Re: help!!!! one question about /etc/profile

2003-01-15 Thread Lau
> On 14-Jan-2003/16:33 -0500, Jianping Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have a redhat 7.3 linux server with a large db running on it. I need to > >install a software pubcrawler.pl on this machine. After i install it, > >need to set up environment varible for every user to use it. So i make > >c

Re: HP CD-Writer 9100

2003-01-15 Thread Nick Lindsell
At 00:01 15/01/2003 +0100, you wrote: Hi all: I have installed a HP CD-Writer 9100 internal on my Linux System, it is mounted and recognized, but when I want to burn, all the softwares shows a window that says there is not drivers needed for the burnin process. How can I getr my data burned on

Re: how to substutue string in a text file

2003-01-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 14 Jan 2003, Bret Hughes wrote: > the g/foo/ one I am going to have to read up on before beginning to ask > a question about it :) > > Bret one of my favorite applications of that operator is to print all lines containing a pattern while in vi with: :g//p as in :g/root/p the pattern

RE: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Bar Dov
> -Original Message- > done. > > Red Hat has made, and is continuing to made, an important and expensive > contribution to the community. Although you may legally continue to > distribute your own copies of the AS SRPMs, if everyone does it, > eventually Red Hat will be forced to discon

Re: Finding/tracking memory leaks?

2003-01-15 Thread Alan Peery
Michael Pelley wrote: Hi all - I had a query from a collegue as to how to find/track memory leaks. Other than top, what is a good tool to track memory usage? DON'T use Gnome System Monitor on Redhat 8.0. It has a pretty bad memory leak. Alan -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailt

Re: Using Parted to make logical partitions

2003-01-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 14 Jan 2003, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > I feel kind of silly for asking this, but I can't quite make it out from > the manuals I've read. > > I have a 60GB extended partition, and I'd like to chop it up into > logical partitions. Can you use parted to create logical partitions? > If so, ho

Re: Compaq Armada M700

2003-01-15 Thread Alan Peery
Steve Lee wrote: anyone been able to get the serial port working on this laptop. I've been unable to get this to work. i could really use this to connect to hardware for console use. IIRC there was a BIOS setting to enable/disable the infrared port, and this conflicted with the serial port.

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-15 Thread Dmitry Melekhov
Dan Bar Dov wrote: BTW, I talked directly with a SuSE distributor regarding their SLES product, same concept as AS, and he confirmed my ideas. You pay for the services, you are allowed to do with the software whatever you want. Sorry, you are wrong :-( They also force you to buy "service" on

Re: xinit redhat7.0 netscape7, keyboard does not work

2003-01-15 Thread paal
I forgot to tell that everything works fine in netscape4.7. I have tried in opera5, the keyboard worked in the beginning but dropped out after some minutes use. If I start normally with startx and then start netscape7 everything works ok. But with xinit the keyboard fall out. I guess there must

Re: RH62 can't log in

2003-01-15 Thread nlimbu
I had also same problem, but I didn't check it from GUI. It might be your different problem but in my case I just replaced the binary file 'login' from the other same version machine in single mode and then rebooted and it worked. With Regards Nabin Limbu System Administrator HealthNet Nepal O

Re: Suggestions for Antivirus

2003-01-15 Thread nlimbu
RAV Antivirus. http://www.ravantivirus.com With Regards Nabin Limbu HealthNet Nepal On 14 Jan 2003 at 13:59, Paul Dorn wrote: > I have a large install base of customers using Sendmail mostly on Redhat 7.2+ > who are looking for a clean inexpensive Virus filter. Any suggestions on > what to s

Re: conf. dns

2003-01-15 Thread Mark Neidorff
Bind is overkill for what you want. Check out djbdns at http://cr.yp.to . It is much easier to set up. Mark On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 09:00:05AM -0500, James Casey wrote: > > > > How can I configurate a DNS. It would be used just for my intranet, >

Re: conf. dns

2003-01-15 Thread Anth Courtney
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Mark Neidorff wrote: > Bind is overkill for what you want. Check out djbdns at http://cr.yp.to > . It is much easier to set up. Same goes for pdnsd. http://home.t-online.de/home/Moestl/ cheers, Anth -- Anth Courtney Systems Administrator Planet Netcom [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Finding/tracking memory leaks?

2003-01-15 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 08:24:32AM +0100, Toralf Lund wrote: > > Hi all - I had a query from a collegue as to how to find/track memory > > leaks. > > Other than top, what is a good tool to track memory usage? > > > > Thanks! > There is a Linux version of Purify (commercial), you should find out mo

Re: how to turn off all firewall and ip filters in red hat 8.0?

2003-01-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:44:24 -0800, Jack Bowling wrote: > Checking the chkconfig script, "service iptables panic" changes all > default policies on all chains in all three tables to DROP, then > flushes the chains, then deletes them all. No way for a

Re: Using Parted to make logical partitions

2003-01-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14 Jan 2003 22:46:02 -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > I feel kind of silly for asking this, but I can't quite make it out > from the manuals I've read. > > I have a 60GB extended partition, and I'd like to chop it up into > logical partitions.

Inode Proble

2003-01-15 Thread Ravi Narwade
hi all I am suffering form the Inode proble when i gives the command df -h /dev/hda6 for the /var partition it shows FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 243M 146M 85M 63% /var it means there is space on /var partition but still when i gives the comma

Re: Inode Proble

2003-01-15 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 04:57:50PM +0530, Ravi Narwade wrote: > hi all > I am suffering form the Inode proble > when i gives the command df -h /dev/hda6 for the /var partition > it shows > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda6 243M 146M 85M 63% /var

Re: Inode Proble

2003-01-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Ravi Narwade wrote: > > hi all > I am suffering form the Inode proble > when i gives the command df -h /dev/hda6 for the /var partition > it shows > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda6 243M 146M 85M 63% /var > > it means ther

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:33:50 +0200, Dan Bar Dov wrote: > However, the issue at hand is the license agreement. > Reading the quotes sent by Dmitry Melekhov [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > The term "Installed Servers" means the number of servers on which > > C

Re: Inode Proble

2003-01-15 Thread Alan Peery
Anand Buddhdev wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 04:57:50PM +0530, Ravi Narwade wrote: Delete some files from /var. There's no other way to recover inodes. And find out what caused so many inodes to be used up. It's unusual. Two likely causes are Usenet news feeds and Internet proxy caches. Bo

Re: xinit redhat7.0 netscape7, keyboard does not work

2003-01-15 Thread paal
I have tried to google around to find a solution here. I have put options for the gui for the xinit command xinit /usr/local/netscape/netscape -no-about-splash geometry=800x600+0+0 Now I get an error message that makes sense The Xkeyboard keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: Error: no symbols na

Re: Is there a way to disable logins after N tries?

2003-01-15 Thread Javier Gostling
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:27:12PM -0500, Ray Curtis wrote: > How about just adding something simple to /etc/profile such as: > > logcount=`/usr/bin/w | /bin/grep -c $LOGNAME` > if [ $logcount = 8 ] ; then > echo "You have tried to login more than eight times." | /bin/mail -s "L\ogin >Er

RE: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Bar Dov
Sure, but read deeper - they sell service, again, service - not software. Want the service - buy it. You want only the software - its GPL. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Behalf Of Dmitry Melekhov > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:43 AM

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-15 Thread Dmitry Melekhov
Dan Bar Dov wrote: Sure, but read deeper - they sell service, again, service - not software. Want the service - buy it. You want only the software - its GPL. The same is with RH. But when you buy box with RH AS or SLES you automatically buy service, and according to Service Agrement you must

Change order of SCSI devices (/dev/sdN)?

2003-01-15 Thread Toralf Lund
One of our customers has a server where the internal system disk is connected via an on-board SCSI on the motherboard while external disks are connected to a PCI-based SCSI host adapter. Now, the BIOS on this motherboard will return the on-board controller after the PCI one(s), so the system di

Turn Connection ON/OFF (Was: Re: DSL-Connection)

2003-01-15 Thread Mauritius Hiller
Hello, thank you for your help. My DSL-Connection works now. But if the Connection ins activated in the Network-Configuration-Window, there is always a connection. Is there a more simple way of opening and closing the connection, or do i have to change this always in this window. Isn't there a sma

sendmail vacation error

2003-01-15 Thread Brad Ching
Good evening! I need install vacation message in sendmail ,but it don't work,error message is: The original message was received at Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:28:01 +0800 from [192.168.162.99] - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - "|/usr/bin/vacation testmail" (reaso

Re: RPM dependency hell

2003-01-15 Thread Johnathan Bailes
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 18:34, j_post wrote: > On Tuesday 14 January 2003 11:45 am, Jonathan Bailes wrote: > > > > Ok, Solution for most dependency hell issues. Everyone listen up. It > > is called apt and it has a nice gui frontend called synaptic. > > > Uh-huh. Wanna take a wild guess as to what

Re: Sendmail problem

2003-01-15 Thread Joe Polk
I could be wrong, but @abcd.net is telling it to map [EMAIL PROTECTED] to admin. This would probably explain it. <> -- Original Message --- From: "sixx lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:04:14 +0800 Subject: Sendmail problem > Hi there, >

newbie: tv-card, scanner, find rpm's, xmms

2003-01-15 Thread Mauritius Hiller
Hello, how do i install a TV-Card on an redhat 8.0? Its a Fly Video 2 with a Phillips Tuner. My next problem is a HP 5200C USB-scanner, wich i wanna run. How do i install it? Arent there any programs in Redhat for these components? i'm a bit dissatisfied! And: how do i find rpm's from the CD's?

Adding 2nd HDD

2003-01-15 Thread Jim Mediger
I want to add a 2nd hard drive to my RH 7.3 pc. What command or utilities Do I use to partition and format the new hdd? The hdd I will be using may already have a test install of 7.3 on it. I do not want to keep the partitions from that install. Will there be any problems adding the hdd with the

Forward IP from eth0:1 to real host behind eth1

2003-01-15 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi Folks, I have a Watchguard firebox II which is based on a 2.2 kernel. With this box, I can define IP addresses within the subnet of the public I/F and have that traffic forwarded to a host within my DMZ. For example the public I/F of the firewall is 213.38.87.130, but I have configured the

Re: Change order of SCSI devices (/dev/sdN)?

2003-01-15 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:12:04PM +0100, Toralf Lund wrote: [...] > Is there a way I can change the device id assignment order so that the > system id. is constant? Simple reversal of the order (i.e. _last_ disk as > /dev/sda) would do just fine. I'm not sure about changing the ID, nor about ch

Re: Adding 2nd HDD

2003-01-15 Thread Den N Shilkin
man fdisk (to make partitions)  man mkfs (to make an OS)   Den N Shilkin   [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Jim Mediger To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 5:07 PM Subject: Adding 2nd HDD I want to add a 2nd hard drive to my RH 7.

Re: Updating CUPS

2003-01-15 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, > > My rpm update question of the day... > > I have a CUPS installation working very well. A few days ago RH > released a new CUPS errata rpm. When listing the available updates for > my machine the up2date shows the cups-devel and the cups-libs

Re: Adding 2nd HDD

2003-01-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Den N Shilkin wrote: > man fdisk (to make partitions) > man mkfs (to make an OS) i'm assuming you mean "FS", not "OS". rday -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Forward IP from eth0:1 to real host behind eth1

2003-01-15 Thread Nick Lindsell
At 14:16 15/01/2003 +, you wrote: Hi Folks, I have a Watchguard firebox II which is based on a 2.2 kernel. With this box, I can define IP addresses within the subnet of the public I/F and have that traffic forwarded to a host within my DMZ. For example the public I/F of the firewall is 213

Re: newbie: tv-card, scanner, find rpm's, xmms

2003-01-15 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:05:20PM +0100, Mauritius Hiller wrote: [...] > My next problem is a HP 5200C USB-scanner, wich i wanna run. How do i > install it? Check out sane and xsane. Chances are they're already installed. If not, they're included on the CDs. Make sure to read the documentation th

Multiple NICs

2003-01-15 Thread Jan
Hi, I happen to have two NICs in my PC and I want to play with them. I know the basic stuff, like how to setup IP addresses etc, but I would like to know more in depth about what I can do with them, like eg. whether I can define a separate set of services for each and how to do. Is there a goo

Re: What is the maximum UID or GID on RH80?

2003-01-15 Thread Brian Ashe
David Busby, They seem to indirectly recommend that the UIDs/GIDs stay below 6. They do this by setting this in /etc/login.defs. Since most programs use useradd, this effectively limits it to that. Of course it can be manually overidden by either passing useradd a higher UID or by changing

Re: RPM dependency hell

2003-01-15 Thread j_post
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 05:36 am, Johnathan Bailes wrote: > > The previous post from a previous person mentioned getting the correct > rpm for your platform. > However, find the right rpms and you will have a very nice > package management tool. > I'm still trying to find the correct rpm for

Re: how to turn off all firewall and ip filters in red hat 8.0?

2003-01-15 Thread Jack Bowling
** Reply to message from Michael Schwendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:05:53 +0100 > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:44:24 -0800, Jack Bowling wrote: > > > Checking the chkconfig script, "service iptables panic" changes all > > default p

ISO images

2003-01-15 Thread Sudhakar
Hi, I've downloaded the ISO images of RedHat Linux 8.0 from the Redhat sight, but when I boot from the floppy it goes to the point where it asks me to put in the OS CD's, after that it comes up with error message "The Red Hat Linux CD was not found in any of your CDROM drives. Please insert

Sendmail

2003-01-15 Thread Daniel Field
Hi,   If there is a better list for this question then please tell me so   What I want to do is share a directory from my Redhat box (I have managed this part) and then be able to use that directory as a drop point for emails for sendmail to pickup and send out.  Similar to the way the

Re: ISO images

2003-01-15 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Sudhakar wrote: > I've downloaded the ISO images of RedHat Linux 8.0 from the Redhat > sight, but when I boot from the floppy it goes to the point where it > asks me to put in the OS CD's, after that it comes up with error message > "The Red Hat Linux CD was not found in any o

Re: Sendmail

2003-01-15 Thread Nick Lindsell
At 16:22 15/01/2003 +, you wrote: Hi, If there is a better list for this question then please tell me so What I want to do is share a directory from my Redhat box (I have managed this part) and then be able to use that directory as a drop point for emails for sendmail to pickup and sen

USB CD burner

2003-01-15 Thread Didimo Grimaldo
Hi, I have an external CD-RW attached to my laptop. When I use it with the PCMCIA card interface it is recognized as an external CD. Can be mounted and burned to using SCSI emulation. Well, since I was gettting lots of coasters I decided to try out the USB interface of the same CDRW. I see

RE: Sendmail

2003-01-15 Thread Daniel Field
I know it works with a pickup directory (eg: /var/spool/mqueue). I want our server based application which runs from a Win2K box to be able to write to this mail queue for sendmail to pickup the mail and send them on, this does away with the overhead of a SMTP connection for each mail send. -

Restoring /boot and MBR

2003-01-15 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi folks, I've just boobed big time Instead of typing dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 I typed dd if=boot.img of=/dev/hda bs=1024 Now I recon I've stuffed the MBR including the partition table, and the 1st 1023 blocks of /boot. While I've still got by PC booted everything's working fine,

RE: Sendmail

2003-01-15 Thread Rechenberg, Andrew
Unless you're doing a MASSIVE amount of outgoing mail, there shouldn't be that much of an overhead penalty for just using standard SMTP on the Red Hat box to send the mail. -Original Message- From: Daniel Field [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:38 AM To: [EM

RE: Sendmail

2003-01-15 Thread Daniel Field
It will be alot though! Its for our CMS for which we are building a email marketing module (For registered users). Dan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rechenberg, Andrew Sent: 15 January 2003 16:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Sendm

Re: Sendmail

2003-01-15 Thread Shannon Neumann
My understanding is that sendmail only uses the mqueue if it is configured to queue the mail rather than sending it right away.  And even in that case, it is sendmail itself that writes the messages to that directory after an SMTP connection has been used to get the message to sendmail. I supp

Re: Sendmail

2003-01-15 Thread Aly Dharshi
Hello, I don't know of any software that can do that right of the bat, what you may want to do is write a script that will using cron periodically check and send stuff from the directory. Something like mailx/mail could be a useful program to use in this case. I think that there should b

RE: Sendmail

2003-01-15 Thread Daniel Field
Yes, not a bad idea.  At least then we could control the amount of emails being sent out each hour as well, so we could split the load up.   The other option is to write some scripts that access the DB directly from the Linux box and send the mails out.  I havnt used Linux for about 5 years

lost /dev/cdrom and IRQ probe anomolies -- please help.

2003-01-15 Thread Stone, Timothy
A couple of things happened overnight... I had need to load a RPM and attempted to open the CDROM tray % sudo eject /mnt/cdrom Well this failed. I could "feel" the drive spinning. So I tried % sudo umount /mnt/cdrom This didn't seem to help so I thought... okay, I'll reboot. Upon rebooting th

RE: Sendmail

2003-01-15 Thread Nick Lindsell
At 16:37 15/01/2003 +, you wrote: I know it works with a pickup directory (eg: /var/spool/mqueue). Not quite. /var/spool/mqueue is a *spool* directory - you can't just drop a file in there and expect sendmail to send it out. To do something like that you'll have to create all the smtp header

Re: Restoring /boot and MBR

2003-01-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've just boobed big time > > Instead of typing > > dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 > > I typed > > dd if=boot.img of=/dev/hda bs=1024 > > Now I recon I've stuffed the MBR including the partition table, and the 1st > 1023 blocks

Re: Sendmail

2003-01-15 Thread Shannon Neumann
I don't personally know of an 'VBScript-ish' languages for linux, but I know that Perl is very adept with regards to database access...  However, I am in no way proclaiming to be a Perl wiz, I just offered it as a suggestion based on what I have read, and what others have said about it. Shanno

RE: Sendmail

2003-01-15 Thread Daniel Field
No, that sounds ok to me! I will look into using the mail command. Dan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nick Lindsell Sent: 15 January 2003 16:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Sendmail At 16:37 15/01/2003 +, you wrote: >I know i

Re: Updating CUPS

2003-01-15 Thread mklinke
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 14:22, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > Obviously, it doesn't want to blow my current configuration away > > but this is pretty non-informative! Is there any way to determine > > which configuration files will get blown away if I choose to > > install this thing? > > Do you

Re: Sendmail

2003-01-15 Thread Brian Ashe
Daniel Field, On Wednesday January 15, 2003 11:52, Daniel Field wrote: > Yes, not a bad idea. At least then we could control the amount of emails > being sent out each hour as well, so we could split the load up. > > The other option is to write some scripts that access the DB directly from > the

Re: Compaq Armada M700

2003-01-15 Thread Steve Lee
thanks. i will look into this. On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Alan Peery wrote: > Steve Lee wrote: > > >anyone been able to get the serial port > >working on this laptop. I've been unable to get this to work. > >i could really use this to connect to hardware for console use. > > > > > IIRC there was a

Re: Restoring /boot and MBR

2003-01-15 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi Robert. On Wednesday 15 Jan 2003 4:54 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I've just boobed big time > > > > Instead of typing > > > > dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 > > > > I typed > > > > dd if=boot.img of=/dev/hda bs=1024 > > > >

Re: Restoring /boot and MBR

2003-01-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ok, here's another question to which i don't know the answer -- where does the first partition (/dev/hda1) really start? i ask since, on my host, fdisk tells me that /dev/hda has 255 heads, 63 sectors, 5836 cylinders (obviously bogus values), but it further says that Units = cylinders of 16

Re: Restoring /boot and MBR

2003-01-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
some other useful tools you should know about while you're trying this: # hexdump -cx /dev/hda | less to dump (in both char and hex form) the beginning of /dev/hda. this is a good way to tell if anything there has changed if you, for example, run "fdisk" and try to "w" to restore the MBR and

Configuring Konqueror

2003-01-15 Thread Sean Hendricks
Hello, I'm having trouble getting Konqueror to pick up Java. When I try to use Konqueror with any applets, I get an "error: java executable not found". Any ideas as to what to do? I've been to the Configure Konqueror dialog, and put the pathname of my JRE in, but no luck. Sean -- redhat-lis

Re: Forward IP from eth0:1 to real host behind eth1

2003-01-15 Thread Mike Burger
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Nick Lindsell wrote: > At 14:16 15/01/2003 +, you wrote: > >Hi Folks, > > > >I have a Watchguard firebox II which is based on a 2.2 kernel. With this > >box, > >I can define IP addresses within the subnet of the public I/F and have that > >traffic forwarded to a host wit

Re: USB storage device access

2003-01-15 Thread dbrett
Thanks for the kick in the pants. PCI card would be nice, but I have two problems. The first problem is I have not yet found out how to get the slot to work with out locking up the computer during boot (It was suggested I make a change to GRUB, I have not had a chance to try this yet). The sec

RE: lost /dev/cdrom and IRQ probe anomolies -- please help.

2003-01-15 Thread Stone, Timothy
As promised the exact errors reported (pulled from /var/log/dmesg) ... hda: ST310212A, ATA Disk Drive hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8) hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8) hdd: no response (status = 0x80), resetting drive hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8) hdd: no response (status = 0x80) ide0 at ... on irq 1

Re: ISO images

2003-01-15 Thread Sudhakar
Hi, I did try booting it from the CD media (I've validated the checksums), but even though my BIOS settings are configured to boot from CDROM, the ISO image is not booting at the startup from the CDROM., that was the reason I created a BOOT floppy. I'd appreciate your suggestions on this issue. Th

RE: ISO images

2003-01-15 Thread Jason Staudenmayer
Did you burn the image to the cd or the "image file" to the cd? If you place the cd in a drive and view the contents what do you see? Whatever.iso or do you see the dir/file tree? -Original Message- From: Sudhakar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 1:33 PM To: [

Re: Restoring /boot and MBR

2003-01-15 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 11:27, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > ok, here's another question to which i don't know > the answer -- where does the first partition (/dev/hda1) > really start? > > i ask since, on my host, fdisk tells me that /dev/hda > has 255 heads, 63 sectors, 5836 cylinders (obviousl

Help! Repair ext2 error while mounted?

2003-01-15 Thread Ryan Babchishin
I have the following kernel log entry on my NFS server. It's repeated about 10,000 times now. It's causing havoc with some of my mail and web software. EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,17)): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count corrupted for block group 19 I would love to just unmount the array and do

Re: Help! Repair ext2 error while mounted?

2003-01-15 Thread nate
Ryan Babchishin said: > Is there any way for me to repair this on the fly? Even better - without > having to scan the whole array (since I know where the error is)? there sure is! provided you don't mind even more curroption to your filesystem tell fsck to force check. it will cause massive damag

messed up man page RedHat-8.0

2003-01-15 Thread Robin Mordasiewicz
Is there an environment setting I can tweak to make man pages show up properly they appear with all sorts of wierd control characters. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: ISO images

2003-01-15 Thread Sudhakar
Hi, Thanks a lot, it was my mistake. I was burning the images wrong. I really appreciate your pointers to resolve this issue. Thanks, Sudhakar - Original Message - From: "Jason Staudenmayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 1:43 PM Subject: RE

YP in a large environment

2003-01-15 Thread Tom Wike
We have a situation where the Linux NIS client generates a great amount of spurious traffic that itself negatively impacts both the client and its server. Based on observed behavior by snooping at the NIS server, and confirmed by source code perusal, NIS clients act in the following manner: 1.

RE: lost /dev/cdrom and IRQ probe anomolies -- [SOLVED]

2003-01-15 Thread Stone, Timothy
Okay... not sure what was going on but have a theory. Here are the steps I took: Seeing that the cdrom drive was "coming up and going down" (the green access light was steady for a few minutes and off for another few), I sought to determine what was causing this. Shutting the computer down, I "

Re: lost /dev/cdrom and IRQ probe anomolies -- please help.

2003-01-15 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
+++ Stone, Timothy [RedHat] [Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:27:08PM -0500]: > ... > hda: ST310212A, ATA Disk Drive > hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8) > hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8) > hdd: no response (status = 0x80), resetting drive > hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8) > hdd: no response (status = 0x80) > ide

RE: RPM dependency hell

2003-01-15 Thread Campbell, Michael (Contractor)
What is mean't by RPM... Don't laugh.. i am new to Linux -Original Message- From: j_post [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RPM dependency hell On Wednesday 15 January 2003 05:36 am, Johnathan Bailes wrote: > > The

Re: Help! Repair ext2 error while mounted?

2003-01-15 Thread Ryan Babchishin
nate wrote: Ryan Babchishin said: Is there any way for me to repair this on the fly? Even better - without having to scan the whole array (since I know where the error is)? there sure is! provided you don't mind even more curroption to your filesystem tell fsck to force check. it will caus

Re: RPM dependency hell

2003-01-15 Thread Ryan Babchishin
RPM stands for RedHat Package Manager. An rpm file is an archive of files, sometimes binary or sometimes source code. The rpm file contains all steps required to install, upgrade, uninstall or compile the package on your system. It also contains a list of what other packages it is dependent on

webalizer customization?

2003-01-15 Thread Jody Cleveland
Hello, I just setup webalizer through webmin on my redhat 8 server. One thing I noticed it doesn't show is browser information. Is there any way to display that? It'd be nice to know demographics of what browser people are using. Thanks! -- Jody Cleveland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- redhat-list

Re: Help! Repair ext2 error while mounted?

2003-01-15 Thread Kent Borg
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:10:48PM -0500, Ryan Babchishin wrote: > nate wrote: > > there sure is! provided you don't mind even more curroption to your > > filesystem tell fsck to force check. it will cause massive damage I bet :) > > Ok, I'll get right on that! Um, so you really *are* going to fo

Re: webalizer customization?

2003-01-15 Thread Shannon Neumann
Mine shows it...  It is under the heading "User Agents".  I can't remember if I had to change anything or not.  I dont' believe that I did. Shannon Neumann Neumannweb Computers www.neumannweb.net Jody Cleveland wrote: Hello, I just setup webalizer through webmin on my redhat 8 server. On

Re: Help! Repair ext2 error while mounted?

2003-01-15 Thread nate
Ryan Babchishin said: > > Ok, I'll get right on that! just be sure to backup the data first. I can't tell if you saw I was joking or if your joking but I definately would not attempt a forced fsck on a filesystem. if the dataon the filesystem changes a lot your likely to trigger far more severe da

Re: Forward IP from eth0:1 to real host behind eth1

2003-01-15 Thread David Busby
For this you can tell iptables (get latest kernel) to port forward from a specifc inbound IP address. This avoids using eth0:1, you say (but I forget how) to take all inbound packets for PUBLICIP:PORT and forward to PRIVATEIP:PORT. Look at the -m and -p switches for iptables /B - Original Me

Re: webalizer customization?

2003-01-15 Thread Mike McMullen
Hi Jody, If you look through the /etc/webalizer.conf file you'll see towards the bottom a section on how to get browser info. Search for the "GroupAgent" keyword. "MangleAgents" is another keyword you can use to control the detail you get. Hope this helps, Mike - Original Message - From

Re: Help! Repair ext2 error while mounted?

2003-01-15 Thread nate
Kent Borg said: > What happens if you *do* pick an hour with low usage and run a safe fsck? he did mention that doing a fsck will take 16 hours ..must be a really big filesystem, largest filesystem I've had to do a fsck on was about 36gigs(anything bigger was usually reiserfs), and that took only

Re: Adding 2nd HDD

2003-01-15 Thread David Busby
I wrote this: http://www.edoceo.com/liberum/default.php?file=adding-new-hdd.txt after my first attempt to add new HDD...hope it helps /B - Original Message - From: "Jim Mediger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 06:07 Subject: Adding 2nd HDD >

$RPM_BUILD_ROOT

2003-01-15 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Given the following spec file: http://www.codegnome.org/spec/scid-3.4.beta5.spec I do an "rpmbuild -ba scid-3.4.beta5.spec" with a defined built root in he /tmp directory. However, after the packages are successfully built and the clean macro removes the build root, there's still a set

Re: RPM dependency hell

2003-01-15 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 14:17, Ryan Babchishin wrote: > > RPM stands for RedHat Package Manager. An rpm file is an archive of > files, sometimes binary or sometimes source code. The rpm file contains > all steps required to install, upgrade, uninstall or compile the package > on your system. It a

Re: Help! Repair ext2 error while mounted?

2003-01-15 Thread Ryan Babchishin
Kent Borg wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:10:48PM -0500, Ryan Babchishin wrote: nate wrote: there sure is! provided you don't mind even more curroption to your filesystem tell fsck to force check. it will cause massive damage I bet :) Ok, I'll get right on that! Um, so you really *are*

Re: Help! Repair ext2 error while mounted?

2003-01-15 Thread Kent Borg
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:34:18PM -0800, nate wrote: > he did mention that doing a fsck will take 16 hours I guess he did. > that and if his data is so critical to remain available I think his > organization needs to come up with a better system configuration > with more high availability config

Re: Help! Repair ext2 error while mounted?

2003-01-15 Thread Ryan Babchishin
nate wrote: Ryan Babchishin said: Ok, I'll get right on that! just be sure to backup the data first. I can't tell if you saw I was joking or if your joking but I definately would not attempt a forced fsck on a filesystem. if the dataon the filesystem changes a lot your likely to trigger far

GNOME with Redhat v8.0 and v7.3

2003-01-15 Thread Espiritu, Alice M
Has anyone encountered this problem? I have a central nfs server where all the users home directories reside. This person logs on to a Redhat beta v8.0 machine but then before he logs onto Redhat v7.3 he must remove all his GNOME configuration files otherwise his login will hang. This is also

only owner (and root) can change attributes?

2003-01-15 Thread gregory mott
if i understand correctly, only the owner, and root, can change attributes of a file? thus, even though group members may be given permissions to write, and delete, a file, they cannot change attributes, without the workaround of copying and replacing the file? does samba provide any facility, pe

RE: webalizer customization?

2003-01-15 Thread Jody Cleveland
Hi Mike, > If you look through the /etc/webalizer.conf file you'll see > towards the > bottom a section on how to get browser info. Search for the > "GroupAgent" keyword. I did that, and un-commented the lines for the browsers, ie: GroupAgent, MSIEMicrosoft Internet Exploder >

Re: Help! Repair ext2 error while mounted?

2003-01-15 Thread Kent Borg
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:51:38PM -0500, Ryan Babchishin wrote: > I was being sarcastic. It was a silly suggestion in the first place. > There are no real low usage hours in my environment. There are lower > usage hours. Is this perhaps what I see at www.epalscorp.com? If so, maybe an outage

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