Custome Distros are not point and click ware. They never have been,
not even from Microsoft. It sounds as though you could use kickstart which
would be easier to implement. RedHat creates a kickstart configuration
file when you install RedHat. You will find it in the /root directory
called
?? Hun?
xfs 1672 1 0 Apr26 ?00:00:23 xfs -droppriv -daemon
Am I missing something obvious? Or is this not the X font server?
-Original Message-
From: Knut J Bjuland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 12:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
Ignore my previous post. SGI XFS journaling filesystem. Interesting
product.
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From: Michael Best [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 12:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Where is a better place to find the Redhat developers? Re: XFS
support
In
I expect the problem is related to your hardware. There is a known bug
associated with previous versions of RH7.x that has to do with Cable select
settings for cdroms. This is a jumper setting on the cdrom itself. If your
cdrom is using cable select change this to the manual setting of master
The driver is not GPL.
-Original Message-
From: Brian Ipsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 1:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Intel PRO/100 driver
Hi!
Any reason why RedHat doesn't include the Intel PRO/100 Family driver (with
ANS driver) in the standard
Check out the skipjack beta, 7.2.93, the kernel is 2.4.18. I upgraded a 7.2
machine to skipjack, my home firewall and had no problems with dhcp.
Includes a bunch of newer item, KDE 3.0. This is beta so BBW. Should be a
better than rawhide though.
-Original Message-
From: Luc Perin
Channel bonding works without the fancy cisco parts. If you are using intel
server NICs you can check out the iANS drivers, google for it. Works with
failover and channel bonding. Remember that there are some issues
concerning database and data lose. Also this will not help you if you are
Most likely you need the correct scsi driver for your raid controller. You
will need to do an expert install for this. Identify the raid controller
then hit the web and get the driver for the card. Enter expert install and
when it asks if you have a device driver say yes and give it the disk
Check
your routing to be sure you are using the dialup network connection as the
default route for access beyond your local lan. I have had problems with
this myself the solution was to be sure that the local lan NIC started after the
in my case DSL ppp0 connection. To verify run route at
ipchains is currently to only solution. If you plan on using netmeeting you
will have to use rh6.2 or rh7.0 or some other 2.2 distro. You will also
need the h323 ipfwd module made by an italian group. It does work though
creating an external connection is a bit sticky. You can recieve calls
Personally I don't like color printers of the inkjet type. Don't like
inkjets at all actually. You will spend far more on consumables than on the
printer itself so I would recommned getting a laser printer. It will cost
you more but will save money in the long run as ink is just to expensive.
The source rpm for the kernel is not installed. You should be able to find
it at any mirror sight there is only one. You may want to grab all the
kernel-* packages. RH installs the kernel source into the directory
/usr/src/linux-version
But for your problem you most likely only need to
Err Ed how is downloading 4 iso images on a regular basis for people with
slow connections going to help them out? rsync running on cron will
download all the updates available in the middle of the night that you have
not already got. And replacing the old packages with the new ones in an iso
Make sure you are using the correct time on your linux machine as well as
the correct time zone. Most likely the time zone is not configured
properly. If your time is good then the exchange server is most likely the
problem.
-Original Message-
From: Jorge Gossain Filho [mailto:[EMAIL
but
a few perl scripts and it could be automated except the disc swap.
-Original Message-
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 12:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: confuse with errata to rpm nicely
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:08:58AM -0500, Paul Hamm
, 2002 1:24 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: confuse with errata to rpm nicely
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:53:28PM -0500, Paul Hamm wrote:
Like I said grab the iso files grab all the patches and roll your
own.
That's fine for those of us with lots of bandwidth and expert knowledge.
For
those
Yah zone files for your internal static ips. A slave dns server as a backup
for the box you are working on. And most likely a change to your dhcp
server to tell all those Windows boxes where to get there DNS.
-Original Message-
From: Greg Caskey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
I know of no currently avaialable internal cdrom drives that will give you a
problem with linux, IDE or SCSI.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 3:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: CDRom drive
What is a good CDRom
Explain neither work? You get no video at all or Xwindows is not working?
I can't say as I have had any video related issues since i810 and rh 6.2
which was only a problem with configuring X. If you are getting post/bios
information on screen when you boot try starting linux in run level 3 and
Also look at updating the bios to the latest rev. READ THIS if you have
never upgraded a flash bios before read all the documents before you start
the process. Flashing a bios improperly is the best way I know to turn a
laptop into a brick. Ed is most likely correct APM can cause the
98lite strips out M$ bloat ware. You use it to install windows. But are
you talking about vmware tools? Should be installed with vmware. Run
settings/VMware tools Install.
-Original Message-
From: Eric Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 8:41 AM
To: Red
Try checking your bios to be sure it boots from cdrom before the hard drive.
-Original Message-
From: Benny Pedersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 7:37 AM
To: redhat-list
Subject: Re: [REDHAT] Cannot boot from the RH 7.2 CD
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/etc/profile.d/ is where you can configure global environment settings.
just add the items you want into a file like MY_COMPANY.sh
MY_COMPANY.csh make sure they are chmod 755 and when your users login they
get the specifics. BTW only use root to configure your system use a
standard user for
How about # emacs cc-mode. Or xemacs if you prefer.
-Original Message-
From: David Winters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 2:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: C++ on RedHat 7.2
On 4 Mar 2002, Carey F. Cox wrote:
On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 19:33, Graeme
There
is a reason that they call them beta. If you don't like it reinstall
7.2
-Original Message-From: Jim Bija
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 3:18
AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: rh 8 beta 233 mmx
install..
i have tried to install rhl 8.0 beta
Have never worked with firewire. But as it works in a similar fashion to
scsi I suspect you will be able to get this to work. There are several
issue which you will need to deal with. Booting directly from the firewire
drive will most likely not be possible. The reason is that IDE likes to go
Are you using local passwd files or NIS? If you are using NIS I would
expect that kdepasswd is not configured to deal with yppasswd.
-Original Message-
From: Janyne Kizer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 10:24 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Graphical Change
Ed I don't think covad would appreciate you telling there customers to use a
class A subnetmask. They tend to break those things down a bit before they
give them out ;-)
-Original Message-
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 7:14 PM
To: [EMAIL
Nick
take a look at # man ssh-keygen which will allow you to configure
passwordless ssh scp session. Why is # scp -r
user@REMOTE_SERVER:/DIRECTORY/WITH/STUFF/* /DIRECTORY/FOR/STUFF/ a problem?
-Original Message-
From: Nick Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002
rh7.2 uses this nifty new network profile thingy that seems to be biting
people in the butt. They have moved things around a bit. I am not sure why
you are seeing this problem but I bet it has something to do with it. #
neat is the new gui tool and it does some links for ifcfg-* in the
Alternatively you could use # rpm -Uvh --force Pacakge which should
force the package to reinstall.
-Original Message-
From: Song Xing [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 11:31 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: a question for using rpm
Hi, there,
I tried to install
Looks like there are some patches to the kernel for VPN
http://www.impsec.org/linux/masquerade/ip_masq_vpn.html not for the 2.4.9
kernel though.
-Original Message-
From: Paul Hamm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 2:37 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE
The problem has to do with how the firewall deals with the incoming packets.
The ip_masq_ipsec module tells the machine how to handle these packets. You
will have the same problem with things like NetMeeting.
-Original Message-
From: Mike Pelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
Don't let them get to you had a problem upgrading a 7.1 machine to 7.2. I
ended up installing 7.2 on a different array. Currently I am trying to
figure out what went wrong. I am thinking it may be a simple as lack of
space on the original /boot partition as I could not get the kernel to
We will need a bit more information please. RH version, what is the output
of # ifconfig what are the contents of /etc/modules.conf, oh below I see
DEVICE=eth0 I expect that ifcfg-eth1 is DEVICE=eth1, and what type of NIC
are you using?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Better ways to do this. One is to create identical users on both machines
with the same password and then run your scripts with that ID, I did this
myself for downloads from a partner. Better still use ssh with RSA
authentication between the machines, all traffic is encrypted.
Oh and please
Read
the man pages for
chown
chmod
-Original Message-From: Michael S. Dunsavage
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 10:23
AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: file
permissions
How could I set it up so I can exclude certain
users/groups access to
Sounds like you have a resolver issue. Check your DNS specificaly the
reverse lookup. Or you may have been hacked ;-)
-Original Message-
From: gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: spontaneous lag (x3)
the oddest
not sure where i should be checking
On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 11:17, Paul Hamm wrote:
Sounds like you have a resolver issue. Check your DNS specificaly the
reverse lookup. Or you may have been hacked ;-)
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From: gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday
Tripwire monitors files for changes, ships with 7.2. Will do no good if you
are already hacked but helps prevent it from happening. Also Bastille is an
interesting product for securing systems.
http://www.bastille-linux.org/
-Original Message-
From: Pieter De Wit [mailto:[EMAIL
Better to use something like mrtg or Big Brother with larrd. There are just
buckets of things that will give you system performance monitoring,
including network traffic. Most of them make pretty graphs for the boss
too.
-Original Message-
From: Linux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
Try here
http://www.rommel.stw.uni-erlangen.de/~hshoexer/ipsec-howto/HOWTO.html
-Original Message-
From: James Pifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 2:01 PM
To: redhat
Subject: VPN fustration
I've posted to this list three times asking about VPN, IPSec or
Use hosts.allow and hosts.deny files in /etc. This will allow you to
configure access to any/all services on the machine. The iptables script
gShield includes this ability also though a different implimentation.
-Original Message-
From: Ashley M. Kirchner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
# man ssh-keygen lets you configure passwordless ssh authentication by
generating priv/pub keys.
-Original Message-
From: Phil G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:02 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: using ssh
Hello all,
I have a problem that I think ssh
, February 26, 2002 11:45 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: WWW Visitor Blocking
At 11:07 2/26/2002 -0500, Paul Hamm wrote:
Use hosts.allow and hosts.deny files in /etc. This will allow you to
configure access to any/all services on the machine.
Not quite. These files only affect services
Take a look at gShield, an iptables script that is well documented with just
about evey option you could want.
-Original Message-
From: Anthony E. Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 12:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: WWW Visitor Blocking
At
try chattr +i FILE_NAME as superuser
-Original Message-
From: Lewi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 11:01 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: deny copying files
it that possible to restrict file to not able be copying but still can be
see the contents.
any
Woops sorry read that post wrong this prevents files from being altered. It
will allow copying the file.
-Original Message-
From: Paul Hamm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 1:19 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: deny copying files
try chattr +i
, internal
PC IP - 192.168.13.220). Also, I was set the 192.168.13.222 as a DMZ
already !
Can someone teach me where I can config the IP-Table and make all the
internal PC can telent, browse and check email ?
Thanks and regards,
Kevin Chan
Paul Hamm Wrote:
iptables it the firewall of choice
can be modified/altered
to any extent.
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From: David Talkington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 1:36 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: deny copying files
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Paul Hamm wrote:
it that possible
Can you boot from another bootable CD like an MS one on this machine and
does the RH CD boot on another machine. If the answers are yes and yes you
may want to check how the CDROM drive jumpers are set.
There have been some strange problems installing RH7.2 from CDROM drives
configured using
Try a google search. thousands of hits
-Original Message-
From: Peter Joslin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 2:55 PM
To: Redhat-List@Redhat. Com (E-mail)
Subject: libc.so.5
Hi all,
I am setting up a BBS program on my Red Hat machine, before it will install
If you are running a GUI app and want to get your shell back all you need to
do is COMMAND example mozilla If you are running a backup script
or something that will take hours use cron. The reason is that if you are
running on a remote machine and get disconnected so does the process you are
The location is in /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/NIC there is
another one in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/NIC there is a new very
complicated gui called neat that handles these files if you don't want to
edit the individual files.
-Original Message-
From: Charles Galpin
Install tripwire to be sure that no files are tampered with that you don't
want changed and you should find all the log files you want to check in
/var/log. The most likely ones are messages, secure and httpd/error_log.
There are many systems to handle log monitoring logwatch and analog may come
: RE: simple default route question, RH7.2 [SOLVED]
Hi Paul, thanks for replying
On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 11:32, Paul Hamm wrote:
The location is in /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/NIC there
is
another one in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/NIC there is a new very
complicated gui called
DNS/nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf
named.conf is used to configure your own DNS server
-Original Message-
From: john-paul delaney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 4:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Nu-B\Linuxconf:Changes which files?
NFS and NDMP are the fastest ways to backup just be sure to set the read and
write size on your nfs mounts to 8192 as the default 1024 is just a bottle
neck for performance. If you plan on doing backups to tape I recommend you
use something that maintains a database of your data/files restores
It is possible that you have an issue with IDE and cable select. Check that
your CD is configured as a master or slave not as a cable select device, all
you should have to do is move a single jumper on the cdrom drive itself.
Cable select is a previously identified issue with some of the current
iptables it the firewall of choice on kernel 2.4. There is a very nice well
documented script to run iptables it is called gShield. Get it from here
http://muse.linuxmafia.org/gshield.html. Make sure that ipchains is turned
off and that iptables is turned on chkconfig --level 345 ipchains off
netcfg has been removed from RH7.2, no idea why only laptop users need
network profiles. The new gadget is Network Configuration under KDE and
Gnome, can be run from a console prgram is neat. It is ugly and way to
complex for general network configuration but hey deal, I am, Emote:
grumbles and
Use
" crontab -e" to configure cron. Most likely you will have vi opening
your crontab kind of icky if you don't knowhow to use it. You can
set your editor to anything with " export
EDITOR=Your_favorite_Editor" for bash, use setenv for csh. Run the
export or setenv before the crontab -e.
Several different products are available. Big Brother with larrd and
rrdtools works well, MRTG, and Demarc. You can use SAR to collect data and
there are several products that make spiffy charts like analog. Kind of
depends on what you want to do. I use Big Brother as it does a good job of
Use a
linux boot/install disk/cd when you get a command line enter "linux rescue" you
should be asked a couple of ??? keyboard and lang. Once you have a shell
prompt you should be able to "chroot /mnt/sysimage" to get your linux to load
again run "lilo -v -v" which will rebuild your MBR.
Most likely not installed. You can try locate linuxconf or rpm -qs
|grep linuxconf
-Original Message-
From: Jianping Zhu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 4:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: how to get linuxconf work
I install
It has always been my policy to not upgrade Windows OS unless/until there is
something specific I need that is only available in the new product. My
home and office machines both dual boot to Win2k, better stability and
security than 98/ME and will play games. You should have no problem
This is my post to another issue see the second paragraph. This of course
assumes you are using grub on the mbr to boot with.
It has always been my policy to not upgrade Windows OS unless/until there is
something specific I need that is only available in the new product. My
home and office
, as
there is no pcmcia kernel update. Chris thanks for pointing me at the
solution.
-Original Message-
From: Chris Garrigues [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 6:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Updating RedHat 7.2 Distro exception error
From: Paul Hamm
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 02:13 pm, Paul Hamm wrote:
File /usr/src/build/41637-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py,
line 795, in __init__
File /usr/src/build/41637-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py,
line 549, in readCompsFile
File /usr/src/build/41637-i386/install//usr/lib
that may be. I will try again with just the
kernel rpms and if that fails with something less extreme. Is there any
documentation on this process that is current?
Paul Hamm
Manager Technical Services
Open Ratings Inc
617-582-5124
www.openratings.com
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