Re: Total nOOb question: uninstalling software

2002-12-11 Thread Dumas Patrice
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:27:54AM +0800, Alex RENE wrote: > Hi all... I know, it's REALLY a nOOb type of question but... How do you > uninstall stuff you did not install by RPMs like from tar.gz and the > likes ... I have WAY too many browsers installed on my machine, and I d > like to get rid of

Re: Relying on NFS availability

2002-12-03 Thread Dumas Patrice
> set the default mount options for the NFS filesystem(on the client) to > be soft(I believe default is hard). When the system boots if it cannot > mount it, it should continue, then when something tries to access it, > it will try(again) to mount it. I am not really knowledgeable on that subject,

Re: nfs and other problems

2002-11-25 Thread Dumas Patrice
> > > >in.telnetd: LOCAL > >in.ftpd:LOCAL > > > >ALL : 192.168.230. > >ALL:127.0.0.1 255.255.255.0 > >swat: 127.0.0.1 192.168.230. > > > /dallas ripley (rw,root_squash) First there should be no space between hosts and options. Like:

detect caracter set of a text

2002-11-22 Thread Dumas Patrice
Hi, I have several problems with non utf-8 encoded texts, and I would like to know how to detect which encoding it is. Is there a utility usefull for that ? (I use iconv to convert, and I assume latin-1 most of the time and it works, but...) Pat -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailt

Re: Wrong view of ä,ö,ü

2002-11-21 Thread Dumas Patrice
Hi, > I installed redhat 8, some programms shows the ö,ä,ü ... wrong. (vim, > perl output) > What can I do? If this is the problem I describe, this should only happen with files created with older versions of redhat. I think this is linked with UTF-8 being the default encodind, now. To overcom

Re: command line config tool

2002-10-25 Thread Dumas Patrice
Hi, You can use in text mode redhat-config-print-tui, but for a real comand line I don't know. > Hello > > Just wondering if RH has any tools that configure LPRng > from the commandline or would someone who has forgone > the pleasures of the GUI's just have to get his hands > dirty and dig into

su adds ESC%G when run on tty or in rc.local

2002-10-18 Thread Dumas Patrice
Hi, i use redhat 8.0. When, on a tty, I do $su - snfs -c "echo nothing" > /root/test in /root/test, I have ESC%Gnothing What is that ? To have more info, I do $(set -x;test=`su - snfs -c "echo nothing"`; echo $test) 2>/root/set_test in /root/set_test, there is: + set -x ++ su - snfs -c 'echo no

Re: NFS Security

2002-04-12 Thread Dumas Patrice
> > I remember reading an article online a month or two back about tunneling NFS > > over SSH. Do a Google search and see if you can find it. You may also use snfs, at http://www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/snfs/ There is still some issues with file locking and nfs tunneling. Pat _

Re: VNC Server on Redhat 7.2

2002-04-12 Thread Dumas Patrice
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 06:38:25AM -0700, Brian wrote: > I did, service start vncserver and it comes back with an ok. I have a You have to put things in /etc/sysconfig/vncservers Another way of running vncservers for anyone is to use the -inetd switch of vnc and start the server from xinetd (you

Re: ntpd doesn't use distant servers time

2002-03-08 Thread Dumas Patrice
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:38:06AM -0600, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 09:08, Dumas Patrice wrote: > > > [ repeated 4 times ] > > sherkan.tuxfamily.net: *Timeout* > > > > I think the problem lies on my side because these are public timeservers for

Re: ntpd doesn't use distant servers time

2002-03-08 Thread Dumas Patrice
> > Reachability for all the listed timeservers is 0, which means you have > never had a successful connect. Check your firewall logs, or do an > ntptrace. Chances are, the packets are being rejected at your side or > theirs. I did a ntptrace, It gives: [root@zeus lts_kmap]# ntptrace -d -v -t 4

ntpd doesn't use distant servers time

2002-03-05 Thread Dumas Patrice
Hi, I have a redhat 7.2, ntp-4.1.0-4. I have a single host I try to synchronise with external servers. I took the servers from my country (france) in the list of public servers. I put them in my /etc/ntp.conf: #begin /etc/ntp.conf server 127.127.1.0 # local clock fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum

how to uninstall .src.rpm ?

2002-02-15 Thread Dumas Patrice
Hi, I would like to uninstall some .src.rpm I have installed on my system. I may go into the BUILD, SPEC, SOURCE. directory and delete the directories/files by hand, but is there a more automated way of doing that ? Pat ___ Redhat-list mailing li

sendmail nullclient and mail to root

2002-02-07 Thread Dumas Patrice
Hi, I have configured sendmail as a nullclient with the following parameters. [root@zeus]# cat /etc/mail/null.mc include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4') VERSIONID(`linux setup for Red Hat Linux nullclient')dnl OSTYPE(`linux') undefine(`UUCP_RELAY')dnl undefine(`BITNET_RELAY')dnl DOMAIN(`gener

Re: Problems tunneling X after su to root.

2002-01-24 Thread Dumas Patrice
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:16:44AM -0500, Jeff Bearer wrote: > Hello, > > I have some strange beahvior and I can't figure out what the deal is. > Some of my servers I can ssh to, su to root and tunnel an x program like > up2date. Others won't and give me this error: > > X connection to :12.0 b

Re: Need help with a bash script - -n and -z always giving "true" ?

2002-01-24 Thread Dumas Patrice
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 01:51:50PM -0600, JW wrote: > > if [ -n `mount |grep "/mnt/root/cschomeserver/e"` ] #if it's already mounted don't >mount it > > fluorite:~ # ./test.sh > ./test.sh: [: too many arguments The problem in your script is that the result of the command in backquotes is put a

Re: after upgrade to 7.2 X don't start console ownership problem

2002-01-18 Thread Dumas Patrice
Hi, > Pat I have seen these type of errors when I logged in as one user, su'ed > to another and then tried to startx. My one and only suggestion is to > log off all VT's and then login as the user and try it. I allready verified that, as I, too, had some problems when logging as a user and anot

Re: after upgrade to 7.2 X don't start console ownership problem

2002-01-17 Thread Dumas Patrice
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:28:53AM -0500, Juan Martinez wrote: > In 6.X, there is a file /etc/security/console.perms which changes > ownership and permissions of files on the system when you login. I've got it too, and it seems that it wasn't changed during the upgrade (no console.perms.rpmnew an

after upgrade to 7.2 X don't start console ownership problem

2002-01-17 Thread Dumas Patrice
Hi, Maybe this should go on redhat-install-list ? I have just upgraded my redhat box from a 7.0 (with lots of 7.1 and 7.2 rpm) to 7.2. I start X from the console using startx. I did it without problem just one time. Now I can only start X as root. As a user, I get: Fatal server error: PAM auth