Re: Better File systems? Was Re: XFS - here's the solution

2002-04-18 Thread Ronald W. Heiby
-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

Re: Better File systems? Was Re: XFS - here's the solution

2002-04-18 Thread Kort E Patterson
Ronald W. Heiby wrote: 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

Re: Better File systems? Was Re: XFS - here's the solution

2002-04-18 Thread Jean Francois Martinez
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 02:41:36 -0700 Kort E Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ronald W. Heiby wrote: 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

Re: Better File systems? Was Re: XFS - here's the solution

2002-04-18 Thread Florin Andrei
On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 02:41, Kort E Patterson wrote: My current project uses ext3 on /boot and / Raid-1 partitions (boots off the raid partitions so raid-1 support must also be compiled directly into the kernel, and the --omit-raid-modules option used with mkinitrd). I haven't had any

Re: Better File systems? Was Re: XFS - here's the solution

2002-04-18 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Here's my imperative: Every change to the structure on disk _must_be_ written to disk that very instant. On-disk structure changes are _the_ most critical aspect. Caching disk structure is fine, but having changes in cache that are not yet reflected on disk is, OK,

Re: Better File systems? Was Re: XFS - here's the solution

2002-04-18 Thread Matt Fahrner
If rtroy supposition was held up disk performance would suffer dramatically. All OS-es use write caches, including Windows, though you have the option to turn it off. Not using caches leads to poor disk performance, especially on multi-user systems, disks with small buffers, and where you are

Re: Better File systems? Was Re: XFS - here's the solution

2002-04-18 Thread Richard Troy
John, The suggestion that knowing what files are open was only intended as a suggestion to completely eliminate any fsck - it wasn't my primary assertion. My primary assertion is: changes to the _structure_ on the disk must be reflected on the disk ASAP. This can be done by many different

Re: Better File systems? Was Re: XFS - here's the solution

2002-04-18 Thread Richard Troy
If rtroy supposition was held up disk performance would suffer dramatically. This is the very old and very tired dogmatic argument which has been disproven repeatedly throughout computing history. ...It could also be that you have not understood - perhaps I have not articulated - the argument

Re: Better File systems? Was Re: XFS - here's the solution

2002-04-18 Thread Matt Fahrner
You're right, I didn't follow your argument completely but rather only a short subset slamming Unix. I get your gist, though I would have to see statistics to see whether making such required updates wouldn't reduce performance too extensively. I made the mistake of assuming you were a newbie

Alternative file systems? Was Re: Better File systems?

2002-04-18 Thread Richard Troy
Well, Matt, your post brought a smile. Thanks for your gentle response. As a closing remark on my use of the word stupid, yes, I chose that word with some abandon - I'm aware of its potentially offensive reception. However, I recall the arguments at the time quite vividly. My coleagues urged me

Re: Alternative file systems? Was Re: Better File systems?

2002-04-18 Thread Matt Fahrner
Well, that'll teach me to interject without paying attention to the bigger scope... Anyway, these seem to be some good docs: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs7/ http://people.spoiled.org/jha/ext3-faq.html I personally found it *very* easy to use EXT3. Just upgrade

Re: Alternative file systems? Was Re: Better File systems?

2002-04-18 Thread Bill Crawford
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Richard Troy wrote: ANYWAY... I'm using Linux for business these days and I like it a lot but want a better file system. I've heard of quite a few new ones - new to me anyway - and when I asked about it, nobody really replied with the kind of response I was hoping for.

Re: Alternative file systems? Was Re: Better File systems?

2002-04-18 Thread Florin Andrei
On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 14:50, Richard Troy wrote: cry for performance. My rethort was, Yeah, some performance while you're rebuilding your system from tape! Hah! :-) So, I think it'd be really neat if someone would put together a small table outlining what's available for our beloved

Re: Alternative file systems? Was Re: Better File systems?

2002-04-18 Thread Dan Hollis
On 18 Apr 2002, Florin Andrei wrote: 3. XFS This is interesting, because the XFS code base is actually very mature and stable. That's why, i guess, the Linux port became stable so quickly: because only the Linux hooks had to be made stable, while the core was already mature. xfs is still

Re: Alternative file systems? Was Re: Better File systems?

2002-04-18 Thread Bill Crawford
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Dan Hollis wrote: On 18 Apr 2002, Florin Andrei wrote: 3. XFS This is interesting, because the XFS code base is actually very mature and stable. That's why, i guess, the Linux port became stable so quickly: because only the Linux hooks had to be made stable, while

When does one need a real server?

2002-04-18 Thread John Summerfield
Assuming 100 Mbit LAN, how does one decide whether one needs an expensive server with high-performance SCSI? What are the guidelines? Given a basic contemporary Celeron with a recent ATA-100 disk drive performing at (according to hdparm) 30 Mbytes/sec or better, it seems certain to me that

Re: Alternative file systems? Was Re: Better File systems?

2002-04-18 Thread John Summerfield
ANYWAY... I'm using Linux for business these days and I like it a lot but want a better file system. I've heard of quite a few new ones - new to me anyway - and when I asked about it, nobody really replied with the kind of response I was hoping for. Ext2 is all I've got working. I ran into

Re: Better File systems? Was Re: XFS - here's the solution

2002-04-18 Thread John Summerfield
John, The suggestion that knowing what files are open was only intended as a suggestion to completely eliminate any fsck - it wasn't my primary assertion. My primary assertion is: changes to the _structure_ on the disk must be reflected on the disk ASAP. This can be done by many

Re: Alternative file systems? Was Re: Better File systems?

2002-04-18 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Bill Crawford wrote: It would depend on the application ... ext3 is actually better for some applications (according to a quick web search a while back, a real world benchmark with some databases showed ext3 a winner). ReiserFS on the other hand was optimized for Squid a

Re: Better File systems? Was Re: XFS - here's the solution

2002-04-18 Thread Bill Crawford
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, John Summerfield wrote: How many of these fields are absolutely critical? struct stat { unsigned short st_dev; unsigned short __pad1; unsigned long st_ino; unsigned short st_mode; unsigned short st_nlink; unsigned

Re: Alternative file systems? Was Re: Better File systems?

2002-04-18 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Dan Hollis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i haven't played with jfs at all, afaik it is the most recent of the bunch. it has interesting features but it seems both xfs and reiser are considerably more advanced and tested. Actually, JFS is the oldest of them all. JFS was the original

Re: Controlling a GUI (window manager functions) from the command line...

2002-04-18 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 19:29 17 Apr 2002, Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 09:28, Henrik Schmiediche wrote: | I am running RH7.2 with KDE 2.2.2. Is it possible to control a window from | the command line. For example, if I want to start a program from a shell | script and then

RE: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-18 Thread Ed . Greshko
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Tom Pollerman wrote: It's one of the more frustrating aspects of Linux - just when you think you know something, it jumps up to bite you. But, that's partly why I'm here.. Isn't that true of life in general? Seriously, the great thing about Linux is its

Re: programming question.

2002-04-18 Thread Gregory Hosler
On 17-Apr-02 Bill Crawford wrote: On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 15:02 16 Apr 2002, Gregory Hosler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | scenerio: program forks/execv's another task, then does a waitpid() to | reap the | exit status. [...] | with today's faster cpu's, [...] it is

RE : Telnet connection fails

2002-04-18 Thread Yohann DESQUERRE (DSI NOISIEL)
Title: Message hi you shouls verify if telnet-server is installed!! I'ts not the case by default!!! if it's not install it : rpm -hiv telnet-server-???.rpm then activate telnetd : chkconfig telnet on this commande append "disable=no" in /etc/xinetd.d/telnet file !!!

RE: Unidentified Network Traffic

2002-04-18 Thread Pieter De Wit
Title: Message Hello Travis, Install and/or Run IPTRAF if you have it, otherwise use tcpdump and "home" in on the port/source ip. Then ask you ISP to block them Cheers, Pieter -Original Message-From: Travis McCarter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 17 April 2002 06:49To:

Re: No modules loaded after recompiling rh 7.2

2002-04-18 Thread Kjetil Tjensvold
I'll check it out, but I think I rember that there was an /lib/modules/2.4.7-10 --- Bret Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 11:53, Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: Last time I rembered that there where mudules showing up when I type lsmod. Several of them where set to

Re: No ping at 127.0.0.1. Is that normal?

2002-04-18 Thread Kjetil Tjensvold
It is in /etc/hosts But I cant see accept in the IPchain. How do I enable it here? --- Thorsten Strusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Hi Kjetil, Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: 17 Apr 2002, Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: --- Thorsten Strusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Kjetil Tjensvold wrote:

Re: disc images?

2002-04-18 Thread Thierry ITTY
A 09:17 17/04/02 -0700, vous avez écrit : that sounds like the way to go but i don't have a lilo.conf i believe i'm using grub what should be different? i don't know about grub the changes in lilo.conf just tell the boot manager where to write the mbr and the lilo command actually writes it.

recover queue messages?

2002-04-18 Thread Lewi
I have a message queue with a large size, I send it to my friends' email at lycos, the problem is I see on my maillog message status is defer, how I can recover it from queue and send it again using another server, because my friend need it fast and I don't have a backup email. -- ichtus

Re: No ping at 127.0.0.1. Is that normal?

2002-04-18 Thread Kjetil Tjensvold
I have enabled loopback block device in the kernel, but it doesn't work anyway:-( --- Ezra Nugroho [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: I find that installing loopback block device support in the kernel fixed this problem. I know that you should be able to do a loopback connection without

Re: recover queue messages?

2002-04-18 Thread Thorsten Strusch
Hi Lewi, Lewi wrote: I have a message queue with a large size, I send it to my friends' email at lycos, the problem is I see on my maillog message status is defer, how I can recover it from queue and send it again using another server, because my friend need it fast and I don't have a

Re: No ping at 127.0.0.1. Is that normal?

2002-04-18 Thread Kjetil Tjensvold
127.0.0.1 doesen't show up in the ipchain,but I think it wasen't there before I compiled the kernel either. --- Thorsten Strusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Hi Kjetil, Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: 17 Apr 2002, Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: --- Thorsten Strusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Kjetil

Re: No modules loaded after recompiling rh 7.2

2002-04-18 Thread Kjetil Tjensvold
uname -r gives 2.4.7-10 and that is correct. Also there is a dir /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/ --- Bret Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 11:53, Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: Last time I rembered that there where mudules showing up when I type lsmod. Several of them where set to

Re: recover queue messages?

2002-04-18 Thread Lewi
I'm using postfix, how I can do that with postfix I found a queue file in /var/spool/postfix/defer/.. but how I can read it again on a email way, not in binary I use imp3.0 to sent email On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:00:46PM +0200, Thorsten Strusch wrote: Hi Lewi, Lewi wrote: I have a

RE: No ping at 127.0.0.1. Is that normal?

2002-04-18 Thread Brian
Try adding these two rules, let me know how that goes ipchains -A INPUT -i eth0 -j ACCEPT ipchains -A INPUT -i lo -s 127.0.0.0/8 -d 127.0.0.0/8 -j ACCEPT -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kjetil Tjensvold Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002

Re: No ping at 127.0.0.1. Is that normal?

2002-04-18 Thread Thorsten Strusch
Hi Kjetil, please append your new messages at the end of the mail, it is more easy to read... Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: --- Thorsten Strusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: 17 Apr 2002, Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: --- Thorsten Strusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Kjetil

Nautilus problem when compiling kernel with 2 nic's

2002-04-18 Thread Kjetil Tjensvold
I have 2 nic's of same brand Realtech 8139, and when compiling the kernel with these cards enabled nautilus doesen't show up. If I disable the cards nautilus show up. When the cards is enabled should really don't have any impact on starting nautilus.Is this a bug??? Also the loopback is down when

Re: No ping at 127.0.0.1. Is that normal?

2002-04-18 Thread Kjetil Tjensvold
--- Thorsten Strusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Hi Kjetil, please append your new messages at the end of the mail, it is more easy to read... Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: --- Thorsten Strusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: 17 Apr 2002, Kjetil Tjensvold wrote:

RE: No ping at 127.0.0.1. Is that normal?

2002-04-18 Thread Kjetil Tjensvold
Ok I'll try it when I come home from my work, because I now read this at work. --- Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Try adding these two rules, let me know how that goes ipchains -A INPUT -i eth0 -j ACCEPT ipchains -A INPUT -i lo -s 127.0.0.0/8 -d 127.0.0.0/8 -j ACCEPT

RE: No ping at 127.0.0.1. Is that normal?

2002-04-18 Thread Brian
Did you try also ifconfig lo up, to see if you can bring the loopback up by hand? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kjetil Tjensvold Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 3:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: No ping at 127.0.0.1. Is that

Re: No ping at 127.0.0.1. Is that normal?

2002-04-18 Thread Thorsten Strusch
Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: --- Thorsten Strusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Hi Kjetil, please append your new messages at the end of the mail, it is more easy to read... Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: --- Thorsten Strusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: 17 Apr 2002,

Re: recover queue messages?

2002-04-18 Thread Thorsten Strusch
Lewi wrote: On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:00:46PM +0200, Thorsten Strusch wrote: Hi Lewi, Lewi wrote: I have a message queue with a large size, I send it to my friends' email at lycos, the problem is I see on my maillog message status is defer, how I can recover it from queue

Re: No modules loaded after recompiling rh 7.2

2002-04-18 Thread Thorsten Strusch
Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: uname -r gives 2.4.7-10 and that is correct. Also there is a dir /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/ did you run make modules modules_install again? Thorsten ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No ping at 127.0.0.1. Is that normal?

2002-04-18 Thread Kjetil Tjensvold
--- Thorsten Strusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: --- Thorsten Strusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Hi Kjetil, please append your new messages at the end of the mail, it is more easy to read... Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: --- Thorsten Strusch [EMAIL

RE: No ping at 127.0.0.1. Is that normal?

2002-04-18 Thread Kjetil Tjensvold
Yes I can bring it up by hand, but internet doesn't work. --- Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Did you try also ifconfig lo up, to see if you can bring the loopback up by hand? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kjetil Tjensvold

Re: No modules loaded after recompiling rh 7.2

2002-04-18 Thread Kjetil Tjensvold
--- Thorsten Strusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: uname -r gives 2.4.7-10 and that is correct. Also there is a dir /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/ did you run make modules modules_install again? Thorsten I only run make modules_install after running all the others

Re: No viewer for RPM files

2002-04-18 Thread José Romildo Malaquias
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:35:08PM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote: On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 10:42, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:09:04AM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I notice that on a Red Hat + GNOMEhide setup using

Re: Sendmail relay

2002-04-18 Thread Michael George
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:52:55AM -0400, Anthony E. Greene wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 08:44:06AM -0400, Michael George wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:07:41AM -0400, Devon Harding - GTHLA wrote: I have a little different question. I will have my server behind a firewall that will keep

Re: recover queue messages?

2002-04-18 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 04:49:40PM -0400, Lewi wrote: I have a message queue with a large size, I send it to my friends' email at lycos, the problem is I see on my maillog message status is defer, how I can recover it from queue and send it again

Re: No modules loaded after recompiling rh 7.2

2002-04-18 Thread Thorsten Strusch
Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: --- Thorsten Strusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: uname -r gives 2.4.7-10 and that is correct. Also there is a dir /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/ did you run make modules modules_install again? Thorsten I only run make modules_install

Re: No modules loaded after recompiling rh 7.2

2002-04-18 Thread Kjetil Tjensvold
--- Thorsten Strusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: --- Thorsten Strusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: uname -r gives 2.4.7-10 and that is correct. Also there is a dir /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/ did you run make modules

Re: programming question.

2002-04-18 Thread Bill Crawford
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Gregory Hosler wrote: On 17-Apr-02 Bill Crawford wrote: ... Unless the signal handler for SIGCHLD is set to SIG_IGN ... the code in question infact sets the signal handler to SIG_IGN, which is what is allowing the loss of the exit status when the fork/exec'd process

Re: No viewer for RPM files

2002-04-18 Thread Bill Crawford
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: $ rpm -q --changelog mc [...] * Fri Jan 25 2002 Havoc Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] - rebuild in rawhide - fix prefix/share - datadir - comment out gmc/mcserv subpackages, place order for asbestos suit Aaargh! I hate Nautilus and I

tcpdchk

2002-04-18 Thread Dan Horth
hi - I've been seeing a few references to this interesting program called tcpdchk - but can't find this anywhere in my RH 7.2 installation / install disks - is this something that should be available on RH 7.2 or will I need to install this myself from somewhere else? or has this program

Re: recover queue messages?

2002-04-18 Thread Mike Burger
What is the reason given for its deferral? Depending on how large the attachment is, your friend may not be able to receive it. It probably depends on the Lycos mail restrictions, and not your your mail server. Your mail server has accepted the message, and is trying to send it, but it's

Re: recover queue messages?

2002-04-18 Thread Mike Burger
In postfix, you need to add to the main.cf: transport_map = hash:/etc/postfix/transport_map In your /etc/postfix/transport_map file, you should have a line that reads like so: domain.of.recipient.comp smtp:mailserver.you.wish.to.relay.through Then, as root, run postmap

Re: recover queue messages?

2002-04-18 Thread Dan Horth
hi - I've had success with stopping sendmail (make sure you kill all running sendmail processes) then editing the queuefile in /var/spool/mqueue manually - you can find the message ID by using mailq, then just vi the file in /var/spool/mqueue starting with qf, with that ID in it. in there

mount windows shares on RH 7.2

2002-04-18 Thread BG
Hi All, It's been a couple of years since I tried to mount a windows share on a RH workstation using samba and I can't seem to locate my notes on the command format. Help please! TIA, Bill

Easy question

2002-04-18 Thread Al Adcock
OK: I'm running a RH server in the office, running samba. I have linux on my laptop. How do I mount the remote file system? I tried: mount filebox:/usr/local/home /remote, where filebox is the name of the file server. It returns permission denied. I looked through the mount MAN pages, but

Re: Easy question

2002-04-18 Thread Dan Horth
hi - I think you want smbmount, not mount - as it's a smb share you're mounting? either that or set up NFS properly... I've just gone through the HOWTO available at: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/ which helped in fixing an NFS problem that's been bugging me for a while... - dan. At

Re: mount windows shares on RH 7.2

2002-04-18 Thread Thorsten Strusch
Hi Bill, BG wrote: Hi All, It's been a couple of years since I tried to mount a windows share on a RH workstation using samba and I can't seem to locate my notes on the command format. mount -t smbfs -o username=Administrator,password=secret //windoze/C$ /mnt/smb regards Thorsten

Re: Easy question

2002-04-18 Thread Barry L. Kline
Al Adcock wrote: OK: I'm running a RH server in the office, running samba. I have linux on my laptop. How do I mount the remote file system? I tried: mount filebox:/usr/local/home /remote, where filebox is the name of the file server. It returns permission denied. I looked

X forwarding over SSH - DOG SLOW?

2002-04-18 Thread Sharkey, Scott
Hi all, I'm trying to use openssh X forwarding with RH7.2. Last time I did this, it worked like a charm, but now I'm finding with Openssh 3.x and RH 7.2 that the performance is DOG SLOW - like 5 minutes to open the program (I actually thought it wasn't working til I forgot to kill one, and it

Re: mount windows shares on RH 7.2

2002-04-18 Thread Barry L. Kline
BG wrote: Hi All, It's been a couple of years since I tried to mount a windows share on a RH workstation using samba and I can't seem to locate my notes on the command format. Help please! TIA, Bill mount -t smb -o user=xxx,(etc) //server/share /mount/point Barry

Re: Unidentified Network Traffic

2002-04-18 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:42:50AM +0200, Pieter De Wit wrote: Install and/or Run IPTRAF if you have it, otherwise use tcpdump and home in on the port/source ip. Then ask you ISP to block them I would not be surprised if you're getting hammered by port 80 traffic. Code Red and its ugly

Re: up2date is driving me mad!

2002-04-18 Thread Dan Horth
ok - strange things are afoot here... I've not done anything to try to remedy the problem since posting to the list- but am working on the servers here now and noticed the troublesome one go unresponsive / very slow - went and checked the console and saw that gpg was using 95% CPU (it's an old

RE: mount windows shares on RH 7.2

2002-04-18 Thread BG
Many thx! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Thorsten Strusch Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 7:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mount windows shares on RH 7.2 Hi Bill, BG wrote: Hi All, It's been a couple of

Re: No modules loaded after recompiling rh 7.2

2002-04-18 Thread Kjetil Tjensvold
--- Thorsten Strusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: --- Thorsten Strusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: uname -r gives 2.4.7-10 and that is correct. Also there is a dir /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/ did you run make modules

dhcpd is a bit limited...

2002-04-18 Thread Greg Conway
Hi all, Can anybody recommend an updated DHCP server for linux? The stock dhcpd is okay, but I was looking for something more sophisticated, that would let us... (b) enter reservations (a) delete leases if necessary! I am replacing a Win2K Server with a Linux one, and can't believe windoze

Re: tcpdchk

2002-04-18 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:13:59PM +1000, Dan Horth wrote: hi - I've been seeing a few references to this interesting program called tcpdchk - but can't find this anywhere in my RH 7.2 installation / install disks - is this something that should be available on RH 7.2 or will I need to

FAT32 support is still ALPHA

2002-04-18 Thread BG
Hi, I am running a RH 7.2 system with stock kernel. My FSTAB file mounts sdb1 at boot. I am getting the following message and booting stops until I press Ctrl +c: checking filesystems WARNING: FAT32 support is still ALPHA What's this all about and how do I stop it from haulting boot?

Re: up2date is driving me mad!

2002-04-18 Thread Dan Horth
sorry for that previous babble on up2date... there was indeed strange stuff afoot here... it seems that the up2date process that finally managed to update the server was actually started at: Tue Apr 16 20:03:27 2002 (I'm assuming - as that's what all the most recent log entries were tagged as

Multi-track audio recorder

2002-04-18 Thread BG
Hi, I am looking for a good multi-track audio recorder for my RH 7.2 workstation. Anyone know of one or more? Which is the best one? TIA, Bill

Re: X forwarding over SSH - DOG SLOW?

2002-04-18 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Sharkey, Scott wrote: I did this, it worked like a charm, but now I'm finding with Openssh 3.x and RH 7.2 that the performance is DOG SLOW - like Turn on and maximize compression. Check your link for packet loss. Are you using a bigger application? If none of this works

Re: dhcpd is a bit limited...

2002-04-18 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 4/18/2002 04:31 PM +0100, you wrote: Can anybody recommend an updated DHCP server for linux? Have you checked that you're using the latest version from the Red Hat updates site? The stock dhcpd is okay, but I was looking for something more sophisticated, that would let us... (b) enter

dnsbl

2002-04-18 Thread Jeff Graves
Does anyone on the list use dnsbl with sendmail? Is this a good idea to block spam? How do you go about doing it? (ie. should i pull mutliple zones from my nameserver and query my name server for spammers or should i just enter a seperate FEATURE line for each server in my sendmail.mc file) Any

Re: dhcpd is a bit limited...

2002-04-18 Thread Mike Burger
host hostname { hardware ethernet MAC address of card ; fixed-address static.ip.address.here; } Of course, do not put in the s. On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: At 4/18/2002 04:31 PM +0100, you wrote: Can anybody recommend an updated DHCP server for linux? Have you checked that

Re: up2date is driving me mad!

2002-04-18 Thread M.Schild
may be 'cos this machine is so slow the process was hanging on some inter-dependency checks - Happened to me today. 30 mn to check inter-dependencies then hung up! Gave up Maryse ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dhcpd is a bit limited...

2002-04-18 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 4/18/2002 12:44 PM -0400, you wrote: host hostname { hardware ethernet MAC address of card ; fixed-address static.ip.address.here; } Of course, do not put in the s. And note that the fixed addresses should not be inside the dynamically-assigned range to avoid duplication. That is, if you

Sound with alsa drivers on RH7.2

2002-04-18 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Hi, I am using RH7.2 with full erratas. Before I upgraded to the latest kernel and the bunch of packages including gcc I had no problem using the alsa drivers for an onboard sound card (Intel i850). Since I have upgrade the kernel yesterday, I have no sound. Of course, I have recompile the

Can parted do this?

2002-04-18 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
Hi! Repost due to lack of answers... My notebook currently has the following partitions: * 6.25GB NTFS-5 (Win2K) * 5.00GB FAT32 Can I use parted to shrink and move these partitions so that I can install RH7.2 on this machine? I'd like to end up with this for dual-booting: * 30MB ext3

Re: dhcpd is a bit limited...

2002-04-18 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Conway wrote: (a) delete leases if necessary! What do you mean by ``delete leases''? - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with

Re: Message for telnet clients

2002-04-18 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Crawford wrote: Note that /etc/issue.net is *not* issued for ssh connections at least for openssh-3.1p1-2. It can if you want it to. See the Banner directive for sshd. Thanks for the note about the status of /etc/issue*; I didn't

Re: Can parted do this?

2002-04-18 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:43:05AM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: [snip] Can I use parted to shrink and move these partitions so that I can install RH7.2 on this machine? I'd like to end up with this for dual-booting: [snip] See

Monitoring SCSI/IDE bus utilization

2002-04-18 Thread Ken Kirchner
Does anyone know how I could monitor the utilization of the SCSI or IDE bus? I know vmstat can show some information, but that seems to group all block level devices into one figure, which would be fine as long as I wasnt using more than one controller in the machine. If I am using both SCSI

Re: RE : window manager choice ???

2002-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Apr 17, 2002, 09:12 (-0500) Fred Dech wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 05:17:50PM -0700, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: --- Fred Dech wrote: http://www.fvwm.org/ read FAQ and README's in spare time i guess they don't come as RPMs, so you'd want to do a tar-ball

xinetd FAIL

2002-04-18 Thread Patrick Nelson
RH72 UTD (up to date) I'm starting to get sgi_fam xinetd errors on one of my RH72UTD systems. Yep just one all others are the exact same config and have the exact same rpm's installed. I had previously had sgi_fam errors but was able to correct them with adding the following entry to

Re: X forwarding over SSH - DOG SLOW?

2002-04-18 Thread Dave Reed
From: Todd A. Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Sharkey, Scott wrote: I did this, it worked like a charm, but now I'm finding with Openssh 3.x and RH 7.2 that the performance is DOG SLOW - like Turn on and maximize compression. Check your link for packet loss. Are you

Re: dnsbl

2002-04-18 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Jeff Graves wrote: Does anyone on the list use dnsbl with sendmail? Is this a good idea to block spam? How do you go about doing it? (ie. should i pull mutliple zones from my nameserver and query my name server for spammers or should i just enter a seperate FEATURE line

Keyboard configuration...

2002-04-18 Thread Marcelo Pavez A.
Hi friends, I have a problem with the configuration of my keyboard. In the Alt FX terminal, my key configuration is in spanish; in my xfce gnome-terminal, my key configuration is in english. Do i how configure only spanish keyboard? I run RH7.2, xfce-3.8.0-2... sorry my bad english, thanks

Re: Unidentified Network Traffic

2002-04-18 Thread Gary
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 10:02:39AM -0500 or thereabouts, Ed Wilts wrote: I would not be surprised if you're getting hammered by port 80 traffic. Code Red and its ugly friends are still out there, merrilly trying to infect every server they can find. I can definitely attest to that. Had

RE: No ping at 127.0.0.1. Is that normal?

2002-04-18 Thread Kjetil Tjensvold
I have tried it. It didnt work. Ok I'll try it when I come home from my work, because I now read this at work. --- Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Try adding these two rules, let me know how that goes ipchains -A INPUT -i eth0 -j ACCEPT ipchains -A INPUT -i lo -s 127.0.0.0/8 -d

RE: dnsbl

2002-04-18 Thread Jeff Graves
Well, I guess my question should be... In your experience, does it have any value (ie. is it worth the bandwith to do the checks because it actually reduces your spam intake), or do you find that too many customers are calling you saying they are getting denied while trying to send email to your

Files Required to Run Up2date?

2002-04-18 Thread Eric Robinson
On my RH 7.2 system, typing: up2date -u ...produces the following error messages: Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... There was a package dependency problem. The message was: A package providing librpmio-4.0.3.so could not be found. A

Re: No viewer for RPM files

2002-04-18 Thread Havoc Pennington
Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What exactly is missing? It can't be the actual package handlers because they're in /usr/lib/vfs/extfs, as far as I can tell... Well you'd need a gnome-vfs module that understands how to use those handlers, at minimum. Havoc

Re: up2date is driving me mad!

2002-04-18 Thread Paul F. Williams
There are a couple of things that come to mind. (Not specifically in any order) 1. remove and reinstall up2date 2. remove the entry at redhat and reinstall 3. Try rpm --rebuilddb 4. Are you running this at the main computer or via a xsession. Double check the setting on the

Re: No viewer for RPM files

2002-04-18 Thread Toralf Lund
On 18/04 2002 16:05 Havoc Pennington wrote: Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What exactly is missing? It can't be the actual package handlers because they're in /usr/lib/vfs/extfs, as far as I can tell... Well you'd need a gnome-vfs module that understands how to use those

Re: No viewer for RPM files

2002-04-18 Thread Havoc Pennington
Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 18/04 2002 16:05 Havoc Pennington wrote: Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What exactly is missing? It can't be the actual package handlers because they're in /usr/lib/vfs/extfs, as far as I can tell... Well you'd need a gnome-vfs module

Re: No viewer for RPM files

2002-04-18 Thread Anders Carlsson
On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 17:49, Havoc Pennington wrote: Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 18/04 2002 16:05 Havoc Pennington wrote: Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What exactly is missing? It can't be the actual package handlers because they're in /usr/lib/vfs/extfs, as

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