Up2date -f boots to grub prompt!

2003-07-13 Thread john-paul delaney
I'm in trouble List After reading a previous message on simply upgrading the kernel with the up2date -f force switch. I tried it and rebooting gets me immediately to the: grub prompt. I'm using rh 7.2. I had upgraded the kernel previously from the redhat network website, and hoped for

Re: Up2date -f boots to grub prompt!

2003-07-13 Thread john-paul delaney
ted. /j-p. john-paul delaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in trouble List After reading a previous message on simply upgrading the kernel with the up2date -f force switch. I tried it and rebooting gets me immediately to the: grub prompt. I'm using rh 7.2. I had upgraded the kernel previ

Re: Up2date -f boots to grub prompt!

2003-07-13 Thread john-paul delaney
can try to edit the grub file.(I assume that you are using grub rather than lilo)G :-)On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 11:09, john-paul delaney wrote: I'm in trouble List After reading a previous message on simply upgrading the kernel with the up2date -f force switch. I tried it and rebooting gets me

Yahoo HTML: Apologies to List

2003-07-13 Thread john-paul delaney
Sorry folks... with my own mail server down, I resort to Yahoo to seek help from the list. I wasn't aware of sending html format - I hope I've turned it off now and that this message arrives as plain text. /j-p. __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95

Re: Up2date -f boots to grub prompt!

2003-07-13 Thread john-paul delaney
. --- George Nicholls [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 12:33, john-paul delaney wrote: Thanks George... I typed in: grub kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-17.7.x then grub boot and it begins to load the kernel. Unfortunately it stops at: EXT2-fs

Re: Up2date -f boots to grub. Back Online!

2003-07-13 Thread John-Paul Delaney
Thanks a bunch Michael... looking at your reply sent me to: info grub realizing I had no idea how the boot loader works. I tried the commands you suggested but didn't get it right - grub.conf wasn't found even though a TAB listed it in the /boot/grub directory. (The following are some

Re: Named setup: modify pid file location

2003-07-11 Thread John-Paul Delaney
-Paul Delaney wrote: Hello List... I'm trying to setup bind9 on rh9. I get an error on startup of named - cannot open pid file /var/run/named.pid: Permission denied. However I want to write the pid to /var/run/named/named.pid instead (creating a named directory) so I can give the named user

Named setup: modify pid file location

2003-07-10 Thread John-Paul Delaney
Hello List... I'm trying to setup bind9 on rh9. I get an error on startup of named - cannot open pid file /var/run/named.pid: Permission denied. However I want to write the pid to /var/run/named/named.pid instead (creating a named directory) so I can give the named user read/write rights.

Memory: Bios total 262144K - top total 14332K

2003-03-31 Thread John-Paul Delaney
Hello List... I appear to have a memory configuration problem. The difference between the system bios and what free/top reports as total memory seems very odd. free -m reports 13 as total mem! Is it possible to tell the OS how much memory is available? thanks /j-p. -- redhat-list

Re: Memory: Bios total 262144K - top total 14332K

2003-03-31 Thread John-Paul Delaney
262144K - top total 14332K From: John-Paul Delaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:05:24 +0200 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello List... I appear to have a memory configuration problem. The difference between the system bios and what free/top reports as total memory seems very odd. free

Re: Memory: Bios total 262144K - top total 14332K

2003-03-31 Thread John-Paul Delaney
what version of Red Hat you are using. Message: 10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Memory: Bios total 262144K - top total 14332K From: John-Paul Delaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:05:24 +0200 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello List... I appear to have a memory configuration problem

RE: understanding tftp

2003-03-25 Thread John-Paul Delaney
and try again! Cheers Christopher CUSE RHCE/CCNA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John-Paul Delaney Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 11:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: understanding tftp Thanks Gene... I completely mis

Re: understanding tftp

2003-03-24 Thread John-Paul Delaney
PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: understanding tftp John-Paul Delaney wrote: tftpd seems to be running ok: root 20212 0.0 0.3 3544 632 tty1 S07:50 0:00 grep tftpd if you did ps auxw | grep tftpd like above, that's all your going to see. your tftpd is not up

RE: understanding tftp

2003-03-20 Thread John-Paul Delaney
: John-Paul Delaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:56:15 +0100 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a multipart message in MIME format. --=_alternative 00368DA1C1256CEE_= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hello List... I'm having problems setting up a tftp server on my rh8.0 box

Re: understanding tftp

2003-03-20 Thread John-Paul Delaney
connections per second from=10.11.35.8 xinetd[21348]: FAIL: tftp connections per second from=10.11.41.254 xinetd[21348]: FAIL: tftp connections per second from=10.11.41.254 41.254 is the router I was trying to tftp from and 35.8 is my workstation where I was testing. thanks /j-p. John-Paul

understanding tftp

2003-03-19 Thread John-Paul Delaney
Hello List... I'm having problems setting up a tftp server on my rh8.0 box. I want to use it to backup cisco router configurations. I've created a file called startup-config in the tftpboot directory with chmod 777 and chown nobody:nobody. The directory tftpboot is also 777, nobody:nobody.

understanding tftp (apologies if received as html)

2003-03-19 Thread John-Paul Delaney
I received a reply to my earlier message informing me I had sent it as html. Apologies - here it is (I hope!) as plain text. /j-p. __ Hello List... I'm having problems setting up a tftp server on my rh8.0 box. I want to use it to backup cisco router configurations. I've

Vim: caps lock status

2002-12-09 Thread John-Paul Delaney
Hello list... Excuse me if it's off-topic but I'd like to know how to continuously show the status of CAPS LOCK in the status bar of vim (in text-mode i.e. not the gui). I frequently mess things up as I've forgotten to turn off CAPS LOCK. Thanks /j-p. -- redhat-list mailing list

postgresql source install - can't find readline

2002-11-03 Thread john-paul delaney
Hello List... I'm trying to install the latest verion of postgresql [7.2.3] after removing the rpm installation (which worked ok with readline) on RH7.3. My problem is that the output of configure states: ... checking for readline... no ... with the result that postgresql installs ok but I

Re: [Solved] postgresql source install - can't find readline

2002-11-03 Thread john-paul delaney
For the record, after installing termcap-devel rpm, then running ldconfig, I was able to compile postgresql from source with readline. /j-p. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe

Last Login: from :0

2002-09-30 Thread john-paul delaney
I've just logged in a root to my recently-installed and up2dated 7.3 box, and get the following Last Login message: Last login: Thu Sep 26 06:52:20 from :0 As I'd normally expect on tty2 or similar, what does from :0 mean to you? thanks /j-p. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Re: 7.3 Upgrade, routing problem (solved)

2002-09-30 Thread john-paul delaney
Ok I found the problem: It was in /etc/sysctl.conf - ip forwarding was off. /j-p. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: 7.3 Upgrade, routing problem

2002-09-30 Thread john-paul delaney
I haven't seen my update to this appear on the list so apologies if this is a second post the problem was in /etc/sysctr.conf - ip forwarding wasn't enabled /j-p. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe

Re: 7.3 upgrade: Bind fails when ipchains enabled.

2002-09-29 Thread john-paul delaney
...the destination port is 53. On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, john-paul delaney wrote: Thanks Mike... I've turned on 53/tcp (as well as 53/udp) as you suggest and will force a reload to test. I still have a problem with lookups from the internet, as in the following tcpdump extract

7.3 Upgrade, routing problem

2002-09-26 Thread john-paul delaney
Hello List... I've just upgraded a home server from 7.0 to 7.3. It's dual-homed, one side connecting to the inside LAN (10.11.11.1/24), the other side (192.168.1.2/24) connecting to an ADSL router on ethernet (internal address 192.168.1.1, and external public static ip). All working fine

Re: 7.3 Upgrade, routing problem

2002-09-26 Thread john-paul delaney
I've been having mail problems getting sendmail to work again... so this message wasn't posted to the list (though was sent). Basically the problem was caused by ip forwarding turned off in /etc/sysctl.conf. /j-p. On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, john-paul delaney wrote: Hello List... I've just

Re: 7.3 Upgrade, routing problem

2002-09-26 Thread john-paul delaney
Thanks Edward... that was indeed my error. regards /j-p. On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Edward Marczak wrote: On 9/26/02 10:06 AM, john-paul delaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] tapped the keys: Hello List... I've just upgraded a home server from 7.0 to 7.3. It's dual-homed, one side connecting

7.3 upgrade: Bind fails when ipchains enabled.

2002-09-26 Thread john-paul delaney
Hello List... After upgrading from rh7.0 to 7.3, I've found that Bind doesn't work for zone updates (I'm using a hidden primary nameserver which refreshes secondary.com nameservers) nor the dig command from the internet even though I had allowed incoming traffic to port 53 (I'm new to

Re: 7.3 upgrade: Bind fails when ipchains enabled.

2002-09-26 Thread john-paul delaney
Thanks Mike... I've turned on 53/tcp (as well as 53/udp) as you suggest and will force a reload to test. I still have a problem with lookups from the internet, as in the following tcpdump extract: - justatest.com.domain: 12+ A? linuxdoc.org. (30) 05:53:27.724911 justatest.com

Stuck in INIT: and can't get out of it...

2002-08-28 Thread john-paul delaney
Hello List... I'm trying this again as I'm pretty desperate. Booting my rh 7.0 machine hangs at INIT:. Running a repair install, I can access the disks, mount partitions and see the files sysinit and rc which appear intact (with root execute attributes). I have a backup of the machine (made with

Re: Stuck in INIT: and can't get out of it...

2002-08-28 Thread john-paul delaney
Well spotted ... yes it is a typo, and should be as you suggest.thanks.You reckon I'm looking at a reinstallation then? (eek!)/j-p. juaid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: From: john-paul delaneyINIT: cannot execute "/etc/rc.d/init.sysinit"mmhhh, did you misstype this?? tere's no /etc/rc.d/init.sysinit

Re: boot fails: cannot execute /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

2002-08-25 Thread john-paul delaney
es you can type linux rescue from a rescue disk.Then aferwards youare asked to load the system from CD or a HD partition.--- Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>skrev: On Sat, 2002-08-24 at06:11, john-paul delaney wrote:Hello List...While on holidays my home pc running rh 7.0 suffere

System time:root 4hr difference

2002-05-20 Thread john-paul delaney
Hello List... Typing 'date' as a normal user always shows a difference of 4 hours than when the same command is used when logged in as root. Nevertheless, for both the user and root logins, hwclock returns the same time. Even if I set the system time to that of the hardware clock, there's

WARNING /tmp/apache not found.

2002-05-19 Thread john-paul delaney
Hello list... The backup report on my rh7.0 tells me it cannot find my apache directory (installed on /tmp for bad disk partitioning/space reasons). Granted, I may have inadvertently deleted it myself though not sure of this. Is there a way to find out what happened? I've not found anything

Apache:Load mod_status error

2002-05-19 Thread john-paul delaney
Hello List... Running apache1.3.24 on rh7.0. I attempt to dynamically load mod_status: LoadModule status_module /usr/lib/apache/mod_status.so but on apachectl I get this error: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/mod_status.so into server: undefined symbol: ap_hook_use Anyone have any

Re: WARNING /tmp/apache not found.

2002-05-19 Thread john-paul delaney
Thanks Michael and Emmanuel... you've taught me something new. Anyone have an idea how can I prevent tmpwatch removing the sub-directory /tmp/apache (at least until I move the apache directory to a safer home) but still run on /tmp as normal? regards /j-p. On Sun, 19 May 2002, Michael

Re: WARNING /tmp/apache not found.

2002-05-19 Thread john-paul delaney
Michael... Notch up one more grateful newbie on your guru yardstick. thanks /j-p. On Sun, 19 May 2002, Michael Fratoni wrote: On Sunday 19 May 2002 04:47 pm, john-paul delaney wrote: Thanks Michael and Emmanuel... you've taught me something new. Anyone have an idea how can I prevent

Re: SysV Init script:Tomcat

2002-05-02 Thread john-paul delaney
Thanks Bret for your advice... that worked a treat! /j-p. On 2 May 2002, Bret Hughes wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 03:02, john-paul delaney wrote: Hello List... I didn't get any reply on this request. If anyone has installed tomcat from rpm, could you send me (offlist

SysV Init script:Tomcat

2002-05-01 Thread john-paul delaney
Hello... Can anyone help this newbie with an init script for tomcat (4.0.1). I'm using redhat 7.0 and need to run the following command: ulimit -s 2048 before loading tomcat (a jdk1.3 workaround). I also want to load Tomcat as user tc. Right now I'm manually invoking the tomcat

Re: SysV Init script:Tomcat

2002-05-01 Thread john-paul delaney
Hello List... I didn't get any reply on this request. If anyone has installed tomcat from rpm, could you send me (offlist) the initialization script found in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ for tomcat please? thanks /j-p. On Wed, 1 May 2002, john-paul delaney wrote: Hello... Can anyone help

Setting System time:hwclock --hctosys

2002-04-07 Thread John-Paul Delaney
Hello... How do I set the system time from the hwclock so that it remains as set, even on logout? hwclock shows the correct time for my central europe location with daylight savings time (CEST). However my system time is running -2 hrs (UTC time I think). The command hwclock

Httpd startup failed:execvp missing

2002-03-25 Thread john-paul delaney
Hello List.. Tripwire recently reported that my httpd.conf file was missing. I restored from backup but restarting httpd fails with the error execvp: no such file or directory Where would this file normally be found? thanks /j-p. --- JUSTATEST Art Online

Re: Secondary DNS

2002-02-27 Thread john-paul delaney
secondary.com xtremeweb.de zoneedit.com /j-p. On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Szemerédy Gábor wrote: Hello! I need a secondary DNS out of my address space. Do somebody know such a free service somewhere ? Thanks --- JUSTATEST Art Online www.justatest.com

Vim:Config by FileExt

2002-02-23 Thread john-paul delaney
Hello List... Howto modify .vimrc so that: if FileExtension == htm or html or jsp or php set sts=2 else set sts=3 end if (?) thanks /j-p. --- JUSTATEST Art Online www.justatest.com ___ Redhat-list mailing list

Nu-B\Linuxconf:Changes which files?

2002-02-22 Thread john-paul delaney
Hello List... After my ISP's DNS crash, I used linuxconf to modify my DNS setting. However I'd prefer to do the necessary changes to whichever files are involved - without the use of linuxconf. What file(s) would I normally have to modify for external DNS configuration? A more general Q.:

NewBie:.vimrc/.exrc:set sts=3

2002-02-13 Thread john-paul delaney
Hello List... I'm using more more the vi editor (vim 5?) that comes with my RH7.0. but am finding the :help quite 'pithy' and would appreciate a little advice on this... I just want to set the command :set sts=3 as default How to do this - (or better still, is there an easier document that

ulimit in rc3.d?

2002-02-07 Thread john-paul delaney
I want to load tomcat4 as a daemon on bootup of my RH7.0. However, in order to load tc normally, I need to issue the command: ulimit -s 2048 (sets the stack size?) otherwise it fails to load (Sun supplied the suggested workaround). It loads ok manually but not when run in runlevel 3, and I

Vi: Replace Word sequence

2002-02-05 Thread john-paul delaney
Newb question... Having previously yanked a word, I now want to replace the word at the cursor with the one in memory. What's the best way to do this substitution? thanks /j-p. --- JUSTATEST Art Online www.justatest.com

Re: Vi: Replace Word sequencei

2002-02-05 Thread john-paul delaney
Thanks... Sorry I wasn't specific. I'm using the Vi editor in a terminal (not GUI)... without a mouse. regards /j-p. On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, ABrady wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:41:45 -0100 (GMT+1) john-paul delaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] implied: Newb question... Having previously yanked

Re: Vi: Replace Word sequence

2002-02-05 Thread john-paul delaney
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Duncan Hill wrote: thanks... for the buffers tip. cwesc - nuke current work (there has to be an easier way) dw ? --- JUSTATEST Art Online www.justatest.com ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Vi: Replace Word sequence

2002-02-05 Thread john-paul delaney
, 5 Feb 2002, Dave Ihnat wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:41:45AM -0100, john-paul delaney wrote: Having previously yanked a word, I now want to replace the word at the cursor with the one in memory. What's the best way to do this substitution? Others have mentioned named buffers

Re: Vi: Replace Word sequence

2002-02-05 Thread john-paul delaney
Cool... the subtle touch. Thanks Lynn. /j-p. On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Lynne Lawrence wrote: Note: P is nice to insert the word back in front of something because yw yanks a trailing space. --- JUSTATEST Art Online www.justatest.com

/ ( /dev/hda1 ) Out of diskspace...help!

2002-01-20 Thread john-paul delaney
Hello List... df -h shows that my /dev/hda1 has 0 space availability: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 484M 485M 0 100% / However there's only one file left on the root directory (rhinstall-stage2.img: 106MB). I had moved any others off to another

Howto manually trigger fsck

2002-01-20 Thread john-paul delaney
Hello List... fsck /dev/hda1 output warns: Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage.. Things are bad enough as it is, so I abort the command. However I would like to trigger a manual filesystem check... how can I do so? thanks /j-p.

Re: Howto manually trigger fsck

2002-01-20 Thread john-paul delaney
Nick Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think 'shutdown -rF now' might help. * On 20-01-02 at 14:33 * Duncan Hill said On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, john-paul delaney wrote: Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem

Re: Howto manually trigger fsck

2002-01-20 Thread john-paul delaney
Yes! That was the question to show me what an idiot I am... I had moved the files mentioned - instead of to a newly partitioned disk /dev/hdc3, to a directory (created by mistake) on the root called hd3. Sorry to have wasted your time gentlemen - but you saved me from making more fatal

newbie: scsi tapedrive

2002-01-19 Thread john-paul delaney
Hello List... Trouble-free installation of: 2940 controller and HP35470A tapedrive on P133 [all hand-me-downs]. Both were recognized by the hardware and (already-installed) RH7.0 on next bootup. However, my attempts to mount and access the drive all fail. Trouble-shooting tips please? Thanks,

Re: newbie: scsi tapedrive

2002-01-19 Thread john-paul delaney
Thanks a bunch guys... I did as suggested and I now get some response from the tape. Is mt recommended for backup operations (it does seems a little cryptic at first)? regards /j-p. ... Easy one. You don't mount tape drives. You reference them as /dev/stwhatever devices from memory.