RE: understanding tftp
Bravo Christopher that did it! A big thanks... /j-p. christopher cuse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24/03/2003 15:29 Please respond to redhat-list To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: understanding tftp Hi John Paul I see your error now -- you have placed a -l argument to the server: -lRun the server in standalone (listen) mode, rather than run from inetd. In listen mode, the -t option is ignored, and the -a option can be used to specify a specific local address or port to listen to. remove the -l argument and try again! Cheers Christopher CUSE RHCE/CCNA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John-Paul Delaney Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 11:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: understanding tftp Thanks Gene... I completely mis-interpreted that output :( . This is the contents of the /etc/xinetd.d/tftp file: disable = no socket_type = dgram protocol= udp wait= yes user= root server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd server_args = -s -c -l /tftpboot per_source = 11 cps = 100 2 How then, is the tftp server started? thanks /j-p. Gene Yoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 21/03/2003 23:24 Please respond to redhat-list To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: understanding tftp John-Paul Delaney wrote: tftpd seems to be running ok: root 20212 0.0 0.3 3544 632 tty1 S07:50 0:00 grep tftpd if you did ps auxw | grep tftpd like above, that's all your going to see. your tftpd is not up and running. run chkconfig --list tftpd -- gyoo [at] attbi [dot] com -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iQCUAwUBPhxERRxoVYCzmrKXAQJK5gP3Y7CTsFyKpEz2p5W4GWI9+qSm+kWfdJ0R xNlma0Ma9rAL/OBJcZMo5IXyXas+3Edogbv4Al6dIf8lot1WS0Iaxxl/cg2f7gf+ otf7LfNpZDE/6OzR7A1qN6baPMLSjGzywwQWMfSVuWWb6kGQxMsA13Kn68G7Ozxs 5CODZqUPyg== =AolA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RH 9: ok, so i overreacted ... but i'm still miffed
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 17:41, Ed Wilts wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 05:33:07PM -0500, Joe Polk wrote: While I would agree with what most have been saying, namely that RH can do whatever they damn well pleases, I don't necessarily like the trend. Caldera has consistently alienated the Linux community starting with tactics much like this. I used Caldera back in the day and loved it. But they didn't seem interested in the end user, unless you were an end user at a big company. I'm not saying this is the direction that RH is going, but they have taken some steps down that road. Let's hope they can see where at leads WITHOUT having to tread the entire length. Again, they can do what they please but that doesn't mean there aren't consequences. The consequences here could very well be a disgruntled user base that simply goes elsewhere. While they won't hurt the existing base of corporate users right now, it will keep people from suggesting RH in the future which ultimately will hurt them. Wow. Red Hat bumped the version number from the expected 8.1 to 9 and now you're saying people will stop suggesting Red Hat? A disgruntled user base that simply goes elsewhere? A little dramatic don't you think? Given the number of people who avoid X.0 releases, waiting instead for X.[1,2,3] releases, I would not be suprised to see a slower adoption rate. Some maye even see the 8.0 - 9.0 as a rush deal, and as a result be more likely to avoid 9.0. If you avoided 8.0 due to it being a .0 release, you are likely, in the general case, to avoid 9.0 for the same reason. If memory serves, there are people on this very list that acknowledge they tend away from X.0 releaes. Many suggest staying away from X.0 releases as well. I would think it more dramatic for these people to suddenly be pro-9.0. -- Bill Anderson RHCE #807302597505773 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Access to the code
* Monte Milanuk The source code for the kernel should be either installed (check /usr/src/linux) or available as an additional (large) package that you can install from your install media. IIRC, it goes by something like kernel-source-versionarchitecture.rpm, i.e. kernel-source-2.4.17-i686.rpm. It's been a while since I've dinked w/ this specifically, so hopefully it's somewhat close. This version of the kernel is the one that RedHat uses, which may be slightly different than the plain 'vanilla' one you would find at www.kernel.org, which is where the main hub of Linux kernel development resides. The kernel RPMs issues are a little confusing, I think. Because the ordinary kernel RPM that follows most Linux distributions is in fact the kernel source code, and not only a binary kernel code. This is so because it is customary for many Linux users to recompile the kernel (or compile some modules) in order to fine tune the kernel code for the specific hardware. The kernel source RPM is something else, and very few people play around with the kernel source RPM. In fact, I cannot think of anything you can use the kernel source RPM except in order to make a new kernel RPM be it kernel source RPM or ordinary kernel RPM. So do not use the kernel source RPM. (What I would like is a howto for using other source RPM. I get confused by all the files included.) -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Multiple identical NFS mounts under RH8
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 18:06, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Michael Mansour wrote: I think I've found a bug in RH8's NFS. On the RH8 client, I can mount the filesystem many times as shown (df -k output): The same thing happens under RH7.3 - all of my machines are 7.3 and I can replicate the same thing you just did. If I am not mistaken, this is a change the Kernel made in 2.4. -- Bill Anderson RHCE #807302597505773 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: beta install change not good?
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 19:50, Jack Bowling wrote: ** Reply to message from Bill Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:27:20 -0700 snip That said, RH is already beginning to differentiate between Enterprise and non-enterprise. Since the personal is the base for sales (as in: the smallest one), that would be a good start, IMO. Personally, I install much more like a cross between server/workstation as personal, but that's me. snip And this would be a mistaken assumption. They plan on making their money on the Enterprise version, not the desktop version. How is what you said different? I said perosna was the base, the smallest one. You said they make their money elsewhere. I do not see the two as mutually exclusive. Indeed, it was not an assumption. -- Bill Anderson RHCE #807302597505773 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RH 9: ok, so i overreacted ... but i'm still miffed
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:29:48 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right On to that, Stephen! !- On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote: this whole thing was really poorly done. rday Yet another reason why my business, and myself are being pushed away by the whole new direction that RedHat has gone in. Sadly, after nearly ten years of sticking to RedHat, I'm going to have to divert my interests to another distribution that isn't going to follow in the footsteps of the larger looming monsters such as Microsoft and IBM. Bouncing versions like this, especially after pushing the version 8.1 idea for so long, is more than poorly done - it's as though the principle behind the versioning scheme has been thrown out of the window altogether without thinking of the long term effects on the people that have come to depend on them - and in thinking that users/sellers of systems with 7.2/7.3 versions are going to be literally out on the streets with this version change, they're making for some really bad business karma. I fear that RedHat, IF this move goes through, which I'm sure it is now, is going to cause quite a ripple throughout the overall RedHat community; and if the entire ploy is aimed at Big Business and commercial services, they're certainly going to find out that some folks are going to opt for a different distribution instead of fighting the version is now outdated trap. IMHO this is - but I'm not going to chuck more money down the drain for a distro I've started to not like or trust. And it really sucks that after all these years, I'm starting to not trust RedHat. -- Tue Mar 25 08:20:00 EST 2003 08:20:00 up 3 days, 19:07, 4 users, load average: 0.06, 0.16, 0.15 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time. -- Norman Cousins -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RHCE Exam, doing it now or wait.
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 23:51, Peter van der Does wrote: OK, So here I am, a RHCE 8 exam coming up next week and the weekend after that RHCE 9 is in the stores. Should I do it or wait for the RHCE 9 Exam. First, upgrade your email client to not send HTML. :^) Then, I'd wait for RH9 exams. -- Bill Anderson RHCE #807302597505773 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RHCE Exam, doing it now or wait.
Wait. Original Message Follows From: "Peter van der Does" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RHCE Exam, doing it now or wait. Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:51:23 +0100 OK, So here I am, a RHCE 8 exam coming up next week and the weekend after that RHCE 9 is in the stores. Should I do it or wait for the RHCE 9 Exam. Darn upgrades. Peter MSN 8 helps ELIMINATE E-MAIL VIRUSES. Get 2 months FREE*. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: 38 GB partitioning advice
I'd set up reasonnable system partitions (depending on what you'll install) such as 50/100 MB for /boot 2/4GB for / swap (twice ram) then use LVM for the rest. with LVM you'll be able to increase/decrease partitions size seamlessly A 13:00 24/03/2003 -0500, vous avez écrit : All, I'm setting up a RH8 server (FTP) onto mirrored 40 GB drives (38162 usable...doing the RAID as part of the OS install) and need some partitioning suggestions for the installation. What partitions and sizes should I use (and why for those who feel like being extra informative...thanks in advance). Regards and thanks, Stuart -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list - * - * - * - * - * - * - Bien sûr que je suis perfectionniste ! Mais ne pourrais-je pas l'être mieux ? Thierry ITTY eMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] FRANCE -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: beta install change not good?
** Reply to message from Bill Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 25 Mar 2003 01:13:40 -0700 On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 19:50, Jack Bowling wrote: ** Reply to message from Bill Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:27:20 -0700 snip That said, RH is already beginning to differentiate between Enterprise and non-enterprise. Since the personal is the base for sales (as in: the smallest one), that would be a good start, IMO. Personally, I install much more like a cross between server/workstation as personal, but that's me. snip And this would be a mistaken assumption. They plan on making their money on the Enterprise version, not the desktop version. How is what you said different? I said perosna was the base, the smallest one. You said they make their money elsewhere. I do not see the two as mutually exclusive. Indeed, it was not an assumption. Sorry, Bill, I thought you meant base as in base for their money-making proposition, not base as in core set. jb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RHCE Exam, doing it now or wait. (Excuse for the HTML sendingearlier)
OK, So here I am, a RHCE 8 exam coming up next week and the weekend after that RHCE 9 is in the stores. Should I do it or wait for the RHCE 9 Exam. Darn upgrades and darn HTML settings Peter -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: beta install change not good?
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 05:28:53PM -0700, Bill Anderson wrote: Maybe, but I think it is just amatter of not planning on it. The minimum install is ~450MB. Surely that can be fit on one CD? :^) SuSE As Matthew pointed, there are several kernels and several glibc shipped with the distribution. Add the installation routine, documentation and images and I seriously doubt you're gonna fit it all on 700 (650?) Mb. If the It fits on one CD requirement is fundamental, I would recommend checking out ArkLinux. URL:http://www.arklinux.com/ You wouldn't happen to be an X-Files fan, would you? :-) Not too much. A bit yes, but it got real old with all the evidence conveniently disappearing at the end of every damned episode. :( ROTFL. Emmanuel -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RedHat 9.0 - The Practical Side
Alright, so I'm annoyed. Just learning linux, and I've gone through 7.2, 8.0, and was anticipating 8.1. so now there's 9.0, so whatI've tried to install 8.1 beta rpms, and there were worse problems than there were with 8.0. So we copeI'm not about to switch distros so quickly, just cause of some version hullaboo. But I want the new release, If it contains gnome 2.2. Heres the rub. When they say binary incompatable, will my /home dir, which is its own partition, mess up a new9.0 istall? should I delete all my /home/Jim/.* files? And does this binary incompatability mean that I wont ever be able to just upgrade rpms on the fly? If not, is there a way to mount a disc image without it being on a disc? (I dont have a burner.) Basically, I'm game, But does it brown the food? _jim -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: [Fwd: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early]
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:37:41AM +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote: Other users - seriously - let's not debate over the number hey? Who cares what it's called as long as it works? But that's the point, from my view. I *always* skipped the x.0's (in fact, I skipped the x.1's as well) and reading about them on redhat-list usually comfirmed that decision. Up until now, the x.0 was followed up with *very* stable, compatible versions as point release - most of the time that were the x.2's, with the exception of 7.x - 7.3. 4.2, 5.2, 6.2 and 7.3 were very good, the lot of them. That's why I'm waiting for a stable 8.x, not for another x.0 release, which again has new major problems to be shaken out. Cheerio, Thomas -- == RH List Archive: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=redhat-listr=1w=2 == - Thomas Ribbrockhttp://www.ribbrock.org You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true! -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: porting from 32 bit to 64 bit linux
I want to port linux(redhat linux 8.0) driver from 32 bit to 64 bit Intel architecture. Can anyone tell me what change has to be done in driver code to support 64 bit architecture... or where can I find relevant information. Will the same change work for 32 bit architecture also. Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Regards, Prasanta Prasanta, asking 3 times is not going to get you an answer any faster. If you haven't received a response it is probably because we don't know. Regards, --- Edward Dekkers (Director) Triple D Computer Services P/L -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
fluxbox utf-8 slow
Fluxbox loads very slowly when started with export LC=UTF-8 export LC_ALL=UTF-8 or whatever redhat default installs with, so when I do export LC=C export LC_ALL=CLL=C it loads instantly, before there was like a 5 min wait, how can I change it so export LC=C export LC_ALL=CLL=C is default for all users, ie: I dont want UTF-8!!
Re: Red Hat Linux 9 - Obsoleting RHCE's a an unprecidented pace....
Considering that I'm still having difficulties running my driver correctly under Redhat 8.0 (any updated kernel, as opposed to 7.3, or the 2.4.18 kernel in kernel.org), I would call it oddball. --__--__-- Message: 12 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:07:25 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Mansour [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Red Hat Linux 9 - Obsoleting RHCE's a an unprecidented pace To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8.0 appears to be an odd ball much like Windows ME was for Microsoft. But, I'm sure RH has a very good reason for this - they seem to know what they are doing when controversial things like this comes about. -Eric Wood I'm using 8.0 on 3 production systems at the moment, from servicing and supporting RAS, Radius and dialup links of varying sorts, to proxy squid caching, to firewalling, to handling of virtual email domains and system monitoring of various services and servers. I've found it to be strong and robust, I wouldn't put it down to oddball at all. Michael. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RedHat 9.0 - The Practical Side
is there a way to mount a disc image without it being on a disc? ( I dont have a burner.) mount -tiso9660 disk.iso /mnt/cdrom -o loop -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early (fwd)
Red Hat has been using this company for quite some time in the mailout of their 'Under the Brim' newsletter which you can subscribe on their front page. On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote: if this is in fact legit, i'm more than a little stunned. who at red hat decided to provide contact information to a third-party mass-mailing company? what effect does this have on privacy issues? i would *really* like to know how my association with red hat led to my contact info being given to a bulk mailing organization. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: [Fwd: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early]
Some people may argue they are worthless to start off with. On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Billy wrote: Its not the version number that people care about...the RHCE cert is based on version numbers. So the big jump in version numbers makes the cert worthless a lot faster! -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RH 9: ok, so i overreacted ... but i'm still miffed
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 01:09:02AM -0700, Bill Anderson wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 17:41, Ed Wilts wrote: [...] Wow. Red Hat bumped the version number from the expected 8.1 to 9 and now you're saying people will stop suggesting Red Hat? A disgruntled user base that simply goes elsewhere? A little dramatic don't you think? Given the number of people who avoid X.0 releases, waiting instead for X.[1,2,3] releases, I would not be suprised to see a slower adoption rate. Some maye even see the 8.0 - 9.0 as a rush deal, and as a result be more likely to avoid 9.0. If you avoided 8.0 due to it being a .0 release, you are likely, in the general case, to avoid 9.0 for the same reason. Amen. I for one was waiting for 8.1, maybe even 8.2, as the x.2 releases have proven to be excellent releases (exception: 7.2 - 7.3). The way I see it now, I'll probably consider switching distros rather than going 7.3 - 9.0. That would still present me with new bugs and challenges, but maybe bring me back to a distro with a more suitable development direction. I've been using RHL since 4.1 and I've been happy with it, but recently the inclination to switch slowly increases. At least, I'll start gathering information about alternatives. If memory serves, there are people on this very list that acknowledge they tend away from X.0 releaes. Many suggest staying away from X.0 releases as well. I would think it more dramatic for these people to suddenly be pro-9.0. Is the second 'x.0' supposed to be a 'x.1'? Would make more sense that way... ;-) But you're absolutely right: For the folks you describe (and which I'm part of), 9.0 would have to offer some *very* juicy bits to even think about switching. Cheerio, Thomas -- == RH List Archive: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=redhat-listr=1w=2 == - Thomas Ribbrockhttp://www.ribbrock.org You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true! -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RedHat 9.0 - The Practical Side
Not very fancy - but it works (attached shell script). At some point I plan to add an option to specify the mount point if /mnt/iso doesn't exist - but simple as it is, I never got around to it ;) On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 01:39, Willem van der Walt wrote: is there a way to mount a disc image without it being on a disc? ( I dont have a burner.) mount -tiso9660 disk.iso /mnt/cdrom -o loop -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/bash mnt=/mnt/iso if [ ! -d $mnt ]; then echo $mnt does not exist exit 1 fi if [ `mount |grep -c /mnt/iso` -gt 0 ]; then echo An ISO image is already mounted on $mnt echo Please choose a different mountpoint exit 1 fi if [ `whoami` = root ]; then mount -o loop -t iso9660 $1 $mnt if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo mount failed exit 1 fi else su root --command=mount -o loop -t iso9660 $1 $mnt if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo mount failed exit 1 fi fi
redhat-release and version
hi
rpm -q redhat-release and cat /proc/version usually give different version
numbers, what does each mean?
cheng
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RE: understanding tftp
Hi John Paul, Glad that it finally worked out -- but remember to isolate access to a writable tftp server as it can lead to very ugly security issues. I was a bit short on message concerning xinetd the other day -- I suppose that is somewhat synonymous to kernel modules, that is, that kernel modules are loaded and unloaded depending on whether they are needed. xinetd's approach to services is similar -- services are launched dynamically when they are requested. It is possible for your to configure tftpd, pop and other services to be loaded continuously in memory, ready to service eventual requests. from a resource standpoint, this may not be desirable, particularly if the service is used irregularly. so larger services (sendmail, apache, named, etc.) are loaded and forked into the background ready handle requests, and xinetd stands ready to start and stop smaller services that are used irregularly. further, xinetd services are typically compiled using tcp wrappers -- an additional method of securing services from unauthorized access. for instance, if your tftp server is going to be used uniquely to backup/restore cisco ios and router configs, than you can secure the service to allow only access from your router(s). For good explanation, see the Chapter 8 in the Red Hat 8.0 Reference Guide. Cheers Christopher CUSE RHCE/CCNA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John-Paul Delaney Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 9:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: understanding tftp Bravo Christopher that did it! A big thanks... /j-p. christopher cuse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24/03/2003 15:29 Please respond to redhat-list To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: understanding tftp Hi John Paul I see your error now -- you have placed a -l argument to the server: -lRun the server in standalone (listen) mode, rather than run from inetd. In listen mode, the -t option is ignored, and the -a option can be used to specify a specific local address or port to listen to. remove the -l argument and try again! Cheers Christopher CUSE RHCE/CCNA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John-Paul Delaney Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 11:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: understanding tftp Thanks Gene... I completely mis-interpreted that output :( . This is the contents of the /etc/xinetd.d/tftp file: disable = no socket_type = dgram protocol= udp wait= yes user= root server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd server_args = -s -c -l /tftpboot per_source = 11 cps = 100 2 How then, is the tftp server started? thanks /j-p. Gene Yoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 21/03/2003 23:24 Please respond to redhat-list To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: understanding tftp John-Paul Delaney wrote: tftpd seems to be running ok: root 20212 0.0 0.3 3544 632 tty1 S07:50 0:00 grep tftpd if you did ps auxw | grep tftpd like above, that's all your going to see. your tftpd is not up and running. run chkconfig --list tftpd -- gyoo [at] attbi [dot] com -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iQCUAwUBPhxERRxoVYCzmrKXAQJK5gP3Y7CTsFyKpEz2p5W4GWI9+qSm+kWfdJ0R xNlma0Ma9rAL/OBJcZMo5IXyXas+3Edogbv4Al6dIf8lot1WS0Iaxxl/cg2f7gf+ otf7LfNpZDE/6OzR7A1qN6baPMLSjGzywwQWMfSVuWWb6kGQxMsA13Kn68G7Ozxs 5CODZqUPyg== =AolA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RedHat 9.0 - The Practical Side
The biggest problem you might run into is some config files in your home directory that have changed spec, but that has only happened to me once - I think when going from a pre 1 version of gnome to a much newer one. If that happens - just delete the config file. What you want to do - copy these files to a floppy: /etc/shadow /etc/group /etc/passwd Any data not in your home directory that you want to save, back them up too. Such as /etc/httpd/httpd.conf if you use Apache and have customized it. You might want to save your ssl key too, but I never bother to on a home machine. When you install the new distro, choose your current /home partition with a mount point of /home but DO NOT choose to format it. Let the install go, don't create a new user - just the root user is enough. Boot into single the root account, mount the floppy, and run: cat /mnt/floppy/shadow /etc/shadow cat /mnt/floppy/group /etc/group cat /mnt/floppy/passwd /etc/passwd reboot - and you should be able to log into any of your user accounts just fine. If you don't have a burner - I *really* recommend you have a friend burn the iso's. Really. I don't know where you live, but in California (most of the US I suspect) you can get an IDE cdrw drive for about $50.00 now new. They really have dropped in price. But if you can't afford it, really - get a friend to burn it. You probably want to burn backups of your home directory anyway just in case something goes wrong. If I were you, though - I'd wait to install RH9 until about a month after it has been released. That way you can see pitfalls to avoid - and show stopper bugs have a better chance of having patches easily available. On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 00:36, Jim Wilferling wrote: Alright, so I'm annoyed. Just learning linux, and I've gone through 7.2, 8.0, and was anticipating 8.1. so now there's 9.0, so whatI've tried to install 8.1 beta rpms, and there were worse problems than there were with 8.0. So we copeI'm not about to switch distros so quickly, just cause of some version hullaboo. But I want the new release, If it contains gnome 2.2. Heres the rub. When they say binary incompatable, will my /home dir, which is its own partition, mess up a new9.0 istall? should I delete all my /home/Jim/.* files? And does this binary incompatability mean that I wont ever be able to just upgrade rpms on the fly? If not, is there a way to mount a disc image without it being on a disc? (I dont have a burner.) Basically, I'm game, But does it brown the food? _jim -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Static Routes
where is the correct place to add static routes in Redhat? I know I can add it to rc.local, but is there a RedHat place? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
LVM or not
what is the benefit of LVM on say an 80 GB drive rather than just giving 78GB to / ? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Remove all existing partitions
Edward Dekkers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I said that I cannot imagine a case where I would want all partitions on all disk drives to be removed during an OS install. Despite your claims, I still would never want all partitions on all disk drives to be removed during an OS install. Not for the two cases that you provided (#2 of which is true for me all of the time, by the way), nor for any case. But I will tell you a case where I love the fact Kickstart will kill everything. Unattended installs - exactly what I think Kickstart was designed for. There's no reason for Kickstart to zero the partition tables on disk drives uninvolved in the OS installation, whether the install is attended or not. It can't be very unattended if I have to stand there and do the old 'Are you sure', 'Are you really sure', 'Last chance now', dialogs. Whoever said it should do this? It should just leave disk drives uninvolved in the OS installation alone. You set up Kickstart to a system of your liking, then take it, plonk it in a PC you want to install, press the button, and make a coffee. Yes, great. Exactly what I want. Zeroing partitions tables on disk drives uninvolved in the OS installation, however, is never what I want. When you come back, the system should be ready to go as you wanted it. Period. Exactly. Zeroed partition tables on partitions uninvolved in the OS installation is never what I want, however. Period. The installer needs to be able to repartition disk drives upon which the OS is going to be installed, and upon which any other filesystems are going to be placed, but none of this implies that it has any reason whatsoever to remove partitions on disk drives that the installer has been told not to install any filesystems onto. Zeroing the partition table on disk drives upon which no filesystems are being placed is always wrong. What function could it possibly serve? And even in the unlikely situation that you can come up with some degenerate scenario in which it would be advantageous to delete all partitions an all disk drives, regardless of whether any filesystems are being placed on those disk drives, you could easily implement this behavior via Kickstart's pre- or post-installation script hooks. I build quite a few systems a week, and I'm very happy with the automated installation stuff that's available. It means I can set up about 4 PCs at a time instead of one at a time. I have never suggested anything that would prevent this. If the customer want's data off it, I back it up to network, then restore when finished. That doesn't sound very unattended to me. In fact, it sounds like a lot of work to preserve data that could very well have been easily left alone by the installer, assuming the data was on disk drives that weren't involved in the OS installation. Same thing everybody should do. Never rely on data to be there after a major install. No backups is a bad practice to get in to. Sure is. That doesn't mean the installer should remove data that it doesn't have to. For one thing, this then leaves you with only your backup copy. Which then means that there is a period of time where you only have one copy, which leaves you vulnerable to loss in the case your backup fails, unless you have redundant backups. No matter how you slice it, there is no good reason for an OS installer to remove data on disk drives uninvolved in the OS installation. Hey, it MAY not suit every purpose, and obviously not in your case, but please don't get into a 'right' or 'wrong' flame war. I'm a software engineer, and thus it is my duty to point out when software is not engineered properly. Despite what you seem to imply, there *is* often right and wrong ways to do something. If this wasn't the case, software engineering would be a meaningless term, and schools teaching good principles of software engineering would be teaching nonsense. There is no right or wrong here, but mainly opinion. So, is there also no right or wrong about your claim that there is no right or wrong here? Kickstart was written by people who want nothing for their efforts. Last I heard, Kickstart was written by Red Hat, which last I heard, is a publicly-traded for-profit corporation. If you want it to behave differently, sign up to their project and make a difference. So, unless I am willing to rewrite all the software in the world, I should never submit bug reports for any of it? I really think it's wrong a tradesman blaming tools for a botched job. Don't you? I think that it's wrong for tool-makers to refuse to acknowledge that their might be room for improvement in the tools they make. I say this as a took-maker myself, who takes pride in well-made, and well-designed tools. |oug -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: upgrading your system... my experience
I had RH8 installed on a Asus VIA board w/ a 900 MHz Athlon. CPU died. I built a new box using an Asus A7N8X Deluxe and XP 2700+. No more was I using the SoundBlaster Live, the VooDoo3, USB was now OHCI opposed to UHCI, I didn't move the old NIC's over. Only thing that was the same was the hard drive, cdrw drive, and PCI modem (rarely used - only when broadband is down and I _must_ connect) Everything went perfectly - the nics on the new board were not supported by the default kernel. It detected they were removed. Once I built the new kernel (which supported the 3com nic) kudzo migrated the old eth0 settings on over - couldn't have been easier. Ditto for eth0 once I installed nvidia's evil ;) kernel tainting closed source nvnet driver. ( btw - please sign my petition at http://petitiononline.com/nforce2/petition.html ) Only thing I had to manually do is have the i810_audio drive load in /etc/rc.local Linux handles changing motherboard/cpu very well - especially with kudzo. You think an expensive commercial OS like Windows would be on par - but apparently not ;) -=- I think it's more tricky when going from AMD to Intel (or vice versa) - I think to do that, you'd need build a kernel that supports both before changing. not positive though. Also - you want to recompile mplayer after changing the cpu. On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 08:42, Tony Preston wrote: RH 6.2 was a totally different story, it recognized the new stuff, forgot about the old stuff and booted normally (even recognized the change in video cards!). I was absolutely amazed (especially after the Win 98 experience). I know this is like preaching to the choir, but I really was expecting a bit more than just rebooting to upgrade just about everything:) -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RH 9: ok, so i overreacted ... but i'm still miffed
Red Hat Linux 8.x/9.x... is now considered by RH as a bleeding-edge operating system for consumer use, mainly targeted towards home users, small business and enthusiasts. As a significant percentage of Red Hat's revenue is coming from Advanced Server (Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS), they are trying to push companies into buying this product. One way to achieve this is to turn the general releases of Red Hat Linux into a constantly changing test bed for Advanced Server. Features that have proven solid in the general releases will be eventually migrated into the Enterprise Linux products. As this will no doubt result in reduced stability in the general releases, anyone wanting stablity and reliability will need to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I had a number of servers running 6.2/7.2/7.3, but as 7.3 won't be supported after 31-Dec-03 I had to decide what version I was going to run. Like many people, I don't want phone/email support from Red Hat, just the errata packages for security and bug fixes. As the general releases won't be supported for more than 12 months (unlike RH6.2 - 3 years), I was not too keen to upgrade my reliable 7.2/7.3 servers with 8.0 or 9.0 at the end of the year. So I built my own version of Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1 from the SRPMS and have a near automated process for building the errata RPMS from the SRPMS. I can install my custom built version of RHAS 2.1 on as many servers as I like (quite legally - GPL) without needing to pay Red Hat a huge amount of money in per server per year licenses. With this, I now get the benefit of 5+ years of errata for a stable Linux distribution. I don't mind paying money for errata packages, such as if Red Hat decided to support 7.3 for 2 more years, but I'm not going to pay $US1500 per server, per year. I do not need any of the advanced features in Red Hat Advanced Server, all I am looking for is a reasonably priced release that is stable and supported (errata) long term. However, I object strongly to paying per server licensing for software that is essentially GPL. You might ask, why not run another distribution, eg Debian, Slackware...? Well, may software vendors only support there products on Red Hat Linux and most are now moving to support only Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SLES. Server manufactuers are also moving to only supporting the Enterprise Linux products of the main 4 Linux vendors with their hardware management agents. Anyone running one of the 'consumer' versions of Red Hat will soon be out in the cold. I disagree, I think there are several valid reasons to be annoyed by Red Hat's latest move. Most of which have to do with running Red Hat in an enterprise environment. Why should third parties develop for an ever changing platform? Already it's hard enough to convince them that there is a large enough user base, now try and explain to them that there will be a major version change at seemingly random times. How on Earth does this look in the least bit professional? Was 8.0 the beta for 9.0? Six months for a major version number? This comes off as a poor management decision, it makes Red Hat appear unstable. Between their release of a bunch of enterprise distributions, the recent cut off of rhn and two major releases in six months, Red Hat looks desperate for sources of income. Big corporations won't base their infrastructure on a company that doesn't look like it's going to be around next year. Why would I want to support another distribution? I was only now starting to place 8.0 in non critical systems, now you expect me to support 7.X, 8.X, and 9.X. And don't give me the they have AS for that argument, show me the company that will pay for AS for a nameserver and I'll show you a company going out of business next week. Red Hat can leverage administrators familiarity with their product to sell the AS product line for mission critical systems such as Oracle Databases, but if Red Hat decides to shoot itself in the foot like Caldera did, don't think I won't switch distributions in a second. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: LVM or not
* Ian Dobson what is the benefit of LVM on say an 80 GB drive rather than just giving 78GB to / ? 1. Whenever you buy a new disk so you have 160 GB, you can easily increase any file system. 2. Whenever you want to reinstall, you can scratch / and /usr, while you keep the /home and /usr/local and /var. 3. In case of diskcrash you might still be able to save some of your data. 4. Playing around with LVM is cooler... -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Remove all existing partitions
Anthony E. Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Douglas Alan wrote: No it wouldn't. It is never reasonable to destroy large amounts of data without being quite sure that that is what the user wants. If that were true, then 'rm -i' would be default behavior, and the '-f' option would not exist. rm -i would never be the default in a good operating system because endlessly nagging the user is completely the wrong approach to making good resilient software. On the other hand, no modern operating system would be designed so that the standard file delete command permanently deletes files without an opportunity to undo the delete. We are stuck with this in Unix for historical reasons. Regarding -f, it should definitely be a more verbose option. The reason that it isn't, is again historical. Clearly, there are situations when the user is expected to know what they're doing. I think that creating an automated Linux install config is one of those situations. You don't. Please don't completely mischaracterize everything I have said. I haven't said anything like the the user shouldn't be expected to know what he is doing. The people who operate a nuclear power plant should know what they are doing, right? Does that mean that one wrong flicked switch should cause the plant to instantly melt down? Kickstart is a non-interactive environment, isn't it? How is it supposed to interact with you to confirm your instructions? It could start by not zeroing partitions on disk drives uninvolved in the OS installation, since there is no reason for it to do that. Other improvements might be for it to put up a splash screen at the very beginning of the process, detailing exactly what the installer is going to do, which disk drives it is going to muck with, and which partitions it is going to destory, and then ask the user to type confirm or somesuch. But I'm happy to start with small improvements first, like merely not zeroing partition tables on disk drives uninvolved in the OS installation. I have never done this kind of automated installation *precisely* because I did not want the installation routine to make decisions for me. Now you are making no sense at all. First of all, Kickstart does nothing that the interactive Red Hat installer doesn't do. The exact same issue comes up in the interactive installer. Are you saying that you don't use the Red Hat installer at all? No. I was talking about what I want. Not what I put with. I take actions to make the situation conform to my wants, limited by the amount of time/effort I'm willing to invest. In this case, I'm willing to invest the time/effort to run an interactive install so that I can hae more control over what's happening. The Red Hat interactive installer gives you no more or no less control over what's happening than the Kickstart installer. Both present you with almost exactly the same set of options. Furthermore, you say that you won't use Kickstart because it makes decsisons for you. I stand here saying that it should't make decisions for you. You disagree with me and say that it *should* make those decisions for you, I said no such thing. What I said was that it's action was reasonable, given the assumptions it works under. Well, then, you are wrong on that assertion. The behavior that I am complaing about in the Red Hat installer -- that it zeroes the partition tables of disk drives uninvolved in the installation -- is wrong behavior. It is indefensible and should be fixed. Even if your characterizations of my comments were correct, your characterizations assert an inconsistency where none exists. Here are the points you attribute to me: 1. I don't use kickstart because it makes decisions for you. 2. Kickstart should make decisions for you. Those two statements are not mutually exclusive. They make just as much sense as: 1. I don't buy cars with automatic transmission because they make shifting decisions for you. 2. Automatic transmissions are supposed to make shifting decisions for you. You forgot to add your third claim: 3. And because they make shifting decisions for you, don't whine when you get on the Autobahn and the automatic transmission decides to floor it for you until you're going 180 mph. Just because an automatic transmission makes shifting decisions for you, does not mean that those shifting decisions are beyond the scope of engineering criticism. In fact, they most surely are within such scope. |oug -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RHCE Exam, doing it now or wait. (Excuse for the HTML sendingearlier)
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Peter van der Does wrote: OK, So here I am, a RHCE 8 exam coming up next week and the weekend after that RHCE 9 is in the stores. Should I do it or wait for the RHCE 9 Exam. this close to the exam, do you even have the option of rescheduling? rday -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: upgrading your system... my experience
On Stardate : [-29]0032.22 -Tue25Mar03-1240 Tony Preston wrote: RH 6.2 was a totally different story, it recognized the new stuff, forgot about the old stuff and booted normally (even recognized the change in video cards!). I was absolutely amazed (especially after the Win 98 experience). I know this is like preaching to the choir, but I really was expecting a bit more than just rebooting to upgrade just about everything:) This is good news, I just wanted to ask about this. I will be changing most of the machine, except the HDDs. I don't know what machine I will be getting yet, where an I have a look see which hardware is well supported by Linux? We don't have a very wide choice around here, but I would like to get the most supported of what is available. Oh yes, I'm running RH8.0 -- QUIPd 1.02: (406 of 616) - Kids today think the 70s were fun. They think the 70s were - cool. They think that 70s stuff looks hip. Let me put this as - delicately as possible: kids today are idiots. ##216 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Remove all existing partitions
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 06:03:25AM -0500, Douglas Alan wrote: It could start by not zeroing partitions on disk drives uninvolved in the OS installation, since there is no reason for it to do that. This is the part where I don't follow you. If partitions have not been created, how is the kickstart program supposed to know which drives are involved in the installation and which ones are not? Other improvements might be for it to put up a splash screen at the very beginning of the process, detailing exactly what the installer is going to do, which disk drives it is going to muck with, and which partitions it is going to destory, and then ask the user to type confirm or somesuch. This sounds a lot like the procedure you go through when you abstain from telling kickstart to wipe out the partitions. Emmanuel -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Oracle install problems?
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:44:23AM +0100, Jon Haugsand wrote: * Dan Dobbs Make sure you have Java 1.1.8 installed. It's rather picky about the version. You should be able to download an RPM or tarball from Sun. Doesn't that follow with Oracle? Every Oracle installation package I've seen (admittedly not a huge number) contains its own JRE, doesn't expect or use any other pre- installed Java. I suspect the OP has some setup/config problem instead. -- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. --- Isaiah 9:7 (niv) -- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RedHat 9.0 - The Practical Side
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:12:39AM -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: The biggest problem you might run into is some config files in your home But these are not binaries and is true of almost any upgrade anyway... What you want to do - copy these files to a floppy: /etc/shadow /etc/group /etc/passwd Why? The upgrade should handle this. I have these files successfully upgraded since RH5.0 (every increment since then), and never had a problem. If you don't have a burner - I *really* recommend you have a friend burn the iso's. Really. I'd suggest just installing from the iso images in that case. Much easier. On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 00:36, Jim Wilferling wrote: Alright, so I'm annoyed. Just learning linux, and I've gone through 7.2, 8.0, and was anticipating 8.1. so now there's 9.0, so whatI've tried to install 8.1 beta rpms, and there were worse problems than there were with 8.0. So we copeI'm not about to switch distros so quickly, just cause of some version hullaboo. But I want the new release, If it contains gnome 2.2. Heres the rub. When they say binary incompatable, will my /home dir, which is its own partition, mess up a new9.0 istall? should I delete all my /home/Jim/.* files? And does this binary incompatability mean that I wont ever be able to just upgrade rpms on the fly? If not, is there a way to mount a disc image without it being on a disc? (I dont have a burner.) It mostly means that rpms build on a RH9 system will not likely run on RH8 or RH7, etc. That's all. RPMs built on older systems should probably still install on RH9 (due to backward compatibility of libs). It's not a big deal. When you went from RH7.x to RH8.0 you hit the same hurdle. The world did not end then did it? Basically, I'm game, But does it brown the food? Just depends. -- Hal Burgiss -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Help Lucent amr modem driver
The chipset for the modem is scorpio chipset.Has anyone found drivers for this chip set to work with linux. harish = Harish Gopalan Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department Boston University As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality -Einstein __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
so what's the technology behind the jump to RH 9?
can someone explain/point to a web page that discusses the new technology behind the jump to RH 9? that is, NPTL? glibc? and perhaps how this affects current applications? what will need to be recompiled and what won't? and how soon matthias will have a whack of new RPMs up on freshrpms? :-) rday -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Static Routes
Hi Ian, check /etc/sysconfig/static-routes cheers Christopher CUSE RHCE/CCNA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ian Dobson Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Static Routes where is the correct place to add static routes in Redhat? I know I can add it to rc.local, but is there a RedHat place? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: 38 GB partitioning advice
Thanks for the reply (all of you!). I did read a tiny bit about LVM in the RH install/config documentation. It seemed like very useful technology, but I stayed away from it for the moment given my embryonic understanding of the Linux environment. My setup is strictly for an anonymous (private...by fixed IP list at the FW) FTP server that will take in HUGE (100-1000 MB) MPEG2 files which then get moved to our video production servers (the FTP basically serves as a temporary holding bin for inbound content from our clients). Being stuck on the cheap, I'm using an old PII/400 PC with 256 MB of RAM and 2 40 GB IDE drives connected to a HighPoint ATA controller card and setting up RAID1 during the Linux install. I started the install yesterday, and after feeling my way through the manual DiskDruid part (something like 5-6 times!) I THINK I have the RAID done correctly (I'll find out this morning, I left it doing the drive checking part on all the partitions yesterday evening). I went with 500 MB partitions for swap, / and /boot. I went with 4 GB /var and /home partitions, and then put all remaining disk space into the /usr partition (where I'll point the FTP server). I have no idea if the box will even end up booting! after I'm done...I guess I'll find out shortly. Since this is something of a developmental/test box, I'd kinda like to investigate everyone's LVM suggestions, especially since I'm not even through the initial OS install yet. I may just have to get out the company checkbook and get a hardware IDE RAID controller instead and start all over. Sorry to ramble a bit hear, but if anyone has any feedback given the above, your advice or comments are always greatly appreciated. Regards, Stuart -Original Message- From: Thierry ITTY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 4:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 38 GB partitioning advice I'd set up reasonnable system partitions (depending on what you'll install) such as 50/100 MB for /boot 2/4GB for / swap (twice ram) then use LVM for the rest. with LVM you'll be able to increase/decrease partitions size seamlessly A 13:00 24/03/2003 -0500, vous avez écrit : All, I'm setting up a RH8 server (FTP) onto mirrored 40 GB drives (38162 usable...doing the RAID as part of the OS install) and need some partitioning suggestions for the installation. What partitions and sizes should I use (and why for those who feel like being extra informative...thanks in advance). Regards and thanks, Stuart -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list - * - * - * - * - * - * - Bien sûr que je suis perfectionniste ! Mais ne pourrais-je pas l'être mieux ? Thierry ITTY eMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] FRANCE -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: so what's the technology behind the jump to RH 9?
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 06:46:49AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: can someone explain/point to a web page that discusses the new technology behind the jump to RH 9? that is, NPTL? glibc? I was given this link but haven't had time to do anything about it: http://people.redhat.com/drepper/nptl-design.pdf Emmanuel -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
picky observation about http://rawhide.redhat.com
why doesn't the URL http://rawhide.redhat.com resolve directly to a location containing the contents of rawhide? instead, you still have to traverse a fairly generic red hat directory structure to finally get to http://rawhide.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide any reason why it's not more direct? rday -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: setting dial-in server
Hi I'm looking to do console redirection via modem, from all the way from boot to a fully running system, to allow for better remote management control. (ie. to allow me to take the machine to single user mode from home) Thanks Mark On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 11:53, christopher cuse wrote: Hi Mark, Could you more fully explain what is it is that you would like to do -- I am not sure I understand what your looking for ... Cheers Christopher CUSE RHCE/CCNA [EMAIL PROTECTED] --nothing is too difficult once you completely understand it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Olliver Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 12:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: setting dial-in server Hi I saw this post, and I am wondering, what would i do different to get full console redirection via modem, preferably from boot up. Again using redhat 8. Thanks Mark On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 10:10, christopher cuse wrote: Hi Jhun, Yes, Red Hat supports ppp very well, similar to that offered by Windows RAS, but with many more granular options. 1) install mgetty and ppp from your linux distribition 2) add the following entries in /etc/inittab (this assumes two modems - on ttyS0 (com1) and ttyS1 (com2) d1:345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS0 /dev/nul d2:345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS1 /dev/nul this will respawn mgetty if it dies. 3) edit /etc/mgetty+sendfax/login.config -- this should be the only line concerning AutoPPP (remember it is case sensitive -- AutoPPP) /AutoPPP/ - dialin /usr/sbin/pppd file /etc/ppp/dialin-options this line tells mgetty to execute the ppp daemon with options cotained in /etc/ppp/dialin-options 4) create /etc/ppp/dialin-options +chap asyncmap 0 10.1.1.254:10.1.1.1 ipcp-accept-remote #ipcp-accept-local ipparam dialin linkname dialin #kdebug 7 #debug logfile /var/log/ppp.dialin ms-dns 172.16.3.9 ms-wins 172.16.3.9 these are my options, some are remarked out, and you'll need to decide which ones you want and change ip addresses accordingly. check out the man page for pppd, it has all the options listed with their various meanings. 5) edit /etc/modules.conf and add the lines alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic alias char-major-108 ppp_generic alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate this should get the compression scheme right with the kernel screaming. 6) edit /etc/ppp/chap-secrets to include the usernames and passwords of dialin users. note that chap is more secure than pap -- my configuration includes only support for chap (the chap+) in dialin options. Reboot and give it a try. Voila! Cheers Christopher CUSE RHCE/CCNA [EMAIL PROTECTED] --nothing is too difficult once you completely understand it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jhun Bacala Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 10:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: setting dial-in server Hi, I'm planning of putting up a dial-in server in our office. My purpose for this is for me to be able to dial-up to that server and be connected to our server. Just like RAS. Anybody here that guide me on how to set it up? I was planning of using Redhat 8.0. TIA Jhun Bacala -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
mkisofs 650Mb
Greetings, I have a directory which has grown, and will continue to grow beyond 650Mb. I need to back this up to cdrom and haven't found an option in mkisofs that will limit iso images to 650Mb chunks. I've used cddump for backups, and it limits the image size but I'm hoping to find something less cumbersome. Any suggestions? -zeek -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
gnome-panel loop
I'm running RedHat 8.0. I managed to break gnome-panel, perhaps specifically the window switcher (pager). As a result when I startx, the panel crashes as it is being loaded with applets, etc. When I dismiss the crash dialog, the panel tries to load again and I'm caught in a gnome-panel crash loop, forcing me to stop the X server. Oddly, both root and one user experience this problem, but not another user. I tried simply to remove ~/.gnome*, but when those files were regenerated, the problem persisted. For both reasons I believe the problem is deeper. My aim is to escape the loop either by recovering appropriate files from a backup or by manually editing a configuration file. I would rather uninstall and reinstall gnome-panel, for this leads me into a dependency hell. Is the pager a separate RPM application that I can uninstall and reinstall? Or is the pager built into gnome-panel? If a separate application, what gnome-panel script calls the pager so that I can run the panel without it? If the pager is built in to the gnome-panel, Where is gnome-panel called so that I can startx without a panel? Is there any source of information on gnome-panel that addresses such questions? Haines Brown -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: gnome-panel loop
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Haines Brown wrote: Oddly, both root and one user experience this problem, but not another user. I tried simply to remove ~/.gnome*, but when those files were regenerated, the problem persisted. For both reasons I believe the problem is deeper. Have you tried copying ~/.gnome* from a working user to a non-working user? -- http://webcams.greshko.com/ Do you this man, Peter Boeni? http://www.shorewall.net/ for all your firewall needs -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RedHat 9.0
I don't know if I missed it here on the mailing list or not but has anybody got a link to a page that tells more about the new RedHat 9.0? Basically, I would like to find out what the main difference is that would make them go to a new major release. All I can find on their web site is How To Get Red Hat Linux 9 Early. Which doesn't say what is new at all. Doesn't give any information except on how to get it early. Thanks Steve -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the MailScanner at ow5, and is believed to be clean. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Binary compatibility statement between RH Linux 7.2/8.0 and Linux Advanced Server...
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:12:54PM -0500, Greenberg, Michael wrote: We have customers requesting our products on RH Linux 7.2, RH Linux 8.0, and RH Linux Advanced Server. I am trying to determine if there is any binary compatibility statement between RH Linux 7.2/8.0 and RH Linux Advanced Server. Is it expected that applications built on either RH Linux 7.2 or 8.0 will run on RH Linux Advanced Server, or is it necessary to build applications built on 7.2/8.0 when migrating to Advanced Server? My best guess is that you'll have binary compatibilty for just about everything between 7.2 and AS2.1. You probably won't have it for 8.0 depending on what you're doing. There are free downloads of 7.2 and 8.0 available, and there are very low-cost developer versions of AS2.1 available. If you're a serious developer charging for your products, it probably wouldn't hurt to test it on all of them. For more details on ASDE (AS Developer Edition), visit: http://www.europe.redhat.com/software/advancedserver/developer/faq.php3 For each version, you need to determine the compilers and libraries used, and then you should hopefully be able to make an informed decision about binary compatibility. In general, though, Red Hat changes the major release number whenever binary compatibility changes, so in theory you should release a product for 7.x, 8.x, and AS2.x. All the Enterprise Linux releases (AS, ES, and AW) should be binary compatible. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Redhat 8 install problem
I am trying to install RedHat 8 on a Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop. I can have it boot to text mode and it works fine. When I launch startx it then hangs with the X mouse icon. I have managed to trace it's way through the scripts to where it launched gnome-session in the Xclient script. From there I'm lost. I have messed with commenting out certain portions of the Xclient script just to confirm what is causing it and the only thing that changed is the mouse icon when it hangs. Any ideas? Thanks, Jon Morgan -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Access to the code
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:10:05AM +0200, Mohammed Awad wrote: I'm on my way to install redhat 8.0 for resarch purposes. My point is would I be able to get access to the source code of the kernel or even some parts of it (which ones?) , in order to modify the source ? If not, then where could I get the source code of the kernel, then? You can get full source to not only the entire kernel, but also every package that's part of the standard 8.0 release. If you downloaded the ISOs, you probably got 3 full of binaries, and then there would have been 2 ISO of sources. You can also get from Red Hat's FTP site or any one of their mirrors (see http://www.redhat.com/mirrors.html). When you set up your 8.0 system, pay special attention to setting up up2date. This will give you easy access to all the security updates for your release, plus give you easy access to the sources. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
ssh2 keygen??
I have a Tru64 Unix that I want to ssh to from a Redhat Linux, and the Tru64 only allows ssh2. And I also need it to work without passwords. I have generated a RSA and a DSA key on the Redhat (with ssh-keygen -t rsa and ssh-keygen -t dsa). I have copied the id_rsa.pub into root/.ssh2/authorized_keys on the Tru64, I have copied the id_dsa.pub into root/.ssh2/authorized_keys2 on the Tru64, and I have copied the id_dsa.pub into root/.ssh2/hostkeys/key_22_MYIP.pub on the Tru64 None of this works, I still need to give the password each time... :( Any ideas, what am I doing wrong here? Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Søren Neigaard System Architect Mobilethink A/S Arosgaarden Åboulevarden 23, 5.sal DK - 8000 Århus C Telefon: +45 86207800 Direct: +45 86207810 Fax: +45 86207801 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.mobilethink.dk -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Problems enabling DMA on /dev/cdrom with hdparm
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 22:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running RedHat 8.0 on a Dell Dimension Desktop 8200 with a DVD-ROM drive as my /dev/hdc (/dev/cdrom) device. Whenever I try to run the command below on my cdrom, also /dev/hdc, I get the following... [EMAIL PROTECTED] sbin]# ./hdparm -d1 /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) Check out the archives. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=redhat-listm=104059704223731w=2 HTH Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
amanda installation
I have three redhat 7.3 boxes, b1 b2 b3, only b1 has tape drive, I want install amanda for three machines backup system to tape. I can install amanda-2.4.2p2-7.i386.rpm on b1, what should i install on b2, b3, in order to do backup? Thanks Jianping Zhu Department of Computer Science Univerity of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 Tel 706 5423900 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: porting from 32 bit to 64 bit linux
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 01:43, Edward Dekkers wrote: I want to port linux(redhat linux 8.0) driver from 32 bit to 64 bit Intel architecture. Can anyone tell me what change has to be done in driver code to support 64 bit architecture... or where can I find relevant information. Will the same change work for 32 bit architecture also. Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Regards, Prasanta Prasanta, asking 3 times is not going to get you an answer any faster. If you haven't received a response it is probably because we don't know. One could also try actually watching for an answer, which I posted yesterday. Try: http://www.linuxia64.org/ Just in case Prasanta does happen to be listening, I can tell you from my limited experience working with ia64 that even if the changes necessary to support ia64 aren't backward compatible to ia32, the changes are probably minor enough that a few #ifdefs should handle it. -- David Hollister Furthurnet - Free, legal P2P - share the tunes: http://furthurnet.org -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RH 9: ok, so i overreacted ... but i'm still miffed
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 01:09:02AM -0700, Bill Anderson wrote: Given the number of people who avoid X.0 releases, waiting instead for X.[1,2,3] releases, I would not be suprised to see a slower adoption rate. Some maye even see the 8.0 - 9.0 as a rush deal, and as a result be more likely to avoid 9.0. If you avoided 8.0 due to it being a .0 release, you are likely, in the general case, to avoid 9.0 for the same reason. Let me be perfectly blunt here. If you're avoiding a .0 release solely based on the numbering scheme, then you haven't earned the right to be a system administrator. Every release needs to be evaluated based on its strenghts and weaknesses and how relevant it is to your environment. You can have a crappy 8.27 release and it might be just as likely that you'll have a rock solid 9.0 release. It's just a number. I've seen alpha releases more stable than production releases. I've seen production releases from *lots* of vendors that plain out suck. These aren't all .0 releases either. People doing installs next month have multiple choices, all with varying tradeoffs. They can install 7.3, 8.0, 9, or Enterprise Linux. All have pros and cons and some will be more relevant to your environment than others. You can even install a release older than 7.3 if that suits you better. You get to trade off features, bugs, performance, and support (and price with Enterprise Linux). -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: upgrading your system... my experience
Hello, Regarding the message with this subject on redhat-list: You can normally use epox boards with either Intell or AMD processors. The Asus boards can be a problem as they do not always use the same chipset maker. I do not know where you are, but if you are in Gauteng, you can contact me and we can discuss suppliers availability etc. For now, stay away from SIS chipsets. Check the VIA chipsets (used by epox) before you buy. If you can get it, the Intel bords in my experience works well too. I have had good results from an LG network card using Realtech chipsets and an acton card, will have to check the chipset aggain. regards, Willem tel: 012 3120700 or home: 012 3312307 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Redhat 8 install problem
* Jon Morgan I am trying to install RedHat 8 on a Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop. I can have it boot to text mode and it works fine. When I launch startx it then hangs with the X mouse icon. I have managed to trace it's way through the scripts to where it launched gnome-session in the Xclient script. From there I'm lost. I have messed with commenting out certain portions of the Xclient script just to confirm what is causing it and the only thing that changed is the mouse icon when it hangs. Any ideas? What do you get out of /var/log/XFree86.0.log? -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RH 9: ok, so i overreacted ... but i'm still miffed
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:30:00PM +1100, Roger wrote: I had a number of servers running 6.2/7.2/7.3, but as 7.3 won't be supported after 31-Dec-03 I had to decide what version I was going to run. Like many people, I don't want phone/email support from Red Hat, just the errata packages for security and bug fixes. As the general releases won't be supported for more than 12 months (unlike RH6.2 - 3 years), I was not too keen to upgrade my reliable 7.2/7.3 servers with 8.0 or 9.0 at the end of the year. So I built my own version of Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1 from the SRPMS and have a near automated process for building the errata RPMS from the SRPMS. I can install my custom built version of RHAS 2.1 on as many servers as I like (quite legally - GPL) without needing to pay Red Hat a huge amount of money in per server per year licenses. With this, I now get the benefit of 5+ years of errata for a stable Linux distribution. I'll be migrating to Edge Server. At $349 per year, it's still reasonably priced for enterprise software and it's cheaper for my company to install Edge Server on 80 servers than it is to maintain my collection of sources, develop some procedures to build patches, risk the delay in getting notification of security holes, plan and install new upgrades, etc. I don't mind paying money for errata packages, such as if Red Hat decided to support 7.3 for 2 more years, but I'm not going to pay $US1500 per server, per year. That's my Edge Server makes a lot more sense than Advanced Server for a lot of people. Anyone running one of the 'consumer' versions of Red Hat will soon be out in the cold. That's going too far. The 'consumer versions will have their place. I see regular posts from people who want the latest and greatest features, want it now, and don't mind upgrading regularly. Look at the flood that will happen within a day of 9 being released - there is always going to be a demand. After all, the price is right (free, with free security updates). The 'consumer' versions just won't have a place in large businesses, nor should they (IMO). -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: ssh2 keygen??
Søren Neigaard wrote: I have a Tru64 Unix that I want to ssh to from a Redhat Linux, and the Tru64 only allows ssh2. And I also need it to work without passwords. I have generated a RSA and a DSA key on the Redhat (with ssh-keygen -t rsa and ssh-keygen -t dsa). I have copied the id_rsa.pub into root/.ssh2/authorized_keys on the Tru64, I have copied the id_dsa.pub into root/.ssh2/authorized_keys2 on the Tru64, and I have copied the id_dsa.pub into root/.ssh2/hostkeys/key_22_MYIP.pub on the Tru64 None of this works, I still need to give the password each time... :( Any ideas, what am I doing wrong here? Did you enter a password when you generated the keys? If you did, then you have have to enter them when ssh'ing in. If you don't want to enter a password, regenerate the keys using ssh-gen like you did before, and when prompted for a password, just hit enter without entering anything. Put these keys into your authorized_keys files on the remote machine and you will be good to go. JMF James Francis TechRx Inc. 530 Lindbergh Dr. Coraopolis, Pa. 15108 Phone: (412) 474-1078 Fax: (412) 474-1074 This E-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply E-mail, and destroy all copies of the original message. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Redhat 8 install problem
I am still a very much Linux newbie, so treat this info accordingly: You can try to see whether your /etc/X11/XF86Config is configured correctly. Also try using redhat-config-xfree86 to try to config your X correctly. I have Redhat 8.0 on a Inpiron as well with X working OK. If you want I can e-mail my XF86Config (send me an e-mail directly so as not to overload the list). Reg, Jon Morgan wrote: I am trying to install RedHat 8 on a Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop. I can have it boot to text mode and it works fine. When I launch startx it then hangs with the X mouse icon. I have managed to trace it's way through the scripts to where it launched gnome-session in the Xclient script. From there I'm lost. I have messed with commenting out certain portions of the Xclient script just to confirm what is causing it and the only thing that changed is the mouse icon when it hangs. Any ideas? Thanks, Jon Morgan -- *Eduardo Silva* Wireless Network Engineer ESN 587 4664 PSTN - 91 709 4664 Mobile 600 595 219 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: setting dial-in server
Hi Mark, I see -- I think that the operative term is remote management -- I have a couple of Dell servers with remote management cards that allow for console redirection. this is pobably the most elegant and expensive option :-) although maybe others could comment if there are cards available at resaonable prices. Mine is built in and tied into bios allowing full remote control including bios modification. The issue becomes security, because if you have no means of securing the dial-in (a user authuntification sheme) then anyone with your modem number gets directly to a su console -- a horrible thought. I think that you could try to play with mingetty and a modem, but I have never done so. Please do post back if find a good solution. Cheers Christopher CUSE RHCE/CCNA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Olliver Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 2:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: setting dial-in server Hi I'm looking to do console redirection via modem, from all the way from boot to a fully running system, to allow for better remote management control. (ie. to allow me to take the machine to single user mode from home) Thanks Mark -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: RH 9: ok, so i overreacted ... but i'm still miffed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What's the point in upgrading if you don't need to? My server still runs 6.2, and has no need for an upgrade. - -Original Message- From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 9:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RH 9: ok, so i overreacted ... but i'm still miffed On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:52:39AM -0300, Martin Marques wrote: I surely have my systems on 7.3, and was waiting for 8.1 to come out. I don't know if I will switch to 9.0. If you evaluated Phoebe and liked it, why would 9 not suit your needs? What makes you think that 9 is that much different than what you thought 8.1 was going to be? It's just a number! - -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.3 iQA/AwUBPoBrUdPjBkUEZx5AEQImTQCg27w+yYdcKC6tOMpB1Y/IVqqB8PYAoN3c Ahd3/01DuP4KSstEF0DmUQOV =1+Tt -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
search mail-list archive
I try to seach something by author, subject on rehat-list and redhat-install-list achives. But always failed. For example when i try to get my previous posts with Author Jianping Zhu, but i can never get anything. Is there anything special i have to in order to search? Thanks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: redhat-release and version
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:04:18 -, Zhi Cheng Wang wrote: rpm -q redhat-release and cat /proc/version usually give different version numbers, what does each mean? First one prints version and release of the RPM package with the name redhat-release. See rpm --query --list redhat-release to see what that package contains. Second one prints Linux kernel version and build information, such as build hostname, build time and compiler version. Part of that is also reported by uname --all. - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+gG0P0iMVcrivHFQRAjkTAJ9QKk2IcT3gzMyQ1d3YfKr3gAJSHgCfZ2iT 0f679993hWqMwLKX/u3VnXE= =6L+K -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: ssh2 keygen??
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:26, Søren Neigaard wrote: I have a Tru64 Unix that I want to ssh to from a Redhat Linux, and the Tru64 only allows ssh2. And I also need it to work without passwords. I have generated a RSA and a DSA key on the Redhat (with ssh-keygen -t rsa and ssh-keygen -t dsa). I have copied the id_rsa.pub into root/.ssh2/authorized_keys on the Tru64, I have copied the id_dsa.pub into root/.ssh2/authorized_keys2 on the Tru64, and I have copied the id_dsa.pub into root/.ssh2/hostkeys/key_22_MYIP.pub on the Tru64 None of this works, I still need to give the password each time... :( Any ideas, what am I doing wrong here? I have no experience with the Tru64 and don't know what ssh it uses. Having said that, I had to convert openssh keys to be used correctly with a commercial ssh on windows. See if this helps: http://www.netsys.com/cgi-bin/display_article.cgi?1254 Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
SOLVED: ssh2 keygen??
Well on the Tru64 machine, everything is a little different... I had to make a file containing the key, and then another file that pointed to this key, and then it worked. /Søren -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af Søren Neigaard Sendt: 25. marts 2003 14:27 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: ssh2 keygen?? I have a Tru64 Unix that I want to ssh to from a Redhat Linux, and the Tru64 only allows ssh2. And I also need it to work without passwords. I have generated a RSA and a DSA key on the Redhat (with ssh-keygen -t rsa and ssh-keygen -t dsa). I have copied the id_rsa.pub into root/.ssh2/authorized_keys on the Tru64, I have copied the id_dsa.pub into root/.ssh2/authorized_keys2 on the Tru64, and I have copied the id_dsa.pub into root/.ssh2/hostkeys/key_22_MYIP.pub on the Tru64 None of this works, I still need to give the password each time... :( Any ideas, what am I doing wrong here? Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Søren Neigaard System Architect Mobilethink A/S Arosgaarden Åboulevarden 23, 5.sal DK - 8000 Århus C Telefon: +45 86207800 Direct: +45 86207810 Fax: +45 86207801 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.mobilethink.dk -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Redhat 8 install problem
XFree86 Version 4.2.0 (Red Hat Linux release: 4.2.0-72) / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 23 January 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.18-11smp i686 [ELF] Build Host: daffy.perf.redhat.com Module Loader present OS Kernel: Linux version 2.4.18-14 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)) #1 Wed Sep 4 13:35:50 EDT 2002 Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Tue Mar 25 08:49:11 2003 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config (==) ServerLayout Anaconda Configured (**) |--Screen Screen0 (0) (**) | |--Monitor Monitor0 (**) | |--Device Intel 815 (**) |--Input Device Mouse0 (**) |--Input Device Mouse1 (**) |--Input Device Keyboard0 (**) Option XkbRules xfree86 (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) Option XkbModel pc105 (**) XKB: model: pc105 (**) Option XkbLayout us (**) XKB: layout: us (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) FontPath set to unix/:7100 (**) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (--) using VT number 7 (II) Open APM successful (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.5 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.3 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.3 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: bitmap (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.2.0, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.3 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: pcidata (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.2.0, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x8001193c, mode1Res1 = 0x8000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,1130 card 1028,00c9 rev 11 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:02:0: chip 8086,1132 card 1028,00c9 rev 11 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:1e:0: chip 8086,2448 card , rev 03 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:1f:0: chip 8086,244c card , rev 03 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:1f:1: chip 8086,244a card 8086,4541 rev 03 class 01,01,80 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:1f:2: chip 8086,2442 card 8086,4541 rev 03 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:1f:3: chip 8086,2443 card 8086,4541 rev 03 class 0c,05,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:1f:4: chip 8086,2444 card 8086,4541 rev 03 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:1f:5: chip 8086,2445 card 1028,00c9 rev 03 class 04,01,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 01:03:0: chip 1217,6933 card 0001, rev 01 class 06,07,00 hdr 82 (II) PCI: 01:03:1: chip 1217,6933 card 0001, rev 01 class 06,07,00 hdr 82 (II) PCI: 01:0b:0: chip 1668,0100 card , rev 11 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 02:04:0: chip 8086,1229 card 1668,1100 rev 08 class 02,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:08:0: chip 11c1,0448 card 1668,2400 rev 01 class 07,80,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) LoadModule: scanpci (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Module scanpci: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.2.0, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (II) UnloadModule: scanpci (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) PCI-to-ISA bridge: (II) PCI-to-PCI bridge: (II) PCI-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (-1,0,0), BCTRL: 0x08 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 0 I/O range: [0] -1 0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B] (II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:30:0), (0,1,2), BCTRL: 0x04 (VGA_EN is cleared) (II) Bus 1 I/O range: [0] -1 0x2000 - 0x20ff (0x100) IX[B] [1] -1 0x2400 - 0x24ff (0x100) IX[B] [2] -1 0x2800 - 0x28ff (0x100) IX[B] [3] -1 0x2c00 - 0x2cff (0x100) IX[B] (II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0xf410 - 0xf42f (0x20) MX[B] (II) Bus 1 prefetchable memory range: (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:31:0), (0,-1,0), BCTRL: 0x08 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus -1 I/O range: (II) Bus -1 non-prefetchable memory range: (II) Bus -1 prefetchable memory range: (II) Bus 2: bridge is at (1:11:0), (1,2,2), BCTRL: 0x04 (VGA_EN is
Re: system freeze ...
Well, I pulled the RAM and replaced it was some others that I had and there's no problems now! :) Thanks again for the help, Mike - Original Message - From: Steven Efurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 5:03 PM Subject: Re: system freeze ... On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 16:24:04 -0500 Mike Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running into a problem and not sure why it happens - I'm running the updates through RHN and my pc is routinely freezing during the updates. I've reseated my RAM and Video card thinking maybe somehow they came loose. Anyone run into this before or know how to fix it? Mike try this: rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm -vv --rebuilddb then retry the updates Steve -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Redhat 8 install problem
I tried to run the redhat-config-xfree86 utility and it gets as far as making the mouse icon an arrow. Progress! :) As for the XF86Config, it is the default file generated by Anaconda at install. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/25/03 08:40AM I am still a very much Linux newbie, so treat this info accordingly: You can try to see whether your /etc/X11/XF86Config is configured correctly. Also try using redhat-config-xfree86 to try to config your X correctly. I have Redhat 8.0 on a Inpiron as well with X working OK. If you want I can e-mail my XF86Config (send me an e-mail directly so as not to overload the list). Reg, Jon Morgan wrote: I am trying to install RedHat 8 on a Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop. I can have it boot to text mode and it works fine. When I launch startx it then hangs with the X mouse icon. I have managed to trace it's way through the scripts to where it launched gnome-session in the Xclient script. From there I'm lost. I have messed with commenting out certain portions of the Xclient script just to confirm what is causing it and the only thing that changed is the mouse icon when it hangs. Any ideas? Thanks, Jon Morgan -- *Eduardo Silva* Wireless Network Engineer ESN 587 4664 PSTN - 91 709 4664 Mobile 600 595 219 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Redhat 8 install problem
* Jon Morgan XFree86 Version 4.2.0 (Red Hat Linux release: 4.2.0-72) / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) I'm no expert, but it looks ok. And I now realized that your X system does not hang in any way, it may be up and running healthy. What you might miss is a window manager. Did you install Gnome, KDE or fvwm2? Do you have a file called ~/.xsession-errors? -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RTL8139 issue
im using an RTL8139 SMC EZ CARD, and this site (http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=detailshid=4429)says it IS supported, but whenever i try to activate it, it says it can't. (sorry, im an uber-newbie to linux) all of my network stuff is set to localhost stuff, (it w! as standard) i dont know if i have to change anything, or what! please help me. should i just get another card? Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: 38 GB partitioning advice
I see a couple of problems already. /boot should be no more than 100MB. Anything more is a waste. / should be way more than 500MB. I know that some will say I run my entire Linux box on a 486DX66 and 250MB HD! Well, this is RH8 and given what you're telling me, I would jack that up. I would give it at least a Gig. I use a 4gig on my server but it shares /usr too and not many applications will be loaded. Also, if users are going to be uploading these files, then they will likely reside in /home. If you're having an anonymous FTP server then you can point that where you want, but I would still use /home for all such storage. /usr is application data and I wouldn't use if for ftp storage, but you're certainly free to do so. Hell, you can put it anywhere you want, but that's just my assessment. Here's how I would do it, take this for what you will: /boot = 80MB / = 5G /usr= 3G /home = remaining SWAP= 512MB There are a plethora of opinions I'm sure on whether this is necessary, take that for what you will. If you plan to add Apache and email services, then add a /var partition. Keep in mind Apache by default now uses /var/www for it's root, not /home/http as in the past. You can, however, move it to /home if you wish. The important thing to stress is, increase / and make /boot smaller as indicated. 500MB is too small for / and way too big for /boot. JAV On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 08:06, Douglas, Stuart wrote: Thanks for the reply (all of you!). I did read a tiny bit about LVM in the RH install/config documentation. It seemed like very useful technology, but I stayed away from it for the moment given my embryonic understanding of the Linux environment. My setup is strictly for an anonymous (private...by fixed IP list at the FW) FTP server that will take in HUGE (100-1000 MB) MPEG2 files which then get moved to our video production servers (the FTP basically serves as a temporary holding bin for inbound content from our clients). Being stuck on the cheap, I'm using an old PII/400 PC with 256 MB of RAM and 2 40 GB IDE drives connected to a HighPoint ATA controller card and setting up RAID1 during the Linux install. I started the install yesterday, and after feeling my way through the manual DiskDruid part (something like 5-6 times!) I THINK I have the RAID done correctly (I'll find out this morning, I left it doing the drive checking part on all the partitions yesterday evening). I went with 500 MB partitions for swap, / and /boot. I went with 4 GB /var and /home partitions, and then put all remaining disk space into the /usr partition (where I'll point the FTP server). I have no idea if the box will even end up booti! ng! after I'm done...I guess I'll find out shortly. Since this is something of a developmental/test box, I'd kinda like to investigate everyone's LVM suggestions, especially since I'm not even through the initial OS install yet. I may just have to get out the company checkbook and get a hardware IDE RAID controller instead and start all over. Sorry to ramble a bit hear, but if anyone has any feedback given the above, your advice or comments are always greatly appreciated. Regards, Stuart -Original Message- From: Thierry ITTY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 4:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 38 GB partitioning advice I'd set up reasonnable system partitions (depending on what you'll install) such as 50/100 MB for /boot 2/4GB for / swap (twice ram) then use LVM for the rest. with LVM you'll be able to increase/decrease partitions size seamlessly A 13:00 24/03/2003 -0500, vous avez crit : All, I'm setting up a RH8 server (FTP) onto mirrored 40 GB drives (38162 usable...doing the RAID as part of the OS install) and need some partitioning suggestions for the installation. What partitions and sizes should I use (and why for those who feel like being extra informative...thanks in advance). Regards and thanks, Stuart -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list - * - * - * - * - * - * - Bien sr que je suis perfectionniste ! Mais ne pourrais-je pas l'tre mieux ? Thierry ITTY eMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] FRANCE -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RH 9: ok, so i overreacted ... but i'm still miffed
Bill Anderson wrote: Given the number of people who avoid X.0 releases, waiting instead for X.[1,2,3] releases, I would not be suprised to see a slower adoption rate. Some maye even see the 8.0 - 9.0 as a rush deal, and as a result be more likely to avoid 9.0. If you avoided 8.0 due to it being a .0 release, you are likely, in the general case, to avoid 9.0 for the same reason. If memory serves, there are people on this very list that acknowledge they tend away from X.0 releaes. Many suggest staying away from X.0 releases as well. I would think it more dramatic for these people to suddenly be pro-9.0. Allow me to pass along an official correction from an insider - this is Red Hat 9, not Red Hat 9.0. Surely it would be 8.1 if binary compatability was maintained. -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home) PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: beta install change not good?
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 20:27, Bill Anderson wrote: snip As an instructor who needs to insall on the sites I go to, I look at it this way: The most common use of personal should be optimized for the single disc install. It decreases the number of discs, and speeds my install. This is not an insignificant difference. Unfortunately, not all sites I've gone to have a 100MB network, instead running 10MB through a hub -- an install of half a dozen or more desktops over that network is s s s s s s l l l l l l o o o o o o o o o ow. If I can drop a single disc in, get them all started, and move on to something else, it cuts down my prep time dramtically. That's why for Linux Fundamentals, and general admin/shell scripting classes I've found Debian a better platform. One disc has made a major difference in time spent there. I'm not advocating (here) what should constitute a given install package, just that the minimum and/or the personal desktop should not require all the discs, just the first one. Not advocating package change, just disc sequencing. ;) Bill - It sounds like this might be a great application for you to build your own installation cds with kickstart built in. Burn a dozen and you can simply walk into a lab, insert the cd, reboot and walk away. You could then do all of them simultaneously and hava working lab in about 15 minutes. It is really not that difficult and the time spent getting it right would pay for it on the first install. I have some links somewhere. If you like I can try to dig them up. With your skills you should be able to knock out a working version in half a day or so. The kickstart list is good for working on stuff like this as well. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RTL8139 issue
How are you trying to activate it? When you reboot, you should see a line Starting eth0 during the section where all the daemons start (charactarized by all the green OK's you see). Do you see eth0 starting OK? or FAILED? Let us know. Also give us some idea of what kinda system you're running. JAV On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 10:10, Bored is me wrote: im using an RTL8139 SMC EZ CARD, and this site (http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=detailshid=4429)says it IS supported, but whenever i try to activate it, it says it can't. (sorry, im an uber-newbie to linux) all of my network stuff is set to localhost stuff, (it w! as standard) i dont know if i have to change anything, or what! please help me. should i just get another card? Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RTL8139 issue
im using an RTL8139 SMC EZ CARD, and this site (http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=detailshid=4429)says it IS supported, but whenever i try to activate it, it says it can't. (sorry, im an uber-newbie to linux) all of my network stuff is set to localhost stuff, (it was standard) i dont know if i have to change anything, or what! please help me. should i just get another card? _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: [Fwd: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early]
Roger wrote: Some people may argue they are worthless to start off with. On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Billy wrote: Its not the version number that people care about...the RHCE cert is based on version numbers. So the big jump in version numbers makes the cert worthless a lot faster! Those people haven't taken the 6 hour exam (mostly labs), and then compared the people who passed to the book-smart people who passed their MCSEs :-) There is *some* value to it if you're framiliar with it. -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home) PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: A code editor with auto-indentation ?
I thought I would have a look as well, but got this fail dependencies, which doesn't make sense to me. Would somebody explain what this is saying. rpm -ihv jedit-rhmenu-4.1-1jpp.noarch.rpm error: failed dependencies: jedit = 4.1-1jpp is needed by jedit-rhmenu-4.1-1jpp david On 21 Mar 2003, Julien Olivier wrote: Le ven 21/03/2003 à 22:07, David Busby a écrit : I asked a similar question a few days (maybe?) ago aboud cool Code editors, I tried some of the recommended and dig this one written in Java called jEdit. I just tried it (downloaded from jpackage.org) and you're right: it rocks ! I think I'll keep it for a while. Thanks for the tip ! /B - Original Message - From: Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 13:03 Subject: Re: A code editor with auto-indentation ? On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 09:51:49PM +0100, Julien Olivier wrote: Hi I'm an almost happy Emacs user. What I really LOVE in emacs is the fact that you can automatically indent code using TAB (by automatically I mean that you press TAB once and the code is put at the correct columne, without needing to press TAB several times). The problem is that Emacs has some bugs/problems: - It can't open files located in non-UTF paths. - It has weird keybindings (CTRL-W to cut, CTRL-Y to paste, nothing to copy, F10-f-s to save, F10-f-e to exit...) - There is no way to make a search or to repeat this search using a key combination. - It uses the X11 clipboard so that you can't select something and paste over it. - Selecting several lines of code and pressing a key to REPLACE the selected characters doesn't work So my question is: is there any other code editor with the auto-indent feature and which doesn't have the bugs I wrote upper ? Or, alternatively, is there something like kvim (a vim module for KDE) but using GNOME and Emacs ? Emacs is the most programmable editor on the planet. You can write a macro to make it do anything you want it to do. All the keybindings are re-programmable. Just read the docs and start hacking! :-) -- Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: 38 GB partitioning advice
Thanks for the detailed reply, Joe! Well...the box DID boot with that HighPoint card and software RAID1 on the 2 drives. I'm going to redo it all over again, but with your partition recommendations. No plans for a Web server, but you never know. This is really just a box for me to mess with regarding FTP setup and/or act as an emergency spare to replace any in production. Now I have to go read up on LVM to see if I can add it to the mix. Thanks again! Stuart -Original Message- From: Joe Polk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: 38 GB partitioning advice I see a couple of problems already. /boot should be no more than 100MB. Anything more is a waste. / should be way more than 500MB. I know that some will say I run my entire Linux box on a 486DX66 and 250MB HD! Well, this is RH8 and given what you're telling me, I would jack that up. I would give it at least a Gig. I use a 4gig on my server but it shares /usr too and not many applications will be loaded. Also, if users are going to be uploading these files, then they will likely reside in /home. If you're having an anonymous FTP server then you can point that where you want, but I would still use /home for all such storage. /usr is application data and I wouldn't use if for ftp storage, but you're certainly free to do so. Hell, you can put it anywhere you want, but that's just my assessment. Here's how I would do it, take this for what you will: /boot = 80MB / = 5G /usr= 3G /home = remaining SWAP= 512MB There are a plethora of opinions I'm sure on whether this is necessary, take that for what you will. If you plan to add Apache and email services, then add a /var partition. Keep in mind Apache by default now uses /var/www for it's root, not /home/http as in the past. You can, however, move it to /home if you wish. The important thing to stress is, increase / and make /boot smaller as indicated. 500MB is too small for / and way too big for /boot. JAV On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 08:06, Douglas, Stuart wrote: Thanks for the reply (all of you!). I did read a tiny bit about LVM in the RH install/config documentation. It seemed like very useful technology, but I stayed away from it for the moment given my embryonic understanding of the Linux environment. My setup is strictly for an anonymous (private...by fixed IP list at the FW) FTP server that will take in HUGE (100-1000 MB) MPEG2 files which then get moved to our video production servers (the FTP basically serves as a temporary holding bin for inbound content from our clients). Being stuck on the cheap, I'm using an old PII/400 PC with 256 MB of RAM and 2 40 GB IDE drives connected to a HighPoint ATA controller card and setting up RAID1 during the Linux install. I started the install yesterday, and after feeling my way through the manual DiskDruid part (something like 5-6 times!) I THINK I have the RAID done correctly (I'll find out this morning, I left it doing the drive checking part on all the partitions yesterday evening). I went with 500 MB partitions for swap, / and /boot. I went with 4 GB /var and /home partitions, and then put all remaining disk space into the /usr partition (where I'll point the FTP server). I have no idea if the box will even end up booti! ng! after I'm done...I guess I'll find out shortly. Since this is something of a developmental/test box, I'd kinda like to investigate everyone's LVM suggestions, especially since I'm not even through the initial OS install yet. I may just have to get out the company checkbook and get a hardware IDE RAID controller instead and start all over. Sorry to ramble a bit hear, but if anyone has any feedback given the above, your advice or comments are always greatly appreciated. Regards, Stuart -Original Message- From: Thierry ITTY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 4:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 38 GB partitioning advice I'd set up reasonnable system partitions (depending on what you'll install) such as 50/100 MB for /boot 2/4GB for / swap (twice ram) then use LVM for the rest. with LVM you'll be able to increase/decrease partitions size seamlessly A 13:00 24/03/2003 -0500, vous avez crit : All, I'm setting up a RH8 server (FTP) onto mirrored 40 GB drives (38162 usable...doing the RAID as part of the OS install) and need some partitioning suggestions for the installation. What partitions and sizes should I use (and why for those who feel like being extra informative...thanks in advance). Regards and thanks, Stuart -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list - * - * - * - * - * - * - Bien sr que je suis perfectionniste ! Mais ne pourrais-je pas l'tre mieux ? Thierry ITTY eMail :
Re: search mail-list archive
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 08:46, Jianping Zhu wrote: I try to seach something by author, subject on rehat-list and redhat-install-list achives. But always failed. For example when i try to get my previous posts with Author Jianping Zhu, but i can never get anything. Is there anything special i have to in order to search? Thanks Yeah. Don't use the crappy redhat search. I use http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=redhat-listr=1w=2 for searching. It works pretty well. I have taken to using the site for searching all maillists there must be two hundred lists archived there. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RTL8139 issue
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 09:10, Bored is me wrote: im using an RTL8139 SMC EZ CARD, and this site (http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=detailshid=4429)says it IS supported, but whenever i try to activate it, it says it can't. (sorry, im an uber-newbie to linux) all of my network stuff is set to localhost stuff, (it w! as standard) i dont know if i have to change anything, or what! please help me. should i just get another card? post the steps you are using to activate it and the messages you get back and someone can possibly help. was the card recognized by kudzu (hardware detection)? Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: beta install change not good?
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Bret Hughes wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 20:27, Bill Anderson wrote: snip As an instructor who needs to insall on the sites I go to, I look at it this way: The most common use of personal should be optimized for the single disc install. It decreases the number of discs, and speeds my install. This is not an insignificant difference. Unfortunately, not all sites I've gone to have a 100MB network, instead running 10MB through a hub -- an install of half a dozen or more desktops over that network is s s s s s s l l l l l l o o o o o o o o o ow. If I can drop a single disc in, get them all started, and move on to something else, it cuts down my prep time dramtically. That's why for Linux Fundamentals, and general admin/shell scripting classes I've found Debian a better platform. One disc has made a major difference in time spent there. I'm not advocating (here) what should constitute a given install package, just that the minimum and/or the personal desktop should not require all the discs, just the first one. Not advocating package change, just disc sequencing. ;) Bill - It sounds like this might be a great application for you to build your own installation cds with kickstart built in. Burn a dozen and you can simply walk into a lab, insert the cd, reboot and walk away. You could then do all of them simultaneously and hava working lab in about 15 minutes. It is really not that difficult and the time spent getting it right would pay for it on the first install. I have some links somewhere. If you like I can try to dig them up. With your skills you should be able to knock out a working version in half a day or so. The kickstart list is good for working on stuff like this as well. the above is pretty close to what i did some time back when i was teaching for a major client in texas. they had a classroom i would get access to about an hour before class started on the first day. all seats already had a set of red hat CDs, so what i brought was a kickstart floppy with an appropriate ks.cfg file. one at a time, i'd start a kickstart install at each seat, removing the floppy after it had done its job (about a minute or so), and move on to the next seat. once they were all installing, i'd go for coffee, come back in a while to swap CDs. yes, i know i could have burned custom CDs with the ks.cfg file right on the CD, but it didn't seem worth it. if i ever wanted to make changes, it was way easier to just make a new floppy than a whole new set of CDs. rday p.s. if you're feeling ambitious, you can have a laptop with the CD ISOs on it, and use that as a network kickstart server, make things go even faster. i did that a couple times as well. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
LinNeighborhood Issue?
I've been trying to mount a filesystem on an XP machine and I get the following error: smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (500,500) smbmnt failed:1 Now, this has worked in the past. I'm not sure if I changed anything, however there has been one kernal upgrade since I last used LinNeighborhood. Not sure that would make a difference though. If I try to mount as root, I get this error: standard in must be tty Any ideas what's gone wrong? -- J. Tim Willis A Computer without Windows is like a chocolate cake without mustard. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: 38 GB partitioning advice
I've not played with LVM myself, but it would certainly give you flexibility. If I don't find a buyer for my HP Netserver, I may just play with LVM myself. For a relatively static server, though, I think you'l do fine with the partitioning scheme I gave. I build most of my servers based on such a percentage or setup. Now desktops and laptops are a different beast. /usr really get's used then because you tend to want to load a lot of applications on them. My first Linux book was one that shipped with RH5.1. It did a good job of laying out what partitions are used for and recommended sizes. I've loosely used that ever since, upping the sizes for modern boxes and versions as I've moved along. Good luck on the project! Glad I could help. JAV On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 10:24, Douglas, Stuart wrote: Thanks for the detailed reply, Joe! Well...the box DID boot with that HighPoint card and software RAID1 on the 2 drives. I'm going to redo it all over again, but with your partition recommendations. No plans for a Web server, but you never know. This is really just a box for me to mess with regarding FTP setup and/or act as an emergency spare to replace any in production. Now I have to go read up on LVM to see if I can add it to the mix. Thanks again! Stuart -Original Message- From: Joe Polk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: 38 GB partitioning advice I see a couple of problems already. /boot should be no more than 100MB. Anything more is a waste. / should be way more than 500MB. I know that some will say I run my entire Linux box on a 486DX66 and 250MB HD! Well, this is RH8 and given what you're telling me, I would jack that up. I would give it at least a Gig. I use a 4gig on my server but it shares /usr too and not many applications will be loaded. Also, if users are going to be uploading these files, then they will likely reside in /home. If you're having an anonymous FTP server then you can point that where you want, but I would still use /home for all such storage. /usr is application data and I wouldn't use if for ftp storage, but you're certainly free to do so. Hell, you can put it anywhere you want, but that's just my assessment. Here's how I would do it, take this for what you will: /boot = 80MB / = 5G /usr = 3G /home = remaining SWAP = 512MB There are a plethora of opinions I'm sure on whether this is necessary, take that for what you will. If you plan to add Apache and email services, then add a /var partition. Keep in mind Apache by default now uses /var/www for it's root, not /home/http as in the past. You can, however, move it to /home if you wish. The important thing to stress is, increase / and make /boot smaller as indicated. 500MB is too small for / and way too big for /boot. JAV On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 08:06, Douglas, Stuart wrote: Thanks for the reply (all of you!). I did read a tiny bit about LVM in the RH install/config documentation. It seemed like very useful technology, but I stayed away from it for the moment given my embryonic understanding of the Linux environment. My setup is strictly for an anonymous (private...by fixed IP list at the FW) FTP server that will take in HUGE (100-1000 MB) MPEG2 files which then get moved to our video production servers (the FTP basically serves as a temporary holding bin for inbound content from our clients). Being stuck on the cheap, I'm using an old PII/400 PC with 256 MB of RAM and 2 40 GB IDE drives connected to a HighPoint ATA controller card and setting up RAID1 during the Linux install. I started the install yesterday, and after feeling my way through the manual DiskDruid part (something like 5-6 times!) I THINK I have the RAID done correctly (I'll find out this morning, I left it doing the drive checking part on all the partitions yesterday evening). I went with 500 MB partitions for swap, / and /boot. I went with 4 GB /var and /home partitions, and then put all remaining disk space into the /usr partition (where I'll point the FTP server). I have no idea if the box will even end up boo! ti! ng! after I'm done...I guess I'll find out shortly. Since this is something of a developmental/test box, I'd kinda like to investigate everyone's LVM suggestions, especially since I'm not even through the initial OS install yet. I may just have to get out the company checkbook and get a hardware IDE RAID controller instead and start all over. Sorry to ramble a bit hear, but if anyone has any feedback given the above, your advice or comments are always greatly appreciated. Regards, Stuart -Original Message- From: Thierry ITTY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 4:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 38 GB partitioning advice I'd set up reasonnable system
Re: LinNeighborhood Issue?
When I upgraded to 2.4.20 I had that problem. As much as I hate making it suid I just went ahead and made smbmount and smbumount as suid On Tuesday 25 March 2003 10:33 am, you wrote: I've been trying to mount a filesystem on an XP machine and I get the following error: smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (500,500) smbmnt failed:1 Now, this has worked in the past. I'm not sure if I changed anything, however there has been one kernal upgrade since I last used LinNeighborhood. Not sure that would make a difference though. If I try to mount as root, I get this error: standard in must be tty Any ideas what's gone wrong? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Redhat 8 install problem
I don't have an .xsession-errors file but I do have .gconf, .gnome etc. I installed GNOME as my default Windows manager and it is what is indicated in the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/25/03 09:07AM * Jon Morgan XFree86 Version 4.2.0 (Red Hat Linux release: 4.2.0-72) / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) I'm no expert, but it looks ok. And I now realized that your X system does not hang in any way, it may be up and running healthy. What you might miss is a window manager. Did you install Gnome, KDE or fvwm2? Do you have a file called ~/.xsession-errors? -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: amanda installation
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Jianping Zhu wrote: I have three redhat 7.3 boxes, b1 b2 b3, only b1 has tape drive, I want install amanda for three machines backup system to tape. I can install amanda-2.4.2p2-7.i386.rpm on b1, what should i install on b2, b3, in order to do backup? Thanks You need amanda and amanda-server RPMs on b1, and amanda and amanda-client RPMs on b2 and b3. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RTL8139 issue
Try (as root) lsmod (look if a kernel module containing 8139 is listed - if not) modprobe 8130cp modprobe 8130too - if one of the last works it's your setup that makes problems. (try the setup command at command line) Post a short summary about what you did to setup your card and include the error messages which occur! Please let me know if you got it working! Willi Mann -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RH 9: ok, so i overreacted ... but i'm still miffed
Ed Wilts wrote: Let's step back and put it all into perspective. Red Hat sent out an e-mail via chtah.com announcing Red Hat Linux 9, when it would be generally available, how to get it early, and suddenly everybody's so annoyed they're jumping distributions? Take a deep breath, pop a valium and slowly back away from the keyboard. i'm going to listen to ed and follow his instruction above anyways. but seriously folks, red hat is a company, they don't particular have to follow any type of scheme per se, besides i didn't think the release version of the distro mattered much as package release control. -- gyoo [at] attbi [dot] com -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iQCUAwUBPhxERRxoVYCzmrKXAQJK5gP3Y7CTsFyKpEz2p5W4GWI9+qSm+kWfdJ0R xNlma0Ma9rAL/OBJcZMo5IXyXas+3Edogbv4Al6dIf8lot1WS0Iaxxl/cg2f7gf+ otf7LfNpZDE/6OzR7A1qN6baPMLSjGzywwQWMfSVuWWb6kGQxMsA13Kn68G7Ozxs 5CODZqUPyg== =AolA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Redhat 8 install problem
Eduardo, you the man! thanks for sending me your config file offline. I'm up and running after modifying it to use my Intel 815 rather than the ATI Rage 128 Mobility in yours. It's up and running. I'll have to dig a bit deaper to find the exact error. Thanks to you too Jon. I appreciate y'alls help! [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/25/03 08:40AM I am still a very much Linux newbie, so treat this info accordingly: You can try to see whether your /etc/X11/XF86Config is configured correctly. Also try using redhat-config-xfree86 to try to config your X correctly. I have Redhat 8.0 on a Inpiron as well with X working OK. If you want I can e-mail my XF86Config (send me an e-mail directly so as not to overload the list). Reg, Jon Morgan wrote: I am trying to install RedHat 8 on a Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop. I can have it boot to text mode and it works fine. When I launch startx it then hangs with the X mouse icon. I have managed to trace it's way through the scripts to where it launched gnome-session in the Xclient script. From there I'm lost. I have messed with commenting out certain portions of the Xclient script just to confirm what is causing it and the only thing that changed is the mouse icon when it hangs. Any ideas? Thanks, Jon Morgan -- *Eduardo Silva* Wireless Network Engineer ESN 587 4664 PSTN - 91 709 4664 Mobile 600 595 219 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Using serial port
Al Sparks wrote: I'd just like to say, as someone who was just lurking, that this advice about minicom was great. I had been trying to redirect input from ttyS0 to a file using $ cat /dev/ttyS0 somefile and all I was getting was garbage. I was in the process of trying to figure out stty settings, when I saw the post of Michael Mansour and Joe Polk suggesting minicom. I had posted my own question on this subject before in February, and Gene Yoo also suggested minicom, but I had forgotten about that, focusing on the cat solution Cameron Simpson had suggested. It looks like Gene has since switched to gtkterm (or maybe he uses both). Minicom is great. If you've ever used Procomm (the old DOS version, not Procomm Plus for Windows), then using minicom will be a snap. The interface is similar. i do use minicom, but for configuring cisco equipment, gtkterm was a nice gui version that i could use to connect to my laptop : ) ... especially when you have to cut and paste large amounts of screen shots or edit the files. i just use whatever simple tool for my job : ) ... -- gyoo [at] attbi [dot] com -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iQCUAwUBPhxERRxoVYCzmrKXAQJK5gP3Y7CTsFyKpEz2p5W4GWI9+qSm+kWfdJ0R xNlma0Ma9rAL/OBJcZMo5IXyXas+3Edogbv4Al6dIf8lot1WS0Iaxxl/cg2f7gf+ otf7LfNpZDE/6OzR7A1qN6baPMLSjGzywwQWMfSVuWWb6kGQxMsA13Kn68G7Ozxs 5CODZqUPyg== =AolA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Oracle install problems?
Unless Oracle fixed it I wouldn't recommend using their own JRE. When I started installing Oracle on Linux servers I had all sorts of problems. When I replaced their JRE most of the problems went away. Every Oracle installation package I've seen (admittedly not a huge number) contains its own JRE, doesn't expect or use any other pre- installed Java. I suspect the OP has some setup/config problem instead. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RedHat 9.0 - The Practical Side
mount -o loop -t iso9660 isofilename mountpoint Jim Wilferling wrote: Alright, so I'm annoyed. Just learning linux, and I've gone through 7.2, 8.0, and was anticipating 8.1. so now there's 9.0, so whatI've tried to install 8.1 beta rpms, and there were worse problems than there were with 8.0. So we copeI'm not about to switch distros so quickly, just cause of some version hullaboo. But I want the new release, If it contains gnome 2.2. Heres the rub. When they say binary incompatable, will my /home dir, which is its own partition, mess up a new9.0 istall? should I delete all my /home/Jim/.* files? And does this binary incompatability mean that I wont ever be able to just upgrade rpms on the fly? If not, is there a way to mount a disc image without it being on a disc? (I dont have a burner.) Basically, I'm game, But does it brown the food? _jim -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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Following the discussion over the last couple of days over the release of RH 9 has been interesting. Question: Obviously most of us are very fond of Redhat, at least up to 7.3 gathered by some of the heated discussion today. Since I would assume RH would be/is your first choice of a Linux distribution, what is your second and third choices? Just curious -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Older Linux Distro's
I had heard a rumor a while back that there was a site which contained iso's/downloads for every stable release of every major version of Linux out there. Does anyone know of this site? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RTL8139 issue
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Bored is me wrote: Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:21:00 -0700 From: Bored is me [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RTL8139 issue im using an RTL8139 SMC EZ CARD, and this site (http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=detailshid=4429)says it IS supported, but whenever i try to activate it, it says it can't. (sorry, im an uber-newbie to linux) all of my network stuff is set to localhost stuff, (it was standard) i dont know if i have to change anything, or what! please help me. should i just get another card? I have RTL8139 card from Surecom which I could not get working at all UNTIL I moved it to another PCI slot - it seems the card could not work in the slot I put it initially into; Since I have moved it to another PCI slot it work flawlessly. I have ABIT motherboard (Intel 440BX based). Could you possibly try to insert the card into some other PCI slot and check whether this helps? Best regards, Wojtek -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Older Linux Distro's
www.distrowatch.com - Original Message - From: John Nichel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:16 AM Subject: Older Linux Distro's I had heard a rumor a while back that there was a site which contained iso's/downloads for every stable release of every major version of Linux out there. Does anyone know of this site? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Redhat Linux 9.0 XFS support
Does anyone know if Redhat 9.0 will provide support of XFS (sgi's high performance file system)? I heard some talk of the new kernel (2.4.21) supporting XFS. Thanks -- Ubaidul Khan Wayne State University Library Systems (313)577-4008 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: CD writing faster when CD-ROM also uses ide-scsi
-Original Message- From: Michael Wardle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi A few weeks back, I purchased a new Lite-On 52x52x24 EIDE/ATAPI CD-RW drive, which supports a buffer underrun technology Lite-On calls BURNproof (or something similar). When I first tried to write a CD image using cdrecord, I was highly disappointed that I was only able to successfully write CDs at about 24 speed (any higher any cdrecord would generate error messages, and the CD would be corrupt). My CD-RW drive is the secondary slave on the IDE bus, making it /dev/hdd by default. I also have a CD-ROM drive as master on the same channel, making it /dev/hdc. I hadn't seen any replies to this yet, so I'll venture an observation of my own: CDRW should be the master device on any IDE chain that they are attached to, at least whenever possible. I've noticed marked reliability concerns and performance concerns when the CDRW wasn't the primary on it's chain, so I would switch the two drives around. That said, I hadn't noticed a problem with CDRW write speeds before in my setup (I have a Samsung 24-10-40 CDRW and a Liteon 16/52x DVD drive in my box, plus a 52X HiVal CD drive that I had had in the box until this past weekend, when I needed it's power connector to start my new RAID 0 array). Some media, however, are not able to burn well at higher speeds (I still have media my drive will default to 8x for, although other media I can burn on at the full 24x; the drive (and most of the better modern CDRWs) can detect the maximum media speed relatively well). I have yet to see 52x media, so you've got something there (I've only seen media rated at 24x, though the best media I've found is actually only rated for 8x (It was a CompUSA 100 pack I picked up for $5 after rebate) that burns at whatever speed I can dish out on any of the four burners I've got in my house, and the burner in a friends machine, 2x24, 1x12 (Laptop), 1x? (Laptop), 1x2) Bill Ward -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
