RE: Tape Backup

2003-10-23 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
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 unre

RE: rarpd & netmask

2003-10-22 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
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 t

RE: [SUMMARY] NFS between Linux and Solaris

2003-10-22 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jason 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

RE: RH 9 install issue

2003-10-22 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
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, 7

RE: Mail is not working (any way to send message when daemon is down)

2003-10-09 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Cohen Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 6:17 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' 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 se

RE: Mail is not working (any way to send message when daemon is down)

2003-10-09 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris W. Parker > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 6:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Mail is not working (any way to send message > when daemon is > down) > > > Dali Islam

RE: Daemon restart by non-root user

2003-10-09 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Srini Amble > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 5:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Daemon restart by non-root user > > > I have a daemon which is started automatically during the > system boo

RE: Prefered backup method?

2003-09-17 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> 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)

RE: Prefered backup method?

2003-09-17 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> 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 A

RE: PDF Converter on Linux/Redhat

2003-09-17 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hal Burgiss > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: PDF Converter on Linux/Redhat > > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:18:25AM -0400, Kenneth Goodwin wrote: > > > > MS Word will a

RE: fax server recommendation

2003-09-17 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> [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 som

RE: PDF Converter on Linux/Redhat

2003-09-17 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> > On Tuesday 16 September 2003 18:59, Reuben D. Budiardja > wrote this in an > attempt to be witty or informative: > > > 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

RE: PDF Converter on Linux/Redhat

2003-09-17 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
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 Sol

RE: NCD w/ Linux

2003-09-15 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
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

RE: sendmail blocking

2003-09-15 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> [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 >

RE: sendmail - splitting outgoing mail to 2 recipients

2003-09-15 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [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

RE: Installing RH8 on proliant800

2003-09-15 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
Try nousb, if that fails, nodma. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [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

RE: LPIC passing percentage?

2003-09-05 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> > 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

RE: LPIC passing percentage?

2003-09-05 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> 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

RE: LPIC passing percentage?

2003-09-05 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 09:49, Kenneth Goodwin wrote: > > > > > Dropping your first punch card deck on the floor and having > > to manually > > resort the entire deck of 500 cards because you did not > > ROTFLMAOPMP, Kenneth, I give up, you win! you win

RE: LPIC passing percentage?

2003-09-05 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> > 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? > > > >

RE: Router question (was Re: postfix problems)

2003-09-05 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> > 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, wh

RE: hosting a domain name

2003-09-05 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
Try either Register.com or Registry.com (.net maybe). Its a public DNS server that costs a couple of bucks a month. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nurullah Akkaya > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 5:15 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Swapped Hard Drives

2003-09-05 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
on the right track. The Dell machine is a PIII > 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 gettin

RE: Swapped Hard Drives

2003-09-04 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
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

RE: spec'ing a small server room

2003-09-02 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> 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 decen

RE: The best UPS for RH?

2003-08-28 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [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 >

RE: Ethernet & DHCP Fails on Cable Modem to Internet

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
ess was added when I selected Bind to MAC > 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

RE: Ethernet & DHCP Fails on Cable Modem to Internet

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> > 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 e

RE: Ethernet & DHCP Fails on Cable Modem to Internet

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
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 an

RE: Ethernet & DHCP Fails on Cable Modem to Internet

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
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 the

RE: Ethernet & DHCP Fails on Cable Modem to Internet

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> 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 n

RE: Ethernet & DHCP Fails on Cable Modem to Internet

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
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? > >

RE: Ethernet & DHCP Fails on Cable Modem to Internet

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
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 e

RE: Ethernet & DHCP Fails on Cable Modem to Internet

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > /etc/sysconfig/networking/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]>

RE: SB AWE64 Gold on RH 9...error messages

2003-08-10 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> 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

RE: SB AWE64 Gold on RH 9...error messages

2003-08-10 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> 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 AWE

RE: time_t size and year 2038 wrap

2003-08-10 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> 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 h

RE: Ethernet & DHCP Fails on Cable Modem to Internet

2003-08-08 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
3) wait a few 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: > > > > > >

RE: Ethernet & DHCP Fails on Cable Modem to Internet

2003-08-07 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
The network config tool may be broken,, have you looked at the underlying //etc/sysconfig network related files? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kelerion > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 1:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subj

RE: Ethernet & DHCP Fails on Cable Modem to Internet

2003-08-07 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> > >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 on

RE: Ethernet & DHCP Fails on Cable Modem to Internet

2003-08-07 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
he cant use a static ip as one is not assigned to him by the ISP, they use DHCP. > -Original Message- > 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 Cab

RE: [RH List] RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-04 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
gt; To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [RH List] RE: GRUB failure > > > They both are there trust me. In RH8/9 > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth Goodwin > >

RE: [RH List] RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-04 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
ROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Schwendt > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 4:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [RH List] RE: GRUB failure > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 15:43:38 -0400, Kenneth Goodwin wrote: > >

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-04 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> > > > Now Mike, This is not Fair! You cant keep changing the > > nomenclature > > like this, It just confuses my poor little brain... > > I thut I thaw a put-tee tat.. > > GRUB in MBR does not care at all whether the _next_ stage is the > final stage as found in file /boot/grub/sta

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-04 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> > >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 j

RE: [RH List] RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-04 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
t 04, 2003 3:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [RH List] RE: GRUB failure > > > Kenneth Goodwin wrote: > > >yOU DONT GET A BOOT time MESSAGE ABOUTING CHECKING FOR new > >hardware? > > > > > That's kudzu's job, and it&#

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-04 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> > 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 > > suggestin

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-04 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
ginal Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ashley M. Kirchner > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 2:31 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: GRUB failure > > > Kenneth Goodwin wrote: > > >what I am saying is that the MBR may be craf

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-04 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Schwendt > > > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 12:59 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: GRUB failure > > > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-04 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> 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. > > > > > > No

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-04 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> > > 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 e

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-04 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
the boot loader for the other OS's. Remember what GRUB stands for. > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth Goodwin > > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 11:51 AM > > To: [EMAIL

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-04 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> > 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 a

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-04 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> > > > 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

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-04 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> > >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

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-04 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> - 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, w

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-04 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
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 i

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-04 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
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 respon

RE: GRUB Failure

2003-08-01 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
o go home. > > -Original Message- > 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&

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-01 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> 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 >

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-01 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> > 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

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-01 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> > > 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 G

RE: GRUB Failure

2003-08-01 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> >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

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-01 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
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 con

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-01 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> 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 > so

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-01 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> 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

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-01 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
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

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-01 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> > 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

RE: [RH List] RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-01 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> >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? > >

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-01 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
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) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: GRUB failure

2003-08-01 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
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

RE: Print the first column of a file

2003-07-30 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
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. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Barry Johnson > Sent: Wednesday, July 3

RE: Simple AWK question

2003-06-11 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
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

RE: Simple AWK question

2003-06-11 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> > 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, '"', '"',

RE: Can't listen to my CDs. Need to rip them.

2003-06-05 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> 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 s

RE: dhcp - max lease time

2003-06-03 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> > > > { > > 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,

RE: dhcp - max lease time

2003-06-03 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
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? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Williams > Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 2:29 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: missing posting

2003-05-29 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
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

RE: Need more speed - CPIO

2003-05-27 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> | > 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 > | > | You can generally pick up some speed in these circumstances by > | not competing w