Oracle8i installation problems

2003-02-26 Thread Marko Asplund
i'm having problems installing Oracle8i (r3) on a Red Hat 8.0 machine. the installation of the software itself goes fine but database creation fails. i've tried creating the database both during and after installation using the Oracle Database Configuration Assistant (dbassist) but it fails with

process cannot be killed

2003-02-26 Thread H M Kunzmann
I have a process loopd that I just can't seem to kill with any command I've used. I've sent it every imaginable form of kill signal so far and it simply does not respond. vmstat gives this output: procs memoryswap io system cpu r b w swpd f

Re: Oracle8i installation problems

2003-02-26 Thread Piotr Ilczew
I installed Oracle 9i in Red hat 8.0. It work fine. I use www.puschitz.com guide and Michael Wessler book Oracle DBA on Unix and Linux. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- Psyche-list

Re: Oracle8i installation problems

2003-02-26 Thread dballester
Hi: I had the same problem. Take a look to your alert_$ORACLE_SID.log in $ORACLE_BASE/admin/$ORACLE_SID/bdump. I suppouse that you will see a message like 'WARNING: EINVAL creating segment of size ". This is related to the SHMMAX kernel parameters. Do you have 128 Mb of RAM? This proble

Re: Unexpected IGMP network traffic

2003-02-26 Thread Cliff Kent
>> Does your client use a fixed or a dynamic IP? << Internet connection is Adelphia cable modem. Dynamic IP via DHCP - though the actual IP address hasn't changed in a year. Cable modem connects to the private network through a Linksys cable/DSL router that SHOULD be blocking all such unrequest

Re: problems with installing from cd.

2003-02-26 Thread Sandro Wabner
Hi Mat, > this was cycling. and the install process stopped moving forward. > I rebooted a few times and eventually it worked. > does anyone know about these problems.. I had/have not exactly the same problem, but in my case rh8.0 doesn't reach the end of installation very often, for mysterious

Re: Unexpected IGMP network traffic

2003-02-26 Thread Cliff Kent
>> look at the count of packets using the package "iptraf". << Thanks, I will. Cliff -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Unexpected IGMP network traffic

2003-02-26 Thread Cliff Kent
>> One IGMP packet every 2 minutes. << I have more like one packet every 2 seconds. Not enough to bother the normal operation. Maybe as much as 500 bits per second. (I think) >> I just drop them and haven't had any problems. << I'll recheck the Linksys router config. But, I THINK I'm already b

Re: Unexpected IGMP network traffic

2003-02-26 Thread Cliff Kent
>> for launching an insider denial of service attack << Wow, there's a nasty concept. Especially in this case. The only insiders are Red Hat and me. Still, it's worth a look. This is a two month old "fresh install" on new hardware. It has all of the patches up through the end of January. And I

Re: ntpd Question

2003-02-26 Thread Carlos A. Siso
Hi John: Thank you for your answer. Tried the restrict directive but still ntpd does not affect the machine time. To test it, I stop the ntpd service, set an invalid time in the machine and start the ntpd service again. The machine keeps the invalid time. I am able to sync the machine time usi

Re: ntpd Question

2003-02-26 Thread John Kodis
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:26:21AM -0400, Carlos A. Siso wrote: > Hi John: > > Thank you for your answer. Tried the restrict directive but still ntpd does > not affect the machine time. To test it, I stop the ntpd service, set an > invalid time in the machine and start the ntpd service again. Th

Re: Psyche-list digest, Vol 1 #1054 - 14 msgs

2003-02-26 Thread Mark Hoover
I'm not sure how far out of sync your clock is, but if you're too far out of sync ntpd will not sync your clock and you'll have to run ntpdate initially to set the clock back in line. Once the clock has been set back, ntpd should set the system clock just fine. As for a config file, all I have ar

Re: What is best method on RH for getting *new* versions ofinstalled software

2003-02-26 Thread reg hughson
So are most rpms for 8.0 the same as for 7.3? Can I use the 8.0 rpms on my 7.3 system? On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 12:59, Sergio Durand wrote: > you can use rhn for keep your system updated .. > it's come with rh8... > > or use apt-get tool .. (i like most) > > http://psyche.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id

Re: What is best method on RH for getting *new* versions of installed software

2003-02-26 Thread Stefan Neufeind
This is, in most cases, not possible since dependencies are different - meaning: Some libs that the 8.0-rpms are linked against are not present in 7.3 (and vice versa). Therefor in most cases it's not possible to use these 8.0-rpms. If you manage to do so you should be lucky - but in general th

Quake 3 crashes under RH8

2003-02-26 Thread Dusan Djordjevic
Hi all, I have RH 8 and downloaded latest point release of Quake 3 (1.32). It starts, starts level, and then crashes and completely kills my machine. Any hint or something ? -- Eng. Dusan Djordjevic (RHCE) -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/list

Re: What is best method on RH for getting *new* versions of installed software

2003-02-26 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 06:52, reg hughson uttered: > So are most rpms for 8.0 the same as for 7.3? Can I use the 8.0 rpms on > my 7.3 system? No. 8.0 rpms for the most part are binary incompatible with 7.3. 8.0 rpms are built w/ gcc 3.2 and a newer glibc. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE htt

setting network interface card to 100Mb/s half duplex

2003-02-26 Thread Vikash Tulsi
Hi ! All I need some assistance in anchoring a NIC to 100Mb/s half duplex. Thanking you in advance Vikash *** Disclaimer: The information contained in this communication is confidential and may

Re: setting network interface card to 100Mb/s half duplex

2003-02-26 Thread Leonard Miller
man mii-tool >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/26/03 11:07AM >>> Hi ! All I need some assistance in anchoring a NIC to 100Mb/s half duplex. Thanking you in advance Vikash -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

RE: process cannot be killed

2003-02-26 Thread Quillen, Channon
Title: RE: process cannot be killed The pid's are kept in /var/run/ You may have already tried these, but I'll give them anyway: #kill `cat /var/run/loopd` or #kill -s 9 `cat /var/run/loopd` Type #kill -l to see a list of signal names. -Channon -Original Message- From: H M Kunzma

8.0 install

2003-02-26 Thread Marek
Hi I had to attempt to reinstall 8.0 on a machine that had it working before. Looks like i installed too much junk and the x server crashed badly amongst other things. Here's the problem. I get to the part where the partitions are to be formated and the installation crashes after it comes to

Re: What is best method on RH for getting *new* versions of installed software

2003-02-26 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:52:53AM -0500, reg hughson wrote: > So are most rpms for 8.0 the same as for 7.3? Can I use the 8.0 rpms on > my 7.3 system? As others have said, the answer is basically no, but that doesn't mean much. The *binary* rpm is usually not compatable, but in some (many?) case

Re: 8.0 install

2003-02-26 Thread Kevin Brouelette
> Hi > > I had to attempt to reinstall 8.0 on a machine that had it working before. Looks > like i installed too much junk and the x server crashed badly amongst other things. > > Here's the problem. > > I get to the part where the partitions are to be formated and the installation > crashes af

RE: 8.0 install

2003-02-26 Thread Quillen, Channon
Title: RE: 8.0 install Do you want this machine to have the ability to boot multiple OS's?  Is a version of Windows already installed on the machine?  I do know there is an issue with installing 95, 98, or Me.  You'll always want to install Windows before anything else. Are you allowing the 8

Re: Help request: Red Hat Linux 8.0 + Postfix + Cyrus + saslauthd

2003-02-26 Thread Hans Eric Sandström
As far as I can see your setup is working. What exactly is the problem? You can test the authentication by base64 encoding yor username and password: #perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print encode_base64("hes\0hes\0secret");' aGVzAGhlcwBzZWNyZXQ= Then test it like this: # telnet smtp.emoh.com 25 Trying 19

Re: 8.0 install

2003-02-26 Thread Marek
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:14:40 -0800 "Kevin Brouelette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > I had to attempt to reinstall 8.0 on a machine that had it working before. Looks > > like i > installed too much junk and the x server crashed badly amongst other things. > > > > Here's the probl

Re: Kernel-2.4.20

2003-02-26 Thread Sandra
Sandra wrote: >>Thank you. I try to install the Copperjet ADSL modem to get Internet acces >>It's mandatory to have a kernel older than 2.4.18. >I think you ment newer. You're right >>Now I'll copy the config-2.4.18 to /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-2.21 as .config. >Why not use on of th

Re: 8.0 install

2003-02-26 Thread Kevin Brouelette
Hi, Try running 'memtest' http://www.memtest86.com/ and test your ram. Kevin Brouelette, RHCE - Original Message - From: "Marek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 11:01 AM Subject: Re: 8.0 install > On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:14:40 -0800 > "Ke

Re: Which filesystem for LVM?

2003-02-26 Thread Peter Boy
Am Son, 2003-02-23 um 01.10 schrieb toby: > With ext3 you can go up or down in size. Xfs can only increase, I believe. Xfs > does play well with other stuff though such as acl, attrib, quotas over nfs and > seems faster. [..] Thanks for all the help. I did some tests with LVM and ext3 and it w

RE: OpenOffice doesn't start

2003-02-26 Thread Peter Boy
Am Mit, 2003-02-19 um 10.38 schrieb Pavel Rozenboim: > Try to move all config files from SO 5.2 (.sversionrc) in your home dir, to > temp directory. Unfortunately, did not solve the prob. Finally I ended up in a complete reinstallation of the system and it works now. Thanks Peter -- Psyche

Grub menu.1st messed up

2003-02-26 Thread Kareemullah Quadir
hi, i messed uo my menu.1st file. can anyone send me a copy? thanks in advance. quadir. -- Kareemullah S Quadir [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- Psyche-list mailin

Re: Grub menu.1st messed up

2003-02-26 Thread Sergio Durand
# grub.conf generated by anaconda #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=2 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-24.8.0) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-24.8.0 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.4.18-24.8.0.img Kareemullah Quadir wrote: hi, i messed

Re: Unexpected IGMP network traffic

2003-02-26 Thread Cliff Kent
Ralf, I reviewed the setup on the Linksys and it looks like it's still right. I ran "tcpdump -X proto 2" as root for about 2 minutes today and produced a 76 Kb text file. (The same command on a RH8 box here produced nothing in and hour.) I'm sure that the list doesn't need the full text of the

Perl Module

2003-02-26 Thread Nataniel Klug
Hello, I am trying to install a Perl Module (DB_File) and its returning an error that I could not understand. The error is posted below. Anyone can help me solve this problem? Nataniel Klug === ERROR Executing /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL && make .. Parsing config.in... Looks Good. Checking if yo

Re: Unexpected IGMP network traffic

2003-02-26 Thread Cliff Kent
Oops... One More Time... Ralf, I reviewed the setup on the Linksys and it looks like it's still right. I ran "tcpdump -X proto 2" as root for about 2 minutes today and produced a 76 Kb text file. (The same command on a RH8 box here produced nothing in and hour.) I'm sure that the list doesn't

Re: Unexpected IGMP network traffic

2003-02-26 Thread Ralf Spenneberg
Am Mit, 2003-02-26 um 22.18 schrieb Cliff Kent: > Oops... One More Time... > Hi Cliff, > I ran "tcpdump -X proto 2" as root for about 2 minutes today and > produced a 76 Kb text file. (The same command on a RH8 box here produced > nothing in and hour.) > > 13:56:52.679075 ny-auburn2c-319.abur

Re: Unexpected IGMP network traffic

2003-02-26 Thread Jay Crews
Ralf Spenneberg writes > > Am Mit, 2003-02-26 um 22.18 schrieb Cliff Kent: > > Oops... One More Time... > > > Hi Cliff, > > > I ran "tcpdump -X proto 2" as root for about 2 minutes today and > > produced a 76 Kb text file. (The same command on a RH8 box here produced > > nothing in and hou

Printing Problem

2003-02-26 Thread Hrobak, James P
I am having problems printing from some applications that are packaged in 8.0.   I have my printer setup correctly, test page looks fine.   Printer Name: e909 Printer Type: Unix Printer (LPD) Server: 129.204.86.26 Queue: PORT1 Driver: HP LaserJet 8150 Postscript Printer   If I tak

LAN driver for a7v8x (BroadCom 4401)

2003-02-26 Thread Telford
I found that the src.rpm file found on the motherboard CDROM worked with a simple "rpmbuild --rebuild" and installed no problems. However, if you install RedHat's kernel updates then it no longer works because of annoying kernel header mismatch and (doubly annoying) RedHat don't include an update o

Japanese in Evolution 1.2.2 & OpenOffice on RH8.0

2003-02-26 Thread Rod Van Meter
I've read what's in the archives of this list (e.g., https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psyche-list/2002-November/005605.html), but it still doesn't work. Emacs & Mozilla work, fairly painlessly, as does gnome-terminal and most of the RedHat environment, when I log in with my language set to Ja

Re: Perl Module

2003-02-26 Thread Brian Curtis
Hello Nataniel, Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 3:39:14 PM, you wrote: NK> Hello, NK> I am trying to install a Perl Module (DB_File) and its returning an error NK> that I could not understand. The error is posted below. Anyone can help me NK> solve this problem? NK> Nataniel Klug NK> === ERROR N

Re: Perl Module

2003-02-26 Thread Nataniel Klug
Hello Brian, : Did you use the CPAN shell, or were you trying to build/install this : manually? : : I recommend the CPAN shell if you weren't using it since it has : options to satisfy dependencies that may be required. I tryed to use CPAN Shell but it was not instaled then I found in Webmin (my

Re: LAN driver for a7v8x (BroadCom 4401)

2003-02-26 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:47 pm, Telford wrote: > I found that the src.rpm file found on the motherboard CDROM > worked with a simple "rpmbuild --rebuild" and installed no problems. > However, if you install RedHat's kernel updates then it no lo

Volume control non-op

2003-02-26 Thread Nigel Simpson
Here's a bizarre issue: I ran "Sound Card Detection" (redhat-config-soundcard) and it correctly identified the on-motherboard sound chip: Vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems Model: SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator Module: i810_audio The test sound plays OK and audio tools like XMMS work fine, *exce

RE: Quake 3 crashes under RH8

2003-02-26 Thread Wolfgang Gill
Do you have all the proper Video drivers installed???. Q3 requires OpenGL hardware acceleration installed (GLX). I've got Q3 running in RH8.0 without a problem. And with all the updates. We need more info relating to your system config. Wolf -Original Message- From: Dusan Djordjevic [

RE: problems with installing from cd.

2003-02-26 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
thanks for that info. i was told by a friend that the problem could be because i have both ide busses full and the irq sharing may be a problem. i dont have webcams etc or anything like that. just 2 cd devices 2 hds 1 floppy 1 keyboard ps2 1 mouse ps2 sound on the motherboard 1 pci sound card 1 a

Re: 8.0 install

2003-02-26 Thread
Excuse me, if I may? >From my experiences with H/D's, just recently, first open the case and do a re-seat on the connectors to that drive including the DATA cable, if this makes NO change try changing the Power connectors, use a different one. This was an experience I had with my two WD H/D's and

Re: Which filesystem for LVM?

2003-02-26 Thread toby
Peter Boy wrote: > > Am Son, 2003-02-23 um 01.10 schrieb toby: > > With ext3 you can go up or down in size. Xfs can only increase, I believe. Xfs > > does play well with other stuff though such as acl, attrib, quotas over nfs and > > seems faster. [..] > > Thanks for all the help. I did some

Most Suitable Server for RedHat Linux?

2003-02-26 Thread 012950864
Hi all: I'm to decide which server hardware to choose for my RedHat Linux 7.3 as an Internet server that will run Apache, MySQL and PHP to manage a medium-sized database. May I request for your recommendations, based on your experiences, which server hardware is best for this (Compac, HP, Sun,

NFS, SchmeNFS

2003-02-26 Thread John Lowell
I have a three machine network behind a router which acts as a DHCP server and a gateway to the internet via an ADSL modem . Two of the machines have their IP addresses assigned by the router dynamically. The other, set aside to act as a webserver, has been given a static IP address outside of

Re: Most Suitable Server for RedHat Linux?

2003-02-26 Thread Elliot Peele
I'd recommend a Dell 1650. On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 23:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all: > > I'm to decide which server hardware to choose for my RedHat Linux 7.3 as an > Internet server that will run Apache, MySQL and PHP to manage a medium-sized > database. May I request for your recommenda

Accessing Red Hat Network from a computer in a LAN

2003-02-26 Thread Alimin Bijosono Oei
Hi all, At home I have a desktop computer and a laptop both have Redhat 8.0 installed. Both of them are networked so that the desktop acts as a gateway/router for the laptop. So far I don't have any trouble updating packages for the desktop computer using RHN updater which is connected directly to

Re: Most Suitable Server for RedHat Linux?

2003-02-26 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 20:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: > I'm to decide which server hardware to choose for my RedHat Linux 7.3 as an > Internet server that will run Apache, MySQL and PHP to manage a > medium-sized database. May I request for your recommendations, based on > your experience

Re: Accessing Red Hat Network from a computer in a LAN

2003-02-26 Thread Michael Smith
The desktop is acting as a firewall for anything sharing internet access through it. I'm not sure exactly how you configure that but, the info might help. You need to figure out what port RHN uses, and then open that on whatever you can think of. -Michael On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 21:12, Alimin Bijos

Re: ntpd Question

2003-02-26 Thread Piero Calucci
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 15:26, Carlos A. Siso wrote: > Hi John: > > Thank you for your answer. Tried the restrict directive but still ntpd does > not affect the machine time. To test it, I stop the ntpd service, set an > invalid time in the machine and start the ntpd service again. The machine >

Re: NFS, SchmeNFS

2003-02-26 Thread Ralf Spenneberg
Am Don, 2003-02-27 um 05.29 schrieb John Lowell: > > rpcinfo -p > > I was shown entries both for mountd and nfs, so I moved on to the client > machine. > > At the client, where I've chosen to manually mount NFS, as root I ran > > mkdir /mnt/192.168.1.100 > mount 192.168.1.100:/home/jlowell/m

Re: Quake 3 crashes under RH8

2003-02-26 Thread Dusan Djordjevic
četvrtak 27. februar 2003. 01:43, Wolfgang Gill: > Do you have all the proper Video drivers installed???. Q3 requires > OpenGL hardware acceleration installed (GLX). Yes, here is the relevant part ov XF86Config: Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw"

RE: LAN driver for a7v8x (BroadCom 4401)

2003-02-26 Thread Vik Heyndrickx
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Telford > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 10:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: LAN driver for a7v8x (BroadCom 4401) > > > I found that the src.rpm file found on the motherboard CDROM > worked with

Re: Accessing Red Hat Network from a computer in a LAN

2003-02-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
[top posting moved!] On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 15:53, Michael Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 21:12, Alimin Bijosono Oei wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > At home I have a desktop computer and a laptop both have Redhat 8.0 > > installed. Both of them are networked so that the desktop acts as a > > gatew

RE: Quake 3 crashes under RH8

2003-02-26 Thread Wolfgang Gill
Remove the DRI entry in your XF86Config. As this will cause these sort of problems. That should fix the problem. (As it's hard for me to say too, as I have a GF4 Ti4600 Nvidia, and they recommend to have the DRI stuff removed). Wolf -Original Message- From: Dusan Djordjevic [mailto:[EMAIL

Textual Interface Problem with rh8.

2003-02-26 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
Does anyone know about this or can help. There is a problem with my applications that have a textual based user interface (using text-art in the console environment, not graphics in the x). e.g. cdp, the kernel modules screens etc. for some reason, the text art seems to not line up properly, a