From micros50 at computer.net Tue Jun 1 01:22:19 2004 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 21:22:19 -0400 Subject: 4 GB Limit with ftp? In-Reply-To: <40BB6D69.7040407@nauticom.net> References: <40BB6D69.7040407@nauticom.net> Message-ID: <1086052939.6835.20.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> I was thinking along the same lines as Ken, that it might be a max file size problem. But apparently you did get it to work. Then it probably had to do with something related to Mozilla. mylar On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 13:37, rab wrote: > Kenneth Goodwin wrote: > > >If you are running a 32 bit version of RH9 Kernel, > >you may be running into an OS limit on maximum > >file size. If you have source, check the disk inode > >structures filesize variables > >to see if they are 32 bit values. > > > >Dont know if it applies to RH9 in your case, but you might > >want to check that possibility before starting another > >download. > > > >The 4gb limit wont apply to disk structures such as > >partitions as they are addressed in terms > >of BLOCKS. your problem sounds like this might be the > >issue. > > > > > > > > > I used ncftp and it appears to have downloaded all 4+ gb. > > Rick B. > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe From harold at hallikainen.com Tue Jun 1 04:30:52 2004 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 21:30:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: RH equivalent to winipcfg? Message-ID: <1802.192.168.1.1.1086064252.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> Wow! Thanks for all the help! I was looking for a simple command that would show me everything the DHCP server assigned to this machine, including IP address, DNS servers, etc. We're getting close! Thanks! Harold -- FCC Rules Online at http://www.hallikainen.com From gnichols at tpg.com.au Tue Jun 1 05:25:38 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 15:25:38 +1000 Subject: Configuring RH8 to use an ADSL Modem/Router In-Reply-To: <40BAE9BF.7030403@tootai.net> References: <40B97571.9080208@tpg.com.au> <40B9B994.4040903@tootai.net> <40BACAC3.9040604@tpg.com.au> <40BAE9BF.7030403@tootai.net> Message-ID: <40BC1352.5060003@tpg.com.au> administrator tootai wrote: > Graeme Nichols a ?crit : > >> [...] >> Are you saying that I have to assign a static ip address to eth0 equal >> to the default ip address of the router? > > > No. Please take a look on my previous mail: I told you to put > 192.168.1.1 for your eth0 Please read it again carefully. > >> and set ip forwarding in /etc/sysctl.conf and in >> /etc/sysconfig/network file to gateway=192.168.1.254 (the default ip >> address of the router) rather than gatewaydev=ppp0? > > > gatewaydev=eth0 (see previous mail) > >> >> I will give that a try and see what happens. >> >> Thank you for your help. >> > Welcome > Hi Daniel, I configured everything as you suggested and, hey presto!, it all worked. Thank you very much for your help. Now I can put Windows back in mothballs. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols. From admin at tootai.net Tue Jun 1 07:03:13 2004 From: admin at tootai.net (administrator tootai) Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 09:03:13 +0200 Subject: Configuring RH8 to use an ADSL Modem/Router In-Reply-To: <40BC1352.5060003@tpg.com.au> References: <40B97571.9080208@tpg.com.au> <40B9B994.4040903@tootai.net> <40BACAC3.9040604@tpg.com.au> <40BAE9BF.7030403@tootai.net> <40BC1352.5060003@tpg.com.au> Message-ID: <40BC2A31.2010309@tootai.net> Graeme Nichols a ?crit : > [...] > Hi Daniel, I configured everything as you suggested and, hey presto!, > it all worked. I'm happy for you :-) > > Thank you very much for your help. Now I can put Windows back in > mothballs. > Welcome -- Daniel From akelly at transparency.org Tue Jun 1 09:03:29 2004 From: akelly at transparency.org (Andrew Kelly) Date: 01 Jun 2004 11:03:29 +0200 Subject: Antique computers (was Re: LILO and Zone Alarm) In-Reply-To: References: <40B3669D.2020801@yahoo.com> <40B376F0.5030509@vitalstream.com> <1085531212.7191.110.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> <40B3EB21.2020706@vitalstream.com> <1085592856.6731.8.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> <40B4D905.9040907@vitalstream.com> <20040526183804.GA11613@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <1085640788.4132.17.camel@hermes.at.home> Message-ID: <1086080609.4131.107.camel@hermes.at.home> On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 20:00, Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr. wrote: > Just in case you haven't been paying attention to medical news, leaches > are back in favor, and maggot therapy is being used to clean up dead flesh > in recalcitrant wounds. Actually, alternative medicine is one of my hobbies. In fact, if dreams can come true, I'll be studying naturopathic medicine in February. I just need to find a couple more clients and the first year is covered. Hey, great chance for a shameless plug! Computer weenie seeks telecommuting contract work. Apply within! Andy From zhangsc at neusoft.com Tue Jun 1 08:26:34 2004 From: zhangsc at neusoft.com (Edward King) Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 16:26:34 +0800 Subject: why update fail? Message-ID: <010201c447b2$83b64d90$0800a8c0@neucaa1cdfc96a> I use Redhat Linux 7.3, I want to update kernel,so I use following commands,but it raise errors: [root at mail guest]# rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.20-28.7.i686.rpm error: failed dependencies: modutils >= 2.4.18 is needed by kernel-2.4.20-28.7 Then I guess to update modutils first,like follows,but it still raise errors: A[root at mail guest]# rpm -ivh modutils-2.4.18-3.7x.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] file /sbin/depmod from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /sbin/genksyms from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /sbin/insmod from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /sbin/insmod.static from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /sbin/modinfo from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man1/kernelversion.1.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man2/create_module.2.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man2/delete_module.2.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man2/get_kernel_syms.2.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man2/init_module.2.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man2/query_module.2.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man5/modules.conf.5.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man8/depmod.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man8/genksyms.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man8/insmod.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man8/kallsyms.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man8/ksyms.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man8/lsmod.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man8/modinfo.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man8/modprobe.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man8/rmmod.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 Any I try another modutiles,it still failed: [root at mail guest]# rpm -ivh modutils-2.4.20-1.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] file /sbin/depmod from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /sbin/genksyms from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /sbin/insmod from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /sbin/insmod.static from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /sbin/modinfo from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man1/kernelversion.1.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man2/create_module.2.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man2/delete_module.2.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man2/get_kernel_syms.2.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man2/init_module.2.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man2/query_module.2.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man5/modules.conf.5.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man8/depmod.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man8/genksyms.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man8/insmod.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man8/kallsyms.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man8/ksyms.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man8/lsmod.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man8/modinfo.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man8/modprobe.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 file /usr/share/man/man8/rmmod.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 How to solve this problem? Thanks in advance! From nmw at ion.le.ac.uk Tue Jun 1 09:38:21 2004 From: nmw at ion.le.ac.uk (Nigel Wade) Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 10:38:21 +0100 Subject: Firewall questions I promised you. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40BC4E8D.8050404@ion.le.ac.uk> Bruce McDonald wrote: > Hello all, > > I have written my firewall rules using the examples in Linux Firewall Second > Edition by Robert Zeigler. Now, when I run the script I get a couple of > errors. > > One is: > Bad argument `22' > Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. > > This shows up after lines like: > if [ "$CONNECTION_TRACKING" = "1" ]; then > iptables -A local-tcp-client-request -p tcp \ > -d $SSH_CLIENT --dport 22 \ > --syn -m state --state NEW \ > -j ACCEPT > fi > This iptables command works here, provided SSH_CLIENT is set correctly. What is your setting for SSH_CLIENT? -- Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK E-mail : nmw at ion.le.ac.uk Phone : +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555 From Adrian.Suri at soder.engelska.se Tue Jun 1 12:19:06 2004 From: Adrian.Suri at soder.engelska.se (Adrian Suri) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 14:19:06 +0200 Subject: fedora core 2 kbrd change question Message-ID: <0DC1C1F0573FDD4E8980A826387CFC960C20E7@skola02.skola.local> During the FC2 install, there is a couple of real nice dialog boxes asking the kbrd layout and the additional kbrd layouts. Really nice... but I did not install an additional kbrd layout that I need... thought I'd install it later on. And there is absolutely no way of doing that =) Any advice? I really don't want to reinstall the whole thing just because I need an extra kbrd layout Please help From roland at cat.be Tue Jun 1 14:23:10 2004 From: roland at cat.be (roland brouwers) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:23:10 +0200 Subject: help: cups printing Message-ID: <000001c447e3$f72a2860$0301a8c0@ltsp> I have something strange going on I use cups printing The instruction I use is : lpr -P prit02 XXXXXX prit02 is the name of the printer and the listing goes to a printserver of d-link (DP-300U) The listing is produced endlessly. I mean: if the listing is 50 pages, he wil produce 50 pages and restarts the listing a second time. If I do the same thing under MSwindows the listing is correct. What do I miss here. Roland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jkinz at kinz.org Tue Jun 1 16:14:03 2004 From: jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 12:14:03 -0400 Subject: RH equivalent to winipcfg? In-Reply-To: <00b801c44733$1c640e40$0301a8c0@zephyr>; from ericw200@covad.net on Mon, May 31, 2004 at 10:17:10AM -0700 References: <2235.192.168.1.1.1085941049.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org><20040530180902.A18463@redline.comcast.net><008c01c446a6$e1859500$0301a8c0@zephyr> <20040531115240.A23998@redline.comcast.net> <00b801c44733$1c640e40$0301a8c0@zephyr> Message-ID: <20040601121403.A25779@redline.comcast.net> On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 10:17:10AM -0700, Eric Whitcombe wrote: > > = JK > they wanted to know quickly what IP address their DHCP server gave them. Correct, and they wanted it in a gui program, hence redhat-config-network. > Your responses are producing a highly didactic and fatuously > brow-beating output that seems > to serve only to demonstrate your superior intelligence. Please refer to the > craigslist in your area for > psychological counseling and therapy services. I suspect both the irony and hypocrisy of your statement above is probably lost on you. You've been posting here for about a month. Please go to the web site for this list http://rhil.org and find the link to the FAQ for this list and read it. This should provide you with more of a clue on the expected behavior for this list. Please keep in mind that the standards of behavior that would be acceptable in some Windows lists are not acceptable here. At any rate, emulating individuals Like Rick Stevens, Bob Mclure and a host (most) others in this list would be a very good idea. Here is a quote from Eric Raymond's essay on how to ask questions the smart way that applies since you're unhappy with me telling to change your posting style: Get over it. It's normal. In fact, it's healthy and appropriate. Community standards do not maintain themselves: They're maintained by people actively applying them, visibly, in public. Don't whine that all criticism should have been conveyed via private mail: That's not how it works. Nor is it useful to insist you've been personally insulted when someone comments that one of your claims was wrong, or that his views differ. Those are loser attitudes. ############################################################# Remember: When that hacker tells you that you've screwed up, and (no matter how gruffly) tells you not to do it again, he's acting out of concern for (1) you and (2) his community. It would be much easier for him to ignore you and filter you out of his life. If you can't manage to be grateful, at least have a little dignity, don't whine, and don't expect to be treated like a fragile doll just because you're a newcomer with a theatrically hypersensitive soul and delusions of entitlement. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. "jkinz at kinz.org" is copyright 2004. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at www.kinz.org/policy.html (if you could get there .. ) From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 1 17:32:42 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 10:32:42 -0700 Subject: 4 GB Limit with ftp? In-Reply-To: <40BB6D16.9090301@nauticom.net> References: <40B8C0A1.9030801@nauticom.net> <1085889451.6597.16.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> <40B96D79.60306@nauticom.net> <1085941742.1557.17.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> <40BB6D16.9090301@nauticom.net> Message-ID: <40BCBDBA.201@vitalstream.com> rab wrote: > mylar wrote: > >> >> When you tried to download the large files via Mozilla what error >> message(s) did you receive when it failed ? Also, do you remember about >> how much of the file downloaded before it failed ? Also, what filesystem >> are you using ? >> >> mylar >> >> >> > It failed after about 2 gb. I don't remember the error message now. I > used ncftp and it appears to have downloaded all 4+ gb. I'm using ext3 > on a 160 gb hard drive that has at least 140 gb available. Mozilla and many other GUI FTP tools were built using, um, "traditional" variable declarations. If they don't have the correct variable declarations or not built with "largefile" support, they are limited to files no larger than 2GB. Many, many systems use a signed 32-bit integer for file positioning (as in "lseek()"). This limit them to 2^31 bytes or 2GB. The correct variable type to use is a "off_t". On Linux, this is a signed 64-bit integer giving you 9 million terabyte file limits. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I don't suffer from insanity...I enjoy every minute of it! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 1 18:07:26 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:07:26 -0700 Subject: Configuring RH8 to use an ADSL Modem/Router In-Reply-To: <40BACAC3.9040604@tpg.com.au> References: <40B97571.9080208@tpg.com.au> <40B9B994.4040903@tootai.net> <40BACAC3.9040604@tpg.com.au> Message-ID: <40BCC5DE.5030108@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > > > administrator tootai wrote: > >> Graeme Nichols a ?crit : >> >>> Hello Rick and Folks, >> >> >> >> Hi Graeme >> >>> >>> Further to the help you have already given me regarding ADSL >>> Modem/Routers I now have my ADSL line activated but I have been >>> spectacularly unsuccessful in getting it to to work on my RH8 box. I >>> have been reduced to using Win98SE for my email at the moment, but >>> not Oulook Express :-) >>> >>> The ADSL Modem/Router works just fine under Win98SE. I followed the >>> configuration sequence from the Modem/Router instructions which are >>> as follows: >>> >>> 1. Select the Ethernet card from the network devices. >> >> >> >> So ethernet card to connect to ADSL modem/router >> >>> 2. Select dynamically assigned ip address. >> >> >> >> For modem/router in LAN? >> >>> 3. Disable DNS >>> 4. Fire up a browser and configure the ADSL modem as follows: >>> a. Router, PPPoA (my ISP informed me this works more reliably than >>> PPPoE on Billion ADSL Modem/Routers), LLC, VPI/VCI >> , , obtain an IP address automatically, connect >>> on demand, NAT=SUA (single user). The next screen displays the >>> results of your choices on the WAN side and the default router ip >>> addr. (192.168.1.254), netmask (255.255.255.0) etc. >> >> >> >> So your router has 192.168.1.254 as LAN IP. Your ethernet card on >> which he is connected to your box must have an 192.168.1.0/24 IP address. >> >>> >>> And away it all went. No problems. >>> >>> So I followed the same procedure on my RH8 box and immediately ran >>> into problems. By setting eth0 to a dynamically assigned ip address I >>> can't activate it. >> >> >> >> Anf who give an IP address to your eth0? You have an DHCP server on >> your LAN? If not, you must have something like >> >> DEVICE="eth0" >> BOOTPROTO="none" >> IPADDR="192.168.1.1" ;if not already used >> NETMASK="255.255.255.0" >> NETWORK="192.168.1.0" >> ONBOOT="yes" >> >> in your ifcfg-eth0 and >> >> NETWORKING=yes >> GATEWAYDEV=eth0 >> FORWARD_IPV4=yes >> >> in network file. >> >>> Delete that device and create an xDSL device (ppp0) using the eth0 >>> card, dynamic ip address etc. I can activate it (takes about 40 >>> secs.) and 10 secs later it becomes inactive. I haven't changed any >>> of the ADSL configuration in the Modem/Router as all that should be >>> correct as they are the defined settings from my ISP. >> >> >> >> If I well understand your setup (see below) you don't need to setup an >> ppp connection >> >>> >>> >>> The contents of the network files and log are as follows: >>> >>> Contents of the /etc/sysconfig/network file:- >>> >>> [root at localhost graeme]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network >>> NETWORKING=yes >>> HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain >>> DOMAINNAME=localdomain >>> GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 >> >> >> >> If your modem is connected to eth0 should be eth0 (see my comments >> above about ppp0) >> >>> >>> Contents of the /etc/sysctl.conf file:- >>> >>> [root at localhost graeme]# cat /etc/sysctl.conf >>> # Kernel sysctl configuration file for Red Hat Linux >>> # >>> # For binary values, 0 is disabled, 1 is enabled. See sysctl(8) and >>> # sysctl.conf(5) for more details. >>> >>> # Controls IP packet forwarding >>> net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 >> >> >> >> should be =1 >> >>> >>> # Controls source route verification >>> net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1 >>> >>> # Controls the System Request debugging functionality of the kernel >>> kernel.sysrq = 0 >>> >>> # Controls whether core dumps will append the PID to the core filename. >>> # Useful for debugging multi-threaded applications. >>> kernel.core_uses_pid = 1 >>> >> [...] >> >>> Now all the above must mean something but to me, network novice, it >>> doesn't jump out at me. >> >> >> >> In your logs hotplug id for USB. So is your modem USB or eth? >> >>> >>> In my simple mind all I thought would be necessary would be to >>> configure eth0 to dynamic ip address, allow users to start and stop >>> it and all would work. >>> >>> So, how do I set up this ADSL Modem/Router to work under RH8?? >>> >>> I desperately need help... >>> >> If you setup your modem under win98, the only thing you have to do >> with your RH box is to bring up eth0 to be able to discuss with your >> modem. With ip_forward set to 1 you will be able to go to internet. >> All others settings are done by the modem so no need to do it from >> your box. >> >> What i say is only true if I well understand your organization like: >> >> RH80 box -- Ethernet card eth0 -- Ethernet connector from ADSL >> modem/Router -- WAN connector from ADSl modem/Router -- your ISP >> >> If your modem is USB, you should have drivers who will create an >> pseudo eth connected to ppp. At least it was the case with an USB >> SAGEM Fast at 800 that I was using. And this was only a modem, not router. >> >> Hope this help. >> > > Hi, my setup is a single workstation with one ethernet card (eth0). To > that card is connected a Billion BIPAC-5100 Adsl Router with 4 port > switch. This in turn is connected to an ADSL enabled phone line. The > default ip address of the router is 192.168.1.254. Under Win98SE if I > query the router the LAN side of the connection shows the ip address of > 192.168.1.254 and the WAN side shows the ip address assigned by the ISP. > > Are you saying that I have to assign a static ip address to eth0 equal > to the default ip address of the router? and set ip forwarding in > /etc/sysctl.conf and in /etc/sysconfig/network file to > gateway=192.168.1.254 (the default ip address of the router) rather than > gatewaydev=ppp0? > > I will give that a try and see what happens. > > Thank you for your help. Looks like there's lots of help here, but there are several things that must be set up for DHCP stuff to work. It's easiest to use the "redhat-config-network" tool to set these up, but should you wish to do it manually, the files that are affected are: /etc/sysconfig/network: HOSTNAME=your.host.name NETWORKING=yes /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes /etc/dhclient/dhclient.conf timeout 60; retry 60; reboot 10; select-timeout 5; initial-interval 2; interface "eth0" { request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers; request domain-name-servers; require subnet-mask, routers, domain-name-servers; } Since DHCP requires the help of a DHCP client program (under RH8.0 and 9, this is "dhclient"), you must set up the dhclient.conf file as I show above. Your router must also have its DHCP server bit enabled. The dhclient program actually fetches the IP address, netmask, default route and DNS server data and applies it. If you want to manually set up a fixed IP address, you need to tweak three files: /etc/sysconfig/network: HOSTNAME=your.host.name NETWORKING=yes GATEWAY=192.168.0.254 (the LAN address of your router) /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static ONBOOT=yes IPADDR=192.168.0.1 (or choose one from .1 to .253, inclusive) NETMASK=255.255.255.0 (choose one as appropriate) NETWORK=192.168.0.0 (OPTIONAL -- you really don't need this) BROADCAST=192.168.0.255 (OPTIONAL -- you really don't need this) /etc/resolv.conf: nameserver IPaddress-of-a-DNS-server nameserver IPaddress-of-a-second-DNS-server (OPTIONAL) nameserver IPaddress-of-a-third-DNS-server (OPTIONAL) The "IPaddress-of-a-DNS-server" should be the IP address(es) of your ISP's DNS server(s). These should NOT be addresses in the 192.168 network. To verify that things are set up correctly (regarless of static or DHCP address settings), you should be able to: ifconfig eth0 and see an address in the 192.168.0.something range. It should be "UP" and have a reasonable netmask. Next, netstat -rn should show a line such as: 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 The important bit is the "UG", which indicates your default gateway, and that "192.168.0.254" is the gateway itself. Finally, take a look at /etc/resolv.conf. If things are correct, it should have one or more "nameserver" lines with the IP addresses of the DNS servers you'll use (yes, dhclient will rewrite this file if you use DHCP). If that's all good, you should be able to "dig some-site-name" and get the IP address of the site (proves that DNS is working), and you should be able to ping both your router's LAN IP (in this case, 192.168.0.254) AND it's WAN interface (you'll need to check which address that is with your router). You can also verify the NAT mechanism by visiting: http://www.rhil.net/fancywhatip.html That page will show you which IP you're coming from (it should match the WAN address of your router). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? I don't know. Who cares? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 1 18:16:01 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:16:01 -0700 Subject: Using 120gb USB Drive to Boot Linux In-Reply-To: <4567.192.168.1.1.1085899853.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> References: <40B96F11.9020401@nauticom.net> <4567.192.168.1.1.1085899853.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <40BCC7E1.90906@vitalstream.com> Harold Hallikainen wrote: > I've read that many Intel motherboards will boot from USB. Some day I want > to build a USB raid array! Many motherboards will boot from USB (Intel, ASUS, Gigabyte). IMHO a USB RAID is a silly idea. The performance will be awful, and I sure wouldn't want to trust my active data to anything that can easily be unplugged. It might be an interesting intellectual experiment but singularly useless for real applications. >>I bought a 120 gb USB hard drive. I plugged it in and was pleasantly >>suprised than RH 9 saw the drive (looked at dmesg) and I could easily >>mount it. >> >>I would like to install Red Hat 9 or Fedora Core 2 but neither seem to >>see the USB drive to allow Linux to be installed on it. I see that the >>install process loads a driver for the USB drive but that's about it. When it comes time to partition the hard drive, does disk druid list the USB drive? It'll show up as a SCSI drive (/dev/sda most likely). >>I would love to be able to boot directly from the USB drive or at least >>use a floppy boot disk to start Linux from the USB drive. My new laptop >>(Dec, 2003, Toshiba Satellite) doesn't seem to allow booting from a USB >>drive. (In the bios, I only see PC Card and HDD as choices.) You may have to enable "legacy USB" for it to work and you probably must have the USB drive plugged in at power-up for it to be recognized. Most laptops that have pluggable CD or floppy drives do support USB as a boot medium, but not all. You may have one of the few that don't. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Dyslexics of the world: UNTIE! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 1 18:19:26 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:19:26 -0700 Subject: the RH9.0 server can't boot now with the following error message In-Reply-To: <40BAEDED.1080802@tootai.net> References: <200405310702.i4V72tBe028147@stup8.cei.gov.cn> <40BAEDED.1080802@tootai.net> Message-ID: <40BCC8AE.1090908@vitalstream.com> administrator tootai wrote: > Yan Peng a ?crit : > > >>redhat-install-list: >> >> >>OS: RH 9.0 >>Platform: Dell 2600 >>The server can't boot now with the following messages: >> >>... >>Loading aacraid.o module. >>Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver, Apr. 13, 2004 >>/lib/aacraid.o : init module >>Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO/IRQ parameters. >>Error: /bin/insmod exited abnormally. >> >> > > You have problem with your aacraid.o module i never uses them but I'm > pretty sure that he can't find your root disk. That's the problem. Most problems where any insmod fails (especially if the system used to work) is bad RAM. If you can, try testing your RAM with memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com). I'll bet one of your RAM sticks went bad on you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - There are only 10 kinds of people in the world -- those who - - understand binary and those who don't - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 1 18:29:56 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:29:56 -0700 Subject: Firewall questions I promised you. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40BCCB24.5000607@vitalstream.com> Bruce McDonald wrote: > Hello all, > > I have written my firewall rules using the examples in Linux Firewall Second > Edition by Robert Zeigler. Now, when I run the script I get a couple of > errors. > > One is: > Bad argument `22' > Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. > > This shows up after lines like: > if [ "$CONNECTION_TRACKING" = "1" ]; then > iptables -A local-tcp-client-request -p tcp \ > -d $SSH_CLIENT --dport 22 \ > --syn -m state --state NEW \ > -j ACCEPT > fi > > iptables -A local-tcp-client-request -p tcp \ > -d $SSH_CLIENT --dport 22 \ > -j ACCEPT > > and: > if [ "$CONNECTION_TRACKING" = "1" ]; then > iptables -A remote-tcp-client-request -p tcp \ > -s $SSH_CLIENT --destination-port 22 \ > -m state --state NEW \ > -j ACCEPT > fi > > > iptables -A remote-tcp-client-request -p tcp \ > -s $SSH_CLIENT --destination-port 22 \ > -j ACCEPT > > > I played with the order of the items on the line and did manage to get rid > of Bad argument 22 by moving the (in the trial case I used a destination > port line) --dport22 ahead of the destination itself. This did generate a > different complaint, which I have forgotten in the intervening time. The problem is that some versions of iptables will not accept "--dport" options. It's a bug, but there it is. Make sure you have the latest version of iptables installed. > > So, is there an error in the order of the layout of the iptables lines I > have listed above? No. It's a bug in some versions of iptables. > My next error is: > iptables v1.2.7a: host/network `yahoo.com' not found > Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. > > I assume this means the firewall is halting packets to or from my DNS > server. Yup. > I still have to check a little further into this, I do have rules that are > supposed to allow the traffic. I will post them for your input once I > figure that I don't see anything at all wrong with them. It rather depends on how strict you want your firewall to be regarding DNS. Without seeing the entire iptables setup, I can't comment on what you want to do. However, somewhere near the top of your list you should have something along the lines of: iptables -A INPUT -p udp -port 53 -j ACCEPT This would accept all UDP DNS traffic (remember, 99% of DNS traffic is UDP, not TCP). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - There are only 10 kinds of people in the world -- those who - - understand binary and those who don't - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 1 18:33:21 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:33:21 -0700 Subject: why update fail? In-Reply-To: <010201c447b2$83b64d90$0800a8c0@neucaa1cdfc96a> References: <010201c447b2$83b64d90$0800a8c0@neucaa1cdfc96a> Message-ID: <40BCCBF1.7050406@vitalstream.com> Edward King wrote: > I use Redhat Linux 7.3, I want to update kernel,so I use following commands,but it raise errors: > [root at mail guest]# rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.20-28.7.i686.rpm > error: failed dependencies: > modutils >= 2.4.18 is needed by kernel-2.4.20-28.7 > > Then I guess to update modutils first,like follows,but it still raise errors: > A[root at mail guest]# rpm -ivh modutils-2.4.18-3.7x.i386.rpm > Preparing... ########################################### [100%] > file /sbin/depmod from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /sbin/genksyms from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /sbin/insmod from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /sbin/insmod.static from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /sbin/modinfo from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man1/kernelversion.1.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man2/create_module.2.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man2/delete_module.2.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man2/get_kernel_syms.2.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man2/init_module.2.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man2/query_module.2.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man5/modules.conf.5.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man8/depmod.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man8/genksyms.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man8/insmod.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man8/kallsyms.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man8/ksyms.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man8/lsmod.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man8/modinfo.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man8/modprobe.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man8/rmmod.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.18-3.7x conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > > Any I try another modutiles,it still failed: > [root at mail guest]# rpm -ivh modutils-2.4.20-1.i386.rpm > Preparing... ########################################### [100%] > file /sbin/depmod from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /sbin/genksyms from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /sbin/insmod from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /sbin/insmod.static from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /sbin/modinfo from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man1/kernelversion.1.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man2/create_module.2.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man2/delete_module.2.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man2/get_kernel_syms.2.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man2/init_module.2.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man2/query_module.2.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man5/modules.conf.5.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man8/depmod.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man8/genksyms.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man8/insmod.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man8/kallsyms.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man8/ksyms.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man8/lsmod.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man8/modinfo.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man8/modprobe.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > file /usr/share/man/man8/rmmod.8.gz from install of modutils-2.4.20-1 conflicts with file from package modutils-2.4.14-3 > > > How to solve this problem? It looks like someone screwed up the dependency lists. You can do a forced update of modutils: rpm -ivh --force modutils-2.4.20-1.i386.rpm Then you can do the kernel update. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To err is human, to moo bovine. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From ajai at bway.net Tue Jun 1 18:43:58 2004 From: ajai at bway.net (Ajai Khattri) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 14:43:58 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Firewall questions I promised you. In-Reply-To: <40BCCB24.5000607@vitalstream.com> References: <40BCCB24.5000607@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > > The problem is that some versions of iptables will not accept "--dport" > options. It's a bug, but there it is. Make sure you have the latest > version of iptables installed. > IIRC, that option is provided by an iptables module - if you dont have that installed it wont work. -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 1 18:41:15 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:41:15 -0700 Subject: fedora core 2 kbrd change question In-Reply-To: <0DC1C1F0573FDD4E8980A826387CFC960C20E7@skola02.skola.local> References: <0DC1C1F0573FDD4E8980A826387CFC960C20E7@skola02.skola.local> Message-ID: <40BCCDCB.6000500@vitalstream.com> Adrian Suri wrote: > During the FC2 install, there is a couple of real nice dialog boxes > asking the kbrd layout and the additional kbrd layouts. Really nice... > but > I did not install an additional kbrd layout that I need... thought I'd > install it later on. And there is absolutely no way of doing that =) > Any advice? I really don't want to reinstall the whole thing just > because I need an extra kbrd layout > Please help I don't have my FC2 system up right at the moment, but I believe you can run "system-config-keyboard" and select the keymap you want. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - The gene pool could use a little chlorine. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 1 18:44:30 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:44:30 -0700 Subject: help: cups printing In-Reply-To: <000001c447e3$f72a2860$0301a8c0@ltsp> References: <000001c447e3$f72a2860$0301a8c0@ltsp> Message-ID: <40BCCE8E.6080002@vitalstream.com> roland brouwers wrote: > I have something strange going on > I use cups printing > The instruction I use is : lpr -P prit02 XXXXXX > prit02 is the name of the printer and the listing goes to a printserver > of d-link (DP-300U) > The listing is produced endlessly. I mean: if the listing is 50 pages, > he wil produce 50 pages and restarts the listing a second time. > If I do the same thing under MSwindows the listing is correct. > > What do I miss here. Have you checked your printer settings and made sure you didn't set the queue to print multiple copies? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Is that a buffer overflow or are you just happy to see me? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gnichols at tpg.com.au Wed Jun 2 02:34:39 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 02 Jun 2004 12:34:39 +1000 Subject: IP accounting or calculating the number of bytes received from Internet Message-ID: <1086143682.1339.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Hi Rick, I have my ADSL connection up and running, I have everything except mail and browsing blocked in my firewall, using Lokkit, and have Tripwire running. Do you know if there is a package out there that would keep track of the cumulative total of bytes received over my Internet Connection? I don't think Ethereal is able to count bytes cumulatively. Also, do you thing it advantageous to use Logsentry and Portsentry to keep tabs on things? -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols Public Key available from http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/#extract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Memory fault - where am I? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - IMPORTANT. - - The contents of this email and any attachments, which may be con- - - fidential, are sent for the personal attention of the addressee/s - - only. If you receive this email and are not the intended addressee - - please inform the sender and delete this email immediately. Use, - - copying, disclosure or forwarding of the contents of this email - - and/or any attachment/s is not authourised. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It's easiest to use the > "redhat-config-network" tool to set these up, but should you wish to do > it manually, the files that are affected are: > > /etc/sysconfig/network: > > HOSTNAME=your.host.name > NETWORKING=yes > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: > > DEVICE=eth0 > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > ONBOOT=yes > > /etc/dhclient/dhclient.conf > > timeout 60; > retry 60; > reboot 10; > select-timeout 5; > initial-interval 2; > > interface "eth0" { > request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers; > request domain-name-servers; > require subnet-mask, routers, domain-name-servers; > } > > Since DHCP requires the help of a DHCP client program (under RH8.0 and > 9, this is "dhclient"), you must set up the dhclient.conf file as I show > above. Your router must also have its DHCP server bit enabled. The > dhclient program actually fetches the IP address, netmask, default route > and DNS server data and applies it. > > If you want to manually set up a fixed IP address, you need to tweak > three files: > > /etc/sysconfig/network: > > HOSTNAME=your.host.name > NETWORKING=yes > GATEWAY=192.168.0.254 (the LAN address of your router) > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: > > DEVICE=eth0 > BOOTPROTO=static > ONBOOT=yes > IPADDR=192.168.0.1 (or choose one from .1 to .253, inclusive) > NETMASK=255.255.255.0 (choose one as appropriate) > NETWORK=192.168.0.0 (OPTIONAL -- you really don't need this) > BROADCAST=192.168.0.255 (OPTIONAL -- you really don't need this) > > /etc/resolv.conf: > nameserver IPaddress-of-a-DNS-server > nameserver IPaddress-of-a-second-DNS-server (OPTIONAL) > nameserver IPaddress-of-a-third-DNS-server (OPTIONAL) > > The "IPaddress-of-a-DNS-server" should be the IP address(es) of your > ISP's DNS server(s). These should NOT be addresses in the 192.168 > network. > > To verify that things are set up correctly (regarless of static or DHCP > address settings), you should be able to: > > ifconfig eth0 > > and see an address in the 192.168.0.something range. It should be "UP" > and have a reasonable netmask. Next, > > netstat -rn > > should show a line such as: > > 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 > > The important bit is the "UG", which indicates your default gateway, and > that "192.168.0.254" is the gateway itself. Finally, take a look at > /etc/resolv.conf. If things are correct, it should have one or more > "nameserver" lines with the IP addresses of the DNS servers you'll use > (yes, dhclient will rewrite this file if you use DHCP). > > If that's all good, you should be able to "dig some-site-name" and get > the IP address of the site (proves that DNS is working), and you should > be able to ping both your router's LAN IP (in this case, 192.168.0.254) > AND it's WAN interface (you'll need to check which address that is with > your router). You can also verify the NAT mechanism by visiting: > > http://www.rhil.net/fancywhatip.html > > That page will show you which IP you're coming from (it should match the > WAN address of your router). > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? I don't know. Who cares? - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > Hi Rick, Everything seems to be working just fine. I didn't set up DHCP but everything else is as you said. I sent an email to you and the mailing list asking about a couple of other things I need your expertise on. I hope I'm not being too much of a nuisance. 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Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From brucemcdonal at mindspring.com Wed Jun 2 06:44:48 2004 From: brucemcdonal at mindspring.com (Bruce McDonald) Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 22:44:48 -0800 Subject: Firewall questions I promised you. In-Reply-To: <40BC4E8D.8050404@ion.le.ac.uk> Message-ID: Hello Nigel On 01-Jun-04, you wrote: > Bruce McDonald wrote: >> Hello all, >> I have written my firewall rules using the examples in Linux Firewall >> Second Edition by Robert Zeigler. Now, when I run the script I get a >> couple of errors. >> One is: >> Bad argument `22' >> Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. >> This shows up after lines like: >> if [ "$CONNECTION_TRACKING" = "1" ]; then >> iptables -A local-tcp-client-request -p tcp \ >> -d $SSH_CLIENT --dport 22 \ >> --syn -m state --state NEW \ >> -j ACCEPT >> fi > This iptables command works here, provided SSH_CLIENT is set correctly. > What is your setting for SSH_CLIENT? Discovered an ID10T error in my SSH_CLIENT string. It did not get set and therefore the rules with it in did not work. I even missed this when I went through all the errors that occured, I did at least pick up one mistake myself in that pass through. Thank you for steering me back to the culprit. Regards, Bruce McDonald Regards From admin at tootai.net Wed Jun 2 07:18:35 2004 From: admin at tootai.net (administrator tootai) Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 09:18:35 +0200 Subject: IP accounting or calculating the number of bytes received from Internet In-Reply-To: <1086143682.1339.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1086143682.1339.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <40BD7F4B.3070703@tootai.net> Graeme Nichols a ?crit : >Hi Rick, > >I have my ADSL connection up and running, I have everything except mail >and browsing blocked in my firewall, using Lokkit, and have Tripwire >running. Do you know if there is a package out there that would keep >track of the cumulative total of bytes received over my Internet >Connection? I don't think Ethereal is able to count bytes cumulatively. >Also, do you thing it advantageous to use Logsentry and Portsentry to >keep tabs on things? > > /usr/sbin/ifconfig If I remember it's eth0 in your case. RX and TX bytes -- Daniel From admin at tootai.net Wed Jun 2 07:19:48 2004 From: admin at tootai.net (administrator tootai) Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 09:19:48 +0200 Subject: IP accounting or calculating the number of bytes received from Internet In-Reply-To: <1086143682.1339.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1086143682.1339.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <40BD7F94.6010304@tootai.net> Sorry, /sbin/ifconfig ... Graeme Nichols a ?crit : >Hi Rick, > >I have my ADSL connection up and running, I have everything except mail >and browsing blocked in my firewall, using Lokkit, and have Tripwire >running. Do you know if there is a package out there that would keep >track of the cumulative total of bytes received over my Internet >Connection? I don't think Ethereal is able to count bytes cumulatively. >Also, do you thing it advantageous to use Logsentry and Portsentry to >keep tabs on things? > > /usr/sbin/ifconfig If I remember it's eth0 in your case. RX and TX bytes -- Daniel From wralphie at comcast.net Wed Jun 2 10:05:29 2004 From: wralphie at comcast.net (jludwig) Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 06:05:29 -0400 Subject: IP accounting or calculating the number of bytes received from Internet In-Reply-To: <1086143682.1339.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1086143682.1339.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <1086170729.2960.9.camel@jMOD.home> On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 22:34, Graeme Nichols wrote: > Hi Rick, > > I have my ADSL connection up and running, I have everything except mail > and browsing blocked in my firewall, using Lokkit, and have Tripwire > running. Do you know if there is a package out there that would keep > track of the cumulative total of bytes received over my Internet > Connection? I don't think Ethereal is able to count bytes cumulatively. > Also, do you thing it advantageous to use Logsentry and Portsentry to > keep tabs on things? The firewall iptables keeps track of everything passing each rule. This allows you to see - not only the number of packets and bytes that get though - all the data. To view the information For an hourly cumulative file in your crontab file 0 0-23 * * * iptables -v -n -L >> 'your file name and location' -- jludwig From roland at cat.be Wed Jun 2 11:10:47 2004 From: roland at cat.be (roland brouwers) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:10:47 +0200 Subject: help: cups printing In-Reply-To: <40BCCE8E.6080002@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <001b01c44892$41dc2cb0$61323296@ltsp> The setting is standard and raw-mode, no driver, because I use my own driver. When the listing is short, execution is normal. Roland Brouwers roland at cat.be -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: dinsdag 1 juni 2004 19:45 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: help: cups printing roland brouwers wrote: > I have something strange going on > I use cups printing > The instruction I use is : lpr -P prit02 XXXXXX > prit02 is the name of the printer and the listing goes to a > printserver > of d-link (DP-300U) > The listing is produced endlessly. I mean: if the listing is 50 pages, > he wil produce 50 pages and restarts the listing a second time. > If I do the same thing under MSwindows the listing is correct. > > What do I miss here. Have you checked your printer settings and made sure you didn't set the queue to print multiple copies? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Is that a buffer overflow or are you just happy to see me? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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 knowredhat at yahoo.com Wed Jun 2 12:34:11 2004 From: knowredhat at yahoo.com (abdulahad shaikh) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 05:34:11 -0700 (PDT) Subject: rncd error Message-ID: <20040602123412.10232.qmail@web90104.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Hello every bofy I am recieveing the rncd error please help me out thnaking in advance abdul ahad __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ From brucemcdonal at mindspring.com Wed Jun 2 07:05:30 2004 From: brucemcdonal at mindspring.com (Bruce McDonald) Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 23:05:30 -0800 Subject: Firewall questions I promised you. In-Reply-To: <40BCCB24.5000607@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: Hello Rick On 01-Jun-04, you wrote: > Bruce McDonald wrote: >> Hello all, >> I have written my firewall rules using the examples in Linux Firewall >> Second Edition by Robert Zeigler. Now, when I run the script I get a >> couple of errors. >> One is: >> Bad argument `22' >> Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. >> This shows up after lines like: >> if [ "$CONNECTION_TRACKING" = "1" ]; then >> iptables -A local-tcp-client-request -p tcp \ >> -d $SSH_CLIENT --dport 22 \ >> --syn -m state --state NEW \ >> -j ACCEPT >> fi >> iptables -A local-tcp-client-request -p tcp \ >> -d $SSH_CLIENT --dport 22 \ >> -j ACCEPT >> and: >> if [ "$CONNECTION_TRACKING" = "1" ]; then >> iptables -A remote-tcp-client-request -p tcp \ >> -s $SSH_CLIENT --destination-port 22 \ >> -m state --state NEW \ >> -j ACCEPT >> fi >> iptables -A remote-tcp-client-request -p tcp \ >> -s $SSH_CLIENT --destination-port 22 \ >> -j ACCEPT >> I played with the order of the items on the line and did manage to get >> rid of Bad argument 22 by moving the (in the trial case I used a >> destination port line) --dport22 ahead of the destination itself. This >> did generate a different complaint, which I have forgotten in the >> intervening time. > The problem is that some versions of iptables will not accept "--dport" > options. It's a bug, but there it is. Make sure you have the latest > version of iptables installed. >> >> So, is there an error in the order of the layout of the iptables lines I >> have listed above? > No. It's a bug in some versions of iptables. >> My next error is: >> iptables v1.2.7a: host/network `yahoo.com' not found >> Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. >> >> I assume this means the firewall is halting packets to or from my DNS >> server. > Yup. >> I still have to check a little further into this, I do have rules that >> are supposed to allow the traffic. I will post them for your input once I >> figure that I don't see anything at all wrong with them. > It rather depends on how strict you want your firewall to be regarding > DNS. Without seeing the entire iptables setup, I can't comment on what > you want to do. However, somewhere near the top of your list you should > have something along the lines of: > iptables -A INPUT -p udp -port 53 -j ACCEPT > This would accept all UDP DNS traffic (remember, 99% of DNS traffic is > UDP, not TCP). The rules for DNS are near the start of the chains after a couple of bogus packet checks. They are before any rules that require a lookup as far as I can tell. Here are the DNS rules: ############################################################### # DNS Caching Name Server (query to remote, primary server) iptables -A EXT-output -p udp --sport 53 --dport 53 \ -j local-dns-server-query iptables -A EXT-input -p udp --sport 53 --dport 53 \ -j remote-dns-server-response # DNS Caching Name Server (query to remote server over TCP) iptables -A EXT-output -p tcp \ --sport $UNPRIVPORTS --dport 53 \ -j local-dns-server-query iptables -A EXT-input -p tcp ! --syn \ --sport 53 --dport $UNPRIVPORTS \ -j remote-dns-server-response ############################################################### # DNS Fowarding Name Server or client requests if [ "$CONNECTION_TRACKING" = "1" ]; then iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ -d $NAMESERVER_1 \ -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ -d $NAMESERVER_2 \ -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ -d $NAMESERVER_3 \ -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ -d $NAMESERVER_4 \ -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT fi iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ -d $NAMESERVER_1 -j ACCEPT iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ -d $NAMESERVER_2 -j ACCEPT iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ -d $NAMESERVER_3 -j ACCEPT iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ -d $NAMESERVER_4 -j ACCEPT # DNS server responses to local requests iptables -A remote-dns-server-response \ -s $NAMESERVER_1 -j ACCEPT iptables -A remote-dns-server-response \ -s $NAMESERVER_2 -j ACCEPT iptables -A remote-dns-server-response \ -s $NAMESERVER_3 -j ACCEPT iptables -A remote-dns-server-response \ -s $NAMESERVER_4 -j ACCEPT If you want to see the full ruleset from the book that I modified to fit my environment, it can be found at http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com/ftp/firewall/optimized.firewall.2 Regards, Bruce McDonald From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 2 16:25:25 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 09:25:25 -0700 Subject: Configuring RH8 to use an ADSL Modem/Router In-Reply-To: <1086144784.1508.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <40B97571.9080208@tpg.com.au> <40B9B994.4040903@tootai.net> <40BACAC3.9040604@tpg.com.au> <40BCC5DE.5030108@vitalstream.com> <1086144784.1508.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <40BDFF75.7080708@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 04:07, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: > > > >>>Thank you for your help. >> >>Looks like there's lots of help here, but there are several things that >>must be set up for DHCP stuff to work. It's easiest to use the >>"redhat-config-network" tool to set these up, but should you wish to do >>it manually, the files that are affected are: >> >>/etc/sysconfig/network: >> >> HOSTNAME=your.host.name >> NETWORKING=yes >> >>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: >> >> DEVICE=eth0 >> BOOTPROTO=dhcp >> ONBOOT=yes >> >>/etc/dhclient/dhclient.conf >> >> timeout 60; >> retry 60; >> reboot 10; >> select-timeout 5; >> initial-interval 2; >> >> interface "eth0" { >> request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers; >> request domain-name-servers; >> require subnet-mask, routers, domain-name-servers; >> } >> >>Since DHCP requires the help of a DHCP client program (under RH8.0 and >>9, this is "dhclient"), you must set up the dhclient.conf file as I show >>above. Your router must also have its DHCP server bit enabled. The >>dhclient program actually fetches the IP address, netmask, default route >>and DNS server data and applies it. >> >>If you want to manually set up a fixed IP address, you need to tweak >>three files: >> >>/etc/sysconfig/network: >> >> HOSTNAME=your.host.name >> NETWORKING=yes >> GATEWAY=192.168.0.254 (the LAN address of your router) >> >>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: >> >> DEVICE=eth0 >> BOOTPROTO=static >> ONBOOT=yes >> IPADDR=192.168.0.1 (or choose one from .1 to .253, inclusive) >> NETMASK=255.255.255.0 (choose one as appropriate) >> NETWORK=192.168.0.0 (OPTIONAL -- you really don't need this) >> BROADCAST=192.168.0.255 (OPTIONAL -- you really don't need this) >> >>/etc/resolv.conf: >> nameserver IPaddress-of-a-DNS-server >> nameserver IPaddress-of-a-second-DNS-server (OPTIONAL) >> nameserver IPaddress-of-a-third-DNS-server (OPTIONAL) >> >>The "IPaddress-of-a-DNS-server" should be the IP address(es) of your >>ISP's DNS server(s). These should NOT be addresses in the 192.168 >>network. >> >>To verify that things are set up correctly (regarless of static or DHCP >>address settings), you should be able to: >> >> ifconfig eth0 >> >>and see an address in the 192.168.0.something range. It should be "UP" >>and have a reasonable netmask. Next, >> >> netstat -rn >> >>should show a line such as: >> >> 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 >> >>The important bit is the "UG", which indicates your default gateway, and >>that "192.168.0.254" is the gateway itself. Finally, take a look at >>/etc/resolv.conf. If things are correct, it should have one or more >>"nameserver" lines with the IP addresses of the DNS servers you'll use >>(yes, dhclient will rewrite this file if you use DHCP). >> >>If that's all good, you should be able to "dig some-site-name" and get >>the IP address of the site (proves that DNS is working), and you should >>be able to ping both your router's LAN IP (in this case, 192.168.0.254) >>AND it's WAN interface (you'll need to check which address that is with >>your router). You can also verify the NAT mechanism by visiting: >> >> http://www.rhil.net/fancywhatip.html >> >>That page will show you which IP you're coming from (it should match the >>WAN address of your router). >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >>- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >>- - >>- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? I don't know. Who cares? - >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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 >> > > > Hi Rick, Everything seems to be working just fine. I didn't set up DHCP > but everything else is as you said. I sent an email to you and the > mailing list asking about a couple of other things I need your expertise > on. I hope I'm not being too much of a nuisance. No, you're fine. Some times I get rather busy and can't answer right away. As long as the members of the list know and understand that, we're fine. > Thank you very much for all your help in this matter. "That's what we're here for!" (c)2004, Red Hat Install List ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Heisenberg _may_ have slept here - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 2 16:31:02 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 09:31:02 -0700 Subject: help: cups printing In-Reply-To: <001b01c44892$41dc2cb0$61323296@ltsp> References: <001b01c44892$41dc2cb0$61323296@ltsp> Message-ID: <40BE00C6.7070007@vitalstream.com> roland brouwers wrote: > The setting is standard and raw-mode, no driver, because I use my own > driver. > When the listing is short, execution is normal. That sounds like a problem with the driver. When you say "I use my own driver," do you mean you wrote it? If so, you'll have to debug it. If you're using a supplied driver, I'd contact the author and discuss the issue with him or her. Try to tie down the specific trip point (number of pages, number of bytes, etc.) That will help the debugging process. Oh, and we prefer bottom-posting on this list. > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick > Stevens > Sent: dinsdag 1 juni 2004 19:45 > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: help: cups printing > > > roland brouwers wrote: > >>I have something strange going on >>I use cups printing >>The instruction I use is : lpr -P prit02 XXXXXX >>prit02 is the name of the printer and the listing goes to a >>printserver >>of d-link (DP-300U) >>The listing is produced endlessly. I mean: if the listing is 50 pages, > > >>he wil produce 50 pages and restarts the listing a second time. >>If I do the same thing under MSwindows the listing is correct. >> >>What do I miss here. > > > Have you checked your printer settings and made sure you didn't set the > queue to print multiple copies? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Is that a buffer overflow or are you just happy to see me? - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 - - - - There are only 10 kinds of people in the world -- those who - - understand binary and those who don't - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 2 16:32:44 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 09:32:44 -0700 Subject: rncd error In-Reply-To: <20040602123412.10232.qmail@web90104.mail.scd.yahoo.com> References: <20040602123412.10232.qmail@web90104.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40BE012C.1030002@vitalstream.com> abdulahad shaikh wrote: > Hello every bofy > > I am recieveing the rncd error please help me out What "rncd error"? What do you mean? More data, please. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 gnichols at tpg.com.au Thu Jun 3 03:22:35 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 03 Jun 2004 13:22:35 +1000 Subject: IP accounting or calculating the number of bytes received from Internet In-Reply-To: <40BD7F4B.3070703@tootai.net> References: <1086143682.1339.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40BD7F4B.3070703@tootai.net> Message-ID: <1086232957.1256.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 17:18, administrator tootai wrote: > Graeme Nichols a ?crit : > > >Hi Rick, > > > >I have my ADSL connection up and running, I have everything except mail > >and browsing blocked in my firewall, using Lokkit, and have Tripwire > >running. Do you know if there is a package out there that would keep > >track of the cumulative total of bytes received over my Internet > >Connection? I don't think Ethereal is able to count bytes cumulatively. > >Also, do you thing it advantageous to use Logsentry and Portsentry to > >keep tabs on things? > > > > > /usr/sbin/ifconfig If I remember it's eth0 in your case. RX and > TX bytes > > -- > Daniel Hi Daniel, thank you very much. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols Public Key available from http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/#extract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: What do you call the money you pay to the government when you ride into the country on the back of an elephant? A: A howdah duty. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - IMPORTANT. - - The contents of this email and any attachments, which may be con- - - fidential, are sent for the personal attention of the addressee/s - - only. 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I don't think Ethereal is able to count bytes cumulatively. > > Also, do you thing it advantageous to use Logsentry and Portsentry to > > keep tabs on things? > The firewall iptables keeps track of everything passing each rule. > This allows you to see - not only the number of packets and bytes that > get though - all the data. > > To view the information > > For an hourly cumulative file in your crontab file > > 0 0-23 * * * iptables -v -n -L >> 'your file name and location' > -- > jludwig Hi Ludwig (if I have your name wrong, please excuse me), thank you very much for your help. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols Public Key available from http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/#extract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: What do you call the money you pay to the government when you ride into the country on the back of an elephant? 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Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From gnichols at tpg.com.au Thu Jun 3 03:44:53 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 03 Jun 2004 13:44:53 +1000 Subject: Configuring RH8 to use an ADSL Modem/Router In-Reply-To: <40BDFF75.7080708@vitalstream.com> References: <40B97571.9080208@tpg.com.au> <40B9B994.4040903@tootai.net> <40BACAC3.9040604@tpg.com.au> <40BCC5DE.5030108@vitalstream.com> <1086144784.1508.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40BDFF75.7080708@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1086234295.1393.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 02:25, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 04:07, Rick Stevens wrote: > > but everything else is as you said. I sent an email to you and the > > mailing list asking about a couple of other things I need your expertise > > on. I hope I'm not being too much of a nuisance. > > No, you're fine. Some times I get rather busy and can't answer right > away. As long as the members of the list know and understand that, > we're fine. We all understand that Rick. You obviously spend a great deal of your personal time answering our questions here on the list and passing on your experience and knowledge. We all appreciate that very much. I certainly do. I try and sort things out for myself before I ask but sometimes I miss the bleeding obvious and ask some dumb questions. But I am learning :-) -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols Public Key available from http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/#extract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: What do you call the money you pay to the government when you ride into the country on the back of an elephant? 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I've upped the number of httpd processes, but I'm not very familiar with Apache v2.0.40-8 (SSL settings from my old version failed so nicely that I had to disable it by renaming ~/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf) In any case, Squirrelmail was quite quick, and still is during off-peak times, but is now intolerably slow. Help? -- Karl Pearson karlp at ourldsfamily.com http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com http://emailgroups.ourldsfamily.com If you don't think the dead come back to life, Be here at quitting time -- My Thoughts on Terrorism In America: http://www.ourldsfamily.com/wtc.shtml -- A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. -- Ramsey Clark From zhangsc at neusoft.com Thu Jun 3 07:31:36 2004 From: zhangsc at neusoft.com (Edward King) Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 15:31:36 +0800 Subject: How to determine update kernel if success? 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URL: From roland at cat.be Thu Jun 3 07:37:38 2004 From: roland at cat.be (roland brouwers) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 09:37:38 +0200 Subject: help: cups printing In-Reply-To: <40BE00C6.7070007@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <001501c4493d$a56c7e00$a811f751@ltsp> > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick > Stevens > Sent: dinsdag 1 juni 2004 19:45 > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: help: cups printing > > > roland brouwers wrote: > >>I have something strange going on >>I use cups printing >>The instruction I use is : lpr -P prit02 XXXXXX >>prit02 is the name of the printer and the listing goes to a >>printserver >>of d-link (DP-300U) >>The listing is produced endlessly. I mean: if the listing is 50 pages, > > >>he wil produce 50 pages and restarts the listing a second time. If I >>do the same thing under MSwindows the listing is correct. >> >>What do I miss here. > > > Have you checked your printer settings and made sure you didn't set > the queue to print multiple copies? -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: woensdag 2 juni 2004 17:31 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: help: cups printing roland brouwers wrote: > The setting is standard and raw-mode, no driver, because I use my own > driver. When the listing is short, execution is normal. That sounds like a problem with the driver. When you say "I use my own driver," do you mean you wrote it? If so, you'll have to debug it. If you're using a supplied driver, I'd contact the author and discuss the issue with him or her. Try to tie down the specific trip point (number of pages, number of bytes, etc.) That will help the debugging process. Oh, and we prefer bottom-posting on this list. ------------------------- This driver works already 10 years on SCO systems He does the same thing with 2 different drivers, laserjet5 and oki320-Microline-needleprinter The same driver works with MSWindows. I configured the printers on WinXpPro and skipped Linux (transparent printing on a terminalemulator).It worked. The strange thing is that it prints exactly 2 times, without losing anything. I had the same problem on another installation. Couldn't there be some kind of setting where the spooler resends the printing, when he thinks the printing was not correct? Or can it be that the printing is to fast? (I print in charactermode, so it is very fast) I never had this problem with SCO, where offcourse CUPS is not used but lpd. Probably like always I will be the only one in this world to have this problem. I still thank you for the prompt reaction. roland From yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn Thu Jun 3 07:41:07 2004 From: yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn (Yan Peng) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 15:41:07 +0800 Subject: How to lock an userid on RH9.0 ? Message-ID: <200406030742.i537fxi5005959@mx1.redhat.com> redhat-install-list: On Solaris I can use the command "passwd -l username" to lock this user to login the server. Which command can be used on RH 9.0 ? Thanks. Yan Peng yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn 2004-06-03 From yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn Thu Jun 3 07:50:00 2004 From: yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn (Yan Peng) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 15:50:00 +0800 Subject: How can I set RH 9.0 server mount a directory of WIN 2000 Server? Message-ID: <200406030750.i537ooi5008828@mx1.redhat.com> redhat-install-list: I'd like to set my RH9.0 server mount one folder of the WIN2000 server. This folder has been shared by WIN 2000 server, then what should I do ? Thanks. Yan Peng yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn 2004-06-03 From jonathan.share at syngenta.com Thu Jun 3 07:48:20 2004 From: jonathan.share at syngenta.com (jonathan.share at syngenta.com) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 03:48:20 -0400 Subject: How to lock an userid on RH9.0 ? Message-ID: > -----Original Message----- > From: Yan Peng [mailto:yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn] > redhat-install-list: > > On Solaris I can use the command "passwd -l username" > to lock this user to login the server. Which command can be > used on RH 9.0 ? > Thanks. Exactly the same is valid on my fedora install. "man passwd" shows that the -l parameter locks the account. surely as an existing Solaris user would know how to RTFM! HTH Jon > > > > Yan Peng > yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn > 2004-06-03 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 jonathan.share at syngenta.com Thu Jun 3 08:10:52 2004 From: jonathan.share at syngenta.com (jonathan.share at syngenta.com) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 04:10:52 -0400 Subject: How can I set RH 9.0 server mount a directory of WIN 2000 Ser ver? Message-ID: > -----Original Message----- > From: Yan Peng [mailto:yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn] > redhat-install-list: > > I'd like to set my RH9.0 server mount one folder of > the WIN2000 server. This folder has been shared by WIN 2000 > server, then what should I do ? > Thanks. > Assuming samba is configured correctly mount //hostname/sharename /mnt/mountpoint should do the trick. For something more permanent you need to edit your /etc/fstab file with the appropriate entries. HTH Jon > > > Yan Peng > yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn > 2004-06-03 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn Thu Jun 3 08:46:22 2004 From: yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn (Yan Peng) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 16:46:22 +0800 Subject: Why can't I mount a smbfs of win 2k server on RH9.0? Message-ID: <200406030847.i538lDi5024377@mx1.redhat.com> redhat-install-list: I run the command : mount -t smbfs -o username=test,password=test //TEST/test /mnt But got the error messages: 3833: session request to TEST failed (Called name not present) What's wrong with my settings? Thank you very much! Yan Peng yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn 2004-06-03 From jonathan.share at syngenta.com Thu Jun 3 09:03:54 2004 From: jonathan.share at syngenta.com (jonathan.share at syngenta.com) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 05:03:54 -0400 Subject: Why can't I mount a smbfs of win 2k server on RH9.0? Message-ID: > -----Original Message----- > From: Yan Peng [mailto:yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn] > redhat-install-list: > > I run the command : > > mount -t smbfs -o username=test,password=test //TEST/test /mnt > > But got the error messages: > > 3833: session request to TEST failed (Called name not present) > > What's wrong with my settings? > > Thank you very much! > Did you really name a host on your network TEST? I find this hard to believe as I assume from your email address that this is not a home installation. First of all try "smbclient -L TEST". If this fails to propmt you for a password, and from your error message I guess it will, it looks like you need to edit your smb.conf file. The entry that is probably causing your problem is the WORKGROUP= entry. Set this to the workgroup/domain name (Note: that is windows domain NOT dns domain) used by the windows box and try again. HTH Jon > > > > Yan Peng > yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn > 2004-06-03 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Thu Jun 3 13:54:18 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 08:54:18 -0500 Subject: How to lock an userid on RH9.0 ? In-Reply-To: <200406030742.i537fxi5005959@mx1.redhat.com> References: <200406030742.i537fxi5005959@mx1.redhat.com> Message-ID: <20040603135418.GA12390@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:41:07PM +0800, Yan Peng wrote: > redhat-install-list: > > On Solaris I can use the command "passwd -l username" to lock this user to login the server. Which command can be used on RH 9.0 ? > Thanks. usermod -L username "man usermod" for more info. > Yan Peng > yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn > 2004-06-03 Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com The best things in life aren't things. From ajai at bway.net Thu Jun 3 13:59:53 2004 From: ajai at bway.net (Ajai Khattri) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 09:59:53 -0400 (EDT) Subject: How to determine update kernel if success? In-Reply-To: <031d01c4493d$40d24010$0800a8c0@neucaa1cdfc96a> References: <031d01c4493d$40d24010$0800a8c0@neucaa1cdfc96a> Message-ID: On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Edward King wrote: > I use Linux 7.3 ,and I update the kernel,use following commands: > #rpm -Uvh modutils-2.4.18-3.7x.i386.rpm > #rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.20-28.7.i686.rpm > Then I restart my computer (single CPU), I found linux creates three directories in /lib/modules,they are 2.4.18-3, 2.4.20-28.7 and 2.4.18-3smp ,there is many files in them,but there is a flicker red "build" in every directory of them. I want to know if I update kernel of Linux is success? Look in /boot - is the new kernel there? Also run "uname -a" and see if you are running the new kernel. If you are, and everything is working then the update was OK. (Each kernel has its own set of modules - hence the extra directories in /lib/modules - this is normal). -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer From diogenes at vgernet.net Thu Jun 3 14:51:28 2004 From: diogenes at vgernet.net (Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.) Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:51:28 -0400 Subject: How can I set RH 9.0 server mount a directory of WIN 2000 Server? In-Reply-To: <200406030750.i537ooi5008828@mx1.redhat.com> References: <200406030750.i537ooi5008828@mx1.redhat.com> Message-ID: On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 15:50:00 +0800, Yan Peng wrote: > redhat-install-list: > > I'd like to set my RH9.0 server mount one folder of the WIN2000 > server. This folder has been shared by WIN 2000 server, then what should > I do ? > Thanks. > > > > Yan Peng > yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn > 2004-06-03 > What works for me on Windows 2000 Professional is: smbmount //computer/sharedirectory /mnt/localname You will be asked for the Windows 2000 share password. My windows computer is named xenodochy and my shared directory using IIS is wwwroot smbmount //xenodochy/wwwroot /mnt/wwwroot After completion, "ls /mnt/wwwroot" lists the contents of the windows machine shared directory. -- Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr. http://www.xenodochy.org/ralph.html 191 White Oaks Road Williamstown, MA 01267-2259 Phone: 413-458-3597 Home pages: http://www.xenodochy.org http://www.ballroomdances.org ------------------------------------------------------- FIGHT SPAM http://www.xenodochy.org/diogenes/antispam.html (If you are thinking about collecting my email address, read the above page first!) -------------------------------------------------------- Keep our semantic environments and cyberspace clean. 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. From stuart.willis at willdata.com Thu Jun 3 15:32:25 2004 From: stuart.willis at willdata.com (Stuart Willis) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 16:32:25 +0100 Subject: Disk usage Question Message-ID: <7BD0E6B9ED373F4F80AC1AD076B505AA15C9C6@companyweb> Hi All, I'm about to install Linux on a Z/Frame 390 processor that has triple density 3390's, is it possible to define a complete 3390 to Linux, then partition the disk (using Disk Druid) for the disk needed to run Linux, so that Linux can be either run Natively or under VM. Sorry if this a Daft question only I'm A VM/ZOS sysprog and have little experience of Linux. Regards Stuart. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 3 16:30:22 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 09:30:22 -0700 Subject: Configuring RH8 to use an ADSL Modem/Router In-Reply-To: <1086234295.1393.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <40B97571.9080208@tpg.com.au> <40B9B994.4040903@tootai.net> <40BACAC3.9040604@tpg.com.au> <40BCC5DE.5030108@vitalstream.com> <1086144784.1508.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40BDFF75.7080708@vitalstream.com> <1086234295.1393.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <40BF521E.4050108@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 02:25, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: >> >>>On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 04:07, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >>>but everything else is as you said. I sent an email to you and the >>>mailing list asking about a couple of other things I need your expertise >>>on. I hope I'm not being too much of a nuisance. >> >>No, you're fine. Some times I get rather busy and can't answer right >>away. As long as the members of the list know and understand that, >>we're fine. > > > We all understand that Rick. You obviously spend a great deal of your > personal time answering our questions here on the list and passing on > your experience and knowledge. We all appreciate that very much. I > certainly do. I try and sort things out for myself before I ask but > sometimes I miss the bleeding obvious and ask some dumb questions. But I > am learning :-) Yes, the world of money does command my attention at times. :-) My bosses are quite understanding about my devotion to the list and don't squawk too much, but they do have priority over my time. As far as dumb questions, the only dumb question is the one that's not asked. It's always best to try to find the answer on your own, but when that fails you _have_ to ask someone or you'll never get it resolved. Ok, enough pontificating. And thanks for the private thank you note. It's extremely nice to know you're appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Millihelen, adj: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 3 16:34:27 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 09:34:27 -0700 Subject: RH v8.0 Performance In-Reply-To: <24451.198.60.114.90.1086234275.squirrel@198.60.114.90> References: <24451.198.60.114.90.1086234275.squirrel@198.60.114.90> Message-ID: <40BF5313.3070707@vitalstream.com> Karl Pearson wrote: > Howdy Esteemed Ones: > > I've completed the install/upgrade of my RHv8.0 email/web(...) server with > ClamAV, Spamassassin, Majordomo, Apache, Squirrelmail, etc. > > Performance was great until I got Spamassassin going. The box has a single > P-III, 800 Mgz CPU and 512MB Ram... The thing passed 11,300+ emails > through in the past 30 hours. > > The main issue is Squirrelmail. I've upped the number of httpd processes, > but I'm not very familiar with Apache v2.0.40-8 (SSL settings from my old > version failed so nicely that I had to disable it by renaming > ~/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf) > > In any case, Squirrelmail was quite quick, and still is during off-peak > times, but is now intolerably slow. Have you done a "top" to see which processes are sucking up the CPU? Those are the ones to tweak. Note that spamassassin can be a real CPU hog (perl often is)--expecially if you have large corpuses to go through for spam classification. I'm not saying that's the culprit, but our systems use bogofilter (written in C). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "OK, so you're a Ph.D. Just don't TOUCH anything!" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 3 16:40:03 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 09:40:03 -0700 Subject: How to determine update kernel if success? In-Reply-To: <031d01c4493d$40d24010$0800a8c0@neucaa1cdfc96a> References: <031d01c4493d$40d24010$0800a8c0@neucaa1cdfc96a> Message-ID: <40BF5463.9050502@vitalstream.com> Edward King wrote: > I use Linux 7.3 ,and I update the kernel,use following commands: > #rpm -Uvh modutils-2.4.18-3.7x.i386.rpm > #rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.20-28.7.i686.rpm > Then I restart my computer (single CPU), I found linux creates three > directories in /lib/modules,they are 2.4.18-3, 2.4.20-28.7 and > 2.4.18-3smp ,there is many files in them,but there is a flicker red > "build" in every directory of them. I want to know if I update kernel > of Linux is success? Each "/lib/modules" directory is named after a version of the kernel you've installed and contains the kernel modules (drivers, filesystems, etc.) for that specific kernel. The situation you describe is normal. The flashing red "build" is a symbolic link to the kernel source directory that corresponds to the kernel build. The "ls" command will cause symlinks with non-existent targets to flash. Since you haven't installed the kernel source RPMs, those symlinks will flash. If you were to "rpm -ivh kernel-source-whatever.rpm", you'd find the symlinks will stop blinking, since the target of the symbolic link now exists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "OK, so you're a Ph.D. Just don't TOUCH anything!" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 3 16:48:31 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 09:48:31 -0700 Subject: help: cups printing In-Reply-To: <001501c4493d$a56c7e00$a811f751@ltsp> References: <001501c4493d$a56c7e00$a811f751@ltsp> Message-ID: <40BF565F.1090801@vitalstream.com> roland brouwers wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com >>[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick >>Stevens >>Sent: dinsdag 1 juni 2004 19:45 >>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >>Subject: Re: help: cups printing >> >> >>roland brouwers wrote: >> >> >>>I have something strange going on >>>I use cups printing >>>The instruction I use is : lpr -P prit02 XXXXXX >>>prit02 is the name of the printer and the listing goes to a >>>printserver >>>of d-link (DP-300U) >>>The listing is produced endlessly. I mean: if the listing is 50 pages, >> >> >>>he wil produce 50 pages and restarts the listing a second time. If I >>>do the same thing under MSwindows the listing is correct. >>> >>>What do I miss here. >> >> >>Have you checked your printer settings and made sure you didn't set >>the queue to print multiple copies? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick > Stevens > Sent: woensdag 2 juni 2004 17:31 > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: help: cups printing > > > roland brouwers wrote: > >>The setting is standard and raw-mode, no driver, because I use my own >>driver. When the listing is short, execution is normal. > > > That sounds like a problem with the driver. When you say "I use my own > driver," do you mean you wrote it? If so, you'll have to debug it. If > you're using a supplied driver, I'd contact the author and discuss the > issue with him or her. Try to tie down the specific trip point (number > of pages, number of bytes, etc.) That will help the debugging process. > > Oh, and we prefer bottom-posting on this list. > > ------------------------- > This driver works already 10 years on SCO systems You're trying to use an SCO driver on Linux? Egad! I'm amazed it works at all! > He does the same thing with 2 different drivers, laserjet5 and > oki320-Microline-needleprinter > The same driver works with MSWindows. I configured the printers on > WinXpPro and skipped Linux (transparent printing on a > terminalemulator).It worked. > The strange thing is that it prints exactly 2 times, without losing > anything. > I had the same problem on another installation. I'm not surprised. SCO and Linux are not the same thing in the least. > Couldn't there be some kind of setting where the spooler resends the > printing, when he thinks the printing was not correct? Or can it be that > the printing is to fast? (I print in charactermode, so it is very fast) > I never had this problem with SCO, where offcourse CUPS is not used but > lpd. Well, no, there's no such setting. Can I ask why you're using an SCO driver for either of these two printers when perfectly functional CUPS drivers for each are shipped with Linux? > Probably like always I will be the only one in this world to have this > problem. Well, yeah. You're the first person I've heard of trying to make a SVR4 or SVR3 SCO Unix driver work on Linux. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 3 16:50:01 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 09:50:01 -0700 Subject: How to lock an userid on RH9.0 ? In-Reply-To: <200406030742.i537fxi5005959@mx1.redhat.com> References: <200406030742.i537fxi5005959@mx1.redhat.com> Message-ID: <40BF56B9.3000506@vitalstream.com> Yan Peng wrote: > redhat-install-list: > > On Solaris I can use the command "passwd -l username" to lock this user to login the server. Which command can be used on RH 9.0 ? > Thanks. Exactly the same command: "passwd -l username", but it must be run by root. "man passwd" would have revealed this to you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 3 16:56:38 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 09:56:38 -0700 Subject: Disk usage Question In-Reply-To: <7BD0E6B9ED373F4F80AC1AD076B505AA15C9C6@companyweb> References: <7BD0E6B9ED373F4F80AC1AD076B505AA15C9C6@companyweb> Message-ID: <40BF5846.9020605@vitalstream.com> Stuart Willis wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm about to install Linux on a Z/Frame 390 processor that has triple > density 3390's, is it possible to define a complete 3390 to Linux, then > partition the disk (using Disk Druid) for the disk needed to run Linux, > so that Linux can be either run Natively or under VM. The filesystems used under VM or native are identical. Linux itself manages the filesystems, not VM, so as long as the kernel can get at the raw disk partition, it'll work fine. If you're worried about booting Linux directly, your boot loader will have to know how to deal with the various partitions and filesystem types. You could place the Linux "/boot" filesystem on a partition your boot loader knows about and have anaconda (the Linux installer) place the Linux boot loader on that partition. In this way, your native boot loader would load grub or lilo (the Linux booter), which would then boot linux the rest of the way. > Sorry if this a Daft question only I'm A VM/ZOS sysprog and have little > experience of Linux. Not a daft question at all. Somewhat uncommon, but certainly not daft! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Thu Jun 3 20:12:30 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (Karl Pearson) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 14:12:30 -0600 (MDT) Subject: RH v8.0 Performance In-Reply-To: <40BF5313.3070707@vitalstream.com> References: <24451.198.60.114.90.1086234275.squirrel@198.60.114.90> <40BF5313.3070707@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <53793.207.173.117.242.1086293550.squirrel@207.173.117.242> On Thu, June 3, 2004 10:34 am, Rick Stevens said: > Karl Pearson wrote: >> > Have you done a "top" to see which processes are sucking up the CPU? > Those are the ones to tweak. > > Note that spamassassin can be a real CPU hog (perl often is)--expecially > if you have large corpuses to go through for spam classification. I'm > not saying that's the culprit, but our systems use bogofilter (written > in C). I've run top for 'minutes' at a time and see that httpd and spamd are two of the most likely culprits, thus my attempt at increasing httpd performance before posting. When httpd is at the top, it's using only about 5% CPU, whereas when spamd is at the top of the list, it's using 99.9%. Same for clamd, but it's not at the top very often. Karl From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 3 20:31:38 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 13:31:38 -0700 Subject: RH v8.0 Performance In-Reply-To: <53793.207.173.117.242.1086293550.squirrel@207.173.117.242> References: <24451.198.60.114.90.1086234275.squirrel@198.60.114.90> <40BF5313.3070707@vitalstream.com> <53793.207.173.117.242.1086293550.squirrel@207.173.117.242> Message-ID: <40BF8AAA.7090207@vitalstream.com> Karl Pearson wrote: > On Thu, June 3, 2004 10:34 am, Rick Stevens said: > >>Karl Pearson wrote: >> >>Have you done a "top" to see which processes are sucking up the CPU? >>Those are the ones to tweak. >> >>Note that spamassassin can be a real CPU hog (perl often is)--expecially >>if you have large corpuses to go through for spam classification. I'm >>not saying that's the culprit, but our systems use bogofilter (written >>in C). > > > I've run top for 'minutes' at a time and see that httpd and spamd are two > of the most likely culprits, thus my attempt at increasing httpd > performance before posting. When httpd is at the top, it's using only > about 5% CPU, whereas when spamd is at the top of the list, it's using > 99.9%. Same for clamd, but it's not at the top very often. As I said, spamd can suck serious CPU due to the nature of Perl. It's not really intended for use on a mail gateway with a lot of traffic. It's more of a single user thing. Remember that when Perl starts up it has to load a gazillion modules and libraries which slow down its startup and eat lots of CPU and disk I/O. You could fire up a system monitor program such as gkrellm or gnome-system-monitor and see where it's getting stuck. I suppose you could renice spamd to give it a lower priority, but I don't know how much that'd buy you. It depends on where it's really spending its time--firing up perl or running through the corpi. For mail gateway use, I highly recommend bogofilter. The whole thing is written in C and is much more efficient. Not as easy to tweak, but works well and easy to integrate into procmail recipes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 gnichols at tpg.com.au Fri Jun 4 04:36:53 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 04 Jun 2004 14:36:53 +1000 Subject: About Acrobat LANG workaround In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1086323813.1430.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 21:50, Huan Deng wrote: > hi: > > This morning i installed acrobat 5.8 on redhat 8.0,but when i input acroread ,the graph didn't pop out.And the systerm message is : > > Warning : charset "UTF-8" not supported,using "ISO8859-1" > Abort > > I have checked the install disk , there is no package named "UTF" or "ISO8859-1". > What's the matter? 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Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From roland at cat.be Fri Jun 4 07:51:52 2004 From: roland at cat.be (roland brouwers) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:51:52 +0200 Subject: help: cups printing In-Reply-To: <40BF565F.1090801@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <000001c44a08$cd0ea7a0$ab11f751@ltsp> -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: donderdag 3 juni 2004 17:49 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: help: cups printing roland brouwers wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com >>[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick >>Stevens >>Sent: dinsdag 1 juni 2004 19:45 >>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >>Subject: Re: help: cups printing >> >> >>roland brouwers wrote: >> >> >>>I have something strange going on >>>I use cups printing >>>The instruction I use is : lpr -P prit02 XXXXXX >>>prit02 is the name of the printer and the listing goes to a >>>printserver of d-link (DP-300U) >>>The listing is produced endlessly. I mean: if the listing is 50 pages, >> >> >>>he wil produce 50 pages and restarts the listing a second time. If I >>>do the same thing under MSwindows the listing is correct. >>> >>>What do I miss here. >> >> >>Have you checked your printer settings and made sure you didn't set >>the queue to print multiple copies? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick > Stevens > Sent: woensdag 2 juni 2004 17:31 > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: help: cups printing > > > roland brouwers wrote: > >>The setting is standard and raw-mode, no driver, because I use my own >>driver. When the listing is short, execution is normal. > > > That sounds like a problem with the driver. When you say "I use my > own driver," do you mean you wrote it? If so, you'll have to debug > it. If you're using a supplied driver, I'd contact the author and > discuss the issue with him or her. Try to tie down the specific trip > point (number of pages, number of bytes, etc.) That will help the > debugging process. > > Oh, and we prefer bottom-posting on this list. > > ------------------------- > This driver works already 10 years on SCO systems You're trying to use an SCO driver on Linux? Egad! I'm amazed it works at all! > He does the same thing with 2 different drivers, laserjet5 and > oki320-Microline-needleprinter The same driver works with MSWindows. I > configured the printers on WinXpPro and skipped Linux (transparent > printing on a terminalemulator).It worked. > The strange thing is that it prints exactly 2 times, without losing > anything. > I had the same problem on another installation. I'm not surprised. SCO and Linux are not the same thing in the least. > Couldn't there be some kind of setting where the spooler resends the > printing, when he thinks the printing was not correct? Or can it be > that the printing is to fast? (I print in charactermode, so it is very > fast) I never had this problem with SCO, where offcourse CUPS is not > used but lpd. Well, no, there's no such setting. Can I ask why you're using an SCO driver for either of these two printers when perfectly functional CUPS drivers for each are shipped with Linux? > Probably like always I will be the only one in this world to have this > problem. Well, yeah. You're the first person I've heard of trying to make a SVR4 or SVR3 SCO Unix driver work on Linux. ----------------------------- The driver I make is not an operating system dependent driver. It just sends Escape-sequences to the printer. It is like you would send an CR-LF to the printer. You could send a $0d0a or hex 0d0a. So you can do anything you like when you know the Esc-seq. Without any change, it works under Unix (whatever) Windows and normally Linux Offcourse the database I use, Thoroughbred IDOL-IV, is a closed environment, which handles data, operatingsystem, printers. This means it handels also the locking and the datatransmission to the printers. With some coding in the parameter file, settings are done like, printer locking, spooling Y/N, buffer length eso. The parameterfile is the same for every operating system. Thoroughbred takes care of the working. It looks like this: CNF 1,16,1,200,,,,D PTN 1,400000 PRM NOBANNER PRM UPPER PRM READONLY PRM WAITLOCK=0 PRM OPENLIB=IDOL-IV,32700 PRM DEBUG=OOZ00 DEV D0,1,,,,,,d:\tbsc\work DEV D1,1,,,,,,d:\tbsc\PROG DEV D2,1,,,,,,d:\tbsc\CATF DEV D3,1,,,,,,d:\tbsc\UCAT DEV D4,1,,,,,,d:\tbsc\IDL4 DEV D5,1,,,,,,d:\tbsc\PROH DEV D6,1,,,,,,d:\tbsc\owshp DEV D7,1,,,,,,d:\tbsc\CLEAEUR DEV D8,1,,,,,,d:\tbsc\ADPO DEV D9,1,,,,,,d:\tbsc\BCAT DEV DA,1,,,,1,, ;DEV D9,1,,2,,,,S1:c:\temp ;DEV DB,1,,,,,,a:\ ;DEV D7,1,,2,,,,S9:e:\miracle\BCAT DEV LP,4,,256,1,,,LPT1 DEV P1,4,,256,,,,c:\workfile.txt DEV P2,4,,256,,,,\\travelmate\hpljlav DEV P3,4,,132,1,1,,lp -dcanon1000 DEV T0,5,,,,,,CON DEV T1,7,,,,,,TTY1 IPL 1,2,T0,ID END P.e. DEV P3,4,,132,1,1,,lp -dcanon1000 Would PIPE all data send to the printer P3 to the instruction "lp -d canon1000" or "lpr -Pcanon1000" which I used for cups. It will have a linebuffer of 132 and will be locked for others. The only impression I have is that there could be a problem with speed. This server is very fast. XEON processor, 1Gb Memory, RAID 5 0-channel. And don't forget I am sending non-graphic characters. A listing of 150 pages, he can handle easy in 1 min, off course on disc. When I print through the terminal printerhandling, which uses the printers configured under windows, I probably slow down the printing, and then it works. My worry is, that I have to do an installation in France with Tiny terminals(discless), who will use the Linux printing system (Linux terminalserver). What is going to happen then. What can I say more? Thanks again From jonathan.share at syngenta.com Fri Jun 4 08:03:49 2004 From: jonathan.share at syngenta.com (jonathan.share at syngenta.com) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 04:03:49 -0400 Subject: Why can't I mount a smbfs of win 2k server on RH9.0? Message-ID: > -----Original Message----- > From: Yan Peng [mailto:yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn] > > > jonathan.share: > > Thank you for your help. > > I have run the command and gotten the error messages as the below: > > #smbclient -L test -U yp > added interface ip=203.207.195.89 bcast=203.207.195.127 > nmask=255.255.255.192 > session request to TEST failed (Called name not present) > Password: > Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] > tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_DUPLICATE_NAME This message indicates that there is more than one host on the netowork with the name test (you didn't name your linux box the same did you?). You could try adding the -I parameter to specify which IP to connect to. > > > Now I'd like to know what parameters must be set in smb.conf > in order to access the folder of WIN 2000? In my (very limited) experience only the workgroup, and sometimes the encrypt passwords, entries need changing. > And do I have to set the RH server and Win 2000 server to the > same WORKGROUP? If your 2k server is using workgroup style networking then yes both hosts MUST belong to the same workgroup. If your 2k server is using domain style networking (Note: only native mode is supported. Can someone else confirm that?) then the workgroup entry in your smb.conf should be the name of the 2k domain you are connecting to. > > Thank you very much! > > > Yan Peng > yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn > 2004-06-04 > *snip* There are 3 other points I would like to make: 1) Reply to the whole group unless you have been asked otherwise. I am not (yet) a samba expert, other more experienced people may see something obvious that I have missed. 2) Bottom post, it's easier to follow. 3) It would probably do you good to read through the samba documentation before going any further. On my FC1 installation these are located at /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.2/docs/htmldocs/index.html People are much more likely to help if you can show that you RTFM and tried to figure it yourself before posting. Hope this helps Jonathan From chornbro at gte.net Fri Jun 4 19:49:11 2004 From: chornbro at gte.net (Chris) Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:49:11 -0400 Subject: DHCP Client Info In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40C0D237.2080307@gte.net> I have used Redhat 7.2 on my firewall/gateway machine for quite a while. My ISP assigns a dynamic IP address and the dhcpcd daemon creates a file called /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info. I source that file to get the variables that I use in my firewall script. It is in the form of IPADDR=X.X.X.X. . it has allot of useful variables already created. I think pump did something similar. Anyway, it seems that later versions of Redhat and Fedora use dhclient. I can not seem to find a similar file created with dhclient. I don't want to write a separate script to get the data from ifconfig or the leases file that is created unless I have to. Is there a way to get dhclient to behave like dhcpcd and create a similar file or am I just missing it? From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jun 4 20:08:50 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 13:08:50 -0700 Subject: DHCP Client Info In-Reply-To: <40C0D237.2080307@gte.net> References: <40C0D237.2080307@gte.net> Message-ID: <40C0D6D2.6060104@vitalstream.com> Chris wrote: > I have used Redhat 7.2 on my firewall/gateway machine for quite a while. > My ISP assigns a dynamic IP address and the dhcpcd daemon creates a file > called /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info. I source that file to get the > variables that I use in my firewall script. It is in the form of > IPADDR=X.X.X.X. . it has allot of useful variables already created. I > think pump did something similar. Anyway, it seems that later versions > of Redhat and Fedora use dhclient. I can not seem to find a similar file > created with dhclient. I don't want to write a separate script to get > the data from ifconfig or the leases file that is created unless I have > to. Is there a way to get dhclient to behave like dhcpcd and create a > similar file or am I just missing it? Nope. dhclient is totally different. You'll have to parse the files you mentioned. You really should use ifconfig, /etc/resolv.conf, netstat and the rest anyway as those will always work--even if you use a fixed IP at some future date. They're what the system is really doing, not what the last DHCP client may have logged. Relying on a log file is not necessarily a good thing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Careful! Ugly strikes 9 out of 10 people! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From David.Mackintosh at xdroop.com Sat Jun 5 03:57:29 2004 From: David.Mackintosh at xdroop.com (David Mackintosh) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 23:57:29 -0400 Subject: DHCP Client Info In-Reply-To: <40C0D237.2080307@gte.net> References: <40C0D237.2080307@gte.net> Message-ID: <20040605035728.GA5239@xdroop.com> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 03:49:11PM -0400, Chris wrote: > I have used Redhat 7.2 on my firewall/gateway machine for quite a while. > My ISP assigns a dynamic IP address and the dhcpcd daemon creates a file > called /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info. I source that file to get the > variables that I use in my firewall script. It is in the form of > IPADDR=X.X.X.X. . it has allot of useful variables already created. I > think pump did something similar. Anyway, it seems that later versions > of Redhat and Fedora use dhclient. I can not seem to find a similar file > created with dhclient. I don't want to write a separate script to get > the data from ifconfig or the leases file that is created unless I have > to. Is there a way to get dhclient to behave like dhcpcd and create a > similar file or am I just missing it? Or you could: # /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep inet.addr | awk ' { print $2 } ' | sed 's/addr://' Substitute the interface you are interested in for eth0. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | From sg at pobox.com Sat Jun 5 06:17:32 2004 From: sg at pobox.com (sg at pobox.com) Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 11:47:32 +0530 Subject: Gnome Terminal In-Reply-To: <20040605035728.GA5239@xdroop.com> References: <40C0D237.2080307@gte.net> <20040605035728.GA5239@xdroop.com> Message-ID: <200406051147.32820.sg@pobox.com> Sir, I am having RedHat Linux 9.0 and i have a application which is run in Gnome-Terminal and i have create a shortcut for that application on GNOME Desktop. My problem is that if a user press ENTER key 10 or 20 times then this application run in 10 or 20 times. I want if this application run one time then it will not excute when a user press ENTER key again. Rajeev. From David.Mackintosh at xdroop.com Sat Jun 5 19:32:46 2004 From: David.Mackintosh at xdroop.com (David Mackintosh) Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 15:32:46 -0400 Subject: Gnome Terminal In-Reply-To: <200406051147.32820.sg@pobox.com> References: <40C0D237.2080307@gte.net> <20040605035728.GA5239@xdroop.com> <200406051147.32820.sg@pobox.com> Message-ID: <20040605193245.GC5239@xdroop.com> On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 11:47:32AM +0530, sg at pobox.com wrote: > Sir, > > I am having RedHat Linux 9.0 and i have a application which is run in > Gnome-Terminal and i have create a shortcut for that application on GNOME > Desktop. > > My problem is that if a user press ENTER key 10 or 20 times then this > application run in 10 or 20 times. > > I want if this application run one time then it will not excute when a user > press ENTER key again. Do you want it to only have one running instance at a time, or do you want it to run once and then never run again? If the former, create yourself a little launcher script like this: ---BEGIN #!/bin/bash MYAPP='sleep' MYAPPPATH='/bin' MYPARAMETERS=20 if [ ! -f ~/.${MYAPP}.lock ] ; then touch ~/.${MYAPP}.lock $MYAPPPATH/$MYAPP $MYPARAMETERS rm ~/.${MYAPP}.lock else echo $MYAPP is already running fi ---END If the latter, remove the 'rm' line, and edit the 'echo' line to say something like $MYAPP cannot be re-run again... but if that is the case I don't really understand why you are making an icon for the application. Change the value of MYAPP, MYAPPPATH, and MYPARAMETERS as appropriate. Now set the icon on your desktop to be aimed at the launcher script. Note that this won't work with some programs which detatch from the calling command interpreter, but it should work with mosth things. Also note that if you have a system crash while $MYAPP is running, you will need to manually remove ~/.${MYAPP} before it $MYAPP will run again. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | From brucemcdonal at mindspring.com Mon Jun 7 05:33:03 2004 From: brucemcdonal at mindspring.com (Bruce McDonald) Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 21:33:03 -0800 Subject: Firewall questions I promised you. In-Reply-To: <40BCCB24.5000607@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: Hello Rick On 01-Jun-04, you wrote: >> My next error is: >> iptables v1.2.7a: host/network `yahoo.com' not found >> Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. >> >> I assume this means the firewall is halting packets to or from my DNS >> server. > Yup. Interestingly, it is only halting packets that originate on the Linux box. The other boxen are comunicating fine now that I have weeded out the stupid errors I made. >> I still have to check a little further into this, I do have rules that >> are supposed to allow the traffic. I will post them for your input once I >> figure that I don't see anything at all wrong with them. > It rather depends on how strict you want your firewall to be regarding > DNS. Without seeing the entire iptables setup, I can't comment on what > you want to do. However, somewhere near the top of your list you should > have something along the lines of: > iptables -A INPUT -p udp -port 53 -j ACCEPT > This would accept all UDP DNS traffic (remember, 99% of DNS traffic is > UDP, not TCP). I would experiment with this more now, but work is cutting into my playtime. Regards, Bruce McDonald From yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn Mon Jun 7 07:57:54 2004 From: yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn (Yan Peng) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:57:54 +0800 Subject: Why Right-clicking mouse can't work on the desktop of the RH9.0" Message-ID: <200406070758.i577wji5000440@mx1.redhat.com> redhat-install-list: Now on the desktop of RH9 server, there is no any response while I right-clicked the mouse . Left-clicking the mouse work well. What should I do now? How do I restart the X server? Thanks. Yan Peng yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn 2004-06-07 From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Mon Jun 7 13:56:55 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 08:56:55 -0500 Subject: Why Right-clicking mouse can't work on the desktop of the RH9.0" In-Reply-To: <200406070758.i577wji5000440@mx1.redhat.com> References: <200406070758.i577wji5000440@mx1.redhat.com> Message-ID: <20040607135655.GA20658@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 03:57:54PM +0800, Yan Peng wrote: > redhat-install-list: > > Now on the desktop of RH9 server, there is no any response while I right-clicked the mouse . Left-clicking the mouse work well. > What should I do now? Try running redhat-config-mouse > How do I restart the X server? If you are on runlevel 5 (GUI login), logging out normally restarts the X server. > Thanks. > > > Yan Peng > yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn > 2004-06-07 Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com If you're ready to die, you're ready to live. From predao at leeds.ac.uk Mon Jun 7 14:56:39 2004 From: predao at leeds.ac.uk (predao at leeds.ac.uk) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:56:39 +0100 Subject: hp LaserJet 1300 Message-ID: <1086620199.835b0289898f9@webmail3.leeds.ac.uk> Hello I have just purchased this printer I have Red Hat Linux 9. There appears to be no drivers for this printer. Where can I obtain a driver for this printer? ravenworld From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 7 17:00:24 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 10:00:24 -0700 Subject: Firewall questions I promised you. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40C49F28.20501@vitalstream.com> Bruce McDonald wrote: > Hello Rick > > On 01-Jun-04, you wrote: > > > >>>My next error is: >>>iptables v1.2.7a: host/network `yahoo.com' not found >>>Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. >>> >>>I assume this means the firewall is halting packets to or from my DNS >>>server. > > >>Yup. > > > Interestingly, it is only halting packets that originate on the Linux box. > The other boxen are comunicating fine now that I have weeded out the stupid > errors I made. Depends on the default policy for your INPUT chain. If you're using a a policy of DENY and don't specifically permit "--sport 53", yes, it'll block outgoing DNS requests. >>>I still have to check a little further into this, I do have rules that >>>are supposed to allow the traffic. I will post them for your input once I >>>figure that I don't see anything at all wrong with them. > > >>It rather depends on how strict you want your firewall to be regarding >>DNS. Without seeing the entire iptables setup, I can't comment on what >>you want to do. However, somewhere near the top of your list you should >>have something along the lines of: > > >> iptables -A INPUT -p udp -port 53 -j ACCEPT > > >>This would accept all UDP DNS traffic (remember, 99% of DNS traffic is >>UDP, not TCP). > > > > I would experiment with this more now, but work is cutting into my playtime. "The more complex the mind, the greater the need for play." -- Mr. Spock ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "I understand Windows 2000 has a Y2K problem." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From batistaalexandre at hotmail.com Mon Jun 7 19:11:21 2004 From: batistaalexandre at hotmail.com (alexandre batista) Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 19:11:21 +0000 Subject: ohci1394 Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 7 19:35:08 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:35:08 -0700 Subject: ohci1394 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40C4C36C.5010503@vitalstream.com> alexandre batista wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to install RedHat 9 on HP Presario 2500 laptop but the > install hangs up with a message "loading ohci1394". > > I've toggled with bios and disabled USB support but still doesn't work! ohci1394 is the firewire interface, not the USB. Try adding the "nofirewire" option to the boot command line: boot: linux nofirewire or disable it in your BIOS, complete the install, then turn it back on. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Doctor! My brain hurts!" "It will have to come out!" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mknecht at controlnet.com Mon Jun 7 19:42:35 2004 From: mknecht at controlnet.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:42:35 -0700 Subject: ohci1394 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40C4C52B.10402@controlnet.com> alexandre batista wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to install RedHat 9 on HP Presario 2500 laptop but the install hangs > up with a message "loading ohci1394". > > I've toggled with bios and disabled USB support but still doesn't work! Any > others sugestions please? Someone mentioned that if the keyboard is changed to > PS2 serial it will work?? > You might also try the boot time option 'nofirewire' and see if that helps. Once booted you may be able to modprobe the OHCI driver successfully if you require 1394 support. Good luck, Mark From ottohaliburton at comcast.net Mon Jun 7 20:34:03 2004 From: ottohaliburton at comcast.net (Otto Haliburton) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:34:03 -0500 Subject: ohci1394 In-Reply-To: <40C4C36C.5010503@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <000b01c44cce$c60225e0$4801a8c0@C515816A> > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list- > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens > Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 2:35 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: ohci1394 > > alexandre batista wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am trying to install RedHat 9 on HP Presario 2500 laptop but the > > install hangs up with a message "loading ohci1394". > > > > I've toggled with bios and disabled USB support but still doesn't work! > > ohci1394 is the firewire interface, not the USB. Try adding the > "nofirewire" option to the boot command line: > > boot: linux nofirewire > > or disable it in your BIOS, complete the install, then turn it back on. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - "Doctor! My brain hurts!" "It will have to come out!" - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ FYI. I get that on installation all the time and I'm not using it to boot at all and I don't hang. The next step after that is the media check sooooo, that isn't where it is hanging I don't think. I believe that you have something else that is not compatible. From jason_ct22 at hotmail.com Tue Jun 8 06:01:18 2004 From: jason_ct22 at hotmail.com (EcK3kO [-_-]) Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 01:01:18 -0500 Subject: problem with my mouse Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From manuaroste at yahoo.es Tue Jun 8 07:44:32 2004 From: manuaroste at yahoo.es (=?iso-8859-1?q?Manuel=20Arostegui=20Ramirez?=) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:44:32 +0200 (CEST) Subject: problem with my mouse In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040608074432.84865.qmail@web52402.mail.yahoo.com> --- "EcK3kO [-_-]" escribi?: --------------------------------- i just recently install linux red hat fedora core 1, during the installaton the mouse works fine.... but after that in gnome or kde or whatever desktop enviroment the mouse didnt work! is an usb mouse what can i do to make it work :S cause i cant do anything :S please helpppp Can you paste your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 mouse section? ===== -- Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 http://manuel.todo-linux.com ______________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! lanza su nueva tecnolog?a de b?squedas ?te atreves a comparar? http://busquedas.yahoo.es From stuart.willis at willdata.com Tue Jun 8 11:05:24 2004 From: stuart.willis at willdata.com (Stuart Willis) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 12:05:24 +0100 Subject: CTC/LCS Question Message-ID: <7BD0E6B9ED373F4F80AC1AD076B505AA1B5ED0@companyweb> I'm have a Z/frame Box running SCO Unix/FLEXES and VM. I'm now trying to install REDHAT z/Linux under VM. I have 2 CTC's defined to VM which are attached to REDHAT user these are defined as 3172's to FLEXES and LCS's in the VM TCPIP config. So what should I specify as the NETTYPE ? CTC or LCS Thanks Stuart. From jason_ct22 at hotmail.com Tue Jun 8 23:23:12 2004 From: jason_ct22 at hotmail.com (EcK3kO [-_-]) Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 18:23:12 -0500 Subject: usb mouse problem Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 9 00:11:02 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 17:11:02 -0700 Subject: usb mouse problem In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40C65596.7070409@vitalstream.com> EcK3kO [-_-] wrote: > > hi my mouse still doesnt work :'(the problem the same: > > during the installation of linux the mouse was working but now after > that it doesnt work :'(... it works just when the system starts (opening > network.... setting blablabla....) but when the desktop enviroment loads > the mouse dont work :'( .... > > /etc/X11/XF86Config mouse section > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Mouse0" > > Driver "mouse" > > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Change that to Option "Protocol" "PS/2" > > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Change that to Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Leave the rest of the file alone. Stop and restart X. > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" > > End Section > > Section "Input Device" > > #if the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then > > #this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you > > #also use USB mice at the same time. > > Identifier "DevInputMice" > > Driver "mouse" > > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" > > End Section > > hope somebody could help me please thanks! > > > - BECAUSE KNOWDLEDGE IS POWER - > > "PoWeR OvErWhElMiNg" > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > MSN. 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To forgive, a large sum of money is needed. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From stephenhowlett at optusnet.com.au Wed Jun 9 00:58:27 2004 From: stephenhowlett at optusnet.com.au (Steve Howlett) Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:58:27 +1000 Subject: Lilo modified by yum Message-ID: <40C660B3.50303@optusnet.com.au> I have been running a gateway with RH9 which has been self-updating with yum. Now I have come to updating the system to FC2 and I cannot find lilo????.conf that corresponds to the startup lilo menu. I do have a lot of files in /etc that are of the format lilo.conf.yum-nnnnnnnnn where nnnnnn are a bunch of numbers. None of these correspond with the startup menu either. Is there something that tells the system what lilo conf file to look at when starting up? This is really bugging me.... Thanks From klighdar at yahoo.com Wed Jun 9 01:04:56 2004 From: klighdar at yahoo.com (Kligh Darsono) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 18:04:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Samba printing on RH9.0 In-Reply-To: <40C65596.7070409@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040609010456.72878.qmail@web60709.mail.yahoo.com> Dear installers, My samba printing system always used font where defined on printconf. Although i unselected the "convert text to postscript" selection. So, i can not choose specific font from my software application. Is there any additional package to install or any modification needed on smb.conf FYI, the printer attached on WIN98 EPSON LQ-2170 and system printing set on smb.conf is LPD rgds, kligh. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Wed Jun 9 01:14:04 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 20:14:04 -0500 Subject: Lilo modified by yum In-Reply-To: <40C660B3.50303@optusnet.com.au> References: <40C660B3.50303@optusnet.com.au> Message-ID: <20040609011404.GB4483@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:58:27AM +1000, Steve Howlett wrote: > I have been running a gateway with RH9 which has been self-updating with > yum. Now I have come to updating the system to FC2 and I cannot find > lilo????.conf that corresponds to the startup lilo menu. > > I do have a lot of files in /etc that are of the format > lilo.conf.yum-nnnnnnnnn where nnnnnn are a bunch of numbers. None of > these correspond with the startup menu either. > > Is there something that tells the system what lilo conf file to look at > when starting up? This is really bugging me.... > > Thanks The only lilo.conf that counts is the /etc/lilo.conf that exists at the time "lilo" is run. If you don't have an /etc/lilo.conf, then you probably changed to GRUB during the upgrade. LILO's been deprecated since RH9. If that's the case, the file to look for is /boot/grub/grub.conf. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com If you're ready to die, you're ready to live. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 9 01:09:20 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 18:09:20 -0700 Subject: Lilo modified by yum In-Reply-To: <40C660B3.50303@optusnet.com.au> References: <40C660B3.50303@optusnet.com.au> Message-ID: <40C66340.2010107@vitalstream.com> Steve Howlett wrote: > I have been running a gateway with RH9 which has been self-updating with > yum. Now I have come to updating the system to FC2 and I cannot find > lilo????.conf that corresponds to the startup lilo menu. > > I do have a lot of files in /etc that are of the format > lilo.conf.yum-nnnnnnnnn where nnnnnn are a bunch of numbers. None of > these correspond with the startup menu either. > > Is there something that tells the system what lilo conf file to look at > when starting up? This is really bugging me.... Fedora does not use lilo. In fact, FC2 doesn't even ship with lilo. FC2 uses grub (and that's also FC1's preference). The config file is /boot/grub/grub.conf and it uses a different layout than lilo.conf. You need to familiarize yourself with grub and its config files, "man grub", and "man grub.conf". This is explained in the release notes included on the first CD of both FC1 and FC2. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - There are only 10 kinds of people in the world -- those who - - understand binary and those who don't - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rdomalan at dairy-farm.com.ph Wed Jun 9 02:52:04 2004 From: rdomalan at dairy-farm.com.ph (Ruby Domalanta) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 10:52:04 +0800 Subject: su command hangs Message-ID: Hi Guys, Is there anybody who are using QVT as emulator and use SSH1/SSH2 to logon to their linux box? Basically, we have a RH AS3 and we've been trying to ssh'ed to it using QVT. It went well but when I issued su command it hangs. BTW, our box is using PAM. I even also tried to used Putty as emulator and logon using ssh. 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I have a program written in a text-based application which I would like to make much faster by running at the OS level using shell (ksh) scripts. I have found that sending ESC-c I can clear the screen. I've tried a few others and found other things, too, but haven't written anything down. I'll get to it but hope someone has experience with this and can point me in the right direction. Thanks, -- Karl Pearson karlp at ourldsfamily.com http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com From jason_ct22 at hotmail.com Wed Jun 9 05:18:17 2004 From: jason_ct22 at hotmail.com (EcK3kO [-_-]) Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 00:18:17 -0500 Subject: =?iso-8859-1?q?usb_problem_again_=AC=AC?= Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 9 16:05:10 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 09:05:10 -0700 Subject: usb mouse problem In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40C73536.1030706@vitalstream.com> EcK3kO [-_-] wrote: > what is the command to stop and restart x :? Just log out ane log back in again. Or hit CTRL-ALT-F1 (all three keys at once), then log in as the root user at the text prompt and type in: killall X ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Wed Jun 9 16:17:27 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 09:17:27 -0700 Subject: Sans ncurses In-Reply-To: <14309.198.60.114.90.1086752898.squirrel@198.60.114.90> References: <14309.198.60.114.90.1086752898.squirrel@198.60.114.90> Message-ID: <40C73817.1000904@vitalstream.com> Karl Pearson wrote: > Sorry for the off-topic query: > > Is there a means of formatting a telnet/ssh/xterm 'window' so a looping > shell script could update information without repainting the entire screen > on each pass? (printf, echo...) > > I have a program written in a text-based application which I would like to > make much faster by running at the OS level using shell (ksh) scripts. > > I have found that sending ESC-c I can clear the screen. I've tried a few > others and found other things, too, but haven't written anything down. > I'll get to it but hope someone has experience with this and can point me > in the right direction. Take a look at the termcap or terminfo entry for your terminal type. Do an "echo $TERM" to find out which kind of terminal you're emulating (odds are it's "xterm"), then edit /etc/termcap and look for the entry that matches (for xterms, the primary entry is "xterm-xfree86"). The stuff in that entry show what escape sequences do what (do "man termcap" for a list of what the entries mean). For the most part, xterm is a DEC VT220 with ANSI extensions for handling colors and such (the VT220 was monochrome). I hope that helps. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I don't suffer from insanity...I enjoy every minute of it! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 9 16:25:51 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 09:25:51 -0700 Subject: su command hangs In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40C73A0F.6020303@vitalstream.com> Ruby Domalanta wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > Is there anybody who are using QVT as emulator and use SSH1/SSH2 to > logon to their linux box? Basically, we have a RH AS3 and we've been > trying to ssh'ed to it using QVT. It went well but when I issued su > command it hangs. BTW, our box is using PAM. > > I even also tried to used Putty as emulator and logon using ssh. It was > successful even with su command. So seems the problem lies between the > QVT/ssh or maybe the PAM. This really gives me a lot of headaches > because I am new to Linux. Please help! I'm not familiar with QVT, other than the old Qume RS232-based stand-alone terminals. If that's what you have, then that smells like a reset problem. First, do a couple of things: 1. Before using the "su" command, type in "echo $TERM" to see what kind of terminal the system is treating QVT as. If they don't match, see if you can tell QVT to emulate what the system _thinks_ it is. If not, you may have to set the TERM variable to match what QVT is, and I don't know if the system actually has one that will work. There are a bunch of entries for the Qume terminals. 2. Did you use "su" or "su -"? "su" alone simply does the UID/GID change and shouldn't cause a lockup. "su -" acts like a full login, complete with terminal reset sequences being issued. 3. You can try to see if the session itself is hung or if it's just the terminal. Try entering the commands: "reset" or "stty sane" (they probably won't echo) and see if things come back. It may be that the "su" is sending an escape sequence that your emulator doesn't handle gracefully. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - When all else fails, try reading the instructions. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From ajai at bway.net Wed Jun 9 16:38:05 2004 From: ajai at bway.net (Ajai Khattri) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 12:38:05 -0400 (EDT) Subject: usb mouse problem In-Reply-To: <40C73536.1030706@vitalstream.com> References: <40C73536.1030706@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > EcK3kO [-_-] wrote: > > what is the command to stop and restart x :? > > Just log out ane log back in again. Or hit CTRL-ALT-F1 (all three keys > at once), then log in as the root user at the text prompt and type in: Much quicker to do CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to kill the X server. -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 9 16:40:28 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 09:40:28 -0700 Subject: usb mouse problem In-Reply-To: References: <40C73536.1030706@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40C73D7C.3020000@vitalstream.com> Ajai Khattri wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>EcK3kO [-_-] wrote: >> >>>what is the command to stop and restart x :? >> >>Just log out ane log back in again. Or hit CTRL-ALT-F1 (all three keys >>at once), then log in as the root user at the text prompt and type in: > > > Much quicker to do CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to kill the X server. I would've said that if I could have remembered it. :-( My brain seems to be, uh, slow today, I'm afraid. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "You think that's tough? Try herding cats!" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From guy-rouillier at speakeasy.net Wed Jun 9 16:54:21 2004 From: guy-rouillier at speakeasy.net (Guy Rouillier) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 12:54:21 -0400 Subject: usb mouse problem In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20040609125421.000057f6@ma1033> On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 18:23:12 -0500 "EcK3kO [-_-]" wrote: > > hi my mouse still doesnt work :'(the problem the same: > > during the installation of linux the mouse was working but now after > that it doesnt work :'(... it works just when the system starts > (opening network.... setting blablabla....) but when the desktop > enviroment loads the mouse dont work :'( .... >From your setting below, I'm assuming you are running a fairly new XFree86, like one that would be 4.4.0 if not for the licensing that people don't like for some reason so they call it 4.3.9999. In that case, your protocol and device are okay. You can also use /dev/usbmouse but it's just a symlink to /dev/input/mice. I had a similar problem. Some of the problem may be hardware related. What hardware are you running? Try this. While X is running, pull out the USB mouse, then insert it again. For me (eMachines AMD64 laptop running 64-bit Linux) that would get it going. I discovered just this morning that the two side USB ports seem to work fine from a cold start, while the two rear ones only work from a hot-plug. Next, see if you are running gpm. For me, that doesn't work well with X. If that is running, change it so it doesn't automatically start at boot up, reboot and see what happens. > > /etc/X11/XF86Config mouse section > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Mouse0" > > Driver "mouse" > > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" > > End Section > > Section "Input Device" > > #if the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then > > #this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you > > #also use USB mice at the same time. > > Identifier "DevInputMice" > > Driver "mouse" > > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" > > End Section > > > hope somebody could help me please thanks! > - BECAUSE KNOWDLEDGE IS POWER - > > "PoWeR OvErWhElMiNg" > > ------------------------------------------------ > MSN. M?s ?til Cada D?a Haz clic aqu? smart spam protection and 2 > months FREE* -- Guy Rouillier From mknecht at controlnet.com Wed Jun 9 16:57:05 2004 From: mknecht at controlnet.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 09:57:05 -0700 Subject: usb mouse problem In-Reply-To: <40C73D7C.3020000@vitalstream.com> References: <40C73536.1030706@vitalstream.com> <40C73D7C.3020000@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40C74161.20008@controlnet.com> Rick Stevens wrote: > Ajai Khattri wrote: > >> On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: >> >> >>> EcK3kO [-_-] wrote: >>> >>>> what is the command to stop and restart x :? >>> >>> >>> Just log out ane log back in again. Or hit CTRL-ALT-F1 (all three keys >>> at once), then log in as the root user at the text prompt and type in: >> >> >> >> Much quicker to do CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to kill the X server. > > > I would've said that if I could have remembered it. :-( My brain seems > to be, uh, slow today, I'm afraid. You're certainly forgiven. As for the users usb mouse problem, I've noticed that if my mouse is not plugged in before the machine is booted, but for instance I plug it in while the grub screen is up, then Linux will not bring the mouse up. Mine's an M$ Optical USB mouse. At that point I find I have to wait for te machine to get to the login prompt, then pull and replug the cable to get it working. It's a laptop so it seems standard to pull the machine out of it's case, open it and turn it on, and then while it's booting plug in power and the mouse. However this doesn't work for my mouse. - Mark From brenden at rcsis.com Wed Jun 9 18:34:43 2004 From: brenden at rcsis.com (Brenden T.) Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 11:34:43 -0700 Subject: DHCP suddenly not working Message-ID: <40C75843.5010603@rcsis.com> Hi all, I've got an older Red Hat 7.2 system that I've been using for NAT and firewall for over a year, connected to my upstream ISP. Suddenly, I can't DHCP from it anymore. The tech when I called had me switch over to windows on another system, and that works. So they blame my Linux system, said it wasn't on their end even tho things are completely unchanged, and that was that. Querry: Does anyone have an idea what might be the problem? I tried adding the -r option to dhcpcd from the command line which did not help. I took a trace w/ tcpdump and it showed very little difference. The Linux DHCP was simply ignored, no response at all. I blew away my dhcp cache so it couldn't ask for old ip addresses (windows doesn't). I switched network cards on the windows PC, it worked fine so I know they are not memorizing MAC addresses. (And my DSL modem never did care about MAC address before anyway.) The only difference I saw in outgoing packets was that Linux fills in the seconds-since-start field and windows doesn't appear to. I haven't tried upgrading Linux yet, and I can't rule out a compromised system, but I don't think so. Upgrading is not a problem, I only use this system for nat, so there nothing on it to lose really, but I'd like to actually discover the problem first rather than just reinstall stuff at random. Any help would be much appreciated. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 9 20:04:00 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 13:04:00 -0700 Subject: DHCP suddenly not working In-Reply-To: <40C75843.5010603@rcsis.com> References: <40C75843.5010603@rcsis.com> Message-ID: <40C76D30.8020400@vitalstream.com> Brenden T. wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got an older Red Hat 7.2 system that I've been using for NAT and > firewall for over a year, connected to my upstream ISP. Suddenly, I > can't DHCP from it anymore. The tech when I called had me switch over > to windows on another system, and that works. So they blame my Linux > system, said it wasn't on their end even tho things are completely > unchanged, and that was that. > > Querry: Does anyone have an idea what might be the problem? > > I tried adding the -r option to dhcpcd from the command line which did > not help. I took a trace w/ tcpdump and it showed very little > difference. The Linux DHCP was simply ignored, no response at all. I > blew away my dhcp cache so it couldn't ask for old ip addresses (windows > doesn't). I switched network cards on the windows PC, it worked fine so > I know they are not memorizing MAC addresses. (And my DSL modem never > did care about MAC address before anyway.) > > The only difference I saw in outgoing packets was that Linux fills in > the seconds-since-start field and windows doesn't appear to. > > I haven't tried upgrading Linux yet, and I can't rule out a compromised > system, but I don't think so. Upgrading is not a problem, I only use > this system for nat, so there nothing on it to lose really, but I'd like > to actually discover the problem first rather than just reinstall stuff > at random. > > Any help would be much appreciated. There's several possibilities. It may be that the DHCP session isn't being dropped properly by Linux. Try: /etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop (reboot your cable or DSL modem) /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start It could also be that your ISP changed their DHCP servers and they don't handle the Linux client properly anymore. They should. DHCP is DHCP. If they adhere to the RFC (many don't), it should work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 brenden at rcsis.com Wed Jun 9 22:48:17 2004 From: brenden at rcsis.com (Brenden T.) Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 15:48:17 -0700 Subject: DHCP suddenly not working In-Reply-To: <40C76D30.8020400@vitalstream.com> References: <40C75843.5010603@rcsis.com> <40C76D30.8020400@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40C793B1.2080604@rcsis.com> Rick Stevens wrote: > There's several possibilities. It may be that the DHCP session isn't > being dropped properly by Linux. Try: > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop > (reboot your cable or DSL modem) > /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start > > It could also be that your ISP changed their DHCP servers and they > don't handle the Linux client properly anymore. They should. DHCP > is DHCP. If they adhere to the RFC (many don't), it should work. You'd think, huh? I tried those already, multiple times, even first thing in the morning when the line was "cold." Nada. Then I'd check with windows (unplug, move the cable, boot windows box) and it comes up. Something is fishy, I can't figure out what tho. From celawrence at lbl.gov Wed Jun 9 23:17:17 2004 From: celawrence at lbl.gov (chuck lawrence) Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:17:17 -0700 Subject: lacie "big disk and rh 7.3 Message-ID: <40C79A7D.5090703@lbl.gov> please forgive me in advance if this has been discussed already... I've got a pair of dual amd opteron systems (2.4.20-24.7smp kernel) that I love dearly. they're running rh 7.3. I've just added a lacie 500gb "big disk" using firewire (400?). I've made it one huge partition w/fdisk, and I do "modprobe ohci1394" before mounting it. so far, so good. it mounts just fine, but more or less randomly while exercising the disk w/multiple large writes, the whole system freezes. in addition, just now, it reported "No space left on device" when, in fact, only 4% of the disk was used. this seems to happen somewhere between 7 and 8gb in any given dir. starting again in a different dir allows me to continue writing. maybe this is some sort of quota? this is my first firewire excursion w/any os. any thoughts or experience out there? advance -- * ------------------- * ----------------------------* | charles e. lawrence | lawrence berkeley nat'l lab | | celawrence at lbl.gov | #1 cyclotron rd ms 46-125 | | (510) 486-4682 | berkeley ca 94720 | * ------------------- * ----------------------------* www-eng.lbl.gov/~lawrence From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Thu Jun 10 03:26:12 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (Karl Pearson) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 21:26:12 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Sans ncurses In-Reply-To: <40C73817.1000904@vitalstream.com> References: <14309.198.60.114.90.1086752898.squirrel@198.60.114.90> <40C73817.1000904@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <26511.198.60.114.90.1086837972.squirrel@198.60.114.90> On Wed, June 9, 2004 10:17 am, Rick Stevens said: >> I'll get to it but hope someone has experience with this and can point >> me in the right direction. > > Take a look at the termcap or terminfo entry for your terminal type. > Do an "echo $TERM" to find out which kind of terminal you're emulating > (odds are it's "xterm"), then edit /etc/termcap and look for the > entry that matches (for xterms, the primary entry is "xterm-xfree86"). > The stuff in that entry show what escape sequences do what (do "man > termcap" for a list of what the entries mean). I've found that tput cup will do screen positioning. It's as easy as using the names used in the terminfo file after re-composing the entry and then seeing what's named what. For example, tput clear will clear the screen (duh) and tput home with send the cursor to 0,0 without clearing the screen. The problem I've found is that it's way slow. I suspect it's because it has to call tput which in term looks up the term type (I use uvxterms, a kluged term type I created with line drawing and other extensions), then parses through the terminfo DB to get what 'home' means, then escapes the sequence it finds. For simple things, I don't mind, but this program, which I've started to write, is pretty intensive, so the slowness may be a 'deal buster'. Thanks Rick. Good info. I'll look into it to see if it's faster than tput... Karl From gnichols at tpg.com.au Thu Jun 10 03:46:46 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 10 Jun 2004 13:46:46 +1000 Subject: yum update server Message-ID: <1086839228.1499.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> Hello Folks, Could someone tell me if the following server (the default in the yum.conf file when yum is installed on my RH8 system) is the best for updating etc. my RH8 system 'cos it doesn't seem to work. The error message is to the effect that it cannot find it. http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/ -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols Public Key available from http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/#extract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- One Bell System - it used to work before they installed the Dimension! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - IMPORTANT. - - The contents of this email and any attachments, which may be con- - - fidential, are sent for the personal attention of the addressee/s - - only. If you receive this email and are not the intended addressee - - please inform the sender and delete this email immediately. 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Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ From kens at geodax.com Thu Jun 10 14:39:01 2004 From: kens at geodax.com (Ken Scott) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:39:01 -0400 Subject: CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE stops machine? Message-ID: <1086878341.4026.33.camel@KENS02L> Why does CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE stop my RH9 machine (kills power just as if one pulled the plug) instead of just restarting stopping X-windows? Is this a setting I can change some place? Thanks in advance. Ken S From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 10 16:21:52 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:21:52 -0700 Subject: DHCP suddenly not working In-Reply-To: <40C793B1.2080604@rcsis.com> References: <40C75843.5010603@rcsis.com> <40C76D30.8020400@vitalstream.com> <40C793B1.2080604@rcsis.com> Message-ID: <40C88AA0.6000404@vitalstream.com> Brenden T. wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > >> There's several possibilities. It may be that the DHCP session isn't >> being dropped properly by Linux. Try: >> >> /etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop >> (reboot your cable or DSL modem) >> /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start >> >> It could also be that your ISP changed their DHCP servers and they >> don't handle the Linux client properly anymore. They should. DHCP >> is DHCP. If they adhere to the RFC (many don't), it should work. > > > > You'd think, huh? I tried those already, multiple times, even first > thing in the morning when the line was "cold." Nada. Then I'd check > with windows (unplug, move the cable, boot windows box) and it comes up. > Something is fishy, I can't figure out what tho. This was 7.2? I can't recall...does that use pump or dhclient? If it's dhclient, have you tried running it manually to see what actually goes on? You might try the same thing if it uses pump (do a "man pump" to find what debug options there are). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 10 16:29:34 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:29:34 -0700 Subject: Sans ncurses In-Reply-To: <26511.198.60.114.90.1086837972.squirrel@198.60.114.90> References: <14309.198.60.114.90.1086752898.squirrel@198.60.114.90> <40C73817.1000904@vitalstream.com> <26511.198.60.114.90.1086837972.squirrel@198.60.114.90> Message-ID: <40C88C6E.6020006@vitalstream.com> Karl Pearson wrote: > On Wed, June 9, 2004 10:17 am, Rick Stevens said: > >>>I'll get to it but hope someone has experience with this and can point >>>me in the right direction. >> >>Take a look at the termcap or terminfo entry for your terminal type. >>Do an "echo $TERM" to find out which kind of terminal you're emulating >>(odds are it's "xterm"), then edit /etc/termcap and look for the >>entry that matches (for xterms, the primary entry is "xterm-xfree86"). >>The stuff in that entry show what escape sequences do what (do "man >>termcap" for a list of what the entries mean). > > > I've found that tput cup will do screen positioning. It's as easy as using > the names used in the terminfo file after re-composing the entry and then > seeing what's named what. For example, tput clear will clear the screen > (duh) and tput home with send the cursor to 0,0 without clearing the > screen. > > The problem I've found is that it's way slow. I suspect it's because it > has to call tput which in term looks up the term type (I use uvxterms, a > kluged term type I created with line drawing and other extensions), then > parses through the terminfo DB to get what 'home' means, then escapes the > sequence it finds. For simple things, I don't mind, but this program, > which I've started to write, is pretty intensive, so the slowness may be a > 'deal buster'. > > Thanks Rick. Good info. I'll look into it to see if it's faster than tput... Just find the appropriate escape sequences and display them via the "echo" command in the script. E.g., to clear screen and home cursor: echo \033[H (ESC-[-H) If you don't know the escape sequences, "man termcap" will give you a list of the termcap capability names, and looking at the /etc/termcap entry for the xterm-xfree86 entry will show you what escape sequence is used ("\E" meaning "escape" or 033 octal (27 hex)). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 10 16:35:35 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:35:35 -0700 Subject: yum update server In-Reply-To: <1086839228.1499.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1086839228.1499.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <40C88DD7.2030801@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > Hello Folks, > > Could someone tell me if the following server (the default in the > yum.conf file when yum is installed on my RH8 system) is the best for > updating etc. my RH8 system 'cos it doesn't seem to work. The error > message is to the effect that it cannot find it. > > http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/ That's not correct. If you want to update RH8 (which DOESN'T use yum by default), you need to find a mirror of the Fedora Legacy project (8.0 is not being maintained by Red Hat any longer). A valid yum mirror for current RH8.0 updates would be: http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ See http://www.fedoralegacy.org for details. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Consciousness: that annoying time between naps. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 10 16:52:21 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:52:21 -0700 Subject: NumLock on with boot? How? In-Reply-To: <20040610131834.9553.qmail@web13526.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040610131834.9553.qmail@web13526.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40C891C5.8020704@vitalstream.com> Stephen W wrote: > I have just installed RH 9.0 and have not been able to > find the place to set NumLock ON as default. There is no "RH 9.0", just "RH9". > I go to enter numbers and don't realize the NumLock is > off until I see there are no numbers on my display. > > Thanks for your help That's normally a BIOS setting. I don't know of a way to force it from the system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - You know you've landed gear-up when it takes full power to taxi. - - -- Chuck Yeager - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 10 16:54:48 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:54:48 -0700 Subject: CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE stops machine? In-Reply-To: <1086878341.4026.33.camel@KENS02L> References: <1086878341.4026.33.camel@KENS02L> Message-ID: <40C89258.2080403@vitalstream.com> Ken Scott wrote: > > Why does CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE stop my RH9 machine (kills power just as if > one pulled the plug) instead of just restarting stopping X-windows? It shouldn't, unless you have BACKSPACE and DELETE remapped in your keymap (possible). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Overweight: When you step on your dog's tail...and it dies. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From David.Mackintosh at xdroop.com Thu Jun 10 17:08:19 2004 From: David.Mackintosh at xdroop.com (David Mackintosh) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:08:19 -0400 Subject: DHCP suddenly not working In-Reply-To: <40C88AA0.6000404@vitalstream.com> References: <40C75843.5010603@rcsis.com> <40C76D30.8020400@vitalstream.com> <40C793B1.2080604@rcsis.com> <40C88AA0.6000404@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040610170818.GA22291@xdroop.com> On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:21:52AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > This was 7.2? I can't recall...does that use pump or dhclient? If it's > dhclient, have you tried running it manually to see what actually goes > on? You might try the same thing if it uses pump (do a "man pump" to > find what debug options there are). Back in the day, I had a RedHat firewall on @Home's cable network. I believe the vintage was 7.x, but I can't remember for sure. For what it's worth, here are my notes from that time: ---- @Home is getting anal about dhcp. RedHat's default pump thing doesn't work, use dhcpcd instead. In /sbin/ifup, change the /sbin/pump command to /sbin/dhcpcd -dR -I cr42217-a eth1 ...where cr42217-a is this week's name assigned to you by @Home (you may have to use Windows to figure out what that is). Note that occasionally something seems to get f***ed up and you have to drop firewall protections in order to get a lease. This is annoying. ---- ...I believe that the -R switch told it not to mess with one of your /etc/resolv.conf and/or your default router (most likely the former). -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | Public Key: dave at xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com/dave/gpg.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 10 17:21:16 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:21:16 -0700 Subject: lacie "big disk and rh 7.3 In-Reply-To: <40C79A7D.5090703@lbl.gov> References: <40C79A7D.5090703@lbl.gov> Message-ID: <40C8988C.3020306@vitalstream.com> chuck lawrence wrote: > > please forgive me in advance if this has been discussed already... > > I've got a pair of dual amd opteron systems (2.4.20-24.7smp kernel) that > I love dearly. they're running rh 7.3. I've just added a lacie 500gb > "big disk" using firewire (400?). I've made it one huge partition > w/fdisk, and I do "modprobe ohci1394" before mounting it. > > so far, so good. it mounts just fine, but more or less randomly while > exercising the disk w/multiple large writes, the whole system freezes. Does it come back or remain frozen? Often on USB drives, the system appears to freeze (well, it gets very sluggish) until the filesystem caches get physically flushed out to the drive. Then everything returns to normal. What you're seeing may be similar (firewire and USB are both serial interfaces). > in addition, just now, it reported "No space left on device" when, in > fact, only 4% of the disk was used. this seems to happen somewhere > between 7 and 8gb in any given dir. starting again in a different dir > allows me to continue writing. maybe this is some sort of quota? Unless you enabled quotas on your system, that's not it. It may be that you're running out of inodes in the directory. 500GB for a single disk is pretty big. You might try to reformat and specify a larger number of inodes (the "-N" option) or possibly specify the "-O dir_index" option to make hashed b-trees for large directory lookup. Another option is "-T largefile" or "-T largefile4" to have the system tweak the filesystem based on 1 inode per megabyte (largefile) or 1 inode per 4 megabytes (largefile4). > this is my first firewire excursion w/any os. any thoughts or > experience out there? As I said, the freeze issue may be similar to that on USB. If so, once the cache gets flushed, the system should respond again. This is one of the issues with serial interfaces--they're fast for read, large writes slow down quite a bit. The "out of space" is probably an inode issue as 500GB is a big drive. Experimentation is your best bet here. If you can sort it out, we'd sure like to know so we can stick it in the FAQs on the RHIL website. You'll get full credit, of course! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Overweight: When you step on your dog's tail...and it dies. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 10 17:36:24 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:36:24 -0700 Subject: DHCP suddenly not working In-Reply-To: <20040610170818.GA22291@xdroop.com> References: <40C75843.5010603@rcsis.com> <40C76D30.8020400@vitalstream.com> <40C793B1.2080604@rcsis.com> <40C88AA0.6000404@vitalstream.com> <20040610170818.GA22291@xdroop.com> Message-ID: <40C89C18.6020008@vitalstream.com> David Mackintosh wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:21:52AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>This was 7.2? I can't recall...does that use pump or dhclient? If it's >>dhclient, have you tried running it manually to see what actually goes >>on? You might try the same thing if it uses pump (do a "man pump" to >>find what debug options there are). > > > Back in the day, I had a RedHat firewall on @Home's cable network. I believe > the vintage was 7.x, but I can't remember for sure. > > For what it's worth, here are my notes from that time: > > ---- > @Home is getting anal about dhcp. > > RedHat's default pump thing doesn't work, use dhcpcd instead. > In /sbin/ifup, change the /sbin/pump command to > > /sbin/dhcpcd -dR -I cr42217-a eth1 > > ...where cr42217-a is this week's name assigned to you by @Home > (you may have to use Windows to figure out what that is). > > Note that occasionally something seems to get f***ed up and you have > to drop firewall protections in order to get a lease. This is annoying. > ---- > > ...I believe that the -R switch told it not to mess with one of your > /etc/resolv.conf and/or your default router (most likely the former). Thanks for the info. As far as the firewall, remember that you must accept data from port 68 over both TCP and UDP: -A INPUT --sport 68 -j ACCEPT The options you specified for dhcpce are nothing new. "-d" means to log debug messages to syslog, "-H" means to set the hostname to that which the DHCP server tells you. The odd one is "-I". Normally dhcpcd behaves as if you used "-I" followed by the NIC's MAC address (hardware address). Where did you get the "cr42217-a" bit from? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - LOOK OUT!!! BEHIND YOU!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From ajai at bway.net Thu Jun 10 17:58:05 2004 From: ajai at bway.net (Ajai Khattri) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:58:05 -0400 (EDT) Subject: NumLock on with boot? How? In-Reply-To: <40C891C5.8020704@vitalstream.com> References: <20040610131834.9553.qmail@web13526.mail.yahoo.com> <40C891C5.8020704@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > That's normally a BIOS setting. I don't know of a way to force it from > the system. Gentoo comes with a script to do this (/etc/init.d/numlock). Looking at the script I see it runs setleds. Checking on a RH9 box I see that setleds is included. So maybe you can craft together an init script to do something like: setleds -D +num < /dev/tty1 Or for all virt consoles: for tty in $(seq 1 6) do setleds -D +num < /dev/${tty} &>/dev/null done -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer From manuaroste at yahoo.es Thu Jun 10 18:08:17 2004 From: manuaroste at yahoo.es (=?iso-8859-1?q?Manuel=20Arostegui=20Ramirez?=) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:08:17 +0200 (CEST) Subject: CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE stops machine? In-Reply-To: <40C89258.2080403@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040610180817.55715.qmail@web52409.mail.yahoo.com> --- Rick Stevens escribi?: > Ken Scott wrote: > > > > Why does CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE stop my RH9 machine > (kills power just as if > > one pulled the plug) instead of just restarting > stopping X-windows? Look at this line of /etc/inittab: # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now You can avoid with a comment: #ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now Cheers > It shouldn't, unless you have BACKSPACE and DELETE > remapped in your > keymap (possible). > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer > rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. > http://www.vitalstream.com - > - > - > - Overweight: When you step on your dog's > tail...and it dies. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 ===== -- Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 http://manuel.todo-linux.com ______________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! lanza su nueva tecnolog?a de b?squedas ?te atreves a comparar? http://busquedas.yahoo.es From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 10 18:14:09 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:14:09 -0700 Subject: NumLock on with boot? How? In-Reply-To: References: <20040610131834.9553.qmail@web13526.mail.yahoo.com> <40C891C5.8020704@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40C8A4F1.8050501@vitalstream.com> Ajai Khattri wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>That's normally a BIOS setting. I don't know of a way to force it from >>the system. > > > Gentoo comes with a script to do this (/etc/init.d/numlock). Looking at > the script I see it runs setleds. Checking on a RH9 box I see that setleds > is included. So maybe you can craft together an init script to do > something like: > > setleds -D +num < /dev/tty1 I hadn't thought of that. Good catch! > Or for all virt consoles: > > for tty in $(seq 1 6) > do > setleds -D +num < /dev/${tty} &>/dev/null > done > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 10 18:17:15 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:17:15 -0700 Subject: CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE stops machine? In-Reply-To: <20040610180817.55715.qmail@web52409.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040610180817.55715.qmail@web52409.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40C8A5AB.7040709@vitalstream.com> Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote: > --- Rick Stevens escribi?: > >>Ken Scott wrote: >> >>> >>>Why does CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE stop my RH9 machine >> >>(kills power just as if >> >>>one pulled the plug) instead of just restarting >> >>stopping X-windows? > > > Look at this line of /etc/inittab: > > # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE > ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now > > You can avoid with a comment: > > #ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now Read carefully. He's saying CTRL-ALT-_BACKSPACE_ is killing his machine. It should restart X. CTRL-ALT-_DELETE_ is the shutdown. His problem is most likely a remap of the keyboard, swapping BS and DEL. >>It shouldn't, unless you have BACKSPACE and DELETE >>remapped in your >>keymap (possible). >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 mr_invincible at rediffmail.com Thu Jun 10 18:34:44 2004 From: mr_invincible at rediffmail.com (invincible invincible invincible) Date: 10 Jun 2004 18:34:44 -0000 Subject: adding swap partition Message-ID: <20040610183444.2809.qmail@webmail10.rediffmail.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- hello all i have installed red hat linux 9.0 but at the time 0f partitioning it was giving me error at the time of creating swap partition. so i installed linux without it and the systems is kind of behaving quite slow. is there a way to add swap partition after we have installed linux. waiting for ur reply. thanx in advance. regards, From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 10 18:52:36 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:52:36 -0700 Subject: adding swap partition In-Reply-To: <20040610183444.2809.qmail@webmail10.rediffmail.com> References: <20040610183444.2809.qmail@webmail10.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <40C8ADF4.3050909@vitalstream.com> invincible invincible invincible wrote: > > hello all > > i have installed red hat linux 9.0 but at the time 0f partitioning it was giving me error at the time of creating swap partition. > so i installed linux without it and the systems is kind of behaving quite slow. > is there a way to add swap partition after we have installed linux. > waiting for ur reply. You can create an empty file of the size you want, use "mkswap" on the file to convert it to swap format, then enable it using the swapon command. For example, to create a 512MB swap file, find a filesystem that has 512MB free (use the "df -h" command). Let's assume that's on your /var filesystem. As root: # dd if=/dev/null of=/var/swapfile bs=1M bc=512 # mkswap /var/swapfile # swapon /var/swapfile You can then edit your /etc/fstab file and add a line like: /var/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 which will cause the file to be used automatically at your next boot. Also note that the maximum size of a single swap partition or file is 2GB, but you can have up to 8 of those (16GB total swap). If you have unassigned space on your hard drive, you can create a swap _partition_ and use it. I don't know what kind of error you got, but the most common one in disk druid is trying to specify a mountpoint for a partition with the "swap" filesystem type. I'd sure like to know what you did and what error you got. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 robertmcclure at earthlink.net Thu Jun 10 21:28:27 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:28:27 -0500 Subject: lacie "big disk and rh 7.3 In-Reply-To: <40C8988C.3020306@vitalstream.com> References: <40C79A7D.5090703@lbl.gov> <40C8988C.3020306@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040610212827.GA21293@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:21:16AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > > Experimentation is your best bet here. If you can sort it out, we'd > sure like to know so we can stick it in the FAQs on the RHIL website. > You'll get full credit, of course! And don't worry about the posting of your email address. We use JavaScript obfuscation of the email addys that (so far as I know) the spambots can't grok. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com God so loved the world that He did not send a committee. From chornbro at gte.net Thu Jun 10 21:49:56 2004 From: chornbro at gte.net (cfh) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:49:56 -1100 Subject: dhcp server issues Message-ID: <20040610214956.BEEM29216.out009.verizon.net@outgoing.verizon.net> I have a Linux computer (call it g1) that acts as a gateway router to the Internet for a internal LAN. The computer has three Ethernet cards, only two are used at this time. Eth0 gets it's IP and gateway from a dhcp server in the internal LAN and eth2 gets its IP and gateway info from my ISP's dhcp server. The problem is that eth0 comes up first and the routing table gets the gateway that the other computers on the LAN get, which is Linux computer (g1). Then eth2 comes up and gets it's IP from the service provider, but the routing table is not updated with the ISP assigned gateway because it already got it's gateway IP from the internal dhcp server. I need the routing table on g1 to be updated with the gateway IP from the ISP so it can find the Internet. I know I could make eth0 the external card so it gets assigned the ISP gateway first, but other issues make that undesirable. Any ideas on how to handle this? Is there a way to make the internal dhcp server not giv! e a gateway IP to a specific machine (g1). From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 10 22:37:22 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:37:22 -0700 Subject: dhcp server issues In-Reply-To: <20040610214956.BEEM29216.out009.verizon.net@outgoing.verizon.net> References: <20040610214956.BEEM29216.out009.verizon.net@outgoing.verizon.net> Message-ID: <40C8E2A2.7010601@vitalstream.com> cfh wrote: > I have a Linux computer (call it g1) that acts as a gateway router to the Internet for a internal LAN. The computer has three Ethernet cards, only two are used at this time. Eth0 gets it's IP and gateway from a dhcp server in the internal LAN and eth2 gets its IP and gateway info from my ISP's dhcp server. The problem is that eth0 comes up first and the routing table gets the gateway that the other computers on the LAN get, which is Linux computer (g1). Then eth2 comes up and gets it's IP from the service provider, but the routing table is not updated with the ISP assigned gateway because it already got it's gateway IP from the internal dhcp server. I need the routing table on g1 to be updated with the gateway IP from the ISP so it can find the Internet. I know I could make eth0 the external card so it gets assigned the ISP gateway first, but other issues make that undesirable. Any ideas on how to handle this? Is there a way to make the internal dhcp server not gi v! > e a gateway IP to a specific machine (g1). First, please format your messages using plain text and 72 characters per line. It makes it awful hard to read when they run on like that. It rather depends on which DHCP server you have on the internal LAN. Most can be configured to not send whatever you wish. Is there a reason you have your gateway machine set up to take a DHCP address? That's generally considered bad form. A gateway is the anchor point of your network and it really should have a fixed address on your LAN so the other machines can use it. By convention, the gateway is either the first or last usable address in a subnet. If you're using the normal 192.168/16 internal network, make eth0 a fixed address of 192.168.0.1 and tell your internal DHCP server that its pool is 192.168.0.2 through 192.168.255.254 (or whatever you prefer). Also tell the server that the gateway to hand off to the clients is 192.168.0.1. Simple and much, much cleaner. If you set up eth0 like that, you can set up a default route in /etc/sysconfig/network that specifies using eth2 as the outbound interface even before it gets an IP. Make your /etc/sysconfig/network look like: NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=whatever.yourdomain.tld GATEWAYDEV=eth2 Voila! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 gnichols at tpg.com.au Fri Jun 11 04:49:37 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 11 Jun 2004 14:49:37 +1000 Subject: yum update server In-Reply-To: <40C88DD7.2030801@vitalstream.com> References: <1086839228.1499.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C88DD7.2030801@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1086929378.1365.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 02:35, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > Hello Folks, > > > > Could someone tell me if the following server (the default in the > > yum.conf file when yum is installed on my RH8 system) is the best for > > updating etc. my RH8 system 'cos it doesn't seem to work. The error > > message is to the effect that it cannot find it. > > > > http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/ > > That's not correct. If you want to update RH8 (which DOESN'T use yum by > default), you need to find a mirror of the Fedora Legacy project (8.0 is > not being maintained by Red Hat any longer). > > A valid yum mirror for current RH8.0 updates would be: > > http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ > > See http://www.fedoralegacy.org for details. Thanks Rick, I have only just installed yum and I guessed the default server was not correct. I only want yum to update/install new versions of particular programs I need for specific purposes. RH8 has been really reliable for me and I find it comfortable to use. I can see no real reason to update it from a usability point of view but I know that eventually I will have to bite the bullet. The constant flow of new releases of RH/FC I find a real PITB. Four in the last 18-24 months. Worse than Windows.:-) No sooner bed one down than you have a new release to contend with. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols Public Key available from http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/#extract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh, by the way, which one's Pink? -- Pink Floyd ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - IMPORTANT. - - The contents of this email and any attachments, which may be con- - - fidential, are sent for the personal attention of the addressee/s - - only. If you receive this email and are not the intended addressee - - please inform the sender and delete this email immediately. Use, - - copying, disclosure or forwarding of the contents of this email - - and/or any attachment/s is not authourised. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jun 11 04:46:37 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:46:37 -0700 Subject: yum update server In-Reply-To: <1086929378.1365.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1086839228.1499.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C88DD7.2030801@vitalstream.com> <1086929378.1365.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <40C9392D.9000804@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 02:35, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: >> >>>Hello Folks, >>> >>>Could someone tell me if the following server (the default in the >>>yum.conf file when yum is installed on my RH8 system) is the best for >>>updating etc. my RH8 system 'cos it doesn't seem to work. The error >>>message is to the effect that it cannot find it. >>> >>>http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/ >> >>That's not correct. If you want to update RH8 (which DOESN'T use yum by >>default), you need to find a mirror of the Fedora Legacy project (8.0 is >>not being maintained by Red Hat any longer). >> >>A valid yum mirror for current RH8.0 updates would be: >> >>http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ >> >>See http://www.fedoralegacy.org for details. > > > Thanks Rick, I have only just installed yum and I guessed the default > server was not correct. I only want yum to update/install new versions > of particular programs I need for specific purposes. > > RH8 has been really reliable for me and I find it comfortable to use. I > can see no real reason to update it from a usability point of view but I > know that eventually I will have to bite the bullet. The constant flow > of new releases of RH/FC I find a real PITB. Four in the last 18-24 > months. Worse than Windows.:-) No sooner bed one down than you have a > new release to contend with. The number of updates for 8.0 scared me. IMHO, it never should have been released. RH9 was far more stable. However, since both are dead now, I've switched to FC1. I have FC2 boxes, too (an SMP P4 and an Opteron-64), but kernel 2.6 is a bit too unstable for production use. I am, however, handling over 20M mail messages a day through four FC1 boxes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - UNIX is actually quite user friendly. The problem is that it's - - just very picky of who its friends are! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gnichols at tpg.com.au Fri Jun 11 05:58:29 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 11 Jun 2004 15:58:29 +1000 Subject: yum update server In-Reply-To: <40C9392D.9000804@vitalstream.com> References: <1086839228.1499.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C88DD7.2030801@vitalstream.com> <1086929378.1365.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C9392D.9000804@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1086933510.1365.55.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 14:46, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 02:35, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: > >> > >>>Hello Folks, > >>> > >>>Could someone tell me if the following server (the default in the > >>>yum.conf file when yum is installed on my RH8 system) is the best for > >>>updating etc. my RH8 system 'cos it doesn't seem to work. The error > >>>message is to the effect that it cannot find it. > >>> > >>>http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/ > >> > >>That's not correct. If you want to update RH8 (which DOESN'T use yum by > >>default), you need to find a mirror of the Fedora Legacy project (8.0 is > >>not being maintained by Red Hat any longer). > >> > >>A valid yum mirror for current RH8.0 updates would be: > >> > >>http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ > >> > >>See http://www.fedoralegacy.org for details. > > > > > > Thanks Rick, I have only just installed yum and I guessed the default > > server was not correct. I only want yum to update/install new versions > > of particular programs I need for specific purposes. > > > > RH8 has been really reliable for me and I find it comfortable to use. I > > can see no real reason to update it from a usability point of view but I > > know that eventually I will have to bite the bullet. The constant flow > > of new releases of RH/FC I find a real PITB. Four in the last 18-24 > > months. Worse than Windows.:-) No sooner bed one down than you have a > > new release to contend with. > > The number of updates for 8.0 scared me. There certainly were quite a few. I didn't apply most of them, only those concerned with security. > IMHO, it never should have been released. RH9 was far more stable. > However, since both are dead now, I've switched to FC1. > > I have FC2 boxes, too (an SMP P4 and an Opteron-64), but kernel 2.6 is a > bit too unstable for production use. I am, however, handling over 20M > mail messages a day through four FC1 boxes. That's some throughput, you would need reliability there. I'll wait a little longer then make the switch to FC2 and hope the change of hats is as comfortable as RH8. You know, 'heart rules head' syndrome. I've been with RH since 6.1 and I fell in love with RH8 as soon as I first fired it up after installation and am very reluctant to leave it. Like a pair of old slippers :-) -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols Public Key available from http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/#extract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh, by the way, which one's Pink? -- Pink Floyd ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - IMPORTANT. - - The contents of this email and any attachments, which may be con- - - fidential, are sent for the personal attention of the addressee/s - - only. If you receive this email and are not the intended addressee - - please inform the sender and delete this email immediately. Use, - - copying, disclosure or forwarding of the contents of this email - - and/or any attachment/s is not authourised. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From P.C.M.Chiu at rl.ac.uk Fri Jun 11 09:01:13 2004 From: P.C.M.Chiu at rl.ac.uk (Chiu, PCM (Peter) ) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:01:13 +0100 Subject: adding swap partition Message-ID: <49F73BEED865D3119F8700902773C9F9041CCE74@exchange09.rl.ac.uk> Dear Rick, >which will cause the file to be used automatically at your next boot. Also note that the maximum size of a single >>swap partition or file is 2GB, but you can have up to 8 of those (16GB total swap). How do you determine the limits on the maximum swap file or partitions and their total number? Peter -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: 10 June 2004 19:53 To: invincible invincible invincible; Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: adding swap partition invincible invincible invincible wrote: > > hello all > > i have installed red hat linux 9.0 but at the time 0f partitioning it > was giving me error at the time of creating swap partition. so i > installed linux without it and the systems is kind of behaving quite > slow. is there a way to add swap partition after we have installed > linux. waiting for ur reply. You can create an empty file of the size you want, use "mkswap" on the file to convert it to swap format, then enable it using the swapon command. For example, to create a 512MB swap file, find a filesystem that has 512MB free (use the "df -h" command). Let's assume that's on your /var filesystem. As root: # dd if=/dev/null of=/var/swapfile bs=1M bc=512 # mkswap /var/swapfile # swapon /var/swapfile You can then edit your /etc/fstab file and add a line like: /var/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 which will cause the file to be used automatically at your next boot. Also note that the maximum size of a single swap partition or file is 2GB, but you can have up to 8 of those (16GB total swap). If you have unassigned space on your hard drive, you can create a swap _partition_ and use it. I don't know what kind of error you got, but the most common one in disk druid is trying to specify a mountpoint for a partition with the "swap" filesystem type. I'd sure like to know what you did and what error you got. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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 m.antox at tin.it Fri Jun 11 12:24:26 2004 From: m.antox at tin.it (m.antox at tin.it) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:24:26 +0200 Subject: installing error anyone could help me Message-ID: <4087DF430005593C@ims3c.cp.tin.it> i am new with fedora, and i was trying to install it in my pc but i have this error message(before, i was able to install it but i repeat the installation because i was not sure that everything was ok): File"/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1048, in handle render call back self.currentwindow.render callback() File"/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", lline 242, in render call back self.intf.icw.nextclicked() File"/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 763, innextclicked self.dispatch.goto next() File"/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 169, in gotonext self.mve step() File"/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 237, in move step rc=apply(func,self.bindargs(args)) File"/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 1127, in do postinstall stdout=devnull) File"/usr/llib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 53, in exec with redirect raise run time error, command+" can not be run" Run time error: /usr/sbin/kudzu can not be run is there anyone could help me thanks From ajai at bway.net Fri Jun 11 13:09:31 2004 From: ajai at bway.net (Ajai Khattri) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:09:31 -0400 (EDT) Subject: adding swap partition In-Reply-To: <49F73BEED865D3119F8700902773C9F9041CCE74@exchange09.rl.ac.uk> References: <49F73BEED865D3119F8700902773C9F9041CCE74@exchange09.rl.ac.uk> Message-ID: On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Chiu, PCM (Peter) wrote: > How do you determine the limits on the maximum swap file or partitions and > their total number? The convention is to make swap at *least* twice the size of your real memory. So if you have 512Mb RAM, then make swap 1024Mb. -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer From m.antox at tin.it Fri Jun 11 13:25:28 2004 From: m.antox at tin.it (m.antox at tin.it) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:25:28 +0200 Subject: adding swap partition In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <4087DF4300055C19@ims3c.cp.tin.it> I have 1024 MB Ram and I wrote 2060 for the swap partition. The hd was a maxtor 160gb and my partitions were: \boot 100Mb \ \swap 2060 The strange was that the first time, i was able to install it. One more detail is that when I have installed it I power up the pc and fedora began to check the pc before it ends the check there was a power down and I retry to reinstall from the beginnig but i have that error always. Maybe you could help me Bye Rocco >-- Messaggio originale -- >Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:09:31 -0400 (EDT) >From: Ajai Khattri >To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >Cc: >Subject: RE: adding swap partition >Reply-To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > >On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Chiu, PCM (Peter) wrote: > >> How do you determine the limits on the maximum swap file or partitions >and >> their total number? > >The convention is to make swap at *least* twice the size of your real >memory. So if you have 512Mb RAM, then make swap 1024Mb. > >-- >Aj. >Sys. Admin / Developer > > >_______________________________________________ >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 fdgrant at powercom.net Fri Jun 11 17:05:44 2004 From: fdgrant at powercom.net (Fred Grant) Date: 11 Jun 2004 12:05:44 -0500 Subject: Num lock Message-ID: <1086973544.3699.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> I too would like to have the num lock key turned on at start-up. Would someone please provide a script that I could paste into the proper file to make this happen? Also, I need to know which file to paste it into. I tried the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file but nothing happened. I have RH9 installed. Thanks From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jun 11 17:04:04 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:04:04 -0700 Subject: adding swap partition In-Reply-To: <49F73BEED865D3119F8700902773C9F9041CCE74@exchange09.rl.ac.uk> References: <49F73BEED865D3119F8700902773C9F9041CCE74@exchange09.rl.ac.uk> Message-ID: <40C9E604.8030302@vitalstream.com> Chiu, PCM (Peter) wrote: > Dear Rick, > > >>which will cause the file to be used automatically at your next boot. Also > > note that the maximum size of a single >>swap partition or file is 2GB, but > you can have up to 8 of those (16GB total swap). > > How do you determine the limits on the maximum swap file or partitions and > their total number? Both are built into the kernel source and are mentioned in the kernel docs. The 2GB limit on an individual swap partition or file is based on the fact that a signed 32-bit integer is used to index into the swap (2^31 = 2GB). This is also the cause of the 2GB file size limit with older programs (ones which don't use an "off_t" for the index variable). The number of swap partitions or files is also documented. I don't have a good answer as to why it's only 8, but 8 it is. > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens > Sent: 10 June 2004 19:53 > To: invincible invincible invincible; Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: adding swap partition > > > invincible invincible invincible wrote: > >> >>hello all >> >>i have installed red hat linux 9.0 but at the time 0f partitioning it >>was giving me error at the time of creating swap partition. so i >>installed linux without it and the systems is kind of behaving quite >>slow. is there a way to add swap partition after we have installed >>linux. waiting for ur reply. > > > You can create an empty file of the size you want, use "mkswap" on the file > to convert it to swap format, then enable it using the swapon command. > > For example, to create a 512MB swap file, find a filesystem that has 512MB > free (use the "df -h" command). Let's assume that's on your /var > filesystem. As root: > > # dd if=/dev/null of=/var/swapfile bs=1M bc=512 > # mkswap /var/swapfile > # swapon /var/swapfile > > You can then edit your /etc/fstab file and add a line like: > > /var/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 > > which will cause the file to be used automatically at your next boot. Also > note that the maximum size of a single swap partition or file is 2GB, but > you can have up to 8 of those (16GB total swap). > > If you have unassigned space on your hard drive, you can create a swap > _partition_ and use it. I don't know what kind of error you got, but the > most common one in disk druid is trying to specify a mountpoint for a > partition with the "swap" filesystem type. I'd sure like to know what you > did and what error you got. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - 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? - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 - - - - IGNORE that man behind the keyboard! - - - The Wizard of OS - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jun 11 17:05:17 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:05:17 -0700 Subject: adding swap partition In-Reply-To: References: <49F73BEED865D3119F8700902773C9F9041CCE74@exchange09.rl.ac.uk> Message-ID: <40C9E64D.3000909@vitalstream.com> Ajai Khattri wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Chiu, PCM (Peter) wrote: > > >>How do you determine the limits on the maximum swap file or partitions and >>their total number? > > > The convention is to make swap at *least* twice the size of your real > memory. So if you have 512Mb RAM, then make swap 1024Mb. Yes, but that's just a rule of thumb. It can vary widely, depending on what you ask the machine to do. If you run a lot of big programs simultaneously, you'll want more swap. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - IGNORE that man behind the keyboard! - - - The Wizard of OS - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jun 11 17:07:43 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:07:43 -0700 Subject: adding swap partition In-Reply-To: <4087DF4300055C19@ims3c.cp.tin.it> References: <4087DF4300055C19@ims3c.cp.tin.it> Message-ID: <40C9E6DF.8030500@vitalstream.com> m.antox at tin.it wrote: > I have 1024 MB Ram and I wrote 2060 for the swap partition. > The hd was a maxtor 160gb and my partitions were: > > \boot 100Mb > \ > \swap 2060 > > The strange was that the first time, i was able to install it. One more > detail is that when I have installed it I power up the pc and fedora began > to check the pc before it ends the check there was a power down and I retry > to reinstall from the beginnig but i have that error always. What check? Swap isn't fsck'd at boot. Your problem is probably something totally unrelated to swap. My guess is you have a bad RAM stick or something like that. Boot of the first Fedora CD and run the memcheck from there (enter "memcheck86" at the "boot:" prompt). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I.R.S.: We've got what it takes to take what you've got! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jun 11 17:08:26 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:08:26 -0700 Subject: installing error anyone could help me In-Reply-To: <4087DF430005593C@ims3c.cp.tin.it> References: <4087DF430005593C@ims3c.cp.tin.it> Message-ID: <40C9E70A.4050901@vitalstream.com> m.antox at tin.it wrote: > i am new with fedora, and i was trying to install it in my pc but i have > this error message(before, i was able to install it but i repeat the installation > because i was not sure that everything was ok): > > File"/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1048, in handle render call back > self.currentwindow.render callback() > File"/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", lline 242, in render call back > self.intf.icw.nextclicked() > File"/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 763, innextclicked > self.dispatch.goto next() > File"/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 169, in gotonext > self.mve step() > File"/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 237, in move step > rc=apply(func,self.bindargs(args)) > File"/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 1127, in do postinstall > stdout=devnull) > File"/usr/llib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 53, in exec with redirect > raise run time error, command+" can not be run" > Run time error: /usr/sbin/kudzu can not be run > > is there anyone could help me Are you doing a fresh install or an upgrade from Red Hat Linux? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I.R.S.: We've got what it takes to take what you've got! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Fri Jun 11 17:24:39 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:24:39 -0500 Subject: Num lock In-Reply-To: <1086973544.3699.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1086973544.3699.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <20040611172439.GA28905@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 12:05:44PM -0500, Fred Grant wrote: > I too would like to have the num lock key turned on at start-up. Would > someone please provide a script that I could paste into the proper file > to make this happen? Also, I need to know which file to paste it into. > > I tried the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file but nothing happened. I have RH9 > installed. > > Thanks Google is your friend. I Googled for "numlock boot linux" (without quotes) and the first hit was this http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=180272 which appears to have several useful solutions. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Children need models, not critics. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jun 11 17:18:40 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:18:40 -0700 Subject: Num lock In-Reply-To: <1086973544.3699.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1086973544.3699.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <40C9E970.1050407@vitalstream.com> Fred Grant wrote: > I too would like to have the num lock key turned on at start-up. Would > someone please provide a script that I could paste into the proper file > to make this happen? Also, I need to know which file to paste it into. > > I tried the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file but nothing happened. I have RH9 > installed. Put this in /etc/rc.d/rc.local: TTYLIST=/dev/tty[1-6] for TTY in $TTYLIST; do setleds -D +num < $TTY done This will turn on numlock on the six virtual consoles at boot time. If you want it on in GUI mode, you need to add that to your ~/.bashrc too so that when you open an xterm, it gets executed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - ...Had this been an actual emergency, we would have fled in terror - - and you'd be on your own, pal! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From ajai at bway.net Fri Jun 11 17:32:09 2004 From: ajai at bway.net (Ajai Khattri) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:32:09 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Num lock In-Reply-To: <40C9E970.1050407@vitalstream.com> References: <1086973544.3699.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C9E970.1050407@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > This will turn on numlock on the six virtual consoles at boot time. If > you want it on in GUI mode, you need to add that to your ~/.bashrc too > so that when you open an xterm, it gets executed. You probably *dont* want to do that since it only works on consoles... -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer From ajai at bway.net Fri Jun 11 17:40:22 2004 From: ajai at bway.net (Ajai Khattri) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:40:22 -0400 (EDT) Subject: adding swap partition In-Reply-To: <40C9E64D.3000909@vitalstream.com> References: <49F73BEED865D3119F8700902773C9F9041CCE74@exchange09.rl.ac.uk> <40C9E64D.3000909@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > Yes, but that's just a rule of thumb. It can vary widely, depending > on what you ask the machine to do. If you run a lot of big programs > simultaneously, you'll want more swap. True, it depends on the server usage. If you're planning memory upgrades you may want to make it less (or more if you're running a big database and dont have enough RAM). I suppose stuff like this falls under "fine tuning" of a system and is a subject unto itself. [In certain situations it may even make sense to have no swap at all - I have NetBSD running off a 256Mb CF Card on an NEC MobilePro 780 (WinCE) machine where you probably *dont* want constant swap writes wearing out the flash card! (Mind you I configured that machine to run almost nothing - at boot it has maybe 5 processes running and nothing else, not even any virtual consoles. I have a wireless card in it and use it as a very portable wireless ssh terminal ;-) ] From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jun 11 17:38:26 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:38:26 -0700 Subject: Num lock In-Reply-To: References: <1086973544.3699.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C9E970.1050407@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40C9EE12.7020908@vitalstream.com> Ajai Khattri wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>This will turn on numlock on the six virtual consoles at boot time. If >>you want it on in GUI mode, you need to add that to your ~/.bashrc too >>so that when you open an xterm, it gets executed. > > > You probably *dont* want to do that since it only works on consoles.. True, but I don't know of a way to enable it for the GUI as a whole (well, at least not under Gnome). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - su -; find / -name someone -exec touch \{\} \; - - - The UNIX way of touching someone - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jun 11 17:41:59 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:41:59 -0700 Subject: adding swap partition In-Reply-To: References: <49F73BEED865D3119F8700902773C9F9041CCE74@exchange09.rl.ac.uk> <40C9E64D.3000909@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40C9EEE7.5000309@vitalstream.com> Ajai Khattri wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>Yes, but that's just a rule of thumb. It can vary widely, depending >>on what you ask the machine to do. If you run a lot of big programs >>simultaneously, you'll want more swap. > > > True, it depends on the server usage. If you're planning memory upgrades > you may want to make it less (or more if you're running a big database > and dont have enough RAM). I suppose stuff like this falls under "fine > tuning" of a system and is a subject unto itself. Precisely. One of the nice things about swap _files_ is the ability to create them "on the fly" if you need them. If you're stuck with swap _partitions_, you have to futz with your disk layouts. Ugh! > [In certain situations it may even make sense to have no swap at all - I > have NetBSD running off a 256Mb CF Card on an NEC MobilePro 780 (WinCE) > machine where you probably *dont* want constant swap writes wearing out > the flash card! (Mind you I configured that machine to run almost > nothing - at boot it has maybe 5 processes running and nothing else, not > even any virtual consoles. I have a wireless card in it and use it as a > very portable wireless ssh terminal ;-) ] Yes, that's true, but PDAs and the like are "special cases". For most users and servers (note I said "most"), a single swap partition or file that's 2x your RAM is enough. If you need more, use the stuff I posted before to create a swap file and activate it. Simple. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - su -; find / -name someone -exec touch \{\} \; - - - The UNIX way of touching someone - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From ajai at bway.net Fri Jun 11 17:53:27 2004 From: ajai at bway.net (Ajai Khattri) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:53:27 -0400 (EDT) Subject: adding swap partition In-Reply-To: <40C9EEE7.5000309@vitalstream.com> References: <49F73BEED865D3119F8700902773C9F9041CCE74@exchange09.rl.ac.uk> <40C9E64D.3000909@vitalstream.com> <40C9EEE7.5000309@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > Precisely. One of the nice things about swap _files_ is the ability to > create them "on the fly" if you need them. If you're stuck with swap > _partitions_, you have to futz with your disk layouts. Ugh! Its a good job that Linux supports both ;-) -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer From brenden at rcsis.com Fri Jun 11 20:33:13 2004 From: brenden at rcsis.com (Brenden T.) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:33:13 -0700 Subject: DHCP suddenly not working In-Reply-To: <40C89C18.6020008@vitalstream.com> References: <40C75843.5010603@rcsis.com> <40C76D30.8020400@vitalstream.com> <40C793B1.2080604@rcsis.com> <40C88AA0.6000404@vitalstream.com> <20040610170818.GA22291@xdroop.com> <40C89C18.6020008@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40CA1709.4020708@rcsis.com> Rick Stevens wrote: > David Mackintosh wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:21:52AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >> >> >>> This was 7.2? I can't recall...does that use pump or dhclient? If >>> it's >>> dhclient, have you tried running it manually to see what actually goes >>> on? You might try the same thing if it uses pump (do a "man pump" to >>> find what debug options there are). >> >> >> >> Back in the day, I had a RedHat firewall on @Home's cable network. I >> believe >> the vintage was 7.x, but I can't remember for sure. >> >> For what it's worth, here are my notes from that time: >> >> ---- >> @Home is getting anal about dhcp. >> >> RedHat's default pump thing doesn't work, use dhcpcd instead. >> In /sbin/ifup, change the /sbin/pump command to >> >> /sbin/dhcpcd -dR -I cr42217-a eth1 >> >> ...where cr42217-a is this week's name assigned to you by @Home >> (you may have to use Windows to figure out what that is). >> >> Note that occasionally something seems to get f***ed up and you have >> to drop firewall protections in order to get a lease. This is annoying. >> ---- >> >> ...I believe that the -R switch told it not to mess with one of your >> /etc/resolv.conf and/or your default router (most likely the former). > > > Thanks for the info. > > As far as the firewall, remember that you must accept data from port 68 > over both TCP and UDP: > > -A INPUT --sport 68 -j ACCEPT > > The options you specified for dhcpce are nothing new. "-d" means to log > debug messages to syslog, "-H" means to set the hostname to that which > the DHCP server tells you. The odd one is "-I". Normally dhcpcd > behaves as if you used "-I" followed by the NIC's MAC address (hardware > address). Where did you get the "cr42217-a" bit from? > Thanks all for the info. The connection is now partially working, with a little manual intervention at startup. At least some of the problem was probably caused when I experimented on it but forgot to take down the firewall (oops!). Right now I'm investigating why it works once then quits if I reboot. Maybe dhcpcd is not be stopped correctly? The RH 7.2 scripts do a "kill `cat /var/run/dhcpcd-${DEVICE}.pid`" for some reason. I substituted "/sbin/dhcpcd -k", we'll see if it helps. Note now that the procedure to start it is: 1. Shutdown network 2. Swap DSL modem connect to other nic 3. Run a test dhcp on that nic ("dhcpcd -T") which will succeed with the new nic, 4. Swap cable back, 5. Start network and dhcp will succeed on the original nic (where it was failing before). Wild... From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jun 11 20:43:38 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:43:38 -0700 Subject: DHCP suddenly not working In-Reply-To: <40CA1709.4020708@rcsis.com> References: <40C75843.5010603@rcsis.com> <40C76D30.8020400@vitalstream.com> <40C793B1.2080604@rcsis.com> <40C88AA0.6000404@vitalstream.com> <20040610170818.GA22291@xdroop.com> <40C89C18.6020008@vitalstream.com> <40CA1709.4020708@rcsis.com> Message-ID: <40CA197A.8060503@vitalstream.com> Brenden T. wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > >> David Mackintosh wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:21:52AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> >>> >>>> This was 7.2? I can't recall...does that use pump or dhclient? If >>>> it's >>>> dhclient, have you tried running it manually to see what actually goes >>>> on? You might try the same thing if it uses pump (do a "man pump" to >>>> find what debug options there are). >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Back in the day, I had a RedHat firewall on @Home's cable network. I >>> believe >>> the vintage was 7.x, but I can't remember for sure. >>> >>> For what it's worth, here are my notes from that time: >>> >>> ---- >>> @Home is getting anal about dhcp. >>> >>> RedHat's default pump thing doesn't work, use dhcpcd instead. >>> In /sbin/ifup, change the /sbin/pump command to >>> >>> /sbin/dhcpcd -dR -I cr42217-a eth1 >>> >>> ...where cr42217-a is this week's name assigned to you by @Home >>> (you may have to use Windows to figure out what that is). >>> >>> Note that occasionally something seems to get f***ed up and you have >>> to drop firewall protections in order to get a lease. This is annoying. >>> ---- >>> >>> ...I believe that the -R switch told it not to mess with one of your >>> /etc/resolv.conf and/or your default router (most likely the former). >> >> >> >> Thanks for the info. >> >> As far as the firewall, remember that you must accept data from port 68 >> over both TCP and UDP: >> >> -A INPUT --sport 68 -j ACCEPT >> >> The options you specified for dhcpce are nothing new. "-d" means to log >> debug messages to syslog, "-H" means to set the hostname to that which >> the DHCP server tells you. The odd one is "-I". Normally dhcpcd >> behaves as if you used "-I" followed by the NIC's MAC address (hardware >> address). Where did you get the "cr42217-a" bit from? >> > > Thanks all for the info. The connection is now partially working, with > a little manual intervention at startup. At least some of the problem > was probably caused when I experimented on it but forgot to take down > the firewall (oops!). > > Right now I'm investigating why it works once then quits if I reboot. > Maybe dhcpcd is not be stopped correctly? The RH 7.2 scripts do a "kill > `cat /var/run/dhcpcd-${DEVICE}.pid`" for some reason. I substituted > "/sbin/dhcpcd -k", we'll see if it helps. Or "/sbin/killall dhcpcd" > Note now that the procedure to start it is: 1. Shutdown network 2. Swap > DSL modem connect to other nic 3. Run a test dhcp on that nic ("dhcpcd > -T") which will succeed with the new nic, 4. Swap cable back, 5. Start > network and dhcp will succeed on the original nic (where it was failing > before). Wild... That's weird. Have you watched the log or run it in the foreground to see what it's doing? Is it possible that the module used to drive that NIC is having issues negotiating a speed or flow control issue? What kind of cards are you using? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Huked on foniks reely wurked for me! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From brenden at rcsis.com Sat Jun 12 03:49:56 2004 From: brenden at rcsis.com (Brenden T.) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 20:49:56 -0700 Subject: DHCP suddenly not working In-Reply-To: <40CA197A.8060503@vitalstream.com> References: <40C75843.5010603@rcsis.com> <40C76D30.8020400@vitalstream.com> <40C793B1.2080604@rcsis.com> <40C88AA0.6000404@vitalstream.com> <20040610170818.GA22291@xdroop.com> <40C89C18.6020008@vitalstream.com> <40CA1709.4020708@rcsis.com> <40CA197A.8060503@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40CA7D64.9030801@rcsis.com> Rick Stevens wrote: > That's weird. Have you watched the log or run it in the foreground to > see what it's doing? Is it possible that the module used to drive that > NIC is having issues negotiating a speed or flow control issue? What > kind of cards are you using? > That's a good idea, I hadn't even considered hardware problems. If this doesn't fix it I might try to fiddle with the hardware. I don't know any more what type of cards I've got! They were $10 network cards from Fry's! I think they'reLinksys 10/100 Network Everywhere cards, but I'm not sure. I think it uses the eepro100 driver. The other driver I have is natsemi, which I think is for the Netgear card I have. From gnichols at tpg.com.au Sat Jun 12 05:54:41 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 12 Jun 2004 15:54:41 +1000 Subject: yum update server In-Reply-To: <40C88DD7.2030801@vitalstream.com> References: <1086839228.1499.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C88DD7.2030801@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1087019682.1276.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 02:35, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > Hello Folks, > > > > Could someone tell me if the following server (the default in the > > yum.conf file when yum is installed on my RH8 system) is the best for > > updating etc. my RH8 system 'cos it doesn't seem to work. The error > > message is to the effect that it cannot find it. > > > > http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/ > > That's not correct. If you want to update RH8 (which DOESN'T use yum by > default), you need to find a mirror of the Fedora Legacy project (8.0 is > not being maintained by Red Hat any longer). > > A valid yum mirror for current RH8.0 updates would be: > > http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ > > See http://www.fedoralegacy.org for details. Hi Rick, I checked out the fedora legacy site and decided to follow their advice. They gave instructions for setting up an RH8 system which included updating rpm (several packages), python, gpg and popt. The rpm packages required an update of my glibc, which I updated, again, several packages. I already have a much later version of python and gpg than they advised so I didn't update those. I updated yum to the version they advised and yum.conf to match the one recommended. It uses: http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/updates/ as the url. 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Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From dkgrow at mindspring.com Sat Jun 12 08:02:10 2004 From: dkgrow at mindspring.com (Dennis K Grow) Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 01:02:10 -0700 Subject: Num lock In-Reply-To: <40C9EE12.7020908@vitalstream.com> References: <1086973544.3699.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C9E970.1050407@vitalstream.com> <40C9EE12.7020908@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40CAB882.9010700@mindspring.com> Rick Stevens wrote: > Ajai Khattri wrote: > >> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: >> >> >>> This will turn on numlock on the six virtual consoles at boot time. If >>> you want it on in GUI mode, you need to add that to your ~/.bashrc too >>> so that when you open an xterm, it gets executed. >> >> >> >> You probably *dont* want to do that since it only works on consoles.. > > > True, but I don't know of a way to enable it for the GUI as a whole > (well, at least not under Gnome). This works for me: http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/numlockx/ Dennis From mr_invincible at rediffmail.com Sat Jun 12 16:10:41 2004 From: mr_invincible at rediffmail.com (invincible invincible invincible) Date: 12 Jun 2004 16:10:41 -0000 Subject: recovering from superblock Message-ID: <20040612161041.22627.qmail@webmail9.rediffmail.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- hi all. is there a way to recover a superblock and inodes if they got currupted somehow. thanx for any help. regards From kmsexton at melbpc.org.au Sat Jun 12 23:53:02 2004 From: kmsexton at melbpc.org.au (Ken M Sexton) Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 09:53:02 +1000 Subject: NumLock on with boot? How?1 In-Reply-To: <20040611160048.E5ACE73CEB@hormel.redhat.com> References: <20040611160048.E5ACE73CEB@hormel.redhat.com> Message-ID: <6.1.0.6.0.20040613094614.029fb430@popa.melbpc.org.au> > 9. Re: NumLock on with boot? How? (Ajai Khattri) >>I go to enter numbers and don't realize the NumLock is >>off until I see there are no numbers on my display. >>Thanks for your help > >That's normally a BIOS setting. I don't know of a way to force it from >the system. >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - I have the same problem. I am running RH7.2 (which does all I ask of it, so I have not upgraded. When it fails me then I'll do something about it.) I have been in and checked the BIOS and it is set for NumLock ON in the boot options. However once RH boots (it is a dedicated Linux machine) NumLock is turned off. It is a pain to this not-so-young person who forgets to check before entering numbers! Is there a solution within Linux? Thanks Ken From kmsexton at melbpc.org.au Sun Jun 13 01:33:53 2004 From: kmsexton at melbpc.org.au (Ken M Sexton) Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:33:53 +1000 Subject: NumLock on with boot? How? Message-ID: <6.1.0.6.0.20040613113235.02a28d40@popa.melbpc.org.au> My apologies, I was a bit slow in checking e-mails. My question has been answered. Thanks. Ken > 9. Re: NumLock on with boot? How? (Ajai Khattri) >>I go to enter numbers and don't realize the NumLock is >>off until I see there are no numbers on my display. >>Thanks for your help > >That's normally a BIOS setting. I don't know of a way to force it from >the system. >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - I have the same problem. I am running RH7.2 (which does all I ask of it, so I have not upgraded. When it fails me then I'll do something about it.) I have been in and checked the BIOS and it is set for NumLock ON in the boot options. However once RH boots (it is a dedicated Linux machine) NumLock is turned off. It is a pain to this not-so-young person who forgets to check before entering numbers! Is there a solution within Linux? Thanks Ken From ajai at bway.net Sun Jun 13 05:35:53 2004 From: ajai at bway.net (Ajai Khattri) Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 01:35:53 -0400 (EDT) Subject: NumLock on with boot? How?1 In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.0.20040613094614.029fb430@popa.melbpc.org.au> References: <20040611160048.E5ACE73CEB@hormel.redhat.com> <6.1.0.6.0.20040613094614.029fb430@popa.melbpc.org.au> Message-ID: On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Ken M Sexton wrote: > I am running RH7.2 (which does all I ask of it, so > I have not upgraded. When it fails me then I'll do something about it.) Or when you get hacked because of security holes that were fixed in 7.3. > NumLock is turned off. It is a pain to this not-so-young person who forgets > to check before entering numbers! > > Is there a solution within Linux? man setleds -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer From sarangi at bpost.kek.jp Sun Jun 13 11:33:53 2004 From: sarangi at bpost.kek.jp (Tapas Ranjan) Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 20:33:53 +0900 (JST) Subject: Network freezing Message-ID: Hi : I am a new chap to Linux. After installing RH9.0 on my DELL-inspiron, I tried to use my wireless card, by putting it through eth1. There is some network provided, where I am working, but when I try to login and open some application in some other machine(which is also under same network, but under firewall) using wireless-network through my laptop, the network freezes. It only works for a few second about 40 sec or so. The terminal used for ssh freezes and does not respond. /sbin/ifconfig eth1 gives this result : eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:00:13:2B:51 inet addr:xxx.xx.xx.xxx Bcast:xx.xx.xx.xxx Mask:xxx.xxx.xxx.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:665 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:259 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:56801 (55.4 Kb) TX bytes:84406 (82.4 Kb) Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100 The packets doesn't change until I do the network restart by /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart But it freezes again, if I try to use the network. Can anybody please suggest something. Please write if you need any other or more information. Cheers ---Tapas From brucemcdonal at mindspring.com Mon Jun 14 06:52:09 2004 From: brucemcdonal at mindspring.com (Bruce McDonald) Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 22:52:09 -0800 Subject: Firewall questions I promised you. In-Reply-To: <40C49F28.20501@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: Hello Rick On 07-Jun-04, you wrote: > Bruce McDonald wrote: >> Hello Rick >> >> On 01-Jun-04, you wrote: >> >> >> >>>> My next error is: >>>> iptables v1.2.7a: host/network `yahoo.com' not found >>>> Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. >>>> >>>> I assume this means the firewall is halting packets to or from my DNS >>>> server. >> >> >>> Yup. >> Interestingly, it is only halting packets that originate on the Linux >> box. The other boxen are comunicating fine now that I have weeded out the >> stupid errors I made. > Depends on the default policy for your INPUT chain. If you're using a > a policy of DENY and don't specifically permit "--sport 53", yes, it'll > block outgoing DNS requests. Default policy for all rules is deny. I put in the rule: iptables -A OUTPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT That got the dns requests working on the Linux box. The established connection state filter allows the request return without a corresponding INPUT rule. I still wonder about the original rules for DNS traffic... >>>> I still have to check a little further into this, I do have rules that >>>> are supposed to allow the traffic. I will post them for your input once >>>> I figure that I don't see anything at all wrong with them. >> >> >>> It rather depends on how strict you want your firewall to be regarding >>> DNS. Without seeing the entire iptables setup, I can't comment on what >>> you want to do. However, somewhere near the top of your list you should >>> have something along the lines of: >> >> >>> iptables -A INPUT -p udp -port 53 -j ACCEPT >> Without posting the entire ruleset which is over 14 printed pages... Here are the DNS rules: (Note: The output chain tests for illegal packets and common scans before passing testing to the user chain EXT-output. Input does the same and passes testing to EXT-input) ############################################################### # DNS Caching Name Server (query to remote, primary server) iptables -A EXT-output -p udp --sport 53 --dport 53 \ -j local-dns-server-query iptables -A EXT-input -p udp --sport 53 --dport 53 \ -j remote-dns-server-response # DNS Caching Name Server (query to remote server over TCP) iptables -A EXT-output -p tcp \ --sport $UNPRIVPORTS --dport 53 \ -j local-dns-server-query iptables -A EXT-input -p tcp ! --syn \ --sport 53 --dport $UNPRIVPORTS \ -j remote-dns-server-response ############################################################### # DNS Fowarding Name Server or client requests if [ "$CONNECTION_TRACKING" = "1" ]; then iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ -d $NAMESERVER_1 \ -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ -d $NAMESERVER_2 \ -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ -d $NAMESERVER_3 \ -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ -d $NAMESERVER_4 \ -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT fi iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ -d $NAMESERVER_1 -j ACCEPT iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ -d $NAMESERVER_2 -j ACCEPT iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ -d $NAMESERVER_3 -j ACCEPT iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ -d $NAMESERVER_4 -j ACCEPT # DNS server responses to local requests iptables -A remote-dns-server-response \ -s $NAMESERVER_1 -j ACCEPT iptables -A remote-dns-server-response \ -s $NAMESERVER_2 -j ACCEPT iptables -A remote-dns-server-response \ -s $NAMESERVER_3 -j ACCEPT iptables -A remote-dns-server-response \ -s $NAMESERVER_4 -j ACCEPT ---------------------------------------- $NAMESERVER_1 is 207.69.188.185 $NAMESERVER_1 is 207.69.188.186 $NAMESERVER_1 is 64.105.132.250 $NAMESERVER_1 is 64.1056.166.122 $UNPRIVPORTS is 1024:65535 Do you see anything in these rules that would not let the DNS packets through the firewall, or do you still need the whole script to tell? Regards, Bruce McDonald From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 14 15:52:43 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:52:43 -0700 Subject: DHCP suddenly not working In-Reply-To: <40CA7D64.9030801@rcsis.com> References: <40C75843.5010603@rcsis.com> <40C76D30.8020400@vitalstream.com> <40C793B1.2080604@rcsis.com> <40C88AA0.6000404@vitalstream.com> <20040610170818.GA22291@xdroop.com> <40C89C18.6020008@vitalstream.com> <40CA1709.4020708@rcsis.com> <40CA197A.8060503@vitalstream.com> <40CA7D64.9030801@rcsis.com> Message-ID: <40CDC9CB.5000402@vitalstream.com> Brenden T. wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > >> That's weird. Have you watched the log or run it in the foreground to >> see what it's doing? Is it possible that the module used to drive that >> NIC is having issues negotiating a speed or flow control issue? What >> kind of cards are you using? >> > That's a good idea, I hadn't even considered hardware problems. If this > doesn't fix it I might try to fiddle with the hardware. > > I don't know any more what type of cards I've got! They were $10 > network cards from Fry's! I think they'reLinksys 10/100 Network > Everywhere cards, but I'm not sure. I think it uses the eepro100 > driver. The other driver I have is natsemi, which I think is for the > Netgear card I have. Try "lspci" to see what PCI cards you have installed. It'll give you an idea, at least. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Millihelen, adj: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 14 15:58:51 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:58:51 -0700 Subject: yum update server In-Reply-To: <1087019682.1276.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1086839228.1499.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C88DD7.2030801@vitalstream.com> <1087019682.1276.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <40CDCB3B.2000401@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 02:35, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: >> >>>Hello Folks, >>> >>>Could someone tell me if the following server (the default in the >>>yum.conf file when yum is installed on my RH8 system) is the best for >>>updating etc. my RH8 system 'cos it doesn't seem to work. The error >>>message is to the effect that it cannot find it. >>> >>>http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/ >> >>That's not correct. If you want to update RH8 (which DOESN'T use yum by >>default), you need to find a mirror of the Fedora Legacy project (8.0 is >>not being maintained by Red Hat any longer). >> >>A valid yum mirror for current RH8.0 updates would be: >> >>http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ >> >>See http://www.fedoralegacy.org for details. > > > Hi Rick, I checked out the fedora legacy site and decided to follow > their advice. They gave instructions for setting up an RH8 system which > included updating rpm (several packages), python, gpg and popt. The rpm > packages required an update of my glibc, which I updated, again, several > packages. I already have a much later version of python and gpg than > they advised so I didn't update those. I updated yum to the version they > advised and yum.conf to match the one recommended. It uses: > http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/updates/ > > as the url. So... all should be well, I hope :-) Actually, fedoralegacy suggests this yum.conf: [base] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever base baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/os/$basearch [updates] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever updates baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch [legacy-utils] name=Fedora Legacy utilities for Red Hat Linux $releasever baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/legacy-utils/$basearch And they have mirrors you can add to the baseurl directives. The list is here: http://www.fedoralegacy.org/download/fedoralegacy-mirrors.php > Thanks again for all your help. Glad to be of service, Graeme. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Millihelen, adj: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 14 16:00:03 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 09:00:03 -0700 Subject: Num lock In-Reply-To: <40CAB882.9010700@mindspring.com> References: <1086973544.3699.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C9E970.1050407@vitalstream.com> <40C9EE12.7020908@vitalstream.com> <40CAB882.9010700@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <40CDCB83.4060602@vitalstream.com> Dennis K Grow wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > >> Ajai Khattri wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> >>> >>>> This will turn on numlock on the six virtual consoles at boot time. If >>>> you want it on in GUI mode, you need to add that to your ~/.bashrc too >>>> so that when you open an xterm, it gets executed. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> You probably *dont* want to do that since it only works on consoles.. >> >> >> >> True, but I don't know of a way to enable it for the GUI as a whole >> (well, at least not under Gnome). > > > This works for me: > > http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/numlockx/ Yes, for KDE. I don't know of an equivalent for Gnome. I suppose a perusal of http://www.gnome.org might produce one. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To iterate is human, to recurse, divine. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 14 16:04:01 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 09:04:01 -0700 Subject: recovering from superblock In-Reply-To: <20040612161041.22627.qmail@webmail9.rediffmail.com> References: <20040612161041.22627.qmail@webmail9.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <40CDCC71.4040304@vitalstream.com> invincible invincible invincible wrote: > > hi all. > > is there a way to recover a superblock and inodes if they got currupted somehow. "fsck -b 16384 devicename" will fsck using one of the alternate superblocks. You can use "-b 16384", "-b 32768", etc. Generally there's a superblock on multiples of 16384 for most filesystems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Brain: The organ with which we think that we think. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From tyche at ica.net Mon Jun 14 22:33:15 2004 From: tyche at ica.net (tyche) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:33:15 -0400 Subject: alsa Message-ID: <200406141833.15404.tyche@ica.net> how do i change from oss to alsa without screwing up the entire system? i know cant have oss and alsa running at the same time tia tyche From gnichols at tpg.com.au Tue Jun 15 05:54:21 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 15 Jun 2004 15:54:21 +1000 Subject: yum update server + Network question. In-Reply-To: <40CDCB3B.2000401@vitalstream.com> References: <1086839228.1499.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C88DD7.2030801@vitalstream.com> <1087019682.1276.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CDCB3B.2000401@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1087278862.1375.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 01:58, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 02:35, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: > >> > >>>Hello Folks, > >>> > >>>Could someone tell me if the following server (the default in the > >>>yum.conf file when yum is installed on my RH8 system) is the best for > >>>updating etc. my RH8 system 'cos it doesn't seem to work. The error > >>>message is to the effect that it cannot find it. > >>> > >>>http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/ > >> > >>That's not correct. If you want to update RH8 (which DOESN'T use yum by > >>default), you need to find a mirror of the Fedora Legacy project (8.0 is > >>not being maintained by Red Hat any longer). > >> > >>A valid yum mirror for current RH8.0 updates would be: > >> > >>http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ > >> > >>See http://www.fedoralegacy.org for details. > > > > > > Hi Rick, I checked out the fedora legacy site and decided to follow > > their advice. They gave instructions for setting up an RH8 system which > > included updating rpm (several packages), python, gpg and popt. The rpm > > packages required an update of my glibc, which I updated, again, several > > packages. I already have a much later version of python and gpg than > > they advised so I didn't update those. I updated yum to the version they > > advised and yum.conf to match the one recommended. It uses: > > http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/updates/ > > > > as the url. So... all should be well, I hope :-) > > Actually, fedoralegacy suggests this yum.conf: > > [base] > name=Red Hat Linux $releasever base > baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/os/$basearch > > [updates] > name=Red Hat Linux $releasever updates > baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch > > > [legacy-utils] > name=Fedora Legacy utilities for Red Hat Linux $releasever > baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/legacy-utils/$basearch > > And they have mirrors you can add to the baseurl directives. The list > is here: > > http://www.fedoralegacy.org/download/fedoralegacy-mirrors.php Thanks for the info Rick. I took a copy of the yum.conf they had on their RH8 page. I'll change it to the one above. On a network question, My ADSL Modem/Router with 4 port switch has been working just dandy. I have added my notebook (also RH8) to the second port on the switch and I can ping from one to the other. I cannot get to the internet from the laptop. I set it up the same way as the desktop machine, but using a different IP address (192.168.1.2), same netmask (255.255.255.0), same gateway (the IP address of the Modem/Router, 192.168.1.254), bind to mac address etc. One problem I can see that may cause problems is that both machines have the same name, localhost.localdomain. Would that be causing the problem and should the laptop be changed to a different host name, say localhost2.localdomain? I want to be able to get to the internet from the laptop without firing up the desktop machine, only the Modem/Router. 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Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From dkgrow at mindspring.com Tue Jun 15 09:44:55 2004 From: dkgrow at mindspring.com (Dennis K Grow) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 02:44:55 -0700 Subject: Num lock In-Reply-To: <40CDCB83.4060602@vitalstream.com> References: <1086973544.3699.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C9E970.1050407@vitalstream.com> <40C9EE12.7020908@vitalstream.com> <40CAB882.9010700@mindspring.com> <40CDCB83.4060602@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40CEC517.1030504@mindspring.com> Rick Stevens wrote: > Dennis K Grow wrote: > >> Rick Stevens wrote: >> >>> Ajai Khattri wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> This will turn on numlock on the six virtual consoles at boot >>>>> time. If >>>>> you want it on in GUI mode, you need to add that to your ~/.bashrc too >>>>> so that when you open an xterm, it gets executed. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> You probably *dont* want to do that since it only works on consoles.. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> True, but I don't know of a way to enable it for the GUI as a whole >>> (well, at least not under Gnome). >> >> >> >> This works for me: >> >> http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/numlockx/ > > > Yes, for KDE. I don't know of an equivalent for Gnome. I suppose a > perusal of http://www.gnome.org might produce one. Works in Gnome as well. Dennis From batistaalexandre at hotmail.com Tue Jun 15 16:07:47 2004 From: batistaalexandre at hotmail.com (alexandre batista) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:07:47 +0000 Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ajai at bway.net Tue Jun 15 16:25:41 2004 From: ajai at bway.net (Ajai Khattri) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:25:41 -0400 (EDT) Subject: (no subject) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, alexandre batista wrote: > PS - I don't know how to send emails without using HTML, Sorry!!! Solution: Do not use HotMail. -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue Jun 15 16:38:32 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:38:32 -0500 Subject: (no subject) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20040615163832.GB12868@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 12:25:41PM -0400, Ajai Khattri wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, alexandre batista wrote: > > > PS - I don't know how to send emails without using HTML, Sorry!!! > > Solution: Do not use HotMail. > > -- > Aj. > Sys. Admin / Developer Or follow the directions here: http://expita.com/nomime.html#hotmail Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Seven days without prayer makes one weak. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 15 16:34:21 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:34:21 -0700 Subject: yum update server + Network question. In-Reply-To: <1087278862.1375.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1086839228.1499.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C88DD7.2030801@vitalstream.com> <1087019682.1276.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CDCB3B.2000401@vitalstream.com> <1087278862.1375.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <40CF250D.5060005@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 01:58, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: >> >>>On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 02:35, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Graeme Nichols wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Hello Folks, >>>>> >>>>>Could someone tell me if the following server (the default in the >>>>>yum.conf file when yum is installed on my RH8 system) is the best for >>>>>updating etc. my RH8 system 'cos it doesn't seem to work. The error >>>>>message is to the effect that it cannot find it. >>>>> >>>>>http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/ >>>> >>>>That's not correct. If you want to update RH8 (which DOESN'T use yum by >>>>default), you need to find a mirror of the Fedora Legacy project (8.0 is >>>>not being maintained by Red Hat any longer). >>>> >>>>A valid yum mirror for current RH8.0 updates would be: >>>> >>>>http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ >>>> >>>>See http://www.fedoralegacy.org for details. >>> >>> >>>Hi Rick, I checked out the fedora legacy site and decided to follow >>>their advice. They gave instructions for setting up an RH8 system which >>>included updating rpm (several packages), python, gpg and popt. The rpm >>>packages required an update of my glibc, which I updated, again, several >>>packages. I already have a much later version of python and gpg than >>>they advised so I didn't update those. I updated yum to the version they >>>advised and yum.conf to match the one recommended. It uses: >>>http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/updates/ >>> >>>as the url. So... all should be well, I hope :-) >> >>Actually, fedoralegacy suggests this yum.conf: >> >>[base] >>name=Red Hat Linux $releasever base >>baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/os/$basearch >> >>[updates] >>name=Red Hat Linux $releasever updates >>baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch >> >> >>[legacy-utils] >>name=Fedora Legacy utilities for Red Hat Linux $releasever >>baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/legacy-utils/$basearch >> >>And they have mirrors you can add to the baseurl directives. The list >>is here: >> >> http://www.fedoralegacy.org/download/fedoralegacy-mirrors.php > > > Thanks for the info Rick. I took a copy of the yum.conf they had on > their RH8 page. I'll change it to the one above. Their file should work too. You may wish to add some of their mirror servers to your yum.conf so if the main servers are busy, you hit one of the mirrors automatically. To do that, simply add the URL to "baseurl=" equate, but DON'T add "baseurl=" to it. In other words, to have two servers: baseurl=http://www.fedoralegacy.org/download..... http://mirror.server.tld/somedirectory... It is very important to ONLY have the "baseurl=" on the first server. If you put it on the mirrors, it'll confuse yum. I do this for my FC1/FC2 systems. I have one main and up to four mirrors. > On a network question, My ADSL Modem/Router with 4 port switch has been > working just dandy. I have added my notebook (also RH8) to the second > port on the switch and I can ping from one to the other. I cannot get to > the internet from the laptop. I set it up the same way as the desktop > machine, but using a different IP address (192.168.1.2), same netmask > (255.255.255.0), same gateway (the IP address of the Modem/Router, > 192.168.1.254), bind to mac address etc. One problem I can see that may > cause problems is that both machines have the same name, > localhost.localdomain. Would that be causing the problem and should the > laptop be changed to a different host name, say localhost2.localdomain? > I want to be able to get to the internet from the laptop without firing > up the desktop machine, only the Modem/Router. Any advice very welcome. Well, not really. localhost.localdomain ties to the IP address 127.0.0.1 over the loopback interface, "lo". While it's better to have a "real" hostname, it's not absolutely necessary. The odds are that your laptop isn't picking up the DNS service, so a hostname won't resolve to an IP address. If you can ping outside addresses but not hostnames, then that's your problem. To confirm it, try doing something such as "dig www.redhat.com" and see if you get a response. If not, then DNS is not set up. Make sure the laptop's /etc/resolv.conf file looks like your desktop machine's file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - ...Had this been an actual emergency, we would have fled in terror - - and you'd be on your own, pal! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 15 16:45:35 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:45:35 -0700 Subject: (no subject) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40CF27AF.6000204@vitalstream.com> alexandre batista wrote: > Hi! > > First let me thank you for assising me installing RedHat, its almost > working perfectly!!! > > Still one little problem...I installed Grub so that i could select which > OS I want to use but it doesnt work for Linux. The boot process hangs at > FireWire something!! I can boot the system using the floppy but I have > to type at boot nofirewire nousb noprobe otherwise it doesn't work. > > Any sugestions on how to update/correct Grub please??? Edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf file and add those three things to the end of the "kernel" line for the kernel you're using. For example, here's my /boot/grub/grub.conf: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda1 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2188.nptl) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi rhgb initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl.img title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2179.nptl) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2179.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi rhgb initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2179.nptl.img (the lines beginning "kernel" may wrap onto the next line in this message. If so, the line following it is really part of the kernel line). The "default=0" line shows I'm using the 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl kernel. To append the required items, I'd modify the "kernel" line to read (again, it may wrap, so bear with me) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi rhgb nousb nofirewire noprobe Save that version of the file and reboot. It should work. By the way, you can do this at boot time without editing the file. Simply boot the system. When the grub screen comes up, hit the "E" key, then use the down-arrow key to highlight the "kernel" line. Hit "E" again and use the right arrow key to go to the end of the line. Enter "noprobe nousb nofirewire" and hit the ENTER key, then hit "B" and the system will boot with those options. > PS - I don't know how to send emails without using HTML, Sorry!!! Stop using Hotmail or set your options there to send plaintext messages.. Get a real mail service or ISP. Use Evolution or Mozilla Mail or some other _real_ mail client in conjunction with your ISP's mail servers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 jkinz at kinz.org Tue Jun 15 17:07:15 2004 From: jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:07:15 -0400 Subject: (no subject) In-Reply-To: ; from batistaalexandre@hotmail.com on Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:07:47PM +0000 References: Message-ID: <20040615130715.A6899@redline.comcast.net> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:07:47PM +0000, alexandre batista wrote: > PS - I don't know how to send emails without using HTML, Sorry!!! > Miguel Batista Miguel, Simply turn off ALL of the formatting features in your hotmail email account. After that it will send text as the default. I just tried this and it works fine. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. "acceptthisofferbysendingmeemail at kinz.org" is copyright 2004. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at www.kinz.org/policy.html (if you could get there .. ) From jkinz at kinz.org Tue Jun 15 17:09:45 2004 From: jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:09:45 -0400 Subject: (no subject) In-Reply-To: ; from batistaalexandre@hotmail.com on Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:07:47PM +0000 References: Message-ID: <20040615130945.B6899@redline.comcast.net> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:07:47PM +0000, alexandre batista wrote: > Hi! First let me thank you for assising me installing RedHat, its almost > working perfectly!!! Still one little problem...I installed Grub so that > i could select which OS I want to use but it doesnt work for Linux. The > boot process hangs at FireWire something!! I can boot the system using > the floppy but I have to type at boot nofirewire nousb noprobe otherwise > it doesn't work. Any sugestions on how to update/correct Grub please??? > PS - I don't know how to send emails without using HTML, Sorry!!! Miguel > Batista More explicitly: see http://expita.com/nomime.html#hotmail Hotmail * Click on "Compose tab", address the message and fill in the "Subject" line * Before composing the message, click on "Tools" (next to "Copy message to sent folder") * Click on "Rich-text editor OFF" to set off * NOTE: The toggle is actually counter-intuitive. That is, if the drop menu choice says "Rich -Text Editor OFF" RTF formatting is on. When the toggle shows "Rich -Text Editor ON" RTF formatting is off. * If you receive a pop up message "Are you sure you want to do this?" Click "OK" and wait for text formatting tools to disappear * NOTE: If you are using Netscape, then you will NOT be given the the choice to turn ON/OFF RTF formatting. Messages will be sent in plain text format. * Compose your plain text message * Send your plain text message -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. "acceptthisofferbysendingmeemail at kinz.org" is copyright 2004. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at www.kinz.org/policy.html (if you could get there .. ) From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 15 17:11:52 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:11:52 -0700 Subject: Firewall questions I promised you. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40CF2DD8.9050109@vitalstream.com> Bruce McDonald wrote: > Hello Rick > > On 07-Jun-04, you wrote: > > >>Bruce McDonald wrote: >> >>>Hello Rick >>> >>>On 01-Jun-04, you wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>>My next error is: >>>>>iptables v1.2.7a: host/network `yahoo.com' not found >>>>>Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. >>>>> >>>>>I assume this means the firewall is halting packets to or from my DNS >>>>>server. >>> >>> >>>>Yup. > > > >>>Interestingly, it is only halting packets that originate on the Linux >>>box. The other boxen are comunicating fine now that I have weeded out the >>>stupid errors I made. > > >>Depends on the default policy for your INPUT chain. If you're using a >>a policy of DENY and don't specifically permit "--sport 53", yes, it'll >>block outgoing DNS requests. > > > Default policy for all rules is deny. > > I put in the rule: > iptables -A OUTPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT > > That got the dns requests working on the Linux box. The established > connection state filter allows the request return without a corresponding > INPUT rule. > > I still wonder about the original rules for DNS traffic... > > >>>>>I still have to check a little further into this, I do have rules that >>>>>are supposed to allow the traffic. I will post them for your input once >>>>>I figure that I don't see anything at all wrong with them. >>> >>> >>>>It rather depends on how strict you want your firewall to be regarding >>>>DNS. Without seeing the entire iptables setup, I can't comment on what >>>>you want to do. However, somewhere near the top of your list you should >>>>have something along the lines of: >>> >>> >>>> iptables -A INPUT -p udp -port 53 -j ACCEPT >>> > > Without posting the entire ruleset which is over 14 printed pages... Ye GODS! That's a bit excessive, isn't it? "Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they AREN'T out to get me!" > Here are the DNS rules: > (Note: The output chain tests for illegal packets and common scans before > passing testing to the user chain EXT-output. Input does the same and > passes testing to EXT-input) Are you afraid of some internal port scanner being used to assault other people? Just curious. > ############################################################### > # DNS Caching Name Server (query to remote, primary server) > > iptables -A EXT-output -p udp --sport 53 --dport 53 \ > -j local-dns-server-query > > iptables -A EXT-input -p udp --sport 53 --dport 53 \ > -j remote-dns-server-response > > # DNS Caching Name Server (query to remote server over TCP) > > iptables -A EXT-output -p tcp \ > --sport $UNPRIVPORTS --dport 53 \ > -j local-dns-server-query > > iptables -A EXT-input -p tcp ! --syn \ > --sport 53 --dport $UNPRIVPORTS \ > -j remote-dns-server-response > > ############################################################### > # DNS Fowarding Name Server or client requests I'm assuming the below is the "remote-dns-server-query" chain. > if [ "$CONNECTION_TRACKING" = "1" ]; then > iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ > -d $NAMESERVER_1 \ > -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT > > iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ > -d $NAMESERVER_2 \ > -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT > > iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ > -d $NAMESERVER_3 \ > -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT > > iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ > -d $NAMESERVER_4 \ > -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT > fi > > iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ > -d $NAMESERVER_1 -j ACCEPT > > iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ > -d $NAMESERVER_2 -j ACCEPT > > iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ > -d $NAMESERVER_3 -j ACCEPT > > iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ > -d $NAMESERVER_4 -j ACCEPT > And I'm assuming the below is the "remote-dns-server-response" chain. > # DNS server responses to local requests > > iptables -A remote-dns-server-response \ > -s $NAMESERVER_1 -j ACCEPT > > iptables -A remote-dns-server-response \ > -s $NAMESERVER_2 -j ACCEPT > > iptables -A remote-dns-server-response \ > -s $NAMESERVER_3 -j ACCEPT > > iptables -A remote-dns-server-response \ > -s $NAMESERVER_4 -j ACCEPT > > > ---------------------------------------- > > $NAMESERVER_1 is 207.69.188.185 > $NAMESERVER_1 is 207.69.188.186 > $NAMESERVER_1 is 64.105.132.250 > $NAMESERVER_1 is 64.1056.166.122 > $UNPRIVPORTS is 1024:65535 > > > Do you see anything in these rules that would not let the DNS packets > through the firewall, or do you still need the whole script to tell? I suspect I see what the problem is. You can't do connection tracking on UDP sessions as there is no session per se. UDP, by definition, is "connectionless". You put out a request and, hopefully, you get a response. If not, you move on. My guess is that the "remote-dns-server-query" chain is blocking your stuff. I'd do something really simple. If you're paranoid, set the default policy to DENY for both INPUT and OUTPUT, then, for each nameserver: iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 53 -s $NAMESERVER_n -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p udp --sport 53 -d $NAMESERVER_n -j ACCEPT That would only permit UDP DNS traffic to and from the specified nameservers. Don't bother with tracking them--you can't. For the less paranoid, set the policy for INPUT to DENY and: iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT Your mileage may vary. Batteries not included. Void where prohibited. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - You know you've landed gear-up when it takes full power to taxi. - - -- Chuck Yeager - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From celawrence at lbl.gov Tue Jun 15 20:46:27 2004 From: celawrence at lbl.gov (chuck lawrence) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:46:27 -0700 Subject: lacie "big disk and rh 7.3 SOLVED Message-ID: <40CF6023.2040501@lbl.gov> Rick Stevens (rstevens at vitalstream.com) sez... | > this is my first firewire excursion w/any os. any thoughts or | experience out there? | | | As I said, the freeze issue may be similar to that on USB. If so, | once the cache gets flushed, the system should respond again. This | is one of the issues with serial interfaces--they're fast for read, | large writes slow down quite a bit. The "out of space" is probably | an inode issue as 500GB is a big drive. | | Experimentation is your best bet here. If you can sort it out, we'd | sure like to know so we can stick it in the FAQs on the RHIL website. | You'll get full credit, of course! uhh, *you* sorted it out, sir. you were exactly right about the inodes. I had used mkfs w/default values before. mke2fs -n told me I had ~6m inodes. mke2fs -N 120000000 (12m) works just fine, so far. I'm at 60gb and writing. it wasn't firewire at all. the freezing behavior just went away, even before I did this. it may be something wildly erratic. dunno. thanks. this isn't the first time you've made me look smart... -- * ------------------- * ----------------------------* | charles e. lawrence | lawrence berkeley nat'l lab | | celawrence at lbl.gov | #1 cyclotron rd ms 46-125 | | (510) 486-4682 | berkeley ca 94720 | * ------------------- * ----------------------------* www-eng.lbl.gov/~lawrence From celawrence at lbl.gov Tue Jun 15 21:20:04 2004 From: celawrence at lbl.gov (chuck lawrence) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:20:04 -0700 Subject: lacie "big disk and rh 7.3 SOLVED In-Reply-To: <40CF6023.2040501@lbl.gov> References: <40CF6023.2040501@lbl.gov> Message-ID: <40CF6804.3050406@lbl.gov> chuck lawrence wrote: > uhh, *you* sorted it out, sir. you were exactly right about the inodes. > I had used mkfs w/default values before. mke2fs -n told me I had ~6m > inodes. mke2fs -N 120000000 (12m) works just fine, so far. I'm at 60gb > and writing. it wasn't firewire at all. > > the freezing behavior just went away, even before I did this. it may be > something wildly erratic. dunno. I spoke too soon. 72gb in, and it froze again. I'm going to try an even larger number of inodes. I wish I knew the right number. anyone got any scientific strategies? stay tuned... > thanks. this isn't the first time you've made me look smart... and also not the first time I've made myself look foolish. sigh. -- * ------------------- * ----------------------------* | charles e. lawrence | lawrence berkeley nat'l lab | | celawrence at lbl.gov | #1 cyclotron rd ms 46-125 | | (510) 486-4682 | berkeley ca 94720 | * ------------------- * ----------------------------* www-eng.lbl.gov/~lawrence From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 15 22:47:30 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:47:30 -0700 Subject: lacie "big disk and rh 7.3 SOLVED In-Reply-To: <40CF6804.3050406@lbl.gov> References: <40CF6023.2040501@lbl.gov> <40CF6804.3050406@lbl.gov> Message-ID: <40CF7C82.3010806@vitalstream.com> chuck lawrence wrote: > chuck lawrence wrote: > >> uhh, *you* sorted it out, sir. you were exactly right about the >> inodes. I had used mkfs w/default values before. mke2fs -n told me I >> had ~6m inodes. mke2fs -N 120000000 (12m) works just fine, so far. >> I'm at 60gb and writing. it wasn't firewire at all. >> >> the freezing behavior just went away, even before I did this. it may >> be something wildly erratic. dunno. > > > > I spoke too soon. 72gb in, and it froze again. I'm going to try an > even larger number of inodes. I wish I knew the right number. anyone > got any scientific strategies? Let's see: 500 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = 536,870,912,000 bytes 536870912000 / 4096 (bytes/inode) = 131,072,000 inodes So I'd try "mke2fs -j -N 132000000 /dev/sda1" and see if that'll do the magic. Keep in mind two things: any file (no matter how small) will occupy one inode and at least one block on the drive, so you don't want the bytes-per-inode a whole lot bigger than the block size of the drive in order to squeeze as many files on there as you can (block size can be shown by "sfdisk -l /dev/sda"). Most files average about 4-8k, so using a 4K inode size is fairly good compromize and that's what mke2fs usually defaults to. If you need to squeeze every possible file entry on the beast, then you can change the bytes-per-inode parameter ("-i bytes-per-inode") and adjust the inode count accordingly. 536870912000 / 1024 (bytes/inode) = 524,288,000 inodes or "mke2fs -j -i 1024 -N 525000000 /dev/sda1". > stay tuned... I will. >> thanks. this isn't the first time you've made me look smart... > > > and also not the first time I've made myself look foolish. sigh. We all gotta learn sometime. I've just never used a 500GB direct-attach drive (all my big storage is SAN or NAS) or I'd have done the math for you before. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 celawrence at lbl.gov Tue Jun 15 23:42:24 2004 From: celawrence at lbl.gov (chuck lawrence) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:42:24 -0700 Subject: lacie "big disk and rh 7.3 SOLVED In-Reply-To: <40CF6804.3050406@lbl.gov> References: <40CF6023.2040501@lbl.gov> <40CF6804.3050406@lbl.gov> Message-ID: <40CF8960.1060507@lbl.gov> chuck lawrence wrote: > I spoke too soon. 72gb in, and it froze again. I'm going to try an > even larger number of inodes. I wish I knew the right number. anyone > got any scientific strategies? the inode max seems to be near what I used previously, 120m. I tried 240m, and it got set to 122m. anyone know? the command again was "mke2fs -N 240000000". also, the freezing behavior might be related to bad memory. it now refuses to boot, with or without the disk, and using different kernels, and displays what appear to be memory errors. I'll run a memory diag tomorrow. -- * ------------------- * ----------------------------* | charles e. lawrence | lawrence berkeley nat'l lab | | celawrence at lbl.gov | #1 cyclotron rd ms 46-125 | | (510) 486-4682 | berkeley ca 94720 | * ------------------- * ----------------------------* www-eng.lbl.gov/~lawrence From gnichols at tpg.com.au Wed Jun 16 01:54:34 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 16 Jun 2004 11:54:34 +1000 Subject: yum update server + Network question. In-Reply-To: <40CF250D.5060005@vitalstream.com> References: <1086839228.1499.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C88DD7.2030801@vitalstre am.com> <1087019682.1276.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CDCB3B.2000401@vitalstream.com> <1087278862.1375.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CF250D.5060005@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1087350875.1159.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 02:34, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 01:58, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: > >> > >>>On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 02:35, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>Graeme Nichols wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>Hello Folks, > >>>>> > >>>>>Could someone tell me if the following server (the default in the > >>>>>yum.conf file when yum is installed on my RH8 system) is the best for > >>>>>updating etc. my RH8 system 'cos it doesn't seem to work. The error > >>>>>message is to the effect that it cannot find it. > >>>>> > >>>>>http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/ > >>>> > >>>>That's not correct. If you want to update RH8 (which DOESN'T use yum by > >>>>default), you need to find a mirror of the Fedora Legacy project (8.0 is > >>>>not being maintained by Red Hat any longer). > >>>> > >>>>A valid yum mirror for current RH8.0 updates would be: > >>>> > >>>>http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ > >>>> > >>>>See http://www.fedoralegacy.org for details. > >>> > >>> > >>>Hi Rick, I checked out the fedora legacy site and decided to follow > >>>their advice. They gave instructions for setting up an RH8 system which > >>>included updating rpm (several packages), python, gpg and popt. The rpm > >>>packages required an update of my glibc, which I updated, again, several > >>>packages. I already have a much later version of python and gpg than > >>>they advised so I didn't update those. I updated yum to the version they > >>>advised and yum.conf to match the one recommended. It uses: > >>>http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/updates/ > >>> > >>>as the url. So... all should be well, I hope :-) > >> > >>Actually, fedoralegacy suggests this yum.conf: > >> > >>[base] > >>name=Red Hat Linux $releasever base > >>baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/os/$basearch > >> > >>[updates] > >>name=Red Hat Linux $releasever updates > >>baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch > >> > >> > >>[legacy-utils] > >>name=Fedora Legacy utilities for Red Hat Linux $releasever > >>baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/legacy-utils/$basearch > >> > >>And they have mirrors you can add to the baseurl directives. The list > >>is here: > >> > >> http://www.fedoralegacy.org/download/fedoralegacy-mirrors.php > > > > > > Thanks for the info Rick. I took a copy of the yum.conf they had on > > their RH8 page. I'll change it to the one above. > > Their file should work too. You may wish to add some of their mirror > servers to your yum.conf so if the main servers are busy, you hit one of > the mirrors automatically. To do that, simply add the URL to "baseurl=" > equate, but DON'T add "baseurl=" to it. In other words, to have two > servers: > > baseurl=http://www.fedoralegacy.org/download..... > http://mirror.server.tld/somedirectory... > > It is very important to ONLY have the "baseurl=" on the first server. > If you put it on the mirrors, it'll confuse yum. I do this for my > FC1/FC2 systems. I have one main and up to four mirrors. > > > On a network question, My ADSL Modem/Router with 4 port switch has been > > working just dandy. I have added my notebook (also RH8) to the second > > port on the switch and I can ping from one to the other. I cannot get to > > the internet from the laptop. I set it up the same way as the desktop > > machine, but using a different IP address (192.168.1.2), same netmask > > (255.255.255.0), same gateway (the IP address of the Modem/Router, > > 192.168.1.254), bind to mac address etc. One problem I can see that may > > cause problems is that both machines have the same name, > > localhost.localdomain. Would that be causing the problem and should the > > laptop be changed to a different host name, say localhost2.localdomain? > > I want to be able to get to the internet from the laptop without firing > > up the desktop machine, only the Modem/Router. Any advice very welcome. > > Well, not really. localhost.localdomain ties to the IP address > 127.0.0.1 over the loopback interface, "lo". While it's better to have > a "real" hostname, it's not absolutely necessary. > > The odds are that your laptop isn't picking up the DNS service, so a > hostname won't resolve to an IP address. If you can ping outside > addresses but not hostnames, then that's your problem. To confirm it, > try doing something such as "dig www.redhat.com" and see if you get a > response. If not, then DNS is not set up. Make sure the laptop's > /etc/resolv.conf file looks like your desktop machine's file. Thanks for all your help Rick. Much appreciated. The laptop was able to access the internet when I fired it up this morning. I don't know why it didn't work yesterday when I connected it to the switch. I checked out all you said above and all was OK. 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URL: From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Wed Jun 16 03:15:41 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:15:41 -0500 Subject: Video crash! (NVIDIA FX5200) In-Reply-To: <20040616020049.0CBA721B034@maresia.onda.com.br> References: <20040616020049.0CBA721B034@maresia.onda.com.br> Message-ID: <20040616031541.GA18850@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 11:00:56PM -0300, S?rgio Brunner wrote: > I got a ?blank? screen every time I try to install RH9 in graphic mode! Your mail program claims this to be "Encoding: 7bit", in spite of the 8-bit characters around "blank". > I was able to install it completely in text mode, but when I try to load the > graphic interface the blank screen returns. > > It seems my video card (FX5200) just crashes with RH9 (no problems with > RH8). > > Can anyone help me? > > Thanks > > S?rgio Some basic help is here: http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#x_fails No, I don't know why it would work with RH 8.0 and not with RH 9. You may need to go to nVidia's web site and see if they have a linux driver for it. They've not been forthcoming with specs so that the Open Source community can write a proper driver. I don't buy nVidia-based cards anymore. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Seven days without prayer makes one weak. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 16 16:00:03 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:00:03 -0700 Subject: lacie "big disk and rh 7.3 SOLVED In-Reply-To: <40CF8960.1060507@lbl.gov> References: <40CF6023.2040501@lbl.gov> <40CF6804.3050406@lbl.gov> <40CF8960.1060507@lbl.gov> Message-ID: <40D06E83.3010109@vitalstream.com> chuck lawrence wrote: > chuck lawrence wrote: > >> I spoke too soon. 72gb in, and it froze again. I'm going to try an >> even larger number of inodes. I wish I knew the right number. anyone >> got any scientific strategies? > > > the inode max seems to be near what I used previously, 120m. I tried > 240m, and it got set to 122m. anyone know? the command again was > "mke2fs -N 240000000". I thought you said your previous setting was 12m. There may be a limit on the size. A quick calculation does show that's a 4k inode size (my math yesterday must've been off). > also, the freezing behavior might be related to bad memory. it now > refuses to boot, with or without the disk, and using different kernels, > and displays what appear to be memory errors. I'll run a memory diag > tomorrow. Ah, it's possible. I've found a good utility CD is the "Ultimate Boot CD" (http://ubcd.sourceforge.net). Lots of good diagnostics and some nifty recovery stuff. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 16 16:02:29 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:02:29 -0700 Subject: yum update server + Network question. In-Reply-To: <1087350875.1159.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1086839228.1499.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C88DD7.2030801@vitalstre am.com> <1087019682.1276.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CDCB3B.2000401@vitalstream.com> <1087278862.1375.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CF250D.5060005@vitalstream.com> <1087350875.1159.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <40D06F15.9060203@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 02:34, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: >> >>>On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 01:58, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Graeme Nichols wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 02:35, Rick Stevens wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>Graeme Nichols wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>Hello Folks, >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Could someone tell me if the following server (the default in the >>>>>>>yum.conf file when yum is installed on my RH8 system) is the best for >>>>>>>updating etc. my RH8 system 'cos it doesn't seem to work. The error >>>>>>>message is to the effect that it cannot find it. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/ >>>>>> >>>>>>That's not correct. If you want to update RH8 (which DOESN'T use yum by >>>>>>default), you need to find a mirror of the Fedora Legacy project (8.0 is >>>>>>not being maintained by Red Hat any longer). >>>>>> >>>>>>A valid yum mirror for current RH8.0 updates would be: >>>>>> >>>>>>http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ >>>>>> >>>>>>See http://www.fedoralegacy.org for details. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Hi Rick, I checked out the fedora legacy site and decided to follow >>>>>their advice. They gave instructions for setting up an RH8 system which >>>>>included updating rpm (several packages), python, gpg and popt. The rpm >>>>>packages required an update of my glibc, which I updated, again, several >>>>>packages. I already have a much later version of python and gpg than >>>>>they advised so I didn't update those. I updated yum to the version they >>>>>advised and yum.conf to match the one recommended. It uses: >>>>>http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/updates/ >>>>> >>>>>as the url. So... all should be well, I hope :-) >>>> >>>>Actually, fedoralegacy suggests this yum.conf: >>>> >>>>[base] >>>>name=Red Hat Linux $releasever base >>>>baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/os/$basearch >>>> >>>>[updates] >>>>name=Red Hat Linux $releasever updates >>>>baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch >>>> >>>> >>>>[legacy-utils] >>>>name=Fedora Legacy utilities for Red Hat Linux $releasever >>>>baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/legacy-utils/$basearch >>>> >>>>And they have mirrors you can add to the baseurl directives. The list >>>>is here: >>>> >>>> http://www.fedoralegacy.org/download/fedoralegacy-mirrors.php >>> >>> >>>Thanks for the info Rick. I took a copy of the yum.conf they had on >>>their RH8 page. I'll change it to the one above. >> >>Their file should work too. You may wish to add some of their mirror >>servers to your yum.conf so if the main servers are busy, you hit one of >>the mirrors automatically. To do that, simply add the URL to "baseurl=" >>equate, but DON'T add "baseurl=" to it. In other words, to have two >>servers: >> >> baseurl=http://www.fedoralegacy.org/download..... >> http://mirror.server.tld/somedirectory... >> >>It is very important to ONLY have the "baseurl=" on the first server. >>If you put it on the mirrors, it'll confuse yum. I do this for my >>FC1/FC2 systems. I have one main and up to four mirrors. >> >> >>>On a network question, My ADSL Modem/Router with 4 port switch has been >>>working just dandy. I have added my notebook (also RH8) to the second >>>port on the switch and I can ping from one to the other. I cannot get to >>>the internet from the laptop. I set it up the same way as the desktop >>>machine, but using a different IP address (192.168.1.2), same netmask >>>(255.255.255.0), same gateway (the IP address of the Modem/Router, >>>192.168.1.254), bind to mac address etc. One problem I can see that may >>>cause problems is that both machines have the same name, >>>localhost.localdomain. Would that be causing the problem and should the >>>laptop be changed to a different host name, say localhost2.localdomain? >>>I want to be able to get to the internet from the laptop without firing >>>up the desktop machine, only the Modem/Router. Any advice very welcome. >> >>Well, not really. localhost.localdomain ties to the IP address >>127.0.0.1 over the loopback interface, "lo". While it's better to have >>a "real" hostname, it's not absolutely necessary. >> >>The odds are that your laptop isn't picking up the DNS service, so a >>hostname won't resolve to an IP address. If you can ping outside >>addresses but not hostnames, then that's your problem. To confirm it, >>try doing something such as "dig www.redhat.com" and see if you get a >>response. If not, then DNS is not set up. Make sure the laptop's >>/etc/resolv.conf file looks like your desktop machine's file. > > > Thanks for all your help Rick. Much appreciated. The laptop was able to > access the internet when I fired it up this morning. I don't know why it > didn't work yesterday when I connected it to the switch. I checked out > all you said above and all was OK. Maybe finger trouble again... you > know, loose connection between it and the brain :-) Ah. I usually refer to that as "cockpit error" or "a short between the keyboard and ground". I believe the scientific term is "Huh?" ;-) > Anyway, things are > lookin' good now! Glad to hear it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Admitting you have a problem is the first step toward getting - - medicated for it. -- Jim Evarts (http://www.TopFive.com) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 16 16:05:16 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:05:16 -0700 Subject: Video crash! (NVIDIA FX5200) In-Reply-To: <20040616020049.0CBA721B034@maresia.onda.com.br> References: <20040616020049.0CBA721B034@maresia.onda.com.br> Message-ID: <40D06FBC.60902@vitalstream.com> S?rgio Brunner wrote: > I got a ?blank? screen every time I try to install RH9 in graphic mode! > > I was able to install it completely in text mode, but when I try to load > the graphic interface the blank screen returns. > > It seems my video card (FX5200) just crashes with RH9 (no problems with > RH8). I'll bet it's a video setting for your monitor--especially if it worked with 8.0 and not 9. Try running "redhat-config-display" in text mode and see if the monitor is detected. If not, put it in manually and verify that the graphic stuff works then. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Admitting you have a problem is the first step toward getting - - medicated for it. -- Jim Evarts (http://www.TopFive.com) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rsimioni at daleen.com Wed Jun 16 20:13:46 2004 From: rsimioni at daleen.com (Rodney Simioni) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:13:46 -0400 Subject: half duplex/full duplex Message-ID: Hello, I'm using Red Hat 7.2 on Intel. Where do I configure half and full duplex settings. Also, I like the chkconfig feature of Red Hat, I just installed imap, how do I add that to chkconfig, thanks in advance. Rod -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Look at ethtool (as root) Cheers ===== -- Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 http://manuel.todo-linux.com __________________________________________ Yahoo! lanza su nueva tecnolog?a de b?squedas ?te atreves a comparar? http://busquedas.yahoo.es From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 16 23:58:48 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:58:48 -0700 Subject: half duplex/full duplex In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40D0DEB8.9070700@vitalstream.com> Rodney Simioni wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using Red Hat 7.2 on Intel. > > Where do I configure half and full duplex settings. In regards to what? NIC settings? > Also, I like the chkconfig feature of Red Hat, I just installed imap, > how do I add that to chkconfig, thanks in advance. It's already there, but called "uw-imap" or "uw-imapd". I'd also recommend you upgrade to RH9 or Fedora Core 1 as 7.2 is long, long since dead. Even RH9 became dead as of April 30th. FC1 is the current successor to RH9. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - He who laughs last thinks slowest. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From info at smart-dev.com Thu Jun 17 02:40:32 2004 From: info at smart-dev.com (Yung H.) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:40:32 -0500 Subject: RedHat on Dell I8600 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi Guys, I've just installed Fedora Core 2 on my Dell Inspiron 8600 with a Nvidia GeForce FX Go5200. Installation went smoothly, everything works just great, except for the screen resolution. In theory, I should be able to set the resolution to either of the following: 1920x1200, 1680x1050, or 1280x800. However, redhat just won't accept it. the screen works okay on the normal resolutions as 1152x768, 1024x768 though, but it looks pretty bad, reason I want to try to set the resolution to the ones it should be set to. I checked the xorg.conf file, and actually Fedora took the Nvidia drivers just fine. On driver it says "nv" so I suppose that's correct. I changed the depth to 24, and then tried to set the resolutions, but then X won't start with these. Has anyone bumped into this problem before? Any suggestions or ideas on what I could try next? Thanks! -- Yung H. From Thomas.vonSteiger at swisscom.com Thu Jun 17 06:21:19 2004 From: Thomas.vonSteiger at swisscom.com (Thomas.vonSteiger at swisscom.com) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:21:19 +0200 Subject: half duplex/full duplex Message-ID: Hi, You can setup HD/FD in /etc/modules.conf. The Option are depend on which NIC Adapter you are using. With "dmesg" you can check the Link. For Example with e100 Nic: /etc/modules.conf: alias eth0 e100 options e100 e100_speed_duplex=4,4,4,4 alias eth1 off alias eth2 e100 alias eth3 off dmesg: e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full duplex e100: eth2 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full duplex regards, Thomas ________________________________ From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rodney Simioni Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 10:14 PM To: 'redhat-install-list at redhat.com' Subject: half duplex/full duplex Hello, I'm using Red Hat 7.2 on Intel. Where do I configure half and full duplex settings. Also, I like the chkconfig feature of Red Hat, I just installed imap, how do I add that to chkconfig, thanks in advance. Rod -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From zhangsc at neusoft.com Thu Jun 17 06:24:51 2004 From: zhangsc at neusoft.com (Edward King) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:24:51 +0800 Subject: Red Hat Linux 7.3 boot question Message-ID: <015a01c45433$ccfaf2c0$12786020@neucaa1cdfc96a> I installed Red Hat Linux7.3,and then I update kernel,when I reboot again,I found I can select new kernel or old kernel from screen. The default select option is old kernel. I want to know which file i can modify in order to make default select option is new kernel,how to modify it? Thanks in advance! Edward -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brucemcdonal at mindspring.com Thu Jun 17 07:39:04 2004 From: brucemcdonal at mindspring.com (Bruce McDonald) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 23:39:04 -0800 Subject: Firewall questions I promised you. In-Reply-To: <40CF2DD8.9050109@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: Hello Rick On 15-Jun-04, you wrote: > Bruce McDonald wrote: >> Hello Rick >> >> On 07-Jun-04, you wrote: >> >> >>> Bruce McDonald wrote: >>> >>>> Hello Rick >>>> >>>> On 01-Jun-04, you wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>> My next error is: >>>>>> iptables v1.2.7a: host/network `yahoo.com' not found >>>>>> Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. >>>>>> >>>>>> I assume this means the firewall is halting packets to or from my DNS >>>>>> server. >>>> >>>> >>>>> Yup. >> >> >> >>>> Interestingly, it is only halting packets that originate on the Linux >>>> box. The other boxen are comunicating fine now that I have weeded out >>>> the stupid errors I made. >> >> >>> Depends on the default policy for your INPUT chain. If you're using a >>> a policy of DENY and don't specifically permit "--sport 53", yes, it'll >>> block outgoing DNS requests. >> Default policy for all rules is deny. >> I put in the rule: >> iptables -A OUTPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT >> That got the dns requests working on the Linux box. The established >> connection state filter allows the request return without a corresponding >> INPUT rule. >> I still wonder about the original rules for DNS traffic... >>>>>> I still have to check a little further into this, I do have rules >>>>>> that are supposed to allow the traffic. I will post them for your >>>>>> input once I figure that I don't see anything at all wrong with them. >> It rather depends on how strict you want your firewall to be regarding >> DNS. Without seeing the entire iptables setup, I can't comment on what >> you want to do. However, somewhere near the top of your list you >> should have something along the lines of: >>>>> iptables -A INPUT -p udp -port 53 -j ACCEPT >> >> Without posting the entire ruleset which is over 14 printed pages... > Ye GODS! That's a bit excessive, isn't it? "Just because I'm paranoid > doesn't mean they AREN'T out to get me!" The script is based on the one in the Linux Firewalls 2nd edition which covers a lot and is commented. There are at least 10 user chains created to streamline the number of rules checked for a packet. Granted, it is really only needed for a busy router, but I wouldn't mind the help for my processor. The author of the book also takes the block everything and allow only what you want or need, which probably takes more rules. He also likes to specifically state trusted computers if you can. >> Here are the DNS rules: >> (Note: The output chain tests for illegal packets and common scans before >> passing testing to the user chain EXT-output. Input does the same and >> passes testing to EXT-input) > Are you afraid of some internal port scanner being used to assault > other people? Just curious. >> ############################################################### >> # DNS Caching Name Server (query to remote, primary server) >> >> iptables -A EXT-output -p udp --sport 53 --dport 53 \ >> -j local-dns-server-query >> >> iptables -A EXT-input -p udp --sport 53 --dport 53 \ >> -j remote-dns-server-response >> >> # DNS Caching Name Server (query to remote server over TCP) >> >> iptables -A EXT-output -p tcp \ >> --sport $UNPRIVPORTS --dport 53 \ >> -j local-dns-server-query >> >> iptables -A EXT-input -p tcp ! --syn \ >> --sport 53 --dport $UNPRIVPORTS \ >> -j remote-dns-server-response >> >> ############################################################### >> # DNS Fowarding Name Server or client requests > I'm assuming the below is the "remote-dns-server-query" chain. Yes >> if [ "$CONNECTION_TRACKING" = "1" ]; then >> iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ >> -d $NAMESERVER_1 \ >> -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT >> >> iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ >> -d $NAMESERVER_2 \ >> -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT >> >> iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ >> -d $NAMESERVER_3 \ >> -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT >> >> iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ >> -d $NAMESERVER_4 \ >> -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT >> fi >> >> iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ >> -d $NAMESERVER_1 -j ACCEPT >> >> iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ >> -d $NAMESERVER_2 -j ACCEPT >> >> iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ >> -d $NAMESERVER_3 -j ACCEPT >> >> iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ >> -d $NAMESERVER_4 -j ACCEPT >> > And I'm assuming the below is the "remote-dns-server-response" chain. Another good assumption. >> # DNS server responses to local requests >> >> iptables -A remote-dns-server-response \ >> -s $NAMESERVER_1 -j ACCEPT >> >> iptables -A remote-dns-server-response \ >> -s $NAMESERVER_2 -j ACCEPT >> >> iptables -A remote-dns-server-response \ >> -s $NAMESERVER_3 -j ACCEPT >> >> iptables -A remote-dns-server-response \ >> -s $NAMESERVER_4 -j ACCEPT >> >> >> ---------------------------------------- >> >> $NAMESERVER_1 is 207.69.188.185 >> $NAMESERVER_1 is 207.69.188.186 >> $NAMESERVER_1 is 64.105.132.250 >> $NAMESERVER_1 is 64.1056.166.122 >> $UNPRIVPORTS is 1024:65535 >> >> >> Do you see anything in these rules that would not let the DNS packets >> through the firewall, or do you still need the whole script to tell? > I suspect I see what the problem is. You can't do connection tracking > on UDP sessions as there is no session per se. UDP, by definition, is > "connectionless". You put out a request and, hopefully, you get a > response. If not, you move on. My guess is that the > "remote-dns-server-query" chain is blocking your stuff. Connection tracking would be for the caching name server requests over tcp, I think. > I'd do something really simple. If you're paranoid, set the default > policy to DENY for both INPUT and OUTPUT, then, for each nameserver: > iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 53 -s $NAMESERVER_n -j ACCEPT > iptables -A OUTPUT -p udp --sport 53 -d $NAMESERVER_n -j ACCEPT > That would only permit UDP DNS traffic to and from the specified > nameservers. Don't bother with tracking them--you can't. > For the less paranoid, set the policy for INPUT to DENY and: > iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT > Your mileage may vary. Batteries not included. Void where prohibited. Thank you for your assistance and guidance, it is much appreciated. Regards, Bruce McDonald From admin at tootai.net Thu Jun 17 08:18:20 2004 From: admin at tootai.net (administrator tootai) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:18:20 +0200 Subject: Red Hat Linux 7.3 boot question In-Reply-To: <015a01c45433$ccfaf2c0$12786020@neucaa1cdfc96a> References: <015a01c45433$ccfaf2c0$12786020@neucaa1cdfc96a> Message-ID: <40D153CC.5040504@tootai.net> Edward King a ?crit : > I installed Red Hat Linux7.3,and then I update kernel,when I reboot > again,I found I can select new kernel or old kernel from screen. The > default select option is old kernel. I want to know which file i can > modify in order to make default select option is new kernel,how to > modify it? Edit your lilo.conf and modify default entry with the label of your new kernel -- Daniel From ARokicki at US.TIAuto.com Thu Jun 17 14:24:54 2004 From: ARokicki at US.TIAuto.com (Rokicki, Andrew) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:24:54 -0400 Subject: Red Hat Linux 7.3 boot question Message-ID: <0329184E605BD41197DF0008C7335BF5024850BA@tiasusmrddc00.mrd.us.t iautomotive.com> If you are running grub you need default=x where x is 0,1.... example: default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-18.7smp) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.7smp ro root=/dev/sda6 initrd /initrd-2.4.20-18.7smp.img title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-18.7) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.7 ro root=/dev/sda6 initrd /initrd-2.4.20-18.7.img default =0 means run 2.4.20-18.7smp default=1 means run 2.4.20-18.7 If you have lilo let us know so we can approach it from that angle. > -----Original Message----- > From: Edward King [SMTP:zhangsc at neusoft.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 2:25 AM > To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > Subject: Red Hat Linux 7.3 boot question > > I installed Red Hat Linux7.3,and then I update kernel,when I reboot > again,I found I can select new kernel or old kernel from screen. The > default select option is old kernel. I want to know which file i can > modify in order to make default select option is new kernel,how to modify > it? > Thanks in advance! > Edward << File: ATT170077.txt >> From rkhanso at yahoo.com Thu Jun 17 16:32:54 2004 From: rkhanso at yahoo.com (Roger Hanson) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:32:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: extra slash when doing network ftp install Message-ID: <20040617163254.77676.qmail@web11208.mail.yahoo.com> I've seen this question posted a couple times but with no response. I can't find an answer to it. I'm trying to install RH9 via ftp network installation. After I enter the ftp server and path to iso's, an extra slash gets inserted eg: I enter 172.16.1.2 for the site name I enter var/ftp/pub/ for the Red Hat directory and get an error showing: ftp://172.16.1.2//var/ftp/pub/RedHat/base/netstg2.img Is there a way to fix/get around this? Thanks. Roger Makarios Communications, LLC Network Monitoring, Consulting, Web Hosting www.makarios.us info at makarios.us __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo From LinKins6 at aol.com Thu Jun 17 16:35:42 2004 From: LinKins6 at aol.com (LinKins6 at aol.com) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:35:42 -0400 Subject: Help w/Uninstall Message-ID: <3CDD1371.618C3707.0079D866@aol.com> Sirs, I have recently purchased a laptop with your software Red-Hat on it... I have never heard of the software before today and I understand that it is another form of operating system like Window's would be ... all I would like to do is uninstall it... could you please help me? Thank you, Linda From mgalgoci at redhat.com Thu Jun 17 16:40:23 2004 From: mgalgoci at redhat.com (Matthew Galgoci) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:40:23 -0400 (EDT) Subject: extra slash when doing network ftp install In-Reply-To: <20040617163254.77676.qmail@web11208.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Roger Hanson wrote: > I've seen this question posted a couple times but with > no response. I > can't find an answer to it. > > I'm trying to install RH9 via ftp network > installation. After I enter > the ftp server and path to iso's, an extra slash gets > inserted > eg: > > I enter 172.16.1.2 for the site name > I enter var/ftp/pub/ for the Red Hat directory > > and get an error showing: > ftp://172.16.1.2//var/ftp/pub/RedHat/base/netstg2.img > > Is there a way to fix/get around this? Your url is incorrect and the double leading / is a red herring. A double / is usually a noop in urls. Look in your ftp logs to see what file the client was trying to retrieve versus the actual location of the file relative to the RedHat directory. -- Matthew Galgoci System Administrator and Sr. Manager of Ruminants Red Hat, Inc 919.754.3700 x44155 From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 17 17:09:28 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:09:28 -0700 Subject: RedHat on Dell I8600 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40D1D048.8050804@vitalstream.com> Yung H. wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I've just installed Fedora Core 2 on my Dell Inspiron 8600 with a Nvidia > GeForce FX Go5200. Installation went smoothly, everything works just great, > except for the screen resolution. In theory, I should be able to set the > resolution to either of the following: 1920x1200, 1680x1050, or 1280x800. > However, redhat just won't accept it. the screen works okay on the normal > resolutions as 1152x768, 1024x768 though, but it looks pretty bad, reason I > want to try to set the resolution to the ones it should be set to. > > I checked the xorg.conf file, and actually Fedora took the Nvidia drivers > just fine. On driver it says "nv" so I suppose that's correct. I changed the > depth to 24, and then tried to set the resolutions, but then X won't start > with these. Check the memory size of the card in xorg.conf and make sure it reflects how much RAM is actually on the card (it sometimes guesses wrong). Also use "system-config-display" and make sure you have the right monitor specified there. If the system got the monitor wrong, it won't let you set up configurations that'll violate the monitor's sync rates. When you change your resolution and it won't start, check the X logs and see if there's an issue that's logged. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - He who laughs last thinks slowest. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From LinKins6 at aol.com Thu Jun 17 17:18:17 2004 From: LinKins6 at aol.com (LinKins6 at aol.com) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:18:17 -0400 Subject: Help w/Uninstall Message-ID: <300CF460.7ED02A01.0079D866@aol.com> NO-- I'm sorry for the mis-interpritation... I would like to UNINSTALL YOUR SOFTWARE FROM MY LAPTOP... Could you help me with this? Thank you, Linda From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 17 17:20:54 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:20:54 -0700 Subject: Firewall questions I promised you. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40D1D2F6.7030300@vitalstream.com> Bruce McDonald wrote: > Hello Rick Hi. [snip] >>>Without posting the entire ruleset which is over 14 printed pages... > > >>Ye GODS! That's a bit excessive, isn't it? "Just because I'm paranoid >>doesn't mean they AREN'T out to get me!" > > > The script is based on the one in the Linux Firewalls 2nd edition which > covers a lot and is commented. There are at least 10 user chains created > to streamline the number of rules checked for a packet. Granted, it is > really only needed for a busy router, but I wouldn't mind the help for my > processor. I just think it's a bit of overkill for a normal box. If you're a router, these would be appropriate. > The author of the book also takes the block everything and allow only what > you want or need, which probably takes more rules. He also likes to > specifically state trusted computers if you can. "block all" is the best thing to do and yes, if you use a lot of services, punching in the "holes" can be take a lot of rules. You also run the risk of hitting a sticking point as you have. [snip] >>>############################################################### >>># DNS Fowarding Name Server or client requests > > >>I'm assuming the below is the "remote-dns-server-query" chain. > > > Yes > > >>>if [ "$CONNECTION_TRACKING" = "1" ]; then >>> iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ >>> -d $NAMESERVER_1 \ >>> -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT >>> >>> iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ >>> -d $NAMESERVER_2 \ >>> -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT >>> >>> iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ >>> -d $NAMESERVER_3 \ >>> -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT >>> >>> iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ >>> -d $NAMESERVER_4 \ >>> -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT >>>fi >>> >>>iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ >>> -d $NAMESERVER_1 -j ACCEPT >>> >>>iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ >>> -d $NAMESERVER_2 -j ACCEPT >>> >>>iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ >>> -d $NAMESERVER_3 -j ACCEPT >>> >>>iptables -A local-dns-server-query \ >>> -d $NAMESERVER_4 -j ACCEPT >>> > > >>And I'm assuming the below is the "remote-dns-server-response" chain. > > > Another good assumption. > > >>># DNS server responses to local requests >>> >>>iptables -A remote-dns-server-response \ >>> -s $NAMESERVER_1 -j ACCEPT >>> >>>iptables -A remote-dns-server-response \ >>> -s $NAMESERVER_2 -j ACCEPT >>> >>>iptables -A remote-dns-server-response \ >>> -s $NAMESERVER_3 -j ACCEPT >>> >>>iptables -A remote-dns-server-response \ >>> -s $NAMESERVER_4 -j ACCEPT >>> >>> >>>---------------------------------------- >>> >>>$NAMESERVER_1 is 207.69.188.185 >>>$NAMESERVER_1 is 207.69.188.186 >>>$NAMESERVER_1 is 64.105.132.250 >>>$NAMESERVER_1 is 64.1056.166.122 >>>$UNPRIVPORTS is 1024:65535 >>> >>> >>>Do you see anything in these rules that would not let the DNS packets >>>through the firewall, or do you still need the whole script to tell? > > >>I suspect I see what the problem is. You can't do connection tracking >>on UDP sessions as there is no session per se. UDP, by definition, is >>"connectionless". You put out a request and, hopefully, you get a >>response. If not, you move on. My guess is that the >>"remote-dns-server-query" chain is blocking your stuff. > > > Connection tracking would be for the caching name server requests over tcp, > I think. And that's fine if you're doing stuff like zone transfers or DDNS for DHCP. However, in the listings you've posted you have no "-j ACCEPT" for DNS over UDP and that's what's blocking your DNS. 95% of all DNS traffic is UDP. >>I'd do something really simple. If you're paranoid, set the default >>policy to DENY for both INPUT and OUTPUT, then, for each nameserver: > > >> iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 53 -s $NAMESERVER_n -j ACCEPT >> iptables -A OUTPUT -p udp --sport 53 -d $NAMESERVER_n -j ACCEPT > > >>That would only permit UDP DNS traffic to and from the specified >>nameservers. Don't bother with tracking them--you can't. > > >>For the less paranoid, set the policy for INPUT to DENY and: > > >> iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT > > >>Your mileage may vary. Batteries not included. Void where prohibited. > > > > Thank you for your assistance and guidance, it is much appreciated. No problem. The trick is to keep in mind what services use TCP and which use UDP. In the DNS case, it uses both: forward and reverse lookups are done via UDP, zone transfers and updates for dynamic DNS are done via TCP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Brain: The organ with which we think that we think. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rkhanso at yahoo.com Thu Jun 17 17:34:51 2004 From: rkhanso at yahoo.com (Roger Hanson) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:34:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: extra slash when doing network ftp install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040617173451.86144.qmail@web11208.mail.yahoo.com> --- Matthew Galgoci wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Roger Hanson wrote: > > > I've seen this question posted a couple times but > with > > no response. I > > can't find an answer to it. > > > > I'm trying to install RH9 via ftp network > > installation. After I enter > > the ftp server and path to iso's, an extra slash > gets > > inserted > > eg: > > > > I enter 172.16.1.2 for the site name > > I enter var/ftp/pub/ for the Red Hat directory > > > > and get an error showing: > > > ftp://172.16.1.2//var/ftp/pub/RedHat/base/netstg2.img > > > > Is there a way to fix/get around this? > > Your url is incorrect and the double leading / is a > red herring. > > A double / is usually a noop in urls. > > Look in your ftp logs to see what file the client > was trying to retrieve > versus the actual location of the file relative to > the RedHat directory. > > -- > Matthew Galgoci > System Administrator and Sr. Manager of Ruminants > Red Hat, Inc > 919.754.3700 x44155 > Thanks - I didn't find anything in my logs, unless I was looking at the wrong place. I used /var/log/vsftpd.log You did make me think about the path. I entered the absolute path, not relative. I needed to use /pub/ where asked the 'location' of the RedHat files. It worked. Thanks again. Roger __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo From ajai at bway.net Thu Jun 17 18:55:18 2004 From: ajai at bway.net (Ajai Khattri) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:55:18 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Help w/Uninstall In-Reply-To: <3CDD1371.618C3707.0079D866@aol.com> References: <3CDD1371.618C3707.0079D866@aol.com> Message-ID: On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 LinKins6 at aol.com wrote: > I have recently purchased a laptop with your software Red-Hat on it... I have never heard of the software before today and I understand that it is another form of operating system like Window's would be ... all I would like to do is uninstall it... could you please help me? Errr... why dont you just install Windows over it? -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 17 18:47:40 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:47:40 -0700 Subject: Help w/Uninstall In-Reply-To: <300CF460.7ED02A01.0079D866@aol.com> References: <300CF460.7ED02A01.0079D866@aol.com> Message-ID: <40D1E74C.7090801@vitalstream.com> LinKins6 at aol.com wrote: > NO-- > > I'm sorry for the mis-interpritation... I would like to UNINSTALL YOUR SOFTWARE FROM MY LAPTOP... > > Could you help me with this? You got a laptop with Red Hat Linux on it and you want to put Windows on it? If you just want to wipe out Linux, start installing your other stuff and during its install process, have it wipe out the hard disk's partitions and repartition it how you want. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I.R.S.: We've got what it takes to take what you've got! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From LinKins6 at aol.com Thu Jun 17 19:26:19 2004 From: LinKins6 at aol.com (LinKins6 at aol.com) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:26:19 -0400 Subject: Help w/Uninstall Message-ID: <707A3DCD.53CC5B6A.0079D866@aol.com> Thank you so much for your response... and yes, that is what I'm wanting to do however, whenever I power up the laptop it goes through it's booting sequence and it does not give me an opportunity to load anything...The cursor stops at a grub> it wants a command????????????? I'm sorry to be a pain.... just don't have a clue how to stop this runaway... Linda From ajai at bway.net Thu Jun 17 20:14:43 2004 From: ajai at bway.net (Ajai Khattri) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:14:43 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Help w/Uninstall In-Reply-To: <707A3DCD.53CC5B6A.0079D866@aol.com> References: <707A3DCD.53CC5B6A.0079D866@aol.com> Message-ID: On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 LinKins6 at aol.com wrote: > Thank you so much for your response... and yes, that is what I'm wanting to do however, whenever I power up the laptop it goes through it's booting sequence and it does not give me an opportunity to load anything...The cursor stops at a grub> > it wants a command????????????? > > I'm sorry to be a pain.... just don't have a clue how to stop this runaway... To install Windoze, boot off the Windoze install CD... -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 17 20:20:33 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:20:33 -0700 Subject: Help w/Uninstall In-Reply-To: <707A3DCD.53CC5B6A.0079D866@aol.com> References: <707A3DCD.53CC5B6A.0079D866@aol.com> Message-ID: <40D1FD11.2060206@vitalstream.com> LinKins6 at aol.com wrote: > Thank you so much for your response... and yes, that is what I'm wanting to do however, whenever I power up the laptop it goes through it's booting sequence and it does not give me an opportunity to load anything...The cursor stops at a grub> > it wants a command????????????? > > I'm sorry to be a pain.... just don't have a clue how to stop this runaway... When you boot the laptop, you must have your new media inserted. If you're installing Windows, make sure the Windows CD is in the CD-ROM drive BEFORE you reboot the machine. You may have to enable booting from CD-ROM. Boot the laptop and press the "DEL" key to get to the BIOS of the laptop. Scroll through the choices until you see "Boot Devices". Go into that menu and make sure the laptop tries to boot off CD _before_ it tries the hard disk. I can't be more clear since I don't know what kind of laptop you have nor do I know which BIOS it runs. You should be able to check the owner's manual to see how to get to the BIOS and change this setting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Brain: The organ with which we think that we think. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From kens at geodax.com Thu Jun 17 21:16:41 2004 From: kens at geodax.com (Ken Scott) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:16:41 -0400 Subject: Can't start ethereal Message-ID: <1087507001.20184.53.camel@KENS02L> Hi all, I have ethereal installed but I can't run it (see below). /usr/sbin/tethereal does work and gives streaming text output. I thought the ethereal package was GUI-based. WHat am I missing? Thanks Ken (BTW, RH9 system) [kens at KENS02L kens]$ su Password: [root at KENS02L kens]# rpm -qa ethereal ethereal-0.10.3-0.90.1 [root at KENS02L kens]# man ethereal No manual entry for ethereal [root at KENS02L kens]# ethereal bash: ethereal: command not found [root at KENS02L kens]# From manuaroste at yahoo.es Thu Jun 17 21:26:50 2004 From: manuaroste at yahoo.es (=?iso-8859-1?q?Manuel=20Arostegui=20Ramirez?=) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:26:50 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Can't start ethereal In-Reply-To: <1087507001.20184.53.camel@KENS02L> Message-ID: <20040617212650.88411.qmail@web52402.mail.yahoo.com> --- Ken Scott escribi?: > Hi all, > I have ethereal installed but I can't run it (see > below). > /usr/sbin/tethereal does work and gives streaming > text output. I > thought the ethereal package was GUI-based. WHat am > I missing? Thanks > Ken > (BTW, RH9 system) > > [kens at KENS02L kens]$ su > Password: > [root at KENS02L kens]# rpm -qa ethereal > ethereal-0.10.3-0.90.1 > [root at KENS02L kens]# man ethereal > No manual entry for ethereal > [root at KENS02L kens]# ethereal > bash: ethereal: command not found > [root at KENS02L kens]# > > Ethereal is the gui for tcpdump, do you have it? ===== -- Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 http://manuel.todo-linux.com ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ?100 MB GRATIS! Nuevos servicios, m?s seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es From mgalgoci at redhat.com Thu Jun 17 21:31:14 2004 From: mgalgoci at redhat.com (Matthew Galgoci) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:31:14 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Can't start ethereal In-Reply-To: <1087507001.20184.53.camel@KENS02L> Message-ID: On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Ken Scott wrote: > Hi all, > I have ethereal installed but I can't run it (see below). > /usr/sbin/tethereal does work and gives streaming text output. I > thought the ethereal package was GUI-based. WHat am I missing? Thanks > Ken > (BTW, RH9 system) > > [kens at KENS02L kens]$ su > Password: > [root at KENS02L kens]# rpm -qa ethereal > ethereal-0.10.3-0.90.1 > [root at KENS02L kens]# man ethereal > No manual entry for ethereal > [root at KENS02L kens]# ethereal > bash: ethereal: command not found > [root at KENS02L kens]# There is a sepperate front end package called ethereal-gnome that you probably want. -- Matthew Galgoci System Administrator and Sr. Manager of Ruminants Red Hat, Inc 919.754.3700 x44155 From mgalgoci at redhat.com Thu Jun 17 21:31:50 2004 From: mgalgoci at redhat.com (Matthew Galgoci) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:31:50 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Can't start ethereal In-Reply-To: <20040617212650.88411.qmail@web52402.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: > > [kens at KENS02L kens]$ su > > Password: > > [root at KENS02L kens]# rpm -qa ethereal > > ethereal-0.10.3-0.90.1 > > [root at KENS02L kens]# man ethereal > > No manual entry for ethereal > > [root at KENS02L kens]# ethereal > > bash: ethereal: command not found > > [root at KENS02L kens]# > > > > > Ethereal is the gui for tcpdump, do you have it? No, it isn't. -- Matthew Galgoci System Administrator and Sr. Manager of Ruminants Red Hat, Inc 919.754.3700 x44155 From kens at geodax.com Thu Jun 17 21:35:24 2004 From: kens at geodax.com (Ken Scott) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:35:24 -0400 Subject: Can't start ethereal In-Reply-To: <20040617212650.88411.qmail@web52402.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040617212650.88411.qmail@web52402.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1087508124.20184.71.camel@KENS02L> On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 17:26, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote: > --- Ken Scott escribi?: > Hi all, > > I have ethereal installed but I can't run it (see > > below). > > /usr/sbin/tethereal does work and gives streaming > > text output. I > > thought the ethereal package was GUI-based. WHat am > > I missing? Thanks > > Ken > > (BTW, RH9 system) > > > > [kens at KENS02L kens]$ su > > Password: > > [root at KENS02L kens]# rpm -qa ethereal > > ethereal-0.10.3-0.90.1 > > [root at KENS02L kens]# man ethereal > > No manual entry for ethereal > > [root at KENS02L kens]# ethereal > > bash: ethereal: command not found > > [root at KENS02L kens]# > > > > > Ethereal is the gui for tcpdump, do you have it? Yes it runs ok. here are the first couple of lines [root at KENS02L foo]# /usr/sbin/tcpdump tcpdump: listening on eth0 17:31:58.255381 10.0.0.19.netbios-dgm > 10.0.0.255.netbios-dgm: NBT UDP PACKET(138) 17:31:58.257101 10.0.0.46.32935 > dns1.btitelecom.net.domain: 45388+ PTR? 19.0.0.10.in-addr.arpa. (40) (DF) tethereal runs and give similar output. Ken > > ===== > -- > > Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 > http://manuel.todo-linux.com > > > > ______________________________________________ > Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ?100 MB GRATIS! > Nuevos servicios, m?s seguridad > http://correo.yahoo.es > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 kens at geodax.com Thu Jun 17 21:44:12 2004 From: kens at geodax.com (Ken Scott) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:44:12 -0400 Subject: Can't start ethereal In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1087508652.20184.74.camel@KENS02L> On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 17:31, Matthew Galgoci wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Ken Scott wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have ethereal installed but I can't run it (see below). > > There is a sepperate front end package called ethereal-gnome that you probably want. Right you are, sir. Thanks. I installed that and all is well. Ken From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jun 17 21:43:48 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:43:48 -0700 Subject: Can't start ethereal In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40D21094.1050204@vitalstream.com> Matthew Galgoci wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Ken Scott wrote: > > >>Hi all, >>I have ethereal installed but I can't run it (see below). >>/usr/sbin/tethereal does work and gives streaming text output. I >>thought the ethereal package was GUI-based. WHat am I missing? Thanks >>Ken >>(BTW, RH9 system) >> >>[kens at KENS02L kens]$ su >>Password: >>[root at KENS02L kens]# rpm -qa ethereal >>ethereal-0.10.3-0.90.1 >>[root at KENS02L kens]# man ethereal >>No manual entry for ethereal >>[root at KENS02L kens]# ethereal >>bash: ethereal: command not found >>[root at KENS02L kens]# > > > There is a sepperate front end package called ethereal-gnome that you probably want. ethereal must be run as root and it lives in /usr/sbin (which is NOT in a normal user's path). You can either: $ su Password: # /usr/sbin/ethereal or $ su - <<--- note the "-" at the end there Password: # ethereal Note that it said "command not found" (i.e. it's not in your default path). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - When all else fails, try reading the instructions. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From manuaroste at yahoo.es Thu Jun 17 22:04:28 2004 From: manuaroste at yahoo.es (=?iso-8859-1?q?Manuel=20Arostegui=20Ramirez?=) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 00:04:28 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Can't start ethereal In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040617220428.32468.qmail@web52406.mail.yahoo.com> --- Matthew Galgoci escribi?: > > > [kens at KENS02L kens]$ su > > > Password: > > > [root at KENS02L kens]# rpm -qa ethereal > > > ethereal-0.10.3-0.90.1 > > > [root at KENS02L kens]# man ethereal > > > No manual entry for ethereal > > > [root at KENS02L kens]# ethereal > > > bash: ethereal: command not found > > > [root at KENS02L kens]# > > > > > > > > Ethereal is the gui for tcpdump, do you have it? > > No, it isn't. Look at this web: http://www.firetower.com/forum/tcpdump.html This is the exactly sentence where I found it. "Be sure to try Ethereal, a GUI interface to tcpdump which gives you very sexy decodes of tcpdump traffic." Regards. Manuel ===== -- Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 http://manuel.todo-linux.com ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ?100 MB GRATIS! Nuevos servicios, m?s seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es From mgalgoci at redhat.com Thu Jun 17 22:10:49 2004 From: mgalgoci at redhat.com (Matthew Galgoci) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:10:49 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Can't start ethereal In-Reply-To: <20040617220428.32468.qmail@web52406.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote: > --- Matthew Galgoci escribi?: > > > > [kens at KENS02L kens]$ su > > > > Password: > > > > [root at KENS02L kens]# rpm -qa ethereal > > > > ethereal-0.10.3-0.90.1 > > > > [root at KENS02L kens]# man ethereal > > > > No manual entry for ethereal > > > > [root at KENS02L kens]# ethereal > > > > bash: ethereal: command not found > > > > [root at KENS02L kens]# > > > > > > > > > > > Ethereal is the gui for tcpdump, do you have it? > > > > No, it isn't. > > Look at this web: > http://www.firetower.com/forum/tcpdump.html > This is the exactly sentence where I found it. > "Be sure to try Ethereal, a GUI interface to tcpdump > which gives you very sexy decodes of tcpdump traffic." tcpdump and ethereal are not dependent on eachother or pachaged with eachother. It happens that you can take an ethereal capture file and read it with tcpdump, and also take a tcpdump capture file and read the file with ethereal. That does not mean that ethereal is a gui for tcpdump. ethereal however has an optional gui, while tcpdump (as far as I know) does not. You do not need to have tcpdump installed to get packet captures with ethereal. -- Matthew Galgoci System Administrator and Sr. Manager of Ruminants Red Hat, Inc 919.754.3700 x44155 From manuaroste at yahoo.es Thu Jun 17 22:13:58 2004 From: manuaroste at yahoo.es (=?iso-8859-1?q?Manuel=20Arostegui=20Ramirez?=) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 00:13:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Can't start ethereal In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040617221358.60868.qmail@web52404.mail.yahoo.com> --- Matthew Galgoci escribi?: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote: > > > --- Matthew Galgoci > escribi?: > > > > > [kens at KENS02L kens]$ su > > > > > Password: > > > > > [root at KENS02L kens]# rpm -qa ethereal > > > > > ethereal-0.10.3-0.90.1 > > > > > [root at KENS02L kens]# man ethereal > > > > > No manual entry for ethereal > > > > > [root at KENS02L kens]# ethereal > > > > > bash: ethereal: command not found > > > > > [root at KENS02L kens]# > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ethereal is the gui for tcpdump, do you have > it? > > > > > > No, it isn't. > > > > Look at this web: > > http://www.firetower.com/forum/tcpdump.html > > This is the exactly sentence where I found it. > > "Be sure to try Ethereal, a GUI interface to > tcpdump > > which gives you very sexy decodes of tcpdump > traffic." > > tcpdump and ethereal are not dependent on eachother > or pachaged with eachother. It happens that you > can take an ethereal capture file and read it with > tcpdump, and also take a tcpdump capture file and > read the file with ethereal. That does not mean that > ethereal is a gui for tcpdump. ethereal however > has an optional gui, while tcpdump (as far as I > know) does not. > > You do not need to have tcpdump installed to get > packet captures with ethereal. I was thinking about it, I was confused about it's dependencies. Thank you for the clearly explanation, Matthew. Best regards Manuel ===== -- Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 http://manuel.todo-linux.com ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ?100 MB GRATIS! Nuevos servicios, m?s seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es From chornbro at gte.net Thu Jun 17 23:54:10 2004 From: chornbro at gte.net (Chris) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:54:10 -0400 Subject: PPPoE Recommendations Message-ID: <40D22F22.9040300@gte.net> I am preparing to setup a pppoe connection on either a RH 9.0 or Fedora c1 computer. This computer will have two nics and will act as a gateway to the world for a internal LAN. I don't have a lot of experience with pppoe, so I am looking for recommendations. Due to the nature of the connection, I anticipate that I will loose connectivity on the pppoe link on occasion. I am looking for a way to monitor the connection and reconnect when it is lost and also restart my firewall which will need the newly assigned IP after the reconnect. I have already configured the firewall to parse the necessary files to get the new addresses. I have planed to use the adsl-* scripts for the link. Looking at the adsl-connect script which is called by adsl-start it looks like it will monitor the connection and restart if necessary. It also says it will execute the file adsl-lost if it exists when it tries to reconnect. I thought I could reinitiate the firewall (iptables) there, but am unsure if it executes that before or after it establishes a new connection. I also thought I might be able to use the ipwatch script and modify it for my needs. Maybe an expect script of some kind? Any thoughts? From rolandsdad at opengearbox.com Fri Jun 18 00:07:07 2004 From: rolandsdad at opengearbox.com (Steve Larsen) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 20:07:07 -0400 Subject: Help w/Uninstall In-Reply-To: <40D1FD11.2060206@vitalstream.com> References: <707A3DCD.53CC5B6A.0079D866@aol.com> <707A3DCD.53CC5B6A.0079D866@aol.com> Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20040617194007.00b71cb8@192.168.0.127> At 01:20 PM 6/17/2004 -0700, you wrote: >LinKins6 at aol.com wrote: >>Thank you so much for your response... and yes, that is what >>I'm wanting to do however, whenever I power up the laptop it goes >>through it's booting sequence and it does not give me an opportunity >>to load anything...The cursor stops at a grub> >>it wants a command????????????? >>I'm sorry to be a pain.... just don't have a clue how to stop this runaway... > >When you boot the laptop, you must have your new media inserted. If >you're installing Windows, make sure the Windows CD is in the CD-ROM >drive BEFORE you reboot the machine. > >You may have to enable booting from CD-ROM. Boot the laptop and press >the "DEL" key to get to the BIOS of the laptop. Scroll through the >choices until you see "Boot Devices". Go into that menu and make sure >the laptop tries to boot off CD _before_ it tries the hard disk. > >I can't be more clear since I don't know what kind of laptop you have >nor do I know which BIOS it runs. You should be able to check the >owner's manual to see how to get to the BIOS and change this setting. >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >- - >- Brain: The organ with which we think that we think. - >---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, From what I understand you purchased a laptop with RedHat Linux already installed and also from what I understand you are not at all familiar with computers at all beyond being a end user? For starters what Rick says is essentially correct. However, do not make any changes to your system BIOS you do not understand. If you do make changes to your system BIOS and booting up gives you any errors like hard disk not found or memory check sum errors, etc .. at that point I would recommend you seek out a Technician, and try to make sure they are certified, to correct whatever errors you may have introduced. Now that I have frightened you a bit, just enough to make caution a healthy thing, lets begin with three easy question. Please answer these questions. 1. What kind of laptop is this? Don't just say a Dell or Gateway, also say what model it is. With a little research we all can figure out what make and type of CPU and what amount of memory you have. If you know, please include that. In fact please include as much information as you can. How about the advertisement? They usually contain a good chunk of information about disk size, CPU and other things. Maybe telling us what the advertisement said will go a long way to describing the machine. It doesn't matter if you purchased this from a individual like a college student .. there must have been some kind of description, lets start there. 2. Does the laptop have a CD-ROM drive? Is it built in or cable connected? 3. Do you actually have a copy of Windows on CD-ROM? A Legal copy? Steve Larsen rolandsdad at opengearbox.com "The only stupid question is the one that was never asked." From rolandsdad at opengearbox.com Fri Jun 18 00:22:51 2004 From: rolandsdad at opengearbox.com (Steve Larsen) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 20:22:51 -0400 Subject: Help w/Uninstall In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20040617194007.00b71cb8@192.168.0.127> References: <40D1FD11.2060206@vitalstream.com> <707A3DCD.53CC5B6A.0079D866@aol.com> <707A3DCD.53CC5B6A.0079D866@aol.com> Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20040617201532.00b34ae0@192.168.0.127> At 08:07 PM 6/17/2004 -0400, you wrote: >At 01:20 PM 6/17/2004 -0700, you wrote: >>LinKins6 at aol.com wrote: >>>Thank you so much for your response... and yes, that is what >>>I'm wanting to do however, whenever I power up the laptop it goes >>>through it's booting sequence and it does not give me an opportunity >>>to load anything...The cursor stops at a grub> >>>it wants a command????????????? >>>I'm sorry to be a pain.... just don't have a clue how to stop this >>>runaway... >> >>When you boot the laptop, you must have your new media inserted. If >>you're installing Windows, make sure the Windows CD is in the CD-ROM >>drive BEFORE you reboot the machine. >> >>You may have to enable booting from CD-ROM. Boot the laptop and press >>the "DEL" key to get to the BIOS of the laptop. Scroll through the >>choices until you see "Boot Devices". Go into that menu and make sure >>the laptop tries to boot off CD _before_ it tries the hard disk. >> >>I can't be more clear since I don't know what kind of laptop you have >>nor do I know which BIOS it runs. You should be able to check the >>owner's manual to see how to get to the BIOS and change this setting. >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >>- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >>- - >>- Brain: The organ with which we think that we think. - >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Hello, > > From what I understand you purchased a laptop with RedHat Linux already > installed >and also from what I understand you are not at all familiar with computers >at all beyond >being a end user? > >For starters what Rick says is essentially correct. However, do not make >any changes >to your system BIOS you do not understand. If you do make changes to your >system >BIOS and booting up gives you any errors like hard disk not found or >memory check >sum errors, etc .. at that point I would recommend you seek out a >Technician, and try >to make sure they are certified, to correct whatever errors you may have >introduced. > >Now that I have frightened you a bit, just enough to make caution a >healthy thing, lets begin >with three easy question. > >Please answer these questions. > >1. What kind of laptop is this? Don't just say a Dell or Gateway, also say >what model it is. >With a little research we all can figure out what make and type of CPU and >what amount >of memory you have. If you know, please include that. In fact please >include as much >information as you can. How about the advertisement? They usually contain >a good chunk >of information about disk size, CPU and other things. Maybe telling us >what the advertisement >said will go a long way to describing the machine. It doesn't matter if >you purchased this from >a individual like a college student .. there must have been some kind of >description, lets start >there. > >2. Does the laptop have a CD-ROM drive? Is it built in or cable connected? > >3. Do you actually have a copy of Windows on CD-ROM? A Legal copy? > > >Steve Larsen >rolandsdad at opengearbox.com >"The only stupid question is the one that was never asked." > Hello, On second thought when you boot up and you get to the point where it says " grub> " .. type "windows" or "win" or "Windows" and see what happens? Likewise try typing "Linux" or "Red Hat" or "RHL" ..... all without the " quotation marks. If not .. don't worry, stick with the first set of suggestions anyway. Steve Larsen rolandsdad at opengearbox.com From info at smart-dev.com Fri Jun 18 06:00:06 2004 From: info at smart-dev.com (Yung H.) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 00:00:06 -0600 Subject: RedHat on Dell I8600 In-Reply-To: <40D1D048.8050804@vitalstream.com> References: <40D1D048.8050804@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1087538406.2825.11.camel@000d56ea4ebe> > Check the memory size of the card in xorg.conf and make sure it reflects > how much RAM is actually on the card (it sometimes guesses wrong). Also > use "system-config-display" and make sure you have the right monitor > specified there. If the system got the monitor wrong, it won't let you > set up configurations that'll violate the monitor's sync rates. > > When you change your resolution and it won't start, check the X logs > and see if there's an issue that's logged. Hi Rick, thanks for the reply! I'm not sure which model the monitor for the Inspiron 8600 is, so I tried using the Generic LCD monitor for 1920x1200 using the system-config-display command you suggested and when I tried that X didn't crash, but it just got stuck on a blue screen. Also I'm not sure on which section of the xorg.conf I need to specify the amount of memory, I think it's not even specified at this moment, can you advise where I can see that information? Thanks again! Yung. From gnichols at tpg.com.au Fri Jun 18 06:19:34 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 18 Jun 2004 16:19:34 +1000 Subject: yum update server + Network question. In-Reply-To: <40D06F15.9060203@vitalstream.com> References: <1086839228.1499.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C88DD7.2030801@vitalstre am.com> <1087019682.1276.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CDCB3B.2000401@ vitalstream.com> <1087278862.1375.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CF250D.5060005@vitalstream.com> <1087350875.1159.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40D06F15.9060203@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1087539584.1886.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 02:02, Rick Stevens wrote: > > Ah. I usually refer to that as "cockpit error" or "a short between > the keyboard and ground". I believe the scientific term is "Huh?" ;-) > > > Anyway, things are > > lookin' good now! > > Glad to hear it. Hi Rick, just further on the internet access for my laptop, I suppose I could have stuck with ssh and logged into my desktop machine and run Moz or Evo from the desktop machine as that works nicely and it has the benefit of keeping all my emails in the one place on the one machine. Ahhhh, options... options.... ain't Linux luvly. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols Public Key available from http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/#extract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I think my career is ruined! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - IMPORTANT. - - The contents of this email and any attachments, which may be con- - - fidential, are sent for the personal attention of the addressee/s - - only. 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Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From ARokicki at US.TIAuto.com Fri Jun 18 12:43:50 2004 From: ARokicki at US.TIAuto.com (Rokicki, Andrew) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 08:43:50 -0400 Subject: FW: Red Hat Linux 7.3 boot question Message-ID: <0329184E605BD41197DF0008C7335BF5024850BB@tiasusmrddc00.mrd.us.t iautomotive.com> I'm am not sure it this made it to the list so here it is again. > -----Original Message----- > From: Rokicki, Andrew > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 10:25 AM > To: 'Getting started with Red Hat Linux' > Subject: RE: Red Hat Linux 7.3 boot question > > If you are running grub > you need > default=x > where x is 0,1.... > > example: > > default=0 > timeout=10 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-18.7smp) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.7smp ro root=/dev/sda6 > initrd /initrd-2.4.20-18.7smp.img > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-18.7) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.7 ro root=/dev/sda6 > initrd /initrd-2.4.20-18.7.img > > > > default =0 means run 2.4.20-18.7smp > default=1 means run 2.4.20-18.7 > > If you have lilo let us know so we can approach it from that angle. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Edward King [SMTP:zhangsc at neusoft.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 2:25 AM > To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > Subject: Red Hat Linux 7.3 boot question > > I installed Red Hat Linux7.3,and then I update kernel,when I reboot > again,I found I can select new kernel or old kernel from screen. The > default select option is old kernel. I want to know which file i can > modify in order to make default select option is new kernel,how to modify > it? > Thanks in advance! > Edward << File: ATT170077.txt >> From lino at estg.ipleiria.pt Fri Jun 18 15:12:09 2004 From: lino at estg.ipleiria.pt (lino ferreira) Date: 18 Jun 2004 16:12:09 +0100 Subject: Printer configuration Message-ID: <1087571529.2577.7.camel@tagus> Dears, I tried to install a network printer via jetdirect and when i test the printer,the printer give me this message "lpr: unable to print file: server-error-service-unavailable". how can i solve this problem? thanks in advance, LF From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jun 18 16:18:07 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:18:07 -0700 Subject: RedHat on Dell I8600 In-Reply-To: <1087538406.2825.11.camel@000d56ea4ebe> References: <40D1D048.8050804@vitalstream.com> <1087538406.2825.11.camel@000d56ea4ebe> Message-ID: <40D315BF.6010405@vitalstream.com> Yung H. wrote: >>Check the memory size of the card in xorg.conf and make sure it reflects >>how much RAM is actually on the card (it sometimes guesses wrong). > > Also > >>use "system-config-display" and make sure you have the right monitor >>specified there. If the system got the monitor wrong, it won't let > > you > >>set up configurations that'll violate the monitor's sync rates. >> >>When you change your resolution and it won't start, check the X logs >>and see if there's an issue that's logged. > > > Hi Rick, thanks for the reply! > > I'm not sure which model the monitor for the Inspiron 8600 is, so I > tried using the Generic LCD monitor for 1920x1200 using the > system-config-display command you suggested and when I tried that X > didn't crash, but it just got stuck on a blue screen. Well, that could be either the memory or color depth. Looking at the Dell site, that monitor setting should be OK. > Also I'm not sure on which section of the xorg.conf I need to specify > the amount of memory, I think it's not even specified at this moment, > can you advise where I can see that information? It's in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, in the "Device" section. Add a line in the section about your video card: VideoRam RAM-size-in-kilobytes Again, based on the Dell site, you can have 32M, 64M or 128M of video RAM. Select one of these lines to stuff in there: VideoRam 32768 VideoRam 65536 VideoRam 131072 You may also need to change the "Screen" section and either change or add the "DefaultDepth" parameter. It specifies the number of bits used for each color on the screen and is usually a value of 16 (thousands of colors) or 24 (millions of colors). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - When in doubt, mumble. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jun 18 16:22:58 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:22:58 -0700 Subject: yum update server + Network question. In-Reply-To: <1087539584.1886.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1086839228.1499.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C88DD7.2030801@vitalstre am.com> <1087019682.1276.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CDCB3B.2000401@ vitalstream.com> <1087278862.1375.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CF250D.5060005@vitalstream.com> <1087350875.1159.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40D06F15.9060203@vitalstream.com> <1087539584.1886.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <40D316E2.1060703@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 02:02, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>Ah. I usually refer to that as "cockpit error" or "a short between >>the keyboard and ground". I believe the scientific term is "Huh?" ;-) >> >> >>>Anyway, things are >>>lookin' good now! >> >>Glad to hear it. > > > Hi Rick, just further on the internet access for my laptop, I suppose I > could have stuck with ssh and logged into my desktop machine and run Moz > or Evo from the desktop machine as that works nicely and it has the > benefit of keeping all my emails in the one place on the one machine. > Ahhhh, options... options.... ain't Linux luvly. Take a look at running a VNC server on your desktop and a VNC client on your laptop. Your laptop then gives you full GUI access to your desktop. This can be tunneled via SSH as well for security. Very cool. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jun 18 16:28:19 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:28:19 -0700 Subject: Printer configuration In-Reply-To: <1087571529.2577.7.camel@tagus> References: <1087571529.2577.7.camel@tagus> Message-ID: <40D31823.4040801@vitalstream.com> lino ferreira wrote: > Dears, > > I tried to install a network printer via jetdirect and when i test the > printer,the printer give me this message "lpr: unable to print file: > server-error-service-unavailable". > > how can i solve this problem? We need more information. Which version of Linux. Which tool did you use to try to set it up (jetdirect doesn't exist as a Linux tool). You would use "redhat-config-printer" or "redhat-icon->System Settings-> Printing" from the GUI. In the "queue type" section, make sure you have the queue type set to "Networked JetDirect". In the two boxes below enter the IP address of the printer and the port 9100. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Millihelen, adj: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From lino at estg.ipleiria.pt Fri Jun 18 16:55:37 2004 From: lino at estg.ipleiria.pt (lino ferreira) Date: 18 Jun 2004 17:55:37 +0100 Subject: Printer configuration In-Reply-To: <40D31823.4040801@vitalstream.com> References: <1087571529.2577.7.camel@tagus> <40D31823.4040801@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1087577736.2577.32.camel@tagus> Hello, I used the redhat 9 and tool redhat-icon->System Settings from the GUI , with specific printer IP and port 9100... And the nothing :( ; On Sex, 2004-06-18 at 17:28, Rick Stevens wrote: > lino ferreira wrote: > > Dears, > > > > I tried to install a network printer via jetdirect and when i test the > > printer,the printer give me this message "lpr: unable to print file: > > server-error-service-unavailable". > > > > how can i solve this problem? > > We need more information. Which version of Linux. Which tool did you > use to try to set it up (jetdirect doesn't exist as a Linux tool). > > You would use "redhat-config-printer" or "redhat-icon->System Settings-> > Printing" from the GUI. In the "queue type" section, make sure you > have the queue type set to "Networked JetDirect". In the two boxes > below enter the IP address of the printer and the port 9100. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Millihelen, adj: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 acline2 at cox.net Fri Jun 18 18:48:37 2004 From: acline2 at cox.net (A Cline) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 19:48:37 +0100 Subject: Updating Kickstart NFS Install tree with new RPMs Message-ID: <40D33905.1050208@cox.net> Hey all: How can I update the RPMs in an NFS install tree with current RPMs that I have downloaded using up2date? I want the latest RPMs to install via kickstart when I do the install. I'm also interested in adding a couple of custom RPMs to the installation process as well. The information I've found on the web thus far has been sketchy. Thanks for any info A Cline From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jun 18 18:54:06 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 11:54:06 -0700 Subject: Printer configuration In-Reply-To: <1087577736.2577.32.camel@tagus> References: <1087571529.2577.7.camel@tagus> <40D31823.4040801@vitalstream.com> <1087577736.2577.32.camel@tagus> Message-ID: <40D33A4E.7020503@vitalstream.com> lino ferreira wrote: > Hello, > > I used the redhat 9 and tool redhat-icon->System Settings from the GUI , > with specific printer IP and port 9100... Please bottom-post in the future (put your comments AFTER what you're commenting on). Can you ping the printer's IP? My guess is that you can't actually get to the printer from your machine. > On Sex, 2004-06-18 at 17:28, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>lino ferreira wrote: >> >>>Dears, >>> >>>I tried to install a network printer via jetdirect and when i test the >>>printer,the printer give me this message "lpr: unable to print file: >>>server-error-service-unavailable". >>> >>>how can i solve this problem? >> >>We need more information. Which version of Linux. Which tool did you >>use to try to set it up (jetdirect doesn't exist as a Linux tool). >> >>You would use "redhat-config-printer" or "redhat-icon->System Settings-> >>Printing" from the GUI. In the "queue type" section, make sure you >>have the queue type set to "Networked JetDirect". In the two boxes >>below enter the IP address of the printer and the port 9100. >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >>- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >>- - >>- Millihelen, adj: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. - >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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 - - - - First Law of Work: - - If you can't get it done in the first 24 hours, work nights. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From info at smart-dev.com Sat Jun 19 15:50:47 2004 From: info at smart-dev.com (Yung H.) Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 09:50:47 -0600 Subject: RedHat on Dell I8600 In-Reply-To: <40D315BF.6010405@vitalstream.com> References: <40D1D048.8050804@vitalstream.com> <1087538406.2825.11.camel@000d56ea4ebe> <40D315BF.6010405@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1087660247.2826.32.camel@000d56ea4ebe> > It's in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, in the "Device" section. Add a line in > the section about your video card: > > VideoRam RAM-size-in-kilobytes > > Again, based on the Dell site, you can have 32M, 64M or 128M of video > RAM. Select one of these lines to stuff in there: > > VideoRam 32768 > VideoRam 65536 > VideoRam 131072 > > You may also need to change the "Screen" section and either change or > add the "DefaultDepth" parameter. It specifies the number of bits > used > for each color on the screen and is usually a value of 16 (thousands > of > colors) or 24 (millions of colors). Hi Rick! Thanks again for the reply. I did the changes on the RAM and the depth, however, the maximum resolution I can achieve is still 1024x768, and this resolution doesn't accomodate correctly with the monitor. On the log file I see that it's taking the correct memory amount but it never tries the resolutions I specified? Here's the configuration I have so far, does it look good? Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "single head configuration" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath "unix/:7100" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Load "dri" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "LCD Panel 1920x1200" HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0 VertRefresh 60.0 - 60.0 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nv" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)" VideoRam 32768 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1280x800" "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Group 0 Mode 0666 EndSection I don't know if it's okay to send attachments to the list, if it's so, I can send the Xorg logfile. It's kinda big :) On a side note. I did notice that Xorg detected the panel size as 1280x800 which looks about right. That's actually the resolution I'm looking to use. Thanks again for the help! From brucemcdonal at mindspring.com Sun Jun 20 02:46:29 2004 From: brucemcdonal at mindspring.com (Bruce McDonald) Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:46:29 -0800 Subject: PPPoE Recommendations In-Reply-To: <40D22F22.9040300@gte.net> Message-ID: Hello Chris On 17-Jun-04, you wrote: > I am preparing to setup a pppoe connection on either a RH 9.0 or Fedora > c1 computer. This computer will have two nics and will act as a gateway > to the world for a internal LAN. I don't have a lot of experience > with pppoe, so I am looking for recommendations. I use Roaring Penguin PPPOE and it works just fine. I believe that it is bundled in RH9, but I was using it before I upgraded so I am a bit hazy on what was installed by RH9. I believe that whatever was bundled with RH9 should work well. > Due to the nature of the connection, I anticipate that I will loose > connectivity on the pppoe link on occasion. I am looking for a way to > monitor the connection and reconnect when it is lost and also restart my > firewall which will need the newly assigned IP after the reconnect. I > have already configured the firewall to parse the necessary files to get > the new addresses. Connection loss is a given, especially when the ISP is working on their systems. RP PPPOE does monitor the connection and periodically tries to bring it back up when it is down and you did not shut it down. I would wager that they all do that. The correct place to restart the firewall when you are reconnected is in /ect/ppp/ip-up.local The system will always execute the /ect/ppp/ip-up script when the link comes up or gets a new IP address. Ip-up then call the /ect/ppp/ip-up.local script which is where you may add things to be done when the link comes up or a new address is assigned. To start the firewall all you have to do is add a line to execute the firewall with the full path. Mine looks like: # Check if the firewall script exists if [ -e /etc/firewall.sh ] then # If it does. Start it. /etc/firewall.sh echo "Firewalling started." > /dev/console else # If it doesn't exist, warn. echo "firewall.sh not found... No firewall runninng." > /dev/console fi I redirect the echo to the console so that I can see the messages even if I am logged out. > I have planed to use the adsl-* scripts for the link. Looking at the > adsl-connect script which is called by adsl-start it looks like it will > monitor the connection and restart if necessary. It also says it will > execute the file adsl-lost if it exists when it tries to reconnect. I > thought I could reinitiate the firewall (iptables) there, but am unsure > if it executes that before or after it establishes a new connection. It should restart it. See above to start the firewall. > I also thought I might be able to use the ipwatch script and modify it > for my needs. > Maybe an expect script of some kind? > Any thoughts? Regards, Bruce McDonald From chornbro at gte.net Sun Jun 20 17:07:08 2004 From: chornbro at gte.net (Chris) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 13:07:08 -0400 Subject: PPPoE Recommendations In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40D5C43C.8020507@gte.net> Thanks Bruce, That's just what I was looking for. I will have a very short time to get this up and running, so I am trying to learn as mush as I can up front. In all my reading I missed the /etc/ppp/ip-up and ip-up.local. I think you saved me from a lot of extra work and stress. Bruce McDonald wrote: > Hello Chris > > On 17-Jun-04, you wrote: > > >>I am preparing to setup a pppoe connection on either a RH 9.0 or Fedora >>c1 computer. This computer will have two nics and will act as a gateway >>to the world for a internal LAN. I don't have a lot of experience >>with pppoe, so I am looking for recommendations. > > > I use Roaring Penguin PPPOE and it works just fine. I believe that it is > bundled in RH9, but I was using it before I upgraded so I am a bit hazy on > what was installed by RH9. I believe that whatever was bundled with RH9 > should work well. > > >>Due to the nature of the connection, I anticipate that I will loose >>connectivity on the pppoe link on occasion. I am looking for a way to >>monitor the connection and reconnect when it is lost and also restart my >>firewall which will need the newly assigned IP after the reconnect. I >>have already configured the firewall to parse the necessary files to get >>the new addresses. > > > Connection loss is a given, especially when the ISP is working on their > systems. > RP PPPOE does monitor the connection and periodically tries to bring it back > up when it is down and you did not shut it down. I would wager that they > all do that. > > The correct place to restart the firewall when you are reconnected is in > /ect/ppp/ip-up.local > > The system will always execute the /ect/ppp/ip-up script when the link comes > up or gets a new IP address. Ip-up then call the /ect/ppp/ip-up.local > script which is where you may add things to be done when the link comes up > or a new address is assigned. > > To start the firewall all you have to do is add a line to execute the > firewall with the full path. > > Mine looks like: > # Check if the firewall script exists > if [ -e /etc/firewall.sh ] > then > # If it does. Start it. > /etc/firewall.sh > echo "Firewalling started." > /dev/console > else > # If it doesn't exist, warn. > echo "firewall.sh not found... No firewall runninng." > /dev/console > fi > > I redirect the echo to the console so that I can see the messages even if I > am logged out. > > >>I have planed to use the adsl-* scripts for the link. Looking at the >>adsl-connect script which is called by adsl-start it looks like it will >>monitor the connection and restart if necessary. It also says it will >>execute the file adsl-lost if it exists when it tries to reconnect. I >>thought I could reinitiate the firewall (iptables) there, but am unsure >>if it executes that before or after it establishes a new connection. > > > It should restart it. > See above to start the firewall. > > >>I also thought I might be able to use the ipwatch script and modify it >>for my needs. > > >>Maybe an expect script of some kind? > > >>Any thoughts? > > > > Regards, > Bruce McDonald > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 brucemcdonal at mindspring.com Sun Jun 20 19:16:41 2004 From: brucemcdonal at mindspring.com (Bruce McDonald) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 11:16:41 -0800 Subject: PPPoE Recommendations In-Reply-To: <40D5C43C.8020507@gte.net> Message-ID: Hello Chris On 20-Jun-04, you wrote: > Bruce McDonald wrote: >> Hello Chris >> >> On 17-Jun-04, you wrote: >> >> >>> I am preparing to setup a pppoe connection on either a RH 9.0 or Fedora >>> c1 computer. This computer will have two nics and will act as a gateway >>> to the world for a internal LAN. I don't have a lot of experience with >>> pppoe, so I am looking for recommendations. >> I use Roaring Penguin PPPOE and it works just fine. I believe that it is >> bundled in RH9, but I was using it before I upgraded so I am a bit hazy >> on what was installed by RH9. I believe that whatever was bundled with >> RH9 should work well. >>> Due to the nature of the connection, I anticipate that I will loose >>> connectivity on the pppoe link on occasion. I am looking for a way to >>> monitor the connection and reconnect when it is lost and also restart my >>> firewall which will need the newly assigned IP after the reconnect. I >>> have already configured the firewall to parse the necessary files to get >>> the new addresses. >> Connection loss is a given, especially when the ISP is working on their >> systems. >> RP PPPOE does monitor the connection and periodically tries to bring it >> back up when it is down and you did not shut it down. I would wager that >> they all do that. >> The correct place to restart the firewall when you are reconnected is in >> /ect/ppp/ip-up.local >> The system will always execute the /ect/ppp/ip-up script when the link >> comes up or gets a new IP address. Ip-up then call the >> /ect/ppp/ip-up.local script which is where you may add things to be done >> when the link comes up or a new address is assigned. >> To start the firewall all you have to do is add a line to execute the >> firewall with the full path. >> Mine looks like: >> # Check if the firewall script exists >> if [ -e /etc/firewall.sh ] >> then >> # If it does. Start it. >> /etc/firewall.sh >> echo "Firewalling started." > /dev/console >> else >> # If it doesn't exist, warn. >> echo "firewall.sh not found... No firewall runninng." > /dev/console >> fi >> I redirect the echo to the console so that I can see the messages even if >> I am logged out. >>> I have planed to use the adsl-* scripts for the link. Looking at the >>> adsl-connect script which is called by adsl-start it looks like it will >>> monitor the connection and restart if necessary. It also says it will >>> execute the file adsl-lost if it exists when it tries to reconnect. I >>> thought I could reinitiate the firewall (iptables) there, but am unsure >>> if it executes that before or after it establishes a new connection. >> >> >> It should restart it. >> See above to start the firewall. >> >> >>> I also thought I might be able to use the ipwatch script and modify it >>> for my needs. >> >> >>> Maybe an expect script of some kind? >> >> >>> Any thoughts? >> >> >> >> Regards, >> Bruce McDonald >> > Thanks Bruce, > That's just what I was looking for. I will have a very short time to > get this up and running, so I am trying to learn as mush as I can up > front. In all my reading I missed the /etc/ppp/ip-up and ip-up.local. > I think you saved me from a lot of extra work and stress. Glad I could be of help. And just so you are aware, the convention of this list is to bottom post so the thought process is easier to follow. I reformatted your reply in my reply. Regards, Bruce McDonald From gnichols at tpg.com.au Mon Jun 21 02:28:57 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 21 Jun 2004 12:28:57 +1000 Subject: yum update server + Network question. In-Reply-To: <40D316E2.1060703@vitalstream.com> References: <1086839228.1499.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C88DD7.2030801@vitalstre am.com> <1087019682.1276.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CDCB3B.2000401@ vitalstream.com> <1087278862.1375.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CF250D .5060005@vitalstream.com> <1087350875.1159.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40D06F15.9060203@vitalstream.com> <1087539584.1886.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40D316E2.1060703@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1087784938.1563.5.camel@barny.localdomain> On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 02:22, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 02:02, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > > >>Ah. I usually refer to that as "cockpit error" or "a short between > >>the keyboard and ground". I believe the scientific term is "Huh?" ;-) > >> > >> > >>>Anyway, things are > >>>lookin' good now! > >> > >>Glad to hear it. > > > > > > Hi Rick, just further on the internet access for my laptop, I suppose I > > could have stuck with ssh and logged into my desktop machine and run Moz > > or Evo from the desktop machine as that works nicely and it has the > > benefit of keeping all my emails in the one place on the one machine. > > Ahhhh, options... options.... ain't Linux luvly. > > Take a look at running a VNC server on your desktop and a VNC client on > your laptop. Your laptop then gives you full GUI access to your > desktop. This can be tunneled via SSH as well for security. Very cool. Hi Rick, thanks for the info. That looks like an interesting exercise for me to undertake. 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Thanks ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ?100 MB GRATIS! Nuevos servicios, m?s seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 21 19:59:46 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:59:46 -0700 Subject: RedHat on Dell I8600 In-Reply-To: <1087660247.2826.32.camel@000d56ea4ebe> References: <40D1D048.8050804@vitalstream.com> <1087538406.2825.11.camel@000d56ea4ebe> <40D315BF.6010405@vitalstream.com> <1087660247.2826.32.camel@000d56ea4ebe> Message-ID: <40D73E32.1040101@vitalstream.com> Yung H. wrote: >>It's in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, in the "Device" section. Add a line in >>the section about your video card: >> >> VideoRam RAM-size-in-kilobytes >> >>Again, based on the Dell site, you can have 32M, 64M or 128M of video >>RAM. Select one of these lines to stuff in there: >> >> VideoRam 32768 >> VideoRam 65536 >> VideoRam 131072 >> >>You may also need to change the "Screen" section and either change or >>add the "DefaultDepth" parameter. It specifies the number of bits >>used >>for each color on the screen and is usually a value of 16 (thousands >>of >>colors) or 24 (millions of colors). > > > Hi Rick! > > Thanks again for the reply. I did the changes on the RAM and the depth, > however, the maximum resolution I can achieve is still 1024x768, and > this resolution doesn't accomodate correctly with the monitor. On the > log file I see that it's taking the correct memory amount but it never > tries the resolutions I specified? Here's the configuration I have so > far, does it look good? > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "single head configuration" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > EndSection > > Section "Files" > RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" > FontPath "unix/:7100" > EndSection > > Section "Module" > Load "dbe" > Load "extmod" > Load "fbdevhw" > Load "glx" > Load "record" > Load "freetype" > Load "type1" > Load "dri" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "keyboard" > Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > Option "XkbLayout" "us" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "Monitor Vendor" > ModelName "LCD Panel 1920x1200" > HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0 > VertRefresh 60.0 - 60.0 > Option "dpms" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Videocard0" > Driver "nv" > VendorName "Videocard vendor" > BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)" > VideoRam 32768 > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Videocard0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 24 > Modes "1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1280x800" "1024x768" > EndSubSection > EndSection > > Section "DRI" > Group 0 > Mode 0666 > EndSection > > I don't know if it's okay to send attachments to the list, if it's so, I > can send the Xorg logfile. We prefer you didn't, but we'll let it slide this time. In the future, try to just insert the stuff you think is necessary into your message. > It's kinda big :) On a side note. I did > notice that Xorg detected the panel size as 1280x800 which looks about > right. That's actually the resolution I'm looking to use. Well, you can try making a copy of the "Modes" line, comment out one copy (stick a "#" in front of it so you have it for reference), and delete the first two entries in the copy. Stop and restart your X server (just log out) and see if it comes up 1280x800. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If the enemy's in range...so are you! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 21 20:01:12 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:01:12 -0700 Subject: yum update server + Network question. In-Reply-To: <1087784938.1563.5.camel@barny.localdomain> References: <1086839228.1499.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C88DD7.2030801@vitalstre am.com> <1087019682.1276.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CDCB3B.2000401@ vitalstream.com> <1087278862.1375.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CF250D .5060005@vitalstream.com> <1087350875.1159.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40D06F15.9060203@vitalstream.com> <1087539584.1886.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40D316E2.1060703@vitalstream.com> <1087784938.1563.5.camel@barny.localdomain> Message-ID: <40D73E88.2030802@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 02:22, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: >> >>>On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 02:02, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Ah. I usually refer to that as "cockpit error" or "a short between >>>>the keyboard and ground". I believe the scientific term is "Huh?" ;-) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Anyway, things are >>>>>lookin' good now! >>>> >>>>Glad to hear it. >>> >>> >>>Hi Rick, just further on the internet access for my laptop, I suppose I >>>could have stuck with ssh and logged into my desktop machine and run Moz >>>or Evo from the desktop machine as that works nicely and it has the >>>benefit of keeping all my emails in the one place on the one machine. >>>Ahhhh, options... options.... ain't Linux luvly. >> >>Take a look at running a VNC server on your desktop and a VNC client on >>your laptop. Your laptop then gives you full GUI access to your >>desktop. This can be tunneled via SSH as well for security. Very cool. > > > Hi Rick, thanks for the info. That looks like an interesting exercise > for me to undertake. Will let you know how it works out. Good deal. I use it a lot. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Life: That which happens while you search for the remote control. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 21 20:05:20 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:05:20 -0700 Subject: Ultra 320 and Raid 1 In-Reply-To: <20040621143032.99224.qmail@web12303.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040621143032.99224.qmail@web12303.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40D73F80.1030309@vitalstream.com> Jordi Llorens wrote: > Hello. > I'm trying to install Red Hat 8 in a machine with > this hw : > Intel SE7501BR2 as motherboard > Adaptec Ultra 320 SCSI Controller (aic-7901) > three Maxtor SCSI discs > > I've configured a RAID-1 via Hardware, with the disk > one and disk two. the third is not used at this > moment. What model of card is it? Not the chipset (aic7901), but the card itself. Most aic7xxx chipsets don't do hardware RAID. Cards such as the 2100S do, but that was originally made by DPT. > I've got a driver for the Ultra 320, and in the moment > of partitioning the disk, the red hat see the trhee > disks , and i don't understand, what happens with the > Raid. The second thing , is after the installation > process, my system don't boot. Any suggestion? If the card is trying to treat it as a RAID, but the software driver doesn't support it, it won't boot because the disk geometries aren't similar. Have you hit Adaptec's website to see if they have an install floppy image for you to use during install (using "boot: linux dd")? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Life: That which happens while you search for the remote control. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From jordillo2002 at yahoo.es Mon Jun 21 20:49:04 2004 From: jordillo2002 at yahoo.es (=?iso-8859-1?q?Jordi=20Llorens?=) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:49:04 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Ultra 320 and Raid 1 In-Reply-To: <40D73F80.1030309@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040621204904.69094.qmail@web12308.mail.yahoo.com> Well, the model of the card, is Adaptec Ultra 320. I don't have the original box, only the card installed, in the machine. I've found a driver update for the Adaptec Ultra 320 , and i've installed linux correctly. After do that, i need to run a fix errors, in the scsi bios, and the system has booted. But this is not RAID, i think; so, i decide to change the scsi card , that appears in the Hardware compatibility . Sorry for the inconvenience. regards Rick Stevens wrote:Jordi Llorens wrote: > Hello. > I'm trying to install Red Hat 8 in a machine with > this hw : > Intel SE7501BR2 as motherboard > Adaptec Ultra 320 SCSI Controller (aic-7901) > three Maxtor SCSI discs > > I've configured a RAID-1 via Hardware, with the disk > one and disk two. the third is not used at this > moment. What model of card is it? Not the chipset (aic7901), but the card itself. Most aic7xxx chipsets don't do hardware RAID. Cards such as the 2100S do, but that was originally made by DPT. > I've got a driver for the Ultra 320, and in the moment > of partitioning the disk, the red hat see the trhee > disks , and i don't understand, what happens with the > Raid. The second thing , is after the installation > process, my system don't boot. Any suggestion? If the card is trying to treat it as a RAID, but the software driver doesn't support it, it won't boot because the disk geometries aren't similar. 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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:10:34 -0500 Subject: RedHat on Dell I8600 In-Reply-To: <40D73E32.1040101@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: One quick question. X only reads the configuration from /etc/X11/xorg.conf or does it read it also from somewhere else? Thanks again! > We prefer you didn't, but we'll let it slide this time. In the future, > try to just insert the stuff you think is necessary into your message. > > > It's kinda big :) On a side note. I did > > notice that Xorg detected the panel size as 1280x800 which looks about > > right. That's actually the resolution I'm looking to use. > > Well, you can try making a copy of the "Modes" line, comment out one > copy (stick a "#" in front of it so you have it for reference), and > delete the first two entries in the copy. Stop and restart your X > server (just log out) and see if it comes up 1280x800. From tejasavora at rediffmail.com Tue Jun 22 04:55:12 2004 From: tejasavora at rediffmail.com (Tejas A Vora) Date: 22 Jun 2004 04:55:12 -0000 Subject: RedHat 9.0 Install Problem with OpenOffice Message-ID: <20040622045512.16136.qmail@webmail26.rediffmail.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- ? Hi, I am trying to install RedHat 9.0 on pentium machine. My Harddisk space is 40 GB. Installation partion has almost 36 GB space. I amtrying to install in GUI mode with Server and Everything opetion. Itried to install so many time - but whenever it reaches openofice RPM installation, installation aborts saying "There is a problem with media or No disk space or spme problem with storage device". I tried so many times. Then I install only with MINIMAL option and it got installed. After that I tried to upgrade with EVERYTHING - and still the installation aborts at openoffice with th same error. Please help me ASAP. Thanks, Tejas From mysql_in at yahoo.com Tue Jun 22 05:17:10 2004 From: mysql_in at yahoo.com (Deepak Kumar) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:17:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: RedHat 9.0 Install Problem with OpenOffice In-Reply-To: <20040622045512.16136.qmail@webmail26.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <20040622051710.87272.qmail@web52901.mail.yahoo.com> Hi, to Install Red Hat or any other linux unpartition space is required. So you need to have unpartitioned space on the disk. Firt remove all the partition on you disk and then try the installation. But before deleting partition take the backup of you data. Regards Deepak Kumar --- Tejas A Vora wrote: > ? > Hi, > > I am trying to install RedHat 9.0 on pentium > machine. My Harddisk space is 40 GB. Installation > partion has almost 36 GB space. > > I amtrying to install in GUI mode with Server and > Everything opetion. Itried to install so many time - > but whenever it reaches openofice RPM installation, > installation aborts saying > > "There is a problem with media or No disk space or > spme problem with storage device". I tried so many > times. Then I install only with MINIMAL option and > it got installed. After that I tried to upgrade with > EVERYTHING - and still the installation aborts at > openoffice with th same error. > > Please help me ASAP. > > Thanks, > Tejas> _______________________________________________ > 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!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail From P.C.M.Chiu at rl.ac.uk Tue Jun 22 10:42:41 2004 From: P.C.M.Chiu at rl.ac.uk (Chiu, PCM (Peter) ) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 11:42:41 +0100 Subject: Book disk on USB memory stick Message-ID: <49F73BEED865D3119F8700902773C9F9041CD055@exchange09.rl.ac.uk> Having looked at some of the discussions circulating before, I tried the recipe that Bruce Bryne suggested but have hit a "missing operating system" problem. Below are the steps I took: a. mkdosfs /dev/sdc1 b. mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/stick c. cp rhas3u2/isolinux/* /mnt/stick where rhas3u2 is the RHES AS 3 update2 CD mount point d. cp /mnt/stick/isolinux.cfg /mnt/stick/syslinux.cfg e. cp /rhas3u2/images/pxeboot/initrd.img /mnt/stick/ f. umount /mnt/stick g. echo "mtools_skip_check=1" >> /root/.mtoolsrc h. syslinux /dev/sdc1 When I took this memory stick to another PC, I can see the hard disk device (OTi6828) at the BIOS level - Boot option. But after selected the boot option, save and reboot, the system reports: PXE-E61: media Test failure check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent missing operating system If I then reboot, the system hangs at the initial memory test. After reinserting the memory stick, the system continues the memory tests, but later reports missing operating system error again. It seems to suggest USB booting is now always possible. Does anyone know what is it required in order to support USB memory stick booting? From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue Jun 22 14:11:35 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:11:35 -0500 Subject: RedHat 9.0 Install Problem with OpenOffice In-Reply-To: <20040622045512.16136.qmail@webmail26.rediffmail.com> References: <20040622045512.16136.qmail@webmail26.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <20040622141135.GA15307@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 04:55:12AM -0000, Tejas A Vora wrote: > ? > Hi, > > I am trying to install RedHat 9.0 on pentium machine. My Harddisk space is 40 GB. Installation partion has almost 36 GB space. > > I amtrying to install in GUI mode with Server and Everything opetion. Itried to install so many time - but whenever it reaches openofice RPM installation, installation aborts saying > > "There is a problem with media or No disk space or spme problem with storage device". I tried so many times. Then I install only with MINIMAL option and it got installed. After that I tried to upgrade with EVERYTHING - and still the installation aborts at openoffice with th same error. > > Please help me ASAP. > > Thanks, > Tejas For general information see http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#install_dies The most likely problem is installing to ext3 (the default) filesystems. The install kernel is known to be fragile with ext3. Try again, but install to ext2 filesystems. You can convert to ext3 after the install is complete. Instructions here: http://www.rhil.net/docs/ext2-to-ext3.html Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Prayer should be our first resource, not our last resort. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 22 17:06:40 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:06:40 -0700 Subject: RedHat on Dell I8600 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40D86720.9020002@vitalstream.com> Yung H. wrote: > One quick question. X only reads the configuration from /etc/X11/xorg.conf > or does it read it also from somewhere else? The Xorg x-windows used in FC2 will read both xorg.conf and XF86Config (if present). I think it tries the XF86Config first, for legacy compatibility. Best bet: If you're running Xorg, at least rename any XF86Config files you may have lying about to something such as "old-XF86Config". Did we get your machine to behave finally? Are you getting the right resolution? >>We prefer you didn't, but we'll let it slide this time. In the future, >>try to just insert the stuff you think is necessary into your message. >> >> >>> It's kinda big :) On a side note. I did >>>notice that Xorg detected the panel size as 1280x800 which looks about >>>right. That's actually the resolution I'm looking to use. >> >>Well, you can try making a copy of the "Modes" line, comment out one >>copy (stick a "#" in front of it so you have it for reference), and >>delete the first two entries in the copy. Stop and restart your X >>server (just log out) and see if it comes up 1280x800. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Daddy, why doesn't this magnet pick up this floppy disk?" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From jreyn at us.ibm.com Tue Jun 22 17:45:37 2004 From: jreyn at us.ibm.com (John Reynolds) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:45:37 -0700 Subject: RPM dependencies and XFree86 Message-ID: Having spent an hour scouring the Web with Google, I am at the wall with what should have been a simple RPM update. THis may not be the perfect forum, but it's certainly worth asking. I have an Itanium running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3. I need to upgrade XFree86 for security reasons. Some RPMs have gone in, some won't. Current installs : [root at hplinux2 ia64]# rpm -qa | grep XFree86 XFree86-libs-4.3.0-55.EL XFree86-libs-4.3.0-35.EL XFree86-twm-4.3.0-35.EL XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL XFree86-font-utils-4.3.0-62.EL XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.3.0-35.EL XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-35.EL XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.0-35.EL XFree86-tools-4.3.0-62.EL XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-35.EL XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-35.EL XFree86-doc-4.3.0-62.EL XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-35.EL XFree86-xauth-4.3.0-35.EL XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-35.EL XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-55.EL XFree86-Xnest-4.3.0-35.EL XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-35.EL XFree86-4.3.0-35.EL XFree86-devel-4.3.0-55.EL XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-35.EL [root at hplinux2 ia64]# What I'm trying to upgrade : [root at hplinux2 ia64]# ls X* XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-devel-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-doc-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-font-utils-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-ISO8859-14-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-ISO8859-14-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-libs-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-syriac-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-tools-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-twm-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-xauth-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-Xnest-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm What happens: [root at hplinux2 ia64]# rpm -Uvh --force XFree86* error: Failed dependencies: XFree86-libs-data = 4.3.0-55.EL is needed by (installed) XFree86-libs-4.3.0-55.EL [root at hplinux2 ia64]# I've been pondering using '--nodeps', but various sources suggest staying away from that at all costs. I could use some advice. Thanks. John Reynolds From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 22 18:16:40 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 11:16:40 -0700 Subject: RPM dependencies and XFree86 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40D87788.5090805@vitalstream.com> John Reynolds wrote: > Having spent an hour scouring the Web with Google, I am at the wall with > what should have been a simple RPM update. THis may not be the perfect > forum, but it's certainly worth asking. > > I have an Itanium running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3. I need > to upgrade XFree86 for security reasons. Some RPMs have gone in, some > won't. > > Current installs : > > [root at hplinux2 ia64]# rpm -qa | grep XFree86 > XFree86-libs-4.3.0-55.EL > XFree86-libs-4.3.0-35.EL > XFree86-twm-4.3.0-35.EL > XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL > XFree86-font-utils-4.3.0-62.EL > XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.3.0-35.EL > XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-35.EL > XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.0-35.EL > XFree86-tools-4.3.0-62.EL > XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-35.EL > XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-35.EL > XFree86-doc-4.3.0-62.EL > XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-35.EL > XFree86-xauth-4.3.0-35.EL > XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-35.EL > XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-55.EL > XFree86-Xnest-4.3.0-35.EL > XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL > XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-35.EL > XFree86-4.3.0-35.EL > XFree86-devel-4.3.0-55.EL > XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-35.EL > [root at hplinux2 ia64]# > > What I'm trying to upgrade : > > [root at hplinux2 ia64]# ls X* > XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-devel-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-doc-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-font-utils-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-ISO8859-14-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-ISO8859-14-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-libs-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-syriac-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-tools-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-twm-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-xauth-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-Xnest-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > > What happens: > [root at hplinux2 ia64]# rpm -Uvh --force XFree86* > error: Failed dependencies: > XFree86-libs-data = 4.3.0-55.EL is needed by (installed) > XFree86-libs-4.3.0-55.EL > [root at hplinux2 ia64]# > > I've been pondering using '--nodeps', but various sources suggest staying > away from that at all costs. Generally speaking, the "--force" is the dangerous one. In your case, you have a circular dependency. To resolve this, you can either specify the two problem children on the command line: rpm -Fvh XFree86-libs-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm \ XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm Or use "--nodeps" to wildcard JUST those two: rpm -Fvh --nodeps XFree86-libs* Note that I prefer "Fvh" to "Uvh", as "Fvh" only updates stuff that's previously installed. "Uvh" will not only update, but install stuff that isn't already there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I don't suffer from insanity...I enjoy every minute of it! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From jreyn at us.ibm.com Tue Jun 22 18:38:16 2004 From: jreyn at us.ibm.com (John Reynolds) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 11:38:16 -0700 Subject: RPM dependencies and XFree86 In-Reply-To: <40D87788.5090805@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: The indefatigable Rick Stevens explained : >> What happens: >> [root at hplinux2 ia64]# rpm -Uvh --force XFree86* >> error: Failed dependencies: >> XFree86-libs-data = 4.3.0-55.EL is needed by (installed) >> XFree86-libs-4.3.0-55.EL >> [root at hplinux2 ia64]# >> >> I've been pondering using '--nodeps', but various sources suggest staying >> away from that at all costs. > >Generally speaking, the "--force" is the dangerous one. In your case, >you have a circular dependency. To resolve this, you can either specify >the two problem children on the command line: > > rpm -Fvh XFree86-libs-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm \ > XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm > >Or use "--nodeps" to wildcard JUST those two: > > rpm -Fvh --nodeps XFree86-libs* This worked! and then rpm -Fvh *.rpm took care of all the rest of it. > >Note that I prefer "Fvh" to "Uvh", as "Fvh" only updates stuff that's >previously installed. "Uvh" will not only update, but install stuff >that isn't already there. Noted and appreciated! Thanks! John Reynolds From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 22 18:39:36 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 11:39:36 -0700 Subject: RPM dependencies and XFree86 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40D87CE8.6010101@vitalstream.com> John Reynolds wrote: > The indefatigable Rick Stevens explained : > > > >>>What happens: >>>[root at hplinux2 ia64]# rpm -Uvh --force XFree86* >>>error: Failed dependencies: >>> XFree86-libs-data = 4.3.0-55.EL is needed by (installed) >>>XFree86-libs-4.3.0-55.EL >>>[root at hplinux2 ia64]# >>> >>>I've been pondering using '--nodeps', but various sources suggest > > staying > >>>away from that at all costs. >> >>Generally speaking, the "--force" is the dangerous one. In your case, >>you have a circular dependency. To resolve this, you can either specify >>the two problem children on the command line: >> >> rpm -Fvh XFree86-libs-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm \ >> XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm >> >>Or use "--nodeps" to wildcard JUST those two: >> >> rpm -Fvh --nodeps XFree86-libs* > > > This worked! Ta-DAH! > and then > rpm > -Fvh *.rpm > > took care of all the rest of it. Good deal! >>Note that I prefer "Fvh" to "Uvh", as "Fvh" only updates stuff that's >>previously installed. "Uvh" will not only update, but install stuff >>that isn't already there. > > > Noted and appreciated! Thanks! "That's what we're here for!" (c)2004, Red Hat Install List :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Yeah, but you're taking the universe out of context." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From aprykhus42 at hotmail.com Tue Jun 22 20:30:27 2004 From: aprykhus42 at hotmail.com (Aaron Rykhus) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:30:27 +0000 Subject: Redhat 6.1 Password Change Message-ID: I'm new to Linux so don't laugh if this sounds retarded...I installed RedHat 6.1 recently and have and can login to root and created my own user account that I can login to...I'm currently reading the RHCE book and it had me create an account with the passwd command. However, when I tried testing logging into the account it doesn't work (login failed). I checked caps lock and changed it again a couple of times but still no luck. Any thoughts??? _________________________________________________________________ Get fast, reliable Internet access with MSN 9 Dial-up ? now 3 months FREE! http://join.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200361ave/direct/01/ From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue Jun 22 20:39:17 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:39:17 -0500 Subject: Redhat 6.1 Password Change In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20040622203917.GA18725@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:30:27PM +0000, Aaron Rykhus wrote: > I'm new to Linux so don't laugh if this sounds retarded...I installed > RedHat 6.1 recently and have and can login to root and created my own user > account that I can login to...I'm currently reading the RHCE book and it > had me create an account with the passwd command. Umm, you don't create an account with "passwd". You use "useradd" or some GUI tool. "passwd" sets or changes a password for an existing account. > However, when I tried > testing logging into the account it doesn't work (login failed). I checked > caps lock and changed it again a couple of times but still no luck. Any > thoughts??? You're using a very ancient version of RedHat. I seem to recall some problem with password but don't recall the exact nature of it. I have seen passwd carp about your choice of password but go ahead and set it anyway. Are you getting any odd messages when you run passwd? I presume you are root when you run passwd to change the user's password. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Prayer should be our first resource, not our last resort. From aprykhus42 at hotmail.com Tue Jun 22 21:21:28 2004 From: aprykhus42 at hotmail.com (Aaron Rykhus) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:21:28 +0000 Subject: Redhat 6.1 Password Change Message-ID: When I run passwd it says "Enter UNIX password" >From: Bob McClure Jr >Reply-To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > >To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >Subject: Re: Redhat 6.1 Password Change >Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:39:17 -0500 > >On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:30:27PM +0000, Aaron Rykhus wrote: > > I'm new to Linux so don't laugh if this sounds retarded...I installed > > RedHat 6.1 recently and have and can login to root and created my own >user > > account that I can login to...I'm currently reading the RHCE book and it > > had me create an account with the passwd command. > >Umm, you don't create an account with "passwd". You use "useradd" or >some GUI tool. "passwd" sets or changes a password for an existing >account. > > > However, when I tried > > testing logging into the account it doesn't work (login failed). I >checked > > caps lock and changed it again a couple of times but still no luck. Any > > thoughts??? > >You're using a very ancient version of RedHat. I seem to recall some >problem with password but don't recall the exact nature of it. I have >seen passwd carp about your choice of password but go ahead and set it >anyway. Are you getting any odd messages when you run passwd? > >I presume you are root when you run passwd to change the user's >password. > >Cheers, >-- >Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. >robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com >Prayer should be our first resource, not our last resort. > > >_______________________________________________ >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 _________________________________________________________________ Make the most of your family vacation with tips from the MSN Family Travel Guide! http://dollar.msn.com From aprykhus42 at hotmail.com Tue Jun 22 21:24:44 2004 From: aprykhus42 at hotmail.com (Aaron Rykhus) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:24:44 +0000 Subject: Redhat 6.1 Password Change Message-ID: The RHCE book instructed me to add the user to /etc/passwd then run passwd. >From: "Aaron Rykhus" >Reply-To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > >To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com >Subject: Re: Redhat 6.1 Password Change >Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:21:28 +0000 > >When I run passwd it says "Enter UNIX password" > > >>From: Bob McClure Jr >>Reply-To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >> >>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >>Subject: Re: Redhat 6.1 Password Change >>Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:39:17 -0500 >> >>On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:30:27PM +0000, Aaron Rykhus wrote: >> > I'm new to Linux so don't laugh if this sounds retarded...I installed >> > RedHat 6.1 recently and have and can login to root and created my own >>user >> > account that I can login to...I'm currently reading the RHCE book and >>it >> > had me create an account with the passwd command. >> >>Umm, you don't create an account with "passwd". You use "useradd" or >>some GUI tool. "passwd" sets or changes a password for an existing >>account. >> >> > However, when I tried >> > testing logging into the account it doesn't work (login failed). I >>checked >> > caps lock and changed it again a couple of times but still no luck. Any >> > thoughts??? >> >>You're using a very ancient version of RedHat. I seem to recall some >>problem with password but don't recall the exact nature of it. I have >>seen passwd carp about your choice of password but go ahead and set it >>anyway. Are you getting any odd messages when you run passwd? >> >>I presume you are root when you run passwd to change the user's >>password. >> >>Cheers, >>-- >>Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. >>robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com >>Prayer should be our first resource, not our last resort. >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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 > >_________________________________________________________________ >Make the most of your family vacation with tips from the MSN Family Travel >Guide! http://dollar.msn.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 _________________________________________________________________ Make the most of your family vacation with tips from the MSN Family Travel Guide! http://dollar.msn.com From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue Jun 22 21:29:24 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:29:24 -0500 Subject: Redhat 6.1 Password Change In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20040622212924.GA19463@bobcat.cumbytel.com> If you would, please don't top post. Put your post after the post to which you are replying. Answer: So that others can follow the thread of exchanges. Question: Why should I bottom-post? I'll reorder this. On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:21:28PM +0000, Aaron Rykhus wrote: > >From: Bob McClure Jr > >Reply-To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > > >To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > >Subject: Re: Redhat 6.1 Password Change > >Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:39:17 -0500 > > > >On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:30:27PM +0000, Aaron Rykhus wrote: > >> I'm new to Linux so don't laugh if this sounds retarded...I installed > >> RedHat 6.1 recently and have and can login to root and created my own > >user > >> account that I can login to...I'm currently reading the RHCE book and it > >> had me create an account with the passwd command. > > > >Umm, you don't create an account with "passwd". You use "useradd" or > >some GUI tool. "passwd" sets or changes a password for an existing > >account. > > > >> However, when I tried > >> testing logging into the account it doesn't work (login failed). I > >checked > >> caps lock and changed it again a couple of times but still no luck. Any > >> thoughts??? > > > >You're using a very ancient version of RedHat. I seem to recall some > >problem with password but don't recall the exact nature of it. I have > >seen passwd carp about your choice of password but go ahead and set it > >anyway. Are you getting any odd messages when you run passwd? > > When I run passwd it says "Enter UNIX password" > > >I presume you are root when you run passwd to change the user's > >password. > > > >Cheers, > >-- > >Bob McClure, Jr. Well, yes, that's the prompt. When you enter the password twice, does it cough up any errors or warnings? Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Prayer should be our first resource, not our last resort. From aprykhus42 at hotmail.com Tue Jun 22 21:33:43 2004 From: aprykhus42 at hotmail.com (Aaron Rykhus) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:33:43 +0000 Subject: Redhat 6.1 Password Change Message-ID: >From: Bob McClure Jr >Reply-To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > >To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >Subject: Re: Redhat 6.1 Password Change >Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:29:24 -0500 > >If you would, please don't top post. Put your post after the post to >which you are replying. > >Answer: So that others can follow the thread of exchanges. > >Question: Why should I bottom-post? > >I'll reorder this. > >On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:21:28PM +0000, Aaron Rykhus wrote: > > >From: Bob McClure Jr > > >Reply-To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > > > > >To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > >Subject: Re: Redhat 6.1 Password Change > > >Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:39:17 -0500 > > > > > >On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:30:27PM +0000, Aaron Rykhus wrote: > > >> I'm new to Linux so don't laugh if this sounds retarded...I installed > > >> RedHat 6.1 recently and have and can login to root and created my own > > >user > > >> account that I can login to...I'm currently reading the RHCE book and >it > > >> had me create an account with the passwd command. > > > > > >Umm, you don't create an account with "passwd". You use "useradd" or > > >some GUI tool. "passwd" sets or changes a password for an existing > > >account. > > > > > >> However, when I tried > > >> testing logging into the account it doesn't work (login failed). I > > >checked > > >> caps lock and changed it again a couple of times but still no luck. >Any > > >> thoughts??? > > > > > >You're using a very ancient version of RedHat. I seem to recall some > > >problem with password but don't recall the exact nature of it. I have > > >seen passwd carp about your choice of password but go ahead and set it > > >anyway. Are you getting any odd messages when you run passwd? > > > > When I run passwd it says "Enter UNIX password" > > > > >I presume you are root when you run passwd to change the user's > > >password. > > > > > >Cheers, > > >-- > > >Bob McClure, Jr. > >Well, yes, that's the prompt. When you enter the password twice, does >it cough up any errors or warnings? > >Cheers, >-- >Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. >robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com >Prayer should be our first resource, not our last resort. > > >_______________________________________________ >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 Just "login invalid" _________________________________________________________________ Make the most of your family vacation with tips from the MSN Family Travel Guide! http://dollar.msn.com From rsimioni at daleen.com Tue Jun 22 21:31:06 2004 From: rsimioni at daleen.com (Rodney Simioni) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:31:06 -0400 Subject: ip tracker on Red Hat Message-ID: Hi: This email is probably beyond the scope of this newsgroup, so I apologize. I'm looking for a open source software, preferrable for Red Hat 7.2, that does ip tracking and ip management within the subnets. Thanks in advance. Rod -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue Jun 22 21:35:43 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:35:43 -0500 Subject: Redhat 6.1 Password Change In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20040622213543.GB19463@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Reordering again. On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:24:44PM +0000, Aaron Rykhus wrote: > >From: "Aaron Rykhus" > >Reply-To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > > >To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > >Subject: Re: Redhat 6.1 Password Change > >Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:21:28 +0000 > > > >When I run passwd it says "Enter UNIX password" > > > > > >>From: Bob McClure Jr > >>Reply-To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > >> > >>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > >>Subject: Re: Redhat 6.1 Password Change > >>Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:39:17 -0500 > >> > >>On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:30:27PM +0000, Aaron Rykhus wrote: > >>> I'm new to Linux so don't laugh if this sounds retarded...I installed > >>> RedHat 6.1 recently and have and can login to root and created my own > >>user > >>> account that I can login to...I'm currently reading the RHCE book and > >>it > >>> had me create an account with the passwd command. > >> > >>Umm, you don't create an account with "passwd". You use "useradd" or > >>some GUI tool. "passwd" sets or changes a password for an existing > >>account. > >> > >>> However, when I tried > >>> testing logging into the account it doesn't work (login failed). I > >>checked > >>> caps lock and changed it again a couple of times but still no luck. Any > >>> thoughts??? > >> > >>You're using a very ancient version of RedHat. I seem to recall some > >>problem with password but don't recall the exact nature of it. I have > >>seen passwd carp about your choice of password but go ahead and set it > >>anyway. Are you getting any odd messages when you run passwd? > >> > >>I presume you are root when you run passwd to change the user's > >>password. > >> > >>Cheers, > >>-- > >>Bob McClure, Jr. > > The RHCE book instructed me to add the user to /etc/passwd then run passwd. Aha! Now, we're getting somewhere. That's a very rude and crude way to do it, and I don't know if it even works if you have a /etc/shadow file. I don't think you do. You are far better off to use "useradd" (or maybe "adduser") to add users. That will create the proper passwd (and shadow, if you have it) entry, create a home directory for the user, and other nice details. Please post the line from the /etc/passwd file. My guess is that something is amiss there. Also let us know if you have /etc/shadow. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Prayer should be our first resource, not our last resort. From aprykhus42 at hotmail.com Tue Jun 22 21:36:05 2004 From: aprykhus42 at hotmail.com (Aaron Rykhus) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:36:05 +0000 Subject: Fedora with RHCE Message-ID: Is Fedora on a test PC good for learning the RHCE? _________________________________________________________________ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee? Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 From mgalgoci at redhat.com Tue Jun 22 21:45:17 2004 From: mgalgoci at redhat.com (Matthew Galgoci) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:45:17 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Fedora with RHCE In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Aaron Rykhus wrote: > Is Fedora on a test PC good for learning the RHCE? Fedora is a much better choice for learning. -- Matthew Galgoci System Administrator and Sr. Manager of Ruminants Red Hat, Inc 919.754.3700 x44155 From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue Jun 22 21:48:03 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:48:03 -0500 Subject: Redhat 6.1 Password Change In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20040622214803.GA19619@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:33:43PM +0000, Aaron Rykhus wrote: > >From: Bob McClure Jr > >Reply-To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > > >To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > >Subject: Re: Redhat 6.1 Password Change > >Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:29:24 -0500 > > > >> >You're using a very ancient version of RedHat. I seem to recall some > >> >problem with password but don't recall the exact nature of it. I have > >> >seen passwd carp about your choice of password but go ahead and set it > >> >anyway. Are you getting any odd messages when you run passwd? > >> > >> When I run passwd it says "Enter UNIX password" > >> > >> >I presume you are root when you run passwd to change the user's > >> >password. > >> > > >> >Cheers, > >> >-- > >> >Bob McClure, Jr. > > > >Well, yes, that's the prompt. When you enter the password twice, does > >it cough up any errors or warnings? > > > >Cheers, > >-- > >Bob McClure, Jr. > > > Just "login invalid" That does not compute. I wanted to know what carps come from running "passwd" to change the user's password. If that is a newly created user (even if hand-entered into /etc/passwd), root (not any mere mortal user) must run "passwd " to set userid's password. You will be prompted to enter the new password, and then enter it again. Then you can log out as root and try logging in as the new user. Or you can "su - ". So, if the new user is "foobar", you (as root) will run passwd foobar and provide the new password twice. To test it: su - foobar It will ask you for password, and if all is well, you will get a shell prompt of some kind. To return to root's shell, just enter "exit" or Ctrl-D. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Prayer should be our first resource, not our last resort. From mgalgoci at redhat.com Tue Jun 22 21:48:47 2004 From: mgalgoci at redhat.com (Matthew Galgoci) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:48:47 -0400 (EDT) Subject: ip tracker on Red Hat In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Rodney Simioni wrote: > > This email is probably beyond the scope of this newsgroup, so I apologize. > I'm looking for a open source software, preferrable for Red Hat 7.2, that > does ip tracking and ip management within the subnets. Thanks in advance. What are you trying to accomplish when you say "ip tracking" and "ip management"? -- Matthew Galgoci System Administrator and Sr. Manager of Ruminants Red Hat, Inc 919.754.3700 x44155 From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue Jun 22 21:49:35 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:49:35 -0500 Subject: Fedora with RHCE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20040622214935.GB19619@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:36:05PM +0000, Aaron Rykhus wrote: > Is Fedora on a test PC good for learning the RHCE? I'd say so. Fedora Core 1 is little more than what would have been RH 10. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Prayer should be our first resource, not our last resort. From aprykhus42 at hotmail.com Tue Jun 22 22:10:11 2004 From: aprykhus42 at hotmail.com (Aaron Rykhus) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:10:11 +0000 Subject: Redhat 6.1 Password Change Message-ID: >From: Bob McClure Jr >Reply-To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > >To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >Subject: Re: Redhat 6.1 Password Change >Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:48:03 -0500 > >On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:33:43PM +0000, Aaron Rykhus wrote: > > >From: Bob McClure Jr > > >Reply-To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > > > > >To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > >Subject: Re: Redhat 6.1 Password Change > > >Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:29:24 -0500 > > > > > >> >You're using a very ancient version of RedHat. I seem to recall >some > > >> >problem with password but don't recall the exact nature of it. I >have > > >> >seen passwd carp about your choice of password but go ahead and set >it > > >> >anyway. Are you getting any odd messages when you run passwd? > > >> > > >> When I run passwd it says "Enter UNIX password" > > >> > > >> >I presume you are root when you run passwd to change the user's > > >> >password. > > >> > > > >> >Cheers, > > >> >-- > > >> >Bob McClure, Jr. > > > > > >Well, yes, that's the prompt. When you enter the password twice, does > > >it cough up any errors or warnings? > > > > > >Cheers, > > >-- > > >Bob McClure, Jr. > > > > > > Just "login invalid" > >That does not compute. I wanted to know what carps come from running > "passwd" to change the user's password. > >If that is a newly created user (even if hand-entered into >/etc/passwd), root (not any mere mortal user) must run "passwd >" to set userid's password. You will be prompted to enter the >new password, and then enter it again. Then you can log out as root >and try logging in as the new user. Or you can "su - ". > >So, if the new user is "foobar", you (as root) will run > > passwd foobar > >and provide the new password twice. To test it: > > su - foobar > >It will ask you for password, and if all is well, you will get a shell >prompt of some kind. To return to root's shell, just enter "exit" or >Ctrl-D. > >Cheers, >-- >Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. >robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com >Prayer should be our first resource, not our last resort. > > >_______________________________________________ >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 What do you mean by carps? _________________________________________________________________ MSN 9 Dial-up Internet Access fights spam and pop-ups ? now 3 months FREE! http://join.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200361ave/direct/01/ From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue Jun 22 22:40:28 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:40:28 -0500 Subject: Redhat 6.1 Password Change In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20040622224028.GA19863@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 10:10:11PM +0000, Aaron Rykhus wrote: > >From: Bob McClure Jr > >Reply-To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > > >To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > >Subject: Re: Redhat 6.1 Password Change > >Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:48:03 -0500 > > > >On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:33:43PM +0000, Aaron Rykhus wrote: > >> >From: Bob McClure Jr > >> >Reply-To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > >> > > >> >To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > >> >Subject: Re: Redhat 6.1 Password Change > >> >Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:29:24 -0500 > >> > > >> >> >You're using a very ancient version of RedHat. I seem to recall > >some > >> >> >problem with password but don't recall the exact nature of it. I > >have > >> >> >seen passwd carp about your choice of password but go ahead and set > >it > >> >> >anyway. Are you getting any odd messages when you run passwd? > >> >> > >> >> When I run passwd it says "Enter UNIX password" > >> >> > >> >> >I presume you are root when you run passwd to change the user's > >> >> >password. > >> >> > > >> >> >Cheers, > >> >> >-- > >> >> >Bob McClure, Jr. > >> > > >> >Well, yes, that's the prompt. When you enter the password twice, does > >> >it cough up any errors or warnings? > >> > > >> >Cheers, > >> >-- > >> >Bob McClure, Jr. > >> > >> > >> Just "login invalid" > > > >That does not compute. I wanted to know what carps come from running > > "passwd" to change the user's password. > > > >If that is a newly created user (even if hand-entered into > >/etc/passwd), root (not any mere mortal user) must run "passwd > >" to set userid's password. You will be prompted to enter the > >new password, and then enter it again. Then you can log out as root > >and try logging in as the new user. Or you can "su - ". > > > >So, if the new user is "foobar", you (as root) will run > > > > passwd foobar > > > >and provide the new password twice. To test it: > > > > su - foobar > > > >It will ask you for password, and if all is well, you will get a shell > >prompt of some kind. To return to root's shell, just enter "exit" or > >Ctrl-D. > > > >Cheers, > >-- > >Bob McClure, Jr. > > > What do you mean by carps? Sorry. That's a slang term for complaints, or in this case, warnings or errors. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Prayer should be our first resource, not our last resort. From info at smart-dev.com Tue Jun 22 23:57:39 2004 From: info at smart-dev.com (Yung H.) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 18:57:39 -0500 Subject: RedHat on Dell I8600 In-Reply-To: <40D86720.9020002@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: Hi Rick, Thanks for the info. I'm thinking that it's reading the wrong file, could be. I still need to check the suggestions you gave me. I'll let you know! Thanks a bunch for the help man! > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rick Stevens > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 12:07 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: RedHat on Dell I8600 > > > Yung H. wrote: > > One quick question. X only reads the configuration from > /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > or does it read it also from somewhere else? > > The Xorg x-windows used in FC2 will read both xorg.conf and XF86Config > (if present). I think it tries the XF86Config first, for legacy > compatibility. Best bet: If you're running Xorg, at least rename any > XF86Config files you may have lying about to something such as > "old-XF86Config". > > Did we get your machine to behave finally? Are you getting the right > resolution? From tyche at ica.net Wed Jun 23 03:29:43 2004 From: tyche at ica.net (tyche) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 03:29:43 -0000 Subject: x over ppp Message-ID: <200307222331.50561.tyche@ica.net> is there someway to pipe an X server out over a ppp connection to a windows user with out getting into an expensive suite of software on teh windows end? tia tyche From jkinz at kinz.org Wed Jun 23 13:30:01 2004 From: jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:30:01 -0400 Subject: x over ppp In-Reply-To: <200307222331.50561.tyche@ica.net>; from tyche@ica.net on Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:31:50PM -0400 References: <200307222331.50561.tyche@ica.net> Message-ID: <20040623093001.A8543@redline.comcast.net> On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:31:50PM -0400, tyche wrote: > is there someway to pipe an X server out over a ppp connection to a windows > user with out getting into an expensive suite of software on teh windows end? Yes , there is, Install cygwin on your Windows system - it includes a free X-windows servers so that you can run X-windows on your Win box. Then you can tunnel the X-windows connection via IP thru your ppp connection. Your connection needs to be faster than dial up, or it will be painful to use. Cygwin is from "Cygnus" who is now owned by RedHat and the download should be freely available on their website somewhere. To learn how to do remote "X" connections check www.tldp.org, and look at the "HOW-TO" docs list. There is one which deals specifically on how to do that. Searching the list for "remote" should find it. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. From Danesh.D at bredband.net Wed Jun 23 16:43:46 2004 From: Danesh.D at bredband.net (Danesh Daroui) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:43:46 +0200 Subject: Fedora Core 2 Message-ID: <000a01c45941$42d220b0$285671d5@ciyasoftlap> Hi all, I have a 900 Mhz Pentium III almost old PC and I want to install Fedora Core 2 on it, but I don't know should I download x86 64-bit version of Fedora Core 2 or i386 32-bit ? Also, I don't know either what is defference between RPMS and usual versions of Fedore Core 2. Can you please help me ? Regards, Danesh Daroui -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 23 16:42:25 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:42:25 -0700 Subject: x over ppp In-Reply-To: <20040623093001.A8543@redline.comcast.net> References: <200307222331.50561.tyche@ica.net> <20040623093001.A8543@redline.comcast.net> Message-ID: <40D9B2F1.9080103@vitalstream.com> Jeff Kinz wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:31:50PM -0400, tyche wrote: > >>is there someway to pipe an X server out over a ppp connection to a windows >>user with out getting into an expensive suite of software on teh windows end? > > > Yes , there is, > Install cygwin on your Windows system - it includes a free X-windows > servers so that you can run X-windows on your Win box. > Then you can tunnel the X-windows connection via IP thru your ppp > connection. > > Your connection needs to be faster than dial up, or it will be painful > to use. > > Cygwin is from "Cygnus" who is now owned by RedHat and the download > should be freely available on their website somewhere. > > > To learn how to do remote "X" connections check www.tldp.org, and look > at the "HOW-TO" docs list. There is one which deals specifically > on how to do that. Searching the list for "remote" should find it. You can also use VNC via an SSH tunnel over a PPP connection (don't forget to us the compression option on SSH). By the way, double check the "X server" bit. The X server is the machine with the keyboard, mouse and graphic screen. The X client is the remote program that needs the X server to display its output. It seems backwards at first, but that's the way it is. > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 23 16:48:41 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:48:41 -0700 Subject: Fedora Core 2 In-Reply-To: <000a01c45941$42d220b0$285671d5@ciyasoftlap> References: <000a01c45941$42d220b0$285671d5@ciyasoftlap> Message-ID: <40D9B469.90603@vitalstream.com> Danesh Daroui wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a 900 Mhz Pentium III almost old PC and I want to install Fedora > Core 2 on it, but I don't know should I download x86 64-bit version of > Fedora Core 2 or i386 32-bit ? A Pentium III is a 32-bit processor, so you MUST use the 32-bit version of Fedora Core 2 (or as we call it, "FC2"). > Also, I don't know either what is > defference between RPMS and usual versions of Fedore Core 2. Can you > please help me ? An RPM is a specific package of programs to do some specific thing on the system. For example, the "bind" RPM contains everything you need to set up a DNS server or client. If you want to install FC2, you should download the 32-bit ".iso" images and burn them to a CD. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Do you know where _your_ towel is? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From manuaroste at yahoo.es Wed Jun 23 16:58:46 2004 From: manuaroste at yahoo.es (=?iso-8859-1?q?Manuel=20Arostegui=20Ramirez?=) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:58:46 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Fedora Core 2 In-Reply-To: <000a01c45941$42d220b0$285671d5@ciyasoftlap> Message-ID: <20040623165846.14476.qmail@web52401.mail.yahoo.com> --- Danesh Daroui escribi?: > Hi all, > > I have a 900 Mhz Pentium III almost old PC and I > want to install Fedora Core 2 on it, but I don't > know should I download x86 64-bit version of Fedora > Core 2 or i386 32-bit ? Also, I don't know either > what is defference between RPMS and usual versions > of Fedore Core 2. Can you please help me ? > > Regards, > > Danesh Daroui 386 32-bit Cheers ===== -- Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 http://manuel.todo-linux.com ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ?100 MB GRATIS! Nuevos servicios, m?s seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es From jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com Wed Jun 23 17:19:16 2004 From: jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com (jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:19:16 -0400 Subject: FC1 and SSH - logins taking a long time Message-ID: Hi. This is not exactly a FC question/problem, but i'm getting nothing from the ssh mailing lists or comp.security.ssh. i have an issue where ssh logins are taking over 10 seconds.??Assuming this is the DNS error seen here->http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#3.3. I tried to add both UseDNS no and AddressFamily inet.??Both gave me errors stating they were invalid options --> /etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 33: Bad configuration option: UseDNS /etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 35: Bad configuration option: AddressFamily I'm running OpenSSH_3.6.1p2.??on FC1, the following rpms are on my system [root at jerry etc] rpm -qa | grep -i ssh openssh-3.6.1p2-19 openssh-server-3.6.1p2-19 openssh-askpass-3.6.1p2-19 openssh-askpass-gnome-3.6.1p2-19 openssh-clients-3.6.1p2-19 The same slowness occurs when i the internal IP of 192.168.0.4. in lieu of domain name. any help is appreciated Thanks jeff my /etc/ssh/sshd_config file that errors out as above. #?????? $OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.59 2002/09/25 11:17:16 markus Exp $ # This is the sshd server system-wide configuration file.??See # sshd_config(5) for more information. # This sshd was compiled with PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin # The strategy used for options in the default sshd_config shipped with # OpenSSH is to specify options with their default value where # possible, but leave them commented.??Uncommented options change a # default value. #Port 22 #Protocol 2,1 #ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 #ListenAddress :: # HostKey for protocol version 1 #HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key # HostKeys for protocol version 2 #HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key #HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key # Lifetime and size of ephemeral version 1 server key #KeyRegenerationInterval 3600 #ServerKeyBits 768 UseDNS no AddressFamily inet # Logging #obsoletes QuietMode and FascistLogging #SyslogFacility AUTH SyslogFacility AUTHPRIV #LogLevel INFO # Authentication: #LoginGraceTime 120 #PermitRootLogin yes #StrictModes yes #RSAAuthentication yes #PubkeyAuthentication yes #AuthorizedKeysFile???? .ssh/authorized_keys # rhosts authentication should not be used #RhostsAuthentication no # Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files #IgnoreRhosts yes # For this to work you will also need host keys in /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts #RhostsRSAAuthentication no # similar for protocol version 2 #HostbasedAuthentication no # Change to yes if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for # RhostsRSAAuthentication and HostbasedAuthentication #IgnoreUserKnownHosts no # To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here! #PasswordAuthentication yes #PermitEmptyPasswords no # Change to no to disable s/key passwords #ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes # Kerberos options #KerberosAuthentication no #KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes #KerberosTicketCleanup yes #AFSTokenPassing no # Kerberos TGT Passing only works with the AFS kaserver #KerberosTgtPassing no # Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM keyboard-interactive authentication # Warning: enabling this may bypass the setting of 'PasswordAuthentication' #PAMAuthenticationViaKbdInt no #X11Forwarding no X11Forwarding yes #X11DisplayOffset 10 #X11UseLocalhost yes #PrintMotd yes #PrintLastLog yes #KeepAlive yes #UseLogin no #UsePrivilegeSeparation yes #PermitUserEnvironment no #Compression yes #MaxStartups 10 # no default banner path #Banner /some/path #VerifyReverseMapping no # override default of no subsystems Subsystem?????? sftp????/usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server From Danesh.D at bredband.net Wed Jun 23 17:20:41 2004 From: Danesh.D at bredband.net (Danesh Daroui) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:20:41 +0200 Subject: Fedora Core 2 References: <000a01c45941$42d220b0$285671d5@ciyasoftlap> <40D9B469.90603@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <001201c45946$68c10700$285671d5@ciyasoftlap> Hi, Finally you mean that a RPMS version of Fedora core 2 is complete and installable like usula vesion or it is ONLY packages and not the basic Linux ? Regards, Danesh Daroui ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Stevens" To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:48 PM Subject: Re: Fedora Core 2 > Danesh Daroui wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have a 900 Mhz Pentium III almost old PC and I want to install Fedora > > Core 2 on it, but I don't know should I download x86 64-bit version of > > Fedora Core 2 or i386 32-bit ? > > A Pentium III is a 32-bit processor, so you MUST use the 32-bit version > of Fedora Core 2 (or as we call it, "FC2"). > > > Also, I don't know either what is > > defference between RPMS and usual versions of Fedore Core 2. Can you > > please help me ? > > An RPM is a specific package of programs to do some specific thing on > the system. For example, the "bind" RPM contains everything you need to > set up a DNS server or client. > > If you want to install FC2, you should download the 32-bit ".iso" images > and burn them to a CD. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Do you know where _your_ towel 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 Wed Jun 23 17:26:52 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:26:52 -0700 Subject: FC1 and SSH - logins taking a long time In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40D9BD5C.3060404@vitalstream.com> jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com wrote: > Hi. This is not exactly a FC question/problem, but i'm getting nothing > from the ssh mailing lists or comp.security.ssh. > > i have an issue where ssh logins are taking over 10 seconds. Assuming > this is the DNS error seen here->http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#3.3. > I tried to add both UseDNS no and AddressFamily inet. Both gave me errors > stating they were invalid options --> > > /etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 33: Bad configuration option: UseDNS > /etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 35: Bad configuration option: AddressFamily > > I'm running OpenSSH_3.6.1p2. on FC1, the following rpms are on my system > > [root at jerry etc] rpm -qa | grep -i ssh > openssh-3.6.1p2-19 > openssh-server-3.6.1p2-19 > openssh-askpass-3.6.1p2-19 > openssh-askpass-gnome-3.6.1p2-19 > openssh-clients-3.6.1p2-19 > > > The same slowness occurs when i the internal IP of 192.168.0.4. in > lieu of domain name. > > any help is appreciated The configuration below is pretty standard. My guess is that you really do have a DNS issue. The most likely problem is that reverse DNS is not working (that's IP-to-hostname rather than normal DNS which is hostname-to-IP). You could verify this by getting on the SSN target machine (192.168.0.4) and running: tcpdump port 53 and watching the output to see if the DNS stuff is being resolved right or timing out when you try to ssh to that machine. Since you're on a non-routable IP address (192.168/16), a reverse DNS lookup will most likely fail unless you either run an internal DNS server on your local LAN with a full reverse DNS database or you add the appropriate entries to the SSH target's /etc/hosts file. > my /etc/ssh/sshd_config file that errors out as above. > # $OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.59 2002/09/25 11:17:16 markus Exp $ > > # This is the sshd server system-wide configuration file. See > # sshd_config(5) for more information. > > # This sshd was compiled with PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin > > # The strategy used for options in the default sshd_config shipped > with > # OpenSSH is to specify options with their default value where > # possible, but leave them commented. Uncommented options change a > # default value. > > #Port 22 > #Protocol 2,1 > #ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 > #ListenAddress :: > > # HostKey for protocol version 1 > #HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key > # HostKeys for protocol version 2 > #HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key > #HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key > > # Lifetime and size of ephemeral version 1 server key > #KeyRegenerationInterval 3600 > #ServerKeyBits 768 > UseDNS no > AddressFamily inet > # Logging > #obsoletes QuietMode and FascistLogging > #SyslogFacility AUTH > SyslogFacility AUTHPRIV > #LogLevel INFO > # Authentication: > #LoginGraceTime 120 > #PermitRootLogin yes > #StrictModes yes > > #RSAAuthentication yes > #PubkeyAuthentication yes > #AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys > > # rhosts authentication should not be used > #RhostsAuthentication no > # Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files > #IgnoreRhosts yes > # For this to work you will also need host keys in > /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts > #RhostsRSAAuthentication no > # similar for protocol version 2 > #HostbasedAuthentication no > # Change to yes if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for > # RhostsRSAAuthentication and HostbasedAuthentication > #IgnoreUserKnownHosts no > > # To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here! > #PasswordAuthentication yes > #PermitEmptyPasswords no > > # Change to no to disable s/key passwords > #ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes > > # Kerberos options > #KerberosAuthentication no > #KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes > #KerberosTicketCleanup yes > > #AFSTokenPassing no > > # Kerberos TGT Passing only works with the AFS kaserver > #KerberosTgtPassing no > > # Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM keyboard-interactive authentication > # Warning: enabling this may bypass the setting of > 'PasswordAuthentication' > #PAMAuthenticationViaKbdInt no > > #X11Forwarding no > X11Forwarding yes > #X11DisplayOffset 10 > #X11UseLocalhost yes > #PrintMotd yes > #PrintLastLog yes > #KeepAlive yes > #UseLogin no > #UsePrivilegeSeparation yes > #PermitUserEnvironment no > #Compression yes > > #MaxStartups 10 > # no default banner path > #Banner /some/path > #VerifyReverseMapping no > > # override default of no subsystems > Subsystem sftp /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server As I said, that's pretty standard. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 23 17:34:40 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:34:40 -0700 Subject: Fedora Core 2 In-Reply-To: <001201c45946$68c10700$285671d5@ciyasoftlap> References: <000a01c45941$42d220b0$285671d5@ciyasoftlap> <40D9B469.90603@vitalstream.com> <001201c45946$68c10700$285671d5@ciyasoftlap> Message-ID: <40D9BF30.1050704@vitalstream.com> Danesh Daroui wrote: > Hi, > > Finally you mean that a RPMS version of Fedora core 2 is complete and > installable like usula vesion or it is ONLY packages and not the basic Linux > ? A collection of ALL of the RPMs is complete, but it's not an installable image. In other words, yes, you can _upgrade_ an _existing_ Linux system to FC2 using a bunch of RPMs, but it's incredibly tedious and prone to errors. The ".iso" files are exact images of the installation CDs that would be available if FC2 were to be sold in a boxed set. You download the .iso files and burn them to CDs using a program such as "Roxio" under Windows (using the "use file as CD image" option) or "cdrecord" under Linux. This creates bootable CDs, so you can put the first CD in the CD-ROM drive, reboot your machine and immediately enter the install process. For some details on how to do this operation, see: http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html By the way, Danesh, we prefer bottom-posting here (put your comments AFTER what you're commenting on). It helps with the flow of the message. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rick Stevens" > To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:48 PM > Subject: Re: Fedora Core 2 > > > >>Danesh Daroui wrote: >> >>>Hi all, >>> >>>I have a 900 Mhz Pentium III almost old PC and I want to install Fedora >>>Core 2 on it, but I don't know should I download x86 64-bit version of >>>Fedora Core 2 or i386 32-bit ? >> >>A Pentium III is a 32-bit processor, so you MUST use the 32-bit version >>of Fedora Core 2 (or as we call it, "FC2"). >> >> >>> Also, I don't know either what is >>>defference between RPMS and usual versions of Fedore Core 2. Can you >>>please help me ? >> >>An RPM is a specific package of programs to do some specific thing on >>the system. For example, the "bind" RPM contains everything you need to >>set up a DNS server or client. >> >>If you want to install FC2, you should download the 32-bit ".iso" images >>and burn them to a CD. >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >>- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >>- - >>- Do you know where _your_ towel 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 >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 understand Windows 2000 has a Y2K problem." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com Wed Jun 23 17:49:48 2004 From: jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com (jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:49:48 -0400 Subject: FC1 and SSH - logins taking a long time Message-ID: jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com wrote: > Hi. This is not exactly a FC question/problem, but i'm getting nothing > from the ssh mailing lists or comp.security.ssh. > > i have an issue where ssh logins are taking over 10 seconds. Assuming > this is the DNS error seen here->http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#3.3. > I tried to add both UseDNS no and AddressFamily inet. Both gave me errors > stating they were invalid options --> > > /etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 33: Bad configuration option: UseDNS > /etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 35: Bad configuration option: AddressFamily > > I'm running OpenSSH_3.6.1p2. on FC1, the following rpms are on my system > > [root at jerry etc] rpm -qa | grep -i ssh > openssh-3.6.1p2-19 > openssh-server-3.6.1p2-19 > openssh-askpass-3.6.1p2-19 > openssh-askpass-gnome-3.6.1p2-19 > openssh-clients-3.6.1p2-19 > > > The same slowness occurs when i the internal IP of 192.168.0.4. in > lieu of domain name. > > any help is appreciated >The configuration below is pretty standard. My guess is that you really >do have a DNS issue. The most likely problem is that reverse DNS is not >working (that's IP-to-hostname rather than normal DNS which is >hostname-to-IP). You could verify this by getting on the SSN target >machine (192.168.0.4) and running: > tcpdump port 53 >and watching the output to see if the DNS stuff is being resolved right >or timing out when you try to ssh to that machine. >Since you're on a non-routable IP address (192.168/16), a reverse DNS >lookup will most likely fail unless you either run an internal DNS >server on your local LAN with a full reverse DNS database or you add the >appropriate entries to the SSH target's /etc/hosts file. excellent, thanks Rick, i'll try that when i get home. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- no quote for me...jip :) _______________________________________________ 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 Wed Jun 23 17:54:16 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:54:16 -0700 Subject: FC1 and SSH - logins taking a long time In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40D9C3C8.1040903@vitalstream.com> jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com wrote: > > > > jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com wrote: > >>Hi. This is not exactly a FC question/problem, but i'm getting nothing >>from the ssh mailing lists or comp.security.ssh. >> >>i have an issue where ssh logins are taking over 10 seconds. Assuming >>this is the DNS error seen here->http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#3.3. >>I tried to add both UseDNS no and AddressFamily inet. Both gave me > > errors > >>stating they were invalid options --> >> >>/etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 33: Bad configuration option: UseDNS >>/etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 35: Bad configuration option: AddressFamily >> >>I'm running OpenSSH_3.6.1p2. on FC1, the following rpms are on my system >> >>[root at jerry etc] rpm -qa | grep -i ssh >>openssh-3.6.1p2-19 >>openssh-server-3.6.1p2-19 >>openssh-askpass-3.6.1p2-19 >>openssh-askpass-gnome-3.6.1p2-19 >>openssh-clients-3.6.1p2-19 >> >> >>The same slowness occurs when i the internal IP of 192.168.0.4. in >>lieu of domain name. >> >>any help is appreciated > > >>The configuration below is pretty standard. My guess is that you really >>do have a DNS issue. The most likely problem is that reverse DNS is not >>working (that's IP-to-hostname rather than normal DNS which is >>hostname-to-IP). You could verify this by getting on the SSN target >>machine (192.168.0.4) and running: > > >> tcpdump port 53 > > >>and watching the output to see if the DNS stuff is being resolved right >>or timing out when you try to ssh to that machine. > > >>Since you're on a non-routable IP address (192.168/16), a reverse DNS >>lookup will most likely fail unless you either run an internal DNS >>server on your local LAN with a full reverse DNS database or you add the >>appropriate entries to the SSH target's /etc/hosts file. > > > excellent, thanks Rick, i'll try that when i get home. > >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >>- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >>- - >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > no quote for me...jip :) DOH! There is a glitch in my program that poops out if the random number causes the program to hit the first or last fortune (not sure which it is), and I'm not checking for that condition (laziness, I guess). Well, I suppose I could fix it and repost the program. Or I can just adhere to one of the other .sig lines it generates: "Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - grasshopotomaus: A creature that can leap to tremendous heights... - - ...once. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 23 18:34:17 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:34:17 -0700 Subject: FC1 and SSH - logins taking a long time In-Reply-To: <40D9C3C8.1040903@vitalstream.com> References: <40D9C3C8.1040903@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40D9CD29.10306@vitalstream.com> Rick Stevens wrote: > jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com wrote: > >> >> >> >> jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com wrote: >> >>> Hi. This is not exactly a FC question/problem, but i'm getting nothing >>> from the ssh mailing lists or comp.security.ssh. >>> >>> i have an issue where ssh logins are taking over 10 seconds. Assuming >>> this is the DNS error seen here->http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#3.3. >>> I tried to add both UseDNS no and AddressFamily inet. Both gave me >> >> >> errors >> >>> stating they were invalid options --> >>> >>> /etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 33: Bad configuration option: UseDNS >>> /etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 35: Bad configuration option: AddressFamily >>> >>> I'm running OpenSSH_3.6.1p2. on FC1, the following rpms are on my >>> system >>> >>> [root at jerry etc] rpm -qa | grep -i ssh >>> openssh-3.6.1p2-19 >>> openssh-server-3.6.1p2-19 >>> openssh-askpass-3.6.1p2-19 >>> openssh-askpass-gnome-3.6.1p2-19 >>> openssh-clients-3.6.1p2-19 >>> >>> >>> The same slowness occurs when i the internal IP of 192.168.0.4. in >>> lieu of domain name. >>> >>> any help is appreciated >> >> >> >>> The configuration below is pretty standard. My guess is that you really >>> do have a DNS issue. The most likely problem is that reverse DNS is not >>> working (that's IP-to-hostname rather than normal DNS which is >>> hostname-to-IP). You could verify this by getting on the SSN target >>> machine (192.168.0.4) and running: >> >> >> >>> tcpdump port 53 >> >> >> >>> and watching the output to see if the DNS stuff is being resolved right >>> or timing out when you try to ssh to that machine. >> >> >> >>> Since you're on a non-routable IP address (192.168/16), a reverse DNS >>> lookup will most likely fail unless you either run an internal DNS >>> server on your local LAN with a full reverse DNS database or you add the >>> appropriate entries to the SSH target's /etc/hosts file. >> >> >> >> excellent, thanks Rick, i'll try that when i get home. >> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >>> - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >>> - - >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> no quote for me...jip :) > > > DOH! There is a glitch in my program that poops out if the random > number causes the program to hit the first or last fortune (not sure > which it is), and I'm not checking for that condition (laziness, I > guess). Well, I suppose I could fix it and repost the program. Or > I can just adhere to one of the other .sig lines it generates: > > "Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle." And just to prove I'm good to my word, a new version of the program is now available (and running on my machine): http://www.rhil.net/tools/genmailsig.tar.gz So there! :-p Thppppt! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I.R.S.: We've got what it takes to take what you've got! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gs at apertum.se Wed Jun 23 19:11:18 2004 From: gs at apertum.se (Guillermo Silva) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:11:18 -0300 Subject: Oracle 9i under RedHat Linux 9 kernel 2.4.20-6 Message-ID: First I want to thanks for Your help. I am trying to install Oracle 9.2.0.4 the Standard Edition. Everything went OK until i reach the 65% of the Linking process, then an error appear saying. Error in invoking target relink of makefile /u01/app/oracle/product/9.0.1.0/precomp/lib/ins_precomp.mk In the $ORACLE_HOME/install/ I take a look to the make.log file and found the following: /u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/lib/s0main.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized collect2: ld returned 1 exit status /bin/chmod: failed to get attributes of `/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/precomp/lib/ott8': No such file or directory make: *** [/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/precomp/lib/ott8] Error 1 /usr/bin/make -f ins_precomp.mk relink ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0 EXENAME=ott8 Linking /u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/precomp/lib/ott8 /u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/lib/s0main.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized collect2: ld returned 1 exit status /bin/chmod: failed to get attributes of `/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/precomp/lib/ott8': No such file or directory make: *** [/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/precomp/lib/ott8] Error 1 This is causing the error. Any suggestion??????? I have followed all the recomendations from http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle9i.html and from http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2003/09/04/oracle_install.html?pag e=1 I have installed all the recommended RPM's for Installing Oracle 9i under RH9.x binutils-2.13.90.0.18-9.i386.rpm cpp-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm gcc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm glibc-devel-2.3.2-5.i386.rpm glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.10.i386.rpm compat-libstdc++-.7.3-2.96.118 compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.118.i386.rpm compat-libgcj-7.3-2.96.118.i386.rpm compat-libgcj-devel-7.3-2.96.118.i386.rpm nss_db-compat-2.2-20.i386.rpm glibc-devel-2.3.2-11.9.rpm I have also downloaded the recommended patches for glibc prepared by Jason McIntosh that are mention in LinuxDevCenter web page. Best Regards, Guillermo From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 23 19:47:47 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:47:47 -0700 Subject: Oracle 9i under RedHat Linux 9 kernel 2.4.20-6 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40D9DE63.9020004@vitalstream.com> Guillermo Silva wrote: > First I want to thanks for Your help. > > I am trying to install Oracle 9.2.0.4 the Standard Edition. > > Everything went OK until i reach the 65% of the Linking process, then an > error appear saying. > Error in invoking target relink of makefile > /u01/app/oracle/product/9.0.1.0/precomp/lib/ins_precomp.mk > > In the $ORACLE_HOME/install/ I take a look to the make.log file and found > the following: > /u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/lib/s0main.o: file not recognized: File > format not recognized Well, that appears to be a corrupted object file. Since the other errors all reference it, you have to find out why it's corrupted. If it's a file from the distribution, you got a bad distribution. If it's built by the make, then the odds are that you ran out of disk space and the file is truncated. Do a "df -h" and verify that /u01 has an adequate amount of free space on it. If so, restart the install. > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > /bin/chmod: failed to get attributes of > `/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/precomp/lib/ott8': No such file or > directory > make: *** [/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/precomp/lib/ott8] Error 1 > /usr/bin/make -f ins_precomp.mk relink > ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0 EXENAME=ott8 > Linking /u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/precomp/lib/ott8 > /u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/lib/s0main.o: file not recognized: File > format not recognized > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > /bin/chmod: failed to get attributes of > `/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/precomp/lib/ott8': No such file or > directory > make: *** [/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/precomp/lib/ott8] Error 1 > > This is causing the error. > > Any suggestion??????? > > I have followed all the recomendations from > http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle9i.html and from > http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2003/09/04/oracle_install.html?pag > e=1 > > I have installed all the recommended RPM's for Installing Oracle 9i under > RH9.x > binutils-2.13.90.0.18-9.i386.rpm > cpp-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm > gcc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm > glibc-devel-2.3.2-5.i386.rpm > glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.10.i386.rpm > compat-libstdc++-.7.3-2.96.118 > compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.118.i386.rpm > compat-libgcj-7.3-2.96.118.i386.rpm > compat-libgcj-devel-7.3-2.96.118.i386.rpm > nss_db-compat-2.2-20.i386.rpm > glibc-devel-2.3.2-11.9.rpm > > I have also downloaded the recommended patches for glibc prepared by Jason > McIntosh that are mention in LinuxDevCenter web page. > > > Best Regards, > > Guillermo > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 - - - - First Law of Work: - - If you can't get it done in the first 24 hours, work nights. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gomanel at terra.com.br Wed Jun 23 20:33:40 2004 From: gomanel at terra.com.br (Manoel Fraga de Assis Jr) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:33:40 -0300 Subject: Newbie question about rmps Message-ID: <000f01c45961$5f0bdfd0$f700a8c0@gomanel> Hi im downloading the folders and files to install fedora (the ISOs download didnt work, dvd or even the cds), What the diference between RPMS and SRPMS? 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URL: -------------- next part -------------- hi the SRPMS stands for source rpms.if u select the development of certain areas the source RPMS are installed in the default location that is /usr directory. so for installation if u do now want the development env dont download SRPMS. regards,bye On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 Manoel Fraga de Assis Jr wrote : >Hi im downloading the folders and files to install fedora (the ISOs download didnt work, dvd or even the cds), >What the diference between RPMS and SRPMS? >Do I need to download SPMS too?I saw that folder is any Alias at OS folder and not a folder placed there... > >Thx, > >Manoel >_______________________________________________ >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 Wed Jun 23 20:36:57 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:36:57 -0700 Subject: Newbie question about rmps In-Reply-To: <000f01c45961$5f0bdfd0$f700a8c0@gomanel> References: <000f01c45961$5f0bdfd0$f700a8c0@gomanel> Message-ID: <40D9E9E9.3020802@vitalstream.com> Manoel Fraga de Assis Jr wrote: > Hi im downloading the folders and files to install fedora (the ISOs > download didnt work, dvd or even the cds), How do you mean "didn't work"? Did you burn the .iso images to CDs using your program's "use file as image" option? If you could be a bit more specific about exactly what you have available to do this (your current operating system and CD burning software), we might be able to help. > What the diference between RPMS and SRPMS? The RPMs are the binary (executable) programs and files. SRPMs are the source code used to build the RPMs of the same name. > Do I need to download SPMS too?I saw that folder is any Alias at OS > folder and not a folder placed there... No, you don't need the SRPMs unless you want to modify the programs and rebuild the binaries yourself. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Heisenberg _may_ have slept here - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From tyche at ica.net Wed Jun 23 20:49:15 2004 From: tyche at ica.net (tyche) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:49:15 -0000 Subject: x over ppp In-Reply-To: <40D9B2F1.9080103@vitalstream.com> References: <200307222331.50561.tyche@ica.net> <20040623093001.A8543@redline.comcast.net> <40D9B2F1.9080103@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <200307231651.35796.tyche@ica.net> On Wednesday 23 June 2004 12:42 pm, Rick Stevens wrote: > Jeff Kinz wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:31:50PM -0400, tyche wrote: > >>is there someway to pipe an X server out over a ppp connection to a > >> windows user with out getting into an expensive suite of software on teh > >> windows end? > > > > Yes , there is, > > Install cygwin on your Windows system - it includes a free X-windows > > servers so that you can run X-windows on your Win box. > > Then you can tunnel the X-windows connection via IP thru your ppp > > connection. > > > > Your connection needs to be faster than dial up, or it will be painful > > to use. > > > > Cygwin is from "Cygnus" who is now owned by RedHat and the download > > should be freely available on their website somewhere. > > > > > > To learn how to do remote "X" connections check www.tldp.org, and look > > at the "HOW-TO" docs list. There is one which deals specifically > > on how to do that. Searching the list for "remote" should find it. > > You can also use VNC via an SSH tunnel over a PPP connection (don't > forget to us the compression option on SSH). > > By the way, double check the "X server" bit. The X server is the > machine with the keyboard, mouse and graphic screen. The X client is > the remote program that needs the X server to display its output. It > seems backwards at first, but that's the way it is. thanks guys, was hoping there was a switch or something to startx, but it wouldnt be that simple. thanks tyche From gomanel at terra.com.br Wed Jun 23 21:11:52 2004 From: gomanel at terra.com.br (Manoel Fraga de Assis Jr) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:11:52 -0300 Subject: Newbie question about rmps References: <000f01c45961$5f0bdfd0$f700a8c0@gomanel> <40D9E9E9.3020802@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <005901c45966$b4cb11c0$f700a8c0@gomanel> I gived up about ISO's bro, im going to the OS folder download...anyway Im using XP now, I want to put Fedora on because I will have Linux on College soon then I can pratice... I first downloaded dvd iso to 32bits machines afther download all the 4g I burned it on dvd using Nero (used same way to burn Boot.iso and worked) Then I downloaded the cd ISOs to retry on that way...didnt work...tryied to use IsoBuster to extract files from ISOs and at Image its only show a track and nothing else (diferente from Boot.iso again that shows the files and let me extract em) I just Deleted all ISO's I got and start download the 2G from OS folder (fedora 2) thx again, Manoel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Stevens" To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: Re: Newbie question about rmps > Manoel Fraga de Assis Jr wrote: > > Hi im downloading the folders and files to install fedora (the ISOs > > download didnt work, dvd or even the cds), > > How do you mean "didn't work"? Did you burn the .iso images to CDs > using your program's "use file as image" option? If you could be a bit > more specific about exactly what you have available to do this (your > current operating system and CD burning software), we might be able to > help. > > > What the diference between RPMS and SRPMS? > > The RPMs are the binary (executable) programs and files. SRPMs are the > source code used to build the RPMs of the same name. > > > Do I need to download SPMS too?I saw that folder is any Alias at OS > > folder and not a folder placed there... > > No, you don't need the SRPMs unless you want to modify the programs and > rebuild the binaries yourself. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Heisenberg _may_ have slept here - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Wed Jun 23 21:04:12 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:04:12 -0700 Subject: x over ppp In-Reply-To: <200307231651.35796.tyche@ica.net> References: <200307222331.50561.tyche@ica.net> <20040623093001.A8543@redline.comcast.net> <40D9B2F1.9080103@vitalstream.com> <200307231651.35796.tyche@ica.net> Message-ID: <40D9F04C.6090908@vitalstream.com> tyche wrote: > On Wednesday 23 June 2004 12:42 pm, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Jeff Kinz wrote: >> >>>On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:31:50PM -0400, tyche wrote: >>> >>>>is there someway to pipe an X server out over a ppp connection to a >>>>windows user with out getting into an expensive suite of software on teh >>>>windows end? >>> >>>Yes , there is, >>>Install cygwin on your Windows system - it includes a free X-windows >>>servers so that you can run X-windows on your Win box. >>>Then you can tunnel the X-windows connection via IP thru your ppp >>>connection. >>> >>>Your connection needs to be faster than dial up, or it will be painful >>>to use. >>> >>>Cygwin is from "Cygnus" who is now owned by RedHat and the download >>>should be freely available on their website somewhere. >>> >>> >>>To learn how to do remote "X" connections check www.tldp.org, and look >>>at the "HOW-TO" docs list. There is one which deals specifically >>>on how to do that. Searching the list for "remote" should find it. >> >>You can also use VNC via an SSH tunnel over a PPP connection (don't >>forget to us the compression option on SSH). >> >>By the way, double check the "X server" bit. The X server is the >>machine with the keyboard, mouse and graphic screen. The X client is >>the remote program that needs the X server to display its output. It >>seems backwards at first, but that's the way it is. > > thanks guys, was hoping there was a switch or something to startx, but it > wouldnt be that simple. That would be useless as "startx" starts the X server on the local machine. If you want the Linux GUI stuff to show up on your Windows machine, you DON'T run an X server on the Linux box, you run one on the Windows box (Windows must be the X server). To do that you must install Cygwin or another X server package on your Windows box and use its "startx" equivalent to start the server. You can then rlogin or ssh to your Linux box, start an X client there (Mozilla, for example), and have Mozilla's ouput appear on your Windows box. Another option: If you're familiar with Windows' remote desktop thing, you can install VNC on both machines (http://www.tightvnc.com), start the VNC server on your Linux box and use the VNC client on your Windows box. A window will open on your Windows box which represents the X desktop on the Linux box. When you move the mouse inside the X desktop or type stuff in there, it's as if you were doing it right on the Linux box itself. Once again, none of this is really usable if you're using dialup as the speed just isn't there to support a remote GUI session. Remote GUIs really demand a broadband connection at the least (DSL, cable modem, fractional T1, something like that). With dialup, you're better off using ssh and sticking with text operations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - NEWS FLASH! Intelligence of mankind decreasing! Details at... - - uh, when, uh, the little hand is, uh, on the... Aw, NUTS! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 23 21:13:37 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:13:37 -0700 Subject: Newbie question about rmps In-Reply-To: <005901c45966$b4cb11c0$f700a8c0@gomanel> References: <000f01c45961$5f0bdfd0$f700a8c0@gomanel> <40D9E9E9.3020802@vitalstream.com> <005901c45966$b4cb11c0$f700a8c0@gomanel> Message-ID: <40D9F281.7070202@vitalstream.com> Manoel Fraga de Assis Jr wrote: > I gived up about ISO's bro, im going to the OS folder download...anyway > > Im using XP now, I want to put Fedora on because I will have Linux on > College soon then I can pratice... > > I first downloaded dvd iso to 32bits machines > afther download all the 4g I burned it on dvd using Nero (used same way to > burn Boot.iso and worked) > > Then I downloaded the cd ISOs to retry on that way...didnt work...tryied to > use IsoBuster to extract files from ISOs and at Image its only show a track > and nothing else (diferente from Boot.iso again that shows the files and let > me extract em) You must burn the .iso images you downloaded using Nero's "burn CD from ISO image" option. See http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#making_cds > > I just Deleted all ISO's I got and start download the 2G from OS folder > (fedora 2) You will not be able to install that way. All you'll have is a bunch of RPMs. Unless you're already running Linux, they're useless. > > thx again, > > Manoel > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rick Stevens" > To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 5:36 PM > Subject: Re: Newbie question about rmps > > > >>Manoel Fraga de Assis Jr wrote: >> >>>Hi im downloading the folders and files to install fedora (the ISOs >>>download didnt work, dvd or even the cds), >> >>How do you mean "didn't work"? Did you burn the .iso images to CDs >>using your program's "use file as image" option? If you could be a bit >>more specific about exactly what you have available to do this (your >>current operating system and CD burning software), we might be able to >>help. >> >> >>>What the diference between RPMS and SRPMS? >> >>The RPMs are the binary (executable) programs and files. SRPMs are the >>source code used to build the RPMs of the same name. >> >> >>>Do I need to download SPMS too?I saw that folder is any Alias at OS >>>folder and not a folder placed there... >> >>No, you don't need the SRPMs unless you want to modify the programs and >>rebuild the binaries yourself. >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >>- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >>- - >>- Heisenberg _may_ have slept here - >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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 - - - - 500: Internal Fortune Cookie Error - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com Wed Jun 23 21:40:02 2004 From: jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com (jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:40:02 -0400 Subject: FC1 and SSH - logins taking a long time Message-ID: jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com wrote: >You could verify this by getting on the SSN target >machine (192.168.0.4) and running: > tcpdump port 53 >and watching the output to see if the DNS stuff is being resolved right >or timing out when you try to ssh to that machine. >Since you're on a non-routable IP address (192.168/16), a reverse DNS >lookup will most likely fail unless you either run an internal DNS> >server on your local LAN with a full reverse DNS database or you add the >appropriate entries to the SSH target's /etc/hosts file. adding to /etc/hosts did the trick. I don't have internal DNS, but.... Thanks for the help...and really all the help you supply on this list. Its truely a great service. Jeff From gomanel at terra.com.br Wed Jun 23 21:47:28 2004 From: gomanel at terra.com.br (Manoel Fraga de Assis Jr) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:47:28 -0300 Subject: Newbie question about rmps References: <000f01c45961$5f0bdfd0$f700a8c0@gomanel> <40D9E9E9.3020802@vitalstream.com><005901c45966$b4cb11c0$f700a8c0@gomanel> <40D9F281.7070202@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <006901c4596b$ae418a00$f700a8c0@gomanel> Im not sure about that, but on that files im getting have this folders estructure: Fedora folder | |-- base folder | | | |-- hdlist | |-- hdlist2 | |-- hdstg2.img | |-- netstg2.img | |-- stage2.img | |-- comps.rpm | |-- comps.xml | RPMS folder | |-- lots of files.rpm | Headers folder | |-- lots of files.hdr | Images folder | |-- pxeboot folder | | | |-- README | |-- vmlinuz | |--initrd.img | |--README |--diskboot.img |--boot.iso |--rescuecd.iso | Isolinux folder | |--memtest |--vmlinuz |--isolinux.bin |--boot.cat |--isolinux.cfg |--initrd.img |--splash.lss |--...more files.msg | autorun GPL README-Accessibility README-en RELEASE-NOTES-en RPM-GPG-KEY RPM-GPG-KEY-beta RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide README-en.html RELEASE-NOTES-en.html eula.txt Its looks like that files let me install (if linux instalation didnt change much from last and only time I installed it) Let me explain more what I will do. To start and test the files I will creat a vmware (virtual) to install linux, before there I will recreate the content of each cd or of the dvd ) that Ican find somewhere at site (I saw it somewhere) if all ok I will partition my HD and then install Fedora. To access the files that are in my windows partition I will start a FTP or put on my IIS via http...then call the installation from there or from the cds (i want to test all the ways of installation...thats other reason to use vmware now, that way I can creat and delete the virtual hds partitions very fast. I hope now I made me understud heheh Thx for the help... []s Manoel Ps.: I used nero and burd from image aye, just didnt work...tryed to used the boot.iso cd i made from nero, wich worked, to do linux medeacheck of the cds but for some reason the installation started from the boot: prompt and didnt let me know any info of MD5SUM of the CDS. Also forgive my english ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Stevens" To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:13 PM Subject: Re: Newbie question about rmps > Manoel Fraga de Assis Jr wrote: > > I gived up about ISO's bro, im going to the OS folder download...anyway > > > > Im using XP now, I want to put Fedora on because I will have Linux on > > College soon then I can pratice... > > > > I first downloaded dvd iso to 32bits machines > > afther download all the 4g I burned it on dvd using Nero (used same way to > > burn Boot.iso and worked) > > > > Then I downloaded the cd ISOs to retry on that way...didnt work...tryied to > > use IsoBuster to extract files from ISOs and at Image its only show a track > > and nothing else (diferente from Boot.iso again that shows the files and let > > me extract em) > > You must burn the .iso images you downloaded using Nero's "burn CD from > ISO image" option. See http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#making_cds > > > > I just Deleted all ISO's I got and start download the 2G from OS folder > > (fedora 2) > > You will not be able to install that way. All you'll have is a bunch of > RPMs. Unless you're already running Linux, they're useless. > > > > > thx again, > > > > Manoel > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Rick Stevens" > > To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" > > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 5:36 PM > > Subject: Re: Newbie question about rmps > > > > > > > >>Manoel Fraga de Assis Jr wrote: > >> > >>>Hi im downloading the folders and files to install fedora (the ISOs > >>>download didnt work, dvd or even the cds), > >> > >>How do you mean "didn't work"? Did you burn the .iso images to CDs > >>using your program's "use file as image" option? If you could be a bit > >>more specific about exactly what you have available to do this (your > >>current operating system and CD burning software), we might be able to > >>help. > >> > >> > >>>What the diference between RPMS and SRPMS? > >> > >>The RPMs are the binary (executable) programs and files. SRPMs are the > >>source code used to build the RPMs of the same name. > >> > >> > >>>Do I need to download SPMS too?I saw that folder is any Alias at OS > >>>folder and not a folder placed there... > >> > >>No, you don't need the SRPMs unless you want to modify the programs and > >>rebuild the binaries yourself. > >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > >>- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > >>- - > >>- Heisenberg _may_ have slept here - > >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>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 - > - - > - 500: Internal Fortune Cookie Error - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 23 21:53:10 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:53:10 -0700 Subject: FC1 and SSH - logins taking a long time In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40D9FBC6.30801@vitalstream.com> jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com wrote: > > jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com wrote: > > >>You could verify this by getting on the SSN target >>machine (192.168.0.4) and running: > > >> tcpdump port 53 > > >>and watching the output to see if the DNS stuff is being resolved right >>or timing out when you try to ssh to that machine. > > >>Since you're on a non-routable IP address (192.168/16), a reverse DNS >>lookup will most likely fail unless you either run an internal DNS> >>server on your local LAN with a full reverse DNS database or you add the >>appropriate entries to the SSH target's /etc/hosts file. > > > > adding to /etc/hosts did the trick. I don't have internal DNS, but.... ssh will try to do reverse DNS on the incoming IP address to see if it's really who it says it is. What you were seeing was a DNS timeout. > > Thanks for the help...and really all the help you supply on this list. Its > truely a great service. "That's what we're here for!" (c)2004, Red Hat Install List :-D ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Microsoft Windows: Proof that P.T. Barnum was right - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mgalan at dairy-farm.com.ph Thu Jun 24 01:06:05 2004 From: mgalan at dairy-farm.com.ph (May Galan) Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 09:06:05 +0800 Subject: Oracle 9i under RedHat Linux 9 kernel 2.4.20-6 Message-ID: Hi You may want to set up the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL parameter Cheers May. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 3:48 AM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: Oracle 9i under RedHat Linux 9 kernel 2.4.20-6 Guillermo Silva wrote: > First I want to thanks for Your help. > > I am trying to install Oracle 9.2.0.4 the Standard Edition. > > Everything went OK until i reach the 65% of the Linking process, then > an error appear saying. Error in invoking target relink of makefile > /u01/app/oracle/product/9.0.1.0/precomp/lib/ins_precomp.mk > > In the $ORACLE_HOME/install/ I take a look to the make.log file and > found the following: > /u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/lib/s0main.o: file not recognized: > File format not recognized Well, that appears to be a corrupted object file. Since the other errors all reference it, you have to find out why it's corrupted. If it's a file from the distribution, you got a bad distribution. If it's built by the make, then the odds are that you ran out of disk space and the file is truncated. Do a "df -h" and verify that /u01 has an adequate amount of free space on it. If so, restart the install. > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > /bin/chmod: failed to get attributes of > `/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/precomp/lib/ott8': No such file or > directory > make: *** [/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/precomp/lib/ott8] Error 1 > /usr/bin/make -f ins_precomp.mk relink > ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0 EXENAME=ott8 Linking > /u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/precomp/lib/ott8 > /u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/lib/s0main.o: file not recognized: > File format not recognized > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > /bin/chmod: failed to get attributes of > `/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/precomp/lib/ott8': No such file or > directory > make: *** [/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/precomp/lib/ott8] Error 1 > > This is causing the error. > > Any suggestion??????? > > I have followed all the recomendations from > http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle9i.html and from > http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2003/09/04/oracle_install.ht > ml?pag > e=1 > > I have installed all the recommended RPM's for Installing Oracle 9i > under RH9.x binutils-2.13.90.0.18-9.i386.rpm > cpp-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm > gcc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm > glibc-devel-2.3.2-5.i386.rpm > glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.10.i386.rpm > compat-libstdc++-.7.3-2.96.118 > compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.118.i386.rpm compat-libgcj-7.3-2.96.118.i386.rpm > compat-libgcj-devel-7.3-2.96.118.i386.rpm > nss_db-compat-2.2-20.i386.rpm > glibc-devel-2.3.2-11.9.rpm > > I have also downloaded the recommended patches for glibc prepared by > Jason McIntosh that are mention in LinuxDevCenter web page. > > > Best Regards, > > Guillermo > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 - - - - 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 From Thomas.vonSteiger at swisscom.com Thu Jun 24 06:04:51 2004 From: Thomas.vonSteiger at swisscom.com (Thomas.vonSteiger at swisscom.com) Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:04:51 +0200 Subject: x over ppp Message-ID: Hello, If you need a fast solution have a look at http://www.nomachine.com In future NX is a feature for kde and gnome... regards thomas -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 11:04 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: x over ppp tyche wrote: > On Wednesday 23 June 2004 12:42 pm, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Jeff Kinz wrote: >> >>>On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:31:50PM -0400, tyche wrote: >>> >>>>is there someway to pipe an X server out over a ppp connection to a >>>>windows user with out getting into an expensive suite of software on teh >>>>windows end? >>> >>>Yes , there is, >>>Install cygwin on your Windows system - it includes a free X-windows >>>servers so that you can run X-windows on your Win box. >>>Then you can tunnel the X-windows connection via IP thru your ppp >>>connection. >>> >>>Your connection needs to be faster than dial up, or it will be painful >>>to use. >>> >>>Cygwin is from "Cygnus" who is now owned by RedHat and the download >>>should be freely available on their website somewhere. >>> >>> >>>To learn how to do remote "X" connections check www.tldp.org, and look >>>at the "HOW-TO" docs list. There is one which deals specifically >>>on how to do that. Searching the list for "remote" should find it. >> >>You can also use VNC via an SSH tunnel over a PPP connection (don't >>forget to us the compression option on SSH). >> >>By the way, double check the "X server" bit. The X server is the >>machine with the keyboard, mouse and graphic screen. The X client is >>the remote program that needs the X server to display its output. It >>seems backwards at first, but that's the way it is. > > thanks guys, was hoping there was a switch or something to startx, but it > wouldnt be that simple. That would be useless as "startx" starts the X server on the local machine. If you want the Linux GUI stuff to show up on your Windows machine, you DON'T run an X server on the Linux box, you run one on the Windows box (Windows must be the X server). To do that you must install Cygwin or another X server package on your Windows box and use its "startx" equivalent to start the server. You can then rlogin or ssh to your Linux box, start an X client there (Mozilla, for example), and have Mozilla's ouput appear on your Windows box. Another option: If you're familiar with Windows' remote desktop thing, you can install VNC on both machines (http://www.tightvnc.com), start the VNC server on your Linux box and use the VNC client on your Windows box. A window will open on your Windows box which represents the X desktop on the Linux box. When you move the mouse inside the X desktop or type stuff in there, it's as if you were doing it right on the Linux box itself. Once again, none of this is really usable if you're using dialup as the speed just isn't there to support a remote GUI session. Remote GUIs really demand a broadband connection at the least (DSL, cable modem, fractional T1, something like that). With dialup, you're better off using ssh and sticking with text operations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - NEWS FLASH! Intelligence of mankind decreasing! Details at... - - uh, when, uh, the little hand is, uh, on the... 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I have query w.r.t mysql and php installation. 1.When I was installing php-mysql rpm I was thrown dependency error and when I was trying to install using options"--aid and--force" also didnot solve installation.What is the solution? 2.what is the daemon to be started after installing the above ? thanks in advance, ======================================================= Hari. 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Re: FC1 and SSH - logins taking a long time (Rick Stevens) 8. Re: Fedora Core 2 (Rick Stevens) 9. Re: FC1 and SSH - logins taking a long time (jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com) 10. Re: FC1 and SSH - logins taking a long time (Rick Stevens) 11. Re: FC1 and SSH - logins taking a long time (Rick Stevens) 12. Oracle 9i under RedHat Linux 9 kernel 2.4.20-6 (Guillermo Silva) 13. Re: Oracle 9i under RedHat Linux 9 kernel 2.4.20-6 (Rick Stevens) 14. Newbie question about rmps (Manoel Fraga de Assis Jr) 15. Re: Newbie question about rmps (invincible invincible invincible) 16. Re: Newbie question about rmps (Rick Stevens) 17. Re: x over ppp (tyche) 18. Re: Newbie question about rmps (Manoel Fraga de Assis Jr) 19. Re: x over ppp (Rick Stevens) 20. Re: Newbie question about rmps (Rick Stevens) 21. Re: FC1 and SSH - logins taking a long time (jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:43:46 +0200 From: "Danesh Daroui" Subject: Fedora Core 2 To: Message-ID: <000a01c45941$42d220b0$285671d5 at ciyasoftlap> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1256" Hi all, I have a 900 Mhz Pentium III almost old PC and I want to install Fedora Core 2 on it, but I don't know should I download x86 64-bit version of Fedora Core 2 or i386 32-bit ? Also, I don't know either what is defference between RPMS and usual versions of Fedore Core 2. Can you please help me ? Regards, Danesh Daroui -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /archives/redhat-install-list/attachments/20040623/7d6bb66c/attachment.htm ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:42:25 -0700 From: Rick Stevens Subject: Re: x over ppp To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <40D9B2F1.9080103 at vitalstream.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Jeff Kinz wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:31:50PM -0400, tyche wrote: > >>is there someway to pipe an X server out over a ppp connection to a windows >>user with out getting into an expensive suite of software on teh windows end? > > > Yes , there is, > Install cygwin on your Windows system - it includes a free X-windows > servers so that you can run X-windows on your Win box. > Then you can tunnel the X-windows connection via IP thru your ppp > connection. > > Your connection needs to be faster than dial up, or it will be painful > to use. > > Cygwin is from "Cygnus" who is now owned by RedHat and the download > should be freely available on their website somewhere. > > > To learn how to do remote "X" connections check www.tldp.org, and look > at the "HOW-TO" docs list. There is one which deals specifically > on how to do that. Searching the list for "remote" should find it. You can also use VNC via an SSH tunnel over a PPP connection (don't forget to us the compression option on SSH). By the way, double check the "X server" bit. The X server is the machine with the keyboard, mouse and graphic screen. The X client is the remote program that needs the X server to display its output. It seems backwards at first, but that's the way it is. > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:48:41 -0700 From: Rick Stevens Subject: Re: Fedora Core 2 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <40D9B469.90603 at vitalstream.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Danesh Daroui wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a 900 Mhz Pentium III almost old PC and I want to install Fedora > Core 2 on it, but I don't know should I download x86 64-bit version of > Fedora Core 2 or i386 32-bit ? A Pentium III is a 32-bit processor, so you MUST use the 32-bit version of Fedora Core 2 (or as we call it, "FC2"). > Also, I don't know either what is > defference between RPMS and usual versions of Fedore Core 2. Can you > please help me ? An RPM is a specific package of programs to do some specific thing on the system. For example, the "bind" RPM contains everything you need to set up a DNS server or client. If you want to install FC2, you should download the 32-bit ".iso" images and burn them to a CD. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Do you know where _your_ towel is? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:58:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Manuel Arostegui Ramirez Subject: Re: Fedora Core 2 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <20040623165846.14476.qmail at web52401.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 --- Danesh Daroui escribi?: > Hi all, > > I have a 900 Mhz Pentium III almost old PC and I > want to install Fedora Core 2 on it, but I don't > know should I download x86 64-bit version of Fedora > Core 2 or i386 32-bit ? Also, I don't know either > what is defference between RPMS and usual versions > of Fedore Core 2. Can you please help me ? > > Regards, > > Danesh Daroui 386 32-bit Cheers ===== -- Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 http://manuel.todo-linux.com ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ?100 MB GRATIS! Nuevos servicios, m?s seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:19:16 -0400 From: jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com Subject: FC1 and SSH - logins taking a long time To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi. This is not exactly a FC question/problem, but i'm getting nothing from the ssh mailing lists or comp.security.ssh. i have an issue where ssh logins are taking over 10 seconds. Assuming this is the DNS error seen here->http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#3.3. I tried to add both UseDNS no and AddressFamily inet. Both gave me errors stating they were invalid options --> /etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 33: Bad configuration option: UseDNS /etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 35: Bad configuration option: AddressFamily I'm running OpenSSH_3.6.1p2. on FC1, the following rpms are on my system [root at jerry etc] rpm -qa | grep -i ssh openssh-3.6.1p2-19 openssh-server-3.6.1p2-19 openssh-askpass-3.6.1p2-19 openssh-askpass-gnome-3.6.1p2-19 openssh-clients-3.6.1p2-19 The same slowness occurs when i the internal IP of 192.168.0.4. in lieu of domain name. any help is appreciated Thanks jeff my /etc/ssh/sshd_config file that errors out as above. # $OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.59 2002/09/25 11:17:16 markus Exp $ # This is the sshd server system-wide configuration file. See # sshd_config(5) for more information. # This sshd was compiled with PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin # The strategy used for options in the default sshd_config shipped with # OpenSSH is to specify options with their default value where # possible, but leave them commented. Uncommented options change a # default value. #Port 22 #Protocol 2,1 #ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 #ListenAddress :: # HostKey for protocol version 1 #HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key # HostKeys for protocol version 2 #HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key #HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key # Lifetime and size of ephemeral version 1 server key #KeyRegenerationInterval 3600 #ServerKeyBits 768 UseDNS no AddressFamily inet # Logging #obsoletes QuietMode and FascistLogging #SyslogFacility AUTH SyslogFacility AUTHPRIV #LogLevel INFO # Authentication: #LoginGraceTime 120 #PermitRootLogin yes #StrictModes yes #RSAAuthentication yes #PubkeyAuthentication yes #AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys # rhosts authentication should not be used #RhostsAuthentication no # Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files #IgnoreRhosts yes # For this to work you will also need host keys in /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts #RhostsRSAAuthentication no # similar for protocol version 2 #HostbasedAuthentication no # Change to yes if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for # RhostsRSAAuthentication and HostbasedAuthentication #IgnoreUserKnownHosts no # To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here! #PasswordAuthentication yes #PermitEmptyPasswords no # Change to no to disable s/key passwords #ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes # Kerberos options #KerberosAuthentication no #KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes #KerberosTicketCleanup yes #AFSTokenPassing no # Kerberos TGT Passing only works with the AFS kaserver #KerberosTgtPassing no # Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM keyboard-interactive authentication # Warning: enabling this may bypass the setting of 'PasswordAuthentication' #PAMAuthenticationViaKbdInt no #X11Forwarding no X11Forwarding yes #X11DisplayOffset 10 #X11UseLocalhost yes #PrintMotd yes #PrintLastLog yes #KeepAlive yes #UseLogin no #UsePrivilegeSeparation yes #PermitUserEnvironment no #Compression yes #MaxStartups 10 # no default banner path #Banner /some/path #VerifyReverseMapping no # override default of no subsystems Subsystem sftp /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:20:41 +0200 From: "Danesh Daroui" Subject: Re: Fedora Core 2 To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" Message-ID: <001201c45946$68c10700$285671d5 at ciyasoftlap> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi, Finally you mean that a RPMS version of Fedora core 2 is complete and installable like usula vesion or it is ONLY packages and not the basic Linux ? Regards, Danesh Daroui ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Stevens" To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:48 PM Subject: Re: Fedora Core 2 > Danesh Daroui wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have a 900 Mhz Pentium III almost old PC and I want to install Fedora > > Core 2 on it, but I don't know should I download x86 64-bit version of > > Fedora Core 2 or i386 32-bit ? > > A Pentium III is a 32-bit processor, so you MUST use the 32-bit version > of Fedora Core 2 (or as we call it, "FC2"). > > > Also, I don't know either what is > > defference between RPMS and usual versions of Fedore Core 2. Can you > > please help me ? > > An RPM is a specific package of programs to do some specific thing on > the system. For example, the "bind" RPM contains everything you need to > set up a DNS server or client. > > If you want to install FC2, you should download the 32-bit ".iso" images > and burn them to a CD. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Do you know where _your_ towel 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 > ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:26:52 -0700 From: Rick Stevens Subject: Re: FC1 and SSH - logins taking a long time To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <40D9BD5C.3060404 at vitalstream.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com wrote: > Hi. This is not exactly a FC question/problem, but i'm getting nothing > from the ssh mailing lists or comp.security.ssh. > > i have an issue where ssh logins are taking over 10 seconds. Assuming > this is the DNS error seen here->http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#3.3. > I tried to add both UseDNS no and AddressFamily inet. Both gave me errors > stating they were invalid options --> > > /etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 33: Bad configuration option: UseDNS > /etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 35: Bad configuration option: AddressFamily > > I'm running OpenSSH_3.6.1p2. on FC1, the following rpms are on my system > > [root at jerry etc] rpm -qa | grep -i ssh > openssh-3.6.1p2-19 > openssh-server-3.6.1p2-19 > openssh-askpass-3.6.1p2-19 > openssh-askpass-gnome-3.6.1p2-19 > openssh-clients-3.6.1p2-19 > > > The same slowness occurs when i the internal IP of 192.168.0.4. in > lieu of domain name. > > any help is appreciated The configuration below is pretty standard. My guess is that you really do have a DNS issue. The most likely problem is that reverse DNS is not working (that's IP-to-hostname rather than normal DNS which is hostname-to-IP). You could verify this by getting on the SSN target machine (192.168.0.4) and running: tcpdump port 53 and watching the output to see if the DNS stuff is being resolved right or timing out when you try to ssh to that machine. Since you're on a non-routable IP address (192.168/16), a reverse DNS lookup will most likely fail unless you either run an internal DNS server on your local LAN with a full reverse DNS database or you add the appropriate entries to the SSH target's /etc/hosts file. > my /etc/ssh/sshd_config file that errors out as above. > # $OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.59 2002/09/25 11:17:16 markus Exp $ > > # This is the sshd server system-wide configuration file. See > # sshd_config(5) for more information. > > # This sshd was compiled with PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin > > # The strategy used for options in the default sshd_config shipped > with > # OpenSSH is to specify options with their default value where > # possible, but leave them commented. Uncommented options change a > # default value. > > #Port 22 > #Protocol 2,1 > #ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 > #ListenAddress :: > > # HostKey for protocol version 1 > #HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key > # HostKeys for protocol version 2 > #HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key > #HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key > > # Lifetime and size of ephemeral version 1 server key > #KeyRegenerationInterval 3600 > #ServerKeyBits 768 > UseDNS no > AddressFamily inet > # Logging > #obsoletes QuietMode and FascistLogging > #SyslogFacility AUTH > SyslogFacility AUTHPRIV > #LogLevel INFO > # Authentication: > #LoginGraceTime 120 > #PermitRootLogin yes > #StrictModes yes > > #RSAAuthentication yes > #PubkeyAuthentication yes > #AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys > > # rhosts authentication should not be used > #RhostsAuthentication no > # Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files > #IgnoreRhosts yes > # For this to work you will also need host keys in > /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts > #RhostsRSAAuthentication no > # similar for protocol version 2 > #HostbasedAuthentication no > # Change to yes if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for > # RhostsRSAAuthentication and HostbasedAuthentication > #IgnoreUserKnownHosts no > > # To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here! > #PasswordAuthentication yes > #PermitEmptyPasswords no > > # Change to no to disable s/key passwords > #ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes > > # Kerberos options > #KerberosAuthentication no > #KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes > #KerberosTicketCleanup yes > > #AFSTokenPassing no > > # Kerberos TGT Passing only works with the AFS kaserver > #KerberosTgtPassing no > > # Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM keyboard-interactive authentication > # Warning: enabling this may bypass the setting of > 'PasswordAuthentication' > #PAMAuthenticationViaKbdInt no > > #X11Forwarding no > X11Forwarding yes > #X11DisplayOffset 10 > #X11UseLocalhost yes > #PrintMotd yes > #PrintLastLog yes > #KeepAlive yes > #UseLogin no > #UsePrivilegeSeparation yes > #PermitUserEnvironment no > #Compression yes > > #MaxStartups 10 > # no default banner path > #Banner /some/path > #VerifyReverseMapping no > > # override default of no subsystems > Subsystem sftp /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server As I said, that's pretty standard. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:34:40 -0700 From: Rick Stevens Subject: Re: Fedora Core 2 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <40D9BF30.1050704 at vitalstream.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Danesh Daroui wrote: > Hi, > > Finally you mean that a RPMS version of Fedora core 2 is complete and > installable like usula vesion or it is ONLY packages and not the basic Linux > ? A collection of ALL of the RPMs is complete, but it's not an installable image. In other words, yes, you can _upgrade_ an _existing_ Linux system to FC2 using a bunch of RPMs, but it's incredibly tedious and prone to errors. The ".iso" files are exact images of the installation CDs that would be available if FC2 were to be sold in a boxed set. You download the .iso files and burn them to CDs using a program such as "Roxio" under Windows (using the "use file as CD image" option) or "cdrecord" under Linux. This creates bootable CDs, so you can put the first CD in the CD-ROM drive, reboot your machine and immediately enter the install process. For some details on how to do this operation, see: http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html By the way, Danesh, we prefer bottom-posting here (put your comments AFTER what you're commenting on). It helps with the flow of the message. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rick Stevens" > To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:48 PM > Subject: Re: Fedora Core 2 > > > >>Danesh Daroui wrote: >> >>>Hi all, >>> >>>I have a 900 Mhz Pentium III almost old PC and I want to install Fedora >>>Core 2 on it, but I don't know should I download x86 64-bit version of >>>Fedora Core 2 or i386 32-bit ? >> >>A Pentium III is a 32-bit processor, so you MUST use the 32-bit version >>of Fedora Core 2 (or as we call it, "FC2"). >> >> >>> Also, I don't know either what is === message truncated === --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From tyche at ica.net Thu Jun 24 21:49:12 2004 From: tyche at ica.net (tyche) Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 21:49:12 -0000 Subject: x over ppp In-Reply-To: <40D9F04C.6090908@vitalstream.com> References: <200307222331.50561.tyche@ica.net> <200307231651.35796.tyche@ica.net> <40D9F04C.6090908@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <200307241751.50851.tyche@ica.net> On Wednesday 23 June 2004 05:04 pm, Rick Stevens wrote: > tyche wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 June 2004 12:42 pm, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Jeff Kinz wrote: > >>>On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:31:50PM -0400, tyche wrote: > >>>>is there someway to pipe an X server out over a ppp connection to a > >>>>windows user with out getting into an expensive suite of software on > >>>> teh windows end? > >>> > >>>Yes , there is, > >>>Install cygwin on your Windows system - it includes a free X-windows > >>>servers so that you can run X-windows on your Win box. > >>>Then you can tunnel the X-windows connection via IP thru your ppp > >>>connection. > >>> > >>>Your connection needs to be faster than dial up, or it will be painful > >>>to use. > >>> > >>>Cygwin is from "Cygnus" who is now owned by RedHat and the download > >>>should be freely available on their website somewhere. > >>> > >>> > >>>To learn how to do remote "X" connections check www.tldp.org, and look > >>>at the "HOW-TO" docs list. There is one which deals specifically > >>>on how to do that. Searching the list for "remote" should find it. > >> > >>You can also use VNC via an SSH tunnel over a PPP connection (don't > >>forget to us the compression option on SSH). > >> > >>By the way, double check the "X server" bit. The X server is the > >>machine with the keyboard, mouse and graphic screen. The X client is > >>the remote program that needs the X server to display its output. It > >>seems backwards at first, but that's the way it is. > > > > thanks guys, was hoping there was a switch or something to startx, but it > > wouldnt be that simple. > > That would be useless as "startx" starts the X server on the local > machine. If you want the Linux GUI stuff to show up on your Windows > machine, you DON'T run an X server on the Linux box, you run one on the > Windows box (Windows must be the X server). To do that you must install > Cygwin or another X server package on your Windows box and use its > "startx" equivalent to start the server. You can then rlogin or ssh to > your Linux box, start an X client there (Mozilla, for example), and have > Mozilla's ouput appear on your Windows box. > > Another option: > > If you're familiar with Windows' remote desktop thing, you can install > VNC on both machines (http://www.tightvnc.com), start the VNC server on > your Linux box and use the VNC client on your Windows box. A window > will open on your Windows box which represents the X desktop on the > Linux box. When you move the mouse inside the X desktop or type stuff > in there, it's as if you were doing it right on the Linux box itself. > > Once again, none of this is really usable if you're using dialup as the > speed just isn't there to support a remote GUI session. Remote GUIs > really demand a broadband connection at the least (DSL, cable modem, > fractional T1, something like that). With dialup, you're better off > using ssh and sticking with text operations. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - NEWS FLASH! Intelligence of mankind decreasing! Details at... - > - uh, when, uh, the little hand is, uh, on the... Aw, NUTS! - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > thanks, wouldnt even think of doing it over a dialup. tyche From Danesh.D at bredband.net Fri Jun 25 12:54:21 2004 From: Danesh.D at bredband.net (Danesh Daroui) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 14:54:21 +0200 Subject: RPMs and Internet speed Message-ID: <000e01c45ab3$88fd8b60$285671d5@ciyasoftlap> Hi all, I have a serious problem with mly recently installed Fedora Core 2. The first problem is when I want to install a RPM package it asks me to associate a program to run RPM package and ask me the path of program which can open RPM packages. It is strange because why they didn't set it up to recognize and open RPM packages automatically. Anyway, what should I do ? Where is the program which can open RPM packages. Another problem is that my internet conection speed in my Linux installed system is too low. I don't know if firewall of Linux do something or not but it is very low. Have you any idea to fix it ? By the way, do you have any idea how can I have any indicator like windows system near the clock of system which shows if data transmition is in process or not ? In windows there is two small computer which show if you are sending or receiving data from and to internet, is there something like that in Linux too ? Regards, Danesh Daroui -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Karl Pearson karlp at ourldsfamily.com http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com http://emailgroups.ourldsfamily.com If you don't think the dead come back to life, Be here at quitting time -- My Thoughts on Terrorism In America: http://www.ourldsfamily.com/wtc.shtml -- A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. -- Ramsey Clark From pascual at cadt.com Fri Jun 25 14:55:04 2004 From: pascual at cadt.com (Pascual Castellon) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:55:04 +0200 Subject: Red Hat Enterprise 3 + Dell Inspiron 7500 Message-ID: <40DC3CC8.A550C1BB@cadt.com> Hi, I have been trying to install the new downloaded Redhat Enterprise Linux 3 (WS, or ES both have the same problem) on a Laptop Dell inspiron 7500. The main problem is that some seconds after starting the installation. the computer shows me the following message: Code 66 8b 42 28 21 c8 66 89 42 28 52 e8 f1 55 f8 ff 58 eb ab 89 Kernel Panic: Fatal Exception. 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Let me put is simple i want have some doucment that would teach me the basic ABC of redhat linux..... so inacse u guys out there have any document or stuff that u could suggest me to read and gain knowledge then it would be very helpfull.. and THANKS in advance to all how are thinking to help thsi guy! good day! From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jun 25 16:19:54 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:19:54 -0700 Subject: PHP/MySQL dependency problems Message-ID: <40DC50AA.6020501@vitalstream.com> hari sirigibathina wrote: > Hi All, > Iam a new bee in our mailing list and feel very happy to associate > with Uall. I was following the knowledge share and proud Iam > benefitting. > I have query w.r.t mysql and php installation. > 1.When I was installing php-mysql rpm I was thrown dependency error > and when I was trying to install using options"--aid and--force" also > didnot solve installation.What is the solution? > 2.what is the daemon to be started after installing the above ? > thanks in advance, First off, NEVER reply to a digest message and don't quote the whole thing if you do. If you want to ask a new question, post a FRESH message to redhat-install-list at redhat.com with an appropriate subject line. What you did was called "thread hijacking" and is considered bad netiquette. I've fixed it by posting a fresh message with a correct header line. See http://www.rhil.net/docs/rhil-guide.html for more information. To answer your questions: 1.You must have the Apache, PHP and mysql-client RPMs installed before you install the php-mysql RPM. Without a list of what RPMs failed to install or the error messages that you got, we can't be more specific. In general, look at the errors and install the RPMs that the php-mysql RPM said it needed, then try the php-mysql RPM. 2. It's not clear what you are trying to do. Since PHP can be integrated into Apache as a CGI language AND cand be run as a stand alone language as well, you'll have to be more specific. If you want to run it as a CGI under Apache, simply start apache: service httpd start ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Consciousness: that annoying time between naps. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Fri Jun 25 16:32:24 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:32:24 -0500 Subject: some help! In-Reply-To: <20040625153543.8519.qmail@webmail9.rediffmail.com> References: <20040625153543.8519.qmail@webmail9.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <20040625163224.GA15001@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 03:35:43PM -0000, vaidyanathan jambu iyer wrote: > ? > Hi Guys, > My name is Jambu, and i am kind of very new to the linux world. > and would like to have some basic knowledge on the os.. > Let me put is simple i want have some doucment that would teach me the basic ABC of redhat linux..... > so inacse u guys out there have any document or stuff that u could suggest me to read and gain knowledge then it would be very helpfull.. > and THANKS in advance to all how are thinking to help thsi guy! > good day! You would probably be interested in this: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/getting-started-guide/ That's for RH 9, but applies to most of Fedora Core as well. For more in-depth info, go to http://en.tldp.org/ One of the links there is this which may be very useful: http://en.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com A Bible in the hand is worth two on the shelf. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jun 25 16:30:37 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:30:37 -0700 Subject: RPMs and Internet speed In-Reply-To: <000e01c45ab3$88fd8b60$285671d5@ciyasoftlap> References: <000e01c45ab3$88fd8b60$285671d5@ciyasoftlap> Message-ID: <40DC532D.8030107@vitalstream.com> Danesh Daroui wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a serious problem with mly recently installed Fedora Core 2. The > first problem is when I want to install a RPM package it asks me to > associate a program to run RPM package and ask me the path of program > which can open RPM packages. It is strange because why they didn't set > it up to recognize and open RPM packages automatically. That's because the suffix ".rpm" is used by both RPMs as you know them and as "Real Media Player" media files, used in Real Networks' RealPlayer. It's up to you to decide which you want it to be. I'd recommend you not set up a "default handler" for them if you browse any Real Media sites. > Anyway, what > should I do ? Where is the program which can open RPM packages. The normal program to use is (oddly enough), "rpm", but it's a command line (text) program. Under Gnome, Nautilus is capable of opening and examining the contents of an RPM, but it can't install it. Only "rpm" can install, update or delete an RPM. > Another > problem is that my internet conection speed in my Linux installed system > is too low. I don't know if firewall of Linux do something or not but it > is very low. Have you any idea to fix it ? By the way, do you have any > idea how can I have any indicator like windows system near the clock of > system which shows if data transmition is in process or not ? In windows > there is two small computer which show if you are sending or receiving > data from and to internet, is there something like that in Linux too ? Oh, gawd, there's a thousand things that can be causing this. The most likely is that you don't have your default gateway or DNS server set up correctly. You don't say HOW you're connecting to the internet (dialup, cable modem, DSL, whatever), nor do you say how things are structured (do you use a separate router/firewall, for example). Without this information, we really can't help too much. As to monitors, there's several. You can run gkrellm under Gnome or KDE which is a general system monitor (will show you CPU usage, network I/O, disk I/O, etc.). There's also the "system monitor", and if you use a modem (dialup or DSL), there's a modem lights monitor and a wireless network monitor that can be docked to the menu bar (right click on the menu bar and go to the "Internet" option). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Denial. It ain't just a river in Egypt anymore! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jun 25 16:34:07 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:34:07 -0700 Subject: httpd cgi in /home In-Reply-To: <20536.198.60.114.90.1088168450.squirrel@198.60.114.90> References: <20536.198.60.114.90.1088168450.squirrel@198.60.114.90> Message-ID: <40DC53FF.5000800@vitalstream.com> karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > Since upgrading to 8.0 from 7.0 and getting everything working nicely, > I've tried and fiddled with httpd.conf to get ExecCGI to work where the > following directive is used within a user's public_html directory: > > > > I've changed the extention to .cgi, too, but it worked as is before. I've > also put show_access.sh in /var/www/cgi-bin to no avail. > > httpd.conf has: > Allow from all > Options +ExecCGI +Includes +MultiViews +FollowSymLinks > > > I put the '+' there because httpd v2.0.40-8 requires it to override global > settings preventing these directives from working in user directories. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Did you put "ScriptAlias" lines in the virtual host entries in your Apache httpd.conf file? If you don't, then the only directory that you can put executables in is /cgi-bin. You must also include "AddHandler" lines for the file extensions you intend to use in httpd.conf. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - 500: Internal Fortune Cookie Error - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jun 25 16:36:21 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:36:21 -0700 Subject: Red Hat Enterprise 3 + Dell Inspiron 7500 In-Reply-To: <40DC3CC8.A550C1BB@cadt.com> References: <40DC3CC8.A550C1BB@cadt.com> Message-ID: <40DC5485.20503@vitalstream.com> Pascual Castellon wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to install the new downloaded Redhat Enterprise Linux > 3 (WS, or ES both have the same problem) > on a Laptop Dell inspiron 7500. > > The main problem is that some seconds after starting the installation. > the computer shows me the following message: > > Code 66 8b 42 28 21 c8 66 89 42 28 52 e8 f1 55 f8 ff 58 eb ab 89 > > Kernel Panic: Fatal Exception. > > Does anybody knows what this message means, and why I can install WS or > ES 2.1 without problems in the same > computer? Try adding the "noacpi" and/or "noapm" options to the "boot:" command line: boot: linux noacpi noapm and see if that helps. There are others. You might also try to run a good memory test on your system. An excellent free one is available at http://www.memtest86.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - 500: Internal Fortune Cookie Error - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Fri Jun 25 17:01:14 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:01:14 -0600 (MDT) Subject: httpd cgi in /home In-Reply-To: <40DC53FF.5000800@vitalstream.com> References: <20536.198.60.114.90.1088168450.squirrel@198.60.114.90> <40DC53FF.5000800@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <48769.207.173.117.242.1088182874.squirrel@207.173.117.242> > > Did you put "ScriptAlias" lines in the virtual host entries in your > Apache httpd.conf file? If you don't, then the only directory that you > can put executables in is /cgi-bin. You must also include > "AddHandler" lines for the file extensions you intend to use in > httpd.conf. This must have changed? I'll put ScriptAlias in and check AddHandler for .sh, but I did put the script in /var/www/cgi-bin and changed the name to .cgi and it still didn't work. I'm wondering if it is only executing one cgi, which in the HTML file in question there are 2, the first one being a hit counter. Karl > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - 500: Internal Fortune Cookie Error - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > From rwright at msiinet.com Fri Jun 25 17:14:45 2004 From: rwright at msiinet.com (rwright at msiinet.com) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 12:14:45 -0500 Subject: Randy Wright/msi is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 06/25/2004 and will not return until 07/06/2004. I will reply to you when I return on Tuesday, July 6th. From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Fri Jun 25 17:25:36 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:25:36 -0600 (MDT) Subject: httpd cgi in /home In-Reply-To: <48769.207.173.117.242.1088182874.squirrel@207.173.117.242> References: <20536.198.60.114.90.1088168450.squirrel@198.60.114.90> <40DC53FF.5000800@vitalstream.com> <48769.207.173.117.242.1088182874.squirrel@207.173.117.242> Message-ID: <49084.207.173.117.242.1088184336.squirrel@207.173.117.242> >> >> Did you put "ScriptAlias" lines in the virtual host entries in your >> Apache httpd.conf file? If you don't, then the only directory that you >> can put executables in is /cgi-bin. You must also include >> "AddHandler" lines for the file extensions you intend to use in >> httpd.conf. > I do have .sh in AddHander, but ScriptAlias is in the general section. This works for scripts where the shtml file is located in /var/www/html and subdirectories. It's just in the /home/*/public_html directories where it doesn't work. The interesting thing is I have counters in those directories which just print to the html 'screen' and they work fine. If I get this figured out, I'll post my solution. > > Karl > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >> - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >> - - >> - 500: Internal Fortune Cookie Error - >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Redhat-install-list mailing list >> Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >> To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >> redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >> Subject: unsubscribe >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 jimhayward at earthlink.net Fri Jun 25 23:19:07 2004 From: jimhayward at earthlink.net (Jim Hayward) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:19:07 -0700 Subject: RPMs and Internet speed In-Reply-To: <000e01c45ab3$88fd8b60$285671d5@ciyasoftlap> References: <000e01c45ab3$88fd8b60$285671d5@ciyasoftlap> Message-ID: <1088205547.3046.59.camel@garfield.linux.localdomain> On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 05:54, Danesh Daroui wrote: > I have a serious problem with mly recently installed Fedora Core 2. > The first problem is when I want to install a RPM package it asks me > to associate a program to run RPM package and ask me the path of > program which can open RPM packages. It is strange because why they > didn't set it up to recognize and open RPM packages automatically. > Anyway, what should I do ? As Rick mentioned this is because RPM defaults to Real Media. This was recently discussed on the fedora-desktop list. You can read the thread below. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2004-June/msg00039.html A bug has already been filed for this. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123242 > Another problem is that my internet conection speed in my Linux > installed system is too low. How is it "low"? One issue with Mozilla in FC2 can be slow DNS resolving. This is an issue with Mozilla when the ipv6 module is loaded. It is loaded in FC2 by default. You can prevent it from loading at boot time by adding this to your /etc/modprobe.conf. alias net-pf-10 off > By the way, do you have any idea how can I have any indicator like > windows system near the clock of system which shows if data > transmition is in process or not ? In windows there is two small > computer which show if you are sending or receiving data from and to > internet, is there something like that in Linux too ? If you are using GNOME, you can add the GNOME Net Status applet to the panel. I don't believe this applet is installed by default. It is on CD3. This applet shows the traffic on your network interface. Not specifically just Internet traffic. gnome-netstatus-2.6.0.1-1.i386.rpm Regards, Jim H -- Jim Hayward GPG Key available at: http://www.keyserver.net gpg --recv-keys --keyserver search.keyserver.net 0x85A92DCC GPG Fingerprint: 1AA9 AEC9 BFDF FF7A E4F8 90C7 4947 3A41 85A9 2DCC -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From vaiduj at rediffmail.com Sat Jun 26 03:53:00 2004 From: vaiduj at rediffmail.com (vaidyanathan jambu iyer) Date: 26 Jun 2004 03:53:00 -0000 Subject: some help! 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On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 Bob McClure Jr wrote : >On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 03:35:43PM -0000, vaidyanathan jambu iyer wrote: > > > > Hi Guys, > > My name is Jambu, and i am kind of very new to the linux world. > > and would like to have some basic knowledge on the os.. > > Let me put is simple i want have some doucment that would teach me the basic ABC of redhat linux..... > > so inacse u guys out there have any document or stuff that u could suggest me to read and gain knowledge then it would be very helpfull.. > > and THANKS in advance to all how are thinking to help thsi guy! > > good day! > >You would probably be interested in this: > >http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/getting-started-guide/ > >That's for RH 9, but applies to most of Fedora Core as well. > >For more in-depth info, go to > >http://en.tldp.org/ > >One of the links there is this which may be very useful: > >http://en.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html > >Cheers, >-- >Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. >robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com >A Bible in the hand is worth two on the shelf. > > >_______________________________________________ >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 JHelfer at WTWArch.com Sun Jun 27 21:14:40 2004 From: JHelfer at WTWArch.com (Jim Helfer) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:14:40 -0400 Subject: Can't Install Fedora C2 - reboots when loading initrd.img Message-ID: <18598ABA7DCADA4295DC3FDDECECEF91411C52@wtwmail2.wtwarch.com> I am trying to install Fedora Core 2, but no matter what I try, the system reboots itself better it can get very far. The last thing displayed is "initrd.img" - then a reboot. I've tried linux text, linux noprobe, ide=nodma, apm=off, and I've tried shutting changing things in my BIOS (power management, etc). But without any change. I even downloaded a 2nd copy of the disk 1 iso, and made a new disc. Same problem. I can't think of anything else to try. I'd appreciate any advice. I run an Asus P4P800 w/ PIV 2.8Ghz HT CPU 512 MB ram ATI-Radeon 9000 Soundblaster Audigy Besides the CPU running slightly hot, I don't have any problems with the machine under Win XP. I think I may try C1. Thanks in Advance Jim Helfer Pittsburgh PA From jimhayward at earthlink.net Sun Jun 27 23:49:03 2004 From: jimhayward at earthlink.net (Jim Hayward) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 16:49:03 -0700 Subject: Can't Install Fedora C2 - reboots when loading initrd.img In-Reply-To: <18598ABA7DCADA4295DC3FDDECECEF91411C52@wtwmail2.wtwarch.com> References: <18598ABA7DCADA4295DC3FDDECECEF91411C52@wtwmail2.wtwarch.com> Message-ID: <1088380143.9737.14.camel@garfield.linux.localdomain> On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 14:14, Jim Helfer wrote: > > I run an Asus P4P800 w/ PIV 2.8Ghz HT CPU Some Asus MB's, especially the P4P800, have install issues with FC2. This is a known bug. You can grab a modified boot ISO from the link below that is supposed to allow you to install. asusp4p800-boot.iso http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/ If you want more details, you can search bugzilla for the bug listing. I don't recall the bug number. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/query.cgi?format=simple Regards, Jim H -- Jim Hayward GPG Key available at: http://www.keyserver.net gpg --recv-keys --keyserver search.keyserver.net 0x85A92DCC GPG Fingerprint: 1AA9 AEC9 BFDF FF7A E4F8 90C7 4947 3A41 85A9 2DCC -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From jlopes151 at comcast.net Mon Jun 28 02:05:15 2004 From: jlopes151 at comcast.net (jlopes151 at comcast.net) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:05:15 +0000 Subject: I can't install RH9 to a dual drive PC Message-ID: <062820040205.3592.40DF7CDB0006A37F00000E082200751150CECACE9C0A9F010406@comcast.net> The install fails, during the RPM package install. I selected the defaults, de-selected the master drive ( master contains W2K ). The slave is a blank 160g. I had tried a cd set from a book RH Linux 9 Bible. That install died during the Printer install Omni-o. I got a message that there may be a problem with everything else but the install. Thanks for any help James From yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn Mon Jun 28 02:12:39 2004 From: yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn (Yan Peng) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:12:39 +0800 Subject: How to list all OS users on RH 9 ? Message-ID: <200406280214.i5S2Eje1010580@mx1.redhat.com> redhat-install-list: On solaris, there is one command listusers to list all OS users. I'd like to know what command can do the same work on RH 9 ? Many thanks. Yan Peng yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn 2004-06-28 From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Mon Jun 28 02:48:04 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 21:48:04 -0500 Subject: I can't install RH9 to a dual drive PC In-Reply-To: <062820040205.3592.40DF7CDB0006A37F00000E082200751150CECACE9C0A9F010406@comcast.net> References: <062820040205.3592.40DF7CDB0006A37F00000E082200751150CECACE9C0A9F010406@comcast.net> Message-ID: <20040628024804.GB5038@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 02:05:15AM +0000, jlopes151 at comcast.net wrote: > The install fails, during the RPM package install. I selected the defaults, de-selected the master drive ( master contains W2K ). The slave is a blank 160g. > > I had tried a cd set from a book RH Linux 9 Bible. That install died during the Printer install Omni-o. I got a message that there may be a problem with everything else but the install. > > Thanks for any help > > James Any idea what version of RedHat that is? See http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#install_dies for a list of possible causes. The most likely is a problem with installing to ext3 filesystems. The install kernel has been known to be fragile about that. Install to ext2 filesystems, instead. You can convert to ext3 after the install. For details, see this: http://www.rhil.net/docs/ext2-to-ext3.html Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com A Bible in the hand is worth two on the shelf. From damovand at yahoo.com Mon Jun 28 03:00:29 2004 From: damovand at yahoo.com (Leila Lappin) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 20:00:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Two versions of php installed! How can I fix it? Message-ID: <20040628030029.65679.qmail@web50307.mail.yahoo.com> Hello everyone, I know this list is mostly for the installation of the operating system, but please help me figure this out if you can. When I do rpm ?q php I get two versions listed: php-4.2.2-17 and php-4.2.2-17.2 I think this is giving me a problem when I try to use php with mysql because I have only one version of the php-mysql installed and that is php-mysql-4.2.2-17 I get an error 'Call to undefined function: mysql_connect()'. I also did phpinfo(); and confirmed that I am using php version 4.2.2 with apache 2.0 and I have ?with-mysql=shared,/usr set. Eliminating all the obvious problems, if I use my layman?s deduction, I would say the problem is that I am picking up php-4.2.2-17.2 libraries with php-mysql-4.2.2-17 and because they are two different versions (php 17.2 and mysql 17)I get the errors. If I'm correct how should I fix this? Could someone please help? Thank you so very much in advance. From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Mon Jun 28 03:01:57 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 22:01:57 -0500 Subject: How to list all OS users on RH 9 ? In-Reply-To: <200406280214.i5S2Eje1010580@mx1.redhat.com> References: <200406280214.i5S2Eje1010580@mx1.redhat.com> Message-ID: <20040628030157.GC5038@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 10:12:39AM +0800, Yan Peng wrote: > redhat-install-list: > > On solaris, there is one command listusers to list all OS users. I'd like to know what command can do the same work on RH 9 ? > Many thanks. > > > > Yan Peng > yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn > 2004-06-28 I don't know of one, but this awk one-liner will do it: awk -F: '{if($3>499)print $1}' /etc/passwd Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com A Bible in the hand is worth two on the shelf. From JHelfer at WTWArch.com Mon Jun 28 03:36:45 2004 From: JHelfer at WTWArch.com (Jim Helfer) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:36:45 -0400 Subject: Can't Install Fedora C2 - reboots when loading initrd.img Message-ID: <18598ABA7DCADA4295DC3FDDECECEF91016006@wtwmail2.wtwarch.com> ________________________________ From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Jim Hayward Sent: Sun 6/27/2004 7:49 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: Can't Install Fedora C2 - reboots when loading initrd.img On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 14:14, Jim Helfer wrote: > > I run an Asus P4P800 w/ PIV 2.8Ghz HT CPU Some Asus MB's, especially the P4P800, have install issues with FC2. This is a known bug. You can grab a modified boot ISO from the link below that is supposed to allow you to install. asusp4p800-boot.iso http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/ If you want more details, you can search bugzilla for the bug listing. I don't recall the bug number. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/query.cgi?format=simple Regards, Jim H Wow. Thanks a lot. (Hope Outlook Web Access doesn't HTML-ize this message. I don't see an option to check). -- Jim Hayward GPG Key available at: http://www.keyserver.net gpg --recv-keys --keyserver search.keyserver.net 0x85A92DCC GPG Fingerprint: 1AA9 AEC9 BFDF FF7A E4F8 90C7 4947 3A41 85A9 2DCC -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 4698 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jlopes151 at comcast.net Mon Jun 28 03:58:24 2004 From: jlopes151 at comcast.net (jlopes151 at comcast.net) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 03:58:24 +0000 Subject: I can't install RH9 to a dual drive PC Message-ID: <062820040358.5908.40DF97600002DE13000017142200763704CECACE9C0A9F010406@comcast.net> Thanks for the help. I'm installing a purchased RH Enterprise Linux, version 3, Kernel 2.4.21 The RH9 I have from the Wiley RedHat Linux 9 Bible don't know the version. Again thanks for the help James > On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 02:05:15AM +0000, jlopes151 at comcast.net wrote: > > The install fails, during the RPM package install. I selected the defaults, > de-selected the master drive ( master contains W2K ). The slave is a blank 160g. > > > > I had tried a cd set from a book RH Linux 9 Bible. That install died during > the Printer install Omni-o. I got a message that there may be a problem with > everything else but the install. > > > > Thanks for any help > > > > James > > Any idea what version of RedHat that is? > > See > > http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#install_dies > > for a list of possible causes. The most likely is a problem with > installing to ext3 filesystems. The install kernel has been known to > be fragile about that. Install to ext2 filesystems, instead. You can > convert to ext3 after the install. For details, see this: > > http://www.rhil.net/docs/ext2-to-ext3.html > > Cheers, > -- > Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. > robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com > A Bible in the hand is worth two on the shelf. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 sg at pobox.com Mon Jun 28 04:31:07 2004 From: sg at pobox.com (sg at pobox.com) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:01:07 +0530 Subject: How to list all OS users on RH 9 ? In-Reply-To: <200406280214.i5S2Eje1010580@mx1.redhat.com> References: <200406280214.i5S2Eje1010580@mx1.redhat.com> Message-ID: <200406281001.07432.sg@pobox.com> On RedHat Linus command is who -q Rajeev. *==================================== On Monday 28 June 2004 07:42, Yan Peng wrote: > redhat-install-list: > > On solaris, there is one command listusers to list all OS users. I'd like > to know what command can do the same work on RH 9 ? Many thanks. > > > > Yan Peng > yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn > 2004-06-28 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Danesh.D at bredband.net Mon Jun 28 12:25:22 2004 From: Danesh.D at bredband.net (Danesh Daroui) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:25:22 +0200 Subject: Printer sharing and internet speed Message-ID: <001c01c45d0a$fba16110$285671d5@ciyasoftlap> Hi all, I use Fedora 2 and it is installed successfully. I have two major problems 1- I have locally connected two printers (Canon BJC3000 color inkjet and HP LaserJet 1010) to a system which has Fedora 2. This system supposed to act like a Print Server on my LAN. I used SAMBA, SWAT and all daemons are installed and loaded and there seems not to be any problem. I have shred these two printers via SWAT on the LAN. All Printers can be detected by all clients on LAN and also they work fine on my Print Server with Fedora 2 and they both print good. But, my first printer which is Canon Inkjet does not accept any priniting job from other clients. For example if I send even a Test Page from one of my clients to the Canon Inkjet nothing happens and actually it doesn't work on my LAN. Other printer, works fine on my LAN, but sometimes when my document is large, for example a 20 pages PDF, it crashes and it doesn't work very good. I am very tired of these problem and the reason I formatted my system which had Fedora 1 and migrated to Fedora 2 was this, and now I have still this problem. I am thinking to migrate to Slackware Linux, however I like Fedora 2. Please help me, any tips or whatever... 2- I have a 10 MB/s DLS internet connection and all my systems are connected to the internet via a DLink Switch which is connected to my DSL MODEM and they have a great speed while there upload or download to or from internet. My Linux system is connected to the switch too in the exactly same situation, but its connection speed is awful and very very slow. I have enabled firewall on my Linux system, but whatelse could I do ? Please help me... Regards, Danesh Daroui -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jyce at free.fr Mon Jun 28 14:36:50 2004 From: jyce at free.fr (Jean-Christophe Valiere) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:36:50 +0200 Subject: Kickstart error Message-ID: <1088433410.40e02d027607a@imp2-q.free.fr> Hello, I'm trying to install a RedHat Enterprise 3 with kickstart and nfs. I created a boot floppy with syslinux which contain the vmlinuz-2.4.21-15.ELBOOT (renamed of counse). And I created my own initrd.img which contain only the modules I need from /lib/modules/2.4.21-15.ELBOOT. When the server boot it loads the vmlinuz and initrd.img successfully and ask me some question like the keyboard configuration, language etc... First I don't want the install to ask me these question how can I do taht. Then I aswer to install over nfs and if ask me the driver. When I choose them they are loaded successfully and it can mount nfs repository where the linux source are. But it fails with the following error: The anaconda installation tree in that directory doesn't seem to match your boot media. If I swith the screen with Alt-F3, I see that: * mounted IP:/space/rhel3as on /mnt/source * can access stage2.img * mntloop loop0 on /mnt/runtime as /mnt/source/RedHat/base/stage2.img fs is 17 * unmounting loopback /mnt/runtime loop0 * after mountStage2, rc is -1 * not the right one Does any body know where I am wrong ?? Thanks in advance -- "Si la politique pouvait changer notre vie, cela ferait longtemps qu'elle serait interdite." - Federation Anarchiste de France - From chrisczerwinski at cogeco.ca Mon Jun 28 16:00:13 2004 From: chrisczerwinski at cogeco.ca (Chris A Czerwinski) Date: 28 Jun 2004 12:00:13 -0400 Subject: How to list all OS users on RH 9 ? In-Reply-To: <200406281001.07432.sg@pobox.com> References: <200406280214.i5S2Eje1010580@mx1.redhat.com> <200406281001.07432.sg@pobox.com> Message-ID: <1088438413.21501.4.camel@redhat90> When I execute the command in terminal, I get the following response [chris at localhost chris]$ $ who -q chris chris #users=2 How can there be 2 users? Chris (Newbie) On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 00:31, sg at pobox.com wrote: > On RedHat Linus command is who -q > > Rajeev. > > *==================================== > On Monday 28 June 2004 07:42, Yan Peng wrote: > > redhat-install-list: > > > > On solaris, there is one command listusers to list all OS users. I'd like > > to know what command can do the same work on RH 9 ? Many thanks. > > > > > > > > Yan Peng > > yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn > > 2004-06-28 From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Mon Jun 28 16:19:15 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:19:15 -0500 Subject: How to list all OS users on RH 9 ? In-Reply-To: <1088438413.21501.4.camel@redhat90> References: <200406280214.i5S2Eje1010580@mx1.redhat.com> <200406281001.07432.sg@pobox.com> <1088438413.21501.4.camel@redhat90> Message-ID: <20040628161915.GA10684@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 12:00:13PM -0400, Chris A Czerwinski wrote: > When I execute the command in terminal, I get the following response > > [chris at localhost chris]$ > $ who -q > chris chris > #users=2 > > How can there be 2 users? > > Chris (Newbie) It is counting the instances of logins. You are apparently logged in twice. I can get the same result by being logged in to my X session and a text terminal, tty2 (Ctrl-Alt-F2). > On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 00:31, sg at pobox.com wrote: > > On RedHat Linus command is who -q > > > > Rajeev. > > > > *==================================== > > On Monday 28 June 2004 07:42, Yan Peng wrote: > > > redhat-install-list: > > > > > > On solaris, there is one command listusers to list all OS users. I'd like > > > to know what command can do the same work on RH 9 ? Many thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > Yan Peng > > > yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn > > > 2004-06-28 What was unclear in the initial query was whether he wanted users _currently_logged_in_ or all the users that existed on the machine. The awk one-liner I posted will do the latter. "who -q" (and "finger", more verbosely) does the former, but as logins, not distinct users. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com I'm a fool for Christ. Whose fool are you? From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 28 17:45:42 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:45:42 -0700 Subject: How to list all OS users on RH 9 ? In-Reply-To: <200406281001.07432.sg@pobox.com> References: <200406280214.i5S2Eje1010580@mx1.redhat.com> <200406281001.07432.sg@pobox.com> Message-ID: <40E05946.2020300@vitalstream.com> sg at pobox.com wrote: > On RedHat Linus command is who -q That only lists the users currently logged in, Rajeev. Bob's awk script: awk -F: '{if($3>499)print $1}' /etc/passwd will list all users with a user ID >= 500 from the passwd file, which is probably more what he wants (Red Hat's "adduser" script starts adding users with user IDs starting at 500 unless overridden with a "-u"). And please bottom-post in the future, Rajeev. > *==================================== > On Monday 28 June 2004 07:42, Yan Peng wrote: > >>redhat-install-list: >> >> On solaris, there is one command listusers to list all OS users. I'd like >>to know what command can do the same work on RH 9 ? Many thanks. >> >> >> >>Yan Peng >>yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn >>2004-06-28 >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Redhat-install-list mailing list >>Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >>To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >>redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >>Subject: unsubscribe > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - UNIX is actually quite user friendly. The problem is that it's - - just very picky of who its friends are! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 28 17:48:34 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:48:34 -0700 Subject: How to list all OS users on RH 9 ? In-Reply-To: <20040628161915.GA10684@bobcat.cumbytel.com> References: <200406280214.i5S2Eje1010580@mx1.redhat.com> <200406281001.07432.sg@pobox.com> <1088438413.21501.4.camel@redhat90> <20040628161915.GA10684@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Message-ID: <40E059F2.50804@vitalstream.com> Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 12:00:13PM -0400, Chris A Czerwinski wrote: > >>When I execute the command in terminal, I get the following response >> >>[chris at localhost chris]$ >>$ who -q >>chris chris >>#users=2 >> >>How can there be 2 users? >> >>Chris (Newbie) > > > It is counting the instances of logins. You are apparently logged in > twice. I can get the same result by being logged in to my X session > and a text terminal, tty2 (Ctrl-Alt-F2). > > >>On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 00:31, sg at pobox.com wrote: >> >>>On RedHat Linus command is who -q >>> >>>Rajeev. >>> >>>*==================================== >>>On Monday 28 June 2004 07:42, Yan Peng wrote: >>> >>>>redhat-install-list: >>>> >>>> On solaris, there is one command listusers to list all OS users. I'd like >>>>to know what command can do the same work on RH 9 ? Many thanks. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>Yan Peng >>>>yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn >>>>2004-06-28 > > > What was unclear in the initial query was whether he wanted users > _currently_logged_in_ or all the users that existed on the machine. > The awk one-liner I posted will do the latter. "who -q" (and > "finger", more verbosely) does the former, but as logins, not distinct > users. You can also use "lastlog" to see the entire user list as well as the last time the user logged in, which port they were on and (if a remote login), where they logged in from. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - The Theory of Rapitivity: E=MC Hammer - - -- Glenn Marcus (via TopFive.com) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 28 17:53:44 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:53:44 -0700 Subject: Two versions of php installed! How can I fix it? In-Reply-To: <20040628030029.65679.qmail@web50307.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040628030029.65679.qmail@web50307.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40E05B28.9060102@vitalstream.com> Leila Lappin wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I know this list is mostly for the installation of the > operating system, but please help me figure this out > if you can. When I do rpm ?q php I get two versions > listed: > php-4.2.2-17 and php-4.2.2-17.2 All that indicates is that you didn't "rpm -e" the previous version of php (you did an "rpm -u"). > I think this is giving me a problem when I try to use > php with mysql because I have only one version of the > php-mysql installed and that is php-mysql-4.2.2-17 > > I get an error 'Call to undefined function: > mysql_connect()'. Did you install the php-mysql RPM? You need that if want MySQL connectivity under PHP. > > I also did phpinfo(); and confirmed that I am using > php version 4.2.2 with apache 2.0 and I have > ?with-mysql=shared,/usr set. Eliminating all the > obvious problems, if I use my layman?s deduction, I > would say the problem is that I am picking up > php-4.2.2-17.2 libraries with php-mysql-4.2.2-17 and > because they are two different versions (php 17.2 and > mysql 17)I get the errors. If I'm correct how should > I fix this? Could someone please help? Try doing "rpm -qa | grep php" to get a listing of all RPMs that have "php" in their name. If you don't have "php-mysql", you won't be able to get at MySQL. BTW, the latest release of php-mysql for FC1 is php-mysql-4.3.6-1.3, for FC2, it's php-mysql-4.3.6-5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - The Theory of Rapitivity: E=MC Hammer - - -- Glenn Marcus (via TopFive.com) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 28 17:57:56 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:57:56 -0700 Subject: Two versions of php installed! How can I fix it? In-Reply-To: <40E05B28.9060102@vitalstream.com> References: <20040628030029.65679.qmail@web50307.mail.yahoo.com> <40E05B28.9060102@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40E05C24.8090503@vitalstream.com> Rick Stevens wrote: > Leila Lappin wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I know this list is mostly for the installation of the >> operating system, but please help me figure this out >> if you can. When I do rpm ?q php I get two versions >> listed: php-4.2.2-17 and php-4.2.2-17.2 > > > All that indicates is that you didn't "rpm -e" the previous version of > php (you did an "rpm -u"). Er, I meant "rpm -i". When updating, always use an "rpm -Uvh" (this will update existing installations or install the RPM if a previous version isn't installed) or "rpm -Fvh" (freshen--only update if a previous version is installed). >> I think this is giving me a problem when I try to use >> php with mysql because I have only one version of the >> php-mysql installed and that is php-mysql-4.2.2-17 >> >> I get an error 'Call to undefined function: >> mysql_connect()'. > > > Did you install the php-mysql RPM? You need that if want MySQL > connectivity under PHP. > >> >> I also did phpinfo(); and confirmed that I am using >> php version 4.2.2 with apache 2.0 and I have >> ?with-mysql=shared,/usr set. Eliminating all the >> obvious problems, if I use my layman?s deduction, I >> would say the problem is that I am picking up >> php-4.2.2-17.2 libraries with php-mysql-4.2.2-17 and >> because they are two different versions (php 17.2 and >> mysql 17)I get the errors. If I'm correct how should >> I fix this? Could someone please help? > > > Try doing "rpm -qa | grep php" to get a listing of all RPMs that have > "php" in their name. If you don't have "php-mysql", you won't be able > to get at MySQL. > > BTW, the latest release of php-mysql for FC1 is php-mysql-4.3.6-1.3, > for FC2, it's php-mysql-4.3.6-5 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - The Theory of Rapitivity: E=MC Hammer - > - -- Glenn Marcus (via TopFive.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 - - - - Whoever said "Money can't buy friends" obviously never brought - - donuts to the office. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jun 28 18:08:49 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:08:49 -0700 Subject: Kickstart error In-Reply-To: <1088433410.40e02d027607a@imp2-q.free.fr> References: <1088433410.40e02d027607a@imp2-q.free.fr> Message-ID: <40E05EB1.9020701@vitalstream.com> Jean-Christophe Valiere wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to install a RedHat Enterprise 3 with kickstart and nfs. > I created a boot floppy with syslinux which contain the > vmlinuz-2.4.21-15.ELBOOT (renamed of counse). And I created my own initrd.img > which contain only the modules I need from /lib/modules/2.4.21-15.ELBOOT. When > the server boot it loads the vmlinuz and initrd.img successfully and ask me > some question like the keyboard configuration, language etc... > First I don't want the install to ask me these question how can I do taht. You have to set up the kickstart control file. In it, you can control pretty much everything kickstart does including language, keyboard, installation method, partitioning, you name it. Red Hat includes the program "redhat-config-kickstart" to help you create this file. Then you boot off the floppy and use the new kickstart config file. > Then I aswer to install over nfs and if ask me the driver. When I choose them > they are loaded successfully and it can mount nfs repository where the linux > source are. But it fails with the following error: > The anaconda installation tree in that directory doesn't seem to match your > boot media. > > If I swith the screen with Alt-F3, I see that: > * mounted IP:/space/rhel3as on /mnt/source > * can access stage2.img > * mntloop loop0 on /mnt/runtime as /mnt/source/RedHat/base/stage2.img fs is 17 > * unmounting loopback /mnt/runtime loop0 > * after mountStage2, rc is -1 > * not the right one > > Does any body know where I am wrong ?? Anaconda (the installer) wants image names (blah.iso) that match what it's trying to install EXACTLY. If you renamed the .iso files at all, your install will fail. > > Thanks in advance -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Whoever said "Money can't buy friends" obviously never brought - - donuts to the office. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From jyce at free.fr Mon Jun 28 19:42:06 2004 From: jyce at free.fr (Jyce) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 21:42:06 +0200 Subject: Kickstart error In-Reply-To: <40E05EB1.9020701@vitalstream.com> References: <1088433410.40e02d027607a@imp2-q.free.fr> <40E05EB1.9020701@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040628214206.2cc7fa7c.jyce@free.fr> On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:08:49 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: > Jean-Christophe Valiere wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to install a RedHat Enterprise 3 with kickstart and nfs. > > I created a boot floppy with syslinux which contain the > > vmlinuz-2.4.21-15.ELBOOT (renamed of counse). And I created my own initrd.img > > which contain only the modules I need from /lib/modules/2.4.21-15.ELBOOT. When > > the server boot it loads the vmlinuz and initrd.img successfully and ask me > > some question like the keyboard configuration, language etc... > > First I don't want the install to ask me these question how can I do taht. > > You have to set up the kickstart control file. In it, you can control > pretty much everything kickstart does including language, keyboard, > installation method, partitioning, you name it. The problem is that my boot floppy contain a file syslinux.cfg with the following entry: label linux kernel=vmlinuz append ks=nfs:IP:/space/install/ks.cfg ... My server is a HP DL380 and if I use the bootnet.img from hp I get the same error which seems normal because it contain driver for 2.4.21-9 and my distrib is a 2.4.21-15. Execpt that the hp bootnet.img doesn't ask me any question about keyboard ... > > Red Hat includes the program "redhat-config-kickstart" to help you > create this file. Then you boot off the floppy and use the new > kickstart config file. > > > Then I aswer to install over nfs and if ask me the driver. When I choose them > > they are loaded successfully and it can mount nfs repository where the linux > > source are. But it fails with the following error: > > The anaconda installation tree in that directory doesn't seem to match your > > boot media. > > > > If I swith the screen with Alt-F3, I see that: > > * mounted IP:/space/rhel3as on /mnt/source > > * can access stage2.img > > * mntloop loop0 on /mnt/runtime as /mnt/source/RedHat/base/stage2.img fs is 17 > > * unmounting loopback /mnt/runtime loop0 > > * after mountStage2, rc is -1 > > * not the right one > > > > Does any body know where I am wrong ?? > > Anaconda (the installer) wants image names (blah.iso) that match what > it's trying to install EXACTLY. If you renamed the .iso files at all, > your install will fail. But I did not renamed the file, I've just copied the 4 RedHat CDRom in /space/rhel3as and run /usr/sbin/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist. Thanks for the reply. > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Whoever said "Money can't buy friends" obviously never brought - > - donuts to the office. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 damovand at yahoo.com Mon Jun 28 20:01:45 2004 From: damovand at yahoo.com (Leila Lappin) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:01:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Two versions of php installed! How can I fix it? In-Reply-To: <40E05B28.9060102@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040628200145.99330.qmail@web50308.mail.yahoo.com> --- Rick Stevens wrote: > Leila Lappin wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I know this list is mostly for the installation of > the > > operating system, but please help me figure this > out > > if you can. When I do rpm ?q php I get two > versions > > listed: > > php-4.2.2-17 and php-4.2.2-17.2 > > All that indicates is that you didn't "rpm -e" the > previous version of > php (you did an "rpm -u"). > > > I think this is giving me a problem when I try to > use > > php with mysql because I have only one version of > the > > php-mysql installed and that is php-mysql-4.2.2-17 > > > > I get an error 'Call to undefined function: > > mysql_connect()'. > > Did you install the php-mysql RPM? You need that if > want MySQL > connectivity under PHP. > > > > I also did phpinfo(); and confirmed that I am > using > > php version 4.2.2 with apache 2.0 and I have > > ?with-mysql=shared,/usr set. Eliminating all the > > obvious problems, if I use my layman?s deduction, > I > > would say the problem is that I am picking up > > php-4.2.2-17.2 libraries with php-mysql-4.2.2-17 > and > > because they are two different versions (php 17.2 > and > > mysql 17)I get the errors. If I'm correct how > should > > I fix this? Could someone please help? > > Try doing "rpm -qa | grep php" to get a listing of > all RPMs that have > "php" in their name. If you don't have "php-mysql", > you won't be able > to get at MySQL. > > BTW, the latest release of php-mysql for FC1 is > php-mysql-4.3.6-1.3, > for FC2, it's php-mysql-4.3.6-5 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer > rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. > http://www.vitalstream.com - > - > - > - The Theory of Rapitivity: E=MC > Hammer - > - -- Glenn Marcus > (via TopFive.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 > Hi thanks you for your reply, I have done "rpm -qa | grep php" and that is how I know I have php-mysql-4.2.2-17 installed. So is the problem version miss match between php and php-mysql? From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Tue Jun 29 04:27:12 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:27:12 -0600 (MDT) Subject: makewhatis / updatedb Message-ID: <14754.198.60.114.90.1088483232.squirrel@198.60.114.90> I have a RHv8.0 system used for hot backups so NFS is active to and from an IBM AIX system. Over the weekend, updatedb (cron.daily/makewhatis) started on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but never finished. I was out of disk space this morning and since it's also used as our print server, no one could print from our main business system because its spooler went down (another story for another time). What can cause updatedb to continue running and not finish? Could it be the NFS filesystems? They've been mounted for months with no problems. Karl Pearson karlp at ourldsfamily.com http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com http://emailgroups.ourldsfamily.com If you don't think the dead come back to life, Be here at quitting time From roger at audiblefaith.com Tue Jun 29 05:45:47 2004 From: roger at audiblefaith.com (Roger Harrell) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:45:47 -0700 Subject: Location of spamd log file? Message-ID: <40E1020B.1090505@audiblefaith.com> I can't seem to find any information on where the default RH9 location for the spamassassin spamd log file is. Anyone know that? Thanks, -- Roger Harrell VP/CTO AudibleFaith.com Music With Meaning http://www.audiblefaith.com From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue Jun 29 13:17:43 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 08:17:43 -0500 Subject: Location of spamd log file? In-Reply-To: <40E1020B.1090505@audiblefaith.com> References: <40E1020B.1090505@audiblefaith.com> Message-ID: <20040629131743.GA20232@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 10:45:47PM -0700, Roger Harrell wrote: > I can't seem to find any information on where the default RH9 location > for the spamassassin spamd log file is. Anyone know that? > > Thanks, > -- > Roger Harrell > VP/CTO AudibleFaith.com > Music With Meaning > http://www.audiblefaith.com spamd normally logs to /var/log/maillog. To see what's there: fgrep spamd /var/log/maillog | less Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com I'm a fool for Christ. Whose fool are you? From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 29 16:37:16 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:37:16 -0700 Subject: makewhatis / updatedb In-Reply-To: <14754.198.60.114.90.1088483232.squirrel@198.60.114.90> References: <14754.198.60.114.90.1088483232.squirrel@198.60.114.90> Message-ID: <40E19ABC.5030200@vitalstream.com> karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > I have a RHv8.0 system used for hot backups so NFS is active to and from > an IBM AIX system. > > Over the weekend, updatedb (cron.daily/makewhatis) started on Friday, > Saturday and Sunday, but never finished. I was out of disk space this > morning and since it's also used as our print server, no one could print > from our main business system because its spooler went down (another story > for another time). makewhatis and updatedb have nothing to do with each other. makewhatis generates the database for the "man -k" or "appropos" commands, updatedb generates the database for the "which" and "whereis" commands. > What can cause updatedb to continue running and not finish? Could it be > the NFS filesystems? They've been mounted for months with no problems. It could be. You may have a recursive directory loop or something in there. It depends on what changed on the filesystems it's checking. You may need to use the "-e" option to exclude certain directories or the "-f" option to exclude filesytem types, e.g. updatedb -f nfs to exclude NFS volumes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Careful! Ugly strikes 9 out of 10 people! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue Jun 29 18:26:31 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:26:31 -0500 Subject: makewhatis / updatedb In-Reply-To: <40E19ABC.5030200@vitalstream.com> References: <14754.198.60.114.90.1088483232.squirrel@198.60.114.90> <40E19ABC.5030200@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040629182631.GA22843@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 09:37:16AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > makewhatis and updatedb have nothing to do with each other. makewhatis > generates the database for the "man -k" or "appropos" commands, updatedb > generates the database for the "which" and "whereis" commands. Umm, if I may dare correct our otherwise duly esteemed guru, updatedb generates the database for the "locate" command. "which" merely looks for a command in your $PATH, and "whereis" (according to the man page) looks in a few hardwired places for the binary, man page, and source for something. If either of them use the locate database, it's not well documented. > >What can cause updatedb to continue running and not finish? Could it be > >the NFS filesystems? They've been mounted for months with no problems. > > It could be. You may have a recursive directory loop or something in > there. > > It depends on what changed on the filesystems it's checking. You may > need to use the "-e" option to exclude certain directories or the "-f" > option to exclude filesytem types, e.g. > > updatedb -f nfs > > to exclude NFS volumes. My system (up to FC1, now) has a default /etc/updatedb.conf which says: PRUNEFS="devpts NFS nfs afs sfs proc smbfs autofs auto iso9660" PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /usr/tmp /var/tmp /afs /net /sfs" export PRUNEFS export PRUNEPATHS which, I think, excludes NFS mounts by default. No? I'm sorry. I've done nothing to explain Karl's anomoly. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Careful! Ugly strikes 9 out of 10 people! - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- And senility gets the rest of us. :-) Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymouse. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jun 29 19:14:54 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:14:54 -0700 Subject: makewhatis / updatedb In-Reply-To: <20040629182631.GA22843@bobcat.cumbytel.com> References: <14754.198.60.114.90.1088483232.squirrel@198.60.114.90> <40E19ABC.5030200@vitalstream.com> <20040629182631.GA22843@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Message-ID: <40E1BFAE.1080004@vitalstream.com> Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 09:37:16AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> >> >>makewhatis and updatedb have nothing to do with each other. makewhatis >>generates the database for the "man -k" or "appropos" commands, updatedb >>generates the database for the "which" and "whereis" commands. > > > Umm, if I may dare correct our otherwise duly esteemed guru, updatedb > generates the database for the "locate" command. "which" merely looks > for a command in your $PATH, and "whereis" (according to the man page) > looks in a few hardwired places for the binary, man page, and source > for something. If either of them use the locate database, it's not > well documented. You are quite correct. I forgot that I've aliased a number of my commands and whereis actually runs the original whereis followed by an slocate if whereis doesn't come up with anything. The scientific word for my error is "Doh!" :-p >>>What can cause updatedb to continue running and not finish? Could it be >>>the NFS filesystems? They've been mounted for months with no problems. >> >>It could be. You may have a recursive directory loop or something in >>there. >> >>It depends on what changed on the filesystems it's checking. You may >>need to use the "-e" option to exclude certain directories or the "-f" >>option to exclude filesytem types, e.g. >> >> updatedb -f nfs >> >>to exclude NFS volumes. > > > My system (up to FC1, now) has a default /etc/updatedb.conf which > says: > > PRUNEFS="devpts NFS nfs afs sfs proc smbfs autofs auto iso9660" > PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /usr/tmp /var/tmp /afs /net /sfs" > export PRUNEFS > export PRUNEPATHS > > which, I think, excludes NFS mounts by default. No? It would provided you modified the /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron file to use the environment variables. My file has the exclusions hard-coded in it as "-e" and "-f" options. Technically, updatedb is a symlink to slocate. slocate, if called as updatedb, assumes the "-u" flag. If you want it to read the /etc/updatedb.conf file, it must also be passed the "-c" flag. On top of that, the format of the "-f" and "-e" options are comma-separated, not space-separated. Unless slocate reads those specific environment variables, my guess is that that file is just noise. A quick run through man, info and the slocate README reveals nothing about that, nor is there anything on the proper format of /etc/updatedb.conf--which is just a shell script that exports some variables. > I'm sorry. I've done nothing to explain Karl's anomoly. Neither do I. Perhaps a run of updatedb with the "-v" flag might reveal what's going on: /usr/bin/updatedb -v -f "nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts" -e \ "/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net" >>- Careful! Ugly strikes 9 out of 10 people! - > > And senility gets the rest of us. :-) I'm sure I could come up with a snappy rejoinder, but I just can't remember who the hell you are! ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 gnichols at tpg.com.au Wed Jun 30 05:07:42 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 30 Jun 2004 15:07:42 +1000 Subject: Evolution problem Message-ID: <1088572064.2814.14.camel@barney.localdomain> Hello Folks, I have a small problem with Evolution 1.0.9-11 on RH8, the version that RH supplied as a security update for RH8 not long after RH8 was released. The problem has been around for a long time and I couldn't be bothered fixing it as updating Evolution is a labourious exercise involving gnome. However, I noticed a curious thing, if I ssh into my desktop machine from my laptop to run evolution (so as to keep things in one place on one machine) and I do a search on my inbox the resulting matches highlight the word searched on in the emails. If I then go to my desktop machine and do the same the search word is again highlighted but if I exit Evolution and re-start it and do the search again the search word is completely missing, no blank space in place of it just a single space character. This missing highlight is the problem I've had all along and I simply thought it was a bug in the Evolution version I have. The question is: Why does it work when I ssh in from my laptop and why does it still work when I go back to my desktop machine but NOT after killing Evolution and re-starting it on the desktop. Anyone have an answer? Both machines are running RH8 but the version of Evolution installed on the laptop is the original version from the distribution CDs, it hasn't had the security fix applied. But that shouldn't make a difference as when I ssh into my desktop machine to run Evolution on the laptop I am running the Evolution installed on the desktop, Aren't I? -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols Public Key available from http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/#extract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends! We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside! There behind the glass there's a real blade of grass, Be careful as you pass, move along, move along. Come inside, the show's about to start, Guaranteed to blow your head apart. Rest assured, you'll get your money's worth, Greatest show, in heaven, hell or earth! You gotta see the show! It's a dynamo! You gotta see the show! It's rock 'n' roll! -- ELP, "Karn Evil 9" (1st Impression, Part 2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - IMPORTANT. - - The contents of this email and any attachments, which may be con- - - fidential, are sent for the personal attention of the addressee/s - - only. If you receive this email and are not the intended addressee - - please inform the sender and delete this email immediately. Use, - - copying, disclosure or forwarding of the contents of this email - - and/or any attachment/s is not authourised. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From gnichols at tpg.com.au Wed Jun 30 05:26:03 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 30 Jun 2004 15:26:03 +1000 Subject: yum update server + Network question. In-Reply-To: <40D316E2.1060703@vitalstream.com> References: <1086839228.1499.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C88DD7.2030801@vitalstre am.com> <1087019682.1276.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CDCB3B.2000401@ vitalstream.com> <1087278862.1375.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CF250D .5060005@vitalstream.com> <1087350875.1159.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40D06F15.9060203@vitalstream.com> <1087539584.1886.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40D316E2.1060703@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1088573164.2909.33.camel@barney.localdomain> On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 02:22, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 02:02, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > > >>Ah. I usually refer to that as "cockpit error" or "a short between > >>the keyboard and ground". I believe the scientific term is "Huh?" ;-) > >> > >> > >>>Anyway, things are > >>>lookin' good now! > >> > >>Glad to hear it. > > > > > > Hi Rick, just further on the internet access for my laptop, I suppose I > > could have stuck with ssh and logged into my desktop machine and run Moz > > or Evo from the desktop machine as that works nicely and it has the > > benefit of keeping all my emails in the one place on the one machine. > > Ahhhh, options... options.... ain't Linux luvly. > > Take a look at running a VNC server on your desktop and a VNC client on > your laptop. Your laptop then gives you full GUI access to your > desktop. This can be tunneled via SSH as well for security. Very cool. Hello Rick, a question on vnc, I had vnc already installed on my desktop machine (I did a 'complete' install when I installed RH8) and started the vnc server on my desktop so: [graeme at barney graeme]$ vncserver New 'X' desktop is barney.localdomain:1 Starting applications specified in /home/graeme/.vnc/xstartup Log file is /home/graeme/.vnc/barney.localdomain:1.log It comes up as above. If I then start vncviewer I am asked for my password etc and get the Xwindow (fullscreen) with the big X mouse pointer but no window manager. xstartup contains the following: [graeme at barney graeme]$ cat .vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh # Red Hat Linux VNC session startup script exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc It doesn't matter if I comment out the exec line above the window I get is always the same (I think it is twm but I'm not sure). If I put a command in xstartup, eg evolution, it doesn't start, just get the Xwindow with the big X mouse pointer. F8 to get the popup works OK in the window but nothing else. If I try from my laptop using the command 'vncviewer -via 192.168.1.2 barney:1' it doesn't work. 192.168.1.2 is the IP address of the laptop. If I try 'vncviewer -via 192.168.1.1 barney:1 it works to the point where it simply stops after entering the password. Hitting 'enter' brings up the message 'couldn't read password' or similar and the terminal prompt re-appears. 192.168.1.1 is the IP address of the desktop. The vnc log file follows: [graeme at barney graeme]$ cat .vnc/barney.localdomain:1.log 30/06/04 14:48:52 Xvnc version 3.3.3r2+tight1.2.2 30/06/04 14:48:52 Copyright (C) AT&T Laboratories Cambridge. 30/06/04 14:48:52 All Rights Reserved. 30/06/04 14:48:52 See http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc for information on VNC 30/06/04 14:48:52 Desktop name 'X' (barney.localdomain:1) 30/06/04 14:48:52 Protocol version supported 3.3 30/06/04 14:48:52 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901 30/06/04 14:48:52 Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5801 30/06/04 14:48:52 URL http://barney.localdomain:5801 gnome-session: you're already running a session manager 30/06/04 14:50:28 Got connection from client 192.168.1.1 30/06/04 14:50:28 Protocol version 3.3 30/06/04 14:50:31 Client 192.168.1.1 gone 30/06/04 14:50:31 Statistics: 30/06/04 14:50:31 framebuffer updates 0, rectangles 0, bytes 0 Any clues? -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols Public Key available from http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/#extract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends! 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URL: -------------- next part -------------- i have two net id's one is 192.168.100.0 other is 10.20.81.0 i want to connect to netmasks using linux router. is this possible i have read about zebra. i should use rip or ospf i have to lan cards in a machine and tried to configure but stil not pinging each other. we have 350 ibm computers in 10.20.81.0 net id and above 100 in 192.168.100.0 net id we want to connect both networks so as we can do net browsing, ftp and telnet each other both are physically connected. we all have cisco catalyst 2950,2950T series switches all are connected we configured zebra and tryied to configure rip and ospf but confused assigning network id to dummy which ? pls tell me step by step what to give dummy or how i should phycially connect wires should i connect straight wire comming from 10.20.81.0 net id to one ethernet port (what ip i should to this? ) and other connect straight wire to second ethernet port ( what ip to assign to this? ) comming from switch of 192.168.100.0 net id help me or any other way to connect two net's thanks ajay senior system network engineer mody college of engineering and technology From kgoodwin at datamarktech.com Wed Jun 30 14:28:32 2004 From: kgoodwin at datamarktech.com (Kenneth Goodwin) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:28:32 -0400 Subject: linux router In-Reply-To: Message-ID: please dont post email's to the list in html format, it's against the rules... >> ----Original Message----- >> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of ajay chaudhary >> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 8:22 AM >> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >> Cc: skc2k4 at yahoo.com S>> ubject: linux router >> i have two net id's >> one is 192.168.100.0 >> other is 10.20.81.0 What Subnet Masks being used on both networks? 10.20.81.0 is not a valid network base address other than /24 which is to small for 350 hosts. 10.20.80.0 is, but has many masks that csan be applied >> i want to connect to netmasks using linux router. is this possible >> i have read about zebra. i should use rip or ospf >> i have to lan cards in a machine and tried to configure but stil not pinging each other. >> we have 350 ibm computers in 10.20.81.0 net id >> and above 100 in 192.168.100.0 net id >> we want to connect both networks so as we can do net browsing, ftp and telnet each other >> both are physically connected. Why the need for two networks? the 10. network addresses could carry the combined total of systems and eliminate the need for the router. It is presumed you have some "security" need for two networks and plan the use the Linux box as a firewall as well. >> we all have cisco catalyst 2950,2950T series switches all are connected 1) The cisco catalysts are all apparently physically in the same location. If all are interconnected to each other, then you need to VLAN the switches to produce at least two logically distinct networks one for the 192.168 and one for 10.20 network. You will also need to setup a TRUNK port(s) on each switch to carry the traffic from both networks on each hub to the next hub in series. The simple alternative to VLANs would be to assign one or more switches to each network, and interconnect only the switches assigned to the same network. >> we configured zebra and tried to configure rip and ospf but confused assigning network id >> to dummy which ? You dont need rip or ospf unless your PC's and servers are listening for rip broadcasts to get routing table updates from the linux box. You can use static routes to do this. You need ROUTED or other router software running to move the packets between the interfaces in the router, but all the linux box needs is a default gateway for the Internet. Theotehr two routes it needs are derived from the ethernet port configurations that it has to the 192 and 10 networks. >> pls tell me step by step what to give dummy or how i should phycially connect wires >> should i connect straight wire comming from 10.20.81.0 net id to one ethernet port (what ip >> i should to this? ) and other connect straight wire to second ethernet port ( what ip to >> >> assign to this? ) comming from switch of 192.168.100.0 net id 1) You setup the hubs to provide two physically distinct networks either by physical separation or VLANS. 2) You assign a free 192.168.100.X address and correct subnet mask to one ethernet card in the router. The same subnet mask (/24 or 255.255.255.0 is the normal shoudl also already be in use on all the PC's on the 192.168.100.0 network. You use a straight ethernet cable to plug the router's ethernet card into a switch port assigned to the 192.168.100 network. 3) You set the default gateway on all the 192.168.100 PC's to be the 192.168.100.X IP address you assigned to the linux router's ethernet card. You can also use rip to broadcast the routing table out (usually ROUTED will also handle this function if ytou set the right flags) but you also have to installed the RIP listener on al, those pC's. Your network is too simple to need rip. 4) You assign a free 10.20.81.X address to the other ethernet card in the linux box and plug it into a port on the switch assigned to the 10. network. (same procedures as 2 and 3, but with different network address and subnet mask) 5) you set the default gateway (or do the RIP setup) on the 10.20.81.X PC's to point to the 10.20.81.X address assigned to the 10. network ethernet card in the linux box. If you are using DHCP, you need to make sure that the DHCP servers are providing the correct gateway and address info to each subnet in your layout. 6) You set the default gateway on the linux box to point to your Internet firewall's inside address which MUST be either a 192.168.100 or 10.20.81.X address. 7)PC's on the network which is directly conencted to the internet firewall should have a secondary gateways etup to be the IP address assigne dto the inside interface of the firewall. The firewall should have a static route address to point traffic destined for the other local network through the linux router. 8) if you dont have a firewall to the internet, the linux box plus a third ethernet interface will do the trick. the third interface gets an ip address on the same subnet as the one provided by the ISP >> help me >> or any other way to connect two net's >> thanks >> ajay >> senior system network engineer One would think you would know all this already by your "title" >> mody college of engineering and technology From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jun 30 17:03:41 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:03:41 -0700 Subject: Evolution problem In-Reply-To: <1088572064.2814.14.camel@barney.localdomain> References: <1088572064.2814.14.camel@barney.localdomain> Message-ID: <40E2F26D.2070405@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > Hello Folks, > > I have a small problem with Evolution 1.0.9-11 on RH8, the version that > RH supplied as a security update for RH8 not long after RH8 was > released. The problem has been around for a long time and I couldn't be > bothered fixing it as updating Evolution is a labourious exercise > involving gnome. > > However, I noticed a curious thing, if I ssh into my desktop machine > from my laptop to run evolution (so as to keep things in one place on > one machine) and I do a search on my inbox the resulting matches > highlight the word searched on in the emails. If I then go to my desktop > machine and do the same the search word is again highlighted but if I > exit Evolution and re-start it and do the search again the search word > is completely missing, no blank space in place of it just a single space > character. This missing highlight is the problem I've had all along and > I simply thought it was a bug in the Evolution version I have. > > The question is: Why does it work when I ssh in from my laptop and why > does it still work when I go back to my desktop machine but NOT after > killing Evolution and re-starting it on the desktop. Anyone have an > answer? Both machines are running RH8 but the version of Evolution > installed on the laptop is the original version from the distribution > CDs, it hasn't had the security fix applied. But that shouldn't make a > difference as when I ssh into my desktop machine to run Evolution on the > laptop I am running the Evolution installed on the desktop, Aren't I? Yes and no. When you ssh in, you get the UID and GID of the person you're SSHing as, but you don't get the environment (ssh doesn't do a "login" unless you set it up do do so in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (the "UseLogin" option). As a result, there are a number of enviroment things that don't get set up the same as if you did an actual login. This may cause Evolution to store it's state info in a totally different spot than it does when you're on the machine locally. So, you ssh in and do your thing and evolution stores its state info somewhere. You log in locally and evolution looks for its state info, doesn't find it and works as it did via ssh. You run it a second time, and _this_ time it DOES find its state info and Poof! Your problem shows up. I'll bet you find that if you do do: su - user-you're-sshing-as and run evolution, THEN get on locally and do it, your problem will show up immediately. Now, just what the problem is, I don't know. I don't use Evolution much, so I can't speak to that. I'm just trying to explain why the thing is behaving the way it does between ssh and local sessions. NOTE: Using the "UseLogin yes" option in /etc/ssh/sshd_config will break X11 forwarding. I recommend using "su - user-you-are-sshing-as" rather than "UseLogin yes" to get the user's enviroment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Wed Jun 30 17:15:05 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:15:05 -0700 Subject: yum update server + Network question. In-Reply-To: <1088573164.2909.33.camel@barney.localdomain> References: <1086839228.1499.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40C88DD7.2030801@vitalstre am.com> <1087019682.1276.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CDCB3B.2000401@ vitalstream.com> <1087278862.1375.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40CF250D .5060005@vitalstream.com> <1087350875.1159.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40D06F15.9060203@vitalstream.com> <1087539584.1886.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40D316E2.1060703@vitalstream.com> <1088573164.2909.33.camel@barney.localdomain> Message-ID: <40E2F519.1020909@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 02:22, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: >> >>>On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 02:02, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Ah. I usually refer to that as "cockpit error" or "a short between >>>>the keyboard and ground". I believe the scientific term is "Huh?" ;-) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Anyway, things are >>>>>lookin' good now! >>>> >>>>Glad to hear it. >>> >>> >>>Hi Rick, just further on the internet access for my laptop, I suppose I >>>could have stuck with ssh and logged into my desktop machine and run Moz >>>or Evo from the desktop machine as that works nicely and it has the >>>benefit of keeping all my emails in the one place on the one machine. >>>Ahhhh, options... options.... ain't Linux luvly. >> >>Take a look at running a VNC server on your desktop and a VNC client on >>your laptop. Your laptop then gives you full GUI access to your >>desktop. This can be tunneled via SSH as well for security. Very cool. > > > Hello Rick, a question on vnc, I had vnc already installed on my desktop > machine (I did a 'complete' install when I installed RH8) and started > the vnc server on my desktop so: > > [graeme at barney graeme]$ vncserver > > New 'X' desktop is barney.localdomain:1 > > Starting applications specified in /home/graeme/.vnc/xstartup > Log file is /home/graeme/.vnc/barney.localdomain:1.log > > > > It comes up as above. If I then start vncviewer I am asked for my > password etc and get the Xwindow (fullscreen) with the big X mouse > pointer but no window manager. xstartup contains the following: > > [graeme at barney graeme]$ cat .vnc/xstartup > #!/bin/sh > > # Red Hat Linux VNC session startup script > exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc > > It doesn't matter if I comment out the exec line above the window I get > is always the same (I think it is twm but I'm not sure). If I put a > command in xstartup, eg evolution, it doesn't start, just get the > Xwindow with the big X mouse pointer. F8 to get the popup works OK in > the window but nothing else. You need to edit your "~/.vnc/xstartup" file ("~" means your home directory) and uncomment the two lines: unset SESSION_MANAGER exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to get the window manager you expect. If you edit that file, you must kill and restart the VNC server: vncserver -kill :1 vncserver as ~/.vnc/xstartup is only read when the VNC server starts. > > If I try from my laptop using the command 'vncviewer -via 192.168.1.2 > barney:1' it doesn't work. 192.168.1.2 is the IP address of the laptop. > If I try 'vncviewer -via 192.168.1.1 barney:1 it works to the point > where it simply stops after entering the password. Hitting 'enter' > brings up the message 'couldn't read password' or similar and the > terminal prompt re-appears. 192.168.1.1 is the IP address of the > desktop. The vnc log file follows: > > [graeme at barney graeme]$ cat .vnc/barney.localdomain:1.log > 30/06/04 14:48:52 Xvnc version 3.3.3r2+tight1.2.2 > 30/06/04 14:48:52 Copyright (C) AT&T Laboratories Cambridge. > 30/06/04 14:48:52 All Rights Reserved. > 30/06/04 14:48:52 See http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc for information > on VNC > 30/06/04 14:48:52 Desktop name 'X' (barney.localdomain:1) > 30/06/04 14:48:52 Protocol version supported 3.3 > 30/06/04 14:48:52 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901 > 30/06/04 14:48:52 Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5801 > 30/06/04 14:48:52 URL http://barney.localdomain:5801 > gnome-session: you're already running a session manager > > 30/06/04 14:50:28 Got connection from client 192.168.1.1 > 30/06/04 14:50:28 Protocol version 3.3 > 30/06/04 14:50:31 Client 192.168.1.1 gone > 30/06/04 14:50:31 Statistics: > 30/06/04 14:50:31 framebuffer updates 0, rectangles 0, bytes 0 The command to use is vncviewer -via ipaddress-of-remote ipaddress-of-remote:1 In your case: vncviewer -via barney barney:1 (assuming 192.168.1.1 is barney). Remember that you're tunneling via the REMOTE machine's SSH, not the local one. As to the password issue, try stopping the VNC server on barney: vncserver -kill :1 then going into your ~/.vnc directory and deleting the "passwd" file there. Then restart the VNC server and it'll ask you for a new password. Remember that when the VNC _client_ asks you for a password, it's THIS password (the one you gave to the VNC server) that it wants. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If you can't beat your computer at chess...try kickboxing! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Wed Jun 30 22:43:22 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:43:22 -0600 (MDT) Subject: makewhatis / updatedb In-Reply-To: <40E1BFAE.1080004@vitalstream.com> References: <14754.198.60.114.90.1088483232.squirrel@198.60.114.90> <40E19ABC.5030200@vitalstream.com> <20040629182631.GA22843@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <40E1BFAE.1080004@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <56349.207.173.117.242.1088635402.squirrel@207.173.117.242> Evil Top-poster here: I actually knew the difference of makewhatis and updatedb at one time... Such trivia (right) leaves my noggin soon after discovering and solving the issue that led to the knowledge. Solution for updatedb running forever: updatedb -f "types" was basically ignored, so I added /mnt to my -e switch. The whole thing took about 5 minutes after fixing that running manually. Thanks Bob, and Rick, even though . . . well, you know. Karl From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Wed Jun 30 22:48:47 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:48:47 -0600 (MDT) Subject: makewhatis / updatedb In-Reply-To: <56349.207.173.117.242.1088635402.squirrel@207.173.117.242> References: <14754.198.60.114.90.1088483232.squirrel@198.60.114.90> <40E19ABC.5030200@vitalstream.com> <20040629182631.GA22843@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <40E1BFAE.1080004@vitalstream.com> <56349.207.173.117.242.1088635402.squirrel@207.173.117.242> Message-ID: <56533.207.173.117.242.1088635727.squirrel@207.173.117.242> [repenting for top-posting] > Evil Top-poster here: > > Solution for updatedb running forever: > > updatedb -f "types" was basically ignored, so I added /mnt to my -e > switch. The whole thing took about 5 minutes after fixing that running > manually. I found that updatedb -f "nfs,NFS" was ignored, too. So adding "/mnt,..." to -e was necessary for it to work quickly and correctly. > > Thanks Bob, and Rick, even though . . . well, you know. > > Karl > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 karlp at ourldsfamily.com Wed Jun 30 22:56:52 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:56:52 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Evolution problem In-Reply-To: <1088572064.2814.14.camel@barney.localdomain> References: <1088572064.2814.14.camel@barney.localdomain> Message-ID: <56711.207.173.117.242.1088636212.squirrel@207.173.117.242> > Hello Folks, > > However, I noticed a curious thing, if I ssh into my desktop machine > from my laptop to run evolution (so as to keep things in one place on > one machine) and I do a search on my inbox the resulting matches > highlight the word searched on in the emails. If I then go to my desktop > machine and do the same the search word is again highlighted but if I > exit Evolution and re-start it and do the search again the search word > is completely missing, no blank space in place of it just a single space > character. This missing highlight is the problem I've had all along and > I simply thought it was a bug in the Evolution version I have. > > The question is: Why does it work when I ssh in from my laptop and why > does it still work when I go back to my desktop machine but NOT after > killing Evolution and re-starting it on the desktop. Anyone have an > answer? Both machines are running RH8 but the version of Evolution > installed on the laptop is the original version from the distribution > CDs, it hasn't had the security fix applied. But that shouldn't make a > difference as when I ssh into my desktop machine to run Evolution on the > laptop I am running the Evolution installed on the desktop, Aren't I? I would suspect it's a font issue. You may have chosen a font that doesn't have a valid reverse/bold/whatever attribute. I've had this type of problem and fixed it by changing the font I use. I apologize for not knowing the actual font I selected, or even where I changed, it, but I noticed the problem went away when I used VNC to run Evolution. In order for VNC not to conflict with my desktop, or mess it up, I run VNC using KDE and locally run Gnome. Try that to verify which does what, if you feel up to it. Karl > > -- > > Kind regards, > > Graeme Nichols > > Public Key available from http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/#extract > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends! > We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside! > There behind the glass there's a real blade of grass, > Be careful as you pass, move along, move along. > Come inside, the show's about to start, > Guaranteed to blow your head apart. > Rest assured, you'll get your money's worth, > Greatest show, in heaven, hell or earth! > You gotta see the show! It's a dynamo! > You gotta see the show! It's rock 'n' roll! > -- ELP, "Karn Evil 9" (1st Impression, Part 2) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - IMPORTANT. - > - The contents of this email and any attachments, which may be con- - > - fidential, are sent for the personal attention of the addressee/s - > - only. 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