no modules named rpm, using up2date

2003-10-13 Thread Ian L
redhat9 system when i try to launch up2date from the command line, it comes back with: ImportError: No module named rpm If i start python, and try to import rpm, i get the same error. Any idea what its unable to find the rpm module? ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

copy old drive to new drive

2003-10-13 Thread Ian L
. Anyway to do this? I have partition magic 6 ... but unfortunately the greedy bastards at powerquest wont let you install it on a windows server machine, and thats the only windows machine i can install it on right now. Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https

copy old drive to new drive

2003-10-13 Thread Ian L
. Anyway to do this? I have partition magic 6 ... but unfortunately the greedy bastards at powerquest wont let you install it on a windows server machine, and thats the only windows machine i can install it on right now. Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https

Re: rsync-backup

2003-10-09 Thread Ian Mortimer
pshots/ -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Legal Characters in DNS

2003-10-06 Thread Ian Mortimer
> I thought that DNS was getting "internationalized" and migrating towards > unicode Yes. DNS is a general purpose distributed database. There are restrictions on which characters are legal in hostnames but those restrictions don't apply to other DNS record types.

Re: samba and windoze98

2003-10-06 Thread Ian L
talking about. Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Redhat Certification

2003-10-05 Thread Ian Mortimer
of not even Linux specific. (Don't know about RHCT but I presume it's similar). -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: LANG=?

2003-10-05 Thread Ian Mortimer
blem at the moment seems to be a bug in perl's unicode handling. Apparently that's fixed in rawhide (and presumably will be fixed in Fedora). The bad news is the disease seems to have spread from RH 9 to RH 8.0 following the latest perl errata updates. -- Ian -- redhat-list mai

Re: Legal Characters in DNS

2003-10-02 Thread Ian Mortimer
ant document is RFC 952. -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Dumb Newbie question bout Tripwire

2003-09-30 Thread Ian Mortimer
omize for your system, use your preferred editor ./twinstall.sh tripwire -m i You'll probably have to tweak it a bit to eliminate error messages about missing files: cd /etc/tripwire vi twpol.txt tripwire -m p twpol.txt See the man pages for more details. -- Ian -- redha

Re: onstream out of business?

2003-09-30 Thread Ian Mortimer
> > does anybody know if onstream is out of business? their website has not > answered for the past month. Sadly yes. They went bankrupt early in the year. There was some talk of a revival (it's not the first time they've gone bankrupt apparently) but no sign of that yet.

Re: Remote Keyboard and mouse

2003-09-28 Thread Ian Mortimer
hrough ssh. -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Fedora

2003-09-25 Thread Ian Mortimer
know it's popular on desktops. > Slackware and Mandrake are too. Our first web server ran on slackware (many years ago). -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Fedora

2003-09-25 Thread Ian Mortimer
opular with ISPs). FreeBSD and OpenBSD are also popular. -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Fedora

2003-09-25 Thread Ian Mortimer
> > What options are left to the SOHO server user if not Fedora or SUSE? > How about Mandrake? On a server? Debian or FreeBSD are likely to be more stable. -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Fedora

2003-09-23 Thread Ian Mortimer
pular - partly because of knoppix) or *bsd. -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: RHCE (was Fedora)

2003-09-23 Thread Ian Mortimer
he first place). (Most of our servers still run on 7.3 with a few running on 9). It would be nice to move all servers (or at least the most important ones) to RHEL but cost is a problem for us. -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

rh9 auto-logout

2003-09-22 Thread Ian L
it so its disabled for everyone? Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Plea to Linux Users

2003-09-22 Thread Ian Mortimer
on remote systems. The CD idea has merit though. You could put the application and all the utilities it uses on a CD, mount the CD on one host and export it over NFS to other hosts on the network. -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com

Re: RHCE (was Fedora)

2003-09-22 Thread Ian Mortimer
l services on Fedora. Could mean a move to debian or freebsd for servers. -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: RHCE (was Fedora)

2003-09-22 Thread Ian Mortimer
Enterprise Linux AS/ES/WS 4. All RHCEs and RHCTs earned on RedHat Linux 8.0 or 9 will remain current until the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Sounds like yours is good until the release of RHEL 4. -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Abiword 2.0.aaarrrrrghghghhghgh

2003-09-21 Thread Ian Mortimer
k with the libraries installed on your system and (if the rpm spec file is done correctly) will also adjust paths appropriately for your system. Still no guarantee that will work but it can solve some of the obvious problems. -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EM

Re: nfs reporting stuff that isnt there anymore

2003-09-19 Thread Ian L
At 06:50 PM 9/19/2003, you wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 20:01, Ian L wrote: > fixed this somewhat. I remembered i did a kernel upgrade and never rebooted :) > > rebooting seems to have fixed it, although i still am having problems > mouinting one machine: > > mount: RPC: Prog

Re: nfs reporting stuff that isnt there anymore

2003-09-19 Thread Ian L
fixed this somewhat. I remembered i did a kernel upgrade and never rebooted :) rebooting seems to have fixed it, although i still am having problems mouinting one machine: mount: RPC: Program not registered I looked on that machine and the exports file is set up to allow the connection. ian

Re: nfs reporting stuff that isnt there anymore

2003-09-19 Thread Ian L
clue how to correct this. ian At 05:21 PM 9/19/2003, you wrote: in my exports file i have a few entries. When i run exportfs -a it has some entries where are no longer in the exports file. Anyone have any idea where its getting this old stuff from and how to fix it? machine:/disk3: Functio

nfs reporting stuff that isnt there anymore

2003-09-19 Thread Ian L
:/disk: Function not implemented machine:/: Function not implemented those entries are no longer in the exportfs file ... and havent been for a quite a while. ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

nfs problem

2003-09-19 Thread Ian L
here that i cant kill because it would mean the loss of hours of run time. thanks, ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Congrats on rh9 distr...but questions remain about choices made re: Apache/Samba

2003-09-17 Thread Ian Mortimer
..why wasn't this included? It's included in the httpd-devel package. It's standard RedHat (good) practice to have separate devel packages. -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: OT: Verisign petition

2003-09-17 Thread Ian L
fightback. For every measure these scumbags take to force there spam upon us, a new counter measure will appear :) -- Regards, Res I really think it should just be legal to kill them. It should be considered self defense :) ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: grub boot order question

2003-09-17 Thread Ian L
well i used grubby as someone suggested, and that seemed to work. Although i dont understand why i couldnt edit the conf file since thats all grubby seemed to do. I guess grubby wont make changes unless your syntax is right. But i think i can handle changing a 1 to a 0 :) ian At 02:59 PM 9/17

Re: creating multi volume tar files .tar1, .tar2 etc

2003-09-17 Thread Ian L
years now without a single failure. -- Ian well it seemed like a bad idea to commit ourselves to using a backup drive for which buying new tapes would probably not be possible, plus if the drive bit the dust, we wouldnt have access to any of our backups. It seemed like a really nice drive. I

Re: Latest iptables init scripts, and "rmmod"

2003-09-16 Thread Ian Mortimer
> Be very surprised if this was always a problem with RH8 given its > maturity. I first started seeing it after the last errata update to iptables for RH 8.0 (a few weeks ago). -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/li

Re: Latest iptables init scripts, and "rmmod"

2003-09-16 Thread Ian Mortimer
y systems to crash and reboot, and another to > lock up. Another side effect is that it causes hosts to hang during shut down or reboot at "stopping iptables". A major pain if you're rebooting remotely. Might be a good idea to post it on bugzilla along with the fix. -- Ian -

Re: creating multi volume tar files .tar1, .tar2 etc

2003-09-16 Thread Ian Mortimer
a brand new onstream > drive? :) Pity about that. I've been using an onstream drive for backups for about 3 years now without a single failure. -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: creating multi volume tar files .tar1, .tar2 etc

2003-09-16 Thread Ian L
At 06:57 PM 9/16/2003, you wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:31:32 -0700 Ian L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > > i made a stupid assumption ... tar would do something intelligently. > > I was running a back up such as: tar -cvlf file.tar -L 50 /disk /disk2 > > W

Re: creating multi volume tar files .tar1, .tar2 etc

2003-09-16 Thread Ian L
At 06:54 PM 9/16/2003, you wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:31:32PM -0700, Ian L wrote: > I was running a back up such as: tar -cvlf file.tar -L 50 /disk /disk2 > > What i thought this would do is back up /disk and /disk2 in multiple tar > files of 500megs each. Instead, it crea

creating multi volume tar files .tar1, .tar2 etc

2003-09-16 Thread Ian L
... i dont want to sit there and manually rename files or anything. I want to let it run and come back later and have X number of archive files. Ultimately these will be burned on a dvd drive on a windows machine. thanks, ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https

Re: grub boot order question

2003-09-16 Thread Ian L
e version number 2.4.20-20.8 in your case). -- Ian thanks, ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: grub boot order question

2003-09-16 Thread Ian Mortimer
0.8 in your case). -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

grub boot order question

2003-09-16 Thread Ian L
) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img if i change default=0 that should boot with the 2.4.20-20.8 kernel yes? Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat

Re: samba and iptables

2003-09-15 Thread Ian L
to have it working now. One last question though ... what's the parameter to tell it to only accept this traffic from a specific IP? is it -s ip-address ? thanks for the help, ian Hi Ian, I was just having the same problem and here is what Ben told me to do. This is a quote from him:

Re: samba and iptables

2003-09-15 Thread Ian L
At 05:43 PM 9/15/2003, you wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 20:32, Ian L wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm trying to set up samba to work with a win2k3 server and a redhat 8 > server. I've got samba 2.x installed. It seems to be working, although i > havent finished setting up all the

samba and iptables

2003-09-15 Thread Ian L
i didnt do something right. Can anyone tell me what entries i need to add to the iptables file to get samba to work? Right now i'm only planning on having the one windows machine talking to it. Both are on the same network with publicly available IP addresses. thanks, Ian -- redhat-li

Re: How to use USB key drive with Red Hat 9

2003-09-14 Thread Ian Mortimer
ws up as) o if there's no valuable data on it - run `fdisk /dev/sda' (or whatever), delete all existing partitions, create a new partition then format it as vfat with: `mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1' (or whatever). Then try mounting the newly created partition. If it doesn'

Re: IP address of a DNS

2003-09-12 Thread Ian L
from the command prompt you can type nslookup name.of.machine.com and it will give you the IP address. Ian At 07:52 PM 9/12/2003, you wrote: I need help finding the IP address of a Domain Name Server. Thanks -- Cheers, Trey --- At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that

Re: Should we stay with M$

2003-09-12 Thread Ian L
ch options. Without knowing what you need to do, i'd say for desktops go with windows. For servers, it all depends on your usage. ian At 05:05 AM 9/11/2003, you wrote: I know this is only kind of related to this list but I think some of you guys would be able to help me here. I work at

Re: Net::SSLeay on Redhat 9

2003-09-11 Thread Ian Mortimer
of the reasons package management was invented in the first place). -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: IMAP/POP server on Redhat Linux

2003-09-10 Thread Ian Mortimer
t; 9. # rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/imap-2001a-18.i386.rpm # chkconfig imap on # chkconfig ipop3 on -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Linear "RAID"? (was: Two partitions as one?)

2003-09-10 Thread Ian Mortimer
partition but it can save you the cost of repartitioning. Other (better) ways you could do it: mount one partition under the other make a symbolic link from one partition into the other Both of those are going to be simpler and more efficient than RAIDing two partitions on the same disk. -

Re: KVM Switch recommendation

2003-09-10 Thread Ian Mortimer
n 19 inc monitor. I've been using cybex (now avocent: http://www.avocent.com) for many years without a single problem. -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: fstab not mounting, but command line mount works

2003-09-08 Thread Ian L
At 04:51 PM 9/8/2003, you wrote: > Hi Ian, It's likely being mounted as ext2. Perhaps your ext3 module is not being loaded properly? To find out how it's being mounted to: mount /dev/hdb1 /traces mount The second mount will show you what filesystem was automatically detecte

Re: fstab not mounting, but command line mount works

2003-09-08 Thread Ian L
At 04:38 PM 9/8/2003, you wrote: On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 16:31:47 -0700 Ian L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have the following line in my /etc/fstab file: > > /dev/hdb1 /traces ext3defaults1 2 > > > however, this partition always fail

fstab not mounting, but command line mount works

2003-09-08 Thread Ian L
boots up i can go to the prompt and do: mount /dev/hbd1 /traces and that works fine. Anyone have any ideas why it fails to mount at boot? ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Linksys router and ssh connection

2003-09-08 Thread Ian L
this was off by default (i'm pretty sure) on my linksys router. And i've left it off. ian At 07:22 AM 9/8/2003, you wrote: I believe the Linksys allows you to shut off remote admin capability. <> -- Original Message --- From: "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <

Re: backup using dvd burner and windows machine

2003-09-06 Thread Ian L
At 07:56 PM 9/5/2003, you wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 19:04, Ian L wrote: > Hello all, > > I was wondering what the general opinion was on using a dvd burner in a > windows machine to backup some directories/files on 2-3 redhat servers? I > was thinking i could just mount the relev

Re: kernel screw up .. upgrade to 2.4.20-20.8

2003-09-05 Thread Ian L
At 05:45 PM 9/5/2003, you wrote: Ian L wrote: Thanks, i think i got it now. I just installed kernel-smp-2.4.18-14.i686.rpm. One question though, my lilo file is called lilo.conf.anaconda and when i run /sbin/lilo it complains it cant find lilo.conf That mean you are using grub. (Red Hat&#

Re: kernel screw up .. upgrade to 2.4.20-20.8

2003-09-05 Thread Ian L
At 05:15 PM 9/5/2003, you wrote: At 11:56 6/09/2003, Ian L wrote: Well, i cant seem to find the SMP version. I looked on the redhat ftp mirrors, and the closest i found were: kernel-2.4.18-14.src.rpm kernel-source-2.4.18-14.i386.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.18-14.i686.rpm kernel-BOOT-2.4.18-14.i386.rpm

Re: kernel screw up .. upgrade to 2.4.20-20.8

2003-09-05 Thread Ian L
;ve looked on the redhat update ftp site and i did not see any smp version of the kernel. Although there is an smp version for i586 and i686. Maybe i'm getting a little screwed up with my cpu architecture. Are xeon cpu's i686? because thats what in the machine, 2 xeon cpu's. Ian

kernel screw up .. upgrade to 2.4.20-20.8

2003-09-05 Thread Ian L
linux initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14smp.img read-only append="root=LABEL=/" Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

backup using dvd burner and windows machine

2003-09-05 Thread Ian L
tape drive 3. media is cheaper then tape media and lasts longer 4. i can read the media in any dvd drive. At this point the only reason i wouldnt go with this is if there is some technical limitation with this setup that i'm not aware of. Anyone have any feedback on this? thanks, Ian

Re: end of line at bash

2003-09-03 Thread Ian Mortimer
ees it. This also works: echo -e first line\\nsecond line -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: end of line at bash

2003-09-03 Thread Ian Mortimer
t msg |mail -s REPORT [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat is for files not variables and you need a $ before msg: echo -e $msg | mail -s REPORT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: getting dhcpd started

2003-09-02 Thread Ian Mortimer
> Anyone know what gives? The dhcp server rpm is called dhcp. What you possibly have installed is dhcpcd the dhcp client daemon. -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: RPM dead?

2003-08-18 Thread Ian Mortimer
s because you can tell if it's doing something or if it's hung. Is this RedHat 8.0 by any chance? -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: nfs newbie

2003-08-14 Thread Ian Mortimer
> I think / you can not export and can not mount.. You can (at your own risk - especially rw). -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: NIS on RH9

2003-08-14 Thread Ian Mortimer
Probably means your NIS server was temporarily overloaded with requests. -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: chkconfig doesn't work!!!

2003-08-14 Thread Ian Mortimer
> reboots. i used "chkconfig --add xd" and it still chkconfig xd on To check the run levels it will run in: chkconfig --list xxxxxd -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: nfs newbie

2003-08-14 Thread Ian Mortimer
on given by server: Permission > denied Did you run `exportfs -av' (or similar) after adding the entry to /etc/exports? -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Trouble extending file system with LVM

2003-08-14 Thread Ian Mortimer
resize2fs (you could also use ext2resize or even ext2online but you probably don't have those tools). If the filesystem type is not ext[23] you need to use the appropriate resizing tool. -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: metamail missing from Red Hat 9

2003-08-14 Thread Ian Mortimer
n RH 9 that does a similar job? I grep'd the > comps.xml file on the CD's for mime or meta and even mail, but > that turned up nothing usefull. I rebuilt the 7.3 rpm - that works fine. Still it would be nice to know why it was dropped and if there's an alternative. -- Ian -

Re: boot without keyboard

2003-08-07 Thread Ian Mortimer
> coulld linux boot up without keyboard? Sure. We've got dozens of headless, mouseless, keyboardless boxes here that boot without problems. (One old box with a dead cmos battery needs a keyboard so I can press F1 to get it to boot). -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscrib

Re: vsftpd warning message???

2003-08-03 Thread Ian Mortimer
7;t get client address: > Bad file descriptor It's because vsftpd doesn't call tcp_wrappers correctly. You can either ignore it or turn off use of tcp_wrappers in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf (assuming RH 9). See bugzilla: #89765 #88768 #89766 -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing

Re: How to remove file name call "-i" in Linux??

2003-07-24 Thread Ian Mortimer
> How can I remove the -i file? rm -- -i -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: building RPMs from SRPMs as non-root user

2003-07-23 Thread Ian Mortimer
> I've created .rpmmacros in my "/home/" containing "%_topdir > %HOME/rpm" as instructed. Is it something to do with the build root, or > file/dir permissions, maybe? Replace %HOME with the actual directory path /home/ and it should work. -- Ian -- re

Re: dig behavior

2003-07-20 Thread Ian Mortimer
rtname. > The fqn works fine. > > I am trying to make sure that this is the expected behavior. By default dig doesn't refer to the search list in /etc/resolv.conf. To get it to resolve short names use: dig +search hostname -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: Crontab - won't work from crontab but from command line (???)

2003-07-17 Thread Ian Mortimer
ines who the cron job runs as. See crontab(5). -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Crontab - won't work from crontab but from command line (???)

2003-07-17 Thread Ian Mortimer
ld not provide any output. What is the path to the database dump program? If it's not in a standard location it might not be in the execution PATH for cron. Try entering the full path in the script. -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redh

Re: Automated Backups Between Remote Redhat Boxes

2003-07-15 Thread Ian Mortimer
> What's a good method to do automated backups between two Redhat8.0 boxes > located remotely from each other? rsync over ssh. For a neat way to maintain multiple backups: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubsc

Re: named

2003-07-15 Thread Ian Mortimer
ep named | grep -v grep named 775 1 0 Jun06 ?00:04:53 /usr/sbin/named -u named To see all threads on RH 9 you need to run `ps -emf'. Running that on 7.3 gets: ps: error: Thread display not implemented. -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EM

Re: variables within an alias command

2003-07-14 Thread Ian Mortimer
bash doesn't seem to have that feature so I guess you'll have to put it in your .bashrc or .bash_profile (depending on where and when you want to use the function). (In other words: the same place you define aliases). -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto

Re: variables within an alias command

2003-07-14 Thread Ian Mortimer
> The alias would look something like this (as I imagine it in my head): > > $ alias ald='ls -la $1|egrep ^d' You'll have to define it as a function: function ald { ls -la $1 | grep -E ^d; } -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Dependancies and RPM's

2003-07-14 Thread Ian Mortimer
rpm -ivh gd-2.0.12-2.i386.rpm That will install both versions (as long as there are no conflicting files). -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Am I using grub or lilo?

2003-07-10 Thread Ian Mortimer
#x27;m shure is > installed with grub and I ran it on the correct boot device, /dev/sda1 in my > case, and it didn't find any GRUB string. Does it work if you try /dev/sda (rather than sda1)? -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: grub and raid1

2003-07-03 Thread Ian Mortimer
y (or two) (before) mkbootdisk $(uname -r) > > boot off the CD or a rescue disk and install grub (after) run grub in the rescue environment and do as above or chroot into the mounted system and run grub-install. -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Redhat Squirrelmail install

2003-07-03 Thread Ian Mortimer
uration script (as someone else suggested). -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: How do I generate a korn shell for Linux?

2003-07-02 Thread Ian Mortimer
ll after you install pdksh. -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: How do I generate a korn shell for Linux?

2003-07-02 Thread Ian Mortimer
of RH. Most versions come with pdksh. It was dropped from one of the 7.x releases (can't remember which one). -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: grub and raid1

2003-07-02 Thread Ian Mortimer
> And what occurs if hda dies. You can't boot!!! Either: install grub in the MBR of each disk (before) make a boot floppy (or two) (before) boot off the CD or a rescue disk and install grub (after) -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: grub and raid1

2003-07-02 Thread Ian Mortimer
OS drive. Grub gets installed in the MBR of a physical drive (there are other ways but that's the most common). You can't install it in a raid partition. Do: /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda (or whatever is your primary hard disk - the one the BIOS boots from). --- Ian -- redhat-list

Re: Firewall proxies and ssh, cvs

2003-07-01 Thread Ian Mortimer
x27;ve used fwtk's plug-gw for this. It only allows you to set up a many (on the inside) to one (on the outside) connection but if you need to connect to more than one external host you can configure more plug-gw's on different ports. --- Ian -- redhat-list mailing li

Re: how to accomplish this with vsftpd, or ...?

2003-06-30 Thread Ian Mortimer
sswd line to: passwd: files compat Then add this line to the end of /etc/passwd: +::/sbin/nologin and make sure /sbin/nologin is listed in /etc/shells. (You can use /bin/false instead of /sbin/nologin). --- Ian -- Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED]Ian Mortimer Tel: +61

Re: Upgrade from 7.2 to 9 performace loss

2003-06-29 Thread Ian Mortimer
uld be unicode related. You could test that by removing the .UTF-8 from the LANG setting in /etc/sysconfig/i18n. --- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: best way to allow uploading of files to webserver

2003-06-26 Thread Ian Mortimer
the OpenBSD philosophy is that if the system is configured properly with correct file and directory permissions you don't need a chroot jail. --- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: running mail command on very large mailbox causes segmentation fault, rh73

2003-06-24 Thread Ian Mortimer
ht want to read nmh(1) and take a look at: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/ --- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: running mail command on very large mailbox causes segmentation fault, rh73

2003-06-24 Thread Ian Mortimer
> http://at.rpmfind.net/opsys/linux/RPM/contrib/libc6/i386/mh-6.8.4-7.i386.= > html > =20 > Anyone know of a newer rpm or source? mh is not a command it's a suite of commands. Install nmh from the RedHat CD and type `man mhmail'. --- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list uns

Re: cannot start x server HELP!

2003-06-24 Thread Ian Mortimer
x27;s not running try: service xfs start and if that works try: startx Some KDE upgrades have been known to cause problems like this. Quick fix is to reinstall XFree86 or XFree86-base-fonts depending on the RH version. --- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: *extremely slow* text processing on Redhat 9

2003-06-23 Thread Ian Mortimer
in root's .bashrc on every box I administer. --- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: How come I'm missing entries from the dhcpd.leases file?

2003-06-23 Thread Ian Mortimer
scripts at: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~kevinm/dhcp/failover.html > Try adding: update-static-leases to your dhcpd.conf file. I don't think this will do what you want. See dhcpd.conf(5). --- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Quota Issue

2003-06-23 Thread Ian Mortimer
00 /home/aquota.user > #chmod 600 /home/aquota.group Try: quotacheck /home quotaon /home --- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: LVM and software raid

2003-06-19 Thread Ian Mortimer
> What about existing systems that have RH already installed -- is it > possible to add RAID afterwards if I just get the extra disks? If it > possible, has anyone documented this procoess It's possible but messy: create the RAID system on the new disk(s) configure the RAID system to run

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