Re: Another newb question. (Uninstalling apps)

2003-10-10 Thread jurvis lasalle
need a book for this one, it's all sitting on your computer already. try 'man rpm' and then maybe 'man man' the command you're looking for now is rpm -e installedrpmpkg i also recommend you read up about the -q option. Jurvis LaSalle -- redhat-list mailing li

Re: List of "user-level" root commands?

2003-10-10 Thread jurvis lasalle
any attempt to "allow all commands except..." is doomed to failure, at least in a technical sense." If I were you, I would create a very restrictive sudoers file and then add to it as your developers request new commands. Hopefully the requests will flow to a trickle afte

can't read superblock

2003-10-09 Thread Jurvis LaSalle
es and tried several different cd's in this drive to no avail- anyone know what's up? this box is running red hat 7.3. thanks in advance, Jurvis LaSalle -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

remote dumps from rh7.3 to tape drive on solaris8

2003-09-09 Thread jurvis lasalle
've heard that dumps are picky and very os dependent- is there anything i can do to use these tapes? tia, Jurvis LaSalle -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

spec'ing a small server room

2003-09-02 Thread jurvis lasalle
Hi all, I've been asked to put together a proposal for a modest server room (i mean closet actually, roughly 8 x 8) and was fishing for some guidance, suggestions, links, etc. from the veterans out there. I've been told to shoot for the moon so that we can still wind up with some decent hardw

Re: invalid user name

2003-08-28 Thread jurvis lasalle
because a period (or colon) can be used to separate arguments to commands like chown. for example, > chown user1.group1 somefile makes user1 the owner and group1 the group of somefile. if periods were allowed in usernames, all hell could break loose. the same goes for #'s, and :'s. i know th

Re: NIS client couldn't log in

2003-08-27 Thread jurvis lasalle
On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 16:55 America/New_York, Rick Warner wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:17, jurvis lasalle wrote: Sorry, I failed to post the resolution to my problem. Once I turned off iptables, the client bound to the server and all the yptools worked as usual. As I stated in the

Re: NIS client couldn't log in

2003-08-26 Thread jurvis lasalle
On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 02:17 PM, Rick Warner wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 11:05, jurvis lasalle wrote: Actually rick, I had similar problems with rh9, NIS, and iptables as posted here http://info.ccone.at/INFO/Mail-Archives/redhat/Jul-2003/msg00806.html In broadcast mode i was able to

Re: NIS client couldn't log in

2003-08-26 Thread jurvis lasalle
On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 13:46 America/New_York, Rick Warner wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 10:16, Ben Hall wrote: I'm using RH9 to connect to an existing NIS server (on Solaris.) I had problems connecting to the server when RH's firewall (iptables) was running. Try turning that off. (PS: Y

Re: How can I use WINE on RH9? Thanks a lot!

2003-08-26 Thread jurvis lasalle
On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 12:06 America/New_York, jiang Yi wrote: Hi I'm using RH9. May I ask how can I use WINE on it? Thanks a lot! Richard Jiang Start by installing an rpm from here, http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241. make sure you grab the one with rh9 and yo

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-25 Thread jurvis lasalle
On Sunday, Aug 24, 2003, at 20:31 America/New_York, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: At 8/24/2003 19:07 -0400, you wrote: Sorry, I'm joining this thread way after the fact. The only thing I'll mention is that I *have* seen certain applications zero out a very large filesize in preparation for filling up

strange rpm behavior in attempt to circumvent up2date

2003-08-22 Thread jurvis lasalle
is entirely? what's the best way to get my installation tree up2speed without requiring all those damn entitlements? or maybe that's the point... tia, jurvis lasalle -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: storage available?

2003-08-21 Thread jurvis lasalle
On Thursday, Aug 21, 2003, at 18:20 America/New_York, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the command line how can I tell how much storage space is available on the hard drive? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list try 'df

Re: kickstart and firewalls

2003-08-21 Thread jurvis lasalle
if anyone knows how to make this work though, i'd much like to hear it... thanks, jurvis lasalle On Wednesday, Aug 20, 2003, at 20:31 America/New_York, Jason Dixon wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 17:42, jurvis lasalle wrote: i'm kickstarting some computers and need to open up ports 111 and

Re: kernel version from command line?

2003-08-20 Thread jurvis lasalle
to get just what you need... 'uname -r' On Wednesday, Aug 20, 2003, at 17:35 America/New_York, Redhat wrote: Also, how do I find out what kernel version is running from the command line? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redha

kickstart and firewalls

2003-08-20 Thread jurvis lasalle
i'm kickstarting some computers and need to open up ports 111 and 6000 for NIS and x11. i have this line in my kickstart file: firewall --medium --dhcp --port=111:tcp --port=6000:tcp --port=ssh:tcp this does open holes for dhcp and ssh, but not NIS or x11. i have replaced the 111 with sunrpc a

rh9 nis client frustration!?!?!?!

2003-07-08 Thread jurvis lasalle
i have recently install rh9 on a box in the lab and tried to integrate it into the nis domain with a master server running rh7.3. i have )set the domainname )checked that the portmapper was running )added the master server to /etc/hosts )modified /etc/yp.conf accordingly to use the server nam