Recompiling the 2.4.18-3 RedHat kernel.

2002-09-19 Thread Trevor Fraser
Hello all. I sent a message a week or so ago asking for assistance. Thank you to all who gave advise, and to those who considered it. I did try all the angles advised, but still there is a problem. I then tried following the Red Hat RH300 training manual, but still no success. I am

RE: Program compile/install problem

2002-09-19 Thread Trevor
Yes, you need ncurses and ncurses-devel. It's on your RedHat CDROM. Trevor www.gnuguy.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Patrick Beart Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 5:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Program

Re: Trouble booting new hard drive

2002-09-19 Thread Edward Dekkers
I recently got a Maxtor D740X-SL 80 GB hard drive. I installed in properly, or so I think. After installing the drive I booted up my PC and it gave me the following message: PXE-E61 - Media test failure, check cable. I think it is referring to the cable connecting the hard drive to the

Re: Program compile/install problem

2002-09-19 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 19 September 2002 06:54 pm, Patrick Beart wrote: Folks: I'm trying to install a program from it's tarball (rather than an RPM), and I'm having some trouble ... The file un-tars fine. The cd to the newly created

Re: ntfs support

2002-09-19 Thread Edward Dekkers
can anybody give me step by step instruction to up date my kernel to support NTFS any help is precious shyam You can't just update your kernel AFAIK, you have to completely re-compile it to support NTFS. Look on the Linux Documentation Project for instructions on how to do this.

Install failure [WAS Re: script for ftp transfer]

2002-09-19 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 19 September 2002 04:14 pm, Siegert, Greg wrote: Perhaps you can help me. I'm installing RED Hat v7.3 from CD Rom. The boot process stalls after Partition Check: hba: I was able to get around this before by entering something on

Re: RH 7.0 kernel upgrade - advice please

2002-09-19 Thread Edward Dekkers
Hi Irvine. Do you know how to compile a new kernel? There's a how-to on the Linux Documentation Project on how to do this. Regards, Ed. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: DHCP with Dynamic DNS

2002-09-19 Thread Edward Dekkers
We have a dynamic DNS server on campus, and have both Windows and Linux clients on the network. The Windows clients are configured to use DHCP, and they register their computer names in the dynamic DNS server when they attach. I can get the Linux clients to get an IP from the DHCP server, but

Re: Can't ssh using webmin

2002-09-19 Thread Edward Dekkers
On Webmin v1.00, using the default theme and configuration; click on the SSH/Telnet Login link and on that page directly under the tool bar* is a small tab with a link that reads Module Config. That's the link to click on in order to select SSH vs. telnet. * By tool bar, I referring to the

RE: script for ftp transfer

2002-09-19 Thread Siegert, Greg
Hi Trevor, Yes that's exactly what I was trying to find. Thanks again. Greg -Original Message- From: Trevor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 4:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: script for ftp transfer Greg, Well, I don't use RH 7.2 or 7.3 and

Re: RH's half-support for devfsd...

2002-09-19 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 11:32:14AM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: : On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Jason Costomiris wrote: : : Of course, I've changed my /etc/init.d/halt script to stop the devfsd : and umount /dev, but shouldn't these have already been done by RH? : : Most people who implement devfs do

Re: Installing Red Hat on a Dell Optiplex GS240

2002-09-19 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 16:16, Ivette Reategui wrote: Hello, Has anyone tried to install Red Hat on a Dell Optiplex GS240. I've never used Linux. I got this new machine, and I was planning on putting Linux on it. But, I just found out from a colleague that Linux might not be

Re: Installing Red Hat on a Dell Optiplex GS240

2002-09-19 Thread Jonathan S Shufelt
Do a search on laptops and linux and there is a site at UT Austin that has alot fo info on installations with latops. --Jonathan On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:06:47PM -0400, Jonathan Gaudette wrote: On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 16:16, Ivette Reategui wrote: Hello, Has anyone tried to install Red

Re: New Install Boot Problem

2002-09-19 Thread Patrick Beart
At 6:12 PM -0500 9/19/02, Steve Buehler wrote: I have just installed RedHat 7.3 on a server and get the following error during boot and the system just stops there: Mounting root filesystem mount: error 6 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 Freeing unused

Re: remote XDMCP sessions

2002-09-19 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19-Sep-2002/19:28 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a system configured to allow any system to do a remote XDMCP connection. This works fine when I am on the internal network. Some users use VPN from home to connect to our network.

Re: Installing Red Hat on a Dell Optiplex GS240

2002-09-19 Thread Roger
There's also a yahoo groups for dell laptops. the home page is at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-dell-laptops/ Roger Around Thu,Sep 19 2002, at 07:19, Jonathan S Shufelt, wrote: Do a search on laptops and linux and there is a site at UT Austin that has alot fo info on installations

Re: New Install Boot Problem

2002-09-19 Thread Edward Dekkers
Mounting root filesystem mount: error 6 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 280K freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. Everything before that seems fine. I have installed this twice now

RHN

2002-09-19 Thread doug
after registering on RHN.. and i go and view my system.. it shows the ip address as 127.0.0.1 which is wrong.. how do i force it to change.. i want to schedule and update.. but if they have the wrong ip.. logically i would think it wouldn't work.. can anyone answer this? thanks Doug --

Re: Configuring Outgoing Mail Only

2002-09-19 Thread Jake Colman
Kevin, Thanks for your reply. I'm following up to you privately since this may get very specific to my situation. I should explain exactly what my situation is. My server is connected to the internet via a cablemodem to my ISP via eth0. I use eth1 to connect to my internal network. For the

Re: RHN

2002-09-19 Thread doug
disregard.. i had to update the hosts file.. :( g ;) Doug On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 23:32, doug wrote: after registering on RHN.. and i go and view my system.. it shows the ip address as 127.0.0.1 which is wrong.. how do i force it to change.. i want to schedule and update.. but if they

Re: Program compile/install problem

2002-09-19 Thread Patrick Beart
At 5:12 PM -0600 9/19/02, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Patrick Beart wrote: nano.h:45:21: curses.h: No such file or directory You don't have the [n]curses headers installed. That's very strange. :-/ I re-downloaded the ncurses RPM (ncurses-5.2-12.i386) and installed it

Re: Installing Red Hat on a Dell Optiplex GS240

2002-09-19 Thread Jack High
Has anyone tried to install Red Hat on a Dell Optiplex GS240. I have installed Redhat 5.2 and 7.1 on a Dell Optiplex GX1 with no difficulty-- at least, no difficulty because of hardware incompatibility. :-) -- Jack High [EMAIL PROTECTED] Redmond, Washington USA

Problem running Linux Rescue on Acer TravelMate 630

2002-09-19 Thread Ho Koon Leong
I am having some problems running Linux Rescue on the Acer TravelMate 630. I used the System Administrator's Survival CD (Redhat 7.2) to boot. The system appears to boot as anticipated up to the point when it requested for information on the type of keyboard I am using -- the keyboard freezes

Re: Program compile/install problem

2002-09-19 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Patrick Beart wrote: I re-downloaded the ncurses RPM (ncurses-5.2-12.i386) and installed it (again?). Did a find / -name ncurses* query and STILL can't find curses.h anywhere on my (NEW) system. Wrong package. You need the -devel package (as well!) -- H | I haven't lost my

Re: New Install Boot Problem

2002-09-19 Thread John Graham, Jr.
a google search brought up this on mount: error 6 mounting ext3 http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Linux/Linux_Administration /Q_20304316.html don't know if it will help, may want to do some more www.google.com searching (using the quotation marks, otherwise you'll get billions

Re: RHN

2002-09-19 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
On 19 Sep 2002, doug wrote: after registering on RHN.. and i go and view my system.. it shows the ip address as 127.0.0.1 which is wrong.. how do i force it to change.. i want to schedule and update.. but if they have the wrong ip.. logically i would think it wouldn't work.. can

Re: Program compile/install problem

2002-09-19 Thread Patrick Beart
At 10:00 PM -0600 9/19/02, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Patrick Beart wrote: I re-downloaded the ncurses RPM (ncurses-5.2-12.i386) and installed it (again?). Did a find / -name ncurses* query and STILL can't find curses.h anywhere on my (NEW) system. Wrong package. You need the

SCSI Controler Error

2002-09-19 Thread Santhosh
Hai All, I have a Pentium III 800 System.I connected SCSI Tape drive with PCI connected scsi Controller card.When the system boots it says Improper Termination or Faulty Cable detected .Please verify and it hangs on.Any Guess? Santhosh -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Re: RH 7.0 kernel upgrade - advice please

2002-09-19 Thread Knut Ove Hauge
Hi Irvine. Do you know how to compile a new kernel? --- Mike Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: I would (and have done so) get a current kernel source, and compile it with the options you like. I still admin an old 7.0 box which is running a custom compiled 2.4 kernel. Works fine. On

Disk activity

2002-09-19 Thread Linux
Hi Is there a command in RH 7.2 which would show how busy the disk is? Many Thanks Mike -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Installing kernel source

2002-09-19 Thread Ben Logan
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 04:54:42PM +0200, Mustapha Hadim wrote: Emmanuel Seyman a écrit : On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 01:09:43PM +0200, Mustapha Hadim wrote: Indeed, I typing, rpm -q kernel-2.4.18-3.src.rpm, to install the source kernel, and the problem is not resolved. You

Simply deleting a line with zzzz in it?

2002-09-19 Thread Shaw, Marco
This should be pretty simple... I have a file something like: I want to delete the entire line with . sed //d goes to standard out, but I don't want to redirect it to a temp file, and then overwrite the original over or similar, unless that's my

Re: Simply deleting a line with zzzz in it?

2002-09-19 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19-Sep-2002/08:12 -0300, Shaw, Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This should be pretty simple... I have a file something like: I want to delete the entire line with . Use the invert match feature in

RE: Shutdown Error (the old umount2 error)

2002-09-19 Thread John H. Clark, III
Title: RE: Shutdown Error (the old umount2 error) I'm having the same problem with a standard, unmodified RH 7.3. I verified that all the K and S links in runlevel 0 are present in response to an earlier suggestion from the list. And I don't have separate partitions in my /usr structure.

Iptables UDP jump to DROP or REJECT?

2002-09-19 Thread Brenden Walker
I was adding some logging to my IPTables configuration, and thought I'd ask this question. I noticed that if I DROP UDP packets the scan.sygatetech.com UDP scanner reports the ports as open, if I reject it reports them as closed. I have a feeling this is a problem with the sygate scan, can't

DHCP with Dynamic DNS

2002-09-19 Thread Stephen Schaub
We have a dynamic DNS server on campus, and have both Windows and Linux clients on the network. The Windows clients are configured to use DHCP, and they register their computer names in the dynamic DNS server when they attach. I can get the Linux clients to get an IP from the DHCP server, but

Re: Iptables UDP jump to DROP or REJECT?

2002-09-19 Thread Cristian Grigoriu
From: Brenden Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was adding some logging to my IPTables configuration, and thought I'd ask this question. I noticed that if I DROP UDP packets the scan.sygatetech.com UDP scanner reports the ports as open, if I reject it reports them as closed. I have a feeling this

Re: Iptables UDP jump to DROP or REJECT?

2002-09-19 Thread Mike Burger
In order for the firewall to DROP a packet, it has to first allow the packet to enter the firewall for checking. If the firewall is set to REJECT the packet, it simply closes the port and doesn't accept connections on it, making it look like it's closed. On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Brenden Walker

Re: Can't ssh using webmin

2002-09-19 Thread Manzabar
At 09:09 AM 9/18/02 +0800, you wrote: I check on webmin, there is a configure module button where you can change the setting on the Telnet/SSH client module to use ssh instead of telnet. I did notice however that the SSH uses java, so if you haven't downloaded it from Sun and installed

Re: cat?

2002-09-19 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 01:42:30AM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote: : On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 11:37:37PM -0400, Anthony E. Greene wrote: : : You want to read a list of host names from a file and prepend 'www' : to any name that does not already start with 'www'. Try this: : : [...] : : If in a

RH's half-support for devfsd...

2002-09-19 Thread Jason Costomiris
I recently converted a couple of RH 7.3 boxen to use devfs. I did this by taking the most recent kernel SRPM, changed the configs, and built the appropriate kernel/modules and kernel-source rpms. I also, of course, built a nice RPM for devfsd (1.3.25, if anyone cares). The rc.sysinit file

Re: Iptables UDP jump to DROP or REJECT?

2002-09-19 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Brenden, I was adding some logging to my IPTables configuration, and thought I'd ask this question. I noticed that if I DROP UDP packets the scan.sygatetech.com UDP scanner reports the ports as open, if I reject it reports them as closed. This probably has to do with the fact that UDP

RE: Iptables UDP jump to DROP or REJECT?

2002-09-19 Thread Brenden Walker
-Original Message- From: Leonard den Ottolander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Hi Brenden, I was adding some logging to my IPTables configuration, and thought I'd ask this question. I noticed that if I DROP UDP packets the scan.sygatetech.com UDP scanner reports the ports as

Secure Copy?

2002-09-19 Thread Christian Fredrickson
I have ssh running on a Redhat 7.x server. Using an SCP client (WinSCP) I can download any file from the server running SSH, but large files fail as soon as I attempt to copy them with the error refused by remote. Is this a parameter that must be changed? Why is this happening only on large files

permissions

2002-09-19 Thread Steve Buehler
I can't figure something out. I am trying to come up with a command line way through programs already on the system (RedHat 7.2) or a script that will do the following. Change ownership of all files in a directory that are owned by a specific user, leaving files that are not

Secure file system in RH 7.3

2002-09-19 Thread John Thomas
I'm running RH 7.3. I'd like to implement a secure file system. I recall that a Suse distribution I used supported this via the loopback device. The HOWTO's about this are out-of-date and refer to patching the 2.2 kernel. Does the RH 2.4 kernel support this? Does anyone have pointers to

Re: permissions

2002-09-19 Thread Steve Buehler
By the way, I have tried the following command that chown --help says to do but it doesn't seem to do anything: chown -R --from=ryukyu:settlers skb.skb * and chown -R --from=ryukyu.settlers skb.skb * Thank You Steve At 09:18 AM 9/19/2002 -0500, you wrote: I can't figure something out.

Re: grep 'or'

2002-09-19 Thread Blake C. Lewis
from info regex: Alternatives match one of a choice of regular expressions: if you put the character(s) representing the alternation operator between any two regular expressions A and B, the result matches the union of the strings that A and B match. For example, supposing that `|' is the

A Problem after upgrading to Apache 2.0.40

2002-09-19 Thread achana
Hi All. RH7.1 has got Apache 1.3.16 - an old version with security problems (those still on 1.3.16 should check it out ). I installed the latest Apache 2.0.40 (STABLE) Problem is : now I only get a directory listing rather than a web page when I come in with a browser using the ip-addr.

permissions

2002-09-19 Thread Steve Buehler
Ok. I found another way of doing it. Since chown does not appear to work the way the chown --help says that it will. I now run this find command: find ./ -user ryukyu -group settlers -exec chown skb.skb {} \; Now, can someone explain to me what the {} \; part of the command does/is for? It

Solved: A Problem after upgrading to Apache 2.0.40

2002-09-19 Thread achana
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question : how to I get Apache to serve up a web page instead of the directory list ??? Never mind ! I found the error , rpm -ev removed index.html (why ?) However, if u r on an old 1.3.16 u should upgrade. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

Re: permissions

2002-09-19 Thread k clair
the {} is a placeholder for the pathname of each file found for some reason, commands need to be ended with an escaped semicolon... kristina On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:10:45AM -0500, Steve Buehler wrote: - Ok. I found another way of doing it. Since chown does not appear to work - the way

Re: Iptables UDP jump to DROP or REJECT?

2002-09-19 Thread Jack Bowling
** Reply to message from Mike Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 19 Sep 2002 07:49:24 -0500 (EST) In order for the firewall to DROP a packet, it has to first allow the packet to enter the firewall for checking. If the firewall is set to REJECT the packet, it simply closes the port and

Cryptic message...

2002-09-19 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Um, vat ist thees? kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:50:da:05:c5:f4:00:04:dd:0b:e0:92:08:00 SRC=210.11.68.47 DST=204.144.132.162 LEN=56 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=238 ID=14090 PROTO=ICMP TYPE=3 CODE=3 [SRC=204.144.132.162 DST=210.11.68.47 LEN=121 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=248 ID=37692 DF PROTO=UDP

Re: permissions

2002-09-19 Thread Steve Buehler
Thank You for the reply. It never hurts to keep learning. Steve At 11:24 AM 9/19/2002 -0400, you wrote: the {} is a placeholder for the pathname of each file found for some reason, commands need to be ended with an escaped semicolon... kristina On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:10:45AM -0500,

Re: permissions

2002-09-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Steve Buehler wrote: Thank You for the reply. It never hurts to keep learning. Steve At 11:24 AM 9/19/2002 -0400, you wrote: the {} is a placeholder for the pathname of each file found for some reason, commands need to be ended with an escaped semicolon...

Re: Cryptic message...

2002-09-19 Thread Francisco Neira
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Um, vat ist thees? kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:50:da:05:c5:f4:00:04:dd:0b:e0:92:08:00 SRC=210.11.68.47 DST=204.144.132.162 LEN=56 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=238 ID=14090 PROTO=ICMP TYPE=3 CODE=3 [SRC=204.144.132.162 DST=210.11.68.47 LEN=121 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00

Re: SCSI Controler Error

2002-09-19 Thread C. Linus Hicks
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 03:08, Santhosh wrote: Hai All, I have a Pentium III 800 System.I connected SCSI Tape drive with PCI connected scsi Controller card.When the system boots it says Improper Termination or Faulty Cable detected .Please verify and it hangs on.Any Guess? You don't

Re: Cryptic message...

2002-09-19 Thread Thornton Prime
If I read this correctly, and making assumptions about your network topology and system configuration ... You are doing IPTables logging on your firewall and you are intercepting a port-unreachable replies from 210.11.68.47 for 204.144.132.162 which attempted to send a UDP packet to port 62408

Notebook Ethernet Error

2002-09-19 Thread Wai Iu
I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 laptop. It installed Redhat 7.3. Tthe laptop connects to Internet through a hub(KTI 10BASE-T Ethernet Hub KH-9M). But the network connection is extremely unstable. The Ethernet module that I used is being setup as alias eth0 eepro100 in /etc/modules.conf. The

RH 7.2 Compatable external drives? - PLZ HLP!

2002-09-19 Thread David Kramer
Can anyone recommend a RH 7.2 compatable external drive, either Zip/Jaz or exteranl HD. I need to propose a Back-up Recovery solution to a client and was wondering if anyone had a particular hardware drive they recommended. My back-up volumes really wont exceed 2 GB on a bi-weekly basis, and can

RE: Iptables UDP jump to DROP or REJECT?

2002-09-19 Thread Brenden Walker
-Original Message- From: Jack Bowling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Iptables UDP jump to DROP or REJECT? ** Reply to message from Mike Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 19 Sep 2002 07:49:24 -0500 (EST)

Need help configuring one NIS master that servers multiple NIS domains.

2002-09-19 Thread tells
I am trying to configure one NIS master server that serves multiple NIS domains. We have this environment configured on HP-UX, however I am having problems doing it in Red Hat Linux. I am able to get the environment to work if I do not have any NIS slave servers. I created a make file for

tcl crypt

2002-09-19 Thread Patrick Nelson
Anyone know how I could do encrypting something like perl crypt function only in tcl? I'm not much of a tcl person but have a new client and they want their scripts in tcl. Everything else I've pretty much got, but I have not found anything like crypt in tcl. Am I left with calling a perl

Re: Cryptic message...

2002-09-19 Thread Mike Burger
Your system made a connection to 210.11.68.47, and that system is attempting to verify your system via a name service lookup. Ashley M. Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Um, vat ist thees? kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:50:da:05:c5:f4:00:04:dd:0b:e0:92:08:00 SRC=210.11.68.47

Re: Notebook Ethernet Error

2002-09-19 Thread tells
Information on the e100 driver can be found at: http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/1000/linux/e 100.htm I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 laptop. It installed Redhat 7.3. Tthe laptop connects to Internet through a hub(KTI 10BASE-T Ethernet Hub KH-9M). But the network connection

Re: Cryptic message...

2002-09-19 Thread Mike Burger
Francisco Neira [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Um, vat ist thees? kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:50:da:05:c5:f4:00:04:dd:0b:e0:92:08:00 SRC=210.11.68.47 DST=204.144.132.162 LEN=56 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=238 ID=14090 PROTO=ICMP TYPE=3 CODE=3 [SRC=204.144.132.162

What Do These error messages mean?

2002-09-19 Thread Joe Giles
I recvieve these errors in messages. About the same time, I notice corrupted files (PHP WEB FILES). No other file types seem to get corrupted (havent checked all the files obviously) Any Help would be great Thanks Joe Here are the error messages... Aug 23 08:10:12 wolfserver kernel:

Re: permissions

2002-09-19 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19-Sep-2002/09:18 -0500, Steve Buehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Change ownership of all files in a directory that are owned by a specific user, leaving files that are not owned by that user alone. It needs to start in that directory and go

Re: grep 'or'

2002-09-19 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19-Sep-2002/09:38 -0500, Blake C. Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from info regex: [snip] I found the same info in regex(7) but the key is to use it with egrep, not grep. Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP Key:

RE: grep 'or'

2002-09-19 Thread Furnish, Trever G
You can also give grep multiple patterns as options, which seems to be easier for non-unix ppl (ie dba's) to remember. grep -e pattern1 -e pattern2 -e pattern3 -t. -Original Message- From: Blake C. Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:39 AM To:

RE: Disk activity

2002-09-19 Thread Furnish, Trever G
Good question. Lousy answer: There's the linux version of iostat - take two aspirin and read the manual page first. Something like 'iostat -d 2' may meet your need. It's part of the sysstat package, which also includes a couple of crontab entries that start polling performance info and saving

RE: Shutdown Error (the old umount2 error)

2002-09-19 Thread Furnish, Trever G
Title: RE: Shutdown Error (the old umount2 error) Illegal seek sounds like a filesystem problem. On the other hand, why aren't those processes you kill manually already down? Also, fuser -mu /usr may provide useful info before you start killing processes. HTH, trever -Original

Re: What Do These error messages mean?

2002-09-19 Thread Brian Ashe
Joe Giles, On Thursday September 19, 2002 01:12, Joe Giles wrote: I recvieve these errors in messages. About the same time, I notice corrupted files (PHP WEB FILES). No other file types seem to get corrupted (havent checked all the files obviously) Here are the error messages... Aug 23

Re: RH's half-support for devfsd...

2002-09-19 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Jason Costomiris wrote: Of course, I've changed my /etc/init.d/halt script to stop the devfsd and umount /dev, but shouldn't these have already been done by RH? Most people who implement devfs do it in conjunction with /dev, not as a replacement. Even the devfs docs will

Re: Solved: A Problem after upgrading to Apache 2.0.40

2002-09-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 18:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question : how to I get Apache to serve up a web page instead of the directory list ??? Never mind ! I found the error , rpm -ev removed index.html (why ?) Because /var/www/html/index.html is part of the

Re: What Do These error messages mean?

2002-09-19 Thread Joe Giles
Yeah, I did that and it did find some errors.. Looks like it fixed them though:) Thanks Joe Brian Ashe writes: Joe Giles, On Thursday September 19, 2002 01:12, Joe Giles wrote: I recvieve these errors in messages. About the same time, I notice corrupted files (PHP WEB FILES). No other

Re: Solved: A Problem after upgrading to Apache 2.0.40

2002-09-19 Thread achana
snip Because /var/www/html/index.html is part of the apache package? I don't know... what did you expect rpm -e to do? :) Well, if I can set DocumentRoot to /var/www/html then I wouldn't expect -e to remove index since that's part of the user's realm. That's academic anyway However, if u r

Re: What Do These error messages mean?

2002-09-19 Thread Joe Giles
Any idea what would cause this to happen in the first place? I use a RAID 1(Stripping) setup. I have 5 9.1 gig scsi drives. Thanks Joe Joe Giles writes: Yeah, I did that and it did find some errors.. Looks like it fixed them though:) Thanks Joe Brian Ashe writes: Joe Giles, On Thursday

RE: Iptables UDP jump to DROP or REJECT?

2002-09-19 Thread Mike Burger
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Brenden Walker wrote: But, if you REJECT a packet, it sends back a port unreachable return packet (this by the laws of the RFC). If you DROP a packet, it dies on the floor with no return. So you will always know when you have been REJECTed, but you will not

script for ftp transfer

2002-09-19 Thread S Peram
Hi all, I need to transfer some log files on a daily basis from my machine to a windows machine. I'd really appreciate if any of you can give me some ideas, my situation is that I can't put ftp server on that machine and so the file transfers should originate from the Linux machine. I was

script for ftp transfer

2002-09-19 Thread S Peram
Hi all, I need to transfer some log files on a daily basis from my machine to a windows machine. I'd really appreciate if any of you can give me some ideas, my situation is that I can't put ftp server on that machine and so the file transfers should originate from the Linux machine. I was

remote XDMCP sessions

2002-09-19 Thread tells
I have a system configured to allow any system to do a remote XDMCP connection. This works fine when I am on the internal network. Some users use VPN from home to connect to our network. These users are unable to connect to a Red Hat Linux system with exceed. However, they have no

Re: What Do These error messages mean?

2002-09-19 Thread Brian Ashe
Joe Giles, On Thursday September 19, 2002 02:55, Joe Giles wrote: Any idea what would cause this to happen in the first place? It is usually related to I/O errors (check your logs from prior to the corruption). These of course can be related to a vast multitude of things. Though most

RE: script for ftp transfer

2002-09-19 Thread Trevor
You have many different options... tell us what is best for you and we can try help you out. 1. Use smbclient (Samba) to establish a network connection via a share on your windows machine. Set up a cron job to transfer files to your box at a specific time. Use a simple 'cp' command to copy all

Installing Red Hat on a Dell Optiplex GS240

2002-09-19 Thread Ivette Reategui
Hello, Has anyone tried to install Red Hat on a Dell Optiplex GS240. I've never used Linux. I got this new machine, and I was planning on putting Linux on it. But, I just found out from a colleague that Linux might not be compatible with all PCs. I searched the compatibility list on

RE: script for ftp transfer

2002-09-19 Thread Siegert, Greg
Hi Trevor, Perhaps you can help me. I'm installing RED Hat v7.3 from CD Rom. The boot process stalls after Partition Check: hba: I was able to get around this before by entering something on the command line that would either enable or disable UDMA for the HD. I don't recall what that

RE: script for ftp transfer

2002-09-19 Thread Trevor
Greg, Well, I don't use RH 7.2 or 7.3 and secondly, I have never had a problem with DMA issues. However, I hope this is of use to you... I searched on google and I it sounds like this is the issue: Is linux ide=nodma the command that you are looking for?

RE: script for ftp transfer

2002-09-19 Thread Nick White
Title: Message I use this quick and dirty little perl script to transfer files from my Linux boxes to our windows backup server: #!/usr/bin/perlopen (FTP, "|/usr/bin/ftp -n") || die "Can't open FTP command, $!\n";print FTP "EOFTP";open 192.168.1.1user username passwordbinpromptlcd

Re: Installing Red Hat on a Dell Optiplex GS240

2002-09-19 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Ivette Reategui wrote: Hello, Has anyone tried to install Red Hat on a Dell Optiplex GS240. I've never used Linux. I got this new machine, and I was planning on putting Linux on it. But, I just found out from a colleague that Linux might not be compatible with

Re: script for ftp transfer

2002-09-19 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, S Peram wrote: I was thinking of some kind of a cron job but I've run out of ideas. Try running ncftpput from a cron job on the logging system. -- The only thing that helps me maintain my slender grip on reality is the friendship I share with my collection of singing

Re: RE: Iptables UDP jump to DROP or REJECT?

2002-09-19 Thread jbinpg
Mike Burger wrote - On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Brenden Walker wrote: But, if you REJECT a packet, it sends back a port unreachable return packet (this by the laws of the RFC). If you DROP a packet, it dies on the floor with no return. So you will always know when you have been

xbiff behavior

2002-09-19 Thread Bo Peng
I am sorry if this is not a core Linux question but I would like to start xbiff with Always on Top and To All Desktops and maybe No title. Is there command line options or any other way to do it automatically? I am using RH7.3 + KDE. Thanks. -- Bo Peng -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: RE: Iptables UDP jump to DROP or REJECT?

2002-09-19 Thread jbinpg
Mike Burger wrote - On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Brenden Walker wrote: But, if you REJECT a packet, it sends back a port unreachable return packet (this by the laws of the RFC). If you DROP a packet, it dies on the floor with no return. So you will always know when you have been

RE: script for ftp transfer

2002-09-19 Thread S Peram
Hi, Thanks a lot for the responses. I just had a question regarding the ftp. Is there any way I can passall the parameters such as username, password and the commands that are to be executed in a shell script. Your suggestions and comments will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Peram Trevor

Re: Wireless keyboards and mice

2002-09-19 Thread Rob Saul
On Wednesday, September 18, 2002, at 06:14 PM, Matthew Huggett wrote: Does anyone have any experience installing RH Linux on a system with a wireless keyboard and mouse? I'm able to enter choices at the boot prompt but once the installation starts, I loose the keyboard and mouse. I'm

Program compile/install problem

2002-09-19 Thread Patrick Beart
Folks: I'm trying to install a program from it's tarball (rather than an RPM), and I'm having some trouble ... The file un-tars fine. The cd to the newly created directory goes well, too. The ./configure works, or seems to. The make command, however,

Re: Program compile/install problem

2002-09-19 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Patrick Beart wrote: nano.h:45:21: curses.h: No such file or directory You don't have the [n]curses headers installed. -- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. + Ashley M. Kirchner

RE: Program compile/install problem

2002-09-19 Thread Trevor
It looks like the compiler can't find your curses.h file. You may need to install ncurses-devel rpm package first. It should be on your redhat CDROM. Do a find / -name curses.h and see if you can locate the file or do a rpm -qa | grep ncurses-devel I think the file resides in

New Install Boot Problem

2002-09-19 Thread Steve Buehler
I have just installed RedHat 7.3 on a server and get the following error during boot and the system just stops there: Mounting root filesystem mount: error 6 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 280K freed Kernel panic: No init

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