Where to get libXv.so for Redhat 8.0/XFree86-4.2.1-21 intel?

2003-10-22 Thread John Wheez
Hi,   I am trying to run cinelerra, a video editing program and it requires libXv.so.1   ..This file is usually supplyed in the XFree86-compat-libs RPM..But, I can not find an RPM for RedHat 8. I see one for redhat 7.3 and for RedHat 9. Cand I use the one for 9? or will it mess up my XFree86

RE: rarpd & netmask

2003-10-22 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
I dont really understand the true nature of your problem, you are not being clear. But based on some assumptions - ARPD translates IP addresses into MAC Addresses RARPD translates MAC Addresses into IP Addresses. They both use the same IP-ARP table in the kernel and both get their answers from t

Re: Interfacing with Micros Fidelio (might be off-topic)

2003-10-22 Thread Joshua L. San Juan
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 11:44, Jason Dixon wrote: > Ok, I'll bite. Not only is this OT, how do you honestly expect us to > help you if you can't provide sufficient details? What type of data are > you trying to pass? What "Micros Fidelio" software are you speaking > of? Do you have any idea how

Re: Interfacing with Micros Fidelio (might be off-topic)

2003-10-22 Thread Jason Dixon
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 23:29, Joshua L. San Juan wrote: > Hi, > > This might be a off-topic so my apologies if it is. We have an > application (web-based app using Apache, PHP, Perl, PostgreSQL) running > on Red Hat Linux and we want to be able to pass the data to the Micros > Fidelio (http://www.

Interfacing with Micros Fidelio (might be off-topic)

2003-10-22 Thread Joshua L. San Juan
Hi, This might be a off-topic so my apologies if it is. We have an application (web-based app using Apache, PHP, Perl, PostgreSQL) running on Red Hat Linux and we want to be able to pass the data to the Micros Fidelio (http://www.micros.com) software. Is it possible - anyone here has done this?

RE: RH 9 install issue

2003-10-22 Thread Go, Jeffrey
Kenneth I finally got it to install...but after following Vince's suggestions on the options to install.. Now I have to install the packages the hard way(gnome,etc..)... You are right..Compaq is a difft animal itself.. Their new hardware is ok..its the older ones you gotta deal with... Its nice

RE: [SUMMARY] NFS between Linux and Solaris

2003-10-22 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jason Dixon > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 4:23 PM > To: Red Hat Mailing List > Subject: [SUMMARY] NFS between Linux and Solaris > > > Well, I wish I could say I have an authoritative answer on

RE: RH 9 install issue

2003-10-22 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
Smartstart? , must be a compaq proliant? There are known issues with Compaq and Redhat, they keep removing from random releases the data files that are needed to deal with the differences between the way compaq does things hardware wise and the rest of the planet. had the same problems with 6.1, 7

Re: New laptop, new problems

2003-10-22 Thread Hugh Taylor
Jason Dixon wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 23:11, Hugh Taylor wrote: Sorry, I wasn't sure what make/model you were referring to, and at the time, I only knew what I sent you. I believe the wireless card is an Askey Prism 2.5 mini-pci card. I have a message into the notebook mfg to make sure o

Re: Printing Compressed in Linux.

2003-10-22 Thread Alfredo Cole
El Miércoles, 22 de Octubre de 2003 16:37, dlangschied escribió: > Hi all! > > I have two questions regarding printing. > > I need to be able to compress soem output in order to get 132 characters > per line. I do not see how this is possible using lp. Is there another > way? (...) > Sincerely, >

Re: [SUMMARY] NFS between Linux and Solaris

2003-10-22 Thread Jason Dixon
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 20:46, Dominic RIVERA wrote: > If you're running a kernel before 2.4.19 try upgrading your kernel. I > ran into some issues with pre 2.4.19 kernels that would do some strange > things, apparantly someone did some major nfs work in 2.4.19. Unfortunately, *all* Red Hat Advanced

rarpd & netmask

2003-10-22 Thread Julie Xu
Greeting, can rarpd give a remove install client ip address with netmask? I seems have problem with netmask because the ip address is class B and I need a class C netmask. Is any way to fix this problem? Any comments will be appreciated Thanks in advance Julie Xu Data Communication Team Inf

Re: [SUMMARY] NFS between Linux and Solaris

2003-10-22 Thread Dominic RIVERA
If you're running a kernel before 2.4.19 try upgrading your kernel. I ran into some issues with pre 2.4.19 kernels that would do some strange things, apparantly someone did some major nfs work in 2.4.19. -Dominic Dominic Rivera (503) 947-7308 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/22/03 13:24

Re: chmod-ing a directory tree without effecting files

2003-10-22 Thread Thomas Smith
Konrad Kosmowski wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:50:12 -0700, Thomas Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need to chmod a directory tree to change the permissions on the directories but not the files they contain. Is there a way to do this with chmod or another tool? $ chmod -X Always r

Re: accelerated X for ati cards

2003-10-22 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 19:00, Michael Fratoni wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 22 October 2003 05:34 pm, Bret Hughes wrote: > > I have a bunch of boxes with ati card in them and have totally confused > > my self with trying to figure out what support there i

Re: accelerated X for ati cards

2003-10-22 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 October 2003 05:34 pm, Bret Hughes wrote: > I have a bunch of boxes with ati card in them and have totally confused > my self with trying to figure out what support there is for using the > scaling features of the cards for scaling mpeg

Re: chmod-ing a directory tree without effecting files

2003-10-22 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 October 2003 06:50 pm, Thomas Smith wrote: > I need to chmod a directory tree to change the permissions on the > directories but not the files they contain. > > Is there a way to do this with chmod or another tool? Something like: find

Re: running a crontab from command line, ad hoc

2003-10-22 Thread Peter B. West
You need a different tool. Crontabs, by definition, specify tasks to runat certain times. You can't run "this morning's" crontab this afternoon. The crontabs are constantly monitored, and when a task becomes due, it's executed. One approach is to edit the crontab, copying the "morning" line(

Re: chmod-ing a directory tree without effecting files

2003-10-22 Thread Konrad Kosmowski
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:50:12 -0700, Thomas Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to chmod a directory tree to change the permissions on the > directories but not the files they contain. > Is there a way to do this with chmod or another tool? $ chmod -X Always read the f* manual first! man

RE: chmod-ing a directory tree without effecting files

2003-10-22 Thread Chad Skinner
> I need to chmod a directory tree to change the permissions on the > directories but not the files they contain. > > Is there a way to do this with chmod or another tool? You can try piping the output of find into the xargs command. For example, find /home/chadws/mythtv -type d | xargs chmod 2

Re: running a crontab from command line, ad hoc

2003-10-22 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 03:24:56PM -0400, Timothy Stone wrote: > directories like cron.hourly, cron.daily, et al. I want to do something > where I can say in effect, "Hey Cron, i know that user's crontab is set > do something at this time, but do it now." Can't you just reset the time to someth

Re: moving the /var partition

2003-10-22 Thread Peter B. West
Bill, This is getting a bit confused. You say you have just installed a new disk, yet you also say you want to reduce a 60Gb /var partition. If you are installing a new disk, you can decide at the outset how big a /var partition you want. I would go back to the beginning, decide how big I w

Re: moving the /var partition

2003-10-22 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 08:16 10/22/2003, you wrote: # cp -prx /var/* /user FYI, I do this with "rsync -av /var/* /user/" Note the trailing slash on user, so it puts all those things _inside_ the directory. The "-a" for archive on rsync does a lot, including preserve ownership and permissions. -- Rodolfo J. Paiz [E

chmod-ing a directory tree without effecting files

2003-10-22 Thread Thomas Smith
I need to chmod a directory tree to change the permissions on the directories but not the files they contain. Is there a way to do this with chmod or another tool? Tom -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: bind config file in redhat9

2003-10-22 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 16:09 10/22/2003, you wrote: I have checked that already, the package do not install the config file. i tried "rpm -qc bind" i tried "rpm -ql bind" I am 100% sure its not installed, same happend with another machine. You can just write your own... or, if you want a simple named.conf file, inst

RE: (no subject)

2003-10-22 Thread Douglas
The file system for the floppy is most likely fat16 or fat32 or some generic floppy format that has been around a long time and therefore the linux community has had time to build support for it into the kernel and also redhat can be very sure that by including support for which ever file s

RE: RH 9 install issue

2003-10-22 Thread Go, Jeffrey
Vince This worked.. Thanks much -Original Message- From: Vince Scimeca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 1:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: RH 9 install issue Type the following at the install/boot screen linux text apm=off lowres noapic noht nom

Printing Compressed in Linux.

2003-10-22 Thread dlangschied
Hi all! I have two questions regarding printing. I need to be able to compress soem output in order to get 132 characters per line. I do not see how this is possible using lp. Is there another way? I tried to install cups, but I am getting an error that says the cups lib does not exist. When

Re: bind config file in redhat9

2003-10-22 Thread Bilal Dar
Hi, I have checked that already, the package do not install the config file. i tried "rpm -qc bind" i tried "rpm -ql bind" I am 100% sure its not installed, same happend with another machine. Thanks - Original Message - From: "Ross Cooney -- Cyber Sentry Ltd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: Running oracle 8 or oracle 9 on RedHat9.x

2003-10-22 Thread Michael Hyman
Oracle 9 client will work with either version, but the Oracle 8 client will only support that version. Each new version is backward-compliant only. Regards...Michael - Original Message - From: "Johan Kruger-Haglert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 22,

accelerated X for ati cards

2003-10-22 Thread Bret Hughes
I have a bunch of boxes with ati card in them and have totally confused my self with trying to figure out what support there is for using the scaling features of the cards for scaling mpeg movies played by mplayer. I hate to start recompiling X and adding a whole lot of patches and stuff if Mike H

Re: CD Labeler?

2003-10-22 Thread Alfredo Cole
El Miércoles, 22 de Octubre de 2003 12:20, David C. Hart escribió: > Anyone? I can find sw to generate frontcards and jewel box labels but > nothing that helps to create the actual disk label. > > Thanks. glabels. Regards. -- Alfredo J. Cole http://www.acyc.com http://www.clshonduras.com [EMAIL

RE: RH 9 install issue

2003-10-22 Thread Vince Scimeca
Type the following at the install/boot screen linux text apm=off lowres noapic noht nomce nousb nousbstorage skipddc this should help. good luck, -- Vince Scimeca - Senior Technology Manager Jupitermedia Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 16:16, Go, Jeffrey wrote: > It was using

Re: Problems with NFS directory exports off of RH9 systems

2003-10-22 Thread Ken Rossman
On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 02:18 PM, Alan Peery wrote: Ken Rossman wrote: Is there some trick to this that I am missing? Are there some tools I can use to track down what might be wrong? What doesn "showmount -e" display? $ showmount -e Export list for frankfurt: /export/home * /export/loca

RE: NFS between Linux and Solaris

2003-10-22 Thread Rigler, Steve
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jason Dixon > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 3:03 PM > To: Red Hat Mailing List > Subject: RE: NFS between Linux and Solaris > > > > There are no "hangs" or delays. I believe what you are > descri

[SUMMARY] NFS between Linux and Solaris

2003-10-22 Thread Jason Dixon
Well, I wish I could say I have an authoritative answer on what caused it, but I can no longer reproduce the problem. I've tried the same thing with the following mount options, all of which work fine: vers=2,proto=udp vers=3,proto=udp vers=3 vers=3,proto=udp,noac (no options) At this point, I h

RE: RH 9 install issue

2003-10-22 Thread Go, Jeffrey
It was using windows 2000 at one time with no issues...i had already re-configured the machine with SmartStart to be sure... The monitor itself is fine..i can use it to view other machine... The server is usually attached to a KVM solution, but when I am installing, I am connected directly to t

RE: RH 9 install issue

2003-10-22 Thread salvatore
> When Anaconda runs, it hangs after the "probe video monitor" > status when installing. > I have tried "linux lowres" and "linux 1024x768" options on boot > and also the text install to no avail.. > > Any assistance is appreciated. Perhaps the hardware is bad (monitor itself, monitor cable, et c

Re: NFS between Linux and Solaris

2003-10-22 Thread Jason Dixon
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 15:58, Jason Dixon wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 15:43, Ken Rossman wrote: > > Can you include some info on exactly what commands you are using, and > > some info on the respective configurations of each machine? > > Pretty simple: > > [Linux server - /etc/exports] > /mnt/i

RE: NFS between Linux and Solaris

2003-10-22 Thread Jason Dixon
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 15:58, Rigler, Steve wrote: > We experienced similar issues but between different platforms. > > The machine serving filesystems was an Irix 6.5.13 machine and > the client was running RH7.1 on Itanium 2's. Both machines are > on the same VLAN. > > Copying to NFS mounts wou

Re: NFS between Linux and Solaris

2003-10-22 Thread Jason Dixon
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 15:43, Ken Rossman wrote: > Can you include some info on exactly what commands you are using, and > some info on the respective configurations of each machine? Pretty simple: [Linux server - /etc/exports] /mnt/isohostname(ro) [Solaris client] mount -F nfs -o ro,vers

RE: NFS between Linux and Solaris

2003-10-22 Thread Rigler, Steve
We experienced similar issues but between different platforms. The machine serving filesystems was an Irix 6.5.13 machine and the client was running RH7.1 on Itanium 2's. Both machines are on the same VLAN. Copying to NFS mounts would hang (errors would be logged in messages about the NFS serv

RH 9 install issue

2003-10-22 Thread Go, Jeffrey
Hello group, I have googled this issue to death and have not been able to find an answer. I am installing RH 9 on a Compaq 1850r server. The server has the latest BIOS. When Anaconda runs, it hangs after the "probe video monitor" status when installing. I have tried "linux lowres" and "linux 10

Re: NFS between Linux and Solaris

2003-10-22 Thread Ken Rossman
Can you include some info on exactly what commands you are using, and some info on the respective configurations of each machine? On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 03:24 PM, Jason Dixon wrote: My apologies if this is out there somewhere, but I've googled this to death without finding a satisfactor

content filtering options

2003-10-22 Thread Chris W. Parker
Hey everyone. I need to be able to see what websites are being visited by my users and also have the ability to at least block based on domain name and ip address. I know of: SquidGuard DansGuardian What other options do I have? Thanks, Chris. -- Don't like reformatting your Outlook replies?

NFS between Linux and Solaris

2003-10-22 Thread Jason Dixon
Hi folks- My apologies if this is out there somewhere, but I've googled this to death without finding a satisfactory answer. I'm attempting to tar copy a large repository (actually, the RHAS3.0 iso images) from a Linux NFS server to a Solaris NFS client. At various intervals, the transfer invari

Re: running a crontab from command line, ad hoc

2003-10-22 Thread Timothy Stone
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 01:04 pm, Timothy Stone wrote: List, I know this can be done, but it escapes me how to do it. I wanted to execute a user crontab this afternoon that normally runs daily first thing in the morning. Nothing seems to work. And somehow most manuals seem to live it unsaid

Blue Screen when running up2date

2003-10-22 Thread Bob Webber
Hello all: I just upgraded my server to RH9 from RH7.2, and when I run up2date, the console turns blue and hangs. The following process is running, and if I kill it, I get my console session back: root 1320 1137 3 16:21 pts/000:00:00 /usr/bin/python -u /usr/sbin/up2date --nox I have

Re: uucp --how-to

2003-10-22 Thread Keith Morse
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, shyam wrote: > hi guys > > Basically i am a solaris user ,just i want know how i can use uucp in > linux (REDHAT 8.0) in the same way as in solaris ie, > > i will put a string "server Any TCP 1010 202.41.75.45 " in > /etc/uucp/Systems file and i simply say "cu server " t

Re: Question about sound on a Toshiba Notebook

2003-10-22 Thread David Smith
Actually this is where I started. They do mention problems with the sound card, however it's with it does not mention problems with choppy music. In the redhat general archives there is something about major problems with redhat 9 due to the kernel problems. However, this again is it not workin

Re: Firewall Configuration in Redhat 9.0

2003-10-22 Thread Wayne Betts
> > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/20/03 04:00PM >>> > > > > I've been having some trouble opening and closing ports. Basically, I > > want to close of all ports except 22 for ssh and 3 other ports to do > > some testing with openmosix. No matter what I do though, the ports > > that > > I want open stay

CD Labeler?

2003-10-22 Thread David C. Hart
Anyone? I can find sw to generate frontcards and jewel box labels but nothing that helps to create the actual disk label. Thanks. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

RE: 4/8 CPUs not seen in /proc/cpuinfo !

2003-10-22 Thread Wade Chandler
Are you running Xeon Processors? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mohamed Kerbachi Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 9:17 AM To: RedHat mailling list (E-mail) Subject: 4/8 CPUs not seen in /proc/cpuinfo ! I have access to a server only wit

Re: Firewall Configuration in Redhat 9.0

2003-10-22 Thread Jeff Lasman
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 20:42, Jesse Millan wrote: > Firewall is still doing absolutely nothing, even when I untrust eth0. and he wrote earlier: > > Other notes, I have iptables service enabled. It starts at boot. > > Also, I > > have tried to use iptables directly i.e iptables -A INPUT -p tc

Re: running a crontab from command line, ad hoc

2003-10-22 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 01:04 pm, Timothy Stone wrote: > List, > > I know this can be done, but it escapes me how to do it. > > I wanted to execute a user crontab this afternoon that normally runs > daily first thing in the morning. Nothing seems to work. And somehow > most manuals seem to liv

Re: Question about sound on a Toshiba Notebook

2003-10-22 Thread Jeff
I had a few probs with my compaq when I intsalled RH on it. have a look at... http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/toshiba.html On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 18:04, David Smith wrote: > Hi all! > I have a Toshiba Satellite 1805-S204. I am running Redhat 8.0 and am > having trouble with the sound card being a

Re: Dealing with Power Outage: How to Shutdown cleanly

2003-10-22 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:26 pm, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 10:49, William Burgos wrote: > > Most of the UPS no a days come with the drivers for linux to monitor them > > and the battery, and these drivers can be configure to shutdown the > > system properly after the battery

Question about sound on a Toshiba Notebook

2003-10-22 Thread David Smith
Hi all! I have a Toshiba Satellite 1805-S204. I am running Redhat 8.0 and am having trouble with the sound card being a bit 'choppy'. Every time I click on another window or click on an icon, etc etc the sound will chop. Usually with an mp3 or ogg file. The cd player software seems to work fine. Ha

running a crontab from command line, ad hoc

2003-10-22 Thread Timothy Stone
List, I know this can be done, but it escapes me how to do it. I wanted to execute a user crontab this afternoon that normally runs daily first thing in the morning. Nothing seems to work. And somehow most manuals seem to live it unsaid, "you must innately know how to do this." Tips? Thanks,

Re: Running oracle 8 or oracle 9 on RedHat9.x

2003-10-22 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 10:28 am, Johan Kruger-Haglert wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:47:19AM -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > Yes, oracle 9.2 works like it should, but PHP 4.3.x seems to have no > support for it so i wanted to install the oracle 8.x client aswell but > it's installer

how to update from RHEL 2.1 to 3.0

2003-10-22 Thread Alois Treindl
How can I update a RHEL 2.1 system to the new RHEL 3.0? How can I update a RHEL 3 beta to RHEL 3.0 ? a) via up2date? I don't see the way. b) via downloaded iso disks? Alois -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: Dealing with Power Outage: How to Shutdown cleanly

2003-10-22 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 10:49, William Burgos wrote: > Most of the UPS no a days come with the drivers for linux to monitor them > and the battery, and these drivers can be configure to shutdown the system > properly after the battery is in critical state. If you don't have the CD > just go to the U

RE: Grub question

2003-10-22 Thread Otto Haliburton
You can get the grub manual at www.gnu.org. Use that to setup your floppy and mba. I'm not sure why you want to do what you are doing, but as I said get the manual. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Felipe Leon > Sent: Wednesday, Octo

Grub question

2003-10-22 Thread Felipe Leon
Group, I decided to eliminate grub from the mba of the hardrive where windows resides, so I could just boot to linux using a floppy. Obviously I wanted grub on a floppy so what I did was (read it somewhere) to dd the files stage1 and stage2 from /usr/share/grub/i386-redhat/ to the floppy like

Re: Funky RAM

2003-10-22 Thread Jeff
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 16:40, Ed Wilts wrote: > This shouldn't a no-no as long as you force your speed to be 100 - PC133 > chips should run fine at 100. How is your bios set now? I'd force it > to 100 and then run memtest86 and see what happens. You might even want > to try memtest86 before yo

Re: moving the /var partition

2003-10-22 Thread Chris Purcell
>> I would boot into rescue (or single user) mode and use find/cpio to >> copy /var/ to /user/. >> >> find /var -xdev | cpio -pmduv /user > > I don't think this worked. I *know* my cp -prx blah blah didn't work. I > get several errors when I reboot: > > chmod: failed to get attributes of '/var/log/

Perl and Interchange

2003-10-22 Thread William Burgos
Well I just installed the Interchange ecommerce service. But in order to do this I needed perl without threads. So I uninstalled the Perl rpm that comes with RH9 and using the rpm -e --nodeps parameters. Then I downloaded the 5.8.1 perl source and compile it and install it with the make command

Mod_auth_mysql

2003-10-22 Thread rich-lists
I am having a few difficulties with mod_auth_mysql. The problem that I seem to have is that I am using this on different servers to authenticate back to a single mysql database. The 2 webservers I am using are 2 different versions of redhat. One is 7.1 and the other is 7.3. My mysql database reside

RE: Funky RAM

2003-10-22 Thread salvatore
> Which chip did you pull to get everything working right? Was it the > PC133 by any chance? No, the PC133 is the one in there now. PC133 - 256mb chip PC100 - 128mb chip .salvatore http://www.sienar.org/ http://www.palmisanonet.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROT

RE: Dealing with Power Outage: How to Shutdown cleanly

2003-10-22 Thread William Burgos
Most of the UPS no a days come with the drivers for linux to monitor them and the battery, and these drivers can be configure to shutdown the system properly after the battery is in critical state. If you don't have the CD just go to the UPS website and you will probably be able to download the mo

Re: bind config file in redhat9

2003-10-22 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 03:28:52PM +0100, Ross Cooney -- Cyber Sentry Ltd wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 16:44, Bilal Dar wrote: > > I recently installed redhat9, and there is no bind config file. Do i > > have to create it myself manually or i have any other option. > > look for the bind config f

Re: Funky RAM

2003-10-22 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:50:22AM -0400, salvatore wrote: > There are three settings in BIOS: > 133 > 100 > By Spd > > 133 and 100 are self explanatory, but what's 'by spd'? That it'll attempt > to read the speed of the individual chips? > I did notice one of the chips is 133 and the other two a

Re: moving the /var partition

2003-10-22 Thread Bill Tangren
Chris Purcell wrote: Bill Tangren said: Hello all, I know this has been addressed on this list before, but I can't seem to find it in the archives. If someone can point it out, I would be very appreciative. My /var partition is nearly full. I installed a new hard disk, used fdisk to partition it.

Re: 4/8 CPUs not seen in /proc/cpuinfo !

2003-10-22 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 08:16, Mohamed Kerbachi wrote: > I have access to a server only with ssh so i can't open the box, i see a strange > think: > In /var/log/messages > > > Oct 2 1:18:52 ser cpu: 0, clocks: 998004, slice: 110889 > Oct 2 1:18:52 ser kernel: CPU0 > Oct 2 1:18:52 ser kernel: cpu:

Re: moving the /var partition

2003-10-22 Thread Chris Purcell
>> ...and then just rename them and modify your fstab file. > > This is the part I don't understand. Is this done simply by changing the > partitions labels, using tune2fs? > > tune2fs -L /temp /dev/hda7 > tune2fs -L /var /dev/hdb1 > tune2fs -L /user /dev/hda7 Rename the folders using mv like bel

Re: patch management on production servers

2003-10-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
Marvin Blackburn wrote: Has anyone developed a methodology for patch management in a production environment. Running up2date on the system regularly is not an option for us. What limitation keeps you from testing a set of patches in your dev enironment, and then using up2date or RHN to apply those

RE: Funky RAM

2003-10-22 Thread salvatore
>chips and would crash during the installation process - you might >remember my posting a few months ago ;) I joined the list this morning, but its good to know someone else had the same thing happen as I did. >I sorted mine by just lowering the speed the RAM was running in the >BIOS. I had mine

Re: moving the /var partition

2003-10-22 Thread Jason Dixon
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 10:16, Bill Tangren wrote: > Hello all, > > I know this has been addressed on this list before, but I can't seem to > find it in the archives. If someone can point it out, I would be very > appreciative. > > My /var partition is nearly full. I installed a new hard disk, us

Re: moving the /var partition

2003-10-22 Thread Bill Tangren
Chris Purcell wrote: I would boot into rescue (or single user) mode and use find/cpio to copy /var/ to /user/. find /var -xdev | cpio -pmduv /user I'll use this, thanks. ...and then just rename them and modify your fstab file. This is the part I don't understand. Is this done simply by changing t

Re: moving the /var partition

2003-10-22 Thread Chris Purcell
Bill Tangren said: > Hello all, > > I know this has been addressed on this list before, but I can't seem to > find it in the archives. If someone can point it out, I would be very > appreciative. > > My /var partition is nearly full. I installed a new hard disk, used > fdisk to partition it. I then

Re: Running oracle 8 or oracle 9 on RedHat9.x

2003-10-22 Thread Johan Kruger-Haglert
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:47:19AM -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > What installation "just hangs with a gray window and 100% CPU usage"? PHP > installation or Oracle client? Installation of oracle 8.1.7 (which is the only one who got a graphical java installer) > You said PHP compilation wor

Re: Funky RAM

2003-10-22 Thread Jeff
Just a suggestion, but I had a similar problem when installing RH. The very same RAM chips had been in the box for nearly a year and I'd not had any corruption etc when using winXP. RH9 decided not to like the chips and would crash during the installation process - you might remember my posting a f

Re: help

2003-10-22 Thread Ross Cooney -- Cyber Sentry Ltd
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Re: bind config file in redhat9

2003-10-22 Thread Ross Cooney -- Cyber Sentry Ltd
Hi, On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 16:44, Bilal Dar wrote: > Hello, > > I recently installed redhat9, and there is no bind config file. Do i > have to create it myself manually or i have any other option. look for the bind config file: cd /etc find -name "named.conf" -print If you cant find the file it

Re: Memory Resources - Howto Refresh

2003-10-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
Eduardo A. dela Rosa wrote: So I shutdown Eclipse, MySQL, and JBoss, hoping that it would release resources that it ate up. Waited for quite a while, I tried to check my resources. To my puzzle, it just looks the same as it was before those major apps were properly shutdown. Show us the resource

patch management on production servers

2003-10-22 Thread Marvin Blackburn
I am curious about how other approach patch management on production server(s). With HPUX we can bundle patches, test, then roll out -- we don't just apply patches as they come out. We can keep a static bundle and not having to worry about it changing. SDUX handles super cession, dependencies etc

moving the /var partition

2003-10-22 Thread Bill Tangren
Hello all, I know this has been addressed on this list before, but I can't seem to find it in the archives. If someone can point it out, I would be very appreciative. My /var partition is nearly full. I installed a new hard disk, used fdisk to partition it. I then used mke2fs to make an ext3 p

RE: Funky RAM

2003-10-22 Thread salvatore
>the system. Bad ram, especially non error-correcting ram, can cause you >all sorts of grief from random crashes to disk corruption. Slow you can >live with - disk corruption you probably can't. Perfect sense. Thanks. .salvatore http://www.sienar.org/ http://www.palmisanonet.com/ -- redha

Re: Funky RAM

2003-10-22 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:26:49AM -0400, salvatore wrote: > I narrowed down my install woes to a RAM chip in the system, removed it, and > installed rh9 with no problems. > With only 256mb, the system performance is less than desirable; since the > POST sees all of the chips just fine, and the ins

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2003-10-22 Thread Sachin Desai
Hi,   One question   I am trying to access floppy from root (RedHat linux 8.0). I see that I just need to modify the /etc/fstab to mount a floppy which happens to be DOS formatted. But if when it comes to Hard drive, I need the patch for the kernel. Why? thanks Sachin  Surf and talk on the phone a

RE: 4/8 CPUs not seen in /proc/cpuinfo !

2003-10-22 Thread Mohamed Kerbachi
Thx for the replay, I have found this doc it's interseting (they talk abour Xeon i Have Xeon on the server :) ) http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-htl/ -Message d'origine- De : Benjamin J. Weiss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mercredi 22 octobre 2003 14:45 À : [EMA

Re: 4/8 CPUs not seen in /proc/cpuinfo !

2003-10-22 Thread Benjamin J. Weiss
From: "Mohamed Kerbachi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RedHat mailling list (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 8:16 AM Subject: 4/8 CPUs not seen in /proc/cpuinfo ! > I have access to a server only with ssh so i can't open the box, i see a strange think: > In /var/log/mess

Re: newbie: redhat 9.0 very slow

2003-10-22 Thread sam kupar
hi cameron pl do check on this point when u are installing redhat9,u have to select swap size;which is recommended to be double the RAM.have u selected 256MB or more of swap size.actually i am also having the same configuration as urs and the things are at a good speed(with background tasks and

RE: Dealing with Power Outage: How to Shutdown cleanly

2003-10-22 Thread Chris Mason
Reuben This is an area I have a lot of experience in. We have terrible power on the island and I run a few servers in different buildings around here. I am guessing that you are using 500-750 VA stand alone UPS units. My first move woud be to dump those as they are more trouble than they are wort

SMC2802W PCI wireless card configuration

2003-10-22 Thread santosh kumar
Hi guys, Any one of you configured SMC2802W PCI wireless card for redhat 8.0 or redhat 9.0. I tried a lot but couldn't be able to configure the driver module. I downloaded driver from http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/802.11g/packages/ISL3890-0.1.0.tar.gz As per the instructions given in the site

Funky RAM

2003-10-22 Thread salvatore
Newbie posting. RH 9 on a PIV 1.4 w/256mb RAM I narrowed down my install woes to a RAM chip in the system, removed it, and installed rh9 with no problems. With only 256mb, the system performance is less than desirable; since the POST sees all of the chips just fine, and the install is finished, is

RE: Getting Workgroup access from Windows XP Pro to Linux 9

2003-10-22 Thread Jason Staudenmayer
If your getting localhost I would make sure that's not the name of the Linux box for one, change it linux-server or something. Are you running your own DNS or WINS server, if not place the linux box info in the hosts file on each of the XP boxes, this way you have a better chance of nowing they're

Re: Dealing with Power Outage: How to Shutdown cleanly

2003-10-22 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:09:23AM -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > This got me to thinking. Is there any way that a better UPS can help this > situation. I see that some UPS has an RS232 interface or USB, and some > software that can shutdown the machine on sustained power outage. I am > won

RE: connecting linux to internet

2003-10-22 Thread gregory mott
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 03:09, Buck wrote: > Try disabling the iptables temporarily. I had that problem on Knology. > Once disabled, it worked. I will figure out why later when I have > something worth protecting. I am afraid if someone wants to steal Linux > they would be better to download the I

RE: Dealing with Power Outage: How to Shutdown cleanly

2003-10-22 Thread Saravanan
I may be wrong so pls correct me if so ... UPS boxes provide a way to connect using USB or serial ports. There are two types of UPS's ... smart and dumb ... smart UPS boxes provide a lot of information about voltage and battery life ... you will need to know the protocol that it uses to be able to

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