BIOS information from Linux

2002-08-02 Thread Akhter, Shameem F
Hi, I am trying to find all the attributes/options of BIOS from Linux and preferably through some text file format. Is there any direction anybody can provide or direct me to a good web link from where I can get these information. Actually, I am looking for some sort of laundry list of files in

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-routes

2002-08-02 Thread Tony Nugent
When redhat said that it was now using /sbin/ip for doing the network configuration, I was suprised that ifup-routes was not using it too. For some time now I have been using some modest changes to one of the default redhat network configuration scripts that have been working wonderfully well

Re: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-routes

2002-08-02 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Tony Nugent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When redhat said that it was now using /sbin/ip for doing the network configuration, I was suprised that ifup-routes was not using it too. Please file this in bugzilla, against initscripts. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.

Urgent help req

2002-08-02 Thread Ashwin Khandare
Dear Sir, Does anyone knows about any script/tool that can convert tar.gz files into rpms? Thanks in advance Thanks Warm Regards===Ashwin KhandareEngineerWestern Outdoor Interactive ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system

Replacing software RAID drives

2002-08-02 Thread Ulrik Witschass
I recently set up a Linux file server, with a software RAID which mirrors two 80 gig drives, the home drives get tarred onto different tapes during night. So a rather save fileserver/backup solution. I thought. I am using two IDE IBM Deskstar 80 gig drives. One of the two drives came already

Re: Replacing software RAID drives

2002-08-02 Thread Aly Dharshi
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1-raid-approaches.html doesn't reveal too much but from what they say it would imply that they may be able to to what you say as hardware raid does. I would think that newfs'ing the drive may work followed by stoping the

Checking internet status automatically

2002-08-02 Thread Rai Ou
Title: Checking internet status automatically My internet connection always down after some hours. ( It is a provider ). So I want to write a script or program like this: checking the internet connection; if not connect { re-connect to my provider; } else { do nothing; } I want to set

Re: ifcfg-lo

2002-08-02 Thread Daniel Tan
yesthe problem is solvedfor those who experienced this kinda problem...follow the steps below to rectify your loopback device...my server was running fine all along until one day it suddenly starts getting the neighbour table overflow error and even after restart the problem exists and

Re: Checking internet status automatically

2002-08-02 Thread Nick Lindsell
At 18:24 02/08/2002 +0900, you wrote: My internet connection always down after some hours. ( It is a provider ). So I want to write a script or program like this: checking the internet connection; if not connect { re-connect to my provider; } else { do nothing; } I want to set it to

Re: Urgent help req

2002-08-02 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:30:56 +0530 Ashwin Khandare [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: Dear Sir, Does anyone knows about any script/tool that can convert tar.gz files into rpms? Untar cd to the new directory ./configure make su password checkinstall I

RE: About the current apache vulnerability

2002-08-02 Thread suresh
Hi I tried that and i found that installing a redhat 7.3 would be MUCH EASIER !!! Any thing to say about that ? Thanx Suresh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Death Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 2:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: About the current apache vulnerability

2002-08-02 Thread Banze, Andreas
I tried that and i found that installing a redhat 7.3 would be MUCH EASIER !!! Any thing to say about that ? wouldn't change anything if you bought it, because the cd's contain the buggy version - you need to use up2date or update the rpms yourself to be sure to have the recent version.

Error while installing Unable to re-read partition

2002-08-02 Thread Rahul Torvi
Hi All, I tried installing RH 7.3 on my machine Configuration as follows : - Pentium IV 2.2 Ghz 120 GB HDD 1GB DDRAM But after doing all the partitions and selecting the packages when the installer begins to install It suddenly gives me an error "Unable to re-read partition from

Re: Error while installing Unable to re-read partition

2002-08-02 Thread Jim Bija
I dont see a partition for swap space which is needed by linux to work. I think you should use 2 times the ammount of ram you have. Allthough you have 1 gig of ram and 2 gigs of swap may be WAY too much. Chime in on this one guys, im fuzzy. Is it 2x your ram PERIOD. or what... By the way, look

kernel: Out of memory: killed process

2002-08-02 Thread werner maes
Hello, I'm trying to add an ldif to my ldap database using slapadd. (RH 7.2 openldap 2.0.21). slapadd -l /tmp/ldif == works for a while but then terminates. Then ldif file is 40 Mb large. If I look at the log file I see this in /var/log/messages: kernel: Out of memory: killed process 11850

Re: Java problems on Redhat 7.2

2002-08-02 Thread James Pifer
I appreciate the answers so far, but no one has really answered the question. How does java find the ext directory? Does it find it through relative paths, depend on an environment variable(like JAVA_HOME), or something else? Thanks, James On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 00:19, Omer van der Horst Jansen

MySQL problem : Access denied

2002-08-02 Thread cana rich
Hello, I am using MySQL on REDHAT7.2. When i tried to connect to the database, i have a denied access. Is someone can tell me what happen and how to resolv this problem? Thanks for your help. Canarich ___ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une

RE: Error while installing Unable to re-read partition

2002-08-02 Thread Rahul Torvi
Thanks Jim, i even tried with that and there was no change in the error.But as far as i know ...its not mandatory to create swap partition if i have above 512 MB RAM. Is it??? Rahul T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Bija

Installing Redhat distribution from CD

2002-08-02 Thread David Schulberg
Hi Redhat Gurus, I have installed the Redhat 7.2 Linux associated with Clark Connect and would now like to install the rest of the packages that come with the 7.2 distribution. Principally I am interested in Nautilus, Gnome etc I am unsure of what approach to take. If I run rpm and

Re: Oracle Installation Fails (SOLVED)

2002-08-02 Thread Peter Peltonen
The problem was solved. It seems that it was either the Dell hardware monitoring software or Red Hat's own snmpd which was screwing up the Agent installation. Shutting those services, rebooting the machine and doing a clean install got me a working server :) Cheers, Peter On Thu, 2002-08-01

Re: kernel: Out of memory: killed process

2002-08-02 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 01:48:28PM +0200, werner maes wrote: slapadd -l /tmp/ldif == works for a while but then terminates. Then ldif file is 40 Mb large. How can I solve this problem? Is this a virtual memory related problem? Any ideas? Can you split the ldif file into several? I doubt

Re: Error while installing Unable to re-read partition

2002-08-02 Thread Nick Lindsell
At 07:35 02/08/2002 -0400, you wrote: I dont see a partition for swap space which is needed by linux to work. I think you should use 2 times the ammount of ram you have. Allthough you have 1 gig of ram and 2 gigs of swap may be WAY too much. Chime in on this one guys, im fuzzy. Is it 2x your ram

[SOLVED] Compiling mrtg with gcc

2002-08-02 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 11:13:13AM +0200, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 ) works... no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables. error: Bad exit status from

GUI Front-End for IPTables

2002-08-02 Thread harish . k
Hi list... Which is the best GUI front-end software for IPTables? I googled and got quite a few matches. Rgds -- Harish K Systems Engineer LT Infotech Ltd +91-22-6948065 - Voice +91-22-8581615 - Fax - Multitasking: Screwing up several things at

Crash recovery tool

2002-08-02 Thread shyam
hi friends can anybody suggest me a Crash Recovery tool (RPM) shyamGive your Company an email address like ravi @ ravi-exports.com. Sign up for Rediffmail Pro today! Know more. http://www.rediffmailpro.com/signup/ -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Urgent help req

2002-08-02 Thread Kent Borg
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 01:30:56PM +0530, Ashwin Khandare wrote: Does anyone knows about any script/tool that can convert tar.gz files into rpms? There are certainly tools to help one create rpm files (such as rpm itself), but there isn't going to be a simple universal converter because rpm

Re: Crash recovery tool

2002-08-02 Thread Aly Dharshi
Sorry about sounding daft what exactly would like this tool to do ? :) Aly. -- Aly Dharshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator ORS Servers A good speech is like a good dress that's short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover the subject --

Re: Urgent help req

2002-08-02 Thread Aly Dharshi
Hi, I guess it would be easier to think of a tar.gz file as a compressed zip file in windows while an rpm as a more complex installing .exe file on windows but the rpm is for Linux. Cheers, Aly. Kent Borg wrote: On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 01:30:56PM +0530,

Re: Installing Redhat distribution from CD

2002-08-02 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi David, First, **please** turn off html formatting in your email. Now to your question, rpm has a built-in checker that will check to see if you need to install other packages in order to install the one you want. this is called dependency checking, and it happens automatically. Sooo, if you

i'm not crazy

2002-08-02 Thread Matthew Boeckman
I have a _very_ unusual problem that I cannot figure out. Here's the setup: server, running default install of 7.3 server version with wu-ftpd-2.6.1-16. client is a win98 box, using a variety of FTP clients. When transferring files, across a 100Mbit network (100TX negotiation confirmed at

Re: rpm --checksig Broken

2002-08-02 Thread rruth
Byte 0x46 is an arbitrary byte I chose. I thought that rpm's --checksig ran md5sum and gpg on the entire rpm file except the embedded signatures) but that doesn't seem to be the case, else rpm --checksig would have 'seen' the change. Richard The rpm --checksig verification function

Fwd: Re: Crash recovery tool

2002-08-02 Thread shyam
actually one of my system's hard disk running RH7.2 crashed so i am serching a good tool to recover data Note: Forwarded message attached -- Orignal Message -- From: Aly Dharshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Crash recovery tool

Linux Kill Netware

2002-08-02 Thread Flávio
Dear List I had a Netware Small Business Server on my net without problems, until introduce a Red Hat Linux 7.3 with Squid, Apache, IMAP, POP and InterScan antivirus in my Net. My NetWare clients every day loose connection with Netware server. When we halt Linux, my clients stay ok.

Re: Linux Kill Netware

2002-08-02 Thread Aly Dharshi
You may want to check out your squid settings to see if there are any fishy rules in there, when it does proxy functions it also acts as pseudo-firewall so to speak. Also the IPX protocol is quite noisy are they on the same switch or hub or something like that. I know that putting them on a

RE: Linux Kill Netware

2002-08-02 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
could it be an ip address conflict? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Flávio Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 9:05 AM To: Redhat-List Subject: Linux Kill Netware Dear List I had a Netware Small Business Server on my net without problems,

RE: Where's the panel gone user permissions?

2002-08-02 Thread Nigel Jackson
Thanks Tony N -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anthony E. Greene Sent: 01 August 2002 11:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Where's the panel gone user permissions? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01-Aug-2002/10:09

Re: Linux Kill Netware

2002-08-02 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
Do you use your linux as a client to connect to the netware server? If yes, do you use ipxutils and ncpfs packages? the reason I asked, is because I used to use those to connect my linux box as client to netware setup. I remember that some configuration causes the linux box misbehave and flood

Re: i'm not crazy

2002-08-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 10:21:22AM -0500, Matthew Boeckman wrote: You sure you aren't crazy? :-) server, running default install of 7.3 server version with wu-ftpd-2.6.1-16. client is a win98 box, using a variety of FTP clients. Let's start by eliminating a few things. Start by not

re: mysql problem : access denied

2002-08-02 Thread daniel
we're needing more info here are you connecting as root or as a user? is mysql running? mysqladmin version will tell you if it is or not if the server's running, is it rejecting your password? if you can't connect as root, you can change your password with: # mysqladmin password newpassword

Cron Security

2002-08-02 Thread Trinity
Hello everyone: I just have a quit Q, it is safe to have all the scripts in the cron.* directories set to a rwx-r-x-r-x premision? or I have to set them to 700 ? tanks! -- Trinity Alexadra -- -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

RES: Linux Kill Netware

2002-08-02 Thread Flávio
Dear List Linux is a Gateway and Netware only talks IPX. My squid rules are http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager # Deny requests to unknown ports http_access deny !Safe_ports # Deny CONNECT to other than SSL ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports acl rede src

Re: two disks to one volume

2002-08-02 Thread Jeff Bearer
Keep in mind if one disk fails, you loose all the data. On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 13:36, Javier Gostling wrote: On 2002.08.01 13:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I would like to have 2 additional disks 20G each to become one volume 40G and mount it as /backup How can I do it? You

RE: Which tool to interface MySQL and Windows client

2002-08-02 Thread Jeff Bearer
A good tool is phpmyadmin, it's web based, so you can use it from any platform. http://phpwizard.net/projects/phpMyAdmin/ On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 12:49, Gordon McDowall wrote: This also works very well http://www.dbtools.com.br/EN/ -Original Message- From: Leonard den Ottolander

Re: configuration of netscape 4.75 in rh7

2002-08-02 Thread Jeff Bearer
You will want to look into running mozilla and twm in Kiosk Mode: http://kiosk.mozdev.org/ That page tells you how to install and setup a modified version of TWM that lets it behave more like a kiosk plus it has XUL stuff to change all the buttons on the navbar in mozilla to do just what you

Re: i'm not crazy

2002-08-02 Thread Matthew Boeckman
You sure you aren't crazy? :-) i knew, as soon as I decided to post this, that that would be the general consensus. server, running default install of 7.3 server version with wu-ftpd-2.6.1-16. client is a win98 box, using a variety of FTP clients. Let's start by eliminating a

Add win2k to existing RH install

2002-08-02 Thread James Pifer
I have a Redhat 7.2 machine with a 30gig drive and a 100gig drive setup on mount mount /disk2.I'd like to create a small partition to run Windows 2000 for DirectX games, but obviously don't want to mess anything up on my current system. I can use a partition manager to resize and create a small

Rebuilding Samba 2.2.5-7 SRPMS in RedHat 7.0

2002-08-02 Thread Trevor
I would like to know the best way to update packages for an old RH7 server. Currently, I am only interested in rebuilding the Samba 2.2.5-7 package to work with on my server. I downloaded the Samba 2.2.5-7 SRPM file from RawHide. When I did a rpm --rebuild samba-2.2.5-7.src.rpm, it told me

Does anyone has problem with ghostview in 7.3?

2002-08-02 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
Hi, I am just wondering if anyone has problem with ghostview for viewing ps/pdf files in Redhat 7.3. In my machine, text in ps document is not displayed correctly in ghostview. It just gives some garble fuzzie lines. Here is a screesshoot http://www.goshen.edu/~reubendb/temp/snapshot1.png

Re[2]: i'm not crazy

2002-08-02 Thread Brian Ashe
Hello Matthew, Friday, August 2, 2002, 1:02:02 PM, you textually orated: server, running default install of 7.3 server version with wu-ftpd-2.6.1-16. client is a win98 box, using a variety of FTP clients. Let's start by eliminating a few things. Start by not using your win98 client, but

Re: rpm --checksig Broken

2002-08-02 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Richard, I thought that rpm's --checksig ran md5sum and gpg on the entire rpm file except the embedded signatures) but that doesn't seem to be the case, else rpm --checksig would have 'seen' the change. The header is not included in the file length tag, so I presume it also isn't

Re: Add win2k to existing RH install

2002-08-02 Thread Samuel Flory
On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 10:20, James Pifer wrote: I have a Redhat 7.2 machine with a 30gig drive and a 100gig drive setup on mount mount /disk2.I'd like to create a small partition to run Windows 2000 for DirectX games, but obviously don't want to mess anything up on my current system. I can

Re: i'm not crazy

2002-08-02 Thread Matthew Boeckman
Just a guess, but perhaps you have an IRQ sharing issue. IRQ sharing can have all kinds of strange effects. wouldn't i have seen some *mention* of that in dmesg or /var/log/message ? I assume that I would... but. Have fun, -- Matthew Boeckman(816) 777-2160

How can I find the RPM that created the link?

2002-08-02 Thread Werner Puschitz
How can I find out which RPM created the link for example /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 ? # ls -l /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 30 May 13 17:57 /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 - libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so # rpm -qf

RE: Linux Kill Netware

2002-08-02 Thread Ezra Nugroho
run ifconfig as root and see what ipx interfaces are installed. You would probably have several of them, like 802.2, 802.3, etc. most ipx network would run only one of them, usually 802.3. so you would have to specify to ipx tools what kind of interface you want to use. first, make sure that

Re: Does anyone has problem with ghostview in 7.3?

2002-08-02 Thread John P Verel
On 08/02/02 13:43 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: Hi, I am just wondering if anyone has problem with ghostview for viewing ps/pdf files in Redhat 7.3. No. What version gv are you using? I'm on 3.5.8. John -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

JNDI portability...

2002-08-02 Thread Arthur Chan
Hi ! I am creating DataSources for Ora ConnectionPools (JAVA servlets) and it seems I need to create a "context object" first.LDAP was mentioned and appealed to me.Reading up on Oracle, JNDI was explicitly recommended.Also, JNDI seems to be used only on J2EE, but I have J2SDK standard

Brother printer

2002-08-02 Thread Nigel Jackson
Hi, I've tried to install my Brother HL1050 under rh7.3, but failed! There's a PS driver in rh for the printer, which isn't a PS printer...whenever I try to print (even an ascii text test page), I get about 8 page out with 1 line on page 1 and a few characters on each of the rest. Can anyone

Re: Brother printer

2002-08-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 07:36:47PM +0100, Nigel Jackson wrote: I've tried to install my Brother HL1050 under rh7.3, but failed! http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=63456 -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador

up2date masquerade

2002-08-02 Thread João Borsoi Soares
I'm having troubles to use rhn_register and up2date behind an iptables masquerade firewall. I'm receiving SSL connect errors. But I can normally log to SSL servers with the browser. Can anyone help me? Is it possible to use it like that? Thanks, Joao.

crontab

2002-08-02 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
How does one schedule a crontab to run the last day of the month? Considering that each month is different, one can't use '30' or '31' (or 28/29), so...what to use? -- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere.

convert existing ext2 partition to ext3

2002-08-02 Thread dogface
Hello, how can i convert an existing ext2 partition to ext3 without loosing any information? in using 7.3, the old partitions are from a 6.2 machine. TIA eric -- every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around. -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Does anyone has problem with ghostview in 7.3?

2002-08-02 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
On Friday 02 August 2002 02:26 pm, John P Verel wrote: On 08/02/02 13:43 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: Hi, I am just wondering if anyone has problem with ghostview for viewing ps/pdf files in Redhat 7.3. No. What version gv are you using? I'm on 3.5.8. The one that comes with RH

Re: crontab

2002-08-02 Thread Saul Arias
On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 14:57, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: How does one schedule a crontab to run the last day of the month? Considering that each month is different, one can't use '30' or '31' (or 28/29), so...what to use? I don't know, but I use this in a script to do different things if

Re: How can I find the RPM that created the link?

2002-08-02 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Werner, How can I find out which RPM created the link for example /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 ? I think you are better of asking this kind of questions on the rpm-list. Did you check the archive for the existence of the link? Browse with the midnight commander, or rpm2cpio the

Re: i'm not crazy

2002-08-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Matthew Boeckman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a guess, but perhaps you have an IRQ sharing issue. IRQ sharing can have all kinds of strange effects. wouldn't i have seen some *mention* of that in dmesg or /var/log/message ? I assume that I would... but. I have one irq shared by two

RE: MySQL problem : Access denied

2002-08-02 Thread David Kramer
Have you been able to login before? Is this just after an install? What is the Access Denied Error that you are receiving, Password NO or Password Yes??? If you provide more info I might be able to help... DK -Original Message- From: cana rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday,

Re: crontab

2002-08-02 Thread Johannes Franken
* Ashley M. Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-08-02 20:57 +0200]: How does one schedule a crontab to run the last day of the month? have cron call »remind«, which can do *any* calendar calculation for you (e.g. is it sunday after the first full moon in spring) and call external programs. In

Re: i'm not crazy

2002-08-02 Thread Matthew Boeckman
i guess i would assume that an IRQ sharing conflict would exhibit the opposite behavior: that the NIC would slow down when the CDROM was being used. Either way, it's easy enough for me to reassign the NIC, i'll give it a try. Harry Putnam wrote: Matthew Boeckman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Re: Does anyone has problem with ghostview in 7.3?

2002-08-02 Thread John P Verel
On 08/02/02 15:29 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: The one that comes with RH 7.3 CDs is gv-3.5.8-15.i386.rpm This one gave me trouble. That's what I'm using with no problems. Sorry, no insight from me on this one. Was your 7.3 install from CD's you burned? Did you do a checksum on the

Re: Where's the panel gone user permissions?

2002-08-02 Thread John P Verel
On 01-Aug-2002/10:09 +0100, Nigel Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I log in as a normal user and startx, I see the gnome interface with panel, but when logging in as root, the panel is missing...can I please ask... I've also observed this behavior as a result of temp files that didn't

Re: convert existing ext2 partition to ext3

2002-08-02 Thread Johannes Franken
* dogface [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-08-02 21:07 +0200]: how can i convert an existing ext2 partition to ext3 without loosing any information? 1. have a kernel with ext3 support built in 3. tune2fs -j /dev/hda1 2. in /etc/fstab, replace ext2 with ext3 4. remount or reboot -- Johannes Franken

Re: Urgent help req

2002-08-02 Thread Bret Hughes
On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 03:00, Ashwin Khandare wrote: Dear Sir, Does anyone knows about any script/tool that can convert tar.gz files into rpms? Depends. if the tarball has a spec file in it rpm will do it: from the rpm man page: The argument used is -b if a spec file is being used to build

Re: crontab

2002-08-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 12:57:14PM -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: How does one schedule a crontab to run the last day of the month? Considering that each month is different, one can't use '30' or '31' (or 28/29), so...what to use? Untested...I did a google search for crontab last day

RE: Brother printer

2002-08-02 Thread Nigel Jackson
Thanks Ed, but... I'm new to Linux (1 week!), and have no idea what I should do with the patched gs file I've just downloaded (gnu-gs-6.51-hl1250-patch-0.4.gz) :-) What has the print driver got to do with GS (I know, this is probably a daft question to you guys, but I have no idea!). How do I

Re: Does anyone has problem with ghostview in 7.3?

2002-08-02 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
On Friday 02 August 2002 03:54 pm, John P Verel wrote: On 08/02/02 15:29 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: The one that comes with RH 7.3 CDs is gv-3.5.8-15.i386.rpm This one gave me trouble. That's what I'm using with no problems. Sorry, no insight from me on this one. Was your 7.3

Re: Java problems on Redhat 7.2

2002-08-02 Thread Bret Hughes
On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 06:54, James Pifer wrote: I appreciate the answers so far, but no one has really answered the question. How does java find the ext directory? Does it find it through relative paths, depend on an environment variable(like JAVA_HOME), or something else? Thanks, James

Re: Linux Kill Netware

2002-08-02 Thread Fernando Lozano
Hi Flávio, I had a Netware Small Business Server on my net without problems, until introduce a Red Hat Linux 7.3 with Squid, Apache, IMAP, POP and InterScan antivirus in my Net. My NetWare clients every day loose connection with Netware server. When we halt Linux, my clients stay ok. There

Network Interface Settings

2002-08-02 Thread Scott D. Linden
Title: Network Interface Settings Is there a way to force the Ethernet interfaces to 100MB Full Duplex at boot time or is the only option the mii-tool? Scott Linden [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rpm --checksig Broken

2002-08-02 Thread rruth
Leonard, Thanks for the url. It looks like I made a change in the Lead which, accroding to 'Maximum RPM' isn't used for much ... Thanks again Richard == Hi Richard, I thought that rpm's --checksig ran md5sum and gpg on the entire rpm file except the embedded signatures) but that

Problem with Gnome recognizing default local host when starting as user in korn

2002-08-02 Thread stuart w
Hi, I am running redhat 7.3. my localhost is the default that came with the install (ie file contents of /etc/hosts is : 127.0.0.1localhost.localdomain localhost) When I am a SU, i can ping my localhost successfully and when i bring up gnome(startx) the localhost is read properly

RE: editing an existing iso image

2002-08-02 Thread Rokicki, Andrew
Try this. I think this will work somebody please correct me if I am wrong. mount -o loop /tmp/bootcd.iso /mnt On Tuesday, July 30, 2002 10:58 PM, Chad Skinner [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I have a bootable iso image that have been asked to add an additional file to. I can not remember how

Re[2]: mail server from source saga continues....

2002-08-02 Thread Ray Abbitt
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Brian Ashe wrote: Hello Aly, Tuesday, July 30, 2002, 9:16:11 PM, you textually orated: snip OK. This message is just filled with misstatements, opinions and factual errors. Let's clarify things... I'm glad you jumped in before I did. I might have had to show him

running iptables when cablemodem reissues ip

2002-08-02 Thread Hyung Kim
Hello, I just started using cablemodem with my linux box. I configured iptables as my firewall. I want iptables to restart everytime my isp reissues a new ip address. My linux box is a gateway for my LAN. Thanks for any guidance on this. Hyung

USB mouse on Sony Vaio laptop

2002-08-02 Thread Pablo Ferro
I am having troubles trying to get a USB mouse work. I am running Red Hat Linux 7.3 on a Sony Vaio PCG-FX220. USB didn't work but I managed to recompile the kernel and USB seems to be working fine. I had to patch pci-irq.c (thanks to www.pm.waw.pl/~jslupski/vaio/) When I boot I noticed that the

Unaccounted space usage

2002-08-02 Thread Sudhaker P
Hi All, I'm facing a weird issue with space of my RH Linux 6.2 machine. When I type in df -k : I have the following details $ df -k Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 1035660211928771124 22% / /dev/sda6 1035660

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2002-08-02 Thread Welly . Sunarko
Hi, I just would like to find out if Redhat linux professional 7.3 include Korn shell? Thank you Welly Sunarko Sybase, Sydney -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

DHCP Timeout

2002-08-02 Thread Rob Jen
I would like to change my DHCP timeout from the default 2 min to more like 20 sec as when booting off the network is too slow. Can anybody help me on how to edit the ifup file to do this? Thanks, Rob

Re: convert existing ext2 partition to ext3

2002-08-02 Thread Hidong Kim
No prob. dogface wrote: thank you! -- every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around. - Original Message - From: Hidong Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 2:29 PM Subject: Re: convert existing

Re: mail server from source saga continues....

2002-08-02 Thread Spam Filter
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Re: convert existing ext2 partition to ext3

2002-08-02 Thread Hidong Kim
Yes, you can. $ tune2fs -j /dev/hdaX (creates journal) # tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/hdaX (turnes auto-fsck'n off) then modify the extry in your /etc/fstab from ext2 to ext3. Run lilo if you've journaled the root filesystem and reboot... Good luck, Hidong dogface

Re: convert existing ext2 partition to ext3

2002-08-02 Thread Samuel Flory
If you are doing an upgrade you can have the installer do it for you. On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 12:56, Johannes Franken wrote: * dogface [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-08-02 21:07 +0200]: how can i convert an existing ext2 partition to ext3 without loosing any information? 1. have a kernel with

Re: Fwd: Re: Crash recovery tool

2002-08-02 Thread Aly Dharshi
I doubt that there is such a tool. In any case backing up the system is your best bet. -- Aly Dharshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator ORS Servers A good speech is like a good dress that's short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover the subject --

Re: Unaccounted space usage

2002-08-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 21:07, Sudhaker P wrote: When I type in df -k : ... /dev/sda7 521748430128 65116 87% /var ... $ du -sk /var 13112 /var Is there is any reason which you gurus think that there is such a disparity in the information. Maybe you deleted some

Re: korn shell

2002-08-02 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 05:45:29PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just would like to find out if Redhat linux professional 7.3 include Korn shell? Don't know, but you can get ksh93 from the Polish Linux Distribution (PLD). See rpmfind.net. In order to build it, you will need to

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2002-08-02 Thread Sam Ockman
It includes the public domain clone of the Korn shell (pdksh). It's on cd 3 of the main red hat cds. By the way, if you've never tried zsh, I would highly recommend it. -Sam On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 05:45:29PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just would like to find out if Redhat linux

Re: Tape Backup

2002-08-02 Thread Carl Riches
On 30 Jul 2002, Salvador Diaz wrote: i have a Tape Backup Scsi from Archive model Python 04106-XXX Rev 7550 but i can't mount the device. i can see from genome in /dev/st0 but does not appear in fstab file. What i have to do for mount the device and anybody knows about any software for

Re: up2date masquerade

2002-08-02 Thread Mike Burger
The first question I'd have is Can you connect if you aren't using SSL for rhn_register or up2date? On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, João Borsoi Soares wrote: I'm having troubles to use rhn_register and up2date behind an iptables masquerade firewall. I'm receiving SSL connect errors. But I can normally

Re: Tape Backup

2002-08-02 Thread Mike Burger
In most cases, you can't mount a tape device like a file system. You can access it via tar, cpio, dump...various other archiving and backup/restore packages. On 30 Jul 2002, Salvador Diaz wrote: i have a Tape Backup Scsi from Archive model Python 04106-XXX Rev 7550 but i can't mount the

Re: running iptables when cablemodem reissues ip

2002-08-02 Thread Mike Burger
You don't need to have iptables restart every time your IP changes. As long as you don't specifically reference your external IP address in your firewall settings, but your external ethernet interface, you should be fine. Ie, I'm running on a cablemodem, at the moment, with an IPtables

RE: editing an existing iso image

2002-08-02 Thread Kevin Krieser
Iso images aren't editable. I would think that you would have to hope that the previous image was done allowing multisession. The other possibility, if you knew what options were used previously, would be to just extract the files into a directory, add your file, then use the mkisofs options to

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