Unix already had the ability to mount tape devices as
filesystems
using the block device drivers ages ago. (V6 and probably
eariler)
write your 512 byte blocks
out onto the tape, mkfs (newfs now adays) your filesystem,
and mount it.
Not used - too slow to access because of the tape motion and
Smartstart? , must be a compaq proliant?
There are known issues with Compaq and Redhat, they keep
removing
from random releases the data files that are needed to deal
with the differences
between the way compaq does things hardware wise and the
rest of the planet.
had the same problems with 6.1,
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Dixon
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 4:23 PM
To: Red Hat Mailing List
Subject: [SUMMARY] NFS between Linux and Solaris
Well, I wish I could say I have an authoritative answer
on
what
I dont really understand the true nature of your problem,
you are not being clear.
But based on some assumptions -
ARPD translates IP addresses into MAC Addresses
RARPD translates MAC Addresses into IP Addresses.
They both use the same IP-ARP table in the kernel and both
get
their answers from
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Amble
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 5:53 PM
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Subject: Daemon restart by non-root user
I have a daemon which is started automatically during the
system boot-up
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris
W. Parker
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 6:18 PM
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Subject: RE: Mail is not working (any way to send message
when daemon is
down)
Dali Islam mailto:[EMAIL
Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Cohen
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 6:17 PM
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Subject: RE: Mail is not working (any way to send message
when daemon is down)
Actually,
You are wrong.. You can send mail w/o the
For a couple of thousand bucks or so, it's a per user
license, you can always
use Acrobat Distiller Server software to convert Postscript
to pdf and it
runs on Solaris, LINUX, and Windows and has the directory
autoscanner you seek. I am currently running it on WinNT,
plan to move it to Linux or
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 18:59, Reuben D. Budiardja
wrote this in an
attempt to be witty or informative:
snip
I doubt also there is a single application that can
convert all kind
of file under Windows.
It's called Data Junction. Converts anything to anything
else
based on a
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bret
Hughes
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: fax server recommendation
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 11:31, Noah wrote:
can somebody recommend a fax server program out there?
perhaps something
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hal
Burgiss
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:06 PM
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Subject: Re: PDF Converter on Linux/Redhat
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:18:25AM -0400, Kenneth Goodwin
wrote:
MS Word will also convert most of the important stuff
NAS is short for Network Attached Storage. So NAS-es
would
be Network
Attached Storages which doesn't sound right :-). How
about
NAS arrays
or NAS appliances or NAS subsystems?
--
Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador
I'll step back in here since people seem to want to slam
tape. I happen
to manage systems in a medium-size enterprise. One
server alone has
3.5TB of storage. For that server, we take weekly full
backups and plan
to keep (most systems are already there but this one
isn't
yet)
Try nousb, if that fails, nodma.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Nathalie Boulos
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 8:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installing RH8 on proliant800
Hello Sean,
Well i've tried
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Kelerion
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 9:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: sendmail - splitting outgoing mail to 2
recipients
I just re-read what I wrote.. lets try again :)
eg: person
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ed
Wilts
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 11:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: sendmail blocking
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 07:53:17AM -0700, Nick White
wrote:
I have a quick sendmail question. A server sits
between
our internal
mail
its proprietary software under license from NCD that runs
the terminal -
try EBAY, the dude that sold you the unit or a google search
of the terminal to find
a local high volume supplier who might cut you a break on
the price
considering they are basically a dead product at this
time
1Ghz and the AMD is a Pro 1400+. I'll see if I can copy
the
boot stuff
over.
Thanks,
James
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 15:04, Kenneth Goodwin wrote:
No detail, Sounds like cpu architectures getting in the
way
to me.
I take it the AMD is a later processor rev than the
Dell.
Example
Try either Register.com or Registry.com (.net maybe). Its a
public DNS server that costs a couple of bucks a month.
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Nurullah Akkaya
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 5:15 AM
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One question I have that came out of this discussion is
why are systems
behind routers safer? What kind of security does a
router provide?
A router by itself does not provide any inherent
security. However:
A standard router, such as a cisco 2501, can do port
blocking, which can
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 13:41, Edward Croft wrote:
Kevin, you want me to hold him down while you thwack
him! :-P
I started in '83 on a Kaypro II, then 85 switched to
Digital VAX, then
DG, and so on and so forth
Anybody remember soldering together HeathKit PCs?
Not the PC,
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 09:49, Kenneth Goodwin wrote:
SNIP
Dropping your first punch card deck on the floor and
having
to manually
resort the entire deck of 500 cards because you did not
snip
ROTFLMAOPMP, Kenneth, I give up, you win! you win!
Sheesh.
I remember Hollerith cards
Been there, done that. Fortran IV was where it was at!
At
the time I
took my programming languages course, we took APL, Algol
and PL/1. C
wasn't invented yet. We also studied Fortran, Cobol, and
Assembler
(good old IBM 360 at that).
I have(had) a friend in college who was an APL
From: Edward Croft [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Card sorters? You had card sorters? Ok, we *may* have had
one, but I'm not
sure.
yes and damn glad of it..
Then there's my favorite - the time in school when my
short program would
not run, and would not run, JCL error, and it was the
only
No detail, Sounds like cpu architectures getting in the way
to me.
I take it the AMD is a later processor rev than the Dell.
Example - the DEll is a pentium One and the AMD is a
Pentium 3 class machine?
The AMD might be running a 586 based kernel while the Dell
might be running
a 386 kernel. The
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
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard
Crawford
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 5:49 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The best UPS for RH?
The power at my house blinked last week, crashing my
mail
server, so I
have now
/devices/ifcfg-eth0
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
HWADDR= (the correct MAC is listed here)
--- Kenneth Goodwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The network config tool may be broken,, have you
looked
at the underlying //etc/sysconfig
you are not likely to be able to ping anyone, most
sites block pings nowadays. Can you run a browser session or
dig on a domain name to see it's ip address?
what does ifconfig say about the ethernet card's address
info
is it right for your ISP?
do you reset your default gateway, dns server info
Not if he is using it successfully with a static IP
on another LAN.
Are you using the ethernet cable that came with the cable
modem?
if not, try it. It should be the correct type for a PC to
cable modem connection.
Starting to sound like a deaf NIC. Did you try to swap it
out yet?
Jason,
The NIC was defective.
I am sending this email from the machine that could
not reach the internet, which now has a new NIC in it.
Thanks to all for your help. :)
Ken
So as I gather - It was Working at the office lan,
died upon power up at home. Not unusual, but not a
t
Steve,
Yes, I tried unpluging and reseting the cable modem
too. It still dosen't work.
Ken
1) I presume you already reset the linux box for DHCP
service for this NIC's address
so it should DHCP poll when you reboot the machine. ie you
Checked the /etc/sysconfig/net*
files and
Maybe you need a cross over cable and are using a straight
through cable. Check the link lights on the
cable modem (labeled PC usually) and your ethernet card.
They should light as long as the link is established
hardwrtae
wise and there is power at both ends.
Is the other machine being cabled
Ken,
Maybe you've already tried this, but my cable modem has a
feature
which requires it to be reset every time a new device is
plugged
into it.
-Steve
different ken here, BTW - that feature is called ARP,Address
Resolution Protocol,
the cable modem has learned the ethernet
Address using the Network Configration tool. I have
tried the config with and without the Bind option
selected.
Which file is the /etc/sysconfig/network master file?
The file /etc/sysconfig/network
Ken
--- Kenneth Goodwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
looks okay, kinda weird you need
Hi,
I'm using redhat 7.4 and in bits/types.h time_t is
defined
as long int.
This causes a wrap in 2038 (as I'm sure you all know). I
searched the
redhat site for date 2038 and found very little current
stuff. The
attached post from 1998 seems to say 'all will be well'
but
I'm having
Here's some output i am getting when booting up the
system...
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu
Savolainen 1993-1996
sb: Creative SB AWE64 Gold detected
sb: Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold sb config failed (out of
resources?)[-2]
sb: Failed to initialize Creative SB AWE64
The card has ISA w/ no jumpers or switches and it is (i
believed) a plug
and play card.
It is installed at the time the RH 9 is installed.
About the driver, Kudzu detect the card at startup and I
assumed that it
already load the proper drivers like for ex. what kudzu
did on my
minutes for the cable modem and connection to
reset.
4) boot the broken machine
5) Check via ifconfig -a to see if IP address, etc is set.
--- Kenneth Goodwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can reach the internet using the same cable
modem at
the same location
he cant use a static ip as one is not assigned to him
by the ISP, they use DHCP.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Kelerion
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 1:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Ethernet DHCP Fails on Cable
I can reach the internet using the same cable modem at
the same location on a different machine running red
hat 6.2 with eth0 configured for dhcp.
Try removing the NIC from the other machine and install
it in the new
machine.
At the same time? Perhaps your ISP only allows one DHCP
The network config tool may be broken,, have you looked
at the underlying //etc/sysconfig network related files?
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Kelerion
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 1:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
Ashley
Are the drive Manufacturers different?
Although EIDE is supposed to be a standard
manufacturers will tend to do their own thing in regards to
jumpers and how things behave.
You could be running into such an issue here and it will
affect how the drives
Otto -I think you are missing the big picture here and
Ashley can confirm it or
disprove me -
1 - this system had two IDE drives in it at Linux
installation time.
A (the MASTER) and B (The Slave), There is no SCSI, NO
RAID, no LVM.
just a simple plain vanilla LINUX setup.
2 - Linux was
- set hda's jumper back to master otherwise BIOS
complains and won't
boot
- shoved floppy in, booted up just fine
- ran grub-install /dev/hda, no errors
- removed floppy, reboot
- BIOS finds hda, knows there's no hdb, goes on to
boot
- black screen, with
To those of you, who have the theory that GRUB is
loading stage1
and can't load stage2 answer the question, how it can
find stage1 and
then can't find stage2?, when both are in the same
GRUB
directory. It
can not find the GRUB directory period.
BIOS loads and starts the
BIOS loads and starts the code from master boot record,
but code in
MBR fails to load stage1.5 which is located at a fixed
position on
hda. At that point, GRUB does not even know about
directories yet,
since it is this later stage that would give native
access to ext2
fs. The
I think this goes too far, and I don't see what it would
change.
IIRC, it has been mentioned that grub-install works
flawlessly when
slave drive is available and even when slave drive is
removed and
system is booted with bootdisk. However, the newly
written GRUB then
fails in MBR as
for.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth Goodwin
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 11:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: GRUB failure
BIOS loads and starts the code from master boot
record
what I am saying is that the MBR may be crafted or
rebuild
by anaconda for the two drive setup disk info.
It's grub-install/grub that creates stage1 based on the
grub.conf
created by anaconda.
Grub-install. which I have not seen admittedly, may
be based
on a MAKE environment
Kenneth Goodwin wrote:
1 - this system had two IDE drives in it at Linux
installation time.
A (the MASTER) and B (The Slave), There is no SCSI, NO
RAID, no LVM. just a simple plain vanilla LINUX setup.
Nope. The machine had ONE drive upon installation.
hdb wasn't
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what I am saying is that the MBR may be crafted or
rebuild
by anaconda for the two drive setup disk info.
It's grub-install/grub that creates stage1 based
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M. Kirchner
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 2:31 PM
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Subject: Re: GRUB failure
Kenneth Goodwin wrote:
what I am saying is that the MBR may be crafted or
rebuild
by anaconda
for the two drive setup disk
On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 13:06:19 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner
wrote:
If it doesn't print
an error message, it has loaded and jumped into stage2
either with
LBA or CHS geometry.
I'm curious, where does stage1_5 come into play, if
what you're
suggesting is that it jumps
PM
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Kenneth Goodwin wrote:
yOU DONT GET A BOOT time MESSAGE ABOUTING CHECKING FOR
new
hardware?
That's kudzu's job, and it's been long removed. (So
the
answer to
your question is no, I don't.)
--
W | I
I thought Kudzu was replaced by Anaconda I dont recall
seeing it on my RH 8/9 systems
but I may have been asleep at the console at the
time...
You skipped a post somewhere...the machine has 7.3 on
it.
actually i missed all the early ones and said so.
I only jump in when
Of Michael
Schwendt
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They both are there trust me. In RH8/9
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Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 2:44 PM
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Subject: RE
I missed your previous input and you cut out all the running
dialog
so i have no clue as to what has already been discussed , so
soorry
for anything stupid here... but here's two cents worth
Sort sounds like your hardware configuration is not correct
anymore, like
you forgot to undo something
Maybe grub knows about the second drive through Kudzu
finding it or something,
it is listed in grubs config file and grubs barfs when it
cant find it
even though it is irrelavant, if true then this is a
probably a bug in grub
(pun intended)
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Did ya change the master/slave jumper on the HDa drive
to
single drive when you removed
the hdb drive by any chance? Is this a compaq by any
chance
that would now prefer you switched to cable select? Does
the
drive show up in the bios?
does it actually try to boot?
Again, you're not understanding the problem. When you
boot
you transfer
to the MBR which loads GRUB. GRUB then loads the config
file and prints
the boot images and identifies to itself where the
kernels images are
located. When you select one it transfers to that kernel
image
Update, forgot one little detail.
Maybe I misunderstand here, but this seems to be a
situation
where -
A working Linux system using GRUB with MBR on HD-A,
.conf
file on HD-A
had a new disk drive HD-B added to it.
They did nothing apparently to reconfigure the box
Maybe I misunderstand here, but this seems to be a
situation
where -
A working Linux system using GRUB with MBR on HD-A,
.conf
file on HD-A
had a new disk drive HD-B added to it.
They did nothing apparently to reconfigure the box
bootwise.
They added the
Ashley said that was done as well as changed the hardware
to
single boot
disk from master/slave. The only solution seems to be
reinstall hdb
which indicates to me that it is not hardware related but
something is
causing the partitions to be changed. There maybe some
link or
weird thought
switching her disk geometry scheme to LBA and
re-installing GRUB should
I did not see her? original psoting so I dont
know exactly what her two drive setup was.
But I thought most systems were running LBA mode by default
now adays.
Perhaps the setup had two different
Well I'm not so sure about that.. whenever GRUB doesn't
find it's grub.conf file,
it just enters it's CLI mode from where you can do things
manually. This is not the
problem.
I've had the same situation happen to me with LILO,
when I
first installed RH,
, and one fine day for
What I did notice is there wasn't a /boot
partition in the listing that was sent
You don't need a /boot partition. The grub.conf was
perfectly valid with
/dev/hda1 = (hd0,0) being the root partition and
containing the /boot
directory.
The code from MBR fails to load GRUB main
Let refine my answer to it can't find the grub directory
period.
The MBR is not even finding the start of the secondary
loader here.
Perhaps it all happens too fast -
Does the drive light flicker when it tries to load phase two
or not? If no disk activity after the initial MBR load is
seen
This has certainly sparked an interesting
conversation,
and aside
from me trying everything everyone has suggested here, I
don't know what
else to do than to just say 'fuck it'. It works with hdb
in place.
There is, to me, no logical explanation as to why grub
would just
decide
.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Kenneth Goodwin
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 6:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: GRUB Failure
Well I'm not so sure about that.. whenever GRUB
doesn't
find it's
Depends on what the lines actually look like, check man/info
pages but you could
Try cut -f1 filename | sort | uniq
you need to sort it first prior to UNIQ.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Barry
Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, July 30,
In all my years of using awk, this is the first time I've
ever had to output
a character to a file. For example, I have the following:
sprintf(%s,%s\n, SiteVal, CustomerID) outputfile
I suppose you could try
sprintf(%c%s%c,%c%s%c\n, '', SiteVal, '', '', CustomerID, '')
I dont have my GAWK manual handy, but I think your problem may
be that you are using SPRINTF which is a print to string function
as in str = sprintf() rather than something like fprintf() or printf()
I would expect that the format overall would be
INPUT_SOURCE | awk -f awk-script_file
just a thought,maybe already explored, probably dumb, but did you plug
the speakers into the line out jack on your sound card or the wrong jack.
Ok.
Following the suggestion of Fred I plugged the headphones
and it works (good
idea, I should have think of it). I can hear the song,
Why dont you just turn off DHCP and assign static IP's?
You are achieving the same thing. Do you plan to move the systems?
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Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 2:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{
hardware Ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00;
fixed-address 10.x.x.x;
}
Hi,
I was hoping to avoid this as I've 60+ clients (and
new ones coming and going weekly) and don't want to
know there MAC addy. Howver, it looks as if
The -M is more than likely a flag to the loader on your solaris platform
not the compiler. See 'man ld' or 'info ld' on your linux box and man ld
on your solaris box and see if there is a correllary between the two loaders
for this operation.
Hi Eric,
Have you taken a look at the
| On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 10:07, Distribution Lists wrote:
|with some help I have CPIO backing up a system to a remote
| tape drive
|across a 100MB switch. Using the following command
|
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