Re: making less faster on large amounts of stdin data

2001-12-28 Thread Wojtek Pilorz
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Thomas Dodd wrote: Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:01:18 -0600 Wojtek Pilorz wrote: [...] snip As can be seen from the tests timings, there is little gain (when processing 40 MB of data on pipe) with increasing buffer size above 32KB, and the price for having the

Re: future journal filesystem. XFS, JFS in rawhide

2001-12-28 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Jean Francois Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Kanavin wrote: Reiserutils was in 7.2 and I think in 7.1. 7.2 kernel has reiserfs support and I think 7.1was compiled with ReiserFS support too. So you can create and mount ReiserFS partitions if you want. I have used

Re: future journal filesystem. XFS, JFS in rawhide

2001-12-28 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Michael Tokarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is about C++ only. C language programs ARE compatible. Note that in e.g. 7.x, there is libstdc++-compat libraries, I expect to find the same on 8.x, so your C++ programs compiled on 7.x will run just fine on 8.x -- like 6.x vs 7.x. I

Maxtor 40 GB hard disk + Unable to read partition table

2001-12-28 Thread Basant Kukreja
Hi, I have recently purchased 40GB hard Maxtor IDE hard disk. I have installed Win98 and Win2k already. I left three partitions for linux (/boot, swap and / file systems) in first 3 GB of hard disk so I can boot linux through LILO. I tried to install Red hat 7.1 on my machine thorugh

Re: Maxtor 40 GB hard disk + Unable to read partition table

2001-12-28 Thread sleek
Hi, Can we assume that you did not install win2k completely. I had that same problem and I fixed it by making sure that win2k was completely installed(including the NTLDR loader for win2k. Make sure you can boot both your win98 and win2k OSes before starting the instalation for RHOS. I'm quite

Re: How to open/view .vcf file

2001-12-28 Thread ABrady
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 02:32:43 -0500 Anthony E. Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] implied: ABrady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They're also another annoying attachment on top of the numerous other annoying attachments brought to you by those that have forgotten what the real purpose of email is: to

where is word perfect ?

2001-12-28 Thread ethan
Anyone know where I can find a downloadable copy of WordPerfect for Linux (latest version) ?? thanks, ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: MBR tool

2001-12-28 Thread Ani_Adarsh
fdisk /mbr would do it i guess -Original Message- From: Statux [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 9:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MBR tool Does anyone know of a tool I can use to completely wipe clean the MBR? (and if possible to view

RE: Sound driver problem for motherboard - 2th max 8KHA

2001-12-28 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Robert, Thanks for your advice. it worked B.R. Stephen At 11:28 PM 12/26/2001 -0800, you wrote: The command you want is: You're not looking for the contents of /misc You want to see the contents of: /lib/modules/ `uname -r` /misc/ which should be something like:

Re: Sound driver problem for motherboard - 2th max 8KHA

2001-12-28 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Gordon, It worked now. The list of sound card drivers is at /lib/modules/2.4.9-13/misc I editted /etc/module.conf additing my soundcard driver via8233 /etc/module.conf now looks as : * * * alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias eth0 8139too alias usb-controller usb-uhci # ALSA

Re: Sound driver problem for motherboard - 2th max 8KHA

2001-12-28 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Devon, Thanks for your response. At 01:40 AM 12/27/2001 -0500, you wrote: You're not looking for the contents of /misc You want to see the contents of: /lib/modules/ `uname -r` /misc/ which should be something like: /lib/modules/2.4.9-13/misc/ I found it now according to Robert's advice. #

Re: can't print

2001-12-28 Thread Devon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 December 2001 01:33 am, ABrady wrote: Sorry but I did that one, too. I'm not sure he tried it after his reinstall. It uses a lexmark-supplied printer driver. In 7.1 that driver needed another rpm to be installed (vdk-something). It

Re: can't print

2001-12-28 Thread ABrady
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 07:11:29 -0500 Devon [EMAIL PROTECTED] implied: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 December 2001 01:33 am, ABrady wrote: Sorry but I did that one, too. I'm not sure he tried it after his reinstall. It uses a lexmark-supplied printer

Re: Local network : sharing internet cable connection

2001-12-28 Thread Dave Reed
X-Authentication-Warning: rlevesque.com: dominic set sender to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f Cc: Gcc: nnfolder:gnus-mail From: Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dave Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] A cross-over cable should not be

Re: where is word perfect ?

2001-12-28 Thread Ray Curtis
p == phil46 ethan writes: p Anyone know where I can find a downloadable copy of WordPerfect for p Linux (latest version) ?? thanks, http://www.xandros.net/downloads2.html -- Ray Curtis Unix Programmer/Consultant Curtis Consulting mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Error while compiling

2001-12-28 Thread Amit khurana
Hello everyone, Hope you can help me out with this problem.I am trying to compile a 2.4.2-2 kernel.While everything goes successful upto make modules_installhowever on running mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.2-2amit.img 2.4.2-2amit" I get an error stating "All of your loopback devices are in use"

Unremovable file

2001-12-28 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Ok, let's try again (: Hi, After trying to build mozilla-0.9.6 on my RH 7.0 system I am having problems with filesystem corruption. Not sure if this is due to the updates I did just before, the building process itself, or the fact that I killed an mc ftp connection from

RE: MBR tool

2001-12-28 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Ani, fdisk /mbr would do it i guess No such device ;-/ Bye, Leonard. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: about /dev/sequencer

2001-12-28 Thread Xia Shang
On Thursday 27 December 2001 23:35, you wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 07:31:39PM +0100, Xia Shang wrote: I know now what's the problem. With ls -l /dev/sequencer I get crw---1 shangroot 14, 1 Mar 24 2001 /dev/sequencer. Ok, so the special file is there as such, and

Re: Local network : sharing internet cable connection

2001-12-28 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:13:18PM -0500, Dominic Mitchell wrote: Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - then the best approach is to buy a 4-port Linksys DSL/Cable router. These provide for basic firewalling and NAT functionality and will allow your wife's computer to connect to

Re: where is word perfect ?

2001-12-28 Thread ethan
Err... that url is for Corel Linux OS Second Edition... I just want Wordperfect only. How can I do it ? thanks, Ray Curtis wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> "p" == phil46 ethan writes:

Re: MBR tool

2001-12-28 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:04:18PM +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: fdisk /mbr would do it i guess No such device ;-/ This works--but I think the syntax is fdisk c: /mbr, substituting the right disk for 'c:'. Oh, and it's not the Linux 'fdisk'--only on the MS side of the house.

Re: Local network : sharing internet cable connection

2001-12-28 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 08:33:03AM -0500, Dave Reed wrote: The Linux box is no less secure if you it all properly configured and keep up with security updates. The Linksys routers are just simpler since by default they don't (as far as I know) listen for incoming connections. Actually, I can

Re: Re: about /dev/sequencer

2001-12-28 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:10:40PM +0100, Xia Shang wrote: I don't think there's something wrong with my entire sound system. In fact I can use any sound application including KMidi but KMid. It is this KMid that the e-card can't open! First--I don't run either application, and frankly,

Re: MBR tool

2001-12-28 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:07:55PM -0800, Keith Morse wrote: Just curious. I've heard of entities that require triple-double dog security, nuclear weapons secrets or some such nonesense, have a formal destruction procedures for the magnetic media. Not just that--essentially anything that's

RE: MBR tool

2001-12-28 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Jackrabbit, # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 it will convert the entire hard drive to zeros right? If I do that would I be able to rebuild partitions and the partition table from fdisk? You do not need to specify a blocksize in this case. If you only want to zero

Re: MBR tool

2001-12-28 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Dave, fdisk /mbr would do it i guess No such device ;-/ Oh, and it's not the Linux 'fdisk'--only on the MS side of the house. That was what I was trying to tell. Plus that c:\fdisk /mbr does not wipe the bootsector, but instead installs a dos master boot

Re: Local network : sharing internet cable connection

2001-12-28 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:14:23PM -0800, Keith Morse wrote: Hub good, cross over cable bad, ugh. Praytell, why do you say so? A hub doesn't do anything except, maybe, signal regeneration for long runs, almost certainly not an issue here. Also, a crossover most certainly can handle full

Re: MBR tool

2001-12-28 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 04:47:02PM +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: Hi Dave, And back. That was what I was trying to tell. Ok. Plus that c:\fdisk /mbr Er, that would be fdisk c: /mbr does not wipe the bootsector, but instead installs a dos master boot loader. That's

Re: MBR tool

2001-12-28 Thread rpjday
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Dave Ihnat wrote: Yep. I was just responding to the comment that /mbr doesn't work, and the probable cause (wrong system, wrong argument order). i'm perpetually amused by the number of people who want to turn their linux boxes back into MS boxes but, hey, to each his

Anyone get Symantec Ghost to work with RH systems?

2001-12-28 Thread RedHat List
We have created an image using a ghost boot disk and a multicast server, but we have yet to get a client to load an image from the multicast server. After overcoming many problems, we have come to one we cannot work around. We get about 90% complete on a client and the we get Ghost error 36000.

Re: proper syntax for copying CD to NFS directory

2001-12-28 Thread Jim Cunning
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Keith Morse wrote: On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Monte Milanuk wrote: A while back (in the last month or two, I recall seeing a post/thread on the proper procedure/syntax on copying from the RH CD's to a directory on HD for exporting via NFS for installs, etc. I've been

Re: proper syntax for copying CD to NFS directory

2001-12-28 Thread Vidiot
My current one off favourite. cd /mnt/cdrom; tar -cvf - . | (cd /mnt/scratch/pub/2/engima;tar -xf - ) Does this syntax for tar actually work? What version of tar are you using? When I try it I get: jcunning@bigbear:~ tar -zft fc-v2.0.tgz tar: You must specify one of the

Re: where is word perfect ?

2001-12-28 Thread ABrady
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 22:27:46 +0800 ethan [EMAIL PROTECTED] implied: Err... that url is for Corel Linux OS Second Edition... I just want Wordperfect only. How can I do it ? thanks, You might still be able to get it from tucows/linuxberg or cnet. But (and this is a big problem), it requires an

Re: Gnome Terminal Won't Run

2001-12-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
It sounds like you have some Ximain GNOME packages and some Red Hat GNOME packages. Start by checking for Ximian packages: rpm -qa | grep ximian Then, for each of those packages that are provided by Red Hat, install the Red Hat versions. On 27 Dec 2001, Chris Montgomery wrote: Newbie

Re: Local network : sharing internet cable connection

2001-12-28 Thread Keith Morse
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Dave Ihnat wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:14:23PM -0800, Keith Morse wrote: Hub good, cross over cable bad, ugh. Praytell, why do you say so? A hub doesn't do anything except, maybe, signal regeneration for long runs, almost certainly not an issue here. Also, a

Re: Anyone get Symantec Ghost to work with RH systems?

2001-12-28 Thread Keith Morse
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, RedHat List wrote: We have created an image using a ghost boot disk and a multicast server, but we have yet to get a client to load an image from the multicast server. After overcoming many problems, we have come to one we cannot work around. We get about 90% complete

Re: proper syntax for copying CD to NFS directory

2001-12-28 Thread Keith Morse
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Jim Cunning wrote: My current one off favourite. cd /mnt/cdrom; tar -cvf - . | (cd /mnt/scratch/pub/2/engima;tar -xf - ) Does this syntax for tar actually work? What version of tar are you using? When I try it I get: jcunning@bigbear:~ tar -zft

Re: Anyone get Symantec Ghost to work with RH systems?

2001-12-28 Thread RedHat List
Kickstart merely does an NFS install (unless it has changed) and might as well use System Imager in that case. We are also using a custom kernel with our custom clustering code. We need a utility that will work at the sector level of the disk. Ghost does this but we have run into problem after

Re: Anyone get Symantec Ghost to work with RH systems?

2001-12-28 Thread RedHat List
I guess we can try 6.5. Each rack in our cluster used an Extreme Summit48 switch, 100MB, and all NIC's are Intel EEPro 100's. Do you use any special options when using 6.5? Is LILO installed in the MBR on your systems? What method do you use to create your image? (Image All, Image Disk,

RE: Anyone get Symantec Ghost to work with RH systems?

2001-12-28 Thread Matthews, John
My company just recently ran into a similiar problem. We ended up using ext2 opposed to ext3 and everything worked fine from there. The machines we cloned were all dual-boots, Win2000/Red Hat 7.2, the only catch was that we had to re-run grub to install itself. Other than that

how do i see master boot record

2001-12-28 Thread hari_bhr
hi all gurus does any one tell me how do i edit master boot record like in MS-DOS i can edit command.com and using asci editor , and replace as i wish how can do with linux, is possible, where can i find info and editors thanks

RE: how do i see master boot record

2001-12-28 Thread Matthews, John
pico might be an easy editor to start out with. I don't quite understand what your hoping to do though, I'm at a loss as to what your going to type into the MBR. I'm guessing you might be able to read it by looking at the beginning of /dev/hda, this is a guess though, I've never done it

IDE Zip 100 Drive with RH 7.2

2001-12-28 Thread Alexander Shaw
My internal IDE 100MB ZIP drive is causing me problems and suddenly will not mount for some reason after working perfectly. If I try to mount under Gnome (right click etc) I get an error saying: /dev/hdd4: No such file or directory Under a terminal using mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip100.0

Re: IDE Zip 100 Drive with RH 7.2

2001-12-28 Thread Dave Reed
From: Alexander Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] My internal IDE 100MB ZIP drive is causing me problems and suddenly will not mount for some reason after working perfectly. If I try to mount under Gnome (right click etc) I get an error saying: /dev/hdd4: No such file or directory Under a

Re: Anyone get Symantec Ghost to work with RH systems?

2001-12-28 Thread RedHat List
Yea, we already thought of that. However, the disks in this cluster are front-panel removeable, however they are not back-plan connected thus require the top of each system to be opened. These are 9-foot racks and very difficult to work with. FYI: Don't ever buy a cluster from Western

Re: how do i see master boot record

2001-12-28 Thread rpjday
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, hari_bhr wrote: hi all gurus does any one tell me how do i edit master boot record like in MS-DOS i can edit command.com and using asci editor , and replace as i wish how can do with linux, is possible, where can i find info and editors thanks red hat 7.2 comes

mount: RPC: Program not registered

2001-12-28 Thread Jack Byers
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED] trying to use nfs to mount a directory from my rhat6.2 corni to my rhat5.2 byers from byers: [root@byers /]# mount corni:/home/jack /mnt/jack mount: RPC: Program not registered [root@byers /]# what does this mean? I have stopped and started portmap and nfs

RE: IDE Zip 100 Drive with RH 7.2

2001-12-28 Thread Alexander Shaw
Dave: At one office where I do some consulting, the zip mounts at /dev/hdd instead of /dev/hdd4 (like every other machine). You might try that just to see what happens since I think that was the type of error message I got on that machine when trying to mount at /dev/hdd4. Tried that one thanks

Re: Building RPMs

2001-12-28 Thread Fernando Lozano
Hi Ed, Can anyone point me to a quick guide on how to build am RPM backage where you do not have the sources (just binaries) or when the sources are the binaries, like for Perl scripts? That is, RPMS tagged as noarch and nosrc? http://www.rpmdp.org/rpmbook/ Thanks for the link, I've

squid and snmp

2001-12-28 Thread Jake Colman
Does squid support snmp out of the box on RH 7.2 ordo I have rebuild squid from sources? Either way, does anyone have an example of using mrtg to monitor squid? I am looking for the conf files necessary for snmpd, mrtg, and squid to support squid snmp statistics. Thanks! ...Jake -- Jake

Sendmail problem

2001-12-28 Thread huarito huaritex
Hello buddys My Sendmail(Redhat71) its working but not as i want because its to slow to download the email from a client (Outlook) and i go the next error when i try to send a message with a file such as attachement: SMTP errorwell when i send a message without a attachment ok works but

Re: Building RPMs

2001-12-28 Thread rpjday
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Fernando Lozano wrote: Hi Ed, Can anyone point me to a quick guide on how to build am RPM backage where you do not have the sources (just binaries) or when the sources are the binaries, like for Perl scripts? That is, RPMS tagged as noarch and nosrc?

Text Parsing

2001-12-28 Thread Patrick Nelson
For some reason I just cant get this... me@mehostsetap -l | grep ESSID: # lists the following lono wireless extensions. eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:MECOOLAP01 Nickname:mehost me@mehost I'm trying to figure out how to pull the MECOOLAP01 from the line. Any suggestions?

Re: how do i see master boot record

2001-12-28 Thread hari_bhr
hi thanks how do i edit MBR and put my own if i want if i do iam going to loose the MBR. can some one recomend me how do i edit MBR what is the tools PICO ot hexedit what file i need to edit if i want to edit MBR thanks - Original Message - From: rpjday [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: Unremovable file

2001-12-28 Thread Statux
c---r- 1 8224 8224 32, 32 Jan 30 1987 CVS see if a stat CVS works, or even just an ls -li CVS which will tell you what inode it is. From this point, knowing the inode, I would fire up debugfs (after reading the manual for it first, of course). # debugfs -w /dev/hda1 or whatever the

Squidguard

2001-12-28 Thread Patrick \The Great Unclean One\ Lankhorst
Hi guys, I'm having trouble configuring squidguard. The program works fine, but it doesn't seem to include some rules from the .conf file. The following is what's in my .conf file (It's only a tryout, so it's nothing fancy yet): logdir /usr/local/squid/logs dbhome /usr/local/squid/db src

Re: IDE Zip 100 Drive with RH 7.2

2001-12-28 Thread ABrady
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 19:27:48 - Alexander Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] implied: My internal IDE 100MB ZIP drive is causing me problems and suddenly will not mount for some reason after working perfectly. If I try to mount under Gnome (right click etc) I get an error saying: /dev/hdd4: No such

tar option syntax (was: proper syntax for copying CD to NFS directory)

2001-12-28 Thread Jim Cunning
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Keith Morse wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Jim Cunning wrote: My current one off favourite. cd /mnt/cdrom; tar -cvf - . | (cd /mnt/scratch/pub/2/engima;tar -xf - ) Does this syntax for tar actually work? What version of tar are you using? When I try it I get:

Re: confused about grep

2001-12-28 Thread Bret Hughes
dave brett wrote: Hi Brian same results, it did not find the process. thanks david On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Brian Ashe wrote: On Monday 24 December 2001 12:16, you babbled something about: My problem is when I pipe the process list to grep it does not find it. I have tried

Re: Announcing rhlug.org

2001-12-28 Thread Edward C. Bailey
rpjday == rpjday [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... rpjday sorry to harp on this, but i think this is a fairly serious issue. Tell me about it -- I've been spending a fair bit of my holiday working on this issue in one way or another. Believe me, all of us in the company understand the gravity of

Re: dhcpcd problems

2001-12-28 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Jake == Jake Colman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jake I modified my script to create a file in /tmp in order to prove Jake whether it is executed. The file is create if I execute the script Jake manually but never executed when I 'ifup' the interface. Read the man page -- based on what I read

Re: IPTables Information

2001-12-28 Thread Edward C. Bailey
BobH == BobH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BobH Hi all, I just ppurchased Linux Firewalls - 2nd ed by Robert BobH Ziegler and would recommend it for anyone who does not have the BobH background experience and desires to UNDERSTAND IPTables . It has BobH helped this newbie very much. I got a copy

Re: Anyone get Symantec Ghost to work with RH systems?

2001-12-28 Thread Duncan Hill
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, RedHat List wrote: The rescue disk option is doable, what exactly do you do with the rescue floppy? In the case of a lilo controlled boot system, just re-run lilo with the appropriate args (which I forget right now) to force lilo to reset the mbr. -- Sapere aude My

Re: MBR tool

2001-12-28 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Keith == Keith Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Keith Well, since the topic was broached. Would doing this be a Keith satisfactory way of zeroing out the hard drive (no data retrevial Keith possible) if the system was being sent to salavage (sold off)? It should do the trick for the usual

Re: [REDHAT] Text Parsing

2001-12-28 Thread David Kramer
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Patrick Nelson wrote: For some reason I just cant get this... me@mehostsetap -l | grep ESSID: # lists the following lono wireless extensions. eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:MECOOLAP01 Nickname:mehost me@mehost I'm trying to figure out how to pull the

Re: Announcing rhlug.org

2001-12-28 Thread Bret Hughes
Devon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 December 2001 06:48 am, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: http://rhlug.bero.org/. Happy Holidays! Thanks, it looks interesting! Is it just me or is there no text on the account creation page? I see a dropdown

RE: IDE Zip 100 Drive with RH 7.2

2001-12-28 Thread Alexander Shaw
Quote: Have you tried another disk? I used to use an external SCSI model until I went through several problems with disks going bad and then working again after reformat. It now sits in a closet with some other things I haven't gottten around to throwing out, like an internal ZIP that I don't

Re: MBR tool

2001-12-28 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Dave, Plus that c:\fdisk /mbr Er, that would be fdisk c: /mbr I meant c:\fdisk /mbr. I think the original syntax was correct. No need to specify a drive, it's the MBR. The syntax in the original post is correct IIRC. Yep. I was just responding to the comment that

Re: MBR tool

2001-12-28 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi again, Yep. I was just responding to the comment that /mbr doesn't work, and the probable cause (wrong system, wrong argument order). Bye the way, I hope you don't think I actually ran that command ;-). Bye,

Re: MBR tool

2001-12-28 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Ed, Keith, It should do the trick for the usual situations; however, for classified data there are other, more stringent, measures. Like writing particular bit patterns to disk repeatedly as to destroy the magnetic rest fields (what's the correct term again?). Although

Re: MBR tool

2001-12-28 Thread Jasper Jans
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Leonard den Ottolander managed to produce: | Like writing particular bit patterns to disk repeatedly as to destroy the | magnetic rest fields (what's the correct term again?). Although repeatedly | filling the disk with (pseudo) random data should do the trick as well. |

Re: confused about grep

2001-12-28 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Cameron, Also bear in mind that the ps command is ofteni, um, overly helpful - it will crop long lines rather than display them. By including the u option you may be cropping enough stuff to remove realplay from the listing. Maybe. Helpful hint. I should probably be

Re: IDE Zip 100 Drive with RH 7.2

2001-12-28 Thread ABrady
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 22:08:42 - Alexander Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] implied: Quote: Have you tried another disk? I used to use an external SCSI model until I went through several problems with disks going bad and then working again after reformat. It now sits in a closet with some other

open SSH problems...

2001-12-28 Thread Jim Bija
I have a question.. Lately openssh has had some security problems. I have been told that all these problems are only in SSH-1 not SSH-2. Also there seems to be some who the hell knows if these problems are in ssh only or openssh or both etc. Now, if i tell my SSH server only to accept SSH-2 and

Re: Building RPMs

2001-12-28 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Robert, Fernando, Thanks for the link, I've already downloaded the Postscript file, but I was looking for some *quick* guide. Sure I'll read and learn more using the book, but I have to meet a close deadline. www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-rpm1 Ah, another

Re: Text Parsing

2001-12-28 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 04:41:42PM -0500, David Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Patrick Nelson wrote: | For some reason I just cant get this... | | me@mehostsetap -l | grep ESSID: # lists the following | lono wireless extensions. | | eth0 IEEE

Re: confused about grep

2001-12-28 Thread dave brett
Hi Bret Thanks again. david On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Bret Hughes wrote: dave brett wrote: Hi Brian same results, it did not find the process. thanks david On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Brian Ashe wrote: On Monday 24 December 2001 12:16, you babbled something about: My

Re: confused about grep

2001-12-28 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:08:33PM -0600, Bret Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | try ps auxww |grep -i [r]eal | | ps will truncate to 80 chars I believe without the w (wrap) each w is | an additional lines worth of output. to test what is happening try | piping into less | | The [] will hide

Re: where is word perfect ?

2001-12-28 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:33:15AM -0600, ABrady wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 22:27:46 +0800 ethan [EMAIL PROTECTED] implied: Err... that url is for Corel Linux OS Second Edition... I just want Wordperfect only. How can I do it ? thanks, You might still be able to get it from

Re: open SSH problems...

2001-12-28 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Jim, I have a question.. Lately openssh has had some security problems. I have been told that all these problems are only in SSH-1 not SSH-2. There are occuring multiple vulnerabilities over time, so this depends on to which vulnerabiltiy you are referring. The latest

ARG! Serial console woes

2001-12-28 Thread RedHat List
Hey all, We added serial console support to some RH 7.2 system and now they hang at the infamous Freeing unused kernel memory I noticed scads of posts on Google with this same problem but have yet to find any posted fix. I added this to /etc/lilo.conf near the top before the first kernel

Re: where is word perfect ?

2001-12-28 Thread ABrady
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 16:48:16 -0500 fred smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] implied: On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:33:15AM -0600, ABrady wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 22:27:46 +0800 ethan [EMAIL PROTECTED] implied: Err... that url is for Corel Linux OS Second Edition... I just want Wordperfect only.

Re: open SSH problems...

2001-12-28 Thread Brian Ashe
Hello Jim, Friday, December 28, 2001, 7:08:07 PM, you textually orated: JB I have a question.. Lately openssh has had some security problems. I have JB been told that all these problems are only in SSH-1 not SSH-2. Well, its' had one problem. Unless lately for you goes back a year. ;) The

Re: ARG! Serial console woes

2001-12-28 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Chuck, /etc/lilo.conf append=console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8 Is it legal to specify multiple consoles? Or is just the last taken? And which console is tty0? In /etc/inittab I added the following: S0:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS0 Is S0 a valid entry here? I

POP-before-SMTP w/ sendmail on RH 7.2

2001-12-28 Thread Drew Bertola
Does anyone know of an implementation of POP-before-SMTP that works in conjunction with sendmail on RH 7.2? I've tried stock versions of drac, poprelayd, and a few others, but none seemed to play nicely with RH's sendmail.cf. -- Drew Bertola | Send a text message to my pager or cell ...

Firewire support - dvgrab?

2001-12-28 Thread Blake Thornton
I'm trying to get a firewire card going on my redhat 7.2 box (connecting to digital video camera). I am running kernel 2.4.9-13 (as obtained from redhat). I've looked at the following sites: linux1394: http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ raw1394:http://sourceforge.net/projects/libraw1394/

Re: where is word perfect ?

2001-12-28 Thread hanfamily
I got my copy of wordperfect with the book WordPerfect for Linux Bible by Stephen E Harris ISBN # 0-7645-3374-6 It is not a free solution it cost $39.95 It is a good book. It is a complete version Linda ___ Redhat-list

bind 9 problems (newbie)

2001-12-28 Thread daniel
hey people i've just upgraded my box to rh7.2 and i'm trying to configure bind9 to run now i've managed to configure bind8 before but for some reason the powers that be decided that bind9 had to be different so when i type /usr/sbin/rndc start i get the following message: rndc: get key

Re: bind 9 problems (newbie)

2001-12-28 Thread Jared Brick
man rndc.conf Jared On Friday 28 December 2001 23:20, you wrote: hey people i've just upgraded my box to rh7.2 and i'm trying to configure bind9 to run now i've managed to configure bind8 before but for some reason the powers that be decided that bind9 had to be different so when i type

Re: bind 9 problems (newbie)

2001-12-28 Thread Devon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 December 2001 11:20 pm, daniel wrote: so when i type /usr/sbin/rndc start i get the following message: rndc: get key definition: not found what's the deal? how do i get a key definition? You need to configure the server accept

Re: Local network : sharing internet cable connection

2001-12-28 Thread Gary
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:52:31AM -0600 or thereabouts, Dave Ihnat wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:14:23PM -0800, Keith Morse wrote: Hub good, cross over cable bad, ugh. Praytell, why do you say so? A hub doesn't do anything except, maybe, signal regeneration for long runs, almost

Re: Anyone get Symantec Ghost to work with RH systems?

2001-12-28 Thread George Abdo
Have you thought of using PowerQuest's Drive Image? I am saying this because, we use Ghost regularly at work (on windows machines only) and we have not had a problem. Maybe, try installing the RH7.2 drive as a second drive on another machine (windows). Ghost the drive, and then see if it

Re: bind 9 problems (newbie)

2001-12-28 Thread daniel
ok well now i get a whole new error when i run /usr/sbin/named it's telling me it can't open the named.pid file but i'm running this as root how can that be? - Original Message - From: Devon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 8:39 PM Subject: Re:

Re: bind 9 problems (newbie)

2001-12-28 Thread Devon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 29 December 2001 12:59 am, daniel wrote: ok well now i get a whole new error when i run /usr/sbin/named it's telling me it can't open the named.pid file but i'm running this as root how can that be? Hrmm? How about /sbin/service

Re: bind 9 problems (newbie)

2001-12-28 Thread daniel
actually i just figured that part out as i got that last email the pid file didn't exist yet and the service wasn't running i was just trying to run it from the command line ie # /usr/sbin/named -g so now named is running but i've got a new error when i type: rndc status : rndc: send remote

Re: bind 9 problems (newbie)

2001-12-28 Thread daniel
strike that i figured it with some help on a google search you've all been very helpful thanks a lot - Original Message - From: daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 10:30 PM Subject: Re: bind 9 problems (newbie) actually i just figured

Re: bind 9 problems (newbie)

2001-12-28 Thread Devon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 29 December 2001 01:30 am, daniel wrote: actually i just figured that part out as i got that last email the pid file didn't exist yet and the service wasn't running i was just trying to run it from the command line ie #