Re: Logs

2003-02-07 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 06/02/2003 17:12, Marek typed ... One of my logs seems to be growing daily by 10 Megs or so. I presume it is a log as it happens in the / dir. How can i see which file is the culprit ? 'fuser file' should tell you the proc. ID of any process that's got it open. -- [neil@fnx ~]#

Top command broken?

2003-02-07 Thread John Horne
Hello, I have just setup 4 redhat 8.0 servers, all of which have 2 NIC's. On 2 of the servers both NIC's are up and running, the other 2 servers are only, currently, using 1 NIC. On the servers with 2 NIC's running the top command is giving some very odd figures for the memory usage of some proce

Re: rhn availability

2003-02-07 Thread Jay Turner
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:57:35PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thursday 06 February 2003 21:46, Craig White uttered: > > Is it just me or is RHN for up2date extremely busy the last few days? > > Well, there were kernel and php upgrades released in the last few days I guess I should take

Re: Advice needed re testing network state

2003-02-07 Thread Jay Turner
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 04:46:26PM +1100, John Bell wrote: [snip] > I'm wondering if anyone has any comments on this approach or perhaps betetr > ideas. Don't know how much this is going to help, but you might want to check out this site: http://linux-ha.org. Specifically, you can evaluate the

Re: window on all workspaces by default

2003-02-07 Thread Jay Turner
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:20:25AM -0500, Eric Bourque wrote: > Is there a way in metacity to have a window automatically placed on all > workspaces by default? I want to load gkrellm every time I log in, and > have it available on all workspaces, without having to right click it > and choose "put

Re: WEP key... doesnt work in RH Linux 8

2003-02-07 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 22:35, Craig White wrote: > You have to know whether the key is a string or hex > > Strings must be preceded by a $ > > Hex keys are 13 digits long for 64 bit - 26 digits long for 128 bit - I > haven't a clue the length for 40 bit I was not aware of the string/hex differenc

Speaking of RHN and kernel updates...

2003-02-07 Thread Dave Sherman
Hi all, I updated to the latest kernel yesterday, and ipsec has been disabled! Anybody else run into this? I can boot into the previous kernel, and my VPN comes up just fine. I will be checking bugzilla later today for anything on this topic, and will post to it if necessary. -- Dave Sherman MC

RE: An Interesting Problem

2003-02-07 Thread Joshua Dolan
Dave, I ping'd my ISP and had no problems there. I checked the log file and found the IP addys ok there. I saw nowhere it had any errors in the log script with PPP, yet, you might say that it loses its way and just wont go anywhere after a period of time. I was hoping that maybe there was a

Re: KDE 3.1.0 as rpms

2003-02-07 Thread Eric Wood
In order to reduce the number of RPM packages, they are probably combined into related rpms. -eric wood - Original Message - From: "Jochen Kaechelin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ftp://rawhide.redhat.com > > /pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS > > But that's not the complete list as I ca

Time zones and stuff

2003-02-07 Thread Tomas Larsson
I have realised that my winbox and my Rh box apparently doesn't use the same timezone. Win seems to think that RH is running GMT I believe. All times reported by win is 2 hours in the future. How on earth do I set the correct timezone on RH, The contents of my localtime file is. TZifGMT+1 My loc

RE: Time zones and stuff

2003-02-07 Thread Carter, Shaun G
Your BIOS may have synced to your redhat time. Windoze runs off from the BIOS clock (I think). Make sure you have RH set to not use the value 'system clock uses UTC'. Right click on the clock, hit adjust date and time, head to the time zone tab and uncheck the value. I may be wrong here, but I'

SV: Time zones and stuff

2003-02-07 Thread Tomas Larsson
Well I don't have any screen, keyboard or mouse connected to my RH box, using Webmin and SSL to access it. With best regards Tomas Larsson Verus amicus est tamquam alter idem All messages originating from me are scanned with the latest updates of Norton Antivirus 2K2. > -Ursprungligt me

Re: disk partition

2003-02-07 Thread Shane C Branch
That does help give me some direction, thanks. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** > >Hiya, > >Here is the breakdown for the general usage of partitions: > >Swap partition should be twice physical ram size. There used to be a >128MB limit, but that is gone now. > >root or / partition holds a

Re: window on all workspaces by default

2003-02-07 Thread Eric Bourque
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 07:52, Jay Turner wrote: > available when you are logged in, you can just use the "saved session" Doh! I should have thought of that. I was thinking the complicated way instead of the obvious way. Thanks, Eric -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listma

xenix support?

2003-02-07 Thread M. Yu
Hello list, I am planning on moving a program, currently running on SCO Xenix System V version 2.3.4, over to Linux using iBCS2. Browsing the web informed me that it has been replaced by Linux-ABI and that ABI should be patched against a vanilla (kernel.org) kernel. However, I was also told th

OpenSSL 0.9.7 on Redhat 8.0

2003-02-07 Thread Setera, Craig
I'm trying to get FreeRadius up and running on my Redhat 8.0 box to do EAP/TLS authentication for my wireless access point. I'm very close, but I'm having version mismatch problems between FreeRadius and my current OpenSSL installation. I tried to install the 0.9.7 RPM from Rawhide, but had a

[Fwd: Binary only RPM ??]

2003-02-07 Thread Allan M. Stewart
This is probably the wrong place to ask, hopefully someone can point me to the right place. I am new to making RPMs. I've read over the "maximum RPM" guide and don't understand how (or if possible) to do a simple binary-only RPM. The guide seems to imply that you must do a build in order to c

RE: An Interesting Problem

2003-02-07 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 07:32, Joshua Dolan wrote: > > Dave, > > I ping'd my ISP and had no problems there. I checked the log file and found > the IP addys ok there. I saw nowhere it had any errors in the log script > with PPP, yet, you might say that it loses its way and just wont go anywhere

Re: [Fwd: Binary only RPM ??]

2003-02-07 Thread Piero Calucci
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 17:13, Allan M. Stewart wrote: > > This is probably the wrong place to ask, hopefully someone > can point me to the right place. > >I am new to making RPMs. I've read over the "maximum RPM" guide > and don't understand how (or if possible) to do a simple binary-only > R

SV: Time zones and stuff, Never mind I found it

2003-02-07 Thread Tomas Larsson
timeconfig from a terminal window Uncheck "hardware clock follows GMT" Select the relevant timezone and press ok After that set the correct time. With best regards Tomas Larsson Verus amicus est tamquam alter idem All messages originating from me are scanned with the latest updates of Nort

LVM problems at boot

2003-02-07 Thread Michael Robbert
I've recently setup LVM on a couple of standard Red Hat boxes and in both cases they will not boot once the LVM partition is in /etc/fstab, unless I edit /etc/rc.sysinit. I have found through experimentation that I need to make the following changes in order for the boot to complete. 310c310 < if

Re: LVM problems at boot

2003-02-07 Thread Jesse Keating
On Friday 07 February 2003 08:44, Michael Robbert wrote: > Why isn't /proc/lvm present at this point or why is Red Hat needing it > to be there? When I take that out the boot happens fine and LVM works > properly. In both instances I have setup the LVM after the install not > during. /proc/lvm is

Compaq DL380 G3/aic7xxx problem

2003-02-07 Thread Ethan VanMatre
Hi, I'm running a 2.4.18-14smp kernel with the 6.2.28 aic7xxx driver. The system hangs when doing I/O to the hardware raid disks attached to the aic7899 interface. When the system hangs there is nothing written to the logs, a running top shows nothing unusual (lots of memory, sway and a reason

Re: RPM's & Version doubts.

2003-02-07 Thread Philippe
Hi, You can use synaptic, from conectiva. Even if you don't use the upgrade function (via apt_rpm " a la Debian"), you will see the list of your packages installed, non installed, etc ... Regards, Philippe On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 20:12, marcos.otc wrote: > In the past, we had the kpackage to see

Kernel Compile Question

2003-02-07 Thread Mark Hoover
Greetings everyone.. I have a question that seems to be a bit of a mystery. I recently installed RH8 on a 486 system that I want to use as a gateway/router machine. When I compile the 2.4.20 kernel, I for some reason end up with a initrd-2.4.20.img file. I specifically told menuconfig

Up2date

2003-02-07 Thread Harold Helmich
What are the issues with changing the channel the name in up2date from your current dist to the next? If I update all is that the same as installing new version? Can I selectively update packages this way? For example get the latest version of X? Anyone ever do it? Horror stories? Thanks, H

Re: Kernel Compile Question

2003-02-07 Thread Jesse Keating
On Friday 07 February 2003 09:58, Mark Hoover wrote: > I recently installed RH8 on a 486 system that I want to use as a > gateway/router machine. When I compile the 2.4.20 kernel, I for some > reason end up with a initrd-2.4.20.img file. I specifically told > menuconfig that I did *not* want to u

Re: Up2date

2003-02-07 Thread Jesse Keating
On Friday 07 February 2003 09:59, Harold Helmich wrote: > What are the issues with changing the channel the name in up2date from > your current dist to the next? If I update all is that the same as > installing new version? Can I selectively update packages this way? > For example get the latest

Re: Up2date

2003-02-07 Thread Harold Helmich
Jesse Keating wrote: On Friday 07 February 2003 09:59, Harold Helmich wrote: What are the issues with changing the channel the name in up2date from your current dist to the next? If I update all is that the same as installing new version? Can I selectively update packages this way? For examp

Failure building 2.5.59 RPM

2003-02-07 Thread dsavage
I just downloaded the latest linux-2.5.59.tar.bz2 file from kernel.org, bunzipped in in /usr/src, and tried 'make rpm'. After several hundred lines of initial output, the process failed with this output: + make oldconfig dep clean bzImage modules make[1]: *** No rule to make target `oldconfig'.

LSI MegaRAID Elite 1600

2003-02-07 Thread Jesse Keating
Is anybody usin this dual channel SCSI raid card with Red Hat? Experiences? Good/bad? I'm looking at possibly using it in our lowerend servers, but wanted to get some info on it first. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE For Web Services and Linux Consulting, Visit --> j2Solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (

Re: LVM problems at boot

2003-02-07 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Michael Robbert wrote: I've recently setup LVM on a couple of standard Red Hat boxes and in both cases they will not boot once the LVM partition is in /etc/fstab, unless I edit /etc/rc.sysinit. I see the exact same thing, except on a 7.3 system. When I'm running kernels 2.4.18-18 & 2.4.18-24,

KT400 motherboard compatibility

2003-02-07 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Is anyone using a motherboard based on the Via KT400 chipset? I'm specifically looking at the MSI KT4VL (stripped down version of the KT4 Ultra) and wanted to know if there were any horror stories associated with such a new board and chipset. I won't be using too many of the new features (I've

Re: LVM problems at boot

2003-02-07 Thread Jesse Keating
On Friday 07 February 2003 10:55, Tom Georgoulias wrote: > I see the exact same thing, except on a 7.3 system. When I'm running > kernels 2.4.18-18 & 2.4.18-24, the default rc.sysinit works. When I use > 2.4.18-19, it doesn't. 2.4.18-19 never loads lvm-mod on it's own so > that /proc/lvm can be

Re: KT400 motherboard compatibility

2003-02-07 Thread Stephen Mah
Tom Georgoulias wrote: Is anyone using a motherboard based on the Via KT400 chipset? I'm specifically looking at the MSI KT4VL (stripped down version of the KT4 Ultra) and wanted to know if there were any horror stories associated with such a new board and chipset. I won't be using too many o

Re: Bash pattern matching

2003-02-07 Thread Vikram Goyal
-Original Message- From: Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 05:57:35PM + To PsycheList Subject: Re: Bash pattern matching > > You are confusing fnmatch-style patterns (which the shell uses) with > regular expressions (which it doesn't). > > Tim. > */ Sorry, yo

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

2003-02-07 Thread Rishi Gangoly
> 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: > > /usr/bin/findsmb > >

Re: xenix support?

2003-02-07 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 17:02, M. Yu wrote: > Hello list, > > I am planning on moving a program, currently running on SCO Xenix System V > version 2.3.4, over to Linux using iBCS2. Browsing the web informed me that > it has been replaced by Linux-ABI and that ABI should be patched against a > vanil

Re: KT400 motherboard compatibility

2003-02-07 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Stephen Mah wrote: you might want to try this forumn: http://www.amdforums.com Thanks, that's a good resource. So far I've found one post from a guy who was successful and another by one who said it wouldn't work without kernel 2.4.20. ;) Tom -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OpenSSL 0.9.7 on Redhat 8.0

2003-02-07 Thread Nalin Dahyabhai
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:03:24AM -0600, Setera, Craig wrote: > I'm trying to get FreeRadius up and running on my Redhat 8.0 box to do > EAP/TLS authentication for my wireless access point. I'm very close, > but I'm having version mismatch problems between FreeRadius and my > current OpenSSL inst

Re: LSI MegaRAID Elite 1600

2003-02-07 Thread dsavage
Jesse, Is this an LSI-rebranded AMI MegaRAID card? If so, I've had excellent luck with an older MegaRAID 1200 card and Red Hat. Its lengthy BIOS POST is a bit annoying when rebooting, but that's about the only downside. The Linux driver is solid. I'm currently running fifteen 4.5G IBM U+W drives i

Re: LSI MegaRAID Elite 1600

2003-02-07 Thread Jesse Keating
On Friday 07 February 2003 12:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is this an LSI-rebranded AMI MegaRAID card? If so, I've had excellent luck > with an older MegaRAID 1200 card and Red Hat. Its lengthy BIOS POST is a > bit annoying when rebooting, but that's about the only downside. The Linux > driver is

Re: OpenSSL 0.9.7 on Redhat 8.0

2003-02-07 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:11:34PM -0500, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote: > Please don't install packages from Raw Hide using --nodeps (--force > actually wouldn't have helped here -- the --force option is just a > combination of --replacepkgs and --replacefiles). Rampant use of the > --nodeps option can b

Using TLS with OpenLDAP "ldapsearch" that comes with RH 8.0

2003-02-07 Thread Saqib . N . Ali
Hi All, I am trying to connect to LDAP server using the OpenLDP "ldapsearch" command line utility that comes with RH 8.0. The command line that I am using is as follow: $ ldapsearch -x -ZZ -h my.ldap.server -b "o=SC" "uid=saqib" ldap_start_tls: Protocol error (2) As the error shows, the START_TL

Re: Up2date

2003-02-07 Thread M A Young
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Harold Helmich wrote: > What are the issues with changing the channel the name in up2date from > your current dist to the next? If I update all is that the same as > installing new version? Can I selectively update packages this way? > For example get the latest version o

Redhat-config-services not working anymore !!!

2003-02-07 Thread Cedric Chausson
Hello all, Recently I wanted to use the Redhat tool to start and stop services (redhat-config-services). I had used it several times in the past with no problem. I clicked on Services in the Server parameters menu of the start menu. The window of the application startet to appeart but sort of

Re: Using TLS with OpenLDAP "ldapsearch" that comes with RH 8.0

2003-02-07 Thread Nalin Dahyabhai
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 01:03:10PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to connect to LDAP server using the OpenLDP "ldapsearch" > command line utility that comes with RH 8.0. > > The command line that I am using is as follow: > $ ldapsearch -x -ZZ -h my.ldap.server -b "o=SC" "uid=saqib"

Re: Up2date

2003-02-07 Thread M A Young
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, M A Young wrote: > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Harold Helmich wrote: > > > What are the issues with changing the channel the name in up2date from > > your current dist to the next? If I update all is that the same as > > installing new version? Can I selectively update packages th

Installing a PRISM 2.5 Integrated WLAN adaptor.

2003-02-07 Thread Camron W. Fox
Alle, I've recently installed Redhat 8 on an FJ LifeBook E7110 which has an integrated WLAN interface (PRISM2.5) from Harris Semiconductor. Has anyone had any experience/luck setting one of these interfaces up? Best Regards, Camron Camron W. Fox Hilo Office High Performance Computing Gro

Re: KT400 motherboard compatibility

2003-02-07 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 February 2003 01:47 pm, Tom Georgoulias wrote: > Is anyone using a motherboard based on the Via KT400 chipset? > > I'm specifically looking at the MSI KT4VL (stripped down version of the > KT4 Ultra) and wanted to know if there were any ho

rawhide

2003-02-07 Thread Stephen Mah
Does rawhide mean that the packages are beta? how does these packages differ from the errata updates? -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: window on all workspaces by default

2003-02-07 Thread Eric Bourque
It seems I spoke too soon. This only works for one workspace even when the window was placed on all workspaces when I chose "save session" on logout. Any ideas for getting it to work for all workspaces? Cheers, Eric On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 10:15, Eric Bourque wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 07:52,

Promise Ultra133 TX2 cards with latest RHL 8.0 (kernel 2.4.18-24.8 smp)

2003-02-07 Thread Paul M. Livingston
Does anyone have experience with this card under psyche? I have used one under 7.3 without any patches , although not as the controller for the boot drive, but the Promise web site implies that you need to patch the kernel (with different patches for 2.4.18 and 2.4.19) prior to use under Linux.

Re: rawhide

2003-02-07 Thread Tony Nugent
On Fri Feb 07 2003 at 16:14, Stephen Mah wrote: > Does rawhide mean that the packages are beta? yes > how does these packages differ from the errata updates? see the first question :) Cheers Tony -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyc

Re: window on all workspaces by default

2003-02-07 Thread Tony Nugent
On Fri Feb 07 2003 at 19:19, Eric Bourque wrote: > It seems I spoke too soon. This only works for one workspace even when > the window was placed on all workspaces when I chose "save session" on > logout. Any ideas for getting it to work for all workspaces? It's a right PITA but it has *never* wo

Re: rawhide

2003-02-07 Thread Jesse Keating
On Friday 07 February 2003 16:14, Stephen Mah wrote: > Does rawhide mean that the packages are beta? > > how does these packages differ from the errata updates? Rawhide is a dumping ground for developmental packages. Proposed fixes, stuff like that. A package being in rawhide is by no means a g

Re: Redhat-config-services not working anymore !!!

2003-02-07 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 22:26:24 +0100, Cedric Chausson wrote: > Recently I wanted to use the Redhat tool to start and stop services > (redhat-config-services). I had used it several times in the past with > no problem. > > I clicked on Services in the

Re: rhn availability

2003-02-07 Thread Mike Vanecek
-- Original Message --- From: Jay Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 07:36:06 -0500 Subject: Re: rhn availability > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:57:35PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Thursday 06 February 2003 21:46, Craig White uttered: > > >

Re: disk partition

2003-02-07 Thread Mike Vanecek
-- Original Message --- From: "Shane C Branch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 09:55:59 -0500 Subject: Re: disk partition > That does help give me some direction, thanks. > > *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** > > > > >Hiya, > > > >Here is t

Re: Web Based Newsreader

2003-02-07 Thread Mike Vanecek
-- Original Message --- From: Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 Feb 2003 21:42:05 -0700 Subject: Re: Web Based Newsreader > On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 18:23, Mike Vanecek wrote: > > I have Open WebMail installed as a web based email reader. I would like to >

Re: rawhide

2003-02-07 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 04:14:20PM -0800, Stephen Mah wrote: > Does rawhide mean that the packages are beta? The definitive answer comes from Red Hat themselves. In the rawhide directory, you'll find a README. I'm including parts below since this quetion gets asked frequently. Read the README -

Re: Web Based Newsreader

2003-02-07 Thread Mike Vanecek
Their site musta got zapped. They are rebuilding it and only have a bare minimum of info up. I guess I will wait a while until it is back up. Since you are using it, one can assume you are satisfied with it? Wish the doco was up. Looks interesting. Thanks. -- Original Message ---

Re: rhn availability

2003-02-07 Thread Jesse Keating
On Friday 07 February 2003 17:20, Mike Vanecek uttered: > I had the Basic service with the boxed Pro set I purchased. Where exactly > should I have found the above features once I logged onto Rhn? Somehow it > was not clear to me that I had any added value. The couple of questions I > posted to cu

Re: rhn availability

2003-02-07 Thread Mike Vanecek
-- Original Message --- From: Jesse Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 18:19:39 -0800 Subject: Re: rhn availability > On Friday 07 February 2003 17:20, Mike Vanecek uttered: > > I had the Basic service with the boxed Pro set I purchased. Where

Re: rhn availability

2003-02-07 Thread Jesse Keating
On Friday 07 February 2003 18:18, Mike Vanecek uttered: > Understand. However, I was trying to determine the benefit of renewing the > 60 day subscription. Obviously, I must be missing out on some of the > advantages of the basic over the demo or was looking in all the wrong > places. Your 2 month

Tripwire reports

2003-02-07 Thread Mike Vanecek
After a while, tripwire reports will start to build up in /var/lib/tripwire/report/. Does anyone have a crontab script or other scheme for removing the old ones on a periodic basis? Thanks. Mike. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche

Re: disk partition

2003-02-07 Thread Thomas Molina
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Mike Vanecek wrote: > I guess one could always go with a 500MB /boot, a 1 GB sway, and whatever is > left over goes to /. The suggestion that separate partitions are need to > protect from run-away programs, security, and so on may be valid. However, > guessing the incorrect s

installing Red Hat 8.0 on a system with 2 processors and 3 SCSIhard drives...

2003-02-07 Thread Steve Strong
I work for a school and we've been given an HP Kayak server: 2 500 mhz cpu's 3 9 gig SCSI hard drives I can see the cpu's and hard drives in the BIOS, but the installer only sees one hard drive and I think just one cpu. The SCSI driver is loaded without error messages during the

Re: Web Based Newsreader

2003-02-07 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 18:42, Mike Vanecek wrote: > -- Original Message --- > From: Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 06 Feb 2003 21:42:05 -0700 > Subject: Re: Web Based Newsreader > > > On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 18:23, Mike Vanecek wrote: > > > I have Open

Re: installing Red Hat 8.0 on a system with 2 processors and 3 SCSIhard drives...

2003-02-07 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 20:13, Steve Strong wrote: > I work for a school and we've been given an HP Kayak server: > > 2 500 mhz cpu's > 3 9 gig SCSI hard drives > > I can see the cpu's and hard drives in the BIOS, but the installer only > sees one hard drive and I think just one cpu. T

Re: window on all workspaces by default

2003-02-07 Thread Emanuel Mair
On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 00:20:25 -0500 A.D., Eric Bourque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> carved the following runes about "window on all workspaces by default": > Is there a way in metacity to have a window automatically placed on > all workspaces by default? I want to load gkrellm every time I log in, > and hav

Re: installing Red Hat 8.0 on a system with 2 processors and 3 SCSIhard drives...

2003-02-07 Thread Steve Strong
I _think_ I know my hardware: no RAID controller Adaptec chip set the configuration is invoked at POST The BIOS sees the three SCSI at id's 0, 4 and 6. The Red Hat installer does not see all the drives and I don't think it sees the two cpu's either. Does Red Hat 8.0 Prof

Re: Web Based Newsreader

2003-02-07 Thread Brian Johnson
The downloads are actually hosted at savanah-gnu.org (not sure if I spelt it correctly) so you can get it there The web site that was trashed (they are switching to a different backend I think) was the home page for the project and hosted a lot of the docs, a running demo, etc - it should be back

Re: installing Red Hat 8.0 on a system with 2 processors and 3 SCSI hard drives...

2003-02-07 Thread Jesse Keating
On Friday 07 February 2003 19:13, Steve Strong uttered: > Does Red Hat 8.0 Professional support multiple cpu's and SCSI hard > drives? If so, what am I doing wrong and if not, what a bummer! Yes it does. The installer doesn't use an SMP kernel IIRC, but does some checking to see if you have a S

Re: disk partition

2003-02-07 Thread Eric Burke
> > >Hiya, > > > > > >Here is the breakdown for the general usage of partitions: > --- End of Original Message --- > > I guess one could always go with a 500MB /boot, a 1 GB sway, and whatever is > left over goes to /. The suggestion that separate partitions are need to > protect from r

Re: rhn availability

2003-02-07 Thread Eric Burke
> > I had the Basic service with the boxed Pro set I purchased. Where exactly > should I have found the above features once I logged onto Rhn? Somehow it was > not clear to me that I had any added value. The couple of questions I posted > to customer support during the install period did not imp

Re: installing Red Hat 8.0 on a system with 2 processors and 3 SCSIhard drives...

2003-02-07 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 21:10, Steve Strong wrote: > I _think_ I know my hardware: > > no RAID controller > Adaptec chip set > the configuration is invoked at POST > > The BIOS sees the three SCSI at id's 0, 4 and 6. The Red Hat installer > does not see all the drives and I don't

Re: [Fwd: Binary only RPM ??]

2003-02-07 Thread Jhon H. Caicedo O.
Hi, I think there is no problem building a RPM/SRPM combination based only on a binary product. I have seen this done with the Acrobat Reader and Netscape Communicator RPMS, these RPM is based on the "binary tar.gz" that you download from the vendor. In this case, the "build" stage of the SPEC fi

RH8.0 - nfsd hangs badly + 1TB SCSI partition

2003-02-07 Thread Iulian Musat
Hi everybody ! After we installed a fresh RedHat 8.0 on a 2 processor machine the NFS daemon hangs from time to time - really badly, since I cannot kill it with -9. The problem occurs every couples of days. I cannot even reboot, because the reboot process will hang trying to kill the NFS daemo

Re: installing Red Hat 8.0 on a system with 2 processors and 3 SCSIhard drives...

2003-02-07 Thread Steve Strong
The drive count I got from the SCSI bios. The id's listed in the SCSI bios are 0, 4 and 6. I'm lost in you acronyms: SMP IIRC what do these mean, and how can I install and boot the SMP kernal (S... Multiple Processor???) I completed the install, including putting Grub on sda0 i

Re: Redhat-config-services not working anymore !!!

2003-02-07 Thread Cedric Chausson
Hi, > [Errno 2] No file or directory of this type : '/etc/init.d/Services' Sure about that? Abosluetely sure. I confirm this. Or did it say /etc/services? No it says /etc/init.d:Services In that case, what do you get for "rpm -V setup"? $ rpm -V setup S.5T c /etc/bashrc .M.. c