From redhat-install-list at universalgrid.nl Sat May 1 05:59:08 2004 From: redhat-install-list at universalgrid.nl (J.L. Coenders) Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 07:59:08 +0200 Subject: Corruption In-Reply-To: <4092CDD2.9060207@vitalstream.com> References: <200404301617.28006.redhat-install-list@universalgrid.nl> <4092A7E1.70708@manordat.demon.co.uk> <4092CDD2.9060207@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <200405010759.08870.redhat-install-list@universalgrid.nl> Rick, Chris, and the rest of this list, I am running ext2, but I think I have already found the problem with the help of another mailinglist, but thanks anyway. The Maxtor diagonistics tool gives no problems, but memtest86 gives two bad addresses, which probably gives me my problem. Jeroen On Saturday 01 May 2004 00:06, Rick Stevens wrote: > Chris Hewitt wrote: > > Rick Stevens wrote: > >> J.L. Coenders wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> Does anyone know how to check for corrupt files/disks, etc.? I have > >>> some issues archiving my Mail directory (see subject: Tar/Zip/Rar > >>> trouble) and am wondering if anyone knows how to check this? > >> > >> There's no way to check for corrupt files because there's no way to > >> know what's supposed to be in the file in the first place. The only > > > > I've not been following this thread so this may have been mentioned > > before (if so I apologise). > > It's not much of a thread, Chris. Just one message before my pithy > (or should that be "pathetic") response. > > > If you are having so much trouble with file > > corruption that you are looking for a way to check for it then there is > > probably something fundermental wrong. I would suggest running fsck > > anyway, but it could be that you disc drive is on the way out. What > > filesystem are you using? ext2/ext3 are pretty robust, but ReiserFS is > > reported to be more liable to corruption that some others. > > Very true. reiserfs is faster than greased owl droppings but you pay > for that with filesystem fragility. Me? I like cast-iron filesystems. > I've spent too many late nights futzing with recoveries. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - 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. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 redhat-install-list at universalgrid.nl Sat May 1 08:09:49 2004 From: redhat-install-list at universalgrid.nl (J.L. Coenders) Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 10:09:49 +0200 Subject: SOLVED: Corruption In-Reply-To: <200405010759.08870.redhat-install-list@universalgrid.nl> References: <200404301617.28006.redhat-install-list@universalgrid.nl> <4092CDD2.9060207@vitalstream.com> <200405010759.08870.redhat-install-list@universalgrid.nl> Message-ID: <200405011009.49915.redhat-install-list@universalgrid.nl> I solved the problems, it was a bad DIMM. I got it out now and: - memtest86 is succesfull - disk diagnostics are succesfull - touch /forcefsck reports no more problems - tarring and gzipping works perfectly for all situations Only problem now is that I have half my RAM ;) Thanks for the help, guys. Jeroen On Saturday 01 May 2004 07:59, J.L. Coenders wrote: > Rick, Chris, and the rest of this list, > > I am running ext2, but I think I have already found the problem with the > help of another mailinglist, but thanks anyway. > > The Maxtor diagonistics tool gives no problems, but memtest86 gives two bad > addresses, which probably gives me my problem. > > Jeroen > > On Saturday 01 May 2004 00:06, Rick Stevens wrote: > > Chris Hewitt wrote: > > > Rick Stevens wrote: > > >> J.L. Coenders wrote: > > >>> Hi, > > >>> Does anyone know how to check for corrupt files/disks, etc.? I have > > >>> some issues archiving my Mail directory (see subject: Tar/Zip/Rar > > >>> trouble) and am wondering if anyone knows how to check this? > > >> > > >> There's no way to check for corrupt files because there's no way to > > >> know what's supposed to be in the file in the first place. The only > > > > > > I've not been following this thread so this may have been mentioned > > > before (if so I apologise). > > > > It's not much of a thread, Chris. Just one message before my pithy > > (or should that be "pathetic") response. > > > > > If you are having so much trouble with file > > > corruption that you are looking for a way to check for it then there is > > > probably something fundermental wrong. I would suggest running fsck > > > anyway, but it could be that you disc drive is on the way out. What > > > filesystem are you using? ext2/ext3 are pretty robust, but ReiserFS is > > > reported to be more liable to corruption that some others. > > > > Very true. reiserfs is faster than greased owl droppings but you pay > > for that with filesystem fragility. Me? I like cast-iron filesystems. > > I've spent too many late nights futzing with recoveries. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - 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. - > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 goijiud at hotmail.com Sat May 1 10:03:09 2004 From: goijiud at hotmail.com (GoijI P) Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 06:03:09 -0400 Subject: xterm path question(problem) Message-ID: local rh9: when in xterm - telneting to a remote solaris/linux host (security is not a problem to me), i loose path settings in remote host to run executables. what is best way to solve this problem?. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page ? FREE download! http://toolbar.msn.com/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/ From g0pae at manordat.demon.co.uk Sat May 1 14:56:12 2004 From: g0pae at manordat.demon.co.uk (Chris Hewitt) Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 15:56:12 +0100 Subject: SOLVED: Corruption References: <200404301617.28006.redhat-install-list@universalgrid.nl> <4092CDD2.9060207@vitalstream.com> <200405010759.08870.redhat-install-list@universalgrid.nl> <200405011009.49915.redhat-install-list@universalgrid.nl> Message-ID: <4093BA8C.8090002@manordat.demon.co.uk> J.L. Coenders wrote: >I solved the problems, it was a bad DIMM. I got it out now and: >- memtest86 is succesfull >- disk diagnostics are succesfull >- touch /forcefsck reports no more problems >- tarring and gzipping works perfectly for all situations > >Only problem now is that I have half my RAM ;) >Thanks for the help, guys. > >Jeroen > I'm down to less ram in a couple of computers too, for the same reason. I feel the stability is worth it though. memtest86 does not have to find much wrong for GNU Linux to become strange. I had one computer with bad ram that simply would not load RH, but ran MS Windows (almost) flawlessly. Glad the problem is sorted. Chris From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Sat May 1 21:04:49 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 16:04:49 -0500 Subject: About Acrobat In-Reply-To: <4092CCD2.3000407@vitalstream.com> References: <409280EA.6040002@manordat.demon.co.uk> <1083344286.6741.8.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> <4092A5CB.3000109@manordat.demon.co.uk> <4092CCD2.3000407@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040501210449.GA2700@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:01:54PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Chris Hewitt wrote: > > > >This is the same issue as the "funny characters in man pages" FAQ > >question in the Unofficial RHIL FAQ at http://www.rhil.net. > >Rick/Jeff/Bob, is this something worth adding to your excellent FAQ do > >you think? > > I suppose. Bob? You wanna handle it? Done and done. Thanks. > >>Also, thank goodness for alternative pdf file viewers like xpdf and > >>others. > >> > >Yes, I was going to mention that there are already pdf viewers. It is > >only necessary to install Acrobat if its extra facilities are needed. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - 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 Too many people saying "Our Father" live as orphans. From goijiud at hotmail.com Sat May 1 22:51:48 2004 From: goijiud at hotmail.com (GoijI P) Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 18:51:48 -0400 Subject: xterm path question(problem) Message-ID: used "xterm -ls". seems to work. there might be better way to do it. > >local rh9: when in xterm - telneting to a remote solaris/linux host >(security is not a problem to me), i loose path settings in remote host to >run executables. what is best way to solve this problem?. > _________________________________________________________________ Getting married? Find tips, tools and the latest trends at MSN Life Events. http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=married From tyche at ica.net Sun May 2 00:39:30 2004 From: tyche at ica.net (tyche) Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 20:39:30 -0400 Subject: write Message-ID: <200405012039.30581.tyche@ica.net> having a bit of a problem with my write setup. as a trial, i sent a mess from one username to another, but didnt think to try to answer. had a ssh login from the internet, and we couldnt pass messages from user to user. was wondering what i have screwed up and where to start looking for the problem any help would be appreciated tyche From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Sun May 2 04:21:14 2004 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 22:21:14 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Login Problem In-Reply-To: <40913CF1.2050100@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > > After installing XFree86 4.4.0 on my FC1 AMD64 beastie from source, I > have a better feel for how the X system (and Gnome) starts up, Brad. > > There's a couple of files that may be causing this. They are: > > /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf > /etc/X11/gdm/Init/Default > /etc/X11/gdm/Init/:0 (a symlink to /etc/X11/xdm/XSetup_0) > /etc/X11/xdm/XSetup_0 > /etc/X11/Xresources > > It's most likely the last one. It should read: > ------------------------------- CUT HERE ------------------------------ > ! This is the global resources file that is loaded when > ! all users log in, as well as for the login screen > > > ! Fix the Xft dpi to 96; this prevents tiny fonts > ! or HUGE fonts depending on the screen size. > Xft.dpi: 96 > > > ! hintstyle: medium means that (for Postscript fonts) we > ! position the stems for maximum constrast and consistency > ! but don't force the stems to integral widths. hintnone, > ! hintslight, and hintfull are the other possibilities. > Xft.hintstyle: hintmedium > Xft.hinting: true > ------------------------------- CUT HERE ------------------------------ > > You may need to recover these from a backup or you can reinstall the > xinitrc, gdm, or gnome-session RPMs via the "rpm -Uvh --force" command. > > I hope that helps. Thanks, I looked at these files - and the last one was exactly like you said it should be. I changed the 96 to 48, saved it and rebooted. No change in the login. I guess I'll play some more. Thanks for all the help. Brad From dany_gates_universal at hotmail.com Sun May 2 12:49:58 2004 From: dany_gates_universal at hotmail.com (Dany Gates) Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 12:49:58 +0000 Subject: want to get some primary queries answered!! Message-ID: hi, i want to know that is it possible to build a OS like Windows (that is with look and feel like Win) using Linux Kernel? If i build any such OS using /on Linux Kernel at core , will that OS has to be Open Source? If yes isn't there any way around it? I mean i have heard that Dynamic Linking solve this problem! Ok so suggest me some links where i can get info for building an OS on Linux Kernel (what do u think abt kernel 2.6 , is it good?). What i want to do is just use linux kernel from open - source and don't want to make any changes to it but build my OS around it, without modifying a bit of kernel, so does that free me from making my OS non open-source?? _________________________________________________________________ Mother?s Day is May 9. Make it special with great ideas from the Mother?s Day Guide! http://special.msn.com/network/04mothersday.armx From fdgrant at powercom.net Sun May 2 18:53:23 2004 From: fdgrant at powercom.net (Fred Grant) Date: 02 May 2004 13:53:23 -0500 Subject: streaming video Message-ID: <1083524003.4266.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Would like to hear from those that have installed software to play the various types of video available on the web. I have rh=9 and mozilla firefox installed. Thanks From jonathan at bakerbates.com Sun May 2 22:13:30 2004 From: jonathan at bakerbates.com (Jonathan Baker-Bates) Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 23:13:30 +0100 Subject: RHEL 3.1 kernel update on RAID shows lilo error Message-ID: I'm running RHEL ES 3.1 i386. The machine has two IDE disks configured as RAID 1 with md (for all partitions, including /boot), which I did using diskdruid during the installation. I chose lilo over grub because when I tried it with grub, the machine would only boot with both disks, while lilo could from just one when I tested it. But now I just ran up2date to get the latest kernel errata, and got this: Installing... 1:kernel-source ########################################### [100%] 2:kernel ########################################### [100%] 3:kernel-smp ########################################### [100%] Error installing lilo.conf The message was: test install of lilo failed up2date's log shows: [Sun May 2 21:33:20 2004] up2date renaming the lilo.conf entry for linux to linux.bak [Sun May 2 21:33:20 2004] up2date making a backup copy of /etc/lilo.conf as /etc/lilo.conf.up2date-1083530000.4200871 [Sun May 2 21:33:20 2004] up2date writing out the new /etc/lilo.conf [Sun May 2 21:33:20 2004] up2date Running " /sbin/lilo -t -r /" (lilo test mode) [Sun May 2 21:33:20 2004] up2date restoring the backup file /etc/lilo.conf.up2date-1083530000.4200871 to /etc/lilo.conf [Sun May 2 21:33:20 2004] up2date Error installing lilo.conf The message was: test install of lilo failed If I try running /sbin/lilo -t -r myself (with -v) I see that there isn't an "-r" switch (according to man lilo anyway). Is this a bug or something? If I try running lilo -t -v it gives no errors though. If I edit lilo.conf by hand and run lilo manually, am I going to be able to reboot OK? The system is now live so I'd rather not find out the hard way... Thanks for any help, Jonathan From bbowler at bigelow.org Mon May 3 12:07:41 2004 From: bbowler at bigelow.org (Bruce Bowler) Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 08:07:41 -0400 Subject: gnome login hangs... Message-ID: <20040503080741.62d3adee.bbowler@bigelow.org> I've done something to my machine but I have no idea what (well, OK, some idea...) The machine is running 8.0 with lots of rpms from 9. About a week ago, I updated a bunch more (see below for the list of what I did last week). Until today, the machine was running fine. I tried to open an item from the redhat menu, one of the "settings" icons, but I don't recall for sure, which one. The machine kept trying to start up nautilus, at one point there were in excess of 50 processes running nautilus. After killing them all, things were "a little wacky", so I logged out and when I tried to log back in, I would get the login screen. It would take my username/password and then display the "mini window" with the redhat logo where, at the bottom of said mini-window, it would normally show the progress of what it was doing with it's silly little icons. - nothing... OK, ssh in from another system, reboot. Same thing when I try and log in. Try again, this time using KDE instead of gnome. All is good, except I don't like KDE. Try again with Wi(n)dowMaker and I get get in fine (but it's not gnome). Try again with gnome, same thing... Try logging in as root with gnome - same thing. nautilus -c results in... [bcb at modis bcb]$ nautilus -c running nautilus_self_check_search_uri running nautilus_self_check_file_utilities running nautilus_self_check_file_operations running nautilus_self_check_directory running nautilus_self_check_file FAIL: check failed in nautilus-file.c, line 5311 evaluated: nautilus_file_get_name (file_1) expected: : got: NULL running nautilus_self_check_icon_container running nautilus_self_check_icon_factory [bcb at modis bcb]$ Enabling debug in gdm produces the following during a login attempt... Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm(pam_unix)[1168]: session opened for user bcb by (uid=0) Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: gdm_slave_wait_for_login: end verify for 'bcb' Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: gdm_slave_wait_for_login: got_login for 'bcb' Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: Sending LOGGED_IN == 1 for slave 1168 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: Sending LOGGED_IN 1168 1 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: Handling message: 'LOGGED_IN 1168 1' Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: Got logged in == TRUE Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: (child 1168) gdm_slave_usr2_handler: :0 got USR2 signal Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: Sending LOGIN == bcb for slave 1168 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: Sending LOGIN 1168 bcb Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: Handling message: 'LOGIN 1168 bcb' Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: Got LOGIN == bcb Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: (child 1168) gdm_slave_usr2_handler: :0 got USR2 signal Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: gdm_slave_session_start: Attempting session for user 'bcb' Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: gdm_slave_session_start: Authentication completed. Whacking greeter Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: Sending GREETPID == 0 for slave 1168 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: Sending GREETPID 1168 0 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: Handling message: 'GREETPID 1168 0' Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: Got GREETPID == 0 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: (child 1168) gdm_slave_usr2_handler: :0 got USR2 signal Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: (child 1168) gdm_slave_child_handler Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: gdm_auth_user_add: Adding cookie for 500 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: gdm_auth_user_add: Using /home/bcb/.Xauthority for cookies Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: gdm_auth_purge: :0 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: gdm_auth_user_add: Done Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: Sending WRITE_X_SERVERS == 0 for slave 1168 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: Sending WRITE_X_SERVERS 1168 0 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: Handling message: 'WRITE_X_SERVERS 1168 0' Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: (child 1168) gdm_slave_usr2_handler: :0 got USR2 signal Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: Sending SESSPID == 1235 for slave 1168 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: Sending SESSPID 1168 1235 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: Handling message: 'SESSPID 1168 1235' Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: Got SESSPID == 1235 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: (child 1168) gdm_slave_usr2_handler: :0 got USR2 signal Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: (child 1235) gdm_slave_child_handler Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1235]: Running '/etc/X11/gdm/Sessions//GNOME' for bcb on :0 Apr 30 15:58:58 modis gconfd (bcb-1302): starting (version 2.2.0), pid 1302 user 'bcb' Apr 30 15:58:58 modis gconfd (bcb-1302): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0 Apr 30 15:58:58 modis gconfd (bcb-1302): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/bcb/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1 Apr 30 15:58:58 modis gconfd (bcb-1302): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2 Apr 30 15:58:59 modis kernel: Crystal 4280/46xx + AC97 Audio, version 1.28.32, 12:48:57 Dec 18 2003 Apr 30 15:58:59 modis kernel: cs46xx: Card found at 0xfaffe000 and 0xfae00000, IRQ 18 Apr 30 15:58:59 modis kernel: cs46xx: Unknown card (1028:0096) at 0xfaffe000/0xfae00000, IRQ 18 Apr 30 15:59:00 modis kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: CRY20 (Cirrus Logic CS4297A rev B) Apr 30 15:59:00 modis modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3 Any thoughts on "what's wrong"? Thanks! Bruce Here's the list of rpms that I've upgraded (warning, there are lots of them, all apparently interrelated and all because I wanted the "latest" version of the galeon browser :-)... arts-1.1-7.i386.rpm arts-devel-1.1-7.i386.rpm bind-9.2.1-16.i386.rpm bind-utils-9.2.1-16.i386.rpm bonobo-activation-2.2.0-4.i386.rpm bonobo-activation-devel-2.2.0-4.i386.rpm cpp-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm cups-libs-1.1.17-13.i386.rpm curl-7.9.8-5.i386.rpm curl-devel-7.9.8-5.i386.rpm cyrus-sasl-2.1.10-4.i386.rpm cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.10-4.i386.rpm epiphany-1.0.8-1.rh90.dag.i386.rpm freetype-2.1.3-6.i386.rpm freetype-devel-2.1.3-6.i386.rpm freetype-utils-2.1.3-6.i386.rpm gcc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm gcc-c++-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm gcc-g77-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm gcc-java-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm gcc-objc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm GConf2-2.2.0-1.i386.rpm GConf2-devel-2.2.0-1.i386.rpm glib2-devel-2.2.1-1.i386.rpm gnome-mime-data-2.2.0-1.i386.rpm gnome-vfs-1.0.5-13.i386.rpm gnome-vfs2-2.2.2-4.i386.rpm gnome-vfs2-devel-2.2.2-4.i386.rpm gtk2-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm gtk2-devel-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm httpd-2.0.40-21.i386.rpm imap-2001a-18.i386.rpm itcl-3.2-88.i386.rpm kdebase-3.1-12.i386.rpm kdelibs-3.1-10.i386.rpm kdelibs-devel-3.1-10.i386.rpm lftp-2.6.3-3.i386.rpm libbonobo-2.2.0-1.i386.rpm libbonobo-devel-2.2.0-1.i386.rpm libbonoboui-2.2.0-1.i386.rpm libbonoboui-devel-2.2.0-1.i386.rpm libesmtp-0.8.12-5.i386.rpm libf2c-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm libgcc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm libgcj-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm libgcj-devel-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm libgnome-2.2.0.1-8.i386.rpm libgnome-devel-2.2.0.1-8.i386.rpm libgnomeui-2.2.0.1-5.i386.rpm libgnomeui-devel-2.2.0.1-5.i386.rpm libobjc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm libstdc++-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm libstdc++-devel-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm libwvstreams-3.70-8.i386.rpm linc-1.0.1-1.i386.rpm linc-devel-1.0.1-1.i386.rpm lynx-2.8.5-11.i386.rpm mod_ssl-2.0.40-21.i386.rpm mozilla-1.6-0.rh90.dag.i386.rpm mozilla-devel-1.6-0.rh90.dag.i386.rpm mozilla-nspr-1.6-0.rh90.dag.i386.rpm mozilla-nspr-devel-1.6-0.rh90.dag.i386.rpm mozilla-nss-1.6-0.rh90.dag.i386.rpm mozilla-nss-devel-1.6-0.rh90.dag.i386.rpm openldap-2.0.27-8.i386.rpm openldap-clients-2.0.27-8.i386.rpm openldap-devel-2.0.27-8.i386.rpm openldap-servers-2.0.27-8.i386.rpm openssh-3.5p1-6.i386.rpm openssh-askpass-3.5p1-6.i386.rpm openssh-askpass-gnome-3.5p1-6.i386.rpm openssh-clients-3.5p1-6.i386.rpm openssh-server-3.5p1-6.i386.rpm openssl096b-0.9.6b-3.i386.rpm openssl-0.9.6b-29.i386.rpm openssl-0.9.7a-2.i386.rpm openssl-devel-0.9.7a-2.i386.rpm openssl-perl-0.9.7a-2.i386.rpm ORBit2-2.6.0-2.i386.rpm ORBit2-devel-2.6.0-2.i386.rpm pango-1.2.1-3.i386.rpm pango-devel-1.2.1-3.i386.rpm php-4.2.2-17.i386.rpm php-imap-4.2.2-17.i386.rpm php-ldap-4.2.2-17.i386.rpm php-manual-4.2.2-17.i386.rpm php-mysql-4.2.2-17.i386.rpm php-odbc-4.2.2-17.i386.rpm php-pgsql-4.2.2-17.i386.rpm pidentd-3.0.14-11.i386.rpm postgresql-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm postgresql-contrib-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm postgresql-devel-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm postgresql-libs-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm postgresql-server-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm postgresql-tcl-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm pyopenssl-0.5.1-8.i386.rpm python-2.2.2-26.i386.rpm python-tools-2.2.2-26.i386.rpm redhat-menus-0.38-1.noarch.rpm samba-2.2.7a-7.9.0.i386.rpm samba-client-2.2.7a-7.9.0.i386.rpm samba-common-2.2.7a-7.9.0.i386.rpm samba-swat-2.2.7a-7.9.0.i386.rpm stunnel-4.04-3.i386.rpm tcpdump-3.7.2-1.i386.rpm tcp_wrappers-7.6-34.i386.rpm tix-8.1.4-88.i386.rpm tkinter-2.2.2-26.i386.rpm wget-1.8.2-9.i386.rpm XFree86-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm XFree86-devel-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm XFree86-libs-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm xfree86-truetype-fonts-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm XFree86-twm-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm XFree86-Xnest-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm -- +-------------------+---------------------------------------------------+ Bruce Bowler | The trouble with facts is that there are so many of 1.207.633.9600 | them. - Samuel McChord Crothers bbowler at bigelow.org | +-------------------+---------------------------------------------------+ From mknecht at controlnet.com Mon May 3 13:52:41 2004 From: mknecht at controlnet.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 06:52:41 -0700 Subject: streaming video In-Reply-To: <1083524003.4266.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1083524003.4266.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <40964EA9.8040505@controlnet.com> Fred Grant wrote: > Would like to hear from those that have installed software to play the > various types of video available on the web. I have rh=9 and mozilla > firefox installed. > > Thanks > mplayer handles much of it. To that I've added Blackdown Java and the Flash stuff from Macromedia. That group gets me to maybe 70% of what my Windows boxes will play, but at least it handles the major data types. From mknecht at controlnet.com Mon May 3 19:36:20 2004 From: mknecht at controlnet.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 12:36:20 -0700 Subject: xdpyinfo | grep RENDER question In-Reply-To: <408FE933.7020405@vitalstream.com> References: <408FE7DD.30406@controlnet.com> <408FE933.7020405@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40969F34.7070902@controlnet.com> Rick Stevens wrote: >> >> Now, running Evolution remotely from Jack2 is fast, but running >> Evolution from Jack1 is slow and I get a message about >> >> Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing >> >> so I assume this is part of the problem, but I don't know if it's the >> X11 server on Jack1 (or Wizard?) or something in my ssh setup. (Or >> something else?) >> >> Any ideas on how I can get Jack1 to see and use (or make available) >> the RENDER option? > > > That looks like a difference in your sshd configurations or possibly > a PATH or other environment setting for user "mark". Note that you > were logged into both Jack1 and Jack2 as "mknecht" when you did the > xdpyinfo commands, and you're going into them as user "mark" via the > ssh connections. Rick, I got an answer to this today. As of openssh 3.8 there is now a new option for 'TrustedX11Forwarding' that allows the local machine to tell the remote machine that it supports the RENDER attribute. I could not find this option in my ssh_config files, but under man ssh ther eis a new option -Y which enables this feature. When I use this option I no longer get the error message Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing and Evolution is displayed just as fast as it used to be under openssh 3.7.1 without the -Y option. The new command line looks like: mknecht at Gentoo2 mknecht $ ssh -X -Y -C -c blowfish -l mark marksmusic.myvnc.comPassword: Last login: Mon May 3 12:10:53 2004 from 199.108.40.170 mark at Wizard mark $ Should we possibly update the ssh tunneling page we did to reflect this change as of openssh-3.8? http://www.rhil.net/docs/ssh_setup.html Cheers, Mark From micros50 at computer.net Mon May 3 19:46:02 2004 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 15:46:02 -0400 Subject: want to get some primary queries answered!! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1083613562.6381.27.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Some desktop environments, such as KDE already capture the look and feel of Windows quite closely. Or you may want to work within a existing desktop environment framework (such as KDE, GNOME, or others) to develop a style that looks very close to windows. Of course proprietary features such as the Windows Logo, and certain other proprietary features that make the Windows desktop what it is will have to be excluded to avoid problems with Microsoft lawyers. I would check the existing desktop environments that are already out there. I am not familiar with them all but I think there are a few which feature styles and themes that make the desktop appearance pretty close to Windows. mylar On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 08:49, Dany Gates wrote: > hi, i want to know that is it possible to build a OS like Windows (that is > with look and feel like Win) using Linux Kernel? If i build any such OS > using /on Linux Kernel at core , will that OS has to be Open Source? If yes > isn't there any way around it? I mean i have heard that Dynamic Linking > solve this problem! Ok so suggest me some links where i can get info for > building an OS on Linux Kernel (what do u think abt kernel 2.6 , is it > good?). > > What i want to do is just use linux kernel from open - source and don't want > to make any changes to it but build my OS around it, without modifying a > bit of kernel, so does that free me from making my OS non open-source?? > > _________________________________________________________________ > Mothers Day is May 9. Make it special with great ideas from the Mothers > Day Guide! http://special.msn.com/network/04mothersday.armx > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon May 3 20:51:42 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 13:51:42 -0700 Subject: xdpyinfo | grep RENDER question In-Reply-To: <40969F34.7070902@controlnet.com> References: <408FE7DD.30406@controlnet.com> <408FE933.7020405@vitalstream.com> <40969F34.7070902@controlnet.com> Message-ID: <4096B0DE.400@vitalstream.com> Mark Knecht wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > >>> >>> Now, running Evolution remotely from Jack2 is fast, but running >>> Evolution from Jack1 is slow and I get a message about >>> >>> Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing >>> >>> so I assume this is part of the problem, but I don't know if it's the >>> X11 server on Jack1 (or Wizard?) or something in my ssh setup. (Or >>> something else?) >>> >>> Any ideas on how I can get Jack1 to see and use (or make >>> available) the RENDER option? >> >> >> >> That looks like a difference in your sshd configurations or possibly >> a PATH or other environment setting for user "mark". Note that you >> were logged into both Jack1 and Jack2 as "mknecht" when you did the >> xdpyinfo commands, and you're going into them as user "mark" via the >> ssh connections. > > > Rick, > I got an answer to this today. As of openssh 3.8 there is now a new > option for 'TrustedX11Forwarding' that allows the local machine to tell > the remote machine that it supports the RENDER attribute. I could not > find this option in my ssh_config files, but under man ssh ther eis a > new option -Y which enables this feature. When I use this option I no > longer get the error message > > Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing Ah! I LOVE it when they introduce something that isn't backwards compatible. > and Evolution is displayed just as fast as it used to be under openssh > 3.7.1 without the -Y option. > > The new command line looks like: > > mknecht at Gentoo2 mknecht $ ssh -X -Y -C -c blowfish -l mark > marksmusic.myvnc.comPassword: > Last login: Mon May 3 12:10:53 2004 from 199.108.40.170 > mark at Wizard mark $ > > Should we possibly update the ssh tunneling page we did to reflect > this change as of openssh-3.8? Absolutely! You don't even need to ask. Will you handle it or do you want me to? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 mknecht at controlnet.com Mon May 3 21:04:06 2004 From: mknecht at controlnet.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 14:04:06 -0700 Subject: xdpyinfo | grep RENDER question In-Reply-To: <4096B0DE.400@vitalstream.com> References: <408FE7DD.30406@controlnet.com> <408FE933.7020405@vitalstream.com> <40969F34.7070902@controlnet.com> <4096B0DE.400@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <4096B3C6.4000702@controlnet.com> Rick Stevens wrote: >> Should we possibly update the ssh tunneling page we did to reflect >> this change as of openssh-3.8? > > > Absolutely! You don't even need to ask. Will you handle it or do you > want me to? Either way. It's probably only a line or two. I don't have access to the server so you or someone else would have to add it, but I'd be happy to write some text. In fact maybe just a note more or less like this: NOTE: Since the release of openssh Ver 3.8 a standard ssh tunnel opened with the command ssh -X -C -c blowfish -l user target-address no longer allows high speed rendering on the remote display. to enable high speed rending on the remote display add the '-Y' option to your command line and shown here: ssh -X -Y -C -c blowfish -l user target-address -Y tells the ssh program that the target-address is a trusted X11 source. Use this option to eliminate the message: Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display "localhost:10:0" As an option there is an option (possibly undocumented at this time) that allows you to place the line ForwardX11Trusted yes in your local /etc/ssh/ssh_config file to tell ssh that all X11 targets are trusted. I don't recommend using it as the -Y option is very easy, but it is there if you need it. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon May 3 21:13:48 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 14:13:48 -0700 Subject: write In-Reply-To: <200405012039.30581.tyche@ica.net> References: <200405012039.30581.tyche@ica.net> Message-ID: <4096B60C.5040804@vitalstream.com> tyche wrote: > having a bit of a problem with my write setup. as a trial, i sent a mess from > one username to another, but didnt think to try to answer. > > had a ssh login from the internet, and we couldnt pass messages from user to > user. was wondering what i have screwed up and where to start looking for the > problem You mean "write" as in the user-to-user messaging thing? Wow! Haven't used that in a while. You may have to use the full "write username terminalname" command if you have one user logged in multiple times, but it works just fine over ssh. Note that the terminal name for the user coming in over the network OR via an xterm will be "pts/NN" with "NN" being some number, e.g. # write rick pts/30 Works for me, locally AND over an ssh connection. Remember, the person answering must also run "write" to do the responses, and one can block "write" from hitting your tty by using "mesg n". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I'm afraid my karma just ran over your dogma - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From tyche at ica.net Mon May 3 21:49:28 2004 From: tyche at ica.net (tyche) Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 17:49:28 -0400 Subject: write In-Reply-To: <4096B60C.5040804@vitalstream.com> References: <200405012039.30581.tyche@ica.net> <4096B60C.5040804@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <200405031749.28836.tyche@ica.net> On Monday 03 May 2004 17:13, Rick Stevens wrote: > tyche wrote: > > having a bit of a problem with my write setup. as a trial, i sent a mess > > from one username to another, but didnt think to try to answer. > > > > had a ssh login from the internet, and we couldnt pass messages from user > > to user. was wondering what i have screwed up and where to start looking > > for the problem > > You mean "write" as in the user-to-user messaging thing? Wow! Haven't > used that in a while. > > You may have to use the full "write username terminalname" command if > you have one user logged in multiple times, but it works just fine over > ssh. Note that the terminal name for the user coming in over the > network OR via an xterm will be "pts/NN" with "NN" being some number, > e.g. > > # write rick pts/30 > > Works for me, locally AND over an ssh connection. > > Remember, the person answering must also run "write" to do the > responses, and one can block "write" from hitting your tty by using > "mesg n". yes that is what i was meaning, and i havent used it in years, why i had asked. apprearently the problem stemmed from NOT using the terminal name. will get that clarified. thanks for the help tyche From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon May 3 22:25:33 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 15:25:33 -0700 Subject: write In-Reply-To: <200405031749.28836.tyche@ica.net> References: <200405012039.30581.tyche@ica.net> <4096B60C.5040804@vitalstream.com> <200405031749.28836.tyche@ica.net> Message-ID: <4096C6DD.8070208@vitalstream.com> tyche wrote: > On Monday 03 May 2004 17:13, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>tyche wrote: >> >>>having a bit of a problem with my write setup. as a trial, i sent a mess >>>from one username to another, but didnt think to try to answer. >>> >>>had a ssh login from the internet, and we couldnt pass messages from user >>>to user. was wondering what i have screwed up and where to start looking >>>for the problem >> >>You mean "write" as in the user-to-user messaging thing? Wow! Haven't >>used that in a while. >> >>You may have to use the full "write username terminalname" command if >>you have one user logged in multiple times, but it works just fine over >>ssh. Note that the terminal name for the user coming in over the >>network OR via an xterm will be "pts/NN" with "NN" being some number, >>e.g. >> >> # write rick pts/30 >> >>Works for me, locally AND over an ssh connection. >> >>Remember, the person answering must also run "write" to do the >>responses, and one can block "write" from hitting your tty by using >>"mesg n". > > > yes that is what i was meaning, and i havent used it in years, why i had > asked. apprearently the problem stemmed from NOT using the terminal name. > will get that clarified. Yes, if you have the same user logged in multiple times you should specify _which_ terminal you want to send the message to. From "man write": If the user you want to write to is logged in on more than one terminal, you can specify which terminal to write to by specifying the terminal name as the second operand to the write command. Alternatively, you can let write select one of the terminals - it will pick the one with the shortest idle time. This is so that if the user is logged in at work and also dialed up from home, the message will go to the right place. That last bit means that the message will go to the terminal that last had any input on it (and is probably the active terminal). In my case, I have about 30 xterms running and all fairly active. Specifying the terminal is fairly critical in my case. Of course, if you MUST get my attention, "wall" is good (write to all terminals--just what happens when reboot issues its "System going down for reboot" message). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 phil at glatz.com Tue May 4 00:27:38 2004 From: phil at glatz.com (Phil Glatz) Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 17:27:38 -0700 Subject: funny characters on man pages Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.2.20040503172403.02ad3f68@127.0.0.1> I have a redhat 7.2 system that is displaying funny characters when displaying man pages on a remote terminal - i.e., with 'man man', I see things like: SYNOPSIS man [??acdfFhkKtwW] [??????path] [??m system] [??p string] [??C config_file] [??M pathlist] [??P pager] [??S section_list] [section] name ... I'm using Secure CRT with VT-100 emulation to access the system remotely. I don't have this problem from the system console. My /etc/man.config is the same as one as I have on a redhat 8 system, which doesn't have this problem. thanks From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue May 4 01:02:11 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 20:02:11 -0500 Subject: funny characters on man pages In-Reply-To: <6.0.3.0.2.20040503172403.02ad3f68@127.0.0.1> References: <6.0.3.0.2.20040503172403.02ad3f68@127.0.0.1> Message-ID: <20040504010211.GA775@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 05:27:38PM -0700, Phil Glatz wrote: > I have a redhat 7.2 system that is displaying funny characters when > displaying man pages on a remote terminal - i.e., with 'man man', I see > things like: > > SYNOPSIS > man [??acdfFhkKtwW] [??????path] [??m system] [??p string] [??C > config_file] > [??M pathlist] [??P pager] [??S section_list] [section] name ... > > I'm using Secure CRT with VT-100 emulation to access the system remotely. > > I don't have this problem from the system console. > > My /etc/man.config is the same as one as I have on a redhat 8 system, which > doesn't have this problem. > > thanks This is usually characteristic of later systems, but see http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#funny_chars Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com A religion that has no impact on your daily life is not much of a religion. From tyche at ica.net Tue May 4 01:15:11 2004 From: tyche at ica.net (tyche) Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 21:15:11 -0400 Subject: write In-Reply-To: <4096C6DD.8070208@vitalstream.com> References: <200405012039.30581.tyche@ica.net> <200405031749.28836.tyche@ica.net> <4096C6DD.8070208@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <200405032115.11487.tyche@ica.net> On Monday 03 May 2004 18:25, Rick Stevens wrote: > tyche wrote: > > On Monday 03 May 2004 17:13, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>tyche wrote: > >>>having a bit of a problem with my write setup. as a trial, i sent a mess > >>>from one username to another, but didnt think to try to answer. > >>> > >>>had a ssh login from the internet, and we couldnt pass messages from > >>> user to user. was wondering what i have screwed up and where to start > >>> looking for the problem > >> > >>You mean "write" as in the user-to-user messaging thing? Wow! Haven't > >>used that in a while. > >> > >>You may have to use the full "write username terminalname" command if > >>you have one user logged in multiple times, but it works just fine over > >>ssh. Note that the terminal name for the user coming in over the > >>network OR via an xterm will be "pts/NN" with "NN" being some number, > >>e.g. > >> > >> # write rick pts/30 > >> > >>Works for me, locally AND over an ssh connection. > >> > >>Remember, the person answering must also run "write" to do the > >>responses, and one can block "write" from hitting your tty by using > >>"mesg n". > > > > yes that is what i was meaning, and i havent used it in years, why i had > > asked. apprearently the problem stemmed from NOT using the terminal name. > > will get that clarified. > > Yes, if you have the same user logged in multiple times you should > specify _which_ terminal you want to send the message to. From > "man write": > > If the user you want to write to is logged in on more than one > terminal, you can specify which terminal to write to by > specifying the terminal name as the second operand to the write > command. Alternatively, you can let write select one of the > terminals - it will pick the one with the shortest idle time. > This is so that if the user is logged in at work and also > dialed up from home, the message will go to the right place. > > That last bit means that the message will go to the terminal that last > had any input on it (and is probably the active terminal). In my case, > I have about 30 xterms running and all fairly active. Specifying the > terminal is fairly critical in my case. Of course, if you MUST get my > attention, "wall" is good (write to all terminals--just what happens > when reboot issues its "System going down for reboot" message). thanks for the info, didnt know that. will keep it in mind tyche From hdeng at microscience.com.cn Tue May 4 02:25:53 2004 From: hdeng at microscience.com.cn (Huan Deng) Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 10:25:53 +0800 Subject: About Hspice Message-ID: hi: When i install Hspice V-2004.03 on RedHat 8.0,there is some error, and the system message is : tixwish :error while loading shared libraries: libtix4.1.8.3.so : cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. What libtix4.1.8.3.so is ?How i find it? Thank you ?? ?? ??????? Huan Deng hdeng at microscience.com.cn 2004-05-04 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: FACE-3.GIF Type: image/gif Size: 842 bytes Desc: not available URL: From markknecht at comcast.net Tue May 4 02:51:10 2004 From: markknecht at comcast.net (Mark Knecht) Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 19:51:10 -0700 Subject: About Hspice In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1083639070.3950.3.camel@marksmusic.myvnc.com> On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 19:25, Huan Deng wrote: > hi: > > When i install Hspice V-2004.03 on RedHat 8.0,there is some error, and the system message is : > > tixwish :error while loading shared libraries: libtix4.1.8.3.so : cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. > > What libtix4.1.8.3.so is ?How i find it? > 20 seconds in Google gets me this far http://fr2.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/redhat/8.0/i386/tix-8.2.0b1-74.i386.html From phil at glatz.com Tue May 4 03:04:09 2004 From: phil at glatz.com (Phil Glatz) Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 20:04:09 -0700 Subject: funny characters on man pages In-Reply-To: <20040504010211.GA775@bobcat.cumbytel.com> References: <6.0.3.0.2.20040503172403.02ad3f68@127.0.0.1> <20040504010211.GA775@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.2.20040503200402.02be9308@127.0.0.1> At 06:02 PM 5/3/2004, you wrote: >This is usually characteristic of later systems, but see > >http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#funny_chars great - thanks! From mroszak2001 at yahoo.com Tue May 4 09:28:24 2004 From: mroszak2001 at yahoo.com (Mikołaj Roszak) Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 02:28:24 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Fred Grant kernel at Red Hat caffe In-Reply-To: <20040503160023.DC48A74402@hormel.redhat.com> Message-ID: <20040504092824.3954.qmail@web40004.mail.yahoo.com> redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com wrote:Send Redhat-install-list mailing list submissions to redhat-install-list at redhat.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com You can reach the person managing the list at redhat-install-list-owner at redhat.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Redhat-install-list digest..." Today's Topics: 1. streaming video (Fred Grant) 2. RHEL 3.1 kernel update on RAID shows lilo error (Jonathan Baker-Bates) 3. gnome login hangs... (Bruce Bowler) 4. Re: streaming video (Mark Knecht) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: 02 May 2004 13:53:23 -0500 From: Fred Grant Subject: streaming video To: "redhat-install-list at redhat.com" Message-ID: <1083524003.4266.2.camel at localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Would like to hear from those that have installed software to play the various types of video available on the web. I have rh=9 and mozilla firefox installed. Thanks ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 23:13:30 +0100 From: "Jonathan Baker-Bates" Subject: RHEL 3.1 kernel update on RAID shows lilo error To: Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" I'm running RHEL ES 3.1 i386. The machine has two IDE disks configured as RAID 1 with md (for all partitions, including /boot), which I did using diskdruid during the installation. I chose lilo over grub because when I tried it with grub, the machine would only boot with both disks, while lilo could from just one when I tested it. But now I just ran up2date to get the latest kernel errata, and got this: Installing... 1:kernel-source ########################################### [100%] 2:kernel ########################################### [100%] 3:kernel-smp ########################################### [100%] Error installing lilo.conf The message was: test install of lilo failed up2date's log shows: [Sun May 2 21:33:20 2004] up2date renaming the lilo.conf entry for linux to linux.bak [Sun May 2 21:33:20 2004] up2date making a backup copy of /etc/lilo.conf as /etc/lilo.conf.up2date-1083530000.4200871 [Sun May 2 21:33:20 2004] up2date writing out the new /etc/lilo.conf [Sun May 2 21:33:20 2004] up2date Running " /sbin/lilo -t -r /" (lilo test mode) [Sun May 2 21:33:20 2004] up2date restoring the backup file /etc/lilo.conf.up2date-1083530000.4200871 to /etc/lilo.conf [Sun May 2 21:33:20 2004] up2date Error installing lilo.conf The message was: test install of lilo failed If I try running /sbin/lilo -t -r myself (with -v) I see that there isn't an "-r" switch (according to man lilo anyway). Is this a bug or something? If I try running lilo -t -v it gives no errors though. If I edit lilo.conf by hand and run lilo manually, am I going to be able to reboot OK? The system is now live so I'd rather not find out the hard way... Thanks for any help, Jonathan ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 08:07:41 -0400 From: Bruce Bowler Subject: gnome login hangs... To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com Message-ID: <20040503080741.62d3adee.bbowler at bigelow.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII I've done something to my machine but I have no idea what (well, OK, some idea...) The machine is running 8.0 with lots of rpms from 9. About a week ago, I updated a bunch more (see below for the list of what I did last week). Until today, the machine was running fine. I tried to open an item from the redhat menu, one of the "settings" icons, but I don't recall for sure, which one. The machine kept trying to start up nautilus, at one point there were in excess of 50 processes running nautilus. After killing them all, things were "a little wacky", so I logged out and when I tried to log back in, I would get the login screen. It would take my username/password and then display the "mini window" with the redhat logo where, at the bottom of said mini-window, it would normally show the progress of what it was doing with it's silly little icons. - nothing... OK, ssh in from another system, reboot. Same thing when I try and log in. Try again, this time using KDE instead of gnome. All is good, except I don't like KDE. Try again with Wi(n)dowMaker and I get get in fine (but it's not gnome). Try again with gnome, same thing... Try logging in as root with gnome - same thing. nautilus -c results in... [bcb at modis bcb]$ nautilus -c running nautilus_self_check_search_uri running nautilus_self_check_file_utilities running nautilus_self_check_file_operations running nautilus_self_check_directory running nautilus_self_check_file FAIL: check failed in nautilus-file.c, line 5311 evaluated: nautilus_file_get_name (file_1) expected: : got: NULL running nautilus_self_check_icon_container running nautilus_self_check_icon_factory [bcb at modis bcb]$ Enabling debug in gdm produces the following during a login attempt... Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm(pam_unix)[1168]: session opened for user bcb by (uid=0) Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: gdm_slave_wait_for_login: end verify for 'bcb' Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: gdm_slave_wait_for_login: got_login for 'bcb' Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: Sending LOGGED_IN == 1 for slave 1168 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: Sending LOGGED_IN 1168 1 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: Handling message: 'LOGGED_IN 1168 1' Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: Got logged in == TRUE Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: (child 1168) gdm_slave_usr2_handler: :0 got USR2 signal Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: Sending LOGIN == bcb for slave 1168 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: Sending LOGIN 1168 bcb Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: Handling message: 'LOGIN 1168 bcb' Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: Got LOGIN == bcb Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: (child 1168) gdm_slave_usr2_handler: :0 got USR2 signal Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: gdm_slave_session_start: Attempting session for user 'bcb' Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: gdm_slave_session_start: Authentication completed. Whacking greeter Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: Sending GREETPID == 0 for slave 1168 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: Sending GREETPID 1168 0 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: Handling message: 'GREETPID 1168 0' Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: Got GREETPID == 0 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: (child 1168) gdm_slave_usr2_handler: :0 got USR2 signal Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: (child 1168) gdm_slave_child_handler Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: gdm_auth_user_add: Adding cookie for 500 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: gdm_auth_user_add: Using /home/bcb/.Xauthority for cookies Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: gdm_auth_purge: :0 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: gdm_auth_user_add: Done Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: Sending WRITE_X_SERVERS == 0 for slave 1168 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: Sending WRITE_X_SERVERS 1168 0 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: Handling message: 'WRITE_X_SERVERS 1168 0' Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: (child 1168) gdm_slave_usr2_handler: :0 got USR2 signal Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: Sending SESSPID == 1235 for slave 1168 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1168]: Sending SESSPID 1168 1235 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: Handling message: 'SESSPID 1168 1235' Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: Got SESSPID == 1235 Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: (child 1168) gdm_slave_usr2_handler: :0 got USR2 signal Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1132]: (child 1235) gdm_slave_child_handler Apr 30 15:58:56 modis gdm[1235]: Running '/etc/X11/gdm/Sessions//GNOME' for bcb on :0 Apr 30 15:58:58 modis gconfd (bcb-1302): starting (version 2.2.0), pid 1302 user 'bcb' Apr 30 15:58:58 modis gconfd (bcb-1302): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0 Apr 30 15:58:58 modis gconfd (bcb-1302): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/bcb/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1 Apr 30 15:58:58 modis gconfd (bcb-1302): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2 Apr 30 15:58:59 modis kernel: Crystal 4280/46xx + AC97 Audio, version 1.28.32, 12:48:57 Dec 18 2003 Apr 30 15:58:59 modis kernel: cs46xx: Card found at 0xfaffe000 and 0xfae00000, IRQ 18 Apr 30 15:58:59 modis kernel: cs46xx: Unknown card (1028:0096) at 0xfaffe000/0xfae00000, IRQ 18 Apr 30 15:59:00 modis kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: CRY20 (Cirrus Logic CS4297A rev B) Apr 30 15:59:00 modis modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3 Any thoughts on "what's wrong"? Thanks! Bruce Here's the list of rpms that I've upgraded (warning, there are lots of them, all apparently interrelated and all because I wanted the "latest" version of the galeon browser :-)... arts-1.1-7.i386.rpm arts-devel-1.1-7.i386.rpm bind-9.2.1-16.i386.rpm bind-utils-9.2.1-16.i386.rpm bonobo-activation-2.2.0-4.i386.rpm bonobo-activation-devel-2.2.0-4.i386.rpm cpp-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm cups-libs-1.1.17-13.i386.rpm curl-7.9.8-5.i386.rpm curl-devel-7.9.8-5.i386.rpm cyrus-sasl-2.1.10-4.i386.rpm cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.10-4.i386.rpm epiphany-1.0.8-1.rh90.dag.i386.rpm freetype-2.1.3-6.i386.rpm freetype-devel-2.1.3-6.i386.rpm freetype-utils-2.1.3-6.i386.rpm gcc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm gcc-c++-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm gcc-g77-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm gcc-java-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm gcc-objc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm GConf2-2.2.0-1.i386.rpm GConf2-devel-2.2.0-1.i386.rpm glib2-devel-2.2.1-1.i386.rpm gnome-mime-data-2.2.0-1.i386.rpm gnome-vfs-1.0.5-13.i386.rpm gnome-vfs2-2.2.2-4.i386.rpm gnome-vfs2-devel-2.2.2-4.i386.rpm gtk2-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm gtk2-devel-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm httpd-2.0.40-21.i386.rpm imap-2001a-18.i386.rpm itcl-3.2-88.i386.rpm kdebase-3.1-12.i386.rpm kdelibs-3.1-10.i386.rpm kdelibs-devel-3.1-10.i386.rpm lftp-2.6.3-3.i386.rpm libbonobo-2.2.0-1.i386.rpm libbonobo-devel-2.2.0-1.i386.rpm libbonoboui-2.2.0-1.i386.rpm libbonoboui-devel-2.2.0-1.i386.rpm libesmtp-0.8.12-5.i386.rpm libf2c-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm libgcc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm libgcj-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm libgcj-devel-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm libgnome-2.2.0.1-8.i386.rpm libgnome-devel-2.2.0.1-8.i386.rpm libgnomeui-2.2.0.1-5.i386.rpm libgnomeui-devel-2.2.0.1-5.i386.rpm libobjc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm libstdc++-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm libstdc++-devel-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm libwvstreams-3.70-8.i386.rpm linc-1.0.1-1.i386.rpm linc-devel-1.0.1-1.i386.rpm lynx-2.8.5-11.i386.rpm mod_ssl-2.0.40-21.i386.rpm mozilla-1.6-0.rh90.dag.i386.rpm mozilla-devel-1.6-0.rh90.dag.i386.rpm mozilla-nspr-1.6-0.rh90.dag.i386.rpm mozilla-nspr-devel-1.6-0.rh90.dag.i386.rpm mozilla-nss-1.6-0.rh90.dag.i386.rpmmozilla-nss-devel-1.6-0.rh90.dag.i386.rpm openldap-2.0.27-8.i386.rpm openldap-clients-2.0.27-8.i386.rpm openldap-devel-2.0.27-8.i386.rpm openldap-servers-2.0.27-8.i386.rpm openssh-3.5p1-6.i386.rpm openssh-askpass-3.5p1-6.i386.rpm openssh-askpass-gnome-3.5p1-6.i386.rpm openssh-clients-3.5p1-6.i386.rpm openssh-server-3.5p1-6.i386.rpm openssl096b-0.9.6b-3.i386.rpm openssl-0.9.6b-29.i386.rpm openssl-0.9.7a-2.i386.rpm openssl-devel-0.9.7a-2.i386.rpm openssl-perl-0.9.7a-2.i386.rpm ORBit2-2.6.0-2.i386.rpm ORBit2-devel-2.6.0-2.i386.rpm pango-1.2.1-3.i386.rpm pango-devel-1.2.1-3.i386.rpm php-4.2.2-17.i386.rpm php-imap-4.2.2-17.i386.rpm php-ldap-4.2.2-17.i386.rpm php-manual-4.2.2-17.i386.rpm php-mysql-4.2.2-17.i386.rpm php-odbc-4.2.2-17.i386.rpm php-pgsql-4.2.2-17.i386.rpm pidentd-3.0.14-11.i386.rpm postgresql-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm postgresql-contrib-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm postgresql-devel-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm postgresql-libs-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm postgresql-server-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm postgresql-tcl-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm pyopenssl-0.5.1-8.i386.rpm python-2.2.2-26.i386.rpm python-tools-2.2.2-26.i386.rpm redhat-menus-0.38-1.noarch.rpm samba-2.2.7a-7.9.0.i386.rpm samba-client-2.2.7a-7.9.0.i386.rpm samba-common-2.2.7a-7.9.0.i386.rpm samba-swat-2.2.7a-7.9.0.i386.rpm stunnel-4.04-3.i386.rpm tcpdump-3.7.2-1.i386.rpm tcp_wrappers-7.6-34.i386.rpm tix-8.1.4-88.i386.rpm tkinter-2.2.2-26.i386.rpm wget-1.8.2-9.i386.rpm XFree86-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm XFree86-devel-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm XFree86-libs-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm xfree86-truetype-fonts-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm XFree86-twm-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm XFree86-Xnest-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm -- +-------------------+---------------------------------------------------+ Bruce Bowler | The trouble with facts is that there are so many of 1.207.633.9600 | them. - Samuel McChord Crothers bbowler at bigelow.org | +-------------------+---------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 06:52:41 -0700 From: Mark Knecht Subject: Re: streaming video To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <40964EA9.8040505 at controlnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Fred Grant wrote: > Would like to hear from those that have installed software to play the > various types of video available on the web. I have rh=9 and mozilla > firefox installed. > > Thanks > mplayer handles much of it. To that I've added Blackdown Java and the Flash stuff from Macromedia. That group gets me to maybe 70% of what my Windows boxes will play, but at least it handles the major data types. ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list End of Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 3, Issue 3 ************************************************* Miko?aj Roszak --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From diogenes at vgernet.net Tue May 4 12:45:17 2004 From: diogenes at vgernet.net (Ralph E. 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Always report errors discovered while surfing the web. ------------------------------------------------------ My favorite saying (from general semantics): It's not that seeing is believing, believing is seeing, and we're much better at believing than we are at seeing. From pmor82 at yahoo.com Tue May 4 17:40:32 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 10:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat 7.2 Message-ID: <20040504174032.71298.qmail@web41009.mail.yahoo.com> Dear Linux experts, I'm a student of the Keiser College in Orlando, FL. We are in the Network Administration Program and we are starting to learn to use Linux, we all have great interest in beocming Linux experts but we encounter a small problem, we can't run the GUI version. Everytime we try to run it, we get an error and can't start it, it says that can't find the monitor, during installation the monitor was auto detected, but the video card wasn't, we have all the specs of the computer but the video card was not listed in the installation list. Since it's a college, they buy the computers by lot from brand manufacturers, in our case, it's IBM's. The book we're using is Thompson Course Technology Linux+ Guide to Linux Certification, and using the free Red Hat Linux 7.2 that comes with it. I suspect that the video card wasnt found because it's an old version of Red Hat on a new computer. I'm wondering if there's a way to add that video card from the linux test mode after installing? A friend and I reinstalled linux many times with full options testing the different video cards made by Intel (since it's a built in Video), spending hours in that but no solution. If needed, our computers are: IBM ThinkCentre 8189-A4U Pentium 4 HT 512ram and well, I'm sure you guys can get teh detailed specs from IBM. We'd appreciate any possible solutions. Pedro R Morales __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue May 4 19:17:07 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 12:17:07 -0700 Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat 7.2 In-Reply-To: <20040504174032.71298.qmail@web41009.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040504174032.71298.qmail@web41009.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4097EC33.5070100@vitalstream.com> Pedro Morales wrote: > Dear Linux experts, > > I'm a student of the Keiser College in Orlando, FL. We > are in the Network Administration Program and we are > starting to learn to use Linux, we all have great > interest in beocming Linux experts but we encounter a > small problem, we can't run the GUI version. > > Everytime we try to run it, we get an error and can't > start it, it says that can't find the monitor, during > installation the monitor was auto detected, but the > video card wasn't, we have all the specs of the > computer but the video card was not listed in the > installation list. Red Hat Linux 7.2 has been dead for a long time. All "free" versions of Red Hat Linux are dead--the last one being Red Hat Linux 9, which Red Hat end-of-lifed April 30 (just three days ago). You can download RH9 from their servers or a mirror and install it. Keep in mind that since it's been EOL'd, it won't be updated by Red Hat any longer. The Fedora Legacy project will continue to update it, but you will have to get your updates from them (up2date will NOT work). > Since it's a college, they buy the computers by lot > from brand manufacturers, in our case, it's IBM's. The > book we're using is Thompson Course Technology Linux+ > Guide to Linux Certification, and using the free Red > Hat Linux 7.2 that comes with it. I suspect that the > video card wasnt found because it's an old version of > Red Hat on a new computer. Exactly. > I'm wondering if there's a way to add that video card > from the linux test mode after installing? A friend > and I reinstalled linux many times with full options > testing the different video cards made by Intel (since > it's a built in Video), spending hours in that but no > solution. It's not trivial. You'd need to build the new driver for the old system. Unless you have some experience, you'll find it difficult. > If needed, our computers are: > IBM ThinkCentre 8189-A4U > Pentium 4 HT > 512ram > > and well, I'm sure you guys can get teh detailed specs > from IBM. > > We'd appreciate any possible solutions. Why don't you download Fedora Core 1 from one of the mirror sites or from the main RedHat site? Fedora Core 1 was going to be Red Hat Linux 10, but Red Hat decided to go the "enterprise" route. The primary Fedora website is http://fedora.redhat.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Memory is the second thing to go, but I can't remember the first! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From wralphie at comcast.net Tue May 4 19:34:41 2004 From: wralphie at comcast.net (jludwig) Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 15:34:41 -0400 Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat 7.2 In-Reply-To: <20040504174032.71298.qmail@web41009.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040504174032.71298.qmail@web41009.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1083699280.4641.89.camel@jMOD.home> On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 13:40, Pedro Morales wrote: > Dear Linux experts, > > I'm a student of the Keiser College in Orlando, FL. We > are in the Network Administration Program and we are > starting to learn to use Linux, we all have great > interest in beocming Linux experts but we encounter a > small problem, we can't run the GUI version. > > Everytime we try to run it, we get an error and can't > start it, it says that can't find the monitor, during > installation the monitor was auto detected, but the > video card wasn't, we have all the specs of the > computer but the video card was not listed in the > installation list. > > Since it's a college, they buy the computers by lot > from brand manufacturers, in our case, it's IBM's. The > book we're using is Thompson Course Technology Linux+ > Guide to Linux Certification, and using the free Red > Hat Linux 7.2 that comes with it. I suspect that the > video card wasnt found because it's an old version of > Red Hat on a new computer. > > I'm wondering if there's a way to add that video card > from the linux test mode after installing? A friend > and I reinstalled linux many times with full options > testing the different video cards made by Intel (since > it's a built in Video), spending hours in that but no > solution. > > If needed, our computers are: > IBM ThinkCentre 8189-A4U > Pentium 4 HT > 512ram > > and well, I'm sure you guys can get teh detailed specs > from IBM. > > We'd appreciate any possible solutions. > > Pedro R Morales > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs > http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe I would suggest downloading the Fedora Core ISO's since RH7.2 is fairly old and will not have drivers for newer hardware on the disks. Not only should this be easier, but the software will be closer to "real world useage". The ISO's can be found at; http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/iso/ and mirror sites which are usually much faster http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html -- jludwig From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue May 4 20:07:51 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 13:07:51 -0700 Subject: xdpyinfo | grep RENDER question In-Reply-To: <4096B3C6.4000702@controlnet.com> References: <408FE7DD.30406@controlnet.com> <408FE933.7020405@vitalstream.com> <40969F34.7070902@controlnet.com> <4096B0DE.400@vitalstream.com> <4096B3C6.4000702@controlnet.com> Message-ID: <4097F817.9010402@vitalstream.com> Mark Knecht wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > >>> Should we possibly update the ssh tunneling page we did to reflect >>> this change as of openssh-3.8? >> >> >> >> Absolutely! You don't even need to ask. Will you handle it or do you >> want me to? > > > Either way. It's probably only a line or two. I don't have access to the > server so you or someone else would have to add it, but I'd be happy to > write some text. In fact maybe just a note more or less like this: > > > > NOTE: Since the release of openssh Ver 3.8 a standard ssh tunnel opened > with the command > > ssh -X -C -c blowfish -l user target-address > > no longer allows high speed rendering on the remote display. to enable > high speed rending on the remote display add the '-Y' option to your > command line and shown here: > > ssh -X -Y -C -c blowfish -l user target-address > > -Y tells the ssh program that the target-address is a trusted X11 source. > > Use this option to eliminate the message: > > Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display "localhost:10:0" > > As an option there is an option (possibly undocumented at this time) > that allows you to place the line > > ForwardX11Trusted yes > > in your local /etc/ssh/ssh_config file to tell ssh that all X11 targets > are trusted. I don't recommend using it as the -Y option is very easy, > but it is there if you need it. I've included similar text into the document as of 1300PDT, 3 May 2004. Thanks for sorting that out, Mark. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mknecht at controlnet.com Tue May 4 20:50:06 2004 From: mknecht at controlnet.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 13:50:06 -0700 Subject: xdpyinfo | grep RENDER question In-Reply-To: <4097F817.9010402@vitalstream.com> References: <408FE7DD.30406@controlnet.com> <408FE933.7020405@vitalstream.com> <40969F34.7070902@controlnet.com> <4096B0DE.400@vitalstream.com> <4096B3C6.4000702@controlnet.com> <4097F817.9010402@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <409801FE.7050400@controlnet.com> Rick Stevens wrote: >> >> ForwardX11Trusted yes >> >> in your local /etc/ssh/ssh_config file to tell ssh that all X11 >> targets are trusted. I don't recommend using it as the -Y option is >> very easy, but it is there if you need it. > > > I've included similar text into the document as of 1300PDT, 3 May 2004. > > Thanks for sorting that out, Mark. Thanks Rick. BTW - Does the ForwardX11Trusted belong in the sshd_config file as you show in the text? I still haven't run across an official description of how to use that. Cheers, Mark From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue May 4 22:07:28 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 15:07:28 -0700 Subject: xdpyinfo | grep RENDER question In-Reply-To: <409801FE.7050400@controlnet.com> References: <408FE7DD.30406@controlnet.com> <408FE933.7020405@vitalstream.com> <40969F34.7070902@controlnet.com> <4096B0DE.400@vitalstream.com> <4096B3C6.4000702@controlnet.com> <4097F817.9010402@vitalstream.com> <409801FE.7050400@controlnet.com> Message-ID: <40981420.5050705@vitalstream.com> Mark Knecht wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > >>> >>> ForwardX11Trusted yes >>> >>> in your local /etc/ssh/ssh_config file to tell ssh that all X11 >>> targets are trusted. I don't recommend using it as the -Y option is >>> very easy, but it is there if you need it. >> >> >> >> I've included similar text into the document as of 1300PDT, 3 May 2004. >> >> Thanks for sorting that out, Mark. > > > Thanks Rick. > > BTW - Does the ForwardX11Trusted belong in the sshd_config file as you > show in the text? I still haven't run across an official description of > how to use that. Either sshd_config or sshd2_config, depending on your loyalties. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To iterate is human, to recurse, divine. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mknecht at controlnet.com Tue May 4 22:24:13 2004 From: mknecht at controlnet.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 15:24:13 -0700 Subject: xdpyinfo | grep RENDER question In-Reply-To: <40981420.5050705@vitalstream.com> References: <408FE7DD.30406@controlnet.com> <408FE933.7020405@vitalstream.com> <40969F34.7070902@controlnet.com> <4096B0DE.400@vitalstream.com> <4096B3C6.4000702@controlnet.com> <4097F817.9010402@vitalstream.com> <409801FE.7050400@controlnet.com> <40981420.5050705@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <4098180D.6090106@controlnet.com> Rick Stevens wrote: >> BTW - Does the ForwardX11Trusted belong in the sshd_config file as you >> show in the text? I still haven't run across an official description >> of how to use that. > > > Either sshd_config or sshd2_config, depending on your loyalties. I ran across this though: http://www.zevils.com/cgi-bin/man/man2html?ssh_config+5 Somehow it makes more logical sense to me that it would go in ssh_config as it is telling the system what I want to do when I start an ssh session (ala -Y on the command line) instead of sshd_config that says how I want the system to react when someone trys to contact me. Maybe I'm confused though. I certainly dont have any answers. Guess I could just try them both, couldn't I??? ;-) From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue May 4 22:31:26 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 15:31:26 -0700 Subject: xdpyinfo | grep RENDER question In-Reply-To: <4098180D.6090106@controlnet.com> References: <408FE7DD.30406@controlnet.com> <408FE933.7020405@vitalstream.com> <40969F34.7070902@controlnet.com> <4096B0DE.400@vitalstream.com> <4096B3C6.4000702@controlnet.com> <4097F817.9010402@vitalstream.com> <409801FE.7050400@controlnet.com> <40981420.5050705@vitalstream.com> <4098180D.6090106@controlnet.com> Message-ID: <409819BE.4090902@vitalstream.com> Mark Knecht wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > >>> BTW - Does the ForwardX11Trusted belong in the sshd_config file as >>> you show in the text? I still haven't run across an official >>> description of how to use that. >> >> >> >> Either sshd_config or sshd2_config, depending on your loyalties. > > > I ran across this though: > > http://www.zevils.com/cgi-bin/man/man2html?ssh_config+5 > > Somehow it makes more logical sense to me that it would go in ssh_config > as it is telling the system what I want to do when I start an ssh > session (ala -Y on the command line) instead of sshd_config that says > how I want the system to react when someone trys to contact me. > > Maybe I'm confused though. I certainly dont have any answers. Guess I > could just try them both, couldn't I??? ;-) That would make sense. Since it's not documented, my guess is that it can go in either place, with sshd_config being the defaults and able to be overridden by what's in ~/.ssh_config on a user-by-user basis. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue May 4 22:45:47 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 17:45:47 -0500 Subject: xdpyinfo | grep RENDER question In-Reply-To: <409819BE.4090902@vitalstream.com> References: <408FE7DD.30406@controlnet.com> <408FE933.7020405@vitalstream.com> <40969F34.7070902@controlnet.com> <4096B0DE.400@vitalstream.com> <4096B3C6.4000702@controlnet.com> <4097F817.9010402@vitalstream.com> <409801FE.7050400@controlnet.com> <40981420.5050705@vitalstream.com> <4098180D.6090106@controlnet.com> <409819BE.4090902@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040504224547.GA9653@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 03:31:26PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > >Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >>>BTW - Does the ForwardX11Trusted belong in the sshd_config file as > >>>you show in the text? I still haven't run across an official > >>>description of how to use that. > >> > >> > >> > >>Either sshd_config or sshd2_config, depending on your loyalties. > > > > > >I ran across this though: > > > >http://www.zevils.com/cgi-bin/man/man2html?ssh_config+5 > > > >Somehow it makes more logical sense to me that it would go in ssh_config > >as it is telling the system what I want to do when I start an ssh > >session (ala -Y on the command line) instead of sshd_config that says > >how I want the system to react when someone trys to contact me. > > > >Maybe I'm confused though. I certainly dont have any answers. Guess I > >could just try them both, couldn't I??? ;-) > > That would make sense. Since it's not documented, my guess is that it > can go in either place, with sshd_config being the defaults and able to > be overridden by what's in ~/.ssh_config on a user-by-user basis. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - My understanding is that sshd_config configures the ssh daemon, while ssh_config configures the client, e.g. "ssh somehost", on a system-wide basis. Or did I answer the wrong question? :-) Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com A religion that has no impact on your daily life is not much of a religion. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 5 01:15:45 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 18:15:45 -0700 Subject: xdpyinfo | grep RENDER question In-Reply-To: <20040504224547.GA9653@bobcat.cumbytel.com> References: <408FE7DD.30406@controlnet.com> <408FE933.7020405@vitalstream.com> <40969F34.7070902@controlnet.com> <4096B0DE.400@vitalstream.com> <4096B3C6.4000702@controlnet.com> <4097F817.9010402@vitalstream.com> <409801FE.7050400@controlnet.com> <40981420.5050705@vitalstream.com> <4098180D.6090106@controlnet.com> <409819BE.4090902@vitalstream.com> <20040504224547.GA9653@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Message-ID: <40984041.4020207@vitalstream.com> Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 03:31:26PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>>Rick Stevens wrote: >>> >>> >>>>>BTW - Does the ForwardX11Trusted belong in the sshd_config file as >>>>>you show in the text? I still haven't run across an official >>>>>description of how to use that. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>Either sshd_config or sshd2_config, depending on your loyalties. >>> >>> >>>I ran across this though: >>> >>>http://www.zevils.com/cgi-bin/man/man2html?ssh_config+5 >>> >>>Somehow it makes more logical sense to me that it would go in ssh_config >>>as it is telling the system what I want to do when I start an ssh >>>session (ala -Y on the command line) instead of sshd_config that says >>>how I want the system to react when someone trys to contact me. >>> >>>Maybe I'm confused though. I certainly dont have any answers. Guess I >>>could just try them both, couldn't I??? ;-) >> >>That would make sense. Since it's not documented, my guess is that it >>can go in either place, with sshd_config being the defaults and able to >>be overridden by what's in ~/.ssh_config on a user-by-user basis. > > My understanding is that sshd_config configures the ssh daemon, while > ssh_config configures the client, e.g. "ssh somehost", on a > system-wide basis. > > Or did I answer the wrong question? :-) No, you're right. I'm having a brain flameout today. It goes in ssh_config or ~/.ssh_config. I'm changing the document now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - When in doubt, mumble. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gnichols at tpg.com.au Wed May 5 02:52:55 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 05 May 2004 12:52:55 +1000 Subject: ADSL usb modems In-Reply-To: <4092860E.90203@vitalstream.com> References: <3E5BBEA5.8000905@vitalstream.com> <1082871109.1722.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <408D39B2.3070108@vitalstream.com> <1083304919.1498.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4092860E.90203@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1083724486.1391.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 02:59, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 02:32, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > > > > >>There are some ADSL modems that work fine with Linux and some that > >>don't, just as there are some winmodems that work and others that won't. > >>Keep in mind that this is not just a Red Hat issue--it's a general Linux > >>issue with manufacturers not helping an open source solution. > > > > > > Do you have the names of those usb ADSL modems that DO work with Linux, > > or point me in the right direction to find out? > > > > I am a bit disappointed to learn that there are not only 'gutless' > > dial-up modems out there but 'gutless' ADSL modems as well. The way > > things are going, the next time one buys a new car the engine and drive > > train will need to be supplied by the 'driver' :-) > > http://www.linux-usb.org/ is the list of USB stuff. I don't know if > they have USB cable or DSL modems, but you can check. Hello Rick, they didn't have all that much. I finished up buying a Billion BIPAC-5100 ADSL Modem/Router and a Dolphin PCI 6003 Ethernet 10/100Mbps Ultra Power Series nic. As well as the Windows logo it has Tux as well on the box. Amongst all the bulleted features it claims is the following: 'Supports the widest range of drivers for common network systems such as Novell, IBM, Windows, SCO Unix and Linux.' So, it should be OK. The router was the Editor's Choice in an APC magazine article on such devices last February so I fully expect it to function OK. The freebie ADSL usb moden supplied by the ISP is a D-Link DSL 200 and according to the D-Link web site only supports Windows (only Windows drivers available) so it is akin to a 'winmodem' The article I mentioned above strongly suggested to avoid ADSL usb modems as they "suck CPU power; they don't always co-exist peacefully with other usb devices; they need special drivers for each operating system; and they are incompatible with some motherboard chipsets and BIOS firmware. Ethernet has none of these disadvantages." One last question, Have you, or any one else, had any feedback on Dolphin nics? The vendor, Dick Smith Electronics, claim they have never had any complaints. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was brought to you by Linux, the free unix. Windows without the X is like making love without a partner. 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The way > > things are going, the next time one buys a new car the engine and drive > > train will need to be supplied by the 'driver' :-) > > http://www.linux-usb.org/ is the list of USB stuff. I don't know if > they have USB cable or DSL modems, but you can check. Sorry Rick, one other dumb question; What do they mean when they talk about ADSL operating in 'bridged' mode? -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was brought to you by Linux, the free unix. Windows without the X is like making love without a partner. 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The way > >things are going, the next time one buys a new car the engine and drive > >train will need to be supplied by the 'driver' :-) > > > If you don't mind spending a bit of money, you could look at getting a > ethernet router/modem instead of a usb modem. The difference is that the > router/modem does all the ADSL stuff for you and you simply talk to it > from an ethernet card like any other computer on a new network. It also > gives you a firewall with port forwarding, NAT etc. I bought the Alcatel > SpeedTouch 510 ethernet router/modem (which has a web interface for > setting up) and have been _very_ pleased with it. Hello Chris, thank you for the info. Your advice seems sound so I finished up getting a Billion BIPAC 5100 ADSL Modem/Router and a Dolphin nic. See the reply of mine to Rick. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was brought to you by Linux, the free unix. 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Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From markknecht at comcast.net Wed May 5 04:12:18 2004 From: markknecht at comcast.net (Mark Knecht) Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 21:12:18 -0700 Subject: xdpyinfo | grep RENDER question In-Reply-To: <40984041.4020207@vitalstream.com> References: <408FE7DD.30406@controlnet.com> <408FE933.7020405@vitalstream.com> <40969F34.7070902@controlnet.com> <4096B0DE.400@vitalstream.com> <4096B3C6.4000702@controlnet.com> <4097F817.9010402@vitalstream.com> <409801FE.7050400@controlnet.com> <40981420.5050705@vitalstream.com> <4098180D.6090106@controlnet.com> <409819BE.4090902@vitalstream.com> <20040504224547.GA9653@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <40984041.4020207@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1083730338.3440.0.camel@marksmusic.myvnc.com> On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 18:15, Rick Stevens wrote: > Bob McClure Jr wrote: > > On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 03:31:26PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >>Mark Knecht wrote: > >> > >>>Rick Stevens wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>>BTW - Does the ForwardX11Trusted belong in the sshd_config file as > >>>>>you show in the text? I still haven't run across an official > >>>>>description of how to use that. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>Either sshd_config or sshd2_config, depending on your loyalties. > >>> > >>> > >>>I ran across this though: > >>> > >>>http://www.zevils.com/cgi-bin/man/man2html?ssh_config+5 > >>> > >>>Somehow it makes more logical sense to me that it would go in ssh_config > >>>as it is telling the system what I want to do when I start an ssh > >>>session (ala -Y on the command line) instead of sshd_config that says > >>>how I want the system to react when someone trys to contact me. > >>> > >>>Maybe I'm confused though. I certainly dont have any answers. Guess I > >>>could just try them both, couldn't I??? ;-) > >> > >>That would make sense. Since it's not documented, my guess is that it > >>can go in either place, with sshd_config being the defaults and able to > >>be overridden by what's in ~/.ssh_config on a user-by-user basis. > > > > My understanding is that sshd_config configures the ssh daemon, while > > ssh_config configures the client, e.g. "ssh somehost", on a > > system-wide basis. > > > > Or did I answer the wrong question? :-) > > No, you're right. I'm having a brain flameout today. It goes in > ssh_config or ~/.ssh_config. I'm changing the document now. Cool. Thanks. From micros50 at computer.net Wed May 5 03:27:00 2004 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 23:27:00 -0400 Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat 7.2 In-Reply-To: <4097EC33.5070100@vitalstream.com> References: <20040504174032.71298.qmail@web41009.mail.yahoo.com> <4097EC33.5070100@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1083727620.6151.20.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> I had the same problem. A while ago I tried to install redhat 7.1 on a new Dell machine with an onboard Intel graphics card. The installation went smooth but I couldn't run X because the drivers were not available in the 7.1 distro. I managed to download the drivers but I still had to upgrade the kernel and XFree86. Then i still couldn't get the drivers to compile until I analyzed the error messages and fixed the driver source code (a problem with function arguments), and made a patch. Fortunatelly I have enough experience to allow me to do this. Finally I got them to compile and I got the video to work. But ultimately it was all for naught, a week later I installed Fedora which already had all the drivers needed to run the newer machine. In any event, these are some of the problems you run into when installing a older distro on a new machine. mylar On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 15:17, Rick Stevens wrote: > Pedro Morales wrote: > > Dear Linux experts, > > > > I'm a student of the Keiser College in Orlando, FL. We > > are in the Network Administration Program and we are > > starting to learn to use Linux, we all have great > > interest in beocming Linux experts but we encounter a > > small problem, we can't run the GUI version. > > > > Everytime we try to run it, we get an error and can't > > start it, it says that can't find the monitor, during > > installation the monitor was auto detected, but the > > video card wasn't, we have all the specs of the > > computer but the video card was not listed in the > > installation list. > > Red Hat Linux 7.2 has been dead for a long time. All "free" versions > of Red Hat Linux are dead--the last one being Red Hat Linux 9, which > Red Hat end-of-lifed April 30 (just three days ago). > > You can download RH9 from their servers or a mirror and install it. > Keep in mind that since it's been EOL'd, it won't be updated by Red Hat > any longer. The Fedora Legacy project will continue to update it, but > you will have to get your updates from them (up2date will NOT work). > > > Since it's a college, they buy the computers by lot > > from brand manufacturers, in our case, it's IBM's. The > > book we're using is Thompson Course Technology Linux+ > > Guide to Linux Certification, and using the free Red > > Hat Linux 7.2 that comes with it. I suspect that the > > video card wasnt found because it's an old version of > > Red Hat on a new computer. > > Exactly. > > > I'm wondering if there's a way to add that video card > > from the linux test mode after installing? A friend > > and I reinstalled linux many times with full options > > testing the different video cards made by Intel (since > > it's a built in Video), spending hours in that but no > > solution. > > It's not trivial. You'd need to build the new driver for the old > system. Unless you have some experience, you'll find it difficult. > > > If needed, our computers are: > > IBM ThinkCentre 8189-A4U > > Pentium 4 HT > > 512ram > > > > and well, I'm sure you guys can get teh detailed specs > > from IBM. > > > > We'd appreciate any possible solutions. > > Why don't you download Fedora Core 1 from one of the mirror sites or > from the main RedHat site? Fedora Core 1 was going to be Red Hat Linux > 10, but Red Hat decided to go the "enterprise" route. > > The primary Fedora website is http://fedora.redhat.com. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Memory is the second thing to go, but I can't remember the first! - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe From praksp at yahoo.com Wed May 5 06:11:05 2004 From: praksp at yahoo.com (Prakash) Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 23:11:05 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Antivirus on Linux! In-Reply-To: <1083730338.3440.0.camel@marksmusic.myvnc.com> Message-ID: <20040505061105.26619.qmail@web41511.mail.yahoo.com> I remember there has been some traffic about antivirus on linux. Has anybody tried the LinuxShield(RC)antivirus on linux from McAfee? This product is grat and supports many linux distributions. Thanks, Prakash __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover From admin at tootai.net Wed May 5 07:29:51 2004 From: admin at tootai.net (administrator tootai) Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 09:29:51 +0200 Subject: ADSL usb modems In-Reply-To: <1083726285.1391.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <3E5BBEA5.8000905@vitalstream.com> <1082871109.1722.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <408D39B2.3070108@vitalstream.com> <1083304919.1498.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4092860E.90203@vitalstream.com> <1083726285.1391.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <409897EF.8040007@tootai.net> Graeme Nichols a ?crit : >On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 02:59, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: >> >> >>>On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 02:32, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>There are some ADSL modems that work fine with Linux and some that >>>>don't, just as there are some winmodems that work and others that won't. >>>>Keep in mind that this is not just a Red Hat issue--it's a general Linux >>>>issue with manufacturers not helping an open source solution. >>>> >>>> >>>Do you have the names of those usb ADSL modems that DO work with Linux, >>>or point me in the right direction to find out? >>> >>>I am a bit disappointed to learn that there are not only 'gutless' >>>dial-up modems out there but 'gutless' ADSL modems as well. The way >>>things are going, the next time one buys a new car the engine and drive >>>train will need to be supplied by the 'driver' :-) >>> >>> >>http://www.linux-usb.org/ is the list of USB stuff. I don't know if >>they have USB cable or DSL modems, but you can check. >> >> > >Sorry Rick, one other dumb question; What do they mean when they talk >about ADSL operating in 'bridged' mode? > > Bridge mode made the modem working as ... a modem, without all features inside (firewall, DMZ, DHCP, ...) It means that the box on which he is connected (eg your linux router/firewall) has to do all the staff (connection, firewall, routing ...) as the modem act only as modem. I find this feature more stable than when modem is doing all the stuff. And also, firewall included in those modems are poor (generelly only 20 rules UDP and TCP can be open) And you can't say you want to desactivate this features (in some planets one you can) I tested USB modems, ethernet modem but preference is PCI card modem. You do what you want. But this is true only if you already have your linux box setted as router/firewall. And of course, it's my opinion ;-) -- Daniel From pmor82 at yahoo.com Wed May 5 12:16:49 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 05:16:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat 7.2 In-Reply-To: <4097EC33.5070100@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040505121649.82363.qmail@web41011.mail.yahoo.com> I downloaded the 3 cd's from the mirror and burned them to use them at class, but since we're just starting we found no way to get the installation working, I was hoping for an autorun from the cdrom boot (the cdrom is set up as first boot device) but it didn't, it went straight to the linux7.2 that we're having problems with. Do I have to download any extra files from the mirror for the boot sequence to happen? Thanks --- Rick Stevens wrote: > Pedro Morales wrote: > > Dear Linux experts, > > > > I'm a student of the Keiser College in Orlando, > FL. We > > are in the Network Administration Program and we > are > > starting to learn to use Linux, we all have great > > interest in beocming Linux experts but we > encounter a > > small problem, we can't run the GUI version. > > > > Everytime we try to run it, we get an error and > can't > > start it, it says that can't find the monitor, > during > > installation the monitor was auto detected, but > the > > video card wasn't, we have all the specs of the > > computer but the video card was not listed in the > > installation list. > > Red Hat Linux 7.2 has been dead for a long time. > All "free" versions > of Red Hat Linux are dead--the last one being Red > Hat Linux 9, which > Red Hat end-of-lifed April 30 (just three days ago). > > You can download RH9 from their servers or a mirror > and install it. > Keep in mind that since it's been EOL'd, it won't be > updated by Red Hat > any longer. The Fedora Legacy project will continue > to update it, but > you will have to get your updates from them (up2date > will NOT work). > > > Since it's a college, they buy the computers by > lot > > from brand manufacturers, in our case, it's IBM's. > The > > book we're using is Thompson Course Technology > Linux+ > > Guide to Linux Certification, and using the free > Red > > Hat Linux 7.2 that comes with it. I suspect that > the > > video card wasnt found because it's an old version > of > > Red Hat on a new computer. > > Exactly. > > > I'm wondering if there's a way to add that video > card > > from the linux test mode after installing? A > friend > > and I reinstalled linux many times with full > options > > testing the different video cards made by Intel > (since > > it's a built in Video), spending hours in that but > no > > solution. > > It's not trivial. You'd need to build the new > driver for the old > system. Unless you have some experience, you'll > find it difficult. > > > If needed, our computers are: > > IBM ThinkCentre 8189-A4U > > Pentium 4 HT > > 512ram > > > > and well, I'm sure you guys can get teh detailed > specs > > from IBM. > > > > We'd appreciate any possible solutions. > > Why don't you download Fedora Core 1 from one of the > mirror sites or > from the main RedHat site? Fedora Core 1 was going > to be Red Hat Linux > 10, but Red Hat decided to go the "enterprise" > route. > > The primary Fedora website is > http://fedora.redhat.com. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer > rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. > http://www.vitalstream.com - > - > - > - Memory is the second thing to go, but I can't > remember the first! - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover From wralphie at comcast.net Wed May 5 12:47:00 2004 From: wralphie at comcast.net (jludwig) Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 08:47:00 -0400 Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat 7.2 In-Reply-To: <20040505121649.82363.qmail@web41011.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040505121649.82363.qmail@web41011.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1083761220.3227.36.camel@jMOD.home> On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 08:16, Pedro Morales wrote: > I downloaded the 3 cd's from the mirror and burned > them to use them at class, but since we're just > starting we found no way to get the installation > working, I was hoping for an autorun from the cdrom > boot (the cdrom is set up as first boot device) but it > didn't, it went straight to the linux7.2 that we're > having problems with. > > Do I have to download any extra files from the mirror > for the boot sequence to happen? > > Thanks If they are FC1 disks the first CD is bootable. Set the system BIOS to boot from the cdrom drive and you should be good to go. jludwig From pmor82 at yahoo.com Wed May 5 13:20:20 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 06:20:20 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat 7.2 In-Reply-To: <1083761220.3227.36.camel@jMOD.home> Message-ID: <20040505132020.78379.qmail@web41015.mail.yahoo.com> --- jludwig wrote: > On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 08:16, Pedro Morales wrote: > > I downloaded the 3 cd's from the mirror and burned > > them to use them at class, but since we're just > > starting we found no way to get the installation > > working, I was hoping for an autorun from the > cdrom > > boot (the cdrom is set up as first boot device) > but it > > didn't, it went straight to the linux7.2 that > we're > > having problems with. > > > > Do I have to download any extra files from the > mirror > > for the boot sequence to happen? > > > > Thanks > If they are FC1 disks the first CD is bootable. Set > the system BIOS to > boot from the cdrom drive and you should be good to > go. FC1? I downloaded from one of the mirror ftp's, i386 ones, cd1, 2 and 3, bios is set up to boot from cd and is not reading cd1 as bootable. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover From azyle at integrity-software.com Wed May 5 14:31:35 2004 From: azyle at integrity-software.com (Algis Zyle) Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 10:31:35 -0400 Subject: Recover Corrupt /dev Message-ID: <000f01c432ad$acaf7f10$1945a8c0@algiszyledell> Redhat Admin Newbie, Any help would be appreciated: We're Running Redhat 9 1) A colleague of mine intended on doing a backup and by accident re-directed the output to /dev/rt0 (a file) instead of st0..eventually people complained they couldn't print, etc..It turns out that it filled up the file system...before we found this out, we had rebooted and did a fschk (not knowing the real problem yet).Anyway,eventually deleted the rt0 file..but. Xwindows wouldn't come up (Couldn't open the /dev/ device)., Networking stopped working.I couldn't access the tape drive or cdrom anymore (/dev/st0, /dev/hdc) even though they existed in the dev directory...I went into rescue mode and at least made a backup etc..How can I fix the /dev directory and/or anything else that may have went south by the file system getting full without re-installing Redhat.(Again, I'm not a hard core Redhat Admin).. Thanks, al -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wralphie at comcast.net Wed May 5 14:49:01 2004 From: wralphie at comcast.net (jludwig) Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 10:49:01 -0400 Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat 7.2 In-Reply-To: <20040505132020.78379.qmail@web41015.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040505132020.78379.qmail@web41015.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1083768541.3227.52.camel@jMOD.home> On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 09:20, Pedro Morales wrote: > --- jludwig wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 08:16, Pedro Morales wrote: > > > I downloaded the 3 cd's from the mirror and burned > > > them to use them at class, but since we're just > > > starting we found no way to get the installation > > > working, I was hoping for an autorun from the > > cdrom > > > boot (the cdrom is set up as first boot device) > > but it > > > didn't, it went straight to the linux7.2 that > > we're > > > having problems with. > > > > > > Do I have to download any extra files from the > > mirror > > > for the boot sequence to happen? > > > > > > Thanks > > If they are FC1 disks the first CD is bootable. Set > > the system BIOS to > > boot from the cdrom drive and you should be good to > > go. > > FC1? I downloaded from one of the mirror ftp's, i386 > ones, cd1, 2 and 3, bios is set up to boot from cd and > is not reading cd1 as bootable. > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs > http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe Does the CD have a directory structure or is it a single file? If it is a single file it has been incorrectly burned. -- jludwig From wralphie at comcast.net Wed May 5 15:22:19 2004 From: wralphie at comcast.net (jludwig) Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 11:22:19 -0400 Subject: Recover Corrupt /dev In-Reply-To: <000f01c432ad$acaf7f10$1945a8c0@algiszyledell> References: <000f01c432ad$acaf7f10$1945a8c0@algiszyledell> Message-ID: <1083770539.3227.63.camel@jMOD.home> On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 10:31, Algis Zyle wrote: > Redhat Admin Newbie, Any help would be appreciated: We?re Running > Redhat 9 > > > > 1) A colleague of mine intended on doing a backup and by > accident re-directed the output to /dev/rt0 (a file) instead of > st0?.eventually people complained they couldn?t print, etc?.It turns > out that it filled up the file system?..before we found this out, we > had rebooted and did a fschk (not knowing the real problem > yet)?Anyway,eventually deleted the rt0 file??but? Xwindows wouldn?t > come up (Couldn?t open the /dev/ device)?, Networking stopped > working?I couldn?t access the tape drive or cdrom anymore (/dev/st0, > /dev/hdc) even though they existed in the dev directory?..I went into > rescue mode and at least made a backup etc?.How can I fix the /dev > directory and/or anything else that may have went south by the file > system getting full without re-installing Redhat?(Again, I?m not a > hard core Redhat Admin)?. snip If this is a server, I suspect that you probably have separate partitions for /var /usr /home etc. You should check, especially /var/spool, to see if they are also filled with garbage files. If you have a /var partition that is filled X and many other programs and such will not work. -- jludwig From azyle at integrity-software.com Wed May 5 15:35:26 2004 From: azyle at integrity-software.com (Algis Zyle) Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 11:35:26 -0400 Subject: Recover Corrupt /dev In-Reply-To: <1083770539.3227.63.camel@jMOD.home> Message-ID: <002901c432b6$97b896b0$1945a8c0@algiszyledell> Checked that, Every other partition is at 50% or less filled...which is what makes this so bizarre...and why it sounds like a "configuration" file of sorts got corrupted....and Everything points to /dev items (even the X error message says "can't open /dev/xxxx"...for example in Rescue mode....I made a back up with the default rescue /dev/st0 device....For laughs I then tried to do a cpio using the Old Device (/mnt/sysimage/dev/st0)....And it Worked !!! -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of jludwig Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:22 AM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: Recover Corrupt /dev On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 10:31, Algis Zyle wrote: > Redhat Admin Newbie, Any help would be appreciated: We're Running > Redhat 9 > > > > 1) A colleague of mine intended on doing a backup and by > accident re-directed the output to /dev/rt0 (a file) instead of > st0..eventually people complained they couldn't print, etc..It turns > out that it filled up the file system...before we found this out, we > had rebooted and did a fschk (not knowing the real problem > yet).Anyway,eventually deleted the rt0 file..but. Xwindows wouldn't > come up (Couldn't open the /dev/ device)., Networking stopped > working.I couldn't access the tape drive or cdrom anymore (/dev/st0, > /dev/hdc) even though they existed in the dev directory...I went into > rescue mode and at least made a backup etc..How can I fix the /dev > directory and/or anything else that may have went south by the file > system getting full without re-installing Redhat.(Again, I'm not a > hard core Redhat Admin).. snip If this is a server, I suspect that you probably have separate partitions for /var /usr /home etc. You should check, especially /var/spool, to see if they are also filled with garbage files. If you have a /var partition that is filled X and many other programs and such will not work. -- jludwig _______________________________________________ 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 chrisczerwinski at cogeco.ca Wed May 5 16:02:40 2004 From: chrisczerwinski at cogeco.ca (Chris A Czerwinski) Date: 05 May 2004 12:02:40 -0400 Subject: Antivirus on Linux! In-Reply-To: <20040505061105.26619.qmail@web41511.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040505061105.26619.qmail@web41511.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1083772959.2113.2.camel@redhat90> and you omitted to say that the initial release only applies to the server platform/level Chris Cz On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 02:11, Prakash wrote: > I remember there has been some traffic about antivirus on > linux. > Has anybody tried the LinuxShield(RC)antivirus on linux > from McAfee? This product is grat and supports many linux > distributions. > > Thanks, > Prakash From pmor82 at yahoo.com Wed May 5 16:01:53 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 09:01:53 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat 7.2 In-Reply-To: <1083768541.3227.52.camel@jMOD.home> Message-ID: <20040505160153.78715.qmail@web41004.mail.yahoo.com> --- jludwig wrote: > On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 09:20, Pedro Morales wrote: > > --- jludwig wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 08:16, Pedro Morales > wrote: > > > > I downloaded the 3 cd's from the mirror and > burned > > > > them to use them at class, but since we're > just > > > > starting we found no way to get the > installation > > > > working, I was hoping for an autorun from the > > > cdrom > > > > boot (the cdrom is set up as first boot > device) > > > but it > > > > didn't, it went straight to the linux7.2 that > > > we're > > > > having problems with. > > > > > > > > Do I have to download any extra files from the > > > mirror > > > > for the boot sequence to happen? > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > If they are FC1 disks the first CD is bootable. > Set > > > the system BIOS to > > > boot from the cdrom drive and you should be good > to > > > go. > > > > FC1? I downloaded from one of the mirror ftp's, > i386 > > ones, cd1, 2 and 3, bios is set up to boot from cd > and > > is not reading cd1 as bootable. > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs > > > http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > Does the CD have a directory structure or is it a > single file? > If it is a single file it has been incorrectly > burned. > -- > jludwig the cd1 has: in green: autorun eula.txt GPL readme readme-acessbility release -notes release -notes.html 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 Trans.tbl in blue dosutils fedora images isolinux did I download the wrong iso or is it missing the boot file? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover From micros50 at computer.net Wed May 5 16:17:48 2004 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 12:17:48 -0400 Subject: Recover Corrupt /dev In-Reply-To: <000f01c432ad$acaf7f10$1945a8c0@algiszyledell> References: <000f01c432ad$acaf7f10$1945a8c0@algiszyledell> Message-ID: <1083773867.6151.35.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Check your system for any filesystems that might be 100% used. "df" will give you this info. Special device /dev files can be created using "mknod". "$ man mknod" for the details. mylar On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 10:31, Algis Zyle wrote: > Redhat Admin Newbie, Any help would be appreciated: We???re Running > Redhat 9 > > > > 1) A colleague of mine intended on doing a backup and by > accident re-directed the output to /dev/rt0 (a file) instead of > st0???.eventually people complained they couldn???t print, etc???.It turns > out that it filled up the file system???..before we found this out, we > had rebooted and did a fschk (not knowing the real problem > yet)???Anyway,eventually deleted the rt0 file??????but??? Xwindows wouldn???t > come up (Couldn???t open the /dev/ device)???, Networking stopped > working???I couldn???t access the tape drive or cdrom anymore (/dev/st0, > /dev/hdc) even though they existed in the dev directory???..I went into > rescue mode and at least made a backup etc???.How can I fix the /dev > directory and/or anything else that may have went south by the file > system getting full without re-installing Redhat???(Again, I???m not a > hard core Redhat Admin)???. > > > > Thanks, > > al > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > 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 May 5 16:48:23 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 09:48:23 -0700 Subject: ADSL usb modems In-Reply-To: <1083724486.1391.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <3E5BBEA5.8000905@vitalstream.com> <1082871109.1722.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <408D39B2.3070108@vitalstream.com> <1083304919.1498.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4092860E.90203@vitalstream.com> <1083724486.1391.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <40991AD7.40707@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 02:59, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: >> >>>On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 02:32, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>There are some ADSL modems that work fine with Linux and some that >>>>don't, just as there are some winmodems that work and others that won't. >>>>Keep in mind that this is not just a Red Hat issue--it's a general Linux >>>>issue with manufacturers not helping an open source solution. >>> >>> >>>Do you have the names of those usb ADSL modems that DO work with Linux, >>>or point me in the right direction to find out? >>> >>>I am a bit disappointed to learn that there are not only 'gutless' >>>dial-up modems out there but 'gutless' ADSL modems as well. The way >>>things are going, the next time one buys a new car the engine and drive >>>train will need to be supplied by the 'driver' :-) >> >>http://www.linux-usb.org/ is the list of USB stuff. I don't know if >>they have USB cable or DSL modems, but you can check. > > > Hello Rick, they didn't have all that much. I finished up buying a > Billion BIPAC-5100 ADSL Modem/Router and a Dolphin PCI 6003 Ethernet > 10/100Mbps Ultra Power Series nic. As well as the Windows logo it has > Tux as well on the box. Amongst all the bulleted features it claims is > the following: 'Supports the widest range of drivers for common network > systems such as Novell, IBM, Windows, SCO Unix and Linux.' So, it should > be OK. That's fine. In my experience the most compatible (and stable) set up is a stand-alone modem (cable, ADSL, whatever) with an ethernet port, a separate router/firewall (I use D-Link units, but Linksys and others are good except for Belkin), and either WiFi or hard-wired ethernet. NEVER use Belkin firewalls or routers. After that last debacle where the firmware would periodically "steal" one of your connections and route you to an advertising site, I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw their corporate office building. B*stards! > The router was the Editor's Choice in an APC magazine article on such > devices last February so I fully expect it to function OK. I'm not familiar with that make (Billion), but if APC says it's good, then I'd feel fairly comfortable. I don't use DSL myself (I use cable modem--I'm too far from the central office for DSL to be worth it), so any comments I make would be anecdotal at best. > The freebie ADSL usb moden supplied by the ISP is a D-Link DSL 200 and > according to the D-Link web site only supports Windows (only Windows > drivers available) so it is akin to a 'winmodem' Yup. I have several friends at D-Link and I'm trying to get them to start supporting things on open source more. The problem is that the makers of the chipsets they use (Texas Instruments being the worst offender) supply the drivers to D-Link in binary form so not even they can play with them without reverse-engineering them. > The article I mentioned above strongly suggested to avoid ADSL usb > modems as they "suck CPU power; they don't always co-exist peacefully > with other usb devices; they need special drivers for each operating > system; and they are incompatible with some motherboard chipsets and > BIOS firmware. Ethernet has none of these disadvantages." This isn't always true. It depends on how the thing is made. If it depends totally on the USB bus to power it (like a FLASH stick), then yes the power concerns are big. Due to the processing they do, they can hang the USB bus at times, too. As far as I'm concerned, I only use USB for the things it was really intended for...connecting storage devices and HID. I don't use it for networking. > One last question, Have you, or any one else, had any feedback on > Dolphin nics? The vendor, Dick Smith Electronics, claim they have never > had any complaints. It rather depends on the chipset used on the card. If it's a "name brand" (3Com, Intel, DEC, etc.) you should be OK. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - A day for firm decisions!!! Well, then again, maybe not! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 5 16:52:50 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 09:52:50 -0700 Subject: ADSL usb modems In-Reply-To: <1083726285.1391.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <3E5BBEA5.8000905@vitalstream.com> <1082871109.1722.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <408D39B2.3070108@vitalstream.com> <1083304919.1498.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4092860E.90203@vitalstream.com> <1083726285.1391.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <40991BE2.2020106@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 02:59, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: >> >>>On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 02:32, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>There are some ADSL modems that work fine with Linux and some that >>>>don't, just as there are some winmodems that work and others that won't. >>>>Keep in mind that this is not just a Red Hat issue--it's a general Linux >>>>issue with manufacturers not helping an open source solution. >>> >>> >>>Do you have the names of those usb ADSL modems that DO work with Linux, >>>or point me in the right direction to find out? >>> >>>I am a bit disappointed to learn that there are not only 'gutless' >>>dial-up modems out there but 'gutless' ADSL modems as well. The way >>>things are going, the next time one buys a new car the engine and drive >>>train will need to be supplied by the 'driver' :-) >> >>http://www.linux-usb.org/ is the list of USB stuff. I don't know if >>they have USB cable or DSL modems, but you can check. > > > Sorry Rick, one other dumb question; What do they mean when they talk > about ADSL operating in 'bridged' mode? That's usually an indication that you can turn off the routing and firewall bits inside the modem and it becomes simply a network bridge. By that I mean it converts from one network media type to another, e.g. USB-to-ethernet or USB-to-ADSL or ethernet-to-ADSL. In the old days, we used bridges a lot to convert between 10Base-2 (thinwire, RG58/U coax) to 10Base-5 (thickwire) to 10Base-T (the RJ45-style wiring now used). Bridges have no routing or firewalling smarts to them--they just convert media. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Fear is finding a ".vbs" script in your Inbox - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 5 16:56:14 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 09:56:14 -0700 Subject: Antivirus on Linux! In-Reply-To: <1083772959.2113.2.camel@redhat90> References: <20040505061105.26619.qmail@web41511.mail.yahoo.com> <1083772959.2113.2.camel@redhat90> Message-ID: <40991CAE.8070901@vitalstream.com> Chris A Czerwinski wrote: > and you omitted to say that the initial release only applies to the > server platform/level That's true. Can you bottom-post in the future, Chris? We'd appreciate it. > On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 02:11, Prakash wrote: > >>I remember there has been some traffic about antivirus on >>linux. >>Has anybody tried the LinuxShield(RC)antivirus on linux >>from McAfee? This product is grat and supports many linux >>distributions. Very limited as it only supports certain releases and kernels. I prefer clamAV for general scanning and clamAV-milter for screening mail. On local delivery, I like Bogofilter for anti-spam, although spam-assassin is good, too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If Windows isn't a virus, then it sure as hell is a carrier! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 5 17:04:09 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 10:04:09 -0700 Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat 7.2 In-Reply-To: <20040505160153.78715.qmail@web41004.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040505160153.78715.qmail@web41004.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40991E89.9010202@vitalstream.com> Pedro Morales wrote: > --- jludwig wrote: > >>On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 09:20, Pedro Morales wrote: >> >>>--- jludwig wrote: >>> >>>>On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 08:16, Pedro Morales >> >>wrote: >> >>>>>I downloaded the 3 cd's from the mirror and >> >>burned >> >>>>>them to use them at class, but since we're >> >>just >> >>>>>starting we found no way to get the >> >>installation >> >>>>>working, I was hoping for an autorun from the >>>> >>>>cdrom >>>> >>>>>boot (the cdrom is set up as first boot >> >>device) >> >>>>but it >>>> >>>>>didn't, it went straight to the linux7.2 that >>>> >>>>we're >>>> >>>>>having problems with. >>>>> >>>>>Do I have to download any extra files from the >>>> >>>>mirror >>>> >>>>>for the boot sequence to happen? >>>>> >>>>>Thanks >>>> >>>>If they are FC1 disks the first CD is bootable. >> >>Set >> >>>>the system BIOS to >>>>boot from the cdrom drive and you should be good >> >>to >> >>>>go. >>> >>>FC1? I downloaded from one of the mirror ftp's, >> >>i386 >> >>>ones, cd1, 2 and 3, bios is set up to boot from cd >> >>and >> >>>is not reading cd1 as bootable. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>__________________________________ >>>Do you Yahoo!? >>>Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs >>> >> >>http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover >> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>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 >> >>Does the CD have a directory structure or is it a >>single file? >>If it is a single file it has been incorrectly >>burned. >>-- >>jludwig > > > the cd1 has: > in green: > autorun > eula.txt > GPL > readme > readme-acessbility > release -notes > release -notes.html > 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 > Trans.tbl > > in blue > dosutils > fedora > images > isolinux > > did I download the wrong iso or is it missing the boot > file? Pedro, You simply need to download the 3 Fedora .iso files (called "yarrow-i386-discN.iso" and use them to burn the CDs. When you burn the CDs, you must select the "Burn CD from ISO image" option. Since I don't know which program you're using to burn with, I can't be more specific. There are instructions for some programs at: http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#making_cds The secret is that, if you mount the CD under Windows or some other OS, you should see a bunch of files, not just one and the first CD will be bootable. If you see just one, you burned the CD incorrectly. Good luck. Let us know if we can help more. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 May 5 17:13:13 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 10:13:13 -0700 Subject: Recover Corrupt /dev In-Reply-To: <002901c432b6$97b896b0$1945a8c0@algiszyledell> References: <002901c432b6$97b896b0$1945a8c0@algiszyledell> Message-ID: <409920A9.4030103@vitalstream.com> Algis Zyle wrote: > Checked that, Every other partition is at 50% or less filled...which is > what makes this so bizarre...and why it sounds like a "configuration" > file of sorts got corrupted....and Everything points to /dev items (even > the X error message says "can't open /dev/xxxx"...for example in Rescue > mode....I made a back up with the default rescue /dev/st0 device....For > laughs I then tried to do a cpio using the Old Device > (/mnt/sysimage/dev/st0)....And it Worked !!! Please bottom post in the future. If /dev is truly corrupted, you're in trouble. It would help a lot if you can be more specific about which devices aren't working or the ones that X is complaining about ("/dev/xxxx" doesn't cut it). If you have an adequate backup, you can try to reinstall the "dev" RPM which can be found on the first CD of your distribution. You'll need to "rpm -Uvh --force" to get it to install. I won't guarantee success, but you're kinda dead anyway. If it works, rename the host to "frankenstein", as you've brought it back from the dead. ;-) > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of jludwig > Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:22 AM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: Recover Corrupt /dev > > On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 10:31, Algis Zyle wrote: > >>Redhat Admin Newbie, Any help would be appreciated: We're Running >>Redhat 9 >> >> >> >>1) A colleague of mine intended on doing a backup and by >>accident re-directed the output to /dev/rt0 (a file) instead of >>st0..eventually people complained they couldn't print, etc..It turns >>out that it filled up the file system...before we found this out, we >>had rebooted and did a fschk (not knowing the real problem >>yet).Anyway,eventually deleted the rt0 file..but. Xwindows wouldn't >>come up (Couldn't open the /dev/ device)., Networking stopped >>working.I couldn't access the tape drive or cdrom anymore (/dev/st0, >>/dev/hdc) even though they existed in the dev directory...I went into >>rescue mode and at least made a backup etc..How can I fix the /dev >>directory and/or anything else that may have went south by the file >>system getting full without re-installing Redhat.(Again, I'm not a >>hard core Redhat Admin).. > > snip > If this is a server, I suspect that you probably have separate > partitions for /var /usr /home etc. You should check, especially > /var/spool, to see if they are also filled with garbage files. If you > have a /var partition that is filled X and many other programs and such > will not work. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 azyle at integrity-software.com Wed May 5 17:35:22 2004 From: azyle at integrity-software.com (Algis Zyle) Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 13:35:22 -0400 Subject: Recover Corrupt /dev In-Reply-To: <409920A9.4030103@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <003d01c432c7$58de9780$1945a8c0@algiszyledell> Thanks....Sorry about the xxxx,more specific in the future... I just know it was a device in /dev....My question thought....When I boot the machine, It does mount the Hard Drives fine...(aren't those in /dev also ??)...and my modem works via Hylafax (/dev/ttys1) if I do a file on st0 it says it's a special file and looks ok... After I boot in rescue mode.....I can use the old /dev/st0 item (/mnt/sysimage/dev/st0) and cpio works fine....Doesn't that prove that it isn't in fact corrupted ?? -----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, May 05, 2004 1:13 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: Recover Corrupt /dev Algis Zyle wrote: > Checked that, Every other partition is at 50% or less filled...which is > what makes this so bizarre...and why it sounds like a "configuration" > file of sorts got corrupted....and Everything points to /dev items (even > the X error message says "can't open /dev/xxxx"...for example in Rescue > mode....I made a back up with the default rescue /dev/st0 device....For > laughs I then tried to do a cpio using the Old Device > (/mnt/sysimage/dev/st0)....And it Worked !!! Please bottom post in the future. If /dev is truly corrupted, you're in trouble. It would help a lot if you can be more specific about which devices aren't working or the ones that X is complaining about ("/dev/xxxx" doesn't cut it). If you have an adequate backup, you can try to reinstall the "dev" RPM which can be found on the first CD of your distribution. You'll need to "rpm -Uvh --force" to get it to install. I won't guarantee success, but you're kinda dead anyway. If it works, rename the host to "frankenstein", as you've brought it back from the dead. ;-) > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of jludwig > Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:22 AM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: Recover Corrupt /dev > > On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 10:31, Algis Zyle wrote: > >>Redhat Admin Newbie, Any help would be appreciated: We're Running >>Redhat 9 >> >> >> >>1) A colleague of mine intended on doing a backup and by >>accident re-directed the output to /dev/rt0 (a file) instead of >>st0..eventually people complained they couldn't print, etc..It turns >>out that it filled up the file system...before we found this out, we >>had rebooted and did a fschk (not knowing the real problem >>yet).Anyway,eventually deleted the rt0 file..but. Xwindows wouldn't >>come up (Couldn't open the /dev/ device)., Networking stopped >>working.I couldn't access the tape drive or cdrom anymore (/dev/st0, >>/dev/hdc) even though they existed in the dev directory...I went into >>rescue mode and at least made a backup etc..How can I fix the /dev >>directory and/or anything else that may have went south by the file >>system getting full without re-installing Redhat.(Again, I'm not a >>hard core Redhat Admin).. > > snip > If this is a server, I suspect that you probably have separate > partitions for /var /usr /home etc. You should check, especially > /var/spool, to see if they are also filled with garbage files. If you > have a /var partition that is filled X and many other programs and such > will not work. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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 wralphie at comcast.net Wed May 5 17:50:12 2004 From: wralphie at comcast.net (jludwig) Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 13:50:12 -0400 Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat 7.2 In-Reply-To: <20040505160153.78715.qmail@web41004.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040505160153.78715.qmail@web41004.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1083779411.3227.91.camel@jMOD.home> On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 12:01, Pedro Morales wrote: snip > the cd1 has: > in green: > autorun > eula.txt > GPL > readme > readme-acessbility > release -notes > release -notes.html > 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 > Trans.tbl > > in blue > dosutils > fedora > images > isolinux > > did I download the wrong iso or is it missing the boot > file? snip This is a correct burn. Now the question is this yarrow* (Fedora Core 1 --FC1) or Fedora core 2. FC2 has errors that won't allow it to boot on some systems. It is also a beta test core for the gurus and grungy beasties to play with. -- jludwig From wralphie at comcast.net Wed May 5 17:56:59 2004 From: wralphie at comcast.net (jludwig) Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 13:56:59 -0400 Subject: Recover Corrupt /dev In-Reply-To: <1083773867.6151.35.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> References: <000f01c432ad$acaf7f10$1945a8c0@algiszyledell> <1083773867.6151.35.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Message-ID: <1083779819.3227.95.camel@jMOD.home> On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 12:17, mylar wrote: > Check your system for any filesystems that might be 100% used. "df" will > give you this info. > > Special device /dev files can be created using "mknod". "$ man mknod" > for the details. > > mylar > > snip > ribe Also check the kernel source documentation for how the nodes are assigned. -- jludwig From pmor82 at yahoo.com Wed May 5 18:13:45 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 11:13:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat 7.2 In-Reply-To: <40991E89.9010202@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040505181345.26029.qmail@web41001.mail.yahoo.com> --- Rick Stevens wrote: > Pedro Morales wrote: > > --- jludwig wrote: > > > >>On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 09:20, Pedro Morales wrote: > >> > >>>--- jludwig wrote: > >>> > >>>>On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 08:16, Pedro Morales > >> > >>wrote: > >> > >>>>>I downloaded the 3 cd's from the mirror and > >> > >>burned > >> > >>>>>them to use them at class, but since we're > >> > >>just > >> > >>>>>starting we found no way to get the > >> > >>installation > >> > >>>>>working, I was hoping for an autorun from the > >>>> > >>>>cdrom > >>>> > >>>>>boot (the cdrom is set up as first boot > >> > >>device) > >> > >>>>but it > >>>> > >>>>>didn't, it went straight to the linux7.2 that > >>>> > >>>>we're > >>>> > >>>>>having problems with. > >>>>> > >>>>>Do I have to download any extra files from the > >>>> > >>>>mirror > >>>> > >>>>>for the boot sequence to happen? > >>>>> > >>>>>Thanks > >>>> > >>>>If they are FC1 disks the first CD is bootable. > >> > >>Set > >> > >>>>the system BIOS to > >>>>boot from the cdrom drive and you should be good > >> > >>to > >> > >>>>go. > >>> > >>>FC1? I downloaded from one of the mirror ftp's, > >> > >>i386 > >> > >>>ones, cd1, 2 and 3, bios is set up to boot from > cd > >> > >>and > >> > >>>is not reading cd1 as bootable. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>__________________________________ > >>>Do you Yahoo!? > >>>Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs > >>> > >> > >>http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover > >> > >>> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>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 > >> > >>Does the CD have a directory structure or is it a > >>single file? > >>If it is a single file it has been incorrectly > >>burned. > >>-- > >>jludwig > > > > > > the cd1 has: > > in green: > > autorun > > eula.txt > > GPL > > readme > > readme-acessbility > > release -notes > > release -notes.html > > 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 > > Trans.tbl > > > > in blue > > dosutils > > fedora > > images > > isolinux > > > > did I download the wrong iso or is it missing the > boot > > file? > > Pedro, > > You simply need to download the 3 Fedora .iso files > (called > "yarrow-i386-discN.iso" and use them to burn the > CDs. When you burn the > CDs, you must select the "Burn CD from ISO image" > option. Since I don't > know which program you're using to burn with, I > can't be more specific. > There are instructions for some programs at: > > http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#making_cds > > The secret is that, if you mount the CD under > Windows or some other OS, > you should see a bunch of files, not just one and > the first CD will be > bootable. If you see just one, you burned the CD > incorrectly. > > Good luck. Let us know if we can help more. I did Rick, I'll download it again just in case. >This is a correct burn. Now the question is this >yarrow* (Fedora Core 1 >--FC1) or Fedora core 2. >FC2 has errors that won't allow it to boot on some >systems. It is also a beta test core for the gurus >and grungy beasties to play with. >-- >jludwig it's FC1 I tried removing the HD as boot, only leaving cdrom alone, and it couldnt find a boot or o/s in any of the three cd's. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 5 22:24:16 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 15:24:16 -0700 Subject: Recover Corrupt /dev In-Reply-To: <003d01c432c7$58de9780$1945a8c0@algiszyledell> References: <003d01c432c7$58de9780$1945a8c0@algiszyledell> Message-ID: <40996990.6090509@vitalstream.com> Algis Zyle wrote: > Thanks....Sorry about the xxxx,more specific in the future... I just > know it was a device in /dev....My question thought....When I boot the > machine, It does mount the Hard Drives fine...(aren't those in /dev also > ??)...and my modem works via Hylafax (/dev/ttys1) if I do a file on st0 > it says it's a special file and looks ok... > > After I boot in rescue mode.....I can use the old /dev/st0 item > (/mnt/sysimage/dev/st0) and cpio works fine....Doesn't that prove that > it isn't in fact corrupted ?? Yes, but you should also check permissions Look at the full path to /mnt/sysimage/dev/st0 and verify that it's the same when you boot normally. And PLEASE bottom post (reply AFTER what you are replying to). > > -----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, May 05, 2004 1:13 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: Recover Corrupt /dev > > Algis Zyle wrote: > >>Checked that, Every other partition is at 50% or less filled...which > > is > >>what makes this so bizarre...and why it sounds like a "configuration" >>file of sorts got corrupted....and Everything points to /dev items > > (even > >>the X error message says "can't open /dev/xxxx"...for example in > > Rescue > >>mode....I made a back up with the default rescue /dev/st0 > > device....For > >>laughs I then tried to do a cpio using the Old Device >>(/mnt/sysimage/dev/st0)....And it Worked !!! > > > Please bottom post in the future. > > If /dev is truly corrupted, you're in trouble. It would help a lot if > you can be more specific about which devices aren't working or the ones > that X is complaining about ("/dev/xxxx" doesn't cut it). > > If you have an adequate backup, you can try to reinstall the "dev" RPM > which can be found on the first CD of your distribution. You'll need > to "rpm -Uvh --force" to get it to install. I won't guarantee success, > but you're kinda dead anyway. > > If it works, rename the host to "frankenstein", as you've brought it > back from the dead. ;-) > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com >>[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of jludwig >>Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:22 AM >>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >>Subject: Re: Recover Corrupt /dev >> >>On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 10:31, Algis Zyle wrote: >> >> >>>Redhat Admin Newbie, Any help would be appreciated: We're Running >>>Redhat 9 >>> >>> >>> >>>1) A colleague of mine intended on doing a backup and by >>>accident re-directed the output to /dev/rt0 (a file) instead of >>>st0..eventually people complained they couldn't print, etc..It turns >>>out that it filled up the file system...before we found this out, we >>>had rebooted and did a fschk (not knowing the real problem >>>yet).Anyway,eventually deleted the rt0 file..but. Xwindows wouldn't >>>come up (Couldn't open the /dev/ device)., Networking stopped >>>working.I couldn't access the tape drive or cdrom anymore (/dev/st0, >>>/dev/hdc) even though they existed in the dev directory...I went into >>>rescue mode and at least made a backup etc..How can I fix the /dev >>>directory and/or anything else that may have went south by the file >>>system getting full without re-installing Redhat.(Again, I'm not a >>>hard core Redhat Admin).. >> >>snip >>If this is a server, I suspect that you probably have separate >>partitions for /var /usr /home etc. You should check, especially >>/var/spool, to see if they are also filled with garbage files. If you >>have a /var partition that is filled X and many other programs and > > such > >>will not work. > > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 pritamborkar at uk2.net Thu May 6 03:34:14 2004 From: pritamborkar at uk2.net (Pritam Borkar) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 04:34:14 +0100 (BST) Subject: Help connecting to the Internet using RH9 Message-ID: <37282.202.63.162.138.1083814454.squirrel@maxproxy1.uk2net.com> hi, I am a newbee to Linux and have installed RH9 and that too the personal desktop installation. during the network wizard i configured RH9 to use a static IP address as i am using cable internet and punched in the IP address the default gateway address as well as the DNS server address, then too it did not connect to the Internet. Please Help Pritam From sarangi at bpost.kek.jp Thu May 6 05:01:12 2004 From: sarangi at bpost.kek.jp (Tapas Ranjan) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 14:01:12 +0900 (JST) Subject: xfce4 menu In-Reply-To: <20040505160026.0471E75031@hormel.redhat.com> Message-ID: Hi : I am using RH9 and xfce4 window manager. "Right click" on the window doesn't help much to see all the menu items. Could anybody please suggest, if there is any solution to see all the menu items in xfce4, like what you see in GNOME or KDE. Cheers ---Tapas From hdeng at microscience.com.cn Thu May 6 11:14:41 2004 From: hdeng at microscience.com.cn (Huan Deng) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 19:14:41 +0800 Subject: I can't use command "man" Message-ID: hi all, Recently i reinstall Redhat 8.0 on my computer, but strangely users can't use command "man" except root.For example, when i input "man ls",the system message is : man: No such file or directory Failed to open the message catalog man on the path NLSPATH= No manual entry for ls Thank you ~~ ?? ??????? Huan Deng hdeng at microscience.com.cn 2004-05-06 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks -Vaibhav --- Pritam Borkar wrote: > hi, > > I am a newbee to Linux and have installed RH9 and that too the > personal > desktop installation. during the network wizard i configured RH9 to > use a > static IP address as i am using cable internet and punched in the IP > address the default gateway address as well as the DNS server > address, > then too it did not connect to the Internet. > > Please Help > > Pritam > > > _______________________________________________ > 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!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover From vaibhav_d at yahoo.com Thu May 6 12:59:22 2004 From: vaibhav_d at yahoo.com (Vaibhav Deshpande) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 05:59:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: I can't use command "man" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040506125922.73879.qmail@web51006.mail.yahoo.com> There must be a PATH issue here. Except 'root', MANPATH to other users might not have set properly. Thanks -Vaibhav --- Huan Deng wrote: > hi all, > > Recently i reinstall Redhat 8.0 on my computer, but strangely > users can't use command "man" except root.For example, when i input > "man ls",the system message is : > > man: No such file or directory > Failed to open the message catalog man on the path NLSPATH= > No manual entry for ls > > Thank you ~~ > > > > > ???? > > ?????????????? > > > Huan Deng > hdeng at microscience.com.cn > 2004-05-06 > > ATTACHMENT part 2 image/gif name=FACE-3.GIF > _______________________________________________ > 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!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover From Charles at uat.edu Thu May 6 13:51:01 2004 From: Charles at uat.edu (Charles Braffett) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 06:51:01 -0700 Subject: RH9 to ES Migration Message-ID: I have a production server running RH9 which I need to migrate to ES. Can someone give me step by step instructions on how to preserve all the settings? (i.e. users, groups, IP bindings, route tables, apache sites, etc...) From nmcfadye at mae.carleton.ca Thu May 6 14:06:13 2004 From: nmcfadye at mae.carleton.ca (Neil McFadyen) Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 10:06:13 -0400 Subject: redhat AS 3.0 update 1 SATA problems Message-ID: <409A4655.AAD6B7C3@mae.carleton.ca> I am trying to run redhat AS 3.0 update 1 on a new intel SE7505VB2 motherboard with 2 SATA disks, 1 - 120GB Western Digitial and the 2nd is a 200GB SATA western digital the / is on the first disk and works ok however the partition table on the second disk keeps getting corrupted, it loses its label and the partition has to be re-created and the filesystem rebuilt eg fdisk /dev/hdg n p 1 w then mk2efs -L /export /dev/hdg1 and tune2fs -j /dev/hdg1 to make it a ext3 filesystem copying files to and from the 2nd disk results in io errors and finally a total lost partition table and Label I also had a Adaptec 2410a (ATA raid) with 2 160GB disk in the same computer, and had similar problems, I removed it hoping it would solve the above problem but it did not. I am left to think that redhat AS 3.0 update 1 is not compatible with this motherboard Has anyone been able to install it and use 2 disks, or some other raid controller ---------------------------------------- Neil McFadyen From nmcfadye at mae.carleton.ca Thu May 6 14:13:56 2004 From: nmcfadye at mae.carleton.ca (Neil McFadyen) Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 10:13:56 -0400 Subject: RH9 to ES Migration References: Message-ID: <409A4824.24128C43@mae.carleton.ca> make a copy of /etc it will have most of the settings you need Charles Braffett wrote: > I have a production server running RH9 which I need to migrate to ES. > Can someone give me step by step instructions on how to preserve all the > settings? (i.e. users, groups, IP bindings, route tables, apache sites, > etc...) > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Charles at uat.edu Thu May 6 14:23:21 2004 From: Charles at uat.edu (Charles Braffett) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 07:23:21 -0700 Subject: RH9 to ES Migration Message-ID: So, if I do a clean install using the existing partitions, then copy the old etc folder in, that should work? BTW, I don't want to lose any file structure nor data (several CVS stores running). :) -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Neil McFadyen Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 7:14 AM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: RH9 to ES Migration make a copy of /etc it will have most of the settings you need Charles Braffett wrote: > I have a production server running RH9 which I need to migrate to ES. > Can someone give me step by step instructions on how to preserve all the > settings? (i.e. users, groups, IP bindings, route tables, apache sites, > etc...) > > _______________________________________________ > 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 friz at godshell.com Thu May 6 14:43:40 2004 From: friz at godshell.com (Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 10:43:40 -0400 (EDT) Subject: RH9 to ES Migration In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1729.24.229.44.44.1083854620.squirrel@www.protectors.cc> Charles Braffett said: > So, if I do a clean install using the existing partitions, then copy the > old etc folder in, that should work? BTW, I don't want to lose any file > structure nor data (several CVS stores running). :) I highly recommend against just dumping in the old etc folder.. you *will* break something... You should be safe keeping all of your data partitions, but I would recommend letting at least / /usr /etc format and reinstall. Upgrading also means you'll need to re-install any apps you installed before.. esp tarball apps.. some rh9 rpm's may work, but there's no guarantee... best to rebuild them from the rpm source.. --------------------------- Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold Engine / Technology Programmer friz at godshell.com RedHat Certified - RHCE # 803004140609871 MySQL Pro Certified - ID# 207171862 MySQL Core Certified - ID# 205982910 --------------------------- "Something mysterious is formed, born in the silent void. Waiting alone and unmoving, it is at once still and yet in constant motion. It is the source of all programs. I do not know its name, so I will call it the Tao of Programming." From friz at godshell.com Thu May 6 14:43:40 2004 From: friz at godshell.com (Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 10:43:40 -0400 (EDT) Subject: RH9 to ES Migration In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1729.24.229.44.44.1083854620.squirrel@www.protectors.cc> Charles Braffett said: > So, if I do a clean install using the existing partitions, then copy the > old etc folder in, that should work? BTW, I don't want to lose any file > structure nor data (several CVS stores running). :) I highly recommend against just dumping in the old etc folder.. you *will* break something... You should be safe keeping all of your data partitions, but I would recommend letting at least / /usr /etc format and reinstall. Upgrading also means you'll need to re-install any apps you installed before.. esp tarball apps.. some rh9 rpm's may work, but there's no guarantee... best to rebuild them from the rpm source.. --------------------------- Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold Engine / Technology Programmer friz at godshell.com RedHat Certified - RHCE # 803004140609871 MySQL Pro Certified - ID# 207171862 MySQL Core Certified - ID# 205982910 --------------------------- "Something mysterious is formed, born in the silent void. Waiting alone and unmoving, it is at once still and yet in constant motion. It is the source of all programs. I do not know its name, so I will call it the Tao of Programming." From tastin at catchnet.net Thu May 6 14:51:19 2004 From: tastin at catchnet.net (Jeff Hogg) Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 09:51:19 -0500 Subject: RH9 to ES Migration In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <409A50E7.9060709@catchnet.net> Charles Braffett wrote: > So, if I do a clean install using the existing partitions, then copy the > old etc folder in, that should work? BTW, I don't want to lose any file > structure nor data (several CVS stores running). :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Neil > McFadyen > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 7:14 AM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: RH9 to ES Migration > > make a copy of /etc it will have most of the settings you need > > Charles Braffett wrote: > > >>I have a production server running RH9 which I need to migrate to ES. >>Can someone give me step by step instructions on how to preserve all > > the > >>settings? (i.e. users, groups, IP bindings, route tables, apache > > sites, > >>etc...) >> It's a bit more complicated than that unfortunately... You'll need your /home directory, and any active data directories in use by the applications your currently using at least. I can't guess where your cvs data is being stored, you will need to determine that yourself. /etc will take care of your network info and most of the settings for the programs you have... but it may not be wise to simply paste it back in on top of the new system, as some things may have changed after all. New hardware, and minor file format changes and such. Basics like ifcfg-eth0 are fairly stable, but you shouldnt try to re-use the conf.module file for example. Burn /etc and the data dirs onto a cd and copy back just the files you need, not the whole mess I would say. I hope this helps a bit. Jeff Hogg From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Thu May 6 16:24:16 2004 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 09:24:16 -0700 Subject: NFS error message Message-ID: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B80B@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> I have a problem with Omniback not being able to enter a NFS file system to do backups. It can access the other NFS mounted the other filesystems that are on the same NFS server as this one filesystem causing the issues. My syslog, is showing these errors: May 6 08:50:33 cfs3 kernel: NFS: short packet in readdir reply! May 6 09:00:33 cfs3 kernel: NFS: short packet in readdir reply! May 6 09:00:33 cfs3 kernel: NFS: short packet in readdir reply! I can go in manually and all appears ok. So.. Now I have NO idea what could cause that with ONLY Omniback. If I use another system (HP/UX) to do the same thing. It works just fine. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu May 6 16:37:12 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 09:37:12 -0700 Subject: Help connecting to the Internet using RH9 In-Reply-To: <37282.202.63.162.138.1083814454.squirrel@maxproxy1.uk2net.com> References: <37282.202.63.162.138.1083814454.squirrel@maxproxy1.uk2net.com> Message-ID: <409A69B8.2020001@vitalstream.com> Pritam Borkar wrote: > hi, > > I am a newbee to Linux and have installed RH9 and that too the personal > desktop installation. during the network wizard i configured RH9 to use a > static IP address as i am using cable internet and punched in the IP > address the default gateway address as well as the DNS server address, > then too it did not connect to the Internet. 90% of all cable modems do NATting and DHCP. You should have configured the NIC to use DHCP. In this way, the cable modem will give you your IP address, netmask, gateway and DNS servers. If, however, you must set it up in static mode, you must know what the IP address and netmask is of the LAN side of your cable modem (probably 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.100.1--check your manual), and what DNS servers your cable provider has (check your service agreement or ask their tech support people). Set your static IP address to live on the same network as your cable modem's LAN-side IP address (e.g. if your modem has 192.168.0.1, use something like 192.168.0.10) and set the netmask appopriately. You will then need to set up the default route (this will be the cable modem's LAN address). You will also need to set up the nameserver system by replacing entries in /etc/resolv.conf with the addresses of your cable provider's DNS servers: nameserver w.x.y.z nameserver a.b.c.d You can do this via the "redhat-config-network" command (run as the root user) or via the "Red Hat icon->System Settings->Network" menu option. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Thu May 6 16:43:18 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 09:43:18 -0700 Subject: I can't use command "man" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <409A6B26.4020102@vitalstream.com> Huan Deng wrote: > hi all, > > Recently i reinstall Redhat 8.0 on my computer, but strangely users can't use command "man" except root.For example, when i input "man ls",the system message is : > > man: No such file or directory > Failed to open the message catalog man on the path NLSPATH= > No manual entry for ls Make sure you have an /etc/man.config file and that it is readable to all users (minimum of 644 or "-rw-r--r--"). An "ls -l /etc/man.config" should result in something like: [rick at prophead rick]$ ls -l /etc/man* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4568 Oct 13 2003 /etc/man.config You may want to reinstall the "man" RPM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Blech! ACKth! Ooop! -- Bill the Cat (Outland) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu May 6 17:04:31 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 10:04:31 -0700 Subject: RH9 to ES Migration In-Reply-To: <409A50E7.9060709@catchnet.net> References: <409A50E7.9060709@catchnet.net> Message-ID: <409A701F.9050304@vitalstream.com> Jeff Hogg wrote: > Charles Braffett wrote: > >> So, if I do a clean install using the existing partitions, then copy the >> old etc folder in, that should work? BTW, I don't want to lose any file >> structure nor data (several CVS stores running). :) >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com >> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Neil >> McFadyen >> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 7:14 AM >> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >> Subject: Re: RH9 to ES Migration >> >> make a copy of /etc it will have most of the settings you need >> >> Charles Braffett wrote: >> >> >>> I have a production server running RH9 which I need to migrate to ES. >>> Can someone give me step by step instructions on how to preserve all >> >> >> the >> >>> settings? (i.e. users, groups, IP bindings, route tables, apache >> >> >> sites, >> >>> etc...) >>> > > It's a bit more complicated than that unfortunately... You'll need your > /home directory, and any active data directories in use by the > applications your currently using at least. I can't guess where your > cvs data is being stored, you will need to determine that yourself. /etc > will take care of your network info and most of the settings for the > programs you have... but it may not be wise to simply paste it back in > on top of the new system, as some things may have changed after all. > New hardware, and minor file format changes and such. Basics like > ifcfg-eth0 are fairly stable, but you shouldnt try to re-use the > conf.module file for example. Burn /etc and the data dirs onto a cd and > copy back just the files you need, not the whole mess I would say. I > hope this helps a bit. Actually, it's a bit more nasty than that. An "upgrade" install shouldn't destroy any user-created stuff. A "clean install" WILL kill stuff. First, back up EVERYTHING and make sure your backup is good. That's VERY important. In addition to that: a) make copies of your /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/group files. b) go through /etc/passwd and make sure you make backups of all of the home directories listed in there. Those are your users' home directories. c) if you're using stuff like CVS or SCCS or something of that nature, make backups of your repositories. d) if you're using databases of any kind (MySQL, PostgreSQL, whatever), make backups of their data stores. e) make backups of any application-related data you need including configuration files and the like. You can then do an "upgrade" installation. That SHOULD leave all non- system-related stuff alone, but you have two backups of the stuff you need (the main backup and the individual backup) to recover from. If you do a "clean" install, then you can be guaranteed that everything will get wiped out and you'll need to restore from one of the backups. This means restoring your /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group files (to recover your user names and passwords) and the home directories related to /etc/passwd. You'll also need to reinstall your databases, repositories, applications and their data. I'd try the "upgrade" first. If that doesn't work, do the full install and restore the stuff you need. Either way, it's not trivial. "Backups are your friends. Make more friends regularly." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Thu May 6 17:11:49 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 10:11:49 -0700 Subject: redhat AS 3.0 update 1 SATA problems In-Reply-To: <409A4655.AAD6B7C3@mae.carleton.ca> References: <409A4655.AAD6B7C3@mae.carleton.ca> Message-ID: <409A71D5.2030807@vitalstream.com> Neil McFadyen wrote: > I am trying to run redhat AS 3.0 update 1 on a new intel SE7505VB2 > motherboard > with 2 SATA disks, 1 - 120GB Western Digitial and the 2nd is a 200GB > SATA western digital > > the / is on the first disk and works ok > however the partition table on the second disk keeps getting corrupted, > it loses its label and the partition has to be re-created and the > filesystem rebuilt > > eg fdisk /dev/hdg > n > p > 1 > w > then mk2efs -L /export /dev/hdg1 > and tune2fs -j /dev/hdg1 to make it a ext3 filesystem Why not "mke2fs -j -L /export /dev/hdg1" instead of two commands? > copying files to and from the 2nd disk results in io errors and finally > a total lost partition table and Label > > I also had a Adaptec 2410a (ATA raid) with 2 160GB disk in the same > computer, and had similar problems, I removed it hoping it would solve > the above problem but it did not. > > I am left to think that redhat AS 3.0 update 1 is not compatible with > this motherboard I'm more likely to suspect your RAM. Filesystems don't just "corrupt" for no reason. Unless the driver is flakey (unlikely), I'd really check your RAM. Since you had your machine open switching cards and such, shut the thing down and unplug ALL PCI cards, your RAM and your CPU and reinstall them. The connectors sometimes get dirty or the card slightly misaligns with the connector when the case flexes as you lift it. Reseating the cards will often fix this sort of glitch. Also download and run memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com) and run that to test your RAM. I can't tell you how many machines have marginal RAM in them and start acting weird. I've had four crap out this week alone. Filesystem corruption is one of the primary indications of flakey RAM or PCI busses. > Has anyone been able to install it and use 2 disks, or some other raid > controller Try the above stuff. I'll bet you'll find the problem there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "And on the seventh day, He exited from append mode." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu May 6 17:16:42 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 10:16:42 -0700 Subject: NFS error message In-Reply-To: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B80B@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B80B@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> Message-ID: <409A72FA.6030606@vitalstream.com> Waldher, Travis R wrote: > I have a problem with Omniback not being able to enter a NFS file system > to do backups. It can access the other NFS mounted the other > filesystems that are on the same NFS server as this one filesystem > causing the issues. My syslog, is showing these errors: > > May 6 08:50:33 cfs3 kernel: NFS: short packet in readdir reply! > May 6 09:00:33 cfs3 kernel: NFS: short packet in readdir reply! > May 6 09:00:33 cfs3 kernel: NFS: short packet in readdir reply! > > I can go in manually and all appears ok. So.. Now I have NO idea what > could cause that with ONLY Omniback. If I use another system (HP/UX) > to do the same thing. It works just fine. It may be the access speeds involved, Trav. By default, NFS does its thing using UDP. Being a connectionless protocol, you can drop stuff if the share or network is busy. If you can, try mounting the suspect NFS volume using TCP rather than UDP protocols. In other words, add "tcp" to the options in /etc/fstab so it looks sorta like this: server:/share /mountpoint nfs \ rw,tcp,hard,noac,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nfsvers=3 0 0 That one's a bit more involved, but you get the idea (that's how our shared mail environment is mounted). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "I understand Windows 2000 has a Y2K problem." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From campbell at accelinc.com Thu May 6 19:31:24 2004 From: campbell at accelinc.com (Chuck Campbell) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 14:31:24 -0500 Subject: yum/rpm hosed me yesterday Message-ID: <20040506193124.GA31143@helium.inexs.com> I installed yum on my rh9 box, and it looked like it was working. At least yum check-updates showed a lot of packages for me to update. I saw that rpm was on the list, so I did yum update rpm* It went through all of its steps without errors, and I thought "this is the best thing since sliced bread" I did rpm -qa | grep rpm to verify the current version and I get this: rpmdb: unable to join the environment error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Resource temporarily unavailable (11) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm Now it appears I'm stuffed. What do I do next? -chuck From campbell at accelinc.com Thu May 6 19:59:35 2004 From: campbell at accelinc.com (Chuck Campbell) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 14:59:35 -0500 Subject: yum/rpm hosed me yesterday In-Reply-To: References: <20040506193124.GA31143@helium.inexs.com> Message-ID: <20040506195935.GA31312@helium.inexs.com> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:42:34PM -0700, J. Nyhuis wrote: > On Thu, 6 May 2004, Chuck Campbell wrote: > > I installed yum on my rh9 box, and it looked like it was working. > > At least yum check-updates showed a lot of packages for me to update. > > I saw that rpm was on the list, so I did yum update rpm* > > It went through all of its steps without errors, and I thought "this is > > the best thing since sliced bread" > > > > I did rpm -qa | grep rpm to verify the current version and I get this: > > rpmdb: unable to join the environment > > error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable > > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Resource temporarily unavailable (11) > > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > > Now it appears I'm stuffed. What do I do next? > > -chuck > > I've never seen that happen before, but some basic things to > check... > > 1. does /var/lib/rpm exist and have permissions that allow it to be > accessed? does /var have space for the files yum needs? 'df' exists, is accessible and populated. /var/cache is over 100 Mb, can this be moved and linked to? There is space left on /var, but only 50Mb > > 2. did you try a 'yum clean all' to remove all the old > (possibly corrupt) packages you downloaded and try to start over with an > yum update? Not yet, but I found this: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=92247 it says: Additional Comment #2 From Jeff Johnson on 2003-06-05 07:37 Yup, kernel has new semantics for O_DIRECT thereby breaking rpm. Adding LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 should fix sufficiently to upgrade to rpm-4.2-1 packages at ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist which have better fix. I did add LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 and a rpm -qa works again. What to do to fix this correctly now? -chuck From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu May 6 20:07:52 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 13:07:52 -0700 Subject: yum/rpm hosed me yesterday In-Reply-To: <20040506193124.GA31143@helium.inexs.com> References: <20040506193124.GA31143@helium.inexs.com> Message-ID: <409A9B18.9080906@vitalstream.com> Chuck Campbell wrote: > I installed yum on my rh9 box, and it looked like it was working. > > At least yum check-updates showed a lot of packages for me to update. > > I saw that rpm was on the list, so I did yum update rpm* > > It went through all of its steps without errors, and I thought "this is > the best thing since sliced bread" > > I did rpm -qa | grep rpm to verify the current version and I get this: > rpmdb: unable to join the environment > error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Resource temporarily unavailable (11) > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > > > Now it appears I'm stuffed. What do I do next? I got your message directed at me personally, Chuck, and I responded. For the sake of the others on the list, here's what I said: It wasn't yum, it's RPM and its ongoing flubup with the database system. Go into /var/lib/rpm and delete the __db.001 __db.002 and __db.003 (those start with two underscores). Then, as root: rpm --rebuilddb and wait a while. That should fix it. A script to do it is: --------------------------- CUT HERE --------------------------------- #!/bin/bash echo -n Cleaning up corrupted databases... rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* echo Done echo echo -n Rebuilding databases... rpm --rebuilddb echo Done echo echo RPM databases rebuilt --------------------------- CUT HERE --------------------------------- This has been an ongoing issue with rpm and the db3/db4 packages. I don't know if they'll ever sort it out. If you ever get those kinds of messages in the future, that's the fix. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If Windows isn't a virus, then it sure as hell is a carrier! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From campbell at accelinc.com Thu May 6 20:39:27 2004 From: campbell at accelinc.com (Chuck Campbell) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 15:39:27 -0500 Subject: yum/rpm hosed me yesterday In-Reply-To: <1083873800.6976.63.camel@jMOD.home> References: <20040506193124.GA31143@helium.inexs.com> <1083873800.6976.63.camel@jMOD.home> Message-ID: <20040506203927.GA31792@helium.inexs.com> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 04:03:20PM -0400, jludwig wrote: > On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 15:31, Chuck Campbell wrote: > > I installed yum on my rh9 box, and it looked like it was working. > > > > At least yum check-updates showed a lot of packages for me to update. > > > > I saw that rpm was on the list, so I did yum update rpm* > > > > It went through all of its steps without errors, and I thought "this is > > the best thing since sliced bread" > > > > I did rpm -qa | grep rpm to verify the current version and I get this: > > rpmdb: unable to join the environment > > error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable > > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Resource temporarily unavailable (11) > > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > > > > > > Now it appears I'm stuffed. What do I do next? > > > > -chuck > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 sure you have good mirrors and restart. Yum won't do anything > until it has downloaded all the needed packages. well, yum did do something, it installed the new rpm package, which it turns out had some breakage. Thanks to Rick Stevens, I've gotten it fixed (see later this thread) -chuck From campbell at accelinc.com Thu May 6 20:40:11 2004 From: campbell at accelinc.com (Chuck Campbell) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 15:40:11 -0500 Subject: yum/rpm hosed me yesterday In-Reply-To: <409A9B18.9080906@vitalstream.com> References: <20040506193124.GA31143@helium.inexs.com> <409A9B18.9080906@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040506204011.GB31792@helium.inexs.com> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 01:07:52PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Chuck Campbell wrote: > >I installed yum on my rh9 box, and it looked like it was working. > > > >At least yum check-updates showed a lot of packages for me to update. > > > >I saw that rpm was on the list, so I did yum update rpm* > > > >It went through all of its steps without errors, and I thought "this is > >the best thing since sliced bread" > > > >I did rpm -qa | grep rpm to verify the current version and I get this: > >rpmdb: unable to join the environment > >error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable > >error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Resource temporarily > >unavailable (11) > >error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > > > > > >Now it appears I'm stuffed. What do I do next? > > I got your message directed at me personally, Chuck, and I responded. > For the sake of the others on the list, here's what I said: > > It wasn't yum, it's RPM and its ongoing flubup with the database system. > > Go into /var/lib/rpm and delete the __db.001 __db.002 and __db.003 > (those start with two underscores). Then, as root: > > rpm --rebuilddb > > and wait a while. That should fix it. A script to do it is: > > --------------------------- CUT HERE --------------------------------- > #!/bin/bash > echo -n Cleaning up corrupted databases... > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* > echo Done > echo > echo -n Rebuilding databases... > rpm --rebuilddb > echo Done > echo > echo RPM databases rebuilt > --------------------------- CUT HERE --------------------------------- > > This has been an ongoing issue with rpm and the db3/db4 packages. I > don't know if they'll ever sort it out. If you ever get those kinds of > messages in the future, that's the fix. Great, this worked fine. I'm back in business. -chuck From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu May 6 21:31:36 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 14:31:36 -0700 Subject: yum/rpm hosed me yesterday In-Reply-To: <20040506204011.GB31792@helium.inexs.com> References: <20040506193124.GA31143@helium.inexs.com> <409A9B18.9080906@vitalstream.com> <20040506204011.GB31792@helium.inexs.com> Message-ID: <409AAEB8.40306@vitalstream.com> Chuck Campbell wrote: > On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 01:07:52PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Chuck Campbell wrote: >> >>>I installed yum on my rh9 box, and it looked like it was working. >>> >>>At least yum check-updates showed a lot of packages for me to update. >>> >>>I saw that rpm was on the list, so I did yum update rpm* >>> >>>It went through all of its steps without errors, and I thought "this is >>>the best thing since sliced bread" >>> >>>I did rpm -qa | grep rpm to verify the current version and I get this: >>>rpmdb: unable to join the environment >>>error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable >>>error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Resource temporarily >>>unavailable (11) >>>error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm >>> >>> >>>Now it appears I'm stuffed. What do I do next? >> >>I got your message directed at me personally, Chuck, and I responded. >>For the sake of the others on the list, here's what I said: >> >>It wasn't yum, it's RPM and its ongoing flubup with the database system. >> >>Go into /var/lib/rpm and delete the __db.001 __db.002 and __db.003 >>(those start with two underscores). Then, as root: >> >> rpm --rebuilddb >> >>and wait a while. That should fix it. A script to do it is: >> >>--------------------------- CUT HERE --------------------------------- >>#!/bin/bash >>echo -n Cleaning up corrupted databases... >>rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* >>echo Done >>echo >>echo -n Rebuilding databases... >>rpm --rebuilddb >>echo Done >>echo >>echo RPM databases rebuilt >>--------------------------- CUT HERE --------------------------------- >> >>This has been an ongoing issue with rpm and the db3/db4 packages. I >>don't know if they'll ever sort it out. If you ever get those kinds of >>messages in the future, that's the fix. > > > Great, this worked fine. I'm back in business. Glad to hear it. rpm is a funny ol' thing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 campbell at accelinc.com Thu May 6 21:56:53 2004 From: campbell at accelinc.com (Chuck Campbell) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 16:56:53 -0500 Subject: more yum problems Message-ID: <20040506215653.GA509@helium.inexs.com> yum found that my kernel is out of date, and I wanted to let it do the update for me. I did: [root at helium root]# yum update kernel* Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: ATrpms stable for rhl 9 Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base Server: Dag APT Repository Server: Freshrpms packages for Red Hat Linux 9 Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies Dependencies resolved I will do the following: [install: kernel 2.4.20-31.9.i686] Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages Running test transaction: Test transaction complete, Success! tons of snipped messages saying /var is out of space I killed the yum process, cleaned up /var moved my /var/cache to a disk with lots of space and symlinked /var/cache to that. I reran this: [root at helium root]# yum update kernel* Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: ATrpms stable for rhl 9 Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base Server: Dag APT Repository Server: Freshrpms packages for Red Hat Linux 9 Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies Dependencies resolved I will do the following: [install: kernel 2.4.20-31.9.i686] Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages Running test transaction: Test transaction complete, Success! kernel 100 % done 1/1 Kernel Updated/Installed, checking for bootloader No bootloader found, Cannot configure kernel, continuing. Installed: kernel 2.4.20-31.9.i686 Transaction(s) Complete Given this message, I'm afraid to reboot to the new kernel, even though the /boot looks ok (all appropos files and links are there. How do I tell if my bootloader is really gone, and if so, put it back before I reboot this new kernel? -chuck From cabal at u.washington.edu Thu May 6 22:32:57 2004 From: cabal at u.washington.edu (J. Nyhuis) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 15:32:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: more yum problems In-Reply-To: <20040506215653.GA509@helium.inexs.com> References: <20040506215653.GA509@helium.inexs.com> Message-ID: On Thu, 6 May 2004, Chuck Campbell wrote: > kernel 100 % done 1/1 > Kernel Updated/Installed, checking for bootloader > No bootloader found, Cannot configure kernel, continuing. > Installed: kernel 2.4.20-31.9.i686 > Transaction(s) Complete > > Given this message, I'm afraid to reboot to the new kernel, even though the > /boot looks ok (all appropos files and links are there. Well, it looks like it downloaded the kernal ok, but failed to update your bootloader to use the new kernal. You need to figure out which bootloader you are using (usually lilo or grub) and then check it's config to ensure the new kernal is loaded at boot. There are good walkthroughs for both of these on the net. I would suggest the following pulled from the first five google hits (google is my friend). ^_^ http://www.control-escape.com/linux/lilo-cfg.html http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4622 Thanks, John H. Nyhuis Computer Specialist I Cell Systems Initiative Dept. of BioEngineering University of Washington Desk: (206)-732-6148 Fax: (206)-732-6033 cabal at u.washington.edu From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu May 6 23:08:32 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 16:08:32 -0700 Subject: more yum problems In-Reply-To: <20040506215653.GA509@helium.inexs.com> References: <20040506215653.GA509@helium.inexs.com> Message-ID: <409AC570.60704@vitalstream.com> Chuck Campbell wrote: > yum found that my kernel is out of date, and I wanted to let it do the > update for me. I did: > > [root at helium root]# yum update kernel* > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: ATrpms stable for rhl 9 > Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base > Server: Dag APT Repository > Server: Freshrpms packages for Red Hat Linux 9 > Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - Updates > Finding updated packages > Downloading needed headers > Resolving dependencies > Dependencies resolved > I will do the following: > [install: kernel 2.4.20-31.9.i686] > Is this ok [y/N]: y > Downloading Packages > Running test transaction: > Test transaction complete, Success! > > tons of snipped messages saying /var is out of space > > I killed the yum process, cleaned up /var moved my /var/cache to a disk > with lots of space and symlinked /var/cache to that. > > I reran this: > > [root at helium root]# yum update kernel* > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: ATrpms stable for rhl 9 > Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base > Server: Dag APT Repository > Server: Freshrpms packages for Red Hat Linux 9 > Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - Updates > Finding updated packages > Downloading needed headers > Resolving dependencies > Dependencies resolved > I will do the following: > [install: kernel 2.4.20-31.9.i686] > Is this ok [y/N]: y > Downloading Packages > Running test transaction: > Test transaction complete, Success! > kernel 100 % done 1/1 > Kernel Updated/Installed, checking for bootloader > No bootloader found, Cannot configure kernel, continuing. > Installed: kernel 2.4.20-31.9.i686 > Transaction(s) Complete > > > Given this message, I'm afraid to reboot to the new kernel, even though the > /boot looks ok (all appropos files and links are there. > > How do I tell if my bootloader is really gone, and if so, put it back > before I reboot this new kernel? If you use lilo, verify that /etc/lilo.conf looks OK. If it looks good to go, try running /sbin/lilo. It should complain if there's something it doesn't like. If you use grub, verify that /boot/grub/grub.conf looks good. If you want to check it, the only way I know of is to try to run grub-install, e.g. "grub-install /dev/hda". Also make sure you have a /boot/initrd-kernelversion.img file if your root partition is on a SCSI disk, ext3 filesystem or an NFS volume (or any combination of the three), as the necessary modules must be in the initrd RAMdisk image. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Fri May 7 00:33:00 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 17:33:00 -0700 Subject: more yum problems In-Reply-To: <409AC570.60704@vitalstream.com> References: <20040506215653.GA509@helium.inexs.com> <409AC570.60704@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <409AD93C.9090102@vitalstream.com> Rick Stevens wrote: > Chuck Campbell wrote: > >> yum found that my kernel is out of date, and I wanted to let it do the >> update for me. I did: >> >> [root at helium root]# yum update kernel* >> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) >> Server: ATrpms stable for rhl 9 >> Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base >> Server: Dag APT Repository >> Server: Freshrpms packages for Red Hat Linux 9 >> Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - Updates >> Finding updated packages >> Downloading needed headers >> Resolving dependencies >> Dependencies resolved >> I will do the following: >> [install: kernel 2.4.20-31.9.i686] >> Is this ok [y/N]: y >> Downloading Packages >> Running test transaction: >> Test transaction complete, Success! >> >> tons of snipped messages saying /var is out of space >> >> I killed the yum process, cleaned up /var moved my /var/cache to a disk >> with lots of space and symlinked /var/cache to that. >> >> I reran this: >> >> [root at helium root]# yum update kernel* >> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) >> Server: ATrpms stable for rhl 9 >> Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base >> Server: Dag APT Repository >> Server: Freshrpms packages for Red Hat Linux 9 >> Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - Updates >> Finding updated packages >> Downloading needed headers >> Resolving dependencies >> Dependencies resolved >> I will do the following: >> [install: kernel 2.4.20-31.9.i686] >> Is this ok [y/N]: y >> Downloading Packages >> Running test transaction: >> Test transaction complete, Success! >> kernel 100 % done 1/1 Kernel Updated/Installed, checking for bootloader >> No bootloader found, Cannot configure kernel, continuing. >> Installed: kernel 2.4.20-31.9.i686 >> Transaction(s) Complete >> >> >> Given this message, I'm afraid to reboot to the new kernel, even >> though the >> /boot looks ok (all appropos files and links are there. >> >> How do I tell if my bootloader is really gone, and if so, put it back >> before I reboot this new kernel? > > > If you use lilo, verify that /etc/lilo.conf looks OK. If it looks > good to go, try running /sbin/lilo. It should complain if there's > something it doesn't like. If you use grub, verify that > /boot/grub/grub.conf looks good. If you want to check it, the only > way I know of is to try to run grub-install, e.g. "grub-install > /dev/hda". > > Also make sure you have a /boot/initrd-kernelversion.img file if your > root partition is on a SCSI disk, ext3 filesystem or an NFS volume (or > any combination of the three), as the necessary modules must be in the > initrd RAMdisk image. Oh, I forgot to add that you may wish to reinstall your boot loader RPM off the CD by using rpm -Uvh --force /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/whatever.rpm then upgrading it via yum. BTW, you can change where yum saves it stuff rather than symlinking /var/cache/yum. Just edit the "cachedir=/var/cache/yum" line in your /etc/yum.conf file. Also look at the "logfile=" line. I also recommend you set up some mirrors for your updates as the default Red Hat servers are often overloaded and since RH9 is now EOL, you won't find any updates past those prior to April 30, 2004. Fortunately, the Fedora Legacy group will support it for a while (they even have updates for 7.2!). You can get a list of the Fedora Legacy servers at: http://www.fedoralegacy.org/download/fedoralegacy-mirrors.php To use the mirror at fermilab (which is the one I use), you can modify your /etc/yum.conf's "baseurl" line under the "[updates-released]" section to something like: baseurl=http://linux.fnal.gov/linux/legacy/redhat/9/updates/i386 Nice of them, no? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 wralphie at comcast.net Thu May 6 20:03:20 2004 From: wralphie at comcast.net (jludwig) Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 16:03:20 -0400 Subject: yum/rpm hosed me yesterday In-Reply-To: <20040506193124.GA31143@helium.inexs.com> References: <20040506193124.GA31143@helium.inexs.com> Message-ID: <1083873800.6976.63.camel@jMOD.home> On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 15:31, Chuck Campbell wrote: > I installed yum on my rh9 box, and it looked like it was working. > > At least yum check-updates showed a lot of packages for me to update. > > I saw that rpm was on the list, so I did yum update rpm* > > It went through all of its steps without errors, and I thought "this is > the best thing since sliced bread" > > I did rpm -qa | grep rpm to verify the current version and I get this: > rpmdb: unable to join the environment > error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Resource temporarily unavailable (11) > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > > > Now it appears I'm stuffed. What do I do next? > > -chuck > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 sure you have good mirrors and restart. Yum won't do anything until it has downloaded all the needed packages. Try the -t allows for fault/error tolerance -y answer all questions as yes -- jludwig From pmor82 at yahoo.com Thu May 6 19:38:27 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 12:38:27 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat 7.2 In-Reply-To: <1083779411.3227.91.camel@jMOD.home> Message-ID: <20040506193827.36847.qmail@web41003.mail.yahoo.com> --- jludwig wrote: > On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 12:01, Pedro Morales wrote: > snip > > the cd1 has: > > in green: > > autorun > > eula.txt > > GPL > > readme > > readme-acessbility > > release -notes > > release -notes.html > > 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 > > Trans.tbl > > > > in blue > > dosutils > > fedora > > images > > isolinux > > > > did I download the wrong iso or is it missing the > boot > > file? > snip > This is a correct burn. Now the question is this > yarrow* (Fedora Core 1 > --FC1) or Fedora core 2. > FC2 has errors that won't allow it to boot on some > systems. It is also a > beta test core for the gurus and grungy beasties to > play with. > > -- > jludwig ok well I downloaded teh cd1 iso again, burned it, ran it in my pc and it booted from the cd, but it didnt in teh classroom, the bio has cdrom as first boot and HD as second, it read teh cdrom and went to the HD and loaded 7.2, now im wondering, is there a way to run the FC1 installation from the 7.2 text mode? I really like Linux and im planning to change my religion from microsoft to linux, im enjoying the text mode but need to learn and explore the gui version as well, any extra help is appreciated. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri May 7 01:16:53 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 18:16:53 -0700 Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat 7.2 In-Reply-To: <20040506193827.36847.qmail@web41003.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040506193827.36847.qmail@web41003.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <409AE385.4060701@vitalstream.com> Pedro Morales wrote: > --- jludwig wrote: > >>On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 12:01, Pedro Morales wrote: >>snip >> >>>the cd1 has: >>>in green: >>>autorun >>>eula.txt >>>GPL >>>readme >>>readme-acessbility >>>release -notes >>>release -notes.html >>>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 >>>Trans.tbl >>> >>>in blue >>>dosutils >>>fedora >>>images >>>isolinux >>> >>>did I download the wrong iso or is it missing the >> >>boot >> >>>file? >> >>snip >>This is a correct burn. Now the question is this >>yarrow* (Fedora Core 1 >>--FC1) or Fedora core 2. >>FC2 has errors that won't allow it to boot on some >>systems. It is also a >>beta test core for the gurus and grungy beasties to >>play with. >> >>-- >>jludwig > > > > ok well I downloaded teh cd1 iso again, burned it, ran > it in my pc and it booted from the cd, but it didnt in > teh classroom, the bio has cdrom as first boot and HD > as second, it read teh cdrom and went to the HD and > loaded 7.2, now im wondering, is there a way to run > the FC1 installation from the 7.2 text mode? I'm not certain I understand that. I understand that English isn't your primary language, so try to answer these one at a time: 1. Did you burn the Fedora Core 1 .iso image on a new CD? 2. Did that CD boot on your home system? 3. If #2 is "yes", did that CD boot on your school system? 4. If #3 is "no", did you check the BIOS settings on the school system to make sure it would try to boot the CD before the hard disk? 5. If #4 is "yes", then it is possible that the CD drive in the school system is one of the older style ones that have problems reading newer CD-R media. Older drives have a slightly different colored laser that can't read the darker blue or green CD-Rs. if you can find some of the old CD-R media that's gold in color, you may have better luck. Either that or you should replace the CD drive in the school's system. (for the techies, the older lasers were 670nM, the newer ones are 650nM) > I really like Linux and im planning to change my > religion from microsoft to linux, im enjoying the text > mode but need to learn and explore the gui version as > well, any extra help is appreciated. If you can be a bit more specific about the machines you're trying to run this on, we may be able to help you more. If it's a purchased system, the make and model would help ("Dell Dimension P600" for example). If it's home made, we need to know the CPU type (Pentium, Pentium Pro, etc.), the motherboard make and model (Asus K7E, Gigabit G8854, Intel, ABit, etc.), how much RAM you have, your video card make and model and your ethernet card make and model. It's hard to be specific when you don't know what you're dealing with. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Diplomacy: The art of saying "Nice doggy!" until you can find a - - big enough rock. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From pmor82 at yahoo.com Fri May 7 02:17:13 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 19:17:13 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat 7.2 In-Reply-To: <409AE385.4060701@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040507021713.51689.qmail@web41007.mail.yahoo.com> --- Rick Stevens wrote: > Pedro Morales wrote: > > --- jludwig wrote: > > > >>On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 12:01, Pedro Morales wrote: > >>snip > >> > >>>the cd1 has: > >>>in green: > >>>autorun > >>>eula.txt > >>>GPL > >>>readme > >>>readme-acessbility > >>>release -notes > >>>release -notes.html > >>>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 > >>>Trans.tbl > >>> > >>>in blue > >>>dosutils > >>>fedora > >>>images > >>>isolinux > >>> > >>>did I download the wrong iso or is it missing the > >> > >>boot > >> > >>>file? > >> > >>snip > >>This is a correct burn. Now the question is this > >>yarrow* (Fedora Core 1 > >>--FC1) or Fedora core 2. > >>FC2 has errors that won't allow it to boot on some > >>systems. It is also a > >>beta test core for the gurus and grungy beasties > to > >>play with. > >> > >>-- > >>jludwig > > > > > > > > ok well I downloaded teh cd1 iso again, burned it, > ran > > it in my pc and it booted from the cd, but it > didnt in > > teh classroom, the bio has cdrom as first boot and > HD > > as second, it read teh cdrom and went to the HD > and > > loaded 7.2, now im wondering, is there a way to > run > > the FC1 installation from the 7.2 text mode? > > I'm not certain I understand that. I understand > that English isn't > your primary language, so try to answer these one at > a time: well, I've been in the US for over 3 years, and in college, so I do try my best to write it and get understood... > 1. Did you burn the Fedora Core 1 .iso image on a > new CD? yes > 2. Did that CD boot on your home system? yes > 3. If #2 is "yes", did that CD boot on your school > system? no > 4. If #3 is "no", did you check the BIOS settings on > the school system > to make sure it would try to boot the CD before the > hard disk? yes > 5. If #4 is "yes", then it is possible that the CD > drive in the school > system is one of the older style ones that have > problems reading newer > CD-R media. > Older drives have a slightly different colored laser > that can't read the > darker blue or green CD-Rs. if you can find some of > the old CD-R media > that's gold in color, you may have better luck. > Either that or you > should replace the CD drive in the school's system. well I have installed other programs with the same type of cd-r media, and it did boot on my home pc (built it myself). > (for the techies, the older lasers were 670nM, the > newer ones are 650nM) > > > I really like Linux and im planning to change my > > religion from microsoft to linux, im enjoying the > text > > mode but need to learn and explore the gui version > as > > well, any extra help is appreciated. > > If you can be a bit more specific about the machines > you're trying to > run this on, we may be able to help you more. If > it's a purchased > system, the make and model would help ("Dell > Dimension P600" for > example). As stated in an earlier email IBM ThinkCentre 8189-A4U, ahs a P4 hyperthread, 512ram, intel MB, video integrated (Intel 650G) > If it's home made, we need to know the CPU type > (Pentium, Pentium Pro, > etc.), the motherboard make and model (Asus K7E, > Gigabit G8854, Intel, > ABit, etc.), how much RAM you have, your video card > make and model and > your ethernet card make and model. > It's hard to be specific when you don't know what > you're dealing with. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer > rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. > http://www.vitalstream.com - > - > - > - Diplomacy: The art of saying "Nice doggy!" until > you can find a - > - big enough rock. > - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Since the text commands are the same on all linux (redhat at least), if I can't get FC1 to work, do you guys have a mirror for RH9? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover From hdeng at microscience.com.cn Fri May 7 03:29:54 2004 From: hdeng at microscience.com.cn (Huan Deng) Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 11:29:54 +0800 Subject: I can't use command "man" Message-ID: Rick Stevens wrote: >Make sure you have an /etc/man.config file and that it is readable to >all users (minimum of 644 or "-rw-r--r--"). An "ls -l /etc/man.config" >should result in something like: > >[rick at prophead rick]$ ls -l /etc/man* >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4568 Oct 13 2003 /etc/man.config > >You may want to reinstall the "man" RPM. >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >- - >- Blech! ACKth! Ooop! -- Bill the Cat (Outland) - >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks a lot. I reinstall "man" rpm , and all users can use command "man". But there is still a little problem . I input "man ls" , a message pops up: gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe grotty: :2585:fatal error: output error Usually the message is ignored by the system , and the command runs well. I want to know if the message doesnt matter and how to correct it. Huan Deng hdeng at microscience.com.cn 2004-05-07 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: LittleBoy.GIF Type: image/gif Size: 1021 bytes Desc: not available URL: From micros50 at computer.net Fri May 7 04:06:43 2004 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 00:06:43 -0400 Subject: more yum problems In-Reply-To: <409AD93C.9090102@vitalstream.com> References: <20040506215653.GA509@helium.inexs.com> <409AC570.60704@vitalstream.com> <409AD93C.9090102@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1083902803.5773.26.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> So what's the overall deal with yum. Apart from the issues discussed here is it stable ? I am still inclined to handle my updated manually until I am convinced of yum's stability. mylar On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 20:33, Rick Stevens wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > > Chuck Campbell wrote: > > > >> yum found that my kernel is out of date, and I wanted to let it do the > >> update for me. I did: > >> > >> [root at helium root]# yum update kernel* > >> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > >> Server: ATrpms stable for rhl 9 > >> Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base > >> Server: Dag APT Repository > >> Server: Freshrpms packages for Red Hat Linux 9 > >> Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - Updates > >> Finding updated packages > >> Downloading needed headers > >> Resolving dependencies > >> Dependencies resolved > >> I will do the following: > >> [install: kernel 2.4.20-31.9.i686] > >> Is this ok [y/N]: y > >> Downloading Packages > >> Running test transaction: > >> Test transaction complete, Success! > >> > >> tons of snipped messages saying /var is out of space > >> > >> I killed the yum process, cleaned up /var moved my /var/cache to a disk > >> with lots of space and symlinked /var/cache to that. > >> > >> I reran this: > >> > >> [root at helium root]# yum update kernel* > >> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > >> Server: ATrpms stable for rhl 9 > >> Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base > >> Server: Dag APT Repository > >> Server: Freshrpms packages for Red Hat Linux 9 > >> Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - Updates > >> Finding updated packages > >> Downloading needed headers > >> Resolving dependencies > >> Dependencies resolved > >> I will do the following: > >> [install: kernel 2.4.20-31.9.i686] > >> Is this ok [y/N]: y > >> Downloading Packages > >> Running test transaction: > >> Test transaction complete, Success! > >> kernel 100 % done 1/1 Kernel Updated/Installed, checking for bootloader > >> No bootloader found, Cannot configure kernel, continuing. > >> Installed: kernel 2.4.20-31.9.i686 > >> Transaction(s) Complete > >> > >> > >> Given this message, I'm afraid to reboot to the new kernel, even > >> though the > >> /boot looks ok (all appropos files and links are there. > >> > >> How do I tell if my bootloader is really gone, and if so, put it back > >> before I reboot this new kernel? > > > > > > If you use lilo, verify that /etc/lilo.conf looks OK. If it looks > > good to go, try running /sbin/lilo. It should complain if there's > > something it doesn't like. If you use grub, verify that > > /boot/grub/grub.conf looks good. If you want to check it, the only > > way I know of is to try to run grub-install, e.g. "grub-install > > /dev/hda". > > > > Also make sure you have a /boot/initrd-kernelversion.img file if your > > root partition is on a SCSI disk, ext3 filesystem or an NFS volume (or > > any combination of the three), as the necessary modules must be in the > > initrd RAMdisk image. > > Oh, I forgot to add that you may wish to reinstall your boot loader > RPM off the CD by using > > rpm -Uvh --force /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/whatever.rpm > > then upgrading it via yum. > > BTW, you can change where yum saves it stuff rather than symlinking > /var/cache/yum. Just edit the "cachedir=/var/cache/yum" line in your > /etc/yum.conf file. Also look at the "logfile=" line. > > I also recommend you set up some mirrors for your updates as the default > Red Hat servers are often overloaded and since RH9 is now EOL, you won't > find any updates past those prior to April 30, 2004. Fortunately, the > Fedora Legacy group will support it for a while (they even have updates > for 7.2!). You can get a list of the Fedora Legacy servers at: > > http://www.fedoralegacy.org/download/fedoralegacy-mirrors.php > > To use the mirror at fermilab (which is the one I use), you can modify > your /etc/yum.conf's "baseurl" line under the "[updates-released]" > section to something like: > > baseurl=http://linux.fnal.gov/linux/legacy/redhat/9/updates/i386 > > Nice of them, no? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - 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 sarangi at bpost.kek.jp Fri May 7 05:50:30 2004 From: sarangi at bpost.kek.jp (Tapas Ranjan) Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 14:50:30 +0900 (JST) Subject: xfce4 menu Message-ID: Hi : Anybody, please suggest !! I am using RH9 and xfce4 window manager. "Right click" on the window doesn't help much to see all the menu items. Could anybody please suggest, if there is any solution to see all the menu items in xfce4, like what you see in GNOME or KDE. Cheers ---Tapas From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri May 7 16:28:17 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 09:28:17 -0700 Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat 7.2 In-Reply-To: <20040507021713.51689.qmail@web41007.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040507021713.51689.qmail@web41007.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <409BB921.3020202@vitalstream.com> Pedro Morales wrote: > --- Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Pedro Morales wrote: >> >>>--- jludwig wrote: >>> >>> >>>>On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 12:01, Pedro Morales wrote: >>>>snip >>>> >>>> >>>>>the cd1 has: >>>>>in green: >>>>>autorun >>>>>eula.txt >>>>>GPL >>>>>readme >>>>>readme-acessbility >>>>>release -notes >>>>>release -notes.html >>>>>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 >>>>>Trans.tbl >>>>> >>>>>in blue >>>>>dosutils >>>>>fedora >>>>>images >>>>>isolinux >>>>> >>>>>did I download the wrong iso or is it missing the >>>> >>>>boot >>>> >>>> >>>>>file? >>>> >>>>snip >>>>This is a correct burn. Now the question is this >>>>yarrow* (Fedora Core 1 >>>>--FC1) or Fedora core 2. >>>>FC2 has errors that won't allow it to boot on some >>>>systems. It is also a >>>>beta test core for the gurus and grungy beasties >> >>to >> >>>>play with. >>>> >>>>-- >>>>jludwig >>> >>> >>> >>>ok well I downloaded teh cd1 iso again, burned it, >> >>ran >> >>>it in my pc and it booted from the cd, but it >> >>didnt in >> >>>teh classroom, the bio has cdrom as first boot and >> >>HD >> >>>as second, it read teh cdrom and went to the HD >> >>and >> >>>loaded 7.2, now im wondering, is there a way to >> >>run >> >>>the FC1 installation from the 7.2 text mode? >> >>I'm not certain I understand that. I understand >>that English isn't >>your primary language, so try to answer these one at >>a time: > > > well, I've been in the US for over 3 years, and in > college, so I do try my best to write it and get > understood... Sorry. Your messages tend to run together a bit. I have trouble reading them. But I'm old (46) and it's probably my fault. :-( I appologize. >>1. Did you burn the Fedora Core 1 .iso image on a >>new CD? > > > yes > > >>2. Did that CD boot on your home system? > > > yes Ah, good...so we know it's good media--as far as booting is concerned. >>3. If #2 is "yes", did that CD boot on your school >>system? > > > no Ugh! Ok. let's press on. >>4. If #3 is "no", did you check the BIOS settings on >>the school system >>to make sure it would try to boot the CD before the >>hard disk? > > > yes Ok, did you see it actually try the CD (did the light flash) or did it simply skip over it and go to the hard drive? [snip] >> if you can find some of >>the old CD-R media >>that's gold in color, you may have better luck. >>Either that or you >>should replace the CD drive in the school's system. > > > well I have installed other programs with the same > type of cd-r media, and it did boot on my home pc > (built it myself). On the school system? Really? From the same make of blank media? That's VERY weird. Well, I suppose you could force an install by using a boot floppy if it won't boot the CD. If you can, mount the first CD under Linux and put a blank floppy in the floppy drive. As the root user: # cd /mnt/cdrom/images # dd if=bootdisk.img of=dev/fd0 bs=1k # cd /root # umount /mnt/cdrom That will build your bootable floppy. You can then boot the system off the floppy and install from the CD. [more snippage] > As stated in an earlier email IBM ThinkCentre > 8189-A4U, ahs a P4 hyperthread, 512ram, intel MB, > video integrated (Intel 650G) Sorry, lost the previous messages and didn't have a record of that. Gee, that should work with no problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - The problem with being poor is that it takes up all of your time - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri May 7 16:40:41 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 09:40:41 -0700 Subject: more yum problems In-Reply-To: <1083902803.5773.26.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> References: <20040506215653.GA509@helium.inexs.com> <409AC570.60704@vitalstream.com> <409AD93C.9090102@vitalstream.com> <1083902803.5773.26.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Message-ID: <409BBC09.6050308@vitalstream.com> mylar wrote: > So what's the overall deal with yum. Apart from the issues discussed > here is it stable ? I am still inclined to handle my updated manually > until I am convinced of yum's stability. yum is absolutely stable and has been for several years. Remember, yum is what the Yellowdog Linux distribution uses instead of Red Hat's "up2date" ("yum" = "yellowdog updater--modified"). The issues seen here are not yum issues but rpm issues. The first problem was that the databases built by rpm were built by an older version of rpm that used the glibc 2.0/2.1-style of ld linking (ld being the system linker) while the newer version uses glibc 2.2/2.3-style. They aren't completely compatible. The way to fix it is to fake out ld by setting an environment variable or by deleting the old databases and rebuilding them via "rpm --rebuilddb" so they do have the glibc 2.2/2.3 linkage. The second issue again was an rpm issue (or rather the postinstall script for the kernel RPM) where the system rebuilds the boot configuration for the new kernel. The system didn't look to see if there was adequate free disk space to complete the job before merrily going on its way and trying. I haven't looked at the postinstall script to see how it does this, but some use "grubby" and some do it via a more complex shell script. So, should you use yum? Absolutely. I do. However, before you use it, make sure you have space reserved for the downloads and any post install scripts. This means that you should have plenty of free space on /var or you should modify the /etc/yum.conf file so it uses a filesystem that does have adequate free space. > On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 20:33, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Rick Stevens wrote: >> >>>Chuck Campbell wrote: >>> >>> >>>>yum found that my kernel is out of date, and I wanted to let it do the >>>>update for me. I did: >>>> >>>>[root at helium root]# yum update kernel* >>>>Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) >>>>Server: ATrpms stable for rhl 9 >>>>Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base >>>>Server: Dag APT Repository >>>>Server: Freshrpms packages for Red Hat Linux 9 >>>>Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - Updates >>>>Finding updated packages >>>>Downloading needed headers >>>>Resolving dependencies >>>>Dependencies resolved >>>>I will do the following: >>>>[install: kernel 2.4.20-31.9.i686] >>>>Is this ok [y/N]: y >>>>Downloading Packages >>>>Running test transaction: >>>>Test transaction complete, Success! >>>> >>>>tons of snipped messages saying /var is out of space >>>> >>>>I killed the yum process, cleaned up /var moved my /var/cache to a disk >>>>with lots of space and symlinked /var/cache to that. >>>> >>>>I reran this: >>>> >>>>[root at helium root]# yum update kernel* >>>>Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) >>>>Server: ATrpms stable for rhl 9 >>>>Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base >>>>Server: Dag APT Repository >>>>Server: Freshrpms packages for Red Hat Linux 9 >>>>Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - Updates >>>>Finding updated packages >>>>Downloading needed headers >>>>Resolving dependencies >>>>Dependencies resolved >>>>I will do the following: >>>>[install: kernel 2.4.20-31.9.i686] >>>>Is this ok [y/N]: y >>>>Downloading Packages >>>>Running test transaction: >>>>Test transaction complete, Success! >>>>kernel 100 % done 1/1 Kernel Updated/Installed, checking for bootloader >>>>No bootloader found, Cannot configure kernel, continuing. >>>>Installed: kernel 2.4.20-31.9.i686 >>>>Transaction(s) Complete >>>> >>>> >>>>Given this message, I'm afraid to reboot to the new kernel, even >>>>though the >>>>/boot looks ok (all appropos files and links are there. >>>> >>>>How do I tell if my bootloader is really gone, and if so, put it back >>>>before I reboot this new kernel? >>> >>> >>>If you use lilo, verify that /etc/lilo.conf looks OK. If it looks >>>good to go, try running /sbin/lilo. It should complain if there's >>>something it doesn't like. If you use grub, verify that >>>/boot/grub/grub.conf looks good. If you want to check it, the only >>>way I know of is to try to run grub-install, e.g. "grub-install >>>/dev/hda". >>> >>>Also make sure you have a /boot/initrd-kernelversion.img file if your >>>root partition is on a SCSI disk, ext3 filesystem or an NFS volume (or >>>any combination of the three), as the necessary modules must be in the >>>initrd RAMdisk image. >> >>Oh, I forgot to add that you may wish to reinstall your boot loader >>RPM off the CD by using >> >> rpm -Uvh --force /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/whatever.rpm >> >>then upgrading it via yum. >> >>BTW, you can change where yum saves it stuff rather than symlinking >>/var/cache/yum. Just edit the "cachedir=/var/cache/yum" line in your >>/etc/yum.conf file. Also look at the "logfile=" line. >> >>I also recommend you set up some mirrors for your updates as the default >>Red Hat servers are often overloaded and since RH9 is now EOL, you won't >>find any updates past those prior to April 30, 2004. Fortunately, the >>Fedora Legacy group will support it for a while (they even have updates >>for 7.2!). You can get a list of the Fedora Legacy servers at: >> >>http://www.fedoralegacy.org/download/fedoralegacy-mirrors.php >> >>To use the mirror at fermilab (which is the one I use), you can modify >>your /etc/yum.conf's "baseurl" line under the "[updates-released]" >>section to something like: >> >>baseurl=http://linux.fnal.gov/linux/legacy/redhat/9/updates/i386 >> >>Nice of them, no? >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>- 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 - - - - "The bogosity meter just pegged." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri May 7 16:52:55 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 09:52:55 -0700 Subject: I can't use command "man" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <409BBEE7.70106@vitalstream.com> Huan Deng wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>Make sure you have an /etc/man.config file and that it is readable to >>all users (minimum of 644 or "-rw-r--r--"). An "ls -l /etc/man.config" >>should result in something like: >> >>[rick at prophead rick]$ ls -l /etc/man* >>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4568 Oct 13 2003 /etc/man.config >> >>You may want to reinstall the "man" RPM. >> > > Thanks a lot. I reinstall "man" rpm , and all users can use command "man". > But there is still a little problem . I input "man ls" , a message pops up: > > gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe > > gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe > grotty: :2585:fatal error: output error > > Usually the message is ignored by the system , and the command runs well. > I want to know if the message doesnt matter and how to correct it. This was 8.0, right? There is a glitch in the man scripts that causes that message. It's not fatal and you can safely ignore it. I never did figure out exactly what it was, but it has to do with man passing an extra space character to the gunzip command line before displaying the text. As I said, you can ignore it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Microsoft is a cross between The Borg and the Ferengi. - - Unfortunately they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to - - do their programming." -- Simon Slavin - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri May 7 17:04:02 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 10:04:02 -0700 Subject: xfce4 menu In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <409BC182.3030308@vitalstream.com> Tapas Ranjan wrote: > Hi : > Anybody, please suggest !! > > > I am using RH9 and xfce4 window manager. "Right click" on the > window doesn't help much to see all the menu items. Could anybody please > suggest, if there is any solution to see all the menu items in xfce4, > like what you see in GNOME or KDE. I think that's an issue where xfce4 doesn't take into account the position of its menu display in regards to the edges of the screen. As a result, the menu gets chopped off at the screen edge. I don't use xfce4 myself. You might try hitting xfce4's site (http://www.xfce.org/index.php) and seeing if they have any suggestions. I just did that and there is a "How do I modify the right click root menu?" in their FAQ: http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=documentation&lang=en#menu It all appears to be XML-driven, so you may be able to tweak it yourself fairly easily. Really, a simple Google search for "xfce4" would have revealed all this to you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Microsoft is a cross between The Borg and the Ferengi. - - Unfortunately they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to - - do their programming." -- Simon Slavin - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From scott at dctchambers.com Fri May 7 17:30:33 2004 From: scott at dctchambers.com (Scott Taylor) Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 10:30:33 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Sendmail SSL/TLS dummy Certs Message-ID: <1027.192.168.99.70.1083951033.squirrel@dctchambers.com> Hello, I just set up my first Enterprise Linux ES server to replace an old mail server. I have Apache running with SSL and self signed certificates, only problem I'm having is the Sendmail certificates. Sendmail is using the dummy certs and I can't for the life of me find them or figure out how to replace them. So, of course all my users are getting errors that the hostname doesn't match the name in the cert. Can someone please point me to the right docs or a how-to or even instructions on how to replace the sendmail dummy certs with my own? Cheers. -- Scott From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri May 7 18:11:15 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 11:11:15 -0700 Subject: Sendmail SSL/TLS dummy Certs In-Reply-To: <1027.192.168.99.70.1083951033.squirrel@dctchambers.com> References: <1027.192.168.99.70.1083951033.squirrel@dctchambers.com> Message-ID: <409BD143.6040407@vitalstream.com> Scott Taylor wrote: > Hello, > > I just set up my first Enterprise Linux ES server to replace an old mail > server. > > I have Apache running with SSL and self signed certificates, only problem > I'm having is the Sendmail certificates. Sendmail is using the dummy > certs and I can't for the life of me find them or figure out how to > replace them. So, of course all my users are getting errors that the > hostname doesn't match the name in the cert. > > Can someone please point me to the right docs or a how-to or even > instructions on how to replace the sendmail dummy certs with my own? You need to edit your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file and change the following macros: define(`CERT_DIR', `/path/to/your/certificates') define(`confCACERT_PATH', `CERT_DIR') define(`confCACERT',`CERT_DIR`'/cacert.pem') define(`confSERVER_CERT',`CERT_DIR`'/client.cert.pem') define(`confSERVER_KEY',`CERT_DIR`'/client.key.pem') define(`confCLIENT_CERT',`CERT_DIR`'/client.cert.pem') define(`confCLIENT_KEY',`CERT_DIR`'/client.key.pem') That assumes you use the same keys for both client and server. If you want to use different files, change the appropriate lines. Once you make these changes, "/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart" should rebuild your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file and you should be using your new certs. I HIGHLY recommend you get a copy of the "Bat" book if you intend to do anything with sendmail. It's $60 US and worth every penny. The stuff I just described is on page 420 of the 3rd edition of the book. Get it. The "Bat" book: sendmail, 3rd Edition By Bryan Costales and Eric Allman O'Reilly & Associates, 2003 http://www.oreilly.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "More hay, Trigger?" "No thanks, Roy, I'm stuffed!" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From scott at dctchambers.com Fri May 7 18:51:15 2004 From: scott at dctchambers.com (Scott Taylor) Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 11:51:15 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Sendmail SSL/TLS dummy Certs In-Reply-To: <409BD143.6040407@vitalstream.com> References: <1027.192.168.99.70.1083951033.squirrel@dctchambers.com> <409BD143.6040407@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1167.192.168.99.70.1083955875.squirrel@dctchambers.com> Rick Stevens said: > Scott Taylor wrote: >> Hello, >> > > You need to edit your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file and change the > following macros: > > define(`CERT_DIR', `/path/to/your/certificates') > define(`confCACERT_PATH', `CERT_DIR') > define(`confCACERT',`CERT_DIR`'/cacert.pem') > define(`confSERVER_CERT',`CERT_DIR`'/client.cert.pem') > define(`confSERVER_KEY',`CERT_DIR`'/client.key.pem') > define(`confCLIENT_CERT',`CERT_DIR`'/client.cert.pem') > define(`confCLIENT_KEY',`CERT_DIR`'/client.key.pem') Yeah, that's what I've been looking for, but they aren't in that file. So where is this new RH getting these dummy certs from in the first place? I'll try adding those lines, does it matter where in the file? > That assumes you use the same keys for both client and server. If you > want to use different files, change the appropriate lines. Once you > make these changes, "/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart" should rebuild > your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file and you should be using your new certs. Do I create these files the same as I created the Apache ones, or just use the same files or what? > I HIGHLY recommend you get a copy of the "Bat" book if you intend to do > anything with sendmail. It's $60 US and worth every penny. The stuff I > just described is on page 420 of the 3rd edition of the book. Get it. I have it, just a bit old I think, seems this version has a lot of different commands then when I bought that book (8.8.8 era). Cheers. Scott. From hdeng at microscience.com.cn Sat May 8 01:20:10 2004 From: hdeng at microscience.com.cn (Huan Deng) Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 9:20:10 +0800 Subject: I can't use command "man" Message-ID: Rick Stevens wrote: ?? >Huan Deng wrote: >> Rick Stevens wrote: >> >> >>>Make sure you have an /etc/man.config file and that it is readable to >>>all users (minimum of 644 or "-rw-r--r--"). An "ls -l /etc/man.config" >>>should result in something like: >>> >>>[rick at prophead rick]$ ls -l /etc/man* >>>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4568 Oct 13 2003 /etc/man.config >>> >>>You may want to reinstall the "man" RPM. >>> >> >> Thanks a lot. I reinstall "man" rpm , and all users can use command "man". >> But there is still a little problem . I input "man ls" , a message pops up: >> >> gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe >> >> gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe >> grotty: :2585:fatal error: output error >> >> Usually the message is ignored by the system , and the command runs well. >> I want to know if the message doesnt matter and how to correct it. > >This was 8.0, right? There is a glitch in the man scripts that causes >that message. It's not fatal and you can safely ignore it. I never >did figure out exactly what it was, but it has to do with man passing >an extra space character to the gunzip command line before displaying >the text. > >As I said, you can ignore it. >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >- - >- "Microsoft is a cross between The Borg and the Ferengi. - >- Unfortunately they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to - >- do their programming." -- Simon Slavin - >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ok,thank you very much .You are so kind :) Huan Deng hdeng at microscience.com.cn 2004-05-08 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Rajeev. *================ From hdeng at microscience.com.cn Sat May 8 08:18:19 2004 From: hdeng at microscience.com.cn (Huan Deng) Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 16:18:19 +0800 Subject: About kwuftpd Message-ID: hi, I installed kwuftpd on Redhat 8.0 some days ago , at that time ,all users have ftp accesses.Strangely,now two users can't connect to the server through ftp while others can. There is none error message display.I don't know why. Can someone fix it ? Thanks very much for your help. ?? ??????? Huan Deng hdeng at microscience.com.cn 2004-05-08 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Cheers, Mark From gnichols at tpg.com.au Sat May 8 21:43:22 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 09 May 2004 07:43:22 +1000 Subject: ADSL usb modems In-Reply-To: <40991BE2.2020106@vitalstream.com> References: <3E5BBEA5.8000905@vitalstream.com> <1082871109.1722.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <408D39B2.3070108@vitalstr eam.com> <1083304919.1498.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4092860E.90203@vitalstream.com> <1083726285.1391.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40991BE2.2020106@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1084052605.1561.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 02:52, Rick Stevens wrote: Thanks to Rick and Daniel for their advice and sharing their experiences. It is very much appreciated. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A novice programmer was once assigned to code a simple financial package. 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URL: From pmor82 at yahoo.com Mon May 10 12:06:35 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 05:06:35 -0700 (PDT) Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: <20040510120635.75113.qmail@web41013.mail.yahoo.com> Pedro Morales wrote: > --- Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Pedro Morales wrote: >> >>>--- jludwig wrote: >>> >>> >>>>On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 12:01, Pedro Morales wrote: >>>>snip >>>> >>>> >>>>>the cd1 has: >>>>>in green: >>>>>autorun >>>>>eula.txt >>>>>GPL >>>>>readme >>>>>readme-acessbility >>>>>release -notes >>>>>release -notes.html >>>>>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 >>>>>Trans.tbl >>>>> >>>>>in blue >>>>>dosutils >>>>>fedora >>>>>images >>>>>isolinux >>>>> >>>>>did I download the wrong iso or is it missing the >>>> >>>>boot >>>> >>>> >>>>>file? >>>> >>>>snip >>>>This is a correct burn. Now the question is this >>>>yarrow* (Fedora Core 1 >>>>--FC1) or Fedora core 2. >>>>FC2 has errors that won't allow it to boot on some >>>>systems. It is also a >>>>beta test core for the gurus and grungy beasties >> >>to >> >>>>play with. >>>> >>>>-- >>>>jludwig >>> >>> >>> >>>ok well I downloaded teh cd1 iso again, burned it, >> >>ran >> >>>it in my pc and it booted from the cd, but it >> >>didnt in >> >>>teh classroom, the bio has cdrom as first boot and >> >>HD >> >>>as second, it read teh cdrom and went to the HD >> >>and >> >>>loaded 7.2, now im wondering, is there a way to >> >>run >> >>>the FC1 installation from the 7.2 text mode? >> >>I'm not certain I understand that. I understand >>that English isn't >>your primary language, so try to answer these one at >>a time: > > > well, I've been in the US for over 3 years, and in > college, so I do try my best to write it and get > understood... Sorry. Your messages tend to run together a bit. I have trouble reading them. But I'm old (46) and it's probably my fault. :-( I appologize. >>1. Did you burn the Fedora Core 1 .iso image on a >>new CD? > > > yes > > >>2. Did that CD boot on your home system? > > > yes Ah, good...so we know it's good media--as far as booting is concerned. >>3. If #2 is "yes", did that CD boot on your school >>system? > > > no Ugh! Ok. let's press on. >>4. If #3 is "no", did you check the BIOS settings on >>the school system >>to make sure it would try to boot the CD before the >>hard disk? > > > yes Ok, did you see it actually try the CD (did the light flash) or did it simply skip over it and go to the hard drive? [snip] >> if you can find some of >>the old CD-R media >>that's gold in color, you may have better luck. >>Either that or you >>should replace the CD drive in the school's system. > > > well I have installed other programs with the same > type of cd-r media, and it did boot on my home pc > (built it myself). On the school system? Really? From the same make of blank media? That's VERY weird. Well, I suppose you could force an install by using a boot floppy if it won't boot the CD. If you can, mount the first CD under Linux and put a blank floppy in the floppy drive. As the root user: # cd /mnt/cdrom/images # dd if=bootdisk.img of=dev/fd0 bs=1k # cd /root # umount /mnt/cdrom That will build your bootable floppy. You can then boot the system off the floppy and install from the CD. [more snippage] > As stated in an earlier email IBM ThinkCentre > 8189-A4U, ahs a P4 hyperthread, 512ram, intel MB, > video integrated (Intel 650G) Sorry, lost the previous messages and didn't have a record of that. Gee, that should work with no problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - The problem with being poor is that it takes up all of your time - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover From pmor82 at yahoo.com Mon May 10 12:08:37 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 05:08:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 Message-ID: <20040510120837.32132.qmail@web41010.mail.yahoo.com> Pedro Morales wrote: > --- Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Pedro Morales wrote: >> >>>--- jludwig wrote: >>> >>> >>>>On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 12:01, Pedro Morales wrote: >>>>snip >>>> >>>> >>>>>the cd1 has: >>>>>in green: >>>>>autorun >>>>>eula.txt >>>>>GPL >>>>>readme >>>>>readme-acessbility >>>>>release -notes >>>>>release -notes.html >>>>>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 >>>>>Trans.tbl >>>>> >>>>>in blue >>>>>dosutils >>>>>fedora >>>>>images >>>>>isolinux >>>>> >>>>>did I download the wrong iso or is it missing the >>>> >>>>boot >>>> >>>> >>>>>file? >>>> >>>>snip >>>>This is a correct burn. Now the question is this >>>>yarrow* (Fedora Core 1 >>>>--FC1) or Fedora core 2. >>>>FC2 has errors that won't allow it to boot on some >>>>systems. It is also a >>>>beta test core for the gurus and grungy beasties >> >>to >> >>>>play with. >>>> >>>>-- >>>>jludwig >>> >>> >>> >>>ok well I downloaded teh cd1 iso again, burned it, >> >>ran >> >>>it in my pc and it booted from the cd, but it >> >>didnt in >> >>>teh classroom, the bio has cdrom as first boot and >> >>HD >> >>>as second, it read teh cdrom and went to the HD >> >>and >> >>>loaded 7.2, now im wondering, is there a way to >> >>run >> >>>the FC1 installation from the 7.2 text mode? >> >>I'm not certain I understand that. I understand >>that English isn't >>your primary language, so try to answer these one at >>a time: > > > well, I've been in the US for over 3 years, and in > college, so I do try my best to write it and get > understood... Sorry. Your messages tend to run together a bit. I have trouble reading them. But I'm old (46) and it's probably my fault. :-( I appologize. >>1. Did you burn the Fedora Core 1 .iso image on a >>new CD? > > > yes > > >>2. Did that CD boot on your home system? > > > yes Ah, good...so we know it's good media--as far as booting is concerned. >>3. If #2 is "yes", did that CD boot on your school >>system? > > > no Ugh! Ok. let's press on. >>4. If #3 is "no", did you check the BIOS settings on >>the school system >>to make sure it would try to boot the CD before the >>hard disk? > > > yes Ok, did you see it actually try the CD (did the light flash) or did it simply skip over it and go to the hard drive? [snip] >> if you can find some of >>the old CD-R media >>that's gold in color, you may have better luck. >>Either that or you >>should replace the CD drive in the school's system. > > > well I have installed other programs with the same > type of cd-r media, and it did boot on my home pc > (built it myself). On the school system? Really? From the same make of blank media? That's VERY weird. Well, I suppose you could force an install by using a boot floppy if it won't boot the CD. If you can, mount the first CD under Linux and put a blank floppy in the floppy drive. As the root user: # cd /mnt/cdrom/images # dd if=bootdisk.img of=dev/fd0 bs=1k # cd /root # umount /mnt/cdrom That will build your bootable floppy. You can then boot the system off the floppy and install from the CD. [more snippage] > As stated in an earlier email IBM ThinkCentre > 8189-A4U, ahs a P4 hyperthread, 512ram, intel MB, > video integrated (Intel 650G) Sorry, lost the previous messages and didn't have a record of that. Gee, that should work with no problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - The problem with being poor is that it takes up all of your time - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ok so I tried to make the bootable floppy, and im getting the following error: "dev/fd0" no such file or directory __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover From pmor82 at yahoo.com Mon May 10 12:27:58 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 05:27:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat 7.2 In-Reply-To: <409BB921.3020202@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040510122758.45365.qmail@web41001.mail.yahoo.com> --- Rick Stevens wrote: > Pedro Morales wrote: > > --- Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >>Pedro Morales wrote: > >> > >>>--- jludwig wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 12:01, Pedro Morales > wrote: > >>>>snip > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>the cd1 has: > >>>>>in green: > >>>>>autorun > >>>>>eula.txt > >>>>>GPL > >>>>>readme > >>>>>readme-acessbility > >>>>>release -notes > >>>>>release -notes.html > >>>>>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 > >>>>>Trans.tbl > >>>>> > >>>>>in blue > >>>>>dosutils > >>>>>fedora > >>>>>images > >>>>>isolinux > >>>>> > >>>>>did I download the wrong iso or is it missing > the > >>>> > >>>>boot > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>file? > >>>> > >>>>snip > >>>>This is a correct burn. Now the question is this > >>>>yarrow* (Fedora Core 1 > >>>>--FC1) or Fedora core 2. > >>>>FC2 has errors that won't allow it to boot on > some > >>>>systems. It is also a > >>>>beta test core for the gurus and grungy beasties > >> > >>to > >> > >>>>play with. > >>>> > >>>>-- > >>>>jludwig > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>ok well I downloaded teh cd1 iso again, burned > it, > >> > >>ran > >> > >>>it in my pc and it booted from the cd, but it > >> > >>didnt in > >> > >>>teh classroom, the bio has cdrom as first boot > and > >> > >>HD > >> > >>>as second, it read teh cdrom and went to the HD > >> > >>and > >> > >>>loaded 7.2, now im wondering, is there a way to > >> > >>run > >> > >>>the FC1 installation from the 7.2 text mode? > >> > >>I'm not certain I understand that. I understand > >>that English isn't > >>your primary language, so try to answer these one > at > >>a time: > > > > > > well, I've been in the US for over 3 years, and in > > college, so I do try my best to write it and get > > understood... > > Sorry. Your messages tend to run together a bit. I > have trouble > reading them. But I'm old (46) and it's probably my > fault. :-( I > appologize. > > >>1. Did you burn the Fedora Core 1 .iso image on a > >>new CD? > > > > > > yes > > > > > >>2. Did that CD boot on your home system? > > > > > > yes > > Ah, good...so we know it's good media--as far as > booting is concerned. > > >>3. If #2 is "yes", did that CD boot on your school > >>system? > > > > > > no > > Ugh! Ok. let's press on. > > >>4. If #3 is "no", did you check the BIOS settings > on > >>the school system > >>to make sure it would try to boot the CD before > the > >>hard disk? > > > > > > yes > > Ok, did you see it actually try the CD (did the > light flash) or did > it simply skip over it and go to the hard drive? > > [snip] > > >> if you can find some of > >>the old CD-R media > >>that's gold in color, you may have better luck. > >>Either that or you > >>should replace the CD drive in the school's > system. > > > > > > well I have installed other programs with the same > > type of cd-r media, and it did boot on my home pc > > (built it myself). > > On the school system? Really? From the same make > of blank media? > That's VERY weird. > > Well, I suppose you could force an install by using > a boot floppy if it > won't boot the CD. If you can, mount the first CD > under Linux and put > a blank floppy in the floppy drive. As the root > user: > > # cd /mnt/cdrom/images > # dd if=bootdisk.img of=dev/fd0 bs=1k > # cd /root > # umount /mnt/cdrom > > That will build your bootable floppy. You can then > boot the system off > the floppy and install from the CD. > > [more snippage] > > > As stated in an earlier email IBM ThinkCentre > > 8189-A4U, ahs a P4 hyperthread, 512ram, intel MB, > > video integrated (Intel 650G) > > Sorry, lost the previous messages and didn't have a > record of that. > Gee, that should work with no problem. nm the last two emails, found the problem, missing a / , but now I loaded the boot disk and got to the installation screen, it asked me which device had the core files, I specified cdrom, then it tells me that it can't find the core files, I tried all 3 cdroms and non of them has them. All 3 cds were copied with the iso of all 3 cds, so I must be missing something. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover From ghansen at stealthnetwork.com Mon May 10 16:35:49 2004 From: ghansen at stealthnetwork.com (George Hansen) Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:35:49 -0700 Subject: Sda boot parameter is not working Message-ID: When I enter linux sda=1106,255,63 after booting to CD1, the system still uses the incorrect CHS settings. What am I doing wrong? From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon May 10 16:46:42 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:46:42 -0700 Subject: split screen in talk In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20040509130745.00b4aed0@192.168.0.127> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20040509130745.00b4aed0@192.168.0.127> Message-ID: <409FB1F2.8050003@vitalstream.com> Steve Larsen wrote: > Hello Install List, > > I have talkd installed and it seems to run .. but not in a split screen > mode. > When I type " talk user " and the user replies, we seem to be typing over > each others words and no "split screen" shows up. This is not the behavior > I remember from using this years ago. Some information on the system is > included below. > > rpm -qa talk* > talk-0.17-12 > talk-server-0.17-12 > ========= > > netstat -l > Active Internet connections (only servers) > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address > State > udp 0 0 *:talk > *:* > udp 0 0 *:ntalk > *:* > ========= > Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) > Kernel 2.4.18-3 on an i686 > ========= > service talk > { > disable = no > socket_type = dgram > wait = yes > user = nobody > group = tty > server = /usr/sbin/in.talkd > } > > My initial thoughts are that this version of talk is too old? Does > anyone have > any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks in advance. Check your "TERM" environment variable. Your terminal must be able to do split screen (addressable cursor, etc.). Works for me. You really should do some updates. 2.4.18-3 is the original kernel for 7.3 and it's bloody ancient. The latest is 2.4.20-31.7legacy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon May 10 16:48:42 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:48:42 -0700 Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 In-Reply-To: <20040510120837.32132.qmail@web41010.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040510120837.32132.qmail@web41010.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <409FB26A.4080407@vitalstream.com> Pedro Morales wrote: > Pedro Morales wrote: > >>--- Rick Stevens wrote: >> >> >>>Pedro Morales wrote: >>> >>> >>>>--- jludwig wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 12:01, Pedro Morales wrote: >>>>>snip >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>the cd1 has: >>>>>>in green: >>>>>>autorun >>>>>>eula.txt >>>>>>GPL >>>>>>readme >>>>>>readme-acessbility >>>>>>release -notes >>>>>>release -notes.html >>>>>>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 >>>>>>Trans.tbl >>>>>> >>>>>>in blue >>>>>>dosutils >>>>>>fedora >>>>>>images >>>>>>isolinux >>>>>> >>>>>>did I download the wrong iso or is it missing the >>>>> >>>>>boot >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>file? >>>>> >>>>>snip >>>>>This is a correct burn. Now the question is this >>>>>yarrow* (Fedora Core 1 >>>>>--FC1) or Fedora core 2. >>>>>FC2 has errors that won't allow it to boot on some >>>>>systems. It is also a >>>>>beta test core for the gurus and grungy beasties >>> >>>to >>> >>> >>>>>play with. >>>>> >>>>>-- >>>>>jludwig >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>ok well I downloaded teh cd1 iso again, burned it, >>> >>>ran >>> >>> >>>>it in my pc and it booted from the cd, but it >>> >>>didnt in >>> >>> >>>>teh classroom, the bio has cdrom as first boot and >>> >>>HD >>> >>> >>>>as second, it read teh cdrom and went to the HD >>> >>>and >>> >>> >>>>loaded 7.2, now im wondering, is there a way to >>> >>>run >>> >>> >>>>the FC1 installation from the 7.2 text mode? >>> >>>I'm not certain I understand that. I understand >>>that English isn't >>>your primary language, so try to answer these one at >>>a time: >> >> >>well, I've been in the US for over 3 years, and in >>college, so I do try my best to write it and get >>understood... > > > Sorry. Your messages tend to run together a bit. I > have trouble > reading them. But I'm old (46) and it's probably my > fault. :-( I > appologize. > > >>>1. Did you burn the Fedora Core 1 .iso image on a >>>new CD? >> >> >>yes >> >> >> >>>2. Did that CD boot on your home system? >> >> >>yes > > > Ah, good...so we know it's good media--as far as > booting is concerned. > > >>>3. If #2 is "yes", did that CD boot on your school >>>system? >> >> >>no > > > Ugh! Ok. let's press on. > > >>>4. If #3 is "no", did you check the BIOS settings on >>>the school system >>>to make sure it would try to boot the CD before the >>>hard disk? >> >> >>yes > > > Ok, did you see it actually try the CD (did the light > flash) or did > it simply skip over it and go to the hard drive? > > [snip] > > >>> if you can find some of >>>the old CD-R media >>>that's gold in color, you may have better luck. >>>Either that or you >>>should replace the CD drive in the school's system. >> >> >>well I have installed other programs with the same >>type of cd-r media, and it did boot on my home pc >>(built it myself). > > > On the school system? Really? From the same make of > blank media? > That's VERY weird. > > Well, I suppose you could force an install by using a > boot floppy if it > won't boot the CD. If you can, mount the first CD > under Linux and put > a blank floppy in the floppy drive. As the root user: > > # cd /mnt/cdrom/images > # dd if=bootdisk.img of=dev/fd0 bs=1k > # cd /root > # umount /mnt/cdrom > > That will build your bootable floppy. You can then > boot the system off > the floppy and install from the CD. > > [more snippage] > > >>As stated in an earlier email IBM ThinkCentre >>8189-A4U, ahs a P4 hyperthread, 512ram, intel MB, >>video integrated (Intel 650G) > > > Sorry, lost the previous messages and didn't have a > record of that. > Gee, that should work with no problem. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer > rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. > http://www.vitalstream.com - > - > - > - The problem with being poor is that it takes up all > of your time - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ok so I tried to make the bootable floppy, and im > getting the following error: > > "dev/fd0" no such file or directory Sorry, that's a typo. That line is " dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Where there's a will, I want to be in it. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon May 10 16:54:44 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:54:44 -0700 Subject: Sda boot parameter is not working In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <409FB3D4.2020603@vitalstream.com> George Hansen wrote: > When I enter linux sda=1106,255,63 after booting to CD1, the system still uses the incorrect CHS settings. What am I doing wrong? The parameters are "sda=cyl/heads/sec" (slashes, not commas). Besides, SCSI really doesn't use CHS numbering. A SCSI disk is treated like a contiguous string of "n" blocks. CHS is really only significant when you have an IDE or (god forbid) an ancient ST506 or ST412 drive that doesn't support LBA mode. Why are you forcing a CHS on this anyway? Any particular reason? Is your BIOS too dead to sort it out? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Where there's a will, I want to be in it. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon May 10 16:56:51 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:56:51 -0700 Subject: ISDN Modem. In-Reply-To: <200405071442.18220.sg@pobox.com> References: <37282.202.63.162.138.1083814454.squirrel@maxproxy1.uk2net.com> <409A69B8.2020001@vitalstream.com> <200405071442.18220.sg@pobox.com> Message-ID: <409FB453.6090006@vitalstream.com> sg at pobox.com wrote: > I have installed ISDN modem on RedHat Linux 9.0 after installtion when i want > to connecting using KPPP it will display error no 16. > > Same error will display when i am using WVDIAL. and i am not able to connect. > > When i have activate ppp0 connection using network setting than it will > display same error. Error 16 is EBUSY (or "device or resource busy"), so either something else is camping out on the modem or it doesn't actually exist. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Jimmie crack corn and I don't care...what kind of lousy attitude - - is THAT to have, huh? -- Dennis Miller - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon May 10 17:10:44 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 10:10:44 -0700 Subject: NTFS Kernel Modules available Message-ID: <409FB794.6090302@vitalstream.com> Please be informed that the Unofficial Red Hat Install List Website (URHILW, http://www.rhil.net) now has NTFS kernel modules available for the latest Fedora Core 1 kernel (kernel 2.4.22-1.2188nptl) for both Intel 32-bit and AMD 64-bit processors. Surf on over to http://www.rhil.net/kernelstuff/modules.html to pick them up. Sorry it took so long, gang. I've been busy! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - What's small, yellow and very, VERY dangerous? The root canary! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From pmor82 at yahoo.com Mon May 10 20:10:42 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 13:10:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 In-Reply-To: <409FB26A.4080407@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040510201042.6956.qmail@web41011.mail.yahoo.com> > > > > # cd /mnt/cdrom/images > > # dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k > > # cd /root > > # umount /mnt/cdrom Thanks so far guys, specially Rick, so guess final try before I jsut stay with 7.2 and just stick to text mode... I got the boot disk to work, when the FC1 installation starts it asks me for the Core files, I told it to check on the cdrom, it couldn't find it, so I quitted the installation and made a Fedora directory in my /root, copied all the files from all 3 cd's in there, tried to install again and selected that pathname for the directory with the core files(/root/Fedora), still couldn't find it, but then I noticed that it was asking for the "image", so I'm wondering, have I been doing everything wrong? should I have burned the image itself into the cd and not open the image and burn it's contents? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Mon May 10 20:18:19 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 15:18:19 -0500 Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 In-Reply-To: <20040510201042.6956.qmail@web41011.mail.yahoo.com> References: <409FB26A.4080407@vitalstream.com> <20040510201042.6956.qmail@web41011.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20040510201819.GA6937@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 01:10:42PM -0700, Pedro Morales wrote: > > > > > > # cd /mnt/cdrom/images > > > # dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k > > > # cd /root > > > # umount /mnt/cdrom > > Thanks so far guys, specially Rick, so guess final try > before I jsut stay with 7.2 and just stick to text > mode... > > I got the boot disk to work, when the FC1 installation > starts it asks me for the Core files, I told it to > check on the cdrom, it couldn't find it, so I quitted > the installation and made a Fedora directory in my > /root, copied all the files from all 3 cd's in there, > tried to install again and selected that pathname for > the directory with the core files(/root/Fedora), still > couldn't find it, but then I noticed that it was > asking for the "image", so I'm wondering, have I been > doing everything wrong? should I have burned the image > itself into the cd and not open the image and burn > it's contents? That is correct. See http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#making_cds Enjoy your new coasters. :-) Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Salvation is free, but you have to ask for it. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon May 10 21:29:19 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 14:29:19 -0700 Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 In-Reply-To: <20040510201042.6956.qmail@web41011.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040510201042.6956.qmail@web41011.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <409FF42F.3000707@vitalstream.com> Pedro Morales wrote: >>> # cd /mnt/cdrom/images >>> # dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k >>> # cd /root >>> # umount /mnt/cdrom > > > Thanks so far guys, specially Rick, so guess final try > before I jsut stay with 7.2 and just stick to text > mode... > > I got the boot disk to work, when the FC1 installation > starts it asks me for the Core files, I told it to > check on the cdrom, it couldn't find it, so I quitted > the installation and made a Fedora directory in my > /root, copied all the files from all 3 cd's in there, > tried to install again and selected that pathname for > the directory with the core files(/root/Fedora), still > couldn't find it, but then I noticed that it was > asking for the "image", so I'm wondering, have I been > doing everything wrong? should I have burned the image > itself into the cd and not open the image and burn > it's contents? You do not burn the contents OR the image. An ISO image is an image of the CD. It can be mounted just like the CD itself could. Your software should have an option like "Create a CD from an ISO image", but since you haven't told us what software you're trying to use, we can't help more than telling you that. Again, do not burn the .iso image as if it were a file and do not burn the contents of the .iso image, but find the option in your software to create the CD FROM an ISO image and use that. As far as the boot floppy is concerned, it is intended to be used with a system which either cannot boot CDs or doesn't have a CD drive. In the latter case, you can install from a network drive or another partition. When you do that, the .iso files MUST be where you tell the installer to look and MUST be named appropriately, e.g. "yarrow-i386-disc1.iso" or whatever. Each installer is different, so a network or foreign filesystem install using the RH9 installer will NOT work for a Fedora install--you must use the installer appropriate for your distribution. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 jlyn at mindspring.com Mon May 10 22:27:34 2004 From: jlyn at mindspring.com (Jen) Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 18:27:34 -0400 Subject: DCHP, Router, DSL, redhat9 problem. Message-ID: <000601c436dd$fd79b260$1586299b@labcomp> Hi there, I've been having an annoying problem with my defualt installation of redhat 9. I origianlly had Mandrake on my machine and decided to try Redhat out, which I installed with no problem. I choose DHCP during installation to configure my NIC as I have DSL pumped in through a Linksys Router. However, During boot, I receive a message that my NIC is down and I cannot ping or configure the NIC through Internet Config manager when the nic is set to DHCP. However, if I give the NIC a static IP address of 10.0.0.1, the NIC will report as UP during boot, however, I still cannot reach the internet. So basically: *Wireless Router is set to be a DHC server *NIC w/DHCP - doesn't initialize during boot and can't get to the internet. *NIC with 10.0.01 Will initialize, but still can't get to the internet. *If I install another Linux version such as Mandrake, the defualt works perfectly, so I do not think this is a NIC or Router Problem. I believe that pings don't work with either configuration - I will have to double check on this though. Any and all ideas are welcome, Thank you, Jen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Admin / Developer From scott at dctchambers.com Mon May 10 23:03:02 2004 From: scott at dctchambers.com (Scott Taylor) Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:03:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: DCHP, Router, DSL, redhat9 problem. In-Reply-To: <000601c436dd$fd79b260$1586299b@labcomp> References: <000601c436dd$fd79b260$1586299b@labcomp> Message-ID: <2211.192.168.99.70.1084230182.squirrel@dctchambers.com> Jen said: > Hi there, > So basically: > > *Wireless Router is set to be a DHC server > *NIC w/DHCP - doesn't initialize during boot and can't get to the > internet. Check for errors in /var/log files. Probably can not find a DHCP server, in which case, check cabling and config of your DHCP server. No, your NIC will not init if it is expecting DHCP and doesn't find it. Maybe a bad NIC, bad cable or bad DHCP server, at this point. > *NIC with 10.0.01 Will initialize, but still can't get to the internet. Why would you use 10.0.0.1? On what subnet? What is the local IP of your router? What is your default gateway? > *If I install another Linux version such as Mandrake, the defualt works > perfectly, so I do not think this is a NIC or Router Problem. The default DHCP on most new Linux distros will work, even RH9 and Fedora too. > I believe that pings don't work with either configuration - I will have to > double check on this though. Ping can't work if the two devices are not configured properly. If ping doesn't work, either your firewall blocks it, with is not a good practice before you get your network to work, or your network is miss-wired or miss-configured. -- Scott From pmor82 at yahoo.com Mon May 10 23:11:39 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:11:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 In-Reply-To: <409FF42F.3000707@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040510231139.80293.qmail@web41008.mail.yahoo.com> --- Rick Stevens wrote: > Pedro Morales wrote: > >>> # cd /mnt/cdrom/images > >>> # dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k > >>> # cd /root > >>> # umount /mnt/cdrom > > > > > > Thanks so far guys, specially Rick, so guess final > try > > before I jsut stay with 7.2 and just stick to text > > mode... > > > > I got the boot disk to work, when the FC1 > installation > > starts it asks me for the Core files, I told it to > > check on the cdrom, it couldn't find it, so I > quitted > > the installation and made a Fedora directory in my > > /root, copied all the files from all 3 cd's in > there, > > tried to install again and selected that pathname > for > > the directory with the core files(/root/Fedora), > still > > couldn't find it, but then I noticed that it was > > asking for the "image", so I'm wondering, have I > been > > doing everything wrong? should I have burned the > image > > itself into the cd and not open the image and burn > > it's contents? > > You do not burn the contents OR the image. An ISO > image is an image of > the CD. It can be mounted just like the CD itself > could. Your software > should have an option like "Create a CD from an ISO > image", but since > you haven't told us what software you're trying to > use, we can't help > more than telling you that. Again, do not burn the > .iso image as if > it were a file and do not burn the contents of the > .iso image, but > find the option in your software to create the CD > FROM an ISO image > and use that. I use Nero Express and Sonic RecordNow! (came with Sony dvd burner). I was actually using WinImage to open the .iso file and copy the contents to my HD then burn it. I'll look for the option to make a cd from teh image. > As far as the boot floppy is concerned, it is > intended to be used with > a system which either cannot boot CDs or doesn't > have a CD drive. > In the latter case, you can install from a network > drive or another > partition. When you do that, the .iso files MUST be > where you tell > the installer to look and MUST be named > appropriately, e.g. > "yarrow-i386-disc1.iso" or whatever. Each installer > is different, so > a network or foreign filesystem install using the > RH9 installer will > NOT work for a Fedora install--you must use the > installer appropriate > for your distribution. Well in our case, even if I added the images to our server it wouldn't work since RH7.2 can't recognize our NICs. All right, I'll try again tomrrow and trouble you guys again on the result =) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover From hdeng at microscience.com.cn Tue May 11 03:02:01 2004 From: hdeng at microscience.com.cn (Huan Deng) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 11:2:1 +0800 Subject: How to restart X server Message-ID: hi, I changed resolution and should restart X server for the changes to take effects.I don't know how to restart X server except rebooting the computer.Some users have connected to the server,and rebooting will cause some trouble. How to restart X server without rebooting. Thank you very much ?? ??????? Huan Deng hdeng at microscience.com.cn 2004-05-11 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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You can kill it with: kill -9 PID Cheers ===== -- Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 http://manuel.todo-linux.com ______________________________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! - 6MB, m?s protecci?n contra el spam ?Gratis! http://correo.yahoo.es From hdeng at microscience.com.cn Tue May 11 08:24:22 2004 From: hdeng at microscience.com.cn (Huan Deng) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 16:24:22 +0800 Subject: How to restart X server Message-ID: Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote: ???? > --- Huan Deng escribi?: > >hi, >> I changed resolution and should restart X server >> for the changes to take effects.I don't know how to >> restart X server except rebooting the computer.Some >> users have connected to the server,and rebooting >> will cause some trouble. >> How to restart X server without rebooting. >> Thank you very much >> >> >Look at your /etc/inittab, some linux may restart >x-server with: crtl+alt+backspace >If not, ps aux | grep X may show you the PID of your X >server. >You can kill it with: kill -9 PID >Cheers > >===== ok, it works well. Thank you very much . >-- > >Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 >http://manuel.todo-linux.com > > > >______________________________________________________________________ >Correo Yahoo! - 6MB, m?s protecci?n contra el spam ?Gratis! >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 Huan Deng hdeng at microscience.com.cn 2004-05-11 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: FACE-3.GIF Type: image/gif Size: 842 bytes Desc: not available URL: From hdeng at microscience.com.cn Tue May 11 09:54:37 2004 From: hdeng at microscience.com.cn (Huan Deng) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 17:54:37 +0800 Subject: Help! My disk is full! Message-ID: Hello, Guys, It is so strange that my hard disk is full in a very short time. Almost 30GB+ space is consumed in a few hour. I checked the disk using command df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 7052496 2858552 3835696 43% / /dev/sda1 101089 15076 80794 16% /boot /dev/sda6 60989924 56854996 1036796 99% /home none 2065448 0 2065448 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda5 396623 70972 305170 19% /var The /home is occupied nealy 100%. (I deleted some files just now.) Then I checked the directory /home/cadmin using du --max-depth=1 . 16 ./.kde 4 ./.gconfd 236 ./.gconf 712 ./license 28 ./.gnome 56 ./.gnome2 4 ./.gnome2_private 20 ./.nautilus 12 ./.gnome-desktop 28 ./.metacity 35445700 . I was so curious and deleted the directory /home/cadmin. But the space is still almost full. The system is Redhat 8.0, Kernel is 2.4.18-3bigmem. Anybody can help me? Thanks ??????? Huan Deng hdeng at microscience.com.cn 2004-05-11 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: FACE-3.GIF Type: image/gif Size: 842 bytes Desc: not available URL: From dana.work at navarrocollege.edu Tue May 11 13:53:58 2004 From: dana.work at navarrocollege.edu (Dana Holland) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 08:53:58 -0500 Subject: installed new hard drive - now can't find it In-Reply-To: <40916A5B.6090202@vitalstream.com> References: <408D7351.5070407@navarrocollege.edu> <408E99E4.6090501@vitalstream.com> <408FA801.1030901@navarrocollege.edu> <408FE950.10901@controlnet.com> <409123DD.1090602@navarrocollege.edu> <40916A5B.6090202@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40A0DAF6.50403@navarrocollege.edu> Just to let you all know that we resolved the problem - found the additional space, partitioned it and created a new file system. Things are working fine. And we've done screen prints of all these instructions and put them in our documentation manual. ;-) From pmor82 at yahoo.com Tue May 11 14:13:00 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 07:13:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 In-Reply-To: <409FF42F.3000707@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040511141300.47958.qmail@web41003.mail.yahoo.com> --- Rick Stevens wrote: > Pedro Morales wrote: > >>> # cd /mnt/cdrom/images > >>> # dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k > >>> # cd /root > >>> # umount /mnt/cdrom > > > > > > Thanks so far guys, specially Rick, so guess final > try > > before I jsut stay with 7.2 and just stick to text > > mode... > > > > I got the boot disk to work, when the FC1 > installation > > starts it asks me for the Core files, I told it to > > check on the cdrom, it couldn't find it, so I > quitted > > the installation and made a Fedora directory in my > > /root, copied all the files from all 3 cd's in > there, > > tried to install again and selected that pathname > for > > the directory with the core files(/root/Fedora), > still > > couldn't find it, but then I noticed that it was > > asking for the "image", so I'm wondering, have I > been > > doing everything wrong? should I have burned the > image > > itself into the cd and not open the image and burn > > it's contents? > > You do not burn the contents OR the image. An ISO > image is an image of > the CD. It can be mounted just like the CD itself > could. Your software > should have an option like "Create a CD from an ISO > image", but since > you haven't told us what software you're trying to > use, we can't help > more than telling you that. Again, do not burn the > .iso image as if > it were a file and do not burn the contents of the > .iso image, but > find the option in your software to create the CD > FROM an ISO image > and use that. > > As far as the boot floppy is concerned, it is > intended to be used with > a system which either cannot boot CDs or doesn't > have a CD drive. > In the latter case, you can install from a network > drive or another > partition. When you do that, the .iso files MUST be > where you tell > the installer to look and MUST be named > appropriately, e.g. > "yarrow-i386-disc1.iso" or whatever. Each installer > is different, so > a network or foreign filesystem install using the > RH9 installer will > NOT work for a Fedora install--you must use the > installer appropriate > for your distribution. Ok guys, FC1 is live and running in our classroom, we did it on my computer first for testing, it autodetected everything, and managed to discover how to get my DHCP, DNS, Proxy and well, everything I needed for my college LAN, I have to say I love the security on Linux. Now we have a new bump, we need to conect to our server which is running Windows 2003 Server wich has a MSCHAP V.2 encryption, couldn't find any option in Linux (so far) that allows me to connect to a Windows server using this encryption mode. I found out in the internet that Linux needs a patch to allow this, but I'm wondering, since FC1 is a Project and it's newer, does FC1 has this option somewhere or do I have to do it on text mode? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover From kens at geodax.com Tue May 11 14:16:21 2004 From: kens at geodax.com (Ken Scott) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 10:16:21 -0400 Subject: installed new hard drive - now can't find it In-Reply-To: <40A0DAF6.50403@navarrocollege.edu> References: <408D7351.5070407@navarrocollege.edu> <408E99E4.6090501@vitalstream.com> <408FA801.1030901@navarrocollege.edu> <408FE950.10901@controlnet.com> <409123DD.1090602@navarrocollege.edu> <40916A5B.6090202@vitalstream.com> <40A0DAF6.50403@navarrocollege.edu> Message-ID: <1084284981.21256.5.camel@KENS02L> On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 09:53, Dana Holland wrote: > Just to let you all know that we resolved the problem - found the > additional space, partitioned it and created a new file system. Things > are working fine. > > And we've done screen prints of all these instructions and put them in > our documentation manual. ;-) Consider posting a link to the instructions you developed or even posting them to the list to aid others. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue May 11 16:23:39 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 09:23:39 -0700 Subject: Help! My disk is full! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40A0FE0B.6050706@vitalstream.com> Huan Deng wrote: > Hello, Guys, > > It is so strange that my hard disk is full in a very short time. Almost 30GB+ space is consumed in a few hour. > > I checked the disk using command df -k > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda2 7052496 2858552 3835696 43% / > /dev/sda1 101089 15076 80794 16% /boot > /dev/sda6 60989924 56854996 1036796 99% /home > none 2065448 0 2065448 0% /dev/shm > /dev/sda5 396623 70972 305170 19% /var > > The /home is occupied nealy 100%. (I deleted some files just now.) > > Then I checked the directory /home/cadmin using du --max-depth=1 . > 16 ./.kde > 4 ./.gconfd > 236 ./.gconf > 712 ./license > 28 ./.gnome > 56 ./.gnome2 > 4 ./.gnome2_private > 20 ./.nautilus > 12 ./.gnome-desktop > 28 ./.metacity > 35445700 . > > I was so curious and deleted the directory /home/cadmin. But the space is still almost full. > > The system is Redhat 8.0, Kernel is 2.4.18-3bigmem. > > Anybody can help me? You've probably been hacked and someone is stuffing files on your hard drive. I mean no offense, but China is one of the biggest hotbeds of hacking on the planet. If you don't keep the system up to date and run a firewall, you're asking for trouble. You said it's an 8.0 system. Have you downloaded and applied ALL of the current patches and updates? You will have to get them from the Fedora Legacy project, as 8.0 has been dead for over a year. If you've been hacked, you have a lot of work ahead. You'll have to figure out what kind of hack you got hit with (probably a rootkit), which means the tools you'd normally use to spot hacks (find, ps, netstat, ls) are all suspect. You'll need to reinstall those tools from the CDs. You should get on another machine and run nmap against the machine you're worried about to see if any miscellaneous ports are open that shouldn't be. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you had best scrub your hard drive and reinstall EVERYTHING from scratch. DO NOT PLUG THE MACHINE INTO THE NETWORK UNTIL YOU HAVE INSTALLED EVERY SINGLE UPDATE AVAILABLE AND SET UP YOUR FIREWALL PROPERLY! Only allow services you KNOW you need on the machine (NEVER, EVER USE telnet) and turn off all of the others, either via ntsysv or redhat-config-services. Only then should you plug it bac into the network. As to the directory deletion and not getting the space back, you won't reclaim the space until ALL tasks that are using that filesystem terminate. The odds are that the rogue process (the hack) still has the filesystem open. You can try to find it via "netstat -lpn" and look for a process you don't recognize or "lsof | grep /home/cadmin", which will show you all the processes that have /home/cadmin open. I wouldn't rely on those tools because a rootkit hack generally will replace those tools with ones that studiously will NOT report the hacker's programs. The easiest way to do that is to reboot. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - A day for firm decisions!!! Well, then again, maybe not! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue May 11 16:34:29 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 09:34:29 -0700 Subject: installed new hard drive - now can't find it In-Reply-To: <1084284981.21256.5.camel@KENS02L> References: <408D7351.5070407@navarrocollege.edu> <408E99E4.6090501@vitalstream.com> <408FA801.1030901@navarrocollege.edu> <408FE950.10901@controlnet.com> <409123DD.1090602@navarrocollege.edu> <40916A5B.6090202@vitalstream.com> <40A0DAF6.50403@navarrocollege.edu> <1084284981.21256.5.camel@KENS02L> Message-ID: <40A10095.6090707@vitalstream.com> Ken Scott wrote: > On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 09:53, Dana Holland wrote: > >>Just to let you all know that we resolved the problem - found the >>additional space, partitioned it and created a new file system. Things >>are working fine. >> >>And we've done screen prints of all these instructions and put them in >>our documentation manual. ;-) > > > Consider posting a link to the instructions you developed or even > posting them to the list to aid others. I'll put them up on www.rhil.net if you wish, or at least a link to you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue May 11 16:35:47 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 09:35:47 -0700 Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 In-Reply-To: <20040511141300.47958.qmail@web41003.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040511141300.47958.qmail@web41003.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40A100E3.6030003@vitalstream.com> Pedro Morales wrote: > --- Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Pedro Morales wrote: >> >>>>> # cd /mnt/cdrom/images >>>>> # dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k >>>>> # cd /root >>>>> # umount /mnt/cdrom >>> >>> >>>Thanks so far guys, specially Rick, so guess final >> >>try >> >>>before I jsut stay with 7.2 and just stick to text >>>mode... >>> >>>I got the boot disk to work, when the FC1 >> >>installation >> >>>starts it asks me for the Core files, I told it to >>>check on the cdrom, it couldn't find it, so I >> >>quitted >> >>>the installation and made a Fedora directory in my >>>/root, copied all the files from all 3 cd's in >> >>there, >> >>>tried to install again and selected that pathname >> >>for >> >>>the directory with the core files(/root/Fedora), >> >>still >> >>>couldn't find it, but then I noticed that it was >>>asking for the "image", so I'm wondering, have I >> >>been >> >>>doing everything wrong? should I have burned the >> >>image >> >>>itself into the cd and not open the image and burn >>>it's contents? >> >>You do not burn the contents OR the image. An ISO >>image is an image of >>the CD. It can be mounted just like the CD itself >>could. Your software >>should have an option like "Create a CD from an ISO >>image", but since >>you haven't told us what software you're trying to >>use, we can't help >>more than telling you that. Again, do not burn the >>.iso image as if >>it were a file and do not burn the contents of the >>.iso image, but >>find the option in your software to create the CD >>FROM an ISO image >>and use that. >> >>As far as the boot floppy is concerned, it is >>intended to be used with >>a system which either cannot boot CDs or doesn't >>have a CD drive. >>In the latter case, you can install from a network >>drive or another >>partition. When you do that, the .iso files MUST be >>where you tell >>the installer to look and MUST be named >>appropriately, e.g. >>"yarrow-i386-disc1.iso" or whatever. Each installer >>is different, so >>a network or foreign filesystem install using the >>RH9 installer will >>NOT work for a Fedora install--you must use the >>installer appropriate >>for your distribution. > > > Ok guys, FC1 is live and running in our classroom, we > did it on my computer first for testing, it > autodetected everything, and managed to discover how > to get my DHCP, DNS, Proxy and well, everything I > needed for my college LAN, I have to say I love the > security on Linux. > > Now we have a new bump, we need to conect to our > server which is running Windows 2003 Server wich has a > MSCHAP V.2 encryption, couldn't find any option in > Linux (so far) that allows me to connect to a Windows > server using this encryption mode. > > I found out in the internet that Linux needs a patch > to allow this, but I'm wondering, since FC1 is a > Project and it's newer, does FC1 has this option > somewhere or do I have to do it on text mode? You'll need to do it in text mode. FC1 doesn't have a GUI-based patch or tweak tool. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - You know the old saying--any technology sufficiently advanced is - - indistinguishable from a Perl script - - --Programming Perl, 2nd Edition - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From pmor82 at yahoo.com Tue May 11 17:16:08 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 10:16:08 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 In-Reply-To: <40A100E3.6030003@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040511171608.15663.qmail@web41001.mail.yahoo.com> --- Rick Stevens wrote: > Pedro Morales wrote: > > --- Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >>Pedro Morales wrote: > >> > >>>>> # cd /mnt/cdrom/images > >>>>> # dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k > >>>>> # cd /root > >>>>> # umount /mnt/cdrom > >>> > >>> > >>>Thanks so far guys, specially Rick, so guess > final > >> > >>try > >> > >>>before I jsut stay with 7.2 and just stick to > text > >>>mode... > >>> > >>>I got the boot disk to work, when the FC1 > >> > >>installation > >> > >>>starts it asks me for the Core files, I told it > to > >>>check on the cdrom, it couldn't find it, so I > >> > >>quitted > >> > >>>the installation and made a Fedora directory in > my > >>>/root, copied all the files from all 3 cd's in > >> > >>there, > >> > >>>tried to install again and selected that pathname > >> > >>for > >> > >>>the directory with the core files(/root/Fedora), > >> > >>still > >> > >>>couldn't find it, but then I noticed that it was > >>>asking for the "image", so I'm wondering, have I > >> > >>been > >> > >>>doing everything wrong? should I have burned the > >> > >>image > >> > >>>itself into the cd and not open the image and > burn > >>>it's contents? > >> > >>You do not burn the contents OR the image. An ISO > >>image is an image of > >>the CD. It can be mounted just like the CD itself > >>could. Your software > >>should have an option like "Create a CD from an > ISO > >>image", but since > >>you haven't told us what software you're trying to > >>use, we can't help > >>more than telling you that. Again, do not burn > the > >>.iso image as if > >>it were a file and do not burn the contents of the > >>.iso image, but > >>find the option in your software to create the CD > >>FROM an ISO image > >>and use that. > >> > >>As far as the boot floppy is concerned, it is > >>intended to be used with > >>a system which either cannot boot CDs or doesn't > >>have a CD drive. > >>In the latter case, you can install from a network > >>drive or another > >>partition. When you do that, the .iso files MUST > be > >>where you tell > >>the installer to look and MUST be named > >>appropriately, e.g. > >>"yarrow-i386-disc1.iso" or whatever. Each > installer > >>is different, so > >>a network or foreign filesystem install using the > >>RH9 installer will > >>NOT work for a Fedora install--you must use the > >>installer appropriate > >>for your distribution. > > > > > > Ok guys, FC1 is live and running in our classroom, > we > > did it on my computer first for testing, it > > autodetected everything, and managed to discover > how > > to get my DHCP, DNS, Proxy and well, everything I > > needed for my college LAN, I have to say I love > the > > security on Linux. > > > > Now we have a new bump, we need to conect to our > > server which is running Windows 2003 Server wich > has a > > MSCHAP V.2 encryption, couldn't find any option in > > Linux (so far) that allows me to connect to a > Windows > > server using this encryption mode. > > > > I found out in the internet that Linux needs a > patch > > to allow this, but I'm wondering, since FC1 is a > > Project and it's newer, does FC1 has this option > > somewhere or do I have to do it on text mode? > > You'll need to do it in text mode. FC1 doesn't have > a GUI-based patch > or tweak tool. how do I do this? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue May 11 17:20:37 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 10:20:37 -0700 Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 In-Reply-To: <20040511171608.15663.qmail@web41001.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040511171608.15663.qmail@web41001.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40A10B65.9080102@vitalstream.com> Pedro Morales wrote: > --- Rick Stevens wrote: [major snippage] >>>Ok guys, FC1 is live and running in our classroom, >> >>we >> >>>did it on my computer first for testing, it >>>autodetected everything, and managed to discover >> >>how >> >>>to get my DHCP, DNS, Proxy and well, everything I >>>needed for my college LAN, I have to say I love >> >>the >> >>>security on Linux. >>> >>>Now we have a new bump, we need to conect to our >>>server which is running Windows 2003 Server wich >> >>has a >> >>>MSCHAP V.2 encryption, couldn't find any option in >>>Linux (so far) that allows me to connect to a >> >>Windows >> >>>server using this encryption mode. >>> >>>I found out in the internet that Linux needs a >> >>patch >> >>>to allow this, but I'm wondering, since FC1 is a >>>Project and it's newer, does FC1 has this option >>>somewhere or do I have to do it on text mode? >> >>You'll need to do it in text mode. FC1 doesn't have >>a GUI-based patch >>or tweak tool. > > > how do I do this? It depends on the patch you get. Once you download and extract the patch code, there should be an INSTALL or README file that explains the process. Since I don't know what patch you're talking about, I can't help beyond that. If you want to post a link to where you found this information, I might be able to help more. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From michael.sorens at hp.com Tue May 11 17:52:43 2004 From: michael.sorens at hp.com (Sorens, Michael) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 11:52:43 -0600 Subject: rh9 install failures under vmware Message-ID: (1) Attempting to install under VMware on WindowsXP, I got just a few steps into the installation and was asked for mouse type. I selected USB wheel mouse, which I have, clicked Next, and then my mouse did not work. I tried several other mouse types and could never get the mouse back. (During initialization, the installer seems to think I have a PS/2 wheel mouse, but that choice also fails.) My workaround was to simply use keyboard navigation to attempt to complete the install, so this is less important than item (2), but any thoughts on what is happening here...? (2) I downloaded shrike-i386-disc1.iso, shrike-i386-disc2.iso, and shrike-i386-disc3.iso, ran an MD5 checker and confirmed they were complete, loaded each onto a CD, and began the install (still under VMware). Everything went fine for 70% of the installation, until it got stuck on xpdf-2.01-8 on disk 2. The installer complained that the package could not be opened, and is probably due to a bad CD. So I burned a second CD--same problem! I repeated this situation using both the graphic install and the text install--same problem. So either I need to know how to cure this problem, or what to specify in the initial list of packages to install so it will not try to load this particular package. (VMware, for those unfamiliar, is a tool that lets you build virtual machines on top of your physical machines; an alternative to partitions, in a way) Thanks! ~~Michael Sorens From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue May 11 18:16:52 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 13:16:52 -0500 Subject: rh9 install failures under vmware In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20040511181652.GA16694@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Please beat your MS mailer about the head and shoulders until it wraps lines every 72 chars or so. I'll reformat this. On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:52:43AM -0600, Sorens, Michael wrote: > (1) Attempting to install under VMware on WindowsXP, I got just a > few steps into the installation and was asked for mouse type. I > selected USB wheel mouse, which I have, clicked Next, and then my > mouse did not work. I tried several other mouse types and could > never get the mouse back. (During initialization, the installer > seems to think I have a PS/2 wheel mouse, but that choice also > fails.) My workaround was to simply use keyboard navigation to > attempt to complete the install, so this is less important than item > (2), but any thoughts on what is happening here...? I have no experience with VMware. I'll let others weigh in here. > (2) I downloaded shrike-i386-disc1.iso, shrike-i386-disc2.iso, and > shrike-i386-disc3.iso, ran an MD5 checker and confirmed they were > complete, > loaded each onto a CD, and began the install (still under > VMware). Everything went fine for 70% of the installation, until it > got stuck on xpdf-2.01-8 on disk 2. The installer complained that > the package could not be opened, and is probably due to a bad CD. So > I burned a second CD--same problem! I repeated this situation using > both the graphic install and the text install--same problem. So > either I need to know how to cure this problem, or what to specify > in the initial list of packages to install so it will not try to > load this particular package. > > (VMware, for those unfamiliar, is a tool that lets you build virtual > machines on top of your physical machines; an alternative to > partitions, in a way) > > Thanks! > ~~Michael Sorens I don't know if VMware is the culprit here, but the RH installer is known to be fragile about ext3 filesystems. Try installing to ext2 filesystems and then convert to ext3 after the install. Sometimes DMA is not very kosher and you need to boot the install with linux ide=nodma There is more information here: http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#install_dies and 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 Spring - God's greeting card. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue May 11 18:16:00 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 11:16:00 -0700 Subject: rh9 install failures under vmware In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40A11860.8000102@vitalstream.com> Sorens, Michael wrote: > (1) Attempting to install under VMware on WindowsXP, I got just a few steps into the installation and was asked for mouse type. I selected USB wheel mouse, which I have, clicked Next, and then my mouse did not work. I tried several other mouse types and could never get the mouse back. (During initialization, the installer seems to think I have a PS/2 wheel mouse, but that choice also fails.) My workaround was to simply use keyboard navigation to attempt to complete the install, so this is less important than item (2), but any thoughts on what is happening here...? > > (2) I downloaded shrike-i386-disc1.iso, shrike-i386-disc2.iso, and shrike-i386-disc3.iso, ran an MD5 checker and confirmed they were complete, > loaded each onto a CD, and began the install (still under VMware). Everything went fine for 70% of the installation, until it got stuck on xpdf-2.01-8 on disk 2. The installer complained that the package could not be opened, and is probably due to a bad CD. So I burned a second CD--same problem! I repeated this situation using both the graphic install and the text install--same problem. So either I need to know how to cure this problem, or what to specify in the initial list of packages to install so it will not try to load this particular package. > > (VMware, for those unfamiliar, is a tool that lets you build virtual machines on top of your physical machines; an alternative to partitions, in a way) I hate vmware issues. For problem 1, vmware probably takes over the mouse port. Check the vmware docs for how to handle this. Problem 2 is typically caused by a race condition between the installer kernel and the ext3 filesystem on certain hardware. Try the install again, but specify ext2 filesystems. Once you're done, you can convert to ext3 filesystems. Intructions are at: http://www.rhil.net/docs/ext2-to-ext3.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 michael.sorens at hp.com Tue May 11 19:39:12 2004 From: michael.sorens at hp.com (Sorens, Michael) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 13:39:12 -0600 Subject: rh9 install failures under vmware Message-ID: I capital suggestion from both respondents below... unfortunately, that did not help. I changed both partitions from ext3 to ext2 and still received the same error. I even specifically made sure that the two selectable XWindows sections were DE-selected in the install list (since this is a pdf view for X according to the installer), but the installer still got stuck on the same package (xpdf-2.01-8). ~~Michael Sorens _______________________________________________ -----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, May 11, 2004 12:16 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: rh9 install failures under vmware I hate vmware issues. For problem 1, vmware probably takes over the mouse port. Check the vmware docs for how to handle this. Problem 2 is typically caused by a race condition between the installer kernel and the ext3 filesystem on certain hardware. Try the install again, but specify ext2 filesystems. Once you're done, you can convert to ext3 filesystems. Intructions are at: http://www.rhil.net/docs/ext2-to-ext3.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Bob McClure Jr Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 12:17 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: rh9 install failures under vmware Please beat your MS mailer about the head and shoulders until it wraps lines every 72 chars or so. I'll reformat this. On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:52:43AM -0600, Sorens, Michael wrote: > (1) Attempting to install under VMware on WindowsXP, I got just a > few steps into the installation and was asked for mouse type. I > selected USB wheel mouse, which I have, clicked Next, and then my > mouse did not work. I tried several other mouse types and could > never get the mouse back. (During initialization, the installer > seems to think I have a PS/2 wheel mouse, but that choice also > fails.) My workaround was to simply use keyboard navigation to > attempt to complete the install, so this is less important than item > (2), but any thoughts on what is happening here...? I have no experience with VMware. I'll let others weigh in here. > (2) I downloaded shrike-i386-disc1.iso, shrike-i386-disc2.iso, and > shrike-i386-disc3.iso, ran an MD5 checker and confirmed they were > complete, > loaded each onto a CD, and began the install (still under > VMware). Everything went fine for 70% of the installation, until it > got stuck on xpdf-2.01-8 on disk 2. The installer complained that > the package could not be opened, and is probably due to a bad CD. So > I burned a second CD--same problem! I repeated this situation using > both the graphic install and the text install--same problem. So > either I need to know how to cure this problem, or what to specify > in the initial list of packages to install so it will not try to > load this particular package. > > (VMware, for those unfamiliar, is a tool that lets you build virtual > machines on top of your physical machines; an alternative to > partitions, in a way) > > Thanks! > ~~Michael Sorens I don't know if VMware is the culprit here, but the RH installer is known to be fragile about ext3 filesystems. Try installing to ext2 filesystems and then convert to ext3 after the install. Sometimes DMA is not very kosher and you need to boot the install with linux ide=nodma There is more information here: http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#install_dies and 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 Spring - God's greeting card. From dana.work at navarrocollege.edu Tue May 11 20:47:13 2004 From: dana.work at navarrocollege.edu (Dana Holland) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 15:47:13 -0500 Subject: quick lesson in calculating disk space needed Message-ID: <40A13BD1.90008@navarrocollege.edu> If my fdisk -l looks like this: Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 35694 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility /dev/sda2 6 332 2626627+ 8e Linux LVM /dev/sda3 * 333 345 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/sda4 346 35694 283940842+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 346 21245 167879218+ 83 Linux /dev/sda6 21246 28211 55954363+ 83 Linux /dev/sda7 28212 35178 55962396 83 Linux /dev/sda8 35179 35309 1052226 83 Linux /dev/sda9 35310 35440 1052226 83 Linux /dev/sda10 35441 35694 2040223+ 82 Linux swap Would it be correct to calculate the amount of disk space on my system by multiplying 16065 times 512, and then multiplying that result by 35694? From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue May 11 20:58:10 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 13:58:10 -0700 Subject: quick lesson in calculating disk space needed In-Reply-To: <40A13BD1.90008@navarrocollege.edu> References: <40A13BD1.90008@navarrocollege.edu> Message-ID: <40A13E62.1000604@vitalstream.com> Dana Holland wrote: > If my fdisk -l looks like this: > > Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 35694 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility > /dev/sda2 6 332 2626627+ 8e Linux LVM > /dev/sda3 * 333 345 104422+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda4 346 35694 283940842+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/sda5 346 21245 167879218+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda6 21246 28211 55954363+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda7 28212 35178 55962396 83 Linux > /dev/sda8 35179 35309 1052226 83 Linux > /dev/sda9 35310 35440 1052226 83 Linux > /dev/sda10 35441 35694 2040223+ 82 Linux swap > > Would it be correct to calculate the amount of disk space on my system > by multiplying 16065 times 512, and then multiplying that result by 35694? Yes. I read that as a 294GB hard drive. Under FC1, the calculations are done for you: [root at prophead tmp]# fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 131 1052226 83 Linux /dev/hda2 132 5353 41945715 83 Linux /dev/hda3 5354 10575 41945715 83 Linux /dev/hda4 10576 19929 75136005 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 10576 11097 4192933+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 11098 11228 1052226 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 11229 19929 69890751 83 Linux ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Vegetarian: Old Indian word for "lousy hunter" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From slarsen at opengearbox.com Tue May 11 21:25:17 2004 From: slarsen at opengearbox.com (Steve Larsen) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 17:25:17 -0400 Subject: lets talk about talk ... ? Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20040511172421.00b1b250@192.168.0.127> Hello Install List, I have talkd installed and it seems to run .. but not in a split screen mode. When I type " talk user " and the user replies, we seem to be typing over each others words and no "split screen" shows up. This is not the behavior I remember from using this years ago. Some information on the system is included below. rpm -qa talk* talk-0.17-12 talk-server-0.17-12 ========= netstat -l Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State udp 0 0 *:talk *:* udp 0 0 *:ntalk *:* ========= Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) Kernel 2.4.18-3 on an i686 ========= service talk { disable = no socket_type = dgram wait = yes user = nobody group = tty server = /usr/sbin/in.talkd } My initial thoughts are that this version of talk is too old? Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks in advance. 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URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue May 11 22:09:23 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 15:09:23 -0700 Subject: quick lesson in calculating disk space needed In-Reply-To: <40A13E62.1000604@vitalstream.com> References: <40A13BD1.90008@navarrocollege.edu> <40A13E62.1000604@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40A14F13.2090703@vitalstream.com> Rick Stevens wrote: > Dana Holland wrote: > >> If my fdisk -l looks like this: >> >> Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 35694 cylinders >> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes >> >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> /dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility >> /dev/sda2 6 332 2626627+ 8e Linux LVM >> /dev/sda3 * 333 345 104422+ 83 Linux >> /dev/sda4 346 35694 283940842+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) >> /dev/sda5 346 21245 167879218+ 83 Linux >> /dev/sda6 21246 28211 55954363+ 83 Linux >> /dev/sda7 28212 35178 55962396 83 Linux >> /dev/sda8 35179 35309 1052226 83 Linux >> /dev/sda9 35310 35440 1052226 83 Linux >> /dev/sda10 35441 35694 2040223+ 82 Linux swap >> >> Would it be correct to calculate the amount of disk space on my system >> by multiplying 16065 times 512, and then multiplying that result by >> 35694? > > > Yes. I read that as a 294GB hard drive. Under FC1, the calculations > are done for you: > > [root at prophead tmp]# fdisk -l /dev/hda > > Disk /dev/hda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 131 1052226 83 Linux > /dev/hda2 132 5353 41945715 83 Linux > /dev/hda3 5354 10575 41945715 83 Linux > /dev/hda4 10576 19929 75136005 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/hda5 10576 11097 4192933+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda6 11098 11228 1052226 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda7 11229 19929 69890751 83 Linux Oh, and I forgot to mention that virtually ALL LBA and SCSI drives will have 16065 blocks per cylinder. That's the maximum head count (255) times the maximum sectors-per-track (63) = 16065 sectors/cylinder. The variance is in how many cylinders you have. I hope that all makes sense to you. Many people get confused. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - A day for firm decisions!!! Well, then again, maybe not! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue May 11 22:12:51 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 15:12:51 -0700 Subject: lets talk about talk ... ? In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20040511172421.00b1b250@192.168.0.127> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20040511172421.00b1b250@192.168.0.127> Message-ID: <40A14FE3.90805@vitalstream.com> Steve Larsen wrote: > Hello Install List, > > I have talkd installed and it seems to run .. but not in a split screen > mode. > When I type " talk user " and the user replies, we seem to be typing over > each others words and no "split screen" shows up. This is not the behavior > I remember from using this years ago. Some information on the system is > included below. > > rpm -qa talk* > talk-0.17-12 > talk-server-0.17-12 > ========= > > netstat -l > Active Internet connections (only servers) > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address > State > udp 0 0 *:talk > *:* > udp 0 0 *:ntalk > *:* > ========= > Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) > Kernel 2.4.18-3 on an i686 > ========= > service talk > { > disable = no > socket_type = dgram > wait = yes > user = nobody > group = tty > server = /usr/sbin/in.talkd > } > > My initial thoughts are that this version of talk is too old? Does > anyone have > any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks in advance. I answered this last week, I think. It depends on several things: do you have ncurses installed and what your "$TERM" environment variable looks like. ncurses allows the funky screen drawing stuff and your TERM says what terminal type you have. If it isn't set to a terminal type that supports direct cursor addressing and the like, it can't do split screen. Under a GUI (e.g. Gnome or KDE) with "echo $TERM" returning "xterm", it works fine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Where there's a will, I want to be in it. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From slarsen at opengearbox.com Wed May 12 02:25:39 2004 From: slarsen at opengearbox.com (Steve Larsen) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 22:25:39 -0400 Subject: lets talk about talk ... ? In-Reply-To: <40A14FE3.90805@vitalstream.com> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20040511172421.00b1b250@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511172421.00b1b250@192.168.0.127> Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20040511221928.00b93888@192.168.0.127> Rick, I apologize for the dual post .. for some bizarre reason I didn't receive the reply so a double thanks is in order. I am set to use bash and don't run a gui desktop. My .bash_profile looks as such; # .bash_profile # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi # User specific environment and startup programs PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin export PATH unset USERNAME alias l="ls -aFxl" alias lo="logout" alias lc="ls" alias h=history alias rm="rm -f" cat .greeting I do have ncurses installed. [root at somesystem root]# rpm -qa | grep ncurses ncurses-5.2-26 [root at somesystem root]# Is the problem hiding in my bash profile parameters? Also I use CommNet 32 v 1.05 as VT100 for access. Steve Larsen =========================================== At 03:12 PM 5/11/2004 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >Steve Larsen wrote: >>Hello Install List, >>I have talkd installed and it seems to run .. but not in a split screen mode. >>When I type " talk user " and the user replies, we seem to be typing over >>each others words and no "split screen" shows up. This is not the behavior >>I remember from using this years ago. Some information on the system is >>included below. >> rpm -qa talk* talk-0.17-12 talk-server-0.17-12 ========= >> netstat -l Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto >> Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address >> State >> udp 0 0 *:talk >> *:* >> udp 0 0 *:ntalk >> *:* >> ========= Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) Kernel >> 2.4.18-3 on an i686 ========= service >> talk { disable = >> no socket_type = >> dgram wait = >> yes user = >> nobody group = >> tty server = /usr/sbin/in.talkd } >>My initial thoughts are that this version of talk is too old? Does anyone >>have >>any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks in advance. > >I answered this last week, I think. > >It depends on several things: do you have ncurses installed and what >your "$TERM" environment variable looks like. > >ncurses allows the funky screen drawing stuff and your TERM says what >terminal type you have. If it isn't set to a terminal type that >supports direct cursor addressing and the like, it can't do split >screen. > >Under a GUI (e.g. Gnome or KDE) with "echo $TERM" returning "xterm", >it works fine. >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >- - >- Where there's a will, I want to be in it. - >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-install-list mailing list >Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >Subject: unsubscribe Steve Larsen slarsen at opengearbox.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Re: Sda boot parameter is not working (Rick Stevens) 5. Re: ISDN Modem. (Rick Stevens) 6. NTFS Kernel Modules available (Rick Stevens) 7. Re: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 (Pedro Morales) 8. Re: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 (Bob McClure Jr) 9. Re: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 (Rick Stevens) 10. DCHP, Router, DSL, redhat9 problem. (Jen) 11. Re: DCHP, Router, DSL, redhat9 problem. (Ajai Khattri) 12. Re: DCHP, Router, DSL, redhat9 problem. (Scott Taylor) 13. Re: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 (Pedro Morales) 14. How to restart X server (Huan Deng) 15. Re: How to restart X server (Manuel Arostegui Ramirez) 16. Re: Re: How to restart X server (Huan Deng) 17. Help! My disk is full! (Huan Deng) 18. Re: installed new hard drive - now can't find it (Dana Holland) 19. Re: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 (Pedro Morales) 20. Re: installed new hard drive - now can't find it (Ken Scott) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:35:49 -0700 From: "George Hansen" Subject: Sda boot parameter is not working To: Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" When I enter linux sda=1106,255,63 after booting to CD1, the system still uses the incorrect CHS settings. What am I doing wrong? ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:46:42 -0700 From: Rick Stevens Subject: Re: split screen in talk To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <409FB1F2.8050003 at vitalstream.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Steve Larsen wrote: > Hello Install List, > > I have talkd installed and it seems to run .. but not in a split screen > mode. > When I type " talk user " and the user replies, we seem to be typing over > each others words and no "split screen" shows up. This is not the behavior > I remember from using this years ago. Some information on the system is > included below. > > rpm -qa talk* > talk-0.17-12 > talk-server-0.17-12 > ========= > > netstat -l > Active Internet connections (only servers) > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address > State > udp 0 0 *:talk > *:* > udp 0 0 *:ntalk > *:* > ========= > Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) > Kernel 2.4.18-3 on an i686 > ========= > service talk > { > disable = no > socket_type = dgram > wait = yes > user = nobody > group = tty > server = /usr/sbin/in.talkd > } > > My initial thoughts are that this version of talk is too old? Does > anyone have > any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks in advance. Check your "TERM" environment variable. Your terminal must be able to do split screen (addressable cursor, etc.). Works for me. You really should do some updates. 2.4.18-3 is the original kernel for 7.3 and it's bloody ancient. The latest is 2.4.20-31.7legacy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:48:42 -0700 From: Rick Stevens Subject: Re: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <409FB26A.4080407 at vitalstream.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Pedro Morales wrote: > Pedro Morales wrote: > >>--- Rick Stevens wrote: >> >> >>>Pedro Morales wrote: >>> >>> >>>>--- jludwig wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 12:01, Pedro Morales wrote: >>>>>snip >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>the cd1 has: >>>>>>in green: >>>>>>autorun >>>>>>eula.txt >>>>>>GPL >>>>>>readme >>>>>>readme-acessbility >>>>>>release -notes >>>>>>release -notes.html >>>>>>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 >>>>>>Trans.tbl >>>>>> >>>>>>in blue >>>>>>dosutils >>>>>>fedora >>>>>>images >>>>>>isolinux >>>>>> >>>>>>did I download the wrong iso or is it missing the >>>>> >>>>>boot >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>file? >>>>> >>>>>snip >>>>>This is a correct burn. Now the question is this >>>>>yarrow* (Fedora Core 1 >>>>>--FC1) or Fedora core 2. >>>>>FC2 has errors that won't allow it to boot on some >>>>>systems. It is also a >>>>>beta test core for the gurus and grungy beasties >>> >>>to >>> >>> >>>>>play with. >>>>> >>>>>-- >>>>>jludwig >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>ok well I downloaded teh cd1 iso again, burned it, >>> >>>ran >>> >>> >>>>it in my pc and it booted from the cd, but it >>> >>>didnt in >>> >>> >>>>teh classroom, the bio has cdrom as first boot and >>> >>>HD >>> >>> >>>>as second, it read teh cdrom and went to the HD >>> >>>and >>> >>> >>>>loaded 7.2, now im wondering, is there a way to >>> >>>run >>> >>> >>>>the FC1 installation from the 7.2 text mode? >>> >>>I'm not certain I understand that. I understand >>>that English isn't >>>your primary language, so try to answer these one at >>>a time: >> >> >>well, I've been in the US for over 3 years, and in >>college, so I do try my best to write it and get >>understood... > > > Sorry. Your messages tend to run together a bit. I > have trouble > reading them. But I'm old (46) and it's probably my > fault. :-( I > appologize. > > >>>1. Did you burn the Fedora Core 1 .iso image on a >>>new CD? >> >> >>yes >> >> >> >>>2. Did that CD boot on your home system? >> >> >>yes > > > Ah, good...so we know it's good media--as far as > booting is concerned. > > >>>3. If #2 is "yes", did that CD boot on your school >>>system? >> >> >>no > > > Ugh! Ok. let's press on. > > >>>4. If #3 is "no", did you check the BIOS settings on >>>the school system >>>to make sure it would try to boot the CD before the >>>hard disk? >> >> >>yes > > > Ok, did you see it actually try the CD (did the light > flash) or did > it simply skip over it and go to the hard drive? > > [snip] > > >>> if you can find some of >>>the old CD-R media >>>that's gold in color, you may have better luck. >>>Either that or you >>>should replace the CD drive in the school's system. >> >> >>well I have installed other programs with the same >>type of cd-r media, and it did boot on my home pc >>(built it myself). > > > On the school system? Really? From the same make of > blank media? > That's VERY weird. > > Well, I suppose you could force an install by using a > boot floppy if it > won't boot the CD. If you can, mount the first CD > under Linux and put > a blank floppy in the floppy drive. As the root user: > > # cd /mnt/cdrom/images > # dd if=bootdisk.img of=dev/fd0 bs=1k > # cd /root > # umount /mnt/cdrom > > That will build your bootable floppy. You can then > boot the system off > the floppy and install from the CD. > > [more snippage] > > >>As stated in an earlier email IBM ThinkCentre >>8189-A4U, ahs a P4 hyperthread, 512ram, intel MB, >>video integrated (Intel 650G) > > > Sorry, lost the previous messages and didn't have a > record of that. > Gee, that should work with no problem. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer > rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. > http://www.vitalstream.com - > - > - > - The problem with being poor is that it takes up all > of your time - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ok so I tried to make the bootable floppy, and im > getting the following error: > > "dev/fd0" no such file or directory Sorry, that's a typo. That line is " dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Where there's a will, I want to be in it. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:54:44 -0700 From: Rick Stevens Subject: Re: Sda boot parameter is not working To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <409FB3D4.2020603 at vitalstream.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed George Hansen wrote: > When I enter linux sda=1106,255,63 after booting to CD1, the system still uses the incorrect CHS settings. What am I doing wrong? The parameters are "sda=cyl/heads/sec" (slashes, not commas). Besides, SCSI really doesn't use CHS numbering. A SCSI disk is treated like a contiguous string of "n" blocks. CHS is really only significant when you have an IDE or (god forbid) an ancient ST506 or ST412 drive that doesn't support LBA mode. Why are you forcing a CHS on this anyway? Any particular reason? Is your BIOS too dead to sort it out? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Where there's a will, I want to be in it. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:56:51 -0700 From: Rick Stevens Subject: Re: ISDN Modem. To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <409FB453.6090006 at vitalstream.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed sg at pobox.com wrote: > I have installed ISDN modem on RedHat Linux 9.0 after installtion when i want > to connecting using KPPP it will display error no 16. > > Same error will display when i am using WVDIAL. and i am not able to connect. > > When i have activate ppp0 connection using network setting than it will > display same error. Error 16 is EBUSY (or "device or resource busy"), so either something else is camping out on the modem or it doesn't actually exist. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Jimmie crack corn and I don't care...what kind of lousy attitude - - is THAT to have, huh? -- Dennis Miller - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 10:10:44 -0700 From: Rick Stevens Subject: NTFS Kernel Modules available To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com, fedora-list at vitalstream.com Message-ID: <409FB794.6090302 at vitalstream.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Please be informed that the Unofficial Red Hat Install List Website (URHILW, http://www.rhil.net) now has NTFS kernel modules available for the latest Fedora Core 1 kernel (kernel 2.4.22-1.2188nptl) for both Intel 32-bit and AMD 64-bit processors. Surf on over to http://www.rhil.net/kernelstuff/modules.html to pick them up. Sorry it took so long, gang. I've been busy! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - What's small, yellow and very, VERY dangerous? The root canary! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 13:10:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Pedro Morales Subject: Re: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <20040510201042.6956.qmail at web41011.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > > # cd /mnt/cdrom/images > > # dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k > > # cd /root > > # umount /mnt/cdrom Thanks so far guys, specially Rick, so guess final try before I jsut stay with 7.2 and just stick to text mode... I got the boot disk to work, when the FC1 installation starts it asks me for the Core files, I told it to check on the cdrom, it couldn't find it, so I quitted the installation and made a Fedora directory in my /root, copied all the files from all 3 cd's in there, tried to install again and selected that pathname for the directory with the core files(/root/Fedora), still couldn't find it, but then I noticed that it was asking for the "image", so I'm wondering, have I been doing everything wrong? should I have burned the image itself into the cd and not open the image and burn it's contents? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 15:18:19 -0500 From: Bob McClure Jr Subject: Re: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <20040510201819.GA6937 at bobcat.cumbytel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 01:10:42PM -0700, Pedro Morales wrote: > > > > > > # cd /mnt/cdrom/images > > > # dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k > > > # cd /root > > > # umount /mnt/cdrom > > Thanks so far guys, specially Rick, so guess final try > before I jsut stay with 7.2 and just stick to text > mode... > > I got the boot disk to work, when the FC1 installation > starts it asks me for the Core files, I told it to > check on the cdrom, it couldn't find it, so I quitted > the installation and made a Fedora directory in my > /root, copied all the files from all 3 cd's in there, > tried to install again and selected that pathname for > the directory with the core files(/root/Fedora), still > couldn't find it, but then I noticed that it was > asking for the "image", so I'm wondering, have I been > doing everything wrong? should I have burned the image > itself into the cd and not open the image and burn > it's contents? That is correct. See http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#making_cds Enjoy your new coasters. :-) Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Salvation is free, but you have to ask for it. ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 14:29:19 -0700 From: Rick Stevens Subject: Re: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <409FF42F.3000707 at vitalstream.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Pedro Morales wrote: >>> # cd /mnt/cdrom/images >>> # dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k >>> # cd /root >>> # umount /mnt/cdrom > > > Thanks so far guys, specially Rick, so guess final try > before I jsut stay with 7.2 and just stick to text > mode... > > I got the boot disk to work, when the FC1 installation > starts it asks me for the Core files, I told it to > check on the cdrom, it couldn't find it, so I quitted > the installation and made a Fedora directory in my > /root, copied all the files from all 3 cd's in there, > tried to install again and selected that pathname for > the directory with the core files(/root/Fedora), still > couldn't find it, but then I noticed that it was > asking for the "image", so I'm wondering, have I been > doing everything wrong? should I have burned the image > itself into the cd and not open the image and burn > it's contents? You do not burn the contents OR the image. An ISO image is an image of the CD. It can be mounted just like the CD itself could. Your software should have an option like "Create a CD from an ISO image", but since you haven't told us what software you're trying to use, we can't help more than telling you that. Again, do not burn the .iso image as if it were a file and do not burn the contents of the .iso image, but find the option in your software to create the CD FROM an ISO image and use that. As far as the boot floppy is concerned, it is intended to be used with a system which either cannot boot CDs or doesn't have a CD drive. In the latter case, you can install from a network drive or another partition. When you do that, the .iso files MUST be where you tell the installer to look and MUST be named appropriately, e.g. "yarrow-i386-disc1.iso" or whatever. Each installer is different, so a network or foreign filesystem install using the RH9 installer will NOT work for a Fedora install--you must use the installer appropriate for your distribution. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 18:27:34 -0400 From: "Jen" Subject: DCHP, Router, DSL, redhat9 problem. To: Message-ID: <000601c436dd$fd79b260$1586299b at labcomp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi there, I've been having an annoying problem with my defualt installation of redhat 9. I origianlly had Mandrake on my machine and decided to try Redhat out, which I installed with no problem. I choose DHCP during installation to configure my NIC as I have DSL pumped in through a Linksys Router. However, During boot, I receive a message that my NIC is down and I cannot ping or configure the NIC through Internet Config manager when the nic is set to DHCP. However, if I give the NIC a static IP address of 10.0.0.1, the NIC will report as UP during boot, however, I still cannot reach the internet. So basically: *Wireless Router is set to be a DHC server *NIC w/DHCP - doesn't initialize during boot and can't get to the internet. *NIC with 10.0.01 Will initialize, but still can't get to the internet. *If I install another Linux version such as Mandrake, the defualt works perfectly, so I do not think this is a NIC or Router Problem. I believe that pings don't work with either configuration - I will have to double check on this though. 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What does /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 look like? -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:03:02 -0700 (PDT) From: "Scott Taylor" Subject: Re: DCHP, Router, DSL, redhat9 problem. To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" Message-ID: <2211.192.168.99.70.1084230182.squirrel at dctchambers.com> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Jen said: > Hi there, > So basically: > > *Wireless Router is set to be a DHC server > *NIC w/DHCP - doesn't initialize during boot and can't get to the > internet. Check for errors in /var/log files. Probably can not find a DHCP server, in which case, check cabling and config of your DHCP server. No, your NIC will not init if it is expecting DHCP and doesn't find it. Maybe a bad NIC, bad cable or bad DHCP server, at this point. > *NIC with 10.0.01 Will initialize, but still can't get to the internet. Why would you use 10.0.0.1? On what subnet? What is the local IP of your router? What is your default gateway? > *If I install another Linux version such as Mandrake, the defualt works > perfectly, so I do not think this is a NIC or Router Problem. The default DHCP on most new Linux distros will work, even RH9 and Fedora too. > I believe that pings don't work with either configuration - I will have to > double check on this though. Ping can't work if the two devices are not configured properly. If ping doesn't work, either your firewall blocks it, with is not a good practice before you get your network to work, or your network is miss-wired or miss-configured. -- Scott ------------------------------ Message: 13 Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:11:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Pedro Morales Subject: Re: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <20040510231139.80293.qmail at web41008.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Rick Stevens wrote: > Pedro Morales wrote: > >>> # cd /mnt/cdrom/images > >>> # dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k > >>> # cd /root > >>> # umount /mnt/cdrom > > > > > > Thanks so far guys, specially Rick, so guess final > try > > before I jsut stay with 7.2 and just stick to text > > mode... > > > > I got the boot disk to work, when the FC1 > installation > > starts it asks me for the Core files, I told it to > > check on the cdrom, it couldn't find it, so I > quitted > > the installation and made a Fedora directory in my > > /root, copied all the files from all 3 cd's in > there, > > tried to install again and selected that pathname > for > > the directory with the core files(/root/Fedora), > still > > couldn't find it, but then I noticed that it was > > asking for the "image", so I'm wondering, have I > been > > doing everything wrong? should I have burned the > image > > itself into the cd and not open the image and burn > > it's contents? > > You do not burn the contents OR the image. An ISO > image is an image of > the CD. It can be mounted just like the CD itself > could. Your software > should have an option like "Create a CD from an ISO > image", but since > you haven't told us what software you're trying to > use, we can't help > more than telling you that. Again, do not burn the > .iso image as if > it were a file and do not burn the contents of the > .iso image, but > find the option in your software to create the CD > FROM an ISO image > and use that. I use Nero Express and Sonic RecordNow! (came with Sony dvd burner). I was actually using WinImage to open the .iso file and copy the contents to my HD then burn it. I'll look for the option to make a cd from teh image. > As far as the boot floppy is concerned, it is > intended to be used with > a system which either cannot boot CDs or doesn't > have a CD drive. > In the latter case, you can install from a network > drive or another > partition. When you do that, the .iso files MUST be > where you tell > the installer to look and MUST be named > appropriately, e.g. > "yarrow-i386-disc1.iso" or whatever. Each installer > is different, so > a network or foreign filesystem install using the > RH9 installer will > NOT work for a Fedora install--you must use the > installer appropriate > for your distribution. Well in our case, even if I added the images to our server it wouldn't work since RH7.2 can't recognize our NICs. All right, I'll try again tomrrow and trouble you guys again on the result =) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ------------------------------ Message: 14 Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 11:2:1 +0800 From: Huan Deng Subject: How to restart X server To: "redhat-install-list at redhat.com" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="gb2312" hi, I changed resolution and should restart X server for the changes to take effects.I don't know how to restart X server except rebooting the computer.Some users have connected to the server,and rebooting will cause some trouble. How to restart X server without rebooting. Thank you very much ???? ?????????????? Huan Deng hdeng at microscience.com.cn 2004-05-11 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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You can kill it with: kill -9 PID Cheers ===== -- Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 http://manuel.todo-linux.com ______________________________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! - 6MB, m?s protecci?n contra el spam ?Gratis! http://correo.yahoo.es ------------------------------ Message: 16 Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 16:24:22 +0800 From: Huan Deng Subject: Re: Re: How to restart X server To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="gb2312" Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote: ???? > --- Huan Deng escribi?: > >hi, >> I changed resolution and should restart X server >> for the changes to take effects.I don't know how to >> restart X server except rebooting the computer.Some >> users have connected to the server,and rebooting >> will cause some trouble. >> How to restart X server without rebooting. >> Thank you very much >> >> >Look at your /etc/inittab, some linux may restart >x-server with: crtl+alt+backspace >If not, ps aux | grep X may show you the PID of your X >server. >You can kill it with: kill -9 PID >Cheers > >===== ok, it works well. Thank you very much . >-- > >Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 >http://manuel.todo-linux.com > > > >______________________________________________________________________ >Correo Yahoo! - 6MB, m?s protecci?n contra el spam ?Gratis! >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 Huan Deng hdeng at microscience.com.cn 2004-05-11 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: FACE-3.GIF Type: image/gif Size: 842 bytes Desc: not available Url : /archives/redhat-install-list/attachments/20040511/6d85e750/FACE-3.gif ------------------------------ Message: 17 Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 17:54:37 +0800 From: Huan Deng Subject: Help! My disk is full! To: "redhat-install-list at redhat.com" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="gb2312" Hello, Guys, It is so strange that my hard disk is full in a very short time. Almost 30GB+ space is consumed in a few hour. I checked the disk using command df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 7052496 2858552 3835696 43% / /dev/sda1 101089 15076 80794 16% /boot /dev/sda6 60989924 56854996 1036796 99% /home none 2065448 0 2065448 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda5 396623 70972 305170 19% /var The /home is occupied nealy 100%. (I deleted some files just now.) Then I checked the directory /home/cadmin using du --max-depth=1 . 16 ./.kde 4 ./.gconfd 236 ./.gconf 712 ./license 28 ./.gnome 56 ./.gnome2 4 ./.gnome2_private 20 ./.nautilus 12 ./.gnome-desktop 28 ./.metacity 35445700 . I was so curious and deleted the directory /home/cadmin. But the space is still almost full. The system is Redhat 8.0, Kernel is 2.4.18-3bigmem. Anybody can help me? Thanks ?????????????? Huan Deng hdeng at microscience.com.cn 2004-05-11 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: FACE-3.GIF Type: image/gif Size: 842 bytes Desc: not available Url : /archives/redhat-install-list/attachments/20040511/d43868ee/FACE-3.gif ------------------------------ Message: 18 Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 08:53:58 -0500 From: Dana Holland Subject: Re: installed new hard drive - now can't find it To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <40A0DAF6.50403 at navarrocollege.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Just to let you all know that we resolved the problem - found the additional space, partitioned it and created a new file system. Things are working fine. And we've done screen prints of all these instructions and put them in our documentation manual. ;-) ------------------------------ Message: 19 Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 07:13:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Pedro Morales Subject: Re: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <20040511141300.47958.qmail at web41003.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Rick Stevens wrote: > Pedro Morales wrote: > >>> # cd /mnt/cdrom/images > >>> # dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k > >>> # cd /root > >>> # umount /mnt/cdrom > > > > > > Thanks so far guys, specially Rick, so guess final > try > > before I jsut stay with 7.2 and just stick to text > > mode... > > > > I got the boot disk to work, when the FC1 > installation > > starts it asks me for the Core files, I told it to > > check on the cdrom, it couldn't find it, so I > quitted > > the installation and made a Fedora directory in my > > /root, copied all the files from all 3 cd's in > there, > > tried to install again and selected that pathname > for > > the directory with the core files(/root/Fedora), > still > > couldn't find it, but then I noticed that it was > > asking for the "image", so I'm wondering, have I > been > > doing everything wrong? should I have burned the > image > > itself into the cd and not open the image and burn > > it's contents? > > You do not burn the contents OR the image. An ISO > image is an image of > the CD. It can be mounted just like the CD itself > could. Your software > should have an option like "Create a CD from an ISO > image", but since > you haven't told us what software you're trying to > use, we can't help > more than telling you that. Again, do not burn the > .iso image as if > it were a file and do not burn the contents of the > .iso image, but > find the option in your software to create the CD > FROM an ISO image > and use that. > > As far as the boot floppy is concerned, it is > intended to be used with > a system which either cannot boot CDs or doesn't > have a CD drive. > In the latter case, you can install from a network > drive or another > partition. When you do that, the .iso files MUST be > where you tell > the installer to look and MUST be named > appropriately, e.g. > "yarrow-i386-disc1.iso" or whatever. Each installer > is different, so > a network or foreign filesystem install using the > RH9 installer will > NOT work for a Fedora install--you must use the > installer appropriate > for your distribution. Ok guys, FC1 is live and running in our classroom, we did it on my computer first for testing, it autodetected everything, and managed to discover how to get my DHCP, DNS, Proxy and well, everything I needed for my college LAN, I have to say I love the security on Linux. Now we have a new bump, we need to conect to our server which is running Windows 2003 Server wich has a MSCHAP V.2 encryption, couldn't find any option in Linux (so far) that allows me to connect to a Windows server using this encryption mode. I found out in the internet that Linux needs a patch to allow this, but I'm wondering, since FC1 is a Project and it's newer, does FC1 has this option somewhere or do I have to do it on text mode? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ------------------------------ Message: 20 Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 10:16:21 -0400 From: Ken Scott Subject: Re: installed new hard drive - now can't find it To: dana.holland at navarrocollege.edu, Getting started with Red Hat Linux Message-ID: <1084284981.21256.5.camel at KENS02L> Content-Type: text/plain On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 09:53, Dana Holland wrote: > Just to let you all know that we resolved the problem - found the > additional space, partitioned it and created a new file system. Things > are working fine. > > And we've done screen prints of all these instructions and put them in > our documentation manual. ;-) Consider posting a link to the instructions you developed or even posting them to the list to aid others. ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list End of Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 3, Issue 13 ************************************************** Miko?aj Roszak --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail : votre e-mail personnel et gratuit qui vous suit partout ! Cr?ez votre Yahoo! Mail Dialoguez en direct avec vos amis gr?ce ? Yahoo! Messenger ! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From sarangi at bpost.kek.jp Wed May 12 11:51:42 2004 From: sarangi at bpost.kek.jp (Tapas Ranjan) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 20:51:42 +0900 (JST) Subject: auto-login problem In-Reply-To: <20040512084534.029E3738A0@hormel.redhat.com> Message-ID: Hi : I was trying to auto-login from a linux system to a sparc system, which are under the same network using ssh-keygen, private key generator. I got this kind of message--> ---------------------------------------- Last login: Wed May 12 20:39:26 2004 from xxxx.xxx.xx Received disconnect from 192.86.54.54: Command terminated on signal 11 ---------------------------------------- While it is working fine for the linux to linux system, and from the same spark to linux system, which are under the same network. Suggestions are appreciated. Kind regards ---Tapas From lourenco.teodoro at uol.com.br Wed May 12 13:22:51 2004 From: lourenco.teodoro at uol.com.br (Lourenco Teodoro) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 08:22:51 -0500 Subject: Problem with dell laptop Message-ID: <40A2252B.2060505@uol.com.br> I have installed Red-Hat linux on my dell 5100 laptop. Unfortunately I cannot configure my rosolution to 1024 x 768. It is fixed in 800 x 600, and even if I change in the "System settings-> Display" it goed back to 800 x 600. Has anyone had this problem before? Any ideas on how to fix it? Lourenco. From lourenco.teodoro at uol.com.br Wed May 12 13:43:54 2004 From: lourenco.teodoro at uol.com.br (Lourenco Teodoro) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 08:43:54 -0500 Subject: Problem with dell laptop In-Reply-To: <40A2252B.2060505@uol.com.br> References: <40A2252B.2060505@uol.com.br> Message-ID: <40A22A1A.8020700@uol.com.br> Lourenco Teodoro wrote: > I have installed Red-Hat linux on my dell 5100 laptop. Unfortunately I > cannot configure my rosolution to 1024 x 768. It is fixed in 800 x > 600, and even if I change in the "System settings-> Display" it goed > back to 800 x 600. Has anyone had this problem before? Any ideas on > how to fix it? > > Lourenco. > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > I could fix the problem below by editing the XF86Config file. I just added the resolution 1024x768 in there. Regards, Lourenco. From beginninglinux at lycos.co.uk Wed May 12 14:04:14 2004 From: beginninglinux at lycos.co.uk (redhat linux ) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:04:14 GMT Subject: Problem with making linux / and swap partitions primary Message-ID: <1084370654003337@lycos-europe.com> Hello, I successfully installed redhat linux 9 on my standalone and configured it to be a dual boot along with windows xp professional. However though the installation is successful, I faced a problem while linux installation: I was not able to make any linux partition primary. I installed windows xp professional first and then while partitioning the disk through disk druid for linux installation, I saw the windows c:\ drive was listed as a primary partition and the windows D:\ drive was listed as an extended partition. When I created partitions of the free space for linux and tried to make the root and swap primary partitions....I wasn't allowed and had to accept them being logical partitions. The partitions as on my hard disk currently are: primary c: drive windows xp pro ntfs extended d: drive windows xp pro ntfs / /boot swap /Apps /D1 /D2 What will the effects of this disk partition be? How can I make the root and swap partitions of Linux primary? Has someone encountered such a problem before? Can someone throw light on how to fix it? thanks, Mark Capital One Classic Mastercard 60 second response online. http://mocda.com/1/c/681064/117934/307081/307081 AOL users go here http://mocda.com/1/c/681064/117934/307081/307081 From P.C.M.Chiu at rl.ac.uk Wed May 12 14:09:35 2004 From: P.C.M.Chiu at rl.ac.uk (Chiu, PCM (Peter) ) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 15:09:35 +0100 Subject: Problem with making linux / and swap partitions primary Message-ID: <49F73BEED865D3119F8700902773C9F9041CC7CF@exchange09.rl.ac.uk> Mark, If you can boot both RH9 and XP okay, then I don't see any problems with the partitions set up. As you know that there is a limit of 4 primary partitions, so partitions beyond 4 will have to be fitted in the extended or logical partitions. Hence there shouldn't be any problems as long as you can reach all the partitions you set up. Peter -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of redhat linux Sent: 12 May 2004 15:04 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Cc: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Problem with making linux / and swap partitions primary Hello, I successfully installed redhat linux 9 on my standalone and configured it to be a dual boot along with windows xp professional. However though the installation is successful, I faced a problem while linux installation: I was not able to make any linux partition primary. I installed windows xp professional first and then while partitioning the disk through disk druid for linux installation, I saw the windows c:\ drive was listed as a primary partition and the windows D:\ drive was listed as an extended partition. When I created partitions of the free space for linux and tried to make the root and swap primary partitions....I wasn't allowed and had to accept them being logical partitions. The partitions as on my hard disk currently are: primary c: drive windows xp pro ntfs extended d: drive windows xp pro ntfs / /boot swap /Apps /D1 /D2 What will the effects of this disk partition be? How can I make the root and swap partitions of Linux primary? Has someone encountered such a problem before? Can someone throw light on how to fix it? thanks, Mark Capital One Classic Mastercard 60 second response online. http://mocda.com/1/c/681064/117934/307081/307081 AOL users go here http://mocda.com/1/c/681064/117934/307081/307081 From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 12 17:06:33 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 10:06:33 -0700 Subject: lets talk about talk ... ? In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20040511221928.00b93888@192.168.0.127> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20040511172421.00b1b250@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511172421.00b1b250@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511221928.00b93888@192.168.0.127> Message-ID: <40A25999.1060205@vitalstream.com> Steve Larsen wrote: > Rick, > I apologize for the dual post .. for some bizarre reason I didn't > receive the reply > so a double thanks is in order. I am set to use bash and don't run a gui > desktop. > > My .bash_profile looks as such; > > # .bash_profile > # Get the aliases and functions > if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then > . ~/.bashrc > fi > # User specific environment and startup programs > PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin > export PATH > unset USERNAME > alias l="ls -aFxl" > alias lo="logout" > alias lc="ls" > alias h=history > alias rm="rm -f" > cat .greeting > > I do have ncurses installed. > > [root at somesystem root]# rpm -qa | grep ncurses > ncurses-5.2-26 > [root at somesystem root]# > > Is the problem hiding in my bash profile parameters? Also I use CommNet > 32 v 1.05 > as VT100 for access. What does "echo $TERM" return? I just tested it via virtual terminals (ALT-F1, etc.) with the TERM set to both "linux" (the default) and "vt100" and it works perfectly (well, vt100 ends up with a line of "q"s instead of a line to separate the two halves). You may have an initialization issue. If your "$TERM" environment looks OK, try using "tput init" or "reset" to reinitialize your screen. If "$TERM" doesn't look right, try: TERM=vt100;export TERM;tput init to set it up appropriately. Also make sure your comm program is set to interpret the control characters properly when they come back from the system. You are using the "ntalk" daemon, right? Port UDP/518. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "I'd explain it to you, but your brain might explode." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 12 17:08:35 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 10:08:35 -0700 Subject: Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 3, Issue 13 In-Reply-To: <20040512084517.47945.qmail@web40007.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040512084517.47945.qmail@web40007.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40A25A13.7030606@vitalstream.com> Miko?aj Roszak wrote: (entire digest deleted) People, NEVER, EVER, EVER reply to a digest. Especially when you apparently have nothing to say. Sheesh! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 May 12 17:10:21 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 10:10:21 -0700 Subject: =?iso-8859-1?q?Re=3A_Engine_e-marketing_solutions_first_dotcom_b?= =?iso-8859-1?q?elongs_to_Miko=B3aj_Roszak_from_Bahamas_Island?= In-Reply-To: <20040512085521.17678.qmail@web40002.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040512085521.17678.qmail@web40002.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40A25A7D.3070607@vitalstream.com> Miko?aj Roszak wrote: > Engine e-marketing solutions first dotcom belongs to Miko?aj Roszak from > Bahamas Island An absolutely USELESS posting. We do not appreciate advertising or any such announcements. Keep this up and I will unsubscribe you. I'm a sysop. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 May 12 17:14:01 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 10:14:01 -0700 Subject: auto-login problem In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40A25B59.7010108@vitalstream.com> Tapas Ranjan wrote: > Hi : > I was trying to auto-login from a linux system to a sparc system, > which are under the same network using ssh-keygen, private key generator. > I got this kind of message--> > ---------------------------------------- > Last login: Wed May 12 20:39:26 2004 from xxxx.xxx.xx > Received disconnect from 192.86.54.54: Command terminated on signal 11 > ---------------------------------------- > While it is working fine for the linux to linux system, and from > the same spark to linux system, which are under the same network. > Suggestions are appreciated. Apparently one of the applications that you have run upon login to the Sparc is corrupted. Signal 11 is a "segmentation error" (SIGSEGV), meaning that the program tried to "talk" to memory it doesn't own. The most common problems are dereferencing a null pointer or writing to memory past the end of an array. You should get on the Sparc box and find the core file that was created due to the SIGSEGV and seeing which program caused it by using the debugger on the core file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Cuteness can be overcome through sufficient bastardry - - --Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From jkinz at kinz.org Wed May 12 17:40:08 2004 From: jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 13:40:08 -0400 Subject: Go ahead. In-Reply-To: <40A25A7D.3070607@vitalstream.com>; from rstevens@vitalstream.com on Wed, May 12, 2004 at 10:10:21AM -0700 References: <20040512085521.17678.qmail@web40002.mail.yahoo.com> <40A25A7D.3070607@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040512134008.A6388@redline.comcast.net> On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 10:10:21AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Miko?aj Roszak wrote: > > Engine e-marketing solutions first dotcom belongs to Miko?aj Roszak from > > Bahamas Island > > An absolutely USELESS posting. We do not appreciate advertising or any > such announcements. Keep this up and I will unsubscribe you. I'm a > sysop. Hi Rick - (and group) The IP the "gentleman" above posted from has a -32 rating at openrbl.org. IP is from holland, but he claims to be in the Bahamas? Personally I think you can kick him now, unless he has a good explanation or apology to the list. (IMHO) Pasted from openrbl: ? Multi DNSBL Lookup 81.190.34.113 http://openrbl.org/ip/81/190/34/113.htm Lookup 81.190.34.113 (host-81-190-34-113.szczecin.mm.pl) in 21+11 Zones AS: [NO_ROUTE] Net 81/8 EU-ZZ-81 ? Amsterdam, North Holland Results: Negative=32, Positive=0 (2004-05-12 17:33:42 UTC) * Negative 32: @COUNTRY @DYNAMIC @ISP @SPAM AHBL AUDNSBL BLARS BOGONS BONDED BOPM CBL DRBL DSBL FIVETEN INTERSIL JIPPGMA LNSG NJABL NOMORE ORDB PSBL PSS RFC_IPWH SBL SORBS SPAMBAG SPAMCOP SPAMRBL SPAMSITE SPEWS UCEPROT WPBL -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. "jkinz at kinz.org" is copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:0doocNSr1nMJ:www.kinz.org/policy.html+%22//www.kinz.org/policy.html%22&hl=en&lr=lang_en From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 12 17:49:59 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 10:49:59 -0700 Subject: Go ahead. In-Reply-To: <20040512134008.A6388@redline.comcast.net> References: <20040512085521.17678.qmail@web40002.mail.yahoo.com> <40A25A7D.3070607@vitalstream.com> <20040512134008.A6388@redline.comcast.net> Message-ID: <40A263C7.4040007@vitalstream.com> Jeff Kinz wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 10:10:21AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Miko?aj Roszak wrote: >> >>>Engine e-marketing solutions first dotcom belongs to Miko?aj Roszak from >>>Bahamas Island >> >>An absolutely USELESS posting. We do not appreciate advertising or any >>such announcements. Keep this up and I will unsubscribe you. I'm a >>sysop. > > > Hi Rick - (and group) > The IP the "gentleman" above posted from has a -32 rating at > openrbl.org. IP is from holland, but he claims to be in the Bahamas? > > Personally I think you can kick him now, unless he has a good explanation or > apology to the list. (IMHO) > > Pasted from openrbl: > ? Multi DNSBL Lookup 81.190.34.113 > http://openrbl.org/ip/81/190/34/113.htm > > Lookup 81.190.34.113 (host-81-190-34-113.szczecin.mm.pl) in 21+11 Zones > AS: [NO_ROUTE] > Net 81/8 EU-ZZ-81 ? Amsterdam, North Holland > Results: Negative=32, Positive=0 (2004-05-12 17:33:42 UTC) > > * Negative 32: @COUNTRY @DYNAMIC @ISP @SPAM AHBL AUDNSBL BLARS > BOGONS BONDED BOPM CBL DRBL DSBL FIVETEN INTERSIL JIPPGMA LNSG NJABL > NOMORE ORDB PSBL PSS RFC_IPWH SBL SORBS SPAMBAG SPAMCOP SPAMRBL SPAMSITE > SPEWS UCEPROT WPBL Thanks for the info, Jeff. I've got him in the cross hairs. I got an autoresponse from yahoo from my reply to his first posting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... - - ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From kens at geodax.com Wed May 12 18:13:07 2004 From: kens at geodax.com (Ken Scott) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:13:07 -0400 Subject: Evolution attachment file associations - how? Message-ID: <1084385587.21256.73.camel@KENS02L> I just upgraded to OpenOffice 1.1.0 on RH9 box (really wanted macros!). The RH update only went up to Openoffice 1.0.2 so I had to use the provided installer(non-RPM based). It forced me to install into a different directory because it said the language installed was different from the new one (I use English exclusively so I don't know why it did this). Everything is fine except the Openoffice buttons on the desktop taskbar continued to start the old version (I fixed this by changing the link to call new version using 'soffice -calc' instead of the old command 'oocalc'). Most troubling is the fact that spreadsheet attachments in Evolution (I have 1.4.5) still start the old veriosn of OpenOffice. How can I straighten this out. I saw no file association table in Evolution and got no help looking in the in the Evolution Knowledge base nor Linuxquestions.org. Thanks in advance. Ken From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 12 18:13:58 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:13:58 -0700 Subject: Go ahead. In-Reply-To: <40A263C7.4040007@vitalstream.com> References: <20040512085521.17678.qmail@web40002.mail.yahoo.com> <40A25A7D.3070607@vitalstream.com> <20040512134008.A6388@redline.comcast.net> <40A263C7.4040007@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40A26966.905@vitalstream.com> Rick Stevens wrote: > Jeff Kinz wrote: > >> On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 10:10:21AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >> >>> Miko?aj Roszak wrote: >>> >>>> Engine e-marketing solutions first dotcom belongs to Miko?aj Roszak >>>> from Bahamas Island >>> >>> >>> An absolutely USELESS posting. We do not appreciate advertising or any >>> such announcements. Keep this up and I will unsubscribe you. I'm a >>> sysop. >> >> >> >> Hi Rick - (and group) >> The IP the "gentleman" above posted from has a -32 rating at >> openrbl.org. IP is from holland, but he claims to be in the Bahamas? >> >> Personally I think you can kick him now, unless he has a good >> explanation or >> apology to the list. (IMHO) >> >> Pasted from openrbl: >> ? Multi DNSBL Lookup 81.190.34.113 >> http://openrbl.org/ip/81/190/34/113.htm >> >> Lookup 81.190.34.113 (host-81-190-34-113.szczecin.mm.pl) in 21+11 Zones >> AS: [NO_ROUTE] >> Net 81/8 EU-ZZ-81 ? Amsterdam, North Holland >> Results: Negative=32, Positive=0 (2004-05-12 17:33:42 UTC) >> >> * Negative 32: @COUNTRY @DYNAMIC @ISP @SPAM AHBL AUDNSBL BLARS >> BOGONS BONDED BOPM CBL DRBL DSBL FIVETEN INTERSIL JIPPGMA LNSG NJABL >> NOMORE ORDB PSBL PSS RFC_IPWH SBL SORBS SPAMBAG SPAMCOP SPAMRBL SPAMSITE >> SPEWS UCEPROT WPBL > > > Thanks for the info, Jeff. I've got him in the cross hairs. I got > an autoresponse from yahoo from my reply to his first posting. He (mrozak2001 at yahoo.com) has been unsubscribed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 kens at geodax.com Wed May 12 18:45:20 2004 From: kens at geodax.com (Ken Scott) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:45:20 -0400 Subject: Evolution attachment file associations - how? In-Reply-To: <1084385587.21256.73.camel@KENS02L> References: <1084385587.21256.73.camel@KENS02L> Message-ID: <1084387520.25282.6.camel@KENS02L> On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 14:13, Ken Scott wrote: > I just upgraded to OpenOffice 1.1.0 on RH9 box (really wanted macros!). > The RH update only went up to Openoffice 1.0.2 so I had to use the > provided installer(non-RPM based). It forced me to install into a > different directory because it said the language installed was different > from the new one (I use English exclusively so I don't know why it did > this). > Everything is fine except the Openoffice buttons on the desktop taskbar > continued to start the old version (I fixed this by changing the link to > call new version using 'soffice -calc' instead of the old command > 'oocalc'). Most troubling is the fact that spreadsheet attachments in > Evolution (I have 1.4.5) still start the old veriosn of OpenOffice. > How can I straighten this out. I saw no file association table in > Evolution and got no help looking in the in the Evolution Knowledge base > nor Linuxquestions.org. Thanks in advance. > Ken > Embarrassingly, I realized that although I changed the system file associations under Preferences/FileTypes and programs to point to the new Openoffice version, they were not picked up by Evolution until I restarted it. Now they work as intended. Thanks for listening. Ken From michael.sorens at hp.com Wed May 12 19:24:14 2004 From: michael.sorens at hp.com (Sorens, Michael) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 13:24:14 -0600 Subject: rh9 install failures under vmware Message-ID: Any other ideas for this? I am stuck in the water... -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Sorens, Michael Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 1:39 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: RE: rh9 install failures under vmware A capital suggestion from both respondents below... unfortunately, that did not help. I changed both partitions from ext3 to ext2 and still received the same error. I even specifically made sure that the two selectable XWindows sections were DE-selected in the install list (since this is a pdf viewer for X according to the installer), but the installer still got stuck on the same package (xpdf-2.01-8). ~~Michael Sorens _______________________________________________ -----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, May 11, 2004 12:16 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: rh9 install failures under vmware I hate vmware issues. For problem 1, vmware probably takes over the mouse port. Check the vmware docs for how to handle this. Problem 2 is typically caused by a race condition between the installer kernel and the ext3 filesystem on certain hardware. Try the install again, but specify ext2 filesystems. Once you're done, you can convert to ext3 filesystems. Intructions are at: http://www.rhil.net/docs/ext2-to-ext3.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Bob McClure Jr Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 12:17 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: rh9 install failures under vmware Please beat your MS mailer about the head and shoulders until it wraps lines every 72 chars or so. I'll reformat this. On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:52:43AM -0600, Sorens, Michael wrote: > (1) Attempting to install under VMware on WindowsXP, I got just a > few steps into the installation and was asked for mouse type. I > selected USB wheel mouse, which I have, clicked Next, and then my > mouse did not work. I tried several other mouse types and could > never get the mouse back. (During initialization, the installer > seems to think I have a PS/2 wheel mouse, but that choice also > fails.) My workaround was to simply use keyboard navigation to > attempt to complete the install, so this is less important than item > (2), but any thoughts on what is happening here...? I have no experience with VMware. I'll let others weigh in here. > (2) I downloaded shrike-i386-disc1.iso, shrike-i386-disc2.iso, and > shrike-i386-disc3.iso, ran an MD5 checker and confirmed they were > complete, > loaded each onto a CD, and began the install (still under > VMware). Everything went fine for 70% of the installation, until it > got stuck on xpdf-2.01-8 on disk 2. The installer complained that > the package could not be opened, and is probably due to a bad CD. So > I burned a second CD--same problem! I repeated this situation using > both the graphic install and the text install--same problem. So > either I need to know how to cure this problem, or what to specify > in the initial list of packages to install so it will not try to > load this particular package. > > (VMware, for those unfamiliar, is a tool that lets you build virtual > machines on top of your physical machines; an alternative to > partitions, in a way) > > Thanks! > ~~Michael Sorens I don't know if VMware is the culprit here, but the RH installer is known to be fragile about ext3 filesystems. Try installing to ext2 filesystems and then convert to ext3 after the install. Sometimes DMA is not very kosher and you need to boot the install with linux ide=nodma There is more information here: http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#install_dies and 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 Spring - God's greeting card. _______________________________________________ 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 May 12 19:53:09 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 12:53:09 -0700 Subject: rh9 install failures under vmware In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40A280A5.7080107@vitalstream.com> Sorens, Michael wrote: > Any other ideas for this? I am stuck in the water... > > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Sorens, > Michael > Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 1:39 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: RE: rh9 install failures under vmware > > > A capital suggestion from both respondents below... > unfortunately, that did not help. I changed both partitions > from ext3 to ext2 and still received the same error. > I even specifically made sure that the two selectable XWindows > sections were DE-selected in the install list > (since this is a pdf viewer for X according to the installer), > but the installer still got stuck on the same package (xpdf-2.01-8). Are you certain you have adequate space on the hard drive for all the stuff you're trying to install? The installer does weird things if it runs out of space. Yes, xpdf is a PDF viewer for X-Windows (sort of an open-source version of Acrobat). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "And on the seventh day, He exited from append mode." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From slarsen at opengearbox.com Wed May 12 22:47:04 2004 From: slarsen at opengearbox.com (Steve Larsen) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 18:47:04 -0400 Subject: lets talk about talk ... ? In-Reply-To: <40A25999.1060205@vitalstream.com> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20040511221928.00b93888@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511172421.00b1b250@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511172421.00b1b250@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511221928.00b93888@192.168.0.127> Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20040512184455.00b49fc8@192.168.0.127> Well Rick .. mystery solved .. it's a CommNet issue. I upgraded to the latest and the problem went away. My echo $TERM returned linux and I was using ntalk .. but CommNet 1.04 can't seem to emulate a proper TERM. By the way .. on the consol this always worked. So thanks again. Steve Larsen At 10:06 AM 5/12/2004 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >Steve Larsen wrote: >>Rick, >>I apologize for the dual post .. for some bizarre reason I didn't receive >>the reply >>so a double thanks is in order. I am set to use bash and don't run a gui >>desktop. >>My .bash_profile looks as such; >> # .bash_profile # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f >> ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi # User specific >> environment and startup programs PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin export >> PATH unset USERNAME alias l="ls -aFxl" alias >> lo="logout" alias lc="ls" alias h=history alias rm="rm >> -f" cat .greeting >>I do have ncurses installed. >> [root at somesystem root]# rpm -qa | grep >> ncurses ncurses-5.2-26 [root at somesystem root]# >>Is the problem hiding in my bash profile parameters? Also I use CommNet >>32 v 1.05 >>as VT100 for access. > >What does "echo $TERM" return? I just tested it via virtual terminals >(ALT-F1, etc.) with the TERM set to both "linux" (the default) and >"vt100" and it works perfectly (well, vt100 ends up with a line of "q"s >instead of a line to separate the two halves). > >You may have an initialization issue. If your "$TERM" environment looks >OK, try using "tput init" or "reset" to reinitialize your screen. If >"$TERM" doesn't look right, try: > > TERM=vt100;export TERM;tput init > >to set it up appropriately. Also make sure your comm program is set to >interpret the control characters properly when they come back from the >system. > >You are using the "ntalk" daemon, right? Port UDP/518. >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >- - >- "I'd explain it to you, but your brain might explode." - >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >_______________________________________________ >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 Steve Larsen slarsen at opengearbox.com From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 12 23:09:27 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 16:09:27 -0700 Subject: lets talk about talk ... ? In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20040512184455.00b49fc8@192.168.0.127> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20040511221928.00b93888@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511172421.00b1b250@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511172421.00b1b250@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511221928.00b93888@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040512184455.00b49fc8@192.168.0.127> Message-ID: <40A2AEA7.1030505@vitalstream.com> Steve Larsen wrote: > Well Rick .. mystery solved .. it's a CommNet issue. I upgraded to > the latest and the problem went away. My echo $TERM returned > linux and I was using ntalk .. but CommNet 1.04 can't seem to emulate > a proper TERM. By the way .. on the consol this always worked. > So thanks again. Ah, HAH! Glad I could at least aim you in the general direction. CommNet, eh? Is it that Windows-based replacement for hyperterm from Radient? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - When in doubt, mumble. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mgalan at dairy-farm.com.ph Thu May 13 01:03:42 2004 From: mgalan at dairy-farm.com.ph (May Galan) Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:03:42 +0800 Subject: How to create raw datafile. Message-ID: Hi Can someone send a list on how to create raw datafile in Linux? We are currently creating a database (oracle 9r2) using raw datafile and we have done so (last few steps was mknod and permission) but still encounter this error. CREATE DATABASE "cmgzse" * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01501: CREATE DATABASE failed ORA-00301: error in adding log file '/dev/oriole2vg00/rmgzse_log_01a' - file cannot be created ORA-27041: unable to open file Linux Error: 19: No such device Additional information: 1 We can list the files and permission is set already to oracle:dba > ls -ltra rmgzse_log_01a crw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 162, 14 May 12 11:29 rmgzse_log_01a The mknod command we do: > mknod /dev/oriole2vg00/rmgzse_log_01a c 162 8 Did we miss something??...Guess with the list we can drop and recreate our existing one and try to create again BTW, we are using Linux X86 RHEL2 32bit Thanks a lot in advance... Cheers May. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From SilverVenom22 at aol.com Thu May 13 01:11:43 2004 From: SilverVenom22 at aol.com (SilverVenom22 at aol.com) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 21:11:43 EDT Subject: LAN Problems Message-ID: Hey all, I am having trouble on my dual-boot PC. 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In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040513012716.50338.qmail@web12310.mail.yahoo.com> --- May Galan wrote: > Hi > Can someone send a list on how to create raw > datafile in Linux? > We are currently creating a database (oracle 9r2) > using raw datafile and we > have done so (last few steps was mknod and > permission) but still encounter > this error. > > CREATE DATABASE "cmgzse" > * > ERROR at line 1: > ORA-01501: CREATE DATABASE failed > ORA-00301: error in adding log file > '/dev/oriole2vg00/rmgzse_log_01a' - file > cannot be created > ORA-27041: unable to open file > Linux Error: 19: No such device > Additional information: 1 > > We can list the files and permission is set already > to oracle:dba > > ls -ltra rmgzse_log_01a > crw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 162, 14 May 12 11:29 > rmgzse_log_01a > > The mknod command we do: > > mknod /dev/oriole2vg00/rmgzse_log_01a c 162 8 > > Did we miss something??...Guess with the list we can > drop and recreate our > existing one and try to create again > BTW, we are using Linux X86 RHEL2 32bit > Thanks a lot in advance... > > Cheers > May. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 ===== Michael R. Ault Senior Technical Management Consultant TUSC -- The Oracle Experts WWW.TUSC.COM -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: create_lv.sh Type: application/octet-stream Size: 676 bytes Desc: create_lv.sh URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: get_raw.sh Type: application/octet-stream Size: 2887 bytes Desc: get_raw.sh URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: make_links.sh Type: application/octet-stream Size: 2017 bytes Desc: make_links.sh URL: From mgalan at dairy-farm.com.ph Thu May 13 02:09:59 2004 From: mgalan at dairy-farm.com.ph (May Galan) Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:09:59 +0800 Subject: How to create raw datafile. Message-ID: Hi Michael Appreciate your prompt advise and the scripts you've send. This are the steps that was executed:: # lvcreate -n mgzse_log_04a -L 96 /dev/oriole2vg00 /dev/cciss/c0d0p6 LV Name /dev/oriole2vg00/mgzse_log_04a VG Name oriole2vg00 LV Write Access read/write LV Status available LV # 12 # open 0 LV Size 96 MB Current LE 24 Allocated LE 24 Allocation next free Read ahead sectors 1024 Block device 58:11 # ll /dev/oriole2vg00/mgzse_log_04a brw-rw---- 1 root disk 58, 11 May 11 16:13 /dev/oriole2vg00/mgzse_log_04a Execute mknod command # mknod /dev/oriole2vg00/mgzse_log_04a c 162 11 crw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 162, 11 May 11 16:20 /dev/oriole2vg00/rmgzse_log_04a Execute raw command. # raw /dev/oriole2vg00/rmgzse_log_04a /dev/oriole2vg00/mgzse_log_04a /dev/raw/raw11: bound to major 58, minor 11 --> Will this be OK?? Will in Linux be in need to just create a link for the raw device?? Are the steps we execute miss something?? Please help Thanks May. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Ault [mailto:mikerault at yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 9:27 AM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: How to create raw datafile. --- May Galan wrote: > Hi > Can someone send a list on how to create raw > datafile in Linux? > We are currently creating a database (oracle 9r2) > using raw datafile and we > have done so (last few steps was mknod and > permission) but still encounter > this error. > > CREATE DATABASE "cmgzse" > * > ERROR at line 1: > ORA-01501: CREATE DATABASE failed > ORA-00301: error in adding log file '/dev/oriole2vg00/rmgzse_log_01a' > - file cannot be created > ORA-27041: unable to open file > Linux Error: 19: No such device > Additional information: 1 > > We can list the files and permission is set already > to oracle:dba > > ls -ltra rmgzse_log_01a > crw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 162, 14 May 12 11:29 > rmgzse_log_01a > > The mknod command we do: > > mknod /dev/oriole2vg00/rmgzse_log_01a c 162 8 > > Did we miss something??...Guess with the list we can > drop and recreate our > existing one and try to create again > BTW, we are using Linux X86 RHEL2 32bit > Thanks a lot in advance... > > Cheers > May. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 ===== Michael R. Ault Senior Technical Management Consultant TUSC -- The Oracle Experts WWW.TUSC.COM From mikerault at yahoo.com Thu May 13 02:19:18 2004 From: mikerault at yahoo.com (Michael Ault) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 19:19:18 -0700 (PDT) Subject: How to create raw datafile. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040513021918.76520.qmail@web12303.mail.yahoo.com> You don't need the links, but it does make management easier in my opinion. Mike --- May Galan wrote: > Hi Michael > Appreciate your prompt advise and the scripts you've > send. > > This are the steps that was executed:: > > # lvcreate -n mgzse_log_04a -L 96 /dev/oriole2vg00 > /dev/cciss/c0d0p6 > LV Name > /dev/oriole2vg00/mgzse_log_04a > VG Name oriole2vg00 > LV Write Access read/write > LV Status available > LV # 12 > # open 0 > LV Size 96 MB > Current LE 24 > Allocated LE 24 > Allocation next free > Read ahead sectors 1024 > Block device 58:11 > > # ll /dev/oriole2vg00/mgzse_log_04a > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 58, 11 May 11 > 16:13 > /dev/oriole2vg00/mgzse_log_04a > > Execute mknod command > # mknod /dev/oriole2vg00/mgzse_log_04a c 162 11 > > crw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 162, 11 May 11 > 16:20 > /dev/oriole2vg00/rmgzse_log_04a > > Execute raw command. > # raw /dev/oriole2vg00/rmgzse_log_04a > /dev/oriole2vg00/mgzse_log_04a > /dev/raw/raw11: bound to major 58, minor 11 --> > Will this be OK?? > > Will in Linux be in need to just create a link for > the raw device?? > Are the steps we execute miss something?? Please > help > > Thanks > May. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Ault [mailto:mikerault at yahoo.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 9:27 AM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: How to create raw datafile. > > > --- May Galan wrote: > > Hi > > Can someone send a list on how to create raw > > datafile in Linux? > > We are currently creating a database (oracle 9r2) > > using raw datafile and we > > have done so (last few steps was mknod and > > permission) but still encounter > > this error. > > > > CREATE DATABASE "cmgzse" > > * > > ERROR at line 1: > > ORA-01501: CREATE DATABASE failed > > ORA-00301: error in adding log file > '/dev/oriole2vg00/rmgzse_log_01a' > > - file cannot be created > > ORA-27041: unable to open file > > Linux Error: 19: No such device > > Additional information: 1 > > > > We can list the files and permission is set > already > > to oracle:dba > > > ls -ltra rmgzse_log_01a > > crw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 162, 14 May 12 11:29 > > rmgzse_log_01a > > > > The mknod command we do: > > > mknod /dev/oriole2vg00/rmgzse_log_01a c 162 8 > > > > Did we miss something??...Guess with the list we > can > > drop and recreate our > > existing one and try to create again > > BTW, we are using Linux X86 RHEL2 32bit > > Thanks a lot in advance... > > > > Cheers > > May. > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > ===== > Michael R. Ault > Senior Technical Management Consultant > TUSC -- The Oracle Experts WWW.TUSC.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 ===== Michael R. Ault Senior Technical Management Consultant TUSC -- The Oracle Experts WWW.TUSC.COM From mgalan at dairy-farm.com.ph Thu May 13 02:35:33 2004 From: mgalan at dairy-farm.com.ph (May Galan) Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:35:33 +0800 Subject: How to create raw datafile. Message-ID: Hi Mike Thanks. But our datafile below wont proceed with DB Creation. Error "Linux Error: 19: No such device > Additional information: 1" Does Linux have any books (or execute any command) that will have more definition on the Error 19 Thanks again May. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Ault [mailto:mikerault at yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 10:19 AM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: RE: How to create raw datafile. You don't need the links, but it does make management easier in my opinion. Mike --- May Galan wrote: > Hi Michael > Appreciate your prompt advise and the scripts you've > send. > > This are the steps that was executed:: > > # lvcreate -n mgzse_log_04a -L 96 /dev/oriole2vg00 /dev/cciss/c0d0p6 > LV Name > /dev/oriole2vg00/mgzse_log_04a > VG Name oriole2vg00 > LV Write Access read/write > LV Status available > LV # 12 > # open 0 > LV Size 96 MB > Current LE 24 > Allocated LE 24 > Allocation next free > Read ahead sectors 1024 > Block device 58:11 > > # ll /dev/oriole2vg00/mgzse_log_04a > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 58, 11 May 11 > 16:13 > /dev/oriole2vg00/mgzse_log_04a > > Execute mknod command > # mknod /dev/oriole2vg00/mgzse_log_04a c 162 11 > > crw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 162, 11 May 11 > 16:20 > /dev/oriole2vg00/rmgzse_log_04a > > Execute raw command. > # raw /dev/oriole2vg00/rmgzse_log_04a /dev/oriole2vg00/mgzse_log_04a > /dev/raw/raw11: bound to major 58, minor 11 --> > Will this be OK?? > > Will in Linux be in need to just create a link for > the raw device?? > Are the steps we execute miss something?? Please > help > > Thanks > May. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Ault [mailto:mikerault at yahoo.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 9:27 AM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: How to create raw datafile. > > > --- May Galan wrote: > > Hi > > Can someone send a list on how to create raw > > datafile in Linux? > > We are currently creating a database (oracle 9r2) > > using raw datafile and we > > have done so (last few steps was mknod and > > permission) but still encounter > > this error. > > > > CREATE DATABASE "cmgzse" > > * > > ERROR at line 1: > > ORA-01501: CREATE DATABASE failed > > ORA-00301: error in adding log file > '/dev/oriole2vg00/rmgzse_log_01a' > > - file cannot be created > > ORA-27041: unable to open file > > Linux Error: 19: No such device > > Additional information: 1 > > > > We can list the files and permission is set > already > > to oracle:dba > > > ls -ltra rmgzse_log_01a > > crw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 162, 14 May 12 11:29 > > rmgzse_log_01a > > > > The mknod command we do: > > > mknod /dev/oriole2vg00/rmgzse_log_01a c 162 8 > > > > Did we miss something??...Guess with the list we > can > > drop and recreate our > > existing one and try to create again > > BTW, we are using Linux X86 RHEL2 32bit > > Thanks a lot in advance... > > > > Cheers > > May. > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > ===== > Michael R. Ault > Senior Technical Management Consultant > TUSC -- The Oracle Experts WWW.TUSC.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 ===== Michael R. Ault Senior Technical Management Consultant TUSC -- The Oracle Experts WWW.TUSC.COM _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Subject: unsubscribe From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Thu May 13 03:32:06 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 22:32:06 -0500 Subject: LAN Problems In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20040513033206.GA31364@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:11:43PM -0400, SilverVenom22 at aol.com wrote: > Hey all, > I am having trouble on my dual-boot PC. I am running XP Home and Linux > Fedora Core 1. I have an integrated LAN connection on my computer. I tried to > configure the card through the setup wizard, it detects, everything looks fine, > then I go to activate it and it says "3c501 device eth0 does not seem to be > present, delaying initilazation." While I activated it in windows so the > connection light on the back flashes. I'm lost. Any help would be great! > > - Peter Post the results of "cat /proc/pci", at least the stanza that contains "Ethernet controller". For instance, mine looks like: Bus 0, device 16, function 0: Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 116). IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=10. I/O at 0xc800 [0xc87f]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xefffff80 [0xefffffff]. Also, post the contents of your /etc/modules.conf. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Spring - God's greeting card. From akelly at transparency.org Thu May 13 06:19:36 2004 From: akelly at transparency.org (Andrew Kelly) Date: 13 May 2004 08:19:36 +0200 Subject: LAN Problems In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1084429176.4130.4.camel@hermes.at.home> On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 03:11, SilverVenom22 at aol.com wrote: > Hey all, > I am having trouble on my dual-boot PC. I am running XP Home and > Linux Fedora Core 1. I have an integrated LAN connection on my > computer. I tried to configure the card through the setup wizard, it > detects, everything looks fine, then I go to activate it and it says > "3c501 device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying > initilazation." While I activated it in windows so the connection > light on the back flashes. I'm lost. Any help would be great! > > - Peter 3c501? That's a 3Com card. I'll admit all my gear is 5+ years old and I've fallen a bit behind the tech cutting edge, but I don't recall pc mobos having integrated 3com NICs. Aren't they generally Intel or Broadcom chipsets? Is it possible you're running up the wrong driver? Or am I just out of the loop 'cuz I still use a PII 350 and run RH 7.2? Andy From g0pae at manordat.demon.co.uk Thu May 13 08:06:13 2004 From: g0pae at manordat.demon.co.uk (Chris Hewitt) Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:06:13 +0100 Subject: Go ahead. References: <20040512085521.17678.qmail@web40002.mail.yahoo.com> <40A25A7D.3070607@vitalstream.com> <20040512134008.A6388@redline.comcast.net> Message-ID: <40A32C75.2010802@manordat.demon.co.uk> Jeff Kinz wrote: >On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 10:10:21AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Miko?aj Roszak wrote: >> >>>Engine e-marketing solutions first dotcom belongs to Miko?aj Roszak from >>>Bahamas Island >>> >>An absolutely USELESS posting. We do not appreciate advertising or any >>such announcements. Keep this up and I will unsubscribe you. I'm a >>sysop. >> > >Hi Rick - (and group) >The IP the "gentleman" above posted from has a -32 rating at >openrbl.org. IP is from holland, but he claims to be in the Bahamas? > >Personally I think you can kick him now, unless he has a good explanation or >apology to the list. (IMHO) > >Pasted from openrbl: >? Multi DNSBL Lookup 81.190.34.113 >http://openrbl.org/ip/81/190/34/113.htm > > Lookup 81.190.34.113 (host-81-190-34-113.szczecin.mm.pl) in 21+11 Zones > AS: [NO_ROUTE] > Net 81/8 EU-ZZ-81 ? Amsterdam, North Holland > Results: Negative=32, Positive=0 (2004-05-12 17:33:42 UTC) > > * Negative 32: @COUNTRY @DYNAMIC @ISP @SPAM AHBL AUDNSBL BLARS >BOGONS BONDED BOPM CBL DRBL DSBL FIVETEN INTERSIL JIPPGMA LNSG NJABL >NOMORE ORDB PSBL PSS RFC_IPWH SBL SORBS SPAMBAG SPAMCOP SPAMRBL SPAMSITE >SPEWS UCEPROT WPBL > > My broadband static IP address has exactly the same results (-32, including suggesting that I am in Amsterdam, North Holland when I am actually in Basildon, Essex, UK). My broadband ISP (uklinux.net, not the one I using here) puts all the IP addresses on the blackhole lists. Its a bit of a safety net as they then allow users to run smtp servers (for outgoing email they provide a server that I use as a smart host). Regards Chris From ajai at bway.net Thu May 13 14:53:54 2004 From: ajai at bway.net (Ajai Khattri) Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:53:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: LAN Problems In-Reply-To: <1084429176.4130.4.camel@hermes.at.home> References: <1084429176.4130.4.camel@hermes.at.home> Message-ID: On Thu, 13 May 2004, Andrew Kelly wrote: > 3c501? That's a 3Com card. I'll admit all my gear is 5+ years old and > I've fallen a bit behind the tech cutting edge, but I don't recall pc > mobos having integrated 3com NICs. Aren't they generally Intel or > Broadcom chipsets? Is it possible you're running up the wrong driver? > Or am I just out of the loop 'cuz I still use a PII 350 and run RH 7.2? Yep. The Tyan Thunder boards have 3c980 NICs. -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer From campbell at accelinc.com Thu May 13 15:08:10 2004 From: campbell at accelinc.com (Chuck Campbell) Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:08:10 -0500 Subject: More yum questions Message-ID: <20040513150810.GA30372@helium.inexs.com> I like this tool, but I'm still not sure I understand it. I thought it was supposed to resolve dependencies by itself? my yum.conf is included at the bottom of this email, in case it is needed to understand what I'm doing wrong. I did a yum check-update and I see the following: Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: ATrpms stable for rhl 9 Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base Server: Dag APT Repository Server: Freshrpms packages for Red Hat Linux 9 Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable) Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing) Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable) Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Name Arch Version Repo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- automake14 noarch 1.4p6-8.99_2.rh9.at atrpms-stable-rhl-9 automake15 noarch 1.5-9.99_2.rh9.at atrpms-stable-rhl-9 gstreamer-plugins i386 0.6.3-2.dag.rh90 dag tetex i386 2.0.2-32.rh9.at atrpms-stable-rhl-9 then I do a yum update and I get this: Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: ATrpms stable for rhl 9 Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base Server: Dag APT Repository Server: Freshrpms packages for Red Hat Linux 9 Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable) Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing) Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable) Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies .....Unable to satisfy dependencies Package gstreamer-plugins needs libfame-0.9.so.0, this is not available. Package tetex-afm needs tetex = 1.0.7, this is not available. Package tetex-latex needs tetex = 1.0.7, this is not available. yum.conf: [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 [base] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/ [updates] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - Updates baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/updates/$releasever/ [freshrpms-rhl-9] name=Freshrpms packages for Red Hat Linux 9 baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/9/i386/freshrpms/ [atrpms-stable-rhl-9] name=ATrpms stable for rhl 9 baseurl=http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de/redhat/9/en/i386/at-stable/ [dag] name=Dag APT Repository baseurl=http://dag.freshrpms.net/redhat/9/en/i386/dag http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/redhat/9/en/i386/dag/ [livna-stable] name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable) baseurl= http://rpm.livna.org/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable #gpgcheck=1 [livna-unstable] name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable) baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/unstable #gpgcheck=1 [livna-testing] name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing) baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/testing #gpgcheck=1 From michael.sorens at hp.com Thu May 13 15:58:16 2004 From: michael.sorens at hp.com (Sorens, Michael) Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:58:16 -0600 Subject: rh9 install failures under vmware Message-ID: Hard drive has 4GB; installer said it needed 2.2GB or 2.4GB I believe; is that sufficient margin? -----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, May 12, 2004 1:53 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: rh9 install failures under vmware Sorens, Michael wrote: > Any other ideas for this? I am stuck in the water... > > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Sorens, > Michael > Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 1:39 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: RE: rh9 install failures under vmware > > > A capital suggestion from both respondents below... > unfortunately, that did not help. I changed both partitions > from ext3 to ext2 and still received the same error. > I even specifically made sure that the two selectable XWindows > sections were DE-selected in the install list > (since this is a pdf viewer for X according to the installer), > but the installer still got stuck on the same package (xpdf-2.01-8). Are you certain you have adequate space on the hard drive for all the stuff you're trying to install? The installer does weird things if it runs out of space. Yes, xpdf is a PDF viewer for X-Windows (sort of an open-source version of Acrobat). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "And on the seventh day, He exited from append mode." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Thu May 13 16:28:54 2004 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:28:54 -0700 Subject: rh9 install failures under vmware Message-ID: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B826@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: Sorens, Michael [mailto:michael.sorens at hp.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 8:58 AM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: RE: rh9 install failures under vmware > > > Hard drive has 4GB; installer said it needed 2.2GB or 2.4GB I > believe; is that sufficient margin? What version of VMWare is this? From pmor82 at yahoo.com Thu May 13 19:22:36 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 12:22:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 In-Reply-To: <40A10B65.9080102@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040513192236.92694.qmail@web41007.mail.yahoo.com> --- Rick Stevens wrote: > Pedro Morales wrote: > > --- Rick Stevens wrote: > > [major snippage] > >>>Ok guys, FC1 is live and running in our > classroom, > >> > >>we > >> > >>>did it on my computer first for testing, it > >>>autodetected everything, and managed to discover > >> > >>how > >> > >>>to get my DHCP, DNS, Proxy and well, everything I > >>>needed for my college LAN, I have to say I love > >> > >>the > >> > >>>security on Linux. > >>> > >>>Now we have a new bump, we need to conect to our > >>>server which is running Windows 2003 Server wich > >> > >>has a > >> > >>>MSCHAP V.2 encryption, couldn't find any option > in > >>>Linux (so far) that allows me to connect to a > >> > >>Windows > >> > >>>server using this encryption mode. > >>> > >>>I found out in the internet that Linux needs a > >> > >>patch > >> > >>>to allow this, but I'm wondering, since FC1 is a > >>>Project and it's newer, does FC1 has this option > >>>somewhere or do I have to do it on text mode? > >> > >>You'll need to do it in text mode. FC1 doesn't > have > >>a GUI-based patch > >>or tweak tool. > > > > > > how do I do this? > > It depends on the patch you get. Once you download > and extract the > patch code, there should be an INSTALL or README > file that explains the > process. Since I don't know what patch you're > talking about, I can't > help beyond that. If you want to post a link to > where you found this > information, I might be able to help more. http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/movie?mid=1808405861 From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu May 13 20:06:54 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 13:06:54 -0700 Subject: Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2 In-Reply-To: <20040513192236.92694.qmail@web41007.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040513192236.92694.qmail@web41007.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40A3D55E.1040807@vitalstream.com> Pedro Morales wrote: > --- Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Pedro Morales wrote: >> >>>--- Rick Stevens wrote: >> >>[major snippage] >> >>>>>Ok guys, FC1 is live and running in our >> >>classroom, >> >>>>we >>>> >>>> >>>>>did it on my computer first for testing, it >>>>>autodetected everything, and managed to discover >>>> >>>>how >>>> >>>> >>>>>to get my DHCP, DNS, Proxy and well, everything I >>>>>needed for my college LAN, I have to say I love >>>> >>>>the >>>> >>>> >>>>>security on Linux. >>>>> >>>>>Now we have a new bump, we need to conect to our >>>>>server which is running Windows 2003 Server wich >>>> >>>>has a >>>> >>>> >>>>>MSCHAP V.2 encryption, couldn't find any option >> >>in >> >>>>>Linux (so far) that allows me to connect to a >>>> >>>>Windows >>>> >>>> >>>>>server using this encryption mode. >>>>> >>>>>I found out in the internet that Linux needs a >>>> >>>>patch >>>> >>>> >>>>>to allow this, but I'm wondering, since FC1 is a >>>>>Project and it's newer, does FC1 has this option >>>>>somewhere or do I have to do it on text mode? >>>> >>>>You'll need to do it in text mode. FC1 doesn't >> >>have >> >>>>a GUI-based patch >>>>or tweak tool. >>> >>> >>>how do I do this? >> >>It depends on the patch you get. Once you download >>and extract the >>patch code, there should be an INSTALL or README >>file that explains the >>process. Since I don't know what patch you're >>talking about, I can't >>help beyond that. If you want to post a link to >>where you found this >>information, I might be able to help more. > > > http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ The instructions to do it are there on the website. Did you read any of them? The instructions for RH9 are virtually identical to those for FC1. If you missed the link, it's http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-redhat-90-build.phtml Where they list the kernel source and rpm-build/rpm-devel stuff, make sure you have the CURRENT kernel source RPM installed along with the latest rpm-build and rpm-devel RPMs. Make sure you have configured the kernel source properly (through the "make xconfig;make dep" stage). See http://www.rhil.net/docs/kernelbuild.html if you're confused about that bit. Once that's done, continue with the "Download" section of the "pptpclient" link. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 jkinz at kinz.org Fri May 14 00:46:28 2004 From: jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz) Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 20:46:28 -0400 Subject: Go ahead. In-Reply-To: <40A32C75.2010802@manordat.demon.co.uk>; from g0pae@manordat.demon.co.uk on Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:06:13AM +0100 References: <20040512085521.17678.qmail@web40002.mail.yahoo.com> <40A25A7D.3070607@vitalstream.com> <20040512134008.A6388@redline.comcast.net> <40A32C75.2010802@manordat.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: <20040513204628.A2980@redline.comcast.net> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:06:13AM +0100, Chris Hewitt wrote: > Jeff Kinz wrote: > >The IP the "gentleman" above posted from has a -32 rating at > >openrbl.org. IP is from holland, but he claims to be in the Bahamas? > > > >Personally I think you can kick him now, unless he has a good explanation or > >apology to the list. (IMHO) > > snip-erooney ..... > My broadband static IP address has exactly the same results (-32, > including suggesting that I am in Amsterdam, North Holland when I am > actually in Basildon, Essex, UK). > > My broadband ISP (uklinux.net, not the one I using here) puts all the IP > addresses on the blackhole lists. Its a bit of a safety net as they then > allow users to run smtp servers (for outgoing email they provide a > server that I use as a smart host). Clearly your -32 will always be outweighed by your local rating in this list. Which I estimate at approximately +400 :) -- 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 karlp at ourldsfamily.com Fri May 14 02:32:06 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (Karl Perason) Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 20:32:06 -0600 (MDT) Subject: New Server on RH8.0 Message-ID: <22731.198.60.114.90.1084501926.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> Wow, a long time since I posted... I just (finally) upgraded our email/web server from RH7 to RH8 as I asked about a bunch of months back. I was forced into it. The new features are dandy, however, and I'm enjoying setting up clamav and squirrelmail, spamassassin and majordomo (done: perl tweaks via CPAN). Issue 1: email out of the system goes out (as this one will so I hope y'all get it) as being from the entire hostname rather than just the domain. Issue 2: Clamav 1.3: if I upgrade to Clamav 1.5, will I be able to have email scanned on the way in without jumping through as many hoops? RPM version available for 1.3. RPM for 1.5 yet? (being lazy there...) Issue 3: clamav has an option for --mbox for email scanning, but if the --remove switch is used, it removes the entire raw email file, not just the virus infected email. Any ideas there? Thanks all, -- Karl Pearson karlp at ourldsfamily.com http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com http://emailgroups.ourldsfamily.com From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Fri May 14 05:45:10 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (Karl Perason) Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 23:45:10 -0600 (MDT) Subject: New Server on RH8.0 In-Reply-To: <22731.198.60.114.90.1084501926.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> References: <22731.198.60.114.90.1084501926.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <26189.198.60.114.90.1084513510.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> > Issue 1: email out of the system goes out (as this one will so I hope > y'all get it) as being from the entire hostname rather than just the > domain. I seem to have fixed this with a rebuild of sendmail.cw using m4 after adding a Cw line... > > Issue 2: Clamav 1.3: if I upgrade to Clamav 1.5, will I be able to have > email scanned on the way in without jumping through as many hoops? RPM > version available for 1.3. RPM for 1.5 yet? (being lazy there...) > > Issue 3: clamav has an option for --mbox for email scanning, but if the > --remove switch is used, it removes the entire raw email file, not just > the virus infected email. Any ideas there? > > Thanks all, > > -- > Karl Pearson > karlp at ourldsfamily.com > http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com > http://emailgroups.ourldsfamily.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 > -- Karl Pearson karlp at ourldsfamily.com http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com http://emailgroups.ourldsfamily.com From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri May 14 17:24:17 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 10:24:17 -0700 Subject: New Server on RH8.0 In-Reply-To: <26189.198.60.114.90.1084513510.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> References: <22731.198.60.114.90.1084501926.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> <26189.198.60.114.90.1084513510.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <40A500C1.5040702@vitalstream.com> Karl Perason wrote: > > >>Issue 1: email out of the system goes out (as this one will so I hope >>y'all get it) as being from the entire hostname rather than just the >>domain. > > > I seem to have fixed this with a rebuild of sendmail.cw using m4 after > adding a Cw line... I was just going to suggest that... >>Issue 2: Clamav 1.3: if I upgrade to Clamav 1.5, will I be able to have >>email scanned on the way in without jumping through as many hoops? RPM >>version available for 1.3. RPM for 1.5 yet? (being lazy there...) 1.3? ClamAV's current release is 0.70. That being said, if you're running clamd and scanning via clamav-milter, yes. Any incoming stuff is run through clamAV if you're using that. As for RPMs, I dunno. I don't use them myself as they typically lag behind the releases too much. I'm a tarball-build-install kind of guy. >>Issue 3: clamav has an option for --mbox for email scanning, but if the >>--remove switch is used, it removes the entire raw email file, not just >>the virus infected email. Any ideas there? Remember that an "mbox" is one file. clamscan doesn't pull it apart, purge the infection and put it back together--it deletes the _file_ (which happens to be "mbox"). For the "--remove" to only delete the infected message, you need to be scanning a MailDir-style mail account. Note that ClamAV 0.70 no longer has clamscan. It has clamdscan, which is a client for clamd. It doesn't support the "--mbox" option. You must have "ScanMail" option set in clamd.conf for that to work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Death is nature's way of dropping carrier - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From g0pae at manordat.demon.co.uk Fri May 14 18:53:10 2004 From: g0pae at manordat.demon.co.uk (Chris Hewitt) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 19:53:10 +0100 Subject: Go ahead. References: <20040512085521.17678.qmail@web40002.mail.yahoo.com> <40A25A7D.3070607@vitalstream.com> <20040512134008.A6388@redline.comcast.net> <40A32C75.2010802@manordat.demon.co.uk> <20040513204628.A2980@redline.comcast.net> Message-ID: <40A51596.60701@manordat.demon.co.uk> Jeff Kinz wrote: >On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:06:13AM +0100, Chris Hewitt wrote: > >>Jeff Kinz wrote: >> >>>The IP the "gentleman" above posted from has a -32 rating at >>>openrbl.org. IP is from holland, but he claims to be in the Bahamas? >>> >>>Personally I think you can kick him now, unless he has a good explanation or >>>apology to the list. (IMHO) >>> > >snip-erooney ..... > >>My broadband static IP address has exactly the same results (-32, >>including suggesting that I am in Amsterdam, North Holland when I am >>actually in Basildon, Essex, UK). >> >>My broadband ISP (uklinux.net, not the one I using here) puts all the IP >>addresses on the blackhole lists. Its a bit of a safety net as they then >>allow users to run smtp servers (for outgoing email they provide a >>server that I use as a smart host). >> > >Clearly your -32 will always be outweighed by your local rating in this >list. Which I estimate at approximately +400 :) > Jeff, (goes red with embarassment) Thanks. I have to remind myself that it is only my IP address that is -32 (at 53 I could wish it was my age). :-) Chris From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Fri May 14 19:01:14 2004 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 12:01:14 -0700 Subject: Redhat ES Patches Message-ID: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B837@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> Ok, I've got an ES machine here at work. I can't have it contacting Redhats up2date server. I want the patches, but I can't easily just download all the latest updates, regardless of wether my system needs them or not, so I can have my own distribution point of sorts. Anyone have an easier way to get past this, rather than individually download all 1100+ packages and sift through them finding the ones that are newer than the source media? I mean.. having to individually select each of those 1100+ packages for download is going to suck. Thanks, Travis From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri May 14 19:23:59 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 12:23:59 -0700 Subject: Redhat ES Patches In-Reply-To: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B837@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B837@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> Message-ID: <40A51CCF.9040507@vitalstream.com> Waldher, Travis R wrote: > Ok, I've got an ES machine here at work. I can't have it contacting > Redhats up2date server. I want the patches, but I can't easily just > download all the latest updates, regardless of wether my system needs > them or not, so I can have my own distribution point of sorts. > > Anyone have an easier way to get past this, rather than individually > download all 1100+ packages and sift through them finding the ones that > are newer than the source media? I mean.. having to individually select > each of those 1100+ packages for download is going to suck. I hate to break it to you, but the only free updates available for ES, AS, PW or EL are source RPMs. If you want binary updates, you must sign up for an update "entitlement" and get them from Red Hat's site via up2date. This is one of the reasons so many people flocked to Fedora Core. Sorry. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 slarsen at opengearbox.com Fri May 14 20:26:56 2004 From: slarsen at opengearbox.com (Steve Larsen) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 16:26:56 -0400 Subject: lets talk about talk ... ? In-Reply-To: <40A2AEA7.1030505@vitalstream.com> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20040512184455.00b49fc8@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511221928.00b93888@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511172421.00b1b250@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511172421.00b1b250@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511221928.00b93888@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040512184455.00b49fc8@192.168.0.127> Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20040514162547.00b4d8c0@192.168.0.127> CommNet is not a replacement for Hyper Term .. at least as far as I can tell, but it is made by Radient. Doesn't shine very well .. went back to putty. S. At 04:09 PM 5/12/2004 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >Steve Larsen wrote: >>Well Rick .. mystery solved .. it's a CommNet issue. I upgraded to >>the latest and the problem went away. My echo $TERM returned >>linux and I was using ntalk .. but CommNet 1.04 can't seem to emulate >>a proper TERM. By the way .. on the consol this always worked. >>So thanks again. > >Ah, HAH! Glad I could at least aim you in the general direction. >CommNet, eh? Is it that Windows-based replacement for hyperterm >from Radient? >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >- - >- When in doubt, mumble. - >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >_______________________________________________ >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 Steve Larsen slarsen at opengearbox.com From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri May 14 21:02:06 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 14:02:06 -0700 Subject: lets talk about talk ... ? In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20040514162547.00b4d8c0@192.168.0.127> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20040512184455.00b49fc8@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511221928.00b93888@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511172421.00b1b250@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511172421.00b1b250@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511221928.00b93888@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040512184455.00b49fc8@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040514162547.00b4d8c0@192.168.0.127> Message-ID: <40A533CE.1040402@vitalstream.com> Steve Larsen wrote: > CommNet is not a replacement for Hyper Term .. at least as > far as I can tell, but it is made by Radient. Doesn't shine very > well .. went back to putty. My "replacement for Hyperterm" was tongue in cheek (does anyone have an appropriate smiley for that?). Never used it, but did check the website. Seems a bit, uhm, overblown. Since I run Linux almost everywhere, I rarely need anything like that or putty. My laptop does dual boot (XP/Pro), but it hasn't run that in about four months. It does have putty on it for when I'm forced to use that "evil washington thing" and I have putty on my USB FLASH for those occasional emergencies. >> Steve Larsen wrote: >> >>> Well Rick .. mystery solved .. it's a CommNet issue. I upgraded to >>> the latest and the problem went away. My echo $TERM returned >>> linux and I was using ntalk .. but CommNet 1.04 can't seem to emulate >>> a proper TERM. By the way .. on the consol this always worked. >>> So thanks again. >> >> >> Ah, HAH! Glad I could at least aim you in the general direction. >> CommNet, eh? Is it that Windows-based replacement for hyperterm >> from Radient? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 pmor82 at yahoo.com Fri May 14 21:18:08 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 14:18:08 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Emulation In-Reply-To: <40A3D55E.1040807@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040514211808.91819.qmail@web41005.mail.yahoo.com> Hey guys, I'm wondering if there's a way to emulate windows under linux, not that I still care abotu windows, but after class and after my studies and research, I tend to play online games, Dark Age of Camelot specially, and I asked the manufacturer and they say it doesn't run under linux, but I heard some people were. Is there an emulation or some shell for this? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ From ajai at bway.net Fri May 14 21:23:35 2004 From: ajai at bway.net (Ajai Khattri) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 17:23:35 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Emulation In-Reply-To: <20040514211808.91819.qmail@web41005.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040514211808.91819.qmail@web41005.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: On Fri, 14 May 2004, Pedro Morales wrote: > I'm wondering if there's a way to emulate windows > under linux, not that I still care abotu windows, but > after class and after my studies and research, I tend > to play online games, Dark Age of Camelot specially, > and I asked the manufacturer and they say it doesn't > run under linux, but I heard some people were. Is > there an emulation or some shell for this? Google for any of the following "vmware" "wine linux" "win4lin" etc etc -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri May 14 21:45:13 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 14:45:13 -0700 Subject: Emulation In-Reply-To: <20040514211808.91819.qmail@web41005.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040514211808.91819.qmail@web41005.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40A53DE9.3070204@vitalstream.com> Pedro Morales wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm wondering if there's a way to emulate windows > under linux, not that I still care abotu windows, but > after class and after my studies and research, I tend > to play online games, Dark Age of Camelot specially, > and I asked the manufacturer and they say it doesn't > run under linux, but I heard some people were. Is > there an emulation or some shell for this? "wine" is a Windows Emulator for Linux. It won't run everything, but it works reasonably well with MS Office tools. wine is free and comes with Red Hat Linux and Fedora, but you must install it. "win4lin" is a commercial product that runs W98 under Linux. "vmware" is a commercial product which allows you to run Windows and Linux in two virtual machines simultaneously. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "How does that damned three seashell thing work?" - - - Sylvester Stallone, "Demolition Man" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Fri May 14 22:15:03 2004 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 15:15:03 -0700 Subject: Redhat ES Patches Message-ID: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B838@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 12:24 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: Redhat ES Patches > > > Waldher, Travis R wrote: > > Ok, I've got an ES machine here at work. I can't have it > contacting > > Redhats up2date server. I want the patches, but I can't > easily just > > download all the latest updates, regardless of wether my > system needs > > them or not, so I can have my own distribution point of sorts. > > > > Anyone have an easier way to get past this, rather than > individually > > download all 1100+ packages and sift through them finding the ones > > that are newer than the source media? I mean.. having to > individually > > select each of those 1100+ packages for download is going to suck. > > I hate to break it to you, but the only free updates > available for ES, AS, PW or EL are source RPMs. If you want > binary updates, you must sign up for an update "entitlement" > and get them from Red Hat's site via up2date. > > This is one of the reasons so many people flocked to Fedora Core. > > Sorry. I do have the entitlement. So, I can get to the binaries. The problem is, if I don't use up2date, it seems I have to manually download each patch and try to figure out which ones are newer. A real pain, and Redhat support laughed at me when I said, surely, there must be another way. :/ From ajai at bway.net Fri May 14 22:20:50 2004 From: ajai at bway.net (Ajai Khattri) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 18:20:50 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Redhat ES Patches In-Reply-To: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B838@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B838@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> Message-ID: On Fri, 14 May 2004, Waldher, Travis R wrote: > I do have the entitlement. So, I can get to the binaries. The problem > is, if I don't use up2date, it seems I have to manually download each > patch and try to figure out which ones are newer. A real pain, and > Redhat support laughed at me when I said, surely, there must be another > way. :/ Those who live by the sword... -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Fri May 14 22:16:54 2004 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 15:16:54 -0700 Subject: Emulation Message-ID: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B839@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 2:45 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: Emulation > > "vmware" is a commercial product which allows you to run > Windows and Linux in two virtual machines simultaneously. More than 2 though, last I was using it, I had 5 VMWARE virtual machines running. All talking ontheir own private emulated network and test environment. Yes.. I know.. I'm a dork. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri May 14 22:42:36 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 15:42:36 -0700 Subject: Redhat ES Patches In-Reply-To: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B838@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B838@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> Message-ID: <40A54B5C.2000608@vitalstream.com> Waldher, Travis R wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] >>Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 12:24 PM >>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >>Subject: Re: Redhat ES Patches >> >> >>Waldher, Travis R wrote: >> >>>Ok, I've got an ES machine here at work. I can't have it >> >>contacting >> >>>Redhats up2date server. I want the patches, but I can't >> >>easily just >> >>>download all the latest updates, regardless of wether my >> >>system needs >> >>>them or not, so I can have my own distribution point of sorts. >>> >>>Anyone have an easier way to get past this, rather than >> >>individually >> >>>download all 1100+ packages and sift through them finding the ones >>>that are newer than the source media? I mean.. having to >> >>individually >> >>>select each of those 1100+ packages for download is going to suck. >> >>I hate to break it to you, but the only free updates >>available for ES, AS, PW or EL are source RPMs. If you want >>binary updates, you must sign up for an update "entitlement" >>and get them from Red Hat's site via up2date. >> >>This is one of the reasons so many people flocked to Fedora Core. >> >>Sorry. > > > I do have the entitlement. So, I can get to the binaries. The problem > is, if I don't use up2date, it seems I have to manually download each > patch and try to figure out which ones are newer. A real pain, and > Redhat support laughed at me when I said, surely, there must be another > way. :/ Yes, you must use up2date. However, you can set up an "ignore" list of RPMs you _don't_ want automatically installed. Use "up2date --config" to set that up. up2date does a reasonable job of sorting out what's "newer" than what you have--but only for things installed via rpm. If you do a tarball install, up2date (because it queries the rpm database) will have no idea that you installed, say, PostgreSQL 7.4.2 (the latest) via tarball, while the latest RPM is 7.3.6. So, when they finally come out with a 7.3.7 rpm, it'll get installed and might stomp on your 7.4.2 version. That's one of the problems with multiple distribution formats. "You pays your money...you takes your chances!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Fri May 14 22:50:12 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 15:50:12 -0700 Subject: Emulation In-Reply-To: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B839@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B839@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> Message-ID: <40A54D24.7010303@vitalstream.com> Waldher, Travis R wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] >>Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 2:45 PM >>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >>Subject: Re: Emulation >> >>"vmware" is a commercial product which allows you to run >>Windows and Linux in two virtual machines simultaneously. > > > More than 2 though, last I was using it, I had 5 VMWARE virtual machines > running. All talking ontheir own private emulated network and test > environment. Yes.. I know.. I'm a dork. (no comment on the last tidbit :-D ) And you're not limited to some Windows variant and Linux...there's lots of OSes that vmware supports. I don't own it or have a lot of experience with it, but on most accounts it works pretty well. win4lin works, but there are memory limits on the Windows session (I think it's 256MB in the current release) and you need a tweaked kernel for it. They (Netraverse) do a pretty good job of having ready-to-go downloadable kernels, but they're not current with the latest ones. If you want the absolute latest kernel, you need to patch the source and build it yourself. Not a horrible job, but not one for amateurs or the faint of heart. And yes, I know. I'm a gigadork (actually, I prefer "teranerd"). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 slarsen at opengearbox.com Fri May 14 23:51:13 2004 From: slarsen at opengearbox.com (Steve Larsen) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 19:51:13 -0400 Subject: lets talk about talk ... ? In-Reply-To: <40A533CE.1040402@vitalstream.com> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20040514162547.00b4d8c0@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040512184455.00b49fc8@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511221928.00b93888@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511172421.00b1b250@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511172421.00b1b250@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511221928.00b93888@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040512184455.00b49fc8@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040514162547.00b4d8c0@192.168.0.127> Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20040514194250.00b4a2d8@192.168.0.127> Well while I not a fan of redmond policies and attitude, my XP desktop does have it's place. I do alot of family video editing using adobe prem . However it fails to get the best from my seagate scsi drives, not like my 7.3 RH .. that puppy is so rock solid it's not funny. At work that is all I use, 7.2 . Anyway thanks again .. I'm sure in some future time I'll be calling out to the list again. Here is a tip for the list. At work where we are saturated in world wide deployment of ECS's running on RH Linux platforms, I always instruct the new lads and lasses to sign up for the install list, this one, and even if they do not post a question they can gather in a lot of good stuff just by reading. I'd recommend to others to recommend the list for carving down that learning curve too. Best wishes for a fine computing day .... Steve Larsen At 02:02 PM 5/14/2004 -0700, you wrote: >Steve Larsen wrote: >>CommNet is not a replacement for Hyper Term .. at least as >>far as I can tell, but it is made by Radient. Doesn't shine very >>well .. went back to putty. > >My "replacement for Hyperterm" was tongue in cheek (does anyone have >an appropriate smiley for that?). > >Never used it, but did check the website. Seems a bit, uhm, overblown. >Since I run Linux almost everywhere, I rarely need anything like that or >putty. My laptop does dual boot (XP/Pro), but it hasn't run that in >about four months. It does have putty on it for when I'm forced to >use that "evil washington thing" and I have putty on my USB FLASH for >those occasional emergencies. > >>>Steve Larsen wrote: >>> >>>>Well Rick .. mystery solved .. it's a CommNet issue. I upgraded to >>>>the latest and the problem went away. My echo $TERM returned >>>>linux and I was using ntalk .. but CommNet 1.04 can't seem to emulate >>>>a proper TERM. By the way .. on the consol this always worked. >>>>So thanks again. >>> >>> >>>Ah, HAH! Glad I could at least aim you in the general direction. >>>CommNet, eh? Is it that Windows-based replacement for hyperterm >>>from Radient? >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >- 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! - >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >_______________________________________________ >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 Steve Larsen slarsen at opengearbox.com From rstevens at vitalstream.com Sat May 15 00:10:11 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 17:10:11 -0700 Subject: lets talk about talk ... ? In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20040514194250.00b4a2d8@192.168.0.127> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20040514162547.00b4d8c0@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040512184455.00b49fc8@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511221928.00b93888@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511172421.00b1b250@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511172421.00b1b250@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040511221928.00b93888@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040512184455.00b49fc8@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040514162547.00b4d8c0@192.168.0.127> <5.2.1.1.2.20040514194250.00b4a2d8@192.168.0.127> Message-ID: <40A55FE3.1080608@vitalstream.com> Steve Larsen wrote: > Well while I not a fan of redmond policies and attitude, > my XP desktop does have it's place. I do alot of family > video editing using adobe prem . However it fails to get > the best from my seagate scsi drives, not like my 7.3 > RH .. that puppy is so rock solid it's not funny. At work > that is all I use, 7.2 . Anyway thanks again .. I'm sure in > some future time I'll be calling out to the list again. > > Here is a tip for the list. At work where we are saturated > in world wide deployment of ECS's running on RH Linux > platforms, I always instruct the new lads and lasses to sign > up for the install list, this one, and even if they do not post > a question they can gather in a lot of good stuff just by reading. > I'd recommend to others to recommend the list for carving > down that learning curve too. Nice to know we're appreciated, Steve. The fedora-list is pretty good, too, but it's not really "install" related (it's really "everything Fedora"). > Best wishes for a fine computing day .... Right back atcha, son! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 karlp at ourldsfamily.com Sat May 15 00:32:53 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (Karl Perason) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 18:32:53 -0600 (MDT) Subject: New Server on RH8.0 In-Reply-To: <40A500C1.5040702@vitalstream.com> References: <22731.198.60.114.90.1084501926.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com><26189.198.60.114.90.1084513510.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> <40A500C1.5040702@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <13829.198.60.114.90.1084581173.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> > > 1.3? ClamAV's current release is 0.70. That being said, if you're > running clamd and scanning via clamav-milter, yes. Any incoming stuff > is run through clamAV if you're using that. As for RPMs, I dunno. I > don't use them myself as they typically lag behind the releases too > much. I'm a tarball-build-install kind of guy. Duh. 0.65-4 currently. I've been an rpm guy so I can see what's there by doing rpm -qa|grep whatever I'll get the .70 so I can install milter and have it run stdin for email scanning. Is there a better option out there? > > Remember that an "mbox" is one file. clamscan doesn't pull it apart, > purge the infection and put it back together--it deletes the _file_ > (which happens to be "mbox"). For the "--remove" to only delete the > infected message, you need to be scanning a MailDir-style mail account. Drat. That's what I'd do. It's really not that hard: Parse the file, find the virus, reverse to the previous "From " and delete that line until the next "From " is found. done. > > Note that ClamAV 0.70 no longer has clamscan. It has clamdscan, which > is a client for clamd. It doesn't support the "--mbox" option. You > must have "ScanMail" option set in clamd.conf for that to work. Interestingly enough, clamav.conf HAS ScanMail as an option to set for this version. Of course it doesn't do anything. It's also got an email notify option, which doesn't seem to work either. I have viruses on my mail server and know right where they are, but nothing gets reported... I'm pretty sure I just need to set things up right. I'm pretty new to this thing still, so should have it figured out soon enough. Thanks Rick. Glad to see you are still on the list. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Death is nature's way of dropping carrier - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- How about... ...way of "dumping the core" -- 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 rstevens at vitalstream.com Sat May 15 00:53:34 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 17:53:34 -0700 Subject: New Server on RH8.0 In-Reply-To: <13829.198.60.114.90.1084581173.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> References: <22731.198.60.114.90.1084501926.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com><26189.198.60.114.90.1084513510.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> <40A500C1.5040702@vitalstream.com> <13829.198.60.114.90.1084581173.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <40A56A0E.2040504@vitalstream.com> Karl Perason wrote: > > >>1.3? ClamAV's current release is 0.70. That being said, if you're >>running clamd and scanning via clamav-milter, yes. Any incoming stuff >>is run through clamAV if you're using that. As for RPMs, I dunno. I >>don't use them myself as they typically lag behind the releases too >>much. I'm a tarball-build-install kind of guy. > > > Duh. 0.65-4 currently. I've been an rpm guy so I can see what's there by > doing rpm -qa|grep whatever > > I'll get the .70 so I can install milter and have it run stdin for email > scanning. Is there a better option out there? Whoa! milter ties into sendmail directly--there's no stdin scanning involved. Anything going through sendmail gets filtered. clamd runs in the background listening on a named pipe (or socket, you choose). Sendmail feeds the messages as they come in through clamav-milter. For most sections, it does nothing. For the data section, clamav-milter sends the data to clamd for scanning. clamd returns back a code indicating good or bad. If bad, you can have it bounce or toss the message (I opt for toss--why bounce a Bagel worm when you know the sender address is bogus?). >>Remember that an "mbox" is one file. clamscan doesn't pull it apart, >>purge the infection and put it back together--it deletes the _file_ >>(which happens to be "mbox"). For the "--remove" to only delete the >>infected message, you need to be scanning a MailDir-style mail account. > > > Drat. That's what I'd do. It's really not that hard: > > Parse the file, find the virus, reverse to the previous "From " and delete > that line until the next "From " is found. done. Yes, but that's not what it does. It doesn't know that the file is a collection of messages. It just deletes the file containing the virus. Unfortunately, that's your entire inbox. If you want to add mbox-filtering capability to it, I'm sure the clamav folk would LOVE to have your patches, if there aren't some already (check the "contrib" directory of the tarball). > > >>Note that ClamAV 0.70 no longer has clamscan. It has clamdscan, which >>is a client for clamd. It doesn't support the "--mbox" option. You >>must have "ScanMail" option set in clamd.conf for that to work. > > > Interestingly enough, clamav.conf HAS ScanMail as an option to set for > this version. Of course it doesn't do anything. It's also got an email > notify option, which doesn't seem to work either. I have viruses on my > mail server and know right where they are, but nothing gets reported... > I'm pretty sure I just need to set things up right. I'm pretty new to this > thing still, so should have it figured out soon enough. I'm not sure what ScanMail does in clamd.conf under 0.65. Since I use clamav-milter on sendmail, I really don't care as the stuff is cleaned out on the fly. "Message coming in...hey! It's a worm! Toss it." There's no need to rescan mailboxes. > Thanks Rick. Glad to see you are still on the list. I'm an assistant sysop, no less! I'm like that piece of gum on the bottom of your shoe. No matter how hard you try, bits of me stick! ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From friz at godshell.com Sat May 15 02:25:24 2004 From: friz at godshell.com (Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 22:25:24 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Redhat ES Patches In-Reply-To: <40A54B5C.2000608@vitalstream.com> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B838@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> <40A54B5C.2000608@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <4374.206.228.94.101.1084587924.squirrel@www.protectors.cc> Rick Stevens said: > Yes, you must use up2date. However, you can set up an "ignore" list > of RPMs you _don't_ want automatically installed. Use "up2date > --config" to set that up. And up2date does a great job with this... > up2date does a reasonable job of sorting out what's "newer" than what > you have--but only for things installed via rpm. If you do a tarball > install, up2date (because it queries the rpm database) will have no idea > that you installed, say, PostgreSQL 7.4.2 (the latest) via tarball, > while the latest RPM is 7.3.6. So, when they finally come out with a > 7.3.7 rpm, it'll get installed and might stomp on your 7.4.2 version. > That's one of the problems with multiple distribution formats. You could always, of course, roll your own rpm's... It can be a challenge at times, but it definitely pays off when you have to update multiple machines... Supposedly there is a way to get up2date to look at your own personal rpm repository and you can distribute your rpm's to your other machines in this manner. This is something I've got on my todo list... :) > "You pays your money...you takes your chances!" > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - 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. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------- Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold Engine / Technology Programmer friz at godshell.com RedHat Certified - RHCE # 803004140609871 MySQL Pro Certified - ID# 207171862 MySQL Core Certified - ID# 205982910 --------------------------- "Something mysterious is formed, born in the silent void. Waiting alone and unmoving, it is at once still and yet in constant motion. It is the source of all programs. I do not know its name, so I will call it the Tao of Programming." From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Sat May 15 01:54:53 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 20:54:53 -0500 Subject: New Server on RH8.0 In-Reply-To: <40A56A0E.2040504@vitalstream.com> References: <40A500C1.5040702@vitalstream.com> <13829.198.60.114.90.1084581173.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> <40A56A0E.2040504@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040515015453.GA19033@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 05:53:34PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Karl Perason wrote: > > > > > > > > > >>Remember that an "mbox" is one file. clamscan doesn't pull it apart, > >>purge the infection and put it back together--it deletes the _file_ > >>(which happens to be "mbox"). For the "--remove" to only delete the > >>infected message, you need to be scanning a MailDir-style mail account. > > > > > >Drat. That's what I'd do. It's really not that hard: > > > >Parse the file, find the virus, reverse to the previous "From " and delete > >that line until the next "From " is found. done. > > Yes, but that's not what it does. It doesn't know that the file is a > collection of messages. It just deletes the file containing the virus. > Unfortunately, that's your entire inbox. > > If you want to add mbox-filtering capability to it, I'm sure the clamav > folk would LOVE to have your patches, if there aren't some already > (check the "contrib" directory of the tarball). I have a homebrew script hooked into /etc/procmailrc that tears open suspicious mail, feeds the parts to clam(d)scan, and punts anything with a virus. (If I did it over again, I'd use AMaViS (with ClamAV) instead of my homebrew script.) Point being it works on a piece of mail at a time. > > > > >Thanks Rick. Glad to see you are still on the list. Amen. > I'm an assistant sysop, no less! I'm like that piece of gum on the > bottom of your shoe. No matter how hard you try, bits of me stick! > ;-) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - 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 Spring - God's greeting card. From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Sat May 15 04:15:32 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (Karl Perason) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 22:15:32 -0600 (MDT) Subject: New Server on RH8.0 In-Reply-To: <40A56A0E.2040504@vitalstream.com> References: <22731.198.60.114.90.1084501926.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com><26189.198.60.114.90.1084513510.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> <40A500C1.5040702@vitalstream.com><13829.198.60.114.90.1084581173.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> <40A56A0E.2040504@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <15829.198.60.114.90.1084594532.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> > > Whoa! milter ties into sendmail directly--there's no stdin scanning > involved. I think I remember reading something about sockets/pipes. With this upgrade my mind is muddled because of all the parts I've been tweaking and configuring. > I'm an assistant sysop, no less! I'm like that piece of gum on the > bottom of your shoe. No matter how hard you try, bits of me stick! > ;-) You've always given me things to chew on. I didn't know it came off my boots... (It's good to see you still here, too, Bob.) Karl From micros50 at computer.net Sat May 15 06:18:44 2004 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 02:18:44 -0400 Subject: Go ahead. In-Reply-To: <40A51596.60701@manordat.demon.co.uk> References: <20040512085521.17678.qmail@web40002.mail.yahoo.com> <40A25A7D.3070607@vitalstream.com> <20040512134008.A6388@redline.comcast.net> <40A32C75.2010802@manordat.demon.co.uk> <20040513204628.A2980@redline.comcast.net> <40A51596.60701@manordat.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: <1084601924.5635.103.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 14:53, Chris Hewitt wrote: > Jeff Kinz wrote: > > >On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:06:13AM +0100, Chris Hewitt wrote: > > > >>Jeff Kinz wrote: > >> > >>>The IP the "gentleman" above posted from has a -32 rating at > >>>openrbl.org. IP is from holland, but he claims to be in the Bahamas? > > > >Clearly your -32 will always be outweighed by your local rating in this > >list. Which I estimate at approximately +400 :) > > > Jeff, > > (goes red with embarassment) Thanks. I have to remind myself that it is > only my IP address that is -32 (at 53 I could wish it was my age). :-) > > Chris You may be 53 in decimal but you're 35 in hex. mylar > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 kal_lenin at yahoo.com Sun May 16 03:46:16 2004 From: kal_lenin at yahoo.com (Albert Chiou) Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 20:46:16 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Xfree 3 config to Xfree 4.3? Message-ID: <20040516034616.95364.qmail@web13811.mail.yahoo.com> Hi, i've got some modelines statements from XFree86 3.x, and I was wondering if anyone knew how to convert that into something that XFree 86 4.3 understands. Is there a way I can insert the modeline statement, or can I convert it into something XFree 4.3 will know? Thanks. -Albert C. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ From ajay197947 at rediffmail.com Sun May 16 10:07:08 2004 From: ajay197947 at rediffmail.com (ajay chaudhary) Date: 16 May 2004 10:07:08 -0000 Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: <20040516100708.23273.qmail@webmail32.rediffmail.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- From g0pae at manordat.demon.co.uk Sun May 16 13:10:43 2004 From: g0pae at manordat.demon.co.uk (Chris Hewitt) Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 14:10:43 +0100 Subject: Go ahead. References: <20040512085521.17678.qmail@web40002.mail.yahoo.com> <40A25A7D.3070607@vitalstream.com> <20040512134008.A6388@redline.comcast.net> <40A32C75.2010802@manordat.demon.co.uk> <20040513204628.A2980@redline.comcast.net> <40A51596.60701@manordat.demon.co.uk> <1084601924.5635.103.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Message-ID: <40A76853.2080102@manordat.demon.co.uk> mylar wrote: >> >>(goes red with embarassment) Thanks. I have to remind myself that it is >>only my IP address that is -32 (at 53 I could wish it was my age). :-) >> >>Chris >> > >You may be 53 in decimal but you're 35 in hex. > >mylar > You are immediately my best friend :-) Chris From jkinz at kinz.org Sun May 16 13:55:07 2004 From: jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz) Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 09:55:07 -0400 Subject: Go ahead. In-Reply-To: <40A76853.2080102@manordat.demon.co.uk>; from g0pae@manordat.demon.co.uk on Sun, May 16, 2004 at 02:10:43PM +0100 References: <20040512085521.17678.qmail@web40002.mail.yahoo.com> <40A25A7D.3070607@vitalstream.com> <20040512134008.A6388@redline.comcast.net> <40A32C75.2010802@manordat.demon.co.uk> <20040513204628.A2980@redline.comcast.net> <40A51596.60701@manordat.demon.co.uk> <1084601924.5635.103.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> <40A76853.2080102@manordat.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: <20040516095507.A28638@redline.comcast.net> On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 02:10:43PM +0100, Chris Hewitt wrote: > mylar wrote: > >You may be 53 in decimal but you're 35 in hex. > > > >mylar > > > You are immediately my best friend :-) > > Chris And you're only 11 in base 52. Wait - maybe thats going too far. :) 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 tyche at ica.net Sun May 16 18:56:12 2004 From: tyche at ica.net (tyche) Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 14:56:12 -0400 Subject: python tape drive Message-ID: <200405161456.12618.tyche@ica.net> recieved a python 28781-XXX drive recently and would like to use it on a backup server. havent thought of doing this before, but would like some advice, assuming its compatable, on using this thing in this manner. it is currently on a p266 with 96mb ram running rh 7.1 stock tia tyche From yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn Mon May 17 00:41:09 2004 From: yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn (Yan Peng) Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 08:41:09 +0800 Subject: Why the GUI can't start automatically on RH9 after I set some rules in iptables? Message-ID: <200405170041.i4H0fVRm029355@mx1.redhat.com> redhat-install-list: After I set some rules in the iptables, moreover, I set all the connections from localhost and its own IP address are accepted, then , the GUI must be started manually. If I change the runlevel to 5, it is OK. But I remember the runlevel is 3 by default before I set the rules in iptables. And the GUI can start automatically. What Should I do if I don't change the default runlevel? Thank you very much. Yan Peng yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn 2004-05-17 From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Mon May 17 00:45:53 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 19:45:53 -0500 Subject: Why the GUI can't start automatically on RH9 after I set some rules in iptables? In-Reply-To: <200405170041.i4H0fVRm029355@mx1.redhat.com> References: <200405170041.i4H0fVRm029355@mx1.redhat.com> Message-ID: <20040517004553.GA17380@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 08:41:09AM +0800, Yan Peng wrote: > redhat-install-list: > > > After I set some rules in the iptables, moreover, I set all the connections from localhost and its own IP address are accepted, then , the GUI must be started manually. If I change the runlevel to 5, it is OK. > But I remember the runlevel is 3 by default before I set the rules in iptables. And the GUI can start automatically. > What Should I do if I don't change the default runlevel? > Thank you very much. > > Yan Peng > yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn > 2004-05-17 Reverse the directions here: http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#text_login Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com God grades on the cross, not the curve. From gnichols at tpg.com.au Mon May 17 02:01:18 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 17 May 2004 12:01:18 +1000 Subject: ADSL usb modems In-Reply-To: <40991AD7.40707@vitalstream.com> References: <3E5BBEA5.8000905@vitalstream.com> <1082871109.1722.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <408D39B2.3070108@vitalstr eam.com> <1083304919.1498.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4092860E.90203@vitalstream.com> <1083724486.1391.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40991AD7.40707@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1084687696.1876.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 02:48, Rick Stevens wrote: > Graeme Nichols wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 02:59, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: > >> > >>>On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 02:32, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>There are some ADSL modems that work fine with Linux and some that > >>>>don't, just as there are some winmodems that work and others that won't. > >>>>Keep in mind that this is not just a Red Hat issue--it's a general Linux > >>>>issue with manufacturers not helping an open source solution. > >>> > >>> > >>>Do you have the names of those usb ADSL modems that DO work with Linux, > >>>or point me in the right direction to find out? > >>> > >>>I am a bit disappointed to learn that there are not only 'gutless' > >>>dial-up modems out there but 'gutless' ADSL modems as well. The way > >>>things are going, the next time one buys a new car the engine and drive > >>>train will need to be supplied by the 'driver' :-) > >> > >>http://www.linux-usb.org/ is the list of USB stuff. I don't know if > >>they have USB cable or DSL modems, but you can check. > > > > > > Hello Rick, they didn't have all that much. I finished up buying a > > Billion BIPAC-5100 ADSL Modem/Router and a Dolphin PCI 6003 Ethernet > > 10/100Mbps Ultra Power Series nic. As well as the Windows logo it has > > Tux as well on the box. Amongst all the bulleted features it claims is > > the following: 'Supports the widest range of drivers for common network > > systems such as Novell, IBM, Windows, SCO Unix and Linux.' So, it should > > be OK. > > That's fine. In my experience the most compatible (and stable) set up > is a stand-alone modem (cable, ADSL, whatever) with an ethernet port, > a separate router/firewall (I use D-Link units, but Linksys and others > are good except for Belkin), and either WiFi or hard-wired ethernet. > > NEVER use Belkin firewalls or routers. After that last debacle where > the firmware would periodically "steal" one of your connections and > route you to an advertising site, I wouldn't trust them as far as I > could throw their corporate office building. B*stards! > > > The router was the Editor's Choice in an APC magazine article on such > > devices last February so I fully expect it to function OK. > > I'm not familiar with that make (Billion), but if APC says it's good, > then I'd feel fairly comfortable. I don't use DSL myself (I use cable > modem--I'm too far from the central office for DSL to be worth it), so > any comments I make would be anecdotal at best. > > > The freebie ADSL usb moden supplied by the ISP is a D-Link DSL 200 and > > according to the D-Link web site only supports Windows (only Windows > > drivers available) so it is akin to a 'winmodem' > > Yup. I have several friends at D-Link and I'm trying to get them to > start supporting things on open source more. The problem is that the > makers of the chipsets they use (Texas Instruments being the worst > offender) supply the drivers to D-Link in binary form so not even they > can play with them without reverse-engineering them. > > > The article I mentioned above strongly suggested to avoid ADSL usb > > modems as they "suck CPU power; they don't always co-exist peacefully > > with other usb devices; they need special drivers for each operating > > system; and they are incompatible with some motherboard chipsets and > > BIOS firmware. Ethernet has none of these disadvantages." > > This isn't always true. It depends on how the thing is made. If it > depends totally on the USB bus to power it (like a FLASH stick), then > yes the power concerns are big. Due to the processing they do, they can > hang the USB bus at times, too. As far as I'm concerned, I only use USB > for the things it was really intended for...connecting storage devices > and HID. I don't use it for networking. > > > One last question, Have you, or any one else, had any feedback on > > Dolphin nics? The vendor, Dick Smith Electronics, claim they have never > > had any complaints. > > It rather depends on the chipset used on the card. If it's a "name > brand" (3Com, Intel, DEC, etc.) you should be OK. Rick, I installed it and booted Linux. It was found during boot-up and Linux installed the drivers OK. It is a RealTek RTL-8139, SMC EZ Ca. Linux talked to the ADSL modem/router straight away. Now... as soon as Telstra (our local telco here in Aust.) activates the line for ADSL I can configure the modem/router and be away, hopefully :-) When I booted up Win98 SE to set it up there I had a lot more "trouble', you know how it is with Windows... "Insert the WIN 98 CD", re-boot, etc., etc. One side problem though, it has been so long since I booted into Windows I keep using Linux commands through force of habit which Windows is too dumb to understand. :-) -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A commune is where people join together to share their lack of wealth. -- R. Stallman ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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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References: <20040512085521.17678.qmail@web40002.mail.yahoo.com> <40A25A7D.3070607@vitalstream.com> <20040512134008.A6388@redline.comcast.net> <40A32C75.2010802@manordat.demon.co.uk> <20040513204628.A2980@redline.comcast.net> <40A51596.60701@manordat.demon.co.uk> <1084601924.5635.103.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> <40A76853.2080102@manordat.demon.co.uk> <20040516095507.A28638@redline.comcast.net> Message-ID: <40A8627D.9060809@manordat.demon.co.uk> Jeff Kinz wrote: >On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 02:10:43PM +0100, Chris Hewitt wrote: > >>mylar wrote: >> >>>You may be 53 in decimal but you're 35 in hex. >>> >>>mylar >>> >>You are immediately my best friend :-) >> >>Chris >> > >And you're only 11 in base 52. > >Wait - maybe thats going too far. :) > No, no. Very reasonable, Jeff :-) Chris From akelly at transparency.org Mon May 17 07:25:23 2004 From: akelly at transparency.org (Andrew Kelly) Date: 17 May 2004 09:25:23 +0200 Subject: Emulation In-Reply-To: <40A54D24.7010303@vitalstream.com> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B839@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> <40A54D24.7010303@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1084778723.4131.17.camel@hermes.at.home> On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 00:50, Rick Stevens wrote: > Waldher, Travis R wrote: > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > >>Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 2:45 PM > >>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > >>Subject: Re: Emulation > >> > >>"vmware" is a commercial product which allows you to run > >>Windows and Linux in two virtual machines simultaneously. > > > > > > More than 2 though, last I was using it, I had 5 VMWARE virtual machines > > running. All talking ontheir own private emulated network and test > > environment. Yes.. I know.. I'm a dork. > > (no comment on the last tidbit :-D ) > > And you're not limited to some Windows variant and Linux...there's lots > of OSes that vmware supports. I don't own it or have a lot of > experience with it, but on most accounts it works pretty well. > > win4lin works, but there are memory limits on the Windows session (I > think it's 256MB in the current release) and you need a tweaked kernel > for it. They (Netraverse) do a pretty good job of having ready-to-go > downloadable kernels, but they're not current with the latest ones. If > you want the absolute latest kernel, you need to patch the source and > build it yourself. Not a horrible job, but not one for amateurs or the > faint of heart. FWIW, I can more or less 'vouch' for this one, with the caveats that Rick has listed. It's head and shoulders above wine and a very reasonable alternative to the more capable (but more expensive) vmware products. The memory issues are minimal unless you're intentions are to run windows as your primary OS sitting on the penguin, rather that just occasionally running an app. 'Course, if that's you tack, you might as well just sign up with aol and quit pretending to be what you're not, right? :-) Sorry, couldn't resist. The weakness of Win4Lin seems not to be memory so much, (although I have a bone about paging) as it does rudeness with the processor. It's kind of like the Rootin' Tootin' Chicken Hawk that thinks it bigger and tougher than it is. It seems to stay within the memory you give it, but when it wants the CPU it doesn't understand nice and reaches for it all. It tends to turn a P IV 3 GHz into much much less at times. > And yes, I know. I'm a gigadork (actually, I prefer "teranerd"). Petaspas? Andy From akelly at transparency.org Mon May 17 07:54:59 2004 From: akelly at transparency.org (Andrew Kelly) Date: 17 May 2004 09:54:59 +0200 Subject: New Server on RH8.0 In-Reply-To: <13829.198.60.114.90.1084581173.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> References: <22731.198.60.114.90.1084501926.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> <26189.198.60.114.90.1084513510.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> <40A500C1.5040702@vitalstream.com> <13829.198.60.114.90.1084581173.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <1084780498.4131.44.camel@hermes.at.home> On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 02:32, Karl Perason wrote: > > > > > 1.3? ClamAV's current release is 0.70. That being said, if you're > > running clamd and scanning via clamav-milter, yes. Any incoming stuff > > is run through clamAV if you're using that. As for RPMs, I dunno. I > > don't use them myself as they typically lag behind the releases too > > much. I'm a tarball-build-install kind of guy. > > Duh. 0.65-4 currently. I've been an rpm guy so I can see what's there by > doing rpm -qa|grep whatever > > I'll get the .70 so I can install milter and have it run stdin for email > scanning. Is there a better option out there? Well, IMHO yes, there is, but it's not quite identical to your setup. It's called AMaViS, (www.amavis.org) and comes in 4 'flavors'. I use and can highly recommend amavisd-new (www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/), written by Mark Martinec. It works with you MTA to filter mail of viruses and/or spam, and you can dial it in to some pretty fine levels. It doesn't do the scanning itself, but calls externals to do all the work. Your MTA just hands it raw mail and gets back 'clean' mail, either through a milter-app, or by running parallel MTAs. It's brilliant and I can't praise it enough. I only run it to scan for viruses, but most also use it to run spamassassin. It works very well with clamd, but you're not limited to it. In fact I have it call 5 separate AV products. It scales well and is used on ISP and enterprise level deployments, and has a support base equal to or better than list list here. There are also some killer contrib apps that make the world even better, like Robert LeBlanc's Maia Mailguard for quarantine management. Check out the amavis.org web site for general info, and Mark's amavisd-new site for specifics on his leg. It all really rocks. Andy From jreyn at us.ibm.com Mon May 17 13:58:00 2004 From: jreyn at us.ibm.com (John Reynolds) Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 06:58:00 -0700 Subject: Go ahead. In-Reply-To: <40A76853.2080102@manordat.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: Chris Hewitt said : >mylar wrote: > >>> >>>(goes red with embarassment) Thanks. I have to remind myself that it is >>>only my IP address that is -32 (at 53 I could wish it was my age). :-) >>> >>>Chris >>> >> >>You may be 53 in decimal but you're 35 in hex. >> >>mylar >> >You are immediately my best friend :-) Our department had a monthly party wherein we celebrated all the birthdays of that month together. One of the secretaries announced loudly that she was only 39 (physical evidence was strongly against her). A brash young programmer asked how long that was in people years. He survived, but that monitor was never the same. john r Chris _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Subject: unsubscribe From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon May 17 16:00:17 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 09:00:17 -0700 Subject: Redhat ES Patches In-Reply-To: <4374.206.228.94.101.1084587924.squirrel@www.protectors.cc> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B838@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> <40A54B5C.2000608@vitalstream.com> <4374.206.228.94.101.1084587924.squirrel@www.protectors.cc> Message-ID: <40A8E191.8080105@vitalstream.com> Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote: > Rick Stevens said: > >>Yes, you must use up2date. However, you can set up an "ignore" list >>of RPMs you _don't_ want automatically installed. Use "up2date >>--config" to set that up. > > > And up2date does a great job with this... > > >>up2date does a reasonable job of sorting out what's "newer" than what >>you have--but only for things installed via rpm. If you do a tarball >>install, up2date (because it queries the rpm database) will have no idea >>that you installed, say, PostgreSQL 7.4.2 (the latest) via tarball, >>while the latest RPM is 7.3.6. So, when they finally come out with a >>7.3.7 rpm, it'll get installed and might stomp on your 7.4.2 version. >>That's one of the problems with multiple distribution formats. > > > You could always, of course, roll your own rpm's... It can be a challenge > at times, but it definitely pays off when you have to update multiple > machines... Rolling your own RPMs is not difficult, but it's not trivial. If you intend to do it, take a look at the RPM site (http://www.rpm.org) and maybe think about getting one of the published RPM books such as "Maximum RPM". > Supposedly there is a way to get up2date to look at your own personal rpm > repository and you can distribute your rpm's to your other machines in > this manner. This is something I've got on my todo list... :) Edit /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources and add a line like: dir my-homebrewed-rpms /usr/local/devel/RPMS/ to add a "directory"-style repository. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Mon May 17 16:03:29 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 09:03:29 -0700 Subject: Go ahead. In-Reply-To: <1084601924.5635.103.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> References: <20040512085521.17678.qmail@web40002.mail.yahoo.com> <40A25A7D.3070607@vitalstream.com> <20040512134008.A6388@redline.comcast.net> <40A32C75.2010802@manordat.demon.co.uk> <20040513204628.A2980@redline.comcast.net> <40A51596.60701@manordat.demon.co.uk> <1084601924.5635.103.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Message-ID: <40A8E251.3070204@vitalstream.com> mylar wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 14:53, Chris Hewitt wrote: > >>Jeff Kinz wrote: >> >> >>>On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:06:13AM +0100, Chris Hewitt wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Jeff Kinz wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>The IP the "gentleman" above posted from has a -32 rating at >>>>>openrbl.org. IP is from holland, but he claims to be in the Bahamas? > > >>>Clearly your -32 will always be outweighed by your local rating in this >>>list. Which I estimate at approximately +400 :) >>> >> >>Jeff, >> >>(goes red with embarassment) Thanks. I have to remind myself that it is >>only my IP address that is -32 (at 53 I could wish it was my age). :-) >> >>Chris > > > You may be 53 in decimal but you're 35 in hex. Wouldn't you know...I can't use that. That'd make me 2e in hex. Somehow it doesn't read well. ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To err is human. To forgive, a large sum of money is needed. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From jreyn at us.ibm.com Mon May 17 16:10:29 2004 From: jreyn at us.ibm.com (John Reynolds) Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 09:10:29 -0700 Subject: Go ahead. In-Reply-To: <40A8E251.3070204@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: Rick Stevens lamented : >mylar wrote: >> On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 14:53, Chris Hewitt wrote: >> >>>Jeff Kinz wrote: >>>>On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:06:13AM +0100, Chris Hewitt wrote: >>>> >>>>>Jeff Kinz wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>The IP the "gentleman" above posted from has a -32 rating at >>>>>>openrbl.org. IP is from holland, but he claims to be in the Bahamas? >> >>>>Clearly your -32 will always be outweighed by your local rating in this >>>>list. Which I estimate at approximately +400 :) >>>>, >>> >>>(goes red with embarassment) Thanks. I have to remind myself that it is >>>only my IP address that is -32 (at 53 I could wish it was my age). :-) >>> >> >> You may be 53 in decimal but you're 35 in hex. > >Wouldn't you know...I can't use that. That'd make me 2e in hex. >Somehow it doesn't read well. ;-) 2e, or not 2e, that is the question. john r From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon May 17 16:14:28 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 09:14:28 -0700 Subject: python tape drive In-Reply-To: <200405161456.12618.tyche@ica.net> References: <200405161456.12618.tyche@ica.net> Message-ID: <40A8E4E4.30500@vitalstream.com> tyche wrote: > recieved a python 28781-XXX drive recently and would like to use it on a > backup server. havent thought of doing this before, but would like some > advice, assuming its compatable, on using this thing in this manner. > > it is currently on a p266 with 96mb ram running rh 7.1 stock What interface does it use? If it's SCSI, it'll show up as /dev/st0 or one of its variants (rst0, nrst0). If it's some other interface, you may need to load another module to make it go (such as "ftape"). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To err is human. To forgive, a large sum of money is needed. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon May 17 16:17:10 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 09:17:10 -0700 Subject: Why the GUI can't start automatically on RH9 after I set some rules in iptables? In-Reply-To: <200405170041.i4H0fVRm029355@mx1.redhat.com> References: <200405170041.i4H0fVRm029355@mx1.redhat.com> Message-ID: <40A8E586.8020103@vitalstream.com> Yan Peng wrote: > redhat-install-list: > > > After I set some rules in the iptables, moreover, I set all the connections from localhost and its own IP address are accepted, then , the GUI must be started manually. If I change the runlevel to 5, it is OK. > But I remember the runlevel is 3 by default before I set the rules in iptables. And the GUI can start automatically. > What Should I do if I don't change the default runlevel? > Thank you very much. No, the iptables are started in whatever run levels you specified. By default, they run in levels 2, 3, and 5. If you want your system to boot directly to run level 5 for X, you must edit the /etc/inittab file and change the line: id:3:initdefault: to read: id:5:initdefault: Then reboot. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Silence! Or I shall replace you with a very small shell script! - - - The Wizard of OS - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon May 17 16:29:21 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 09:29:21 -0700 Subject: ADSL usb modems In-Reply-To: <1084687696.1876.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <3E5BBEA5.8000905@vitalstream.com> <1082871109.1722.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <408D39B2.3070108@vitalstr eam.com> <1083304919.1498.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4092860E.90203@vitalstream.com> <1083724486.1391.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40991AD7.40707@vitalstream.com> <1084687696.1876.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <40A8E861.9090903@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 02:48, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Graeme Nichols wrote: >> >>>On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 02:59, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Graeme Nichols wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 02:32, Rick Stevens wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>There are some ADSL modems that work fine with Linux and some that >>>>>>don't, just as there are some winmodems that work and others that won't. >>>>>>Keep in mind that this is not just a Red Hat issue--it's a general Linux >>>>>>issue with manufacturers not helping an open source solution. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Do you have the names of those usb ADSL modems that DO work with Linux, >>>>>or point me in the right direction to find out? >>>>> >>>>>I am a bit disappointed to learn that there are not only 'gutless' >>>>>dial-up modems out there but 'gutless' ADSL modems as well. The way >>>>>things are going, the next time one buys a new car the engine and drive >>>>>train will need to be supplied by the 'driver' :-) >>>> >>>>http://www.linux-usb.org/ is the list of USB stuff. I don't know if >>>>they have USB cable or DSL modems, but you can check. >>> >>> >>>Hello Rick, they didn't have all that much. I finished up buying a >>>Billion BIPAC-5100 ADSL Modem/Router and a Dolphin PCI 6003 Ethernet >>>10/100Mbps Ultra Power Series nic. As well as the Windows logo it has >>>Tux as well on the box. Amongst all the bulleted features it claims is >>>the following: 'Supports the widest range of drivers for common network >>>systems such as Novell, IBM, Windows, SCO Unix and Linux.' So, it should >>>be OK. >> >>That's fine. In my experience the most compatible (and stable) set up >>is a stand-alone modem (cable, ADSL, whatever) with an ethernet port, >>a separate router/firewall (I use D-Link units, but Linksys and others >>are good except for Belkin), and either WiFi or hard-wired ethernet. >> >>NEVER use Belkin firewalls or routers. After that last debacle where >>the firmware would periodically "steal" one of your connections and >>route you to an advertising site, I wouldn't trust them as far as I >>could throw their corporate office building. B*stards! >> >> >>>The router was the Editor's Choice in an APC magazine article on such >>>devices last February so I fully expect it to function OK. >> >>I'm not familiar with that make (Billion), but if APC says it's good, >>then I'd feel fairly comfortable. I don't use DSL myself (I use cable >>modem--I'm too far from the central office for DSL to be worth it), so >>any comments I make would be anecdotal at best. >> >> >>>The freebie ADSL usb moden supplied by the ISP is a D-Link DSL 200 and >>>according to the D-Link web site only supports Windows (only Windows >>>drivers available) so it is akin to a 'winmodem' >> >>Yup. I have several friends at D-Link and I'm trying to get them to >>start supporting things on open source more. The problem is that the >>makers of the chipsets they use (Texas Instruments being the worst >>offender) supply the drivers to D-Link in binary form so not even they >>can play with them without reverse-engineering them. >> >> >>>The article I mentioned above strongly suggested to avoid ADSL usb >>>modems as they "suck CPU power; they don't always co-exist peacefully >>>with other usb devices; they need special drivers for each operating >>>system; and they are incompatible with some motherboard chipsets and >>>BIOS firmware. Ethernet has none of these disadvantages." >> >>This isn't always true. It depends on how the thing is made. If it >>depends totally on the USB bus to power it (like a FLASH stick), then >>yes the power concerns are big. Due to the processing they do, they can >>hang the USB bus at times, too. As far as I'm concerned, I only use USB >>for the things it was really intended for...connecting storage devices >>and HID. I don't use it for networking. >> >> >>>One last question, Have you, or any one else, had any feedback on >>>Dolphin nics? The vendor, Dick Smith Electronics, claim they have never >>>had any complaints. >> >>It rather depends on the chipset used on the card. If it's a "name >>brand" (3Com, Intel, DEC, etc.) you should be OK. > > > Rick, I installed it and booted Linux. It was found during boot-up and > Linux installed the drivers OK. It is a RealTek RTL-8139, SMC EZ Ca. Terrific! Yeah, the RealTeks are being used a lot on mobos now. They're pretty good. Not the fastest thing in the world, but reasonable. > Linux talked to the ADSL modem/router straight away. Now... as soon as > Telstra (our local telco here in Aust.) activates the line for ADSL I > can configure the modem/router and be away, hopefully :-) Great! And away we go! Make REAL sure you set up a VERY restrictive firewall, Graeme. Don't allow anything IN except the absolute minimum of what you need. In my case, it's DNS (TCP/UDP port 53), SSH (TCP port 22) and NTP (TCP/UDP port 123). Turn off any daemons you don't need (e.g. don't portmap unless you're running NFS or need FAM) and restrict those you do need to your local network (probably 192.168.0.0/24 or whatever the local side of the router is). Make sure no other daemons or xinetd are listening on some weird ports (run nmap/nmapfe on your system). Try to run something like tripwire on your system, too, so you can see changes to your filesystems. > When I booted up Win98 SE to set it up there I had a lot more "trouble', > you know how it is with Windows... "Insert the WIN 98 CD", re-boot, > etc., etc. One side problem though, it has been so long since I booted > into Windows I keep using Linux commands through force of habit which > Windows is too dumb to understand. :-) Heheheheh! That's an issue. My major problem is switching keyboards. I have to use about six different ones at various times and locating the ESC, ALT, SHIFT and BACKSPACE keys can be tough (especially on those bloody Sun keyboards!). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Silence! Or I shall replace you with a very small shell script! - - - The Wizard of OS - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon May 17 16:33:08 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 09:33:08 -0700 Subject: Go ahead. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40A8E944.5010504@vitalstream.com> John Reynolds wrote: > Rick Stevens lamented : > > > > >>mylar wrote: >> >>>On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 14:53, Chris Hewitt wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Jeff Kinz wrote: >>>> >>>>>On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:06:13AM +0100, Chris Hewitt wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>Jeff Kinz wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>The IP the "gentleman" above posted from has a -32 rating at >>>>>>>openrbl.org. IP is from holland, but he claims to be in the > > Bahamas? > >>>>>Clearly your -32 will always be outweighed by your local rating in > > this > >>>>>list. Which I estimate at approximately +400 :) >>>>>, >>>> >>>>(goes red with embarassment) Thanks. I have to remind myself that it is > > >>>>only my IP address that is -32 (at 53 I could wish it was my age). :-) >>>> >>> >>>You may be 53 in decimal but you're 35 in hex. >> >>Wouldn't you know...I can't use that. That'd make me 2e in hex. >>Somehow it doesn't read well. ;-) > > > 2e, or not 2e, that is the question. "Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous questions on the list, and, by answering, oppose them." Oh, MAN! Where the hell did _THAT_ come from? I gotta get some rest! :-D ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If it's stupid and it works...it ain't stupid! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon May 17 16:42:52 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 09:42:52 -0700 Subject: Xfree 3 config to Xfree 4.3? In-Reply-To: <20040516034616.95364.qmail@web13811.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040516034616.95364.qmail@web13811.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40A8EB8C.1050803@vitalstream.com> Albert Chiou wrote: > Hi, > > i've got some modelines statements from XFree86 3.x, > and I was wondering if anyone knew how to convert that > into something that XFree 86 4.3 understands. Is > there a way I can insert the modeline statement, or > can I convert it into something XFree 4.3 will know? I think there's a conversion tool to go from 3.x to 4.x on the XFree86 website. http://www.xfree86.org. It's worth a looksee. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - A squeegee, by any other name, wouldn't sound as funny. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From friz at godshell.com Mon May 17 17:40:59 2004 From: friz at godshell.com (Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold) Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 13:40:59 -0400 Subject: Redhat ES Patches In-Reply-To: <40A8E191.8080105@vitalstream.com> References: <1A2959DFF019034BBA2F06532A8DFEDB02D2B838@xch-nw-01.nw.nos.boeing.com> <40A54B5C.2000608@vitalstream.com> <4374.206.228.94.101.1084587924.squirrel@www.protectors.cc> <40A8E191.8080105@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1084815658.19354.19.camel@corp> On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 12:00, Rick Stevens wrote: > Rolling your own RPMs is not difficult, but it's not trivial. If you > intend to do it, take a look at the RPM site (http://www.rpm.org) and > maybe think about getting one of the published RPM books such as > "Maximum RPM". Maximum RPM is a bit out of date, I highly recommend the RedHat RPM Guide by Eric Foster-Johnson ... Excellent book, helped me out a lot ... Rolling RPM's is easier now, and fun too :) For those that want to try rolling your own ... I highly suggest using any existing source RPM's as examples... This is especially true when creating an RPM for a perl module.. Just use the source from an existing perl module from redhat and replace all the important bits with your own ... makes rolling the RPM much faster and painless... But, of course, be sure you understand what the RPM was doing originally! :) > Edit /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources and add a line like: > > dir my-homebrewed-rpms /usr/local/devel/RPMS/ > > to add a "directory"-style repository. Hrm.. yeah, I can give that a shot... That, presumably, works across NFS mounts as well? That would make life easier... It would be REALLY nice if I could handle all of that through the RHN site, but I guess that's asking too much .. :) Thanks for the info! > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - 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! - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- --------------------------- Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold Engine / Technology Programmer friz at godshell.com RedHat Certified - RHCE # 803004140609871 MySQL Pro Certified - ID# 207171862 MySQL Core Certified - ID# 205982910 --------------------------- "Something mysterious is formed, born in the silent void. Waiting alone and unmoving, it is at once still and yet in constant motion. It is the source of all programs. I do not know its name, so I will call it the Tao of Programming." -------------- 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 tyche at ica.net Mon May 17 21:18:06 2004 From: tyche at ica.net (tyche) Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 17:18:06 -0400 Subject: python tape drive In-Reply-To: <40A8E4E4.30500@vitalstream.com> References: <200405161456.12618.tyche@ica.net> <40A8E4E4.30500@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <200405171718.07065.tyche@ica.net> On Monday 17 May 2004 12:14 pm, Rick Stevens wrote: > tyche wrote: > > recieved a python 28781-XXX drive recently and would like to use it on a > > backup server. havent thought of doing this before, but would like some > > advice, assuming its compatable, on using this thing in this manner. > > > > it is currently on a p266 with 96mb ram running rh 7.1 stock > > What interface does it use? If it's SCSI, it'll show up as /dev/st0 > or one of its variants (rst0, nrst0). If it's some other interface, > you may need to load another module to make it go (such as "ftape"). it is attached to a scsi interface. next question is what size of qic cartridge does it take. i am not even sure it works yet, but the adaptec does recognize it. thanks tyche From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue May 18 00:23:18 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 17:23:18 -0700 Subject: python tape drive In-Reply-To: <200405171718.07065.tyche@ica.net> References: <200405161456.12618.tyche@ica.net> <40A8E4E4.30500@vitalstream.com> <200405171718.07065.tyche@ica.net> Message-ID: <40A95776.5010909@vitalstream.com> tyche wrote: > On Monday 17 May 2004 12:14 pm, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>tyche wrote: >> >>>recieved a python 28781-XXX drive recently and would like to use it on a >>>backup server. havent thought of doing this before, but would like some >>>advice, assuming its compatable, on using this thing in this manner. >>> >>>it is currently on a p266 with 96mb ram running rh 7.1 stock >> >>What interface does it use? If it's SCSI, it'll show up as /dev/st0 >>or one of its variants (rst0, nrst0). If it's some other interface, >>you may need to load another module to make it go (such as "ftape"). > > > it is attached to a scsi interface. next question is what size of qic > cartridge does it take. i am not even sure it works yet, but the adaptec does > recognize it. Probably a QIC-150 (150MB) or QIC-5250 (250MB). The cartridges are virtually identical. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 tyche at ica.net Tue May 18 02:40:49 2004 From: tyche at ica.net (tyche) Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 22:40:49 -0400 Subject: python tape drive In-Reply-To: <40A95776.5010909@vitalstream.com> References: <200405161456.12618.tyche@ica.net> <200405171718.07065.tyche@ica.net> <40A95776.5010909@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <200405172240.49894.tyche@ica.net> On Monday 17 May 2004 08:23 pm, Rick Stevens wrote: > tyche wrote: > > On Monday 17 May 2004 12:14 pm, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>tyche wrote: > >>>recieved a python 28781-XXX drive recently and would like to use it on a > >>>backup server. havent thought of doing this before, but would like some > >>>advice, assuming its compatable, on using this thing in this manner. > >>> > >>>it is currently on a p266 with 96mb ram running rh 7.1 stock > >> > >>What interface does it use? If it's SCSI, it'll show up as /dev/st0 > >>or one of its variants (rst0, nrst0). If it's some other interface, > >>you may need to load another module to make it go (such as "ftape"). > > > > it is attached to a scsi interface. next question is what size of qic > > cartridge does it take. i am not even sure it works yet, but the adaptec > > does recognize it. > > Probably a QIC-150 (150MB) or QIC-5250 (250MB). The cartridges are > virtually identical. thanks rick muchly appreciated, will get one of each this weekend, hopefully the thing actually works tyche From suhaimi at niser.org.my Tue May 18 09:57:33 2004 From: suhaimi at niser.org.my (Suhaimi Jamalludin) Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 17:57:33 +0800 Subject: Display can not change from "800X600" to "1024X 768" on RedHat 9.0 Message-ID: <40A9DE0D.4060303@niser.org.my> Hi All, Sorry about this dump question. Can some body advice me on how to change my laptop Display Resolution from "800X600" to "1024X768"on RedHat 9.0. I have try to change it but there is no effect still "800X600" display. Below is my hardware configuration that detect on my WinXP laptop.. Display Adapter : Intel(R) 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller DPI setting : 96 Monitor Type : Digital Flat Panel(1024x768) Below is my XFree configuration files that I have. Can some body help me. I want to move from WinXP to RedHat Linux. If the display cannot change I will not have the fun on surfing the net and do my daily work. Really appreciate your help Regards, Suhaimi My XF86Conf file: # XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore" EndSection Section "Files" # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally # no need to change the default. # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. 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" # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) # Option "Xleds" "1 2 3" # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. # Option "XkbDisable" # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. # keyboard, you will probably want to use: # Option "XkbModel" "pc102" # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: # Option "XkbModel" "microsoft" # # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. # For example, a german layout can be obtained with: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # or: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" # # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and # control keys, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" # Or if you just want both to be control, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" # Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # 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" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Generic 8514 Compatible, 1024x768 @ 87 Hz interlaced (no 800x600)" DisplaySize 284 213 HorizSync 31.5 - 31.5 HorizSync 35.5 - 35.5 VertRefresh 50.0 - 90.0 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "i810" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "Intel 852" VideoRam 16384 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Group 0 Mode 0666 EndSection From pmor82 at yahoo.com Tue May 18 12:44:20 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 05:44:20 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Emulation In-Reply-To: <1084778723.4131.17.camel@hermes.at.home> Message-ID: <20040518124420.96538.qmail@web41003.mail.yahoo.com> thanks for the answers, using vnware at college now, tho my goal was running windows programs in linux or at least learn if a shell is doable to run a windows program under linux without emulating, but I'll keep looking =) wine looks good, so ill keep checking that. --- Andrew Kelly wrote: > On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 00:50, Rick Stevens wrote: > > Waldher, Travis R wrote: > > >>-----Original Message----- > > >>From: Rick Stevens > [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > > >>Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 2:45 PM > > >>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > >>Subject: Re: Emulation > > >> > > >>"vmware" is a commercial product which allows > you to run > > >>Windows and Linux in two virtual machines > simultaneously. > > > > > > > > > More than 2 though, last I was using it, I had 5 > VMWARE virtual machines > > > running. All talking ontheir own private > emulated network and test > > > environment. Yes.. I know.. I'm a dork. > > > > (no comment on the last tidbit :-D ) > > > > And you're not limited to some Windows variant and > Linux...there's lots > > of OSes that vmware supports. I don't own it or > have a lot of > > experience with it, but on most accounts it works > pretty well. > > > > win4lin works, but there are memory limits on the > Windows session (I > > think it's 256MB in the current release) and you > need a tweaked kernel > > for it. They (Netraverse) do a pretty good job of > having ready-to-go > > downloadable kernels, but they're not current with > the latest ones. If > > you want the absolute latest kernel, you need to > patch the source and > > build it yourself. Not a horrible job, but not > one for amateurs or the > > faint of heart. > > FWIW, I can more or less 'vouch' for this one, with > the caveats that > Rick has listed. It's head and shoulders above wine > and a very > reasonable alternative to the more capable (but more > expensive) vmware > products. > The memory issues are minimal unless you're > intentions are to run > windows as your primary OS sitting on the penguin, > rather that just > occasionally running an app. 'Course, if that's you > tack, you might as > well just sign up with aol and quit pretending to be > what you're not, > right? > :-) > > Sorry, couldn't resist. > > The weakness of Win4Lin seems not to be memory so > much, (although I have > a bone about paging) as it does rudeness with the > processor. It's kind > of like the Rootin' Tootin' Chicken Hawk that thinks > it bigger and > tougher than it is. It seems to stay within the > memory you give it, but > when it wants the CPU it doesn't understand nice and > reaches for it all. > It tends to turn a P IV 3 GHz into much much less at > times. > > > > And yes, I know. I'm a gigadork (actually, I > prefer "teranerd"). > > Petaspas? > > Andy > > > _______________________________________________ > 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!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ From pmor82 at yahoo.com Tue May 18 12:47:09 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 05:47:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: mount error In-Reply-To: <1084778723.4131.17.camel@hermes.at.home> Message-ID: <20040518124709.51645.qmail@web41005.mail.yahoo.com> im pretty sure it's a simple and noobish question, but im trying to mount a cdrom I burned at home, and I get the error: "mount: not a directory", so im wondering do I have to copy everything inside a directory then burn the directory? im using my "mount /mnt/cdrom" in my root shell. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ From ajay197947 at rediffmail.com Tue May 18 13:51:39 2004 From: ajay197947 at rediffmail.com (ajay chaudhary) Date: 18 May 2004 13:51:39 -0000 Subject: Display can not change from "800X600" to "1024X 768" on RedHat 9.0 Message-ID: <20040518135139.32745.qmail@webmail29.rediffmail.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- hello dear i think u maximise your vram in bios and set it to maximum thanks and regards ajay From ajai at bway.net Tue May 18 14:16:56 2004 From: ajai at bway.net (Ajai Khattri) Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 10:16:56 -0400 (EDT) Subject: mount error In-Reply-To: <20040518124709.51645.qmail@web41005.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040518124709.51645.qmail@web41005.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: On Tue, 18 May 2004, Pedro Morales wrote: > im pretty sure it's a simple and noobish question, but > im trying to mount a cdrom I burned at home, and I get > the error: "mount: not a directory", so im wondering > do I have to copy everything inside a directory then > burn the directory? > > im using my "mount /mnt/cdrom" in my root shell. Does /mnt/cdrom exist? -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue May 18 14:15:53 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 09:15:53 -0500 Subject: mount error In-Reply-To: <20040518124709.51645.qmail@web41005.mail.yahoo.com> References: <1084778723.4131.17.camel@hermes.at.home> <20040518124709.51645.qmail@web41005.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20040518141553.GA5644@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 05:47:09AM -0700, Pedro Morales wrote: > im pretty sure it's a simple and noobish question, but > im trying to mount a cdrom I burned at home, and I get > the error: "mount: not a directory", so im wondering > do I have to copy everything inside a directory then > burn the directory? > > im using my "mount /mnt/cdrom" in my root shell. Two things are required for that to work: - /mnt/cdrom must exist as a directory. "ls -ld /mnt/cdrom" to see if it's there. "mkdir /mnt/cdrom" if it's not. - There must be an entry in /etc/fstab that looks something like this: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0 As for burning CDs, especially Linux ISOs, see http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#making_cds Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Peace is not the absence of conflict but the ability to cope with it. From pmor82 at yahoo.com Tue May 18 14:50:15 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 07:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Subject: mount error In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040518145015.23878.qmail@web41008.mail.yahoo.com> --- Ajai Khattri wrote: > On Tue, 18 May 2004, Pedro Morales wrote: > > > im pretty sure it's a simple and noobish question, > but > > im trying to mount a cdrom I burned at home, and I > get > > the error: "mount: not a directory", so im > wondering > > do I have to copy everything inside a directory > then > > burn the directory? > > > > im using my "mount /mnt/cdrom" in my root shell. > > Does /mnt/cdrom exist? yes it does __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ From pmor82 at yahoo.com Tue May 18 14:58:50 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 07:58:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: mount error In-Reply-To: <20040518141553.GA5644@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Message-ID: <20040518145850.17659.qmail@web41006.mail.yahoo.com> --- Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 05:47:09AM -0700, Pedro > Morales wrote: > > im pretty sure it's a simple and noobish question, > but > > im trying to mount a cdrom I burned at home, and I > get > > the error: "mount: not a directory", so im > wondering > > do I have to copy everything inside a directory > then > > burn the directory? > > > > im using my "mount /mnt/cdrom" in my root shell. > > Two things are required for that to work: > > - /mnt/cdrom must exist as a directory. "ls -ld > /mnt/cdrom" to see if > it's there. "mkdir /mnt/cdrom" if it's not. it's there > - There must be an entry in /etc/fstab that looks > something like this: > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 > noauto,owner,ro 0 0 I have /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660, noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 and the cd im trying to read is the vmware I downloaded, so the cd has only files no directories at all. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue May 18 15:35:42 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 10:35:42 -0500 Subject: mount error In-Reply-To: <20040518145850.17659.qmail@web41006.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040518141553.GA5644@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <20040518145850.17659.qmail@web41006.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20040518153542.GA7157@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 07:58:50AM -0700, Pedro Morales wrote: > > --- Bob McClure Jr > wrote: > > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 05:47:09AM -0700, Pedro > > Morales wrote: > > > im pretty sure it's a simple and noobish question, > > but > > > im trying to mount a cdrom I burned at home, and I > > get > > > the error: "mount: not a directory", so im > > wondering > > > do I have to copy everything inside a directory > > then > > > burn the directory? > > > > > > im using my "mount /mnt/cdrom" in my root shell. > > > > Two things are required for that to work: > > > > - /mnt/cdrom must exist as a directory. "ls -ld > > /mnt/cdrom" to see if > > it's there. "mkdir /mnt/cdrom" if it's not. > > it's there > > > - There must be an entry in /etc/fstab that looks > > something like this: > > > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 > > noauto,owner,ro 0 0 > > I have > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660, > noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > > and the cd im trying to read is the vmware I > downloaded, so the cd has only files no directories at > all. What happens if you mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Peace is not the absence of conflict but the ability to cope with it. From pmor82 at yahoo.com Tue May 18 16:57:29 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 09:57:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: mount error In-Reply-To: <20040518153542.GA7157@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Message-ID: <20040518165729.54528.qmail@web41006.mail.yahoo.com> --- Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 07:58:50AM -0700, Pedro > Morales wrote: > > > > --- Bob McClure Jr > > wrote: > > > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 05:47:09AM -0700, Pedro > > > Morales wrote: > > > > im pretty sure it's a simple and noobish > question, > > > but > > > > im trying to mount a cdrom I burned at home, > and I > > > get > > > > the error: "mount: not a directory", so im > > > wondering > > > > do I have to copy everything inside a > directory > > > then > > > > burn the directory? > > > > > > > > im using my "mount /mnt/cdrom" in my root > shell. > > > > > > Two things are required for that to work: > > > > > > - /mnt/cdrom must exist as a directory. "ls -ld > > > /mnt/cdrom" to see if > > > it's there. "mkdir /mnt/cdrom" if it's not. > > > > it's there > > > > > - There must be an entry in /etc/fstab that > looks > > > something like this: > > > > > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 > > > noauto,owner,ro 0 0 > > > > I have > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660, > > noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > > > > and the cd im trying to read is the vmware I > > downloaded, so the cd has only files no > directories at > > all. > > What happens if you > > mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom got the following error: /dev/cdrom: Input/output error mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only /dev/cdrom: Input/output error mount: you must specify the filesystem type __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue May 18 16:56:09 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 09:56:09 -0700 Subject: Display can not change from "800X600" to "1024X 768" on RedHat 9.0 In-Reply-To: <40A9DE0D.4060303@niser.org.my> References: <40A9DE0D.4060303@niser.org.my> Message-ID: <40AA4029.20009@vitalstream.com> Suhaimi Jamalludin wrote: > Hi All, > > Sorry about this dump question. Can some body advice me on how to change > my laptop Display Resolution from "800X600" to "1024X768"on RedHat 9.0. > I have try to change it but there is no effect still "800X600" display. > > Below is my hardware configuration that detect on my WinXP laptop.. > Display Adapter : Intel(R) 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller > DPI setting : 96 > Monitor Type : Digital Flat Panel(1024x768) > > Below is my XFree configuration files that I have. Can some body help > me. I want to move from WinXP to RedHat Linux. > If the display cannot change I will not have the fun on surfing the net > and do my daily work. > > Really appreciate your help > > Regards, > Suhaimi > > My XF86Conf file: > > # XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86 > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Default Layout" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore" > EndSection > > Section "Files" > > # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name > of the # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is > normally > # no need to change the default. > # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) > # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of > # the X server to render fonts. > 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" > > # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) > # Option "Xleds" "1 2 3" > # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. > # Option "XkbDisable" > # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the > # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. > # keyboard, you will probably want to use: > # Option "XkbModel" "pc102" > # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: > # Option "XkbModel" "microsoft" > # > # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. > # For example, a german layout can be obtained with: > # Option "XkbLayout" "de" > # or: > # Option "XkbLayout" "de" > # Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" > # > # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and > # control keys, use: > # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" > # Or if you just want both to be control, use: > # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" > # > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "keyboard" > Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" > Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > Option "XkbLayout" "us" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "PS/2" > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > > # 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" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "Monitor Vendor" > ModelName "Generic 8514 Compatible, 1024x768 @ 87 Hz interlaced > (no 800x600)" > DisplaySize 284 213 > HorizSync 31.5 - 31.5 > HorizSync 35.5 - 35.5 > VertRefresh 50.0 - 90.0 > Option "dpms" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Videocard0" > Driver "i810" > VendorName "Videocard vendor" > BoardName "Intel 852" > VideoRam 16384 > > > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Videocard0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 16 > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > EndSection > > Section "DRI" > Group 0 > Mode 0666 > EndSection You need to either a) increase the amount of RAM available to your video card or b) reduce the depth. Reduce the depth: You have 2 settings for 1024x768, one with 24 bits, one with 16 bits. If you delete the first "Display" section (the one with "Depth 24") and leave the one with "Depth 16", it should work but your colors will be "thousands of colors". Make sure you make a copy of the file BEFORE you edit it, just in case things don't work the way you want. If you want millions of colors (24-bit), you need to increase the video RAM and use the "Display" section with "Depth 24". If your video chipset uses RAM from the system (as many do), then you need to change the video memory size in your BIOS. I can't tell you exactly how to do that since it varies with the different BIOSes out there. If the card uses its own memory, then you need to add more to the card or live with the 16-bit environment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - What's small, yellow and very, VERY dangerous? The root canary! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue May 18 17:02:02 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 10:02:02 -0700 Subject: Emulation In-Reply-To: <20040518124420.96538.qmail@web41003.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040518124420.96538.qmail@web41003.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40AA418A.9050307@vitalstream.com> Pedro Morales wrote: > thanks for the answers, using vnware at college now, > tho my goal was running windows programs in linux or > at least learn if a shell is doable to run a windows > program under linux without emulating, but I'll keep > looking =) There is no way to run a Windows program under Linux without _some_ form of emulation. You must either run WINE (an emulation layer), Win4Lin (run a real copy of Windows as a task under Linux) or vmware (run a real copy of Windows in a separate virtual machine). Windows and Linux are RADICALLY different beasts. You can't expect a part for a Ferrari to fit a Chevy, can you? > wine looks good, so ill keep checking that. WINE is limited. It works for most business-related programs (such as Microsoft Office and the like), but it won't run most games, video or sound editing software or a lot of utilities. Anything that needs fast access to the hardware or uses DirectX will probably have problems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I won't rise to the occasion, but I'll slide over to it. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue May 18 17:10:23 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 12:10:23 -0500 Subject: mount error In-Reply-To: <20040518165729.54528.qmail@web41006.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040518153542.GA7157@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <20040518165729.54528.qmail@web41006.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20040518171023.GA8208@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 09:57:29AM -0700, Pedro Morales wrote: > > --- Bob McClure Jr > wrote: > > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 07:58:50AM -0700, Pedro > > Morales wrote: > > > > > > --- Bob McClure Jr > > > wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 05:47:09AM -0700, Pedro > > > > Morales wrote: > > > > > im pretty sure it's a simple and noobish > > question, > > > > but > > > > > im trying to mount a cdrom I burned at home, > > and I > > > > get > > > > > the error: "mount: not a directory", so im > > > > wondering > > > > > do I have to copy everything inside a > > directory > > > > then > > > > > burn the directory? > > > > > > > > > > im using my "mount /mnt/cdrom" in my root > > shell. > > > > > > > > Two things are required for that to work: > > > > > > > > - /mnt/cdrom must exist as a directory. "ls -ld > > > > /mnt/cdrom" to see if > > > > it's there. "mkdir /mnt/cdrom" if it's not. > > > > > > it's there > > > > > > > - There must be an entry in /etc/fstab that > > looks > > > > something like this: > > > > > > > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 > > > > noauto,owner,ro 0 0 > > > > > > I have > > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660, > > > noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > > > > > > and the cd im trying to read is the vmware I > > > downloaded, so the cd has only files no > > directories at > > > all. > > > > What happens if you > > > > mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom > > got the following error: > /dev/cdrom: Input/output error > mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, > mounting read-only > /dev/cdrom: Input/output error > mount: you must specify the filesystem type I'd say there is something wrong with the way you burned the CD. If you can mount any other CD without tears, then that is nearly certain. You may find you need to burn at a slower rate. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com A man who can kneel before God can stand up to anything. From pmor82 at yahoo.com Tue May 18 18:16:58 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 11:16:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Emulation In-Reply-To: <40AA418A.9050307@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040518181658.12834.qmail@web41001.mail.yahoo.com> --- Rick Stevens wrote: > Pedro Morales wrote: > > thanks for the answers, using vnware at college > now, > > tho my goal was running windows programs in linux > or > > at least learn if a shell is doable to run a > windows > > program under linux without emulating, but I'll > keep > > looking =) > > There is no way to run a Windows program under Linux > without _some_ > form of emulation. You must either run WINE (an > emulation layer), > Win4Lin (run a real copy of Windows as a task under > Linux) or vmware > (run a real copy of Windows in a separate virtual > machine). Windows > and Linux are RADICALLY different beasts. You can't > expect a part > for a Ferrari to fit a Chevy, can you? It's doable ;) > > wine looks good, so ill keep checking that. > > WINE is limited. It works for most business-related > programs (such as > Microsoft Office and the like), but it won't run > most games, video or > sound editing software or a lot of utilities. > Anything that needs fast > access to the hardware or uses DirectX will probably > have problems well, that's what I thought, reason why im using vmware, im serious about my studies that's why im linux 99%, need that other 1% to stay windows for that only game which keeps me sane =) thanks for the answers __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ From gnichols at tpg.com.au Wed May 19 02:32:57 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: 19 May 2004 12:32:57 +1000 Subject: ADSL usb modems In-Reply-To: <40A8E861.9090903@vitalstream.com> References: <3E5BBEA5.8000905@vitalstream.com> <1082871109.1722.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <408D39B2.3070108@vitalstr eam.com> <1083304919.1498.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4092860E.90203@v italstream.com> <1083724486.1391.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40991AD7.40707@vitalstream.com> <1084687696.1876.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40A8E861.9090903@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1084933979.1719.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 02:29, Rick Stevens wrote: > > Rick, I installed it and booted Linux. It was found during boot-up and > > Linux installed the drivers OK. It is a RealTek RTL-8139, SMC EZ Ca. > > Terrific! Yeah, the RealTeks are being used a lot on mobos now. > They're pretty good. Not the fastest thing in the world, but > reasonable. > > > Linux talked to the ADSL modem/router straight away. Now... as soon as > > Telstra (our local telco here in Aust.) activates the line for ADSL I > > can configure the modem/router and be away, hopefully :-) > > Great! And away we go! Make REAL sure you set up a VERY restrictive > firewall, Graeme. Don't allow anything IN except the absolute minimum > of what you need. In my case, it's DNS (TCP/UDP port 53), SSH (TCP > port 22) and NTP (TCP/UDP port 123). Hello Rick, I will! and thank you for pointing out the ports you allow in. I wont need SSH coming in and probably not NTP either. > > Turn off any daemons you don't need (e.g. don't portmap unless you're > running NFS or need FAM) and restrict those you do need to your local > network (probably 192.168.0.0/24 or whatever the local side of the > router is). Make sure no other daemons or xinetd are listening on some > weird ports (run nmap/nmapfe on your system). Try to run something like > tripwire on your system, too, so you can see changes to your > filesystems. I already run tripwire and I'll take your advice and make sure nothing is listening on anything else. Again, thanks for all your help and advice. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. "Where shall I begin, please your Majesty ?" he asked. "Begin at the beginning,", the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop." -- Lewis Carroll ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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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Still no changes. Any other advice....really appreciate it. Regards, suhaimi --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You need to either a) increase the amount of RAM available to your video card or b) reduce the depth. Reduce the depth: You have 2 settings for 1024x768, one with 24 bits, one with 16 bits. If you delete the first "Display" section (the one with "Depth 24") and leave the one with "Depth 16", it should work but your colors will be "thousands of colors". Make sure you make a copy of the file BEFORE you edit it, just in case things don't work the way you want. If you want millions of colors (24-bit), you need to increase the video RAM and use the "Display" section with "Depth 24". If your video chipset uses RAM from the system (as many do), then you need to change the video memory size in your BIOS. I can't tell you exactly how to do that since it varies with the different BIOSes out there. If the card uses its own memory, then you need to add more to the card or live with the 16-bit environment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - What's small, yellow and very, VERY dangerous? The root canary! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Regards, Suhaimi Jamalludin Rick Stevens wrote: > Suhaimi Jamalludin wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Sorry about this dump question. Can some body advice me on how to >> change my laptop Display Resolution from "800X600" to "1024X768"on >> RedHat 9.0. I have try to change it but there is no effect still >> "800X600" display. >> >> Below is my hardware configuration that detect on my WinXP laptop.. >> Display Adapter : Intel(R) 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller >> DPI setting : 96 >> Monitor Type : Digital Flat Panel(1024x768) >> >> Below is my XFree configuration files that I have. Can some body help >> me. I want to move from WinXP to RedHat Linux. >> If the display cannot change I will not have the fun on surfing the >> net and do my daily work. >> >> Really appreciate your help >> >> Regards, >> Suhaimi >> >> My XF86Conf file: >> >> # XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86 >> >> Section "ServerLayout" >> Identifier "Default Layout" >> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 >> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" >> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" >> InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore" >> EndSection >> >> Section "Files" >> >> # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the >> name of the # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There >> is normally >> # no need to change the default. >> # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) >> # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of >> # the X server to render fonts. >> 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" >> >> # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) >> # Option "Xleds" "1 2 3" >> # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. >> # Option "XkbDisable" >> # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the >> # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. >> # keyboard, you will probably want to use: >> # Option "XkbModel" "pc102" >> # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: >> # Option "XkbModel" "microsoft" >> # >> # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. >> # For example, a german layout can be obtained with: >> # Option "XkbLayout" "de" >> # or: >> # Option "XkbLayout" "de" >> # Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" >> # >> # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and >> # control keys, use: >> # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" >> # Or if you just want both to be control, use: >> # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" >> # >> Identifier "Keyboard0" >> Driver "keyboard" >> Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" >> Option "XkbModel" "pc105" >> Option "XkbLayout" "us" >> EndSection >> >> Section "InputDevice" >> Identifier "Mouse0" >> Driver "mouse" >> Option "Protocol" "PS/2" >> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" >> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" >> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" >> EndSection >> >> Section "InputDevice" >> >> # 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" >> EndSection >> >> Section "Monitor" >> Identifier "Monitor0" >> VendorName "Monitor Vendor" >> ModelName "Generic 8514 Compatible, 1024x768 @ 87 Hz >> interlaced (no 800x600)" >> DisplaySize 284 213 >> HorizSync 31.5 - 31.5 >> HorizSync 35.5 - 35.5 >> VertRefresh 50.0 - 90.0 >> Option "dpms" >> EndSection >> >> Section "Device" >> Identifier "Videocard0" >> Driver "i810" >> VendorName "Videocard vendor" >> BoardName "Intel 852" >> VideoRam 16384 > > > > > > >> EndSection >> >> Section "Screen" >> Identifier "Screen0" >> Device "Videocard0" >> Monitor "Monitor0" >> DefaultDepth 24 >> SubSection "Display" >> Depth 24 >> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" >> EndSubSection >> SubSection "Display" >> Depth 16 >> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" >> EndSubSection >> EndSection >> >> Section "DRI" >> Group 0 >> Mode 0666 >> EndSection > > _______________________________________________ > 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 dan_maillists at danwasthere.com Wed May 19 09:10:09 2004 From: dan_maillists at danwasthere.com (Dan_MailLists) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 11:10:09 +0200 Subject: RedHat Linux 7.2 or latest release? Message-ID: <009501c43d81$15d56a80$0301a8c0@danhome> Hi all, I'm new to both Linux and this list. I'm building a site (or will be shortly) on a managed server that has Red Hat Linux 7.2 installed. I want to set up a development server here so I can also work locally on a test platform. The test platform is a PentiumIII 500, which will be partitioned to share the HD between Win98 and this Linux, in case that matters. The website will include the use of PHP4, MySQL3.23, cron and some third party newsletter software as yet unchosen. I've never installed Linux before, and haven't used it much either. My question is - should I install 7.2 here, or should I just get the latest release? What would the differences be, and do they matter? Thanks for any help you can give, Dan Searle. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Any help is appreciated Andre From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Wed May 19 15:08:37 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 10:08:37 -0500 Subject: RedHat Linux 7.2 or latest release? In-Reply-To: <009501c43d81$15d56a80$0301a8c0@danhome> References: <009501c43d81$15d56a80$0301a8c0@danhome> Message-ID: <20040519150837.GA19311@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 11:10:09AM +0200, Dan_MailLists wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new to both Linux and this list. > > I'm building a site (or will be shortly) on a managed server that has Red Hat Linux 7.2 installed. I want to set up a development server here so I can also work locally on a test platform. The test platform is a PentiumIII 500, which will be partitioned to share the HD between Win98 and this Linux, in case that matters. > The website will include the use of PHP4, MySQL3.23, cron and some third party newsletter software as yet unchosen. > I've never installed Linux before, and haven't used it much either. > > My question is - should I install 7.2 here, or should I just get the latest release? What would the differences be, and do they matter? > > Thanks for any help you can give, > Dan Searle. This may well not answer your question. I'd be very hesitant to pay someone for server space on a machine running a version that is several revs past support. I wouldn't mind too much if they were running RH 9 (with all updates) as it was EOLed less than a month ago, but RH 7.2 is three revs behind that. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com A man who can kneel before God can stand up to anything. From pmor82 at yahoo.com Wed May 19 15:50:55 2004 From: pmor82 at yahoo.com (Pedro Morales) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 08:50:55 -0700 (PDT) Subject: mount error In-Reply-To: <20040518171023.GA8208@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Message-ID: <20040519155055.5830.qmail@web41008.mail.yahoo.com> --- Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 09:57:29AM -0700, Pedro > Morales wrote: > > > > --- Bob McClure Jr > > wrote: > > > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 07:58:50AM -0700, Pedro > > > Morales wrote: > > > > > > > > --- Bob McClure Jr > > > > > wrote: > > > > > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 05:47:09AM -0700, > Pedro > > > > > Morales wrote: > > > > > > im pretty sure it's a simple and noobish > > > question, > > > > > but > > > > > > im trying to mount a cdrom I burned at > home, > > > and I > > > > > get > > > > > > the error: "mount: not a directory", so im > > > > > wondering > > > > > > do I have to copy everything inside a > > > directory > > > > > then > > > > > > burn the directory? > > > > > > > > > > > > im using my "mount /mnt/cdrom" in my root > > > shell. > > > > > > > > > > Two things are required for that to work: > > > > > > > > > > - /mnt/cdrom must exist as a directory. "ls > -ld > > > > > /mnt/cdrom" to see if > > > > > it's there. "mkdir /mnt/cdrom" if it's > not. > > > > > > > > it's there > > > > > > > > > - There must be an entry in /etc/fstab that > > > looks > > > > > something like this: > > > > > > > > > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 > > > > > noauto,owner,ro 0 0 > > > > > > > > I have > > > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660, > > > > noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > > > > > > > > and the cd im trying to read is the vmware I > > > > downloaded, so the cd has only files no > > > directories at > > > > all. > > > > > > What happens if you > > > > > > mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom > > > > got the following error: > > /dev/cdrom: Input/output error > > mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, > > mounting read-only > > /dev/cdrom: Input/output error > > mount: you must specify the filesystem type > > I'd say there is something wrong with the way you > burned the CD. If > you can mount any other CD without tears, then that > is nearly > certain. You may find you need to burn at a slower > rate. remade the cd with the slowest speed the burner could give, and still the same problem, even tried a cdrom I mounted before and it couldn't. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Wed May 19 15:57:13 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 10:57:13 -0500 Subject: mount error In-Reply-To: <20040519155055.5830.qmail@web41008.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040518171023.GA8208@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <20040519155055.5830.qmail@web41008.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20040519155713.GA27039@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 08:50:55AM -0700, Pedro Morales wrote: > > --- Bob McClure Jr > wrote: > > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 09:57:29AM -0700, Pedro > > Morales wrote: > > > > > > --- Bob McClure Jr > > > wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 07:58:50AM -0700, Pedro > > > > Morales wrote: > > > > > > > > > > --- Bob McClure Jr > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 05:47:09AM -0700, > > Pedro > > > > > > Morales wrote: > > > > > > > im pretty sure it's a simple and noobish > > > > question, > > > > > > but > > > > > > > im trying to mount a cdrom I burned at > > home, > > > > and I > > > > > > get > > > > > > > the error: "mount: not a directory", so im > > > > > > wondering > > > > > > > do I have to copy everything inside a > > > > directory > > > > > > then > > > > > > > burn the directory? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > im using my "mount /mnt/cdrom" in my root > > > > shell. > > > > > > > > > > > > Two things are required for that to work: > > > > > > > > > > > > - /mnt/cdrom must exist as a directory. "ls > > -ld > > > > > > /mnt/cdrom" to see if > > > > > > it's there. "mkdir /mnt/cdrom" if it's > > not. > > > > > > > > > > it's there > > > > > > > > > > > - There must be an entry in /etc/fstab that > > > > looks > > > > > > something like this: > > > > > > > > > > > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 > > > > > > noauto,owner,ro 0 0 > > > > > > > > > > I have > > > > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660, > > > > > noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > > > > > > > > > > and the cd im trying to read is the vmware I > > > > > downloaded, so the cd has only files no > > > > directories at > > > > > all. > > > > > > > > What happens if you > > > > > > > > mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom > > > > > > got the following error: > > > /dev/cdrom: Input/output error > > > mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, > > > mounting read-only > > > /dev/cdrom: Input/output error > > > mount: you must specify the filesystem type > > > > I'd say there is something wrong with the way you > > burned the CD. If > > you can mount any other CD without tears, then that > > is nearly > > certain. You may find you need to burn at a slower > > rate. > > remade the cd with the slowest speed the burner could > give, and still the same problem, even tried a cdrom I > mounted before and it couldn't. Then your CD drive may be bad. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com A man who can kneel before God can stand up to anything. From jam at gsu.edu Wed May 19 17:12:16 2004 From: jam at gsu.edu (James Jones) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 13:12:16 -0400 Subject: perlmagick Message-ID: Apparently, perlmagick is NOT part of RH ES v.3. ImageMagick and ImageMagick-c++ are. In fact they are version 5.5.6 (not v6.x). I've tried everything to just manually compile this but I keep getting a /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [blib/arch/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.so] Error 1 Anybody know if this package is comming back? (ImageMagick-perl) This is so frustrating as I rely on this package and this upgrade from RH 9 to RH ES v3 has become a major downgrade with it's subset of packages as compared to RH 7,8 & 9. I can deal with the other stuff missing but not this one. I'm desperate and I either need to get an RPM or just get this to compile. James Jones Manager, Information Technology Services GSU College of Law jam at gsu.edu From dan_maillists at danwasthere.com Wed May 19 17:40:20 2004 From: dan_maillists at danwasthere.com (Dan_MailLists) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 19:40:20 +0200 Subject: RedHat Linux 7.2 or latest release? References: <009501c43d81$15d56a80$0301a8c0@danhome> <20040519150837.GA19311@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Message-ID: <010401c43dc8$5bc97760$0301a8c0@danhome> Bob McClure, Jr wrote - > This may well not answer your question. I'd be very hesitant to pay > someone for server space on a machine running a version that is > several revs past support. I wouldn't mind too much if they were > running RH 9 (with all updates) as it was EOLed less than a month ago, > but RH 7.2 is three revs behind that. Thanks for the comment Bob, it's a good point, but too late to change hosts. I've just phoned their tech support and they tell me that as we've got a dedicated server we can install anything we want on it, but that it comes with 7.2 by default. As I just want this as a webserver, using PHP4 and MySQL, is 7.2 going to be enough can anyone tell me? Or if not, what are people's thoughts on me upgrading the Linux to say v9? Knowing how huge those OS files are I can't quite see how that's going to work without physical access to the server? --------- > On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 11:10:09AM +0200, Dan_MailLists wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm new to both Linux and this list. > > > > I'm building a site (or will be shortly) on a managed server that has Red Hat Linux 7.2 installed. I want to set up a development server here so I can also work locally on a test platform. The test platform is a PentiumIII 500, which will be partitioned to share the HD between Win98 and this Linux, in case that matters. > > The website will include the use of PHP4, MySQL3.23, cron and some third party newsletter software as yet unchosen. > > I've never installed Linux before, and haven't used it much either. > > > > My question is - should I install 7.2 here, or should I just get the latest release? What would the differences be, and do they matter? > > > > Thanks for any help you can give, > > Dan Searle. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 19 18:29:27 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 11:29:27 -0700 Subject: ADSL usb modems In-Reply-To: <1084933979.1719.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <3E5BBEA5.8000905@vitalstream.com> <1082871109.1722.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <408D39B2.3070108@vitalstr eam.com> <1083304919.1498.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4092860E.90203@v italstream.com> <1083724486.1391.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40991AD7.40707@vitalstream.com> <1084687696.1876.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> <40A8E861.9090903@vitalstream.com> <1084933979.1719.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <40ABA787.7040607@vitalstream.com> Graeme Nichols wrote: > On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 02:29, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>>Rick, I installed it and booted Linux. It was found during boot-up and >>>Linux installed the drivers OK. It is a RealTek RTL-8139, SMC EZ Ca. >> >>Terrific! Yeah, the RealTeks are being used a lot on mobos now. >>They're pretty good. Not the fastest thing in the world, but >>reasonable. >> >> >>>Linux talked to the ADSL modem/router straight away. Now... as soon as >>>Telstra (our local telco here in Aust.) activates the line for ADSL I >>>can configure the modem/router and be away, hopefully :-) >> >>Great! And away we go! Make REAL sure you set up a VERY restrictive >>firewall, Graeme. Don't allow anything IN except the absolute minimum >>of what you need. In my case, it's DNS (TCP/UDP port 53), SSH (TCP >>port 22) and NTP (TCP/UDP port 123). > > > Hello Rick, I will! and thank you for pointing out the ports you allow > in. I wont need SSH coming in and probably not NTP either. > >>Turn off any daemons you don't need (e.g. don't portmap unless you're >>running NFS or need FAM) and restrict those you do need to your local >>network (probably 192.168.0.0/24 or whatever the local side of the >>router is). Make sure no other daemons or xinetd are listening on some >>weird ports (run nmap/nmapfe on your system). Try to run something like >>tripwire on your system, too, so you can see changes to your >>filesystems. > > > I already run tripwire and I'll take your advice and make sure nothing > is listening on anything else. > > Again, thanks for all your help and advice. Glad to help. I'm only being pedantic because being "on line" continuously opens your machine up to LOTS of hack attempts. Making sure your firewall is as restrictive as possible, keeping up to date on updates and patches and running something like tripwire is your best defense against this stuff. Of course, I'd love to hunt all these hacking, virus and worm writing b*stards down and shoot them on the spot. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - grep me no patterns and I'll tell you no lines - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 19 18:50:36 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 11:50:36 -0700 Subject: RedHat Linux 7.2 or latest release? In-Reply-To: <010401c43dc8$5bc97760$0301a8c0@danhome> References: <009501c43d81$15d56a80$0301a8c0@danhome> <20040519150837.GA19311@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <010401c43dc8$5bc97760$0301a8c0@danhome> Message-ID: <40ABAC7C.2080105@vitalstream.com> Dan_MailLists wrote: > Bob McClure, Jr wrote - > >>This may well not answer your question. I'd be very hesitant to pay >>someone for server space on a machine running a version that is >>several revs past support. I wouldn't mind too much if they were >>running RH 9 (with all updates) as it was EOLed less than a month ago, >>but RH 7.2 is three revs behind that. > > > > Thanks for the comment Bob, it's a good point, but too late to change hosts. > I've just phoned their tech support and they tell me that as we've got a > dedicated server we can install anything we want on it, but that it comes > with 7.2 by default. > As I just want this as a webserver, using PHP4 and MySQL, is 7.2 going to be > enough can anyone tell me? It's enough, but it's not supported by Red Hat anymore. Instead, it's supported by the Fedora group's "Legacy" project. How much longer it will be supported is hard to say. 7.2 is almost three years old. If you decide to use 7.2, make sure you patch it to the current levels. The Fedora Legacy project webpage http://www.fedoralegacy.org/ has a list of mirrors that hold all of the current patches. You can download them to a scratch directory on the server, then "cd" into that directory and "rpm -Fvh *.rpm". You may have to resolve some weird conflicts manually and you do NOT want to do the kernel updates that way. Ideally, download everything EXCEPT the kernel RPMs and do what I said above. Then manually download the latest kernel and install that via "rpm -ivh kernel-whatever.rpm" (note the "-ivh" RATHER than the "-Fvh"). As to the conflicts, you have to analyze what they are. You will either do an "rpm -Fvh --force" or "rpm -Fvh --nodeps" to get past those. > Or if not, what are people's thoughts on me upgrading the Linux to say v9? > Knowing how huge those OS files are I can't quite see how that's going to > work without physical access to the server? I've been upgrading my mail systems to Fedora Core 1. It's quite stable and has worked well for me. Upgrading a machine without physical access is not trivial. You can download the .iso images to the system, then build a boot floppy to do a disk-based install. You will have to have your ISP manually put in the floppy and you'll need some sort of console access via a serial port or a KVM. As I said, it ain't easy. > > --------- > >>On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 11:10:09AM +0200, Dan_MailLists wrote: >> >>>Hi all, >>> >>>I'm new to both Linux and this list. >>> >>>I'm building a site (or will be shortly) on a managed server that has > > Red Hat Linux 7.2 installed. I want to set up a development server here so I > can also work locally on a test platform. The test platform is a PentiumIII > 500, which will be partitioned to share the HD between Win98 and this Linux, > in case that matters. > >>>The website will include the use of PHP4, MySQL3.23, cron and some third > > party newsletter software as yet unchosen. > >>>I've never installed Linux before, and haven't used it much either. >>> >>>My question is - should I install 7.2 here, or should I just get the > > latest release? What would the differences be, and do they matter? > >>>Thanks for any help you can give, >>>Dan Searle. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Wed May 19 18:57:57 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 11:57:57 -0700 Subject: XFS in Fedora Core 2 In-Reply-To: <40AB3155.8040904@acm.org> References: <40AB3155.8040904@acm.org> Message-ID: <40ABAE35.50704@vitalstream.com> Andre Meyer wrote: > Hi all > > After a great new download of Fedora Core 2 yesterday, I immediately > tried to install it. My first thought was that I needed to try uot XFS > because I read a lot about how cool and fast XFS was compared to ext3. > After finding out that one needs to boot the installer using "linux xfs" > (undocumented) I chose to format with XFS and install. > > Unfortunately, at the end of the installation it hung while trying to > install the bootloader GRUB. After a reset, FC2 boots, but only in text > mode. X won't start, because - I assume - the installation was not > finished. > > Why does XFS not work? What can be done about it? It did work. The system booted, did it not? If you log in and do a "mount" command, the filesystems show up as mounted under XFS, right? Why didn't X-Windows start? That's a good question. You might try to start it manually by entering "startx" or by "telinit 5". You may still have to configure it via "redhat-config-xfree86". Also note that "xfs" can be confusing (and I wish the twits who developed the XFS file system took that into account). There's "xfs" the filesystem AND "xfs" the "X font server" (which predates the filesystem by a number of years). Make sure you specify which one you're speaking of. Note that if "xfs" (the font one) isn't running, X-Windows won't run, either. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Animal testing is futile. They always get nervous and give the - - wrong answers - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 19 19:01:22 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 12:01:22 -0700 Subject: mount error In-Reply-To: <20040519155713.GA27039@bobcat.cumbytel.com> References: <20040518171023.GA8208@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <20040519155055.5830.qmail@web41008.mail.yahoo.com> <20040519155713.GA27039@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Message-ID: <40ABAF02.9010605@vitalstream.com> Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 08:50:55AM -0700, Pedro Morales wrote: > >>--- Bob McClure Jr >>wrote: >> >>>On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 09:57:29AM -0700, Pedro >>>Morales wrote: >>> >>>>--- Bob McClure Jr >>>>wrote: >>>> >>>>>On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 07:58:50AM -0700, Pedro >>>>>Morales wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>--- Bob McClure Jr >>> >>> >>> >>>>>>wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 05:47:09AM -0700, >>> >>>Pedro >>> >>>>>>>Morales wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>im pretty sure it's a simple and noobish >>>>> >>>>>question, >>>>> >>>>>>>but >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>im trying to mount a cdrom I burned at >>> >>>home, >>> >>>>>and I >>>>> >>>>>>>get >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>the error: "mount: not a directory", so im >>>>>>> >>>>>>>wondering >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>do I have to copy everything inside a >>>>> >>>>>directory >>>>> >>>>>>>then >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>burn the directory? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>im using my "mount /mnt/cdrom" in my root >>>>> >>>>>shell. >>>>> >>>>>>>Two things are required for that to work: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>- /mnt/cdrom must exist as a directory. "ls >>> >>>-ld >>> >>>>>>>/mnt/cdrom" to see if >>>>>>> it's there. "mkdir /mnt/cdrom" if it's >>> >>>not. >>> >>>>>>it's there >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>- There must be an entry in /etc/fstab that >>>>> >>>>>looks >>>>> >>>>>>>something like this: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 >>>>>>>noauto,owner,ro 0 0 >>>>>> >>>>>>I have >>>>>> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660, >>>>>>noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 >>>>>> >>>>>>and the cd im trying to read is the vmware I >>>>>>downloaded, so the cd has only files no >>>>> >>>>>directories at >>>>> >>>>>>all. >>>>> >>>>>What happens if you >>>>> >>>>> mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom >>>> >>>>got the following error: >>>>/dev/cdrom: Input/output error >>>>mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, >>>>mounting read-only >>>>/dev/cdrom: Input/output error >>>>mount: you must specify the filesystem type >>> >>>I'd say there is something wrong with the way you >>>burned the CD. If >>>you can mount any other CD without tears, then that >>>is nearly >>>certain. You may find you need to burn at a slower >>>rate. >> >>remade the cd with the slowest speed the burner could >>give, and still the same problem, even tried a cdrom I >>mounted before and it couldn't. > > > Then your CD drive may be bad. Or he's missing the "iso9660" filesystem module. Pedro, run this command: cat /etc/filesystems and verify that "iso9660" is listed in there. If not, somehow your kernel doesn't have that built in. Your kernel should have iso9660 and ext2 built it...the others may be built in or done via modules located in "/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/fs" > > Cheers, -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Wed May 19 19:06:51 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 12:06:51 -0700 Subject: perlmagick In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40ABB04B.2080902@vitalstream.com> James Jones wrote: > Apparently, perlmagick is NOT part of RH ES v.3. ImageMagick and > ImageMagick-c++ are. In fact they are version 5.5.6 (not v6.x). I've > tried everything to just manually compile this but I keep getting a > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [blib/arch/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.so] Error 1 > > Anybody know if this package is comming back? (ImageMagick-perl) > > This is so frustrating as I rely on this package and this upgrade from > RH 9 to RH ES v3 has become a major downgrade with it's subset of > packages as compared to RH 7,8 & 9. I can deal with the other stuff > missing but not this one. I'm desperate and I either need to get an RPM > or just get this to compile. I just dealt with ImageMagick on a 7.3 server for a client, but that one had old libpng, libgd and other issues. Took me a while. The error you mention indicates that you don't have the XFree86 development system installed. You must make sure you have the "XFree86-devel" RPM installed. Grab your CDs, find the one that has that RPM on it, put the CD in and: rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/XFree86-devel*.rpm By the way, the latest ImageMagick is 5.5.7 (according to their website). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 ottohaliburton at comcast.net Wed May 19 19:17:19 2004 From: ottohaliburton at comcast.net (Otto Haliburton) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 14:17:19 -0500 Subject: browsing with the network browser under linux In-Reply-To: <40ABB04B.2080902@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <015001c43dd5$ea04d490$1e090018@C515816A> Does anyone know why all shares except printer shares show up when using the network browser. From ottohaliburton at comcast.net Wed May 19 19:21:10 2004 From: ottohaliburton at comcast.net (Otto Haliburton) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 14:21:10 -0500 Subject: browsing with the network browser under linux In-Reply-To: <015001c43dd5$ea04d490$1e090018@C515816A> Message-ID: <015101c43dd6$71611520$1e090018@C515816A> > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list- > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Otto Haliburton > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 2:17 PM > To: 'Getting started with Red Hat Linux' > Subject: browsing with the network browser under linux > > Does anyone know why all shares except printer shares show up when using > the > network browser. > sorry about the double post here but the printers on an XP box don't appear even though they are shared. From fruiz at tsitrucks.com Wed May 19 19:36:41 2004 From: fruiz at tsitrucks.com (Francisco Ruiz) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 14:36:41 -0500 Subject: tape drive. Message-ID: My back up software will not continue when the fist tape is full on to the second tape drive. My tech guy had me change some setting and the device name. The device name was changed to this (/dev/ttyrSp0 -f /dev/rStp1) in the back up software. What does this mean (/dev/rStp0 -f /dev/rStp1)? Anyone? From pinkoo_78 at yahoo.com Wed May 19 19:44:10 2004 From: pinkoo_78 at yahoo.com (pankaj singla) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 12:44:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Hardrive not found error ! Message-ID: <20040519194410.17101.qmail@web14930.mail.yahoo.com> Hi, I am new to Linux. I am trying to install redhat 9 on my new PC. It already has windows XP on one partition. The problem is that it couldn't find hard drive during istallation and then the installation ends. The hard drive is 120 GB ST3120026AS. I couldn't found linux drivers (if that is the problem) for this drive on web. Could somebody help me in dealing with this problem. Thanks, Pankaj __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 19 19:43:26 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 12:43:26 -0700 Subject: browsing with the network browser under linux In-Reply-To: <015101c43dd6$71611520$1e090018@C515816A> References: <015101c43dd6$71611520$1e090018@C515816A> Message-ID: <40ABB8DE.9010702@vitalstream.com> Otto Haliburton wrote: > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list- >>bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Otto Haliburton >>Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 2:17 PM >>To: 'Getting started with Red Hat Linux' >>Subject: browsing with the network browser under linux >> >>Does anyone know why all shares except printer shares show up when using >>the >>network browser. >> > > sorry about the double post here but the printers on an XP box don't appear > even though they are shared. XP home or XP Pro? XP Home has limited networking abilities. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Try to look unimportant. The bad guys may be low on ammo. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From WABonnett at ups-scs.com Wed May 19 19:51:34 2004 From: WABonnett at ups-scs.com (WABonnett at ups-scs.com) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 15:51:34 -0400 Subject: Hardrive not found error ! Message-ID: Your ST3120026AS drive is a SATA drive. I'm not sure if RH9 supports SATA. -----Original Message----- From: pankaj singla [mailto:pinkoo_78 at yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 15:44 To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com Subject: Hardrive not found error ! Hi, I am new to Linux. I am trying to install redhat 9 on my new PC. It already has windows XP on one partition. The problem is that it couldn't find hard drive during istallation and then the installation ends. The hard drive is 120 GB ST3120026AS. I couldn't found linux drivers (if that is the problem) for this drive on web. Could somebody help me in dealing with this problem. Thanks, Pankaj __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ _______________________________________________ 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 May 19 19:55:02 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 12:55:02 -0700 Subject: tape drive. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40ABBB96.6010009@vitalstream.com> Francisco Ruiz wrote: > My back up software will not continue when the fist tape is full on to the > second tape drive. My tech guy had me change some setting and the device > name. The device name was changed to this (/dev/ttyrSp0 -f /dev/rStp1) in > the back up software. What does this mean (/dev/rStp0 -f /dev/rStp1)? > Anyone? What software are you talking about? I don't recognize any of those names as tape drives. The tape drives themselves are "/dev/st0x" through "/dev/st31x" (the "x" indicating various block sizes and densities), and their non-auto-rewind versions "/dev/nst0x" through "/dev/nst31x". The names you have may be symlinks to those various drives. Without knowing what software you're running, I can't help. The standard tar command supports a "-M" (multivolume) option to indicate that the backup can span multiple tapes. Along with that is the "-F script-name" option which names a script that should be run when the end-of-tape is hit (using "-F" implies "-M"). You should have similar options in your backup software. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Try to look unimportant. The bad guys may be low on ammo. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From ottohaliburton at comcast.net Wed May 19 20:01:11 2004 From: ottohaliburton at comcast.net (Otto Haliburton) Date: 19 May 2004 15:01:11 -0500 Subject: browsing with the network browser under linux In-Reply-To: <40ABB8DE.9010702@vitalstream.com> References: <015101c43dd6$71611520$1e090018@C515816A> <40ABB8DE.9010702@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1084996871.6475.4.camel@c515816-a> On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 14:43, Rick Stevens wrote: > Otto Haliburton wrote: > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list- > >>bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Otto Haliburton > >>Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 2:17 PM > >>To: 'Getting started with Red Hat Linux' > >>Subject: browsing with the network browser under linux > >> > >>Does anyone know why all shares except printer shares show up when using > >>the > >>network browser. > >> > > > > sorry about the double post here but the printers on an XP box don't appear > > even though they are shared. > > XP home or XP Pro? XP Home has limited networking abilities. I thought something to that effect since it is home except that when you browse with XP pro or 2000 the printers and all other shares are visible. What is it about linux that only the printers are not visible. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 19 19:58:18 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 12:58:18 -0700 Subject: Hardrive not found error ! In-Reply-To: <20040519194410.17101.qmail@web14930.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040519194410.17101.qmail@web14930.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40ABBC5A.60608@vitalstream.com> pankaj singla wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Linux. I am trying to install redhat > 9 on my new PC. It already has windows XP on one > partition. > > The problem is that it couldn't find hard drive > during istallation and then the installation ends. The > hard drive is 120 GB ST3120026AS. I couldn't found > linux drivers (if that is the problem) for this drive > on web. > > Could somebody help me in dealing with this > problem. You must have unassigned space on the drive to do the installation. By default, XP will suck up all of the drive--either in a single partition or multiple partitions--but all of the drive is used. Linux has nowhere to install. You can verify this by running the Windows "fdisk" command on the drive. If you don't see any "unused" part of the drive, that's your problem. You must use some tool such as Partition Magic or Partition Commander to shrink your Windows partitions down and free up space on the hard drive for Linux to live in. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - A squeegee, by any other name, wouldn't sound as funny. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 19 19:59:09 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 12:59:09 -0700 Subject: Hardrive not found error ! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40ABBC8D.9020403@vitalstream.com> WABonnett at ups-scs.com wrote: > Your ST3120026AS drive is a SATA drive. I'm not sure if RH9 supports SATA. That's also possible. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - A squeegee, by any other name, wouldn't sound as funny. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 19 20:00:35 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 13:00:35 -0700 Subject: browsing with the network browser under linux In-Reply-To: <1084996871.6475.4.camel@c515816-a> References: <015101c43dd6$71611520$1e090018@C515816A> <40ABB8DE.9010702@vitalstream.com> <1084996871.6475.4.camel@c515816-a> Message-ID: <40ABBCE3.2010208@vitalstream.com> Otto Haliburton wrote: > On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 14:43, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Otto Haliburton wrote: >> >>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list- >>>>bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Otto Haliburton >>>>Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 2:17 PM >>>>To: 'Getting started with Red Hat Linux' >>>>Subject: browsing with the network browser under linux >>>> >>>>Does anyone know why all shares except printer shares show up when using >>>>the >>>>network browser. >>>> >>> >>>sorry about the double post here but the printers on an XP box don't appear >>>even though they are shared. >> >>XP home or XP Pro? XP Home has limited networking abilities. > > > I thought something to that effect since it is home except that when you > browse with XP pro or 2000 the printers and all other shares are > visible. What is it about linux that only the printers are not visible. > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Linux is like a wigwam...no windows, no gates...and apache inside! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 19 20:06:54 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 13:06:54 -0700 Subject: browsing with the network browser under linux In-Reply-To: <1084996871.6475.4.camel@c515816-a> References: <015101c43dd6$71611520$1e090018@C515816A> <40ABB8DE.9010702@vitalstream.com> <1084996871.6475.4.camel@c515816-a> Message-ID: <40ABBE5E.5020909@vitalstream.com> Otto Haliburton wrote: > On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 14:43, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Otto Haliburton wrote: >> >>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list- >>>>bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Otto Haliburton >>>>Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 2:17 PM >>>>To: 'Getting started with Red Hat Linux' >>>>Subject: browsing with the network browser under linux >>>> >>>>Does anyone know why all shares except printer shares show up when using >>>>the >>>>network browser. >>>> >>> >>>sorry about the double post here but the printers on an XP box don't appear >>>even though they are shared. >> >>XP home or XP Pro? XP Home has limited networking abilities. > > > I thought something to that effect since it is home except that when you > browse with XP pro or 2000 the printers and all other shares are > visible. What is it about linux that only the printers are not visible. Ignore previous blank post...dropped something on the mouse. I don't know. It may be that Nautilus ignores those. Have you checked your printer browser? They may show up there rather than the normal browser (redhat-icon->System Settings->Printing"). It may also be that you aren't in the same workgroup as those machines. I don't know. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 ottohaliburton at comcast.net Wed May 19 20:20:35 2004 From: ottohaliburton at comcast.net (Otto Haliburton) Date: 19 May 2004 15:20:35 -0500 Subject: browsing with the network browser under linux In-Reply-To: <40ABBE5E.5020909@vitalstream.com> References: <015101c43dd6$71611520$1e090018@C515816A> <40ABB8DE.9010702@vitalstream.com> <1084996871.6475.4.camel@c515816-a> <40ABBE5E.5020909@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1084998035.6475.23.camel@c515816-a> On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 15:06, Rick Stevens wrote: > Otto Haliburton wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 14:43, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >>Otto Haliburton wrote: > >> > >>>>-----Original Message----- > >>>>From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list- > >>>>bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Otto Haliburton > >>>>Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 2:17 PM > >>>>To: 'Getting started with Red Hat Linux' > >>>>Subject: browsing with the network browser under linux > >>>> > >>>>Does anyone know why all shares except printer shares show up when using > >>>>the > >>>>network browser. > >>>> > >>> > >>>sorry about the double post here but the printers on an XP box don't appear > >>>even though they are shared. > >> > >>XP home or XP Pro? XP Home has limited networking abilities. > > > > > > I thought something to that effect since it is home except that when you > > browse with XP pro or 2000 the printers and all other shares are > > visible. What is it about linux that only the printers are not visible. > > Ignore previous blank post...dropped something on the mouse. > > I don't know. It may be that Nautilus ignores those. Have you checked > your printer browser? They may show up there rather than the normal > browser (redhat-icon->System Settings->Printing"). It may also be that > you aren't in the same workgroup as those machines. I don't know You are in the same group since the other shares are visible. the implication that samba will not work with XP home because the samba browser cannot see the printers shares so therefore it cannot connect to the printers if they are on a XP home machine. they don't show on the printer browser either. From jam at gsu.edu Wed May 19 20:23:02 2004 From: jam at gsu.edu (James Jones) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 16:23:02 -0400 Subject: perlmagick Message-ID: That was the trick! Thanks a lot! I'll have to make a note to make sure the XFree86-devel package is installed to make that manually compile correctly (still wish RH would get that package back). Thanks again! James Jones Manager, Information Technology Services GSU College of Law jam at gsu.edu >>> rstevens at vitalstream.com 5/19/2004 3:06:51 PM >>> James Jones wrote: > Apparently, perlmagick is NOT part of RH ES v.3. ImageMagick and > ImageMagick-c++ are. In fact they are version 5.5.6 (not v6.x). I've > tried everything to just manually compile this but I keep getting a > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [blib/arch/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.so] Error 1 > > Anybody know if this package is comming back? (ImageMagick-perl) > > This is so frustrating as I rely on this package and this upgrade from > RH 9 to RH ES v3 has become a major downgrade with it's subset of > packages as compared to RH 7,8 & 9. I can deal with the other stuff > missing but not this one. I'm desperate and I either need to get an RPM > or just get this to compile. I just dealt with ImageMagick on a 7.3 server for a client, but that one had old libpng, libgd and other issues. Took me a while. The error you mention indicates that you don't have the XFree86 development system installed. You must make sure you have the "XFree86-devel" RPM installed. Grab your CDs, find the one that has that RPM on it, put the CD in and: rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/XFree86-devel*.rpm By the way, the latest ImageMagick is 5.5.7 (according to their website). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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 meyer at acm.org Wed May 19 20:31:03 2004 From: meyer at acm.org (Andre Meyer) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 22:31:03 +0200 Subject: XFS in Fedora Core 2 In-Reply-To: <40ABAE35.50704@vitalstream.com> References: <40AB3155.8040904@acm.org> <40ABAE35.50704@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40ABC407.8080001@acm.org> Hi Rick I did log in as root and tried "startx" which gave a ton of error messages. Some installation must be missing, because the installation hung at the installation of the bootloader. I realised the confusion between the XFS file system and the font server, as well thanks Andre Rick Stevens wrote: > Andre Meyer wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> After a great new download of Fedora Core 2 yesterday, I immediately >> tried to install it. My first thought was that I needed to try uot >> XFS because I read a lot about how cool and fast XFS was compared to >> ext3. After finding out that one needs to boot the installer using >> "linux xfs" (undocumented) I chose to format with XFS and install. >> >> Unfortunately, at the end of the installation it hung while trying to >> install the bootloader GRUB. After a reset, FC2 boots, but only in >> text mode. X won't start, because - I assume - the installation was >> not finished. >> >> Why does XFS not work? What can be done about it? > > > It did work. The system booted, did it not? If you log in and do a > "mount" command, the filesystems show up as mounted under XFS, right? > > Why didn't X-Windows start? That's a good question. You might try to > start it manually by entering "startx" or by "telinit 5". You may still > have to configure it via "redhat-config-xfree86". > > Also note that "xfs" can be confusing (and I wish the twits who > developed the XFS file system took that into account). There's "xfs" > the filesystem AND "xfs" the "X font server" (which predates the > filesystem by a number of years). Make sure you specify which one > you're speaking of. Note that if "xfs" (the font one) isn't running, > X-Windows won't run, either. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Animal testing is futile. They always get nervous and give the - > - wrong answers - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 May 19 20:39:14 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (Karl Pearson) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 14:39:14 -0600 (MDT) Subject: ClamAV Follow-up (Was: New Server on RH 8.0) In-Reply-To: <40ABBB96.6010009@vitalstream.com> References: <40ABBB96.6010009@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <36941.207.173.117.242.1084999154.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> I downloaded 0.70 of clamav hoping to get the milter portion working. I've configured using: ./configure --enable-milter --sysconfdir=/etc make make install I noticed during the make that the clamav-milter steps indicated "Nothing to be done" messages... I tried the configure step (make uninstall and make clean each time first) without both and each in turn to no avail. In checking the docs at clamav.net, I notice .71. Do you know if that might solve this problem? TIA, -- 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 jimhayward at earthlink.net Wed May 19 21:06:04 2004 From: jimhayward at earthlink.net (Jim Hayward) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 14:06:04 -0700 Subject: ClamAV Follow-up (Was: New Server on RH 8.0) In-Reply-To: <36941.207.173.117.242.1084999154.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> References: <40ABBB96.6010009@vitalstream.com> <36941.207.173.117.242.1084999154.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <1085000764.23037.5.camel@garfield.linux.localdomain> On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 13:39, Karl Pearson wrote: > I downloaded 0.70 of clamav hoping to get the milter portion working. I've > configured using: > > ./configure --enable-milter --sysconfdir=/etc > make > make install > > I noticed during the make that the clamav-milter steps indicated "Nothing > to be done" messages... Are you using sendmail? Do you have the sendmail-devel package installed? The devel package is required to compile clamav with milter support. 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 pinkoo_78 at yahoo.com Wed May 19 21:16:08 2004 From: pinkoo_78 at yahoo.com (pankaj singla) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 14:16:08 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Hardrive not found error ! In-Reply-To: <40ABBC5A.60608@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <20040519211608.75410.qmail@web14926.mail.yahoo.com> I did use Partition magic to make about 40 GB of partition but it still can't find the hard drive. I think driver is the problem. I searched on google and found that Linux does support some SATA drives like Silicon image and they have some discussion on this at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?threadid=51535. But I don't know whether it supports my Hard drive which is Seagate and even if I found some driver how to install those before installing linux. Thanks, Pankaj --- Rick Stevens wrote: > pankaj singla wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am new to Linux. I am trying to install > redhat > > 9 on my new PC. It already has windows XP on one > > partition. > > > > The problem is that it couldn't find hard > drive > > during istallation and then the installation ends. > The > > hard drive is 120 GB ST3120026AS. I couldn't found > > linux drivers (if that is the problem) for this > drive > > on web. > > > > Could somebody help me in dealing with this > > problem. > > You must have unassigned space on the drive to do > the installation. > By default, XP will suck up all of the drive--either > in a single > partition or multiple partitions--but all of the > drive is used. > Linux has nowhere to install. You can verify this > by running the > Windows "fdisk" command on the drive. If you don't > see any "unused" > part of the drive, that's your problem. > > You must use some tool such as Partition Magic or > Partition Commander > to shrink your Windows partitions down and free up > space on the hard > drive for Linux to live in. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer > rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. > http://www.vitalstream.com - > - > - > - A squeegee, by any other name, wouldn't > sound as funny. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > 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! Domains ? Claim yours for only $14.70/year http://smallbusiness.promotions.yahoo.com/offer From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 19 21:50:48 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 14:50:48 -0700 Subject: XFS in Fedora Core 2 In-Reply-To: <40ABC407.8080001@acm.org> References: <40AB3155.8040904@acm.org> <40ABAE35.50704@vitalstream.com> <40ABC407.8080001@acm.org> Message-ID: <40ABD6B8.2090701@vitalstream.com> Andre Meyer wrote: > Hi Rick > > I did log in as root and tried "startx" which gave a ton of error > messages. Some installation must be missing, because the installation > hung at the installation of the bootloader. If the system booted then the boot loader got installed. It'd help if you could tell us what errors you got. You could try posting the /var/log/XFree86.0.log file. > I realised the confusion between the XFS file system and the font > server, as well Good! You're one of the few that grasp it. > Rick Stevens wrote: > >> Andre Meyer wrote: >> >>> Hi all >>> >>> After a great new download of Fedora Core 2 yesterday, I immediately >>> tried to install it. My first thought was that I needed to try uot >>> XFS because I read a lot about how cool and fast XFS was compared to >>> ext3. After finding out that one needs to boot the installer using >>> "linux xfs" (undocumented) I chose to format with XFS and install. >>> >>> Unfortunately, at the end of the installation it hung while trying to >>> install the bootloader GRUB. After a reset, FC2 boots, but only in >>> text mode. X won't start, because - I assume - the installation was >>> not finished. >>> >>> Why does XFS not work? What can be done about it? >> >> >> >> It did work. The system booted, did it not? If you log in and do a >> "mount" command, the filesystems show up as mounted under XFS, right? >> >> Why didn't X-Windows start? That's a good question. You might try to >> start it manually by entering "startx" or by "telinit 5". You may still >> have to configure it via "redhat-config-xfree86". >> >> Also note that "xfs" can be confusing (and I wish the twits who >> developed the XFS file system took that into account). There's "xfs" >> the filesystem AND "xfs" the "X font server" (which predates the >> filesystem by a number of years). Make sure you specify which one >> you're speaking of. Note that if "xfs" (the font one) isn't running, >> X-Windows won't run, either. >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >> - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >> - - >> - Animal testing is futile. They always get nervous and give the - >> - wrong answers - >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 Wed May 19 21:53:47 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 14:53:47 -0700 Subject: Hardrive not found error ! In-Reply-To: <20040519211608.75410.qmail@web14926.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040519211608.75410.qmail@web14926.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40ABD76B.8090000@vitalstream.com> pankaj singla wrote: > I did use Partition magic to make about 40 GB of > partition but it still can't find the hard drive. > > I think driver is the problem. I searched on > google and found that Linux does support some SATA > drives like Silicon image and they have some > discussion on this at > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?threadid=51535. > But I don't know whether it supports my Hard > drive which is Seagate and even if I found some driver > how to install those before installing linux. It's not the drive, it's the controller. Which SATA controller are you using? You might check the controller maker's website to see if they have a driver disk for your version of Linux. If they do, put it on a floppy and restart the install, but use "linux dd" at the boot prompt. That will make the system load the drivers from the floppy you make. > --- Rick Stevens wrote: > >>pankaj singla wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>> I am new to Linux. I am trying to install >> >>redhat >> >>>9 on my new PC. It already has windows XP on one >>>partition. >>> >>> The problem is that it couldn't find hard >> >>drive >> >>>during istallation and then the installation ends. >> >>The >> >>>hard drive is 120 GB ST3120026AS. I couldn't found >>>linux drivers (if that is the problem) for this >> >>drive >> >>>on web. >>> >>> Could somebody help me in dealing with this >>>problem. >> >>You must have unassigned space on the drive to do >>the installation. >>By default, XP will suck up all of the drive--either >>in a single >>partition or multiple partitions--but all of the >>drive is used. >>Linux has nowhere to install. You can verify this >>by running the >>Windows "fdisk" command on the drive. If you don't >>see any "unused" >>part of the drive, that's your problem. >> >>You must use some tool such as Partition Magic or >>Partition Commander >>to shrink your Windows partitions down and free up >>space on the hard >>drive for Linux to live in. >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer >>rstevens at vitalstream.com - >>- VitalStream, Inc. >>http://www.vitalstream.com - >>- >> - >>- A squeegee, by any other name, wouldn't >>sound as funny. - >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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! 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Claim yours for only $14.70/year > http://smallbusiness.promotions.yahoo.com/offer > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If Windows isn't a virus, then it sure as hell is a carrier! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From sarangi at bpost.kek.jp Thu May 20 12:34:31 2004 From: sarangi at bpost.kek.jp (Tapas Ranjan) Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 21:34:31 +0900 (JST) Subject: Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 3, Issue 23 In-Reply-To: <20040519160030.AB2CA75401@hormel.redhat.com> Message-ID: > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 09:56:09 -0700 > From: Rick Stevens > Subject: Re: Display can not change from "800X600" to "1024X 768" on > RedHat 9.0 > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > Message-ID: <40AA4029.20009 at vitalstream.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > > Suhaimi Jamalludin wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Sorry about this dump question. Can some body advice me on how to change > > my laptop Display Resolution from "800X600" to "1024X768"on RedHat 9.0. > > I have try to change it but there is no effect still "800X600" display. > > > > Below is my hardware configuration that detect on my WinXP laptop.. > > Display Adapter : Intel(R) 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller > > DPI setting : 96 > > Monitor Type : Digital Flat Panel(1024x768) > > > > Below is my XFree configuration files that I have. Can some body help > > me. I want to move from WinXP to RedHat Linux. > > If the display cannot change I will not have the fun on surfing the net > > and do my daily work. > > > > Really appreciate your help > > > > Regards, > > Suhaimi > > > > My XF86Conf file: > > > > # XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86 > > > > Section "ServerLayout" > > Identifier "Default Layout" > > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > > InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore" > > EndSection > > > > Section "Files" > > > > # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name > > of the # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is > > normally > > # no need to change the default. > > # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) > > # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of > > # the X server to render fonts. > > 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" > > > > # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) > > # Option "Xleds" "1 2 3" > > # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. > > # Option "XkbDisable" > > # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the > > # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. > > # keyboard, you will probably want to use: > > # Option "XkbModel" "pc102" > > # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: > > # Option "XkbModel" "microsoft" > > # > > # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. > > # For example, a german layout can be obtained with: > > # Option "XkbLayout" "de" > > # or: > > # Option "XkbLayout" "de" > > # Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" > > # > > # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and > > # control keys, use: > > # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" > > # Or if you just want both to be control, use: > > # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" > > # > > Identifier "Keyboard0" > > Driver "keyboard" > > Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" > > Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > > Option "XkbLayout" "us" > > EndSection > > > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Mouse0" > > Driver "mouse" > > Option "Protocol" "PS/2" > > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" > > EndSection > > > > Section "InputDevice" > > > > # 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" > > EndSection > > > > Section "Monitor" > > Identifier "Monitor0" > > VendorName "Monitor Vendor" > > ModelName "Generic 8514 Compatible, 1024x768 @ 87 Hz interlaced > > (no 800x600)" > > DisplaySize 284 213 > > HorizSync 31.5 - 31.5 > > HorizSync 35.5 - 35.5 > > VertRefresh 50.0 - 90.0 > > Option "dpms" > > EndSection > > > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "Videocard0" > > Driver "i810" > > VendorName "Videocard vendor" > > BoardName "Intel 852" > > VideoRam 16384 > > > > > > EndSection > > > > Section "Screen" > > Identifier "Screen0" > > Device "Videocard0" > > Monitor "Monitor0" > > DefaultDepth 24 > > SubSection "Display" > > Depth 24 > > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > > EndSubSection > > SubSection "Display" > > Depth 16 > > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > > EndSubSection > > EndSection > > > > Section "DRI" > > Group 0 > > Mode 0666 > > EndSection > > You need to either a) increase the amount of RAM available to your video > card or b) reduce the depth. > > Reduce the depth: > You have 2 settings for 1024x768, one with 24 bits, one with 16 bits. > If you delete the first "Display" section (the one with "Depth 24") and > leave the one with "Depth 16", it should work but your colors will be > "thousands of colors". Make sure you make a copy of the file BEFORE > you edit it, just in case things don't work the way you want. > > If you want millions of colors (24-bit), you need to increase the video > RAM and use the "Display" section with "Depth 24". If your video > chipset uses RAM from the system (as many do), then you need to change > the video memory size in your BIOS. I can't tell you exactly how to do > that since it varies with the different BIOSes out there. If the card > uses its own memory, then you need to add more to the card or live with > the 16-bit environment. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - What's small, yellow and very, VERY dangerous? The root canary! - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi : I guess the same as Rick in this case. It might be a BIOS problem. You can try a patch for your video chipset (intel 852/855). Try this URL http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html download the 855patch.tar.gz and do something like ; tar xfzv 855patch.tar.gz cd 855patch make su cp 855patch /sbin /sbin/855patch 16384 // or 10000 (this solved my problem). ^^^^^ ^^^^^ Then reboot and stare at !! Good Luck ---Tapas From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Thu May 20 13:07:06 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (Karl Pearson) Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 07:07:06 -0600 (MDT) Subject: ClamAV Follow-up (Was: New Server on RH 8.0) In-Reply-To: <1085000764.23037.5.camel@garfield.linux.localdomain> References: <40ABBB96.6010009@vitalstream.com><36941.207.173.117.242.1084999154.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> <1085000764.23037.5.camel@garfield.linux.localdomain> Message-ID: <15650.198.60.114.90.1085058426.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> > On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 13:39, Karl Pearson wrote: >> I downloaded 0.70 of clamav hoping to get the milter portion working. >> I've > > Are you using sendmail? Do you have the sendmail-devel package > installed? The devel package is required to compile clamav with milter > support. Bingo. Sendmail and Sendmail-cf are all I installed. I'll get sendmail-devel on board and go again. Karl > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 mr_invincible at rediffmail.com Thu May 20 15:26:41 2004 From: mr_invincible at rediffmail.com (invincible invincible invincible) Date: 20 May 2004 15:26:41 -0000 Subject: kernel recompiling Message-ID: <20040520152641.4401.qmail@webmail10.rediffmail.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- ? hello all. is there anybody who can tell me what is the source rpm for the kernel in red hat linux 9.0 . and how to recompile kernel and install it from the source."the steps".or a link where i can get layman steps to do the same. regards, mr invincible From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu May 20 16:29:40 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 09:29:40 -0700 Subject: kernel recompiling In-Reply-To: <20040520152641.4401.qmail@webmail10.rediffmail.com> References: <20040520152641.4401.qmail@webmail10.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <40ACDCF4.7030408@vitalstream.com> invincible invincible invincible wrote: > > hello all. > is there anybody who can tell me what is the source rpm for the kernel in red hat linux 9.0 . and how to recompile kernel and install it from the source."the steps".or a link where i can get layman steps to do the same. > regards, > mr invincible There are lots of kernels for 8.0. It depends on whether or not you updated your kernel (which you ABSOLUTELY should have done). The kernel source RPM is named, strangely enough, "kernel-source-(version).i386.rpm", with "(version)" replaced by your kernel version. Your current kernel version number is given by the command "uname -r". Instructions for building a kernel are at: http://www.rhil.net/docs/kernelbuild.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If your broker is so damned smart...why is he still working? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu May 20 16:54:48 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 09:54:48 -0700 Subject: kernel recompiling In-Reply-To: <40ACDCF4.7030408@vitalstream.com> References: <20040520152641.4401.qmail@webmail10.rediffmail.com> <40ACDCF4.7030408@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40ACE2D8.3040805@vitalstream.com> Rick Stevens wrote: > invincible invincible invincible wrote: > >> hello all. >> is there anybody who can tell me what is the source rpm for the kernel >> in red hat linux 9.0 . and how to recompile kernel and install it from >> the source."the steps".or a link where i can get layman steps to do >> the same. >> regards, >> mr invincible > > > There are lots of kernels for 8.0. It depends on whether or not you > updated your kernel (which you ABSOLUTELY should have done). Sorry, I should have said "9". There is no 9.0, just 9. Still, there are a bunch of kernels. The latest is 2.4.20-30.9. > The kernel source RPM is named, strangely enough, > "kernel-source-(version).i386.rpm", with "(version)" replaced by your > kernel version. Your current kernel version number is given by the > command "uname -r". > > Instructions for building a kernel are at: > > http://www.rhil.net/docs/kernelbuild.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - 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 > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Fri May 21 04:22:35 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (Karl Pearson) Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 22:22:35 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Sendmail Follow-up Message-ID: <24417.198.60.114.90.1085113355.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> I had a question, which I answered for myself, about setting up RH8.0 (sendmail v8.12.5-7) so it put the correct server name in outbound emails. For personal emails, it's working after adding Cwourldsfamily.com to sendmail.cf, but, when the sytem generates mail (I suspect smtp formail protocol) such as email generated by cron jobs, the hostname.domain.com is sent along. This also applies to Majordomo outbound email. Members of a group will do a reply and they get listname at host.domain.com instead of just listname at domain.com... I'm puzzled but think I remember a setting for simple mail transport protocol that sets this. I just can't remember where it is. ??? TIA -- 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 Kanchana.Garcia at sycamorenet.com Fri May 21 15:39:11 2004 From: Kanchana.Garcia at sycamorenet.com (Garcia, Kanchana) Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 11:39:11 -0400 Subject: Kickstart: Fedora Core 2 (Tettnang) Message-ID: <5533E74FC0108E41A8217C0899CA56CF046CBE@mach5.sycamorenet.com> I've noticed that kickstart has changed in Core 2... They done away with bootdisk.img, drvnet.img and the such... It's replaced now with diskboot.img. (This means you can no longer kickstart using diskettes - the image is much too large for a 1.44 diskette) I've been able to create a boot Zipdisk - `dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/hdd4` - and can get it to boot... BUT, I can't get it to recognize the ks.cfg file. As a side note, you can also write this image to a pen drive (just use /dev/sda1) but your BIOS must be able to boot from this device. At the boot prompt, I've tried... linux ks=floppy, ks=/dev/hdd4, ks=/mnt/zip, ks=zipdisk ... NO LUCK. I've also tried this as well: Boot from the zipdisk, then at the boot prompt: linux ks=floppy Put a diskette with the ks.cfg file in the floppy drive. I see the floppy drive accessed, but it still doesn't find the ks.cfg file. Does anyone know what they've changed the commands to OR how to specify where the ks.cfg file resides? Thanks! Kanchana ************************************************* Kanchana Garcia Senior Engineer/Senior UNIX System Administrator, Sycamore Networks 220 Mill Rd. Chelmsford, MA. 01824-4111 USA Voice: (978)367-2526 Fax: (978)250-3386 From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Fri May 21 16:17:56 2004 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (Karl Pearson) Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 10:17:56 -0600 (MDT) Subject: ClamAV Follow-up (Was: New Server on RH 8.0) In-Reply-To: <1085000764.23037.5.camel@garfield.linux.localdomain> References: <40ABBB96.6010009@vitalstream.com><36941.207.173.117.242.1084999154.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> <1085000764.23037.5.camel@garfield.linux.localdomain> Message-ID: <51420.207.173.117.242.1085156276.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> That was it. I installed 0.71 and the -devel and it's now working. HOWEVER now my majordomo aliases are returning User Unknown and not even majordomo as an alias to the wrapper works. HELP PLEASE! my wife is getting frantic... -- 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 > On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 13:39, Karl Pearson wrote: >> I downloaded 0.70 of clamav hoping to get the milter portion working. >> I've >> configured using: >> >> ./configure --enable-milter --sysconfdir=/etc >> make >> make install >> >> I noticed during the make that the clamav-milter steps indicated >> "Nothing >> to be done" messages... > > > Are you using sendmail? Do you have the sendmail-devel package > installed? The devel package is required to compile clamav with milter > support. > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 Kanchana.Garcia at sycamorenet.com Fri May 21 18:37:25 2004 From: Kanchana.Garcia at sycamorenet.com (Garcia, Kanchana) Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 14:37:25 -0400 Subject: Kickstart: Fedora Core 2 (Tettnang) Message-ID: <5533E74FC0108E41A8217C0899CA56CF046CC0@mach5.sycamorenet.com> Okay, figured this one out... you have to use the following when booting off the Zip/Pen-drive/Rescue CD: boot: linux ks=floppy:/ks.cfg -----Original Message----- From: Garcia, Kanchana [mailto:Kanchana.Garcia at sycamorenet.com] Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 11:39 AM To: 'redhat-install-list at redhat.com' Subject: Kickstart: Fedora Core 2 (Tettnang) I've noticed that kickstart has changed in Core 2... They done away with bootdisk.img, drvnet.img and the such... It's replaced now with diskboot.img. (This means you can no longer kickstart using diskettes - the image is much too large for a 1.44 diskette) I've been able to create a boot Zipdisk - `dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/hdd4` - and can get it to boot... BUT, I can't get it to recognize the ks.cfg file. As a side note, you can also write this image to a pen drive (just use /dev/sda1) but your BIOS must be able to boot from this device. At the boot prompt, I've tried... linux ks=floppy, ks=/dev/hdd4, ks=/mnt/zip, ks=zipdisk ... NO LUCK. I've also tried this as well: Boot from the zipdisk, then at the boot prompt: linux ks=floppy Put a diskette with the ks.cfg file in the floppy drive. I see the floppy drive accessed, but it still doesn't find the ks.cfg file. Does anyone know what they've changed the commands to OR how to specify where the ks.cfg file resides? Thanks! Kanchana ************************************************* Kanchana Garcia Senior Engineer/Senior UNIX System Administrator, Sycamore Networks 220 Mill Rd. Chelmsford, MA. 01824-4111 USA Voice: (978)367-2526 Fax: (978)250-3386 _______________________________________________ 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 Fri May 21 22:24:51 2004 From: brucemcdonal at mindspring.com (Bruce McDonald) Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 14:24:51 -0800 Subject: xfs running with no x session In-Reply-To: <3F788FB4.4020508@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: Hello, I was just checking what services were listening to ports on my machine and noticed that xfs (the font server, not the filesystem) was listening. Is this normal behaviour when there is not an x session running? Regards, Bruce McDonald From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri May 21 21:31:13 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 14:31:13 -0700 Subject: xfs running with no x session In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40AE7521.3020900@vitalstream.com> Bruce McDonald wrote: > Hello, > > I was just checking what services were listening to ports on my machine and > noticed that xfs (the font server, not the filesystem) was listening. Is > this normal behaviour when there is not an x session running? Yes, but it should be running on a local Unix-domain socket, not over TCP/IP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Duct Tape + Magic Marker = Label Maker! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From brucemcdonal at mindspring.com Fri May 21 22:56:35 2004 From: brucemcdonal at mindspring.com (Bruce McDonald) Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 14:56:35 -0800 Subject: xfs running with no x session In-Reply-To: <40AE7521.3020900@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: Hello Rick On 21-May-04, you wrote: > Bruce McDonald wrote: >> Hello, >> I was just checking what services were listening to ports on my machine >> and noticed that xfs (the font server, not the filesystem) was listening. >> Is this normal behaviour when there is not an x session running? > Yes, but it should be running on a local Unix-domain socket, not over > TCP/IP. It is running on a Unix socket. Having sent the previous question I figured that it must listen for X to start and then call the font server. It is good to be sure though. Thank you for the answer. Regards, Bruce McDonald From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri May 21 22:01:07 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 15:01:07 -0700 Subject: xfs running with no x session In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40AE7C23.3040800@vitalstream.com> Bruce McDonald wrote: > Hello Rick > > On 21-May-04, you wrote: > > >>Bruce McDonald wrote: >> >>>Hello, > > >>>I was just checking what services were listening to ports on my machine >>>and noticed that xfs (the font server, not the filesystem) was listening. >>>Is this normal behaviour when there is not an x session running? > > >>Yes, but it should be running on a local Unix-domain socket, not over >>TCP/IP. > > > It is running on a Unix socket. Having sent the previous question I figured > that it must listen for X to start and then call the font server. It is > good to be sure though. Actually it's quite the opposite. X depends on having xfs handle fonts for it, but xfs is not dependent on X in any way beyond X's font directories. If you might run the X server, leave xfs running. If you never use X (e.g. a headless server), you can disable xfs if you wish. It's a pretty lightweight process and really doesn't do anything unless it gets a request on its socket. In other words, it's not a huge penalty. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 brucemcdonal at mindspring.com Fri May 21 23:30:18 2004 From: brucemcdonal at mindspring.com (Bruce McDonald) Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 15:30:18 -0800 Subject: xfs running with no x session In-Reply-To: <40AE7C23.3040800@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: Hello Rick On 21-May-04, you wrote: > Bruce McDonald wrote: >> Hello Rick >> >> On 21-May-04, you wrote: >> >> >>> Bruce McDonald wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >> >> >>>> I was just checking what services were listening to ports on my machine >>>> and noticed that xfs (the font server, not the filesystem) was >>>> listening. Is this normal behaviour when there is not an x session >>>> running? >> >> >>> Yes, but it should be running on a local Unix-domain socket, not over >>> TCP/IP. >> It is running on a Unix socket. Having sent the previous question I >> figured that it must listen for X to start and then call the font server. >> It is good to be sure though. > Actually it's quite the opposite. X depends on having xfs handle fonts > for it, but xfs is not dependent on X in any way beyond X's font > directories. Ok, so xfs runs constantly in the background waiting for calls from X to serve fonts. And obviously, X makes no calls unless it is running. Somehow I got myself thinking it acted like xinetd listening for a call and then starting the appropriate deamon..... Don't ask how I confused myself. I don't know. heheh Just wait til I start asking firewall questions! Regards, Bruce McDonald From rstevens at vitalstream.com Sat May 22 00:42:10 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 17:42:10 -0700 Subject: xfs running with no x session In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40AEA1E2.9060005@vitalstream.com> Bruce McDonald wrote: > Hello Rick > > On 21-May-04, you wrote: > > >>Bruce McDonald wrote: >> >>>Hello Rick >>> >>>On 21-May-04, you wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Bruce McDonald wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Hello, >>> >>> >>>>>I was just checking what services were listening to ports on my machine >>>>>and noticed that xfs (the font server, not the filesystem) was >>>>>listening. Is this normal behaviour when there is not an x session >>>>>running? >>> >>> >>>>Yes, but it should be running on a local Unix-domain socket, not over >>>>TCP/IP. > > > >>>It is running on a Unix socket. Having sent the previous question I >>>figured that it must listen for X to start and then call the font server. >>>It is good to be sure though. > > >>Actually it's quite the opposite. X depends on having xfs handle fonts >>for it, but xfs is not dependent on X in any way beyond X's font >>directories. > > > Ok, so xfs runs constantly in the background waiting for calls from X to > serve fonts. And obviously, X makes no calls unless it is running. Yup. That's about it. > Somehow I got myself thinking it acted like xinetd listening for a call and > then starting the appropriate deamon..... Don't ask how I confused > myself. I don't know. heheh xinetd only deals with TCP/IP connections. It can be difficult to split Unix sockets from network sockets in your head. However, it's Friday and you're excused. > Just wait til I start asking firewall questions! No! NO-O-O-O! Run away! Run away! :-p Actually, before you get too concerned, try taking a look at firestarter (http://firestarter.sourceforge.net). It's a nice GUI iptables configuring tool. I roll my own iptables stuff, but I'm weird (as everyone on the list knows). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Memory is the second thing to go, but I can't remember the first! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From brucemcdonal at mindspring.com Sat May 22 06:21:11 2004 From: brucemcdonal at mindspring.com (Bruce McDonald) Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 22:21:11 -0800 Subject: xfs running with no x session In-Reply-To: <40AEA1E2.9060005@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: Hello Rick On 21-May-04, you wrote: > Bruce McDonald wrote: >> Hello Rick >> >> On 21-May-04, you wrote: >> >> >>> Bruce McDonald wrote: >> Hello Rick >> On 21-May-04, you wrote: >>> Bruce McDonald wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hello, >>> I was just checking what services were listening to ports on my >>> machine and noticed that xfs (the font server, not the filesystem) >>> was listening. Is this normal behaviour when there is not an x >>> session running? >>> Yes, but it should be running on a local Unix-domain socket, not over >>> TCP/IP. >> >> >> >>>> It is running on a Unix socket. Having sent the previous question I >>>> figured that it must listen for X to start and then call the font >>>> server. It is good to be sure though. >> >> >>> Actually it's quite the opposite. X depends on having xfs handle fonts >>> for it, but xfs is not dependent on X in any way beyond X's font >>> directories. >> >> >> Ok, so xfs runs constantly in the background waiting for calls from X to >> serve fonts. And obviously, X makes no calls unless it is running. > Yup. That's about it. >> Somehow I got myself thinking it acted like xinetd listening for a call >> and then starting the appropriate deamon..... Don't ask how I confused >> myself. I don't know. heheh > xinetd only deals with TCP/IP connections. It can be difficult to split > Unix sockets from network sockets in your head. However, it's Friday > and you're excused. >> Just wait til I start asking firewall questions! > No! NO-O-O-O! Run away! Run away! :-p > Actually, before you get too concerned, try taking a look at firestarter > (http://firestarter.sourceforge.net). It's a nice GUI iptables > configuring tool. I roll my own iptables stuff, but I'm weird (as > everyone on the list knows). Well, get ready for strange, odd, and ... you have to be kidding. I took a quick look at firestarter, nice... if you do things normally. I prefer the hard way. LOL Or in other words I have a tri-homed machine acting as a gateway/router with two separate LANs connected and boy is it fun getting them to all talk. It solved a $200 problem, of course this makes my life difficult because writing the rules just got much harder. I didn't see a way to get firestarter to do 2 separate ethernet card forwardings. I will be going through Linux Firewalls Second Edition by Robert L. Ziegler again to see if I can piece what I need to do together. But first. Bed! Regards, Bruce McDonald From tyche at ica.net Sat May 22 13:16:51 2004 From: tyche at ica.net (tyche) Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 09:16:51 -0400 Subject: glib Message-ID: <200405220916.51628.tyche@ica.net> am trying to compile kde 3.2.2 from source, and it is having a little problem finding the compiled version of glib-2.4.1. it got put in /usr/bin, with the lib in /usr/lib and usr/lib/exec. am running pretty much stock rh8.0, but am going to try to upgrade this from sources. anyone know how to get ./configure to find the new glibc files? tia tyche From ajai at bway.net Sat May 22 14:16:21 2004 From: ajai at bway.net (Ajai Khattri) Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 10:16:21 -0400 (EDT) Subject: glib In-Reply-To: <200405220916.51628.tyche@ica.net> References: <200405220916.51628.tyche@ica.net> Message-ID: On Sat, 22 May 2004, tyche wrote: > anyone know how to get ./configure to find the new glibc files? ./configure --help -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer From mr_invincible at rediffmail.com Sat May 22 16:11:03 2004 From: mr_invincible at rediffmail.com (invincible invincible invincible) Date: 22 May 2004 16:11:03 -0000 Subject: Xconfiguration Message-ID: <20040522161103.31062.qmail@webmail10.rediffmail.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- ? hi all. i am using red hat linux 9.0. now i have installed all the packages which came with red hat distribution.during the installation i had skipped x-configuration.now the problem is my xconfigurator command is not working.i tried to locate the command but it seems that is not there.it says unknown command.can anyone on the list help me and tell me how to configure X windows in red hat linux 9.0.what packages to install and what command to run.also can anyone tell me all possible commands to configure x-windows. thanx in advance. regards, From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Sat May 22 16:47:28 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 11:47:28 -0500 Subject: Xconfiguration In-Reply-To: <20040522161103.31062.qmail@webmail10.rediffmail.com> References: <20040522161103.31062.qmail@webmail10.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <20040522164728.GA2214@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 04:11:03PM -0000, invincible invincible invincible wrote: > ? > hi all. > i am using red hat linux 9.0. > now i have installed all the packages which came with red hat distribution.during the installation i had skipped x-configuration.now the problem is my xconfigurator command is not working.i tried to locate the command but it seems that is not there.it says unknown command.can anyone on the list help me and tell me how to configure X windows in red hat linux 9.0.what packages to install and what command to run.also can anyone tell me all possible commands to configure x-windows. > thanx in advance. > regards, The command is redhat-config-xfree86. For more info, see http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#x_fails Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Failure isn't falling down, it's staying down. From manuaroste at yahoo.es Sat May 22 17:29:22 2004 From: manuaroste at yahoo.es (=?iso-8859-1?q?Manuel=20Arostegui=20Ramirez?=) Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 19:29:22 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Xconfiguration In-Reply-To: <20040522161103.31062.qmail@webmail10.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <20040522172922.75748.qmail@web60104.mail.yahoo.com> --- invincible invincible invincible escribi?: > > hi all. > i am using red hat linux 9.0. > now i have installed all the packages which came > with red hat distribution.during the installation i > had skipped x-configuration.now the problem is my > xconfigurator command is not working.i tried to > locate the command but it seems that is not there.it > says unknown command.can anyone on the list help me > and tell me how to configure X windows in red hat > linux 9.0.what packages to install and what command > to run.also can anyone tell me all possible commands > to configure x-windows. > thanx in advance. > regards, > redhat-config-xfree86 ===== -- Manuel Ar?stegui Linux user 200896 http://manuel.todo-linux.com ______________________________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! - 6MB, m?s protecci?n contra el spam ?Gratis! http://correo.yahoo.es From gordon.mcdowall at fasthosts.co.uk Mon May 24 11:15:08 2004 From: gordon.mcdowall at fasthosts.co.uk (Gordon McDowall) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 12:15:08 +0100 Subject: FW: Kickstart partition woes Message-ID: <040BC5194880BA4DBAF15C0C9D5A11BA0522E5B4@fhexchange01.gl.fasthosts.co.uk> Hi I recently sent the following email to the general Redhat list but got no reply, I was hoping that someone on this list might be able to help out...please! I am currently trying to upgrade a server from Redhat 7.2 to Redhat Enterprise 3.0, the server is running raid and I would like to keep the /home partition intact and basically do a full install on the remaining / /boot and /var partitions. When I try the install it always errors out with the error "unable to locate raid device None for /home" but as far as I can see the partition section of the kickstart file is fine, does anyone have any suggestions as to what may be the issue. Here is a copy of the partition section of the ks.cfg file #Disk partitioning information part raid.01 --onpart sda1 part raid.03 --onpart sda2 part swap --onpart sda3 part raid.05 --onpart sda6 --noformat part raid.07 --onpart sda5 part raid.02 --onpart sdb1 part raid.04 --onpart sdb2 part swap --onpart sdb3 part raid.06 --onpart sdb6 --noformat part raid.08 --onpart sdb5 raid /boot --level=1 --device=md0 --fstype ext2 raid.01 raid.02 raid / --level=1 --device=md1 --fstype ext3 raid.03 raid.04 raid /var --level=1 --device=md2 --fstype ext3 raid.07 raid.08 raid /home --level=1 --device=md3 --fstype ext3 --noformat raid.05 raid.06 Thanks, any suggestions appreciated Gordon McDowall -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request at redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list From Thomas.vonSteiger at swisscom.com Mon May 24 14:25:02 2004 From: Thomas.vonSteiger at swisscom.com (Thomas.vonSteiger at swisscom.com) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 16:25:02 +0200 Subject: Kickstart partition woes Message-ID: Hello, I do this with RHAS3.0 and it works well: part raid.15 --size 100 --ondisk sda part raid.20 --size 2000 --ondisk sda part raid.19 --size 2000 --ondisk sda part raid.21 --size 100 --grow --ondisk sda part raid.26 --size 100 --ondisk sdb part raid.24 --size 2000 --ondisk sdb part raid.23 --size 2000 --ondisk sdb part raid.25 --size 100 --grow --ondisk sdb raid /boot --level=1 --device=md0 --fstype ext3 raid.15 raid.26 raid swap --level=1 --device=md1 --fstype swap raid.20 raid.24 raid / --level=1 --device=md2 --fstype ext3 raid.19 raid.23 raid pv.38 --level=1 --device=md3 raid.21 raid.25 volgroup rhvg pv.38 logvol /opt --fstype ext3 --name=optlv --vgname=rhvg --size=500 logvol /home --fstype ext3 --name=homelv --vgname=rhvg --size=1000 logvol /usr --fstype ext3 --name=usrlv --vgname=rhvg --size=2000 logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=varlv --vgname=rhvg --size=500 regards, Thomas -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Gordon McDowall Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 1:15 PM To: 'redhat-install-list at redhat.com' Subject: FW: Kickstart partition woes Hi I recently sent the following email to the general Redhat list but got no reply, I was hoping that someone on this list might be able to help out...please! I am currently trying to upgrade a server from Redhat 7.2 to Redhat Enterprise 3.0, the server is running raid and I would like to keep the /home partition intact and basically do a full install on the remaining / /boot and /var partitions. When I try the install it always errors out with the error "unable to locate raid device None for /home" but as far as I can see the partition section of the kickstart file is fine, does anyone have any suggestions as to what may be the issue. Here is a copy of the partition section of the ks.cfg file #Disk partitioning information part raid.01 --onpart sda1 part raid.03 --onpart sda2 part swap --onpart sda3 part raid.05 --onpart sda6 --noformat part raid.07 --onpart sda5 part raid.02 --onpart sdb1 part raid.04 --onpart sdb2 part swap --onpart sdb3 part raid.06 --onpart sdb6 --noformat part raid.08 --onpart sdb5 raid /boot --level=1 --device=md0 --fstype ext2 raid.01 raid.02 raid / --level=1 --device=md1 --fstype ext3 raid.03 raid.04 raid /var --level=1 --device=md2 --fstype ext3 raid.07 raid.08 raid /home --level=1 --device=md3 --fstype ext3 --noformat raid.05 raid.06 Thanks, any suggestions appreciated Gordon McDowall -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request at redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ 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 gordon.mcdowall at fasthosts.co.uk Mon May 24 14:47:18 2004 From: gordon.mcdowall at fasthosts.co.uk (Gordon McDowall) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 15:47:18 +0100 Subject: Kickstart partition woes Message-ID: <040BC5194880BA4DBAF15C0C9D5A11BA0522E5B7@fhexchange01.gl.fasthosts.co.uk> Thanks, but I don't think that is what I need, perhaps I did not explain very well I have an existing RH 7.2 box and want to keep the partitions the way they are set up, I want to format mdo which is the /boot partition, format md1 which is the / partition, format md2 which is the var partition but keep the data on md3 which is the home partition. If you run a manual build then it works, but copying and pasting the partitions from the kickstart that anaconda produces gives the error below as does the partition info I have mentioned previously, even though I state the name of the raid device I want to use on the home partition I always get the error "unable to locate raid device None for use in /home" I have tried just about everything and I am running out of ideas. -----Original Message----- From: Thomas.vonSteiger at swisscom.com [mailto:Thomas.vonSteiger at swisscom.com] Sent: 24 May 2004 15:25 To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com Subject: RE: Kickstart partition woes Hello, I do this with RHAS3.0 and it works well: part raid.15 --size 100 --ondisk sda part raid.20 --size 2000 --ondisk sda part raid.19 --size 2000 --ondisk sda part raid.21 --size 100 --grow --ondisk sda part raid.26 --size 100 --ondisk sdb part raid.24 --size 2000 --ondisk sdb part raid.23 --size 2000 --ondisk sdb part raid.25 --size 100 --grow --ondisk sdb raid /boot --level=1 --device=md0 --fstype ext3 raid.15 raid.26 raid swap --level=1 --device=md1 --fstype swap raid.20 raid.24 raid / --level=1 --device=md2 --fstype ext3 raid.19 raid.23 raid pv.38 --level=1 --device=md3 raid.21 raid.25 volgroup rhvg pv.38 logvol /opt --fstype ext3 --name=optlv --vgname=rhvg --size=500 logvol /home --fstype ext3 --name=homelv --vgname=rhvg --size=1000 logvol /usr --fstype ext3 --name=usrlv --vgname=rhvg --size=2000 logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=varlv --vgname=rhvg --size=500 regards, Thomas -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Gordon McDowall Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 1:15 PM To: 'redhat-install-list at redhat.com' Subject: FW: Kickstart partition woes Hi I recently sent the following email to the general Redhat list but got no reply, I was hoping that someone on this list might be able to help out...please! I am currently trying to upgrade a server from Redhat 7.2 to Redhat Enterprise 3.0, the server is running raid and I would like to keep the /home partition intact and basically do a full install on the remaining / /boot and /var partitions. When I try the install it always errors out with the error "unable to locate raid device None for /home" but as far as I can see the partition section of the kickstart file is fine, does anyone have any suggestions as to what may be the issue. Here is a copy of the partition section of the ks.cfg file #Disk partitioning information part raid.01 --onpart sda1 part raid.03 --onpart sda2 part swap --onpart sda3 part raid.05 --onpart sda6 --noformat part raid.07 --onpart sda5 part raid.02 --onpart sdb1 part raid.04 --onpart sdb2 part swap --onpart sdb3 part raid.06 --onpart sdb6 --noformat part raid.08 --onpart sdb5 raid /boot --level=1 --device=md0 --fstype ext2 raid.01 raid.02 raid / --level=1 --device=md1 --fstype ext3 raid.03 raid.04 raid /var --level=1 --device=md2 --fstype ext3 raid.07 raid.08 raid /home --level=1 --device=md3 --fstype ext3 --noformat raid.05 raid.06 Thanks, any suggestions appreciated Gordon McDowall -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request at redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ 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 dan_maillists at danwasthere.com Mon May 24 15:22:21 2004 From: dan_maillists at danwasthere.com (Dan_MailLists) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 17:22:21 +0200 Subject: Sendmail installed? References: <20040519194410.17101.qmail@web14930.mail.yahoo.com> <40ABBC5A.60608@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <008e01c441a2$e9108d60$0301a8c0@danhome> Hi, I have RedHat 7.2 running, but I can't seem to find sendmail on there. I'm not sure that I'm looking in the right places though - how can I find out if it's installed or not? I'm using PuTTY to connect to the server. Thanks, Dan From dan_maillists at danwasthere.com Mon May 24 15:24:49 2004 From: dan_maillists at danwasthere.com (Dan_MailLists) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 17:24:49 +0200 Subject: Sendmail installed? References: <20040519194410.17101.qmail@web14930.mail.yahoo.com><40ABBC5A.60608@vitalstream.com> <008e01c441a2$e9108d60$0301a8c0@danhome> Message-ID: <009601c441a3$49d6b8e0$0301a8c0@danhome> Oh, I should point out that I know there is some mailer installed, as I've had a PHP script sending out emails. What I'm really trying to do here is to set up some email addresses on the server to use as test addresses for my PHP script during development. I'll then want to check the emails from the command line, rather than bother downloading them to my PC here. But I don't know how to go about setting up new email accounts, or checking them? Ta, Dan. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan_MailLists" To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 5:22 PM Subject: Sendmail installed? > Hi, > > I have RedHat 7.2 running, but I can't seem to find sendmail on there. I'm > not sure that I'm looking in the right places though - how can I find out if > it's installed or not? > I'm using PuTTY to connect to the server. > > Thanks, > Dan > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Mon May 24 15:25:35 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 10:25:35 -0500 Subject: Sendmail installed? In-Reply-To: <008e01c441a2$e9108d60$0301a8c0@danhome> References: <20040519194410.17101.qmail@web14930.mail.yahoo.com> <40ABBC5A.60608@vitalstream.com> <008e01c441a2$e9108d60$0301a8c0@danhome> Message-ID: <20040524152535.GA15915@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 05:22:21PM +0200, Dan_MailLists wrote: > Hi, > > I have RedHat 7.2 running, but I can't seem to find sendmail on there. I'm > not sure that I'm looking in the right places though - how can I find out if > it's installed or not? > I'm using PuTTY to connect to the server. > > Thanks, > Dan rpm -q sendmail Or, more comprehensively rpm -qa | fgrep sendmail Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com BIBLE: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth From dan_maillists at danwasthere.com Mon May 24 15:33:31 2004 From: dan_maillists at danwasthere.com (Dan_MailLists) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 17:33:31 +0200 Subject: Sendmail installed? References: <20040519194410.17101.qmail@web14930.mail.yahoo.com><40ABBC5A.60608@vitalstream.com><008e01c441a2$e9108d60$0301a8c0@danhome> <20040524152535.GA15915@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Message-ID: <00a601c441a4$783e3040$0301a8c0@danhome> All I get back from doing that is this - bash: rpm: command not found ? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob McClure Jr" To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 5:25 PM Subject: Re: Sendmail installed? > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 05:22:21PM +0200, Dan_MailLists wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have RedHat 7.2 running, but I can't seem to find sendmail on there. I'm > > not sure that I'm looking in the right places though - how can I find out if > > it's installed or not? > > I'm using PuTTY to connect to the server. > > > > Thanks, > > Dan > > rpm -q sendmail > > Or, more comprehensively > > rpm -qa | fgrep sendmail > > Cheers, > -- > Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. > robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com > BIBLE: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 ajai at bway.net Mon May 24 15:39:17 2004 From: ajai at bway.net (Ajai Khattri) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 11:39:17 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Sendmail installed? In-Reply-To: <00a601c441a4$783e3040$0301a8c0@danhome> References: <20040519194410.17101.qmail@web14930.mail.yahoo.com><40ABBC5A.60608@vitalstream.com><008e01c441a2$e9108d60$0301a8c0@danhome> <20040524152535.GA15915@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <00a601c441a4$783e3040$0301a8c0@danhome> Message-ID: On Mon, 24 May 2004, Dan_MailLists wrote: > All I get back from doing that is this - > bash: rpm: command not found Maybe you need to be root? > > ? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob McClure Jr" > To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 5:25 PM > Subject: Re: Sendmail installed? > > > > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 05:22:21PM +0200, Dan_MailLists wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have RedHat 7.2 running, but I can't seem to find sendmail on there. > I'm > > > not sure that I'm looking in the right places though - how can I find > out if > > > it's installed or not? > > > I'm using PuTTY to connect to the server. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Dan > > > > rpm -q sendmail > > > > Or, more comprehensively > > > > rpm -qa | fgrep sendmail > > > > Cheers, > > -- > > Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. > > robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com > > BIBLE: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer From jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com Mon May 24 15:50:01 2004 From: jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com (jeffrey_n_Dyke at Keane.com) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 11:50:01 -0400 Subject: Sendmail installed? Message-ID: On Mon, 24 May 2004, Dan_MailLists wrote: > All I get back from doing that is this - > bash: rpm: command not found >>Maybe you need to be root? While you have another issue to figure out(rpm). You can see if sendmail is running by: ps -aux | grep sendmail You stated once that you were sending emails with PHP...then Sendmail is (most likely) installed, unless you took careful steps to install another mail daemon. You can place -> in any .php file and point a browser to it, and it will tell you where it thinks sendmail is installed and what arguments are being provided. it'll most likely read... sendmail_path /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i That is fron redhat 9, paths may be different. HTH Jeff ...return to lurk... > > ? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob McClure Jr" > To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 5:25 PM > Subject: Re: Sendmail installed? > > > > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 05:22:21PM +0200, Dan_MailLists wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have RedHat 7.2 running, but I can't seem to find sendmail on there. > I'm > > > not sure that I'm looking in the right places though - how can I find > out if > > > it's installed or not? > > > I'm using PuTTY to connect to the server. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Dan > > > > rpm -q sendmail > > > > Or, more comprehensively > > > > rpm -qa | fgrep sendmail > > > > Cheers, > > -- > > Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. > > robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com > > BIBLE: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > -- 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 dan_maillists at danwasthere.com Mon May 24 16:05:05 2004 From: dan_maillists at danwasthere.com (Dan_MailLists) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 18:05:05 +0200 Subject: Sendmail installed? - Setting new users and checking emails? References: Message-ID: <00bd01c441a8$e17a0d00$0301a8c0@danhome> Thanks Jeff, sendmail is indeed installed and running. How can I set up an account and then check that account's email via the command line though? Perhaps I'm not logged in as root, and don't have access to do that. I'm using a managed server here, so perhaps they've locked me out of such things. ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 5:50 PM Subject: Re: Sendmail installed? > > > > On Mon, 24 May 2004, Dan_MailLists wrote: > > > All I get back from doing that is this - > > bash: rpm: command not found > > >>Maybe you need to be root? > > While you have another issue to figure out(rpm). You can see if sendmail > is running by: ps -aux | grep sendmail > You stated once that you were sending emails with PHP...then Sendmail is > (most likely) installed, unless you took careful steps to install another > mail daemon. You can place -> in any .php file and point > a browser to it, and it will tell you where it thinks sendmail is installed > and what arguments are being provided. > > it'll most likely read... > sendmail_path /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i > That is fron redhat 9, paths may be different. > > HTH > Jeff > > ...return to lurk... > > > > > ? > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Bob McClure Jr" > > To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" > > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 5:25 PM > > Subject: Re: Sendmail installed? > > > > > > > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 05:22:21PM +0200, Dan_MailLists wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I have RedHat 7.2 running, but I can't seem to find sendmail on > there. > > I'm > > > > not sure that I'm looking in the right places though - how can I find > > out if > > > > it's installed or not? > > > > I'm using PuTTY to connect to the server. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Dan > > > > > > rpm -q sendmail > > > > > > Or, more comprehensively > > > > > > rpm -qa | fgrep sendmail > > > > > > Cheers, > > > -- > > > Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. > > > robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com > > > BIBLE: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > > -- > 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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Charles at uat.edu Mon May 24 16:10:54 2004 From: Charles at uat.edu (Charles Braffett) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 09:10:54 -0700 Subject: Quitting Mailgroup Message-ID: Gentlemen, I have twice sent a request to be removed from the list yet am still receiving emails. Both times I obtained a reply from the daemon saying I was removed. Can someone resolve this issue. thnx From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon May 24 16:49:28 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 09:49:28 -0700 Subject: glib In-Reply-To: <200405220916.51628.tyche@ica.net> References: <200405220916.51628.tyche@ica.net> Message-ID: <40B22798.5020402@vitalstream.com> tyche wrote: > am trying to compile kde 3.2.2 from source, and it is having a little problem > finding the compiled version of glib-2.4.1. it got put in /usr/bin, with the > lib in /usr/lib and usr/lib/exec. Are you certain? Most tarballs have the default installation root set to /usr/local. This is the "./configure --prefix=/usr/local". To force them into the normal spots, "./configure --prefix=/usr" should do it. > am running pretty much stock rh8.0, but am going to try to upgrade this from > sources. > > anyone know how to get ./configure to find the new glibc files? If glib truly got put where you say it was, those are the standard locations. You may have to rebuild the ld.so cache for it to see the new libraries. Try "ldconfig -v" and verify that the new libraries were found in the output of that command. Then try your configure again. Use "./configure --help" to get a listing of the various options. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - What's small, yellow and very, VERY dangerous? The root canary! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Mon May 24 16:59:51 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 11:59:51 -0500 Subject: Sendmail installed? In-Reply-To: References: <20040524152535.GA15915@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <00a601c441a4$783e3040$0301a8c0@danhome> Message-ID: <20040524165951.GA16948@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 11:39:17AM -0400, Ajai Khattri wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 2004, Dan_MailLists wrote: > > > All I get back from doing that is this - > > bash: rpm: command not found > > Maybe you need to be root? > > > > > ? No, rpm should be accessable by mere mortals. Sounds like your PATH (and maybe more) is badly hosed. First of all rpm is located at /bin/rpm, so /bin should be in your PATH. To see your PATH, do echo $PATH > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Bob McClure Jr" > > To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" > > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 5:25 PM > > Subject: Re: Sendmail installed? > > > > > > > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 05:22:21PM +0200, Dan_MailLists wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I have RedHat 7.2 running, but I can't seem to find sendmail on there. > > I'm > > > > not sure that I'm looking in the right places though - how can I find > > out if > > > > it's installed or not? > > > > I'm using PuTTY to connect to the server. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Dan > > > > > > rpm -q sendmail > > > > > > Or, more comprehensively > > > > > > rpm -qa | fgrep sendmail > > > > > > Cheers, > > > -- > > > Bob McClure, Jr. > -- > Aj. > Sys. Admin / Developer Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com BIBLE: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth From dan_maillists at danwasthere.com Mon May 24 17:09:05 2004 From: dan_maillists at danwasthere.com (Dan_MailLists) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 19:09:05 +0200 Subject: Sendmail installed? References: <20040524152535.GA15915@bobcat.cumbytel.com><00a601c441a4$783e3040$0301a8c0@danhome> <20040524165951.GA16948@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Message-ID: <011401c441b1$d2657da0$0301a8c0@danhome> Hi Bob, I see :/bin: in the middle of the path string, but if I look at that folder I can't see rpm in there? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob McClure Jr" To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 6:59 PM Subject: Re: Sendmail installed? > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 11:39:17AM -0400, Ajai Khattri wrote: > > On Mon, 24 May 2004, Dan_MailLists wrote: > > > > > All I get back from doing that is this - > > > bash: rpm: command not found > > > > Maybe you need to be root? > > > > > > > > ? > > No, rpm should be accessable by mere mortals. Sounds like your PATH > (and maybe more) is badly hosed. First of all rpm is located at > /bin/rpm, so /bin should be in your PATH. To see your PATH, do > > echo $PATH > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Bob McClure Jr" > > > To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" > > > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 5:25 PM > > > Subject: Re: Sendmail installed? > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 05:22:21PM +0200, Dan_MailLists wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I have RedHat 7.2 running, but I can't seem to find sendmail on there. > > > I'm > > > > > not sure that I'm looking in the right places though - how can I find > > > out if > > > > > it's installed or not? > > > > > I'm using PuTTY to connect to the server. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Dan > > > > > > > > rpm -q sendmail > > > > > > > > Or, more comprehensively > > > > > > > > rpm -qa | fgrep sendmail > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > -- > > > > Bob McClure, Jr. > > -- > > Aj. > > Sys. Admin / Developer > > Cheers, > -- > Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. > robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com > BIBLE: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Mon May 24 17:09:51 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 12:09:51 -0500 Subject: Quitting Mailgroup In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20040524170951.GC16948@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 09:10:54AM -0700, Charles Braffett wrote: > Gentlemen, > I have twice sent a request to be removed from the list yet am still > receiving emails. Both times I obtained a reply from the daemon saying > I was removed. Can someone resolve this issue. thnx Was it telling you that you were removed or was it telling you to _confirm_ your desire to be removed? Read The Full Mail. For another way to do it, go to http://www.rhil.net/docs/rhil-guide.html#Section%20VI%20-%20Unsubscribing Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com BIBLE: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon May 24 17:25:56 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 10:25:56 -0700 Subject: FW: Kickstart partition woes In-Reply-To: <040BC5194880BA4DBAF15C0C9D5A11BA0522E5B4@fhexchange01.gl.fasthosts.co.uk> References: <040BC5194880BA4DBAF15C0C9D5A11BA0522E5B4@fhexchange01.gl.fasthosts.co.uk> Message-ID: <40B23024.5040707@vitalstream.com> Gordon McDowall wrote: > Hi > > I recently sent the following email to the general Redhat list but got no > reply, I was hoping that someone on this list might be able to help > out...please! > > I am currently trying to upgrade a server from Redhat 7.2 to Redhat > Enterprise 3.0, the server is running raid and I would like to keep the > /home partition intact and basically do a full install on the remaining / > /boot and /var partitions. When I try the install it always errors out > with the error "unable to locate raid device None for /home" but as far as I > can see the partition section of the kickstart file is fine, does anyone > have any suggestions as to what may be the issue. > Here is a copy of the partition section of the ks.cfg file > > #Disk partitioning information > part raid.01 --onpart sda1 > part raid.03 --onpart sda2 > part swap --onpart sda3 > part raid.05 --onpart sda6 --noformat > part raid.07 --onpart sda5 > part raid.02 --onpart sdb1 > part raid.04 --onpart sdb2 > part swap --onpart sdb3 > part raid.06 --onpart sdb6 --noformat > part raid.08 --onpart sdb5 > raid /boot --level=1 --device=md0 --fstype ext2 raid.01 raid.02 > raid / --level=1 --device=md1 --fstype ext3 raid.03 raid.04 > raid /var --level=1 --device=md2 --fstype ext3 raid.07 raid.08 > raid /home --level=1 --device=md3 --fstype ext3 --noformat raid.05 raid.06 > > > Thanks, any suggestions appreciated So, this is a software RAID? Which device is /home on under 7.2? From your ks.cfg file, I'm guessing it's md3 (raid 05/raid 06). I'm not at all certain you can do an upgrade from 7.2 to ES3 on software RAID without reformatting. First, that's one hell of a gear change (jumping three major releases) Second, the mechanisms used to support software RAID changed quite a bit over that time. I think you're going to have to back up /home to some media somewhere and let the system format /home to get past that. Wish I could help more. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 robertmcclure at earthlink.net Mon May 24 17:41:59 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 12:41:59 -0500 Subject: Sendmail installed? In-Reply-To: <011401c441b1$d2657da0$0301a8c0@danhome> References: <20040524165951.GA16948@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <011401c441b1$d2657da0$0301a8c0@danhome> Message-ID: <20040524174159.GA18081@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:09:05PM +0200, Dan_MailLists wrote: > Hi Bob, > > I see :/bin: in the middle of the path string, but if I look at that folder > I can't see rpm in there? Are you sure this is a Red Hat installation? The rpm RPM is fundamental to an RH installation. Is this perhaps some other Linux distro? Also, please don't top post. Bottom post (post under the message to which you are replying. Answer: Because it makes it easier to follow the thread of discussion. Question: Why should I not top post? Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com BIBLE: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon May 24 17:40:46 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 10:40:46 -0700 Subject: Sendmail installed? - Setting new users and checking emails? In-Reply-To: <00bd01c441a8$e17a0d00$0301a8c0@danhome> References: <00bd01c441a8$e17a0d00$0301a8c0@danhome> Message-ID: <40B2339E.2000902@vitalstream.com> Dan_MailLists wrote: > Thanks Jeff, sendmail is indeed installed and running. > > How can I set up an account and then check that account's email via the > command line though? Perhaps I'm not logged in as root, and don't have > access to do that. > > I'm using a managed server here, so perhaps they've locked me out of such > things. PLEASE bottom-post on this list. It makes following the thread SO much easier. First, to find where your "rpm" is, try "which rpm". It should be in /bin. Second, sendmail can be installed in several different places. The normal place is /usr/sbin. It could be in /usr/lib or /usr/bin. If you find it in /usr/lib, it could be either the real binary or a symlink to the real binary. "ls -l /usr/lib/sendmail" should show you the destination of the link. Third, to check a user's account, you can do an SMTP dialog to the box: ----------------------------------------------------------------- # telnet mailserver.domain.tld 25 <--- YOU ENTER THIS Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx... Connected to mailserver.domain.tld (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx). Escape character is '^]'. 220 mailserver.domain.tld ESMTP sendmail MTA; Mon, 24 May 2004 10:38:19 -0700 helo myhost.mydomain.tld <--- YOU ENTER THIS 250 mailserver.domain.tld Hello myhost.mydomain.tld [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx], pleased to meet you mail from: someone at somedomain.com <--- YOU ENTER THIS 250 2.1.0 someone at somedomain.com... Sender ok rcpt to: recipient at recipdomain.tld <--- YOU ENTER THIS 250 2.1.5 recipient at recipdomain.tld... Recipient ok ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ quit <--- YOU ENTER THIS 221 2.0.0 mxin-01-001.root-mail.com closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. ----------------------------------------------------------------- If the "rcpt to:" thing gets a "Recipient ok" response (shown above the "^^^^^^^^" line), then the account is there. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 5:50 PM > Subject: Re: Sendmail installed? > > > >> >> >>On Mon, 24 May 2004, Dan_MailLists wrote: >> >> >>>All I get back from doing that is this - >>>bash: rpm: command not found >> >>>>Maybe you need to be root? >> >>While you have another issue to figure out(rpm). You can see if sendmail >>is running by: ps -aux | grep sendmail >>You stated once that you were sending emails with PHP...then Sendmail is >>(most likely) installed, unless you took careful steps to install another >>mail daemon. You can place -> in any .php file and point >>a browser to it, and it will tell you where it thinks sendmail is > > installed > >>and what arguments are being provided. >> >>it'll most likely read... >>sendmail_path /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i >>That is fron redhat 9, paths may be different. >> >>HTH >>Jeff >> >>...return to lurk... >> >> >>>? >>> >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: "Bob McClure Jr" >>>To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" > > > >>>Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 5:25 PM >>>Subject: Re: Sendmail installed? >>> >>> >>> >>>>On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 05:22:21PM +0200, Dan_MailLists wrote: >>>> >>>>>Hi, >>>>> >>>>>I have RedHat 7.2 running, but I can't seem to find sendmail on >> >>there. >> >>>I'm >>> >>>>>not sure that I'm looking in the right places though - how can I > > find > >>>out if >>> >>>>>it's installed or not? >>>>>I'm using PuTTY to connect to the server. >>>>> >>>>>Thanks, >>>>>Dan >>>> >>>> rpm -q sendmail >>>> >>>>Or, more comprehensively >>>> >>>> rpm -qa | fgrep sendmail >>>> >>>>Cheers, >>>>-- >>>>Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. >>>>robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com >>>>BIBLE: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth >>>> >>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>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 >>> >> >>-- >>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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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 - - - - What's small, yellow and very, VERY dangerous? The root canary! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon May 24 17:42:29 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 10:42:29 -0700 Subject: Quitting Mailgroup In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40B23405.8000301@vitalstream.com> Charles Braffett wrote: > Gentlemen, > I have twice sent a request to be removed from the list yet am still > receiving emails. Both times I obtained a reply from the daemon saying > I was removed. Can someone resolve this issue. thnx I'm an assistant sysop here. I'll manually remove you right now. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 - - - - The light at the end of the tunnel is really an oncoming train. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon May 24 17:45:22 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 10:45:22 -0700 Subject: Quitting Mailgroup In-Reply-To: <40B23405.8000301@vitalstream.com> References: <40B23405.8000301@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40B234B2.5070805@vitalstream.com> Rick Stevens wrote: > Charles Braffett wrote: > >> Gentlemen, >> I have twice sent a request to be removed from the list yet am still >> receiving emails. Both times I obtained a reply from the daemon saying >> I was removed. Can someone resolve this issue. thnx > > > I'm an assistant sysop here. I'll manually remove you right now. Correction, you're not in the database under that email address. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 dan_maillists at danwasthere.com Mon May 24 17:54:39 2004 From: dan_maillists at danwasthere.com (Dan_MailLists) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 19:54:39 +0200 Subject: Sendmail installed? References: <20040524165951.GA16948@bobcat.cumbytel.com><011401c441b1$d2657da0$0301a8c0@danhome> <20040524174159.GA18081@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Message-ID: <013d01c441b8$30f3f9e0$0301a8c0@danhome> > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:09:05PM +0200, Dan_MailLists wrote: > > Hi Bob, > > > > I see :/bin: in the middle of the path string, but if I look at that folder > > I can't see rpm in there? > > Are you sure this is a Red Hat installation? The rpm RPM is > fundamental to an RH installation. Is this perhaps some other Linux > distro? > > Also, please don't top post. Bottom post (post under the message to > which you are replying. > > Answer: Because it makes it easier to follow the thread of discussion. > > Question: Why should I not top post? > > Cheers, > -- > Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. > robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com > BIBLE: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth Heh, sorry. Good example. Anyway, I'm told its RH7.2 by the managed server providers, 1and1.co.uk I'll continue this in my answer to Rick's email in the new thread.... From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon May 24 17:54:27 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 10:54:27 -0700 Subject: Sendmail installed? In-Reply-To: <013d01c441b8$30f3f9e0$0301a8c0@danhome> References: <20040524165951.GA16948@bobcat.cumbytel.com><011401c441b1$d2657da0$0301a8c0@danhome> <20040524174159.GA18081@bobcat.cumbytel.com> <013d01c441b8$30f3f9e0$0301a8c0@danhome> Message-ID: <40B236D3.8090603@vitalstream.com> Dan_MailLists wrote: >>On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:09:05PM +0200, Dan_MailLists wrote: >> >>>Hi Bob, >>> >>>I see :/bin: in the middle of the path string, but if I look at that > > folder > >>>I can't see rpm in there? >> >>Are you sure this is a Red Hat installation? The rpm RPM is >>fundamental to an RH installation. Is this perhaps some other Linux >>distro? >> >>Also, please don't top post. Bottom post (post under the message to >>which you are replying. >> >>Answer: Because it makes it easier to follow the thread of discussion. >> >>Question: Why should I not top post? >> >>Cheers, >>-- >>Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. >>robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com >>BIBLE: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth > > > Heh, sorry. Good example. > > Anyway, I'm told its RH7.2 by the managed server providers, 1and1.co.uk > > I'll continue this in my answer to Rick's email in the new thread.... That's cool. Can you access the machine via ssh or something? If so, you can find what OS it's running by using the command "cat /etc/issue". You can find the current kernel version via "uname -r". You can see which version of sendmail it's running via "sendmail -bt -d0.1", then hitting "CTRL-D". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If it's stupid and it works...it ain't stupid! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From dan_maillists at danwasthere.com Mon May 24 19:27:24 2004 From: dan_maillists at danwasthere.com (Dan_MailLists) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 21:27:24 +0200 Subject: Sendmail installed? - Setting new users and checking emails? References: <00bd01c441a8$e17a0d00$0301a8c0@danhome> <40B2339E.2000902@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <016601c441c5$249c43c0$0301a8c0@danhome> > PLEASE bottom-post on this list. It makes following the thread SO much > easier. > > First, to find where your "rpm" is, try "which rpm". It should be in > /bin. > > Second, sendmail can be installed in several different places. The > normal place is /usr/sbin. It could be in /usr/lib or /usr/bin. If you > find it in /usr/lib, it could be either the real binary or a symlink to > the real binary. "ls -l /usr/lib/sendmail" should show you the > destination of the link. > > Third, to check a user's account, you can do an SMTP dialog to the box: > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > # telnet mailserver.domain.tld 25 <--- YOU ENTER THIS > Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx... > Connected to mailserver.domain.tld (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx). > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 mailserver.domain.tld ESMTP sendmail MTA; Mon, 24 May 2004 10:38:19 > -0700 > helo myhost.mydomain.tld <--- YOU ENTER THIS > 250 mailserver.domain.tld Hello myhost.mydomain.tld [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx], > pleased to meet you > mail from: someone at somedomain.com <--- YOU ENTER THIS > 250 2.1.0 someone at somedomain.com... Sender ok > rcpt to: recipient at recipdomain.tld <--- YOU ENTER THIS > 250 2.1.5 recipient at recipdomain.tld... Recipient ok > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > quit <--- YOU ENTER THIS > 221 2.0.0 mxin-01-001.root-mail.com closing connection > Connection closed by foreign host. > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > If the "rcpt to:" thing gets a "Recipient ok" response (shown above the > "^^^^^^^^" line), then the account is there. > Yep, I'll bottom post from now on. I've tried 'which rpm' and it returns nothing at all. To verify, I also tried 'which vi' which gave me the path to vi. 'which sendmail' also returned nothing at all. 'which mail' comes back with /usr/bin/mail if that's any help? 'ls -l /usr/lib/sendmail' tells me this - /usr/lib/sendmail -> /usr/sbin/ssmtp which I guess means that sendmail points to that file in /usr/sbin/ ? Thanks for that Telnet dialog example, I'll hang onto that for future ref as it looks pretty useful. Anyway, I'm getting the impression that as I chose a managed server they've deliberately hidden things from me, and fair enough. Also, I never made it clear to you guys what I was trying to do: I'm coding some newsletter scripts to run from crontab, pick up data from a MySQL db and pump out newsletters via a PHP script (using the CGI version of PHP4). I wanted to set up some sort of test account to receive thousands of emails, and I thought it would be best dealt with on the server. Instead, I'm now going to send out most of the emails to known bad addresses, and every so often send one to a real address of my own. The theory being that if I get all I'm expecting to, then I'll know that all of the emails were sent. This is all to get an idea of what the server can handle. So, I've got a PHP script running from crontab and sending out emails, I haven't connected it to a db yet, but I don't think that'll cause any grief. So despite the fact I can't directly run sendmail from the command line, I can get it working as I need it to, so I'll leave it at that for now, unless of course anything I've said leads you guys to think there's something seriously wrong with this server config of course!? Thanks for the time you took to look into this! I'm sure I'll be back soon to mither you some more.... Cheers, Dan From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon May 24 21:20:29 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 14:20:29 -0700 Subject: Sendmail installed? - Setting new users and checking emails? In-Reply-To: <016601c441c5$249c43c0$0301a8c0@danhome> References: <00bd01c441a8$e17a0d00$0301a8c0@danhome> <40B2339E.2000902@vitalstream.com> <016601c441c5$249c43c0$0301a8c0@danhome> Message-ID: <40B2671D.6010508@vitalstream.com> Dan_MailLists wrote: >>PLEASE bottom-post on this list. It makes following the thread SO much >>easier. >> >>First, to find where your "rpm" is, try "which rpm". It should be in >>/bin. >> >>Second, sendmail can be installed in several different places. The >>normal place is /usr/sbin. It could be in /usr/lib or /usr/bin. If you >>find it in /usr/lib, it could be either the real binary or a symlink to >>the real binary. "ls -l /usr/lib/sendmail" should show you the >>destination of the link. >> >>Third, to check a user's account, you can do an SMTP dialog to the box: >> >>----------------------------------------------------------------- >># telnet mailserver.domain.tld 25 <--- YOU ENTER THIS >>Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx... >>Connected to mailserver.domain.tld (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx). >>Escape character is '^]'. >>220 mailserver.domain.tld ESMTP sendmail MTA; Mon, 24 May 2004 10:38:19 >>-0700 >>helo myhost.mydomain.tld <--- YOU ENTER THIS >>250 mailserver.domain.tld Hello myhost.mydomain.tld [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx], >>pleased to meet you >>mail from: someone at somedomain.com <--- YOU ENTER THIS >>250 2.1.0 someone at somedomain.com... Sender ok >>rcpt to: recipient at recipdomain.tld <--- YOU ENTER THIS >>250 2.1.5 recipient at recipdomain.tld... Recipient ok >>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>quit <--- YOU ENTER THIS >>221 2.0.0 mxin-01-001.root-mail.com closing connection >>Connection closed by foreign host. >>----------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>If the "rcpt to:" thing gets a "Recipient ok" response (shown above the >>"^^^^^^^^" line), then the account is there. >> > > > Yep, I'll bottom post from now on. > > I've tried 'which rpm' and it returns nothing at all. To verify, I also > tried 'which vi' which gave me the path to vi. That's good. > 'which sendmail' also returned nothing at all. Hmmm. Let me read on... > 'which mail' comes back with /usr/bin/mail if that's any help? That's the original command-line mail client for Unix. You probably won't ever use it (pine or something like that is better). It looks as if rpm wasn't installed on your machine. If it's a managed system, that's possible as the ISP is supposed to keep it up to date. They probably have rpm on a floppy or something. > 'ls -l /usr/lib/sendmail' tells me this - > /usr/lib/sendmail -> /usr/sbin/ssmtp > which I guess means that sendmail points to that file in /usr/sbin/ ? Yes and that's fairly normal. /usr/sbin/ssmtp is the outgoing version of sendmail (only accepts mail from the local host for outgoing). > Thanks for that Telnet dialog example, I'll hang onto that for future ref as > it looks pretty useful. > > Anyway, I'm getting the impression that as I chose a managed server they've > deliberately hidden things from me, and fair enough. Also, I never made it > clear to you guys what I was trying to do: I'm coding some newsletter > scripts to run from crontab, pick up data from a MySQL db and pump out > newsletters via a PHP script (using the CGI version of PHP4). I wanted to > set up some sort of test account to receive thousands of emails, and I > thought it would be best dealt with on the server. > Instead, I'm now going to send out most of the emails to known bad > addresses, and every so often send one to a real address of my own. The > theory being that if I get all I'm expecting to, then I'll know that all of > the emails were sent. This is all to get an idea of what the server can > handle. That's possible, but you should ask your ISP. BTW, you can figure out what's listening on port 25 (the SMTP port) by doing a "netstat -lpn". That should list the program name of what's on port 25, e.g.: # netstat -lpn (snip) tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 13035/sendmail (snip) meaning that process 13035 (and named "sendmail") is listening on port 25. You can then do a "ps -ax | grep 13035" and see the command line used to launch the program. > So, I've got a PHP script running from crontab and sending out emails, I > haven't connected it to a db yet, but I don't think that'll cause any grief. > > So despite the fact I can't directly run sendmail from the command line, I > can get it working as I need it to, so I'll leave it at that for now, unless > of course anything I've said leads you guys to think there's something > seriously wrong with this server config of course!? It's hard to say. Your machine may not be using sendmail at all, but possibly postfix or qmail--both of which are sendmail replacements and are a bit easier to manage for a novice. sendmail is far more flexible, but with flexibility comes complexity. To give you an idea, the definitive book on sendmail is what we lovingly call the "Bat Book". The real name is "sendmail, 3rd edition" by Costales and Allmam from O'Reilly and Associates. It is about 1200 pages (yes, 1200!) and lists at $59.95 US. It is the bible for sendmail managers. > Thanks for the time you took to look into this! No problem. Wish I could help more. I could theoretically get into the machine and snoop around, but I'd need the IP and password. If you feel you want me to do this, send me that data privately (off list) and I'll try to get at it in the next day or so. If you should wish to scramble that data for privacy, my GPG key is available here: http://www.keyserver.net/en/ Just put my email address in the search box. If that's too much, here's the key: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org mQGiBDtlxWARBACk+qhJ6hiwtCQepjNG1QoNpqSfbY0gBmSUIw0CmDBq42GUzCZU eMzGzumhN/hY0PRJHrNcs/+LvDZrNyEcR5o8wi6rZVSyYZjEEbx0y7f8J0Y8tKhL nhH4o9Fj/ruLiRAp4O90Rvsc8ZiqPnt8MCswlwh5kmYZ5kMG7Pty9nmwVwCgyR3A OqGwkhGpf50pJpKA9lAJxhkD/0drjTY30D1oIsIgEIfMhsYKeqS30Onw5Fah5GRe JAFQpiiNGQ6gIwhUyNj9tNXcS1O3r4Yw0t8LwJ4mjAlpsiV4cWAnsGPl4TTt/zGv /Ioz+fAo/5fcRYBXELteWcr/TLMd3ioPUjMgIzTZog/MhpJs4hgnr+JvrSBBhsuD /yJDA/9rWQGiIvUS3WqXJLxVesmvZFKDIVkzzcgsVg87E4bxE5Ag1iKKmYMpo4RT ZKP+KLjtWTWtcEq0MDGjil9cxXYComU/wtmCbN5HrolFe1P9O2bi/DjEg3LhJIVA VNuvt/OysIhP+PzYK4bYgGa5UjXaeC7lJaIOyFGz95sLu2RjDrQwUmljayBTdGV2 ZW5zIChPZmZpY2UpIDxyc3RldmVuc0B2aXRhbHN0cmVhbS5jb20+iFcEExECABcF AjtlxWAFCwcKAwQDFQMCAxYCAQIXgAAKCRAzBJWzyVE6p649AJ9GYII7226v8vmW auyXx44lwfSBHQCfSxZYDAOm3XLG5npB0LFtbGUkqsG5AQ0EO2XFZBAEAPQDDI6F DtAVroCYzVJPmQeNnn/z/JvSSTdWpj2EseoIcajjESE7BnX3r5z4rQ9TnxiXA9Ip CnJBuJc/yFW7x+fpkHbefKpssMjjPduKWETSDFfkF3KbukJm9nL0G1AqltyG+31v so/O5hwqdFjYb2NBouKtX+mOpj0Tzemk5f3jAAMFA/4uS5A+9V6UXCdBPVOeUydR NDFYkVUqZlXH187SwyLUTB7tE0m9kWV07xkLCIaTAAZYpUsctPPSixVavDlic5N2 ac48RwokIvXl1jBWxbhod4S2bBlcOEFjUx7djwGCogJwgYdPo79kYJtvHV6fNeKe 5ooRLIF/Jbdw+k/q2qotqohGBBgRAgAGBQI7ZcVkAAoJEDMElbPJUTqn5M0AnjKR 56wPEeMx7oqH3FgUKMVaEXBGAKCZ38mrv9fY3jn1Dn2yC0YRUPAhsQ== =7W8a -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- > > I'm sure I'll be back soon to mither you some more.... "mither"? Hmmmm. Never heard that one before. Well, we'll be here. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Veni, Vidi, VISA: I came, I saw, I did a little shopping. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gordon.mcdowall at fasthosts.co.uk Tue May 25 07:35:05 2004 From: gordon.mcdowall at fasthosts.co.uk (Gordon McDowall) Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 08:35:05 +0100 Subject: FW: Kickstart partition woes Message-ID: <040BC5194880BA4DBAF15C0C9D5A11BA0522E5B8@fhexchange01.gl.fasthosts.co.uk> Thanks for the reply, to answer your questions, yes it's software raid and yes /home was on md3, I cannot see why I should not be able to do this new install since if you try a manual install then you can see all the partitions and raid devices and the only thing that needs done is to relabel the raid devices to reflect the partitions and tell it whether to format the raid device or keep the data intact. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] Sent: 24 May 2004 18:26 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: FW: Kickstart partition woes Gordon McDowall wrote: > Hi > > I recently sent the following email to the general Redhat list but got no > reply, I was hoping that someone on this list might be able to help > out...please! > > I am currently trying to upgrade a server from Redhat 7.2 to Redhat > Enterprise 3.0, the server is running raid and I would like to keep the > /home partition intact and basically do a full install on the remaining / > /boot and /var partitions. When I try the install it always errors out > with the error "unable to locate raid device None for /home" but as far as I > can see the partition section of the kickstart file is fine, does anyone > have any suggestions as to what may be the issue. > Here is a copy of the partition section of the ks.cfg file > > #Disk partitioning information > part raid.01 --onpart sda1 > part raid.03 --onpart sda2 > part swap --onpart sda3 > part raid.05 --onpart sda6 --noformat > part raid.07 --onpart sda5 > part raid.02 --onpart sdb1 > part raid.04 --onpart sdb2 > part swap --onpart sdb3 > part raid.06 --onpart sdb6 --noformat > part raid.08 --onpart sdb5 > raid /boot --level=1 --device=md0 --fstype ext2 raid.01 raid.02 > raid / --level=1 --device=md1 --fstype ext3 raid.03 raid.04 > raid /var --level=1 --device=md2 --fstype ext3 raid.07 raid.08 > raid /home --level=1 --device=md3 --fstype ext3 --noformat raid.05 raid.06 > > > Thanks, any suggestions appreciated So, this is a software RAID? Which device is /home on under 7.2? From your ks.cfg file, I'm guessing it's md3 (raid 05/raid 06). I'm not at all certain you can do an upgrade from 7.2 to ES3 on software RAID without reformatting. First, that's one hell of a gear change (jumping three major releases) Second, the mechanisms used to support software RAID changed quite a bit over that time. I think you're going to have to back up /home to some media somewhere and let the system format /home to get past that. Wish I could help more. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Do you know how to save five drowning lawyers? No? GOOD! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Subject: unsubscribe From tyche at ica.net Mon May 24 18:47:38 2004 From: tyche at ica.net (tyche) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 14:47:38 -0400 Subject: glib In-Reply-To: <40B22798.5020402@vitalstream.com> References: <200405220916.51628.tyche@ica.net> <40B22798.5020402@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <200405241447.38655.tyche@ica.net> On Monday 24 May 2004 12:49 pm, Rick Stevens wrote: > tyche wrote: > > am trying to compile kde 3.2.2 from source, and it is having a little > > problem finding the compiled version of glib-2.4.1. it got put in > > /usr/bin, with the lib in /usr/lib and usr/lib/exec. > > Are you certain? Most tarballs have the default installation root set > to /usr/local. This is the "./configure --prefix=/usr/local". To force > them into the normal spots, "./configure --prefix=/usr" should do it. yep, am sure, that is where i told configure to put em. > > > am running pretty much stock rh8.0, but am going to try to upgrade this > > from sources. > > > > anyone know how to get ./configure to find the new glibc files? > > If glib truly got put where you say it was, those are the standard > locations. You may have to rebuild the ld.so cache for it to see the > new libraries. Try "ldconfig -v" and verify that the new libraries were > found in the output of that command. Then try your configure again. > Use "./configure --help" to get a listing of the various options. will do the ldconfig -v when i get to the machine later today. thanks rick tyche From mygameid1 at sbcglobal.net Tue May 25 14:38:24 2004 From: mygameid1 at sbcglobal.net (S1 J) Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 07:38:24 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Installing linux on separate hard drive Message-ID: <20040525143824.16442.qmail@web81002.mail.yahoo.com> Hi, I'm planning to install Fedora Core 2 on a separate hard drive(an old 4.1GB drive) from the one I have windows XP installed(80GB WD drive). What would be the best way to be able to choose what hard drive I can boot from? Or would I have to go into BIOS every time I wanted to change the OS I want? Thanks -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue May 25 15:08:22 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 10:08:22 -0500 Subject: Installing linux on separate hard drive In-Reply-To: <20040525143824.16442.qmail@web81002.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040525143824.16442.qmail@web81002.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20040525150822.GB28384@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 07:38:24AM -0700, S1 J wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planning to install Fedora Core 2 on a separate hard drive(an old 4.1GB drive) > from the one I have windows XP installed(80GB WD drive). > What would be the best way to be able to choose what hard drive I can boot > from? Or would I have to go into BIOS every time I wanted to change the OS I > want? > > Thanks Let it install GRUB in the MBR of /dev/hda. It should take care of everything. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Don't wait for six strong men to take you to church. From jglueckstein at yahoo.com Tue May 25 15:30:37 2004 From: jglueckstein at yahoo.com (Jon Glueckstein) Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 11:30:37 -0400 Subject: LILO and Zone Alarm Message-ID: <40B3669D.2020801@yahoo.com> I have an IBM Aptiva 2198-80U. It is set up to dual boot Red Hat 6.1 and Windows 98 using LILO. Today I installed Zone Alarm (the free version) for the windows side of things. When it rebooted after installation, I got to the point where LILO should run, and it hung after typing the letters "LI". It does that every time I boot now. I have booted with both unix and windows floppies and tried poking around, but I'm not smart enough to figure out what's gone wrong. Can anybody help me? Thanks, Jon From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue May 25 16:40:16 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 09:40:16 -0700 Subject: LILO and Zone Alarm In-Reply-To: <40B3669D.2020801@yahoo.com> References: <40B3669D.2020801@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40B376F0.5030509@vitalstream.com> Jon Glueckstein wrote: > I have an IBM Aptiva 2198-80U. It is set up to dual boot Red Hat 6.1 > and Windows 98 using LILO. > > Today I installed Zone Alarm (the free version) for the windows side of > things. When it rebooted after installation, I got to the point where > LILO should run, and it hung after typing the letters "LI". It does > that every time I boot now. > > I have booted with both unix and windows floppies and tried poking > around, but I'm not smart enough to figure out what's gone wrong. Can > anybody help me? 6.1? That's over three years dead! Why are you still running that? Anyway, "LI" indicates that the first stage boot loader successfully loaded the second stage loader but couldn't run it. This is normally caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving the /boot/boot.b file without rerunning lilo. You'll need to boot off the floppy first. Thenk verify that /boot/boot.b exists. If it's not in /boot, find it and modify your /etc/lilo.conf file's "install=" line to reflect where it actually is. Then rerun lilo. And you _really_ should think about updating your Linux. 6.1 is ancient, creaky, full of security holes and not supported anymore by anyone. Heck, it's still a 2.2 kernel even! Fedora Core 2 is using the 2.6 kernel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - What is a "free" gift? Aren't all gifts free? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue May 25 16:55:29 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 09:55:29 -0700 Subject: FW: Kickstart partition woes In-Reply-To: <040BC5194880BA4DBAF15C0C9D5A11BA0522E5B8@fhexchange01.gl.fasthosts.co.uk> References: <040BC5194880BA4DBAF15C0C9D5A11BA0522E5B8@fhexchange01.gl.fasthosts.co.uk> Message-ID: <40B37A81.6000804@vitalstream.com> Gordon McDowall wrote: > Thanks for the reply, to answer your questions, yes it's software raid and > yes /home was on md3, I cannot see why I should not be able to do this new > install since if you try a manual install then you can see all the > partitions and raid devices and the only thing that needs done is to relabel > the raid devices to reflect the partitions and tell it whether to format the > raid device or keep the data intact. Erp! I think I found it. Your lines specifying the RAID layout are missing some stuff. In your "raid" lines, I think you must have "--fstype=ext3" rather than "--fstype ext3". This may be an issue as the other partitions are going to be formatted (and ext3 is the default) while /home is NOT going to be formatted. I'm surprised it worked at all with spaces instead of "=" in those lines. I'd expect some errors regarding "can't find device ext2" or "can't find device ext3" in the other lines as well. > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > Sent: 24 May 2004 18:26 > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: FW: Kickstart partition woes > > > Gordon McDowall wrote: > >>Hi >> >>I recently sent the following email to the general Redhat list but got no >>reply, I was hoping that someone on this list might be able to help >>out...please! >> >>I am currently trying to upgrade a server from Redhat 7.2 to Redhat >>Enterprise 3.0, the server is running raid and I would like to keep the >>/home partition intact and basically do a full install on the remaining / >>/boot and /var partitions. When I try the install it always errors out >>with the error "unable to locate raid device None for /home" but as far as > > I > >>can see the partition section of the kickstart file is fine, does anyone >>have any suggestions as to what may be the issue. >>Here is a copy of the partition section of the ks.cfg file >> >>#Disk partitioning information >>part raid.01 --onpart sda1 >>part raid.03 --onpart sda2 >>part swap --onpart sda3 >>part raid.05 --onpart sda6 --noformat >>part raid.07 --onpart sda5 >>part raid.02 --onpart sdb1 >>part raid.04 --onpart sdb2 >>part swap --onpart sdb3 >>part raid.06 --onpart sdb6 --noformat >>part raid.08 --onpart sdb5 >>raid /boot --level=1 --device=md0 --fstype ext2 raid.01 raid.02 >>raid / --level=1 --device=md1 --fstype ext3 raid.03 raid.04 >>raid /var --level=1 --device=md2 --fstype ext3 raid.07 raid.08 >>raid /home --level=1 --device=md3 --fstype ext3 --noformat raid.05 raid.06 >> >> >>Thanks, any suggestions appreciated > > > So, this is a software RAID? Which device is /home on under 7.2? From > your ks.cfg file, I'm guessing it's md3 (raid 05/raid 06). > > I'm not at all certain you can do an upgrade from 7.2 to ES3 on software > RAID without reformatting. First, that's one hell of a gear change > (jumping three major releases) Second, the mechanisms used to support > software RAID changed quite a bit over that time. I think you're going > to have to back up /home to some media somewhere and let the system > format /home to get past that. > > Wish I could help more. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Do you know how to save five drowning lawyers? No? GOOD! - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 - - - - "Hello. My PID is Inigo Montoya. You `kill -9'-ed my parent - - process. Prepare to vi." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From micros50 at computer.net Tue May 25 22:45:08 2004 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 18:45:08 -0400 Subject: Installing linux on separate hard drive In-Reply-To: <20040525143824.16442.qmail@web81002.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040525143824.16442.qmail@web81002.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1085525108.7191.8.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Not long ago I installed Fedora Core 1 on a second 80GB drive that I added to a Dell machine with Windows XP. When you install Fedora Core 2 instruct the installation program to install fedore to the second (4.1 Gb) hard drive. When it comes time to install the boot loader (usually GRUB these days) have it install the bootloader to the MBR of the first disc (the one with XP). Then when you boot your machine the bootloader will prompt you for which operating system the system should boot into i.e. XP or Fedora. No need to go into setup and change the boot device each time. 4.1 Gb sounds a bit small. Probably okay for trying the distro out but you likely install only the packages you really need for sake of saving space. mylar On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 10:38, S1 J wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planning to install Fedora Core 2 on a separate hard drive(an old > 4.1GB drive) > from the one I have windows XP installed(80GB WD drive). > What would be the best way to be able to choose what hard drive I can > boot > from? Or would I have to go into BIOS every time I wanted to change > the OS I > want? > > Thanks > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe From micros50 at computer.net Wed May 26 00:26:52 2004 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 20:26:52 -0400 Subject: LILO and Zone Alarm In-Reply-To: <40B376F0.5030509@vitalstream.com> References: <40B3669D.2020801@yahoo.com> <40B376F0.5030509@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1085531212.7191.110.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 12:40, Rick Stevens wrote: > Jo > > 6.1? That's over three years dead! Why are you still running that? > And you _really_ should think about updating your Linux. 6.1 is > ancient, creaky, full of security holes and not supported anymore by > anyone. Heck, it's still a 2.2 kernel even! Fedora Core 2 is using > the 2.6 kernel. > ------------------------ > > Believe it or not I still have an old 166 mhz machine still running Redhat 6.0!!! It's still used to provide backup on demand dialup service and dns service to a few machines on a home network. I've patched the heck out of it and firewalled it as best I can via ipchains. Dial on demand service is still provided by the "diald" daemon. It's an oldie but serves it's purpose. mylar > _______________________________________________ > 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 May 26 00:56:01 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 17:56:01 -0700 Subject: LILO and Zone Alarm In-Reply-To: <1085531212.7191.110.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> References: <40B3669D.2020801@yahoo.com> <40B376F0.5030509@vitalstream.com> <1085531212.7191.110.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Message-ID: <40B3EB21.2020706@vitalstream.com> mylar wrote: > On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 12:40, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>Jo >> >>6.1? That's over three years dead! Why are you still running that? >> > > > And you _really_ should think about updating your Linux. 6.1 is > >>ancient, creaky, full of security holes and not supported anymore by >>anyone. Heck, it's still a 2.2 kernel even! Fedora Core 2 is using >>the 2.6 kernel. >>------------------------ >> >> > > Believe it or not I still have an old 166 mhz machine still running > Redhat 6.0!!! It's still used to provide backup on demand dialup service > and dns service to a few machines on a home network. I've patched the > heck out of it and firewalled it as best I can via ipchains. Dial on > demand service is still provided by the "diald" daemon. It's an oldie > but serves it's purpose. And I have an Alpha machine with 5.2. It's more historic than anything else. I love having to boot "milo" from a floppy to get it to run. That and my MicroVAX II and MicroVAX 3100/10e running VAX/VMS. Oh, yeah! Ancient technology! Gotta love it! (now, where did I put those old 9-track tapes of mine...?) Sheesh! :-D ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 jglueckstein at yahoo.com Wed May 26 02:27:45 2004 From: jglueckstein at yahoo.com (Jon Glueckstein) Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 22:27:45 -0400 Subject: LILO and Zone Alarm Message-ID: <40B400A1.1030703@yahoo.com> Problem resolved. I had a few facts about the system incorrect in my original message. Years ago, I had put Redhat 6.1 on the system, as I said. I dual booted RH 6.1 and Windows 98 using LILO. I'm not the primary user of this computer, so I had forgotten what was on it. In November, I had upgraded to Fedora Core 1, and switched over to GRUB. The weird thing is, after installing the Zone Alarm firewall for Windows 98, and rebooting, the letters "LI" came up as if LILO were trying to load, and then the system froze. After exchanging a few emails with Rick Stevens off-list, I think I solved the problem. All of the grub files in my /boot/grub directory were fine. I simply needed to execute grub-install /dev/hda to get everything working again. Zone Alarm must have done something to the MBR to confuse grub. One more odd thing to note: When I tried issuing the command grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda grub worked, but the grub menu didn't come up. I had to run it in command line mode. I had to rerun grub-install without the --root-directory switch to get it to use the menu. Rick, thanks a lot for the help. Regards, Jon Glueckstein From roger at audiblefaith.com Wed May 26 02:51:29 2004 From: roger at audiblefaith.com (Roger Harrell) Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 19:51:29 -0700 Subject: RPM for PHP 4.3 upgrade References: <20040525160104.C557C74EB9@hormel.redhat.com> Message-ID: <40B40631.3020405@audiblefaith.com> I have RedHat 9 with the default 4.2.2 install of PHP. I want to upgrade to 4.3 without changing any config options. I may build from source, but I'd like to know if there are RPMs available for upgrading. I wasn't able to find anything on the RedHat site. Thanks, -- Roger From hdeng at microscience.com.cn Wed May 26 07:29:40 2004 From: hdeng at microscience.com.cn (Huan Deng) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 15:29:40 +0800 Subject: header intact Message-ID: redhat-install-list: ?? ??????? Huan Deng hdeng at microscience.com.cn 2004-05-26 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ From gordon.mcdowall at fasthosts.co.uk Wed May 26 08:52:08 2004 From: gordon.mcdowall at fasthosts.co.uk (Gordon McDowall) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 09:52:08 +0100 Subject: FW: Kickstart partition woes Message-ID: <040BC5194880BA4DBAF15C0C9D5A11BA0522E5D2@fhexchange01.gl.fasthosts.co.uk> Nope, that's not the issue, I'm, beginning to lose hope :o( I have just about exhausted all different options in the partition section. Is there nobody that has tried doing this before, it seems like something that should be easy to do. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] Sent: 25 May 2004 17:55 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: FW: Kickstart partition woes Gordon McDowall wrote: > Thanks for the reply, to answer your questions, yes it's software raid and > yes /home was on md3, I cannot see why I should not be able to do this new > install since if you try a manual install then you can see all the > partitions and raid devices and the only thing that needs done is to relabel > the raid devices to reflect the partitions and tell it whether to format the > raid device or keep the data intact. Erp! I think I found it. Your lines specifying the RAID layout are missing some stuff. In your "raid" lines, I think you must have "--fstype=ext3" rather than "--fstype ext3". This may be an issue as the other partitions are going to be formatted (and ext3 is the default) while /home is NOT going to be formatted. I'm surprised it worked at all with spaces instead of "=" in those lines. I'd expect some errors regarding "can't find device ext2" or "can't find device ext3" in the other lines as well. > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > Sent: 24 May 2004 18:26 > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: FW: Kickstart partition woes > > > Gordon McDowall wrote: > >>Hi >> >>I recently sent the following email to the general Redhat list but got no >>reply, I was hoping that someone on this list might be able to help >>out...please! >> >>I am currently trying to upgrade a server from Redhat 7.2 to Redhat >>Enterprise 3.0, the server is running raid and I would like to keep the >>/home partition intact and basically do a full install on the remaining / >>/boot and /var partitions. When I try the install it always errors out >>with the error "unable to locate raid device None for /home" but as far as > > I > >>can see the partition section of the kickstart file is fine, does anyone >>have any suggestions as to what may be the issue. >>Here is a copy of the partition section of the ks.cfg file >> >>#Disk partitioning information >>part raid.01 --onpart sda1 >>part raid.03 --onpart sda2 >>part swap --onpart sda3 >>part raid.05 --onpart sda6 --noformat >>part raid.07 --onpart sda5 >>part raid.02 --onpart sdb1 >>part raid.04 --onpart sdb2 >>part swap --onpart sdb3 >>part raid.06 --onpart sdb6 --noformat >>part raid.08 --onpart sdb5 >>raid /boot --level=1 --device=md0 --fstype ext2 raid.01 raid.02 >>raid / --level=1 --device=md1 --fstype ext3 raid.03 raid.04 >>raid /var --level=1 --device=md2 --fstype ext3 raid.07 raid.08 >>raid /home --level=1 --device=md3 --fstype ext3 --noformat raid.05 raid.06 >> >> >>Thanks, any suggestions appreciated > > > So, this is a software RAID? Which device is /home on under 7.2? From > your ks.cfg file, I'm guessing it's md3 (raid 05/raid 06). > > I'm not at all certain you can do an upgrade from 7.2 to ES3 on software > RAID without reformatting. First, that's one hell of a gear change > (jumping three major releases) Second, the mechanisms used to support > software RAID changed quite a bit over that time. I think you're going > to have to back up /home to some media somewhere and let the system > format /home to get past that. > > Wish I could help more. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Do you know how to save five drowning lawyers? No? GOOD! - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 - - - - "Hello. My PID is Inigo Montoya. You `kill -9'-ed my parent - - process. Prepare to vi." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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 poorna3_v at yahoo.co.in Wed May 26 11:32:33 2004 From: poorna3_v at yahoo.co.in (=?iso-8859-1?q?RH=20Newbie?=) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 12:32:33 +0100 (BST) Subject: RH9-Apache 2.0.49 installation Message-ID: <20040526113233.27886.qmail@web8205.mail.in.yahoo.com> Hi all.. I've installed RH9 and I wish to install Apache 2.0.49. When i tried upgrading the apache-2.0.40, that had come with RH9 distribution, i got so much of depency errors. When i tried solving one, so many new dependency errors cropped up. So i've uninstalled the apache-2.0.40 rpm installations with nodeps option. I've also uninstalled the dependent rpms like mod_perl, mod_python, etc. I got the compatible versions of all the dependent rpms for Apache-2.0.49 and i've installed it successfully. But now, when i try to start the http service i'm getting the following error. # service httpd start Starting httpd: /usr/sbin/httpd: relocation error: /usr/lib/libapr-0.so.0: symbol sys_siglist, version GLIBC_2.3.3 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference FYI i've given the details of some of the dependent packages... httpd-2.0.49-1 httpd-devel-2.0.49-1 apr-0.9.3-14 apr-devel-0.9.3-14 apr-util-0.9.3-10 apr-util-devel-0.9.3-10 glibc-2.3.2-11.9 glibc-devel-2.3.2-11.9 glibc-common-2.3.2-11.9 glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.10 db4-4.1.25-14 db4-devel-4.1.25-14 webalizer-2.01_10-11 I'm totally struck now, and i donot know where i've gone wrong or what i've to do now to resolve this error. I would be happy if some could suggest me a solution Thanx in advance Yahoo! 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Admin / Developer From mknecht at controlnet.com Wed May 26 14:44:53 2004 From: mknecht at controlnet.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 07:44:53 -0700 Subject: Big memory machines Message-ID: <40B4AD65.605@controlnet.com> Hi there, If I was to build my own kernel and possibly even buy a new server type machine (if necessary) then how much DRAM can I run today? Thanks, Mark From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Wed May 26 15:20:40 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 10:20:40 -0500 Subject: Activation of network card In-Reply-To: References: <20040526083118.59363.qmail@web90105.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20040526152040.GA8481@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:58:25AM -0400, Ajai Khattri wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 2004, abdulahad shaikh wrote: > > > I have installed linux 9 my network card gets > > deactivated every time i restart the machine, is the > > any way i can keep the activated ... > > Sounds like the kernel module is not being autoloaded. > What sort of network card is it? What does "lspci" show? > > -- > Aj. > Sys. Admin / Developer Also, what's in your /etc/modules.conf? Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Don't wait for six strong men to take you to church. From ajai at bway.net Wed May 26 15:32:13 2004 From: ajai at bway.net (Ajai Khattri) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 11:32:13 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Big memory machines In-Reply-To: <40B4AD65.605@controlnet.com> References: <40B4AD65.605@controlnet.com> Message-ID: On Wed, 26 May 2004, Mark Knecht wrote: > If I was to build my own kernel and possibly even buy a new server > type machine (if necessary) then how much DRAM can I run today? The 2.6 kernel supports up to 64Gb RAM. -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 26 15:54:46 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 08:54:46 -0700 Subject: LILO and Zone Alarm In-Reply-To: <40B400A1.1030703@yahoo.com> References: <40B400A1.1030703@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40B4BDC6.1030106@vitalstream.com> Jon Glueckstein wrote: > Problem resolved. > > I had a few facts about the system incorrect in my original message. > Years ago, I had put Redhat 6.1 on the system, as I said. I dual booted > RH 6.1 and Windows 98 using LILO. > > I'm not the primary user of this computer, so I had forgotten what was > on it. In November, I had upgraded to Fedora Core 1, and switched over > to GRUB. The weird thing is, after installing the Zone Alarm firewall > for Windows 98, and rebooting, the letters "LI" came up as if LILO were > trying to load, and then the system froze. > > After exchanging a few emails with Rick Stevens off-list, I think I > solved the problem. All of the grub files in my /boot/grub directory > were fine. I simply needed to execute > grub-install /dev/hda > to get everything working again. Zone Alarm must have done something to > the MBR to confuse grub. > > One more odd thing to note: When I tried issuing the command > grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda > grub worked, but the grub menu didn't come up. I had to run it in > command line mode. I had to rerun grub-install without the > --root-directory switch to get it to use the menu. > > Rick, thanks a lot for the help. You're welcome. Hmmm...--root-directory=/boot was wrong, eh? I'll have to look at that, but I'm glad you got it sorted out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 26 15:57:21 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 08:57:21 -0700 Subject: RPM for PHP 4.3 upgrade In-Reply-To: <40B40631.3020405@audiblefaith.com> References: <20040525160104.C557C74EB9@hormel.redhat.com> <40B40631.3020405@audiblefaith.com> Message-ID: <40B4BE61.4030803@vitalstream.com> Roger Harrell wrote: > I have RedHat 9 with the default 4.2.2 install of PHP. I want to upgrade > to 4.3 without changing any config options. I may build from source, but > I'd like to know if there are RPMs available for upgrading. I wasn't > able to find anything on the RedHat site. Remember that RH9 is dead. It end-of-lifed on April 30. Any future upgrades will need to come from the fedora legacy project. Try their website (http://www.fedoralegacy.org). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 26 16:11:14 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 09:11:14 -0700 Subject: RH9-Apache 2.0.49 installation In-Reply-To: <20040526113233.27886.qmail@web8205.mail.in.yahoo.com> References: <20040526113233.27886.qmail@web8205.mail.in.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40B4C1A2.5000003@vitalstream.com> RH Newbie wrote: > Hi all.. > I've installed RH9 and I wish to install Apache 2.0.49. When > i tried upgrading the apache-2.0.40, that had come with RH9 > distribution, i got so much of depency errors. When i tried solving one, > so many new dependency errors cropped up. So i've uninstalled the > apache-2.0.40 rpm installations with nodeps option. I've also > uninstalled the dependent rpms like mod_perl, mod_python, etc. I got the > compatible versions of all the dependent rpms for Apache-2.0.49 and i've > installed it successfully. But now, when i try to start the http service > i'm getting the following error. > > /# service httpd start > Starting httpd: /usr/sbin/httpd: relocation error: > /usr/lib/libapr-0.so.0: symbol sys_siglist, version GLIBC_2.3.3 not > defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference/ > > FYI i've given the details of some of the dependent packages... > > /httpd-2.0.49-1 > httpd-devel-2.0.49-1 > apr-0.9.3-14/ > /apr-devel-0.9.3-14 > apr-util-0.9.3-10 > apr-util-devel-0.9.3-10/ > /glibc-2.3.2-11.9 > glibc-devel-2.3.2-11.9 > glibc-common-2.3.2-11.9 > glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.10/ > /db4-4.1.25-14 > db4-devel-4.1.25-14/ > /webalizer-2.01_10-11 > / > I'm totally struck now, and i donot know where i've gone wrong or what > i've to do now to resolve this error. I would be happy if some could > suggest me a solution > > Thanx in advance You can't just "--nodeps" an install. The dependencies are there for a reason as you have found out. The binary RPM was built with the expectation that specific libraries and modules are in place--that's why there's a dependency list. "--nodeps" is intended to resolve _circular_ dependencies (where "a" needs "b" to be installed and "b" needs "a" and you haven't specified "a" and "b" on the same command line). If don't want to update/install the dependencies, then you must either a) install the apache source RPM, tweak the config and makefiles yourself and build it, or b) get the source tarball from apache.org and do the same thing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 May 26 16:14:01 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 09:14:01 -0700 Subject: Big memory machines In-Reply-To: References: <40B4AD65.605@controlnet.com> Message-ID: <40B4C249.6060505@vitalstream.com> Ajai Khattri wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 2004, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >> If I was to build my own kernel and possibly even buy a new server >>type machine (if necessary) then how much DRAM can I run today? > > > The 2.6 kernel supports up to 64Gb RAM. As does the 2.4 kernel (for RH7.2-RH9 and FC1). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Memory is the second thing to go, but I can't remember the first! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mknecht at controlnet.com Wed May 26 16:21:20 2004 From: mknecht at controlnet.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 09:21:20 -0700 Subject: Big memory machines In-Reply-To: <40B4C249.6060505@vitalstream.com> References: <40B4AD65.605@controlnet.com> <40B4C249.6060505@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40B4C400.4070301@controlnet.com> Rick Stevens wrote: > Ajai Khattri wrote: > >> On Wed, 26 May 2004, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> >>> If I was to build my own kernel and possibly even buy a new server >>> type machine (if necessary) then how much DRAM can I run today? >> >> >> >> The 2.6 kernel supports up to 64Gb RAM. > > > As does the 2.4 kernel (for RH7.2-RH9 and FC1). > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Memory is the second thing to go, but I can't remember the first! - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > > Rick and Ajai, Thanks! Mark From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 26 16:19:17 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 09:19:17 -0700 Subject: FW: Kickstart partition woes In-Reply-To: <040BC5194880BA4DBAF15C0C9D5A11BA0522E5D2@fhexchange01.gl.fasthosts.co.uk> References: <040BC5194880BA4DBAF15C0C9D5A11BA0522E5D2@fhexchange01.gl.fasthosts.co.uk> Message-ID: <40B4C385.1020402@vitalstream.com> Gordon McDowall wrote: > Nope, that's not the issue, I'm, beginning to lose hope :o( > I have just about exhausted all different options in the partition section. > Is there nobody that has tried doing this before, it seems like something > that should be easy to do. All of my attempts have been stabs in the dark, really, Gordon. I don't do kickstart installs very often. It is entirely possible that kickstart doesn't support reusing existing software RAID devices without reformatting. I don't see such a restriction in the docs, but that doesn't mean much. You might try checking the bugzilla archives at bugzilla.redhat.com to see if someone else has run into this and if there's a fix or work around. If not, you may have to do the thing manually. I know it's a pain if you're doing a network install, but that may be your only recourse. Sorry I couldn't help more. > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > Sent: 25 May 2004 17:55 > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: FW: Kickstart partition woes > > > Gordon McDowall wrote: > >>Thanks for the reply, to answer your questions, yes it's software raid and >>yes /home was on md3, I cannot see why I should not be able to do this new >>install since if you try a manual install then you can see all the >>partitions and raid devices and the only thing that needs done is to > > relabel > >>the raid devices to reflect the partitions and tell it whether to format > > the > >>raid device or keep the data intact. > > > Erp! I think I found it. Your lines specifying the RAID layout are > missing some stuff. In your "raid" lines, I think you must have > "--fstype=ext3" rather than "--fstype ext3". This may be an issue as > the other partitions are going to be formatted (and ext3 is the default) > while /home is NOT going to be formatted. I'm surprised it worked at > all with spaces instead of "=" in those lines. I'd expect some errors > regarding "can't find device ext2" or "can't find device ext3" in the > other lines as well. > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] >>Sent: 24 May 2004 18:26 >>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >>Subject: Re: FW: Kickstart partition woes >> >> >>Gordon McDowall wrote: >> >> >>>Hi >>> >>>I recently sent the following email to the general Redhat list but got no >>>reply, I was hoping that someone on this list might be able to help >>>out...please! >>> >>>I am currently trying to upgrade a server from Redhat 7.2 to Redhat >>>Enterprise 3.0, the server is running raid and I would like to keep the >>>/home partition intact and basically do a full install on the remaining / >>>/boot and /var partitions. When I try the install it always errors out >>>with the error "unable to locate raid device None for /home" but as far as >> >>I >> >> >>>can see the partition section of the kickstart file is fine, does anyone >>>have any suggestions as to what may be the issue. >>>Here is a copy of the partition section of the ks.cfg file >>> >>>#Disk partitioning information >>>part raid.01 --onpart sda1 >>>part raid.03 --onpart sda2 >>>part swap --onpart sda3 >>>part raid.05 --onpart sda6 --noformat >>>part raid.07 --onpart sda5 >>>part raid.02 --onpart sdb1 >>>part raid.04 --onpart sdb2 >>>part swap --onpart sdb3 >>>part raid.06 --onpart sdb6 --noformat >>>part raid.08 --onpart sdb5 >>>raid /boot --level=1 --device=md0 --fstype ext2 raid.01 raid.02 >>>raid / --level=1 --device=md1 --fstype ext3 raid.03 raid.04 >>>raid /var --level=1 --device=md2 --fstype ext3 raid.07 raid.08 >>>raid /home --level=1 --device=md3 --fstype ext3 --noformat raid.05 raid.06 >>> >>> >>>Thanks, any suggestions appreciated >> >> >>So, this is a software RAID? Which device is /home on under 7.2? From >>your ks.cfg file, I'm guessing it's md3 (raid 05/raid 06). >> >>I'm not at all certain you can do an upgrade from 7.2 to ES3 on software >>RAID without reformatting. First, that's one hell of a gear change >>(jumping three major releases) Second, the mechanisms used to support >>software RAID changed quite a bit over that time. I think you're going >>to have to back up /home to some media somewhere and let the system >>format /home to get past that. >> >>Wish I could help more. >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >>- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >>- - >>- Do you know how to save five drowning lawyers? No? GOOD! - >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Redhat-install-list mailing list >>Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >>To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >>redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >>Subject: unsubscribe >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Redhat-install-list mailing list >>Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >>To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >>redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >>Subject: unsubscribe >> > > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - When in doubt, mumble. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gordon.mcdowall at fasthosts.co.uk Wed May 26 16:31:35 2004 From: gordon.mcdowall at fasthosts.co.uk (Gordon McDowall) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 17:31:35 +0100 Subject: FW: Kickstart partition woes Message-ID: <040BC5194880BA4DBAF15C0C9D5A11BA0522E5EC@fhexchange01.gl.fasthosts.co.uk> Thanks for the reply Rick, it is looking more and more like I'm going to have to do the partitioning manually, I can still use kickstart and just delete the partition section, kickstart then drops you into the manual partitioning where I can then label the raid devices accordingly before kickstart takes over again. Anyway, thanks for your suggestions. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] Sent: 26 May 2004 17:19 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: FW: Kickstart partition woes Gordon McDowall wrote: > Nope, that's not the issue, I'm, beginning to lose hope :o( > I have just about exhausted all different options in the partition section. > Is there nobody that has tried doing this before, it seems like something > that should be easy to do. All of my attempts have been stabs in the dark, really, Gordon. I don't do kickstart installs very often. It is entirely possible that kickstart doesn't support reusing existing software RAID devices without reformatting. I don't see such a restriction in the docs, but that doesn't mean much. You might try checking the bugzilla archives at bugzilla.redhat.com to see if someone else has run into this and if there's a fix or work around. If not, you may have to do the thing manually. I know it's a pain if you're doing a network install, but that may be your only recourse. Sorry I couldn't help more. > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > Sent: 25 May 2004 17:55 > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: FW: Kickstart partition woes > > > Gordon McDowall wrote: > >>Thanks for the reply, to answer your questions, yes it's software raid and >>yes /home was on md3, I cannot see why I should not be able to do this new >>install since if you try a manual install then you can see all the >>partitions and raid devices and the only thing that needs done is to > > relabel > >>the raid devices to reflect the partitions and tell it whether to format > > the > >>raid device or keep the data intact. > > > Erp! I think I found it. Your lines specifying the RAID layout are > missing some stuff. In your "raid" lines, I think you must have > "--fstype=ext3" rather than "--fstype ext3". This may be an issue as > the other partitions are going to be formatted (and ext3 is the default) > while /home is NOT going to be formatted. I'm surprised it worked at > all with spaces instead of "=" in those lines. I'd expect some errors > regarding "can't find device ext2" or "can't find device ext3" in the > other lines as well. > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] >>Sent: 24 May 2004 18:26 >>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >>Subject: Re: FW: Kickstart partition woes >> >> >>Gordon McDowall wrote: >> >> >>>Hi >>> >>>I recently sent the following email to the general Redhat list but got no >>>reply, I was hoping that someone on this list might be able to help >>>out...please! >>> >>>I am currently trying to upgrade a server from Redhat 7.2 to Redhat >>>Enterprise 3.0, the server is running raid and I would like to keep the >>>/home partition intact and basically do a full install on the remaining / >>>/boot and /var partitions. When I try the install it always errors out >>>with the error "unable to locate raid device None for /home" but as far as >> >>I >> >> >>>can see the partition section of the kickstart file is fine, does anyone >>>have any suggestions as to what may be the issue. >>>Here is a copy of the partition section of the ks.cfg file >>> >>>#Disk partitioning information >>>part raid.01 --onpart sda1 >>>part raid.03 --onpart sda2 >>>part swap --onpart sda3 >>>part raid.05 --onpart sda6 --noformat >>>part raid.07 --onpart sda5 >>>part raid.02 --onpart sdb1 >>>part raid.04 --onpart sdb2 >>>part swap --onpart sdb3 >>>part raid.06 --onpart sdb6 --noformat >>>part raid.08 --onpart sdb5 >>>raid /boot --level=1 --device=md0 --fstype ext2 raid.01 raid.02 >>>raid / --level=1 --device=md1 --fstype ext3 raid.03 raid.04 >>>raid /var --level=1 --device=md2 --fstype ext3 raid.07 raid.08 >>>raid /home --level=1 --device=md3 --fstype ext3 --noformat raid.05 raid.06 >>> >>> >>>Thanks, any suggestions appreciated >> >> >>So, this is a software RAID? Which device is /home on under 7.2? From >>your ks.cfg file, I'm guessing it's md3 (raid 05/raid 06). >> >>I'm not at all certain you can do an upgrade from 7.2 to ES3 on software >>RAID without reformatting. First, that's one hell of a gear change >>(jumping three major releases) Second, the mechanisms used to support >>software RAID changed quite a bit over that time. I think you're going >>to have to back up /home to some media somewhere and let the system >>format /home to get past that. >> >>Wish I could help more. >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >>- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >>- - >>- Do you know how to save five drowning lawyers? No? GOOD! - >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Redhat-install-list mailing list >>Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >>To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >>redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >>Subject: unsubscribe >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Redhat-install-list mailing list >>Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >>To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >>redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >>Subject: unsubscribe >> > > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - When in doubt, mumble. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Subject: unsubscribe From micros50 at computer.net Wed May 26 17:34:16 2004 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 13:34:16 -0400 Subject: LILO and Zone Alarm In-Reply-To: <40B3EB21.2020706@vitalstream.com> References: <40B3669D.2020801@yahoo.com> <40B376F0.5030509@vitalstream.com> <1085531212.7191.110.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> <40B3EB21.2020706@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <1085592856.6731.8.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 20:56, Rick Stevens wrote: > mylar wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 12:40, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >>Jo > >> > >>6.1? That's over three years dead! Why are you still running that? > >> > > > > > > And you _really_ should think about updating your Linux. 6.1 is > > > >>ancient, creaky, full of security holes and not supported anymore by > >>anyone. Heck, it's still a 2.2 kernel even! Fedora Core 2 is using > >>the 2.6 kernel. > >>------------------------ > >> > >> > > > > Believe it or not I still have an old 166 mhz machine still running > > Redhat 6.0!!! It's still used to provide backup on demand dialup service > > and dns service to a few machines on a home network. I've patched the > > heck out of it and firewalled it as best I can via ipchains. Dial on > > demand service is still provided by the "diald" daemon. It's an oldie > > but serves it's purpose. > > And I have an Alpha machine with 5.2. It's more historic than anything > else. I love having to boot "milo" from a floppy to get it to run. > > That and my MicroVAX II and MicroVAX 3100/10e running VAX/VMS. Oh, > yeah! Ancient technology! Gotta love it! (now, where did I put those > old 9-track tapes of mine...?) Yeah, I started with an early version of Redhat (2.0 I think) running one of the early monolithic 1.X kernels on that 166 Pentium. I gradually upgraded to redhat 3.0 then 5.2 then 6.0 where it's stayed since. Way back when I was pretty adepts in running the Vax systems we had in college and I was interested in acquiring a MicroVAX running Vax/VMS for my at home computing interests. Unfortunately as a college student I couldn't afford such fancy high end computing equipment. I'd still like to acquire a PDP-11 mylar > > Sheesh! :-D > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - A day for firm decisions!!! Well, then again, maybe not! - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 26 17:46:03 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 10:46:03 -0700 Subject: FW: Kickstart partition woes In-Reply-To: <040BC5194880BA4DBAF15C0C9D5A11BA0522E5EC@fhexchange01.gl.fasthosts.co.uk> References: <040BC5194880BA4DBAF15C0C9D5A11BA0522E5EC@fhexchange01.gl.fasthosts.co.uk> Message-ID: <40B4D7DB.6030901@vitalstream.com> Gordon McDowall wrote: > Thanks for the reply Rick, it is looking more and more like I'm going to > have to do the partitioning manually, I can still use kickstart and just > delete the partition section, kickstart then drops you into the manual > partitioning where I can then label the raid devices accordingly before > kickstart takes over again. > Anyway, thanks for your suggestions. As I said, I'm sorry I couldn't help more. The only kickstarts we do here are fresh installs on certain clients' redundant machines, where we have kickstart disks unique to each client. Our clients typically use hardware RAID because the systems can't afford to spend the CPU cycles on software RAID. One client pumps 85Mbps/sec out the network on each system--and there's 12 load-balanced systems involved. That's over 1 Gbps total and that's just one of their eight server farms. Since the hardware RAID systems present the RAID as a physical drive (/dev/sda, etc.), kickstart handles it no differently than a standard drive. As a result, I've not had to deal with software RAID issues too often. Ah, well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Wed May 26 17:51:01 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 10:51:01 -0700 Subject: LILO and Zone Alarm In-Reply-To: <1085592856.6731.8.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> 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> Message-ID: <40B4D905.9040907@vitalstream.com> mylar wrote: > On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 20:56, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>mylar wrote: >> >>>On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 12:40, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Jo >>>> >>>>6.1? That's over three years dead! Why are you still running that? >>>> >>> >>> >>>And you _really_ should think about updating your Linux. 6.1 is >>> >>> >>>>ancient, creaky, full of security holes and not supported anymore by >>>>anyone. Heck, it's still a 2.2 kernel even! Fedora Core 2 is using >>>>the 2.6 kernel. >>>>------------------------ >>>> >>>> >>> >>>Believe it or not I still have an old 166 mhz machine still running >>>Redhat 6.0!!! It's still used to provide backup on demand dialup service >>>and dns service to a few machines on a home network. I've patched the >>>heck out of it and firewalled it as best I can via ipchains. Dial on >>>demand service is still provided by the "diald" daemon. It's an oldie >>>but serves it's purpose. >> >>And I have an Alpha machine with 5.2. It's more historic than anything >>else. I love having to boot "milo" from a floppy to get it to run. >> >>That and my MicroVAX II and MicroVAX 3100/10e running VAX/VMS. Oh, >>yeah! Ancient technology! Gotta love it! (now, where did I put those >>old 9-track tapes of mine...?) > > > Yeah, I started with an early version of Redhat (2.0 I think) running > one of the early monolithic 1.X kernels on that 166 Pentium. I > gradually upgraded to redhat 3.0 then 5.2 then 6.0 where it's stayed > since. > > Way back when I was pretty adepts in running the Vax systems we had in > college and I was interested in acquiring a MicroVAX running Vax/VMS for > my at home computing interests. Unfortunately as a college student I > couldn't afford such fancy high end computing equipment. > > I'd still like to acquire a PDP-11 I've got an old MicroPDP-11 (well, LSI-11) at home that runs (gulp!) RSTS/E, RSX-11M/Plus, and RT-11/XM. And somewhere in the deep, deep recesses of my horde is a (get ready!) PDP-8! Yes, a 12-bit computer! Weird! I dunno if it works now or not. It did when I mothballed it 20-odd years ago. I had WPS-8 on it (a three-user word processor). Ah, memories! ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Wed May 26 18:38:04 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 13:38:04 -0500 Subject: Antique computers (was Re: LILO and Zone Alarm) In-Reply-To: <40B4D905.9040907@vitalstream.com> 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> Message-ID: <20040526183804.GA11613@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:51:01AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > mylar wrote: > >On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 20:56, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >>mylar wrote: > >> > >>>On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 12:40, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>Jo > >>>> > >>>>6.1? That's over three years dead! Why are you still running that? > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>>And you _really_ should think about updating your Linux. 6.1 is > >>> > >>> > >>>>ancient, creaky, full of security holes and not supported anymore by > >>>>anyone. Heck, it's still a 2.2 kernel even! Fedora Core 2 is using > >>>>the 2.6 kernel. > >>>>------------------------ > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>>Believe it or not I still have an old 166 mhz machine still running > >>>Redhat 6.0!!! It's still used to provide backup on demand dialup service > >>>and dns service to a few machines on a home network. I've patched the > >>>heck out of it and firewalled it as best I can via ipchains. Dial on > >>>demand service is still provided by the "diald" daemon. It's an oldie > >>>but serves it's purpose. > >> > >>And I have an Alpha machine with 5.2. It's more historic than anything > >>else. I love having to boot "milo" from a floppy to get it to run. > >> > >>That and my MicroVAX II and MicroVAX 3100/10e running VAX/VMS. Oh, > >>yeah! Ancient technology! Gotta love it! (now, where did I put those > >>old 9-track tapes of mine...?) > > > > > >Yeah, I started with an early version of Redhat (2.0 I think) running > >one of the early monolithic 1.X kernels on that 166 Pentium. I > >gradually upgraded to redhat 3.0 then 5.2 then 6.0 where it's stayed > >since. > > > >Way back when I was pretty adepts in running the Vax systems we had in > >college and I was interested in acquiring a MicroVAX running Vax/VMS for > >my at home computing interests. Unfortunately as a college student I > >couldn't afford such fancy high end computing equipment. > > > >I'd still like to acquire a PDP-11 > > I've got an old MicroPDP-11 (well, LSI-11) at home that runs (gulp!) > RSTS/E, RSX-11M/Plus, and RT-11/XM. And somewhere in the deep, deep > recesses of my horde is a (get ready!) PDP-8! Yes, a 12-bit computer! > Weird! I dunno if it works now or not. It did when I mothballed it > 20-odd years ago. I had WPS-8 on it (a three-user word processor). Gadzooks! In 1970, I did my (Univ. of Okla.) senior project on a PDP-8L. Rocker switches and TeleType ASR-33 to load the boot loader, then it would load the OS from a high-speed optical paper tape reader. > Ah, memories! ;-) Indeed. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - 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 A clean conscience makes a soft pillow. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 26 19:39:39 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 12:39:39 -0700 Subject: Antique computers (was Re: LILO and Zone Alarm) In-Reply-To: <20040526183804.GA11613@bobcat.cumbytel.com> 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> Message-ID: <40B4F27B.603@vitalstream.com> Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:51:01AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>mylar wrote: >> >>>On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 20:56, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> >>> >>>>mylar wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 12:40, Rick Stevens wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>Jo >>>>>> >>>>>>6.1? That's over three years dead! Why are you still running that? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>And you _really_ should think about updating your Linux. 6.1 is >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>ancient, creaky, full of security holes and not supported anymore by >>>>>>anyone. Heck, it's still a 2.2 kernel even! Fedora Core 2 is using >>>>>>the 2.6 kernel. >>>>>>------------------------ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Believe it or not I still have an old 166 mhz machine still running >>>>>Redhat 6.0!!! It's still used to provide backup on demand dialup service >>>>>and dns service to a few machines on a home network. I've patched the >>>>>heck out of it and firewalled it as best I can via ipchains. Dial on >>>>>demand service is still provided by the "diald" daemon. It's an oldie >>>>>but serves it's purpose. >>>> >>>>And I have an Alpha machine with 5.2. It's more historic than anything >>>>else. I love having to boot "milo" from a floppy to get it to run. >>>> >>>>That and my MicroVAX II and MicroVAX 3100/10e running VAX/VMS. Oh, >>>>yeah! Ancient technology! Gotta love it! (now, where did I put those >>>>old 9-track tapes of mine...?) >>> >>> >>>Yeah, I started with an early version of Redhat (2.0 I think) running >>>one of the early monolithic 1.X kernels on that 166 Pentium. I >>>gradually upgraded to redhat 3.0 then 5.2 then 6.0 where it's stayed >>>since. >>> >>>Way back when I was pretty adepts in running the Vax systems we had in >>>college and I was interested in acquiring a MicroVAX running Vax/VMS for >>>my at home computing interests. Unfortunately as a college student I >>>couldn't afford such fancy high end computing equipment. >>> >>>I'd still like to acquire a PDP-11 >> >>I've got an old MicroPDP-11 (well, LSI-11) at home that runs (gulp!) >>RSTS/E, RSX-11M/Plus, and RT-11/XM. And somewhere in the deep, deep >>recesses of my horde is a (get ready!) PDP-8! Yes, a 12-bit computer! >>Weird! I dunno if it works now or not. It did when I mothballed it >>20-odd years ago. I had WPS-8 on it (a three-user word processor). > > > Gadzooks! In 1970, I did my (Univ. of Okla.) senior project on a > PDP-8L. Rocker switches and TeleType ASR-33 to load the boot loader, > then it would load the OS from a high-speed optical paper tape reader. Well, mine was a little newer. Had a version of ODT on PROM, then booted off the hard drive (an RM80, all of 128MB on a 14" fixed platter). WPS-8 wanted VT52 terminals (or a VT100 in VT52 mode with a funky keyboard). >>Ah, memories! ;-) > > > Indeed. Don't get me started with my other stuff: Data General: Nova 2/10, Eclipse Nova, Aviion Xerox: Sigma/7 IBM: S/360/370, S/32, 5100, 5150/60/70 (IBM PC/XT/AT) Burroughs: B2700, M3200 DEC: VAX-11, PDP-11 (various flavors of each) Tandem: NonStop-II HP: 2100, 21MX, Pa/RISC Apollo: Various flavors prior to the buy-out by HP SGI: Almost anything with IRIX on it Sun: Sun 1, 2, 3, 4 (just about everything they've made) Commodore: Amiga (lots of those!) Intel 8080/5: Darned near every micro made in the 70s and 80s Intex x86: Again, you name it, I've seen it Bitslicers: Lots and lots of those custom beasties There are some I've left out and some I'm sure I've just flat forgotten. A lot of it was due to a prevailing mindset at the various firms I've worked for: Q: "What the hell is that thing?" A: "I dunno. Let's make Rick handle it!" Me: "Why, you dirty little %#$@#$%#@@!!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Microsoft is a cross between The Borg and the Ferengi. - - Unfortunately they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to - - do their programming." -- Simon Slavin - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From knowredhat at yahoo.com Wed May 26 20:32:34 2004 From: knowredhat at yahoo.com (abdulahad shaikh) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 13:32:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Activation of network card In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040526203234.84652.qmail@web90101.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Hi Ajai thnx for the help i go the hint and it is working now .lspci worked :) abdul ahad --- Ajai Khattri wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 2004, abdulahad shaikh wrote: > > > I have installed linux 9 my network card gets > > deactivated every time i restart the machine, is > the > > any way i can keep the activated ... > > Sounds like the kernel module is not being > autoloaded. > What sort of network card is it? What does "lspci" > show? > > -- > 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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ From harold at hallikainen.com Wed May 26 20:40:09 2004 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 13:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Antique computers (was Re: LILO and Zone Alarm) In-Reply-To: <20040526183804.GA11613@bobcat.cumbytel.com> 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> Message-ID: <29151.207.177.227.29.1085604009.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> The first community college class I taught was assembly language programming on the PDP-8. We used the Teletype ASR-33 and punched paper tape. You'd use the toggle switches to load in one loader (the RIM loader, maybe), then read a paper tape that would load another loader (the BIN loader, I think). From there, you could load your editor and assembler from paper tape. Once you edited your source (on the Teletype), you'd generate a punched tape. Start the assembler and feed the source tape through twice (two pass assembler). Out would come an object tape. Start up the BIN loader again to read the object tape into core. Then debug with the front panel switches and lights. Remember how the PDP-8 did subroutines without a stack? The return address was stored in the "first" location of the subroutine. A return was then an indirect jump back to the first location, which would take you back to the one that called it. No recursion here! Remember the assembly instruction for two's complement (or negate)? It was CIA for Complement and Increment Accumulator. I used this just a month ago in teaching a logic circuits class on how two's complement arithmetic works. Harold > On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:51:01AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Gadzooks! In 1970, I did my (Univ. of Okla.) senior project on a > PDP-8L. Rocker switches and TeleType ASR-33 to load the boot loader, > then it would load the OS from a high-speed optical paper tape reader. > >> Ah, memories! ;-) > > Indeed. > -- FCC Rules Online at http://www.hallikainen.com From knowredhat at yahoo.com Wed May 26 20:41:39 2004 From: knowredhat at yahoo.com (abdulahad shaikh) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 13:41:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: hard disk mount Message-ID: <20040526204139.33505.qmail@web90109.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Hello i have installed linux 9 on 20 gb hdd the partition is as follows / /boot /swap the first hdd is identified as hda . i have connected a new hdd of 6 gb as hdb i partitioned with parted and labeld it as data with e2label and the fs type as ext2 and made the necessary changes in the /etc/fstab. and created the mount point in mnt dir as data and tried to mount it says mount point not found. the hdd hda is os of ext3 have i left out any thing else other than this ...plz....thanks abdul ahad __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 26 20:42:21 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 13:42:21 -0700 Subject: Antique computers (was Re: LILO and Zone Alarm) In-Reply-To: <29151.207.177.227.29.1085604009.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> 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> <29151.207.177.227.29.1085604009.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <40B5012D.2040902@vitalstream.com> Harold Hallikainen wrote: > The first community college class I taught was assembly language > programming on the PDP-8. We used the Teletype ASR-33 and punched paper > tape. You'd use the toggle switches to load in one loader (the RIM loader, > maybe), then read a paper tape that would load another loader (the BIN > loader, I think). From there, you could load your editor and assembler > from paper tape. Once you edited your source (on the Teletype), you'd > generate a punched tape. Start the assembler and feed the source tape > through twice (two pass assembler). Out would come an object tape. Start > up the BIN loader again to read the object tape into core. Then debug with > the front panel switches and lights. > > Remember how the PDP-8 did subroutines without a stack? The return address > was stored in the "first" location of the subroutine. A return was then an > indirect jump back to the first location, which would take you back to the > one that called it. No recursion here! That was common at the time. The HP 2100 and 21MX used the same mechanism as did the Xerox Sigma series. The first instruction in each subroutine was a "NOP". "To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion." > Remember the assembly instruction for two's complement (or negate)? It was > CIA for Complement and Increment Accumulator. I used this just a month ago > in teaching a logic circuits class on how two's complement arithmetic > works. Yup. A common test for 8080/8085/8088 assembly programmers was "zero the accumulator in a minimum number of cycles". Most neophytes used "MOV A,0" (two bytes, 12 cycles). The correct answer was "XOR A" (XOR accumulator with itself, 1 byte, 4 cycles). Used to trip up a lot of people. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Try to look unimportant. The bad guys may be low on ammo. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Wed May 26 20:58:29 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 15:58:29 -0500 Subject: hard disk mount In-Reply-To: <20040526204139.33505.qmail@web90109.mail.scd.yahoo.com> References: <20040526204139.33505.qmail@web90109.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20040526205829.GA12826@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 01:41:39PM -0700, abdulahad shaikh wrote: > Hello > i have installed linux 9 on 20 gb hdd the partition is > as follows > / > /boot > /swap the first hdd is identified as hda . > > i have connected a new hdd of 6 gb as hdb i > partitioned with parted and labeld it as data with > e2label and the fs type as ext2 and made the necessary > changes in the /etc/fstab. > and created the mount point in mnt dir as data and > tried to mount it says mount point not found. > the hdd hda is os of ext3 > > have i left out any thing else other than this > ...plz....thanks > > abdul ahad Yes. You failed in post the relevant lines from your /etc/fstab. In general, forget about filesystem labels. They are nearly as evil as CS (cable select) on hard drives. Let's say the new partition is /dev/hdb1. Decide where you want it mounted. Say you chose /usr/local/data. First you must make that directory: mkdir /usr/local/data Then your /etc/fstab entry should be something like /dev/hdb1 /usr/local/data ext2 defaults 1 2 Then you can mount /dev/hdb1 or mount /usr/local/data Clear? Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com A clean conscience makes a soft pillow. From Douglas.Chen at Micrel.Com Wed May 26 20:59:53 2004 From: Douglas.Chen at Micrel.Com (Chen, Douglas) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 13:59:53 -0700 Subject: proftpd installation problem Message-ID: <5E7A0AFAE3074E48872CF3B8A78216FD16237E@EMAIL1.micrel.com> Hi, I tried to install ProFtpd (1.2.9-1.7x) on a RedHat 8.0 Phyche machine and got the following message. rpm -i proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x.i386.rpm file /etc/pam.d/ftp from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 file /usr/bin/ftpcount from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 file /usr/bin/ftpwho from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 file /usr/sbin/ftpshut from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 file /usr/share/man/man1/ftpcount.1.gz from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 file /usr/share/man/man1/ftpwho.1.gz from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 file /usr/share/man/man5/xferlog.5.gz from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 file /usr/share/man/man8/ftpshut.8.gz from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 Is there anything I can do to fix this problem? Thank you very much for your help in advance. Douglas From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed May 26 21:12:16 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 14:12:16 -0700 Subject: hard disk mount In-Reply-To: <20040526204139.33505.qmail@web90109.mail.scd.yahoo.com> References: <20040526204139.33505.qmail@web90109.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40B50830.5000707@vitalstream.com> abdulahad shaikh wrote: > Hello > i have installed linux 9 on 20 gb hdd the partition is > as follows > / > /boot > /swap the first hdd is identified as hda . > > i have connected a new hdd of 6 gb as hdb i > partitioned with parted and labeld it as data with > e2label and the fs type as ext2 and made the necessary > changes in the /etc/fstab. > and created the mount point in mnt dir as data and > tried to mount it says mount point not found. > the hdd hda is os of ext3 > > have i left out any thing else other than this > ...plz....thanks Ok, so you used parted on /dev/hdb and made a single partition. You then used: mke2fs /dev/hdb1 to format it and e2label /dev/hdb1 /mnt/data to label it, right? (NOTE: The "e2label" command is completely optional). Then you edited /etc/fstab and added a line such as: /dev/hdb1 /mnt/data ext2 defaults 0 0 and did mkdir /mnt/data to create the mount point, right? If so, then the following three commands are exactly equivalent: mount /dev/hdb1 mount /mnt/data mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/data and should mount the new drive at /mnt/data. If you DIDN'T do the /etc/fstab stuff, then you MUST use the third command: mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/data If yu used the e2label command as I have shown, then the /etc/fstab line could read either as I show above or this way: /mnt/data /mnt/data ext2 defaults 0 0 Personally, I don't like using filesystem labels in the /etc/fstab file. It can confuse things mightily. Assume you have, say, Red Hat 9 installed and decide to put in a new drive with Fedora on it. 1. Make your current drive the slave 2. Put in a new drive as master 3. Install Fedora on new drive (remember, the installer will use e2label and label the partitions with the mountpoint names) 4. Reboot Since you now have two disks, each with partitions labeled the same, will the system mount the old hard drive's partitions or the new drive's? There's really no way to predict and you can have some MAJOR weirdness happen. If you use the physical device names, that's not an issue as the device names are unambiguous. Filesystem labels have a use with removable media (USB drives, ZIP disks, etc.), but only as long as they can't confuse the OS when it boots and runs the "mountall" (or "mount -a") command. In other words, when you boot a machine, there should only be one filesystem with the "/" label, one with the "/usr" label, one with the "/var" label, etc. If you have more than one, you're asking for trouble. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Wed May 26 21:17:49 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 14:17:49 -0700 Subject: proftpd installation problem In-Reply-To: <5E7A0AFAE3074E48872CF3B8A78216FD16237E@EMAIL1.micrel.com> References: <5E7A0AFAE3074E48872CF3B8A78216FD16237E@EMAIL1.micrel.com> Message-ID: <40B5097D.1090906@vitalstream.com> Chen, Douglas wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to install ProFtpd (1.2.9-1.7x) on a RedHat 8.0 Phyche machine and got > the following message. > > rpm -i proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x.i386.rpm > file /etc/pam.d/ftp from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 > file /usr/bin/ftpcount from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 > file /usr/bin/ftpwho from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 > file /usr/sbin/ftpshut from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 > file /usr/share/man/man1/ftpcount.1.gz from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 > file /usr/share/man/man1/ftpwho.1.gz from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 > file /usr/share/man/man5/xferlog.5.gz from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 > file /usr/share/man/man8/ftpshut.8.gz from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 > > Is there anything I can do to fix this problem? Thank you very much > for your help in advance. That's a common glitch. Add the "--force" option: rpm -ivh --force proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x.i386.rpm (the "vh" are "verbose" and "print hashes as you do stuff"--just a little feedback to let you see when things are happening). The conflicts are because proftpd includes man pages that should replace those of the default wu-ftpd. rpm won't let you overwrite files unless you explicitly tell it to (by the "--force" option). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr Wed May 26 23:42:15 2004 From: kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr (Kostas Sfakiotakis) Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 02:42:15 +0300 Subject: proftpd installation problem In-Reply-To: <40B5097D.1090906@vitalstream.com> References: <5E7A0AFAE3074E48872CF3B8A78216FD16237E@EMAIL1.micrel.com> <40B5097D.1090906@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40B52B57.90207@cha.forthnet.gr> Rick Stevens wrote: > Chen, Douglas wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I tried to install ProFtpd (1.2.9-1.7x) on a RedHat 8.0 Phyche machine >> and got >> the following message. >> >> rpm -i proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x.i386.rpm file /etc/pam.d/ftp from >> install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package >> wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >> file /usr/bin/ftpcount from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x >> conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >> file /usr/bin/ftpwho from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x >> conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >> file /usr/sbin/ftpshut from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x >> conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >> file /usr/share/man/man1/ftpcount.1.gz from install of >> proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >> file /usr/share/man/man1/ftpwho.1.gz from install of >> proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >> file /usr/share/man/man5/xferlog.5.gz from install of >> proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >> file /usr/share/man/man8/ftpshut.8.gz from install of >> proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >> >> Is there anything I can do to fix this problem? Thank you very much >> for your help in advance. > > > That's a common glitch. Add the "--force" option: > > rpm -ivh --force proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x.i386.rpm > > (the "vh" are "verbose" and "print hashes as you do stuff"--just a > little feedback to let you see when things are happening). > > The conflicts are because proftpd includes man pages that should replace > those of the default wu-ftpd. rpm won't let you overwrite files unless > you explicitly tell it to (by the "--force" option). Well Rick , i have some pretty nasty memories from forced installations , since they might break something apart . Proftpd and wu-ftpd are both ftp daemons. I don't know what is the meaning of using 2 ftp daemons simultaneously ( if that can be done ) on the same box. So i guess he can remove wu-ftpd prior to installing Proftpd , that way there will be no conflicts . > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From micros50 at computer.net Thu May 27 04:06:38 2004 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 00:06:38 -0400 Subject: FW: Kickstart partition woes In-Reply-To: <040BC5194880BA4DBAF15C0C9D5A11BA0522E5EC@fhexchange01.gl.fasthosts.co.uk> References: <040BC5194880BA4DBAF15C0C9D5A11BA0522E5EC@fhexchange01.gl.fasthosts.co.uk> Message-ID: <1085630798.8817.13.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Those are the breaks. On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 12:31, Gordon McDowall wrote: > Thanks for the reply Rick, it is looking more and more like I'm going to > have to do the partitioning manually, I can still use kickstart and just > delete the partition section, kickstart then drops you into the manual > partitioning where I can then label the raid devices accordingly before > kickstart takes over again. > Anyway, thanks for your suggestions. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > Sent: 26 May 2004 17:19 > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: FW: Kickstart partition woes > > > Gordon McDowall wrote: > > Nope, that's not the issue, I'm, beginning to lose hope :o( > > I have just about exhausted all different options in the partition > section. > > Is there nobody that has tried doing this before, it seems like something > > that should be easy to do. > > All of my attempts have been stabs in the dark, really, Gordon. I don't > do kickstart installs very often. > > It is entirely possible that kickstart doesn't support reusing existing > software RAID devices without reformatting. I don't see such a > restriction in the docs, but that doesn't mean much. You might try > checking the bugzilla archives at bugzilla.redhat.com to see if someone > else has run into this and if there's a fix or work around. If not, > you may have to do the thing manually. I know it's a pain if you're > doing a network install, but that may be your only recourse. > > Sorry I couldn't help more. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > > Sent: 25 May 2004 17:55 > > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > Subject: Re: FW: Kickstart partition woes > > > > > > Gordon McDowall wrote: > > > >>Thanks for the reply, to answer your questions, yes it's software raid and > >>yes /home was on md3, I cannot see why I should not be able to do this new > >>install since if you try a manual install then you can see all the > >>partitions and raid devices and the only thing that needs done is to > > > > relabel > > > >>the raid devices to reflect the partitions and tell it whether to format > > > > the > > > >>raid device or keep the data intact. > > > > > > Erp! I think I found it. Your lines specifying the RAID layout are > > missing some stuff. In your "raid" lines, I think you must have > > "--fstype=ext3" rather than "--fstype ext3". This may be an issue as > > the other partitions are going to be formatted (and ext3 is the default) > > while /home is NOT going to be formatted. I'm surprised it worked at > > all with spaces instead of "=" in those lines. I'd expect some errors > > regarding "can't find device ext2" or "can't find device ext3" in the > > other lines as well. > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > >>Sent: 24 May 2004 18:26 > >>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > >>Subject: Re: FW: Kickstart partition woes > >> > >> > >>Gordon McDowall wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Hi > >>> > >>>I recently sent the following email to the general Redhat list but got no > >>>reply, I was hoping that someone on this list might be able to help > >>>out...please! > >>> > >>>I am currently trying to upgrade a server from Redhat 7.2 to Redhat > >>>Enterprise 3.0, the server is running raid and I would like to keep the > >>>/home partition intact and basically do a full install on the remaining / > >>>/boot and /var partitions. When I try the install it always errors out > >>>with the error "unable to locate raid device None for /home" but as far > as > >> > >>I > >> > >> > >>>can see the partition section of the kickstart file is fine, does anyone > >>>have any suggestions as to what may be the issue. > >>>Here is a copy of the partition section of the ks.cfg file > >>> > >>>#Disk partitioning information > >>>part raid.01 --onpart sda1 > >>>part raid.03 --onpart sda2 > >>>part swap --onpart sda3 > >>>part raid.05 --onpart sda6 --noformat > >>>part raid.07 --onpart sda5 > >>>part raid.02 --onpart sdb1 > >>>part raid.04 --onpart sdb2 > >>>part swap --onpart sdb3 > >>>part raid.06 --onpart sdb6 --noformat > >>>part raid.08 --onpart sdb5 > >>>raid /boot --level=1 --device=md0 --fstype ext2 raid.01 raid.02 > >>>raid / --level=1 --device=md1 --fstype ext3 raid.03 raid.04 > >>>raid /var --level=1 --device=md2 --fstype ext3 raid.07 raid.08 > >>>raid /home --level=1 --device=md3 --fstype ext3 --noformat raid.05 > raid.06 > >>> > >>> > >>>Thanks, any suggestions appreciated > >> > >> > >>So, this is a software RAID? Which device is /home on under 7.2? From > >>your ks.cfg file, I'm guessing it's md3 (raid 05/raid 06). > >> > >>I'm not at all certain you can do an upgrade from 7.2 to ES3 on software > >>RAID without reformatting. First, that's one hell of a gear change > >>(jumping three major releases) Second, the mechanisms used to support > >>software RAID changed quite a bit over that time. I think you're going > >>to have to back up /home to some media somewhere and let the system > >>format /home to get past that. > >> > >>Wish I could help more. > >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > >>- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > >>- - > >>- Do you know how to save five drowning lawyers? No? GOOD! - > >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Redhat-install-list mailing list > >>Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > >>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > >>To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > >>redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > >>Subject: unsubscribe > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>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 roger at audiblefaith.com Thu May 27 04:39:21 2004 From: roger at audiblefaith.com (Roger Harrell) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 21:39:21 -0700 Subject: RPM for PHP 4.3 upgrade Message-ID: <40B570F9.80400@audiblefaith.com> >> I have RedHat 9 with the default 4.2.2 install of PHP. I want to >> upgrade to 4.3 without changing any config options. I may build >> from source, but I'd like to know if there are RPMs available for >> upgrading. I wasn't able to find anything on the RedHat site. > > Remember that RH9 is dead. It end-of-lifed on April 30. Any future > upgrades will need to come from the fedora legacy project. Try their > website (http://www.fedoralegacy.org). I was aware and found an upgrade for the fedora core. Can proceed with confidence with that update? I haven't been following fedora legacy project so am not up to speed on the situation. Thanks, -- Roger From akelly at transparency.org Thu May 27 06:53:08 2004 From: akelly at transparency.org (Andrew Kelly) Date: 27 May 2004 08:53:08 +0200 Subject: Antique computers (was Re: LILO and Zone Alarm) In-Reply-To: <20040526183804.GA11613@bobcat.cumbytel.com> 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> Message-ID: <1085640788.4132.17.camel@hermes.at.home> On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 20:38, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:51:01AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > > mylar wrote: > > >On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 20:56, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > > >>mylar wrote: > > >> > > >>>On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 12:40, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >>> > > >>> > > >>>>Jo > > >>>> > > >>>>6.1? That's over three years dead! Why are you still running that? > > >>>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>>And you _really_ should think about updating your Linux. 6.1 is > > >>> > > >>> > > >>>>ancient, creaky, full of security holes and not supported anymore by > > >>>>anyone. Heck, it's still a 2.2 kernel even! Fedora Core 2 is using > > >>>>the 2.6 kernel. > > >>>>------------------------ > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>> > > >>>Believe it or not I still have an old 166 mhz machine still running > > >>>Redhat 6.0!!! It's still used to provide backup on demand dialup service > > >>>and dns service to a few machines on a home network. I've patched the > > >>>heck out of it and firewalled it as best I can via ipchains. Dial on > > >>>demand service is still provided by the "diald" daemon. It's an oldie > > >>>but serves it's purpose. > > >> > > >>And I have an Alpha machine with 5.2. It's more historic than anything > > >>else. I love having to boot "milo" from a floppy to get it to run. > > >> > > >>That and my MicroVAX II and MicroVAX 3100/10e running VAX/VMS. Oh, > > >>yeah! Ancient technology! Gotta love it! (now, where did I put those > > >>old 9-track tapes of mine...?) > > > > > > > > >Yeah, I started with an early version of Redhat (2.0 I think) running > > >one of the early monolithic 1.X kernels on that 166 Pentium. I > > >gradually upgraded to redhat 3.0 then 5.2 then 6.0 where it's stayed > > >since. > > > > > >Way back when I was pretty adepts in running the Vax systems we had in > > >college and I was interested in acquiring a MicroVAX running Vax/VMS for > > >my at home computing interests. Unfortunately as a college student I > > >couldn't afford such fancy high end computing equipment. > > > > > >I'd still like to acquire a PDP-11 > > > > I've got an old MicroPDP-11 (well, LSI-11) at home that runs (gulp!) > > RSTS/E, RSX-11M/Plus, and RT-11/XM. And somewhere in the deep, deep > > recesses of my horde is a (get ready!) PDP-8! Yes, a 12-bit computer! > > Weird! I dunno if it works now or not. It did when I mothballed it > > 20-odd years ago. I had WPS-8 on it (a three-user word processor). > > Gadzooks! In 1970, I did my (Univ. of Okla.) senior project on a > PDP-8L. Rocker switches and TeleType ASR-33 to load the boot loader, > then it would load the OS from a high-speed optical paper tape reader. > > > Ah, memories! ;-) > > Indeed. This is fun! It's kind of like going to NASA and hearing how some of the old hands used to track lunar movement by throwing goat entrails into a defoliated yew tree and timing the descent of the tail feathers dropped by the magpies that were frightened off. Nurse, another leach, quickly! This man's sweetbreads are full of demons! Andy (sorry, debugging all night, not a pretty sight) From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu May 27 15:42:37 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 08:42:37 -0700 Subject: proftpd installation problem In-Reply-To: <40B52B57.90207@cha.forthnet.gr> References: <5E7A0AFAE3074E48872CF3B8A78216FD16237E@EMAIL1.micrel.com> <40B5097D.1090906@vitalstream.com> <40B52B57.90207@cha.forthnet.gr> Message-ID: <40B60C6D.5040805@vitalstream.com> Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > >> Chen, Douglas wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I tried to install ProFtpd (1.2.9-1.7x) on a RedHat 8.0 Phyche >>> machine and got >>> the following message. >>> >>> rpm -i proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x.i386.rpm file /etc/pam.d/ftp from >>> install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package >>> wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >>> file /usr/bin/ftpcount from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x >>> conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >>> file /usr/bin/ftpwho from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x >>> conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >>> file /usr/sbin/ftpshut from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x >>> conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >>> file /usr/share/man/man1/ftpcount.1.gz from install of >>> proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >>> file /usr/share/man/man1/ftpwho.1.gz from install of >>> proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >>> file /usr/share/man/man5/xferlog.5.gz from install of >>> proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >>> file /usr/share/man/man8/ftpshut.8.gz from install of >>> proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >>> >>> Is there anything I can do to fix this problem? Thank you very much >>> for your help in advance. >> >> >> >> That's a common glitch. Add the "--force" option: >> >> rpm -ivh --force proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x.i386.rpm >> >> (the "vh" are "verbose" and "print hashes as you do stuff"--just a >> little feedback to let you see when things are happening). >> >> The conflicts are because proftpd includes man pages that should replace >> those of the default wu-ftpd. rpm won't let you overwrite files unless >> you explicitly tell it to (by the "--force" option). > > > Well Rick , i have some pretty nasty memories from forced installations > , since they might break something apart . > > Proftpd and wu-ftpd are both ftp daemons. I don't know what is the > meaning of using 2 ftp daemons simultaneously ( if that can be done ) on > the same box. So i guess he can remove wu-ftpd prior to installing > Proftpd , that way there will be no conflicts . You can't use two different ftp daemons unless they're listening on separate ports. Proftpd is far, far more secure than wu-ftpd. In fact, wu-ftpd stopped being shipped with RH9. They went to vsftpd. Not as robust as proftpd, but much better. Trust me, a forced install of proftpd won't hurt anything. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu May 27 15:47:26 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 08:47:26 -0700 Subject: RPM for PHP 4.3 upgrade In-Reply-To: <40B570F9.80400@audiblefaith.com> References: <40B570F9.80400@audiblefaith.com> Message-ID: <40B60D8E.7000702@vitalstream.com> Roger Harrell wrote: > >> I have RedHat 9 with the default 4.2.2 install of PHP. I want to > >> upgrade to 4.3 without changing any config options. I may build > >> from source, but I'd like to know if there are RPMs available for > >> upgrading. I wasn't able to find anything on the RedHat site. > > > > Remember that RH9 is dead. It end-of-lifed on April 30. Any future > > upgrades will need to come from the fedora legacy project. Try their > > website (http://www.fedoralegacy.org). > > I was aware and found an upgrade for the fedora core. Can proceed with > confidence with that update? I haven't been following fedora legacy > project so am not up to speed on the situation. There are probably newer support packages needed for the FC PHP RPM. An attempt at an install will probably list quite a few dependencies that must be satisfied before it'll go on. If you plan to stay with RH9, then I'd really recommend you do keep up with the Fedora Legacy project, as that's the only place you'll be able to get update RPMs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?" "I don't remember" - - -- Chumbawumba, "Amnesia" (TubThumping) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu May 27 15:56:38 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 08:56:38 -0700 Subject: Antique computers (was Re: LILO and Zone Alarm) In-Reply-To: <1085640788.4132.17.camel@hermes.at.home> 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: <40B60FB6.2050401@vitalstream.com> Andrew Kelly wrote: > On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 20:38, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > >>On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:51:01AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >> >>>mylar wrote: >>> >>>>On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 20:56, Rick Stevens wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>mylar wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 12:40, Rick Stevens wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>Jo >>>>>>> >>>>>>>6.1? That's over three years dead! Why are you still running that? >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>And you _really_ should think about updating your Linux. 6.1 is >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>ancient, creaky, full of security holes and not supported anymore by >>>>>>>anyone. Heck, it's still a 2.2 kernel even! Fedora Core 2 is using >>>>>>>the 2.6 kernel. >>>>>>>------------------------ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>Believe it or not I still have an old 166 mhz machine still running >>>>>>Redhat 6.0!!! It's still used to provide backup on demand dialup service >>>>>>and dns service to a few machines on a home network. I've patched the >>>>>>heck out of it and firewalled it as best I can via ipchains. Dial on >>>>>>demand service is still provided by the "diald" daemon. It's an oldie >>>>>>but serves it's purpose. >>>>> >>>>>And I have an Alpha machine with 5.2. It's more historic than anything >>>>>else. I love having to boot "milo" from a floppy to get it to run. >>>>> >>>>>That and my MicroVAX II and MicroVAX 3100/10e running VAX/VMS. Oh, >>>>>yeah! Ancient technology! Gotta love it! (now, where did I put those >>>>>old 9-track tapes of mine...?) >>>> >>>> >>>>Yeah, I started with an early version of Redhat (2.0 I think) running >>>>one of the early monolithic 1.X kernels on that 166 Pentium. I >>>>gradually upgraded to redhat 3.0 then 5.2 then 6.0 where it's stayed >>>>since. >>>> >>>>Way back when I was pretty adepts in running the Vax systems we had in >>>>college and I was interested in acquiring a MicroVAX running Vax/VMS for >>>>my at home computing interests. Unfortunately as a college student I >>>>couldn't afford such fancy high end computing equipment. >>>> >>>>I'd still like to acquire a PDP-11 >>> >>>I've got an old MicroPDP-11 (well, LSI-11) at home that runs (gulp!) >>>RSTS/E, RSX-11M/Plus, and RT-11/XM. And somewhere in the deep, deep >>>recesses of my horde is a (get ready!) PDP-8! Yes, a 12-bit computer! >>>Weird! I dunno if it works now or not. It did when I mothballed it >>>20-odd years ago. I had WPS-8 on it (a three-user word processor). >> >>Gadzooks! In 1970, I did my (Univ. of Okla.) senior project on a >>PDP-8L. Rocker switches and TeleType ASR-33 to load the boot loader, >>then it would load the OS from a high-speed optical paper tape reader. >> >> >>>Ah, memories! ;-) >> >>Indeed. > > > This is fun! > > It's kind of like going to NASA and hearing how some of the old hands > used to track lunar movement by throwing goat entrails into a defoliated > yew tree and timing the descent of the tail feathers dropped by the > magpies that were frightened off. But you had to do that on alternate Thursdays and they had to be fresh entrails. And if you saw a one-legged man with a monkey on the morning of your test, you had swing a dead chicken over your head for 15 minutes, then hurl it into the river to ward of the jinx. That's what "JPL" stands for...Jinx Poultry Lobbers (yes, I used to work there). > Nurse, another leach, quickly! This man's sweetbreads are full of demons! Yes, Doctor. Here's your trephination drill too. Shall I alert the town crier and lay out your Druidian garb as well? We have an appointment at the henge! ;-) > Andy > (sorry, debugging all night, not a pretty sight) Been there. Done that. Have the T-shirt and baseball cap to prove it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - When in doubt, mumble. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From diogenes at vgernet.net Thu May 27 18:00:51 2004 From: diogenes at vgernet.net (Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.) Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 14:00:51 -0400 Subject: Antique computers (was Re: LILO and Zone Alarm) In-Reply-To: <1085640788.4132.17.camel@hermes.at.home> 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: On 27 May 2004 08:53:08 +0200, Andrew Kelly wrote: > On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 20:38, Bob McClure Jr wrote: >> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:51:01AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >> > mylar wrote: >> > >On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 20:56, Rick Stevens wrote: >> > > >> > >>mylar wrote: >> > >> >> > >>>On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 12:40, Rick Stevens wrote: >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>>>Jo >> > >>>> >> > >>>>6.1? That's over three years dead! Why are you still running >> that? >> > >>>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>>And you _really_ should think about updating your Linux. 6.1 is >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>>>ancient, creaky, full of security holes and not supported anymore >> by >> > >>>>anyone. Heck, it's still a 2.2 kernel even! Fedora Core 2 is >> using >> > >>>>the 2.6 kernel. >> > >>>>------------------------ >> > >>>> >> > >>>> >> > >>> >> > >>>Believe it or not I still have an old 166 mhz machine still running >> > >>>Redhat 6.0!!! It's still used to provide backup on demand dialup >> service >> > >>>and dns service to a few machines on a home network. I've patched >> the >> > >>>heck out of it and firewalled it as best I can via ipchains. Dial >> on >> > >>>demand service is still provided by the "diald" daemon. It's an >> oldie >> > >>>but serves it's purpose. >> > >> >> > >>And I have an Alpha machine with 5.2. It's more historic than >> anything >> > >>else. I love having to boot "milo" from a floppy to get it to run. >> > >> >> > >>That and my MicroVAX II and MicroVAX 3100/10e running VAX/VMS. Oh, >> > >>yeah! Ancient technology! Gotta love it! (now, where did I put >> those >> > >>old 9-track tapes of mine...?) >> > > >> > > >> > >Yeah, I started with an early version of Redhat (2.0 I think) running >> > >one of the early monolithic 1.X kernels on that 166 Pentium. I >> > >gradually upgraded to redhat 3.0 then 5.2 then 6.0 where it's stayed >> > >since. >> > > >> > >Way back when I was pretty adepts in running the Vax systems we had >> in >> > >college and I was interested in acquiring a MicroVAX running Vax/VMS >> for >> > >my at home computing interests. Unfortunately as a college student I >> > >couldn't afford such fancy high end computing equipment. >> > > >> > >I'd still like to acquire a PDP-11 >> > >> > I've got an old MicroPDP-11 (well, LSI-11) at home that runs (gulp!) >> > RSTS/E, RSX-11M/Plus, and RT-11/XM. And somewhere in the deep, deep >> > recesses of my horde is a (get ready!) PDP-8! Yes, a 12-bit computer! >> > Weird! I dunno if it works now or not. It did when I mothballed it >> > 20-odd years ago. I had WPS-8 on it (a three-user word processor). >> >> Gadzooks! In 1970, I did my (Univ. of Okla.) senior project on a >> PDP-8L. Rocker switches and TeleType ASR-33 to load the boot loader, >> then it would load the OS from a high-speed optical paper tape reader. >> >> > Ah, memories! ;-) >> >> Indeed. > > This is fun! > > It's kind of like going to NASA and hearing how some of the old hands > used to track lunar movement by throwing goat entrails into a defoliated > yew tree and timing the descent of the tail feathers dropped by the > magpies that were frightened off. > > Nurse, another leach, quickly! This man's sweetbreads are full of demons! > 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. > Andy > (sorry, debugging all night, not a pretty sight) > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Ralph E. 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From kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr Thu May 27 23:38:24 2004 From: kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr (Kostas Sfakiotakis) Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 02:38:24 +0300 Subject: proftpd installation problem In-Reply-To: <40B60C6D.5040805@vitalstream.com> References: <5E7A0AFAE3074E48872CF3B8A78216FD16237E@EMAIL1.micrel.com> <40B5097D.1090906@vitalstream.com> <40B52B57.90207@cha.forthnet.gr> <40B60C6D.5040805@vitalstream.com> Message-ID: <40B67BF0.6050407@cha.forthnet.gr> Rick Stevens wrote: > Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > >> Rick Stevens wrote: >> >>> Chen, Douglas wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I tried to install ProFtpd (1.2.9-1.7x) on a RedHat 8.0 Phyche >>>> machine and got >>>> the following message. >>>> >>>> rpm -i proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x.i386.rpm file /etc/pam.d/ftp from >>>> install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package >>>> wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >>>> file /usr/bin/ftpcount from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x >>>> conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >>>> file /usr/bin/ftpwho from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x >>>> conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >>>> file /usr/sbin/ftpshut from install of proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x >>>> conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >>>> file /usr/share/man/man1/ftpcount.1.gz from install of >>>> proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >>>> file /usr/share/man/man1/ftpwho.1.gz from install of >>>> proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >>>> file /usr/share/man/man5/xferlog.5.gz from install of >>>> proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >>>> file /usr/share/man/man8/ftpshut.8.gz from install of >>>> proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x conflicts with file from package wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8 >>>> >>>> Is there anything I can do to fix this problem? Thank you very much >>>> for your help in advance. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> That's a common glitch. Add the "--force" option: >>> >>> rpm -ivh --force proftpd-1.2.9-1.7x.i386.rpm >>> >>> (the "vh" are "verbose" and "print hashes as you do stuff"--just a >>> little feedback to let you see when things are happening). >>> >>> The conflicts are because proftpd includes man pages that should replace >>> those of the default wu-ftpd. rpm won't let you overwrite files unless >>> you explicitly tell it to (by the "--force" option). >> >> >> >> Well Rick , i have some pretty nasty memories from forced >> installations , since they might break something apart . >> >> Proftpd and wu-ftpd are both ftp daemons. I don't know what is the >> meaning of using 2 ftp daemons simultaneously ( if that can be done ) >> on the same box. So i guess he can remove wu-ftpd prior to installing >> Proftpd , that way there will be no conflicts . > > > You can't use two different ftp daemons unless they're listening on > separate ports. Proftpd is far, far more secure than wu-ftpd. In fact, > wu-ftpd stopped being shipped with RH9. They went to vsftpd. Not as > robust as proftpd, but much better. > > Trust me, a forced install of proftpd won't hurt anything. Are you echoing ???? Got that mail already > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART? - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > From peterotto_linux at adelphia.net Fri May 28 03:22:04 2004 From: peterotto_linux at adelphia.net (peterotto_linux) Date: 27 May 2004 20:22:04 -0700 Subject: Can't mount usb cdrom/cd R/W drive in redhat 9.0 Message-ID: <1085714524.13218.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> During my installation I used my usb cdrom drive to install redhat 9.0. Now that it is up I am unable to mount the usb cdrom, so in turn I am unable to read any cds. Here is some info I hope that might help solve my problem. [root at localhost etc]# cat fstab LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 And here is another [root at localhost etc]# dmesg | grep usb usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 10:15:52 Feb 27 2003 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 11 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd800, IRQ 3 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xdc00, IRQ 5 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver usb.c: registered new driver hiddev usb.c: registered new driver hid usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x46e/0x3002) is not claimed by any active driver. usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage Thanks. From ajay197947 at rediffmail.com Fri May 28 15:39:57 2004 From: ajay197947 at rediffmail.com (ajay chaudhary) Date: 28 May 2004 15:39:57 -0000 Subject: pxe remote booting Message-ID: <20040528153957.25438.qmail@webmail32.rediffmail.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- can anyone tell how to remote boot through pxe server? i have all intel based client machines. pls tell me what are the commands and conf. files thanks ajay From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri May 28 16:55:58 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 09:55:58 -0700 Subject: Can't mount usb cdrom/cd R/W drive in redhat 9.0 In-Reply-To: <1085714524.13218.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1085714524.13218.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <40B76F1E.7020502@vitalstream.com> peterotto_linux wrote: > During my installation I used my usb cdrom drive to install redhat 9.0. > > Now that it is up I am unable to mount the usb cdrom, so in turn I am > unable to read any cds. > > Here is some info I hope that might help solve my problem. > [root at localhost etc]# cat fstab > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults > 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults > 1 2 > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 > 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults > 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults > 0 0 > /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults > 0 0 > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 > noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 USB CDs will appear as SCSI devices, so that device name is /dev/scd0 and not /dev/cdrom. CD/R/RW will generally show up as /dev/sdx (because they're writable). /dev/cdromx is reserved for IDE/ATAPI drives. > And here is another > [root at localhost etc]# dmesg | grep usb > usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs > usb.c: registered new driver hub > usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 > usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 10:15:52 Feb 27 2003 > usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled > usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 11 > usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports > usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 > usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd800, IRQ 3 > usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports > usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 > usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xdc00, IRQ 5 > usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports > usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 > usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver > usb.c: registered new driver hiddev > usb.c: registered new driver hid > usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x46e/0x3002) is not claimed by any > active driver. > usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage What I said above is true for any USB storage device under RH9. They will always be presented to the operating system as SCSI devices. If the media is writable, it will show up as /dev/sdx (this includes CD/R/RW, Flash drives, ZIP disks, etc.). If it's a CDROM (read only) it'll be /dev/scdx. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I doubt, therefore I might be. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mr_invincible at rediffmail.com Fri May 28 19:45:28 2004 From: mr_invincible at rediffmail.com (invincible invincible invincible) Date: 28 May 2004 19:45:28 -0000 Subject: firewall command help Message-ID: <20040528194528.17975.qmail@webmail9.rediffmail.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- ? hi all. can anybody tell me that what is the command to configure the default firewall connections on ethernet specifying the ports like ftp and telnets incoming connection. thanx in advance. regards, From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri May 28 20:20:59 2004 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 13:20:59 -0700 Subject: firewall command help In-Reply-To: <20040528194528.17975.qmail@webmail9.rediffmail.com> References: <20040528194528.17975.qmail@webmail9.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <40B79F2B.1030300@vitalstream.com> invincible invincible invincible wrote: > > hi all. > > can anybody tell me that what is the command to configure the default firewall connections on ethernet specifying the ports like ftp and telnets incoming connection. On RedHat 8.0, 9 and Fedora Core 1: redhat-config-securitylevel On Fedora Core 2: system-config-securitylevel On Gnome Desktops: RedHatIcon->System Settings-> Security Level For more precise control with a GUI, install: http://firestarter.sourceforge.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Death is nature's way of dropping carrier - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From knowredhat at yahoo.com Fri May 28 22:21:34 2004 From: knowredhat at yahoo.com (abdulahad shaikh) Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 15:21:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: 403 forbidden error Message-ID: <20040528222134.79043.qmail@web90106.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Hello every body I wanted to host a internal portal on ip address , i dont have fqdn now, did changes on the httpd.conf located in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file and i also changed the ownership of the file as chown apache.apache readme.html but still getting this error. Forbidden You don't have permission to access /readme.html on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/2.0.40 Server at 150.1.1.132 Port 80 plz guide on this thanking you all in advance.... Regards Abdul Ahad __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ From ajai at bway.net Fri May 28 22:36:33 2004 From: ajai at bway.net (Ajai Khattri) Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 18:36:33 -0400 (EDT) Subject: 403 forbidden error In-Reply-To: <20040528222134.79043.qmail@web90106.mail.scd.yahoo.com> References: <20040528222134.79043.qmail@web90106.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Message-ID: On Fri, 28 May 2004, abdulahad shaikh wrote: > I wanted to host a internal portal on ip address , i > dont have fqdn now, did changes on the httpd.conf > located in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file and i also > changed the ownership of the file as chown > apache.apache readme.html > but still getting this error. You must make the folder readable too "others", i.e. chmod 755 folder (You may also need to make the parent folder readable too). Remember: Apache runs as a different user so as far as file permissions go, it comes under the "other" category so you must give "others" access. -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer From knowredhat at yahoo.com Fri May 28 22:55:00 2004 From: knowredhat at yahoo.com (abdulahad shaikh) Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 15:55:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: 403 forbidden error resolved need help on dns Message-ID: <20040528225500.41211.qmail@web90110.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Hi Every body my 403 error is resolved I need to know the complete configuration for dns now , so the site i have hosted on ip address can be resolved with the fqdn i am new to linux world , i know the working of windows 2000 and dns in windows 2000 i have presently a live server on windows 2000. This is my first task to change all the setup to linux world this is the demo site i am doing to present and working all hard to do it , I have just started a week before that is last friday on linux and doing well till now like pulling up the apache server , fine tuning of the same has to be done. The support from this group is excellent .now i need dns help since i dont have a lots of time. 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URL: -------------- next part -------------- ?hi, check on the configuration of the server ip address or name given properly.check on the port it is using and access through its give port no (eg 10.10.10.1:80)and also check that the httpd daemon is on. chkconfig --list httpd.the status should be on in run level 3 and 5.if not then use this command.chkconfig httpd on.and then type ur server name or localhost or ip address :80 and then try. should work. regards, On Sat, 29 May 2004 abdulahad shaikh wrote : >Hello every body > >I wanted to host a internal portal on ip address , i >dont have fqdn now, did changes on the httpd.conf >located in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file and i also >changed the ownership of the file as chown >apache.apache readme.html >but still getting this error. > > >Forbidden > >You don't have permission to access /readme.html on >this server. > >Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered >while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the >request. >Apache/2.0.40 Server at 150.1.1.132 Port 80 > > >plz guide on this thanking you all in advance.... > >Regards > >Abdul Ahad > > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. >http://messenger.yahoo.com/ > > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-install-list mailing list >Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >Subject: unsubscribe From knowredhat at yahoo.com Sat May 29 10:52:38 2004 From: knowredhat at yahoo.com (abdulahad shaikh) Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 03:52:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: dns help In-Reply-To: <20040526205829.GA12826@bobcat.cumbytel.com> Message-ID: <20040529105238.77986.qmail@web90101.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Hi Bob How are you , can I have some help on the DNS server. Like which are the important files to be configures and the parameters for configuring the same a sample file would be of great help Regards Abdul Ahad --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! 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From fab at s-tunnel.com Sat May 29 18:18:17 2004 From: fab at s-tunnel.com (Alexey Fadyushin) Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 22:18:17 +0400 Subject: dns help References: <20040529105238.77986.qmail@web90101.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <40B8D3E9.AF08ED22@s-tunnel.com> The most important file is 'named.conf' (I assume you are using BIND as a DNS server). You will need to specify in it zones which will be served by your DNS server, if any. If your server will be primary DNS server for the zone, you will need to write files with zone information. That information will be given by the server to its clients in reply to their requests. The information on the 'named.conf' contents could be found in its manpage (man named.conf). That manpage also contains samples of various parts of the file. Alexey Fadyushin Brainbench MVP for Linux. http://www.brainbench.com abdulahad shaikh wrote: > > Hi Bob > > How are you , can I have some help on the DNS server. > > Like which are the important files to be configures and the parameters > for configuring the same a sample file would be of great help > > Regards > > Abdul Ahad > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 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 Sat May 29 19:07:52 2004 From: knowredhat at yahoo.com (abdulahad shaikh) Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 12:07:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: dns help In-Reply-To: <40B8D3E9.AF08ED22@s-tunnel.com> Message-ID: <20040529190752.7901.qmail@web90110.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Hi Alexey Thanks for the support yes i have bind 9.2.1 and i did manage some how i am getting this error. stopping named: rndc: connect failed: connection refused abdul ahad --- Alexey Fadyushin wrote: > The most important file is 'named.conf' (I assume > you are using BIND as > a DNS server). You will need to specify in it zones > which will be served > by your DNS server, if any. If your server will be > primary DNS server > for the zone, you will need to write files with zone > information. That > information will be given by the server to its > clients in reply to their > requests. > > The information on the 'named.conf' contents could > be found in its > manpage > (man named.conf). That manpage also contains samples > of various parts of > the file. > > Alexey Fadyushin > Brainbench MVP for Linux. > http://www.brainbench.com > > > abdulahad shaikh wrote: > > > > Hi Bob > > > > How are you , can I have some help on the DNS > server. > > > > Like which are the important files to be > configures and the parameters > > for configuring the same a sample file would be of > great help > > > > Regards > > > > Abdul Ahad > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ From micros50 at computer.net Sun May 30 03:57:31 2004 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 23:57:31 -0400 Subject: 4 GB Limit with ftp? In-Reply-To: <40B8C0A1.9030801@nauticom.net> References: <40B8C0A1.9030801@nauticom.net> Message-ID: <1085889451.6597.16.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Hmmm...I dunno much about file size limits with Mozilla but if you are downloading via ftp can't you try another ftp client ? "ncftp", "gnuFTP", "axyftp" or other ftp client ? mylar On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 12:56, rab wrote: > Currently, I'm using Red Hat 9. I tried downloading the dvd version of > Fedora Core 2 but I ran into the 4 GB limit with Mozilla 1.5. (I had > installed 1.6 but had to re-install 1.5 because 1.6 kept crashing or > locking up.) I haven't been able to find software that I know will work > and handle files larger than 4 GB. Does anyone have a suggestion for > software? > > 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 rab at nauticom.net Sun May 30 05:13:29 2004 From: rab at nauticom.net (rab) Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 01:13:29 -0400 Subject: 4 GB Limit with ftp? In-Reply-To: <1085889451.6597.16.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> References: <40B8C0A1.9030801@nauticom.net> <1085889451.6597.16.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Message-ID: <40B96D79.60306@nauticom.net> mylar wrote: >Hmmm...I dunno much about file size limits with Mozilla but if you are >downloading via ftp can't you try another ftp client ? "ncftp", >"gnuFTP", "axyftp" or other ftp client ? > >mylar > > > Yes, I can try them (I have ncftp and like it) but it takes 10-12 hours to do the download just to see it fail. I would like to know in advance! Rick B. From rab at nauticom.net Sun May 30 05:20:17 2004 From: rab at nauticom.net (rab) Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 01:20:17 -0400 Subject: Using 120gb USB Drive to Boot Linux Message-ID: <40B96F11.9020401@nauticom.net> 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. 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.) Any insights would be greatly appreciated. Rick B. From rab at nauticom.net Sun May 30 05:20:17 2004 From: rab at nauticom.net (rab) Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 01:20:17 -0400 Subject: Using 120gb USB Drive to Boot Linux Message-ID: <40B96F11.9020401@nauticom.net> 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. 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.) Any insights would be greatly appreciated. Rick B. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list at redhat.com To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list From gnichols at tpg.com.au Sun May 30 05:47:29 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 15:47:29 +1000 Subject: Configuring RH8 to use an ADSL Modem/Router Message-ID: <40B97571.9080208@tpg.com.au> Hello Rick and Folks, 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. 2. Select dynamically assigned ip address. 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. 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. 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. 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 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 # 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 The last few lines from /var/log/messages:- May 29 12:57:07 localhost pppd[2773]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 May 29 12:57:07 localhost pppd[2773]: Using interface ppp0 May 29 12:57:07 localhost pppd[2773]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1 May 29 12:57:07 localhost /etc/hotplug/net.agent: assuming ppp0 is already up May 29 12:57:38 localhost pppd[2773]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests May 29 12:57:38 localhost pppd[2773]: Connection terminated. May 29 12:57:38 localhost /etc/hotplug/net.agent: NET unregister event not supported May 29 12:57:42 localhost pppoe[2774]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets May 29 12:57:42 localhost pppd[2773]: Exit. May 29 12:57:42 localhost adsl-connect: ADSL connection lost; attempting re-connection. May 29 12:57:47 localhost pppd[2843]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 May 29 12:57:47 localhost pppd[2843]: Using interface ppp0 May 29 12:57:47 localhost pppd[2843]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1 May 29 12:57:47 localhost /etc/hotplug/net.agent: assuming ppp0 is already up May 29 12:58:18 localhost pppd[2843]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests May 29 12:58:18 localhost pppd[2843]: Connection terminated. May 29 12:58:18 localhost /etc/hotplug/net.agent: NET unregister event not supported May 29 12:58:22 localhost pppoe[2844]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets May 29 12:58:22 localhost pppd[2843]: Exit. Now all the above must mean something but to me, network novice, it doesn't jump out at me. 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... -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols. From harold at hallikainen.com Sun May 30 06:50:53 2004 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 23:50:53 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Using 120gb USB Drive to Boot Linux In-Reply-To: <40B96F11.9020401@nauticom.net> References: <40B96F11.9020401@nauticom.net> Message-ID: <4567.192.168.1.1.1085899853.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> I've read that many Intel motherboards will boot from USB. Some day I want to build a USB raid array! Harold > 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. > > 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.) > > Any insights would be greatly appreciated. > > 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 > -- FCC Rules Online at http://www.hallikainen.com From admin at tootai.net Sun May 30 10:38:12 2004 From: admin at tootai.net (administrator tootai) Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 12:38:12 +0200 Subject: Configuring RH8 to use an ADSL Modem/Router In-Reply-To: <40B97571.9080208@tpg.com.au> References: <40B97571.9080208@tpg.com.au> Message-ID: <40B9B994.4040903@tootai.net> 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. -- Daniel From kgoodwin at datamarktech.com Sun May 30 17:12:50 2004 From: kgoodwin at datamarktech.com (Kenneth Goodwin) Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 13:12:50 -0400 Subject: 4 GB Limit with ftp? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 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. > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of mylar > Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 11:58 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: 4 GB Limit with ftp? > > > Hmmm...I dunno much about file size limits with Mozilla but > if you are > downloading via ftp can't you try another ftp client ? "ncftp", > "gnuFTP", "axyftp" or other ftp client ? > > mylar > > > On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 12:56, rab wrote: > > Currently, I'm using Red Hat 9. I tried downloading the > dvd version of > > Fedora Core 2 but I ran into the 4 GB limit with Mozilla > 1.5. (I had > > installed 1.6 but had to re-install 1.5 because 1.6 kept > crashing or > > locking up.) I haven't been able to find software that I > know will work > > and handle files larger than 4 GB. Does anyone have a > suggestion for > > software? > > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > From harold at hallikainen.com Sun May 30 18:17:29 2004 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 11:17:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: RH equivalent to winipcfg? Message-ID: <2235.192.168.1.1.1085941049.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> Is there an equivalent to winipcfg (or whatever it's called) for RH8 and RH9? I'd like to (easily) see what DHCP has assigned to this machine. I'm sure it's buried in the docs somewhere, but I don't know where. THANKS! Harold -- FCC Rules Online at http://www.hallikainen.com From micros50 at computer.net Sun May 30 18:29:02 2004 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 14:29:02 -0400 Subject: 4 GB Limit with ftp? In-Reply-To: <40B96D79.60306@nauticom.net> References: <40B8C0A1.9030801@nauticom.net> <1085889451.6597.16.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> <40B96D79.60306@nauticom.net> Message-ID: <1085941742.1557.17.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 01:13, rab wrote: > mylar wrote: > > >Hmmm...I dunno much about file size limits with Mozilla but if you are > >downloading via ftp can't you try another ftp client ? "ncftp", > >"gnuFTP", "axyftp" or other ftp client ? > > > >mylar > > > > > > > Yes, I can try them (I have ncftp and like it) but it takes 10-12 hours > to do the download just to see it fail. I would like to know in advance! > > Rick B. 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 tpotter at techmarin.com Sun May 30 18:45:16 2004 From: tpotter at techmarin.com (Ted Potter) Date: 30 May 2004 11:45:16 -0700 Subject: RH equivalent to winipcfg? In-Reply-To: <2235.192.168.1.1.1085941049.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> References: <2235.192.168.1.1.1085941049.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <1085942716.3451.5.camel@interjet.techmarin.com> ifconfig does the trick [root at interjet root]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:B4:91:88:9C inet addr:192.168.123.2 Bcast:192.168.123.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:14496 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:11190 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:17730430 (16.9 Mb) TX bytes:2399564 (2.2 Mb) Interrupt:12 Base address:0xaf80 On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 11:17, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > Is there an equivalent to winipcfg (or whatever it's called) for RH8 and > RH9? I'd like to (easily) see what DHCP has assigned to this machine. I'm > sure it's buried in the docs somewhere, but I don't know where. > > THANKS! > > Harold > > > From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Sun May 30 18:47:16 2004 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 13:47:16 -0500 Subject: RH equivalent to winipcfg? In-Reply-To: <2235.192.168.1.1.1085941049.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> References: <2235.192.168.1.1.1085941049.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <20040530184716.GA4918@bobcat.cumbytel.com> On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 11:17:29AM -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > Is there an equivalent to winipcfg (or whatever it's called) for RH8 and > RH9? I'd like to (easily) see what DHCP has assigned to this machine. I'm > sure it's buried in the docs somewhere, but I don't know where. > > THANKS! > > Harold I'm not sure what winipcfg does but (as root) give "ifconfig" a try. "man ifconfig" for more information. For network routing information, try "netstat -rn". Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Heaven -- don't miss it for the world. From harold at hallikainen.com Sun May 30 19:37:45 2004 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 12:37:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: <3387.192.168.1.1.1085945865.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> Both these give the IP address that was assigned to this machine, but do not reveal the DNS info the DHCP server told it. THANKS to all! Harold On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 11:17:29AM -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > Is there an equivalent to winipcfg (or whatever it's called) for RH8 and > RH9? I'd like to (easily) see what DHCP has assigned to this machine. I'm > sure it's buried in the docs somewhere, but I don't know where. > > THANKS! > > Harold I'm not sure what winipcfg does but (as root) give "ifconfig" a try. "man ifconfig" for more information. For network routing information, try "netstat -rn". Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Heaven -- don't miss it for the world. _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Subject: unsubscribe -- FCC Rules Online at http://www.hallikainen.com From David.Mackintosh at xdroop.com Sun May 30 20:58:35 2004 From: David.Mackintosh at xdroop.com (David Mackintosh) Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 16:58:35 -0400 Subject: (no subject) In-Reply-To: <3387.192.168.1.1.1085945865.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> References: <3387.192.168.1.1.1085945865.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <20040530205835.GE4645@xdroop.com> Your dhcpd client probably changes /etc/resolv.conf, have a look there: # cat /etc/resolv.conf On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 12:37:45PM -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > Both these give the IP address that was assigned to this machine, but do > not reveal the DNS info the DHCP server told it. > > THANKS to all! > > Harold > > > On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 11:17:29AM -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > Is there an equivalent to winipcfg (or whatever it's called) for RH8 and > > RH9? I'd like to (easily) see what DHCP has assigned to this machine. I'm > > sure it's buried in the docs somewhere, but I don't know where. > > > > THANKS! > > > > Harold > > I'm not sure what winipcfg does but (as root) give "ifconfig" a try. > "man ifconfig" for more information. For network routing information, > try "netstat -rn". > > Cheers, > -- > Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. > robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com > Heaven -- don't miss it for the world. > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > > > -- > FCC Rules Online at http://www.hallikainen.com > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | From jkinz at kinz.org Sun May 30 22:09:02 2004 From: jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz) Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 18:09:02 -0400 Subject: RH equivalent to winipcfg? In-Reply-To: <2235.192.168.1.1.1085941049.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org>; from harold@hallikainen.com on Sun, May 30, 2004 at 11:17:29AM -0700 References: <2235.192.168.1.1.1085941049.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <20040530180902.A18463@redline.comcast.net> On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 11:17:29AM -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > Is there an equivalent to winipcfg (or whatever it's called) for RH8 and > RH9? I'd like to (easily) see what DHCP has assigned to this machine. I'm > sure it's buried in the docs somewhere, but I don't know where. You're in a gui state of mind. This is linux. There is no native linux command that does what you want. You can cheat and use the distro specififc "redhat-config-network" command. This will give you a point and click gooeey program that you can browse to find the info you want, except for the mac address. You must be root to invoke this from the command line. This won't help you on any other distro. What you really want to do is develop an uinderstanding of what commands and files like ifconfig, /etc/hosts /etc/resolv.conf, and etc... yada yada do on UNIX and UNIX-like systems. Oh yeah - don't mix the use of the gui tool and the direct editing of the system config files. Use only one or the other. (Disclaimer - the above info only valid thru RH 7.2, after that anything could be happening, but is likely to be similar). -- 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 ericw200 at covad.net Mon May 31 00:33:22 2004 From: ericw200 at covad.net (Eric Whitcombe) Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 17:33:22 -0700 Subject: RH equivalent to winipcfg? References: <2235.192.168.1.1.1085941049.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> <20040530180902.A18463@redline.comcast.net> Message-ID: <008c01c446a6$e1859500$0301a8c0@zephyr> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Kinz" To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 3:09 PM Subject: Re: RH equivalent to winipcfg? > On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 11:17:29AM -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > Is there an equivalent to winipcfg (or whatever it's called) for RH8 and > > RH9? I'd like to (easily) see what DHCP has assigned to this machine. I'm > > sure it's buried in the docs somewhere, but I don't know where. > > You're in a gui state of mind. > > This is linux. > There is no native linux command that does what you want. > Actually winipcfig is a command-line utility that gives you a quick read-only output of your network settings including IP address. And ifconfig on linux will give you essentially the same info. RedHat 9 > > You can cheat and use the distro specififc "redhat-config-network" > command. This will give you a point and click gooeey program > that you can browse to find the info you want, except for the mac > address. > > You must be root to invoke this from the command line. > > This won't help you on any other distro. > > What you really want to do is develop an uinderstanding of what commands > and files like ifconfig, /etc/hosts /etc/resolv.conf, and etc... yada > yada do on UNIX and UNIX-like systems. > > Oh yeah - don't mix the use of the gui tool and the direct editing of > the system config files. Use only one or the other. > > (Disclaimer - the above info only valid thru RH 7.2, after that anything > could be happening, but is likely to be similar). > > > > > -- > 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 .. ) > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 gnichols at tpg.com.au Mon May 31 06:03:47 2004 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 16:03:47 +1000 Subject: Configuring RH8 to use an ADSL Modem/Router In-Reply-To: <40B9B994.4040903@tootai.net> References: <40B97571.9080208@tpg.com.au> <40B9B994.4040903@tootai.net> Message-ID: <40BACAC3.9040604@tpg.com.au> 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. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols. From yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn Mon May 31 07:01:01 2004 From: yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn (Yan Peng) Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 15:01:01 +0800 Subject: the RH9.0 server can't boot now with the following error message Message-ID: <200405310702.i4V72tBe028147@stup8.cei.gov.cn> 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. ... Mounting /proc filesystem Creating block devices Creating root devices Mounting Root filesystem Kjournald Starting EXT3-fs mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Pivotroot: pivot_root (sy;sroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 umount /initrd/proc: failed: 2 Free unused kernel memory: 156K Kernel panic: No init food, Try passing init= option to kernel --end The the booting stopped. I did nothing except upgrading some application rpm packages( not kernel rpm packages). And the server worked normal after upgrading. But the server can't be booted after I submitted reboot command. Moreover if I enter "linux rescue" mode, the run "chroot /mnt/sysimage" command, I can find all the file are there. I'd like to know what seems wrong with the server? Thank you very much! Yan Peng yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn 2004-05-31 From admin at tootai.net Mon May 31 08:15:59 2004 From: admin at tootai.net (administrator tootai) Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 10:15:59 +0200 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: <40BAE9BF.7030403@tootai.net> 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 -- Daniel From admin at tootai.net Mon May 31 08:33:49 2004 From: admin at tootai.net (administrator tootai) Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 10:33:49 +0200 Subject: the RH9.0 server can't boot now with the following error message In-Reply-To: <200405310702.i4V72tBe028147@stup8.cei.gov.cn> References: <200405310702.i4V72tBe028147@stup8.cei.gov.cn> Message-ID: <40BAEDED.1080802@tootai.net> 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. >... >Mounting /proc filesystem >Creating block devices >Creating root devices >Mounting Root filesystem >Kjournald Starting >EXT3-fs mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. >Pivotroot: pivot_root (sy;sroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 >umount /initrd/proc: failed: 2 >Free unused kernel memory: 156K >Kernel panic: No init food, Try passing init= option to kernel > > Confirmation from above > >--end > >The the booting stopped. > >I did nothing except upgrading some application rpm packages( not kernel rpm packages). And the server worked normal after upgrading. But the server can't be booted after I submitted reboot command. > > And you didn't change HDD connection? >Moreover if I enter "linux rescue" mode, the run "chroot /mnt/sysimage" command, I can find all the file are there. > > Ok. So try a modprobe aacraid at this step and check your logs >I'd like to know what seems wrong with the server? > > Remember _everything_ you changed ;-) and you will find your solution. >Thank you very much! > > Welcome -- Daniel From brucemcdonal at mindspring.com Mon May 31 10:21:31 2004 From: brucemcdonal at mindspring.com (Bruce McDonald) Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 02:21:31 -0800 Subject: Firewall questions I promised you. Message-ID: 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 $SSH_CLIENT --destination-port 22 \ -j ACCEPT I played with the order of the items on the line and did manage to get rid of Bad argument 22 by moving the (in the trial case I used a destination port line) --dport22 ahead of the destination itself. This did generate a different complaint, which I have forgotten in the intervening time. So, is there an error in the order of the layout of the iptables lines I have listed above? My next error is: iptables v1.2.7a: host/network `yahoo.com' not found Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. I assume this means the firewall is halting packets to or from my DNS server. I still have to check a little further into this, I do have rules that are supposed to allow the traffic. I will post them for your input once I figure that I don't see anything at all wrong with them. (...So expect to see them in about a day...) I fear the rules may be for server to server traffic and not really for client to server. Thanks for any help. Regards, Bruce McDonald From dcalhoun at blomand.net Mon May 31 04:44:16 2004 From: dcalhoun at blomand.net (Dennis Calhoun) Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 23:44:16 -0500 Subject: RH equivalent to winipcfg? In-Reply-To: <008c01c446a6$e1859500$0301a8c0@zephyr> References: <2235.192.168.1.1.1085941049.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> <20040530180902.A18463@redline.comcast.net> <008c01c446a6$e1859500$0301a8c0@zephyr> Message-ID: <0kdlb0tkt83la1lqhrsn23ptb53s0np10b@4ax.com> On Sun, 30 May 2004 17:33:22 -0700, you wrote: > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jeff Kinz" >To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" >Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 3:09 PM >Subject: Re: RH equivalent to winipcfg? > > >> On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 11:17:29AM -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: >> > Is there an equivalent to winipcfg (or whatever it's called) for RH8 and >> > RH9? I'd like to (easily) see what DHCP has assigned to this machine. >I'm >> > sure it's buried in the docs somewhere, but I don't know where. >> >> You're in a gui state of mind. >> >> This is linux. >> There is no native linux command that does what you want. >> > >Actually winipcfig is a command-line utility that gives you a quick >read-only output >of your network settings including IP address. Yes, but while it is true that Winipcfg is launched from a command line (Windows 9x), it does provide information and functions via a GUI window. For Windows NT/2000/XP there is ipconfig, which provides the same basic information and functions, but is strictly command line based, terminal interface display completely. >And ifconfig on linux will give you essentially the same info. >RedHat 9 To get to the real point of my message.... in windows it is relatively clear as to what "ipconfig" represents. That being Windows Internet Protocol Configuration. And yes, in Linux, ifconfig is basically the same thing. But.... In Linux, what does the "if" in ifconfig represent? Just a little curiosity of mine. Dennis C. From paul.lewis at quadensemble.co.uk Mon May 31 10:25:06 2004 From: paul.lewis at quadensemble.co.uk (Paul Lewis) Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 11:25:06 +0100 Subject: RH equivalent to winipcfg? In-Reply-To: <0kdlb0tkt83la1lqhrsn23ptb53s0np10b@4ax.com>; from dcalhoun@blomand.net on Mon, May 31, 2004 at 05:44:16 +0100 References: <2235.192.168.1.1.1085941049.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> <20040530180902.A18463@redline.comcast.net> <008c01c446a6$e1859500$0301a8c0@zephyr> <0kdlb0tkt83la1lqhrsn23ptb53s0np10b@4ax.com> Message-ID: <20040531102506.GA765@karachi.quadensemble.net> On 2004.05.31 05:44, Dennis Calhoun wrote: > On Sun, 30 May 2004 17:33:22 -0700, you wrote: > To get to the real point of my message.... > in windows it is relatively clear as to what "ipconfig" represents. > That being Windows Internet Protocol Configuration. And yes, in > Linux, ifconfig is basically the same thing. But.... > > In Linux, what does the "if" in ifconfig represent? Just a little > curiosity of mine. > > Dennis C. ifconfig - interface configuration utility. From jkinz at kinz.org Mon May 31 15:52:40 2004 From: jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz) Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 11:52:40 -0400 Subject: RH equivalent to winipcfg? In-Reply-To: <008c01c446a6$e1859500$0301a8c0@zephyr>; from ericw200@covad.net on Sun, May 30, 2004 at 05:33:22PM -0700 References: <2235.192.168.1.1.1085941049.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org> <20040530180902.A18463@redline.comcast.net> <008c01c446a6$e1859500$0301a8c0@zephyr> Message-ID: <20040531115240.A23998@redline.comcast.net> On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 05:33:22PM -0700, Eric Whitcombe wrote: > Actually winipcfig is a command-line utility that gives you a quick > read-only output > of your network settings including IP address. Your thinking of ipconfig, the requester referred to "winipcfg" which launches a gui on Windows systems. :) > And ifconfig on linux will give you essentially the same info. > RedHat 9 No - it does not. Take a look at ALL the info that winipcfg pumps out. Really look this time. :) Eric, Your email client is producing about six lines for reply-attribution, one line is sufficient (and expected). There is a patch available which may fix that. Here is the url for patches to MS outlook and exchange that will fix them so they work correctly for internet email use: http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/ -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. "jkinz at kinz.org" is copyright 2004. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at www.kinz.org/policy.html (if you could get there .. ) From ericw200 at covad.net Mon May 31 17:17:10 2004 From: ericw200 at covad.net (Eric Whitcombe) Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 10:17:10 -0700 Subject: RH equivalent to winipcfg? References: <2235.192.168.1.1.1085941049.squirrel@kauko.hallikainen.org><20040530180902.A18463@redline.comcast.net><008c01c446a6$e1859500$0301a8c0@zephyr> <20040531115240.A23998@redline.comcast.net> Message-ID: <00b801c44733$1c640e40$0301a8c0@zephyr> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Kinz" To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 8:52 AM Subject: Re: RH equivalent to winipcfg? > > On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 05:33:22PM -0700, Eric Whitcombe wrote: > > Actually winipcfig is a command-line utility that gives you a quick > > read-only output > > of your network settings including IP address. > > Your thinking of ipconfig, the requester referred to "winipcfg" which > launches a gui on Windows systems. :) > Right. But winipcfg only comes with win9x/ME as Paul pointed out. And from memory and looking at te docs for winipcfg it is also read-only output. > > And ifconfig on linux will give you essentially the same info. > > RedHat 9 > > No - it does not. Take a look at ALL the info that winipcfg pumps out. > Really look this time. :) Yes. That's why I said "essentially"; if you "really" read the user question they wanted to know quickly what IP address their DHCP server gave them. > > Eric, > Your email client is producing about six lines for reply-attribution, > one line is sufficient (and expected). > > There is a patch available which may fix that. > > Here is the url for patches to MS outlook and exchange that will fix > them so they work correctly for internet email use: > > http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ > http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/ > > > Jeff, 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. ;-) Eric > -- > 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 .. ) > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 rab at nauticom.net Mon May 31 17:36:22 2004 From: rab at nauticom.net (rab) Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 13:36:22 -0400 Subject: 4 GB Limit with ftp? In-Reply-To: <1085941742.1557.17.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> References: <40B8C0A1.9030801@nauticom.net> <1085889451.6597.16.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> <40B96D79.60306@nauticom.net> <1085941742.1557.17.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Message-ID: <40BB6D16.9090301@nauticom.net> 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. Rick B. From rab at nauticom.net Mon May 31 17:37:45 2004 From: rab at nauticom.net (rab) Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 13:37:45 -0400 Subject: 4 GB Limit with ftp? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40BB6D69.7040407@nauticom.net> 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.