Re: Unusual /var problem.

2003-02-13 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 06:45:22AM -0800, Frank Tanner III wrote: > That's what it is. But it's odd. I don't stash any > files in the /var directory, so why would it use up > all of the inodes? Just a guess; there was a bug in mgetty that caused /var/log to fill: * Tue Aug 13 2002 Nalin Dahyabh

Re: RH 9 - new glibc

2003-03-28 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:20:42PM -0600, Doug B wrote: > If I understand correctly, it seems the reason to jump a major version > is because the new glibc breaks binary compatability. > > OK... that makes sense. > > Why then would RedHat introduce a new glibc into RH 8 that breaks > compatabilty

Re: What's the status of PDA secure remote access?

2003-08-11 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:02:00AM -0400, Michael Martinez wrote: > I'm looking for a secure PDA solution that allows me to open a secure, > remote command line login to my Linux servers. I have specific need to > be satisfied (listed below). I did some research into this, 7 months > ago, and found

Read the RELEASE-NOTES (was Re: True type fonts in mozilla./evolution)

2002-11-07 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:21:08PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > You couldn't. Unless, of course, you would invent something which > doesn't permit scrolling down to the bottom of the RELEASE NOTES, > clicking a checkbox and proceeding without having read the several > hundred lines of text. But

Re: serial console question

2002-11-25 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 01:12:27PM -0500, Neal D. Becker wrote: > I'm wondering how to setup for serial console. I am setting up a > small cluster and want to avoid the expense of a kvm switch. > > Reading in the kernel serial console doc, I get the impression that I > don't need to setup anythin

Re: iptables logging

2002-12-11 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:34:54AM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > I've got iptables to log what it drops with various options, but its > filling up my log files (theres a lot of traffic at work). Can I > somehow get it to log to a file other than /var/log/messages? Look into the ULOG target; you r

Re: Kernel panic with ext3 root set to writeback

2002-12-20 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:12:26AM -0800, Tom Ball wrote: > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-18.8.0) - Home > root (hd0,5) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.8.0 ro root=LABEL=/ rootflags=mode=writeback > initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-18.8.0.img > > As someone previously suggested, I also

Re: Much Slower than 7.2?

2002-12-23 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 11:20:25AM -0800, Tom Ball wrote: > I also found 8.0 much slower for my smaller builds. One thing that's > different in 8.0 is the ext3 filesystem, which I converted to when > upgrading. By default it runs in ordered data mode, which causes writes > to disk to happen much

Re: Rsync @ Red Hat

2002-09-30 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 02:54:28PM -0400, Chip Turner wrote: > You should be able to use 'wget' on the URLs from the Instant ISO page > and resume your downloads. Using your browser to download is highly > unsafe; a single crash can lose the entire download. wget should work > fine, but be sure t