How to disable password for halting?

1999-11-15 Thread Kalaev, Maxim
Hi, I have a silly question - How can I causeshutdown to not ask for password when I run it as non-root? Thanks, people @Maxim = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message bo

Re: Advice UPS

1999-11-15 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
They do sell some commersial program that support Unix. If ill have any succsses ill post it here. By the way the UPS HOWTO does mention Advice - model 1200, i wonder if it the same spec as the PR family "Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote: > BNM>> Once when I still had RH4.0 advice UPS work

Re: BeoWolf Question

1999-11-15 Thread Udi Finkelstein
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 22:03:22 +0200, Omer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Slightly edited for brevity. > >> In the words of butthead: "h. Aaaah ." >> What in blazes are ye talking about man ? me AD&D days are long gone, and >> far forgotten, for I had walked to earth with

Re: Backup for many linux machines

1999-11-15 Thread Schlomo Schapiro
Hi, at the Hebrew University we have legato and I am backing up my linux on it (it has a RH client that can also be installed on SuSE etc.). Backup seems to work. The only problem is that I have NO IDEA as how to use the plenty of command line utils included ... BTW, the linux client should be o

Re: mail problem -act2

1999-11-15 Thread dorit ben shalom
I finally got hold of the person in charge of >/etc/sendmail.cf After I explained the problem (again! ) he said >Great, then there's no problem because everything works just like >it should. Internally, there's no reason to use the fully qualified >domain name. At this point I see no other opt

Re: BeoWolf Question

1999-11-15 Thread Omer
Slightly edited for brevity. > In the words of butthead: "h. Aaaah ." > What in blazes are ye talking about man ? me AD&D days are long gone, and > far forgotten, for I had walked to earth with a dragon by my site, and a > penguin as a maskot. For ye is the one who w

Re: Advice UPS

1999-11-15 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
BNM>> Once when I still had RH4.0 advice UPS worked fine on it and was able to BNM>> shut it down on elec failure. BNM>> BNM>> I don't remember what program I used then. I had no success in any try to get Advice UPS talking to my computer. Their support doesn't exist, as usual. To add insult to

Re: cdrw and SCSI emulation

1999-11-15 Thread Gadi Oxman
Shlomo, The log messages indicate that both the ide-cd and the ide-scsi drivers were compiled into the kernel. When both drivers are available to the kernel, a higher priority is given to the ide-cd driver over the ide-scsi driver, and it gets to "own" the device. To solve this, you can either:

cdrw and SCSI emulation

1999-11-15 Thread Shlomo Solomon
Thanks to help from Yoni Elhanani and Oleg Goldshmidt I've compile my RedHat 6.0 Kernel to include SCSI-ide emulation - first time for a newbie so thanks for the advice. But, when I run cdrecord -scanbus I get a message that no targets are availabel. Can anyone tell me what I'm missing here ? I'

Advice UPS

1999-11-15 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
Hi Once when I still had RH4.0 advice UPS worked fine on it and was able to shut it down on elec failure. I don't remember what program I used then. Any idea ? -- -- Canaan Surfing Ltd. Internet Service Providers Ben-Nes Michael - Manager Tel: 972-6-6925757 Fax: 972-6-6

Re: BeoWolf Question

1999-11-15 Thread Nir Simionovich \(Rin Solo\)
Hi All, On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Gaal Yahas wrote: > Then sorrow came to the young man that he saw him who he most loved > on the earth, at the end of his life, suffering piteously. His slayer > likewise lay dead, the awful earth-dragon bereft of life, overtaken by > evil. No longer shoul

Re: Backup for many linux machines

1999-11-15 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
I've used amanda. You should be able to find their web page with a search engine. > "Geoffrey" == Geoffrey S Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Geoffrey> Hi, I'm looking for information on backing up multiple Geoffrey> linux machines using one central "backup server". Due to

Re: Backup for many linux machines

1999-11-15 Thread Or Sagi
If you're looking for a full backup solution (daily backups, indexing, etc ..), I'd try amanda, at www.amanda.org. They did a very good job --- especially for multi platform clients. -- Ors On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for information on backing up

Re: BeoWolf Question

1999-11-15 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 01:32:16PM +0200, Nir Simionovich Rin Solo" wrote: > Here's a tricky one for your troubled brains :-) > I have a linux cluster running beowolf, now everything works fine, only > one thing is weird. About a week ago, the following situation evolved by > itself. One of the

The 18/11/99 Haifa Linux Club Meeting

1999-11-15 Thread Orr Dunkelman
On the 18/11/99 at 18:00 the Haifa linux club will gather up to a lecture by Asaf Arbely. The lecture will take place at Fishbach 413 (Technion, Haifa, contact me about how to get there). Subject: Universal servers - architecture, availability and usage. The platphorm is ... Informix A Note,

Re: Backup for many linux machines

1999-11-15 Thread Leonid Igolnik - LiM
You can use plain old dump - see man dump: dump backs up all files in filesystem, or files changed after a certain date, or a specified set of files and directories, to magnetic tape, diskettes, or files. options is a string that specifies dump options, a

Re: Backup for many linux machines

1999-11-15 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
You may try Arcserve (although the server is not Unix based) - but it got Linux client. Backupexec - same as Arcserve (although I don't trust it as Arcserve). Hetz "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking for information on backing up multiple linux machines using > one central

Backup for many linux machines

1999-11-15 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Hi, I'm looking for information on backing up multiple linux machines using one central "backup server". Due to the volume of data, NFS mounting the file systems and then backing them up as if they were local will NOT do. The backup server does not have to be linux (although I would prefer it wa

BeoWolf Question

1999-11-15 Thread Nir Simionovich \(Rin Solo\)
Hi All, Here's a tricky one for your troubled brains :-) I have a linux cluster running beowolf, now everything works fine, only one thing is weird. About a week ago, the following situation evolved by itself. One of the users is compiling a program on the main machine, lets call it cluster1, i

information about instalation day

1999-11-15 Thread Nir Simionovich \(Rin Solo\)
Hi All, I would like to inform the members of the list of the upcoming Linux Installation party in the Technion. The Party will be held on 24/11/1999, and it will start at around 9:00am till we simply either drop to the ground, or the CD's run out on us. It will be held at the Rifkin Computer

Re: Mail question (re-building)

1999-11-15 Thread dorit ben shalom
I now managed to get both >rpm -bc /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/mailx.spec and >rpm -bi /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/mailx.spec to execute without errors. But >/var/tmp/mailx-root/bin/mail is identical to >/bin/mail What am I missing _now_? Thanks Dorit