Re: athlon xp vs. athlon mp (ot...kinda)

2003-02-28 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
> so now down to the question. whats the difference between a dual > athlon xp system and a dual athlon mp system besides a >huge< price > difference? the dual mp motherboards are twice as expensive...as are > the athlon mp processors. The mp has been configured by AMD to run in a multiprocessin

[OT] Business Week Article Shows Linux Gains

2003-02-24 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
This week's edition of Business Week indicates a significant gain in the use of Linux servers (over Sun and Microsoft) and shows Redhat as one of the "Winners" in the "Winners and Losers" column of the article. Worth a quick read if you are interested in that aspect of the software game.

Re: ftp incoming hacked

2003-02-23 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
You wrote: > lsattr is not installed on my system. > chattr not installed on my system either. If it was, I do not know the It sounds like your system has been cracked badly. The programs chattr, lsattr, etc are installed by the e2fsprogs rpm during install. It is highly possible that t

Re: LinNeighborhood

2003-02-05 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
> The problem has to do with the locking of some files... You don't have > to reboot to fix it. You just have to remove /var/lib/rpm/__db*. That was one of the first things I tried, but it didn't resolve the issue. Your diagnosis makes sense, but I didn't see any other locks on the files. Next

Re: LinNeighborhood

2003-02-04 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
FWIW, I have noticed that on very rare occasions rpm has gone into "hang" mode (usually when installing a new glibc). The only way to clear it was to do a "killall -9 rpm" from another screen. This has only happened on the smp boxen running RH 8.0 or Rawhide, however. After some playing --er--

Re: ASUS A7M and Western Digital problems?

2003-01-27 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
> <...snip > > I see that Monarch Computing uses the A7M-D, so the MB must work for > Linux... > > I'm wondering if there's something I overlooked that maybe either of > these machines will work if I did it right. I am about ready to spec > out a server from Monarch (probably with a Tyan MB) f

Re: Corrupt rpm database

2003-01-01 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
Oddly enough, I had a similar problem on an smp development box running Rawhide (beta) when I tried to upgrade to the new and improved glibc set. Lots of "I can only do PRIVATE_DB" type messages, rpm only worked from user accounts (not root) and no ability to reverse the glibc change. I ende

Re: Recommendations for an X-Windows client?

2002-12-03 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
> Does anyone have a recommendation for an X-Windows client that I can > install on the Windows 9X/XP computers to open graphical sessions to > the Linux server? This would just be used to allow me to perform > maintenance on the Linux box occasionally. > > I would prefer not to spend a bunch of m

RE: Shutdown error (the old umount2 error) SOLVED

2002-09-23 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
The symptom was umount2 couldn't unmount /usr. We added a diagnostic mod to /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt. Adding a call to /sbin/fuser to find the offending pid(s) and then to /sbin/lsof to see exactly what files were preventing the umount we got: COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE

Shutdown error (the old umount2 error) SOLVED

2002-09-23 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
The symptom was umount2 couldn't unmount /usr. We added a diagnostic mod to /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt. Adding a call to /sbin/fuser to find the offending pid(s) and then to /sbin/lsof to see exactly what files were preventing the umount we got: COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE

RE: Shutdown error (the old umount2 error) SOLVED

2002-09-23 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
(Repost - First Message Never Showed Up ) The symptom was umount2 couldn't unmount /usr. We added a diagnostic mod to /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt. Adding a call to /sbin/fuser to find the offending pid(s) and then to /sbin/lsof to see exactly what files were preventing the umount we got: COMMAND

RE: Shutdown error (the old umount2 error) SOLVED

2002-09-21 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
3rd and last attempt to post this The symptom was umount2 couldn't unmount /usr. We added a diagnostic mod to /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt. Adding a call to /sbin/fuser to find the offending pid(s) and then to /sbin/lsof to see exactly what files were preventing the umount we got: COMMAND PID U

Shutdown Error (the old umount2 error)

2002-09-18 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
Looking for suggestions on how to troubleshoot this thing more easily: Dual Athlon MP 2100+ workstation running RH Rawhide { a super modified 7.3 } . IDE hard drive. The directories /usr and /usr/local are on separate partitions for size reasons. The start for run level 0 is killall and reboo

Re: Kernel panic: No init found

2002-09-17 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
Was the directory " /initrd " deleted perchance? Somehow we deleted this directory on a smp dual athlon 2100 machine recently and ended up with the same problem. Restored it using the CD to boot rescue and has worked fine ever since. > I have run into a problem. My Redhat 7.3 will not boo

Re: Apache SSL Problems With New Openssl

2002-08-14 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
Gordon Messmer wrote: > Have you tried using up2date to update the system. It should get all > of the latest packages, and all of the required dependencies. I don't > have any 7.0 boxes left, so I can't comment regarding the problem. > However, if it is still a problem after updating with up2da

Re: apache SSL Problems With OpenSSl

2002-08-13 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
I discovered that openssl-0.9.6.9 appears not to have undefined references. That came out two security updates ago, however. Has anyone else observed the "OpenSSLDie" problem with the latest openssl security updates (10 and 14) or do I just have some quirk in my installation?? -- redhat-

Apache SSL Problems With New Openssl

2002-08-12 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
I did a periodic 120 day vacuuming and cat hair removal PM and found that my SSL server no longer starts apache with ssl (works fine if I comment all the ssl lines out of the conf file). The error message is : Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/libphp4.so into server: /usr/lib/libssl.so.1: undefin

Apache Won't do SSL Anymore

2002-08-12 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
I did a periodic 120 day vacuuming and cat hair removal PM and found that my SSL server no longer starts apache with ssl (works fine if I comment all the ssl lines out of the conf file). The error message is : Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/libphp4.so into server: /usr/lib/libssl.so.1: undefi

Dual Athlons and the ASUS A7m266-d

2002-03-30 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
Has the Redhat kernel-smp-2.4.9-31.athlon.rpm been patched to fix the apic error message occuring with some new motherboards (particularly the asus 7m266-d)? Is there any penalty incurred by booting with -noapic ? Alternatively it has been suggested to set the MPS to 1.1 from the 1.4 table

RH 7.2 and Dual Athlon MP2000's

2002-03-30 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
Has the Redhat kernel-smp-2.4.9-31.athlon.rpm been patched to fix the apic error message occuring with some new motherboards (particularly the asus 7m266-d)? Is there any penalty incurred by booting with -noapic ? Alternatively it has been suggested to set the MPS to 1.1 from the 1.4 table

Re: Source Navigator and tcl Verisons

2002-01-30 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
Used: make all-snavigator make install-snavigator {rather than } make make install Issue resolved after examining the top level Makefile. The documentation on this otherwise excellent program is ... well rather sparse. _

Source Navigator and tcl Verisons

2002-01-28 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
I am trying to put source navigator on a machine running RH 7.0 with tcl8.3.4 already installed. I get the infamous message: ` version conflict for package "Tcl": have 8,1, need 8.3' Tcl 8.1 is built in to source navigator. Removing Tcl8.3.4 is not an option on that box. Other than changin

Source Navigator and tcl Verisons

2002-01-28 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
I am trying to put source navigator on a machine running RH 7.0 with tcl8.3.4 already installed. I get the infamous message: ` version conflict for package "Tcl": have 8,1, need 8.3' Tcl 8.1 is built in to source navigator. Removing Tcl8.3.4 is not an option on that box. Other than changi

Wu-ftpd Exploit On Bugtraq

2000-06-24 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
SecurityFocus announced the latest wu-ftpd exploit. This was an Input Validation Error problem. Redhat (and most other distributions) released a fix for this exploit this week. This is an anonymous ftp exploit. Since the exploit code is nothing too formidable for a 13 year old, and the explo