I believe the thinking behind rhnsd is that it periodically checks with the RHN to see
if you've flagged any packages for installation via the web front end, and, if so then
it'll download and apply them. From man rhnsd...
DESCRIPTION
rhnsd is a daemon process that runs in the backgroun
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue42/tag/18.html
2GB is the max filesize for 32bit operating systems.
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From: "Jerome Dsilva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 10:56 AM
Subject: Support of file greater than 2gb
> Hi,
> Is there a
The easiest way is probably to install a bare RH server system with two network cards,
maybe with an X Window manager of your choice. Assuming you have DSL or cable, get
that working using DHCP/PPPoE/whatever with your ISP with one of those network
interfaces. Then setup something like gSshield[
If this is just in bash you can disable the beep by setting either:
set bell-style none
or
set bell-style visible
... in /etc/inputrc
>From the bash man page...
bell-style (audible)
Controls what happens when readline wants to ring the terminal bell. If set to none,
readline never rings th
From: "bulent acikgoz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hi Will,
> I tried your advice
What advice? The output below looks like you may have actually cleared everthing from
your /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date or something like that? I was just suggesting that
Doza look into this as one possible cause of probl
Edward Dekkers had a similar problem a month or two back and it turned out to be some
messed up settings in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date. Check that your config settings for
proxies and the like are correct for your network setup. Does your Smoothwall gateway
function as a proxy too?
And those pi
Bill,
the advice about SCP/SSH is worth heeding, however, if you really must use rsh have
you setup the appropriate .rhosts entries? ~/.rhosts must have 600 permissions for
user/group/other too, i.e. rw--- and be owned be the user of the $HOME it's in.
It sometimes helps if the host on eith
Strange. Sounds like a terminal type setup problem to me. What are you using as a
terminal? Konsole? And what does
$ echo $TERM
return? If you switch TERM to, say, vt100 then try viewing man pages do you still have
the problem?
$ export TERM=vt100
$ man someprogram
Or if you're using konsole
From: "Edward Dekkers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I feel like a dill - I'm normally the one ANSWERING questions - not asking
> them.
>
> Anyways - here it is - it's something simple and stupid.
>
> On 2 newly installed RH8 machines, when I run up2date, I get no route to
> host.
>
> I've disabled ipta
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Is there a GUI tool for LVM management? clearly, it doesn't
> come with the lvm RPM. or has someone thrown together a
> non-official version? thanks.
I've not tried it but there's EVMS...
http://www.rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=4802
Wil
Have you tried running the "strings" command on the file from a shell prompt? Strings
extracts any ASCII strings it can find within binaries.
NAME
strings - print the strings of printable characters in files
Will.
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From: "Stone, Timothy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
T
"rpm -qa" will show which RPMs are installed.
[wmcdonald@home wmcdonald]$ rpm -qa | grep samba
samba-client-2.0.10-2
samba-common-2.0.10-2
samba-2.0.10-2
samba-swat-2.0.10-2
And "rpm -e" as root will uninstall them. i.e.
[wmcdonald@fw wmcdonald]$ su -
Password:
[root@home /root]# rpm -e samba-cl
Does the user your FTPing to the Sun box as have a valid shell? If so the path to the
default shell for that user needs to be in /etc/shells. If you don't have a valid
shell on the Sun box then something like /bin/false will need to be in /etc/shells.
That could be the problem.
Otherwise, (agai
From: "Jeff Stillwall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > There are some other optimizations you can make.
>
> Where can I learn more about the whole /proc filesystem?
There's some starter info here:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/
Assuming you're using RH 7.3 specifically:
http://www.redhat.co
Actually, I've just reread my response and I notice you still want to receive mails
from cron for all other jobs for the same user? In which case you could probably just
redirect all output from that specific command to a logfile or /dev/null.
M H DoM M DoW your_fetchmail_command > /dev/null 2>&
Set MAILTO="" in the appropriate crontab and you shouldn't get any more notifications.
$ man 5 crontab
... for more information.
Will.
- Original Message -
From: "Radu Popa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 9:38 AM
Subject: Stop receiving m
To make Windows shares available on a linux box try something like the following in
/etc/fstab:
# To list available shares use "smbclient -L $IP -U $WINDOWS_USERNAME
//machine/SHARE /mountpoint smbfs
username=$WINDOWS_USERNAME,password=$WINDOWS_PASS,ip=$IP,fmask=664,gid=$LINUX_
Assuming all the current errata are on your CD you should be able to just cd to where
the errata are and...
# rpm -Fvh *.rpm
... and this should upgrade/freshen *only* installed packages. There may be one or two
dependencies that require sorting out by hand but shouldn't be too tricky.
Will.
Running...
# hwclock --systohc
... will set the hardware BIOS clock to whatever the the system time is. Assuming your
motherboard battery's got charge this should maintain time for you.
Will.
- Original Message -
From: "Darryl Darling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "redhat-list" <[EMAIL PRO
See this thread from the mailing list archives...
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/redhat-list/2002-November/157990.html
Specifically Adam Bowns' answer here...
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/redhat-list/2002-November/158001.html
"To get your rhn applet back you can just run it from t
From: "Stone, Timothy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Well, this causes a problem ... I keep getting an error reporting:
>
> Insecure ENV{$PATH}...
Does your PATH have ./ in it?
The -w switch to perl is "strict" I believe, which means it'll notify you if it thinks
anything's amiss.
Will.
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From: "Vano Beridze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Something deleted files in my home directory second time. These files are:
> .bash_profile,.bash_logout,.bashrc,.emacs,.gtkrc
If files have actually been rm-ed (as opposed to just zeroed) then the linux section
of this document may prove useful...
http
From: "Mikevl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hi can anybody tell me how to bulk add users from a text file or any other
> method?
> I currently have Redhat 7.2
Should be relatively easy with a for/do loop in a little script or something. Say you
have a file called $HOME/users.txt with just names in, in t
From: "Larry Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I've been looking around and it appears that there is no straight forward
> description of how to change the function of the backspace key to have it
> actually delete the key to the left while in a terminal. Prior to RH8 the
> terminal worked as I would l
From: "Alan Peery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> It seems a relatively simple set of mods for sshd, and I am surprised
> that the OpenSSH people aren't interested. Perhaps there is something
> in the structure of the code that would make it unexpectedly difficult.
http://chrootssh.sourceforge.net/
>F
Have you checked that cron's actually running? If your cron daemon's died it wouldn't
be picking up the logrotate entry in /etc/cron.daily, cron.weekly etc.
$ ps auxww | grep cron
Will.
- Original Message -
From: "Javier Gostling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thurs
Download and run nvchooser.sh and it'll tell you which RPMs you need. I suspect you'll
need to install the appropriate kernel headers and compile the src.rpm to get it
working.
While trying to get my onboard video working I found a few useful resources on the
subject...
http://www.nvnews.net/v
; I don't think it was an rpm install. It installed from their automated
> service on their web site. The program is located in
> /usr/local/netscape. If I remove this folder, will that be as good as
> installing it, or will there still be traces of the program left?
>
>
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I just install RedHat 8.0 and I am having trouble with GNOME starting up. I had
>RedHat 7.2 install and it started up fine. This is the way things are going. RedHat
>8.0 starts and into xdm fine. I log in with GNOME as my default. It gets to the
>RedHat GNOME Splas
From: "Greg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> How do I remove a program installed on my system? The program is
> Netscape 7, and system RH8.
>
> regards Greg
$ rpm -qa | grep -i netscape
Will show you which Netscape related RPMs are installed, then (as root)...
# rpm -e $RPMs
replacing $RPMs with the
There is indeed. I've only just subbed to this list but I noticed on...
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/valhalla-list
As for no one responding to your other questions, I've only seen one. I'd recommend
something like GShield which will set
Can you restart X with CTRL-ALT-Backspace? How about switch to a screen with
CTRL-ALT-F1? The first might get you back up and running (at the expense of any
unsaved data in open applications), the second might give you the opportunity to see
what's going on (run top, vmstat, ps etc.)
Have a log
From: "mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Will wrote:
>
> > I've just installed Redhat 7.3 on a new Athlon Thunderbird on an Asus
> > A7N266-VM board, with onboard Geforce 2MX, LAN etc. I've managed
> >to get RH installed and booting fine, now X is giving me trouble.
>
> > and edited XF86Config-4 acco
Hi,
I don't know if this belongs on the Vallhalla or Xfree86 lists but figured this'd be a
good place to start.
I've just installed Redhat 7.3 on a new Athlon Thunderbird on an Asus A7N266-VM board,
with onboard Geforce 2MX, LAN etc. I've managed to get RH installed and booting fine,
now X is
George,
Real player used to have a linux plug in on their website but it has
since been removed. I have an rpm for i386 at
http://www.rit.edu/~amm5449/rp/ hope this helps
-anna-
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Indeed, there is, do a search for VNC its by AT@T labs it works on Linux,
MAc, Microsoft, Unix etc., and its FREE,,, Amazing...
>From: "Kurt A. Brust" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Something like PC Anywhere for Gnome?
>Date: Sat,
ds are all windoze-centric and don't know anything about
> Unix...
There are free Windows clients for all these services. No need to get
into Unix for that.
> Thanks for the not-needed-help but you went a bit overboard. :)
Again, I'm sorry if you took it personally, James.
M
d. This looks like it's got a great potential...
Mikael "MC" Cardell, siGNUm, Inc.
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