Is there any reason not to use bash features in init
scripts?
Consider, for example, this fragment from
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-post:
DEVICETYPE=`echo $DEVICE | sed s/[0-9]*$//`
REALDEVICE=`echo $DEVICE | sed 's/:.*//g'`
if echo $DEVICE | grep -q ':' ; then
On Sunday, Sep 28th 2003 at 14:31 +0100, quoth Manoj Kumar:
=Is there any reason not to use bash features in init
=scripts?
=Consider, for example, this fragment from
=/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-post:
=
=DEVICETYPE=`echo $DEVICE | sed s/[0-9]*$//`
=REALDEVICE=`echo $DEVICE | sed
The reason that normal startup scripts don't, is that there's no guarantee
/bin/sh will point to bash, or even that bash is installed.
If you want to use bash, the first line should be /bin/bash instead of
/bin/sh, so it's obvious it needs bash specifically.
Jon
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003,
also you would wanna add requires: bash for initscripts rpm.
not sure how portable initscripts package was designed to be, would anyone
ever use it outside redhat? if not making a commitment to bash could be
reasonable.
just my .02
v
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
The reason
Hello,
A common problem is corrupt software. This can be due to improper
shutdowns, careless administrators/developers, etc. Many times hardware is
not to blame and reinstalling the OS is all that is needed.
I would like to use Parted to reconstruct several partions from image files
in the
I'm working on a project with a few people, and we want to fool around with
cross-compiling on Linux x86 (Red Hat 7.3 in my case) for the ARM
architecture. I'm supposed to be looking into the toolchain and HOWTO's.
The problem is, I see a lot of conflicting/ambiguous/irrelevant
problem solved...it was the xp client that was the problem...i mapped the
drive through console instead of using explorer which didnt work. xp has
alot of quirks
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Did you set the permissions on the folders?
Buck
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Subject: samba writable share
im having trouble creating a writable
On 14:57 26 Sep 2003, christopher j bottaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| On Thursday 25 September 2003 06:47 pm, Cameron Simpson wrote:
| Again, mutt may be your friend here:
| - T.
|select all items
| - ;|procmail -f $HOME/.procmail/rc.testing
|feed every tagged item to
Hello,
I want to use a simple internal CD writer on Linux RH 9 .
Now , I tried to see if the types of CD writer
which I was suggested by my dealer (and work on windows)
are fit to Linux RH 9.
The 4 types are:
BENQ 5224
TEAC 52
PHILIPS 5224K
SAMSUNG 52X24X52
Now I had looked at the RedHat Hardware
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Is anyone else subscribing to the fedora list yet?
Yes, because all subscribers of the rhl-* lists have been transferred
to the fedora-* lists. Effectively, the rhl-* lists have been
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On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 09:30:11 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
Is anyone else subscribing to the fedora list yet?
Yes, because all subscribers of the rhl-* lists have been transferred
to
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I subscribed to the fedora-list and I am getting different messages then
on this list so they seem to be different.
Of course they are different.
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I am using a Sony 54X24X52 - which I did not see on the list either, but
went ahead and tried it anyway. Works without a hitch :o)
Tim
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On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 18:13, Sean Estabrooks wrote:
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 16:19:01 +
Nick Lindsell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 16:05, Nick Lindsell wrote:
Greetings all,
I was pleasantly surprised that Nautilus file manager now
has CD writing capabilities. But
cpanflute works fairly well (it's included with redhat's rpm build
package). But, it requires you to download the cpan package then
run /var/lib/rpm/cpanflute cpanpackage.tar.gz Then you get a few errors
because of directories in /tmp (/tmp/cpan/junk /tmp/cpan/temp) that don't
exist. So, you
Hello list -
I'm new. My names Patrick, and
I'm a tech coordinator for an elementary school. I do a lot of linux stuff, with
red hat and other distributions too.
Anywho, I'm wondering if the
samba config tools will be any different with the arrival of Samba 3.0.0, and if
so is there any
Why not just run apache on the Linux box? It would far more stable on Linux
than windows, and it's probably already installed and started. Remember
software is only as strong as the OS it's running on.
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Sent:
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 08:46, Paul Rushing wrote:
cpanflute works fairly well (it's included with redhat's rpm build
package). But, it requires you to download the cpan package then
run /var/lib/rpm/cpanflute cpanpackage.tar.gz
Seems like I installed the perl-CPAN rpm for this.
Then you
I set up two RH9 boxes.
I found that both of them have host name localhost.localhostdomain.
I tried to use Samba but Samba only found PC running Windows.
I just want to copy files from one RH9 to another. How can do that?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Richard Jiang
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On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 09:50:05AM -0400, Patrick Cable II wrote:
Anywho, I'm wondering if the samba config tools will be any
different with the arrival of Samba 3.0.0, and if so is there any
projected date for release? I am working on a project with my
school district and i
NFS exports using IP address. Although it wouldn't hurt to set better
hostname while your at it.
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Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 11:15 AM
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Subject: How can I copy files from one RH9 box to another RH9 box?
I
I think that the easiest way to copy files through the neiwork is to use
command 'scp' from the ssh package. You can use address instead of host
name, because in your situation both hosts have the same name.
scp from-file-path to-host:to-file-path
Alexey Fadyushin
Brainbench MVP for Linux
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 07:26, Asbjorn Hoiland Aarrestad wrote:
How do I make my redhat 9 machine forward port 25 to another machine?
Iptables can do this:
iptables -t NAT -A POSTROUTING -p tcp --dport 25 -j DNAT --to-dest
ip.of.internal.machine
...and if you use multiple --to-dest directives it
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 07:33:07PM +0400, Alexey Fadyushin wrote:
I think that the easiest way to copy files through the neiwork is to use
command 'scp' from the ssh package. You can use address instead of host
name, because in your situation both hosts have the same name.
scp from-file-path
ssh may be a better choice. Easier to setup for occasional file transfers.
man scp, or man sftp.
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Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 10:27 AM
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Subject: RE: How can I
Hi all!
I am in dire straits here. I need to remove one fs and expand another. I
unmounted the unwanted fs and removed the fs in parted. I then went to
increase the size of the other fs. I could not do this while the fs was
mounted. When I exited parted, I got a message saying there was a
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:12:54 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote
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On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 09:30:11 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
Is anyone else subscribing to the fedora list yet?
Yes,
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 11:55, dlangschied wrote:
Hi all!
I am in dire straits here. I need to remove one fs and expand another. I
unmounted the unwanted fs and removed the fs in parted. I then went to
increase the size of the other fs. I could not do this while the fs was
mounted. When I
Boot from a rescue disk.
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Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 12:56 PM
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Subject: URGENT! I removed a fs using parted and rebooted now I get an
error!
Hi all!
I am in dire straits here. I need to remove one
Hello,
I want to program my external modem for communication. If anyone could tell me how i could go abt it or send a sample program in C/C++, how to program an external modem on a serial port, to initialize it and dial a number, it would be of great help.
Regards,
Srinivas.
Do you Yahoo!?
The
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:04:00 -0500, Mike Vanecek wrote:
It is simple. All subscribers of the rhl-* lists have NOT been transfered to
the fedora-* lists. I subscribe to both rhl-list and fedora-list and they are
quite different.
No. rhl-list is
i 'm using LG with RH8 / RH9. i have never had trouble with it.
On Paz, 2003-09-28 at 14:24, sting sting wrote:
Hello,
I want to use a simple internal CD writer on Linux RH 9 .
Now , I tried to see if the types of CD writer
which I was suggested by my dealer (and work on windows)
are fit
I thought I had done this the first time, but, alas, I must have not saved
the file or some such thing. Thanks!
Sincerely,
David Langschied
Langschied Consulting Services
25644 Mackinac
Roseville, MI 48066
Phone: (586)777-7542
Cell: (248)789-8493
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I have a slight problem with that; I dont have a rescue disk. This is a
laptop without a floppy drive and during install it would not let me copy to
the CD/RW.
I have it fixed now. Is there any way to create a rescue CD?
Sincerely,
David Langschied
Langschied Consulting Services
25644 Mackinac
The install disk can be used as a rescue disk
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From: dlangschied [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 1:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: URGENT! I removed a fs using parted and rebooted now I get an
error!
I have a slight problem with
I suspect there are a few RHers tracking the mainline test kernels. If
so, has anybody run into a problem with uhci-hcd loading? My RH 8 box hangs
instantly with no way of recovery except for a reset. This started with
test5 and continues with test6. According to the changelogs there have
been
Are you aware that the SGML and XML processes are exactly the same, except
when writing XML you just have to obey more specific rules?
Jon
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
Starting from here:
http://www.tldp.org/ldp/
http://mirror.digitalvoodoo.org/ldp/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/
I
You need to have a DTD or a schema. Then run the file through the parser.
That combines the two into the needed output format. Check out the
devshed.com article My first XML Document it takes XML text output html
with only two or three files.
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From: Jonathan Bartlett
I hope someone can help me with this, I've been working on this for
awhile and looking for help in a few other venues:
I've been trying to move my Linux installation from one drive to
another, to no avail. Finally, last night, I decided what the heck, I'm
gonna just do a complete reinstall.
im having a hard time fgiuring out where the java home directory is.
i was suppose to execute a bin file to install sun's java sdk for linux
and i cant figure out if it intsalls or not...i need to find the java home
directory.
the java file is this one:
version: J2SE v 1.4.1_05
Download
Hello all,
I hope this is the right question for this mailing list. I just upgraded from
7.2 to 9 and now apache has to be upgraded. I found a bunch of file under
under /var/spool/up2date for apache (see the list below).
But I'm not sure what to do with those files (new to Linux) so
I want to be able to setup a Linux server without a keyboard, mouse or
monitor and control it remotely from another Linux computer on the
network or through the internet.
If I remember correctly, RH Linux has included this technology for
several versions.
Am I dreaming or where do I need to look
it was also suppose to tell me about a license agreement...and it didnt :(
maybe my machine doesnt know how to install bin files.
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Rene's Caltech Email wrote:
im having a hard time fgiuring out where the java home directory is.
i was suppose to execute a bin file to install
On Sunday 28 September 2003 04:35 pm, Rene's Caltech Email wrote:
Your Java home should be the directory where you installed java. So for
example, if you have J2SE v 1.4.1_05 under /usr/java then JAVA_HOME should be
/usr/java/J2SE v 1.4.1_05
im having a hard time fgiuring out where the
On Sunday 28 September 2003 04:35 pm, Rene's Caltech Email wrote:
im having a hard time fgiuring out where the java home directory is.
i was suppose to execute a bin file to install sun's java sdk for linux
and i cant figure out if it intsalls or not...i need to find the java home
directory.
THanks for the link. I had seen references to this but had forgotten
about it. I think this is especially important since cpanflute is not
included in redhat 9 rpm-build. Not sure about RH 8
I wasn't aware of that. I haven't used cpanflute on my redhat9 box, but
when I just checked I didn't
On Sunday 28 September 2003 04:47 pm, Buck wrote:
I want to be able to setup a Linux server without a keyboard, mouse or
monitor and control it remotely from another Linux computer on the
network or through the internet.
If I remember correctly, RH Linux has included this technology for
Hi All,
A big thanks to all of them on the RH network for
helping me in my day to day problems with Linux.I had succesfuly set up my Linux
box internet server with NAT/MASQ and used the default firewall2.4 script
thats there on the tldp.org site,everything is superb and all my applications
I have seen SSH referred to in several postings on the listservs. Is
that what I want to study?
Thanks
Buck
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Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 5:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:
On Sunday 28 September 2003 05:05 pm, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
Do this,
Go to the directory where you have j2sdk-1_4_1_05-linux-i586-rpm.bin
and type:
chmod a+x j2sdk-1_4_1_05-linux-i586-rpm.bin
This will make the binary file executable. Then all you have to do is to run
it like a
Hi All,
Sorry for the off-topic questions but I've googled and not found
anything useful.
I want to be able to redirect requests for certain pages to port
443 ie https vs http. I remember seeing this done with just a
few lines of code but can't find the reference. Any help
appreciated.
Thanks,
I meant to add that it can be code added in the pages themselves
unless there is a more general solution.
Mike
Hi All,
Sorry for the off-topic questions but I've googled and not found
anything useful.
I want to be able to redirect requests for certain pages to port
443 ie https vs http.
On Sunday 28 September 2003 05:30 pm, Buck wrote:
I have seen SSH referred to in several postings on the listservs. Is
that what I want to study?
If you're running linux now and familiar with linux, by SSH-ing to the server,
you will have all the comand-line control of the server from wherver
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:27:15AM -0700, Srinivas S wrote:
Hello,
I want to program my external modem for communication. If
anyone could tell me how i could go abt it or send a sample program in
C/C++, how to program an external modem on a serial port, to initialize
it and
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 05:30:41PM -0400, Buck wrote:
I have seen SSH referred to in several postings on the listservs.
Is that what I want to study?
Yes. Turn on the sshd service, ssh is great. It stands for secure
shell, in its most common use, where one might have typed telnet
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 16:55, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
On Sunday 28 September 2003 05:30 pm, Buck wrote:
I have seen SSH referred to in several postings on the listservs. Is
that what I want to study?
If you're running linux now and familiar with linux, by SSH-ing to the server,
you
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 02:47:32PM -0700, Mike McMullen wrote:
I want to be able to redirect requests for certain pages to port
443 ie https vs http. I remember seeing this done with just a
few lines of code but can't find the reference. Any help
appreciated.
It's just one line of code in
This is a followup to the quoted message below, which I'd sent to the redhat-list 12
days
ago.
Apart from an encouraging note from listmember Sid Cowles, who had privately and
graciously
offered to read my tapes on his SGI box (which I declined with thanks), I was
surprised that no one
on this
Thanks,
I am a total newbie to Linux. Last night I just setup and configured my
first successful file server. Its my first Linux install that allows me
to do more than just surf the web.
Command line instructions are probably all I need but I am curious if
Gnome will operate thru SSH. While
A Wonderful answer. Thank you very much. It is on the list.
Buck
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Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 6:20 PM
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Subject: Re: Remote Keyboard and mouse
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at
I am curious to know Is there a way I can run the GUI on my local
machine pointed to the remote machine?
Thanks
Buck
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:27:28 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote
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It is simple. All subscribers of the rhl-* lists have NOT been transfered to
the fedora-* lists. I subscribe to both rhl-list
I am curious to know Is there a way I can run the GUI on my local
machine pointed to the remote machine?
For individual GUI applications just turn on X11 forwarding and
X11 traffic will be tunneled through the ssh pipe.
If you want the full desktop you could use vnc tunneled through ssh.
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 15:40:23 -0400, Jef Spaleta wrote
Cristian Stefan wrote:
Hi I am new to RH and i have installed RH9 and managed to update it
with apt4rpm .So...
The obvious question is :
How can I manage to put some repositories to get a dist-upgrade from RH9
to Fedora ?
This
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Now I see that I misread your post. The first three messages posted to this
thread were concerned about redhat-list. Your comment about rhl-list, being
correct, but somewhat out of context,
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:17:36 -0500, Mike Vanecek wrote:
If I read this exchange correctly, Fedora may not be a RH 10 equivalent for
those users of previous versions of RHL. Not a good sign?
Can you explain this question a bit? No part of what you
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 02:33:46 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote
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If I read this exchange correctly, Fedora may not be a RH 10 equivalent for
those users of previous versions of RHL. Not a
Has anyone tried either the Linksys WMP54G or the D-Link DWL-G520 cards?
I've seen a few sites where people have had less than perfect results
with D-Link card. I've googled a few searches and haven't found
anything regarding the Linksys card. Any feedback is appreciated.
John
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2003-09-27, Michael Mansour wrote:
Hi,
I'm using sendmail on RH8. What I'd like to do is
modify the standard delivery of mail from:
/var/spool/mail/$USERNAME
to the
/home/mail
directory. I want to do
Hello,
A common problem is corrupt software. This can be due to improper
shutdowns, careless administrators/developers, etc. Many times hardware is
not to blame and reinstalling the OS is all that is needed.
I would like to use Parted to reconstruct several partions from image files
in the
Is there a reason you want to run procmail manually? Usually procmail
is used to deliver the mail from the MTA to the mail spool
($HOME/mailbox) in your example. So your procmail rules get applied
when the mail first arrives.
christopher j bottaro wrote:
well i guess i simply have to run
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 18:49, Buck wrote:
I am curious to know Is there a way I can run the GUI on my local
machine pointed to the remote machine?
Absolutely. X must be running on the remote machine and the X
authentication must allow you machine to use the display on the remote
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 08:31:41PM -0500, Mike Vanecek wrote:
I am trying to plan for what action will need to be done due to the
demise of RHL. Some have suggested that Fedora will be a logical
replacement. Others have said that yum/apt might be used in place of
up2date. Still others have
Thanks,
I would want the keyboard, mouse and monitor all to be on the remote
computer. I guess I forgot to include that little detail.
I'll have more specific questions in a few days after I set it up to
use. I may have enough parts to make up a second computer for Linux.
Buck
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 20:34:35 -0500, Mike Vanecek wrote:
[Recycling the reply I posted to redhat-list and fedora-list just a
few minutes ago. Why the separate cross-post?]
Because not everyone subscribes to all three lists and I want to get
I have just discovered a scenario where fdisk is safer/more useful than
cfdisk, through the hard way.
Let's say a 40G hard drive /dev/hde has two primary partitions and 20G
free space (as defined in /etc/fstab):
/dev/hde1: ext3 (10G) mounted on /mnt/dir1
/dev/hde2: ext3 (10G) mounted on
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:33:30 -0400, TK wrote:
The lesson is, before you make any change to a partition, make sure no
partition from the same physical device is mounted. And use fdisk, not
cfdisk (despite it's much more user-friendly).
Must be
I am thinking about backup procedures for my server.
I am currently using the following partitions on my Windows server: A)
Main boot, OS and programs, B) Minimal OS install for restoring the OS
if necessary, C) Data Partition for storing all shared data, D)
Partition for storing drive images for
can an xp's partion(ntfs) be mounted on red hat 9...i was able to do it on
suse linux but not on red hat 9
thnaks ahaead of time,
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On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 00:25, Buck wrote:
I am thinking about backup procedures for my server.
[snip]
I don't know what normal backup procedures look like, I don't think I
have seen any since about 1990.
Anyone have any helpful suggestions?
I really don't grok what your real question might
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 00:33, Rene's Caltech Email wrote:
can an xp's partion(ntfs) be mounted on red hat 9...i was able to do it on
suse linux but not on red hat 9
You might try searching the archives next time. This has been asked a
million-gazillion times. :)
Yes , I tried for linksys wmp54g with redhat 8.0 its worked fine for
me..
-santosh
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Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 7:10 AM
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Subject: 802.11g cards
Has anyone tried either the
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