Re: cdrecord how to's for data disks?

2003-10-07 Thread Randy Kelsoe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can anyone suggest some good how to documents or a manual for using cdrecord in red hat 8? Either web based or a book or pdf? I can man cdrecord but was hoping for more detailed info on cdrecord with some step by step guides as to how to burn data disks. Thanks for a

Re: Trouble mounting a CD Rom Drive

2003-10-06 Thread Randy Kelsoe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Was having trouble today mounting a CD rom drive in a RH 8 2.4 box today. I put in a blank CD-R and tried several commands such as ‘mount /dev/cdrom’ and mount /mnt/cdrom and either got cdrom not found errors or can’t find media errors. Is this a CD-ROM or a CD-R/RW?

Re: Error on running tar -zxvf /dev/st0

2003-09-15 Thread Randy Kelsoe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Randy, I took your advice, ran the below and got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# ls st0* st0 st0a st0l st0m [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# tar tvf /dev/st0m tar: /dev/st0m: Cannot read: No such device or address tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now tar

Re: Error on running tar -zxvf /dev/st0

2003-09-13 Thread Randy Kelsoe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I tried the command and got - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# tar tvf /dev/st0 tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Cannot allocate memory tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# What OS was used to create the tape? A

Re: Error on running tar -zxvf /dev/st0

2003-09-13 Thread Randy Kelsoe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I got the below error message on doing a "tar -zxvf /dev/st0", ran it to check status of files, file sizes, directory structure that's backed up on SCSI tape drive. Any idea what the problem is? Thanks for any ideas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# tar -zxvf /dev/st0 tar (ch

Re: Tape Backup device not found error when using mt

2003-09-12 Thread Randy Kelsoe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for Info Randy, This is what I found - [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# grep -i aic /var//log/messages sorry for the typo that should have been: grep -i aic /var/log/messages (no double slash between var and log) :-( [EMAIL PROTECTED] r

Re: Tape Backup device not found error when using mt

2003-09-12 Thread Randy Kelsoe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this a new scsi card? Have you checked for proper termination of the scsi bus? When you installed the DLT, did kudzu recognize it and ask you if you wanted to configure it? I got... st 31628 0 (autoclean) (unused) scsi_mod 10757

Re: Tape Backup device not found error when using mt

2003-09-11 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Martinez, Michael wrote: Do I need to set up mt to find, recognize or scan the drive first? How would I do that, man mt is pretty cryptic. Thanks. mt -f /dev/st0 rewind dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/st0 bs=1048576 You need to have the st module loaded. Try an lsmod |grep st Is this a new scsi car

Re: how to tell what's using memory?

2003-08-18 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Michael Martinez wrote: Excellent. This does, in fact, appear to be how it's working. I rebooted the machine, without starting the oc4j application and took note of the memory usage numbers. then I started oc4j and took note of the change in the numbers. Then, I stopped the app and looked at the

Re: onboard NIC not recognized on install by Psyche

2003-07-20 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Jack Bowling wrote: Have a curious problem. I have been messing around with a future DMZ box and have found that RH8 refuses to recognize the onboard NIC. Slackware 9 sees it perfectly as a SiS900 based card. Neither kudzu nor a manual attempt will bring it to life. I have tried the usual turning

Re: RH8 on HP Evo D530

2003-07-17 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Stephen Mah wrote: Hello, Has anyone tried installing Redhat 8 on an HP Evo D530? I want to find out if there are any problems with video, nic, sound, and other devices. thanks http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listi

Re: installation failed

2003-07-17 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Iacob Laura wrote: I'm trying to instal linux 8.0 on my notebook Compaq Evo 1015v but it just doesn't work.The installation begins but on the first step the system freezes and i get the message that there is no CD in the DVD-ROM. Have any idea what is the problem? Thanx! You might try going to

Re: newbie

2003-06-26 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Callan K L Tham wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 26 June 2003 01:31, Craig White wrote: I don't recall ever reading about any order of things. Looks like we're running into a problem here. The original thread, titled simply "Hi" was posted by Adrian starte

Re: Display and hard lock problems

2003-06-21 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Tom Diehl wrote: Since upgrading to the 2.4.20-18.8 kernel I am experiencing a lock up of the display and keyboard when the screen saver comes on (only the one that describes how to compile a kernel but looks like the intro to a star wars movie) It has happened every time that screen saver comes o

Re: [OT] Get to bios... on a P4

2003-06-01 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Harry Putnam wrote: Anyone that can share a nifty clue for getting to the bios on a 2g+ P4? It boots so fast I never see a chance to press anthing. I tried holding down ESC or pressing it repeatedly as bootup happens. Also tried holding downn or pressing repeatedly DEL. It still gets to lilo...

Re: FTP server setup

2003-02-17 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Dimitri Deserranno wrote: Hi, could someone describe how to correctly setup FTP server for local LAN access? I must be doing something wrong since I get "connection refused" when trying to connect via WS_FTP, passive mode. Do you mean wu-ftp? I am assuming you have installed the wu-ftpd pack

Re: Redhat 8.0 and 2Gb RAM

2003-02-17 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Dimitri Deserranno wrote: Hi Randy and Doug, does the bigmem kernel also work with dual processors? Note that memory is recognized by the kernel, however, machine runs unstable. I currently have smp kernel installed. I just went to the archives and read these threads, and I have some more i

Re: Redhat 8.0 and 2Gb RAM

2003-02-17 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Dimitri Deserranno wrote: Hi Randy and Doug, does the bigmem kernel also work with dual processors? Note that memory is recognized by the kernel, however, machine runs unstable. I currently have smp kernel installed. Thanks, Dimi. Yes, it has smp support, but it's setup for the Intel i686 P

Re: Redhat 8.0 and 2Gb RAM

2003-02-17 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Dimitri Deserranno wrote: That sounds just like me. I guess there is nothing else to do besides working with less than 2Gb, right? Any experiences with 1.5Gb? Are your stable systems also dual Athlons? What system would you recommend for 2Gb RAM? Thanks, Dimi. At 01:39 PM 2/16/2003 -0600, y

Re: Sendmail config

2003-01-30 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Brian Johnson wrote: Maybe I need a simpler explanation: Computer A is main mail server Computer B is computer I want to forward from (to Computer A) - mainly system email Computer C is another computer on the LAN with computer A (behind the firewall) Computer D is totally unrelated to email scen

Re: dump failing at EOT

2003-01-29 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Jeffrey Ross wrote: Simply put, I'm using an Exabyte 8505XL tape drive and dump fails upon reaching the EOT. Some system background... Kernel 2.4.20-ac2 IDE Hard disk and IDE CDRom There was a posting by Linux himself, saying NOT to use dump with the 2.4 kernel, because it would at some poin

Re: sendmail question...

2003-01-26 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Bruce Douglas wrote: hi... Can anyone tell me how to stop sendmail from continually attempting to send a message over and over that it can't deliver. The mail for root keeps getting filled up with the same undelivered email message!!! I'm pretty sure it's a simple command.. I can't seem to find

Re: Swat not working :(

2003-01-23 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Buck wrote: I may not have SWAT installed. I did not have a file /etc/xinetd.d/swat. I created one and added the line "disabled = no" and closed it. I executed the command: /etc/initd.d/xinetd.d restart. I get a message from bash saying "No such file or directory". When I enter "localhost:90

Re: RPM stops responding

2003-01-21 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Brian Curtis wrote: Hello Randy, Is this a recommendation based on experience(s)? Thanks again. Yes. I have 3 machines running 8.0, and have seen this problem several times on two machines, but NEVER on one machine. The 2 machines that had the problem are both K6-2 500 machines. After upgr

Re: RPM stops responding

2003-01-21 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Brian Curtis wrote: Hello, After trying to # rpm -e mysqlclient9-3.23.22-6 I ended up having to kill -9 the process after 15 minutes since it seemed to stop responding. Now every time I try any rpm query/update/delete, the process goes into sleep mode and has to be terminated with a kill -9.

Re: (OT) Email and printing

2003-01-20 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Lester Bauman wrote: Sigh. All this would have taken me a half hour to set up in Windows... I know this doesn't help with your problem, but I just bought an HP Deskjet 6122 and connected it to my Linksys Printserver. I had it up and running in less than 5 minutes on each of my linux boxes usi

Re: hostname

2003-01-20 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Steve Sykes wrote: Thanks, now at boot they show the correct hostname, but the ip address still doesn't agree with what is set in the hosts file on the dhcp server. I restarted the network so it should have picked up the correct ip shouldn't it? Steve Not unless you configure your dhcp server

Re: Problem when mounting a cdrom drive on a Philips 4x4x32 Model No:CDD4401/71

2003-01-17 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Banjo Donila wrote: I switched the cd-rw on primary slave status and it worked fine! Great work! anyways, at this moment I want to know the reason behind all of this mess so in the future I would be able to troubleshoot even more possible problems and be able to explain it further more thanks!

Re: hostname

2003-01-17 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Steve Sykes wrote: This is a very stupid question, I have read the man page, but it doesn't seem to agree with what I am seeing. Where is hostname set? I have my net setup for dhcp, the server/gateway(windows) has the hosts file but the ip addresses and names don't agree with it. I even tried shu

Re: Problem when mounting a cdrom drive on a Philips 4x4x32 Model No:CDD4401/71

2003-01-17 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Banjo Donila wrote: I'm having problems when mounting on this cd-rw. Well the installation went very good but after installation and mounting a cdrom it locks up and produces this messages and totally locks up my box. It has the latest kernel version (redhat kernel) so here's the interesting /var

Re: Tripwire

2003-01-15 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Michael Fratoni wrote: I do not understand what to do?? I have looked at the man pages and I am still confused. Please explain further. The above method will update the database for changed files (violations) only. To the best of my knowledge, it is not possible to deal with the file system

Re: Terminal Emulation software

2003-01-07 Thread Randy Kelsoe
David Delcourt wrote: Hi, I have RH8.0 and I am trying to find a Terminal Emulation package that is compatible. I was told an earlier version of RH had a utility called "cu", but I can't find any mention of this... open to ideas, thanks! cu used to be part of the uucp package. I don't have it

Re: DNS questions (fixed)

2003-01-03 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Thanks to all for the replies. The problem WAS my sendmail config. In the Cw line in sendmail.mc, I had the FQDN of my mailserver, but not the domainname by itself. I added the domainname to the Cw line, and all is working fine. Thanks for the help. rk -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL P

Re: DNS questions

2003-01-03 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Tom Diehl wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Randy Kelsoe wrote: Recipient address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reason: Remote SMTP server has rejected address Diagnostic code: smtp;550 5.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying

Re: DNS questions

2003-01-03 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Kevin McConnell wrote: --- Jesse Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sendmail on Red Hat doesn't listen to anything but localhost by default. You have to configure it to allow certian IP addresses to relay. Please consult the release notes, and sendmail documentation. to get around this you

Re: DNS questions

2003-01-03 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Kevin McConnell wrote: also what is in the class w variable ? grep -i Cw sendmail.cf # $Id: use_cw_file.m4,v 8.11 2001/08/26 20:58:57 gshapiro Exp $ # Cwlocalhost.localdomain Cwlocalhost -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ps

Re: DNS questions

2003-01-03 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Kevin McConnell wrote: --- Randy Kelsoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey, all I am trying to setup a mailserver on a new internet connection. The domain has been registered, and I have a static IP. If I try and send mail to the new domain, the mail bounces, and I get a messag

Re: Evolution Won't Start -- Missing Config DB

2003-01-03 Thread Randy Kelsoe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a followup, I tried starting evolution from a terminal. In addition to the GUI error message I described in my prior message, I got the following message in the terminal: evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase on wombat: (IDL:OAF/GeneralErro

DNS questions

2003-01-03 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Hey, all I am trying to setup a mailserver on a new internet connection. The domain has been registered, and I have a static IP. If I try and send mail to the new domain, the mail bounces, and I get a message like: Recipient address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reason: Remote SMTP server has rejected

Re: install requirements for 8.0

2002-11-29 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Graeme Jensen wrote: (B (B>I have been using 7.2 for some time without any problems. The install and (B>running were basically stress free. However, trying to install 8.0 has not (B>been so successful. At various points during the install the installation (B>stops with a message saying that

Re: Seeing who is logged in through ftp and ssh

2002-11-26 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Ed Wilts wrote: It's also interesting to note that by default, wu-ftpd will log the security violation attempt but sftp won't. You can make as many attempts to hunt around and see what files you are allowed to transfer, and in fact transfer everything, and the sysadmin will never know what you'v

Re: Shell Scripting Question.

2002-11-26 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Dan de Haan wrote: I have a simple shell script that runs from cron and makes a backup of some filed to another PC via NFS. I want to have it automatically delete old backups form the NFS server. How would I do that, is there a delete files older then N days command? -Dan /usr/bin/find . -a

Re: Seeing who is logged in through ftp and ssh

2002-11-26 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Justin Zygmont wrote: If you have root jailed users by configuring the ftpaccess file, but have ssh installed, all they have to do is sftp in and go wherever they want. It's a relief to know that at least they can't grab the shadow file too. I just found a quck way to disable this however, i

Re: Seeing who is logged in through ftp and ssh

2002-11-26 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Pavel Rozenboim wrote: Actually, I just successfully ftpd as root and fetched /etc/shadow with sftp. Well, you cheated. :) Try that again as a non-root user. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Seeing who is logged in through ftp and ssh

2002-11-26 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Ed Wilts wrote: In many cases, ftp is *more* secure than sftp. With ftp, you have a lot of control over who can do what through the ftpaccess file (in wu-ftpd). With sftp, it's a free-for-all. In very practical terms, the odds of anybody being able to sniff passwords these days is very slim. T

Re: Seeing who is logged in through ftp and ssh

2002-11-25 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Joshua Melbourne White wrote: I am extremely new to Linux and I am finally learning the power you can have with Linux. I have SSH and FTP services running and I can log in and whatever remotely which is awesome. However, how can I see who is currently logged into my system? Is there any GUI pr

Re: Walk thru for cups

2002-11-25 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Harry Putnam wrote: Cups has quite a lot of documentation but it isn't organized in a hands on HOWTO sort of way. I'm having trouble with the basics. Is there a walk thru for setting up cups on Redhat or at least on linux? http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-g

Re: Walk thru for cups

2002-11-24 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Harry Putnam wrote: Cups has quite a lot of documentation but it isn't organized in a hands on HOWTO sort of way. I'm having trouble with the basics. Is there a walk thru for setting up cups on Redhat or at least on linux? http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/s

Re: Sayonara (Was - Re: Dist. Suggestions)

2002-11-23 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Mike A. Harris wrote: You remind me of that one random annoying person on our mailing lists each release, that makes me sick enough to not want to help people on our lists any more, as I'm not paid to do so, and I no longer enjoy the experience. So on that note, I bid the mailing list goodbye.

Re: problems with upgrading kernels

2002-11-22 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Joe Klemmer wrote: GRUB is quite nice. I find that, in the long run, it's more convenient than LILO. But you shouldn't be having problems if you stayed with LILO, though. 2. I haven't seen any solution to my other problem with not being able to install kernel-source-2.4.18-18.8.0 on a sy

Re: Problems with NE2000 ISA Card

2002-11-21 Thread Randy Kelsoe
David Mascot wrote: I recently installed Red Hat 8, for the first time, onto an old Dell Demension. I can't get the NE 2000 ISA Ethernet card initialized. I don't have any drivers for this card, but I do have a dos program on a floppy that allows me to configure the card to any I/O address and

Re: kernel-source-2.4.18-18.0.i386.rpm

2002-11-21 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Margaret_Doll wrote: I have installed kernel-2.4.18-18.0.i686 on a system with a NVIDIA card. I have also tried to install kernel-source-2.4.18-18.0.i386 on the system, so that I can build the NVIDIA driver.I get error: kernel-source-2.4.18-18.0.i386.rpm cannot be installed I get the

Re: internet connection

2002-11-20 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Robert Savage wrote: Eric, Looks like there's a GATEWAY= line missing in your DHCP server's /etc/dhcpd.conf file. You can add a default gateway manually as root: # route add default gw but you'll have to do this every time you reboot or toggle your ethernet interface down and up. PITB. --

Re: internet connection

2002-11-20 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Eric Potvin wrote: [root@The_Klingon_Empire etc]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0

Re: internet connection

2002-11-20 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Eric Potvin wrote: Hello all, This should be a simple problem. I use a Linksys Router to connect to the internet. The router is the DHCP for it's little network. The DHCP works because I see the Linux box eth0 card's MAC address in the router DHCP table. And the Linux box has the ip assigned to

Re: EXT3 errors -- is this drive dying?

2002-11-19 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Patrick wrote: If your disk supports S.M.A.R.T get smarttools. Check freshmeat.net for its whereabouts. With smarttools you should be able to get a detailed report on what is going on with the life expectancy of your disk. Cheers, Patrick It's called smartmontools and you can get it at: http

Re: Video Card recommendation

2002-11-19 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Nadim Bitar wrote: I just ordered the ATI Radeon 7500 powered by ATI. Thanks for everyone who gave their input I hope you mean "Built by ATI". As Mike Harris pointed out, the "Built by ATI" card is fully supported, whereas the "powered by ATI" cards are OEM cards with ATI chips and may work,

Re: netscape 7 AIM

2002-11-16 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Josh White wrote: Does anyone know how to get the integrated AIM to upload files? It uploads on 30k and then stops. Thanks Joshua Melbourne White Treasurer Eta Kappa Nu, Beta Eta Chapter North Carolina State University Electrical and Computer Engine

Re: Sis900 still not working.

2002-11-07 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Dan Clowater wrote: Hey Chris - I have a SIS900 onboard NIC and its working great - 7.3 and 8.0 seemed to find it and operate it AOK. Have you tried the NIC in windows or some other OS? The NIC may be faulty and it may not be a config issue... could mean you need a new MOBO - or use a secondary

Re: Partitioning trouble

2002-11-06 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Alberto M. R. Davila wrote: Thanks Randy, Another problem is that my network card is not being recognized (SIS 930) .. I have to activate it everytime I boot the computer... could it be a problem with my 3COM card that is also present in the machine ? Look under the directory : /etc/sysc

Re: Partitioning trouble

2002-11-05 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Alberto M. R. Davila wrote: Hello there ! I am new to Linux, so please be patient with me... I installed Psyche in a P3 machine (asus motherboard) and 40GB Maxtor HD... it is a dual boot system with Windows 98... it installed good except the partitions, the diskdruid made the /boot /root and

Re: local-printer-connection lost ...

2002-11-03 Thread Randy Kelsoe
hans schneidhofer wrote: hi, got a little bad problem with my printer : after a reboot I have forgot to switch on my local-connected printer and kudzu tells me that I didn't have a local printer anymore. But I h've NOT read it and was hitting the return-key a liitle too fast, so kudzu deleted

Re: New HD Revised!?!

2002-10-31 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Dan Clowater wrote: On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 22:33, Mike Chambers wrote: Yepp - thanks Mike! :) Indeed I am talking about the Redhat 8.0 distribution. I am trying to format/mount a newly acquired 6GB drive. That's why I am asking here. I am not having hardware problems - the hard drive works. I

Re: Swap file not being utilized?

2002-10-22 Thread Randy Kelsoe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, On a new Linux server I just set up, I created a 500 meg swap file which is equal to the amount of ram in the machine. The swap file is active but shows 0% used, while the memory shows 184 meg used and 316 meg free. The swap file is mounted as /dev/hda2, has

Re: Compiling lm_sensors 2.6.5

2002-10-18 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Robert L. Cochran wrote: Has anyone tried compiling lm_sensors version 2.6.5 on an 8.0 system? The INSTALL document is a little hard to understand. I'm confused by the compilation options listed and the suggestion that I download a vanilla kernel tree from kernel.org rather than use a distro k