Thanks a bunch Michael... looking at your reply sent me to:
info grub
realizing I had no idea how the boot loader works.
I tried the commands you suggested but didn't get it right - grub.conf wasn't found
even though a listed it in the /boot/grub directory.
(The following are some sig
ted.
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--- George Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 12:33, john-paul delaney
> wrote:
> > Thanks George... I typed in:
> >
> > grub> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-17.7.x
> >
> > then
> >
> > grub>
Sorry folks... with my own mail server down, I resort
to Yahoo to seek help from the list. I wasn't aware
of sending html format - I hope I've turned it off now
and that this message arrives as plain text.
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rub > boot This should boot you so that you can try to edit the grub file.(I assume that you are using grub rather than lilo)G :-)On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 11:09, john-paul delaney wrote:> I'm in trouble List After reading a previous message on simply> upgrading the kernel with the up2dat
ice greatly appreciated.
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john-paul delaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm in trouble List After reading a previous message on simply upgrading the kernel with the up2date -f force switch. I tried it and rebooting gets me immediately to the:
grub>
prompt. I'
I'm in trouble List After reading a previous message on simply upgrading the kernel with the up2date -f force switch. I tried it and rebooting gets me immediately to the:
grub>
prompt. I'm using rh 7.2. I had upgraded the kernel previously from the redhat network website, and hoped for
Jul 2003, John-Paul Delaney wrote:
> Hello List... I'm trying to setup bind9 on rh9. I get an error on startup of named
> - cannot open pid file /var/run/named.pid: Permission denied.
>
> However I want to write the pid to /var/run/named/named.pid instead (creating a
>
Hello List... I'm trying to setup bind9 on rh9. I get an error on startup of named -
cannot open pid file /var/run/named.pid: Permission denied.
However I want to write the pid to /var/run/named/named.pid instead (creating a named
directory) so I can give the named user read/write rights.
How
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Subject: Memory: Bios total 262144K - top total 14332K
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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:05:24 +0200
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Hel
ios total 262144K - top total 14332K
From: "John-Paul Delaney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:05:24 +0200
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Hello List...
I appear to have a memory configuration problem. The difference between
the system bios and what free/top reports as to
Hello List...
I appear to have a memory configuration problem. The difference between
the system bios and what free/top reports as total memory seems very odd.
free -m reports 13 as total mem!
Is it possible to tell the OS how much memory is available?
thanks
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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. you
connections per second from=10.11.35.8
xinetd[21348]: FAIL: tftp connections per second from=10.11.41.254
xinetd[21348]: FAIL: tftp connections per second from=10.11.41.254
41.254 is the router I was trying to tftp from and 35.8 is my workstation
where I was testing.
thanks
/j-p.
John-Paul
tand it.
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Subject: understanding tftp
From: "John-Paul Delaney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:56:15 +0100
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This is a multipart message in MIME format.
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Content-Type: tex
I received a reply to my earlier message informing me I had sent it as
html. Apologies - here it is (I hope!) as plain text.
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Hello List...
I'm having problems setting up a tftp server on my rh8.0 box. I want to
use it to backup cisco router configurations.
I've creat
Hello List...
I'm having problems setting up a tftp
server on my rh8.0 box. I want to use it to backup cisco router configurations.
I've created a file called startup-config
in the tftpboot directory with chmod 777 and chown nobody:nobody. The
directory tftpboot is also 777, nobody:nobody.
Fr
Hello list...
Excuse me if it's off-topic but I'd like to know how to continuously show the status
of CAPS LOCK in the status bar of vim (in text-mode i.e. not the gui). I frequently
mess things up as I've forgotten to turn off CAPS LOCK.
Thanks
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For the record, after installing termcap-devel rpm, then running ldconfig, I was able
to compile postgresql from source with readline.
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Hello List...
I'm trying to install the latest verion of postgresql [7.2.3] after removing the rpm
installation (which worked ok with readline) on RH7.3. My problem is that the output
of configure states:
...
checking for readline... no
...
with the result that postgresql installs ok but I don'
I haven't seen my update to this appear on the list so apologies if this is a second
post the problem was in /etc/sysctr.conf - ip forwarding wasn't enabled
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Ok I found the problem: It was in /etc/sysctl.conf - ip forwarding was off.
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I've just logged in a root to my recently-installed and up2dated 7.3 box, and get the
following Last Login message:
Last login: Thu Sep 26 06:52:20 from :0
As I'd normally expect "on tty2" or similar, what does "from :0" mean to you?
thanks
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to be something higher...the destination
> port is 53.
>
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, john-paul delaney wrote:
>
> > Thanks Mike... I've turned on 53/tcp (as well as 53/udp) as you suggest and will
>force a reload to test. I still have a problem with lookups fr
Thanks Mike... I've turned on 53/tcp (as well as 53/udp) as you suggest and will force
a reload to test. I still have a problem with lookups from the internet, as in the
following tcpdump extract:
- > justatest.com.domain: 12+ A? linuxdoc.org. (30)
05:53:27.724911 justatest.com > ppp-233-153.
Hello List...
After upgrading from rh7.0 to 7.3, I've found that Bind doesn't work for zone updates
(I'm using a hidden primary nameserver which refreshes secondary.com nameservers) nor
the dig command from the internet even though I had allowed incoming traffic to port
53 (I'm new to ipchain
Thanks Edward... that was indeed my error.
regards
/j-p.
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Edward Marczak wrote:
> On 9/26/02 10:06 AM, "john-paul delaney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tapped the keys:
>
> > Hello List...
> >
> > I've just upgraded a home serve
I've been having mail problems getting sendmail to work again... so this message
wasn't posted to the list (though was sent). Basically the problem was caused by ip
forwarding turned off in /etc/sysctl.conf.
/j-p.
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, john-paul delaney wrote:
> Hello List
Hello List...
I've just upgraded a home server from 7.0 to 7.3. It's dual-homed, one side
connecting to the inside LAN (10.11.11.1/24), the other side (192.168.1.2/24)
connecting to an ADSL router on ethernet (internal address 192.168.1.1, and external
public static ip). All working fine bef
Well spotted ... yes it is a typo, and should be as you suggest.thanks.You reckon I'm looking at a reinstallation then? (eek!)/j-p.
juaid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
From: john-paul delaney>INIT: cannot execute "/etc/rc.d/init.sysinit"mmhhh, did you misstype this?? tere
Hello List... I'm trying this again as I'm pretty desperate.
Booting my rh 7.0 machine hangs at INIT:. Running a repair install, I can access the disks, mount partitions and see the files sysinit and rc which appear intact (with root execute attributes). I have a backup of the machine (made with
TECTED]>wrote:
Yes you can type linux rescue from a rescue disk.Then aferwards youare asked to load the system from CD or a HD partition.--- Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>skrev: > On Sat, 2002-08-24 at06:11, john-paul delaney wrote:> > > > Hello List...> > > > Whi
Hello List...
Typing 'date' as a normal user always shows a difference of 4 hours than when the same
command is used when logged in as root.
Nevertheless, for both the user and root logins, hwclock returns the same time.
Even if I set the system time to that of the hardware clock, there's alwa
Michael... Notch up one more grateful newbie on your guru yardstick.
thanks
/j-p.
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Michael Fratoni wrote:
> On Sunday 19 May 2002 04:47 pm, john-paul delaney wrote:
> > Thanks Michael and Emmanuel... you've taught me something new.
> >
> > Any
Thanks Michael and Emmanuel... you've taught me something new.
Anyone have an idea how can I prevent tmpwatch removing the sub-directory /tmp/apache
(at least until I move the apache directory to a safer home) but still run on /tmp as
normal?
regards
/j-p.
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Michael Frat
Hello List...
Running apache1.3.24 on rh7.0. I attempt to dynamically load mod_status:
"LoadModule status_module /usr/lib/apache/mod_status.so"
but on apachectl I get this error:
"Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/mod_status.so into server: undefined symbol:
ap_hook_use"
Anyone have any exp
Hello list...
The backup report on my rh7.0 tells me it cannot find my apache directory (installed
on /tmp for bad disk partitioning/space reasons).
Granted, I may have inadvertently deleted it myself though not sure of this. Is there
a way to find out what happened? I've not found anything
Thanks Bret for your advice... that worked a treat!
/j-p.
On 2 May 2002, Bret Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 03:02, john-paul delaney wrote:
> > Hello List...
> >
> > I didn't get any reply on this request. If anyone has installed tomcat from rpm,
>co
Hello List...
I didn't get any reply on this request. If anyone has installed tomcat from rpm,
could you send me (offlist) the initialization script found in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ for
tomcat please?
thanks
/j-p.
On Wed, 1 May 2002, john-paul delaney wrote:
>
> Hello...
>
>
Hello...
Can anyone help this newbie with an init script for tomcat (4.0.1). I'm using redhat
7.0 and need to run the following command:
ulimit -s 2048
before loading tomcat (a jdk1.3 workaround).
I also want to load Tomcat as user tc.
Right now I'm manually invoking the tomcat start
Hello...
How do I set the system time from the hwclock so that it remains as set, even
on logout?
hwclock shows the correct time for my central europe location with daylight
savings time (CEST). However my system time is running -2 hrs (UTC time I
think). The command
hwclock --h
Hello List..
Tripwire recently reported that my httpd.conf file was missing. I restored from
backup but restarting httpd fails with the error
"execvp: no such file or directory"
Where would this file normally be found?
thanks
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Szemerédy Gábor wrote:
> Hello!
> I need a secondary DNS out of my address space.
> Do somebody know such a free service somewhere ?
> Thanks
>
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Hello List...
Howto modify .vimrc so that:
if FileExtension == htm or html or jsp or php
set sts=2
else
set sts=3
end if
(?)
thanks
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Hello List...
After my ISP's DNS crash, I used linuxconf to modify my DNS setting. However I'd
prefer to do the necessary changes to whichever files are involved - without the use
of linuxconf.
What file(s) would I normally have to modify for external DNS configuration?
A more general Q.: I
Hello List...
I'm using more & more the vi editor (vim 5?) that comes with my RH7.0. but am finding
the :help quite 'pithy' and would appreciate a little advice on this...
I just want to set the command
:set sts=3
as default
How to do this - (or better still, is there an easier document that
I want to load tomcat4 as a daemon on bootup of my RH7.0. However, in order to load
tc normally, I need to issue the command:
ulimit -s 2048
(sets the stack size?) otherwise it fails to load (Sun supplied the suggested
workaround).
It loads ok manually but not when run in runlevel 3, and I
Cool... the subtle touch. Thanks Lynn.
/j-p.
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Lynne Lawrence wrote:
> Note: "P" is nice to insert the word back in front of
> something because "yw" yanks a trailing space.
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:41:45AM -0100, john-paul delaney wrote:
> > Having previously yanked a word, I now want to replace the word at
> > the cursor with the one in memory. What's the best way to do this
> > substit
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Duncan Hill wrote:
thanks... for the buffers tip.
> cw <- nuke current work (there has to be an easier way)
dw ?
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Thanks... Sorry I wasn't specific. I'm using the Vi editor in a terminal (not GUI)...
without a mouse.
regards
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, ABrady wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:41:45 -0100 (GMT+1)
> john-paul delaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied:
>
> > N
Newb question...
Having previously yanked a word, I now want to replace the word at the cursor with the
one in memory. What's the best way to do this substitution?
thanks
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Hello List...
I'm trying out taper (backup prog) 6.9 on RH7.0. I did an initial full backup on two
90m dat and then a test restore of my netscape bookmarks.html file (renamed original
file).
The program seemed happy enough with finding the file on tape 2, recoginized the
correct file size bu
Yes! That was the question to show me what an idiot I am... I had moved the
files mentioned - instead of to a newly partitioned disk /dev/hdc3, to a
directory (created by mistake) on the root called hd3.
Sorry to have wasted your time gentlemen - but you saved me from making more
fatal mistake
x27;s the ext2 filesystem)
thanks again
/j-p.
Quoting Nick Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> I think 'shutdown -rF now' might help.
>
> * On 20-01-02 at 14:33
> * Duncan Hill said
>
> > On Sun, 20 Jan
Hello List...
fsck /dev/hda1 output warns:
"Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage.."
Things are bad enough as it is, so I abort the command.
However I would like to trigger a manual filesystem check... how can I do so?
thanks
/j-p.
JU
Hello List...
df -h shows that my /dev/hda1 has 0 space availability:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 484M 485M 0 100% /
However there's only one file left on the root directory (rhinstall-stage2.img:
106MB).
I had moved any others off to another partitio
Thanks a bunch guys... I did as suggested and I now get some response from the
tape. Is mt recommended for backup operations (it does seems a little cryptic
at first)?
regards
/j-p.
>> "... Easy one.
>> You don't mount tape drives.
>> You reference them as /dev/st devices from memory.
>>
Hello List...
Trouble-free installation of:
2940 controller and HP35470A tapedrive on P133 [all hand-me-downs].
Both were recognized by the hardware and (already-installed) RH7.0 on next bootup.
However, my attempts to mount and access the drive all fail.
Trouble-shooting tips please?
Thanks,
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