Re: [techtalk] where do I put a module to have it come up at boottime?

2000-01-16 Thread moebius
Hey Samatha, I just pulled out my RH6.0 manual and it states that to add a module you simply need to place an alias in conf.modules (/etc). From there rc.sysinit will load that module. Also b/c it's a Scsi device you will need to make sure that you know the IO addr IRQ. So your conf.modules wou

Re: [techtalk] where do I put a module to have it come up at boottime?

2000-01-16 Thread Samantha Atkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey Samatha, > Check out /etc/conf.modules to tell the system what to load and take a > look at rc.sysinit. You'll see the loading there. I checked out /etc/conf.modules on a machine that has the scsi driver loading and it just had an alias line for the scsi driver

Re: [techtalk] Partial execution of /etc/rc.d/rc.M

2000-01-16 Thread moebius
Hey All, I definetely spoke to soon. That . is plenty necessary. Sorry about the misinformation. Harry Hoffman Product Systems Specialist Restaurants Unlimited Inc. Seattle WA 206 634-3082 ext. 270 On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 05:20:05PM -0500, Beve

Re: [techtalk] where do I put a module to have it come up at boottime?

2000-01-16 Thread moebius
Hey Samatha, Check out /etc/conf.modules to tell the system what to load and take a look at rc.sysinit. You'll see the loading there. Harry Hoffman Product Systems Specialist Restaurants Unlimited Inc. Seattle WA 206 634-3082 ext. 270 On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Samantha Atkins wrote: > I recently

Re: [techtalk] Partial execution of /etc/rc.d/rc.M

2000-01-16 Thread Wendt,Andrew
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, you wrote: >Well Subba, > If it is the same here as on your machine the most obvious problem is >the space between the period and forwardslash ". /etc" as opposed to >"./etc" The dot there is not part of a pathname... It's actually a shell command, a synonym for "source".

Re: [techtalk] Partial execution of /etc/rc.d/rc.M

2000-01-16 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 05:20:05PM -0500, Beverly Guillermo wrote: > I have the same spaces in my slack setup as well, and it doesn't cause a > problem. > > Beverly > > On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Well Subba, > >If it is the same here as on your machine the most obvio

Re: [techtalk] where do I put a module to have it come up at boottime?

2000-01-16 Thread Marie Fischer
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Samantha Atkins wrote: > I recently added a scsi controller to my Linux box that was just IDE. I > can't seem to find the place to add in that it should install aic7xxx > automagically at boot time. I'm currently just installing it manually > using insmod. It seems like t

[techtalk] where do I put a module to have it come up at boot time?

2000-01-16 Thread Samantha Atkins
I recently added a scsi controller to my Linux box that was just IDE. I can't seem to find the place to add in that it should install aic7xxx automagically at boot time. I'm currently just installing it manually using insmod. It seems like this should be pretty straightforward to find but so f

Re: [techtalk] Partial execution of /etc/rc.d/rc.M

2000-01-16 Thread Beverly Guillermo
I have the same spaces in my slack setup as well, and it doesn't cause a problem. Beverly On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well Subba, >If it is the same here as on your machine the most obvious problem is > the space between the period and forwardslash ". /etc" as opposed to

Re: [techtalk] Partial execution of /etc/rc.d/rc.M

2000-01-16 Thread Beverly Guillermo
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well Subba, >If it is the same here as on your machine the most obvious problem is > the space between the period and forwardslash ". /etc" as opposed to > "./etc" > HTH, > Harry Hoffman > Product Systems Specialist > Restaurants Unlimited Inc. >

Re: [techtalk] New Linux machine

2000-01-16 Thread coder
> So my questions follow two > lines -- what are considered good prices on hardware these days? And > what kind of configurations should I be looking for? I can give some hardware and software recommendations... #include > > Here are the services I'd like to setup on the computer: Firewall, V

[techtalk] It was PATH. Re: Partial execution of /etc/rc.d/rc.M

2000-01-16 Thread Subba Rao
> > During the system bootup, the init script /etc/rc.d/rc.M is partially executed. > The last 3rd of the file does not get executed. When I run those remaining commands > manually, they work fine. Why is that happening? > > Assuming there are some hidden characters in the rc.M file, I deleted t

Re: [techtalk] Partial execution of /etc/rc.d/rc.M

2000-01-16 Thread moebius
Well Subba, If it is the same here as on your machine the most obvious problem is the space between the period and forwardslash ". /etc" as opposed to "./etc" HTH, Harry Hoffman Product Systems Specialist Restaurants Unlimited Inc. Seattle WA 206 634-3082 ext. 270 On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Subba Ra

[techtalk] New Linux machine

2000-01-16 Thread griffon
I'm going to setup my first home Linux machine.  I buy stuff for the company all the time, but their budget is a bit different than mine, so I thought I'd ask for advice, especially since I' m still new to Linux.  I've installed Linux a couple of times for work for very specific purposes (ro

Re: [techtalk] Partial execution of /etc/rc.d/rc.M

2000-01-16 Thread Beverly Guillermo
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Subba Rao wrote: > > # Start Qmail > if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.qmail ]; then > . /etc/rc.d/rc.qmail start > fi > > # Start Samba (a file/print server for Win95/NT machines): > if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.samba ]; then > . /etc/rc.d/rc.samba >

Re: [techtalk] Partial execution of /etc/rc.d/rc.M

2000-01-16 Thread Beverly Guillermo
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Jenn V. wrote: > Subba Rao wrote: > > > > Everything upto (including) Qmail starts. All below that > > spews error messages. The messages are something like "command not found" type. > > When I run each script manually, they work fine. > > I notice that the Qmail has 'start'

Re: [techtalk] Partial execution of /etc/rc.d/rc.M

2000-01-16 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 09:28:41PM -0500 or thereabouts, Subba Rao wrote: > > Assuming there are some hidden characters in the rc.M file, I deleted > the problem portion of the file, and retyped them. That did not help > either. If there are some hidden characters in a text file, how do I > fi