The best way that I have found is to use the following
VARIABLE=`echo $VARIABLE|dd conv=lcase 2>/dev/null`
Do a man on dd to see the other useful goodies.
The 2>/dev/null is optional, but does gives a cleaner output.
Regards
Enrico
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Bret Hughes wrote:
> SoloCDM wrote:
>
hello, is there a simple way to replace a module or two on a box that
Had a working kernel that was recompiled and no longer works and was
never backed up?? i need to get 2 modules in /lib/modules/2.2.14 because
for some reason after this last recompile the aic7xxx & raid1 modules no
longer work t
- Helllo
- Try to issue the command 'rpm -qa | more " for a list of the RPM
- when you are having problems with a command "man" is always very helpful
- So you type in "man rpm"
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Jon Knews wrote:
> first you do
>
> man rpm
>
> then you look through it and it tells you how.
help.
when i iconify a terminal and move it to another another virtual term.
by dragging it. Then when i click on the icon, it opens in the original
virtual term. How do i tell it to open in the current virtual term.
please help.
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At 09:39 AM 13/06/2000, you wrote:
>I have been trying to create a tar command that will only tar up those
>files that have been modified in the last 24 hours. Following the man
>pages and some examples in some Linux books, I tried, using gnu tar and
>Redhat 6.2:
>
>
>find / -mtime -1 -fprint /tmp
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 08:30:02PM -0400, Jon Knews said:
>
> Hey, I used to be a OS/2 phenatic, then I found Linux. ;-)))
>
As a former OS/2 guy, I would love to see Linux with the OS/2
Workplace Shell rather than KDE or Gnome!!!
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This first part I needed to get my zip partitions to work
properly. Before I did this it generated tons of I/0 errors
I suceeded in putting an ext2 filessytem on the
zip drive. Below are the solutions I combined
to solve the problem incase anyone else wants
to do it. I have an atapi ide internal
hello, i have an external 50pin scsi Syquest 1.5gig Syjet, it is on its
own isa advansys scsi card. the card is one of two scsi cards on the
box. the other scsi card is an adaptec 68pin with 2 5gig hd's. the
adaptec 68pin scsi card (which i will call sg0) works fine. the other
scsi card (the isa 5
oh yeah I did forget: Dos 2.2, Dos 6, Win3.1, win95, win98, winNT, RH 6.0, RH 6.2,
BeOS 5
CH wrote:
> I've tried the old dos 2.11, 5.0-6.22, Win3.1, 95, 98, OS/2(not much), RH
> Linux (just started last year). Win95osr1 was the most pathetic os I've
> tried. Never tried nor planned yet to e
I've tried the old dos 2.11, 5.0-6.22, Win3.1, 95, 98, OS/2(not much), RH
Linux (just started last year). Win95osr1 was the most pathetic os I've
tried. Never tried nor planned yet to ever use Win2000 or NT (samething but
one newer).
CH
> OS/2 is about the only modern OS I haven't tried. I'v
John:
You read my mind. That's is the exact same thing I do here, (the x in front
of the username). I do it this way also so a user overdue on payment can not
pop their mail from another service and continue to lead me to believe that
there check is in the mail.
Eddie Strohmier
Bonwell Globalnet
I have been trying to create a tar command that will only tar up those
files that have been modified in the last 24 hours. Following the man
pages and some examples in some Linux books, I tried, using gnu tar and
Redhat 6.2:
find / -mtime -1 -fprint /tmp/tarfile.lst
tar -cvz -T /tmp/tarfile.lst
OS/2 is about the only modern OS I haven't tried. I've tried NT, RH Linux, Be, and
Win98. I like RH
6.2 and Be the best!!!
Jon Knews wrote:
> Hey, I used to be a OS/2 phenatic, then I found Linux. ;-)))
>
> On 12 Jun 2000, "Chris Worth" wrote:
> >
> > funny... I use the INTERNET every day, us
I found it necessary to use
insmod parport
insmod parport_pc
before my ppa module would load correctly. The order seemed to matter
too.
Vik :v)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This is slightly off the topic, but I have followed the howto for installing
> a zip drive and have no been successful. Th
>
> > Here is /etc/fstab listing below. Notice /dev/hda6 has a mount point of /win
> > and already mounted. /win is FAT16. I did not recently request mounting to
> > hda1 because it is FAT32 which I could mount by default or manual but it could
> > not be read from.
> >
>
> I believe you're con
first you do
man rpm
then you look through it and it tells you how. I say so because I can't
remember myself, and would do that for you, except I have to go help my
wife now ;-)
On 12 Jun 2000, Jeff Smelser wrote:
> Date: 12 Jun 2000 23:36:19 -
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Jeff S
Hey, I used to be a OS/2 phenatic, then I found Linux. ;-)))
On 12 Jun 2000, "Chris Worth" wrote:
>
> funny... I use the INTERNET every day, using OS/2...
>
> Don' t think Bill had too much input in version 4.0 of it :)
>
> and I do use LINUX as well.
>
> chris
>
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On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Jeff Smelser wrote:
> How do I list a rpm's file content before installing/updateing?
>
> Thanks,
> jeff
rpm -qpl .rpm
rday
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On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Jeff Smelser wrote:
> How do I list a rpm's file content before installing/updateing?
rpm -qpi list rpm info
rpm -qpl list rpm files
All in the man page.
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Gordon Charrick wrote:
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> "Raymond H. Kraft" wrote:
> > Try editing /etc/ssh2/sshd2_config and setting
> >
> > RequireReverseMapping no
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > -Ray
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> From: Jeff Smelser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> How do I list a rpm's file content before installing/updateing?
>
> Thanks,
> jeff
rpm -qlp file.rpm
"man rpm" is your friend.
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On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 03:57:12PM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote:
> SoloCDM wrote:
>
> > What commands convert casing to upper, lower, and proper (proper: as
> > in Virginia)?
> >
>
> tr will translate from on to the other. take a look at man tr. Also a
> thread awhile back that mentioned this. so
Both SCO and Solaris would not talk to the Linux platform when I made it a
NIS server. When I made the Solaris platform the server, the SCO box
talked nicely with the Solaris server.
Does anyone have any clue what's going on here? I have noticed that
this problem has been raised before, but I hav
I am running automount to automount a /misc directory and am getting an
error. It's a default configuration used in my valinux 420 machine and
from reading the man pages, I can not figure out why it isn't working.
1) automount is running, a ps ax | grep automount shows:
311 ?S 0:00
I am using a cable modem and have a firewall setup... when I get new IPs that
are trying to connect what should I do?? I know they are there, I am new to this
type of stuff. I was wondering if I ping their IP would I find out more info.
about who they are?? I have only read a little about ping is
>I want to move several items there, and still maintain ownerships
>and permissions.
>Adahma
Ah yes, ownership.
MB
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On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 03:15:07PM -0500, Vidiot wrote:
> >How would one format a ZIP disk with the standard Linux file system
> >on it?
> >Adahma
>
> Before I answer the question, I have to ask WHY? With the mtools suite
> of programs, you can transfer files to the disk as easy as mcopy.
> No n
>On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Adahma wrote:
>> Sorry to ask such a seemingly simple question, but I can't get this
>> done.
>>
>> How would one format a ZIP disk with the standard Linux file system
>> on it?
>>
>What's the device name?
>It *should* be as easy as opening up a console window and
>saying "
I got 3 titles here Which is the best one ? 10 being the best 1- the worst
[1] Leon Poskar Object Oriented C++ Primer $40 CDN
[2] C++- How To Program Dietel and Dietel $90 $CDN
[3] Starting Out With C++ Gaddi$95 CDN
Extra comments I would like to hear too.
I am somewhat constrained by
This is slightly off the topic, but I have followed the howto for installing
a zip drive and have no been successful. The kernel is configured correctly
that was the simple part. Scsi is complied in as is SCSI Disk (scsi.o and
sd.0) BTW I am running RH 6.2 on Celeron 400 with 96 MB RAM
I mkdir /
Christopher Northrop wrote:
> Hello group
>
> Does anyone know where I can find information on creating and using a
> install script for Red hat for automated installs.. Maybe there is already a
> install/setup file I could modify?
>
> TIA
> Chris N.
Take a look at the kickstart install. I have
SoloCDM wrote:
> What commands convert casing to upper, lower, and proper (proper: as
> in Virginia)?
>
> Note: Detailed Document(s) and Sample(s) are more than welcome.
> When you reply to this message, please include
> the mailing list and my address.
>
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On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Adahma wrote:
> Sorry to ask such a seemingly simple question, but I can't get this
> done.
>
> How would one format a ZIP disk with the standard Linux file system
> on it?
>
What's the device name?
It *should* be as easy as opening up a console window and
saying "mke2fs /de
>How would one format a ZIP disk with the standard Linux file system
>on it?
>Adahma
Before I answer the question, I have to ask WHY? With the mtools suite
of programs, you can transfer files to the disk as easy as mcopy.
No need to mount, etc. That way the disks are still MessyDOS compatible.
John,
First where is modules.conf? I looked for it in /etc, and it was not in that dir.
The card is not really
a card, it is a onboard card from Intel. It is a intel dual server MB, with 4 PII's
on it.
ifconfig returns a lot of info, what specificly do you need? What is kudzu? Is it
par
Sorry to ask such a seemingly simple question, but I can't get this
done.
How would one format a ZIP disk with the standard Linux file system
on it?
Thanks in advance,
Adahma
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> -Original Message-
> From: Wayne Dyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 1:45 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Are RedHat actually providing support?
> I agree, and upon further r
Steven,
What do you have in modules.conf? What kind of card is it? What does
"ifconfig eth0" return? How did you configure it? Kudzu found my Netgear
and configured it OK. Adam Slieght seems to think my problem is because I
did a workstation install on my wifes' machine. So I have to instal
Adam,
OK I will try that tonight. Working with HP-UX I guess I treated it the
same as a workstation there where everything is installed. Silly me, I knew
I did something dumb. Thanks.
John Fusek
Steve,
Be glad to let you know what I find out. However you seem to have a
different problem from me. I have always been able to ping out to the other
machine. Since you can get out on windoze your cabling should be okay. You
sure you have the right network driver and the interface is activat
Adam,
Oops both machines are 6.1. Hers was a simple workstation install. Mine
was bit of a custom upgrade from 5.2.
The hub is plugged into an UPS so it is always on. I will try uplugging
tonight. Thanks for the reply.
John Fuse
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Greg Wright wrote:
>
> You probably are running it out of inetd , which means hosts allow/deny
> files apply, otherwise check in the ssh conf file for IP restriction
>
>
Ya know, that makes a LOT of sense... have to look into it.
Thanks. :-)
John
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Tanner, Robby wrote:
> There is one school of thought. Singular nouns require singular verbs. A
> company is a collective, but singular, noun. A bunch of bananas...etc. "A
> bunch IS" not "A bunch ARE". Redhat is a company, singular. If the British
> convention is to refer to A company in th
To be more precise, updatedb hangs after cataloging
/usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8. I'm Still stumped.
Paul
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From: Kaplan, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 12:22 PM
Everyone,
I have got a problem that is stumping me. It is probably something stupid
I am overlooking. I have two machines networked together at home and they
are not communicating correctly.
Okay here is the situation. My machine has been running linux since last
July and has been upgraded fr
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Edward Marczak wrote:
> > IS there a way to get Sendmail to forward mail for certain
> > email addresses to /dev/null?
>
> "Fred" used to work at my company. He subscribed to many a mailing list.
> He didn't unsub when he left. My many attempts to email list admins to ask
Ya, it's installed... It works after the error message, I'm just curious
what's up with that error message is all.
> -Original Message-
> From: John Aldrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 1:31 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: anonymous ftp - a new
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Burke, Thomas G. wrote:
> Ooops! Forgot to restart inetd...
>
> Still have an error, tho:
>
> ftp localhost
> Connected to localhost.localdomain.
> 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
>
> ftp (myhostname)
> *pregnant pause*
> then an error showed
There is one school of thought. Singular nouns require singular verbs. A
company is a collective, but singular, noun. A bunch of bananas...etc. "A
bunch IS" not "A bunch ARE". Redhat is a company, singular. If the British
convention is to refer to A company in the plural, then the convention
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On 12/06/00 at 11:27 John Aldrich wrote:
>I've got SSH1 and SSH2 servers installed on my machine at
>home, but whenever I try to SSH in, it always gives me
>"connection refused." What am I doing wrong? It *used* to
>work in Mandrake 6.0, but now that I'
Ooops! Forgot to restart inetd...
Still have an error, tho:
ftp localhost
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
ftp (myhostname)
*pregnant pause*
then an error showed up along the lines of:
"kerberos passwd auth" blah blah blah (sorr
funny... I use the INTERNET every day, using OS/2...
Don' t think Bill had too much input in version 4.0 of it :)
and I do use LINUX as well.
chris
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 20:40:08 -0500 (CDT), Vidiot wrote:
>>BUT, all problems aside, we would not be knocking
>>MS on the internet if it twern't
Anyone have any ideas why updatedb hangs when it hits /.automount on a RH6.0
installation? Also, where is the default location of the updatedb database?
Paul Kaplan
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>> Hello group
>> Does anyone have any detailed information on how to do a NFS install. All
>> red hat info has been vague to sat the least.
>>
>> Chris N.
>
>use the bootnet.img disk on client
>
>on server.
>in /etc/exports: (e,g)
>/cdrom
At 10:19 AM 6/12/00 , you wrote:
>Telnetted, same message "telnet: Unable to connect to remote host:
>Connection refused"
Is there anything in your logs? Probably just a notice, but you can check.
>Checked services... ftp _is_ in there...
>
>ps -ef |grep inetd tells me inetd is running...
And
Hello group
Does anyone know where I can find information on creating and using a
install script for Red hat for automated installs.. Maybe there is already a
install/setup file I could modify?
TIA
Chris N.
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I've got SSH1 and SSH2 servers installed on my machine at
home, but whenever I try to SSH in, it always gives me
"connection refused." What am I doing wrong? It *used* to
work in Mandrake 6.0, but now that I'm in RedHat 6.2, it
won't work! :-(
Thanks...
John
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On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Ezequiel Pozzo wrote:
> I am using RedHat 5.0 (I guess I should update it)
>
> And I can´t mount hda1 using: mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /WIN98
>
Hmmthat *could* be the problem. I *think* RH5.0 came
out BEFORE FAT32, so it may be that that version of VFAT
doesn't support FAT
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, CH wrote:
> >
> > Can you post your /etc/fstab here for us? Also, do you have
> > AMD and AUTOFS running? If not, maybe you should consider
> > running them?
> > John
> >
>
> Here is /etc/fstab listing below. Notice /dev/hda6 has a mount point of /win
> and already m
Telnetted, same message "telnet: Unable to connect to remote host:
Connection refused"
Checked services... ftp _is_ in there...
ps -ef |grep inetd tells me inetd is running...
I'm really confused, now.
> -Original Message-
> From: Nier Yavin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, J
I dunno about commands, but if you're writing software, I think ANSI C/C++
uses the functions tolower() and toupper() (I may be misremembering, tho)
> -Original Message-
> From: SoloCDM [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 10:22 AM
> To: Red Hat-List (redhat-list-reque
Its working great now... ! it wasn't asking for *userame* at all :)
Thanks for your response, Joe ...
anurag
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At 07:40 AM 6/12/00 -0700, you wrote:
> If you are root, it won't ask for username. At least mine didn't Joe
> -Original Message-
>From: anurag jalan[mailt
man ntsysv
or type ntsysv
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From: "Alessandro Coppelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 1:19 AM
Subject: Turn off services
> How do I do turn off services ( sendmail ftp ecc. )
>
> from linuxconf ?
>
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your line for hda1 s/b simular to hda5's line, but with a different
mount point. EI: /win
Your fstab shows no mount point or file system type, etc.
Joe
> -Original Message-
> From: Ezequiel Pozzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 5:12 AM
> To: RH list
> Subject: FAT
Are
you trying to ftp as root? If you are root, it won't ask for
username.
At
least mine didn't
Joe
-Original Message-From: anurag jalan
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 2:52
AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Freshly installed
FTP server not asking for
I've seen several threads lately about security, which is cool. I thought
others might be interested in the below link. I'd heard of Bastille Linux
but I did not know about the project. (For example, I had the idea that it
was a separate distro; actually, it's a program made for RH/Mandrake
What commands convert casing to upper, lower, and proper (proper: as
in Virginia)?
Note: Detailed Document(s) and Sample(s) are more than welcome.
When you reply to this message, please include
the mailing list and my address.
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9/6/00 4:09 PM, John Aldrich a écrit:
> IS there a way to get Sendmail to forward mail for certain
> email addresses to /dev/null?
"Fred" used to work at my company. He subscribed to many a mailing list.
He didn't unsub when he left. My many attempts to email list admins to ask
that he be remo
I assume you probably already tried running the system without the nics. I
haven't heard of any limits in linux with regards to number of IDE ports.
Only other suggestion would make would be to double check the master/slave
settings or maybe read up on the BIOS see if there's any limitations.
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On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 08:31:42AM -0400, Burke, Thomas G. said:
> OK, I disabled my firewall rules, disabled portsentry, logged in to the
> machine and typed "ftp localhost".
>
> Response from the machine: "ftp: connect: connectin refused"
>
> I checked inetd.conf, and ftp is not commented out.
OK, I disabled my firewall rules, disabled portsentry, logged in to the
machine and typed "ftp localhost".
Response from the machine: "ftp: connect: connectin refused"
I checked inetd.conf, and ftp is not commented out.
I have made no changes to the default install (that I know of)...
Ant tips
Ok... here is my fdisk listing:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 525 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 *11 261 2096451b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 262 262 453
How do I go about that? What is the difference in the html coding that
allows the file download?
> -Original Message-
> From: Nitebirdz [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 2:06 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: anonymous ftp
>
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Bu
Hello
Start "linuxconf" as root
goto Control -> Control panel -> Control service sctivity
There you have a list of what's enabled (disabled) , is it started
on boot-up etc...
good luck
willy
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Alessandro Coppelli wrote:
> How do I do turn off services ( sendmail ftp ec
Hi all,
When I try to FTP to my new RedHat Server .. I get a
'connected to.. 192.168.1.254' message, but i do not get prompted for the
username or passwd
I have queried wu-ftpd and anonftp through Gnorpm .. there
appear to be no verification problems..
What could be the problem ?
Anu
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 10:56:27PM -0700, Adam Sleight wrote:
> I haven't been following the kernel at all 2.2.14 as far as large hard drive
> support is concerned.
> .
> I had to clip two 34GB IBM drives to 32.4GB so the kernel 2.2.12 Red Hat 6.1
> would see them. That's why for home I got a 27G
at boot time, use ntsysv. for inetd services edit /etc/inetd.conf or
just dont run it using ntsysv.
Alessandro Coppelli wrote:
>
> How do I do turn off services ( sendmail ftp ecc. )
>
> from linuxconf ?
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i have a 60 gig raid array on one of our servers.
Adam Sleight wrote:
>
> I haven't been following the kernel at all 2.2.14 as far as large hard drive
> support is concerned.
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