1102358118.31346.4.camel@amdk63.homemanordata.nodom> Message-ID: <41B4AB33.5080604@vitalstream.com> Chris Hewitt wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 20:29, Info wrote: > >>I just installed Fedora Core 3, no problems except that my mouse is >>totally random until I disconnect and reconnect it. I???m using a >>Belkin Omniview KVM to switch between machines. >> >> >> >>A Google search shows several postings about this. It seems to be a >>known bug going back to Fedora Core 1. >> >>There is a work around >>http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla...glist=123273#c5 Which suggests >>a fix and points to another (duplicate) bug. One posting had a long >>set of instructions on recompiling the kernel to fix this problem. >> >> >> >>Since I installed from RPM and am some what timid about recompiling >>kernels, I wondered if there was some sort of configuration change >>that would solve this problem. While there may be, the writers >>assumed that their rather cryptic postings would be understandable. >> >> >> >>If someone has solved this problem by editing file >>/xxx/yyy/zzz.something and rebooted the system, I???d sure like to >>receive the details. > > > If you put "psmouse.proto=bare" in the kernel line in grub.conf it sorts > it out (assuming a PS2 mouse) but you lose the use of the wheel. Some > people have reported success with "psmouse.proto=imps" but I've had to > use "bare". Funnily enough, I posted the same answer on the Fedora Core > list yesterday. > > Hope this helps. It does help, but the real answer is to not use a Belkin KVM. This has been a known problem for a long time (it even effects some Windows machines). The problem is that the KVM stops sending mouse sync events to the Linux box when the KVM isn't aimed at it. Some mobos recognize this and create "phantom" mouse events to keep things alive. Others don't. I stick with Linksys or IOGear KVMs for small systems, Rose or Omniview for bigger systems (8 ports or more). Because of this and the completely illegal "host connection stealing" thing they did in their routers, I NEVER recommend Belkin for anything other than just cables. I don't trust them as far as I could throw their corporate headquarters. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 ARokicki at US.TIAuto.com Mon Dec 6 13:34:16 2004 From: ARokicki at US.TIAuto.com (Rokicki, Andrew) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 08:34:16 -0500 Subject: Fedora Core 3 Belkin Crazy Mouse Message-ID: <076E02306E643D44B349985C46E78040057FBD@mrdex00.na.tiauto.com> This is not a fix but work around. Try to switch to a text terminal by doing ALT-CTRL-F2 and back to your GUI ALT-CTRL-F7. This makes the mouse saine for me. Andy R. Somewhere at: 41 -72 > -----Original Message----- > From: Info [SMTP:info at cmis-inc.com] > Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 3:30 PM > To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > Subject: Fedora Core 3 Belkin Crazy Mouse > > I just installed Fedora Core 3, no problems except that my mouse is > totally random until I disconnect and reconnect it. I'm using a Belkin > Omniview KVM to switch between machines. > > > > A Google search shows several postings about this. It seems to be a known > bug going back to Fedora Core 1. > > There is a work around > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla...glist=123273#c5 > > Which suggests a fix and points to another (duplicate) bug. One posting > had a long set of instructions on recompiling the kernel to fix this > problem. > > > > Since I installed from RPM and am some what timid about recompiling > kernels, I wondered if there was some sort of configuration change that > would solve this problem. While there may be, the writers assumed that > their rather cryptic postings would be understandable. > > > > If someone has solved this problem by editing file /xxx/yyy/zzz.something > and rebooted the system, I'd sure like to receive the details. > > > > ghd > << File: ATT472237.txt >> The information contained in this transmission may contain privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. This communication is from TI Automotive. From rhil at manordata.uklinux.net Mon Dec 6 20:15:18 2004 From: rhil at manordata.uklinux.net (Chris Hewitt) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 20:15:18 +0000 Subject: Fedora Core 3 Belkin Crazy Mouse In-Reply-To: <41B4AB33.5080604@vitalstream.com> References: <200412052116.iB5LGGK4028060@mx3.redhat.com> <1102358118.31346.4.camel@amdk63.homemanordata.nodom> <41B4AB33.5080604@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1102364116.31968.28.camel@amdk63.homemanordata.nodom> On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 18:55, Rick Stevens wrote: > It does help, but the real answer is to not use a Belkin KVM. This has > been a known problem for a long time (it even effects some Windows > machines). The problem is that the KVM stops sending mouse sync events > to the Linux box when the KVM isn't aimed at it. Some mobos recognize > this and create "phantom" mouse events to keep things alive. Others > don't. I stick with Linksys or IOGear KVMs for small systems, Rose > or Omniview for bigger systems (8 ports or more). Yes, I agree with that. The problem is that people (like me) had already bought it! I did not know about this when I bought mine, but the price including cables being _so_ low makes it attractive to a lot of people. I am not likely to trust, or buy, Belkin again. > > Because of this and the completely illegal "host connection stealing" > thing they did in their routers, I NEVER recommend Belkin for anything > other than just cables. I don't trust them as far as I could throw > their corporate headquarters. Again, I heard about this afterwards (from you) and really, really do not like it. I equate it ethically as bad as MS putting code into Windows 3.x to cause random exceptions and reboots if the DOS it was running on was DRDOS not MSDOS. I feel it finished Digital Research. As someone who went out a bought MSDOS because I was suffering this problem I felt really peeved when I found out. Regards Chris From markknecht at gmail.com Tue Dec 7 18:44:27 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 10:44:27 -0800 Subject: Get FC2 to load 1394 drivers automatically Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b041207104468a127b6@mail.gmail.com> Hi, I haven't figured out how to make FC2 load these drivers everytime I boot. My simplistic attempt was this 2 line addition to /etc/modprobe.conf, but it doesn't work. alias eth0 e100 alias snd-card-0 snd-hdsp install snd-hdsp /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-hdsp && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || : remove snd-hdsp { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hdsp alias usb-controller ehci-hcd alias usb-controller1 ohci-hcd alias usb-controller2 uhci-hcd # Added to force FC2 to modprobe 1394 stuff alias 1394 ohci1394 alias firewire1 sbp2 # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- # --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.5 --- alias snd-card-0 snd-hdsp alias sound-slot-0 snd-hdsp # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- What's the right way to do this? I need to load ieee1394, ohci1394 and sbp2 to get hard drive support. Loading ohci1394 will always load ieee1394. Loading spb2 will not load either of the other two. Cheers, Mark From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Dec 7 22:08:01 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 14:08:01 -0800 Subject: Get FC2 to load 1394 drivers automatically In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b041207104468a127b6@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b041207104468a127b6@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <41B629C1.2090007@vitalstream.com> Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I haven't figured out how to make FC2 load these drivers everytime > I boot. My simplistic attempt was this 2 line addition to > /etc/modprobe.conf, but it doesn't work. > > alias eth0 e100 > alias snd-card-0 snd-hdsp > install snd-hdsp /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-hdsp && > /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || : > remove snd-hdsp { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; > /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hdsp > alias usb-controller ehci-hcd > alias usb-controller1 ohci-hcd > alias usb-controller2 uhci-hcd > # Added to force FC2 to modprobe 1394 stuff > alias 1394 ohci1394 > alias firewire1 sbp2 > # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- > # --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.5 --- > alias snd-card-0 snd-hdsp > alias sound-slot-0 snd-hdsp > # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- > > What's the right way to do this? I need to load ieee1394, ohci1394 and > sbp2 to get hard drive support. Loading ohci1394 will always load > ieee1394. Loading spb2 will not load either of the other two. Try adding this line (all as one line, it's wrapped for readability): install sbp2 /sbin/modprobe ohci1394 && /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install sbp2. Then a "modprobe sbp2" or "modprobe firewire1" should do it. The first thing it'll do is load ohci1394. That should load ieee1394 since ohci1394 depends on it. Finally, sbp2 should load and you should be happy. Ah, the power of the "install" modprobe.conf option and the "--ignore-install" option of modprobe. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - It is better to have loved and lost. Cheaper, too! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From markknecht at gmail.com Wed Dec 8 00:31:28 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 16:31:28 -0800 Subject: Get FC2 to load 1394 drivers automatically In-Reply-To: <41B629C1.2090007@vitalstream.com> References: <5bdc1c8b041207104468a127b6@mail.gmail.com> <41B629C1.2090007@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b041207163136da83a6@mail.gmail.com> On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 14:08:01 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > I haven't figured out how to make FC2 load these drivers everytime > > I boot. > Try adding this line (all as one line, it's wrapped for readability): > > install sbp2 /sbin/modprobe ohci1394 && /sbin/modprobe > --ignore-install sbp2. > > Then a "modprobe sbp2" or "modprobe firewire1" should do it. The first > thing it'll do is load ohci1394. That should load ieee1394 since > ohci1394 depends on it. Finally, sbp2 should load and you should be > happy. > > Ah, the power of the "install" modprobe.conf option and the > "--ignore-install" option of modprobe. Rick, THanks for the reply. This does indeed get everything loaded when I modprobe sbp2. However it doesn't modprobe sbp2 automatically at boot time. How can I make that happen? Thanks, Mark From markknecht at gmail.com Wed Dec 8 02:24:31 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 18:24:31 -0800 Subject: Get FC2 to load 1394 drivers automatically In-Reply-To: <41B656D4.1000602@vitalstream.com> References: <5bdc1c8b041207104468a127b6@mail.gmail.com> <41B629C1.2090007@vitalstream.com> <5bdc1c8b041207163136da83a6@mail.gmail.com> <41B656D4.1000602@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0412071824544abcfd@mail.gmail.com> On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:20:20 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > > alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394 > > you should be able to remove the stuff I told you to put in. OK, this seems to have worked fine. I've rebooted with the 1394 drive on and again with it off. In both cases sbp2 is loaded at boot time. Thanks. > > The /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit script looks for the alias above. If it sees > it, then it modprobes the ohci1394 module (which should load ieee1394). > > Once that's done, the script cats "/proc/bus/ieee1394/devices" and > sees if "SBP2" appears in there. If so, it modprobes sbp2. The upshot > of this is that it would do exactly what my code would do, but it would > do it at system boot time. > > You can verify this by booting cleanly, then doing a "modprobe > ohci1394". Once that's done you can > > cat /proc/bus/ieee1394/devices | grep SBP2 This part doesn't seem to be consistent with my FC2 machine. Here you can see that the 1394 hard drive was mounted as sda1: [mark at Godzilla mark]$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda4 6759524 6402444 13708 100% / /dev/hda1 99043 14652 79277 16% /boot none 387616 0 387616 0% /dev/shm none 387616 0 387616 0% /var/lib/jack/tmp /dev/sda1 32748528 20098448 12650080 62% /mnt/audio1 [mark at Godzilla mark]$ However, ieee1394 is not a 'bus' under /proc: [mark at Godzilla mark]$ ls -la /proc/bus/ total 0 dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Dec 7 18:13 . dr-xr-xr-x 105 root root 0 Dec 7 10:12 .. dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 7 18:19 input dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Dec 7 18:13 pci dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 7 18:19 usb [mark at Godzilla mark]$ > > If you get a line back, then changing the alias and deleting my stuff > should do the trick. This is all buried in lines 753-765 of the > "/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit" script if you want to look at it. The > controlling thing, however, is the "alias ieee1394-controller" line. It > works just like the "alias scsi_hostadapter" lines needed to make the > system load SCSI drivers. I see what you see at line 753. I don't read this stuff very well, but clearly the script is expecting /proc/bus/ieee1394 and I don't have it but things still work. Interesting! > > I should have caught this sooner, Mark, but I don't have a firewire > device so I wasn't familiar with the mechanism used. I should have > guessed that an alias line would trip it. I'm embarrassed. :-] Please don't be. I'm grateful to have such attention and fast responses! I was able over the last couple of days to do about 8 hours of audio recording to 1394 drives using FC2 with not a single problem. Everything worked really well. After that nice experience I'm trying to get the machine into the same state at boot time. This requires the 1394 stuff that you just helped me with, and also echoing a value to /proc/irq/... to set up interrupt threading in this kernel. Off to work on that one now. Cheers, Mark From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Wed Dec 8 05:10:31 2004 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 22:10:31 -0700 (MST) Subject: modprobe In-Reply-To: <41B49A24.4010202@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: I know I'm suppose to bottom post but I'm kind of starting over. 1 - cleaned out all ndiswrapper (reversed everything). 2 - using UP2DATE upgraded to the newest kernel and source 3 - found an RPM that is suppose to fix the 4K limit 4 - make my symbolic link to the new kernel as instructed (I've been doing reboots to make sure the latest is running) 5 - got up to make install and got a warning about being unable to do something with variable get_user_size - being a warning I took note. 6 - got to the mdoprobe ndiswrapper step and got an error about get_user_size and there I sit. SUggestions? I checked the FAQ and didn't see this I will do more of a search when my grandson falls asleep (need more light in the room). Thanks, Brad On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 23:52:19 -0700 (MST), brad.mugleston at comcast.net > > wrote: > > > >>ok, I downloaded and built my own kernel package. Went through > >>everything as before and got to "modprobe ndiswrapper" which > >>worked this time (one more step done) Looked in the system log > >>and didn't find the message about ndiswrapper being loaded. > >> > >>I had gotten the warning that I only had a 4k stack size and I > >>may have problems - it didn't lock up or anything like it said it > >>just didn't work. > >> > >>So I have two questions > >> > >>1 - any good instructions on how to get the stack size larger? > > > > > > Not that I know of. I thought it might be a kernel config option but I > > can't find it this morning. > > You must rebuild the kernel to go back to the old 8K stack size. There > is no other way to do it. ndiswrapper >0.80 works fine with a 4K stack. > > >>2 - I've read the install instructions a number of times and each > >>time I find something else I probably need to do. It says to > >>make sure I have the "Wireless Tools" installed. What are those > >>and how do I tell if I have them installed. If they aren't > >>installed where do I get them to install them? > > > > > > Here's one link. Sorry this isn't easier on FC. It's trivial on Gentoo. > > > > http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html > > ndiswrapper is not a difficult thing to build or install. There are > several prerequisites: > > 1. You MUST have the kernel source installed for the kernel you are > planning to have the driver run on. > > 2. You must be RUNNING that kernel before you build ndiswrapper. The > Makefile for ndiswraper does a "uname -r" to see which kernel to build > for (or you can bugger the Makefile to make it use the one you want). > > 3. You must have the gone through at least the equivalent of "make > config" on the kernel source to configure it for your usage. This > can be done by copying the appropriate config file from /boot and > to the kernel source directory's ".config" file and executing "make > oldconfig". > > 4. You can then build ndiswrapper. Don't forget to do "make install". > You will find the driver installed as > > /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/misc/ndiswrapper.ko > > 5. Now it's installed. You can follow the rest of the instructions in > the README/INSTALL files. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Death is nature's way of dropping carrier - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. From broli85 at hotmail.com Wed Dec 8 17:04:19 2004 From: broli85 at hotmail.com (Broli _) Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 18:04:19 +0100 Subject: ADSL internet setup...how? Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Dec 8 18:24:58 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 10:24:58 -0800 Subject: modprobe In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41B746FA.90506@vitalstream.com> brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > I know I'm suppose to bottom post but I'm kind of starting over. > > 1 - cleaned out all ndiswrapper (reversed everything). > 2 - using UP2DATE upgraded to the newest kernel and source > 3 - found an RPM that is suppose to fix the 4K limit > 4 - make my symbolic link to the new kernel as instructed (I've > been doing reboots to make sure the latest is running) > 5 - got up to make install and got a warning about being unable > to do something with variable get_user_size - being a warning I > took note. > 6 - got to the mdoprobe ndiswrapper step and got an error about > get_user_size and there I sit. > > SUggestions? I checked the FAQ and didn't see this I will do > more of a search when my grandson falls asleep (need more light > in the room). My addled brain has lost track of this. Was this on FC3? I just built ndiswrapper 0.11 on my laptop running FC3 (kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3) with no patches (4K stacks) and it built and runs fine with my Broadcom BCM4306 using Windows XP drivers. The trick is, of course, getting the kernel source for FC3. You must download the kernel source RPM (there is no "kernel-source" RPM yet, you must get the SRPM from the SRPM repository). Install the SRPM via: cd /download/directory rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.src.rpm To make this look like one of the older "kernel-source" RPM installs, you have to patch the sources and create the kernel source tree. To do this, go to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS and run: rpmbuild --target i686 -bp kernel-2.6.spec After some crunching and chewing, the source tree is created...but not in the spot you expect it to be. You can move it to the classic spot by: cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9 mv linux-2.6.9 /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 Ok, now the source tree is in /usr/src. Make the appropriate symlinks in /usr/src: cd /usr/src rm -f linux linux-2.6 ln -s linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 linux ln -s linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 linux-2.6 Don't forget to edit "/usr/src/linux/Makefile" to change the "EXTRAVERSION=" definition to match the actual kernel version. For uniprocessors: EXTRAVERSION = -1.681_FC3 for SMP: EXTRAVERSION = -1.681_FC3.smp (I think that's it for SMP, "uname -r" will tell you for sure). Once you've got that done, you can clean up the cruft left by rpmbuild by: cd /usr/src/redhat rm -rf BUILD/* RPMS/* SOURCES/* SPECS/* SRPMS/* cd /usr/src/linux make mrproper Now you've got the FC3 kernel source just like the old "kernel-source" RPMs used to make (mmmm! tasty!). Copy the config file from /boot to "/usr/src/linux/.config" and do AT LEAST cd /usr/src/linux make oldconfig Once that's done, you've got the kernel source tree configured for your system. Assuming you're running that kernel (or you've buggered the ndiswrapper Makefile to point at this kernel source tree), you can build ndiswrapper. As I said, I built ndiswrapper V0.11 in just this manner and it works fine. Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited. Batteries not included. Etc., etc. > On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>>On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 23:52:19 -0700 (MST), brad.mugleston at comcast.net >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>ok, I downloaded and built my own kernel package. Went through >>>>everything as before and got to "modprobe ndiswrapper" which >>>>worked this time (one more step done) Looked in the system log >>>>and didn't find the message about ndiswrapper being loaded. >>>> >>>>I had gotten the warning that I only had a 4k stack size and I >>>>may have problems - it didn't lock up or anything like it said it >>>>just didn't work. >>>> >>>>So I have two questions >>>> >>>>1 - any good instructions on how to get the stack size larger? >>> >>> >>>Not that I know of. I thought it might be a kernel config option but I >>>can't find it this morning. >> >>You must rebuild the kernel to go back to the old 8K stack size. There >>is no other way to do it. ndiswrapper >0.80 works fine with a 4K stack. >> >> >>>>2 - I've read the install instructions a number of times and each >>>>time I find something else I probably need to do. It says to >>>>make sure I have the "Wireless Tools" installed. What are those >>>>and how do I tell if I have them installed. If they aren't >>>>installed where do I get them to install them? >>> >>> >>>Here's one link. Sorry this isn't easier on FC. It's trivial on Gentoo. >>> >>>http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html >> >>ndiswrapper is not a difficult thing to build or install. There are >>several prerequisites: >> >>1. You MUST have the kernel source installed for the kernel you are >>planning to have the driver run on. >> >>2. You must be RUNNING that kernel before you build ndiswrapper. The >>Makefile for ndiswraper does a "uname -r" to see which kernel to build >>for (or you can bugger the Makefile to make it use the one you want). >> >>3. You must have the gone through at least the equivalent of "make >>config" on the kernel source to configure it for your usage. This >>can be done by copying the appropriate config file from /boot and >>to the kernel source directory's ".config" file and executing "make >>oldconfig". >> >>4. You can then build ndiswrapper. Don't forget to do "make install". >>You will find the driver installed as >> >> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/misc/ndiswrapper.ko >> >>5. Now it's installed. You can follow the rest of the instructions in >>the README/INSTALL files. >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >>- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >>- - >>- Death is nature's way of dropping carrier - >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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 - - - - Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From markknecht at gmail.com Wed Dec 8 20:04:16 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:04:16 -0800 Subject: Get FC2 to load 1394 drivers automatically In-Reply-To: <41B73B92.4000107@vitalstream.com> References: <5bdc1c8b041207104468a127b6@mail.gmail.com> <41B629C1.2090007@vitalstream.com> <5bdc1c8b041207163136da83a6@mail.gmail.com> <41B656D4.1000602@vitalstream.com> <5bdc1c8b0412071824544abcfd@mail.gmail.com> <41B73B92.4000107@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0412081204160f6cc3@mail.gmail.com> On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 09:36:18 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > > I see what you see at line 753. I don't read this stuff very well, but > > clearly the script is expecting /proc/bus/ieee1394 and I don't have it > > but things still work. > > > > Interesting! > > Yeah. I'm wondering if perhaps it appears right after loading the ieee > modules and disappears after sbp2 is loaded. Ok, now my curiosity is > piqued. I'll have to stop by Fry's on the way home and get a firewire > drive to play with. Sheesh! Just what I need...another piece of > hardware! My office already looks like a combination of a bombed > computer factory and a combined harvester! Just went to Fry's. Bought one of these $199 computers that runs Linspire for my kid for Christmas. We'll see how that works out... I know there were changes between 2.4 where /proc/bus/ieee1394 existed and 2.6 where it was moved somewhere else. Just looking around I don't see it though. Looking under /proc/scsi I see the 1394 drive though: [mark at Godzilla mark]$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: IC35L080 Model: AVVA07-0 Rev: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 06 [mark at Godzilla mark]$ This is not the FC2 kernel BTW. This one is from PlanetCCRMA. However I do not think it changes the 1394 stuff at all. > > >>I should have caught this sooner, Mark, but I don't have a firewire > >>device so I wasn't familiar with the mechanism used. I should have > >>guessed that an alias line would trip it. I'm embarrassed. :-] > > > > > > Please don't be. I'm grateful to have such attention and fast responses! > > [blush!] Still embarrassed. > > > I was able over the last couple of days to do about 8 hours of audio > > recording to 1394 drives using FC2 with not a single problem. > > Everything worked really well. After that nice experience I'm trying > > to get the machine into the same state at boot time. This requires the > > 1394 stuff that you just helped me with, and also echoing a value to > > /proc/irq/... to set up interrupt threading in this kernel. Off to > > work on that one now. > > Really? /proc/irq? Weird. It's very new stuff. Ingo has been doing kernel patches that allow you to make individual IRQ handlers threaded or non-threaded. For low latency audio work I make the sound card non-threaded which gives it lower response times from the kernel when an interrupt happens. So far I haven't had any need to make 1394 non-threaded, but I have the option. > Well, I'd say take a look at sysctl...but > it controls stuff in /proc/sys. Playing with /proc/irq smells like > a classic /etc/rc.d/rc.local hack to me. If you want to risk it and > it's sbp2 specific, you could tack on > > && echo "value" >/proc/irq/whatever IIRC on Gentoo I did it in local.start. Could I do it in rc.local in FC2? Thanks, Mark From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Wed Dec 8 23:16:03 2004 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 16:16:03 -0700 (MST) Subject: modprobe In-Reply-To: <41B746FA.90506@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: Thanks, very interesting but I'm still running FC2 -- I did some web searching for get_user_size and saw where the problem was ran into before and the question asked but no response to the questions ever posted. I reasked the question in one ndiswrapper group and haven't heard anything yet (but it was late last night so I'm not too worried yet). Brad On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > > I know I'm suppose to bottom post but I'm kind of starting over. > > > > 1 - cleaned out all ndiswrapper (reversed everything). > > 2 - using UP2DATE upgraded to the newest kernel and source > > 3 - found an RPM that is suppose to fix the 4K limit > > 4 - make my symbolic link to the new kernel as instructed (I've > > been doing reboots to make sure the latest is running) > > 5 - got up to make install and got a warning about being unable > > to do something with variable get_user_size - being a warning I > > took note. > > 6 - got to the mdoprobe ndiswrapper step and got an error about > > get_user_size and there I sit. > > > > SUggestions? I checked the FAQ and didn't see this I will do > > more of a search when my grandson falls asleep (need more light > > in the room). > > My addled brain has lost track of this. Was this on FC3? I just built > ndiswrapper 0.11 on my laptop running FC3 (kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3) with > no patches (4K stacks) and it built and runs fine with my Broadcom > BCM4306 using Windows XP drivers. > > The trick is, of course, getting the kernel source for FC3. You must > download the kernel source RPM (there is no "kernel-source" RPM yet, you > must get the SRPM from the SRPM repository). Install the SRPM via: > > cd /download/directory > rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.src.rpm > > To make this look like one of the older "kernel-source" RPM installs, > you have to patch the sources and create the kernel source tree. To do > this, go to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS and run: > > rpmbuild --target i686 -bp kernel-2.6.spec > > After some crunching and chewing, the source tree is created...but not > in the spot you expect it to be. You can move it to the classic spot > by: > > cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9 > mv linux-2.6.9 /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 > > Ok, now the source tree is in /usr/src. Make the appropriate symlinks > in /usr/src: > > cd /usr/src > rm -f linux linux-2.6 > ln -s linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 linux > ln -s linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 linux-2.6 > > Don't forget to edit "/usr/src/linux/Makefile" to change the > "EXTRAVERSION=" definition to match the actual kernel version. For > uniprocessors: > > EXTRAVERSION = -1.681_FC3 > > for SMP: > > EXTRAVERSION = -1.681_FC3.smp > > (I think that's it for SMP, "uname -r" will tell you for sure). Once > you've got that done, you can clean up the cruft left by rpmbuild by: > > cd /usr/src/redhat > rm -rf BUILD/* RPMS/* SOURCES/* SPECS/* SRPMS/* > cd /usr/src/linux > make mrproper > > Now you've got the FC3 kernel source just like the old "kernel-source" > RPMs used to make (mmmm! tasty!). Copy the config file from /boot to > "/usr/src/linux/.config" and do AT LEAST > > cd /usr/src/linux > make oldconfig > > Once that's done, you've got the kernel source tree configured for your > system. Assuming you're running that kernel (or you've buggered the > ndiswrapper Makefile to point at this kernel source tree), you can build > ndiswrapper. > > As I said, I built ndiswrapper V0.11 in just this manner and it works > fine. Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited. Batteries not > included. Etc., etc. > > > On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > > >>Mark Knecht wrote: > >> > >>>On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 23:52:19 -0700 (MST), brad.mugleston at comcast.net > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>ok, I downloaded and built my own kernel package. Went through > >>>>everything as before and got to "modprobe ndiswrapper" which > >>>>worked this time (one more step done) Looked in the system log > >>>>and didn't find the message about ndiswrapper being loaded. > >>>> > >>>>I had gotten the warning that I only had a 4k stack size and I > >>>>may have problems - it didn't lock up or anything like it said it > >>>>just didn't work. > >>>> > >>>>So I have two questions > >>>> > >>>>1 - any good instructions on how to get the stack size larger? > >>> > >>> > >>>Not that I know of. I thought it might be a kernel config option but I > >>>can't find it this morning. > >> > >>You must rebuild the kernel to go back to the old 8K stack size. There > >>is no other way to do it. ndiswrapper >0.80 works fine with a 4K stack. > >> > >> > >>>>2 - I've read the install instructions a number of times and each > >>>>time I find something else I probably need to do. It says to > >>>>make sure I have the "Wireless Tools" installed. What are those > >>>>and how do I tell if I have them installed. If they aren't > >>>>installed where do I get them to install them? > >>> > >>> > >>>Here's one link. Sorry this isn't easier on FC. It's trivial on Gentoo. > >>> > >>>http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html > >> > >>ndiswrapper is not a difficult thing to build or install. There are > >>several prerequisites: > >> > >>1. You MUST have the kernel source installed for the kernel you are > >>planning to have the driver run on. > >> > >>2. You must be RUNNING that kernel before you build ndiswrapper. The > >>Makefile for ndiswraper does a "uname -r" to see which kernel to build > >>for (or you can bugger the Makefile to make it use the one you want). > >> > >>3. You must have the gone through at least the equivalent of "make > >>config" on the kernel source to configure it for your usage. This > >>can be done by copying the appropriate config file from /boot and > >>to the kernel source directory's ".config" file and executing "make > >>oldconfig". > >> > >>4. You can then build ndiswrapper. Don't forget to do "make install". > >>You will find the driver installed as > >> > >> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/misc/ndiswrapper.ko > >> > >>5. Now it's installed. You can follow the rest of the instructions in > >>the README/INSTALL files. > >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > >>- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > >>- - > >>- Death is nature's way of dropping carrier - > >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>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 > >> > > > > > > > -- Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Dec 8 23:43:36 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:43:36 -0800 Subject: modprobe In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41B791A8.3060202@vitalstream.com> brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > > Thanks, very interesting but I'm still running FC2 -- Well, you don't have to go through the SRPM/rpmbuild/cleanup stuff with FC2, but I built ndiswrapper 0.8 on all of the FC2 kernels with no gotchas. That was with the default 4K stacks and all. Under FC2, do the following IN THE GIVEN SEQUENCE: 1. Installed the kernel-source RPM 2. Bugger the kernel Makefile's EXTRAVERSION thing 3. Do a "make mrproper" 4. Copy the config file from /boot to /usr/src/linux/.config 5. Do a "make oldconfig" in the kernel source tree 6. Go to your ndiswrapper source directory 7. Do a "make clean;make;make install" I'll bet it works. > I did some web searching for get_user_size and saw where the > problem was ran into before and the question asked but no > response to the questions ever posted. I reasked the question in > one ndiswrapper group and haven't heard anything yet (but it was > late last night so I'm not too worried yet). I'm pretty certain you didn't do the "make oldconfig" on the kernel source tree BEFORE you built ndiswrapper. "get_user_size" is defined in the kernel source's "../include/asm/uaccess.h" file. Note that "../include/asm" is a symbolic link to the appropriate "../include/asm-(processor-type)" directory. That symlink is created at the "make [old]config" step of the kernel build process. Remember, you MUST go through AT LEAST the "make config" or "make oldconfig" step in the kernel BEFORE you build ndiswrapper. In fact, that's true of almost any kernel module--you must configure the kernel source or many of the module's dependencies won't be set properly. > On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: >> >>>I know I'm suppose to bottom post but I'm kind of starting over. >>> >>>1 - cleaned out all ndiswrapper (reversed everything). >>>2 - using UP2DATE upgraded to the newest kernel and source >>>3 - found an RPM that is suppose to fix the 4K limit >>>4 - make my symbolic link to the new kernel as instructed (I've >>>been doing reboots to make sure the latest is running) >>>5 - got up to make install and got a warning about being unable >>>to do something with variable get_user_size - being a warning I >>>took note. >>>6 - got to the mdoprobe ndiswrapper step and got an error about >>>get_user_size and there I sit. >>> >>>SUggestions? I checked the FAQ and didn't see this I will do >>>more of a search when my grandson falls asleep (need more light >>>in the room). >> >>My addled brain has lost track of this. Was this on FC3? I just built >>ndiswrapper 0.11 on my laptop running FC3 (kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3) with >>no patches (4K stacks) and it built and runs fine with my Broadcom >>BCM4306 using Windows XP drivers. >> >>The trick is, of course, getting the kernel source for FC3. You must >>download the kernel source RPM (there is no "kernel-source" RPM yet, you >>must get the SRPM from the SRPM repository). Install the SRPM via: >> >> cd /download/directory >> rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.src.rpm >> >>To make this look like one of the older "kernel-source" RPM installs, >>you have to patch the sources and create the kernel source tree. To do >>this, go to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS and run: >> >> rpmbuild --target i686 -bp kernel-2.6.spec >> >>After some crunching and chewing, the source tree is created...but not >>in the spot you expect it to be. You can move it to the classic spot >>by: >> >> cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9 >> mv linux-2.6.9 /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 >> >>Ok, now the source tree is in /usr/src. Make the appropriate symlinks >>in /usr/src: >> >> cd /usr/src >> rm -f linux linux-2.6 >> ln -s linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 linux >> ln -s linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 linux-2.6 >> >>Don't forget to edit "/usr/src/linux/Makefile" to change the >>"EXTRAVERSION=" definition to match the actual kernel version. For >>uniprocessors: >> >> EXTRAVERSION = -1.681_FC3 >> >>for SMP: >> >> EXTRAVERSION = -1.681_FC3.smp >> >>(I think that's it for SMP, "uname -r" will tell you for sure). Once >>you've got that done, you can clean up the cruft left by rpmbuild by: >> >> cd /usr/src/redhat >> rm -rf BUILD/* RPMS/* SOURCES/* SPECS/* SRPMS/* >> cd /usr/src/linux >> make mrproper >> >>Now you've got the FC3 kernel source just like the old "kernel-source" >>RPMs used to make (mmmm! tasty!). Copy the config file from /boot to >>"/usr/src/linux/.config" and do AT LEAST >> >> cd /usr/src/linux >> make oldconfig >> >>Once that's done, you've got the kernel source tree configured for your >>system. Assuming you're running that kernel (or you've buggered the >>ndiswrapper Makefile to point at this kernel source tree), you can build >>ndiswrapper. >> >>As I said, I built ndiswrapper V0.11 in just this manner and it works >>fine. Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited. Batteries not >>included. Etc., etc. >> >> >>>On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Mark Knecht wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 23:52:19 -0700 (MST), brad.mugleston at comcast.net >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>ok, I downloaded and built my own kernel package. Went through >>>>>>everything as before and got to "modprobe ndiswrapper" which >>>>>>worked this time (one more step done) Looked in the system log >>>>>>and didn't find the message about ndiswrapper being loaded. >>>>>> >>>>>>I had gotten the warning that I only had a 4k stack size and I >>>>>>may have problems - it didn't lock up or anything like it said it >>>>>>just didn't work. >>>>>> >>>>>>So I have two questions >>>>>> >>>>>>1 - any good instructions on how to get the stack size larger? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Not that I know of. I thought it might be a kernel config option but I >>>>>can't find it this morning. >>>> >>>>You must rebuild the kernel to go back to the old 8K stack size. There >>>>is no other way to do it. ndiswrapper >0.80 works fine with a 4K stack. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>>2 - I've read the install instructions a number of times and each >>>>>>time I find something else I probably need to do. It says to >>>>>>make sure I have the "Wireless Tools" installed. What are those >>>>>>and how do I tell if I have them installed. If they aren't >>>>>>installed where do I get them to install them? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Here's one link. Sorry this isn't easier on FC. It's trivial on Gentoo. >>>>> >>>>>http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html >>>> >>>>ndiswrapper is not a difficult thing to build or install. There are >>>>several prerequisites: >>>> >>>>1. You MUST have the kernel source installed for the kernel you are >>>>planning to have the driver run on. >>>> >>>>2. You must be RUNNING that kernel before you build ndiswrapper. The >>>>Makefile for ndiswraper does a "uname -r" to see which kernel to build >>>>for (or you can bugger the Makefile to make it use the one you want). >>>> >>>>3. You must have the gone through at least the equivalent of "make >>>>config" on the kernel source to configure it for your usage. This >>>>can be done by copying the appropriate config file from /boot and >>>>to the kernel source directory's ".config" file and executing "make >>>>oldconfig". >>>> >>>>4. You can then build ndiswrapper. Don't forget to do "make install". >>>>You will find the driver installed as >>>> >>>> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/misc/ndiswrapper.ko >>>> >>>>5. Now it's installed. You can follow the rest of the instructions in >>>>the README/INSTALL files. >>>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >>>>- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >>>>- - >>>>- Death is nature's way of dropping carrier - >>>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>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 - - - - Jimmie crack corn and I don't care...what kind of lousy attitude - - is THAT to have, huh? -- Dennis Miller - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gnichols at tpg.com.au Thu Dec 9 00:50:30 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:50:30 +1100 Subject: ADSL internet setup...how? References: Message-ID: <001401c4dd89$151062f0$0101a8c0@youru51ci7l8m4> Hello Broli, you haven't said what type of ADSL modem you have or how it is connected to the computer. If your modem is connected via a lan (TCP/IP) then you have to set up your connection via TCP/IP not via a modem connection. Use the network connections utility to do this. The values you will need to enter will have been supplied by your ISP. You would normally not enter an address but indicate that the address will be dynamically supplied. You will also need to enter the addresses of the DNS servers your ISP supplied. If your modem also has a router you will need to enter the address of the router into the gateway field, give your machine a private address and set up the connection to the internet using the utilities that came with your modem/router in the modem/router. The address of the modem/router is set by the manufacturer and will be shown on the documentation that came with it along with instructions on how to set it up. It looks daunting at first but it is really fairly simple. Good luck. Graeme ps. My apologies for top posting but this #@~!*^ Outlook Express.... ----- Original Message ----- From: Broli _ To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 4:04 AM Subject: ADSL internet setup...how? i tried to create an ADSL internet connection on Fedora3. I used the Internet Connection wizard provided in the KDE GUI, but i couldnt manage to do it right. please advice. Thanks -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Thu Dec 9 04:34:30 2004 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 21:34:30 -0700 (MST) Subject: modprobe In-Reply-To: <41B791A8.3060202@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: Rick, Mark THANK YOU make clean, make, make install and it's working THANK YOU AGAIN Brad On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > > > > Thanks, very interesting but I'm still running FC2 -- > > Well, you don't have to go through the SRPM/rpmbuild/cleanup stuff > with FC2, but I built ndiswrapper 0.8 on all of the FC2 kernels with > no gotchas. That was with the default 4K stacks and all. > > Under FC2, do the following IN THE GIVEN SEQUENCE: > > 1. Installed the kernel-source RPM > 2. Bugger the kernel Makefile's EXTRAVERSION thing > 3. Do a "make mrproper" > 4. Copy the config file from /boot to /usr/src/linux/.config > 5. Do a "make oldconfig" in the kernel source tree > 6. Go to your ndiswrapper source directory > 7. Do a "make clean;make;make install" > > I'll bet it works. > > > I did some web searching for get_user_size and saw where the > > problem was ran into before and the question asked but no > > response to the questions ever posted. I reasked the question in > > one ndiswrapper group and haven't heard anything yet (but it was > > late last night so I'm not too worried yet). > > I'm pretty certain you didn't do the "make oldconfig" on the kernel > source tree BEFORE you built ndiswrapper. "get_user_size" is defined in > the kernel source's "../include/asm/uaccess.h" file. Note that > "../include/asm" is a symbolic link to the appropriate > "../include/asm-(processor-type)" directory. That symlink is created > at the "make [old]config" step of the kernel build process. > > Remember, you MUST go through AT LEAST the "make config" or "make > oldconfig" step in the kernel BEFORE you build ndiswrapper. In fact, > that's true of almost any kernel module--you must configure the kernel > source or many of the module's dependencies won't be set properly. > > > On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > > >>brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > >> > >>>I know I'm suppose to bottom post but I'm kind of starting over. > >>> > >>>1 - cleaned out all ndiswrapper (reversed everything). > >>>2 - using UP2DATE upgraded to the newest kernel and source > >>>3 - found an RPM that is suppose to fix the 4K limit > >>>4 - make my symbolic link to the new kernel as instructed (I've > >>>been doing reboots to make sure the latest is running) > >>>5 - got up to make install and got a warning about being unable > >>>to do something with variable get_user_size - being a warning I > >>>took note. > >>>6 - got to the mdoprobe ndiswrapper step and got an error about > >>>get_user_size and there I sit. > >>> > >>>SUggestions? I checked the FAQ and didn't see this I will do > >>>more of a search when my grandson falls asleep (need more light > >>>in the room). > >> > >>My addled brain has lost track of this. Was this on FC3? I just built > >>ndiswrapper 0.11 on my laptop running FC3 (kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3) with > >>no patches (4K stacks) and it built and runs fine with my Broadcom > >>BCM4306 using Windows XP drivers. > >> > >>The trick is, of course, getting the kernel source for FC3. You must > >>download the kernel source RPM (there is no "kernel-source" RPM yet, you > >>must get the SRPM from the SRPM repository). Install the SRPM via: > >> > >> cd /download/directory > >> rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.src.rpm > >> > >>To make this look like one of the older "kernel-source" RPM installs, > >>you have to patch the sources and create the kernel source tree. To do > >>this, go to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS and run: > >> > >> rpmbuild --target i686 -bp kernel-2.6.spec > >> > >>After some crunching and chewing, the source tree is created...but not > >>in the spot you expect it to be. You can move it to the classic spot > >>by: > >> > >> cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9 > >> mv linux-2.6.9 /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 > >> > >>Ok, now the source tree is in /usr/src. Make the appropriate symlinks > >>in /usr/src: > >> > >> cd /usr/src > >> rm -f linux linux-2.6 > >> ln -s linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 linux > >> ln -s linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 linux-2.6 > >> > >>Don't forget to edit "/usr/src/linux/Makefile" to change the > >>"EXTRAVERSION=" definition to match the actual kernel version. For > >>uniprocessors: > >> > >> EXTRAVERSION = -1.681_FC3 > >> > >>for SMP: > >> > >> EXTRAVERSION = -1.681_FC3.smp > >> > >>(I think that's it for SMP, "uname -r" will tell you for sure). Once > >>you've got that done, you can clean up the cruft left by rpmbuild by: > >> > >> cd /usr/src/redhat > >> rm -rf BUILD/* RPMS/* SOURCES/* SPECS/* SRPMS/* > >> cd /usr/src/linux > >> make mrproper > >> > >>Now you've got the FC3 kernel source just like the old "kernel-source" > >>RPMs used to make (mmmm! tasty!). Copy the config file from /boot to > >>"/usr/src/linux/.config" and do AT LEAST > >> > >> cd /usr/src/linux > >> make oldconfig > >> > >>Once that's done, you've got the kernel source tree configured for your > >>system. Assuming you're running that kernel (or you've buggered the > >>ndiswrapper Makefile to point at this kernel source tree), you can build > >>ndiswrapper. > >> > >>As I said, I built ndiswrapper V0.11 in just this manner and it works > >>fine. Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited. Batteries not > >>included. Etc., etc. > >> > >> > >>>On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Mark Knecht wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 23:52:19 -0700 (MST), brad.mugleston at comcast.net > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>>ok, I downloaded and built my own kernel package. Went through > >>>>>>everything as before and got to "modprobe ndiswrapper" which > >>>>>>worked this time (one more step done) Looked in the system log > >>>>>>and didn't find the message about ndiswrapper being loaded. > >>>>>> > >>>>>>I had gotten the warning that I only had a 4k stack size and I > >>>>>>may have problems - it didn't lock up or anything like it said it > >>>>>>just didn't work. > >>>>>> > >>>>>>So I have two questions > >>>>>> > >>>>>>1 - any good instructions on how to get the stack size larger? > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>Not that I know of. I thought it might be a kernel config option but I > >>>>>can't find it this morning. > >>>> > >>>>You must rebuild the kernel to go back to the old 8K stack size. There > >>>>is no other way to do it. ndiswrapper >0.80 works fine with a 4K stack. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>>2 - I've read the install instructions a number of times and each > >>>>>>time I find something else I probably need to do. It says to > >>>>>>make sure I have the "Wireless Tools" installed. What are those > >>>>>>and how do I tell if I have them installed. If they aren't > >>>>>>installed where do I get them to install them? > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>Here's one link. Sorry this isn't easier on FC. It's trivial on Gentoo. > >>>>> > >>>>>http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html > >>>> > >>>>ndiswrapper is not a difficult thing to build or install. There are > >>>>several prerequisites: > >>>> > >>>>1. You MUST have the kernel source installed for the kernel you are > >>>>planning to have the driver run on. > >>>> > >>>>2. You must be RUNNING that kernel before you build ndiswrapper. The > >>>>Makefile for ndiswraper does a "uname -r" to see which kernel to build > >>>>for (or you can bugger the Makefile to make it use the one you want). > >>>> > >>>>3. You must have the gone through at least the equivalent of "make > >>>>config" on the kernel source to configure it for your usage. This > >>>>can be done by copying the appropriate config file from /boot and > >>>>to the kernel source directory's ".config" file and executing "make > >>>>oldconfig". > >>>> > >>>>4. You can then build ndiswrapper. Don't forget to do "make install". > >>>>You will find the driver installed as > >>>> > >>>> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/misc/ndiswrapper.ko > >>>> > >>>>5. Now it's installed. You can follow the rest of the instructions in > >>>>the README/INSTALL files. > >>>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > >>>>- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > >>>>- - > >>>>- Death is nature's way of dropping carrier - > >>>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>> > >>>>_______________________________________________ > >>>>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 > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > > > -- Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. From harold at hallikainen.com Thu Dec 9 15:58:19 2004 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 07:58:19 -0800 (PST) Subject: CVS on RH8? Message-ID: <43446.207.177.227.29.1102607899.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> I'm trying to learn a bit about CVS. I have it installed on my RH8 box (I believe it came with the distribution). So far I've found a doc page at redhat that I was able to use to create CVSROOT. Can anyone point me to tutorial info on setting up and using CVS? THANKS! Harold -- FCC Rules Online at http://www.hallikainen.com From Michael.Horton at acntv.com Thu Dec 9 16:06:55 2004 From: Michael.Horton at acntv.com (Michael Horton) Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 11:06:55 -0500 Subject: CVS on RH8? In-Reply-To: <43446.207.177.227.29.1102607899.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> References: <43446.207.177.227.29.1102607899.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <41B8781F.7060304@acntv.com> www.ora.com -- a good book for cvs www.gnu.org -- home site for cvs google is your friend! Harold Hallikainen wrote: > I'm trying to learn a bit about CVS. I have it installed on my RH8 box (I > believe it came with the distribution). So far I've found a doc page at > redhat that I was able to use to create CVSROOT. Can anyone point me to > tutorial info on setting up and using CVS? > > THANKS! > > Harold > This message originates from Jewelry Television (TM) . The message and any file transmitted with it is intended to be privileged and confidential. It is intended only for the addressee named above. Any disclosure, distribution, copying or use of the information by anyone other than the intended recipient, regardless of address or routing, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender by immediate reply and delete the original message. Personal messages express views solely of the sender and are not attributable to Jewelry Television (TM). From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Thu Dec 9 16:12:14 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:12:14 -0600 Subject: CVS on RH8? In-Reply-To: <43446.207.177.227.29.1102607899.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> References: <43446.207.177.227.29.1102607899.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <20041209161214.GA11289@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 07:58:19AM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > I'm trying to learn a bit about CVS. I have it installed on my RH8 box (I > believe it came with the distribution). So far I've found a doc page at > redhat that I was able to use to create CVSROOT. Can anyone point me to > tutorial info on setting up and using CVS? That and more here: https://www.cvshome.org/docs/ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cvs-tutorial.xml http://www.linux.ie/articles/tutorials/cvs.php http://www.devguy.com/fp/cfgmgmt/cvs/ http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~mstrout/cvsnote.html > THANKS! > > Harold Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Grace happens. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Dec 9 16:37:06 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 08:37:06 -0800 Subject: modprobe In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41B87F32.4070307@vitalstream.com> brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > Rick, Mark THANK YOU > > make clean, make, make install and it's working Tah DAH! Whoop! Whoop! Yea, Team! (sorry, got carried away) > THANK YOU AGAIN No problem, kemosabe. > On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: >> >>>Thanks, very interesting but I'm still running FC2 -- >> >>Well, you don't have to go through the SRPM/rpmbuild/cleanup stuff >>with FC2, but I built ndiswrapper 0.8 on all of the FC2 kernels with >>no gotchas. That was with the default 4K stacks and all. >> >>Under FC2, do the following IN THE GIVEN SEQUENCE: >> >>1. Installed the kernel-source RPM >>2. Bugger the kernel Makefile's EXTRAVERSION thing >>3. Do a "make mrproper" >>4. Copy the config file from /boot to /usr/src/linux/.config >>5. Do a "make oldconfig" in the kernel source tree >>6. Go to your ndiswrapper source directory >>7. Do a "make clean;make;make install" >> >>I'll bet it works. >> >> >>>I did some web searching for get_user_size and saw where the >>>problem was ran into before and the question asked but no >>>response to the questions ever posted. I reasked the question in >>>one ndiswrapper group and haven't heard anything yet (but it was >>>late last night so I'm not too worried yet). >> >>I'm pretty certain you didn't do the "make oldconfig" on the kernel >>source tree BEFORE you built ndiswrapper. "get_user_size" is defined in >>the kernel source's "../include/asm/uaccess.h" file. Note that >>"../include/asm" is a symbolic link to the appropriate >>"../include/asm-(processor-type)" directory. That symlink is created >>at the "make [old]config" step of the kernel build process. >> >>Remember, you MUST go through AT LEAST the "make config" or "make >>oldconfig" step in the kernel BEFORE you build ndiswrapper. In fact, >>that's true of almost any kernel module--you must configure the kernel >>source or many of the module's dependencies won't be set properly. >> >> >>>On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>I know I'm suppose to bottom post but I'm kind of starting over. >>>>> >>>>>1 - cleaned out all ndiswrapper (reversed everything). >>>>>2 - using UP2DATE upgraded to the newest kernel and source >>>>>3 - found an RPM that is suppose to fix the 4K limit >>>>>4 - make my symbolic link to the new kernel as instructed (I've >>>>>been doing reboots to make sure the latest is running) >>>>>5 - got up to make install and got a warning about being unable >>>>>to do something with variable get_user_size - being a warning I >>>>>took note. >>>>>6 - got to the mdoprobe ndiswrapper step and got an error about >>>>>get_user_size and there I sit. >>>>> >>>>>SUggestions? I checked the FAQ and didn't see this I will do >>>>>more of a search when my grandson falls asleep (need more light >>>>>in the room). >>>> >>>>My addled brain has lost track of this. Was this on FC3? I just built >>>>ndiswrapper 0.11 on my laptop running FC3 (kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3) with >>>>no patches (4K stacks) and it built and runs fine with my Broadcom >>>>BCM4306 using Windows XP drivers. >>>> >>>>The trick is, of course, getting the kernel source for FC3. You must >>>>download the kernel source RPM (there is no "kernel-source" RPM yet, you >>>>must get the SRPM from the SRPM repository). Install the SRPM via: >>>> >>>> cd /download/directory >>>> rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.src.rpm >>>> >>>>To make this look like one of the older "kernel-source" RPM installs, >>>>you have to patch the sources and create the kernel source tree. To do >>>>this, go to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS and run: >>>> >>>> rpmbuild --target i686 -bp kernel-2.6.spec >>>> >>>>After some crunching and chewing, the source tree is created...but not >>>>in the spot you expect it to be. You can move it to the classic spot >>>>by: >>>> >>>> cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9 >>>> mv linux-2.6.9 /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 >>>> >>>>Ok, now the source tree is in /usr/src. Make the appropriate symlinks >>>>in /usr/src: >>>> >>>> cd /usr/src >>>> rm -f linux linux-2.6 >>>> ln -s linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 linux >>>> ln -s linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 linux-2.6 >>>> >>>>Don't forget to edit "/usr/src/linux/Makefile" to change the >>>>"EXTRAVERSION=" definition to match the actual kernel version. For >>>>uniprocessors: >>>> >>>> EXTRAVERSION = -1.681_FC3 >>>> >>>>for SMP: >>>> >>>> EXTRAVERSION = -1.681_FC3.smp >>>> >>>>(I think that's it for SMP, "uname -r" will tell you for sure). Once >>>>you've got that done, you can clean up the cruft left by rpmbuild by: >>>> >>>> cd /usr/src/redhat >>>> rm -rf BUILD/* RPMS/* SOURCES/* SPECS/* SRPMS/* >>>> cd /usr/src/linux >>>> make mrproper >>>> >>>>Now you've got the FC3 kernel source just like the old "kernel-source" >>>>RPMs used to make (mmmm! tasty!). Copy the config file from /boot to >>>>"/usr/src/linux/.config" and do AT LEAST >>>> >>>> cd /usr/src/linux >>>> make oldconfig >>>> >>>>Once that's done, you've got the kernel source tree configured for your >>>>system. Assuming you're running that kernel (or you've buggered the >>>>ndiswrapper Makefile to point at this kernel source tree), you can build >>>>ndiswrapper. >>>> >>>>As I said, I built ndiswrapper V0.11 in just this manner and it works >>>>fine. Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited. Batteries not >>>>included. Etc., etc. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>Mark Knecht wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 23:52:19 -0700 (MST), brad.mugleston at comcast.net >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>ok, I downloaded and built my own kernel package. Went through >>>>>>>>everything as before and got to "modprobe ndiswrapper" which >>>>>>>>worked this time (one more step done) Looked in the system log >>>>>>>>and didn't find the message about ndiswrapper being loaded. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>I had gotten the warning that I only had a 4k stack size and I >>>>>>>>may have problems - it didn't lock up or anything like it said it >>>>>>>>just didn't work. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>So I have two questions >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>1 - any good instructions on how to get the stack size larger? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Not that I know of. I thought it might be a kernel config option but I >>>>>>>can't find it this morning. >>>>>> >>>>>>You must rebuild the kernel to go back to the old 8K stack size. There >>>>>>is no other way to do it. ndiswrapper >0.80 works fine with a 4K stack. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>>2 - I've read the install instructions a number of times and each >>>>>>>>time I find something else I probably need to do. It says to >>>>>>>>make sure I have the "Wireless Tools" installed. What are those >>>>>>>>and how do I tell if I have them installed. If they aren't >>>>>>>>installed where do I get them to install them? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Here's one link. Sorry this isn't easier on FC. It's trivial on Gentoo. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html >>>>>> >>>>>>ndiswrapper is not a difficult thing to build or install. There are >>>>>>several prerequisites: >>>>>> >>>>>>1. You MUST have the kernel source installed for the kernel you are >>>>>>planning to have the driver run on. >>>>>> >>>>>>2. You must be RUNNING that kernel before you build ndiswrapper. The >>>>>>Makefile for ndiswraper does a "uname -r" to see which kernel to build >>>>>>for (or you can bugger the Makefile to make it use the one you want). >>>>>> >>>>>>3. You must have the gone through at least the equivalent of "make >>>>>>config" on the kernel source to configure it for your usage. This >>>>>>can be done by copying the appropriate config file from /boot and >>>>>>to the kernel source directory's ".config" file and executing "make >>>>>>oldconfig". >>>>>> >>>>>>4. You can then build ndiswrapper. Don't forget to do "make install". >>>>>>You will find the driver installed as >>>>>> >>>>>> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/misc/ndiswrapper.ko >>>>>> >>>>>>5. Now it's installed. You can follow the rest of the instructions in >>>>>>the README/INSTALL files. >>>>>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >>>>>>- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >>>>>>- - >>>>>>- Death is nature's way of dropping carrier - >>>>>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> >>>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>>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 - - - - Do not taunt the sysadmins, for they are subtle and quick to anger - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From markknecht at gmail.com Thu Dec 9 19:56:33 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:56:33 -0800 Subject: FC2 - Samba setup Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b04120911566a87514b@mail.gmail.com> Hi, I got my son a new GQ/Linspire computer yesterday at Frys. $199. Fan is noisy and not much memory, but boy this is a lot of technology for $199. I booted it with Linspire but it's far too commercial for my tastes so I've installed FC2 which is now up and running. One nice thing I saw in Linspire was a little app that I could put in windows workgroup info and immediately the machine say my wife's Win XP box. I'm having trouble finding this under FC2 using with Gnome or KDE which are both on the box. What was I seeing and using to do this? The app just asked me what the workgroup name was and after than everything worked. If I need an RPM then where do I go these days to get FC2 RPMs? Basically I want to add a printer on this new FC2 box and have that visible to my wife in the other room, and also to let the two of them share files between their computers. Thanks in advance, Mark From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Thu Dec 9 20:41:38 2004 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 13:41:38 -0700 (MST) Subject: modprobe In-Reply-To: <41B87F32.4070307@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: Now I"m having some fun. Would like some more tools - like something to let me know if there are open hubs available while I'm out and about - I know the starbucks near work has one. I think I found one (APRadar) but it's RPM says I'm missing a lot of things and the source says I need GTKAM. What is that and why don't I have it? Im running FC2 and Gnome. I'm also looking for something that lets me know what kind of speed I'm getting - I installed wmifinfo but it tells me everything except what I want to know. Thanks again for all the help. Brad On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > > Rick, Mark THANK YOU > > > > make clean, make, make install and it's working > > Tah DAH! Whoop! Whoop! Yea, Team! (sorry, got carried away) > > > THANK YOU AGAIN > > No problem, kemosabe. > > > On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > > >>brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > >> > >>>Thanks, very interesting but I'm still running FC2 -- > >> > >>Well, you don't have to go through the SRPM/rpmbuild/cleanup stuff > >>with FC2, but I built ndiswrapper 0.8 on all of the FC2 kernels with > >>no gotchas. That was with the default 4K stacks and all. > >> > >>Under FC2, do the following IN THE GIVEN SEQUENCE: > >> > >>1. Installed the kernel-source RPM > >>2. Bugger the kernel Makefile's EXTRAVERSION thing > >>3. Do a "make mrproper" > >>4. Copy the config file from /boot to /usr/src/linux/.config > >>5. Do a "make oldconfig" in the kernel source tree > >>6. Go to your ndiswrapper source directory > >>7. Do a "make clean;make;make install" > >> > >>I'll bet it works. > >> > >> > >>>I did some web searching for get_user_size and saw where the > >>>problem was ran into before and the question asked but no > >>>response to the questions ever posted. I reasked the question in > >>>one ndiswrapper group and haven't heard anything yet (but it was > >>>late last night so I'm not too worried yet). > >> > >>I'm pretty certain you didn't do the "make oldconfig" on the kernel > >>source tree BEFORE you built ndiswrapper. "get_user_size" is defined in > >>the kernel source's "../include/asm/uaccess.h" file. Note that > >>"../include/asm" is a symbolic link to the appropriate > >>"../include/asm-(processor-type)" directory. That symlink is created > >>at the "make [old]config" step of the kernel build process. > >> > >>Remember, you MUST go through AT LEAST the "make config" or "make > >>oldconfig" step in the kernel BEFORE you build ndiswrapper. In fact, > >>that's true of almost any kernel module--you must configure the kernel > >>source or many of the module's dependencies won't be set properly. > >> > >> > >>>On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>I know I'm suppose to bottom post but I'm kind of starting over. > >>>>> > >>>>>1 - cleaned out all ndiswrapper (reversed everything). > >>>>>2 - using UP2DATE upgraded to the newest kernel and source > >>>>>3 - found an RPM that is suppose to fix the 4K limit > >>>>>4 - make my symbolic link to the new kernel as instructed (I've > >>>>>been doing reboots to make sure the latest is running) > >>>>>5 - got up to make install and got a warning about being unable > >>>>>to do something with variable get_user_size - being a warning I > >>>>>took note. > >>>>>6 - got to the mdoprobe ndiswrapper step and got an error about > >>>>>get_user_size and there I sit. > >>>>> > >>>>>SUggestions? I checked the FAQ and didn't see this I will do > >>>>>more of a search when my grandson falls asleep (need more light > >>>>>in the room). > >>>> > >>>>My addled brain has lost track of this. Was this on FC3? I just built > >>>>ndiswrapper 0.11 on my laptop running FC3 (kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3) with > >>>>no patches (4K stacks) and it built and runs fine with my Broadcom > >>>>BCM4306 using Windows XP drivers. > >>>> > >>>>The trick is, of course, getting the kernel source for FC3. You must > >>>>download the kernel source RPM (there is no "kernel-source" RPM yet, you > >>>>must get the SRPM from the SRPM repository). Install the SRPM via: > >>>> > >>>> cd /download/directory > >>>> rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.src.rpm > >>>> > >>>>To make this look like one of the older "kernel-source" RPM installs, > >>>>you have to patch the sources and create the kernel source tree. To do > >>>>this, go to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS and run: > >>>> > >>>> rpmbuild --target i686 -bp kernel-2.6.spec > >>>> > >>>>After some crunching and chewing, the source tree is created...but not > >>>>in the spot you expect it to be. You can move it to the classic spot > >>>>by: > >>>> > >>>> cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9 > >>>> mv linux-2.6.9 /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 > >>>> > >>>>Ok, now the source tree is in /usr/src. Make the appropriate symlinks > >>>>in /usr/src: > >>>> > >>>> cd /usr/src > >>>> rm -f linux linux-2.6 > >>>> ln -s linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 linux > >>>> ln -s linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 linux-2.6 > >>>> > >>>>Don't forget to edit "/usr/src/linux/Makefile" to change the > >>>>"EXTRAVERSION=" definition to match the actual kernel version. For > >>>>uniprocessors: > >>>> > >>>> EXTRAVERSION = -1.681_FC3 > >>>> > >>>>for SMP: > >>>> > >>>> EXTRAVERSION = -1.681_FC3.smp > >>>> > >>>>(I think that's it for SMP, "uname -r" will tell you for sure). Once > >>>>you've got that done, you can clean up the cruft left by rpmbuild by: > >>>> > >>>> cd /usr/src/redhat > >>>> rm -rf BUILD/* RPMS/* SOURCES/* SPECS/* SRPMS/* > >>>> cd /usr/src/linux > >>>> make mrproper > >>>> > >>>>Now you've got the FC3 kernel source just like the old "kernel-source" > >>>>RPMs used to make (mmmm! tasty!). Copy the config file from /boot to > >>>>"/usr/src/linux/.config" and do AT LEAST > >>>> > >>>> cd /usr/src/linux > >>>> make oldconfig > >>>> > >>>>Once that's done, you've got the kernel source tree configured for your > >>>>system. Assuming you're running that kernel (or you've buggered the > >>>>ndiswrapper Makefile to point at this kernel source tree), you can build > >>>>ndiswrapper. > >>>> > >>>>As I said, I built ndiswrapper V0.11 in just this manner and it works > >>>>fine. Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited. Batteries not > >>>>included. Etc., etc. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>>Mark Knecht wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>>>On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 23:52:19 -0700 (MST), brad.mugleston at comcast.net > >>>>>>> wrote: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>ok, I downloaded and built my own kernel package. Went through > >>>>>>>>everything as before and got to "modprobe ndiswrapper" which > >>>>>>>>worked this time (one more step done) Looked in the system log > >>>>>>>>and didn't find the message about ndiswrapper being loaded. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>I had gotten the warning that I only had a 4k stack size and I > >>>>>>>>may have problems - it didn't lock up or anything like it said it > >>>>>>>>just didn't work. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>So I have two questions > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>1 - any good instructions on how to get the stack size larger? > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>Not that I know of. I thought it might be a kernel config option but I > >>>>>>>can't find it this morning. > >>>>>> > >>>>>>You must rebuild the kernel to go back to the old 8K stack size. There > >>>>>>is no other way to do it. ndiswrapper >0.80 works fine with a 4K stack. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>>>>2 - I've read the install instructions a number of times and each > >>>>>>>>time I find something else I probably need to do. It says to > >>>>>>>>make sure I have the "Wireless Tools" installed. What are those > >>>>>>>>and how do I tell if I have them installed. If they aren't > >>>>>>>>installed where do I get them to install them? > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>Here's one link. Sorry this isn't easier on FC. It's trivial on Gentoo. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html > >>>>>> > >>>>>>ndiswrapper is not a difficult thing to build or install. There are > >>>>>>several prerequisites: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>1. You MUST have the kernel source installed for the kernel you are > >>>>>>planning to have the driver run on. > >>>>>> > >>>>>>2. You must be RUNNING that kernel before you build ndiswrapper. The > >>>>>>Makefile for ndiswraper does a "uname -r" to see which kernel to build > >>>>>>for (or you can bugger the Makefile to make it use the one you want). > >>>>>> > >>>>>>3. You must have the gone through at least the equivalent of "make > >>>>>>config" on the kernel source to configure it for your usage. This > >>>>>>can be done by copying the appropriate config file from /boot and > >>>>>>to the kernel source directory's ".config" file and executing "make > >>>>>>oldconfig". > >>>>>> > >>>>>>4. You can then build ndiswrapper. Don't forget to do "make install". > >>>>>>You will find the driver installed as > >>>>>> > >>>>>> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/misc/ndiswrapper.ko > >>>>>> > >>>>>>5. Now it's installed. You can follow the rest of the instructions in > >>>>>>the README/INSTALL files. > >>>>>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>>>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > >>>>>>- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > >>>>>>- - > >>>>>>- Death is nature's way of dropping carrier - > >>>>>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>>> > >>>>>>_______________________________________________ > >>>>>>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 > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >> > >> > > > > > -- Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. From goijiud at hotmail.com Thu Dec 9 22:14:17 2004 From: goijiud at hotmail.com (GoijI P) Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:14:17 -0500 Subject: question: copy command Message-ID: please, what's best and least risky command to copy contents of directory /dir to /Mydir?. _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ From markknecht at gmail.com Thu Dec 9 22:19:08 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:19:08 -0800 Subject: question: copy command In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b04120914193dd41ce5@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:14:17 -0500, GoijI P wrote: > please, what's best and least risky command to copy contents of directory > /dir to /Mydir?. > I don't know if it's either best or least risky, but cp -R /dir /Mydir should work. From ottohaliburton at comcast.net Thu Dec 9 22:19:24 2004 From: ottohaliburton at comcast.net (Otto Haliburton) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 16:19:24 -0600 Subject: FC2 - Samba setup In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b04120911566a87514b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <001f01c4de3d$26e80e10$4601a8c0@C515816A> > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list- > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht > Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 1:57 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: FC2 - Samba setup > > Hi, > I got my son a new GQ/Linspire computer yesterday at Frys. $199. > Fan is noisy and not much memory, but boy this is a lot of technology > for $199. > > I booted it with Linspire but it's far too commercial for my tastes > so I've installed FC2 which is now up and running. One nice thing I > saw in Linspire was a little app that I could put in windows workgroup > info and immediately the machine say my wife's Win XP box. I'm having > trouble finding this under FC2 using with Gnome or KDE which are both > on the box. > > What was I seeing and using to do this? The app just asked me what > the workgroup name was and after than everything worked. > > If I need an RPM then where do I go these days to get FC2 RPMs? > > Basically I want to add a printer on this new FC2 box and have that > visible to my wife in the other room, and also to let the two of them > share files between their computers. > > Thanks in advance, > Mark > > _______________________________________________ Hi Mark, I know how you relish in getting things to work and so I kinda don't want to make this suggestion but you are a fellow Fry's shopper and you can get a print server really cheap at Fry's and if you don't want to spend a lot of time getting Samba to work then this is the way to go. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Dec 9 22:22:10 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:22:10 -0800 Subject: question: copy command In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b04120914193dd41ce5@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b04120914193dd41ce5@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <41B8D012.5090903@vitalstream.com> Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:14:17 -0500, GoijI P wrote: > >>please, what's best and least risky command to copy contents of directory >>/dir to /Mydir?. >> > > > I don't know if it's either best or least risky, but > > cp -R /dir /Mydir or "cp -a /dir /Mydir" (preserves ownership and such) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 gerrynix at yahoo.com Thu Dec 9 22:26:06 2004 From: gerrynix at yahoo.com (gerrynix) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:26:06 -0800 (PST) Subject: question: copy command In-Reply-To: <41B8D012.5090903@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20041209222606.82496.qmail@web51902.mail.yahoo.com> --- Rick Stevens wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:14:17 -0500, GoijI P > wrote: > > > >>please, what's best and least risky command to copy contents of > directory > >>/dir to /Mydir?. > >> > > > > > > I don't know if it's either best or least risky, but > > > > cp -R /dir /Mydir > > or "cp -a /dir /Mydir" (preserves ownership and such) or Assuming /Mydir exists and has no conflicting data: cd /dir find . -print | cpio -pvdm /Mydir > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - 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! > - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > 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 markknecht at gmail.com Thu Dec 9 22:26:54 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:26:54 -0800 Subject: FC2 - Samba setup In-Reply-To: <001f01c4de3d$26e80e10$4601a8c0@C515816A> References: <5bdc1c8b04120911566a87514b@mail.gmail.com> <001f01c4de3d$26e80e10$4601a8c0@C515816A> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b04120914265029386a@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 16:19:24 -0600, Otto Haliburton wrote: > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list- > > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht > > Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 1:57 PM > > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > Subject: FC2 - Samba setup > > > > Hi, > > I got my son a new GQ/Linspire computer yesterday at Frys. $199. > > Fan is noisy and not much memory, but boy this is a lot of technology > > for $199. > > > > I booted it with Linspire but it's far too commercial for my tastes > > so I've installed FC2 which is now up and running. One nice thing I > > saw in Linspire was a little app that I could put in windows workgroup > > info and immediately the machine say my wife's Win XP box. I'm having > > trouble finding this under FC2 using with Gnome or KDE which are both > > on the box. > > > > What was I seeing and using to do this? The app just asked me what > > the workgroup name was and after than everything worked. > > > > If I need an RPM then where do I go these days to get FC2 RPMs? > > > > Basically I want to add a printer on this new FC2 box and have that > > visible to my wife in the other room, and also to let the two of them > > share files between their computers. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Mark > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Hi Mark, > I know how you relish in getting things to work and so I kinda don't > want to make this suggestion but you are a fellow Fry's shopper and you can > get a print server really cheap at Fry's and if you don't want to spend a > lot of time getting Samba to work then this is the way to go. > > Otto, You know me so well! Unfortunately I lost my job 3 weeks ago so I have less money and more time. I think learning Samba is probably the right thing for me to do. I'll certainly need that for the printer part. I found it moderately impressive that the Linspire installation came with Samba set up well enough that all I had to do was enter the workgroup name and all the machines were happy. I'm hoping that this is mostly KDE/Gnome and not really necessary to become a Samba expert, but probably I'm wrong. So... 1) What's the name of the Samba setup environment? (Webmin maybe?) 2) Where can I get an RPM for FC2 of whatever the environment is? Thanks, Mark From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Thu Dec 9 22:30:34 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 16:30:34 -0600 Subject: question: copy command In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20041209223034.GA14937@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 05:14:17PM -0500, GoijI P wrote: > please, what's best and least risky command to copy contents of directory > /dir to /Mydir?. This assumes you want a recursive copy. mkdir /Mydir # if it doesn't exist already cd /dir find . -depth -mount | cpio -pdmv /Mydir That will not overwrite any files of the same name in /Mydir if their timestamps are newer than the corresponding files in /dir. If you want to force it, add the "u" (unconditional overwrite) option to the cpio command. If executed as root, ownership of the copied files in /Mydir will be the same as they were in /dir. If executed as your mere mortal self, the new files in /Mydir will be owned by you. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Grace happens. From gerrynix at yahoo.com Thu Dec 9 22:31:44 2004 From: gerrynix at yahoo.com (gerrynix) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:31:44 -0800 (PST) Subject: FC2 - Samba setup In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b04120914265029386a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20041209223144.97541.qmail@web51903.mail.yahoo.com> --- Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 16:19:24 -0600, Otto Haliburton > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list- > > > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht > > > Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 1:57 PM > > > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > > Subject: FC2 - Samba setup > > > > > > Hi, > > > I got my son a new GQ/Linspire computer yesterday at Frys. > $199. > > > Fan is noisy and not much memory, but boy this is a lot of > technology > > > for $199. > > > > > > I booted it with Linspire but it's far too commercial for my > tastes > > > so I've installed FC2 which is now up and running. One nice > thing I > > > saw in Linspire was a little app that I could put in windows > workgroup > > > info and immediately the machine say my wife's Win XP box. I'm > having > > > trouble finding this under FC2 using with Gnome or KDE which > are both > > > on the box. > > > > > > What was I seeing and using to do this? The app just asked > me what > > > the workgroup name was and after than everything worked. > > > > > > If I need an RPM then where do I go these days to get FC2 > RPMs? > > > > > > Basically I want to add a printer on this new FC2 box and > have that > > > visible to my wife in the other room, and also to let the two > of them > > > share files between their computers. > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Mark > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Hi Mark, > > I know how you relish in getting things to work and so I > kinda don't > > want to make this suggestion but you are a fellow Fry's shopper > and you can > > get a print server really cheap at Fry's and if you don't want to > spend a > > lot of time getting Samba to work then this is the way to go. > > > > > > Otto, > You know me so well! > > Unfortunately I lost my job 3 weeks ago so I have less money and > more time. I think learning Samba is probably the right thing for > me > to do. I'll certainly need that for the printer part. > > I found it moderately impressive that the Linspire installation > came with Samba set up well enough that all I had to do was enter > the > workgroup name and all the machines were happy. I'm hoping that > this > is mostly KDE/Gnome and not really necessary to become a Samba > expert, > but probably I'm wrong. > > So... > > 1) What's the name of the Samba setup environment? (Webmin maybe?) > > 2) Where can I get an RPM for FC2 of whatever the environment is? > > Thanks, > Mark SWAT is the native graphical interface for samba although I believe webmin may have some functionality. Would be surprised that samba.org would be a good place to look. -- Nix > > _______________________________________________ > 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 tyche at ica.net Thu Dec 9 23:37:46 2004 From: tyche at ica.net (tyche) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:37:46 -0500 Subject: advise for pcmcia network cards Message-ID: <200412091837.46841.tyche@ica.net> got a laptop that doesnt have a nic in it, need to purchase a nic, and wondering if there are any that work well with linux and any that dont work well tia tyche From mgalgoci at redhat.com Thu Dec 9 23:48:49 2004 From: mgalgoci at redhat.com (Matthew Galgoci) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:48:49 -0500 Subject: advise for pcmcia network cards In-Reply-To: <200412091837.46841.tyche@ica.net> References: <200412091837.46841.tyche@ica.net> Message-ID: > got a laptop that doesnt have a nic in it, need to purchase a nic, and > wondering if there are any that work well with linux and any that dont work > well Most pcmcia nics just work these days. Buy a cheap one and try it, but keep the recipt in case you have to exchange it for a different one. I can't personally see myself spending more than $30 on a pcmcia nic. -- Matthew Galgoci System Administrator Red Hat, Inc 919.754.3700 x44155 From kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr Fri Dec 10 00:03:42 2004 From: kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr (Kostas Sfakiotakis) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 02:03:42 +0200 Subject: FC2 - Samba setup In-Reply-To: <20041209223144.97541.qmail@web51903.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041209223144.97541.qmail@web51903.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <41B8E7DE.9010202@cha.forthnet.gr> Greetings Mark , gerrynix wrote: > --- Mark Knecht wrote: >> So... >> >>1) What's the name of the Samba setup environment? (Webmin maybe?) You can use Webmin if you wish , the other choice is SWAT . >>2) Where can I get an RPM for FC2 of whatever the environment is? Within the FC2 cds you have all the rpms you need in order to run samba . Take a look bellow : [root at Magellan root]# rpm -qa | grep samba* samba-client-3.0.5-2.FC1.1 redhat-config-samba-1.1.4-1 samba-3.0.5-2.FC1.1 samba-common-3.0.5-2.FC1.1 samba-swat-3.0.5-2.FC1.1 Mark ( The problem is that Rick Stevens was my original Master and i can't really replicate him ) , basically all you need to do is launch SWAT . In order to achieve this just check your /etc/services file for a line like the one bellow : swat 901/tcp # Samba Web Administration Tool Then in /etc/xinetd.d/swat , just make sure that there is a line that says disable = no . Then after your restart xinetd , all you have to do is #service swat start. Then swat should be accesible using your browser and giving the URL : localhost : 901 If everything has gone well then you must have swat running . All you need now , is English and it is certain that you speak English . One last thing , is that it might be usefull if you have common accounts between Windows and Linux . All i mean is an account in Windows with the username "Mark" and an account in Linux with the same username . Samba is offering printer sharing , so you will not have problems with that either . > > > SWAT is the native graphical interface for samba although I believe > webmin may have some functionality. Would be surprised that > samba.org would be a good place to look. :)) Well indeed it is . From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Dec 10 00:32:06 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 16:32:06 -0800 Subject: advise for pcmcia network cards In-Reply-To: References: <200412091837.46841.tyche@ica.net> Message-ID: <41B8EE86.8050407@vitalstream.com> Matthew Galgoci wrote: >>got a laptop that doesnt have a nic in it, need to purchase a nic, and >>wondering if there are any that work well with linux and any that dont work >>well > > > Most pcmcia nics just work these days. Buy a cheap one and try it, but keep the > recipt in case you have to exchange it for a different one. I can't personally > see myself spending more than $30 on a pcmcia nic. If you're talking about wired NICs, yes, that's true, most work. If you're talking wireless, try to get one that's based on the Atmel, prism, orinoco or wavelan chipsets. By use of ndiswrapper, most others will work provided you can grab the Windows XP/2K ".inf" and ".sys" files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... - - ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From markknecht at gmail.com Fri Dec 10 01:18:09 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 17:18:09 -0800 Subject: FC2 - Samba setup In-Reply-To: <41B8E7DE.9010202@cha.forthnet.gr> References: <20041209223144.97541.qmail@web51903.mail.yahoo.com> <41B8E7DE.9010202@cha.forthnet.gr> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b041209171858456ad5@mail.gmail.com> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 02:03:42 +0200, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > Greetings Mark , > > [root at Magellan root]# rpm -qa | grep samba* > samba-client-3.0.5-2.FC1.1 > redhat-config-samba-1.1.4-1 > samba-3.0.5-2.FC1.1 > samba-common-3.0.5-2.FC1.1 > samba-swat-3.0.5-2.FC1.1 Using yum I got most of it but I cannot find redhat-config-samba. [root at Godzilla root]# rpm -qa | grep samba* samba-client-3.0.9-1.fc2 samba-common-3.0.9-1.fc2 samba-3.0.9-1.fc2 samba-swat-3.0.9-1.fc2 [root at Godzilla root]# > > Mark ( The problem is that Rick Stevens was my original Master > and i can't really replicate him ) , basically all you need to do is > launch SWAT . > In order to achieve this just check your /etc/services > file for a line like the one bellow : > > swat 901/tcp # Samba Web > Administration Tool > > Then in /etc/xinetd.d/swat , just make sure that there is a line that > says > > disable = no . > > Then after your restart xinetd , all you have to do is > > #service swat start. Everything seemed fine up to this point but the 'service ' wouldn't start. None the less Swat is available through my browser and serviceconf says it's running so this much seems OK. > > Then swat should be accesible using your browser and giving the > URL : > > localhost : 901 > > If everything has gone well then you must have swat running . > All you need now , is English and it is certain that you speak English . Sure. English I speak. Samba I don't. Now I'll have to see if I can get this to share some directories and the printer. Thanks, Mark > > One last thing , is that it might be usefull if you have common accounts > between Windows and Linux . All i mean is an account in Windows with the > username "Mark" and an account in Linux with the same username . > > Samba is offering printer sharing , so you will not have problems with that > either . > > > > > > > SWAT is the native graphical interface for samba although I believe > > webmin may have some functionality. Would be surprised that > > samba.org would be a good place to look. > > :)) Well indeed it is . > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Dec 10 02:06:26 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 18:06:26 -0800 Subject: FC2 - Samba setup In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b041209171858456ad5@mail.gmail.com> References: <20041209223144.97541.qmail@web51903.mail.yahoo.com> <41B8E7DE.9010202@cha.forthnet.gr> <5bdc1c8b041209171858456ad5@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <41B904A2.3050103@vitalstream.com> Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 02:03:42 +0200, Kostas Sfakiotakis > wrote: > >>Greetings Mark , > > > >>[root at Magellan root]# rpm -qa | grep samba* >>samba-client-3.0.5-2.FC1.1 >>redhat-config-samba-1.1.4-1 >>samba-3.0.5-2.FC1.1 >>samba-common-3.0.5-2.FC1.1 >>samba-swat-3.0.5-2.FC1.1 > > > Using yum I got most of it but I cannot find redhat-config-samba. > > [root at Godzilla root]# rpm -qa | grep samba* > samba-client-3.0.9-1.fc2 > samba-common-3.0.9-1.fc2 > samba-3.0.9-1.fc2 > samba-swat-3.0.9-1.fc2 > [root at Godzilla root]# The equivalent in FC2 is "system-config-samba". In fact, the latest RPM is "system-config-samba-1.2.22-0.fc2.1.noarch.rpm". A simple "yum install system-config-samba" should grab it for you if you don't have it installed yet. The path to the executable is "/usr/bin/system-config-samba". To explain, the names of the python setup stuff changed. What was "redhat-config-*" in RH9/FC1 became "system-config-*" in FC2/FC3. If you were used to, say, "redhat-config-network" in RH9/FC1, then you'd use "system-config-network" in FC2/FC3. Subtle and confusing, eh? It's in the release notes for FC2 if you wish to check. >>Mark ( The problem is that Rick Stevens was my original Master >>and i can't really replicate him ) , basically all you need to do is >>launch SWAT . >>In order to achieve this just check your /etc/services >>file for a line like the one bellow : >> >>swat 901/tcp # Samba Web >>Administration Tool >> >>Then in /etc/xinetd.d/swat , just make sure that there is a line that >>says >> >>disable = no . Actually, to enable a listener in xinetd you can have EITHER of these two lines in the file: disable = no enable = yes Conversely, to disable you can use either of THESE two lines: disable = yes enable = no Remember, only use ONE of the lines, not both. Don't you love options? Personally, I prefer the "enable=" form...but that's just me. >>Then after your restart xinetd , all you have to do is >> >>#service swat start. Actually, no. After editing the file, you must restart xinetd or send it a SIGHUP. Any one of these three commands will work: killall -HUP xinetd /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart service xinetd restart Then point your browser at http://localhost:901 and join the swat fun! There's lots of on-line help in swat, so don't worry too much. > Everything seemed fine up to this point but the 'service ' wouldn't > start. None the less Swat is available through my browser and > serviceconf says it's running so this much seems OK. You have to restart xinetd as I've shown above. xinetd only reads its config files when it receives a SIGHUP or when it's restarted. The first command above sends it a SIGHUP. The next two stop and restart it. Your choice as to which is easier for you (I use the "killall" because I'm a lean, mean, killin' machine! Heheheheh!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 markknecht at gmail.com Fri Dec 10 02:19:03 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:19:03 -0800 Subject: FC2 - Samba setup In-Reply-To: <41B904A2.3050103@vitalstream.com> References: <20041209223144.97541.qmail@web51903.mail.yahoo.com> <41B8E7DE.9010202@cha.forthnet.gr> <5bdc1c8b041209171858456ad5@mail.gmail.com> <41B904A2.3050103@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b04120918194ccb3457@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 18:06:26 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 02:03:42 +0200, Kostas Sfakiotakis > > wrote: > > > >>Greetings Mark , > > > > > > > >>[root at Magellan root]# rpm -qa | grep samba* > >>samba-client-3.0.5-2.FC1.1 > >>redhat-config-samba-1.1.4-1 > >>samba-3.0.5-2.FC1.1 > >>samba-common-3.0.5-2.FC1.1 > >>samba-swat-3.0.5-2.FC1.1 > > > > > > Using yum I got most of it but I cannot find redhat-config-samba. > > > > [root at Godzilla root]# rpm -qa | grep samba* > > samba-client-3.0.9-1.fc2 > > samba-common-3.0.9-1.fc2 > > samba-3.0.9-1.fc2 > > samba-swat-3.0.9-1.fc2 > > [root at Godzilla root]# > > The equivalent in FC2 is "system-config-samba". In fact, the latest RPM > is "system-config-samba-1.2.22-0.fc2.1.noarch.rpm". A simple "yum > install system-config-samba" should grab it for you if you don't have it > installed yet. The path to the executable is > "/usr/bin/system-config-samba". > > To explain, the names of the python setup stuff changed. What was > "redhat-config-*" in RH9/FC1 became "system-config-*" in FC2/FC3. If > you were used to, say, "redhat-config-network" in RH9/FC1, then you'd > use "system-config-network" in FC2/FC3. Subtle and confusing, eh? It's > in the release notes for FC2 if you wish to check. > > > > >>Mark ( The problem is that Rick Stevens was my original Master > >>and i can't really replicate him ) , basically all you need to do is > >>launch SWAT . > >>In order to achieve this just check your /etc/services > >>file for a line like the one bellow : > >> > >>swat 901/tcp # Samba Web > >>Administration Tool > >> > >>Then in /etc/xinetd.d/swat , just make sure that there is a line that > >>says > >> > >>disable = no . > > Actually, to enable a listener in xinetd you can have EITHER of these > two lines in the file: > > disable = no > enable = yes > > Conversely, to disable you can use either of THESE two lines: > > disable = yes > enable = no > > Remember, only use ONE of the lines, not both. Don't you love options? > Personally, I prefer the "enable=" form...but that's just me. > > >>Then after your restart xinetd , all you have to do is > >> > >>#service swat start. > > Actually, no. After editing the file, you must restart xinetd or send > it a SIGHUP. Any one of these three commands will work: > > killall -HUP xinetd > /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart > service xinetd restart > > Then point your browser at http://localhost:901 and join the swat fun! > There's lots of on-line help in swat, so don't worry too much. > > > Everything seemed fine up to this point but the 'service ' wouldn't > > start. None the less Swat is available through my browser and > > serviceconf says it's running so this much seems OK. > > You have to restart xinetd as I've shown above. xinetd only reads > its config files when it receives a SIGHUP or when it's restarted. > The first command above sends it a SIGHUP. The next two stop and > restart it. Your choice as to which is easier for you (I use the > "killall" because I'm a lean, mean, killin' machine! Heheheheh!) Thanks RIck, Most of this I've semi pieced together on my own in the last hour or two, Your explanation is clearer though. Thanks. At this point I've managed to see my FC box from a Win XP Pro laptop. I've made a couple of shares, marked them as browsable, but when I double click in XP I get a login dialog. I enter my Linux user/password (which match my Win XP Pro user/password) but the dialog just keeps returning. Possibly this is the encrypted/unencrypted password thing? (Hope not...) So far I do not seem to be able to see shared directories on the Windows boxes from my FC2 machine. I have many things to learn to set up. File sharing both ways is step #1, and then printing will follow. Thanks in advance for any other pointers. - Mark From markknecht at gmail.com Fri Dec 10 03:41:44 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 19:41:44 -0800 Subject: FC2 - Samba setup In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b04120918194ccb3457@mail.gmail.com> References: <20041209223144.97541.qmail@web51903.mail.yahoo.com> <41B8E7DE.9010202@cha.forthnet.gr> <5bdc1c8b041209171858456ad5@mail.gmail.com> <41B904A2.3050103@vitalstream.com> <5bdc1c8b04120918194ccb3457@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0412091941fcd29da@mail.gmail.com> Whoopie! I got part of it working. Browsing from my Win XP Pro laptop to the shares on the FC2 box required running smbpasswd as root and adding user mark to the smb password file. On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:19:03 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 18:06:26 -0800, Rick Stevens > > > wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 02:03:42 +0200, Kostas Sfakiotakis > > > wrote: > > > > > >>Greetings Mark , > > > > > > > > > > > >>[root at Magellan root]# rpm -qa | grep samba* > > >>samba-client-3.0.5-2.FC1.1 > > >>redhat-config-samba-1.1.4-1 > > >>samba-3.0.5-2.FC1.1 > > >>samba-common-3.0.5-2.FC1.1 > > >>samba-swat-3.0.5-2.FC1.1 > > > > > > > > > Using yum I got most of it but I cannot find redhat-config-samba. > > > > > > [root at Godzilla root]# rpm -qa | grep samba* > > > samba-client-3.0.9-1.fc2 > > > samba-common-3.0.9-1.fc2 > > > samba-3.0.9-1.fc2 > > > samba-swat-3.0.9-1.fc2 > > > [root at Godzilla root]# > > > > The equivalent in FC2 is "system-config-samba". In fact, the latest RPM > > is "system-config-samba-1.2.22-0.fc2.1.noarch.rpm". A simple "yum > > install system-config-samba" should grab it for you if you don't have it > > installed yet. The path to the executable is > > "/usr/bin/system-config-samba". > > > > To explain, the names of the python setup stuff changed. What was > > "redhat-config-*" in RH9/FC1 became "system-config-*" in FC2/FC3. If > > you were used to, say, "redhat-config-network" in RH9/FC1, then you'd > > use "system-config-network" in FC2/FC3. Subtle and confusing, eh? It's > > in the release notes for FC2 if you wish to check. > > > > > > > > >>Mark ( The problem is that Rick Stevens was my original Master > > >>and i can't really replicate him ) , basically all you need to do is > > >>launch SWAT . > > >>In order to achieve this just check your /etc/services > > >>file for a line like the one bellow : > > >> > > >>swat 901/tcp # Samba Web > > >>Administration Tool > > >> > > >>Then in /etc/xinetd.d/swat , just make sure that there is a line that > > >>says > > >> > > >>disable = no . > > > > Actually, to enable a listener in xinetd you can have EITHER of these > > two lines in the file: > > > > disable = no > > enable = yes > > > > Conversely, to disable you can use either of THESE two lines: > > > > disable = yes > > enable = no > > > > Remember, only use ONE of the lines, not both. Don't you love options? > > Personally, I prefer the "enable=" form...but that's just me. > > > > >>Then after your restart xinetd , all you have to do is > > >> > > >>#service swat start. > > > > Actually, no. After editing the file, you must restart xinetd or send > > it a SIGHUP. Any one of these three commands will work: > > > > killall -HUP xinetd > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart > > service xinetd restart > > > > Then point your browser at http://localhost:901 and join the swat fun! > > There's lots of on-line help in swat, so don't worry too much. > > > > > Everything seemed fine up to this point but the 'service ' wouldn't > > > start. None the less Swat is available through my browser and > > > serviceconf says it's running so this much seems OK. > > > > You have to restart xinetd as I've shown above. xinetd only reads > > its config files when it receives a SIGHUP or when it's restarted. > > The first command above sends it a SIGHUP. The next two stop and > > restart it. Your choice as to which is easier for you (I use the > > "killall" because I'm a lean, mean, killin' machine! Heheheheh!) > > Thanks RIck, > Most of this I've semi pieced together on my own in the last hour > or two, Your explanation is clearer though. Thanks. > > At this point I've managed to see my FC box from a Win XP Pro > laptop. I've made a couple of shares, marked them as browsable, but > when I double click in XP I get a login dialog. I enter my Linux > user/password (which match my Win XP Pro user/password) but the dialog > just keeps returning. > > Possibly this is the encrypted/unencrypted password thing? (Hope not...) > > So far I do not seem to be able to see shared directories on the > Windows boxes from my FC2 machine. > > I have many things to learn to set up. File sharing both ways is > step #1, and then printing will follow. > > Thanks in advance for any other pointers. > > - Mark > From harold at hallikainen.com Fri Dec 10 04:18:48 2004 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 20:18:48 -0800 (PST) Subject: Setting up CVS on RH8? Message-ID: <2217.192.168.1.1.1102652328.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> I'm trying to get CVS working on RH8. After reading a bunch of documentation and tutorials, I can check out modules as root, but not as any other user. I get something like cannot create lock file. I'm using the default RH8 install. I think the problem has to do with file permissions in the CVSROOT. I've created a group called cvs and made all files and directories in the CVSROOT have cvs as the group. I notice that all the files seem to only have read permission for the owner and the group. Any suggestions on what I need to do to make this work? Do I need to create a user called cvs? THANKS!!!! Harold -- FCC Rules Online at http://www.hallikainen.com From rodrigofariatavares at bol.com.br Fri Dec 10 11:50:29 2004 From: rodrigofariatavares at bol.com.br (Rodrigo Faria Tavares) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:50:29 -0200 Subject: Red Hat more used in EUA Message-ID: <008601c4deae$72a5a2b0$fe00a8c0@faria> Hello, I live in Brazil, i would like to know, what is the red hat version used in EUA .. Her in Brazil, the companies are using the red hat enterprise, is it the best ? Best regards, Rodrigo Faria From kens at geodax.com Fri Dec 10 12:03:00 2004 From: kens at geodax.com (Ken Scott) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:03:00 -0500 Subject: advise for pcmcia network cards In-Reply-To: References: <200412091837.46841.tyche@ica.net> Message-ID: <1102680180.3773.3.camel@KENS02L> On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 18:48, Matthew Galgoci wrote: > > got a laptop that doesnt have a nic in it, need to purchase a nic, and > > wondering if there are any that work well with linux and any that dont work > > well > > Most pcmcia nics just work these days. Buy a cheap one and try it, but keep the > recipt in case you have to exchange it for a different one. I can't personally > see myself spending more than $30 on a pcmcia nic. I don't have such a NIC card but what I do with such purchase decisions is go to the product forums and see if folks report either excessively good or bad luck with a particular product. Usually helps narrow down which one I want to try. Good luck. Ken S. From daisyofbywater at yahoo.com Fri Dec 10 16:35:24 2004 From: daisyofbywater at yahoo.com (daisy) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:35:24 -0800 (PST) Subject: /var/log/message problem In-Reply-To: <41B49CBF.7030901@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20041210163524.33440.qmail@web54610.mail.yahoo.com> Thank you Alexander, gerrynix and Rick Restarting the syslog service did the trick. The system is now logging messages. I have tried the logrotate and will wait to see if the system will automatically rotate the files. Rick, thank you for you kind words and welcome. Thanks again, Daisy Rick Stevens wrote: daisy wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I would appreciate help with my /var/log/message file. It is no longer > logging anything. > > Background of the problem: Previously the message logs worked without > problem. When the log file grew to a certain size it would create an > archive /log/var/message.1 file and create a brand new and empty > /log/var/message file. For some reason, however, one day the log file > archives were no longer being created and the message file just grew and > grew. When my RedHat Linux system began to slow and lag, I thought that > the /var/log/message file, which by then was very large, was the > problem. I decided to do a temporary fix until I could get expert > advice on how to get the system to create archives and new message files > automatically. The logs rotate on a scheduled basis as determined by /etc/logrotate.conf -- not when they reach a certain size. Note, however, that neither the kernel logger nor syslogd are built with LFS (large file support), so neither program can "talk" to a file bigger than 2GB. > What I tried: I manually copied the /var/log/message file and renamed > it /var/log/message.1. > I also manually created a /var/log/message file. This did not work. No > messages were logged at all. I then renamed one of the older archive > files that were still of managable size as /var/log/message. Still no > luck. A manual rotate is done via: cp file file.1 cat /dev/null >file or mv file file.1 touch file Or you can force logrotate to do it whenever you wish: logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf > > Advice I am hoping for: > 1. How to fix my /var/log/message file so that it will log necessary > warnings. Why did creating a blank /var/log/message file cause the sytem > to not log anything? Is the file a special binary file? syslogd only creates log files when it starts up. If it ever tries to log to a non-existant file, it will cease logging for that file entirely. Simply make sure the target file exists, then (as root) run: killall -HUP syslogd or /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog restart to force syslogd to look at the file again. > 2. Why did the system stop updating and archiving the /var/log/message > file in the first place. If the file went over the 2GB limit, syslogd can't write to it anymore. The fix is to make sure the file doesn't go above 2GB or to recompile syslogd with LFS (large file support). > Thanks for any advice in advance. As you can probably tell, I am still > at beginner level. I hope I explained the situation well enough. You explained it quite well. 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URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Dec 10 17:30:13 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:30:13 -0800 Subject: Setting up CVS on RH8? In-Reply-To: <2217.192.168.1.1.1102652328.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> References: <2217.192.168.1.1.1102652328.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <41B9DD25.1020500@vitalstream.com> Harold Hallikainen wrote: > I'm trying to get CVS working on RH8. After reading a bunch of > documentation and tutorials, I can check out modules as root, but not as > any other user. I get something like cannot create lock file. I'm using > the default RH8 install. I think the problem has to do with file > permissions in the CVSROOT. I've created a group called cvs and made all > files and directories in the CVSROOT have cvs as the group. I notice that > all the files seem to only have read permission for the owner and the > group. Any suggestions on what I need to do to make this work? Do I need > to create a user called cvs? The permissions are correct, as you're only supposed to check out or add files by using the cvscheckout and cvscheckin files. A full user's guide is included with the RPM. Go to /usr/share/doc/cvs* and use ghostview to look at the "cvs.ps" file. I HIGHLY recommend you print it out and read it. Most, if not all, of your questions will be answered in there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Dec 10 17:35:22 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:35:22 -0800 Subject: Red Hat more used in EUA In-Reply-To: <008601c4deae$72a5a2b0$fe00a8c0@faria> References: <008601c4deae$72a5a2b0$fe00a8c0@faria> Message-ID: <41B9DE5A.9070500@vitalstream.com> Rodrigo Faria Tavares wrote: > > Hello, > > I live in Brazil, i would like to know, what is the red hat version used > in EUA .. > Her in Brazil, the companies are using the red hat enterprise, is it the > best ? Enterprise is Red Hat's commercial release. It includes some limited support (you can buy more elaborate support) and has a longer life cycle. In fact, it's still a 2.4 kernel. Fedora is the free version of Red Hat--what used to be called "Red Hat Linux". It is much more cutting edge (Fedora Core 2 and 3 use the 2.6 kernel, for example). It has no support other than the various mailing lists (such as this one and the fedora-users list) and has a fairly short life cycle (Fedora Core 2 was out about four months before Fedora Core 3 came out). Fedora is used as a proving ground for stuff that eventually will end up in Red Hat Enterprise. It's your choice. Fedora Core is free, but you can't call Red Hat with any questions. Enterprise costs money and you can get support from Red Hat. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Jimmie crack corn and I don't care...what kind of lousy attitude - - is THAT to have, huh? -- Dennis Miller - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Dec 10 17:37:30 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:37:30 -0800 Subject: /var/log/message problem In-Reply-To: <20041210163524.33440.qmail@web54610.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041210163524.33440.qmail@web54610.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <41B9DEDA.4040905@vitalstream.com> daisy wrote: > Thank you Alexander, gerrynix and Rick > Restarting the syslog service did the trick. The system is now logging > messages. > > I have tried the logrotate and will wait to see if the system will > automatically rotate the files. > > Rick, thank you for you kind words and welcome. > > Thanks again, > > Daisy Glad to help, Daisy. See, it wasn't that hard. ;-) > > */Rick Stevens /* wrote: > > daisy wrote: > > Hello everyone. > > > > I would appreciate help with my /var/log/message file. It is no > longer > > logging anything. > > > > Background of the problem: Previously the message logs worked > without > > problem. When the log file grew to a certain size it would create an > > archive /log/var/message.1 file and create a brand new and empty > > /log/var/message file. For some reason, however, one day the log > file > > archives were no longer being created and the message file just > grew and > > grew. When my RedHat Linux system began to slow and lag, I > thought that > > the /var/log/message file, which by then was very large, was the > > problem. I decided to do a temporary fix until I could get expert > > advice on how to get the system to create archives and new > message files > > automatically. > > The logs rotate on a scheduled basis as determined by > /etc/logrotate.conf -- not when they reach a certain size. Note, > however, that neither the kernel logger nor syslogd are built with LFS > (large file support), so neither program can "talk" to a file bigger > than 2GB. > > > What I tried: I manually copied the /var/log/message file and > renamed > > it /var/log/message.1. > > I also manually created a /var/log/message file. This did not > work. No > > messages were logged at all. I then renamed one of the older archive > > files that were still of managable size as /var/log/message. > Still no > > luck. > > A manual rotate is done via: > > cp file file.1 > cat /dev/null >file > > or > > mv file file.1 > touch file > > Or you can force logrotate to do it whenever you wish: > > logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf > > > > > Advice I am hoping for: > > 1. How to fix my /var/log/message! file so that it will log > necessary > > warnings. Why did creating a blank /var/log/message file cause > the sytem > > to not log anything? Is the file a special binary file? > > syslogd only creates log files when it starts up. If it ever tries to > log to a non-existant file, it will cease logging for that file > entirely. Simply make sure the target file exists, then (as root) run: > > killall -HUP syslogd > > or > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog restart > > to force syslogd to look at the file again. > > > 2. Why did the system stop updating and archiving the > /var/log/message > > file in the first place. > > If the file went over the 2GB limit, syslogd can't write to it anymore. > The fix is to make sure the file doesn't go above 2GB or to recompile > syslogd with LFS (large file support). > > > Thanks for any advice in advance. As you can probably tell, I am > still > > at beginner level. I hope I explained the situation well enough. > > You explained it quite well. Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux! > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Real Time, adj.: Here and now, as opposed to fake time, which only - > - occurs there and then - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 - - - - When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From harold at hallikainen.com Fri Dec 10 17:43:25 2004 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:43:25 -0800 (PST) Subject: Setting up CVS on RH8? In-Reply-To: <41B9DD25.1020500@vitalstream.com> References: <2217.192.168.1.1.1102652328.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> <41B9DD25.1020500@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <51589.207.177.227.29.1102700605.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> Will do. Thanks! Harold > Harold Hallikainen wrote: >> I'm trying to get CVS working on RH8. After reading a bunch of >> documentation and tutorials, I can check out modules as root, but not as >> any other user. I get something like cannot create lock file. I'm using >> the default RH8 install. I think the problem has to do with file >> permissions in the CVSROOT. I've created a group called cvs and made all >> files and directories in the CVSROOT have cvs as the group. I notice >> that >> all the files seem to only have read permission for the owner and the >> group. Any suggestions on what I need to do to make this work? Do I need >> to create a user called cvs? > > The permissions are correct, as you're only supposed to check out or > add files by using the cvscheckout and cvscheckin files. > > A full user's guide is included with the RPM. Go to /usr/share/doc/cvs* > and use ghostview to look at the "cvs.ps" file. I HIGHLY recommend you > print it out and read it. Most, if not all, of your questions will be > answered in there. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - 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 - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- FCC Rules Online at http://www.hallikainen.com From adeo at nyu.edu Fri Dec 10 18:42:41 2004 From: adeo at nyu.edu (Anthony Joseph Deo) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:42:41 -0500 Subject: 2 CPU support Message-ID: <85babe85f395.85f39585babe@nyu.edu> Hi, I have Enterprise linux WS installed on one workstation adn fedora core 2 on another. Both machines are dual opteron systems yet it seems that only one proccessor is recognized on either system. When I use top or look at the graphical system menu it seems to indicate that only one proccessor is present. Is there a setting that I would have to change in order to get it to recognize both proccessors? Any help would be greatly appreciated, Anthony From nandrews at med.umich.edu Fri Dec 10 19:10:31 2004 From: nandrews at med.umich.edu (Nathan Andrews) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:10:31 -0500 Subject: 2 CPU support Message-ID: When you loaded the system, the installer (anaconda) should have picked up that you have 2 processors. In your (I assume you used) grub menu, you should see two kernel options, one for single, and one for smp (I can't remember what they call them on the boot screen at present). >>> adeo at nyu.edu 12/10/04 1:42:41 PM >>> Hi, I have Enterprise linux WS installed on one workstation adn fedora core 2 on another. Both machines are dual opteron systems yet it seems that only one proccessor is recognized on either system. When I use top or look at the graphical system menu it seems to indicate that only one proccessor is present. Is there a setting that I would have to change in order to get it to recognize both proccessors? Any help would be greatly appreciated, Anthony _______________________________________________ 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 ********************************************************** Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not be used for urgent or sensitive issues. From diogenes at xenodochy.org Fri Dec 10 23:25:28 2004 From: diogenes at xenodochy.org (Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:25:28 -0500 Subject: new hard drive setup Message-ID: Hi all, I got my start in Linux with a pre-configured system, and I'm still a rank beginner. My system is Redhat 9 kept up2date. My original hard drive is small (8G) partitioned as follows: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda2 14 995 7887915 83 Linux /dev/hda3 996 1027 257040 82 Linux swa My hard drive is nearly full, so I bought another one - 60G. It's in, and I was able to see it with fdisk, but I haven't done any partitioning or formatting yet - I never did such things before. What I'm looking for is suggestions as to what would be a good way to partition it, and possibly what to put on it. Suggestions welcome. -- Ralph E. 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Always report errors discovered while surfing the web. ------------------------------------------------------ My favorite saying (from general semantics): It's not that seeing is believing, believing is seeing, and we're much better at believing than we are at seeing. http://www.xenodochy.org/ex/quotes/santayana.html From kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr Fri Dec 10 23:35:25 2004 From: kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr (Kostas Sfakiotakis) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 01:35:25 +0200 Subject: FC2 - Samba setup In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0412091941fcd29da@mail.gmail.com> References: <20041209223144.97541.qmail@web51903.mail.yahoo.com> <41B8E7DE.9010202@cha.forthnet.gr> <5bdc1c8b041209171858456ad5@mail.gmail.com> <41B904A2.3050103@vitalstream.com> <5bdc1c8b04120918194ccb3457@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0412091941fcd29da@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <41BA32BD.6070302@cha.forthnet.gr> Greetings Mark , Mark Knecht wrote: > Whoopie! I got part of it working. Browsing from my Win XP Pro laptop > to the shares on the FC2 box required running smbpasswd as root and > adding user mark to the smb password file. > :)) Well now , in order for things to work the other way arrount , you just have to use the mount -t smbfs -o username=Mark //Computername/Sharename /mountpoint. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I still forget if the slashes above are forward or reverse . And that's all of it .Transfering files between the two systems is pretty fast . Kind Regards, Kostas From rstevens at vitalstream.com Sat Dec 11 02:32:34 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:32:34 -0800 Subject: new hard drive setup In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41BA5C42.3010200@vitalstream.com> Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr. wrote: > Hi all, > I got my start in Linux with a pre-configured system, and I'm still a > rank beginner. My system is Redhat 9 kept up2date. > > My original hard drive is small (8G) partitioned as follows: > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux > /dev/hda2 14 995 7887915 83 Linux > /dev/hda3 996 1027 257040 82 Linux swa > > My hard drive is nearly full, so I bought another one - 60G. > It's in, and I was able to see it with fdisk, but I haven't done any > partitioning or formatting yet - I never did such things before. > > What I'm looking for is suggestions as to what would be a good way to > partition it, and possibly what to put on it. Lordy! Well, it rather depends on what you're planning to do. If you wish to move your existing system to the new drive, that can be a bit complicated. It's doable, but it's not for the faint-of-heart. Should you wish to do that, a normal partitioning scheme we use is this: /boot 512MB - 1GB / 2GB - 4GB swap twice your RAM size /var 4GB (8GB if you have a lot of log activity) /usr rest of disk That's for a development box. Servers usually have the /boot and / partitions smaller and the /var partition bigger due to the logging that goes on. If you just want to use the secondary drive to hold miscellaneous stuff, it's rather like having a "D:\" drive in Windows...put whatever you want on it. If you could provide some details on what you wish to do, we could be of more help. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Real Time, adj.: Here and now, as opposed to fake time, which only - - occurs there and then - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Sat Dec 11 02:37:05 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:37:05 -0800 Subject: FC2 - Samba setup In-Reply-To: <41BA32BD.6070302@cha.forthnet.gr> References: <20041209223144.97541.qmail@web51903.mail.yahoo.com> <41B8E7DE.9010202@cha.forthnet.gr> <5bdc1c8b041209171858456ad5@mail.gmail.com> <41B904A2.3050103@vitalstream.com> <5bdc1c8b04120918194ccb3457@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0412091941fcd29da@mail.gmail.com> <41BA32BD.6070302@cha.forthnet.gr> Message-ID: <41BA5D51.2090904@vitalstream.com> Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > Greetings Mark , > > Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Whoopie! I got part of it working. Browsing from my Win XP Pro laptop >> to the shares on the FC2 box required running smbpasswd as root and >> adding user mark to the smb password file. >> > > :)) > > Well now , in order for things to work the other way arrount , you just > have to use the > > mount -t smbfs -o username=Mark //Computername/Sharename /mountpoint. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > I still forget if the > slashes above are > forward or reverse . Samba will use either, but the forward slashes ("//") are easier to use. You have to escape backslashes. Two backslashes need to be specified as "\\\\". Using backslashes, Kostas' thing would read: mount -t smbfs -o username=Mark \\\\Computername\\Sharename /mountpoint Yuck! > And that's all of it .Transfering files between the two systems is > pretty fast . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - All generalizations are false. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From othmanelmoulat at menara.ma Sat Dec 11 20:25:40 2004 From: othmanelmoulat at menara.ma (othman El Moulat) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 20:25:40 +0000 Subject: PHP and apache on redhat 9 Message-ID: <200412112025.40384.othmanelmoulat@menara.ma> Hi guys; I suppose that most of the linux distros now a days comes with an apache web server and a php interpreter...I guess that when installing my redhat 9 box php and apache were installed and may be also configured ! ...I'm still a newbie in linux and i want to start development using php under linux...I want to know where i can find the default directory where apache and PHP were installed? i want some one to describe me in details how i can run my first PHP program on a RH 9 box...for example where is the documentroot of the apache installation where i should store my php progs? etc... many thanks for helping a newbie :) From adeo at nyu.edu Sat Dec 11 20:45:05 2004 From: adeo at nyu.edu (Anthony Joseph Deo) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 15:45:05 -0500 Subject: Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 10, Issue 11 Message-ID: <9a8c5970db.970db9a8c5@nyu.edu> Nathan, Thank you very much. I ddin't realize that there was a separate kernel for dual cpu support. cheers, Anthony From tpotter at techmarin.com Sat Dec 11 21:44:25 2004 From: tpotter at techmarin.com (Ted Potter) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 13:44:25 -0800 Subject: PHP and apache on redhat 9 In-Reply-To: <200412112025.40384.othmanelmoulat@menara.ma> References: <200412112025.40384.othmanelmoulat@menara.ma> Message-ID: <1102801464.14615.20.camel@interjet.techmarin.com> your going to love this. 1. In /var/www/html create a file called test.php 2. Here is the contents of this file in whatever browser type localhost/test.php you should see some great info on php and of course if the page comes up apache is running. On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 12:25, othman El Moulat wrote: > Hi guys; > > I suppose that most of the linux distros now a days comes with an apache web > server and a php interpreter...I guess that when installing my redhat 9 box > php and apache were installed and may be also configured ! ...I'm still a > newbie in linux and i want to start development using php under linux...I > want to know where i can find the default directory where apache and PHP were > installed? i want some one to describe me in details how i can run my first > PHP program on a RH 9 box...for example where is the documentroot of the > apache installation where i should store my php progs? etc... > > many thanks for helping a newbie :) > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 www.techmarin.com From kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr Sat Dec 11 22:38:41 2004 From: kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr (Kostas Sfakiotakis) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 00:38:41 +0200 Subject: FC2 - Samba setup In-Reply-To: <41BA5D51.2090904@vitalstream.com> References: <20041209223144.97541.qmail@web51903.mail.yahoo.com> <41B8E7DE.9010202@cha.forthnet.gr> <5bdc1c8b041209171858456ad5@mail.gmail.com> <41B904A2.3050103@vitalstream.com> <5bdc1c8b04120918194ccb3457@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0412091941fcd29da@mail.gmail.com> <41BA32BD.6070302@cha.forthnet.gr> <41BA5D51.2090904@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <41BB76F1.9090702@cha.forthnet.gr> Rick Stevens wrote: > Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > >> Greetings Mark , >> >> Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> Whoopie! I got part of it working. Browsing from my Win XP Pro laptop >>> to the shares on the FC2 box required running smbpasswd as root and >>> adding user mark to the smb password file. >>> >> >> :)) >> >> Well now , in order for things to work the other way arrount , you just >> have to use the >> >> mount -t smbfs -o username=Mark //Computername/Sharename /mountpoint. >> >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> I still forget if >> the slashes above are >> forward or reverse . > > > Samba will use either, but the forward slashes ("//") are easier to use. > You have to escape backslashes. Two backslashes need to be specified as > "\\\\". Using backslashes, Kostas' thing would read: > > mount -t smbfs -o username=Mark \\\\Computername\\Sharename > /mountpoint > Redhat 7.3 gives me an error , but i don't recall with what slashes the forward ones or the backward ones , that's why i wrote those lines with in my previous posting . I will have to recheck and come back on that thing . Either way the slashes are is that with the use of Samba someone can access an NTFS partition without the dangers that the linux kernel modules present ( writing is still not safe ) . From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Sun Dec 12 00:10:38 2004 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 17:10:38 -0700 (MST) Subject: FireFox Help Message-ID: I messed up FireFox. Now when I go from page to page there is no "back" capabilities (either with clicking on the back arrow or right clicking and selecting back) both are always greyed out. I know I must have changed something as it was there a few days ago but I'm finding out I can't live without it. HELP!! -- Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. From tpotter at techmarin.com Sun Dec 12 00:39:26 2004 From: tpotter at techmarin.com (Ted Potter) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:39:26 -0800 Subject: FireFox Help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1102811966.14615.25.camel@interjet.techmarin.com> On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 16:10, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > I messed up FireFox. Now when I go from page to page there is no > "back" capabilities (either with clicking on the back arrow or > right clicking and selecting back) both are always greyed out. I > know I must have changed something as it was there a few days ago > but I'm finding out I can't live without it. > > HELP!! Not sure if this will do it but right click on the toolbar - select customize and restore default set. -- Ted Potter tpotter at techmarin.com www.techmarin.com From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Sun Dec 12 00:48:44 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:48:44 -0600 Subject: FireFox Help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20041212004844.GA3894@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 05:10:38PM -0700, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > I messed up FireFox. Now when I go from page to page there is no > "back" capabilities (either with clicking on the back arrow or > right clicking and selecting back) both are always greyed out. I > know I must have changed something as it was there a few days ago > but I'm finding out I can't live without it. > > HELP!! > > -- > Brad Mugleston, KI0OT Could it be you have it set to open a new tab for every bookmark or link? To fix, go to Edit->Preferences->Advanced and see if the two "Open new tabs ..." under Browsing are checked. If so uncheck one or both. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Grace happens. From vjl at cullasaja.com Sun Dec 12 00:52:39 2004 From: vjl at cullasaja.com (Vince LaMonica) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 19:52:39 -0500 (EST) Subject: FireFox Help In-Reply-To: <20041212004844.GA3894@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <20041212004844.GA3894@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Bob McClure Jr wrote: } Could it be you have it set to open a new tab for every bookmark or } link? To fix, go to Edit->Preferences->Advanced and see if the two } "Open new tabs ..." under Browsing are checked. If so uncheck one or } both. Other settings to check for [assuming the back button is actually present], are your cache and history settings. If both are set to 0, you may not be able to see any page you previously viewed, since your cache is always empty, as is your history. I believe I remember this happening to me back in Netscape 3.0 days. /vjl/ From tariq.samsudeen at gmail.com Sun Dec 12 11:02:00 2004 From: tariq.samsudeen at gmail.com (tariq samsudeen) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 11:02:00 +0000 Subject: RHCE doubts Message-ID: <75db1b3b041212030241f71b03@mail.gmail.com> hi gurus, i hv few clarification regarding rhce....im preparing for the exam on my own using fedora core 2...im using rhce exam study guide by michael jang and red hat linux bible by christopher negus..... I want 2 clarifications, please help me. 1. redhat manual raid configuration after installation. should i use LABEL=/ in fstab r directly use the device name example, dev/md0 michael jang says we should use LABEL, where as the website www.linuxhomenetworking.com says... Note: It is very important that you DO NOT use labels in the /etc/fstab file for RAID devices, just use the real device name such as "/dev/md0". On startup, the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit script checks the /etc/fstab file for device entries that match RAID set names in the /etc/raidtab file. It will not automatically start the RAID set driver for the RAID set if it doesn't find a match. Device mounting then occurs later on in the boot process. Mounting a RAID device that doesn't have a loaded driver can corrupt your data giving the error below. with fedora, its wrking whn i use dev/md0.....im not sure abt RHEL...... 2. DNS configuration..... should i have to copy these files... cp -f /etc/named.conf /var/named/chroot/etc cp -f /etc/rndc.* /var/named/chroot/etc and also the zone file example: example.com.zone cp -f /var/named/example.com.zone /var/named/chroot/var/named with fedora the above thing is wrking....wht abt RHEL.... please clarify this.... thanking you in anticipation.... tariq samsudeen From othmanelmoulat at menara.ma Sun Dec 12 18:39:19 2004 From: othmanelmoulat at menara.ma (othman El Moulat) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 18:39:19 +0000 Subject: PHP and apache on redhat 9 Message-ID: <200412121839.19306.othmanelmoulat@menara.ma> thanks ted for your reply... actually i want to learn the whole business of php technology so i opted for installing and reconfiguring apache and php from scratch ...after some trials it works :) and this has taught me a lot about the installation issues and headaches :) but if i want to start a serious adventure in PHP development i should have some Professional IDE for php ...i wonder if someone knows about any FREE downloadable IDE that i can get from the WWW... thanks From andtolle at tolle-netz.de Sun Dec 12 19:21:02 2004 From: andtolle at tolle-netz.de (Andreas Tolle) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:21:02 +0100 Subject: Fedora Core3: How to make Module-Disk for Installation, Problems with megaraid Message-ID: <1102879261.4157.28.camel@server.home> Hallo, I have an HP LC2000 machine with an HP-NetRAID 2M controller and 5 disks in raid 5. He runs with Suse 9.1 and the 2.6.5 kernel very well using the megaraid (old) module. Now I want to setup the Server with the Fedora Core3. At startup, he loads the megaraid.mbox modul, but no harddisks are found. Also when I add "linux acpi=off apm=off" (without quotes) in the startup-screen. Now I want to add the megaraid.ko module from Suse via module-disk during the Installation manually, but I don't know, whitch format is needed. Or is there a chance to get the inbuild driver megaraid.mbox for running well? Thanks! Andreas From andtolle at tolle-netz.de Mon Dec 13 15:25:15 2004 From: andtolle at tolle-netz.de (Andreas Tolle) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:25:15 +0100 Subject: 2 CPU support Message-ID: <1102951515.4372.9.camel@server.home> Start ksysguard in kde and look, if there are shown the cpu's. Andreas < When I use top or look at the graphical system menu it seems to < indicate that only one proccessor is present. From markknecht at gmail.com Mon Dec 13 17:20:08 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:20:08 -0800 Subject: SiS Graphics setup Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b04121309202511cc16@mail.gmail.com> Hi, Back to configuring my son's new machine. It had to stay in the closet this weekend and I only get to work on it during the day this week. I'm looking for info on what graphics adapter to use. Here's what I see in lspci: [root at Christmas root]# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 741/741GX/M741 Host (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0003 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS964 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 36) 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01) 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0) 00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661FX/M661FX/M661MX/741/M741/760/M760 PCI/AGP I don't see any of these in the FC2 display config utility. Any ideas? Thanks, Mark From rhil at manordata.uklinux.net Mon Dec 13 19:36:48 2004 From: rhil at manordata.uklinux.net (Chris Hewitt) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:36:48 +0000 Subject: PHP and apache on redhat 9 In-Reply-To: <200412121839.19306.othmanelmoulat@menara.ma> References: <200412121839.19306.othmanelmoulat@menara.ma> Message-ID: <1102966606.26244.10.camel@amdk63.homemanordata.nodom> On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 18:39, othman El Moulat wrote: > thanks ted for your reply... > actually i want to learn the whole business of php technology so i opted for > installing and reconfiguring apache and php from scratch ...after some trials > it works :) and this has taught me a lot about the installation issues and > headaches :) > > but if i want to start a serious adventure in PHP development i should have > some Professional IDE for php ...i wonder if someone knows about any FREE > downloadable IDE that i can get from the WWW... I use just Quanta Plus, but the version on RH9 will be rather old. If you search the php-install and php-general archives at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com this question has been asked many times and you will find many recommendations. HTH Chris From sarangi at bpost.kek.jp Mon Dec 13 19:37:58 2004 From: sarangi at bpost.kek.jp (Tapas Ranjan) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 04:37:58 +0900 (JST) Subject: CD/DVD drive In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b04121309202511cc16@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi : I was looking for a CD/DVD-RW external drive to buy for my Dell inspiron 1100 computer. I found out one good deal in Dell's web site. The product is something like this : ------------------- PLEXTOR 12X/4X/16X DVD+RW / 8X/4X/16X DVD-RW / 48X/24X/48X CD-RW PX-712UF External Combo Drive - FireWire and USB 2.0 -------------------- Please help in deciding, whether it's a good product and will work for linux without much trouble. Thanks ---Tapas From pfischer at atmit.com Mon Dec 13 20:07:59 2004 From: pfischer at atmit.com (J.P. Fischer) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:07:59 -0500 Subject: Netfinity hangs at running /sbin/loader Message-ID: <200412132008.iBDK84af028996@fozzie.webservepro.com> Hi, Trying to install RHEL onto an IBM Netfinity 4000R, dual P3 550Mhz processors, 256Mb. During CD-bootup it hangs at "running /sbin/loader" . What to do? From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Dec 13 21:46:12 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:46:12 -0800 Subject: PHP and apache on redhat 9 In-Reply-To: <1102966606.26244.10.camel@amdk63.homemanordata.nodom> References: <200412121839.19306.othmanelmoulat@menara.ma> <1102966606.26244.10.camel@amdk63.homemanordata.nodom> Message-ID: <41BE0DA4.1050101@vitalstream.com> Chris Hewitt wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 18:39, othman El Moulat wrote: > >>thanks ted for your reply... >>actually i want to learn the whole business of php technology so i opted for >>installing and reconfiguring apache and php from scratch ...after some trials >>it works :) and this has taught me a lot about the installation issues and >>headaches :) >> >>but if i want to start a serious adventure in PHP development i should have >>some Professional IDE for php ...i wonder if someone knows about any FREE >>downloadable IDE that i can get from the WWW... > > > I use just Quanta Plus, but the version on RH9 will be rather old. If > you search the php-install and php-general archives at > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com this question has been asked many times and > you will find many recommendations. Also check http://www.php.net for some leads. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Swap memory error: You lose your mind" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Dec 13 21:49:12 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:49:12 -0800 Subject: Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 10, Issue 11 In-Reply-To: <9a8c5970db.970db9a8c5@nyu.edu> References: <9a8c5970db.970db9a8c5@nyu.edu> Message-ID: <41BE0E58.9020901@vitalstream.com> Anthony Joseph Deo wrote: > Nathan, > > Thank you very much. I ddin't realize that there was a separate kernel for dual cpu support. Actually, you can use the SMP (symmetrical multi processor) kernel on UP (uniprocessor) machines. The kernel is a bit bigger than you need and it isn't as efficient, but it will work. The UP kernel will only drive one processor on SMP machines, but again, it will work (as you have found out). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Swap memory error: You lose your mind" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Dec 13 22:01:14 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:01:14 -0800 Subject: RHCE doubts In-Reply-To: <75db1b3b041212030241f71b03@mail.gmail.com> References: <75db1b3b041212030241f71b03@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <41BE112A.3010400@vitalstream.com> tariq samsudeen wrote: > hi gurus, > i hv few clarification regarding rhce....im preparing for the exam on > my own using fedora core 2...im using rhce exam study guide by michael > jang and red hat linux bible by christopher negus..... > I want 2 clarifications, please help me. > 1. redhat manual raid configuration after installation. > should i use LABEL=/ in fstab r directly use the device name example, dev/md0 > michael jang says we should use LABEL, where as the website > www.linuxhomenetworking.com says... > Note: It is very important that you DO NOT use labels in the > /etc/fstab file for RAID devices, just use the real device name such > as "/dev/md0". On startup, the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit script checks the > /etc/fstab file for device entries that match RAID set names in the > /etc/raidtab file. It will not automatically start the RAID set driver > for the RAID set if it doesn't find a match. Device mounting then > occurs later on in the boot process. Mounting a RAID device that > doesn't have a loaded driver can corrupt your data giving the error > below. > > with fedora, its wrking whn i use dev/md0.....im not sure abt RHEL...... I'd have to go back and check the RHEL script, but I think the website is correct. Personally, I don't like labels at all for the simple fact that, if you set up a different Linux along side your current one (even if it's on a new drive), you'll have two "/usr" or whatever partitions. Which one gets mounted when /etc/fstab says "/usr"? You have no control over it. I'm a control freak, so I try to use device names rather than labels whenever possible. > 2. DNS configuration..... > should i have to copy these files... > cp -f /etc/named.conf /var/named/chroot/etc > cp -f /etc/rndc.* /var/named/chroot/etc > and also the zone file example: example.com.zone > cp -f /var/named/example.com.zone /var/named/chroot/var/named > with fedora the above thing is wrking....wht abt RHEL.... If you set up named to run in a chrooted environment (in other words, you give it the "-t /directory" option), all files needed to make named work MUST be in that specified directory (by default, this is "/var/named/chroot/"). Once the daemon starts and gets chrooted, it can't back up past the specified directory to look at the rest of the filesystem. As far as named is concerned, the given directory IS the root of the filesystem ("/"). That's what chroot does..."for this process, change the root of the filesystem to the given directory". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Dec 13 22:07:03 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:07:03 -0800 Subject: Fedora Core3: How to make Module-Disk for Installation, Problems with megaraid In-Reply-To: <1102879261.4157.28.camel@server.home> References: <1102879261.4157.28.camel@server.home> Message-ID: <41BE1287.9010001@vitalstream.com> Andreas Tolle wrote: > Hallo, > > I have an HP LC2000 machine with an HP-NetRAID 2M controller and 5 disks > in raid 5. He runs with Suse 9.1 and the 2.6.5 kernel very well using > the megaraid (old) module. > Now I want to setup the Server with the Fedora Core3. > At startup, he loads the megaraid.mbox modul, but no harddisks are > found. Also when I add "linux acpi=off apm=off" (without quotes) in the > startup-screen. > Now I want to add the megaraid.ko module from Suse via module-disk > during the Installation manually, but I don't know, whitch format is > needed. > Or is there a chance to get the inbuild driver megaraid.mbox for > running well? I think the FC3 megaraid driver works well, but I can't tell you for certain. Keep in mind that drivers such as that one are built against the kernel and use versioning so the megaraid driver built for the 2.6.5 kernel works ONLY with the 2.6.5 kernel. The odds are that it won't work with the kernel installed with FC3 (2.6.9-1.667) even if you did make a driver disk for it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Jimmie crack corn and I don't care...what kind of lousy attitude - - is THAT to have, huh? -- Dennis Miller - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Dec 13 22:07:57 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:07:57 -0800 Subject: 2 CPU support In-Reply-To: <1102951515.4372.9.camel@server.home> References: <1102951515.4372.9.camel@server.home> Message-ID: <41BE12BD.70600@vitalstream.com> Andreas Tolle wrote: > Start ksysguard in kde and look, if there are shown the cpu's. > > Andreas > > < When I use top or look at the graphical system menu it seems to > < indicate that only one proccessor is present. It's much easier to "cat /proc/cpuinfo" and see if two processors show up there. If not, either one is dead or you're running a UP kernel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Mon Dec 13 22:13:27 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:13:27 -0800 Subject: SiS Graphics setup In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b04121309202511cc16@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b04121309202511cc16@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <41BE1407.4050808@vitalstream.com> Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > Back to configuring my son's new machine. It had to stay in the > closet this weekend and I only get to work on it during the day this > week. > > I'm looking for info on what graphics adapter to use. Here's what I > see in lspci: > > [root at Christmas root]# lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 741/741GX/M741 > Host (rev 03) > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0003 > 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS964 [MuTIOL > Media IO] (rev 36) > 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01) > 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] > Sound Controller (rev a0) > 00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 > Controller (rev 0f) > 00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 > Controller (rev 0f) > 00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 > Controller (rev 0f) > 00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller > 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 > PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] > 661FX/M661FX/M661MX/741/M741/760/M760 PCI/AGP > > I don't see any of these in the FC2 display config utility. Any ideas? There is a "sis_drv.o" in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers, so I'd guess that's the driver to use. In fact, I quote from http://www.X.org: 2.5 Video driver enhancements o SiS driver updates include o output device hotplugging o lots of fixes for 661, 741, 760 <<<<<<<----- HINT! HINT! o extended interface for SiSCtrl? o extended LCD handling (allow more modes) o HDTV support (480p, 480i, 720p. 1080i; 315/330 series) o Added video blitter Xv adapter (315/330 series) o extended RENDER acceleration Does that help? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Mon Dec 13 22:16:50 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:16:50 -0800 Subject: CD/DVD drive In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41BE14D2.1070700@vitalstream.com> Tapas Ranjan wrote: > Hi : > I was looking for a CD/DVD-RW external drive to buy for my Dell > inspiron 1100 computer. I found out one good deal in Dell's web site. The > product is something like this : > > ------------------- > PLEXTOR > 12X/4X/16X DVD+RW / 8X/4X/16X DVD-RW / 48X/24X/48X CD-RW PX-712UF External > Combo Drive - FireWire and USB 2.0 > -------------------- > > Please help in deciding, whether it's a good product and will work > for linux without much trouble. Should work fine. And Tapas, PLEASE don't respond to someone else's message and change the subject line if you want to start a new thread. To start a new thread, send a completely NEW message to redhat-install-list at redhat.com with an appropriate subject line. What you did is called "thread hijacking" and it's not appreciated as it screws up news readers that display messages in thread order. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Try to look unimportant. The bad guys may be low on ammo. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Dec 13 22:18:57 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:18:57 -0800 Subject: Netfinity hangs at running /sbin/loader In-Reply-To: <200412132008.iBDK84af028996@fozzie.webservepro.com> References: <200412132008.iBDK84af028996@fozzie.webservepro.com> Message-ID: <41BE1551.7040204@vitalstream.com> J.P. Fischer wrote: > Hi, > Trying to install RHEL onto an IBM Netfinity 4000R, dual P3 550Mhz > processors, 256Mb. > During CD-bootup it hangs at "running /sbin/loader" . > What to do? Uh, the first thing to try is to add "noapic" to the end of the boot command line: boot: linux noapic and see if that gets you anywhere. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 markknecht at gmail.com Mon Dec 13 22:20:34 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:20:34 -0800 Subject: SiS Graphics setup In-Reply-To: <41BE1407.4050808@vitalstream.com> References: <5bdc1c8b04121309202511cc16@mail.gmail.com> <41BE1407.4050808@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0412131420293ba07a@mail.gmail.com> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:13:27 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > Hi, > > Back to configuring my son's new machine. It had to stay in the > > closet this weekend and I only get to work on it during the day this > > week. > > > > I'm looking for info on what graphics adapter to use. Here's what I > > see in lspci: > > > > [root at Christmas root]# lspci > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 741/741GX/M741 > > Host (rev 03) > > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0003 > > 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS964 [MuTIOL > > Media IO] (rev 36) > > 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01) > > 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] > > Sound Controller (rev a0) > > 00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 > > Controller (rev 0f) > > 00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 > > Controller (rev 0f) > > 00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 > > Controller (rev 0f) > > 00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller > > 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 > > PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] > > 661FX/M661FX/M661MX/741/M741/760/M760 PCI/AGP > > > > I don't see any of these in the FC2 display config utility. Any ideas? > > There is a "sis_drv.o" in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers, so I'd guess > that's the driver to use. In fact, I quote from http://www.X.org: > > 2.5 Video driver enhancements > > o SiS driver updates include > > o output device hotplugging > > o lots of fixes for 661, 741, 760 <<<<<<<----- HINT! HINT! > > o extended interface for SiSCtrl? > > o extended LCD handling (allow more modes) > > o HDTV support (480p, 480i, 720p. 1080i; 315/330 series) > > o Added video blitter Xv adapter (315/330 series) > > o extended RENDER acceleration > > Does that help? Yep. Found as much this morning when I ran across a good web site. The SiS driver is loaded but my 3D performance is pretty bad at about 200FPS. Thanks, Mark From sarangi at bpost.kek.jp Mon Dec 13 22:34:02 2004 From: sarangi at bpost.kek.jp (Tapas Ranjan) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 07:34:02 +0900 (JST) Subject: CD/DVD drive In-Reply-To: <41BE14D2.1070700@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > Tapas Ranjan wrote: > > Hi : > > I was looking for a CD/DVD-RW external drive to buy for my Dell > > inspiron 1100 computer. I found out one good deal in Dell's web site. The > > product is something like this : > > > > ------------------- > > PLEXTOR > > 12X/4X/16X DVD+RW / 8X/4X/16X DVD-RW / 48X/24X/48X CD-RW PX-712UF External > > Combo Drive - FireWire and USB 2.0 > > -------------------- > > > > Please help in deciding, whether it's a good product and will work > > for linux without much trouble. > > Should work fine. Thanks Rick. So, I am going to buy it. > > And Tapas, PLEASE don't respond to someone else's message and change the > subject line if you want to start a new thread. To start a new thread, > send a completely NEW message to redhat-install-list at redhat.com with an > appropriate subject line. What you did is called "thread hijacking" > and it's not appreciated as it screws up news readers that display > messages in thread order. I guess, I change the subject line, probably didn't do the others quite properly. Anyways, will take care afterwards. ---Tapas From markknecht at gmail.com Mon Dec 13 23:13:03 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:13:03 -0800 Subject: SiS Graphics setup In-Reply-To: <41BE16A2.8090105@vitalstream.com> References: <5bdc1c8b04121309202511cc16@mail.gmail.com> <41BE1407.4050808@vitalstream.com> <5bdc1c8b0412131420293ba07a@mail.gmail.com> <41BE16A2.8090105@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b04121315137d6b561@mail.gmail.com> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:24:34 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > Yep. Found as much this morning when I ran across a good web site. The > > SiS driver is loaded but my 3D performance is pretty bad at about > > 200FPS. > > Hah, hmmm. Do you have all of the necessary 3D boosts loaded? Try > "man 4 sis" to see the options available for that driver. Maybe a > combo of them will do the magic for you. I don't know. The xorg.conf is just default except for changing the driver name by hand from vesa to sis. Sometimes there are other drivers that have to be loaded, at least with ATI and NVidia. Possibly there is something like that here that I haven't discovered yet. I'll have to check tomorrow as the kid is due home in about 5 minutes so the machine is packed up and in the closet again. I had a good day: 1) Found out about the SiS driver and found a kernel that seems to work well. Got that booting with no complaints. 2) Got Half-Life working using Cedega. (WineX) Hard to believe but you can play that game on a 128MB machine! The less sound and video seem perfect. Amazing! 3) Switched wireless network adapters and got this one (DWL-520) to install using ndiswrapper. It see my network using the scan option, and then 'attaches' (I guess) when I put in the 24 digit key, but the card isn't configured yet to do DHCP and ndiswrapper isn't starting when I reboot. 4) Got my wife's XP box working with the DWL-G510 that I'd been trying to use for the last 2 weeks under Linux. She wants to switch to Linux too so I'll have to figure out how to handle that. The madwifi driver gets started but complains about the HAL layer being incorrect. The madwifi folks say they need a new HAL file from Atheros. Tomorrow finish getting the wireless to work on boot and see about acceleration on the SiS graphics adapter. Once that's done I can wrap the package and get ready to leave on Friday. Thanks so much for your help! Cheers, Mark From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Dec 13 23:25:52 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:25:52 -0800 Subject: CD/DVD drive In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41BE2500.3070301@vitalstream.com> Tapas Ranjan wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>Tapas Ranjan wrote: >> >>>Hi : >>> I was looking for a CD/DVD-RW external drive to buy for my Dell >>>inspiron 1100 computer. I found out one good deal in Dell's web site. The >>>product is something like this : >>> >>>------------------- >>> PLEXTOR >>>12X/4X/16X DVD+RW / 8X/4X/16X DVD-RW / 48X/24X/48X CD-RW PX-712UF External >>>Combo Drive - FireWire and USB 2.0 >>>-------------------- >>> >>> Please help in deciding, whether it's a good product and will work >>>for linux without much trouble. >> >>Should work fine. > > > Thanks Rick. So, I am going to buy it. > > >>And Tapas, PLEASE don't respond to someone else's message and change the >>subject line if you want to start a new thread. To start a new thread, >>send a completely NEW message to redhat-install-list at redhat.com with an >>appropriate subject line. What you did is called "thread hijacking" >>and it's not appreciated as it screws up news readers that display >>messages in thread order. > > > I guess, I change the subject line, probably didn't do the others > quite properly. Anyways, will take care afterwards. Good deal. If you're starting a thread, use a NEW message--don't reuse an old one. This is one case where recycling isn't a good idea! ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gnichols at tpg.com.au Tue Dec 14 04:07:05 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:07:05 +1100 Subject: SiS Graphics setup References: <5bdc1c8b04121309202511cc16@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <002001c4e192$5fcb99b0$0101a8c0@youru51ci7l8m4> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Knecht" To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 4:20 AM Subject: SiS Graphics setup > Hi, > Back to configuring my son's new machine. It had to stay in the > closet this weekend and I only get to work on it during the day this > week. > > I'm looking for info on what graphics adapter to use. Here's what I > see in lspci: > > [root at Christmas root]# lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 741/741GX/M741 > Host (rev 03) > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0003 > 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS964 [MuTIOL > Media IO] (rev 36) > 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev > 01) > 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] > Sound Controller (rev a0) > 00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 > Controller (rev 0f) > 00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 > Controller (rev 0f) > 00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 > Controller (rev 0f) > 00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 > Controller > 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 > PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] > 661FX/M661FX/M661MX/741/M741/760/M760 PCI/AGP > > I don't see any of these in the FC2 display config utility. Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Mark > Mark, I have a SIS display adaptor on my old lap top and on earlier versions of RH it proved to be a real dog. However, I installed FC2 on it some months ago and simply set the display to a generic LCD 1024x768 and it all worked OK. It should also work if you have a CRT display by setting it to the 'generic' and entering the vertical and horizontal sync values and the resolution you want and your monitor supports. The latest X has support for these SIS chips now. Graeme. From andtolle at tolle-netz.de Tue Dec 14 08:05:58 2004 From: andtolle at tolle-netz.de (Andreas Tolle) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:05:58 +0100 Subject: Fedora Core3: How to make Module-Disk for Installation, Problems with megaraid In-Reply-To: <41BE1287.9010001@vitalstream.com> References: <1102879261.4157.28.camel@server.home> <41BE1287.9010001@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1103011558.2405.17.camel@server.home> Am Mo, 2004-12-13 um 23.07 schrieb Rick Stevens: > Andreas Tolle wrote: > > Hallo, > > > > I have an HP LC2000 machine with an HP-NetRAID 2M controller and 5 disks > > in raid 5. He runs with Suse 9.1 and the 2.6.5 kernel very well using > > the megaraid (old) module. > > Now I want to setup the Server with the Fedora Core3. > > At startup, he loads the megaraid.mbox modul, but no harddisks are > > found. Also when I add "linux acpi=off apm=off" (without quotes) in the > > startup-screen. > > Now I want to add the megaraid.ko module from Suse via module-disk > > during the Installation manually, but I don't know, whitch format is > > needed. > > Or is there a chance to get the inbuild driver megaraid.mbox for > > running well? > > I think the FC3 megaraid driver works well, but I can't tell you for > certain. Keep in mind that drivers such as that one are built against > the kernel and use versioning so the megaraid driver built for the > 2.6.5 kernel works ONLY with the 2.6.5 kernel. The odds are that it > won't work with the kernel installed with FC3 (2.6.9-1.667) even if you > did make a driver disk for it. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - I thought also, that the megaraid driver is supported in fc3, but definite no in my case with my hp netraid. I have tested to install fc2 last evening, this runs well with the buildin megaraid driver. You make mention of building a driver disk. Do you know, where I can find any documentation about this? Thank you! Andreas From andtolle at tolle-netz.de Tue Dec 14 08:14:37 2004 From: andtolle at tolle-netz.de (Andreas Tolle) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:14:37 +0100 Subject: 2 CPU support In-Reply-To: <41BE12BD.70600@vitalstream.com> References: <1102951515.4372.9.camel@server.home> <41BE12BD.70600@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1103012076.2405.25.camel@server.home> Am Mo, 2004-12-13 um 23.07 schrieb Rick Stevens: > Andreas Tolle wrote: > > Start ksysguard in kde and look, if there are shown the cpu's. > > > > Andreas > > > > < When I use top or look at the graphical system menu it seems to > > < indicate that only one proccessor is present. > > It's much easier to "cat /proc/cpuinfo" and see if two processors show > up there. If not, either one is dead or you're running a UP kernel. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - Yes, of course, you are right. But he has a workstation. I thought it is easier for him to work in the colored envirement by mouseclick. :-) Andreas From andtolle at tolle-netz.de Tue Dec 14 08:35:37 2004 From: andtolle at tolle-netz.de (Andreas Tolle) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:35:37 +0100 Subject: Netfinity hangs at running /sbin/loader In-Reply-To: <200412132008.iBDK84af028996@fozzie.webservepro.com> References: <200412132008.iBDK84af028996@fozzie.webservepro.com> Message-ID: <1103013336.2406.31.camel@server.home> Am Mo, 2004-12-13 um 21.07 schrieb J.P. Fischer: > Hi, > Trying to install RHEL onto an IBM Netfinity 4000R, dual P3 550Mhz > processors, 256Mb. > During CD-bootup it hangs at "running /sbin/loader" . > What to do? If you have an IDE-CDROM, try to enter linux dma=off (or nodma) at the bootprompt. Andreas From harold at hallikainen.com Tue Dec 14 16:15:21 2004 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:15:21 -0800 (PST) Subject: ftp script? Message-ID: <31072.207.177.227.29.1103040921.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> I'm trying to have ftp send a file to another machine in a shell script called by cron. After Googling around, reading various man pages, etc., it looks like I've gotten the script to log in properly by setting up stuff in .netrc , but I'm still having trouble sending the cd and put commands into ftp from the script. Can anyone give me some clues? This is running on an RH8 machine. THANKS! Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com From kgoodwin at datamarktech.com Tue Dec 14 16:30:28 2004 From: kgoodwin at datamarktech.com (Kenneth Goodwin) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:30:28 -0500 Subject: ftp script? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Harold > Hallikainen > Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 11:15 AM > To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > Subject: ftp script? > > > I'm trying to have ftp send a file to another machine in a > shell script > called by cron. After Googling around, reading various man > pages, etc., it > looks like I've gotten the script to log in properly by > setting up stuff > in .netrc , but I'm still having trouble sending the cd and > put commands > into ftp from the script. Can anyone give me some clues? > This is running > on an RH8 machine. > You can have your shell script dynamically create each time a NETRC file to do want you want to do at that instance and then call the FTP command for that system name. Or you can First put everything that is always going to be the same into a static NETRC file entry for that system IE. everything you want it to do everytime you connect as long as you can do these things prior to your "unique" stuff that has to be generated on the fly. typially - login, password, chdir's Then to do the custom stuff, you have the shell script composite a string or build a temp file to act as STDIN to the ftp commmand. quick off the top of my head example of the latter to give you the general idea, check the ftp man pages for ftp flags and proper commands echo "cd stored_data.d\nput ${MYFILENAME}\nquit" | ftp -i systemname or echo "cd ${TARGET1}" > my_ftptemp_file for fname in my_data_files* do echo "put $fname" >> my_ftptemp_file done echo "quit" >> my_ftptemp_file cat my_ftptemp_file | ftp -i systemname > 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 rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Dec 14 17:42:46 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:42:46 -0800 Subject: Fedora Core3: How to make Module-Disk for Installation, Problems with megaraid In-Reply-To: <1103011558.2405.17.camel@server.home> References: <1102879261.4157.28.camel@server.home> <41BE1287.9010001@vitalstream.com> <1103011558.2405.17.camel@server.home> Message-ID: <41BF2616.3090709@vitalstream.com> Andreas Tolle wrote: > Am Mo, 2004-12-13 um 23.07 schrieb Rick Stevens: > >>Andreas Tolle wrote: >> >>>Hallo, >>> >>>I have an HP LC2000 machine with an HP-NetRAID 2M controller and 5 disks >>>in raid 5. He runs with Suse 9.1 and the 2.6.5 kernel very well using >>>the megaraid (old) module. >>>Now I want to setup the Server with the Fedora Core3. >>>At startup, he loads the megaraid.mbox modul, but no harddisks are >>>found. Also when I add "linux acpi=off apm=off" (without quotes) in the >>>startup-screen. >>>Now I want to add the megaraid.ko module from Suse via module-disk >>>during the Installation manually, but I don't know, whitch format is >>>needed. >>>Or is there a chance to get the inbuild driver megaraid.mbox for >>>running well? >> >>I think the FC3 megaraid driver works well, but I can't tell you for >>certain. Keep in mind that drivers such as that one are built against >>the kernel and use versioning so the megaraid driver built for the >>2.6.5 kernel works ONLY with the 2.6.5 kernel. The odds are that it >>won't work with the kernel installed with FC3 (2.6.9-1.667) even if you >>did make a driver disk for it. >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > > > I thought also, that the megaraid driver is supported in fc3, but > definite no in my case with my hp netraid. I have tested to install fc2 > last evening, this runs well with the buildin megaraid driver. > You make mention of building a driver disk. Do you know, where I can > find any documentation about this? There are two megaraid drivers in FC3...megaraid_mbox and megaraid_mm. The "_mm" is the management module, the "_mbox" is the actual driver. Looking at the source code, the HP NetRAID isn't listed as supported. The Dell "PERC", LSI Logic "MegaRAID", the Intel RAID SRxxx, FSC and Acer are listed. The nearest driver I can see is the aacraid driver, and the source only shows the NetRAID 4M as being supported. You probably should address this question to the fedora-users mailing list (fedora-users at redhat.com). As far as building a driver disk, it's not trivial and if you're not experienced in it, I wouldn't recommend trying. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - A day for firm decisions!!! Well, then again, maybe not! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Dec 14 17:45:19 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:45:19 -0800 Subject: 2 CPU support In-Reply-To: <1103012076.2405.25.camel@server.home> References: <1102951515.4372.9.camel@server.home> <41BE12BD.70600@vitalstream.com> <1103012076.2405.25.camel@server.home> Message-ID: <41BF26AF.9020705@vitalstream.com> Andreas Tolle wrote: > Am Mo, 2004-12-13 um 23.07 schrieb Rick Stevens: > >>Andreas Tolle wrote: >> >>>Start ksysguard in kde and look, if there are shown the cpu's. >>> >>>Andreas >>> >>>< When I use top or look at the graphical system menu it seems to >>>< indicate that only one proccessor is present. >> >>It's much easier to "cat /proc/cpuinfo" and see if two processors show >>up there. If not, either one is dead or you're running a UP kernel. >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > > > Yes, of course, you are right. But he has a workstation. I thought it is > easier for him to work in the colored envirement by mouseclick. :-) True. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Veni, Vidi, VISA: I came, I saw, I did a little shopping. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Dec 14 17:47:15 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:47:15 -0800 Subject: ftp script? In-Reply-To: <31072.207.177.227.29.1103040921.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> References: <31072.207.177.227.29.1103040921.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <41BF2723.5060106@vitalstream.com> Harold Hallikainen wrote: > I'm trying to have ftp send a file to another machine in a shell script > called by cron. After Googling around, reading various man pages, etc., it > looks like I've gotten the script to log in properly by setting up stuff > in .netrc , but I'm still having trouble sending the cd and put commands > into ftp from the script. Can anyone give me some clues? This is running > on an RH8 machine. Have a look at the "ncftpput" and "ncftpget" commands. They are FTP client programs specifically written to be used in batch or shell scripts. "man ncftpput" and "man ncftpget" for details. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - First Law of Work: - - If you can't get it done in the first 24 hours, work nights. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From harold at hallikainen.com Tue Dec 14 18:45:49 2004 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:45:49 -0800 (PST) Subject: ftp script? In-Reply-To: <41BF2723.5060106@vitalstream.com> References: <31072.207.177.227.29.1103040921.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> <41BF2723.5060106@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <22028.207.177.227.29.1103049949.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> IT WORKS!!! Thanks! Harold > Harold Hallikainen wrote: >> I'm trying to have ftp send a file to another machine in a shell script >> called by cron. After Googling around, reading various man pages, etc., >> it >> looks like I've gotten the script to log in properly by setting up stuff >> in .netrc , but I'm still having trouble sending the cd and put commands >> into ftp from the script. Can anyone give me some clues? This is running >> on an RH8 machine. > > Have a look at the "ncftpput" and "ncftpget" commands. They are > FTP client programs specifically written to be used in batch or shell > scripts. "man ncftpput" and "man ncftpget" for details. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - First Law of Work: - > - If you can't get it done in the first 24 hours, work nights. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com From andtolle at tolle-netz.de Tue Dec 14 18:53:20 2004 From: andtolle at tolle-netz.de (Andreas Tolle) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:53:20 +0100 Subject: Fedora Core3: How to make Module-Disk for Installation, Problems with megaraid In-Reply-To: <41BF2616.3090709@vitalstream.com> References: <1102879261.4157.28.camel@server.home> <41BE1287.9010001@vitalstream.com> <1103011558.2405.17.camel@server.home> <41BF2616.3090709@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1103050400.5254.9.camel@server.home> Am Di, 2004-12-14 um 18.42 schrieb Rick Stevens: > Andreas Tolle wrote: > > Am Mo, 2004-12-13 um 23.07 schrieb Rick Stevens: > > > >>Andreas Tolle wrote: > >> > >>>Hallo, > >>> > >>>I have an HP LC2000 machine with an HP-NetRAID 2M controller and 5 disks > >>>in raid 5. He runs with Suse 9.1 and the 2.6.5 kernel very well using > >>>the megaraid (old) module. > >>>Now I want to setup the Server with the Fedora Core3. > >>>At startup, he loads the megaraid.mbox modul, but no harddisks are > >>>found. Also when I add "linux acpi=off apm=off" (without quotes) in the > >>>startup-screen. > >>>Now I want to add the megaraid.ko module from Suse via module-disk > >>>during the Installation manually, but I don't know, whitch format is > >>>needed. > >>>Or is there a chance to get the inbuild driver megaraid.mbox for > >>>running well? > >> > >>I think the FC3 megaraid driver works well, but I can't tell you for > >>certain. Keep in mind that drivers such as that one are built against > >>the kernel and use versioning so the megaraid driver built for the > >>2.6.5 kernel works ONLY with the 2.6.5 kernel. The odds are that it > >>won't work with the kernel installed with FC3 (2.6.9-1.667) even if you > >>did make a driver disk for it. > >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > > > > > > I thought also, that the megaraid driver is supported in fc3, but > > definite no in my case with my hp netraid. I have tested to install fc2 > > last evening, this runs well with the buildin megaraid driver. > > You make mention of building a driver disk. Do you know, where I can > > find any documentation about this? > > There are two megaraid drivers in FC3...megaraid_mbox and megaraid_mm. > The "_mm" is the management module, the "_mbox" is the actual driver. > > Looking at the source code, the HP NetRAID isn't listed as supported. > The Dell "PERC", LSI Logic "MegaRAID", the Intel RAID SRxxx, FSC > and Acer are listed. > > The nearest driver I can see is the aacraid driver, and the source only > shows the NetRAID 4M as being supported. > > You probably should address this question to the fedora-users mailing > list (fedora-users at redhat.com). > > As far as building a driver disk, it's not trivial and if you're not > experienced in it, I wouldn't recommend trying. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - Thank you very much, Rick. The aacaraid driver I have tryed a few days ago, also nothing. :-( Andreas From andtolle at tolle-netz.de Tue Dec 14 19:26:08 2004 From: andtolle at tolle-netz.de (Andreas Tolle) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:26:08 +0100 Subject: Fedora Core3: How to make Module-Disk for Installation, Problems with megaraid In-Reply-To: <41BF2616.3090709@vitalstream.com> References: <1102879261.4157.28.camel@server.home> <41BE1287.9010001@vitalstream.com> <1103011558.2405.17.camel@server.home> <41BF2616.3090709@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1103052368.5254.23.camel@server.home> Am Di, 2004-12-14 um 18.42 schrieb Rick Stevens: > You probably should address this question to the fedora-users mailing > list (fedora-users at redhat.com). That is the solution!! My problem is known there under Bug 135484. I must replace the original kernel with a newer rpm on install. Thank you very much for your tip, Rick! Andreas From john.j.poole at usa-spaceops.com Tue Dec 14 20:22:44 2004 From: john.j.poole at usa-spaceops.com (Poole, John J) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:22:44 -0500 Subject: SiS Graphics setup (Mark Knecht) Message-ID: -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 12:01 PM To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com Subject: Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 10, Issue 14 Send Redhat-install-list mailing list submissions to redhat-install-list at redhat.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com You can reach the person managing the list at redhat-install-list-owner at redhat.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Redhat-install-list digest..." Mark, An excellent site to try and get SIS to do 3D: http://www.winischhofer.at/linuxsisvga.shtml John Today's Topics: 1. SiS Graphics setup (Mark Knecht) 2. Re: PHP and apache on redhat 9 (Chris Hewitt) 3. CD/DVD drive (Tapas Ranjan) 4. Netfinity hangs at running /sbin/loader (J.P. Fischer) 5. Re: PHP and apache on redhat 9 (Rick Stevens) 6. Re: Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 10, Issue 11 (Rick Stevens) 7. Re: RHCE doubts (Rick Stevens) 8. Re: Fedora Core3: How to make Module-Disk for Installation, Problems with megaraid (Rick Stevens) 9. Re: 2 CPU support (Rick Stevens) 10. Re: SiS Graphics setup (Rick Stevens) 11. Re: CD/DVD drive (Rick Stevens) 12. Re: Netfinity hangs at running /sbin/loader (Rick Stevens) 13. Re: SiS Graphics setup (Mark Knecht) 14. Re: CD/DVD drive (Tapas Ranjan) 15. Re: SiS Graphics setup (Mark Knecht) 16. Re: CD/DVD drive (Rick Stevens) 17. Re: SiS Graphics setup (Graeme Nichols) 18. Re: Fedora Core3: How to make Module-Disk for Installation, Problems with megaraid (Andreas Tolle) 19. Re: 2 CPU support (Andreas Tolle) 20. Re: Netfinity hangs at running /sbin/loader (Andreas Tolle) 21. ftp script? (Harold Hallikainen) 22. RE: ftp script? (Kenneth Goodwin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:20:08 -0800 From: Mark Knecht Subject: SiS Graphics setup To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b04121309202511cc16 at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi, Back to configuring my son's new machine. It had to stay in the closet this weekend and I only get to work on it during the day this week. I'm looking for info on what graphics adapter to use. Here's what I see in lspci: [root at Christmas root]# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 741/741GX/M741 Host (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0003 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS964 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 36) 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01) 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0) 00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661FX/M661FX/M661MX/741/M741/760/M760 PCI/AGP I don't see any of these in the FC2 display config utility. Any ideas? Thanks, Mark ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:36:48 +0000 From: Chris Hewitt Subject: Re: PHP and apache on redhat 9 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <1102966606.26244.10.camel at amdk63.homemanordata.nodom> Content-Type: text/plain On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 18:39, othman El Moulat wrote: > thanks ted for your reply... > actually i want to learn the whole business of php technology so i opted for > installing and reconfiguring apache and php from scratch ...after some trials > it works :) and this has taught me a lot about the installation issues and > headaches :) > > but if i want to start a serious adventure in PHP development i should have > some Professional IDE for php ...i wonder if someone knows about any FREE > downloadable IDE that i can get from the WWW... I use just Quanta Plus, but the version on RH9 will be rather old. If you search the php-install and php-general archives at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com this question has been asked many times and you will find many recommendations. HTH Chris ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 04:37:58 +0900 (JST) From: Tapas Ranjan Subject: CD/DVD drive To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi : I was looking for a CD/DVD-RW external drive to buy for my Dell inspiron 1100 computer. I found out one good deal in Dell's web site. The product is something like this : ------------------- PLEXTOR 12X/4X/16X DVD+RW / 8X/4X/16X DVD-RW / 48X/24X/48X CD-RW PX-712UF External Combo Drive - FireWire and USB 2.0 -------------------- Please help in deciding, whether it's a good product and will work for linux without much trouble. Thanks ---Tapas ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:07:59 -0500 From: "J.P. Fischer" Subject: Netfinity hangs at running /sbin/loader To: Message-ID: <200412132008.iBDK84af028996 at fozzie.webservepro.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, Trying to install RHEL onto an IBM Netfinity 4000R, dual P3 550Mhz processors, 256Mb. During CD-bootup it hangs at "running /sbin/loader" . What to do? ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:46:12 -0800 From: Rick Stevens Subject: Re: PHP and apache on redhat 9 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <41BE0DA4.1050101 at vitalstream.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Chris Hewitt wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 18:39, othman El Moulat wrote: > >>thanks ted for your reply... >>actually i want to learn the whole business of php technology so i opted for >>installing and reconfiguring apache and php from scratch ...after some trials >>it works :) and this has taught me a lot about the installation issues and >>headaches :) >> >>but if i want to start a serious adventure in PHP development i should have >>some Professional IDE for php ...i wonder if someone knows about any FREE >>downloadable IDE that i can get from the WWW... > > > I use just Quanta Plus, but the version on RH9 will be rather old. If > you search the php-install and php-general archives at > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com this question has been asked many times and > you will find many recommendations. Also check http://www.php.net for some leads. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Swap memory error: You lose your mind" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:49:12 -0800 From: Rick Stevens Subject: Re: Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 10, Issue 11 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <41BE0E58.9020901 at vitalstream.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Anthony Joseph Deo wrote: > Nathan, > > Thank you very much. I ddin't realize that there was a separate kernel for dual cpu support. Actually, you can use the SMP (symmetrical multi processor) kernel on UP (uniprocessor) machines. The kernel is a bit bigger than you need and it isn't as efficient, but it will work. The UP kernel will only drive one processor on SMP machines, but again, it will work (as you have found out). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Swap memory error: You lose your mind" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:01:14 -0800 From: Rick Stevens Subject: Re: RHCE doubts To: tariq samsudeen , Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <41BE112A.3010400 at vitalstream.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed tariq samsudeen wrote: > hi gurus, > i hv few clarification regarding rhce....im preparing for the exam on > my own using fedora core 2...im using rhce exam study guide by michael > jang and red hat linux bible by christopher negus..... > I want 2 clarifications, please help me. > 1. redhat manual raid configuration after installation. > should i use LABEL=/ in fstab r directly use the device name example, dev/md0 > michael jang says we should use LABEL, where as the website > www.linuxhomenetworking.com says... > Note: It is very important that you DO NOT use labels in the > /etc/fstab file for RAID devices, just use the real device name such > as "/dev/md0". On startup, the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit script checks the > /etc/fstab file for device entries that match RAID set names in the > /etc/raidtab file. It will not automatically start the RAID set driver > for the RAID set if it doesn't find a match. Device mounting then > occurs later on in the boot process. Mounting a RAID device that > doesn't have a loaded driver can corrupt your data giving the error > below. > > with fedora, its wrking whn i use dev/md0.....im not sure abt RHEL...... I'd have to go back and check the RHEL script, but I think the website is correct. Personally, I don't like labels at all for the simple fact that, if you set up a different Linux along side your current one (even if it's on a new drive), you'll have two "/usr" or whatever partitions. Which one gets mounted when /etc/fstab says "/usr"? You have no control over it. I'm a control freak, so I try to use device names rather than labels whenever possible. > 2. DNS configuration..... > should i have to copy these files... > cp -f /etc/named.conf /var/named/chroot/etc > cp -f /etc/rndc.* /var/named/chroot/etc > and also the zone file example: example.com.zone > cp -f /var/named/example.com.zone /var/named/chroot/var/named > with fedora the above thing is wrking....wht abt RHEL.... If you set up named to run in a chrooted environment (in other words, you give it the "-t /directory" option), all files needed to make named work MUST be in that specified directory (by default, this is "/var/named/chroot/"). Once the daemon starts and gets chrooted, it can't back up past the specified directory to look at the rest of the filesystem. As far as named is concerned, the given directory IS the root of the filesystem ("/"). That's what chroot does..."for this process, change the root of the filesystem to the given directory". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:07:03 -0800 From: Rick Stevens Subject: Re: Fedora Core3: How to make Module-Disk for Installation, Problems with megaraid To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <41BE1287.9010001 at vitalstream.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Andreas Tolle wrote: > Hallo, > > I have an HP LC2000 machine with an HP-NetRAID 2M controller and 5 disks > in raid 5. He runs with Suse 9.1 and the 2.6.5 kernel very well using > the megaraid (old) module. > Now I want to setup the Server with the Fedora Core3. > At startup, he loads the megaraid.mbox modul, but no harddisks are > found. Also when I add "linux acpi=off apm=off" (without quotes) in the > startup-screen. > Now I want to add the megaraid.ko module from Suse via module-disk > during the Installation manually, but I don't know, whitch format is > needed. > Or is there a chance to get the inbuild driver megaraid.mbox for > running well? I think the FC3 megaraid driver works well, but I can't tell you for certain. Keep in mind that drivers such as that one are built against the kernel and use versioning so the megaraid driver built for the 2.6.5 kernel works ONLY with the 2.6.5 kernel. The odds are that it won't work with the kernel installed with FC3 (2.6.9-1.667) even if you did make a driver disk for it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Jimmie crack corn and I don't care...what kind of lousy attitude - - is THAT to have, huh? -- Dennis Miller - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:07:57 -0800 From: Rick Stevens Subject: Re: 2 CPU support To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <41BE12BD.70600 at vitalstream.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Andreas Tolle wrote: > Start ksysguard in kde and look, if there are shown the cpu's. > > Andreas > > < When I use top or look at the graphical system menu it seems to > < indicate that only one proccessor is present. It's much easier to "cat /proc/cpuinfo" and see if two processors show up there. If not, either one is dead or you're running a UP kernel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:13:27 -0800 From: Rick Stevens Subject: Re: SiS Graphics setup To: Mark Knecht , Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <41BE1407.4050808 at vitalstream.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > Back to configuring my son's new machine. It had to stay in the > closet this weekend and I only get to work on it during the day this > week. > > I'm looking for info on what graphics adapter to use. Here's what I > see in lspci: > > [root at Christmas root]# lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 741/741GX/M741 > Host (rev 03) > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0003 > 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS964 [MuTIOL > Media IO] (rev 36) > 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01) > 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] > Sound Controller (rev a0) > 00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 > Controller (rev 0f) > 00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 > Controller (rev 0f) > 00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 > Controller (rev 0f) > 00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller > 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 > PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] > 661FX/M661FX/M661MX/741/M741/760/M760 PCI/AGP > > I don't see any of these in the FC2 display config utility. Any ideas? There is a "sis_drv.o" in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers, so I'd guess that's the driver to use. In fact, I quote from http://www.X.org: 2.5 Video driver enhancements o SiS driver updates include o output device hotplugging o lots of fixes for 661, 741, 760 <<<<<<<----- HINT! HINT! o extended interface for SiSCtrl? o extended LCD handling (allow more modes) o HDTV support (480p, 480i, 720p. 1080i; 315/330 series) o Added video blitter Xv adapter (315/330 series) o extended RENDER acceleration Does that help? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:16:50 -0800 From: Rick Stevens Subject: Re: CD/DVD drive To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <41BE14D2.1070700 at vitalstream.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Tapas Ranjan wrote: > Hi : > I was looking for a CD/DVD-RW external drive to buy for my Dell > inspiron 1100 computer. I found out one good deal in Dell's web site. The > product is something like this : > > ------------------- > PLEXTOR > 12X/4X/16X DVD+RW / 8X/4X/16X DVD-RW / 48X/24X/48X CD-RW PX-712UF External > Combo Drive - FireWire and USB 2.0 > -------------------- > > Please help in deciding, whether it's a good product and will work > for linux without much trouble. Should work fine. And Tapas, PLEASE don't respond to someone else's message and change the subject line if you want to start a new thread. To start a new thread, send a completely NEW message to redhat-install-list at redhat.com with an appropriate subject line. What you did is called "thread hijacking" and it's not appreciated as it screws up news readers that display messages in thread order. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Try to look unimportant. The bad guys may be low on ammo. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:18:57 -0800 From: Rick Stevens Subject: Re: Netfinity hangs at running /sbin/loader To: pfischer at atmit.com, Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <41BE1551.7040204 at vitalstream.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed J.P. Fischer wrote: > Hi, > Trying to install RHEL onto an IBM Netfinity 4000R, dual P3 550Mhz > processors, 256Mb. > During CD-bootup it hangs at "running /sbin/loader" . > What to do? Uh, the first thing to try is to add "noapic" to the end of the boot command line: boot: linux noapic and see if that gets you anywhere. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 13 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:20:34 -0800 From: Mark Knecht Subject: Re: SiS Graphics setup To: Rick Stevens Cc: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0412131420293ba07a at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:13:27 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > Hi, > > Back to configuring my son's new machine. It had to stay in the > > closet this weekend and I only get to work on it during the day this > > week. > > > > I'm looking for info on what graphics adapter to use. Here's what I > > see in lspci: > > > > [root at Christmas root]# lspci > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 741/741GX/M741 > > Host (rev 03) > > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0003 > > 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS964 [MuTIOL > > Media IO] (rev 36) > > 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01) > > 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] > > Sound Controller (rev a0) > > 00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 > > Controller (rev 0f) > > 00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 > > Controller (rev 0f) > > 00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 > > Controller (rev 0f) > > 00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller > > 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 > > PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] > > 661FX/M661FX/M661MX/741/M741/760/M760 PCI/AGP > > > > I don't see any of these in the FC2 display config utility. Any ideas? > > There is a "sis_drv.o" in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers, so I'd guess > that's the driver to use. In fact, I quote from http://www.X.org: > > 2.5 Video driver enhancements > > o SiS driver updates include > > o output device hotplugging > > o lots of fixes for 661, 741, 760 <<<<<<<----- HINT! HINT! > > o extended interface for SiSCtrl? > > o extended LCD handling (allow more modes) > > o HDTV support (480p, 480i, 720p. 1080i; 315/330 series) > > o Added video blitter Xv adapter (315/330 series) > > o extended RENDER acceleration > > Does that help? Yep. Found as much this morning when I ran across a good web site. The SiS driver is loaded but my 3D performance is pretty bad at about 200FPS. Thanks, Mark ------------------------------ Message: 14 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 07:34:02 +0900 (JST) From: Tapas Ranjan Subject: Re: CD/DVD drive To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > Tapas Ranjan wrote: > > Hi : > > I was looking for a CD/DVD-RW external drive to buy for my Dell > > inspiron 1100 computer. I found out one good deal in Dell's web site. The > > product is something like this : > > > > ------------------- > > PLEXTOR > > 12X/4X/16X DVD+RW / 8X/4X/16X DVD-RW / 48X/24X/48X CD-RW PX-712UF External > > Combo Drive - FireWire and USB 2.0 > > -------------------- > > > > Please help in deciding, whether it's a good product and will work > > for linux without much trouble. > > Should work fine. Thanks Rick. So, I am going to buy it. > > And Tapas, PLEASE don't respond to someone else's message and change the > subject line if you want to start a new thread. To start a new thread, > send a completely NEW message to redhat-install-list at redhat.com with an > appropriate subject line. What you did is called "thread hijacking" > and it's not appreciated as it screws up news readers that display > messages in thread order. I guess, I change the subject line, probably didn't do the others quite properly. Anyways, will take care afterwards. ---Tapas ------------------------------ Message: 15 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:13:03 -0800 From: Mark Knecht Subject: Re: SiS Graphics setup To: Rick Stevens Cc: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b04121315137d6b561 at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:24:34 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > Yep. Found as much this morning when I ran across a good web site. The > > SiS driver is loaded but my 3D performance is pretty bad at about > > 200FPS. > > Hah, hmmm. Do you have all of the necessary 3D boosts loaded? Try > "man 4 sis" to see the options available for that driver. Maybe a > combo of them will do the magic for you. I don't know. The xorg.conf is just default except for changing the driver name by hand from vesa to sis. Sometimes there are other drivers that have to be loaded, at least with ATI and NVidia. Possibly there is something like that here that I haven't discovered yet. I'll have to check tomorrow as the kid is due home in about 5 minutes so the machine is packed up and in the closet again. I had a good day: 1) Found out about the SiS driver and found a kernel that seems to work well. Got that booting with no complaints. 2) Got Half-Life working using Cedega. (WineX) Hard to believe but you can play that game on a 128MB machine! The less sound and video seem perfect. Amazing! 3) Switched wireless network adapters and got this one (DWL-520) to install using ndiswrapper. It see my network using the scan option, and then 'attaches' (I guess) when I put in the 24 digit key, but the card isn't configured yet to do DHCP and ndiswrapper isn't starting when I reboot. 4) Got my wife's XP box working with the DWL-G510 that I'd been trying to use for the last 2 weeks under Linux. She wants to switch to Linux too so I'll have to figure out how to handle that. The madwifi driver gets started but complains about the HAL layer being incorrect. The madwifi folks say they need a new HAL file from Atheros. Tomorrow finish getting the wireless to work on boot and see about acceleration on the SiS graphics adapter. Once that's done I can wrap the package and get ready to leave on Friday. Thanks so much for your help! Cheers, Mark ------------------------------ Message: 16 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:25:52 -0800 From: Rick Stevens Subject: Re: CD/DVD drive To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <41BE2500.3070301 at vitalstream.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Tapas Ranjan wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>Tapas Ranjan wrote: >> >>>Hi : >>> I was looking for a CD/DVD-RW external drive to buy for my Dell >>>inspiron 1100 computer. I found out one good deal in Dell's web site. The >>>product is something like this : >>> >>>------------------- >>> PLEXTOR >>>12X/4X/16X DVD+RW / 8X/4X/16X DVD-RW / 48X/24X/48X CD-RW PX-712UF External >>>Combo Drive - FireWire and USB 2.0 >>>-------------------- >>> >>> Please help in deciding, whether it's a good product and will work >>>for linux without much trouble. >> >>Should work fine. > > > Thanks Rick. So, I am going to buy it. > > >>And Tapas, PLEASE don't respond to someone else's message and change the >>subject line if you want to start a new thread. To start a new thread, >>send a completely NEW message to redhat-install-list at redhat.com with an >>appropriate subject line. What you did is called "thread hijacking" >>and it's not appreciated as it screws up news readers that display >>messages in thread order. > > > I guess, I change the subject line, probably didn't do the others > quite properly. Anyways, will take care afterwards. Good deal. If you're starting a thread, use a NEW message--don't reuse an old one. This is one case where recycling isn't a good idea! ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 17 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:07:05 +1100 From: "Graeme Nichols" Subject: Re: SiS Graphics setup To: "Mark Knecht" , "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" Message-ID: <002001c4e192$5fcb99b0$0101a8c0 at youru51ci7l8m4> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Knecht" To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 4:20 AM Subject: SiS Graphics setup > Hi, > Back to configuring my son's new machine. It had to stay in the > closet this weekend and I only get to work on it during the day this > week. > > I'm looking for info on what graphics adapter to use. Here's what I > see in lspci: > > [root at Christmas root]# lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 741/741GX/M741 > Host (rev 03) > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0003 > 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS964 [MuTIOL > Media IO] (rev 36) > 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev > 01) > 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] > Sound Controller (rev a0) > 00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 > Controller (rev 0f) > 00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 > Controller (rev 0f) > 00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 > Controller (rev 0f) > 00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 > Controller > 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 > PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] > 661FX/M661FX/M661MX/741/M741/760/M760 PCI/AGP > > I don't see any of these in the FC2 display config utility. Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Mark > Mark, I have a SIS display adaptor on my old lap top and on earlier versions of RH it proved to be a real dog. However, I installed FC2 on it some months ago and simply set the display to a generic LCD 1024x768 and it all worked OK. It should also work if you have a CRT display by setting it to the 'generic' and entering the vertical and horizontal sync values and the resolution you want and your monitor supports. The latest X has support for these SIS chips now. Graeme. ------------------------------ Message: 18 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:05:58 +0100 From: Andreas Tolle Subject: Re: Fedora Core3: How to make Module-Disk for Installation, Problems with megaraid To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <1103011558.2405.17.camel at server.home> Content-Type: text/plain Am Mo, 2004-12-13 um 23.07 schrieb Rick Stevens: > Andreas Tolle wrote: > > Hallo, > > > > I have an HP LC2000 machine with an HP-NetRAID 2M controller and 5 disks > > in raid 5. He runs with Suse 9.1 and the 2.6.5 kernel very well using > > the megaraid (old) module. > > Now I want to setup the Server with the Fedora Core3. > > At startup, he loads the megaraid.mbox modul, but no harddisks are > > found. Also when I add "linux acpi=off apm=off" (without quotes) in the > > startup-screen. > > Now I want to add the megaraid.ko module from Suse via module-disk > > during the Installation manually, but I don't know, whitch format is > > needed. > > Or is there a chance to get the inbuild driver megaraid.mbox for > > running well? > > I think the FC3 megaraid driver works well, but I can't tell you for > certain. Keep in mind that drivers such as that one are built against > the kernel and use versioning so the megaraid driver built for the > 2.6.5 kernel works ONLY with the 2.6.5 kernel. The odds are that it > won't work with the kernel installed with FC3 (2.6.9-1.667) even if you > did make a driver disk for it. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - I thought also, that the megaraid driver is supported in fc3, but definite no in my case with my hp netraid. I have tested to install fc2 last evening, this runs well with the buildin megaraid driver. You make mention of building a driver disk. Do you know, where I can find any documentation about this? Thank you! Andreas ------------------------------ Message: 19 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:14:37 +0100 From: Andreas Tolle Subject: Re: 2 CPU support To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <1103012076.2405.25.camel at server.home> Content-Type: text/plain Am Mo, 2004-12-13 um 23.07 schrieb Rick Stevens: > Andreas Tolle wrote: > > Start ksysguard in kde and look, if there are shown the cpu's. > > > > Andreas > > > > < When I use top or look at the graphical system menu it seems to > > < indicate that only one proccessor is present. > > It's much easier to "cat /proc/cpuinfo" and see if two processors show > up there. If not, either one is dead or you're running a UP kernel. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - Yes, of course, you are right. But he has a workstation. I thought it is easier for him to work in the colored envirement by mouseclick. :-) Andreas ------------------------------ Message: 20 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:35:37 +0100 From: Andreas Tolle Subject: Re: Netfinity hangs at running /sbin/loader To: pfischer at atmit.com, Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <1103013336.2406.31.camel at server.home> Content-Type: text/plain Am Mo, 2004-12-13 um 21.07 schrieb J.P. Fischer: > Hi, > Trying to install RHEL onto an IBM Netfinity 4000R, dual P3 550Mhz > processors, 256Mb. > During CD-bootup it hangs at "running /sbin/loader" . > What to do? If you have an IDE-CDROM, try to enter linux dma=off (or nodma) at the bootprompt. Andreas ------------------------------ Message: 21 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:15:21 -0800 (PST) From: "Harold Hallikainen" Subject: ftp script? To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com Message-ID: <31072.207.177.227.29.1103040921.squirrel at kauko.hallikainen.org> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 I'm trying to have ftp send a file to another machine in a shell script called by cron. After Googling around, reading various man pages, etc., it looks like I've gotten the script to log in properly by setting up stuff in .netrc , but I'm still having trouble sending the cd and put commands into ftp from the script. Can anyone give me some clues? This is running on an RH8 machine. THANKS! Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com ------------------------------ Message: 22 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:30:28 -0500 From: "Kenneth Goodwin" Subject: RE: ftp script? To: "'Getting started with Red Hat Linux'" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Harold > Hallikainen > Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 11:15 AM > To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > Subject: ftp script? > > > I'm trying to have ftp send a file to another machine in a > shell script > called by cron. After Googling around, reading various man > pages, etc., it > looks like I've gotten the script to log in properly by > setting up stuff > in .netrc , but I'm still having trouble sending the cd and > put commands > into ftp from the script. Can anyone give me some clues? > This is running > on an RH8 machine. > You can have your shell script dynamically create each time a NETRC file to do want you want to do at that instance and then call the FTP command for that system name. Or you can First put everything that is always going to be the same into a static NETRC file entry for that system IE. everything you want it to do everytime you connect as long as you can do these things prior to your "unique" stuff that has to be generated on the fly. typially - login, password, chdir's Then to do the custom stuff, you have the shell script composite a string or build a temp file to act as STDIN to the ftp commmand. quick off the top of my head example of the latter to give you the general idea, check the ftp man pages for ftp flags and proper commands echo "cd stored_data.d\nput ${MYFILENAME}\nquit" | ftp -i systemname or echo "cd ${TARGET1}" > my_ftptemp_file for fname in my_data_files* do echo "put $fname" >> my_ftptemp_file done echo "quit" >> my_ftptemp_file cat my_ftptemp_file | ftp -i systemname > 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 > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list End of Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 10, Issue 14 *************************************************** From markknecht at gmail.com Tue Dec 14 20:36:19 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:36:19 -0800 Subject: SiS Graphics setup (Mark Knecht) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b041214123663a9da67@mail.gmail.com> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:22:44 -0500, Poole, John J wrote: > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Redhat-install-list digest..." > Mark, > An excellent site to try and get SIS to do 3D: > http://www.winischhofer.at/linuxsisvga.shtml > John > > Today's Topics: > > 1. SiS Graphics setup (Mark Knecht) John, Thanks for the pointer. I haven't had net access today until just now but I'll be looking at this. With best regards, Nark From ydong at isoscelesinfo.com Tue Dec 14 22:10:27 2004 From: ydong at isoscelesinfo.com (Yulan Dong) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:10:27 -0500 Subject: MySQL -- install on ES3 Message-ID: <1103062227.8598.17.camel@IMSSERVER> Hi, I downloaded mysql-3.23.58-1.i386.rpm from redhat site. When I tried to install it, I got an error: [root at IMSSERVER ydong]# rpm -ivh mysql-3.23.58-1.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: perl-DBD-MySQL is needed by mysql-3.23.58-1 Suggested resolutions: perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3.i386.rpm Then I downloaded perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3.i386.rpm and tried to install it, I got another error: [root at IMSSERVER ydong]# rpm -ivh perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3 Suggested resolutions: mysql-3.23.58-1.i386.rpm How to solve this problem? Thank you in advance. Yulan From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue Dec 14 21:08:45 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:08:45 -0600 Subject: MySQL -- install on ES3 In-Reply-To: <1103062227.8598.17.camel@IMSSERVER> References: <1103062227.8598.17.camel@IMSSERVER> Message-ID: <20041214210845.GB10749@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 05:10:27PM -0500, Yulan Dong wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded mysql-3.23.58-1.i386.rpm from redhat site. When I tried to > install it, I got an error: > > [root at IMSSERVER ydong]# rpm -ivh mysql-3.23.58-1.i386.rpm > error: Failed dependencies: > perl-DBD-MySQL is needed by mysql-3.23.58-1 > Suggested resolutions: > perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3.i386.rpm > > Then I downloaded perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3.i386.rpm and tried to install > it, I got another error: > > [root at IMSSERVER ydong]# rpm -ivh perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3.i386.rpm > error: Failed dependencies: > libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3 > Suggested resolutions: > mysql-3.23.58-1.i386.rpm > > How to solve this problem? > > Thank you in advance. > > Yulan Install them both at the same time: rpm -ivh mysql-3.23.58-1.i386.rpm perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3.i386.rpm Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Grace happens. From othmanelmoulat at menara.ma Tue Dec 14 21:10:04 2004 From: othmanelmoulat at menara.ma (othman El Moulat) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:10:04 -0000 Subject: PHP and apache on redhat 9 Message-ID: <001e01c4e221$48542a10$1a79c051@pc> many thanks for you all guys for your precious help... after all i guess the best tool for PHP developement under a win box would be dreamwaver mx ...i guess also that there is a dreamwaver mx version for linux os ? (i'm not sure about that) but these tools are not free ;) ...KPHP Devolop is a good FREE tool for developement on Linux os ... thanks for all ...if someone has any suggestion about that he is very welcome... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ydong at isoscelesinfo.com Tue Dec 14 22:24:26 2004 From: ydong at isoscelesinfo.com (Yulan Dong) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:24:26 -0500 Subject: MySQL -- install on ES3 In-Reply-To: <20041214210845.GB10749@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <1103062227.8598.17.camel@IMSSERVER> <20041214210845.GB10749@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <1103063065.8598.19.camel@IMSSERVER> On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 16:08, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 05:10:27PM -0500, Yulan Dong wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I downloaded mysql-3.23.58-1.i386.rpm from redhat site. When I tried to > > install it, I got an error: > > > > [root at IMSSERVER ydong]# rpm -ivh mysql-3.23.58-1.i386.rpm > > error: Failed dependencies: > > perl-DBD-MySQL is needed by mysql-3.23.58-1 > > Suggested resolutions: > > perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3.i386.rpm > > > > Then I downloaded perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3.i386.rpm and tried to install > > it, I got another error: > > > > [root at IMSSERVER ydong]# rpm -ivh perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3.i386.rpm > > error: Failed dependencies: > > libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3 > > Suggested resolutions: > > mysql-3.23.58-1.i386.rpm > > > > How to solve this problem? > > > > Thank you in advance. > > > > Yulan > > Install them both at the same time: > > rpm -ivh mysql-3.23.58-1.i386.rpm perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3.i386.rpm > > Cheers, Thanks! Yulan From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Tue Dec 14 21:59:55 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:59:55 -0700 (MST) Subject: ftp script? In-Reply-To: <22028.207.177.227.29.1103049949.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> References: <31072.207.177.227.29.1103040921.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> <41BF2723.5060106@vitalstream.com> <22028.207.177.227.29.1103049949.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <34634.207.173.117.242.1103061595.squirrel@207.173.117.242> > IT WORKS!!! > > Thanks! > > Harold Good to listen to Rick. But what about when you are on a *nix system that doesn't have ncftp? In that case, you can roll your own, as I have in this version which actually works, in spite of the author: ~/bin/ftp_put: #!/usr/bin/ksh # Karl Pearson # This version written for AIX but should work on other platforms if [ "$6" = '' -o "$5" = '' -o "$4" = '' -o "$3" = '' -o "$2" = '' -o "$1" = '' ] ; then echo echo Usage: ftp_put RemoteHOST USERName PASSWord LocalPATH RemotePATH FileNAME echo exit 0 fi # Reassign variable names HOST=$1 USERNM=$2 PASSWD=$3 LPATH=$4 RPATH=$5 FNAME=$6 # execute command ftp -n $HOST 2>/dev/null <<- EOCMDS user $USERNM $PASSWD lcd $LPATH cd $RPATH put $FNAME EOCMDS >> Harold Hallikainen wrote: >>> I'm trying to have ftp send a file to another machine in a shell script >>> called by cron. After Googling around, reading various man pages, etc., >>> it looks like I've gotten the script to log in properly by setting up >>> stuff in .netrc , but I'm still having trouble sending the cd and put >>> commands into ftp from the script. Can anyone give me some clues? This >>> is running on an RH8 machine. >> >> Have a look at the "ncftpput" and "ncftpget" commands. They are >> FTP client programs specifically written to be used in batch or shell >> scripts. "man ncftpput" and "man ncftpget" for details. >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >> - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >> - - >> - First Law of Work: - >> - If you can't get it done in the first 24 hours, work nights. - >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From tariq.samsudeen at gmail.com Tue Dec 14 22:15:00 2004 From: tariq.samsudeen at gmail.com (tariq samsudeen) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:15:00 +0000 Subject: DNS & WEBSERVER Message-ID: <75db1b3b04121414155d18ea79@mail.gmail.com> hi gurus, i have few doubts, first let me explain my configuration: # im doing everything on a single machine. # my domain name is tariq.com (i set the domain name using domainname command, my domain name is reset everytime i restart the computer, hw do i make it persistent) # my host name is ns1 (i set using hostname ns1)...even this get reset after restart....i hv added it even in hosts file. hw do i mke it persistent my host file 127.0.0.1 ns1 localhost.localdomain localhost # i hv configured dns which is wrking fine... my named.conf file is zone "tariq.com" { type master; notify no; allow-query { any; }; file "tariq.com.zone"; }; my zone file luks like... @ IN SOA ns1.tariq.com. hostmaster.tariq.com. now i cud access the default website in mozilla using http://ns1.tariq.com....wht changes shud i mke to access the default website using www.tariq.com or someother name..... thanking u in anticipation, tariq From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue Dec 14 22:26:10 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:26:10 -0600 Subject: DNS & WEBSERVER In-Reply-To: <75db1b3b04121414155d18ea79@mail.gmail.com> References: <75db1b3b04121414155d18ea79@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20041214222610.GA11466@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 10:15:00PM +0000, tariq samsudeen wrote: > hi gurus, > i have few doubts, first let me explain my configuration: > > # im doing everything on a single machine. > # my domain name is tariq.com (i set the domain name using domainname > command, my domain name is reset everytime i restart the computer, hw > do i make it persistent) > # my host name is ns1 (i set using hostname ns1)...even this get reset > after restart....i hv added it even in hosts file. hw do i mke it > persistent > my host file > 127.0.0.1 ns1 localhost.localdomain localhost > # i hv configured dns which is wrking fine... > my named.conf file is > > zone "tariq.com" { > type master; > notify no; > allow-query { any; }; > file "tariq.com.zone"; > }; > > my zone file luks like... > @ IN SOA ns1.tariq.com. hostmaster.tariq.com. > > now i cud access the default website in mozilla using > http://ns1.tariq.com....wht changes shud i mke to access the default > website using www.tariq.com or someother name..... > > thanking u in anticipation, > tariq Change it in /etc/sysconfig/network. Mine, for instance, looks like: NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME="bobcat.bobcatos.com" GATEWAY="192.168.2.1" Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Grace happens. From harold at hallikainen.com Wed Dec 15 00:15:05 2004 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:15:05 -0800 (PST) Subject: ftp script? In-Reply-To: <34634.207.173.117.242.1103061595.squirrel@207.173.117.242> References: <31072.207.177.227.29.1103040921.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org><41BF2723.5060106@vitalstream.com><22028.207.177.227.29.1103049949.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> <34634.207.173.117.242.1103061595.squirrel@207.173.117.242> Message-ID: <24789.207.177.227.29.1103069705.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> Thanks for the additional solution! I'll keep it on file. Harold >> IT WORKS!!! >> >> Thanks! >> >> Harold > > Good to listen to Rick. But what about when you are on a *nix system that > doesn't have ncftp? In that case, you can roll your own, as I have in this > version which actually works, in spite of the author: > > ~/bin/ftp_put: > > #!/usr/bin/ksh > # Karl Pearson > # This version written for AIX but should work on other platforms > if [ "$6" = '' -o "$5" = '' -o "$4" = '' -o "$3" = '' -o "$2" = '' -o "$1" > = '' ] ; then > echo > echo Usage: ftp_put RemoteHOST USERName PASSWord LocalPATH RemotePATH > FileNAME echo > exit 0 > fi > # Reassign variable names > HOST=$1 > USERNM=$2 > PASSWD=$3 > LPATH=$4 > RPATH=$5 > FNAME=$6 > # execute command > ftp -n $HOST 2>/dev/null <<- EOCMDS > user $USERNM $PASSWD > lcd $LPATH > cd $RPATH > put $FNAME > EOCMDS > > >>> Harold Hallikainen wrote: >>>> I'm trying to have ftp send a file to another machine in a shell >>>> script >>>> called by cron. After Googling around, reading various man pages, >>>> etc., >>>> it looks like I've gotten the script to log in properly by setting up >>>> stuff in .netrc , but I'm still having trouble sending the cd and put >>>> commands into ftp from the script. Can anyone give me some clues? This >>>> is running on an RH8 machine. >>> >>> Have a look at the "ncftpput" and "ncftpget" commands. They are >>> FTP client programs specifically written to be used in batch or shell >>> scripts. "man ncftpput" and "man ncftpget" for details. >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >>> - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >>> - - >>> - First Law of Work: - >>> - If you can't get it done in the first 24 hours, work nights. - >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Dec 15 00:55:29 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:55:29 -0800 Subject: ftp script? In-Reply-To: <34634.207.173.117.242.1103061595.squirrel@207.173.117.242> References: <31072.207.177.227.29.1103040921.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> <41BF2723.5060106@vitalstream.com> <22028.207.177.227.29.1103049949.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> <34634.207.173.117.242.1103061595.squirrel@207.173.117.242> Message-ID: <41BF8B81.2090301@vitalstream.com> karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: >>IT WORKS!!! >> >>Thanks! >> >>Harold > > > Good to listen to Rick. But what about when you are on a *nix system that > doesn't have ncftp? In that case, you can roll your own, as I have in this > version which actually works, in spite of the author: > > ~/bin/ftp_put: > > #!/usr/bin/ksh > # Karl Pearson > # This version written for AIX but should work on other platforms > if [ "$6" = '' -o "$5" = '' -o "$4" = '' -o "$3" = '' -o "$2" = '' -o "$1" > = '' ] ; then > echo > echo Usage: ftp_put RemoteHOST USERName PASSWord LocalPATH RemotePATH > FileNAME echo > exit 0 > fi > # Reassign variable names > HOST=$1 > USERNM=$2 > PASSWD=$3 > LPATH=$4 > RPATH=$5 > FNAME=$6 > # execute command > ftp -n $HOST 2>/dev/null <<- EOCMDS > user $USERNM $PASSWD > lcd $LPATH > cd $RPATH > put $FNAME > EOCMDS Perfectly valid, Karl. The only problem with it is it won't handle errors and it only handles one file at a time. In a pinch, it'll sure work and is pretty darned elegant at that. ncftp* is open source and will build on near anything with a C compiler on it--including Winblows. Another option is to use perl (perl has FTP support). >>>Harold Hallikainen wrote: >>> >>>>I'm trying to have ftp send a file to another machine in a shell script >>>>called by cron. After Googling around, reading various man pages, etc., >>>>it looks like I've gotten the script to log in properly by setting up >>>>stuff in .netrc , but I'm still having trouble sending the cd and put >>>>commands into ftp from the script. Can anyone give me some clues? This >>>>is running on an RH8 machine. >>> >>>Have a look at the "ncftpput" and "ncftpget" commands. They are >>>FTP client programs specifically written to be used in batch or shell >>>scripts. "man ncftpput" and "man ncftpget" for details. >>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >>>- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >>>- - >>>- First Law of Work: - >>>- If you can't get it done in the first 24 hours, work nights. - >>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 - - - - Linux is like a wigwam...no windows, no gates...and apache inside! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Dec 15 00:56:35 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:56:35 -0800 Subject: Fedora Core3: How to make Module-Disk for Installation, Problems with megaraid In-Reply-To: <1103052368.5254.23.camel@server.home> References: <1102879261.4157.28.camel@server.home> <41BE1287.9010001@vitalstream.com> <1103011558.2405.17.camel@server.home> <41BF2616.3090709@vitalstream.com> <1103052368.5254.23.camel@server.home> Message-ID: <41BF8BC3.8070900@vitalstream.com> Andreas Tolle wrote: > Am Di, 2004-12-14 um 18.42 schrieb Rick Stevens: > > >>You probably should address this question to the fedora-users mailing >>list (fedora-users at redhat.com). > > > That is the solution!! My problem is known there under Bug 135484. I > must replace the original kernel with a newer rpm on install. > > Thank you very much for your tip, Rick! Glad you found some useful info. Sorry I couldn't be of more direct help. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If your broker is so damned smart...why is he still working? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Dec 15 01:01:46 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:01:46 -0800 Subject: MySQL -- install on ES3 In-Reply-To: <20041214210845.GB10749@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <1103062227.8598.17.camel@IMSSERVER> <20041214210845.GB10749@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <41BF8CFA.4090008@vitalstream.com> Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 05:10:27PM -0500, Yulan Dong wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I downloaded mysql-3.23.58-1.i386.rpm from redhat site. When I tried to >>install it, I got an error: >> >>[root at IMSSERVER ydong]# rpm -ivh mysql-3.23.58-1.i386.rpm >>error: Failed dependencies: >> perl-DBD-MySQL is needed by mysql-3.23.58-1 >> Suggested resolutions: >> perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3.i386.rpm >> >>Then I downloaded perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3.i386.rpm and tried to install >>it, I got another error: >> >>[root at IMSSERVER ydong]# rpm -ivh perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3.i386.rpm >>error: Failed dependencies: >> libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3 >> Suggested resolutions: >> mysql-3.23.58-1.i386.rpm >> >>How to solve this problem? >> >>Thank you in advance. >> >>Yulan > > > Install them both at the same time: > > rpm -ivh mysql-3.23.58-1.i386.rpm perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3.i386.rpm Bob's got the fix. Further explanation: If you only give rpm one of the packages, it checks that RPM and sees that it's dependent on the other and vice versa. By giving both, rpm can see the dependencies will be resolved and installation goes ahead. The only other way is to install one by using the (somewhat dangerous) "--nodeps" option. The second one will install normally after that. Ah, circular dependencies. The "Catch-22" of the Linux world. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If your broker is so damned smart...why is he still working? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From adeo at nyu.edu Wed Dec 15 01:19:15 2004 From: adeo at nyu.edu (Anthony Joseph Deo) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:19:15 -0500 Subject: 2 CPU support Message-ID: <7ee76f7ef7d5.7ef7d57ee76f@nyu.edu> Andreas Tolle wrote: > Am Mo, 2004-12-13 um 23.07 schrieb Rick Stevens: > >>Andreas Tolle wrote: >> >>>Start ksysguard in kde and look, if there are shown the cpu's. >>> >>>Andreas >>> >>>< When I use top or look at the graphical system menu it seems to >>>< indicate that only one proccessor is present. >> >>It's much easier to "cat /proc/cpuinfo" and see if two processors show >>up there. If not, either one is dead or you're running a UP kernel. >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- - >>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > > > Yes, of course, you are right. But he has a workstation. I thought it is > easier for him to work in the colored envirement by mouseclick. :-) > >True. The SMP kernel worked fine with RHE WS but not with FC2. I upgraded it to FC3 and the system monitor indicates 2 processors, top only indicates one....I'll try cat /proc/cpuinfo tomorrow. thanks Anthony --------------------------------------------------- Anthony Deo Molecular Systematics Laboratory American Museum of Natural History 79th St. & Central Park West New York, NY 10024 email : adeo at nyu.edu phone : 212-313-8721 ----- Original Message ----- From: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 7:55 pm Subject: Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 10, Issue 15 -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Subject: Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 10, Issue 15 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:55:53 -0500 (EST) Size: 71849 URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Dec 15 01:26:59 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:26:59 -0800 Subject: DNS & WEBSERVER In-Reply-To: <75db1b3b04121414155d18ea79@mail.gmail.com> References: <75db1b3b04121414155d18ea79@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <41BF92E3.90501@vitalstream.com> tariq samsudeen wrote: > hi gurus, > i have few doubts, first let me explain my configuration: > > # im doing everything on a single machine. > # my domain name is tariq.com (i set the domain name using domainname > command, my domain name is reset everytime i restart the computer, hw > do i make it persistent) Bad idea. "domainname" sets your NIS domain name, not your host domain name. The correct command to use is "hostname". > # my host name is ns1 (i set using hostname ns1)...even this get reset > after restart....i hv added it even in hosts file. hw do i mke it > persistent Edit the "/etc/sysconfig/network" file. Change the "HOSTNAME=" line to include your full host name, e.g. HOSTNAME=ns1.tariq.com DO NOT use "domainname" unless you're running NIS/YP/YP+ (and if you don't know what those are, you ain't running them! ;-)) By putting this data in the /etc/sysconfig/network file, the system will set it up each time you boot. > my host file > 127.0.0.1 ns1 localhost.localdomain localhost > # i hv configured dns which is wrking fine... > my named.conf file is > > zone "tariq.com" { > type master; > notify no; > allow-query { any; }; > file "tariq.com.zone"; > }; That's OK. > my zone file luks like... > @ IN SOA ns1.tariq.com. hostmaster.tariq.com. That's it? Uh, why bother with DNS at all? Your SOA record is incomplete and you don't even have an A record in your zone. I'd be surprised that named is running at all. If you're only going to be playing on the single machine, scrap your DNS stuff and change your /etc/hosts file as follows: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 ns1.tariq.com ns1 Thus, you can do the whole thing in your /etc/hosts file. > now i cud access the default website in mozilla using > http://ns1.tariq.com....wht changes shud i mke to access the default > website using www.tariq.com or someother name..... If you use /etc/hosts, add lines like: 127.0.0.1 www.tariq.com www and so on for each hostname or FQDN (hostname.domain.tld) you want to use. If you want to use DNS, then get your zone file's SOA record fixed and start adding A records. Here's a proper zone file: @ IN SOA ns1.tariq.com. hostmaster.tariq.com ( 1 10800 3600 604800 86400 ) IN NS ns1.tariq.com IN A 127.0.0.1 ns1 IN A 127.0.0.1 www IN A 127.0.0.1 node IN A 127.0.0.1 Note the stuff I added to the SOA record. In order, they are the serial number, refresh period, retry period, expiration, and time to live. The remainder of the lines define the name server and three host names (ns1, www, and node)--all pointing at the loopback address of 127.0.0.1. Also, if all you did was "http://tariq.com", the first "IN A" line would cover that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Wed Dec 15 13:33:30 2004 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 05:33:30 -0800 Subject: Grub vs lilo Message-ID: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2BB55@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> I've used lilo since slackware 2.0 I have a co-worker telling me grub is better; he just says it's "easier". Then again, I don't lilo to be brain surgery either. What is your opinions? From nandrews at med.umich.edu Wed Dec 15 13:37:38 2004 From: nandrews at med.umich.edu (Nathan Andrews) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:37:38 -0500 Subject: Grub vs lilo Message-ID: I personally was a lilo user for a long time, then one of my favorite distros switched to grub, so to use it well, I had to learn it. Grub is quite easy once you get the hang of it, just as lilo is easy once you get the hang of it. I consider myself quite proficient in both now that I know how each of them work. >>> Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com 12/15/04 8:33:30 AM >>> I've used lilo since slackware 2.0 I have a co-worker telling me grub is better; he just says it's "easier". Then again, I don't lilo to be brain surgery either. What is your opinions? _______________________________________________ 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 mmcculli at visualtech.ca Wed Dec 15 14:28:29 2004 From: mmcculli at visualtech.ca (Mark McCulligh) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:28:29 -0500 Subject: Grub vs lilo In-Reply-To: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2BB55@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2BB55@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> Message-ID: <41C04A0D.80609@visualtech.ca> I am not sure if it is still true but grub does not work right with Software Raid. If you are using Software Raid you have to use lilo. If I remember right grub will only boot from the primary drive so if the primary drive is the one that crashed you cannot boot from the secondary drive. Were lilo can boot from either. Mark. Waldher, Travis R wrote: >I've used lilo since slackware 2.0 > >I have a co-worker telling me grub is better; he just says it's >"easier". Then again, I don't lilo to be brain surgery either. > >What is your opinions? > >_______________________________________________ >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 kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr Wed Dec 15 23:34:52 2004 From: kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr (Kostas Sfakiotakis) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 01:34:52 +0200 Subject: Grub vs lilo In-Reply-To: <41C04A0D.80609@visualtech.ca> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2BB55@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> <41C04A0D.80609@visualtech.ca> Message-ID: <41C0CA1C.5070005@cha.forthnet.gr> Greetings Mark , Mark McCulligh wrote: > I am not sure if it is still true but grub does not work right with > Software Raid. If you are using Software Raid you have to use lilo. If > I remember right grub will only boot from the primary drive so if the > primary drive is the one that crashed you cannot boot from the secondary > drive. Were lilo can boot from either. On the other hand in order to use lilo you have to respect the 1024 cylinder barrier while with grub you don't have to . I have used both grub and lilo but i am far from saying that i know every and each detail of them . Both of them have served me well . In fact whenever i needed it anaconda did the whole work for me . Both of the boot loaders have their advantages and disadvantages . As to what Waldher Travis originally asked , i would answer that neither of them is better than the other . In fact i would reject the "better " thing . The only question that exists is what serves you well enough for the situation that you encounter . Kind Regards, Kostas From kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr Wed Dec 15 23:47:50 2004 From: kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr (Kostas Sfakiotakis) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 01:47:50 +0200 Subject: new hard drive setup In-Reply-To: <41BA5C42.3010200@vitalstream.com> References: <41BA5C42.3010200@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <41C0CD26.8010604@cha.forthnet.gr> Greetings Rick , Rick Stevens wrote: > Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr. wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I got my start in Linux with a pre-configured system, and I'm still a >> rank beginner. My system is Redhat 9 kept up2date. >> >> My original hard drive is small (8G) partitioned as follows: >> >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux >> /dev/hda2 14 995 7887915 83 Linux >> /dev/hda3 996 1027 257040 82 Linux swa >> >> My hard drive is nearly full, so I bought another one - 60G. >> It's in, and I was able to see it with fdisk, but I haven't done any >> partitioning or formatting yet - I never did such things before. >> >> What I'm looking for is suggestions as to what would be a good way to >> partition it, and possibly what to put on it. > > > Lordy! Well, it rather depends on what you're planning to do. If > you wish to move your existing system to the new drive, that can be > a bit complicated. It's doable, but it's not for the faint-of-heart. > > Should you wish to do that, a normal partitioning scheme we use is this: > > /boot 512MB - 1GB > / 2GB - 4GB > swap twice your RAM size > /var 4GB (8GB if you have a lot of log activity) > /usr rest of disk Rick , if i might intrude and ask , what would a 1 GB boot partition serve ? Do you build the kernel in there ? I have never used a /boot partition and i don' t really know the need for it unless you have a dual boot system with Windows XP on NTFS ? One more thing is , for example i have 1,25 GB of RAM ( on My FC1 box ) and a 2,5 GB swap partition which almost never get's used, even if it get's used it is for a few MB ( 10 -15 MB ) . Is there a rule for the RAM size and the Swap Partition size . > > That's for a development box. Servers usually have the /boot and / > partitions smaller and the /var partition bigger due to the logging > that goes on. > > If you just want to use the secondary drive to hold miscellaneous stuff, > it's rather like having a "D:\" drive in Windows...put whatever you > want on it. Well , if it is for whatever then i guess i would have to suggest that he makes 2 partitions of equal size , so he might have the 2nd partition for BACKUP . If i recall well an ancient riddle says that a " Good Backup never hurted anyone " Kind Regards, Kostas From ottohaliburton at comcast.net Thu Dec 16 01:31:36 2004 From: ottohaliburton at comcast.net (Otto Haliburton) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:31:36 -0600 Subject: Grub vs lilo In-Reply-To: <41C04A0D.80609@visualtech.ca> Message-ID: <001f01c4e30e$ff4d4d80$4601a8c0@C515816A> > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list- > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark McCulligh > Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 8:28 AM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: Grub vs lilo > > I am not sure if it is still true but grub does not work right with > Software Raid. If you are using Software Raid you have to use lilo. If > I remember right grub will only boot from the primary drive so if the > primary drive is the one that crashed you cannot boot from the secondary > drive. Were lilo can boot from either. This statement is not true. No bootloader can boot from a drive that does not have a MBR, cause the hardware transfer to that location. If your bios allows for booting from primary or slave drive then both lilo and grub can and further more grub will boot linux or any OS no matter where it is located so will lilo and they do this because the bootloader is not entirely located in the MBR. I think you are confusing grub with windows. Windows will not boot from any drive except the primary drive unquestionably. And the RAID statement is also untrue or you could not use and of the Fedora Core products on RAID drives. But no bootloader is perfect and grub and lilo suffer from this weakness. > > Mark. > > Waldher, Travis R wrote: > > >I've used lilo since slackware 2.0 > > > >I have a co-worker telling me grub is better; he just says it's > >"easier". Then again, I don't lilo to be brain surgery either. > > > >What is your opinions? > > > >_______________________________________________ > >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 rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Dec 16 02:07:44 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:07:44 -0800 Subject: new hard drive setup In-Reply-To: <41C0CD26.8010604@cha.forthnet.gr> References: <41BA5C42.3010200@vitalstream.com> <41C0CD26.8010604@cha.forthnet.gr> Message-ID: <41C0EDF0.2020106@vitalstream.com> Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > > Greetings Rick , > > Rick Stevens wrote: > >> Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr. wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> I got my start in Linux with a pre-configured system, and I'm still a >>> rank beginner. My system is Redhat 9 kept up2date. >>> >>> My original hard drive is small (8G) partitioned as follows: >>> >>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >>> /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux >>> /dev/hda2 14 995 7887915 83 Linux >>> /dev/hda3 996 1027 257040 82 Linux swa >>> >>> My hard drive is nearly full, so I bought another one - 60G. >>> It's in, and I was able to see it with fdisk, but I haven't done any >>> partitioning or formatting yet - I never did such things before. >>> >>> What I'm looking for is suggestions as to what would be a good way >>> to partition it, and possibly what to put on it. >> >> >> >> Lordy! Well, it rather depends on what you're planning to do. If >> you wish to move your existing system to the new drive, that can be >> a bit complicated. It's doable, but it's not for the faint-of-heart. >> >> Should you wish to do that, a normal partitioning scheme we use is this: >> >> /boot 512MB - 1GB >> / 2GB - 4GB >> swap twice your RAM size >> /var 4GB (8GB if you have a lot of log activity) >> /usr rest of disk > > > Rick , if i might intrude and ask , what would a 1 GB boot > partition serve ? Do you build the kernel in there ? I have > never used a /boot partition and i don' t really know the need for > it unless you have a dual boot system with Windows XP on NTFS ? > One more thing is , for example i have 1,25 GB of RAM ( on My FC1 box ) > and a 2,5 GB swap partition which almost never get's used, even if it > get's used it is for a few MB ( 10 -15 MB ) . Is there a rule for > the RAM size and the Swap Partition size . I have a lot of development kernels and such with lots of weird initrd images, symbol tables and whatnot. But I'm a weird guy. The vast majority only need, oh, 64MB or less. As to having a separate /boot partition, it just keeps things neat. There's no rule that says you have to have one, and in fact most people don't.../boot is just a directory in /. >> That's for a development box. Servers usually have the /boot and / >> partitions smaller and the /var partition bigger due to the logging >> that goes on. >> >> If you just want to use the secondary drive to hold miscellaneous stuff, >> it's rather like having a "D:\" drive in Windows...put whatever you >> want on it. > > > Well , if it is for whatever then i guess i would have to suggest that he > makes 2 partitions of equal size , so he might have the 2nd partition for > BACKUP . > If i recall well an ancient riddle says that a " Good Backup never hurted > anyone " Axiom: There are two kinds of people. Those who HAVE appreciated a good backup and those who WOULD have. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 mmcculli at visualtech.ca Thu Dec 16 04:43:14 2004 From: mmcculli at visualtech.ca (Mark McCulligh) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:43:14 -0500 Subject: Grub vs lilo References: <001f01c4e30e$ff4d4d80$4601a8c0@C515816A> Message-ID: <001b01c4e329$c17c2740$6701a8c0@VTLAPTOP> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Otto Haliburton" To: "'Getting started with Red Hat Linux'" Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 8:31 PM Subject: RE: Grub vs lilo > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list- > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark McCulligh > Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 8:28 AM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: Grub vs lilo > > I am not sure if it is still true but grub does not work right with > Software Raid. If you are using Software Raid you have to use lilo. If > I remember right grub will only boot from the primary drive so if the > primary drive is the one that crashed you cannot boot from the secondary > drive. Were lilo can boot from either. This statement is not true. No bootloader can boot from a drive that does not have a MBR, cause the hardware transfer to that location. If your bios allows for booting from primary or slave drive then both lilo and grub can and further more grub will boot linux or any OS no matter where it is located so will lilo and they do this because the bootloader is not entirely located in the MBR. I think you are confusing grub with windows. Windows will not boot from any drive except the primary drive unquestionably. And the RAID statement is also untrue or you could not use and of the Fedora Core products on RAID drives. But no bootloader is perfect and grub and lilo suffer from this weakness. > > Mark. > > Waldher, Travis R wrote: > > >I've used lilo since slackware 2.0 > > > >I have a co-worker telling me grub is better; he just says it's > >"easier". Then again, I don't lilo to be brain surgery either. > > > >What is your opinions? > > > >_______________________________________________ > >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 Sorry I did not clearly explain what I meant. I have a machine had has 2 drives each are the primary drive on a their own channel. What I found was that if I installed RedHat Ent 3 using grub on the machine and the first drive fails the machine will not boot. But if I do the exact same thing but use lilo it will boot from the second drive. From what I have found and yes I maybe wrong as this is what I found from digging is that with grub it only puts the boot info on the first drive, while lilo puts the boot info on both drives. But this is only want I found when I was playing around with software raid. I could not find a way to reboot the machine if I were using grub and the first drive was the one that failed, but lilo worked no problem. 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 From markknecht at gmail.com Thu Dec 16 18:21:46 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:21:46 -0800 Subject: Christmas Wireless - final push today... Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b04121610211de0720@mail.gmail.com> Hi all, I'm back at the (hopefully) final configuration issue left with this new Christmas present for my son - getting wireless working. I'm close (I think) but not there yet. Hopefully the team can send me in the right direction and I'll get this working soon. I have to wrap the machine no later than tomorrow at noon. Thanks in advance for any attention I can get today. I am sending this from a different machine to ensure what I'm doing is absolutely only wireless. At this point I have done the following: 1) ndiswrapper-0.12 is installed 2) I have added 'alias wlan0 ndiswrapper' to /etc/modprobe.conf but ndiswrapper is not loaded at boot time. 3) modprobe ndiswrapper by hand works. The driver shows up in lsmod but is used by nothing. (Number 0) 4) Using the ndiswrapper installation instructions at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php?Installation I can do the following: iwconfig (shows wlan0) iwlist wlan0 scan (shows my ESSID:"146clover", Mode managed, etc.) iwconfig wlan0 key restricted (24-bit XXYYXXYYXXYYXXYY) ifconfig wlan0 up At this point I've had no error messages, but if I do ifconfig I do not see wlan0 listed. The install page shows a command 'dhclient wlan0'. When I try this command I get a whole string of messages over the period of 1-2 minutes, ending in No DHCPOFFERS received, and then a message: /sbin/dhclient-script: configuration for wlan0 not found. I do not have the above ESSID, key, etc., in any files yet. So possibly that is my issue here? I'm going to blast this off now to see if I get an early response back from the list. I'll keep working on this until about 3PM today and will start up at 8AM tomorrow if I'm not successful today. Thanks in advance, Mark From markknecht at gmail.com Thu Dec 16 18:54:40 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:54:40 -0800 Subject: Christmas Wireless - final push today... In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b04121610211de0720@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b04121610211de0720@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0412161054625c6a36@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:21:46 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi all, > I'm back at the (hopefully) final configuration issue left with > this new Christmas present for my son - getting wireless working. I'm > close (I think) but not there yet. Hopefully the team can send me in > the right direction and I'll get this working soon. I have to wrap the > machine no later than tomorrow at noon. > > Thanks in advance for any attention I can get today. > > I am sending this from a different machine to ensure what I'm doing > is absolutely only wireless. > > At this point I have done the following: > > 1) ndiswrapper-0.12 is installed > > 2) I have added 'alias wlan0 ndiswrapper' to /etc/modprobe.conf but > ndiswrapper is not loaded at boot time. > > 3) modprobe ndiswrapper by hand works. The driver shows up in lsmod > but is used by nothing. (Number 0) > > 4) Using the ndiswrapper installation instructions at > > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php?Installation > > I can do the following: > > iwconfig (shows wlan0) > > iwlist wlan0 scan (shows my ESSID:"146clover", Mode managed, etc.) > > iwconfig wlan0 key restricted (24-bit XXYYXXYYXXYYXXYY) > > ifconfig wlan0 up > > At this point I've had no error messages, but if I do ifconfig I do > not see wlan0 listed. > > The install page shows a command 'dhclient wlan0'. When I try this > command I get a whole string of messages over the period of 1-2 > minutes, ending in No DHCPOFFERS received, and then a message: > > /sbin/dhclient-script: configuration for wlan0 not found. > > I do not have the above ESSID, key, etc., in any files yet. So > possibly that is my issue here? > > I'm going to blast this off now to see if I get an early response back > from the list. I'll keep working on this until about 3PM today and > will start up at 8AM tomorrow if I'm not successful today. > > Thanks in advance, > Mark > A few more things: 1) I do run WEP for the Windows boxes. 2) The key is 26 hexadecimal characters, not 24 as above. 3) The network is 'b only' 4) The wireless NIC (DWL-520) is set to Protocol: 802.11b Encryption key: on 5) The router (Netgear WGT624) does not show the device as attached. The router logs show no entries when the FC2 machine does a scan and finds the network. What do I need to do to really attach to the network? Thanks, Mark From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Dec 16 19:31:25 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:31:25 -0800 Subject: Christmas Wireless - final push today... In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0412161054625c6a36@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b04121610211de0720@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0412161054625c6a36@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <41C1E28D.3080806@vitalstream.com> Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:21:46 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>Hi all, >> I'm back at the (hopefully) final configuration issue left with >>this new Christmas present for my son - getting wireless working. I'm >>close (I think) but not there yet. Hopefully the team can send me in >>the right direction and I'll get this working soon. I have to wrap the >>machine no later than tomorrow at noon. >> >> Thanks in advance for any attention I can get today. >> >> I am sending this from a different machine to ensure what I'm doing >>is absolutely only wireless. >> >> At this point I have done the following: >> >>1) ndiswrapper-0.12 is installed >> >>2) I have added 'alias wlan0 ndiswrapper' to /etc/modprobe.conf but >>ndiswrapper is not loaded at boot time. It won't unless you have an /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 file set up. Sample for my Broadcom on FC3: # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt # for the documentation of these parameters. # Broadcom BCM94306 802.11g for VitalStream Irvine office IPV6INIT=no ONBOOT=no USERCTL=no PEERDNS=yes GATEWAY= TYPE=Wireless DEVICE=wlan0 HWADDR=00:90:96:57:E9:FF <<--this will be different for you BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK= DHCP_HOSTNAME=golem.corp.publichost.com <<--choose a hostname you want IPADDR= DOMAIN= ESSID=someessid <<--use YOUR ESSID here CHANNEL=7 KEY=s:xxxxxxxxxxxxx <<--I use a 13-character ASCII ESSID KEY=hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh <<-- Use a 26-character HEX key instead MODE=Managed RATE=11Mb/s >>3) modprobe ndiswrapper by hand works. The driver shows up in lsmod >>but is used by nothing. (Number 0) Until it's up, it won't be used by anything. Once it's up, it'll show as being used. >>4) Using the ndiswrapper installation instructions at >> >>http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php?Installation >> >>I can do the following: >> >>iwconfig (shows wlan0) >> >>iwlist wlan0 scan (shows my ESSID:"146clover", Mode managed, etc.) >> >>iwconfig wlan0 key restricted (24-bit XXYYXXYYXXYYXXYY) Is your access point set up to use 64-, 128-, or 256-bit encryption? I use 128 here (some older cards can't do 256-bit). >>ifconfig wlan0 up >> >>At this point I've had no error messages, but if I do ifconfig I do >>not see wlan0 listed. Try "ifconfig -a", kernel 2.6 doesn't show wireless by default. >>The install page shows a command 'dhclient wlan0'. When I try this >>command I get a whole string of messages over the period of 1-2 >>minutes, ending in No DHCPOFFERS received, and then a message: >> >>/sbin/dhclient-script: configuration for wlan0 not found. The "No DHCPOFFERS received" message is most likely because you don't have a valid ESSID, CHANNEL or KEY set up. The "configuration for wlan0 not found" isn't really an issue. It simply means that you didn't set up any restrictions as to what dhclient can do. I have this in my /etc/dhclient/dhclient.conf file to restrict what DHCP does: interface "wlan0" { send host-name "golem-wireless"; request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers; require subnet-mask, routers; supersede domain-name-servers 64.7.192.162, 64.7.192.163; } The primary weirdo there is the "supersede" line, as I want to use THOSE DNS servers and not the ones the DHCP server gives out (DHCP's DNS servers don't do reliable reverse DNS lookups). If you don't have such a clause in your file, don't worry about it--you'll just get everything the DHCP server spits out. >>I do not have the above ESSID, key, etc., in any files yet. So >>possibly that is my issue here? Most likely. You need to set up something like I have in my ifcfg-wlan0 file above. Most importantly, make sure your ESSID, KEY, MODE, and CHANNEL are set properly. Things should work fine at that point. As a test, try: iwconfig wlan0 ESSID your-essid CHANNEL your-channel KEY your-key Remember that "your-key" will be one of the following: 64-bit encryption: 14 hex chars OR "s:" and 7 ASCII chars 128-bit encryption: 26 hex chars OR "s:" and 13 ASCII chars 256-bit encryption: 48 hex chars OR "s:" and 24 ASCII chars 64-bit really is 56-bit, 128-bit is 104-bit, and 256-bit is 192-bit. Ah, well. >>I'm going to blast this off now to see if I get an early response back >>from the list. I'll keep working on this until about 3PM today and >>will start up at 8AM tomorrow if I'm not successful today. >> >>Thanks in advance, >>Mark >> > > > A few more things: > > 1) I do run WEP for the Windows boxes. Fine. You need it for the FC2 box as well. That's what the ESSID and KEY are for. > 2) The key is 26 hexadecimal characters, not 24 as above. You're using 128-bit encryption. > 3) The network is 'b only' Fine, "g" will revert to "b". "g" only works at 54Mbps ONLY if ALL wireless nodes are "g". > 4) The wireless NIC (DWL-520) is set to > Protocol: 802.11b > Encryption key: on > > 5) The router (Netgear WGT624) does not show the device as attached. > The router logs show no entries when the FC2 machine does a scan and > finds the network. > > What do I need to do to really attach to the network? The valid ESSID, KEY and CHANNEL set. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - You know the old saying--any technology sufficiently advanced is - - indistinguishable from a Perl script - - --Programming Perl, 2nd Edition - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From markknecht at gmail.com Thu Dec 16 19:54:44 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:54:44 -0800 Subject: Christmas Wireless - final push today... In-Reply-To: <41C1E28D.3080806@vitalstream.com> References: <5bdc1c8b04121610211de0720@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0412161054625c6a36@mail.gmail.com> <41C1E28D.3080806@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b041216115469cc92b2@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:31:25 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > What do I need to do to really attach to the network? > > The valid ESSID, KEY and CHANNEL set. Thaks for the info. I typed in the ifcfg-wlan0 file and am rebooting as I write this. What about route add for the network and the gateway? Is that not needed with dhcp? Thanks, Mark From markknecht at gmail.com Thu Dec 16 20:30:43 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:30:43 -0800 Subject: Christmas Wireless - final push today... In-Reply-To: <41C1E28D.3080806@vitalstream.com> References: <5bdc1c8b04121610211de0720@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0412161054625c6a36@mail.gmail.com> <41C1E28D.3080806@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b041216123077506b93@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:31:25 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > It won't unless you have an /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 > file set up. Sample for my Broadcom on FC3: > > # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt > # for the documentation of these parameters. > # Broadcom BCM94306 802.11g for VitalStream Irvine office > IPV6INIT=no > ONBOOT=no > USERCTL=no > PEERDNS=yes > GATEWAY= > TYPE=Wireless > DEVICE=wlan0 > HWADDR=00:90:96:57:E9:FF <<--this will be different for you > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > NETMASK= > DHCP_HOSTNAME=golem.corp.publichost.com <<--choose a hostname you want > IPADDR= > DOMAIN= > ESSID=someessid <<--use YOUR ESSID here > CHANNEL=7 > KEY=s:xxxxxxxxxxxxx <<--I use a 13-character ASCII ESSID > KEY=hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh <<-- Use a 26-character HEX key instead > MODE=Managed > RATE=11Mb/s OK, I set it up as best I could. Now ndiswrapper is loaded at boot time. No network yet, but it's a start. A couple of questions on the file: 1) GATEWAY, NETMASK, IPADDR & DOMAIN are left empty. Correct? 2) ESSID doesn't require quotes around someessid? 3) My router is set to channel 11. Do I need to set the same channel in this config or is the hardware supposed to adjust itself? Or should it NOT be set to the same value? I changed mine to 11. iwlist wlan0 channel says I'm on 11. 4) iwlist wlan0 encryption reports the correct key number but only for key #1. The router has the same key for all 4 keys. wlan- says keys 2, 3 & 4 are off. Security mode == restricted. The router is set WEP, Open System, 128-bit. > Is your access point set up to use 64-, 128-, or 256-bit encryption? > I use 128 here (some older cards can't do 256-bit). Everybody seems to say 128-bit. > Try "ifconfig -a", kernel 2.6 doesn't show wireless by default. That works. Thanks. > The "No DHCPOFFERS received" message is most likely because you don't > have a valid ESSID, CHANNEL or KEY set up. > > The "configuration for wlan0 not found" isn't really an issue. It > simply means that you didn't set up any restrictions as to what dhclient > can do. I have this in my /etc/dhclient/dhclient.conf file to restrict > what DHCP does: > > interface "wlan0" { > send host-name "golem-wireless"; > request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers; > require subnet-mask, routers; > supersede domain-name-servers 64.7.192.162, 64.7.192.163; > } Have not done this yet. Is it required or just helpful? > > Most likely. You need to set up something like I have in my ifcfg-wlan0 > file above. Most importantly, make sure your ESSID, KEY, MODE, and > CHANNEL are set properly. Things should work fine at that point. As > a test, try: > > iwconfig wlan0 ESSID your-essid CHANNEL your-channel KEY your-key iwconfig doesn't like CHANNEL in caps! iwconfig wlan0 ESSID my-essid channel 11 KEY my-key is accepted. > > Remember that "your-key" will be one of the following: > > 64-bit encryption: 14 hex chars OR "s:" and 7 ASCII chars > 128-bit encryption: 26 hex chars OR "s:" and 13 ASCII chars > 256-bit encryption: 48 hex chars OR "s:" and 24 ASCII chars > > 64-bit really is 56-bit, 128-bit is 104-bit, and 256-bit is 192-bit. > Ah, well. iwconfig reports back the correct key. There is a network configuration tool system-config-network. In that tool both eth0 and wlan0 show Inactive. Under hardware wlan0 says configured. When I tell the tool to activate the interface (same as ifconfig wlan0 up?) It sits for a minute saying 'Determining IP information for wlan0...' and then fails with the message 'Determining IP information for wlan0...failed'. iwlist wlan0 scan still reports the correct ESSID from the router. I think I'm quite close, actually. I hope we can get there. Thanks for your help! - Mark > > What do I need to do to really attach to the network? > > The valid ESSID, KEY and CHANNEL set. I've tried 7 and 11. I thought they were lucky?! ;-) From markknecht at gmail.com Thu Dec 16 22:10:06 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:10:06 -0800 Subject: Christmas Wireless - final push today... In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b041216123077506b93@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b04121610211de0720@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0412161054625c6a36@mail.gmail.com> <41C1E28D.3080806@vitalstream.com> <5bdc1c8b041216123077506b93@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b04121614107d584b2f@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:30:43 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:31:25 -0800, Rick Stevens > wrote: > > > It won't unless you have an /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 > > file set up. Sample for my Broadcom on FC3: > > > > # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt > > # for the documentation of these parameters. > > # Broadcom BCM94306 802.11g for VitalStream Irvine office > > IPV6INIT=no > > ONBOOT=no > > USERCTL=no > > PEERDNS=yes > > GATEWAY= > > TYPE=Wireless > > DEVICE=wlan0 > > HWADDR=00:90:96:57:E9:FF <<--this will be different for you > > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > > NETMASK= > > DHCP_HOSTNAME=golem.corp.publichost.com <<--choose a hostname you want > > IPADDR= > > DOMAIN= > > ESSID=someessid <<--use YOUR ESSID here > > CHANNEL=7 > > KEY=s:xxxxxxxxxxxxx <<--I use a 13-character ASCII ESSID > > KEY=hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh <<-- Use a 26-character HEX key instead > > MODE=Managed > > RATE=11Mb/s > > > > What do I need to do to really attach to the network? > > > > The valid ESSID, KEY and CHANNEL set. Rick, I got it working, at least by hand. I'm on the net browsing as we speak. My key mode is not 'restricted'. It is 'open'. Probably I should change that from the sound of it but not today. The problem I have right now is I don't know how to make the change stick. How do I set the ifcfg-wlan0 file to understand it's key open? Thanks, Mark From bc98kinney at yahoo.com Thu Dec 16 23:01:55 2004 From: bc98kinney at yahoo.com (Bob Kinney) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:01:55 -0800 (PST) Subject: Hostname "Chicken and Egg" Message-ID: <20041216230155.49774.qmail@web12504.mail.yahoo.com> Happy Holidays all-- I'm running RH9, and recently switched from being directly connected to the internet (dhcp giving me a publicly routed address) to being behind a router. I reconfigured my IP address to be a static, private one now, and my hostname now comes up as "localhost.localdomain". I'm trying to name the host "vectra". Looking at the man page for hostname, it says that: " The host name is usually set once at system startup in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 or /etc/init.d/boot (normally by reading the con- tents of a file which contains the host name, e.g. /etc/hostname)." Although the files mentioned aren't there, I found in /etc/rc.sysinit a section that seems to set the hostname by *calling* /bin/hostname. >> HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname` if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then . /etc/sysconfig/network else NETWORKING=no fi if [ -z "$HOSTNAME" -o "$HOSTNAME" = "(none)" ]; then HOSTNAME=localhost fi << [root at localhost init.d]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain [root at localhost init.d]# It would seem that the hostname is being set either by the /etc/sysconfig/network file, or by the fallout case listed in /etc/rc.sysinit (if -z $HOSTNAME ...). I don't know why the hostname command would fail: [root at localhost init.d]# cat /etc/hostname vectra [root at localhost init.d]# Also, what does the line ". /etc/sysconfig/network" do? Is "." (dot) a command? --bk __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Thu Dec 16 23:09:45 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:09:45 -0600 Subject: Hostname "Chicken and Egg" In-Reply-To: <20041216230155.49774.qmail@web12504.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041216230155.49774.qmail@web12504.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20041216230945.GA890@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 03:01:55PM -0800, Bob Kinney wrote: > Happy Holidays all-- > > I'm running RH9, and recently switched from being directly connected to > the internet (dhcp giving me a publicly routed address) to being behind > a router. > > I reconfigured my IP address to be a static, private one now, and my > hostname now comes up as "localhost.localdomain". I'm trying to name the > host "vectra". > > Looking at the man page for hostname, it says that: > " The host name is usually set once at system startup in > /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 or /etc/init.d/boot (normally by reading the con- > tents of a file which contains the host name, e.g. /etc/hostname)." > > Although the files mentioned aren't there, I found in /etc/rc.sysinit > a section that seems to set the hostname by *calling* /bin/hostname. > >> > HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname` > if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then > . /etc/sysconfig/network > else > NETWORKING=no > fi > if [ -z "$HOSTNAME" -o "$HOSTNAME" = "(none)" ]; then > HOSTNAME=localhost > fi > << > > > [root at localhost init.d]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network > NETWORKING=yes > HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain > [root at localhost init.d]# > > > It would seem that the hostname is being set either by the > /etc/sysconfig/network file, or by the fallout case listed in > /etc/rc.sysinit (if -z $HOSTNAME ...). > > I don't know why the hostname command would fail: > > [root at localhost init.d]# cat /etc/hostname > vectra > [root at localhost init.d]# > > Also, what does the line ". /etc/sysconfig/network" do? > Is "." (dot) a command? > > --bk Yes. "." means to "source", that is to execute in the current shell. /etc/sysconfig/network is nothing but a shell script that sets environment variables (well, shell variables, actually), one of which is $HOSTNAME. So edit the file so that it has your desire host name and then reboot. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Grace happens. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Dec 16 23:34:11 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:34:11 -0800 Subject: Hostname "Chicken and Egg" In-Reply-To: <20041216230155.49774.qmail@web12504.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041216230155.49774.qmail@web12504.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <41C21B73.9010507@vitalstream.com> Bob Kinney wrote: > Happy Holidays all-- > > I'm running RH9, and recently switched from being directly connected to > the internet (dhcp giving me a publicly routed address) to being behind > a router. > > I reconfigured my IP address to be a static, private one now, and my > hostname now comes up as "localhost.localdomain". I'm trying to name the > host "vectra". > > Looking at the man page for hostname, it says that: > " The host name is usually set once at system startup in > /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 or /etc/init.d/boot (normally by reading the con- > tents of a file which contains the host name, e.g. /etc/hostname)." > > Although the files mentioned aren't there, I found in /etc/rc.sysinit > a section that seems to set the hostname by *calling* /bin/hostname. > >> > HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname` > if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then > . /etc/sysconfig/network > else > NETWORKING=no > fi > if [ -z "$HOSTNAME" -o "$HOSTNAME" = "(none)" ]; then > HOSTNAME=localhost > fi Fine. Yes, it runs /bin/hostname and /bin/hostname will return null if the hostname hasn't been set yet. The next bit tests to see if the file "/etc/sysconfig/network" exists. If it does, then it is executed. If not, the variable NETWORKING is set to "no". As you can see by this stuff you quoted: [root at localhost init.d]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain [root at localhost init.d]# running /etc/sysconfig/network will set NETWORKING to yes and set the hostname to "localhost.localdomain". The next test says "if the variable HOSTNAME is null (zero length) OR if HOSTNAME contains the string "(none)", then set HOSTNAME to localhost". > It would seem that the hostname is being set either by the > /etc/sysconfig/network file, or by the fallout case listed in > /etc/rc.sysinit (if -z $HOSTNAME ...). That's exactly right. > I don't know why the hostname command would fail: > > [root at localhost init.d]# cat /etc/hostname > vectra > [root at localhost init.d]# Because that's now how things are set up. If you follow the rest of the startup sequence, in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/network bit, it checks to see if /etc/sysconfig/network exists, and if it does, runs it. It then checks to see if NETWORKING is set to "yes". If so, it launches the necessary /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* scripts to bring the network interfaces up. It then calls "/sbin/hostname $HOSTNAME" to set the host name. Wow! Lots of network questions this week! Now, as for setting things up, your hostname IS set by the "HOSTNAME=" bit of /etc/sysconfig/network. If, however, you use DHCP, your DHCP server can replace your hostname when it hands you your IP address, route and DNS servers. If you DON'T use DHCP, then whatever you put in /etc/sysconfig/network sticks. The problem is, you may not have your IP address associated to your hostname and the odds are that it won't be in a DNS server anywhere, either, since you're on a private network. So things like "X" won't work anymore. How do you fix that? For a fixed IP, go ahead and put your FQDN in the /etc/sysconfig/network's "HOSTNAME=" section (by FQDN, I mean your hostname.yourdomainname.tld,, in your case "vectra.mydomain.com"). THEN edit /etc/hosts and add a line that contains your fixed IP, a tab, your FQDN, a tab, then your hostname, e.g. 192.168.0.10 vectra.mydomain.com vectra By putting this in /etc/hosts, the system never asks DNS for the IP associated with your hostname--it has it in its local tables. X will start normally and life will be good again. ;-) > Also, what does the line ". /etc/sysconfig/network" do? > Is "." (dot) a command? Well, yes. It actually means "run the shell on this script". The line: . /etc/sysconfig/network is the same as saying sh /etc/sysconfig/network Necessary because /etc/sysconfig/network doesn't have the execute bit set, nor does it have "#!/bin/bash" or "#!/bin/sh" as the first line. Whew! I've been busy today! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "I was remembering the immortal words of Socrates when he said, - - 'I drank what?'" -- Val Kilmer in "Real Genius" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Dec 16 23:38:37 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:38:37 -0800 Subject: Hostname "Chicken and Egg" In-Reply-To: <41C21B73.9010507@vitalstream.com> References: <20041216230155.49774.qmail@web12504.mail.yahoo.com> <41C21B73.9010507@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <41C21C7D.60402@vitalstream.com> Rick Stevens wrote: > Bob Kinney wrote: > >> Happy Holidays all-- >> >> I'm running RH9, and recently switched from being directly connected to >> the internet (dhcp giving me a publicly routed address) to being behind >> a router. >> >> I reconfigured my IP address to be a static, private one now, and my >> hostname now comes up as "localhost.localdomain". I'm trying to name the >> host "vectra". >> >> Looking at the man page for hostname, it says that: >> " The host name is usually set once at system startup in >> /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 or /etc/init.d/boot (normally by reading >> the con- >> tents of a file which contains the host name, e.g. >> /etc/hostname)." >> >> Although the files mentioned aren't there, I found in /etc/rc.sysinit >> a section that seems to set the hostname by *calling* /bin/hostname. >> >> HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname` >> if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then >> . /etc/sysconfig/network >> else >> NETWORKING=no >> fi >> if [ -z "$HOSTNAME" -o "$HOSTNAME" = "(none)" ]; then >> HOSTNAME=localhost >> fi > > > Fine. Yes, it runs /bin/hostname and /bin/hostname will return null if > the hostname hasn't been set yet. The next bit tests to see if the file > "/etc/sysconfig/network" exists. If it does, then it is executed. If > not, the variable NETWORKING is set to "no". > > As you can see by this stuff you quoted: > > [root at localhost init.d]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network > NETWORKING=yes > HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain > [root at localhost init.d]# > > running /etc/sysconfig/network will set NETWORKING to yes and set the > hostname to "localhost.localdomain". > > The next test says "if the variable HOSTNAME is null (zero length) OR > if HOSTNAME contains the string "(none)", then set HOSTNAME to > localhost". > >> It would seem that the hostname is being set either by the >> /etc/sysconfig/network file, or by the fallout case listed in >> /etc/rc.sysinit (if -z $HOSTNAME ...). > > > That's exactly right. > >> I don't know why the hostname command would fail: >> >> [root at localhost init.d]# cat /etc/hostname >> vectra >> [root at localhost init.d]# > > > Because that's now how things are set up. If you follow the rest of the > startup sequence, in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/network bit, it checks to see > if /etc/sysconfig/network exists, and if it does, runs it. It then > checks to see if NETWORKING is set to "yes". If so, it launches the > necessary /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* scripts to bring the > network interfaces up. It then calls "/sbin/hostname $HOSTNAME" to > set the host name. > > Wow! Lots of network questions this week! > > Now, as for setting things up, your hostname IS set by the "HOSTNAME=" > bit of /etc/sysconfig/network. If, however, you use DHCP, your DHCP > server can replace your hostname when it hands you your IP address, > route and DNS servers. > > If you DON'T use DHCP, then whatever you put in /etc/sysconfig/network > sticks. The problem is, you may not have your IP address associated to > your hostname and the odds are that it won't be in a DNS server > anywhere, either, since you're on a private network. So things like "X" > won't work anymore. > > How do you fix that? For a fixed IP, go ahead and put your FQDN in > the /etc/sysconfig/network's "HOSTNAME=" section (by FQDN, I mean > your hostname.yourdomainname.tld,, in your case "vectra.mydomain.com"). > THEN edit /etc/hosts and add a line that contains your fixed IP, a tab, > your FQDN, a tab, then your hostname, e.g. > > 192.168.0.10 vectra.mydomain.com vectra > > By putting this in /etc/hosts, the system never asks DNS for the IP > associated with your hostname--it has it in its local tables. X will > start normally and life will be good again. ;-) > >> Also, what does the line ". /etc/sysconfig/network" do? >> Is "." (dot) a command? > > > Well, yes. It actually means "run the shell on this script". The > line: > > . /etc/sysconfig/network > > is the same as saying > > sh /etc/sysconfig/network > > Necessary because /etc/sysconfig/network doesn't have the execute bit > set, nor does it have "#!/bin/bash" or "#!/bin/sh" as the first line. > > Whew! I've been busy today! Actually, "." means "source", or "run the script IN THIS SHELL" so that variables set will also be set for this process. My second statement about "sh" is wrong, as the variables set in the script would be set only for the subshell and the current shell still won't know about them. Now, I'm getting punchy! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To err is human. To forgive, a large sum of money is needed. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From tariq.samsudeen at gmail.com Fri Dec 17 01:18:24 2004 From: tariq.samsudeen at gmail.com (tariq samsudeen) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 01:18:24 +0000 Subject: quota Message-ID: <75db1b3b041216171827f22ffd@mail.gmail.com> hi gurus, im here once again with a doubt, but this time itz with quota.... i dont hv any problem with quota configuration, but i dont see itz effective.... first let me describe my settings.... i had my home directory in /, so i created a seperated partition /dev/hda8 and mounted my home directory thr...... my fstab line after adding usrquota is /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults,usrquota 1 2 i remounted the home directory using mount -o remount /home thn i created a new user named "quotauser" i also created aquota.user file under home directory i ran "quotacheck -avum" thn i used "edquota -u quotauser" and specified inode soft limit 10 and hard limit 15 files....i logged in as quotauser and created more than 15 files, but it didnt block me......i also tried for 1000 and 1500 for blocks...even it doesnt wrk.... whn i ran quota -u quotauser under root, my result was filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace /dev/hda8 13788* 2 3 14* 1 0 6days i kindly request your suggestions.... thanking you in advance tariq samsudeen From markknecht at gmail.com Fri Dec 17 18:22:22 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:22:22 -0800 Subject: Wireless - tried to automate - now cannot boot Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b041217102227227de5@mail.gmail.com> The machine is hanging at boot time. Not exactly sure where or why. WIreless is working, but it's not getting setup correctly at boot time. To get past this I created a file /root/scripts/wireless witht he following commands: #!/bin/bash iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed iwconfig wlan0 ESSID XXXXXX iwconfig wlan0 key open XXXXX dhclient These commands work at the command line and wireless comes up fine. I did not try the script file by hand. My mistake. I added a call to this file in /etc/rc.local and rebooted. The machine hangs bringin up the network. I tried booting in Knoppix. I see the file but Knoppix is not letting me edit it. All I want to do now is remove the call in rc.local. How can I do this, preferably with the FC2 disks. Thanks, Mark From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Fri Dec 17 18:33:10 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:33:10 -0600 Subject: Wireless - tried to automate - now cannot boot In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b041217102227227de5@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b041217102227227de5@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20041217183310.GA13005@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:22:22AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > The machine is hanging at boot time. Not exactly sure where or why. > > WIreless is working, but it's not getting setup correctly at boot > time. To get past this I created a file /root/scripts/wireless witht > he following commands: > > #!/bin/bash > iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed > iwconfig wlan0 ESSID XXXXXX > iwconfig wlan0 key open XXXXX > dhclient > > These commands work at the command line and wireless comes up fine. I > did not try the script file by hand. My mistake. > > I added a call to this file in /etc/rc.local and rebooted. The machine > hangs bringin up the network. > > I tried booting in Knoppix. I see the file but Knoppix is not letting > me edit it. > > All I want to do now is remove the call in rc.local. > > How can I do this, preferably with the FC2 disks. > > Thanks, > Mark You should be able to boot to single-user and edit the file. At the GRUB screen, with the desired boot line highlighted, hit "a" to append to the boot line, then add a space and "single" and hit . When you've fixed it, run "shutdown -r now". If you want to use the CD, boot with it, and put "linux rescue" at the prompt. Let it mount your system on /mnt/sysimage. Then enter chroot /mnt/sysimage That puts you in your root directory. Then edit the file. Then exit # the chroot shell exit # rescue mode Then pop out the CD and let it reboot. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Grace happens. From markknecht at gmail.com Fri Dec 17 18:40:51 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:40:51 -0800 Subject: Wireless - tried to automate - now cannot boot In-Reply-To: <20041217183310.GA13005@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <5bdc1c8b041217102227227de5@mail.gmail.com> <20041217183310.GA13005@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b04121710401f6c3d47@mail.gmail.com> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:33:10 -0600, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:22:22AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > The machine is hanging at boot time. Not exactly sure where or why. > > > > WIreless is working, but it's not getting setup correctly at boot > > time. To get past this I created a file /root/scripts/wireless witht > > he following commands: > > > > #!/bin/bash > > iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed > > iwconfig wlan0 ESSID XXXXXX > > iwconfig wlan0 key open XXXXX > > dhclient > > > > These commands work at the command line and wireless comes up fine. I > > did not try the script file by hand. My mistake. > > > > I added a call to this file in /etc/rc.local and rebooted. The machine > > hangs bringin up the network. > > > > I tried booting in Knoppix. I see the file but Knoppix is not letting > > me edit it. > > > > All I want to do now is remove the call in rc.local. > > > > How can I do this, preferably with the FC2 disks. > > > > Thanks, > > Mark > > You should be able to boot to single-user and edit the file. At the > GRUB screen, with the desired boot line highlighted, hit "a" to append > to the boot line, then add a space and "single" and hit . > > When you've fixed it, run "shutdown -r now". > > If you want to use the CD, boot with it, and put "linux rescue" at the > prompt. Let it mount your system on /mnt/sysimage. Then enter > > chroot /mnt/sysimage > > That puts you in your root directory. Then edit the file. Then > > exit # the chroot shell > exit # rescue mode > > Then pop out the CD and let it reboot. > > Cheers, Hi Bob, I managed to get it fixed with Knoppix just before your response came in. I'm not booting into Gnome again. Now, I've tested the script file and it works, so it's no big deal for me to leave it this way for a while. He'll be happy to have wireless networking at all, even if it comes with the pain of doing an extra command. I can probably do something under sudo to make it so he can do it himself. The real question is why did it fail when the script call was in /etc/rc.local? Is that not allowed? The header says it's executed after all other init scripts. Can I not call a script in this file? Maybe I have to put the command themselves in there? Thanks, Mark From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Fri Dec 17 18:52:12 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:52:12 -0600 Subject: Wireless - tried to automate - now cannot boot In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b04121710401f6c3d47@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b041217102227227de5@mail.gmail.com> <20041217183310.GA13005@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <5bdc1c8b04121710401f6c3d47@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20041217185212.GA13216@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:40:51AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:33:10 -0600, Bob McClure Jr > wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:22:22AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > The machine is hanging at boot time. Not exactly sure where or why. > > > > > > WIreless is working, but it's not getting setup correctly at boot > > > time. To get past this I created a file /root/scripts/wireless witht > > > he following commands: > > > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed > > > iwconfig wlan0 ESSID XXXXXX > > > iwconfig wlan0 key open XXXXX > > > dhclient > > > > > > These commands work at the command line and wireless comes up fine. I > > > did not try the script file by hand. My mistake. > > > > > > I added a call to this file in /etc/rc.local and rebooted. The machine > > > hangs bringin up the network. > > > > > > I tried booting in Knoppix. I see the file but Knoppix is not letting > > > me edit it. > > > > > > All I want to do now is remove the call in rc.local. > > > > > > How can I do this, preferably with the FC2 disks. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Mark > > > > You should be able to boot to single-user and edit the file. At the > > GRUB screen, with the desired boot line highlighted, hit "a" to append > > to the boot line, then add a space and "single" and hit . > > > > When you've fixed it, run "shutdown -r now". > > > > If you want to use the CD, boot with it, and put "linux rescue" at the > > prompt. Let it mount your system on /mnt/sysimage. Then enter > > > > chroot /mnt/sysimage > > > > That puts you in your root directory. Then edit the file. Then > > > > exit # the chroot shell > > exit # rescue mode > > > > Then pop out the CD and let it reboot. > > > > Cheers, > > Hi Bob, > I managed to get it fixed with Knoppix just before your response > came in. I'm not booting into Gnome again. > > Now, I've tested the script file and it works, so it's no big deal > for me to leave it this way for a while. He'll be happy to have > wireless networking at all, even if it comes with the pain of doing an > extra command. I can probably do something under sudo to make it so he > can do it himself. > > The real question is why did it fail when the script call was in > /etc/rc.local? Is that not allowed? The header says it's executed > after all other init scripts. Can I not call a script in this file? > Maybe I have to put the command themselves in there? > > Thanks, > Mark You may need to fully path the commands. At boot time you have precious little, if any, PATH set. Were there any useful messages in /var/log/messages or /var/log/boot.log or /var/log/dmesg? Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Grace happens. From dcb at westriv.com Fri Dec 17 19:51:09 2004 From: dcb at westriv.com (Carla & Dick Bickert) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:51:09 -0600 Subject: Slow system Message-ID: <41C338AD.50701@westriv.com> I have recently installed Red Hat Linux 9. It boots fine and there appear to be no problems, but the GUI runs EXTREMELY slow (openoffice takes 3-4 minutes to come up). The computer has a Celeron processor running at 667 Mhz and the hard drive is plenty big. Any suggestions? Thanks Dick From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Fri Dec 17 20:00:13 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:00:13 -0600 Subject: Slow system In-Reply-To: <41C338AD.50701@westriv.com> References: <41C338AD.50701@westriv.com> Message-ID: <20041217200013.GA13932@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:51:09PM -0600, Carla & Dick Bickert wrote: > I have recently installed Red Hat Linux 9. It boots fine and there > appear to be no problems, but the GUI runs EXTREMELY slow (openoffice > takes 3-4 minutes to come up). The computer has a Celeron processor > running at 667 Mhz and the hard drive is plenty big. Any suggestions? > > Thanks > Dick Post the results of running "free". That may well tell the story. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Grace happens. From markknecht at gmail.com Fri Dec 17 21:21:41 2004 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:21:41 -0800 Subject: Thanks to Rick and Bob & Getting Started with RH Linux Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0412171321118fbbd7@mail.gmail.com> Hi all, I wanted to drop a final thanks for all the help you've so generously given me over the last week or two. The machine is up and running well enough for a nice Christmas day for a 12 year old boy. FC2, a newer kernel, Alsa sound, wireless networking, Samba connectivity (I think...) to our Windows and Linux network at home, Cedega (WineX) game playing with StarCraft and Half-Life loaded. He should certainly be happy out of the gate. (I hope!) There are a few things to take care of after Christmas sometime. I'll probably have to come back to the well to really figure those out, but it won't be such a time sensitive thing as this was. Again, thanks to both of you for coming through with all the help. It was great. Merry Christmas, Mark P.S. - If I've forgotten someone else's contribution on this please consider yourselves thanked with all of the energy above. Happy Holidays. - MWK From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Fri Dec 17 21:35:45 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:35:45 -0600 Subject: Thanks to Rick and Bob & Getting Started with RH Linux In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0412171321118fbbd7@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b0412171321118fbbd7@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20041217213545.GB17818@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:21:41PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi all, > I wanted to drop a final thanks for all the help you've so > generously given me over the last week or two. The machine is up and > running well enough for a nice Christmas day for a 12 year old boy. > FC2, a newer kernel, Alsa sound, wireless networking, Samba > connectivity (I think...) to our Windows and Linux network at home, > Cedega (WineX) game playing with StarCraft and Half-Life loaded. He > should certainly be happy out of the gate. (I hope!) > > There are a few things to take care of after Christmas sometime. > I'll probably have to come back to the well to really figure those > out, but it won't be such a time sensitive thing as this was. > > Again, thanks to both of you for coming through with all the help. > It was great. > > Merry Christmas, > Mark > > P.S. - If I've forgotten someone else's contribution on this please > consider yourselves thanked with all of the energy above. Happy > Holidays. - MWK Glad we could help. Merry Christmas, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Grace happens. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Sat Dec 18 00:19:41 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:19:41 -0800 Subject: Thanks to Rick and Bob & Getting Started with RH Linux In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0412171321118fbbd7@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b0412171321118fbbd7@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <41C3779D.9070303@vitalstream.com> Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi all, > I wanted to drop a final thanks for all the help you've so > generously given me over the last week or two. The machine is up and > running well enough for a nice Christmas day for a 12 year old boy. > FC2, a newer kernel, Alsa sound, wireless networking, Samba > connectivity (I think...) to our Windows and Linux network at home, > Cedega (WineX) game playing with StarCraft and Half-Life loaded. He > should certainly be happy out of the gate. (I hope!) > > There are a few things to take care of after Christmas sometime. > I'll probably have to come back to the well to really figure those > out, but it won't be such a time sensitive thing as this was. > > Again, thanks to both of you for coming through with all the help. > It was great. > > Merry Christmas, > Mark > > P.S. - If I've forgotten someone else's contribution on this please > consider yourselves thanked with all of the energy above. Happy > Holidays. - MWK I, for one, am very happy to hear that, Mark. Glad we could help. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If at first you don't succeed, quit. No sense being a damned fool! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Sat Dec 18 00:22:14 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:22:14 -0800 Subject: Slow system In-Reply-To: <41C338AD.50701@westriv.com> References: <41C338AD.50701@westriv.com> Message-ID: <41C37836.8080807@vitalstream.com> Carla & Dick Bickert wrote: > I have recently installed Red Hat Linux 9. It boots fine and there > appear to be no problems, but the GUI runs EXTREMELY slow (openoffice > takes 3-4 minutes to come up). The computer has a Celeron processor > running at 667 Mhz and the hard drive is plenty big. Any suggestions? As the root user, run "free" and post the results here. Also run the "dmesg" command and see if there's anything funky in the kernel logs. Check the /var/log/messages file for weirdness, too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If at first you don't succeed, quit. No sense being a damned fool! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From sg at pobox.com Sat Dec 18 08:37:40 2004 From: sg at pobox.com (sg at pobox.com) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:07:40 +0530 Subject: Another Hard Disk In-Reply-To: <41BF92E3.90501@vitalstream.com> References: <75db1b3b04121414155d18ea79@mail.gmail.com> <41BF92E3.90501@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <200412181407.40029.sg@pobox.com> Sir, I am using RedHat Linux 9.0 and having SCSI Hard disk now i want to add another hard disk. how i can add new hard disk and want to add whole space to existing home partition. Rajeev. From sg at pobox.com Sat Dec 18 06:17:14 2004 From: sg at pobox.com (sg at pobox.com) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:47:14 +0530 Subject: Another Hard Disk In-Reply-To: <41BF92E3.90501@vitalstream.com> References: <75db1b3b04121414155d18ea79@mail.gmail.com> <41BF92E3.90501@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <200412181147.14486.sg@pobox.com> Sir, I am using RedHat Linux 9.0 and having SCSI Hard disk now i want to add another hard disk. how i can add new hard disk and want to add whole space to existing home partition. Rajeev. From ndof at gmx.li Sat Dec 18 14:13:16 2004 From: ndof at gmx.li (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans_M=FCller?=) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 15:13:16 +0100 Subject: Another Hard Disk In-Reply-To: <200412181407.40029.sg@pobox.com> References: <75db1b3b04121414155d18ea79@mail.gmail.com> <41BF92E3.90501@vitalstream.com> <200412181407.40029.sg@pobox.com> Message-ID: <41C43AFC.2050404@gmx.li> will you move your exist home to the new disk? or will you use your old home partition and the new on the new disk together? sg at pobox.com schrieb: > Sir, > > I am using RedHat Linux 9.0 and having SCSI Hard disk now i want to add > another hard disk. how i can add new hard disk and want to add whole space > to existing home partition. > > Rajeev. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 890 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: From fab at s-tunnel.com Sat Dec 18 15:36:47 2004 From: fab at s-tunnel.com (Alexey Fadyushin) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:36:47 +0300 Subject: Slow system In-Reply-To: <41C37836.8080807@vitalstream.com> References: <41C338AD.50701@westriv.com> <41C37836.8080807@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <41C44E8F.2@s-tunnel.com> The outputs of "top" and "ps" commands will also be useful. It is possible that there are too many active processes trying to use the machine resources. Alexey Fadyushin Brainbench MVP for Linux. http://www.brainbench.com Rick Stevens wrote: > Carla & Dick Bickert wrote: > >> I have recently installed Red Hat Linux 9. It boots fine and there >> appear to be no problems, but the GUI runs EXTREMELY slow (openoffice >> takes 3-4 minutes to come up). The computer has a Celeron processor >> running at 667 Mhz and the hard drive is plenty big. Any suggestions? > > > As the root user, run "free" and post the results here. Also run the > "dmesg" command and see if there's anything funky in the kernel logs. > > Check the /var/log/messages file for weirdness, too. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - If at first you don't succeed, quit. No sense being a damned fool! - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > 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 fab at s-tunnel.com Sat Dec 18 15:44:54 2004 From: fab at s-tunnel.com (Alexey Fadyushin) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:44:54 +0300 Subject: Another Hard Disk In-Reply-To: <200412181147.14486.sg@pobox.com> References: <75db1b3b04121414155d18ea79@mail.gmail.com> <41BF92E3.90501@vitalstream.com> <200412181147.14486.sg@pobox.com> Message-ID: <41C45076.2010208@s-tunnel.com> If you want to use both the old and new disks for the home partition (so the /home size will be sum of the old and new disk sizes) you could put home directories of one part of your users on the one disk (mounting it as, for example, as /home1) and of the other part of users to another disk (/home2). Then put the correct links from /home to users' subdirectoties on /home1 and /home2. The better way is to use LVM to combine old /home partition and partition on the new disk into new logical disk and put /home on that logical disk (which will have the size equal to the sum of sizes of its componenets (old /home and new disk)). Alexey Fadyushin. Brainbench MVP for Linux. http://www.brainbench.com sg at pobox.com wrote: > Sir, > > I am using RedHat Linux 9.0 and having SCSI Hard disk now i want to add > another hard disk. how i can add new hard disk and want to add whole space > to existing home partition. > > Rajeev. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 dcb at westriv.com Sat Dec 18 17:35:01 2004 From: dcb at westriv.com (Carla & Dick Bickert) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:35:01 -0600 Subject: Slow system In-Reply-To: <20041217200013.GA13932@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <41C338AD.50701@westriv.com> <20041217200013.GA13932@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <41C46A45.2040702@westriv.com> Bob McClure Jr wrote: >On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:51:09PM -0600, Carla & Dick Bickert wrote: > > >>I have recently installed Red Hat Linux 9. It boots fine and there >>appear to be no problems, but the GUI runs EXTREMELY slow (openoffice >>takes 3-4 minutes to come up). The computer has a Celeron processor >>running at 667 Mhz and the hard drive is plenty big. Any suggestions? >> >>Thanks >>Dick >> >> > >Post the results of running "free". That may well tell the story. > >Cheers, > > The results of "free" are as follows: Total Used Free Shared Buffer Cached mem 60348 59456 892 0 1396 14160 -/+ buffers/cache: 43900 16448 Swap: 192772 40432 152340 0 I'm new at Linux, so keep your answers at an elementary level (if possibe). Thanks for you help Dick From mkomut at fintek.com.tr Sat Dec 18 17:02:53 2004 From: mkomut at fintek.com.tr (Mustafa KOMUT) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 19:02:53 +0200 Subject: Security Checklist for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Message-ID: Dear Colleguages We are the only one IT company that provides a banking solution via support & development to the biggest bank of Turkey (i.e. TC.Ziraat Bankasi) . 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From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Sat Dec 18 18:42:50 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:42:50 -0600 Subject: Slow system In-Reply-To: <41C46A45.2040702@westriv.com> References: <41C338AD.50701@westriv.com> <20041217200013.GA13932@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <41C46A45.2040702@westriv.com> Message-ID: <20041218184250.GA3694@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 11:35:01AM -0600, Carla & Dick Bickert wrote: > Bob McClure Jr wrote: > > >On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:51:09PM -0600, Carla & Dick Bickert wrote: > > > > > >>I have recently installed Red Hat Linux 9. It boots fine and there > >>appear to be no problems, but the GUI runs EXTREMELY slow (openoffice > >>takes 3-4 minutes to come up). The computer has a Celeron processor > >>running at 667 Mhz and the hard drive is plenty big. Any suggestions? > >> > >>Thanks > >>Dick > >> > >> > > > >Post the results of running "free". That may well tell the story. > > > >Cheers, > > > > > > > The results of "free" are as follows: > > Total Used Free Shared Buffer > Cached > mem 60348 59456 892 0 1396 14160 > -/+ buffers/cache: 43900 16448 > > Swap: 192772 40432 152340 0 > > I'm new at Linux, so keep your answers at an elementary level (if possibe). > > Thanks for you help > Dick You have only 64MB of RAM. Totaling up the "Used" columns, you are using almost 100MB, 40% of which is swap, so your machine is spending a lot of time swapping. If you can, expand your RAM. I'd guess that 128MB is about minimum for decent GUI performance on RH9. Better if you can go for 256MB. With either of those you'll see a dramatic improvement in response. If you can go for 512MB, that won't improve things much over 256MB, but later down the road, you'll want it. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Grace happens. From rhil at manordata.uklinux.net Sat Dec 18 19:23:31 2004 From: rhil at manordata.uklinux.net (Chris Hewitt) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 19:23:31 +0000 Subject: Security Checklist for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1103397810.22835.120.camel@amdk63.homemanordata.nodom> On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 17:02, Mustafa KOMUT wrote: > Dear Colleguages > > > > We are the only one IT company that provides a banking solution via support & development to the biggest bank of Turkey (i.e. TC.Ziraat Bankasi) . > > > We hereby urgently ask you to provide us a Security Checklist for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 > > > > Best Regards > > > > > > Mustafa KOMUT > > Information Security > > Senior Specialist I think you will need to ask RedHat themselves, rather than us. Everyone on this list are users, just like yourself. Regards Chris From othmanelmoulat at menara.ma Sat Dec 18 19:49:12 2004 From: othmanelmoulat at menara.ma (othman El Moulat) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 19:49:12 +0000 Subject: starting adsl connection automatically at boot time Message-ID: <200412181949.12524.othmanelmoulat@menara.ma> Hi guys .... I have an adsl internet connection which is working fine on a RH 9 box... however i'm obliged every time i boot the system to start this adsl connection manually when i log on as a root user...after this i issue the following 2 commands in a terminal: #eaglectrl -d #startadsl the first command is responsible for sending options to the driver and the second actually start the connection... now i wonder if there is a way to start this connection automatically when the system boot up? many thanks for helping... othman From b06gtp at FDS.com Sat Dec 18 21:07:51 2004 From: b06gtp at FDS.com (Gene Poole) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 16:07:51 -0500 Subject: Gene Poole/FSG/FDS is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 12/10/2004 and will not return until 12/20/2004. I am away at WebSphere Training, but I'll return on December 20, 2004 - see you then! From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Sat Dec 18 21:35:47 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 15:35:47 -0600 Subject: starting adsl connection automatically at boot time In-Reply-To: <200412181949.12524.othmanelmoulat@menara.ma> References: <200412181949.12524.othmanelmoulat@menara.ma> Message-ID: <20041218213547.GA5675@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 07:49:12PM +0000, othman El Moulat wrote: > Hi guys .... > I have an adsl internet connection which is working fine on a RH 9 box... > however i'm obliged every time i boot the system to start this adsl connection > manually when i log on as a root user...after this i issue the following 2 > commands in a terminal: > #eaglectrl -d > #startadsl > the first command is responsible for sending options to the driver and the > second actually start the connection... > now i wonder if there is a way to start this connection automatically when the > system boot up? > > many thanks for helping... > > othman There may be a more straightforward way, but to do precisely that, put the commands in /etc/rc.d/rc.local. But use the full paths for the commands because there is no PATH set at that time. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Grace happens. From ksun at ABINITIO.COM Mon Dec 20 15:36:43 2004 From: ksun at ABINITIO.COM (ksun at ABINITIO.COM) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:36:43 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Howto install a NIC module automatically Message-ID: Greetings! The particular NIC card, MARWIN, is not recognized by RH Enterprise 3. I have to install compiler and make and install a module to make this card work. I wonder what rpm package and how I need to modify to recogine and configure the card automatically. Please e-mail me at ksun at abinitio.com -- Kang From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Dec 20 17:12:05 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:12:05 -0800 Subject: Slow system In-Reply-To: <41C46A45.2040702@westriv.com> References: <41C338AD.50701@westriv.com> <20041217200013.GA13932@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <41C46A45.2040702@westriv.com> Message-ID: <41C707E5.5030107@vitalstream.com> Carla & Dick Bickert wrote: > Bob McClure Jr wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:51:09PM -0600, Carla & Dick Bickert wrote: >> >> >>> I have recently installed Red Hat Linux 9. It boots fine and there >>> appear to be no problems, but the GUI runs EXTREMELY slow (openoffice >>> takes 3-4 minutes to come up). The computer has a Celeron processor >>> running at 667 Mhz and the hard drive is plenty big. Any suggestions? >>> >>> Thanks >>> Dick >>> >> >> >> Post the results of running "free". That may well tell the story. >> >> Cheers, >> >> > > > The results of "free" are as follows: > > Total Used Free Shared Buffer > Cached > mem 60348 59456 892 0 1396 > 14160 > -/+ buffers/cache: 43900 16448 > Swap: 192772 40432 152340 0 > > I'm new at Linux, so keep your answers at an elementary level (if possibe). You appear to only have 64MB of RAM in your system. This isn't really enough to run a desktop environment (you'd even be hard pressed to run Windows efficiently in 64MB). You're using 40MB of swap, so your machine is spending a lot of time swapping. You've probably also noticed your hard drive is working pretty hard, too. When memory gets full, the system starts looking for programs that aren't currently ready to run. It then swaps bits of those programs out to the swap partition of your hard drive to free up memory, and swaps in pieces of programs from the disk that are ready to run. Disk I/O is always much less efficient than RAM operations, hence your machine slows down. If the swapping is bad enough, the machine becomes unusable. The easiest fix is to add more RAM. I'd add at least another 64MB, although you'd be much happier with another 128MB or more. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Mon Dec 20 17:19:01 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:19:01 -0800 Subject: Howto install a NIC module automatically In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41C70985.2080108@vitalstream.com> ksun at ABINITIO.COM wrote: > Greetings! > The particular NIC card, MARWIN, is not recognized by RH > Enterprise 3. I have to install compiler and make and install a module to > make this card work. I wonder what rpm package and how I need to modify to > recogine and configure the card automatically. Marwin? Do you mean Marvell? As far as I know, RHEL3 doesn't have an RPM for that card. The Fedora Core series does (at least FC2 and 3 do). The Marvell site for downloads is http://www.marvell.com/drivers/search.do A quick glance doesn't reveal any RPMs, just source kits. > Please e-mail me at ksun at abinitio.com CCd to that address. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 kochevar at verizon.net Mon Dec 20 20:00:46 2004 From: kochevar at verizon.net (kochevar at verizon.net) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:00:46 -0600 Subject: *disc1.iso isn't bootable Message-ID: <20041220200047.DYGH28362.out005.verizon.net@outgoing.verizon.net> Does anyone know why the redhat desktop v. 3 disc1 downloaded as an iso and burned is not recognized as a bootable disc? From ottohaliburton at comcast.net Mon Dec 20 20:20:47 2004 From: ottohaliburton at comcast.net (Otto Haliburton) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:20:47 -0600 Subject: *disc1.iso isn't bootable In-Reply-To: <20041220200047.DYGH28362.out005.verizon.net@outgoing.verizon.net> Message-ID: <001e01c4e6d1$67625f30$4601a8c0@C515816A> You didn't burn it correctly > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list- > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of kochevar at verizon.net > Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 2:01 PM > To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > Subject: *disc1.iso isn't bootable > > Does anyone know why the redhat desktop v. 3 disc1 downloaded as an iso > and burned is not recognized as a bootable disc? > > _______________________________________________ > 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 robertmcclure at earthlink.net Mon Dec 20 20:28:12 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:28:12 -0600 Subject: *disc1.iso isn't bootable In-Reply-To: <20041220200047.DYGH28362.out005.verizon.net@outgoing.verizon.net> References: <20041220200047.DYGH28362.out005.verizon.net@outgoing.verizon.net> Message-ID: <20041220202812.GA3365@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 02:00:46PM -0600, kochevar at verizon.net wrote: > Does anyone know why the redhat desktop v. 3 disc1 downloaded as an iso and burned is not recognized as a bootable disc? See http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#making_cds Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com "...And His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." - Isaiah 9:6 From nandrews at med.umich.edu Mon Dec 20 20:28:07 2004 From: nandrews at med.umich.edu (Nathan Andrews) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:28:07 -0500 Subject: *disc1.iso isn't bootable Message-ID: It could be any number of things. The primary reason is likely that you burned the .iso file to the CD, rather than the image contained within the .iso file. When you open the CD in Windows, does it show a lot of files, or just the .iso file? >>> kochevar at verizon.net 12/20/04 3:00:46 PM >>> Does anyone know why the redhat desktop v. 3 disc1 downloaded as an iso and burned is not recognized as a bootable disc? _______________________________________________ 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 ********************************************************** Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not be used for urgent or sensitive issues. From smm0007 at rediffmail.com Tue Dec 21 13:19:41 2004 From: smm0007 at rediffmail.com (shubhendu mohan mishra) Date: 21 Dec 2004 13:19:41 -0000 Subject: QUESTION URGENT Message-ID: <20041221131941.21893.qmail@webmail26.rediffmail.com> ??Hi , I am using redhat9.I have installed it in my pc.when do i install redhat 9 it shows installation language english.keyboard language english(USA) and in additional language support language it shows hindi ,with others language.i want to install Hindi version by defult.how can i do this.can you give me any idea so that i can change my language settings in hindi so that complete environment is in hindi. please do needfull as early as possible.I am waitting for suggestion. Thanks Shubhendu mishra -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dcb at westriv.com Wed Dec 22 00:06:08 2004 From: dcb at westriv.com (Carla & Dick Bickert) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:06:08 -0600 Subject: Slow system In-Reply-To: <41C707E5.5030107@vitalstream.com> References: <41C338AD.50701@westriv.com> <20041217200013.GA13932@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <41C46A45.2040702@westriv.com> <41C707E5.5030107@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <41C8BA70.9010002@westriv.com> Rick Stevens wrote: > Carla & Dick Bickert wrote: > >> Bob McClure Jr wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:51:09PM -0600, Carla & Dick Bickert wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I have recently installed Red Hat Linux 9. It boots fine and there >>>> appear to be no problems, but the GUI runs EXTREMELY slow >>>> (openoffice takes 3-4 minutes to come up). The computer has a >>>> Celeron processor running at 667 Mhz and the hard drive is plenty >>>> big. Any suggestions? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Dick >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Post the results of running "free". That may well tell the story. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> >> >> >> The results of "free" are as follows: >> >> Total Used Free Shared >> Buffer Cached >> mem 60348 59456 892 0 >> 1396 14160 >> -/+ buffers/cache: 43900 16448 Swap: 192772 >> 40432 152340 0 >> >> I'm new at Linux, so keep your answers at an elementary level (if >> possibe). > > > You appear to only have 64MB of RAM in your system. This isn't really > enough to run a desktop environment (you'd even be hard pressed to run > Windows efficiently in 64MB). > > You're using 40MB of swap, so your machine is spending a lot of time > swapping. You've probably also noticed your hard drive is > working pretty hard, too. When memory gets full, the system starts > looking for programs that aren't currently ready to run. It then > swaps bits of those programs out to the swap partition of your hard > drive to free up memory, and swaps in pieces of programs from the disk > that are ready to run. Disk I/O is always much less efficient than > RAM operations, hence your machine slows down. If the swapping is > bad enough, the machine becomes unusable. > > The easiest fix is to add more RAM. I'd add at least another 64MB, > although you'd be much happier with another 128MB or more. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - 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. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > I installed RD9 on a computer with 512MB of RAM. It runs much faster and not so much disk activity. Thanks for everyones insight, it helped tremendously. Dick From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Dec 22 00:40:28 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:40:28 -0800 Subject: Slow system In-Reply-To: <41C8BA70.9010002@westriv.com> References: <41C338AD.50701@westriv.com> <20041217200013.GA13932@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <41C46A45.2040702@westriv.com> <41C707E5.5030107@vitalstream.com> <41C8BA70.9010002@westriv.com> Message-ID: <41C8C27C.1040101@vitalstream.com> Carla & Dick Bickert wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > >> Carla & Dick Bickert wrote: >> >>> Bob McClure Jr wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:51:09PM -0600, Carla & Dick Bickert wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> I have recently installed Red Hat Linux 9. It boots fine and there >>>>> appear to be no problems, but the GUI runs EXTREMELY slow >>>>> (openoffice takes 3-4 minutes to come up). The computer has a >>>>> Celeron processor running at 667 Mhz and the hard drive is plenty >>>>> big. Any suggestions? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> Dick >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Post the results of running "free". That may well tell the story. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> The results of "free" are as follows: >>> >>> Total Used Free Shared >>> Buffer Cached >>> mem 60348 59456 892 0 >>> 1396 14160 >>> -/+ buffers/cache: 43900 16448 Swap: 192772 >>> 40432 152340 0 >>> >>> I'm new at Linux, so keep your answers at an elementary level (if >>> possibe). >> >> >> >> You appear to only have 64MB of RAM in your system. This isn't really >> enough to run a desktop environment (you'd even be hard pressed to run >> Windows efficiently in 64MB). >> >> You're using 40MB of swap, so your machine is spending a lot of time >> swapping. You've probably also noticed your hard drive is >> working pretty hard, too. When memory gets full, the system starts >> looking for programs that aren't currently ready to run. It then >> swaps bits of those programs out to the swap partition of your hard >> drive to free up memory, and swaps in pieces of programs from the disk >> that are ready to run. Disk I/O is always much less efficient than >> RAM operations, hence your machine slows down. If the swapping is >> bad enough, the machine becomes unusable. >> >> The easiest fix is to add more RAM. I'd add at least another 64MB, >> although you'd be much happier with another 128MB or more. >> > I installed RD9 on a computer with 512MB of RAM. It runs much faster > and not so much disk activity. Thanks for everyones insight, it helped > tremendously. Glad to hear it. You ran into the dread "10 lbs. of stuff in an 8 lb. bag" syndrome (a.k.a. "swapping"). One of the ways to detect that is the "free" command you used before. Let me parse the output for you a bit so you can see what I saw (I'm going to reformat it a bit, too): Total Used Free Shared Buffer Cached mem 60348 59456 892 0 1396 14160 -/+ buffers/cache: 43900 16448 Swap: 192772 40432 152340 0 The first line is, of course, just headers. The second line starting with "mem" is the _physical_ memory in your machine. The numbers are all in kilobytes, so you can see that the "Total" column shows that you have 60MB (4MB is in "extended" memory). Of that 60MB, 59MB is "Used", and 892K is "Free" (don't worry about shared, buffer and cached at this time). The "-/+ buffers" bit shows how many I/O buffers are used and how many are free. If you don't understand that, don't worry about it. The final, "Swap:" line shows how much swap space you have. You have a total of 192MB of swap, and you're using 40MB of it. This means that the programs you're using are using a total of 100MB (60MB of physical RAM and 40MB of space on the disk). That means that almost half of the active programs have to be swapped off and on the disk. Ugh! Another way of looking at it is to do "vmstat 5". This will display a series of lines of data showing the actual memory activity, one line every 5 seconds until you hit CTRL-C. The important thing to watch in a vmstat display are the "si" (swap-in) and "so" (swap-out) columns. If you see a lot of activity in those columns (if the numbers are significantly above zero), then your machine is running out of memory. For most users, the fix is adding memory. Heavy swapping may be indicative that a program is "leaking" memory or doing other unkind things. Many neophyte programmers write sloppy code that allocates memory and doesn't return it, and often the only way you can detect that is by watching vmstat while the program executes. As a user, there isn't much you can do about that sort of thing other than chastising the programmer. I hope that helps you follow along in our analysis of what you gave us and aids you in continuing to monitor your system. To paraphrase an old adage: "You can never be too rich or have too much RAM!" :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "You think that's tough? Try herding cats!" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Wed Dec 22 04:28:19 2004 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 21:28:19 -0700 (MST) Subject: Install Help Message-ID: I was going to install FC2 on a home computer and realized that it doesn't come with the ability to boot from a diskett. I can't boot from the CD on this machine. I tried to do it using an older boot disk but for some reason the older probram will not read the CD. Suggestions? Thanks -- Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Dec 22 17:20:40 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:20:40 -0800 Subject: Install Help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41C9ACE8.5060703@vitalstream.com> brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > I was going to install FC2 on a home computer and realized that > it doesn't come with the ability to boot from a diskett. I can't > boot from the CD on this machine. I tried to do it using an > older boot disk but for some reason the older probram will not > read the CD. Can you boot off of a USB pendrive? If so, the diskboot.img file can be put on it using dd or rawrite and booted. FC2 (and FC3) can't boot from floppy because the kernel is bigger than a floppy can hold. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 tariq.samsudeen at gmail.com Wed Dec 22 21:42:03 2004 From: tariq.samsudeen at gmail.com (tariq samsudeen) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 21:42:03 +0000 Subject: smb: error returning browse list: NT_STATUS_OK Message-ID: <75db1b3b04122213425b52bd61@mail.gmail.com> hi, i hv been testing samba with 2 pcs, one running win xp and other running fedora 2....i've just changed 2 line in smb.conf file first is workgroup name & then activated wins support with "wins support = yes" (this is as per an exercise in RHCE study guide by Michael Jang) i hv a user by name tariq in windows xp with administrator right....i hv also created one in linux & one using smbpasswd.... i cud access the home directory (/home/tariq) of user tariq from my win xp (under my network places).....but when i try to connect to my winxp from linux using smbclient -L Nasibrook -U tariq itz asking for the password....i enter the password...then i get the following msg error returning browse list: NT_STATUS_OK pliz help me tariq From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Wed Dec 22 23:22:54 2004 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:22:54 -0700 (MST) Subject: Install Help In-Reply-To: <41C9ACE8.5060703@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > > I was going to install FC2 on a home computer and realized that > > it doesn't come with the ability to boot from a diskett. I can't > > boot from the CD on this machine. I tried to do it using an > > older boot disk but for some reason the older probram will not > > read the CD. > > Can you boot off of a USB pendrive? If so, the diskboot.img file can > be put on it using dd or rawrite and booted. > > FC2 (and FC3) can't boot from floppy because the kernel is bigger than > a floppy can hold. Don't know - don't have one 8^) I saw that option I guess I'll have to figure something else out.... Thanks, Brad From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Dec 22 23:39:52 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:39:52 -0800 Subject: Install Help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41CA05C8.8010806@vitalstream.com> brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: >> >>>I was going to install FC2 on a home computer and realized that >>>it doesn't come with the ability to boot from a diskett. I can't >>>boot from the CD on this machine. I tried to do it using an >>>older boot disk but for some reason the older probram will not >>>read the CD. >> >>Can you boot off of a USB pendrive? If so, the diskboot.img file can >>be put on it using dd or rawrite and booted. >> >>FC2 (and FC3) can't boot from floppy because the kernel is bigger than >>a floppy can hold. > > > Don't know - don't have one 8^) I saw that option I guess I'll > have to figure something else out.... Hmmm. Couldn't you set up a grub entry that pointed at the CD's boot sector via a "chainloader +1" entry? I've never tried it, but it should work, theoretically. Your BIOS can't do it, but it can call grub and grub can pretty much do anything. My guess is that the grub entry would be something like: title CD Boot root (cd1,0) chainloader +1 Like I said, I've never tried this, but it might work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From fromRHIL at outtacyte.com Thu Dec 23 02:51:38 2004 From: fromRHIL at outtacyte.com (Greg) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:51:38 -0600 Subject: Samba and Windows XP user share setup problems Message-ID: <001201c4e89a$53b44ff0$6401a8c0@gjavajunction.com> Hello y'all, I've had to rebuild my Linux gateway server from scratch. I had the client data saved off so I didn't loose anything critical, but all of the settings and such went out the door. Since I had to re-create the thing, I started with the Fedora Core v2 and have loaded all of the patches up to today. I've been away for a long time, but recall having received the best help from this install list. If there is another list (I didn't see a fedora-install-list), let me know and I'll move over there. Also, I seem to remember a way to configure your maillist settings, but I can't find it now. If it's still there, could somebody point it out to this dunder-head? OK, Problem Statement: I have Samba 3.0.10-1.fc2 running on kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2. Something fails when I try to get from Windows XP (SP2 with all updates) to that share. Activities to date: (BTW, Linux box = samba server = 192.168.1.1 = lookout. Windows XP = 192.168.1.100 = fileserver) I have created (and re-created) both the Linux user and the samba user. I can sign on just fine with the user. My Windows XP user is the same. The user name is 'snappy'. I have 'security = user' in the globals portion of the samba config file. I have been able to get 'security = share' to work, but I need 'security = user'. I have a directory /usr/xxx/webfolders which is set up to be a share. I have also set up a share at /home/snappy for the snappy id. I care about the former share but not the latter. Samba is not a PDC, nor do I want it to be one at this time. I'm using peer to peer (workgroup) networking at this time throughout the shop. I have uninstalled and re-installed samba - same failures. I have mucked around with the settings, both global and the share's, and have made no progress. I am able to reach to the network shares on the XP box from the Linux box - and manipulate them - but not the samba shares from the XP box. When I go to My Network Places => Entire Network => Microsoft Windows Network => workgroupname I can see the Linux box (called lookout). When I click on the lookout machine, I get dialog box stating "Connect to lookout.example.com" in the title, "Connecting to lookout" in the text area, and two input boxes labeled "User name:" and "Password:". No matter what I put in here, I just get the box back. I've disabled both the Windows firewall and the software firewall on the XP box, and I have no firewall set up on the Linux box at all (for now). I've set the logging to 3 on both the syslog and the samba log and find no errors at all in there. In the log that represents my XP box (192.168.1.100.log) I get the same series of messages, but no errors (that my untrained eye can detect). I've included that below. Well, That's the opening gambit. I'd sure appreciate it if somebody can help me figure out what to try next. Thanks, [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/oplock.c:init_oplocks(1302) open_oplock_ipc: opening loopback UDP socket. [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/oplock_linux.c:linux_init_kernel_oplocks(303) Linux kernel oplocks enabled [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/oplock.c:init_oplocks(1333) open_oplock ipc: pid = 3526, global_oplock_port = 32925 [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] lib/access.c:check_access(313) check_access: no hostnames in host allow/deny list. [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 2] lib/access.c:check_access(324) Allowed connection from (192.168.1.100) [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(1091) Transaction 0 of length 137 [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(886) switch message SMBnegprot (pid 3526) conn 0x0 [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(288) setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0 [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/negprot.c:reply_negprot(461) Requested protocol [PC NETWORK PROGRAM 1.0] [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/negprot.c:reply_negprot(461) Requested protocol [LANMAN1.0] [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/negprot.c:reply_negprot(461) Requested protocol [Windows for Workgroups 3.1a] [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/negprot.c:reply_negprot(461) Requested protocol [LM1.2X002] [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/negprot.c:reply_negprot(461) Requested protocol [LANMAN2.1] [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/negprot.c:reply_negprot(461) Requested protocol [NT LM 0.12] [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/negprot.c:reply_nt1(333) using SPNEGO [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/negprot.c:reply_negprot(549) Selected protocol NT LM 0.12 [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/oplock.c:init_oplocks(1302) open_oplock_ipc: opening loopback UDP socket. [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/oplock_linux.c:linux_init_kernel_oplocks(303) Linux kernel oplocks enabled [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/oplock.c:init_oplocks(1333) open_oplock ipc: pid = 3527, global_oplock_port = 32926 [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] lib/access.c:check_access(313) check_access: no hostnames in host allow/deny list. [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 2] lib/access.c:check_access(324) Allowed connection from (192.168.1.100) [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(1091) Transaction 0 of length 72 [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_special(235) netbios connect: name1=lookout name2=FILESERVER [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_special(242) netbios connect: local=lookout remote=fileserver, name type = 0 [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(1091) Transaction 1 of length 240 [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(886) switch message SMBsesssetupX (pid 3526) conn 0x0 [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(288) setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0 [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(655) wct=12 flg2=0xc807 [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 2] smbd/sesssetup.c:setup_new_vc_session(608) setup_new_vc_session: New VC == 0, if NT4.x compatible we would close all old resources. [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego(535) Doing spnego session setup [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego(566) NativeOS=[Windows 2002 Service Pack 2 2600] NativeLanMan=[Windows 2002 5.1] PrimaryDomain=[] [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_spnego_negotiate(444) Got OID 1 3 6 1 4 1 311 2 2 10 [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_spnego_negotiate(447) Got secblob of size 40 [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] libsmb/ntlmssp.c:debug_ntlmssp_flags(62) Got NTLMSSP neg_flags=0xe2088297 [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(1091) Transaction 2 of length 366 [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(886) switch message SMBsesssetupX (pid 3526) conn 0x0 [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(288) setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0 [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(655) wct=12 flg2=0xc807 [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 2] smbd/sesssetup.c:setup_new_vc_session(608) setup_new_vc_session: New VC == 0, if NT4.x compatible we would close all old resources. [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego(535) Doing spnego session setup [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego(566) NativeOS=[Windows 2002 Service Pack 2 2600] NativeLanMan=[Windows 2002 5.1] PrimaryDomain=[] [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] libsmb/ntlmssp.c:ntlmssp_server_auth(615) Got user=[snappy] domain=[192.168.1.1] workstation=[FILESERVER] len1=24 len2=24 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Dec 23 17:41:34 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:41:34 -0800 Subject: Samba and Windows XP user share setup problems In-Reply-To: <001201c4e89a$53b44ff0$6401a8c0@gjavajunction.com> References: <001201c4e89a$53b44ff0$6401a8c0@gjavajunction.com> Message-ID: <41CB034E.4080107@vitalstream.com> Greg wrote: > Hello y'all, > > I've had to rebuild my Linux gateway server from scratch. I had the > client data saved off so I didn't loose anything critical, but all of > the settings and such went out the door. Since I had to re-create the > thing, I started with the Fedora Core v2 and have loaded all of the > patches up to today. > > I've been away for a long time, but recall having received the best help > from this install list. If there is another list (I didn't see a > fedora-install-list), let me know and I'll move over there. Also, I > seem to remember a way to configure your maillist settings, but I can't > find it now. If it's still there, could somebody point it out to this > dunder-head? There's no "fedora-install-list", but there is a "fedora-list" at http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list. > OK, Problem Statement: > I have Samba 3.0.10-1.fc2 running on kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2. Something > fails when I try to get from Windows XP (SP2 with all updates) to that > share. > > Activities to date: (BTW, Linux box = samba server = 192.168.1.1 = > lookout. Windows XP = 192.168.1.100 = fileserver) > I have created (and re-created) both the Linux user and the samba user. > I can sign on just fine with the user. My Windows XP user is the same. > The user name is 'snappy'. > > I have 'security = user' in the globals portion of the samba config > file. I have been able to get 'security = share' to work, but I need > 'security = user'. I have a directory /usr/xxx/webfolders which is set > up to be a share. I have also set up a share at /home/snappy for the > snappy id. I care about the former share but not the latter. > > Samba is not a PDC, nor do I want it to be one at this time. I'm using > peer to peer (workgroup) networking at this time throughout the shop. > > I have uninstalled and re-installed samba - same failures. I have > mucked around with the settings, both global and the share's, and have > made no progress. > > I am able to reach to the network shares on the XP box from the Linux > box - and manipulate them - but not the samba shares from the XP box. > > When I go to My Network Places => Entire Network => Microsoft Windows > Network => workgroupname I can see the Linux box (called lookout). When > I click on the lookout machine, I get dialog box stating "Connect to > lookout.example.com" in the title, "Connecting to lookout" in the text > area, and two input boxes labeled "User name:" and "Password:". No > matter what I put in here, I just get the box back. > > I've disabled both the Windows firewall and the software firewall on the > XP box, and I have no firewall set up on the Linux box at all (for now). > > I've set the logging to 3 on both the syslog and the samba log and find > no errors at all in there. In the log that represents my XP box > (192.168.1.100.log) I get the same series of messages, but no errors > (that my untrained eye can detect). I've included that below. > > Well, That's the opening gambit. I'd sure appreciate it if somebody can > help me figure out what to try next. Did you use smbpasswd to set up the Windows user password on Linux? > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/oplock.c:init_oplocks(1302) > open_oplock_ipc: opening loopback UDP socket. > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/oplock_linux.c:linux_init_kernel_oplocks(303) > Linux kernel oplocks enabled > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/oplock.c:init_oplocks(1333) > open_oplock ipc: pid = 3526, global_oplock_port = 32925 > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] lib/access.c:check_access(313) > check_access: no hostnames in host allow/deny list. > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 2] lib/access.c:check_access(324) > Allowed connection from (192.168.1.100) > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(1091) > Transaction 0 of length 137 > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(886) > switch message SMBnegprot (pid 3526) conn 0x0 > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(288) > setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0 > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/negprot.c:reply_negprot(461) > Requested protocol [PC NETWORK PROGRAM 1.0] > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/negprot.c:reply_negprot(461) > Requested protocol [LANMAN1.0] > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/negprot.c:reply_negprot(461) > Requested protocol [Windows for Workgroups 3.1a] > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/negprot.c:reply_negprot(461) > Requested protocol [LM1.2X002] > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/negprot.c:reply_negprot(461) > Requested protocol [LANMAN2.1] > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/negprot.c:reply_negprot(461) > Requested protocol [NT LM 0.12] > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/negprot.c:reply_nt1(333) > using SPNEGO > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/negprot.c:reply_negprot(549) > Selected protocol NT LM 0.12 > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/oplock.c:init_oplocks(1302) > open_oplock_ipc: opening loopback UDP socket. > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/oplock_linux.c:linux_init_kernel_oplocks(303) > Linux kernel oplocks enabled > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/oplock.c:init_oplocks(1333) > open_oplock ipc: pid = 3527, global_oplock_port = 32926 > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] lib/access.c:check_access(313) > check_access: no hostnames in host allow/deny list. > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 2] lib/access.c:check_access(324) > Allowed connection from (192.168.1.100) > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(1091) > Transaction 0 of length 72 > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_special(235) > netbios connect: name1=lookout name2=FILESERVER > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_special(242) > netbios connect: local=lookout remote=fileserver, name type = 0 > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(1091) > Transaction 1 of length 240 > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(886) > switch message SMBsesssetupX (pid 3526) conn 0x0 > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(288) > setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0 > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(655) > wct=12 flg2=0xc807 > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 2] smbd/sesssetup.c:setup_new_vc_session(608) > setup_new_vc_session: New VC == 0, if NT4.x compatible we would close > all old resources. > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego(535) > Doing spnego session setup > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego(566) > NativeOS=[Windows 2002 Service Pack 2 2600] NativeLanMan=[Windows 2002 > 5.1] PrimaryDomain=[] > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_spnego_negotiate(444) > Got OID 1 3 6 1 4 1 311 2 2 10 > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_spnego_negotiate(447) > Got secblob of size 40 > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] libsmb/ntlmssp.c:debug_ntlmssp_flags(62) > Got NTLMSSP neg_flags=0xe2088297 > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(1091) > Transaction 2 of length 366 > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(886) > switch message SMBsesssetupX (pid 3526) conn 0x0 > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(288) > setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0 > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(655) > wct=12 flg2=0xc807 > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 2] smbd/sesssetup.c:setup_new_vc_session(608) > setup_new_vc_session: New VC == 0, if NT4.x compatible we would close > all old resources. > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego(535) > Doing spnego session setup > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego(566) > NativeOS=[Windows 2002 Service Pack 2 2600] NativeLanMan=[Windows 2002 > 5.1] PrimaryDomain=[] > [2004/12/22 19:53:07, 3] libsmb/ntlmssp.c:ntlmssp_server_auth(615) > Got user=[snappy] domain=[192.168.1.1] workstation=[FILESERVER] > len1=24 len2=24 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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'd explain it to you, but your brain might explode." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From sg at pobox.com Wed Dec 22 10:21:53 2004 From: sg at pobox.com (sg at pobox.com) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:51:53 +0530 Subject: Another Hard Disk In-Reply-To: <41C43AFC.2050404@gmx.li> References: <75db1b3b04121414155d18ea79@mail.gmail.com> <200412181407.40029.sg@pobox.com> <41C43AFC.2050404@gmx.li> Message-ID: <200412221551.53399.sg@pobox.com> Sir, I want to use old home partition and new disk together and will you please explain how to format new hard disk and create partition on new hard disk. Rajeev. On Saturday 18 December 2004 19:43, Hans M?ller wrote: > will you move your exist home to the new disk? or will you use your old > home partition and the new on the new disk together? > > sg at pobox.com schrieb: > > Sir, > > > > I am using RedHat Linux 9.0 and having SCSI Hard disk now i want to add > > another hard disk. how i can add new hard disk and want to add whole > > space to existing home partition. > > > > Rajeev. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 Fri Dec 24 05:17:23 2004 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 22:17:23 -0700 (MST) Subject: Tape Drive Message-ID: I'm running RH9 and have a tape drive in my machine. For the life of me I can't remember or find the instructions for using mounting or doing anything with a tape drive. HELP!!! OH, and Merry Christmas. -- Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Fri Dec 24 06:11:42 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 23:11:42 -0700 (MST) Subject: Tape Drive In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <25995.198.60.114.90.1103868702.squirrel@198.60.114.90> > I'm running RH9 and have a tape drive in my machine. For the > life of me I can't remember or find the instructions for using > mounting or doing anything with a tape drive. You don't need to mount tape drives as you would other media. You redirect output to them. A common commandline method of backing up would be to use dump, tar or a find command piped to cpio. You can man dump and tar to see that syntax. I've always used something like this (your mileage may vary): find . -print |cpio -ovcdumB > /dev/st0 Where '.' represents the current directory. If you want to use this method of backing up, I can help you with restores, which are different depending on your backup syntax. You can use different path syntax, but restoring has to match. There is a curses-based backup utility which I used on RH6.4 and 7.0, but can't remember it's name to save my life and searching the /usr/bin directory of my RH9 system has proven fruitless for the impatient person on my keyboard... Have fun, but remember, disk is cheap, so I just NFS mount and do backups to a large disk just for this purpose on a remote machine (not real remote; same building, different rooms, same floor). > > HELP!!! Hope this does..? > > OH, and Merry Christmas. Same to you, but more of it. (I learned that way back in my primary school days; it's meant as a compliment). Karl > > -- > Brad Mugleston, KI0OT > > There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that > understand binary and those that don't. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Fri Dec 24 06:26:52 2004 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 23:26:52 -0700 (MST) Subject: Tape Drive In-Reply-To: <25995.198.60.114.90.1103868702.squirrel@198.60.114.90> Message-ID: Thanks, so the tape drive is /dev/st0? Searching old emails I found a command "mt -f /dev/st0 status" but it doesn't do what it was suppose todo so if it's not st0 then how do I find out where it is? Thanks Brad On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > > I'm running RH9 and have a tape drive in my machine. For the > > life of me I can't remember or find the instructions for using > > mounting or doing anything with a tape drive. > > You don't need to mount tape drives as you would other media. You redirect > output to them. A common commandline method of backing up would be to use > dump, tar or a find command piped to cpio. > > You can man dump and tar to see that syntax. I've always used something > like this (your mileage may vary): > > find . -print |cpio -ovcdumB > /dev/st0 > > Where '.' represents the current directory. > > If you want to use this method of backing up, I can help you with > restores, which are different depending on your backup syntax. You can use > different path syntax, but restoring has to match. > > There is a curses-based backup utility which I used on RH6.4 and 7.0, but > can't remember it's name to save my life and searching the /usr/bin > directory of my RH9 system has proven fruitless for the impatient person > on my keyboard... > > Have fun, but remember, disk is cheap, so I just NFS mount and do backups > to a large disk just for this purpose on a remote machine (not real > remote; same building, different rooms, same floor). > > > > > HELP!!! > > Hope this does..? > > > > > OH, and Merry Christmas. > > Same to you, but more of it. (I learned that way back in my primary school > days; it's meant as a compliment). > > Karl > > > > > -- > > Brad Mugleston, KI0OT > > > > There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that > > understand binary and those that don't. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > -- Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. From othmanelmoulat at menara.ma Fri Dec 24 12:54:02 2004 From: othmanelmoulat at menara.ma (othman El Moulat) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 12:54:02 -0000 Subject: free ebook on UML Message-ID: <001001c4e9b7$a54c6230$ba12c051@pc> Hi guys :) can any one tell me of any good free ebook to learn UML? thanks a lot -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jlopes151 at comcast.net Fri Dec 24 14:24:43 2004 From: jlopes151 at comcast.net (jlopes151 at comcast.net) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:24:43 +0000 Subject: free ebook on UML Message-ID: <122420041424.606.41CC26AA000D98CA0000025E2200734840CECACE9C0A9F010406@comcast.net> I found this message on www.jguru.com: Think I'll get the ebook too. Hi All, I have been searching for a good book for UML, finally I found an excellent eBook in PDF format at www.JavaSoft.8k.com , There also I found another eBook called SCEA Complete KIT for Sun Certified Enterprise Architect exam. 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From: "othman El Moulat" Subject: free ebook on UML Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 12:55:19 +0000 Size: 782 URL: From pctech at htc.net Fri Dec 24 22:41:09 2004 From: pctech at htc.net (PC Tech - JohnH) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:41:09 -0600 Subject: New Newbie RH9 Install Message-ID: <004201c4ea09$ad52da70$0100a8c0@BTYBNAGATDELL> I just purchased "Red Hat Linux 9 for Dummies" and everything went fine until I tried to setup the network. I followed the book to the letter but nothing happens. I have the following NIC and other hardware as follows: 1 - NIC = Realteck RTL8139C PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter 2 - Video = 3DFX VooDoo3 3 - Modem = Agere Systems Pci Soft Modem 4 - Sound = Yamaha DS-XG Red Hat 9 and KDE/Gnome run fast and I have no problems except for the network and sound. Unless one would consider not being able to connect to my DSL service a problem too. But I just thought that would be solved when I solve the network problem. (with DSL I don't use my "snail" modem) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Fri Dec 24 23:39:45 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:39:45 -0700 (MST) Subject: Tape Drive In-Reply-To: References: <25995.198.60.114.90.1103868702.squirrel@198.60.114.90> Message-ID: <16250.198.60.114.90.1103931585.squirrel@198.60.114.90> > > Thanks, so the tape drive is /dev/st0? Searching old emails I > found a command "mt -f /dev/st0 status" but it doesn't do what it > was suppose todo so if it's not st0 then how do I find out where > it is? It's probably st0. It might be sct, but I only see st0, etc. in /dev of my RH9 system. On some SVR4 Unixes, the drive names are so convoluted it's almost impossible to figure out. One sure method I've used to find a device name is to unplug it, reboot and see what's missing from /dev or what comes back on reboot after plugging it back in. Yes, I'm a bit anal... Of course, the easier way is to insert a tape, then do: find /boot -print |cpio -ovcdumB > /dev/st0 and see if the light on the tape drive flashes, flickers or whatever it does. Karl > > Thanks > > Brad > > On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > >> > I'm running RH9 and have a tape drive in my machine. For the >> > life of me I can't remember or find the instructions for using >> > mounting or doing anything with a tape drive. >> >> You don't need to mount tape drives as you would other media. You >> redirect >> output to them. A common commandline method of backing up would be to >> use >> dump, tar or a find command piped to cpio. >> >> You can man dump and tar to see that syntax. I've always used something >> like this (your mileage may vary): >> >> find . -print |cpio -ovcdumB > /dev/st0 >> >> Where '.' represents the current directory. >> >> If you want to use this method of backing up, I can help you with >> restores, which are different depending on your backup syntax. You can >> use >> different path syntax, but restoring has to match. >> >> There is a curses-based backup utility which I used on RH6.4 and 7.0, >> but >> can't remember it's name to save my life and searching the /usr/bin >> directory of my RH9 system has proven fruitless for the impatient person >> on my keyboard... >> >> Have fun, but remember, disk is cheap, so I just NFS mount and do >> backups >> to a large disk just for this purpose on a remote machine (not real >> remote; same building, different rooms, same floor). >> >> > >> > HELP!!! >> >> Hope this does..? >> >> > >> > OH, and Merry Christmas. >> >> Same to you, but more of it. (I learned that way back in my primary >> school >> days; it's meant as a compliment). >> >> Karl >> >> > >> > -- >> > Brad Mugleston, KI0OT >> > >> > There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that >> > understand binary and those that don't. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> > > -- > Brad Mugleston, KI0OT > > There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that > understand binary and those that don't. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 rhil at manordata.uklinux.net Sat Dec 25 20:03:03 2004 From: rhil at manordata.uklinux.net (Chris Hewitt) Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 20:03:03 +0000 Subject: New Newbie RH9 Install In-Reply-To: <004201c4ea09$ad52da70$0100a8c0@BTYBNAGATDELL> References: <004201c4ea09$ad52da70$0100a8c0@BTYBNAGATDELL> Message-ID: <1104004982.6055.2.camel@amdk63.homemanordata.nodom> On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 22:41, PC Tech - JohnH wrote: > I just purchased "Red Hat Linux 9 for Dummies" and everything went > fine until I tried to setup the network. I followed the book to the > letter but nothing happens. I have the following NIC and other > hardware as follows: > > 1 - NIC = Realteck RTL8139C PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter > 2 - Video = 3DFX VooDoo3 > 3 - Modem = Agere Systems Pci Soft Modem > 4 - Sound = Yamaha DS-XG > > Red Hat 9 and KDE/Gnome run fast and I have no problems except for the > network and sound. > > Unless one would consider not being able to connect to my DSL service > a problem too. > But I just thought that would be solved when I solve the network > problem. > (with DSL I don't use my "snail" modem) John, There have been several reported problems with the 8139 chip. If you search for "8139" in the archives at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=redhat-list there are many posts on it. The information in these may help to solve your problem, but I have not seen any one issue in them as being "the" solution so need to leave you to look through them. Hope this helps. Merry Christmas Chris From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Dec 27 18:21:18 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:21:18 -0800 Subject: Tape Drive In-Reply-To: <16250.198.60.114.90.1103931585.squirrel@198.60.114.90> References: <25995.198.60.114.90.1103868702.squirrel@198.60.114.90> <16250.198.60.114.90.1103931585.squirrel@198.60.114.90> Message-ID: <41D0529E.5060705@vitalstream.com> karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: >>Thanks, so the tape drive is /dev/st0? Searching old emails I >>found a command "mt -f /dev/st0 status" but it doesn't do what it >>was suppose todo so if it's not st0 then how do I find out where >>it is? > > > It's probably st0. It might be sct, but I only see st0, etc. in /dev of my > RH9 system. On some SVR4 Unixes, the drive names are so convoluted it's > almost impossible to figure out. One sure method I've used to find a > device name is to unplug it, reboot and see what's missing from /dev or > what comes back on reboot after plugging it back in. Yes, I'm a bit > anal... > > Of course, the easier way is to insert a tape, then do: > > find /boot -print |cpio -ovcdumB > /dev/st0 > > and see if the light on the tape drive flashes, flickers or whatever it does. You can also check the output of "dmesg" and see what the system saw it as. On occasion, they're also known as "/dev/mt0". > > Karl > > >>Thanks >> >>Brad >> >>On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: >> >> >>>>I'm running RH9 and have a tape drive in my machine. For the >>>>life of me I can't remember or find the instructions for using >>>>mounting or doing anything with a tape drive. >>> >>>You don't need to mount tape drives as you would other media. You >>>redirect >>>output to them. A common commandline method of backing up would be to >>>use >>>dump, tar or a find command piped to cpio. >>> >>>You can man dump and tar to see that syntax. I've always used something >>>like this (your mileage may vary): >>> >>>find . -print |cpio -ovcdumB > /dev/st0 >>> >>>Where '.' represents the current directory. >>> >>>If you want to use this method of backing up, I can help you with >>>restores, which are different depending on your backup syntax. You can >>>use >>>different path syntax, but restoring has to match. >>> >>>There is a curses-based backup utility which I used on RH6.4 and 7.0, >>>but >>>can't remember it's name to save my life and searching the /usr/bin >>>directory of my RH9 system has proven fruitless for the impatient person >>>on my keyboard... >>> >>>Have fun, but remember, disk is cheap, so I just NFS mount and do >>>backups >>>to a large disk just for this purpose on a remote machine (not real >>>remote; same building, different rooms, same floor). >>> >>> >>>>HELP!!! >>> >>>Hope this does..? >>> >>> >>>>OH, and Merry Christmas. >>> >>>Same to you, but more of it. (I learned that way back in my primary >>>school >>>days; it's meant as a compliment). >>> >>>Karl >>> >>> >>>>-- >>>>Brad Mugleston, KI0OT >>>> >>>>There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that >>>>understand binary and those that don't. >>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>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 >>> >> >>-- >>Brad Mugleston, KI0OT >> >>There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that >>understand binary and those that don't. >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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 - - - - Do you know how to save five drowning lawyers? No? 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Khattri) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:34:21 -0500 (EST) Subject: free ebook on UML In-Reply-To: <122420041424.606.41CC26AA000D98CA0000025E2200734840CECACE9C0A9F010406@comcast.net> References: <122420041424.606.41CC26AA000D98CA0000025E2200734840CECACE9C0A9F010406@comcast.net> Message-ID: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 jlopes151 at comcast.net wrote: > > I found this message on www.jguru.com: Think I'll get the ebook too. > Hi All, I have been searching for a good book for UML, finally I found an excellent eBook in PDF format at www.JavaSoft.8k.com , There also I found another eBook called SCEA Complete KIT for Sun Certified Enterprise Architect exam. I got both of them and read well, I passed SCEA with 93% score. This is an excellent product(www.JavaSoft.8k.com ) for those who are preparing for Sun's SCEA, or IBM's UML certification. It also very useful for learning UML in Quick and Easy process. Thanks, Shiva .............................. > -------------- Original message -------------- > > Hi guys :) > can any one tell me of any good free ebook to learn UML? ^ | ------------------------------------+ -- boxen /bok'sn/ pl.n. [very common; by analogy with VAXen] Fanciful plural of box often encountered in the phrase `Unix boxen', used to describe commodity Unix hardware. The connotation is that any two Unix boxen are interchangeable. From rabend at linkline.com Mon Dec 27 19:06:22 2004 From: rabend at linkline.com (Bob) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 11:06:22 -0800 Subject: Wireless Problems Message-ID: I am having trouble getting a Proxim/Orinoco a/b/g Gold Combo card to work or configure on RedHat Professional Workstation. I would appreciate any suggestions or help. Thanks. Bob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ajai at bway.net Mon Dec 27 18:41:20 2004 From: ajai at bway.net (A. Khattri) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:41:20 -0500 (EST) Subject: QUESTION URGENT In-Reply-To: <20041221131941.21893.qmail@webmail26.rediffmail.com> References: <20041221131941.21893.qmail@webmail26.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, shubhendu mohan mishra wrote: > ??Hi , I am using redhat9.I have installed it in my pc.when do i install redhat 9 it shows installation language english.keyboard language english(USA) and in additional language support language it shows hindi ,with others language.i want to install Hindi version by defult.how can i do this.can you give me any idea so that i can change my language settings in hindi so that complete environment is in hindi. Read the manual: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/ch-sysconfig.html#S1-SYSCONFIG-FILES (See section on i18n) -- rice box n. [from ham radio slang] Any Asian-made commodity computer, esp. an 80x86-based machine built to IBM PC-compatible ISA or EISA-bus standards. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Dec 27 19:59:40 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 11:59:40 -0800 Subject: Wireless Problems In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41D069AC.8040707@vitalstream.com> Bob wrote: > I am having trouble getting a Proxim/Orinoco a/b/g Gold Combo card to > work or configure on RedHat Professional Workstation. I would > appreciate any suggestions or help. Thanks. We need more information than "it's broken." What's wrong with it? Does the card show up when you do an "ifconfig -a" or an "iwconfig"? Can't you connect to the access point? Not getting an IP address from your DHCP server? Details, sir, details! :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Dec 28 00:28:39 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:28:39 -0800 Subject: Another Hard Disk In-Reply-To: <200412221551.53399.sg@pobox.com> References: <75db1b3b04121414155d18ea79@mail.gmail.com> <200412181407.40029.sg@pobox.com> <41C43AFC.2050404@gmx.li> <200412221551.53399.sg@pobox.com> Message-ID: <41D0A8B7.3090006@vitalstream.com> sg at pobox.com wrote: > Sir, > > I want to use old home partition and new disk together and will you please > explain how to format new hard disk and create partition on new hard disk. Again, you're not being clear. Do you want the new disk to replace your current "/home" or do you want it to extend the current "/home"? If you want it to extend the current directory, you must use LVM. If you simply want to copy the current /home content to the new drive and then have it replace the current /home directory, that's easy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Do you know where _your_ towel is? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From micros50 at computer.net Tue Dec 28 03:22:09 2004 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:22:09 -0500 Subject: Test Message-ID: <1104204129.6876.151.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Testing 1234 From jkinz at kinz.org Tue Dec 28 03:27:07 2004 From: jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:27:07 -0500 Subject: Another Hard Disk In-Reply-To: <41D0A8B7.3090006@vitalstream.com>; from rstevens@vitalstream.com on Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 04:28:39PM -0800 References: <75db1b3b04121414155d18ea79@mail.gmail.com> <200412181407.40029.sg@pobox.com> <41C43AFC.2050404@gmx.li> <200412221551.53399.sg@pobox.com> <41D0A8B7.3090006@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20041227222707.A28805@redline.comcast.net> On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 04:28:39PM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > - Do you know where _your_ towel is? - umm - no. Have you seen it? :) (sorry - just seemed in keeping with the tone of recent posts.) -- Linux/Open Source: Your infrastructure belongs to you, free, forever. Idealism: "Realism applied over a longer time period" http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/ http://www.fedoranews.org Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. ~ ~ ~ ~ From wsbcomm at earthlink.com Tue Dec 28 04:10:46 2004 From: wsbcomm at earthlink.com (wb) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 20:10:46 -0800 Subject: fedora3 & an old abit be6/hpt366 board Message-ID: <639050219.20041227201046@wsbcomm[AT]earthlink.com> hello, my firewall runs rh8 with no problem. wanted to upgrade it to fedora3 via the install cd's. the install process always crashes. is there a problem with this install version and the old abit be6 board and it's on-board hpt366? this cd set install has worked fine on other machines here. is there a work around for this issue so i'm not forced to buy another motherboard/cpu? regards, wb **Change the "[AT]" to @ in the reply address** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Tue Dec 28 04:57:59 2004 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:57:59 -0700 (MST) Subject: Launcher Message-ID: How does one set up a new launcher so that it ask's for ROOT's password first? I want to su to root before I run a program and can't figure it out. Thanks, -- Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Tue Dec 28 05:15:05 2004 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:15:05 -0700 (MST) Subject: Tape Drive In-Reply-To: <41D0529E.5060705@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: Thanks guys - still don't know what drive it is but I installed Taper and it can controll the tape so I guess it doesn't matter exactly. Thanks, Brad On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > >>Thanks, so the tape drive is /dev/st0? Searching old emails I > >>found a command "mt -f /dev/st0 status" but it doesn't do what it > >>was suppose todo so if it's not st0 then how do I find out where > >>it is? > > > > > > It's probably st0. It might be sct, but I only see st0, etc. in /dev of my > > RH9 system. On some SVR4 Unixes, the drive names are so convoluted it's > > almost impossible to figure out. One sure method I've used to find a > > device name is to unplug it, reboot and see what's missing from /dev or > > what comes back on reboot after plugging it back in. Yes, I'm a bit > > anal... > > > > Of course, the easier way is to insert a tape, then do: > > > > find /boot -print |cpio -ovcdumB > /dev/st0 > > > > and see if the light on the tape drive flashes, flickers or whatever it does. > > You can also check the output of "dmesg" and see what the system saw it > as. On occasion, they're also known as "/dev/mt0". > > > > > Karl > > > > > >>Thanks > >> > >>Brad > >> > >>On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > >> > >> > >>>>I'm running RH9 and have a tape drive in my machine. For the > >>>>life of me I can't remember or find the instructions for using > >>>>mounting or doing anything with a tape drive. > >>> > >>>You don't need to mount tape drives as you would other media. You > >>>redirect > >>>output to them. A common commandline method of backing up would be to > >>>use > >>>dump, tar or a find command piped to cpio. > >>> > >>>You can man dump and tar to see that syntax. I've always used something > >>>like this (your mileage may vary): > >>> > >>>find . -print |cpio -ovcdumB > /dev/st0 > >>> > >>>Where '.' represents the current directory. > >>> > >>>If you want to use this method of backing up, I can help you with > >>>restores, which are different depending on your backup syntax. You can > >>>use > >>>different path syntax, but restoring has to match. > >>> > >>>There is a curses-based backup utility which I used on RH6.4 and 7.0, > >>>but > >>>can't remember it's name to save my life and searching the /usr/bin > >>>directory of my RH9 system has proven fruitless for the impatient person > >>>on my keyboard... > >>> > >>>Have fun, but remember, disk is cheap, so I just NFS mount and do > >>>backups > >>>to a large disk just for this purpose on a remote machine (not real > >>>remote; same building, different rooms, same floor). > >>> > >>> > >>>>HELP!!! > >>> > >>>Hope this does..? > >>> > >>> > >>>>OH, and Merry Christmas. > >>> > >>>Same to you, but more of it. (I learned that way back in my primary > >>>school > >>>days; it's meant as a compliment). > >>> > >>>Karl > >>> > >>> > >>>>-- > >>>>Brad Mugleston, KI0OT > >>>> > >>>>There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that > >>>>understand binary and those that don't. > >>>> > >>>>_______________________________________________ > >>>>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 > >>> > >> > >>-- > >>Brad Mugleston, KI0OT > >> > >>There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that > >>understand binary and those that don't. > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>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 > > > > > -- Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. From David.Mackintosh at xdroop.com Tue Dec 28 13:27:13 2004 From: David.Mackintosh at xdroop.com (David Mackintosh) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:27:13 -0500 Subject: Howto install a NIC module automatically In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20041228132712.GE8454@xdroop.com> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 03:36:43PM +0000, ksun at abinitio.com wrote: > Greetings! > The particular NIC card, MARWIN, is not recognized by RH > Enterprise 3. I have to install compiler and make and install a module to > make this card work. I wonder what rpm package and how I need to modify to > recogine and configure the card automatically. Oh, I've been down this road many times with 3c2000 and updated e1000 cards as I have a client who's tools are strictly stuck with RedHat 7.3. Every six months when newer gear comes out it gets harder and harder to install it. What I do is kickstart the system with a known expantion card (ie a cheap 3c905 or similar). Then I build the module required. To cover the possibility that there are going to be different kernels in the future, I leave an 'installNIC' script on the system which runs before the kudzu, which does this: ---install3c2000: #!/bin/bash REV=`uname -r` if [ -z "$REV" ] ; then exit 1; fi if [ ! -f /lib/modules/$REV/kernel/drivers/net/3c2000.o ] ; then cd /lib/modules/3c2000 tar xfz 3c2000.tar.gz cd 3c2000 make cp 3c2000.o /lib/modules/$REV/kernel/drivers/net/ depmod -a insmod 3c2000 cd .. rm -rf 3c2000 fi if [ ! -f /lib/modules/$REV/kernel/drivers/net/3c2000.o ] ; then exit 1; fi ---END Build logic changes from module to module. Naturally, you have to be strict about leaving the kernel source in place when running a new kernel for the first time. I also create an updated kickstart CD image which includes the new module; you can see my notes at http://xdroop.dhs.org/space/Linux+Custom+Boot+CD+for+RedHat+7.3 > Please e-mail me at ksun at abinitio.com CC'd; however you should really subscribe to the list if you want help from it. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | Public Key: dave at xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com/dave/gpg.html $ gpg --recv-keys --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net 4C032504 Mystery attachment? http://xdroop.dhs.org/space/GPG -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The answer is.....42! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - ...it dispenses something not quite exactly unlike tea... - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Dec 28 17:12:23 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:12:23 -0800 Subject: fedora3 & an old abit be6/hpt366 board In-Reply-To: <639050219.20041227201046@wsbcomm[AT]earthlink.com> References: <639050219.20041227201046@wsbcomm[AT]earthlink.com> Message-ID: <41D193F7.30201@vitalstream.com> wb wrote: > hello, > > > my firewall runs rh8 with no problem. wanted to upgrade it to fedora3 > via the install cd's. the install process always crashes. is there a > problem with this install version and the old abit be6 board and it's > on-board hpt366? this cd set install has worked fine on other machines > here. is there a work around for this issue so i'm not forced to buy > another motherboard/cpu? I don't know of an issue necessarily. When you say "crashes", what exactly do you mean? Have you tried adding "nodma" to the boot command line? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Memory is the second thing to go, but I can't remember the first! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From othmanelmoulat at menara.ma Tue Dec 28 17:11:16 2004 From: othmanelmoulat at menara.ma (othman El Moulat) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:11:16 +0000 Subject: free ebook on UML Message-ID: <200412281711.16990.othmanelmoulat@menara.ma> > I found this message on www.jguru.com: Think I'll get the ebook too. > Hi All, I have been searching for a good book for UML, finally I found an excellent eBook in PDF format at www.JavaSoft.8k.com , There also I found another eBook called SCEA Complete KIT for Sun Certified Enterprise Architect exam. I got both of them and read well, I passed SCEA with 93% score. This is an excellent product(www.JavaSoft.8k.com ) for those who are preparing for Sun's SCEA, or IBM's UML certification. It also very useful for learning UML in Quick and Easy process. Thanks, Shiva .............................. > -------------- Original message -------------- > but those aren't free resources ! thanks anyway :) From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Dec 28 17:19:15 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:19:15 -0800 Subject: Launcher In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41D19593.8070503@vitalstream.com> brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > How does one set up a new launcher so that it ask's for ROOT's > password first? I want to su to root before I run a program and > can't figure it out. It's a bit convoluted. First, you must create a file with the same name as the application you want in /etc/security/console.apps. In it, you should have lines similar to: USER=root PROGRAM=/path/to/program/to/run SESSION=true So, for a program called "fnork" in /usr/local/bin, create an /etc/security/console.apps/fnork file and have it contain: USER=root PROGRAM=/usr/local/bin/fnork SESSION=true Next, you must enter create another file in /etc/pam.d that has the same name (in this case, /etc/pam.d/fnork) that contains the PAM authentication information. For example: #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient pam_rootok.so auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth session required pam_permit.so session optional pam_xauth.so account required pam_permit.so Then you can create your launcher using the GUI stuff. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Memory is the second thing to go, but I can't remember the first! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Dec 28 17:25:53 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:25:53 -0800 Subject: Tape Drive In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41D19721.9020301@vitalstream.com> brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > Thanks guys - still don't know what drive it is but I installed > Taper and it can controll the tape so I guess it doesn't matter > exactly. It's going to be /dev/stx or /dev/mtx, depending on if it's SCSI or IDE. And I thought you knew better than to top-post, Brad! :-) > On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: >> >>>>Thanks, so the tape drive is /dev/st0? Searching old emails I >>>>found a command "mt -f /dev/st0 status" but it doesn't do what it >>>>was suppose todo so if it's not st0 then how do I find out where >>>>it is? >>> >>> >>>It's probably st0. It might be sct, but I only see st0, etc. in /dev of my >>>RH9 system. On some SVR4 Unixes, the drive names are so convoluted it's >>>almost impossible to figure out. One sure method I've used to find a >>>device name is to unplug it, reboot and see what's missing from /dev or >>>what comes back on reboot after plugging it back in. Yes, I'm a bit >>>anal... >>> >>>Of course, the easier way is to insert a tape, then do: >>> >>>find /boot -print |cpio -ovcdumB > /dev/st0 >>> >>>and see if the light on the tape drive flashes, flickers or whatever it does. >> >>You can also check the output of "dmesg" and see what the system saw it >>as. On occasion, they're also known as "/dev/mt0". >> >> >>>Karl >>> >>> >>> >>>>Thanks >>>> >>>>Brad >>>> >>>>On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>>I'm running RH9 and have a tape drive in my machine. For the >>>>>>life of me I can't remember or find the instructions for using >>>>>>mounting or doing anything with a tape drive. >>>>> >>>>>You don't need to mount tape drives as you would other media. You >>>>>redirect >>>>>output to them. A common commandline method of backing up would be to >>>>>use >>>>>dump, tar or a find command piped to cpio. >>>>> >>>>>You can man dump and tar to see that syntax. I've always used something >>>>>like this (your mileage may vary): >>>>> >>>>>find . -print |cpio -ovcdumB > /dev/st0 >>>>> >>>>>Where '.' represents the current directory. >>>>> >>>>>If you want to use this method of backing up, I can help you with >>>>>restores, which are different depending on your backup syntax. You can >>>>>use >>>>>different path syntax, but restoring has to match. >>>>> >>>>>There is a curses-based backup utility which I used on RH6.4 and 7.0, >>>>>but >>>>>can't remember it's name to save my life and searching the /usr/bin >>>>>directory of my RH9 system has proven fruitless for the impatient person >>>>>on my keyboard... >>>>> >>>>>Have fun, but remember, disk is cheap, so I just NFS mount and do >>>>>backups >>>>>to a large disk just for this purpose on a remote machine (not real >>>>>remote; same building, different rooms, same floor). >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>HELP!!! >>>>> >>>>>Hope this does..? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>OH, and Merry Christmas. >>>>> >>>>>Same to you, but more of it. (I learned that way back in my primary >>>>>school >>>>>days; it's meant as a compliment). >>>>> >>>>>Karl >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>-- >>>>>>Brad Mugleston, KI0OT >>>>>> >>>>>>There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that >>>>>>understand binary and those that don't. >>>>>> >>>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>>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 >>>>> >>>> >>>>-- >>>>Brad Mugleston, KI0OT >>>> >>>>There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that >>>>understand binary and those that don't. >>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>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 - - - - If this is the first day of the rest of my life... - - I'm in BIG trouble! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From micros50 at computer.net Tue Dec 28 19:10:27 2004 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:10:27 -0500 Subject: Fedora Core 3 & Dell 4700 Message-ID: <1104261027.6691.26.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Hi, I rarely ask for help and usually figure things out myself but I am faced with an issue here involving a recently purchased desktop. My Dad recently bought a brand new Dell 4700 Desktop machine with MS Windows XP pre-installed. On his request I added a IDE hard drive into the machine onto which I installed Fedora Core 3 and made it into a dual boot machine. Everything works fine except for the Creative Soundblaster sound card. According to Dell's hardware list for the machine and according to the Windows XP devices manager the card is a "Creative "Soundblaster Live 24-bit" PCI sound card. Also referencing the model number stamped on the bottom of the card itself it is a "Soundblaster Live 24-Bit" However when I ran "lspci" under Linux it reports the card as a "Creative Soundblaster Audigy LS". So I downloaded and built the appropriate ALSA modules with Audigy LS support inserted them into the kernel, ran "lsmod" to make sure things were in place and I got bupkis... no audio, no sound, nothing...nada...zilch!!! Since I have checked the Creative website for info and I have googled around for info on the "Soundblaster Live 24-Bit" but I've come up relatively empty concerning any Linux drivers for this card or workable solutions. Has anyone out there got a similar card to work ? Does anyone have any ideas or has gotten such a card to work under Linux ? Or will I need to replace the card with a card that hjas better Linux support.. Any recommendations. It's kinda embarrassing when the Windows side has perfect sound but the Linux side has no sound at all. :{ Thanks in Advance Mylar From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue Dec 28 19:18:05 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 13:18:05 -0600 Subject: Fedora Core 3 & Dell 4700 In-Reply-To: <1104261027.6691.26.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> References: <1104261027.6691.26.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Message-ID: <20041228191805.GA26139@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:10:27PM -0500, mylar wrote: > Hi, I rarely ask for help and usually figure things out myself but I am > faced with an issue here involving a recently purchased desktop. > > My Dad recently bought a brand new Dell 4700 Desktop machine with MS > Windows XP pre-installed. On his request I added a IDE hard drive into > the machine onto which I installed Fedora Core 3 and made it into a dual > boot machine. > > Everything works fine except for the Creative Soundblaster sound card. > According to Dell's hardware list for the machine and according to the > Windows XP devices manager the card is a "Creative "Soundblaster Live > 24-bit" PCI sound card. Also referencing the model number stamped on the > bottom of the card itself it is a "Soundblaster Live 24-Bit" > > However when I ran "lspci" under Linux it reports the card as a > "Creative Soundblaster Audigy LS". So I downloaded and built the > appropriate ALSA modules with Audigy LS support inserted them into the > kernel, ran "lsmod" to make sure things were in place and I got > bupkis... no audio, no sound, nothing...nada...zilch!!! Sorry to ask the obvious, but we have to check these things. Did you bring up a mixer (say, xmixer) and verify the levels were up? By default, they are all the way down. > Since I have checked the Creative website for info and I have googled > around for info on the "Soundblaster Live 24-Bit" but I've come up > relatively empty concerning any Linux drivers for this card or workable > solutions. Has anyone out there got a similar card to work ? > > Does anyone have any ideas or has gotten such a card to work under > Linux ? Or will I need to replace the card with a card that hjas better > Linux support.. Any recommendations. It's kinda embarrassing when the > Windows side has perfect sound but the Linux side has no sound at all. > :{ > > Thanks in Advance > > Mylar Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com "...And His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." - Isaiah 9:6 From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Tue Dec 28 19:26:30 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:26:30 -0700 (MST) Subject: Launcher (su) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <33369.207.173.117.242.1104261990.squirrel@207.173.117.242> > How does one set up a new launcher so that it ask's for ROOT's > password first? I want to su to root before I run a program and > can't figure it out. Hey Brad, listen to Rick for doing it the 'right' way, but consider my 'smoke and mirrors' alternative (which isn't overwritten by upgrades). I create a file in my account's bin directory. For example, I ocasionally have use for Midnight Commander, so here's what I have in ~/bin: mc.sh 1: #!/bin/sh 2: sudo mc 3: exit Make it executable a that's all for that part. Now for the launcher you do something like: xterm -geometry 80x43 -sb -sl 2000 -bg black -fg white -fn 10x20 -e mc.sh which will give you a fairly large xterm window running mc after prompting for your password. Of course, ~/bin has to be in the path, else you would put -e ~/bin/mc.sh, or the full path. HTH, Karl > > Thanks, > > -- > Brad Mugleston, KI0OT > > There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that > understand binary and those that don't. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 micros50 at computer.net Tue Dec 28 20:25:25 2004 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:25:25 -0500 Subject: Fedora Core 3 & Dell 4700 In-Reply-To: <20041228191805.GA26139@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <1104261027.6691.26.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> <20041228191805.GA26139@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <1104265525.6691.31.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 14:18, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:10:27PM -0500, mylar wrote: > > Hi, I rarely ask for help and usually figure things out myself but I am > > faced with an issue here involving a recently purchased desktop. > > > > My Dad recently bought a brand new Dell 4700 Desktop machine with MS > > Windows XP pre-installed. On his request I added a IDE hard drive into > > the machine onto which I installed Fedora Core 3 and made it into a dual > > boot machine. > > > > Everything works fine except for the Creative Soundblaster sound card. > > According to Dell's hardware list for the machine and according to the > > Windows XP devices manager the card is a "Creative "Soundblaster Live > > 24-bit" PCI sound card. Also referencing the model number stamped on the > > bottom of the card itself it is a "Soundblaster Live 24-Bit" > > > > However when I ran "lspci" under Linux it reports the card as a > > "Creative Soundblaster Audigy LS". So I downloaded and built the > > appropriate ALSA modules with Audigy LS support inserted them into the > > kernel, ran "lsmod" to make sure things were in place and I got > > bupkis... no audio, no sound, nothing...nada...zilch!!! > > Sorry to ask the obvious, but we have to check these things. Did you > bring up a mixer (say, xmixer) and verify the levels were up? By > default, they are all the way down. > I was unable to bring up a mixer. If I remember correctly I got an error stating something to the effect " no mixer (device) available". Might I have overloooked something? Thanks Mylar From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue Dec 28 20:44:38 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:44:38 -0600 Subject: Fedora Core 3 & Dell 4700 In-Reply-To: <1104265525.6691.31.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> References: <1104261027.6691.26.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> <20041228191805.GA26139@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <1104265525.6691.31.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Message-ID: <20041228204438.GA26625@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 03:25:25PM -0500, mylar wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 14:18, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:10:27PM -0500, mylar wrote: > > > Hi, I rarely ask for help and usually figure things out myself but I am > > > faced with an issue here involving a recently purchased desktop. > > > > > > My Dad recently bought a brand new Dell 4700 Desktop machine with MS > > > Windows XP pre-installed. On his request I added a IDE hard drive into > > > the machine onto which I installed Fedora Core 3 and made it into a dual > > > boot machine. > > > > > > Everything works fine except for the Creative Soundblaster sound card. > > > According to Dell's hardware list for the machine and according to the > > > Windows XP devices manager the card is a "Creative "Soundblaster Live > > > 24-bit" PCI sound card. Also referencing the model number stamped on the > > > bottom of the card itself it is a "Soundblaster Live 24-Bit" > > > > > > However when I ran "lspci" under Linux it reports the card as a > > > "Creative Soundblaster Audigy LS". So I downloaded and built the > > > appropriate ALSA modules with Audigy LS support inserted them into the > > > kernel, ran "lsmod" to make sure things were in place and I got > > > bupkis... no audio, no sound, nothing...nada...zilch!!! > > > > Sorry to ask the obvious, but we have to check these things. Did you > > bring up a mixer (say, xmixer) and verify the levels were up? By > > default, they are all the way down. > > > > I was unable to bring up a mixer. If I remember correctly I got an error > stating something to the effect " no mixer (device) available". Might I > have overloooked something? > > Thanks > > Mylar No, I think I overlooked something. You can use alsamixer, a Curses-based TUI or amixer, its command-line brother. There are other ALSA-specific tools like aplay and arecord. xmixer relies on the old /dev/* devices that were provided by the OSS sound stuff. If you want to use your old OSS tools, add these lines to your /etc/modprobe.conf: # These are for ALSA OSS emulation. alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss Just between you and me, I'm not nuts about this rocky transition from OSS to ALSA. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com "...And His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." - Isaiah 9:6 From micros50 at computer.net Wed Dec 29 03:11:44 2004 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:11:44 -0500 Subject: Fedora Core 3 & Dell 4700 In-Reply-To: <20041228204438.GA26625@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <1104261027.6691.26.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> <20041228191805.GA26139@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <1104265525.6691.31.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> <20041228204438.GA26625@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <1104289904.6691.37.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 15:44, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 03:25:25PM -0500, mylar wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 14:18, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:10:27PM -0500, mylar wrote: > > > > Hi, I rarely ask for help and usually figure things out myself but I am > > > > faced with an issue here involving a recently purchased desktop. > > > > > > > > My Dad recently bought a brand new Dell 4700 Desktop machine with MS > > > > Windows XP pre-installed. On his request I added a IDE hard drive into > > > > the machine onto which I installed Fedora Core 3 and made it into a dual > > > > boot machine. > > > > > > > > Everything works fine except for the Creative Soundblaster sound card. > > > > According to Dell's hardware list for the machine and according to the > > > > Windows XP devices manager the card is a "Creative "Soundblaster Live > > > > 24-bit" PCI sound card. Also referencing the model number stamped on the > > > > bottom of the card itself it is a "Soundblaster Live 24-Bit" > > > > > > > > However when I ran "lspci" under Linux it reports the card as a > > > > "Creative Soundblaster Audigy LS". So I downloaded and built the > > > > appropriate ALSA modules with Audigy LS support inserted them into the > > > > kernel, ran "lsmod" to make sure things were in place and I got > > > > bupkis... no audio, no sound, nothing...nada...zilch!!! > > > > > > Sorry to ask the obvious, but we have to check these things. Did you > > > bring up a mixer (say, xmixer) and verify the levels were up? By > > > default, they are all the way down. > > > > > > > I was unable to bring up a mixer. If I remember correctly I got an error > > stating something to the effect " no mixer (device) available". Might I > > have overloooked something? > > > > Thanks > > > > Mylar > > No, I think I overlooked something. You can use alsamixer, a > Curses-based TUI or amixer, its command-line brother. There are other > ALSA-specific tools like aplay and arecord. xmixer relies on the old > /dev/* devices that were provided by the OSS sound stuff. If you want > to use your old OSS tools, add these lines to your /etc/modprobe.conf: > > # These are for ALSA OSS emulation. > alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss > alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss > alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss > alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss > alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss > > Just between you and me, I'm not nuts about this rocky transition from > OSS to ALSA. > > Cheers, Thanks, I'll have a go at it and see what happens. However, I won't have access to that machine till tomorrow or the next day. I'll try and let you know if it works out. Thanks for the help. Oh, yes, and indeed I agree about the OSS -> ALSA being a bit of a headache. ALSA does seem quite promising though. Mylar From wsbcomm at earthlink.com Wed Dec 29 07:38:24 2004 From: wsbcomm at earthlink.com (wb) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:38:24 -0800 Subject: fedora3 & an old abit be6/hpt366 board In-Reply-To: <41D193F7.30201@vitalstream.com> References: <639050219.20041227201046@wsbcomm[AT]earthlink.com> <41D193F7.30201@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <200412282338.25166@ID-WhiskeySierraBravoNancySierraAlpha> by "crashes", i meant that when the install begins it never gets to the graphical "fedora" logo screen. it just hangs at the blue screen when anaconda is doing it's probing. fixed the issue by replacing the cdrom drive. the old one seems to have had issues so i tossed it and got a new one. fedora installed and all is well. thanks for the feedback On Tuesday 28 December 2004 09:12, Rick Stevens wrote: > wb wrote: > > hello, > > > > > > my firewall runs rh8 with no problem. wanted to upgrade it to fedora3 > > via the install cd's. the install process always crashes. is there a > > problem with this install version and the old abit be6 board and it's > > on-board hpt366? this cd set install has worked fine on other machines > > here. is there a work around for this issue so i'm not forced to buy > > another motherboard/cpu? > > I don't know of an issue necessarily. When you say "crashes", what > exactly do you mean? Have you tried adding "nodma" to the boot command > line? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Memory is the second thing to go, but I can't remember the first! - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > 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 gnuPG 1024D/AE71CBD1C65FECCE 2004-12-19 wsbcomm at earthlink.com FP: 7413 2E30 DDF5 AE07 2EB2 392B AE71 CBD1 C65F ECCE From govind at mc-3.org Wed Dec 29 07:45:55 2004 From: govind at mc-3.org (Govind C) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:45:55 -0800 Subject: Support for v60x/V65x servers!!! Message-ID: <45f466b6.66b645f4@aspcentre.org> Folks, I have a solaris 9 system running has Jump-start(for sprac system) and pxe server(Configured for redhat ES 3.0 for Sun Blade 100x on B1600). My current mission is to install ES 3.0 onto Sun fire v60x/V65x(Xeon Processors).what configuration changes do i have to make on the pxe server to support v60x/v65x. Cheers Govind From noalternative at operamail.com Thu Dec 30 11:33:17 2004 From: noalternative at operamail.com (No Alternative) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:33:17 +0100 Subject: Redhat 7.3 update agent hangs after first update Message-ID: <20041230113317.35C6B23EF71@ws5-4.us4.outblaze.com> I know I am using an unsupported older version of redhat. I was scared the newer ones would be to much for my old AMD k6 -2. I have upgraded the hardrive and the memory but it is still and older computer. OEM Compaq Win 98 quit out an I needed something. Anyway, the disks come from a "Redhat 7.3 for Dummies" book, so you know where I am at on the linux learning curve. Anyway, I installed it and it recognized all my important hardware just fine. I also updated the ssh certificates for Redhat update agent so that isn't the problem. It always hangs at 2% when installing the update for xfree86. It even does this when I do it from the command line with up2date. Can anyone help? Also, I wasn't able to create an iptables firewall using the instructions provided in the Redhat for dummies book. I think it is a different version of iptables maybe. This book appears to be a newer edition of a book that had been written for even older versions of red hat, so I figure I am being given the instructions for the wrong iptables. -- _____________________________________________________________ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. >From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze From John.Rushe at axa-tech.com Thu Dec 30 16:20:29 2004 From: John.Rushe at axa-tech.com (RUSHE John (AXA-TECH-UK)) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:20:29 -0000 Subject: Kickstart Install via HTTP Message-ID: Hi, I am trying to set up a kickstart installation using http (network install). My apache web server does not listen on the standard port 80, but uses a non-privileged port. I have tried to specify the url with this alternate port but the installation always says it can't retrieve the images from the source tree. The kickstart command I am using is as follows: url --url http://10.190.111.21:45116/Enterprise/30 (port 45116 is an example) Has anybody managed to perform a network install via http specifying a non-standard, unprivileged apache port in this way? 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On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:33:17PM +0100, No Alternative wrote: > I know I am using an unsupported older version of redhat. I was > scared the newer ones would be to much for my old AMD k6 -2. I have > upgraded the hardrive and the memory but it is still and older > computer. Go ahead and upgrade if you can. I'm running FC2 one one of my K6-3s, and FC1 on the other only because I haven't gotten around to taking it offline to upgrade it. > OEM Compaq Win 98 quit out an I needed something. > Anyway, the disks come from a "Redhat 7.3 for Dummies" book, so you > know where I am at on the linux learning curve. > > Anyway, I installed it and it recognized all my important hardware > just fine. I also updated the ssh certificates for Redhat update > agent so that isn't the problem. It always hangs at 2% when > installing the update for xfree86. It even does this when I do it > from the command line with up2date. Can anyone help? Every install or upgrade from CDs writes a log in /root. After it fails, boot with the CD into rescue mode (put "linux rescue" at the boot: prompt), let it mount your system on /mnt/sysimage, then cd /mnt/sysimage/root ls less install.log # or upgrade.log, if that's what you're doing When done, just "exit" and it will reboot. See also for more information: http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#install_dies > Also, I wasn't able to create an iptables firewall using the > instructions provided in the Redhat for dummies book. I think it is > a different version of iptables maybe. This book appears to be a > newer edition of a book that had been written for even older > versions of red hat, so I figure I am being given the instructions > for the wrong iptables. http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#firewall There are also several aftermarket firewall tools such as http://www.fs-security.com/ http://www.shorewall.net/ http://www.smoothwall.org/ (didn't work just now) http://www.bastille-linux.org/ http://muse.linuxmafia.org/gshield/ Once you get it set up, use this to check it out: https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com "...And His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." - Isaiah 9:6 From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Dec 30 19:36:55 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:36:55 -0800 Subject: Support for v60x/V65x servers!!! In-Reply-To: <45f466b6.66b645f4@aspcentre.org> References: <45f466b6.66b645f4@aspcentre.org> Message-ID: <41D458D7.4020105@vitalstream.com> Govind C wrote: > Folks, > I have a solaris 9 system running has Jump-start(for sprac system) and > pxe server(Configured for redhat ES 3.0 for Sun Blade 100x on B1600). > > My current mission is to install ES 3.0 onto Sun fire v60x/V65x(Xeon > Processors).what configuration changes do i have to make on the pxe > server to support v60x/v65x. I can't think of any offhand, but I've never done what you're doing. If you're doing specific MAC matching you'll have to make sure you have rules for the MACs on the V6x machines. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - A day for firm decisions!!! Well, then again, maybe not! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Dec 30 19:51:11 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:51:11 -0800 Subject: Kickstart Install via HTTP In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41D45C2F.6070202@vitalstream.com> RUSHE John (AXA-TECH-UK) wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to set up a kickstart installation using http (network > install). My apache web server does not listen on the standard port 80, > but uses a non-privileged port. I have tried to specify the url with > this alternate port but the installation always says it can't retrieve > the images from the source tree. The kickstart command I am using is as > follows: > > url --url http://10.190.111.21:45116/Enterprise/30 > > (port 45116 is an example) > > Has anybody managed to perform a network install via http specifying a > non-standard, unprivileged apache port in this way? If you're running an external firewall, are you certain the port is allowed through? Are you certain that the images are in that specified directory? Remember that "/" on the webserver is the DocumentRoot, not the root of the filesystem. Use a browser on the http server and find the first ISO image. The URL in the menu bar of your browser is what should be used. Oh, and John, please see if you can get that vastly stupid disclaimer removed from your email. They are incredibly unenforceable and just suck up bandwidth. Besides, posting a message to an open mailing list kinda kills off any pretense to confidentiality, doesn't it? ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - A day for firm decisions!!! Well, then again, maybe not! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From roland at cat.be Thu Dec 30 22:50:03 2004 From: roland at cat.be (roland brouwers) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:50:03 +0100 Subject: samba In-Reply-To: <41D45C2F.6070202@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <000001c4eec1$e6bb9b50$6464a8c0@pccat03> Hello, I am running RH9 and suddenly samba does not react anymore My server: 192.168.100.254 In windows Xp: Start -> Run -> \\192.168.100.254\homes doesn't give any reaction My smb.conf ===================================== [global] log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log guest account = roland smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd load printers = yes passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 obey pam restrictions = yes guest ok = yes username map = /etc/samba/smbusers encrypt passwords = yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u dns proxy = no server string = samba server printing = cups unix password sync = Yes workgroup = cat comment = tbred printcap name = /etc/printcap max log size = 0 pam password change = yes [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = yes writeable = yes valid users = %S create mode = 0664 directory mode = 0775 [tbred] comment = thoroughbred path=/home/basic browseable = yes writeable = yes valid users = roland create mode = 0664 directory mode = 0775 [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = yes # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print printable = yes # This one is useful for people to share files [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp read only = no public = yes [public] path = /home/public public = yes only guest = yes writable = yes printable = no What is going wrong? To be sure,I restarted services smb and network Thanks for your help And a happy and healthy 2005 From John.Rushe at axa-tech.com Fri Dec 31 07:59:11 2004 From: John.Rushe at axa-tech.com (RUSHE John (AXA-TECH-UK)) Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 07:59:11 -0000 Subject: samba Message-ID: Roland, Can you ping 192.168.100.254 from your XP machine? Have you tried rebooting the XP machine? It may be a network issue rather than a problem with samba. Try running "tracert 192.168.100.254" from the XP machine as well and post back the output. Cheers John -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of roland brouwers Sent: 30 December 2004 22:50 To: 'Getting started with Red Hat Linux' Subject: samba Hello, I am running RH9 and suddenly samba does not react anymore My server: 192.168.100.254 In windows Xp: Start -> Run -> \\192.168.100.254\homes doesn't give any reaction My smb.conf ===================================== [global] log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log guest account = roland smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd load printers = yes passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 obey pam restrictions = yes guest ok = yes username map = /etc/samba/smbusers encrypt passwords = yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u dns proxy = no server string = samba server printing = cups unix password sync = Yes workgroup = cat comment = tbred printcap name = /etc/printcap max log size = 0 pam password change = yes [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = yes writeable = yes valid users = %S create mode = 0664 directory mode = 0775 [tbred] comment = thoroughbred path=/home/basic browseable = yes writeable = yes valid users = roland create mode = 0664 directory mode = 0775 [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = yes # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print printable = yes # This one is useful for people to share files [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp read only = no public = yes [public] path = /home/public public = yes only guest = yes writable = yes printable = no What is going wrong? To be sure,I restarted services smb and network Thanks for your help And a happy and healthy 2005 _______________________________________________ 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 ******************************************************************* This email originates from AXA Technology Services UK Limited (reg. no. 1854856) which has its registered office at 107 Cheapside, London EC2V 6DU, England. This message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this in error, you should not disseminate or copy this email. Please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. 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The AXA UK Plc Group accept no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. ******************************************************************* From John.Rushe at axa-tech.com Fri Dec 31 08:12:15 2004 From: John.Rushe at axa-tech.com (RUSHE John (AXA-TECH-UK)) Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 08:12:15 -0000 Subject: Kickstart Install via HTTP Message-ID: Hi Rick, Sorry about the disclaimer, alas I don't work in the email team so I am stuck with it I'm afraid. The error I get during the kickstart install is: 10.190.111.21:45116 is an invalid hostname It's almost as if kickstart doesn't recognize the port specification in the URL. I can reach the directory fine from a web browser. Apache is running and there are no firewall rules blocking this port/IP combination. I have tried switching apache to listen on port 80 and running the kickstart again (minus the port 45116 in the url) and it works fine so I am happy that the kickstart itself is ok. Very puzzling.... Regards John -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: 30 December 2004 19:51 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: Kickstart Install via HTTP RUSHE John (AXA-TECH-UK) wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to set up a kickstart installation using http (network > install). My apache web server does not listen on the standard port 80, > but uses a non-privileged port. I have tried to specify the url with > this alternate port but the installation always says it can't retrieve > the images from the source tree. The kickstart command I am using is as > follows: > > url --url http://10.190.111.21:45116/Enterprise/30 > > (port 45116 is an example) > > Has anybody managed to perform a network install via http specifying a > non-standard, unprivileged apache port in this way? If you're running an external firewall, are you certain the port is allowed through? Are you certain that the images are in that specified directory? Remember that "/" on the webserver is the DocumentRoot, not the root of the filesystem. Use a browser on the http server and find the first ISO image. The URL in the menu bar of your browser is what should be used. Oh, and John, please see if you can get that vastly stupid disclaimer removed from your email. They are incredibly unenforceable and just suck up bandwidth. Besides, posting a message to an open mailing list kinda kills off any pretense to confidentiality, doesn't it? ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - A day for firm decisions!!! Well, then again, maybe not! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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 ******************************************************************* This email originates from AXA Technology Services UK Limited (reg. no. 1854856) which has its registered office at 107 Cheapside, London EC2V 6DU, England. This message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this in error, you should not disseminate or copy this email. Please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. 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The AXA UK Plc Group accept no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. ******************************************************************* From ct_velmurugan at yahoo.co.in Fri Dec 31 11:55:54 2004 From: ct_velmurugan at yahoo.co.in (velmurugan s) Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 11:55:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Kickstart Install via HTTP In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20041231115554.6045.qmail@web8309.mail.in.yahoo.com> Dear Sir, i am Velmurugan, i am now in Bangalore-India, i have done M.Sc - Data Communiction & Network, and also i have done Redhat Certified Engineer Course, i know all Configuration in Linux. But i still dont have any job, you have any vacancy in linux, please mail me. Thanking you, velmurugan "RUSHE John (AXA-TECH-UK)" wrote: Hi Rick, Sorry about the disclaimer, alas I don't work in the email team so I am stuck with it I'm afraid. The error I get during the kickstart install is: 10.190.111.21:45116 is an invalid hostname It's almost as if kickstart doesn't recognize the port specification in the URL. I can reach the directory fine from a web browser. Apache is running and there are no firewall rules blocking this port/IP combination. I have tried switching apache to listen on port 80 and running the kickstart again (minus the port 45116 in the url) and it works fine so I am happy that the kickstart itself is ok. Very puzzling.... Regards John -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: 30 December 2004 19:51 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: Kickstart Install via HTTP RUSHE John (AXA-TECH-UK) wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to set up a kickstart installation using http (network > install). My apache web server does not listen on the standard port 80, > but uses a non-privileged port. I have tried to specify the url with > this alternate port but the installation always says it can't retrieve > the images from the source tree. The kickstart command I am using is as > follows: > > url --url http://10.190.111.21:45116/Enterprise/30 > > (port 45116 is an example) > > Has anybody managed to perform a network install via http specifying a > non-standard, unprivileged apache port in this way? If you're running an external firewall, are you certain the port is allowed through? Are you certain that the images are in that specified directory? Remember that "/" on the webserver is the DocumentRoot, not the root of the filesystem. Use a browser on the http server and find the first ISO image. The URL in the menu bar of your browser is what should be used. Oh, and John, please see if you can get that vastly stupid disclaimer removed from your email. They are incredibly unenforceable and just suck up bandwidth. Besides, posting a message to an open mailing list kinda kills off any pretense to confidentiality, doesn't it? ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - A day for firm decisions!!! Well, then again, maybe not! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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 ******************************************************************* This email originates from AXA Technology Services UK Limited (reg. no. 1854856) which has its registered office at 107 Cheapside, London EC2V 6DU, England. 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URL: From rhil at manordata.uklinux.net Fri Dec 31 13:47:42 2004 From: rhil at manordata.uklinux.net (Chris Hewitt) Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 13:47:42 +0000 Subject: Redhat 7.3 update agent hangs after first update In-Reply-To: <20041230113317.35C6B23EF71@ws5-4.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20041230113317.35C6B23EF71@ws5-4.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <1104500861.12907.2.camel@amdk63.homemanordata.nodom> On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 11:33, No Alternative wrote: > I know I am using an unsupported older version of redhat. I was > scared the newer ones would be to much for my old AMD k6 -2. A few days ago I installed FC3 on a computer with a K6-2 and 256MB ram. Its not particularly fast, but its not too slow either. Just to let you know that FC3 does load on a K6-2, so it is an option. Regards Chris From John.Rushe at axa-tech.com Fri Dec 31 13:49:34 2004 From: John.Rushe at axa-tech.com (RUSHE John (AXA-TECH-UK)) Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 13:49:34 -0000 Subject: Redhat 7.3 update agent hangs after first update Message-ID: I have Fedora Core 2 running quite happily (including X-Windows/Gnome) on an AMD K6-2/450 with 256MB RAM. Again, it's not wonderfully fast but the speed for the GUI is acceptable. I would seriously look to upgrade from RH 7.3 to Fedora Core 1, 2 or possibly even 3. The pre-Enterprise Red Hat releases are all end of life now. Fedora is a good bet. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Chris Hewitt Sent: 31 December 2004 13:48 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: Redhat 7.3 update agent hangs after first update On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 11:33, No Alternative wrote: > I know I am using an unsupported older version of redhat. I was > scared the newer ones would be to much for my old AMD k6 -2. A few days ago I installed FC3 on a computer with a K6-2 and 256MB ram. Its not particularly fast, but its not too slow either. Just to let you know that FC3 does load on a K6-2, so it is an option. Regards Chris _______________________________________________ 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 ******************************************************************* This email originates from AXA Technology Services UK Limited (reg. no. 1854856) which has its registered office at 107 Cheapside, London EC2V 6DU, England. This message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. 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