Taroon?

2003-07-24 Thread Rick Johnson
Saw a new folder which we cannot yet access. Could this be the next RHEL beta? taroon was the name. -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: Permissions corrupted - how do I reset to installed.

2003-06-05 Thread Rick Johnson
is a good start I believe. Check the man page to verify usage. The -V switch should display permission changes, user/group ownership modification, MD5 sum matches, etc. -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key

Re: Moving from imap 2001a-15 to courier imap

2003-03-30 Thread Rick Johnson
ntensive than uw-imap as I'm transitioning my company from POP3 based access to IMAP access. -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 m

Re: Gigabit Ethernet card

2003-03-27 Thread Rick Johnson
need. Thanks. I've found that the Intel PRO/1000 T desktop adapters work just fine, and are 32-bit PCI to boot, though supports 33mhz and 66mhz for future. $39 on pricegrabber. -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Publi

Re: prm

2003-03-27 Thread Rick Johnson
Michael Schwendt wrote: RPM Redhat Package Management Close. ;-) Red Hat Package Manager Actually now it is "RPM Package Manager", one of those famous recursive acronyms. It was changed a while back... -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lin

Re: mkbootdisk --/sbin/mkbootdisk worked

2003-03-26 Thread Rick Johnson
the additional path environments which include your various sbin directories. Hope this helps, -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

Re: [OT] on formatting conventions

2003-03-26 Thread Rick Johnson
rly render that as Italic, Underline, and Bold. For those of us where that *is* the case, we enjoy the extra effort. -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc --

Re: RH 9: ok, so i overreacted ... but i'm still miffed

2003-03-25 Thread Rick Johnson
to see the reason RH changes the numbering scheme. Three guesses: 1. Marketing? 2. To get rid of the .0 stigma? 3. To drive people to the Enterprise Linux Product? -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https:/

Re: [Fwd: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early]

2003-03-25 Thread Rick Johnson
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 - M

Re: RH 9: ok, so i overreacted ... but i'm still miffed

2003-03-25 Thread Rick Johnson
ese 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 Administrat

Re: [ADMIN] RHCE and Red Hat Linux 9

2003-03-24 Thread Rick Johnson
Joe Polk wrote: We are a sensitive lot, no? :) You might be too if you spent $2500 less than a year ago for certification and coursework that had the potential of lasting less than 1.5 years. -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/Network Administrator

Re: [ADMIN] RHCE and Red Hat Linux 9

2003-03-24 Thread Rick Johnson
Thanks, -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: Red Hat Linux 9 - Obsoleting RHCE's a an unprecidented pace....

2003-03-24 Thread Rick Johnson
s all about. The Advanced Server/Workstation, etc. etc. has a 12-18 month release cycle. And that's what Oracle is designing their apps around. -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.meda

Re: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early (fwd)

2003-03-24 Thread Rick Johnson
nding out. Not uncommon - not pretty, but not uncommon. -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https

Re: Logwatch not watching

2003-03-24 Thread Rick Johnson
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide -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]

Red Hat Linux 9 - Obsoleting RHCE's a an unprecidented pace....

2003-03-24 Thread Rick Johnson
24-36 months - which one might expect for $795). Even MCSE's typically last longer than 16 months... I'm sure it's purely a marketing decision... but not one I'm happy with unless they change their RHCE policy to match. -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTE

Re: SSH quirk...

2003-03-23 Thread Rick Johnson
s itself to your /dev/pts/## session. Until the process is restarted or the SSH session is remotely killed, the session will remain open. VSFTPd (standalone from RawHide) and webmin are two services off the top of my head that will do this guarenteed. -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007

Re: GPG and Freshrpms

2003-03-18 Thread Rick Johnson
rt it into RPM's database, not your own. Man RPM shows: rpm --import perhaps this would work: gpg --export -a e42d547b > tmp.asc rpm --import tmp.asc -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home) PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp

Re: Speaking of USB (instant USB disk question)

2003-03-17 Thread Rick Johnson
l non-connected networks (don't ask) that I have to transfer files to/from. HTH, -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home) PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EM

Re: 15 minute session disconnect in Redhat

2003-03-17 Thread Rick Johnson
ld be very nice. -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. 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: CPAN not finding latest modules

2003-03-17 Thread Rick Johnson
odule comments). Any ideas why I am not seeing the recent modules in CPAN? -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Practice Exams

2003-03-14 Thread Rick Johnson
Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: So, do you recommend a book? You're missing the point. RHCE's *cannot* be passed by book alone. If you have the experience required, you'll pass the exam without a book. -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Adminis

Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS/ES/AS

2003-03-14 Thread Rick Johnson
ding. Kickstart makes that simple enough anyway, especially if you maintain similar hardware across your network. -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -- redhat-list mailing

Re: which version of red hat is needed?

2003-03-11 Thread Rick Johnson
'll probably have to upgrade again. -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN 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.re

Re: xinetd won't restart

2003-03-11 Thread Rick Johnson
, are there any log entries in /var/log/messages? -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home) PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://

Re: CAUTION: Compiling new SENDMAIL

2003-03-05 Thread Rick Johnson
M, or from Sendmail.org's source tarball? -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/m

Re: New Sendmail Fix Available

2003-03-04 Thread Rick Johnson
Ed Wilts wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:48:57PM -0800, Rick Johnson wrote: Chris Mason wrote: Since it's a bug fix, it's unlikely the sendmail.cf is changed. There were some changes to it (under Red Hat 8.0, and 7.0/7.1). Do a diff on the mc file. One being trusted user of smmsp

Re: New Sendmail Fix Available

2003-03-03 Thread Rick Johnson
e new make -C /etc/mail to generate the file (new - used to be manual m4 method). /etc/aliases also has a minor change for those who use mailman. Rgds, -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.meda

Re: Peerless fixed

2003-03-03 Thread Rick Johnson
Remo Mattei wrote: Thanks for your support I have already fixed it. Do us a favor and share the fix? -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Re: Peerless drive

2003-03-03 Thread Rick Johnson
ou'd mount. Run "dmesg" as root to view any usb messages - it should be listed there as to which device the usb driver created. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rj

Re: Red Hat Announce/Watch List dead

2003-03-02 Thread Rick Johnson
e console almost immediately after it's posted, and the announce/watch mail arrives pretty much at the same time (or within a couple of hours). Then a few days later (typically, range is 1-10 days), I'll get the RHN errata notification mail sent to my RHN registered address. Thanks, -

Red Hat Announce/Watch List dead

2003-03-02 Thread Rick Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are the Red Hat Announce and Watch lists down? I don't see the latest errata notification in my mailbox or within the archives (vte, vnc). Did they stop this in favor of the RHN method, or is something just amiss? Thx, - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson,

Re: VSFTPD

2003-02-28 Thread Rick Johnson
not be | able to goutside of that directory. | The lib, bin, etc directories inside /var/ftp are *not* needed for VSFTPd. These are leftovers from wu-ftpd and can safely be removed. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP

Re: forward roots mail

2003-02-27 Thread Rick Johnson
e one doing the job. /root/.forward is probably being ignored at this point. If your .forward file wasn't chmod'd to 600, sendmail will ignore it. This is probably the case. By default, sendmail ignores forward files which are group writable. -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311

Re: installing VSFTPD

2003-02-26 Thread Rick Johnson
ion. Check out www.vsftpd.org for reasons why this is true. To rebuild the SRPM: rpmbuild --rebuild [--target i686] ...then find your package in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 (or i686) It's worth a shot. You can always rpm -e the package if it doesn't work for you and move back to

Re: installing VSFTPD

2003-02-25 Thread Rick Johnson
the 1.0.x versions should work fine under RH 7.1. Or... you can just grab the source tarball and compile it yourself :-) The above method, however, takes out most of the guesswork. Hope this helps just a bit, - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medat

Re: Compile modules for Apache V2

2003-01-29 Thread Rick Johnson
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PGP/GnuPG Keys

2003-01-29 Thread Rick Johnson
wise there's no point in cluttering the messages since nobody can decode it. Thanks guys! - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Min

Re: Redhat 8 and Shutting it down or Not!

2003-01-10 Thread Rick Johnson
chance to shut down and disks can cleanly sync (commit) and unmount. Gone are the days of DOS where you can just turn it off when finished. HTH, - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc

Re: How to limit user access in ssh?

2003-01-10 Thread Rick Johnson
bad), but also allow say telnet or local login if it were existant on the box. The above solution is *very* ssh specific. Seems a bit more direct to make the shell /sbin/nologin. I'm going to hang onto the other idea tho because it could be quite useful in specific cases. Thoughts? - -Rick -

Re: How to limit user access in ssh?

2003-01-10 Thread Rick Johnson
lients). usermod -s /sbin/nologin - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Signed and/or encpryted for e

Re: A couple of problems...

2003-01-10 Thread Rick Johnson
never used any USB device before, so I'm only | guessing how to get it work... Does it require a powered hub (i.e. main bus has too much power draw)? - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson

Re: Sendmail anti-spam feature?

2003-01-10 Thread Rick Johnson
ot;. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Signed and/or encpryted for everyone's protection.

Re: GUI frontend for LVM management?

2003-01-10 Thread Rick Johnson
ed with AS, you could compile it to work with your current version. I tried the precompiled 6.2 RPM's under 7.2/7.3 and had it working. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc

Re: USB Flash Card Reader

2002-12-27 Thread Rick Johnson
d Hat 8.0 box with a 2.4.18-19-athlon kernel. Hope that helps, - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Signed and/or encpr

Re: changing shell

2002-12-26 Thread Rick Johnson
er at boot time? | | Shawn The easy way: usermod -s username i.e. usermod -s /bin/bash NewRedHatuser The hacker way: Use 'vipw' to edit the /etc/passwd file manually. Your choice. :-) HTH, - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. P

Re: disallow pop users to leave a copy of the messages on the server

2002-12-26 Thread Rick Johnson
ity since their pop3 dæmon simply interfaces with their imap code. As for quotas - if using Sendmail along with procmail and you encounter an exceeded quota, the bounce will not specify that the mail was bounced due to quota issues, but rather an internal error or something of that nature. - -Rick

Re: can i safely dispense with building an initrd.img?

2002-12-26 Thread Rick Johnson
/specified at install), it builds the new initrd image using the modules specified from the kernel passed as the command argument. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home) PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP

Re: can i safely dispense with building an initrd.img?

2002-12-26 Thread Rick Johnson
nitrd. Before I learned how to successfully pick and chose my modules for a modular kernel, I got away with this when doing an entirely static kernel. HTH, - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from home) Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnso

Re: new kernel

2002-12-26 Thread Rick Johnson
rpmbuild -bb NVIDIA*. rpmbuild --rebuild does the same as your -ivh + -bb in one step, but deletes the BUILD/SOURCES/SPECS files when finished. Rgds, - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from home) Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp

Re: new kernel

2002-12-24 Thread Rick Johnson
For me it's easiest to rebuild the package based on the .src.rpm so you don't need to wait for NVidia to catch up w/ Red Hat's kernel releases. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjo

Re: openSSH question

2002-12-24 Thread Rick Johnson
ckage, and then rebuild the RPM's to link to the newer OpenSSL libraries. That or roll those packages yourself from .tar.gz. Some packages that come to mind that are affected are (that I've had to rebuild in the past after updating OpenSSL): OpenSSH Apache (mod_ssl) PHP Sendmail HTH, - -Ric

Re: Anyone on product life span?

2002-12-23 Thread Rick Johnson
Search the archives. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Signed and/or encpryted for e

Re: setting up an ftp mirror

2002-12-23 Thread Rick Johnson
repositories | do it? Thanks in advance for your kind help. I'm sure Red Hat has a private link for you to use (perhaps rsync based to keep the tree clean) if you want to be a mirror. Try contacting the FTP admin e-mail address listed when you log into their server. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [

Re: downloading "phoebe" as we speak

2002-12-23 Thread Rick Johnson
eir releases. My thoughts, - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from home) Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+B0cNIgQdhlSHZgMRAsVmAJ0Ty3rTReMmTvNxZL1HVAvRt

Re: boot to new kernel from floppy

2002-12-22 Thread Rick Johnson
enough to fit on the floppy. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home) PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Signed/Encrpyted for your protection iD8DBQE

Re: stopping shell access - Solved

2002-12-21 Thread Rick Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josep M. wrote: | Hello. | | No,is included,as you can see,and installed by default in my case: | I'm talking about the entry in /etc/shells, not whether /bin/false exists. Thanks, - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linu

Re: stopping shell access - Solved

2002-12-21 Thread Rick Johnson
/csh - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home) PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Signed/Encrpyted for your protection iD8DBQE

Re: Init script order

2002-12-21 Thread Rick Johnson
es at the | top of the script. I'm dying to know - why? - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home) PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Signed/Encrpyte

Re: stopping shell access - Solved

2002-12-21 Thread Rick Johnson
prob - RH 8.0 includes /sbin/nologin in /etc/shells, but not /bin/false. I prefer /sbin/nologin because it does give a response vs. an immediate disconnect. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home) PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohn

Re: stopping shell access

2002-12-21 Thread Rick Johnson
. HTH, - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home) PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Signed/Encrpyted for your protection iD8DBQE

Re: long bootup delay - sendmail and sm-client (long)

2002-12-19 Thread Rick Johnson
sn't able to "communicate" via that IP.. etc. etc. Hope that makes some sense. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.

Re: Bad Mouse

2002-12-19 Thread Rick Johnson
on my Belkin switchbox. Pressing Ctrl+ALT+F1, then back to Alt+F7 clears it up for me. Probably not your issue tho. Also depends on the mouse. MS does it, Logitech doesn't. Go figure. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: ht

Re: Sendmail and RH80

2002-12-19 Thread Rick Johnson
about? Looking for something other than the typical "Google it" response (Google doesn't recommend one over the other). Also - does Postfix still use Procmail as the MDA or does it switch to something else? Thanks guys! - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Ad

Re: cinik worm

2002-12-18 Thread Rick Johnson
(not to mention a CD swapping nightmare). Therefore I skip most of the steps in the howto, simply replace original packages w/ errata where applicable and run genhdlist. No need to recreate the installer or update comps unless I'm adding/removing packages to groups, changing the order, etc.

Re: cinik worm

2002-12-18 Thread Rick Johnson
e. Taking the geek way out (doing less, but getting the same done). Or am I just missing something? - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1

Re: cinik worm

2002-12-18 Thread Rick Johnson
ed Hat 8.0. The "current" symlink only points to the latest version. It does not imply that errata has been applied. Now if you're aware of a different location, please share and save me the trouble! I'd love to rsync against it. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROT

Re: kernel

2002-12-18 Thread Rick Johnson
unning GUI style again. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Signed and/or encpryted for everyone&#x

Re: extracting files using tar

2002-12-18 Thread Rick Johnson
$tarf" ] || tar xf "$tarf" | done | ) | done Thanks - learn something new every day. Referring to my Advanced Bash Scripting Guide to reference the function of parens tho. Need to get into the habbit of using double-pipe more often too. Rgds, - -Rick - -- Rick Joh

Redhat posts a profit

2002-12-18 Thread Rick Johnson
... - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from home) Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+AKF+IgQdhlSHZgMRAmpFAJ41McQmqHvFjK7ot90LdnlJ2B+V8wCeMU5Z 2UC

Re: extracting files using tar

2002-12-18 Thread Rick Johnson
# For each tar file, extract do tar xvf $y done # Change back up 1 level cd .. # End if fi done Now if it's more than 1 tree deep, you'd have to get a bit more tricky. HTH, - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from home) Linux/WAN Administrator - Me

Re: RH 6.2 kernel recompile of 2.2.22-6.2.3

2002-12-18 Thread Rick Johnson
nk of that) so that you can compile against the source or rebuild a custom kernel. The latter is meant for rpmbuild to build the kernel-*.ix86.rpm package itself and contains the appropriate specs to do so. HTH, - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from home) Linux/WAN Administ

Re: modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter errno = 2

2002-12-18 Thread Rick Johnson
static or modular kernels tho that were giving the error (or both). - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from home) Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux

Re: tape driver

2002-12-18 Thread Rick Johnson
SCSI params will vary, this is a Python type drive (DDS-4). If you don't see anything remotely like that, then there's probably an issue where Red Hat or your hardware isn't seeing the drive. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from home) Linux/WAN Administrator -

Re: kernel

2002-12-18 Thread Rick Johnson
ile theirs for your specific architecture/hardware. Unless you're athlon based, there's probably a small gain between i686 generic and PIII/PIV - not to mention the potential gain of using a static kernel specific for your hardware vs. using modules. My 2 cents, - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson,

Re: cinik worm

2002-12-18 Thread Rick Johnson
install is completed, you apply *all* errata ASAP before bringing your system online for production. I save myself the step by keeping my errata in my install tree. The moment it's released, it's copied to my install tree, (as well as rebuilt for i686) and I rerun genhdlist for the directo

Re: cinik worm

2002-12-17 Thread Rick Johnson
cing a few binaries verified changed and then patching your system, or reinstalling? The more experienced admin will probably opt for the former. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home) PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -B

Re: cinik worm

2002-12-17 Thread Rick Johnson
hattr is also one of the modified files. Boot from a rescue CD (i.e. SuperRescue or an install CD) and see if you can't repair there. Then run rpm's verify on the core packages to ensure that your binaries are still in tact. Or... you could reinstall. :-) - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE

Re: What files and directories should be backed up from /etc

2002-12-17 Thread Rick Johnson
f you run Webmin w/ tweaks... apache with 100's of virtual hosts each as a separate file in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ - oy, a nightmare. I guess it depends on the simplicity of your install, but I'd vote for being safer than sorrier. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from home) L

Re: Problems with logwatch detail

2002-12-17 Thread Rick Johnson
ure-log info. | | What am I missing? | | Thanks! Try grabbing the latest Logwatch from logwatch.org ftp://ftp.kaybee.org/pub/redhat/RPMS/noarch/logwatch-4.2.1-1.noarch.rpm It may do what you're looking for, but it hasn't been put through the rigors of Red Hat QA. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, R

Re: kernel recompilation

2002-12-17 Thread Rick Johnson
u may find some benefit there. :-) - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from home) Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/L

Re: What files and directories should be backed up from /etc

2002-12-17 Thread Rick Johnson
vary, but you'd be pretty safe w/ the above. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from home) Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9/0O4IgQ

Re: rebuilding rpms

2002-12-16 Thread Rick Johnson
cific than i686 (i.e. -mcpu=pentiumIII or whatever). Do note, however, that some packages don't like to be rebuilt, and others behave differently if they are (i.e. perl and it's cpan modules). Unless you change some config files to match, you're going to be left scratching your head.

Re: Boy, did I screw up bad... I need some help guys.

2002-12-16 Thread Rick Johnson
s astonishing and quite simple to adapt to. Resistance to change will only be a hindrance in the end. HTH, - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: OT: Why this warning when starting Apache?

2002-12-14 Thread Rick Johnson
config w/o including the hosts in /etc/hosts (not to mention the DNS traffic). Just my experience. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home) PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.

Re: OT: Why this warning when starting Apache?

2002-12-14 Thread Rick Johnson
tRoot /home/www/html | | | | ServerName some.domain.here | DocumentRoot /home/www/html/something | | --- Easy fix - put an entry for 192.168.1.5 in your /etc/hosts file. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from home) Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata,

Errata Schedule

2002-12-13 Thread Rick Johnson
h 31, 2003 + How likely is it that Red Hat will stick to these dates? Is this an effort to get larger business to adopt Advanced Server? I'd certainly like to see longer support for 7.3 and 8.0 myself since I just got most of our servers running on these two versions. Thoughts? - -Rick -

Re: AAaahhh Crap! (Chapter 2)

2002-12-13 Thread Rick Johnson
tain no data). Just a thought, - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from home) Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9+gm7IgQdhlSHZgMRAqmlAKCHoU

Re: boot error with grub..

2002-12-12 Thread Rick Johnson
Perhaps it's just LABEL=/ To be sure - boot into the other kernel and run e2fslabel to verify (or cat your fstab). - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: grub and .img files

2002-12-12 Thread Rick Johnson
whatever modules have to be loaded at start (i.e. SCSI and FS) that haven't been compiled in already, and make an initial ramdisk file containing the needed modules. Enjoy, - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medat

Re: Decent Word / Excel Conversion: Not yet?

2002-12-12 Thread Rick Johnson
en them up in Microsoft Word. | After research, I realized that lwp is for Lotus Word Pro. They ended up | reconverting it into a PDF format for me. One word: RTF Problem solved. Cross platform, cross application, just about anything can read it and most formatting isn't lost. - -Rick -

Re: Problem with man pages

2002-12-12 Thread Rick Johnson
g man in the process. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Signed and/or encpr

Re: Red hat free download vs. Advanced server

2002-12-12 Thread Rick Johnson
server. Go here: http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/features/rhl_compare.html and here: http://www.redhat.com/software/whichlinux.html to learn the differences. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com

Re: Free Partition magic?

2002-12-11 Thread Rick Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hello Everyone; | | Can some tell me the free alternatives to partition magic? Try parted. man parted - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https

Re: which config was used to make my kernel?

2002-12-11 Thread Rick Johnson
P). Usually doing a make menuconfig at the command prompt in the kernel source tree causes the config program to *automagically* load the correct kernel config from the configs directory. Simply go in and make your needed changes and it will then be saved as .config. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EM

Re: Question about Kernels

2002-12-10 Thread Rick Johnson
ion" and confirm the selection. Your best bet would be to open two windows within the two trees. Run the config for 2.4.18-18.8.0 in one window under that source tree with the Red Hat config loaded, and run the config for 2.5.50 under the second window. Then compare each one and go f

Re: Compiling 2.4.18 kernel - missing module-info file?

2002-12-10 Thread Rick Johnson
c, there's nothing wrong w/ a static kernel - - or at a minimum, making the SCSI module staticly compiled (leaving the rest modular). Building a modular kernel that works right is a challenge, especially on non-standard hardware. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from

Re: Apache Config

2002-12-10 Thread Rick Johnson
port it to Apache 1.3. Enjoy! -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from home) Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com

Re: Building a new kernel

2002-12-06 Thread Rick Johnson
or. I'd suggest starting from scratch w/ a new config. Take notes on what was enabled in the Red Hat kernel config, but go fresh. -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -- redhat-l

Re: up2date on a stand-alone machine?

2002-12-06 Thread Rick Johnson
h ..rpm (or -Uvh if you're brave like me) Then rpm -Fvh *.i686.rpm if applicable. You may have to add some of the i386 dependancies to that line to get that working properly (glibc comes to mind). Then rpm -Fvh *.rpm. For day to day updates, however, rpm -Fvh *.rpm works fine. -Rick

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