Printer Presence Detection
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello redhat-list, I'm looking at setting up a headless Linux box that may or may not have a PCL printer attached to its parallel port. How can I, from a shell or Perl script, determine whether a printer is attached? Thanks! Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBP2c70G8pw+2/9pUJEQJ7hgCg7uQ+t0dDr88F1Jp3lZS0vbSh/+cAn10P jv9F24xVCF7QglY1YkmMfs1j =tv0O -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: GPG issues
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, September 4, 2003, 6:06:36 AM, Trey wrote: gpg: signing failed: secret key not available I have much more experience with PGP than GPG, but this sounds to me like when you exported your key, you only exported the public portion. With PGP, you have to make an extra effort to export both public and secret keys. I hope you still have your original secring.gpg and pubring.gpg on a backup somewhere. Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBP1lrc28pw+2/9pUJEQKHIgCeIdEFsqL+Yep4dJjwV4Ph/E5DbkgAn1+R 7f9sT+Ew47yLPD+fwBg5RP7K =SfNk -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Remote access full graphical interface RH9
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday, August 24, 2003, 2:37:19 PM, Kevin wrote: Is there a program that I can install that will provide me remote access to the GUI for RH9 instead of the command shell? Sure! There are two approaches. One is to use ssh with X Window forwarding. The other is to use VNC. Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBP00IeG8pw+2/9pUJEQL7IQCgxZLloArR/ZDJGoYi9uavbx7a5W4AniNZ EdnnmOsOtgkioufUd+unEpzd =f6yb -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: scripting help with ftp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 C-Kermit (for Linux) and Kermit-95 (for your Windows box) have tremendous scripting capabilities. There is a modest cost for the Kermit-95 distribution, but I have found it to be well worth it. Check it out at http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/. Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBP00LEm8pw+2/9pUJEQLUtQCg1W8KpaPN7n8WWQz8EcuappUTqHMAmwSO gueiSPFNLA7944jnXVx1Ab+B =Niqq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Exchange server from pine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 21, 2003, 1:56:51 AM, Didier wrote: software I would not buy for Linux because the initial spirit of Linux was to be an OPEN SOURCE system. This is MY CHOICE. I know this is not yours That's fine. Very nice. I would rather see Linux become a platform that grows beyond the limited sphere you prefer. Sure, if you can convince someone to write the quality applications you need for you, and then give them away for no cost and open source, that's wonderful. However, it would be nice to be able to get the quality applications *some other way*, if you can't find a philanthropic developer. If you say that you will refuse, up front, to purchase any software for Linux, and the development community that needs to make money through their programming efforts believes that you represent a large percentage of what they thought was their market, they will go and do something else to put food on their table. Maybe they will develop for Windows. You wind up with software that is useful to a lot of people, and interesting to work on for the developers. But, you do not necessarily wind up with the software that you need to get the job done. Capitalism does have its uses. I would much rather pay someone for the tools I need that are not otherwise available, than pay money for another computer; pay money to Microsoft for yet another Windows license; pay time to install, configure, and maintain it; pay space to have a second computer sitting on my desk; pay time to deal with cross-platform tooling (editors, version control, etc.) issues; and a host of other things. Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBP0TpZ28pw+2/9pUJEQLjOwCg04hs59T0GoAY/d//GzCbkvd0CfoAoNP5 0AxqVH5akDXCP/R5U9w7ftjW =le9Z -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Exchange server from pine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 21, 2003, 1:16:28 AM, Didier wrote: [Jason] called me an idiot. You're right. He used the wrong word. He should have used naive. We don't really have any evidence as to your intelligence. Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBP0TqTG8pw+2/9pUJEQLM/wCg6ZKMWXBl4YfcEeBvFTdOhBkI+GUAoJAN goR+FlggKzE/XCS63pkIvWcl =v3+D -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 21, 2003, 9:39:30 PM, Herculano wrote: OK.. I've seen this subject on lots of threads so I'll ask.. can you explain this? [EMAIL PROTECTED] logs]$ du -h /var/log/lastlog 19M /var/log/lastlog If, when you copy a sparse file, you do not take precautions to have the copy also be sparse, the copy gets filled in and has a bunch of bytes of 0x00 actually allocated on disk. Looks like that happened here. Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBP0WVwm8pw+2/9pUJEQITxgCg80hoFBkJYCaKbJrxTl0tmKmdas8AoLM0 lYeS+pqsYIc6b4Z+uPC0xZYA =ptso -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: [OT] SCO debunking its own myths :-)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 20, 2003, 2:29:47 AM, marc wrote: The Greek writing below is actually English written with Greek letters. They don't want to place themselves in the position of actually publishing the source code that they are claiming to be trade secret. So, they have replaced the actual code on their side with gibberish. Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBP0ObCG8pw+2/9pUJEQIN8gCgqh4NJSrJiIcz+QpBIkRYeMVu/RQAoOem vmAblytz09SVth6KHl+wOuPl =xQhK -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: How to login as root from remote machine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 20, 2003, 11:57:31 AM, Mark wrote: Login as yourself or a regular user and then su to get root access. Better yet, use sudo to run specific things as needed. Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBP0PCBG8pw+2/9pUJEQIaNwCeM2JZGqVH7Np3oOmZDHfJkzDCQJ0AoNa0 WV3Hc03Nnkw5vEE9xY3FrkUD =PuYh -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Sweet Success
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 20, 2003, 2:15:14 PM, Cliff wrote: In the argument over TCO, several reports have shown that the TCO for a single Linux server is slightly higher than a single Windows server. Most of those reports disregarded the fact that one Linux box easily replaces half a dozen Windows boxes. Another thing that tends to be ignored is that the number of Windows administrators tends to scale linearly with the number of Windows systems, while adding systems to a properly administered UNIX/Linux system network adds a much smaller increment of work to the administrator. Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBP0PMmG8pw+2/9pUJEQKRsACgzFljHg+ZKySPG8blTQKSgVCjSJQAoKIZ cllOMu9tu6bV1emM+MLi+LoO =7zyo -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Building Own Kernel - PCMCIA Woes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This morning, we were having a meeting to discuss potential hardware solutions for an upcoming embedded Linux PC application. One of the alternatives floated was to use PCMCIA / PC Card for extra serial ports and/or modems. Our boss shot down that idea, saying that PCMCIA support on Linux really sucks. Unfortunately, I am in no position to dispute this assessment, since I'm unable to find anyone who can help even point me in the right direction of figuring out how to get PCMCIA working with 2.4.20 or 2.4.21 kernels. I sure hope that the hardware requirements don't force us into a Windows (32 or CE) OS. sigh. Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBP0Joc28pw+2/9pUJEQJDOgCgqwqDcbJ0Eio52uCxwNLe9zGoDS0An0NZ JjPi/yBjnETDNy/xxKBifF6S =DPoJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Building Own Kernel - PCMCIA Woes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, August 19, 2003, 1:16:22 PM, Ognen wrote: Can you elaborate on this statement? (not that I do not agree, I have a bunch of pcmcia related problems myself...) Certainly! Here are copies of the main messages I've posted looking for help. The first describes how I cannot upgrade my ThinkPad 770ED running RH 8.0 from the 2.4.18 kernel that works to the current crop of 2.4.20, due to PCMCIA problems. The second describes how I have failed in my efforts at building a 2.4.21 kernel from scratch that is capable of talking PCMCIA. The third message is a continuation of the 2.4.21 effort. At first, all I wanted was to be able to continue to upgrade to the latest RH supplied kernel. I'll still accept that, but now I want more! Now, I want to be able to build my own kernel. I *did* manage to build a kernel that boots on the 770ED and seems to access all of the hardware that the 2.4.18 kernel was, EXCEPT that it won't talk to the PCMCIA card. Since that's where my Ethernet and Modem are, it's kinda important to me. :-) Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBP0KZM28pw+2/9pUJEQL/tQCfWmUnl38cYMrYZB8W3HP9ntxAwsYAoMt0 /szP3S5s3RusNix9BKKl8W9o =0Cpx -END PGP SIGNATURE- = Message that began my quest: = -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello linux-thinkpad, I'm running RH 8.0 on my 770ED. The system sits on a dock where the floppy resides, along with a TDK CD-RW drive. On the dock's SCSI, there is a Syquest SyJet with no disk in the drive. In the PCMCIA slot, I have a 3Com/Megahertz 3CCFEM556 Ethernet/Modem card. Running kernel 2.4.18-27.0, and several others before that, things have been working pretty well. However, when I tried moving to the first 2.4.20 kernel update that RH released, I had trouble. After seeing some discussion here, it looked like it might have been caused by PCMCIA difficulties. It looked more like that once I successfully upgraded my A21p and three desktop systems (none of which use any PCMCIA cards). Now, I've tried upgrading to the latest 2.4.20-18.8, and my system is still locking up at boot time. I am assuming that this is a panic, but since I can't remember seeing one on Linux before and since it goes on for enough lines to scroll off the top of the screen, who knows? In /var/log/messages, the last few lines from my 2.4.20-18.8 boot attempt are (without the date stamps): pcmcia: cardmgr. cardmgr[598]: starting, version is 3.1.31 rc: Starting pcmcia: succeeded cardmgr[598]: config error, file 'config' line 2129: no function bindings cardmgr[598]: watching 4 sockets cardmgr[598]: Card services release does not match Note that the complaint about line 2129 also happens in the 2.4.18 boot. Note that the Card services release does not match complaint also happens in the 2.4.18 boot. In the 2.4.18 boot, what follows are lines from kernel/cs relating to IO port probing, followed by the initialization of the Ethernet/Modem card. So, I guess I'm still suspicious of PCMCIA issues. Further evidence pointing at PCMCIA is that when I pulled the card and re-booted, the system came up fine (althouth, of course, not on the network). Where do I go from here??? Thanks! Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBPua2dm8pw+2/9pUJEQI7AACeKKQFURSVE3eXq8nBGYVWMC8sVZsAoOuD 7KQ3bTP4K8m9dW0qR1u7CILS =f2iu -END PGP SIGNATURE- = Message that began my kernel building sub-quest: = -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello psyche-list, Because of the problems I have been having with the 2.4.20 kernel updates for RH 8.0, to which no one seems to even be able to provide a hint on tracking down, I decided to have a go at grabbing the latest stable kernel from www.kernel.org. I downloaded 2.4.21 dated 2003-06-13, in hopes that whatever broke between .18 and .20 got fixed in .21. So, I extracted the kernel source onto a filesystem with a bunch of free space, as /data/kernel/linux-2.4.21, and followed the kernel build instructions. Since this is a notebook computer that is not likely to have any changes in sound card, processor, etc., I tried to set everything up that it had (that I use all the time) as y to include. Anything that I use only occasionally, I set up as m, and anything that doesn't exist or never is used, I set up as n. I've got six saved .config files at this point, but the first couple don't really count, since I didn't even *try* to boot them. I have attached rh5.config (rh for Ron Heiby, not Red Hat) to this message, as it seems to be the closest to working. The change going from this to rh6.config was to make CONFIG_PCMCIA and CONFIG_PCMCIA_3C574 m, rather than y. With those changes, the kernel would not build, with the final ld complaining about not being able to find
Re: Anyone grabbed and compiled a 2.6 kernel yet?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, August 19, 2003, 5:35:22 PM, Brian wrote: These are already compiled. http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel/ The claim is RH9/Rawhide. Any idea whether it would be reasonable to try with RH8.0? Thanks! Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBP0Lodm8pw+2/9pUJEQJ0WQCgwRC321uFWV/0BFduwDFxTPAkzukAoMPD Kd70zxhxiALTNXaAMZ+raLED =v1Va -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Shared Disk Cluster
Monday, August 18, 2003, 6:42:17 PM, Ed wrote: You may also want to check out http://www.ha-linux.org. Appears to be http://linux-ha.org. Ron. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Building Own Kernel - PCMCIA Woes
Monday, August 11, 2003, 9:37:38 PM, Randy wrote: try renaming dir /lib/modules/new_kernel)/pcmcia Finally got a chance to try this. No joy. Here are the messages from /var/log/messages that seem related. Aug 15 23:23:03 rwh pcmcia: Starting PCMCIA services: Aug 15 23:23:03 rwh pcmcia: cardmgr. Aug 15 23:23:03 rwh cardmgr[522]: starting, version is 3.1.31 Aug 15 23:23:03 rwh rc: Starting pcmcia: succeeded Aug 15 23:23:03 rwh cardmgr[522]: config error, file 'config' line 2129: no function bindings Aug 15 23:23:03 rwh cardmgr[522]: watching 4 sockets Aug 15 23:23:03 rwh cardmgr[522]: Card Services release does not match Aug 15 23:23:03 rwh cardmgr[522]: initializing socket 1 Aug 15 23:23:03 rwh kernel: cs: memory probe 0x0c-0x0f: excluding 0xc-0xcbfff 0xf-0xf Aug 15 23:23:03 rwh cardmgr[522]: socket 1: Anonymous Memory Aug 15 23:23:03 rwh cardmgr[522]: executing: 'modprobe memory_cs' Aug 15 23:23:03 rwh cardmgr[522]: + modprobe: Can't locate module memory_cs Aug 15 23:23:03 rwh cardmgr[522]: modprobe exited with status 255 Aug 15 23:23:03 rwh cardmgr[522]: module /lib/modules/2.4.21.rh1/pcmcia/memory_cs.o not available Aug 15 23:23:05 rwh cardmgr[522]: get dev info on socket 1 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable Ron. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: PCMCIA hard drive
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday, August 11, 2003, 1:01:59 PM, Hugh wrote: Anyone have any ideas on how to get this working again? Sorry, I don't. I'm having problems with PCMCIA under the 2.4.20 kernel under RH 8.0 that worked fine on the 2.4.18 kernel. It's keeping me from thinking about moving that machine to RH 9. And, since I tend to migrate all of the machines I manage in fairly rapid succession, none of them are migrating off 8 any time soon. My latest attempt to get around the problem was by building my own 2.4.21 kernel, but I've not yet been able to get *any* PCMCIA action on it, and my requests for help on it have gone un-answered. sigh. Good luck! Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBPzm4AG8pw+2/9pUJEQLG8wCgvaXD0ZM4ommOvFCdddRTKSZtEJ0AoPAy C5vVGuYIsEqa84tFoKpfX80G =ME5f -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RH9 + Win2K
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, August 12, 2003, 10:54:50 AM, Doug wrote: I am the manager over the IS/IT department and it's OK with me. I am very familiar with RH but was interested in an article that might relate to installation on a laptop - a Dell in particular. I have not installed on a Dell laptop, but have not had any trouble installing dual-boot with Windows 2000 Pro on an IBM ThinkPad 770ED, an IBM ThinkPad A21p, and a Toshiba something-or-other. On all three, I am currently using Grub as the boot manager. For a while, I had been using PowerQuest Boot Magic on the A21p, but blew it away accidentally by giving Grub the wrong arguments. Fortunately, the arguments I gave it had it install correctly in place of PQBM, and I've been using it happily ever since. In all cases, I used Partition Magic to slice and dice the drive, so cannot comment on how well the Linux install does that. Anyway, no install problems on any of the three. Good luck! Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBPzm6sm8pw+2/9pUJEQLKbACg7mQEmERvD3Whhby8u+Gw1w43aTIAnjuy cixGsToemeUdlExKlmkSH3CL =78Ps -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The thing that has me puzzled is my business partner's Toshiba notebook computer, a Satellite Pro 6100. He has Win XP on it, and then added RH 9 in a dual-boot setup. Under XP, he had installed the Cygwin environment. He has a fairly large text file that he needs to sort. Using the sort program under Cygwin on WinXP, he reports that the sort completes in about half the time that the same sort on the same input data runs under RH 9. He also reports similar time differences for other compute and disk I/O processes. I wouldn't think that window managers, etc. would have much to do with this. It's the same hardware. I'm guessing that Cygwin did not re-write the sort command, but is using the same Gnu sort and gcc that Linux uses (circa minor version differences). He found a BIOS setting that claims to force the CPU in high performance mode at all times, and that helped narrow the speed difference to where it is now. Any ideas on what I can tell him to do to get Linux running almost as fast as Win XP? Faster would be even better, of course. :-) Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBPzQAsm8pw+2/9pUJEQI4egCg2chbABQsOmgw1ETGesMqNGTMsK0AoO3d fwKqoFkEZf7iZ6aPHReE6prL =W0YE -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Building Own Kernel - PCMCIA Woes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello redhat-list, Because of the problems I have been having with the 2.4.20 kernel updates for RH 8.0, to which no one seems to even be able to provide a hint on tracking down, I decided to have a go at grabbing the latest stable kernel from www.kernel.org. I downloaded 2.4.21 dated 2003-06-13, in hopes that whatever broke between .18 and .20 got fixed in .21. So, I extracted the kernel source onto a filesystem with a bunch of free space, as /data/kernel/linux-2.4.21, and followed the kernel build instructions. Since this is a notebook computer that is not likely to have any changes in sound card, processor, etc., I tried to set everything up that it had (that I use all the time) as y to include. Anything that I use only occasionally, I set up as m, and anything that doesn't exist or never is used, I set up as n. I've got six saved .config files at this point, but the first couple don't really count, since I didn't even *try* to boot them. I have attached rh5.config (rh for Ron Heiby, not Red Hat) to this message, as it seems to be the closest to working. The change going from this to rh6.config was to make CONFIG_PCMCIA and CONFIG_PCMCIA_3C574 m, rather than y. With those changes, the kernel would not build, with the final ld complaining about not being able to find drivers/char/pcmcia/pcmcia_char.o, and with me wondering why it would want to look for such a file. Anyway, back to the attached config. The system boots just fine, but no Ethernet. My Ethernet is a Megahertz PCMCIA combo card that runs with no problem on the 2.4.18-27.8.0 stock build, while causing all of the 2.4.20 builds to die horribly. Looking at /var/log/messages, the best clue seems to be that it is trying to modprobe memory_cs, a module that does not exist. But, it does not exist in any of the kernels I installed from .rpm files, either. So, I'm obviously confused. I ran across http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/faqs/linux_faq_AEN2325, which seems to be telling me to turn off all the PCMCIA stuff in the kernel build, and to re-compile the kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31.9 package, pointing it at my new kernel source tree. While that seems to make some sense, I have to wonder why the kernel-pcmcia-cs package didn't have to be re-done for the 2.4.18 - 2.4.20 transition. If I don't hear/find something that seems to make more sense by the time I get home from work, that's what I'll be trying next. Thanks! Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBPzhRCW8pw+2/9pUJEQKCXwCg1ayueNRMuOd0I1s7izKGl52nMI8AoI4I Pe12ByHBT+STVyCjD8CffzE1 =LA4x -END PGP SIGNATURE- rh5.config Description: Binary data
Re: Comcast Routing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday, August 2, 2003, 3:33:49 PM, Lee wrote: 1) Establish the LAN using private IP addresses and a hub. You want to use a router with a built-in hub/switch. If you already have a hub/switch, then you can get a router without one built in and save a very small amount of money. 2) Connect the hub to the cable modem. Connect the router to the cable modem. 3) Connect to the Internet directly from the Linux box, then configure the Windoze box to use the Linux box as a proxy server so I can surf the web from the Windoze box (all my email etc. will go to the Linux box). No. Unless you plan to use the Linux box as the router (two Ethernet cards), then you want it sitting on the *inside* network. Both systems know that to get their packets where they are supposed to go, that they must go towards the router. The Linux box needn't be concerned with what's going on with the other box, unless you explicitly want to experiment with setting up and running a proxy server. (Or, perhaps the Linux box has lots of free disk and you want to experiment with performance of having it cache web pages.) Email is another matter. It will be tricky to get your Email to go to the Linux Box. Less tricky will probably be setting up fetchmail to have the Linux Box get your Email. The other fellow, who started this thread, was indicating that he saw no performance difference using the router. This says to me that he likely has things configured wrong. He probably got snookered by the Comcast line about how you need to pay them for an IP address for every computer in your home. He then probably configured each of those computers with their own IP, and they all think that the only way to get to them is via the Internet link, implying that the routing tables are hosed. What he *should* have done (and it probably is not too late) is to realize that only those computers that are actually connected to the Comcast network need their own IP address. In my household of *several* computers, only one computer is attached to the Comcast network. It has its own IP address that it gets from the service. The computer is made by a company called Linksys, their model BEFSR11. My Linksys computer is also connected to my home network, but that is no concern of Comcast's. (Linksys also has model BEFSR41 with a 4-port switch built in and the BEFSR81 with an 8-port switch built in. According to the prices at www.cdw.com, the BEFSR41 is the sweet spot right now, just a little more expensive than a month's worth of Comcast Internet service in my area.) If I ever catch grief from Comcast about my choice of computer to be sitting on their network, I will be happy to put together a dual Ethernet Linux box to replace it. However, I found nothing in their Terms of Service that attempted to restrict the type of computer so attached. For simple things, you tell your Linksys computer (router) that it should be handling the forwarding of DNS requests and acting as DHCP server. Then, your other systems all come up and ask for a DHCP server to tell them how to behave, and life is good. I wanted a few things beyond this, so have set up a Linux box as the home network's DNS server and DHCP server. In-home DNS cacheing is a good thing. Note that Comcast probably would have a knee-jerk reaction to the presence of servers, but A) they are not connected to their network (although some are accessible via it), and B) they are not for public use. So, I figure that they have more important concerns (like not having the service fail five minutes after their ad touts it as never disconnecting and being always available). Also, if I want to share my printer between the two machines, in you guys' experience is it better/simpler to hang the printer off the Windows box or the Linux box? I have not seen any difference. However, I cheat. I use a *real* printer that does Postscript. :-) In general, though, I have found that adding duties to UNIX/Linux boxen to be no big deal. On the other hand, the more you ask a Windows box to do, the more trouble you are asking for. Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBPy7SI28pw+2/9pUJEQKv5QCeK2oWtbTCr9UTDZJUpmrL7BRBjaQAoMz+ OvY+4awmHDV78tvJYM39r69y =dm1f -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Sendmail Authentication - I thought I had it
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, July 24, 2003, 2:24:33 AM, Gerry wrote: It looks like you are using a box by the name of falkor.off.the-strategis.com and your mail server is My notebook PC is falkor. When I am in my office, it becomes falkor.off.the-strategis.com. When I am at home, it becomes falkor.home.the-strategis.com. Neither off nor home is really out there in the public DNS as an officially delegated zone. Apart from showing up in obscure Email headers, they should be pretty much invisible to the Internet. datapotata.off.the-strategis.com. That is the internal name of the mail server that sits at my office. I just tried a host name lookup for your server and couldn't find an ip address for it. It is reached for incoming SMTP Email by the name lab.the-strategis.com, which resolves to 209.242.32.238. However, the redhat server thinks it's 209.242.32.237??? I couldn't do a reverse lookup on that either? The ISP from whom we get our T-1 connection has the Cisco set up to map any outgoing connections from our office out as coming from the .237 address, rather than the .238 address. I don't understand why, but they seem to like it that way. I'm not sure whether it is appropriate to give that address a reverse lookup name, since no forward connection to it would go anywhere useful. BTW, notice that you authenticated to your server. Yup. When I sit with falkor in my office, it works fine. When I sit with falkor at home, it works fine. When I sit with falkor at my client's site, it pretends it does not know me. Same systems. Same mail software. Same config. I'm racking my brain, trying to figure out what the difference might be that is causing this. (And, simultaneously trying to find time to get better authentication configured.) One thing I just thought of. Sitting here at my client's site, falkor is just plain falkor, because there is no Primary DNS Suffix defined. I don't see why that would confuse Sendmail into ignoring my login/password authentication, though. Thanks! Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBPyZ5uG8pw+2/9pUJEQLdiQCfeCKTR2EIVmRf4UomimoLdtGq9ZkAoJE8 jP/gYFjCgQrRg5occM/tZJj9 =ERgc -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Dynamic DNS
Tuesday, July 22, 2003, 5:04:14 AM, Thomas wrote: Why can't thr person use ddclient to do this? I missed a lot of this thread but rather than use ddclient to update an IP at dynamic DNS provide, point it where he wants it. I'm sorry, but I cannot parse this. Is this telling me how to get my RH 8 boxes to get configured via DHCP and, in the process, cause the DNS server running on the same RH 8 box as the DHCP server to know about them? Or, is this addressing someone else's concerns? Ron. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Sendmail Authentication - I thought I had it
Hello redhat-list, I read lots of list messages and a lot of documentation, and I thought that I finally had figured out how to get Sendmail authentication set up compatibly with Windows The Bat! mail client. If I'm sitting in the office, I can send mail via Sendmail on the system in the office. If I'm sitting at home, I can send mail via Sendmail on the system in the office. However, sitting at a client site this afternoon, I am getting messages saying that I'm not authenticating and that relaying is denied. I thought I was using plain authentication. This seems to be borne out by a maillog message from a successful send last night. On my office Sendmail system, the sendmail.mc contains the following lines that I believe to be related to authentication. define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl There may be other things involved, so I am attaching the full mc file. (DOMAIN is replaced by the domain at the office.) On The Bat!, I have turned on authentication and entered my login/password from my office system. When I tried just now to send a message, sitting at a client site, the The Bat! log shows (long lines split): 7/23/2003, 14:28:37: SEND - connected to SMTP server 7/23/2003, 14:28:37: SEND - WARNING: there were no compatible authentication mechanisms detected 7/23/2003, 14:28:37: SEND - sending message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/23/2003, 14:28:37: SEND - The last address submitted was [EMAIL PROTECTED] !7/23/2003, 14:28:37: SEND - Message has not been sent. Server reply - 5.7.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Relaying denied. Proper authentication required. 7/23/2003, 14:28:38: SEND - connection finished - 0 messages sent 7/23/2003, 14:28:38: SEND - Some messages were not sent - check the log for details From my office maillog file (long lines split): Jul 23 14:16:48 datapotata sendmail[15485]: h6NJGlwi015485: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=209-242-9-107.dls.net [209.242.9.107], reject=550 5.7.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Relaying denied. Proper authentication required. Jul 23 14:16:48 datapotata sendmail[15485]: h6NJGlwi015485: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=SMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=209-242-9-107.dls.net [209.242.9.107] From the same maillog file, a successful send from last night, with my notebook PC sitting on my home network: Jul 22 18:11:00 datapotata sendmail[32534]: AUTH=server, relay=12-248-231-128.client.attbi.com [12.248.231.128], authid=heiby, mech=PLAIN, bits=0 Jul 22 18:11:04 datapotata sendmail[32534]: h6MNB0wi032534: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=113866, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED], proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=12-248-231-128.client.attbi.com [12.248.231.128] Jul 22 18:11:16 datapotata sendmail[32536]: h6MNB0wi032534: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], delay=00:00:16, xdelay=00:00:12, mailer=esmtp, pri=30543, relay=mail.DOMAIN.com. [1.2.3.4], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (h6MN0BC23207 Message accepted for delivery) That would seem to imply that PLAIN authentication is working just fine. So, why isn't it working today? Argh! Thanks! Ron. sendmail.mc Description: Binary data
Re: Sendmail Authentication - I thought I had it
I'll be looking at the references supplied by others a bit later this evening. But, in the mean time... Wednesday, July 23, 2003, 7:29:37 PM, Rodolfo wrote: Did you recreate the sendmail.cf file and restart sendmail? Yes. What happens if you telnet mailserver 25 and issue a ehlo localhost? ehlo localhost gives an error about it being an invalid domain name. Getting past that, after the pleased to meet you message, I get: 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP This would also seem to indicate that I should be able to use PLAIN authentication to tell sendmail that I'm an OK person. Check to make sure that The Bat! is not trying to use encrypted authentication (which right now will not work, you need to do more stuff to set it up with SASL). Right now you have PLAIN and LOGIN authentication available, that is, unencrypted. It is not set up to attempt encryption. I've looked at setting up the encryption stuff a couple of times, but have always been stymied by how to merge such configuration with The Bat! configuration. I have the option to do RFC 2554 authentication (which I have checked). Within that, I get to specify a login name and password (which I have), as well as the option to use Secure MD5 Authentication (which I have NOT checked). That is all in the Authentication config menu. Within the superior Transport config menu, I have my choice of connections / ports: Regular; Secure to regular port (STARTTLS); and Secure to dedicated port (TLS). Unfortunately, The Bat! documentation does not seem to help me match these up with how one might configure Sendmail to match. As I recall, when I last tried going down the path to encryption based authentication, I was stuck trying to figure out how to come up with a common key format that would be acceptable both on the Linux side and on the The Bat! side. sigh. This sounds like a configuration issue with The Bat! Same configuration of the same install of The Bat! on the same notebook computer. When sitting at my home, it works. When sitting at my client this afternoon, it would not. One other detail that may be important -- I have my home network set up to use IP addresses in the same range as the network at my office. I can't think how that would matter, since I wouldn't think that those internal IP addresses would be propagated out through the SMTP session. But, it is a difference between my home's and my client's networks. Ron. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Sendmail Authentication - I thought I had it
Wednesday, July 23, 2003, 10:14:44 PM, Gerry wrote: Also, when you're at your client are you sure you can get through their firewall? Perhaps you have to use their server. I don't think I can send mail directly to my server from where I work. I ran into that for the first time at a different client over this past weekend. Sure surprised me! But with the client I was at on Wednesday, yes, I am sure that I was getting through to my own sendmail. Not only did it id when I telnetted to it, but I was able to find the log file entries from my send attempts. The other information, on setting up better authentication mechanisms looks great! I'll be pursuing that. But, I'm still concerned that if PLAIN authentication isn't working, what makes me think the more complex authentication schemes will? Also, with it *appearing* to work when I'm some places (and the mail actually getting sent), but failing to work when I'm sitting other places, it has me nervous that if I don't track down just what's failing, it will let me down when I really need it. I do have a bit of a safety net, though. I can fire up an ssh session and port forward port 25 through to my server. Then, the Email deposited onto sendmail will be from the local host. Ron. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Dynamic DNS
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, July 17, 2003, 8:10:05 PM, Rongx wrote: Try to set variable DHCP_HOSTNAME=name1 in the configuration file /etc/sysconfig/network if you configure the NIC to use DHCP. Is this the thing that tells the Linux box to attempt to get itself inserted into the DNS for the domain? I've got a RH 8 box doing DHCP serving and DNS serving for my local network. The DNS is also set up to cache and forward queries for hosts outside my network. When a Windows box (2000, NT, ME, or XP) comes along, it gets assigned an IP address by DHCP. It also shows up with its IP address in the DNS for the local network. When a RH 8 box comes along, it gets assigned an IP address by DHCP. However, it does NOT show up in DNS. This drove me nuts for a while, and I spent a lot of time looking through documentation and web references. I finally solved the problem by setting all of the Linux boxes to have fixed IP addresses, and manually added them to the DNS server. I am not happy with this solution, though. Any fix to get Linux boxes with floating DHCP assigned IP addresses to appear in the DNS tables would be appreciated. Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBPxtMJW8pw+2/9pUJEQKfrACgrzV4qDxgbklwKzDxa+8RHN8TAQQAoJ9E KyApYqbF5hlNiVKpH7gmcfR7 =GnPO -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Any old timers here ? root's groups question...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I haven't looked at the Linux kernel in this area, but did study some on it wrt the UNIX kernel circa System III and System V Release 3. Root is root, because it is uid 0. End of story. Almost. There are some new Linux releases out that, I understand, allow one to essentially divide up the powers that are traditionally granted to root with added security mechanisms. However, I do not believe that these are found in any of the main stream Linux releases. As to why root is a member of all those groups ... It's a mystery to me, too! Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBPwO3iW8pw+2/9pUJEQIlJwCg3M1yS/AGeyw/iumfcjIr/WmFeG0AoJ9E NRLHQqB4Z/+XV8US89FuOoXh =T8jJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: TP770ED Kernel 2.4.20 Crashes on Boot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently wrote: Now, I've tried upgrading to the latest 2.4.20-18.8, and my system is still locking up at boot time. I have some more data points. Same system, but I found a couple of other dual Ethernet/Modem PC Cards at work and brought them home to try. Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56 (REM56G-100), another 16-bit PCMCIA card, behaved pretty much like the Megahertz card, but not quite. With this card, the system got through displaying all of the Yenta IRQ list and Socket status lines for each of the four slots, then displayed: usb-uhci.c: Host controller halted, trying to restart. excluding 0xa000-0xa0ff After this, the system was hung. The other board was a Xircom CardBus Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56 (CBEM56G-100), which I would really like to be able to use, as the 32-bit CardBus interface should be a bunch faster. With this card in the system, it booted 2.4.20 just fine, all the way into the Welcome ... Please enter your username graphical screen, and I thought I was home free. Unfortunately, performance on the network was abysmal -- including dropping about 1/3 of the packets on pings from another host on my home LAN. So, for now, I'm back with my original Megahertz modem and my 2.4.18 kernel. Still looking for ideas on how I can trouble shoot this and get a coherent bug report to someone with a chance of getting it fixed. Thanks! Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBPvKl228pw+2/9pUJEQLebgCg41uJePldWO0GMs8Alm8i3HjsN1sAoL3n Gs7QL298esO+1l+KILYgEnOk =enIz -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Error refreshing package list (code 20)
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Hello redhat-list,
I have a demo account on RedHat Network. Lately, I've noticed that my
current package state is no longer being maintained on the RHN. When
I've attempted to re-schedule the Package List Refresh, and run it
manually on my system, the web site says that the client execution
returned Error refreshing package list (code 20).
Running rhn_check with three -v options, I see (towards the end):
D: handle_action actionid = 9923212, version = 2
D: do_call packages.refresh_list ()
D: Called refresh_rpmlist
ERROR: refreshing remote package list for System Profile
D: Sending back response (20, 'Error refreshing package list', {})
Any idea what I need to do to get this working again? When I show
people how cool RHN is and how their business should maybe subscribe,
it is kinda goofy that it's bitching at me to install updates that
were installed weeks ago. (I also find it personally annoying.)
Thanks!
Ron.
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Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, June 18, 2003, 2:10:04 AM, T. wrote: Huh? No, the question is: Why the fsck where those guys able to get on board with the BOX CUTTERS?!?! Because no one had thought of box cutters as a threat. Before that incident, I would routinely fly with one of those cool multi-tool things with a very sharp 4-inch knife blade, screwdrivers, wire cutters, etc. (Scout Motto: Be Prepared) On occasion, I flew with a whole bag (maybe 20-25 pounds) of assorted tools that I expected to need for a client visit (working on a concept vehicle's electronics) as a carry-on. Subsequently, I've lost a small pocket knife (with a 1-inch blade) that I'd forgotten to take off my keyring and put into checked luggage. (sigh) Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBPvB0zW8pw+2/9pUJEQLFKgCfbbVzkmcuFpzGDXPnt1zKdb0r5mAAnjsh ccPUlZkBP2NDeeDcNPj/dN20 =07ip -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]: Solved
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Someone in this thread had asked whether there was a (simple?) sendmail configuration that would specify to send Email via one's ISP for destinations like aol, while going direct to others who might not be so picky. Or, I suppose, as more sites adopt aol's policy, it might be useful to have a configuration for the opposite effect. One might want to specifically send some Email direct to the recipient machine to minimize its lying around someone's mail spool. (For some odd reason, it's nearly impossible to convince people to encrypt their Email.) Is anyone here enough of a sendmail guru to tackle these two configurations? Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBPvE2u28pw+2/9pUJEQJ7cACfaLbKNXBOG2egLDRWJbzwkyTEQ/IAoIBs FmeYGF9nDEfZmP+yE0f67Byp =CiRU -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
TP770ED Kernel 2.4.20 Crashes on Boot
Hello redhat-list, I sent this to the Linux on ThinkPads list and the Psyche list about a week ago, and haven't seen any response. Trying a wider audience now. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can proceed? Thanks! Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello linux-thinkpad, I'm running RH 8.0 on my 770ED. The system sits on a dock where the floppy resides, along with a TDK CD-RW drive. On the dock's SCSI, there is a Syquest SyJet with no disk in the drive. In the PCMCIA slot, I have a 3Com/Megahertz 3CCFEM556 Ethernet/Modem card. Running kernel 2.4.18-27.0, and several others before that, things have been working pretty well. However, when I tried moving to the first 2.4.20 kernel update that RH released, I had trouble. After seeing some discussion here, it looked like it might have been caused by PCMCIA difficulties. It looked more like that once I successfully upgraded my A21p and three desktop systems (none of which use any PCMCIA cards). Now, I've tried upgrading to the latest 2.4.20-18.8, and my system is still locking up at boot time. I am assuming that this is a panic, but since I can't remember seeing one on Linux before and since it goes on for enough lines to scroll off the top of the screen, who knows? In /var/log/messages, the last few lines from my 2.4.20-18.8 boot attempt are (without the date stamps): pcmcia: cardmgr. cardmgr[598]: starting, version is 3.1.31 rc: Starting pcmcia: succeeded cardmgr[598]: config error, file 'config' line 2129: no function bindings cardmgr[598]: watching 4 sockets cardmgr[598]: Card services release does not match Note that the complaint about line 2129 also happens in the 2.4.18 boot. Note that the Card services release does not match complaint also happens in the 2.4.18 boot. In the 2.4.18 boot, what follows are lines from kernel/cs relating to IO port probing, followed by the initialization of the Ethernet/Modem card. So, I guess I'm still suspicious of PCMCIA issues. Further evidence pointing at PCMCIA is that when I pulled the card and re-booted, the system came up fine (althouth, of course, not on the network). Where do I go from here??? Thanks! Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBPua2dm8pw+2/9pUJEQI7AACeKKQFURSVE3eXq8nBGYVWMC8sVZsAoOuD 7KQ3bTP4K8m9dW0qR1u7CILS =f2iu -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: creating user with limited administrative rights
Also Webmin. Recommended. http://www.webmin.com. Ron. -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday, May 5, 2002, 7:39:51 AM, Jean wrote: But now you find that the macho Unixers will win that their little brains are unable to decypzer the scripts who configure the network in RedHat or Mandrake and that is why they want a bare bones distro. I used UNIX and administered UNIX systems for many years. I hope you will not interpret this message as a win (whine?). I think that it is really cool, spiffy, neato that RH 7.2 installs and pretty much just works. For the last three installs of 7.2 I did, I *needed* to make only a couple of little tweaks to get basic functionality going. This is a good thing. However, recent Windows incarnations do the same thing, as do Macintosh. What's the difference? Well, as I see it, the difference is that with UNIX / Linux, I have the power and ability to go in and manipulate the configuration to fix things when it doesn't just work. I remember trying to install a modem on my brother-in-law's Mac. I spent a couple of hours on it and gave up. Nowhere was it documented where the file was that held the AT command to initialize or dial the modem. Nowhere was it documented how to go in and edit the file if you were able to find it. I couldn't even find a text editor, just a word processor. Windows is somewhat better on that score, but still tries to be overly friendly and hide such stuff from the user. I would hate to see the packaged distros go so far towards the Windows and Mac camps that the only way to configure things was through their friendly configuration program. I *really* want to see the flat files documented, even it it is back in an Appendix or in a file somewhere (whose location is clearly documented). That way, when I want to do something that those implementing the configuration program didn't think of (and I *will*), I have the information I need to do what needs to be done. I'm all for letting things just work, but I also want the documentation that allows me to make unanticipated things work (without having to read the source). Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: The last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBPNVjVG8pw+2/9pUJEQJ6fQCg/MctqE1OiS7p5Hk9CYKzwucHpVcAn1U1 Se3xZllCeCJ5Ht8UcAcKC2cl =37Ww -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
Re: Better File systems? Was Re: XFS - here's the solution
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, April 17, 2002, 11:26:11 AM, Richard wrote: Please note that in my experience, ext3 doesn't work. When I upgraded my systems from RH 6.2 to 7.2, I tried to tell it to use ext3, the default, on several systems and each time was rewarded with a system that wouldn't boot. (I don't recall just what the errors were, unfortunately.) I had a related problem. I did a full install on a system which installed ext3 filesystems by default. The system booted and ran just fine. Because I wanted to use Partition Magic to resize partitions, and it does not yet know about ext3, I converted all of the partitions to ext2. The system refused to boot with a message (which I did not write down) that implied that it was objecting to the root filesystem no longer being an ext3 filesystem. For various reasons, we did a full reinstall, so I do not know what a kinder, gentler fix might be. Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: The last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBPL51Cm8pw+2/9pUJEQLBvQCg6xOp8WMWBZ7GcEJhwlSyAsID3bEAnR6u //ZRPu1x/UFabuC7j0b0KsCi =YCH3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
Re: offtopic - OpenSource
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I heard Eric Raymond speak last night at UniForum Chicago. I think good answers to the original question can be found on his web site: http://tuxedo.org/~esr and particularly: http://tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/ Enjoy! Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: The last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBPLiGZG8pw+2/9pUJEQJdQQCeLSKE1WQAA6vGHp6149EJJFHBklcAni9L OPR8WQoHc/zT4QdYrNEbCb7C =1kfq -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: 80% packet loss
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 10:04:32 PM, Monte wrote: If I use the ip address of another machine on my LAN, I can ping just fine. But if I try pinging the same machine by name, I get ~80% packet loss. WTF? I was seeing similar things a few weeks ago. My issues were related to pinging machines by IP vs. by name, too. I did not try this with another machine on my LAN, but was seeing it with systems on the Internet. In my case, it turned out to be a DNS issue. When ATT had their eXcite melt-down several weeks ago, they had a bad DNS server. So, I hard-coded my own set of DNS servers, bypassing the ones that ATT's DHCP was handing me (that included the bad server). As it turned out, one of these got taken down shortly thereafter. Removing that DNS server from my list made everything return to normal. (You cannot imagine the frustration involved with trying to tell people who barely know how to boot Windows that one of their DNS servers is flakey, only to have them tell you that you need to try rebooting.) Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: The last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBPHQ/pm8pw+2/9pUJEQLtrACfVtoI+GIOfJxZGTRBMo2Gfo9CtnwAnRVA vpKkk7IrlKg5+4ky2zXAlSqM =Dukh -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Redundant connection switching
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday, November 25, 2001, 11:43:50 PM, Nevin wrote: However, the customer would like to have a system in place in that if one connection was to go down for whatever reason, then the linux machine would know about and switch connections to any other availiable one. Does he want to know about and switch for a particular application where he is talking with other specific machines? Or, does he want to do it for general-purpose Internet access? If the former, you might want to look into SCTP (RFC-2960), for which http://www.sctp.org and http://www.sctp.de are good places for in-depth information, and http://tdrwww.exp-math.uni-essen.de/pages/forschung/sctp_fb/ is a reasonable places to start. Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: The last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBPAJ3h28pw+2/9pUJEQKShACdF6K3phcBn6nzzqC/NIrYCcwP1FoAoINH BxemJYMJ0c5KAA1gQEOeydQM =ouT4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: System Log Book?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday, November 19, 2001, 2:37:39 AM, Thomas wrote: I have a question on my mind: What do ye folks out there use as a system logbook? I carry my Palm Vx around everywhere. The program Quickword http://www.cesinc.com is a pretty decent Palm DOC file editor for the Palm. I keep my system log there, so it is with me when I walk up to another machine and need to remind myself what I did on the other one. A file per system, perhaps all in a System Logs category, seems to make sense. Downside is hand writing it all so the recognizer can understand it. But, that's not much worse than the paper logs I kept 15+ years ago where I had to write it so that my colleagues could understand it. (And, there are collapsable keyboards available for most/all Palms.) There are other editors for the Palm. I'd be sure that whichever one I chose used a format I could read and print under Linux or Windows. Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: The last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBO/rhNG8pw+2/9pUJEQJ3TACfa6T0MfFwEg5LsrG0nwoyO4mBF4YAoOwW HDtMxcclQq2MdFZxF47tCvT7 =2mgJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: system down
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday, November 17, 2001, 12:54:50 AM, Jim wrote: The linux server crashed and will not reboot. If it is asking for your password, it has rebooted. Ststem starts up, then kickes me .out to a shell (?) says there is a problem and asks for my password, Does it specify the nature of the problem, or does it just say something like, something is broken? When it asks you for my password, might it be asking for the root password? You might try that, instead of your password. which like my earlier email stated, Sorry. Didn't notice your earlier email. Fortunately, my email software doesn't actually delete messages for a week. Sounds like you either forgot your password or someone changed it. Or, maybe your Caps Lock key is on. No one changed anything to make this happen. I reserve the right to remain skeptical on this point. So now the machine will not boot. (see above) I tried to go to one of the other drives in lilo, but they all want the su password. This does not make sense. Please try describing exactly what you typed and what messages came back. - From the lilo prompt, it sounds like you would want to boot linux single. When you get the # prompt, change root's password. Of course, if you have set a password in your linux configuration, you will be prompted for that before the boot proceeds. any suggestions? This is our mx server, so I need it up ASAP! The only other thing that comes to mind is the possibility that your keyboard went bad. Have another one you can try? Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: The last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBO/YWbW8pw+2/9pUJEQLq9ACg6ZiQy16Rxw6ugqseTF7fTaWI3xQAmgIu Auk6ECcEA0fgrWj74YliUcrG =GDXN -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: lm_sensors modules
Anyone know the current status of lm_sensors vs. ThinkPad computers? Ron. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Remote X sessions in Windows
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://xfree86.cygwin.com/ http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/docs/ug/cygwin-xfree-ug.html Enjoy! Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: The last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBO/FNVm8pw+2/9pUJEQJuEwCffGGWYT39aTEfYTXA91uJXPiYA2QAoOnm BT9cPBdPLsQfAcObiCcQ43m/ =zr/U -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: READ THIS FIRST PLEASE .................. HOW TO INSTALL REDHAT 7.1 FROM HARD DISK??????????????
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday, November 12, 2001, 2:33:12 AM, Thomas wrote: How so? I've got about three machines lying around, none of which has cost me a cent - quite contrary to the current offering of RHL, which seems excessively expensive... :-) Granted, I don't know what CD-R blank media costs wherever this guy is. However, the last time I bought CD-R, I bought a box of 200 for $45 plus sales tax, then spent another ~$0.50 on postage, envelope, and gasoline to drop a rebate request in the mail which returned me the $45. So, doing the math, a set of 5 CD-R blank media (enough to hold 2 Install, 2 Source, and 1 Doc) costs me $0.10. Remember, this guy did not buy a copy of RH. He borrowed it. That's why he doesn't have the CDs any more. So, it isn't a matter of how expensive the RH distribution is. It's a matter of whether he can afford 2-5 blank CD-R discs. If he can't afford them, I still say it isn't likely that he has an extra machine lying around doing nothing that could be used for this purpose. Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: The last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBO+/oqW8pw+2/9pUJEQLblACfWpBjXM4qow5MUYo2PSYSno9mv6EAnjuh A/h/3ziUwxeAnqIIvALcrwhK =+18F -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Kernel Updates - Leftover Old Kernels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello redhat-list, Since installing RH 7.1, I've updated the kernel using the GUI-style update utility about three times. I have not done an exhaustive study, but it appears that when updating to a new kernel version, most of the previous kernel version's material (source, documentation, etc.) goes away in favor of the material related to the new version. Is that correct? The previous kernel version remains in /boot, and the update process modifies the LILO configuration to make it accessible. Other than the /boot material, is any residue from replaced kernels left on the system that should be cleaned out once the new kernel is determined to be working OK? I am assuming that the /boot material for replaced kernels can simply be deleted at some point, and the extra LILO configuration entries that match them deleted. Right? Any guidelines as to when that can be done? When I administered UNIX systems, I'd keep one prior bootable kernel hanging around indefinitely and nothing older. Is that considered a good plan in Linux, too? Thanks. Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: The last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBO+wEDG8pw+2/9pUJEQJ+oACg/cHaaGuANxmzB/Nj4h1HsMaRrtkAnjKO RqsLsi7uZLYsxuilFetxL52o =bJFD -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: READ THIS FIRST PLEASE .................. HOW TO INSTALL REDHAT 7.1 FROM HARD DISK??????????????
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday, November 09, 2001, 1:11:57 PM, Jason wrote: Well, that's certainly true, but surely he's got an extra machine around. :-) He can't afford to keep a couple of CD-ROMs, but can afford to have an extra machine lying around? Hmm. :-) indeed! Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: The last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBO+w2Ym8pw+2/9pUJEQKzSwCdHGA2mei75Wcs/obbbL6B3ej2yD4AoLUk o1ld6p42D2/1ExGy/8CM94JU =+/Wr -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: HOW TO INSTALL REDHAT 7.1 FROM HARD DISK??????????????
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, November 08, 2001, 10:38:25 PM, David wrote: I'm sure there's a logical explanation for why such an obvious process can't work I don't doubt it. I would guess that it goes something like this: The installation code already needs to know how to read CD-ROMs. It already needs to know how to deal with CD-ROM filesystem format. It already needs to know where to find what on the CD-ROMs. Why should the installation code need to also know about keeping the files in a tree on a completely different type of filesystem that may have different rules for what constitutes legal file names or pose other difficulties? Also, doing it this way means that there is far less that has to be tested in the install process. Less that can go wrong. Ron. P.S. It isn't really Red Hat's fault if people don't read the install documentation. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: The last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBO+t2uW8pw+2/9pUJEQLsjgCgp71LJLNUtKJJCxYCgfvrjluE5dsAoLs2 EHvywC5JEMJ/VfNXGZPyCfCJ =kj6f -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: READ THIS FIRST PLEASE .................. HOW TO INSTALL REDHAT 7.1 FROM HARD DISK??????????????
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, November 08, 2001, 10:50:25 PM, Sajeewa wrote: Installation program says that It can't find a valid ISO 9660 partition from the location I gave. That is because you do not have the ISO files. Instead of reading the installation instructions that would have told you that you needed the ISO files, you assumed that you could simply copy the contents of the CS-ROMs onto your hard disk. This was your mistake. Please keep this in mind I don't have ISO files - From everything I have read, you need to have the ISO files to install. At least one message replying to your query suggested that you might be able to reconstruct the ISO files from the material you copied onto your hard drive. Have you tried this procedure? What happened? Should I make ISO files from that installation tree using some tool? Yes, this is what was suggested in an earlier message. I would imagine that for almost anyone, it would be easier to borrow the CD-ROMs again and copy the ISO files. Good luck. Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: The last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBO+t4YG8pw+2/9pUJEQJMJwCfQAnnqxy1fldxMIyJc5/vKdqb2ZcAoJaL 5dgNVG7HZVVFwhMLCGtkNmOo =f2PI -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: bootmagic killed LILO, can't get it back, not even with boot disks...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday, December 24, 2000, 3:12:54 PM, John wrote: I user Bootmagic as my primary boot loader, lilo as secondary boot loader. Lilo lives in my Linux boot partition. I have been using the same sort of configuration. I had no problems until right around the same time that I upgraded to the latest version of Partition Magic / Boot Magic (Version 6, a few weeks ago). Now, my keyboard is recognized once Win98SE is fully booted. My keyboard is recognized once RH 6.2 is fully booted. In Boot Manager, the arrow keys are recognized correctly. However, at the LILO prompt (got there via Boot Magic), keystrokes are not recognized correctly. I used to be able to hit the Enter key at the LILO prompt to bypass my boot delay. Now, instead of booting, an "*" is echoed back and it just sits there until I reset. Most characters echo an asterisk. Some do other odd-ball things. Power Quest seems baffled and asked me to boot from floppy to try to track down the problem -- something that is not likely to bubble to the top of my priority list until I *really* need LILO prompt activity. But, if anyone else has seen something like this and has tracked it down at all, that would be a big help. Thanks! Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.3 Comment: Digital signature verifies authorship and unaltered content. iQA/AwUBOkq3xG8pw+2/9pUJEQIC+wCg/PIN/m0TkJ9M7HD0BljmLD4BL2sAn1Gi 59eCq5Cagy2cyY2/CWXICImD =VIjW -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: [OT] serial protocol analyzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, November 09, 2000, 12:03:41 PM, Leonard wrote: I was wondering if somebody could point me out a serial protocol analyzer. I'm not aware of a Linux package, but I've found that the SerialTest product from Frontline Test Equipment running under Windows 95 / 98 works pretty well. http://www.fte.com is their URL. Looks like they recently updated it. Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.3 Comment: Digital signature verifies authorship and unaltered content. iQA/AwUBOgr1+m8pw+2/9pUJEQLXkwCdHnrxTSqiGSPkIVdnVIqeSE87VggAniSs F/9vpD5EnHO6c87P/YEf6K+z =MN6a -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Linux Network Performance Slower Than NT, please help
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, November 02, 2000, 2:21:36 PM, Jamin wrote: As for your performance, you might want to check your HD settings with "/sbin/hdparm". Unless you are using SCSI drives, you most likely don't have the drives running with DMA enabled. This roughly doubled my transfer rates. Wow, what a great suggestion! I ran the hdparm test on my drive and got about 3 Megabytes per second. Then, I turned on DMA for the drive and am getting about 11 with the same test! Subjectively, the system seems a lot "snappier", too. This is on a ThinkPad 770ED with a 25 Gig drive. BTW, Turning DMA on for the DVD drive made no apparent difference. Thanks! Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.3 Comment: Digital signature verifies authorship and unaltered content. iQA/AwUBOgJPDm8pw+2/9pUJEQItSwCeI+NPrjAE6y+oBKJCe0Z7HgGmPeIAoOAO qBSruuKfzSie+ya28M86d6fz =SU2S -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Starting X in a second console
I thought I read about a way to configure X so that it would create the second VC server by default, and that you could configure it to use different video parameters (resolution, color depth). However, I cannot find my notes on how to do this. Anyone? Thanks. Ron. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re[2]: what happened to [RHL]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday, August 04, 2000, 9:28:11 AM, eric wrote: why are people so fearfull of just the slightist change?? It isn't about being feaful of change. It isn't even about being fearful. It's about preference and making changes that few actually *need* that inconvenience many. My configuration for Email is still reading under Win98, using an Email package called "The Bat!". In it, since I bought it, I have been filtering on sender, recipient, subject, etc. and putting incoming messages into mail folders based upon category. All the categories show up on the left side of my window, and are bold font if unread messages are inside. On the right side of the window is information for each message in the selected folder, like From, To, Subject, etc. Each column is a fixed width (although changeable on a per-folder basis), so adding (for example) "[RHL] " to the start of each subject line means that much less "real" subject is visible in the window. Since I get so many messages related to Linux mailing lists each day, the most I can reasonably do is scan the Subjects to see if anything looks particularly useful or relevant to my situation. The more information is in the Subject area, the better my decisions as to what is worth reading will be. That is true whether we are talking about automated systems adding junk to the beginning, or people who create subject lines on a Linux list like "help me" or "novice question". Email systems that all message sorting on fields other than Subject are quite common and have been around for quite a while. Someone mentioned that a reply to one of his messages that goes directly to him might not be caught in a filter on fields related to the list. I guess that's so. But for me, that would be a *good* thing. If someone sends a message to me explicitly, I want it to show up in a different mailbox (that gets looked at more often and with more care) than the stuff that gets lumped into various mailing list folders and gets a subject line scan when I have some time or need a break (as at this particular moment, where I have managed to get "caught up" to messages of a week ago). Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.3 Comment: Digital signature verifies authorship and unaltered content. iQA/AwUBOZbo3G8pw+2/9pUJEQJ2hwCgq2DsU3LFx5SC0AwWfE9jf/+12Q0Ani8W eq3YF5qrmydYamzZwpyHRa4/ =TbIc -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: What is the 't' option in chmod?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday, August 27, 2000, 8:27:23 AM, Peter wrote: I've got a directory that has permissions of drwxrwxrwt What exactly is the status described by the 't'? The "t" bit was originally just for executable files, and was called the "sticky bit". It told the kernel to keep an executable's text in memory (or on swap) so that it would start up more quickly on subsequent invocations. Its meaning changed somewhat with the advent of memory paging, but I don't recall the details. When applied to a directory (in more modern UNIX versions / derivatives), it generally means that even though the directory may have general write access, only the owner of any given file (or root) may delete that file. This prevents several nasty attacks by one user of a multi-user UNIX against another. Deleting someone else's temp files during a compile or edit session could be nasty. Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.3 Comment: Digital signature verifies authorship and unaltered content. iQA/AwUBOakp4G8pw+2/9pUJEQIN+QCfb8C72eBx1gmvezai9D9b0vsyC1sAoLUe UmSfp5OIrhdd+ll8MciQwbVP =kvQi -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
Hello redhat-list, I noticed something odd today. I'm running RH 6.2 on a ThinkPad 770ED, the one with the DVD drive. I was trying to track down an odd boot-time message I saw fly past, and used "dmesg" to display it. However, I discovered that a new message was being added to the dmesg output every second or so. This message was: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) Well, that device looked like it was my "cdrom" drive (my DVD drive). But, I wasn't changing disks in it. I didn't have a disk in it and hadn't opened it. It was just sitting there. But, I figured, "what the heck", so put a disk in the drive. The messages stopped being added to dmesg's output. I ejected the disk, and the messages continued. What's up with this? Thanks! Ron. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re[2]: 3GB Ram on Intel
Friday, July 14, 2000, 1:11:56 PM, Robert wrote: 6.2 will recognize 4GB of RAM out of the box with the stock kernel. The ... Rob Fausey. A communication disruption can mean only one thing ... invasion I guess we're getting an invasion! Ron. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
