From matt at wifispark.com Sun Oct 2 06:33:24 2005 From: matt at wifispark.com (Matt O'Donovan) Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 07:33:24 +0100 Subject: CCISS Smart Array 6i and Red Hat 9.0 Message-ID: <000a01c5c71b$31b1d6b0$2200a8c0@D7QK3H0J> Hi, Has anyone ever installed red hat 9.0 on an HP Box with the Smart Array 6i SCSI controller? The CCISS driver loads on install but then reports that there are no drives on the system. I have searched for a week now fo a RH9 driver but to no avail. Its driving me mad! BTW is a Proliant DL360G4 - All suggestions gratefully received! Thanks in advance - Matt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I'm tired/ > >> > > >> > Thanks, > >> > Mark > >> > > >> > >> /etc/rc.d/init.d/cupsd restart > > > > What I should have done... > > > >> > >> or turn on the tube and grab a brew depending.... :-) > > > > Pretty much what I did do. ;-) > > Since I don't drink, let me be a bit more pragmatic. I would recommend > getting used to the following command: > > service servicename [stop|start|restart|status] > > where in your situation, would appear as > > service cupsd restart > > though I prefer to do a service srvname stop, then service srvname start > with a bit of time between. I think that's because I'm used to working on > heavily loaded systems where the services which have to read large config > files need time to 'breath' between stops and starts else sometimes they > don't start up right. I'm probably just paranoid however, so that might > not be necessary. Remember, Karl, that "service whatever restart" is EXACTLY THE SAME as "/etc/rc.d/init.d/whatever restart". The first invokes a shell script to run a shell script ("/sbin/service" is a shell script), the second bypasses the first shell script and runs the second one directly. Just me being my normal, persnickety self! :-D ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - First Law of Work: - - If you can't get it done in the first 24 hours, work nights. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From bharadwaj_chdj at dataone.in Mon Oct 3 17:32:38 2005 From: bharadwaj_chdj at dataone.in (Bharadwaj) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 23:02:38 +0530 Subject: KDE GNOME ? Message-ID: <001101c5c840$73a2abf0$6401a8c0@bharadwaj> I am using redhat 9.0 how to shift between KDE, GNOME desk tops without using command prompt ? How can Identitify them? Bharadwaj. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Oct 3 17:46:34 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 10:46:34 -0700 Subject: Installation issues on redhat linux In-Reply-To: <3DD58C12CC73BF40B5498B065E420714037C5D1E@ex-mail-sea-06.ant.amazon.com> References: <3DD58C12CC73BF40B5498B065E420714037C5D1E@ex-mail-sea-06.ant.amazon.com> Message-ID: <1128361594.16409.112.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 12:24 -0700, Pol, Parikshit wrote: > Hello Folks, > I am trying to install Eclipse 3.1 on my Linux desktop ( Red > Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma) ). As a part of the dependencies I was > trying to install gtk+-2.8.4. While trying to run ./configure it gives > me the following error: > > configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.7.1 atk >= > 1.0.1 pango >= 1.9.0 cairo >= 0.9.2) were not met. > > I just installed glib-2.8.2, pango-1.10.0 and atk-1.10.1. But somehow > pkg-config is not getting it. It is showing the following packages > when I do a list-all. > > parikpol at parikpol:~/downloads> pkg-config --list-all > gmodule-export-2.0 GModule - Dynamic module loader for GLib > freetype2 FreeType 2 - A free, high-quality, and portable > font engine. > gmodule-2.0 GModule - Dynamic module loader for GLib > libxml-2.0 libXML - libXML library version2. > glib-2.0 GLib - C Utility Library > gobject-2.0 GObject - GLib Type, Object, Parameter and > Signal Library > gthread-2.0 GThread - Thread support for GLib > gmodule-no-export-2.0 GModule - Dynamic module loader for GLib > > It is showing an older version of glib-2.0. I am new to linux, so can > someone help me out here? Most of what you want never was available for Red Hat 7.2 (RH7.2). RH7.2 is no longer supported and hasn't been for a long, long time. The earliest Red Hat version that's still actively supported is 7.3 (supported by the Fedora Legacy Project or "FLP"), and I don't know how much longer that will be done (support for RH7.3 was dropped by Red Hat almost two years ago and we can't reasonably expect FLP to support things indefinitely). Upgrade to at least Red Hat 7.3 or Fedora Core 1 (if you wish to stay on a 2.4 kernel). Then we may be able to help you. Sorry! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Careful! Ugly strikes 9 out of 10 people! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Oct 3 17:50:51 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 10:50:51 -0700 Subject: CCISS Smart Array 6i and Red Hat 9.0 In-Reply-To: <000a01c5c71b$31b1d6b0$2200a8c0@D7QK3H0J> References: <000a01c5c71b$31b1d6b0$2200a8c0@D7QK3H0J> Message-ID: <1128361851.16409.117.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 07:33 +0100, Matt O'Donovan wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone ever installed red hat 9.0 on an HP Box with the Smart > Array 6i SCSI controller? The CCISS driver loads on install but then > reports that there are no drives on the system. I have searched for a > week now fo a RH9 driver but to no avail. Its driving me mad! Ooooo! I'm not sure that ever worked right. IIRC, the 6i is a newer controller and the RH9 driver was fooled by it (it looked the same to the OS, but didn't do things quite the same way). > BTW is a Proliant DL360G4 - All suggestions gratefully received! You might have better luck with FC1. For sure, FC2/3/4 understand it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 jreyn at us.ibm.com Mon Oct 3 18:00:51 2005 From: jreyn at us.ibm.com (John Reynolds) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 11:00:51 -0700 Subject: Question about /tmp on OLD RH In-Reply-To: <1128361594.16409.112.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: Hail, collective mind. We have a system running RedHat 7.2 (yes, you shake the case and stone arrowheads fall out). A user wants /tmp increased; it's current part of the root partition. You can't increase / without reconfiguring the system, which I am not about to do if it can be avoided. It would be an easy fix if /tmp could use swap space. I haven't been able to find out if this is possible or no. Since the system is about 500 miles away, I can't experiment; any change I make has to *work*. Does RH7.2 support tmpfs? What would the fstab entry look like? Is there an option I'm overlooking to solve the original problem of increasing /tmp? Thanks. John Reynolds IBM-by-the-Bay San Francisco CA From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Oct 3 18:00:07 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:00:07 -0700 Subject: KDE GNOME ? In-Reply-To: <001101c5c840$73a2abf0$6401a8c0@bharadwaj> References: <001101c5c840$73a2abf0$6401a8c0@bharadwaj> Message-ID: <1128362407.16409.121.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 23:02 +0530, Bharadwaj wrote: > I am using redhat 9.0 > how to shift between KDE, GNOME desk tops without using command > prompt ? > How can Identitify them? Use the "desktop switching tool" in the menu. Gnome can be identified by the menu bar having either a Red Hat logo on the main menu or something that looks like a stylized "G" morphed into a weird footprint. KDE will have the vast majority of its tools start with a "k" ("kcalc", "kmail", "konqueror", etc.). The default desktop for Red Hat is Gnome. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Grabel's Law: 2 is not equal to 3--not even for large values of 2. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Oct 3 18:05:52 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:05:52 -0700 Subject: Question about /tmp on OLD RH In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1128362752.16409.127.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 11:00 -0700, John Reynolds wrote: > Hail, collective mind. > > We have a system running RedHat 7.2 (yes, you shake the case and stone > arrowheads fall out). A user wants /tmp increased; it's current part of > the root partition. You can't increase / without reconfiguring the > system, which I am not about to do if it can be avoided. It would be an > easy fix if /tmp could use swap space. I haven't been able to find out if > this is possible or no. Since the system is about 500 miles away, I can't > experiment; any change I make has to *work*. > > Does RH7.2 support tmpfs? What would the fstab entry look like? Is there > an option I'm overlooking to solve the original problem of increasing > /tmp? Cheap and dirty? Find a big partition (say "/usr"). Then, reboot in single user mode ("linux single" at the boot prompt). Once at the hash prompt: # mkdir /usr/newtmp # cp -a /tmp/* /usr/newtmp # rm -rf /tmp # ln -s /usr/newtmp /tmp What this does is create a new temp directory, "/usr/newtmp". You then copy the contents of the existing /tmp into it, delete the old /tmp directory and create a symbolic link to the new /usr/newtmp and give it the old /tmp name. This generally works. There may be occasions where this might not be ideal--particularly where the system is trying to recover from a disk corruption and /usr isn't mounted yet. However, for 95% of folk, this'll work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - He who laughs last thinks slowest. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From markknecht at gmail.com Mon Oct 3 18:09:08 2005 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 11:09:08 -0700 Subject: CUPS admin for users In-Reply-To: <1128361220.16409.107.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <5bdc1c8b05092916552e4561dd@mail.gmail.com> <200509291853.17174.tpotter@techmarin.com> <5bdc1c8b0509291915h4a82d848t9a9f6bbb94a5bfd5@mail.gmail.com> <30549.198.60.114.90.1128047474.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <1128361220.16409.107.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0510031109k244fa780p7a4c242d3c7ea310@mail.gmail.com> On 10/3/05, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 20:31 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > > On Thu, September 29, 2005 8:15 pm, Mark Knecht said: > > > On 9/29/05, Ted Potter wrote: > > >> On Thursday 29 September 2005 4:55 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >> > > > >> > Thanks Alexey, > > >> > These instructions seem pretty straight forward, but I'm really > > >> > fuzzy tonight. How do I restart the cups daemon after editing the > > >> > cupsd.conf file without rebooting. I'm tired/ > > >> > > > >> > Thanks, > > >> > Mark > > >> > > > >> > > >> /etc/rc.d/init.d/cupsd restart > > > > > > What I should have done... > > > > > >> > > >> or turn on the tube and grab a brew depending.... :-) > > > > > > Pretty much what I did do. ;-) > > > > Since I don't drink, let me be a bit more pragmatic. I would recommend > > getting used to the following command: > > > > service servicename [stop|start|restart|status] > > > > where in your situation, would appear as > > > > service cupsd restart > > > > though I prefer to do a service srvname stop, then service srvname start > > with a bit of time between. I think that's because I'm used to working on > > heavily loaded systems where the services which have to read large config > > files need time to 'breath' between stops and starts else sometimes they > > don't start up right. I'm probably just paranoid however, so that might > > not be necessary. > > Remember, Karl, that "service whatever restart" is EXACTLY THE SAME as > "/etc/rc.d/init.d/whatever restart". The first invokes a shell script > to run a shell script ("/sbin/service" is a shell script), the second > bypasses the first shell script and runs the second one directly. > > Just me being my normal, persnickety self! :-D We'd probably be surprised (and disappointed!) if you weren't! ;-) In my case I've gotten so used to Gentoo and away from Redhat that I just couldn't insert the rc.d for some reason. /etc/init.d/cupsd restart vs. /etc/rc.d/init.d/cupsd restart Go figure... ;-) Thanks, Mark From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Mon Oct 3 18:25:37 2005 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 12:25:37 -0600 (MDT) Subject: CUPS admin for users In-Reply-To: <1128361220.16409.107.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <5bdc1c8b05092916552e4561dd@mail.gmail.com> <200509291853.17174.tpotter@techmarin.com> <5bdc1c8b0509291915h4a82d848t9a9f6bbb94a5bfd5@mail.gmail.com> <30549.198.60.114.90.1128047474.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <1128361220.16409.107.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <33741.207.173.117.242.1128363937.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> On Mon, October 3, 2005 11:40 am, Rick Stevens said: > On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 20:31 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: >> On Thu, September 29, 2005 8:15 pm, Mark Knecht said: >> > On 9/29/05, Ted Potter wrote: >> >> On Thursday 29 September 2005 4:55 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Thanks Alexey, >> >> > These instructions seem pretty straight forward, but I'm really >> >> > fuzzy tonight. How do I restart the cups daemon after editing the >> >> > cupsd.conf file without rebooting. I'm tired/ >> >> > >> >> > Thanks, >> >> > Mark >> >> > >> >> >> >> /etc/rc.d/init.d/cupsd restart >> > >> > What I should have done... >> > >> >> >> >> or turn on the tube and grab a brew depending.... :-) >> > >> > Pretty much what I did do. ;-) >> >> Since I don't drink, let me be a bit more pragmatic. I would recommend >> getting used to the following command: >> >> service servicename [stop|start|restart|status] >> >> where in your situation, would appear as >> >> service cupsd restart >> >> though I prefer to do a service srvname stop, then service srvname start >> with a bit of time between. I think that's because I'm used to working >> on >> heavily loaded systems where the services which have to read large >> config >> files need time to 'breath' between stops and starts else sometimes they >> don't start up right. I'm probably just paranoid however, so that might >> not be necessary. > > Remember, Karl, that "service whatever restart" is EXACTLY THE SAME as > "/etc/rc.d/init.d/whatever restart". The first invokes a shell script > to run a shell script ("/sbin/service" is a shell script), the second > bypasses the first shell script and runs the second one directly. Okay, I give... I knew that, too. It's just easier to type service ... than /etc/rc.d/init.d/sname (even with the nice TAB feature of completing things bash has). On AIX it's stopsrc -s sname then startsrc -s sname... very annoying, IMHO. > > Just me being my normal, persnickety self! :-D Don't stop. I think I speak for at least myself when I say, it's part of your charm... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - First Law of Work: - > - If you can't get it done in the first 24 hours, work nights. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -- karl _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ ____________ __o _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ ____________ _-\<._ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ (_)/ (_) _/ _/ _/ _/ ...................... _/ _/ arl _/_/_/ _/ earson KarlP at ourldsfamily.com --- Senior Consulting Sys/DB Analyst http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com --- 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 karlp at ourldsfamily.com Mon Oct 3 18:39:18 2005 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 12:39:18 -0600 (MDT) Subject: CUPS admin for users In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0510031109k244fa780p7a4c242d3c7ea310@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b05092916552e4561dd@mail.gmail.com> <200509291853.17174.tpotter@techmarin.com> <5bdc1c8b0509291915h4a82d848t9a9f6bbb94a5bfd5@mail.gmail.com> <30549.198.60.114.90.1128047474.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <1128361220.16409.107.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> <5bdc1c8b0510031109k244fa780p7a4c242d3c7ea310@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <33788.207.173.117.242.1128364758.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> On Mon, October 3, 2005 12:09 pm, Mark Knecht said: > On 10/3/05, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 20:31 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: >> > On Thu, September 29, 2005 8:15 pm, Mark Knecht said: >> > > On 9/29/05, Ted Potter wrote: >> > >> On Thursday 29 September 2005 4:55 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > Thanks Alexey, >> > >> > These instructions seem pretty straight forward, but I'm >> really >> > >> > fuzzy tonight. How do I restart the cups daemon after editing the >> > >> > cupsd.conf file without rebooting. I'm tired/ >> > >> > >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Mark >> > >> > >> > >> >> > >> /etc/rc.d/init.d/cupsd restart >> > > >> > > What I should have done... >> > > >> > >> >> > >> or turn on the tube and grab a brew depending.... :-) >> > > >> > > Pretty much what I did do. ;-) >> > >> > Since I don't drink, let me be a bit more pragmatic. I would recommend >> > getting used to the following command: >> > >> > service servicename [stop|start|restart|status] >> > >> > where in your situation, would appear as >> > >> > service cupsd restart >> > >> > though I prefer to do a service srvname stop, then service srvname >> start >> > with a bit of time between. I think that's because I'm used to working >> on >> > heavily loaded systems where the services which have to read large >> config >> > files need time to 'breath' between stops and starts else sometimes >> they >> > don't start up right. I'm probably just paranoid however, so that >> might >> > not be necessary. >> >> Remember, Karl, that "service whatever restart" is EXACTLY THE SAME as >> "/etc/rc.d/init.d/whatever restart". The first invokes a shell script >> to run a shell script ("/sbin/service" is a shell script), the second >> bypasses the first shell script and runs the second one directly. >> >> Just me being my normal, persnickety self! :-D > > We'd probably be surprised (and disappointed!) if you weren't! ;-) > > In my case I've gotten so used to Gentoo and away from Redhat that I > just couldn't insert the rc.d for some reason. > > /etc/init.d/cupsd restart > > vs. > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/cupsd restart So, why haven't you done a ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d /etc/init.d and be done with it? Just my obnoxious two bits. Karl > > Go figure... ;-) > > Thanks, > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -- karl _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ ____________ __o _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ ____________ _-\<._ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ (_)/ (_) _/ _/ _/ _/ ...................... _/ _/ arl _/_/_/ _/ earson KarlP at ourldsfamily.com --- Senior Consulting Sys/DB Analyst http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com --- 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 karlp at ourldsfamily.com Mon Oct 3 18:46:41 2005 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 12:46:41 -0600 (MDT) Subject: CUPS admin for users In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0509301341r2845834fjce57a5dd56340202@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b05092916552e4561dd@mail.gmail.com> <200509291853.17174.tpotter@techmarin.com> <5bdc1c8b0509291915h4a82d848t9a9f6bbb94a5bfd5@mail.gmail.com> <30549.198.60.114.90.1128047474.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <5bdc1c8b0509301304v34e9c3d8h63ab6ca177e716ef@mail.gmail.com> <33757.207.173.117.242.1128111371.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> <5bdc1c8b0509301341r2845834fjce57a5dd56340202@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <33805.207.173.117.242.1128365201.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> On Fri, September 30, 2005 2:41 pm, Mark Knecht said: > On 9/30/05, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: >> >> files need time to 'breath' between stops and starts else sometimes >> they >> >> don't start up right. I'm probably just paranoid however, so that >> might >> >> not be necessary. >> >> >> >> Karl >> > >> > Thanks Karl. I'm down to my one last Redhat machine here. There >> > probably won't be anymore. I haven't had to restart anything in a long >> > time as I've not made any config changes in quite awhile now. >> > Sometimes the brain just goes blank. >> > >> >> So, does that mean the edict has been given to leave Linux, or just >> Redhat? >> >> Karl > > Gosh, not Linux. Just Redhat. RPM repositories just don't work for me. > I end up building so much by hand that I've gone mostly Gentoo. After > I got the hang of the portage/emerge process it's been the best I've > run. That's not saying a lot, but it's been far more stable for me > than Redhat or Fedora ever were. I'm using FC4 now, and it's very stable (after fixing bad RAM) and I've come to really like yum (Yellowdog Update Manager) which comes by default. For example, I had a need to use gnumeric on FC4, which no longer comes standard, and I did yum install gnumeric and it came down, dependencies and all, ready to run... However, with that said, I am playing with the idea of getting a pc up on Ubuntu or Gentoo. I've heard they are pretty stable. > > Keep in mind that as a recently retired home user I have far more time > and fewer schedules than you business guys. I update my machines here > once every two weeks or so. Most updates take only an hour or two. Not > too bad. The best thing is that pretty much every app in the world > seems to be in portage and I don't have to deal with dependencies like > with RPM. apt repositories didn't seem to work much better for me on > my audio boxes although they were fine for the wife and kid. I've not tried to do a complete update with yum. I guess I've never liked the idea of turning over that much control to an outside process. I just don't trust anyone to manage my machines but me... > > Gosh, no, I don't see myself leaving Linux for a long, long time. I've > got three Linux boxes here in my studio. My wife runs Gentoo. My son > has FC2. WE have two more Gentoo boxes running MythTV. We're very much > a Linux family these days. > > I still run one Windows XP machine for some Windows audio apps and > Quicken. (Don't believe what they tell you about Quicken under Wine, > Crossover Office or anything else. IT works, but no well enough. Been > there, done that. I have a couple XP machines and one W2000 and one 98se... Drat. I'm even thinking about picking up an Apple Mac Micro. Karl > > Cheers, > Mark > -- karl _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ ____________ __o _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ ____________ _-\<._ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ (_)/ (_) _/ _/ _/ _/ ...................... _/ _/ arl _/_/_/ _/ earson KarlP at ourldsfamily.com --- Senior Consulting Sys/DB Analyst http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com --- 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 harold at hallikainen.com Mon Oct 3 19:09:03 2005 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 12:09:03 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Windoze SSH and Xwindows? Message-ID: <39765.207.177.227.29.1128366543.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Yesterday, I FINALLY put my new server running FC4 on line, replacing the RH8 machine, and it seems to be working great! Thanks for all the help from this list! I've been using Tera Term to access the RH8 machine from work, but Tera Term does not support the SSH protocol used by FC4. What is a suggested SSH client for Windoze? Also, what do I need to do on a Windoze machine to get Xwindows access to the FC4 machine? THANKS! Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Oct 3 19:37:39 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:37:39 -0700 Subject: CUPS admin for users In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0510031109k244fa780p7a4c242d3c7ea310@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b05092916552e4561dd@mail.gmail.com> <200509291853.17174.tpotter@techmarin.com> <5bdc1c8b0509291915h4a82d848t9a9f6bbb94a5bfd5@mail.gmail.com> <30549.198.60.114.90.1128047474.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <1128361220.16409.107.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> <5bdc1c8b0510031109k244fa780p7a4c242d3c7ea310@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1128368259.16409.137.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 11:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 10/3/05, Rick Stevens wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 20:31 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > > > On Thu, September 29, 2005 8:15 pm, Mark Knecht said: > > > > On 9/29/05, Ted Potter wrote: > > > >> On Thursday 29 September 2005 4:55 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > >> > > > > >> > Thanks Alexey, > > > >> > These instructions seem pretty straight forward, but I'm really > > > >> > fuzzy tonight. How do I restart the cups daemon after editing the > > > >> > cupsd.conf file without rebooting. I'm tired/ > > > >> > > > > >> > Thanks, > > > >> > Mark > > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> /etc/rc.d/init.d/cupsd restart > > > > > > > > What I should have done... > > > > > > > >> > > > >> or turn on the tube and grab a brew depending.... :-) > > > > > > > > Pretty much what I did do. ;-) > > > > > > Since I don't drink, let me be a bit more pragmatic. I would recommend > > > getting used to the following command: > > > > > > service servicename [stop|start|restart|status] > > > > > > where in your situation, would appear as > > > > > > service cupsd restart > > > > > > though I prefer to do a service srvname stop, then service srvname start > > > with a bit of time between. I think that's because I'm used to working on > > > heavily loaded systems where the services which have to read large config > > > files need time to 'breath' between stops and starts else sometimes they > > > don't start up right. I'm probably just paranoid however, so that might > > > not be necessary. > > > > Remember, Karl, that "service whatever restart" is EXACTLY THE SAME as > > "/etc/rc.d/init.d/whatever restart". The first invokes a shell script > > to run a shell script ("/sbin/service" is a shell script), the second > > bypasses the first shell script and runs the second one directly. > > > > Just me being my normal, persnickety self! :-D > > We'd probably be surprised (and disappointed!) if you weren't! ;-) > > In my case I've gotten so used to Gentoo and away from Redhat that I > just couldn't insert the rc.d for some reason. > > /etc/init.d/cupsd restart > > vs. > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/cupsd restart > Go figure... ;-) Depends on how they set things up and whether they subscribe to the standardized directory structure group. "That's what's nice about open standards...you get to pick an choose!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Mon Oct 3 19:41:16 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:41:16 -0700 Subject: CUPS admin for users In-Reply-To: <33741.207.173.117.242.1128363937.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> References: <5bdc1c8b05092916552e4561dd@mail.gmail.com> <200509291853.17174.tpotter@techmarin.com> <5bdc1c8b0509291915h4a82d848t9a9f6bbb94a5bfd5@mail.gmail.com> <30549.198.60.114.90.1128047474.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <1128361220.16409.107.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> <33741.207.173.117.242.1128363937.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <1128368476.16409.142.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 12:25 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > On Mon, October 3, 2005 11:40 am, Rick Stevens said: > > On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 20:31 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > >> On Thu, September 29, 2005 8:15 pm, Mark Knecht said: > >> > On 9/29/05, Ted Potter wrote: > >> >> On Thursday 29 September 2005 4:55 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> >> > > >> >> > Thanks Alexey, > >> >> > These instructions seem pretty straight forward, but I'm really > >> >> > fuzzy tonight. How do I restart the cups daemon after editing the > >> >> > cupsd.conf file without rebooting. I'm tired/ > >> >> > > >> >> > Thanks, > >> >> > Mark > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> /etc/rc.d/init.d/cupsd restart > >> > > >> > What I should have done... > >> > > >> >> > >> >> or turn on the tube and grab a brew depending.... :-) > >> > > >> > Pretty much what I did do. ;-) > >> > >> Since I don't drink, let me be a bit more pragmatic. I would recommend > >> getting used to the following command: > >> > >> service servicename [stop|start|restart|status] > >> > >> where in your situation, would appear as > >> > >> service cupsd restart > >> > >> though I prefer to do a service srvname stop, then service srvname start > >> with a bit of time between. I think that's because I'm used to working > >> on > >> heavily loaded systems where the services which have to read large > >> config > >> files need time to 'breath' between stops and starts else sometimes they > >> don't start up right. I'm probably just paranoid however, so that might > >> not be necessary. > > > > Remember, Karl, that "service whatever restart" is EXACTLY THE SAME as > > "/etc/rc.d/init.d/whatever restart". The first invokes a shell script > > to run a shell script ("/sbin/service" is a shell script), the second > > bypasses the first shell script and runs the second one directly. > > Okay, I give... I knew that, too. It's just easier to type service ... > than /etc/rc.d/init.d/sname (even with the nice TAB feature of completing > things bash has). > > On AIX it's stopsrc -s sname > then startsrc -s sname... very annoying, IMHO. Ah, but then again (to paraphrase Doug Adams), "AIX is something not quite exactly unlike Unix." AIX was written by Locus Computing in the Peoples' Republic of Santa Monica (the same folk who brought you Xenix...ugh!) and is Unix-like, but not Unix. > > Just me being my normal, persnickety self! :-D > > Don't stop. I think I speak for at least myself when I say, it's part of > your charm... Yeah, charming...like a cobra! Heheheheheh! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - When in doubt, mumble. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Oct 3 19:44:58 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:44:58 -0700 Subject: CUPS admin for users In-Reply-To: <33805.207.173.117.242.1128365201.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> References: <5bdc1c8b05092916552e4561dd@mail.gmail.com> <200509291853.17174.tpotter@techmarin.com> <5bdc1c8b0509291915h4a82d848t9a9f6bbb94a5bfd5@mail.gmail.com> <30549.198.60.114.90.1128047474.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <5bdc1c8b0509301304v34e9c3d8h63ab6ca177e716ef@mail.gmail.com> <33757.207.173.117.242.1128111371.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> <5bdc1c8b0509301341r2845834fjce57a5dd56340202@mail.gmail.com> <33805.207.173.117.242.1128365201.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <1128368698.16409.146.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 12:46 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > On Fri, September 30, 2005 2:41 pm, Mark Knecht said: > > On 9/30/05, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > >> >> files need time to 'breath' between stops and starts else sometimes > >> they > >> >> don't start up right. I'm probably just paranoid however, so that > >> might > >> >> not be necessary. > >> >> > >> >> Karl > >> > > >> > Thanks Karl. I'm down to my one last Redhat machine here. There > >> > probably won't be anymore. I haven't had to restart anything in a long > >> > time as I've not made any config changes in quite awhile now. > >> > Sometimes the brain just goes blank. > >> > > >> > >> So, does that mean the edict has been given to leave Linux, or just > >> Redhat? > >> > >> Karl > > > > Gosh, not Linux. Just Redhat. RPM repositories just don't work for me. > > I end up building so much by hand that I've gone mostly Gentoo. After > > I got the hang of the portage/emerge process it's been the best I've > > run. That's not saying a lot, but it's been far more stable for me > > than Redhat or Fedora ever were. > > I'm using FC4 now, and it's very stable (after fixing bad RAM) and I've > come to really like yum (Yellowdog Update Manager) which comes by default. > For example, I had a need to use gnumeric on FC4, which no longer comes > standard, and I did yum install gnumeric and it came down, dependencies > and all, ready to run... However, with that said, I am playing with the > idea of getting a pc up on Ubuntu or Gentoo. I've heard they are pretty > stable. The combination of yum and apt is pretty powerful. > > Keep in mind that as a recently retired home user I have far more time > > and fewer schedules than you business guys. I update my machines here > > once every two weeks or so. Most updates take only an hour or two. Not > > too bad. The best thing is that pretty much every app in the world > > seems to be in portage and I don't have to deal with dependencies like > > with RPM. apt repositories didn't seem to work much better for me on > > my audio boxes although they were fine for the wife and kid. > > I've not tried to do a complete update with yum. I guess I've never liked > the idea of turning over that much control to an outside process. I just > don't trust anyone to manage my machines but me... I've done it and it works pretty well. I don't have the automatic update turned on...simply because some of my stuff is, well, esoteric to say the least. I'm careful about what gets stuffed on and what doesn't. > > Gosh, no, I don't see myself leaving Linux for a long, long time. I've > > got three Linux boxes here in my studio. My wife runs Gentoo. My son > > has FC2. WE have two more Gentoo boxes running MythTV. We're very much > > a Linux family these days. > > > > I still run one Windows XP machine for some Windows audio apps and > > Quicken. (Don't believe what they tell you about Quicken under Wine, > > Crossover Office or anything else. IT works, but no well enough. Been > > there, done that. > > I have a couple XP machines and one W2000 and one 98se... Drat. I'm even > thinking about picking up an Apple Mac Micro. I've got one of those. They're actually called "Mac Minis". It's cute. Slower than molasses in January, but cute. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Oct 3 19:50:22 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:50:22 -0700 Subject: Windoze SSH and Xwindows? In-Reply-To: <39765.207.177.227.29.1128366543.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <39765.207.177.227.29.1128366543.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <1128369022.16409.153.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 12:09 -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > Yesterday, I FINALLY put my new server running FC4 on line, replacing the > RH8 machine, and it seems to be working great! Thanks for all the help > from this list! > > I've been using Tera Term to access the RH8 machine from work, but Tera > Term does not support the SSH protocol used by FC4. What is a suggested > SSH client for Windoze? Putty works. Remember that, by default, all later implementations of ssh use SSHV2. Older machines used SSHV1 (ssh1). > Also, what do I need to do on a Windoze machine to get Xwindows access to > the FC4 machine? You need to permit X access to your Linux machine. As root on the Linux machine: # xhost +hostname-or-IP-of-your-Windows-machine If you're not worried about security, just use "xhost +" instead and you've disabled X security completely. Also, don't forget that X is X--not Windows--so your Windows box must be running an X server package such as Hummingbird for it to work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 karlp at ourldsfamily.com Mon Oct 3 20:07:03 2005 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 14:07:03 -0600 (MDT) Subject: CUPS admin for users In-Reply-To: <1128368698.16409.146.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <5bdc1c8b05092916552e4561dd@mail.gmail.com> <200509291853.17174.tpotter@techmarin.com> <5bdc1c8b0509291915h4a82d848t9a9f6bbb94a5bfd5@mail.gmail.com> <30549.198.60.114.90.1128047474.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <5bdc1c8b0509301304v34e9c3d8h63ab6ca177e716ef@mail.gmail.com> <33757.207.173.117.242.1128111371.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> <5bdc1c8b0509301341r2845834fjce57a5dd56340202@mail.gmail.com> <33805.207.173.117.242.1128365201.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> <1128368698.16409.146.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <34103.207.173.117.242.1128370023.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> On Mon, October 3, 2005 1:44 pm, Rick Stevens said: >> >> I have a couple XP machines and one W2000 and one 98se... Drat. I'm even >> thinking about picking up an Apple Mac Micro. > > I've got one of those. They're actually called "Mac Minis". It's > cute. Slower than molasses in January, but cute. Slow, eh? That's an unabidable tragedy, it is... Mac Mini. Are they really made by Cooper? Alice? hmmm... KLP > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - 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 > -- karl _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ ____________ __o _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ ____________ _-\<._ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ (_)/ (_) _/ _/ _/ _/ ...................... _/ _/ arl _/_/_/ _/ earson KarlP at ourldsfamily.com --- Senior Consulting Sys/DB Analyst http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com --- 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 jreyn at us.ibm.com Mon Oct 3 20:29:34 2005 From: jreyn at us.ibm.com (John Reynolds) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 14:29:34 -0600 Subject: CUPS admin for users In-Reply-To: <1128368698.16409.146.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: >> > >> > I still run one Windows XP machine for some Windows audio apps and >> > Quicken. (Don't believe what they tell you about Quicken under Wine, >> > Crossover Office or anything else. IT works, but no well enough. Been >> > there, done that. >> >> I have a couple XP machines and one W2000 and one 98se... Drat. I'm even >> thinking about picking up an Apple Mac Micro. > >I've got one of those. They're actually called "Mac Minis". It's >cute. Slower than molasses in January, but cute. Slow? Here's a Mac Mini that made the Kessel run in less than three parsecs! http://www.macmod.com/content/view/371/101/ John Reynolds IBM-by-the-Bay San Francisco CA From jreyn at us.ibm.com Mon Oct 3 20:48:36 2005 From: jreyn at us.ibm.com (John Reynolds) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 13:48:36 -0700 Subject: Question about /tmp on OLD RH In-Reply-To: <1128362752.16409.127.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: > >On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 11:00 -0700, John Reynolds wrote: >> Hail, collective mind. >> >> We have a system running RedHat 7.2 (yes, you shake the case and stone >> arrowheads fall out). A user wants /tmp increased; it's current part of >> the root partition. You can't increase / without reconfiguring the >> system, which I am not about to do if it can be avoided. It would be an >> easy fix if /tmp could use swap space. I haven't been able to find out if >> this is possible or no. Since the system is about 500 miles away, I can't >> experiment; any change I make has to *work*. >> >> Does RH7.2 support tmpfs? What would the fstab entry look like? Is there >> an option I'm overlooking to solve the original problem of increasing >> /tmp? > >Cheap and dirty? Find a big partition (say "/usr"). Then, reboot in >single user mode ("linux single" at the boot prompt). Once at the hash >prompt: >> > # mkdir /usr/newtmp > # cp -a /tmp/* /usr/newtmp > # rm -rf /tmp > # ln -s /usr/newtmp /tmp > >What this does is create a new temp directory, "/usr/newtmp". You then >copy the contents of the existing /tmp into it, delete the old /tmp >directory and create a symbolic link to the new /usr/newtmp and give it >the old /tmp name. > >This generally works. There may be occasions where this might not be >ideal--particularly where the system is trying to recover from a disk >corruption and /usr isn't mounted yet. However, for 95% of folk, >this'll work. I think I may need to tweak the permissions on newtmp, too: # chmod 777 newtmp # chmod +t newtmp Sounds like a go, thanks! John Reynolds IBM-by-the-Bay San Francisco CA From parikpol at amazon.com Mon Oct 3 21:04:53 2005 From: parikpol at amazon.com (Pol, Parikshit) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 14:04:53 -0700 Subject: Installation issues on redhat linux Message-ID: <3DD58C12CC73BF40B5498B065E42071403AC5B24@ex-mail-sea-06.ant.amazon.com> Thanks for that. It was company restrictions that makes me stick to 7.2. I am trying to get another version though. -Parik -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 10:47 AM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: Installation issues on redhat linux On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 12:24 -0700, Pol, Parikshit wrote: > Hello Folks, > I am trying to install Eclipse 3.1 on my Linux desktop ( Red > Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma) ). As a part of the dependencies I was > trying to install gtk+-2.8.4. While trying to run ./configure it gives > me the following error: > > configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.7.1 atk >= > 1.0.1 pango >= 1.9.0 cairo >= 0.9.2) were not met. > > I just installed glib-2.8.2, pango-1.10.0 and atk-1.10.1. But somehow > pkg-config is not getting it. It is showing the following packages > when I do a list-all. > > parikpol at parikpol:~/downloads> pkg-config --list-all > gmodule-export-2.0 GModule - Dynamic module loader for GLib > freetype2 FreeType 2 - A free, high-quality, and portable > font engine. > gmodule-2.0 GModule - Dynamic module loader for GLib > libxml-2.0 libXML - libXML library version2. > glib-2.0 GLib - C Utility Library > gobject-2.0 GObject - GLib Type, Object, Parameter and > Signal Library > gthread-2.0 GThread - Thread support for GLib > gmodule-no-export-2.0 GModule - Dynamic module loader for GLib > > It is showing an older version of glib-2.0. I am new to linux, so can > someone help me out here? Most of what you want never was available for Red Hat 7.2 (RH7.2). RH7.2 is no longer supported and hasn't been for a long, long time. The earliest Red Hat version that's still actively supported is 7.3 (supported by the Fedora Legacy Project or "FLP"), and I don't know how much longer that will be done (support for RH7.3 was dropped by Red Hat almost two years ago and we can't reasonably expect FLP to support things indefinitely). Upgrade to at least Red Hat 7.3 or Fedora Core 1 (if you wish to stay on a 2.4 kernel). Then we may be able to help you. Sorry! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Careful! Ugly strikes 9 out of 10 people! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/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 lofstead at cc.gatech.edu Mon Oct 3 21:11:12 2005 From: lofstead at cc.gatech.edu (Jay Lofstead) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 17:11:12 -0400 Subject: Installation problems with FC4 on nforce3 mobo Message-ID: <000201c5c85e$fca3ee50$0a00a8c0@felix> I have an ASUS K8N-E deluxe (nforce3 250) mobo, Opteron 3000+ CPU, 1 GB RAM, Asus branded GeForce 6200 video card, 1 80 GB PATA drive, and 1 300 GB SATA drive. I have tried every suggestion I can find to get FC4 (or FC3) to install on the machine and I have failed. This is a brand-new machine with no OS on the drives yet and I am trying to install from a boot CD. The system keeps failing at the "Cannot open root device" error referenced at: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=62400 I am one of the "rare" users that the "garbage" fix doesn't work. I don't have the ability to network boot as I don't have an appropriate server to boot install from. Is there any way to get FC4 installed on this box at this time? I am certainly willing to try an older version and upgrade, but that hasn't worked either. I have tried other distros with similar failure results. Any help or pointers would be appreciated. Thanks Jay Lofstead From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Oct 3 22:22:18 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:22:18 -0700 Subject: CUPS admin for users In-Reply-To: <34103.207.173.117.242.1128370023.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> References: <5bdc1c8b05092916552e4561dd@mail.gmail.com> <200509291853.17174.tpotter@techmarin.com> <5bdc1c8b0509291915h4a82d848t9a9f6bbb94a5bfd5@mail.gmail.com> <30549.198.60.114.90.1128047474.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> <5bdc1c8b0509301304v34e9c3d8h63ab6ca177e716ef@mail.gmail.com> <33757.207.173.117.242.1128111371.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> <5bdc1c8b0509301341r2845834fjce57a5dd56340202@mail.gmail.com> <33805.207.173.117.242.1128365201.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> <1128368698.16409.146.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> <34103.207.173.117.242.1128370023.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <1128378138.16409.160.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 14:07 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > On Mon, October 3, 2005 1:44 pm, Rick Stevens said: > >> > >> I have a couple XP machines and one W2000 and one 98se... Drat. I'm even > >> thinking about picking up an Apple Mac Micro. > > > > I've got one of those. They're actually called "Mac Minis". It's > > cute. Slower than molasses in January, but cute. > > Slow, eh? That's an unabidable tragedy, it is... Mac Mini. Are they really > made by Cooper? Alice? hmmm... Oh, now that's just evil, Karl! Evil! "No more...Mr. Nice Guy!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Mon Oct 3 22:26:48 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:26:48 -0700 Subject: Question about /tmp on OLD RH In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1128378408.16409.164.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 13:48 -0700, John Reynolds wrote: > > > >On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 11:00 -0700, John Reynolds wrote: > >> Hail, collective mind. > >> > >> We have a system running RedHat 7.2 (yes, you shake the case and stone > >> arrowheads fall out). A user wants /tmp increased; it's current part > of > >> the root partition. You can't increase / without reconfiguring the > >> system, which I am not about to do if it can be avoided. It would be > an > >> easy fix if /tmp could use swap space. I haven't been able to find out > if > >> this is possible or no. Since the system is about 500 miles away, I > can't > >> experiment; any change I make has to *work*. > >> > >> Does RH7.2 support tmpfs? What would the fstab entry look like? Is > there > >> an option I'm overlooking to solve the original problem of increasing > >> /tmp? > > > >Cheap and dirty? Find a big partition (say "/usr"). Then, reboot in > >single user mode ("linux single" at the boot prompt). Once at the hash > >prompt: > >> > > # mkdir /usr/newtmp > > # cp -a /tmp/* /usr/newtmp > > # rm -rf /tmp > > # ln -s /usr/newtmp /tmp > > > >What this does is create a new temp directory, "/usr/newtmp". You then > >copy the contents of the existing /tmp into it, delete the old /tmp > >directory and create a symbolic link to the new /usr/newtmp and give it > >the old /tmp name. > > > >This generally works. There may be occasions where this might not be > >ideal--particularly where the system is trying to recover from a disk > >corruption and /usr isn't mounted yet. However, for 95% of folk, > >this'll work. > > I think I may need to tweak the permissions on newtmp, too: > > # chmod 777 newtmp > # chmod +t newtmp Ah, yup. Me make boo-boo. Sorry! > Sounds like a go, thanks! Good luck, kemosabe! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Oct 3 22:34:06 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:34:06 -0700 Subject: Installation problems with FC4 on nforce3 mobo In-Reply-To: <000201c5c85e$fca3ee50$0a00a8c0@felix> References: <000201c5c85e$fca3ee50$0a00a8c0@felix> Message-ID: <1128378846.16409.171.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 17:11 -0400, Jay Lofstead wrote: > I have an ASUS K8N-E deluxe (nforce3 250) mobo, Opteron 3000+ CPU, 1 GB RAM, > Asus branded GeForce 6200 video card, 1 80 GB PATA drive, and 1 300 GB SATA > drive. I have tried every suggestion I can find to get FC4 (or FC3) to > install on the machine and I have failed. This is a brand-new machine with > no OS on the drives yet and I am trying to install from a boot CD. The > system keeps failing at the "Cannot open root device" error referenced at: > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=62400 Hmmm. Interesting. Do you get through any of the installer stuff (selecting keyboard, etc.) at all? Are you certain you burned the CD correctly? Mount it on some other machine and verify you see a bunch of files on it. If you only see one file, you burned it incorrectly. > I am one of the "rare" users that the "garbage" fix doesn't work. I don't > have the ability to network boot as I don't have an appropriate server to > boot install from. That's very, very weird. > Is there any way to get FC4 installed on this box at this time? I am > certainly willing to try an older version and upgrade, but that hasn't > worked either. I have tried other distros with similar failure results. Again, I'm not clear if the installer starts at all. If it doesn't, and assuming you have a floppy drive and you burned the CD correctly, try downloading something like SmartBoot (http://btmgr.webframe.org/). Boot that puppy up and see if you can transfer to your boot CD. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 miguelas at br.ibm.com Mon Oct 3 23:13:21 2005 From: miguelas at br.ibm.com (miguelas at br.ibm.com) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 20:13:21 -0300 Subject: Miguel A Costa/Brazil/IBM is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 03/10/2005 and will not return until 18/10/2005. I will respond to your message when I return. Please send your requests to raires at br.ibm.com or etempo at br.ibm.com. See ya later. From vlad at nkmz.donetsk.ua Tue Oct 4 14:05:17 2005 From: vlad at nkmz.donetsk.ua (Vlad) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 17:05:17 +0300 Subject: grub-install Message-ID: <11710720589.20051004170517@nkmz.donetsk.ua> Hello redhat-install-list, How can I install GRUB LOADER to /dev/cciss/c0d0. It's a first hard drive on the HP SmartArray5i+ embedded RAID (HP dl380G3 server). ------------------------------------------------------------- [root at dl380-ifs tmp]# grub-install /dev/cciss/c0d0 expr: non-numeric argument /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. ------------------------------------------------------------- -- Best regards, Vlad mailto:vlad at nkmz.donetsk.ua From bharadwaj_chdj at dataone.in Tue Oct 4 16:39:41 2005 From: bharadwaj_chdj at dataone.in (Bharadwaj) Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 22:09:41 +0530 Subject: Any tutorials/fundamentals, advice needed References: <430B6BC0.3070303@totalflood.com> <6.2.3.4.0.20051004093046.02feba40@mail.iwapps.com> Message-ID: <000501c5c902$38345b00$6401a8c0@bharadwaj> Good Evening Every body, 1) I am working as QA Engineer,I want to leran Linux , Can anybody tell any best practices to learn Linux.. Any Good websites / tutorials/ ebooks/ mailing lists. 2) Daily If I spent 2 hours do u think I can learn linux with in 6 months. let us say a level of (4 out 10) 3) Initiatly what are all areas are most importent for linux professional.? Thankxs in advance. Bharadwaj. From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Tue Oct 4 17:05:57 2005 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 12:05:57 -0500 Subject: Any tutorials/fundamentals, advice needed In-Reply-To: <000501c5c902$38345b00$6401a8c0@bharadwaj> References: <430B6BC0.3070303@totalflood.com> <6.2.3.4.0.20051004093046.02feba40@mail.iwapps.com> <000501c5c902$38345b00$6401a8c0@bharadwaj> Message-ID: <20051004170557.GA28890@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 10:09:41PM +0530, Bharadwaj wrote: > Good Evening Every body, > > 1) I am working as QA Engineer,I want to leran Linux , Can anybody tell any > best practices to learn Linux.. > Any Good websites / tutorials/ ebooks/ mailing lists. First and foremost, The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP): http://en.tldp.org/ in particular, the guides http://en.tldp.org/guides.html For particular parts of Linux, look at the HOWTOs. > 2) Daily If I spent 2 hours do u think I can learn linux with in 6 months. > let us say a level of (4 out 10) Hard to say. It depends on your familiarity with other operating systems. It's also important to have some hands-on time with Linux. If you don't have a spare machine on which to install Linux, you can make your Winxx box dual-boot. See the dual-boot HOWTO and similar subjects in TLDP. > 3) Initiatly what are all areas are most importent for linux professional.? Probably system administration. And of that, installation and configuration. Shell scripting might well be next. > Thankxs in advance. > Bharadwaj. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Peace at any price is inflationary. From linuxr at gmail.com Tue Oct 4 17:15:42 2005 From: linuxr at gmail.com (Marc M) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 13:15:42 -0400 Subject: Any tutorials/fundamentals, advice needed In-Reply-To: <20051004170557.GA28890@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <430B6BC0.3070303@totalflood.com> <6.2.3.4.0.20051004093046.02feba40@mail.iwapps.com> <000501c5c902$38345b00$6401a8c0@bharadwaj> <20051004170557.GA28890@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: I would say in order of importance: - install/config - admin a simple lan -scripting, programming, etc. www.linuxmigration.com has some good basic tutorials for a lot of starter stuff. Good luck Marc On 10/4/05, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 10:09:41PM +0530, Bharadwaj wrote: > > Good Evening Every body, > > > > 1) I am working as QA Engineer,I want to leran Linux , Can anybody tell > any > > best practices to learn Linux.. > > Any Good websites / tutorials/ ebooks/ mailing lists. > > First and foremost, The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP): > > http://en.tldp.org/ > > in particular, the guides > > http://en.tldp.org/guides.html > > For particular parts of Linux, look at the HOWTOs. > > > 2) Daily If I spent 2 hours do u think I can learn linux with in 6 > months. > > let us say a level of (4 out 10) > > Hard to say. It depends on your familiarity with other operating > systems. It's also important to have some hands-on time with Linux. > If you don't have a spare machine on which to install Linux, you can > make your Winxx box dual-boot. See the dual-boot HOWTO and similar > subjects in TLDP. > > > 3) Initiatly what are all areas are most importent for linux > professional.? > > Probably system administration. And of that, installation and > configuration. > > Shell scripting might well be next. > > > Thankxs in advance. > > Bharadwaj. > > Cheers, > -- > Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. > robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com > Peace at any price is inflationary. > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Oct 4 17:16:26 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 10:16:26 -0700 Subject: Any tutorials/fundamentals, advice needed In-Reply-To: <20051004170557.GA28890@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <430B6BC0.3070303@totalflood.com> <6.2.3.4.0.20051004093046.02feba40@mail.iwapps.com> <000501c5c902$38345b00$6401a8c0@bharadwaj> <20051004170557.GA28890@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <1128446186.16409.211.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 12:05 -0500, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 10:09:41PM +0530, Bharadwaj wrote: > > Good Evening Every body, > > > > 1) I am working as QA Engineer,I want to leran Linux , Can anybody tell any > > best practices to learn Linux.. > > Any Good websites / tutorials/ ebooks/ mailing lists. > > First and foremost, The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP): > > http://en.tldp.org/ > > in particular, the guides > > http://en.tldp.org/guides.html > > For particular parts of Linux, look at the HOWTOs. I'd also recommend you get a couple of books, such as the O'Reilly book "Linux System Administration" and Sams' "Linux Unleashed". > > 2) Daily If I spent 2 hours do u think I can learn linux with in 6 months. > > let us say a level of (4 out 10) > > Hard to say. It depends on your familiarity with other operating > systems. It's also important to have some hands-on time with Linux. > If you don't have a spare machine on which to install Linux, you can > make your Winxx box dual-boot. See the dual-boot HOWTO and similar > subjects in TLDP. I agree with Bob here. It's almost impossible to say how competent you will become in six months at two hours a day. It depends on your learning speed, whether you can make sense out of the "alphabet soup" of commands, and what your desired goal is. I've been in the computer game for over 30 years, the last 20 or so dealing with various forms of Unix, and I'm STILL learning. For the average person with a technology-oriented mind, you'll probably be an above average sysadmin in six months, but everyone's different. One additional thing you might consider...Red Hat Certification (or, at least, get their course work). > > 3) Initiatly what are all areas are most importent for linux professional.? > > Probably system administration. And of that, installation and > configuration. > > Shell scripting might well be next. Uhm, yeah. Basic sysadmin is the first thing you should get under your belt (user admin, disk admin, installing/removing software, etc.). I think the second thing would be scripting. The third (and if you use the Linux machine as you should) would be mail administration/spam checking/virus checking. Next, find the applications you intend to use a lot and get to know them well (e.g. apache, vsFTP, etc.). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Oct 4 17:28:43 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 10:28:43 -0700 Subject: grub-install In-Reply-To: <11710720589.20051004170517@nkmz.donetsk.ua> References: <11710720589.20051004170517@nkmz.donetsk.ua> Message-ID: <1128446923.16409.218.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 17:05 +0300, Vlad wrote: > Hello redhat-install-list, > > How can I install GRUB LOADER to /dev/cciss/c0d0. It's a first hard > drive on the HP SmartArray5i+ embedded RAID (HP dl380G3 server). > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > [root at dl380-ifs tmp]# grub-install /dev/cciss/c0d0 > expr: non-numeric argument > /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. > ------------------------------------------------------------- It appears that is no mapping between /dev/cciss/c0d0 and your BIOS. Try doing an end run using grub's native device naming convention. If /dev/cciss/c0d0 is the first hard drive on your system (yes, I know it's a RAID), then try one of these: # grub-install hd0 # grub-install /dev/sda If it's the second drive: # grub-install hd1 # grub-install /dev/sdb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From spal at iitk.ac.in Wed Oct 5 05:52:18 2005 From: spal at iitk.ac.in (spal at iitk.ac.in) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:22:18 +0530 (IST) Subject: Any tutorials/fundamentals, advice needed In-Reply-To: <000501c5c902$38345b00$6401a8c0@bharadwaj> References: <430B6BC0.3070303@totalflood.com> <6.2.3.4.0.20051004093046.02feba40@mail.iwapps.com> <000501c5c902$38345b00$6401a8c0@bharadwaj> Message-ID: <1131.172.28.38.93.1128491538.squirrel@webmail.iitk.ac.in> pls go to http://www.iitk.ac.in/LDP/ Sanjay pal NPTEL IIT Kanpur > Good Evening Every body, > > 1) I am working as QA Engineer,I want to leran Linux , Can anybody tell > any > best practices to learn Linux.. > Any Good websites / tutorials/ ebooks/ mailing lists. > > 2) Daily If I spent 2 hours do u think I can learn linux with in 6 months. > let us say a level of (4 out 10) > > 3) Initiatly what are all areas are most importent for linux > professional.? > > > Thankxs in advance. > Bharadwaj. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/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 softnettechno at yahoo.ca Wed Oct 5 14:53:47 2005 From: softnettechno at yahoo.ca (SoftNet Technologies) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 10:53:47 -0400 (EDT) Subject: ldap_bind Problem Message-ID: <20051005145347.88112.qmail@web54510.mail.yahoo.com> Hi, I am configring LDAP on Enterprise Linux v.4. When I am trying to run the following command it gives some errors Command : #ldapadd -x -D "cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com" -W -f /etc/openldap/example.com.ldif the above command is requesting for password and after password it is giving following error ldap_bind: Invalid Credentials (49) Thanks Regards Balkar singh __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca From janis.ozolins at ntlworld.com Wed Oct 5 15:24:32 2005 From: janis.ozolins at ntlworld.com (Janis Ozolins) Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 16:24:32 +0100 Subject: Any tutorials/fundamentals, advice needed In-Reply-To: <1128446186.16409.211.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <430B6BC0.3070303@totalflood.com> <6.2.3.4.0.20051004093046.02feba40@mail.iwapps.com> <000501c5c902$38345b00$6401a8c0@bharadwaj> <20051004170557.GA28890@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <1128446186.16409.211.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <4343F030.4040008@ntlworld.com> Rick Stevens wrote: >On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 12:05 -0500, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > > >>On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 10:09:41PM +0530, Bharadwaj wrote: >> >> >>>Good Evening Every body, >>> >>>1) I am working as QA Engineer,I want to leran Linux , Can anybody tell any >>>best practices to learn Linux.. >>>Any Good websites / tutorials/ ebooks/ mailing lists. >>> >>> >>First and foremost, The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP): >> >>http://en.tldp.org/ >> >>in particular, the guides >> >>http://en.tldp.org/guides.html >> >>For particular parts of Linux, look at the HOWTOs. >> >> > >I'd also recommend you get a couple of books, such as the O'Reilly book >"Linux System Administration" and Sams' "Linux Unleashed". > > Here I absolutely agree all O'Reilly books are really easy understandable. Also I can advice these two links what often helped me: http://www.linuxforums.org https://www.redhat.com/apps/support >>>2) Daily If I spent 2 hours do u think I can learn linux with in 6 months. >>>let us say a level of (4 out 10) >>> >>> >>Hard to say. It depends on your familiarity with other operating >>systems. It's also important to have some hands-on time with Linux. >>If you don't have a spare machine on which to install Linux, you can >>make your Winxx box dual-boot. See the dual-boot HOWTO and similar >>subjects in TLDP. >> >> About two years ago I got both copy of RH9.0 with I use constantly every day and I'm still learning and discovering Linux possibilities. > >I agree with Bob here. It's almost impossible to say how competent you >will become in six months at two hours a day. It depends on your >learning speed, whether you can make sense out of the "alphabet soup" of >commands, and what your desired goal is. I've been in the computer game >for over 30 years, the last 20 or so dealing with various forms of Unix, >and I'm STILL learning. > >For the average person with a technology-oriented mind, you'll probably >be an above average sysadmin in six months, but everyone's different. > >One additional thing you might consider...Red Hat Certification (or, at >least, get their course work). > > > >>>3) Initiatly what are all areas are most importent for linux professional.? >>> >>> >>Probably system administration. And of that, installation and >>configuration. >> >>Shell scripting might well be next. >> >> > >Uhm, yeah. Basic sysadmin is the first thing you should get under your >belt (user admin, disk admin, installing/removing software, etc.). I >think the second thing would be scripting. The third (and if you use >the Linux machine as you should) would be mail administration/spam >checking/virus checking. Next, find the applications you intend to use >a lot and get to know them well (e.g. apache, vsFTP, etc.). > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >- - >- Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else. - >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-install-list mailing list >Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >Subject: unsubscribe > > > -- Regards Janis Phone 07854636404 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In-Reply-To: <000a01c5c9c8$1e561f90$6401a8c0@bharadwaj> References: <000a01c5c9c8$1e561f90$6401a8c0@bharadwaj> Message-ID: <434404E2.9070503@ntlworld.com> Bharadwaj wrote: > Firstly thankx you all for ur adivces, > I have one more question, > > I have installed Windows/LINUX in my mechine, > By default windows is installing, to select between these two > OS, system is giving only 15 seconds, > I want to increase this default time limit how to increase > the time limit ? > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-install-list mailing list >Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >Subject: unsubscribe > So I have grub loader I can tell about it. In file grub.conf you must find line: timeout=15 and change it for needed time in seconds -- Regards Janis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Oct 5 17:28:52 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 10:28:52 -0700 Subject: ldap_bind Problem In-Reply-To: <20051005145347.88112.qmail@web54510.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20051005145347.88112.qmail@web54510.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1128533332.13503.8.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 10:53 -0400, SoftNet Technologies wrote: > Hi, > > I am configring LDAP on Enterprise Linux v.4. When I > am trying to run the following command it gives some > errors > > Command : #ldapadd -x -D > "cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com" -W -f > /etc/openldap/example.com.ldif > > the above command is requesting for password and after > password it is giving following error > > ldap_bind: Invalid Credentials (49) I don't see anything untoward in that. We'd need to see your slapd.conf file to see what's going on. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Millihelen, adj: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Oct 5 17:34:43 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 10:34:43 -0700 Subject: increase selection of OS time for dual boot ?? In-Reply-To: <000a01c5c9c8$1e561f90$6401a8c0@bharadwaj> References: <000a01c5c9c8$1e561f90$6401a8c0@bharadwaj> Message-ID: <1128533683.13503.15.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 21:46 +0530, Bharadwaj wrote: > Firstly thankx you all for ur adivces, > I have one more question, > > I have installed Windows/LINUX in my mechine, > By default windows is installing, to select between these two > OS, system is giving only 15 seconds, > I want to increase this default time limit how to increase > the time limit ? If you use the grub loader, edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and change the "timeout=" value to however many seconds you want, e.g. "timeout=30" for a 30 second timeout. If you're using lilo, edit /etc/lilo.conf. Note that the "timeout=" value in lilo is in TENTHS OF A SECOND, so to delay 30 seconds, use a value of "300". Don't forget to rerun /sbin/lilo after editing this file (not necessary with grub). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - It is better to have loved and lost. Cheaper, too! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Oct 5 17:35:22 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 10:35:22 -0700 Subject: increase selection of OS time for dual boot ?? In-Reply-To: <434404E2.9070503@ntlworld.com> References: <000a01c5c9c8$1e561f90$6401a8c0@bharadwaj> <434404E2.9070503@ntlworld.com> Message-ID: <1128533722.13503.17.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 17:52 +0100, Janis Ozolins wrote: > > > Bharadwaj wrote: > > Firstly thankx you all for ur adivces, > > I have one more question, > > > > I have installed Windows/LINUX in my mechine, > > By default windows is installing, to select between these two > > OS, system is giving only 15 seconds, > > I want to increase this default time limit how to increase > > the time limit ? > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > > Subject: unsubscribe > So I have grub loader I can tell about it. In file grub.conf you must > find line: > > timeout=15 > > and change it for needed time in seconds The file is /boot/grub/grub.conf. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 janis.ozolins at ntlworld.com Wed Oct 5 18:24:46 2005 From: janis.ozolins at ntlworld.com (Janis Ozolins) Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:24:46 +0100 Subject: increase selection of OS time for dual boot ?? In-Reply-To: <1128533722.13503.17.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <000a01c5c9c8$1e561f90$6401a8c0@bharadwaj> <434404E2.9070503@ntlworld.com> <1128533722.13503.17.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <43441A6E.7050705@ntlworld.com> Rick Stevens wrote: >On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 17:52 +0100, Janis Ozolins wrote: > > >>Bharadwaj wrote: >> >> >>>Firstly thankx you all for ur adivces, >>> I have one more question, >>> >>> I have installed Windows/LINUX in my mechine, >>> By default windows is installing, to select between these two >>>OS, system is giving only 15 seconds, >>> I want to increase this default time limit how to increase >>>the time limit ? >>> >>> >>> >>>____________________________________________________________________ >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Redhat-install-list mailing list >>>Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >>>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >>>To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >>>redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >>>Subject: unsubscribe >>> >>> >>So I have grub loader I can tell about it. In file grub.conf you must >>find line: >> >>timeout=15 >> >>and change it for needed time in seconds >> >> > >The file is /boot/grub/grub.conf. > > Oh yes, I'm sorry. >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >- 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 > > > -- Regards Janis Phone 07854636404 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From harold at hallikainen.com Thu Oct 6 03:39:38 2005 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 20:39:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: FC4 and keys and certificates Message-ID: <1255.192.168.1.102.1128569978.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> I last dealt with self-created keys and certificates on RH8, and it looks like stuff has changed on FC4. I used the "create certificate" feature of Cute FTP to create sujan.hallikainen.org.crt sujan.hallikainen.org.csr sujan.hallikainen.org.key Now, I just need to know where to put these so SSL will use them instead of the localhost default in FC4. Googling around has not yielded the answer. Any help appreciated! Thanks! Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com From aostadsaraie at yahoo.com Thu Oct 6 04:26:48 2005 From: aostadsaraie at yahoo.com (Ali Ostadsaraie) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 21:26:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Installing issue Message-ID: <20051006042648.83376.qmail@web30710.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hi All, I'm new in Linux land and need your help regarding installing the new version of RedHat. I just downloaded ReHat 9 and made an iso on 3 CDs. When I tried to install it using CD1, the program asked if I wanted to install it from CD or HD. Obviously I chosed Cd, then it asked me to insert CD#1, which was already in cd drive.So it couldn't find it and I had to abort it. Does anybody knows what the problem is. I don't have such problem in installing older version of RedHat or other Linux. The reason of installing new version of Redhat is that I don't have sound in RedHat 8. So I thought by installing a clean and new version of RedHat the sound issue will be resolved. Thanks. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com From admin at tootai.net Thu Oct 6 08:14:35 2005 From: admin at tootai.net (Administrator TOOTAI) Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:14:35 +0200 Subject: Installing issue In-Reply-To: <20051006042648.83376.qmail@web30710.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20051006042648.83376.qmail@web30710.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4344DCEB.40407@tootai.net> Ali Ostadsaraie a ?crit : >Hi All, > > Hello Ali >I'm new in Linux land and need your help regarding >installing the new version of RedHat. > >I just downloaded ReHat 9 and made an iso on 3 CDs. >When I tried to install it using CD1, the program >asked if I wanted to install it from CD or HD. >Obviously I chosed Cd, then it asked me to insert >CD#1, which was already in cd drive.So it couldn't >find it and I had to abort it. Does anybody knows what >the problem is. > >I don't have such problem in installing older version >of RedHat or other Linux. The reason of installing new >version of Redhat is that I don't have sound in RedHat >8. So I thought by installing a clean and new version >of RedHat the sound issue will be resolved. > >Thanks. > > RH 9 is very old. Please download the cd's from Fedora Core 4 to have the latest version. For your problem, I guess pressing ENTER should do the trick. If not, you must have an error displayed. Don't remember if CTRL-ALT-F3 is working at this stage: this open the log console. -- Daniel From dvantine at gmail.com Thu Oct 6 15:14:20 2005 From: dvantine at gmail.com (vbs) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 11:14:20 -0400 Subject: Video issues in Gui Message-ID: I am new to Linux but have been using SCO and HPUX for years. I am attempting to setup an old Compaq ML370. The video is an embedded ATI IIC video controller chip. My problem is when I try to use the Gui(Xterm) interface the screen goes blank and you can do nothing. I was able to get it installed by installing in command line but require the Gui interface to use the Xterm environment. If you set the startup from 3 back to 5 the same problem occurs that I had when trying to set up. Running StartX is the same result. I have looked on the Knowledge base and done some Googling but can find nothing specific. I assume that Linux is having issues with the drivers and hope someone has resolved this or know how to correct. I am using RedHat AS 4 Update1. Thanks -Dave Vantine From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Thu Oct 6 15:33:14 2005 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 10:33:14 -0500 Subject: Video issues in Gui In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20051006153314.GA4655@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 11:14:20AM -0400, vbs wrote: > I am new to Linux but have been using SCO and HPUX for years. I am > attempting to setup an old Compaq ML370. The video is an embedded ATI > IIC video controller chip. My problem is when I try to use the > Gui(Xterm) interface the screen goes blank and you can do nothing. I > was able to get it installed by installing in command line but require > the Gui interface to use the Xterm environment. If you set the startup > from 3 back to 5 the same problem occurs that I had when trying to set > up. Running StartX is the same result. > > I have looked on the Knowledge base and done some Googling but can > find nothing specific. I assume that Linux is having issues with the > drivers and hope someone has resolved this or know how to correct. I > am using RedHat AS 4 Update1. > > Thanks > -Dave Vantine How far do you get with the instructions here: 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 Peace at any price is inflationary. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Oct 6 16:30:59 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:30:59 -0700 Subject: Installing issue In-Reply-To: <20051006042648.83376.qmail@web30710.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20051006042648.83376.qmail@web30710.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1128616259.13503.53.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 21:26 -0700, Ali Ostadsaraie wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm new in Linux land and need your help regarding > installing the new version of RedHat. > > I just downloaded ReHat 9 and made an iso on 3 CDs. > When I tried to install it using CD1, the program > asked if I wanted to install it from CD or HD. > Obviously I chosed Cd, then it asked me to insert > CD#1, which was already in cd drive.So it couldn't > find it and I had to abort it. Does anybody knows what > the problem is. That is generally indicative that the CD isn't burned properly. You should run an md5 checksum against the CDs involved and verify that the checksum matches that in the MD5SUM file in the repository you got the images from. If you don't have that handy, here they are: 400c7fb292c73b793fb722532abd09ad shrike-i386-disc1.iso 6b8ba42f56b397d536826c78c9679c0a shrike-i386-disc2.iso af38ac4316ba20df2dec5f990913396d shrike-i386-disc3.iso RH Linux 9 is no longer supported by Red Hat and hasn't been for almost 18 months. Support has been turned over to the fedora-legacy group. What was supposed to be Red Hat Linux 10 became known as "Fedora Core 1". The current free version of Red Hat is "Fedora Core 4", using a 2.6 kernel. You really should think about changing to a Fedora version. > I don't have such problem in installing older version > of RedHat or other Linux. The reason of installing new > version of Redhat is that I don't have sound in RedHat > 8. So I thought by installing a clean and new version > of RedHat the sound issue will be resolved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - When in doubt, mumble. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From sabraham at cwjamaica.com Thu Oct 6 16:40:21 2005 From: sabraham at cwjamaica.com (Sidney Abrahams) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 11:40:21 -0500 Subject: Cannot Open /dev/raw/raw1 In-Reply-To: <1128018323.16409.72.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <20051006164056.3944915EB4@smtp.cwjamaica.com> Can anyone tell me why the error: "Cannot open /dev/raw/raw1" occurs. I am using a database called D3 on Linux Redhat Enterprise WS4 which is supposed to write its data into an existing partition mounted as /opt and on boot up that partition is bound to /dev/raw/raw1. Is this a permissions problem? I tried making d3 owned by root but the same error occurred. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 01:25 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: grub install/setup oddity On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 11:51 -0400, Mark J Strawcutter wrote: > Dell PE2850, RHEL4 AS installed from scratch. > > /dev/sda and /dev/sdb identically partitioned > > sda1 and sdb1 are md1 raid1 mounted /boot > sda2 and sdb2 are swap > sda3 and sdb3 are md3 raid1 mounter / > > grub installed on sda as part of installation, systems booting fine. > > In grub shell did: > > device (hd0) /dev/sdb > root (hd0,0) > setup (hd0) > > all worked fine without error. But when I try to boot /dev/sdb I get thrown into > interactive grub (ie get grub prompt). Even more interesting is that I can, at > this point, manually enter the root/kernel/initrd commands that are in the > grub.conf menu entry, followed by "boot" and the system comes up. > > I then went into grub shell and did the device/root/setup commands on /dev/sda > and now it, too, throws me into interactive grub. > > This says the install process "installed" grub differently than the device/root/setup > sequence is doing - the question is, different how? > > BTW - I tried running "grub-install /dev/sdb" and get: > > /dev/md1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. This is a BIOS weirdie. In BIOS, the first bootable drive is given the BIOS device value of 0x80. The second drive is 0x81 and so on. The problem here is that you've set things up to boot from /dev/sdb (BIOS drive 0x81) but the BIOS still wants to use device 0x80 (/dev/sda). > Any suggestions what to try? Thanks Take a look at the "--device-map" options in grub to see how to fix the mapping. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Subject: unsubscribe -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.9/115 - Release Date: 29/09/2005 From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Oct 6 16:43:53 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:43:53 -0700 Subject: FC4 and keys and certificates In-Reply-To: <1255.192.168.1.102.1128569978.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <1255.192.168.1.102.1128569978.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <1128617033.13503.56.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 20:39 -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > I last dealt with self-created keys and certificates on RH8, and it looks > like stuff has changed on FC4. > > I used the "create certificate" feature of Cute FTP to create > sujan.hallikainen.org.crt > sujan.hallikainen.org.csr > sujan.hallikainen.org.key > > Now, I just need to know where to put these so SSL will use them instead > of the localhost default in FC4. Googling around has not yielded the > answer. /etc/pki is where certs, configuration, etc. lives. Also check /usr/share/doc/openssl* for documents. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From harold at hallikainen.com Thu Oct 6 17:09:55 2005 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 10:09:55 -0700 (PDT) Subject: FC4 and keys and certificates In-Reply-To: <1128617033.13503.56.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <1255.192.168.1.102.1128569978.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1128617033.13503.56.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <49599.207.177.227.29.1128618595.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> > On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 20:39 -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: >> I last dealt with self-created keys and certificates on RH8, and it >> looks >> like stuff has changed on FC4. >> >> I used the "create certificate" feature of Cute FTP to create >> sujan.hallikainen.org.crt >> sujan.hallikainen.org.csr >> sujan.hallikainen.org.key >> >> Now, I just need to know where to put these so SSL will use them instead >> of the localhost default in FC4. Googling around has not yielded the >> answer. > > /etc/pki is where certs, configuration, etc. lives. Also check > /usr/share/doc/openssl* for documents. > THANKS!!! Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Oct 6 17:23:13 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:23:13 -0700 Subject: Cannot Open /dev/raw/raw1 In-Reply-To: <20051006164056.3944915EB4@smtp.cwjamaica.com> References: <20051006164056.3944915EB4@smtp.cwjamaica.com> Message-ID: <1128619393.13503.64.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 11:40 -0500, Sidney Abrahams wrote: > Can anyone tell me why the error: > "Cannot open /dev/raw/raw1" occurs. > I am using a database called D3 on Linux Redhat Enterprise WS4 which is > supposed to write its data into an existing partition mounted as /opt and on > boot up that partition is bound to /dev/raw/raw1. > Is this a permissions problem? > I tried making d3 owned by root but the same error occurred. FC2/3/4 do not have raw device support enabled by default. Why? Well, it's deprecated. Under a 2.6 kernel, the proper way to do raw I/O is to simply open the device (e.g. /dev/sda1) and specify the "O_DIRECT" flag. That, of course, doesn't help with closed-source applications. You can have the old, 2.4-style raw stuff, but you need to rebuild the kernel. Download and install the kernel source. When you do your "make xconfig", go down to "Character Devices" and click on it. In the right window pane, go down towards the bottom and click on RAW device support. Rebuild kernel as normal. Sorry about that. However, a 2.6-kernel-aware version of D3 should know about this (btw, is "D3" some open-source version of DB2?) > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 01:25 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: grub install/setup oddity > > On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 11:51 -0400, Mark J Strawcutter wrote: > > Dell PE2850, RHEL4 AS installed from scratch. > > > > /dev/sda and /dev/sdb identically partitioned > > > > sda1 and sdb1 are md1 raid1 mounted /boot > > sda2 and sdb2 are swap > > sda3 and sdb3 are md3 raid1 mounter / > > > > grub installed on sda as part of installation, systems booting fine. > > > > In grub shell did: > > > > device (hd0) /dev/sdb > > root (hd0,0) > > setup (hd0) > > > > all worked fine without error. But when I try to boot /dev/sdb I get > thrown into > > interactive grub (ie get grub prompt). Even more interesting is that I > can, at > > this point, manually enter the root/kernel/initrd commands that are in the > > grub.conf menu entry, followed by "boot" and the system comes up. > > > > I then went into grub shell and did the device/root/setup commands on > /dev/sda > > and now it, too, throws me into interactive grub. > > > > This says the install process "installed" grub differently than the > device/root/setup > > sequence is doing - the question is, different how? > > > > BTW - I tried running "grub-install /dev/sdb" and get: > > > > /dev/md1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. > > This is a BIOS weirdie. In BIOS, the first bootable drive is given the > BIOS device value of 0x80. The second drive is 0x81 and so on. The > problem here is that you've set things up to boot from /dev/sdb (BIOS > drive 0x81) but the BIOS still wants to use device 0x80 (/dev/sda). > > > Any suggestions what to try? Thanks > > Take a look at the "--device-map" options in grub to see how to fix the > mapping. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/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 - - - - Admitting you have a problem is the first step toward getting - - medicated for it. -- Jim Evarts (http://www.TopFive.com) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From linux4dave at gmail.com Thu Oct 6 23:43:25 2005 From: linux4dave at gmail.com (dave first) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 16:43:25 -0700 Subject: How to boot into graphics from text Message-ID: <207649d0510061643n556da171o1b12da7be637f660@mail.gmail.com> Hey Guys, I just got a new RH4 system that boots up fine (there's a graphic Redhat splash screen), but stays in text mode. I'm not sure what I need to do to get it to just start up a gnome or kde login screen. Isn't there some grub setting? What am I missing? dave -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From linux4dave at gmail.com Fri Oct 7 00:06:07 2005 From: linux4dave at gmail.com (dave first) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:06:07 -0700 Subject: How to boot into graphics from text In-Reply-To: <207649d0510061643n556da171o1b12da7be637f660@mail.gmail.com> References: <207649d0510061643n556da171o1b12da7be637f660@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <207649d0510061706u5b8f3a4fpdbd46af6d5eaadca@mail.gmail.com> Uh, maybe I wasn't too clear. What I mean to say is that the system stays in text mode clear to the login prompt, instead of starting up a window mgr like gnome of kde. I can start a window manager manually after I log in - so the video display is just fine. I just can't quite figure out how to get it start up automagically...? dave On 10/6/05, dave first wrote: > > Hey Guys, > > I just got a new RH4 system that boots up fine (there's a graphic Redhat > splash screen), but stays in text mode. I'm not sure what I need to do to > get it to just start up a gnome or kde login screen. > > Isn't there some grub setting? What am I missing? > > dave > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Fri Oct 7 00:21:06 2005 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 19:21:06 -0500 Subject: How to boot into graphics from text In-Reply-To: <207649d0510061706u5b8f3a4fpdbd46af6d5eaadca@mail.gmail.com> References: <207649d0510061643n556da171o1b12da7be637f660@mail.gmail.com> <207649d0510061706u5b8f3a4fpdbd46af6d5eaadca@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20051007002106.GA27953@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:06:07PM -0700, dave first wrote: > Uh, maybe I wasn't too clear. What I mean to say is that the system stays in > text mode clear to the login prompt, instead of starting up a window mgr > like gnome of kde. I can start a window manager manually after I log in - so > the video display is just fine. > > I just can't quite figure out how to get it start up automagically...? > > dave See http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#text_login > On 10/6/05, dave first wrote: > > > > Hey Guys, > > > > I just got a new RH4 system that boots up fine (there's a graphic Redhat > > splash screen), but stays in text mode. I'm not sure what I need to do to > > get it to just start up a gnome or kde login screen. > > > > Isn't there some grub setting? What am I missing? > > > > dave Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Peace at any price is inflationary. From dokidave at gmail.com Fri Oct 7 01:59:03 2005 From: dokidave at gmail.com (David dela cruz) Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:59:03 +0800 Subject: Yahoo Applet problems Message-ID: <83358e460510061859l39bfe46evb03c4eb1cc5e31be@mail.gmail.com> Hi, Can anybody pls help me run my web based yahoo messenger applet on my fedora FC4, i pasted the error below: Using JRE version 1.5.0_04 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM User home directory = /home/proxy load: class y.ch.10 not found. java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: y.ch.10 at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(Unknown Source) at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(Unknown Source) at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(Unknown Source) at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(Unknown Source) at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source) at java.lanJava Plug-in 1.5.0_04g.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Caused by: java.io.IOException: open HTTP connection failed. at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.getBytes(Unknown Source) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) ... 10 more /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:49: Engine "clearlooks" is unsupported, ignoring From linux4dave at gmail.com Fri Oct 7 02:50:43 2005 From: linux4dave at gmail.com (dave first) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 19:50:43 -0700 Subject: How to boot into graphics from text In-Reply-To: <20051007002106.GA27953@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <207649d0510061643n556da171o1b12da7be637f660@mail.gmail.com> <207649d0510061706u5b8f3a4fpdbd46af6d5eaadca@mail.gmail.com> <20051007002106.GA27953@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <207649d0510061950y136c27dci54b1d68e48fb38b6@mail.gmail.com> Oh Doh. Thanks for the pointer! dave On 10/6/05, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > > > > See > > http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#text_login > > > On 10/6/05, dave first wrote: > > > > > > Hey Guys, > > > > > > I just got a new RH4 system that boots up fine (there's a graphic > Redhat > > > splash screen), but stays in text mode. I'm not sure what I need to do > to > > > get it to just start up a gnome or kde login screen. > > > > > > Isn't there some grub setting? What am I missing? > > > > > > dave > > Cheers, > -- > Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. > robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com > Peace at any price is inflationary. > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Fri Oct 7 03:05:22 2005 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 21:05:22 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Strange CD problems Message-ID: OK, I don't know whats going on but a few days ago my computer started to try writing to my CD writer. Nothing is in the CD writer and I've rebooted a few times (even with shut downs). I first noticed it when I was printing from a different computer to the printer hooked up on my Linux machine. Any ideas? Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. From linuxforyou at gmail.com Fri Oct 7 03:12:14 2005 From: linuxforyou at gmail.com (Anuj) Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 08:42:14 +0530 Subject: How to boot into graphics from text In-Reply-To: <20051007002106.GA27953@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <207649d0510061643n556da171o1b12da7be637f660@mail.gmail.com> <207649d0510061706u5b8f3a4fpdbd46af6d5eaadca@mail.gmail.com> <20051007002106.GA27953@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <1128654734.6929.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Please check the /etc/inittab file and change the level to 5 # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are: # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user mode # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking) # 3 - Full multiuser mode # 4 - unused # 5 - X11 # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # id:5:initdefault: On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 19:21 -0500, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:06:07PM -0700, dave first wrote: > > Uh, maybe I wasn't too clear. What I mean to say is that the system stays in > > text mode clear to the login prompt, instead of starting up a window mgr > > like gnome of kde. I can start a window manager manually after I log in - so > > the video display is just fine. > > > > I just can't quite figure out how to get it start up automagically...? > > > > dave > > See > > http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#text_login > > > On 10/6/05, dave first wrote: > > > > > > Hey Guys, > > > > > > I just got a new RH4 system that boots up fine (there's a graphic Redhat > > > splash screen), but stays in text mode. I'm not sure what I need to do to > > > get it to just start up a gnome or kde login screen. > > > > > > Isn't there some grub setting? What am I missing? > > > > > > dave > > Cheers, From markknecht at gmail.com Fri Oct 7 04:03:47 2005 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 21:03:47 -0700 Subject: Strange CD problems In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0510062103l23d0421aq58c92d6208769fcb@mail.gmail.com> On 10/6/05, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > OK, I don't know whats going on but a few days ago my computer > started to try writing to my CD writer. Nothing is in the CD > writer and I've rebooted a few times (even with shut downs). > > I first noticed it when I was printing from a different computer > to the printer hooked up on my Linux machine. > > Any ideas? > > Brad Mugleston, KI0OT Possibly CD drive or the EIDE controlelr is possibly going bad. I had a nice Dell server at my old job. We used it for email, etc. The CD would get in a strange state. A reboot wouldn't always clear it. A power cycle would, for a couple of days until it would start up again. I power cycled that machien for 8 months until we finally shut the company down. ;-) Cheers, Mark From markknecht at gmail.com Fri Oct 7 04:03:47 2005 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 21:03:47 -0700 Subject: Strange CD problems In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0510062103l23d0421aq58c92d6208769fcb@mail.gmail.com> On 10/6/05, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > OK, I don't know whats going on but a few days ago my computer > started to try writing to my CD writer. Nothing is in the CD > writer and I've rebooted a few times (even with shut downs). > > I first noticed it when I was printing from a different computer > to the printer hooked up on my Linux machine. > > Any ideas? > > Brad Mugleston, KI0OT Possibly CD drive or the EIDE controlelr is possibly going bad. I had a nice Dell server at my old job. We used it for email, etc. The CD would get in a strange state. A reboot wouldn't always clear it. A power cycle would, for a couple of days until it would start up again. I power cycled that machien for 8 months until we finally shut the company down. ;-) Cheers, Mark From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Oct 7 16:15:13 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:15:13 -0700 Subject: Yahoo Applet problems In-Reply-To: <83358e460510061859l39bfe46evb03c4eb1cc5e31be@mail.gmail.com> References: <83358e460510061859l39bfe46evb03c4eb1cc5e31be@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1128701714.13503.83.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 09:59 +0800, David dela cruz wrote: > Hi, > Can anybody pls help me run my web based yahoo messenger applet on my > fedora FC4, i pasted the error below: > > Using JRE version 1.5.0_04 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM > User home directory = /home/proxy > > load: class y.ch.10 not found. > java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: y.ch.10 > at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) > at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) > at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(Unknown Source) > at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(Unknown Source) > at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(Unknown Source) > at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(Unknown Source) > at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source) > at java.lanJava Plug-in 1.5.0_04g.Thread.run(Unknown Source) > Caused by: java.io.IOException: open HTTP connection failed. > at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.getBytes(Unknown Source) > at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source) > at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > ... 10 more > /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:49: Engine "clearlooks" is > unsupported, ignoring Looks like an incomplete Java or gtk2 installation to me. Make sure you have the latest gtk2-engines and gtk2-devel RPMs installed, too ("yum update gtk2-engines" and "yum install gtk2-devel" or "yum update gtk2-devel"). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Warning: You are logged into reality as the root user... - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mmcculli at visualtech.ca Fri Oct 7 17:06:52 2005 From: mmcculli at visualtech.ca (Mark McCulligh) Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 13:06:52 -0400 Subject: someone ran brute on my box? Message-ID: <4346AB2C.1020708@visualtech.ca> Hi Group, I had someone get into my box and run a command called "brute" on my box for 3 hours. What is brute and what next steps should I do to see if they got anything. Thanks, Mark. From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Fri Oct 7 18:48:25 2005 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 13:48:25 -0500 Subject: someone ran brute on my box? In-Reply-To: <4346AB2C.1020708@visualtech.ca> References: <4346AB2C.1020708@visualtech.ca> Message-ID: <20051007184825.GA28658@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 01:06:52PM -0400, Mark McCulligh wrote: > Hi Group, > > I had someone get into my box and run a command called "brute" on my box > for 3 hours. What is brute and what next steps should I do to see if > they got anything. I'm not sure, but given what I've seen on the 'Net, it's probably a brute-force password guesser that works by SSH on other machines. He already got into your machine, so unless he was trying to crack root's password (assuming he got in as a mere mortal), he was using your box as a jumping-off point to another box. This may well be what it was, or something similar: http://www.frsirt.com/exploits/08202004.brutessh2.c.php If that's all it was, then you can change the compromised password and make sure that "brute" is not brought up by some rc script at boot time or a cron job. See further down. I see these exploits all the time. I sent five nastygrams to various network admins today about crack attempts from their networks. I monitor several servers, most of which I have no say about password selection. One of the machines has had at least two successful cracks because of crummy passwords. Here are two tools that detect such crack attempts and cut them off after N tries: http://www.aczoom.com/cms/blockhosts/ http://www.pettingers.org/code/SSHBlack.html I have some variant of those installed on all machines with SSH exposure to the 'Net. I've not had a successful crack since. On the other hand, if the cracker got root access, he found a vulnerability in some of your software, probably a buffer overflow. That's why it's so important not to run old Linux distros without adequate updates. Here are some useful resources if it was a root compromise: http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/root_compromise.html http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5037 http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/1999-9/features/rootkits.html If that's the case, you should save off everything important like home directories and files in /etc, and do a complete re-install. Unless you know exactly what the rootkit did, it's the only safe way. > Thanks, > Mark. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Peace at any price is inflationary. From mmcculli at visualtech.ca Fri Oct 7 19:06:08 2005 From: mmcculli at visualtech.ca (Mark McCulligh) Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:06:08 -0400 Subject: someone ran brute on my box? In-Reply-To: <20051007184825.GA28658@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <4346AB2C.1020708@visualtech.ca> <20051007184825.GA28658@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <4346C720.9000900@visualtech.ca> Bob McClure Jr wrote: >On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 01:06:52PM -0400, Mark McCulligh wrote: > > >>Hi Group, >> >>I had someone get into my box and run a command called "brute" on my box >>for 3 hours. What is brute and what next steps should I do to see if >>they got anything. >> >> > >I'm not sure, but given what I've seen on the 'Net, it's probably a >brute-force password guesser that works by SSH on other machines. He >already got into your machine, so unless he was trying to crack root's >password (assuming he got in as a mere mortal), he was using your box >as a jumping-off point to another box. > >This may well be what it was, or something similar: > >http://www.frsirt.com/exploits/08202004.brutessh2.c.php > >If that's all it was, then you can change the compromised password and >make sure that "brute" is not brought up by some rc script at boot >time or a cron job. See further down. > >I see these exploits all the time. I sent five nastygrams to various >network admins today about crack attempts from their networks. I >monitor several servers, most of which I have no say about password >selection. One of the machines has had at least two successful cracks >because of crummy passwords. Here are two tools that detect such >crack attempts and cut them off after N tries: > >http://www.aczoom.com/cms/blockhosts/ >http://www.pettingers.org/code/SSHBlack.html > >I have some variant of those installed on all machines with SSH >exposure to the 'Net. I've not had a successful crack since. > >On the other hand, if the cracker got root access, he found a >vulnerability in some of your software, probably a buffer overflow. >That's why it's so important not to run old Linux distros without >adequate updates. > >Here are some useful resources if it was a root compromise: > >http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/root_compromise.html >http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5037 >http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/1999-9/features/rootkits.html > >If that's the case, you should save off everything important like home >directories and files in /etc, and do a complete re-install. Unless >you know exactly what the rootkit did, it's the only safe way. > > > >>Thanks, >>Mark. >> >> > >Cheers, > > Thanks Bob, From what I can find he(or she) created a folder with name " " to make it harder to find. Then tried a lot to crack my root password. I should have seen in my daily logs the attempts where coming from my own IP. Get so many very picked up on it. Then last night started the scan other peoples computers using my box. That is when I caught them, my router logs for outgoing SSH went through the roof. I changed the user's password and killed all processes running by the users. I will take your advice and check for cron jobs and look at those helpful links to make improvements to my box. Thanks again, Mark. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Oct 7 21:09:46 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:09:46 -0700 Subject: someone ran brute on my box? In-Reply-To: <4346C720.9000900@visualtech.ca> References: <4346AB2C.1020708@visualtech.ca> <20051007184825.GA28658@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <4346C720.9000900@visualtech.ca> Message-ID: <1128719387.13503.134.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 15:06 -0400, Mark McCulligh wrote: > Bob McClure Jr wrote: > > >On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 01:06:52PM -0400, Mark McCulligh wrote: > > > > > >>Hi Group, > >> > >>I had someone get into my box and run a command called "brute" on my box > >>for 3 hours. What is brute and what next steps should I do to see if > >>they got anything. > >> > >> > > > >I'm not sure, but given what I've seen on the 'Net, it's probably a > >brute-force password guesser that works by SSH on other machines. He > >already got into your machine, so unless he was trying to crack root's > >password (assuming he got in as a mere mortal), he was using your box > >as a jumping-off point to another box. > > > >This may well be what it was, or something similar: > > > >http://www.frsirt.com/exploits/08202004.brutessh2.c.php > > > >If that's all it was, then you can change the compromised password and > >make sure that "brute" is not brought up by some rc script at boot > >time or a cron job. See further down. > > > >I see these exploits all the time. I sent five nastygrams to various > >network admins today about crack attempts from their networks. I > >monitor several servers, most of which I have no say about password > >selection. One of the machines has had at least two successful cracks > >because of crummy passwords. Here are two tools that detect such > >crack attempts and cut them off after N tries: > > > >http://www.aczoom.com/cms/blockhosts/ > >http://www.pettingers.org/code/SSHBlack.html > > > >I have some variant of those installed on all machines with SSH > >exposure to the 'Net. I've not had a successful crack since. > > > >On the other hand, if the cracker got root access, he found a > >vulnerability in some of your software, probably a buffer overflow. > >That's why it's so important not to run old Linux distros without > >adequate updates. > > > >Here are some useful resources if it was a root compromise: > > > >http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/root_compromise.html > >http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5037 > >http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/1999-9/features/rootkits.html > > > >If that's the case, you should save off everything important like home > >directories and files in /etc, and do a complete re-install. Unless > >you know exactly what the rootkit did, it's the only safe way. > > > > > > > >>Thanks, > >>Mark. > >> > >> > > > >Cheers, > > > > > > Thanks Bob, > > From what I can find he(or she) created a folder with name " " to make > it harder to find. Then tried a lot to crack my root password. I > should have seen in my daily logs the attempts where coming from my own > IP. Get so many very picked up on it. Then last night started the scan > other peoples computers using my box. That is when I caught them, my > router logs for outgoing SSH went through the roof. > > I changed the user's password and killed all processes running by the users. > > I will take your advice and check for cron jobs and look at those > helpful links to make improvements to my box. You should also run "lastlog" and see which IP the SOB came in on if you can and block that IP via iptables. If it was a dialup or broadband (cable or DSL) line, I'd firewall the entire IP block. Check by doing a "whois ip-address". That'll reveal who owns the block (and their CIDR) and use that as your address mask. You can also complain to the provider. Give them the IP address and the date of last login, and they can trace it to who had that IP at the time and bust the bastard. If you can, have the putz drawn, quartered, keelhauled and strung up by his gonads. Make it VERY public. Yes, I'm vindictive. There is a deterrent value to this. Make sure that /var/log/lastlog is owned by and writable ONLY by root. Get "chkrootkit" (www.chkrootkit.org) and run it. You should also set up tripwire and set it to run often. Don't set up tripwire unless you're CERTAIN your box is clean or it may ignore hacked executables. If there's any doubt at all, back up the user data and reinstall...but make sure you reformat the drive. You want NO cruft left over. Welcome to the Internet. Sheesh! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mmcculli at visualtech.ca Fri Oct 7 22:09:47 2005 From: mmcculli at visualtech.ca (Mark McCulligh) Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:09:47 -0400 Subject: someone ran brute on my box? In-Reply-To: <1128719387.13503.134.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <4346AB2C.1020708@visualtech.ca> <20051007184825.GA28658@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <4346C720.9000900@visualtech.ca> <1128719387.13503.134.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <4346F22B.9050606@visualtech.ca> Rick Stevens wrote: >On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 15:06 -0400, Mark McCulligh wrote: > > >>Bob McClure Jr wrote: >> >> >> >>>On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 01:06:52PM -0400, Mark McCulligh wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Hi Group, >>>> >>>>I had someone get into my box and run a command called "brute" on my box >>>>for 3 hours. What is brute and what next steps should I do to see if >>>>they got anything. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>I'm not sure, but given what I've seen on the 'Net, it's probably a >>>brute-force password guesser that works by SSH on other machines. He >>>already got into your machine, so unless he was trying to crack root's >>>password (assuming he got in as a mere mortal), he was using your box >>>as a jumping-off point to another box. >>> >>>This may well be what it was, or something similar: >>> >>>http://www.frsirt.com/exploits/08202004.brutessh2.c.php >>> >>>If that's all it was, then you can change the compromised password and >>>make sure that "brute" is not brought up by some rc script at boot >>>time or a cron job. See further down. >>> >>>I see these exploits all the time. I sent five nastygrams to various >>>network admins today about crack attempts from their networks. I >>>monitor several servers, most of which I have no say about password >>>selection. One of the machines has had at least two successful cracks >>>because of crummy passwords. Here are two tools that detect such >>>crack attempts and cut them off after N tries: >>> >>>http://www.aczoom.com/cms/blockhosts/ >>>http://www.pettingers.org/code/SSHBlack.html >>> >>>I have some variant of those installed on all machines with SSH >>>exposure to the 'Net. I've not had a successful crack since. >>> >>>On the other hand, if the cracker got root access, he found a >>>vulnerability in some of your software, probably a buffer overflow. >>>That's why it's so important not to run old Linux distros without >>>adequate updates. >>> >>>Here are some useful resources if it was a root compromise: >>> >>>http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/root_compromise.html >>>http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5037 >>>http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/1999-9/features/rootkits.html >>> >>>If that's the case, you should save off everything important like home >>>directories and files in /etc, and do a complete re-install. Unless >>>you know exactly what the rootkit did, it's the only safe way. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Thanks, >>>>Mark. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Cheers, >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Thanks Bob, >> >> From what I can find he(or she) created a folder with name " " to make >>it harder to find. Then tried a lot to crack my root password. I >>should have seen in my daily logs the attempts where coming from my own >>IP. Get so many very picked up on it. Then last night started the scan >>other peoples computers using my box. That is when I caught them, my >>router logs for outgoing SSH went through the roof. >> >>I changed the user's password and killed all processes running by the users. >> >>I will take your advice and check for cron jobs and look at those >>helpful links to make improvements to my box. >> >> > >You should also run "lastlog" and see which IP the SOB came in on if you >can and block that IP via iptables. > >If it was a dialup or broadband (cable or DSL) line, I'd firewall the >entire IP block. Check by doing a "whois ip-address". That'll reveal >who owns the block (and their CIDR) and use that as your address mask. > > > Thanks for the information. They came from Amsterdam. I will send an email to the provider. Not sure if they will do anything, but you never know. Mark. >You can also complain to the provider. Give them the IP address and the >date of last login, and they can trace it to who had that IP at the time >and bust the bastard. If you can, have the putz drawn, quartered, >keelhauled and strung up by his gonads. Make it VERY public. Yes, I'm >vindictive. There is a deterrent value to this. > >Make sure that /var/log/lastlog is owned by and writable ONLY by root. > >Get "chkrootkit" (www.chkrootkit.org) and run it. You should also set >up tripwire and set it to run often. Don't set up tripwire unless >you're CERTAIN your box is clean or it may ignore hacked executables. >If there's any doubt at all, back up the user data and reinstall...but >make sure you reformat the drive. You want NO cruft left over. > >Welcome to the Internet. Sheesh! >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.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 s.mokhtari at menara.ma Sat Oct 8 00:15:24 2005 From: s.mokhtari at menara.ma (Said MOKHTARI) Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 00:15:24 +0000 Subject: How to boot into graphics from text In-Reply-To: <20051007002106.GA27953@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <207649d0510061643n556da171o1b12da7be637f660@mail.gmail.com><207 649d0510061706u5b8f3a4fpdbd46af6d5eaadca@mail.gmail.com> <20051007002106.GA27953@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <43470F9C.5080401@menara.ma> edit the file "/etc/inittab" and change the line like this *id:3:initdefault:* to *id:5:initdefault:* Bob McClure Jr wrote: >On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:06:07PM -0700, dave first wrote: > > >>Uh, maybe I wasn't too clear. What I mean to say is that the system stays in >>text mode clear to the login prompt, instead of starting up a window mgr >>like gnome of kde. I can start a window manager manually after I log in - so >>the video display is just fine. >> >>I just can't quite figure out how to get it start up automagically...? >> >>dave >> >> > >See > >http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#text_login > > > >>On 10/6/05, dave first wrote: >> >> >>>Hey Guys, >>> >>>I just got a new RH4 system that boots up fine (there's a graphic Redhat >>>splash screen), but stays in text mode. I'm not sure what I need to do to >>>get it to just start up a gnome or kde login screen. >>> >>>Isn't there some grub setting? What am I missing? >>> >>>dave >>> >>> > >Cheers, > > From dokidave at gmail.com Sat Oct 8 03:05:19 2005 From: dokidave at gmail.com (David dela cruz) Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 11:05:19 +0800 Subject: Yahoo Applet problems In-Reply-To: <1128701714.13503.83.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <83358e460510061859l39bfe46evb03c4eb1cc5e31be@mail.gmail.com> <1128701714.13503.83.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <83358e460510072005l4881023fp8ba981297fdbca89@mail.gmail.com> Rick, Thanks, i will try it ...but i've already done su -c 'yum update' what do you think?..... On 10/8/05, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 09:59 +0800, David dela cruz wrote: > > Hi, > > Can anybody pls help me run my web based yahoo messenger applet on my > > fedora FC4, i pasted the error below: > > > > Using JRE version 1.5.0_04 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM > > User home directory = /home/proxy > > > > load: class y.ch.10 not found. > > java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: y.ch.10 > > at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) > > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) > > at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) > > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) > > at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(Unknown Source) > > at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(Unknown Source) > > at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(Unknown Source) > > at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(Unknown Source) > > at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source) > > at java.lanJava Plug-in 1.5.0_04g.Thread.run(Unknown Source) > > Caused by: java.io.IOException: open HTTP connection failed. > > at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.getBytes(Unknown Source) > > at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source) > > at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) > > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > > ... 10 more > > /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:49: Engine "clearlooks" is > > unsupported, ignoring > > Looks like an incomplete Java or gtk2 installation to me. Make sure > you have the latest gtk2-engines and gtk2-devel RPMs installed, too > ("yum update gtk2-engines" and "yum install gtk2-devel" or "yum update > gtk2-devel"). > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Warning: You are logged into reality as the root user... - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > From vogel2 at interia.pl Sat Oct 8 12:14:25 2005 From: vogel2 at interia.pl (=?Windows-1250?B?TWFyY2luIFC5Y3plaw==?=) Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 14:14:25 +0200 Subject: RH AS 2.1 SATA disks detection !!! Message-ID: <57140739512.20051008141425@interia.pl> Hello, I have a problem, during my RH AS 2.1 installation, my server hangs up on SATA disks detection. Below is a short overview of my server tech spec.: -------------------------------------------------- Motherboard : P8SC8 Chipset : E7221 SuperMicro HDD disks : SATA on ICH6, HDD model WD1600JS-00MHB0 My server supports 2x SATA HotSwap disks. What I want to achieve is to install RH AS 2.1 (2.4.9-e3) onto both of HDD(s) then to configure these two disks to work in a RAID mode (only mirroring). Could You please help me with my problem. Thanks in advance. * MP * From ajai at bway.net Sat Oct 8 17:25:27 2005 From: ajai at bway.net (A. Khattri) Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 13:25:27 -0400 (EDT) Subject: someone ran brute on my box? In-Reply-To: <4346C720.9000900@visualtech.ca> References: <4346AB2C.1020708@visualtech.ca> <20051007184825.GA28658@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <4346C720.9000900@visualtech.ca> Message-ID: On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Mark McCulligh wrote: > I will take your advice and check for cron jobs and look at those > helpful links to make improvements to my box. Frankly, I would not trust that box anymore... -- From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Sat Oct 8 21:06:02 2005 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 15:06:02 -0600 (MDT) Subject: RH AS 2.1 SATA disks detection !!! In-Reply-To: <57140739512.20051008141425@interia.pl> References: <57140739512.20051008141425@interia.pl> Message-ID: <27065.198.60.114.90.1128805562.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> On Sat, October 8, 2005 6:14 am, Marcin P?czek said: > Hello, > > I have a problem, during my RH AS 2.1 installation, > my server hangs up on SATA disks detection. If the SATA disks are recognizable by the SATA BIOS, then RH shouldn't have any trouble detecting them. What type of SATA controller do you have? > > Below is a short overview of my server tech spec.: > -------------------------------------------------- > Motherboard : P8SC8 > Chipset : E7221 SuperMicro > HDD disks : SATA on ICH6, HDD model WD1600JS-00MHB0 > > My server supports 2x SATA HotSwap disks. What I want to achieve is to > install RH AS 2.1 (2.4.9-e3) onto both of HDD(s) then to configure > these two disks to work in a RAID mode (only mirroring). If you wish to mirror the drives, do not install to both. You have to enter the SATA BIOS and have it control the mirroring. ELSE, have Disk Druid do it for you. I've only used the SATA controller to mirror (Linux; done a bunch with HP/UX and AIX). My SATA (sata_sil driver in FC4, reportedly not supported in earlier kernels) BIOS rebuilds the mirror in the back-ground. That makes the system drag, but it saves time. Karl > > Could You please help me with my problem. > Thanks in advance. > > * MP * > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -- karl _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ ____________ __o _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ ____________ _-\<._ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ (_)/ (_) _/ _/ _/ _/ ...................... _/ _/ arl _/_/_/ _/ earson KarlP at ourldsfamily.com --- Senior Consulting Sys/DB Analyst http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com --- My Thoughts on Terrorism In America: http://www.ourldsfamily.com/wtc.shtml --- A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. -Ramsey Clark --- From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Sat Oct 8 21:48:14 2005 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 15:48:14 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Dual Homed Message-ID: <27319.198.60.114.90.1128808094.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> Is it possible to have 2 gateways operating at the same time on the same FC4 workstation? eth0=172.20.20.100 eth1=10.0.0.100 gateway0=172.20.20.1 (Cisco router) gateway1=10.0.0.1 (Dual-homed RH8.0 iptables: 10.0.0.1>172.20.20.1) Just curious about different ideas. -- karl I purchased a Linksys notebook adapter for my Dell Latitude which is running FC2. This adaptor is model WPC11 ver. 4. Doing some searching on the web it looks like like it should work but all of the information I can find is old (RH9) or for other flavors of Linux. Has anyone gotten this combination (FC2 & WPC11 v4) to work? If so can you help me? The card was all of $4.99 so I'm not out much but it would be nice to have it work. Thanks, Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. From mjstraw at iup.edu Mon Oct 10 11:47:40 2005 From: mjstraw at iup.edu (Mark J Strawcutter) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 07:47:40 -0400 Subject: md driver at boot time Message-ID: <006801c5cd90$6b806b10$bf805090@adm.iup.edu> System has 4 scsi disks - sda/b/c/d sda and sdc are level1 raidset to be mounted as root. sdd just happens to have been used as part of a root raidset during testing. RHEL4 keeps constructing raidset using sdd at boot time. I've tried combinations of raid=noautodetect and md=1,/dev/sda,/dev/sdb kernel params at boot to force it to do the right thing but nothing seems to work. Isn't there some way to "force" proper construction of the raidset at boot time short of moving disks around? Mark From Pjadler355 at cs.com Mon Oct 10 13:00:25 2005 From: Pjadler355 at cs.com (Pjadler355 at cs.com) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:00:25 EDT Subject: Samba Sample Scripts Message-ID: <96.3194efe8.307bbfe9@cs.com> Hello, Been a longtime reader of this list. Think you guys are great, and I've learned quite a bit. I have FCv4 sitting on a Dell Power 400 server sitting in a small Windows Domain network. Windows 2000 server which is PDC, DNS, and running Active Directory. All have static IP addresses, trying to use CUPs, etc. Been fussing with Samba for a while, with no results. Is there anywhere where I can find some useful specific Samba script examples that may help give me an edge? Thanks for your help. Philip ----------------------------------- Philip Jay Adler 215.369.4814 philipjadler at compuserve.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mikev777 at hotmail.com Mon Oct 10 17:55:01 2005 From: mikev777 at hotmail.com (Michael Velez) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:55:01 -0400 Subject: Samba Sample Scripts In-Reply-To: <96.3194efe8.307bbfe9@cs.com> Message-ID: Here's a link to the Samba3 Example Guide. http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/ That's what I used when I learned it. Hope this helps, Michael _____ From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Pjadler355 at cs.com Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 9:00 AM To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com Subject: Samba Sample Scripts Hello, Been a longtime reader of this list. Think you guys are great, and I've learned quite a bit. I have FCv4 sitting on a Dell Power 400 server sitting in a small Windows Domain network. Windows 2000 server which is PDC, DNS, and running Active Directory. All have static IP addresses, trying to use CUPs, etc. Been fussing with Samba for a while, with no results. Is there anywhere where I can find some useful specific Samba script examples that may help give me an edge? Thanks for your help. Philip ----------------------------------- Philip Jay Adler 215.369.4814 philipjadler at compuserve.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Oct 10 18:05:49 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:05:49 -0700 Subject: Dual Homed In-Reply-To: <27319.198.60.114.90.1128808094.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> References: <27319.198.60.114.90.1128808094.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <1128967549.13503.216.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 15:48 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > Is it possible to have 2 gateways operating at the same time on the same > FC4 workstation? > > eth0=172.20.20.100 > eth1=10.0.0.100 > > gateway0=172.20.20.1 (Cisco router) > gateway1=10.0.0.1 (Dual-homed RH8.0 iptables: 10.0.0.1>172.20.20.1) > > Just curious about different ideas. You can only have one default route. There are routes set up whenever you configure a NIC (a route through the NIC is created for the network that NIC is on): [root at prophead rc5.d]# netstat -rn Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 65.7.196.64 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.192 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 65.7.196.65 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 As you can see, my NIC is on the 65.7.196.64/26 network, and any traffic for that net will go through eth0. It also happens that my default route ALSO goes through there because there's only one NIC. Now, on another machine: [root at stats-01-002 root]# netstat -rn Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 217.133.230.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 10.24.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 10.25.0.0 10.24.1.1 255.255.252.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 217.133.230.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 As you can see, there's two NICs in this machine, one on the 10.24.0.0/22 network and one on the 217.133.230.0/24 network. The first, second and fourth lines show the routes added automatically for the NIC setups (yes, there's one for lo...127.0.0.0/8 or localhost). The third line shows a manual route was added to 10.25.0.0/22 network using the gateway on the 10.24.0.0/22 network (via eth1). The final line shows the default gateway (from /etc/sysconfig/network) and also specifies a gateway (via the eth0 NIC). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Give me ambiguity or give me something else! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Oct 10 18:08:05 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:08:05 -0700 Subject: Wireless Connection Help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1128967685.13503.219.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 22:08 -0600, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > I purchased a Linksys notebook adapter for my Dell Latitude which > is running FC2. This adaptor is model WPC11 ver. 4. Doing some > searching on the web it looks like like it should work but all of > the information I can find is old (RH9) or for other flavors of > Linux. > > Has anyone gotten this combination (FC2 & WPC11 v4) to work? If > so can you help me? Which chipset does it have, Brad? "lspci" should reveal it. If it's a TI or Broadcom chipset, you'll need to use ndiswrapper and the Winblows driver from the CD/floppy that came with it. ndiswrapper is at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Pjadler355 at cs.com Tue Oct 11 02:58:41 2005 From: Pjadler355 at cs.com (Pjadler355 at cs.com) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:58:41 EDT Subject: Samba Sample Scripts Message-ID: <2b.7d60cc5c.307c8461@cs.com> Thanks, I'll give it a try. ----------------------------------- Philip Jay Adler 215.369.4814 philipjadler at compuserve.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Tue Oct 11 04:58:13 2005 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:58:13 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Wireless Connection Help In-Reply-To: <1128967685.13503.219.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <1128967685.13503.219.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 22:08 -0600, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > > I purchased a Linksys notebook adapter for my Dell Latitude which > > is running FC2. This adaptor is model WPC11 ver. 4. Doing some > > searching on the web it looks like like it should work but all of > > the information I can find is old (RH9) or for other flavors of > > Linux. > > > > Has anyone gotten this combination (FC2 & WPC11 v4) to work? If > > so can you help me? > > Which chipset does it have, Brad? "lspci" should reveal it. If it's > a TI or Broadcom chipset, you'll need to use ndiswrapper and the > Winblows driver from the CD/floppy that came with it. ndiswrapper is > at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net. > OK it says: Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8180L 802.11b MAC (rev 20) I found some reference to ndiswrapper running this chipset but all the instructions seem to be for systems other than FC2 and I haven't had any luck getting it to work. Thanks, Brad From tonymoey at linuxmail.org Tue Oct 11 09:08:50 2005 From: tonymoey at linuxmail.org (moey tony) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:08:50 +0800 Subject: Samba Sample Scripts Message-ID: <20051011090850.40D80CA0A3@ws5-11.us4.outblaze.com> how bout trying out www.samba.org? keep posting here, i m sure u will learn lotsa stuff...i did, anyway. Rgds, Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com Subject: Redhat-install-list Digest, Vol 20, Issue 10 Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:00:49 -0400 (EDT) > > 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. Wireless Connection Help (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) > 2. md driver at boot time (Mark J Strawcutter) > 3. Samba Sample Scripts (Pjadler355 at cs.com) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 22:08:33 -0600 (MDT) > From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net > Subject: Wireless Connection Help > To: Red Hat Install > Message-ID: > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > I purchased a Linksys notebook adapter for my Dell Latitude which > is running FC2. This adaptor is model WPC11 ver. 4. Doing some > searching on the web it looks like like it should work but all of > the information I can find is old (RH9) or for other flavors of > Linux. > > Has anyone gotten this combination (FC2 & WPC11 v4) to work? If > so can you help me? > > The card was all of $4.99 so I'm not out much but it would be > nice to have it work. > > Thanks, > > Brad Mugleston, KI0OT > > There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that > understand binary and those that don't. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 07:47:40 -0400 > From: "Mark J Strawcutter" > Subject: md driver at boot time > To: > Message-ID: <006801c5cd90$6b806b10$bf805090 at adm.iup.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > System has 4 scsi disks - sda/b/c/d > > sda and sdc are level1 raidset to be mounted as root. > > sdd just happens to have been used as part of a root raidset during testing. > > RHEL4 keeps constructing raidset using sdd at boot time. > > I've tried combinations of raid=noautodetect and md=1,/dev/sda,/dev/sdb > kernel params at boot to force it to do the right thing but nothing seems > to work. > > Isn't there some way to "force" proper construction of the raidset at boot > time short of moving disks around? > > Mark > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:00:25 EDT > From: Pjadler355 at cs.com > Subject: Samba Sample Scripts > To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > Message-ID: <96.3194efe8.307bbfe9 at cs.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hello, > Been a longtime reader of this list. > Think you guys are great, and I've learned quite a bit. > > I have FCv4 sitting on a Dell Power 400 server sitting in a small Windows > Domain > network. Windows 2000 server which is PDC, DNS, and running Active Directory. > All have static IP addresses, trying to use CUPs, etc. Been fussing with > Samba for a while, with no results. > Is there anywhere where I can find some useful specific Samba script examples > that may help give me an edge? > > Thanks for your help. > Philip > ----------------------------------- > Philip Jay Adler > 215.369.4814 > philipjadler at compuserve.com > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-install-list/attachments/20051010/5e155f3c/attachment.html > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 20, Issue 10 > *************************************************** = = = = = = = = = = = V Click here to get FIREFOX browser...the browser you can Trust ! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=5057&t=1 -- _______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. 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Powered by Outblaze From darren.birkett at gmail.com Tue Oct 11 10:03:06 2005 From: darren.birkett at gmail.com (Darren Birkett) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:03:06 +0100 Subject: multiple install images on single CD Message-ID: I regularly have to install many different versions of RHEL (3, updates 1-6, 4 GA and update 1, on many different architectures - ia64, ppc, i386, x86_64). I currently do these installs via nfs, but need to have many different CD1s handy for the different version/update/arch combos. Is it possible to create a single CD that would have a menu where I could select which one I wanted, meaning I would only need a single CD. If I am doing nfs installs, I would only need the kernel and initrd wouldn't I. Or is it more complicated? I would be happy if I could have a single CD per arch, as I think having multiple arches on a single CD might be a little to complicated. Thanks Darren -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From inode0 at gmail.com Tue Oct 11 11:42:00 2005 From: inode0 at gmail.com (inode0) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:42:00 -0500 Subject: multiple install images on single CD In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 10/11/05, Darren Birkett wrote: > I regularly have to install many different versions of RHEL (3, updates 1-6, > 4 GA and update 1, on many different architectures - ia64, ppc, i386, > x86_64). I currently do these installs via nfs, but need to have many > different CD1s handy for the different version/update/arch combos. Is it > possible to create a single CD that would have a menu where I could select > which one I wanted, meaning I would only need a single CD. > If I am doing nfs installs, I would only need the kernel and initrd > wouldn't I. Or is it more complicated? I would be happy if I could have a > single CD per arch, as I think having multiple arches on a single CD might > be a little to complicated. Darren, I create one small ISO that supports network installs for RHEL3 (x86, x86_64), RHEL4 (x86_64), FC4 (x86), and contains DSL 1.5 for recovery or just booting from a live CD. Take a look at http://rose.public.iastate.edu/MEDUSA/README.txt and if that looks like what you had in mind I can send you some details about how I create this ISO. (Note: this ISO only works within our IP space for network installs using the preconfigured network install targets, but by adding the appropriate method could work elsewhere). John From Pjadler355 at cs.com Tue Oct 11 12:20:23 2005 From: Pjadler355 at cs.com (Pjadler355 at cs.com) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:20:23 EDT Subject: Samba Sample Scripts Message-ID: <105.6aaeff8b.307d0807@cs.com> Thanks, Tony. ----------------------------------- Philip Jay Adler 215.369.4814 philipjadler at compuserve.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Oct 11 17:34:42 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:34:42 -0700 Subject: Wireless Connection Help In-Reply-To: References: <1128967685.13503.219.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <1129052083.13503.270.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 22:58 -0600, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 22:08 -0600, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote: > > > I purchased a Linksys notebook adapter for my Dell Latitude which > > > is running FC2. This adaptor is model WPC11 ver. 4. Doing some > > > searching on the web it looks like like it should work but all of > > > the information I can find is old (RH9) or for other flavors of > > > Linux. > > > > > > Has anyone gotten this combination (FC2 & WPC11 v4) to work? If > > > so can you help me? > > > > Which chipset does it have, Brad? "lspci" should reveal it. If it's > > a TI or Broadcom chipset, you'll need to use ndiswrapper and the > > Winblows driver from the CD/floppy that came with it. ndiswrapper is > > at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net. > > > OK it says: > > Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8180L > 802.11b MAC (rev 20) > > I found some reference to ndiswrapper running this chipset but > all the instructions seem to be for systems other than FC2 and I > haven't had any luck getting it to work. Just download the tarball, make sure you have the kernel-devel RPM installed, unpack the tarball and do "make" and "make install". Follow the instructions in the INSTALL for loading in the windows drivers and it'll work. "alias eth0 ndiswrapper" in your "/etc/modprobe.conf" is useful, too! P.S. I use it on my laptop (FC4) all the time. In fact, I'm using it now to vncview my desktop at the office to send you this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Brain: The organ with which we think that we think. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From jreyn at us.ibm.com Tue Oct 11 21:28:48 2005 From: jreyn at us.ibm.com (John Reynolds) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:28:48 -0700 Subject: X Server problems on Fedora Core 3 In-Reply-To: <1128378408.16409.164.camel@nprophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: Hello. I had a system crash during an up2date session. The GUI is a casualty. When the system tries to boot into the GUI mode, it goes blank, puts up a message about a failure to start : the fixed font is not found and unix:/7100 server is not found. I put it into text mode startup, rebooted and tried again. Following the advice in the RHIL FAQ, I ran # system-config-display --reconfig and got xconf.py: Fatal IO error 104: (Connection reset by peer) on X server :17.0 --display=:1 xconf.py: Fatal IO error 104: (Connection reset by peer) on X server :17.0 # Xorg -configure got me (screensfull of lost stuff) (++) Using config file : "/root/xorg.conf.new" Xorg is not able to detect your mouse. Edit the file and correct the Device Your xorg.conf file is /root/xorg.conf.new To test the server, riun 'X -config /root/xorg.conf.new' Looking into that file, there is a section Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" EndSection There is no /dev/mouse any more. There is a /dev/mouse0. 'system-config-mouse' executes OK, I pick the appropriate mouse, nothing is created in /dev. Xorg and system-config-display come back with the same errors. Changing the xorg.conf.file entry to Option "Device" "/dev/mouse0" gets Xorg is not able to detect your mouse. edit the file and correct the Device. All was well before the up2date crash : the GUI was fine, the mouse was fine. Advice would be welcomed. John Reynolds From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Oct 11 23:45:39 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:45:39 -0700 Subject: X Server problems on Fedora Core 3 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1129074339.13503.288.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 14:28 -0700, John Reynolds wrote: > Hello. > > I had a system crash during an up2date session. The GUI is a casualty. > > When the system tries to boot into the GUI mode, it goes blank, puts up a > message about a failure to start : the fixed font is not found and > unix:/7100 server is not found. I put it into text mode startup, rebooted > and tried again. That's the X font server not running. Try "service xfs start". Also make sure you run "chkconfig --level 5 xfs on" to ensure it'll start the next time run level 5 (GUI) is started. > Following the advice in the RHIL FAQ, I ran > > # system-config-display --reconfig > > and got > > xconf.py: Fatal IO error 104: (Connection reset by peer) on X server :17.0 > --display=:1 xconf.py: Fatal IO error 104: (Connection reset by peer) on X > server :17.0 That's odd. Hmmm, you don't have a separate vncserver session running somewhere, do you? Also verify you don't have any X programs running when you do the "--reconfig" bit (make sure there's no "gdm" or "X" processes via "ps ax". > # Xorg -configure got me > > (screensfull of lost stuff) > (++) Using config file : "/root/xorg.conf.new" > > Xorg is not able to detect your mouse. > Edit the file and correct the Device > Your xorg.conf file is /root/xorg.conf.new > > To test the server, riun 'X -config /root/xorg.conf.new' > > > Looking into that file, there is a section > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "auto" > Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" > EndSection > > There is no /dev/mouse any more. There is a /dev/mouse0. > 'system-config-mouse' executes OK, I pick the appropriate mouse, nothing > is created in /dev. Xorg and system-config-display come back with the > same errors. > > Changing the xorg.conf.file entry to > Option "Device" "/dev/mouse0" > gets > Xorg is not able to detect your mouse. > edit the file and correct the Device. > > All was well before the up2date crash : the GUI was fine, the mouse was > fine. > > Advice would be welcomed. Try changing your mouse section to something like: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" EndSection ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 jreyn at us.ibm.com Wed Oct 12 13:25:23 2005 From: jreyn at us.ibm.com (John Reynolds) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:25:23 -0700 Subject: X Server problems on Fedora Core 3 In-Reply-To: <1129074339.13503.288.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: Rick Stevens opened the Vault of Knowledge and brought forth: > >On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 14:28 -0700, John Reynolds wrote: >> Hello. >> >> I had a system crash during an up2date session. The GUI is a casualty. >> >> When the system tries to boot into the GUI mode, it goes blank, puts up a >> message about a failure to start : the fixed font is not found and >> unix:/7100 server is not found. I put it into text mode startup, rebooted >> and tried again. > >That's the X font server not running. Try "service xfs start". Also >make sure you run "chkconfig --level 5 xfs on" to ensure it'll start >the next time run level 5 (GUI) is started. That fixed it: ran both, reset inittab to level 5, and rebooted. And when it came back, the mouse driver was functioning again and the GUI came up clean. I had run xfs from the init.d directory, instead of using the service command; I didn't think that made the difference. I have a hunch that the chkconfig straightened whatever was bent. What file(s) does that groom? I like to understand the mechanisms, not just the commands, it improves the troubleshooting. Many thanks! John Reynolds IBM-by-the-Bay San Francisco CA From mmarkiw at speakeasy.net Wed Oct 12 13:25:58 2005 From: mmarkiw at speakeasy.net (Mike Markiw III) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:25:58 +0000 Subject: external disk formatting Message-ID: Hi all, I'm trying to get a Red Hat ES 4 install up and running using an external hard drive for additional storage. The drive came out of the box formatted with fat32. However, fat32 doesn't support UNIX-style partitions so I hooked it up to a windows machine and formatted to ntfs. I installed the ntfs kernel module only to find out that it doesn't support write/delete operations, only read. I'd like to just do a format to ext2 from the RHEL box, but I've never done anything like that before. Usually, the only formatting I do is at OS-install time. I found fdisk, though that didn't seem to be the correct program. Then I found parted but I keep getting error messages saying that it doesn't allow partitions outside the disk. 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URL: From akelly at corisweb.org Wed Oct 12 14:26:24 2005 From: akelly at corisweb.org (Andrew Kelly) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:26:24 +0200 Subject: more keyboard please Message-ID: <1129127184.3464.74.camel@fedora.at.home> Hi all, I'm hoping one of you knows which magic wand to wave, even though half an hour of googling has made me rather sceptical. Here goes at any rate... What is the X and/or console equivalent of the good old DOS [ALT + ASCIIcode] method of inputting characters? I'm not a big fan of switching keyboard drivers on the fly, or having to open a character map application to copy and paste the occasional ?,?,? or whatever into what I'm writing. I live and work in Germany, and use a standard qwertz keyboard with appropriate drivers. But we're international in scope and I constantly have to use several languages in correspondence. Is there Meta key access to iso8859-1 characters, or do I have to completely rebuild my xmodmap? Help? Andy From sabraham at cwjamaica.com Wed Oct 12 14:36:13 2005 From: sabraham at cwjamaica.com (Sidney Abrahams) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:36:13 -0500 Subject: Installing an old Iomega Jaz 2 GB on Enterprise WS4 Message-ID: <20051012143632.C2B42245BE@smtp.cwjamaica.com> I have an Adaptec SCSI 2960 adapter connected to a Seagate 36 Gb and I connected the Jaz on the old 50 pin connector, terminated the cable and booted up. DMESG | more, shows me the Jaz on ID 4 but it reports that the device refuses synchronous communication and is using asynchronous. When I put in a disc in the Jaz it reports "spinning up disc" then I get a card dump (scsi0:A:4:0) : Device is disconnected, re-queing SCB Recovery Code Sleeping (scsi0:A:4:0) Abort Message sent (scsi0:A:4:0): Abort completed Lots of lines like XX SCB_CONTROL[0x0] SCB_SCSIID[0xff] SCB_LUN[0xff] SCB_TAG[0xff] with XX ending in 31 Kernel Free SCB List : 6 0 1 7 5 4 Untagged Q(4):6 DevQ(0:0:0): 0 waiting DevQ(0:4:0): 0 waiting <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Dump Card State Ends >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> How can I get the Jaz to work? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Wed Oct 12 15:22:49 2005 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:22:49 -0500 Subject: external disk formatting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20051012152249.GA12896@bobcat.bobcatos.com> If you would please, beat your mailer until it wraps lines every 72 chars or so. I'll reformat this. On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 01:25:58PM +0000, Mike Markiw III wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get a Red Hat ES 4 install up and running using an > external hard drive for additional storage. The drive came out of > the box formatted with fat32. However, fat32 doesn't support > UNIX-style partitions so I hooked it up to a windows machine and > formatted to ntfs. I installed the ntfs kernel module only to find > out that it doesn't support write/delete operations, only read. > > I'd like to just do a format to ext2 from the RHEL box, but I've > never done anything like that before. Usually, the only formatting > I do is at OS-install time. > > I found fdisk, though that didn't seem to be the correct program. Why not. That's what you need for setting up partitions. Assuming it's treated as a SCSI drive, and called /dev/sda, fdisk /dev/sda After that's done, you should be able to e2fsck -j /dev/sda1 e2fsck -j /dev/sda2 . . . > Then I found parted but I keep getting error messages saying that it > doesn't allow partitions outside the disk. Don't know what that's about. > Can anyone offer any advice or assitance? Surely there must be a > simpler way to format a disk! > > Thanks in advance, > -Mike Markiw > Oracle Technology Consultant > Tier1, Inc. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Peace at any price is inflationary. From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Wed Oct 12 15:34:09 2005 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:34:09 -0500 Subject: Running an application and passing a paramter to it on one of the Alt Function screens In-Reply-To: <20051012140243.E5774245A3@smtp.cwjamaica.com> References: <20051012140243.E5774245A3@smtp.cwjamaica.com> Message-ID: <20051012153409.GC12896@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 09:02:25AM -0500, Sidney Abrahams wrote: > I have a need to have my WS4 Enterprise automatically start up an > application which requires it to have an X and a CR passed to it to execute > it whenever my machine is rebooted. How can I do that Assuming it runs as root, I think you should be able to do something like this in /etc/rc.d/rc.local echo "X" | /path/to/some/app & > and also run the app > in the Alt F2 screen (I am not using GUI run level i.e. using runlevel 3)? Hmm. I don't know how to do that. Stuff run as suggested is not associated with a terminal. Why do you need that? If you want to watch or inspect its output, just redirect it to some file: echo "X" | /path/to/some/app > /some/logfile & Then you can, from any terminal in the foreground tail -f /some/logfile I have a CallerID monitor using an old modem, and I have it set up that way. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Peace at any price is inflationary. From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Wed Oct 12 15:35:51 2005 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:35:51 -0500 Subject: external disk formatting In-Reply-To: <20051012152249.GA12896@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <20051012152249.GA12896@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <20051012153551.GD12896@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:22:49AM -0500, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > If you would please, beat your mailer until it wraps lines every 72 > chars or so. I'll reformat this. > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 01:25:58PM +0000, Mike Markiw III wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to get a Red Hat ES 4 install up and running using an > > external hard drive for additional storage. The drive came out of > > the box formatted with fat32. However, fat32 doesn't support > > UNIX-style partitions so I hooked it up to a windows machine and > > formatted to ntfs. I installed the ntfs kernel module only to find > > out that it doesn't support write/delete operations, only read. > > > > I'd like to just do a format to ext2 from the RHEL box, but I've > > never done anything like that before. Usually, the only formatting > > I do is at OS-install time. > > > > I found fdisk, though that didn't seem to be the correct program. > > Why not. That's what you need for setting up partitions. Assuming > it's treated as a SCSI drive, and called /dev/sda, > > fdisk /dev/sda > > After that's done, you should be able to > > e2fsck -j /dev/sda1 > e2fsck -j /dev/sda2 Whoops. Make that mke2fs -j /dev/sda1 mke2fs -j /dev/sda2 > . > . > . > > > Then I found parted but I keep getting error messages saying that it > > doesn't allow partitions outside the disk. > > Don't know what that's about. > > > Can anyone offer any advice or assitance? Surely there must be a > > simpler way to format a disk! > > > > Thanks in advance, > > -Mike Markiw > > Oracle Technology Consultant > > Tier1, Inc. > > Cheers, > -- > Bob McClure, Jr. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Peace at any price is inflationary. From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Wed Oct 12 15:42:15 2005 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:42:15 -0500 Subject: X Server problems on Fedora Core 3 In-Reply-To: References: <1129074339.13503.288.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <20051012154215.GE12896@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 06:25:23AM -0700, John Reynolds wrote: > Rick Stevens opened the Vault of Knowledge and brought forth: > > > > >On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 14:28 -0700, John Reynolds wrote: > >> Hello. > >> > >> I had a system crash during an up2date session. The GUI is a casualty. > >> > >> When the system tries to boot into the GUI mode, it goes blank, puts up > a > >> message about a failure to start : the fixed font is not found and > >> unix:/7100 server is not found. I put it into text mode startup, > rebooted > >> and tried again. > > > >That's the X font server not running. Try "service xfs start". Also > >make sure you run "chkconfig --level 5 xfs on" to ensure it'll start > >the next time run level 5 (GUI) is started. > > That fixed it: ran both, reset inittab to level 5, and rebooted. And when > it came back, the mouse driver was functioning again and the GUI came up > clean. > > I had run xfs from the init.d directory, instead of using the service > command; I didn't think that made the difference. I have a hunch that the > chkconfig straightened whatever was bent. What file(s) does that > groom? It makes (or removes) symlinks in /etc/rc.d/rcx.d (where x is the runlevel) to the scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d. The init process executes "KNNsomething stop" and "SNNsomething start" for the given runlevel. > I > like to understand the mechanisms, not just the commands, it improves the > troubleshooting. Good on you. > Many thanks! > > John Reynolds > IBM-by-the-Bay > San Francisco CA Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Peace at any price is inflationary. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Oct 12 18:29:06 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:29:06 -0700 Subject: X Server problems on Fedora Core 3 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1129141746.13503.299.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 06:25 -0700, John Reynolds wrote: > Rick Stevens opened the Vault of Knowledge and brought forth: > > > > >On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 14:28 -0700, John Reynolds wrote: > >> Hello. > >> > >> I had a system crash during an up2date session. The GUI is a casualty. > >> > >> When the system tries to boot into the GUI mode, it goes blank, puts up > a > >> message about a failure to start : the fixed font is not found and > >> unix:/7100 server is not found. I put it into text mode startup, > rebooted > >> and tried again. > > > >That's the X font server not running. Try "service xfs start". Also > >make sure you run "chkconfig --level 5 xfs on" to ensure it'll start > >the next time run level 5 (GUI) is started. > > That fixed it: ran both, reset inittab to level 5, and rebooted. And when > it came back, the mouse driver was functioning again and the GUI came up > clean. > > I had run xfs from the init.d directory, instead of using the service > command; I didn't think that made the difference. I have a hunch that the > chkconfig straightened whatever was bent. What file(s) does that groom? I > like to understand the mechanisms, not just the commands, it improves the > troubleshooting. "service whatever start" does exactly what "/etc/rc.d/init.d/whatever start" does. The "service" command is just a shell script. "chkconfig" looks at the top of the files in /etc/rc.d/init.d and looks for the "chkconfig:" line: # chkconfig: 2345 55 25 The "2345" indicates what run levels this is appropriate for (a "-" can also be used for "2345". The "55" indicates what sequence should be assigned when entering the run level (in this case, "S55whatever") and the "25" indicates the sequence when exiting the run level ("K25whatever"). > Many thanks! "That's what we're here for!" (c)2005, Red Hat Install List :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Hello. My PID is Inigo Montoya. You `kill -9'-ed my parent - - process. Prepare to vi." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Oct 12 18:35:15 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:35:15 -0700 Subject: external disk formatting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1129142115.13503.306.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 13:25 +0000, Mike Markiw III wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get a Red Hat ES 4 install up and running using an external hard drive for additional storage. The drive came out of the box formatted with fat32. However, fat32 doesn't support UNIX-style partitions so I hooked it up to a windows machine and formatted to ntfs. I installed the ntfs kernel module only to find out that it doesn't support write/delete operations, only read. > > I'd like to just do a format to ext2 from the RHEL box, but I've never done anything like that before. Usually, the only formatting I do is at OS-install time. > > I found fdisk, though that didn't seem to be the correct program. Then I found parted but I keep getting error messages saying that it doesn't allow partitions outside the disk. fdisk is the beast you want. We're assuming the drive is treated as SCSI (and if it's USB, Firewire or SCSI it will be), and that it's the first drive other than your IDE drives. If that's the case, the device name will be /dev/sda. So, as the root user, enter: # fdisk /dev/sda "m" will give you a list of the existing partitions on the drive (if any). Use the "d" command to delete the existing partitions. Use the "n" command to create new ones. When you're all done, use the "w" command to write the new partition table to the drive and exit fdisk. The partitions will be named "/dev/sda1", "/dev/sda2" and so on. To format them with the ext3 filesystem, again as root, use: # mke2fs -j /dev/sda1 and so on. Once that's done, create some directories where you want these new partitions to appear, and # mount /dev/sda1 /new/directory Voila! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Oct 12 18:39:57 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:39:57 -0700 Subject: Installing an old Iomega Jaz 2 GB on Enterprise WS4 In-Reply-To: <20051012143632.C2B42245BE@smtp.cwjamaica.com> References: <20051012143632.C2B42245BE@smtp.cwjamaica.com> Message-ID: <1129142397.13503.310.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 09:36 -0500, Sidney Abrahams wrote: > I have an Adaptec SCSI 2960 adapter connected to a Seagate 36 Gb and I > connected the Jaz on the old 50 pin connector, terminated the cable > and booted up. DMESG | more, shows me the Jaz on ID 4 but it reports > that the device refuses synchronous communication and is using > asynchronous. When I put in a disc in the Jaz it reports > > ?spinning up disc? then I get a card dump > > (scsi0:A:4:0) : Device is disconnected, re-queing SCB > > Recovery Code Sleeping > > (scsi0:A:4:0) Abort Message sent > > (scsi0:A:4:0): Abort completed > > > > Lots of lines like > > XX SCB_CONTROL[0x0] SCB_SCSIID[0xff] SCB_LUN[0xff] SCB_TAG[0xff] with > XX ending in 31 > > Kernel Free SCB List : 6 0 1 7 5 4 > > Untagged Q(4):6 > > DevQ(0:0:0): 0 waiting > > DevQ(0:4:0): 0 waiting > > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Dump Card State Ends > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > How can I get the Jaz to work? It "just does" for me on an Adaptec 2942. It smells like an ID conflict or a bad terminator to me. You may have to turn off the autotermination in the Adaptec's BIOS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Death is nature's way of dropping carrier - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From jreyn at us.ibm.com Wed Oct 12 18:50:31 2005 From: jreyn at us.ibm.com (John Reynolds) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:50:31 -0700 Subject: X Server problems on Fedora Core 3 In-Reply-To: <1129141746.13503.299.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: Rick Stevens explained: >"chkconfig" looks at the top of the files in /etc/rc.d/init.d >and looks for the "chkconfig:" line: > > # chkconfig: 2345 55 25 > >The "2345" indicates what run levels this is appropriate >for (a "-" can also be used for "2345". The "55" indicates >what sequence should be assigned when entering the run level >(in this case, "S55whatever") and the "25" indicates the >sequence when exiting the run level ("K25whatever"). Ah HA, that's what that cruft does! A way of making the startup/shutdown setup self-repairable! Nice! > >> Many thanks! > >"That's what we're here for!" (c)2005, Red Hat Install List :-) And again. John Reynolds IBM-by-the-Bay San Francisco CA "The installation will put the files in the default location. The default location is randomly chosen and determined by the installation."--Microsoft, Guide for Installing and Deploying Windows XP Service Pack 2 From redhat at buglecreek.com Wed Oct 12 20:19:55 2005 From: redhat at buglecreek.com (redhat at buglecreek.com) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:19:55 -0600 Subject: /etc/shadow Locked accounts Message-ID: <1129148395.28742.245026613@webmail.messagingengine.com> On a RedHat ES 4 system I was checking for null passwords in /etc/shadow and came across a "x" in the encrypted password field (2nd field) for a few accounts. I have seen "!" "!!" and "*" for locked accounts but have not come across a "x". The x does seem to lock the accounts however, which is what I want. Anyone know what program may have placed the x in the field? The "usermod -L" and "passwd -l" commands does not seem to. Also, does it have the same effect as "!"? I was just curious if anyone else has seen this. Just to clarify, I am not referring to the /etc/passwd file. Thanks From kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr Wed Oct 12 20:33:58 2005 From: kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr (Kostas Sfakiotakis) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 23:33:58 +0300 Subject: Installation issues on redhat linux In-Reply-To: <3DD58C12CC73BF40B5498B065E42071403AC5B24@ex-mail-sea-06.ant.amazon.com> References: <3DD58C12CC73BF40B5498B065E42071403AC5B24@ex-mail-sea-06.ant.amazon.com> Message-ID: <434D7336.2050800@cha.forthnet.gr> Greetings Pol, Pol, Parikshit wrote: > Thanks for that. It was company restrictions that makes me stick to > 7.2. I am trying to get another version though. -Parik > > -----Original Message----- From: > redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick > Stevens Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 10:47 AM To: Getting started > with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: Installation issues on redhat linux > > On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 12:24 -0700, Pol, Parikshit wrote: > >> Hello Folks, I am trying to install Eclipse 3.1 on my Linux desktop >> ( Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma) ). As a part of the >> dependencies I was trying to install gtk+-2.8.4. While trying to >> run ./configure it gives me the following error: >> >> configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.7.1 atk >= >> 1.0.1 pango >= 1.9.0 cairo >= 0.9.2) were not met. >> >> I just installed glib-2.8.2, pango-1.10.0 and atk-1.10.1. But >> somehow pkg-config is not getting it. It is showing the following >> packages when I do a list-all. Do you mind if i ask how did you installed those packages ??? There are two ways that you can install a package . The first one is through the use of the source code . Which means that you download the source coded , compile it and then install the programm . This method has a small "problem" , it doesn't inform the RPM Database . So unless you do some extra stuff ( I don't know exactly what ) the system will be unaware of what you did . The second way is to install it through the use of the rpm command ( that's what pkg-config is actually doing ). If you use this method , things are more simple . Kind Regards, Kostas From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Oct 13 00:52:24 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:52:24 -0700 Subject: /etc/shadow Locked accounts In-Reply-To: <1129148395.28742.245026613@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1129148395.28742.245026613@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <1129164745.13503.341.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 14:19 -0600, redhat at buglecreek.com wrote: > On a RedHat ES 4 system I was checking for null passwords in /etc/shadow > and came across a "x" in the encrypted password field (2nd field) for a > few accounts. I have seen "!" "!!" and "*" for locked accounts but have > not come across a "x". The x does seem to lock the accounts however, > which is what I want. Anyone know what program may have placed the x in > the field? The "usermod -L" and "passwd -l" commands does not seem to. > Also, does it have the same effect as "!"? I was just curious if anyone > else has seen this. Smells like a hack job to me. /etc/shadow should have an encrypted password or a single or double "!" in it. It should NEVER have a single character. It should render the password invalid, however, as there is no encryption system I know of that would generate a single character as the encrypted string. > Just to clarify, I am not referring to the /etc/passwd file. Yes, we know. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Thu Oct 13 14:59:43 2005 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:59:43 -0700 Subject: /etc/shadow Locked accounts Message-ID: > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 5:52 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: /etc/shadow Locked accounts > > On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 14:19 -0600, redhat at buglecreek.com wrote: > > On a RedHat ES 4 system I was checking for null passwords in /etc/shadow > > and came across a "x" in the encrypted password field (2nd field) for a > > few accounts. I have seen "!" "!!" and "*" for locked accounts but have > > not come across a "x". The x does seem to lock the accounts however, > > which is what I want. Anyone know what program may have placed the x in > > the field? The "usermod -L" and "passwd -l" commands does not seem to. > > Also, does it have the same effect as "!"? I was just curious if anyone > > else has seen this. > > Smells like a hack job to me. /etc/shadow should have an encrypted > password or a single or double "!" in it. It should NEVER have a single > character. It should render the password invalid, however, as there > is no encryption system I know of that would generate a single character > as the encrypted string. > While this isn't a hack, this would be a hack job of administration. To reproduce this "x", do this: 1) manually edit the /etc/passwd file, create a user account 2) Place an "x" in the password field user1:x:600:600::/home/user1:/bin/bash 3) execute pwconv Pwconv will place an "x" in the password field of the shadow file for that user. This still does this on the initial release of AS4.0/FC, I'm not sure if a security patch has come out to address this. Travis From redhat at buglecreek.com Thu Oct 13 15:33:13 2005 From: redhat at buglecreek.com (redhat at buglecreek.com) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:33:13 -0600 Subject: /etc/shadow Locked accounts In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1129217593.7539.245093605@webmail.messagingengine.com> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:59:43 -0700, "Waldher, Travis R" said: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 5:52 PM > > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > Subject: Re: /etc/shadow Locked accounts > > > > On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 14:19 -0600, redhat at buglecreek.com wrote: > > > On a RedHat ES 4 system I was checking for null passwords in > /etc/shadow > > > and came across a "x" in the encrypted password field (2nd field) > for a > > > few accounts. I have seen "!" "!!" and "*" for locked accounts but > have > > > not come across a "x". The x does seem to lock the accounts however, > > > which is what I want. Anyone know what program may have placed the > x in > > > the field? The "usermod -L" and "passwd -l" commands does not seem > to. > > > Also, does it have the same effect as "!"? I was just curious if > anyone > > > else has seen this. > > > > Smells like a hack job to me. /etc/shadow should have an encrypted > > password or a single or double "!" in it. It should NEVER have a > single > > character. It should render the password invalid, however, as there > > is no encryption system I know of that would generate a single > character > > as the encrypted string. > > > > While this isn't a hack, this would be a hack job of administration. > > To reproduce this "x", do this: > > 1) manually edit the /etc/passwd file, create a user account > 2) Place an "x" in the password field > user1:x:600:600::/home/user1:/bin/bash > 3) execute pwconv > > Pwconv will place an "x" in the password field of the shadow file for > that user. This still does this on the initial release of AS4.0/FC, > I'm not sure if a security patch has come out to address this. > > Travis > Interesting. I tried to reproduce the "x", but did not think of using pwconv. I tried it and yes it does place an "x" in /etc/shadow. Thanks From jkinz at kinz.org Thu Oct 13 18:47:51 2005 From: jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:47:51 -0400 Subject: /proc/sys/net/ipv4 parameters (see sysctl) (LONG, can be ignored) Message-ID: <20051013144751.B22553@redline.comcast.net> Apologies in advance if this post bothers anyone. /proc/sys/net/ipv4 parameters Just gave an answer to someone on this stuff and realized that this info, although readily available in the lartc manual, seems to be difficult for many to find. (Including me :-) ) Hopefully having this info in one more place will help. The lartc manual is : "Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO" available here: http://lartc.org/howto/ And here : (copy at TLDP.org ) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Adv-Routing-HOWTO.html This is a great document, I recommend reading cover to cover. Chapter 13. Kernel network parameters ( /proc/sys/net/ipv4 ) 13.2. Obscure settings Ok, there are a lot of parameters which can be modified. We try to list them all. Also documented (partly) in Documentation/ip-sysctl.txt. Some of these settings have different defaults based on whether you answered 'Yes' to 'Configure as router and not host' while compiling your kernel. Oskar Andreasson also has a page on all these flags and it appears to be better than ours, so also check http://ipsysctl-tutorial.frozentux.net/. 13.2.1. Generic ipv4 As a generic note, most rate limiting features don't work on loopback, so don't test them locally. The limits are supplied in 'jiffies', and are enforced using the earlier mentioned token bucket filter. The kernel has an internal clock which runs at 'HZ' ticks (or 'jiffies') per second. On Intel, 'HZ' is mostly 100. So setting a *_rate file to, say 50, would allow for 2 packets per second. The token bucket filter is also configured to allow for a burst of at most 6 packets, if enough tokens have been earned. Several entries in the following list have been copied from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt, written by Alexey Kuznetsov and Andi Kleen /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_destunreach_rate If the kernel decides that it can't deliver a packet, it will drop it, and send the source of the packet an ICMP notice to this effect. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all Don't act on echo packets at all. Please don't set this by default, but if you are used as a relay in a DoS attack, it may be useful. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts [Useful] If you ping the broadcast address of a network, all hosts are supposed to respond. This makes for a dandy denial-of-service tool. Set this to 1 to ignore these broadcast messages. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echoreply_rate The rate at which echo replies are sent to any one destination. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses Set this to ignore ICMP errors caused by hosts in the network reacting badly to frames sent to what they perceive to be the broadcast address. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_paramprob_rate A relatively unknown ICMP message, which is sent in response to incorrect packets with broken IP or TCP headers. With this file you can control the rate at which it is sent. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_timeexceed_rate This is the famous cause of the 'Solaris middle star' in traceroutes. Limits the rate of ICMP Time Exceeded messages sent. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/igmp_max_memberships Maximum number of listening igmp (multicast) sockets on the host. FIXME: Is this true? /proc/sys/net/ipv4/inet_peer_gc_maxtime FIXME: Add a little explanation about the inet peer storage? Miximum interval between garbage collection passes. This interval is in effect under low (or absent) memory pressure on the pool. Measured in jiffies. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/inet_peer_gc_mintime Minimum interval between garbage collection passes. This interval is in effect under high memory pressure on the pool. Measured in jiffies. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/inet_peer_maxttl Maximum time-to-live of entries. Unused entries will expire after this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e. when the number of entries in the pool is very small). Measured in jiffies. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/inet_peer_minttl Minimum time-to-live of entries. Should be enough to cover fragment time-to-live on the reassembling side. This minimum time-to-live is guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold. Measured in jiffies. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/inet_peer_threshold The approximate size of the INET peer storage. Starting from this threshold entries will be thrown aggressively. This threshold also determines entries' time-to-live and time intervals between garbage collection passes. More entries, less time-to-live, less GC interval. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_autoconfig This file contains the number one if the host received its IP configuration by RARP, BOOTP, DHCP or a similar mechanism. Otherwise it is zero. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_default_ttl Time To Live of packets. Set to a safe 64. Raise it if you have a huge network. Don't do so for fun - routing loops cause much more damage that way. You might even consider lowering it in some circumstances. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr You need to set this if you use dial-on-demand with a dynamic interface address. Once your demand interface comes up, any local TCP sockets which haven't seen replies will be rebound to have the right address. This solves the problem that the connection that brings up your interface itself does not work, but the second try does. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward If the kernel should attempt to forward packets. Off by default. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range Range of local ports for outgoing connections. Actually quite small by default, 1024 to 4999. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc Set this if you want to disable Path MTU discovery - a technique to determine the largest Maximum Transfer Unit possible on your path. See also the section on Path MTU discovery in the Cookbook chapter. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ipfrag_high_thresh Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments. When ipfrag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose, the fragment handler will toss packets until ipfrag_low_thresh is reached. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_nonlocal_bind Set this if you want your applications to be able to bind to an address which doesn't belong to a device on your system. This can be useful when your machine is on a non-permanent (or even dynamic) link, so your services are able to start up and bind to a specific address when your link is down. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ipfrag_low_thresh Minimum memory used to reassemble IP fragments. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ipfrag_time Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_abort_on_overflow A boolean flag controlling the behaviour under lots of incoming connections. When enabled, this causes the kernel to actively send RST packets when a service is overloaded. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fin_timeout Time to hold socket in state FIN-WAIT-2, if it was closed by our side. Peer can be broken and never close its side, or even died unexpectedly. Default value is 60sec. Usual value used in 2.2 was 180 seconds, you may restore it, but remember that if your machine is even underloaded WEB server, you risk to overflow memory with kilotons of dead sockets, FIN-WAIT-2 sockets are less dangerous than FIN-WAIT-1, because they eat maximum 1.5K of memory, but they tend to live longer. Cf. tcp_max_orphans. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled. Default: 2hours. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_intvl How frequent probes are retransmitted, when a probe isn't acknowledged. Default: 75 seconds. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_probes How many keepalive probes TCP will send, until it decides that the connection is broken. Default value: 9. Multiplied with tcp_keepalive_intvl, this gives the time a link can be non-responsive after a keepalive has been sent. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_orphans Maximal number of TCP sockets not attached to any user file handle, held by system. If this number is exceeded orphaned connections are reset immediately and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not rely on this or lower the limit artificially, but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory), if network conditions require more than default value, and tune network services to linger and kill such states more aggressively. Let me remind you again: each orphan eats up to 64K of unswappable memory. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_orphan_retries How may times to retry before killing TCP connection, closed by our side. Default value 7 corresponds to 50sec-16min depending on RTO. If your machine is a loaded WEB server, you should think about lowering this value, such sockets may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_syn_backlog Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which still did not receive an acknowledgment from connecting client. Default value is 1024 for systems with more than 128Mb of memory, and 128 for low memory machines. If server suffers of overload, try to increase this number. Warning! If you make it greater than 1024, it would be better to change TCP_SYNQ_HSIZE in include/net/tcp.h to keep TCP_SYNQ_HSIZE*16<=tcp_max_syn_backlog and to recompile kernel. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_tw_buckets Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously. If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially, but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory), if network conditions require more than default value. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_retrans_collapse Bug-to-bug compatibility with some broken printers. On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in certain TCP stacks. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_retries1 How many times to retry before deciding that something is wrong and it is necessary to report this suspicion to network layer. Minimal RFC value is 3, it is default, which corresponds to 3sec-8min depending on RTO. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_retries2 How may times to retry before killing alive TCP connection. RFC 1122 says that the limit should be longer than 100 sec. It is too small number. Default value 15 corresponds to 13-30min depending on RTO. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rfc1337 This boolean enables a fix for 'time-wait assassination hazards in tcp', described in RFC 1337. If enabled, this causes the kernel to drop RST packets for sockets in the time-wait state. Default: 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_sack Use Selective ACK which can be used to signify that specific packets are missing - therefore helping fast recovery. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_stdurg Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urg pointer field. Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on Linux might not communicate correctly with them. Default: FALSE /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syn_retries Number of SYN packets the kernel will send before giving up on the new connection. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_synack_retries To open the other side of the connection, the kernel sends a SYN with a piggybacked ACK on it, to acknowledge the earlier received SYN. This is part 2 of the threeway handshake. This setting determines the number of SYN+ACK packets sent before the kernel gives up on the connection. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps Timestamps are used, amongst other things, to protect against wrapping sequence numbers. A 1 gigabit link might conceivably re-encounter a previous sequence number with an out-of-line value, because it was of a previous generation. The timestamp will let it recognize this 'ancient packet'. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tw_recycle Enable fast recycling TIME-WAIT sockets. Default value is 1. It should not be changed without advice/request of technical experts. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling TCP/IP normally allows windows up to 65535 bytes big. For really fast networks, this may not be enough. The window scaling options allows for almost gigabyte windows, which is good for high bandwidth*delay products. 13.2.2. Per device settings DEV can either stand for a real interface, or for 'all' or 'default'. Default also changes settings for interfaces yet to be created. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/DEV/accept_redirects If a router decides that you are using it for a wrong purpose (ie, it needs to resend your packet on the same interface), it will send us a ICMP Redirect. This is a slight security risk however, so you may want to turn it off, or use secure redirects. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/DEV/accept_source_route Not used very much anymore. You used to be able to give a packet a list of IP addresses it should visit on its way. Linux can be made to honor this IP option. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/DEV/bootp_relay Accept packets with source address 0.b.c.d with destinations not to this host as local ones. It is supposed that a BOOTP relay daemon will catch and forward such packets. The default is 0, since this feature is not implemented yet (kernel version 2.2.12). /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/DEV/forwarding Enable or disable IP forwarding on this interface. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/DEV/log_martians See the section on Reverse Path Filtering. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/DEV/mc_forwarding If we do multicast forwarding on this interface /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/DEV/proxy_arp If you set this to 1, this interface will respond to ARP requests for addresses the kernel has routes to. Can be very useful when building 'ip pseudo bridges'. Do take care that your netmasks are very correct before enabling this! Also be aware that the rp_filter, mentioned elsewhere, also operates on ARP queries! /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/DEV/rp_filter See the section on Reverse Path Filtering. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/DEV/secure_redirects Accept ICMP redirect messages only for gateways, listed in default gateway list. Enabled by default. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/DEV/send_redirects If we send the above mentioned redirects. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/DEV/shared_media If it is not set the kernel does not assume that different subnets on this device can communicate directly. Default setting is 'yes'. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/DEV/tag FIXME: fill this in 13.2.3. Neighbor policy Dev can either stand for a real interface, or for 'all' or 'default'. Default also changes settings for interfaces yet to be created. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/DEV/anycast_delay Maximum for random delay of answers to neighbor solicitation messages in jiffies (1/100 sec). Not yet implemented (Linux does not have anycast support yet). /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/DEV/app_solicit Determines the number of requests to send to the user level ARP daemon. Use 0 to turn off. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/DEV/base_reachable_time A base value used for computing the random reachable time value as specified in RFC2461. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/DEV/delay_first_probe_time Delay for the first time probe if the neighbor is reachable. (see gc_stale_time) /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/DEV/gc_stale_time Determines how often to check for stale ARP entries. After an ARP entry is stale it will be resolved again (which is useful when an IP address migrates to another machine). When ucast_solicit is greater than 0 it first tries to send an ARP packet directly to the known host When that fails and mcast_solicit is greater than 0, an ARP request is broadcast. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/DEV/locktime An ARP/neighbor entry is only replaced with a new one if the old is at least locktime old. This prevents ARP cache thrashing. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/DEV/mcast_solicit Maximum number of retries for multicast solicitation. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/DEV/proxy_delay Maximum time (real time is random [0..proxytime]) before answering to an ARP request for which we have an proxy ARP entry. In some cases, this is used to prevent network flooding. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/DEV/proxy_qlen Maximum queue length of the delayed proxy arp timer. (see proxy_delay). /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/DEV/retrans_time The time, expressed in jiffies (1/100 sec), between retransmitted Neighbor Solicitation messages. Used for address resolution and to determine if a neighbor is unreachable. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/DEV/ucast_solicit Maximum number of retries for unicast solicitation. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/DEV/unres_qlen Maximum queue length for a pending arp request - the number of packets which are accepted from other layers while the ARP address is still resolved. 13.2.4. Routing settings /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/error_burst and /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/error_cost This parameters are used to limit the warning messages written to the kernel log from the routing code. The higher the error_cost factor is, the fewer messages will be written. Error_burst controls when messages will be dropped. The default settings limit warning messages to one every five seconds. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/flush Writing to this file results in a flush of the routing cache. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/gc_elasticity Values to control the frequency and behavior of the garbage collection algorithm for the routing cache. This can be important for when doing fail over. At least gc_timeout seconds will elapse before Linux will skip to another route because the previous one has died. By default set to 300, you may want to lower it if you want to have a speedy fail over. Also see this post by Ard van Breemen. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/gc_interval See /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/gc_elasticity. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/gc_min_interval See /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/gc_elasticity. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/gc_thresh See /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/gc_elasticity. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/gc_timeout See /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/gc_elasticity. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/max_delay Maximum delay for flushing the routing cache. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/max_size Maximum size of the routing cache. Old entries will be purged once the cache reached has this size. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/min_adv_mss FIXME: fill this in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/min_delay Minimum delay for flushing the routing cache. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/min_pmtu FIXME: fill this in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/mtu_expires FIXME: fill this in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/redirect_load Factors which determine if more ICMP redirects should be sent to a specific host. No redirects will be sent once the load limit or the maximum number of redirects has been reached. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/redirect_number See /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/redirect_load. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/redirect_silence Timeout for redirects. After this period redirects will be sent again, even if this has been stopped, because the load or number limit has been reached. -- speech recognition software was not used in the composition of this e-mail Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. ??Ya no mas! From jkinz at kinz.org Thu Oct 13 20:30:46 2005 From: jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:30:46 -0400 Subject: pop quiz! configure sendmail to accept IP addrs! Message-ID: <20051013163046.A22942@redline.comcast.net> Hi all, Got a quickie here, maybe not doable? I want to configure my Sendmail system to accept email addressed to my IP address (24.91.157.212) as well as to "kinz.org". Using the virtuser table I can accept or reject any address "X" at kinz.org, Kinz.org has a dynamic IP address and I use MASQUERADE_AS kinz.org in sendmail.mc. I want emails to "X at 24.91.157.212" to be accepted by the same sendmail process. I have tried adding another MASQUERADE_AS macro to sendmail.mc, but that wasn't the answer. They just bounced. Any ideas ? -- speech recognition software was not used in the composition of this e-mail Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. ??Ya no mas! From harold at hallikainen.com Fri Oct 14 15:10:47 2005 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:10:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: someone ran brute on my box? In-Reply-To: <1128719387.13503.134.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <4346AB2C.1020708@visualtech.ca> <20051007184825.GA28658@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <4346C720.9000900@visualtech.ca> <1128719387.13503.134.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <28881.207.177.227.29.1129302647.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> > On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 15:06 -0400, Mark McCulligh wrote: >> Bob McClure Jr wrote: >> >> >On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 01:06:52PM -0400, Mark McCulligh wrote: >> > >> > >> >>Hi Group, >> >> >> >>I had someone get into my box and run a command called "brute" on my >> box >> >>for 3 hours. What is brute and what next steps should I do to see if >> >>they got anything. >> >> >> >> >> > >> >I'm not sure, but given what I've seen on the 'Net, it's probably a >> >brute-force password guesser that works by SSH on other machines. He >> >already got into your machine, so unless he was trying to crack root's >> >password (assuming he got in as a mere mortal), he was using your box >> >as a jumping-off point to another box. >> > >> >This may well be what it was, or something similar: >> > >> >http://www.frsirt.com/exploits/08202004.brutessh2.c.php >> > >> >If that's all it was, then you can change the compromised password and >> >make sure that "brute" is not brought up by some rc script at boot >> >time or a cron job. See further down. >> > >> >I see these exploits all the time. I sent five nastygrams to various >> >network admins today about crack attempts from their networks. I >> >monitor several servers, most of which I have no say about password >> >selection. One of the machines has had at least two successful cracks >> >because of crummy passwords. Here are two tools that detect such >> >crack attempts and cut them off after N tries: >> > >> >http://www.aczoom.com/cms/blockhosts/ >> >http://www.pettingers.org/code/SSHBlack.html >> > >> >I have some variant of those installed on all machines with SSH >> >exposure to the 'Net. I've not had a successful crack since. >> > >> >On the other hand, if the cracker got root access, he found a >> >vulnerability in some of your software, probably a buffer overflow. >> >That's why it's so important not to run old Linux distros without >> >adequate updates. >> > >> >Here are some useful resources if it was a root compromise: >> > >> >http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/root_compromise.html >> >http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5037 >> >http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/1999-9/features/rootkits.html >> > >> >If that's the case, you should save off everything important like home >> >directories and files in /etc, and do a complete re-install. Unless >> >you know exactly what the rootkit did, it's the only safe way. >> > >> > >> > >> >>Thanks, >> >>Mark. >> >> >> >> >> > >> >Cheers, >> > >> > >> >> Thanks Bob, >> >> From what I can find he(or she) created a folder with name " " to make >> it harder to find. Then tried a lot to crack my root password. I >> should have seen in my daily logs the attempts where coming from my own >> IP. Get so many very picked up on it. Then last night started the scan >> other peoples computers using my box. That is when I caught them, my >> router logs for outgoing SSH went through the roof. >> >> I changed the user's password and killed all processes running by the >> users. >> >> I will take your advice and check for cron jobs and look at those >> helpful links to make improvements to my box. > > You should also run "lastlog" and see which IP the SOB came in on if you > can and block that IP via iptables. > > If it was a dialup or broadband (cable or DSL) line, I'd firewall the > entire IP block. Check by doing a "whois ip-address". That'll reveal > who owns the block (and their CIDR) and use that as your address mask. > > You can also complain to the provider. Give them the IP address and the > date of last login, and they can trace it to who had that IP at the time > and bust the bastard. If you can, have the putz drawn, quartered, > keelhauled and strung up by his gonads. Make it VERY public. Yes, I'm > vindictive. There is a deterrent value to this. > > Make sure that /var/log/lastlog is owned by and writable ONLY by root. > > Get "chkrootkit" (www.chkrootkit.org) and run it. You should also set > up tripwire and set it to run often. Don't set up tripwire unless > you're CERTAIN your box is clean or it may ignore hacked executables. > If there's any doubt at all, back up the user data and reinstall...but > make sure you reformat the drive. You want NO cruft left over. > > Welcome to the Internet. Sheesh! > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > As usual, I find this list EXTREMELY valuable! Based on the above thread, I've installed SSHBlack. It's fun to watch its log and see all those IPs be blocked. Thanks! Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com From jkinz at kinz.org Fri Oct 14 12:32:43 2005 From: jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz) Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:32:43 -0400 Subject: pop quiz! configure sendmail to accept IP addrs! In-Reply-To: <20051013163046.A22942@redline.comcast.net>; from jkinz@kinz.org on Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 04:30:46PM -0400 References: <20051013163046.A22942@redline.comcast.net> Message-ID: <20051014083243.B22942@redline.comcast.net> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 04:30:46PM -0400, Jeff Kinz wrote: > Hi all, > Got a quickie here, maybe not doable? > > I want to configure my Sendmail system to accept email addressed to > my IP address (24.91.157.212) as well as to "kinz.org". Aaaaand the answer is ..... /etc/mail/local-host-names #Lists of hosts Sendmail accepts mail for Just put the IP address in this file. OK, now I'm ready for the International DNS fight. (not) > I want emails to "X at 24.91.157.212" to be accepted by the same sendmail > process. I have tried adding another MASQUERADE_AS macro to > sendmail.mc, but that wasn't the answer. They just bounced. After checking the Bat book (O'Reilly), I discovered that MASQERADE_AS is so wrong for this its funny. (Hey, I took a shot.. :-) ) -- speech recognition software was used in the composition of this e-mail Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. ??Ya no mas! From stesta51 at gmail.com Sat Oct 15 04:34:51 2005 From: stesta51 at gmail.com (Steven Testa) Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:34:51 -0400 Subject: network/eth0 problems Message-ID: For anyone out there with some ideas... To make a long story short...it has been a while since i booted up my linux box under the desk. It is runing RH 6.2...that should give some insight! I wanted to upgrade my RH version tonight after a long break here... In any event...i can't seem to connect to the network. I used to be able to...i had it setup as a static IP with two DNSs listed. I have a Netgear MR814v2 router and use Road Runner as my ISP (nc.rr.com). All windows machines on the network run fine...both wired and wireless... Anyone have any ideas for me to try? I can't find an nc.rr.comDNS IPs to verify what i have is correct. Thanks! Steve -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From micros50 at computer.net Sat Oct 15 07:54:14 2005 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 03:54:14 -0400 Subject: network/eth0 problems In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1129362854.6855.4.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> How are you set up ? From what you said it sounds like you are attached to a local network ?? can you ping any other machines on your local network ?? Did you try running "ifconfig" ?? Are all your network devices showing up ?? mylar On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 00:34, Steven Testa wrote: > For anyone out there with some ideas... > > To make a long story short...it has been a while since i booted up my > linux box under the desk. It is runing RH 6.2...that should give some > insight! I wanted to upgrade my RH version tonight after a long break > here... > > In any event...i can't seem to connect to the network. I used to be > able to...i had it setup as a static IP with two DNSs listed. > > I have a Netgear MR814v2 router and use Road Runner as my ISP > (nc.rr.com). All windows machines on the network run fine...both wired > and wireless... > > Anyone have any ideas for me to try? I can't find an nc.rr.com DNS IPs > to verify what i have is correct. > > Thanks! > > Steve > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/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 Albert.Smith at genexservices.com Sat Oct 15 11:52:43 2005 From: Albert.Smith at genexservices.com (Smith, Albert) Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 07:52:43 -0400 Subject: network/eth0 problems Message-ID: <462170B0EBFCFE4AB1E54ED8C269A5BC2DF398@PHLVEXCH01.genexservices.com> (sorry for not bottom posting but my web mail client doesn't support it) Do you have a link light on your router when the machine comes on? What does your ifcfg output? What is your default router set to? You can also reconfigure your network card by doing a netconf or linuxconf (I think those are right it's been a while). But you should also be able to modify the ifcfg-eth0 under /etc/sysconfig/networking Albert Smith Sr. Unix Systems Administrator HPCSA, RHCT Genex Services 440 E. Swedesford Rd. Wayne, PA 19087 albert.smith at genexservices.com (610) 964-5154 ________________________________ From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Steven Testa Sent: Sat 10/15/2005 12:34 AM To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com Subject: network/eth0 problems For anyone out there with some ideas... To make a long story short...it has been a while since i booted up my linux box under the desk. It is runing RH 6.2...that should give some insight! I wanted to upgrade my RH version tonight after a long break here... In any event...i can't seem to connect to the network. I used to be able to...i had it setup as a static IP with two DNSs listed. I have a Netgear MR814v2 router and use Road Runner as my ISP (nc.rr.com). All windows machines on the network run fine...both wired and wireless... Anyone have any ideas for me to try? I can't find an nc.rr.com DNS IPs to verify what i have is correct. Thanks! Steve -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 5310 bytes Desc: not available URL: From rodrigofariatavares at bol.com.br Sat Oct 15 12:29:42 2005 From: rodrigofariatavares at bol.com.br (Rodrigo Faria Tavares) Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 09:29:42 -0300 Subject: Upgrading FC3 to Fc4 Message-ID: <005801c5d184$253a4070$0200000a@faria> Hello, I have FC3, with kernel 2.6.12 compilled with many patches. How I can to upgrading the sambe for FC4 ? I must keep the kernel 2.6.12 Att, Rodrigo Faria Tavares e-mail : rodrigofariat at yahoo.com.br Analista de Suporte Linux -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From softnettechno at yahoo.ca Sun Oct 16 08:02:31 2005 From: softnettechno at yahoo.ca (SoftNet Technologies) Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 04:02:31 -0400 (EDT) Subject: squid Aborted Message-ID: <20051016080231.61969.qmail@web54513.mail.yahoo.com> Hi all, I am facing some problems while start squid server in RHEL 4. Pls help me. I am send the problem, I am facing [root at linux ~]# service squid start init_cache_dir /var/spool/squid... /etc/init.d/squid: line 54: 3559 Aborted $SQUID -z -F -D >>/var/log/squid/squid.out 2>&1 Starting squid: /etc/init.d/squid: line 53: 3560 Aborted $SQUID $SQUID_OPTS >>/var/log/squid/squid.out 2>&1 [FAILED] Thanks Balkar singh __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Oct 17 17:33:37 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:33:37 -0700 Subject: Upgrading FC3 to Fc4 In-Reply-To: <005801c5d184$253a4070$0200000a@faria> References: <005801c5d184$253a4070$0200000a@faria> Message-ID: <1129570418.13503.393.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 09:29 -0300, Rodrigo Faria Tavares wrote: > Hello, > > I have FC3, with kernel 2.6.12 compilled with many patches. > How I can to upgrading the sambe for FC4 ? > I must keep the kernel 2.6.12 Go ahead and upgrade, but make sure that you keep a copy of the kernel, symbol tables, initrd and modules somewhere safe (like a pen drive). Also make sure you don't reformat your partitions when you upgrade. The kernel will still be available, but you'll have to manually edit the grub configuration to get at it after the update. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To err is human, to forgive, beyond the scope of the OS - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Oct 17 17:35:18 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:35:18 -0700 Subject: squid Aborted In-Reply-To: <20051016080231.61969.qmail@web54513.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20051016080231.61969.qmail@web54513.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1129570518.13503.396.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 04:02 -0400, SoftNet Technologies wrote: > Hi all, > I am facing some problems while start squid server in > RHEL 4. Pls help me. I am send the problem, I am > facing > > [root at linux ~]# service squid start > init_cache_dir /var/spool/squid... /etc/init.d/squid: > line 54: 3559 Aborted $SQUID -z -F -D > >>/var/log/squid/squid.out 2>&1 > Starting squid: /etc/init.d/squid: line 53: 3560 > Aborted $SQUID $SQUID_OPTS > >>/var/log/squid/squid.out 2>&1 Look at /var/log/messages to see what squid is unhappy about. Most likely, you either don't have the squid cache set up correctly or you don't have enough space on the partition to have squid set it up based on how big you want it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 mjstraw at iup.edu Wed Oct 19 17:10:52 2005 From: mjstraw at iup.edu (Mark J Strawcutter) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:10:52 -0400 Subject: boot time assembly of raid arrays Message-ID: <00ee01c5d4d0$0fca9d30$bf805090@adm.iup.edu> rhel4 I've tried using combinations of md= and raid=noautodetect kernel parameters along with settings in /etc/mdadm.conf in an attempt to influence what devices/partitions get assembled into md3 at boot time. So far, no luck. md3 is root. The correct level-1 array should be sda3 and sdc3. However, sdd3 has raid superblock left on it from previous use with preferred minor=3 It appears that something starts looking at the last/highest disk's partitions and works down. It builds md3 from sdd3 then rejects sdc3 and sda3 as not matching. Tried device and uuid options in md= and mdadm.conf but it doesn't help. Is there something else that influences how raid arrays are assembled at boot time? Mark From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Oct 19 17:48:18 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:48:18 -0700 Subject: boot time assembly of raid arrays In-Reply-To: <00ee01c5d4d0$0fca9d30$bf805090@adm.iup.edu> References: <00ee01c5d4d0$0fca9d30$bf805090@adm.iup.edu> Message-ID: <1129744098.13503.428.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 13:10 -0400, Mark J Strawcutter wrote: > rhel4 > > I've tried using combinations of md= and raid=noautodetect kernel parameters > along with settings in /etc/mdadm.conf in an attempt to influence what devices/partitions > get assembled into md3 at boot time. > > So far, no luck. > > md3 is root. The correct level-1 array should be sda3 and sdc3. However, sdd3 > has raid superblock left on it from previous use with preferred minor=3 > > It appears that something starts looking at the last/highest disk's partitions and works > down. It builds md3 from sdd3 then rejects sdc3 and sda3 as not matching. > > Tried device and uuid options in md= and mdadm.conf but it doesn't help. > > Is there something else that influences how raid arrays are assembled at boot time? A normal SCSI scan starts from device 7 (or 15 on wide SCSI) and works its way down in Linux. Have you tried adding a line such as: ARRAY /dev/md3 devices=/dev/sda3,/dev/sdc3 uuid=whatever to your mdadm.conf file? How about destroying the RAID superblock on /dev/sdd3 via mdadm --zero-superblock --force /dev/sdd3 and then mdadm can't do anything with it even if it wanted to (well, unless you tell it to do a legacy MD array, then all bets are off). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - They say when you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you'll hear - - Satanic messages, but if you play it forwards, it will install - - Windows...which means Satan is in your system. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mjstraw at iup.edu Wed Oct 19 18:27:28 2005 From: mjstraw at iup.edu (Mark J Strawcutter) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:27:28 -0400 Subject: boot time assembly of raid arrays References: <00ee01c5d4d0$0fca9d30$bf805090@adm.iup.edu> <1129744098.13503.428.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <010a01c5d4da$c2e34340$bf805090@adm.iup.edu> >> rhel4 >> >> I've tried using combinations of md= and raid=noautodetect kernel parameters >> along with settings in /etc/mdadm.conf in an attempt to influence what devices/partitions >> get assembled into md3 at boot time. >> >> So far, no luck. >> >> md3 is root. The correct level-1 array should be sda3 and sdc3. However, sdd3 >> has raid superblock left on it from previous use with preferred minor=3 >> >> It appears that something starts looking at the last/highest disk's partitions and works >> down. It builds md3 from sdd3 then rejects sdc3 and sda3 as not matching. >> >> Tried device and uuid options in md= and mdadm.conf but it doesn't help. >> >> Is there something else that influences how raid arrays are assembled at boot time? > > A normal SCSI scan starts from device 7 (or 15 on wide SCSI) and works > its way down in Linux. And with multiple adapters, it appears to start with 1 then goes to 0 > Have you tried adding a line such as: > > ARRAY /dev/md3 devices=/dev/sda3,/dev/sdc3 uuid=whatever > > to your mdadm.conf file? yes - didn't help > How about destroying the RAID superblock on /dev/sdd3 via > > mdadm --zero-superblock --force /dev/sdd3 > > and then mdadm can't do anything with it even if it wanted to (well, > unless you tell it to do a legacy MD array, then all bets are off). That operation executes without error, and subsequent mdadm query says no superblock, but when it's unmounted at shutdown time the superblock gets re-written. Fortunately, I had available 1) a virgin disk and 2) drives are hot-swappable. Booted with the virgin disk installed so the device got recognized/created. Hot-swapped to the problem disk. Couldn't zero the superblock - just reported a bunch of I/O errors. Ended up using sfdisk (had to -f it) to partition into a single partition. If I didn't have a spare disk, or if the hardware didn't allow hot swap, I'd have been out of luck. Thats why I'd really like to solve this - so I can recover more easily if/when it happens again. Mark From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Oct 19 18:57:58 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:57:58 -0700 Subject: boot time assembly of raid arrays In-Reply-To: <010a01c5d4da$c2e34340$bf805090@adm.iup.edu> References: <00ee01c5d4d0$0fca9d30$bf805090@adm.iup.edu> <1129744098.13503.428.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <010a01c5d4da$c2e34340$bf805090@adm.iup.edu> Message-ID: <1129748279.5101.6.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 14:27 -0400, Mark J Strawcutter wrote: > >> rhel4 > >> > >> I've tried using combinations of md= and raid=noautodetect kernel parameters > >> along with settings in /etc/mdadm.conf in an attempt to influence what devices/partitions > >> get assembled into md3 at boot time. > >> > >> So far, no luck. > >> > >> md3 is root. The correct level-1 array should be sda3 and sdc3. However, sdd3 > >> has raid superblock left on it from previous use with preferred minor=3 > >> > >> It appears that something starts looking at the last/highest disk's partitions and works > >> down. It builds md3 from sdd3 then rejects sdc3 and sda3 as not matching. > >> > >> Tried device and uuid options in md= and mdadm.conf but it doesn't help. > >> > >> Is there something else that influences how raid arrays are assembled at boot time? > > > > A normal SCSI scan starts from device 7 (or 15 on wide SCSI) and works > > its way down in Linux. > > And with multiple adapters, it appears to start with 1 then goes to 0 > > > Have you tried adding a line such as: > > > > ARRAY /dev/md3 devices=/dev/sda3,/dev/sdc3 uuid=whatever > > > > to your mdadm.conf file? > > yes - didn't help > > > How about destroying the RAID superblock on /dev/sdd3 via > > > > mdadm --zero-superblock --force /dev/sdd3 > > > > and then mdadm can't do anything with it even if it wanted to (well, > > unless you tell it to do a legacy MD array, then all bets are off). > > That operation executes without error, and subsequent mdadm query > says no superblock, but when it's unmounted at shutdown time the > superblock gets re-written. Hummm...well, at boot time, mdadm is run as "mdadm -A -s", which means that it should look at /proc/mdstat first, then /etc/mdadm.conf. You might try the "mdadm /dev/md3 -r /dev/sdd3" to make sure /dev/sdd3 is removed from the RAID. Also check /proc/mdstat to see if the device is still shown in there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Denial. It ain't just a river in Egypt anymore! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From govind at mc-3.org Thu Oct 20 10:13:06 2005 From: govind at mc-3.org (Govind C) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:13:06 +0800 Subject: Diskless Environment Message-ID: <3627636c40.36c4036276@aspcentre.org> I was successful in configuring the redhat diskless environment.My next requirement is to have a nfs server supporting both Redhat and Sun Solaris x86 Diskless environment .Has anyone tried this before? Cheers cg From harold at hallikainen.com Thu Oct 20 12:38:26 2005 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:38:26 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Favorite laptop? In-Reply-To: <3627636c40.36c4036276@aspcentre.org> References: <3627636c40.36c4036276@aspcentre.org> Message-ID: <2474.192.168.1.1.1129811906.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Well, my 10 year old Compaq laptop died last night. It had been running Linux for several years. Now the display doesn't light and it just beeps at me. Time for a new one! So, what's your favorite laptop/notebook for running FC4? A couple features I'd like are 802.11 networking and DVD R/W. Otherwise, I'm open. Suggestions? THANKS! Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Thu Oct 20 13:51:30 2005 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:51:30 -0500 Subject: Favorite laptop? In-Reply-To: <2474.192.168.1.1.1129811906.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <3627636c40.36c4036276@aspcentre.org> <2474.192.168.1.1.1129811906.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <20051020135130.GC23947@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 05:38:26AM -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > Well, my 10 year old Compaq laptop died last night. It had been running > Linux for several years. Now the display doesn't light and it just beeps > at me. Time for a new one! So, what's your favorite laptop/notebook for > running FC4? A couple features I'd like are 802.11 networking and DVD R/W. > Otherwise, I'm open. Suggestions? > > THANKS! > > Harold I've been a fan of the IBM Thinkpads because they have an actual three-button mouse, and I like the "TrackPoint" thing better than the touch pads most provide. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Peace at any price is inflationary. From vaiduj at rediffmail.com Thu Oct 20 14:18:05 2005 From: vaiduj at rediffmail.com (vaidyanathan jambu iyer) Date: 20 Oct 2005 14:18:05 -0000 Subject: Favorite laptop? Message-ID: <20051020141805.7901.qmail@webmail9.rediffmail.com> ? IBM think pads are the best ones.... On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 Harold Hallikainen wrote : >Well, my 10 year old Compaq laptop died last night. It had been running >Linux for several years. Now the display doesn't light and it just beeps >at me. Time for a new one! So, what's your favorite laptop/notebook for >running FC4? A couple features I'd like are 802.11 networking and DVD R/W. >Otherwise, I'm open. Suggestions? > >THANKS! > >Harold > > >-- >FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-install-list mailing list >Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >Subject: unsubscribe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrynix at yahoo.com Thu Oct 20 16:58:03 2005 From: gerrynix at yahoo.com (gerrynix) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:58:03 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Equix to truss? Message-ID: <20051020165803.38224.qmail@web51904.mail.yahoo.com> Hello all, Which Linux command is equivalent to the SVR4 truss command? -- Nix From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Oct 20 18:20:31 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:20:31 -0700 Subject: Favorite laptop? In-Reply-To: <2474.192.168.1.1.1129811906.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <3627636c40.36c4036276@aspcentre.org> <2474.192.168.1.1.1129811906.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <1129832432.3667.6.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 05:38 -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > Well, my 10 year old Compaq laptop died last night. It had been running > Linux for several years. Now the display doesn't light and it just beeps > at me. Time for a new one! So, what's your favorite laptop/notebook for > running FC4? A couple features I'd like are 802.11 networking and DVD R/W. > Otherwise, I'm open. Suggestions? I'm using a Fujitsu Lifebook C2200. Works fine. The HPs and Toshibas work well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Oct 20 18:21:40 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:21:40 -0700 Subject: Equix to truss? In-Reply-To: <20051020165803.38224.qmail@web51904.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20051020165803.38224.qmail@web51904.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1129832500.3667.8.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 09:58 -0700, gerrynix wrote: > Hello all, > > Which Linux command is equivalent to the SVR4 truss command? Try "strace" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 grant at forum8.co.nz Thu Oct 20 18:53:19 2005 From: grant at forum8.co.nz (Grant Allan) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 07:53:19 +1300 (NZDT) Subject: no boot XP after FC4 Message-ID: <1428.218.40.230.26.1129834399.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> hi, just installed FC4 into empty partition on same drive as WindowsXP (disk1). i'm aiming for dual-boot using NTLDR menu. i think i messed something up, cos now during reboot i get told that NTLDR can't be found. strange thing is, when i boot from SystemRecoveryCD, and then choose the option to boot from "disk1", WindowsXP boots fine (and so obviously NTLDR is there after all). i'm confused - does this mean that my BIOS is not looking at my disk1 during the boot sequence any more? (hope not, cos my BIOS menu is in japanese, and i can't read it.) or maybe my MBR has gotten minced? anyone know what to do? thanks for any ideas, grant From janis.ozolins at ntlworld.com Thu Oct 20 19:09:28 2005 From: janis.ozolins at ntlworld.com (Janis Ozolins) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:09:28 +0100 Subject: Equix to truss? In-Reply-To: <20051020165803.38224.qmail@web51904.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20051020165803.38224.qmail@web51904.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4357EB68.1000703@ntlworld.com> gerrynix wrote: >Hello all, > >Which Linux command is equivalent to the SVR4 truss command? >-- >Nix > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-install-list mailing list >Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >Subject: unsubscribe > > > Try: watch Usage: watch [-dhnv] [--differences[=cumulative]] [--help] [--interval=] [--version] I think should has of the same think. -- Regards Janis From gerrynix at yahoo.com Thu Oct 20 19:33:11 2005 From: gerrynix at yahoo.com (gerrynix) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:33:11 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Equiv to truss? In-Reply-To: <4357EB68.1000703@ntlworld.com> Message-ID: <20051020193312.29145.qmail@web51907.mail.yahoo.com> > >Hello all, > > > >Which Linux command is equivalent to the SVR4 truss command? > >-- > >Nix > > > Try: watch > Usage: watch [-dhnv] [--differences[=cumulative]] [--help] [--interval=] > [--version] > I think should has of the same think. > -- > Regards > Janis Thanks, But I actually want to see what the program is doing, in the way of system calls and sigs. -- Nix From gerrynix at yahoo.com Thu Oct 20 20:34:31 2005 From: gerrynix at yahoo.com (gerrynix) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:34:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Equix (that is equiv) to truss? In-Reply-To: <1129832500.3667.8.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <20051020203431.30156.qmail@web51909.mail.yahoo.com> > On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 09:58 -0700, gerrynix wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Which Linux command is equivalent to the SVR4 truss command? > > Try "strace" > Yep . . . exactly what I needed, and as I thought. I thought maybe the name had been changed or altered . . . To protect the innocent :) Then I determined it was not installed on this system :-\ . . . blush. -- Thanks, Nix > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - 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 karlp at ourldsfamily.com Thu Oct 20 21:07:50 2005 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:07:50 -0600 (MDT) Subject: no boot XP after FC4 Message-ID: <40219.207.173.117.242.1129842470.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> On Thu, October 20, 2005 12:53 pm, Grant Allan said: > hi, > > just installed FC4 into empty partition on same drive as WindowsXP > (disk1). i'm aiming for dual-boot using NTLDR menu. > > i think i messed something up, cos now during reboot i get told that NTLDR > can't be found. strange thing is, when i boot from SystemRecoveryCD, and > then choose the option to boot from "disk1", WindowsXP boots fine (and so > obviously NTLDR is there after all). No, the bootstrap isn't there but the partition is still active. It may have been overwritten or corrupted by the FC4 install. I think the command may still be fdisk /mbr which will re-write the NTLDR bootstrap. > > i'm confused - does this mean that my BIOS is not looking at my disk1 > during the boot sequence any more? (hope not, cos my BIOS menu is in > japanese, and i can't read it.) or maybe my MBR has gotten minced? BIOS has to see the drive else booting wouldn't work at all regardless of how you tried. The OS depends on the BIOS to tell it where to find the hardware, but doesn't control what's on the hardware. HTH Karl > > anyone know what to do? > > thanks for any ideas, > grant > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Oct 20 21:26:04 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:26:04 -0700 Subject: no boot XP after FC4 In-Reply-To: <1428.218.40.230.26.1129834399.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> References: <1428.218.40.230.26.1129834399.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> Message-ID: <1129843564.3667.21.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 07:53 +1300, Grant Allan wrote: > hi, > > just installed FC4 into empty partition on same drive as WindowsXP > (disk1). i'm aiming for dual-boot using NTLDR menu. > > i think i messed something up, cos now during reboot i get told that NTLDR > can't be found. strange thing is, when i boot from SystemRecoveryCD, and > then choose the option to boot from "disk1", WindowsXP boots fine (and so > obviously NTLDR is there after all). No, it's not. XP boots because it's partition is "active" but the actual boot loader that belongs in the MBR is missing. You need to either reinstall NTLDR or install grub as your boot manager. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Thu Oct 20 21:28:11 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:28:11 -0700 Subject: Equix (that is equiv) to truss? In-Reply-To: <20051020203431.30156.qmail@web51909.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20051020203431.30156.qmail@web51909.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1129843691.3667.24.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 13:34 -0700, gerrynix wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 09:58 -0700, gerrynix wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > Which Linux command is equivalent to the SVR4 truss command? > > > > Try "strace" > > > Yep . . . exactly what I needed, and as I thought. I thought maybe > the name had been changed or altered . . . To protect the innocent :) > Then I determined it was not installed on this system :-\ . . . blush. It's in the "strace" RPM. "up2date -i strace" or "yum install strace". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 gerrynix at yahoo.com Thu Oct 20 22:44:43 2005 From: gerrynix at yahoo.com (gerrynix) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:44:43 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Equix (that is equiv) to truss? In-Reply-To: <1129843691.3667.24.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <20051020224443.37605.qmail@web51901.mail.yahoo.com> > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > > > Which Linux command is equivalent to the SVR4 truss command? > > > > > > Try "strace" > > > > > Yep . . . exactly what I needed, and as I thought. I thought maybe > > the name had been changed or altered . . . To protect the innocent :) > > Then I determined it was not installed on this system :-\ . . . blush. > > It's in the "strace" RPM. "up2date -i strace" or "yum install strace". > Thanks again Rick. I had already installed it earlier - found it on the dist cd -- From grant at forum8.co.nz Thu Oct 20 22:48:49 2005 From: grant at forum8.co.nz (Grant Allan) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:48:49 +1300 (NZDT) Subject: no boot XP after FC4 In-Reply-To: <1129843564.3667.21.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <1428.218.40.230.26.1129834399.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> <1129843564.3667.21.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <2263.203.135.204.44.1129848529.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> > On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 07:53 +1300, Grant Allan wrote: >> hi, >> >> just installed FC4 into empty partition on same drive as WindowsXP >> (disk1). i'm aiming for dual-boot using NTLDR menu. >> >> i think i messed something up, cos now during reboot i get told that >> NTLDR >> can't be found. strange thing is, when i boot from SystemRecoveryCD, >> and >> then choose the option to boot from "disk1", WindowsXP boots fine (and >> so >> obviously NTLDR is there after all). > > No, it's not. XP boots because it's partition is "active" but the > actual boot loader that belongs in the MBR is missing. You need to > either reinstall NTLDR or install grub as your boot manager. hi again, i already have a file named NTLDR in my C:\ directory. when you say to 'install' it, do i have to get a copy of that NTLDR into my MBR? is that what FDISK /MBR would do? thanks for your advice, grant From inode0 at gmail.com Fri Oct 21 01:59:05 2005 From: inode0 at gmail.com (inode0) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:59:05 -0500 Subject: Favorite laptop? In-Reply-To: <2474.192.168.1.1.1129811906.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <3627636c40.36c4036276@aspcentre.org> <2474.192.168.1.1.1129811906.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: On 10/20/05, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > Well, my 10 year old Compaq laptop died last night. It had been running > Linux for several years. Now the display doesn't light and it just beeps > at me. Time for a new one! So, what's your favorite laptop/notebook for > running FC4? A couple features I'd like are 802.11 networking and DVD R/W. > Otherwise, I'm open. Suggestions? I use RHEL4 on my Sony Vaio T250. The 1280x768 display is vey nice, very long battery life. The only hardware that isn't supported is the built-in memory stick slot. I'm very happy with it. John From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Oct 21 02:16:29 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:16:29 -0700 Subject: Favorite laptop? In-Reply-To: References: <3627636c40.36c4036276@aspcentre.org> <2474.192.168.1.1.1129811906.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <1129860989.3667.44.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 20:59 -0500, inode0 wrote: > On 10/20/05, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > Well, my 10 year old Compaq laptop died last night. It had been running > > Linux for several years. Now the display doesn't light and it just beeps > > at me. Time for a new one! So, what's your favorite laptop/notebook for > > running FC4? A couple features I'd like are 802.11 networking and DVD R/W. > > Otherwise, I'm open. Suggestions? > > I use RHEL4 on my Sony Vaio T250. The 1280x768 display is vey nice, > very long battery life. The only hardware that isn't supported is the > built-in memory stick slot. I'm very happy with it. Uhm, 1280x768? Don't you mean 1280x1024? Or my Fujitsu's 1400x1050? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 inode0 at gmail.com Fri Oct 21 02:24:46 2005 From: inode0 at gmail.com (inode0) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:24:46 -0500 Subject: Favorite laptop? In-Reply-To: <1129860989.3667.44.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <3627636c40.36c4036276@aspcentre.org> <2474.192.168.1.1.1129811906.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1129860989.3667.44.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: On 10/20/05, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 20:59 -0500, inode0 wrote: > > I use RHEL4 on my Sony Vaio T250. The 1280x768 display is vey nice, > > very long battery life. The only hardware that isn't supported is the > > built-in memory stick slot. I'm very happy with it. > > Uhm, 1280x768? Don't you mean 1280x1024? Or my Fujitsu's 1400x1050? It is a funny resolution, but 1280x768 is correct. It is one of the really small, light ones. 10.3" display iirc, around 3 lbs. John From markknecht at gmail.com Fri Oct 21 02:37:33 2005 From: markknecht at gmail.com (Mark Knecht) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:37:33 -0700 Subject: Favorite laptop? In-Reply-To: <1129860989.3667.44.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <3627636c40.36c4036276@aspcentre.org> <2474.192.168.1.1.1129811906.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1129860989.3667.44.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0510201937g1af81aecqc5cf6699d69a9843@mail.gmail.com> On 10/20/05, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 20:59 -0500, inode0 wrote: > > On 10/20/05, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > > Well, my 10 year old Compaq laptop died last night. It had been running > > > Linux for several years. Now the display doesn't light and it just beeps > > > at me. Time for a new one! So, what's your favorite laptop/notebook for > > > running FC4? A couple features I'd like are 802.11 networking and DVD R/W. > > > Otherwise, I'm open. Suggestions? > > > > I use RHEL4 on my Sony Vaio T250. The 1280x768 display is vey nice, > > very long battery life. The only hardware that isn't supported is the > > built-in memory stick slot. I'm very happy with it. > > Uhm, 1280x768? Don't you mean 1280x1024? Or my Fujitsu's 1400x1050? > > My Compaq R3070, which I really liked but just sold, ran 1280x800 as it's native resolution on a 15.4" screen. It was strange for working with documents, etc., but worked really well for DVDs under Xine. - Mark From j.refugio.rodriguez at metztli-it.com Fri Oct 21 05:27:58 2005 From: j.refugio.rodriguez at metztli-it.com (J. Refugio Rodriguez) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:27:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: no boot XP after FC4 In-Reply-To: <2263.203.135.204.44.1129848529.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> Message-ID: <20051021052758.48432.qmail@web203.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com> --- Grant Allan wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 07:53 +1300, Grant Allan > wrote: > >> hi, > >> > >> just installed FC4 into empty partition on same > drive as WindowsXP > >> (disk1). i'm aiming for dual-boot using NTLDR > menu. > >> > >> i think i messed something up, cos now during > reboot i get told that > >> NTLDR > >> can't be found. strange thing is, when i boot > from SystemRecoveryCD, > >> and > >> then choose the option to boot from "disk1", > WindowsXP boots fine (and > >> so > >> obviously NTLDR is there after all). > > > > No, it's not. XP boots because it's partition is > "active" but the > > actual boot loader that belongs in the MBR is > missing. You need to > > either reinstall NTLDR or install grub as your > boot manager. > > hi again, > > i already have a file named NTLDR in my C:\ > directory. when you say to > 'install' it, do i have to get a copy of that NTLDR > into my MBR? is that > what FDISK /MBR would do? > > thanks for your advice, > grant > I do not see a need to mess with NTLDR. The problem usually lies with the hidden WinXX BOOT.INI file in your root (C:\) directory. Once you boot from the recovery CD, change (if you are not there yet) to the root directory of your WinXX system. Uncover the referenced file thus: ATTRIB -A -S -H -R BOOT.INI And then open the file (with a text editor) thus: NOTEPAD BOOT.INI Observe the contents of the file; most likely it will resemble the following: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP (version) Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn Yours may be slightly different in wording and options but the important issue is to observe the partition number: 1. WinXX is selecting the first partition to boot into but your Fedora Grub may have relegated it to partition number two. Hence modify your WinXX BOOT.INI to reflect that change by Fedora's Grub. After the [operating system] modify the partition to look like below: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP (version) Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn Now when you boot your machine, you will see the WinXX Boot manager with two options: the default and the added/modified as explained above; select the second option (not the default) and you should boot into WinXX again. If successful, you may want to modify the default partition to number 2 and you will boot into WinXX without any action on your part. The line after [operating systems] might be used to boot your Fedora since apparently Grub changed the boot order. We will take it from there after you fix the above; it will require a bit more work. Regards. Jose Refugio Rodriguez http://www.metztli-it.com From fromRHIL at outtacyte.com Fri Oct 21 05:19:43 2005 From: fromRHIL at outtacyte.com (GregJ) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:19:43 -0500 Subject: no boot XP after FC4 In-Reply-To: <2263.203.135.204.44.1129848529.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> Message-ID: <200510210708.j9L78k5N027854@mx3.redhat.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of > Grant Allan > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 5:49 PM > To: Rick Stevens > Cc: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: no boot XP after FC4 > > > On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 07:53 +1300, Grant Allan wrote: > >> hi, > >> > >> just installed FC4 into empty partition on same drive as WindowsXP > >> (disk1). i'm aiming for dual-boot using NTLDR menu. > >> > >> i think i messed something up, cos now during reboot i get > told that > >> NTLDR > >> can't be found. strange thing is, when i boot from > SystemRecoveryCD, > >> and > >> then choose the option to boot from "disk1", WindowsXP > boots fine (and > >> so > >> obviously NTLDR is there after all). > > > > No, it's not. XP boots because it's partition is "active" but the > > actual boot loader that belongs in the MBR is missing. You need to > > either reinstall NTLDR or install grub as your boot manager. > > hi again, > > i already have a file named NTLDR in my C:\ directory. when > you say to > 'install' it, do i have to get a copy of that NTLDR into my > MBR? is that > what FDISK /MBR would do? > > thanks for your advice, > grant Since you can boot, but only via the recovery cd, try the following from the "dos" prompt of the recovery cd/console: fixboot That simply fixes up the boot loader which will then attempt to boot the active partition. I think It's the equivalent of the fdisk /MBR, but available on the recovery cd/console. Good luck, -g > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/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 grant at forum8.co.nz Fri Oct 21 14:07:58 2005 From: grant at forum8.co.nz (Grant Allan) Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 03:07:58 +1300 (NZDT) Subject: no boot XP after FC4 In-Reply-To: <20051021052758.48432.qmail@web203.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <2263.203.135.204.44.1129848529.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> <20051021052758.48432.qmail@web203.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1143.203.135.208.246.1129903678.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> >> >> just installed FC4 into empty partition on same >> drive as WindowsXP >> >> (disk1). i'm aiming for dual-boot using NTLDR >> menu. >> >> >> >> i think i messed something up, cos now during >> reboot i get told that >> >> NTLDR >> >> can't be found. strange thing is, when i boot >> from SystemRecoveryCD, >> >> and >> >> then choose the option to boot from "disk1", >> WindowsXP boots fine (and >> >> so >> >> obviously NTLDR is there after all). >> > >> > No, it's not. XP boots because it's partition is >> "active" but the >> > actual boot loader that belongs in the MBR is >> missing. You need to >> > either reinstall NTLDR or install grub as your >> boot manager. >> >> hi again, >> >> i already have a file named NTLDR in my C:\ >> directory. when you say to >> 'install' it, do i have to get a copy of that NTLDR >> into my MBR? is that >> what FDISK /MBR would do? >> >> thanks for your advice, >> grant >> > > I do not see a need to mess with NTLDR. > > The problem usually lies with the hidden WinXX > BOOT.INI file in your root (C:\) directory. hi, i tried editing boot.ini as you suggested and there is no improvement - i still can't boot XP from harddrive directly, but i can by telling rescue CD to boot from disk1. (also i found that windows couldn't boot from the extra option that i added to boot.ini) do you think that maybe it is NTLDR that makes use of boot.ini, rather than boot.ini being required to point to NTLDR? seems more likely when i read about how linux can be booted by adding an appropriate boot.ini entry - presumably there is no NTLDR being pointed to in that case. cheers, grant From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Fri Oct 21 17:01:24 2005 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:01:24 -0700 Subject: Favorite laptop? Message-ID: > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:robertmcclure at earthlink.net] > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 6:52 AM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: Favorite laptop? > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 05:38:26AM -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > Well, my 10 year old Compaq laptop died last night. It had been running > > Linux for several years. Now the display doesn't light and it just beeps > > at me. Time for a new one! So, what's your favorite laptop/notebook for > > running FC4? A couple features I'd like are 802.11 networking and DVD > R/W. > > Otherwise, I'm open. Suggestions? > > > > THANKS! > > > > Harold > > I've been a fan of the IBM Thinkpads because they have an actual > three-button mouse, and I like the "TrackPoint" thing better than the > touch pads most provide. > > Cheers, > -- > Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. > robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com > Peace at any price is inflationary. While I like my Dell's 1600x1200 display. I have to agree, the IBM Thinkpads are some of the best, durable laptops out there. From grant at forum8.co.nz Sat Oct 22 06:50:26 2005 From: grant at forum8.co.nz (Grant Allan) Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:50:26 +1300 (NZDT) Subject: no boot XP after FC4 In-Reply-To: <40219.207.173.117.242.1129842470.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> References: <40219.207.173.117.242.1129842470.squirrel@ourldsfamily.com> Message-ID: <1138.203.135.217.228.1129963826.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> > On Thu, October 20, 2005 12:53 pm, Grant Allan said: >> hi, >> >> just installed FC4 into empty partition on same drive as WindowsXP >> (disk1). i'm aiming for dual-boot using NTLDR menu. >> >> i think i messed something up, cos now during reboot i get told that >> NTLDR >> can't be found. strange thing is, when i boot from SystemRecoveryCD, >> and >> then choose the option to boot from "disk1", WindowsXP boots fine (and >> so >> obviously NTLDR is there after all). > > No, the bootstrap isn't there but the partition is still active. It may > have been overwritten or corrupted by the FC4 install. I think the command > may still be fdisk /mbr which will re-write the NTLDR bootstrap. > >> >> i'm confused - does this mean that my BIOS is not looking at my disk1 >> during the boot sequence any more? (hope not, cos my BIOS menu is in >> japanese, and i can't read it.) or maybe my MBR has gotten minced? > > BIOS has to see the drive else booting wouldn't work at all regardless of > how you tried. The OS depends on the BIOS to tell it where to find the > hardware, but doesn't control what's on the hardware. new info, same but different: i have re-installed linux. this time during the installation, i asked it to use GRUB, and put it at the front of /dev/hda1. now i have the following behaviour: reboot (CD & floppy drive empty) - message that NTLDR is missing reboot with SystemRescueCD, then typing "disk1" to boot from the active partition of my first hard drive - GRUB starts OK reboot with WinXP-generated boot floppy - windowsXP starts OK Q1: i'm still not convinced that the hard-drive hasn't disappeared from the boot sequence in my BIOS. can someone convince me further? i'd love to be sure that my BIOS is fine. i know that the BIOS can see the hard drive. but i'm wondering if my hard-drive has somehow been removed from the where-to-look-for-bootable-media list. Q2: i think it's very strange that i have a message about NTLDR being missing when GRUB seems to come up ok when booting from the active partition of disk1. since GRUB seems happy enough to do it's stuff on that partition, what could it possibly be that's trying to locate NTLDR when booting CD-less? Q3: help please <- small squeaky voice thanks, grant From j.refugio.rodriguez at metztli-it.com Sat Oct 22 11:01:40 2005 From: j.refugio.rodriguez at metztli-it.com (J. Refugio Rodriguez) Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 04:01:40 -0700 (PDT) Subject: no boot XP after FC4 In-Reply-To: <1138.203.135.217.228.1129963826.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> Message-ID: <20051022110140.87440.qmail@web206.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com> --- Grant Allan wrote: > > On Thu, October 20, 2005 12:53 pm, Grant Allan > said: > >> hi, > >> > >> just installed FC4 into empty partition on same > drive as WindowsXP > >> (disk1). i'm aiming for dual-boot using NTLDR > menu. > >> > >> i think i messed something up, cos now during > reboot i get told that > >> NTLDR > >> can't be found. strange thing is, when i boot > from SystemRecoveryCD, > >> and > >> then choose the option to boot from "disk1", > WindowsXP boots fine (and > >> so > >> obviously NTLDR is there after all). > > > > No, the bootstrap isn't there but the partition is > still active. It may > > have been overwritten or corrupted by the FC4 > install. I think the command > > may still be fdisk /mbr which will re-write the > NTLDR bootstrap. > > > >> > >> i'm confused - does this mean that my BIOS is not > looking at my disk1 > >> during the boot sequence any more? (hope not, > cos my BIOS menu is in > >> japanese, and i can't read it.) or maybe my MBR > has gotten minced? > > > > BIOS has to see the drive else booting wouldn't > work at all regardless of > > how you tried. The OS depends on the BIOS to tell > it where to find the > > hardware, but doesn't control what's on the > hardware. > > new info, same but different: i have re-installed > linux. this time during > the installation, i asked it to use GRUB, and put it > at the front of > /dev/hda1. now i have the following behaviour: > reboot (CD & floppy drive empty) - message that > NTLDR is missing > reboot with SystemRescueCD, then typing "disk1" to > boot from the active > partition of my first hard drive - GRUB starts OK > reboot with WinXP-generated boot floppy - > windowsXP starts OK > Your initial aim was to install Fedora under WinXX's boot manager; at this point you appear to have overwritten your original MBR and thus you can not boot into WinXX. Boot with your original WinXX media and select R to repair you WinXX installation. After you type your Admin password, etc.,etc., and you are at the command prompt, type: HELP you will be shown a range of commands. Of those commands select FIXMBR to return your MBR to boot WinXX, as follows: FIXMBR 1 since you only have one hard disk. That should bring you back to the original state before the Fedora installation. Now type: BOOTCFG /SCAN and you will get a result of your WinXX installations (for informational purposses you may want to write down the info). Proceed by typing: FIXBOOT C: since c: is your WinXX drive. That should fix your MBR and WinXX boot manager to initial specs. I hope that you noted that if you need help with any of the commands, you can just enter the name of the command followed by the switch /? To (re)install Grub on the Fedora partition, boot with your Linux rescue media; if you do not have that, boot with your first Linux installation CD media. At the command prompt type: Linux rescue press enter. Make your selections when the program requests you to do so, i.e., language, keyboard, etc. You will see a dialog that begins with: The rescue environment will now attempt to find your Linux installation and mount it under /mnt/sysimage. [...] Press the "continue" button. The program will find your Linux installation and will let you know so (if everything goes well). At the command prompt in the shell type: chroot /mnt/sysimage you need to do that before you can use the Grub. Type: fdisk /dev/hda at the prompt type: p to print the partition table as seen by Linux; write down in what partition your Linux resides (most likely it will be /dev/hda2). Now, --very important! Type: q to exit from fdisk partitioning utility. Having noted the partition number of your Linux, type: grub-install /dev/hdaX where X represents (replace it by your actual partition number) the partition number of your Linux. The grub boot manager should be installed where your Linux partition resides SINCE you want to boot from the WinXX boot manager. Again, do as above and we will add the Linux partition to WinXX boot manager when you are ready. Regards. Jose Refugio Rodriguez http://www.metztli-it.com P.S. Your BIOS is NOT damaged; the Penguin is nice ;) > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/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 grant at forum8.co.nz Sat Oct 22 13:18:58 2005 From: grant at forum8.co.nz (Grant Allan) Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 02:18:58 +1300 (NZDT) Subject: no boot XP after FC4 In-Reply-To: <20051022110140.87440.qmail@web206.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <1138.203.135.217.228.1129963826.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> <20051022110140.87440.qmail@web206.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1051.203.135.226.62.1129987138.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> > > > --- Grant Allan wrote: > >> > On Thu, October 20, 2005 12:53 pm, Grant Allan >> said: >> >> hi, >> >> >> >> just installed FC4 into empty partition on same >> drive as WindowsXP >> >> (disk1). i'm aiming for dual-boot using NTLDR >> menu. >> >> >> >> i think i messed something up, cos now during >> reboot i get told that >> >> NTLDR >> >> can't be found. strange thing is, when i boot >> from SystemRecoveryCD, >> >> and >> >> then choose the option to boot from "disk1", >> WindowsXP boots fine (and >> >> so >> >> obviously NTLDR is there after all). >> > >> > No, the bootstrap isn't there but the partition is >> still active. It may >> > have been overwritten or corrupted by the FC4 >> install. I think the command >> > may still be fdisk /mbr which will re-write the >> NTLDR bootstrap. >> > >> >> >> >> i'm confused - does this mean that my BIOS is not >> looking at my disk1 >> >> during the boot sequence any more? (hope not, >> cos my BIOS menu is in >> >> japanese, and i can't read it.) or maybe my MBR >> has gotten minced? >> > >> > BIOS has to see the drive else booting wouldn't >> work at all regardless of >> > how you tried. The OS depends on the BIOS to tell >> it where to find the >> > hardware, but doesn't control what's on the >> hardware. >> >> new info, same but different: i have re-installed >> linux. this time during >> the installation, i asked it to use GRUB, and put it >> at the front of >> /dev/hda1. > now i have the following behaviour: >> reboot (CD & floppy drive empty) - message that >> NTLDR is missing >> reboot with SystemRescueCD, then typing "disk1" to >> boot from the active >> partition of my first hard drive - GRUB starts OK >> reboot with WinXP-generated boot floppy - >> windowsXP starts OK >> > > Your initial aim was to install Fedora under WinXX's > boot manager; at this point you appear to have > overwritten your original MBR and thus you can not > boot into WinXX. > > Boot with your original WinXX media and select R to > repair you WinXX installation. After you type your > Admin password, etc.,etc., and you are at the command > prompt, type: > > HELP > > you will be shown a range of commands. Of those > commands select FIXMBR to return your MBR to boot > WinXX, as follows: > > FIXMBR 1 > > since you only have one hard disk. That should bring > you back to the original state before the Fedora > installation. Now type: > > BOOTCFG /SCAN > > and you will get a result of your WinXX installations > (for informational purposses you may want to write > down the info). Proceed by typing: > > FIXBOOT C: > > since c: is your WinXX drive. > > That should fix your MBR and WinXX boot manager to > initial specs. > > I hope that you noted that if you need help with any > of the commands, you can just enter the name of the > command followed by the switch /? > > > > To (re)install Grub on the Fedora partition, boot with > your Linux rescue media; if you do not have that, boot > with your first Linux installation CD media. At the > command prompt type: > > Linux rescue > > press enter. Make your selections when the program > requests you to do so, i.e., language, keyboard, etc. > > You will see a dialog that begins with: The rescue > environment will now attempt to find your Linux > installation and mount it under /mnt/sysimage. [...] > > Press the "continue" button. > > The program will find your Linux installation and will > let you know so (if everything goes well). > > At the command prompt in the shell type: > > chroot /mnt/sysimage > > you need to do that before you can use the Grub. Type: > > fdisk /dev/hda > > at the prompt type: > > p > > to print the partition table as seen by Linux; write > down in what partition your Linux resides (most likely > it will be /dev/hda2). Now, --very important! Type: > > q > > to exit from fdisk partitioning utility. > > Having noted the partition number of your Linux, type: > > grub-install /dev/hdaX > > where X represents (replace it by your actual > partition number) the partition number of your Linux. > > The grub boot manager should be installed where your > Linux partition resides SINCE you want to boot from > the WinXX boot manager. > > Again, do as above and we will add the Linux partition > to WinXX boot manager when you are ready. > > Regards. > > Jose Refugio Rodriguez > http://www.metztli-it.com > > P.S. Your BIOS is NOT damaged; the Penguin is nice ;) > hi, this sounds perfect! thankyou, it is well written and easy to understand, and i printed out a copy to follow it carefully. but there is a small problem that i had forgotten about - my WindowsXP install disk hangs (after it tells me that it's going to inspect my hardware) so i can't do any repairs with the Windows CD. i remember now (sorry, brain going mushy) - that's why i instead installed linux with GRUB into /dev/hda, because windows boot was so broke, and saw myself running out of options to repair it. i thought installing GRUB would purge all of the windows boot sequence and let me carry on with GRUB instead, which would've been OK as an outcome (as far as i know). but turned out to be not so simple, because still something is looking for NTLDR. thanks again, grant From grant at forum8.co.nz Sat Oct 22 14:57:02 2005 From: grant at forum8.co.nz (Grant Allan) Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 03:57:02 +1300 (NZDT) Subject: after grub, stripy screen Message-ID: <1139.203.135.235.206.1129993022.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> hi, i installed linux CDs using text mode 'anaconda', because i was having troubles getting the GUI version to display properly. (first i tried different resolutions, and "nofb".) but text mode seemed to install the 4 CDs just fine. but... when i get to my grub screen, it displays ok, but then when it goes to start linux, it tells me it is checking the hardware and then gives me a stripy screen (red and green vertical stripes, in case you were wondering ;) - and a little while after that, i get a screenful of orange and white rectangles, various sizes). what to do? i expect that i need to install some special display drivers from nvidia - but until then, is there some way to get grub to start me in text mode or something. i guess i would use the "linux rescue" to do that? i did try using "linux rescue" to try looking into grub.conf (in case there were some helpful comments), but no joy. when i tried to use "gedit" on grub.conf, it failed to start, citing a display problem. if editing some file somewhere is part of the solution, is there maybe a text-based editor in "linux rescue" that i can use instead of gedit? i'm a bit worried about not being able to shut down gracefully. when i get to the an unreadable screen, my only way out would seem to be hardware reset button (ouch!). thanks for any insights! grant From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Sat Oct 22 15:08:36 2005 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 10:08:36 -0500 Subject: after grub, stripy screen In-Reply-To: <1139.203.135.235.206.1129993022.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> References: <1139.203.135.235.206.1129993022.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> Message-ID: <20051022150836.GA19191@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 03:57:02AM +1300, Grant Allan wrote: > hi, > > i installed linux CDs using text mode 'anaconda', because i was having > troubles getting the GUI version to display properly. (first i tried > different resolutions, and "nofb".) but text mode seemed to install the 4 > CDs just fine. but... > > when i get to my grub screen, it displays ok, but then when it goes to > start linux, it tells me it is checking the hardware and then gives me a > stripy screen (red and green vertical stripes, in case you were wondering > ;) - and a little while after that, i get a screenful of orange and white > rectangles, various sizes). > > what to do? i expect that i need to install some special display drivers > from nvidia - but until then, is there some way to get grub to start me in > text mode or something. i guess i would use the "linux rescue" to do > that? Not necessarily. Use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a text-mode login. Then follow the directions here: http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#x_fails > i did try using "linux rescue" to try looking into grub.conf (in case > there were some helpful comments), but no joy. when i tried to use > "gedit" on grub.conf, it failed to start, citing a display problem. The answer is in /etc/inittab, not grub.conf. See above hint for directions. > if editing some file somewhere is part of the solution, is there maybe a > text-based editor in "linux rescue" that i can use instead of gedit? > > i'm a bit worried about not being able to shut down gracefully. when i > get to the an unreadable screen, my only way out would seem to be hardware > reset button (ouch!). Use the Ctrl-Alt-F1 (or -F2 through -F6) to get to a text screen. > thanks for any insights! > grant Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Peace at any price is inflationary. From grant at forum8.co.nz Sun Oct 23 07:22:27 2005 From: grant at forum8.co.nz (Grant Allan) Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 20:22:27 +1300 (NZDT) Subject: after grub, stripy screen In-Reply-To: <20051022150836.GA19191@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <1139.203.135.235.206.1129993022.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> <20051022150836.GA19191@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <45810.210.148.102.27.1130052147.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> > On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 03:57:02AM +1300, Grant Allan wrote: >> hi, >> >> i installed linux CDs using text mode 'anaconda', because i was having >> troubles getting the GUI version to display properly. (first i tried >> different resolutions, and "nofb".) but text mode seemed to install the >> 4 >> CDs just fine. but... >> >> when i get to my grub screen, it displays ok, but then when it goes to >> start linux, it tells me it is checking the hardware and then gives me a >> stripy screen (red and green vertical stripes, in case you were >> wondering >> ;) - and a little while after that, i get a screenful of orange and >> white >> rectangles, various sizes). >> >> what to do? i expect that i need to install some special display >> drivers >> from nvidia - but until then, is there some way to get grub to start me >> in >> text mode or something. i guess i would use the "linux rescue" to do >> that? > > Not necessarily. Use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a text-mode login. Then > follow the directions here: > > http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#x_fails > >> i did try using "linux rescue" to try looking into grub.conf (in case >> there were some helpful comments), but no joy. when i tried to use >> "gedit" on grub.conf, it failed to start, citing a display problem. > > The answer is in /etc/inittab, not grub.conf. See above hint for > directions. > >> if editing some file somewhere is part of the solution, is there maybe a >> text-based editor in "linux rescue" that i can use instead of gedit? >> >> i'm a bit worried about not being able to shut down gracefully. when i >> get to the an unreadable screen, my only way out would seem to be >> hardware >> reset button (ouch!). > > Use the Ctrl-Alt-F1 (or -F2 through -F6) to get to a text screen. thankyou for your advice. i think it is necessary for me to turn off x-windows for a while. and so the help on how to edit /etc/inittab is valuable. i think drivers are the next step for me, as the display configuring program itself does not display correctly for me - maybe it also uses xwindows, i don't know. i think it is a bug that anaconda does not set up /etc/inittab to match the settings used when installing. eg. if the user types "linux resolution=800x600" when installing, then that same setting should be put into /etc/inittab. what does anybody think about that? b.t.w., i might be slow to react from now on. sometime today, windows has lost my ethernet card, and so can't access internet card until i fix that. i am sending this mail / looking for drivers on my pc at work. cheers, grant From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Sun Oct 23 21:15:34 2005 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:15:34 -0500 Subject: after grub, stripy screen In-Reply-To: <45810.210.148.102.27.1130052147.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> References: <1139.203.135.235.206.1129993022.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> <20051022150836.GA19191@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <45810.210.148.102.27.1130052147.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> Message-ID: <20051023211534.GA1092@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 08:22:27PM +1300, Grant Allan wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 03:57:02AM +1300, Grant Allan wrote: > >> hi, > >> > >> i installed linux CDs using text mode 'anaconda', because i was having > >> troubles getting the GUI version to display properly. (first i tried > >> different resolutions, and "nofb".) but text mode seemed to install the > >> 4 > >> CDs just fine. but... > >> > >> when i get to my grub screen, it displays ok, but then when it goes to > >> start linux, it tells me it is checking the hardware and then gives me a > >> stripy screen (red and green vertical stripes, in case you were > >> wondering > >> ;) - and a little while after that, i get a screenful of orange and > >> white > >> rectangles, various sizes). > >> > >> what to do? i expect that i need to install some special display > >> drivers > >> from nvidia - but until then, is there some way to get grub to start me > >> in > >> text mode or something. i guess i would use the "linux rescue" to do > >> that? > > > > Not necessarily. Use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a text-mode login. Then > > follow the directions here: > > > > http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#x_fails > > > >> i did try using "linux rescue" to try looking into grub.conf (in case > >> there were some helpful comments), but no joy. when i tried to use > >> "gedit" on grub.conf, it failed to start, citing a display problem. > > > > The answer is in /etc/inittab, not grub.conf. See above hint for > > directions. > > > >> if editing some file somewhere is part of the solution, is there maybe a > >> text-based editor in "linux rescue" that i can use instead of gedit? > >> > >> i'm a bit worried about not being able to shut down gracefully. when i > >> get to the an unreadable screen, my only way out would seem to be > >> hardware > >> reset button (ouch!). > > > > Use the Ctrl-Alt-F1 (or -F2 through -F6) to get to a text screen. > > > thankyou for your advice. i think it is necessary for me to turn off > x-windows for a while. and so the help on how to edit /etc/inittab is > valuable. > > i think drivers are the next step for me, as the display configuring > program itself does not display correctly for me - maybe it also uses > xwindows, i don't know. That's why I don't buy nVidia-based cards any more. I buy ATI cards (a Radeon 9200, last time) and they just work. > i think it is a bug that anaconda does not set up /etc/inittab to match > the settings used when installing. eg. if the user types "linux > resolution=800x600" when installing, then that same setting should be put > into /etc/inittab. what does anybody think about that? Good, no, great idea. Actually it installs at a fairly low common denominator because initially it doesn't know what it's working with or even if it can work with it. When it gets to X configuration, if it can come up with something workable (as far as it can tell) it writes that info to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. /etc/inittab is not the right place by any stretch of the imagination. > b.t.w., i might be slow to react from now on. sometime today, windows has > lost my ethernet card, and so can't access internet card until i fix that. > i am sending this mail / looking for drivers on my pc at work. Our condolences. > cheers, > grant Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Peace at any price is inflationary. From grant at forum8.co.nz Mon Oct 24 01:59:28 2005 From: grant at forum8.co.nz (Grant Allan) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:59:28 +1300 (NZDT) Subject: after grub, stripy screen In-Reply-To: <20051023211534.GA1092@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <1139.203.135.235.206.1129993022.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> <20051022150836.GA19191@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <45810.210.148.102.27.1130052147.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> <20051023211534.GA1092@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <51552.210.148.102.27.1130119168.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> >> i think it is a bug that anaconda does not set up /etc/inittab to match >> the settings used when installing. eg. if the user types "linux >> resolution=800x600" when installing, then that same setting should be >> put >> into /etc/inittab. what does anybody think about that? > > Good, no, great idea. Actually it installs at a fairly low common > denominator because initially it doesn't know what it's working with > or even if it can work with it. When it gets to X configuration, if > it can come up with something workable (as far as it can tell) it > writes that info to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. > > /etc/inittab is not the right place by any stretch of the imagination. hey, thanks! do you think i should make an official suggestion somewhere? is that easy to do? cheers, grant From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Mon Oct 24 02:21:43 2005 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 21:21:43 -0500 Subject: after grub, stripy screen In-Reply-To: <51552.210.148.102.27.1130119168.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> References: <1139.203.135.235.206.1129993022.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> <20051022150836.GA19191@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <45810.210.148.102.27.1130052147.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> <20051023211534.GA1092@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <51552.210.148.102.27.1130119168.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> Message-ID: <20051024022143.GA9639@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:59:28PM +1300, Grant Allan wrote: > >> i think it is a bug that anaconda does not set up /etc/inittab to match > >> the settings used when installing. eg. if the user types "linux > >> resolution=800x600" when installing, then that same setting should be > >> put > >> into /etc/inittab. what does anybody think about that? > > > > Good, no, great idea. Actually it installs at a fairly low common > > denominator because initially it doesn't know what it's working with > > or even if it can work with it. When it gets to X configuration, if > > it can come up with something workable (as far as it can tell) it > > writes that info to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. > > > > /etc/inittab is not the right place by any stretch of the imagination. > > hey, thanks! do you think i should make an official suggestion somewhere? > is that easy to do? > > cheers, > grant Umm, I think one of us misunderstood. What I said was that it is already doing The Right Thing _if_ it figures out the video card correctly. In your case it did its best to configure for the card, and since it couldn't see your side of the monitor, it went with what it saw on its side. And it was wrong. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Peace at any price is inflationary. From grant at forum8.co.nz Mon Oct 24 06:55:39 2005 From: grant at forum8.co.nz (Grant Allan) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:55:39 +1300 (NZDT) Subject: after grub, stripy screen In-Reply-To: <20051024022143.GA9639@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <1139.203.135.235.206.1129993022.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> <20051022150836.GA19191@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <45810.210.148.102.27.1130052147.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> <20051023211534.GA1092@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <51552.210.148.102.27.1130119168.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> <20051024022143.GA9639@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <60104.210.148.102.27.1130136939.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:59:28PM +1300, Grant Allan wrote: >> >> i think it is a bug that anaconda does not set up /etc/inittab to >> match >> >> the settings used when installing. eg. if the user types "linux >> >> resolution=800x600" when installing, then that same setting should be >> >> put >> >> into /etc/inittab. what does anybody think about that? >> > >> > Good, no, great idea. Actually it installs at a fairly low common >> > denominator because initially it doesn't know what it's working with >> > or even if it can work with it. When it gets to X configuration, if >> > it can come up with something workable (as far as it can tell) it >> > writes that info to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. >> > >> > /etc/inittab is not the right place by any stretch of the imagination. >> >> hey, thanks! do you think i should make an official suggestion >> somewhere? >> is that easy to do? >> >> cheers, >> grant > > Umm, I think one of us misunderstood. What I said was that it is > already doing The Right Thing _if_ it figures out the video card > correctly. In your case it did its best to configure for the card, > and since it couldn't see your side of the monitor, it went with what > it saw on its side. And it was wrong. I see. My suggestion then, amounts to "do not do The Right Thing if the user is installing with a custom display setting". My thinking is along these lines: if the user has gone to the trouble of running the installer with a custom display setting, then there is most like a good reason that they chose to do that (eg the default display settings were not working). I think that anaconda doing "The Right Thing" is presumptious in that case. But that is just my own opinion. From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Oct 24 16:44:19 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 09:44:19 -0700 Subject: after grub, stripy screen In-Reply-To: <60104.210.148.102.27.1130136939.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> References: <1139.203.135.235.206.1129993022.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> <20051022150836.GA19191@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <45810.210.148.102.27.1130052147.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> <20051023211534.GA1092@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <51552.210.148.102.27.1130119168.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> <20051024022143.GA9639@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <60104.210.148.102.27.1130136939.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> Message-ID: <1130172259.3667.97.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 19:55 +1300, Grant Allan wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:59:28PM +1300, Grant Allan wrote: > >> >> i think it is a bug that anaconda does not set up /etc/inittab to > >> match > >> >> the settings used when installing. eg. if the user types "linux > >> >> resolution=800x600" when installing, then that same setting should be > >> >> put > >> >> into /etc/inittab. what does anybody think about that? > >> > > >> > Good, no, great idea. Actually it installs at a fairly low common > >> > denominator because initially it doesn't know what it's working with > >> > or even if it can work with it. When it gets to X configuration, if > >> > it can come up with something workable (as far as it can tell) it > >> > writes that info to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. > >> > > >> > /etc/inittab is not the right place by any stretch of the imagination. > >> > >> hey, thanks! do you think i should make an official suggestion > >> somewhere? > >> is that easy to do? > >> > >> cheers, > >> grant > > > > Umm, I think one of us misunderstood. What I said was that it is > > already doing The Right Thing _if_ it figures out the video card > > correctly. In your case it did its best to configure for the card, > > and since it couldn't see your side of the monitor, it went with what > > it saw on its side. And it was wrong. > > I see. My suggestion then, amounts to "do not do The Right Thing if the > user is installing with a custom display setting". My thinking is along > these lines: if the user has gone to the trouble of running the installer > with a custom display setting, then there is most like a good reason that > they chose to do that (eg the default display settings were not working). > I think that anaconda doing "The Right Thing" is presumptious in that > case. But that is just my own opinion. When anaconda tries to install in GUI mode, it does so by setting up the most innocuous options it can (VGA mode using the vesa driver, 640x480x8). Unless you have some odd hardware, this should work--even on nVidia chipsets. The actual operational GUI settings are done much, much later during the install (actually during the "post install" phase). If this is the same hardware that NTLDR disappeared from, where Windows forgot what NIC you had and you got weird display stuff doing a GUI install, then one must suspect that you're having hardware faults of some kind. Flakiness in the PCI bus (dirty contacts, misaligned cards and such) can wreak havoc with your machine. I highly recommend that you shut down the machine, open it up, reseat your memory sticks and PCI bus cards, button it back up and try again. You should also try running memtest86 from the boot command line off the FC4 installer disk and verify that you don't have a flakey RAM card: boot: memtest86 Windows tolerates bad RAM far, far better then Linux does. That's a "bad thing" IMHO (bad RAM, unless correctable via ECC hardware, should cause the machine to shut down because if you can't trust the RAM contents, you can't trust anything else), but it appears to be a fact. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I don't suffer from insanity...I enjoy every minute of it! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From grant at forum8.co.nz Mon Oct 24 22:51:48 2005 From: grant at forum8.co.nz (Grant Allan) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:51:48 +1300 (NZDT) Subject: after grub, stripy screen In-Reply-To: <1130172259.3667.97.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <1139.203.135.235.206.1129993022.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> <20051022150836.GA19191@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <45810.210.148.102.27.1130052147.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> <20051023211534.GA1092@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <51552.210.148.102.27.1130119168.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> <20051024022143.GA9639@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <60104.210.148.102.27.1130136939.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> <1130172259.3667.97.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <1149.203.135.205.169.1130194309.squirrel@www.forum8.co.nz> > When anaconda tries to install in GUI mode, it does so by setting up > the most innocuous options it can (VGA mode using the vesa driver, > 640x480x8). Unless you have some odd hardware, this should work--even > on nVidia chipsets. The actual operational GUI settings are done much, > much later during the install (actually during the "post install" > phase). > > If this is the same hardware that NTLDR disappeared from, where > Windows forgot what NIC you had and you got weird display stuff doing > a GUI install, then one must suspect that you're having hardware faults > of some kind. Flakiness in the PCI bus (dirty contacts, misaligned > cards and such) can wreak havoc with your machine. I highly recommend > that you shut down the machine, open it up, reseat your memory sticks > and PCI bus cards, button it back up and try again. > > You should also try running memtest86 from the boot command line off the > FC4 installer disk and verify that you don't have a flakey RAM card: > > boot: memtest86 > > Windows tolerates bad RAM far, far better then Linux does. That's a > "bad thing" IMHO (bad RAM, unless correctable via ECC hardware, should > cause the machine to shut down because if you can't trust the RAM > contents, you can't trust anything else), but it appears to be a fact. thanks for this advice, i think you're right that there's something amiss with my hardware. i'll give that a go before anything else. (hope it's not a flaky motherboard.) cheers, grant From iamstever at gmail.com Wed Oct 26 00:10:27 2005 From: iamstever at gmail.com (steve) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:10:27 -0700 Subject: Brand new Dell 1425SC Message-ID: <57792e850510251710x5af10a86tff3aed932453751d@mail.gmail.com> I installed RHEL 4 then used up2date to make it current. When I restarted the process X is using 100% of the CPU. I ssh into and don't use the X windows server. What is going on? How do I kill the thing (can't use kill -9 as it won't work)???? -steve- (BTW: Did anyone else notice that older servers running more slowly after the last big slew of update?) From iamstever at gmail.com Wed Oct 26 01:09:20 2005 From: iamstever at gmail.com (steve) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:09:20 -0700 Subject: Another note on 100% CPU Message-ID: <57792e850510251809g1ca40e80j569ec0214be7a87c@mail.gmail.com> Unlike other servers that have X sort of running, when doing a "ps aux" I get this root 2804 99.8 0.0 0 0 ? R 16:23 93:40 [X] (note the 99.8 CPU and the name [x], rather than standard stuff like this:) root 2715 0.0 0.1 11356 1228 ? S Oct21 0:08 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7 What is going on? And why is RedHat's support system not work either? I keep getting Oracle error messages about "oracle.apps.jtf.menu.MenuException: JTF-1400: JTF Menu Exception" so it doesn't work. Nothing works!!! From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Wed Oct 26 02:16:04 2005 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:16:04 -0500 Subject: Brand new Dell 1425SC In-Reply-To: <57792e850510251710x5af10a86tff3aed932453751d@mail.gmail.com> References: <57792e850510251710x5af10a86tff3aed932453751d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20051026021604.GA30431@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 05:10:27PM -0700, steve wrote: > I installed RHEL 4 then used up2date to make it current. When I > restarted the process X is using 100% of the CPU. I ssh into and don't > use the X windows server. What is going on? I dunno. > How do I kill the thing (can't use kill -9 as it won't work)???? For the long term, if you're not using X, then set it to come up to runlevel 3: http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#text_login > -steve- > > (BTW: Did anyone else notice that older servers running more slowly > after the last big slew of update?) Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Peace at any price is inflationary. From gerrynix at yahoo.com Wed Oct 26 10:56:03 2005 From: gerrynix at yahoo.com (gerrynix) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 03:56:03 -0700 (PDT) Subject: RH 9 & USB Pen Drive? Message-ID: <20051026105603.24480.qmail@web51908.mail.yahoo.com> Hello all, How to mount a USB pen drive? What is the device names and example syntax. How are they mounted automagically at insertion? -- MTIA Nix From jdunn at sefas.com Wed Oct 26 11:41:29 2005 From: jdunn at sefas.com (John Dunn) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:41:29 +0100 Subject: Cannot ftp or telnet to linux : help required Message-ID: <004301c5da22$35490bd0$3e04050a@johnman> I cannot ftp or telnet to my redhat 9 linux box. It can ftp or telnet to itself, but I cannot do so from any other machine. This is just a test machine so please do not tell me to use ssh. I just want to be able to telnet and ftp. 1. I have the firewall configuration set to no firewall 2. I have tried stopping iptables but that did not help 3. hosts.allow and hosts.deny are empty. 4. xinetrd.d/telnet has disable = no 5. hosts file contains only an entry of 127.0.0.1 for the localhost and an entry for the machine ipaddress and hostname 6. When I try to ftp I get the following message in /var/log/messages : vsftpd : warning : can't get client address : Bad file descriptor : 7. There are also messages as follows : modprobe: cannot locate module binfmt-0500 but I am not sure whether they are connected to the telnet or ftp. Any ideas what is wrong? This was working at one point! All help appreciated. John Dunn From spal at iitk.ac.in Wed Oct 26 13:01:41 2005 From: spal at iitk.ac.in (spal at iitk.ac.in) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:31:41 +0530 (IST) Subject: [Fwd: RH 9 & USB Pen Drive?] Message-ID: <33120.172.26.113.100.1130331701.squirrel@webmail.iitk.ac.in> ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: RH 9 & USB Pen Drive? From: "gerrynix" Date: Wed, October 26, 2005 4:26 pm To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello all, How to mount a USB pen drive? What is the device names and example syntax. How are they mounted automagically at insertion? -- MTIA Nix _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Subject: unsubscribe From darren.birkett at gmail.com Wed Oct 26 13:03:47 2005 From: darren.birkett at gmail.com (Darren Birkett) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:03:47 +0100 Subject: remote vnc install - firstboot issues Message-ID: When I do a remote vnc install of rhel3 or 4, everything goes fine, until firstboot. On firstboot, the license issues etc are displayed *at the console*. I don't want to have to go back to the console - this is why I'm doing a remote vnc install! Is there some way to prevent this happening, or is there a way to access the firstboot stuff remotely? I would have expected the vnc server to start again (like it does in SLES) but this doesn't appear to happen. Cheers Darren -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Wed Oct 26 14:13:57 2005 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:13:57 -0500 Subject: RH 9 & USB Pen Drive? In-Reply-To: <20051026105603.24480.qmail@web51908.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20051026105603.24480.qmail@web51908.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20051026141357.GB17031@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 03:56:03AM -0700, gerrynix wrote: > Hello all, > > How to mount a USB pen drive? What is the device names and > example syntax. How are they mounted automagically at insertion? > -- > MTIA > Nix They are usually treated as a SCSI drive, so it will be called /dev/sda or /dev/sdb, and so on. Best way to find out is to (as root) watch /var/log/messages, to wit: tail -f /var/log/messages while you plug in the device. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Peace at any price is inflationary. From micros50 at computer.net Wed Oct 26 16:39:19 2005 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:39:19 -0400 Subject: [Fwd: RH 9 & USB Pen Drive?] In-Reply-To: <33120.172.26.113.100.1130331701.squirrel@webmail.iitk.ac.in> References: <33120.172.26.113.100.1130331701.squirrel@webmail.iitk.ac.in> Message-ID: <1130344759.6942.8.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> On most modern Linux distro's (running kernel 2.6.xxx) with all the USB features enabled (i.e. hotplugging, etc.) generally all you need do is simply plug the drive in and it will mount automagically and appear under some directory like "/media/usbdrive" or "/mnt/drive-name" or something similar, On some older kernels <= 2.4.x and/or without all the USB features enabled you may have to mount it manually. Provided the device is properly detected when plugged into the port you would use the "mount" command to do something like this: $ mount -t vfat /dev/sdaX /mnt/foo to mount the device. X is replaced by an integer (0,1,2,3...) and "/mnt/foo" is replaced by whatever mount point you want to use. A good article on Linux and USB devices appeared in either the Linux Journal and/or Linux Magazine this past month. mylar On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 09:01, spal at iitk.ac.in wrote: > ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- > Subject: RH 9 & USB Pen Drive? > From: "gerrynix" > Date: Wed, October 26, 2005 4:26 pm > To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Hello all, > > How to mount a USB pen drive? What is the device names and > example syntax. How are they mounted automagically at insertion? > -- > MTIA > Nix > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/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 Oct 26 16:50:42 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:50:42 -0700 Subject: Brand new Dell 1425SC In-Reply-To: <57792e850510251710x5af10a86tff3aed932453751d@mail.gmail.com> References: <57792e850510251710x5af10a86tff3aed932453751d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1130345442.3979.52.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 17:10 -0700, steve wrote: > I installed RHEL 4 then used up2date to make it current. When I > restarted the process X is using 100% of the CPU. I ssh into and don't > use the X windows server. What is going on? I don't know. Have you examined /var/log/messages or dmesg for clues? Also check /var/log/xorg.log. > How do I kill the thing (can't use kill -9 as it won't work)???? As long as you're booted into run level 5, init will respawn the X environment whenever it dies. You can force a restart by doing killall -9 prefdm gdm-binary X If you really wish to kill it, you must get out of run level 5 by using telinit 3 > (BTW: Did anyone else notice that older servers running more slowly > after the last big slew of update?) Uhm, no, but we don't typically run _servers_ in GUI mode. I don't have any desktops running RHEL4. I do have some servers running it and I haven't seen anything bizarre other than some problems with a Jetstor disk array. We're fairly certain we have a hardware problem there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Oct 26 17:02:43 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:02:43 -0700 Subject: RH 9 & USB Pen Drive? In-Reply-To: <20051026105603.24480.qmail@web51908.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20051026105603.24480.qmail@web51908.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1130346163.3979.64.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 03:56 -0700, gerrynix wrote: > Hello all, > > How to mount a USB pen drive? What is the device names and > example syntax. How are they mounted automagically at insertion? The automounter on RH9 is not particularly wonderful. It's much better under FCx. Anyway, the drive will appear as a SCSI device. If it's the only SCSI device you have, it'll show up as "/dev/sda". If you have other SCSI devices, it'll show up as the next alphabetically-sequential letter that is unused (if you have a SCSI disk AND the pen drive, the pen will show up as /dev/sdb and so on). You'll need to know what partitions it has on it, so plug it in and do "fdisk -l /dev/sda" to get a list of its partitions. Let's assume it has a single partition, partition 1. You need to create a mountpoint for it, so do something like (as root): # mkdir /mnt/flash Then, to mount it: # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash The drive will now appear on the filesystem as /mnt/flash and you can do with it what you will. When you're done, don't forget to unmount it. There are several commands to do that...any of them will get the job done: # umount /mnt/flash # umount /dev/sda1 # eject /mnt/flash # eject /dev/sda1 As I said, RH9's automounter for hot-pluggable stuff (USB, firewire, etc.) leaves much to be desired. I'd recommend that you upgrade to one of the Fedora Core releases, as RH9 is long dead (well, two years dead). FC4 works quite well and is the latest free Red Hat-related release. Note that FC4 is based on the 2.6 kernel and Xorg's X stuff instead of RH9's 2.4 kernel and XFree86 X implementation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - 500: Internal Fortune Cookie Error - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Oct 26 17:18:47 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:18:47 -0700 Subject: Cannot ftp or telnet to linux : help required In-Reply-To: <004301c5da22$35490bd0$3e04050a@johnman> References: <004301c5da22$35490bd0$3e04050a@johnman> Message-ID: <1130347127.3979.76.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 12:41 +0100, John Dunn wrote: > I cannot ftp or telnet to my redhat 9 linux box. > > It can ftp or telnet to itself, but I cannot do so from any other machine. > > This is just a test machine so please do not tell me to use ssh. I just want > to be able to telnet and ftp. > > > 1. I have the firewall configuration set to no firewall > > 2. I have tried stopping iptables but that did not help > > 3. hosts.allow and hosts.deny are empty. > 4. xinetrd.d/telnet has disable = no Did you "service xinetd restart" after editing that file? Did you verify that the telnet binary actually exists? If you had an abnormal shutdown, perhaps that file was corrupted. > 5. hosts file contains only an entry of 127.0.0.1 for the localhost and an > entry for the machine ipaddress and hostname > > 6. When I try to ftp I get the following message in /var/log/messages : > > vsftpd : warning : can't get client address : Bad file descriptor : vsftpd tries to do a reverse DNS lookup on the client's IP. That message seems related to that operation. As an experiment, try putting the client's data in your /etc/hosts file and see if the message goes away. > 7. There are also messages as follows : > modprobe: cannot locate module binfmt-0500 > but I am not sure whether they are connected to the telnet or ftp. Hmmm. Did you check /etc/modules.conf? IIRC, that's a module from ye ol' wu-ftpd (the standard ftp daemon on RH9). > Any ideas what is wrong? > > This was working at one point! Did you have a crash or abnormal shutdown at some point? Much of this looks like some of the binaries or configs got gronked. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From micros50 at computer.net Wed Oct 26 17:24:52 2005 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:24:52 -0400 Subject: Cannot ftp or telnet to linux : help required In-Reply-To: <004301c5da22$35490bd0$3e04050a@johnman> References: <004301c5da22$35490bd0$3e04050a@johnman> Message-ID: <1130347491.6942.14.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Hmmm, I couldn't seem to duplicate that error on FC3 running vsftpd From what I gather it may have something to do with a glitch between vsftp and tcp wrappers. Try going to your vsftpd.conf file and turn tcp wrappers off i.e. tcp_wrappers=NO and see what happens. mylar On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 07:41, John Dunn wrote: > I cannot ftp or telnet to my redhat 9 linux box. > > It can ftp or telnet to itself, but I cannot do so from any other machine. > > This is just a test machine so please do not tell me to use ssh. I just want > to be able to telnet and ftp. > > > 1. I have the firewall configuration set to no firewall > > 2. I have tried stopping iptables but that did not help > > 3. hosts.allow and hosts.deny are empty. > 4. xinetrd.d/telnet has disable = no > > 5. hosts file contains only an entry of 127.0.0.1 for the localhost and an > entry for the machine ipaddress and hostname > > 6. When I try to ftp I get the following message in /var/log/messages : > > vsftpd : warning : can't get client address : Bad file descriptor : > > 7. There are also messages as follows : > modprobe: cannot locate module binfmt-0500 > but I am not sure whether they are connected to the telnet or ftp. > > Any ideas what is wrong? > > This was working at one point! > > All help appreciated. > > > John Dunn > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/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 Oct 26 17:34:49 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:34:49 -0700 Subject: remote vnc install - firstboot issues In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1130348089.3979.93.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 14:03 +0100, Darren Birkett wrote: > When I do a remote vnc install of rhel3 or 4, everything goes fine, > until firstboot. On firstboot, the license issues etc are displayed > *at the console*. I don't want to have to go back to the console - > this is why I'm doing a remote vnc install! Is there some way to > prevent this happening, or is there a way to access the firstboot > stuff remotely? I would have expected the vnc server to start again > (like it does in SLES) but this doesn't appear to happen. It rather depends on how you have the VNC stuff set up. If you're running a separate VNC server process (it's NOT in the X config files as "Module vnc"), then vncserver runs as a separate X server (":1") and since the messages are displaed on the first console (":0"), you can't get at them remotely. You can bypass firstboot by editing /etc/sysconfig/firstboot and making sure you have RUN_FIRSTBOOT=NO as the only line in the file. As to why vncserver isn't running, you need to check your startup script directory and verify you have a symlink to the vncserver startup script. By default, the link is named "/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S91vncserver" and it should link to "../../init.d/vncserver". If you're going to use vnc as a remote console, I'd recommend you NOT run the separate vncserver and rather use the vnc module in your X configuration. This allows vnc to control the PRIMARY X display. If you're unfamiliar with how to to that, edit your X config file. Add the line: Load "vnc" to the "Modules" section. In the "Screen" section, add a line: Option "passwordfile" "/path/to/your/.vnc/passwd" Reboot the X system. You should then be able to "vncviewer" to the machine and be on the main console screen. Of course, it may freak anyone out who's on the main display to see the mouse pointer move and things happen as though you "have a ghost in the machine"! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - When all else fails, try reading the instructions. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From bret_stern at machinemanagement.com Wed Oct 26 17:44:21 2005 From: bret_stern at machinemanagement.com (Bret Stern) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:44:21 -0700 Subject: Dell Poweredge 2450 - Fedora 4 Locks Message-ID: Anyone.. I have a nice Dell 2450 without Raid. Red Hat Fedora 4 installs but will lock up after a few moments of use. I suspect a driver/module? for the AIC-7899 SCSI controller. I could use advice on which system log to look at, to determine the failure. Regards, Bret Stern From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Oct 26 18:16:29 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:16:29 -0700 Subject: Dell Poweredge 2450 - Fedora 4 Locks In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1130350589.3979.106.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 10:44 -0700, Bret Stern wrote: > Anyone.. > > I have a nice Dell 2450 without Raid. > > Red Hat Fedora 4 installs but will lock up > after a few moments of use. Define "a few moments". One minute? Five minutes? Ten seconds? > I suspect a driver/module? for the AIC-7899 SCSI > controller. Uh, hmmm. Generally, a problem with the main storage driver will be instantaneous. > I could use advice on which system log to look at, > to determine the failure. Use the output of "dmesg" as well as /var/log/dmesg. You should also look at /var/log/messages. Try isolating things. Try running in text mode only and see if the problem is related to the X environment (it often is). To set up text mode, boot into single user mode, then edit the /etc/inittab file. Change the line that reads: id:5:initdefault: to read id:3:initdefault: After saving the file, enter "exit". The system will boot to run level 3 or text mode. Try using it for a while. If it doesn't lock up, try switching to run level 5 (GUI mode) by entering "telinit 5". If it locks up, then you have an X issue and we'll have to deal with that. If it doesn't lock up, you may have a power management issue with either apm or acpi. Change the line in /etc/inittab back to its original format and try booting with the options "acpi=off apm=off" set (these disable acpi and apm) and see if things get better. NOTE: I use FC4 on Dell 1850s and 2850s with very few problems (if any). I don't really know a lot about the 2450s, other than they've been discontinued. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - grasshopotomaus: A creature that can leap to tremendous heights... - - ...once. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mikerault at yahoo.com Wed Oct 26 18:28:22 2005 From: mikerault at yahoo.com (Michael Ault) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:28:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Dell Poweredge 2450 - Fedora 4 Locks In-Reply-To: <1130350589.3979.106.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <20051026182822.73794.qmail@web30812.mail.mud.yahoo.com> What size memory is in the system? This could be swapping, a memory issue or a driver. Mike --- Rick Stevens wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 10:44 -0700, Bret Stern wrote: > > Anyone.. > > > > I have a nice Dell 2450 without Raid. > > > > Red Hat Fedora 4 installs but will lock up > > after a few moments of use. > > Define "a few moments". One minute? Five minutes? > Ten seconds? > > > I suspect a driver/module? for the AIC-7899 SCSI > > controller. > > Uh, hmmm. Generally, a problem with the main > storage driver will be > instantaneous. > > > I could use advice on which system log to look at, > > to determine the failure. > > Use the output of "dmesg" as well as /var/log/dmesg. > You should also > look at /var/log/messages. > > Try isolating things. Try running in text mode only > and see if the > problem is related to the X environment (it often > is). To set up > text mode, boot into single user mode, then edit the > /etc/inittab file. > Change the line that reads: > > id:5:initdefault: > > to read > > id:3:initdefault: > > After saving the file, enter "exit". The system > will boot to run level > 3 or text mode. Try using it for a while. If it > doesn't lock up, try > switching to run level 5 (GUI mode) by entering > "telinit 5". If it > locks up, then you have an X issue and we'll have to > deal with that. > If it doesn't lock up, you may have a power > management issue with either > apm or acpi. Change the line in /etc/inittab back > to its original > format and try booting with the options "acpi=off > apm=off" set (these > disable acpi and apm) and see if things get better. > > NOTE: I use FC4 on Dell 1850s and 2850s with very > few problems (if any). > I don't really know a lot about the 2450s, other > than they've been > discontinued. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer > rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. > http://www.vitalstream.com - > - > - > - grasshopotomaus: A creature that can leap to > tremendous heights... - > - > ...once. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/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 Consultant Burleson Oracle Consulting 770-754-9057 www.ault.cc www.remote-dba.com From iamstever at gmail.com Thu Oct 27 00:40:31 2005 From: iamstever at gmail.com (steve) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:40:31 -0700 Subject: Brand new Dell 1425SC In-Reply-To: <1130345442.3979.52.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <57792e850510251710x5af10a86tff3aed932453751d@mail.gmail.com> <1130345442.3979.52.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <57792e850510261740l4f5c1605m84c65a5f70f811cc@mail.gmail.com> Thanks. I ran VNC to see if I could look around and find out if there was some sort of error message in the windowing system, but no luck. Then I went to runlevel 3, rebooted, and it was fine. I even went back to runlevel 5 and suddently it worked OK. I spent too much time and too many reboots until that happened... Oh well, it works now. Thanks! -s On 10/26/05, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 17:10 -0700, steve wrote: > > I installed RHEL 4 then used up2date to make it current. When I > > restarted the process X is using 100% of the CPU. I ssh into and don't > > use the X windows server. What is going on? > > I don't know. Have you examined /var/log/messages or dmesg for clues? > Also check /var/log/xorg.log. > > > How do I kill the thing (can't use kill -9 as it won't work)???? > > As long as you're booted into run level 5, init will respawn the X > environment whenever it dies. You can force a restart by doing > > killall -9 prefdm gdm-binary X > > If you really wish to kill it, you must get out of run level 5 by using > > telinit 3 > > > (BTW: Did anyone else notice that older servers running more slowly > > after the last big slew of update?) > > Uhm, no, but we don't typically run _servers_ in GUI mode. I don't have > any desktops running RHEL4. I do have some servers running it and I > haven't seen anything bizarre other than some problems with a Jetstor > disk array. We're fairly certain we have a hardware problem there. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - 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 - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/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 Thu Oct 27 04:48:47 2005 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:48:47 -0400 Subject: GRUB Single User Mode Message-ID: <1130388527.6942.68.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Can anyone tell me how one goes about getting into single user mode via GRUB. Using "LILO" I would specify a name followed by the word "single" and it would jump right in. But that doesn't work on GRUB. Any ideas ? From nmw at ion.le.ac.uk Thu Oct 27 08:29:51 2005 From: nmw at ion.le.ac.uk (Nigel Wade) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:29:51 +0100 Subject: GRUB Single User Mode In-Reply-To: <1130388527.6942.68.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> References: <1130388527.6942.68.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Message-ID: <43608FFF.6070005@ion.le.ac.uk> mylar wrote: > Can anyone tell me how one goes about getting into single user mode via > GRUB. Using "LILO" I would specify a name followed by the word "single" > and it would jump right in. But that doesn't work on GRUB. Any ideas ? > > When the grub menu is on the screen, select the line representing the system you want to boot and press 'e' (edit). This should open the grub commands for editing. Move to the kernel line of the boot sequence and hit 'e' again. Append the word 'single' to that line and hit 'enter'. Then press 'b' to boot. -- Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK E-mail : nmw at ion.le.ac.uk Phone : +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555 From jdunn at sefas.com Thu Oct 27 10:48:05 2005 From: jdunn at sefas.com (John Dunn) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:48:05 +0100 Subject: Cannot ftp or telnet to linux : help required In-Reply-To: <1130347127.3979.76.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <001c01c5dae3$ea293e50$3e04050a@johnman> Thanks Linux is running as a guest VM under VMWare and I now think this is a VMWare issue. I can telnet OK from other VMs, but not from other machines on the network. John -----Original Message----- From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] Sent: 26 October 2005 18:19 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux; jdunn at sefas.com Subject: Re: Cannot ftp or telnet to linux : help required On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 12:41 +0100, John Dunn wrote: > I cannot ftp or telnet to my redhat 9 linux box. > > It can ftp or telnet to itself, but I cannot do so from any other machine. > > This is just a test machine so please do not tell me to use ssh. I just want > to be able to telnet and ftp. > > > 1. I have the firewall configuration set to no firewall > > 2. I have tried stopping iptables but that did not help > > 3. hosts.allow and hosts.deny are empty. > 4. xinetrd.d/telnet has disable = no Did you "service xinetd restart" after editing that file? Did you verify that the telnet binary actually exists? If you had an abnormal shutdown, perhaps that file was corrupted. > 5. hosts file contains only an entry of 127.0.0.1 for the localhost and an > entry for the machine ipaddress and hostname > > 6. When I try to ftp I get the following message in /var/log/messages : > > vsftpd : warning : can't get client address : Bad file descriptor : vsftpd tries to do a reverse DNS lookup on the client's IP. That message seems related to that operation. As an experiment, try putting the client's data in your /etc/hosts file and see if the message goes away. > 7. There are also messages as follows : > modprobe: cannot locate module binfmt-0500 > but I am not sure whether they are connected to the telnet or ftp. Hmmm. Did you check /etc/modules.conf? IIRC, that's a module from ye ol' wu-ftpd (the standard ftp daemon on RH9). > Any ideas what is wrong? > > This was working at one point! Did you have a crash or abnormal shutdown at some point? Much of this looks like some of the binaries or configs got gronked. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From robertmcclure at earthlink.net Thu Oct 27 12:20:44 2005 From: robertmcclure at earthlink.net (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 07:20:44 -0500 Subject: GRUB Single User Mode In-Reply-To: <43608FFF.6070005@ion.le.ac.uk> References: <1130388527.6942.68.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> <43608FFF.6070005@ion.le.ac.uk> Message-ID: <20051027122044.GA29192@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:29:51AM +0100, Nigel Wade wrote: > mylar wrote: > >Can anyone tell me how one goes about getting into single user mode via > >GRUB. Using "LILO" I would specify a name followed by the word "single" > >and it would jump right in. But that doesn't work on GRUB. Any ideas ? > > > > > > When the grub menu is on the screen, select the line representing the > system you want to boot and press 'e' (edit). This should open the grub > commands for editing. Move to the kernel line of the boot sequence and hit > 'e' again. Append the word 'single' to that line and hit 'enter'. Then > press 'b' to boot. > > -- > Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group, > University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK > E-mail : nmw at ion.le.ac.uk > Phone : +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555 Hmm. I just select the line, hit "a" to append, type " single" (note the space), then hit [Enter] and it boots single. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com Peace at any price is inflationary. From bret_stern at machinemanagement.com Thu Oct 27 15:15:57 2005 From: bret_stern at machinemanagement.com (Bret Stern) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:15:57 -0700 Subject: Dell Poweredge 2450 - Fedora 4 Locks In-Reply-To: <20051026182822.73794.qmail@web30812.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: thanks.. 512 system ram -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Michael Ault Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 11:28 AM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: Dell Poweredge 2450 - Fedora 4 Locks What size memory is in the system? This could be swapping, a memory issue or a driver. Mike --- Rick Stevens wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 10:44 -0700, Bret Stern wrote: > > Anyone.. > > > > I have a nice Dell 2450 without Raid. > > > > Red Hat Fedora 4 installs but will lock up > > after a few moments of use. > > Define "a few moments". One minute? Five minutes? > Ten seconds? > > > I suspect a driver/module? for the AIC-7899 SCSI > > controller. > > Uh, hmmm. Generally, a problem with the main > storage driver will be > instantaneous. > > > I could use advice on which system log to look at, > > to determine the failure. > > Use the output of "dmesg" as well as /var/log/dmesg. > You should also > look at /var/log/messages. > > Try isolating things. Try running in text mode only > and see if the > problem is related to the X environment (it often > is). To set up > text mode, boot into single user mode, then edit the > /etc/inittab file. > Change the line that reads: > > id:5:initdefault: > > to read > > id:3:initdefault: > > After saving the file, enter "exit". The system > will boot to run level > 3 or text mode. Try using it for a while. If it > doesn't lock up, try > switching to run level 5 (GUI mode) by entering > "telinit 5". If it > locks up, then you have an X issue and we'll have to > deal with that. > If it doesn't lock up, you may have a power > management issue with either > apm or acpi. Change the line in /etc/inittab back > to its original > format and try booting with the options "acpi=off > apm=off" set (these > disable acpi and apm) and see if things get better. > > NOTE: I use FC4 on Dell 1850s and 2850s with very > few problems (if any). > I don't really know a lot about the 2450s, other > than they've been > discontinued. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer > rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. > http://www.vitalstream.com - > - > - > - grasshopotomaus: A creature that can leap to > tremendous heights... - > - > ...once. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/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 Consultant Burleson Oracle Consulting 770-754-9057 www.ault.cc www.remote-dba.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Subject: unsubscribe From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Oct 27 16:48:30 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:48:30 -0700 Subject: Brand new Dell 1425SC In-Reply-To: <57792e850510261740l4f5c1605m84c65a5f70f811cc@mail.gmail.com> References: <57792e850510251710x5af10a86tff3aed932453751d@mail.gmail.com> <1130345442.3979.52.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <57792e850510261740l4f5c1605m84c65a5f70f811cc@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1130431710.3979.127.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 17:40 -0700, steve wrote: > Thanks. I ran VNC to see if I could look around and find out if there > was some sort of error message in the windowing system, but no luck. > Then I went to runlevel 3, rebooted, and it was fine. I even went back > to runlevel 5 and suddently it worked OK. I spent too much time and > too many reboots until that happened... > > Oh well, it works now. > > Thanks! "Fedora ghost strikes again! Film at 11!" > > -s > > On 10/26/05, Rick Stevens wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 17:10 -0700, steve wrote: > > > I installed RHEL 4 then used up2date to make it current. When I > > > restarted the process X is using 100% of the CPU. I ssh into and don't > > > use the X windows server. What is going on? > > > > I don't know. Have you examined /var/log/messages or dmesg for clues? > > Also check /var/log/xorg.log. > > > > > How do I kill the thing (can't use kill -9 as it won't work)???? > > > > As long as you're booted into run level 5, init will respawn the X > > environment whenever it dies. You can force a restart by doing > > > > killall -9 prefdm gdm-binary X > > > > If you really wish to kill it, you must get out of run level 5 by using > > > > telinit 3 > > > > > (BTW: Did anyone else notice that older servers running more slowly > > > after the last big slew of update?) > > > > Uhm, no, but we don't typically run _servers_ in GUI mode. I don't have > > any desktops running RHEL4. I do have some servers running it and I > > haven't seen anything bizarre other than some problems with a Jetstor > > disk array. We're fairly certain we have a hardware problem there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Thu Oct 27 16:51:22 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:51:22 -0700 Subject: GRUB Single User Mode In-Reply-To: <1130388527.6942.68.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> References: <1130388527.6942.68.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> Message-ID: <1130431882.3979.131.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 00:48 -0400, mylar wrote: > Can anyone tell me how one goes about getting into single user mode via > GRUB. Using "LILO" I would specify a name followed by the word "single" > and it would jump right in. But that doesn't work on GRUB. Any ideas ? You have to append the word "single" to the end of the kernel line. At the grub screen, use the arrow keys to highlight the kernel you want to boot. Then press the "E" key. Use the down arrow to highlight the "kernel" line, then hit "E" again. Append " single" to the end of the line (don't include the quotes) and hit "ENTER". Now hit "B" and it should boot to single user mode. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - su -; find / -name someone -exec touch \{\} \; - - - The UNIX way of touching someone - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From fruiz at tsitrucks.com Thu Oct 27 17:14:50 2005 From: fruiz at tsitrucks.com (Francisco) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:14:50 -0500 Subject: GRUB Single User Mode In-Reply-To: <1130431882.3979.131.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: Thanks this helped me as well. I was trying to do so last night. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 11:51 AM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: GRUB Single User Mode On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 00:48 -0400, mylar wrote: > Can anyone tell me how one goes about getting into single user mode via > GRUB. Using "LILO" I would specify a name followed by the word "single" > and it would jump right in. But that doesn't work on GRUB. Any ideas ? You have to append the word "single" to the end of the kernel line. At the grub screen, use the arrow keys to highlight the kernel you want to boot. Then press the "E" key. Use the down arrow to highlight the "kernel" line, then hit "E" again. Append " single" to the end of the line (don't include the quotes) and hit "ENTER". Now hit "B" and it should boot to single user mode. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - su -; find / -name someone -exec touch \{\} \; - - - The UNIX way of touching someone - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Subject: unsubscribe From Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com Thu Oct 27 23:22:20 2005 From: Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com (Waldher, Travis R) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:22:20 -0700 Subject: Cannot ftp or telnet to linux : help required Message-ID: > -----Original Message----- > From: John Dunn [mailto:jdunn at sefas.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 3:48 AM > To: 'Rick Stevens'; 'Getting started with Red Hat Linux' > Subject: RE: Cannot ftp or telnet to linux : help required > > Thanks > > Linux is running as a guest VM under VMWare and I now think this is a > VMWare > issue. > > I can telnet OK from other VMs, but not from other machines on the > network. > > John Can you ping your VMWare session? I'm a VMWare user and haven't had this issue. 9 times out of 10 you have an interface configuration problem. From Jack.Allen at McKesson.com Fri Oct 28 18:25:05 2005 From: Jack.Allen at McKesson.com (Allen, Jack) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:25:05 -0400 Subject: up2date problems Message-ID: After registering the system with RHN I tried to run up2date and this is what I get. (mckstardb)root# up2date -l *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x096d79c8 *** Abort Where do I begin to look for the problem? If a program or glibc is corrupted how can I correct this from the CDs? I am afraid the backup that was done will have the same corrupted program in it. This is on RH AS 4. Thanks: Jack Allen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rodrigofariatavares at bol.com.br Sat Oct 29 03:36:13 2005 From: rodrigofariatavares at bol.com.br (rodrigofariatavares) Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:36:13 -0300 Subject: Ipsec in FC3 Message-ID: Hello, I installed the openswan. With I try to execute this command, return the message error : [root at faria var]# ipsec mailkey --me faria at home.net --forward faria.home.net ipsec mailkey: error: Unable to locate SOA record for this domain. Not generating executable file. Sample mail file saved to: /root/OE_mail_faria.home.net I try to find something about this error, but i don find nothing to help me. I put the line in dns zone: faria IN RP faria at home.ne TXT RR street flowers but my problem continue. How I can to resolve its ? Att, Rodrigo Faria Tavares From rodrigofariatavares at bol.com.br Sat Oct 29 12:17:25 2005 From: rodrigofariatavares at bol.com.br (Rodrigo Faria Tavares) Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 10:17:25 -0200 Subject: IPSEC in FC3 Message-ID: <002001c5dc82$c8a2d160$0200000a@faria> Hello, I installed teh openswan in FC3. When I try to execute this commadn, retrun message error. ipsec mailkey: error: Unable to locate SOA record for this domain. Not generating executable file. Sample mail file saved to: /root/OE_mail_faria.home.net I search in many sites, how to set TXT in DNS, and I found fariatxt IN RP faria at home.ne TXT RR 88092842 But, it?s not resolved the problem. How I can to resolve this problem ? Att, Rodrigo Faria Tavares e-mail : rodrigofariat at yahoo.com.br Analista de Suporte Linux -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ktr at mtu.edu Sat Oct 29 17:45:56 2005 From: ktr at mtu.edu (Kevin Raber) Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:45:56 -0400 Subject: IPSEC in FC3 In-Reply-To: <002001c5dc82$c8a2d160$0200000a@faria> References: <002001c5dc82$c8a2d160$0200000a@faria> Message-ID: <4363B554.2070700@mtu.edu> Rodrigo Faria Tavares wrote: > Hello, > > I installed teh openswan in FC3. > > When I try to execute this commadn, retrun message error. > > ipsec mailkey: error: Unable to locate SOA record for this domain. Not > generating executable file. > Sample mail file saved to: /root/OE_mail_faria.home.net > > I search in many sites, how to set TXT in DNS, and I found > > fariatxt IN RP faria at home.ne > TXT RR 88092842 > > But, it?s not resolved the problem. > > How I can to resolve this problem ? > > Att, > > Rodrigo Faria Tavares > e-mail : rodrigofariat at yahoo.com.br > Analista de Suporte Linux > in the DNS record above, it looks like faria at home.ne, instead of faria at home.net with a "t" at the end. ktr at mtu.edu From rodrigofariatavares at bol.com.br Sat Oct 29 20:25:02 2005 From: rodrigofariatavares at bol.com.br (Rodrigo Faria Tavares) Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:25:02 -0200 Subject: IPSEC in FC3 References: <002001c5dc82$c8a2d160$0200000a@faria> <4363B554.2070700@mtu.edu> Message-ID: <000e01c5dcc6$e6a38a80$0200000a@faria> Hello, I put the t, in the domain zone, but the message continue. Opportunistic Encryption DNS checks: Looking for TXT in forward dns zone: faria.home.net[MISSING] It?s necessary for vpn run ? I believe, no but i want to resolve this. Rodrigo Faria Tavares e-mail : rodrigofariat at yahoo.com.br Analista de Suporte Linux >in the DNS record above, it looks like faria at home.ne, instead of >faria at home.net with a "t" at the end. > >ktr at mtu.edu _______________________________________________________ Promo??o Yahoo! Acesso Gr?tis: a cada hora navegada voc? acumula cupons e concorre a mais de 500 pr?mios! Participe! http://yahoo.fbiz.com.br/ From yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn Sun Oct 30 11:43:18 2005 From: yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn (=?gb2312?B?48bF9CAoIFlhbiBQZW5nICk=?=) Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:43:18 +0800 Subject: after remove RH9, the window OS can't boot Message-ID: <200510301359.j9UDx89q007963@mx1.redhat.com> redhat-install-list: I have ever installed win2000 and RH9 on the same disk, of course in different partitions. The two OSs can all boot normally. However, yesterday I decided not to use RH9, so I booted win2000 OS, then formated the RH partions (including boot partion, RH root partion and swap partion) on Win2000. unfortunately, when I rebooted the computer, there was something wrong with grub , so win2000 boot failed. How can I do now? Many many thanks. Yan Peng yanpeng at mx.cei.gov.cn 2005-10-30 From dcalhoun at blomand.net Sun Oct 30 15:46:27 2005 From: dcalhoun at blomand.net (Dennis Calhoun) Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:46:27 -0600 Subject: after remove RH9, the window OS can't boot In-Reply-To: <200510301359.j9UDx89q007963@mx1.redhat.com> References: <200510301359.j9UDx89q007963@mx1.redhat.com> Message-ID: On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:43:18 +0800, you wrote: >redhat-install-list: > > I have ever installed win2000 and RH9 on the same disk, of course in different partitions. The two OSs can all boot normally. > > However, yesterday I decided not to use RH9, so I booted win2000 OS, then formated the RH partions (including boot partion, RH root partion and swap partion) on Win2000. > > unfortunately, when I rebooted the computer, there was something wrong with grub , so win2000 boot failed. > > How can I do now? > > Many many thanks. > Hello Yan Peng, If you want to use only Windows 2000 on the computer, there is no need for GRUB. You can repair or replace the master boot record of Windows this way; Boot the computer from the CD or floppies that you installed Windows from, then enter Recovery Console. In Recovery Console, run Fixmbr. Then remove the CD and reboot. It should work, but if it does not, go into Recovery Console again and run Fixboot. More info on the Recovery COnsole in Win200 can be found at -- Dennis D. Calhoun CompTIA A+ and Network+, MCP (70-270 and 70-290) From celawrence at lbl.gov Mon Oct 31 18:14:21 2005 From: celawrence at lbl.gov (chuck lawrence) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:14:21 -0800 Subject: general install question Message-ID: <43665EFD.4050401@lbl.gov> greetings, this happens to me pretty regularly, and I don't really understand the process needed to resolve... a new pc arrives, with brand new components. the NIC and/or video card are especially new and fancy. my redhat install media doesn't know what to do about one or the other (or both), and so the e-z, gui-driven installation either fails to start (new video - no X), or can't reach my various network services, e.g. NFS, NIS, etc (new NIC - no networking). so far, I've either swapped components for known hardware, or waited. eventually rh catches up and next month's release may work with last month's hardware. presumably, the right thing to do is do a text-based load and then manually locate and install drivers, assuming they exist. is that correct? could someone post examples? advance -- * ------------------- * ----------------------------* | charles e. lawrence | lawrence berkeley nat'l lab | | celawrence at lbl.gov | #1 cyclotron rd ms 46-125 | | (510) 486-4682 | berkeley ca 94720 | * ------------------- * ----------------------------* "If the human body did patch management the way (companies do), we'd all be dead." www-eng.lbl.gov/~lawrence From tek_guy at rediffmail.com Mon Oct 31 18:55:01 2005 From: tek_guy at rediffmail.com (Tech Guy) Date: 31 Oct 2005 18:55:01 -0000 Subject: Upgrading RHAS 2.1 to RHEL 3.0 Message-ID: <20051031185501.3187.qmail@webmail7.rediffmail.com> ? Hello, I would like to know what is the best way of upgrading RHAS 2.1 to Red hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 I have a server running RHAS 2.1 with these filesystems with quite enough free disk space. / /boot /dev/shm /tmp /usr /var /home My concern is I have Websphere installed on /home (I guess there should be an option to preserver /home while upgrading) but it writes certain libraries in /usr/lib and /usr/local/ibm and so if I dont preserve /usr then I guess I am going to loose all these libs. Same case with /etc. If I don't preserve /etc then I need to copy some of the old files to etc. I cannot re-install websphere. It would be painful as it is in clustered env. What is the best way to upgrade to 3.0 without loosing my files and libs. Is there any pre-caution that I have to take. I appreciate your suggestions. Thanks, TG -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Oct 31 19:04:41 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:04:41 -0800 Subject: general install question In-Reply-To: <43665EFD.4050401@lbl.gov> References: <43665EFD.4050401@lbl.gov> Message-ID: <1130785482.16748.3.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 10:14 -0800, chuck lawrence wrote: > greetings, > > this happens to me pretty regularly, and I don't really understand the > process needed to resolve... > > a new pc arrives, with brand new components. the NIC and/or video card > are especially new and fancy. > > my redhat install media doesn't know what to do about one or the other > (or both), and so the e-z, gui-driven installation either fails to start > (new video - no X), or can't reach my various network services, e.g. > NFS, NIS, etc (new NIC - no networking). > > so far, I've either swapped components for known hardware, or waited. > eventually rh catches up and next month's release may work with last > month's hardware. > > presumably, the right thing to do is do a text-based load and then > manually locate and install drivers, assuming they exist. is that > correct? could someone post examples? Yes, a text install is the way around this. I'm willing to bet these new systems use nVidia hardware--especially their "nforce" stuff. They seem to change their specs like most people change underwear. You'll need to do a text install, then fetch their drivers and install them, then you can do a "system-config-display" and a "system-config-network". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I don't suffer from insanity...I enjoy every minute of it! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Oct 31 19:09:29 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:09:29 -0800 Subject: Upgrading RHAS 2.1 to RHEL 3.0 In-Reply-To: <20051031185501.3187.qmail@webmail7.rediffmail.com> References: <20051031185501.3187.qmail@webmail7.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <1130785770.16748.9.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 18:55 +0000, Tech Guy wrote: > > Hello, > > I would like to know what is the best way of upgrading RHAS 2.1 to Red > hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 > > I have a server running RHAS 2.1 with these filesystems with quite > enough free disk space. > / > /boot > /dev/shm > /tmp > /usr > /var > /home > > My concern is I have Websphere installed on /home (I guess there > should be an option to preserver /home while upgrading) but it writes > certain libraries in /usr/lib and /usr/local/ibm and so if I dont > preserve /usr then I guess I am going to loose all these libs. Same > case with /etc. If I don't preserve /etc then I need to copy some of > the old files to etc. > I cannot re-install websphere. It would be painful as it is in > clustered env. > > What is the best way to upgrade to 3.0 without loosing my files and > libs. Is there any pre-caution that I have to take. > > I appreciate your suggestions. So long as you do an update and DON'T let it wipe your partitions, you should be OK. However, that being said, make copies of your /usr/lib and /usr/local/ibm directories so you can recover any files that may get gronched. Also be aware that the Websphere stuff may be linked against specific library versions and may not work with newer libraries (e.g. Websphere wants libXm.so.6 and the upgrade installs libXm.so.7). You may get around that by doing a symlink, but I can't guarantee it. The normal upgrade caveats remain...back up EVERYTHING you think you might need before you even attempt the update. You should also check with IBM to make sure Websphere is compatible with AS3. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "I understand Windows 2000 has a Y2K problem." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Oct 31 19:11:22 2005 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:11:22 -0800 Subject: IPSEC in FC3 In-Reply-To: <000e01c5dcc6$e6a38a80$0200000a@faria> References: <002001c5dc82$c8a2d160$0200000a@faria> <4363B554.2070700@mtu.edu> <000e01c5dcc6$e6a38a80$0200000a@faria> Message-ID: <1130785882.16748.12.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 18:25 -0200, Rodrigo Faria Tavares wrote: > Hello, > > I put the t, in the domain zone, but the message continue. > Opportunistic Encryption DNS checks: Looking for TXT in forward dns zone: > faria.home.net[MISSING] Did you restart bind when you edited the file? Zone files are only read when bind starts up. > It?s necessary for vpn run ? Yes, it has to resolve your domain and it can't. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - This message printed using recycled bandwidth - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From s.mokhtari at menara.ma Mon Oct 31 22:04:06 2005 From: s.mokhtari at menara.ma (Said MOKHTARI) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:04:06 +0000 Subject: Upgrading RHAS 2.1 to RHEL 3.0 In-Reply-To: <20051031185501.3187.qmail@webmail7.rediffmail.com> References: <20051031185501.3187.qmail@webmail7.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <436694D6.7010609@menara.ma> Make a full backup of the system make a backup of /home, /usr/local/ibm, /etc/passwd, shadow sysctl.conf, and so install RHL 3 (if possible preserving your initial partition and out formating /usr and /home) apply the requirement of webspher on RHL3 test the new install Tech Guy wrote: > > Hello, > > I would like to know what is the best way of upgrading RHAS 2.1 to Red > hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 > > I have a server running RHAS 2.1 with these filesystems with quite > enough free disk space. > / > /boot > /dev/shm > /tmp > /usr > /var > /home > > My concern is I have Websphere installed on /home (I guess there > should be an option to preserver /home while upgrading) but it writes > certain libraries in /usr/lib and /usr/local/ibm and so if I dont > preserve /usr then I guess I am going to loose all these libs. Same > case with /etc. If I don't preserve /etc then I need to copy some of > the old files to etc. > I cannot re-install websphere. It would be painful as it is in > clustered env. > > What is the best way to upgrade to 3.0 without loosing my files and > libs. Is there any pre-caution that I have to take. > > I appreciate your suggestions. > > Thanks, > TG > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-install-list mailing list >Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >Subject: unsubscribe > From brad.mugleston at comcast.net Mon Oct 31 23:31:43 2005 From: brad.mugleston at comcast.net (brad.mugleston at comcast.net) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:31:43 -0700 (MST) Subject: Setup window Message-ID: Just got home from vacation - took a lot of pictures with my digital camera. Transfered all the jpg's to some CD's and to my hard drive. If I put the CD into the cd-drive the window opens up and displays thumbnails of all the photos - very nice. If I open up the drive with the photos on it all I get is Icon's. How do I change the settings so I get thumbnails like when I put the CD in? Thanks, Brad Mugleston, KI0OT There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary and those that don't.