Grub/kernel install problem

2003-02-01 Thread Jim Christiansen
Hello Charles, Thank you for the post. I followed your instructions: copy the .configure back from /root to the top of the source tree make xconfig #(sometimes I use make oldconfig) make dep make clean #(did you forget this by chance?) make bzImage make modules make modules_install make i

system clock

2003-02-01 Thread James Bunnell
Hello, The clock on the desktop, when i right click on adjust date and time and/or click on date and time in system settings, it prompts me for a root password and then nothing happens. The time zone is way advanced and i cannot seem to change it. any ideas? The error returned below: redhat-co

Load balancing

2003-02-01 Thread Jeffrey J. Karrels
Hello I was wondering what the best way to load balance two nics in redhat 8.0? Thanks in advance. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: User groups

2003-02-01 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 13:10, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 11:53 02 Feb 2003, Dennis Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It would be nice to not > | > have to remember to hack your umask when switching to/from group work -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/m

Re: User groups

2003-02-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 11:53 02 Feb 2003, Dennis Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > The advantage of the per-user matching group is that it makes group | > collaboration very easy. When you work with others, sharing files, you | > often have a shared area (the "project" directory at my workplace) where | > the

Re: E-mail anti-virus scanner

2003-02-01 Thread Gerry Doris
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 19:14, Mike Watson wrote: > Anyone know of a good smtp e-mail antivirus scanner that doesn't cost an > arm and a leg? I have F-Prot loaded and that's ok as a filesystem > scanner, but I need something to scan e-mails and I don't like the > milter approach. I've tried amavi

Re: User groups

2003-02-01 Thread Dennis Gilmore
> The advantage of the per-user matching group is that it makes group > collaboration very easy. When you work with others, sharing files, you > often have a shared area (the "project" directory at my workplace) where > the files are group owned by a group for the project and the setgid bit > is o

Re: iptables strangeness

2003-02-01 Thread Tommy McNeely
thats because of the format of /etc/sysconfig/iptables is not a script.. it is the format generated by iptables-save.. make the top part (the *nat) section of /etc/sysconfig/iptables look similar to the following to make it work "properly" :) *nat :PREROUTING ACCEPT [0:0] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0

Re: simple grep command....

2003-02-01 Thread Dennis Gilmore
locate "string" as long as the cron job has been run since the file was created. if not /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron as root first Dennis On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 02:11, Bruce Douglas wrote: > hi.. > > A simple question... trying to do a search for a string in a file... i don't > know where on my

grubby ...

2003-02-01 Thread Jim Christiansen
Hello, I just looked at my last two messages about asking for help with getting my new 2.4.20 kernel going using grub, and both messages are clipped/incomplete. So, there is very little of value in them... sorry about the mess and missing info. I'll just keep trying for a bit before I litter

Re: grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template

2003-02-01 Thread Charles
Jim Christiansen wrote: Hello, I keep geeting the error - "grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template" This is for the stock 2.4.20 kernel. Everything goes well at make xconfig, make dep, make bzImage, and make modules. After issuing make modules install I get: Hmm. Perhaps you

E-mail anti-virus scanner

2003-02-01 Thread Mike Watson
Anyone know of a good smtp e-mail antivirus scanner that doesn't cost an arm and a leg? I have F-Prot loaded and that's ok as a filesystem scanner, but I need something to scan e-mails and I don't like the milter approach. I've tried amavisd and can't get it to work---it always aborts in error

Re: iptables strangeness

2003-02-01 Thread Justin Clacherty
I had a similar problem a year or two ago. It's a bit hazy but from what I remember the iptables script wouldn't run if put in /etc/sysconfig/iptables, I actually had to run it separately after networking had been brought up (ran from rc.local I think). All I could put it down to was that as the

Re: iptables strangeness

2003-02-01 Thread Charles A. Crayne
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 21:33:06 +0100 Michael Schwendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :I don't have a stock Psyche machine for testing here, but I cannot :reproduce anything like that with Valhalla or updated Phoebe 8.0.93 :or Psyche's iptables-1.2.6a-3 package installed on Phoebe. Thank you for your tim

kernel dcache BUG (eepro100)

2003-02-01 Thread Nadeem Bitar
My system is freezing requiring a hard reboot on high network traffic, examining the log i see a kernel BUG but i suspect the network cards. Has anyone had any problem with the eepro100 module? This is from my log Jan 22 21:26:33 omoikane kernel: kernel BUG at dcache.c:362! Jan 22 21:26:33 omoika

Re: User groups

2003-02-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 15:13 01 Feb 2003, Listman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | When I create a new user, by default the user belongs to a group of the same | name. Why is this? It seems to me that having a group for every single | user is overkill. Id like to have all users belong to a 'users' group and | then more

Re: User groups

2003-02-01 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Listman wrote: > When I create a new user, by default the user belongs to a group of the same > name. Why is this? It seems to me that having a group for every single > user is overkill. Id like to have all users belong to a 'users' group and > then more priviledged users be

Re: Turn off port 6000 or x11

2003-02-01 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:28:07PM -0800, glarm wrote: > I cant seem to find out how to turn off port 6000 or X11 listening > for connects. Anyone have a command or a place to add -nolistentcp ? > I did it before on Redhat7.2 but It has since changed. Any help > would be great. I tried iptables tr

Re: Turn off port 6000 or x11

2003-02-01 Thread Tony Nugent
On Sat Feb 01 2003 at 13:28, glarm wrote: > I cant seem to find out how to turn off port 6000 or X11 listening for > connects. Anyone have a command or a place to add -nolistentcp ? I did it > before on Redhat7.2 but It has since changed. Any help would be great. I > tried iptables trick and it di

Firewire CD-RW assistance

2003-02-01 Thread Joe Klemmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have an external CD-RW that I had originally intended for my iMac (OS X 10.2.x). It worked fine as a CD but no RW. So I plugged it into my Psyche laptop. This is what syslog reports - ohci1394: $Revision: 1.101 $ Ben Collins <[EMAIL PR

RE: User groups

2003-02-01 Thread Listman
Thanks Jay I actually did delete the 'mike' group and assigned the groups users and cvsusers to mike. Fortunately Im the only user now so its not a big deal if I have to su to root to change ownership of my own files. In the future Ill follow your advice. Thanks again for the reassurance. Mik

Re: ssh_packet_wraper_input: invalid

2003-02-01 Thread Nalin Dahyabhai
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:32:50AM -0500, Brian York wrote: > Why do i get this? > > [yorkb@mordor bin]$ sftp 10.20.13.95 > ... > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > Warning: ssh_packet_wrapper_input: invalid packet received: len > 1181903140 closing the offending input channel. You'll get this err

Re: User groups

2003-02-01 Thread Jay Crews
Listman writes > > When I create a new user, by default the user belongs to a group of the same > name. Why is this? It seems to me that having a group for every single It's for securty, and yes it probably is a little overkill. > user is overkill. Id like to have all users belong to a 'u

Turn off port 6000 or x11

2003-02-01 Thread glarm
Hello, I cant seem to find out how to turn off port 6000 or X11 listening for connects. Anyone have a command or a place to add -nolistentcp ? I did it before on Redhat7.2 but It has since changed. Any help would be great. I tried iptables trick and it didnt work either. Thanks Dylon -- Psyc

grubby kernel prob continued

2003-02-01 Thread Jim Christiansen
Hello, I have tried to start my box with the new kernel and all I get is a blank black screen. I have checked the /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/ directory and the reference in grub to initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20.img doesn't exist... I suppose this is why the box halts after grub ... duh This i

Re: Can't Ping

2003-02-01 Thread Cliff Kent
>> The target host may have a firewall rule that forbids replying to echo requests. << That was my first thought too. I have a server that does not reply to echo requests. So, I tried to ping it. But, I did not get a "host unreachable" error. Ping just sat waiting for a reply that never came.

User groups

2003-02-01 Thread Listman
When I create a new user, by default the user belongs to a group of the same name. Why is this? It seems to me that having a group for every single user is overkill. Id like to have all users belong to a 'users' group and then more priviledged users belong to an 'admin type group'. My question

grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template

2003-02-01 Thread Jim Christiansen
Hello, I keep geeting the error - "grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template" This is for the stock 2.4.20 kernel. Everything goes well at make xconfig, make dep, make bzImage, and make modules. After issuing make modules install I get: -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTEC

gcc version errors with insmod

2003-02-01 Thread Jedidiah Thomet
Hi all, I'm trying to compile the drivers for an Orinoco wireless card. I can build the drivers without a problem and I get no compile or build errors. But, when I plug the card in, I get these messages in the messages log: cardmgr[1506]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-19.8.0/pcm

Re: cvs setup...

2003-02-01 Thread Arend
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Bruce Douglas wrote: > hi... > > I have a CVS repository on a machine within my network I cna more or > less connect with it while I'm logged in by "#cvs co CVSROOT/config. > > I have it setup to use SSH. Within the /etc/profile, I have: > CVSROOT=:etc:[EMAIL P

Re: iptables strangeness

2003-02-01 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 11:53:33 -0800, Charles A. Crayne wrote: > :If the file /lib/iptables/libipt_MASQUERADE.so is not missing and > :the same rule is accepted on the command-line, find out a > :reproducible test-case. > > My test case is 100% reproduc

Re: iptables strangeness

2003-02-01 Thread Charles A. Crayne
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 16:01:19 +0100 Michael Schwendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :If the file /lib/iptables/libipt_MASQUERADE.so is not missing and :the same rule is accepted on the command-line, find out a :reproducible test-case. My test case is 100% reproducible. :Try shortening your script as m

Re: kickstart +lvm

2003-02-01 Thread Jesse Keating
On Saturday 01 February 2003 10:29, Jesse Keating uttered: > Basically ks dies with a python traceback ending in something like "Unable > to create vg lvm" > > Has anybody been able to successfuly create LVM groups like this in a > kickstart install? I'd like to know before I trod off to bugzilla

kickstart +lvm

2003-02-01 Thread Jesse Keating
I'm seeing a weird issue where kickstart will die if I try to create some LVM volumes to install do. Here is the relevant part of my ksconfig: clearpart --all --initlabel part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 100 --ondisk sda part / --fstype ext3 --size 1500 --ondisk sda --grow part swap --size 512 --

Re: simple grep command....

2003-02-01 Thread Peter Larsen
Bruce Douglas wrote: > A simple question... trying to do a search for a string in a file... > i don't know where on my harddrive the file is, nor do i know the > name!! thought the command should be something like: > #grep -F -r "string" / Searching for strings is probably best done through "strin

Re: simple grep command....

2003-02-01 Thread Tony Nugent
On Sat Feb 01 2003 at 08:11, "Bruce Douglas" wrote: > A simple question... trying to do a search for a string in a file... i don't > know where on my harddrive the file is, nor do i know the name!! thought the > command should be something like: > #grep -F -r "string" / > > Obviously, it di

simple grep command....

2003-02-01 Thread Bruce Douglas
hi.. A simple question... trying to do a search for a string in a file... i don't know where on my harddrive the file is, nor do i know the name!! thought the command should be something like: #grep -F -r "string" / Obviously, it didn't work. In looking at the man page/examples on the net

simple grep command....

2003-02-01 Thread Bruce Douglas
hi.. A simple question... trying to do a search for a string in a file... i don't know where on my harddrive the file is, nor do i know the name!! thought the command should be something like: #grep -F -r "string" / Obviously, it didn't work. In looking at the man page/examples on the net

Re: init order

2003-02-01 Thread Tony Nugent
On Sat Feb 01 2003 at 00:06, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Friday 31 January 2003 22:46, Tony Nugent uttered: > > # for s in $(chkconfig --list | grep 3:on | cut -d\ -f1) ; do chkconfig > > --level 5 $s on ; done > > > > Oh, on second thought, this might be needed first to ensure that anything > > no

Re: iptables strangeness

2003-02-01 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:11:14 -0800, jdow wrote: > > In building a script for my iptables commands, I find that if I > > enter the command: > > > > iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/24 -o ppp+ -j > > MASQUERADE > > > > from a command prom

Re: Problem with koffice on psyche

2003-02-01 Thread John H. Ingersoll, Jr.
FWIW, I get this "Mutex destroy failure" message all the time in KDE under 8.0. However, it doesn't appear to have any adverse effects on whatever application may have triggered the message. Like you, I also first noticed this in 8.0-Psyche. This is a non-technical response just to say others

Re: problem with rebuilding the samba rpm from the source rpm

2003-02-01 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 February 2003 09:23 am, Rishi Gangoly wrote: > > checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files > /var/tmp/samba-2.2.7-root > > error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:

Upgrading RH80 gtk2

2003-02-01 Thread Neil Hodge
All: Does anyone here know if there exist some upgrade rpms for gtk2 (to version 2.2) that are NOT rawhide? If I use the rawhide rpms, it appears that I will have to upgrade everything, due to all of the dependencies. Thanks. Neil -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listm

problem with rebuilding the samba rpm from the source rpm

2003-02-01 Thread Rishi Gangoly
Hi I have a problem with rebuilding the samba rpm from the source rpm. I downloaded and installed the latest source rpm: samba-2.2.7-2.src.rpm [SPECS]# rpmbuild -ba samba.spec after one hour of compiling I get the following: checking for unpackag

Slight annoyance with Ximian Evo. / Inet security

2003-02-01 Thread John H. Ingersoll, Jr.
Text File Hi :^> First of all, I _am_ successfully sending and receiving mail in Evolution for my Verizon POP3 account. However, have one slight problem: 1) In my primary user login, I originally put in the wrong name for the SMTP host. So I couldn't send mail. After correcting this, it still

Re: cvs setup... WebDAV?

2003-02-01 Thread Gregory L. Hering
I just wanted to know if anyone had experience with the Apache 'mod_dav' or 'mod_dav_svn' (Subversion) web distributed authoring and versioning protocols on RedHat 8? I know from reading the 'webDAV.org' page that is's been around for a while, but what about the clients like: DAV Explorer (www

Re: Password change script

2003-02-01 Thread Frank Nørvig
Hello Brian,   We use SSH to do the trick. We haven't had the time to look into NIS yet so we made some small perl-scripts to use with Samba and passwd (our clients are running Windows).   With SSH you can do the following: SSH your_server '/usr/bin/passwd username'   I know this isn't the m

Re: Password change script

2003-02-01 Thread Michael Kuss
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Brian York wrote: > Does anyone have or know of a script/program (preferably perl) that > could be configured to change a users password on all linux machines on > a network. I know a nis server would be better but we don't have enough > linux machines yet to require one (o

Re: intel pro wireless 802.11b on psyche

2003-02-01 Thread Michael Kuss
Hi guys, success. A ton of thanks to Andrew Choong. He sent me of-list following email (I don't attach the tar). On 30 Jan 2003, Andrew Mark Tze Liang Choong wrote: > > -Forwarded Message- > > From: Andrew Mark Tze Liang Choong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAI

Re: User Mode Linux, UML

2003-02-01 Thread M A Young
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Greg Morgan wrote: > ... > > I am looking for more on how Red Hat has designed their implementation > of UML. One thing I find interesting is that they offer UML on just > i686 class machines. I don't think they have designed much, at least not publically anyway, merely b

Re: usb adsl modems

2003-02-01 Thread Jean Francois Martinez
Le sam 01/02/2003 à 10:14, leeweiqi a écrit : > Hi all, I have the following modem: > http://www.broadxent.com/products/7420.asp > > Is there any hope at all for it to be used under Linux? If not, which USB ADSL modem >brand/model is best supported under Linux? Please refer me to some online reso

usb adsl modems

2003-02-01 Thread leeweiqi
Hi all, I have the following modem: http://www.broadxent.com/products/7420.asp Is there any hope at all for it to be used under Linux? If not, which USB ADSL modem brand/model is best supported under Linux? Please refer me to some online resources for help! Thanks. -- Psyche-list mailing lis

Re: init order

2003-02-01 Thread Norman Gaywood
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:06:48AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Friday 31 January 2003 22:46, Tony Nugent uttered: > > # for s in $(chkconfig --list | grep 3:on | cut -d\ -f1) ; do chkconfig > > --level 5 $s on ; done > > > > Oh, on second thought, this might be needed first to ensure that any

Re: init order

2003-02-01 Thread Jesse Keating
On Friday 31 January 2003 22:46, Tony Nugent uttered: > # for s in $(chkconfig --list | grep 3:on | cut -d\ -f1) ; do chkconfig > --level 5 $s on ; done > > Oh, on second thought, this might be needed first to ensure that anything > not set to start at runlevel 3 is also not started at runlevel 5.